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Manchester Attorney Takes Part In Principal For A Day Program

NORTH MANCHESTER - Manchester Elementary School Principal Bonnie Ingraham worked through her day Wednesday conducting business as usual. But the day was a little different for Ingraham.Manchester Attorney Elden Stoops, from Daggett, Schlitt and Stoops, shadowed Ingraham as she went about her normal day as principal. Manchester Community Schools participated in Principal For A Day Wednesday, a program that allows community business leaders to shadow school principals for a day to see what issues principals face. This is the first year for the program.On June 16, Indiana Gov.Frank O'Bannon proclaimed Nov.15 Principal For A Day Program Recognition Day. "The major focus of this is the business/education focus," Ingraham said."It's our business leaders that are setting standards of what the high schools are like." In North Manchester, members of the Chamber of Commerce, which has about 165 members, were asked to participate.
LAURA SLOOP, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Driver In Triple Fatal Was Intoxicated

Toxicology results indicate that the driver in a Nov.1 triple fatality was under the influence of alcohol and drugs.One of the teen passengers also consumed alcohol, while another was free of chemical substances, according to Kosciusko County Coroner Larry Ladd. John C.G."Kit" Johnson, 19, of Pierceton, and Adam J.Bernicky, 18, and Joshua Hartline, 16, both of Warsaw, died in the one-car accident along Ind.13, near Pierceton. Ladd said Johnson's blood alcohol level was .226 - more than twice the limit at which one is considered intoxicated - and he tested positive for marijuana.Johnson was the driver of the car when it left the roadway south of CR 700E and struck two trees, one broadside and one head-on.Excessive speed was a contributing factor, police said. Bernicky, who was the front-seat passenger, had a blood-alcohol level of .104 percent and tested negative for drugs, and Hartline, who was in the back seat, tested negative for both alcohol and drugs.
Ruth Anne Lipka, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

City Seeks To Hold Line On 1998 Budget

Warsaw's city council is trying to work some magic on the 1998 city budget - holding down the tax rate while maintaining or even improving city services. In a special budget meeting Tuesday, council members asked department heads for last-minute cuts in their individual budgets.The cuts may be made, Mayor Ernie Wiggins said, if that's what it takes to keep the tax rate at or around $2.63. While the final tax rate won't be set until the budget is reviewed by the state tax commission, the council did set an upper limit of $2.78.However, that was a limit Wiggins thought would not be reached. "There's no way I'm going to let it go to $2.78," he said. The council cut the police and fire pension funds since not as many firemen and policemen as expected are scheduled to retire. Still, that was a cut that not all council members were happy about. "I will agree this year, but I won't do it again," said councilwoman Tammy Rockey.
Laurie Hahn, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Thar She Blows!

Construction crews at the Warsaw Library broke the new water main that was installed last week. The break, which occurred around 9 a.m. today, caused the library to be without water until repairs were made. According to Joe Dock, United Water manager, the water was expected to be turned back on by noon. No water damage inside the library was reported this morning. Photo by Gary Nieter, Times-Union
Photo by Gary Nieter, Times-Union- | July 28, 2016

Claypool Crossings To Get Lights, Security Gates

CLAYPOOL - Warning lights and security gates will be installed at five railroad crossings in town according to information received from Mike Scime, a Conrail Railroad representative. Plans to close four of the nine crossings in town should occur by next fall, according to a proposal signed in April.Church, Railroad and Walnut street crossings will be permanently closed.The lights and gating systems on the remaining crossings - at Section, Clay, Main and Harrison streets and Graceland Avenue - will be paid in equal amounts through a new state-funded program and by the railroad company. Board members Don Miller, Nikki Lincoln and Duane Allen heard the application to fund water projects was denied.Another application will be sent in the spring. Monies received through the Build Indiana program will go toward expanding the "Town Barn," 408 S.Graceland Ave., which is used as a storage facility.Plans include more storage space and a room for town meetings.
Staff Report- | July 28, 2016

CVB Threatens Legal Action Against County Council

"Legal action isn't going to solve anything," said Kosciusko County Council President Harold Jones Friday of the reports of possible litigation from the Kosciusko County Convention and Visitors Bureau against the council. The CVB is accusing the council of ignoring and violating laws and withholding money they say is owed to the CVB.They claim those actions could mean the end of the CVB. Monday, members of the CVB agreed to take legal action against the county council.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Winona Residents To Benefit From Housing Grant

WINONA LAKE - Low- and moderate-income residents will be able to repair or renovate their homes at little or no cost, thanks to a $300,000 grant from the Indiana Finance Housing Authority. "The town has received the grant to assist low- and moderate-income homeowners for owner-occupied repair and renovations," Winona Lake Town Council President Brent Wilcoxson said."The money can be used for roofing, storm windows or furnaces." He added the funds will be distributed through either direct grants or low-interest loans to qualified homeowners. In other business, the council approved $9,220 in expenditures by the street department for a new salt spreader and new angle snow plow. A second street department expenditure approved by the council was a $2,500 paving project for the police department access road.
DAVID A. BEALL, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

