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Intensive
livestock
hearings set
The Adams County
Plan Commission will
conduct a public hearing
at 7 p.m. Thursday, in the
commission/council
chambers of the Service
Complex.
Following a reorganization of the commission,
the public session will
hear three requests from
applicants to either allow
or expanding confined
feeding
operations.
Samual I. Wickey, 7410S,
C.R. 150E, Berne, has
asked for approval of a
confined feeding operation, as has John E.
Schwartz, 7560S, C.R.
200E, Berne.
In addition, the commission will be asked to
approve a substantial
expansion of an existing
feeding operation filed
by Jack In’t Groen,
6360W, C.R. 1100S,
Geneva.
Amish school,
variances on
BZA agenda
The Adams County
Board of Zoning Appeals
will hold a public hearing
at 6 p.m. Thursday in the
Commission/Council
chambers of the Service
Complex.
The board will consider an application for a
zoning variance and special use permit filed by
Amos
T.
Schwartz,
Geneva, to construct a
new parochial school on
property owned by Jonas
J. Graber Jr., on C.R.
900S currently zoned
A-Agricultural.
The board will also
hear two other applications for special use. Lynn
Cress
of
Cress
Automotive, LLC, 6898E
C.R. 700N, Decatur,
wants to sell automobiles
at that address, which
constitutes an extension
to the land use variance
in order to allow for an
auto parts and body shop
business.
Jon M. Fuhrman,
10484N C.R. 200W,
Decatur, is seeking a
special use variance to
operate a small business
at the location.
Kindergarten
enrollment
now at AC
Adams Central School
is now accepting kindergarten enrollment. Forms
are available at Adams
Central
Elementary
School and may be
obtained by contacting
the office at 692-6629 or
visiting the school’s website at www.accs.k12.
in.us.
The age eligibility for
a child entering kindergarten for the 2016-2017
school year is 5 years of
age by Aug. 1.
Parents of prospective kindergartners must
come to the elementary
office during the week
of Feb. 29, between the
hours of 7:30 a.m. and
3:30 p.m, to choose a
screening time for their
child and drop off their
child’s completed enrollment forms. Kindergarten
screening will take place
on April 21 from 8:30 a.m.
to 7:30 p.m.
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Tuesday FEBRUARY
16, 2016
Final right-of-way
for SATI route secured
Construction to begin after
Phase I bids opened in April
By MIKE LAMM
Adams County Engineer Tim
Barkey informed county commissioners on Feb. 9 he has secured an
administrative severance agreement
for the South Adams Trails Inc. bike
path project on the last remaining property where a right-of-way
needed to be purchased to complete
Phase II of the project north across
the Wabash River to C.R. 650S.
Commissioners approved the
waiver of a partial mortgage and
payment to Amos Schwartz of
$18,799.45 for the property right-ofway and an additional $300 needed
to move a chicken coop, bringing the
total amount to $19,099.45.
Barkey said the second phase
of the project, which involves the
rehabilitation of an existing bridge
as well as the placement of a bridge
donated by Bunge North America
across the Wabash River, will exceed
$900,000 and will be the most
expensive part of the project to complete.
In response to a question from
commissioner Doug Bauman, Barkey
said bids for construction of the first
phase of the project south of the
Wabash River to the northern edge
of Geneva will be opened in April,
with bids for the second segment
expected to be opened in August.
Actual construction should begin
shortly after the first phase bid is
awarded, Barkey said.
At Barkey’s request, commissioners also approved the juggling of
funds for payment to the engineering
firm of Butler, Fairman and Seufert
related to the bike path project. The
appraisal estimate fund was reduced
from $2,120 to $620, with the outstanding $1,500 transferred to the
direct expenses fund.
See SATI, Page 3
Qualifying SA teachers to share
in $35,000 ‘performance’ stipend
By J SWYGART
Teachers at South
Adams Schools who earn
designations as “effective” or “highly effective”
educators will share in
a $35,000 state Teacher
Performance grant this
year,
Superintendent
Scott Litwiller reported
Feb. 9 to the school district’s board of education.
Litwiller said each
qualifying teacher will
receive approximately
$300-$325. That figure
is significantly lower
than last year, when top
teachers at the school
earned $544 in stipend
bonuses.
The state grants given
to the elementary and
middle schools at South
Adams — $15,298 and
$15,674 — are identical
to last year’s disbursements, following action
by the Indiana General
Assembly during the
current session to hold
schools “harmless” from
results of the most recent
ISTEP proficiency testing results. Those tests,
which in part are used to
rate teachers as “highly
effective” or “effective,”
were rife with administrative problems at the
state level and have been
discarded.
Litwiller said the state
Teacher
Performance
grant for South Adams
High School dropped
from $25,070 last year
to $6,864 this year, due
to lower high school test
percentages and a lower
graduation rate.
For the second consecutive year, Litwiller
also recommended stipends identical to those
received by qualifying
teachers be awarded to
administrators
Jason
Arnold, Michelle Clouser,
Trent Lehman, Shellie
Miller and Jeff Rich. The
bonuses for administrators will be paid from the
district’s General Fund.
Litwiller also reported
on the Indiana Board
of Education’s revised
accountability grades for
the 2014-15 school year.
