The Mail-Journal, Volume 29, Number 27, Milford, Kosciusko County, 15 August 1990 — Page 5

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NO RELIEF. Kosciusko County Taxpayers cannot expect any relief from increased tax loads in 1991. A review of the school budgets and proposed property tax to support these budgets shows increases. Interesting enough is a review of the cost per pupil to the property taxpayer. The average cost in the 1984-85 school year was sl,llO as compared with an estimated cost of $2,123 in 1991. According to school officials only about 40 percent of the budget for the school is supported by local property taxes. The rest comes from excise taxes, state assistance, and some user’s fees. A review of the 1991 proposed budgets reveals that local school officials (Wawasee, Warsaw, Tippecanoe Valley, and Whitko) expect local property taxpayers to ante-up $29,303,084. This is more than double the $14,214,395 they received in 1985. The breakdown is as follows: A (Total property tax collected by the school in 1965). B (Average collection per student in 1965). C (Total property tax to be collected for 1991). D (Estimated cost per student). SCHOOL A B CD WAWASEE $4,180,051 $1,344 $ 7,505,243 $2,214 WARSAW 6,372,536 1,153 15,821,859 2,511 TIPPECANOE 1,988,878 980 3,160,005 1,541 WHITKO 1,672,930 781 2,815,977 1,282 TOTAL $14,214,395 sl,llO $29,303,084 $2,123 Total local property tax funds requested and received by school officials for the seven-year period (1985-1990, including 1991 projections) are as follows: WAWASEE $39,136,702; WARSAW $70,505,267; TIPPECANOE $18,966,729 and WHITKO $15,614,821. Total $144,223,519. —o— COUNTY’S DOG POUND PURCHASE. Entries in the county commissioner’s books record the transactions on purchase of the dog pound. Seller: Dan Riffle and Public Safety Animal Control. Purchaser: County Commissioners. The agreement is as follows: Purchaser pay off $53,000 mortgage (and interest) was held by the Lake City Bank. They also agreed to pay $20,875.90 to the seller and also $1,083.01 to Riffle and Public Safety Animal Control for services received in March and April 1990. Also noted in the commissioners’ minutes were two mortgages which had been taken on the property — $40,000 on Feb. 24, 1984, and $60,000 on March 12,1987. Both mortgages were issued by the Lake City Bank. The $53,000 paid by the commissioners apparently took care of all obligations against Riffle and the Public Safety Animal Control organization. —o— WILL THEY TAKE DOWN OLD MASONIC HALL. Bets are now on that the Warsaw-Wayne Township Library Board will take down the old Masonic Hall. According to rumors the architects the board has engaged stated the building is not worth being considered in future building plans. If they decide to raze the ol' library too, this will cause an additional stir. (That’s the understatement of the year!) —o— TWO MUSICALS IN ONE NIGHT - It happened happily but coincidentally! Syracuse area residents were treated to two musical programs about three blocks apart on Aug. 9. Both events were wellattended. The Peace Bell Choir from Caputh, East Germany, performed at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church. This troupe of 21 included a handbell choir plus harpsichord, violin, flute, trombone, trumpet, como, and trumpet instrumentalists. This group was brought to the V-S. by the Festival Choir and Festival Bells of Fort Wayne. Mr. G and the Big Band entertained us at Lakeside Park with the mellow, danceable music of the Glen Miller-Wayne King Era. Polkas and jazz added to the fun. It worked out conveniently as the Peace Bell Choir program was at 7 p.m., ending at 8 — just time enough to also attend the Big Band concert. A “Tip of the Hat” to St. Andrew’s and Friends of the park for their programs. —o— INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES recently published a booklet that gives fees for fishing and hunting. Resident fishing license is $8.75 per year. Hunting and fishing $13.75. (You still need permission to enter a farmer’s property for this purpose). Deer hunting $13.75 (You’re not covered if you mistake a cow for a deer). Also, Turkey hunting $14.75. (This means ones with feathers.) Lifetime fishing license, $175. Same fee for a lifetime hunting license. These booklets are free and are located in state offices and local assessors’ offices.

Coats decries pricegouging of Hoosiers

Senator Dan Coats, in a news conference held recently, urged continued pressure on Iraq in condemning its recent military invasion of Kuwait. “This unprovoked aggression by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein must be confronted, not appeased,” Coats said. “We should use all diplomatic, economic and. if the president deems necessary, military options to address this totally unjustified and blatant aggression by Iraq. “The fate of 39 Americans who have been rounded up by Iraqi forces in Kuwait and taken to Baghdad cannot be left in the hands of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein. “The crisis has economic implications for all of us,” Coats said. “Hoosiers have already seen their gasoline prices increase significantly. I am deeply concerned at these unwarranted

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Letters to the editor Say ‘Yes to Life’

