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Renovated Goshen Theater cementing its place

Fresh off phase one of its multistage renovation project, the Goshen Theater is ready to reestablish itself as the entertainment, social and community hub in downtown Goshen.Thetwo-year, $5 million project was ﬁnished in 2020, but thanks to COVID restrictions has not yet been fully utilized to its intended purposes.Thetheater is now under the new leadership of Executive Director Susan Visser, who brings 48 years of nonproﬁt experience to the job. Her career to this point has been spent working in four museums, including the last 34 years as executive director of the South Bend Museum of Art. Since she began her new gig in January 2022, she added Robert Tombari as the theater’s program manager, rounding out her team of four, which also includes Technical Director Jerry Peters and in the community 3 Chris Steak House 902 E $7,500

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Recently, AWL was honored at the annual conference of the Best Friends Animal Society as a recipient of the Touchstone Award. It was one of ﬁve shelters out of 3,700 recognized for its extremely low euthanasia rate. In its presentation of the award, it was noted the shelter “is committed to working for — and engaging with — its community through regular adoption events and educational programming. A robust kitten foster program and innovative adoption promotions are key pieces of their lifesaving strategy.”Additionally, AWL recently was honored with the National Telley Bronze Award for a video produced by Clear Vision Media on its behalf for its engagement and education of the community.

VolksFest returns downtown for September First Fridays in all its groovy glory, featuring twice the classic car show as in past years and two live bands playing throughout the evening, from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Sept.Registration2. for area owners of Volkswagen bugs and buses is ongoing for VolksFest’s annual VW Showcase, but this year’s event will play out in the heart of Goshen alongside a classic and rare car show rescheduled fromTheJuly.cost of registration is $15 per vehicle. Awards are possible in a variety of categories, but cars must be pre-registered to beAeligible.complete list of car show rules can be found at downtowngoshen.org.“Wearealways grateful to our VolksFest community for sharing these fun vehicles in their signature, big-hearted way,” said Adrienne Nesbitt, director of events. “But we’re excited for the VW Showcase to mix it up downtown with classic cars and motorcycles of all kinds for an outsized car show with something for everyone!” Live music from rock-andfolk band McLane & Co. and the Latin-soul fusion sounds of Lalo Cura can be heard throughout the evening’s festivities from the First Fridays Stage beginning at 5:30 p.m. Goshen Health’s family tent, providing a private space for mothers and those caring for young children, will be available to visitors again for the evening.Visitthe Downtown Goshen website for a full schedule of September First Fridays’ events. a licensed Humana sales agent 574-549-2028Snyder (TTY: 711) Monday Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

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What started out as a hesitant acceptance as a board member with the Fort Wayne Pet Food Pantry following his early retirement has blossomed into a nearly full-time second career for Warsaw’s John Lantz. After “asking his way onto” the board of the Animal Welfare League of Kosciusko County in May 2021, a short 10 months later, Lantz was elected as the board’sLantzpresident.andhiswife, Karen, recently purchased two acres in the Warsaw area following at 26-year residency in Noble County. He said they had good friends and family living on Tippecanoe Lake “and we got tired of making that drive” to visitWhenthem.he was ﬁrst asked to join the FWPFP, he admitted he wasn’t quite sure it was the right move for him. However, his wife of 41-years said he would regret it for the rest of his life if he didn’t do it. “We love pets,” he said, noting they currently have two dogs and two cats of their own. “We don’t have any kids, just fur babies. It was great being part of the pet food pantry.”

“Even though we charge for adoptions, that doesn’t even cover half of our medical expenses,” he said. “Every animal gets a wellness check, vaccines, spaying or neutering and a microchip.”Thereare plenty of ways to get involved with AWL as a volunteer, a donor or both. “We have a great group of volunteers who foster our pets,” he said. “AWL also has it’s monthly Shelter Buddies Literacy program that allows children to read aloud to shelter pets. It takes a lot of volunteers to come and help walk 45-50 dogs. AWL encourages senior citizens to adopt senior pets at reduced rates. We feel that pets are so important to the health and well-being of our senior clients by keeping them active. Pets also provide unconditional love and companionship.” For further information about AWL, call (574) 267-3008, or visit their Facebook page or website, https://awlwarsaw.com/. The shelter is located at 1048 S. 325E, Pierceton.

“We have some fantastic donors, businesses and individuals alike,” Lantz said. “The county really supports us, as does the town of North Webster. I’m really thankful for that support. We couldn’t survive without our donors.”Lantz noted that last year expenses were $454,813.85, a total that they are expected to far exceed due to increased costs and inﬂation.

After spending six years on that board and following his move to Kosciusko County, Lantz knew he wanted to stay involved with helping animals in need. He estimates he spends 25-30 hours a week doing volunteer work for the shelter from his home ofﬁce, including applying for grants and talking with community leaders and businesses about AWL’s needs. He added he’s usually at the shelter several times a week for one thing or another. “It has been so rewarding working here with the board, fabulous employees and our executive director, Tonya Blanchard,” said Lantz. “We want to be part of this community. A lot of people don’t realize we are a nonproﬁt. Sheltering is a community issue serving the wholeLantzcommunity.”admitsthat working in a shelter has both heartbreaking and wonderful moments. “We have sad stories here everyday,” he said. “People who have to surrender their pets because of a move or a parent dying. We also have heartwarming stories everyday when people come in to adopt a pet.”

