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Two Fort Wayne Astronomical Society telescopes will be available for the public to view stars in the southern sky during the May 20 open house at the new Star*Quest Observatory at Jefferson Township Park east of New Haven. On the left is the 12.5-inch Harnishfegger-Crow scope and the other one is the Meade 16-inch RCX 400 scope.

Star*Quest project manager Gene Stringer, a Fort Wayne Astronomical Society member since 1966, says the organization hopes to extend astronomy to local and area high schools and colleges and maybe even introduce it into the curriculum.

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The Fort Wayne Astronomical Society will hold a grand opening for its newly completed Star*Quest Observatory on Saturday, May 20,

at Jefferson Township Park east of New Haven. Festivities will start at 7 p.m. When the sky dims, the public will be treated to an evening of stargazing. FWAS President Larry Clifford will welcome

guests and project manager Gene Stringer will acknowledge donors and unveil a 3-by-6-foot Plexiglas plaque etched with stars along with the names of donors. A brief service of recognition will be conducted to

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honor deceased members Chris Highlen, Betty Jo Harper and Dennis Skala. The east wing of the building will be dedicated to Mrs. Harper and the west wing to Highlen. A ribbon cutting will be See NEW, Page A21

They study at the FWCS Career Academy at Anthis, Bishop Luers High School, Carroll High School or any high school in Allen County. They want to be teachers, business managers, pharmacists and missionaries. They enjoy soccer, tennis, basketball, rugby, show choir and marching band. They volunteer with food banks, theater groups and as interpreters. They hope to attend schools like IPFW, Indiana University, the University of Saint Francis, Anderson College or the University of Notre Dame. Yet when they gathered as guests of the Anthony Wayne Rotary Club at Pine Valley Country Club and accepted congratulations and certificates, they represented a common potential that drew the praise of Fort

Wayne Mayor Tom Henry. “As I was sitting here looking at all of you, I tried to see as many of you as I possibly could, because it’s important to imprint your faces because for those of you that stay in Fort Wayne — and we certainly hope that you all do — one of you may very well be standing where I am in the future,” Henry said. “One of you could very well be the mayor of this city in the not-too-distant future. Some of you could be city council members, county council members, county commissioners, heads of businesses in our city, heads of not-forprofit organizations, and certainly future Rotarians. “I say that to you because you are a select group of individuals. Obviously you were picked among your peers See ROTARY, Page A19

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Zazu, one of the peregrine falcon chicks hatched atop the Indiana-Michigan Power building, is displayed after being banded on May 12.

their eastern population being eliminated by the late 1960s due to problems from the pesticide DDT, retired IDNR bird biologist John Castrale said. Once DDT use was discontinued, the falcons were bred by private falconers and eventually released into the wild. Since then, their numbers have grown vastly, Castrale said.

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Those eating lunch at the newly renovated Indiana-Michigan Power plaza may not realize it, but thousands of feet above another family might be enjoying their lunch as well – as has been happening for the past two decades. On May 12, representatives from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center helped band Zazu, Mist and Thunder – the three newest members of the I&M peregrine falcon family. The trio are among the about 50 chicks raised at a nest box at the top of the building since it was constructed in 1992 and first used in 1996. Peregrine falcons faced a similar fate as the bald eagle, with almost all of

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Total renovation part of Lutheran’s $500 million plan Lutheran Health Network announced plans May 11 to invest $500 million in capital projects at facilities across the region over the next several years. These facilities include Bluffton Regional Medical Center, Dukes Memorial Hospital, Dupont Hospital, Kosciusko Community Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, the Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Wayne, St. Joseph

Hospital and the Orthopedic Hospital. The capital plan will begin with several projects at Lutheran Hospital, including a “top to bottom” renovation, emergency department expansion, development of a heart and vascular center and creation of an advanced digestive treatment center. The heart and vascular center will be attached to the existing heart pavilion to bring all

specialized services and cardiovascular physician practices to one facility. The advanced digestive treatment center will be created from the consolidation of two separate endoscopy suites to address the growing number of patients with digestive concerns, according to a LHN statement. The plan also includes multiple new outpatient centers in counties beyond Allen County.

“This is a transformative investment that will modernize Lutheran Hospital and take patient care to the next level,” said Brian Bauer, LHN CEO. “We are really excited to begin the design work immediately and expect to start and complete some of the construction this year. We will announce additional capital projects across the network as details are finalized with a goal of completing the

entire half-billion dollar investment over five to six years. In addition to improving our network facilities, this investment will create construction jobs and have a positive economic impact on our communities.” In addition to capital improvements, physician recruitment remains a top priority, he said. “As we invest in our facilities, we know how important it is to build a strong medical team,

so we are also growing our physician base,” said Bauer. “We currently employ more than 300 physicians and nurse practitioners and we also work closely with many independent physicians who have chosen Lutheran for their patients because of our commitment to highquality, safe patient care.” The first phase of Lutheran Hospital’s emergency department renovation was slated to begin May 15.

Club still celebrating German heritage after 90 years By Megan Knowles mknowles@kpcmedia.com

What started out as a home away from home for German immigrants to celebrate fellowship, culture and soccer continues to do so — 90 years later. The Fort Wayne Sport Club was founded in 1927 with the principles of promoting German culture as well as sports, especially soccer, club President Dan Kruse said. Most of the members played in soccer leagues across the city, with companies such as Dana and International Harvester having their own teams, he said. The members bought the land at 3102 Ardmore Ave.

around 1931, building the original clubhouse that same year. In 1967 they built the current clubhouse with their own hands. Today, the Fort Wayne Sport Club is one of four clubs responsible for Germanfest every year, Kruse said. They also celebrate other German events, including an annual founders’ day Stiftungsfest and an annual Schutzenfest, where participants shoot at a wooden eagle target with a crossbow. This event was one of the precursors to Oktoberfest, Kruse wrote in an email. Then there’s the soccer. The Fort Wayne Sport Club offers leagues for everyone ages 4 to over 70, varying from

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recreational leagues to a competitive travel team that took second in the President’s Cup last year, Youth Board Vice President Todd Gilpin said. They also have TOP Soccer for those with physical and develop-

mental disabilities. “Really we have a program to fit anybody of any age,” he said. This variety is one of the advantages of the Fort Wayne Sport Club model, Kruse and Gilpin said. Gilpin noted there are not

a lot of leagues available for people during or after high school, much less ones where parents and their adult children can play side-by-side. “We have generations of (families) who have played soccer out here,”

Kruse said. “We encourage a family atmosphere out here. … When we step on the pitch we’re all together.” To celebrate 90 years of soccer and German culture, the Fort Wayne Sport Club held a a community celebration May 13. Though much has changed in the Fort Wayne Sport Club’s 90 years, the things that really matter – culture, soccer and fellowship – really have not. “Some of the older members tell stories (and) they’re all very proud of this place,” Kruse said. “It’s tradition, it’s a sense of community out here where people just feel at home.”

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Special Abilities Day set May 28 Science Central, 1950 N. Clinton St., Fort Wayne, will again host Special Abilities Day on Sunday, May 28. Through the support of the AWS Foundation over the previous three years, Science Central has hosted Special Abilities Days dedicated to providing fun science education for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. During Special Abilities Day, guests can explore the facility and all that Science Central has to offer with over 200 exhibits. Demonstrations and activities for the day will include The Secret Life of a Bee in the Lincoln Financial Foundation Demonstration Theater, noise makers, and Hex homes and Ant homes. Admission is free to members of the special abilities community with advance registration. Visit sciencecentral.org. The next Special Abilities Days is planned Aug. 13. On Sept. 19, the science museum will be closed to the public during Special Abilities Day.

Concordia Lutheran High School will host the second annual A.J. Arnett 5K Honor Run/Walk at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, May 20, at the high school. The Armed Forces Day event is organized by JROTC students and will benefit Honor Flight of Northeast Indiana. The cost is $28, but students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade run free when they register with Concordia. Learn more at clhscadets.com/JROTC. Sign up at VeepRaces. com. All ages are welcome. SPC Arnett, a 2004 CLHS graduate and a JROTC battalion color guard commander, was deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division in January 2005. On July 13, he was seriously wounded in a car bomb attack. Suffering shrapnel and blast wounds to his leg, he underwent multiple surgeries to repair the damage. At one point, he was told that he would never run again, but he persevered and continues to run long-distance events.

