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Chautauqua-Wawasee announces 2023 event lineup
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Chautauqua-Wawasee has announced its 2023 event lineup, featuring some old favorites and some brand new events. “Programming will be 75% the same as 2022 programs, but with new speakers providing new content. We are adding four new faith-based programs, since we felt our 2022 support of the Faith pillar was inadequate,” said Mark Knecht, president of Chautauqua-Wawasee. Chautauqua-Wawasee’s 2023 spring musical performance will feature the Ball State University Singers, an elite musical show choir of 40 students, performing a wide variety of popular hit songs and musical theater. The singers are under the direction of Jodi Cotton-Street. Devin Van Lue, a 2022 graduate of Wawasee High School, is an ensemble member of the choir. The concert will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the school auditorium, 1 Warrior Path, Syracuse. General admission tickets are $10, with VIP seating $20. Knecht noted tickets are expected to sell out quickly for this event. For ticket information, visit chautauquawawasee.org or Chautauqua-Wawasee’s Facebook page or call Debbie at (574) 377-7543. Knecht said the Purdue Singers are expected to return in 2024, with a group from Notre Dame being considered for 2025. In April Chautauqua-Wawasee will host a faith series, presented by Michael Spath, DMin, Ph.D.,
Syracuse Town Council President looks back on 2022 %\ /$85(1 =(8*1(5 6WDII :ULWHU “It was a very interesting, trying year,” said Bill Musser, who served as Syracuse Town Council president during 2022. Mother Nature was the one who made it a trying year for town employees, with weather playing a huge factor. The Syracuse Street Department did five times the brush pickup than it has done in the past. The community brush pile, which is converted to mulch, is to the limit. “It really put pressure
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on the (street department) team. I can’t thank those guys enough,” he said. The public works department also had a number of water leaks to contend with. Musser noted a number of companies have come into town to install fiber optic cable. While these companies were given maps of the pipes, Musser noted the maps tend to be old and not always accurate, so the fiber optic companies would occasionally hit the pipes while digging to install the cable. Musser also really wanted to see the creation of a dog park
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A few folks were lined up as early as 2 p.m. today at The Owls Nest, North Webster, for an opportunity to get a free Christmas dinner. Distribution started at 4 p.m. with only 150 meals available, and by approximately 4:40 p.m. all meals had been distributed. The meal distribution was moved from Saturday, Dec. 24, to Thursday afternoon due to the pending weather predictions. The dinner consisted of Parmesan crusted chicken with a white wine sauce, garlic mashed potatoes, homestyle green beans, a roll and butter. A crew from The Owls Nest dished up the meals while volunteers from Ruoff Mortgage, along with Lisa Strombeck, Mike Shock, Monica Wilson, Chris and LeAnn Francis, Lindsay Grossnickle and her daughter, Norah, and others joined in handing out the dinners. Recipients of the meals were elated, many offering thanks and saying, “God bless you.”
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in town. The property on Dolan and Main streets was considered. However, the Syracuse Public Library is looking for space to expand and the Dolan property was the most centrally located. While Ridgestone Developers, which is converting the old Syracuse Elementary School into apartments, has donated property to the town for a dog park, the project has stalled. The Ridgestone project has several apartments completed. Musser said he’s had an opportunity to tour the completed units. Continued on page 2
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executive director, Indiana Center for Middle East Peace. “Our program team felt we weren’t providing adequate programs in support of the Faith pillar,” Knecht said. “Our research discovered Spath of Fort Wayne, who has a program, ‘Religion: Where It Came From, Where It’s Heading and How It Continues to Change the World.’ “This interactive three-part series explores faith, spirituality and religion, their origins, how they shape and were shaped by the environment, the development of the brain, and human social patterns. We’ll also discuss why this is so important to our faith today as we continue as a species and as individuals, to search for meaning and to understand our place in the universe.” Chautauqua-Wawasee is partnering with several Goshen churches to bring this series to the public. All sessions will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. April 12, 20 and 27, in the Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Goshen Community Center, 1820 Greencroft Blvd., Goshen. The month of May will feature a number of favorite Chautauqua events, including partnering with the Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation for Earth Day events from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 6. The first Lake Wawasee “Points of Interest” Historical Cruise will be held May 18, followed by the Wawasee Fine Arts Festival at Oakwood May 27 and the third annual Taps Across the Water at
dusk May 28. In June the Patriotic Speaker Series will feature Abigail Adams and Martha Washington. The two, wives of Founding Fathers John Adams and George Washington, are the first Patriotic women to give a presentation in the series. “Our 2022 feedback forms proposed we offer a women’s perspective in 2023,” Knecht said. “Abigail Adams was a choice. When we spoke to an Abigail reenactor, she asked if we’d like to have a program that included Martha Washington. We loved the idea, so we will have them both.” The ladies will give their presentation from 4:30-5:40 p.m., followed by the annual Patriotic Pops Concert by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m. In July Chautauqua-Wawasee will introduce a new program, “Wawasee Walk Down Memory Lane.” “The feedback we regularly receive is the desire for more programs about local history,” said Knecht. A 1937 video taken from a boat while cruising the circumference of Lake Wawasee exists. A second video, created to market the Spinks Hotel, also exits. A third video of the 1950s Chinese Gardens is also available. “The ‘Memory Lane’ program will present these videos and will use this program as a springboard to solicit personal old home movies people may have in their attic, closet, etc. These will be accumulated, converted to new media and used for a program in Continued on page 2
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