Because of the General
Assembly’s decision to
hold school’s harmless
from ISTEP scores for
See STIPEND, Page 3
AC to get new gym lights
following split board vote
By ASHLEY BAILEY
Board members at Adams Central
Schools held a lengthy discussion at the
Feb. 9 meeting about replacing the main
lights in the school gymnasium by using
an estimated $79,000 in general obligation bond funds.
Because the current system is costly
to the school, according to school officials, the idea is to change the lights
to a more cost-efficient type of lighting. In making the change, the school
would save an estimated $4,000 annually in electricity costs, according to Todd
McDonald, maintenance director for the
school district. He said the new lights
would be brighter, have dimmers, be programmable, have motion sensors, come
on and go off instantly and are estimated
to last approximately 25 plus years.
The current lighting system, according to McDonald, is at least 39 years old.
He said it currently costs about $400
dollars each to replace a bulb. It was also
estimated that the lights would pay for
themselves in electricity savings within
10-15 years.
Board member Brian Tonner brought
up concerns about using general obligation bond funds for the gym lights when
the funds could be used for more important or unexpected repairs in the future.
Board member Cynthia Snider was also
concerned about other improvements at
the school the funds could be used for.
According to the board attorney Adam
Miller, these funds were set up with a
certain set of parameters and the bonds
would have to be looked into further to
see how much give-and-take there is, but
he did not have the information on hand.
Miller did say, however, that as long as the
board stays within the parameters the
public was initially given, then it would
be allowable.
Superintendent Lori Stiglitz told the
board there are funds set aside within
the bond for other repairs and projects.
Right now those funds are $82,000,
however many of the other projects that
have been completed came in under
budget or were paid for from of Capital
Project funds, so there is the possibility
there will be more to work with in the
future.
Snider made a motion for the board
to delay voting on the lighting fixtures
until they have a better idea of what
other capital needs are more important.
Tonner seconded the motion, but it was
defeated in a 2-5 vote.
Steve Maller then made a motion to
approve the lighting system, which was
approved in a 5-2 vote. The new lights
are expected to be installed over spring
break.
In other business, the board approved
a recommendation to purchase two new
school buses. The board also approved
two overnight trips, one to Indianapolis
for Business Professionals competitions
and another to Indianapolis for the state
tournament in individual wrestling.
Susanne Aschliman was approved as
interim guidance counselor for approximately 87 days and three volunteer
coaches were approved: Doug Linthicum
for high school boys golf; Whitney Baller
for high school softball; and Tony Oliver
for middle school girls track. The spring
and SuperBowl coaches rosters were
also approved.
The board approved the resignation
of high school varsity volleyball coach,
Ashley Beard, who resigned for personal
reasons.
Adams County Commissioner Doug Bauman
Bauman: County
finances strong
By MIKE LAMM
Adams
County
Commission Chairman
Doug Bauman presented
his annual State of the
County address Feb. 8 and
pronounced the county in
good financial shape. That
fact is due in large part
to the collaborative efforts
put forth by all branches
of county government, he
suggested.
“Service is our only
business,” Bauman said,
indicating county government functions best when
all branches work in partnership with one another
and fully cooperate in the
execution of their duties.
“Basically, we’re all partners,” he pronounced.
“Government close to the
people is the best government,” he later added.
Bauman’s
address
came during the Decatur
Chamber of Commerce’s
monthly membership luncheon at Woodcrest retirement community.
When it comes to the
county’s finances, “we’re
in the black,” Bauman
said. He pointed to the
ongoing construction of
the new Adams County
jail as an example of
“three things we did right”
in judiciously managing
the county’s finances.
With
overcrowding
becoming a major issue
at the current county
lockup, “first, we decided
to build” a new facility,
Bauman said. “We located
in the right location and
hired the right people” to
design and oversee the
jail’s construction. “We
did the right things at the
right time for the right
reasons,” he said.
Each year in preparing for his State of the
County address, Bauman
asks department heads
to submit a summary of
facts, figures and primary
accomplishments for their
respective offices that he
can use them in his presentation. This year, he
used some of those statistics to play a trivia game
with those in attendance.
Citing
information
provided by Surveyor
Paul Norr, Bauman said
Adams County is 24 miles
long and 14 miles wide
for a total of 336 square
miles. He then asked how
many in the audience
could name all of its 12
townships. The sheriff’s
department is the most
expensive part of county government, Bauman
announced, and asked
how many were aware the
county jail served 78,965
meals last year at an average cost of 96 cents per
meal.
A total of 23 department heads responded to
Bauman’s request for a
synopsis of their previous
See COUNTY, Page 3
Berne council fills zoning
appeals board seat
By JANNAYA ANDREWS
A slight misunderstanding led the Berne City
Council, not Mayor Bill McKean, to appoint
Linda Steury Berne to the Board of Zoning and
Appeals Feb. 8.
McKean informed the council that Don
Sipe, a Democratic representative on the Plan
Commission, did not wish to be reappointed
for another term. Sipe served on both the Plan
Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals
for many years.
McKean said he appointed Steury to replace
Sipe on the Plan Commission and assumed
she would also fill the Board of Zoning Appeals
position. However, he was later informed that
while the Plan Commission was his appointment to make, it is council’s responsibility to
appoint a member from the Plan Commission
to the BZA.
