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GOOD MORNING Man dies, one serious in wreck BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
LIGONIER — One man was killed and another seriously injured in a crash on U.S. 33 Wednesday evening, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department said. Mario Alberto Reyes, 25, of Ligonier died in the crash. His passenger, Vincente Martinez, 23, of Ligonier was airlifted by helicopter to Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, with serious head injuries. Police reports said officers initially were called to the scene on U.S. 33 north of Elkhart C.R. 50 at 5:41 p.m. on a report of drag racing. The crash scene is five miles west of Ligonier, and the Ligonier Police Department was the first to arrive at the scene, reports said. Reyes’ 2008 Dodge car was traveling southbound on U.S. 33 when it crossed the center line and ran off the road into a ditch, deputies said. It flipped several times before stopping in a field east of U.S. 33. Reyes was wearing a seatbelt, deputies said; Martinez was not, and he was ejected from the car. The case remains under investigation by the Elkhart County Crash Investigation Team. Reports from the scene indicate the other vehicle in the reported drag race may have been an older model sport-utility vehicle, possibly a Cadillac Escalade.
Six people sickened by carbon monoxide CARMEL (AP) — Authorities say six people were taken to a hospital after carbon monoxide from a running SUV filled an apartment building in suburban Indianapolis. Firefighters reported finding carbon monoxide in all seven units of the Legacy Towns and Flats building in Carmel late Wednesday. Fire Capt. Kurt Weddington tells WTHR-TV that 13 people were evacuated from the building, with seven of them declining medical treatment after being checked for carbon monoxide exposure. Weddington says the SUV was parked inside a closed garage on the lower level and that carbon monoxide spread throughout the building. Near-fatal levels of the gas were found in some apartments.
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The day that changed history Angola woman finds family letter from afar BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Many people have been digging out memorabilia from that tragic day 50 years ago when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. For an Angola woman, it was a letter sent to her mother from a cousin in Austria. The German-written letter is dated Nov. 26, 1963, four days after Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas. It was sent from Graz, Austria, by Steffi Frank to her cousin, the mother of Dolores Tichenor, Angola. Tichenor recently discovered the letter while digging through
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President John F. Kennedy, May 29, 1917 — November 22, 1963.
A German-written letter dated Nov. 26, 1963, from Graz, Austria, expresses deep sorrow of the news of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy four days earlier. The letter was written by Steffi Frank, a relative of Dolores Tichenor, Angola.
correspondence she’s received over the years. Tichenor translated the letter that reads: “Dear cousins, Completely shaken by the horrible Tichenor word of the loss of Kennedy’s precious life, I share my deepest sympathy in your pain. We had a radio broadcast direct from America. I include a cutting from the newspaper.” The remainder of the letter is family news. “She wrote it immediately after” receiving word of the young president’s death, Tichenor said. “I got a whole packet of letters … This caught my eye when I saw ‘Kennedy.’ I translated it and with the 50th anniversary, I thought, ‘Oh, how interesting.’” Tichenor speculated why Frank was moved to write. “She was German speaking and I think they really liked Kennedy when he went to Berlin,” Tichenor said. The letter provoked Tichenor to recall when she learned of JFK’s assassination. She was a student at then Mundelein College in Chicago. “I was in college and on campus. I remember going in and watching TV there. It must have been a student lounge, but people were just stunned,” Tichenor said. Tichenor said she thinks the loss of JFK was one of the greatest defining moments of her generation. She said that could also be part of why his loss is still felt 50 years later.
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The eternal flame burns atop at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.
Nation reflects 50 years after JFK assassination DALLAS (AP) — Loose gatherings of the curious and conspiracy-minded at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza have marked past anniversaries of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, featuring everything from makeshift memorials to marching drummers to discussions about who else might have been in on the killing. But in the place where the president’s motorcade passed through and shots rang out on Nov. 22, 1963, a solemn ceremony on the 50th anniversary of his death designed to avoid such distractions will include brief remarks by the mayor and the tolling of church bells.
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views about JFK’s assassination, 50 years later. SEE PAGE B4.
It’s an approach that will be mirrored today in Boston, where the JFK Library and Museum will open a small exhibit of never-before-displayed items from Kennedy’s state funeral and host a musical tribute that will be closed to the public, and in Washington, where President Barack Obama will meet privately at the White House with leaders and volunteers from the Kennedy-established SEE KENNEDY, PAGE A9
Trine, Parkview in doctoral partnership BY LINDA LIPP llipp@kpcmedia.com
FORT WAYNE — Parkview Health will partner with Trine University to offer the school’s new doctorate program in physical therapy. The program will be offered, beginning next fall, in space on the Parkview Hospital Randallia campus in Fort Wayne. The former Fort Wayne Cardiology building will house state-of-the-art anatomy labs, clinical labs and classrooms as well as study space and a dining area. “The partnership of Parkview Health and Trine’s School of
Health Studies affords our students professional, clinical experiences and internships. We are grateful for Parkview’s commitment to Trine and the region by helping to bring a physical therapy doctorate program to the area,” Trine President Earl Brooks II said in a prepared statement. The official announcement of the physical therapy degree was set for a press conference Nov. 21. It is the latest degree program to be offered since the Life Science Education and Research Consortium of Northeast Indiana, founded by Trine, Parkview and other
educational partners, was launched in 2011. It has been in the works since the beginning. Trine and Huntington University already are offering other classes in the former cardiology building. The University of Saint Francis initially planned to offer a doctorate degree in nursing there, but put that plan on hold. Ivy Tech Community College Northeast had proposed moving its health-sciences and nursing programs and the 2,000 students enrolled in them to the nearby Carew Medical Park building, at 1819 Carew St., but could not come up with the funding it
needed to make that happen. That building has not been put to use by the consortium. Huntington University is using the Randallia space for a program that allows registered nurses to obtain bachelor’s degrees in nursing as well as a master’s in counseling. Trine offers courses leading to bachelor’s degrees in health-care management and emergency management, and a master’s degree in biomedical regulatory affairs. Trine is currently enrolling students for the physical-therapy doctorate. For more information, visit Trine.edu/DPT.