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Youth group working to save Strand BY GRACE HOUSHOLDER
KENDALLVILLE — Building on past success, the Kendallville Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council is helping with fundraising efforts to save the Strand Theatre from closing. “They have been working to help organize several local fundraisers between now and the end of the year to reach their goal of raising $20,000 toward the $110,000 needed to purchase new digital equipment to keep the Strand in operation,” said MYAC coordinator Kristen Johnson.
Some of the events and activities are: • Saturday, Nov. 23, 9 a.m.— Save the Strand 5K at Bixler Lake Park, organized by local runner Teela Gibson. Participants may pre-register at runindiana.com. • Dec. 4-20 — MYAC members will be selling ornament sponsorships for the Christmas tree on display at City Hall. Ornament sponsorships may be purchased for $5, $15 or $25 (small, medium or large) to honor a friend, family member, business or loved one. All of the proceeds
will be donated to the Save the Strand fund. Ornaments may be ordered by contacting Kristen Johnson at 318-0001 or online at kendallvillemyac.org. • Thursday, Dec. 5, 5-8 p.m. — 20 percent of all food and drink purchases at Pizza Forum in Kendallville will be donated to the Save the Strand fund. A coupon is required. • Saturday, Dec. 7, all day — Shadow Bowl will donate 25 cents from every game played throughout the day to the Save the Strand fund, plus shoe rental is
The Festival of Trees is coming up on Nov. 23. Read about this special annual event that helps area hospice patients in a special section inside today’s newspaper.
MUNCIE (AP) — Three Delaware County residents are being sued by the state over a 2012 fish kill whose cause had eluded state investigators. Indiana’s lawsuit against David, Mary and Adam Howell seeks more than $2,000 in damages plus investigative costs for the June 2012 fish kill. More than 5,800 fish died downstream of two drainage tiles that empty into Bell Creek from Delaware County fields the Howells farm. The lawsuit states Adam Howell told investigators about weed killers and other chemicals that had been applied to those fields.
Coming Sunday 50 Years Later
Nov. 22 will be the 50th anniversary of the day that U.S. president John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. Read memories of that tragic day and about the library that honors this legend. On Sunday’s C1 and C2.
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just $1 for all bowlers. Reservations are recommended. • Saturday, Dec. 7, noon–2:30 p.m. — During the Kendallville Christmas Parade, MYAC members will be selling popcorn at the downtown popcorn stand and hosting a bake sale and hot cocoa bar outside the Chamber of Commerce. All proceeds will be donated to the Save the Strand fund. • Tuesday, Dec. 10, 5 p.m. to closing — Ten percent of all food and drink purchases at SEE STRAND, PAGE A6
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MUNCIE (AP) — Ball State University was partially locked down for hours Friday after several witnesses reported hearing someone shouting “gun!” in a campus building, prompting a police search that ended with no sign of a weapon or armed person. The university sent an all-clear notice about 7:50 p.m. Friday, some three hours after issuing an alert reporting a “possible armed assailant” near the Muncie campus’ Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The all-clear MATT GETTS notice said the campus was secure. A wrecker operator loads an Auburn man’s S.R. 3 just south of DeKalb C.R. 70 near LaOtto Ball State spokesman Tony moped onto his truck bed after a fatal crash on early Friday morning. Proudfoot said multiple witnesses alerted campus police after hearing someone repeatedly shout “gun!” on the Recreation and Wellness Building’s third-floor running track. He said the search of several buildings on the campus about 60 LAOTTO — An Auburn man that occurred Friday at approxWayne. Wilson was not injured in miles northeast of Indianapolis died after his moped collided with imately 6:50 a.m. His prelimithe crash. turned up no sign of a weapon. a pickup truck Friday morning on nary investigation showed that Police said Albright was not “We’re very pleased that this S.R. 3, south of LaOtto, Indiana a Yamaha moped operated by wearing a helmet, turned out to be no threat to the State Police said. Albright was traveling northbound Assisting state police at the campus,” he said. “We didn’t find Scott Albright, 43, was taken on S.R. 3, just south of DeKalb scene were the DeKalb and Allen any safety issues.” to Parkview Regional Medical C.R. 70. county sheriffs’ departments, Proudfoot said only four buildings Center in