The above graphic was based on an actual city residential bill from February. The "Electric Surcharge" and "Water Surcharge" have been incorporated into the new rates for those services.
Invoking occasional gallows humor about their future as public servants, Hillsboro City Council members approved at a March 27 special meeting new billing rates for four city utilities: water, sewer, electric and trash collection.
The new rates, which will result in a total bill increase of around $30 to $35 per month for the average residential customer, will take effect with the April billing.
Vickie Schroeder (from left), Nicole (director of the Haitian orphanage), James and Vince Schroeder pose together during the Schroeders’ recent trip to Haiti. The Schroeders currently sponsor James, and hope to bring him to the United States this summer so he can graduate from high school.
In Haiti, a country where 50 percent of all children die before they reach age 15 and where the unemployment rate is 70 percent, there is little hope for the future.
But a Goessel couple, Vince and Vickie Schroeder, are working together with Haiti Lifeline Ministries in Hesston to fulfill a biblical challenge by caring for the orphans in Haiti.
Hillsboro may be offering residents and guests a downtown park in the not too distant future if funding and maintenance issues can be reasonably resolved.
Peggy Goertzen, director of the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies at Tabor College, displays several old photographs ready for analysis. Goertzen developed her skills for her job and because she’s “always been fascinated by photographs.”
Photography is used to capture special moments, document momentous events, entertain and inspire.
But what about as a research tool?
Peggy Goertzen, director of the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies at Tabor College, analyzes photographs to aid in historical research.
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