Wanda Bruner, Kosciusko County Soil and Water Conservation District secretary, recently was named Employee of the Year by the Indiana District Employees Association.
An awards presentation highlighted the recent annual banquet of the Kosciusko County Mental Health Association in the Shrine Building.
Four members of Kosciusko County Rural Youth joined 60 others from over the state in a train trip to Texas recently. Pat Smith, Jeanne Frush and Tom Smith, all of Atwood, and Elsworth Everest, of Leesburg, are spending the week at a Texas dude ranch, enjoying swimming, horseback riding, barbecues, fish frys on the river bank, fishing, cowboy breakfast cooked in the open, moonlight dancing and trips to San Antonio, the Alamo and Mexican Border.
Ice fishermen on Winona, Palestine and other county lakes report good catches of bass and crappie the past few days. The ice is from 10 to 12 inches thick, through which lines are dropped.