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Pacific base still at peace on pastor’s Pearl Harbor

By Garth Snow

VALOR IN THE PACIFIC: A REMEMBRANCE

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The U.S. military base of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was big, busy and at peace on Saturday, Dec. 6, 1941. It remains so on Fort Wayne pastor Todd Hammond’s 1-2,400 scale model.

Pearl Harbor and the world changed the next morning, Sunday, Dec. 7.

Japan sent 353 aircraft and 52 ships and submarines on a surprise attack that destroyed or disabled 19 U.S. Navy ships and more than 300 U.S. aircraft.

The attack claimed 2,403 military and civilian lives, with more than half that number aboard the USS Arizona. By the next day, the U.S. was at war with the Empire of Japan.

Within days, the U.S. was swept up in a global conflict.

The Great War that had been fought just one generation before Pearl Harbor would now be known simply as World

Presented by the National Museum of the U.S. Navy.

The exhibit will be open through March 1, 2017, in the Temporary Gallery at 805 Kidder Breese St. SE, Washington, D.C. The museum is free and open to the public.

The exhibit includes a Pearl Harbor scale model created by Fort Wayne pastor Todd Hammond. The pastor is seeking funding to offset the cost of transporting the model to the capital; visit gofundme.com.

The exhibit incorporates artifacts, photographs and film footage.

Find more information about the exhibit at history.navy. mil/nmusn.

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Todd Hammond’s scale model of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, occupies most of his Fort Wayne garage. The model is part of an exhibit through March 1 at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.

War I. The U.S. and its allies would win the new war less than four years later. The cost of the struggle between World War II victors would continue to be paid at new

borders across the globe for generations to come.

Hammond chooses to remember the last day before that dramatic and permanent change. It’s still a bright Saturday on

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Santa Train riders might climb aboard a wooden caboose built in the late 1800s, or a steel caboose built in 1962.

Santa’s ride begins, ends at New Haven train yard Santa Claus is riding the rails as the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society hosts the jolly old elf and families for train rides at the 15808 Edgerton Road facility

east of New Haven. Santa Train excursions continue two more Saturdays, Dec. 10 and 17, and Sunday, Dec. 18, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

According to Society Vice President Kelly Lynch, tickets went on

sale Nov. 16 and can be obtained at the Society’s website at fortwaynerailroad.org. “By purchasing tickets for a specific time, they can eliminate standing in long lines to board,” Lynch said.

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Hammond’s little, peaceful Pacific island, which is on display 75 Decembers later at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C. The USS Arizona rests in

Battleship Row. Hammond, the pastor of Agape Church of the Brethren, has preserved that moment on a meticulously painted plywood base that holds ships, housing and airfields. His 25-year project won the support of a survivor of that attack. Chief Frank Ruby, USN, retired, was aboard an oiling barge moored off Merry Point that morning in 1941. Ruby first visited Hammond’s scale Pearl Harbor years ago in Dayton, Ohio.

“He was very impressed

when I first met him and I invited him to come and see my little mini-museum,” Hammond said.

“He was just sort of humoring me. He thought it would be a few model ships. In fact, he had made a model of the Arizona and then he had seen someone else’s model of the Arizona Memorial, so he was keen to come see it. But then he saw the size of it and the detail involved and he was terribly impressed, and he said ‘Oh, you have to See PEARL, Page A22

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East Allen Times • December 9, 2016

Fort Wayne Ballet marks 60 years of artistry Elements added to decades of traditions for 58th ‘Nutcracker’ performance

By Whitney Wright

‘The Nutcracker’ at the Arts United Center

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The Fort Wayne Ballet’s 60-year presence has provided the city with decades of artistic entertainment, making Fort Wayne a spot for nationally-recognized ballet schooling and performance.

The ballet academy and company have performed many ballets over the years, including “Sleeping Beauty,” “Giselle,” “Swan Lake,” “Coppelia,” “Peter and the Wolf,” “Cinderella” and “The Nutcracker.”

Beginning first as an academy, the ballet grew to include a regional professional ballet company with dancers moving to Fort Wayne from all over the world to work as an official dancer.

The Fort Wayne Ballet began in the 1950s, when Fort Wayne was thriving as an industrial hub with a myriad of city amenities. Community members felt the area was missing an important part of a proper metropolis — a ballet academy.

By 1956, a local group’s organization and fundraising came together to provide the city with its

303 East Main St. Performances continue Dec. 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 10 and 11 at 2:30 p.m.

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The Fort Wayne Ballet rehearses for its 58th “The Nutcracker” season. To view a video featuring the production, visit infortwayne.com.

first true ballet academy, on Broadway. Fort Wayne Ballet quickly grew and moved to Penn Avenue in 1969, sharing a building with Arts United. The Fort Wayne Ballet is now in its fifth season at its Main Street location at the Auer Center for Arts and Culture.

From the academy grew the company. The ballet company started as a location professional dancers would visit for a few weeks out of the

SINCE 1927

year. Now, it has its own group of professional dancers who live and perform in the area yearround. The dancers come from across the country — California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida — and, currently, one ballerina is from Argentina.

Many of the professional dancers are also former Fort Wayne Ballet academy dancers who went through the University of Saint Francis’

dance program, said Karen Gibbons-Brown, executive and artistic director of the Fort Wayne Ballet.

Over the past 60 years, many traditions developed for the Fort Wayne Ballet, and its growth and success allow it the opportunity to collaborate with other regional organizations. The company works with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, providing the rare

for which the Fort Wayne Ballet was noted as one of the top Nutcracker performances nationwide a few years ago by the Wall Street Journal.

“I love the Nutcracker … we want to show that there is always evil but there is hope and light in every situation. It was true in the 1800s, and it is true now,” said Gibbons-Brown. “If you want a good, family-friendly event, this is it.”

This year, the company is performing its 58th production of the ballet and it is estimated that 9,000 people will see the performance this season.

Though the company has performed the ballet for many years, there are new elements of the production to see this season, including new costumes designed

by Nan Possemato and Blaise Moore; renovated sets and backdrops created by designer Jon Sandmaier; and a new growing Christmas tree.

experience of viewing a ballet with a live symphony and choir.

It also collaborates with sports teams in Fort Wayne for National Dance Week, when trading cards of the Fort Wayne Ballet professional dancers and other Fort Wayne athletes are created.

One of the more unique traditions the Fort Wayne Ballet has is its partnership with the Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control for the “Muttcracker,” a spin on “The Nutcracker.” All of the animals incorporated into the show are available for adoption and can be met during intermission in the lobby. Since the Fort Wayne Ballet started its “Muttcracker,” 70 animals have received new homes, and 10 dance companies in the United States started their own “Muttcracker” shows.

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East Allen Times • December 9, 2016

Christmas Bureau to help 377 Allen County families

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Christmas gifts and food will be delivered to 377 families this season through the efforts of the Allen County Christmas Bureau.

“We had all the families adopted by the 28th of October,” said Jane Surbeck, the Christmas Bureau president. “I love doing this. It’s so much fun knowing that we help other folks have the Christmas of a lifetime. I remember when I was in the same boat that some of these people are in, but there weren’t such things as Christmas Bureaus back then.”

Case managers from more than 25 agencies screen the applicants. The recipients are matched anonymously with donors, who provide at least one outfit of clothing and other gifts for the qualifying families. The recipient and adopter lists are closed for 2016.

“Our adopters are so generous. They have to buy

Students from several schools gather items for the Christmas Bureau charity each year. Concordia Lutheran High School has been participating for about 40 years.

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Concordia Lutheran High School students prepare donations for the 2015 Allen County Christmas Bureau program.

one outfit of clothing, but they buy three,” Surbeck said. One little girl had requested either a certain doll or a bicycle. The adopting family asked if it was OK to buy both.

Surbeck explained that the gift list is a minimum, not a limit. “This man and his mom had been shopping all day and having a great time,” Surbeck said.

Adopting families drop

off gifts at the warehouse on designated mornings in early December. “The case managers will pick them up in the afternoon and take them to the families so they can put them under the tree, and then we’re done for the year,” Surbeck said.

Well, not quite done.

The wrap-up meeting is in January. The annual meeting in May. Other

regular meetings continue in June and August, and the case managers open house is in August. Then the process begins anew.

The call goes out to adopting families by mail in September. Anyone who would like to have their name added to the list of contributors may sign up via allencountychristmasbureau@gmail.com.

New families are chosen

each year. Recipients include a few one-person households, some of whom are seniors. The majority of the families have two to four members. About 10 percent of the families have five or more members.

Adopting families specify the size of the family they are prepared to assist.

Surbeck said major contributors include Concordia Lutheran and Holy Cross Lutheran elementary schools, and Concordia Lutheran, Homestead and Snider high schools. “We have a

lot of schools who participate, but those schools go over and above,” she said.

Concordia Lutheran High School has been participating for more than 40 years. Holy Cross joined the effort this year. “They took eight families, which is substantial,” Surbeck said.

According to the Christmas Bureau website, most families request basic needs such as sheets, towels, pots and pans. Read more about the program at allencountychristmasbureau.com.

IU board OKs IPFW split; Purdue’s meets Dec. 15-16

By Linda Lipp

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Indiana University’s board of trustees voted Dec. 1 to divide Indiana University - Purdue University into two operations, effective July 2018.

Two trustees, Patrick Shoulders and Philip Eskew Jr., voted against the split.

The decision gives IU the department of nursing and other health and human services departments, leaving the rest to Purdue, which could turn what’s left into the Purdue Northeast campus.

The Purdue board, which meets Dec. 15-16, must also approve the plan.

It’s been almost a year since a state Legislative Services Agency study committee recommended the split. The Dec. 1 decision caps months of bitter debate over that proposal, and other cost-cutting proposals IPFW also is undertaking.

Shortly after the vote, IPFW released a statement, saying in part: “IPFW administrators, faculty and staff evaluated potential outcomes and consequences during the LSA study that began almost two years ago and have been working to provide information to our parent institutions since the report was released in January 2016. Today’s action brings us one step closer to a decision regarding the future governance of our campus after many months of uncertainty.

“Assuming approval of the plan by the Purdue trustees two weeks from

now, we will continue to work with Purdue and IU to implement the realigned structure with a view toward making it a success for our students, our campus community, our city and the northeast Indiana region.”

IPFW is also grappling with the controversial cost cuts that resulted from its University Strategic Alignment Process. The cuts in majors, degrees and departments announced in October were far more extensive than faculty and students had anticipated.

Since then, students have organized rallies and news conferences, a

faculty group declared in a letter that it had no confidence in Chancellor Vicky Carwein and called for her resignation; and IPFW’s administration has used an advertising/public relations firm to contact media and bring more attention to the administration’s position on USAP. The IPFW faculty senate also passed a vote of no confidence in Carwein at a meeting Nov. 21. Purdue President Mitch Daniels and board chairman Michael Berhoff issued a statement shortly afterward affirming their support of Carwein.

