13 INDIANA South Bend Tribune Thursday, February 16, 1989 01 B3 NOTEBOOK Bourbon honors Rust with recognition on day BOURBON Bourbon's pride in one of its own was evident Wednesday when the Town Board passed a resolution honoring Wendy Rust, newly crowned Indiana Junior Miss. The document declared Feb. 26 to be Wendy Rust Recognition Day to acknowledge the honor she has brought to the town and to Triton High School by her accomplishment. A special program is planned that day celebrating the event. In other business, Ken Herceg of Herceg Associates, South Bend, presented a master plan for storm-water drainage in the town.
The plan addresses anticipated drainage problems with the new school construction and will address ways to eliminate current and future drainage problems. The cost for the complete study is $13,790 of which $1,400 covers the school-related part of the plan. The board accepted Herceg's proposal. Garry McBride of Burnham and Flower Group of Zionsville, made a presentation on property and hability coverage for the town under the Indiana Intergovernmental Risk Management Authority. By eliminating the town's present policies with several companies, the coverage would be simplified and result in nearly a 25 percent savings, according to McBride.
The board voted to accept his proposal at a cost of $10,762 per year. The board passed a resolution to grant tax abatement to United Technologies Automotive Inc. A public hearing on the matter is planned Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the town clerk's office.
Two bids received for converting a part of the garage area into a meeting room were tabled for a month. The room would allow more space for town board meetings and free up space for the clerk. The board appointed Michael Gross to a term on the Zoning Board of Appeals. DNR defends tree ROCHESTER While some residents have raised objections, an official with the Department of Natural Resources explained that removing trees on Main and East Ninth streets isn't a shady deal. At Tuesday's Rochester City Council meeting, DNR district forester Tim Eizinger said trees marked for removal by the state highway department "are 90 percent, or almost completely, dead." Last month, highway department crews started marking and cutting down trees on the Indiana 14-25 route through the city.
After objections from residents, city officials said no trees would be cut down without the property owner's permission. Eizinger said the problem is that the trees all were planted about the same time, 1910-1912, and matured at the same rate. Trees in Lakeview Park, along East Ninth, and City Park on Park Road, are in the same condition, he said. Mayor Phil Thompson said he heard there is a group interested in funding some new trees for the city. Representatives of the Rochester Jaycees said if there is a way to obtain the trees, their club would plant them.
Eizinger said he would prepare a list of suggested trees and present it at the next council meeting, at' 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in the council chambers at city hall. In other business, Bill Schroer was sworn into office for the fifth time. Schroer was appointed last week by Fulton County Republican Chairman Kathryn Hartzler to replace Lloyd Adley on the 4th Precinct seat.
Adley resigned for health reasons after nine years on the council. The term expires Dec. 31, 1091. This is the second time Schroer has been appointed to the council. He was appointed April 25, 1961, to replace Walter Smith, who moved from the city.
He was elected to a full four-year term in 1963 and reelected in 1967 and 1971. Lakeland contract delayed LAGRANGE Lakeland School Board members tabled consideration of the contract with Simerman Construction Fort Wayne, for renovation of Lakeland High School this week, as the contract is not available to the board. Among other board actions: I The parent teacher conference was set for March 22 from noon8 p.m. at the various schools within the corporation. Students will be dismissed at 11:30 a.m.
that day. Farmers State Bank in LaGrange, Gateway Bank in LaGrange, Shipshewana State Bank and State Bank of Lima and Howe, were all approved for depositories for school funds. I Approval was given on a request to advertise for an additional appropriation from the Capital Project Fund. Second reading was given Policy 4117, Teaching Staff Evaluation Procedures and was approved by the board members. I Eugene Potter's resignation due to retirement was accepted.
Potter, a high school social study teacher, has taught at Lakeland School Corp. for 25 years. I Teachers service sessions will be Feb. 20 at Lakeland High School Junior High School and Parkside Elementary School from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
There will be no school that day. I High school graduation exercises were set for Saturday, May 27, at 7 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Nappanee limits truck traffic NAPPANEE No truck traffic will be allowed on the 400 block of South Elm Street, after action by the Board of Works this week. The move came in response to a recommendation by Police Chief John Elliott.
Elliott reported there was an "ongoing problem" concerning trucks driving north on Elm, then turning east on Randolph Street. He said the property at the intersection was "torn up" by truckers not successfully negotiating the turn. In other matters, Mayor Robert Callander discussed the possibility of hosting a public hearing on cable television services. The city's contract with TV Cable of Nappanee still has three years to go, but negotiations will begin soon. City Attorney Brian Hoffer suggested the matter of service and quality be addressed at a public hearing before negotiations are held.
Callander said the issue of price could not be addressed at the hearing, which will be set for the near future. The Common Council will be responsible for the hearing. In other business, Elliott recommended Connie Nine be hired as dispatcher for the Police Department. The action took effect on Feb. 14.
