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Butcher’s ON STAGE WITH THE STARS show to air Fort Wayne native Lance Tolbert has made a career supporting some of music’s biggest names on WISE-TV It’s part of a plan to ‘unravel’ Indiana’s NewsCenter brand BY RICK FARRANT rfarrant@kpcmedia.com
WISE-TV (NBC33) will soon simulcast an hour of Charly Butcher’s weekday morning radio news program aired over WOWO Butcher (92.3 FM and 1190 AM). Don Osika, president and general manager of Granite Broadcasting’s television station, said the arrangement will benefit both brands and give viewers a chance to transition easily from watching the WOWO news program between 6 and 7 a.m. and listening to it during work commutes. “Establishing a brand-new morning news team for broadcast on a television station is risky,” Osika said. “But Charly Butcher, I mean, he’s a household name in the marketplace. Charly’s built an audience. People are going to want to n
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Lance Tolbert’s work with singer Mariah Carey has taken him all over world, including performing for 20,000 people last year in the Alps of Ischgl, Austria.
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Lance Tolbert is so unassuming, polite and focused on the music that it might be easy to miss him standing on stage if it weren’t for those infectiously warm smiles and gentle, rhythmic nods of the head. And yet, beyond his musical talent, it just might be his humility, good character and old-fashioned work ethic that has brought him significant success in an industry that can be brutally unforgiving and rife with people clawing for all the wrong things. “I would say for me, it all started with my parents and my
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upbringing and them teaching the principles of respecting other people, the principles of being the good guy,” Tolbert said. “That it’s OK to be a good guy. “At the most basic level, someone is hiring me to do a job, and so that’s how I look at it. I don’t look at it as I’m the best musician in the world. I approach every situation like I’m serving whoever calls me for the job. I do my best to give whatever it is they need and I have a good attitude while I’m doing it. I mean, that’s easy. I’m doing what I love to do.” n
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Grace program lets students ‘master’ studies more quickly They can get a graduate degree in just four years BY LINDA LIPP llipp@kpcmedia.com
A traditional four-year degree used to be more than enough for most professional jobs; now employment ads are likely to say “bachelor’s required, master’s preferred.” “The graduate degree is the new undergraduate degree,” said Tim Ziebarth, dean of online education at Grace College, which is launching a new blended degree option that allows students to earn both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just four years. A lot of employers appreciate the extra effort it takes to earn a graduate degree, “that someone who is dedicated to their academics is going to be dedicated to their job,” Ziebarth said. Master’s degrees are the fastest-growing degree category in the United States. The
number of students earning them has more than doubled since the 1980s. An estimated 756,000 master’s degrees were awarded in the past school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Money is one of the big reasons graduate degrees have become so popular. In 2010, the median yearly earnings for a young adult with a bachelor’s degree was $45,000; for a young adult with a master’s or higher it was $54,700. Money is also one of the lures of accelerated degree programs because they allow students to enter the work force faster and save on their education costs. Last year, the average annual price for undergrad tuition (in-state), fees, room and board at a public institution was $13,364; at private, nonprofit and for-profit institutions, it was $32,026. The are several options for acceler-
ated degree programs in northeast Indiana. Manchester University in 2007 launched its “Fast Forward” program that allows students to get a four-year degree in just three years. It offers the option in all its majors, Ziebarth averaging about 40 students a year; but 47 are already enrolled in the program for the fall, according to figures the school provided. Among other offerings, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne has a new accelerated general-studies degree program for adults with at least 60 credits that launches this fall, and Indiana Tech offers accelerated programs that combine on-site and online classes. Grace’s new master’s program builds n
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Taking flight Jim Sparrow, who has served as executive director of Arts United for the past eight years, is leaving to become president and CEO of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County in North Carolina. His appointment in North Carolina is effective Sept. 20. In announcing Sparrow’s departure, Arts United said its board will launch an extensive local and national search for his replacement. Sparrow has worked in a variety of capacities at Fort Wayne-based Arts United since 1998, helping expand grant opportunities, advocating for the arts campus concept downtown and deepening the level of business support for the arts. “Jim has been an amazing asset to both Arts United and our community,” Andrew Boxberger, Arts United board chair, said in a statement. “His vision and efforts have helped Arts United grow and expand our impact in the city, county and region.”
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Carson’s plans grand-opening festivities at Glenbrook The new Carson’s department store at Glenbrook Square Mall will open Sept. 10. The 122,000-square-foot store will be the 14th in Indiana for parent company the Bon Ton Stores. The former Marshall Field’s space at Glenbrook, which has been vacant for a number of years, has been completely renovated and redesigned with an open floor plan, wide aisles, energy-efficient lighting, comfortable seating areas and generously sized fitting rooms. A touch-screen kiosk
in the store will allow customers to view Carson’s online merchandise assortment and make purchases with complimentary shipping provided for orders more than $50. The store’s manager, Michelle Irish, comes to Fort Wayne from Howell, Mich. She has been with Bon-Ton Stores since 1996. Carson’s held job fairs in late July and early August to recruit the estimated 200 workers it was expected to hire. As a company, Carson’s said it contributes about $40 million a year to nonprofit orga-
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DUNHAM’S OPENS IN GLENBROOK COMMONS Dunham’s Sports opened its new store at Glenbrook Commons on Aug. 9. The store is located in the former Linens ‘n Things space at 4122 Lima Road. It carries a full line of traditional sporting goods and athletic equipment as well as a variety of active and casual sports apparel and footwear. The store will also have a new Fairway Center golf shop featuring all the top golf brands. With the opening of the Fort Wayne store, Dunham’s has 15 stores in Indiana and more than 175 chain-wide.
FELDERMAN DESIGN-BUILD Felderman Design-Build was awarded a design-build contract by Parrott Properties for a 25,000-square-foot expansion to Highmark Techsystems in Fort Wayne.
SHAWNEE CONSTRUCTION Shawnee Construction & Engineering Inc. was selected as general contractor for a 15,000-square-foot addition to Accu Label’s facility at 2021 Research Drive.
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manufacturing and storage and is scheduled for completion in November. Shawnee also was selected as general contractor for: a 6,000-square-foot office renovation for Lawyers Title, in the Auburn Cord Plaza, Auburn; and the 10,000-squarefoot remodel of the offices of Heritage Food Service, 5130 Executive Blvd. Both are scheduled for completion this month.
Strebig Construction has been awarded a contract for the main entrance, lobby and conference room renovation for Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana Inc.
Work is under way and is expected to be completed in September. Strebig also was awarded a contract for renovations to the 25th and 26th floors of the PNC Center. The new tenant will be Three Sixty catering and event services.
ZACHER CO./ CORFAC INTERNATIONAL Brent Overholt and Brian Bean represented the seller, General Electric Capital Corp., in the sale of the Sonic Auburn property to Walter G. Fuller LLC. Joy Neuenschwander represented the landlord, DCL Scott Corp., in the leases of space in the Scott Coventry building, 57165733 Coventry Lane, to Hughes Properties Inc., Fort Wayne Endodontics and Wings Etc. Dan Reese represented the buyer, Haley and Summers Realty, in the purchase of
a 2,612-square-foot office building at 827 Webster St. from Donegal Corridor LLC. Steven Zacher represented the tenant, Summit Reinsurance Services Inc., in the renewal of a lease for a 6,970 square feet of office space at Pointe Inverness II from Fort Wayne Portfolio Corp., doing business as 7030 Pointe Inverness Way. John Adams and Zacher represented the landlord, AERL LC, in the 23,400-squarefoot expansion of a lease to Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., which now leases a total of 112,330 square feet of space. If you have items for the real estate and retail column, please contact Linda Lipp by e-mail at llipp@kpcmedia.com, by phone at (260) 426-2640, ext. 307, or by mail at Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, 3306 Independence Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46808.
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Why live or work in Wabash County? Data being compiled by students and faculty at Manchester University are helping answer that question, and in the process, provide information that can be used by the county to attract new economic development. The third issue of Manchester’s Wabash County Economic Report, for example, analyzes various measures of inflation in the county and also takes a look at its housing prices, teacher salaries and public-school enrollment trends. “Every community has its strengths and weaknesses,” said John Deal, assistant professor of economics. “In an economically perfect world, each community would focus on its strengths and abandon activities in areas of weakness. This is what economists call ‘comparative advantage.’”
“Prices within the county are much more volatile than the national numbers. That was very surprising to us. We thought it probably would be less.” Matt Hendryx Manchester University
The problem is, most small rural counties don’t have the resources or expertise to gather and analyze local data to determine what those comparative strengths and weaknesses are. Manchester obtained a Ball Brothers Foundation grant to do just that, and the result is the Wabash County Economic Report, which debuted its first issue in January 2012. Since the project launched, Manchester also has
received funding from the Community Foundation of North Manchester and is working with other sponsors to keep the twice-yearly reports coming. “The Wabash County Economic Report has become one of the components of the critical data that we consult as we adapt and revise our economic-development strategic plan,” said Bill Konyha, president and CEO of the Economic Development Group of Wabash County. But the findings haven’t all been what researchers had expected, acknowledged Matt Hendryx, director of the report and a visiting associate professor of economics at Manchester. For instance, the core inflation rate in Wabash County in the year ended in April was 5.4 percent, nearly three times the national rate, “and all of it came from last summer,” Hendryx said. n
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Article looks at reasons for orthopedic device price increases An article in the n New York Times on
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factured by Warsaw-based Zimmer Holdings Inc. The man, according to the article, discovered he could get the procedure done less expensively in Brussels, largely because the costs for associated services are lower, hospitals there are more spartan and the cost of acquiring a joint implant is less because Belgium sets limits on the wholesale prices of such devices. Zimmer Holdings, according to the article, declined to comment on pricing.
sylvania’s Siemens Healthcare, which is a leading provider of electronic health-record solutions. Extension said Siemens will now offer Extension’s products in addition to Siemens’ professional services. Extension’s products enhance communication between patients and clinicians.
a national provider of research and learning solutions for the health-care industry. Lutheran officials said it is the third time in four years the rehabilitation hospital has earned the honor.
GROUPS HOST MEETING ON HEALTH-CARE REFORM
DeKalb Health has pledged to give $30,000 over the next three years to the
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HealthVisions of Fort Wayne, the Indiana Minority Health Coalition and Covering Kids and Families of Indiana
Allcare Dental & Dentures President Robert Bates has agreed to surrender his
will host a town-hall meeting Aug. 29 on the ramifications of health-care reform. The session will be from 6-8 p.m. at the main branch of the Allen County Public Library. “Because there is so much interest and confusion about the various components of the Affordable Care Act and how it will affect our clients, we thought that it was important that we present this information in our community,” said Renetta Williams, executive director of HealthVisions. “Not only will we hear from our representatives and decision-makers on healthcare policies, but they will also be able to hear directly from local organizations on how we are preparing for implementation.”
Indiana dental license, according to the Indiana attorney general’s office. Last year, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed an administrative complaint against Bates after he closed six of his offices and in the process abandoned hundreds of patients. One of the offices was in Fort Wayne. According to Zoeller’s complaint, Bates’ violations included failure to reimburse patients who paid up-front for services that were not completed and failure to provide dentures that were already fabricated. Nearly 450 consumers sought a total of more than $1.3 million in restitution. Zoeller’s office said it is working to pay a portion of the restitution still owed consumers.
