10 Years Ago Before the start of the Wawasee/Whitko basketball contest, Wawasee girls’ basketball coach Kem Zolman accepted a plaque from Principal Ellen Stevens honoring him for his 100th career win, which came Jan. 7 against NorthWood. He is the winningest coach in girls’ basketball and all of his now-102 victories have come at Wawasee. Kosciusko County Farm Bureau scholarships: Eric Camden, Whitko High School; Britney Meeks and Scot Goon, WCHS; Laura Lash, Tippecanoe Valley; Sandi Miller, Wawasee. Students achieved first degree black belt status at Caudill’s: Skyler Newsome, Caleb Patrick, Suzi Caudill, Cynthia, Maribel and Roberto Juarez, Logan, Carl Smith and Kathy Smith. 25 Years Ago Ruth Copenhaver, Warsaw, won two round-trip tickets to Las Vegas in the Lake Village Shopping Center grand reopening promotion held in December. Eric Reber, Warsaw, won a silver proof set in a second-place drawing. Phillip Angle, Milford, will celebrate 20 years with United Telephone of Indiana in January. Before working in Syracuse, he started as a lineman in Roann. Uniroyal announces several retirements: Charles Moore, Warsaw, 12 years; Lester Eugene Swonger, 24 years; Barbara Hedington, 12 years; Stella Beatty and Ruth Hammond. New officers, Warsaw Police Department: Patty Kaylor, parking patrol, replacing Lynne McDonald, records clerk; Tony Faucett and Lynn Butcher were hired as patrol officers. 50 Years Ago Debra Klinger, Burket, has assumed the Times-Union junior merchant route in Burket from Steve Bruner. Richard Jaynes, Warsaw, has been named by north district manager; Leon Vance, to be motor route driver for the northwest area of Kosciusko County, north of Milford and west of Nappanee. He replaces Earl Banghart, Warsaw, whose wife, Edith, will assume the part of the route that extended south of Warsaw. Kosciusko County Representative George Fisher, of near Leesburg, was made a “Sagamore of the Wabash” in a special ceremony in Indianapolis following the State of the Union speech by Gov. Matthew Welsh. North Webster students thrilled the county tournament each night with the National Anthem: Les Kline, Merlin Bixler, Mark Sponseller, Chuck Turner and Mike McClure. 75 Years Ago Robert Breading Jr. is working at the Breading Cigar Store in place of his brother, Floyd, while he is away at the Mayo Clinic. To improve and make nice sandy bathing beaches, large trucks are hauling sand out upon ice on nearby lakes, expecting when the ice melts, the sand will sink and provide excellent bathing beach facilities. Truckers were doing work for Warsaw councilman Frank Rarick at his summer cottage on the north side of Center Lake and for E.A. Gast at his Country Club Drive summer residence on Winona Lake. Warsaw High School’s freshman basketball team defeated a yearling Plymouth team at Warsaw Saturday morning 27 to 22. Bud Perkins, forward, was high-point man with 12 points.
