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GOOD MORNING Fire reported at mushroom farm BRIGHTON — Firefighters were battling a large blaze at a mushroom farm in the area of C.R. 800E and C.R. 600N in northeastern LaGrange County late Saturday night, a LaGrange County Police Department dispatcher reported. At least 10 fire departments were involved in fighting the fire, according to the dispatcher. No other information was available at press time.
New report seeks to help courts meet ChINS needs BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
Alleged molester caught in Angola FROM STAFF REPORTS
ANGOLA — A man who police say had been evading child molesting charges out of St. Joseph County for the last seven years was arrested early Saturday in a rural Angola motel by the Indiana State Police and the U.S Marshal’s Service. Terry Wayne Waugh Jr., 30, was staying in a motel in the 3900 block of S.R. 127, marshals learned. Indiana State Police Trooper Matt Lazoff said sometime just past midnight, the federal authorities contacted state police at Fort Wayne, seeking assistance in Waugh the apprehension of Waugh. He was wanted for four felony counts of child molesting. Lazoff organized assistance from the Steuben County Sheriff’s and Angola Police departments and at approximately 2 a.m., they descended on the motel. Waugh was found by Lazoff and U.S. Marshal William Boothe as he hid in the bathroom of one of the motel rooms, police said. Waugh eventually gave himself up without incident and was taken into custody. He was incarcerated in the Steuben County Jail awaiting transportation to St. Joseph County.
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East Noble’s Spell Bowl team stands on the stage of the Loeb Playhouse at Purdue University after the Knights received silver medal honors. In the front row, from left, are sophomore Phillip Phan, senior Myra Finton, sophomore Alyssa Yoquelet, freshman Meghann McCoy and senior
Hannah Smolinske. In the middle row are junior Emily Savage, freshman Kaelyn Bender, freshman Gavin Herron, Coach Bob Avery and junior Rachel Smolinske, and in the back row are sophomore Brian Tew and senior Josh Tew.
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SILVER AT STATE WEST LAFAYETTE — East Noble High School’s Spell Bowl team notched its highest score of the season to win silver medal honors in Class 1 at the Indiana Academic Spell Bowl Senior State Finals on Saturday at Purdue University. East Noble spelled 84 words correctly out of a possible 90, 11 better than the team’s previous high at the Northeast Hoosier Conference meet and 15 better than the team scored at the regional qualifier Oct. 14. “They gave us the right words. A lot of the words we had we spelled last night at practice,” said East Noble coach Bob Avery. Perennial powerhouses Penn and Martinsville split state champion honors, with each school finishing with a perfect score of 90. This was the 20th straight year Martinsville has finished either first or second in the state. A total of 10 teams qualified for state competition in Class 1.
“I was hoping for third, and I couldn’t believe they skipped third and gave us second. It’s been a long time since we’ve gotten this high.” Bob Avery East Noble spelling coach
• “I was hoping for third, and I couldn’t believe they skipped third and gave us second,” said Avery. “It’s been a long time since we’ve gotten this high. “We had a 40 on the first half, and we’ve had a lot of meets where we’ve been in the 20s if not even lower with the first five spellers. That set it, because we knew we could get an 80, and we did even better than that.”
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Seven of East Noble’s 10 team members spelled their nine words perfectly: Senior co-captains Myra Finton and Josh Tew, junior Emily Savage, sophomores Phillip Phan and Alyssa Yoquelet, and freshmen Kaelyn Bender and Gavin Herron. Junior Rachel Smolinske had a near-perfect 8, freshman Meghann McCoy had a 7 and sophomore Brian Tew spelled six words correctly. “All three freshmen got their highest score of the season today, so that was cool,” Avery said. Avery said he was especially happy for Finton and Josh Tew, who were spelling in their last meet. “They carried us most of the year, and they carried us today,” Avery said. “It’s really been a fun four years with both of them.” Garrett High School, the only other area spell bowl team competing, finished fifth in Class 3 with 49 points.
AUBURN —An effort to keep the emphasis on the child’s needs in Child In Need of Services (ChINS) cases has prompted courts throughout Indiana to use a new tool. The Court Improvement Project Timeliness Measure Report is an annual calculation to see how quickly child-placement cases are moving through the courts. “A child’s sense of time in these cases really can be different than an adult’s,” said Elana Salzman, staff attorney for the Court Improvement Project. It’s Kramer important to take the child’s needs and feelings into consideration in the process, she said. The timeliness report has just been completed for 2013, although a few Indiana counties still haven’t sent it in, Salzman said. DeKalb Circuit Judge Kirk D. Carpenter said the report is a valuable tool that shows him his court is doing well overall with ChINS cases, but he also sees signs of where things can improve. “We try to think outside the box, because every kid and every kid’s needs are different,” Carpenter said. DeKalb’s numbers show cases moving in a manner that matches the guidelines, according to Carpenter and Salzman. Results for other courts in the area are less clear.
The Toolkit The timeliness report stems from a “toolkit” for courts put out by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Salzman said. “This is really only one tool out of the toolbox that’s been implemented so far,” Carpenter said. It measures only cases completed within the federal fiscal year ending Sept. 30. SEE TIMELINESS, PAGE A8
New vision of history BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcnews.net
AUBURN — Debt may have loomed over the National Military History Center, but a rut of business-as-usual may have been killing the facility slowly, anyway. Prospects for the National Military History Center and Kruse Automotive Heritage Museum took a big step forward with last weekend’s news that the Dean V. Kruse Foundation’s $3 million debt had been paid off. “It is a huge relief,” said Christin Loomis, the newly promoted director of operations at the facility off DeKalb C.R. 11-A. “It was a cloud over the museum. Now the cloud is gone and the future looks bright for the Dean V. Kruse Foundation and the museum.” The debt to Farmers State
Bank involved a building that was constructed to be the Andy Granatelli Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, before Granatelli backed out of the museum deal. The foundation was stuck making $30,000 in monthly payments for a vacant building. Freed from that financial pressure, the museum is now free to grow. Leading that growth will be Loomis, a 28-year-old Auburn native who is short on age but long on vision. Dean Kruse, the foundation’s president, said that vision is exactly what the facility needed. When it was constructed a decade ago as the World War II Victory Museum, the thought was that it would attract veterans from that conflict. With an estimated 600 World War II veterans SEE HISTORY, PAGE A8
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Bobbie Gabel, Stephanie Kern and new director of operations Christin Loomis stand in one section of the National Military History Center and Kruse Automotive Heritage Museum near Auburn.