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May 12, 2017
Festival Choir sings many stories of faith By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Holland Elementary School Early Act Club members hold the hygiene items the school gathered for the FWCS Family and Community Engagement Center.
Early Act Club celebrates service By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
Rylee Schenkel could teach a course on effective leadership. For the moment,
though, Rylee is as busy as any fifth-grader needs to be. The president of the Early Act Club at Holland Elementary School in Fort Wayne has to think beyond three service proj-
ects this year, and leave things in order for August when he moves on to the halls of Jefferson Middle School. When he chaired a recent meeting under the
Artists and their boosters fill Empty Bowls luncheon By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
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Willie Mae Tubbs (front) and Kim StilesDixie rehearse with the Festival Choir.
offering will be accepted. The choir also performed April 30 at Town House Retirement Community, and May 11 at Destiny Life Center on Warsaw See CHOIR, Page A11
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Seth Green, Kelly Grant and Brooke Fuerst serve soup at Empty Bowls at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne. Green is the assistant professor of ceramics at IPFW. Grant is president of the IPFW Ceramics Guild, of which Fuerst is a member.
bowl. They also enjoyed soup and bread donated by local restaurants. Ceramics Guild President Kelly Grant said each bowl is unique. “It’s not machine-made,” she said. “People like to have a bowl that someone made. And it’s a fun thing to do. “No two [bowls] look the same, weigh the same,
feel the same.” Green, the assistant professor, said Empty Bowls is a national program. “Usually it’s a community of potters who get together and make bowls and they donate the proceeds from the sale of the bowls to charitable See BOWLS, Page A15
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The lunch line began forming almost as soon as Empty Bowls began at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne. Soon the supply of 300 specially made ceramics bowls had been reduced by half, and lunchgoers kept arriving. The Advanced Ceramics Class at IPFW presented the May 2 event as a networking opportunity and as a fundraiser, primarily for Community Harvest Food Bank. Art students and teachers from DeKalb and Huntington North high schools also created and donated bowls. Seth Green, the assistant professor of ceramics at IPFW, set the project in motion. The IPFW Ceramics Guild shared in the work and planning. For a donation of $15, guests selected a ceramic
supervision of fifth-grade adviser Lizzie Pope, he helped to direct the enthusiasm to the ultimate goal of the Kids Against
When Faith United Methodist Church welcomed the Festival Choir, John Agnew and Willie Mae Tubbs were part of a guest concert at their home church. The 25-voice choir has performed at churches, long-term care centers and prisons since 1985. Tubbs is one of five original members still singing spiritual music throughout the area. The Festival Choir performed May 6 at Faith U.M.C., 207 E. Dewald St., as part of the church’s “Walking by Faith for 150 Years” celebration. The choir will close its spring season at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, June 4, at Forest Park United Methodist Church, 2100 Kentucky Ave., Fort Wayne. A free-will
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