INSIDE THIS ISSUE Classifieds..........................................................B12 Community Calendar .................................B13-15 Covington Plaza ..............................................B4-5 Discover Roanoke........................................... A6-7 Halloween Festivities ..................................B1, B9 Harvest Activities ...........................................B3-4 Harvest Times .............................................A12-13 Shoppes of Scott Road .....................................B8
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October 3, 2014
Dinners serve broad community By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
The word “community” takes on a broad meaning each Thursday evening at Aldersgate United Methodist Church. The free, 6 p.m. meal welcomes everyone. Volunteers from outside the church join with cooks and servers from within the church. Student supervisors belong to Aldersgate or to churches across the county; they attend nearby Homestead High School, or Fort Wayne Community Schools, or Canterbury High School, or Carroll High School. Guests come from across Getz Road and from across county lines. They come for a meal, and they come for the company. Some of those who are being served choose instead to serve others, said the Rev. Derek Weber, the lead pastor of the congregation just north of Time Corners. “It’s creating a sense
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Volunteers prepare plates to carry to guests at their tables at Aldersgate United Methodist Church. “We serve them as they would get served if they were going out to dinner with their family at a restaurant,” said volunteer Jared Thompson.
of belonging,” said Weber, who last month completed his seventh year at Aldersgate. “Some of the people who are very faithful about serving are not here on Sunday, but they feel a
part of the church.” “We have young people and adults who serve as volunteers, and many of them are church people and many of them are folks who’ve heard of the dinner,” Weber said.
Corned beef sandwich sale is temple’s top fundraiser Congregation Achduth Vesholom’s 13th annual Corned Beef on Rye — Sure to Satisfy fundraiser also offers the public a chance to visit the campus at 5200 Old Mill Road. Dine-in hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at the Rifkin Campus at 5200. Pickup and delivery are available. “Just sit down and chit chat and have a nice lunch,” said Bonnie Pomerantz. The project is the temple’s largest annual fundraiser. “It takes about a hundred people to pull this off — all volunteers,” Pomerantz said. Proceeds go into the general operating budget for everyday expenses, including many programs open to the general public. “It gives us an oppor-
tunity to share what we could call a taste of Judaism, to share it with the community,” said fundraiser co-chairman Kris Gray. “It also invites the community to come to our facilities.” Gray said the Rifkin Campus at 5200 is designed to consolidate different Jewish entities, including expansion to accommodate the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation. That organization’s move to the Old Mill Road campus became official on June 1. He said the fundraiser is consistent with an ongoing effort to identify with the 46807 neighborhood where the temple is located and with the broader Fort Wayne community. “Hey, come on down and share some corned beef, in a cafe style,” he said. Find fax-able order forms through the Corned
Beef Fundraiser link at templecav.org. The boxed meals include an overstuffed one-thirdpound corned beef deli sandwich, coleslaw, dill pickle and brownie and drink. Meals are $14 if ordered by Thursday, Oct. 23. Meals are $15 after that date and at the door. Orders of 12 or more sandwiches can be delivered for a charge of $6 per address. Delivery orders must be placed by Oct. 23. Also this year, the public may order corned beef at $12 a pound, or extra rye bread, pickles or brownies. The temple traces its roots to 1848 as Indiana’s first Jewish congregation. Learn more about the congregation’s history and programs, its fundraising campaign, and the Jewish Federation of Fort Wayne by visiting templecav.org.
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“People are looking for ways to come and serve the community, and this is very hands-on, meet people face to face and serve them.” See DINNER, Page A12
School board races on November ballot
Allen County voters face choices for a host of offices this fall. State, federal, county, township, town and school board positions will be filled Tuesday, Nov. 4. Polls will be open 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Highlights of local races and other selected races follow. For more details, visit allencounty.us. For maps of school board districts, visit acimap.us/ aceb. SWAC Metropolitan School Board Member, District 1: Doug Copley, Tom Rhoades. (Incumbent Timothy J. Loomis is not a candidate.) SWAC Metropolitan School Board Member, District 2: Jennifer Couch, Holly S. Glick (incumbent). Aboite Township Trustee: Barbara J. Krisher, R (incumbent). Aboite Township Board Member (vote for three): Janet S. Bolyard, R, (incumbent); Keith Potter, R, (incumbent); Bruce A. Westrick, R, (incumbent); Mike Avila, D; Alan R. Gilbert, D.
Lafayette Township Trustee: Patrick A. Lee, R, (incumbent). Lafayette Township Board Member (vote for three): Mark A. Muntzinger, R, (incumbent). (Incumbents Loren Marshall and Troy Bickley are not on the ballot.) Zanesville Clerk Treasurer: Melba McBride Edwards, R; Dennis Ellet, I; Julie Christian, D (incument). Zanesville Town Council (vote for three): Kenneth Edwards, R; Dave Frick, R; Dennis Kammerer, R; Barbara O’Connor, D; and John Schuhmacher, D (an incumbent). Voters also face a referendum on whether to reorganize the structure of county government. For details, see Page A5. Monday, Oct. 6, is the deadline for voters to register to vote or to transfer registration at the county voter registration office. Tuesday, Oct. 7, is the first day to vote an absentee ballot before the absentee voter board.