“The University Strategic

Alignment Process established under her leadership two and a half years ago was clearly essential to address real problems of declining enrollment and

unsustainable costs, problems that no one, so far as we know, has tried to deny.

We applaud her efforts and those of the faculty and staff who worked so

tirelessly to identify recommended solutions,” the statement read.

Carwein issued her own statement noting the board’s continued support.

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The general election took place a month ago, but it’s still unclear who will fill the third Allen County Council at-large seat.

Councilman Roy Buskirk was re-elected to his post Nov. 8, but due to his death Nov. 4, the local parties are in disagreement as to who should fill his shoes, resulting in a lawsuit to contest the election.

Voters had six candidates to choose from to fill three at-large county council seats. The Republicans and Democrats each had three candidates on the ballot, but the three Republican candidates received the most votes Nov. 8.

The day before the

election, the Election Board met to discuss how the passing of incumbent candidate Buskirk would affect the election and counting of votes.

According to the board’s minutes, the board received advice from Laura Maser, board legal counsel, who advised that because of the timing of death, the code does not require the board to remove the candidate’s name from the ballot or replace the candidate’s name with “deceased” or the name of a successor candidate. She further said that it was her understanding that if Buskirk won the election, they would certify the vote totals for the candidate as if he were not deceased and a replacement would be selected by caucus.

The late Buskirk came

in third with 19.38 percent of the votes, and the Election Board approved those votes Nov. 21 in a 2-1 vote.

The Allen County Republican Party met Nov. 30, electing Justin Busch to fill Buskirk’s unexpired term.

Another caucus is planned to be held Dec. 8 to select an individual to fill the four-year county council at-large seat which begins in 2017.

“That is what the state law provides,” Party Chairman Steve Shine said. “The next person in line is not the winner. The winner is certified by the Allen County Election Board. On [Nov. 21], they certified one winner. If the person cannot serve, they are replaced with a candidate selected by the caucus of the winning party’s

precinct men and women.”

Contested results Democrat Palermo Galindo, who finished fourth in the race with 12.25 percent of the votes, disagreed. In his petition contesting the election, he alleges that Buskirk was ineligible to be a candidate by reason of the fact he died prior to the election and therefore ceased to be a candidate. He contends that Shine did not follow the procedure set forth in Indiana Code 3-13-2-5, which contains provisions for the filling of vacancies.

Shine asserts that 30,000 voters had cast their ballots by the time Buskirk passed away, so he was not in a position to replace him.

“There’s no specific Indiana case that deals with this, but there are Indiana cases that say

that the election process is under way when early voting begins,” he said.

“Once early voting begins, you can’t change names on the ballot.”

Timothy Pape, member of the Election Board appointed by the chairman of Allen County Democratic Party, voted against certifying votes for the late Buskirk. He said when a candidate dies so close to an election, it is called a “late vacancy,” at which time the candidate’s party’s chairman is allowed to fill the vacancy.

He said that since Shine didn’t elect to fill the vacancy, Buskirk was not a valid candidate.

“If you die close enough to the election – too late to take some of those more involved procedures – they call it a late vacancy. It’s all under the election code.

It’s there in black-andwhite,” Pape said.

However, not everybody sees it that way. Two election experts at Indiana universities declined to comment as to their thoughts on how the state’s election code applies to this situation and were unable to immediately recall similar cases in the past.

Galindo requested that the courts order the prior certification by the Election Board of the election of Buskirk be rescinded; issue an order requiring the Election Board to issue a new certificate of election certifying Galindo as the third person elected to the position; and enter an order declaring Galindo as the person elected to the See ELECTION, Page A21

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East Allen Times • December 9, 2016

Events for Christmas, New Year’s and everything in between

By Whitney Wright

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Festival of Gingerbread The History Center, 302 E. Berry St. Through Dec. 11: festival and gingerbread house viewing Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

Admission: Adults, $6; 3-17 and 65+ years, $4; 2 years and under, free See over 100 creations made by preschoolers to adults, including professional chefs.

Family Movies Fort Wayne Parks and Recreations Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne Dec. 15, 5:30 p.m.: “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” Dec. 20, 5:30 p.m.: “The Grinch” Dec. 22, 5:30 p.m.: “Elf” Admission: $1; reservation deadlines the day before movie showing at 4:30 p.m.

All movies family-friendly and rated PG. Includes hot chocolate and cookies.

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Botanical Conservatory: Garden in Lights and 12 Days of Christmas Garden Exhibit 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne Through Jan. 8, 2017 Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays, open until 8 p.m.; Sundays, noon-4 p.m.

Admission: Adults, $5; 3-17 years, $3; 2 years and under, free Showcase House, Tropical and Desert Houses and outdoor gardens decorated for the holidays; elements of the 12 Days of Christmas will be in the Conservatory’s poinsettia garden and other garden areas.

Headwaters Park Ice Skating Rink 333 S. Clinton St., Fort Wayne Through Feb. 28, 2017 Mondays-Thursdays, 1-8 p.m.; Fridays, noon-10 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sundays, noon-8 p.m.

Admission: 14 years and older, $5; 13 years and under, $3; skate rental, $2 Fantasy of Lights Franke Park, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne Through Dec. 31 Sundays-Thursdays, 6-9 p.m. $5 per car, $10 per 15-passenger van, $25 per bus/trolley Fridays and Saturdays, 6-10 p.m. $10 per car, $15 per 15-passenger van, $30 per bus/trolley Horse-drawn carriage rides are also available Fridays-Sundays through reservations with Steve Cornelius at (260) 691-3780.

‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne Dec. 10 and 11, 17 and 18 Dec. 11 and 18, 6 p.m.; Dec. 10 and 11, 7:30 p.m.

Admission: Adults and children, $20; 65 years and older, $18; Thursday preview, Dec. 1, $12 “It’s a Wonderful Life,” re-created as 1940s radio drama.

Christmas in the Country Allen County Fairgrounds, 2826 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne Dec. 9 and 10; 6-9 p.m.

Admission: $5; 5 years and under, free Food, visits with Santa, live animals, horse-drawn wagon rides, silent auction, local choirs and more.

Fort Wayne Ballet: ‘The Nutcracker’ Arts United Center, 303 E. Main St., Fort Wayne Dec. 9 and 10, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 10 and 11, 2:30 p.m.

Admission: Adults, $45; 65 years and older, $39; 11-18

ipants get free entry into Gingerbread Festival at History Center Four-mile race starting in downtown, staying near the river.

Toddler Art Fort Wayne Parks and Recreations Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne Dec. 9, 9 a.m. for 1.5-3 years, 10 a.m. for 3-5 years Admission: $18; registration due one week before start of class.

Try out painting, gluing, sculpting and more.

Fort Wayne City of Churches Tour Various churches Dec. 9, 6-10 p.m.

14 churches open their sanctuaries for the public to explore architecture and history: First Wayne Street United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity English Lutheran Church, Plymouth Congregational Church, Trinity Episcopal Church, St. John Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne Baptist Church, First Missionary Church, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Shepherd of the City Lutheran Church, St. Mary Mother of God Catholic Church, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Holiday Pops Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne Dec. 9 and 10, 17 Dec. 10 and 17, 2 p.m.; Dec. 9, 10 and 17, 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $29+, depending on seat Broadway personalities join Fort Wayne’s Philharmonic for a special program with all sorts of holiday songs and dancing.

Fort Wayne Youtheatre’s ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever!’

First Presbyterian Theatre, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne Dec. 9-11 and 16-18 Dec. 9 and 16, 7 p.m.; Dec. 10, 11, 17 and 18, 2 p.m.

Admission: Adults, $18; 18 and under and 65+ years, $12; $12 per person group rate (10+) Holiday tale of the Herdman family and the meaning of the holidays.

Santacon Dec. 10, 1-6 p.m. pub crawl, 6-9 p.m. after party at the Historic Freemason’s Hall Admission: $20 for full-access pass, $10 for after party only. Visit santaconfortwayne.com for passes.

Nonprofit fundraiser for the Mizpah Shrine Van Replacement Fund; Santa and elf-themed pub crawl and after party, with food, drinks, costume contests and live music from HotHouse. Participating bars in the crawl will be offering specials just for participants, including Club Soda and Rudy’s.

Walk to Bethlehem First Christian Church, 4800 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne Dec. 10 and 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Tours start every 10 minutes. Walk through the story of Jesus’ birth outside in different live scenes. After the tour, a Bethlehem marketplace will be available to explore, including Roman soldiers, marketplace vendors, census taker and more. Prayer and reflection afterwards in sanctuary.

Holiday Dinner and/or Light Tour Fort Wayne Parks and Recreations Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne Dec. 12, dinner and tour, 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.; just tour, 6-8 p.m.

Admission: $15 for dinner and tour; $8 just for tour.

Reservations for dinner due by Dec. 2.

Holiday dinner and light tour; following dinner, provided buses will take participants through the Christmas lights displays.

Canterbury Middle School Winter Concert Canterbury Middle School Auditorium, 5601 Covington Road, Fort Wayne; enter by Door 19 Dec. 13, 7 p.m.

Middle School orchestras, band and choir will perform seasonal music at this free concert.

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East Allen Times • December 9, 2016

Boar’s Head and Yule Log keeps 200 costumes ready

By Garth Snow

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As Christmas 2015 approached, Katherine Caldwell and crew scurried to prepare 200 costumes for the 41st Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival.

Besides the usual mending and adjusting, Caldwell’s crew rushed to replace the royal garb of the Three Kings who would arrive at Bethlehem via the center aisle of Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ. The wardrobe department also updated the apparel of three pages and six torchbearers.

Sue Mau, Sue McMurdy, Maggie Fiedler, Myah Fiedler, Louise Misegades and Caldwell’s assistant — Brandy Fisher — labored away, surrounded by racks of costumes of kings, angels, shepherds and madrigals.

“I have my fingers crossed that we get those done in time for the performance this year,” Caldwell said on the second Saturday of December. “If not, they’ll be rolled out next year.”

The crew succeeded, and put the new costumes to use in the closing days of 2015. “Everyone just loved them,” Caldwell said.

Dec. 29 and 30, with services at 5:30 and 8 p.m. each evening Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ, 501 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne Tickets to all six services will be distributed free of charge Thursday, Dec. 15, from 4:30 p.m. till no later than 7 p.m. Each person may request up to six tickets per family. The line forms early. Free-will contributions are welcome.

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The wardrobe crew prepares costumes for the Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. The crew includes (from left) Sue Mau, Sue McCurdy, Katherine Caldwell, Maggie Fiedler, Myah Fiedler, (not shown) Brandy Fisher, Louise Misegades and Jim Clauser.

