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SACS weighs up to $180M for schools
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First-graders watch pink balloons rise from the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School parking lot. Each string is attached to a postcard, with a request to return the card from where the balloon lands. To see more photos, visit infortwayne.com.
Children trust lesson to the wind
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First-graders of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School released 60 pink balloons into the southwest Fort Wayne sky the morning of Aug. 24. They
shared hopes that the balloons would land in Chicago or Germany or their own backyards. Julie Peters and Alyssa Knuth conducted their charges to the school parking lot for the synchronized release. A
postcard was attached to each balloon. The youngsters clutched their balloons with strings, assembled in the school parking lot and then released the strings on their teachers’ signal. The balloons rose slowly
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Aboite Township firefighters pry open a car door during a 2016 public safety demonstration at the Aboite Center Road fire station.
High School. Allen County Police will present a K-9 demonstration. “For the younger kids we do a firefighter challenge course, which went over huge last year. They’re doing some of
the things that we do on a real scene but on a smaller scale, such as pull a hose, drag a dummy and squirt some water,” Burke said. The event is a fundraiser for equipment and training.
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The Aboite Township Volunteer Fire Department will present a public safety day from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the fire station at 11321 Aboite Center Road, Fort Wayne. The fundraising event will feature a Nelson’s Port-a-Pit chicken dinner. The price is $9 for a complete meal, or $7 for just chicken. A dining area will be set up in the fire station. Firefighters will demonstrate how to remove someone who is trapped in a wrecked car. They also will demonstrate how to deal with grease fires, Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Burke said. Lutheran Air will dispatch a helicopter to land on the field just northwest of Homestead
to the north, crested the building and climbed in clusters through diverging winds and then scattered in several directions to 60 destinations. “This is our color See WIND, Page A14
Southwest Allen County Schools parents and taxpayers turned out for five community meetings on up to $180 million in school building projects. Consultants from the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW facilitated those sesssions and will report their findings to the SACS administration by Sept. 19. Andy Downs, the director of that center, chaired the five meetings. The School Board is reviewing the district’s facilities needs over the next 20 to 30 years. Administrators have described $40 million in repairs as a minimum undertaking. Improvements to Homestead High School and an addition to Lafayette Meadows Elementary School could raise that figure to $100 million; sheets distributed at the forums list that as Scenario I.
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An IPFW team gathered community comment on Southwest Allen County Schools facilities improvement plans and funding options. The team will present a summary to the SACS administration by Sept. 19. That information will be posted at www.sacs. k12.in.us. Alternately, the district is exploring the option of rebuilding the high school to relieve current congestion and to accommodate growth, bringing the total investment to about $180 million; that is described as Scenario II. The district could choose to proceed with or without a referendum, and that decision would determine how much each part of the district pays toward the project. Downs’ group was tasked with exploring See SACS, Page A12
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Toledo is next stop for Spartan Alliance Staff report The Spartan Alliance marching band of Homestead High School presented its show to the first band festival of the season on Sept. 9 at Bluffton High School. The Class A band’s 2017 show is entitled “Of Fire and Ice.” Band enthusiasts can see the show on the local field on Saturday, Sept. 30, at the Homestead Fall Festival of Bands. Ticket prices will be
$7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. Band registration closed Sept. 8; the schedule will be available by late September. Last year, Homestead and 26 other bands performed in the festival. Homestead also will host the Indiana State School Music Association Scholastic Class preliminaries and Open Contest on Saturday, Oct. 7. ISSMA will post that schedule after Sept. 17 at issma.net. Last year,
34 bands marched at the event. ISSMA admission prices will apply. Bands that choose to march in Scholastic Class will vie for ratings to advance to the state finals Oct. 21. Bands that choose to march in Open Class will compete for judges’ ratings; competition begins at scattered sites on Oct. 14, with semistates Oct. 28 and state finals Nov. 4. Homestead also will compete in Bands of America events this
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The Homestead drum majors are (from left): Noah Holtsclaw, junior; Samuel Bostater, senior; Brody Wadkins, senior; Alexander Juliano, senior; and Caitlyn Klinepeter, senior.
year, beginning with the Northwest Ohio Regional Championship on Sept. 23 at The Glass Bowl at the University of Toledo. Homestead performs at 10:30 a.m. Other entries from the Fort Wayne area include: Norwell, 8:45 a.m.; Concordia Lutheran, 11 a.m.; and Leo, 3:30 p.m. Finalists will perform again in the evening. Admission is $18 for the preliminaries or the finals, or $27 for a day pass. Homestead also is scheduled to compete Oct. 20 at BOA Super Regional Prelims at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Qualifiers compete again Oct. 21. The Spartan Alliance
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The Spartan Alliance marching band of Homestead High School marches Sept. 9 in the On the Banks of the Wabash marching band festival at Bluffton High School. Homestead’s 2017 show is entitled “Of Fire and Ice.”
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Athlete battles disability, accepts college challenge By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
The success that Nadia Bedwell experiences on the soccer field has never been guaranteed or easy. “I was born with a very rare form of cerebral palsy,” the Homestead High School senior said. “When I was 3 to about 6 I had multiple surgeries and I wore braces on my feet. All through my life I’ve had to stretch a lot and go to the trainer a lot, and I just have to work harder than most people because my body is to tight.” That effort has paid off both on and off the field. On Sept. 8, Bedwell signed a letter formalizing her commitment to play for Coach Bruce Deaton at Evangel University. She was awarded both academic and athletic scholarships to the Springfield, Mo., school. Homestead coach Rick Link witnessed Bedwell’s play as a freshman on the junior varsity. He
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Homestead senior Nadia Bedwell and girls varsity soccer coach Rick Link pose before a recent practice. Bedwell, who has battled cerebral palsy since birth, has signed to play college soccer at Evangel University.
has been her head coach all three years of her varsity career. “She’s very good,” Link said. “She has come a long way both as a player and
a leader, from playing JV her first year to varsity the last several years to making captain this year. She plays defender, sometimes outside back,
sometimes center.” Bedwell said she strives to be a good leader on and off the field and to foster a positive image of student athletes. Link commended all those who meet the special demands of the sport. “It takes a lot of time and effort,” he said. “It’s every day except Sundays. We have a lot of games on Saturdays, when we play home games or away. They get back at 9:30 or 10 o’clock and they still have homework to do. And it’s a lot of effort for the first two and a half or three months of school. It’s a tough start for school to focus on both their sport and their academics.” Tara Bedwell said her daughter’s cerebral palsy affected her lower limbs. “She had to have multiple surgeries in order to correct her disability just for her to be able to walk appropriately and safely when she was younger,” Tara said in an email. “Nadia
is an incredibly hardworking student. She volunteers with Youth for Christ as a middle school counselor, was a junior camp counselor at Camp Adventure this past summer, she volunteers at the Community Harvest Food Bank as well as with her church, Sonrise. With all her hard work, she has earned a full-ride scholarship to play soccer in college, which was her goal.” Nadia earned a place on the Fort Wayne Sport Club’s Strikers 16-and-under girls team, which advanced to the national championship game in the summer of 2016 in Tulsa, Okla. The Evangel coach saw her in action there. “Coach Bruce came to see me and I went to visit the campus and I just fell in love with it,” she said. At Evangel, Nadia plans to study exercise science. She hopes to share the same expertise and compassion that she has received. She looks forward to
the next challenge, but not to the farewell. “I love these teammates and it’s going to be very sad when I have to leave,” she said. “These are some of my best friends.” Tara Bedwell said Nadia was able to overcome her disability “even with all the odds stacked against her” to achieve this higher level of soccer. Nadia returned the compliment. “My mom has always been there for me,” she said. “She’s one of my best friends. She has helped me a lot and helped to make me the person I am today.” Coach Deaton flew to Fort Wayne on Sept. 8 to watch Nadia sign her letter of commitment. The gathering was held in the Community Room of Homestead High School. The women’s soccer team and eight other Evangel programs were named National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Scholar Teams for 2016-17.
Service Academy Day open to local students Contributed Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, will host a Service Academy Day on Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base for local students who are interested in attending one of the five service academies. Doors will open for registration at 10 a.m. and the event is scheduled to last until 12:30 p.m. The Air National Guard Base is at 3005 Ferguson Road, Fort Wayne. Representatives will
speak about the academies and be available to answer students’ questions afterward. In order to gain entry to the base on Academy Day, students and their guests must RSVP by Tuesday, Sept. 19, to Tinisha Weigelt at RepBanksAcademies@mail.house.gov with their names, driver license numbers (or Social Security numbers if they have no license), driver’s license state of issue and date of birth. “Each of the five service academies offers an extremely valuable
education. Every student should consider taking advantage of it,” said Banks said. “Students that attend Academy Day will have the opportunity to meet with representatives from each institution and talk with my staff and me about the nomination process.” Banks and members of his staff and representatives from the following service academies will be present: • United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. • United States Naval
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From dance shows and zombie parades to corn mazes and lots of candy, our region is ready for fall and October’s highlight holiday, Halloween. Fright Night downtown will return for its 10th year Friday, Oct. 21. Events include a pumpkin zone at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, a trunk or treat soiree at the Central Branch YMCA parking lot, several zombie-theme events at the Allen County Public Library, lantern tours of the Old Fort and a variety of performances throughout the day. One of those performances is the Fort Wayne Dance Collective’s annual Halloween show, this year called “Hotel Hysteria.” “ ‘Hotel Hysteria’ is a little bit immersive and is meant to make the audience feel like guests of a hotel,” Artistic Director Mandie Kolkman said. “There are different rooms and there is a theme that is carried throughout the entire show. The audience will also get to see a little bit about the other guests at the hotel.” Each new room
provides a different piece of dance, Executive Director Elise Alabbas said, with styles ranging from ballet to modern and hip-hop. In addition to the Fort Wayne Dance Collective’s touring company and its youth Pineapple group, the show will also feature artists from the Mikautadze Dance Theatre, Project Ballet and Fort Wayne Ballet. Though the Fort Wayne Dance Collective has been having a Halloween show for several years — in fact, they’ve been featured in Dance Studio magazine for their work — this year’s performance will be a little different. “It comes from exploration in the past year of projection mixed with dance,” Kolkman said, adding they have done shows at the Parkview Physicians Group ArtsLab and IPFW involving projections. Because of the growth of the show, this year’s performances have been moved to the Arts United Center’s ArtsLab, which Kolkman described as “a black box theater with four walls that surround you.” “Having the theme of a hotel allows us to play with elevators and rooms,” she said. “We
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• Walking Dead Trivia Challenge, 2-5 p.m., Allen County Public Library, Teen Department, 2nd Floor
• Pumpkin Zone, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St.
