New Day Kiwanis Still Taking Donations For Love Basket Project This picture shows the many baskets that were taken to folks in the earlier years of Western Wayne News. This is a generous community but it will be a challenge this year as so many are unemployed. We encourage everyone to share as they are able.

Christmas Wonderland Lots of Fun Folks peer from the windows of the Double Decker bus as oit gets ready to give a ride around town. It loaded and unloaded at All Aboard and Denise lead the groups in singing as they rode.

    By Janis Buhl & Larry Russell
    Through all the years we have been in business, the New Day Kiwanis Club of Cambridge City has been collecting donations for Love Baskets.
    The project was started by Ed Zook, who chaired the project for many years. It appears that the project was started in 1978 according to the article we published in our fist year (Nov. 27, 1991) which quoted Zook as saying it was the 13th year for the project.
    Although Ed is gone, the Kiwanians carry on the tradition he started by collecting food and taking it to those who can use a little help at Christmas. For more of this story please subscribe!

Dublin May Apply for Another Housing Grant

   Dublin will apply for another housing renovation and repair grant in January.
    The town did not receive a state housing repair grant in the October awards, according to Joyce McCarty of Star Development. She told the Dublin Town Council on Nov. 10 that the town’s applicaiton missed the award by three points.
    The program gives funds to towns to help residents repair and renovate their homes. A public hearing about the housing program will be conducted at the Dec. 8 council meeting.
    In some good news for residents, the town has been notified that the wholesale electric rate paid to the Indiana Municipal Authority will decrease by about 5 percent after the first of the year. For more of this story please subscribe!

Firefighters and bystanders look over the remains of a "toy hauler" trailer and atruck inside of it that burned Sunday morning in the McDonald’s truck parking lot.

Fire Destroys Trailer, Truck

   When Kevin Gibson parked his pick-up and trailer to get a bite to eat at McDonald’s on Sunday, he saw smoke coming from the trailer.
    He opened the trailer door. A small truck inside the trailer was fully engulfed in flame.
    Gibson said the flames were so intense that he barely had time to disconnect and move his pick-up before the whole trailer was ablaze.
    Cambridge City and Milton fire departments were called out to the McDonald’s truck parking lot late Sunday morning. They extinguished the fire but the trailer, a Jayco "toy hauler," the Mitsubishi truck inside and some hunting equipment all were a total loss. Gibson said the "toy hauler" had cost about #30,000 and the Mitsubishi truck about $6,500. For more of this story please subscribe!