Cedar Lake Historical Association Newsletter for June

Cedar Lake Historical Association’s June 2010 Newsletter

Town Complex Grounds 7408 Constitution Avenue

Post Office Box 421 Cedar Lake, Indiana

www.cedarlakehistory.org  

Time march’s on as we have our 4^th  program of the season.

The Cedar Lake Historical Association was organized Thursday July 16, 1977. On May 10, 1978, it became incorporated by State of Indiana.

Cedar Lake is located in the south part of Lake County and is just 40 miles from Chicago.  So visiting the Lake of the Red Cedar Museum is a one day trip.  History is on display so come and see it for your self.  The air is fresh and the view of the lake will open your mind; it is a historical delight.   So come on down to our next meeting.   

• The May program will be held on, Sunday June  27^th , 2010, at 2:30 p.m...  We will be hosting History of Photography presented by Ryan Henderlong]

 On Saturday, August 7^th we will be having our annual Tea.  This year it is a “Waikiki Tea”.  Wear your MuuMuu or your Hawiian Shirt and join us at noon for tea and fun.  The “Just for Fun Ukulele Strummers” will entertain.  Cost of the tea is $12.00 for adults and $6.00 for children under 12.  Please make a reservation by calling Anne Zimmerman at 374-7562.

Waikiki Tea

          

Lake of the Red Cedars Museum

Museum Hours

Open May through September
Thursday through Sunday
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Special tours May through October by Appointment

Admission   Adults $2 ~ Children $1

Volunteers Needed The Lake of the Red Cedars Museum is staffed solely by volunteers. Tour guides are always needed. Please phone Anne Zimmerman at 219.374.7562 if you are available to give tours during museum hours. The museum consists of 14 rooms featuring settings from the past and 11 special exhibits highlighting the history of Cedar Lake. With enough volunteer help, we hope to open rooms on the 2nd floor!

A sad note to our history was the passing of Two of our historical members

Margaret Brown and Millie Schreiber.    

We send our sincere Sympathy. 

If you can please bring a pie July 4^th 2010 for the Historical Ice Cream & Pie Social on the (Museum porch) it starts at 1:00 p.m…

General meetings
General meetings are held the 4th Sunday of the month at 2:30 PM immediately following Cedar Lake Historical Association Board of Governors meetings. Please join us for the following presentations!

• Sunday, June 27, 2010: History of Photography presented by Ryan Henderlong
• Sunday, July 25, 2010: History of Cedar Lake Roller Rink presented by Robert Carnahan
• Sunday, August 22, 2010: Violin String Factory Video Presentation
• Sunday, September 26, 2010:  Historical Tour of Cedar Lake presented by Scott Bocock
• Sunday, October 24, 2010: Ghost Hunters

There are no general meetings scheduled during November, December, January or February.                                                                                                                           

Cedar Lake Historical Association Newsletter May 2010

P.O. Box 421   Cedar Lake, In 46303

Roof Repairs We Need Your Help Now!

  

We need $ 4,530 more for the new roof on our museum; because we need 210 sheets of wood on the roof, if you can help, it will be appreciated.

Cedar Lake Historical Association Inc.

Roof Donations

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We need your help to paid for the completed repairs to the Roof on the Museum.  Please return the above form as soon as possible.  Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.  Mail to the following address: Post Office Box 421, Cedar Lake, Indiana 46303.  Make check payable to Cedar Lake Historical Association Inc.

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 Cedar Lake Historical Association Newsletter March. 2010

P.O. Box 421   Cedar Lake, In 46303

Have you paid your dues?

If you have a GREEN DOT you have paid

Greetings from the Cedar Lake Historical Association:  The year is 2010 and dues for our museum can be sent to P.O. Box 421.  If you have already paid your dues disregard this statement.  If you can donate any time to keep our beautiful lake building intact please contact us. With the help of our members and friends we can make this a great year.  The Museum has our History of Cedar Lake and we need to maintain it.  The members are truly our foundation and we hope that we can count on your help.

Cedar Lake Historical Association Inc.

