Letters to the Editor 06-21-2000

- Welcome To Warsaw - Something Evil - Observatory - Thanks From Silver Lake Welcome To Warsaw Editor, Times-Union: Welcome to Warsaw! No growth! No competition! Run by a select few.Chase anyone away who dares try to enter.Everything's just dandy the way it is! Welcome to Warsaw! Rosalee Bridge Warsaw Something Evil Editor, Times-Union: First came the Pow Wow, then a psychic touch healing class at the library, psychic fair, and now classes being offered at a local business on past lives, soul trouble, dreams, etc.Past lives? The Bible says in Hebrews 9:27, "It is appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment."Not many lives and deaths, one life.

Letters to the Editor 11-30-2004

- Robotics Team Says Thanks - Instilling Values - Sports Salaries - Kmart Kindness Robotics Team Says Thanks Editor, Times-Union: We are the Swashbucklers, a Lego Robotics team from Warsaw Community Schools.Each year FLL (First Lego League) hosts a competition that contains two different parts, research and programming.This year, in the research part, our challenge is to make a real change in our community for people with disabilities.We began by looking at accessibility.We went to places on field trips to research accessibility of public places.

Letters to the Editor 05-17-2000

- Million Moms - Human Pretension - Gun Violence Million Moms Editor, Times-Union: Women who participated in the Million Mom March, May 14, made a terrible mistake by attacking guns instead of focusing on the women who have been raped or killed because of gun control laws. Marchers should have mourned the VICTIMS of gun control, including the estimated 4,177 women who will be raped this year because it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon in their state.

Letters to the Editor 02-16-2001

- Stop Meijer - Legislative Reporting - Loves Warsaw - News Views Unfair - Hospital Care - Gun Legislation Stop Meijer Editor, Times-Union: Attention NIMBYs! Meijer is coming back. I recently received a call from TDM Marketing, asking me to participate in a "random, nonpartisan survey of issues of importance to the Warsaw area."The first 10 minutes of questions concerned my feelings about the quality of representation by our city council, mayor and appointed officials.

Letters to the Editor 02-20-2001

- Tax Policy - Chiropractic Concerns - Akron Says Thanks Tax Policy Editor, Times-Union: Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Our constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."When dealing with the possibility of a budget shortfall, around the General Assembly one hears talk of "tax restructuring with revenue enhancement."While this term sounds nice enough, it means that Franklin was right - taxes are, indeed, certain.

Letters to the Editor 05-19-2000

Letters to the Editor 04-23-2004

Wildcats Come Up Short Against Norwell

SOUTH WHITLEY - While the complete story of the 2004-2005 Whitko Wildcats basketball team hasn't been written yet, the first chapter has, and it's not sitting well with first-year head coach Larry Lael. Norwell overcame Whitko's size advantage to gain the rebounding edge and its quickness to create turnovers en route to a 54-43 win over the host Wildcats Friday. "We've got two areas we just can't seem to shore up.One is turning the ball over offensively and second is giving up offensive rebounds on defense.That's been our story these first three games," Lael said. The Knights strung together a 10-2 run late in the second quarter to take the lead and never looked back. Leading the way for Norwell was 6-foot-3 forward Chandler Harnish.Harnish finished with 17 points on 6 of 10 shooting to go along with eight rebounds.

Letters to the Editor 05-02-2001

- Congress - KLS Says Thanks - Special Olympics - Hope For The Future Congress Editor, Times-Union: On Friday, April 27, you published a letter from Mr.Michael L.Stevens which lamented the fact that in our president's first 100 days he did a lot of yap, yap, and that he had not given him the tax break he promised in his campaign.Obviously Mr.Stevens must not understand how our federal government operates.The president is not a dictator, nor do I ever want him to be.Congress is the lawmaking body.The president can only recommend and push for changes, but the Congress must actually enact the laws.Get on the members of Congress to enact the changes you want which the president is asking for and trying to get for us.

Letters to the Editor 06-27-2000

Warriors Have A Shining Star In Zolman

How many basketball players would take these statistics in a game: 24 points on 10-of-17 shooting, seven rebounds, six steals and three assists? Quite a few, don't you think? A local basketball player had these by halftime.This player finished with 39 points on 17-of-31 shooting, 11 rebounds, 14 steals, seven assists and five blocked shots. Now before we go any further, the take here on political correctness is the same as Rush Limbaugh's.Political correctness, Limbaugh has said, is censorship. If you want political correctness, quit reading.If you keep reading, you can't say you weren't warned. You can count on three things with girls basketball. One, if you are watching a junior varsity slopfest you just pray won't go into overtime because you want to get home by 10, it will, every time. Two, girls basketball, compared to boys basketball, looks like it's being played in slow motion.

Letters to the Editor 08-13-2003

- Abuse Of Power - Celebrity Autographs - Wallet Thief - Sinful Lifestyles Abuse Of Power Editor, Times-Union: Ms.Strang and Ms.Wright: Nice article, but I was appalled by Mr.Rogers' humble confession, and to do so in public, the poor soul! He knew only what he read in a newspaper? That's disgraceful! He would never have heard any public outcries concerning the abuse of political power either, other than the occasionally editorial.

Letters to the Editor 12-07-2004

- Athlete Salaries - Thanksgiving Dinner - Junior Achievement - Columnists - Hit And Run - Toy Sale Athlete Salaries Editor, Times-Union: I want to respond in part to two letters that were written by Fred Yohey ("Sports Salaries") and Gene May ("Limited Consciousness"). First let me start by congratulating and thanking Gene May for this wonderfully insightful piece.For those of you that haven't gotten a chance to read it, by all means read it.

