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Summer fun at Bixler Lake

Welcome It’s time to look forward to summer and all that northeast Indiana has to offer with its many lakes and outdoor activities.

Northeast Indiana is a good place to be if you want to take some time out at the lake. Over the years, the lakes communities have evolved, with more properties becoming year-round homes.

Still, there are many lake cottages at northeast Indiana lakes that are rented to visitors on a seasonal basis.

Whether your summer fun is based at the lake, in a city or state park, or in your own backyard, we hope you find this section helpful as you try to make the best of the summer weather with family and friends.

We welcome your feedback and ideas for future articles on the topic of summer fun in beautiful northeast Indiana.

This section is also available at kpcnews.com.

The cover, created by Tracey Robideau, a member of the KPC Media Group creative team, is a collection of vintage postcards from Steuben County.

May 22, 2015

BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — Summer fun at Bixler Lake includes swimming, boating, camping and sunbathing.

Non-swimmers can learn to swim at the nearby Cole Center Family YMCA before taking a plunge in the lake.

Bixler is a 119-acre lake located with Kendallville’s city limits. The lake has a 10 mph speed limit for boats with a boat ramp at the south end off of Sherman Street near the park department maintenance building.

Visitors can swim the supervised east and west beaches each day throughout the summer. Starting Memorial Day weekend, certified lifeguards are on duty Mondays-Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. Weekday schedule begins after East Noble schools are out for the summer.

Swimmers should stay within the roped areas, and small children and non-swimmers should always be accompanied by an adult.

The sandy beaches are raked every morning for bathers looking for a tan.

There is no charge to use the beaches, but an entrance fee to Bixler Lake Park is

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collected at the Lake Park Drive gate on weekends and holidays for those without a pass. Season vehicle sticker passes are issued to Kendallville and Wayne Township residents through the park department office in the Youth Center, 211 Iddings St. Fishing is also free with a proper Indiana fishing license. A fishing pier is located at the south end of the lake, and a fishing channel is at the north end of the lake.

Those looking for fun on the water can rent kayaks and paddle around the lake.

Kayaks are available from 9 a.m. to one hour before dusk. Cost is $5.35 for singles and $8.56 for tandems for one hour of use.

Kayaks can be rented through the Bixler Lake campground office at 242-6898.

The Kendallville Park and Recreation Summer Day Camp for girls and boys in grades 2-7 runs for eight weeks during the summer and includes swimming and beach games at nearby Bixler Lake. The supervised camp is held May 29-July 25.

For camp information and fees call the park office at 347-1064.

The Cole Center Family YMCA, 700 S. Garden St., offers swim lessons

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Much to do during summer for children ball fields, soccer fields, hiking and biking trails and open, grassy, wooded areas for kids to use their imaginations “Mom. There’s nothing to do.” for games and play.

How often have moms everywhere Every community in the four-county heard this from their offspring during area has at least one public park, and the summer months when school is not the larger communities have organized in session? summer park programs for children.

Today kids can carry their own The Kendallville Park and Recreation electronic entertainment in iPods, iPads Department’s Summer Day Camp for and iPhones. They can spend hours, children through eighth grade runs eight even days indoors playing video games weeks. Children can enjoy games, arts and watching TV. Supervised and unsupervised opportu- and crafts, swimming, nature studies, hikes, swimming in Bixler Lake Park. nities, both free and with fees, exist Call the park department at 347-1064 in the four-county area for kids to get for more information. Registration outdoors, get some exercise, socialize with others, learn about nature and have deadline is May 29. Kids can play disc golf on the east and west sides of Bixler a good time during the summer season.

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Park departments, church-based The summer recreation program organizations, cities, towns and county for children in Angola at Commons governments offer a seemingly endless Park is June 11-Aug. 7. Fundamentals array of youth programs.

Lakes have protected swimming areas in baseball, golf, tennis, football and with lifeguards. Parks have playgrounds, soccer, backyard games and crafts,

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swimming and hunter safety and archery are among the supervised activities.

Field trips are taken on Fridays for children who attended camp at least twice during the week. Call 665-1588 for more information.

Through the LaGrange County Parks and Recreation Department, 6-11 year-olds can enjoy a Nature Bound program, and 12-16-year-olds can participate in a challenging Adventure Bound program. Call LaGrange County Parks and Recreation at 854-2225 for more information. Special events are scheduled at in David Rogers Memorial Park.