Preparing for the 42nd annual festival, the crew has another goal.

“This year we’re doing the Star of the East,” Caldwell said. “She’s the one who will carry the huge staff with a star down the center aisle when the Three Kings come in.”

The costume crew has a new volunteer this year.

Jim Clauser served as The Herald — the festival’s central figure — for 40 years. Misegades — who is Caldwell’s mother — and Clauser have served the festival in one capacity or another, or several capacities, since its first season.

Caldwell was involved in the first year of the festival, at age 8, as a caroler. Today she tends to the constant care of the wardrobe.

“We’re always looking for volunteers who would like to participate, whether that be behind the scenes, including the costume department, or in the service,” she said.

“Anyone who’s interested should contact the church and they will be directed to the right person. The more people we have, the more costumes we can replace.”

Throughout the festival, Caldwell’s peers continue caring for the December

tradition on many fronts.

Beth Walker is the festival’s business manager, who also works behind the scenes, tending to security and details such as the cast party. Her main focus, though, is ensuring that the festival is supported financially in three ways. “The largest portion of our support comes from our patron donations,” she said. “A lot of people know of course that our tickets are free, however if a person chooses to support with their patronage, they can request tickets to a performance of their choice.

If they really want their choice of services, they’re happy to write that check for $50.”

Patrons provide most of the funding. “Another opportunity is during the wassail scene they (wassails) climb the pews and they have cups in hand and they take money, and you’d be surprised how much can come of that,” she said.

“And then we have our beef-eaters’ offering at the end. They stand with baskets and nobody’s

Laura McCoy directs the children’s music and also plays flute in the orchestra for the Plymouth Church post-Christmas tradition.

pressured. We have a lean enough budget that those three sources fund our expenses.

“It’s probably a larger budget than people might expect because we do have professional (Fort Wayne) Philharmonic musicians. So we are supporting the community there, too. It takes some good money.”

The festival estimates the cost at about $20,000 each year.

The 2016 festival has been reduced to two services each of two evenings, instead of three evenings. “The cast gets some of their holiday back and we have one less night to pay musicians,” Walker said.

Serving again in their familiar roles are: Jim Schmidt and Kara Jaurigue, artistic directors; Kay Porter, ticket chairperson; and Robert Nance, music director.

Before an earlier festival, Nance explained

that the name comes from an Oxford tradition that a professor was confronted by a wild boar and shoved a book in the boar’s mouth, killing it. “And so the students interpreted that as the triumph of good over evil and they created a festival called The Boar’s Head.

So when they process the boar’s head in this festival, it’s almost like a magical dinner, the king and the queen are there and they’re holding court, and everybody is bringing their gifts or whatever they would like to present to the royal couple as something for this feast of the boar’s head,” he said.

The festival also includes the Three Kings, Mary and Joseph, and other figures central to the the Nativity of Jesus.

Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ has presented the festival since 1975, for a total audience of 129,160.

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Local men tell of service at Lebanon refugee camp

By Rod King

For Times Community Publications

Three local men worked in several refugee settlements in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in October, packaging and distributing food, passing out winter boots, painting a school, doing a house-to-house survey, playing games with children and hosting a cinema night.

The three, Caleb Jehl of Fort Wayne, and Sam and Gabe Jarjour of Leo, left Fort Wayne on Oct. 7 with $4,800 in money that had been raised locally with the specific goal of presenting it to Salam Lebanese Association for Development & Communication to buy food and supplies for people in the settlements.

Of that amount, $3,000 went to buy grain which they helped package in 2-kilo bags that they then distributed to the refugees.

It included rice, fava beans, lentils and bulgur wheat.

Each box of food also contained a liter of vegetable oil and a half-pound of salt. The funds also paid for the packaging for the food kits. Of the remaining money, $1,700 was used to buy winter clothing and $100 went toward the cost of a young girl’s cleft palate surgery.

“Lebanon has hundreds of refugee settlements,”

Sam Jarjour said. “In fact, one in five people in Lebanon is a refugee; 1.5 million in all. The settlements stretch for miles.

All you can see is Tyvek (U.N. sheeting) stretched over wood frames. Most of the people are from Syria and Palestine, and many fled Palestinian refugee camps in Syria because of the civil war to come to Lebanon.”

“Life is hard in the settlements,” Jehl said.

“There is no internal plumbing, but water barrels are provided and there are port-a-potties. These settlements are much more organized than the transient ones we visited in Eastern Europe last year. The people are here for the long haul. Their main hope is that the war in Syria will end so they can go home. But even if it ends tomorrow, it could take from five to 20 years to bring things back to normal.

“We were all pretty much shocked at how resilient, industrious, enterprising and upbeat the people are. They do receive a small stipend from the United Nations but it doesn’t go very far.

There are a lot of cottage industries helping supply necessities. One man operates a tailor shop in his home, while another has

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Working in the refugee settlements in Lebanon recently were, left to right, Caleb Jehl of Fort Wayne, and Gabe and Sam Jarjour of Leo. They took $4,800 with them to buy food and clothing for residents of the settlements.

erected nets on his roof to catch and train pigeons.

Shade-tree auto and motor-

cycle repair shops are everywhere.”

“One woman allowed

us to use her very clean and tidy two-room home to distribute winter boots,”

Sam Jarjour said. “We spent one day going door to door distributing food (mostly grain), diapers and baby sleeping bags, while helping people fill out a lengthy questionnaire that will be used by aid agencies to determine the needs of the families in the settlements. Later that day we participated in a Play with Purpose program designed to get kids playing games and exercising. Children were eager to use their rudimentary English on us.”

Gabe, an 18-year-old high school student, painted walls and helped clean up around a newlybuilt elementary school.

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TRAIN from Page A1 “Ticket prices are $7 for children and adults.

This is the second year we have used the online ticketing system and it has been very successful.”

The Society has been hosting the 20-minute caboose rides with Santa for the past 15 years. The two classic Nickle Plate Railroad cabooses will be pulled by a 44-ton Davenport diesel engine that was built in 1950. It was originally used by the U.S. Army at the nearby Casad Depot.

The older of the two cabooses was built in the late 1800s. It’s all wood and features a cupola which children can climb into for the ride. A potbelly stove will keep everyone toasty warm.

The other, which was built in 1962, is made entirely of steel. It is heated electrically. Both will be festively decorated for the season. Santa, who will pass out candy canes to the children on board, will ride in one caboose to the end of the line and in the other on the return trip.

Lynch said excursion riders are invited to come into the train shed to explore Santa’s Workshop while waiting for their scheduled departure. There, visitors will find food from Bravas, refreshments from Mocha Lounge, family photo opportunities and a children’s activity area.

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Snow falls on the Santa Train on the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s tracks east of New Haven.

“Families looking for a really unique holiday gift exchange adventure can charter a Santa caboose,” Lynch said. “When the caboose reaches the end of the line, Santa will make a surprise entrance with a bag full of gifts for the exchange. It has turned out to be a fun family event.”

These trips, which take around 45 minutes, are scheduled for 6, 7 and 8 p.m., Dec. 3, 10 and 17.

The cost is $250, and tickets can be booked online. The rides last about 45 minutes. Each ride can accommodate up to 15 people.

All profit from the Santa Train supports the nonprofit society’s railroad preservation efforts in northeast Indiana.

“In the last three years we’ve increased our ridership and sold out every train, all while reducing wait times for passengers and improving the entire experience,” Lynch said in a statement on the Society’s website.

“We’ve added a fourth operating day to accommodate increased demand and we’re turning our entire restoration facility into Santa’s Workshop to really make this more than just a train ride.”

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Friends build 10-ft. model of ill-fated USS Arizona

By Garth Snow

gsnow@kpcmedia.com

Homestead High School students Logan Roser and Atticus Bennett hope to turn their respect for the military into a charity for veterans’ causes.

The 16-year-old friends have built a 10-ft. scale model of the USS Arizona, which was destroyed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

Roser started the project while an eighth-grader at Woodside Middle School.

Science teacher Laura Smith has encouraged Roser throughout the project.

“He started carrying around this big, thick book about the Arizona and it became a topic of conversation between the two of us,” Smith said. “One of the projects that he worked on includes a scale drawing and a model, and he made his own scale drawing of the Arizona and by the end of the year he wanted to make a model. I had some extra material from a Future Cities project and gave him some of his first materials.”

Roser said he could not buy the model on his own, so he decided to build one.

That was four years ago. “I invited my friend Atticus to join me on it, and it kind of spiraled into this.

We decided to build the biggest, best ship we could build,” he said. “My garage

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Atticus Bennett and Logan Roser created a 10-ft., 350-pound scale model of the USS Arizona. Roser said the project has been especially well received thanks to Veterans Day and the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

has primarily held one car.

Everything else has been shifted over and I made my workshop here. She’s exactly 10 feet long, she’s got a beam at the widest point at about 1-foot, 9-inches, and she’s approximately 350 pounds.”

“I’ve been Logan’s friend since first grade and when he came to me with this project I was totally on board with it,” Bennett said.

“At first it seemed like a little project, and then it turned into a not-for-profit.

We both have family in the military and we wanted to help them out.”

Their not-for-profit is called 60.8ft Fleet, indicating the scale of their first ship. They hope to add a

model of the USS Indianapolis to their fleet, and to show both ships to support their cause.

The reaction has been very positive, Bennett said.

“Everyone’s been super supportive of it, and we’ve gotten a lot of calls from people. We’ve gotten offers to display it places,” he said.

Roser researched the Arizona thoroughly. “I dug deeper and found things out, like she wasn’t actually supposed to be in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. It was just a coincidence,” he said.

They invested two years in planning and dimensioning and two years in the actual building.

“Imagine trying to

get that thing on scale,” Bennett said. “We have pictures from all the way before it was built, in the planning phase, all the way through today.” Bennett said he also is benefiting by learning to operate a not-for-profit.

Much of the Arizona model is wood. Many of the turrets and 12-inch guns are metal. Roser’s uncle John Reed in Alpena, Mich., machined some of the metal parts. Another uncle, Wesley Lewis, is deployed in the Navy and has helped plan the electrical layout for the ship. The builders hope to put the ship afloat with remote-control guidance.

Roser described his grand-

Logan Roser and Atticus Bennett explain the USS Arizona scale model that they built. Most of the ship is made of wood. The 12-inch guns and “barbettes” — gun emplacements — are metal and were custom manufactured.

father Paul Roser, a Korean war veteran, as a major support who helped with tools and instruction. Roser said Smith, at Woodside, supported the project from the beginning, including donating the first material.

“He promised to stay in touch, and he has,” Smith said. “He has sent very enthusiastic emails about what he has learned.”

