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Eagles to get company by marsh For the Dupont Valley News

Food, fun aplenty at ’17 county fair

The office of the Little River Wetlands Project has outgrown its Engle Road digs and will move to an expanded space off Smith Road at the end of July, according to Betsy Yankowiak, director of preserves and programs.

“We’re more than doubling our current space,” she said.

The old location is surrounded by the trees overlooking Eagle Marsh.

The new location offers a closer look at the eagles and wetlands for which the enterprise is named.

Founded in 1990, the Little River Wetlands Project is a nonprofit land trust devoted to rehabilitating and conserving wetlands in the watershed of the Little River, a headwaters tributary of the Wabash River. LRWP protects almost 1,200 acres, in Eagle Marsh, Arrowhead Marsh and Arrowhead Prairie.

Asked if the Engle Road office had begun to get a

The Allen County Fair 2017 continues through Sunday at the fairgrounds on Carroll Road.

Each day through July 30, the entry tent is accepting canned or other nonperishable foods for the Community Harvest Food Bank. Thirty-five Indiana counties are supporting the Farmers Care program leading up to the Indiana State Fair. This marks Allen County’s second year in the program, Fair Board President Jerry Hammond said.

On Sunday, Allen County Fair patrons who donate food items will receive a $2 discount off the $5 admission price.

Guests at the fair’s closing day will find a bargain on the midway, too, when all rides will be just $1. On other nights, fairgoers might choose an all-inclusive rides wristband for $20.

Community groups also serve home-style meals.

Prices vary.

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Staff members see the edge of Eagle Marsh at Little River Wetlands Project’s new office at 5000 Smith Road in southwest Fort Wayne. Making the move effective Aug. 3 are (from left): Freya Bernston, volunteer program manager; Kristen Peck, communications and major events coordinator; Betsy Yankowiak, director of preserves and programs; Amy Silva, executive director; Dana Claussen, wetlands education coordinator; and (not shown) Cassandra Ferris, administrative support specialist.

little cramped, Yankowiak responded, “That’s saying it politely.”

“We have effectively grown out of our office,” she said. “And we continue to grow.”

The new office will have a large conference room equipped with projector, projection screen and TV monitor, she said.

There will also be a secondary meeting room,

Heritage Days highlights history of Huntertown Aug. 10 marks the beginning of Huntertown’s three-day Heritage Days festival. The Huntertown Historical Society will once again be this year’s centerpiece, as its “Remembering the Civil War” theme aims to educate festivalgoers on Huntertown’s connection to the war and the Underground Railroad.

Many favorite attractions from years past will return, including the Lions Club fish fry, beer tent, parade and — after last year’s success — the three-day carnival hosted

by Huesman Amusement Co. This year’s festival also boasts several chances to win prizes. Participants will get a shot at awards for participating in a pie baking contest, cardboard box contest, talent show,

an American Red Cross blood drive and several other events throughout the week.

The Saturday, Aug. 11, Heritage Days parade will begin with the 10th anniversary flyover by Sweet Aviation, featuring an aerobatic plane and helicopter from Smith Field.

“There aren’t many parades that start with the audience watching the sky,” festival committee chair Jenny McComb said. “However, Huntertown residents know that after the flyover, it’s ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and then the parade is off and running.”

This year’s parade will feature motorcyclists from Auburn’s Godfathers Motorcycle Club, the Post 97 American Legion Riders and the Phoenix Sisterhood. The Carroll High School band and Allen County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard will

also perform. WANE-TV’s Hannah Strong and Rod Hissong will emcee.

Our Hope Lutheran Church will honor Ed Myers, previous owner of Myers Service Station and an avid festival supporter, with fireworks in his memory Friday night. Myers’ son, Rod, and his wife, Mimi, are this year’s grand marshals.

The couple owns Myers Service Station and the Kitchen Table restaurant in Huntertown.

A craft fair will take place Saturday after the parade, and Soarin’ Hawk will give a raptor rehabilitation demonstration later that afternoon. The Historical Society’s display will be in the Huntertown Fire Department from noon-4 p.m.

Live music is in no short supply this year. Huntertown United Methodist See DAYS, Page A20

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Yankowiak said, and an enlarged working space for volunteers.

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• Friday, 5 p.m. — fish fry dinner, served by Huntertown Lions Club.

• Saturday, 5 p.m. — beef and noodle dinner, served by Huntertown VFW Post 11314.

The Cedar Creek Lions Club will serve the Fireman Appreciation Pancake Breakfast from 7-10 a.m.

Saturday, which is Family Fun Day. The Masonic Lodge will operate the pull strip food booth each evening and from noon-5 p.m. Sunday.

Visit allencountyfairgroundsin.com for the full fair schedule.

Regular fair admission is $5, and free for children age 5 and younger.

The fair closes with the 4-H awards ceremony at 5 p.m. Sunday.

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When Drum Corps International caps its whirlwind national tour in Indianapolis, it will mark a homecoming of sorts for a number of performers and instructors from Fort Wayne.

This newspaper spoke with several of those participants.

• Jacari Banks, a 2015 graduate of Homestead High School, is on the field with the Phanton Regiment, of Rockford, Ill. • Geoff Goelz serves as color guard instructor for the Legends, of Kalamazoo, Mich. Goelz will become the color guard director at Homestead High School this fall, while still contributing to design at Carroll and East Noble high schools. Goelz is a graduate of Heritage High School.

• Taylor Healy, a graduate of Wayne High School, is marching for the third year with the Legends.

• Jonathan Meader, who is leaving Homestead after several years as color guard director, is a dance and body movement adviser to The Crossmen, of San Antonio, Texas.

• Bryen Warfield, the new assistant band director at Homestead High School, is teaching with the Blue-

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Jacari Banks rehearses with the Phanton Regiment, a Rockford, Ill., unit of Drum Corps International. Banks is a 2015 graduate of Homestead High School.

coats, of Canton, Ohio. The Bluecoats are the defending world champions.

DCI shows feature the musicality, pageantry, precision and themes of traditional marching bands, but without woodwind instruments. Unlike the even larger groups that compete in Indy with Bands of America, each drum corps is limited to 150 performers.

Open Class units compete Aug. 7 and 8 at Michigan City. Then the attention turns to Indianapolis for a week of activities culminating in the DCI World Championship Finals at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12.

Performers and staff participate in hours of rehearsal each day. Each performer pays a fee for the right to tour, learn and

compete on the national level.

“This is my first year in Drum Corps,” said Banks, formerly of Homestead.

“It’s a pretty packed day.

For the first month of spring training we got up at 7 and had an hour for breakfast and then practiced until 12 or so, and then an hour for lunch, and then we would go back to practicing until 6. Then a lunch break and then we would practice for the remainder of the night, from around 7 to 9 p.m.

Lights-out would be around 11.”

Banks marched with the Homestead band for four years. He said he has always been a fan of DCI. “Just being around everyone who has the same passion that I do, it’s definitely See DRUM, Page A4

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Shrine Fly-In Breakfast to land at new hangar Staff reports Pancake lovers have arrived at a Fort Wayne charity breakfast by plane, car and motorcycle for more than 60 years.

The Mizpah Shrine Fly-In Breakfast will be served in a new location this year. Teams of Shriners will ladle batter onto rotating griddles, turn the pancakes and lift them onto plates from 6:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, at Aviation Hangar 2019 on the west side of Fort Wayne International Airport.

Rotating grills also will deliver eggs made to order. Sausage, ham, hash brown potatoes, toast, coffee, milk and orange juice will be available. The minimum donation is $6 per person, with children younger than 5 eating free. Net proceeds benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children and Mizpah’s vans that carry children to Chicago and Cincinnati hospitals without charge.

Aviation Hangar 2019 is at 11021 W. Perimeter Road, Fort Wayne.

From Smith Road south of Airport Expressway, turn onto Aero Center

and follow the loop to Altitude Drive, then east. Free parking will be available, with Shrine vans serving as shuttles.

“We’ve been doing this for about 63 years,” said Ellis Ryan, the Fly-In Breakfast coordinator and a former Mizpah potentate. In recent years, breakfast has been served at Aviation Hangar 13 — the former Lincoln hangar — on the northeast corner of the airport on Ferguson Road. That building also was known as the Mercy Hanger, Ryan said.

The new location has several advantages, Ryan said.

“It’s a brand new hangar, it’s a bigger hangar. It’s modern and it’s extremely clean,” he said. “I think the public will enjoy it.”

The new location is farther removed from the Air National Guard 122nd Fighter Wing. “It offers a little more freedom, and it’s easier for the Shriners to come in there and then fly right out,” Ellis said.

Planes can approach to within about 500 feet of the hangar, he said.

“We have about 150 Shriners involved, and we serve approximately

2,500 people in that six-hour period,” Ryan said.

Shriners fly in from Cincinnati, Toledo or other cities, or from just across town at Smith Field, for a morning of food and conversation.

The Mizpah Bagpipers perform and the Mizpah Clowns create balloon animals for children.

Indoor restrooms will be available at the new location. Additional portable toilets will be located nearby.

“I cannot say enough about the Airport Authority,” Ryan said.

“They bend over backward for us. They give us the building for free and they let us come in and do our thing and the Airport Authority guys even help us set up.”

