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The Greentown e Januarv 2000 evtne Volume 7, Issue 1 66a vaver for the veovle" Greentown Sewage Rates to Rise Sianificantlv Less Recausq. of Grant A Public Hearing was held December 21 at which time an ordinance was passed setting new sewage rates for Greentown, effective upon receipt of Department of Commerce funds ( expected in January). An increase in rates is necessitated by the planned improvements to the wastewater facility and to sewer lines. The $ 1,172,000 project is in response to a ban against accepting any new sewer lines until the town can lower the volume of water coming into the wastewater treatment plant. The ban was placed on the town by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. . The town was given approval to borrow the entire amount from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management State Revolving Loan Fund at a rate of 3.5% per year for 20 years. A grant of $ 490,000 from the Department of Commerce's Community Focus Fund was approved. A study was conducted by H. A. Umbaugh & Associates which resulted in the recommendations which were adopted by the Council. The new rates will be: base rate of $ 3.28 per 1,000 gallmonth plus a user fee of $ 10.35 per month for residential use. For unmetered residences, the rate will be $ 25.55 per month. The average residence will be paying $ 6.60 more than presently, but $ 1.90/ month less than it would have been without the = ant.. School Corporation and Teachers Agree AH employees of Eastern Howard School Corporation were granted a 3% percent raise for the 1999/ 2000 school year. The negotiating team of Eastern School Corporation and the Classroom Teachers Xssociation came to an agreement on the salaries and on 50/ 50 sharing of the increase in health insurance premiums. Board member Phil Bogue, who represented the Board in the negotiations, said, " It was a pleasureto serve on the team - there was a good atmosphere throughout". Ralph Herr, president of the teachers association said, " The contract benefits the teachers and the students". Lions Club Receives Lilly Grant The Greentown Lions Club, under the auspices of the Indiana Lions Trust, has received a grant of $ 50,000 from Indianapolis- based Lilly Endowment, Inc. to refurbish two buildings on the Howard County 4- H fairgrounds for use as meeting places for youth, social and service groups in the Greentown area. The project has been named the Greentown Community Building Project. The grant is part of ~ e Endowment's GIFT IV ( Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow) initiative, and it is one of several community option project grants approved recently by the Endowment's Board of Directors. During the last year the Endowment allocated up to $ 153 million for the GIFT N initiative. The GIFT IV program makm- available $ 1.5 million for each Indiana county, with an additional $ 1 million for community projects in the 15 most , populous counties. Some $ 300,000 of that $ 1.5 million was reserved for a matching-grant program to encourage each fowndation to improve its operations and business procedures. The remaining $ 1.2 million, as with GIFT 111, can be matched by the community foundations and used for their own purposes ( building their endowment, etc.) ' or the local community foundations can recommend projects for direct Endovyment grants - or they can choose to do both. The Community Foundation of Howard County, Inc. subsequently dedicated funds from its $ 1.2 million allocation for community projects. The local foundation endorsed the proposal of the Greentown Lions Club and it has been approved by the Endowment. Jay Freeman, chairman of the building project, states that he is very excited about receipt of the grant, He said, " The Greentown Lions have talked for a number of years about refiubishing the two exhibit buildings commonly referred to as the ' block building' and (. I the ' metal building' to make them more usable for the 4- H members, but never had the amount of money needed at the right time. When this opportunity to seek funds came about, it was possible to expand the planned use of the buildmgs to be community buildings as well as 4- H buildings. This grant will go a long way in the remodeling of the buildings." Begun in 1990 by the Endowment, the GIFT initiative has seen the growth of viable, county- based community foundations in Indiana mushroom from fewer than a dozen to more than 90. Their assets jumped fi- om less than $ 100 million to more than $ 700 million. Now in its fourth phase, the