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• The Punkin’ Path, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory • Frank E. Stein, 10 and 11:30 a.m., Fort Wayne Ballet’s Youth Company, Auer Center for the Arts & Culture, 300 E. Main St. – Ballet Studio A • Not-So-Frightening Fun, noon-4 p.m., Children’s Department, Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza • DIA Fort Wayne, 1-10 p.m., University of Saint Francis Performing Arts Center, 431 W. Berry St. • Trunk or Treat Soiree, 1-5 p.m., Central Branch YMCA Parking Lot, 1020 Barr St. • Halloween Haunt, 1:30-4 p.m., Community Center, 233 W. Main St. • Zombie Fun, 2-4 p.m., Allen County Public Library, Meeting Room A • Spider Craft, 2-5 p.m., Allen County Public Library, Teen Department, 2nd Floor
thought about the technical elements first, what we could do with the space, and then worked backward.” The shows will take place Oct. 20 and 21 at
• Murder, Mystery and Mayhem: Historic Tales of Fort Wayne’s Nefarious Past, 6-10 p.m. (tours starting at the top of the hour), ARCH Inc., Grand Wayne Center, Anthony Wayne Ballroom. Parental discretion advised.
• Car Show Spooktacular, 5-8 p.m., parking lot at the corner of Main and Harrison streets
• Haunted Site Bus Tour All Aboard the Coach of Chills, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. ARCH Inc., Grand Wayne Center, Anthony Wayne Ballroom. Parental discretion advised.
• A Night in the Old City Jail, 5-9 p.m., The History Center, 302 E. Berry St.
• Hotel Hysteria, Friday, Oct. 20, and Saturday, Oct. 21, 8 p.m., Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Parkview Physicians Group ArtsLab, 300 E. Main St.
• 2017 Scavenger Hunt, 5-7:30 p.m., Parkview Field, 1301 Ewing St. • Lantern Tours, starts at 5 p.m., last ticket sold at 9 p.m., The Old Fort, 1201 Spy Run Ave. • “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” with live score performed by String Shift, 6-7:30 p.m., Cinema Center, 437 E. Berry St. • The Not-So-Alive-andMoving Picture Show, 6-9 p.m., Cinema Center • Bonfire at the Courtyard, 6-8 p.m., Courtyard by Marriott, 1150 S. Harrison St. • Ghostly Gala, 6-8 p.m., Grand Wayne Convention Center, 120 W. Jefferson Blvd. • Zombunni Ice Scream Social, 6-9 p.m., Yummi Bunni, 123 W. Main St.
8 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at fwdc.org. Other Halloween and autumn events include: Hysterium haunted house, 4410 Arden Drive,
• Here Come the Mummies, 8 p.m., Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd. Not suitable for all ages. • Rocky Horror Picture Show, 9:15 p.m. (doors open at 8 p.m.), Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. Not suitable for all ages. • Dead Comics Comedy Battle, 10 p.m., O’Reilly’s Irish Bar & Grill, 301 W. Jefferson Blvd., #120. Not suitable for all ages. • Zombie Ball, 7 p.m., Pedal City Beer Garden, 1215 W. Main St. Not suitable for all ages.
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FALL from Page A4 26, Sundays Oct. 22 and 29 and Oct. 30-31 from 7-9:30 p.m.. Also open Nov. 3-4 for a special event, “Blackout,” from 7-9:30 p.m. Recommended for ages 10 and older, according to their website, hysterium.com. The cost is $13 or $20 for a fast pass. Kuehnert Dairy Farm and Fall Festival, 6532 W. Cook Road, Fort Wayne: Every weekend from Sept. 16-Oct. 22, families can visit the Kuehnert Dairy Farm for educational and fun activities. Guests can see the dairy farm in action, explore the 5-acre corn maze, paint pumpkins, play on the new jump pad and more. Hours are 6-10 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays. General admission is $8 per person, though children 2 and younger are admitted free. For more information visit facebook.com/ Kuehnertdairyfarm. The St. Vincent Boy Scouts Haunted Castle and Black Forest, 8965 Auburn Road, Fort Wayne: Returning for its 37th year, this annual haunted forest and house is a local favorite. This year’s dates are Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22-23; Friday-Sunday, Sept. 29-Oct. 1 and Oct.
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Dancers from the Fort Wayne Dance Collective perform in last year’s Halloween show. This year’s theme is “Hotel Hysteria”, with performances at 8 p.m. Oct. 20 and 21.
6-8; Thursday-Sunday Oct. 12-Oct. 29; and Oct. 31. The castle opens at 7 p.m. and the forest opens at dark. The castle and forest close at 11 p.m. Tickets are $10 for one haunt, $16 for both and guests can receive $1 off regular admission by bringing a nonperishable or paper item for the St. Vincent food pantry. For more information visit hauntedcastle.com. Wild Zoo Halloween, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne: This “merry-not-scary” event returns to the Fort
Wayne Children’s Zoo from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 13-15, 19-22 and 27-29. Children can wear costumes and see the zoo’s animals while they participate in activities including exploring the Treat Trails, meeting Broomhilda the Witch and picking miniature pumpkins. More information and tickets can be found at http://kidszoo. org/event/wild-zoo-halloween-2-2015-10 -17/2017-10-13/. Halloween Pet Parade, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne: The City
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rade. Cinema Center: In addition to the events taking place as part of Fright Night, The Cinema Center will be celebrating Art House Theater Day on Sept. 24. The cinema will be showing “Rooted in Peace” at 3 p.m. that day and “The Good Catholic” at 6 p.m. On Oct. 27, Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” will be shown at 8 and 10 p.m. On Oct. 28 a George Romero Tribute Night will take place. At 6:30 “Creepshow” will be screening, at 9 p.m. “Night of the Living Dead” will play and at 11 p.m. “Suspiria” will play again. Tickets for regular showings are $9 for general admission, $7.50 for seniors and students, $5 for Cinema Center members and $4 for senior Cinema Center members. Matinee shows before 5 p.m. on weekdays are $7 general admission, $5.50 for seniors and students,
$3 for Cinema Center members and $2 for senior Cinema Center members. For more information visit cinemacenter.org. Trick or treat: Trick or treat in the city of Fort Wayne will take place from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31. The Fort Wayne Police Department reminds trick-or-treaters to: Only visit homes with an illuminated exterior front or porch light, Wear reflective or light-colored clothing, Travel in groups, Have a pre-planned route, Only cross streets at crosswalks, Visit familiar homes and not to enter strangers’ homes, and Be prepared for adverse weather. The Fort Wayne Police Department also reminds trick-or-treaters not to wear costumes that obscure their vision and not to eat any candy until it is inspected by an adult.
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Roanoke News
Aboite News • September 15, 2017
Celebration of art returns to downtown Oct. 14
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For the 10th year, Roanoke’s downtown will play host to a celebration of the arts in the form of Renaissance in Roanoke. The event runs 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, on Main Street. “We usually average about 50 juried fine art artisans of a variety of mediums,” former event chairperson Rick Fischer said. He and current chair Ruth Marsh listed just a few, including jewelry, stone carving, woodworking and more. “We have lots of new vendors this year,” Marsh said, adding one new vendor makes “amazing” furniture, while another new one specializes in steampunk-style work. Being a juried show, artists must submit their work to a panel of
Kim Richards of Leo leaves the farmers market after Renaissance in Roanoke in 2016. She is accompanied by her daughter, Morgan, and Morgan’s friend Julia Lamphere who carries the mum that Richards bought.
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Andi O’Briant touches up a kids art castle at Renaissance in Roanoke. The juried art show and kids art contest returns Oct. 14.
judges, the majority of whom must agree for their work to make it to the show. The committee tries to have a limit on
the number of artists in a particular medium so there is variety on display. While all the vendors will have their works on
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show, Marsh said she also likes to get artists — whether woodworkers, painters or sculptors — who make art throughout the day.
This is exemplified by the plein air paint-out the festival has hosted every year, where artists paint in the open air the day of the festival for prizes. Seeing artists at work is popular, Marsh said. “It’s interesting to see how they go about making that canvas look the way they do,” she said of the plein air painters.
