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December 5, 2014
Plymouth tradition to mark 40th Get tickets The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival
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Jim Clauser sings the part of The Herald in a Plymouth Congregational Church presentation of The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. This is Clauser’s 40th and final year in that role.
By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
Plymouth Congregational Church will dedicate the 40th Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival to four people who have been part of the service since its beginning. Shirley Slater, Michael Popp and Louise Misegades have been in different roles in the cast and crew through the years. Jim Clauser has filled the same role since the first
festival. Clauser said this will be his final year as The Herald, the central role in the secular portion of the festival that also presents religious themes in six free services each December. “He has never missed a service. He’s the only one that’s in the original character,” said Jim Schmidt, the festival artistic director. “He won’t sing The Herald anymore, but he would like to stay involved with the
Boar’s Head.” “That’s going to be quite a legacy,” said festival music director Robert Nance. “It’s been a great run for me, and I’ve really enjoyed doing that,” Clauser said. “I’m only leaving because I feel like 40 years is 40 years, and I feel like it’s time for somebody else to pick up the gauntlet.” “I lead in the boar’s head in the very beginning after the candle is lit,” Clauser
Plymouth Congregational Church, 501 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne Dec. 28, 29 and 30, at 5:30 and 8 p.m. each evening. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Get tickets at the church office beginning 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18. The ticket office will remain open as late as 7 p.m. if tickets remain available. said. “And that starts the processional and there are six verses that I sing.” Those six verses introduce an audience of perhaps 350 to a story that is acted and voiced by almost 200 people. The sustained musical narration is a task for a powerful voice. “I’m 75, and I want to go out on a good note,” Clauser said. “It will be See BOAR, Page A5
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Exterior work continues on the new sanctuary of Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church, 10145 Maysville Road.
Prayer vigil set for new sanctuary By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
A month of prayer will precede the first service in the new sanctuary of Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church. The worship area of the Maysville Road church was destroyed by fire early on the morning of Dec. 31, 2012. Work continues on the replacement structure, where Taylor Chapel plans special events Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. “As the sanctuary comes to fruition, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 30, we will be having
30 days of prayer vigil in the new space,” said Pastor the Rev. Steven Conner, “so the first thing that happens in the new sanctuary will be a season of prayer and blessing of what will take place in the years ahead in the sanctuary, the lives that will be transformed, and the baptisms and weddings that will take place there.” On Saturday, Jan. 31, from 1 to 4 p.m., the community is invited to see the new sanctuary. On Sunday, Feb. 1, the two services will be combined into a single See CHAPEL, Page A13
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Volunteers Sarah Carter, from left, Owen Wade and Jordan Meintel ring Salvation Army bells at the Kroger Marketplace, Coventry Lane. The students are Homestead High School sophomores and members of the Key Club. Wade is a member of the Time Corners Kiwanis Club.
mail-in donations. Members of the Time Corners Kiwanis Club worked with members of the Homestead High
School Key Club to ring at the Kroger Marketplace, Coventry Lane, on See RED, Page A15
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A familiar holiday fundraiser serves a yearround need. The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign funds more than 40 percent of the organization’s annual budget, said Timothy Smith, the social service director for The Salvation Army, Fort Wayne. Bell ringers have begun taking their posts outside stores throughout Fort Wayne and New Haven, and will continue the campaign through Dec. 24. Volunteers may sign up at registertoring. com. Or call Roxanne at 744-2311. No bell ringing shifts are scheduled on Sundays. This year’s goal is $456,000, including kettle collections and
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