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Preparing for the visits of VIPs |
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Friday, May 02 2008 |
By CHRIS MEYERS
Staff writer
Aside from when Thomas R. Marshall moved from Whitley County to take the vice presidency, it’s been a while since anyone of presidential stature stopped by this rural community.
A lot has changed this primary season though, with Indiana’s vote counting toward a nomination for the first time in 40 years, and with that change has come the visits of presidential candidates and their campaigns to Indiana.
Prepping for such a visit falls on the shoulders of the Secret Service, but they can’t staff every possible position so, to fill in the gaps, they contact local police.
“I just follow the directions of the Secret Service. I give them whatever resources they ask for,” Columbia City Police Department Chief Mike Petersen said Friday.
The CCPD and Whitley County Sheriff’s Department helped with perimeter security and traffic control as presidential candidate Barack Obama’s motorcade made its way through Columbia City.
Indiana State troopers escorted the motorcade through the county, where city police picked up the detail on U.S. 30 through red lights in town.
Whitley County Sheriff Mark Hodges said the Secret Service reviewed positions at Oak Pointe where local police would be needed.
“He (the agent) walked me through the building and the perimeter of the event,” Hodges said Friday.
City police were stationed at the south and west borders of the property, as a sheriff’s deputy directed traffic at the entrance and ensured that no one made it in who wasn’t supposed to be there.
“Our part of the security yesterday (Thursday) was basically for the perimeter,” Hodges said.
For President Bill Clinton’s visit today at Columbia City High School, principal Steve Doepker said the school didn’t have to do a lot of special preparation because the agents said Clinton is a “low-level security risk.”
Even though the school doesn’t have a lot of direct involvement, Doepker said he was going to make an announcement at the end of the day Friday to remind everyone of the visit and the chance to see a former president.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime event that they’ll easily remember for the next 40 years,” Doepker said of the students who he hopes will attend the gathering.
As with Sen. Barack Obama’s visit, the city police today will mainly be doing perimeter work and traffic details through town.
“We won’t be having any snipers on the rooftops or anything like that,” Petersen joked. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, May 05 2008 )
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 |  |  |  |  | | My Mom (Elly Crawford) would always make this Cranberry
Salad, to die for. The year she passed away I had tried my mother-in-laws and others
but never the same as my Mom's. A year had went by and I had Looked and Looked for
her recipe in her old fashion Tin recipe box. Could not find it. I thought, wow was
this like her Famous Potato Salad, In her head and never wrote down. Silly I know
But as I searched thru her tin recipe box again, I made sure I put each hand wrote
card back where she had kept it. I wanted to make sure it was Just like my mom had
always had it and left it. I kept look one at a time, And low and behold stuck
between two cards was the recipe, I sat and held it as the tears ran down my face. I
had found it and was finally going to have Mom's Cranberry Salad. I called My Dad,
Cecil and said over 20 times, " Dad I found it Dad I found it!" I then prayed and
ask Mom, OK come on help me make this just like you did. And I guess Mom heard
me cause the 2nd and 3rd Thanksgiving without my Mom I had "Mom's Cranberry
Salad" and I will again this year and years to come. Thanks Mom I love you- Sheryl
xoxo P.S. You ask? Well share this recipe.... Umm, I
think NOT, Took me to long to find it. - Sheryl Hackett (Churubusco, IN) My late grandmother, Margarette Ruthsatz always made
scalloped oysters for the holidays. The recipe would be similar to scalloped corn
but instead of corn,oysters.We always hoped for left-overs and often would sneak it
cold from the fridge! Someone brings this dish every year. - Pam Sorg (Columbia City, IN) I love Thanksgiving. All my family get together at my mom and
dad's. My daughters and I usually go early to help Mom get the dinner ready, but she
does most of it. We eat about one and are all stuffed. After clean up we wait for
the paper so my sister and I can scope out all the sales for the next day which we
call Jackie and Laura's Big Adventure. It is the one day that we just spend time
together and are amused with all the shoppers going crazy for that perfect Christmas
gift. - Jackie White (Columbia City, IN) My mother-in-law, the late Mildred Weeks, gave me this recipe
and it is the only salad I fix for Thanksgiving and I am willing to share.
CRANBERRY SALAD1 lb package cranberry's (I freeze them and
then grind them)2 medium size oranges1 cup sugar1 package red
jello2 red apples diced small1 cup chopped nuts1 cup celery diced
smallGrind cranberry's and oranges;add sugar (let set overnight) okay if not.
Add apples, celery, jello and nuts.
- Rowena Weeks (Ridgecrest, California)
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