The builders have learned about history, but also about welding and electrical wiring. “He has sent pictures of the progress and I try to continue to be encouraging and supporting,” she said. “I hope they really get to help bring this idea to the

people and help support the veterans. It’s really neat to be able to stay in contact with a student over the course of the years and watch them accomplish their goals. Their perseverance has been very impressive. It’s an interesting project. They’ve spent a lot of time and they have a deep commitment to what they’re doing. I’ve been very impressed with that.”

Roser said he does not see the project as honoring war, but as a tribute to the men and women who served.

Find more information about their project on Facebook at 60.8ft Fleet.

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Baekgaard sees hotel in Fort Wayne’s future

By Bridgett Hernandez bhernandez@kpcmedia.com

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, co-founder and chief creative officer of Fort Wayne-based Vera Bradley, is partnering with Provenance Hotels, a Portland, Ore.-based hotel owner and operator, to develop a $27-million boutique hotel in downtown Fort Wayne.

The plan was announced Nov. 22 at a news conference in Ash Skyline Plaza.

Baekgaard and Provenance Hotels are working closely with Greater Fort Wayne Inc. and the city of Fort Wayne to finalize a site selection.

Sites under consideration for the project are in the heart of the city. Among the sites under consideration are The Landing and areas around the downtown public library, said Bashar Wali, principal and presi-

dent of Provenance Hotels.

“We haven’t decided on a site yet,” he said. “We’re trying to make sure that what we do doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb but rather works with the overall plan for downtown Fort Wayne.”

Baekgaard said the partners are “pretty close” to selecting a site but, until that time, the exact timeline for the project is indeterminate.

The project is expected to cost a total of $27 million, including an estimated direct cost of $17 million and another $1.8 million in furnishings and expenses.

Construction for the project is expected to employ between 150 and 200 people during construction.

The plans call for a 120-room hotel with a marquee ground-floor food and beverage operation and meeting spaces designed

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Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, co-founder and chief creative officer of Fort Wayne-based Vera Bradley, is partnering with Provenance Hotels, a Portland, Ore.based hotel owner and operator, to develop a $27 million boutique hotel in downtown Fort Wayne. The plans were presented at a Nov. 22 event at the Ash Skyline building.

to serve as a nexus of the community.

A tentative rendering, which was presented at the press conference, featured a six-story building with a rooftop space.

“The idea is to create meeting space that’s indoor/ outdoor so that in the

summer, if you have an event, a wedding, a celebration, a birthday, you could do it indoor or outdoor,” Wali said.

Upon completion, the hotel is expected to draw an estimated 45,000 visitors per year and employ 100 individuals.

Room rates will depend on the market and seasonality, Wali said. However, he estimates that they will range between the “mid to high $100s.” The hotel is expected to maintain an occupancy of 80 percent or more.

Baekgaard will bring her vision and design abilities to the project, and Provenance Hotels will manage the property when it opens in 2019.

Robert Wallstrom, CEO of Vera Bradley, said hotels are often the first impression visitors get when they visit a new city. He is confident that Provenance Hotels will create a place that celebrates the local environment.

“This will not be a generic hotel,” he said. “It will be a Fort Wayne hotel, an institution that will celebrate the city.”

Baekgaard said the

project has long been a dream of hers. She was inspired to create a place where visitors can linger over the city’s charms – enjoy a performance at the Embassy or experience local restaurants – rather than just do business and leave.

The name of the hotel has not yet been decided, however, “The Vera Bradley Hotel” is not in the running. While Baekgaard will bring her vision and design abilities to the project, she emphasized that it would be a reflection of the city – not of her brand.

“It’s not going to look like a Vera Bradley store,” she said.

Baekgaard plans to use Indiana limestone and, for the construction process, is hoping to work with a local, regional or Indiana company.

who plays the viola. “It was a great experience because we actually saw how people responded to us playing and last year it was so much fun because we did a lot of sightseeing as well as practicing, and I’m looking forward to it again this year.

It lets them see a United States school orchestra playing in Ireland.”

“We played in a cathedral for a group of disabled chil-

dren, which was a privilege and a pleasure,” said Dixon, who plays the vertical bass.

“We also got to play for a group of the elderly and I thought that was fantastic because we got to speak with them and learn of their tales and life in Ireland.

We got to see the real Irish culture and step into a world outside our own. We got a really valuable life experience.”

Canterbury’s Ireland trip celebrates love of music

By Garth Snow

gsnow@kpcmedia.com

A group of 60 Canterbury High School students traveled to Ireland for an arts and music tour over the Thanksgiving break.

The trip marked Canterbury’s second trip to the Emerald Isle in as many years. The trip included performances and workshops.

“We wanted to go someplace where there’s a true love of music,” said Jane Galbraith, band director and one of four faculty members to make the trip.

“When you’re in Ireland there’s spontaneous music like our students were jamming here,” she said after a rehearsal for the benefit of an all-school assembly. “You walk down the street and people are just playing music. There’s just such a cultural love of music.

“We also wanted to do something that was as affordable as possible.

Some of our students have never traveled out of the country before, so Ireland is easy in terms of the food, the language, the acceptance of musicians of all ages and all levels. It’s just a safe and smooth environment. It was an easy place for the kids to go, especially if they’ve never traveled overseas before.”

Galbraith said the tour guide lives in Waterford, the first stop. “We started talking with him about doing something entertaining, where we are really engaging with Irish students our own age,” she said. “So he has set up a collaboration where we’re going to spend a whole day with a theater company called TheatreBox Studios, which is a youth theater, but there’s also dancing and they also have theater tech. So we’re going to put together a concert that puts

together what we do, what they do. Then that evening we’re going to perform that.”

After Waterford, the Canterbury travelers would see the Cliffs of Moher on the way to Galway, where they would perform a concert at Medieval Saint Nicholas Church.

They planned to perform at a Christmas Tree Festival Launch in St. Columba’s

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Parish, Belfast, on Nov. 24.

Students also would visit the Titanic Museum and Trinity College.

Other Canterbury faculty making the trip were: Colleen Tan, orchestra and strings director; Beth Patterson, choir director; and Ranae Butler, fine arts chair and drama director.

Each aspect of the program was presented at the student assembly prior to the trip.

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Seniors Elise Wellmann and Andy Dixon played with the band that morning, and then spoke glowingly of their second trip Canterbury trip to Ireland.

“Last year we had about four concerts and we played for a group of children with disabilities, and that was probably my favorite because we got to meet the kids and they really enjoyed our music,” said Wellman,

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Amateur radio operators enjoy global friendships

By Tess Plazek

For Times Community Publications

The Allen County Amateur Radio Technical Society is just one of many groups of ham radio operators in the United States.

About 700,000 licensed amateur radio operators reside in the United States and nearly 100 of them are here in Allen County.

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is a form of communication over long distances. This type of radio technology is considered a hobby and can be enjoyed by anyone who obtains a license.

According to the National Association for Amateur Radio website, a license

is required because radio waves do not stop for international borders.

This hobby enjoyed by thousands gives ham radio operators a chance to communicate with the other side of the world.

As ACARTS Chairman Jim Boyer explained, this group of operators is more like a community.

“The nice thing about ham radio is that it is a very open organization,” Boyer said.

This open organization also allows for open communication with people from all over the globe. While some local radio antennas can communicate up to a 50-mile radius, other antennas have

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the capability of communicating overseas. This is possible by sending radio waves that bounce off the ionosphere, a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, then traveling thousands of miles. According to Boyer, the distance these waves are able to travel depends on the conditions on a given day. Factors such as sunspot activity or simply the time of day contribute to how far radio waves can travel.

Communicating with people from all over the world with a similar interest in amateur radio allows the operators to build relationships. Boyer explains the conversations held through ham radio as simple and usually light-

hearted.

“A lot of what we do is just listen and if we hear somebody we’d like to contact, we just give them a call,” Boyer said. “It’s nothing Earth-shaking.

We talk about the weather, where they are exactly on the Earth or what country.

We try not to get political, we just converse with them about their day-to-day activities.”

Friendships are often formed between operators here in Allen County and others on the other side of the world through this form of communication.

Boyer explains how they set up a schedule to call their friends overseas on a regular basis.

There are also incentives

for ham radio operators communicating with people from all over the world. Once an operator makes contact with someone from another country, the communication is acknowledged through QSL cards. These cards are a confirmation of a two-way radio communication and are collected by the local group of amateur radio operators. The group holds contests and gives out awards to operators depending on how many cards they obtain signifying the number of countries they have contacted.

While amateur radio is considered a hobby, it is also a public service. Radio operators aid the public

by tracking dangerous weather, communicating during crisis situations, and more. According to Boyer, the group is associated with the Department of Homeland Security and provides communication for the Red Cross through the radio operators’ emergency communications group. “(Communicating) during emergencies or disasters, we do a lot of that,” Boyer said. “If there’s a hurricane or tornado or earthquake, we have people all over the world. If there’s an earthquake for example, there’s more than likely someone in that country who will get on the air and you can communicate with them.”

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who has worked twice in Eastern Europe. “It’s very humbling to return to this country where we are fortunate to have stability, jobs, education, peace and the opportunity to pursue the kind of life we want here in the world’s richest country. It has been life-changing for me. I no longer have tolerance for people in the United States who have the nerve to complain and only want to point out negatives. The people in those settlements have nothing but negatives and yet they manage to survive and still be positive.”

Though most of their time was spent in the settlements, they did have time to float in the Dead Sea, visit an ancient Roman temple (UNESCO World Heritage site), watch cliff divers at the Mediterranean Sea and drive through the mountains of Lebanon. They visited two of Sam Jarjour’s aunts (his parents immigrated to the U.S. from Syria in the 1950s) and a couple cousins that his son, Gabe, had never met. They also saw the high school that his grandfather and mother had attended.

In Hebron, they met a

woman from Indianapolis who was working with Christian Peacekeepers.

The organization provides escorts for local grade school and junior high school students. They help them safely get to and from school and protect them from harassment by religious zealots.

Persons wishing to donate to refugee relief can do so on the Salam Lebanese Association for Development & Communication website, salamladc. org. For photos of the local men’s trip, visit Facebook and search for Fort Wayne for Syrian Refugees.

ment, the kids would flock around. They always had smiles on their faces. The younger ones wanted to be held and the older ones wanted to play. They had a lot of hope and optimism in their eyes, unlike their parents. One family we met had adopted three orphans of the Syrian civil war. The entire community was helping them support the additional kids. Really heart-warming.”

“This is my third time to work in refugee settlements,” said Jehl,

Allen County

Bicentennial Salute

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A special supplement to Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, Aboite & About, Dupont Valley, East Allen Times, St. Joe Times and INIFort Wayne.

Two hundred years and counting

BY LEE SAUER

In 200 years of statehood, Indiana, the smallest of 12 Midwestern states, has grown accustomed to being overlooked.

From the moment its borders were drawn, Indiana’s 280- mile, north- south axis put it in the path of American growth and progress.