The Filling Station Youth Center in Butler offers a BMX bike course, roller skating and other games and activities for children 5 and over on Tuesdays and Thursday from 4-6 p.m., and Fridays from 7 to 10 p.m. For more information, call 868-5683.

Auburn’s Eckhart Park has a

community pool. For more information about Auburn Parks and Recreation Department programs for children, call 925-2997.

Swim lessons will consist of a two-week session Monday through Friday. Lessons are available youth ages 5 years and older. Additionally, parent-tot Lessons are available for children 6 months to 5 years. For a complete list of times and dates contact the pool or the park office. The fee is $25 for residents or $30 for non-residents.

Roller skating is at the Skatin’ Station in Auburn, and the Auburn Recreation Center has bowling.

The Auburn Parks Department offers summer sports leagues. Call 925-2997 for more information.

The Garrett Parks Department has a Fun Friday Day Camp for children ages See CHILDREN page 4

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CHILDREN From page 3

4-12 in June from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and it includes a snack. Each Friday has a different theme. Kids who register by today (May 22) receive a T-shirt. Cost is $15 for all four Fridays.

Garrett’s Feick Park has a community swimming pool which opens for the season on May 29 and is open daily from 1-8 p.m. Call the Garrett Parks Department at 357-3400 for more information about special programs.

In Albion the splash pad opens on Saturday and is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

YMCAs in Kendallville, Angola, Auburn and Ashley have programs and activities for kids of all ages. The Cole Center Family YMCA has a junior golf camp, a youth soccer camp and a youth girls basketball camp during the summer. Call the Cole Y at 347-9622, the YMCA in Auburn at 925-9622, the YMCA in Ashley at 587-9611 and the YMCA of Steuben County in Angola at

668-3607.

The Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area has canoeing and hiking in a protected wildlife area. Call 367-2164 for more information The Chain O’ Lakes State Park near Albion and the Pokagon State Park near Angola have several outdoor activities for children including camping, swimming, nature hikes and wildlife studies. A fishing contest is scheduled for June 7. Call 636-2654 for summer children’s programs.

Pokagon State Park has horseback riding, nature trails, fishing, swimming, camping and many other activities. Call 833-2012.

Public libraries in Kendallville, Rome City, Auburn, Albion, Ligonier, LaGrange, Fremont and Angola have summer program reading programs and activities for children of all ages.

Churches offer youth programs and vacation Bible schools.

Check with your park and recreation departments, libraries and state parks for children’s programs and activities.

May 22, 2015

Professional gives water safety tips

BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com

ANGOLA — As Lauren Hensel gets older, her passion for water keeps growing. With that is her desire to promote water safety.

As a longtime lifeguard and swim lesson instructor, she has plenty of tips.

“It first started out with my love of the water. I have grown up on a lake my entire life and I have loved being out on the water,” she said. “My passion for water kept growing as I got older.

I joined the swim team and then went for my first training for being a YMCA lifeguard. Becoming a lifeguard was the one of the best things that could happen because it gave me the chance to help people out by teaching them how to swim or just giving them tips on how to improve their swimming.

“Being a lifeguard can be

nerve-racking because you are always on the lookout for potential problems and thinking on how you would go about it to prevent it,” she said. “Having experience being around a pool and a lake I have a some tips for parents and kids.”

Hensel gave the following water safety tips: For parents: • Try to get your children into some type of swim lessons. If they have some type knowledge of swimming this will give them advantage of keeping them safe.

• Keep an eye on your chldren while at the pool or beach — even if there is a lifeguard present. “I have seen several parents playing on their phones or tablets and less on their kids,” she said.

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“Kids do notice this and they will use this time to horse around or even try to sneak off to the deep end. An extra pair of eyes is always good. A lifeguard is always scanning and will not be focused on one spot.”

• Be an arm’s length away from a young or an inexperienced swimmer in the water.

• Don’t assume that if a child is in floaties or using anything that floats they are safe.

• Don’t let your children jump or dive into shallow water or jump onto objects or even jump onto people. This can cause serious issue to arise.

• Lifeguards are there for the safety for everyone if they do need to talk with you or your child about something that they are doing. Understand that it is for the safety. We are trying to prevent drownings.

