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enable us to provide structured
activities for younger school-aged
youth, homework help for partici-
pating students and connection
with positive adult role models."
Michael Rouse, Lone Tree
Latchkey Program volunteer, said.
To be eligible for these grants,
rural Johnson County communi-
ties had to develop a project pro-
posal in conjunction with one of
the 39 United Way affiliated
agencies that addressed needs
identified in the recently complet-
ed Johnson County Capacity
Assessment.
One of the issues identified in
the study is the need to expand a
variety of health and human ser-
vices into outlying Johnson
County areas. The Lone Tree
Project was one of three programs
that received assistance in this
funding cycle.
Other recent grants addressed
child care needs in North Liberty
and the Oxford/Tiffin area. Last
fall United Way provided grants
for positive youth activities in
Solon and services for seniors in
Tiffin.
"In the past year, we've funded
five new projects in five rural
communities," Beverly Weber,
executive director of United Way,
said. "These are all excellent
examples of how donor contribu-
tions work to strengthen all of
Johnson County."
Deadline is Friday at 5 p.m.
THE LONE TREE REPORTER
(USPS 318-160)
United Way of Johnson County
recently announced that it has
awarded an $11,000 grant to a
Lone Tree project that will pro-
vide after-school activities for
local children. This award is part
of a special needs fund that pro-
vides seed money for collabora-
tive projects involving Johnson
County communities and United
Way affiliated agencies. Projects
will increase the availability of
health and human services outside
of the Iowa City/Coralville area.
Lone Tree children ages six to
twelve will be able to take advan-
tage of group recreational activi-
ties and tutoring services after
school. Three United Way agen-
cies, Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Johnson County, United Action
for Youth and the Mid-Eastern
Council on Abuse (MECCA) will
collaborate with the Lone Tree
District on this program.
"We're very pleased. Thiswill
allow us to reach out to kids in
rural communities. We'll be able
to provide kids with fun things to
do and teach them new skills
while they spend quality time with
a positive, caring adult," said
Karla Miller, director of Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson
County.
"This grant will provide a great
opportunity for youth in Lone
Tree. Lone Tree has few struc-
tured activities after school for
younger youth. This grant will
Publisher
Editor
Columnist, Sports Writer
Intern, Typesetter
Assistant
Assistant
Slechta Communications, Inc.
Helene Lubaroff
Ron Rife
Melinda Rouse
Don Way
Sandra Green
think of South Africa.
MANNELSDELA
-OTB-
Every once in awhile, I am
reminded of my own adage: No
matter how far li'om home you
get, be careful what you do
because there will be somebody
around who knows you or who
knows someone who knows you.
We used to tell that to our own
two as they were growing up and
I frequently reminded my students
through the years of the same
thing.
I bring this up now because I
had another one of "those experi-
ences" recently. I was coming
home from Mount Pleasant a few
weeks ago (no, I hadn't escaped
from the mental hospital there)
and, it being shortly after the noon
hour, I stopped at the McDonald's
on the north side along highway
218.
As I was just running an errand
and not dressed for anything spe-
cial, I was wearing an old T-shirt
that had Nebraska State Wrestling
Tournament printed across the
front and, under that, the word
Meridian.
I was standing in a line waiting
to order when a man in the next
Johnson County
Sheriff's Report
The following is a list of
incidents investigated by the
Johnson County Sheriff"' s[
Department April 17 to April 23 !
in the Lone Tree area:
April 19
• 7:22 a.m., Devoe
Street/West Jayne Street: The
caller reported that daughter's
car was just hit and the other
vehicle left the scene.
• 12:15 a.m., Lone Tree Care
Center: Nursing staff reported it
had located a subject uncon-
scious, but Who was now con-
scious and talking and requested
assistance.
April 20
• 8:38 a.m.i 103 North Park
Drive: Caller reported that door
on red 1995 Grand Am needed
unlocked.
• 8:17 p.m., 101 West Jayne
Street: Report of a 40 year-old
female suffering a seizure.
April 21
• 7:13 a.m., 116 West Linn
Street: Report of a Rottweiler
running loose in the area.
BUCKLE UP
There's Just Too Much to Lose
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Nebraska. and who knew all aN
Meridian.
1 have another sinai[ w0I
story that happened to me whel
first went to Meridian. Howevel
think I'll save that One for sol
other week.
line asked me if that was Meridian
School. It took me rather by sur-
prise, but when I realized he was
talking about the word on the shirt
I told him yes, it was. At that point
he said, the one near Daykin? I
again answered in the affirmative
and he introduced himself and
told me his name was Holtmeier.
I was just about to ask him if he
was related to Glennis, when he
supplied the information that he
was his brother. Glennis was a
farmer who lived in the northern
part of our district and was on the
Meridian School Board for sever-
al years while I was there.
It turns out that this gentleman
lives near St. Louis and is now
retired and he and his wife were
heading home from somewhere•
So, folks, watch out. Here I was,
50 miles fi'om home and 400
-OTB-
Here are a few more perpk
ing questions for you:
Why do we drive on parkW
and park on driveways'?
Why isn't "palindr0rr
spelled the same way backwarC
Why is it that when you Ira
port something by car, it;s calle
shipment, but when you,tranS
something by ship, it s cal
cargo?
You know that little indestr
tible black box that is used on
planes? Why can't they make i
whole plane out of the same sO
stance'? W 1!
Because of the time
I'm going to use a Robin "1 '
quote as the Thought For
Week.
Spring is nature's way of'.
ing "Let's party!"
The answer to the Brain Te
is: Nelson Mandela, the S0!
miles from Meridian, talking to a Aft'lean freedom leader.
An Expatriate Back Hom'
People have often asked me
how it is that I am always waylaid
by some kind of malady at any
given time. My parents would
probably say it is a mixture of
hypochondriac-ism and klutzi-
ness. I've always been in and out
of the doctors office since before I
was one, when I broke my first
bone - my leg, when I tried to
climb up the steps of our apart-
ment building in Chicago.
Along with my klutzincss, I
seem to have a canny ability to get
repeatedly sick with the same
virus. Think one bout of chicken
pox is bad? Try three. Or maybe
over twenty cases of strep throat
in the last seven years is more up
your alley?
So I should not have been sur-
prised that alter I was diagnosed
with mono in February, it would
return again and again, about once
every month. Just around the time
I think that the month before was
the last, positively final time that I
was going to need to sleep tour-
teen hours a day.
And true to form, this month
was no different. The week alter
our Spring play at school was
by Melinda Rout
done, and the adrenaline of
forming was out of nay syste
began to get tired. I was so
ed that this year, unlike r0;
before, Easter Weekend was al
day holiday. But out of a pos
96 hours of R&R, I.slept 6
them (give or take a few in
I was half-awake, half-asleep
every question po,ed to me
answered v, qth a "Huh'?")
Now. I am a nomaal teenag
celebrate every morning that 1
allowed to sleep in, or every'
that I can spend lazing away i
bed.
But this is starting to get ri{
lous. Not only can I not spen
day doing anything BUT s!!
but it's starting to make worl
school a bit of a pinch.
I've put in a plea to the
ness gods for tiffs to leaV e
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alone, but I think that they r ]
ting somewhere watching mY!
0
and laughing, and I really d
have much hope for their help,
right now I'm just riding it o0l
If you see me sitting someW 1
sleeping, please don't wakei
AI
up. I need all the sleep I can]
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