Wawasee Retains Control Of 'W' Trophy

SYRACUSE -ÊWarsaw hung with No.9 (4A) Wawasee for three-and-a-half quarters as the two teams battled for the "W" Trophy Friday night at Warrior Field during Wawasee's homecoming. A couple of ill-timed penalties and an interception, coupled with too much Joe Leach, did the Tigers in as they fell to the Warriors 42-21. It was the fourth straight year Warsaw fell to their Kosciusko County and Northern Lakes Conference rivals. Warsaw and Wawasee were tied at 21 after three quarters. The Warriors quickly went up 28-21 when Leach, Wawasee's do-it-all quarterback, rushed for a touchdown from two yards out with 10:35 left in the game to cap an 11-play, 68-yard drive. On the ensuing possession, Warsaw gave the ball right back to Wawasee when Tiger senior quarterback Tyler Akers' pass, intended for junior Daniel Conrad, was tipped by Wawasee's Tylor Trobaugh and picked off by Tanner Benzinger.

Warsaw Picks Up Huge Win Over NorthWood To Remain Undefeated

On a night that most people would call miserable, Warsaw football coach Phil Jensen felt otherwise. "What a great night," he said."What a night.Wow." And Jensen had reason to be excited.For the first time since 1973, the Warsaw Tigers defeated the NorthWood Panthers at Fisher Field.The 22-16 win also marked the first time the Tigers have ever defeated the Panthers in back-to-back seasons. However, that does not mean the game was an easy win. After a scoreless first quarter, NorthWood struck first blood in the second frame.With just 3:01 remaining in the first half, quarterback Jordan Adams connected with Dustin Croy for an 8-yard touchdown pass.The kick after the touchdown sailed wide left, and the Panthers held a 6-0 lead. But not for long. After the kickoff, the Tigers took possession of the ball on their own 31-yard line.The Tigers broke into NorthWood territory on the first play from scrimmage when Ryan DeGeeter hit Adam Sisson for a 32-yard gain.

Valley Vikings Win Season Opener

AKRON -ÊAs the National Anthem played over the speakers in Tippecanoe Valley High School's gym Thursday night, Viking senior Rebekah Parker could barely stand still. "I thought she was ging to jump out of her skin," said Valley coach Gary Teel."All the girls were that way.They were ready to get out there and play.There was a lot of that first-game adrenaline out there." The Vikings overcame that first-game adrenaline to pick up a 70-56 win over Bremen. But it was Bremen that held the lead much of the first quarter.After trading baskets for the first five minutes of play, Bremen made a 9-4 run to take a 17-12 lead at the 1:30 mark. However, two baskets by Parker evened the score at 17-all to end the first quarter. Then Parker opened the second frame with a three-pointer and a field goal, followed by a three-pointer by Abby Shafer to put Valley up 25-17.

College Roundup

WINONA LAKE - The Grace College men's soccer team bounced back from a loss in its Mid-Central Conference opener by defeating league foe Spring Arbor 2-0 Wednesday.Jeff Muldoon scored a goal in each half for the Lancers. Grace was forced to survive an early push from Spring Arbor to get its second shutout of the year as the Cougars made it look like it would be lopsided early.Spring Arbor had four of its seven shots on goal in the first five minutes of the contest, but Lancer keeper John Leopold made a number of huge saves to keep the game scoreless. The Lancers were playing without starters Ryan Burgher and Brett Dickerson, who both missed the contest after sustaining injuries in the final moments of Saturday's game against St.Francis.The adjustment period almost put Grace in a hole, but after getting through that, the squad played much better.

Warsaw Girls Advance

DUNLAP - The biggest obstacle Warsaw's girls cross country team faced in Saturday's Elkhart Central Sectional was not the race itself but the drive to the race. Because of miscommunication between Warsaw coach Paul Sibray and the bus driver, the Tigers fell behind in their trip to Ox Bow Park. "Wayne (Berkey) is a terrific driver," Sibray said."I should have called him (Friday) night.He thought it was a late meet like last week.Last week's conference meet was at 10 a.m., and next week the regional is at 10:30.This one was at 9. "But we made it." Made it and made some noise.If Sibray wants his team to run a little late from now on, who can blame him? Warsaw finished second in the race to move on to the regional.

Goshen Grounds Wawasee

SYRACUSE - For the Wawasee Warriors, Friday night's game against the Goshen Redskins was simply a matter of getting outrun as Goshen rang up 518 rushing yards, to beat the Warriors 49-14 in the final regular season game for both teams. Things started off well defensively for Wawasee. On Goshen's first drive, senior Ryan Mikel intercepted a pass from Kyle Park and ran it back 45 yards to the Goshen 21. However, the Warrior offense was not able get the ball in the end zone, and attempted a field goal that was blocked by Goshen senior Tony Shepard. Goshen's first score came late in the first quarter off a drive that began at its own 33-yard line.The Redskins moved the ball 48 yards before Joe Hurd ran in from 12 yards out.

Another Year, Another Loss To Northridge

MENTONE - The Northridge Raiders do not know how to treat their hosts. One year ago Northridge went to Valley and beat the Vikings 17-0 in the sectional.One year later, Northridge traveled to Valley again, this time for Friday's sectional game.Like last year, Northridge beat the Vikings at Death Valley, this time 13-12. With Tippecanoe Valley starting quarterback Brandon Eaton at home recuperating from mono, Friday's sectional football game against Northridge rested in the hands of junior Craig Kuhn. But Kuhn threw four interceptions in Valley's loss. Good football teams put all three phases of the game - offense, defense and special teams - together. The Vikings got the good defense. The offense was a different story. When it was time for the offense and special teams to come through, they failed.