Visser noted the theater also provides its various spaces for rentals. She said the venue is able to support weddings, reunions, business meetings and conferences, including in the upstairs ballroom as well as the lobby and auditorium.

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Katie Burns, who serves as front-of-house manager, box office manager and education director.Thelatest renovation project of the 115-year-old building included most of its public spaces, including the lobby and auditorium. The second phase, for which another capital campaign is in the works, will focus on behind-the-scenes areas of the theater, including the building’s second floor, which was not previously addressed. Funding for the first phase included a combination of grants, donations and help from the Additionally,city. the theater will be embarking on a strategic plan in 2023. Visser and the theater’s board are in the process of selecting a consultant to lead the project, which will include community conversations and community focus groups.“The strategic plan will also help us structure our programming so we can do some community theater and bring in outside shows,” said Visser. “One of the things important to us is that we showcase the community talent, including people who have passed through the community and might want to come back, such as Goshen College students and other people who grew up here and have gone on to other ways of acting or being involved in music. Goshen Theater

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“There will be a lot of conversations about focus and how do we become the hub for cultural activities in Goshen. We’re looking at not only doing performing arts, but starting to support visual artists. We’re looking at some slight modiﬁcations in the lobby to allow us to hang visual art in the lobby so we can support area artists.”

Walking, which has been called the best exercise investment, can be helped or hampered by where you live. While it costs nothing, can be done anywhere at any time, and requires no special equipment — except, perhaps, for a good pair of sturdy shoes — your environs could be less than walkingfriendly.Ifyou live in a sprawling community, you’re more likely to weigh more, have higher blood pressure and walk less than residents of more congested counties, according to health researchers. They have found a strong association between your health and urban environment, which is of serious concern to older residents.Afteraccounting for such personal variables as age and education, they found residents of the most compact counties weighed less by over ﬁve pounds and walked almost 1½ hour more a month than people living in sprawling counties. Their levels of sprawl were based on factors such as the density of residential neighborhoods, connections between roads and the physical separation of homes, shops and workplaces.Poor accessibility is the common denominator of urban sprawl. Nothing is within easy walking distance of anything else.Those who say they have safe, convenient places to walk or to get other forms of exercise are most likely to be physically active. Access to indoor and outdoor exercise areas is also an important factor for residents to remain physically active. Increasing the number of desirable location destinations within a 20-minute walk radius might encourage older women to exercise, according to a University of Pittsburgh study. Older women in the Pittsburgh region who lived within walking distance of a biking or walking trail, park, or department, discount or hardware store logged signiﬁcantly more walking time than those who did not have similar facilities nearby, according to researchers, leading them to conclude adding businesses or recreational facilities to residential areas may be an effective method to boost exercise levels among older women.MatureLife

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“It’s such a great opportunity to reenvision this beautiful theater,” Visser added. “I’m so impressed with Goshen because there’s so much community pride. I know the theater is one point of that. I can see from the people who come in just to see the theater and our post-renovation look, I can tell how excited people are about Goshen Theater and that it is in fact something people in the community treasure. We want to respect that and make sure it’s utilized in the best possible way.”For further information about the Goshen Theater and its upcoming programming, visit goshentheater.com or stop by and see the renovated building at 216 S. Main St.

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Rick Lemberg came to Syracuse from Chicago when he was just 21 years old. His dad’s RV supply business moved out of Chicago to Indiana in 1971. He remembers his mother finding a house to purchase on Lake Wawasee.“Itried to become an artist and did some odd jobs welding because I knew welding from sculpting. I met my wife, Kathy Smith, who was a local girl — a native of the lake,” he said. “We were married in 1976. My brother Jim and I started a business in 1978 for commercial flooring in Fort Wayne and had that business for close to 40 years and sold it in 2015 and retired. I was trying to do my art part time and toward the end it was getting very hard to do both the business and the art. The art had to take second shelf for awhile. Now that I’m retired I enjoy getting into it full time. I have my own studio now,” he said. Lemberg said he has sculpted almost his entire life. He had a great art teacher in high school. “I started doing art shows in my mid-20s to early 30s. I did the Chicago Gold Coast Art Show for about 26 years. I did a lot of outdoor shows, including the Penrod Society at the Indianapolis Art Museum grounds in the early days, as well as several others in Chicago,” he said. He traveled for a while and tried to become a full-time artist. “It was quite hard. Sculpting is a three-dimensional art and most people are two-dimensional,” said Lemberg. “I have done some fairly good outdoor pieces. I had one at the Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire building in Fort Wayne. I did one recently for the Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation Memorial Garden. I try to get involved in The Midwest Museum of Art. I do a competition at the retail artist competition. I have won some awards. Right now, the Water Lily Gallery is about the only gallery that has my work in it. And that’s in uptown Syracuse. Right now I’m finishing up my entry for The Midwest Museum of Art,” heLembergsaid. also ice sails. “When I moved here in 1971, I got into soft water sailing and really enjoyed it. I was a member of the Wawasee Boating Association, which merged with the Wawasee Yacht Club. I got into a lot of soft water sailboat racing. I raced Lasers and Hobie Cats and E Scows. I still enjoy racing those. I don’t race soft water as much anymore, but my passion is still ice sailing,” heLembergsaid. got into ice sailing in the mid-1980s. It all started at a buddy’s house in the winter with a DN class home-built ice boat. “I was a little wary because I had gone through the ice on Lake Papakeechie. I started to learn everything I could about ice conditions and ice sailing. So I proceeded to eventually sail in the Regional Championships, North American Championships, and the World Cup Championships in DN class ice sailing,” he said. “I totally enjoy the camaraderie with World Cup sailers and my friends in the Wawasee ice boat squadron. I’m ranked 24th in DN ice sailing in the world right now in the gold fleet and I’ve known all these guys for years and years. They were hunting for ice. I usually file for a permit every year for Wawasee and it just so happens we had the premier conditions for the DN North American Ice Sailing Championship that year (2019) and had the headquarters at Oakwood Park,” he said. “We work on our ice boats in my shop. We meet at the boat barn, which is my studio. The Wawasee ice boat squadron. I have several other classes of ice boats from beginner ice boats for junior sailers to Skeeter class ice sailing boats. I’ve been up to 75 mph on Lake Wawasee. These boats can go over 100 mph but the lake isn’t big enough. It’s worldwide. It’s been around for many years. The record is 144 mph,” he said.

