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Parts maker could bring as many as 450 jobs to area
BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
LAGRANGE — A Michiganbased auto parts manufacturer’s representative appeared before the LaGrange County commissioners Monday morning to settle part of a deal for his company to buy the former Multi-Plex factory just north of Howe, and turn it back into a working factory, bringing as many as 450 new jobs to the area.
The commissioners agreed Monday to loan the company $2 million from the county’s Major Moves fund as part of an incentive package agreed to earlier this year. The company’s name has not been made public, but is said to manufacture parts for both the automotive and agricultural equipment industries. Originally, local officials believed the new factory would create 250 jobs. But Todd Fowler, a representative of the company, said it recently was awarded a new parts contract with John Deere, prompting the needed for another 200 employees. The county is conducting a
title search of properties where easements are needed to extend a water line from the Fawn River business park to the Multi-Plex building. Also Monday, the commissioners moved forward on renting a storage facility for old county records. The project now goes to the LaGrange County Council for funding. Commissioners also signed a letter allowing the county’s park department to move forward on a purchase agreement for more than 100 acres of wetlands and upland to expand Pine Knob Park, three miles east of Howe. A variety of grants from both state and local
Marching Knights first at Plymouth
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BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — The East Noble Marching Knights took first place in Class B at Saturday’s Plymouth High School marching band invitational with a score of 84.20. East Noble received caption awards for best drum percussion, best music and best general effect. It was the band’s highest score this season and the first outright win in competition in five years, said Bryan Munoz, East Noble director of bands. “The band had incredible perseverance,” said Munoz. Due to rain, the competition moved indoors into the high school gym. “It’s always difficult to stay focused when a competition has moved indoors and your entire procedures change, but our kids handled it with professionalism and maturity.” The Marching Knights travel to Fort Wayne Saturday for the Snider High School Mighty Panther Parade of Champions competition at Wayne High School.
EN Board of Trustees sets executive session KENDALLVILLE — The East Noble School Board of Trustees will meet in executive session to discuss personnel at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the school corporation’s administrative building, 126 W. Rush St. Executive sessions are closed to the public. Trustees will have a work session immediately following the executive session at 6:30 p.m. There is no regularly scheduled board meeting this week.
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sources will pay for the land, with an estimated cost exceeding $300,000. A plan to increase county funding to Ark Animal Rescue was given final approval by the commissioners. The county now pays Ark $100,000 a year to operate the former county-owned animal shelter. Starting in 2014, commissioners will increase that fee to $115,000 a year, paid in four equal installments. Commissioners also instructed Rex Pranger, the county surveyor, to define and mark a countyowned right of way on Buck Lake, hoping to end a dispute over property lines.
more experienced barber told Kilgore he should head down to Wolcottville and set up shop there. Kilgore became the third barber in town. Wolcottville, Kilgore said,
WASHINGTON (AP) — A possible national default loomed closer on Monday as the partial government shutdown lingered, rattling markets in the U.S. and overseas. A gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the threats. Stocks got a case of the jitters on Wall Street, and halfway around the world China stressed the importance for the international economy of raising the U.S. debt limit. “Safeguarding the debt is of vital importance to the economy of the U.S. and the world,” Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. China holds $1.277 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, second only to Japan. At home, the political rhetoric was unchanged — and generally uncompromising — while a new poll suggested Republicans are paying a heavier price than Democrats for the deadlock. President Barack Obama said the House should vote immediately on ending the partial closure of the federal establishment. He accused House Speaker John Boehner of refusing to permit the necessary legislation to come to the floor because he “doesn’t apparently want to see the … shutdown end at the moment, unless he’s able to extract concessions that don’t have anything to do with the budget.” Boehner, in rebuttal, called on Obama to agree to negotiations on changes in the nation’s health care overhaul and steps to curb deficits, the principal GOP demands for ending the shutdown and eliminating the threat of default. “Really, Mr. President. It’s time to have that conversation before our economy is put further at risk,” the Ohio Republican said in remarks on the House floor. Obama said he would talk with the Republicans on those topics or virtually any others. But the White House has said repeatedly the president will not negotiate until the government is fully re-opened and the debt limit has been raised to stave off the nation’s first-ever default. White House aide Jason Furman told reporters that if Boehner “needs to have some talking point for his caucus that’s consistent with us not negotiating … that’s not adding a bunch of extraneous conditions, of course he’s welcome to figure out whatever talking point he wants that helps him sell something.” The current standoff is the latest in a string of clashes over the past three years between Obama and a House Republican majority that has steered to the right with the rise of the tea party. Most Democrats and many Republicans have assumed the GOP will pay a heavier price for a shutdown than the Democrats, since that was the case in 1996. And a survey released by the Washington Post-ABC said
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Harbor of Love Baptist Church received one of two awards for the best-decorated food booths at
the Apple Festival over the weekend. Boy Scout Troop 103 won the other food booth award.
Apple Festival’s best chosen KENDALLVILLE — Winners have been announced in several Apple Festival of Kendallville events last weekend. Here are the overall winners: • Fans’ favorite food: St. John Lutheran Church apple fritters • Best-decorated food booth: Boy Scout Troop 103 & Harbor of Love Baptist Church • Best-decorated craft booth: Lorilee Ward • Best-decorated Log Cabin demonstrator booth: Ned & Beverly Yingst • Saturday apple ring contest — age 4-6: Zach Levy; age 7-10: Eliana Levy
• Saturday frog flipping contest — age 4-6: Dane Winebrenner; age 7-10: Eliana Levy • Saturday apple toss contest — age 4-6: Galea Grubb; age 7-10: Spencer Davis; age 11-13: Tyler Brinkman • Sunday apple ring contest — age 4-6: Aiden Fraser; age 7-10: Kyndal Pease; age 11-13: Nick McCoy • Sunday frog flipping contest — age 4-6: Damien Grubb; age 7-10: Hunter Handshoe; age 11-13: Dylan Booth • Sunday apple toss contest — age 4-6: Eli Golden; age 7-10: Gavin Hagerman; age 11-13: Blaine Golden
Wolcottville barber putting scissors away after 58 years BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
WOLCOTTVILLE — For more than five decades, Dave Kilgore has been a barber in Wolcottville, cutting the hair of generations of the same families. Last Tuesday, after a career that has lasted more than 58 years — 56 of those in the same shop on Wolcottville’s main street — Kilgore, 75, finally has decided to put down his clippers for the last time, to lock the front door of Dave’s Barber Shop and end a career. After a busy morning of cutting hair, Kilgore officially retired last Tuesday afternoon. It wasn’t an easy decision to reach. “I’ve always liked this job, I never had a problem coming to work,” Kilgore explained. The first thing Kilgore wanted to do after he officially closed his door was to thank all the people who patronized his business. Kilgore said he’s cut the hair of at least five generations of many Wolcottville families, and he is somewhat sad he won’t be there to give haircuts to the sixth generation. Kilgore said he decided to become a barber because of his grandfather, Jess Kilgore, who spent his time working in a Kendallville barbershop. As a matter of inspiration, a picture of his grandfather hung on his wall at Dave’s Barber Shop. Kilgore headed straight for the International Barber and Beauty
PATRICK REDMOND
Dave Kilgore, owner and operator of Dave’s Barber Shop in downtown Wolcottville, has retired after 56 years in business in the same store. Kilgore said he cut the hair of five generations of many of Wolcottville’s families during his time in business.
School in Indianapolis in 1956 when he graduated from high school in Rome City. Less than a year later, Kilgore started serving his apprenticeship in a LaGrange barber shop. Then in late 1958, an older,