EXTENSION PARTNERS WITH SIEMENS Fort Wayne-based Extension Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with Penn-
LUTHERAN HEALTH HOSPITAL WINS SATISFACTION AWARD Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Wayne, a part of Lutheran Health Network, has
received an “excellence through insight” award for patient satisfaction in 2012. The award was given by HealthStream,
DEKALB COMMITS $30K TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DeKalb County Economic Development Partnership.
In 2010, the hospital also pledged $30,000. “Economic development improves the health of our community,” DeKalb Health CEO Fred Price said. “We are here to work with existing or new businesses and help them grow.”
RUN RAISES MONEY FOR PROSTATE-CANCER RESEARCH Fort Wayne’s third-annual Zero Prostate Cancer Run, hosted by Northeast Indiana Urology, will be held at 9 a.m. Sept. 7. The event will feature 5-mile and 5-kilometer run/walks starting at Portage Middle School. All funds raised will go to research, free prostate screenings and advocacy. Registration and more information is available at ZeroProstateCancerRun.org/ fort-wayne. If you have items of interest for the health care column, please contact Rick Farrant at rfarrant@kpcmedia.com, (260) 426-2640, ext. 308, or at Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, 3306 Independence Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46808.
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HU Ventures firm offers digital media, marketing services The first n f o r - p r o f i t company launched by Huntington
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iary specializes in Web and graphic design, social media and photography. HU Ventures Clear opened at Elevation 314 N. Main St. in Roanoke in partnership with Roanoke-based Doug LeDuc Reusser Design. An Aug. 12 announcement of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Clear Elevation said Reusser Design is owned by a couple of HU alumni, Nate and Julie Reusser. “Huntington University is excited about the partnership with our alumni, Nate and Julie Reusser, to create a company which offers high-quality digital media services to clients as well as providing jobs in the area,” Ann McPherren, HU’s senior vice president for strategy, said in the announcement. A report to the United Brethren Church’s 2013 U.S. National Conference said Clear Elevation eventually would use several graduates of the university as parttime contractors. “We are excited to partner with Huntington University in this new venture. This is a great opportunity to connect with alumni and to provide local business with cost-effective services,” Nate Reusser, president of Reusser Design, said in the announcement. Carson Sprunger, a Berne native with a graphic-design minor, a bachelor’s degree in business administration and work experience in copywriting, graphic design, marketing, photography and Web analytics and design, will serve as Clear Elevation’s business manager and creative director. The report said HU Ventures was founded last year as a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary designed to generate income for the university through a variety businesses it would start or help grow. “HU Ventures will capture profits from these enterprises, pay taxes, and return revenue to the university in the form of dividends,” the report said.
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Blair Dowden, who retired as HU president this year, said last year that in addition to Clear Elevation, HU Ventures was looking at getting into the film equipment company or film production studio business.
REGIONAL MAKER FAIRE EXTENDS CALL FOR ‘MAKERS’ Attention northeast Indiana artists, scientists, inventors, crafters, tinkerers and techies seeking a creativity showcase. The Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire — powered by TekVenture — has extended its annual call for “makers.” In addition to moving the deadline to register as a “maker” for the annual event back a week to midnight Aug. 16, Jane Applegate, who is coordinating the event, said there probably would be enough available spaces to consider registering latecomer exhibits for it on a case-by-case basis. TekVenture is a Fort Wayne nonprofit group with a mission to improve public access to specialized tools, equipment and training required by artists and inventors to advance innovative projects. It has been operating a “maker station” for that purpose since 2011 in a 50-footlong trailer across the street from the Allen County Public Library, at the intersection of Webster Street and Washington Boulevard in Fort Wayne. In addition to the location, the library has provided the station’s power. The family-friendly Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire will feature the work of do-it-yourselfers from throughout northeast Indiana, as well as exhibits that have been big crowd-pleasers at Maker Faires in other regions of the country. The Jet Engine Builder and Cirque AmongUs are a couple of the big attractions coming to Fort Wayne from Maker Faire Detroit, which took place late last month at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Based on early August registrations, Applegate said there would be at least 25 new “makers” from northeast Indiana at this year’s event, “and at least seven states will be represented in some way as ‘makers,’ racers or volunteers.” Among the newcomers to the event will be Mad Sasquatch Rocketry, a group from southeast Michigan with more than 50 small model rockets, including a clear model designed to demonstrate how everything n
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Comcast launched its X-1 cloud-based cable platform July 23 in Indiana.
Comcast takes cable TV service to the cloud BY DOUG LEDUC dleduc@kpcmedia.com
Comcast Corp. began offering a new, cloud-enabled platform for its cable television service in the Fort Wayne area late last month. With a connection fee of $39.95 and no monthly charge, the X1 platform is Comcast’s statement that it will not be outdone by any competing service when it comes to the customer’s experience finding, accessing and recording programming. Kirk Dale, operations vice president for Indiana, said since it became available on July 23, “we’ve been pleased with the response, based on the soft launch.” “The X1 platform, which is a cloud-enabled platform, transitions our network from being hardware-based to being software-based and transforms the traditional cable box into an entertainment-center operating system that provides a completely new entertainment experience,” he said. Up to now the service has had mobile access and an interface with some useful interactive features, but “this takes it to the next level with our (mobile) apps as well as viewing TV in their home,” Dale said. “It’s really a game changer in terms of the way people access entertainment.” The X1 functions as an online hub for a variety of content in addition to television programming, from video games to socialmedia websites. Its user-friendly interface enables
quick browsing or more focused searching through digital video recordings and TV listings as well as Comcast’s video collection and Xfinity On Demand programming. A deeper level of information on programming is available and recommendations are available for individuals browsing. X1 apps enable subscribers to use the interface on iPhone and iPad touch screens, and the platform works with voice commands. “It has a really robust search capability … If you want to look for the right content you can find it,” Dale said. “Being able to record four shows at once while recording another also is something customers have said they want and this provides it.” Randy Jones, public-relation’s director in Southfield, Mich., for Comcast’s Midwest region, said the platform has been rolled out to about half of the company’s subscribers across the country and “we expect to complete the rollout to the remainder of our national footprint through the end of the year.” Transitioning from a hardware-based to a software-based platform provides for greater speed and flexibility with upgrades, and the company already has announced an X2 platform that will feature a customizable dashboard and will learn preferences, enabling it to make better recommendations. In a conference call with industry analysts discussing second quarter results, Neil Smit, president and chief executive n
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on the three-year “Reimagineâ€? bachelor’s program it began in fall 2011. About 15 students who will be in their third year of the bachelor’s program this fall were accepted into the accelerated master’s, Ziebarth said. The Reimagine program allows students to earn an accelerated bachelor’s in any major the school offers. About 50 percent of Grace students enrolling the year Reimagine launched opted for the three-year program, although Ziebarth said he’s not sure how many have kept to the accelerated schedule. The accelerated master’s will start with three degree offerings: an MBA, a master of arts in ministry studies and a master of science in orthopedic regulatory and clinical affairs. In the fall of 2014, two more options will be added: a master of science in nonproďŹ t management and a master of science in higher education. The choice of which master’s degrees to offer was based on Grace’s strengths and what research showed would best serve its students and the marketplace, Ziebarth said.
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“It’s who we are, it’s our mission.â€? Although Grace still has a semester-based program, students at Grace take classes in two, eight-week sessions each semester. That allows them the chance to accumulate credits more quickly, Ziebarth said. Students in the accelerated master’s begin taking one master’s level class each session during the third year of their bachelor’s-degree programs. The accelerated degrees also require students earn credits during the summer through online courses. In fact, students who earn the blended bachelor’s and master’s degrees will have some ďŹ nal courses to take the summer after their fourth year, although they will participate in annual graduation ceremonies in May. Students on a traditional four-year bachelor’s degree path may also get a jump-start on their master’s degree by taking some graduate courses during their ďŹ nal year at Grace. Then they can go back home or out into the world, get jobs and ďŹ nish their master’s from a distance while they are working, Ziebarth said.
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“The only explanation we could think of is that the county had reached a point of economic health where businesses felt they could raise prices and catch up,â€? he said. The ination research mirrors Bureau of Labor Statistics methods by measuring price changes in about 100 different items, weighted by category (fast food, clothing, etc.), depending on how big a part of the typical household budget a category represents. “Prices within the county are much more volatile than the national numbers,â€? Hendryx said of what he and student researchers also discovered. “That was very surprising to us. We thought it probably would be less. Our main theory is (it relates to) the lower turnover of merchandise. When there’s a markup, it’s more dramatic. When there’s a sale, the cut has to be larger to entice people to come in.â€? That pattern may not be unique to Wabash County, Hendryx theorized. “It may be if you look at any small area, you may ďŹ nd similar volatility.â€? Among the other tidbits in the most
recent issue: Housing costs in Wabash County run about $44 per square foot, less than half of the national average of $90 per square foot. “This suggests any household moving from a typical place in the United States could expect to pay about 50 percent less than for a comparable home elsewhere,â€? the report noted. That is a substantial advantage the county could exploit in its business recruitment efforts. The Manchester researchers also discovered that Wabash County combines a strong base of skilled manufacturing workers with low startup costs, making manufacturing a key target for business recruiters. Beyond the value to the community, the hands-on process of gathering and analyzing data has enhanced the educational experience of the Manchester student interns who work on the report, Hendryx added. “They really have to drill down and understand the concepts. When you have to go into the BLS and pull weights, ďŹ gure out the calculations, it makes the process very real,â€? he said. “You’re working with real data, in real time, doing original research.â€?
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ofďŹ cer for Comcast Cable Communications, said the new platform is increasing video-on-demand views about 20 percent. “About 65 percent of the people react very favorably to this product over existing guides. Premiums are up. It’s too early to tell on churn yet, but I think there might be some favorable trends there,â€? he said. “We’d like to accelerate — we’re going to roll out X2, and it kind of shows the beneďŹ t of having everything up in the cloud. We’re getting X1 out across the country through the course of this year, and X2 will already be coming out before the end of the year. So I think that really
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demonstrates the exibility and nimbleness of having the platform structured the way it is.â€? Jeff Kagan, an Atlanta-based technology analyst who follows the cable television industry, said some of the X1 platform’s capabilities are similar to those of platforms used by the Netix and Amazon Prime services, and more companies can be expected to adopt something similar. “This is just the beginning of the ďŹ rst inning of it. It’s just in the baby-steps era. What we’re going to be using in cloud service ďŹ ve years from now is going to be much better than this ďŹ rst generation, but everybody’s getting involved in this ďŹ rst generation,â€? Kagan said.
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inside of it was assembled. Members of the group use altimeters to determine the altitudes and speeds reached with their rockets. An electric vehicle straight track obstacle-course competition added to the event last year will be expanded this year because it became part of a Power Racing Series taking place at Maker Faires in a number of metro areas across the country. In addition to racing teams from northeast Indiana, the competition is expected to draw 10 to 15 teams from throughout the Midwest. Teams participating in the event are allowed to spend up to $500 modifying a battery-powered child ride-on vehicle for the race. Adults race the vehicles over a track including obstacles of pea gravel, water, sand and wood chips. The vehicles will race against a clock, side-by-side, with the winning car determined by the total time elapsed during the three quickest of its four heats. There is no exhibit fee for the Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire. Organizers
are looking for “makersâ€? with exhibits relating to activities such as rocketry, ballooning, robotics, radio operations, do-it-yourself science, craft projects, green technology and whimsical technical creations. Area “makersâ€? who want to demonstrate how they make things or show off the results of their work can ďŹ ll out an online application at www.makerfairefortwayne.com. The website also has sponsorship information. Makers will be charged $100 to sell their wares at the event; enterprises of three or more individuals will be classiďŹ ed as vendors and charged $250. The Maker Faire is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 14-15 under the Lincoln Pavilion at Headwaters Park East in Fort Wayne. If you have items for the technology column, please contact Doug LeDuc by e-mail at dleduc@kpcmedia.com, by phone at (260) 426-2640, ext. 309, or by mail at Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, 3306 Independence Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46808.