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A skateboarder clatters by the front of your house, flips on a crack in your driveway, piles up a hefty amount of medical bills and sues you for damages and payment. What do you do? You can’t ignore it. You’re going to have to defend yourself.If you don’t have any liability insurance, you’re going to have to fight for your life to keep your assets — your home, car, bank account, retirement benefits, heirlooms, anything of value that can be turned into cash to pay the injured skateboarder’s claims if the law supports his or her position.Check with your insurance agent to see if you have an umbrella policy on your homeowner’s or automobile insurance. If you do, find out how much coverage you have and for what. And it’s not just errant skateboarders to worry about.Doyou do a lot of entertaining and have people in and around your house a lot? Do you operate a business out of your home? Do you have children, or grandchildren, who drive your automobile regularly? All of the above increase your risk and place you in jeopardy of possible lawsuits.MatureLife 2022

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Courts continue to supervise the process through completion, which can add time due to the detailed requirements of estate accountings.

2. Time-consuming process. Typically, probate is time consuming. Many jurisdictions require you to wait weeks or months for the appointment to open your estate. These jurisdictions also have set time frames that your executor must bide before distributing money to your heirs or beneﬁciaries.

In addition, most courts impose various filing fees on the documents your estate is required to file: one filing fee for your will, one for the list of heirs, one for the executor’s affidavit, one for the inventory of your estate and one annually for each accounting until the probate is closed — totaling up to several thousand dollars. Assets owned by a trust are not subject to probate, which is one benefit of including a trust in your comprehensive estate plan.

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3. Expensive process. Court fees and probate taxes are an extra cost to your estate. A probate tax of 0.1% may not seem like much in the abstract, but it would be calculated on your gross estate. For example, if your house is worth $500,000 and your mortgage balance is $400,000, your estate must pay $500 just to initiate probate. Often, your heirs or executor would have to pay out of pocket because they do not have access to your money until after probate has been ofﬁcially started by the court.

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The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s raises awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research. Every dollar you raise benefits those affected by Alzheimer’s disease in our community. The goal is 67 teams and $55,000 this year. We are still looking for 20 more teams and $34,000. A team can consist of one or more participants. We love to see everyone walk but do understand if you just want to come to the ceremony or selfdonate to your team. There is no fee to sign up and show your support for this great cause.Many teams return year after year with 30 of our past teams registered so far. We asked some of the team captains why they participate and this is what they have said: “If you have ever seen the devastating toll that Alzheimer’s disease takes on a person and their loved ones, then you know why I walk to end Alzheimer’s.”—o—Susan I walk because Alzheimer’s stole my Dad from me piece by piece over the course of 3 years. It took everything away from him that he loved. If I can help to raise awareness and funds to find a cure for this awful disease, I will save another family from having to go through this gradual loss of a loved one.” -—o—Amy “I want to be part of the cure. It is awesome to see a large group come together as “one” to support such a devastating debilitating disease. I walk in hope that someday fewer families have to experience what our family experienced watching our Mom fade away from us.” - Cheryl More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. In Indiana alone, 110,000 people are living with the disease and another 342,000 are serving as unpaid thoseservicesgramsprovideser’scaregivers. familyTheAlzheim-Associationpro-andforallaffectedby Alzheimer’s and other dementia, including education programs, caregiver support groups and a free 24/7 Helpline staffed by specialists and masters-level social workers. All of these services are free of charge, thanks in large part to the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. The Walk also funds critical research toward new methods of diagnosing, treating and preventing the disease. Onthe day of the walk you will receive your flower, talk to the sponsors and attend a brief opening ceremony. Finally, participants will walk as individuals, families and small groups from Central Park for a one mile or three mile jaunt. Registration is free and available at act.alz.org/Michiana. Advertorial

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A. The good news is that there are plenty of mental, artistic, and social activities seniors can engage in, regardless of their ability level. Here are a few Arts & Craft Activities Knitting is a great craft that can be enjoyed by active and limited-mobility seniors alike! Some seniors may enjoy knitting socks, scarves, hats, and mittens for their loved ones or to give as gifts. Plus, once you master the basics (which are not usually too difficult to pick up) you can find tons of free patterns online Scrapbooking is a great craft activity for seniors because it combines creative flair and nostalgia. Many seniors enjoy tracing their lives through photos from the past, and scrapbooks give them a space in which to do this, as well as share memories with other family members. Viewing and reflecting on old photos can also help jog lost memories Flower Arranging is another low-key recreational activity well-suited for elderly seniors that involves composing and styling an arrangement out of flowers. This activity is both calming and creative, allowing individuals to take their time in putting together an artistic creation. Flower arrangements can be given away as gift. Photography is a fantastic hobby that allows seniors to document the world around them or get creative. While there are certainly more advanced photography classes out there that focus on using a standard digital or manual camera, many photography classes will focus on just taking great photos with your iPhone or Android phone camera!

