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Band to unveil ‘The Night Circus’

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

Almost 300 members of the Homestead Spartan Alliance Band will explore the mysteries of “The Night Circus” for the 2013 season.

“Think more Dr. Seuss and less Barnum & Bailey,” said visual director and drill designer Mike Hardiek, who explained that Band Director Steve Barber’s Homestead staff wrote a show that celebrates the fun side of life.

“There’s so much turmoil going on in everyday life,” Hardiek said. “We don’t want to be that marching band that exemplifies that darkness.

When we sit down as a staff at Homestead, we don’t want to be the dark

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Wabash marching band competition at Bluffton High School. The competition season ends Nov. 2, when Homestead hopes to be among the 10 Class A bands at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Homestead claimed its fifth state title in 2011, and finished second in the

Southwest Allen County Schools’ review of attendance districts might mean that some elementary classmates move on to different middle schools.

Administrators plan meetings to brief parents on enrollment trends and to gather parents’ comments. Superintendent Steven Yager will report to the school board by early 2014. Whatever the board decides, Yager said, the students will be fine.

“We’ll try to keep neighborhoods together. We’ll try to keep families together,” Yager said.

Yager said he planned to meet with parent/teacher council presidents on Sept. 4, to set dates for the meetings at each school.

Yager presented projections of growing enrollment, particularly at Covington and Lafayette Meadows elementary schools. Some districts are experiencing new home building, he said. Other districts have more older homes, and are sending fewer children to elementary schools, he said.

“Right now if you go to Elementary A, B or C, you’re going to go to Middle School A, and if you go to elementary D, E or F, you may go to Middle School B,” Yager said.

“We may not be able to handle that, to keep it going that way. I can tell you that can be a concern to parents. I can also tell you that when that happens, if it happens and when it happens, the kids will be just fine. They’ll make friends within 30 minutes. They’ll know people from both middle schools, and by the time they get to ninth grade they’ll know more people than anybody else. So it can be an advantage,

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The Homestead Spartan Alliance rehearses “The Night Circus” for the 2013 season.

The band finished second among large-schools in ISSMA competition in 2012.

band. We don’t want to be the sad band. We don’t want to be the band that makes you feel uneasy.”

Find more inside and online Read about how Southwest Allen middle school bands contribute to the high school band’s success; see the story on Page B1. For a video feature of Concordia Lutheran High School’s band camp, visit INFortWayne. com and click on the Arts & Culture tab.

In the interpretation of the book by Erin Morgenstern, no one will shout “the circus is coming.”

Instead, the town will awaken to discover that the circus has arrived.

Barber hopes to build on Homestead’s string of 26 consecutive trips to the state finals. The festival season begins Sept. 7 with the On the Banks of the

New Jorgensen director says Y serves unique role what sets us apart.”

Custer moved to Fort Wayne from Miami, Fla. Her husband, Jason, works from home, selling seafood for a Miami company. Their son, Grayson, attends Aboite Elementary School.

Custer said the Fort Wayne position was posted on a national vacancy list. A friend and YMCA associate, Fort Wayne native Susan Tucker, urged her to apply. Tucker is now CEO and executive director of the Orville Dalton YMCA in Dalton, north-central Ohio.

Custer began the Fort Wayne job July 29. “We love it here,” she said.

“Everyone is very friendly and welcoming. There’s no traffic. There’s a low cost of living. It’s a different mentality.”

Custer said the new outdoors aquatic center

is a beautiful area. “It’s been a success for sure,” she said. She said the pool was seeing heavy use in the late days of summer, before closing on Labor Day. “We’ll be debriefing from the summer and figuring out what works and what we can do better for next season,” she said.

“We’ll be closing it down for the winter and making sure it’s OK for next year.”

“But we’ll have the indoor pool open for the winter, so we’ll have lifeguards, we’ll have swim instructors, water aerobics and lap swimming.”

Custer graduated from Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Ga., and holds a bachelor of science degree in exercise and health science. She served four years as the executive director of the

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Kathryn Custer brings more than 10 years of YMCA management experience Custer to her new post as executive director of the Jorgensen Family YMCA, 10313 Aboite Center Road.

In an era of increasing recreation and fitness choices, Custer says the YMCA still serves a unique role.

“The Y is set apart because we are a nonprofit organization and we can offer something for the entire family,” Custer said. “We are a place where Grandma can come with the kids, and we can engage everyone.”

“Part of our mission is that we don’t turn anyone away because they can’t pay,” Custer said. “That’s

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The 2013 Homestead High School marching band claims 290 students, including 64 in the color guard. Steve Barber directs the Homestead Spartan Alliance.

PHOTO BY JANE SNOW

The casual clothing of summer band camp will give way to full uniforms before the Homestead High School marching band takes the field Sept. 7 at the Bluffton High School band festival.

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Several returning staff members have designed a show in which circus spectators become circus actors.

Kent Klee wrote the original composition, which he said is based “roughly, not verbatim” on the book.

“It uses a lot of circus themes and motifs throughout the show,” said Klee, who toured with the Shrine Circus in Canada at the age of 18. “And there’s a lot of weird little humor in there on my part.”

“We used the waltz quite a bit in the show — the 3/4 time — because that’s a pretty popular theme with trapeze artists,” he said. “It’s a pretty fun show.”

Color guard director Jonathan Meader said the color guard has 64 members this year, up from 26 five years ago.

Meader said the book itself is “very black-andwhite, with little hints of red.”

“So we wanted to take that idea of something that is black-and-white and sort of other-worldly, and bring people into the

night circus,” he said. The revelers, or spectators, are dressed in black. The actors inside the circus are dressed in white.

“The show walks through the revelers entering the circus for the first time, and the mischievous actors turn the visitors into actors,” he said.

The show is not just about the circus itself, Hardiek explained. “It’s more about how exciting it is when the circus comes to town, how much mystery there is involved before you actually get in the circus.” he said. “So at the beginning of the show, we actually bring in the spectators from the back sideline, and they enter the center ring of a circus, where you can experience the wonderment of a circus, and it should send you back to when you were a kid and how when the circus came to town it was a magical moment, and with the circus things were possible that just weren’t usually possible.”

“We then transition to different parts of the show, where we take the horn line and put them in the circus rings, and every time they go to one of the circus rings, they either witness the circus or they actually become a circus character,” Hardiek said.

“Really the entire show is about the transition from you going to the circus and being amazed by it and it to the part where you actually are a member of the circus. It’s kind of like ‘I’ve run away and joined the circus.’ It’s not really any more complicated than that.”

“Actually the book itself has a kind of a dark, mysterious feel to it,” Hardiek said. “It kind of puts you in a bit of a fantasy land. And there’s a line from the book itself that has to do with — it’s one of the most quoted lines on the Internet — the fact that the circus rolls into town at night while everybody’s in bed and they don’t even know that it’s being set up, and then they awaken and they don’t see any people, but they see all the circus tents.”

That’s where the show veers away from the darker theme of the book, Hardiek said. “We want to make sure that our audience, whether it be a football audience or a competitive audience, always feels good and happy when we’re done with our show. There are other bands that are doing dark things. We just didn’t want to be that band.”

Homestead band dates Sept. 7, On the Banks of the Wabash marching band competition, Bluffton High School Sept. 14, Lafayette Jefferson High School marching band festival Sept. 21, East Noble High School marching band festival, Kendallville Sept. 28, Penn High School marching band festival, Mishawaka Oct. 5, Homestead Fall Festival of Bands. (The host school performs in exhibition, but does not compete for rankings.)

Oct. 12, ISSMA Scholastic Class preliminaries and and Open Class invitational, at Homestead Oct. 19, ISSMA regional contest, at Chesterton High School Oct. 26, ISSMA semistate contest, at Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis Nov. 2, ISSMA state marching band finals, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis For show times, admission fees and updates, follow spartanallianceband.com.

For information on the competition process and results of the events, follow issma.net.

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“I warn you ahead of time, it’s a very emotional time,” Yager told the board recently. He said SACS needs to balance attendance boundaries, or will need to ask taxpayers to fund new classrooms or even new buildings.

Board members Holly Glick and Meagan Milne also said students will adapt to any such change.

Glick, the board vice president, said she has seen several redistrictings. “I think what’s going to be different about this one, is that all the schools, in my mind are equal,” she said, “whereas in the past the elementaries haven’t really been equal. And now if you leave one elementary and go to another elementary, you’re still on the same curriculum and it’s an even flow. Whereas in the past one school was doing this and one school was doing that, and it wasn’t quite as smooth.”

Milne told of her experience in Carmel, Ind., where she said redistricting is necessary every few years. She said SACS has been fortunate to have less redistricting, thanks to good planning. “But you’re definitely right,” she said.

“The kids get through it, and make friends quickly.”

Yager said enrollment areas are always under review.

“We’ve been doing this each and every year, and as we look now we’ve got two buildings that are close to 100 percent occupancy and a couple buildings that are less than optimal occupancy,” Yager said. “So this is an announcement to the board and to the public that we’re starting evening meetings throughout the whole district, elementary schools and both middle schools.”

Yager said students will transfer from one high-performing elementary school to another. “It’s a win-win,” he said. “No one’s going to get bruised academically.”

In other discussion at the school board meeting on Aug. 20, Yager commended all personnel for making the first day of the school year on Aug. 20 go smoothly.

“The kids are safe. They got on the right bus. They got home and got off at the right stop,” Yager said.

The district’s nine schools have a projected enrollment of 7,005 students.

“It doesn’t happen without the cooperation of everybody,” the superintendent said. School secretaries worked many extra hours, he said. He also commended teachers, principals and transportation personnel.

“Kudos to everybody,” Yager said.

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Taylor is a graduate of Castleton State College in Vermont. She comes from Cedar Crest Camp in Lyles, Tenn., where she served as camp director for three years.

