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The Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats will perform March 19, 2005 as part of The Lakeland Community Concert Association 2004-05 concert season. For more than 27 centuries Chinese acrobats have thrilled audiences. Acrobats are revered in China. They will mix acrobatics, dance, spectacular costumes and ancient theatrical techniques. The show will be held in the Lakeview Middle School gym.
Brent and Renea Messmore, Pierceton, maintain Suffolk black-faced cross sheep on their farm which their children, Amanda, Steve, Shana and Valerie show in 4-H. Four weeks ago, a lamb was born to their 3-year-old ewe Dandelion and Tuesday twins were born to her. The children get to select from the new lambs.
25 years
Supportive Parents for Academic and Creative Enrichment (SPACE) is sponsoring eight "Super Saturday" classes this spring to inspire youngsters to enjoy learning. The classes will be held April 15 at Warsaw Community High School and Middle School. A participant takes a photograph with the pin-hole camera he made in Gary Nieter's photography class.
The Warsaw Fire Department will sponsor a carryout fish fry Saturday in the Family Arts Building at the Fairgrounds. Charlie Barrett, chairman, sells Mayor Jeff Plank a ticket. Roger Frantz represents the firemen; Dewey Patterson, assistant chairman; Mike Hawley, secretary.
Making the first team of the Northern Lakes Conference: Warsaw-Brandon Creighton, Jason Zimmerman, Brian Elliott; Wawasee-Pete Bonner. Al Rhodes was voted "Coach of the Year." He has led the Tigers to a 15-8 record overall, 7-0 in the NLC and a sectional title.
50 years
Mike Kubacki, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kubacki, won the spelling contest sponsored by the Pierceton PTO. Debbie Orr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Orr, Jr., was runner-up. Winners in the Spelling Bee sponsored by the North Webster PTO are Barry Reasoner, first, and Carla Alvey, second, fifth and sixth grades. Mary Jo Conway, first, and Margie Conwell, second, Junior High. The Kosciusko County contest in Warsaw is in April.
Jacqueline Kuhn, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Kuhn, North Webster, has been selected Girls' State Representative for North Webster High School.
The Akron PTO will sponsor the comedy "Me and My Shadow" March 17. Mrs. Winifred Summe is directing the play: Gail Hartman, Shirley Smalley, Arleen Lytle, Beth Slaybaugh, Ernest Heighway, Pat Henderson and Loretta Black.
75 years
Mrs. Hazel Thorn Nettleton recalls a story by her grandparents who told of the marsh and muck land in the east section of Warsaw from the Big Four Railway east on Center Street, that one time a man with a wagon and team of mules carrying equipment to build the Pennsylvania Railroad sank in a sinkhole near the property now known as the Charles Grabner home on East Center Street and was never found. The shores of Center Lake then came up to near the now present site of the Courthouse. The now Methodist Church building was then the border of a thick virgin forest and Indians would come up to the forest's edge and trade white settlers beads for food and supplies. Ludlow Nye, one of the brothers, was the surveyor of the creek that runs back through Winona Lake's Boys City. Settlers named it Ludlow's Creek.
