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Winners of AfterProm Raffle were drawn Friday afternoon. Lorie Weichart was the winner of an iPad mini and Skip Claxton, not pictured, won the Fill the Freezer pack from Albright’s in Corunna. Proceeds from the fundraiser benefit the AfterProm event in the spring.
Garrett Schools selling retired iPads GARRETT — The GarrettKeyser-Butler School District will be offering a limited quantity of retired Apple iPad devices next week for $65 apiece, according to technology director Grant Surfus. The first-generation, 16 GB iPads and power supplies are in good working order, sold as-is with no warranty. Some applications may not work, because the devices are not capable of updating to current IOS. The devices will not be eligible for the school’s Bring Your Own Apple Device program due to application issues. Surfus said the devices can be used for Internet access, Facebook and other applications. A sale will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 18 and 19 from 8-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. at the central office at 900 E. Warfield St. Those interested should enter the east door of the building. Phone Surfus at 357-7040 for information about the sale.
G-K-B school board to meet tonight GARRETT — The GarrettKeyser-Butler school board will meet tonight at 6 p.m. in high school room 120. Agenda items include a presentation on the Railway Cafe and 2014-15 school calendar update. The board will consider recommendations to: • amend the Section 125 Flexible Plan Benefit; • approve the bonding of Pamela Good, business manager; • approve the Glazier Football Clinic in Chicago from Feb. 27-March 3, 2014; • amend the Garrett Public Library Trustee Ethel Yoder to serve until Dec. 31, 2017, extended from Dec. 31, 2016; • accept the 2013-2014 NE Indiana School Insurance Consortium Wellness grant award; and • approve funding changes to the Railway Café.
Stutzman invites health law comments FORT WAYNE — U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman will hold what he describes as an “Obamacare listening session and open house” Monday from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Stutzman said he encourages Hoosiers impacted by the Affordable Care Act to share their stories and suggestions. The event will take place at his office in the E. Ross Adair Federal Building, 1300 S. Harrison St., Suite 3105, in downtown Fort Wayne.
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Library OKs year-end resolutions By Sue Carpenter scarpenter@kpcmedia.com GARRETT — The Garrett Public Library approved eight resolutions at its final meeting of the year Tuesday. They include: • $3,453.52 be paid back to the Library Improvement Reserve Fund (LIRF) from the State Technology Grant; • $1,009.45 in appropriations be encumbered from the library’s 2013 operating fund for items that have purchase orders not yet
delivered, including books, DVDs and music DVDs’ • the transfer of line item budget reductions in the amount of $62,764.57, including $19,088 for the salary for library assistants, $20,000 in employee insurance contributions and $16,000 for telephone costs. The resolution provides increased budget costs for the same total, including $17,000 for professional services, $3,067 for a new insurance policy, $36,000 for the demolition of a home donated to the library, and
$2,088 for construction consultation and asbestos testing for the donated property and for the library expansion; • $100 insurance premium for the bonding of Mary Placencia as the treasurer of library; • a monthly increase of 5.7 percent for the 2014 Indiana Library Federal Benefit Plan for prescriptions and $1.13 increase for the vision plan; • the classification of Jeffrey Charles as full-time Librarian I effective Jan. 1, 2014;
• the classification of Kiley Gingerich as full-time Librarian I, effective January 1, 2014; • a pay scale revision for library employees based on recommendations by a wage and salary subcommittee comprised of Lou Hamm, Ethel Yoder and Ryan Myers. Changes provide for an hourly wage increase for library assistants from less than $10 to $10-12. The resolution includes Library board, Page 5
