Shipshewana News

* "Once Upon a Mattress" ends its run at the Round Barn on Sunday. Tickets are on sale at 800-4942, ext.

The Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada has released the results of its 2008 Warranty and Parts Survey.

By DOUGLAS BELKIN TOPEKA, Ind. -- Dan Bontrager is a 54-year-old Amish man with flecks of gray in his long beard.

Hoosiers looking for work might find some luck in Shipshewana today. A job fair is taking place at the Amish Country Inn on Van Buren Street in Shipshewana from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Employers from Elkhart and Lagrange counties that are looking to hire will be there.

Some family fun tonight in Shipshewana will support other families struggling in this recession.

A 3-year-old Wakarusa girl and a Wolcottville woman drowned in separate incidents in Lagrange County Saturday.

Eden Worship Center hosting event. The Topeka Quilt Show and Sale, celebrating its 35th year, opens today and continues through Saturday in the historic Honeyville School, which is now the home of Eden Worship Center.

Shipshewana is kicking off its first annual Quilt Festival Wednesday. Ita s a four day event featuring nationally recognized quilters in a quilt and vendor show.

A lot of citizens do not know a lot about the Amish, and are slightly ignorant when it comes to learning something new about a culture that is different from their own.

John's Bagels still has bagels, coffee and baked goods. It's still in the site of the longtime Exchange Bakery at 109 W. Lexington Ave., Elkhart.

Long before the sun breaks the horizon, Harlan Miller in rural Shipshewana, Ind., pushes back the covers, pads into his kitchen to move the cooker filled with apples onto the stove and starts to claim financial independence from the recreational vehicle industry that supported him and his family for 15 years.

Freeman Wingard is Amish, one of the so-called plain people, but he was living large.

THE GOSHEN NEWS Goshen man arrested on exposure charge A Goshen man with a history of sex offenses was arrested last week in a Mishawaka department store on a charge of with exposing himself to a child at the store.

Gospel music and singing will take place at Boardwalk in Shipshewana Friday at 7 p.m. Boardwalk is located at 140 N. Harrison St., Shipshewana.

ITa TMS FESTIVAL TIME: Rhapsody in Green blooms Friday at Island, Bicentennial and Lundquist parks in downtown Elkhart.

People on bikes, roller blades, and even those just on foot will have a new, longer trail to use in Elkhart County come Saturday.

On Saturday, a welcome addition to Elkhart County will be officially unveiled. The Friends of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail and the Elkhart County Parks Department will host the grand opening of 3.4 miles of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail.

Key action: Larry Neff of the Elkhart County Parks Department reported on progress on Phase III of the Pumpkinvine Trail, which goes from downtown Middlebury 2.6 miles to the LaGrange County line.

The Elkhart County American Red Cross will offer Baby sitters' Day Camp for children ages 11 to 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 22 through June 26.

Two people are dead and one man has been arrested after a three-vehicle crash in LaGrange County early Sunday, sheriff's deputies said.