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NEWS IN BRIEF City meetings planned Tuesday GARRETT — Two city meetings are planned Tuesday in City Hall. The Board of Public Works will meet at 5:30 p.m. The Common Council will meet at 7 p.m. Agenda items include the first readings for wage and salary ordinances for police and fire department, elected officials and for appointed officers and employees; second and third readings for the civil city budget and the Garrett Public Library; a declaratory resolution for F & H Associates LLC/Adventure Homes; and a resolution for additional appropriation transfers.
Programs continue despite government shut-down FROM STAFF REPORTS A fortunate circumstance is keeping local Head Start programs open in spite of the federal government shutdown, local directors said this week. Fiscal years for Head Start programs begin on different dates, and programs across the nation with Oct. 1 starts are running out of money and closing their doors. Head Start programs with other fiscal year starting dates remain open. Two programs in
northeast Indiana start their budget years Nov. 1 — Vistula Head Start for Steuben and LaGrange counties and Community Action of Northeast Indiana Head Start, serving Noble County. GarrettKeyser-Butler Head Start in DeKalb County starts its fiscal year Jan. 1. While CANI Head Start has avoided the shutdown so far, “The same thing that will happen to us … come Nov. 1,” said its director, Mary Lee Freeze. “If the govern-
ment hasn’t gone back to work, we could very likely have to shut our doors until they do go back to work.” When the shutdown began, Freeze said, “At first, I thought, ‘Oh, this won’t last long.’ The longer it goes, the more concerned I get.” CANI Head Start serves 787 children in Noble, Allen and Whitley counties. The total includes Head Start programs for ages 3-5 in Kendallville with 44 children and in Ligonier with 34 children, plus 11 Noble County children in Early Head Start, which serves expectant mothers
Local food drive planned Saturday
GARRETT — Garrett-Keyser-Butler Schools will hold an informational meeting for parents of children with special needs who live within the school district’s attendance area and are home schooled or attend a non-public school. The meeting will take place Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 9 a.m. in the Garrett Middle School conference room. For more information, contact Linda DePew, special education coordinator at 260-3575745.
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Dozens of youth in grade five and under participated in a costume parade during the Garrett Ghoul Spectacular Saturday. Five costumes were selected for prizes. From left are Wesley Blaker, 5, as Dracula; Elizabeth Feightner, 11, as the Black Swan; Logan Hartsough, 5, as a robot; Jada Spiece, 8, as a China doll; and Micah Carlson, 8, as a Ninja. In back is Tonya Weaver, director of administration and innovation for Garrett-Keyser-Butler Schools. J.E. Ober students voted for Weaver to lead the parade. The event was co-sponsored by the school and the Judy A. Morrill Recreation Center.
Railroader Regiment earns gold
Garden club seeks fresh pine branches GARRETT — The Garrett Garden Club members will be decorating for winter early in November and will be in need of fresh pine branches. Anyone planning to cut down or trim a pine tree or evergreen shrub in late October is asked to contact The Flower Pot at 357-0052 to arrange for pick up.
Hoosier Warbirds to meet tonight AUBURN —The Hoosier Warbirds will meet 7 p.m. Monday the Hoosier Air Museum, C.R. 62, Auburn. Lowell Farrand, an EAA mulitple award winner and one of the nations leading aviation experts, will speak at the meeting. The group also will nominating committee report for elections in November. Guests are welcome.
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FORT WAYNE — Garrett, DeKalb and Eastside bands all earned gold ratings and at least one award of distinction at the Indiana State School Music Association Open Class Exhibition at Homestead High School Saturday. In Class C, Garrett earned awards of distinction for music and visual effect. In Class B, DeKalb earned awards of distinction in music, general effect and visual effect. In Class D, Eastside earned an award of distinction for music. Unlike in past years, a gold rating at the ISSMA contest was not required
and children up to age 3. Vistula Head Start serves 167 children in Angola, Fremont and LaGrange. “We’re good so far until Jan. 1,” said Sharon Molargik, director of Garrett-Keyser-Butler Head Start. Its sites in Garrett, Auburn, Waterloo and Butler serve a total of 130 preschoolers in Head Start and 59 infants and toddlers in Early Head Start. The shutdown has affected money for Head Start meals, but, “We’re still feeding children. We’re able to pay for those,” Molargik said. Head Start, Page 5
Convicted murderer arrested again
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GARRETT — The GarrettKeyser-Butler school board will meet Monday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. at Garrett High School, Room 120, Garrett, to discuss a proposed Superintendent of Schools employment contract.
