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City Seeks Hunters To Control Deer

The Warsaw Deer Task Force is seeking hunters to assist in deer-reduction efforts in Warsaw. The Warsaw City Council passed a resolution and ordinance at its meeting Nov.6 that allows trained archers to hunt in declared nuisance zones. The task force, co-chaired by Jeff Grose, has spent the past nine months researching methods to control the deer herd near Spring Hill. The purpose of the task force is to reduce and maintain the population of deer in declared nuisance zones. The task force has identified a deer nuisance zone within the city limits, including the entire area around Spring Hill, Kosciusko Community Hospital and U.S.30. To be considered to be part of the deer reduction effort, archers must be a resident of Kosciusko County, complete an application form and have an approved background check conducted by the Warsaw Police Department.
JENNIFER PERYAM, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Volunteers Sought To Participate In Live Nativity

Churches or other organizations who want to participate in "Back to Bethlehem" this year still have time to contact the Kosciusko County fair board, a representative of the board said Friday. The second annual celebration is scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m.Dec.14 and 15 at the fairgrounds. "Back to Bethlehem" features live scenes of the biblical Christmas story.Viewers can drive through the display, which is presented at no cost to the public for admission (though free-will donations will be accepted). Last year's nativity scene featured eight scenes that were done by community churches and other organizations.One of the scenes, the Angel Choir, was composed of representatives of several church choirs. More than 3,000 people toured the live nativity display last year at the fairgrounds. Also last year fair board members and members of the county's riding club performed as Roman soldiers and roamed the fairgrounds during display times to add authenticity.
Laurie Hahn, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Webster Holds Off On Sex Ordinance

NORTH WEBSTER - Past litigation and the inability to enforce an ordinance already in place in North Webster led the town council to table discussion on the countywide proposal involving sexually oriented businesses. The Kosciusko County Council passed the amendment to the zoning ordinance in November, and the Kosciusko County Area Plan Commission has asked all member towns to decide whether to support it.The matter was tabled last month in Syracuse and the Pierceton Town Council on Monday voted to back it. The amendment restricts location of businesses deemed sexually oriented, a designation spelled out in the addendum. On the advice of town attorney Mike Armey, the North Webster Town Council introduced the proposed ordinance, but did not discuss it.
Ruth Anne Lipka, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

Tariffs On Steel Imports A Bad Idea

I am a little bit disappointed with W's decision to impose 30 percent tariffs on certain imported steel. I know it's tough to compete in the modern world and all, but really, whatever happened to the free-trade, over-my-dead-body, no tax-increase W we voted for? I know the steelworkers union put the thumbscrews on W over this issue and frankly, it could have ended up worse. The steel people wanted a 40 percent tariff and also asked the government to pony up 10 or 12 billion of our favorite America tax dollars to help bail out the pension plans of bankrupt steel companies. W just said no to the bailout. But frankly, the tariff business is bad enough. The tariffs target places like China, Russia, South Korea, Japan and the Ukraine.Exempted are places like Canada, Mexico and developing nations.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Rocker's Crass, But Others Are Criminals

I guess I wasn't all that surprised to see the public outcry over comments made by John Rocker. He's the Atlanta Braves relief pitcher who, during a Sports Illustrated interview, said a bunch of dumb things. Rocker is no dummy.He scored 1300 on his SATs.His parents are professionals - a teacher and a lawyer.I think he was probably trying to be clever or funny.He wasn't.He made disparaging remarks about homosexuals, single moms, Asian- Americans and others. The comments came when he was asked about playing the New York Mets.Rocker was talking about what it must be like to live in New York. He couldn't have been any more politically incorrect. So when his comments came out, I was pretty confident he would be crucified in the media.And he was. He was big news.All the networks, all the major daily newspapers and wire services, virtually every media outlet in the nation ran stories about Rocker the bigot. Lots of stories.For weeks.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