She earlier served as the director of Covenant Hills Christian Camp in Vermont and as the conference program coordinator of the Frost Valley YMCA Camp in New York.

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Taylor took over in her new role on Aug. 12.

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Retrospective to feature former local artist Davis Artist Chas Davis will return to Fort Wayne for a solo exhibition, Sept. 14-Oct. 9.

“Chas Davis: A Homecoming” will begin with an artist reception from 6-9 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 14, at Artworks Galleria of Fine Art in Jefferson Pointe Shopping Center.

In a news release, the local gallery said Davis will discuss his work over the past two decades. Davis is a partner in Galvin Davis Studio, in Rochester, N.Y. In opening a retrospective of his painting and sculpture, Davis will deliver a one-night gallery lecture. He also will teach painting and monotype printing, and lead a week of morning yoga in the gallery.

The South Side High School graduate will offer accounts of his early days as a member of the Dock Street Artists in Fort Wayne, plus his travels throughout the United States.

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St. Vincent de Paul event features Spike & Bulldogs St. Vincent de Paul Society will present Charity Fest as a fundraiser for the society’s continuing assistance to those in need.

The second annual celebration will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Lantern banquet hall, 4420 Ardmore Ave., just south of Engle Road, Fort Wayne. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with an early look at the live and silent auctions.

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“It’s good company, good music, good food and a chance to help benefit others,” said Cheryl Mowan of Fort Wayne, the president of the six-county district of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

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Kiwanis plan peanut sales Kiwanis Peanut Day isn’t really about Kiwanis or even peanuts, according to Dan Guse.

“One hundred percent of the money we collect goes back into the community,” said Guse.

Members of the Time Corners Kiwanis Club will take their positions outside the Kroger at Coventry again on Sept.

20 and 21. The public will donate whatever they choose to give, and the Kiwanis will offer them a bag of peanuts.

More and more, Guse said, the contributors leave the peanuts for other donors.

Last year, the club handed out about 1,500 packets of peanuts.

Whatever money the club raises this year will go to Riley Children’s Hospital or other services. The club sponsors the Homestead High School Key Club, the Woodside Middle School Builders Club, and the Terrific Kids programs in Southwest Allen County elemen-

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Officials at the VA Northern Indiana Healthcare System Fort Wayne campus were already working on addressing issues raised in a recently released Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general’s report, a spokeswoman said.

The report, released in August, was sought last

November by Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., in the wake of a self-imposed suspension of some inpatient services to review processes and provide training for staff.

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• The intensive-care unit was categorized as a Level 3 unit but was operated as a less-comprehensive Level 4, if that.

Donnelly and Stutzman were sharply critical of the pre-suspension conditions at the facility, calling them “unacceptable” and “inexcusable.”

Neither congressman took into account any improvements that had been subsequently made.

Donnelly spokeswoman Elizabeth Shappell said later: “The scope of the OIG report was on what led to the pause, not what actions have been taken since. Sen. Donnelly was commenting on the findings of the report, which were extremely concerning. He is committed to working together so that all issues can be addressed.”

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Local hospitals associated with the latest acquisition of a major health-care system might see some cost efficiencies in supply purchases and quality improvements through integration of care, analysts said.

What isn’t known is whether any savings realized through those efficiencies will be passed on to the consumer.

“What I’m sure CHS is hoping is that when they add the HMA hospitals, that gives them more clout to get better deals on supplies and devices,” said Alwyn Cassil, spokeswoman for the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, D.C. “And there is little argument improved clinical integration will have positive results for quality.

“What you don’t know is will the savings for those increased efficiencies just go into the hospitals or will they be passed on in lower premiums.”

Community Health Systems Inc. of Tennessee, parent company of Fort Waynebased Lutheran Health Network, announced in late July that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Health Management Associates Inc. for about $7.6 billion.

The acquisition of the Florida-based HMA, expected to be completed in early 2014, will increase the number of CHS hospitals from 135 in 29 states to 206, and the number of licensed beds from 20,000 to 31,000.

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Maker Faire to showcase inventors’ creativity The family-friendly Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire will feature the work of do-it-yourselfers from throughout northeast Indiana, and exhibits that have been big crowd-pleasers at Maker Faires in other regions of the country.

The Maker Faire is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 14-15 under the Lincoln Pavilion at

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Heartland Chamber Chorale to begin 17th season Heartland Chamber Chorale will launch its 17th season at 4 p.m. Sept.

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Tickets are $35 for VIP seating, $20 general admission, and $5 for students. For ticket options and more details of the concert and the season, visit heartlandchorale.org.

October offers an educational experience for high school choristers culminating in a performance at 4 p.m. Oct. 27 at North Side High School.

The concert is open to the public. The concert and full-day instructional are part of Heartland’s educational outreach programs and include an evening reception for music educators on Oct. 28.

Nov. 3 includes a community concert, “Heartland Sings of Peace and Justice,” sponsored by the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace. The 4 p.m. performance in the rotunda of the Allen County Courthouse will feature a premiere perfor-

mance of “Gather These Mirrors” by Kala Pierson.

Two performances of Handel’s masterwork “Messiah” are on tap in December. The first concert is 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 in the University of Saint Francis Performing Arts Center; the second performance will be offered at 7 p.m. Dec. 9 in the DeKalb High School Auditorium at Auburn.

December always includes “Heartland Sings: Holidays.” Three performances are planned, and one concert is at 4 p.m.

Dec. 15 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Fort Wayne. Another concert is at 4 p.m. Dec. 20 at First Presbyterian Church, Auburn. Other times and venues will be available soon.

On Jan. 20, the concert “Heartland Sings: We are the Dream” is offered as a tribute to the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The performance will feature Heartland and the University of Saint Francis University Singers.

Several community leaders will participate in this 7 p.m. event at the University of Saint Francis North Campus Auditorium.

Two family concerts featuring the chorus and professional storyteller Valerie Tutson are planned for February. One performance of “Heartland

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Celtic music will be the theme of two concerts at the Allen County Public Main Library Auditorium, at 7 p.m. March 15 and 2:30 p.m. March 16.

On April 27, the singers will present “Heartland Sings: Let Us Remember” — a special commemoration of the Holocaust — at Temple Achduth Vesholom in Fort Wayne.

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JA’s volunteers impart financial literacy skills

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The program serves public and private schools across 27 Indiana counties, Van Wert County, Ohio, and Cass and Berrien counties in Michigan. Programs aid students in kindergarten through 12th grade. In Allen County, Junior Achievement works with Fort Wayne Community Schools, Southwest Allen County Schools, Northwest Allen County Schools, and East Allen County Schools, in addition to private schools. Huntington County Community Schools students also benefit from Junior Achievement.

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Junior Achievement instructors might share financial literacy skills in the classroom for just a few weeks, or for just a few hours. But some parents or business leaders return to the same classrooms for a few years.

“We have volunteers who go back to the same teacher or the same classroom every year,” said Hayli Dick, the program manager of the 30-county Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana. “They make connections with the educators, where a lot of people might not be able to get a firsthand view of what teachers do.”

Junior Achievement has begun recruiting volunteers to share lessons on financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship during the new school year. Those who make a seven-week commitment will teach for about a half-hour to 45 minutes each week. Those who prefer a one-day commitment — JA in a Day — will teach for four hours.

JA provides the training and materials. The classroom teachers stay in the classroom throughout the program. All Allen County public schools participate in the JA program. Volunteers undergo background checks.

Some volunteers change grades each year to follow the classes. But even those who follow a class for only a few weeks remark on students’ progress, Dick said. “Throughout the visit, they talk about seeing the progress and seeing the light bulb come on, and it’s exciting.”

“It’s really about owning their own economic future and preparing for success in the future,” Dick said.

JA fundraisers Sept. 7, Anthony Wayne Scout Reservation, 2282 W. 500 South, Pleasant Lake, Ind., in Steuben County. The 5K Parkview Health Muddy Trail Run obstacle course, benefiting Junior Achievement and the Boy Scouts of America. Choose from eight heat times, beginning at 10 a.m. Registration is $45 per person. Climb the 34-foot rock wall for $35. Experience the zip line for $30. Register for any event online.

Sept. 11, 12, Crazy Pinz, 1414 Northland Blvd., Fort Wayne. Gather a team of five people and raise pledges to support JA programs. Teams are asked to raise $350 in pledges, with a $30 registration fee.

Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 8 p.m. Online auction. Support Junior Achievement on eBay.com by visiting myworld.ebay. com/juniorachievement. Or, to donate auction items, contact Susie Kaiser at (260) 484-2543, susie.kaiser@ ja.org. For details, visit jani.org.

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Junior Achievement volunteers visit classrooms in all Allen County public school districts.

“We have volunteers that are parents, or who are interested in going into education, or who are education students, who are business and community people,” Dick said.

For details, visit jani.org. To register, contact Dick at (260) 484-2543, or email her at hayli.dick@ja.org. “Or call this number and ask for anyone on the education team,” Dick said.

Training is conducted at the JA office at 601 Noble Drive, behind the Northcrest Shopping Center. “We go through the material and talk about classroom management skills and help get them as prepared as possible for the class,” Dick said. The instructor training session takes about an hour and a half.

More than 5,000 instructors helped to teach 114,000 students in JANI’s 30 counties last school year.

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Figel, a 2012 Bishop Luers High School graduate, lives in the Wedgewood neighborhood in northeast Fort Wayne.

She earned her Allen County crown July 21, but was not among the 10 finalists at the state fair pageant.

Instead, she looks forward to making appearances throughout the year in service to her home county.

Even before the state fair ended, Figel had moved back to Ball State University, where she is a sophomore preparing for a career in nursing.

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in yourself and do what you know you have to do.”

She said she probably will enter other pageants, but her immediate priority was a physiology class.

included cancer patients, veterans, and residents of Appalachia, China, Africa and Haiti.

