Letters to the Editor 09-19-1997
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- NIPSCO - Nathan Frank - Life Chain - KABS - KABS Again - Back To The Days - Whitko Faculty - Height Restrictors
NIPSCO
Editor, Times-Union:I just had to bring it to your attention how cheap NIPSCO has gotten to be.
Not only did they close the Warsaw office, but now it is becoming harder to find a place to pay your bills.
We pay those suckers enough money that they should have the decency to have a place to pay bills.
I don't blame the banks for not taking the payments. They want the customers to mail the payments so they can save on that too.
Frank Reyna
Warsaw
Nathan Frank
Editor, Times-Union:At Bart's Watersports we employ approximately 15 college students each summer season. They work at Bart's and they make Bart's work. Without their infusion of energy, articulation, commitment, honesty and enthusiasm we would not likely be observing our 25th anniversary this year.
No one symbolizes these traits more adequately than Nathan Frank. In the three summers Nathan worked at Bart's he could be found assisting customers one hour, modeling for a catalog the next and sweeping warehouse floors the following. Always he did more than was expected, never complaining and serving as a leader of his peers. Nathan was respected by his peers but felt just as comfortable horsing around with young children or joking with octogenarians.
He wanted to be a teacher and coach. After his tragic death at Purdue University last week, his parents and sister Katie were paradoxically faced with the daunting task of comforting the hundreds in the seemingly endless lines that came to say goodbye.
We thank God for sharing his earthly presence and eternal soul - for Nathan epitomizes what's right with American youth.
J. Bart Culver
North Webster
Life Chain
Editor, Times-Union:Although Kosciusko County does not have an abortion clinic, many women and girls from this area go to Fort Wayne, South Bend, Niles, Mich., and other cities with abortion clinics to have abortions. The Indiana Department of Health reported that 85 women from Kosciusko County had abortions in 1995 (the most recent statistics available). In some cases these women would change their minds if they could be reminded that abortion kills their babies and that there are people concerned about them.
Pro-life Christians have a chance to let these women and the public in general know the seriousness of abortion on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 5, from 2:30 to 3:30. Participants will stand along Center Street in Warsaw holding signs that say "Abortion Kills Children," "Abortion Hurts Women," "Adoption the Loving Option" and "Jesus Heals and Forgives." This event is open to church groups and individuals. The event is being sponsored by Kosciusko County Right to Life. If you would like more information, please call the 24-hour recorded message line at 372-0390.
Jeannie Rhodes
Life Chain Coordinator
KABS
Editor, Times-Union:It is sad about Kabs bus. This is so important to our community. Our senior citizens are very happy that we have transportation for so many to be able for our KABS service. The children also. And we appreciate the preople who drive the buses. They are so caring and considerate for all.
Be careful of the commission and council - they, the senior citizens, do have a lot when it's time for election.
Kay Zentz
Warsaw
KABS Again
Editor, Times-Union:Once again I am writing to urge the city council and county alike to reconsider their vote. For one reason, the members were not all present according to the report. I do thank Avis Gunter for trying to support the facts. With so many people who need the bus service, it seems to me it's something that's needed in this town - not just lightly tossed aside. Most of us seniors have paid taxes in this county and town all our lives and it seems we should have some consideration now that we can't drive anymore. Maybe someone will read this and join our cause.
Lillian Vogt
Warsaw
Back To The Days
Editor, Times-Union:On Sept. 27 and 28, our community will once again be enriched by the American Revolutionary War era re-enactment, Back to the Days of Kosciuszko. The seventh annual Back to the Days of Kosciuszko is the single annual fund-raiser for the Kosciusko Community Senior Services (formerly known as the Kosciusko County Council on Aging and Aged). Not only is this a fund-raiser for an agency that provides a vast number of services to the 13,000 elderly citizens in our county, the festival serves to honor the namesake of our county, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Revolutionary War engineer. This year's ticket proceeds will go toward the purchase of a new Happy Wanderer van.
Back to the Days has become an established tradition to our county, as a festival that offers a historically accurate representation of life in the Revolutionary War era, period arts and crafts, and music. The festival also provides area service organizations an opportunity to raise money for the organizations' philanthropies. The Evening Optimist Club, Kiwanis Club of Warsaw, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, DAR, Kosciusko County Historical Society, 4-H Rabbit Club, Pierceton Lions Club, Warsaw Lions Club and Delta Theta Tau are participants in Back to the Days of Kosciuszko. These groups rely upon this event as their organizations' own fund-raiser to benefit a host of charitable needs in our county.
