The Mail-Journal, Volume 29, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 May 1990 — Page 6

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., May 23,1990

Community corner

During much of the year Lynn Runyan's life mobilizes around the Mermaid Festival

On any given day. neighbors might find Lynn Runyan walking her daughter to school, helping her husband Dick organize the North Webster Mermaid Festival or adding another item to her “to do” list. What ever she’s doing, Runyan's efforts are making life a little easier for her family and the community.

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Neighbors won’t find Lynn basking in the spotlight though. In fact, she shies away from it. Routinely, she minimizes the work she has done for the Lions Club and the festival and passes the kudos to her husband. Her husband Dick is chairman of the Mermaid Festival and secretary of the local club and a zone chairman on the district level. The Runyan family mobilizes around the Mermaid Festival each summer. This year the festival is celebrating its 45th anniversary; the dates are June 25-30. Fittingly, Lynn says, “The main person behind the festival is my husband.” The main person behind her husband, of course, is Lynn. They have been involved side-by-side in the festival for many years. Lynn spends her evenings helping her husband with the festival. The Runyuns mail out over 2,000 letters telling people about the festival. Together they coordinate parade applications, booth applications, and the exhibit space outside the carnival grounds. Last Sunday found the Runyans and their daugher at a district Lions meeting handing out Mermaid Festival program books. “It is hard to put into words how many hours we work in putting

Meals for Older Americans

Meals for Older Americans are served each day at the following locations: The Scout Cabin. Syracuse, 457-2631; Pierceton Community Building, 594-5632; Mentone Community Room in the fire station. 353-7555; Retired Tigers Center, 320 W. Main, Warsaw, 269-3130; Free Methodist Church, Winona Lake, 269-6695; Tippecanoe Township Communi-

shown African slides

' fellowship room at North Webster Church of God was lavishly decorated in an "African bush” theme for the May 10 meeting of North Webster Church of God senior citizens meeting. A carry-in dinner was served at noon with chicken casserole as the main dish. Charlotte Richards and Karleen Rjchards assisted with the decorations. Those serving on the dinner committee were Caroline Robbins, Mary Hall, Corrine Staples, Dora Mauer and Elizabeth Leach. Mrs. Leach gave devotions reading an article about friendship. She also read from Mark 16. Guest speaker for the day was Mrs. John Moehler. a Grace *y 457-2561

[\ 10th Annual ( v Festival of the Wild Rose Moon June2&3, 1990 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. 4 Living History Experience For The Entire Family! Primitive Village • Black Powder Shooting Contests • Horse Drawn Tram And Pony Rides • Handmade Baskets • Wooden Toys • Pottery • Locally Grown Herbs & Flowers • Spinners • Weavers 4 Puppet Shows • Story Tellers • Bag Pipers • Indian Dancers • Buffalo Burgers • Roast Pig • Homemade Pies Events & Performances: SATURDAY SUNDAY Loveway Students Horse Show Old-Fashioned Church Service — 10:00 A.M. 9:30 A.M. Banjo & Fiddle Contest Emma Gospel Singers — 1:00 P.M. Followed By A • Grassy Creek Cloggers Hoedown With The • George Schricker 'Bluegrass Drifters” • Loveway Play On Horseback SATURDAY And SUNDAY PANCAKES & SAUSAGE BREAKFAST — 8:00-11 00 A M Nancy Eversole "The Kentucky Woman” Buck Eye n Molly The Story Peddlers & The Bristol Hills Story Tellers Old Tyme Miusic Makers Benefit For Loveway Therapeutic Horseback Riding 54151 CR 33 • Middlebury, Indiana Minimum Donation $2.00 Children 6 And Under Are Free Held Rain Or Shine ’roduced in cooperation with the Elkhart County Convention and Visitor's Bureau, Inc 429 South Main Street • Elkhart, IN 46516 * (219) 293-7394

By JULIE MOORE Staff Writer

ty Building, 834-1193; Silver Lake Lions Club Building, 352-3238, and Milford Community Building, 658-9702. Meals for Older Americans is for persons 60 years or older and is a chance to meet new friends and enjoy hot, nutritional meals. The sites are opened several hours each day including noon for programs. Meals for Older

Brethren missionary to Africa. She showed colored slides and told about mission field work in Central Africa. Sandy Lung announced that transportation to camp meeting will be provided for those wishing to attend. Pauline White noted that plans are underway to present the senior citizen musical, “Count on Us,” sometime in September.

