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PIERCETON - With a vote of 2 to 1, Whitko School Board approved Steve Pickett as a new English teacher and boys basketball coach at Whitko High School, effective the new school year. Pickett was an assistant coach at Carroll High School in Fort Wayne.
The Wagon Wheel Playhouse is sold. "We have made a decision to sell the playhouse to some people who we feel are capable and caring people," noted Blaine Mikesell, president of Wagon Wheel Playhouse and Restaurant Inc. The new owners of the Wagon Wheel Playhouse are Tom Roland, Bill Whitney, Bruce Shaffner and David Wilkinson.
Dick Jamison, of Syracuse Lake, has recovered a 12-foot-long Indian dug-out canoe from the swampy area where Wawasee empties into Syracuse Lake. He spotted the canoe buried in the mud about two years ago, managed to free the craft last week. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jamison.
The American Legion and the auxiliary held a picnic at the lake cottage of Postmaster and Mrs. J. C. McCarter at the Barbee Lake recently.