Three years ago, a decision was made by the festival steering committee to move the event to the last weekend in September. As the festival in 1996 was also held during the last weekend of September, so is the 1997 festival and so shall it be in years to come. It is the hope of the steering committee for Back to the Days of Kosciuszko that the thousands of festival visitors from our county will once again visit the festival this year. In making your plans for the weekend of Sept. 27-28, we hope that you will remember the numerous services that are offered through Senior Services, including home-delivered meals to hundreds of elderly citizens, the Happy Wanderer Van, which each week transports dozens of elderly members of our community to doctor's appointments, and the many informational and recreational activities offered to our senior citizens through the Senior Activities Center. See you at Camp Lucerne on Sept. 27-28.
Joanne M. Kolbe
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Whitko Faculty
Editor, Times-Union:Change driven by fact is the healthiest kind of change. Congratulations to Whitko Community School superintendent Dr. Worl, the Whitko School Board and Whitko's administrative team for the decision to add two additional faculty members at Whitko Middle School.
When this year's enrollment at WMS created the highest student-teacher ratio in the corporation, the powers that be acted quickly to ease class size and made the learning environment more productive for faculty and students alike. Each building was involved in the decision and made the necessary sacrifices to ease the situation at WMS.
Thank you to those mentioned above and the students and families who were asked to make team changes to correct the ratio at WMS. I continue to be amazed at what we can accomplish as a school district when we all work together.
Beth Kessie Metzger
Claypool
Height Restrictors
Editor, Times-Union:As a former resident of Florida and witness to rapid urban growth, I have been amused and recently disturbed by the apparent solution of the owners of the Kmart shopping center. I applaud their efforts to control the flow of traffic and improve the safety and efficiency of the motorists. I can also understand the desire to limit truck parking.
However, I fail to understand the seemingly limited creativity and lack of concern for civic beauty resulting from this solution. I refer to the recently installed steel underpasses and round concrete barriers. Although technically effective, this solution is visually offensive. I have to believe that beauty and economic growth can exist together. Perhaps curbs, landscaping and small trees would have added to the shopping experience while serving the same purpose. Warsaw will certainly face similar situations in the future. It would be prudent to plan ahead now and support landscaping ordinances to create a more visually appealing environment in future city plans.
Alan Clingan
Warsaw
Parks Department Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:
This is a "Dear Jon" letter.
Dear Jon Garber,
Thank you and your employees for another summer of beautiful park and grounds keeping - especially Center Lake and Central.
Charlotte Marie Butler
Warsaw
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- NIPSCO - Nathan Frank - Life Chain - KABS - KABS Again - Back To The Days - Whitko Faculty - Height Restrictors
NIPSCO
Editor, Times-Union:I just had to bring it to your attention how cheap NIPSCO has gotten to be.
Not only did they close the Warsaw office, but now it is becoming harder to find a place to pay your bills.
We pay those suckers enough money that they should have the decency to have a place to pay bills.
I don't blame the banks for not taking the payments. They want the customers to mail the payments so they can save on that too.
Frank Reyna
Warsaw
Nathan Frank
Editor, Times-Union:At Bart's Watersports we employ approximately 15 college students each summer season. They work at Bart's and they make Bart's work. Without their infusion of energy, articulation, commitment, honesty and enthusiasm we would not likely be observing our 25th anniversary this year.
No one symbolizes these traits more adequately than Nathan Frank. In the three summers Nathan worked at Bart's he could be found assisting customers one hour, modeling for a catalog the next and sweeping warehouse floors the following. Always he did more than was expected, never complaining and serving as a leader of his peers. Nathan was respected by his peers but felt just as comfortable horsing around with young children or joking with octogenarians.
He wanted to be a teacher and coach. After his tragic death at Purdue University last week, his parents and sister Katie were paradoxically faced with the daunting task of comforting the hundreds in the seemingly endless lines that came to say goodbye.
We thank God for sharing his earthly presence and eternal soul - for Nathan epitomizes what's right with American youth.
J. Bart Culver
North Webster
Life Chain
Editor, Times-Union:Although Kosciusko County does not have an abortion clinic, many women and girls from this area go to Fort Wayne, South Bend, Niles, Mich., and other cities with abortion clinics to have abortions. The Indiana Department of Health reported that 85 women from Kosciusko County had abortions in 1995 (the most recent statistics available). In some cases these women would change their minds if they could be reminded that abortion kills their babies and that there are people concerned about them.
Pro-life Christians have a chance to let these women and the public in general know the seriousness of abortion on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 5, from 2:30 to 3:30. Participants will stand along Center Street in Warsaw holding signs that say "Abortion Kills Children," "Abortion Hurts Women," "Adoption the Loving Option" and "Jesus Heals and Forgives." This event is open to church groups and individuals. The event is being sponsored by Kosciusko County Right to Life. If you would like more information, please call the 24-hour recorded message line at 372-0390.