But no one seemed to notice — or when they did, they did so with derision.

Old- time travelers nicknamed the state “crossroads of America.” In other words, a place to pass through, not

a destination.

And yesteryear’s wags referred to the state’s residents as “Hoosiers,” a derogatory term meaning “uncouth simpleton.”

In more recent times, Indiana’s conservatism and religiosity have left it out of step with a changing and secular world. Again, U.S. sentiment seems to say, it’s a quaint place to visit for a Super Bowl or NCAA finals —but who would want to live there?

Today, sophisticated travelers refer to Indiana (together with its Midwest neighbors) as a

“flyover state.”

But lack of notice is not the same as lack of importance. Indiana’s place in American history is second to none. *** Think the only war on U.S. soil was the American Civil War? Think again.

Residents of Indiana live on a battleground.

When U.S. expansion backed eastern woodland Indians up against the prairie — the very limit of the vast, seemingly endless forest which began at the nation’s East Coast and essentially ended at

Indiana’s western border — this land’s native people made a last desperate, violent stand.

Historians commonly call these fights The Indian Wars.

Hoosiers’ modern life bustles them past places with names of incredible historical significance: Fort Wayne, Tippecanoe, Mississinewa.

And yet, the significance of these places has contracted over time.

Now they are memorialized by historical markers on busy streets or near a cornfield. Or parks for walking the dog.

*** Indiana’s history since settlement by Americans survived better.

Ask any child about Indiana’s pioneers, and they will tell the story of brave, hard working families willing to face dangers in an untamed land.

Less well known is the pattern of settlement. Blocked by an impenetrable natural wonder known as the “Black Swamp” (which covered the northern half of Ohio), Indiana’s residents largely came from the south.

That simple fact

reverberates today in our state’s religion, race relations, government and speech. *** The pioneer era led to the romantic period for which Indiana is best known: The time of the family farm.

With the arrival of trains, towns popped up all over the state.

Markets across the country came within reach. And products from eastern cities became available here.

With automobiles, isolation melted further.

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came within reach of anyone willing to work hard. This was the time of Friday night basketball games, Saturday night visits to town, 4-H and county fairs.

For more than 100 years, family farms served as the backbone of the state’s economy.

It went on so long, and became so intertwined with the state’s image, it seemed impossible it should end. *** Since the passing of the family farm, Indiana has struggled for a new identity. Industrial farming and manufacturing now provide the economic motor.

But neither is as embraceable as singlefamily farming. Both bring environmental and

social challenges.

And neither can honestly promise a secure financial future.

It’s an era still in progress, its history largely unwritten.

When Indiana gets national notice today, it’s when the state passes a law, or a politician makes a statement, that swims against the national current. *** Two hundred years.

Twenty decades. That’s how we’ve arrived at Indiana’s bicentennial.

What follows is a series of articles on our Allen County’s, decade by decade. Each 10-year period is associated with a topic connected to that time.

We’ll discuss topics introduced above, plus a few more.

With reverence for

the past and hope for the future, happy birthday, Indiana!

ABOUT THE WRITER

Formerly a teacher, commercial fisherman and journalist, Lee P. Sauer now makes his living as a freelance writer, illustrator and handyman. He is the author of “It’s a Duesey!,” “The Many Lives of Glenn T. Rieke,” and the illustrated books for children, “Ralph’s Indiana Bicentennial Activity and Coloring Book,” and “Drawing from History: Abraham Lincoln.” Sauer plays lead banjo in the musical duo Schmaltz & Blarney. He lives in Angola with an ever-changing combination of daughters, chickens and cats.

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Historic map — shows the Northwest Territory before Indiana statehood.

1816 — A change of hands One of Fort Wayne’s most important events after Indiana’s statehood was the arrival of Samuel Hanna to the area in 1819 at the age of 22 — the same year the original fort for which Fort Wayne is named after was abandoned for a larger one. Hanna would later become one of the most important men in Fort Wayne’s development as an early settlement.

By 1823, Fort Wayne was officially platted as a village and the

newly-opened U.S. Land Office began to sell government land won from the Native Americans in previous years. The site would later become the U.S. Indian Agency, in charge of making payments to Native Americans for their land. Alexander Ewing and his family, one of the first families to settle and build their homestead in Fort Wayne in 1822, became prominent figures in Native American trade and appropriation. It was

in the Ewings’ home that Allen County was officially organized and named after John Allen, who helped siege Fort Wayne in 1812 but died the year after in the River Raisin Massacre.

Thomas Swinney, another important early Fort Wayne figure, moved to Fort Wayne the year after the Ewings. It was toward the end of this decade that Samuel Hanna began to make his mark as perhaps the biggest Fort Wayne promotor in history.

1826 — A decade of development Alexander Ewing only lived four years in Fort Wayne before his death in 1826. His sons, capitalizing on the rising popularity of the Native American fur-trading scene, sold most of the land of Ewington to W.G. & G.W. Ewing Company, one of the most prominent fur-trading entrepreneurs in the region. The following year, Samuel Lewis—a relative of Meriwether Lewis (of Lewis and Clark) and his wife Katherine Wallace moved to Fort Wayne.

Katherine’s nephew, General Lew Wallace, would often come stay with the couple in Fort Wayne. He would later write Ben Hur, one of the most influential Christian books of the nineteenth

century. That same year, the home of Chief Richardville was built, which is now recognized as the oldest American Indian house in the Midwest.

In 1829, Fort Wayne moved up from a village to a town with a population of 300 people.

It was soon after its promotion to the Town of Fort Wayne that John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, first reached Allen County on his mission to promote fruit trees.

The 1830s began the first real movements to make Fort Wayne a prosperous city and a valued destination amongst settlers. The year after the first court house was built, Samuel Hanna, desperate for

Fort Wayne to thrive, undertook building plank roads to better facilitate travel in and out of the town. By 1835, the push for more efficient trade and resource delivery was realized by construction of the canal from Fort Wayne to Huntington, connecting the Maumee and Wabash rivers. Most of the labor was performed by 1,000 Irish immigrant laborers, directed by Jesse Williams.

It was also during this time that Hugh McCulloch moved to Fort Wayne and constructed his homestead. He would go on to become the Secretary of Treasury to Abraham Lincoln as the country moved closer to the Civil War years.

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1836 — Reaching city status By 1840, Fort Wayne’s population reached 2,000 and the town became incorporated as the City of Fort Wayne, two years after the first public school in the area was built between Berry and Wayne Streets and St. Joseph Hospital first opened in the Rockhill Hotel. This decade was composed of the continual development encouraged by

Samuel Hanna and other prominent Fort Wayne figures.

Their drive is what made the official grand opening of the canal, small pieces of which had begun opening since 1835. The canal opened up the region between the head of the steamboat navigation in Lafayette all the way to Toledo, Ohio. Fort Wayne’s position at the highest point of elevation along

the canal earned it the title the Summit City.

Only a few years after the canal’s grand opening, Johnny Appleseed, who had settled near Fort Wayne toward the end of his life, died and was buried. It was also during this time that Rev. Charles Beecher of Fort Wayne took leave to assist his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, while she worked on her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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1846 — Railroads reach Summit City The 1850s became the first time Fort Wayne would begin hearing a new nickname: The City of Churches. As more people moved to the developing city, it

became a significant center for Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal faiths. Many churches and cathedrals rose up, though some would be lost to fire or outdated

architecture.

In 1854, the canal proved increasingly useful when the area’s first steam engine arrived on canal boat, beginning the progres-

sion of a prosperous railroad industry in Fort Wayne. The city would later become the world’s largest supplier of railroad wheels and axles.

Samuel Hanna,

always a leader in Fort Wayne development, donated land in 1852 to the city, which would become important to the rising local transportation industry. The site

would soon be used for the Pennsylvania Shops, where locomotives and cars would later be designed and built, stretching nearly three miles long.

1856 — Into the Civil War; city growth continues Railroads became increasingly popular and the fight to be the most powerful railway was underway. It was at this time that the Chicago and Fort Wayne, Ohio and Indiana and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads were merged to form the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, later known as the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was also during this decade that Thomas Edison worked as a railroad telegraph operator and rented a room at the corner of Columbia

and Calhoun streets downtown.

Hanna, now an old man, made his last major impression on Fort Wayne by convincing the directors of the newly-merged railroad to place their repair and construction shops in Fort Wayne, which would become the famous Penny shops of Fort Wayne.

A new presidency was underway in 1860 and Abraham Lincoln made a point to stop in Fort Wayne on his way to New York for his speech at the

Cooper Union. A year later, President Lincoln’s call to defend the Union led Fort Wayne leaders to form Camp Allen as a training ground with first recruiting officer William “Popgun” Smith.

It was during this time Eliza George made headway as one of the most determined nurses in the Civil War. In 1863, at the age of 54, George became an Army Nurse in the overflowing Memphis hospitals. Mother George, as she became known amongst the wounded

soldiers under her care, hardly took rest or visited Fort Wayne during her time as an army nurse.

In 1865, she contracted typhoid fever and died, upon which she was buried in Lindenwood Cemetery with full military honors.

While some Fort Wayne residents left to help with the war effort, others were making progress in the growing city. The year before Mother George left for Memphis, French immigrant Charles Centlivre opened the

French Brewery, which became one of the most prominent breweries in the Midwest. At the end of the 19th century, it became known as the C.L. Centlivre Brewing Company when Charles died and his sons, Charles and Louis, took over the business. It once again changed names during the Prohibition and was called the Centilvre Ice and Cold Storage Co. After the Prohibition ended, the company was named Centlivre Brewing Corp.

Saloons became

increasingly popular during this decade as well and the city became a harbor for crime like that of the Ed Ryan Gang, a group of professional pickpockets, gamblers and thieves. The gang was well-known around Fort Wayne from 1865-1867, until Ryan was finally arrested upon returning to the United States after fleeing to Canada for several years.

Though he only served a few years of his sentence, the gang fell apart without its leader and did not officially recommence.

1866 — Baseball begins; manufacturing espands In 1866, Fort Wayne’s Kekionga baseball team, named after the capital of the Miami tribe, played its first game on July 4. However, it was also during this year that Samuel Hanna died on June 11. To pay reverence to the man who seemingly single-handedly developed Fort Wayne from a settlement to a city, the foremost

buildings were draped in black and a two-mile procession followed his casket to Lindenwood Cemetery.

Despite Hanna’s death, progress proceeded without him. Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 and moved to Fort Wayne with her family. She would later become the first female physician in Fort Wayne

1876 — First signs of electricity The second half of the 1870s brought new medical improvements to the area: in 1876, the Fort Wayne College of Medicine was established and, two years later, Parkview Health first arrived on the scene as the Fort Wayne City Hospital, founded on Halloween.