Dear Editor; Former First Lady Nancy Reagan initiated the slogan, “Say No to Drugs,” and “Yes to Life ” In the 19905, let’s say “Yes to Life.” You have a choice between two things: to one you say, “No,” to the other, “Yes.” When you say no to drugs, you are saying no to a lifestyle which includes drugs, alcohol, school dropouts, runaways, jobless, prison, poverty, suicidal, hate, violence, crime, loss of family, prostitution, teen-age pregnancy, AIDS and other birth defects crack and cocaine-addicted babies, unwanted babies dumped in trash cans, child abuse and parental neglect. We are saying “No” to the conditions we don’t want. If you are into the above lifestyle, take control of your life by making a new decision, rehabilitate. Rehabilitation prepares us to be noble men and women. No effort is too great. Your life is a gift. Life is for living and giving. Make the right choice. A positive lifestyle allows us the freedom to be loving, healthy, successful, happy people that we are created to be. Life is peaceful! We all have the ability to lift our vision to see new values, to establish new goals. Say “Yes to Life” and to what we really want. As parents, we choose to build the new civilization, a healthy, happy and drug-free, peaceful community and country. We say “Yes” to health, happiness, abundance, freedom, love, trust, respect, faith, courage, honesty, goodwill, laughter and humor. Say “Yes” to developing your talents, “Yes” to education and job training, “Yes” to sharing, “Yes” to good relationships with all people. Do something good for

Expression of appreciation

Dear Editor: We would like to express our appreciation and acknowledge the North Webster Lions Club for its involvement in providing our clients with free rides at this year’s Mermaid Festival. Not only did the Lions furnish the complimentary passes, but they also helped our clients onto the rides. Cardinal Center, Inc., has been serving developmentally disabl-

Local Red Cross chapter responds to disasters

Dear Editor I, like many of our fellow American Red Cross volunteers across the country, take great exception to the across-the-board condemnation of our national disaster relief operations, which recently appeared in the ScrippsHoward newspapers. There is no question that during major — even minor — disasters there will be individual instances of inadequate response. But these should not outweigh the more than 78,000 Red Cross disaster volunteers, whose services day-in and day-out all across the country were largely ignored in the series. Despite the alleged inconsistencies and shortfalls, the record of the American Red Cross during the twin disasters of the northern California earthquake and Hurricane Hugo were impressive; 812 emergency shelters established and manned, temporary housing provided to more than 180,000 people; 12.7 million meals servArea residents booked The (ollowing persons were booketfin the Kosciusko County Jail recently: Paul Allen Cook, 18, route one, Leesburg, was booked on charges of illegal possession/consumption of alcohol. He was held on $175 bond. Andrew Joseph Kneller, 19, North Webster, was booked on charges of illegal possession of marijuana. He was held without bond.

somebody. Volunteer your time and talents; work is fun; friends are fun; parents and grandparents are fun. When you say “Yes to Life,” you are a “point of light” and you are playing a vital part in creating a new civilization. You

No street sign

Dear Editor: I read with interest your recent article about making sure that everyone who received a new street address post it on their mailbox and house as soon as possible. Your article suggested that this would certainly speed up response by emergency services because each house would be identified clearly. This certainly made sense to me, so I immediately put my new number on my house and mailbox. What doesn’t make any sense is, after I replace the lettering and identification on my mailbox and house and need to call the fire department, EMS or police, explain to me how they will find me when there is no sign indicating that my little road out here suddenly became a street. How will they find the street? There is no street sign. I thought perhaps this had been solved by our dubious state road crew the other day. I was working in my office when a huge truck pulled up at the corner with two men in it and enough equipment to rebuild the tollway. I thought, “Oh, boy, they’re going to put up a street sign.” I walked out there and said, “Where’s the new street sign?” They said, “Oh, no, we’re not here to put up a street sign. We’re here to replace your stop sign.”

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ed; 145,000 individuals and families given assistance and more than 12,000 messages sent and received through our emergency communications network. Moreover, during the 12-month period preceding Hugo and the earthquake, Red Cross volunteers and paid staff rendered service in no less than 55,000 documented disasters, ranging from single family dwelling fires to floods, major accidents and tornados. Your local chapter of Red Cross has responded to every county disaster, mostly onefamily fires, as soon as the need for our services has been communicated to our office. It is easy to single out the problems associated with one or two unfortunate disaster instances. It is not nearly so newsworthy to document the thousands upon thousands of times where the Red Cross was there when it was needed, rendering effective, humane and compassionate care to people and families in distress. Sincerely Norma J. Anglin Executive Director

