Archive - Jun 15, 2012 - News Article

Culver author celebrates kids & summer fun with ‘Ice Cream Hotel

June 15, 2012

For Jack Johnston, the idea was so simple it should have already been taken: kids love ice cream and they love to stay in hotels. So the Culver resident’s new children’s book, “Ice Cream Hotel,” created a match made in kid heaven.

Actually, the idea itself started with a kid: Johnston’s Culver Elementary School niece, Sarah Luttrell, had created an “ice cream hotel” drawing for art class, and Johnston was immediately struck by the idea. So, though he’d never had aspirations to pen a picture book, he went home and in two hours had the story on paper.

Woman shoots self in Martin's parking lot

June 15, 2012

PLYMOUTH — An unidentified woman shot herself this morning in the parking lot of the Plymouth Martin's Supermarket.
Mike Smith was leaving the store around 9:30 a.m. when he noticed what looked like a woman sleeping in her car. He then noticed that she had a gun propped between her legs pointing at herself. Smith approached another shopper in the parking lot, Jamie Paxton, and asked him to call 911 because he believed the woman had shot herself.

Enter the Pilot News "Big Catch" photo contest

June 15, 2012

Mark Stevens caught this catfish in a gravel pit in Marshall County. Submit your "Big Catch" photos throughout June and July; photo contest winners will be notified Aug. 1. Email cstockton@thepilotnews.com or news@thepilotnews.com; or drop off your photos at 214 N. Michigan St., Plymouth; or mail to P.O. Box 220, Plymouth, IN 46563.

Sample of county golf courses supports United Way

June 15, 2012

MARSHALL CO. — Need a Father’s Day or employee appreciation gift? United Way of Marshall County may have just the thing to cover the occasion while supporting local non-profit agencies at the same time. United Way is currently selling golf cards for $50. The card holder receives one round at each of the six golf courses in Marshall County: Mystic Hills, Plymouth Country Club, Plymouth Rock, Spring O’ Mint, Swan Lake, and Tri-Way.

Two LaVille seniors earn rare honors

June 15, 2012

LAKEVILLE — Kameron Flynn and Anthony Singleton, both 2012 graduates of LaVille Jr./Sr. High School, have done something that only three students at the school have done before. The two graduated with both academic and technical honors on their diploma.