After a brief discussion regarding who was
eligible for the position, Councilman Phil
Provost motioned to appoint Steury to the BZA.
Councilman Ron Dull seconded and the motion
was unanimously passed.
Steury’s first meeting as a board member of
the BZA will be on Feb. 22.
In other news, McKean presented the
Kekionga Mayor’s Challenge plaque to Council
President Gregg Sprunger, who won the event
See COUNCIL, Page 3
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Bollenbacher to area veterans:
be aware of ‘pension poachers’
Vote centers okayed for May primary
By MIKE LAMM
Adams County Veterans Services
Director Ron Bollenbacher, during a
recent appearance before the Adams
County Commissioners, issued a
reminder that his services are offered
free of charge to
any veteran living
in the county.
Bollenbacher
said there are
unscrupulous
groups operating
in Indiana who
tell veterans they
can find increased
benefits for those
who have served
their country in the
military, but then
charge a fee to do
Bollenbacher
so. This approach
is a violation of
federal law, Bollenbacher said.
Depending on their personal
assets, income level and other factors, Bollenbacher said a married vet-
By MIKE LAMM
Both
the
Adams
County Council as well
as the Adams County
Commissioners approved
identical resolutions Feb.
9 designating Adams
County as a “vote center
county.”
The resolutions were
presented by Clerk of
Courts Jim Voglewede,
with
support
from
Election Board member
Wes Kuntzman. Though
the signing of the resolutions was a formality,
the action paves the way
for approval of a vote
center plan by the local
election board and the
formal filling of that plan
with the Indiana Election
Division.
The plan approved
by the Adams County
Elections Board is slightly different than the one
initially presented to
the commissioners and
council in that it creates
six localized vote centers
rather than the five initially being considered.
A sixth site was added at
Swiss Village retirement
community in Berne to
better accommodate the
elderly, Voglewede said.
Other vote center
locations are: Bridge
Community
Church,
1403 Winchester Road,
Decatur; K of C Hall,
1703 High St., Decatur;
Monroe Fire Station, 233
Tower Drive, Monroe;
First United Methodist
Church, 100 W. Line
St., Geneva; and First
Missionary
Church,
950 U.S. 27, Berne.
The Decatur and Berne
sites will have 10 voting machines each, while
eight will be set up in
Monroe and Geneva will
have six. All vote centers
are expected to utilize
two electronic poll books
each.
The addition of a sixth
vote center does add to
the cost of converting to
vote centers and purchasing 14 e-poll books,
eran may be eligible for up to $1,200
in benefits. Some groups, known as
“pension poachers,” may inform veterans they have too many assets to
qualify for benefits, but say they can
move some of them around and hide
them so they then qualify. They then
charge for this service.
There is also a legal danger involved
in allowing someone else to attempt to
hide assets by moving them around
or putting them in someone else’s
name. If you get caught doing so, the
Veteran’s Administration can require
you to pay back any benefits obtained
as a result of the ruse, Bollenbacher
pointed out.
Bollenbacher said it is his job to
ensure local veterans are receiving
all the benefits to which they are
entitled and he does so at no charge
to those residing in Adams County.
Other counties across the state are
notifying the state’s attorney general
when they are made aware of pension
poachers operating in their county and
Bollenbacher plans to do the same.
Questa offers student loan foregiveness
as incentive for staying in NE Indiana
Talks have been under way in Adams
County in recent weeks surrounding
the establishment of a Questa Scholars
Program in the county. Educators representing the three school districts in
the county, as well as business and
community leaders, have been involved
in discussions that include plans for a
public information gathering to familiarize the attendees
with program goals
and aspirations for
Adams County. The
Questa
E d u c a t i o n
Foundation offers
low-interest forgivable loans for students pursuing a certificate, associate, or bachelor degree
from an Indiana college or university.
The program offers a unique way for a
student to fund the financial “gap” in the
cost of attendance, according to a press
release from the foundation.
The foundation is a local non-profit
organization serving Northeast Indiana
and is dedicated to increasing access to
education beyond high school, reduced
debt and retention of talent, according
to its website. The Questa Education Foundation
will forgive 50 percent of the scholar’s
loan balance when the scholar lives
and works in northeast Indiana for five
years after graduation. Students who
choose to attend and graduate from one
of Questa’s nine regional partner schools
will receive an additional 25 percent
forgiveness at graduation. The Questa
Scholars Program allows a student to
borrow up to $20,000 and when meeting the qualifying criteria receive the
maximum 75 percent forgiveness, making the remaining balance only $5,000
for the scholar to repay. The forgiveness
feature combined with the low fixed
interest rate after graduation makes the
program an unbeatable loan option for
students and families.
Applications for the
Questa
Scholars
Program will be available on the foundation’s website from
March 1 through May 1.
“This is about investing in individuals who want to pursue further education and currently have a financial gap.
It is about transforming the business
landscape by helping people prepare
for the economy of the 21st Century,”
said Marc R. Levy, executive director of
Questa Education Foundation.
The funding for the program comes
from local and regional foundations,
businesses and organizations. In addition, Questa Education Foundation utilizes interest from the endowment to
expand the numbers and geographic
reach.
For more information on Questa
Education Foundation programs and
completing the application visit the website at www.questafoundation.org or call
us at 407-6494.