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Festivals roundup: Seasonal fun abounds Fort Wayne and surrounding communities are alive with festivals, spring through autumn. Mark these events on your calendars and watch for the full list and updates at infortwayne. com. Send festival news to gsnow@kpcmedia. com.

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downtown New Haven and nearby Schnelker Park. Food and entertainment. For details, visit newhavencanaldays. wordpress.com.

and around the city park. Food, entertainment, drawings, parade, beer tent, trivia night. For details, visit woodburnsummerfest.com.

Churubusco Turtle Days, June 14-17, at

Covington Art Fair, June 24 and 25,

venues throughout Churubusco. Food, fireworks and turtle-related games celebrating the legendary Oscar the Turtle, the “Beast of Busco.” For details, visit turtledays.com.

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RiverDrums. May 27 and 28, Headwaters Park West, Fort Wayne. Free admission. For details, visit Three Rivers Art Center for Kids on Facebook. Arab Festival. June 3 and 4, Headwaters Park, Fort Wayne. Enjoy regional foods and camel rides. Sponsored by the Indiana Center for Middle East Peace Inc. For details, visit Arab Fest - Fort Wayne on Facebook. Germanfest, June 4-11, with many events at Headwaters Park, Fort Wayne. Featuring German food, music, dance and beer and the tapping of the keg. For details, visit Germanfest on Facebook.

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St., Fort Wayne. Four days of local, regional, national and international films. For details, visit hobnobben.org. BBQ RibFest, June 15-18, Headwaters Park, Fort Wayne. Enjoy ribs, pulled pork and more prepared by the nation’s top rib masters. Music, too. For details, visit bbqribfest.com. Fort Wayne Greek Festival, June 22-25,

Headwaters Park. Food, pastry, beverages, music and dance celebrating Greek traditions. For

details, visit fortwaynegreekfestival.org. Sweetwater GearFest, June 23 and

24, Sweetwater Sound, 5501 W. U.S. 30. Music equipment, demonstrations and advice. Free admission. For details, visit sweetwater.com. Buskerfest, June 24, downtown Fort Wayne. A celebration of street performers. For details, visit downtownfortwayne. com. Dragon Boat Races,

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the St. Marys River near Fort Wayne Outfitters and Bike Depot. Sponsored by the Mayor’s Youth Engagement Council. For updates, follow visitfortwayne.com.

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Northern Indiana Bluegrass Festival,

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at locations throughout community. Parade, bed race, petting zoo, carnival rides, lots of food, hot air balloon festival, and Vaudeville at the Forks. For details, visit huntingtonheritagedays.com. Hoagland Days, June 15-17, Community Park, Hoagland. Food, carnival rides, demolition derby, monster trucks, softball, music. Sponsored by Hoagland Area Advancement Association. For details, visit hoaglandin. com. Columbia City Old Settlers Festival,

June 20-24, throughout community. Parade, food, amusements, entertainment. For details, visit

Covington Plaza, West Jefferson Boulevard, Fort Wayne. Juried artists display and offer their work from tents in the plaza parking lot. Food vendors and music, too. Free admission. For details, visit Covington Art Fair on Facebook.

Shrine Charity Horse Show, June 24 and 25,

Mizpah Shrine Horse Grounds, 965 Indiana 9, Columbia City. Free admission. Food available. Open English, hunter/jumper, open show Western, dressage, and fun show. For details, visit shrinehorseshow.org. Leo-Cedarville Freedom Festival, June

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Canal Days, June 6-10, has fun, rides, parade By Rod King

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The area’s first community festival of the season is set to take over downtown New Haven June 6-10. Canal Days will be alive with events for all ages, from Kids Day in the Park and Seniors Day Picnic to a car show and cruise, arts and crafts, cornhole tournament and of course the midway rides and the big annual parade. Burton Brothers Midway Rides will open Tuesday, June 6. Riders

will be able to begin getting their thrills at 5 p.m. each day until Saturday when rides will open up at noon. Entertaining games will also be available. Both the food and the exhibitor tents will open Wednesday through Friday at 4 p.m. and operate until 9 p.m. They will host visitors on Saturday starting at noon. The arts and crafts booths will show their wares Thursday and Friday from 4-9 p.m. and on Saturday from noon-9 p.m.

Entertainment on the new band shell stage in Schnelker Park on Thursday will start with the dancers from the Dyson Dance Studio at 5 p.m., followed by the Bobby Swag Band at 8 p.m. Friday, June 9, activities include the Seniors Day Picnic at 11:30 a.m. in Schnelker Park and the annual car show and cruise from 5-9 p.m. It will be held at the New Haven High School parking lot and vehicle registration will run from 5-7 p.m.

followed by the cruise through some of the neighborhoods. The $10 entry fee will benefit the New Haven Police Reserves. That night, Rain Kings will perform on the main stage. The big event for Saturday is the parade featuring floats, bands, classic cars and street rods, organizations and wailing sirens provided by the New Haven Police and Fire departments. The first units will step off from New Haven United Methodist Church at 11

a.m. and head east on Park Avenue to Emanuel Lutheran Church at Green Street. The Kids Day in the Park will follow immediately after the parade in Schnelker Park. Cornhole players will register at Hall’s (Tap House) Restaurant on State Road 930 from 11-11:30 a.m. and competition will begin at high noon. Proceeds will benefit Relay for Life. The city’s singers, instrumentalists, jugglers and dancers will take the stage for the New Haven’s Got Talent contest

later that afternoon. Live entertainment for the evening features singer Hannah Schaeffer at 6:30 p.m. followed by GMA Dove Award winner Aaron Shust at 8 p.m. As Mayor Terry McDonald said, “Canal Days is more than just an opportunity for New Haven residents to meet and greet their friends and neighbors in a casual setting, but is a way for us to express our pride in our community and showcase our city to out-of-town visitors.”

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Folks from surrounding communities will gather to celebrate summer at Hoagland Days, June 15-17 at the Community Park. Once again, the festival will feature food, music, carnival rides, demolition derbies, monster trucks and volleyball. Hoagland Area Advancement Association sponsors the event, which has become a way to market the community while raising money for local projects. “All the money goes

to the Association for the parks,” said Sally Holle, the festival’s publicity coordinator. “We’re still a nonprofit organization, and this is all volunteers.” The park has grown to four ball diamonds and a basketball court, with space for volleyball or tennis. “We planted some more trees and it’s really shaping up nicely,” Holle said. “We have remodeled the pavilion, now called the community center. It’s really nice and it’s getting rented out quite a bit.” Church youth groups will help coordinate parking, and will accept

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donations for their work. The Hoagland Lions Club will set up the ice cream trailer that has become a staple of the festival. Other groups will sell food in a nearby tent. About 12 churches, the Hoagland Chamber of Commerce and other groups serve in that food court from 5-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday and beginning at noon Saturday. “The Chamber has a brisket that is just fabulous and the coleslaw is great. They serve both brisket and pulled pork,” Holle said. Guests will find hot dogs and other hearty sandwiches. “The football players serve gizzards. So it’s a variety of foods,” Holle said. Demolition derbies will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission is $8 for adults. A monster truck will be available for photos Friday night and will be in the parade Saturday. Carnival rides will operate 6-10 p.m. Thursday and Friday and noon-5 p.m. Saturday. The special meals are a fish and tenderloin dinner

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from 5-8 p.m. Friday and a chicken dinner from 5-8 p.m. Saturday. The adult beverage tent with a beer garden will be open from 6 p.m.-midnight Thursday and Friday. Sugar Shot will entertain from 9 p.m.-midnight Saturday, with free admission. Entertainment also is planned Friday night. Mechanical bullriding will be available from 8 p.m.-midnight

Friday. Other features include a merchant tent, a silent auction from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday to benefit the Hoagland Fire Department, a live auction at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, face-painting, drawings, a kiddie tractor pull, and a prince and princess contest. There will not be a queen contest this year. The parade steps off at 11 a.m. Saturday. Groups

wishing to participate may sign up at hoaglandin. com. That same website leads to the full schedule, the volleyball registration form and some history on the festival. The popular Dachshund Dash will not be part of the 46th Hoagland Days. Hoagland Community Park is accessible on the south side of Hoagland Road, a few blocks east of Minnich Road.

