Price Puts Forth Blueprint For Future

INDIANAPOLIS - John Richard Price, 59, corporate and constitutional law attorney and owner of J.R.Price & Associates in Indianapolis, is a Republican candidate for governor, opposing Republican David McIntosh. Price is a graduate of Wabash College and Indiana University Indianapolis School of Law.He's also a former deputy state treasurer and secretary of the Indiana Republican State Committee.He was a candidate for the U.S.House of Representatives in 1982 and is the author of "America at the Crossroads."He is counsel for parents in cases defending against government persecution as well as cases relating to education. Price is running on his "Price Plan," a 27-point blueprint for Indiana's future.Price favors college scholarships for Indiana's hard-working high school students, abolishing property taxes for seniors 70 and above and conserving the environment.Price also favors teaching phonics and replacing ISTEP with the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Avoiding Common Investment Traps Along Life’s Path

Planning for retirement should really start as soon as you get your first real job, but it should continue through each stage of life. Each has its own challenges and common mistakes to avoid.

Parks Department to Offer Fly Fishing Workshops

The Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department will offer beginner, intermediate and advanced fly fishing workshops on May 19.

Planners OK Improvements At Peabody Retirement Home

NORTH MANCHESTER - Campus upgrading is in the future for Peabody Retirement Home, North Manchester. Plan commission members approved Peabody's final plat for campus renovations Monday. The plan will include remodeling and rebuilding some existing buildings and constructing new buildings on property they have added on the west side of the campus extending to Beckley Street. Dereck Frederickson, Engineering Resources, Fort Wayne, represented Peabody Home at last month's meeting.He presented a preliminary plat for their main campus as a planned unit development and entertained questions from board members.

Retirement

Editor, Times-Union: Silver Box messages to the entire Leesburg Elementary School Family, my family members, W.C.S. board members and Dr. Hintz: Thank you so much for the well-planned, first-class retirement festivities!

Alcohol Board Approves License Transfer For South Shore Ventures

Milford Studies Fiscal Plan, Ordinance For Annexation

MILFORD -ÊWorking toward the eventual annexation of five parcels of property into the town of Milford, town attorney Jay Rigdon presented the council Monday with drafts of a fiscal plan and ordinance. While minor details need to be filled in on the fiscal plan, Rigdon said the fiscal plan and ordinance need to be prepared as the first steps of the annexation.The fiscal plan states what services the town currently offers to its residents, when the new residents in the annexation area will get the services and what expenses will be involved in providing those services. The fiscal plan will have to be adopted at the same time the ordinance for the annexation is presented.A hearing would then be held at least 60 days after the ordinance is presented.After the hearing, the council can give their final approval of the ordinance at least 30 days but no more than 60 days afterward. Remonstrators then would have 90 days, Rigdon said.

City Hears Plan For More Trees, Shrubs Downtown

Downtown Warsaw can be green again with sidewalks lined with plantings of trees and shrubs, with a little help from the LandPlan Group, according to Teresa Ho, the city's community development coordinator. Ho appeared before the Warsaw City Council Monday introducing landscape architect Kevin A.McCrory, of LandPlan, who gave a presentation to the Downtown Action Team recently. The committee is dedicated to implementing recommendations of the HyettPalma study conducted and presented last year. HyettPalma urged tree and shrubbery plantings as one way of making downtown more inviting and cosmopolitan. McCrory said the $24,000 contract for basic services includes a master planning phase, contract document phase, bidding and negotiation and contract administration phase.It would include the redesign of four blocks along Center Street, from High to Washington streets.

County Ends Contract With Lexur Appraisal Services For Not Meeting Expectations

County Assessor Gail Chapman requested the county commissioners end a contract with Lexur Appraisal Services after the company failed to live up to expectations.

Why Having An Investment Policy Statement Is Key To Investment Success

Football Coach Search Continues

SYRACUSE - Basketball changes aren't the only thing Wawasee athletic director Mary Hurley is dealing with now.She's also trying to find a head football coach to replace Gene Mitz, who resigned Oct.28. Hurley has received 30 applications and plans to continue accepting more, for the time being. She likes what she's read on the first 30."Excellent people," she said."Two individuals (in-house) have indicated they may have an interest." But a unique predicament has slowed Hurley and her search: No teaching openings.She needs one to bring in a football coach. "Last year, we ended up with three we knew about immediately, teachers who were retiring and getting married and moving out of state," she said."This is an unusual situation.Even now, we haven't had a teacher come in and say they're going to move or get married or go back to college.

Lake Science Camp

Ashley Ormsby, 10, Chapman Lakes (L) places a portion of her Crooked Creek water sample into a testing vessel during the Lake Science Camp held recently at Chapman Lakes. Madeline Scott, 11, West Lafayette, observes.

New Rental Venue Offers Flexibility

After booking venues as a wedding planner for four years, Grace Whalen wanted to see something simpler.

Are You Ready For Retirement?

Harold Richard Estep

SPENCER, W.Va. - Harold Richard Estep, 77, of Looneyville, W.Va., died June 13, 2009, at Heartland of Charleston, Charleston, W.Va.

Grace College To Host Dr. Georgia Purdom Of Answers In Genesis

Grace College will welcome Dr. Georgia Purdom, ministry content administrator for Answers in Genesis, to campus on Thursday.

Your New Summer Tradition – A Mid-Year Financial Checkup

With the data from the first half of the year available to you, look at how and where you spent your money.

Warsaw Redevelopment Commission Approves Resolutions For Ongoing Projects

Two public hearings, approval of three resolutions and two agreement approvals by the Warsaw Redevelopment Commission advanced the Gatke, Marsh and Owens projects a little further Monday.

Pension Default Should Raise Red Flag

I think the United Airlines pension default was under reported. It was the largest pension default in U.S.history and it really didn't seem to bother anybody, except maybe some pension administration-type people. And that's kind of strange because the pension default affects everybody - well, everybody who pays taxes, I should say. And it certainly has the potential to affect everybody else indirectly as it ripples through the economy. For the record, a federal judge, in a bankruptcy filing, allowed United to dump its pension obligation to 134,000 current and retired employees in the lap of the federal government. That's because United's pension fund is upside down to the tune of about $6.6 billion. That's right.United has pension obligations of $6.6 billion that they can't afford to pay. So now the burden of paying for those pension plans falls on the federal government. US Airways did the same thing not so long ago, only on a much smaller scale.

County To Deal With $0.6M Shortfall

No matter how much planning and budgeting takes place, sometimes shortfalls still happen. Tuesday, at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting, county auditor Sue Ann Mitchell said the insurance and retirement benefits for the county employees will cost the county more this year than the county anticipated during budgeting last year.Without an additional appropriation, the county will not have the money to pay for the benefits. The insurance shortfall for this year, which will hit about September, will be approximately $300,000.The retirement shortfall will be $200,000 with a possible shortfall in Social Security of $100,000. Mitchell said the county council will be informed of the matter at its 7 p.m.Thursday meeting, and she will ask them for an additional appropriation to cover the shortfall. "We're going to spend it.You have to have the additional appropriation to do it," Mitchell said.