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GOOD MORNING GiaQuinta to address local Democrats ANGOLA — Due to a scheduling conflict, Indiana House Minority Leader Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, is unable to attend the Steuben County Democratic Breakfast GiaQuinta Club on Saturday. State Rep. Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne, will be the main speaker. The event will be held at 6 Autumns Food and Spirits, inside the Ramada Inn, 3855 S.R. 127, Angola, at 9 a.m. The cost is $7 for the breakfast buffet. Reservations are encouraged but not required. Call Lon Keyes at 316-3224 to be assured space.
Trine jazz groups in concert on Sunday ANGOLA — Trine’s Jazz Band and Jazz Combo will perform a fall jazz concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in Fabiani Theatre in the Rick L. and Vicki L. James University Center. Admission is free. Music selections include “Moondance” by Van Morrison and arranged by John Berry, “On Green Dolphin Street” by Kaper/ Washington, arranged by Frank Mantooth, “Here’s That Rainy Day” by Burke/ Van Heusen, arranged by Dave Barduhn, “Chameleon” by Mason/Maupin/Jackson/ Hancock, arranged by Michael Sweeney, and other jazz tunes. The Jazz Band and Jazz Combo are led by Drew Parent, director of jazz bands.
Local organizations honoring veterans Schools and veterans organizations throughout Steuben County will be holding a variety of services to honor veterans starting today. READ MORE ON PAGE A3
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MSD contract appears near BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Metropolitan School District of Steuben County teachers and administrators appear to be near an agreement on a contract. The MSD Board of Education has scheduled an executive session and special meeting for Tuesday to deal with the contract issue. The special meeting, which is open to the public, starts at 7:30 p.m. in the McCutchan
Administration Center, 400 S. Martha St., Angola. The executive session, which is closed, starts at 6:30 p.m. and also includes discussion about school safety systems. The special meeting only lists the master contract on its agenda, along with standard monthly reports. The meetings come after the school district and Angola Classroom Teachers Association were not able to come to
an agreement and had to go into mediation. The Indiana Education Employee Relations Board appointed a mediator. At least one mediation meeting was required and up to three could be held. “We reached a tentative agreement last Tuesday,” said teacher Dan Hochstedler. The teachers’ team and MSD’s administrative team met Oct. 29 following a mediation session on Sunday, Nov. 26.
Another mediation session had been set for this past Friday, but it was called off due to the tentative agreement. The teachers ratified the contract proposal on Sunday, said Hochstedler. “It’s very positive,” Hochstedler said. Tuesday’s special meeting is close to the Nov. 13 deadline for completing contract details. Hochstedler said teachers hope the board ratifies the contract as well.
Youth leaders gather in Steuben BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
LAKE JAMES — More than 150 youth from six counties will attend this weekend’s Extreme Makeover Youth Pod Edition philanthropy conference at Pokagon State Park starting today. The conference is sponsored by the Dekko Foundation. ORLAND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT “We tend to refer to it as a retreat,” said Kimberly Schroeder, Dekko program officer. The event has been held Investigators with the State Fire Marshal’s Office that it was believed Campbell was trapped in the annually for some 20 years. and Steuben County Sheriff’s Department are mobile home, which was a complete loss valued Youth pods from Steuben, still working to determine the cause of a fire that at $15,000, reported Orland Fire Department LaGrange, DeKalb, Noble, claimed the life of Sandra (Hart) Campbell, 73, spokesman Kim Norton. Gonya said the fact that Whitley and Kosciusko counties, at her residence in the 5200 block of North, C.R. Campbell had limited mobility may have contributed in addition to the states of Iowa, 550W in Millgrove Township, near Lake Gage, to her death. Firefighters remained on the scene Alabama and Minnesota, will Wednesday afternoon. Chief Deputy John Gonya for more than five hours after the blaze, which was attend. said the fire was called in by a passerby and then reported at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral informaThis will be Forever Improving a family member who lived at the same parcel in tion for Campbell appears on