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March 6, 2015
Roanoke Lodge 195 shares architecture and pancakes
City water upgrade flows north By Garth Snow
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Fort Wayne City Utilities water service will extend north to Aboite Center Road on March 12, officials said Feb. 23. Homestead High School, Summit Middle School and Jorgensen Family YWCA are part of that extended service area. City leaders said 4,500 former Aqua Southwest customers had begun receiving city water as of Feb. 23 and pledged that all 13,000 customers in the former Aqua Southwest service area will receive city water by September. Mayor Tom Henry led a news conference at Lutheran Hospital, where he was joined by Lutheran Health Network and Lutheran Hospital CEO Brian Bauer. Henry said work has been completed on Phase 2 of the Aqua Southwest conversion. “I think more than anything they’ve asked for and we’re now
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City Utilities Deputy Director Matthew Wirtz points to the Lutheran Hospital campus on a map as he explains how the campus is connected to two sources of city water.
giving them good quality of water, water which has good pressure, and is reliable,” he said. “Those were the three components of the entire negotiations with Aqua Southwest all along. That is certainly now coming their way.” Bauer said Lutheran
Hospital uses 3 million gallons of water each month. “I don’t know how much [water] anyone else uses, but I bet we’re one of the highest utilizers of it,” Bauer said. “We do amazing work here. We transplant hearts, we’re
a trauma center, we take care of babies that are born at 21 and 22 weeks. We have great technology. But one of the most important things in life and health care is a basic human need, and that’s See WATER, Page A13
Masonic Lodge 195 opened its doors Feb. 21 to show Roanoke what’s new at the top of the Main Street staircase. Lodge leaders Matt Outten and Jeff Cartwright were equally proud of what is not new on the second floor of the century-old brick building. “It’s just an unbelievable building in the sense that in 1915, when this was built, the woodwork was exactly as it is now,” said Outten, one of the younger members and the worshipful master of Lodge 195. “If you look at the pictures before and after, it has stood the test of time. Not much has changed. So I think that’s really the significance for me. In this day when lots of things are cleared and rebuilt from scratch over and over again, we’ve got this building in the same state that it was when it
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Jeff Cartwight cooks pancakes for guests of Masonic Lodge 195.
was first built.” “It’s a beautiful lodge building,” said Cartwright, the Lodge 195 secretary. “It was built in 1914 and was dedicated on Feb. 19, 1915. And here’s a picture from the dedication ceremony. And we’ve got the same pillars, obviously the same ceiling, the same furnishings. They’ve added a padded area around the altar. The See LODGE, Page A11
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Guests may bid on a silent auction between trips to sample Taste of Waynedale on March 24 at the Mount Calvary Family Life Center.
Taste of Waynedale adds new restaurants, charity It’s just a Taste of Waynedale, but guests will need trays to hold their samples from at least 21 local restaurants and businesses. So trays they will have, said Camille Garrison, the marketing director for the
event’s sponsor, Kingston Residence of Fort Wayne. “Who would have known when we started that it would grow so big?” Garrison said. The Fort Wayne get-together and fundraiser has grown in both size and mission in its seven years. The Kingston event outgrew its own
Winchester Road home in 2014. “So we moved over to the Family Life Center, which is huge,” Garrison said. “And they have seating.” Mount Calvary Family Life Center is at 1819 Reservation Drive. Hours are 4:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, See TASTE, Page A4
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