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Page 4 • The News-Banner • WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 Telephone Number 260-824-0224 The ‘infrastructure capital of America’? So Gov. Mitch Daniels thinks that Indiana is the “Infrastructure Capital of America.” Somehow I suspect that our seven county council members – six of whom are from the same party as Gov. Daniels – may have a different word for it Thursday morning. They’ll be sitting down then to try and figure out where in the heck Wells County is going to find $7 million to THE NEWS-BANNER (USPS 059-200) Evening News est. 1892 • Evening Banner est. 1899 • Consolidated 1929 George B. Witwer, Chairman of the Board Mark F. Miller, President, Publisher and Editor Dianne Witwer, Secretary/Treasurer Periodicals Postage Paid at Bluffton, IN. Published every afternoon except Sundays and Holidays at 125 N. Johnson Street, Bluffton, IN. 46714, Post Office Box 436. 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AUTOMATIC PAYMENT OPTIONS AVAILABLE Have your subscription paid by automatic transfer from your checking account or automatic charge to your credit card. Ask about our Eazy-Pay Plan - you’ll enjoy the lowest subscription rates available. Call 260-824-0224 to sign up. Opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily represent the views of this newspaper. Frank Shanly fix the county’s bridges. I was in Markle last Wednesday evening, and perhaps that was just as well, as I might have felt the need to take issue with Gov. Daniels over this at the Wells County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner in Zanesville – ironically Weekly Word only a few miles away from one of the bridges currently causing our elected officials the biggest headaches. Our commissioners and county council members have “chosen” – in effect, they had little other option – to use County Economic Development Income Tax revenues to cover the cost of urgent repairs to Bridge 206, just southwest of Zanesville on Marzane Road. Spending CEDIT money on roads and bridges may be something our Chamber of Commerce people don’t like, but we’re not going to get much new business coming into the county if our infrastructure isn’t up to scratch. (And a significant number of trucks do use Bridge 206.) Federal grants have helped the county replace two bridges in recent years — one on 400W just south of Ind. 124, and also the bridge on 900S over the Salamonie River. But “federal” aid comes from Washington, not Indianapolis. Perhaps Gov. Daniels didn’t pass by Bridge 206 on his ride into town, or any of the semis that have been diverted through the Town of Zanesville – which has had trouble of its own with town roads in recent years, which in turn is part of the reason why they created an ordinance to keep semis out of town. (They have temporarily “put aside” their ordinance to help provide a routing solution while the bridge is being repaired.) Perhaps no one informed Gov. Daniels of the problems Wells County is facing. But as the problem is not unique to here, surely he should have heard about it from someone by now. Media coverage of the recent commissioners primaries in Noble County indicated they are also having some pretty serious infrastructure issues. Then, of course, we have ditches and drainage, which again, surely is part of infrastructure. McKinney Ditch is only the tip of the iceberg here. It seems to be something of a very open secret that in most cases, if the health department tested a ditch anywhere in the state, they would find levels of e. coli much higher than federal “allowable” limits. The only question is: “By how much?” And nobody — state, county or individual — seems to have the money to address these problems either. Leaving residents to sit on a potential health timebomb doesn’t exactly seem to me to be ideal management of infrastructure. Perhaps it was just as well I was in Markle, and not Zanesville, last Wednesday! frank@news-banner.com The NEW News-Banner On-line Forum You can comment directly after stories and opinions on our website and you can be a part of daily conversation on our Facebook page. Go to www.news-banner. com or www.facebook.com/newsbanner and join the conversation. Who’s Who A continuing series on how to contact government officials LIBERTY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE: Diane K. Rockwell (R), 0056 W. First St., Poneto, IN 46781. Office— 2954 W. Market St., Liberty Center (Liberty Center fire station), 694-6300. TOWNSHIP BOARD: Richard Borror (R), 2479W 300S, Liberty Center 46766; Trenton Markley (R), 