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George Hopkins will turn 90 this year and he says he’s the luckiest man in the world. He is a World War II veteran who spent time in the European theater at the end of the war against Germany. He married his wife, Mary, in 1950 and they raised three children together and were married for more than 60 years until her death eight years ago. Hopkins now lives in DeMotte with his daughter. He enjoys driving himself around town and visiting with people. He also enjoys telling stories about his life and his time in the Army during the “big war.” He was born in September 1926 and was raised in Illinois before leaving for the steel mills in Gary at the age of 16. He said he had uncles who worked in the mills and they enticed he and his mother to move up north. He began working at US Steel and other than his stint in the Army, he worked his whole life at the mill, retiring after 35 years. He quit school in eighth grade to help support his family after his father left them while he was just a young boy. His uncles helped the family when they moved to what was then called East Gary, but later became Lake Station. He and his wife lived in Lake Station, where they raised their two daughters and a son. He was drafted into the Army at the end of 1943 and was discharged in 1946. He was in the infantry, 2nd Cavalry, 94th Division, and his unit arrived in England on the Queen Elizabeth. “Hitler was about done,” he said, “but there was still plenty of clean up.” He didn’t think he would be accepted into the Army because, he said, “I didn’t think they’d take a skinny little guy like me.” He made it through the required physical in Indianapolis and trained at Ft. McKinley. His unit went to Germany through France after crossing the English Channel. They moved through the country helping to free the people in the concentration camps and prisoner of war camps in France, Germany and Czechoslovakia. In one of the towns they passed through, Hopkins said a child came out of one of the bombed out buildings, begging for food. The soldiers were strictly forbidden to interact with the German people, but he said he decided he would face court martial to help the child. He gave him some of his K-rations, but didn’t get into
any trouble for disobeying an order. Members of his unit were sure they would be heading to the South Pacific in the continuing war with Japan. Shortly before ending their deployment in Europe, word came that the United States had dropped the H-bombs on Japan and that the fighting had ended there as well. Hopkins said it was General George Patton himself who announced the “end of war all over the world.” His fellow soldiers were excited to hear the good news. This meant they’d be going home instead of to war. After his return from the Army, U.S. Steel had saved his job and his seniority, so he went back to work in the mill. He met his future wife, and after dating for a year, the couple were married. Now, Hopkins enjoys spending
time with his grandchildren and numerous greatgrandchildren. He attends the veterans programs at the schools and has been a life member of the VFW of Hobart. With time on his hands, he has been tracing his geneology. He has found relatives dating all the way back to 1650. His grandfather served during the first World War. Hopkins is looking forward to his 90th birthday and many more to come.
Left: George Hopkins today, at nearly 90 years old.
Bottom left: George Hopkins in uniform during his time serving in WWII.
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The members of DeMotte Boy Scout Troop 167 are always striving to help others.
Quigg: Community service a priority for troop 167 By Nicole Cox Correspondent
DeMotte Boy Scout troop 167 originated in early 2000s and has been active for about 15 years. Scout master, Craig Quigg, says the troop is a member of the Wheatfield Chamber of Commerce and does a lot of community service. “I’m big on service for the community,” Quigg said. “We are currently getting ready for our ‘Bags of Food’ event where we put bags on people’s doors, they put food in it, and we collect them. Last year we raised 1,300 pounds of food for the food pantry.” But Troop 167 isn’t just about helping others. It’s also about having fun and adventure. Quigg has been involved with the troop for four years. He helps lead meetings, guide the boys on getting their work done and keeping rank, and also just being there to make sure they stay on track. Quigg has gone through training so that he can do certain things as a leader. Quigg