Club member Linda Wade said one of the most rewarding experiences was donating quilts to veterans through the Quilts of Valor project. “To see them go up to that table and go through the quilts and take yours, what a thrill,” she said.

“Everybody brings ideas. Everybody brings a pattern,” Williams said. “We all have a stash at home of all kinds of fabric. We share colors, we share fabrics just to get all these quilts put together.”

Members pay $20 per class or $25 for all three classes. Nonmembers pay $25 per class, or $50 for all three classes.

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Quilters invite new members The Gone to Pieces quilting group invites new members to join then each month at the Aboite Township Community Room, beside the trustee’s office at 11321 Aboite Center Road, west of Homestead Road.

For details, call club member Pansy Williams at (260) 459-0051.

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12, 4-8 p.m.; Sept. 13, 9:30 am.-5 p.m.; and Sept. 26, 4-8 p.m. The group usually meets the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.

Club members create quilts, pillowcases and clothing for various charities. Recipients have

teaching her specialty techniques, and is the co-author of two books and the producer of 12 home decorating DVDs. Three classes are planned: Romancing the Bedroom, 6-9 p.m.

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Financial Focus What’s Your Retirement “Contingency Plan”?

You probably have thought about what you’d like to do during your retirement years.

But all your plans probably depend, to at least some extent, on your financial situation.

What happens if you reach the age at which you wish to retire and you just don’t have the money you thought you’d have?

If this occurs, it’s time for “Plan B.” What does that look like? Here are a couple of possibilities: • Continue working. If you like your job, you may not mind working an extra year or so. You’ll be bringing in more income and contributing more to your 401(k) or other retirement account — and, perhaps

almost as importantly, you may be able to avoid tapping into these retirement accounts, thus giving them more time to potentially grow. (However, once you turn 70½, you’ll need to begin taking withdrawals from your 401(k) and a traditional IRA.) But if you are really not enamored with the idea of working any longer, you might find that even the ability to “beef up” your retirement plans for another couple of years isn’t much consolation.

• Adjust your retirement lifestyle. It’s pretty simple: If you don’t save as much as you had planned for retirement, you probably can’t do all the things you wanted to do as a retiree.

For example, you may not be able to travel as much, or pursue your hobbies to the extent you’d like.

Clearly, you’d like to avoid these “retirement contingency plans.” To do so, though, you’ll need to take steps well before you retire. And the most important move you can make may be to contribute as much as you can possibly afford to your IRA and your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retirement plan.

During the last several years before you wish to retire, you may be in a strong position to “max out” on these plans because, at this stage of your life, your income may be at its

highest point, your children may be grown and you may even have “retired” your mortgage. If you still have money left with which to invest, you may want to look at other tax-advantaged vehicles that can be used for retirement.

But while it’s important to put in as much as possible to your retirement accounts, you need to do more than that — you also must put the money in the right investments within these accounts. Your exact investment mix should be based on your individual risk tolerance and time horizon, but, as a general rule, these investments must provide you with the growth potential you’ll need to accumu-

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Of course, as you know, investments move up and down.

You can’t prevent this, but you’ll certainly want to reduce the effects of volatility as much as possible when you enter retirement. Consequently, during your final working years, you may need to adjust your retirement accounts by shifting some of your assets (though certainly not all) from growthoriented vehicles to incomeproducing ones.

It’s a good idea to have contingency plans in place for virtually every endeavor in life — and paying for your retirement years is no different. But if you can make the right moves to avoid the contingency plans in the first place, then so much the better.

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Olive Twist owners hear experts, plan classes Terry and Lori Berndt, the owners of The Olive Twist Inc., attended the second annual International Olive Oil Summit in Oakland, Calif. The July conference featured speeches and seminars by olive oil experts from around the world. Hundreds of olive oil retailers attended the conference.

The Berndts had lunch with journalist Tom Mueller, author of the book “Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.” They attended an olive oil sensory-tasting school taught by representatives of the Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiiatori Olio di Oliva olive oil schools. The ONAOO assisted the Berndts with the steps for properly tasting and grading olive oil.

“Most people think rancid oil is what good olive oil is supposed to taste like. But it is the mission of The Olive Twist to educate and share quality olive oil with our friends, family and customers,” said Lori Berndt. “Rancid or bad olive oil in our diets is playing a large role in some of today’s health issues.

Conversely, there are many health benefits from using quality extra-virgin olive oil in our diets.”

Berndt said EVOO should be used within one year of its crush date. Berndt recommends storing olive oil out of sunlight, away from heat, and sealed with a cork. Detailed storage instructions are available at both retail locations of The Olive Twist, at 6410 W. Jefferson Blvd., Suite 7A, in Fort Wayne,

and at 115 N. Main St. in Auburn.

The Olive Twist soon will schedule more of its in-house Olive Oil 101 classes, according to Berndt.

In addition, she will teach Olive Oil 101 in partnership with the IPFW Division of Continuing Studies on Nov. 5.

For more information on The Olive Twist, visit www.theolivetwist.com, or call owner Lori Berndt at (260) 436-3866.

Berndt is a client of the Northeast Indiana Small Business Development Center, which assisted her in starting her new business in 2010. To learn more about the services of the NEISBDC, call (260) 481-0500 or visit www.isbdc.org.

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Event invites dog owners The Northeastern Indiana Kennel Club will hold Responsible Dog Ownership Day on Saturday, Sept. 7, at Shoaff Park in Fort Wayne.

Program hours are 10 a.m.-3 p.m., in Conklin Pavilion, 6401 St. Joe Road.

Highlights include demonstrations from local police K-9 teams, agility dogs, obedience dogs and conformation dogs. Breed rescue groups and therapy dogs also will be in attendance.

Local participation in RDO Day has included the Allen County Sheriff’s Department K-9 Unit, Allen County SPCA, Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control, Fort Wayne Obedience Training Club, the Spay and Neuter Clinic, Three Rivers Visiting Dogs, Allen County Public Library’s Paws to Read, and various rescue groups and dog-related service organizations.

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Allegiant Travel Co. is using a jet with greater fuel efficiency and more seating capacity to reinstate scheduled service out of Fort Wayne International Airport to Phoenix this fall.

The Las Vegas-based low-cost travel company will operate flights on a 156-seat A319 jet Thursdays and Sundays between FWA and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport starting Oct. 30. The aircraft will have 26 more seats and 35 percent greater fuel efficiency than an MD-80 series jet the company used to operate the same route five years ago.

Following Atlanta and Dallas, Phoenix “was our third-highest (traveled) market out of our area when we did have service,” said Scott Hind-

erman, the Fort WayneAllen County Airport Authority’s executive director of airports, during an Aug. 20 news conference at the county’s courthouse green. “We’re very confident that this route will be successful.”

In 2007, Allegiant held a contest, asking Fort Wayne-area residents to vote for whether the company should add a route to Phoenix or Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from Fort Wayne International Airport. Phoenix narrowly won out, but Allegiant later that year added routes to both destinations.

In the first half of 2008, the company ended air service to Fort Lauderdale and Phoenix. Allegiant has continued service it was offering at the time to Orlando/Sanford, Fla., and Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fla. Hinderman said the company had discon-

tinued a number of longer routes that year based on the impact of a spike in jet fuel prices. “Since then, the price of fuel has become a little more stabilized,” he said.

Data from Airlines for America, an association that advocates for the airline industry, showed the average annual price paid for a barrel of jet fuel jumped 46 percent to a peak of $128.86 in 2008 from $88.41 the prior year.

Last year, the average price was $123.90.

Fuel efficiency has been a major selling point for the A319 made by Airbus.

When American Airlines announced in 2011 that it would be adding A319s and A321s to its A320 family fleet order for 2013, the company said they would bring a 35 percent reduction in fuel cost per seat compared with the MD-80.

333’s Meintel earns Eagle rank

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Christian Meintel of Boy Scout Troop 333 received his Eagle Scout Award in a ceremony at Fort Wayne Country Club on June 9. Eight Eagle Scouts attended the court of honor. He is pictured with his parents, Elizabeth and Norm Meintel.

Christian is a 2013 honors graduate of Homestead High School. He attends IPFW, majoring in graphic design with a minor in business. The troop meets at Liberty Mills Church of the Nazarene.

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IPFW announces 19th Omnibus Lecture Series A scientist/inventor, the CEO of a company famous for its public opinion polls, and a best-selling author headline the 19th season of the IPFW Omnibus Lecture Series. New this year is the move to a three-lecture series, with all speakers appearing in the fall.

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Raised in the American Southwest and a mining town in West Virginia, Walls and her siblings endured poverty and great

uncertainty. Walls grew up to become a columnist for New York magazine and MSNBC.com and has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Larry King Live” and “Oprah.”

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by Bill Nye, scientist, inventor, host of “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” Oct. 23: “The Glass Castle: Demon Hunting and Other Life Lessons,” by Jeannette Walls, best-selling author.

Nov. 12: “The Coming Jobs War,” by Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup.

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polling, including the Gallup World Poll, which collects data from across the world Clifton on key global issues. He is also the creator of the Gallup Path, an economic model that examines relationships between workplace behavior and outcomes for businesses. His book draws on 75 years of Gallup studies to explain why those who control the job market also control our future. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, Lutheran Health Network, and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.

The Omnibus Lecture Series is dedicated to presenting diverse ideas through respected speakers to northeast Indiana. It is sponsored by the English Bonter Mitchell Foundation and the Dr. Louis and Ann B. Schneider Foundation.

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Ceremony at state fair honors 4-H volunteers Three Allen County 4-H volunteers were recognized during the Indiana State Fair.

Honorees are: Virginia McIntosh, Hoagland, for 35 years of service; Beth Dawson, Monroeville, for 30 years of service; and Jerry Hammon, Harlan, for 30 years of service.