What would later become electric streetcar railways first began in the 1880s as street cars pulled by horses on rails. An important founder of the electrical industry for Fort Wayne was Fort Wayne Jenney Electric, opened by James and Charles Jenney in 1881.

It was also the year they showed the public their new “arc light,” later to be used at the New Orleans World’s Fair and an inspiration

to Marcellus Slattery, the man to whom alternating current is attribute, and James Wood, designer of the Statue of Liberty’s first lighting system.

Another invention to hit the scene in the early 1880s was the first kerosene pump in 1885, designed by Sylvanus Bowser. His invention would lead to the first gasoline and oil pumps once automobiles became more widespread. He designed a self-measuring gasoline storage pump, the forerunner of today’s gasoline pumps.

Allen County also had its last execution during this decade. In 1883, the accused murderer Sam McDonald was hanged in the jailhouse yard.

and also the first female on Harvard University’s faculty. Two years later, Henry Paul and John Peters, owners of Horton Manufacturing, opened a factory in Bluffton that would produce the world’s first contained washing machine. In 1871, body-snatching — the taking recently buried bodies from the ground — became popular. When

Fort Wayne’s medical college, established in 1876, was in need of bodies to study anatomy, snatchers would sell them to the school.

The Kekionga baseball team continued to gain popularity during 1870 and 1871. Hoping to play major professional teams like the Red Stockings, White Stockings, Philadelphia Athletic,

Rockford Forest City and Baltimore Marylands, the team invested in Camp Allen as its playing field and used funds from season tickets to build a grand stand in 1870.

The following year, the team became one of the first to join the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, the predecessor of the National Baseball

League. The Kekiongas played the Forest City Baseball Club of Cleveland for the League’s first game, becoming what many historians consider the first major league baseball game ever played. However, the Kekiongas team fell apart midway through its season and never reformed again.

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1886 — Automobiles in Fort Wayne The rising opportunities in Fort Wayne during the late 1800s brought populations from all parts of the world to the growing city. With 80 percent of the immigrant population speaking German, The Chicago Tribune called the city “a most German town.”

These years were also the beginning of Fort Wayne’s transition from life in the city to suburbia, which would heavily continue over

the next century. Many Summit City residents began moving to locations like Lakeside Park, platted in 1890, opting for bigger yards rather than life in the city. Within these years, Joseph and Cornelius Hoagland and Thomas Biddle made baking powder history by developing what would become the popular Royal baking powder brand.

Other successful

inventions during the 1890s included the opening of Theodore Thieme’s Wayne Knitting Mills in 1891, run primarily by female workers, and German immigrant Peter Eckrich’s meat market in 1894. Thieme’s full-fashioned hosiery was the first of its kind in the United States and became important in the Gibson girl outfits of the early 1900s, a predecessor to the flapper

girl persona. Eckrich’s meat market would later become Eckrich & Sons and is now under the unified brand Smithfield Packaged Meats, one of the most popular meat brands in the United States.

Electricity also became steadily more integrated into everyday life in Summit City. In 1892, horse-drawn street cars were fitted to run on electric lines. Jenney Electric was also acquired

by General Electric in 1894, later to become one of the largest employers in Fort Wayne during the industrial years. A year later, the first automobile arrived in Fort Wayne.

Fort Wayne began investing in its public amenities more heavily during this decade. In 1895, the fight for a public library was finally appeased by the opening of the Fort Wayne Public Library in the City Hall.

Two years later, the Allen

County Courthouse’s construction began.

While there were a lot of triumphs and growth in Fort Wayne in the late 1880s and early 1890s, some were not so lucky.

After more than 20 years of successful business, the Centlivre brewery’s fire bell signaled to those nearby on July 16, 1889, that the plant was ablaze.

However, within six months, the plant was rebuilt and running once more.

1896 — Cigars and saloons set up shop By the turn of the century, Fort Wayne’s population reached 45,111, in part to the growing German and Irish populations. Just like modern cities, the Summit City’s growth called and allowed for activities and vents to keep the public

entertained. In 1899, the St. Joe Athletic Club sponsored sculling, or crew, on the St. Joseph River.

Other pass times for Fort Wayne residents were cigars shops and saloons. More often associated with the

Wild West, both were extremely popular all over the United States during this time. Fort Wayne began the 20th century with roughly 157 saloons and 30 cigar makers, making it one of the top cigar manufacturing towns in

the region. Both slowly declined in the coming years, as some of the popular religious views swept across the country leading to the Prohibition in the 1920s.a Hardware Wholesalers Inc., known as such for more than 100 years until

it became Do it Best Corp. in 1998 after a merger, began at the turn of the century. Two years later, the Allen County Courthouse was finished and dedicated, and is still the courthouse today.

Architect Brentwood Tolan’s original designs

for the courthouse were presented to the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society after his death and another copy was sent to the Louvre in Paris, France, as an example of early 20th century American architecture.

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1906 — Fires and floods

The beginning of the 20th century was not without troubles for Fort Wayne residents and business owners.

In 1904, the Majestic Theatre opened on Berry Street, only to burn down two months later from an improperly discarded cigarette. A year later, it was rebuilt and reopened.

Life expectancy during in 1904, the same year Lutheran Hospital was founded, was also only 47 years.

The worst fire in Summit City history followed the Majestic Theatre fire in 1908, engulfing the Aveline Hotel and killing 12 people. Three years later,

Mayflower Mills caught fire.

A few months after the Mayflower Mills fire, the worst train wreck within Fort Wayne city limits occurred in Swinney Park when a passenger train crashed into a freight train. The passenger train was trying to make up for lost time, killing three railroad men and 35 passengers and crew members.

Two years later, the worst natural disaster in Fort Wayne history would hit the city. The flood of 1913 began on Good Friday when a storm came through with n

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60-miles-an-hour winds, only to get progressively worse over the next six days. The flood left seven dead, 15,000 homeless, and caused millions of dollars in damage to more than 5,500 buildings.

However, the decade was not all full of

disaster, and many promising events for the city’s future occurred. A 10-year period of major neighborhood development began in 1910 and many of the neighborhood still present today were constructed during this time.

Multiple business successes also began.

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Insurance Co. opened for business in 1905, and in 1911 George and Ethel Jacobs began experimenting with enamel coating on copper wires, later to earn Fort Wayne the title of “magnet wire capital” as the process became mainstream in the electrical industry.

Two years later, the first domestic refrigerators

were invented in Fort Wayne by Fred Wolf, the model of which consisted of attaching a storage unit on top of an ice box.

Exciting people and events were also a part of Summit City in the early part of the century.

Jane Alice Peters, later to become the iconic American actress Carole Lombard, was born on

Rockhill Street in 1908.

She later married Clark Gable, but died in a plane crash during a World War II bond drive campaign in 1942.

In 1915, the Liberty Bell made a debut in Fort Wayne on its tour across the United States. That same year, the Old Friars Club’s membership interest in football led to

the creation of the Fort Wayne Friars, Indiana’s first professional football team. The team included nine Notre Dame players, including Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais.

However, the United States’ entry into World War I took many of its players to war, and the team never reorganized.

1916 — World War I and Women’s Rights While men from Indiana fought in World War I, women fought for their equal rights. In 1917, Hoosier suffragists’ efforts finally saw fruition during the state General Assembly, when the highly Republican legislature approved women’s right to vote for delegates for constitutional conventions, the ability to vote to ratify the constitution and a bill to give women the right to vote in presidential and municipal elections.

In Allen County, county lawmaker Dick Vesey announced his support of women’s suffrage and the bill, a month after he said he was against women’s suffrage. When the Susan B. Anthony amendment finally passed through the U.S. Congress, suffrage supporters throughout Fort

Wayne worked alongside the Indiana General Assembly to ensure the state’s ratification.

The German population in Fort Wayne saw many changes as well, though not necessarily positive. Skepticism of all things German swept the country and high use of the German language was soon abandoned. At the start of the war, the German-American Bank’s name was changed to Lincoln National Bank.

Additionally, many German-Americans were put off by President Woodrow Wilson’s restrictions on Germans in America and switched to supporting the Republican Party. With such a high population of Germans in Fort Wayne, this began the city’s shift from Democratic to Republican.

It was also during the middle of the war that Indiana University offered its first extension classes in Fort Wayne and John Bruecker, of General Electric, invented the first electric shaver.

As World War II ended, Fort Wayne began investing in the city once again, especially in pastimes and entertainment. In 1919, professional basketball began in Fort Wayne with the Knights of Columbus Casey’s; however, the Casey’s folded and, in 1925, became the Hoosiers.

The Hoosiers team would become a part of the American Basketball League, the first nationwide basketball league.

It was around this time that popular American humorist and radio and

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television host Herb Shriner also moved to Fort Wayne as an infant. Seven years later, WOWO began broadcasting on AM radio, becoming one of the first radio stations to broadcast in Fort Wayne.

Aviation had its debut

in Fort Wayne in 1919 with the opening of the first airport. That same year, the days of custom-made outfits were slowly fading as the department store era began, especially when Wolf & Dessauer opened a seven-story department

store at Calhoun Street and Washington Boulevard.

As shopping and fashion became more prominent throughout the U.S., people like Fort Wayne native Bill Blass, born in 1922, would find a place in the fashion world.

1926 — Aviation tragedy, Lindenwood Cemetery The end of the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s was a somber time in aviation. In 1926, Arthur Smith — the “Bird Boy” of Fort Wayne and a founder of night skywriting — died in an airplane crash in Ohio.

Smith Field and Birdboy Brewing both were named in his honor. Five years later, another Fort Wayne aviation star Paul Baer, the first American World

War I ace, died in a plane crash in Shanghai. Baer Field was named after him, later to be named Fort Wayne International Airport. Baer received the largest military funeral in the city’s history and was buried in Lindenwood Cemetery.

Lindenwood Cemetery also received Homer Van Meter, a member of the Dillinger gang, during this decade after he was

gunned down in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1934, and James Wood, New York hall of fame star next to the likes of Thomas Edison, in 1928. In his lifetime, Wood held 240 patents and created the dynamo flood lights first used on the Statue of Liberty.

Less somber times also occurred for Fort Wayne during this decade. The year 1927 was an exciting one for baseball when the

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city’s semiprofessional Lincoln Lifers team played an exhibition game against the New York Yankees; in their ranks was Lou Gehrig on first base and Babe Ruth, who hit a homerun that he claimed was one of the hardest-hit balls in his career. A year later, Bob Hope would have his first emcee gig at the newly-opened Emboyd Theatre, to become the Embassy Theatre in the

1950s.

Technology and innovation were also developing this decade, before and during the Great Depression. The year 1930 proved to be a promising one, right before the stock market crash. The Lincoln National Bank building broke ground and became the tallest building in Indiana that year and the Indiana Institute of Technology was formed

from Indiana Technical College. WOWO became the first radio station in the world to broadcast a live basketball game and Magnavox, an American electronics company to come under the trademarked Phillips, also moved to Fort Wayne from Napa, California.