is also a merit badge counselor, meaning that he can finalize a boy’s proof so that the boy can receive a badge. Badges are where the fun and adventure begin. “We try and do a once a month camping trip with the boys at different camps so that the boys can earn new badges,” Quigg said. “We have went to Yellowstone, went to Bluesprings Cavern in Bloomington, Illinois and slept in a limestone cavern that was 80 feet under. We zip lined underground in the Mega Caverns down in Louisville, Kentucky and watched baseballs being made there in Louisville. We go to Boy Scout camp, and this year in July we are going to try and go to the Grand Canyon. We are always trying to do something interesting for the boys.” For the Grand Canyon trip, Quigg went on to explain how one of the leaders, David Straley, is an avid backpacker and will be able to help See TROOP, Pg. A6
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Manns loves to make other seniors smile at JCCS By Caitlin Sievers csievers@rensselaerrepublican.com
Pearl Manns is always on a mission to make others smile. Manns’ friendly face is a staple at Jasper County Community Services’ Rensselaer Senior Center, where she’s worked and volunteered for several years. Manns moved to the Rensselaer area in 1963, but considers herself a native although she actually grew up in Lisbon, Ohio. After Mann’s husband died, she sold her house and moved north of town, next to Linda Taylor, who drove the bus for the community center. Manns’ love for JCCS began when Taylor invited her to play Bingo at the center. Soon after that, Manns got a job with Experience Works, but decided it wasn’t for her. She then spoke with Sharon Colee, executive director at JCCS, about volunteer-
ing at the center every day. Colee agreed, and Manns was soon hired on as a nutrition assistant, working with Jack and Debbie Reindt. “I just loved it,”
“I think it’s just kind of coming here and seeing the people and the smiles and if they don’t smile, I’ll make them smile. It’s just been a real, real pleasure.” Pearl Manns
Manns said. “They showed me what to do in the kitchen and how to do it. And I fell in love with them. They were beautiful people to work for.” Manns feels love every day that she comes to the center. “It wasn’t like a job, it was like a pleasure,” she said. “They never treated me like I was
below them, they were all equal. And the love that outpoured from them, if I could have bundled it, I would have.” Manns knows that the people who come to the center feel comfortable there because they know they will be treated with respect, regardless of their physical limitations. “Even though it’s a center for any age, it is a center that’s mostly motivated toward the elderly,” Manns said. “And since I too am elderly, I enjoy that. I know a lot of them have lost their spouses and they come here for companionship and fellowship.” Manns was employed at the center for five years, but recently went back to volunteering due to See MANNS, Pg. A7
Right: Pearl Manns laughs with friends at Jasper County Community Services Rensselaer Senior Center.
Below: Chandler Morely, of Sodexo, Pearl Manns, and Debbie Reindt, former nutrition site managers, serve food to Jerry Thomas at the JCCS Rensselaer nutrition site last year.
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Over the years, we have grown and gained resources that add to Rensselaer’s quality of life. New businesses, expansion of our industries, beautification projects for our historic downtown area and parks, and a new building for our volunteer fire department scheduled to be completed this year. Also the I-65 water extension has been completed and the new weather treatment plant is to be completed by the end of 2016 As we move into developing the future of our city, our constant mission is to plan ways to promote growth, promote the economic stability of the downtown and the entire city, while looking at being environmentally friendly and protecting our natural resources such as the Iroquois River. I am proud of the city’s dedicated and professional staff plus many volunteers that work very hard towards a vision of a great city we call home. Rensselaer is a thriving, growing and caring community. By working together as a team, as one voice, one city, one future - we can steer the destiny of Rensselaer to continue to be a great city for generations to come.