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Enjoy magic and music and benefit food pantry A night of comedy and music to benefit the Roanoke Food Pantry will feature magician Jim Barron and singer-songwriter Don Wharton. The show will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 19, at the Cottage Event Center, 9524 U.S. 24N, in Roanoke. Tickets are $12 and

can be ordered by calling (260) 483-3508, and at John’s Meat Market in Roanoke. Barron cites Doug Henning and Harry Blackstone Jr. as influential to his personal style of prestidigitation. Among his more unusual feats are escaping a straitjacket at halftime of a Fort Wayne

Freedom football game and correctly predicting the exact score of a Fort Wayne Wizards baseball game before the first pitch. Barron has been a broadcaster for many years with radio stations such as WOWO and WAJI. In 1979, Wharton left

a position as full-time teacher and baseball coach at Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Mich., to pursue music full time. Since then he has performed at more than 3,000 churches, schools and conventions.

His music ministry has led him to perform in all 50 states and in several foreign countries. He has written over 250 songs and has also written a novel, “Conviction.” A highlight of Whar-

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The lunch line began forming almost as soon as Empty Bowls began at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne. Soon the supply of 300 specially made ceramics bowls had been reduced by half, and lunchgoers kept arriving. The Advanced Ceramics Class at IPFW presented the May 2 event as a networking opportunity and as a fundraiser, primarily for Community Harvest Food Bank. Art students and teachers from Huntington North and DeKalb high schools also created and donated bowls. Seth Green, the assistant professor of ceramics at IPFW, set the project in motion. The IPFW Ceramics Guild shared in the work and planning.

For a donation of $15, guests selected a ceramic bowl. They also enjoyed soup and bread donated by local restaurants. Ceramics Guild President Kelly Grant said each bowl is unique. “It’s not machine-made,” she said. “People like to have a bowl that someone made. And it’s a fun thing to do. “No two [bowls] look the same, weigh the same, feel the same.” Green, the assistant professor, said Empty Bowls is a national program. “Usually it’s a community of potters who get together and make bowls and they donate the proceeds from the sale of the bowls to charitable organizations. So in this case we’re donating 80 percent of the proceeds to Community Harvest Food Bank and 20 percent is going to the IPFW Ceramics Guild.

“It’s all about networking as an artist and as a professional. A friend and I were talking about the need to find a venue and he said ‘Why don’t you check out First Presbyterian Church? They’ve got a great hall.’ So I called and they said ‘Yes, absolutely, let’s do it.’ “ Eight of the most advanced ceramics students from DeKalb High School were in the lunch line early, accompanied by instructor Kelly Roth. “I teach Ceramics 1 all the way through 4, so this semester I have about 100 ceramics students,” Roth said. The group contributed 27 bowls. Roth had orders for 10 bowls to take back to DeKalb. “From start to finish a bowl could take upward of about an hour when you throw it and make sure all

the walls are nice and neat and thin,” she said. “Then you need to let it dry out for a day and then trim the bottom. So at the high school we just fired them to visque — which is the first firing. Then I delivered them to Seth, and his students took care of all the glazing.” She also did some shopping. “I snagged a couple of Seth Green’s,” she said. “He’s a pretty noteworthy artist, so a bowl of his for $15 is a good deal.” The bowls are foodsafe, microwave-safe and are safe on the top rack of dishwashers, she said. Grant and Ceramics Guild Vice President Allie Kruger worked to secure a $1,500 grant from the Purdue University Student Service Learning Grant Program. “That helped us pay for the food, the bowls, the paper goods, and advertising, and we had the bread donated by Panera Bread and the soup donated by Cosmo’s,” Grant said. She said throwing a bowl on a pottery wheel takes about 15 minutes. “But then you have to wait for it to dry, you have to turn it over and trim the

PHIL from Page A7 cians worked under a contract extension with a memorandum of understanding, which shortened the orchestra’s season to 33 weeks from 40 weeks, reducing their pay 17.5 percent, said Jim Mancuso, general manager. The memorandum of understanding was in place through the end of 2014, he said. Afterward, the Philharmonic kept to the shorter season and its musicians worked without a contract. As an additional cost cutting measure, the orchestra

bottom, and you have to glaze it and fire it and trim it again,” she said. “So in the long haul it takes a while. We even have bowl parties where we just make a bunch of bowls and then fire them all at once.” Grant, who will be a fifth-year IPFW student next year, said she will spend the entire year producing ceramics for her end-of-year fine arts degree show. She got her start in ceramics at Carroll High School. “In the 10th grade I took ceramics and I just fell in love with it,” she said. “You grow up drawing and coloring and then you don’t get introduced to something like wheel-throwing until you get that opportunity. They have a great art program there.” Green said he would not rule out buying a bowl for himself. “But I want to allow the community to come and have first dibs on the bowls,” he said. Besides, he said, he has a few bowls at home. He said the event had a purpose beyond making bowls, and even beyond funding worthy causes. Students need to

know how to survive in a contracting arts world. “This is one of the main reasons I’m doing this event is because it is difficult to get a job and the community in which an artist lives is going to be what supports that artist,” he said. “So one of the things that I want to instill in my students is the importance of rubbing shoulders with good community partners and making connections, and networking.” They networked in earnest, serving food, wrapping bowls, offering chances on deluxe bowls, and answering questions. The guests included church members, downtown office and medical workers, and the curious diners and shoppers. Jason Morris of Fort Wayne took his time selecting a take-home bowl from the tables of green, blue and white bowls, some wider, some deeper. “There are so many colors, too many choices,” he said. Empty Bowls even has a head-start on next year. About 100 bowls went unsold, and will be saved for another day, Grant said in an email.

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The board of directors of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic will present the organization’s first gala fundraiser and auction in several years, PHILharmonious: Farm to Fork, featuring former White House chef John Moeller. Moeller will collaborate with Joseph Decuis’ top culinary figures for an evening that combines music, and one-of-a-kind auction items. The evening will support the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Education and Community Engagement programs. The benefit will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, June 2, at Joseph Decuis Farm, 6755 E. 900S, Columbia City. The RSVP deadline is May 26 and seating is limited to 275 people. Tickets are $200 per person with Patron Level tickets at $250. Call (260) 481-0775 for more information or to inquire about ticket availability. Get the full menu and other details at fwphil.org. did not fill three vacant violin positions. Under the new collective bargaining agreement, two of the open violin positions will be filled by the start of the next performance season this coming fall. The Philharmonic will audition violinists for the last unfilled position during its 2018-2019 season in order to have it filled for the 2019-2020 season. The season was not lengthened beyond 33 weeks, but one of two vacation weeks always taken together around Christmas and New Year’s Day will be taken together at a different time of the year so the orchestra will be able to add performances during the week leading up to New Year’s Day. The musicians have three weeks of paid vacation time. The new flexibility allowing for additional concerts will “help us raise revenue to keep up with the wage increases,” Mancuso said. The wages will be

back up to 2013 levels during the last year of the new contract, he said. The austerity measures were taken to resolve a $2.5 million accumulated deficit, which Mancuso said was addressed through use of an endowment as well as the cost cutting. As an outgrowth of a new 2017-19 strategic plan, the Philharmonic is developing a series of initiatives “to attract new arts participants and serve a larger, more diverse community,” it said in the statement. Philharmonic also is engaging “novel artistic and venue collaborators in multilayered partnerships to reach new audiences with an expanded range of programming,” it said. In addition to the 44 musicians covered by the collective bargaining agreement, the Philharmonic has 19 contract musicians who are paid for the services they provide as needed.