6 polling sites identified as
county makes transition
their ability to disperse is really very limited,
so in many cases they need our help.”
Magle says the little brown bat was chosen because it’s at risk from a fungal disease
called white-nose syndrome.
He says that disease hasn’t hit the
Midwest hard yet but it’s likely to. “We just
want a sense of how are they going to do,
how are they going to persist in the face of
that disease,” he states. “How can we help
them, we hope, to make a full recovery from
that disease.”
Others on the list include the regal fritillary
butterfly, the ellipse mussel, Blanding’s turtle,
the rusty patched bumble bee and the monarch butterfly.
Voglewede
reported,
increasing that projected figure from $28,700
to $31,925. “We’ll learn
through experience if
we need the sixth location,” Councilor Tony
Mellencamp suggested.
Councilor Ed Dyer
worked
along
with
Mellencamp as council
representatives to help
promote the conversion to vote centers. He
admitted there would
likely be little cost savings in the first year,
but “substantial” savings
would be realized in the
following years, he said.
The vote center plan
approved by the county
election board and presented to council also
lists four locations where
early voting satellite
offices will be set up and
when those sites will be
open for the May primary
election.
Early
voting
will
take place at Bridge
Community Church on
the two Saturdays before
election day; Woodcrest
Living Center, 1300
Mercer Ave., Decatur,
on the second Thursday
prior the election; First
Missionary
Church
on the Tuesday before
the election; and Swiss
Village on the Thursday
prior to the election.
Voglewede told council he has spoken with
County Treasurer Tom
Krueckeberg, who is willing to allow the election
board to insert flyers into
tax bill informing residents where they will be
voting in the May primary. Municipal officials in
Decatur, Berne, Geneva
and Monroe have also
agreed to allow for the
same flyers to be inserted in utility bills.
A small firestorm
erupted late in the discussion when Voglewede
incorrectly
suggested
the commissioners had
recently passed a resolution reducing the pay of
poll workers from $10
an hour to $8. Councilor
sites
• Bridge Community
Church,
1403
Winchester
Road,
Decatur;
• K of C Hall, 1703
High St., Decatur;
• Monroe Fire Station,
233 Tower Dr., Monroe;
•
First
United
Methodist Church, 100
W. Line St., Geneva;
• First Missionary
Church, 950 U.S. 27S,
Berne.
• Swiss Village retirement community, 1350
W. Main St., Berne
Randy Colclasure indicated he was upset to
learn that poll workers
were so poorly compensated, noting the county
is already having difficulty finding enough people
to man the polls. He was
under the impression the
rate had been increased
to $10 per hour.
Auditor Mary Berry
finally produced a copy
of Ordinance 2016-1,
reflecting the approval
of rates for pay of election workers and rates
for reimbursement for
election related expenses. The ordinance sets
per day pay rates at
$120 for inspectors, $90
for judges and clerks
and $25 for alternates.
“Each
worker
shall
receive a $10 food allowance (and) travel board/
absentee early voting
workers shall receive $8
per hour,” the document
states. Following the
meeting, Beery acknowledged that the rate of
pay for poll workers has
never been raised to $10
an hour.
After
approval
of
the vote center resolution, council also gave
Voglewede unanimous
consent to utilize additional
appropriations
from the cumulative cap
development fund to
accommodate the purchase of 14 e-Poll books.
“You mean I can order
these today,” Voglewede
tentatively asked. “Yes,”
Colclasure responded.
One Sweet Deal !
Conservation groups helping Midwest animal species
By VERONICA CARTER
Indiana News Service
INDIANAPOLIS — Twelve animal species that call the Midwest home are being
championed by Chicago Wilderness, which
is made up of more than 200 conservation
groups in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin.
Scientists, educators and ecologists spent
months deciding which would be added to
the list. Suzanne Malec-McKenna, director of Chicago Wilderness, says the group
selected species that are rare or threatened
and would benefit by some extra attention.
Now a five-year plan will be put together.
She says one example is the red-headed
woodpecker. “Conservancy
Indiana and the Indiana
Dunes National Lakeshore
are signing on as the Indiana
leader to look at oak ecosystems, and the red-headed
woodpecker has declined
dramatically and requires
healthy oak woodlands for it
to continue to survive,” she
states.
Other species on the list
include the blue-spotted
salamander, the bobolink,
Henslow’s sparrow, the little
brown bat and the smooth
green snake.
Seth Magle is the director of Urban Wildlife at the
Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
He hatches eggs from the
smooth green snake and then
releases them back into forest
preserves and grasslands.
The snakes are a struggling
species because their habitat
has been destroyed by development.
“A lot of these sites have
been lost over time, and now
actually a lot of them are
being restored or kind of recreated,” Magle states. “But
these snakes are so small
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Obituaries
For the Record
Rosalie M. Wickey
Rosalie M. Wickey, 51, rural Monroe, died at 10:20
p.m., Feb. 8, 2016, at her home. She was born in New
Haven Oct. 26, 1964, to David R. and Margaret B.
(Brandenberger) Wickey of Monroe.
She was a homemaker and a member of the Old
Order Amish.
