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Bluegrass grows tall in Fort Wayne home By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Huntertown Heritage Days festival committee members attending the Aug. 12 meeting are Rick Eby, from left, John Widmann, Jen Kumfer, Kregg Snyder, Sarah Snyder, Jenny McComb and Barb Wagner. The festival has moved from August to Sept. 12 and 13. See the festival schedule on Page A9. The next meeting is 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at Town Hall.
Heritage Days picks September By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
Huntertown Heritage Days organizers hope the new September time slot will mean less competition and milder weather. The festival returns Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12 and 13. “Everybody’s used to that first week of August, but we moved it back just because of heat and lack of audience,” said Kregg Snyder, this year’s festival chairman.
The public reaction has been mixed, Snyder said at a festival committee meeting at Town Hall, where a handful of volunteers reviewed schedules and last-minute details. Snyder admitted to having concerns early in the planning stages. “I didn’t think we were going to have anything big,” he said. “But it’s actually coming together. I’m feeling a lot more confident right now. A lot of people came forward.” He shared good news
with the committee. The festival-sponsored beer tent is back this year. The band Reckon cut its fee for a Saturday night show. The 10 p.m. Friday fireworks show will be a solid, 10-minute spectacle. The whole committee shared good news. The 5 p.m. Friday fish and tenderloin dinner will hold the price to $9 a plate, as the Lions Club raises money for next year’s festival. That’s two pieces of fish and one pork tenderloin, said the Lions’ Barb
Wagner. And the meal includes generous sides, said Sarah Snyder. The festival is solvent and the beer tent and fish fry should raise seed money for next year’s festival, said Treasurer Jen Kumfer. The American Legion Riders motorcycle unit will lead the parade, said 2013 festival chairman John Widmann. Partners will assist with the jump rope contest and the volleyball games. Tim Holmes will call the See DAYS, Page A9
The bluegrass strains that resonate from a Kekionga Shores cul de sac might be the sound of Jim and Linda Winger rehearsing or relaxing. Or the sound might be created by traveling bluegrass artists enjoying the Wingers’ hospitality. The Aboite Township couple and many of their fellow bluegrass enthusiasts converge each Memorial Day weekend and each Labor Day weekend at Kendallville, for the Tri-State Bluegrass Festival. Jim Winger is the president of the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association, which sponsors the festivals. Linda Winger is the treasurer. Their love of bluegrass dates back to the early 1980s. “We were going to a festival once a year,” Linda said, emphasizing “A.” “We got hooked on it,” she continued. “He came back from one held in May and decided that he
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Music memorabilia fills the home of Jim and Linda Winger.
couldn’t stand it any longer, he had to go take guitar lessons. The next year he said I had better get something or be left behind, so I said OK a mountain dulcimer. I thought I could play that and keep my long fingernails. Well, within two weeks the nails went. You don’t play a stringed instrument with long nails.” Linda also learned the upright bass. “One of the friends began to show me how to play it, so every time I had the chance I would play somebody’s bass and then at Christmas See GROWS, Page A12
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John and Cheri Kessen tend to plants in one of the gardens in front of their Rome City home. Both have served at the national level of the Gardeners of America/Men’s Garden Club of America, a group dedicated to gardening.
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Gardeners take lead roles in national organization ROME CITY — Tucked away on the shore of Sylvan Lake, John and Cheri Kessen’s
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