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For the past 39 seasons of NorthWood High School tennis, Tif Schwartz has been at the helm. To clarify, that’s 20 seasons of boys tennis in the fall and 19 of girls tennis in the spring. Barring something unforeseen, by the time this school year ends, it will be an even 40. Schwartz, a lifetime Nappanee resident, was a three-sport Panther athlete, adding volleyball and basketball to the sport she now coaches. As she tells it, she was approached in March 2001 to assist then coach Scott Miller with the girls team. She accepted, sitting in the second chair for two seasons. Following that second season, Miller moved on to the job at Goshen, which elevated her to the top job at NorthWood. That summer, the position of boys’ coach opened up and Schwartz was approached by then-athletic director Jay Olsen about taking on that role as well. “I was very unsure about taking on the boys’ program,” she recalled. “I knew what I was doing with the girls. I knew a lot of them from the previous two years. The boys, I had no clue. I didn’t know how things were going in that program or if they’d respect having a female for a coach. I didn’t want them to walk all over me. I talked to my husband and he said ‘if you feel like you can do it, great, if not, don’tUltimatelytry.’” she made the decision to accept the job and hasn’t looked back in two decades. In fact, in her first season as the boys coach the team won the program’s first sectional championship since 1991. They also won the first round of regionals before being knocked out of the tournament.“We’rea‘no-cut’ program,” she said. “Everyone plays. We do our best to get everyone matches. We’ve had a couple of down years (in terms of numbers), but sometimes those years are the most fun as there were no expectations. We just went out there and had Schwartz’sfun.” tennis resumé isn’t limited to teaching the game. She also remains a student too, competing in a regional travel league as well as a participant in United States Tennis Association tournaments. She said she began in the local leagues many years ago playing team tennis with friends from high school. Throughout the schoolyear months, they travel to cities across northern Indiana to compete against other teams. In USTA competitions, Schwartz plays as part of a team of ladies from the region at the local level, with the hope that success will allow them to advance to the district, state and national levels. Schwartz’s team has made it all the way to the national level twice, including winning nationals in 2011.

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“It’s exciting if we can get to the state level, at which we compete with teams from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana,” she said. “That’s accomplishing something. We get to meet a lot of people from all over who love tennis. It’s fun watching and competing at that level. You gain a lot of experience.” That experience is something she takes back to teach her high school players.

“If I’m going to coach, I have to be able to back up what I’m talking about,” she said. “What I need and what I want them to do doesn’t have any credibility without it — they’re not going to believe what I say. When I get to the point that I can’t play, it may be time to get out of coaching.

“I’m still doing drills, I’m still learning the game. The kids can see my passion is still in it. It’s important that the kids see that when they leave school they can still play the game and get good exercise doing it. Whether they are the No. 1 singles or the last player on the team, tennis is a game they can play the rest of their lives.”

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Dining/Leisure/Entertainment It was 50 years ago — ‘Black and White,’ more than another hit Three Dog Night It

“The world is black, the world is white, “It turns by day and then by“Anight.child is black, a child is white,“The whole world looks upon the sight, “A beautiful sight.” Yes. A beautiful sight indeed.

reach the top of the Billboard charts, the tune itself had been created in 1955 as a way to honor the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision to end segregation in America’s public“Ourschools.ideawas to celebrate the event,” said Earl Robinson, who co-wrote the classic along with David Arkin, the father of actor Alan Arkin. “We had no idea it would reach out as it did eventually.”“Black and White” had been recorded by Pete Seeger in 1956 and Sammy Davis Jr. a year later. But the song languished in the public consciousness until a Jamaican quintet called Greyhound cut a reggae version (a hit only in the UK) in 1971. During a European concert tour, members of America’s Three Dog Night heard the Greyhound offering on a Dutch radio station. Immediately they declared this could be their next hit 45 on Dunhill Records. Most pop music fans were probably unaware that “Black and White” had been created originally from a different point of view. Both the Three Dog Night and Greyhound versions opened with the lines:“The ink is black, the page is “Togetherwhite we learn to read andThewrite.”tune was centered on racial equality, yes, but not as much as the original, which featured a different set of lyrics early in the song: “Their robes were black, their heads were white “The schoolhouse doors were closed so tight “Nine judges all set down their names “To end the years and years of Wasshame.”Robinson discouraged about TDN’s leaving out key lyric elements of his work? Not really. “They condensed the most communicable parts into a single song number,” he answered. “You might call it a more uniﬁed whole.” During their hit-making years, Three Dog Night placed 21 Top 40 singles on the charts, with “Black and White” being the band’s third No. 1 disc, after “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” in 1970 and “Joy to the World” the nextThreeyear.Dog Night had taken their name from an Australian expression for the coldest possible night for sheepherders who snuggled with their dogs to keep warm in the chilly nighttimes. The California-based aggregation featured a trio of lead singers — Danny Hutton (who sang lead on “Black and White”), Chuck Negron and Cory Wells. The group gave exposure to such on-the-rise songwriters as Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, Nilsson and Hoyt Axton. TDN’s “Black and White” arrived near the end of America’s Civil Rights era, and while some of the allimportant original lyrics had been excised, the overall message of the later recording remained strong and clear:

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Christoffel said the Warsaw First United Methodist Church was founded in 1838. The church ﬁrst met in a wooden-framed building. They then built a brick church, which was razed in 1916. The current main campus church building was built in 1916 and has undergone numerous renovations over the years. “We have great pastoral leadership. We have great friends in small groups. As a result, we’ve really deepened our faith,” he said. The church hosts a community soup kitchen every Wednesday. They typically distribute 100 to 200 meals. The church is responsible for one Wednesday every month but offers their facilities to other churches to conduct meals everyTheWednesday.churchalso has community closet donations for people in need. Christoffel said the community closet donation is one of the more visible programs the church offers. The main church campus is located at 179 S. Indiana St., Warsaw. The Connection campus is located at 1692 W. Lake St.,Warsaw. The church hosts a traditional worship service each Sunday at 9 a.m. at their main campus. The church also hosts a contemporary worship service at 11 a.m. each Sunday at their Connection campus.

Ed Christoffel graduated from Pierceton High in 1967. He went on to attend DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago and received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Western Michigan University.Overthe course of his career he worked as a manufacturing engineer, quality engineer, quality manager and manufacturing engineering manager for multiple companies, including Da-Lite Screen, DePuy, Invensys and Controls. He was raised a Presbyterian, but after college quit attending church. After he and his wife, Lu, were married in 1986 they met some friends that were attending Warsaw First United Methodist Church. They started attending there on a regular basis in the early 1990s and have been attending ever since. “When we started going to Warsaw First United Methodist Church, we realized there had to be something else and we had to get a little more church background to enhance our faith,” said Christoffel. “We originally started attending mainly because of our friends but started to build, enhance and expand our faith in God,” he“Wesaid.started off as the people who sat in the back row and then gradually got more involved in small groups making friendships. We started off as greeters. As we grew with the church we became more active. The minister asked if I would serve on the trustee committee, which makes decisions regarding the upkeep and ﬁnances of the physical church building,” he said.

Walmart,”noon.onecellmeshewifeaskedare“Whereyou?”mywhencalledonmyphoneafter-“I’min I errands?”youanswered.“Oh.Arerunning“No,justrunning … or jogging, to be more precise. Running in the aisles is not permitted. I just heard a mother say that to her kid.” “Why are you doing that in Walmart?”Atthetime, I was not in the mood for a lengthy explanation, but here’s the gist of it. It was 92 degrees outside— far too hot to exercise. I had considered going to Costco, but I forgot to bring my membership card and there are too many stations along the aisles to sample food, which kind of defeats the point of exercising. “Are you doing any shopping at all?” Mary Ellen asked. “Oh, yes, over my right arm I have three T-shirts and I bought some hangers for my closet, which are in my left hand. I hadn’t planned on buying anything, which is why I didn’t take a cart. And this way I can go faster, although increasing my speed makes me look like a shoplifter.” I ﬁgured out that going a full lap around the store’s perimeter is close to 1,000 steps, or about a half mile, but going up and down each aisle, I could easily log a full mile. After a while, I stopped to rest, because I was breathing heavily. I realized I shouldn’t have taken my break in the lingerie department when I saw moms whisking their kids as far away from me as possible.My jog was enjoyable. I began in produce and trotted through the meat department where they had a good deal on ground turkey. I took a trip through the pharmacy. Then I zoomed through electronics, sped past tire and auto and toddled by the toy department. I picked up speed in the candy section to avoid temptation. I muscled my way through sporting goods and when I got to the cat food shelves, people were in the aisle sharing Instagram photos of their kitties. I slinked my way around them. After I circled the store three times, a security guard came up to me. “What are you up to, sir?”“About four miles an hour,” I bragged. Didn’t even get a smile from him. This reminded me of a time at the old L. S. Ayres when I bought a dinner jacket for a cruise my wife and I were planning. The clerk forgot to remove the security lock from the garment. When I left the store, the alarms went crazy. “Where do you think you are going with that coat?” asked a security“Alaska,”guard.Itold him. Apparently, my comeback wasn’t funny then, either. Maybe it was the same guard. Toward the end of my workout, I overheard several of the employees on the sales ﬂoor talking about me. I considered hiding in a dressing room, but I wanted to reach my 15,000 steps and I am not good at running in Whenplace.Igot to the checkout counter, the cashier said I owed $26.50, but my T-shirts and hangers should have only amounted to $22.00. “What’s the additional charge?” I asked the“Mileage,”cashier. she told me.

Christoffel currently serves as chairman of the trustee committee.“The trustee committee chairman typically deals with small things, do-ityourself stuff,” he said. He also serves on the operations team and strategic planning committee, which are involved in the future direction of the church. The operations team focuses on different missions objectives in the community. They are focused on using their resources to ﬁgure out how the church can best serve the community at large. The church offers alcohol and drug abuse recovery groups. They also offer child care services. The strategic planning committee focuses on where they want to be as a church ﬁve to 10 years into the future. One of the goals is to make sure the church is viable for the future. The strategic planning committee is very community outreach focused.