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Last month, the Fort Wayne City Council took the rare and unusual step of rescinding tax abatements for 11 projects because they hadn’t lived up to the job-creation or investment numbers their companies had originally promised. Rescinding the abatements wasn’t the work of some new power the council had been granted. The council has always had the ability to deny an abatement for nonperformance. When a company requests an abatement, which knocks the property tax that company would pay down to zero in the first year and then phases in the tax over a specified period of time, it must provide the city or county with figures regarding how many new employees will be hired as a result of the project, and what the investment in property and equipment will be. For the city or county, granting the abatement is considered a good trade-off; yes, it would receive less in property taxes than it normally would, but the investment and new jobs will have a greater overall impact because of improvements to the property and the fact that those new workers will spend part of their paychecks in the community. Companies receiving abatements are expected to file annual reports with the city or county, indicating whether they’ve met the promises detailed in the original abatement request. Here’s why the City Council’s action was unusual: It’s been common
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practice in Indiana to reauthorize abatements — even when companies aren’t in compliance with their original requests — because of the fear that not doing could cause more harm than good. Essentially, counties and cities don’t want companies mad at them because if those businesses expand in the future, they may decide to move elsewhere. But in recent years we’ve learned that in many cases the new jobs or investments touted by agencies like the Indiana Economic Development Corp. don’t come to fruition. Oftentimes there are mitigating reasons for that. In some cases, there aren’t. At the same time, cities and counties now have the ability to grant “super” abatements that free companies from having to pay property taxes over the life of the abatement, so long as the jobs those projects create pay more than the average wage for the respective positions. And with that, cities and counties must be more diligent in ensuring businesses receiving super abatements hold up their ends of the bargain. Now that diligence is beginning to trickle down to abatements and other incentives. And that’s not a bad thing. An abatement, or any kind of incentive, is a privilege, not a right. And if the company receiving it isn’t earning that privilege, it should be taken away.
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I did not expect it. Although as I look back, I now see that I could have seen it coming. Like a hurricane, its path could be forecast although its timing and intensity were surprises. Yes, we are downsizing once again. The Marcus household has been through this before. But this time … this time, it seems that the cuts are coming closer to the bone. Downsizing happens in many households for many reasons. The children leave home and the house is too big. The couple splits and the pain of the emotional separation is matched by the mayhem of dividing property. Aging changes perceptions of what is n necessary and a lifetime of stuff is reexamined. I had thought all was secure for another decade. Then in a real-estate blitz, a house was seen, a proposal made, a counter-proposal entered and the deal was done. Enthusiasm hardly had a chance to melt into doubt before a schedule of displacement was proclaimed. What does down-sizing mean? It does not mean equality of sacrifice. If one-third of all goods must go, the solution is quickly found. One-half of his material possessions and one-quarter of hers become expendable. This is a sound formula, not a sexist joke. After all, her “possessions” are more likely the ones that make the household a functional unit. Few men would claim the Mixmaster as part Morton J. of their domain, yet a house is not a home if pancakes cannot be prepared expeditiously. Marcus Right now, I have made ready to release to the recycle bin items that I have not examined in the past 10 years. Most of these are documents in unopened boxes that have collected nothing but dust over time. Others are books that are as valid today as when written in the ’60s and ’70s. Sadly the problems of urban areas, as detailed so well 50 or so years ago, are still with us. Transit, income distribution, housing, education, finance, taxation, infrastructure neglect and deterioration, race, youth unemployment, crime and an aging population are still the salient issues they were in the past. The ideas for resolving problems of our cities have not changed much. There is more talk of privatization today, but no evidence that it actually adds anything to the discussion. Technology has evolved to heighten our awareness of some issues, but has not offered substantive solutions to our long-lasting concerns. So the stacks of boxes and the piles of books for discard grow as the inevitable downsizing continues. The entire process has the potential for emotional drama, as when I clasp my head and proclaim that I am giving up portions of my soul to reduce the number of square feet eligible for dusting. But I resist the temptations of such moments. After all, am I not a consenting adult who has endorsed this transfer from one house to another? Did I not sign the documents? Yet, I must wonder, where was my head?
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MORTON J. MARCUS is an independent economist, writer and speaker formerly with Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He can be reached at mortonjmarcus@yahoo.com.
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With too many mouths to feed, farm-bill progress has ground to a halt If you want to n know why passing congressional legislation has gotten so difficult, here are two numbers to remember: five and 532. They illustrate a great deal about Congress today. When I served in the House decades ago and the “farm bill” came up, stitching a successful piece of legislation together depended on getting five organizations to find common ground. They included groups like the national Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union, and our task was clear: Get them to agree on what the bill ought to look like, and we had a measure that could pass. This year, Congress is struggling to get a farm bill through. After the House of Representatives sent the first version down to defeat, no fewer than 532 organizations signed a letter to Speaker John Boehner asking him to bring a bill back to the floor as soon as possible. The array of groups was striking. The Farm Bureau signed on, but so did avocado growers and peach canners, beekeepers and archers, conservationists of all sorts, and huge businesses like AgriMark. In essence, the big umbrella groups have broken into different constituent interests, with peanut growers and sheep ranchers and specialty-crop growers all pursuing their particular goals. Sometimes it feels like there’s a constituency for every commodity — and on such broader issues as biofuels, rural development and international trade. What used to require bringing together a handful of constituencies now demands horse-trading among hundreds. Not every major piece of legislation before Congress is so complicated, but the farm bill is a perfect example of how tough it has become to get a major bill through, with so many competing interests and so much money at stake. Everything on Capitol Hill’s plate this year — from immigration reform to gun control to the upcoming debt-ceiling fight — requires legislative language that a wide array of interest groups can agree to. This would be daunting but attainable if Congress operated the way it once did. But it doesn’t. For what the farm bill’s travails also illustrate is that Congress is now a legislatively challenged institution. The leaders
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on the Hill have fewer tools of persuasion than they once did. They abolished “earmarks,” so they can no longer promise a bridge or a road to secure a member’s vote, and they carry less respect and political clout. The political parties that once helped enforce discipline can no longer do so, since politicians these days often identify themselves with outside groups like the tea party rather than with their political party. With the rise of super PACs, neither congressional leaders nor political parties have as much influence over fundraising — and hence the “loyalty” it once imposed — as they used to. To make matters worse, many members — especially in the Republican Party, though it’s not limited to the GOP’s side of the aisle — do not like to compromise. As
I suggested at the beginning, compromise is at the heart of the farm bill. For the last 50 years, it’s been put together by joining crop support and nutrition support — food stamps — in order to win the votes of both rural and urban lawmakers. And within the rural sections of the bill, wheeling and dealing on the specifics has been the only way to generate legislation that farm-state legislators could all agree upon. Now that formula is broken, though I do believe an accommodation will be worked out. But the problems go beyond that, and it’s not bad that the usual inertia on the farm bill has found difficult going. The country needs to confront basic questions about the $16-billion annual subsidy and heavy trade protection accorded to agriculture — when
fewer than 1 percent of Americans are farmers and farming has become a hugely corporate industry. Likewise, with one in six Americans now receiving food stamps, we need a real debate about the food stamp program, which makes up 80 percent of the cost of the bill. In other words, we’re not getting what we actually need, which is a real policy debate on the role of the government in agriculture. If Congress were working properly, this might have been possible. Increasingly, I fear it’s beyond Capitol Hill’s reach. LEE HAMILTON is director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.
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Health commissioner calls for action to reduce state’s infant mortality rate (AP) — Indiana’s top health official said the state’s infant mortality rate remains among the nation’s highest, despite efforts to combat what he called a “horrible” situation. In 2011, Indiana had the nation’s 47th-highest infant mortality rate, with 7.7 of every 1,000 children who were born alive dying before their first birthday, according to provisional data. State Health Commissioner Dr. William C. VanNess II met recently with health-care workers and lawmakers in East Chicago, hoping to spark discussion on ways to improve the state’s death rate among its youngest residents. VanNess told the gathering that lowering the death rate among the state’s youngest residents is one of the State Department of Health’s top three initiatives. He said the state “can’t keep this hidden anymore.” “Indiana is horrible at infant mortality. Horrible. We are 47th out of 50 states,” he said. While the issue hasn’t gone unnoticed, VanNess said previous efforts to lower the high death rate haven’t produced the desired results. A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Indiana ranked sixth nationally in 2010 for infant mortality. The state’s provisional data for 2011 shows that aside from an overall infant mortality rate of 7.7 per 1,000 live births, the rate for black infants was 12.4, and 6.9 percent for white infants. A live birth refers to a child who shows signs of life, such as breathing, gasping or heart action, once the newborn is entirely outside of the mother. VanNess said the reasons for Indiana’s high death rate among infants are difficult to pinpoint. “There are a lot of factors that figure in to infant mortality,” he said. Indiana has high rates of obesity and smoking, both of which tie into infant mortality. The state ranks 41st nationally in
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Misconceptions about the ACA For all size n employers, changes are on the horizon for health care — and confusion is everywhere. I work every day with employers seeking to get a solid strategy in place, and I’ve found there is a tremendous amount of misinformation about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Here are the most common misconceptions.
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1. The Affordable Care Act will be repealed, so I don’t need to worry about it.
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“Indiana is horrible at infant mortality. Horrible. We are 47th out of 50 states.” Dr. William C. VanNess II Indiana Department of Health
overall health, VanNess said. Data from 2010 showed that 17.1 percent of pregnant Indiana women smoked during pregnancy compared with 9.2 percent nationally. State Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, said it’s important for that and other information to reach the people. “It’s all about education and educating
people,” he said. VanNess said offering support and using social workers to spread information and resources have been successful in addressing other health concerns. He said the state could work more closely with physicians to get data that may provide a bigger picture to the issue. VanNess said that funding cuts complicate the infant mortality-rate issue, forcing the health department to do more with less. He said that two-thirds of the state agency’s budget comes from federal dollars. Brown said a challenge with getting lawmakers involved is helping people overcome the hurdle of thinking there’s already too much government involvement in their lives.
There is certainly continued controversy around the issue. After the enactment of PPACA, many stood on the sideline for the Supreme Court ruling. When the Supreme Court upheld the majority of the provisions, many anticipated changes pending the presidential election. With the continued political separation between the House and Senate, it’s unlikely that change will occur. Businesses should build strategies now to mitigate financial risk. Waiting to plan is not an option and could have n
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THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND YOUR BUSINESS Q Tracey Gavin will be the keynote speaker at Business Weekly’s healthcare reform Power Breakfast Series event at 7:30 a.m. Aug. 22 at the Landmark Conference & Reception Centre, 6222 Ellison Road, Fort Wayne. The event also will feature a panel discussion of experts answering questions about the Affordable Care Art. Tickets are $10 per person or $75 for a table of eight, and can be purchased at FWBusiness.com.