Among survivors are two sisters, Effie Mae (Phenas)
Schmidt of Monroe and Elizabeth (Merlin) Zehr of
Grabill; five brothers, David (Barb) Wickey of Decatur,
Elmer (Dena) Wickey of Berne, William (Naomi) Wickey
of Flemingsburg, Ky., Michael (Rosie) Wickey of New
Haven and James (Miriam) Wickey of Monroe; 63
grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
Preceding herin death were a brother, Joseph; a
sister, Wilma Schwartz; a brother-in-law Frederick
Graber; a nephew, Nathan Schmidt; and two nieces,
Margaret and Joann Schwartz.
Bishop Victor Hilty officiated the services and burial
will be in the East Salem Cemetery.
Arrangements were handled by Yager-Kirchhofer
Funeral Home, Berne.
Jacob D. M. Eicher
Jacob D. M. Eicher, 4, rural Berne, passed away
Feb. 11, 2016, at his home. He was born in Adams
County Nov. 15, 2011, to Sam D. and Viola M. Eicher.
He was a member of the Old Order Amish.
Among survivors are his sisters, Viola D. M., Ann D.
M., Christine D. M., Edith D. M. and Lucinda Eicher;
brothers, Sam D. M., Joseph D. M., Paul D. M. and Levi
D.M. Eicher, all at home; and his grandmothers, Edith
D. Eicher of Berne and Margaret G. Eicher of Bryant.
Preceding him in death were his grandfathers, Jacob
J. Eicher and Paul V. Eicher.
Bishop Joe E. Schwartz officiated the service. Burial
was in Bluecreek Cemetery, rural east Berne.
Arrangements by Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home,
Berne.
COUNTY
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year’s activities. Bauman
selected items from each
of those reports to highlight information about
individual departments.
He emphasized the
growth of the Information
Technology department,
headed by Director Landon
Patterson, which oversees
30 users, 250 computers,
50 servers and a network
that includes every county
building.
As further signs of
growth, Bauman noted
2015 was the busiest year
on record for Director
Mark Wynn’s Building,
Planning and Zoning
department, with 414
building permits issued.
To the best of his knowledge, the 400 mark had
never before been previous topped, Wynn wrote.
The Adams County
Economic Development
Corporation also reported
“a successful and busy
year,” with Executive
Director Larry Macklin
pointing to a meaningful reduction in unemployment numbers as “a
tremendous move in the
right direction.”
Auditor Mary Beery stated in her accounting that
“revenues are continuing
to decrease as a result
of low interest rates, the
effects of the property tax
caps, TIF districts created
by governing entities and
property tax deductions
enacted by the Indiana
legislature.” Treasurer
Tom Krueckeberg reported collecting $26,629,577
in taxes last year for a
97.94 percent collection
rate.
Clerk of Courts Jim
Voglewede’s information
indicated receipts totaling $2,437,325 in 2015
and the processing of 254
marriage licenses. The
county has 19,048 registered voters, 34.8 percent
of whom cast their ballot in the last election,
according to Voglewede.
Deb Stimpson reported
“a very good year” in the
recorder’s office, process-
COUNCIL
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last fall representing
McKean while the mayor
recovered from a cardiac
arrest.
The annual contest
is between Berne and
Decatur’s mayors during Decatur’s festival and
involves several different physical and skilled
challenges. McKean congratulated Sprunger for
participating and said he
hopes to keep the plaque
in Berne.
ing 5,335 documents comprising 24,441 pages and
collecting $135,492.73 in
fees.
The
Emergency
Management
Agency
report from Director John
August listed the management of an emergency
operations center for six
days during June flooding last year as a major
accomplishment, noting
his agency worked with
FEMA officials for many
months following the high
water event.
Director Hank Mayer’s
detailed
accounting
noted the Adams County
Solid Waste Management
District disposed of 8,687
tons of solid waste in 2015
at a cost of $375,726.
Income from the sale of
recyclable materials in
2015 was $48,577 and
the savings from landfill
diversions was $35,897,
resulting in a total savings
to Adams County taxpayers of $84,475.
Nearly all department
heads were in attendance
at the annual address.
SATI
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 • Page 3A
Ellsperman out, Holcomb in as lieutenant governor
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana
Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann is stepping down from the state’s No. 2
office and Gov. Mike Pence wants
to replace her with a former state
Republican Party chairman.
Pence announced Feb.. 9 he’s
nominating Eric Holcomb as her
replacement.
Ellspermann said she has
applied for the open position of
president of Ivy Tech Community
College and that she’ll soon be
Holcomb
stepping down after an orderly Ellsperman
transition.
Holcomb’s nomination must his 11-month
be confirmed by the Republican- campaign for the U.S. Senate seat
dominated Legislature for him to being vacated by retiring GOP
take office.
Sen. Dan Coats.
Pence said Holcomb would Holcomb was a top governor’s
be his running mate for what office aide and 2008 campaign
is expected to be a tough elec- manager for former Gov. Mitch
tion rematch in November with Daniels before being tapped to lead
2012 Democratic candidate John the state GOP in 2011. Holcomb
Gregg.
held that position until 2013, after
Tuesday’s
announcement which he became Coats’ state chief
comes a day after Holcomb ended of staff.
Blotter
Four
individuals were arrested by
local law enforcement
officials over the past
week.