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Ages 17-21 signing up for county fair pageant The Miss Allen County Queen Scholarship Pageant is seeking contestants for the 2017 Miss Allen County Queen Pageant, to take place at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 16, at Carroll High School, 3701 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne. Miss Allen County is run in conjunction with the Allen County Fair and is open to young women 17-21 who live or go to school in Allen County. Contestants will compete in four categories: interview, professional wear, evening wear and on-stage question. “It’s an opportunity for young women to grow, learn and make new friends,” sponsors said in a statement. “Through the pageant, contestants learn interview and public speaking skills, poise and, above all, how to have confidence.” The winner and her court will reign over the Allen County Fair, July 25-30. The queen will also represent Allen County at the Miss Indiana State Fair Queen pageant in January 2018. The 2017 queen will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship, her first runners-up a $500 scholarship and her second-fourth runner-up a $250 scholarship. The

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Sophi Schultz is crowned queen of the 2016 Allen County Fair. Schultz went on to be named Miss Congeniality of the 2017 Indiana State Fair Queen Pageant. Schultz will hand off her Allen County crown on July 16.

queen and her court will win prizes, including: VIP access to the Allen County Fair, Vera Bradley handbags, gold and diamond jewelry from Peter Franklin, Charmaine Models & Talent scholarship, gift certificates to area restaurants, massages, modeling and more. The theme of the 2017 program will be a Hawaiian luau with contestants wearing grass skirts, flower leis and tropical prints for the opening number and will feature some favorite Hawaiian music. The 2016 Miss Allen County and Indiana

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Soarin’ Hawk raptor home seeks new location By Megan Knowles

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Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center needs to spread its wings as it looks to the future. The volunteer-run nonprofit was founded in 1996 with about 20 volunteers rescuing about 20 birds, Director of Development Mike Dobbs said. Last year, the organization, now up to about 200 volunteers, rescued about 220 birds and continues to grow “exponentially,” he said, largely due to more people knowing to bring injured birds to the facility, located a few miles outside Leo-Cedarville. Because of this growth, Soarin’ Hawk is looking for a new home. “The facilities were built a long time ago. We’re basically out of room – we’re out of room for the number of birds we take in for rehab, we’re out of room for the number of birds we like to keep here as resident, education birds. And we need better working conditions for the volunteers because (now) … everything we do is outside,” Dobbs said. The organization recently had an acre

Soarin’ Hawk Director of Development Mike Dobbs, left, and President Pat Funnell do rehab therapy on an injured red-tailed hawk. Soarin’ Hawk cares for around 200 injured birds each year, Dobbs said. PHOTOS BY MEGAN KNOWLES

Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center volunteer Mary Koher looks at Peabody, a barred owl. Peabody is one of about 16 permanently injured birds Soarin’ Hawk uses to educate the public about the importance of raptors.

donor step up and is now looking for land, he said. “We’re looking at land in Northeast Allen County, which is basically close to where we’re at,” Dobbs said. The organization rescues, rehabilitates and releases into the wild injured or orphaned birds of prey, Soarin’ Hawk President Pat Funnell said. Soarin’ Hawk has about 16 birds that cannot be returned to the wild due to perma-

nent injury, she said. Those birds are trained and taken to educate the public about the importance of these animals, whose diet of animals like mice and squirrels help keep those populations in check. The organization reaches thousands of children, teens and adults a year, Dobbs said in an email, but still more people want to see their operation firsthand. Right now, those people simply can’t.

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PROTECTING BIRDS OF PREY Most birds at Soarin’ Hawk are injured by car strikes, President Pat Funnell said. The birds will hunt near roadways, where their prey is easier to find or carrion is present. Volunteer Mary Koher said people can help these birds of prey by not littering and not using rodenticides or lead shot while hunting, both of which can poison the birds. If someone finds a raptor, contact Soarin’ Hawk at (260) 241-0134. Funnell said do not try to handle the bird alone. “The larger birds can be very dangerous, their talons can be very sharp,” she said. “Often we recommend, because we don’t want them to run away, if it’s a wing injury they can still run really fast, often we’ll have them contain them, put a clothes basket over them or something like that, until we come to get it, but picking them up can be very dangerous.” of that puzzle. It hopes to officially kick off its capital campaign in September with a formal fundraiser some time in October. The plan is to be moved by December 2018, he added. Another recent development is the addition of a veterinarian technician to Soarin’ Hawk. “That will give us

someone who can be there and do rounds every morning. We do it with all the volunteers (now),” Dobbs said. “We give really good care, but this is just a way to step up the game in how we do things.” Those interested in volunteering or donating can visit Soarin’ Hawk’s website at soarinhawk. org.

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Proper Pastry adds specialties to menu

Proper Pastry has introduced a new selection of specialty coffee drinks and a selection of gluten-free and vegan options at the bakery at 139 N. Main St., Roanoke, and through its catering service. The gluten-free and dairy-free treats include almond and flax bars. French macarons, which come in assorted flavors, now include raspberry, strawberry and apricot flavors that are available in gluten-free and dairyfree options. Proper Pastry also is offering custom glutenfree cupcakes, wedding cakes and special-occasion

cakes by special order only. While the Proper Pastry items labeled as “gluten free” are made without gluten, the bakery kitchen is not a certified glutenfree facility and therefore caters to gluten-sensitive customers and not people with the autoimmune Celiac disease. To complement Proper Pastry’s gourmet baked goods, specialty espresso coffees made with LaVazza espresso — available in vanilla and caramel flavors — have been added to the menu alongside the shop’s popular fresh-brewed coffee. Espresso drink choices include cappuc-

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Girls ages 2-16 compete for Little Miss, Junior Miss and Pre-Teen crowns during the Allen County Fair Queen Pageant. These competitions raise money for the scholarship pageant.

FAIR from Page A9 age groups (Little Miss, Junior Miss and Pre-Teen) will be selected based on monetary donations. All money raised goes directly to the scholarship fund. Each participant in the Little Miss program with get a small crown and prizes and each winner a large prize package and VIP pass to the Allen County Fair, all of which will be awarded at Little Miss coronation at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 27, at the Free Activities Stage at the Allen County Fair. Young women who are interested in the pageant may contact Michelle Love, pageant director, for a contestant packet and more information

about entering the 2017 programs. Additional information can be found at missallencounty.com. The early entry deadline for the Miss program is June 21; late entries will only be accepted until July 1. The deadline for the Little Miss program is July 1. Contact Love at missallencounty@gmail. com or (260) 449-4444. The Miss Allen County scholarship pageant has run in conjunction with the Allen County Fair since 1982. Four past queens from Allen County have gone on to become Miss Indiana State Fair. The Allen County Fair is a joint venture of the Allen County Fairgrounds and the Allen County 4-H Clubs. The fairgrounds is at 2726 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne.

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Lunch on the Plaza kicks off June 1

The Downtown Improvement District is bringing its popular Lunch on the Plaza series back to downtown Fort Wayne, with live music performances scheduled from 11:30-1:30 p.m. each Thursday in June, July and August. The 14-week season

kicks off on June 1 at Freimann Square. New this year is the Chow-Down…Town Contest, which invites attendees to visit information booths during each event to enter to win a $20 gift card for the downtown restaurant the winner chooses. A new winner will be selected each week and all entries will be entered into a grand prize drawing on Aug. 31 for a package that will include a night’s stay and dinner for two at the Hilton Downtown and its new restaurant, Features, as well as a couple’s massage at Kamylle’s Spa Bar and tickets for two to an Embassy Theatre show.

Kroger ends discount for NE Indiana seniors Kroger has ended the 5 percent discount for

seniors available at its northeast Indiana stores, effective May 16. Customers who had taken advantage of the discount, available on Tuesdays, were notified by mail. It also was mentioned on store receipts, and customers who used the discount received extra coupons. The discount for shoppers 55 and older wasn’t available at central Indiana stores, said spokesman Eric Halvorson. Kroger dropped prices on many products in its stores on April 27, in advance of ending the discount. “We’re trying to make sure that everybody gets the best value all the time,” Halvorson said. Kroger has previously ended discounts at stores in other markets, such as Nashville, Tenn.