S. Lake Animal Clinic To Move

SILVER LAKE - The building that houses the Silver Lake town offices will have a new neighbor in 2005. Dr.Kate Kayes is planning to move the Silver Lake Small Animal Clinic into the building adjacent to the town offices.The building formerly housed a doctor's office, and will now be used to treat dogs, cats, birds and small exotic animals.Kayes does not treat large animals or farm animals in her practice. If approved by the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals at a Jan.10 hearing, Kayes will build a soundproof addition to the veterinary office to house a kennel for 15 to 20 animals.Kayes says the business will be much like the one in the current location on Ind.15 near the McClure gas station. "It is a benefit to keep a small animal facility in the community," said Kayes while addressing the council Tuesday.
JENNIFER GIBSON, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Keirn Is 'Fireman Of The Year' At Winona

WINONA LAKE - N.Bruce Howe, chief emeritus of the WInona Lake Fire Department, was honored with Indiana's highest civilian award Saturday. Jack Keirn, a 23-year veteran, was recognized as the Fireman of the year.His dedication and unselfish use of personal equipment in times of need were considerations in his award. On behalf of Gov.Joseph Kernan, State FIre Marshall Tracy Boatright presented Howe with the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash award during the department's annual Christmas banquet held in the Westminster.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Claypool Awards Trash Contract

CLAYPOOL - Stafford Solid Waste Inc.will remain the trash collector for the town with no increase to the 146 households, the town council decided in its meeting Monday.Monthly costs for current customers are $4.26 per stop.Customers at New Beginnings subdivision will be charged $4.50.Monthly fees include emptying several dumpsters around town for a total cost of $782.50 per month. Also bidding were AmeriWaste and Wabash Valley. The AmeriWaste representative said if the town is happy with Stafford they should stay with them.AmeriWaste owns the nearby landfill and Stafford dumps trash loads there. "We'll get the business one way or another," he said. Trash pickup will continue on Thursdays. Lewis Canby approached the board with a property issue.He has been buying, on land contract from Troy Miller, a 150-foot by 90-foot plot of land on the southwest corner where Railroad and Harrison streets meet.Now Canby wants to own the property outright.
TERESA CARRANO, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Milford Discusses Parking, Traffic Problems On Main

MILFORD - The issue of parking on Main Street in Milford was tabled again at the town council's special meeting Tuesday. The meeting was held for public input on how to make the intersections of Emeline and Main Street and Catherine and Main safer. "The biggest problem is visibility," said town marshal Dave Hobbs. Milford Councilman Doug Ruch said the town has tried to remove two parking spots on either side of Main Street.However, this takes away parking spots that are needed, he said. Hobbs said people who live in Milford understand the two intersections.In the last six years there have been only five accidents at the two intersections. The council discussed several options.One option would be to limit parking to two hours.Another option would be to make parking at the intersections parallel instead of angular.They also could make the intersections four-way stops or take two parking spaces out by the intersections and move them elsewhere.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Pierceton Probes Skateboard Incidents

PIERCETON - Pierceton police officer Jim Bumbaugh presented incident reports at the Monday town council meeting regarding a couple of unidentified children. Youths were reported skateboarding in a church parking lot and in a bank parking lot this week.Someone also broke off signs prohibiting skateboarding at the church, at the bank and at the elementary school.Another sign in the church lot was scribbled with obscenities. A couple of signs were thrown on the railroad tracks, but were removed by a citizen before a train could run over them. Council president Jerry Kreger asked board member Mandy Espinoza to talk to the group developing the skate park.The organization includes youth who skateboard. "We're working to build the skate park.They need to police themselves and put pressure on their peers," Kreger said.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Warsaw Resident Looks Back Over 100 Years