4321W-100S, Liberty Center 46766; Scott Minniear, 2521W-300S, Liberty Center, IN 46766. ROCKCREEK TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE: Phylian Keefer (D), 5635N 500W, P.O. Box 311, Markle, IN 46770; phone 758-2080. TOWNSHIP BOARD: Lindsay J. Burnau (R), 2579W-525N, Uniondale, IN 46791; John Legge (R), 170 Conifer St., Markle, IN 46770; Arlene Gordon (R), 3194W-100N, Bluffton, IN 46714. UNION TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE: Brian D. Imel (R), 8313N 600W-90, Markle, IN 46770; phone 758-2426. TOWNSHIP BOARD: Kedric L. Bailey (R), 3475W-1000N- 90, Markle, IN 46770; John M. Walmsley (R), 11941 E. Smuts Dr., P.O. Box 104, Zanesville, IN 46799; Robert Caley (R), 7756N Marzane Road-90, Markle, IN 46770. JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE: Richard McCoy (R) 802 N. Jefferson St., Ossian, IN 46777; phone 622-6010. TOWNSHIP BOARD: Lloyd W. Meyer (R), 5643E-800N, Ossian, IN 46777; C. Dan Rupright (R), 706 N. Jefferson St., Ossian, IN 46777; Tim Baker (R), 2142E-800N, Ossian, IN 46777. Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 144th day of 2012. There are 222 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 23, 1937, industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, died in Ormond Mitt Romney, vampire? Mitt Romney went into the wrong line of work. If only he had been a lecturer in constitutional law, he wouldn’t have a business record vulnerable to distortion by a desperate incumbent president. Barack Obama’s hands, in contrast, are clean. He taught at the University of Chicago Law School and didn’t make the mistake of attempting to start, acquire or turn around companies. He has no business failures because he has no business successes -- if you don’t count selling books about himself to the adoring multitudes. The president’s re-election campaign is out with a scorching advertisement hitting Romney for one of Bain Capital’s flops, a steel firm that it bought and that eventually went under. This is an instance, according to one of the former steelworkers appearing in the ad, of “vampire” capitalism. The nefarious Romney swooped down on the thriving company and drained it of its life force. If it were a businessschool case study, it could have been authored by Bram Stoker. Or so we’re told. GS Industries is hardly the morality tale the Obama re-election campaign makes of it. Bain Capital didn’t acquire the company to drive it into the ground for fun and profit. Bain wanted to make it work -- despite its outdated equipment, union strife and punishing competition, foreign and domestic. Bain failed, but not for lack of trying over the course of seven years. Soon after Bain acquired it in 1993, the steel company announced a $98 million plant modernization and merged with another firm to form, in the words of a Reuters report, “one of the largest mini-mill steel producers in the U.S.” This is a funny way to go about deliberately destroying a company. Bain loaded the firm up with debt and took out a dividend, but it reinvested part of the dividend in the operation. It reportedly spurned a potential offer to buy the firm around the end of 1997. All the effort went for naught. The management proved incompetent. Cheap imports undercut prices. And the firm was unionized, a factor common to In this election, we’re not having an argument that pits capitalism against socialism. We are trying to decide what kind of capitalism we want. It is a debate as American as Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay -- which is to say that we have always done this. In light of the rise of inequality and the financial mess we just went through, it’s a discussion we very much need to have now. The back-and-forth about Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s old company, is part of something larger. So is the inquest into the implications of multibillion-dollar trading losses at JPMorgan Chase. Capitalism can produce wonders. It is also capable of self-destruction, and it can leave a lot of wounded people behind. The trick is to get the most out of what capitalism does well, while containing or preventing the problems it can cause. To describe this grand debate is not to deny that President Obama’s campaign has some, shall we say, narrower motives in going after Bain. Obama’s lieutenants need to undermine Romney’s claim that his experience in the private equity business makes him just the guy to get our economy back on track. The Bain conversation has already been instructive. Romney’s friends no less than his foes have had to face the fact that Bain’s purpose was