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JUDGE ORDERS ZIMMER TO PAY STRYKER $228M (AP) — A U.S. district judge has ordered Zimmer Holdings Inc. to pay Stryker Corp. about $228 million in a patent-infringement case. Judge Robert Jonker of the U.S. District Court for Michigan’s Western District threw out Zimmer’s challenge of a jury verdict in Stryker’s favor.
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detrimental impact to the future success of your organization. 2. The employer mandate has been delayed so I can wait another year to take action.
While it is true the enforcement of the employer mandate has been delayed until 2015, there are other important actions that employers need to consider now. Employers with a variable-hour work force need to establish appropriate measurement periods to ensure future compliance. Despite the employer delay, the individual mandate will increase employer health-plan participation. Benefit requirements, fees and associated taxes will also burden employers with additional expense. Failing to plan accordingly could pose significant financial exposure. 3. I have no obligation to communicate anything about ACA to my employees.
Under the ACA, employers are required to provide formal notice to all employees no later than Oct. 1, 2013, that describes the new health-insurance marketplace options and information regarding employer-sponsored coverage. While there will be telephonic and Web-based communication and information regarding the new health-insurance market place, employers will continue to the primary point of contact for employees and their questions. In addition to the required notifications, employers are in an excellent position to communicate the value of employer-sponsored benefit options and associated coverage. Developing a strong communications strategy with multiple means and touch points will be important to establish value, explain key messages and decisions, and to achieve management and employee support. 4. ACA will reduce my company’s health-care expenses.
It is highly unlikely that the ACA will reduce your health-care expenses. There
will be additional expenses in the form of fees and taxes, increased employer plan participation, administrative costs in tracking and reporting, and increased demand for health services by those who have never had health-care coverage before. As your costs will continue to increase, there is also exposure in 2018 to the excise tax, which will hit employer-sponsored plans exceeding $10,200 for total cost of coverage for a single employee/$27,500 for total cost for a family. This is a 40-percent, nondeductible excise tax that could be assessed to your business. While plan termination may be a solution, the tax implications and financial impact to employees need to be carefully evaluated. 5. Health-care reform does not impact small businesses.
While the employer mandate does not apply to employers of fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees, there is a continued need to offer a competitive benefits program for recruitment and retention purposes. Benefit mandates, community rating and other underwriting requirements effective 2014 will pose significant financial challenges to small businesses. Small employers will need to consider the opportunity for tax credits, Small Business Health Options Programs (SHOP), through the exchange as well as the potential savings from plan termination carefully. We can all agree that the Affordable Care Act is complicated. One of the nation’s most controversial laws enacted to expand health-care coverage to millions of individuals requires immediate action. Determining the compliance and financial impact is only the starting point. Developing a strategy to eliminate financial risk, maximize the value of employee benefit programs and effective employee communication will be critical to drive business results. TRACEY GAVIN is the health-care reform practice leader for Indiana-based Apex Benefits.
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MOELLERING MANAGEMENT Tom Moellering, president of Moellering Management in Fort Wayne, was named to You are invited to Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana’s
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the chairman’s club of TTI Success Insights for being in the top 5 percent of TTI distributors worldwide.
STAR FINANCIAL BANK Thomas Marcuccilli was named assis-
tant vice president, retail sales manager at Star Financial Bank in Fort Wayne. He
will oversee management, development and execution of Star’s retail sales plans across all markets. John Brita was named manager of Star’s virtual branch. He has more than 15 years of retail banking experience.
FRANKLIN ELECTRIC Jennifer Badal was named director of global human resources at Franklin Electric Co. Inc. in Fort Wayne. She has nearly 20 years of experience in employee relations, talent recruitment and human-resource management, most recently serving as director of human resources at Regal Beloit.
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Fort Wayne recently elected officers for its board of directors for the 2013-2014 term. They are: president, Jane Gerardot, Boeglin & Gerardot PC; vice president, Christine Rupp, Bair CPA Group; secretary, Thomas Trent, Rothberg Logan & Warsco LLP; and treasurer Shannon Hardiek, Phillips Financial. Newly elected board members are: Michael Barranda, Burt, Blee, Dixon, Sutton & Bloom LLP; Trois Hart, University of Saint Francis; and Bruce Menshy, community leader. Additionally, Greg Johnson of Fort Wayne Newspapers is returning to the board of directors. Returning board members are: Ian Boyce, Dickmeyer-Boyce Financial Management; Andrew Brooks, Brooks Construction Co.; Kathy Callen, community leader; Kathy Kolb, community leader; Carolyn Lindquist, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; Dr. Deborah McMahan, Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health; and Don Steininger, community leader.
SPERRY VAN NESS PARKE GROUP Brandon Downey joined Sperry Van Ness Parke Group in Fort Wayne as an
associate adviser. He specializes in the sale and lease of commercial, industrial and retail properties, as well as property management. He has more than 15 years of commercial real-estate experience.
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Wendy Griffin-Allen was named director of clinical services for Crossroad Child & Family Services’ Huntington counseling office. She will provide mental-health counseling and supervise the delivery of outpatient services in Huntington County. She has worked in the mental-health field since 1996.
YLNI Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana
recently announced its board of directors for 2013-2014. They are: Sam Graves, president; Stephanie Veit, vice president; Amy Shurley, secretary; Dave Wagley, treasurer; Pone Vongphachanh, executive
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committee director at large; Justin Shurley, vice president of leadership development; Melissa Beber, vice president of community impact; Grant Daily, vice president of social programming; Kim Carpenter, vice president of membership; Tom Boyer, vice president of communications; Nick Medhikhan, vice president of fund development; Jake Pickett, director at large, Living Fort Wayne; Ashley Smith, director at large, membership; Lisa Updike, director at large, leadership development; Adam Neumann, director at large, communications; Dana Raby, director at large, fund development.
IPCA The Indiana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (ICPA) announced its new officers and board members. Those from northeast Indiana are: president, Todd Lassus, Lassus Bros. Oil Inc., Fort Wayne; secretary-treasurer, Trout Moser, National Oil and Gas, Bluffton; new board member, Greg Cobb, Freedom Oil LLC, Warsaw.
VITAL LIVING WELLSPA Marla Neff was promoted to office manager/spa coordinator at Vital Living WellSpa in Fort Wayne. Stephanie Florin joined the medical massage therapy staff. Joanna Culler was hired as an esthetician and development coordinator for aesthetics services.
GREATER FORT WAYNE Justin Clupper was hired as graduate retention program manager at Greater Fort Wayne Inc. He most recently was director of special events at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
METROPOLITAN HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION Dawn Cummings was named executive director of the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. She had served as a staff attorney at the commission since 2007. Her primary responsibilities will involve case management, disposition of probable-cause cases and conducting training for employers, housing providers and city residents.
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Mitch Figert will use the skills he developed working for the American Red Cross as the new executive director of the Wabash County Historical Museum.
“Working for a nonprofit … becomes more a way of life and less of a job” Growing up in Wabash, what did you like about the community? Was local history something you ever gave much thought to?
Wabash County has always maintained a small-town atmosphere while continuing to be a forward thinker and leader in community and business development. It is a close-knit community where people get to know their neighbors, look out for one another and wave to complete strangers (just to be polite!). Growing up here I remember always feeling safe and knowing what seemed to be everyone who lived in the city. As an adult, that is one reason my wife and I moved back to Wabash because this is the type of community we wanted to raise our children in. I have been lucky to know not only my grandparents, but also still have my great-grandparents living. One of the best memories I will always have are the stories they have shared about their history in Wabash County. As a kid, and still today, I am fascinated to watch the old black-and-white slides my great-grandparents have from throughout Wabash County. These stories have gotten me involved in learning more about the history of Wabash County. n
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Name: Mitch Figert Age: 31 Organization: Wabash County Historical Museum Title: executive director Start date: July 15 Education: will graduate in December from Indiana Wesleyan University with a bachelor’s of science degree in business management and human resources
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What are the biggest challenges for a county museum like the one in Wabash?
What type of work did you do with the Red Cross?
Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges at the museum. While admission fees, membership dues and gift shop sales provide some relief to the operating budget, there is a strong reliance on private donations to ensure the operations of the museum. I will be looking at how we can ensure that we have the resources to not only maintain the museum annually but also how we maintain the facility, collection and programs for years to come.
Most recently, I served as the executive director for the American Red Cross of North Central Indiana, which covered six counties, including Wabash. My primary role was to raise funds to support local programs, but I also spent a significant amount of time managing community relationships, overseeing program delivery, providing support to local staff and volunteers, maintaining chapter facilities and assisting with service delivery. I started my path with the Red Cross as a disaster volunteer and even now that my employment has ended I am still part of the local and national disaster volunteer program. How do you hope to apply your skills and experience from the Red Cross to your work at the museum?
Though the Red Cross and museum have very different services they offer, the common factor is they both have operations to run. I plan to bring my knowledge of strategic planning, program outcomes, financial development, volunteer management and business operations to the museum. What are your priorities for your work at the museum?
• Develop a long-term financial development plan. • Increase community partnership throughout the county. • Strengthen our family programming.
What do you enjoy most about nonprofit work?
Working for a nonprofit, such as the museum, becomes more a way of life and less of a job. I enjoy the work we do and knowing that the efforts of myself and my team at the museum will leave a lasting impact on our county. What’s ahead for the museum in the next few years?
We have several things in the future. Currently, we are focusing on a large outdoor exhibit that will capture the attention of everyone who passes through our downtown corridor. It will feature an old caboose. The concrete pad has been poured and it should be there in another month. We are also looking at making improvements and updates to our facility. By Linda Lipp. To suggest an idea for “Career Path,” call (260) 426-2640.
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STEELWORKERS REJECT BF GOODRICH DEAL Members of the United Steelworkers union have voted to reject a proposed three-year contract that covers 2,400 workers at BF Goodrich facilities in Woodburn and Tuscaloosa, Ala. The USW said negotiations would resume Aug. 14 in Knoxville, Tenn. The union and the tire company had been working since June on a new collective bargaining agreement. The previous contract expired July 27. Specific details of the proposal that was voted down were not revealed. The BF Goodrich plant in Woodburn employs 1,580 workers, according to the Community Research Institute at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
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EMAHISER LEAVES CROSSROADS RV Don Emahiser, the president of CrossRoads RV, resigned Aug. 9 to pursue other interests, parent company Thor Industries Inc. announced. “We appreciate Don’s service to our company and wish him well on his future endeavors,” Bob Martin, president and CEO of Thor Industries, said in the announcement. “Fortunately, we have a strong bench of management talent at Thor and CrossRoads that should help ensure this management transition is smooth. Topeka-based CrossRoads makes travel trailers and fifth wheels. Thor Industries is based in Elkhart.
