I-94 Crash Kills Stevensville Michigan Man
Indiana State Police Troopers investigated a three vehicle crash on I-94 just east of the State Road 249 Portage exit that killed a Michigan man.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a Valparaiso man, 37-year-old Greg L. Hills, was westbound in the right lane when he lost control of his vehicle. It came to rest facing south in the right lane. A vehicle driven by Daniel VanDyke, 44, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, was slowing to avoid Hills’ vehicle in the lane when VanDyke was rear-ended by a semi-box trailer. After the collision, VanDyke’s vehicle pushed into the driver’s side of Hills’ vehicle. The semi began to jack-knife, hit the median barrier wall, bounced back and the trailer hit the rear of Hills’ vehicle.
Don Good Analyses Gas Prices
The oil price closed at $91.50 a barrel in Wednesday’s market. That prompted a call to Don Good from the Good Oil Company in Winamac.
“They took a little spike over the unrest in Egypt and the Suez Canal comes through there and that’s a big concern as far as shipping oil out of the Gulf,” reported Don Good. “There’s also a major pipeline that runs through Egypt called the Suez Pipeline and it’s a concern there that it may be impacted if the violence goes that way. I think a bigger concern there is it could destabilize the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. Their fear is that if it spreads there, that’s where we’ll really have a problem.”
Weather Causes Accidents on Indiana’s Roadways
A 17-year-old Demotte boy died in a car-semi accident Tuesday night in Newton County. Matthew Tayler apparently pulled into the path of the semi on State Road 10. Weather was a factor in the accident. The semi driver was from Janesville, Wisconsin. He was not injured.
A semi driver hit an INDOT snow plow Wednesday morning on State Road 31 near Lakeville. The semi drivers said he did not see the snow plow in front of him because of the snow hitting his windshield. The semi driver was ticketed for driving too closely.
Follow Simple Guidelines to Manage Heating Bills
With January, February and March accounting for the largest natural gas bills throughout the year for NIPSCO customers, it is a great opportunity to take advantage of simple tips to help manage bills.
Take Precautions to Avoid Frozen Pipes this Winter
When temperatures dip below freezing, homeowners should take simple precautions to keep the pipes intact and avoid pouring thousands of dollars into home repairs.
Ensure water tanks and pipes are insulated. Pipes in attics, crawl spaces and outside walls are more vulnerable to freezing. Let the water run. Letting both hot and cold lines of a faucet drip in the extreme cold can prevent a pipe from bursting. A running faucet relieves pressure between the faucet and the ice. No pressure means no bursting. Also, keep bathroom and kitchen cabinet doors open during a cold spell to let warm air circulate around the pipes. Seal any leaks in your home, attic, basement or crawl space that might allow cold air inside where pipes are located.
WKVI Archives
The coldest day ever recorded in Indiana was 35 below on this date in 1951 at the Greensburg Weather Station.
This was a big day for the Kankakee Valley REMC. On February 2nd, 1940, the first meter was installed at the home of Porter Jack at Hamlet.
Ice
It is winter —
—- Many years ago in the winter it was ice-making season on the ponds, rivers and lakes of Starke County. Really, I should say “ice harvesting.” Farmers and others from the area would be hired by the Ice Companies to cut blocks of ice to store for the next summer’s use. These blocks of ice were elevated and placed in large “ice barns” and insulated with saw dust or marsh hay. Because of the large mass of ice in one location, the ice would last for several months. Often the ice, in large blocks, was loaded into railroad box cars and shipped to Chicago and other places for the customers’ kitchen ice boxes. Bass Lake had a railroad line on the south side of the lake to carry vacationers in the summer and ice in the winter.
The Modern refrigerator has changed the way people live all around the world. It’s easy to take the “white box” in your kitchen for granted. Just take a look at places in the world which don’t have refrigeration. People go shopping every day. They may lower dairy products and other foods into a well or spring so they will stay cool for a couple of days without spoiling. There is no way that a modern America would be recognizable to you or me if it weren’t for refrigeration.
In the 1930’s, before electricity, I remember the ice box. It was a common fixture in every home. Ice boxes were usually made of wood with insulated walls, lined with tin inside. There was a door for a large (maybe a 100 lb) block of ice. The other doors were for milk, fruit, vegetables and other perishables. There was a drain tray at the bottom for the melting ice water. My Mother would put a sign (see attachment) in the window, letting the ice man know how much ice she wanted to buy that day. He would cut that approximate size with his ice pick, grab it up with his ice tongs, throw it over his shoulder, carry it into the house and put it into our ice box. I was usually close at hand to see if I could find any small chunks of ice which I could suck on during a hot summer’s day.
This last picture (left) shows the Shaws from Knox with their delivery truck ready to haul ice to customers. The Shaw family had ponds and ice houses just north of the Yellow River and north of the present location of the Knox Railroad Depot (Gateway area). Across U.S. 35 from the Depot, they owned a coal yard and ice storage building. They would regularly deliver ice in the summer and coal in the winter.
Refrigerators, as we know them now, have only been mass-produced since the late 1940s. Appreciate yours!
Jim Shilling
Starke County Historical Society
http://www.starkehistory.com
http://www.scpl.lib.in.us/historical/
Ted Hayes Remembers Jesse Clabaugh; Friday’s Show to Feature Ben Lipke
Hope you listened to the first “Ted Hayes Remembers” Friday. Ted will be in again this Friday with another interesting story from out of the past.
“You have to go clear back to 1943 for this one,” said Ted. “On this day, Jesse Clabaugh, the Community Defense Director during WWII, called for a black-out test for the county. Everyone had to turn their lights out in case of attack by the Germans. Jesse Clabaugh was the grandfather of our own Nancy Dembowski.”
Maxinkuckee Players to Choose a Different Summer Production; Location
The Maxinkuckee Players have announced that plans for the 2011 summer production will be changed due to construction at the Culver High School Auditorium, the usual venue.
In an announcement this week, Players president Mike Overmyer said the group will choose a different play, with a smaller cast, that can be more conveniently rehearsed and staged at another, still unannounced, location. Earlier, the musical Crazy For You had been selected and was announced for presentation in late July.
TV Trivia Winner Announced
Dee and Harvey Hammerlund are enjoying a new 32 inch flat screen TV. That’s because Dee was the winner of our January TV Trivia contest. Dee told WKVI management that their TV has just gone out over the weekend.
It pays to listen to WKVI! Our next contest is Time Capsule and it begins February 7th.
Knox Pastor to be Featured on CNN
Paul Begley, Pastor at the Community Gospel Baptist Church in Knox is in the “internet spotlight” this week over his YouTube video concerning the discovery of the dead cows, birds and fish worldwide.
“I tied it to the Bible, Bible Prophecies, the Book of Hosea, Chapter Four verses one, two and three,” explained Begley. “God said, ‘The beast of the field, the fowls of heaven and the fish of the sea would die.'”
Week in Review for January 24th-28th, 2011
Here is a look at some of the news that made the news in the Kankakee Valley this week:
The Starke County Commissioners had a brief discussion last week on added security at the Starke County Courthouse. Employment of extra officers to man a metal detector and if one were installed, it would mean only one entrance into the Courthouse could be used as all door couldn’t be provided with a detector.
The Knox Community School Board approved base bids for the high school renovation project. The bid went to Brown and Brown Contractors for $1,567,000.
