The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 January 1990 — Page 1

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VOLUME 28

Ballots tabulated —

569 to go to new school 138 will remain at Milford

The vote is in. The Milford Middle School will have an enrollment of 138 and the Wawasee Middle School will have an enrollment of 569. And, there were 84 surveys that had not been returned to school officials as of Monday, Jan. 29. Parents of 64 students from Milford School chose the Wawasee Middle School. There are still two surveys from Milford that have yet to be returned. All students who are presently attending North Webster or Syracuse will be attending Wawasee Middle School according to survey results. There are 37 surveys from Syracuse and 45 from North Webster that need to be returned to make a 100 percent response. Based on the survey results there will be 51 sixth grade students next year at Milford, 201 at Wawasee; 42 in the seventh grade at Milford, 184 at Wawasee; and 45 in the eighth grade at Milford, 184 at Wawasee. Response Comments from school Officials and members of the WCSC Board of Trustees were that of pleasure in the results for the Milford Middle School. Curtis Jordan, board president, noted “I’m just pleased and very happy at the way it went. I'm glad we’re going to continue in Milford and pleased with the distribution (in grades) at Milford.” He said the class sizes are well balanced. “We (the board) can insure continuity of the program in Milford.” Dennis Mikel, vice president of the board, noted he was also pleased with the results, stating, “I’ll be even happier when we hear from the other 84 kids.” William Troup commented he was happy to “see the Milford Community rally behind the Milford Middle School and draw a substantial enrollment to support its program.” “I though it was great,” noted Carolyn Anderson who felt the corporation can easily run the program the board promised it would do. “There is no question the middle school will remain there.” In noting her pleasure with the response, Mrs. Anderson added “I hope people in Milford

■gl ■ ..IH fj MASTER FEBRUARY — Baby Nathaniel Jaytnes Seaman, pictured, one-year-old son of Keith and Tami Seaman, North Webster, was recently named “Master February” in the 1990 National Crystal Heart Calendar Contest. Nathaniel competed with other children from around the United States in this photo contest. One winner and one runner-up was named in each age group. As “Master February,” Nftthantel will he featured as. the reigning king of February in the calendar. He received a crown and travel bag as gifts. Nathaniel has participated in other baby pageants and has received numerous titles Ist lading: Baby Saabarst Kfeg, Pbetsges’c King, Ccmpesite King. Baby Majestic King, and Crystal Heart Baby King. He is a professional mpdeL and has done print work for department store advertisements.

are pleased with the results, as well as people in North Webster and Syracuse.” Phil Payne said he had no hang up about the results. “If that is what the patrons of Milford want, they know what the options were.” He added Milford students will still have a very good academic program, and confirmed the fact that if facilities at the new middle school are not scheduled for use by students in that school they will be available for the use of Milford students. Mikel/Kaiser Respond Russ Mikel, principal at Milford, will be working at the new middle school next year but will be working with Cindy

MIDDLE SCHOOL SURVEY RESULTS January 26, 1990 Not Returned Wawasee Middle Milford Middle Syracuse Grade 5 4 90 0 Graded 16 78 0 Grade 7 17 78 0 37 246 0 North Webster Grade 5 3 88 0 Grade 6 18 88 0 Grade 7 24 83 0 45 259 0 Milford Grade 5 2 23 51 Grade 6 0 18 42 Grade 7 0 23 45 2 64 138 GRADE TOTALS: Grades 9 201 51 Grade 6 34 184 42 Grade 7 41 184 45 TOTAL: 84 569 138

Consolidation of THE MILFORD MAIL (Est. 1888) and THE SYRACUSE-WAWASEE JOURNAL (Est. 1907)

Kaiser, vice principal, on the curriculum for next year’s students, said he is “very pleased we have students coming to Milford School. Mrs. Kaiser and I will do our best to provide the best schedule and education for those students as we can.” There will be some alterations in the master schedule that had previously been submitted to the board. It was based on 100 students. The alterations will be in the area of adding several sections to an educational area, instead of one. “We need to find out what students will be attending and their ability group in math and language,” commented Mikel. He said he and Mrs.

CVB dedicates $71,500 to public relations campaign

By KATE WOLFORD Staff Writer

Funds totalling $71,500 from the Kosciusko County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) will be available to the Public Relations Committee for its 1990 publicity campaign. The money will be halved between internal and external efforts. The $71,500 is double the original appropriation for 1990, which was based on the 1989 expenditure of $20,000. However, with the takeoff of the “The secret’s out in Indiana — Kosciusko County,” campaign, the group is committing greater resources.

