WEDNESDAY September 18, 2013
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Weather Cloudy with a chance of rain, high 77. Tonight’s low drops to 58. Page A6 Kendallville, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Cub Scouts plan electronic recycling in Ligonier Saturday LIGONIER — Local Cub Scouts are sponsoring an electronic recycling day Saturday in the Family Dollar store parking lot on S.R. 5, just north of U.S. 6. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cub Scout Pack 3102 is working with Ace Recycling on the event, which is free of charge. Residents can drop off their unwanted electronic items or can call 740-4402 for pickup. Items that are being accepted include computers (desktop and laptop), keyboards, mice, printers, scanners/fax machines, copy machines, VCRs, stereos, microwaves, radios, mainframes, medical electric equipment, tape players, CD players, telephones, cell phones, digital cameras, gaming consoles, power and network cables, industrial electronic equipment, servers, terminals, rechargeable batteries and all types of office equipment. Also, small household appliances, metals, circuit board, hard drive, CD-ROMs, modems, controllers and toner cartridges will be accepted. Proceeds will go to the local Boy Scouts. For more information, call 740-4402.
Convicted killer appeared agitated on night of slaying LEBANON (AP) — A woman whose former boyfriend is serving a 225-year sentence in an Indiana triple slaying said Tuesday that the man was agitated and out of breath when he woke her up the night of the killings. Mala Singh-Mattingly testified during the murder trial of David Camm, another man accused in the case. She told jurors her ex-boyfriend, Charles Boney, was “real secretive” when he left with his backpack one evening in September 2000 to “meet a buddy.” She said Boney was supposed to report to work at 10 p.m. but returned home agitated just after midnight.
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City Council approves 2014 budget BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — The City Council Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve the proposed 2014 city budget of approximately $9.6 million on second reading. Council members voted following a public hearing on the budget that attracted no public
comment. The proposed overall budget features a 2.18 percent increase and includes a 2.5 percent pay raise for city employees and an additional $5,000 in salaries for the police chief and fire chief. Handshoe pointed out the police and fire departments have the most significant budget increases of any city department, because grants the
city has received for those departments must be included in their budgets. “Our goals in this budget are public safety, a better street improvement program, economic development and the airport,” Handshoe said. The city will have more money for streets in 2014 because the state has changed its
formula for allocating funds to municipalities for local streets and alleys. Water and water pollution control department budgets are supported with user fees, not tax money, and are not included in the budget. The budget ordinance is eligible for third and final reading at the SEE COUNCIL, PAGE A6
Shooter heard voices
Seniors Aaron Dills and Jonathon Kane with the high school’s video presentation department created a video explaining the project. Students in the school’s DECA organization made a business plan and brochure. No school district funds or tax money will be used for the project. Completion will depend entirely on private donations and the sale of memorial bricks. Several times throughout the year, the stadium is host to a variety of community events. Crowded events stretch the facilities to the limit, Peterson said. Congested areas restrict passage to the bleachers, and visitors entering the facility are often confused by the ticket booth being at a separate location from the gate.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was undergoing treatment in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday. Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee with a defense contractor, Alexis used a valid pass to get into the highly secured installation Monday morning and started firing inside a building, the FBI said. He was killed in a gun battle with police. The motive for the mass shooting — the deadliest on a military installation in the U.S. since the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 — was a mystery, investigators said. U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that there was no known connection to terrorism and that investigators have found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious motive. Alexis had been suffering a host of serious mental problems, including paranoia and a sleep disorder, and had been hearing voices in his head, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation was still going on. He had been treated since August by Veterans Affairs, the officials said.
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This architectural rendering shows the new entrance, brick ticket booths, plaza, concession
stand and tailgating pavilion for the proposed East Noble High School Campus Beautification.
EN seeking facelift BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — A fundraising campaign for the East Noble High School campus beautification project kicks off Thursday night with a video presentation of the proposed design at the school for invited guests. In April, high school students and staff members announced plans to improve the athletics stadium facilities with landscaping along the north end zone, a plaza filled with commemorative bricks, a new ticketing center and main gate, relocation and upgrade of the concession stand, a new fan tailgating area, flagpole tribute to veterans and other upgrades. The project began during the summer when students landscaped the south end zone area with nearly 80 trees and stones near the scoreboard. The design incorporates Kendallville and East Noble history, the branches of the military and school district military connections, high school sports achievements and a memorial area made up of 6,000 engraved paving bricks sold to the public to pay for the project, said East Noble High School Principal Steve Peterson. Students from the high school and Impact Institute have been working with an architectural firm on the project’s design. “Our goal is to have the supporting infrastructure as updated for the fans and guests as the turf is for our athletes,” said Peterson. “This is not just for football. This is a community project with Rome City, Avilla and Kendallville.”
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A new, arched, gated entranceway flanked by ticket booths to the East Noble High School athletics stadium is part of the proposed high school campus beautification project.
Shooting victims had long careers with Navy WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen people died in a shooting rampage Monday at the Washington Navy Yard. It was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas. Early Tuesday, the stories of some of those who died started to surface. Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton, Va., was a Navy veteran and avid pilot who was building a light airplane at his home, said his uncle, Steve Hunter. “It would have been the first plane he ever owned,” Hunter said in a telephone interview from Rochester, Mich., Arnold’s hometown. “It’s partially assembled in his basement.” Hunter said his nephew retired from the Navy as a commander or lieutenant commander and had previously been stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. He worked
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at the Navy Yard on a team that designed vessels such as the USS Makin Island, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship used by the Marine Corps. Sylvia Frasier, 53, had worked at Naval Sea Systems Command as an information assurance manager since 2000, according to a LinkedIn profile in her name. Her duties at NAVSEA included providing policy and guidance on network security, and assuring that all computer systems operated by the headquarters met Department of Navy and Department of Defense requirements. Kathleen Gaarde, 63, of Woodbridge, Va., was a financial analyst who supported the organization responsible for the shipyards, her husband, Douglass, wrote in an email to the AP Tuesday. Douglass Gaarde declined to speak, but wrote that he was unable to sleep. “Today my life partner of 42
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, second from right, present a wreath Tuesday at the Navy Memorial in Washington to remember the victims of Monday’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.
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