Warsaw Marsh store to close

Indianapolis-based Marsh Supermarkets added nine more stores, including one in Warsaw, to its list of closures, bringing the total for the month of May to 18. The newly announced closures will take place May 21 and May 27. Six of the stores are in the greater Indianapolis area. Marsh also announced recently it is closing its pharmacies at 37 Indiana locations. The Warsaw store, at 500 S. Buffalo St., will close May 21, along with three stores in the Indianapolis area. The other five stores will close May 27. Compiled by Linda Lipp

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BRIEFS from Page A4 Museum of Art, 100 S. Randolph St., Garrett. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Hours are 5-8 p.m. Friday, 4-7 p.m. Saturday, and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Get more information at garrettmuseumofart.org. The exhibit recognizes that “one’s self” has many definitions, reflecting the Earth’s vast population and individuals’ uniqueness. This exhibition celebrates these differences in works of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art submitted by the regional art community.

Event encourages small businesses

GWW Enterprises, LLC will present an Encourage Small Business Symposium on Saturday, June 20, at IPFW Classic Ballroom in the Walb Student Union Building, Crescent Avenue and Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne. The event is free to attendees. The event begins at 9 a.m., with break-out sessions throughout the day. Lunch will be available for a free-will offering. For more information, visit Encourge Small Business on Facebook. Register at

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Brit Floyd plans Embassy show

The rock band Brit Floyd will play the Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne, at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 16. Tickets are $33-$53 and are available at the STAR Bank box office at the Embassy, ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745.3000. Brit Floyd brings the music of Pink Floyd to life with its Immersion World Tour 2017. The Pink Floyd concert experience is recaptured in high-definition sound and with a million-dollar light show and the latest video design. The Brit Floyd show re-creates the scale and pomp of the final 1994 Division Bell tour.

Tree City USA title is city’s 27th

Fort Wayne has been named a Tree City USA for the 27th consecutive year. Parks and Recreation Director Al Moll read an Arbor Day proclamation and announced the designation April 28, during a

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visit with second-graders at Fairfield Elementary School. The Tree City USA designation is awarded by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters. The award recognizes the city’s tree canopy stewardship and continued commitment to a green city. Fort Wayne also earned its 12th Growth Award from the National Arbor Day Foundation for a higher standard of forestry management of the City’s 65,000 public trees.

Photos introduce kids in foster care

A photo gallery featuring portraits of children in need of adoptive families is visiting The Summit, 1025 Rudisill Blvd., Fort Wayne, through May 22, as part of Foster Care Awareness Month. The Indiana Department of Child Services created the Heart Gallery in 2007 with the goal of sharing professional portraits along with stories about children in foster care in Indiana. “This initiative helps put a face on a sometimes invisible need and reminds families that adoption changes lives,”

the agency said in a statement. More than 1,000 Hoosier foster kids found permanent homes in state fiscal year 2014. Planking challenge raises $22,655 Crosswinds Inc. and Lifeline Youth & Family Services Inc. raised $22,655 and attracted almost 100 plankers at their third annual Planking Challenge at Parkview Field on Friday, April 21. Planking is an exercise in which one assumes a push-up position and holds oneself up horizontally while resting on one’s hands or forearms. The longest plank was held by Michelle Carr from the mYoga Studios team, who lasted 16 minutes and 2 seconds. The following awards and recognitions were presented: Longest plank, professional category – Michelle Carr, mYoga Studios team, planked for 16:02; Longest plank, amateur category – Dave Long, Lifeline’s VP of Family Services, planked for 15:10; Most money raised – Allen County Sheriff David Gladieux raised $2,775; Most donors – 36 donors supported Brooke

Sellhorn, therapist and clinical director at Crosswinds; Facebook contest – Ashley Licari, intake coordinator at Crosswinds, who earned 182 likes; Costume contest – Jason Brennan from the Three Rivers Federal Credit Union team, as Spider-Man; Training guru – Marlas Robrock from mYoga, official trainer and coach for the 2017 Planking Challenge. The event was presented by Integrated Talent Solutions and Moellering Management Co.

Lions selling meals, accepting eyeglasses

The New Haven Lions Club will hold a barbecue dinner fundraiser Saturday, May 20. Carry-out meals will be sold from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Ken’s Meat Market, 846 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. Dinners include a half-chicken or ribs, plus baked beans and applesauce. The meal price had not been determined at this newspaper’s deadline. Donations of used eyeglasses will be accepted for Lions Recycle for Sight. The used prescription

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Harlan Days lists arena attractions

Volunteers are at work planning the 70th annual Harlan Days in support of Harlan Park, Aug. 3-5. Thursday night, Harlan will host ‘ICAR’ Go-Kart Racing Series out of Fort Wayne’s Baer Field Speedway. Friday night the Bricker Barrel Racing Co. will present horse racing and showmanship. Saturday night’s main event will be Demo Derby Soccer. Show details will be released soon. Each show begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5, with kids younger than 5 admitted free.

Golfers to tee up for Kops 4 Kids

The New Haven Police Department’s annual Kops 4 Kids golf tournament will be held Friday, July 21, at Whispering Creek Golf Club, 216 N. Rufus St., New Haven. Registration is at noon, with a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The cost is $50 per golfer, or $200 for a team of four. Proceeds benefit the Kops 4 Kids Foundation. Compiled by Garth Snow

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Fort Wayne’s bike sharing program cuts rate by half By Megan Knowles

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Fans of Fort Wayne’s bike share program will be happy to learn the annual membership has been cut in half, and will now be $30. Monthly memberships are $15 and day passes are also available. The bike share program, in its second year, is part of an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan to encourage more “active transportation,” as city spokesperson Mary Tyndall described it. The emphasis on making Fort Wayne more accessible to biking, walking and running came from the desire of residents who follow nationwide trends, bike share coordinator and senior planner Paul

Spoelhof said. In its first year, Fort Wayne’s bike share program averaged 70 to 80 trips a week, Spoelhof said, with trips being most popular on the weekends. In 2016, most people used the ride-share program for recreational purposes or to run errands downtown, he said, but the hope is to grow that audience to commuters as well. The drop in price was part of that equation. While the original $60 annual fee might work in cities the size of Chicago, it wasn’t right for Fort Wayne, program organizers determined. Another aspect of growing ridership is the plan to add more bikes and more bike stations,

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aging residents to bike to work. During the Three Rivers Festival the city will host its first open streets event on Sunday, July 9, when parts of Calhoun Street and other areas will be closed to car traffic but open to everything else. “It’s just a different experience,” Spoelhof said of the car-free street festival. There will be other activities as well focused on healthy lifestyles, one of the main goals of the city’s pro-cycling efforts. “Mayor Henry is supportive of active lifestyles and it’s good for the environment,” Tyndall said of active transportation. “The goal is getting people on bikes and getting people active.”

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Friday, May 19, 5-8 p.m. at Fort Wayne Outfitters, 1004 Cass St. — Food truck, live music and door prizes. Sixth Annual Fort4Fitness Spring Cycle: Saturday, May 20, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. at Arts United Campus and Duck Street south of Headwaters Park — The Spring Cycle features five different tour distances, including a Metric Century 100K (62 mile) interstate course. Other tour distances include 10-, 16-, 34- and 44mile courses. Other festivities will include a Spring Expo, a kids’ cycling “obstacle course” from N.I.T.R.O., finish line celebration with finisher medals, and a Block Party at Headwaters Park with food trucks and live entertainment. 9th annual Le Tour de Fort: Saturday, June 3, noon-7 p.m. at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 857, 2202 W. Main St. – This bicycle pub-crawl allows 2,000 adults to drink responsibly for a good cause. This year, the event will be donating to Disabled American Veterans Chapter #40.