Each year, the Indiana 4-H Foundation and State 4-H Program at Purdue University recognize the outstanding contributions of adult 4-H volunteers who help make the 4-H youth development program a success Other Allen County 4-H volunteer leaders recognized, but not able to attend the recogni-

tion event at the Indiana State Fair, were: Donald Wies, Avilla, for 40 years; Reggie Shull, Woodburn, for 40 years; Douglas Chapman, Spencerville, for 30 years; Roxanna Greer, Fort Wayne, for 25 years; Mike Shirey, New Haven, for 25 years; Jane Wells, Fort Wayne, for 25 years; Larry Fuhrmann, Decatur, for 20 years; Dale Linnemeier, Churubusco, for 20 years; Mark Riley, Monroeville, for 20 years; and Rita Simmons, Auburn, for 20 years.

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Southwest Allen County Schools band directors say collaboration is the key to the continued success of the program.

“Our size right now is 290, and that is the largest band in the history of Homestead High School,” said Steve Barber, band director.

The marching band’s string of awards — which includes five state championships — supports recruiting, Barber said.

“I think the success of our program adds to our continued growth,” he said.

“We’ve been in the state finals for 26 consecutive years now, so that tradition of excellence just lives on.

It’s passed on from senior class to senior class.”

“We have an outstanding middle school feeder program, and that helps us each and every year,” Barber said. Also, the incoming freshman class is a little larger than the graduating class.

Susan Jehl conducts band at Summit Middle School.

Tony Strebig directs the bands at Woodside Middle School. Both said that band directors at all grade levels work together closely.

“In Southwest we are really fortunate to be in a community that supports

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Tony Strebig directs the band program at Woodside Middle School. He has been a band director for 24 years.

Susan Jehl directs the band program at Summit Middle School. She has begun her 30th year as a music teacher.

the arts,” Jehl said in an email. “Our school programs are set up to foster success, our students are highly motivated and the parents are actively involved.”

“The high school directors are in our middle school programs on a regular basis helping us teach the younger students,” she continued. “Our success comes from the high standards that are set by the

Strebig, of Woodside, said bringing high school staff into the middle schools has several advantages.

“We’re very fortunate in Southwest Allen County to have team teaching, in that the high school directors assist at the middle school level,” he said. “Therefore we can break down our music education to smaller numbers per teacher.”

“Furthermore, the high school directors get to

students and directors and the commitment of time and effort that all involved put forth. It is inspiring to watch students progress from making those first squeaks and squawks on their instrument to being state contenders each year. I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to work in this environment. It makes coming to work a lot of fun, and making music each day a joy.”

Festival strives for authenticity

know their students from the beginning entry level of playing a musical instrument, all the way through their senior year in high school,” Strebig said.

“When we work together it really enhances the program and allows for a more productive situation and higher success rate.”

“When the high school has success at their competitions, the younger siblings and the community

Garden aids charity

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The Johnny Appleseed Festival is more than just a party in a park, according to festival director Bruce Hayes. It’s also more than just one park.

Hayes said every aspect of the 39th annual festival Sept. 21 and 22 will authentically represent the Pioneer era when John Chapman planted and sold apple trees through much of the Midwest. Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in north central Pennsylvania in 1774. He died on the Archer farm in 1845. The festival grounds surround his grave site.

Hayes said the festival draws about a quarter of a million people to Fort Wayne each September. There is no admission fee.

Exhibitors must present crafts that the early settlers would have practiced, and vendors must offer foods that those founders would have cooked. The volunteer board of directors will reject most applicants. “It takes an inordinate amount of the board’s time to make sure we aren’t losing what it is that made this festival special,” Hayes said.

The festival spans two adjacent parks. The campground just off Coliseum Boulevard along the St. Joseph River lies within 31 acres widely known as Johnny Appleseed Park.

The formal name, though, is City Utilities Park. City Utilities owns the land, and has granted the Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation Department a long-term lease.

The namesake of the festival is buried nearby in Archer Park, which is owned by Allen County and maintained by the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum staff.

Hayes said the early arborist’s final resting place probably is not within the stately iron fence and gravestone in the historic landmark on the mound overlooking the Coliseum.

“If you were the Archer family, it’s probably unlikely that

Matthew Malone said he has known the receiving side of charity, and he was grateful for his chance to give.

Malone was among a dozen workers on hand recently when volunteers picked produce from the garden at Christ’s Hope Ministries and Church, 2818 Carroll Road.

The food was destined for The Rescue Mission and Charis House.

“I was down at the mission, and it’s really good to receive food,” Malone said. “So I’m giving it back to them.”

Volunteers were gathering produce for the eighth donation of the season.

“We’re sitting on 23 acres here. We’d may as well put some of it to use,” said the Rev. Phill Foust, the minister coordinator of the church.

That property is wedged between two entrances to

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Crafts created during the Johnny Appleseed Festival must use the equipment and materials that were available in the mid-19th century, when John Chapman cultivated apples in the Midwest.

you would have buried John Chapman at the very top of the farm,” Hayes said. “That’s been pretty well documented with people who were alive not that long ago.” The actual grave likely is nearby, Hayes said, among shrubs in the shape of a See FESTIVAL, Page B4

Event details What: Johnny Appleseed Festival When: Sept. 21, 10 am.-6 p.m.

Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Johnny Appleseed and Archer parks, near Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Cost: Free admission.

More info: For a full schedule, visit johnnyappleseedfest.com.

take note,” Strebig said.

“They’re just attracted to the program for that reason.

It really makes my job of recruiting a lot easier.”

Strebig said he and Jehl attend in-service programs and share lesson plans and ideas. They also took both middle school bands to St. Louis to perform in a band festival last spring.

“We’re unique in Southwest Allen County,” he said. “We’re appreciated, we have a lot of community support, we have a very large music booster organization, and our students are wonderful.”

Strebig has been a band director for 24 years, including 21 years at Woodside. He was Woodside’s teacher of the year last school year, and was nominated by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra for a Music Educator of the Year Award for 2012.

Jehl has begun her 30th year as a music teacher. She received an Outstanding Music Educator of the Year award from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009.

Middle school bands do not take part in competitions, but are involved in honor bands, and present school concerts and pep sessions and entertain at businesses, nursing homes and other schools.

the Allen County Fairgrounds.

Hannah Haydl, 3, helped her mother, Lori, pick green beans. Other children dug through the soil as Neil McGough loosened potatoes with a potato fork.

The children learn more than gardening, said volunteer Jennifer Colby.

When children visit the shelter, she said, “They get a better grasp of how they have it good.”

“It’s an eye-opener that they can give back and get to see where they’re giving,” she said.

For information on the church’s other ministries, visit chmac.org.

Project coordinator McGough said the youth group began the garden as a service project about eight years ago. A larger crew now oversees the project.

“The tomatoes are just starting. We’ve probably gotten 30 or 40 tomatoes and 40 to 50 green peppers,” McGough said.

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Oldies band Klas to perform at hospital benefit Cottage Event Center’s Sept. 13 benefit for Riley Hospital for Children will feature the Indianapolis-band Klas.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the venue at 9524 U.S. 24 North in Roanoke. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door, or in advance by calling (260) 483-3508.

Klas will perform familiar oldies and classic rock ‘n’ roll, said James Amstutz, the Cottage Event Center manager.

Klas covers ’60s and ’70s music of artists such as Bob Seger, The Grass Roots, Neil Diamond, The Eagles, Steppenwolf and Tommy James & the Shondells. “A highlight of many of their performances is their old-time rock ‘n’ roll medley featuring ’50s hits made famous by Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and more,” Amstutz said in a news release. Another popular feature is a set of slow songs from the 1950s, which the band calls their back seat medley.

The band’s personnel includes Tom Zentz on bass and vocals, Steve Kennedy on drums and vocals, Nick Boulse on

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Nick Boulse plays keyboards and sings for Klas. The Roanoke concert is a benefit for Riley Hospital for Children.

Steve Kennedy plays drums and offers vocals for Klas, an Indianapolis-based band that will perform Sept. 13 in Roanoke.

keyboards and vocals, and Dan Bourget on guitar and vocals.

Riley is a comprehensive pediatric hospital serving more than 245,000 patient visits annually, inpatient and outpatient.

Closely affiliated with the Indiana University Medical School, Riley serves patients from every county in Indiana. The hospital’s philanthropic partner, The Riley Children’s Foundation, ensures that no child is turned away from care because of financial need.

Tickets also may be purchased at Good Grains Gluten

Free Bakery or at Mike Gibson State Farm Insurance, both in Roanoke.

Oley’s Pizza and Salad will be available for purchase, along with various dessert items. A cash bar will be available.

On Oct. 11, The Cottage Event Center will celebrate Country Music Month with a concert featuring country band Sugar Shot. The 7:30 p.m. show is a benefit for the Roanoke Kiwanis Club.

For details on other events, visit cottageeventcenter.com.

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the Roanoke Pullers Association, these two events attract plenty of competitors. The corn bag toss is Friday night, as is womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fast pitch softball.

Saturday starts off busy with the farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market on Main Street, free childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games with prizes at the park and the Cub Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cubmobile Race on Main Street hill at 5th Street.

Throughout the day there will be activities such as Mr. Twister sculpting balloons, demos of chainsaw carving and 4-H robotics, paintball shooting, and ping pong ball drop. There is also a live animal show, baseball and softball games, parades and musical entertainment.

Music headliners are Urban Legend with rock music Saturday night and Scott Greeson & the Trouble with Monday, playing country music, on Friday. The lineup also includes Shade nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shannon, (a Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash tribute), the J Taylors, and a barbershop quartet.

For a complete schedule, visit www. discoverroanoke.org or any of the Roanoke retailers for a brochure.

