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Service is way of life for Lions By Garth Snow
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The Huntertown Lions Club pitched in to help Boomerang Backpacks provide weekend meals for students at Huntertown Elementary School. They will pitch in again to fry fish at Huntertown Heritage Days. They’ve been helping the town all summer, for many summers, and they intend to keep pitching in for many years to come. More than 1,300 youngsters play baseball in the Lions’ leagues. Almost 500 play soccer; Bobby Ables coordinates that program. They crowd the fields six nights a week at the Lions’ field adjacent to Huntertown Elementary School. Ken Krauter, who recently handed off the club president’s gavel to Bob Fromme, said the club also supports the Burn Center at Saint Joseph Hospital, the Indiana School for the Blind, and other health initiatives. He said it’s all possible because of volunteers such
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Howard Gudakunst, from left, Jonathan Bragg and Jerry Betley help the Huntertown Lions Club batter fish for a June 20 fundraiser for Boomerang Backpacks.
as Barb Wagner, the club’s second vice president. “Barbie’s really good. She takes care of our concession stand — she’s like the concession stand guru,” Krauter said. “Without her this club wouldn’t make the money that it does. I’m
proud of her and several members who have done an outstanding job.” “We work very hard,” Wagner said, as she welcomed the public to a June 20 fundraiser at the park pavilion. She was one of more than a dozen volunteers who arrived
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Ernie Young gets a haircut from his nephew, Mark Young, who will move to a new shop within White Swan Plaza when the 50-year-old shop is razed.
Barber counts on loyalty after move within plaza Mark Young guides the trimmers and does the listening while his clients do the talking.
A red-and-white pole spins outside the Lima Road storefront, which has been home to White Swan Barber Shop for more than five decades. That changes in
early August, when Young moves his shop to a nearby storefront facing Cremer Drive. Young hopes his See BARBER, Page A2
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more than an hour before the Lions started serving their trademark fried fish and pork tenderloins. “I love the ballpark. It’s my passion,” she said. Her six children played in the summer leagues there. See LIONS, Page A5
Mike Clendenen’s first goal in running is about as obsolete as his first pair of running shoes. “I’ve been running about nine years,” said the New Haven Parks superintendent. “When I first started out I did it to lower my cholesterol, and I went to a big-box store and bought a quote-unquote pair of running shoes for about $45, and I thought there was nothing to this.” His quest for more scientific footwear soon led him to Three Rivers Running Co., 4039 N. Clinton St. “I was familiar with the manager,” he said. “They fitted me with a pair of shoes and for the most part I’ve been running pain-free ever since.” Like hundreds of other athletes, Clendenen is chasing his own fitness goals toward the Fort4Fitness Fall Festival, Sept. 26 and 27 in downtown Fort Wayne. Sporting goods stores such as Three Rivers
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Mike Clendenen finds his pace in a River City Rat Race.
are helping the runners to train. “When I first started running, I could run about three miles, and I thought ‘That didn’t kill me,’ ” Clendenen said. After about six months he decided to take on a 10k — the River City Rat Race. Then he began to consider the Fort4Fitness half-marathon. “I tried it and got hooked, and I’ve been running it ever since,” he said. “Last year I had some back issues and wasn’t See PACE, Page A12