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Three Rivers adopts local firm’s mobile banking app BY DOUG LEDUC dleduc@kpcmedia.com
Fort Wayne-based Allied Payment Network has more than a dozen financial institutions signed up to use its Picture Pay product, including its first credit union, which also has a Summit City headquarters. Three Rivers, a community credit union with more than 67,000 members and $750 million in assets, attracted the attention of credit-union and banking-industry publications last month when it became the first credit union in the country to use the mobile payment technology. Three Rivers, which does business under the 3Rivers Federal Credit Union brand, officially introduced the product to members as 3Rivers Mobile Bill Pay on July 8. Hundreds of members used it to pay more than $55,000 in bills during the first weeks it was available, and the credit union expects to see many more members downloading its app at the Apple Store and Google Play. “We had a very, very positive response, both internally from our team members and from our members,” said Melissa Shaw, marketing communication manager for Three Rivers. “All of our team members spent some time testing it. We wanted to make sure all of our members had a solution that was going to work very well for their needs.” Technology allowing individuals to make a deposit by taking a picture of a check became pretty widespread a few years ago, but paying bills that way is still relatively new. In addition to the deposit capability, the Picture Pay app includes options that allow users to specify an amount and a date for payment of a photographed bill. For bills that are paid in the same amount on the same date each month, there is an option that can use information from the photo to set up an automatic monthly payment. Banks and credit unions offering Picture Pay can have its user interface customized to match the platform they already have in place for mobile and Internet banking. And Allied can provide the institutions with analytical tools that can help them use Picture Pay to cross-sell their other products. The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project reported Aug. 12 that 51 percent of U.S. adults bank online and 35 percent use mobile phones for banking. The findings resulted from a nationwide phone survey of 2,250 adults, with half the interviews conducted over a landline and half over a mobile phone. In a similar Pew survey two years ago, 46 percent of adults banked online and 18 percent of cell-phone owners said they had
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“We are finding more and more people are appreciating the conveniences. It’s a lot easier to get on your mobile device than to open the laptop or start the computer.” Melissa Shaw Three Rivers
used them to check an account balance or do business with a bank. The Credit Union National Association reported in February about one-third of U.S. credit unions offered mobile banking, and 25 percent of members enrolled in mobile banking made deposits with their smartphones by taking pictures of their checks. Last month, the association said the average credit union planned to devote about one-fifth of its information-technology budget this year to online and mobile banking, and among technology budget items, that spending category was exceeded only by core processing. Three Rivers rolled out its 3Rivers Mobile App in May 2010 and “we’ve seen triple-digit increases in our mobile adoption in the last couple of years,” Shaw said. “We are finding more and more people are appreciating the conveniences,” she said. “It’s a lot easier to get on your mobile device than to open the laptop or start the computer.” Members have found the service particularly convenient for the payment of nonrecurring bills such as those from a medical clinic or specialist following brief treatment for a temporary condition, Shaw said. Now, with 3Rivers Mobile Bill Pay, “you receive the bill in the mail, take a picture of the payment information, enter the payment amount and date and have it paid before you even sit back down from getting the mail,” she said. “It really simplifies payments.” As if that were not easy enough, Allied Payment Network is developing a version of Picture Pay it plans to release this year or next year that will allow users to enter the payment amount and date with voice commands. Users also will be able to complete an entire bill pay form with voice commands if they would rather do that than take the picture of the bill. The credit union expects the technology to attract new members, Shaw said, because “people are looking for a financial institution that has the technology and convenience that can save them time and money and that’s what we do.” “This technology and software was developed and is based here in Fort Wayne.
It was really the strength of the software and the ease of the bill payment solution that attracted us … but it was great to work with a locally based company,” Shaw said. Ralph Marcuccilli, president of Allied, said his company’s Picture Pay app is powered by the Mobile Photo Bill Pay technology of Mitek Systems. A financial institution large enough to be interested in further in-house development of the technology for its specific needs can license the software from Mitek, he said, and in March U.S. Bank became the first major bank in the country to make its own version of the technology available. The most recent Federal Reserve System comparison of bank holding companies ranking them by asset size showed U.S. Bank’s parent company, U.S. Bancorp, ninth in the nation at the end of March with $355.4 billion in assets. “New technology that’s been developed generally has been developed by the largest banks, and smaller banks and credit unions haven’t had the resources to roll out something like that. And that’s where we’ve put our focus is on making this available to thousands of smaller banks and credit unions,” Marcuccilli said.
“We’ve developed a turnkey solution community banks can implement and they don’t have to go in and design a system to do it.” The product made a splash in trade publications late last year and became part of the mobile banking scene in Texas in January. In addition to Three Rivers, the Picture Pay service is now offered by Americana Bank in Newcastle and by two Texas banks, First Financial in Abilene and City Bank in Lubbock. They are among more than a dozen financial institutions that have signed contracts for Picture Pay and either have it up and running or are implementing it. Marcuccilli said the service takes 60 to 90 days to implement. The success of the product has contributed to employment growth at the Allied Payment Network, which he said has expanded to 13 from four employees when the company opened its doors at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center three years ago. “There are a lot of people in this area who have helped develop this product and most people don’t realize we have this kind of expertise in Fort Wayne,” Marcuccilli said.
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NEW BUSINESSES Luttrell Family II LLC 200 E. Main St. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Dennis D. Sutton Joemchem LLC 5005 Speedway Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Bret Krontz Upstate Metal Recycling LLC 11400 Bluffton Road Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Martin J. Henry Podshoh Studios Inc. 3414 Bluefield Place Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Roger Kovacs Total Reach Apps Inc. 6058 E. State Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Simon Bray FW Business Services LLC 3201 Stellhorn Road, Office C108 Fort Wayne, IN 46815 James A. Hanson Kaverman Holdings LLC 6722 Wood Glen Court Fort Wayne, IN 46814 Dave Kaverman KT Commodities LP 532 Green St. New Haven, IN 46774 Crell Tourkow Kirkwood Factory LLC 2320 Springfield Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46805 Bruce Kilpatrick
READER’S GUIDE BizLeads is a collection of information gathered from northeast Indiana courthouses, state government offices and informational Web sites. These listings are intended to help companies find new customers as well as stay on top of happenings with current customers, vendors and competitors. New Businesses lists firms that were recently incorporated in the state of Indiana. Information is gathered from the Indiana Secretary of State. Addresses listed may not be the actual address of the business. Building Permits are issued by the Allen County Building Department during the specified period of time. Real Estate is a list of agricultural, commercial, industrial, and residential real estate sales recorded by the state of Indiana. Bankruptcies are from the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Indiana. For complete data involving a particular filing please access the The PACER Service Center, the Federal Judiciary’s centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records. Its Web site URL is http://pacer. psc.uscourts.gov. Patents include the following: Patent number, local inventor and assignee, brief description, filed date and approved date. Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office. Listings may vary due to information availability and space constraints.
Corn Fed Spartans LLC 4133 Buell Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46807 Jonathan Nolan
Sone Sea Yar LLC 1904 Chartwell Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Ohntin Carsin
Paradigm Landscaping LLC 1021 Pinehurst Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Zachary P. Potosky
JTA Homes LLC 12633 Chapelwood Place Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Jon Preston
Star CNG Systems LLC 301 W. Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Robert L. Nicholson
Accelerated PM LLC 9815 Dawson’s Creek Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46825 April Grunden
Better Balance Society Inc. 1729 Red Oak Run Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Daniel B. Scherer
Fli Industries LLC 5530 Homestead Road Fort Wayne, IN 46814 Alfred M. Leite Jr.
Zinnia’s Bakehouse LLC 4902 S. Harrison St. Fort Wayne, IN 46807 Krystal Vega
No Butts About It LLC 9928 Serpentine Cove Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Elinza Caldwell
Wright & Lerch, Attorneys-At-Law, LLP 2001 Reed Road Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Stephen J. Reed
Green Star LLC 301 W. Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Robert L. Nicholson
Premier Communications LLC 110 W. Berry St., Suite 1912 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Daniel Holden Redline Powersports LLC 9389 N. Clinton St. Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Gregory Graham MBM Online Enterprises Inc. 11617 Carroll Cove Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Heidi L. Tanner Tippmann Tree Service LLC 116 E. Berry St. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Randall W. Kammeyer Tapia Foods LLC 1812 Bluffton Road Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Eduardo Guzman Revolution Electronic Repair LLC 7410 Parliament Place Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Brandon Schweyer
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Magadoo Asian Grocery LLC 3421 St. Croix Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Michael Mon Schaller LLC 5630 Chiswell Run Fort Wayne, IN 46835 David A. Schaller FZI Sales LLC 3929 Spurwood Circle Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Michael Warthen Ditara LLC 921 E. Dupont Road, #707 Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Rhoda Diwis Lake James Properties LLC 236 Eagle Point Court Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Thomas G. Oldag C&J Management LLC 1303 Perry Lake Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Chris Askins Carlos Muro Bedolla LLC 4741 Holton Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Carlos M. Bedolla Grand Hut Stores LLC 4648 Jason Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Adarien Davis Service Construction LLC 5010 Value Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Hugh Brennan GLDJ Gotsch LLC 4205 Hobson Court Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Gary Gotsch Fort Wayne BMX Inc. 2430 Sunnymede Fort Wayne, IN 46803 John Entley Fort Wayne Culinary Institute Inc. 1859 Old Lantern Trail Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Jason Smith Gifted Hands Specialty Construction LLC 2216 Morgan Creek Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Brian Monds