Meeks and Wolkins to host town meetings Dave Wolkins, 18th District State Representative, will be hosting two town meetings on Saturday, Feb. 3, for concerned citizens to express their views on the actions of the 1990 General Assembly. A meeting fa the Syracuse Town Hall will be held at 1 p.m. The Syracuse meeting follows one scheduled in the Warsaw CRy.Cornett Chmnbm at »«.n. .Senator..Rehert ..Mee*s..Jßth., District, will also be on hand to host the meetings. “We are over halfway through the short session,” Wolkins said. “These town meetius will give area residents a chance to express their feelings on issues we are discussing in Indianapolis.”

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Kaiser will plan a schedule with 140 students in mind. “Everybody here is excited. I’m excited and a lot of the staff members are relieved and excited,” commented Mrs. Kaiser who will serve as Milford’s principal next year. When asked if she was surprised with the results, she said, “Not really. After the last parent meeting and the support group meeting that was here, I had a good feeling we would have a strong turn-out.” Dr. Roger Thornton, school superintendent, noted the importance of the survey was the fact “it’s parents choosing what they want for their youngsters.” He, like all the rest, is very pleased with the results for both middle

A discussion of the 1990 marketing campaign and its funding took place during a January 30 meeting of the Public Relations Committee. Various media will continue to be employed in order to reach audiences CVB Director Linda Arnold described as, “close to home but outside of our (county) boundary lines.” For example, newspaper ads featuring county spokescritter KC will continue to be used, as will radio spots and billboards. Several new promotional tools were reviewed at the meeting as well. For example, the CVB Hospitality Training Committee is in need of a recrea-

schools. “If all our settings were equal to that of Milford’s now, we would not have needed to do anything.” Larry DeWeese, Wawasee Middle School Principal, will now begin work on staffing the building for the 569 students, while the administrative office will begin working out details of transportation. At Milford, parents of 75 fifth grade students received the survey, 51 chose to remain at Milford, 23 opted for Wawasee Middle School. Two surveys have not been returned. Os the 60 sixth grade students whose parents received the survey, 42 will remain, 18 will go to Wawasee Middle School. There were 68 seventh grade students whose parents received the survey. In this group, 45 chose to remain, 23 will go to Wawasee Middle School. Syracuse had 94 fifth grade student parents surveyed, with four not returning the survey, 94 in six grade with 16 not returning the survey and 95 in the seventh grade. There were 17 not returned. At North Webster of the 91 surveys, three were not returned from the fifth grade, 18 out of 106 not returned from sixth grade and 24 out of 107 from the seventh grade. Milford to have new quik-mart Milford will soon have a new quik-mart business. Phil Campbell, owner of Campbell’s IGA, is building a self-service filling station/eating area on the corner of SR 15 and Emeline Street, on the IGA corner. The building will be 4O’x47’. The filling station will have three sets of pumps and will carry Phillips 66 gas. The eating area will seat 14 and have carryout foods, coffee, and rolls; customers will fix their own food in a microwave. Campbell stated completion date is set for May 1.

tional/tourism video. Deb Mangas, public relations and hospitality committees member strongly voiced that need at the meeting. A 12-minute tape would take about six to eight months to develop. The product could be used not only in conjunction with hospitality training, but with other CVB related efforts, including trade shows and the public relations campaign. The public relations committee members agreed to have the hospitality group identify a liaison team to work on the video. In turn, that team will bring to the public relations committee a “focused need” concerning the video. The cost of the video will be determined by bids on the project from area film makers. Because Mangas indicated an immediate need for the video, a search for an existing tape to serve as a “stop gap” tourism and recreation instruction tool could be made. A rotating column on CVB, Kosciusko Development, Inc.; the Greater Warsaw Area Chamber of Commerce (and possibly other area chambers) and the Home Builders Association was also discussed at the meeting. Although no plan for a column in local newspapers has hw>n finalized, should the project go forth, the CVB columns would deal, in part, with the publicity campaign.

r lor — IM » •■KJ /a, I tSKf wHB ' . ~J»aaan FUN RIDE — Horse and wagon rides were some of the more popular events among children at the Syracuse-Wawasee Winter Carnival last Saturday. Seated in the wagon, from left, are Art Buchanan and 8-year-old Faith Detwiler. Standing in the back are 12-year-olds Christy Smith and Tiffney Vest.