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1936 — World War II and Basketball In the late 1930s, Fort Wayne was graced with Marilyn Maxwell after she moved to the area with her family. Maxwell would soon become a famous actress, dancer and singer, debuting her famous Christmas song, “Silver Bells,” in 1951 with Bob Hope in The Lemon Drop Kid. Maxwell and Hope’s long and open affair earned her the Hollywood nickname “Mrs. Bob Hope,” and the two were documented visiting Fort Wayne at the same time.

Technology continued to develop before the United States joined the war including Essex Wire Corp.’s move to Fort Wayne in 1936 and Philo Farnsworth’s purchase of the Capehart Company in 1938. Farnsworth soon began making the world’s first mass-produced televisions. A year later, the electric street car system in downtown Fort Wayne was replaced by motor buses and Old Crown Ale was added to the brews at the Centlivre Brewing

Company.

In 1941, the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons — owned by Fred Zollner, maker of engine pistons — joined the National Basketball League, a forerunner of the NBA. The team was an important part of keeping the league running in its beginning stages. The team won the league title four years later, playing much of the season in taverns, armories, high school gyms and ballrooms.

Also popular was the Fort Wayne Daisies, an All American Girls Professional Baseball League member which began in 1945.

Important resources also began. In 1942, the Allen County Society for Crippled Children opened.

This organization would lead to Turnstone. Two years later, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic also began after many members of the current orchestra voiced their dissatisfaction. The year 1944 was when John Bass’ old mansion was

converted into the University of Saint Francis after his significant influence on Fort Wayne as a prominent industrialist.

Assisting the war effort soon took over the city and as an industrial city, Fort Wayne companies shifted their production to accommodate. Magnavox made radio equipment; International Harvester made trucks and military vehicles; Tokheim and Wayne built bombs and shells; Essex, Phelps Dodge and Rea Magnet Wire made magnet wire; Zollner made pistons; Joslyn Manufacturing shaped uranium into ingots for the first atomic bomb; and Farnsworth’s company advanced wartime technology with radar and early missile-guidance systems developments. It was also during the war that Summit City native Margaret Ringenberg trained to become a WASP pilot, later to have an entire chapter dedication in Tom Brokaw’s book, The Greatest Generation.

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1946 — The NBA’s hometown 1956 — Moving Look magazine dubbed Fort Wayne “America’s Happiest Town” in 1948.

Opportunities and entertainment were all over the city. The Dana Corporation moved to the area in 1946 and General Electric was the largest employer in Fort Wayne the next year. Purdue University began offering extension classes and the Hanna Homestead School for children with physical

disabilities opened that same year. Don Hall opened the first Hall’s Diner in 1946. Then, in 1953, WKIG, Channel 33, became Fort Wayne’s first television station.

The sports scene was also a major contributor to a happy city. The Fort Wayne Pistons became world champions in both 1945 and 1946, and made the leap from the National Basketball League to the Basketball

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Association of America in 1948. That same year, an agreement between the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America was signed in Fort Wayne in the home of Carl Bennett, finalizing the merger between the two leagues to form the National Basketball Association.

The 1950s were also important in other sports, including golf and hockey. The Komets hockey team began playing in the just-opened Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in 1952.

Fort Wayne was a stop on the PGA tour until 1956. This lead to the Pro-Am event which became the annual the Mad Anthonys Charity Classic for Children.

Golf legends like Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer have played in the event since its inauguration.

Several important people were a part of Fort Wayne in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

It was during this time that Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas moved to Fort Wayne with his father and began bussing tables at the Hobby House, only to drop out of high school

and work there full-time when he didn’t want to move away with his dad. Shelley Long was born in 1949 in Fort Wayne. She later would play Diane Chambers on Cheers.

In 1950, Fort Wayne became one of the first cities to implement an emergency fire telephone number, 119. Police officer Robert Borkenstein of Fort Wayne invented the breathalyzer while captain of the Indiana State Police in 1951 and, three years later, Parkview Randallia opened.

With the growth of the city and the rise in personal vehicle use, the traffic downtown became increasingly busy and inefficient.

In an effort to keep traffic flowing, many downtown streets were changed to one-way in 1946. Eight years later, another traffic issue would need solving: the train tracks running through the center of town, stopping traffic nearly 30 times a day.

The groundbreaking of the elevated tracks in northern Fort Wayne took place in 1953 and was a major component in the rapid development of that part of the city.

to the suburbs The 1950s began the heavy suburbanization of Fort Wayne and the initial point of downtown abandonment that would continue for decades.

Residents became increasingly more interested in life outside of the city and found parking downtown difficult. One of the major downtown interests, Wolf & Dessauer, caught onto this early and downsized its seven-story store to a four-story one at Wayne and Clinton Streets. With suburbanization also came the rise of convenience over experience. In the early 1960s, fast food joints like McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken opened up their first locations in Fort Wayne.

In an effort to entice people to return or stay downtown, many of the antiquated buildings were demolished and replaced by bigger, ritzier ones, including the Majestic Theatre in 1957. In 1962, the Central District Plan was developed as part of the proposal for urban renewal in Fort Wayne, including a pedestrian mall on Wayne Street and new apartments. Two years later, Mayor Harold Zeis began the Hanna-Creighton project to tear down 532 buildings and 583 housing units to help with the effort.

The project was set at $5.5 million but soon became much more costly.

The Zollner Pistons’ move to Detroit in

1957, after Fred Zollner announced his belief that Fort Wayne was too small to hold an NBA team, did not assist in keeping the city vitalized. Then, a fire in the MacDougal building — a shopping corner — in 1959, destroyed the 101-year-old building.

In an effort to save the Embassy Theatre from going under, Buddy Nolan began his “Theatre Organ at Midnight” in 1963, which received enough success to keep it running.

Fort Wayne may have lost its professional sports team but gained some educational ground.

The Fort Wayne Public Library began its fledgling genealogy collection in 1960. It is now the second largest genealogy collection in the country. Indiana University and Purdue University merged in 1964 after holding classes at two separate locations to create what is now IPFW. Other exciting events in the early 1960s include the founding of the Wildcat baseball team by Dale McMillen in 1961, where “everybody makes the team,” and the Centlivre Brewing Corp. becoming completely employee-owned and renamed the company the Old Crown Brewing Corp. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. visited Fort Wayne to speak at the Scottish Rite Auditorium. The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo opened two years later.

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1966 — Civil rights and the war on poverty Fort Wayne had its own local participation in the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960s. A year after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom School boycott in Summit City began to protest segregated schooling. Many African-American families pulled their children out of school and, after 10 days, the schoolboard agreed to integration, a decision which would be met with a lawsuit from the Parents

for Quality Education with Integration.

Two years later, tensions remained high in Fort Wayne and racial riots broke out among the city. Buildings were set on fire and windows were broken. After a 17-year-old girl was killed during one of the riots, Mayor Harold Zeis passed an anti-riot bill in an attempt to combat the violence and vandalism.

Meanwhile, the Rolling Mill project was underway as part of President

Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration’s War on Poverty. The project consisted of purchasing homes and relocating many of Fort Wayne’s African-American and Romanian residents in order to demolish poorer neighborhoods.

Fort Wayne’s downtown continued to see many changes during this time, some of which added to the suburban sprawl. In 1966, the Glenbrook Center, later to become

Glenbrook Square, was constructed, followed by the Southtown Mall three years later. The longest-running hotel in the city, the former Hedekin House that was later renamed the Home Hotel, was demolished soon after. It was built in 1844.

Exciting events were happening in Fort Wayne as well. Sharon Wichman of Snider High School won bronze and gold in swimming events at the Mexico City Olympics;

Bowmar Instruments created the first hand-held calculator, the Bowmar Brain; and Magnavox introduced the Odyssey, the first video game designed for home use.

New projects also attempted to bring people downtown and to the Fort Wayne area. In 1967, the Fort Wayne National Bank built a 26-story building, becoming the tallest building in the city and in a few more years. The first Three Rivers Festival was held two years later

and, in 1971, Interstate 69 was completed as the first major interstate connecting Indianapolis and Lansing.

By the 1970s, however, 80 percent of new home construction was occurring outside of the downtown blocks, creating what is now the Aboite, St. Jospeh, Washington and Adams districts of Fort Wayne. Many companies would begin to shut down — like Old Crown Brewing in 1973 — or leave the city.

1976 — Deindustrialization and the rise of crime The decrease in manufacturing companies throughout the Midwest was prevalent in Fort Wayne. International Harvester, once a major employer in Fort Wayne, rolled its last truck off the assembly line in 1983 and closed a year later. Many other companies followed suit during this time and left the downtown area for good. The amount of blue collar jobs available, once an enticing quality of Fort Wayne, quickly declined and the city became known as one of the many within the rust belt.

As urban decay began to take over the city, crime rates and new gangs

appeared more frequently, creating a rise in shootings and drug-related activities. As the murder rate in Fort Wayne increased, even more people moved away from downtown and into the safety of Allen County’s more rural settings.

Civil rights saw both positive and negative outcomes during this era after efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In 1977, the school board made efforts to better integrate the schools through the Summit Program, which offered special classes in the inner-city schools to bring in more white students.

Some Fort Wayne residents still did not look favorably upon the civil rights movement and, in 1980, African-American civil rights leader Vernon Jordan was shot in the back with a hunting rifle.

The assassination attempt was known nationwide, and both President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Jesse Jackson visited Jordan in the hospital.

Despite the rise in crime and flight from the city, Fort Wayne had many improvements as well and was dubbed America’s “Most Livable City” and the “All-American City” in 1984. In preparation for the nation’s bicenten-

nial, the Fort Wayne community worked to fund and build an Old Fort replica and, on America’s 200th birthday, it officially opened.

While deindustrialization took some of its major employers out of the area, other ventures began. In 1979, Sweetwater opened as a recording studio and, in 1982, the 26-story One Summit Square was completed and became Indiana’s tallest building.

That same year, Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia Miller began a small business operation in Barbara’s basement that they soon named Vera Bradley.

The Summit City’s cultural scene also had some notable events in this decade. The Fort Wayne Public Library became the Allen County Public Library and the Old City Hall building became the site for the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society in 1980. A year later, the city would remember its once celebrated and then ostracized German ancestry by holding its first Germanfest.

Perhaps the greatest combination of both devastation and comradeship for Fort Wayne occurred in this era, a physical representation

of where the city had already found itself.

