Remember When 4.19.2014
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Kay Andrews is resigning from her North Webster Town Council seat effective immediately and as Tippecanoe precinct committeewoman after 17 years. She has accepted a position as a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch. She leaves Friday for Naples, Fla.
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic, under conductor Bradley Thachuk, performed March 31 at Lakeview Middle School for Edgewood and Lakeview students. The concert featured a solo performance by Rebecca Benjamin, 9, home-schooled fourth-grader and daughter of Bryan and Marie Benjamin. Rebecca has studied the violin since age three. She played the first movement of Vivaldi’s “Concerto in G minor, opus 12, No. 1.”
25 Years Ago
Students in the Jefferson Elementary School second-grade class of Carolyn Shaffner have completed a quilt they began in February. The class, under the direction of Pam Kennedy, spent one morning a week on the quilt. With help from local quilter Ruth Quillen and school aide Kathy Wood, students sewed their own quilt block consisting of three triangles and signed their names to it. The quilt will be on display at Lowery’s Sewing Center during April and then be registered with the Indiana Quilt Registry.
Matt Joseph, 6-foot-8 basketball player from Oregon-Davis, has signed a letter of intent to play for Coach Jim Kessler at Grace College. He chose Grace over two other schools. “I was impressed with the campus and the people when I visited there. Plus my mom really wanted me to go there.”
50 Years Ago
Bourbon Grade Schools science fair winners are Karen Watkins, Grand Champion; Wendell Rust, reserve champion; Jeffory Gilman; Charlotte Mason; Hugh Rettinger; Cindy Frenger. Tops in the Etna Green science fair are Mary Ann Strang, Grand Champion; Patricia Stutzman, Kathy Nifong, Everett Carroll, Ginger White and Roger Miller.
Thomas Kramer, an honor student at Syracuse High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kramer, 127 North Shore Drive, Syracuse, has been appointed by Gov. Matthew Welsh to serve on the Youth Advisory Committee to the Indiana Youth Council May 1-2.
75 Years Ago
Noble Wolford drove a livery hack here for 40 years. The advent of the automobile, paved roads and the speed of the gas buggy threw him out of employment.
In the latest issue of “Sweetheart” magazine is a love story written by Mabel Cook Turley, 112-1/2 W. Market St., daughter of the late James Cook, one-time prominent Warsaw lawyer. Mable has had a number of her pen products accepted.
Frank Hartsock and Mal Bowman proudly display the most unique automobile we have ever seen. Painted a bright red, the new Studebaker is equipped with dual controls. Complete sets of instruments, two steering wheels, two sets of pedals, brakes, etc. face those in both the driver’s and passenger’s seats. Hartsock took students of the Atwood school rides in the vehicle yesterday.
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Kay Andrews is resigning from her North Webster Town Council seat effective immediately and as Tippecanoe precinct committeewoman after 17 years. She has accepted a position as a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch. She leaves Friday for Naples, Fla.
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic, under conductor Bradley Thachuk, performed March 31 at Lakeview Middle School for Edgewood and Lakeview students. The concert featured a solo performance by Rebecca Benjamin, 9, home-schooled fourth-grader and daughter of Bryan and Marie Benjamin. Rebecca has studied the violin since age three. She played the first movement of Vivaldi’s “Concerto in G minor, opus 12, No. 1.”
25 Years Ago
Students in the Jefferson Elementary School second-grade class of Carolyn Shaffner have completed a quilt they began in February. The class, under the direction of Pam Kennedy, spent one morning a week on the quilt. With help from local quilter Ruth Quillen and school aide Kathy Wood, students sewed their own quilt block consisting of three triangles and signed their names to it. The quilt will be on display at Lowery’s Sewing Center during April and then be registered with the Indiana Quilt Registry.
Matt Joseph, 6-foot-8 basketball player from Oregon-Davis, has signed a letter of intent to play for Coach Jim Kessler at Grace College. He chose Grace over two other schools. “I was impressed with the campus and the people when I visited there. Plus my mom really wanted me to go there.”
50 Years Ago
Bourbon Grade Schools science fair winners are Karen Watkins, Grand Champion; Wendell Rust, reserve champion; Jeffory Gilman; Charlotte Mason; Hugh Rettinger; Cindy Frenger. Tops in the Etna Green science fair are Mary Ann Strang, Grand Champion; Patricia Stutzman, Kathy Nifong, Everett Carroll, Ginger White and Roger Miller.
Thomas Kramer, an honor student at Syracuse High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kramer, 127 North Shore Drive, Syracuse, has been appointed by Gov. Matthew Welsh to serve on the Youth Advisory Committee to the Indiana Youth Council May 1-2.
75 Years Ago
Noble Wolford drove a livery hack here for 40 years. The advent of the automobile, paved roads and the speed of the gas buggy threw him out of employment.
In the latest issue of “Sweetheart” magazine is a love story written by Mabel Cook Turley, 112-1/2 W. Market St., daughter of the late James Cook, one-time prominent Warsaw lawyer. Mable has had a number of her pen products accepted.
Frank Hartsock and Mal Bowman proudly display the most unique automobile we have ever seen. Painted a bright red, the new Studebaker is equipped with dual controls. Complete sets of instruments, two steering wheels, two sets of pedals, brakes, etc. face those in both the driver’s and passenger’s seats. Hartsock took students of the Atwood school rides in the vehicle yesterday.
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