Letters to the Editor 09-23-2003
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Thanks To KCH Staff - Hunting Preserve - School Numbers
Thanks To KCH Staff
Editor, Times-Union:Our beloved mother, Essie Poe, recently suffered a stroke and was admitted to KCH for medical intervention. While she was a patient at KCH, she received the utmost professional as well as supportive service and care. We cannot fully express the gratitude we would like to extend to the board of directors and their staff members for attempting to make our mother as comfortable as possible during her final days.
Drs. Edward W. Turton, Gregory N. Haase and Dana L. Coates provided our mother with professional yet compassionate care. The fourth floor nursing staff and patient care technicians were prompt and delivered quality support in addition to the aforementioned doctors. Many additional department services such as the lab, X-ray, food and housekeeping did not go unnoticed.
Thank you, KCH, for providing quality medical service not only to our mother and family, but to the community as well.
Delmer, Amos and Boyd Poe
Phyllis Hurley, Bess Ransbottom
Koscuisko County
Hunting Preserve
Editor, Times-Union:Once upon a time there was a family who built their dream home way back off the road out in the country. Thee was plenty of room for the kids to run and play and a great place for the family to enjoy their love of horses.
A year or so later, a man comes along and buys the property next to them. Forty acres. This 40 acres butts up to neighbors on all sides. This man then puts up an 8-foot fence completely around his 40 acres and stocks it with deer and proclaims to all (articles in the Fort Wayne papers) that he is opening a hunting preserve. His intent is to have hunters pay him to come onto his 40 acres and kill deer. I should mention, this man does not live on this property, nor is his property next to it.
Time passes and this man complains to this family that when they drive in their driveway it scares his deer, so he puts up a dark canvas tarp fence along the family driveway so they get to enjoy this ugly fence every time they drive in their driveway.
Questions - How safe is this for all the neighbors who live next to it or even drive by on the county road that goes past the 8-foot fenced area? How will this affect the property values of the neighborhood? Should there be a fear of disease being brought in? Is this really hunting? How do we know for sure that shots being fired won't come through a wooden fence?
We care because this family is our daughter, her husband and our grandchildren. We are concerned for their safety!
Rumor is that Mr. McIntosh is planning to open another in the area. We need to come together as a community and say this is unacceptable! The next one might be next to you!
Let this be the end of the story! We must get this stopped!
Jim and Linda Collier
Warsaw
School Numbers
Editor, Times-Union:Here are some figures as of Sept. 22, of our current enrollment in our schools.
School Current Capacity +/- 2002
Leesburg 470 493 +7
Madison 444 493 +2
Lincoln 430 493 +10
Harrison 590 625 -14
Jefferson 306 384 +9
Washington 419 470 +7
Eisenhower 535 625 +19
Closed schools Students +/- 2002
Atwood 148 +13
Claypool 148 -4
Silver Lake 153 +6
Middle & high schools
Lakeview 572 1200 +26
Edgewood 480 750 +23
High School approx. 1875 2000 +62
WCS current elementary students - 3,643; current capacity of remaining seven schools - 3,583, 60 students above overall capacity. Elementary students are up approximately 73 students since 2002.
Angela Fulton
Silver Lake
via e-mail
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- Thanks To KCH Staff - Hunting Preserve - School Numbers
Thanks To KCH Staff
Editor, Times-Union:Our beloved mother, Essie Poe, recently suffered a stroke and was admitted to KCH for medical intervention. While she was a patient at KCH, she received the utmost professional as well as supportive service and care. We cannot fully express the gratitude we would like to extend to the board of directors and their staff members for attempting to make our mother as comfortable as possible during her final days.
Drs. Edward W. Turton, Gregory N. Haase and Dana L. Coates provided our mother with professional yet compassionate care. The fourth floor nursing staff and patient care technicians were prompt and delivered quality support in addition to the aforementioned doctors. Many additional department services such as the lab, X-ray, food and housekeeping did not go unnoticed.
Thank you, KCH, for providing quality medical service not only to our mother and family, but to the community as well.
Delmer, Amos and Boyd Poe
Phyllis Hurley, Bess Ransbottom
Koscuisko County
Hunting Preserve
Editor, Times-Union:Once upon a time there was a family who built their dream home way back off the road out in the country. Thee was plenty of room for the kids to run and play and a great place for the family to enjoy their love of horses.
A year or so later, a man comes along and buys the property next to them. Forty acres. This 40 acres butts up to neighbors on all sides. This man then puts up an 8-foot fence completely around his 40 acres and stocks it with deer and proclaims to all (articles in the Fort Wayne papers) that he is opening a hunting preserve. His intent is to have hunters pay him to come onto his 40 acres and kill deer. I should mention, this man does not live on this property, nor is his property next to it.
Time passes and this man complains to this family that when they drive in their driveway it scares his deer, so he puts up a dark canvas tarp fence along the family driveway so they get to enjoy this ugly fence every time they drive in their driveway.
Questions - How safe is this for all the neighbors who live next to it or even drive by on the county road that goes past the 8-foot fenced area? How will this affect the property values of the neighborhood? Should there be a fear of disease being brought in? Is this really hunting? How do we know for sure that shots being fired won't come through a wooden fence?
We care because this family is our daughter, her husband and our grandchildren. We are concerned for their safety!
Rumor is that Mr. McIntosh is planning to open another in the area. We need to come together as a community and say this is unacceptable! The next one might be next to you!
Let this be the end of the story! We must get this stopped!
Jim and Linda Collier
Warsaw
School Numbers
Editor, Times-Union:Here are some figures as of Sept. 22, of our current enrollment in our schools.
School Current Capacity +/- 2002
Leesburg 470 493 +7
Madison 444 493 +2
Lincoln 430 493 +10
Harrison 590 625 -14
Jefferson 306 384 +9
Washington 419 470 +7
Eisenhower 535 625 +19
Closed schools Students +/- 2002
Atwood 148 +13
Claypool 148 -4
Silver Lake 153 +6
Middle & high schools
Lakeview 572 1200 +26
Edgewood 480 750 +23
High School approx. 1875 2000 +62
WCS current elementary students - 3,643; current capacity of remaining seven schools - 3,583, 60 students above overall capacity. Elementary students are up approximately 73 students since 2002.
Angela Fulton
Silver Lake
via e-mail
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