Children also get an opportunity to get involved in the plein air and other art activities. The week before, secondthrough fifth-graders at Roanoke Elementary School have their own open air painting sessions. On the day of the festival, their work is on display See ART, Page A7
Day at Oak Hill Farm aids therapeutic riding Contributed Oak Hill Farm Inc. in Roanoke will present Day at the Farm with Cross Country Gallop on Sunday, Oct. 8, to support the farm’s therapeutic riding program. The schedule includes: 9 a.m.: Registration and welcome. 9:30 a.m.: Bike 35 miles and 50 miles. 11 a.m.: Bike 12 miles. 1 p.m.: Cross country 5K run, 1-mile family run/ walk and kids activities. 2-4 p.m.: Children’s
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horse show, old-fashioned country barbeque, face painting by Sweet Cakes Entertainment, family games, hay ride, live music by Swick & Jones, and more. “This event will support our students, horses and internship/ volunteer services for our community to benefit our very special program that supports children and adults with challenges,” sponsors said in a statement. “We are 100 percent run by volunteers,
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so all proceeds go directly to benefiting our students’ experiences and providing the best service possible to them.” The young riders of Oak Hill Farm will give a demonstration horse show. Brenda Malcoln Stoffel is a Path International-certified riding instructor. Oak Hill Farm is at 4982 E. Station Road, Roanoke. For more information, including race registration directions, visit oakhillfarm.org.
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Alicia Pyle Quartet to perform for Riley benefit Contributed
niscent of Diana Krall. Appearing as a special guest for the concert will be Fort Wayne vocalist Trinell Armour, who often collaborates with the quartet. Tickets may be purchased by phoning (260) 483-3508 or by using PayPal on the Buy Show Tickets page at cottageeventcenter.com. Tickets are also available at John’s Meat Market in Roanoke. The event is sponsored by First Federal Savings Bank of Huntington, Spokesmen Cycling in Roanoke, and Tim Rooney of Stifel Financial, author of the recent investment book “Bank On It.” Indiana’s first and only comprehensive pediatric hospital, Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis has over 245,000 patient visits annually, inpatient and outpatient. Closely affiliated with the Indiana University Medical School, Riley serves patients from every county in the state of Indiana. Known for its family-centered environment and
A popular Fort Wayne musical group will make its first appearance at Roanoke’s Cottage Event Center on Friday, Sept. 22. The Alicia Pyle Quartet performs at the facility’s annual fundraiser for Riley Children’s Hospital. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12. The Cottage Event Center is at 9524 U.S. 24 at Locust Street on the north end of Roanoke. Pyle studied music at IPFW, and is comfortable in both the jazz and classical genres of music. She has performed with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic among other orchestras and has won several competitions. Her Alicia Pyle Quartet has played numerous area events including Jazzfest and Riverfest and on Fort Wayne’s NPR radio station. She teaches piano at the Sweetwater Academy in Fort Wayne. Besides playing piano, Pyle also sings vocals with the group in a style remi-
cutting-edge research, Riley is nationally ranked in all 10 of its pediatric categories. The hospital’s philanthropic partner, The Riley Children’s Foundation, ensures that no child is turned away from care because of financial need. The concert is the Cottage Event Center’s fourth annual fundraiser for Riley. Other upcoming shows at the Cottage Event Center include the return of husband-wife duo The J Taylors on Oct. 20 in a concert for Shepherd’s House facility for homeless veterans, and a Toys for Tots Holiday Concert on Dec. 1 starring Shannon Persinger and the Eric Clancy Trio. On New Year’s Eve, The Brat Pack performs at a dinner show featuring music made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and more. The Cottage Event Center will staff a cash bar. Food will be available for purchase. The Cottage Event Center is owned and operated by Hamilton Hospitality Group LLC.
‘The Christians’ to launch 2017 theatre season
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Dr. James Bruce will explore themes presented in the play on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Zurcher Auditorium. For tickets, call the Merillat Centre for the Arts Box Office at (260) 359-4261 from 1-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Patrons may also go online to buy tickets at www. huntington.edu/BoxOffice. Tickets are $13 for general admission, $11 for students and seniors, $6 for children 13 and younger, $5 for HU students and $10 for HU faculty/staff. Tickets also will be sold at the door before every performance. In The Christians,
The Huntington University Theatre Company will begin its 2017-2018 theater season with “The Christians,” a play by Lucas Hnath. “The Christians” will debut in the Zurcher Auditorium of Huntington University’s Merillat Centre for the Arts on Sept. 21-23. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee performance on Sept. 23. A special added performance is scheduled for Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Forester Lecture Series. John Brown University’s
Pastor Paul has led his megachurch from humble beginnings to grand success. However, when the dynamic preacher informs his church of an ideological epiphany, this fundamental shift could cause an irrevocable divide between the leader of the faith and his followers. Huntington University’s Theatre Company will present six productions for the 2017-2018 season including plays, student showcases and musical performances. For more information on HU’s theater department, please visit www.huntington.edu/ theatre.
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ART from Page A6 for all to see. “The kids enjoy seeing their art hanging up there on Saturday morning,” Marsh said of the student paint-out, adding parents and grandparents enjoy the work too. The children’s content is also judged and prizes are given. There will also be a children’s activity area, Fischer said, where artisans will teach kids with various hands-on activities. “We always try to have something fun and educational,” he said. The celebration of the arts doesn’t end with the fine arts, however. The Huntington Children’s Choir will perform in the morning, Marsh said, with Joe Justice performing in the evening. There will also be several buskers, or street performers, from Fort Wayne throughout the event, “to kind of help entertain the public as they come down and browse and shop,” Fischer said. Many local restaurants and businesses will be open for the festival and there will be food truck vendors in the form of Huntington’s JB’s Cuisine Machine and Head2Hock out of Fort Wayne. In addition, the local farmers market will be open, offering locally grown produce and homemade
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Tammy Hyndman of Roanoke paints from a perch outside Joseph Decuis at the plein air competition at Renaissance in Roanoke in 2016.
foods. “We try to make it so there’s something affordable for everyone,” Marsh said. All of the money raised from the event goes to
the Roanoke Arts Council and to beautification efforts in downtown Roanoke. For more information visit renaissanceinroanoke.org.
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Aboite News • September 15, 2017
News briefs: What’s new and what’s due up soon
DEER RIDGE HOLLY DAYS
The 28th annual Holly Days Craft Show will be held from 9 a.m.-3p.m. Saturday, Oct.21, at Deer Ridge Elementary School, 1515 S. Scott Road, Fort Wayne. This marks the 28th year of the fundraiser put on by the Parent Teacher Council. “We have about 1,000 patrons who come through the doors every year and we have 170 booth spaces,” said Jamie Dubes, a coordinator who books the booth spaces. Limited spaces were available at press time, but inquiries can be sent to Dubes at deerridgecraftfair@gmail.com. “It’s all handmade crafts, anything from candles to bath balms to signs, crocheted items, jewelry, ornaments and more,” Dubes said. Income from the sale is used to fund a reading specialist for the school and for stipends for teachers to use for their classrooms. It also goes for odds and ends through the school and for teacher grants, Dubes said.
TURN TALENT INTO TREASURE
Christ’s Community Church at 10616 Liberty Mills Road, Fort Wayne, will hold its annual Talents into Treasures sale from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 21. The sale offers unique arts and crafts and bake sale items. Admission is free. Proceeds from the sale support projects of the church Women’s Ministries team. In other recent news, the church welcomed the Rev. Michael Daling and his family from Wheaton, Ill. The pastor’s background is in New Testament Theology. He plans to take the church through an exposition of Matthew this fall. Traditional music continues to complement the Gospel-centered worship gathering 9:30 a.m. each Sunday. An informal time of fellowship then precedes the Sunday school hour with classes for all ages.
COUNTY OFFICIALS TO VISIT ABOITE
Allen County government will visit Aboite Township for one of this year’s County Night Out events. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the Aboite Township Community Center, 11321 Aboite Center Road, with the help of the Aboite Township Trustee’s office. The final meeting is set for Leo-Cedarville on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at the community’s Park Pavilion, 9825 St. Joseph St. Both meetings start at 6:30 p.m. and end by 8 p.m. The first of the three
annual sessions was held Sept. 21 in Woodburn. The open-house format allows the public to meet the county commissioners and other elected officeholders face-to-face and get information about programs and services offered by various county departments. Among the county departments and elected officeholders which will be represented are the Parks Department, Highway Department, Human Resources, Building Department, the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department, Solid Waste Management District, County Extension Service, recorder, auditor and assessor.
grades 8-12 and their families and adult learners. Learn more about the event at www.canterburyschool. org/college-fair.
COLLEGE FAIR AT CANTERBURY
The Time Corners Kiwanis Club will host An Evening at the Vineyard with wine tasting and live jazz from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at Country Heritage Winery and Vineyard Inc., 0185 County Road 68, LaOtto. The winery is west off Indiana 3, just north of Huntertown. Tickets are $35 and are available at eventbrite.com. Tickets also will be available at the door. Proceeds support Fort Wayne children by helping to fund college scholarships, Kiwanis school service club sponsorships and public school day
The Canterbury College Counseling Department will host a college fair open to the region from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, at Canterbury High School, 3210 Smith Road, Fort Wayne. Representatives from more than 50 colleges, universities and scholarship programs will be on site. At 7:30 p.m. everyone is invited to a presentation with Gary Rigley from the University of Notre Dame about financial aid and the FAFSA paperwork. The college fair is open to Midwest students in
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KROGER ASSISTS HARVEY RELIEF
The Kroger Co. is making it easy to support Texans recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. Customers in the Fort Wayne area have the option of donating cash to the recovery effort. At checkout, shoppers are invited to choose a $1, $3 or $5 scan. Kroger will direct the dollars to the American Red Cross.
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programs. Time Corners Kiwanis Club presents two scholarships each year to Key Club members graduating from Homestead and South Side high schools. The evening includes a silent auction. Halloween costumes are encouraged but not required.