program is based on the premise that local citizens - through a prmss of interaction, discussion and decision- making - can best decide what projects are most needed in their own areas, and they can decide the best destinations for their local philanthropic dollars. ' The new Greentown Community Youth Choir presented its first musical, Hark, the Herald Angel, at a dinner theatre in Meridian Street Christian Church December 3 and 4. The cast was: Hark, Tyler Echelbarger; Choir Director, Kylie Warner; Gabriel, Kevin Boucher; Michael, Jill Zook; Mary, Hailey GosneIl; Joseph, Cody McMahon; Shepherds, Kyle Land, Mike Pratt, and Nicholas Shiffer. The Choir was composed of: Kasey Adams, Kyla Alexander, Jennifer Bogue, Ashley Bohmer, Sabrina Boucher, Shila Branum, Kaula Brown, Brittany Burton, Jenny Cass, Sage Chamness, Courtney Childers, Samantha Denato, Chelsea Dimh, Jamie Fansler, Sarah GerstorfT, Hailey Gosnell, Larissa Graves, Amanda Hartley, Sara Homer, Megan Jackson, Rebekah Jaenicke, Rebecca Kady, Brean King, Kyle Land, Autumn McDonald, Cody McMahon, Alicia Meranda, Tiffany Ploughe, Elise Pollard, Mike Pratt, Emily Rethlake, Kristi Seagrave, Nicholas Shaffer, Katie Sparling, Cali Spence, Krystyl Vandergriff, Rebecca Wooley, Melissa Zimmerman, and Jill Zook. The Youth Choir is directed by Pam Youth Choir Presents Musical England. The Choir will soon begin The manger scene was the climax of the musical, Hark, the Herald practice for its next perfiormance, which Angel, presented by the Greentown Community Youth Choir will be in the spring. Photo by R. Jenkins
Object Description
Title | The Greentown Grapevine – 2000-01, 07:01 |
Subject | newspapers |
Subject, Local | Greentown, Howard County (Ind.) |
Item Type | newspaper |
Technical Metadata | Digital images captured by Imaging Office Systems 2008 |
Item ID | im-kokomo-news-greentown-2000-01 |
Local Item ID | Greentown History Center – newspaper collection |
Usage Statement | The Greentown Area Residential Association has granted permission to the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library and the Greentown Historical Society to copy any and all issues of the Greentown Grapevine. Permission granted to view and print items from this digital collection for personal use, study, research, or classroom teaching. |
Date Original | 2000-01 |
Date Digital | 2008 |
Publisher | Greentown Area Residential Association, 1993- |
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Local News depicting eastern Howard County in Indiana. Headlines: Greentown Sewage Rates to Rise; Lions Club Receives Lilly Grant; Youth Choir Presents Musical; School Corporation and Teachers Agree |
Language | en |
Contributors | Kokomo-Howard County Public Library; Greentown Historical Society |
Source | Original newspaper: The Greentown Grapevine, January 2000, Volume 07, Issue 01 |
Relation | Howard County Newspapers |
Transcript | [PDFs are fully searchable] |
Description
Title | The Greentown Grapevine – 2000-01, 07:01 - Page 1 |
Relation | Howard County Newspapers |
Transcript | The Greentown e Januarv 2000 evtne Volume 7, Issue 1 66a vaver for the veovle" Greentown Sewage Rates to Rise Sianificantlv Less Recausq. of Grant A Public Hearing was held December 21 at which time an ordinance was passed setting new sewage rates for Greentown, effective upon receipt of Department of Commerce funds ( expected in January). An increase in rates is necessitated by the planned improvements to the wastewater facility and to sewer lines. The $ 1,172,000 project is in response to a ban against accepting any new sewer lines until the town can lower the volume of water coming into the wastewater treatment plant. The ban was placed on the town by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. . The town was given approval to borrow the entire amount from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management State Revolving Loan Fund at a rate of 3.5% per year for 20 years. A grant of $ 490,000 from the Department of Commerce's Community Focus Fund was approved. A study was conducted by H. A. Umbaugh & Associates which resulted in the recommendations which were adopted by the Council. The new rates will be: base rate of $ 3.28 per 1,000 gallmonth plus a user fee of $ 10.35 per month for residential use. For unmetered residences, the rate will be $ 25.55 per month. The average residence will be paying $ 6.60 more than presently, but $ 1.90/ month less than it would have been without the = ant.. School Corporation and Teachers Agree AH employees of Eastern Howard School Corporation were