never about job-creation. Its goal was to generate large returns to Bain’s partners and investors. It did that, which is why Romney is rich. Romney wants to focus on the Beach, Fla., at age 97. On this date: In 1430, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English. In 1533, the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void. In 1701, William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy steel companies that couldn’t survive the new low-cost environment. GS went bankrupt in 2001 (two years after Romney left Bain, as it happens). It was a messy affair, with the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. picking up the pieces from the company’s underfunded pension. Its experience wasn’t unusual, alas. Dozens of steel companies died in the same period, including the iconic Bethlehem Steel. If the workers at GS had never heard the name Mitt Romney, there is still a good chance they would have been out of jobs. Employment in the steel industry has undergone a historic contraction. From 1980 to the beginning of the new century, the steel industry in the United States lost more than half its workers. Japan and Germany also experienced declines in employment, as advances in productivity made it possible to produce more with fewer people. Far from causing this trend, Bain was trying to find a way to ride it out. Where it failed with GS, it succeeded with Steel Dynamics. In the mid-1990s, Bain invested in and raised capital for the technologically innovative mini-mill that became one of the largest U.S. steel companies. It eventually sold its stake in 1999, making a massive return for its investors while Steel Dynamics is now generating $6 billion in revenue and employing more than 6,000 people. If this were a government-subsidized green-energy project rather than the inspired work of imaginative executives and sharp-eyed financiers, President Obama would have already given a celebratory speech at its plant. Even if the Obama account of GS were fair (it’s not), it’s dishonest to discuss it without connecting it to Steel Dynamics and the larger context of private equity’s role in American capitalism’s creative churn. Cheap and unworthy, all that can be said for the attack on Bain is that it meets the standards of the Obama re-election campaign. comments.lowry@nationalreview.com A choice of capitalisms E.J. Dionne positive side of his business dealings that did create jobs. He wants to brag about the companies Bain helped bring to life, among them Staples, Sports Authority and Domino’s. That’s fair enough. But having made an issue of Bain on the plus side, he also has to answer for the pain and suffering -- or, as defenders of capitalism like to call it, the “creative destruction” -- that some of Bain’s deals left in their wake. This leads naturally to the question of how creative the destruction wrought by our current brand of capitalism actually is. Since the dawn of the leveraged buyout era three decades ago, many friends of capitalism have questioned whether loading companies with debt as part of these deals is good for companies and for the economy as a whole. Does this approach cause unnecessary suffering among the employees of the companies in question and the communities that often lose plants and jobs as a result? Sucking pension and health funds dry to aggrandize investors seems less like a creative act than a betrayal of workers who made bargains with their employers in good faith. More generally, while some of the innovations in the financial sphere have been beneficial to growth, it’s far from clear that this is true of all or even most of them. Some of them helped cause the downturn we are still trying to escape and created incentives for the dangerous risk-tak- and murder. In 1788, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1873, Canada’s Parliament voted to establish the North West Mounted Police force. In 1911, the newly completed New York Public Library was dedicated by President William Howard OPINION Rich Lowry ing that led to JPMorgan’s troubles. And there’s little doubt that our new financial system has transferred wealth from other sectors of the economy to the people at the top of the financial business. Vice President Joe Biden’s speech last week in Youngstown, Ohio, drew wide attention for its criticism of Romney as someone who just doesn’t “get it.” But when Biden moved beyond Romney, he offered an energetic broadside against the new world of finance, and he picked the right venue to make his case: a noble bluecollar town that has been battered by the winds of globalization