WARSAW — What is “Avenue Q,” you ask? It’s a fictional street, with a fictional neighborhood. Both puppets and humans live on Avenue Q. They interact, they sing songs, they learn life lessons and they try to find their purpose. Sound familiar?
Read MoreWARSAW — Bob Jarboe wants to talk about death. The retired pastor, and current spiritual counsellor, is starting a forum to do just that: a local Death Cafe. At a Death Cafe — a movement across the nation — people, often strangers, gather to eat, drink and discuss … Read More
After his good friend, Jeremy Blackburn, passed away from cancer in February, Doug Koontz felt it was important to carry on the legacy he started. Blackburn was founder and the first director of the Run for Others, a race supporting Water for Good, a nonprofit organization dedicated to … Read More
What is a “Gospel dog?” It is something Lily Grace and her human mom, Amber Utter, intend for local young people to find out. Their ministry, The Adventures of Lily Grace, is a dog show performance that also teaches the audience a little about the Gospel message and … Read More
“What’s a Kosciusko?” is something Andrew Morris hears way too often. Although he doesn’t mind explaining to out-of-towners how the word is pronounced — and that it’s the county he was raised in — he’s pretty sick of the question by now. “It might have been a dumb … Read More
Kaveh Akbar’s fixation with fan mail began when he was 14. At that age, he heard the first album that truly moved him, “Business Casual” by the band Beep Beep. It moved him so much, he felt it was essential to communicate his feelings to the band. When … Read More
It was at the Kosciusko County Jail that Marc Eckel first heard John Boren’s incredible life story. Boren, the jail’s chaplain at the time, had himself spent time as an inmate in the very same jail. “I was volunteering in the jail during chapel services with John one … Read More
“I have a very unusual background,” states 82-year-old Rowena Womack of Warsaw. “Everyone has a interesting story, but my story happens to begin with being born with tuberculosis.” Raised by her aunt and uncle after her father died of the disease and her mother became unable to care … Read More
Steven Ailes contracted polio when he was 4 years old. The year was 1954, prior to the polio vaccine, when upwards of 50,000 people died from the disease. He spent six weeks at the hospital in an iron lung with his legs packed in hot sandbags to keep … Read More
The most noticeable feature of Jennifer Caudill’s artwork is the fine detail of the wildlife she paints. The deer look pensive and alert — about to leap off the edges of the canvas if spooked — and the lion’s mane contains thousands of individual brush strokes to make up … Read More
Ann Peperak has been a painter for the past 30 years. Mostly self-taught, she works in watercolor. Watercolor, she says, is not as forgiving as oil, but is quicker to work with. A few years ago, at the age of 70, she quit her job in order to … Read More
“When I don’t have a patient to visit, I feel a little lost! Every one of them has a special story.” Hulleta Carey, who turns 84 years old this month, has been volunteering with Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice for the last 21 years. Once per week, she … Read More
Rebecca Dawson has been living in Warsaw going on her 20th year. The mother of three boys met her husband at Grace College, where she obtained her undergraduate degree in psychology and a master’s in counseling. Following graduation, Dawson worked at Heartland Pregnancy Center for a year. It was … Read More
When 19-year-old Kelsea McDonald decided a four-year college degree just wasn’t in the cards, she made the decision to turn her passion into her business instead. That passion is refurbishing antique and vintage furniture to give them a second life. McDonald was introduced to antiques by her parents, … Read More
Susan Foegley was named the volunteer of the month for August by Kosciusko Home Care and Hospice. Since March, Foegley has been playing music on her keyboard for several hospice patients. Setting up her instrument on a wheelchair in their rooms, she stands and plays serene and calming piano music … Read More
Trina Hoy has been the community development director of Kosciusko County’s Big Brothers Big Sisters since Dec. 2013, but her history with BBBS begins far earlier than that. She has been a Big Sister for the last nine years. “When my granddaughter lived in Warsaw, I would occasionally … Read More