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Tech Savvy LLC 2810 Allegany Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Samuel I. Barrone Esteban Maldonado LLC 5319 Holton Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Esteban Maldonado Isalea Benitez-Solis LLC 4904 Trace Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Isalea B. Solis Jesus Lopez Camero LLC 4534 Parnell Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Jesus L. Camero Victor Calzado LLC 2036 Carterton Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Victor Calzado Ottenweller Property Investment LLC 3010 Independence Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Ryan Ottenweller Charlotte Gabet Corp. 2524 Bellevue Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Charlotte Gabet Summit Automotive LLC 9615 Pinto Lane Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Helal Abdulhadi Silver Crescent Digital LLC 5336 Ann Hackley Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Nathaniel Gough Juan Manuel Ruiz-Garcia LLC 5715 Le Steele Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Juan M. Ruiz-Garcia Wollamco LLC 11007 Old Oak Trail Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Paul Wollam Mission 3 Media Inc. 5211 Delaware Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Joseph Noorthoek Kingsview LLC 9722 Shorewood Trail Fort Wayne, IN 46804 David M. Long
Day by Day Accounting LLC 5120 Martinique Road Fort Wayne, IN 46815 James S. Day
New American Conservatory Inc. 921 Northcrest Shopping Center Fort Wayne, IN 46805 Beth Mcleish
Jasraj Inc. 1516 Lakehurst Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Jasmin Amedavadi
Summers Peak LLC 10529 Hickory Tree Road Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Erik Summers
Main Street Martini LLC 4201 N. Wells St. Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Todd Smith
EW Drywall LLC 5625 S. Webster St. Fort Wayne, IN 46807 William Valenzuela
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Angel Alberto Melendez LLC 1332 Boone St. Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Angel A. Melendez
Antonio Dominguez Gaytan LLC 2814 Manford St. Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Antoni D. Gaytan
Bella Cosa Jewelers LLC 301 W. Jefferson Blvd., Suite 200 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Blake Hike
Kids Zone LLC 4145 Hessen Cassel Road Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Maria A. Cuartas
Dugue Investments LLC 1325 Kenwood Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46805 Mark Dugue King Commercial Capital LLC 413 Cavalcade Court Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Gerald King Crestfield Properties LLC 8718 Crestfield Court Fort Wayne, IN 46835 David Weber Two Elk Properties LLC 8416 Talmage Court Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Jonathan Weber East Style Inc. 541 E. Coliseum Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Xiu Q. Chen KCN Properties LLC 7020 Ardmore Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Brandon W. Reilley Digital Marketing Services LLC 3431 Bluefield Place Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Carl Dean Yes to the Dress LLC 4616 Speedway Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Denise C. Brower Baker Construction LLC 4920 Cedar Lake Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Adam W. Baker A.M.S. Entertainment LLC 5139 Stonehedge Blvd., Apt. 6 Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Aaron M. Schwab Horror Bass LLC 10009 Acorn Lane Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Peter Smith Summit260 LLC 301 W. Jefferson, Suite 200 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Bruce Boxberger TB Holdings LLC 301 W. Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Robert L. Nicholson
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Urban New Thought Alliance Transportation LLC 1510 Fairfield Ave., Suite 253 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Myron James A Green Frog LLC 2020 Kenwood Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46805 Hope E. Sheehan
Mint Condition Auto Sales LLC 1510 Fairfield Ave., Suite 230 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Mallory McMahon
Time Corners Spikes 9U Inc. 13517 Veracruz Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46814 Randall Minobe
Enrique Soto LLC 5106 Rosebury Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Enrique Soto
Gerig Properties LLC. 9801 Woodstream Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Richard L. Gerig
Echelon Development LLC 14602 Leesburg Road Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Elena Gilev
1521 Studios LLC 1521 Monet Cove Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Elizabeth K. Piercy
A. W. Anesthesiology Inc. 7323 Thoroughbred Drive, Apt. 1B Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Andrea Waingold Nyi Sar Grocery Store LLC 3323 Eastway Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46806 Nai Lawikhit Sister Oak Properties LLC 2109 S. Calhoun St. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Tami Dennon Kentuckiana Auto Sales LLC 1510 Fairfield Ave., Suite 206 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Lucretia Thompson Champion Auto Center LLC 1510 Fairfield Ave., Suite 259 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Darren Brown Creative Building Products LLC 110 W. Berry St., Suite 1912 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Daniel Holden Fuel Construction LLC 623 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 Daniel Arnold Vdesign LLC 14602 Leesburg Road Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Elena Gilev
Tiberius Technology LLC 2727 Ferguson Road Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Benjamin T. Tiberius Wood Lehman Group LLC 12122 Crossway Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46814 Joni W. Lehman Aic Steel Structures Inc. 2206 Morgan Creek Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Wolfgang Schenck Secret Lake LLC 7729 Inverness Glens Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Lisa Yde Big Red Trucking LLC 3314 Cedar Ridge Run Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Donald J. Orpen TB Manufacturing LLC 301 W. Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Robert L. Nicholson CNN LLC 203 E. Berry St., Suite 1100 Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Paul O. Sauerteig Alejandra Music LLC 2301 Fairfield Ave., Apt. 612 Fort Wayne, IN 46807 Jorge E. Fernandez
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PERMITS NEW HAVEN JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP Niemeyer Builders 2012 Summit St. $175,000
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444 W. Creighton Ave. From James A. Cain Jr. to Nancy L. Luna $15,000
ALLEN COUNTY ABOITE TOWNSHIP Lancia Homes 811 Henlock Court $182,020 Lancia Homes 265 Lisbon Drive $101,500 Timberlin Homes LLC 3027 Greythorne Court $425,000 Foster and Park Homes 1517 White Coral Court $205,000 Slattery Builders LLC 2930 Treviso Way $267,325
CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIP Homeowner 18232 Tonkel Road $375,000 Granite Ridge Builders Inc. 6911 Mandarin Run $354,299
EEL RIVER TOWNSHIP J&K Contractors 4408 Great Hollow Court $220,000
MADISON TOWNSHIP Quality Construction by Schmucker 18021 Monroeville Road $645,000
PERRY TOWNSHIP Lancia Homes 322 Vin Santo Run $235,150 Timberlin Homes LLC 4488 Crawford Road $460,000 Homeowner 1501 Pion Road $300,000
4615 Indiana Ave. From Allan J. Cunningham to Ashley Moyas $99,500 3215 Dinnen Ave. From Bart T. Tippmann to Barry Tippmann $14,000 1310 Lexington Ave. From Carla S. Satchwell to Courtney Stark $116,000 325 Kinsmoor Ave. From Allen County sheriff to CitiMortgage Inc. $51,472 1501 Park Ave. From HUD to Alejandra Gomez $25,000 716 W. Oakdale Drive From Thomas and Pamela Rozelle to Raul A. Diaz Jr. and Kaitlin Brough $107,750 810 Prange Drive From Otho & Brough LLC to Andrew M. and Shasta N. Bercot $107,500 628 W. Creighton Ave. From US Bank NA to Abdulai Nuhu $21,000 4110 Buell Drive From Rhonda L. Templar to Richard I. Moellering $25,000 4806 Arlington Ave. From Berdett H. Book to Anthony J. Kiessling $72,000 706 W. Creighton Ave. From Maria Renteria to Miquel Martinez $16,000
Granite Ridge Builders Inc. 11311 Tall Oak Run $256,803
321 N. Cornell Circle From Bank of America to HUD $76,887
Reuben Steury and Sons Construction 1417 Gateway Trail $150,000
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ST. JOSEPH TOWNSHIP Windsor Inc. 7002 Wickcliffe Court $129,035
REAL-ESTATE TRANSACTIONS 46806 4307 Marquette Drive From HUD to Sriyan Perera $35,600
2105 Andrew St. From Wendy N. Hein to Theodore E. Doak $39,900 4115 Harris Meadow Court From Sead Catic to Edib Kliko $86,000 1734 Third St. From Russel D. Sorgen to Miles Lee $29,900
fwbusiness.com 3604 Summit View Place From Mary G. Ybarra to Janet A. Mosshammer $97,500 1711 Lathrop Drive From Bank of America to Fannie Mae $92,132 729 Russell Ave. From Richard A. English to Howard Markey $29,000 1829 Grafton Place From Christopher and Jodi N. Belschner to Ryan M. Eme $118,000
8606 Lower Huntington Road From Daniel L. and Aniko A. Droegmyer to Craig P. and Angelia K. Freiburger $223,600
12225 Sanctuary Trail From Michael D. and Theresa K. Masanz to Jason M. and Karena D. Schroeder $195,000
7020 Ardmore Ave. From Ardmore Investments LLC to Reilley Real Estate LLC $973,400
11716 Hemingway Bay From KAM Construction Inc. to Jason J. Powell $282,750
2804 Fairoak Drive From Gilbert J. Berghoff to Gerald J. Berghoff $48,500
517 Monte Vista Drive From William and Jennifer Trautmann to Michael and Tamra Wallace $410,000
3550 Sandpoint Road From Dennis K. Creech to Jesse M. Toombs $94,200
1509 Spring Cress Road From Jill L. McBride to Robert W. Young $178,000
4737 Pinecrest Drive From Springleaf Financial Services to Caleb Schroeder $18,400
14736 Sandstone Drive From Buescher Construction Co. to Peter C. Alexander $64,900
2914 Cambridge Blvd. From Melissa M. Stahl to Tyler S. Lemon $69,500
2512 Prairie Grove Drive From Catherine Brown to Pfeiffer Real Estate LLC $30,000
6306 Beaver Creek Court From Michael J. and Pamela K. Messner to Lynn J. Keeter $320,000
1919 Clifty Parkway From Andreas L. Allcock to Joshua Parks $105,000
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2324 Meadowsweet Court From Gene E. Price Jr. and Kathleen S. Price to Michelle L. Meinika and Nicole S. Searfoss $165,000
1912 Black Bear Drive From Samuel W. and Rina L. Conley to Connie J. Brumbaugh $120,000 619 Huffman St. From Brian D. Scott to Michael W. Kinikin $19,000 1615 Rosemont Drive From Wells Fargo Bank NA to Heritage Property LLC $48,000 1617 Geller St. From Sandra K. Wagner to Robert L. Shaffer $17,000 1823 Black Bear Drive From Kevin Stepp to Ebru Ludwig $81,000
5929 Beaver Creek Court From Fannie Mae to Michael S. Fisher $162,900 12210 Hawkins Way From Joseph H. Emberger Jr. and Tracy A. Emberger to Eric M. and Lori-Lynn K. Jones $367,000
4110 Indian Hills Drive From Church of the Westview Alliance to Mitchell L. Jones $60,000 7106 Bradbury Ave. From Vinton R. and Tina L. Smith to Debra J. Byrd $59,900 2219 Opechee Way From GMAC Mortgage LLC to secretary of veterans affairs $44,065
1508 Sycamore Hills Drive From Otho & Brough LLC to Douglas A. and Elise Wood $420,000
6008 Hemingway Run From Granite Ridge Builders Inc. to Ronald E. and Judith A. Baker $307,500
15030 Remington Place From Heron Developers LLC II to John Dullaghan $60,000
2417 W. Harbourside Drive From Elizabeth Saillant to Eric C. Kinzie and Jamie Star-Kinzie $209,000
1620 Rock Dove Road From Barry A. and Melissa D. Waybright to Benjamin D. Peppler and Jennifer M. Ebel $268,500
13308 Paperbark Trail From Grey Oaks Development LLC to Joshua J. and Carlie Smith $54,055
46809 3710 Sandpoint Road From Gerald F. and Cheryl L. Kimble to Jeremy Mohler $105,000
15235 Candlestick Court From County Line Ventures LLC to Lawrence E. Kay Jr. and Katrina L. Kay $56,376
13410 Timbercrest Trail From the estate of Patricia E. Perlini to Lindsay and Brent Mergy $191,000