and economic change. “You know the difference between having an economy that makes things that the rest of the world wants, and having an economy that is based on financialization of every product,” Biden told his listeners. “You know the difference between an economy ... that’s built on making things rather than on collateralized debt, creative credit-default swaps, financial instruments like subprime mortgages. That’s not how you build an economy.” Romney, by contrast, is wary of dismantling any of these nifty new Wall Street inventions, one reason why he wants to repeal the Dodd- Frank financial reforms. We need to have this great national argument. To borrow a term pioneered by Germany’s Christian Democrats, we can try to build a social market. Or we can have an anti-social market. An election is the right venue for deciding which it will be. ejdionne@washpost.com Taft, Gov. John Alden Dix and Mayor William Jay Gaynor. In 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
LIFESTYLES Focus on Seniors Wells Co. Council on Aging 225 W. Water St., Bluffton 260-824-1070 Office Hours Monday through Friday are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 2008 2012 Senior Discount Cards are now available. They can be purchased at the Wells County Council on Aging located at 225 W. Water Street, Bluffton. Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The cards are for people age 55 and older. They are not transferable to anyone other than the card holder. Cost is $7 each or $8 laminated. If it is not convenient to go to the Council on Aging office, card can be purchased through the mail. Send the agency a stamped, self-addressed legal sized envelope; enclosed $7 per card and the additional $1 fee if lamination is desired. The discount card and list of over 100 sponsors will then be mailed to you. Call Margaret Whitesel at 824-1070 for more details. Wells on Wheels (WOW) Hours of operation are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesdays from 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Call 824-4WOW or 824-4969. Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. — Nutrition Program at Capri II Sponsored by Aging & In-Home Services of NE Indiana. Those age 60 and over are free will donation. Under age 60 meals are $5.25. Menus available at Council on Aging. Contact the Nutrition Site 24 hours in advance between 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 824-2260. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.— Pathways, Wells County Senior Citizen Activities Guide may be picked up at the Wells County Council on Aging, 225 W. Water Street. Thursday, May 24 9-11 a.m.—Senior Social Time at the Boys and Girls Club every Tuesday and Thursday. $1 fee per visit will be asked to cover expenses. Activities offered are pool, ping pong, Wii, Play Station, Kinect, cards, board games and puzzles. The gym will be open for walking and shooting hoops. Friday, May 25 1-4:30 p.m.—Pool: 8 Ball at Christian Care Retirement Community. Participation is free. Call Marcia Meyer at 565-3000. 1-4:30 p.m.—Cards: All kinds at Christian Care Retirement Community. Participation is free. Call Marcia Meyer at 565-3000. Monday, May 28 OFFICE CLOSED in observance of Memorial Day. Tuesday, May 29 9-11 a.m.—Senior Social Time at the Boys and Girls Club every Tuesday and Thursday. $1 fee per visit will be asked to cover expenses. Activities offered are pool, ping pong, Wii, Play Station, Kinect, cards, board games and puzzles. The gym will be open for walking and shooting hoops. Thursday, May 31 9-11 a.m.—Senior Social Time at the Boys and Girls Club every Tuesday and Thursday. $1 fee per visit will be asked to cover expenses. Activities offered are pool, ping pong, Wii, Play Station, Kinect, cards, board games and puzzles. The gym will be open for walking and shooting hoops. Golden Gourmet Menu Thursday, May 24 Sliced turkey w/gravy, broccoli, whipped sweet potatoes, cranberry pear crisp, wheat bread, milk. Friday, May 25 Chicken nuggets, egg noodles w/gravy, oriental vegetables, corn, cookie, milk. Monday, May 28 Office & sites closed Country ham & beans, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, diced peaches, corn bread, milk. Tuesday, May 29 Lemon pepper chicken, asparagus, roasted potatoes, bread pudding, multi grain bread, milk. Wednesday, May 30 Beef & cabbage stew, apple & fruit medley, corn, dinner roll, milk. All menus are subject to change without prior notice. Meals can be delivered to seniors, disabled and the homebound by calling 1-800-552-3662. What’s Up! Coloring contest begins June 1 The Summer