Recycling center marks 25th By Sue Carpenter scarpenter@kpcmedia.com GARRETT — A handwritten note on the wall marks Dec. 10, 1988 as opening day at the Garrett Recycling Center. Twenty-five years later, volunteers continue to greet motorists dropping off stacks of newspapers and magazines, buckets of plastic containers and used motor oil at the 150-by-35-foot concrete block building on North Cowen Street. Garrett’s recycling center is the only drive-through facility in the state, according to former mayor Herb Kleeman, one of a handful of volunteers at the facility. New recycling programs have been added this year to encourage recycling in the city, including bins on the north side of the facility through the Northeast Solid Waste Management and optional resident curbside recycling through Republic Services. These recycling opportunities have dropped the activity at the center some 60 percent, according to Kleeman. The 24/7 bins and the fact that items placed in them no longer need to be sorted have contributed to the slump in customers, he said. Kleeman and Chuck Lewis are two of the original volunteers from 1988 still active at the center. Renamed after a longtime volunteer a few years ago, the Marvin Hall Recycling Center is open Wednesday evenings, Friday afternoons, and Saturday mornings all year around. Garrett held its first Recycling Day 25 years ago, when the notion of recycling on a large scale was still in its infancy. The event was held at the city’s street barn on East Quincy Street. Mayor Charles Davis and volunteer George Talley pushed for the idea, according to Kleeman. It would be one of the first such events in the state. A committee comprised of George Talley, Norb Deuitch, John Hutton, Norm Best, Bruce Johnson, Charlie Simcox, Bob Bloom, Bill Dembickie, Gene Heckman, Charles “Cork” Martin, Marv Hall and Gene Graham joined Davis in making plans for the big day. Area Boy Scouts distributed brochures throughout the
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The Marvin Hall Recycling Center is marking its 25th anniversary this month. From left are volunteers Herb Kleeman, Bill Norris, Chuck Lewis and Ed Utermark. community explaining the service; leaflets were passed out at churches a couple weeks earlier. High school athletic director John Hutton enlisted 50 student volunteers to help with the collections at the street barn, while the high school band set up a concession stand for recyclers. Students at J.E. Ober Elementary and St. Joseph School participated in a contest promoting recycling in the community. The Hospital Aid Foundation donated $550 to help with the effort. More than 260 vehicles reportedly stopped by that day, with over 430 batteries dropped off, along with glass, newspaper, cardboard and plastic. Several teachers, police officers and reserve officers handled the traffic. The success of the event inspired a more permanent solution for recycling in the city. About a month later, a vacant, a Recycling center, Page 3
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Volunteer Ed Utermark sorts plastics in large bins that have been delivered to the recycling center.
St. Joseph students present annual concert
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Second-graders at St. Joseph School sing “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” during a program in the school auditorium Wednesday.
By Sue Carpenter scarpenter@kpcmedia.com GARRETT — Students at St. Joseph School in Garrett presented their annual Christmas program on stage in the school auditorium Wednesday night. Music teacher Carol Shumaker directed preschool through eighth-grade students for the singing of special holiday songs. Upper-grade class members reenacted the traditional Nativity scene at the conclusion of the 60-minute program. Nativity participants included Cooper Wilson as Joseph; Declan Monroe as the baby Jesus; and Declan’s mother, Kelli Monroe as Mary. Andrew Wilcox, Robert McNay and Connor Ort portrayed the wise men; Adeline Gillespie, Katie Lacey, Claudea Lee, Grace McAlary, Katherine Schlosser and Sarah Cooper played the parts of the angels. Gage Camp, Trevor Ort and Trevor Armstrong portrayed the shepherds; Katelyn Wilcox played the role of the innkeeper’s wife; with John Voirol playing the part of the drummer boy. Brady Cook, Kassidy Kyler and Abbigail Sexton were dressed as the stable animals. Sydney Hefty and Creigh Dircksen served as narrators. Preschool students began the program with “Christmas Day,” “When Santa Comes” and “Ring Those Bells” accompanied by Sarah Cooper on the piano. The kindergarten class presented “Up on the Housetop,” “”Five Little Candles” and “Away in a Manger” accompanied by Sydney Hefty on the piano. Student concert, Page 5