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1 said, “What for? It looks brand new, and I don’t see anything wrong with it.” They replied, “Oh, it’s in excellent shape, but we replace them all every so often because ‘they’tell us to.” I said, “Let me get this straight. You are going to tear down the stop sign and put up another one when there is nothing wrong with the old one?” They said, “Yep”! I said, “What do you do with the old one?” They told me they throw them away. Ah, yes. Your tax dollars hard at work once again. We don’t have a street sign, but we got our perfectly good stop sign replaced, and it probably only cost a few hundred bucks. This doesn’t make any sense to me. Mike McCauley Syracuse Something must be done! I'm writing this letter to you because we haven’t received any answers from anyone else about this problem. I thought you could help. Here’s the problem; the corner of CR 900 N and Old SR 15. I live out at this corner and so does my brother-in-law and his family. We have lived here almost 8 years now and there has been about 40 accidents, if not more. My sister-in-law has tried to get something done at this corner. They did put up signs but that doesn’t seem to work. She has gone to the county highway, state highway, town board members, commissioners, everyone says, “You call them,” or “We don't do that, call them.” Well something has to be done. This last accident we had out here was about the worst one. My husband and I became EMTs because of this corner; after we had a car go through our front yard. I’m afraid my kids, or my nephews who live next door, are going to get hurt or even worse. And if anything would happen to any of them, there will be heck to pay because we have been trying for the past two or three years to do something with this corner. There are signs on 900 N and Old 15, but no one seems to pay attention to them. They even put down speed bumps. Well, people either went around them or when they did hit them it would throw their car all over the road and they took them off the next day. What’s really bad is that our kids can’t even play in the yard without worrying if someone's going to come flying through our yard and get hit. So, we are coming to you to help us with this problem. We have contacted the county highway and were told it costs too much money to put a light out here at this corner! There was almost an accident out here last fall, when a semi ran the stop sign and a car slid from the intersection passed our house. When this happened, my kids could have been getting off the bus. They did get home about 15 minutes after this happened. Cars are always flying up and down this road. It's just as bad in the early morning as it is at night. Norm and Cindy Vanlaningham Ed and Kim Vanlaningham

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(Continued from page 4) AND THE “Big” Band played on to a good crowd at Syracuse Lakeside Park Thursday night, Aug. 9. Mr. G and his 12-piece sounds from the big-band era, plus contemporary and novelty tunes, entertained local folks, as they have all over the State of Indiana for many years.

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Lake Area Community Band seeks funding

I By MARY JANE LORTON Staff Writer This summer represents the first anniversary of the formation of the Lake Area Community Band. Established with the objective of providing support and entertainment at events throughout the community, the Lake Area Community Band hopes to keep meeting this objective in the future. In order to do so, the band will need some help from the community . With a 1990 budget of SIO,OOO and a 1991 budget of $7,000, the band seeks to develop a music library, purchase stands and chairs, buy instruments for its percussion section, as well as meet other expenditures associated with the overall upkeep of the group. Though the Syracuse Wawasee Park Foundation donated SSOO to the band at the end of last season, donations given to the park foundation do not necessarily go to the community band. The foundation sponsors a few other projects and is not the “underwriter” of the band. In fact, the band is absent of one single, stable financial backer, and as a result it has taken a variety of measures to Effective therapy A call has been issued for more electric shock therapy by the American Psychiatric Association which says electroshock therapy for certain mental patients is the right thing: people with severe depression or mania who don’t respond to drugs or psychotherapy, pregnant women patients, the elderly patients in whom drugs may be too dangerous and those patients whose treatment must produce a rapid response. The association said electroconvulsive therapy is safe and very effective, and demonstrably so, in hundreds of studies and recent technological advances.

Wed., August 15,1990 —THE MAIL-JOURNAL

The evening began with an ice cream social at 6:30 p.m., sponsored by the Park Foundation, with proceeds going to the music department. Darkness fell softly on the cool but nice evening, with a number of couples dancing under the pavilion to the mostly familiar old tunes.

meet its budget projections. At the end of last year, the band applied to the Indiana Arts Commission for grant monies. Although the group submitted what the commission deemed a very well-written proposal, the band was turned down for two reasons. First, the commission said the band should be paying the members who play. Second, it advised that the band charge the general public for its performances. Though respectful of the commission’s rationale, the band will attempt to continue to give free performances as members stress that that is the purpose of a “community band.” In addition to relying on direct donations from the community, the band has held a number of fund raisers to underwrite the group’s expenses. The next fund raiser has been slated for Thurs-

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day, Aug. 23, at Syracuse Lakeside Park. With a concert scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., the band will be holding a chicken barbecue prior to its performance. The band is hoping to draw a large crowd to its barbecue and concert as all of the monies collected will be matched by The Gemco Group of Syracuse. During the past month, four band members have been circulating in the communities of Syracuse, North Webster, and Milford. Approaching businesses in a "door-to-door" fashion, these individual fund raisers seek any size contribution a business is willing to donate. So far, their efforts have yielded about SI,OOO. Appreciative of the support it has received thus far, the band invites everyone to come out and enjoy the concert and barbecue next Thursday.

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