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Church men serve while women enjoy Graceful Night Out

Students anticipate Future City By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

Woodside Middle School will seek a third consecutive regional title at the Indiana Regional Future City competition. Summit Middle School will enter the competition for the ďŹ rst time. Students from throughout Indiana will compete Saturday, Jan. 18, at IPFW’s Walb Student Union. At stake is a trip to the Future City National Finals, Feb. 15-18, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Students are challenged to envision a city and address a speciďŹ c issue. They research a problem, write solutions, and build a tabletop model from recycled materials. This year’s theme is transportation, said Laura Smith, who is leading Woodside’s team for the sixth year. “So students looked at existing transportation issues like congestion, sustainable fossil fuels, and trying to

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

Mike McGuire will help the men of Grace Episcopal Church to pamper about 110 women at Graceful Night Out. “This is their turn,â€? McGuire said of the seventh annual night of fun and fundraising, beginning at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, at the church at 10010 Aurora Place. Women from outside the church also enjoy the hearty hors d’oeuvres, sweets and relaxation. Tickets are $40, and may be reserved by calling the church ofďŹ ce at 432-9221. Highlights include a keynote speech, followed by rafes and live and silent auctions. Guests will visit pampering stations, including a massage station and a jewelry station. “Anything to help the ladies feel special,â€? he said.

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Laura Smith coaches the Future City program at Woodside Middle School, where a trophy case holds models and trophies from previous years.

ďŹ nd sustainable transportation for the future,â€? Smith said. Students were free to choose an actual city, or to create their own city. Smith said all Woodside eighth-grade students participated in a modiďŹ ed version of the Future City program as part of their classwork. The teams

created a desktop model, prepared essays and made presentations. “It can be pretty daunting,� Smith told a panel of educators who gathered at Woodside to hear students’ sevenminute presentations. Other students also served as peer evaluators for the presentations. Smith said she works

closely with language arts and social studies teachers and science teacher Sarah Kniss to help students with their studies and presentations. The gifted and talented students prepare a separate entry, as an extra-curricular project. Four of See CITY, Page A2

“We usually have from 15 to 20 guys,� McGuire said. “Our whole thing is to pamper the ladies. We bring them food, we bring them drink, we take their coats, we’ll walk them in — whatever needs to be done.� McGuire said his wife, Gail, is in charge of the food. “My guys are in charge of setup,� he said. “The only thing the ladies do is the artistic setup of the table. We’re not too great on that, but they set the tables up with a different theme every year. We have some very talented women in our congregation.� Julie Boyd shares the event co-chair duties with Toni Ingram. “It started out originally as a kind of Valentine present, so the men of the church would serve women and they would have a night out,� Boyd said. See SERVE, Page A5

Bigger but familiar circus returning for seven shows By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

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Schoolchildren react to the 2013 Mizpah Shrine Circus. The circus presents two weekday shows for children.

“And the bareback riding horse act is exceptional, a completely different look.� “We’re also going to be featuring The World Famous Wallendas on the high wire, which is going to be a big act,� the circus manager said from his winter home in Arkansas. “Rick Wallenda is the grandson of he great Karl

Wallenda. He performs in the style of this grandfather.� Erika Zerbini, the youngest of the circus owner’s four daughters, will work with the show’s six Asian elephants. Erika has worked with both horses and elephants for 26 years. Tarzan Zerbini again See CIRCUS, Page A4

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The 2014 Mizpah Shrine Circus will be about 20 percent larger than the 2013 show, says Larry Solheim, the general manager of the Tarzan Zerbini Circus. The circus will perform Jan. 23-26 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. “We’re really excited,� Solheim said. “Last year was a big year for us, with the 250th anniversary of the Zerbini circus tradition. And this year we’re going to be bigger and better. We’re bringing in even more animal acts this year. We have a new horse act, we have alligators, we have high wires, motorcycles, all sorts of things that are new this year.� “We still have tigers and elephants,� he said.

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