Nine replaces Dorothy Hoke, who retired. The next Board of Works meeting 3:30 p.m. Feb. 27, in the Nappanee Municipal Center. Kindergarten policy adopted NAPPANEE The Wa-Nee School Board set kindergarten age requirements for entrance into kindergarten at its monthly meeting.
The Board of School Trustees adopted the policy that, in order to enroll in the Wa-Nee kindergarten, a child must be at least 5 years old on Sept. 1 for the 1989-90 school year and by June 1 for the 1990-91 school year and subsequent school years. The policy was written in response to a request by school administrators and kindergarten and primary teachers. They said requiring children who enroll i in kindergarten to be somewhat older is better for them educationally. In addition, the change each year in requirements to adhere to Indiana law could cause confusion among parents.
The 1987 Indiana General Assembly passed a law requiring that a child must be at least 5 years old on or before Sept. 1 of the 1989-90 school year, Aug. 1 of the 1990-91 school year, July 1 of the 1991-92 school year and June 1 of the 1992-93 school year. Assistant Supt. John K.
Miller noted this policy may affect parents' decision concerning their children's attendance at nursery or pre-school programs. Ground-water panel stresses enforcement DIANE STEPHEN Tribune Elkhart Bureau GOSHEN County officials aren't sure when they'll get the proposed ground-water ordinance approved. But whatever they do, they want to make sure the ordinance can be enforced. The Ground Water Policy Review Committee met Wednesday night for a final look at the proposed ground-water ordinance, its rules and regulations. The panel includes County Councilman Dean Hupp, who chairs the group; Commissioner David Hess; and health board members Terry Kaeser and James Sachs.
Sachs recently replaced James VanCuren on the panel and on the health board. Originally the commissioners had planned on bringing the latest proposal up for a vote Feb. 20. They were expected to approve the rules and regulations, a separate document, at a later date. The health board, which also must approve the two documents, has accepted the rules and regulations but not the ordinance.
Since changes were made in the rules and regulations Wednesday, the health board will take another vote on the document in an upcoming meeting. The County Council will consider only funding for the ordinance because it is not a policy-making body. Now, however, the two boards have agreed to approve both documents at the same time. "It is important to have the rules and regulations (in effect), because the ordinance isn't worth the paper it's written on," said Kaeser. "(Having an ordinance without regulations) would be like having a speeding law without a cop to enforce Kaeser also said the timing of registration requirements and effective dates within the two documents would be out of syne if the ordinance is approved now and the rules and regulations are approved months later.
Because of this decision, the ordinance will not be taken up for some time, The health board must be given time to review the rules and regulations and then take up the ordinance for consideration. The panel also agreed both documents will go into effect 12 months after they are approved. In recent weeks, the health board's regular meetings, special meetings and executive sessions have been filled with other business and controversy over the employment of Health Officer Dr. Robert Tomchik. Kaeser said the next regular meeting set for Feb.
23 will be canceled because not enough board members can attend to make a quorum. He told Hupp and Hess another special meeting may be called to discuss and vote on the ground-water ordinance and rules and regulations. Therapists' biases can affect clients By DIANE STEPHEN Tribune Elkhart Bureau ELKHART Those who work with "unhealthy" families were told Wednesday they should look past their own personal beliefs and biases to best serve their clients. Marianne Ault-Riche, curriculum director for the Marriage and Family Therapy Training Program at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, spoke Wednesday at the Oaklawn Forum on how to spot and treat unhealthy families. Ault-Riche listed attributes for a good therapist, but emphasized mental health workers need to evaluate themselves before trying to set goals for the problems of their clients.
In that self-examination, therapists should pick out their own quirks to avoid falling into a trap that could hinder the resolution of clients' problems. For example, Ault-Riche cited statistics on the American family. She said since only 25 percent fit the storybook image of a two-parent family with dad as the wage earner and mom as the full-time homemaker, the single parent or divorced family should not be looked upon as abnormal. She also said census reports predict one-third of families will have a single head of household by 1990. "Rumblings (within single-parent families) are viewed as dysfunctional," said Ault-Riche.
"Single-parent families are described as divided or broken it is perceived that something is wrong and they are developmentally atrisk. The commissioners have had a wrench thrown into their plans as well. That body probably will not consider either document until the health board has. Additionally, Commissioner John Bentley has told resident Lorna Rickard, a member of the Citizens League for Environmental Action Now, the public will be granted one last shot at commenting on the ordinance before it is voted on. Bentley said today he told Rickard he would try 'to schedule an evening meeting next week or in early March, review public comments, then consider the final proposal in another meeting.
