The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 33

KOKOMO TRIBUNE NEIGHBORS SUNDAY, NOV. 9,1997 E5 Sigma Phi Gamma's festival ends today Friday deadline to register for league. PERU, Ind. An arts and crafts festival and Saturdayfest are among this week's activities. Today concludes Sigma Phi Gamma's Arts and Crafts Festival at the Peru Circus Building from noon-5 p.m.

Admission is free. Also today, the Wabash Valley Coonhunters Association Slug and Crossshoot begins at 10 a.m. at Frances Slocum Trail at the Mis- sissinewa Reservoir. Monday is the Marine Corps B- Day. All ex-MArines are invited to share a birthday cake and coffee at the Peru Municipal Airport from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

For more information, MARILYN COPPERNOLL MIAMI COUNTY COLUMNIST call (765) 472-1990. Friday is the deadline to register for the YMCA Over 35 Basketball League which will play Nov. 18- Feb. 20. Games will be Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

and at 8 p.m. The cost is $15 for members and $40 for program members. Fees must be paid by Nov. 21 in order to play. For more information, call Tom Hubbard at 472-7608 and leave a message or call the YMCA at 472-1979.

Saturday brings a meeting of the Miami County Junior Historical Society at 10 a.m. in the Miami County Museum. Junior high and high school students are invited to attend. New members are always welcome. For more information, call the Miami County Museum at 473-9183.

The YMCA offers Saturdayfest every Saturday to children in grades K-4 from 9 a.m.- 1p.m. There are crafts, games, stories, movies sports, and snacks. At 1 p.m. the children will be released to their parents or to swim in the pool. Pre-registration is urged.

The cost is $6 for members and $7 for others. For more information, call the YMCA at 472-1979. The Peru Sesquicentennial Committee is making plans to celebrate the town's 150th birthday on Feb. 14, 1998. A dinner-dance will kick off the celebration at 7 p.m.

on Feb. 7 at the Eagles Lodge. Ole Olsen Memorial Theater will perform during dinner, and the Circus City Combo will play from 9 p.m.-midnight. A limited number of tickets will be available at $12,50 per person. Part of the cost has been offset by local companies.

Other businesses will be contacted for door-prize items. To donate items, call, the Miami County Museum at 4739183. Other activities will follow throughout 1998 in conjunction with holidays and special community events. The committee encourages groups to come up with events to mark the milestone. Also, men who so desire can grow a beard for a contest during Heritage Days.

For more information, contact Katie Powell at the museum at 473-9183. There are still booth spaces available for the Seventh Annual Holiday Festival and Festival of Trees sponsored by the retail division of the County Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 6 Scouts have ball promoting sales Tons of popcorn roll into downtown Kokomo. The Sagamore Council, Boy Scouts of America and Trails End Popcorn recently presented the World's Largest Popcorn Ball at the council Service Center, 518 N. Main St.

The ball weighs 6,000 pounds and is 10 feet wide and 10 feet tall. It's completing a tour of North America, promoting Boy Scout Popcorn Sales. Available are a plastic bucket containing three pounds of popcorn and a microwave five-pack for a 12-oz. tin of Gourmet Caramel Corn for a microwave 15-pack regular and a 15-pack light for $10; a 28-oz. Gourmet Caramel Corn and a 20- oz.

97 percent fat-free Caramel Corn for $12, and a 24-oz. tin of Chocolate Caramel Crunch for $15. For more information, call 4528253. Scouts checked out giant popcorn ball last week. photo by rim Bath) Zachary shows he knows lots about leagues Young Barnes gives his dad a hand in writing column Barnes family is 'between Dad needed a week off from the Kokomo-Center Schools "Neighbors" column, so as he has done in the past on special occasions, he asked me Zachary Thomas Barnes to write this week's column.

Of course, Dad's helping me write this column because I'm only 11. Even though my column concerns some Kokomo-Center students, the focus is on our family so Dad is helping me on his own time. Our family is "between seasons." This past weekend is the only one between mid-August and mid- December with NO games. Soccer is over and basketball and baseball (my brother and I play for UCT Replay) kick in next week. We just completed the youth basketball leagues' drafts at Carver Center.

My dad hates the draft. The leagues are very competitive at Carver. Two boys who played for him the past four winters went as early picks to other teams. It really hurt my dad. Whenever it is time to change age levels, this happens.

