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NEWS IN BRIEF School board to meet tonight
Santa to visit Garrett Friday morning GARRETT — Santa Claus will arrive in downtown Garrett on Friday, Nov. 29 at 11 a.m. The Garrett Fire Department will escort him to the Silver Screen Cinema, 111 S. Randolph St., where he will greet children inside. Children should bring their Christmas lists, and parents are welcome to take photos during this session. Santa will be giving free treats to all the kids, and Deb Argast will offer free face painting in the theater lobby. Donations of canned goods and other non-perishable food items are welcome. The donations will be taken to a local food bank. The Kiwanis Club is sponsoring Santa’s visit.
Food drive, community service set Tuesday GARRETT — The Garrett Ministerial Association is hosting a “Fill the Trailer Food Drive” and a community Thanksgiving service. The community is asked to drop off non-perishable food items at a trailer located at Miller’s Merry Manor parking lot through Tuesday to be delivered to the Community Care Food Pantry. A community Thanksgiving service is planned Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Miller’s Merry Manor, 1367 S. Randolph St., Garrett, with refreshments to follow.
High school conducting food drive GARRETT — Garrett High School’s annual Christmas food drive will continue through Dec. 11. At the end of the Christmas drive, members of the student council will box the donations and deliver them to the Community Care Food Pantry in Garrett.
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Garrett choirs presenting Christmas musical
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GARRETT — The GarrettKeyser-Butler School Board will meet tonight at 6 p.m. in high school room 120. Agenda reports include: • Personalized Learning update from Tonya Weaver; • Garrett Bullying protocol from Dennis Stockdale; • Character Counts/Railway Café Fundraiser from Katie Treesh and students; and • Balanced calendar updateTonya Weaver The board will consider recommendations to: • approve the second reading of an Anti-Bully policy; •approve Greg Myers to attend the AASA National Conference on Education in Nashville, TN from Feb. 13-15, 2014; • accept the 2014 Tax Anticipation Loan rate bid from Garrett State Bank; • accept the 2013-2014 Safe Haven and 2014 Secured Schools Safety Program grant awards; • approve the The Academy (Personalized Learning) field trip to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio on Dec. 11,2013; • dispose of Worthless Personal Property; • dispose of and accept the current buyback pricing from Vintage Tech at $65.00 per 2010 iPad original; • extra-curricular fundraiser from Character Counts to benefit Proteus Syndrome, a rare disease. The Railway Café is requesting approval to match funds received from Character Counts. All funds received to be presented to afflicted family to offset costs incurred.
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Dessert cabaret offered prior to each performance Photos by Sue Carpenter
ABOVE —Hailey Jacobs, 2, watches as her sister, Brooklyn Jacobs, 7, places a family ornament on the City Christmas Tree by City Hall in downtown Garrett. Residents are invited to bring ornaments throughout the holiday season. Ornaments will be stored for future use. At left, this group rides Saturday’s horse parade in downtown Garrett.
Showcase of churches set Dec. 8 GARRETT — Eight Garrett churches have joined together to present the first “Showcase of Churches” on Sunday, Dec. 8, from 1-4 p.m. The community is invited to take a Christmas walk through these churches in celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. The event is at no charge to the public, but each church will have a basket for a freewill offering that will be combined and then equally divided
between St. Martins’ and Community Care food pantries. Participating churches are • First Baptist Church, 1357 S. Randolph St.; • First Church of Christ, 213 E. King St.; • Church at Garrett, 1370 S. Randolph; • Garrett Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Franklin St.; • Garrett United Methodist Church, 110 W. Houston; • St. Joseph Catholic Church, 300 W. Houston St.;
• Living Waters Community Church, 711 S. Randolph St.; and • Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1349 S. Randolph St. The Garrett community has a long history of supporting each other whenever a need arises. This tradition has been passed down from generation-to-generation, from familyto-family, and from the fellowship of Garrett’s community of churches.
