Shipshewana Town News
The staff at the “Shipshewana
Event Center and Auto Museum” is
very excited to announce the booking
of “Spike and the Bulldogs” for two
engagements scheduled for June 8
and November 9 this year at the Event
Center. This iconic group has been a
favorite dance band for many years
in Northeastern Indiana and southwest Michigan playing 50’s and 60’s
music from such artists as Bill Haley,
The Beach Boys, Righteous Brothers
and artists from the Motown sound.
The group has been an opening act
for the Beach Boys, Chubby Checker
and Herman’s Hermits and has been
voted “Best Oldies Rock Performer”
from 2002 thru 2009 by the readers of
“whatzup” magazine (Yes, there really
is a magazine by that name!).Each of
their engagements is well attended, so
make sure you get your tickets early
by calling the Event Center at 7683021. Tickets in advance are $15.00
per person and will be $20.00 at the
door. In each case a 50% discount will
be given on the admission price to the
Hudson Auto Museum. Plan on attending, it’s going to be a great evening of
good old Rock and Roll and as an added
value, tour the Hostetler Hudson Auto
Museum!
Town staff continues to work
on spring projects that will require
attention. Dean Gillette has been
out a number of times sweeping the
streets. He continues to fill as many
of the potholes as possible despite the
tendency of this year’s winter wanting
to stick around. The small “monsoon”
of April 18 and 19 put a lot of pressure
on the Town storm water and wastewater systems, but again Dean and Boyd
Jones did an excellent job of keeping
the systems working. Tim Sheteron is
spending a large portion of his time
completing the usual prepping, repair
and upgrades to the soccer field and
the ball diamonds. Tim also does a
great job overseeing the Shipshewana
portion of the Pumpkinvine Trail and
still continues to take care of many, if
not most of the maintenance issues in
the towns facilities including the Event
Center/Auto Museum. Tim’s electrical
background is not only valuable with
those projects, but also in assisting
both Dean and Boyd.
The town will be hiring Keith Prill
effective May 6 to assist in the duties
in both water and wastewater. Keith is
a fourth year civil engineering student
at Trine University in Angola, Indiana
and will be serving in an intern program for approximately 15 weeks this
summer. The program allows Keith to
gain some job training and blend this
with his academics. The program also
allows Boyd Jones the opportunity to
work on various maintenance procedures and programs, review and make
recommendations on the water and
sewer ordinances and begin planning
for a mapping program that will allow
the Town to have easily accessible mapping of water, sewer and storm water
systems. The intern program is somewhat new and offers an opportunity
I like my mom because
she does not make me work in the
garden and does not make me chore.
— Justin, age 9
by Mike Sutter
to provide job experience to certain
engineering students who express a desire to work in water distribution and
wastewater collection. The benefit to
the town is that it provides permanent
personnel the needed time to complete
some very important infrastructure
planning and administrative projects
and still serve the needs of our customers.
The town reminds everyone that
operating a golf cart is allowed, but the
cart must be properly permitted by the
town and does require the operator to
have a valid driver’s license. Operation
of the golf cart is intended to be on
town streets and doesn’t include driving it on state roads.
With spring comes a desire to clean
out your unwanted ‘stuff’ and offer it
in a garage sale. Again, garage sales
require a permit, if held within the
Town’s limits. Staff at the Town hall
can also assist with this requirement.
There are some parking changes
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