Property of MAY 0 1 REC'D WAYNE PUBLIC LIBRARY The Wa·yne I Single Copy 75¢ Sections - 3 Pages - 28 Economic Summit to be held in Wayne Wayne Area Economic Development, Inc. economic development, industry, city/coun­ will host the second annual Economic ty/state/ federal governments, workforce Development Summit, "Rural Economic development, small business, investors, Development in the 21st Century", on education, inventors, local/state/federal Thursday, May 15 from 8 a.m until 5 representatives, entrepreneurs, and stu­ p.m. in Gardner Hall on the Wayne State dents. College Campus in Wayne. Registration f~r the event is $29 for the The keynote speaker for the one day first registrant and $19 for each additional event will be Don Holbrook, CEcD, a pri­ registrant from a business and includes vate practitioner involved in the major the luncheon, refreshment breaks, and elements of site location analysis for event materials. On-line registration is major private sector investment projects. available at http://cariregistration.un!. Holbrook, the author of "The Little Black edul by May 2 or by mail to WAEDI, 108 Book of Economic Development" and "Who West Third Street, Wayne, Neb. 68787 by Moved My Smoke Stack?", advocates a May 6. Checks should be made payable to seven step process to achieve such world Wayne Area Economic Development, Inc. class community mindsets. Other topics will be presented by profes­ The event is funded in part by a grant Hit and run accident sionals in the areas of Housing, Workforce from the Nebraska Departmentof Economic Development, Business Succession, Tax Development, administered by the Rural Wednesday morning Officer Dominic Consoli located three vehicles in the First National Bank Increment Financing, Angel Investors, Development Commission. Funding is also parking lot that had apparently been involved in a hit and run accident. Damaged were a 2007 Business Retention & Expansion, Site provided in part by a grant from the Ford Explorer, a 2004 Saturn Vue and a 1994 Buick Park Avenue. After meeting with the owners Selection and Changes on Main Street. United States Department of Agricultural ofthe damaged vehicles, Officer Consoli was told by WSC Campus Security that they had received The public is invited to attend as well Rural Development. The event partners a hit and run accident report involving a white car that matched the suspect vehicle. Follow as professionals in the following areas: are equal opportunity providers. up investigation lead officers to a 1996 Chevrolet Lumina with damage to the right front corner parked in the 400 block of East Fourth Street. The driver of the Lumina, Arthur Ford, age 23, was cited for Leaving the Scene of a Property Damage Accident, and Careless Driving. No formal charges have been filed at this time. ' Elementary school expanding in technology with purchase of Interactive Smart Boards By Lynn Sievers helpful with providing funding for the welcomed. Of the Herald project. "Please stop by the elementary school Celebrating and remembering Wayne Elementary School recently pur­ "Smart Boards are interactive white­ and check out our new technology," chased two Interactive Smart Boards, two boards, which are like having a gigantic Schrunk said. "We thank WEB for their Lisa Karel and Nancy Johnson were among two members of the LCD projectors, two USB/Bluetooth and computer in front ofthe students. Anything generous purchase and all their past sup­ two AV carts. Funding for the technology that you can do on a computer, can be done port. Our students are benefitting from all Wayne County Relay For Life Team who sold luminaries at the purchase included approximately $5,000 on a Smart Board," said Daryl Schrunk, their work." corner of Seventh and Main Streets on Monday. Members of the from Wayne Elementary WEB and approxi­ Wayne Elementary School principal. About WEB: Wayne Education Boosters committee have been working for several months in preparation mately $1,000 from the Wayne Community Schrunk went on to say that Smart (WEB) is a parent-based organization that of the 10th annual Relay For Life, which will be held at Wayne Schools Foundation. Boards have pens that can be used to Daryl Schrunk, Wayne Elementary write on the board or can be written on See BOARDS, Page 4A State College Friday and Saturday, June 6-7. School principal, noted they have been with your finger. With a cursor, Smart trying to update technology in the elemen­ Board pen or finger, a person can move tary school. A technology committee was items on the screen anywhere they want. Friends and family surprise Concord started awhile back and they traveled to For instance, if you were working on the area schools to see what they have in place subject