The Shrine hospital network includes an orthopedic and spinal center in Chicago and a burn center in Cincinnati. No child is denied treatment because of a family’s inability to pay.

There is never a charge for transportation. Questions can be directed to the Shrine staff at (260) 426-4543.

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worth the hard work,” he said.

Banks attends Indiana State University, where he studies aviation. “I do want to keep up with music, because I’ve been playing trumpet for almost 10 years now,” he said.

Goelz marks his fourth year with the Legends, his second as color guard supervisor. He marched with the Cavaliers of Rosemont, Ill., in 2008 and 2009. The corps was national bronze medalist in 2008.

This past school year, he coached the Carroll High School winter guard to first place in Class A in the Indiana High School Color Guard Association.

He served with Carroll for 10 years. During his brief break between high school band years, he’s busy with another brand of band.

“Honestly it’s just a lot of the activities and a lot of performing,” he explained.

“It’s good experience getting to be with 150 other people who you just met and you get to perform in these huge venues and stadiums. It’s a once in a lifetime kind of thing.”

The Legends has 32 in the color guard. “It’s fun because they’re pretty dedicated,” he said. “They’re spending their whole summer doing color guard

and they work really hard.

It’s fun to watch them grow as performers throughout the season and see them come back the next year and take on a leadership role. Seeing them mature as individuals is pretty awesome.”

“Legends is an Open Class drum corps, so they have their own finals in Michigan City and last year they were the bronze medalists in Open Class,” he said.

“And after that the Open Class corps go to compete with the World Class Corps, and the last two years they were semifinalists.”

Healy, a 2015 Wayne High School graduate, is in her third year with the Legends color guard. She said a typical rehearsal day contains two or three blocks, each spanning three to four hours, depending on the travel schedule.

“First block for color guard is just stretching/dancing and then we go and join the rest of the corps for visual rehearsal. And then second block is usually just dedicated to us cleaning the show, fixing things, etc., and third block usually we have an hour warmup and then we all go to full ensemble with everyone else,” she said. “On show days we wake up early, have one to two blocks depending on the time span we have until performance, then we shower and get ready and

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Bryen Warfield (center) is the assistant band director at Homestead High School and an instructor for the Bluecoats, an award-winning drum corps based in Canton, Ohio. He is shown with Bluecoats drum major Samuel Crawford and assistant drum major Graham Hopkins.

head to the performance site.” Then it’s warmup, uniform and “go perform out hearts out,” she said.

Healy said she had to pass up a high school color guard teaching post this summer to make way for DCI. “I plan on being a part of the color guard community for a while,” she said.

“It’s not even a hobby for me anymore, it’s my life.

DCI has assisted me a lot. It’s given me so many amazing experiences and it’s definitely taught me a lot about myself and what hard work truly is.”

She offered a tip for anyone who wants to march in DCI. “It’s going to be the hardest thing you do,” she said. “You’re going to want to give up within the first couple days, but don’t.

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She said anyone who wants to audition for DCI should make the effort.

“Even if you don’t make it, audition camps are so great.

You’re going to learn so much about yourself. And if you get contracted, take it,” she said. “I always have to tell myself that this only comes to certain people and you only get to march for so many years …”

Meader directed the Homestead Winter Guard that took first place in Open Class at the Indiana High School Color Guard Association finals in Indianapolis in 2017. He also consulted with the 2017 Carroll indoor percussion squad that took second place in Scholastic A in the Indiana Percussion Association.

In addition to his work with the drum line, he does choreography for the musicians of the Crossmen. This is his fourth position with an elite drum corps.

“I stay involved in DCI because it helps keep me relevant,” he said. “It’s the most forward of the activities. They’re great kids and they’re paying $3,600 to do it.”

He will cut back on his commitments this fall.

“I’m just doing some other things,” he said. “I’m teaching yoga and traveling and teaching more stints with the Crossmen.”

Warfield works with the brass staff, primarily the tuba section, of the world-champion Bluecoats.

This is his first year on staff.

He also marched with the corps from 2007-2009.

He aged out of marching in 2010, but spent five summers with the brass staff of DCI’s Santa Clara, Calif., Vanguard.

“It’s still music education and so for me it keeps me on my toes as a director because the talent level of the membership is so high, some of the best in the world,” he said. “It’s very quick. It forces me to really think hard and find new ways to say certain things.”

Warfield graduated from the University of Louisville, with a degree in tuba performance. He worked with the marching band staff of North Hardin High School in Radcliffe, Ky., for three years before going to The Ohio State University in the fall of 2014 for his master’s in conducting. He graduated in May 2016 and invested one year as assistant band director at Whiteland Community High School before taking the Homestead post. He will be assistant band dirctor and orchestra director.

He works among outstanding marchers and instructors, he said. “Some of them are some of the best in the activity, so it’s a chance for me to step back and learn. I keep a note on my phone of catch phrases and exercises and really anything to share it with my students back home.”

Drum Corps International held festivals at the University of Saint Francis in the summers of 2015 and 2016, but will not return to Fort Wayne this summer.

Tickets for the Open Class preliminaries and finals at Michigan City start at $20.

Tickets for the World Class finals at Indianapolis start at $39.

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Carroll graduate named Miss Allen County Staff reports Hannah Bullion and her court are reigning over the Allen County Fair.

Bullion, a 2016 graduate of Carroll High School, was crowned at the pageant July 16 at Carroll High School.

The court also includes first runner-up Caroline Chastain (Carroll High School, Indiana Wesleyan University), second runner-up Amelia Wellman (Concordia High School, Concordia University Chicago), third runner-up Julia Kuhn (Bishop Luers High School, Purdue University) and fourth runner-up Maranda Malcolm (Garrett High School, Purdue University).

Chastain also won Miss Photogenic, while Malcolm took home the award for Miss Congeniality.

Bullion follows in the footsteps of her sister, Whitney, who was crowned Miss Allen County in 2015.

The new fair queen was awarded a $1,000 scholarship and several other gifts, including a $785 modeling scholarship. The first runner-up received

a $500 scholarship and gifts, and the second, third and fourth runners-up each received a $250 scholarship and gifts.

Bullion will go on to compete in the Indiana State Fair Queen contest in January.

Other contestants included Kaitlyn Bestul (Woodlan Jr./Sr. High School), Megan Brelage (Bishop Dwenger High School, Purdue University), Alexis Trumbower (East Allen University, Purdue University), Beth Schaefer (Carroll High School, Manchester University), Shelby Smith (Leo Jr./Sr. High School), Lex Chaffee (Carroll High School, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne), Taryn Van Horn (Heritage High School, Saint Mary’s College), Rachel Skurner (East Noble High School, IPFW), Bella Wiseman (Bishop Dwenger High School, Saint Mary’s College), Erin Ryan (Bishop Dwenger High School, Purdue University), Amber Hoppengardner (Carroll High School) and Maddison Smith (Bishop Luers High School, IPFW).

Entering her sophomore year at Purdue University in the fall, Bullion is pursuing a degree in family consumer science education. After graduation, she plans to live out her love of sewing, children and cooking by teaching family and consumer sciences classes at the high school level.

Bullion said she hopes to teach at Carroll High School in the future, by taking a focus on fashion and textiles.

Bullion received her tiara from last year’s queen, Sophi Schultz, who also won Miss Photogenic in 2016, as well as being named Miss Congeniality at the county and state levels.

“Growing up in Allen County my whole life, it definitely gives you a different view,” Schultz said of her experience as fair queen. “Even just interacting on a different side of 4-H and always growing up going to the fair, spending a week there riding around on a golf cart, welcoming people in, it definitely has been a memory I will never forget … I have a whole new appreciation for the county.”

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Though 14-year-old Jaxton Orr of Fort Wayne just got his feet wet in competitive kayak fishing in October, he is already making a splash.

Jaxton has been fishing since he was 5 years old, his father, Jim Orr, said.

Late last year, Jaxton took an interest in pursuing the sport more competitively.

“I wanted to get into tournament fishing from the beginning,” he said.

“At first I wanted a bass boat, but those were a little expensive,” so he looked into kayak fishing.

He bought a fishing

kayak from Fort Wayne Outfitters and Bike Depot, which is now his sponsor.

“I tried it out on the river and I loved it ever since that day,” he said.

Jaxton started kayak fishing in local ponds and rivers, Jim Orr said, and caught the state record for a spotted gar about a year ago.

So far Jaxton has been in four kayak fishing events, earning first place in the 2017 Hobie Bass Open youth division on Kentucky Lake in Gilbertsville, Ky., on June 10-11.

Over the two-day tournament, Jaxton recorded 102.25 total inches of fish.

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anglers catch fish, then take photos on a “hawg trough” that measures their total length from nose to the end of their tail fin. The photo is sent to an app where the fish is measured and recorded.

“You can only submit three fish [per day] but if you catch a bigger fish then you can cull a fish and put the bigger fish in,” Jaxton explained.

Jaxton’s biggest catch of the tournament was an 18.75-inch bass that he caught with about 20 minutes left in the tournament, he said.

In the Hobie tournament Jaxton was required to participate as a youth due to his age, but Jim said he

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would have come in 13th overall had he been in the adult division.

Jaxton also participates in Indiana Kayak Anglers events alongside adults as well as online tournaments, where participants have so much time to catch fish in their state and send their photos to an app to be recorded.

