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Advance An edition of THE NEWS SUN
WORTH NOTING
THURSDAY OCTOBER 10, 2013
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West Noble Fall Play This Weekend
Open house to mark retirement for Dr. Geoff Hemmick LIGONIER — An open house to mark the retirement of Dr. Geoff Hemmick will take place Monday at the offices of Drs. Roush and Will, optometrists. The event is open to the public, especially those patients of Dr. Hemmick, who has served the West Noble area for 40 years. He joined the practice of Roush and Will two years ago. Hours for the patient-appreciation event are 4-7 p.m. at the offices, 809 Lincolnway South, Ligonier, next to Campbell & Fetter Bank. More information is available by calling the office at 894-3912.
Public Meetings set for tonight Marshmallow Festival The next planning meeting for the Ligonier Marshmallow Festival will be tonight at 6 p.m. at the West Noble American Legion post in Ligonier. Everyone is welcome to attend. The committee will be going over the events of this past festival and beginning plans for the next year’s festival.
Motel/hotel investors A meeting to discuss the possibility of building a motel or hotel in Ligonier will take place at Ligonier City Hall tonight starting at 6 p.m. in the council chambers on the second floor. Ligonier Mayor Patty Fisel is focusing on finding investors who want to help with this project. The meeting is open to the public. More details on the project are available by contacting Mayor Fisel at 894-4113.
Pettit Park master plan The Ligonier Park Board is hosting a public input meeting for the development of a master plan for Pettit Park. The meeting is set for 6 p.m., tonight in the police department training room on the first floor of City Hall on South Cavin Street. Pat Brown, from the consulting firm of SiteScapes, will conduct the meeting which is open to everyone. Pettit Park is the newest park in Ligonier, and the board wants to have a long-range plan in place for the park’s growth and future uses. More information is available by contacting the parks department at 894-7344.
‘Drive One’ event is Saturday LIGONIER — The Burnworth Zollars Ford dealership in Ligonier is hosting another “Drive One 4UR School” event Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is open to the public. For every person who takes a short test drive of a new Ford vehicle, Burnworth Zollars and Ford will donate $20 to West Noble clubs and teams. Several of similar events have been held over the past few years, and the total raised so far is near $30,000. The test drives are limited to one per family. More information is available at the dealership on U.S. 6 in Ligonier.
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Here’s the cast from West Noble Theatre33’s production of “Arabian Nights,” set for shows on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the high school. In the front are Alejandra Aranda, Kaeli Hart, Alexis Alcala; middle row, from the left, are Favi Dimas, Marco Carrizales, Lauren Durbin, Maria Carillo, Jocy
Herrera, Sammy Coates and Tiffany Jaramillo; in the back row are Kristen Alcala, Sarah Buttgen, Nic Weimer, Marcus Henderson, Joe DeLuna, Emily Durham, Amelia Kurtz and Travis Lee.
‘Arabian Nights’ to be staged 3 times LIGONIER — The age-old tale of “Arabian Nights,” by Mary Zimmerman will be performed three times this weekend on the Theatre33 stage at West Noble High School. Friday and Saturday performances are 7 p.m. and the Sunday performance is at 2 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. There is general seating and the box office opens one hour before the show. Theatre33 is again making clever use of the auditeria space by adding a thrust stage to the front of the stage. The actors have all helped with the construction and painting of
the set, designed by director Cliff Schwartz. This is Schwartz’s 10th year directing and teaching at West Noble High School. This is the story of “1,001 Nights” where the king takes a new bride each night and disposes of each bride by morning until Scheherezade, his most recent bride, played by senior Kristen Alcalá, outwits him by telling him a different story, tale or fable each night in order to stay alive for at least 1,001 nights. “One Thousand and One Nights” is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.
The play is told as a story within a story and has been translated and adapted by Zimmerman. Each actor plays more than one character as each story unfolds. Cast List: Alexis Alcalá – Perfect Love, Other Woman, Second Girl, Woman by the River, and others Kristen Alcalá – Scheherezade, Aziz’s Mother, Experienced Woman #2 Alejandra Aranda – Dunyzade, Second Child, Second Sister-in-Law, Little Foot. SEE THEATRE33, PAGE 2
Fall festival needs vendors, musicians LIGONIER — The Future Ligonier Alliance is hosting a fall festival next week, and its annual scarecrow decorating contest along South Cavin Street is under way in the downtown area. The festival is set for Friday, Oct. 18, from 4-8 p.m. in the downtown Ligonier area. The public is invited to build a decorative scarecrow and attach it to a light pole in the downtown area. Judging will be done around Oct. 16, so entrants should be sure to have scarecrows in place by then. Vendors are needed to set up to sell food and craft items at the fall festival. Also, musical groups are being recruited to perform. More details are available by contacting
Norma Donley of the Future Ligonier Alliance, 463-6647. Registration sheets for the vendor booths are also available at Ligonier Floral Shop on S. Cavin Street. Other holiday events in the West Noble area include: • The Cromwell Historical Society has announced a new location for the annual Cromwell Halloween carnival on Saturday, Oct. 26. This year’s carnival will be held at the Sparta Township Fire Department in Cromwell. The annual Halloween parade precedes the carnival. Line-up for the parade will begin at 4 p.m. at Wysong’s, and the parade begins at 4:30 p.m.
The parade route is through the town and then back to the fire station, behind the post office. Judging of the costumes will take place at the firehouse instead of the old gymnasium. The local firefighters will have a chili supper that evening also. • In Cromwell, local crafters are planning the second annual “Christmas in the Village” on the second floor of the Cromwell library. Dates are Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 14 and 15. Santa Claus will be at the Cromwell library on Dec. 14. Also that weekend, the Cromwell-Kimmell Lions Club will be offering booth space at the town’s community center on Baker Street. These spots are for vendors who didn’t get into the show at the library.
Wawaka factory adding more jobs BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
ALBION — The Noble County Council Monday approved a resolution supporting a tax abatement that would bring jobs to Wawaka. B & J Specialty sought a five-year abatement on personal property taxes for equipment at its Albion facility, but was granted an eight-year abatement by the council instead. B & J said the investment of approximately $1 million in new equipment would add five to eight jobs to its Wawaka plant. It sought a five-year phase-in of property taxes on the equipment. The council used a new matrix for calculating how long an abatement should last. The matrix, created by the Noble County Ecomomic Development Corp., was approved Sept. 3 for use by the council. The matrix includes a cost-benefit analysis for calculating how long an abatement should run. Monday was the first time it was used by the County Council. Only the resolution for the
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abatement could be approved Monday, because paperwork didn’t include the exact cost of the new equipment, said Noble County Auditor Jackie Knafel. The council will vote on the actual abatement in November. The council approved the resolution 5-1, with Councilman Wayne Clouse opposed. Also Monday, the council: • approved 6-0 the county’s proposed $21 million budget. The proposal includes $9.6 million for the county’s general fund, $3.4 million for highways, $645,000 for local roads and streets and $234,375 for the new Community Corrections program. Also in the budget are $603,985 for adult probation, $162,800 for work crews for drainage, $584,490 for statewide E-911 and $118,078 for reassessment. The proposed budget includes $931,134 in cuts made by the council from amounts requested by county officers. The budget still must be approved by the state before it is official.
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West Noble homecoming At West Noble High School’s homecoming football game Friday night, the school’s senior king and queen were selected. The 2013 queen is Rachel Schermerhorn while the king is Uriel Macias, who came off the football field to accept his crown. The West Noble team wore pink football jerseys for the game against Central Noble, as a show of support for the fight against breast cancer.
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