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Nightshades: Good, bad or something in-between

Nightshades are all nutrientdense foods, contributing many health benefits through their vitamin, mineral, fiber and antioxidant content and are a staple in diets throughout the world.However, if you experience inflammatory bowel disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis, joint pain or other autoimmune diseases you may find that nightshades increase the inflammation; they do not cause inflammation, but may increase inflammation already there. About the only method used to see if you are sensitive to nightshades is to eliminate them entirely from your diet for a month. During that month it is important to journal how you feel at the start of the month, such as sleeping pattern, congestion, headaches, digestive discomfort, joint pain, head fog and bowel issues. After a month reintroduce one food item and continue journaling any negative changes. After a couple of weeks, introduce another item. If you see any symptom returning, back down to having that food only once per week to see if that abates the symptoms. It is truly cause and effect here and everyone is different. Some people find they are in better health eliminating all nightshades and others find they can tolerate them in occasional doses. While you’re at it, corn and wheat are two nonnightshades that you may try eliminating to see if they affect you negatively.

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First off, what is a nightshade? A nightshade is a fruit or vegetable that contains the alkaloid solanine, which is produced naturally as an insecticide while the plant is growing. Most of the alkaloid is contained in the stem and leaves of the plant, but the edible portion will contain a lesser amount. The ﬁrst three items in the list of nightshades are botanically fruits, not vegetables: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, tomatillos, chilies and paprika.Allthe above also contain a bit of nicotine, so it’s no surprise the tobacco plant is also a nightshade. Green bell peppers seem to contain the most solanine of the foods listed.

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Also, each ocean use required cleansing afterward with fresh water. The American government drove the ﬁnal nail into the Amphicar cofﬁn. In 1968, the establishment of the EPA brought emissions and safety regulations that the little oddball auto/boat simply couldn’t meet. But not all Amphicars ended up on the scrapheap. About 600 still exist, and some of those — now restored and brought up to required standards — can be rented at such vacation destinations as Disney Springs in Orlando, Fla., and Branson Landing in Missouri. In Ohio, there’s an International Amphicar Owners Club, which boasts about 400Today,members.toown a restored one will set you back about $100,000.Bytheway, that Texas prankster who got a chuckle out of frightening his unsuspecting visitors? That was none other than Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States. 1-866-580-1138 EXT. 2362

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high-speedhisvisitorsfirst-timetoofvoriteandcalbeknownwastoapracti-joker,onefa-trickhiswasstartletoranch.Duringa tour of the vast grounds in his sporty (but somewhat odd-looking) convertible, he would sometimes end up zooming toward his private lake, suddenly shouting that his brakes weren’t working. The prankster then hurtled down a ramp and splashed into the lake. But instead of sinking, the car slowed and — huh? — became a leisurely moving boat.The aghast visitors had been riding in an Amphicar. It was conceived during World War II as a Nazi military vessel called the Volkswagen Schwimmwagen. Later, the Amphicar (a blending of “amphibious” and “car”) became a civilian novelty as a vehicle that saw use both on the highway and in the water. It featured a body length of 15.5 feet and a weight of 1,738 pounds. Manufactured in West Germany from 1961 to 1968, it cost the equivalent of a new Jaguar E-Type with its price tag of $2,800. Fewer than 4,000 rearengine Amphicars rolled off the assembly line, and to this day they remain the only amphibious passenger conveyances to be mass produced. Each 43-horsepower machine was a convertible and was available in four basic colors — white, red, blue or green. Ninety percent of the buyers were American. Initially there was a rush of interest and excitement for it. Newly established dealers proclaimed the Amphicar a must-have pleasure item. Modern Mechanix magazine enthused that “it does everything but fly!” The New Yorker and Newsday ran photos and features on it. The Amphicar was even offered as a specialty vehicle for Red Cross emergency rescueAsservices.the‘60s drew to a close, the novelty of the craft began to wear thin. For one thing, the marketing concept had always been unclear. (Was it a car or was it a boat?) But other issues also muddied the sales waters. The craft proved to be a high-maintenance item; after every five hours in the water, the Amphicar’s engine needed to be greased — a laborious task that involved lifting the entire vehicle and removing the rear seats.

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Elkhart Symphony unveils 75th anniversary lineup

• Feb. 5: Elkhart County Symphony Legends, a concert featuring the Concord High School Orchestra and guest soloist Betsy Jaffee.

• May 14: “Music of our Home, Elkhart County,” a concert featuring Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 and guest artist singer-songwriter Abbie Thomas.Individual concert tickets also are now on sale at thelerner.com.TheLerner Theatre is located at 410 S. Main St., Elkhart.