For children: • Don’t ever joke around and call for help unless you do really need it.

• Never hang on someone who is wearing a floatie because they can be an inexperienced swimmer. Also hanging on your friends is not a good thing.

• Follow the rules because they are put forth for your safety.

• If you’re an inexperienced swimmer, don’t think you can go out into the deep end and swim.

• Make sure you don’t swim alone.

Have your parent or a buddy to swim with you.

The American Red Cross said the following items should be used or nearby water to ensure safety: Life jackets, flotation or throwable devices, reaching equipment, a first aid kit and emergency numbers posted by a phone.

An instructional event that will be back this summer — probably in June — will be the Steuben County YMCA’s SPLASH program.

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Krista Miller, YMCA CEO said the program annually attracts more than 100 children. The five-day program is for children who are non-swimmers completing grades kindergarten through fifth-grade.

During the week of the program, classes cover basic swimming-skills instruction, water-safety education, character development activities and tips for parents.

Knowledge gained from the class will be helpful for water safety, especially with Steuben County’s 101 lakes.

Miller said more details will be announced one finalized.

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May 22, 2015

Rental cottages in decline, but they’re still out there

BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com

PHOTO COURTESY JIM SOMERS

Lake cottages that were family owned and often rented out over the summer were all the rage in the last century. In this July 9, 1911 postcard provided by Jim Somers, folks are all decked out in dresses and heavy outer garments compared to current lake wear.

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ANGOLA — They may not be as big a part of the lakes community as they once were, but scores of people still are in the business of renting cottages through the summer months.

Gone are the days of going to Angola Area Chamber of Commerce to find a catalog of lake places for rent with scores of properties.

However, the Angola Chamber still provides that listing to interested vacationers, now through its website.

And there are many other ways people get the word out, through newspaper advertising to websites.

“Of course, we are still listing cottages on the website,” said Christina Koher, executive director of the chamber. “We have more hits on that part of our website than anywhere else.”

The tradition of the chamber being the clearing house for cottage rentals has a history dating to the days when the chamber had only one part-time employee and a notebook full of listings.

“People probably still remember

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that,” Koher said.

At the chamber, it costs $100 a year to list one’s cottage.

“We don’t do it to make money, we do it as a community service,” Koher said.

Just how many rentals are out there is anyone’s guess.

“There’s really no record kept on this sort of thing,” said Sue Myers, executive secretary of the Steuben County Lakes Council.

Rentals in decline Many people have taken their cottages and have converted them to full-time residences or have knocked them down and built new homes.

Others who may have owned a number of cottages just gave up the work that comes with such an endeavor.

“The decline in summer rentals is indicative of changing lifestyles, people wanting the year round peace of the lake,” said June Julien, executive director of the Steuben County Tourism Bureau.

“Of course, the cottages themselves are nothing like they were in the past,” Myers said.

Julien said her office has information on about 25 rentals, mainly because they pay innkeeper’s tax, as do hotels and motels.

“The chamber always had the list since the 1950s and people paid to be on it. There used to be a ton, like a hundred,” Julien said.

There are some people who have been using the chamber for years.

One of them is Jeff Deahl, Lake James, who rents two seasonal cottages on his home lake. And Deahl has his own website, cottagesoflakejames.com and he uses other rental websites.

“We’re listed on several vacation websites,” said Deahl, who has had one rental about 15 years and the other a couple years less.

“It’s kind of a family affair thing.

We take care of them. I’ve spent all of my life around cottages,” Deahl said. “It used to be, years ago, there were lots of places you could rent.”

The landscape of the weekly or seasonal rental has changed.

“Now, the economics are difficult, if not there,” Deahl said. “We have such a small season.”

That’s especially true with sports and school stretching into June and See COTTAGES page 7

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waterfront living, even if it is only one week out of the year.

“The rental thing gives them an opportunity to have a piece of that,” he said.

By now, Deahl typically has both cottages rented first week of June through early August.

Lake cottages are available in a wide range of rent prices and ammenities.

On the Angola Chamber’s directory, you can find a place at Jimmerson Lake that rents for $595 a week or one at Clear Lake for $1,300 a week during the summer.

Usually there’s a fairly significant damage deposit, too, Koher said.

Many variables

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Folks are all dressed up for a day at Lake James in this postcard provided by Jim Somers.