GARRETT — Garrett is combining its fall all-school musical and middle and high school choral concerts into one big event on Saturday, Dec. 7 The mixed choirs will present “A 1949s Radio Christmas Carol” in two performances, the first at 2:30 p.m. and the second at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. The event begins with a dessert cabaret served prior to each show, the first at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Audience members will be greeted by live carolers and invited to choose from a wide variety of desserts such as pie, cake, cheesecake, cookies, brownies and fruit salad, as well as kid-friendly and sugar free options. Beverages served will be coffee, hot chocolate, punch and water. Audience members will be seated tables, eat desserts and will be entertained by Christmas songs sung by the middle and high school choirs. They will be guided back to the Performing Arts Center for the musical. This an extremely heartfelt musical that takes place December 1943 at Christmas time, in Newark, New Jersey. It is a small radio show broadcast of ‘A Christmas Carol’, where there are lots of twists and turns. There are comical moments as well as emotionally heartfelt moments. The audience will laugh and cry. Throughout the musical, will be Christmas music from the early 1940s era sung by the cast featuring the Garrett middle school and high school choirs. Reserved seating tickets are on sale now for $10 each and include the Dessert Cabaret and the musical performance. Tickets can be purchased in the high school choir room from Jennifer Fast at 357-4114, ext. 3124 or through e-mail at jfast@gkb.k12.in.us. Audience members can park in the Performing Arts Center parking lot and enter door No. 10. Tickets will also be sold at the door the day of the performances 30 minutes prior to each dessert time.
City, nation mourns fallen president in 1963 50 Years Ago, Nov. 25 The nation mourned the loss of President John F. Kennedy at a requiem Mass at St. Matthews Roman Catholic Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 25, 1963. Longtime Kennedy family friend Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston officiated. The terrible news of the president’s assassination reached Garrett early afternoon Friday and was met with disbelief. But radio and television reports changed the emotion to dismay, shock and sorrow, according to local newspaper reports.
Residents stopped at local businesses and on the sidewalks downtown to share the tragic LOOKING news. A moment BACK of silence was Stories from held prior to the The Garrett Garrett-Concordia basketball game Clipper just before the archives playing of the national anthem that night in the Railroader gym. Principal Donald French stepped to the microphone and asked all in attendance, a reported
capacity crowd, to stand for a moment of silent tribute and prayer for the late president. “The people stood in an instant and the silence was profound,” according to reports. Garrett Mayor Fred Feick announced all city businesses would be closed on Nov. 25 in memory of the president, and declared a day of mourning in the community and asked all citizens to observe the day in their most personal way. All public and parochial schools closed for the day, as did the post office. All county offices closed
and local independent grocery stores closed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced it would halt all trains for minute at 11 a.m. Monday in memory of the late president. Other operations in the company would also cease for one minute at that time. Several Garrett churches held special memorial services both in the morning and afternoon on Nov. 25. The Garrett American Legion held a special service in the middle of the 100 block of North Randolph St.
Bracelets bring Christmas cheer to needy in Garrett Order deadline is Dec. 6 By Sue Carpenter scarpenter@kpcmedia.com GARRETT — A J.E. Ober fourthgrader is using her talents to help those in need. Baylee Werkheiser, 9, is creating rubber band bracelets in multiple colors and selling them for $2 apiece. She originally planned to donate $1 to the Garrett Christmas Bureau and use any leftover money to buy more supplies. “We didn’t spend that much on the bands,” her mother, Stephanie Werkheiser said, “so we decided to give it all to them.” Werkheiser said they plan to use the money to purchase items requested for the Christmas Bureau.
The whole idea started when Baylee’s grandmother, Judy Werkheiser, brought home a kit of colorful rubber bands from a hobby store. “She wondered if Baylee would like these to make friendship bracelets,” Stephanie Werkheiser said. “And she gave them to Baylee for Halloween and that’s how it all started.” Baylee went online and watched a video on You Tube to find how to create the fishtail bracelets. It turned out the ones on the Internet were not the same — but Baylee liked these better. “I just watched it once and figured it out,” she said. Her mom said Baylee has always been Bracelets, Page 5
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Baylee Werkheiser, 9, shows the bracelets she is selling to benefit the Christmas bureau.