This fall, the Elkhart County Symphony celebrates 75 years of making music with a season featuring collaborations with community artists, a concert of selections from the symphony’s first-ever public performance and Beethoven’s timeless Symphony No. 9. The symphony is offering five tickets for the price of four with their season ticket package for the upcoming 2022-23 Diamond Jubilee concerts. Season tickets are now on sale. Packages for the five-performance season range from $40 for students to $120 for mezzanine seating, with the discounted pricing that offers five tickets for the price of four at every Ticketslevel.may be purchased online or by calling The Lerner Theatre box office at (574) 293-4469.“Thesymphony’s 75th-anniversary season includes music that celebrates our history and our future,” said Co-executive Director John Hill. “We have collaborative guest artists that span different genres, and we are performing at Wellfield Botanic Gardens and Goshen College to celebrate our connection to our county. We are thrilled to mix both old and new with our Diamond Jubilee season!”TheGoshen College Choirs, Camerata Singers, the regional professional choir and the stylings of singer-songwriter Abbie Thomas, also of Goshen, will be among the symphony’s musical collaborators over the course of the season. The symphony kicks off the Diamond Jubilee season at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at Wellfield Botanic Gardens with Broadway in the Gardens and the return of guest soloist Brian Major, baritone. Other season highlights include:•Nov. 20: “Ode to Joy,” Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, a concert at Sauder Hall with the Goshen College Choirs and Camerata Singers.

• March 26: 75th Diamond Jubilee Celebration, a concert featuring works performed at the ﬁrst-ever symphony concert in 1948.

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Elkhart — The day a hospital died

Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a two-part series. I was always proud to tell people that I was born in Elkhart: Teddy Roosevelt’s birthday as a matter of fact. Call me a bit bitter, and ashamed of the city of my birth, but I no longer have any desire to associate myself with the possible misnomer: “City With a Heart.”ManyElkhart buildings that have met their doom were built with the bricks that were made by my family ancestors. Many buildings were occupied by businesses owned by my family ancestors. Shall the finger of shame be pointed at the city officials and profit-making developers who have possibly made little effort to save a part of the history of their own city? There was a time in the late 1800s when Elkhart had no hospital. The sick were treated in the back rooms of doctors, or worse cases in their own homes or those of relatives. Terminal patients usually died at home as there were no hospitals in the city. A group of wise citizens decided it was time to build a hospital due to the increasing population of the city. In 1899, Clark Homeopathic Hospital opened at 123 North Clark St. It’s presumed that both the hospital and street were named in honor of Miss Hannah Clark, a major benefactor of funds necessary for the building of the new hospital. Fast forward to 1912 when this precious hospital and building was sold for $3,315 to fund the building of Elkhart General Hospital. The buyer is currently unknown to this writer. In part two, we shall learn more of the demise of the “mother,” if you will, of Elkhart General Hospital in the holy name of progress and destruction of Elkhart’s history. Any information welcome to: Dr. Greg Lawson, 1801 E. 3rd St., Mishawaka, IN 46544.

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Riley Boyhood Home worth drive to Greenfield 200alongdrivingWhentheblock of Main Street (U.S. 40) atnotglance,whitefrontasittinguponyou’llGreenfield,incomeamanonbenchinofahouse.Onsecondit’samanall.It’sactually a life-size statue of famed Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley sitting in front of his boyhood home. Stop and get a selfie on the bench with him, read the historical marker and go inside the museum next door and sign up to tour the house. The Rileys moved to Greenfield from Uniontown and lived in a log cabin on the property while his dad, Reuben, constructed the present house between 1850 and 1853. The house is a testament to his craftsmanship. The circular staircase is an outstanding example of his skill. In addition, he made most of the furniture, was a Union officer during the Civil War and operated a law office out of his house for 10 years until it became overcrowded with their sixth child. James, their third, was born Oct. 7, 1849. He was named after Indiana Governor James Whitcomb, whom his father became friends with while serving in the House of Representatives. His birth date is occasion for a festival every year during the first weekend of October. Theme for the 2022 event is “Little Orphant Annie,” which was one of his poems. His father always harped on having a skill and warned him that he’d not be able to make a living with words. Riley tried working in a shoe store, selling Bibles, sign painting and even spent a couple of years selling snake oil for a traveling medicineHisshow.mother home-schooled the children and encouraged him to follow the arts. She taught him to play piano and organ and he picked up the banjo, lute, guitar, hammered dulcimer and violin on his own. He wanted to be a violinist, but after catching his thumb in a door he was never able to hold the bow properly. Riley organized and played in the Adelphian Band. Poetry, however, was his true love. He formulated his own brand of down-home dialect to infuse life into the characters in his poems. “Little Orphant Annie,” “The Raggedy Man” and “Out to Old Aunt Mary’s” were about real people. “When the Frost is on the Punkin” and “The Old Swimming Hole” poems focused on simpler times and country living. He began his road to fame by submitting poems to newspapers, and after receiving an endorsement from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow he worked at several newspapers in the late 1870s. He took his poems to the public via reading tours throughout the Midwest and later across the country. By the 1890s he was a bestselling author with an illustrated children’s book entitled “Rhymes of Childhood.” It became extremely popular, sold millions of copies and made Continued on page 19 574.220.8032 Island June 12-26, 2023 4 nights, 22-24, the Martha’s Vineyard 8-14, 2023 6 nights, 10 MuOuter Cape including ProvincHyannis Martha’s

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The Friends of the Lerner has announced Three Dog Night will come to Elkhart at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. Tickets are now on sale. Legendary band Three Dog Night, now in its ﬁfth decade, claims some of the most astonishing statistics in popular music. In the years 1969 through 1974, no other group achieved more top-10 hits, moved more records or sold more concert tickets than Three Dog Night. Three Dog Night hits weave through the fabric of pop culture today, whether on the radio where they are heard day in and day out, in TV commercials or in major motion pictures, songs like “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” “Joy to the World,” “Black and White,” “Shambala” and “One” serve to heighten our emotions and crystallize Three Dog Night’s continuing popularity.