DUES

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State/Zip Code___________________________________________________________

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 Please return the above form as soon as possible.  Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.  Mail to the following address: The Cedar Lake Historical Association Inc., Post Office Box 421, Cedar Lake, Indiana 46303.  Make check payable to Cedar Lake Historical Association Inc.

Here is a list of membership types with dues amounts.

Individual    10.00, Family    20.00, Student     5.00, Educator    8.00, Senior    5.00, Senior Couple     7.00

Sustaining   25.00, Benefactor   100.00

Thank You                                                                                                                                                                                      Robert H. Carnahan President, Julie Zasada Vice President, Louann Miller Secretary, Jerry Reiling       Treasurer,                    Ryan Henderlong  Board of Governor, Doreen Pittman Board of Governor, Jan Symmes Board of Governor,                   Jim Laud Board of Governor, Tim Brown Board of Governor, Scott Bocock Board of Governor, Stacey Previs  Board of Governor, Ryan May Historian, Linda Engelmann Board of Governor, Ann Zimmerman Museum Director,

Jerry Smith Town Liaison

Did you Know...that simple good manners have all but vanished?
  

Remember when women were treated like true ladies?  Men stood up when they entered a room.  If walking on a sidewalk, men would walk to the curbside (originally to protect women from runaway horses) and men never cussed in women’s' presence.  Nor did women use "gamey" language.
  

Children addressed adults as Mr. and Mrs.  When company came, children would greet guests, shake hands, and then vanish.  When guests at our museum are given a tour, they are reminded upon seeing the Larsen’s parlor, that children were "seen and not heard."  Adults rate their own special time too.  "Respect you elders" was the rule.  Children answered "Yes sir" and "No ma'am."
  The way we dress has also lost its respect too..  College professors and business men were always in coat and tie.  This showed respect for customers and students, respect for themselves, and respect for their place of employment.  After all, respect is a two way street-give it, and you receive it. 

Remember when men always wore hats, and women wore gloves and hats when going "downtown shopping?"
  

Letter writing is a lost art.  Now there are phone calls, e-mails, and texting.  Among our young people, texting is the most prevalent. How do you tell the "tone" of a person's message in such a shortened text?  With Face Book and twittering, there is also a big lack of respect for privacy.  People's day to day events of their lives are posted for all to see.  How about the simple R.S.V.P. (respondez s'il vous plait- in French meaning respond please)?  Who does this anymore? 
  

The only place to still use common courteously and take time for respect for kindness, seems to be in the South. There's still a prevalence of taking time to be interested in one another.  Life moves at a slower pace.  There is less of the automatic and boring "Have a nice day." This especially irritates me if it is evening and the employee refers to day.  Instead of commanding a nice day, the little courtesies of yesteryear MADE it a nice day!

Cedar Lake Update June 15th Edition

Town of Cedar Lake 

Parks and Recreation Survey

Please take a few moments to complete our Parks and Recreation Survey. Your input will help us plan our park services to better serve you.

2010 Census Participation Rate at 79%

Your participation in the 2010 Census is crucial to the future of Cedar Lake. For every person that is not counted, the Town loses an estimated $8,200 in State and Federal funding.  If for some reason you have not filled out and sent in your Census information, now is the time to move it and groove it!  We need to get all the tax dollars we get taken from us back.

Cedar Lake Summerfest is coming beginning July 2nd!

And now a word from our Partisan Worldview....

Thanks to the facebook page of my photographer friend Thomas Semesky:

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Or are you going to get off your butts and fight for your country back?  

1) Register to vote.

2) Vote for the person running AGAINST the Democrat.

3) Rinse and repeat.

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Do you think that the oil spill would have been cleaned up lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong ago if someone like Mike Huckabee was President?  

Are you kidding me?  We would have soaked it all up and recycled most of the oil and converted the rest into fishfood!   Barack Obama is either evil or stupid or both.   Hmmmm.  Tough choice there.   

Clean up photo credit

When will Lake County Government be Cleaned up?