City Council OKs Corrective Rezoning

The old adage, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again," was in full effect for the Warsaw City Council Monday. City Planner Jeff Noffsinger said the council's denial of Jim Eisenbraun's rezoning petition for his business at 560-600 N.Bay Drive at their October meeting was technically a no-action, because the council needs at least four votes to approve or deny a rezoning.The council denied Eisenbraun's petition with a 3-2 vote in October.
DAVID A. BEALL, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

County OKs Grants For Drug Education

Each year the Kosciusko County Commissioners and council must approve the proposed grant awards from the Kosciusko County Coalition on Drug Education. Tuesday, the commissioners approved the grants as presented. Ruchelle Sammons, representing KCODE, said the Governor's Commission on a Drug Free Indiana was founded in 1988.Through that, money is allowed to be granted by KCODE from drug user fees for prevention and education, intervention and treatment, law enforcement and justice. For 2005, 29 applications were made to KCODE totaling $150,000 and KCODE decided to award $110,000. "The committee met and decided this is how they wanted things to go," Sammons told the commissioners.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Local Pastors Give Their Reasons For Being Thankful

Before the Thanksgiving turkey is carved, before the rolls are buttered and before the pumpkin pie is sliced, many families in the United States bow their heads and say a prayer of thanks. A small sample of local pastors was randomly called recently and asked what they were thankful for this year.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Atwood Woman Renews Drivers License At Age 98

Verna Montel is just like anybody else.And, like all of us, she has to do the rather mundane, but necessary, chore of renewing her driver's license. Unlike the rest of us, however, Montel, 98, of Atwood, has had to renew hers many more times. "I really just want my driver's license so I can drive up to the post office," she said Wednesday at the Warsaw license branch. "I really don't drive that much anymore.I haven't driven at all since February," Montel added."But my nephew is going to Florida, so I wanted to make sure my license was up to date before he left, so I can make sure I can get to the post office." Montel said she doesn't see getting her license renewed as being a very big deal.She's a very safe driver and always has been. "I've been driving since 1920, and I've only had one accident," she said."I was going to a wedding in North Webster in the 1950s, I think, and hit some ice and went through a fence and into a field.
DAVID A. BEALL, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

73 Years Later, Baker Youth Clubs Incorporates Tradition With New Ideas

Baker Youth Clubs received its charter as a Boys' Club on Nov.12, 1926. Seventy-three years later, while the club has dropped its affiliation with the National Boys' and Girls' Clubs of America due to philosophical differences and has a new logo, it still maintains many of its traditions while incorporating new ones. Baker Youth Clubs originated with Bramwell Baker in 1926.Born in Boston, Mass., he grew up in Warsaw and persuaded a number of community citizens to organize a boys' club in Warsaw.Baker offered $1,000 per year, providing the balance of the funds was matched by the community. Pete Thorn became the club's first of only three executive directors, serving from 1926 to 1963.In 1963, Robert Lichtenwalter became the second director and served for 29 years. Scott Wiley, the current director, began in 1992.He said he'll have to remain director until 2030 to beat Thorn's record. The club has changed locations more than it has changed directors.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

School Officials, PTO Discuss Safety Issues

U.S.News & World Report.Newsweek.Time.USA Today. "I don't think you can pick up a magazine or newspaper that doesn't have something in it about high school safety," said Warsaw Community High School Principal Paul Crousore Monday at the WCHS PTO meeting. Crousore was part of a panel discussion on safe and secure schools.He was joined by Warsaw Police Chief and Warsaw schools safety director Steve Foster, WCHS School Resource Officer Dave Morales, and WCHS administrator Troy Akers, teacher Tom Starkweather and junior Adam Beck. Foster began the panel discussion by telling the 25 PTO members attending that he has been working with Warsaw schools for more than a year.He deals with the security of facilities and helps with resources and training.He goes over the crisis plans for each school; what may be applicable for the high school may not be for an elementary.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Police Vehicle Policy Curbed

Warsaw City Council turned down a resolution Monday that would increase accountability and record keeping for Warsaw police officers who take personal patrol vehicles home. Originally proposed at the October city council meeting, the resolution would have required officers to record their personal mileage each month for approval by the council. The resolution was tabled for further research at the October meeting at the request of councilman Mac Silveus. At Monday's meeting, Silveus said his research indicated no evidence of abuse: "I find a lot more positives than negatives," he said. Council member Dewey Lawshe, who proposed the resolution, said he was mostly concerned with officers who live outside Warsaw city limits, and he wanted an accounting of the miles traveled during their personal time.
Laurie Hahn, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Adams to appear at wreath tea

