WINONA LAKE - Grace College and Seminary recently recognized employee Joan Lesh, director of constituent events, for "Going the Extra Mile."
Serving as pages in the Indiana State Senate were Melanie and Denise Bent, children of Andrew and Barbara Bent, Warsaw. Melanie and Denise served as a Senate Page for one full day as the guest of State Sen. John B. Augsburger (R-Milford) at the 102nd Indiana General Assembly.
Archie Leckrone, Claypool, recently was proclaimed county junior corn-growing champion at a banquet held at Indianapolis in honor of Indiana corn-growing champions. His yield of 113.66 bushels per acre was the top yield in Kosciusko County in the 1955 Selected Two Acre Junior Corn Growing contest. Runner-up winner was Bob Stackhouse, also of Claypool, with a yield of 96.69 bushels per acre. Rodger Hunsberger, of Milford, was third-place winner with a yield of 95.85 bushels per acre.
The Warsaw fire department has a year-old police dog which has been named "Flash." The dog is to accompany the fire truck to all fires. It is being trained by firemen to mount the truck at the sound of the gong. Several days ago the animal was rescued by the department from the dog pound but later Marion Culp, the owner, claimed the bow-wow. Today, however, he presented the dog to the fire department.