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Clinic’s move eliminates flight of stairs GOOD MORNING Ligonier ready to light tree Sunday LIGONIER — The public is invited to a lighting ceremony Sunday evening for the Ligonier Community Christmas Tree. Events start at 5 p.m. at Pettit Park. Ligonier Mayor Patty Fisel will light the tree. Music and entertainment will be provided by Josh Vargas and the praise band from Strong Tower Worship Center of Ligonier, and Travis Gow of Cromwell. Hot chocolate and cookies will be served. Pettit Park is on the north edge of the downtown area along S.R. 5.
Officials say three tried to dig out of jail MARTINSVILLE (AP) — Authorities say three inmates tried to escape from a central Indiana jail by digging a hole through the wall of their cell. Morgan County Jail officers say they heard noise coming from the cell and found a shallow 6-inch diameter hole in a wall next to an unsecured administration area of the jail.
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BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
ALBION — The Noble County Health Department Immunization Clinic has come up in the world — one story up. The clinic recently moved to the upper floor of the Noble County Office Complex-South, which is level with the main entrance. It had been on the lower level, directly below its current location on the west end of the building. The change has had little
impact on the clinic itself, but more on the people it serves, said Noble County Health Nurse Cheryl Munson. “The biggest benefit is, people don’t have to go up and down those stairs to get to the clinic any more,” she said. While there is an elevator in the building, it’s at the far end of the space, and it didn’t allow access to the clinic if the Dekko Room in the basement was in use, because people had to pass through it to
reach the clinic from the elevator. Another improvement is the waiting area, Munson said. While the waiting area in the clinic proper is about the same as on the lower floor, the health department has been able to book the upstairs conference room on clinic days to use as an overflow waiting room. Moving the clinic took time, as the Noble County Commissioners sorted out the best locations for several offices, Munson said. The move has been in the works for
Shoppers take aim BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com WITH STAFF REPORTS
KENDALLVILLE — Spinning a wheel and winning a 5, 10 or 15 percent discount on purchases at Atz Furniture was one of the sales promotions Kendallville businesses offered Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year known as “Black Friday.” Customer Cindy West of Wolcottville was in the store at 904 W. North St. Friday morning looking at living room lounge chairs on sale. “I’m looking for a chair for my living room, and I need to find one the right color,” West told Joe Atz. She spun the wheel for a discount in addition to the sales price. Atz Furniture is one of the Kendallville businesses supporting Small Business Saturday today. Bigger retailers such Walmart were open Thanksgiving night for the first time to get a jump on the holiday shopping season that has five fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, because Thanksgiving was late in the calendar this year. Goody’s in Kendallville was open from Thursday at 6 p.m. to Friday at 1 a.m., then opened at 6 a.m. Friday. “Doorbuster” discount prices on certain items such as women’s fashion boots and digital cameras, along with 25-percent-off coupons attracted large numbers of shoppers Thursday night. Friday’s business started slow, but picked up during the day. Rural King in Kendallville also opened Thursday, with shoppers taking advantage of a 25 percent discount on toy purchases and a 10 percent discount on all purchases
two years. The space where the clinic now is located had been the health department’s office space. Those offices now are in other office spaces on the upper floor of the two-story building, Munson said. Changing tables were added in both the men’s and women’s upstairs restrooms as part of the move, Munson said. Shot clinics are offered every Wednesday from 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Munson said.
Two-day marathon now starts madness BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fayette, Ohio. The women, along with a friend from Sheboygan, Wis., make the trek to Steuben County each Black Friday for their annual routine. They start at The Outlet Shoppes at Fremont, then head south to Angola to hit the big box stores. The event is capped off with lunch and margaritas at Applebee’s.
The holiday shopping season started as a marathon, not a sprint. More than a dozen major U.S. retailers stayed open for 24 hours or more on Thanksgiving Day through Black Friday, and crowds formed early and often over the two days. About 15,000 people waited for the flagship Macy’s in New York to open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Long checkout lines formed at the Target in Colma, Calif., on Friday morning. And by the time Jessica Astalos was leaving North Point Mall in Alpharetta, Ga., after a six-hour buying binge that started on Thanksgiving, another wave of shoppers was coming in about 5:30 a.m. on Friday. “You just have to be out in the midst of all of it,” said Ricki Moss, who hit stores near Portland, Ore., at 5:30 a.m. on Friday. “It’s exciting.” This year may cement the transformation of the start of the holiday shopping season into a two-day affair. For nearly a decade, Black Friday had been the official start of the shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was originally named Black Friday because it was when retailers turned a profit, or moved out of
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Joe Atz of Atz Furniture in Kendallville shows customer Cindy West of Wolcottville a chair on sale at his store during Black Friday’s traditional discount sales.
Thursday. The store also offered discount prices Friday on certain items such as hoodies and tools. The store opened Friday at 6 a.m. Family Video in Kendallville offered a Black Friday deal on discounted DVD movies until midnight. Elsewhere, Steuben County has become a destination for a group of Black Friday shoppers from
New displays to add to windmills’ glow BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — Several new lighted displays will be featured in the annual Mid-America Windmill Museum Windmill Winter Wonderland opening Friday. The walk-through spectacle has thousands of Christmas lights among its historic, restored windmills, animated displays and holiday music at the museum at 732 Allen Chapel Road (C.R. 1000E) on Kendallville’s east side. The display continues Saturday and Sunday, then Dec. 13-15, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission costs $3, with children 12 and under admitted free. Volunteers have worked hundreds of hours to make the magical glow of lights, said Pam Younce, a museum board member, who helps coordinate the event. “There’s nothing that warms the hearts of us more than to see the kids escorted by moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas smiling their approval as they walk around the grounds,” Younce said. The display is so extensive, Younce prepares a detailed map to locate the individual displays and hundreds of feet of wiring. Visitors should stay on the paths, with luminaries guiding the way. The Independent Full Gospel Church from Ashley will present a live nativity scene on two Saturdays, Dec. 7 and 14. Santa Claus will be in Baker Hall on the museum grounds every evening to greet children and give them a free gift bag. Visitors
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The annual Mid-America Windmill Museum Windmill Winter Wonderland, featuring holiday lighted displays such as this one, opens Friday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and
continues Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7 and 8, and Dec. 13-15 at the museum, 732 E. Allen Chapel Road, Kendallville.
can bring cameras for photo opportunities. Warm food and drinks will be available for purchase, along with crafters offering quality, unique holiday gifts.
The Mid-America Windmill Museum, designed, built and maintained by volunteers, has the biggest collection of windmills for the public east of the Mississippi River.
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