WEDNESDAY November 20, 2013
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Weather Partly cloudy, high 48. Tonight’s low 34. Warmer, chance of rain Thursday. Page A6 Kendallville, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Commissioners to discuss intersection ALBION — The Noble County Board of Commissioners will meet Friday at 7 p.m. in the Noble County Office Complex-South, Dekko Room, to discuss whether to change the intersection of C.R. 1000E and Lisbon Road from a four-way to a two-way stop. No decision will be made at the meeting, but the topic will be open for discussion. A public hearing on the issue will be part of the commissioners’ meeting Monday, with the intersection on the agenda at 9:30 a.m. A vote on the proposal may take place at Monday’s meeting.
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CN considering $8 million project BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
ALBION — The Central Noble school board on Tuesday set a hearing for its Dec. 17 meeting on a possible $8 million construction project involving the district’s middle and high schools. The proposal would address school security concerns, outdated science labs and needed growth in the cafeteria and other areas of the building, and it would be structured to keep taxes as level as possible, experts told the board. “The hope is that this is the last big project we have to do for a
long period of time,” said Central Noble Superintendent Chris Daughtry. Architect Brian J. Bohlender of Barton-Coe-Vilamaa Architects and Engineers presented three similar plans as possibilities Tuesday. Each plan includes combining the offices of the middle and high schools into a single office, with a single, secure main entrance to the building the two schools share. The centralized office is needed for security, board member Chris Brazel said. Geoff Brose, principal of both
schools, agreed. “You can’t be efficient running two offices,” he said. The plan also would call for improved and expanded cafeteria and kitchen space for the school and upgrading science labs set up between the 1970s and the 1990s for 21st century science classes., Bohlender said. The project also includes a wellness addition with an auxiliary gym. It’s needed for a variety of activities, both during the day and after school hours, Brose said. Board president Rodney Stayner said the winter drumline is
Indiana Michigan restores power to Avilla customers AVILLA — Indiana Michigan Power had restored service Tuesday to all Avilla-area customers who lost power during Sunday evening’s strong storms, the utility said. Throughout the I&M service territory, approximately 21,500 customers remained without power Tuesday evening, down from a peak of more than 70,000. I&M said 426 customers in the Fort Wayne area remained without power at 4 p.m. Tuesday. It estimated they would have service by noon today.
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one of the many groups using the gym space that could benefit from the auxiliary gym. “We use every ounce of space we have now,” said Central Noble athletic director Matt Dazey. “And kids are having to practice way too late,” said board member John Fitzpatrick. “We have kids now working out in the hallway,” Brose said. Certified Public Accountant Curt W. Pletcher of H.J. Umbaugh & Associates said the project should be able to take the place of existing debt and not drive up the SEE PROJECT, PAGE A6
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Season tickets for East Noble Theatre go on sale today KENDALLVILLE — East Noble Theatre season tickets are now on sale at the Cole Auditorium box office from 4-6 p.m. today, Thursday and Friday. Tickets cost $32, or $25 for students and senior citizens, and include reserved seats for the musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” Dec. 5-8; the comedy “Harvey” Feb. 13, 14 and 16; “Disney’s 101 Dalmatians” March 14 and 16, and the musical “Shrek” May 1-4. Individual tickets for “Joseph” and Breakfast With Santa go on sale Monday from the box office. “Breakfast With Santa” will be Saturday, Dec. 14, at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Tickets are $8. For reservations call the box office at 347-7167 beginning Monday from 4 to 6 p.m.
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Final ENMS meeting draws larger crowd; Safety concerns raised
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Top-notch entertainment These musicians from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, who are known as the Calhoun Brass Quartet, performed at Parkview Noble Hospital in Kendallville on Tuesday. In their audience were members of the hospital’s Noble Needle Workers. From the left are Jay Remissong, horn; Andrew Hicks, trombone; Sam Gnagy, tuba; and Dan Ross, trumpet.