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‘Dream’ gives students opportunities in orchestra By Megan Knowles

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What started out as a way to grow from the orchestra program at two area high schools has become the largest joint orchestra in the state. Believe in a Dream’s Exploration of Music through Orchestra began in 2010. In its first year, the orchestra sought to do two things: expose local students to performing in a mass orchestra and raise funds for the schools through

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Festival Choir sings many stories of faith By Garth Snow

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When Faith United Methodist Church welcomed the Festival Choir, John Agnew and Willie Mae Tubbs were part of a guest concert at their home church. The 25-voice choir has performed at churches, long-term care centers and prisons since 1985. Tubbs is one of five original members still singing spiritual music throughout the area. The Festival Choir performed May 6 at Faith U.M.C., 207 E. Dewald St., as part of the church’s “Walking by Faith for 150 Years” celebration. The choir will close its spring season at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, June 4, at Forest Park United Methodist Church, 2100 Kentucky Ave., Fort Wayne. A free-will offering will be accepted. The choir also performed April 30 at Town House Retirement Community, and May 11 at Destiny Life Center on Warsaw Street. Festival Choir director Jay Heare said the choir was pleased to be invited to help celebrate the milestone at Faith. “We’re excited about being part of the 150-year celebration,” he said. “There aren’t many churches that old around. We always like it when a church has something else going on when we perform.” The Festival Choir presents music for a diverse audience. “I particularly love a capella choral music, but not everyone does,” Heare said. “Not everybody likes Southern gospel, not everybody likes the R&B gospel, but there are people who love all

The Festival Choir roster lists affiliations with these churches: Arcola United Methodist Church, Bible Life Community Church, The Chapel, Covenant United Methodist Church, Destiny Life Center, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Faith United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne Baptist, Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, Pilgrim Baptist Church, Robinson Chapel United Methodist Church, St. Henry Catholic Church, St. John Lutheran Church, St. Jude Catholic Church, Unity Christ Church and Unity Spiritual Center.

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The Festival Choir rehearses for a benefit concert at Waynedale United Methodist Church. The choir includes 25 singers from 16 churches.

of that. So we try to do a little bit of everything so there’s sure to be something in this concert that you’re going to think ‘That’s awesome.’” Heare elaborated on that theme as he led a benefit concert at Waynedale United Methodist Church. The choir, diverse in age and race, swayed to “Everyone Need a King Jesus.” Heare introduced “Sing Your Praise to the Lord,” an a capella song with seven key changes. “Count them, seven,” he said. He described one selection as “a new thought on an old hymn.” Watching Heare from the Waynedale audience were founding director Helen Donnell and her successor, Pat Deihl, who handed the role to Heare this season. The choir was founded in 1985 as part of the first Festival of Peace and Understanding in Fort Wayne. The Associated Churches organized that first festival, and continues

to support the choir by buying music today. Today’s choir unites voices from 16 churches of “pretty much every denomination in town,” Heare said. Heare and several others are from St. John Lutheran, on West Washington Boulevard, downtown. Some singers list no church affiliation. Deihl, the former director, explained the prison ministry that continues to be central to the Festival Choir. “We ask what they need and if we can, we See CHOIR, Page A20

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DREAM from Page A14 Brian Kuhns. “Derek will practice with them, so will Brian, and then play with them. So it gives them the experience of what a professional musician sounds like, looks like, and then it shows them that it’s possible that they could take this, what they may consider a fun hobby, and make a career out of it,” Robinson said. For the first time this year, the Exploration of Music through Orchestra program will also have an alumni ensemble of former students.

Robinson said many students don’t realize they can participate in music at the college level. Exposing kids to the possibilities that orchestral music can offer is the backbone of the program, he added. “We started on the premise that, in a sense, every child has a dream and we want to expose them to those opportunities,” Robinson said. “If we can open up that perspective in a young person to keep them excited about pursuing their musical journey, all from this experience, then I would say we’ve done our job.”

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Lunch on the Plaza plans 14 Freimann Square dates By Megan Knowles mknowles@kpcmedia.com

Lunch on the Plaza is returning for the 2017 season with a longer season, more bands and more chances at prizes. By popular demand, the lunchtime concert series will return to Freimann Square this year, Downtown Improvement District Events and Programming Manager Rick Zolman said. “We moved to Freimann Square last year… [and] everyone who attended liked the atmosphere,” he said. “Instead of getting just business folks we

were having families, grandparents and grandkids attending. People enjoy the park-like atmosphere.” People will get to enjoy that atmosphere a little longer this year thanks to the Lunch on the Plaza’s 14-week schedule as both June 1 and Aug. 31 — the first and last days for Lunch on the Plaza — fall on Thursdays this year. “[It adds] another chance for someone to come out and enjoy the vibrancy of downtown and really get a chance to see an additional act for the summertime,” Zolman

said of the extended schedule. This year’s acts range from “jazz to a group called the Jug Huffers,” Zolman added. “It is a variety of music and should have something for everyone to come out and enjoy.” The extra week also means an extra chance to win a gift certificate to downtown restaurants. The Chow-Down… Town contest, which is new this year, allows Lunch on the Plaza participants to visit information booths for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate. That

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Peregrine falcons are just one example of the numerous bird species that can be found in Fort Wayne. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, about 20 percent of bird species can be found in cities. “I’m sure over a hundred species (of birds) could be found in the (Fort Wayne) city limits, with a little effort,” Stockbridge Audubon Society President Cynthia Powers said in an email. This is a particularly exciting time of year because many migrating

BIRDS from Page A1 Indiana), primarily because they’ve adapted to urban areas and industrial areas.” Peregrine falcons eat small- to medium-sized birds and catch their prey on the fly, diving at some of the fastest speeds in the world. “They like tall structures with an abundance

birds are returning from their winter habitats, she said. This includes rubythroated hummingbirds, Baltimore orioles, indigo buntings, nighthawks and chimney swifts. People can also see a variety of finches and woodpeckers. “The key is to keep your eyes open,” Powers advised, adding places like Fox Island County Park and Eagle Marsh are great places to look for local birds. “If you get familiar with a few common species you begin to notice if there’s something different.” Some of these birds become food for larger ones, such as the peregrine falcon.

“(Peregrine falcons) are opportunistic. They feed on other small- to medium-sized birds. They like birds the size of pigeons and mourning doves and blue jays and large woodpeckers,” retired Indiana Department of Natural Resources bird biologist John Castrale said. Originally at home in cliffs along the Great Lakes and bluffs of the Mississippi River, peregrine falcons have adapted to urban life. Peregrine falcons were reintroduced to Fort Wayne in 1992, with falcons nesting on top of the Indiana-Michigan Power building since 1996.

Fort Wayne is a good city for the falcons because it is a clean town, Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center Director of Development Mike Dobbs said. The city benefits as well, as the falcons help control the rock pigeon population, he said. Most if not all peregrine falcons in the region have been banded. This is to help track “the overall health of the ecosystem,” Dobbs said. “Birds are nature’s only voice,” he said. “It matters where they’ve been, it matters what they’ve been exposed to. All of the birds of prey we rescue, treat and release basically give us an idea how everything is

of other birds on which they prey,” Castrale said. “They’re adaptable, so the skyscrapers, the power plants, the smokestacks mimic sort of the natural cliffs and river bluffs, so these boxes have been very successful in attracting birds and keeping the population.” Peregrine falcons do not build nests in the traditional

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goldfinches, for example. They can also maintain their bird baths and bird feeders and keep cats indoors, she said. Caring for these birds is important to caring for the larger ones, Castrale said. “First and foremost just have a clean environment because (peregrine falcons) are susceptible to contaminants, pesticides…in the food chain, so if we have clean air and clean water their prey species are going to be relatively clean,” he said. Powers agreed. “If you get people interested in birds pretty soon they realize that habitat is important,” she said.

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just a little more just world in which we live. “So that’s why I took a few minutes to look around this room earlier, because a lot of you are in a position to bring that term back, and Lord knows we need it. Our world has changed significantly over the last several decades and certainly over the last six months. Too many people have forgotten why we’re here. Too many people have forgotten what our true responsibility is, and it’s not just to ourselves. It’s to those we exist in this world with.” The mayor said those are the principles of Rotary, too.