Bruan A. Sebak, 29,
Berne, was arrested
Feb. 6 by Berne police
on charges of possession of paraphernalia, operating a motor
vehicle while intoxicated/endangerment and
OWI with a blood alcohol content of .15 percent or greater. Bond
was set at $400 cash
and $3,500 surety.
Brian C. Brankamp,
25, Cincinnati, was
arrested Feb. 6 by
Berne police on charges of obstruction of
justice, possession of
marijuana, possession
of paraphernalia and
OWI/endanger ment.
Bond was set at $350
cash and $5,500 surety.
Justin J. Foss, 18,
Geneva, was arrested Feb. 8 by sheriff’s
deputies on charges
of possession of methamphetamine and possession of a syringe.
Bond was set at $550
cash and $5,000 surety.
John R. Mumaw,
26, Berne, was arrested Feb. 9 by Berne
police for driving while
suspended. Bond was
set at $200 cash and
$2,500 surety.
From Page 1
Barkey also opened five sealed bids Feb. 9 for a
culvert replacement project on C.R. 200E between
old and new U.S. 33 during the weekly meeting of the
Adams County Commissions.
Fleming Excavating, Decatur, submitted the
apparent low bid of $32,091, with Lugeinbill
Excavating, Monroe, offering to complete the project at a cost of $33,333. Other bids were submitted by VTF Excavation, Celina, Ohio ($34,735.98);
Bomack Construction, Auburn ($39,975) and Dave’s
Excavating, Marion ($47,059.50).
Commissioners took the bids under advisement,
asking Barkey to scrutinize their specifics before
returning with his recommendation of who should
be awarded the contract at their meeting next week.
STIPEND
From Page 1
one year, the “A” grades
given to the middle school
and elementary school in
2013-14 also apply to the
2014-15 year. The high
school earned an “A”
based on 2014-15 test
scores, giving the corporation as a whole an “A”
rating from the state.
“This is the fifth year
in a row we’ve been a
straight-A school, which
is a testament to the students and teachers,” said
the superintendent.
Real estate contract
extended 12 months
Picking up a discussion that was ultimately
tabled at last month’s
meeting,
the
board
approved a recommendation from Litwiller
that a 12-month contract
extension
be
entered into between the
school district and BND
Commercial Real Estate
for the the sale of the
former South Adams
Elementary School property at the corner of
U.S. 27 and S.R. 218 in
Berne.
Dave Stemen,
a
broker for the real estate
firm, appeared at the
board’s December meet-
Pence said Holcomb’s knowledge of state government has prepared him for the lieutenant governor’s office.
‘‘I’m very honored and privileged that he’s stepping forward to
serve at such a time as this in the
life of our state,’’ Pence said.
Pence first raised the possibility of splitting with Ellspermann
in December, saying that his 2012
running mate would be an ‘‘ideal’’
candidate to become the new Ivy
Tech president.
The last time a new lieutenant governor was selected in the
middle of a term was in 2003
when Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan
nominated Kathy Davis for the
position a few weeks after the
death of Gov. Frank O’Bannon. In
the three gubernatorial elections
since then, the Republican and
Democratic tickets have included
male and female candidates each
time.
ing and retraced the more
than two-year efforts to
sell the 12.8 acre property that currently sits
idle.
Stemen said the size of
the property “is really too
big for just one user” and
noted that as many as
six users have expressed
an interest in becoming
part of a multi-user complex at the site.
He suggested the best
way to sell the property is through a team
approach, involving a
broker, the school board
and a developer. He
asked the board to consider an option wherein
the board would continue to retain ownership to
the land itself until any
development at the site is
completed. That option,
however, could leave
the school board holding a partially completed
building on their prop-
erty should the project
fail to come to fruition.
Price is not the issue,
Stemen commented, “but
we need the right combination of users and the
school board to make it
work.”
Following the board’s
decision Tuesday night
to enter into a contract
extension with BND,
Litwiller
said
board
attorney Tim Baker is
continuing to research
several statues of the
Indiana Code that pertain to the sale of public
property, the appraisal
process and other legal
questions.
“The next step is to
work with Tim and Dave
Stemen to determine
whether or not the board
can hold the land while
it is being developed,”
Litwiller said. “We don’t
know, but we need to get
that answer.”
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 • Page 7A
SA approves shift of funds
By J SWYGART
In an effort to reduce the strain on
South Adams School’s general fund
budget, already reflecting the negative financial effects of state-endorsed
caps on property tax collections,
Superintendent Scott Litwiller on
Feb. 9 sought and received approval
from the district’s board of education
to use $100,000 in Capital Projects
funding to pay utility bills through
the end of June.
Litwiller said the fund currently
contains $193,147. He called the
recommendation to use $100,000
of that a “baby step in cushioning
the blow” to the general fund due to
declining tax receipts.
In an unrelated announcement,
Litwiller also reported that official
“second student count day” numbers
in the district — a figure used to
determine “basic tuition support revenue” from the state through June of
this year — was slightly higher than
anticipated.
The opening-day head count at
South Adams last fall was 1,254.9
students. Of that number, Litwiller
said, were 51 migrant/seasonal
worker students and three early
high school graduates. The super intendent said he was hoping the
“second count” number would be
1,200 students and was pleasantly
surprised when that number came in
at 1,210.