On July 16 he competed in the IKA Sun Valley Sports Tournament Series on Palestine Lake in Mentone, and finished second with a total of 88.75 inches.

For Jaxton, becoming a professional kayak angler is the ultimate prize. To do this, he needs to continue to place well in tournaments and network with other professional anglers.

Fortunately, he has had many opportunities to do just that, Jim said.

Jaxton’s kayak isn’t like the ones you would find in your typical outdoor store. It is equipped with an adjustable seat, various storage areas, rod holders and a set of pedals so he can paddle and fish at the same time.

On a typical eight- to 11-hour tournament day, Jaxton may paddle 8 to 12 miles, Jim Orr said.

Fortunately, Dad isn’t far behind with a supply of food.

“Jaxton’s dream is to be a member of the Hobie Fishing Team. I’m just trying to support him and help him realize that dream,” Jim Orr said in an email.

While an angler can’t go as far in a kayak as they could in a motorized boat, the smaller vessel has its benefits, Jaxton said.

“Kayak fishing you can get into areas where bass boats can’t get in and sometimes that can be an advantage,” he said, adding bass often like to swim in brushy or shady areas. Jim Orr also points out the kayak is easier to get in and out of the water and is something Jaxton, at only 14, can drive alone, as he would need a driver’s license for a bass boat.

The Orrs live off Scott Road in southwest Fort Wayne.

Jaxton has shared his love of kayak fishing with others, speaking to children at a Fort Wayne Parks Department youth fishing event, and encourages others to try the sport out.

“If you get a kayak, trust me, you’ll really like it,” he said with a smile.

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Dupont Valley • July 28, 2017

Hard work pays off at the Allen County Fair

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Like many youth who compete at the Allen County Fair, 4-H runs in the family for the Malcolms.

Eighteen-year-old Maranda Malcolm is wrapping up her 10th year in 4-H while her brother, Micah, 17, is in his 9th year.

The rest of their siblings — Madilyn, 14; Makenna, 11; Malachi, 10; and Merek, 8 — are either members of the local Eel River Club as well or likely will be someday.

Both of their parents were 10-year 4-H members, showing either goats or lambs.

The Malcolms live on a pig farm and their grandfather raises rabbits, so they’ve got a menagerie of animals to care for come fair time.

Having so many projects and members of the family means everyone helps everyone out, Maranda said.

And there’s a lot of work to go around. Not only do those in 4-H take four animal projects and other indoor projects, the Malcolms also compete in the showmanship categories, which is less about

the animal and more about the kids themselves.

“The judge is looking specifically at you and what you do and that you show off the animal the best that you can,” Maranda explained.

The Allen County Fair has nine different species that compete in showmanship categories, and each is shown differently — cattle are shown with a halter, goats with a collar, pigs walks around guided by a stick called a whip and sheep are shown with only one’s hands, Maranda explained.

But animals don’t show their best automatically, and the showmanship contests demonstrate which kids have put in the extra work to train them.

Pigs, for example, have to be trained to walk straight and smoothly with their head up, Maranda said.

“We have to practice with them, we have to walk them laps, work with them on keeping their head up,” she said.

“Sheep we have to work on bracing them, that’s where we kind of get their feet parallel and make them flex their back so their muscles are nice and hard.”

Working with one’s animal can take hours a day, Maranda said, as

well as a lot of determination, Micah added.

“If you really want to do it and you want to compete and win you’ve got to put in the time and work,” he said. “You can’t just come out one day, pet your animal, give it a little feed and water and go back inside and watch TV.” Micah should know — he won senior showman last year in the sheep category.

“Getting that animal [to show] right took the correct feeding, working hours among hours, coming out, bracing, walking, halter, we walk them everywhere around here,” he said of the work involved.

After each species declares a showman champion, each species winner competes in what Allen County calls the Showman of Showmen, where everyone shows all nine species and a top winner is chosen.

“With the Showman of Showmen, they’re looking for how do you show the animal at a basic level and then certain judges will do things to see who knows more about showing this animal,” Maranda said.

At this level many youth are showing

animals they are unfamiliar with, but practice is still key, Maranda said.

“We will actually communicate with some of our friends and our friends’ friends, and they love doing it, helping out and teaching us how to [show these different animals],” she said.

“It’s kind of funny for them because we don’t know what it’s like so we’ll mess up or stumble and they’re like, it’s OK, it’s OK, because they remember those days

as well when that was them.”

Because in the end, the judge will look to see who shows all the animals the best.

“The judge looks for who falls first and that one is out. He’s looking for the kid who can last the longest,” Micah said.

Again, he should know — he also won the Showman of Showmen last year.

“The judge … came right to me and shook my hand and told me that I’m

going to win this deal,” he said. “It’s just a great feeling because all the hard work that was put into it from my sisters and I working the animals until now, it was just a great feeling to win it.”

For anyone interested in any of the events at the 4-H fair, learning from others is key, Maranda and Micah said.

“It’s a life lesson because if you want to go out and work hard it’s going to pay off,” Micah said.

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Church musician accepts statewide choral duties

By Rod King

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He directs two handbell choirs at his church. He also conducts the Boys Choir of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, is faculty adviser/director of the IPFW Singing Dons male chorus and sings baritone with Heartland Sings.

On top of all that, Rorick has been named president-elect of the Indiana Choral Directors Association. His first job with the Association is to start figuring out the logistics for the organization’s 2018 Summer Conference to be held at the University of Indianapolis. He’s charged

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Newly named president-elect of the Indiana Choral Directors Association, Mitch Rorick is associate director of music at Trinity English Lutheran Church.

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A choral director’s life is a busy one. Rorick, Hobby and 17 students and chaperones in the church’s youth choir (grades seven through 12) went to Mackinac Island last month as a treat for their hard work throughout the year rehearsing and singing at church services. “It included singing at a church in Holland, Michigan, community and spiritual enrichment and a lot of fun,” said Rorick. He also took his grade school choir to Cincinnati where they sang at a church, gobbled up Skyline Chili and visited the Newport, Ky., aquarium. Last month he also worked with students attending the church’s Shining Lights Summer Fine Arts program which concluded with him serving as musical director for a Christian musical production.

The Columbus, Ohio, native began his music career as an alto saxophonist in the Grove City High School marching band. At Wheaton College where he earned a bachelor’s degree in music performance on the pipe organ, he began broadening his tastes to include choral music.

His master’s degree from Indiana University is in organ and church music and he has a second master’s degree in choral conducting from Florida State University.

Rorick married Laura Dallman five years ago and moved to Fort Wayne to assume his present position at Trinity English Lutheran Church. At that time the couple made an ironclad agreement that when she completed her doctorate in musicology from Indiana University they would go to Europe.

They’re presently touring France, Germany and Italy.

He readily admits that music is a big part of his life. “I like choral music because it encompasses a wide variety of styles and is something I can do for the rest of my life. I welcome others to participate in this great choral art,” he said. Rorick is a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Choristers Guild and Toastmasters.

He’s also an avid Ohio State University football fan.

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Dupont Valley • July 28, 2017

TVC places volunteers in important service roles

By Rod King

For the Dupont Valley News

“Volunteerism has changed greatly in the last couple decades,” said Jean Joley, executive director of The Volunteer Center on Lake Avenue.

People prefer sporadic opportunities that match their passions, instead of regularly scheduled activities such as pushing wheelchairs or picking up trash in a park. They also want training so they can successfully carry out their volunteer responsibilities.

“Volunteering is more than cleaning up along a highway,” Joley said. “The Volunteer Center provides a corps of volunteers to fill important community roles by offering meaningful opportunities relevant to their skills, abilities and interests.

Persons wishing to work with veterans, serve food at the Rescue Mission, assist at Community Harvest Food Bank or learn to work with the homeless can find what they’re looking for at TVC. “Though seven of 10 who volunteer are seniors and have more time, we’re seeing more younger people getting involved. High school students want to be able to put on their college applications that they are involved in the community, and millenniums want it on their resumes.”

TVC, which was founded in 1971, provides volunteers to 93 local not-for-profit, civic and faith-based agencies throughout the county. Their long list of agencies, to name a few, ranges from Allen County SPCA, Hispanic Development Center, Little River Wetlands Project and Science Central to Camp Red Cedar, Dare to Dream Youth Ranch, The Salvation Army, The Franciscan Center and Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation. The agency’s volunteer guide book lists them all.

More information can be obtained on the TVC web site at www.volunteerfortwayne.org.

“Several signature programs define the work of TVC,” Joley said. “We’re probably best known for our Coats for Kids program which last year distributed more than 4,000 new and gently used coats to children in local schools, shelters and social service agencies. Since 2000 we’ve handed out over 50,000 coats.”

Most people don’t realize that TVC offers free federal and state income tax preparation to low-income families and military families.

Last year, nearly 3,000 taxpayers received assistance from TVC’s IRS Certified Tax Volunteers and returned $3 million to county families. The agency provides training to volunteers, who must pass an IRS test to become certified.

Sixteen attorneys volunteer their time providing free legal assistance to individuals who have an old felony on their record and because of that are unable to obtain employment, housing, educational grants, driver’s licenses or food stamps. The Second Chance Expungement Initiative that helps them obtain a letter clearing their status was the idea of Director Joley’s son, David, in 2015. At the present it’s the only program of its kind in the state. Last year they helped more than 1,200 individuals seeking expungement.