15227 Brittwood Court From Joel E. Webley to Sandra S. Deibele $130,000 6406 Shady Creek Court From Thomas Chung to Bradley and Jennifer Chaffee $475,000
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14835 Sandstone Drive From St. Joe Development Corp. to Windsor Inc. $45,600
3811 Windswept Drive From HUD to Lindsey E. Maley $68,900
12024 Glen Lake Drive From William A. and Lynn C. Ault to Christopher D. and Jodi N. Belschner $264,900
2827 Rupp Drive From SSK Rupp LLC to Tippmann & Dumas LLC $650,000
13756 Beal Brook Court From Illinois Development LLC to Granite Ridge Builders Inc. $29,093
4004 Oakhurst Drive From secretary of veterans affairs to Mark Childs $77,000
5017 Nassau Drive From Aaron J. Eisberg to Andrew T. Wagner $78,000 4201 Fieldbrook Pass From Tri-Star Contractors Inc. to Cassandra F. Hebermehl $144,000 7230 Miahqueah Court From Steven L. and Carole T. Whitlock to Michael and Mary Rian $135,500 9022 Brickshire Parkway From Jandee L. Wilbe to Elizabeth A. Saillant $159,000 3518 Amulet Drive From Jimmie and Martha J. Pohl to Mark L. Mendenhall $105,500 2804 Inwood Drive From HUD to KD Homes Investments LLC $51,100 7413 Kern Valley Drive From Karen A. Vetter to Nyla L. Shabazz $63,500 1704 Trotter Court From Halice M. Grabner to Eddie L. and Julia E. Hissong $175,000 5130 E. State Blvd. From Mill Works LLC to Renee S. James $30,000 7424 Valley Court From Nathan A. Schwartz to Michael C. and Danielle N. Sauers $100,900 5122 E. State Blvd. From Mill Works LLC to Haley M. Nott $64,000 7410 Placer Run From Scott M. Heath to Calyb A. Tittman $77,000 7515 Hope Farm Road From WXY Co. LLC to Jacqueline C. Bray $118,000 6738 Winnebago Drive From Jeremy M. Krause to Anthony K. Sorensen $114,000 4029 Willshire Court From HUD to Bryan S. Schenkel $67,670 7505 Clover Meadow Drive From Teri Harmon to Dietrick J. Thomas $87,500 2617 Buckhurst Run From Bharatkumar N. Patel to Rajesh Patel $180,000
46816 8200 S. Hanna St. From Merak Partners to Kayla Court LLC $120,000 4425 Eagledale Court From FJB Properties LLC to Kevin R. Miller $74,000 6224 Landsdowne Drive From Tanas B. Donev to Khun A. Ko $31,200 7808 Hessen Cassel Road From Dennis T. and Janet Y. Morgan to Frank L. Hamilton and Rachel A. Morgan-Hamilton $70,000
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Carmella Starks 4332 Whiteford Lane Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Assets: $1,560 Liabilities: $55,824 Brittany E. Underwood 714 Oaklawn Court Fort Wayne, IN 46803 Assets: $3,615 Liabilities: $40,601 Teresa A. PaciďŹ c 3232 Beaver Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46807 Assets: $66,850 Liabilities: $125,045 Jessica M. DeArmond 4322 Sabino Pass Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Assets: $1,939 Liabilities: $26,594
4530 E. Paulding Road From secretary of veterans affairs to Zipperzone Properties LLC $24,670
Barry A. Molthan 8512 E. Tillman Road Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Assets: $100,510 Liabilities: $91,230
7024 Maples Road From Donald L. and Susan L. Fuess to Craig R. and Kara E. Dale $170,000
Chad M. and Amy H. Hesting 4610 Beaver Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46807 Assets: $194,434 Liabilities: $306,874
BANKRUPTCIES ADAMS COUNTY Chad A. and Angela M. Wible 517 Hendricks St. Berne, IN 46711 Assets: $13,850 Liabilities: $61,462 Andrea L. Gerig 115 Evergreen Lane Decatur, IN 46733 Assets: $921,800 Liabilities: $105,985
ALLEN COUNTY Mark F. and Kelly A. Drapala 4702 Crestwood Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46807 Assets: $227,350 Liabilities: $492,583 Lynn A. Bishop 1817 Woodhaven Drive, Apt. 4 Fort Wayne, IN 46819 Assets: $82,320 Liabilities: $50,948
Alisha R. Mounsey 6910 Inverness Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Assets: $2,910 Liabilities: $12,034 Weldon J. Antoine 930 Rockcliff Court Fort Wayne, IN 46819 Assets: $87,900 Liabilities: $108,640 Danielle R. Berry 9031 Ashton Pointe Fort Wayne, IN 46819 Assets: $4,750 Liabilities: $33,827 Dawn M. Sullivan 15022 Lima Road, Apt. #B Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Assets: $4,450 Liabilities: $21,088 Jeffrey L. and Denise R. Brewer 803 S. Walnut St. Brazil, IN 47834 Assets: $147,840 Liabilities: $175,156
Michelle L. Bennett 16004 Lima Road Huntertown, IN 46748 Assets: $4,100 Liabilities: $77,366
LaShawnya A. Brewer 8130 Bridgeway Circle, #3A Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Assets: $29,525 Liabilities: $47,323
Patricia D. Stonestreet 9617 Squirrel Trail Run, Apt. #105 Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Assets: $15,275 Liabilities: $203,178
Jeana C. Brenner 514 Normandy Drive Bluffton, IN 46714 Assets: $8,125 Liabilities: $65,643
Timothy S. Alderdice 9503 Wawasee Cove Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Assets: $17,775 Liabilities: $247,259
Chad D. Vice and Nachole R. Mevis-Vice 2428 Callman Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Assets: $74,380 Liabilities: $101,087
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Marissa N. Messmann 1330 Daly Drive New Haven, IN 46774 Assets: $2,100 Liabilities: $11,729
Laura K. Contreraz 6505 Durango Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Assets: $132,820 Liabilities: $140,536
Amy L. Cragg 2011 Nuttman, Apt. 101 Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Assets: $2,735 Liabilities: $28,135
George A. and Brenda J. Lowery 7410 Holbrook Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Assets: $137,900 Liabilities: $155,832
Lorna G. Kolkman 1656 Richardson St. Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Assets: $4,800 Liabilities: $25,744
John J. Butler 3020 Northway Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Assets: $5,080 Liabilities: $47,550
Jessica A. Witt 3406 Quiet Eddy Court Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Assets: $9,750 Liabilities: $107,964
Dawn M. Beam 3023 St. Louis Ave. Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Assets: $4,465 Liabilities: $28,163
Jason VanBuskirk 1817 Linville Pass Fort Wayne, IN 46845 Assets: $301,715 Liabilities: $332,150
Patricia L. Bostick 8320 Bridgeway Drive, Apt. 1C Fort Wayne, IN 46816 Assets: $16,530 Liabilities: $64,837
Michelle L. Troxell 7501 Mill Run Road Fort Wayne, IN 46819 Assets: $9,337 Liabilities: $19,904
Carrie A. Boylan 1426 Silver Linden Court Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Assets: $111,750 Liabilities: $150,435
Paulette A. Burton 972 Oaklawn Court Fort Wayne, IN 46803 Assets: $4,650 Liabilities: $11,658
Alexandria N. Jones 5118 Stellhorn Road Fort Wayne, IN 46815 Assets: $4,675 Liabilities: $44,155
Robert F. and Vicki S. Holder 6807 Hunterdon Cove Fort Wayne, IN 46835 Assets: $138,950 Liabilities: $228,394
Donald J. Bader 3424 Dalevue Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46809 Assets: $117,305 Liabilities: $83,750
Scott F. Jewell 806 Three Rivers North Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Assets: $133,079 Liabilities: $83,592
Jennifer M. Delamarter 9702 Hosler Road Leo, IN 46765 Assets: $2,990 Liabilities: $44,857
DEKALB COUNTY Rickie N. Morris and Nannette C. WynnMorris 6120 U.S. 8 Auburn, IN 46706 Assets: $99,010 Liabilities: $164,784 Todd I. and Lori A. Lutz 1038 Steve St. Auburn, IN 46706 Assets: $6,125 Liabilities: $126,049
Russell J. and Dionne C. Couchman 6222 C.R. 27 Auburn, IN 46706 Assets: $27,820 Liabilities: $290,877
Kerri A. Green 4665 W. Nevada Mills Road Angola, IN 46703 Assets: $169,551 Liabilities: $236,972
Ronald R. and Carol S. Hammons 11703 S. 700 East-90 Geneva, IN 46740 Assets: $4,415 Liabilities: $170,257
Don Whitaker and Jenny L. Whitaker 11141 E. Baseline Road Avilla, IN 46710 Assets: $103,545 Liabilities: $207,576
Steven R. and Michelle R. Smith 9555 W. 762 South Hudson, IN 46747 Assets: $66,708 Liabilities: $109,557
Shane R. Reeder 4179 E. 850 South Keystone, IN 46795 Assets: $6,350 Liabilities: $14,868
Roberto Belmares and Nancy Belmares 1118 N. 900 West Cromwell, IN 46732 Assets: $123,200 Liabilities: $178,700
Patrick G. and Yvonne J. Bennett 70 E. 150 South Angola, IN 46703 Assets: $146,382 Liabilities: $620,151
Regina M. Bherns 204 E. Pine St. Kendallville, IN 46755 Assets: $1,284 Liabilities: $91,913
Thomas W. Woodruff Jr. and Jenny A. Woodruff 301 W. Parsonage St. Hudson, IN 46747 Assets: $4,550 Liabilities: $136,189
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David C. Richardson 1108 Woodcrest Kendallville, IN 46755 Assets: $5,020 Liabilities: $212,251 Brian L. Wagner 1516 Salem Court Kendallville, IN 46755 Assets: $5,700 Liabilities: $68,231
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David J. and Mary C. Mase 7805 N. 630 East Fremont, IN 46737 Assets: $232,572 Liabilities: $163,087
WELLS COUNTY Amy C. Jenkins 410 Melching Court Ossian, IN 46777 Assets: $90,600 Liabilities: $111,879
Richard C. Primeau 610 Heatherwood Lane Ossian, IN 46777 Assets: $94,996 Liabilities: $118,191
WHITLEY COUNTY Ronald D. Hull Sr. 7636 W. Lincolnway Larwill, IN 46764 Assets: $155,246 Liabilities: $405,552 Bruce A. Martin and Jennifer L. Martin-Whitcombe 7720 E. Willow Lane Churubusco, IN 46723 Assets: $10,750 Liabilities: $106,870 Wesley Geisler 995 N. Johnson Road Columbia City, IN 46725 Assets: $5,795 Liabilities: $23,166
Thomas J. and Heather L. Pauley 504 W. South Bluffton, IN 46714 Assets: $125,076 Liabilities: $143,496
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The boards of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, the Northeast Indiana Regional Workforce Investment Board and the Regional Chamber of Northeast Indiana met Aug. 8 and reaffirmed their support for increasing the number of area residents with a college degree or professional credential. The featured speaker at the meeting was Tom Clark, president and CEO of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. The regional partnership has established the “Big Goal,” an initiative that seeks to raise the percentage of northeast Indiana residents with a college degree or professional credential to 60 percent by 2025. Presently, less than 35 percent of the region’s residents have a degree or credential, according to the partnership. Each of the organizations’ boards over the next 60 days is expected to create a list of actions it can take to advance the “Big Goal.”
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Craft village could come to LaOtto BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
A proposal will come before the Noble County Plan Commission Aug. 21 that could bring an 1800s craft village to a rural area near LaOtto. Doug and Kimberly Jennings propose to rezone land at 11330 E. County Road 500 South to “village mix” status so it can include multiple low-intensity shops. It’s part of a plan to build a village that would re-create aspects of 1800s life on the property. The proposal would be part of Moose Lake Christian Craft Village, an area intended to offer people a chance to learn and experience life as it was in the 19th century, Doug Jennings said. The property already is zoned to allow bed-and-breakfast facilities, Jennings said. Several cabins already have been put in place to be part of the bed-and-breakfast operation. But the cabins aren’t for camping in the traditional sense. Each is equipped with heating, air conditioning, a refrigerator and microwave oven, along with enough beds and futons to sleep small or large parties. As designed by architect Phil Troyer, plans also show 17 shops or other sites at which master craftsmakers would work their trades, offering items for sale or lessons in the crafts as they chose. Other shops would include an authentic 1800s general store, a mercantile shop with handmade items, a pottery shop, a blacksmith and knife-maker, a woodworker, a nostalgia shop, a western and leather business, Kringle’s Toy and Doll Shop and a candle store. A lake on the property would have a swimming area as well as boats and floatable rides. Guests at the facility could fish there. Plans call for a souvenir shop at the entrance and a shop for those using the lake area. The intention is for the general store to open Oct. 15, with the village to open in 2014, Jennings said. Plans call for it to be open four days a week the first year, with the season running from early May through Dec. 24, Jennings said. This story originally appeared in The News Suns, which is published by Business Weekly owner KPC Media Group Inc.
