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GOOD MORNING Youth offer free Thanksgiving meal
Ritz, Sen. Glick at forefront of education plan
FREMONT — Firehouse Ministries International at the Fremont Youth Center, 112 E. Toledo St., will offer a free Thanksgiving dinner noon-4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 28. The meal will offer turkey, green beans, mashed potatoes, rolls and pies. All are invited and donations are needed. For more details, call 517-320-6999.
Carnegie to provide after school art ANGOLA — Carnegie Public Library, 322 S. Wayne St., will offer students after school art for ages kindergarten and up today at 3:45 p.m. Students will make gingerbread decorations. For more details, call 665-3362.
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Fremont Elementary School students sing and illustrate with gestures the song “God Bless America” during a Veterans Day program in
the school gym Monday afternoon. Students presented a variety of readings and musical selections for assembled veterans and guests.
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Hamilton holiday horse-drawn lighted parade is Nov. 30
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HAMILTON — The 13th annual Old Time Christmas Parade in Hamilton will take place Saturday, Nov. 30, at dusk. The horse-drawn lighted parade units will travel through downtown Hamilton to the parade’s end at Gnagy Park. The event, sponsored by the Hamilton Area Chamber of Commerce, is the largest horsedrawn lighted parade in northeast Indiana. Forty teams of horses and wagons from the DeKalb County Horsemen’s Association, Steuben County, southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio will participate. For more information, contact Paul Headley at 668-5029.
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FREMONT — A Fremont High School junior who has aspirations to be a U.S. Coast Guard officer planned and conducted a Veterans Day ceremony for his classmates and staff Monday. Hunter Price comes from a family of veterans and active military personnel. His grandfather, Jim Price, is a U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran and brother, Payton Windsor, serves in the Army National Guard. “I decided about a month ago in student council. My inspiration was my grandpa, who J. Price served in the Army and Vietnam War,” Hunter said about the ceremony and added it was from “hearing stories from other veterans coming back to the U.S. and getting no respect. I have a chance to honor the generation now.” The ceremony featured the presentation of colors by the Fremont American Legion Post 257 and speaker Tom Davis, a military veteran who lost the lower part of his leg in an Iraq explosion. “People don’t understand sacrifices,” Davis told students. SEE VETERANS, PAGE A6
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Fremont High School junior Hunter Price, right, organized a Veterans Day ceremony Monday that included Iraqi War veteran Tom Davis, left, speaking to students. Davis told students it’s important to learn about those who served or are serving in the military. He challenged students to serve others by helping those in need.
FORT WAYNE — On Veterans Day, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz announced two new programs aimed to help military veterans and current soldiers. Ritz is joining with state Sen. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange, to propose a new program designed to attract veterans to earn teaching degrees. Ritz also announced a new literacy partnership with the Indiana National Guard. During stops in Fort Wayne and South Bend Monday, Ritz said she and Glick are drafting legislation for a new scholarship program known as Second Service. It would offer two- and four-year scholarships and convert military training and experience into college credits to help Indiana veterans earn degrees in K-12 education from universities in Indiana. A participant would be required to teach in an Indiana school for one year. “It looks like a win-win if we can put it together — both for education and the people coming back from service,” Glick said Monday about Second Service. Glick said the proposal would work together with other recent changes allowing college credit for military training. With Mideast wars winding down, Glick said, “We’re having more and more of these young people coming back from the military, and we’re helping we can get them trained and employed as soon as possible.” “I want to ensure that the men and women who have served our country as airmen, Marines, sailors and soldiers have an opportunity to serve our state and, ultimately, our nation, as educators,” Ritz said. “The Second Service incentive program would offer financial assistance and college credits to any post 9-11 veteran who has a strong desire to continue serving Hoosiers in the classroom.” Ritz added, “Veterans have the skills, experiences and work ethic needed to manage a classroom. They understand what it means to serve their community, and I can’t SEE EDUCATION, PAGE A6
Philippines left in ruins, chaos
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TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and desperate survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine as rescue workers took on a daunting task Monday in the typhoon-battered islands of the Philippines. Thousands were feared dead. The hard-hit city of Tacloban resembled a garbage dump from the air, with only a few concrete buildings left standing in the wake of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit land, packing 147-mph winds and whipping up 20-foot walls of seawater that tossed ships inland and swept many out to sea. “Help. SOS. We need food,” read a message painted by a survivor in large letters on the ravaged city’s port, where water lapped at the edge. There was no one to carry away the dead, which lay rotting along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city along the country’s remote eastern seaboard. At a small naval base, eight swollen corpses — including that of a baby — were submerged in water brought in by the storm. Officers had yet to move them, saying they had no body bags or electricity to
Students lend a hand at Pokagon Students attending a Dekko Foundation leadership conference at Pokagon State Park this weekend huffed and puffed their way up Hell’s Point, a very steep trail in Pokagon. Students also picked up trash while hiking the trails. There were numerous programs presented over the weekend. FRED WOOLEY
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