SCI-FI CENTRAL RETURNS OCT. 7
Science Central will offer Sci-Fi Central from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7. Admission is $9 or free with a Science Central membership. To become a member or to buy tickets, visit sciencecentral.org. Science Central is at 1950 N. Clinton St., Fort Wayne. Guests will dress up in Steam Punk style or as a favorite character, experience gaming through virtual reality technology, battle with Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones fans at Dagorhir, get photos with the Death Star and much more. Featured guests this year will include the 501st Legion, the Midwest R2 Builder’s Club, the Northern Steppes chapter of Dagorhir, V.R. gaming with Fortlan and Skeletunes and more. The Allen County Public Library Maker Lab will have a 3-D printing station, and vendors will sell merchandise in the marketplace. The third annual Sci-Fi
Central is sponsored in part by NIPSCO.
TOUR TO VISIT HARRISON HOME
Settlers Inc. will sponsor a day trip from Fort Wayne to the Indianapolis home site of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, on Thursday, Oct. 26. The trip will depart from the Swinney Homestead, 1424 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne, at 8:30 a.m. and return by 5 p.m. An early lunch stop will be at the Rathskellar Restaurant in Indianapolis. For details and reservations, contact Linda Black, (260) 747-1229, before Oct. 6.
VISITING NURSE SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
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NEWS from Page A8 requires individuals who are emotionally mature, compassionate and comfortable with issues of death and dying. Volunteers are needed to visit patients in area homes and nursing facilities to provide respite to caregivers. Volunteer activity also includes bedside visits, errands, administrative work and bereavement services. Visiting Nurse serves patients in eight counties. For details, contact Ann Blue at (260) 435-3222 or annblue@vnfw.org.
WELLSPRING GETS $50,000 GRANT
The Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne has awarded a $50,000 grant to Wellspring Interfaith Social Services. The grant will assist Wellspring in its youth and adult programming, food bank and free clothing bank as Wellspring wraps up its strategic planning process this fall. Wellspring began in 1968 as the West Central Neighborhood Committee. Its first program was its free summer day camp, which continues today along with its after school program, food bank, older adult program and Wellspring Shoppe free clothing bank. In 2016, Wellspring reached 6,377 people, with a high a percentage on an ongoing basis, with its free services. The agency will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018.
BALLET AWARDED $20,000 GRANT
Fort Wayne Ballet has been awarded a $20,000 grant by the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne. “This gift allows Fort Wayne Ballet to not just reach our mission components but to stretch into the community and beyond with programming, scholarships, community engagement and education,” said Karen Gibbons-Brown, the ballet’s artistic and executive director. The professional company, entering its 61st season, is made up of eight dancers, six apprentices and seven trainees. They perform three main stage productions and two ArtsLab performances and present lecture demonstrations for schools. Many also teach within the academy. Get more information at www.fortwayneballet.org.
TAKE A HIKE AT CITY WETLANDS
Fort Wayne City Utilities will offer a rare look at the Camp Scott Wetlands from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23. The city built this property at 3615 Oxford St. to supply clean drinking water to area residents. The wetlands are fed by a 1.7 million-gallon underground storage tank and pump station. The underground tank collects storm water. The water then moves through a series of wetland areas before it enters the storage pond. According to the Indiana Native Plant & Wildflower Society newsletter, a three-quarter-mile path around the preserve
lets visitors experience the natural beauty of Camp Scott without disturbing the habitat. Visitors may hike that path during the open house. Visit www.cityoffortwayne.org for more information.
CHILI COOKOFF BEGINS SIGN-UP
Cooks may begin signing up for the American Heritage Girls Chili Cookoff to be held Saturday, Nov. 18, at the St. Vincent de Paul Parish Hall, 1502 E. Wallen Road, Fort Wayne. Serving is from 5:30-8 p.m. The best chili will earn a prize and bragging rights. The entry fee is $10. The deadline to register is Oct. 27. Contact Courtney Muncie at (260) 267-2872 or jcmuncie1@gmail.com for more details. The public is welcome to attend to sample chili and support the fundraiser. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for ages 6-10, and free for ages 5 and younger. Proceeds will help American Heritage Girls Troop IN3712 to earn money for a trip to Washington, D.C., next summer.
CENTER PLANS ANNIVERSARY
The Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, will hold a 40th anniversary celebration from 4-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. All-day activities will include musical entertainment, a giant wall painting canvas, slide shows and photo albums available for people to flip through. From 4-6 p.m., there
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ENJOY CONCERT AND BAKE SALE
The Journey Church, 3536 W. Wallen Road, Fort Wayne, will hold a concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. Phill Foust, the worship leader at New Hope Wesleyan Church in Columbia City, will present the contemporary concert. A free-will offering will be presented to the performer. A bake sale will be held at 6:30 p.m. and again after the concert. Proceeds from the sale, plus any special donations, will support missions. The church’s local missions include The Rescue Mission, Charis House, Redemption House, Community Harvest Food Bank, Washington
Center Elementary School and Creative Treasures Preschool. The church supports those missions with donated items and monetary donations as possible. The church’s global outreach includes childcare ministries and support to three missionary families.
TOPIC IS MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY
The National Alliance on Mental Illness is offering a free, 10-week, Peer-to-Peer Recovery Course. Classes are 1-3:30 p.m. Mondays through Nov. 13, at Park Center, 909 E. State Blvd., Fort Wayne. Classes are held in the Family Education Center, Building G. This course is confidential and taught by trained peer mentors living in recovery themselves. “It is a great resource for information on mental health and recovery. This course offers respect, understanding, encouragement and hope to those who struggle with mental illness,” organizers said in an email. To participate, call (260) 447-8990 or email namifortwayne@gmail.com. Get
more information on this and other NAMI programs at www.namifortwayne.org.
ASSISTED LIVING CENTER HONORED
Coventry Meadows Assisted Living was named Assisted Living Community of the Year by the Indiana Health Care Association/Indiana Center for Assisted Living. Coventry Meadows received the award Aug. 15 during the association’s annual Senior Living Awards in Indianapolis. Operated by American Senior Communities, Coventry Meadows is located at 7833 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne.
FREE DISCUSSION ON GUARDIANSHIP
Three organizations are teaming up to present a guardianship forum on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at the Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne. The session will be held from 6-8 p.m. in Room A. The discussion is free. It is not necessary See NEWS, Page A10
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NEWS from Page A9 to RSVP. Presenting the event are Easterseals Arc of Northeast Indiana, Volunteer Lawyer Program of Northeast Indiana and the Northeast Indiana Allen County Guardianship Council. For more information, email Lynn Walker, Easterseals Arc, at lwalker@esarc.org. The panel will include: Magistrate Phillip Houk, Allen County Superior Court; Damian Gosheff, attorney, Faegre Baker Daniels; Erica Costello, attorney, Indiana Supreme Court; parents who have gone through the guardianship process; and parents who use supported decision-making as an alternative to guardianship.
QUILTERS MEET MONDAY NIGHTS
The Hoosier Favorite Quilters group meets each Monday evening at the New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. Quilters gather in Room 54 at the west end of the building to sit, sew and chat. Direct questions about the quilters to Gladys Mumma at (260) 493-1608.
GRIEF SUPPORT ON WEDNESDAYS
St. Mark Lutheran Church in Monroeville will offer a grief support
group from 8-9 p.m. each Wednesday. The ELCA church is at 201 E. South St. The Rev. David Williamson, pastor, will lead the group. Materials will come from the pen of Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. Those attending will use Wolfelt’s book “Understanding Your Grief, Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.” Direct questions to Williamson at (260) 623-3797.
BLAZE PIZZA OPENS DOORS
Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza has opened a restaurant at 401 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. In a statement, the restaurant said the interactive open-kitchen format allows guests to customize a signature pizza or create their own. Hours are 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, and 10:30 a.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday. The location formerly housed a Bobick’s golf shop.
COLDWATER WORK NEARLY COMPLETE
The Coldwater Road improvements between Washington Center Road and Coliseum Boulevard in Fort Wayne is scheduled for final paving in October. Traffic restrictions took
effect between Essex Drive and Washington Center Road when the project entered Phase II on Aug. 28. The Coldwater improvement project is replacing the road surface, enhancing safety for pedestrians and motorists, improving storm drainage and adding to area aesthetics with trees and landscaping. The project represents an investment of $4.165 million. Brooks Construction is performing the work, which is scheduled for completion in November. Approximately 27,000 vehicles use Coldwater Road daily.
LUCKY DUCK SALE AT HAND
Lucky Duck Children’s Consignment Sale will offer children’s clothes and toys Sept. 20-Oct. 1 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. Friday admission is $10, with hours from 6-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday admission is free, with hours from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. each day. Regular Coliseum parking rates apply. Over 250 families resell quality children’s items to more than 3,000 shoppers. The show also features over a dozen local vendors with photography, jewelry, housewares, women’s and children’s accessories and more.
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Fall themes dominate area festivals list Labor Day has passed but community festivals continue as summer turns to fall. Mark these events on your calendars. Send festival news to gsnow@ kpcmedia.com.
FORT WAYNE FESTIVALS
Middle Waves music festival, Sept.
15-16, Headwaters Park, downtown Fort Wayne. 5-11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday. Two-day general admission tickets are $75. On day-of-show, the ticket prices will increase by $10. For updates, visit middlewaves.com.
Johnny Appleseed Festival, Sept. 16-17,
Johnny Appleseed Park, East Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Coliseum parking, $5; but free parking and shuttles available nearby. For updates, visit johnnyappleseedfest.com. Saint Therese Fall Festival, Sept. 16, church grounds, 2304 Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne. (260) 747-4767.
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on State Street, at Whitko High School and at town parks. Zombie Paintball at 7 p.m. Friday is $7 per person. The Horror Trail starts at 8 p.m., and also is $7 per person. The Park Board sponsors a canoe float at 8 a.m. Saturday, starting at the town park. On Sunday, participants bet on a rubber duck of their choice to pass beneath the State Street bridge in the Mighty Duck Race. Find more information on Facebook.