There are other variables, too. Some cottage owners might request you bring your own bed linens and towels, for example.

“Some of them will give you access to boats and gas grills and some don’t have that available,” Koher said.

Of course, many people rent their

cottages in the off-season months like a regular house for rent.

As part of the changing landscape for rentals, people are now listing cottages through online services, including the popular Vacation Rentals By Owner and its parent site, Homes Away.

On a recent check, there were 25 cottages listed under the Angola heading with some commanding as much as $1,500 a week. There were three listed under Fremont and were at Clear Lake. The top ticket through this site was a lakefront property that rents for $1,700 a week.

There were five places for rent on Sylvan Lake, with the high being $428 a night and another with a weekly rate of $985.

There’s a variety of other sites that can be found just by searching lake names. For example, Big Long Lake in LaGrange County has a number of listings, including one that rents for $150 a night and another that goes for $1,300 a week.

There are others in northeast Indiana that can be found on Airbnb, which is a site that rents rooms in people’s homes.

In this case, the renter is typically staying with the homeowner present during the stay.

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This cottage is a rental owned by Jeff Deahl of Lake James. Unlike an earlier time when people relied solely on newspaper classified advertising and a catalog of listings at the Angola Area Chamber of Commerce, cottages owners such as Deahl used a number of different online listing site. Deahl even has his own website to promote his rental cottages

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Vacations possible on the smallest budget STATE POINT MEDIA

Americans collectively neglect 430 million vacation days annually, according to the 2014 Oxford Economics analysis.

Whatever your reasons for sacrificing vacation, don’t let it be finances.

“An enjoyable vacation is possible on even the smallest budget — and summer is the perfect time to travel,” says Tom Seddon, chief marketing officer of Extended Stay America.

Seddon encourages families to save big on travel with these helpful tips.

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A family vacation doesn’t have to break the bank. In fact, there are many places in the four-county area of northeast Indiana that offer reasonable vacation opportunities.

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Timing People traveling during holidays and long weekends often experience higher gas prices, bigger crowds and longer lines. Seddon suggests dodging departures and arrivals during peak travel times to avoid congested roads and stop-and-go traffic.

Save on airfare by leveraging a family member’s business trip. Simply add days to the beginning or end of the trip. Whether visiting relatives, touring colleges as a high school senior or visiting a sibling already enrolled, adding extra time to the trip makes for a budget-friendly family getaway.

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Stay-cation Remember, expensive doesn’t mean more fun. For a budget-savvy version of vacation, look for shorter trip destinations two to three hours from home. Consider nearby attractions that make for an inexpensive weekend or day trip, like theme parks, zoos or state parks. Select a hotel that provides a good value for what you need. Unlike a resort hotel where the experience is the hotel, use the hotel as a place to refresh, sleep and prepare snacks, so that you can spend more time experiencing all the local attractions.

Complete errands beforehand and create a full itinerary to ensure you don’t fall into your normal routine. Also, unplug — reducing time on tech means more refreshing time off.

Use your time to visit local hotspots you’ve also wanted to experience. Summer is usually the best time for state and county fairs and local newspapers and regional websites are great resources for finding off-beat events.

All of the four counties in northeast Indiana have local travel bureaus, so visit their websites or seek out their travel guides for information.

Loyalty Rewards Programs Many point-based loyalty programs require a significant amount of time and investment before you see any benefit.

Enroll in loyalty programs that offer instant rewards, coupons, and discounts at national retailers, rental car companies, restaurants, theme parks and more. Programs like this will provide valuable savings to enhance summer travel.

Meal Costs Consider offsetting costs by pre-making snacks and picnic lunches. Staying at an extended-stay style hotel can be helpful, as guests have access to in-room kitchens and full size refrigerators. Don’t worry about forgoing local fare. This is an opportunity to visit the area’s farmer’s markets where you can shop for local ingredients and recreate a regional dish on your own.

Still craving a specific restaurant? Lunch menus are usually less expensive than dinner, and you’re more likely to catch happy hour drink and appetizer specials.

Stay Across the River Hotel accommodations can be pricey in big cities. Stay across the river or in suburbs a short drive or subway trip away. The same concept can be extended to flights. Flying into a smaller airport or neighboring cities sometime yields lower rates.

This summer, don’t forgo vacation. Savvy decisions can make for wallet-friendly travel.

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