LaFontaine UMC to host benefit meal

LaFontaine

United Methodist Church will hold Dave Bates Memorial, Dan’s Fish /Tenderloin Fry, Drive Thru from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 25. Cost per meal is $12. Congratulations to the Southwood basketball team for winning the sectional and regional tourney. It is not how you start; it is how you finish. That timeless cliché is perhaps the best way to describe Southwood’s season under firstyear head coach Christian Perry. After opening the season with five straight losses, the Knights bounced back in March to clinch their fourth straight sectional title over Canterbury.

Saturday’s win also clinched the program’s eighth sectional title in school history.

They then defeated Blue River Valley in the Frankfort Regional.

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MENT: The trustees of the IOOF Cemetery would remind all of those who have grave blankets at their loved one’s site could you please remove them before March 30. Thank you

LAFONTAINE/ LIBERTY TWP. HISTORY CLUB met Feb 23 at Troyer Memorial Library in LaFontaine.

Seventeen members attended. We enjoyed the inaugural use of the beautiful new museum by holding our meeting there. Alec Guenin, President, opened the meeting. Sharon Pattee gave the program, on the forgotten1936 murder of Charles, Wesley and their twelveyear-old daughter Margorie Caufman from the Laketon area; and the rob- rotating museum display up by the 1st of May. We plan to rotate exhibits every 6 months.

STOUFFER’S STOCK FARM bery of John T. Bryant and girlfriend Margarete. John Bryant died of infection of a gunshot wound. All these murders were from the hand of 24-year-old Harry Singer. Harry was electrocuted at the age of 25 years on Christmas Day 1936 in the 1913 electric chair in Michigan City, IN. Oren Guenin will give the program at our March meeting on how farmers lost their farms to the Mississinewa Reservoir in the 1960’s. The rest of the meeting was on the planning of the new museum and the genealogy & research room. The old sun room will have shelving and desk made and donated by Terry and Regina Hiple for the new genealogy/research room. For the new museum book shelves have been donated by Juanita Rapp and 7 display cases have been donated by the Wabash Museum. The plan is to have our 1st

Indoor Petting Zoo, Goats, Donkeys, and Chickens oh my! (And more!) Mark your calendars and spread the word. We are having a petting zoo! All money goes toward the show team to make sure they can experience it 100% free! We put on a completely free show team for youth inner city kids to be able to show livestock and experience 4-H. Cost $2 Per Human April, May, June on Wednesday from 5:30 – 7 p.m. located 3445 W 400 S Wabash IN.

EASTER BREAKFAST will be Saturday, April 8 from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at LaFontaine Community Building. Enjoy a breakfast of Scrambled Eggs, Sausage, Pancakes and Biscuits and Sausage Gravy for a donation. Nonperishable food items will be collected for the United Methodist Food Pantry. The LaFontaine Christian Church will host an Easter Egg Hunt after the breakfast at 10:30 a.m.

NOTICE: The Alumni committee are working on the Banquet for May 6, at the LaFontaine Community Building. One person we are looking for an address is Jerry Bowman class of 1959. Any person who had attended LaFontaine School and would like to attend the LaFontaine High School Alumni Banquet. Please email or send your name, address, and email (if you have one) with year attended or graduated to etheleib@gmail.co m or address Ethel Eib 2258 E 1050 S LaFontaine IN 46940. So, we may send you an invite.

This year, to keep cost as low as we can a lot of invites will be going out by email. So, if we do not have your email address, please email me. We would love for people who attended LaFontaine School to come. It will be on Sat. May 6, at the LaFontaine Community Building.

WABASH CHAPTER IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE will be starting our spring cross shoots. We are located at 10439 S, Old State Rd. 13 LaFontaine (Somerset). We will be shooting shotguns and open sight 22 rifles and pistols; shells will be furnished. Dates are; March 26, April 2, 23, 30 and May 7. Starting time is 10 a.m. and we will be serving refreshments. Also, we will be hosting a Hunter Education Class on April 15, we will furnish a meal with the class and there is no charge for either one. You must register at inhea.com, register early as the class fills up quickly

WABASH CHAPTER IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE We would like to congratulate the latest winner of our raffle, Matt Holloway, who won a Henry side load .410. Cont. on Pg. 22.