Sept. 23-24. Re-enactors illustrate the lives of Hoosier pioneers, military units conducting on foot and on horseback, traders hawking their wares, and meals being prepared over open fires. Follow pioneerfestival. org for details.
South Whitley Fall Festival, Sept. 15-17,
Bluffton Free Street Fair, Sept. 19-23. With
Poor Jack Amusements, entertainment, agricultural events, a parade, and more. For details, visit blufftonstreetfair. com.
Art at the Riverside, Sept. 23, 10
a.m.-5 p.m., at Riverside Gardens, Leo-Cedarville. A juried art show presenting local talent and supporting local scholarships. For details, visit artattheriverside.
Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival, Huntington,
DeKalb County Free Fall Fair, DeKalb
County Fairgrounds, Auburn, Sept. 25-30. Follow dekalbcountyfair. org for details, or DeKalb County Free Fall Fair on Facebook. Apple Festival, Noble County Fairgrounds, Kendallville, Oct. 7-8. Visit kendallvilleapplefestival.com for updates.
Renaissance in Roanoke, Oct. 14, 10
a.m.-4 p.m., throughout the town. A plein air, juried art show with many related activities. For details, visit renaissanceinroanoke.org/event.
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Event to Purduettes to perform Sept. 24 at VincentFest benefit free health care Contributed
Christian Community Health Care will host a fundraiser to celebrate its 20th anniversary. “A Heart For Our Community” will take place Monday, Sept. 25, at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research, 10622 Parkview Plaza Drive, Fort Wayne. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the program takes place 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free tickets are available only, but seating is limited. Event sponsorship opportunities are available, including donations for the silent auction. For more information, visit christiancommunityhealthcare.org or call (260) 760-8627. Christian Community Health Care provides free health care to families in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. More than 100 staff members volunteer each week at the clinic in downtown Grabill. “A Heart For Our Community” will feature dinner, live music, a silent and live auction, and a program on the work that the clinic does. Special guests will include Curtis Smith, director of community outreach for Parkview Health and former chief meteorologist for 21Alive News, and Dr. Walt Larimore, family physician, award-winning author and medical journalist.
Purduettes, the Purdue University female vocal ensemble, will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, 1502 E. Wallen Road, Fort Wayne. The ensemble will perform in the school gym as part of VincentFest. There is no admission fee; a free-will offering will be taken to help pay expenses of the Purduettes’ travel from West Lafayette. Known for their precise professional look and style, the Purduettes bring a broad repertoire of music ranging from religious, pop,
classical and contemporary to swing, patriotic, gospel, jazz and Broadway. This troupe of 60 young women representing a variety of majors and areas of study Doelling Spear Boyle will perform in full of other festival foods. In ensemble, small specialty addition, VincentFest will groups and solo presentainclude a children’s petting tions. zoo, a classic car cruise-in While in Fort Wayne and a prekindergarten they will perform at a St. through grade five book Vincent Mass at 11 a.m. exchange. Free coffee and The afternoon Vincentdoughnuts will be available Fest celebration features after Sunday Mass. a roasted pig dinner for The group includes three $10; children 8 and under young women from the eat free. Other attractions Fort Wayne area. Caroinclude a Bier Garten with wine and beer and a variety
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SACS FACILITIES SCENARIO II
all spending ranges and both avenues of funding. With a debt service tax expiring after 2019, the district could absorb part of the expense by renewing that levy. A 2010 Indiana Constitution amendment sets a cap on a homeowner’s property taxes, at 1 percent of the value of that dwelling. All taxing districts contribute to that total rate and share proportionately in the tax reductions, Downs said. The corresponding tax cap is 2 percent for rental and agricultural property and 3 percent for other property. Homes in Aboite Township and within the Fort Wayne limits have reached the cap, so most of the cost of a project could be absorbed by SACS taxpayers outside Fort Wayne. However, the same 2010 amendment allows communities to increase the levy through a referendum, which would be outside the taxation limit and which would affect all tax districts equally. Downs’ group distributed breakdowns of tax consequences with or without a referendum. The table showed four home values, including the $177,900 median for the district. Without a referendum, the $180 million project would increase annual home
Southwest Allen County Schools has begun discussions on facility needs and funding. The most extensive proposal, described as Scenario II, would address immediate needs and accommodate projected capacity over the next 20 to 30 years. Scenario II would include an addition to Lafayette Meadows Elementary School and rebuilding Homestead High School. The estimated cost would be $180 million. This chart shows how that cost would be distributed without a referendum or with a referendum, which would set the project outside the tax cap. Figures reflect a home’s increase in annual property taxes from today’s levels.
Without a referendum Property Tax Implications Assessed Value PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW
Andy Downs, director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW, takes questions from one of three tables at an Aug. 21 community forum at Whispering Meadows Elementary School.
taxes by: Aboite Township outside Fort Wayne, $96; Aboite Township within Fort Wayne, $0; Lafayette Township, $96; and Zanesville, $96. With a referendum, the comparable increases would be: Aboite Township outside Fort Wayne, $96; Aboite Township within Fort Wayne, $349; Lafayette Township, $96; and Zanesville, $96. “If you live in Fort Wayne-Aboite, you’re going to take quite a hit,” Downs said. Among the taxing districts, each pays airport, county, library, school and township taxes. Lafayette Township, which includes the portion of Zanesville north of the Allen-Wells County Line, also pays a Southwest Fire District tax. Fort
Wayne and Zanesville also pay city/town taxes. Fort Wayne also pays a CityLink tax. In an interview with this newspaper, SACS Business Manager Jim Coplen explained why Fort Wayne-Aboite taxpayers would pay the $349 figure cited above. The entire debt service amount would be removed from the tax subject to the tax cap. So Fort WayneAboite taxpayers would pay the full cap, with the money being distributed to non-school government units. Fort Wayne-Aboite taxpayers would then pay the full new tax rate on top of that cap. Coplen also explained that part of the initial $40 million estimate would become part of either of the larger projects. “The
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part that’s associated with Homestead High School would be absorbed within Scenario I or II, assuming we do one of those,” he said. Those attending the first forum generally expressed
favor for the $180 million project and confidence that a referendum would pass. One participant suggested a hybrid of the funding options, with the board exercising its
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Salomon Farm fest celebrates harvest
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It sounds like a lot of work, but Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation and area farmers love to put together the Salomon Farm Fall Harvest Festival. This year’s celebration of American farm traditions will be Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23. “We’re just kind of the facilitators,” explained Kellie Adkins, the manager of outdoor recreation at Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation. Volunteers from the Tri-State Antique Tractor Club handle most of the work and enjoy showing off their vintage machines, Adkins said. Demonstrations of threshing, husking, shredding and hay baling are just some of the activities during the festival. There are also hayrides, a farmers market, a rock crusher and animals to visit outside. “[It’s] all kinds of cool stuff that you’d never think of but that the farmers still use [here at Salomon Farm Park],” Adkins explained. The DeKalb County Horsemen’s Association will offer wagon rides with horses and mule teams. Salomon Farm Park is a working property that demonstrates agricultural life from the 1930s. Nine species of animals are kept on the property, and
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Salomon Farm Park, 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne All activities are free, but visitors may want to spend at the food trucks and at the farmers market on Saturday. For more information, call (260) 427-6000 or visit www.fortwayneparks.org.
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volunteer farmers work the land, harvesting hay, growing corn and using their antique tractors to get the work done. While some of those tractors are kept on the property, many more are brought to the farm just for the festival in September. Dave Fike, who is the president of the Tri-State Antique Tractor Club, easily lists the makes of tractors that will come to the festival. “John Deere, International, Allis-Chalmers, Minneapolis-Moline, Silver King,” he said. For the smaller visitors, there are pedal tractors that have been mounted on wheeled carts. Kids get to climb onto the tiny tractors and then get tugged
around by a large tractor. Large, 50-gallon barrels with cutouts have also been mounted on wheels and linked together, forming a tot-sized train that will be pulled by a real tractor. On Friday, Adkins explained, “We really gear it toward field trip groups.” She said “tons” of kids come for the free field trip to explore the animals, see the tractors, maybe participate in an activity, and explore the rural side of Indiana life. Visitors are encouraged to take home a free ear of corn or some of the other grains that are processed. “You can give it to your squirrels the next day,” Fike explained. The corn, oats and wheat are dry and ready set out on the porch
to attract wildlife. Setup for the festival begins on Thursday, when everything is rolled out of the barn and the machinery is set up for demonstrating. Adkins was careful to note that for every machine, there is at least one farmer next to it, to keep kids safe. Fike said that there will probably be 25-30 tractor people looking after the big machines, and a number of others who will tend the “hit-and-miss” engines. These portable engines were used at the turn of the 20th century to pump water and to run smaller machinery on a farm. Whether they’re there to drive tractors in the parade, or crush rocks or just run a washing machine, the volunteers from the
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WIND from Page A1 thematic unit that we do to start school,” Peters explained. “On Pink Day we talk about where these balloons will travel. Are they going to cross the United States? What are they going to see? We talk about whether they’re going to go north, south, east or west. “The cool thing about this week is we just came from the Star Lab where we were able to see what [the balloons] will see from the sky. Then we will wait patiently for letters and postcards to come when people find the balloons in different areas.” For more on the Star Lab instruction, visit https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=pHsIjtJ8XCU. “They were very excited,” Knuth said. “Throughout the year we track on a map where the
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Trysden Feichter watches the balloon that he released as it rises into the sky above St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School.
balloons have traveled, so it turns into a yearlong geography lesson for the kids.” Peters said postcards were returned from many directions last year. “We
had some from Florida, Michigan and then we actually had some parents who took them to the Vatican,” she said. “They found them and took them to the Vatican and
took pictures and then sent postcards so the kids would know that our world is not just Indiana, it’s the whole world. But the real ones came from mostly Ohio, Michigan
Emery Johnson carries the first balloon through the school doors for the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton balloon release.