Warm weather slows Winter Carnival events

It’s become a yearly tradition at the Syracuse-Wawasee Winter Carnival. A few weeks before carnival time, Jack Frost teases the area with frosty weather that would be ideal for winter recreation events. But just when it’s time to break out the skis and warm up the snowmobiles, old Jack ruins the carnival by permitting springlike weather into the area. The snow melts, the ice weakens, and the cold-weather sports get postponed for another year. Last weekend’s Winter Carnival was no different, as organizers were forced to cancel such events as ice fishing, snowmobile racing, cross country skiing and open ice skating. All of Sunday's events were cancelled. But there were still enough activities on Saturday to keep people busy. Road Race A good turnout greeted organizers of the Todd Realty Road Race as 51 runners braved gusting winds for an early morning jaunt at Lakeside Park in Syracuse. Brian Shepherd won the race in

Anna Sanders accepted as YFU exchange student

Anna Sanders, daughter of Bill Sanders, Syracuse and Pat Sanders, Dewart Lake, has been accepted by Youth for Understanding International Exchange as an international exchange student. Sanders will live with a family in West Germany on YFU’s 1990 year program. Sanders currently is a sophomore at Wawasee High School. Sanders says she began thinking about studying abroad after having become good friends with the foreign exchange students at Wawasee last year. “I’ve always been interested in Europe,” she adds. Prior to being accepted into the program, Sanders admits feeling scared and uncertain about leaving friends, family and other familiar things for an entire year. Once accepted, into the program., Sanders says, “I decided it was really what I wanted to do.” Although Sanders does not speak German, she says she will be attending a four-week language camp for YFU students

a record time of 15 minutes, three seconds. He knocked 21 seconds off the record he set in last year’s race. Mark Furkis, Shepherd’s practice partner, followed in second with a time of 15:28, while Pete Bowman grabbed third at 16:02. In the women’s division, Connie McKinney earned the top spot with a time of 22:08. Amy Schelman took second at 22:53 and 11-year-old Alyson Mills recorded a 22:54 to finish third. Shepherd, who also served as the race organizer, said he was happy with the way things went. The race wasn’t originally on the list of Winter Carnival events and was hastily organized in just 10 days. “It went really well,” he said. "I was really pleased with the turnout. For 10 days, you couldn’t expect much more. ” Volleyball Later in the day, Lake City Bank won the volleyball tournament championship, beating three consecutive opponents in straight sets. Lake City beat defending champs Fitness Firm in the title game by a score of 15-10,15-6. The winning squad consisted of Jeanne Gardiner, Charlie Smith, Nancy Crain, Dennis Cultice, Carol Rogers and Bill Henthorn.” Horse-drawn wagon rides of-

ANNA SANDERS prior to her being placed with a family in West Germany. She adds she will be getting German tapes soon so that she can get a head start on learning me language. Sanders will be leaving for the

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sered a popular diversion for children at Lakeside Park. Woody Hawk and Art Buchanan were at the reins as their Shetland ponies provided the horsepower for scenic tours around the park and the surrounding area. An impressive fireworks display was the last of the outdoor events for the carnival on Saturday at 7 p.m. The American Legion building in Syracuse was the site for other events held in conjunction with the carnival. About 75 people filtered into the building over three hours for the pancake and sausage breakfast. Approximately 100 more folks came to the same place in the evening to enjoy the American Legion Steak Fry. The day’s activities culminated at 9 p.m. when the Winter Carnival Dance kicked off at -the American Legion. Sponsored by the Enchanted Hills Playhouse Guild, the dance drew about 250 people and lasted until 1 a.m. “It was a real success and the money will go to the playhouse as the guild sees it’s needed,” said Guild president Lynn Griffith. The dance featured all kinds of music, from rock-and-roll to ballroom dancing. Griffith said the guild expects to clear about S7OO-800 in profit from the event.

language camp in August and then will be placed with a West German family. School starts in October. Right now she is reading all of the literature about the program that she can in an effort to better prepare herself for life abroad. Youth for Understanding International Exchange was established in 1951 as a private, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting international understanding and world peace through exchange programs for high school students. Today, over 38 years later, YFU operates exchange programs in more than two dozen countries and has regional offices in the United States, an International Center in Washington, D.C., and a worldwide network of some 250 employees, several thousand volunteers, and more than 130,000 alumni. More information about YFU’s American overseas rrogram uuiy ue uutained by calling 1-800-TEENAGE.