The Roanoke Fall Festival is celebrating its 60th year of fun and festivities. The celebration began Thursday and continues through Saturday, Sept. 7.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shining Bright for 60 Years, a Star-Spangled Celebration.â&#x20AC;? With two parades (Ageless Iron antique tractors on Friday and a full-out, band marching, candy tossing, politician stomping extravaganza on Saturday), two tractor pulls, (both full-size and kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; size), a demolition derby, amusement rides, carnival food, old-fashioned cake baking contest and auction and games of baseball, softball, ping pong balls and paint balls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chock full of good times.

Always the weekend following Labor Day, the festival began Thursday, with carnival rides, and a pet parade. Every year, two of the biggest draws of the festival are the National Tractor Pullers Association tractor pull on Friday night and the demolition derby on Saturday night. Sponsored by

Clear Elevation partners with Reusser Design The first for-profit company launched by Huntington Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HU Ventures subsidiary specializes in Web and graphic design, social media and photography.

HU Ventures opened Clear Elevation at 314 N. Main St. in Roanoke in partnership with Roanoke-based Reusser Design.

An Aug. 12 announcement of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Clear Elevation said Reusser Design is owned by two HU alumni, Nate and Julie Reusser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Huntington University is excited about the partnership with our alumni, Nate and Julie Reusser, to create a company which offers high-quality digital media services to clients as well as providing jobs in the area,â&#x20AC;?

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A report to the United Brethren Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013 U.S. National Conference said Clear Elevation eventually would use several graduates of the university as part-time contractors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are excited to partner with Huntington University in this new

venture. This is a great opportunity to connect with alumni and to provide local business with cost-effective services,â&#x20AC;? Nate Reusser, president of Reusser Design, said in the announcement.

Carson Sprunger, a Berne native with a graphic-design minor, a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in business administration and work experience in copywriting, graphic design, marketing, photography and Web analytics and design, will serve as Clear Elevationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business manager and creative director.

The report said HU Ventures was founded last year as a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary designed to generate income for the university through a variety of businesses it would start or help grow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;HU Ventures will capture profits from these enterprises, pay taxes, and return revenue to the university in the form of dividends,â&#x20AC;? the report said.

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FESTIVAL from Page B2 “J” and a “C.” Even the Chapman legend itself fails the festival’s test of authenticity. Pioneers needed to show evidence that they were improving the land they had claimed, Hayes explained. “You had to declare an interest in the land, and fruit trees did a lot to be able to say ‘this is my homestead,’ and John Chapman moved ahead of where the pioneers were and established orchards and moved forward and backward along his trail to take care of those orchards,” he said. Chapman owned lots of land and sold the trees, Hayes explained. “So the idea of him randomly scattering seeds along the way was not true,” he said.

“He was a pretty smart businessman.”

Festival hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

21, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 22. Church, school and civic groups will cook settler staples such as chicken and noodles, ham and beans and apple dumplings over open fires. The list of food vendors tends to be very stable from year to year, he said. Entertainment such as fife and drum corps and cloggers will fill five stages. For details, photos and vendor applications, visit johnnyappleseedfest. com.

Finding exhibitors appropriate to the era is challenging, Hayes said.

“The crafters have to make

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Groups such as fife and drum corps and cloggers entertain at the Johnny Appleseed Festival.

the crafts themselves, using techniques and material from the time,” he said.

Vendors of dime-store knock-offs are rejected.

Entertainment applicants pose an even tougher authenticity challenge.

“About 95 percent of them immediately weed themselves out,” Hayes said.

“We’ll check to make sure it complies, and then we’ll come back to make sure something doesn’t reappear,” Hayes said.

Vendors are ejected when necessary, and that is frequently, he said.

“We can’t compromise the quality of the festival,” Hayes said. “There are discussions about water in

plastic bottles or food in Styrofoam. But in order to meet modern regulations and make sure people are healthy, we have to give on those things.”

“Most of our food vendors are area not-forprofits, who are there doing their fundraising, and for some of them it’s their biggest fundraising event of the year,” Hayes said. “So when you come out to the park, you’re not only eating food, you’re also supporting area not-for-profits. We wouldn’t exist without them.”

The longtime festival volunteer said he appreciates the difficulty of replicating materials from

the Pioneer era.

“I watched someone carving a wooden spoon, and I was surprised at how long it takes. And I thought about how you have to kill the food. And you wonder where the pot came from,” Hayes said. “That’s when I realized that I would not have made it as a Pioneer.”

“There were a lot of places that John Chapman traveled back in Pioneer days, from here to the East Coast, so there are a lot of Johnny Appleseed festivals,” Hayes said. Fort Wayne, though, claims the grave site.

Hayes said visitors from Canada attend the Fort Wayne festival. People from

across the country time their Fort Wayne visits to coincide with the festivities on the third weekend in September. “It really amazes me how well this festival is known and how many people enjoy it,” he said.

“We’re trying to focus more and more on the educational opportunities that are available,” he said. “We had a scavenger hunt in the past and we’re thinking about resurrecting that, to get people’s awareness that we are more than just a party in the park.”

“You can go out there and learn a lot about what Pioneer days were like without feeling like it’s a

dreary classroom situation,” he said.

“It’s not just in Allen County,” Hayes said.

“We support northeastern Indiana when we make purchases with the limited resources that we have. We try to favor the local businesses. We figure this is the community’s money, and it’s our responsibility to put that money back into the community.”

Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation, Psi Iota Xi Theta Chapter, and Settlers Inc. are corporate sponsors of the festival.

Hayes, an IT project manager for Lincoln Financial Group, first volunteered with the festival in 2000. He worked as a grant writer and as entertainment director before becoming director of administration. All directors are volunteers, he said.

“It’s one thing to have the paid staff to make sure that everything gets done, but the fact that we’re able to make this happen without the luxury of an office and staff, with people doing it after their careers and family responsibilities, I think is impressive,” he said.

Fourteen board members hold specific duties, with the help of seven board assistants. Several board members also serve on the eight-member executive committee.

“A lot of time and work goes into it,” Hayes said.

“But it doesn’t feel like work because it’s an honor.”

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Allen County cuts taxes for Vera Bradley project

By Linda Lipp llipp@kpcmedia.com

The Allen County Council has approved a tax abatement request made by Vera Bradley Inc. in conjunction with its plan to invest more than $26 million on its campus southwest of Fort Wayne.

Together, the 149,000-square-foot expansion of Vera Bradley’s design center and the 10,000-square-foot addition to its distribution center announced Aug. 2 are projected to create 128 jobs over the next four years. The requested tax abatement — or tax phase-in, as the county now terms it — would save Vera Bradley an estimated $2 million in property-tax payments. It was approved by the County Council on Aug. 15.

According to compliance records maintained by the county, the handbag and

accessories manufacturer has three other county abatements on the books but has fallen short of the number of jobs it promised to create in conjunction with those projects.

The county analysis of Vera Bradley’s abatement compliance forms said it created just 17 percent of the promised jobs on one abatement, 66 percent on the second and 43 percent on the third.

Vera Bradley spokeswoman Melissa Schenkel challenged those figures, however.

“We have met all the promised jobs numbers and have made a point to keep all abatements separate and not cross any jobs creation between abatements,” she said in an email. “In fact, since 2008, Vera Bradley has created more than 700 jobs in Northeast Indiana.”

“We have met every abatement number presented

to us, and any that have not been fulfilled are well on their way and will be fulfilled by the date presented in each abatement,” Schenkel’s email continued.

The compliance confusion might come about because hiring goals are not defined as being at a specific building or specific location but are spread out among Vera Bradley’s buildings, she said.

Vera Bradley’s expansion is slated to be completed late next year. As a result of the expansion, 253 current Vera Bradley employees who work at facilities on Production Road and Industrial Road eventually will be moved to the southwest campus, Schenkel said. The company also has a production facility in New Haven, and down the road the plan is to consolidate all of Vera Bradley’s northeast Indiana employees and operations on a single campus.

Kiwanis present scholarship

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Emily Muha, the 2012-13 president of the Homestead High School Key Club, accepts the Owen Wade Scholarship check for $1,000 from Time Corners Kiwanis Club President Linda Ogram. Key Club assists Kiwanis in carrying out its mission to serve children, through projects such as cleaning up parks, collecting clothing, and organizing food drives. Key Club members receive guidance and support from adult volunteers, including Kiwanis advisers and faculty advisers.

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Risen Savior fall festival to feature crafts, food Risen Savior Lutheran Church, 8010 W. Jefferson Blvd., will have its fall festival from 11:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

29. The public is invited.

Admission is free.

The festival will include a craft fair, face painting, balloons, Mark’s Ark Exotic Animal Show, Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rescue, a moon-bounce, a bake sale, a hog roast, and more.

Craft vendors may reserve a table for free.

Call the church at (260) 432-1214 or email office. risensavior@frontier.com.

Craft tables are free because the festival is not about money, said Mary Shuff, church council president. “We want everyone to come and enjoy the day,” Shuff said.

“The church parishioners donate all the food and we sell it at a minimal cost,” she said. “It’s really kind of

an outreach. Come and have a good time, and don’t spent a lot of money.”

Shuff said a parishioner has donated a hog for a hog roast again this year.

Other food options include a baked potato bar and hot dogs.

“Everything else is free,” Shuff said. “The only thing we’ve ever charged for is if we would get a dunk tank, and then we’d pick a mission project for the money.”

“Everybody loves Mark’s Ark,” Shuff said. “He pulls out baby alligators and baby snakes and baby this and that.”

Shuff is seeking volunteers for the dunk tank again. That component of the festival is subject to the whims of the September weather. “We’ve had fairly good weather, sometimes chilly, but we’ve had it in October when it was 90,”

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Risen Savior is a small church, Shuff said, but the festival always has plenty of volunteers.

“The church has a little cycle recycle shop, and people can donate bikes that they don’t want anymore, or they can bring bikes in for minor repairs,” Shuff said. The bike project will be open from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

The church recently donated 13 more bicycles to Light of the Cross Outreach Ministries, in south Fort Wayne, to be given to underprivileged families.

