10 Years Ago Of nearly 700 water ski clubs in the U.S., the WSI Ski Team of Cindonway Shores placced third in the “USA Water Ski’s Club of the Year award. The Club of the Year contest is an effort to recognize and reward hard working USA Water Ski affiliated clubs in the United States. The WSI team was the highest scoring “three event competition” team from the AWSA division of USA Water Ski. 25 Years Ago This year’s Warsaw City Bowling Tournament has finally ended and was one of the most successful ever. The entries in each of the four divisions were up this year. The number of team entries were up 16 to 129; doubles entries were up 30 to 162; the number of the single entries were up 60 to 324 and the number of individual participating in the all-events were up 42 to 298. This year also saw the great amount of money awarded as over $4,400 was handed out in prize money. 50 Years Ago If you had to choose an outstanding individual performance by a Pierceton resident in 1962, the honor perhaps would go to 12-year-old Kathleen Rood. Her unprecedented third consecutive Kosciusko County grade school spelling championship last April was truly one of the year’s highlight. Kathleen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Rood, won the county spelling bee, sponsored by the Times-Union and WRSW and broadcast from the WRSW studios as a fifth grader in 1960, repeated as a sixth grader in 1961 and then this year captured the title again as a seventh grade pupil. 75 Years Ago With a pike pole, Walter Banghart, Warsaw pushed unassisted a huge cake of ice weighing 16,900 pounds at Warsaw’s Center Lake. It was floated to the ice-house where it was cut into 130 cakes of ice of about 130 pounds each. The ice was nine inches thick.
