Remember When 8.5.2009

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 pm

10 Years Ago

August 5 1999

The winners of the 1999 Balloonfest Coloring Contest were: Ages 6 to 9, 1st place, Tamanna Ranadive, Warsaw; 2nd place, Holly Kolberg, Syracuse; and 3rd place, Justin Brumfield, Leesburg. Winners of ages 10 to 12 were: 1st place, Ashley Wentz, Warsaw; 2nd place, Kristine Nicole Domako, Warsaw; and 3rd place, Arlen Borkholder, Nappanee.

25 Years Ago

August 5 1984

Dana Rapp, Leesburg fifth-grader, won "Best of Show" with the poster she entered in the 13th Conservation Poster Contest. Cara Kinney, South Whitley School, captured first place; Shawn Krull, Milford, won second; and Neal Smythe, Burket, third.

The Kosciusko Soil and Water Auxiliary sponsors the contest each year. This year's contest was entered by 923 fifth-graders.

50 Years Ago

August 5 1959

The average Kosciusko County factory worker earned $94.64 a week during the month of December 1958, according to a report issued by the Indiana Employment Security Division.

This compared with $104.81 in Elkhart; $96.31 in Marshall; $86.44 in Wabash, and $89.68 in Whitley. The state average was just more than $100 per week.

75 Years Ago

August 5 1934

Federal engineers are now surveying the ground at Syracuse for additions to be made to the Wawasee fish hatchery near Syracuse.

Two hundred recruits of the CCC camp, which is to be located in Kosciusko County, will be employed on improvements at the hatchery, which will consist of six or seven new fish ponds. The CCC camp will be located on the Elizabeth Shock farm.