That ministry at 2936 S. Anthony Blvd. operates a community center and food pantry. Light of the Cross is a ministry of Messiah Lutheran Church. Food pantry hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. For details, call (260) 387-7894.

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Crafters will converge on the grounds of Risen Savior Lutheran Church for the fall festival, Sept. 29.

For details Risen Savior Lutheran Church is at 8010 W. Jefferson Blvd., near the campus of Lutheran Hospital. Call the church at (260) 432-1214. For more information, visit risensvioronline.org.

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USF Jesters accepting sign-up for 2013-2014 The Jesters of the University of Saint Francis is accepting registrations for the 2013-2014 program from people with developmental disabilities. Registration is open to anyone age 6 to senior citizens. Jesters will continue taking applications through the end of October.

The program begins Sept. 7 and will meet each Saturday from 10 a.m.-noon at the USF North Campus building, 2702 Spring St., across from the main campus. Morning activities will include dance/movement, theatre, storytelling, puppetry, percussion and music (instrumental and voice). A visual arts program will be held from noon-2 p.m. in the Rolland Center.

Participants are welcome to attend the morning session only, or both the morning and

afternoon sessions. Annual participation fees are $60 per participant. Scholarships are available.

The program will meet each Saturday (except Nov. 30 due to Thanksgiving) until Dec. 14. The Jesters program will not meet Dec. 21 and 28, or Jan. 4 and 11, due to holiday break. The program will resume Jan. 18 and will continue meeting each Saturday from 10 a.m-2 p.m. through March 8. The spring 2014 performance will be presented March 8 at 6 p.m. and March 9 at 3 p.m. at the North Campus auditorium.

Anyone interested in participating may contact Molly McGowan in the School of Creative Arts at mmcgowan@sf.edu or (260) 399-7700, ext.

8001, to request registration forms. Forms can also

be downloaded from the Jesters website at sf.edu/sf/ art/community/jesters. For more information, contact director Allison Ballard at allis2b@yahoo.com or (260) 745-3107.

Sponsored by the University of Saint Francis since 1978, the Jesters is a performing group of people with mild to severe developmental/physical disabilities.

The purpose of the Jesters is to enhance quality of life for people with disabilities by engaging them in the creative arts. The vision is to develop self-expression, self-esteem, socialization and other life skills while providing learning opportunities to the USF community and the community at large. The program is made possible in part through funding by the AWS Foundation.

Allen County man shows 4th place pumpkin at fair

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

Kelly Klinker’s Woodburn pumpkin patch has produced misshapen globes that weighed almost half a ton, so he had no delusions about his 374-pounder’s prospects in the Indiana State Fair.

As he feared, his entry missed the blue ribbon by a few hundred pounds. Still, his finished fourth among the five entries.

Dwight and Karen Slone trucked a 1,039-pound pumpkin to Indianapolis from Prestonburg, Ky., and claimed top prize in the Aug. 10 judging.

“It was almost what I expected,” Klinker said. “I was hoping mine would be closer to 400 pounds.”

Because it’s an open

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Kelly Klinker, of Woodburn, exhibited a 374-pound pumpkin that took fourth place at the giant pumpkin contest at the Indiana State Fair. Shown after the Aug. 10 contest are, from left: Indiana State Fair Queen Mariah Huff; John Barenie, Griffith, Ind., second place, 927 pounds; David Cantrell, Corryton, Tenn., third place, 669 pounds; Dwight Slone, Prestonburg, Ky., first place, with his 1,039-pound pumpkin; Mikkal Hodge, Morristown, Ind., fifth place, 300 pounds; and Klinker.

class competition, growers from other states may enter. “Usually we have one of those that sneaks in,” said Klinker, who also has crossed some state lines. “I usually travel to Ohio or Michigan when I’ve got a bumper crop and a few extra, but I won’t be traveling this year,” he said.

But Klinker does not have a surplus of pumpkins this year, and he has responsibilities closer to home. In his fourth year as president of the Indiana Pumpkin Growers Association, he’s busy organizing the annual show, Oct. 5 at Gary Greenhouse, 4706 Bluff Road, Indianapolis.

His garden still holds a pumpkin that will eclipse its state fair counterpart.

“I have one more growing for Halloween season,” he said. “It’s probably around 300 pounds right now, and I don’t know where it’s going to end up. But I’m hoping around seven, eight hundred pounds.”

Klinker thanks a friend, Tom Beachy of Harlan, for giving him some pumpkin seeds in about 2002. He said Beachy still grows

pumpkins, but just for Halloween.

“I’ve always had a garden,” Klinker said. “But there’s just something different (about the pumpkins). They grow so much faster and they’re so big.

They’re just a lot of fun to grow.”

He said the hobby involves a lot of work. “I usually spend anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes per night, especially in June or July when it’s warmer and the pumpkins are really growing,” he said. “I water and weed and I train the vines in the direction I want them to go. The vines will root down, and I put dirt on the vines to help promote more root growth.”

His largest pumpkin so fear reached the 980-pound mark just in time for Halloween, 2009. He donated the pumpkin for a display, he said, adding that he probably will do so again this year.

Pumpkin enthusiasts can find Beachy’s achievement along with state records, growing tips, pumpkin merchandise, and the Top 10 pumpkin list at ipga.us.

Golf to fund Crime Stoppers The Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers’ sixth annual golf outing fundraiser will be held Friday, Sept. 13, at Canterbury Green Golf Club, Fort Wayne.

Participation is limited to 18 teams. The $240 per team fee includes morning coffee and doughnuts, an 18-hole round of golf, lunch with grilled bratwurst, and select beverages. Sign-in for golfers begins at 8 a.m.; tee time for the first group of golfers is 9 a.m.

To register a team, learn about sponsorship opportunities, or for more information, contact the Crime Stoppers office at (260) 436-8080.

Prizes will be awarded at the end of the outing, and one lucky golfer who gets a hole in one on a select hole can win a new car. Additional fundraising efforts include a silent auction, and a 50/50 raffle.

Crime Stoppers works to involve the community in the fight against crime. The program offers cash rewards up to $1,000 and anonymity to residents who volunteer information on unsolved crimes.

About the course Canterbury Green Golf Club is at 2727 Canterbury Blvd., in northeast Fort Wayne. The executive par 59 course offers 13 par 3’s and five par 4’s. For details or membership, call (260) 486-7888, or visit canterburygreengolf. com.

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Covington shops’ first Art Hop set Sept. 12 At least eight local shops will double as art galleries for the first Art Hop, from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Covington Plaza, West Jefferson Boulevard.

Organizers will repeat the project the second Thursday of each month. All shops in the plaza are invited to take part.

“The idea is for people to stroll the plaza, like they do at our art fair,” said Sarah Keltsch, the owner of The Monogram Shoppe and more.

Each participating shop will have a local artist in their shop and will serve refreshments.

“It gives the artists a showcase for their talent,” Keltsch

‘Renaissance in Roanoke” set Oct. 12 The Roanoke Arts Council will present “A Renaissance in Roanoke” from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12.

The juried art fair in downtown Main Street will feature local and regional artists. There is no admission charge.

The event is an invitational and juried art fair. For details, visit RenaissanceinRoanoke.org.

More than 50 artists are expected to exhibit and sell their art. The event will feature live art demonstrations.

Art by college and high school artists also will be on display, along with the works of Roanoke Elementary School students.

Other highlights include children’s activities, entertainment and an assortment of food.

A plein air paint-out on Saturday will allow artists to use natural light in capturing nature scenes. The public is welcome to watch the artists paint.

Artists will sign in from 11 a.m.-noon Friday, Oct. 11, at the Crestwoods Frame Shop and Gallery, 314 N. Main St., or from 8-9 a.m. Saturday. Applications are available on the website. Registration and framing will be done at Crestwoods.

Charles Shepard, the executive director of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, will judge the work. Artwork will be on display and available for sale from 2-5 p.m.

The fall farmers’ market on First Street will feature apples, soaps and other products. The food court will offer Joseph Decuis burgers and gumbo. The Roanoke Beautification Foundation will sell Nelson’s Chicken.

Other vendors are invited, and may apply on the website.

Artists scheduled to give demonstrations include Linn Bartling with her pottery wheel, and woodcarvers Larry Wiedman and Dan Diefenbacher.

said. “We’re not charging them.”

Artwork will be offered for sale, and stores might offer other specials.

Keltsch remarked on the number of restaurants available in the plaza. “So you can stroll and see the artists and then go to dinner, or visa versa,” she said.

Among the participating shops are Cakes, B Mitchell, Wine and Canvas, Merle Norman, Symmetry, Olive Twist, Cindy Friend, and The Monogram Shoppe and more.

Among the artists showing their works that night are Jan McMurtry Arnold, Vicki Junk-Wright, Amber Walker,

Marcia Gabet and Sarah Thompson. Art will include paintings and pottery.

Keltsch’s store will be host to Walker. “Amber does all sorts of beautiful prints and watercolors,” Keltsch said.

“Thursday is a funny night; it’s not quite the weekend,” said Keltsch, adding that visitors have welcomed such projects elsewhere.

“It can be a girlfriends night out, or it can be a couples night out,” Keltsch said.

“All these are local shops, owned by local people,” she said.

12 offices, shops to show art guild members’ work Twelve local offices will display works by members of the Fort Wayne Artists Guild during September.

Artists and their guest venues are: Anita Gildea, Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2417 Getz Road.

Doni Adam, Allen County Retinal Surgeons, 7900 W. Jefferson Lutheran Health Campus.

John Kelty, Bon Bon

Coffee Shop, 6122 St. Joe Center Road.

Jennifer Parks and Terri Buchholz, Parkview Medical Plaza, 11109 Parkview Plaza Drive.