She declined to have her picture taken and, since it was her birthday, her request was granted. It wasn't just any old birthday either.Ruth Carlin turned 100 yesterday. Born to Israel and Sarah Brookins Ohmart of Wabash County on Dec 16, 1900, Ruth is the youngest of six siblings and the oldest survivor of her generation.She lives independently on Main Street in Warsaw and doesn't venture out in weather like this. She suggests that "we are in for it."And she ought to know, having been through a couple of snowbound winters in the past. "We had a bad winter in '78 and '79," she said."And one in '29 and '30, the year we moved to Warsaw and lived in an apartment." The "we" includes her husband, L.M."Pete" Carlin, who died in 1982.They were married for 53 years.In 1932 they moved to the Main Street residence and she has lived there ever since.
TERESA CARRANO, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

One-Car Crash Seriously Injures Driver

A Warsaw man was seriously injured Thursday night in a one-car collision on Bowser Road two miles west of Syracuse. William Schue, 47, Deerwood Court, Warsaw, was taken to Goshen General Hospital and then airlifted to Parkview Memorial in Fort Wayne.He is listed in critical condition with back and neck injuries. According to Indiana State Police reports, Schue was headed west on Bowser Road, east of CR 300E.He was apparently driving at a high rate of speed. Schue then lost control of the car and went off the road, where the car rolled over several times.Schue was ejected from the vehicle and pinned underneath it. Police reports said Schue was not wearing a seatbelt, and reports indicate a seatbelt could have reduced his injuries.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Cardinal Center Hosts Annual 'Help for the Holidays'

Cardinal Center is starting the Christmas season with the annual Help for the Holidays celebration. This year Ramada Plaza Hotel donated 2517 Restaurant for the social gathering.The event will be Dec.13 from 6 p.m.to 9 p.m. "The Ramada is our host for the evening," said Cindy Pergrem of the Cardinal Center. "The purpose of this event," said Pergrem, "is to raise awareness of Cardinal Center and their spirit of giving to and helping adults and children with disabilities and other needs. "The holiday time is a time for giving," said Pergrem.She said this is a chance to give back to the community and help others. The evening will include dinner and entertainment.Dinner will be prepared by Viewpoint Restaurant.Entertainment will be the Gentle Winds Ensemble and the Zimmer Choir plus three guest speakers.The speakers are three families who will share their experiences with the Cardinal Center's help. "It will be a pretty exciting event," said Pergrem.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Zoners Tell Petitioner To Get Letter Of Recommendation From Syracuse

SYRACUSE - Before the Kosciusko County Board of Zoning Appeals will approve Bob Gross' petition for an exception, they ask that Gross get a letter of recommendation from the town of Syracuse. Tuesday, Gross (Pinecrest Marina) presented his petition to the Syracuse Town Council.The building he wants to convert to a marina showroom is between the new Ace Hardware and Wawasee Bowl on Ind.13.He plans to tear off the front of the existing building and add a showroom.Maintenance facilities will be in the back of the building. "We want to convert that existing building and attach it to our existing building," said Gross.He said the project is close to a $1-million investment. As for the property across the street - Waterworld - he said it, too, is a stumbling block for him because of its unpleasant appearance. "I feel like I'm here tonight because of what is across the street," said Gross.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

Indiana Should Get In Sync With The Rest Of The Country

Once again the state legislature will fail to drag Indiana kicking and screaming into sync with the rest of the country. With the rest of the world, for that matter. I'm talking about the dreaded DST, of course.That's daylight-saving time. Frankly, I think Indiana's failure to follow the lead of 47 other states and most of the rest of the free world is starting to make us look, well, stupid. And to think there are people who argue that Indiana is the only smart state for not fooling with clocks twice a year. Everybody else is stupid, they say. There is not a single anti-daylight-saving time argument that I can think of that intuitively makes any sense. I've heard them all. I suppose the one argument I can most accept is the outdoor theater owners.Daylight-saving time would definitely cut into their business.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