“Our volunteers have provided exceptional assistance to not-forprofit agencies, churches and other organizations.

The Benefits Enrollment Team provides trained and certified volunteers to agencies to assist clients obtain Indiana Assistance Benefits such as Indiana unemployment, food stamps and medicaid benefits. The program was expanded recently to include help in enrolling individuals in the Health Marketplace and Health Initiative Program 2.0 enrollment under the Affordable Care Act,” Joley said. TVC also supported more than 400 military families facing deployment.

“We’re sort of a clearing house for volunteers,” Joley said.

“A month ago we got a

request from Community Harvest Food Bank for help on a specific Saturday. We sent out a Facebook appeal asking for volunteers and 50 showed up.

E-mail blasts are sent out once a week listing the various volunteer opportunities available.

We receive requests from corporations asking for volunteer projects that their employees can get involved in.

“Unfortunately we lose a lot of good volunteers because they get hired by the agencies they were sent to help. I guess I should feel good about that because it fortifies the fact that they were carefully screened, well trained and chosen by our staff for specific long-term, short-term or sporadic event tasks. Last year our 1,218 volunteers served a total of 121,000 hours in the Allen County community.”

Like many of the agencies they serve, TVC relies on volunteers to support its four paid staff members. Joley’s

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Jean Joley, center, executive director of The Volunteer Center on Lake Avenue, is flanked by staff members Anna Etter and Gretchen Neuhaus. The agency’s 1,218 volunteers served a total of 121,000 hours in the Allen County community last year.

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Dupont Valley • July 28, 2017

City, area communities celebrating into autumn

Fort Wayne and surrounding communities are alive with festivals, right through autumn. Mark these events on your calendars and watch for the full list and updates at infortwayne.com. Send festival news to gsnow@kpcmedia. com.

FORT WAYNE FESTIVALS

Allen County Fair,

through July 30. Entertainment, Monster Truck rides, 4-H and open class awards, pedal car races, hot-air balloons, demolition derby, and more. Daily dinner specials by community organizations. Midway rides and food, too. Daily gate admission $5 for adults, free for children 5 and under. For details, visit allencountyfairgroundsin. com.

Baals Music Festival, July 28-29,

downtown Fort Wayne. 5 p.m.-12 a.m. each night. $15 for all ages for two nights, $10 a night. For updates, visit itsbaals.com.

Taste of the Arts, Aug. 25-26, Arts United Center, downtown Fort Wayne. 6-10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday.

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Sept. 10, noon-5 p.m., at 16 museums and other attractions in Fort Wayne.

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Middle Waves music festival, Sept. 15-16,

Headwaters Park, downtown Fort Wayne. 5-11 p.m.

Friday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Saturday. Two-day general admission tickets are $75.

On day-of-show, the ticket prices will increase by $10.

For updates, visit middlewaves.com.

Johnny Appleseed Festival, Sept. 16-17,

Johnny Appleseed Park, East Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday. Free admission.

Coliseum parking, $5; but free parking and shuttles available nearby. For updates, visit johnnyappleseedfest.com.

River City Rat Race, Oct. 22. A 5k/10k race through the autumn parks and riverfront of downtown Fort Wayne. The race is fun and family friendly, and benefits the local YMCA. Watch for registration information and updates at

Swiss Days, Berne, through July 29. Music, quilt show, amusements, kids’ tractor pull, polka, tennis, entertainment, food, parade. Visit bernein.com for a full schedule.

Zanesville Lions Club Summer Festival (formerly Zanesville Homespun Day), July

29, Zanesville on the Allen-Wells County Line.

Car show, arts and crafts show, free horse-drawn wagon rides, lots of food, townwide garage sales. (No parade this year.) For more information, visit Zanesville Lion’s Club Summer Festival on Facebook.

Harlan Days, Aug. 3-5, at various points in the community. Car and bike show, Harlan Hustle 5k Run, parade, teen dance, grandstands shows. For details, visit harlandays. com.

Monroeville Harvest Festival, Aug. 3-5, throughout the town.

Dachshund Dash, parade, cutest-baby contest, amateur photo contest,

horseshoe tournament. For details, visit infortwayne. com and monroevillein. com.

SetonFest, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, 10700 Aboite Center Road, Fort Wayne, Aug. 5. Seton Miracle Miles race starts at 8 a.m. Also enjoy food tent, games, bake sale, beer tent, ice cream and fireworks.

Proceeds benefit the St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen. For details, visit seasfw.org.

Huntertown Heritage Days, Aug. 10-12,

throughout the town.

Amusements, carnival, fish fry, entertainment, parade.

For details, visit huntertownheritagedays.com.

Butler Days, Aug. 10-13. Businesses, organizations and churches host events throughout the town.

Take in the annual hog roast, or the 9 p.m. Friday light parade, or Saturday evening entertainment. For updates, find Butler Indiana Happenings on Facebook.

Indiana Music Festival, DeKalb County

Outdoor Theater, 301 Center St., Auburn, Aug. 12, noon-10 p.m. Four bands, food trucks, kids’ activities. Visit Facebook for updates and ticket information.

Mihsihkinaahkwa Pow Wow, Morsches

Park, Columbia City, Aug. 11-13. The Miami people host this traditional pow wow with dance contests.

The name translates as “Honoring Earth Mother.”

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Supper on the Bridge, Spencerville,

Aug. 19. Gather on the old covered bridge for dinner catered by Dutch Heritage, and enjoy music by Mark Brown. $30 per person.

Registration due Aug. 1.

For details and registration, visit spencervilleindiana. com.

Defiance County Fair,

Hicksville, Ohio, Aug. 19-26. Food, grandstand entertainment, marching bands, farm activities.

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Waynedale Community Picnic, Aug. 26,

Waynedale Park. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. A family-friendly event supported by more than 100 businesses. For details, visit waynedale. com/picnic.

SummerFest, St. Rose of Lima, Monroeville, Aug. 26, 8 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Archer Dash, 3-on-3 basketball, laser tag, Family

Feud on the Dewey Stage, cornhole tournament, bike blessing, Salsa Showdown contest, live auction and games, outdoor movie. For details, visit strosemonroeville.org or St. Rose Summerfest on Facebook.

Auburn-CordDuesenberg Festival,

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Cheer show, harness races, calf scramble, truck and tractor pull, demolition derby, Junior Fair livestock sale. For details, visit vanwertcountyfair.com.

Tri-State Bluegrass Festival, Noble County

Fairgrounds, Kendallville, Aug. 31-Sept. 3. FridaySunday ticket $35, which includes all shows and camping. Or buy by the day. For details, visit bluegrassusa.net.

Grabill Country Fair, Sept. 7-9, throughout the town. Food, crafts, entertainment, games, parade.

For details, visit grabillcountryfair.org.

Bluffton Free Street Fair, Sept. 19-23. With

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Art at the Riverside, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Riverside Gardens, Leo-Cedarville. A juried art show presenting local talent and supporting local scholarships. For details, visit artattheriverside.com.

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Forks of the Wabash Pioneer Festival,

Huntington, Sept. 23-24.

Re-enactors illustrate the lives of Hoosier pioneers, military units conducting on foot and on horseback, traders hawking their wares, and meals being prepared over open fires.

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Apple Festival, Noble County Fairgrounds, Kendallville, Oct. 7-8. Visit kendallvilleapplefestival. com for updates.

Renaissance in Roanoke, Oct. 14, 10

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Dupont Valley • July 28, 2017

Handbell admirers hear Kalamazoo Ringers

By Garth Snow

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One of America’s best-known community handbell choirs performed for an audience of 120 people at Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ in Fort Wayne.

Plymouth handbell choir director Tim Cunningham introduced the guest artists to an audience that included Plymouth music director Robert Nance and that represented many congregations and church music leaders from the Summit City and beyond.

Janet Van Valey directed the 15 members of the Kalamazoo Ringers in a program of 13 patriotic, sacred, blues and hometown band style numbers. Van Valey spoke of the “great despair and wonderful joy” that can be found in the music.

The Kalamazoo Ringers began with a kitchen table talk in 1981. The choir is now the nation’s oldest continually operating handbell choir. The borrowed bells have been replaced with multiple sets of bells. The choir now carries about 150

bells and Choirchimes on its tour. The choir has rehearsed in space provided by Grace Harbor Church of God since 2003. “They have never charged us a nickel of rent,” Van Valey said.

The choir performs at two services each year at that host church.

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the bells and to ask questions of the ringers.

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Dupont Valley • July 28, 2017

Lions pursue discipline and ‘dubs’

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A couple hundred kids splash in the McMillen Park Pool. Few golfers venture past the driving range. The tennis courts are empty. It’s 89 degrees; no clouds, no breeze.

Sean Raber stands alone on the Allen County Lions semipro football team practice field. The sun blasts down on the drying grass and Raber’s bare shoulders. The sturdy, 22-year-old Northrop High school graduate dashes across an empty field, barrels back toward the empty stands, and dashes back to nowhere in particular.

Raber’s teammates are not late for this miserably hot practice. Raber is 45 minutes early.

For everyone on the roster, this might be the last shot at the game that they love. For Raber, it’s also his first shot.