of money with your students, you for technology. Later, the technology per­ could have coins (interactive ones) on the resident with horne improvement project son at ESU#l helped Wayne Elementary Smart Board screen. The teacher would By Suzy Johnson just before she arrived home at 5 p.m.... family's tour around her newly sided home School with their technology planning and ask a student to come up to the board and Concord correspondent an 18 wheeler blocked her view until the and freshly painted garage, a 'potluck' implementation, as well as Dr. Tamera show 60 cents. The student could drag two Friends and family of Gretchen Dietrich words, "Move that truck" were chanted. supper was held at the cafe/firehall for Worner of WSC. Also, WEB and the Wayne quarters and a dime to another location on gathered last Friday afternoon, wishing Happy tears began to flow as the birthday Community Schools Foundation, were the board to show their understanding. the weather was better, but they began song was sung. Following, she and her See PROJECT, Page 4A Dr. Tamera Worner, Associate Professor scraping, repairing, and planning to side of Physical Sciences and Mathematics at her home and paint her garage in honor of Wayne State College, added that after Two men arrested her 60th birthday which is the first part of teachers use the Smart Board for a les­ May. son, it can be saved to a file and sent to for felony assault This Concord community has a "tradi­ students via email who were absent from tion" of surprising those who leave town At approximately 1:40 a.m. on April 28, class or used again for future review. for a long weekend or for a special reason. officers of the Wayne Police Department "Smart Boards are becoming prevalent Sometimes the "surprises" are really stopped a 1997 Chrysler Sebring near across the state of Nebraska," said Dr. surprising, but are meant to do no harm. Seventh and Main after receiving a report Worner. "Most teachers I know that have Little did she know that "turn about is fair that a female in that car had been assault­ one say they would not, and in some cases play" and that a total of 40+ volunteers, ed earlier in the> Prime Stop parking lot. could not, go back to teaching without one. including six excellent carpenters turned Officers discovered a 20 year-old woman The Smart Boards at the elementary school her home into a beautiful piece of art. who had obviously been severely beaten. are the first ones, I believe, in Wayne." The wives and women of the area baked An ambulance was called immediately and Dr. Worner added that WEB used funds and furnished food and helped paint. the victim was taken to the hospital. raised through the Carnival, candle sales Breakfast, lunch and supper were provided KiJuane Leach, age 20, of Wayne, was and t-shirt sales to purchase the two por­ each day of the entire weekend. Friends arrested for First Degree Domestic Assault table Smart Boards. and family came from Wayne, Laurel, and was jailed in the Pierce County Jail Schrunk notes it's really hard to describe Concord, Wakefield, and the state of Texas. Eighteen year-old Jamel Jobnson of Norfolk all the possibilities of this amazing tech­ Gretchen's son, Aaron, and two of her three was arrested for being an Accessory to nology. He added that the future goal at brothers, Andy Anderson of Wayne, Fred a felony, and was Jailed in the Thurston Wayne Elementary is to have one Smart and wife, Janice from Texas, who came Just County Jail. Board per every grade level to share K-4 for the occasion, and sister Doris Jones This investigation actually began shortly (five grade levels, so five Smart Boards... and husband were all present. after 10 p.m. when the police department one Smart Board in the library and one Sunday afternoon was a very special received a report of a female being forced in the Resource Room). He hopes that time not only for Gretchen, but everyone into a car which matched the description of WEB can fund this next year but that any A surprised Gretchen Dietrich came home to find her house an extreme present. Everyone gathered on the street the Sebring. donations from the community would be home makeover with a bow tied on it in honor of her 60th birthday. 2A Thursday, May 1, 2008 Obituaries _ Phillips Petroleum and later Pantex Corporation. InAmarillo she met her first wife Barbara. .Thomas McClain husband, Arvid E. Hamer, an Army Air Corp Corporal stationed in Burial was in the Wakefield Cemetery with military rights conducted Thomas C. McClain, 75, of Wayne died Thursday, April 24, 2008 at English Field, Texas. They married in 1943. Arvid's military career took by the Wakefield American Legion Post #81. Bressler-Munderloh Funeral Providence Medical Center in Wayne.