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Commissioners approve funds for potential Community Crossings match %\ /($+ 6$1'(5 6WDII :ULWHU Kosciusko County Commissioners have formally approved allocating funds to match a grant the county is applying for to help with road repaving in the county. At their meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 2, commissioners approved a request from Kosciusko County Highway Department Superintendent Steve Moriarty for funds to match an Indiana Department of Transportation Community Crossings matching grant the county is applying for. Commissioners approved allocating up to $1,105,326.50 as a match
for the potential funds. Moriarty said plans are to repave Pierceton Road from Winona Lake’s city limits to Pierceton’s city limits and East Old Road 30 from CR 450E to SR 13. In other business, commissioners: Approved lowering the speed limit on CR 750E from Armstrong Road to the North Webster city limits from 55 mph to 35 mph. That’s to help drivers slow down before they near the school zone speed of 20 mph in the area, explained Moriarty. The commissioners’ next meeting is 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the Kosciusko County Courthouse’s Old Courtroom.
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The 2022 Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation’s Cattail Award recipient Bill Hess skied in the wetland areas of Conklin Bay and Johnson Bay as a young man. Then he went to Colorado State University and learned the importance of the ecosystem while studying for a degree in natural resources. He saw the areas where he used to ski being attacked by large developers and being destroyed. He talked to his father and they found the right people living around the lake to help get a line drawn in the sand to stop the destruction and have protected areas. Hess, who is going off the Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation Board, has served since 2013. He has served as co-chairman of the healthy shorelines committee and was responsible for the yearly installation and removal of the ecozone buoys around the lake. It has been for his efforts with the ecozone that he was awarded the Cattail Award at the Lake Celebration Saturday, July 30. The award is presented yearly to someone or persons who have given time, talent and resources to WACF and has a passion to preserve the quality of the Lake Wawasee Watershed. Hess shared his story that has led to the Johnson Bay and Conklin Bay areas being protected. “It’s good to get this,” he stated. “I appreciate this.” Hess has also donated the “old family pontoon” that he has used to install the ecozone buoys to the conservancy for future use in that endeavor. The annual Lake Celebra-
%\ '(% 3$77(5621 (GLWRU ,Q &KLHI Filing for the three open district seats for the Wawasee Community School Corp. Board of Trustees is underway with a noon, Aug. 26, deadline. While Andy Cripe has served on the board, representing District 2 - Turkey Creek Township, since October 2021, he will be filing to be elected by the constituents of the school corporation. Cripe was appointed following the resignation of Mary Lou Dixon and fulfilled the remainder of her term. “I’m going to run. I take this commitment seriously. It was a big decision,” he stated. Robert Fisher, elected to the District 1 seat for Tippecanoe Township, stated, “I have decided not to run for re-election heading into my fourth term with the Wawasee School Board. I have been
a part of a great school corporation that has wonderful facilities, caring and educated staff, teachers and administration. “In the past 12 years that I have served, I feel that I am leaving the corporation in a better educational and financial position than when I was elected. I am looking forward to this next chapter in my life, spending more time with friends and family.” Rebecca Linnemeier had already announced she would not seek re-election to her fifth term on the board. Linnemeier serves District 3 representing Van Buren Township and Jefferson Precinct 3. Any resident residing within District 1 — Tippecanoe, District 2 — Turkey Creek or District 3 — Van Buren or Jefferson Precinct 3 boundaries may file their candidacy to seek a seat on the board within the districts in which they reside.
Bids opened for sewer district project %\ '(% 3$77(5621 (GLWRU ,Q &KLHI Bids for two of the three septic elimination projects for the Tippecanoe & Chapman Regional Sewer District have been received and taken under advisement. The third set of bids will be opened Thursday, Aug. 4. The overall project was divided into three subprojects: Contract A,
Chapman Lakes Wastewater Collection System; Contract B, West Tippecanoe Lake Service Area; and Contract C, East Tippecanoe Lake Service Area. This allowed contractors an option to bid on one or all of the projects. Selge Construction Company Inc., Niles, Mich.; Niblock Excavating Inc., Bristol; and HRP Construction, South Bend are the three Continued on page 2
Indiana’s Largest Marina 1(: %2$5' 0(0%(56 ³ ,QFRPLQJ ERDUG PHPEHUV IRU WKH :$&) DUH &LQG\ 3HWHUVRQ 7RP &RWWUHOO DQG %HFN\ /HYLQVRQ tion is a time when the Cattail Award is presented, outgoing board members are recognized, new board members announced and an update on WACF projects including the Wawasee Inlets Nutrient Study. In addition to Hess, outgoing board members included Dan Berkey, who has been with WACF for at least 27 years and was one of the people instrumental in starting the Friday Canoe Trips; and Rick Winter, who it was said had served the shortest term on the board. Three new board members, each with a long family history on the lake, will be Tom Cattrell, Becky Levinson and Cindy Peterson. It was stated that Peterson will become the chair of the education committee. During his opening remarks, John Bearss, chairman of the board, answered a question he had been asked: “What have you learned being on the board?” He stated he learned “everything is connected.” He provided exam-
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