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instructional equipment, pool improvements, new storage, bleacher repairs, fencing, carpet/flooring, transportation, other equipment and HVAC. $100 million. Includes all of the above plus an addition to Lafayette Meadows Elementary School and these improvements at Homestead High School: congestion mitigation in select areas; library/media center refurbish; expand and update the cafeteria and music/performance facilities; new TV/radio space; add school store; consolidate administrators and counselors in common accessible location; meeting space including community room; parking; and add Senior Experience space and gym space. $180 million. Includes all of the above plus rebuilding Homestead High School.
and air-conditioning and other improvements should be included in a larger rebuild project, so the school would not be disrupted twice. Downs and his team will tally and summarize suggestions in their report. In introducing the five community meetings, Superintendent Phil Downs said the high school was built almost 50 years ago. It has undergone three upgrades. No space — including the gymnasium and auditorium — is large enough for a student assembly. Southwest Allen County Schools is looking at these three recommendations: $40 million. Includes roof, roads, parking, sidewalks, building repairs, grounds, auditorium drapery, fire safety,
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Fort Wayne churches fill lunchtime with music
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Through September and October, locals will have the opportunity, once a week, to fill their lunchtime with music. Trinity English Lutheran Church’s Fridays in September has returned. Wednesdays on Wayne at First Wayne Street United Methodist Church in October. Both include a churchmade lunch after the concerts, “which is kind of cool because it allows people to visit,” Trinity English’s music director Robert Hobby said. The lunch at Trinity is $2, while the lunch at First Wayne Street is $5, with the exception of its concert during Germanfest, where a full German meal is served for $6. “I think it’s totally the best lunch you can get for $6,” First Wayne Street music director Geoffrey North said. Both concerts are also free thanks to the generosity of the community. First Wayne Street’s is funded by a variety of sponsors, while Trinity’s is largely sponsored by the Plogsterth Foundation or the Plogsterth family. “That’s one of the things I really love about the Fort Wayne community, there’s a lot of culture and artistic
Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. Concerts run from 12:10-12:40 p.m., with lunch afterward. Just drop in; no reservations. Sept. 22, church nave: Jeremy Bankson, organ Sept. 29, Wagenhals Hall: Hamilton Tescarollo, piano Wednesdays on Wayne tentative October schedule
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Geoffrey North of First Wayne Street United Methodist Church presents a music program for the Germanfest week organ tour and for the church’s Wednesdays on Wayne music series in June. The series takes place every year every Wednesday in June and October.
and musical endeavors going on all the time… and people really support it here,” North said. “So to have all this talent, that’s why I try and showcase these musicians.” Trinity English’s series, which takes place in both September and May, began in 1986 as the idea between then-music director Richard Carlson and Judge William Lee, who wanted to provide a venue for Fort Wayne Philharmonic players and others to perform. Though it may be a little younger, North said the Wednesdays on Wayne series is also several decades old. The programs at both
churches vary from week to week and between the months. “It’s kind of like having hors d’oeuvres in a way because each week is different but you’re not committing to a whole evening or a full concert so you can sample different things,” Hobby said. “It seems to be a real win-win for both the performers and those who attend.” Past performances at Trinity English have included vocalists and choirs to string players and those playing the piano or organ. There’s even been a jazz trio. These artists range from the professional to high school or college students.
“There’s usually a combination of different instruments and different sizes of groups, just trying to keep it interesting,” Hobby said. “The programming has been really all over the place in terms of things we’ve tried.” Wednesdays on Wayne also feature a variety of performers, most of whom come from the ranks of the Fort Wayne Phil or the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne music school’s faculty, where North is an instructor and the assistant director and accompanist for the IPFW University Singers. The church already has a connection with the Phil,
First Wayne Street United Methodist Church, 300 E. Wayne St., Fort Wayne Concerts run from 12:15-12:45 p.m., with lunch afterward. Just drop in; no reservations. Oct. 4: Vivianne Bélanger, Fort Wayne Philharmonic flautist, and Laura Lydy, guitar instructor at IPFW Oct. 11: Evan Gidley, IPFW graduate, and the Rhine Quartet, a saxophone group from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati Oct. 18: A440 Strings quartet, a subset of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Oct. 25: First Wayne Street United Methodist Church music director Geoffrey North, organ recital
which does several performances in the sanctuary throughout the year. “The church has really wonderful acoustics for music so it’s kind of a favorite performance spot for a lot of outside organizations,” North said. First Wayne’s program also focuses on variety, however, and past concerts have included those from Heartland Sings, the Fort Wayne Taiko Japanese drumming group, the Fort Wayne Scottish Pipes and Drums and even the Fort Wayne Youth Ballet. Both Hobby and North said that most performances see between 50 to
80 people in attendance. Many of them aren’t members of the particular church – which is great, the directors said. “Music is such a wonderful gift, it’s a healing opportunity, it’s a life-enriching opportunity from the arts standpoint, but also, music is a tool to bring people together and kind of put all the worries of the day aside, even for just a few minutes,” Hobby said. “When the church can be, any church, can be a vehicle to bring people together and to just kind of offer opportunities for hope…I think that’s a good thing.”
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NASA commander Kelly is first Omnibus speaker Contributed NASA space mission commander Capt. Mark Kelly will headline the first lecture in IPFW’s 23rd season of the Omnibus Lecture Series. “Endeavour to Succeed” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the
Auer Auditorium at the Rhinehart Music Center on the IPFW Campus. Tickets are free, but must reserved beginning 12:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25. “With an extraordinary career of service to our military, our nation and humanity, NASA space mission commander Mark Kelly is a role model,
modern-day pioneer and leader,” the university said in a statement. “With his twin brother, Scott, he has laid the groundwork for future space exploration as subjects of an unprecedented NASA study on the effects of space on the human body. “Kelly shares lessons learned from extensive
travels, the Navy, outer space and on the ground – from leading teams in some of the most dynamic environments imaginable to the thrill of spaceflight, and the resilience of his wife, Gabrielle Giffords.” The AWS Foundation is co-sponsoring this lecture in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Tickets can be obtained in three ways: • Pick up tickets in person at the Larson Ticket Office in the Gates Athletics Center between 12:30-6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. • Reserve tickets online. Go to the Box Office website to buy tickets. Tickets are free, but a convenience fee of $1 per ticket will be charged.
• Tickets reserved online can be mailed for an additional fee of $1 or picked up at Will Call in the lobby of the Rhinehart Music Center beginning one hour before the lecture. Unclaimed tickets will be offered to other guests 15 minutes before the program begins. Doors open one hour before each lecture. Free parking is available in parking garage 3, located in the Fine Arts Plaza. Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, a sister publication to this newspaper, is a sponsor of the Omnibus Lecture Series. Other lectures in the 2017-18 series are: • Robert Edsel, “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves,
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Honoring St. Francis with blessings of pets By Megan Knowles mknowles@kpcmedia.com
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was an Italian Roman Catholic friar, deacon and preacher who lived in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. He is one of the most venerated saints and is well known as the patron saint of animals. “Most people know already that St. Francis found God in nature,” explained Sister Anita Holzmer OSF, assistant vice president of mission integration and director of the Center for Franciscan Life at the University of Saint Francis. “He looked at animals as a way of relating with creation.” St. Francis saw animals as beings in their own right, having dignity because they were created by God, Holzmer said. He also saw in animals positive aspects that reminded him of Jesus or God. Though she wasn’t sure exactly when it started, Holzmer said people have been blessing pets to honor St. Francis’ feast day, which takes place Oct. 4, since the 19th century. It has become even more popular since 1979, when St. Francis was named the patron saint of ecology, she added. Churches who have participated in this event for a number of years say they have seen animals of all shapes and sizes. “[We’ve seen] everything from cats and dogs to smaller pets like rabbits and Guinea pigs, snakes and reptiles [to] farm animals, horses and sheep and cows,” Pastor William Smith of Resurrection Lutheran Church said. Most churches and
schools have parishioners and members of the community bring their animal friends for a short prayer and a blessing for both the pets and their owners. Most of these events occur outdoors and many encourage fellowship after the blessing is over. It is because of this special connection between human and animal that churches and religious schools continue to carry on this tradition. “For a lot of people in our congregation and community the animals in their lives are important companions and souls to be protected and loved as well,” said Rebecca Karcher, director of communication and community engagement at Trinity English Lutheran Church. “This event acknowledges that.” Blessings of the Pets
Sunday, Oct. 1, 3 p.m.: Plymouth Congregational Church, 501 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne. Sunday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.: University of Saint Francis, Brookside Manor, Fort Wayne. Wednesday, Oct. 4, all day: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School, 10650 Aboite Center Road, Fort Wayne. Saturday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m.: Resurrection Lutheran Church, 14318 Lima Road, Huntertown. Sunday, Oct. 8, 3 p.m.: Grace Episcopal Church, 10010 Aurora Place, Fort Wayne. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2-4 p.m.: Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne.