He enjoyed theater at Northrop, where he built scenery. He had to enjoy football from the stands. “I didn’t have the grades to play,” he said. He missed

football in high school and thought he had missed it for life, and then he heard about the Lions. “If I had been told they existed a few years back, I’d have been playing,” he said.

“I’m hoping for several seasons.”

Raber’s story is typical of the Lions, but only in the sense that there is no typical story. They drive in from Butler or from Marion. They harbor no ambition of playing on another level, or they treat every tackle like a tryout for the Arena Football League and whatever lies beyond. They turned 19 this year, or they turned 19 just 19 years ago.

Kendrick Eaton is in his fourth year with the Lions, his third year as defensive captain. He played three sports at North Side and Bishop Dwenger high schools. Since high school, he has played only football and only with the Lions.

He was defensive player of the year in 2015. “That was the year we won the championship, too,” he said.

“We have all different

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ages and hometowns,” he said. One teammate starred in college, got an NFL training camp tryout, and is working for that next break. “Then there are people like Sean; he’s never played football before,” Eaton said.

Lawyer Smith III, 26,

plays offensive tackle and serves as offensive captain. He played football at Snider High School and in college. He’s now a barber and a church musician. The three-time league all-star hopes to play Arena football again, and bring home one more

championship.

“It’s just for the passion of the game,” he said.

“I love the competition.

I do this because I’ve been playing football all my life. Plus it’s another opportunity to do something positive. He has had offers from Arena teams

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• July 29, 4 p.m., Allen County Lions at the Michiana Thunderhawks, 69954 County Road 11, Nappanee.

• Aug. 12, 5 p.m., Allen County Lions at the Miami County Blitz, North Miami High School, Denver, Ind. • Aug. 26, (tentative), 4 p.m., Allen County Lions host Game 1 of the BGFL playoffs, Havenhurst Park, 211 N. Rufus St., New Haven. and hopes for still another shot. “Right now I want to bring one back to the city, and then we’ll go from there.”

Ryan Townsend walks onto the practice field, carrying a tray of water bottles and sporting an authoritative smile. For the next two hours, he will be “coach” to the players.

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“This is our fifth season together,” he said. “We’re excelled from where we started to where we are now. We’re 4-0, undefeated. We are chasing something that we deserve, and that’s the championship and the ring, with the opportunity to go to the nationals in Florida or in Atlanta.”

He describes the team as family. “It’s a brotherhood out here,” he said. “These guys stood together and they play very well together. There may be a little bit of bickering going back and forth in practice, but they come together as a team.

“They want to be able to be a leader in their community, in their homes. They wear the symbolic lion — courage, strength. And they carry that honor with great attitude. Sometimes it’s hard to deal with everyday life, but football helps discipline. They build character. They come ready to play, they come ready to listen.

“You wouldn’t think that guys of this age, in this era, would listen to someone of my age. I’m 44. But they are listening to someone of authority.

We sit around a round table. I don’t make myself bigger than them and they don’t make themselves bigger than me. We feast together, we pray together, we play together, and we learn together.

“They come to my house. I cook for them.

We feast.”

The Lions logo is a positive symbol in the community, he said. “Kids come up and ask for my autograph and they say, ‘Hey, Coach Townsend. I know you. I watched you play.’ It’s a good feeling to

know that we’re contributing to a positive feel in our community.”

Ryan “Tre” Townsend feels all the pressure of playing quarterback, plus the responsibility of being the coach’s son. “It’s a lot more pressure. He’s extra hard on me, wanting me to be better,” Townsend said.

“Not only that, but the quarterback has to be the general on the field. I’ve got to be the voice of the team. If I mess up, we all mess up and it all comes down to me.

“Everybody works hard.

You’ve got to put in the work. No one gets any favors. Even though I’m the coach’s son, there’s no favoritism.”

The younger Townsend has been playing football since the age of 10, and with the Lions since the team was founded. He also played at Paulding (Ohio) High School, but not at college; “I didn’t get the opportunity.”

And two-thirds of the way through the season, his team had all four games in the “W” column.

“It feels great to be able to come back to the squad and be a part of the team and part of the organization and be able to bring home the dubs, hopefully bring home the trophy and the ring.”

Xavier Ballantine, 20, played one year of high school football for Eastside High School in Butler. He gave it up because he just wasn’t big enough, he said. “I love it for the passion of the game. I’ve always just watched football growing up, since I was too little. Now I’m out here, showing up, showing what I’ve got.”

Ballantine’s helmet rises to about Smith’s shoulders. But the receiver’s trap-like grip and sharp turns prove that it’s not all about stature.

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want to better myself.”

“Semipro” describes the competition level more accurately than it describes the compensation. In fact, players pay for the right to wear the Allen County Lions blue jerseys.

Come to the games, Smith said. Admission is free. “It’s just for the love of football,” Smith said.

“If you love football and just want to come out and have a good time, that’s the place to be.

“We want the community to back us up because once we bring home the [champion]ship it’s on from there. We’re going to make something happen and bring football back to the city of Fort Wayne.”

A half-hour into practice, and it’s time for a quick break. Two fans have retreated to the shade or to the A.C., leaving a semipro veteran alone in the stands. It’s time to put on jerseys and pads.

“What all of us have in common is everybody wants the opportunity to play football again,

no matter what level,” said Eaton, the defensive captain. “Everybody just dreams of playing football. They want that opportunity, whether it’s NFL, college, whatever.

Everybody just wants the opportunity.”

For Raber, who started sweating 45 minutes before his teammates arrived, practice is a reward in itself. He burns off the anxieties of life by smashing into his teammates; they return the impact in kind. Everyone understands. “Every time we leave practice I feel better,” he said. “I feel good. I’m more calm. I’m just ready to enjoy a nice relaxing night.

“And I’m trying to be a better person. This will teach me about leadership and teamwork. And hopefully, there are more seasons to come after this one.

“I’m doing this because I love the game.”

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Richard Ash can’t transform a ukulele novice into an independent artist instantly. But give him 2.5 hours and he will have the student playing the basics.

“We learn a handful of chords, and strum those chords and hum along and we do a number of songs from ‘Clementine’ to ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight,’ and two hours into the class they’re changing chords pretty easily,” Ash said.

The owner of Woodcraft Instruments usually teaches audiences from the Midwest and beyond at his Woodburn shop. Or he follows the folk music circuit across the South and beyond. But from 9:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, Aug. 5, he will share more than a quarter-century of ukulele

know-how at the Fort Wayne Community Center, 233 W. Main St. Sign up at fortwayneparks.org.

Aspiring uke players will pay $65 for the lesson and their own ukulele. You read that correctly. “They will take the ukulele with them,” he said.

The beginners’ model won’t have the same luster as those that fill the walls in Woodburn, but the instruments will suffice for the introduction and the shortterm. “It’s a one-time thing for most of the people,” Ash said. “They’re doing this for entertainment and they can work on this from home.”

Ash has taught a ukulele class through the Fort Wayne Parks Department for about five years. “I’ve also done harmonica and tinwhistle. I’ve done a variety of programs with

the Parks Department, and it’s very well organized,” he said.

Some of Ash’s students have gone on to join local dulcimer clubs or the Three Rivers Ukes performers.

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Beginners do not have to know how to read music.

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I’ll show them how to read tablature,” he said. That system illustrates finger placement on fretted instruments.

Ash loves teaching, and he loves “hanging out with fine performers” on his travels. “Life is always a learning experience,” he said. “I’m oftentimes taking classes when I go to these festivals. I go to a festival in Florida every winter, and

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Ash moved to Indiana in 1988, after teaching at the college level for three years in Montana. He taught at Eastside High School in Butler for two years, and later at three parochial schools. In 1990, he opened a music store in Woodburn. He eventually bought Folkcraft Instruments and moved it from Winsted, Conn. Today, Folkcraft has three main product lines. Folkcraft Instruments builds mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, psalteries and kanteles. Druid Moon builds ukuleles.

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Foundation board adds 2

The Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne elected two new members to its board of directors and installed officers for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.

The new board members are: Doug Wood, Sweetwater Sound; and Heather Schoegler, Augustus Advisors Inc. The 2017-2018 officers of the board are: president, Shannon Hardiek, COO and financial adviser, Phillips Financial; vice president, Jonathan Hancock, Canterbury School, retired; secretary, Bob Francis, vice president and CIO, Steel Dynamics; and treasurer, Bruce Menshy, community leader.

Returning members of the board include: Michael Barranda, Mike Cahill,

Trois Hart, Son Huynh, Todd Jacobs, Greg Johnson, Kathy Kolb, Ben Miles, Rob Patrick, Chris Rupp, Don Steininger; Nick Talarico and Irene Walters.

The board offered a special thank you to exiting board members Tom Trent and Dr. Deborah McMahan.

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Ryan Krueckeberg is the new president of Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana. The 2-year term began July 1. Krueckeberg is president of Lincoln Financial Group.

Vice President Savannah Robinson is with Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Secretary Sarah Verpooten is with Strahm Building Solutions.

Treasurer David Curry is with Lake City Bank. Other board members are Patrick Florea, Abigail Zimmer, Kourtney Teegardin, Pone Vongphachanh, John Felts, Kelly Rentschler, Chris Reeves, Vinod Vijayan, Tim Zink, Rena Burden and John Foxworthy.

