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...Elkhart, Ind., prides itself on being the recreational-vehicle capital of the world. It's not a place that sees a lot of drive-by shootings. So the city was surprised and saddened on Nov. 17, when Sasezley Richardson, 19, was shot in the head as he strolled through a quiet neighborhood toward his girlfriend's house. He was left bleeding on the side of the road--beside a bundle of diapers he had been carrying for his girlfriend's baby. He died three days later...
...Elkhart, Ind., was spotlighted as the "Recreational Vehicle Capital" of the U.S. I've had to deal with the Elkhart agency enforcing child support for 14 years. Yet even in the high-tech '90s, it is not yet computerized. It's been frustrating to cope with an overloaded system bogged down by a lack of commonplace technology. Perhaps instead of funding an RV museum that no one visits, Elkhart's city fathers could better spend the town's money on modernizing an antiquated system that forces dependent children to do without and allows deadbeat dads to go free. GERRI MOTTS...
...question we carried into each of these capital cities was this: What effect does the celebrated industry have on local life, culture, business? In Elkhart, the answer can be packed into one little factoid...
...laugh at Elkhart. Fifty-two percent of the area's 156,000-member work force is employed in RV-related industry, and roughly half the $10 billion worth of recreational vehicles produced nationally come from this area. You'd build a shrine...
...what does it all mean? It means fresh paint on houses and new cars in driveways across Elkhart County. It means $15 an hour plus benefits, on average, for assembly-line work that ranges from welding chassis to hanging kitchen curtains. It means six and seven members of the same family with RV jobs. It means that if you see an Amishman in a buggy horsing along State Route 13 in Middlebury, he may be going to his job at an RV factory. How can you not love a country in which the Plain People are fitting $100,000 motorized...