A report prepared by Purdue University's Department of Agricultural Economics shows farmland values have trended higher for about 20 consecutive years, and a recent 12-month period from June 2005 to June 2006 was no different.

"This was another year where Indiana farmland values were up fairly strong," said Craig Dobbins, a Purdue agricultural economist and survey coordinator. "On a statewide basis we're talking about an average increase of 6 percent to 7.5 percent in farmland values from June 2005 to June 2006.

With Pacesetter companies and organizations reporting their results, the 2006 campaign for United Way of Greater Lafayette is off to a rousing start.

This year's goal is $4.85 million, which will be divided among 25 local agencies to help operate more than 70 health and human service programs.

"You can feel the energy of this community growing as we kick the campaign into high gear," campaign chairman Gary Stampanato told 250 volunteers during a kick off breakfast Tuesday morning.

The singers in Jefferson High School's First Edition show choir have carried on the tradition of pranking their choir directors at the start of the season for more than a decade. Satterfield has felt the brunt of toilet paper in his trees, plastic forks in his lawn and hundreds of gummy bears on his driveway since he started at Jefferson in 1999.

After an elaborate prank in 2005 where students used peanut butter and plastic wrap to turn Satterfield's Ford Probe into a portrait of the director, Satterfield suggested they put their $125 in supplies to good instead of wasting them.

"The doctor asked me, from a cosmetic standpoint if I wanted my legs to look good. I said I wanted to feel good," the senior on the Purdue women's basketball team said.

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