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Hancock goes above and beyond for KV Middle School By Tom Sparks
will gather, re-sort and package for return to Correspondent the state-designated test It is common knowl- ing company for scoredge at Kankakee Valley ing. When the middle Middle School that if school moved to the curyou need to know how rent building, an to get something done In-School Suspension or find out how it was supervisor was needed done previously, you and Hancock again find Kathy Hancock and changed hats. Upon the ask her. Chances are, arrival of current she was the one who did Principal, it previously. Mike Cornwell, Hancock, of Rensselaer, “Sometimes, the a Zeros Aren’t Permitted prohas worked at kids just need a gram was the school little reassurance started to since 1989, holding a mul- and guidance, and assist with homework titude of posiI do my best to completion tions that have been benefigive it to them.” and Hancock took on that cial to the stujob, as well. dents, staff Kathy Hancock She also serves and adminisas a mentor trators. She is or surrogate not a teacher, parent for stubut to say she dents who is “only” an need more aide would be support with like saying Gettysburg their work in the buildwas only a battle in the ing. She currently has Civil War. eight students that Hancock’s official come to her for at least duties seem to change one period a day, every often. She began as a day. Teacher’s Aide in the Moderate Special Needs “Sometimes, the kids just need a little reasClassroom before movKathy Hancock sorts through ISTEP materials in preparation for their distribution before testing takes place. ing into the Severe and surance and guidance,” Hancock said, “and I do Profound Classes. She my best to give it to spent six years in the them.” Levels Classroom help-
ing the teacher with students that sometimes have emotional and self-control issues. When the school needed someone to do remediation lessons with select students that needed more foundation work in subjects, Hancock stepped forward and became that person. When ISTEP Standardized Testing came to the forefront, Hancock also became the coordinator of the program. She has continued that ISTEP assignment to this day, including the process of sorting, labeling and distributing close to 3,000 booklets and test sheets to the various grades at KVMS for the three days of testing in four subjects. After testing, she
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Effinger: Big projects in works for Rensselaer parks By Harley Tomlinson harley@rensselaerrepublican. com
Joe Effinger of the Rensselaer Parks Department has seen his share of projects in his 24 years as parks superintendent, but these are exciting times for the city parks. Plans are currently underway to transform the Monnett Elementary School site into soccer fields this summer, while Brookside Park is awaiting the development of side-by-side baseball fields inside the park’s oval track. Both projects are in final planning and monetary stages before construction can begin at both sites, Effinger said. “There are still some hoops, some hurdles we have to go through,” he said. “The ballparks project is being pushed along pretty heavily. We’re just not sure when it will start. The soccer fields near Staddon Field were used last year and will be again in the fall.” Hundreds of young soccer players who played as members of the Saint Joseph’s Youth Soccer League will eventually be moved to the old Monnett school grounds once fields are developed. The Saint Joe league has provided space for youth players behind student dorms for the past 10 years or more, but the college has expressed an interest in developing that ground in the future. That’s when the city approached the Rensselaer School Corporation to purchase the grounds along U.S. 231 and Kannal Street. “Eventually they will have a nice area to lay out their fields,” Effinger said of the soccer league. The ball fields could take a little more time to develop, though the park board does have preliminary drawings to look over for the project. The plan is to put two fields inside the oval track to replace the old ball fields at Staddon Field and Columbia Park. The field at Columbia Park will remain, Effinger said, as a backup field in case the number of players in the t-ball, pitching machine and baseball leagues become too many for the new fields. Currently, those leagues draw around 350 or more kids each year. “We’ve got more kids playing now in our leagues than we have in the past,” Effinger said.
Above: Rensselaer Parks Department superintendent Joe Effinger, here meeting with Art in the Park organizers at Potowatomi Park, is juggling several projects for the department these days. “I remember as a kid when you would have maybe 100, 150 kids playing, but it’s since grown a couple of hundred.” The park leagues drew 460 players several years ago, which kept Effinger and his parttime summer help busy during the months of April through July. These projects are the largest Effinger and the parks department have supervised since the playground project in 2000 when the city replaced old playground equipment with bigger, safer equipment at three sites: Iroquois Park, Columbia Park and Brookside. Then there was the project to install a new filtering system with all the necessary piping recently at LaRue Pool. The department was also involved in developing Bicentennial Park, which is located on the southwest edge of Rensselaer, approximately 1,000 feet west of the intersection of West Washington Street and
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Above: The new ballparks at Brookside Park will look very much like the plans shown here with some modifications when the project begins shortly. Sparling Avenue. The park features a walking bridge and a shelter was dedicated on the site in 2013. The department also oversaw the development of Potowatomi Park in mid-2000s that straddles the Iroquois River near the Washington Street bridge. Phase two of the project, which will create more walking trails at the park, is currently in the discussion stage, Effinger said. “Improvements take time, but I think we’ve got a great park system in this city,” Effinger said. Effinger began working for the parks department as a part-time employee in the early 1980s and has seen many projects take shape during his 34 years with the parks, including the last