BOW Opens New Sewer Facility Bids

Bids for the new wastewater treatment facility were opened Friday during the Warsaw Board of Works regular meeting.Two bids were submitted from Bowen Engineering Corp., Crown Point, in the amount of $12.2 million; and from Reynolds Construction, Orleans, in the amount of $10.283 million.Bonds for the work are expected to be finalized Thursday, according to Mayor Ernie Wiggins, with bid recommendations coming at the Jan.18 Board of Works meeting. A $47,250 financial advisory services agreement with H.J.Umbaugh and Associates, Plymouth, was approved along with the bond counsel services agreement in the amount of about $40,000 from Baker & Daniels, South Bend. City planner Jeff Noffsinger said a $24,000 check from the Kosciusko County Historical Society's Build Indiana grant had been received.The funds will help pay Herceg and Associates Engineers for the final design and engineering plans on the west end of the city's Greenway Project.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union- | July 28, 2016

Day After Thanksgiving Marks Beginning Of Annual Optimist Christmas Tree Sale

The day after Thanksgiving, most people begin their Christmas shopping. For the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club, the day after Thanksgiving is the beginning of their Christmas tree sale. The tree sale will be six days a week from 10 a.m.to 8:30 p.m.Sunday sales will be 1 to 8:30 p.m.All sales will be in the Owen's Supermarket parking lot on East Center Street. "Owen's is very kind to let us use their lot, which really helps us," said Dan Woods, Optimist Club. The Optimists will unload the trees beginning at 7 a.m.Nov.25 and be finished by 7:30 a.m. "It's a club challenge to get them off the semi (in record time)," said Woods. There will be 750 trees this year for sale and a few Christmas wreaths.All are real. Trees 6-feet-6-inches tall and under are $20.Taller trees are $25.Wreaths 17 inches in diameter will be $17, and 24-inch wreaths will be $25.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

A Wish Come True

Wishes can come true. Brenna Jeffreys' did Friday when the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Indiana granted hers - to have an outdoor playset. Brenna, 3, of South Lake Sharon Road, Warsaw, was diagnosed with infant acute lymphocytic leukemia, a rare form of leukemia, at 4 months and received a bone marrow transplant from her brother Andrew, now 5, on June 6, 1997. Though she is now considered in remission, she still has 2-1/2 years to go before she is considered cured. "She's been absolutely normal," her father, Doug, said Friday."She has more lust for life than all of us put together." Doug said what the Make-A-Wish Foundation did "is fantastic." He said Brenna told him the swingset was perfect, a word he never heard from her before Friday. "We feel blessed.She's been a blessing for us," he said. Doug said it would be more difficult had he and his wife, Leslie, not had the support of their families, friends, church and even strangers.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

I Just Can't Throw Things Away

I think we are a nation of pack rats. That's probably not fair.I don't have any data to support that claim.I just know how I am and I think I'm pretty average when it comes to squirreling stuff away. It's really pretty ridiculous.I save stuff that has absolutely no value. It's the clutter factor. A look on the top of my dresser reveals the paper number sheet I wore in a bicycle race five years ago. There are also several pairs of cheap sunglasses that I will never wear again. There are several pieces of paper with loving little notes from my kids scrawled on them. Do I have to keep those until they move out of the house? And what about all those test papers they proudly bring home? How long do those have to be saved? I think I know. In the loft in my garage there is a box or two stuffed full of test papers and assorted school memorabilia from when I was in high school.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016

Freeholders sue to stop dissolution of district

Four freeholders of the Barbee Lakes Conservancy District filed a lawsuit to stop the district dissolution election scheduled for Dec.10. David Doctor, Fredrick Krull, Lowell Gilmore and Jody Wehr-Krider maintain in the Circuit Court petition that the district has not provided the court with a complete record of all the district's activities. Because the district has entered into a construction expansion agreement with the CARR Development Group to install an 8-inch sewer line which could serve the district, the petitioners maintain the district continues to work toward a sewer project. The CARR agreement indicates the district "desires to preserve the option of connecting part or all of the conservancy district to CARR's sewer line." The agreement was signed Oct.26.A payment to CARR not to exceed $70,212 was approved Monday. The line will be installed at the Oakland Hills Subdivision along CR 500N, just west of Ind.13.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016
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