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GOOD MORNING Cahoot’s to hold student art show ANGOLA — Cahoot’s Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., will present a student art show starting Monday, Nov. 18, and continuing through Nov. 23. The show will feature artwork done by students from Angola, Fremont, Prairie Heights and Edon-Northwest Ohio schools. The show will also include one independent artist, Cyrus Colyer-Mohamadi. A punch-and-cookie reception will be held Thursday, Nov. 21, from 5-7 p.m., with Angola Mayor Richard Hickman on hand to welcome everyone and offer his congratulations to the artists. There will also be entertainment during the Nov. 21 reception, provided by local piano players Soraya Colyer-Mohamadi and Cyrus Colyer-Mohamadi.
Many offices closed today for Veterans Day
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LaGrange County’s Jean Fremion-McKibben walks toward a Civil War veteran’s headstone in LaGrange’s Greenwood Cemetery that her one-woman organization, Veterans’ Headstone Project, helped replace after wind, rain and
snow left the stone illegible. Fremion-McKibben has replaced more than 30 aging headstones throughout the county and hopes to replace another 28.
So they don’t just fade away BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
LAGRANGE — The light drizzle barely slows Jean Fremion-McKibben as she walks among aging headstones in an older section of LaGrange’s Greenwood Cemetery. Once again, she’s looking at markers of LaGrange County veterans, making sure the men’s names and deeds don’t wash away with the weather. Fremion-McKibben started her one-woman Veterans’ Headstone Project two years ago, picking up on work already started by Jack Miller of LaGrange VFW Post 215 and Allen Connelly, the LaGrange County veterans service officer, men she calls her mentors.
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The nonprofit organization has a mission to “find each and every veteran who’s buried in a LaGrange County grave and make sure their headstones aren’t fading away.” It’s Fremion-McKibben’s way of making sure every veteran buried in LaGrange County is “marked with dignity and honor.” LaGrange County is dotted with many small cemeteries, and many of the stones used to mark the graves of servicemen — men who fought in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, and hundreds who fought in the Civil War — are dissolving and starting to fade away. As many of the headstones become illegible, those men’s SEE HEADSTONE, PAGE A8
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Video at kpcnews.com Jean FremionMcKibben talks more about her work with the Veterans’ Headstone Project in video online at kpcnews.com. Scan the QR code with your tablet or smartphone to see the interview along with several of the restored headstones.
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Many area government offices at the local and federal levels will be closed today for Veterans Day observances. The United States Post Office will not deliver mail today. Most county courthouses and some city hall offices are closed for the day. In addition, many banks are closed for the holliday, or have shortened hours. Most area libraries are also closed today. Special ceremonies are being held throughout the area for Veterans Day.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Celebratory gunshots fired at a girl’s 18th birthday party triggered more gunfire that left two people dead, two critically injured and nearly two-dozen injured in a chaotic scene where people jumped from second-floor windows to escape the shooting at a suburban Houston home, authorities said Sunday. Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said the gathering Saturday night was openly promoted using multiple social media sites, drew more than 100 people, most of them 17- to 19-year-olds, and became a “birthday party gone wild.” He said it appears partygoers were dancing in the home when someone armed with a pistol shot into the air in celebration. In the ensuing confusion, another person who was armed began firing into the crowd, Garcia said. Young people then streamed into the narrow street to avoid the burst of gunshots that followed shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday. Partygoer Shaniqua Brown — who said she heard about the party through Instagram, a photo-sharing app and website — told The Associated Press it “was not rowdy at all.” She said she first heard gunshots in the house and they continued outside as people fled and sought cover. Authorities have given varying accounts of the number of people injured, but they clarified Sunday that 20 were hurt, with 16 suffering gunshot wounds and four others varying injuries such as a fracture and twisted ankles in the panic to flee. The two people killed, one an 18-year-old male and the other a 16-year-old female, were students at Cypress Springs High School, Garcia said. He chastised the party organizers, who advertised the event on social media, saying “you have no control on who to expect at your door.” Authorities are searching for two gunmen, he said, one who’s about 17 years old and the other believed to be about 22. “It’s a horrible combination of immaturity, access to a firearm, and the inability to control one’s self,”
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Family and friends pick up bloody items that were left in a yard in Cypress, Texas, Sunday, after two people were killed and at least 22 others were injured Saturday night when gunfire rang out at a large house party in a Houston suburb, sending partygoers fleeing in panic, authorities said.
he said. Garcia said party organizers arranged to have people searched as they entered the home. “Anytime you have to factor in a bouncer and being searched at the door, you have already taken a turn for the worse,” he said. Sheriff’s spokesman Thomas Gilliland said earlier that deputies were confronted with “mass chaos” when they responded to the call in the residential neighborhood about 25 miles northwest of Houston, adding that “kids were literally everywhere.” He said witnesses reported partygoers jumping from the second floor in their scramble to flee.
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TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — As many as 10,000 people are believed to have died in one Philippine city alone when one of the worst storms on record sent giant sea waves, washing away homes, schools and airport buildings, officials said Sunday. Ferocious winds ravaged several central islands, burying people under tons of debris and leaving corpses hanging from trees. Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla late Saturday and told there were about 10,000 deaths in the province, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings. The governor’s figure was based on reports from village officials in areas where Typhoon Haiyan slammed Friday. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Lim said that the death toll in the city alone “could go up to 10,000.” Tacloban is the Leyte provincial capital of 200,000 people and the biggest city on Leyte Island. On Samar Island, which is facing Tacloban, Leo Dacaynos of the provincial disaster office said Sunday that 300 people were confirmed dead in Basey town and another 2,000 are missing. He said that the storm surge caused sea waters to rise 20 feet when Typhoon Haiyan hit Friday, before crossing to Tacloban. There are still other towns on Samar that have not been reached, he said, and appealed for food and water. Power was knocked out and there was no cellphone signal, making communication possible only by radio. Reports from the other four islands were still coming in, so far with dozens of fatalities. The typhoon barreled through six central Philippine islands on Friday, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside homes with ferocious winds of 147 mph and gusts of 170 mph. By those measurements, Haiyan would be comparable to a strong Category 4 hurricane in the U.S., and nearly in the top category, a 5. It weakened Sunday to 103 mph with stronger gusts and was forecast to loose strength further when it hits northern Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province early this morning. In hardest-hit Tacloban, about 300-400 bodies have already been recovered but there are “still a lot under the debris,” Lim said. A mass burial was planned Sunday in Palo town near Tacloban. Many corpses hung on tree branches, buildings and sidewalks. “On the way to the airport we saw many bodies along the street,” said Philippine-born Australian Mila Ward, 53, who was waiting at the Tacloban airport to catch a military flight back to Manila. “They were covered with just anything — tarpaulin, roofing sheets, cardboards,” she said.