10 Years Ago Tod Giles, custodian at the Warsaw Community High School pool, and a standing room only crowd, watched as the Lady Tigers won the school’s first sectional crown in girls swimming. “It’s about time,” said senior Amanda Brown. “It feels great.” Times-Union 2004-2005 All-Area Team: Warsaw – Julie Seiss, Rebekah Reichard; Manchester – Audrey Siebrase, Libby Pattison, Christa Peden; Wawasee – Rachel Canen,Tiffany Fick; Tippecanoe Valley – Chelsy Rhoades, Kara Kramer, Holli Jackson; Triton – Lindsay Stutzman, Kristen Dean. Honorable Mention: Warsaw – Danielle DeGeeter, Mallory Hepler; Wawasee – Jessie Wolf; Whitko – Jayanna Begley, Jennac Juillerat; Triton – Kelly Rettinger; Tippecanoe Valley – Heather Rathbun; Manchester – Sarah Purdy. 25 Years Ago Times-Union 1990 Player of the Year is Angie Johnson of the Lady Tigers. She has been recognized for the second year in a row and joins Triton’s Julie Lozier in that honor. Kosciusko Shrine Club: Bob Burner, president; Al Rovenstine, vice president; Kent Ring, treasurer; John Bonner, secretary. Mini-bike patrol: John Hall, captain; Gordon Nichols, lieutenant; Bob Burner, sergeant; Jerry Higginbotham. secretary; Lee Bazini, treasurer; Carl Ritchison, sergeant; Jim Johnson, chaplain; Tom Goss, Mizpah Temple potentate, Fort Wayne. Leesburg Postmaster Dick Sisk retired after 33 years of service, 18 years assisting Warsaw postal residents and 15 years with Leesburg residents. He and his wife, Arlene, live in Warsaw with their three children. They have one grandchild. 50 Years Ago Sandy Lancaster was named Larwill High School’s “1965 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow” when she achieved the highest score in a written examination given to senior girls in the home economics class. Donna Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Stevens, Warsaw, won Leesburg High School’s contest. Judy Kay Decker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Decker, Warsaw, is Mentone High School’s winner. Charles Betz was elected president of the Warsaw Rifle and Pistol Club during its annual meeting at the clubhouse on McElroy Hill. He succeeded Charles Huffer while Keith Shafer was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Sylvan Stump Jr. succeeded Jesse Gaff as executive officer, and Gaff succeeded Herbert Stier as vice president. 75 Years Ago Warsaw’s sunken iron stop street markers placed in the middle of the pavement are difficult to read at anytime, making it impossible to see when covered by ice and snow, especially on those streets with no stop sign posts marking the corners. And those cement abutment flasher signal posts set right in the middle of narrow East Market and East Main streets are death traps. The Main Street flasher base caused one death some years ago. The Junior Chamber of Commerce should look into the feasibility of correcting these dangers. Fire catching from a fireplace destroyed a radio, rugs and furniture in the living room of the South Indiana Street home of Reuben Williams Friday afternoon. No one was home. Both Warsaw and Winona Lake fire trucks answered the alarm turned in by a neighbor.