Jeannie Rhodes
Life Chain Coordinator
KABS
Editor, Times-Union:It is sad about Kabs bus. This is so important to our community. Our senior citizens are very happy that we have transportation for so many to be able for our KABS service. The children also. And we appreciate the preople who drive the buses. They are so caring and considerate for all.
Be careful of the commission and council - they, the senior citizens, do have a lot when it's time for election.
Kay Zentz
Warsaw
KABS Again
Editor, Times-Union:Once again I am writing to urge the city council and county alike to reconsider their vote. For one reason, the members were not all present according to the report. I do thank Avis Gunter for trying to support the facts. With so many people who need the bus service, it seems to me it's something that's needed in this town - not just lightly tossed aside. Most of us seniors have paid taxes in this county and town all our lives and it seems we should have some consideration now that we can't drive anymore. Maybe someone will read this and join our cause.
Lillian Vogt
Warsaw
Back To The Days
Editor, Times-Union:On Sept. 27 and 28, our community will once again be enriched by the American Revolutionary War era re-enactment, Back to the Days of Kosciuszko. The seventh annual Back to the Days of Kosciuszko is the single annual fund-raiser for the Kosciusko Community Senior Services (formerly known as the Kosciusko County Council on Aging and Aged). Not only is this a fund-raiser for an agency that provides a vast number of services to the 13,000 elderly citizens in our county, the festival serves to honor the namesake of our county, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Revolutionary War engineer. This year's ticket proceeds will go toward the purchase of a new Happy Wanderer van.
Back to the Days has become an established tradition to our county, as a festival that offers a historically accurate representation of life in the Revolutionary War era, period arts and crafts, and music. The festival also provides area service organizations an opportunity to raise money for the organizations' philanthropies. The Evening Optimist Club, Kiwanis Club of Warsaw, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, DAR, Kosciusko County Historical Society, 4-H Rabbit Club, Pierceton Lions Club, Warsaw Lions Club and Delta Theta Tau are participants in Back to the Days of Kosciuszko. These groups rely upon this event as their organizations' own fund-raiser to benefit a host of charitable needs in our county.
Three years ago, a decision was made by the festival steering committee to move the event to the last weekend in September. As the festival in 1996 was also held during the last weekend of September, so is the 1997 festival and so shall it be in years to come. It is the hope of the steering committee for Back to the Days of Kosciuszko that the thousands of festival visitors from our county will once again visit the festival this year. In making your plans for the weekend of Sept. 27-28, we hope that you will remember the numerous services that are offered through Senior Services, including home-delivered meals to hundreds of elderly citizens, the Happy Wanderer Van, which each week transports dozens of elderly members of our community to doctor's appointments, and the many informational and recreational activities offered to our senior citizens through the Senior Activities Center. See you at Camp Lucerne on Sept. 27-28.
Joanne M. Kolbe
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Whitko Faculty
Editor, Times-Union:Change driven by fact is the healthiest kind of change. Congratulations to Whitko Community School superintendent Dr. Worl, the Whitko School Board and Whitko's administrative team for the decision to add two additional faculty members at Whitko Middle School.
When this year's enrollment at WMS created the highest student-teacher ratio in the corporation, the powers that be acted quickly to ease class size and made the learning environment more productive for faculty and students alike. Each building was involved in the decision and made the necessary sacrifices to ease the situation at WMS.
Thank you to those mentioned above and the students and families who were asked to make team changes to correct the ratio at WMS. I continue to be amazed at what we can accomplish as a school district when we all work together.
Beth Kessie Metzger
Claypool
Height Restrictors
Editor, Times-Union:As a former resident of Florida and witness to rapid urban growth, I have been amused and recently disturbed by the apparent solution of the owners of the Kmart shopping center. I applaud their efforts to control the flow of traffic and improve the safety and efficiency of the motorists. I can also understand the desire to limit truck parking.
However, I fail to understand the seemingly limited creativity and lack of concern for civic beauty resulting from this solution. I refer to the recently installed steel underpasses and round concrete barriers. Although technically effective, this solution is visually offensive. I have to believe that beauty and economic growth can exist together. Perhaps curbs, landscaping and small trees would have added to the shopping experience while serving the same purpose. Warsaw will certainly face similar situations in the future. It would be prudent to plan ahead now and support landscaping ordinances to create a more visually appealing environment in future city plans.
Alan Clingan
Warsaw
Parks Department Thanks
Editor, Times-Union:
This is a "Dear Jon" letter.
Dear Jon Garber,
Thank you and your employees for another summer of beautiful park and grounds keeping - especially Center Lake and Central.
Charlotte Marie Butler
Warsaw
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