Echoes of the Past

10 Years Ago Monday, April 4, 2011 Cheryl Plomann leads the establishment of Best Buddies Pet Pantry to help local families in need of care for their animals. . . Chesterton Tribune celebrates 50 years as a daily newspaper. . . St. Patrick School’s seventh- and eighth-grade girls team wins the PAC tournament. Coaches are Marc Troop, Matt Ellman, and Jerry Geenen. . . CHS JV team wins a double header over Mishawaka. Winning pitchers are Alexis King and Jessica Stacy.

15 Years Ago Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Construction is underway at Coffee Creek Center on an out-patient surgery center for Lakeshore Bone & Joint Institute. . . July Tyler is installed as present of the Chesterton Woman’s Club. . . Supporters of the Military organization holds a pancake breakfast to raise funds to send packages overseas. A total of 202 packages was mailed on April 1. . . Rachel Ton and Sagan Newham win art awards in the Secondary School Showcase at Valparaiso University.

25 Years Ago Tuesday, April 2, 196 QUEST group (Quality Utilizing Educationally Sound Taxation) invites the community to a forum to explain its opposition to a proposed new Chesterton High School building. . . Cost of land needed to extend Ind. 149 may doom the project. . . The Little Calumet River is one of three waterways slated to get a bonus stocking of Coho salmon.

50 Years Ago Friday, April 2, 1971 Northern Indiana Public Service Company has given an analysis of possible Kankakee River sites for construction of future electric power generating stations to various governmental agencies concerned for review and comment, NIPSCO Chair Dean Mitchell said today. Mitchell said that the Kankakee is one of the few waterways in Northern Indiana which could provide a suitable source of make-up water for a power plant installation away from Lake Michigan. . . Chesterton issued 10 building permits in March, at a total cost of $32,560, Clerk-Treasurer Mary Cherry is reporting. Among the permits: a duplex permit to Bruce Barnes for building at 415 Lincoln Ave.; and a new home to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Serbin, 1524 Union Ave. . . Two courts will be open in Chesterton Park this weekend, if weather permits, but lights will not be on yet, the Chesterton Park Board announced at its meeting last night. Also: Co- Directors of the nine-week summer recreation program at Chesterton Park will be Joe Haklin and Mary Thoesen, with Sue Speckhard assistant director. . . The Chesterton High School Girls Athletic Association (GAA) team walked away with first-place honors in a three-way meet in Goldsborough Gym on Wednesday. CHS rank first with 106.05 total points, followed by Wheeler with 74.35 and Washington Township with 23.35. . . Sunday’s TV Highlights: “Here Comes Peter Cottontail,” ABC. One-hour musical cartoon about the year the Easter Bunny overslept and missed Easter Day. Narrated by Danny Kaye.