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AUSTRALIAN FIRM TO OPEN PLANT Auger Torque USA will locate its first facility in the United States in a 30,000-square-foot building in Huntington. The Australian-owned manufacturer and distributor of earth-moving attachments said the project would create up to 22 new jobs by 2016. The plant is expected to be up and running by October. Auger Torque, which presently employs nearly 200 full-time associates internationally, has already begun hiring welders, office personnel and sales associates. Interested applicants can apply by sending their resumes to careers@augertorqueusa.com. The company will invest nearly $553,000 to equip the plant at 100 Commerce Drive. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has offered Auger Torque up to $100,000 in conditional tax credits and up to $50,000 in training grants based on the company’s job creation plans. The city of Huntington has approved additional incentives.
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POWDER-COATING COMPANY MAKES MOVE Winona Powder Coating Inc. moved into a 167,000-square-foot facility in Etna Green and could hire as many as 25 additional workers over the next few years, the Kosciusko County Economic Development Corp. announced. The $5-million investment includes a state-of-the-art powder-coating line able to coat parts up to 72 inches high by 36 inches wide, and up to 24 feet in length. The company moved operations from a 30,000-square-foot facility in Mentone. It also has a 50,000-square-foot facility in Elkhart. The town of Etna Green created a tax increment financing district to facilitate the move, and the state of Indiana will provide work-force training assistance, according to the EDC. “This industrial property in Etna Green provided the perfect location for Winona Powder Coating to expand,” Jamie Visker, CEO of Winona Powder Coating, said in the EDC’s announcement. “We had outgrown our facility in Mentone and to find such a building only nine miles away is simply amazing. “The town of Etna Green, the Kosciusko Economic Development Corp. and the state of Indiana came together to provide a great package of economic incentives to assist in this expansion. This location, along with our 50,000 square feet in Elkhart, will allow
Winona Powder Coating to continue to provide the best powder-coating services in the northern Indiana and southern Michigan area.”
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FORT WAYNE AMONG TOP MINOR-LEAGUE MARKETS Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal ranked Fort Wayne the seventh-best minorleague market in the country. Toledo, Ohio, was named the top minorleague market in this year’s rankings. Rounding out the top five were: Rochester, N.Y.; Hershey-Harrisburg, Pa.; San Bernadino County, Calif.; and Springfield, Mass. The Summit City is home to: the Class A TinCaps baseball team; the Komets hockey team, which plays in the ECHL; and the NBA Development League Mad Ants basketball team. According to the publication, since the opening of Parkview Field in downtown Fort Wayne in 2009, the average attendance at a TinCaps game is 5,600. At the former Memorial Stadium near the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, average attendance was 3,702 a game. The Komets, in their first season in the ECHL in 2012-2013, drew an average of 7,583 spectators a game to Memorial Coliseum — tops in the league. According to a description of the Fort Wayne market by the Charlotte, N.C.-based publication, the one thing hurting it is its inability to keep an indoor football team. The Fort Wayne Firehawks of the Continental Indoor Football League folded in 2010.
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IEDC-ASSISTED PROJECTS IN FIRST HALF TOTAL $1.37B Through the first six months of the year, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. worked with 148 businesses that plan on expanding or starting new operations in the state, the agency announced. Together, the projects represent an anticipated investment of about $1.37 billion, and more than 11,700 new jobs could be created as a result of them. During the first six months of 2012, the IEDC worked with 142 companies, whose planned investments were projected to result in 13,299 new jobs. According to the IEDC, the average hourly wage of the new jobs expected to be created from this year’s projects is $21.73. Indiana’s average hourly wage presently is $19.82. Most of this year’s projects are tied to manufacturing.
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The 33-year-old former Fort Wayne resident isn’t talking about doing little gigs in rundown, knotty-pine bars. He has been Mariah Carey’s touring bass player since 2008; has been playing keyboards, writing songs and recording with will.i.am; recently began playing keyboards for the Backstreet Boys; and has worked with Cee Lo Green and Mary J. Blige. Moreover, three songs he co-wrote are on the latest, highly acclaimed album, “Love, Charlie,” released by R&B artist Charlie Wilson. “It’s really mind-blowing and staggering,” said Tolbert, a South Side High School graduate who earned music-related bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Indiana University. “I never could have imagined that I would have been working at this level in the industry. I would have been perfectly happy playing keyboards and bass with artists who are not superstar legends. To be able to just fit in among these people, it’s amazing anytime I think about it.” In truth, he wasn’t seeking fame and fortune in 2006 when he set out for Los Angeles, where he now lives. “For me,” he said, “it was mostly wanting to learn and wanting to see things done on
a higher level and working hard and hoping that I could be a part of it in some way.” The recognition came much faster than he expected. He met Randy Jackson after landing a job playing for one of Jackson’s managed acts, Van Hunt. That would be the Randy Jackson — the one of “American Idol” fame who was a session bass player for Journey and who has played with a ridiculously long list of musical greats, including Carlos Santana, Jerry Garcia, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Madonna, Jon Bon Jovi and Bob Dylan. Jackson is also Carey’s music director, and he asked Tolbert to audition for the bass player’s position — a spot Jackson used to fill. “I knew that was his spot,” Tolbert said, “and I knew that they would be big shoes to fill. So I wanted to do a good job. I wanted to do my best.” Apparently he did just that. He landed the opportunity with will.i.am, meanwhile, through another connection — mutual friend Keith Harris, drummer for the Black Eyed Peas. “Keith called me and offered me the gig,” Tolbert said. “I didn’t even have to audition or anything.” Tolbert’s association with musical heavyweights has given him a nice lifestyle, taken
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Lance Tolbert backed up Mariah Carey at the NBC-televised “NFL Kickoff 2012” at Rockefeller Center in New York.
him around the world and put him in front of national television audiences, most recently on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and the “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.” He has, he acknowledged, grown relatively comfortable on the big stage. But still, every once in a while, he is fan-like awestruck. In the beginning, he said, “I was like, ‘You’re Mariah Carey and you’re standing next to me and it was like, how did I get here? How did this happen?’ Now, I’m much more comfortable and relaxed. “Still, there are some moments on stage when she sings a note and everyone on stage feels chilled. It’s really electrifying. Those moments are, like, wow.” He works hard, he said, at not becoming too puffed up about his good fortune, and certainly the lessons learned from his late father, the Rev. James Tolbert, and mother, Juanita, have served him well. The music industry, he said, is filled with exploitative people, self-destructive temptations by the boatload and egos that are more about a sense of entitlement than achievements earned through hard work. “You have to really fight to maintain your sense of who you are,” he said. “It’s a fight. I think some of the best people have lost that fight, depending on what situation they were in. It could be in the form of alcohol or drug abuse. It could be in the form of so many things that are detrimental to you.” It helps him, he said, to stay true to his faith and surround himself “with people like me. We’re like-minded and we help each other to maintain who we are and stay on course. ‘Cause it’s tricky out here. You just kind of have to be in it, but not of it.”
It helps, too, to focus on the good that music can bring to people. “The music,” he said, “is just so powerful in speaking to people and bringing together all kinds of people from every part of the world, from every social class, from every economic status. I feel it and I love it and it makes me feel fulfilled and energized in a way that you don’t experience in any other context of life.” It matters not, he said, if he’s playing in front of 20 people or 200,000. And indeed, he periodically returns to Fort Wayne to play in the band accompanying the Voices of Unity Youth Choir. He returns home with little or no fanfare and is more inclined to offer kind words about the accomplishments of others than draw attention to himself. That applies to the big-name stars in his midst. He described Carey as “amazingly talented with a phenomenal voice. She’s a nice person. She has this reputation as a diva, and she has her moments. But for the most part she’s down to earth, well-adjusted, a great boss and funny.” Of will.i.am, he said: “I’m excited because he has such an amazing musical mind and he’s a lot of fun. High energy.” Not once does Tolbert talk about his own musical prowess. And he only talks about the financial rewards of his success when asked, and then it’s to emphasis the importance of frugality. One of his business heroes is Warren Buffett because, he said, the billionaire businessmen lives relatively simply and recognizes that “money is just a tool.” “You can use (money) to affect a lot of people or you can use it to build a castle. And why, “ Tolbert asked rhetorically, “do you need to build a castle? “My focus for my life is to just do my best, stay on (God’s) path and be equipped to do whatever work is in front of me. Beyond that, that is all I can do. “I believe that God has opened these opportunities for me, and that’s my story. But it didn’t come without a whole lot of hard work. If I could give people one piece of advice about wanting to make it in the music industry, it would be to lose the entitlement mentality and work hard. Every single day.”
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see this. “People will want to see what he’s talking about before they get into their cars in the morning.â€? The NBC afďŹ liate currently doesn’t have a local morning news presence, and the addition of Butcher’s program will create a competition between WISE-TV and WPTA-TV (21Alive), which receives services from Granite in an arrangement with Malara Broadcasting. WISE (33.1), ABC afďŹ liate WPTA (21.1), The CW (21.2), VIPIR Interactive (21.3) and MyTV Fort Wayne (33.2) have been packaged as a television conglomerate of sorts called Indiana’s NewsCenter. But Osika said that branding is being phased out, and setting up a competitive situation with the morning news is part of the move to give each station a unique identity. WISE also recently revamped its afternoon and evening news broadcasts. “Both of these television stations are supposed to be competing with each other,â€? Osika said. “I want NBC33 to be as strong as it can. And I want 21Alive to be as strong as it can be. “It (the Indiana’s NewsCenter brand) is being hacked away. It’s like a big burrito and we’re taking bites out of it, one bite at a time. It’s not the easiest thing to unravel.â€? WANE-TV (15.1), the local CBS afďŹ liate, also has a morning news program. Osika said the target date for starting the WISE-WOWO simulcasts is Sept. 23. He said four high-deďŹ nition cameras will be placed in the studio at Federated Media’s WOWO in addition to other equipment necessary to carry out the simulcast with the news-talk radio station. “What’s really cool,â€? Osika said, “is that we’ll have this infrastructure that’s in place at WOWO, and when big news happens in this marketplace, we’re not just relegated to 6 to 7 a.m. We can cut to WOWO whenever we want. It’s going to be awesome.â€? Jim Allgeier, market manager for Feder-
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ated Media in Fort Wayne, is equally enthusiastic about the arrangement. “It gives us another platform,â€? Allgeier said. “And in this day and age, the more places you can be, the better off you’re going to be.â€? To make the partnership possible, Federated Media secured approval from Fox Broadcasting Co. to simulcast on WISE segments of Fox news and Rush Limbaugh commentary that air on Butcher’s show, which runs from 5 to 9 a.m. Each entity, meanwhile, will broadcast its own advertising during the one-hour time slot, with the exception of promotional material read on air by Butcher. Osika and Allgeier said it is rare for a market the size of Fort Wayne to have such a simulcast and even rarer for such an arrangement involving two different companies. “We still have about six weeks and a lot of work to do,â€? Allgeier said, “but it’s exciting. It will be fun.â€? Butcher, calling the simulcast an “interesting experiment,â€? said he expects the televised portion of his program to evolve. “We may start booking some guests that we do by phone now and have them show up in the studio,â€? he said. “And we haven’t ruled out taking the show outside the studio on occasion.â€? Butcher said the ideal would be to keep the fundamental avor of the program intact. But he noted that the presence of cameras in any endeavor can alter behavior. “We’re supposed to be able to do this without noticing the cameras,â€? he said, “but even when they do reality shows, the presence of a camera changes things.â€?
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