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This Grammy-nominated band is not content resting on its legacy alone. Always working to expand its audience, Three Dog Night has embraced and been embraced by 21st century music technology. New and existing fans buy Three Dog Night’s music on iTunes as well as at record stores. In fact, releases from this decade alone have sold well over a million copies.Formore information on Three Dog Night and the Live in Concert Tour, visit threedognight.com.Ticketsrange from $39-$89 and are available at thelerner. com, or by calling the Lerner box ofﬁce a (574) 293-4469. The Lerner Theatre is located at 410 S. Main St. Elkhart.

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• Disenroll and return to Original Medicare. If you do so, you can also join a Part D prescription drug plan. One of the best tools that can help you during the Medicare Open Enrollment is the Medicare Planfinder at medicare.gov/find-a-plan. It takes you step by step through available Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans while taking your prescription drug costs into consideration.Youdonotneed to register with the website to use it; however, you can safely enter your Medicare number in the tool to view your own current plan enrollment information and specific plan costs. This can help you compare plans and their costs specific to you.

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Riley a wealthy man. Riley made a promise to his mother after the family home was lost to taxes in 1870 that he would someday buy the house back. He did just that in 1893 and visited often from Indianapolis where he lived. The house is open April through October. Adult tours are $4 and seniors, $3.50. Take I-69 to Exit 222 (SR 9) and follow it into Greenﬁeld. U.S. 40 (Main Street) goes right past the Riley Boyhood home on the north side of the street. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call (317) 462-8539 or visit at rileymuseumhome.org.

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• Change from one Part D prescription drug plan to another.Anychanges you make will go into effect Jan. 1 of the next year.There is also a Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period from Jan. 1 to March 31 each year. During these three months, you can: • Switch to another Medicare Advantage plan (with or without drug coverage).

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Poking into the past: the man who would be Bond

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Fleming was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from her ﬁrst husband because of her affair with the 007 author. They had one son, Caspar.Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life and succumbed to heart disease in 1964 at the rather young age of 56. Two of his Bond books were published posthumously; other novelists have since produced Bond novels. Fleming’s creation has appeared in ﬁlm 26 times and has been portrayed by seven different actors.

The renowned fictional British spy, James Bond, is the creation of a former Royal Navy intelligence officer named Ian Fleming, who applied his imagination and creativity to plan and coordinate clandestine operations during World War II. The inscrutable and indestructible Bond introduced himself to the world in “Casino Royale,” the 1952 novel that launched Fleming from the secretive world of spies to the wide open world of literary lions. The popularity of his first novel required three printings to satisfy reader demand.Eleven Bond novels and two short story collections followed between 1953 and 1966. Bond’s exploits revolved around the author’s experiences in the British Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI-6. Fleming was assigned ID code number “007,” and given the rank of a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the popular children’s story “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” for his son. In 2008, The London Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.” Born May 28, 1908, into a wealthy family, Fleming joined the service in 1939. He was used frequently as a liaison with other sections of the British government’s wartime administration and was noted for his clever ideas in espionage. Fleming devised a number of schemes to be considered for use against the Axis powers to lure German U-boats and surface ships towards mine fields. The most notable of his ideas was to plant misleading papers on a corpse that would be found by the enemy. This suggestion was put to use in 1943 to conceal a fake invasion plan. Fleming’s recommendation called for dressing a corpse in an RAF uniform with an attaché briefcase chained to the wrist containing phony invasion plans and setting it adrift by a submarine of the southern coast of Spain. It worked. The body and fake information in the briefcase were turned over to the Germans.After the war, a book was written and the story turned into a movie, “The Man Who Never Was.” starring Clifton Webb.Fleming also worked with U.S. General “Wild Bill” Donovan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s special representative on intelligence co-operation between London and ofadvancediscoverieskillers.trainedMembersoperationsselectediningters.previouslyseizebeintelligenceCommandos.knownaSpaineventintelligenceEye,”chargecameServicesintotheCoordinatorblueprintwheretraveledInWashington.May,1941,FlemingtotheUnitedStatesheassistedinwritingafortheOfficeoftheofInformation,departmentthatturnedtheOfficeofStrategicandeventuallybe-theCIA.In1941-42,Flemingwasinof“OperationGoldenaplantomaintainanframeworkintheofaGermantakeoverofandPortugal.In1942,Flemingformedbehind-the-linesgroupasAssaultUnitNo.30Thespecialistunit’sjobwastonearthebattlefieldfronttoenemydocumentsfromtargetedheadquar-Muchtohischagrin,Flem-didnotpersonallyfightthefieldwithhisunit,buttargetsanddirectedfromLondon.oftheunitweretobehighlyskilledTheunit’smostnotablecameduringtheontheGermanportKiel,inaresearchcenter for German engines used in the V-2 rocket, Messerschmitt Me 163 jet fighters and highspeed U-boats. Fleming would later use elements of these discoveries by his unit in his 1955 Bond novel, “Moonraker.”Also in 1942, Fleming attended an Anglo-American intelligence summit in Jamaica and, despite the constant heavy rain during his visit, he decided to live on the island once the war was over. He dubbed his Jamaican house “Golden Eye” and it is where he wrote most of his Bond novels.