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NEW from Page A1 conducted by New Haven Mayor Terry McDonald, Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry, representatives of Viridian Architectural Design and Robert Koors Custom Building and Design and the newly appointed observatory director, Mark Anderson. Guests will then be invited into the observatory for a demonstration of the opening of the two roof wings and a tour of the viewing area and the control room. Refreshments will be served in a tent outside the building. FWAS members have been working toward this moment for the past 10 years. They raised nearly $250,000 to build the state-of-the-art structure and officially took possession of it in late December. They then finished installing flooring, did the interior painting, added special red lighting to preserve night vision and completed the landscaping. It covers a total of 1,000 square feet and includes the observation area that runs the length of the building and a combination control room/office/library/ storage space. The observatory’s delta-wing roof is opened by power winches. Half of it rolls off on exterior rails to the east and the other half rolls to the west, exposing stargazers

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to the vast southern sky in an open-air room. Each of the wings weighs between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds. FWAS’s two powerful telescopes will be available for stargazing. The Meade 16-inch RCX 400 scope can swing 360 degrees to lock onto stars in deep space, locate nebula and maybe locate a comet or passing satellite. It can collect 6,000 times more light than the naked eye. The organization’s original 12.5-inch Harnishfegger-Crow scope will be available for viewing, as well. Scopes provided by Society members will be set up on five concrete pads at the south side of the observatory for public stargazing, weather permitting, of course, until midnight. Stringer said FWAS

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Powerful winches are used to retract the observatory’s roof sections for stargazing.

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SATURDAY, MAY 20

Monroeville Community Park, 13075 Indiana 101, Monroeville. Weigh-in starts at 4 p.m., competition begins at 6 p.m. Admission $7 per person, with ages 5 and younger admitted free. Visit monroevillein.com for details. Heroes and Villains 5K Run/Walk. At the Rivergreenway, Fort Wayne. The run/walk will begin at 10 a.m., with on-site registration starting at 8:45 a.m. near the Rivergreenway boat dock just south of Kreager Park; the address is 7000 N. River Road, Fort Wayne. Get details at heroes5krunwalk.com. Fish and tenderloin dinner. Bethany Lutheran Church, 2435 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. 4:30-7:30 p.m. $9 for adults, $6 for ages 5-12, ages 4 and younger free. Carry-outs available. Dinner includes coleslaw, applesauce, chips, dessert and a drink. Community Extravaganga. McMillen Park Community Center, 3901 Abbott St., Fort Wayne. Noon-4 p.m. Free. There will be a bounce house, food, local entertainment, games with prizes, and giveaways. The Parkview Community Nursing Health Fair will take place before the event, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., with free health screenings. Parents will also have an opportunity to register their children, ages 5-8, for the free summer program at McMillen. Monroeville Truck & Tractor Pull.

SUNDAY, MAY 21

Liberty Cruisers cruise-in. Liberty Diner, Goshen Road at Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 5-7:30 p.m. Car exhibitors are eligible for door prizes and a monthly cruiser award. Summit City Singers spring concert. Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2417 Getz Road, Fort Wayne. 3 p.m. Free and open to the public. Youth symphony concert. Foellinger Theatre, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. Free. The youth ensembles of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic will perform an afternoon pops concert.

MONDAY, MAY 22

IPFW Carnegie Hall Choral Pre-Tour Concert. IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne; in the Rhinehart Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m. Special ticket price: $10. The IPFW Concert Choir will be traveling to New York City and Carnegie Hall over Memorial Day weekend to perform a world premiere of Michael J. Trotta’s “Seven Last Words.” They will be performing with other choirs from across the country as part of a group ensemble. To kick off their tour, the Concert Choir will perform this concert to raise funds for the adventure. Buy tickets online at www.ipfw.edu/tickets or by calling (260) 481-6555.

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Heritage Communities, 8150 St. Joe Road, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Trek the Trails. Shoaff Park Trailhead, 6401 St. Joe Road, Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. Free. Meet at the Conklin Pavilion on the south side of the park for this 8-mile bicycle ride coordinated by the Fort Wayne Parks Department. Summit City Singers spring concert.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

Veteran peer support group. VA Annex, 2500 E. State Blvd., Fort Wayne. 4:30-6 p.m. Free coffee. Visit vet2vetusa.org for more information. This group is run by veterans but it not a VA-run group. Meetings are held each Wednesday. Living with Depression support group. First Presbyterian Church, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7-8:30 p.m. each Wednesday. These non-professionals have lived with depression and help one another by sharing experiences and through the use of literature. Anyone interested in the group is asked to call Marilee Stroud at (260) 312-6069 for further information.

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Luke Fitzpatrick, flute, and Anne Lewellen, harp. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free. The church presents special music each Friday of May. A $2 sandwich lunch is available immediately after each Friday program. For more information, visit TrinityEnglish.org. Fish fry. Mizpah Shrine Center, 1015A Memorial Way, Fort Wayne. 5:30-8 p.m. $10 for adults, $7 for ages 5-12. The all-you-can-eat fish dinners include the traditional sides and beverages. The Mizpah Shrine Center is between Parnell Avenue and Clinton Street just south of Coliseum Boulevard. Leo High School band performs. Riverside Gardens, 14701 Schwartz Road, Leo-Cedarville. 7 p.m. until approximately 8 p.m. Free. The Leo High School band will present a variety of traditional band favorites and popular music. Ice cream and snacks will be served.

SATURDAY, MAY 27

Rain garden native plant sale. Salomon Farm Park, 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne; in the Learning Center. 9 a.m.-noon.

MONDAY, MAY 29

Fort Wayne Memorial Day Parade. Check-in begins at 10 a.m. at the North Side Park parking lot west of the park at the intersection of Parnell and Fricke avenues. The parade begins at 11 a.m. and proceeds up Parnell Avenue to the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, for a Memorial Day program.

TUESDAY, MAY 30

Summit City Singers spring concert. Towne House Retirement Center, 2209 St. Joe Center Road, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. ZZ Top in concert. Foellinger Theatre, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $49-$99, available through fortwayneparks.org. Trek the Trails. Moser Park Trailhead, 601 W. Main St., New Haven. 6 p.m. Free. Meet in the parking lot near the baseball diamonds for this 8-mile bicycle ride.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 2

Charity golf outing. Orchard Ridge Country Club, 4531 Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne. 8 a.m., shotgun start, followed by lunch and 1:30 p.m. shotgun start. $100 per golfer. Benefits Camp Watcha-Wanna-Do, a nonprofit organization providing free camping for children ages 7-18 surviving cancer or brain tumors. The camp is located at Camp Potawotomi in South Milford. Visit campwatchawannado.com for registration. Rummage and bake sale. St. James Lutheran Church, 1720 Indiana 930 E., New Haven. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Offering bargains in clothing, household, purses, toys and books. Bake sale will have breads, cookies, snack mixes, brownies and cakes. Funfest 2017. Most Precious Blood Church, corner of Spring and Barthold streets, Fort Wayne. 5-8 p.m., picnic under the stars. 7-10 p.m., live music.

SATURDAY, JUNE 3

Miami Beadwork, with Katrina Mitten. Chief Richardville House, 5705 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne. 1-4 p.m. General admission $7; students and seniors $5; 2 and younger and History Center members, free. The History Center sponsors Miami Indian Heritage Days the first Saturday of each month, May through November. A guided tour of the house is included. Spring plant swap. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. 10-11a.m. Bring at least one plant of any kind to share and take home starts from other gardeners. Seating is limited to 50 so call to register. No fee. For details and to register, call (260) 427-6442. Rummage sale (bag sale). St. James Lutheran Church, 1720 Indiana 930 E., New Haven,.9 a.m.- noon. Whatever fits into a large paper grocery bag will be one low price. Mensa admissions test. First Presbyterian Church, 300 W. Wayne St. Fort Wayne; Room 304. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., testing begins at 10 a.m. $40 and photo ID required; must be age 14 or older. Reservations or prior notification not necessary. Direct questions to Dan Klopfenstein, (260) 710-0030. Park in lot at corner of Webster and Berry streets on the north side of the church. Funfest 2017. Most Precious Blood Church, corner of Spring and Barthold streets, Fort Wayne. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., games for all ages, kids train, bounce house, Velcro wall, bingo, food, hourly raffles. Dinner served 4:30-7:30 p.m. Live music 8-11 p.m., with beer tent and fundraiser.

