MONDAY September 30, 2013
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Jacksonville latest NFL victim
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Weather Partly cloudy skies today with a high of 73 and an overnight low of 50. Page A6
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Kendallville, Indiana
Serving Noble & LaGrange Counties
Busche to add 24 jobs in Albion BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ALBION — An Albionbased company will add 24 new jobs next year, thanks to a new contract. Busche has been awarded a contract from Z.F. Industries out of Marysville, Mich., for the machining of Chrysler companion flanges for the Chrysler 300M, Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger programs. The Z.F. purchase order provides tooling for more than 400,000 components annually from Busche. The new program will be run on existing equipment at Busche‘s Plant 8 facility in Albion. Pre-production approval is scheduled for January 2014 with production ramping up in July of 2014. “The program will require production on all three shifts with eight operators per shift, creating a total of 24 jobs,” said Busche estimating manager Art Givens. “This is our first direct order with Z.F.,” said Busche president and CEO Nick A. Busche. “We just received our vendor number and are pleased Z.F. has put their confidence in our machining abilities and the service we can provide. “We look forward to working with the Z.F. team on this project and additional programs in the future.” Two engineers from Z.F. Industries were at the Busche factory on Tuesday. Heidi Fecteau, technical buyer and supplier quality engineer, and Earl Hanselman, supplier quality engineer of axle drives for passenger cars, toured the facilities and presented the Z.F. purchase order to Busche officials. Busche is a computer numerical control (CNC) production machining organization, employing more than 650 skilled employees at their nine production facilities located in northeast Indiana and northern Alabama. Busche specializes in the machining of intricate castings and forgings for the automobile, agricultural, and durable goods industry.
ANGOLA — Jennifer Creighton is like many people who are going to have decisions to make when it comes to signing up for insurance once the Affordable Care Act is implemented in January.
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The timing couldn’t be better for Creighton, 27, Lake James. She is covered through her mother’s employer until age 28, which she will turn in January. At that time, she’s will have to take advantage of one of the new federal insurance exchanges being offered by ACA, better known
as Obamacare, or face income tax penalties. “In January I’m going to have to figure something out,” said Creighton, who works two Creighton part-time jobs in Steuben County and isn’t offered insurance through either of her employers. “I’m hoping it will work out great for me that the (exchange) insurance
will take over when I fall off of my mom’s in January. You know, I’ve never had to think of this before.” Under the ACA, people who currently Kidd do not have health insurance must sign up through a federal exchange or face a tax penalty at the end of the year starting in SEE ENROLLMENT, PAGE A2
Country braces for federal shutdown Who’ll blink? Democrats, GOP in stalemate
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Sister Elsie Fregeau, 79, stands behind the pulpit at Calvary Lutheran Church in Cromwell. After serving the church in her retirement for nearly
eight years as interim minister, she will retire from Calvary on Sunday.
Divine detour coming to end Sister Elsie Fregeau has served 8 years at church BY JAMES TEW jtew@kpcmedia.com
CROMWELL — This is not what Sister Elsie Fregeau had planned for her retirement. “I think God has a remarkable sense of humor,” she said, sitting behind her cluttered pastor’s desk in the pastor’s office at Calvary Lutheran Church in Cromwell, “because I never, ever wanted to work in a parish.” Her title for six more days is interim minister, even though the “interim” has lasted nearly eight years. Lacking ordination, Sister Elsie can’t officially hold the title of pastor, but that doesn’t mean much in the day-to-day life of the church. “If you ask people in this congregation what I am, they
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would say, ‘She’s our pastor,’ because that’s what I do for them,” she said. Her plan upon retirement when she moved to Sylvan Lake — close to her family in Kendallville — was to work in hospice; she had served as hospice chaplain at Lutheran General Hospital in suburban Chicago for the previous nine years. “I love working with hospice people, with hospice patients, with the staff, the nurses and the social workers, and being a supportive person there as a part of that team.
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That was my call,” she said. She took a little time to do nothing and rebuild, she said, and hiked the woods near her home thinking about what to do next. SEE SISTER, PAGE A6
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the government teetering on the brink of partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed Sunday to keep using an otherwise routine federal funding bill to try to attack the president’s health care law. Congress was closed for the day after a post-midnight vote in the GOP-run House to delay by a year key parts of the new health care law and repeal a tax on medical devices, in exchange for avoiding a shutdown. The Senate was to convene this afternoon, just hours before the shutdown deadline, and Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had already promised that majority Democrats would kill the House’s latest volley. Since the last government shutdown 17 years ago, temporary funding bills known as continuing resolutions have been noncontroversial, with neither party willing to chance a shutdown to achieve legislative goals it couldn’t otherwise win. But with health insurance exchanges set to open on Tuesday, tea-party Republicans are willing to take the risk in their drive to kill the health care law. Action in Washington was limited mainly to the Sunday talk shows and a barrage of press releases as Democrats and Republicans rehearsed arguments for blaming each other if the government in fact closes its doors SEE STALEMATE, PAGE A6
Dozen young women up for Corn School Queen LAGRANGE – Twelve young women will be vying for title of Miss Corn School Queen this week when the 64th annual contest takes to the Courthouse gazebo stage Wednesday and Thursday. Corn School, the 108th annual fall celebration, and one of the oldest continuous festivals in the state, takes over the main street of LaGrange this week. S.R. 9, north of S.R. 20, will be closed starting tonight to allow the Corn School rides and booths to be set up. The festival runs Tuesday through Saturday. Seven girls from Lakeland High School, three girls from Prairie Heights High School and two from The Howe School will be competiting for the 2013 crown. Girls must be between the ages of 15 and 19 years old, and a resident of LaGrange County or attending a LaGrange County high school to compete in the contest. Each girl is required to perform in the talent portion of the contest, model eveningwear and answer a question from the judges. The winners will be award cash and prizes donated by local merchants. • Baylee Swank, 17, a junior at
Howe School, will be seeking the local crowd. Her talent is playing the piano. Swank is from Granger, Indiana, and she is the daughter of Lance and Brenda Swank. • Betsy Perkins, 16, the daughter of David and Jenny Perkins, is a junior at Prairie Heights. She will be singing during the contest. Perkins is from Stroh. • Allie Kressse, 17, is a junior at Lakeland High School. She is the daughter of John and Angie Kresse, and will be singing during the contest. She is from LaGrange. • Stacy Zapolsky, 16, is a junior at Howe School and a native of Minsk, Belarus. She will be performing singing during the talent portion of the contest. • Paige Frost, 17, is a Lakeland High School junior, and the daughter of Matthew and Heather Frost. Frost is from LaGrange. • Arikka Mygrant, 18, is a senior at Prairie Heights High School. She will be dancing during her talent presentation. She is the daughter of Rodney and Shannon Mygrant, Wolcottville. • Selena Yoder, 17, is a senior at Lakeland High School, and the daughter of Kristina Yoder,
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Twelve young woman will be vying to be the Corn School Queen this week. The girls in the running for the title are, front row from the left, Selena Yoder, Allie Kresse and Angela Lumadue. In the second row from the left, Cassie Glick, Paige Frost, Arikka Mygrant, Betsy Perkins and Celeste Wentworth. In the back row from the left are Catherine Siebers, Stacy Zapolsky, Baylee Swank and Darrian Combs.
LaGrange. She will be singing during the talent portion of the contest. • Angela Lumadue, 18, is the
daughter of Mickey and Charlene Lumadue of LaGrange. She is a senior at Lakeland High School SEE QUEEN, PAGE A6