Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
10 Years Ago
Thanks to the Internet and the Times-Union Website, two former friends were able to find each other after more than 35 years. And the two men are about half a world away.
In 1966, Stan Hepler, Warsaw, won a Rotary Club sponsored essay contest on why he’d be a good representative to a foreign country.
For winning the contest, Hepler got the opportunity to stay in a foreign country as an exchange student. Youth for Understanding, an organization that places exchange students, sent him to Denmark. Hepler met Arne Svarre while staying with the Svarre family, until his host family returned from vacation. Recently, Svarre decided to see if he could find Hepler via the Internet and the two reconnected.
25 Years Ago
Receiving Most Valuable Player awards for winter sports at Triton High School are: Matt Scott (wrestling), Troy Heisler (boys basketball), Julie Lozier (girls basketball) and Wendy Rust (cheerleading).
50 Years Ago
Pierceton seniors have been viewing films of Colorado Springs and Denver in preparation for their senior trip May 13 to 18. The parents of seniors also are scheduled to meet with school authorities soon to see the films and talk over the trip.
Sydney Martin, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Furman Martin and a junior at Warsaw High School, will compete in a speech contest in the courthouse at Rochester. His subject will be “The United Nations – Success or Failure?”
75 Years Ago
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Olds will accompany the following girls to Greencastle: Miss Kathryn Olds, the Misses Virginia and Wilda Mellencamp, and Miss Dorelle Markley. All are students at DePauw University and will resume studies after spending the Easter vacation in Warsaw.
Mr. and Mrs. H.K. Buskirk, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Buskirk and son, Tommy, have returned to their homes near Leesburg after spending the past two months in Dania, Fla.
