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Leadership Needed on Pool Leadership Doesn’T Throw up Even the Most Optimistic Esti- 10 Years, It Should Also Be Possi- Lem Commercial Review wins 13 awards INDIANAPOLIS — For the High School graduate and for - picked up four first-place record-breaking effort at the Garbacz currently works at third year in a row, The Com - mer Commercial Review intern awards — three for managing IHSAA Gymnastics State The Daily Journal (Franklin). mercial Review was honored James Brosher also won several editor Ray Cooney and one for Finals as well as third place for The Commercial Review, Saturday as one of the best awards. publisher Jack Ronald. Cooney sports action photo and head - which has won more than 30 small newspapers in Indiana. The general excellence award took the top spot for sports com - line writing. Ronald also placed awards over the last three The Commercial Review is presented to the top three mentary for Rays of Insight, second for general commentary years, also took second place earned the most honors in its newspapers in each division sports feature photo and gener - for his weekly column Back in for business section/pages. history at the Hoosier State based on a point system taking al news photo, and Ronald was the Saddle. Brosher, a photographer for Press Association Better News - into account awards in all other honored as the top editorial Former county reporter the South Bend Tribune, paper Contest awards ceremo - categories. The CR was second writer. Steve Garbacz picked up sec - earned first-place awards in ny with 13, including second behind The Tribune (Seymour) Cooney won more individual ond-place honors for The CR for Division I (newspapers with a place for general excellence in out of the 26 newspapers in awards (seven) than any other news coverage with no deadline circulation of 35,000 or more) Division III. It placed third for Division III, which includes journalist in Division III, pressure for his stories about for feature photo and multiple general excellence in both 2011 daily publications with a circu - adding second-place honors for Confined Animal Feeding Oper - picture group. He added a third- and ’12. lation of 6,000 or fewer. sports section and sports event ations in Jay County and use of place award for still photo story Dunkirk native, Jay County The Commercial Review coverage for Katie Snyder’s graphics. with audio or video. First place Best editorial writer Jack Ronald Leadership needed on pool Leadership doesn’t throw up Even the most optimistic esti- 10 years, it should also be possi- lem. its hands when confronted with mate of private fund-raising ble to begin setting aside capital The pool deserves a spot at the a challenge. would top out about $500,000. improvement funds in the city top of the agenda. It gets to work, struggles to The bulk of the money is obvi- budget so that a “savings There’s no point in getting find creative solutions, keeps its Editorial ously going to have to come account” is accumulated. Those bogged down in discussions eye on the goal, and stays per- from public funds, local tax dol- funds and private donations about whether a new pool is in sistent until the job is done. lars. could reduce the size of any Hudson Family Park or at the It should be clear to everyone Mayor Randy Geesaman eventual bond issue. current pool site. by now that the days of the cur- soon for a replacement. insists that the city isn’t in a We don’t pretend to know the That’s about as useful as argu- rent Portland Pool are num- That’s the challenge, and it’s a position to take on another bond solution, but we know that the ing about how many diving bered. big one. issue, and he may be right. challenge is real. boards it has. It’s more than 50 years old. It A new municipal pool is esti- But it’s also true that there And leadership from city gov- The challenge is figuring out leaks more than a million gal- mated to cost something like $2 are ways around the 2-percent- ernment — the mayor, the park how we’re going to do this. It’s lons of water a year. And ongo- million to $2.5 million. That’s of-assessed-valuation limit board, and the city council — is time to get to work, find creative ing maintenance costs keep not the sort of money you raise when it comes to bond issues. what’s needed. solutions, keep our eyes on the mounting. with bake sales and charity auc- Given the pool’s estimated This isn’t someone else’s prob- prize, and keep at it until the job Clearly, the time is coming tions. remaining lifespan of less than lem. It’s city government’s prob- is done. — J.R. Grant process seems backwards This seems backwards. and a well-defined concept first, chase for grant money. that we realize it would look a The city of Portland is scurry- then seeking available grant dol- It would also be foolish to cob- little greedy to be asking for ing around, trying to figure out lars later, it looks like dollars- ble together a grant application more money when we haven’t whether it should or should not first-ideas-later. just for the sake of asking, with- really erased the earlier loss? apply for a Stellar Communities Editorial In other words, it looks as if out giving it the thoughtful con- And, most of all, doesn’t it grant from the Indiana Office of we have things backwards. sideration it deserves. That’s the make sense for any Stellar Com- Community and Rural Affairs. Sure, there are some worthy sort of thinking that has made munities grant application to be Why the hesitation? ideas being talked about. But the Americans cynical about “Uncle born from ideas first — not just Because the city is still under missing from the equation: A best of those — a new municipal Sugar.” a chase for “free money”? a black cloud with OCRA until credible proposal for how any swimming pool comes to mind Doesn’t it make sense to take a We think so. the ill-fated Geesaman Indus- potential grant dollars would be — don’t fall into the realm of step back? And we also think the folks at tries grant is behind us. used. what Stellar Communities Doesn’t it make sense to let the OCRA are smart enough to City officials, including Mayor In other words, the city has — grants are all about, as we folks who run OCRA know that appreciate the difference Randy Geesaman, are hopeful once again — fallen into the understand things. the city is chastened and hum- between a community that’s that black cloud will dissipate same old trap. And it would be foolish to try bled by the Geesaman Industries chasing grant dollars and one soon. Instead of developing consen- to force the square peg into a fiasco, that we’re grateful a reso- that’s seeking assistance for an But there’s still something sus, strong community support, round hole simply to be in a lution has been reached, and idea-driven project. — J.R. What would Jonathan Daniels think? One wonders what Jonathan The rules were rigged, officials places in town that would Daniels would have had to say were arrogant and dishonest, serve non-whites. At the about the Supreme Court’s and the whole thing was an entrance, Daniels was stopped major surgery on the Voting embarrassment to the rest of by a self-appointed protector of Rights Act this week. Editorial America. That’s why a white the southern power structure, Never heard of Jonathan student from New Hampshire ... the whole a white guy with a shotgun. Daniels? felt it was his duty, his obliga- thing was an Daniels died instantly from That’s not surprising. Few tion, to step forward in an his wounds. The priest would Americans have. effort to change the situation. embarrassment take months to recover. But those who recall the early In other words, he was some- His reasoning was pretty to the rest Their offense: They tried to days of the civil rights move- one who wanted to share the simple: Being an American change Alabama, and they ment and the struggle for fair rights he enjoyed with others carried with it certain rights, of America. were part of a larger move- voter registration in the Deep who were entitled to the same and those rights belonged to all ment to change the entire Deep South may know the name. rights. Americans regardless of the South. They may remember a young In Lowndes County, the right color of their skin. That sort of horrific vio- Episcopalian seminarian from to vote was limited almost That may sound obvious lence was endemic during that New Hampshire who made his exclusively to those who were today, but it was far from obvi- ed on Aug. 14, 1965, after pick- era, and memories of that vio- way down to Alabama to help white. Though the population ous in 1965 when Jonathan eting a whites-only store in lence still haunt the region. African-Americans register to of the county was overwhelm- Daniels was “agitating” in Fort Deposit, Ala. He remained So one has to wonder what vote. ingly black, less than 4 percent Lowndes County. In fact, the in jail in Hayneville, Ala., until Jonathan Daniels would have He worked for a bit in Selma, of the eligible black population effort to register black voters Aug. 20, when the last of the to say about the Voting Rights then with the sanction of his was registered.
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