“I’m very thankful for that,”
Litwiller said.
Jen White.
Approved as after-school ISTEP
Boot Camp tutors were Lois Bailey,
Laura Bergman, Kristie Brown,
JD Keller, Louann Reinhard, Andy
Sommer, Sandy Sprunger, Jeff
Brandtmiler, Gwen Habegger, Lisa
Sheets, Cindy Sprunger and Jeannine
Wurster.
Approved as after-school Project
Success tutors were Julie Baumer
and Susie Amstutz.
The board also approved en masse
the slate of spring sport coaches at
the school, including:
— Baseball: Brad Buckingham,
head coach; Craig McKean, varsity
assistant; Brandon Alberson, junior
varsity; Chad Mitchell, JV assistant; Jim Buckingham and Jordan
Steiner, volunteers.
— Boys golf: Head coaching position currently vacant.
— Track: Clinton Anderson, head
coach for boys and girls; Jeff Lehman,
Logan Steiner and Steve Rausch, var sity assistants; Danette VonGunten,
middle school head coach; JD Keller
and Brandon Willis, middle school
assistants; and Drew Taylor and
Chris Stutzman, volunteers.
— Softball: Jessie O’Dell, head
coach; Lack Taing, varsity assistant; Phil Provost, assistant; Alyssa
Bluhm, volunteer.
— Girls tennis: Kyle Sprunger,
head coach; Josh Zurcher, varsity
assistant; Kassy Zurcher, volunteer.
Coming up at the Wellness Pavilion ...
The Arthur & Gloria
Muselman
Wellness
Pavilion concluded its
first Wellness Series
session on Emotional
Wellness. The public
is invited to attend the
next session at 6:45 p.m.
Thursday.
Amy
H u s e r,
Community
Educator
and master’s student in
the resilient and sustainable communities program at Green Mountain
College, will discuss environmental wellness.
Following Thursday’s
program, the next three
sessions will be on social
wellness, occupational
wellness and intellectual
wellness.
Michelle
McIntosh,
vice president of marketing at Swiss Village,
will discuss social wellness; Margie Dougherty,
past vice president of
human resources at SV,
and Jennifer Lehman,
director of development
and volunteers at SV,
will discuss occupational wellness; and Daryl
Martin, past CEO of SV,
will be discussing intellectual wellness. Bring a
friend to this free event.
The closing session on
March 24 will be an open
house celebration and
the winners of the drawing will be announced.
Attendees can earn an
entry into the drawing
for attending each week
and completing wellness
challenges. Prizes will be
a free one month individual membership, a
free Muselman Wellness
Pavilion T-shirt and a
free 30 minute massage
with Megan Dunlap.
The Arthur & Gloria
Muselman
Wellness
Pavilion is a service
/ outreach of Swiss
Village Inc., located at
1201 Emmental Drive in
Berne. For more information call the Wellness
Pavilion at 589-4496 or
visit www.swissvillage.
org. Wellness Series sessions will be cancelled
in the event of inclement weather, please listen to WZBD or visit
the Wellness Pavilion
Facebook page for cancelation announcement.
Pavilion at 6:15 p.m.
Cost is $30 per person, which includes ticket and transportation.
Register by Wednesday
at the Wellness Pavilion.
Members and nonmembers are welcome
to attend this event. For
more information contact
Briana Eicher, Wellness
Pavilion director, at 5894496 or visit www.swissvillage.org.
YOUR EYES
by
Dr. Steven A.
DeGroff
Doctor of Optometry
Family EyE CarE
Children Victims of
Most Eye Injuries
From Aerosols
Children were the victims in
more than half of the emergency room visits for eye injuries
related to aerosol cans between
1997 and 2009, according to a
See the Bartok Quartet
new study. The youngest chil The Pavilion will attend
dren, ages 0 to 4, were the most
a performance of the
likely to be hurt with an estiBartok String Quartet at
mated 2,830 emergency room
the Fort Wayne History
visits during the study time
Center on March 2.
frame, according to the study.
Seniors age 55 and older
In all, about 5,927 children 18
OTHER:
will depart from the
and younger came to hospitals
In other business, the board:
PERSONNEL
with eye injuries from aerosol
The board on Tuesday accepted • Approved donations of $100 from
cans, according to the report’s
the pending retirement of Art Booth Jeff’s Plumbing for “Pink Out” decoraestimates, which put the total
at the conclusion of the current tions at a recent girls basketball game,
for all age groups at 10,765.
school year. Booth, in his second and donations for youth basketball
The report might underyear with the district, has been “the uniforms for grades 3-6 from Rediger
estimate the total number of
March 5, 2016 @ 10:00 AM
point person” in establishing a Fire Farms, $550; Don Myers Plumbing &
injuries because it focuses ex75 +/- Acres of Productive Farmland
and Rescue program at the school, Heating, $400; and Smith Bros, $700.
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• Approved an out-of-country
Litwiller said.
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TRACT
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County coroner Cook seeking 4th elected term in office Swiss Village to hold sale
Leslie Cook of Decatur,
who filed a petition of
candidacy Feb. 5 with
the county clerk of
court’s office and will
seek re-election as the
Adams County Coroner,
has released a statement
on her candidacy.
