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Local News October 4, 2006
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Salute to autumn
By Dee Dellenbach
     Tucked away in her cozy "gourd shed" with baskets hanging from the rafters, Marilyn Nacke surveys the birdhouses and jack-o'-lanterns that have been left behind. She's taken most of them to Battle Ground for a fall festival, but there are still enough left to give a visitor a hint of what goes on he
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VFD Boot Drive helps local MDA patients
     Firefighters from the Delphi Tri-Township Volunteer Fire Department have completed another Boot Drive for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a national voluntary health agency dedicated to conquering more than 40 neuromuscular diseases that affect a million Americans of all ages.
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Judge bucks council on county hiring policy
By Debbie Lowe
     The lone agenda item for a special Oct. 2, 8 a.m. council meeting received no action due to a lack of information and funding.
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APC approves amended zoning ordinance
By Debbie Lowe
     With just over 50 percent of the Carroll County Area Plan Commission's members present at the Sept. 26 meeting, all members voted to send the proposed amended zoning ordinance to the county commissioners for final adoption.
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Correction
     The next meeting of the Delphi Community School Corporation Board of Trustees is Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. The date was incorrect as it appeared in the Sept. 20 issue of the
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Delphi to heat up next week
By Debbie Lowe
     In an effort to keep Carroll County families safe, Delphi will be the hottest place in the county next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings between 6 and 8 p.m.
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Washington Twp.
Marilyn Hile Deer Creek 859-4871
     Deer Creek Community Center will have its annual meeting Oct. 28. There will be a breakfast from 8 to 9 a.m., with the meeting following. This is an opportunity to pay annual membership fees. Grissom Reserve Base will be displaying a KC-135R Stratotanker cockpit and boom on the basketball court from
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Burlington
Cheryl Milburn Burlington 566-3453
     Kiwanis Club will meet at 7:30 a.m. Saturday for breakfast and meeting at the fire station. Plans will be made for the annual Harvest party to be held Oct. 28 in the Community Building. There will be food, games and costume judging. Volunteers are needed to help with the event.
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Camden
Mary Whitfield Camden 686-2553
     Camden-Jackson Twp. Volunteer Fire Department will have its annual Sausage & Pancake Breakfast on Saturday with serving from 6 to 11 a.m. in the Community Building.
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Flora learns moratorium on Medicaid beds stands
By Susan Scholl
     The Family & Social Services Administration has denied the request that the Brethren's Home be grandfathered against the moratorium placed on Medicaid beds by the state legislature last December.
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Fireworks at TLRSD meeting
Board refuses to answer questions during public hearing for rate increase
By Debbie Lowe
     A roomful of angry customers with complaints met with resistance fromtheTwin Lakes Regional Sewer District Board of Directors at lastThursday night's public hearing for the proposed rate increase. The same prevailed during the regular board meeting afterward.
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Commissioners adopt zoning ordinance
By Debbie Lowe
     Carroll County Commissioners set the stage for construction permits needed for all large confined or concentrated animal feeding operations that want to locate in the county. Those operations will have tighter setback distance restrictions, but they will not have to go before a county governing boar
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Board to appeal budget cut
Secretary to leave position
By Debbie Lowe
     The Carroll County Drainage Board is displeased with the county council's decision to decrease their 2007 budget and they plan to formally object. An appeal will be filed at the Nov. 3 council meeting.
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Department of Revenue gets aggressive on tax collections
     The Department of Revenue is continuing its charge to strictly enforce collections on taxpayers who did not take advantage of the state's 2005 amnesty offer. Those efforts are outlined in the final Indiana Tax Amnesty report released by Governor Mitch Daniels.
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4-H'ers earn honors
     At the Carroll County 4-H Achievement Night, special recognition was given to mini 4- H'ers and first-year members.
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Meth makers get a lengthy vacation - compliments of County Deputy Prosecutor
By Debbie Lowe
     Two individuals convicted of Class B felonies in Carroll County for making methamphetamine didn't quite make it to the courtroom on time for their sentencing hearing almost two weeks ago. But that didn't matter, because in the end justice prevailed and their fate has been meted out.
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Keeping our kids safe
By Debbie Lowe
     As the 2006 spring sports schedules were becoming active, it became apparent there was a potentially unsafe traffic situation developing near the softball field on Hamilton Street in Delphi.
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