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Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Indiana will hold the annual Buddy Walk at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, at Parkview Field in Fort Wayne. The walk covers approximately 1.2 miles.

Teams have begun registering. Team captain packets will be available soon. Visit dsani.org/buddywalk/ to register.

“This acceptance and advocacy walk is also an inspirational and educational event that celebrates the many abilities and accomplishments of people with Down syndrome,” the organization said on the website.

The Heartland Sings Vocal Artists are on the road this summer bringing a jazz-inspired program to venues in northeast Indiana.

A jazz combo accompanies the singers in a mix of jazz standards and new arrangements.

Shows are planned: Thursday, Aug. 3, 7 p.m.

Honeywell Center presents Jazz on the Lawn, 275 W. Market St., Wabash.

Friday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.

Creative Arts Council of Wells County presents Jazz on the Patio, 211 Water St., Bluffton.

Monday, Aug. 21, 6:15 p.m., just before the TinCaps game. Parkview Field Amphitheater, 1301 Ewing St., Fort Wayne.

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Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control will conduct the 30th annual Walk for Animals and 5K Run on Sunday, Sept. 17, at Franke Park, 3411 Sherman Blvd.

The race begins at 9 a.m. and the walk at noon.

Furry Scurry 5K Run registration is $35. Walk registration is $25. To register, follow links from cityoffortwayne.org. Dogs are encouraged to participate in the run or walk as long as they are leashed at all times, current on rabies and distemper vaccines, and have excellent temperament with other dogs and children.

This is a fundraiser for the Humane Education Department.

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Great Steps Walk begins registration

The seventh annual Great Steps Walk for Neurofibromatosis will be held Saturday, Sept. 16, at Parkview Field in Fort Wayne, from 9 a.m.-noon.

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Dupont Valley • July 28, 2017

Boutiques abound in Leo-Cedarville

Community, owners happy to be in small town

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Leo-Cedarville is seeing a resurgence in its local shopping options.

The Olde Church Shoppes have been in the community for 25 years, selling books, children’s clothing, antiques and more.

“There were a lot of little antique shops when we first started,” co-owner Koleen Schlatter said. Over the years, owners have moved on or passed away, she said.

“For a while we were the only one. … Now, in the past year, more little shops have opened, and that’s really great.”

Since September, four new boutique shops have opened in the area.

The first to open was abode, an interior décor shop owned by Carey Burchfield.

“I have always wanted to have my own home décor kind of shop,” she said. “Basically I drove by this and saw that it was for sale and just thought it was

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Francine’s Friends Mobile Mammography released the mobile unit’s revised schedule for the next several weeks, including these local dates and locations: • July 29. St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 2421 S. Hanna St., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 3. Rothberg Logan & Warsco, 505 E. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 5. Harambe Festival, Weisser Park, 3000 Hanna St., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 12. Faith Lutheran Church, 1700 E. Pettit St., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 22. Towne House Retirement Community, 2209 St. Joe Center Road, Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 23. Tangles Salon, 6724 E. State Blvd., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 25. Barrett McNagny, 215 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 26. Amnesty & Deliverance Community Festival, McMillan Park, 3901 Abbott St., Fort Wayne.

• Aug. 31. DeBrand Fine Chocolates, 10105 Auburn Park Drive, Fort Wayne.

Francine’s Friends Mobile Mammography is made possible through funding from Francine’s Friends, Parkview Health and the Breast Diagnostic Center. For an appointment, call (260) 483-1847.

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a cute little house that I could picture as a store and I thought it had great store frontage and so I jumped in.”

A month later the Gallery Shoppes and the Shed opened their doors.

The Gallery Shoppes sells unique gifts and home décor, while the Shed specializes in large wooden prints.

About three months ago, just be accessories + apparel opened across the street from abode.

The buildings now housing the Shed, abode and just be were all a labor of love to restore, their owners said.

“We did pretty much everything from siding, windows, doors, groundwork … flooring, trim, pretty much everything.

It was dirty, it was messy.

There were vines growing in here, it was insane,” the Shed owner Emilia Land said. “It was cool to watch that transformation and then we got to start breathing life into this property that

Women’s bash at Country Heritage

Country Heritage Winery and Vineyard in LaOtto will hold its annual Wine, Women and Wellness bash from 3-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3 The event is sponsored

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Ticket locations can be found at the Glo’s Facebook page and will be available at the event.

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Beth Shirey, owner of just be accessories + apparel, stands inside her store, which just opened three months ago.

just was going to heck in a handbag.”

“You just can’t find this character. You have to bring things back to (their) original state and beauty,” just be owner Beth Shirey said.

Though many might not immediately think of Leo-Cedarville as the ideal location for a boutique, all of the store owners insisted on being there, they said.

“I’m from a small town originally in Michigan. I love the feel of a hometown.

I actually have a sweatshirt design that I made myself that has hometown on it that has the state of Indiana with Leo in a little heart on it. I believe in small communi-

ties and I love the people here,” Shirey said.

Leo residents have been appreciative as well. “ … small communities and small businesses, I think people are starting to put value back into that again and so to be in a big strip mall really wouldn’t fit what I do and so I love the idea of being in a small community and the one I’m in and the one I’m part of,” Burchfield said.

“Everybody has mentioned, ‘We are so glad you are in Leo.’ Everybody has loved the shop. We’ve had (a) great welcoming,” Gallery Shoppes owner Terri Maidment said.

Allen County will open an opioid treatment program by June 30, 2018, according to the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. The agency made the announcement July 5. The nonprofit, mental health care services provider is at 2100 Goshen Road, Fort Wayne. Follow the program at bowencenter.org. Direct questions to (800) 342-5653.

FSSA announced the addition of five opioid treatment programs as part of the state’s effort to attack the drug epidemic.

Indiana will have 19 OTPs to administer medication assisted treatment or “MAT” to qualifying Hoosiers recovering from substance use disor-

ders. The treatment uses FDA-approved medications to help people manage their addiction so that they can maintain the benefits of recovery.

All five boutique owners said they feel they are part of something larger happening in Leo, and they are happy to do their part — together.

“I’m excited and I’m thankful to Leo for having us and I’m excited for friends of mine like Beth and Carey at abode and

the Gallery Shoppes. I’m excited to watch the growth of this town and I feel blessed to be a part of it,” Land said. “(We’re) excited to have them in the community now,” Schlatter said of the newer boutiques. “I think we can all pull from each other.”

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Maumee show features adaptable Autotractor

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If you admire old tractors and love sweetcorn, bring $1,680 to the Maumee Valley Antique Steam & Gas Association 40th Anniversary Show. If your appetite is more limited, bring 1,679 friends.

Either way, the three-day show will offer the very latest in the very oldest tractors that ever pulled a plow.

Roger Schuller knows a thing or two about vintage machines. In fact, he’s the president of the spon-

soring organization. “I have a 1913 Case tractor — not steam engine, but tractor — that was the second year they made them,” he said. His Case is from the steel wheels era, before rubber tires became widely available.

He has owned, watched and operated old iron, but this year’s featured tractor impresses even Schuller.

The 1938 UDLX Minneapolis-Moline tractor was rare even when it was manufactured in 1938. Only 150 rolled off the line. The futuristic implement was designed

to farm on weekdays then get slicked up and go to church and shopping on weekends. “It has an enclosed cab with a radio, heater, windshield wipers and a road gear so you could drive it down the road,” Schuller said. “It is very rare, and few were built.”

An estimated 25-30 Autotractors remain.

One sold at auction in New Paris, Ind., in 2014 for $142,500. Schuller predicted that any future sale prices will be even higher.

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run, in the 50 years I’ve been in this business,” Schuller said. The Fort Wayne businessman who is lending the tractor prefers to be anonymous.

The antique tractor club is featuring Minneapolis-Moline products this year, along with Huber, Co-op and Cockshutt.

The show will be held Aug.17-20 at Jefferson Township Park, east of New Haven, between U.S. 30 and U.S. 24 at 1720 Webster Road just north of Dawkins Road.

More information and a map and schedule can be found at www.maumeevalley.org.

Daily admission is $7, and a four-day pass is available. Children 12 and younger and exhibitors are admitted free. Parking is free. The Nickel Plate Road 765 Steam Train Museum is having an open house next door on Saturday and Sunday.

St. Paul Lutheran Church Youth Group will serve Andy’s Knockout Chicken from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and pulled pork dinners and sandwiches on Saturday from 11 a.m-7 p.m. Many other food vendors also will be serving food.

Steamed sweet corn will be served all four days. At $1 an ear, it’s easy to move plenty of corn. A steam engine

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The Autotractor could pull farm implements or switch to road gear to go to town. Visitors to an antique tractor show will see one of the approximately 30 remaining Autotractors.

from the Army depot next-door generates steam to cook the corn. “So they melt the butter and they just peel the husks back and hand it to people,” Schuller said. And should the supply run dangerously low by Saturday afternoon, the show has another 20 dozen on stand-by.

“We will be threshing wheat, sawing lumber and plowing with steam engines and tractors,” the association said in a statement. See displays of tractors, gas engines, farm equipment, cars and trucks. The DeKalb County Horsemen will give hayrides and demonstrations using horses

and mules on Friday and Saturday.

