GOSHEN —
Nonprofit organizations in Elkhart County and across Indiana have possibly been facing the toughest budget years in the history of their organizations. State funding was decreased and spread around to fewer organizations. Some organizations were not up to the challenges, closed their doors and transferred programs to organizations that saw the need to keep them open. Other organizations trimmed back and refused services to select individuals.
So, it is refreshing to see one of these organizations, Bashor Children’s Home in Goshen, continue to fight and beat the odds. At a time when agencies were cutting programs for kids, Bashor only cut staff. The staff were spread out thinner but refused to let it have a negative influence on the quality of service being offered to each child.
Below are 10 things worth knowing about Bashor. I hope you too are/will be proud of this Elkhart County-based organization, its staff and the donors who have chosen to support it.
Did you know Bashor Children’s Home:
• Predominantly serves children from Elkhart, but accepts young people from throughout the state?
• Will not turn away a child who needs help by either providing services or connecting them to an appropriate service provider?
• Is one of the truly few faith-based agencies for troubled youth in the northern part of the state?
• Is not just a residential treatment facility, but also offers three day school programs and nine community based programs?
• Is looking for care foster parents to help children they serve?
• Provides on-site medical and dental services to all the children it serves in residential care?
• Provides care and treatment for the entire family?
• Works with all seven school districts in Elkhart County?
• Aggressively partners with many local service agencies?
— Richard Pyle
member of Bashor Children’s Home board of directors
Letters to the Editor
Bashor Children’s Home provides many services
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Safety along C.R. 35 is a concern
This letter is meant to bring awareness and hopefully corrections in regard to C.R. 35 in Elkhart County. Something needs to be done immediately to enforce the laws pertaining to the use of C.R. 35.
- Emphasis on gun control makes you wonder
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Goshen should stick with ‘Redskins’
I must respond to the letter to the editor from Mr. Ron Chupp (The Goshen News, May 9). What’s in a name, Mr. Chupp? I too have a Native American heritage, and for some reason, I am not offended by the term Redskins, or brown skins or any other color of skins.
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More important issues than a nickname
I would like to, in the most respectful way possible, respond to Mr. Chupp’s letter (The Goshen News, May 9) regarding the ongoing debate over the term “Redskins” being used as the nickname and mascot for the Goshen school system.
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There is hope through God
May I share what happened to me after praying about the issue of whether to have guns carried by school authorities at Goshen High School. While calling out to God, my question was: Why have we as a nation come to trusting in government agencies, such as Homeland Security, rather than obeying the Constitution in what you have declared through our forefathers?
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Sheriff has this reader's support
This letter is in defense of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and in response to Shari Mellin’s letter (The Goshen News, May 8) about Sheriff Brad Rogers not obeying the laws related to anti-gun legislation
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‘Redskins’ nickname is offensive
The question posed (in the May 5 edition) was, “What’s in a Name?” In the case of the GHS (Redskins) mascot, it is insult, degradation, racism, and an ongoing slap-in-the face reminder of the disgusting manner in which my Native American ancestors were treated by Europeans.
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Millrace projects threaten a Goshen gem
The city of Goshen is in the 11th hour for the five Redevelopment Commission members to hear the voices of its residents concerning the millrace redevelopment proposals at its next meeting at 4 p.m. on May 14.
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We don’t need a community center
We want to keep this short and to the point. We keep reading articles and letters in the papers about the proposed community center in Goshen. Our question is why?
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Freedom-loving Americans want our country back
We are living in unprecedented times. The “America” of today is not the America that many of us grew up in.
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