When YOU are ready to start working for Republican candidates because YOU are fed up with public officials taking bonus money from the taxpayers without authorization

When YOU are ready to work on new voter registration because YOU are fed up with public officials being indicted for using YOUR hard-earned tax dollars

When YOU are ready to tell YOUR friends to join the Republican party because YOU are fed up with public officials taking county owned gasoline for their own personal use.

When YOU are ready to make a contribution to support Republican candidates in Lake County because YOU are fed up with political arrogance with thinking they are above the law.

ARE YOU READY?

Memorial Day. Thank you to all who have served and all who do now!

I am a Vietnam era War veteran, but I fought the end of the war flying a desk and wearing (usually) a sportscoat and slacks.  Media was my weapon and not my M-16.  But many of my relatives and friends and many of yours and many, many who have gone before us have run and crawled and fought and often died to give me the freedom to type these words and you the opportunity to read them.  My dad fought in Korea,  my son in Afghanistan and his other grandpa fought and received multiple medals including the Purple Heart for his service.  Your family probably includes brave people who put country and family above comfort and went out to protect loved ones by wearing the uniform and taking their place on the wall.

I do not know where my friend Adam Miller got this, but I do believe it should be shared:

MEMORIAL DAY

 Keep it
moving, please, even if you've seen it before. 

It is the 
VETERAN,  not the preacher,  who has given us freedom of religion.

It is
the VETERAN,  not the reporter,   who has given us freedom of the press.

It is
the VETERAN,  not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

                                                                          It is                                                                             
the VETERAN,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.  

It is
the VETERAN,  not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is
the VETERAN,  not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
    

It is the
VETERAN who
salutes the Flag, 

It is
the
VETERANwho serves
under the Flag,

  
  I'd be EXTREMELY proud if this email reached as many as possible. We can be very
proud of our young men and women in the service no matter where they serve. 
                                               God
                                       Bless them all!!! 

                         Makes you proud to be an AMERICAN!!!!!

Republican Liberty Caucus

Blue County in a Red State has announced the formation of the Lake County Chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus.

The conscience of the Republican Party!

Why should anyone care?  Because we need to get concerned citizens who want to see our country change back to a more Constitutional format and move forward in other ways all on the same page.   It does no good for six of us to get all excited about six different candidates while the other side runs one and therefore wins.   Because we need to energize and inform people in our own backyards.  

Activism and organizing have a communist connotation.   But although these methods have helped the socialists and communists advance their agendas, there is nothing inherently wrong with these methods.  We used the same methods to form this nation in the first place. 

Sure, what to sell at the fair and being sure we have a candidate for a district are Republican local questions.  Here is another one - who is registering new voters?   Who is walking neighborhoods with a handful of flyers and a smile?  

One thing the caucus will do is have an internet presence.   But as we get the arena built, we hope to herd in everyone who gives a rip about the USA to come wage war for freedom with the right information and the right techniques and a great deal of support of comrades.   The military has a camraderie by which we, as soldiers, are like brothers in some way, brothers in arms if you will.    While elections are won by vote and not gun the weapons of our warfare will be information and effort. 

The caucus will not provide money to candidates and will be focused on State, County and local elections. 

Stay tuned for breaking news on the organization on this website!

Where did the Visclosky crime probe go?

Sung to the tune of "Where have all the flowers gone?"

Where did the Visclosky crime probe go?
Long time passing.
Where did the Visclosky crime probe go?
Don't hear no more?
How about the funds that were misused
and the public trust abused?
When will we ever learn,
When will we ever learn?

Peter, Paul and Mary are not here to sing it and it appears that the government is not there to do it!


House ethics panel investigating Visclosky
Probe to examine ties with PMA Group

StoryDiscussionBy Christine Kraly - christine.kraly@nwi.com, (219) 662-5335 | Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:05 am | (27) Comments

The U.S. House ethics committee announced for the first time Friday that it has been probing since early last month whether U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky traded campaign cash for multimillion-dollar federal earmarks.