Page A3. Steuben County Together President a different mobile home. That individual reported Jana Olson’s third retreat and she said the experience is invaluable. She attended other retreats in Michigan and Iowa. FIST is the 15-member youth arm of the Steuben County Community Foundation. All 15 FIST members are supposed to attend the retreat. “It’s actually awesome,” she NEW YORK (AP) — Shares the IPO, but all that was swiftly The narrow price range said. “It’s a humbling experiof Twitter went on sale to the forgotten with the stock’s opening indicated that people felt it was ence. You get to collaborate with public for the first time Thursday, surge. “pretty fairly priced,” said JJ other youth pods and it’s really instantly leaping more than 70 intriguing. This helps the group The most anticipated initial Kinahan, chief strategist at TD percent above their offering price grow and it’s really exciting. We public offering of the year was Ameritrade. in a dazzling debut that exceeded want to thank Dekko and the carefully orchestrated to avoid The immediate price spike even Wall Street’s lofty hopes. community foundation.” the glitches and eventual letdown “clearly shows that demand By the closing bell, the social One thing FIST will look for is that surrounded Facebook’s first exceeds the supply of shares,” said network that reinvented global appearance on the Nasdaq 18 Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. service project ideas at the retreat, communication in 140-character months ago. Earlier in the day, Twitter gave Olson said. Dekko defines youth pods as bursts was valued at $31 billion Trading on the New York a few users rather than executives — nearly as much as Yahoo Inc., Stock Exchange under the symbol the opportunity to ring the NYSE’s groups helping teens discover their talent, learn how to manage a an Internet icon from another era, “TWTR,” shares opened at $45.10, opening bell. The users included and just below Kraft Foods, the 73 percent above their initial actor Patrick Stewart, who played nonprofit organization, play a role in community development and grocery conglomerate founded offering price. Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star work alongside adults to address more than a century ago. In the first few hours, the stock Trek: The Next Generation”; community issues. The youth pods Twitter, which has never turned jumped as high as $50.09. Most Vivienne Harr, a 9-year-old girl encourage the use of philanthropy. a profit in the seven years since of those gains held throughout the who ran a lemonade stand for a Schroeder said youth pods and it was founded, worked hard to day, with Twitter closing at 44.90, year to raise money to end child temper expectations ahead of despite a broader market decline. SEE TWITTER, PAGE A6 SEE YOUTH, PAGE A6
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Twitter shares go wild in IPO
Wallace promoted to JAG captain BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — When Nicholas Wallace isn’t serving as a deputy prosecutor in the Steuben County Prosecutor’s Office, he’s with the Army National Guard 38th Infantry Division in Indianapolis as a captain. Wallace recently was promoted from first lieutenant to captain as a judge advocate general with the Army National Guard 38th Infantry Division in Indianapolis. With the National Guard, he’s a military attorney. He has been with the National Guard since last year, when he was directly commissioned as an officer. Wallace said it’s a standard promotion in that short of an amount of time. With the
rank, there’s more responsibility, Wallace said. “I think I’m following a natural progression. It was my desire to serve,” said Wallace, an Auburn native and DeKalb High School graduate. “I’m the first one in my family to be in the military. I go in one weekend per month, and we’re there to serve other soldiers and do pro-bono legal work.” Wallace said his legal work involves military law, such as writing wills for deployed soldiers and handling fiscal law. Along the way, Wallace was required to accomplish additional training. For three months, he studied military law in Charlottesville, Va. That was followed by completion of a six-week direct SEE JAG, PAGE A6
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Steuben County Prosecutor’s Office deputy prosecutor Nicholas Wallace, right, has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain as a judge advocate general in the Indiana Army National Guard. Here, he is congratulated by Col. Steve Sonnega, who serves as the elected prosecutor of Morgan County. As a JAG, Wallace provides pro-bono military law legal counsel to soldiers.