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GOOD MORNING State House minority leader to address Steuben Democrats ANGOLA — The Steuben County Democratic Central Committee will host state House Minority Leader Scott Pelath of Michigan City to its winter breakfast on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 9 a.m. The Pelath event is the latest in a series of breakfast events featuring high profile Democrats hosted by the Steuben Democratic Party. It will be the last breakfast of 2013, said Judy Rowe, party chair. The breakfast buffet is served at 6 Autumns restaurant at the Ramada Inn, 3855 N. S.R. 127. The cost is $7. Reservations are encouraged but not required. The public is welcome. Call Lon Keyes at 316-3224 for more information or to reserve a space.
Coffee With a Cop coming to Angola again on Tuesday ANGOLA — Coffee With a Cop will again be held Tuesday at Sutton’s Deli, 140 N. Public Square, from 8-10 a.m. The event serves for the public to visit with members of the Angola Police Department about concerns, Angola Police Chief Stu Hamblen said. Last month’s event, the first held, was highly successful and well attended, Hamblen said.
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attention and was featured on an episode of the television show “America’s Most Wanted.” Musilek and her family set up a reward, offering $20,000 to the person who helps identify and convict her father’s killer. But so far, no one has come forward to collect that reward. The local prosecutor’s office said, like any murder case, the Anderson investigation is still active. So, Sunday, Musilek and her family will drive to Mongo from their Chicago home and once again commemorate the memory of her father’s and stepmother’s deaths. It’s always a difficult day for the entire Musilek family. The Rev. James Bartlett of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans’ clear defeat in the budget-debt brawl has widened the rift between the Grand Old Party and the blossoming tea party movement that helped revive it. Implored by House Speaker John Boehner to unite and “fight another day” against President Barack Obama and Democrats, Republicans instead intensified attacks on one another, an ominous sign in advance of more difficult policy fights and the 2014 midterm elections. The tea party movement spawned by the passage of Obama’s health care overhaul three years ago put the GOP back in charge of the House and in hot pursuit of the law’s repeal. The effort hit a wall this month in the budget and debt fight, but tea partyers promised to keep up the effort. Whatever the future of the troubled law, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell vowed he would not permit another government shutdown. “I think we have now fully acquainted our new members with what a losing strategy that is,” McConnell said in an interview with The Hill newspaper. Tea party Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told ABC News he wouldn’t rule out using the tactic again, when the same budget and debt questions come up next year. “I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare,” Cruz said. That divide defined the warring Republican factions ahead of the midterm elections, when 35 seats in the Democratic-controlled Senate and all 435 seats in the Republican-dominated House will be on the ballot. In the nearer term, difficult debates over immigration and farm policy loom, along with another round of budget and debt talks. The animosity only intensified as lawmakers fled Washington this week for a few days’ rest. The Twitterverse crackled with threats, insults and the names of
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Part of the Angola Marching Hornets horn section sits on tarps on the field while
performing, “Reaching Out.” The band will be in regional competition today in Chesterton.
AHS marching to regionals BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
CHESTERTON — The Angola Marching Hornets hit the field at 2:28 p.m. in the first round of Indiana State School Music Association marching band competitions today. Angola competes in ISSMA’s Open Class in Class C in today’s regional competition. The Marching Hornets arrived at Chesterton High School fresh from a well-received show at the ISSMA Open Class Exhibition last Saturday in Fort Wayne. The 2013 show, “Reaching Out,” earned awards of distinction
in music, general effect and visual effect. “The ISSMA invitational performance was without a doubt the strongest performance of the year,” said director Kevin Fogle. “Reaching Out” uses challenging music from Michael Kamen’s “The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms.” Choreography includes jumps and leaping gestures in keeping with imagery from the reaching hands in a Michelangelo fresco, “The Creation of Adam,” found in the Sistine Chapel. The show has done well
in the first part of the season. Judges have said the students are performing at a high level, playing complicated music with a complex show. “To prepare for the regional we listen to the feedback from the six adjudicators, review the video and apply the suggestions to our show as we work on peaking our performance for the final weeks of the season,” Fogle said. If Angola is a top act at regionals, it will advance to the ISSMA Open Class semi-state Oct. 26 at Decatur Central High School in Indianapolis.
Survivors mark murder’s passing Double homicide remains unsolved 8 years later BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
MONGO — It’s been nearly eight years since her father and stepmother were murdered, but when October arrives, Sherry Musilek says she becomes a very different person. “Yeah, every year when October comes around, I go into a different mood,” she said. “I can’t help but think, ‘Here comes another memorial.’” Musilek’s father, Mongo resident Terry Anderson, and his wife, Darlene, were murdered eight years ago. Their case remains unsolved, so Musilek once again will mark the anniversary of their deaths by holding a somber memorial service in the Mongo cemetery
where the Andersons are buried. This year’s ceremony takes place Sunday at 1 p.m. “It’s been another year without any leads,” said Eric Musilek, Sherry’s husband. Early on the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, the bodies of Anderson and his wife were found brutally murdered at their rural Mongo home. Darlene Anderson’s body was discovered inside the house, Terry Anderson’s body was found near the house in his shop. Several unique and antique weapons Terry Anderson owned turned up missing, along with several collectible coins he and his wife had. None of those items ever have been ever been found. The crime attracted national
REMC shows destruction of high voltage BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Human contact with high-voltage power lines can have devastating and deadly results. Steuben County Rural Electric Membership Corp. officials demonstrated to local emergency services personnel the potential destructive effects of high voltage on Thursday. The demonstration was at the Angola Fire Department for Steuben County first responders during a class on electrical safety. Matt Lorntz, a veteran REMC lineman, did the demonstration as his colleagues, lineman Gary Ritter and energy adviser Josh Durbin, watched and explained the demonstration, which used a hot dog. Lorntz exposed the hot dog to the live wire and it sputtered and sparked. “Hot dogs are closest to the human body to show how 7,200 volts or 12,500 volts” affects the human body, said Jaime Walker, director of REMC director services. “It definitely does damage internally. It cooks like a microwave from the inside out.” SEE TRAINING, PAGE A5
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Mike Lorntz, a lineman for Steuben County Rural Electric Membership Corp., demonstrates the effects of high voltage on a hot dog Thursday. The demonstration
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was part of a class on electrical safety for Steuben County first responders. Looking on is Gary Ritter, another REMC lineman.
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