SUNDAY, JUNE 4

History lecture. The History Center, 302 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. Free and open to the public. Shari Wagner presents “When the Past Reappears:

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Imagining People and Places of Northeast Indiana Through Poetry,” with a lecture and book signing. The lecture is part of the 23rd annual George R. Mather Sunday Lecture Series. Summit City Singers spring concert. Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 4700 Vance Ave., Fort Wayne. 3 p.m. Free and open to the public. Festival Choir concert. Forest Park United Methodist Church, 2100 Kentucky Ave., Fort Wayne. 10:15 a.m. Free. A choir uniting members of different churches in Fort Wayne will present a program of sacred music. Gottesdienst (German Mass). St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 518 E. Dewald St., Fort Wayne. 11 a.m. The Rev. Chuck Herman will conduct a German language church service with special musical accompaniment by Tom Remenschneider and the Fort Wayne Mannerchor/Damenchor. Immediately after the services, there will be a reception with German style refreshments at the church pavilion. Germanfest Beer and Wine Fest. Fort Wayne Turners, 3636 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. 1-4 p.m. Sample more than 25 beer and wine selections. Get tickets for $30 in advance through germanfest.org. Tickets will be $35 the day of the festival. Fort Wayne Mannerchor/Damenchor concert. Park Edelweiss, 3555 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. 4:30 p.m. Free. Heimatabend (German night). Park Edelweiss, 3555 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. 5:30 p.m. Open at 5:30 p.m., with dinner served from 6-8 p.m. Dinner tickets can be purchased at the door for $12. Fort Wayne Mannerchor/Damenchor are hosts for this evening of German food. German beverages and live entertainment will be available. Bach, Back and Beyond, Opus 5. Trinity Episcopal Church, 611 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne. 5 p.m. Free admission. Elezanga Baroque Ensemble will present this Germanfest concert.

MONDAY, JUNE 5

Germanfest organ recital. First Presbyterian Church, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 12:15 p.m. Free. Chelsea Vaught, organist. This 30-minute recital is sponsored by the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6

Summit City Singers spring concert. Lutheran Life Villages, 6723 S. Anthony Blvd, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Appleseed Quilt Guild. Classic Cafe, 4832 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne. Social time at 6:30 p.m., followed by meeting at 7 p.m. Non-members pay a $5 fee. Bill Kerr will present the program. Kerr is co-founder of the Modern Quilt Studio; check out his website, wwwmodernquiltstudio.com for more information and samples of his quilting skills. For more information, visit wwwappleseedquiltersguild or email appleseedquilters@yahoo.com. Cyber security workshop. Ivy Tech North, Fort Wayne. 5-7 p.m. Free. Presented by James J. O’Connor of Barrett McNagny LLP, for SCORE Chapter 50. To register, call (260) 422-2601 or email scorefw50@ frontier.com. Ivy Tech North is north off St. Joe Road, between Stellhorn Road and St. Joe Center Road, Fort Wayne. Turn left off Dean Drive at the Keith Busse Technology Center Lecture Hall. Allen County Retired Educators. Pine Valley Country Club, 10090 Pine Mills Road, Fort Wayne. Registration 10:45 a.m., the meeting 11 a.m. Reservations should be made to MaryJo Purvis at mpurvis1@ frontier.com. Germanfest organ recital. Redeemer Lutheran Church, 202 W. Rudisill Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:15 p.m. Free. The Rev. Randy Wurshmidt, organist. This 30-minute recital is sponsored by the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

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Athenian Family Restaurant, 1020 W. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. 5-8 p.m. Spectators welcome. For details, call (260) 485-5886. For information on cruise-ins from Orland, Ind., to Bryan, Ohio, visit libertycruisers.com. Germanfest organ recital. First Wayne Street United Methodist Church, 300 E. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 12:15 p.m. Free. Geoffrey North, organist. This 30-minute recital is sponsored by the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Curbside Cruisers Car Club cruise-in.

THURSDAY, JUNE 8

Germanfest organ recital. Church of the Immaculate Conception, 1122 S. Clinton St., Fort Wayne. 12:15 p.m. Free. Michael Dulac, organist. This 30-minute recital is sponsored by the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

FRIDAY, JUNE 9

Bees & Brews. Southwest Conservation Club, 5703 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. $35 per person. This is a 21-plus event, sponsored by Southwest Honey Co. Spend an evening exploring the honeybee through hands-on fun including beeswax candle making, sampling honey wine and beer, observing a hive up close through our sealed observation hive and for the adventurous, suit up for a live beehive presentation. Held outdoors under the Science Tent. Advance registration required: https://southwesthoney.com/education/bees-brewadult-date-night/. Blue Bucket Brigade. Allen County Walmart locations. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. The Boys & Girls Club of Fort Wayne partners with the Fraternal Order of Police and Fort Wayne United to build bridges between law enforcement and youth. Kids can have their picture taken with a police officer and receive a certificate to become “Deputy for a Day.” Germanfest organ recital. Trinity Episcopal Church, 611 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne. 12:15 p.m. Free. Wayne Peterson, organist. This 30-minute recital is sponsored by the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Bishop Dwenger Saints Open golf outing. Cherry Hill Golf Club, 6615 Wheelock Road, Fort Wayne. Registration at noon, with shotgun start at 1 p.m. $100 per golfer, or $400 for a team of four. Must be 21 to play, or be with a parent or legal guardian. For registration information and sponsorship opportunities, visit bishopdwenger.com or contact Molly

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Schreck at mschreck@bishopdwenger.com. Cedar Creek Church of Christ praise band performs. Riverside Gardens, 14701 Schwartz Road, Leo-Cedarville. 7 p.m. until approximately 8 p.m. Free. The band will present contemporary Christian songs.

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Women in the Outdoors. Izaak Walton League, 17100 Griffin Road, Huntertown. Beginning 7:30 a.m. $60 or two for $110 by May 27 and goes up in price after that date; early-bird pricing also includes a Women in the Outdoors T-shirt. Ladies age 12 and older are invited for hands-on instruction in shooting, archery, paddleboarding, self-defense, outdoor cooking, wilderness crafts and more. Sponsored by the Three Rivers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. For more information, email thehuntress98@hotmail.com. Young Eagles Flight Rally. Smith Field Airport, 426 W. Ludwig Road, Fort Wayne. Children 8-17 ride planes for free as Experimental Aircraft Association pilots donate their time and the use of their aircraft. Flights will begin at 9 a.m., weather permitting. For more information, call (260) 402-3478 or email youngeagles@eaa2.org. Volksmarch (10K walk). Festival Plaza Headwaters Park, downtown Fort Wayne. Start between 8-11 a.m., with finish by 2 p.m. Free. Folllow a marked route through the downtown area, River greenway, and neighborhoods of Fort Wayne. The walk begins and ends at the Festival Tent. Sponsored by The Three Rivers Strollers Walking Club and the American Volksport Association. The Volksmarch is for families, youth groups, singles, couples and everyone. Stamp books and medals will be available upon completion of the walk. For more information, contact Liz Winsley at (260) 925-5091. See the full day’s Germanfest schedule at germanfest.org. Christopher Cross in concert. Foellinger Theatre, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne. 8 p.m. Tickets $35-$55, available through fortwayneparks.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 11

German Kirchenlieder. Zion Lutheran Church, 2313 Hanna St., at Creighton Avenue, Fort Wayne. 11:30 a.m. A half-hour hymn festival, led by Michael Hollman on the organ and the Zion Brass Group.

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