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Marshall County Vision meeting in Culver
Last week MCEDC had a Marshall County Vision Meeting in Culver with a select group of Culver representatives. Those representatives helped refine the message and selected a date for a Town-wide meeting. MCEDC hopes those representatives will also help get the word out to assure a good turn out. The message we’re sharing is a call to action. The more people that hear this directly from the source, the more clearly the message will be recommunicated. Invite you friends and neighbors. This is important to us all.
Thank you to Rich West and the Culver Cove for hosting!
Leaders across North Central Indiana will host Regional Cities “Watch” events on Tuesday
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SOUTH BEND, Indiana (December 11, 2015) – Leadership groups in Elkhart, Marshall and St. Joseph counties, collectively known as The Regional Cities of Northern Indiana, are planning “Watch” events open to the public at three digitally connected locations Tuesday afternoon as information about $84 million in economic development grants is shared statewide via “live” streaming from Indianapolis. The events, while physically hosted in Elkhart, Marshall and St. Joseph counties, will be cross-linked via Twitter’s Periscope application over the Internet.
Bobbie Ruhnow
I attended the memorial service for Bobbie Ruhnow on Saturday. I wrote about our friendship previously here.
The service was nicely done. There was a presentation by the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. It was obvious that there were close ties there, many of which I had heard about from Bobbie. It was an organization to which Bobbie was very proud to have belonged.
Rhonda Reinhold, Bobbie’s granddaughter, made a moving speech about her grandmother. Many of the themes she spoke of were so obviously part of Bobbie’s nature. I recognized them and experienced them even though I was not family.
Ralph Winters also spoke. As a non-family member, that has to be hard to do. Ralph did a nice job of summing up Bobbie’s career with the town. I thought he was a fine representative of those that had worked with her on multiple community boards, commissions and projects.
Leaving the service it was obvious that Bobbie will be missed by many in the community. I count myself among those that will miss Bobbie. Culver is a better place due to her tireless efforts, but unfortunately it is a lesser place due to losing her.
Bobetta Ruhnow
I lost another good friend at the end of last month. Bobetta (Bobbie) Ruhnow passed away on October 31st. You can read her impressive obituary here. But that obituary hardly does her justice…
I first became acquainted with Bobbie as a friend in the early nineties shortly after I moved back to Culver. Dad said that part of the business was public service and soon after attending a few Chamber of Commerce meetings as Easterday’s representative I was asked to join the board. Bobbie’s involvement there led us to work together on many Culver projects including the inception of the Second Century Committee, the Mary Means Study, the Osborn Square Study, the Ratio Charrette and the Ratio Comprehensive Plan. Eventually we were involved with so many things together she quipped, “If you show up for Thanksgiving Dinner next week, I won’t even bat an eye. I see you enough that you’re like part of the family.” There were many times she joked about wanting to adopt me… I felt honored that she felt that way about me.