granted a 3% percent raise for the 1999/ 2000 school year. The negotiating team of Eastern School Corporation and the Classroom Teachers Xssociation came to an agreement on the salaries and on 50/ 50 sharing of the increase in health insurance premiums. Board member Phil Bogue, who represented the Board in the negotiations, said, " It was a pleasureto serve on the team - there was a good atmosphere throughout". Ralph Herr, president of the teachers association said, " The contract benefits the teachers and the students". Lions Club Receives Lilly Grant The Greentown Lions Club, under the auspices of the Indiana Lions Trust, has received a grant of $ 50,000 from Indianapolis- based Lilly Endowment, Inc. to refurbish two buildings on the Howard County 4- H fairgrounds for use as meeting places for youth, social and service groups in the Greentown area. The project has been named the Greentown Community Building Project. The grant is part of ~ e Endowment's GIFT IV ( Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow) initiative, and it is one of several community option project grants approved recently by the Endowment's Board of Directors. During the last year the Endowment allocated up to $ 153 million for the GIFT N initiative. The GIFT IV program makm- available $ 1.5 million for each Indiana county, with an additional $ 1 million for community projects in the 15 most , populous counties. Some $ 300,000 of that $ 1.5 million was reserved for a matching-grant program to encourage each fowndation to improve its operations and business procedures. The remaining $ 1.2 million, as with GIFT 111, can be matched by the community foundations and used for their own purposes ( building their endowment, etc.) ' or the local community foundations can recommend projects for direct Endovyment grants - or they can choose to do both. The Community Foundation of Howard County, Inc. subsequently dedicated funds from its $ 1.2 million allocation for community projects. The local foundation endorsed the proposal of the Greentown Lions Club and it has been approved by the Endowment. Jay Freeman, chairman of the building project, states that he is very excited about receipt of the grant, He said, " The Greentown Lions have talked for a number of years about refiubishing the two exhibit buildings commonly referred to as the ' block building' and (. I the ' metal building' to make them more usable for the 4- H members, but never had the amount of money needed at the right time. When this opportunity to seek funds came about, it was possible to expand the planned use of the buildmgs to be community buildings as well as 4- H buildings. This grant will go a long way in the remodeling of the buildings." Begun in 1990 by the Endowment, the GIFT initiative has seen the growth of viable, county- based community foundations in Indiana mushroom from fewer than a dozen to more than 90. Their assets jumped fi- om less than $ 100 million to more than $ 700 million. Now in its fourth phase, the program is based on the premise that local citizens - through a prmss of interaction, discussion and decision- making - can best decide what projects are most needed in their own areas, and they can decide the best destinations for their local philanthropic dollars. ' The new Greentown Community Youth Choir presented its first musical, Hark, the Herald Angel, at a dinner theatre in Meridian Street Christian Church December 3 and 4. The cast was: Hark, Tyler Echelbarger; Choir Director, Kylie Warner; Gabriel, Kevin Boucher; Michael, Jill Zook; Mary, Hailey GosneIl; Joseph, Cody McMahon; Shepherds, Kyle Land, Mike Pratt, and Nicholas Shiffer. The Choir was composed of: Kasey Adams, Kyla Alexander, Jennifer Bogue, Ashley Bohmer, Sabrina Boucher, Shila Branum, Kaula Brown, Brittany Burton, Jenny Cass, Sage Chamness, Courtney Childers, Samantha Denato, Chelsea Dimh, Jamie Fansler, Sarah GerstorfT, Hailey Gosnell, Larissa Graves, Amanda Hartley, Sara Homer, Megan Jackson, Rebekah Jaenicke, Rebecca Kady, Brean King, Kyle Land, Autumn McDonald, Cody McMahon, Alicia Meranda, Tiffany Ploughe, Elise Pollard, Mike Pratt, Emily Rethlake, Kristi Seagrave, Nicholas Shaffer, Katie Sparling, Cali Spence, Krystyl Vandergriff, Rebecca Wooley, Melissa Zimmerman, and Jill Zook. The Youth Choir is directed by Pam Youth Choir Presents Musical England. The Choir will soon begin The manger scene was the climax of the musical, Hark, the Herald practice for its next perfiormance, which Angel, presented by the Greentown Community Youth Choir will be in the spring. Photo by R. Jenkins |