Coloring Contest will begin June 1 for children ages 12 and under. A boy and girl will be drawn to win a special prize. Participants should finish coloring by June 30 and return it to the Park Office at 128 East Market Street. Download the coloring page from the website at t www. blufftonindiana.net or pick one up at City Hall. Maennerchor/Damenchor concert and dinner at Germanfest June 3 The Maennerchor/Damenchor concert will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 3 at Park Edelweiss, located at 3355 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. The concert is free. The dinner is $10 per person. For more information call Carol at (260) 459-2225. There will be authentic German folk music and an evening of great food including Rolladen, Red Cabbage, Beans, Kartoffeln, and desserts, German style beverages, entertainment and gemutlichkeit. Admission is free. argeting “Evolving” eens “President Obama has drawn a major line in the sand, saying he now supports gay marriage. In an exclusive interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America’s” Robin Roberts on Wednesday, Obama made history saying, ‘I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.’ By Kelly McAvoy Just eight years ago, the president said in a U.S. Senate campaign speech that he believed as a Christian that marriage was between a man and a woman. In 2010, he hinted that his position was “evolving.” But on Wednesday, he not only reversed his 2004 position, he used his faith to defend it. He explained that he and first lady Michelle Obama had talked together about the issue. ‘We are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others,’ he said. ‘But, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated.’ The president’s spiritual adviser, Florida evangelical pastor Joel Hunter, told the Associated Press that the president called him before the ABC interview. Hunter said he told the president that he disagreed with the decision and told him he interprets Scripture differently. Other faith leaders are also speaking out against the president. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Obama’s remarks ‘undermine the institution of marriage, the very cornerstone of our society…’” -“Obama: Faith Informs ‘Evolved’ Gay Marriage View” by Heather Sells, CBN News Reporter **To read the rest of the article, go to http://www.cbn. com/cbnnews/politics/2012/May/Obama-Faith-Informs- Evolved-Gay-Marriage-View/ Have something to say on the topic? For or against gay marriage? Can you support it Biblically? Email me on why you think President Obama has changed his mind, as well as what this means for our country. kellycmcavoy@gmail.com Ouabache State Park Property Manager: Scott Crossley Assistant Mgr.: Mike Miller Director UWIS: Marvin McNew Interpretive Naturalist: Jennifer Amstutz Office Phone: 824-0926 4930 E. SR 201, Bluffton Parents and children are encouraged to attend Ouabache’s interpretive programs together. Children under age 10 must bring an adult. In case of inclement weather, all hikes will meet at the Campview Shelter. Schedule subject to change. Programs provided by the Upper Wabash Interpretive Services (UWIS), www.dnr.IN.gov/ uwis, 260-468-2127. FRIDAY, MAY 25 Evening — Roving Interpreter. Be on the lookout for your interpretive naturalist, Jennifer, at the main gate, campground control station, and campground. Find out what she’s carrying and ask about weekend events. SATURDAY, MAY 26 3 p.m. — Bison Hike. Come to the main parking lot at the bison pen to see what changes are taking place here! Wear old shoes to hike by the pen and hear about the improvements going on. Learn about bison behavior and see the bison come to eat at the second feeding shed. 7 p.m. — Hoosier Quest. Discover! Connect! Explore! Learn more about these great project based programs that you can complete at any of the state parks and reservoirs during this 30-minute program. Find out how you can earn certificates patches, bandanas and more. Get started by meeting at the campview shelter located in the middle of Campground A. 8:30 p.m. — Nature at Night. Experience nature at night while on a hike! No flashlights or shoes that light up, please. Bug spray and tennis shoes recommended. Meet at the bison pen shelter. SUNDAY, MAY 27 1 p.m. — Exploring Nature Hike. What interesting things will we discover on the trail? Meet at the bison pen shelter for a short one mile hike. Bug spray, sunscreen, and tennis shoes highly recommended! 7 p.m. — Creature Feature. Check out what creature interpretive naturalist Jennifer has with her today at the campview shelter. 