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 15
Fall rummage sale. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 800 Green St., New Haven. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Today is a $2-a-bag sale. Organized by The Ladies Society, benefiting Emanuel’s vacation Bible school, the New Haven Food Bank, and Worship for Shut-ins. Homecoming tailgate. Zollner Stadium, 3500 N. Anthony Blvd., Fort Wayne. 5 p.m.-halftime. Bishop Dwenger High School will celebrate homecoming at the Saints’ game vs. the Carroll Chargers. The evening will feature live music by Bishop Dwenger students. Local food trucks will be at the stadium from 5 p.m. until halftime.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 16
Annual fish and chicken fry. Bethel United Methodist
Church, 8405 Lima Road, Fort Wayne. 4:30-7 p.m. $10 for adults, $5 for ages 6-12, free to children 5 and younger. Fish, chicken, green beans, coleslaw or applesauce, dessert and drink. Free bounce house available for children of fish fry customers. Great Steps Neurofibromatosis Walk. Parkview Field, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m.-noon. $20 for adults, $12 for ages 4-10, free for ages 3 and younger. Visit nfmidwest. org to register or for deails. Sale of “previously loved” books. St. James Lutheran Church, 1720 Indiana 930 East, New Haven. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Books for adults and children, fiction,
SUNDAY, SEPT. 17
Family Fair. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 800 Green St., New Haven. Beginning at 3 p.m. Free and open to the community. Free meal at 5 p.m., hymn festival at 6 p.m. in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. After the service, the public is invited for ice cream and cookies. Attendees are encouraged to bring an item for the New Haven Food Bank. Walk or run for animals. Franke Park, 3411 Sherman Blvd. The 5K race begins at 9 a.m. and the walk at noon. Sponsored by Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control. For details, follow links from cityoffortwayne.org. The Festival Choir kick-off party. Forest Park United Methodist Church, 2100 Kentucky Ave., Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. New singers invited. Catered by Bandido’s. The evening includes singing and other fun. Since 1985, this choir has performed at churches, long-term care centers and prisons. About 25 singers represent many Fort Wayne churches.
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cookbooks, gardening, crafts and more. High’s Chicken Sales to benefit The Cedars. At the four-way stop in Leo-Cedarville and by the Do-ItBest Hardware store in Grabill. 10:30 a.m. until sold out. The Cedars Branch Auxiliary is hosting the sale with proceeds used to benefit the residents of the nursing care facility at The Cedars.
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Healthy Brain and Body. Jorgensen Family YMCA, 10313 Aboite Center Road, Fort Wayne. 5:30-7 p.m. Meet in the Administration Room. The Alzheimer’s Association and Edward Jones are teaming up to raise awareness and education for those affected by Alzheimer’s disease. This presentation discusses how research that provides insights on lifestyle choices to keep the brain and body healthy during aging. Register at fwymca. org or stop at the membership desk at your local YMCA.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 19
Preschool Discovery Hour - Flutterbies. Fox Island County Park, 7324 Yohne Road, Fort Wayne. 1-2 p.m. $3 per child, $2 per adult. Explore the lives of butterflies
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and search for them in the butterfly garden. Then have a snack. Register by Sept. 14. To register or for more information, email rzartman@allencountyparks.org or call Ron Zartman at (260) 449-3186. Trek the Trails. Meet at the Johnny Appleseed Park Trailhead, near Camp Canine off Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. Free. Fort Wayne Trails Inc. hosts bicycle rides during the summer months at various locations, including tonight’s 8-mile ride. Each participant is asked to wear a helmet and bring water for the ride. All participants ride at their own risk.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20
Curbside Cruisers Car Club cruise-in. 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. “Preserving Nature’s Bounty.” Allen County Extension Office, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Purdue Extension Service in Allen County will offer training on safe, home food preservation procedures. Contact the extension office at (260) 481-6826, or hadleyv@purdue.edu for registration information. Cost is $5, payable at the door, to cover printing costs. Class size is limited, so those interested are urged to register early. The workshop will answer frequently asked questions on canning, freezing and drying foods. Farm to Fork Festival. Schnelker Park, 901 Prospect Ave., New Haven. 4-7 p.m. Free. This event, held in conjunction with the New Haven Farmers Market, promotes local produce and meat producers. The evening includes food sampling and live music by the Kitchen Table Players.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21
Human trafficking awareness program. St. Joe United Methodist Church, 6004 Reed Road, Fort Wayne; in the Worship Center. 6:30 p.m. Liz Pitcher with All Worthy of Love will tell about men and women who are enslaved by street prostitution. This informative program is being offered free of
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charge to men, women and teens and is hosted by the United Methodist Women. Childcare and refreshments will be offered. Those attending are requested, if able, to donate travel size items for Pitcher and her teams to distribute to the population they serve.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 22
Music in the Park. St. Joseph Township Trustee’s Office grounds, 6033 Maplecrest Road, Fort Wayne. 5-8 p.m. Free. Music by Good Night Gracie. Food trucks on site: Big Apple Pizza, Ragin’ Cajun, Flora & Lily’s Mexican Kitchen, Ziffles Zip n Go, Carousel Ice Cream. Bring lawn chairs or blankets. Sponsored by St. Joseph Township. No pets, no alcohol, no smoking. Kiwanis Peanut Days. Rural King Supply, 8801 U.S. 24, Fort Wayne. 4-8 p.m. The Time Corners Kiwanis Club will sell peanuts to support the club’s services to children in Fort Wayne and Kiwanis’ services to children throughout the world. Fish fry. Fort Wayne Sport Club, 3102 Ardmore Ave., Fort Wayne. 4-7 p.m. $9 for adults, $4 for ages 6-10.
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ACAAF Dog Jog 5K Run/Walk. Foster Park Pavilion 1, 3900 Old Mill Road, Fort Wayne. Check-in 9 a.m., race begins 10 a.m. Registration fee $25, which includes event T-shirt. Pet lovers and their well-behaved dogs are welcome to participate. To register, visit giving.purdue.edu/fwdogjog. This is a fundraiser for the Allen County Area Assistance Fund, which was formed with the mission of providing the opportunity for financial assistance to pet owners in Allen County and the surrounding areas who require specialty treatment at Purdue University’s Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital. 11th annual Sample New Haven. Downtown New Haven. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $2 per person or $5 per per family. Enjoy food samples from businesses along Broadway, then vote for the People’s Choice Award. Gather clues from businesses, spell out the secret phrase and enter a drawing for a 2018 family pass to Jury Pool. Gather in Canal Landing Park for free family activities including balloon animals and face painting. Kiwanis Peanut Days. Rural King Supply, 8801 U.S.
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Community picnic. Lakeside Park, 1401 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne. 3-6 p.m. The Northside Neighborhood Association has invited three bands: Jon Durnell, Bob Sweigert and Soul35. Also featuring artists, food for purchase and children’s activities. For more information visit www.northsideneighborhood.org. The Purduettes in concert. St. Vincent School gymnasium, 1502 E. Wallen Road, Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. Free. Purdue University’s renowned female vocal ensemble will perform at VincentFest. Known for their precise professional look and style, the Purduettes bring a broad repertoire of music ranging from religious, pop, classical and contemporary to swing, patriotic, gospel, jazz and Broadway. The 60-member organization will perform in full ensemble, small specialty groups and solo presentations. Fort Wayne Hobby and Collectibles Show. Classic Cafe, 4832 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. Find vintage and new toys, comic books, sport and non-sport cards, TV and movie memorabilia, die-casts, coins, models, magazines, games and more. A show featuring vinyl records and CDs will be held next-door.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 26
Christmas Cantata. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free. The International Youth Fellowship of Fort Wayne is partnering with the Gracias Choir & Orchestra to present this three-part music program along with a cantata message. Each person must present a ticket. To get free tickets call (260) 444-4918 or email fortwayne@iyfusa.org. Children younger than 5 will no be admitted. Regular Coliseum parking rates apply. Trek the Trails. Meet at the Lawton Park Trailhead, on the south side of 4th Street near 250 E. 4th St., Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. Free. Fort Wayne Trails Inc. hosts bicycle rides during the summer months at various locations, including tonight’s 8-mile ride. Each participant is asked to wear a helmet and bring water for the ride. All participants ride at their own risk. Guardianship forum. Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne in Room A. 6-8 p.m. Free, no RSVP necessary. Parents, caregivers and professionals are invited to learn more about legal guardianship and supported decision-making.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27
Bake sale and plant sale. Leo United Methodist Church, 13527 Leo Road, Leo-Cedarville. Noon-7 p.m. The United Methodist Women present Grandma’s Holiday, Bake and Plant Sale. Baked goods and fall plantings are being offered. Holiday items to be offered are such as lightings, tree decorations, wreaths and other holiday theme pieces. New to the sale this year are holiday sweaters, sweatshirts and winter coats.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28
Bake sale and plant sale. Leo United Methodist
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present Grandma’s Holiday, Bake and Plant Sale. Baked goods and fall plantings are being offered. Holiday items to be offered are such as lightings, tree decorations, wreaths and other holiday theme pieces. New to the sale this year are holiday sweaters, sweatshirts and winter coats.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 29
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. Missions concert. The Journey Church, 3536 W. Wallen Road, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free-will offering for tonight’s performer, Phill Foust, a worship leader at New Hope Wesleyan Church, Columbia City. A bake sale will be held at 6:30 p.m. and again after the concert, with purchases and special donations going to church missions.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 30
Fall Fest 2017. St. Louis Parish Hall, 15529 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. 7-11 p.m. $30 per ticket, $55 per couple or $225 for a table of eight. Tickets can be purchased through the parish office or Billy’s. Each ticket includes a beverage and 1-trip Mexican bar. Small tickets available for additional beverages and food. Featuring live entertainment by Hubie Ashcraft Band. Proceeds benefit Crusader academics, youth ministries and sports. For more information, call (260) 749-5815.
Bishop Dwenger High School Hall of Fame dinner and awards ceremony. 1300 E. Washington Center Road, Fort
Wayne. 6 p.m. For more information or to register to attend, visit www.bishopdwenger.com/2017Hall-of-Fame.
