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GOOD MORNING Students get upcoming days off MSD of Steuben ANGOLA — Students in the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County schools will have a day off due to parent/teacher conferences on Friday, Oct. 25. After-school childcare will not be offered. Angola High School will have parent teacher conferences Wednesday, Oct. 23rd, 3:30-7:10 p.m. Parents may go to the school during that time to meet with teachers. If parents are unable to meet during that time, they may contact the teachers to set up a time to meet them. Friday, Oct 25 will be a professional development day for high school teachers.
Washington impasse ends Senate, House send bill to end shutdown, avoid default to president WASHINGTON (AP) — Up against a deadline, Congress passed and sent a waiting President Barack Obama legislation late Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown, the culmination of an epic political drama that placed the U.S. economy at risk. The Senate voted first, a bipartisan 81-18 at midevening. That cleared the way for a final
285-144 vote in the Republican-controlled House about two hours later on the legislation, which hewed strictly to the terms Obama laid down when the twin crises erupted more than three weeks ago. The legislation would permit the Treasury to borrow normally through Feb. 7 or perhaps a month longer, and fund the government through Jan. 15. More than 2 million federal workers would be
paid — those who had remained on the job and those who had been furloughed. After the Senate approved the measure, Obama hailed the vote and said he would sign it immediately after it reached his desk. “We’ll begin reopening our government immediately and we can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty from our businesses and the American people.” Later, in the House, Rep.
FREMONT — Students in the Fremont Community Schools will have no classes on Oct. 24 because of parent/ teacher conferences and Oct. 25, which is a staff development day.
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BRUSHY PRAIRIE — In the Prairie Heights Community Schools, students will be given the day off Oct. 28 for a staff development day. AMY OBERLIN
Carlin Park Elementary School fifth graders work on original poems during a workshop with children’s author Peggy Archer Wednesday. All
Carlin Park classes had a one-hour session on poetry writing on Wednesday then Archer will conduct writing workshops today.
Author teaches the write stuff BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
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INDIANAPOLIS — An annual Indiana manufacturing survey found the industry is continuing to recover from the recession and is upgrading capabilities to prepare for increased demand. The survey commissioned by the certified public accounting firm of Katz, Sapper & Miller was developed in partnership with Conexus Indiana, the Indiana Manufacturers Association and the Indiana University Kelley School of Business-Indianapolis. More than 70 percent of the manufacturers responding to the survey reported they had resumed investment in capital and labor, and less than 5 percent said they were continuing across-the-board cuts.
Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said, “After two long weeks, it is time to end this government shutdown. It’s time to take the threat of default off the table. It’s time to restore some sanity to this place.” The stock market surged higher at the prospect of an end to the crisis that also had threatened to shake confidence in the U.S. economy overseas. Republicans conceded defeat
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Carlin Park Elementary School fifth-grader Areeba Kazi reads a poem about a dog named Basil during a presentation by children’s author Peggy Archer Wednesday morning in the school gym.
ANGOLA — Carlin Park Elementary School’s fifth graders produced a plethora of poetry in just five minutes Wednesday morning. The students spent 50 minutes listening to children’s author Peggy Archer in the school gym, then she asked them to write a poem. On digital tablets and in composition notebooks, the youths penned rough drafts of original poetry. “I wake up in the morning I go downstairs Yum. My mom is cooking A chocolate eclair,” wrote Valorie Doan. Her classmate Luis Hortato wrote: “I like dragons I like knights I like everything that lurks in the night.” Other students used Halloween themes. Areeba Kazi took Archer’s lead and wrote about her dog, Basil. “I write poetry every day,” Kazi said with a smile. Her poem was about her love of dogs and gardening. Archer encouraged the children to write, and to keep what they write, even if they don’t like it very much at the time. She held up a hodgepodge stack, lined notebook paper, copy paper and even the backs of colored fliers that she used to make the drafts for
ANGOLA — A Department of Child Services visit to a Steuben County home revealed the makings for meth on Tuesday. Jessica L. Marshall, 26, Orland, consented to a search of her house, and the DCS agent found a possible methamphetamine lab, said Steuben County court documents. Steuben County Sheriff’s Department and Orland Police Department conducted a further search and identified Marshall items used to make the illegal drug in the basement. In Marshall’s bedroom, they allegedly found a container with white powder that tested as meth. The Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Section’s Clandestine Drug Lab Team also assisted at the scene. Marshall lives in a house in the 6200 block of North S.R. 327 with three young children. She told Deputy Michael Meeks that she manufactured methamphetamine on Monday while her children were not home, says his report. In her basement, police found two plastic bottles believed to be HCL generators for the manufacture of drugs along with lithium batteries, lighter, fluid, organic solvent and other items used in making the drug. In a trash container outside the house, police discovered used packs of decongestant pills, which contain ephedrine and pseudoephedrine — main ingredients in meth. She was taken into custody
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Will the weather outside get frightful? BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Say it ain’t so. Say it ain’t snow. The sad reality is at least one weather forecasting outlet is calling for possible snow in nearby parts of the Midwest this weekend. Weather maps do not show snow in Indiana’s future — at least not yet. AccuWeather.com reports as waves of colder air sweep southward from Canada, the first snowflakes of the season are possible for some locations in northern portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The combination of progressively colder air and weak disturbances will set the atmosphere up to produce chilly rain showers over the Upper Midwest starting this weekend, predicts AccuWeather. com, which provides weather for
our website, kpcnews.com. The warm waters of the Great Lakes will warm the air slightly but, at the same time, will add some moisture to the the air and make some of the showers heavier. Where the showers are heaviest and the atmosphere cools enough locally, some wet snow can mix in with the rain and could even change to all wet snow. Snow in October is not out of the realm of possibility for northeast Indiana in October. The 30-year average for snowfall in northeast Indiana in October is less than a half-inch. AccuWeather.com is predicting that there could be some frost — more accurately, snow — on those Halloween pumpkins. Through nearly the end of October, the waves of colder air will keep coming from Central SEE WEATHER, PAGE A6
Early Midwest snow? AccuWeather.com is predicting snow for the upper Midwest this weekend. While the forecast for snow doesn’t quite reach Indiana, it is possible that snow could fall in the coming week.
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