7:30 p.m. — Nature Bingo. Come play a few rounds of bingo with a nature-inspired theme! Campview shelter located in the middle of Campground A. MONDAY, MAY 28 9:30 a.m. — Beginning Birding Basics. Learn about one of the fastest growing hobbies in America. Discover tips and tricks for beginners. Campview shelter. 10:30 a.m. — Sensory Scavenger Hunt. Go on a search using sight, sound, touch, and smell. Can you find everything on your list? Join us at the back patio of the campview shelter in the middle of Campground A. UPCOMING JUNE SPECIAL EVENTS Saturday, June 2 — Fishing Derby. Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3 — Living History on the Ouabache. June 19-21 — Persistent Pioneers Day Camp. Thursday, June 28 — Fort Wayne Philharmonic Patriotic Pops Concert. Meghan Prible and Logan Slusher to marry July 7, 2012 Meghan M. Prible of Keystone and Logan J. Slusher of Montpelier will marry during a 4:30 p.m. ceremony July 7, 2012 at First United Methodist Church in Bluffton. Parents of the couple are Jeff and Karen Prible of Keystone and Travis and Debbie Slusher of Adel, Iowa. Miss Prible is a 2009 graduate of Southern Wells High School. She is currently attending St. Francis University where she is a member of the USF Women’s Basketball Team. Her fiancé is a 2009 graduate of Earlham High School. He earned a degree in Agriculture Business and Saturday, Saturday, May 26, May 2012 • 9 8, AM 2010 - 3 PM WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 • The News-Banner • Page 5 Career Day held at Bluffton Elementary School Tim Cooley, an athletic trainer employed by Indiana Physical Therapy, taped Tanner Cooley’s ankle as part of his speech to fourth grade students on Career Day May 9. Several speakers took part during the day as students learned about the world of work. (Photo provided) See good in others Jim “Basketball” Jones visited Bluffton-Harrison Elementary School May 16. Jones used his basketball handling skills to encourage students to look for the good in others and to treat other people the way you would want to be treated. He focused on lifting others up instead of cutting them down. He is shown with fourth grade student Nathan Bueter. (Photo provided) Club Calendar Saturday, May 26 Korean War Veteran Assoc., Indiana Chapter One--VFW #857, Memorial Program at Memorial Shrine on O'Day Road; 11 a.m. 260-485-7627. River Terrace Estates-- Dane Bailey, singer and auctioneer; 3 p.m. in Chapel. Sunday, May 27 River Terrace Estates-- Chaplain Jerry Qualls; 2:30 p.m. in AL Tuesday, June 5 Creative Quilters Quilt Club--Country Creations, south of Preble; 6:30 p.m. Program will be a demonstration on how to clean your sewing machine by Carol Riley. Refreshments, show and tell and door prizes. Visitors and potential new members are always welcome. Every Wednesday The Kiwanis of Greater Bluffton Club meets at noon every Wednesday at T.W. Fable's. 824-0500. Every Thursday Overcomers Outreach — South Wayne United Methodist Church, 3500 S. Wayne Ave.;7-8 p.m. 260- 745-2933. Let's Play Bingo! — Cowboy's Restaurant in Bluffton on Main Street every Thursday night at 6 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Coon Hunters Assoc. We can help you enjoy your independent lifestyle “Let us do the house and yard maintenance work so you can enjoy life.” Choose from ... North Shore Estates Lakeview Estates Villas Patio Pines Apartments 720 E. Dustman Bluffton www.christiancarerc.org ENTER TO WIN: Power Scooter, Transport Wheelchair and Gift Cards ENTER TO WIN: Golden Technologies Buzz Around Scooter, Nova Transport Wheelchair, Gift Cards $699 Logan Slusher & Meghan Prible Management from Des Moines Area Community College. He is self-employed at S & S Farms. Club News J.I.O. Circle Members of J.I.O. Circle met May 15 at First Reformed Church. Hostess was Barbara Elliott. President Joanna Miller opened the meeting. The secretary report was read by Erma Redding. Donna Breedlove gave the treasurer's report. Money was given to the church in memory of Jean Sturgeon. Donna Breedlove gave the lesson from the book “Tea Time with God.” There were meditations of inspiring scriptures. Eye opening quotes and real life stories were read. Members remembered their tea time experiences. Mary Alice Jackson had members sign greeting cards. JoAnne Miller read a pray to close the meeting. Members attending were: Barbara Elliott, Mary Alice Jackson, Patti Moser, Louise Diehl, JoAnne Miller, Donna Breedlove and Erma Redding. Call Leon or Marcia today 260-565-3000 $149 Good Saturday, May 26, 2012
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