Nappanee Advance News

Children's resale set for this Saturday

March 23, 2011

WAKARUSA — Just as surely as warmer weather signals the advent of spring, there comes the arrival of one of Wakarusa's most eagerly anticipated events. It's a sprawling, spiritual shopping adventure that draws impressive crowds often spanning across two states.

It is once again time for the annual Children's Spring and Summer Resale, which will take place at the Wakarusa Missionary Church March 26 between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. The church is located at 202 W. Waterford St. just west of downtown Wakarusa.

Coppes Commons preserving past, building for future

March 14, 2011

NAPPANEE — After decades of uncertainty, Thomas Mast gave new life to the Coppes factory just east of downtown when he bought it in 2007. Now, reinvented as Coppes Commons, Mast wants to turn the sprawling facility into a premier center for commerce and gathering.

"This an opportunity for businesses to come in and sell and produce" Mast said. "It's a unique atmosphere."

When Mast took over the cavernous, 180,000-square foot structure made up of at least 15 building projects between 1887-1955, many scoffed.

Dictionaries donated by Lions Club

March 9, 2011

WAKARUSA — Lions Club president Troy Schwartz presented 288 dictionaries to third-grade students at Nappanee Elementary, Woodview Elementary and Wakarusa Elementary schools March 4.

This is the first year the Wakarusa Lions Club has participated in the Dictionary Project. So far this year, 36 Lions Clubs in Elkhart, St. Joseph's, Marshall, Kosciusko, Wabash, Miami and Fulton counties have distributed dictionaries to 4,400 school children.

Box tops for education

February 17, 2011

Wakarusa Elementary School recently participated in a box top for education contest. The school collected 30,020 box tops, and the fifth grade won, with a total of 6,284. Miller’s Senior Living Community assisted the school's Student Leadership Team in cutting out the box tops. Pictured are Eileen Bormann, Ashlyn Romerberger, June Schieber, Caleb Lung, Natalie Gerber, Carleigh Trippel, Caleb Glick, Joshua Guzman, Ann Barrick, Elma Stickel, Lois Yerger, Mabel Eby, Michan Eby, Etta Weaver, Goldie Ramer, Dorothy McDonald and Bertha Weaver.