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GOOD MORNING Kendallville chamber seeks new executive KENDALLVILLE — The Kendallville Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking a new executive director. The chamber executive committee announced that Mike Walton has left the executive director position, effective Friday. Walton had been with the chamber the last three years. The chamber board is accepting applications for the position. The executive board said a priority for the new executive is to “take the chamber to the next level and to grow member benefits.” Until a new executive is in place, the office at 122 S. Main St. will be staffed by Lisa Wolf, office manager, and Sara Fisher, chamber administrator.
Indy airport helps fall break travelers INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis International Airport is offering a deal on parking for fall break travelers. It says parking stays of seven days or more in its Terminal Garage that begin between Oct. 4 and Oct. 27 will cost $14 per day for customers parking on the fifth floor of the garage.
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Senate passes bill, but little hope seen for compromise WASHINGTON (AP) — Time running short, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed urgent legislation Friday to avert a government shutdown early next MATT GETTS week, and President Barack Obama State Trooper Justin Snyder show how they As East Noble Middle School staff members lectured House Republicans to would respond to an active-shooter scenario at line the hallway to watch, Noble County Sheriff’s stop “appeasing the tea party” and the school. Department Deputy Todd Webber and Indiana quickly follow suit. Despite the presidential plea — and the urgings of their own leaders — House GOP rebels showed no sign of retreat in their drive to use the threat of a shutdown to uproot the nation’s three-year-old health care law. “We now move on to the next stage of this battle,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who is a face of the “Defund Obamacare” BY MATT GETTS Friday’s scenario was designed campaign in the Senate and is in mgetts@kpcmedia.com by Indiana State Police Trooper close contact with allies in the KENDALLVILLE — Four James Bailey of DeKalb County House. minutes and 37 seconds. and Trooper Marc Leatherman First effects of a shutdown That’s how long it took for a of Noble County. An officer could show up as early as Tuesday lone gunman to kill 26 people at portraying a lone gunman entered if Congress fails to approve money Sandy Hook Elementary School the building, shooting at students to keep the government going by in Connecticut last December. from Impact Institute law enforce- the Monday-midnight start of the The staff at East Noble Middle ment instructor Mark Farren’s new fiscal year. School got a first-hand look at class. “Think about who you are what that scenario could be like The gunman then went hurting” if government services in its hallways — and how to upstairs. With more of Farren’s are interrupted, the president said deal with it — as the Indiana students running wildly through at the White House, as House State Police put on a special the halls, Kendallville Police Speaker John Boehner pondered training session Friday morning Department Cpl. Doug Davis his next move in a fast-unfolding in Kendallville. entered the building as the first showdown — not only between “It is a very intense thing for responding officer. Sticking true Republicans and Democrats but our staff to go through,” East to his training, Davis ignored the between GOP leaders and conserNoble Middle School Principal screams and injured students and vative insurgents. Andy Deming said at the conclucontinued to pursue the shooter Despite Obama’s appeal, the sion of the debriefing. before he could do more damage. Senate-passed measure faces a MATT GETTS There have been no mass Indiana State Police Sgt. swift demise in the House at the Indiana State Police SWAT shootings in northeastern Indiana Dan Mawhorr pointed out that hands of tea party conservatives team member Chris McCreery schools, but locking a school the fi rst offi cers to arrive at the who are adamantly opposed to speaks during a debriefing down for security reasons is not scene cannot afford to concern funding that the measure includes following a live-shooter unheard of, including a recent themselves with injured people. for the three-year-old health care scenario held as part of incident of a man carrying a gun “That’s our primary function law. school safety training Friday through a neighborhood near — to fi nd that threat and The Senate’s 54-44 vote was at East Noble Middle School Fremont Community Schools. eliminate it,” Mawhorr said. strictly along party lines in favor in Kendallville. McCreery, who The man was not located, but Friday was the first time all of the bill, which would keep the lives in Kendallville, was one of law enforcement acted quickly to three facets of the state police government operating routinely the authors of the program that secure the safety of the children. SEE TRAINING, PAGE A5 SEE BUDGET, PAGE A5 was unveiled Friday.
School shooter response training unveiled at ENMS
Iranian president, Obama pledge to seek nuclear accord WASHINGTON (AP) — Breaking a third-of-a-century diplomatic freeze, President Barack Obama and new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone on Friday and, in a historic shift from years of unwavering animosity, agreed to work toward resolving their deep dispute over Tehran’s nuclear efforts. Rouhani, who earlier in the day called the United States a “great” nation, reached out to arrange the call. The White House said an encouraging meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry
and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif this week was a crucial factor in the thaw. “While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward, and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution,” Obama told reporters at the White House. Rouhani, at a news conference in New York, linked the U.S. and Iran as “great nations,” a remarkable reversal from the anti-American rhetoric of his predecessors, and he expressed hope that at the SEE IRAN, PAGE A5
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President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement regarding the budget fight in Congress and foreign policy challenges Friday. Obama spoke with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani by telephone Friday in hopes of resolving differences over Iran’s nuclear program.
Avilla town budget faces vote in October BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
AVILLA — The formal adoption of a 2014 budget will be voted on at the next Avilla Town Council meeting. The town fathers normally meet the third Wednesday of every month, but town manager Bill Ley said October’s meeting may have to be moved to another date because of a scheduling conflict with one of the councilmen. Clerk-Treasurer Rita Grocock said next year’s budget has been set
approximately 4 percent higher than this year’s budget. That doesn’t mean the town will get all it is asking for, she said. The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance must approve the budget, and the process normally involves some trimming. “We know we’ll have to be cut,” Ley said. The council then will meet to discuss how to make the cuts. “You’re never pleased with the budget,” Grocock said. “You have to survive on what you can get.” As proposed, the 2014 budget
calls for a 4 percent wage increase for the town’s employees. Town officials don’t know if the state review will allow for that much of an increase or not. At its Sept. 18 meeting, the council hired accounting firm H.J. Umbaugh and Associates to perform a sewer rate study. The town has not had a sewer rate increase since 2005, Ley said. The town’s sewer fund is diminishing, said council president Paul Shepherd. “We’re seeing our balance isn’t
what it should be,” he said. “Even for normal maintenance, we don’t have enough in there.” Also at its Sept. 18 meeting, the town approved a property tax abatement for McLaughlin Services LLC, 333 Progress Way. The company manufactures and repairs heat-treating equipment. The company began operations approximately one year ago with four employees. The firm currently employs 12, and hopes new equipment it is installing will add another five jobs.