Another boy who played the past two winters with our team was the No. 1 draft pick in our new age group. I guess the other coaches know our players have sound fundamentals. Since he's my dad and he helps coach, I don't have to go through tryouts. I'm so glad I don't because my friends talk about how much pressure they have on them with all those coaches taking notes.

I wish no one had to try out, but my dad says it's the fairest way to select players that he knows. I can see how it hurts him when he loses those players. Those boys are like sons to him. I know how he feels. Those players are like brothers to me.

It hurt when Dad told me we weren't able to draft them for our team. Those players will always be like sons to my dad even when he forgets their names. Dad gets worse about remembering names the closer he gets to 50. Dad never forgets the just the name. My mom, Mary, is always teasing Dad after one of his former ZACHARY BARNES KOKOMO-CENTER COLUMNIST track or basketball athletes stop him at a ballgame.

Dad and the athlete will reminisce (that's Dad's big word) about a particularly eventful race or game complete with finish and time or opponent and score but he can't remember that former player's name. Dad even does it to me sometimes, but so far, it's only mistaken identity among us four Barnes brothers. Grandma, my dad's mom, says cousins are next. After the draft, Dad shared his hopes that the youth coaches in town whether at Carver, YMCA, PAL, the schools or the churches understand the responsibility. Dad believes coaching young people is a huge responsibility.

Dad explained that responsibility to me by saying that parents entrust their "competitive babies" to the youth coaches. For many Peru's Duckwall new to Purdue's Varsity Glee Club Purdue University's Varsity Glee Club has 22 new members on its risers this year, including Ralph Duckwall III, of Peru. Duckwall, a 1997 Maconaquah High School graduate, is the son of Leigh and Ralph Duckwall II. More than 50 men auditioned for a spot in the world-renowned, all- male vocal ensemble. Cox named to honor societies Taylor University student Michelle Cox of Kokomo, has been named to the Chi Alpha Omega and Alpha Chi national scholastic honor societies.

Students named must have completed 30 credit hours, have a top- ten-percent ranking in their class and have good citizenship standing. Cox, a senior, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Larry Cox of Kokomo. Holtz completes summer program Sara Holtz, a sixth-grader at Park School, completed the Culver Academies Summer At SCHOOL Camp Program and earned a Gold pin and achievement award. Sara also earned a special music medal for excellence in music and involvement with the band and achieved a rank of Lieutenant Staff Officer.

She is the daughter of Terry and Diane Holtz of Kokomo. Student named dean's engineering scholar Jason Anthony Pearcy, Tipton, recently received a Purdue University dean's engineering scholarship for incoming students. The award was given to 68 incoming freshman at Purdue University. The scholarship is based on high school grades, academic achievement, high school rank, activities and leadership in high school. HBALTHY SAVINGS FORYOUR for the Holiday Season? Time for a trip to 1101 N.Washington St.

Kokomo, IN 459-0869 M-Th. Fri. Sat. "What I really want for Christmas "It's white, it's gold. It sparkles and dazzles.

It melts my heart while it turns people's heads. Darling, please visit those wonderful people David Standt Diamonds Formerly the Diamond Exchange 1 DIRECTIONS Cut out the above to your husband. Put it anywhere he might see it (pillow, plate, desk, door, Make copies as needed! and 7 in Peru High School Tiger Den. For more information, call the Chamber at or fax 472-7099. The USS NIMITZ (CVN) Association will hold a reunion from March 18-22, 1998, in Norfolk, Va.

Write, call or e-mail Bill PAschall at 428 Windy Hill Road, Blairsville, Ga. 30512, (706) 781-6105, or for more information. (Anyone with news about fundraising events, social meetings or activities, class or family reunions, should send the information at least three weeks in advance of the event to Marilyn Coppernoll, 382 W. 13th, Peru, Ind. 46970.) young people, especially the youngest age group, this is their first competition.

One of my dad's goals is that the youngsters who play for him will go to the next level of competition still loving the game. But most of all, Dad wants all the coaches to make sure they are coaching all the boys and girls, and not just their sons and daughters and the all-stars. I had better close because I have homework a book report and it's Sunday evening. I procrastinate like my dad, but not as bad. Before I go, Dad says I should invite everyone to come watch the community's youth play basketball at Carver.

We have 35 youth teams in three coed age groups 7 to 8,9 to 10 and 11 to 12 and starting the first week of December, we play Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 5 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. So, please come see us play. Goodnight.

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