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Citizens speak against garage sale law GOOD MORNING
Ordinance would require permit, $5 fee BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — City council may face opposition to proposed garage sale regulations. Tuesday night council unanimously approved first reading of a proposed ordinance requiring a permit and $5 permit fee for a garage or yard sale, limiting garage sales to three
a year for any person, firm or corporation and only two at any one location, removal of sale items and equipment at the end of the last day of the sale and removal of signs posted promoting the sale within 24 hours of the last day of the sale. Councilman Jim Dazey, chairman of the council’s law and ordinance committee, presented
the proposed ordinance saying it was in response to complaints the city has received about continuous garage sales. He also said he has received citizen comments about limiting the number of garage sales in one year. Before council voted on the first reading, three residents spoke against the ordinance. Gene Lash, of the 300 Block of Drake Road, called the permit fee “a tax” and he was opposed to
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Glick, Ober to be at forum Saturday
Gary man succumbs to injuries from fire GARY (AP) — A Gary man has died from injuries he sustained in a weekend fire that also killed his wife. The Post-Tribune and The (Munster) Times report 64-year-old Danny Hill died Monday after suffering severe burns in the Sunday morning house fire that also killed 71-year-old Essie Crockett Hill. Danny Hill’s sister-in-law, Leora Carr, says the 9-yearold grandson, Cody Page, is responsive and doing better at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital.
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KENDALLVILLE — State Sen. Susan Glick, R-LaGrange, and state Rep. David Ober, R-Albion, will be featured at a legislative forum Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Kendallville Public Library. Glick and Ober will review their respective summer work sessions and speak about issues that are expected to arise in the 2014 legislative session. The public is invited to ask questions and suggest topics that could be addressed in the next legislative session. The library’s legislative committee is sponsoring the event in Rooms A and B of the library at 221 S. Park Ave.
more taxes and the regulating of garage sales. Clark Street resident Steve Parsons angrily said the city is “stepping into something it shouldn’t.” He said the permit fee is a tax not needed, and the city should not regulate garage sales. “If my neighbor wants a mess I won’t look at it. We don’t need to regulate someone selling things at garage sales.”
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More than 1,110 swine that were shipped from Albion received a special welcome at the Beijing airport last month. Whiteshire Hamroc has been
shipping swine all over the world for many years, but the latest planeload was the Noble County business’s largest ever made to China.
Local swine shipped to China FROM STAFF REPORTS
ALBION — A Noble County agricultural enterprise continues to ship its products to China. Last month, Whiteshire Hamroc, based in rural Albion, exported its largest international shipment of swine breeding stock to China. The latest shipment consisted of 1,180 pigs representing three of the four major breeds of swine in the United States: Yorkshire, Landrace and Duroc. This was not the first nor will it be the last shipment of Indianabred hogs headed to China, the world’s most populous country, officials of the company said. Whiteshire Hamroc has made several previous shipments of live animals to China, but the Oct. 14 shipment is the largest for the Noble County company. The shipments are coordinated for Whiteshire Hamroc by Clayton Agri-Marketing of Jefferson City, Mo. A specially equipped cargo plane was used to transport the hogs out of a Chicago airport, after they were trucked to Chicago from Noble County. The Chinese government has endorsed the project because American farms, such as Whiteshire Hamroc, are consid-
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Workers had their hands full when they had to load more than 1,100 hogs onto a plane at a Chicago airport last month. The swine are from the Whiteshire Hamroc farm in Albion and were destined for China.
ered the world’s foremost experts in swine genetics. Whiteshire Hamroc is the largest U.S. recorder of Yorkshire, Landrace, Duroc and Hampshire combined, according to the National Swine Registry 2012 recordings. Whiteshire Hamroc has been exporting swine breeding stock for more than 20 years to more than 22 different countries and started its relationship with the Chinese about three years ago. “International interest in U.S.
swine genetics continues to grow and represent a larger percentage of Whiteshire Hamroc’s business,” said Dr. Mike Lemmon, CEO of Whiteshire Hamroc. “We are very active within the Chinese market, with Whiteshire Hamroc having an office and support staff in Beijing, China.” Whiteshire Hamroc plans to export several additional shipments of swine breeding stock to China over the next several months, Lemmon said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under growing pressure, the administration refused repeatedly to state a position Tuesday on legislation formalizing President Barack Obama’s oft-stated promise that people who like their existing coverage should be allowed to keep it under the new health care law. Senate Democrats spoke dismissively of the proposals, signaling they have no intention of permitting a vote on the issue that marks the latest challenge confronting supporters of “Obamacare.” An earlier controversy appeared to be ebbing on a law that has generated more than its share of them. Even so, one strong supporter of the health care law, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R. I., good-naturedly told an administration official, “Good luck getting through this mess.” Whitehouse spoke to Marilyn Tavenner, the head of the agency deeply involved in implementing the law. She had assured lawmakers that initial flaws with the government’s website were systematically yielding to aroundthe-clock repair effort. “Users can now successfully create an account and continue through the full application and enrollment process,” said Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “We are now able to process nearly 17,000 registrants per hour, or 5 per second, with almost no errors.” She encouraged consumers to log onto the site and check it out, and said the administration had estimated that enrollments will total 800,000 by the end of November. SEE HEALTH, PAGE A5
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Christie easily wins re-election in New Jersey ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie was re-elected with ease Tuesday, demonstrating the kind of broad, bipartisan appeal that will serve as his opening argument should he seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. With 83 percent of precincts reporting, Christie had 60 percent of the vote to Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono’s 39 percent, putting him en route to become the first Republican in a quarter-century to receive more than 50 percent of the New Jersey vote. This, in a state that President Barack Obama carried a year ago by more than 17 points, his biggest margin in the nation. “Thank you, New Jersey, for making me the luckiest guy in the world,” Christie said in a victory speech late Tuesday in the shore town of Asbury Park. After a campaign that centered more on his record and personality than his agenda for a second term, he told supporters that he has big plans for education reform and tax cuts, among other issues. “I did not seek a second term to do small things,” he said. “I sought a second term to finish the job. Now watch me do it.” Buono told supporters in her hometown of Metuchen, on the fringes of the New York area, shortly after polls closed that she had called Christie to congratulate him. She noted they had their differences but added, “when it comes down to it, we’re just two parents who want to see the best for our
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New Jersey first lady, Mary Pat Christie, laughs as husband, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, jokes with the media after they voted in Mendham Township,
N.J., Tuesday. Christie easily defeated Democratic challenger Barbara Buono to win re-election.
children’s future.” Christie performed strongly across the political spectrum. Interviews with voters as they left polling places found Christie re-elected with broad support among whites, independents, moderates, voters over 40 and those opposing the health care law, among
others. He did well among groups that typically lean Democratic, carrying a majority of women and splitting Hispanics with Buono. And Christie improved on his share of the vote among blacks in 2009 by more than 10 percentage points.