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PPEC 81st ANNUAL MEETING By: Stan Jordan On March 17th, I was invited to attend the 2017 annual report meeting of Paulding Putnam Electric Co-operative, Inc and from now on in this column it will be called PPEC. My boss here at the West Bend News, Bryce Steiner, was my driver and helper all day.…
THE FORT IN FORT WAYNE By: Stan Jordan The area around Ft. Wayne was a trading post back in 1680 and before that it was the capital of the Miami Nation, known by the name of Kekionga. The first foreigners were the French fur traders. Actually, this place was the portage area of about eight…
ROLE MODEL By: Stan Jordan Over the years, I’ve been asked a number of times about who influenced my life. Lots of people have, some more than others. First, I came from a fine Christian family of five children and we all knew right from wrong, as we heard it every day. Church and Sunday…
I MIGHT BE WRONG By: Stan Jordan This Nikolas Cruz killing seventeen people and wounding a lot more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is an open and shut case that I talked about in my column last week. In the old west, with a case that solid, the killer would be…
THE TRI-STATE AREA By: Stan Jordan If you have been reading my columns, you have noticed that I refer to this area as the Tri-State area. All the way south of the Michigan-Ohio line, through Williams, Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert and Mercer. Mercer readers will pick up the West Bend News in that huge Walmart…
WINTER IS ONE MONTH OLD By: Stan Jordan I hate winter, I have written that before and I haven’t changed my mind. I hate having to wear that heavy coat. I guess my arms and shoulders are weaker. I hate cold weather. I have no complaints about the conditions of the highways. Those boys running…
By: Stan Jordan We finished using a story from Wikipedia about the big Pentagon in Washington D.C. it is considered the biggest office building in the world. Now we are going to do a story on the remodeling of the White House in Washington in the late 1940’s and 50’s when Harry S. Truman was…
By: Stan Jordan The above picture is of the M4A1 tank being unloaded from an L.S.T. (landing ship tank) at Anzio in Italy in 1944 is sometimes called the Sherman, that was the name the English called it. The big difference between the M3 and the M4 tank was the round movable turret and the…
The Pentagon and I By: Stan Jordan Layout The Pentagon building spans 28.7 acres (116,000 m2), and includes an additional 5.1 acres (21,000 m2) as a central courtyard. Starting with the north side and moving clockwise, its five façades are the Mall Terrace Entrance façade, the River Terrace Entrance façade, the Concourse Entrance (or Metro Station) façade, the…
The Pentagon and I By: Stan Jordan Protests The Pentagon became a focal point for protests against the Vietnam War during the late 1960s. A group of 2,500 women, organized by Women Strike for Peace, demonstrated outside of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s office at the Pentagon on February 15, 1967. In May 1967, a group of 20…
The Snowy Owl By: Stan Jordan The other day John Molitor came in to the office and we had quite a confab. John is a rural letter carrier out of Payne, up toward the Indiana State Line, and he told me he saw a snowy owl sitting on a telephone pole. I was glad that…
By: Stan Jordan My fellow worker here at the West Bend News, Crystal Rider, took the above picture on December 12th, where C.R. 424 intersects with C.R. 11 She tells me that the female eagle will weigh 12-15 pounds more than the male, but you really can’t tell which is which here. The female’s wing…
To my way of thinking By: Stan Jordan The biggest share of NCAA college football is over. Now there are 12 – 15 different bowl games. For some schools, a sort of a Coupe De Grace. But let’s talk about the National Championship Series, better known as the NCS, generally known, controlled and put on…