Linda Binek and Anita Trick, Will Jewelers, 10146 Maysville Road.

Robert Einhaus, Rehabilitation Hospital, Lutheran Hospital Campus.

Karen Harvey, Ivy Tech Cafe, 3800 N. Anthony Blvd.

Wiletta Blevins, Visiting Nurse Association, 5910 Homestead Road.

Judi Renkenberger and Ray Watkins, Ophthalmology Consultants, 7232 Engle Road.

Susan Wenger, Townhouse Retirement Center Library, 2209 St. Joe Center Road.

Celeste Lengerich and Barb Yoder, ResCare Adult Day Care Service, 3711

Rupp Drive, Suite 106.

Cheryl Burke and Diane Fair, Citizens Square, second floor, 200 E. Berry St. Artists Guild publicist Judy Zehner said visitors will discover works by community members, and will see different art forms, such as pastels.

Exhibiting artists must be members of the guild, which will evaluate the art to be displayed.

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Local author introduces Christian Writing Club Bluffton author Kayleen Reusser has started a new writing club for authors and aspiring writers in the Fort Wayne area. The Fort Wayne Christian Writing Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at the Waynedale Public Library, 2200 Lower Huntington Road, in southwest Fort Wayne. The monthly gatherings, which start at 6 p.m., are open to anyone who enjoys writing and wants encouragement and feedback, or aspiring writers who need a catalyst for starting their own writing career.

The Fort Wayne club is an offshoot of the Bluffton Christian Writing Club that Reusser and another writer, Rhonda Maller, started in 2009. Reusser said the main purpose of the writing groups is to provide camaraderie, offering a place where writers can come together and critique one another’s work “in a gentle atmosphere that offers other perspectives and ideas for improvement.”

The idea for a writing club came after Reusser received support and inspiration from one in the past. “A similar group catapulted my writing back in the 1980s,” she said. “I was a wannabe writer who managed to get away from her busy family for one evening a month to meet with writers at a church in Fort Wayne.”

Since then, during her 20-plus years of paid writing experience, she has written for numerous publications and books, including five Chicken Soup books. She also has authored nine children’s books, among them biographies on contemporary female vocalists who are popular with young teenagers, and books profiling Greek gods.

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Kayleen Reusser, the author of nine children’s books, has started a group to give writers encouragement, feedback and advice. For more information about her work, visit KayleenR.com.

She currently writes a weekly newspaper column and works in the Bluffton Harrison Middle School Library, in addition to working on more books and serving as host to the writing clubs.

The Bluffton Christian Writing Club meets on the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the River Terrace in Bluffton. Over the past four years, the meet-

ings have grown to 14 regular attendees from Wells, Allen and Adams counties. “Our members include script writers, and people writing memoirs, flash fiction, personal essays, business profiles (and) newspaper articles. Several members have published books and share marketing tips,” she said, noting that “the variety makes it a fun group!”

Reusser said she expects that the Fort Wayne Christian Writing Club will attract a similar number of attendees, with a wide variety of writing styles. The initial response has produced 11 interested writers and five attendees at the first couple of meetings. For more information on the writing club, email kjreusser@adamswells.com, visit www.KayleenR.com, or attend the next meeting on Sept.

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Reusser is a client of the Northeast ISBDC, where she has worked with business advisers Scot Goskowicz and Mary Popovich on marketing and growth strategies. To learn more about the services of the NE-ISBDC, visit isbdc.org or call (260) 481-0500.

Club details Fort Wayne Christian Writing Club 6 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month Waynedale Public Library, 2200 Lower Huntington Road For details, email kjreusser@adamswells.com.

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Recycling luncheon highlights progress, goals

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

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Melissa Osburn holds Goodwill Industries’ Reduce, Reuse, Recycle award. Osborn is an administrative assistant for Goodwill, which won its award in the nonprofits category. Allen County Solid Waste Management District business technical coordinator Jodi Leamon, left, announced the winners at the Aug. 28 awards luncheon at Ceruti’s Catering Inc.

That has meant hauling a great many glass bottles, he said.

“Some of the government officials here, I would urge you, there needs to be space provided, there needs to be some kind of pickups for restaurants, especially downtown where space is limited, so that we don’t throw these into the waste stream,” he said. “There’s no reason to be throwing a lot of these things away. If you can help us to create methods of moving these things off-site, it would be very helpful. And JK’s isn’t the only restaurant that would take advantage of it.”

Glaze said Fort Wayne

Metals’ recycling imitative isn’t limited to industrial metals recovery. “It’s not just the wire, but it’s things that we take out of buildings when we’re rehabbing them — machines, leftover scrap metal. And some we can sell, and some we have to pay to haul away, but we try to intelligently use all the scrap materials that we have and try to make sure that we effectively recycle them.” he said.

Glaze is an investor in another Fort Wayne building, an 1890s structure at 821 S. Calhoun St. “We learned during rehab of that building that it was the original site of Lincoln Financial,” he said. “They were there in 1905 for

pounds of material out of the waste stream in 2011.

The initiative began with recovering bits of metal, including silver, he said.

“Everything else has flowed from that mindset,” he said.

He pointed to a slide from an overhead projector, showing a waste basket with separate sections for garbage and recycling. “Every desk, every station in our company, has a basket like this,” he said. “It’s amazing how little trash we generate.”

In 2007, the company filled six garbage containers a week, he said. Today, business has more than doubled and the company needs only four containers a week.

Shipments to the compa-

ny’s largest customer, in Ireland, are sent in recyclable totes instead of in cardboard boxes.

That program will be expanded, he said.

The Ardmore site features nature trails and native grasses to reduce storm water runoff.

Employees have access to a community garden.

Get Fresh Farms on that property supplies most of the restaurant’s vegetables, with some left over for a farmer’s market.

Tony Burrus, the executive director of the Allen County Solid Waste Management District, said Glaze’s emphasis on sustainability mirrors the mission of the district and all other such districts across the state.

The Allen County Solid Waste Management District honored winners of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for 2013.

Institution category: 3Rivers Federal Credit Union, for recycling an estimated 300 tons of building materials during a construction project, and for ongoing recycling projects.

Industry category: General Motors Assembly Plant, for a tradition of recycling, and for recovering 700 tons of waste water treatment sludge each year and using it as cement component.

Nonprofit category: Goodwill Industries of Northeast Indiana, for accepting donations and keeping 600 tons of plastics, clothing and other materials out of landfills in 2012.

Director’s Award: Mustard Seed Furniture Bank, for working with furniture stores to divert used items to the agency, for distributing material to clients or other charities, and for recycling.

Sixteen companies received partnership awards for providing drop-off points for recycling batteries, fluorescent bulbs, tires and other materials. Eight companies received honor roll recognition for other service to the district’s mission.

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Glaze, the chairman and CEO of Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corp., also is an owner of JK O’Donnel’s Irish Pub. Glaze spoke Aug. 28 at the 28th annual Excellence in Recycling awards luncheon, sponsored by the Allen County Solid Waste Management District.

Glaze said when he and his wife, Melissa, bought the West Wayne Street pub, they were dismayed to learn that businesses had to put recyclables and trash into one container.

“And we gasped at that; it really bothered us,” Glaze said.

That’s when the downtown business got some assistance from Fort Wayne Metals, which already was practicing recycling and recovery at its 50-acre Ardmore Avenue site. “So we have had a truck from Fort Wayne Metals go down and pick up all the glass, all the aluminum, all the things we recycle from the pub, and take them back to our recycling facility at Fort Wayne Metals,” he said.

about six months when they started operations. So it was really great to be able to save that building.”

“We just finished the apartments and we have all four rented, at very good rates, and we will sign a contract this week with a restaurateur, and have a little bit of a restaurant there by the end of the year.

“So it’s exciting for me to see an older building — and we did the same thing with JKs, with that building — to be able to take an old building, repurpose it, bring it back to life, and hopefully both of those buildings will still be going strong in another hundred years.”

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St. Joseph United Methodist to celebrate 150 years

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

As St. Joseph United Methodist Church prepares to honor its story and its future, Mary Jo Baughman’s thoughts are with the dozens of pastors and thousands of members who have called the church home for 150 years.

Mary Jo and Arthur Baughman joined the church in December of 1955, when the congregation still gathered each Sunday at the corner of St. Joe Road and St. Joe Center Road. They took part in the 1957 procession east to the new church building at the corner of Reed Road.

They celebrated the church’s centennial in 1963. Their two sons took their wedding vows at the new church. Arthur is now

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A photo from about 1957 shows the St. Joseph Methodist Episcopal Church meeting in cramped quarters at the corner of St. Joe and St. Joe Center roads. The photo shows the Rev. James J. Babbitt, who was the church’s first full-time pastor, and who served from from 1954 to 1961.

deceased.

Senior pastor the Rev. Russ Abel worked with Baughman and others to choose the tone and scope of the celebration of a century and a half of worship.

“I think it was one

of the first meetings,” Baughman said, “and Russ asked us about being on this committee for the 150th, and what kind of emotions it involved. I was surprised; but mine was kind of solemn, because it made me think

of all the people that are gone, who used to be here, who had so much to do with getting this church going. The people who shoved us down the road from one corner to the next.”

The church will re-enact

that move Sunday, Sept.

8, to begin a monthlong observance of the church’s milestone.

Baughman said a filling station now stands on the site of the old church.

Gone are most of the farmhouses, and the gravel roads that connected them.

“We built a home just about a half-mile east of here, and we were building way out in the country at that time,” Baughman said. “Everybody scratched their head wondering why in the world are you going out there. And at that time, down at the other corner, that was the only church out here.”

