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May 2, 2014
Big cast fills big ‘Music Man’ set
Aboite couple running 5k, tuning up for 55-mile run
By Garth Snow
By Garth Snow
gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Professor Harold Hill has been wooing Marian Paroo on “The Music Man” stages since 1957, but it’s a new challenge to two Homestead High School actors. Senior Sean Low portrays the traveling salesman and junior Dana Bixler portrays the River City librarian in the school’s spring musical, to be presented Friday through Sunday in the school auditorium. Both actors are at home on the Homestead stage, just not in leading roles. “Usually I have the secondary lead or just kind of the comic relief of the show,” Low said. “So it’s kind of hard, honestly, to be bigger than life and to keep the audience entertained and interested in what I’m doing with the town. And my previous acting experience hasn’t really had a love scene before, so this is also new for me.”
If a 26.2-mile race just isn’t enough exercise, you might want to tag along with Cari and David Mansfield. The Aboite Township runners will share in a local 5k on May 10, to train for an ultra-marathon June 1 in South Africa. “We will be running an 89km [55-mile] one-day race called The Comrades in South Africa,” Cari Mansfield said in an email. The run ends in the coastal city of Durban. According to the website comrades.com, the race has reached its cap of 18,000 entries. “Not only are we running an insane distance, but we are running for a cause.” Money will support clean-water installations in Africa. “Each day 4,000 kids die from dirty water. Having two boys of our own, this statistic is not OK with us,” she wrote. “We wanted to do some-
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Ella Mckane-Wright, as Ethel Toffelmier, and Kolin Davis, as Marcellus, rehearse for “The Music Man” at Homestead High School.
“It’s definitely a different role than I’ve ever ever played,” Bixler said. “I’m usually in the character roles, but now I’m an ingenue and I’m the lead. I get to fall in love with someone. It’s See CAST, Page A2
The Music Man’ When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3, and 4 p.m. Sunday, May 4 Where: Homestead High School Auditorium, 4310 Homestead Road Admission: $5 for students and children 12 and under, and $8 for adults. Tickets available at the door at each performance.
‘Step of faith’ may reveal church obscured by trees By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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A stand of timber separates Getz Road from Woodview Church of God.
said. “There is a line in that song that says ‘Step into the water, wade out a little bit deeper, it’s time we the people stand up for what is
right.” “With that in mind, we are calling June 1 Stand See TREES, Page A4
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Woodview Church of God plans to explore its future on Stand Up Sunday on June 1. “I don’t think people realize we’re back there,” said Cathy Burris, the church treasurer. Indeed, drivers would need to take their eyes off Getz Road to stare east through the wooded, 5-acre property to see the congregation’s home on the former sheep farm. The church has served from 1825 Getz Road since 1973. The building’s odd shape reflects the multiple remodeling projects. The building is in poor condition and another fix-up is not an option, said the Rev. Joe Shouse, who came to Woodview as pastor in 2012. “Our theme song for our building fund is ‘Step Into the Water,’” Shouse
thing and to do something big.” “We have a goal to raise $100,000 by running our race and hosting other fundraisers for wells in Sierra Leone,” she wrote. The ItIsWell 5K is one of those fundraisers. Runners will step off from Sonrise United Methodist Church, 10125 Illinois Road, at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 10. The route will loop through the neighborhood around Scott Road and Indiana 14. For details, to join, or to support the run, visit itiswell5k.org. The cost to participate is $40. “The organization we are working with is a not-for-profit called Let Them LOL,” Cari Mansfield wrote. “So far, we have raised close to $18,000.” Running runs in the family for the Mansfields. Sons Dawson, 9, and Luke, 7, ran in the kids’ marathon at the 2014 Fort4Fitness. “It was our first race together as a See RUN, Page A5