The Committee on Standards of Official Conduct confirmed it is extending its review of the Merrillville Democrat, whose ties to a powerful lobbying firm are under federal criminal investigation.

The ethics committee will announce its "course of action" on or before March 2, the panel said.

In a statement Friday, Visclosky said he "intends to cooperate fully and believes the committee will conclude that he engaged in no wrongdoing whatsoever."

He said he "looks forward to getting this matter behind him and continuing to work hard to serve all of his constituents in the First Congressional District."

The announcement reveals what some congressional experts say can be a confusing check on some of Washington's balances.

The panel began its look into Visclosky's ties with PMA Group on Dec. 2 based on a recommendation from the Office of Congressional Ethics.

The OCE is a nonpartisan, independent body created in 2008 to review allegations of ethics abuse from the public. Prior to the group, only the House ethics committee could initiate such a probe, said Melanie Sloan, executive director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

If an allegation makes it to the second stage of the OCE's two-prong investigation, it means there is "probable cause to believe a violation has occurred," according to the OCE.

After the second phase, it must recommend either dismissal of the probe to the ethics committee or an extended review, as it did for Visclosky.

Sloan called the OCE recommendation likely "the least of (Visclosky's) problems."

For nearly a year, the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Visclosky's ties to PMA, a now-defunct lobbying firm suspected of making "straw" donations to lawmakers, concealing the true source of the money.

PMA had for years been Visclosky's top fundraising source, sending millions to the congressman, who helped award PMA clients with federal earmarks.

Visclosky's congressional office, campaign committees and some employees, including former Chief of Staff Chuck Brimmer, were subpoenaed in May.

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So back in January the investigation was supposed to be ongoing but just exactly what have we heard about PMA and the other charges?  Porky Pete has a habit of voting on earmarks, lots of earmarks, most of which do NOT come back to his district.  Yet the people just keep voting for him?  What will it take before his actions are truly and fully investigated?  What will it take to wake up the voters and show them the disastrous results of pulling that "D" lever or pushing the "D" buttton or however your particular voting machine works?  Do you see Gary and East Chicago falling apart?  Do you see the mayor of struggling Hammond becoming a millionaire?  When will we ever learn?

ps- hat tip to baseball crank for comic!

Town of Cedar Lake redevelopment Commission 2009 Year-End Report

TOWN OF CEDAR LAKE

7408 Constitution Ave. • P.O. Box 707
Cedar Lake, IN 46303
219-374-7400 • Fax 219-374-8588
Ian G. Nicolini, Town Administrator

Town of Cedar Lake redevelopment Commission
2009 Year-End Report
In accordance with 1C 36-7-14-13

Members:
Pat ConIon, President
James Brandon
Ryan May
Randy Niemeyer
George Vukmirovich

2009 Revenue: $30,017.00
2009 Expenditures: $ 27,416.46
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2009 Year-end Balance: $ 2,600.54

2010 Approved Budget: $ 39,600.00

Summary of Activities:

• Ryan May and Randy Niemeyer were appointed to the commission by the Town Council.

•  Mary Joan Dickson remains the non voting advisory member representing the Hanover Community School Corporation. 

• Received reports and updates on the 133rd Avenue Project. Project completed in spring of 2009.

• Reviewed and approved pay requests from vendors.

• Resolution 2009-3 combined the 133rd and Wicker Economic Development Area and the Morse Street and 133rd Economic Development Area into one consolidate economic development area.

• Resolution 2009-4 allowed for the consolidation of existing 2006A Bonds, the 2007 BAN,and acquisition of funds needed for the second phase of the 133rd Ave. project. 

• Ongoing activities include TIP parcel reconciliation as it relates to accessed value of recent improvements and project prioritization within the TIF District.

• Pat Conlon and Randy Niemeyer will join the Town Administrator and ofriers on the RFPConsultant Selection Committee for 133rd Phase II per the request of INDOT.

• Quarterly meetings continue with Redevelopment Commissions from other NorthwestIndiana Communities (The Southshore RDC Alliance).

(signed)

Patrick Conlon
Cedar Lake Redevelopment Commission President