also purchased equipment in the building from Johnson Controls. It is not included in the abatement. The abatements will create 60 new jobs and retain Creative Liquid Coatings’ current 280-member workforce. Creative Liquid Coatings will save a total of $150,788 in taxes over terms of the abatements. The company coats products for the automotive, heavy truck and industrial equipment markets. Geist said business has picked up with the booming automotive industry. Operations in the Johnson Controls building should be up and running early next year. The new jobs will pay an average of $15 to $16. “We’re always looking for people willing
AVILLA — Tuesday’s third and final meeting on the future of East Noble Middle School attracted a larger and more vocal crowd than the first two gatherings. Fifty people attended Tuesday’s meeting in the Avilla school, following sessions Thursday in Kendallville and Monday in Rome City. The school board is scheduled to review citizen comments from the meetings tonight, but a decision on the school’s future is not expected at the board meeting at 6 p.m. in South Side Elementary School. Tuesday night, Superintendent Ann Linson presented three options for the middle school and their estimated costs: full renovation of the existing building for $24.7 million; adding to the building and razing deteriorating sections, $22.7 million; and constructing a new building on a new site, $24 million. All three options include two gymnasiums, compared to one in the existing building. “Our plan is we must do something to that building,” but the solution depends on the community’s wishes, Linson said in response to one citizen’s question. Several audience members
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Parkview Health is sponsoring the Philharmonic’s Regional Holiday Pops concerts. The musicians are giving concerts at several Parkview facilities as a warmup to their seasonal concerts throughout the area. The Noble County concert will be presented Sunday, Dec. 1, at 2:30 p.m. at Central Noble High School in Albion.
City experiences job creation BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — Industrial and commercial expansions will create 64 new jobs in Kendallville. The City Council Tuesday night approved tax abatements for Creative Liquid Coatings and its affiliated real estate entity, Creative Molding & Finishing LLC, and a tax abatement for R.W. Jenkins Automotive. Creative Liquid Coatings occupies the former Budd Co. building at 2620 E. Marion Drive and the former Tower Automotive building at 221 S. Progress Drive. It is acquiring the vacant Johnson Controls Interior Manufacturing building at 300 S. Progress Drive. All the buildings are in the East Industrial Park.
The Johnson Controls facility closed in August 2012 with a loss of 170 jobs. Creative Molding & Finishing LLC was granted three years of abatement on $708,500 for the eligible vacant Johnson Controls building. The state allows a maximum three years for taking over an industrial building that had been vacant at least one year. Creative Liquid Coatings Inc. was granted five years of abatement on new equipment with an assessed value of $3.2 million. The company plans to move new molding and painting application equipment, molding machines and robotic painting robots into the Johnson Controls building, said general manager Stephen Geist. Creative Liquid Coatings
BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
Gettysburg Address given 150 years ago GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — In solemnity, thousands gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered. The inspirational and famously short Gettysburg Address was praised for reinvigorating national ideals of freedom, liberty and justice amid a Civil War that had torn the country into pieces. “President Lincoln sought to heal a nation’s wounds by defining what a nation should be,” said Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, calling Lincoln’s words superb, his faith deep and his genius profound. “Lincoln wrote his words on paper, but he also inscribed them in our hearts.” Echoing Lincoln, keynote speaker and Civil War historian James McPherson said the president took the dais in November 1863 at a time when it looked like the nation “might indeed perish from the earth.” “The Battle of Gettysburg became the hinge of fate on which turned the destiny of that nation
and its new birth of freedom,” McPherson said. In the July 1863 battle, considered the turning point of the war, Union forces fought back a Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania. Lincoln’s speech was delivered more than four months later, at the dedication of a national cemetery to bury the battle’s casualties. In the short oration, he spoke of how democracy itself rested upon “the proposition that all men are created equal,” a profound and politically risky statement for the time. Slavery and the doctrine of states’ rights would not hold in the “more perfect union” of Lincoln’s vision. “In 272 words he put together what everyone was thinking, what everyone should know,” said park historian John Heiser. Because of varying transcriptions, scholars generally put the text at 268 to 272 words. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia administered the oath of allegiance to a group of 16 immigrants, telling them the national identity is unique, illustrated by the existence of
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James Getty, portraying President Abraham Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address during a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and the historic speech Tuesday in Gettysburg, Pa.
the word “un-American” and by the people’s “fidelity to certain political principles.” Greta Myer, 44, decided to make the six-hour trip from Akron, Ohio, with her husband
and son after spending a week in Gettysburg earlier in the year. “It’s something we’ve never done before,” Myer said. “It was a historical event that we wanted to be a part of.”