Entertainment on Friday will feature Appalachian music from 7-9 p.m. The Applejack Kloggers will perform at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday. The Scott Brothers will bring bluegrass music from 7-9 p.m. The Fort Wayne Astronomical Society will have their observatory open Saturday night for stargazing and there will be “steam engine fireworks” spark show Friday and Saturday nights if the weather cooperates. On Sunday, there will be a church service at 9 a.m. and the American Legion Band will perform at 1:30 p.m.

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Triniti McFarland (left) of Carroll Middle School plays Mayzie in a Dr. Seuss theme production at the Huber Opera House in Hicksville, Ohio. Josh Fine of Hicksville plays Horton in “Seussical, Jr.”

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A recent production in Hicksville, Ohio, drew from Fort Wayne talent, too.

Triniti McFarland of Carroll Middle school played Mayzie in “Seussical, Jr.” at the restored the Huber Opera House & Civic Center. Fort Wayne, Harlan, New Haven and Woodburn also were represented in the cast of 65, which drew from four Ohio counties.

See the full cast list at huberoperahouse.org.

The Huber draws both its talent and its audiences from a similar circle.

“A lot of the kids drive 35 to 40 minutes to come to rehearsal every day,” volunteer Chris Feichter said after a rehearsal for the July 21-23 production.

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followed by the High Roller Band Saturday.

The locally owned Feders BBQ Pit food truck will serve outside the beer tent Friday and Saturday night.

There will be events for everyone, said McComb.

“It’s for the whole family, young and old.”

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fold. They’re going to be so excited,” she said.

The office will closed July 24 to accommodate the move and will reopen Aug. 3, Yankowiak said.

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at all at the Huber,” Feichter said. Sound crews or other tech help might be employed at a production, but that’s the size of the payroll. “The board of directors pretty much take care of all the details of maintenance, repairs, the productions, doing fundraising and those kinds of things. I do some grant-writing for them. We’ve been lucky to get a couple of grants.”

Like the many, varied Huber productions, advertising for the first youth project in 2016 was pretty much by word of mouth.

“Youth theater is one of the pieces of the puzzle that we initiated last year, and it was such a success that people were like ‘What are we doing next year?’ We’ve got that same kind of enthusiasm.

Last night we had 60 kids on stage rehearsing and we had about a dozen parents fixing costumes, hanging sets, all the pieces and parts.

So there’s a good deal of

support from people who want their kids to have the theater experience,” Feichter said.

The Huber will present “Peter Pan” with adults and children in October.

In December, The Huber will present a play, “My Three Angels.”

The plays that unfold on The Huber’s stage evoke reminders of its grandest days. Built as a hotel in 1882, it took on the theatrical role when the town’s theater burned. The Huber served the vaudeville era with entertainment that Feichter described as comedy variety shows, sketches and the like.

“For instance, Bob Hope performed on that stage,” she said. The Huber also served the the silent screen era, and as a movie house through the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.

“And then it went by the wayside,” Feichter said. The building was in disrepair. The theater floor had been reduced to dirt.

Then a community group stepped forward, in

1988. “They restored the entire front facade to look as close to the original as possible,” Feichter said.

“The group brought it back to its old glory.”

Kristen Peck has come aboard as communications and major events coordinator, Yankowiak said.

“This is the first time we’ve had anyone handling our communications,” she said. “We have had lots of volunteers handling that activity. But it became too big for volunteers.”

Peck previously handled communications for IPFW and Mystic Brush, a face-painting company, Yankowiak said.

The Little River Wetlands Project has also engaged the services of a new wetlands education coordinator, she said.

Dana Claussen, a recent University of Saint Francis graduate who served a wetlands internship in the office, has been promoted to the full-time position.

Freya Bernston is the Project’s new volunteer program manager, Yanko-

wiak said.

She is an Indiana Master Naturalist, she said, who has special dragonfly expertise.

“I am so excited,” Yankowiak said. “We were just talking about this dragonfly program we’re going to do and she was like, ‘Oh, I used to catch them and tag them.’”

Maintenance and upkeep on the federally funded berm project that was completed a year ago continues, she said.

The $3.5 million Eagle Marsh berm is 10 feet tall and 2 miles long and is designed to prevent Asian carp, an invasive species, from reaching the Great Lakes.

“Every month we walk down the berm and make sure there are no holes through it, even though I am sure our volunteers and hikers and runners

would tell us,” Yankowiak said. “And we also do it after every rain — make sure there are no erosion issues.”

The Little River Wetlands Project has been charged with establishing native plants on the sides of the berm and along all the surfaces that were disturbed during the construction.

“That’s the hardest part,” she said. “The hardest, most intensive part of habitat restoration especially with wetlands is the first few years…”

What makes this endeavor especially difficult, Yankowiak said, is the goal of curtailing undesirable vegetation while trying to help desirable native plant life thrive.

Visit lrwp.org for a summary of the group’s mission and a list of upcoming activities.

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Woodburn dedicates clock tower for Henney family

By Rod King

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Another step in the revitalization of Woodburn was completed Saturday, July 8, when a couple hundred residents of the smallest city in the state gathered to dedicate Clock Tower Plaza at the corner of Main Street and Bull Rapids Road.

It follows the installation of new sidewalks and street lighting that has been accomplished by the Woodburn Partnership for Downtown Revitalization.

The clock tower is more than an extension of the revitalization program. It’s actually a memorial to longtime Woodburn residents Harry and Jeanette Henney (now deceased) for their involvement and commitment to the community. Inside the tower is a large engraved plaque with their likenesses and a brief biography.

Both were from the Avilla area and were married in 1941.

Harry graduated from Manchester College in 1935 with a bachelor’s degree in education and got his first teaching job at Maumee Township School in Woodburn

A circular map of the United States located in the plaza behind the clock tower signifies locations relative to the Henney family.

made way for this plaza to become a central location for community activities in the future.

This tower was not done just for my mom and dad, but for the community.” He thanked the many volunteers who helped on the project, challenged those present to continue to make Woodburn even greater and invited everyone to stay for lunch prepared

by Woodburn Meats and Produce.

“Floyd Henney came to our firm a couple years ago,” said Len Mysliwiec of Lifespace Design, “and asked us to come up with a design.

We brainstormed it, made some sketches and

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Floyd Henney, son of Harry and Jeanette Henney, in his remarks to the 200 residents at the dedication, said that “the Clock Tower Plaza is not just for my mom and dad, but for the community.” He challenged those present to continue to make Woodburn great.

for which he was paid $1,000 a year. He became principal in 1944 and when Woodlan High School opened in 1959 he became assistant principal for the next 18 years. Jeanette served as school secretary at Milan Center and Woodburn elementary schools.

In addition to his school duties, Harry

served as Woodburn clerk/treasurer from 1956 to 1981. He was a member of the Lions Club for 55 years and served as its president, and was a longtime member of Woodburn Missionary Church and served on its board. The couple raised two sons and two daughters, all of whom were present at

the dedication ceremony along with their children.

Floyd Henney, whose Fort Wayne construction company oversaw the construction of the clock tower, told the assembled crowd that “this day is a homecoming for the Henney Family.

The removal of the two eyesore buildings that were on the site has

submitted them. The clock tower idea was then expanded to a plaza with seating and a map of the United States.

We then made a color rendering to present to the Clock Tower Steering Committee. It turned out beautifully and is an asset to the community.”

Mayor Joe Kelsey, who welcomed everyone to the dedication, quipped that “the city now has a landmark on which to give directions.” The Concordia High School ROTC Color Guard raised the flag while Christy Stutzman sang the national anthem. She also sang “God Bless America” later in the program.

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The Bulldogs entertain. Georgetown Square, 6310 E.

State Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. The Summer Concert Series continues with one of Fort Wayne’s favorite bands performing the best of the ’50s and the ’60s. Concerts are held between the Georgetown Branch Library and the shops and restaurants to the south, giving concertgoers access to food and drink vendors.

School of Rock performs. Jefferson Pointe, 4130 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Enjoy music around the courtyard fountain through the Friday Nites Live concert series.

ChoralFest concert. Foellinger Outdoor Theatre, Franke Park, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free. The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir presents a public concert to conclude the ChoralFest day camp. FWCC Alumni will join the current singers on stage during the final song of the evening. This year’s camp theme is “The Wild, Wild West.” Jonathan Busarow directs the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir. The performance is part of the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation music series.

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Trek the Trails. Meet on the east side of the Venderly Family pedestrian bridge over the St. Joe River on the IPFW Campus, Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. Free.

Fort Wayne Trails Inc. hosts bicycle rides during the summer months at various locations, including tonight’s 8-mile ride. Each participant is asked to wear a helmet and bring water for the ride. All participants ride at their own risk.

Tuesday Movies. The Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne. 1:30 p.m. Admission is free, but registration is required by the Monday before the movie. Call (260) 427-6460 to reserve a seat.

Today’s movie is “Collateral Beauty.” Movies are sponsored by Glenbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation and Bethlehem Woods.

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Curbside Cruisers Car Club cruise-in. Athenian Family Restaurant, 1020 W. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne.

5-8 p.m. Spectators welcome. For details, call (260) 485-5886. For information on cruise-ins from Orland, Ind., to Bryan, Ohio, visit libertycruisers. com.

