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MLK event recalls Freedom Summer
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Winter guards get warm reception
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The Carroll High School winter guard welcomed their counterparts from three other schools to a preview night Saturday, Jan. 17. “We’re excited to have all of your friends and families come and join us and cheer each other on at the start of this season,â€? said Erica Widmer, a co-director at Carroll. The 19-member host guard presented “A Christmas Carroll,â€? evoking images of the holiday. A Christmas tree and huge gift boxes served as a backdrop. Guard members wore holiday colors and twirled winter-theme ags. Widmer said the joy, peace and love of Christmas are appropriate all year long. “We’re gonna rock it out,â€? she said. Northrop High School’s 13-member
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Flags drop in sequence as the Carroll High School winter guard closes “A Christmas Carroll� at preview night Saturday.
guard presented “Vanity: A Dark Reection.â€? Director Holly Loand said the show examines the age of “selďŹ eâ€? photos, which she described as “a love
affair with the mirror.� That focus on appearance is actually rooted in self-doubt, she told the audience. “We’re going to be the odd man out here today,
650 Midwest gymnasts to compete at Northrop By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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The Rev. Roger Reece prays at Breakfast with the Clergy at the Downtown Marriott.
nator for the club. Swanson, of Seattle, worked with Louise Smith and her husband George Smith in the Freedom Summer voter registration campaign in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. Swanson spent weeks in jail. Three rights advocates were killed that summer. George Smith was among the honorees at the 2013 Unity Day. He died that same spring. Swanson’s race was not See MLK, Page A10
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example. “It makes every day interesting,� Hines said. “You know that something good is going to happen. It makes each day coming into work easier because you know you’re working toward something not just for yourself, but for them too.� Hines was a Set-10 gymnast, who graduated from Homestead. “I went to IU and came back coaching
here and I ended up buying the gym with Mike,� she said. “You coach because you love it,� Comeau said. “You coach because it’s not how we feel, it’s watching the kids. When you go to a meet and you see them do the routine that they’re capable of and you see the joy in their face. You don’t See GYM, Page A13
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It has been a busy January for Mike Comeau and Kristen Hines. They have been operating their gymnastics training center, attending regional competitions, and congratulating a student on earning a full-ride athletic scholarship. They will be just as busy in February, when their gymnastics club welcomes 650 young women to a regional competition at Northrop High School. Comeau and Hines operate a not-for-proďŹ t traveling gymnastics program at a for-proďŹ t business: Set-10 @ More Than Gymnastics. Among their students is Haylie Hendrickson, a Homestead High School senior who recently accepted a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Arizona. The owners and coaches invest themselves in each girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. Hendricksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story is a recent
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Louise Smith said Richard Swanson was the appropriate choice for keynote speaker of the MLK Unity Day in Fort Wayne. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just because Swanson is the ďŹ rst white keynote speaker in the 30-year history of Unity Day, she said. It is because Swanson is a veteran of the civil rights struggle. Beyond that service, Swanson is a friend, Smith said. Swanson and family were part of a record 220 people attending the seventh annual Breakfast With the Clergy at the Downtown Marriott. He later would deliver the main address at the related Unity Day across Jefferson Boulevard at the Grand Wayne Center. Both events are sponsored by the MLK Club Inc., of Fort Wayne. Smith is a board member and civil rights coordi-