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Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. Early shoppers pay a $2 entry fee from noon-3 p.m. Shopping continues without an entry fee from 3-6 p.m. All proceeds are donated to local charities and mission work.
THURSDAY, OCT. 5
First Thursday special. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Special admission price tonight: $1. Visit the program room for a fun and educational lecture or activity. No reservations required. The staff will validate parking tickets from the Civic Center Parking Garage for free parking. For more information, call (260) 427-6440. Rummage sale. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. All proceeds are donated to local charities and mission work.
FRIDAY, OCT. 6
Rummage sale. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. 9 a.m.-noon. Today is $2 a bag sale.
SATURDAY, OCT. 7
“Discover Scouting.” Parkview Field, 1301 Ewing St., Fort Wayne. 3-6 p.m. Free. Girl Scouts and Boys Scouts organizations host a recruitment and renewal event, featuring Johnny TinCap, food trucks and picnic style seating. Parking is free in the TinCaps’ Silver Lot close to the main game.
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crisis may have turned “the American dream” into an extended nightmare for many Indiana home buyers and sellers. Banks and mortgage lenders (who are not going out of business) have tightened up their lending requirements to the point where many home buyers today can no longer qualify for a mortgage. Record foreclosures, rising unemployment, losses in the financial markets and the current credit crunch have not only reduced the number of buyers who can buy but have also increased the number of houses that sellers need to sell. Prices are under pressure as home sellers lower their asking price to attract a buyer, and as lenders resell their foreclosed homes below market value. And it’s turning into a vicious cycle -- as many buyers need to sell their current home first -- and many sellers (unless they plan to rent) need new financing to get into their next home. As a result, a sea of real estate agents, mortgage brokers and home builders are going out of business. These professionals are in the business of serving buyers and sellers. But that’s hard to do with the credit crisis when the entire real estate industry traditionally relies on mortgage lending to finance buyers and get houses sold. What can homeowners do to sell their homes? How can buyers get financing if they can’t meet the tougher lending criteria on credit scores, income verification, down payment amounts and debt ratios?
There’s one local real estate professional who has found a way to make things work even with the present banking crisis. Mike MacDonald is the president of Summit City Investments, Inc. Since 1999, his private investment company has been buying houses throughout the Allen County, IN region without ever relying on banks. MacDonald’s company takes over existing mortgages or brings in private lenders allowing him to pay homeowners all cash for the properties. He then offers his properties for rent or “for sale by owner” using a variety of unique seller financing programs. By taking a long term approach and never relying on banks, business has never been better for MacDonald and his company. “Most sellers are unaware of the options we offer. What they need most is a qualified buyer... and we might just be that buyer. We can buy houses in as-is condition, pay top dollar and close in just a few days… or whenever they’re ready.”
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they must be desperate before calling him to buy their house. “It’s a very common misconception. But until I look at a house and do some research, I won’t know my game plan for the property or what I can offer. But after a single visit to the property and meeting with the homeowners I can let them know exactly what I can do. My offer is good for 7 days and it’s only at that point, with my offer on the table, that a seller can decide if I’m going to become their buyer.” In fact, price is not an issue for MacDonald. As an investor, what’s important to him is the determination of what income the property can produce. “It’s easy to determine. I also do an appraisal and look at the recent comparable sales. Then I do whatever I can to offer a seller up to full price today -- or about what they might net sometime in the future pursuing a more conventional route. What I can pay depends on the condition, location and financing options available for that type of property. It only takes about 10 minutes to prescreen a property over the phone and to set an appointment. We typically buy 1 out of every 4 properties we see. In fact, for about half of those I have purchased, the seller pursued their other options and then came to realize that my offer was the best all along.” MacDonald believes the three biggest reasons a house doesn’t sell are: 1) it is overpriced, 2) it is poorly marketed, or 3) it is not fixed up to show well. “I can pay a fair price on a home that needs work. I might even plan to increase the value or marketability by adding a bedroom or bath, finishing a basement or installing a new heating system. Brand new carpet and paint will go a long way to attract a qualified buyer. But I understand that many sellers don’t have the time, inclination or money to remodel a house... just to get it sold. We solve that problem for sellers.” Overpricing a home could be the biggest mistake. Listing agents sometimes suggest (or a seller might decide) to ask for a higher price than needed. This might be to test the market or leave wiggle room to negotiate. However, this can backfire if the seller wants (or needs) a quick sale, or when the “days on the market” stacks up causing buyers to wonder what’s wrong with the property. Another misconception about how Mike MacDonald buys houses is the idea that he’s probably looking for sellers in financial distress. “Look, when a seller is out of time or out of options, then I’m usually their best solution -- if their property is not over-financed. But most people headed for foreclosure are either overleveraged or actually looking to save their house. If I buy the house the seller must move. They really need to get into a more affordable home... but sometimes I can help by swapping properties.” MacDonald warns about companies and real estate investors who target distressed homeowners. “Recent laws have been passed in Indiana that apply to any business and investor who targets people in foreclosure. Be cautious, do your research and perhaps seek legal advice when anyone wants to charge you an upfront fee for helping to get your loan modified, or... if they’re promising to lease the home back to you. That rarely works out like the borrower expects and can lead to accusations of fraud. Perhaps rightly so.” What does a real estate investor like Mike MacDonald do with the houses he
buys each month? What about the hundreds of houses his company has bought throughout Allen County, Indiana over the last 14 years? Simple. He rents them out or resells them. “We’re usually managing 80 to 100 properties at any given time -- making us one of the largest owners of single family homes in the area. Each month we may have 10 to 15 houses for sale. Some we’ve owned for years and others we have recently bought.” With a reasonable down payment, MacDonald says he can sell you one of his properties using his popular owner financing programs -- even if you have damaged credit or a short job history. His most popular owner financing “If you can afford a first month’s rent, a last month’s rent and a security deposit, then I can probably sell you one of my houses.”
out some sellers who have found themselves in over their head.” “We do everything we can to get our buyers permanent bank financing. It’s a win-win because we pay sellers all cash and fund our deals with private lenders. Our lenders are mostly local individuals seeking alternatives to low bank CD rates. They earn 8 to 10% interest on real estate notes well-secured by our properties. When we get our buyer cashed out, we finally make our money and can payoff our investor. These investors usually want to reinvest allowing us to buy even more houses.” Unfortunately many of the mortgage programs once available are now gone. It’s reported that 75% of the available lending disappeared when FHA changed their rules last October and again early this year. But, if you have money to put down and can prove your income, there are still loans available now. In fact, some rural development loans and VA loans still allow qualified buyers to borrow with no money down. “We help all of our buyers get a bank loan as quickly as possible... or we finance them ourselves. But we’ve never relied on banks. That keeps us in control and maintains our sanity. But we get those loans done every chance we get. In fact, sometimes a buyer can qualify and doesn’t even know it. Other times they can qualify but need a flexible seller. We’re one of the most creative and flexible sellers you’ll ever find,” says MacDonald. Does buying or selling a home have to be difficult? Maybe not! “President Obama says today's economy is the worst since the Great Depression and it may take many years to recover. Unfortunately I think he’s right and so do many sharp economists.” Interested in selling your property quickly and easily? Looking to buy a new home without bank qualifying? It may be worth checking in with Mike MacDonald and his staff at Summit City Investments, Inc. Call them at (260) 267-0760 485-9437 or visit them online at www.SummitCityInvestments.com. They’re in a unique position to help buyers and sellers overcome the new challenges created by the recent mortgage market meltdown and credit crisis. And if you’re looking for a conservative way to earn 8-10% interest on your idle cash savings or retirement funds, call and ask for info on becoming one of their private lenders.
program includes the opportunity to build “sweat equity.” Before repairing or remodeling a newly acquired house, MacDonald offers it in “as-is” condition to his buyer’s list. This allows his client to do the work (to suit their own preferences) in exchange for all or part of a down payment. “I have a lot of buyers who check my website each week looking for these ‘fixer upper’ deals. But if the home is not under contract within 10 days or so then I’ll hire my contractors to fix it up completely.” His next most popular program is a down payment assistance plan. Many buyers turn to MacDonald’s company because they don’t have the down payment required by today’s cautious lenders. Mike helps buyers build up equity or a down payment over time with his rent-to-own (or lease with the option to buy) program. In this program you can rent the property you’ve decided to buy, but have the option to close anytime over the next 1, 2... or even 5 years. A portion of the rent each month is credited toward buying. Additional amounts can be paid monthly for more rapid equity build up plus other promised amounts can be made later... like proceeds from the sale of another property or a pending tax refund. Once the buyer has enough “skin” in the deal, MacDonald can close with owner financing at the predetermined, mutually agreed upon price and terms. Or the buyer SUMMIT CITY INVESTMENTS, INC. is can close with a new bank loan. According located at 2200 Lake Avenue, Suite 123 in to MacDonald, “There are so many reasons Fort Wayne, IN, holds a Certificate of my buyers like some time before qualifying Good Standing from the Indiana Secretary for a mortgage. They may need to sell their of State, and is a BBB Accredited business house, work on their credit, establish more with the Indiana Better Business Bureau time on a job or establish two years of with an A+ rating, provable income on tax returns when self-employed. All our buyers are put in Mike MacDonald is the President of touch with a sharp mortgage broker who Summit City Investments, Inc. He is a creates a plan for them. We can recommend an affordable credit repair company that can 37-year resident in the local community, do unbelievable things given even a short 6 to and has been a long term partner in his 12 months to work on a file. This also helps family’s independent insurance agency and tax & accounting firm (G. A. MacDonald Associates, Inc.)
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