He said the Feb. 20 meeting should still be held. The hearing date was incorrectly advertised as being a Tuesday instead of a Monday. County Administrator Richard Bowman didn't know if the hearing would have to be rescheduled and re-advertised because of that error. "Too often, these (labels) are predicated on value-laden beliefs.
It is crucial that professionals (who work with families) understand to what extend their assumptions are based on their personal experiences and beliefs," she continued. She said therapists' own family situations, religions and life experiences often shadow their own treatments, making them people who expect others to live their lives as their therapists do. "I have a personal idea about what is healthy and how to raise my own children, but I can't expect anyone else to follow my own standards," Ault-Riche said. She gave an example of such an approach when talking about how a school principal dealt with the single mother of a disruptive student. To explain her son's outbursts, the woman said he was gifted and not being challenged by a school system that was biased against families that were not upper middle class with the husband-wife team intact.
"The principal said his school had all kinds of families and that he had a lot of experience dealing with children from broken homes," AultRiche recalled. "He didn't see that in the act of trying to be supportive, he was being insulting. "There are 250 different types of therapy there's a whole dictionary just on types of therapy. There is a wide range of ideas about therapy and its role," said AultRiche. She also said therapists should stay focused on the goals they have set with their clients.
Tribune DIANE STEPHEN Marianne Ault-Riche of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, advises therapists to avoid their clients. "When you try to move your client in a direction he doesn't want to go, you'll get burned out," said Ault- imposing their own values on Riche. "Over-responsibility as a therapist is an under-responsibility to your client." Rail museum restaurant may open May 1 By JEFF KUROWSKI Restaurant. Tribune Elkhart Bureau The restaurant also would occuELKHART The New York py a portion of the former freight Central Railroad Museum Com- loading dock immediately south of mission hopes a restaurant will the converted rail passenger cars. open on the museum property on, The property, south of the main May 1.
Conrail tracks through Elkhart, That is according to commission was purchased by the city governmember Ross Miller, who reported ment as a part of Mayor James to other commissioners Wednes- Perron's plan to develop the south day night on the status of the res- end of the downtown into a comtaurant proposal. mercial and entertainment district. The name of the proposed res- It is hoped the restaurant would taurant. tenant could not be re- attract local residents and visitors vealed Wednesday night because from outside of Michiana to visit no lease agreements have been the museum. signed, said Miller.
He is sales manager for FM Properties an Many museum artifacts will be based real estate firm spe- displayed in the converted the railroad be cializing in commercial properties. passenger car near car to Miller said the proposed tenant used as a restaurant. will receive a tentative lease con- Also on display on the museum tract soon. property is the Mohawk series 3001 The restaurant would occupy steam locomotive, a New York one of the converted railroad pas- Central E-8 diesel locomotive and a senger cars at 721 S. Main the Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 elecsite of the former Freight House tric locomotive.
Wa-Nee approves plan for three elementaries By MICHELLE DONAGHEY ahead with the project. Tribune Correspondent Board members had different NAPPANEE The Wa-Nee ideas on what the plan should inBoard of School Trustees was so clude in order to gain approval. confused at this week's meeting Board President Richard Holdethat it seemed headed back to man said Skeens wants "more square one of the proposed building specifics" concerning what would project for elementary schools. be done with the elementaries. The board finally gave the goBoard members Barry Beer and ahead to a motion that says the disLarry Andrews said Skeens would trict will have three elementaries.
rather see one middle school as This motion will be added to the building part of the package. project package approved "I'm a firm believer if at a January meeting and will be you stay sent to the Indiana Department of with two middle schools today, there will be a time when there will Education for approval. be just one," said Beer. Before the vote was taken, the Board member Ross Sloat said board discussed at length its feelthe plan should include four ings on whether the state would elementaries rather than three. like to see three or four elementaries as part of the package and When the vote on the motion for whether approval was more likely three elementaries was taken, for one or two middle schools.
Beer, Andrews, Dr. Robert Abel In a recent informal meeting and Paul Parks voted yes, James. with the board, Dennis Skeens, di- Graybill abstained and Sloat voted rector of Planning and Accredita- no. tion of IDE in Indianapolis, had No decisions were reached on said the January proposal was not the possible locations of the three a good one. It is up to Skeens to elementaries, though Sloat said he approve the school's plans for proj- felt that his "general feeling" was ects formally before they can go Central would be closed.
Contractors have worked throughout the winter renovating the converted railroad cars and the former freight depot areas, said assistant City Planning Director Greg Sundin. Commission Chairman Richard Bowers said people owning New York Central Railroad artifacts should contact the City Planning Department in the Elkhart City Hall if they are willing to contribute more items for display at the museum. The City Planning Department can be reached by calling 294-5471. OUR MAN IN ELKHART Introducing GARY THOMAS Gary is the South Bend Tribune's retail advertising representative in the Elkhart area. He has research, layouts and copy ideas, facts and figures, statistics.
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