Cook, a Republican,
was appointed coroner in 1998 to fill the
unexpired term of Gayle
Armes when Armes
moved away from Adams
County. Cook was elected in 2000 and 2004.
From 2008-2012 Cook
served as deputy county
coroner, then in 2012
was again elected to the
top spot in the coroner’s
office.
Cook is an active member of the Indiana State
Coroner’s Association
and has served on the
board of directors as
secretary/treasure, vice
president and president.
She was appointed to the
Indiana Coroners’ training board at the end
of 2014 and also serves
as an adjunct instructor
for death investigation
training. She has been
a Registered Nurse for
23 years with a specialty in forensic nursing. For 20 years, Cook
has been employed by
the Fort Wayne Sexual
Assault
T reatment
Center, where she provides medical forensic
examinations to those
who report sexual violence.
She is a board-certified Adult, Adolescent
and Pediatric Sexual
Assault Nurse Examiner,
as well as a board-certified Medical Legal Death
Investigator.
Tuberculosis testing recommended
at Indianapolis university
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tuberculosis testing
has been recommended for nearly 400 students,
faculty and staff at Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis after a student was recently diagnosed with an active case of the disease.
Marion County Public Health Department
spokesman Curt Brantingham said in an email
that university and health officials sent letters to
roughly 390 people who had been in close contact
with the student and were most at-risk.
The health department hosted two on-campus
clinics this week for free testing, which is also
available at health department clinics and the student health center.
Brantingham told The Indianapolis Star (http://
indy.st/1TWzaFy ) that the clinics have confirmed
no other cases of active tuberculosis so far.
The community will have an opportunity to
snatch up a bargain at Swiss Village’s garage
sale, scheduled from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday in
the auditorium.
Items include two large planter / wall divider
units, clothing, kitchen items, books, fabric,
Christmas items and furniture. Several antique
items will be for sale, including carnival glassware, crocks, collection of glass hens on nests
and plates. Many miscellaneous items will be
available for sale as well. Everything will be sold
at bargain prices.
Proceeds from the sale will go toward funding Swiss Village’s activity department. For more
information contact Swiss Village at 589-3173.
Public Auction
Located East of US 27, 5 Blocks on Adams St. to 815 Adams St., Decatur, IN
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016
10:00 A.M.
PROPERTY LOCATION: West of Monroe on State Road
124 to 700 W. then North 2 miles.
AUCTION SITE: At the farm 2231 N. 700 W., Decatur IN 46733
ADAMS COUNTY - KIRKLAND TWP
20 ACRES FARM
SOLD IN 3 TRACTS
GOOD FARMING COMMUNITY
Good opportunity to purchase 20 acre farm located in Section 21,
Kirkland Township, Adams County, Indiana. The farm has road
frontage on County Roads 200 N and 700 W.
TRACT 1: 3.8 & acres +/- with a 40’ x 62’ barn and grain bin
TRACT 2: 16.5 +/- acres farm ground
TRACT 3: Combination of Tracts 1 & 2
TERMS & CONDITIONS
TERMS: 10% non-refundable down payment with balance due
upon final closing.
TAXES: Sellers to pay 2015 real estate taxes due 2016.
The new owners tax obligation to begin May 2017.
POSSESSION: At closing
REAL ESTATE SOLD SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION OF SELLERS
SELLERS TO FURNISH SURVEY
ANNOUNCEMENTS ON SALE DAY TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ANY
PREVIOUS WRITTEN OR ORAL STATEMENTS.
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RON & ARLEEN CORSON • GENE & ELAINE BLUHM, Owners
Published each week and distributed throughout the
southern Adams County area by:
The Decatur Publishing Co. Inc., PO Box 1001,
141 S. 2nd St., Decatur, Indiana 46733
(260) 724-2121
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Cook, a lifelong resident of Decatur, is the
daughter of Kathryn
Barker and the late
Steve Barker.
“I have been both
honored and humbled
to work with so many
families whose lives
have been deeply altered
by the death of a loved
one in our community,
as well as the many
professionals who work
collaboratively with the
coroner’s office to be a
voice for the deceased,”
Cook said in her prepared statement.
She will be opposed
in the November general election by Democrat Cook
James Kuhnle.
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Starting Price
Newly Remodeled
One BedrOOm Independent LIvIng ApArtment
Community Fees Begin at $5000!
You can personalize your new home by choosing your own paint
colors and carpet! Personalize it to you liking and make it your home.
Bluffton, IN 46714
467174
This One Bedroom Apartment
With A Pond View Could Be Yours!!!
Call Today!!! 260.589.3173
Independent Living Apartments
• One or Two Bedrooms
• Attached Garage
• Full Size Kitchen w/ New Kitchen Cabinets
• Separate Dinning Area
• One or Two Bathrooms w/ New Bathroom Fixtures
“Living at Swiss Village is like being
• New Flooring & Window Treatments Throughout
on a vacation for a lifetime.”
-Swiss Village Resident
• Private Patio w/ View of the Pond
• Lawn Care & Snow Removal Service
• Free Membership to The Arthur & Gloria Muselman Wellness Pavilion
S wiSS V illage , i nc . • 1350 w eSt M ain S treet • B erne , i ndiana • 260.589.3173 •
www . SwiSSVillage . org