Fort Wayne, where Police believe Albright was the Huntertown and LaOtto fire on the 700-acre campus that contains he later died as a result of the riding just into the driving lane, departments and Huntertown 100 buildings were affected by the injuries sustained in the crash, on or near the fog line, when he EMS. security alert as campus police, police said. was sideswiped by a northbound Muncie police and Indiana State Senior Trooper Marc Ford F-150 pickup truck driven This story was posted on Police troopers conducted sweeps Leatherman investigated the crash by John Wilson Jr., 45 of Fort kpcnews.com at 11:35 a.m. Friday. through those buildings. Junior Krystal Palmer, an art education major from Dayton, Ohio, said she had been locked in a classroom during the police sweep. She expressed concern that she learned about the incident through other students before the university sent its alert. She said there have ALBION — Ira “Skip” SchlotNoble Township Fire Department, it to Kirkpatrick no later than been other cases where the campus terback is resigning as Noble 3199 S. S.R. 109, Albion. Two 72 hours before the caucus. The alert was delayed. Township trustee effective Dec. precinct committeemen, Schlotter- completed form may be mailed “Usually it’s fine because it’s not 1, Noble County Republican back and Scott Zeigler, are eligible or hand-delivered to: 8928 anything big, but other times we’ve Chairman Randy Kirkpatrick said to participate in the caucus. N. State Road 5, Ligonier, IN found out from social media before Friday. Any Republican who wishes 46767. Anyone with questions we’ve gotten the message, which is A Republican caucus to elect to be considered for the office may call Kirkpatrick at 894-4451 kind of scary because it might not a new trustee will take place of Noble Township trustee must or 402-6534, or send an email be soon enough,” she said. Saturday, Nov. 30, at 9 a.m. at the complete Form CEB-5 and return message to rlkpatrick55@gmail.
Man killed in moped crash
Township trustee steps down
House wants sale of substandard coverage WASHINGTON (AP) — Brushing aside a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House voted by a healthy bipartisan majority Friday to weaken a core component of “Obamacare” and permit the sale of individual health coverage that falls short of requirements in the law. In all, 39 Democrats broke ranks and supported the legislation, a total that underscored the growing importance of the issue in the weeks since millions of cancellation notices went out to consumers covered by plans deemed inadequate under government rules. The final vote was 261-157 as lawmakers clashed over an issue likely to be at the heart of next year’s midterm elections. The measure faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where Democrats seeking re-election in 2014 are leading a move for generally similar legislation. “For the last six weeks the White House stood idly by ignoring the pleas of millions,” said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and lead
sponsor of the legislation. “Our straightforward, one-page bill says, if you like your current coverage, you should be able to keep it. The president should heed his own advice and work with us, the Congress, as the founders intended, not around the legislative process.” But Democrats said the measure was just another in a long line of attacks on the health care bill from Republicans who have voted repeatedly to repeal it. “It would take away the core protections of that law. It creates an entire shadow market of substandard health care plans,” said Rep. Henry Waxman of California. The vote came shortly before President Barack Obama welcomed insurance company CEOs to a White House meeting, and one day after he announced a shift toward making good on his oft-repeated promise that anyone liking his pre-Obamacare coverage would be able to keep it. In brief opening remarks, he did not refer to the House vote, and showed no give in his commitment to the program
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks about President Obama’s health care law after Republican lawmakers met at the Republican National Committee headquarters earlier this week.
known by his name. “Because of choice and competition, a whole lot of Americans who have always seen health insurance out of reach are going to be in a position to purchase it,” he said. The events capped a remarkable series of politically inspired maneuvers in recent days. The
president and lawmakers in both parties have sought to position themselves as allies of consumers who are receiving cancellation notices — yet have made no move to cooperate on legislation that could require those consumers’ coverage to be renewed if they wanted to keep it.