And it would repair "the tarnished testimony and integrity of the Plain Community".
In a document submitted to the court, the ad hoc committee organizing the effort explained the Plain Community's feelings about the bankruptcy.
The Beachy name is not only common in Sugarcreek but also notable in the history of the Plain Community, which encompasses a number of Amish and Mennonite sects.
He served for 15 years as treasurer of the Amish Helping Fund, a nonprofit that collects money from the Plain Community and uses it to provide mortgages for the purchase of farms and homes in that community.
"Diverting police time to investigate Bloody Sunday soldiers or crimes from the Troubles seems a waste when the priority today should surely be tracking down the tiny, but dangerous, attacks from dissident IRA groups, as well as facilitating ordinary, plain community safety," he said.
This postcard from a gentler and simpler America is about as unlikely a place imaginable for the news that broke in September: one of Sugarcreek's own, a prominent member of what some people here call the Plain Community, was under arrest, accused by federal prosecutors of running a Ponzi scheme that betrayed his neighbors' trust and wiped out more than $16 million of their savings.
Mesa communities were found to be distinctly different from plains communities, with no shared communities between the two habitats.
DESCRIBING Great Plains communities that, "like weeds, spring up when it rains, dry up when it stops," Wright Morris once noted, "The withered towns are empty, but not uninhabited". This predicament -- in which the landscape's sheer vastness overwhelms its residents -- has always captivated American writers.
McCook Community College, a part of the Mid-Plains Community College system, was established in 1926.