“The Deathly Hallows: Part II.” Foellinger Theatre, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Free. This 2011 Harry Potter movie is presented by the Fort Wayne Parks Department.

Summer Nights at the Embassy. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 5-10 p.m. Tickets $5. Buy tickets at the STAR Bank box office at the Embassy, ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000. Tonight, enjoy Salsa dancing with dance lessons provided by Salsa Loca with Melissa’s Latin Beat providing the dance music. Observers welcome.

Dance participation optional. Menu items available for purchase from Salud. Cash bar.

“Preserving Nature’s Bounty.” Allen County Extension Office, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m.

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Cost is $5, payable at the door, to cover printing costs. Class size is limited, so those interested are urged to register early. The workshop will answer frequently asked questions on canning, freezing and drying foods.

The Bulldogs perform. Indian Trails Park, near Jorgensen Family YMCA, Aboite Center Road.

7-9 p.m. Free. The Concerts on the Green series is presented by the Aboite Township Trustee’s Office.

Paws in the Park. Schnelker Park, 956 Park Ave., New Haven. 4-7 p.m. Animal rescue organizations and pet-related vendors will set up in the park during regular farmer’s market hours.

THURSDAY, AUG. 3

First Thursday special. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne.

Special admission price tonight: $1. Visit the program room for a fun and educational lecture or activity. No reservations required. The staff will validate parking tickets from the Civic Center Parking Garage for free parking. For more information, call (260) 427-6440.

FRIDAY, AUG. 4

Big Caddy Daddy performs. Jefferson Pointe, 4130 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Enjoy music around the courtyard fountain through the Friday Nites Live concert series.

Quilt show and bazaar. Monroeville United Methodist Church, 204 W. South St., Monroeville. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Pieceful Quilters present this show in conjunction with the Monroeville Harvest Festival. The quilt show is made up of quilts made by members of the quilt group, which consists of 20 members. The exhibit will include hand-quilted items and machine-quilted items. Visitors will vote for their favorite quilt. Lois Levihn of Born Again Quilts will entertain with various demonstrations.

Refreshments will be available for purchase. Vendors may reserve tables by contacting Kathy Beauchot at kjbeauchot@frontier.com or by calling (260) 623-2290. The cost is $10 per table.

SATURDAY, AUG. 5

Miami Lacrosse Stick Making, with Diane Hunter and Doug Peconge. Chief Richardville House, 5705 Bluffton

Road, Fort Wayne. 1-4 p.m. General admission $7; students and seniors $5; younger than 2 and History Center members, free. The History Center sponsors Miami Indian Heritage Days the first Saturday of each month, May through November. A guided tour of the house is included.

Kid City. Noble County Fairgrounds, 580 Fair St., Kendallville. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. This interactive learning fair is for kids from tots to middle school and their families. Concessions available. Enjoy science, stories, animals, games, hobbies, gardening and more.

Comedian John Crist. County Line Church of God, 7716 N. County Line Road, Auburn. $10-$25. Visit www.TrinityCommunications.org.

Quilt show and bazaar. Monroeville United Methodist Church, 204 W. South St., Monroeville. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Pieceful Quilters present this show in conjunction with the Monroeville Harvest Festival. The quilt show is made up of quilts made by members of the quilt group, which consists of 20 members. The exhibit will include hand-quilted items and machine-quilted items. Visitors will vote

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for their favorite quilt. Lois Levihn of Born Again Quilts will entertain with various demonstrations.

Refreshments will be available for purchase. Vendors may reserve tables by contacting Kathy Beauchot at kjbeauchot@frontier.com or by calling (260) 623-2290. The cost is $10 per table.

SUNDAY, AUG. 6

Lost Ladybug Project. Fox Island County Park, 7324 Yohne Road, Fort Wayne. 1-3 p.m. Free with annual pass or $2 park admission. Learn how to identify and find these tiny insects. LLP is a citizen science program through which all members of the family can participate and send results to the LLP. Register

by July 28. To register or for more information, email Jeff Ormiston at jormiston@allencountyparks. org or call (260) 449-3180.

Neighborhood block party. Bethany Lutheran Church, 2435 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. 4-8 p.m. Free food while supply lasts, karaoke, bingo, car show. “Come and get to know us and your neighbors,” the church said in a statement.

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Get Checking workshop. Allen County Extension Office, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 5-9 p.m. Free.

Register in advance by phone to Vickie Hadley, (260) 481-6826, or at hadleyv@purdue.edu. The program covers choosing and managing accounts and managing money and credit.

TUESDAY, AUG. 8

Preschool Discovery Hour - Worm Farmers. Fox Island County Park, 7324 Yohne Road, Fort Wayne. 1-2 p.m. $3 per child, $2 per adult. Participants will build see-through worm habitats to take home, hunt for worms to live in them and end the program with a snack. Bring a clean, clear 2-liter and 16-ounce bottle for each worm farmer. Register by Aug. 3. To register or for more information, email rzartman@ allencountyparks.org or call Ron Zartman at (260) 449-3186.

Prairie ecology lesson. Metea County Park Nature Center, 8401 Union Chapel Road at State Road 1, Leo-Cedarville. 10 a.m.-noon. $3 per student, $2 per adult. Study the plants and animals that live in the prairie. Register by Aug. 2. To register, email Ron Divelbiss at rdivelbiss@allencountyparks.org or call (260) 449-3778. Get details on this and other programs at allencountyparks.org.

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Free. Fort Wayne Area Community Band performs.

Assistant conductor Susan Jehl has chosen a varied program of music to fit the concert theme of “Time Travel.” Included are “Crooner’s Serenade,” “Fort Wayne Bicentennial March,” “Gettysburg,” “Community Band March,” “The Legend of Danny Boy,” “A Tribute to Benny Goodman,” “Mancini Magic,” “Classics, Classics, Classics” and much more.

Trek the Trails. Moser Park Pavilion, 601 Main St., New Haven. 6 p.m. Free. Fort Wayne Trails Inc. hosts bicycle rides during the summer months at various locations, including tonight’s ride at Moser Park. Each participant is asked to wear a helmet and bring water for the ride. All participants ride at their own risk.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 9

Summer Nights at the Embassy. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 5-10 p.m. Tickets $5. Buy tickets at the STAR Bank box office at the Embassy, ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000. Tonight’s entertainers are the Alicia Pyle Quartet with jazz music and Pyroscope with non-flame light hooping and juggling. Menu items available for purchase from Bravas. Cash bar.

The Mason Dixon Line Band performs. Indian Trails Park, near Jorgensen Family YMCA, Aboite Center Road.

7-9 p.m. Free. The Concerts on the Green series is presented by the Aboite Township Trustee’s Office.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 11

Oferle performs. Jefferson Pointe, 4130 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Enjoy music around the courtyard fountain through the Friday Nites Live concert series.

Männerchor fish fry. Park Edelweiss Reception Hall, 3355 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. 4:30-7 p.m. $9 for adults, $5 for kids 12 and younger. This dinner is presented by Fort Wayne Männerchor/Damenchor, a men’s and women’s choir dedicated to the preservation and promotion of German heritage as expressed in choral music. Association musicians play guitar and accordion and other instruments, singing mostly German music. The meal includes all-you-can-eat fish, sides, coffee and dessert. Drinks are available for purchase. Visit fortwaynemaennerchor.us for more information on the history of the association.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 12

Young Eagles Flight Rally. Smith Field Airport, 426 W. Ludwig Road, Fort Wayne. Children 8-17 ride planes for free as Experimental Aircraft Association pilots donate their time and the use of their aircraft.

Flights will begin at 9 a.m., weather permitting.

For more information, call (260) 402-3478 or email youngeagles@eaa2.org.

Blue Bucket Brigade. Allen County Walmart locations.

8 a.m.-1 p.m. The Boys & Girls Club of Fort Wayne partners with the Fraternal Order of Police and Fort Wayne United to build bridges between law enforcement and youth. Kids can have their picture taken with a police officer and receive a certificate to become “Deputy for a Day.”

SUNDAY, AUG. 13

Music in the Park. Schnelker Park, 956 Park Ave., New Haven. 3 p.m. Free. The New Haven Alumni Band performs.

Liberty Cruisers cruise-in. Liberty Diner, Goshen Road at Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 5-7:30 p.m. Car exhibitors are eligible for door prizes and a monthly cruiser award.

TUESDAY, AUG. 15

Tuesday Movies. The Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne. 1:30 p.m. Admission is free, but registration is required by the Monday before the movie.

Call (260) 427-6460 to reserve a seat. Today’s movie is “A Dogs Purpose.” Movies are sponsored by Glenbrook Nursing and Rehabilitation and Bethlehem Woods.

Trek the Trails. Meet at the parking lot near the old swimming pool at Swinney Park West, Fort Wayne.

6 p.m. Free. Fort Wayne Trails Inc. hosts bicycle rides during the summer months at various locations, including tonight’s 8-mile ride. Each participant is asked to wear a helmet and bring water for the ride. All participants ride at their own risk.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 16

Summer Nights at the Embassy. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 5-10 p.m. Tickets $5. Buy tickets at the STAR Bank box office at the Embassy, ticketmaster.com or by phone at (800) 745-3000.

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