SATURDAY December 7, 2013
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Lou Ann Homan-Saylor Jumping right into one holiday after another Page A5
Weather Partly cloudy, high in the mid-20s. Low tonight 16. Snow showers Sunday.
Angola Central Noble
64 41
Prairie Hts. Fairfield
68 66
FW North DeKalb
51 41
Westview Churubusco
62 48
Lakeland Fremont
73 59
Garrett Woodlan
58 46
Page A6 Kendallville, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Prairie Heights shows items from its history BRUSHY PRAIRIE — Borrowed items showing the history of the Prairie Heights Schools Corp. are currently on display to celebrate its 50th anniversary of incorporation. The items are in a display case for viewing at Prairie Heights High School, 245 S. 1150E. The items demonstrate the history of joining of four high schools to create Prairie Heights: Flint, Orland, Salem Center and Springfield Township (Mongo). Superintendent Alan Middleton said the display focuses on how the school looked in its early days and relays much history of the corporation.
Coming Sunday Cinerama at the Strand
Read about the widescreen theater experience being offered in Angola on the first Saturday of every month on Sunday’s C1 and C2.
Clip and Save Find $97 in coupon savings in Sunday’s newspaper.
Inside Today Find area gift ideas and read about favorite holiday traditions in the Holiday Gift Guide, inside today’s newspaper.
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Annual Christmas parade today KENDALLVILLE — The 45th annual Kendallville Christmas Parade will begin at 1 p.m. today. The parade will start at North Side Elementary School, 302 E. Harding St., and end at the American Legion Post 86 building on South Main Street. The judges’
stand will be on the west side of the Main Street and William Street intersection. The parade theme is “Christmas Through the Years.” KPC Media Group Inc. and radio stations WAWK and The Hawk are again the coordinating sponsors of the parade, which has been held in
downtown Kendallville since 1969. The Main Street Business Association and the Kendallville Area Chamber of Commerce are also supporting the event. The East Noble Show Choir will be performing downtown, an hour before the start of the parade. The East Noble Marching
Band will perform in the parade, followed by an appearance of Santa Claus. Immediately after the parade, the city’s sesquicentennial time capsule will be placed in the sidewalk at City Hall. Mayor Suzanne Handshoe will preside over the ceremony.
World mourns leader
South Africans mix tears with song, dance after Mandela’s passing
DAVE KURTZ
Volunteers of the Kendallville Christmas Bureau load gifts Friday at the Kendallville Chamber
of Commerce for distribution this morning at Shepherd’s Chevrolet Buick GMC.
Christmas Bureau making holiday brighter for needy BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — The Kendallville Christmas Bureau will deliver food, clothing and toys to 162 families today, said its chairwoman, Anita Hess. “Our numbers are down, but our needs are greater,” Hess said. Hess credits an improving economy for the fact that the bureau is serving 65 fewer families than last year, and its list is down by more than 100 from the depths of the recession. The bureau also changed its application procedures two years ago, she said. “In tweaking it, I think we have the neediest of the needy,” she said.
Many families will pick up their Christmas gifts this morning at Shepherd’s Chevrolet Buick GMC, which is lending its building to the cause. Christmas Bureau volunteers will deliver to other families. The bureau always distributes gifts on the first Saturday in December. Approximately two dozen volunteers, including National Honor Society students from East Noble High School, filled boxes for the families. The Christmas charity operates as a project of the Kendallville Chamber of Commerce. It focuses on children in the families its serves, Hess said. “We want to make sure they have warm coats and boots and
hats,” she said. “Many of the requests are for necessities such as school shoes, socks, soap, shampoo.” Businesses, organizations and individuals adopted 100 of the needy families. The Christmas Bureau’s volunteers shopped for the other 62 families with a budget of $12,000. It’s not too late to contribute to the Christmas Bureau, Hess added. “We’d love to have donations to replenish some of what we’ve spent to do this,” she said. “Any donations that come in now, and beyond, are a big help to us. We can stockpile on coats and things when they go on sale after the holidays.”
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans erupted in song, dance and tears on Friday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who bridged this country’s black-white divide and helped avert a race war. People of all colors hugged and shared emotional moments as anti-apartheid leaders like retired archbishop Desmond Tutu called for the 51 million South Africans to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that Mandela embodied. The tributes to Mandela that came from people across the spectrum showed that he had affected people deeply. “What I liked most about Mandela was his forgiveness, his passion, his diversity, the impact of what he did,” said Ariel Sobel, a white man who was born in 1993, a year before Mandela was elected president. “I am not worried about what will happen next. We will continue as a nation. We knew this was coming. We are prepared.” Sobel was with a crowd of people who had gathered at Mandela’s home in the leafy Johannesburg neighborhood of Houghton where Mandela spent his last sickly months. A dozen doves were released into the skies and people sang tribal songs, the national anthem, God Bless Africa — the anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle — and Christian hymns. SEE MANDELA, PAGE A6
Winter storm strikes hard in Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two people were killed on treacherous roads and schools and businesses were closed as a storm that dumped ice and as much as 10 inches of snow on much of Indiana stretched into its second day Friday. State police responded to numerous accidents Friday that shut down a section of Interstate 70 west of Indianapolis and caused a late-morning backup on Interstate 65 just south of the city, but no major injuries were reported. That was better news than Thursday night, when Mohammed A. Isse, 33, of Chicago, died when his car was struck by a tractortrailer whose driver lost control of
his truck near Richmond. At the other end of the state, Karen Price, 51, of Brazil, Ind., died Thursday night in a multiple car crash near Terre Haute. State police continued to urge motorists to use caution when traveling or to stay off roads entirely in southern Indiana, which received a second round of ice and snow Friday afternoon. The snowstorm hit Indianapolis at a busy time. Thousands of Ohio State and Michigan State fans were descending on the city for two days of tailgating leading up to Saturday night’s Big Ten football championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium. Randy Ackerman, 54, of Lima,
BOB BRALEY
Christmas in Albion Customer Deb Freeman, left, purchases a poinsettia from store owner Kathy Parks in Lily of The Valley Florist during Albion’s Christmas in the Village celebration Friday evening. Stores were open late and other businesses and churches had open houses as part of the celebration. “Santa Claus” and “Mrs. Claus” arrived on the square Friday evening and lit the town’s Christmas tree as some of those gathered sang Christmas carols.
SEE WINTER, PAGE A6
Kerry still struggling in Mideast peace efforts JERUSALEM (AP) — Halfway through an ambitious nine-month process aimed at forging Mideast peace, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, after another round of shuttle diplomacy, has little to show for his efforts. The participants have reported no progress, a top Palestinian negotiator has resigned in frustration, and few believe Kerry
can broker the comprehensive settlement set as his official goal. Instead, there are rumblings about what will happen when the clock runs out — either an extension of talks, an interim deal, unilateral moves or the outbreak of violence. Kerry tried to put a positive spin on things during a three-day stay marked by smiles, friendly rhetoric toward Israel and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but also acknowledgements of the tough task ahead. “I believe we are closer than we have been for years to bringing about the peace and prosperity and the security that all people in this region deserve and yearn for,” he said Friday as he wrapped up his eighth visit to the region as secretary of state. Kerry did not elaborate, and it
was the same type of optimistic language he has used since persuading Israel and the Palestinians to resume talks, their first substantive negotiations in five years, last July. Under heavy American pressure, the sides set an April target date for resolving their decades-long conflict. While negotiators have quietly been SEE KERRY, PAGE A6