Archive - 2013 - News Article
May 15th
Editorâs note: The following is a series highlighting unique summer jobs to be held by area students.
COLUMBIA CITY â Although students view the weeks between school ending and school beginning as a vacation, summer jobs can be a temporary way for students to earn cash.
For Foster Eber, a Columbia City High School senior, the weeks between graduation and starting his freshman year at Ball State University will be spent working.
However, he wonât just have any job. Heâll be employed at one of his favorite summer spots â Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
COLUMBIA CITY â A second man who was charged with dealing drugs in the Walmart parking lot in Columbia City pleaded guilty Monday.
Shane Bocskey, 26, Columbia City, admitted to dealing in methamphetamine. Four other counts that Bocskey was charged with at the time of his February arrest were dismissed.
In February, Bocskey was arrested with Derek Kohut after a confidential informant exchanged $120 and two boxes of pseudoephedrine for 2.85 grams of meth.
COLUMBIA CITY â Ordinance enforcement has created more agenda items for the Columbia City Board of Works and Safety.
Those who violate Columbia City ordinances can appeal to the board. Two families who made appeals Tuesday had their requests satisfied.
Christine Broni lives on Old Trail Road near the edge of town. She and her husband were cited for having two horses on the property as well as chickens, a violation of the animal ordinance.
COLUMBIA CITY â It took no longer than the blink of an eye for the city to change its ordinance on flashing message signs.
Columbia Cityâs Common Council gave the final stamp of approval to an ordinance change regarding electronic message centers Tuesday. However, those signs, which flash in seconds, have been debated for months at the Columbia City Planning Commission.
Dave Sewell, of the commission, spoke to the common council and informed them of this ordinance change. Some were concerned with potential current violations, but Sewell noted all existing signs will be allowed.
May 14th
Andrue Bechtold, of South Whitley, recently found a rather large Morel mushroom in a âsecret locationâ in Whitley County.
Andrue is the grandson of Dennis Bechtold.
SOUTH WHITLEY â John Langmaid, IV was awarded his Eagle Scout rank at a ceremony held at Whitko High School March 21.
Langmaid, a student at WHS, planned, surveyed, organized, and helped build a 65-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant sidewalk.
The project, which was completed during July 2012, was done for the school as his Eagle Scout project.
He earned the Eagle rank Sept. 13, 2012. The sidewalk gives disabled students access to the school and ease to leave the school during exercise and emergency situations.
COLUMBIA CITY â Churubusco High School graduate, Alex Husk, has tapped into her many years of dance to launch a new business, Astound Dance Academy.
At the age of three, Husk started to dance, but it wasnât until she was in middle school that she began perfecting her craft.
Now 24 years old and with many years of instruction experience, Husk is ready to pass on the love of dance to others in her own studio.
Q: What is it about dance that inspires you?
SOUTH WHITLEY â Trevor Bauer, Whitko High School art student, is the logo contest winner for Whitley On the Move.
Bauer has previously won three state scholastic art awards this year â two Gold Keys and one Silver Key. Bauerâs Gold Keys were sent to New York for National judging.
Bauer is not just an artist. In addition to being involved in the art club for three years, he played football at WHS for four years and was involved with Fellowship of Christian Athletes for three years. Bauer plans to attend Ball State University for architecture.
WARSAW â Whitkoâs boys golf team took top honors at the Three Rivers Conference match at Stonehenge Saturday. The Wildcats won with a score of 338.
Wabash was three strokes behind for a second-place finish, and Northfield shot a 343. The Norsemen also had the conferenceâs medalist, Cole Trae, who scored a 77.
Whitko was led by Daniel Zowlacki, who was second overall with a score of 79. Zowlacki shot a 42 on the front nine and 37 in the back half.
Colton LeTourneau placed seventh for Whitko, shooting 42s two finish with an 84.
COLUMBIA CITY â An alternative program for challenged students could be in the future for the Whitley County Consolidated School (WCCS) district.
Columbia City High School Principal Jennifer Reiff and Indian Springs Middle School Principal Jan Boylen discussed with schoolsâ board of trustees the possibility of Eagle Opportunity to Success â a program aimed at alternative paths for students.
There are several primary goals for the program, they said.
Among them are increasing graduation among eligible seniors and decreasing the number of expulsions in grades 6 to 12.