G-K-B plans special needs meeting
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Local Head Starts stay open
G-K-B to hold public hearing tonight
GARRETT —A food drive to help fill the shelves of the Community Care Food Pantry in Garrett is planned Saturday, Oct. 19. Area Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops have volunteered to go from home-to-home collecting food donations. Garrett residents are asked to set non-perishable food donations on their front porches for the drive. Contact Steve Gallaher at 260-226-4094 or Rhonda Shatzer at 357-6383 for more information. The Community Care Food Pantry serves the needs of DeKalb County residents.
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to qualify for the regional round of competition. DeKalb, Eastside and Garrett were previously scheduled to compete at the regional level Oct. 19. Open Class bands performed for the purposes of judging prior to regionals. The Railroader Regiment will compete in the ISSMA regional at Chesterton High School. Garrett is slated to perform at 12:31 p.m. Eastside and DeKalb will compete in the ISSMA regional at Lafayette Jefferson High School. Eastside is the second Class D band to perform at 11:13 a.m. DeKalb is the 11th Class B band to perform, at 7:01 p.m. East Noble will perform at 6:35 p.m.
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUBURN — A DeKalb County man who went to prison for the 1984 murder of an elderly Butler woman is facing legal troubles again. Robert W. Sleek Jr., 60, of the 3300 block of C.R. 427, Waterloo, was arrested Oct. 5 by the Waterloo Police Department on a warrant charging him with theft, a Class D felony. He is scheduled to appear Sleek Monday for an initial hearing in DeKalb Superior Court I. Sleek is accused of taking a generator, ladder and rare electrical components from a yard where he was mowing. Sleek first denied the allegation, then admitted he had taken the items and said he was willing to pay restitution, according to a police affidavit of probable cause for Sleek’s arrest. Police interviewed Sleek about the alleged theft while he was in the DeKalb County Jail, serving a 60-day sentence for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He had pleaded guilty to that offense Aug. 28 in DeKalb Superior Court I. Sleek has served a 50-year prison sentence in the Indiana Department of Correction for his conviction on a charge of murder in the Oct. 5, 1984, stabbing death of 67-year-old Pearl Lemper, who was his neighbor in a duplex. A hunter found her body nine days later in a field near Newville. A DeKalb County jury found Arrested, Page 5
Annual St. Joseph Pumpkin Festival is Sunday GARRETT — St. Joseph Catholic School in Garrett will host its annual Pumpkin Fest on Sunday, Oct. 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the school gym, 300 W. Houston St. Events include a children’s carnival including hockey, shuffleboard, pop toss, cake walk and book walk, bounce house and fishing game. Other activities include a bake sale, creative fingernail polishing, straw maze, face-painting, photo booth and spooky school bus. The student council is sponsoring a pie-baking contest and auction. A homemade beef and noodle dinner will be served in the lunchroom in Bennett Hall. The meal includes mashed potatoes, green beans, drink and a slice of homemade pie for $8. Children’s meals are $4. Local carryout is offered. A hot dog meal for children will also be available. The Home and School Association (HASA) raffle will be held with prizes such as two tickets to a Notre Dame football game, a $500, $250 and $100 cash prize, utility tote with 31 Gifts, and more. Tickets cost $1 each or 6 for $5. Need not be present to win. A wristband is offered for children and adults for $15 each.
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St. Joseph students display prizes to be given away during the school’s annual pumpkin festival Sunday, Oct. 20. In front, from left, are kindergartner Arely Perez and secondgrader Katelyn Joseph with a 31 Bag, and third-grader Noah Buchs with tickets to a Notre Dame football game. In back are first-grader Gabe Gillespie with $500 cash poster, Abby Sexton holding a 31 Bag, Rachel Kilgore with $250 cash prize poster, and Robert McNay with $100 cash poster. This includes a meal and carnival games for the day plus one photo. Individual game tickets cost 25 cents each.
Activities also include a bake sale and St. Joseph students will compete in a pumpkin and scarecrow decorating contest.
For more information about the festival, contact the school at 357-5137. The church is located at 301 W. Houston St.