Award-winning food columnist and cookbook author Marcia Adams will be the star attraction Dec.5 at the "Wreath of Hope" Holiday Tea. The tea, a fund-raiser for Cardinal Center, Warsaw, is scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m.in Center Lake Pavilion.The aim is to raise funds several ways, according to Cathy Teghtmeyer and Rebecca Kubacki, organizers: through an admission fee of $25 per person, through sponsorship of a wreath and through a silent auction of decorated holiday wreaths. Children from Head Start also will be selling ornaments they have made, will decorate a wreath that will be auctioned and will sing. "We're counting on the public to buy the tickets," said Kubacki, who hopes to make the tea an annual event.The fund-raiser, she said, is targeted mostly toward women; Center Lake Pavilion can seat 250.
Laurie Hahn, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Visitor Bureau Moving To U.S. 30

Kosciusko County's Convention and Visitor's Bureau announced plans Tuesday to relocate its offices along U.S.30 in Warsaw. The CVB will construct a new office and 24-hour visitor center on a vacant tract between Sym Financial Corp.and Patterson Addition. The site was chosen for maximum visibility to help serve motorists and potential tourists.Officials hope the office can be open late next year. The announcement was made Tuesday to the county commissioners. Although the move has been in the works for nearly three years, the arrival of five new hotels - including two in the near future - is viewed as a challenge by the CVB. Demand for more hotels has been strong in recent years, but the CVB says it will work harder to maintain a continued strong demand. The number of rooms available in Warsaw is in the midst of nearly doubling to 674 rooms by early next year when the Holiday Inn Express and the Hampton Inn open.
Dan Spalding, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Etna Green Council Prepares For New Housing Addition

ETNA GREEN - Preliminary and final plat approval was granted Tuesday by the Etna Green Town Council for the proposed Windridge Addition at the intersection of CRs 1050W and 250N, Etna Green. Garry and Becky Baker have been working toward developing the subdivision for more than a year and consulting engineer Larry Long of Warsaw represented the Bakers in their petition. The preliminary plat is for the general subdivision and the final plat is for the nine lots which initially will be developed.Three-fourths of the 63 acres is expected to be developed in a long-term plan, with a total of 72 lots planned. The area was annexed into the town in December, and the Bakers hope to break ground on the project this spring.The subdivision, south of the former town limits, is just beyond Heritage Park.Two entrances - both off CR 1050W - are planned for the addition.
Ruth Anne Lipka, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

Manchester May Rehire Special Ed. Position

NORTH MANCHESTER - After eliminating a special education position before the beginning of the school year, Manchester Community School Corp.administrators realized as this school year progressed that a need for the position still existed. Tuesday at the Manchester Community School Board meeting, superintendent Diana Showalter suggested that the school hire a special education teacher to spend part of his or her time at Laketon Elementary and part-time at Manchester Junior High. However, since the school year is already well under way, the school corporation had trouble finding a qualified person to fill the position.Two teachers who already have special education licenses are teaching general education classes.
JEN GIBSON, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016

Local Clergy Weigh In On Gay Bishop Issue

Earlier this year, the Episcopal Church made history naming an openly gay bishop and continuing its practice allowing individual churches to determine the blessing of same-sex relationships. About the same time, Lutheran World Federation delegates were unable to agree on same-sex marriages, but advocated study of 'issues of marriage, family and human sexuality in a manner appropriate to the needs of each member church.' The controversy continues and was highlighted with a strategy meeting of conservatives of the Episcopal Church Oct.7-9 in Dallas.At the end of the meeting, the conservatives formally denounced the denomination's growing acceptance of gay relationships and asked Anglican bishops worldwide to help them reorganize the American church.
M.J. RHODES, Times-Union Lifestyles Editor- | July 28, 2016

Greyhound Bus Depot To Close In January

After 20 years of running the Greyhound bus station at 707 N.Park Avenue, shop owner Lonnie Flory recently discovered her depot was closing through a company truck driver from Ohio. Greyhound has yet to call and inform her that her station, as well as six other Indiana stops, will be dropped at the beginning of the new year. Greyhound, through flyers and employee word-of-mouth, announced the discontinuation of its Fort Wayne-to-Chicago and Indianapolis-to-South Bend routes, which Warsaw is located on.The last Greyhound bus to stop in Warsaw will take place Jan.3, 2006. "I wonder when Greyhound is going to let me know," Flory said."Probably the day before we all have to close." Though the news may come as a surprise (Flory received new ticketing equipment from Greyhound just a month ago,) the closings of 22 other Indiana stops in May came as a warning for many stations managers that missed the initial cut.
Joe Kirkendall, Times-Union staff writer- | July 28, 2016
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