Jotilda Liske club hostess

Jotilda Liske was hostess for the May 9 meeting of Goodwill Extension Homemakers Club. Kathryn Jehnsen read minutes of the April meeting and served as president pro tern. Evelyn Bowser read a poem, “Letter to My Grandson.", Mrs. Liske’s birthday was observed. Betty Busch gave a lesson entitled “Living Trusts and Wills." Mrs. Bowser led as the club collect was repeated in unison. The citizenship lesson pertained to

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HAPPY HELPER — Lynn Runyan of North Webster flashes a big grin at the camera. The name Runvan is almost synonymous with the North Webster Mermaid Festival. Lynn spends much of her time helping her husband Dick organize the festival, (Photo by Julie Moore)

Americans is not associated with welfare but is for the promotion for better health for the older population. Because of present cutbacks in programs, participants are asked a suggested donation of $1.50. The number of meals is limited but will increase according to increased donations. The site directors request all persons planning on attending the meals to make reservations by 1 p.m. the day prior to attending. Phone 457-2631 for Syracuse transportation and reservations. May 24-30 THURSDAY — Apple juice, barbecued chicken quarter, potato salad, southern style collard greens, rye bread w/margarine, chocolate chip cookie, milk, tea, and coffee FRIDAY — Tomato juice, hamburger on bun w/ketchup, mustard and onions, cream-style

the life of black educator, Tommey B. Holland. Mrs. Liske gave the cultural arts report, “Tour of the White House" The hostess served refreshments of banana cake and peach yogurt. Extension clubs met at Camp Mack A group of ladies from the County Home Extension Clubs of Elkhart and Kosciusko Counties met recently at Camp Mack. Milford, to finalize plans for their annual get-together held each September. This year, the date will be an overnight at Camp Mack on Sept 10 and 11. The groups meeting together at this time call will eall the camp Camp Elko. A program is planned with "Our Beautiful America" being the theme Guest speakers, talent shows, singing and an auction are scheduled Lois Stickel, chairman of the Elkhart County club, is hoping for a good attendance.

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corn, plums, milk, tea, and coffee TUESDAY — Apple juice, sliced baked ham, Jamaican sweet potatoes, green beans, rye bread w/margarine, oatmeal-raisin cookie, milk, tea, and coffee WEDNESDAY — Tomato juice, sliced roast turkey on bun w/mayonnaise on side, kidney bean salad, spinach w/vinegar on side, applesauce, milk. tea. and coffee Boating safety classes will be held June 11-14 Boating safety classes will be held at the Conservation Club building from 7-9 p.m., June 11-14, for persons 12 years of age and up. Registration deadline is June 8. To register, call 834-4221. It was announced that the Conservation Club is sponsoring a trash fish kill throughout the Barbee Chain of Lakes from May 19-June 8. The fish will be weighed in each day from 5:30-7 p.m. at the club building. For more information, call 834-4901 or 834-2982. Members were reminded that the Conservation Club summer games will be held each Friday night, June 1 through Sept. 7, starting at 7:30 p.m. The next meeting is scheduled for June 19. Guests and prospective members are always welcome. Plans finalized for yard/bake sale Eva Lock presided during the May 8 meeting of North Webster Church of the Brethren Women's Fellowship held at the home of Lois Royer. Violet Shrider was assistant hostess. Minutes of the last meeting were read by Doris borsey. Mrs. Shrider gave a review of mothers of the Bible for devotions. Plans were finalized for a yard and bake sale scheduled for Memorial Day weekend at the old brick church building in North Webster. A picnic is planned for June 15 at the home of Annette Mock.

