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GOOD MORNING Police probe death of Mongo resident MONGO — Police are investigating the death of a Mongo man early Thursday. Kelly J. Morgan, 43, was found dead in a home in the 3100 block of North C.R. 780E shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday, the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department said. An autopsy has been scheduled.
New artists’ group forming locally ANGOLA — Two meetings will be held this month to establish a new artists’ cooperative. Anne Schueler and members of Gallery 65 will meet Tuesday, Aug. 20, and Wednesday, Aug. 21, from 6-8 p.m. at the Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County. They will discuss plans for the cooperative to be an outlet for local artists of all media to do their work, give lessons and perform. An advisory board will be established. The meetings are open to the public. All artists are encouraged to attend. For more information, call Schueler at 667-8192.
BRIAN GLICK
The final steel beam that will make up the frame of the new Cameron Memorial Community Hospital is lowered into place Friday during a topping off ceremony at the construction site. The
beam was signed by those attending the ceremony, which is a tradition among the iron work trades. Look for video of the event next week at kpcmedia.com.
Cameron tops off steel work Milestone in hospital construction celebrated in topping off ceremony BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
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Angola Mayor Dick Hickman puts his signature to the ceremonial final steel beam to be erected in the frame of the new Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola on Friday afternoon. More than 100 people signed the beam prior to its placement in the hospital’s framework.
ANGOLA — Community support was everywhere when Greg Burns presided over a topping out ceremony for the new Cameron Memorial Community Hospital. Listening to the hospital’s CEO were scores of hospital employees, dignitaries, donors and supporters of the project, which is a $42 million new hospital project that is currently underway. “A year from now we will be back here again to celebrate the opening of the hospital,” Burns said to a crowd of more than 100 people. U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Howe, pointed out that one key word in Cameron’s full name —
Community — was indicitive of such an undertaking. “That’s what it takes for this project to happen,” Stutzman said. Burns pointed out there were numerous northeast Indiana companies working on the project. Hagerman Construction, Fort Wayne, is the general contractor, along with Jim Ingledue Construction, Angola. There are numerous subcontractors working on the project from northeast Indiana, and the steel is being supplied by Steel Dynamics. Prior to the final piece of steel being hoisted to its place with more than 1 million pounds of steel, it was painted white, emblazoned with the Cameron name and logo and signed by most SEE CAMERON, PAGE A6
Historic mill to close
City man gets 54 months
BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
sister, grew up working in the mill with his mother and father.He left Greenfield Mills after high school to learn mechanics and spent more than 20 years away from home, working at various car dealerships in the area. He and his family — his wife and two adult children — decided to return to Greenfield Mills nine years ago to take over the struggling mill from his mother. Several of the county’s larger bakeries have closed in the last two decades, forcing operations such as Greenfield Mills to look elsewhere for business.
FORT WAYNE — An Angola man was sentenced in U.S. District Court Friday for counterfeiting. Scot Silvers, 47, was sentenced by District Judge Theresa L. Springmann to 54 months of imprisonment, two years of supervised release and $1,342 in restitution after pleading guilty to the felony offenses of production Silvers and trafficking in counterfeit device, fraud with identification documents, and uttering counterfeit obligations. Also, the United States was granted forfeiture of the electronic devices he used to commit the crimes. Court documents said Silvers used a sophisticated arrangement of a color printer and scanner technology in attempts to create counterfeit money. The paper currency was detected by department store employees who applied standard, anti-counterfeit procedures during check out by an
SEE GREENFIELD MILLS, PAGE A6
SEE SILVERS, PAGE A6
GREENFIELD MILLS — David Rinkel isn’t exactly sure just what his next move is. Rinkel, the owner of Greenfield Mills, a LaGrange County water-powered mill that has been part of the local landscape for nearly 170 years, said this week that he is shutting down the LaGrange County institution and putting it up for sale. Greenfield Mills, which has been producing New Rinkel brand flours and pancake mixes for generations, has been operated by the Rinkel family for over a century. Rinkel, 58, admits that shutting down his family’s business was not an easy decision to reach. “What are you going to do? It’s been in my family for 109 years, how do you shut down something like this?” he said, gesturing to the mill behind him. The mill was built in the northeast corner of LaGrange County not long after the first settlers started to arrive. It used the Fawn River to power the mill,
PATRICK REDMOND
Greenfield Mills, a 167-year-old business in LaGrange County, has announced it will be shutting down and closing its doors this year. Owner David Rinkel, whose family has run the mill for 109 years, said the mill no longer is making ends meet.
and later to spin two water-driven turbines that generated enough electricity to run the mill, with enough surplus to create the state’s smallest power utility. Rinkel made the announcement about shutting down the mill on its Facebook page. He wrote, “It is with deep emotion and sadness that I write to inform you that Greenfield Mills will be closing, and is for sale. We have tried our hardest over the past 9 years to keep the Mill and legacy that it has going, but with the economy we just can’t make ends meet.” Rinkel, like his brothers and