Baughman’s friend Maggie Tallman moved to the neighborhood in 1951, although Maggie and Richard did not begin attending the church until the fall of 1960. Richard worked across the street at Medical Protective Co., which provided the land for the new church. “We

built a home out here,” she said, “and our kids weren’t happy going into town. They wanted to go to church with their friends at St. Joe Center, so we started looking for a church and this is where we ended up. That was in 1960 and we joined on our 13th wedding anniversary, in February of ‘61.”

Tallman, who also is widowed, said two of her three children are married, and both took their vows at St. Joseph United Methodist Church.

“My youngest daughter was a year and a half old when we started coming out here,” she said, “and this is the only church she knows.”

Baughman and Tallman both serve on the anniversary celebration with Abel, the pastor, whose ties to the church are more recent. Abel, from southern Indiana, was appointed St. Joseph’s pastor by the bishop, in 2007.

Special music 5:30 p.m. Saturdays. Free-will offering. St. Joseph United Methodist Church, 6004 Reed Road, Fort Wayne Sept. 7: Amy Cox, contemporary worship pastor, and and friends in concert.

Sept. 14: Heartland Chamber Chorale will present “Songs of Faith.”

Sept. 21: A Fort Wayne women’s group, elle/The Remnant, will present Celtic-inspired music.

Sept. 28: The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir.

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Church celebrates 170th anniversary. Bethel United Methodist Church, 8405 Lima Road. 4:30 p.m. Celebration features an old-time 1843 Christian revival (outside, weather-permitting), which will include guest speakers, special music and refreshments.

Be a Tourist in Your Hometown. Various locations. Noon-5 p.m. Pick up a free passport at the Visitors Center, 927 S. Harrison St. Visit the African-American Historical Museum, Artlink, Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, History Center, Parkview Field, Allen County Courthouse, Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, Historic Fort Wayne, the Lincoln Tower, Science Central and the Visitors Center.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 County Night Out. Woodburn Community Center, 22735 Main St. 6:30 p.m., until no later than 8 p.m. An open house format allows residents the opportunity to meet the Allen County Commissioners and other elected ofďŹ ceholders, to get information about programs and services offered by the various county departments. Among the county departments and ofďŹ ceholders to be represented are the Parks Department, Highway Department, Northeastern Indiana Regional Coordinating Council, Human Resources, the Department of Planning Services, Building Department, the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department, Solid Waste Management District, County Extension Service, Election Board, sheriff, recorder and assessor.

Little River Ramblers Class. Eagle Marsh Barn, 6801 Engle Road. 9 a.m. Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn. Hike to explore and record the ďŹ&#x201A;ora and fauna of Eagle Marsh. Make sure to dress for the weather.

Smart Start Story Time. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane.

10:30 a.m. Stories, activities and crafts for your preschooler. For details, call (260) 421-1310.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Baby Steps Toddler Time. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry

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Horses, bands, clowns and cars will ďŹ ll downtown Grabill for the 2013 Grabill Country Fair parade, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, the third and ďŹ nal day of the Grabill Country Fair. The parade will follow a 1.1-mile route around Grabill. A veterans group will raise the colors at 10:05 a.m.

Lane. 10:30 a.m. Stories, songs, games, and crafts for your toddler. For details, call (260) 421-1310.

Cookbook Book Club. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 2 p.m. Read the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selection beforehand, cook a food item from it, then bring it in to share. Book selections to be determined, contact the branch for more information. Call (260) 421-1310.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Art for Homeschoolers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Children. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 2 p.m. Children ages 6-11 will study a variety of art techniques and mediums ranging from drawing to painting to 3D. All supplies provided.

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Stop by and read to our PAWS dogs, Mason and Martha. They are excellent listeners and would love to have you read to them.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Little River Ramblers Class. Eagle Marsh Barn, 6801 Engle Road. 9 a.m. Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn. Hike to explore and record the ďŹ&#x201A;ora and fauna of Eagle Marsh. Make sure to dress for the weather.

Smart Start Story Time. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane.

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On the Banks of the Wabash marching band festival. Bluffton High School, 3 p.m. Most area high school marching bands participate in this festival.

Author Shelia Gagen visits. Grabill Branch Library, 13521 State St. Noon. Shelia Gagen a longtime Leo-Cedarville resident and published poet, songwriter and music educator, will visit.

Monarch ButterďŹ&#x201A;y Festival. Eagle Marsh, 6801 Engle Road. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Sponsored by the Little River Wetlands Project. For details about this family-friendly event, visit infortwayne.com.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Anonymous by Adoption. Parkview Main Campus, 2109 E. State Blvd.

7 p.m. Support group for adoptees, adoptive parents, and separated siblings. For more information, call (260) 238-4529 or (260) 744-1518.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Salomon Farm Fall Harvest Festival. Salomon Farm Park, 817 W. Dupont road. A two-day celebration of the history and culture of the American farm. The free event is designed for all ages. On Friday and Saturday, see live animals, hay rides, oat and wheat threshing, food concessions, corn husking and shredding, and antique farm equipment. On Saturday only, see butter making, cow milking, musical entertainment, a farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market, an antique tractor parade and the photography show and sale. For a list of related activities, visit fortwayneparks.org.

Summit City Toastmasters Meeting. Better Business Bureau, 4011 Parnell Ave. 7:30 a.m. For information, visit summitcitytm.org or call Kristal HefďŹ&#x201A;ey, 918-2065.

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American Farm Photography Show & Sale. Salomon Farm Park, 817 W. Dupont Road. A new addition to the annual Fall Harvest Festival.

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Johnny Appleseed Festival. Archer Park and adjacent land near Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. today and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. 39th annual celebration of Pioneer apple grower John Chapman and his times. Admission is free. Local schools and civic groups sell foods that would have been available during the mid-19th century. Crafts people in authentic dress demonstrate skills practiced at that time. Music also is true to that era, using instruments available in that day. For details, visit johnnyappleseedfest.com.

Fish and chicken dinner. St. John Lutheran Church Flatrock, 12912 Franke Road, Monroeville. 4;30-7:30 p.m. All-you-can-eat ďŹ sh and chicken strip dinner includes two sides, drink and dessert. Cost is $9 for adults, $7 for children ages 6-12, and free foor ages 5 and under.

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The latest exhibit at The Orchard Gallery of Fine Art features gourds with pyrography drawings, above, by Alison Adams, and acrylic paintings by Terry Pulley. The gallery is at 6312-A Covington Road, Fort Wayne. The exhibit continues through Sept. 30. Pulley is a guest artist for this month only.

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Light the Night Walk. East Noble High School, 901 Garden St., Kendallville. 7 p.m. Smith sisters Chyanna, 16, and Arianna, 13, are the 2013 honorees for the Northeast Indiana annual Light the Night Walk to raise money for the Indiana Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Born to Read Babies and Books. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 10:30 a.m. Stories, songs and activities for babies and their caregivers. For details, call (260) 421-1310.

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Bishop Luers Homecoming. Bishop Luers High School, 3333 E. Paulding Road. 4:30 p.m. The Bishop Luers High School Alumni OfďŹ ce invites all alumni, family and friends of Bishop Luers High School to homecoming. Mass will be celebrated at 4:30 p.m. in the gym. The Distinguished Knight Honor will be presented after Mass. Nomination forms are available at bishopluers.org. The Alumni OfďŹ ce will hold a tailgate party from 5:30-7 p.m. The football game against Concordia Lutheran High School begins at 7 p.m. Luers fans may stop at the Spirit Booth to buy Luers T-shirts. An adult bonďŹ re will be held after the game, featuring the band Greta Sparks, sponsored by 1st Source Bank.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 Summit City Toastmasters Meeting. Better Business Bureau, 4011 Parnell Ave. 7:30 a.m.For information, visit summitcitytm.org or call Kristal Heffley, (260) 918-2065.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 Charity Fest for St. Vincent de Paul Society. Lantern banquet hall, 4420 Ardmore Ave. 7:30 p.m. Featuring Spike & the Bulldogs. Tickets $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Ticket includes light dinner and beer.

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Fort Wayne Rubber Stamp and Scrapbook Getaway. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Shop with professional rubber stamp and scrapbook design companies from around the country. Check out the latest stamping and scrapping products, see demonstrations, and learn new crafting techniques. Door prizes. Tickets available at the door for $8. Other discounts and specials available online. Program continues Sunday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Additional fee classes and a Make-andTake party will be held on Friday, Oct. 4. For more information, visit toomuchfunpromotions.com/fort-wayne-indiana/.

Apple Festival of Kendallville. Noble County Community Fairgrounds, U.S. 6, Kendallville. 9 a.m. Festival is Saturday, Oct. 5, and Sunday, Oct. 6. Entertainment and educational activities for the entire family to encourage cultural and historical appreciation for our heritage. Parking on the festival grounds for $3 a day per car and free at East Noble High School on Garden Street, at NoSag parking lots in Industrial Park East on Production Road (off Allen Chapel Road) and the off-street lots in the downtown area. No admission is charged for entrance into the Festival.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 Celebrate Country Music Month. Cottage Event Center, 966 Locust Drive, Roanoke. Doors open 6:30 p.m., show at 7:30. Tickets $10. Celebrate Country Music Month with Sugar Shot. Tickets $10. A benefit for Roanoke Kiwanis Club. For details, call (260) 483-3508.

Summit City Toastmasters Meeting. Better Business Bureau, 4011 Parnell Ave. 7:30 a.m. For information, visit summitcitytm.org or call Kristal Heffley, (260) 918-2065.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 Fort Wayne Health & Fitness Expo. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. today and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 daily, or get a weekend pass for $15. Kids 12 and under are admitted free. At 9 a.m. Saturday, registration begins for the Zombie 5K Run presented by Fort Wayne Health & Fitness. The weightlifting tournament begins at noon; registration is from 9-11 a.m. Other highlights include a cross-fit competition, power lifting, arm wrestling, karate/judo, the Midwest high school hard body contest, yoga, spinning, dance, zumba and gymnastics.

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