the festival together,” she says. “Sometimes we don’t get to bed until a quarter till 12 or two in the morning.” The North Webster Mermaid Festival Office is located in the Runyans’ home. As festival time draws nearer, manning the office phone while her husband is at work will be another of Lynn’s jobs. Currently, an answering machine records phone messages. Neighbors may see Lynn with her husband at Lions club dinners and banquets, but her community service may not be as well recognized. The Lions Club sponsors the Mermaid Festival, and her husband Dick is in charge of the Lions newsletter. Lynn says she helps prepare program books and the Lions newsletter by calling people and writing letters. But she adds that her husband does all the typing and her 11-year-old daughter Maria helps, too. Lynn’s family and home get first dibs on her time. The Runyans live in the country on one-and-a-half acres of ground. Their small trailer sets up on a hill. They share their acreage with a host of pets. Outside two dogs enjoy the open space. Inside “a little doggy,” a hamster and a cat vie with Lynn’s husband and daughter for her attention. If Lynn ever has a moment to daydream, it’s a good bet her mind’s travels will take her to the water. “I love fishing and swimming,” she says. Unfortunately, the weather has not cooperated so far this year. Mother, housewife, and active community volunteer, Lynn keeps busy. Her daily duties — doing laundry and dishes, feeding the animals, getting her daughter off to school and having supper prepared when her husband returns — are important business. Lynn says every spare minute she has she spends doing community work. Characteristically, she qualifies this statement by adding, “My husband does more for the community than I do.” In any case, both Lynn and her husband Dick are dedicated to the family and to the community. Through their work and the work of other community volunteers, seeds of community spirit have grown into a great harvest of family fun at the North Webster Mermaid Festival. Last year thousands of visitors roamed the carnival grounds of the Mermaid Festival in a frenzy of activity. This year they’ll be coming back for more.

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1990 SYRACUSE NUTRITION SITE QUEEN CHOSEN — Nina Hickman was chosen as the 1990 Syracuse Nutrition Site Queen Friday, May 18. She was crowned by the 1989 queen, Helen Hoke. The crowning took place in the Syracuse Scout Cabin. Each year a queen is elected by the senior citizens who attend the daily REAL Meals served at the nutrition site. Previous queens present were Milly Spry, Florence Ashton, and Goldie Hunnicut. Mrs. Hickman will be competing in the Kosciusko County Senior Queen Contest, which will be held in Warsaw on May 23. Pictured are Helen Hoke, standing, crowning Nina Hickman, seated. (Photo by Judi Vultaggio)

Leesburg High School class of 1940 holds reunion

The 1940 graduating class of Leesburg High School was honored by the Alumni Association Saturday, May 19. Thirteen class members were present. On Sunday, the class held a reunion with a noon dinner served in Westminster Hotel, Winona Lake, with 11 class members present. Those attending were: Lois

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CALENDAR , Week Os May 23 To May 30 WEDNESDAY Syracuse Fire Department Regular Meeting 7 p.m., Fire Station Alcoholics Anonymous Wawasee Group 7:30 p.m., Episcopal Retreat House, South Shore Drive, Lake Wawasee, Syracuse. Closed meeting Alanon 7:30 p.m., Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church, Syracuse THURSDAY Wawasee Community Toughlove 7 p.m., Lakeland Youth Center, Syracuse. Parent support group for parents troubled by their teenager’s behavior. North Webster Lions Club 7 p.m., Don and Dee’s Family Restaurant Syracuse VFW Post #1342 8 p.m. /SjH |Ka Adult Children of Alcoholics 7:30 p.m., Bowen Center, Warsaw Kappa Omicron Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority 7:30p.m. FRIDAY Milford Kiwanis 6: 45 a.m., Milford Community Building Syracuse VFW Post #1342 6 p.m., Syracuse. Everyone welcome Alcoholics Anonymous Carl Sheperd Memorial Group 7:30 p.m., C.A.R.S., Inc., SR 13, Syracuse. Open meeting Heart of Lakes Squares 8-10:30p.m., Syracuse Elementary SATURDAY Wawasee Kiwanis '.raw 7 a.m., Gropp’s, Syracuse SUNDAY Alcoholics Anonymous Fireball Group 10 a.m., North Webster Fire Station. Open meeting Alcoholics Anonymous Sunday Night Recovery Group 8 p.m., North Webster United Methodist Church. Closed meeting Alanon Sunday Night Group 8 p.m., North Webster United Methodist Church. Closed meeting MONDAY A w TUESDAY Alanon Just For Today 9:30 a.m., St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, Syracuse Syracuse-Wawasee Rotary Noon, Gropp’s Restaurant, Syracuse Alanon 7:30p.m., Bowen Center, Outpatient Building, Warsaw WEDNESDAY Eagles Auxiliary Meeting Aerie 3760 7 p.m., Lakeland Eagles, 404 Sycamore St., Syracuse Alcoholics Anonymous Wawasee Group 7:30 p.m., Episcopal Retreat House, South Shore Drive, Lake Wawasee, Syracuse. Closed meeting Alanon 7:30 p.m., Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church, Syracuse COMES HOME “comfortable decision” from tsESß— homecrest ENJOY 25 % SAVINGS DURING OUR PRE-SEASON PATIO SALE!! fjyiNG 457-2929 State Road 13 Syracuse