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Above: Brookside Park as it appears today. The oval track will look the same once two new youth ball parks are developed in what is now the Park’s soccer field. The Bombers also used the park field for football games in the early 1900s. 24 as superintendent. “I remember as a kid when the five acres at what is now tennis courts at Brookside Park was a cow pasture,” Effinger said. “We cleaned that up and put the tennis courts in. Then a pavilion was put up near there. It’s a lot
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Members of Troop 167 are pictured here during their annual summer camp. the boys learn how to backpack efficiently. Each trip that the boys go on helps them earn a different merit badge. Last year, on a trip to Minnesota, the boys were able to work on earning canoeing merit badges. “These trips give the boys an opportunity to decide where they want to go,” Quigg said. “This is a boy-led troop and the boys raise money for these outings by holding a car wash or a bake sale. One of our major outings is in August, where we set up a corn booth at the Touch of Dutch festival (in DeMotte). We pick the corn at the DeVries farm and we sell it at a dollar an ear.” Merit badges are an important earning for Troop 167. It is a requirement for a boy to earn 13 badges by his 18th birthday in order to make it to Eagle rank-
ing. The boys can earn badges in welding, kayaking, canoeing, woodworking, cooking and many more areas. The scout leaders are always looking for an opportunity to make things fun for the boys and offer variety, while the boys strive to earn their badges. One badge that is required is a badge for doing a project or helping the community or a church. A boy scout member, Cameron Fritts, erected the stone “Welcome to DeMotte” sign that can be seen when entering the south part of town for his community project. While the troop strives to keep things interesting, Quigg acknowledges that boy scout numbers have recently diminished. “There is so much stuff being offered to kids these days,” he said. “We compete with sports,
4-H, band. We are in competition with all of these things that the boys want to do but we always stress that no matter what, education comes first. The boys can always bring their homework to the meetings (every Thursday) and get help if they need to.” Right now, there are approximately 32 active boys in the troop, eight adult leaders, and 13 members on the committee. The boys also help the committee (secretary, treasurer, etc.) to learn and know what is going on. The troop also has a chaplain in accordance with the 12 points of Scout Law. To be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent to God and doing a good turn daily. Quigg said that to him, progress means
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and service the boys provide. “We logged 300 and some hours of service last year,” he said. “If any church or organization needs our help, we will. We always bus tables for the annual pork chop dinner for the Jasper County R.E.M.C. We would like to bump our hours to about 400 this year.”
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Hancock also volunteers to take on tasks around the school that do not necessarily fall in her job description. She, with others assisting, has been in charge of the fund-raisers for the school and various charities, as well as the various versions of talent shows there. She plans trips and rewards. She even
brings cupcakes or other treats for birthdays at the school. Hancock’s spirit of volunteerism extends beyond the school building, as well. She is very active in the DeMotte First Church of the Nazarene where she was the Church Board Secretary for close to 35
years, and has also taught Sunday School, Children’s Church, Kid’s Club and Vacation Bible School. She is also active in the GraceFull Ladies who provide support for events at the church. All in all, it is amazing that Hancock finds the time to do all that she does for everyone.
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Partners Building Solutions Since 1958 The Hamstra Group has established itself a a leader in the communities of Northwest Indiana and surrounding areas. Whether it be the development of Retail Shopping Centers, Commercial Offices, Agricultural Centers, Municipal Facilities, or a number of other property types, Hamstra Builders has the answers to meet the needs of our Customers and Communities. As a leader and groundbreaker in their field, the reputation of The Hamstra Group has made them the top choice from businesses all over in Indiana and in other states. They have built schools, medical facilities, churches and stores in California, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Florida just to name a few. Greg Hamstra President & CEO
Mitch Van Kley Executive Vice President & CFO
First Church of DeMotte Wheatfield, IN First Church is building a new facility at the intersection of Route 10 and US 231 in Wheatfield, Indiana (Jasper County). Groundbreaking took place in the summer of 2015. They are hoping to have a grand opening in the late spring/early summer of 2016.
Bruce Przybylski Vice President of Administrative Operations
Eric Van Kley Vice President Controller SP19 General Manager
Bos Robotic Dairy at Bos Dairy Left - Cows waiting to be milked. Right - the cow waits for the milker to attach to her udders after she has been given a good wash.
Mission Statement To provide our customers and communities with the highest value through quality products and services; to give our employees the opportunity to excel and be rewarded for their work; and ultimately to faithfully express our beliefs through our endeavors, providing security and opportunity for our families today and for generations to come.
12028 North CR 200 West Wheatfield, IN 46392 Tel: (219) 956-3111 www.hamstragoup.com