The great flood of 1982 caused 9,000 residents to evacuate, damaged 2,000 buildings and accumulated $56.1 million in damages. However, Fort Wayne residents would not be taken down so easily. Thousands joined together, working around the clock to create sand bag blockades and dikes to protect the city from complete destruction. Their efforts brought national attention to Fort Wayne, especially when President Ronald Reagan came to visit the damages of what became known as “The City that Saved Itself.”

1986 — The city’s empty pockets When Mayor Paul Helmke took office in the late 1980s, there was only $84,000 in the city’s treasury. The mayor immediately began working on a new tax to pass before the city went bankrupt. A year later, the county option income tax was passed. Four years after COIT, the city council passed the county economic development income tax when COIT’s revenue appeared to not be enough.

While the city struggled to develop its finances, Historic Fort Wayne had monetary difficulties and closed. The Historical Society sold the site for $1 to anyone willing to keep it open. That same year, the 107-year-old St. Mary’s Catholic Church burnt down.

Fort Wayne developers and investors continued to struggle against the city’s decline. By the mid-1990s, Fort Wayne’s murder rate per 100,000 people reached 18.5; higher than that of New York City or Los Angeles. In an effort to spark a movement of young professionals coming back to the city, Midtowne Crossing opened in 1990. The open-air development had restaurants and stores in some of the city’s existing buildings, with new condos on the upper floors.

But the project backfired

and many locations had to close down. That same year, Amtrak stopped providing service to Fort Wayne.

While the downtown population did not regain many of its rural residents, it did have an influx of immigrants from many Latin communities and countries overseas.

Immigrants arrived from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico and Cuba, while the Catholic Charities’ Refugee Resettlement program of 1991 brought more than 1,700 refugees to Fort Wayne from Burma, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, China, Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Chad, Sudan, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq and Iran.

However, the decade was not all economic downturn. In 1987, General Motors opened a 2.2-million-square-foot plant, employing 3,000 people. Two years later, the Allen County Society for Crippled Children and Adults Inc. was renamed Turnstone and, in 1995, a $3.75 million capital campaign allowed Turnstone to acquire a full-sized gymnasium and expand its therapy and program spaces. That

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Pemberton Dike flood in 1982

same year, Science Central opened in the 87-yearold City Light and Power Company Building.

Summit City also had multiple famous residents to root for and sports in which to reinvest. Fort Wayne native Rod Woodson was the Pittsburg Steeler’s

first draft choice in 1987.

Woodson was the 1993 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. That same year Heather Headley, Tony Award laureate, graduated from Northrop High School. In addition, professional baseball returned to Fort Wayne when the Wizards class A baseball

began playing at the new Memorial Stadium.

Fort Wayne also began one of its most important improvements during this period: Headwaters Park.

After the flood in the early 1980s, the city began working on a plan to keep Fort Wayne from flooding to the same extent in the

future. Ground was broken in 1993 for Headwaters Park, designed to keep the rivers from flooding and create a location for large festivals and concerts.

A year later, the park proved useful as the city celebrated its bicentennial with year-long activities.

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1996 — Continuing the good fight to improve Despite the continuing deindustrialization of Fort Wayne and abandonment of downtown, local developers and businesses did not give up on efforts to revitalize the city. In 1998, the city’s unemployment rate was only at 2.4 percent and, the next year, the Courthouse green was completed and would become a popular place for protests against the coming Iraq War. The crime rate significantly decreased by 1999, though the homicide rate remained high. By 2005, the homicide rate hit its

peak and meth began to become an increasing problem.

Fort Wayne’s population increased from the 1990 population of 191,839 to 220,483 in 2000 when the city annexed more than 40 square miles, including St. Joseph township and Pine Valley. Aboite township was annexed a few years later, further increasing the city’s size and population. The Allen County Public Library expanded simultaneously with the population. In 2001, the library began its

renovation and development project, which would increase the main library’s building size from 240,000 to 367,000 square feet. Lutheran Children’s Hospital was also completed around this time.

Also in 2001, phase one of Jefferson Pointe mall opened on Jefferson Boulevard, with phase two to open in the next year. A year later, the city council revealed its “Blueprint for the Future,” a plan to divide the downtown into four districts as a way to better focus certain

types of development.

In 2004, Turnstone also continued to develop when it received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create a health and wellness program for people with disabilities.

With cell phones becoming more mainstream, GTE Mobilnet and Cellular One, later to become Centennial Wireless, began offering wireless telephone service to Fort Wayne in 1996. By the end of the decade, Verizon Wireless announced it would

a build $65 million fiber-optics network in the Summit City.

However, despite the city’s attempts to continue to pull it out of its slump, the late 1990s and early 2000s provided many bumps in the road for Fort Wayne.

Companies like Lincoln National Corp. announced it would relocate from Fort Wayne to Philadelphia, followed by the Zollner Corp. a few years later. In 2003, the Southtown Mall officially closed and, three years later, General Electric closed its century-long

business in Fort Wayne.

By 2000, the News-Sentinel described the city’s 25 years of attempted downtown development a bust and, three years later, a study indicated that the brain drain of Indiana was true: 17,000 people between 25 and 34 left the Hoosier state to seek better jobs in other states. This trend continued to prove true for Fort Wayne in spite of the city’s attempts to counter it, as it had little to entice single, young professionals or creative minds to return of move to the city.

2006 — Fort Wayne turns an economic page The warning signs for the city only seemed to give it more energy to keep progressing.

In 2006, the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership formed in an effort to increase business interest in the area and, in 2010, the Corporate Council became the Regional Chamber of Northeast Indiana as a way to advocate policies and laws on the state level that will benefit northeast Indiana.

In 2013, Greater Fort Wayne Inc. formed from the merging of the Economic Development Alliance and Fort Wayne-Allen County Chamber of Commerce

and was joined by Leadership Fort Wayne in 2014 as a way to progress economic development specifically in Fort Wayne. The library also finished its expansion and renovation project during this time.

A year after the grand opening of the main library’s improvements, the $130-million Harrison Square development began, including the creation of Parkview Field, despite the Great Recession taking place in 2008. While some city progression was stunted during the recession, by the time it ended in 2009, Turnstone had received a grant by the U.S. Depart-

ment of Education to expand its programming, sports and recreation courses and became a designated Paralympics Sports Club. Six years later, the facility became the home of the USA men’s goalball team.

Also in sports, Fort Wayne native DaMarcus Beasley made the USA Soccer Team and scored a goal in the 2006 World Cup. Four years later, nationwide accessory and bag sensation Vera Bradley announced its initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of common stock after 28 years of business and its humble beginnings in a

basement. Other evidence of hard work in Fort Wayne began to show by the end of the recession, as many developers and entrepreneurs joined in the greater citywide effort to continue to turn the Summit City back around.

As part of the city’s revitalization, food in Fort Wayne took a turn for the better. Multiple new restaurants opened between 2007 and 2016 as a part of the city’s renaissance, including Pint ‘n Slice, Junk Ditch, the Golden, Tolon, Wine Down, 800 Degrees and the Hoppy Gnome, many of which use some or all local meat and produce

and support local farmers. Craft cocktails and beers also came on the scene, including new microbrewery locations like Birdboy Brewing, Trubble Brewing and Summit City Brewerks.

The city continues to find new ways to draw in and keep younger generations, whether it be new careers, the continuing redevelopment of its downtown or creation of exciting events, like the city’s first Middle Waves concert. The concert, held at Headwaters Park, was a two-day event with headliner the Flaming Lips and featuring about a dozen other bands.

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Historic Fort and walking bridge to Headwaters Park.

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Downtown Fort Wayne in the early 2000s.

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EVENTS from Page A5 Las Posadas Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne Dec. 16, 6-7:30 p.m.

Share the Holy Family’s search for shelter in Bethlehem. Join the procession to “journey” through the church, knocking on doors. At the last door, everyone will be welcomed in to enjoy dinner, a piñata and other fun. Las Posadas is a traditional Christmas event in Mexico, Latin American countries, and the southwest United States. All ages are welcome.

Santa Train Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, 15808 Edgerton Road, east of New Haven.

ELECTION from Page A4 seat.

The Allen County

Election Board, Robert Armstrong, Roy Buskirk, Eric Tippmann, Morrison Agen and David Roach are listed as defendants. The

OTHER ELECTION RESULTS

Other decisions from the Nov. 8 general election and nonpartisan school board elections in Allen County: • All Allen County and Indiana Court of Appeals judges on the Allen County ballot were retained or elected unopposed.

• County Treasurer: William “Bill” Royce, R, was elected unopposed.

• County Coroner: Craig L. Nelson, R, was elected unopposed.

• County Surveyor: Jeff Sorg, R, was elected unopposed.

• County Commissioner, District 1: Nelson Peters, R, was elected unopposed.

• County Council at large: Robert A. Armstrong, R, 22.47 percent; Roy Buskirk, R, 19.38 percent; Eric Tippmann, R, 22.68 percent (71,836); Morrison Agen, D, 11.53 percent; Palermo Galindo, D, 12.25 percent; and David Christopher Roach, D, 11.69 percent.

• East Allen County School Board winners or candidates elected unopposed (nonpartisan): Christopher T. Baker, Robert Nelson, Todd C. Buckmaster and Terry Jo Lightfoot.

• Fort Wayne Community Schools Board winners or candidates elected unopposed (nonpartisan): Glenna L. Jehl, Thomas E. Smith and Steve Corona.

• Northwest Allen County Schools Board winners (non-

Caboose rides with Santa available from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Dec. 10, 17 and 18.

Tickets are $7 and are available at fortwaynerailroad. org.

Chamber Orchestra: ‘Messiah’ by Candlelight First Wayne Street United Methodist, 300 E. Wayne St., Fort Wayne Dec. 15 and 16, 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $35+, depending on seat Heartland Sings: ‘The Spirit of Christmas’ Allen County Courthouse, 715 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne Dec. 17 and 18, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Admission: advance, $20, at door $25 Heartland vocalists performance.

Allen County Republican Party also filed a request that the court allow the party to intervene in the lawsuit.

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Admission: $9 Ball drop and New Year’s celebration with a countdown to noon.

“The Republican Party has an interest in the outcome of the lawsuit but was not named as a defendant,” Shine said.

partisan): Kent H. Somers and Steve Bartkus.

• Southwest Allen County Schools Board winners or candidates elected unopposed (nonpartisan): Bradley M. Mills, Mark W. Gilpin and Meagan K. Milne.

• In the U.S. presidential race, Allen County sided with Indiana, favoring President-elect Donald J. Trump, Republican, over Hillary Clinton, Democrat.

• In Indiana state offices, Allen County favored statewide Republican winners: Eric Holcomb, governor; Curtis T. Hill, attorney general; and Jennifer McCormick, superintendent of public instruction.

• For U.S. Senate, Allen County favored the statewide winner, Republican Todd Young.

• For U.S. Representative District 3, Allen County favored the winner, Republican Jim Banks.

• In Indiana legislative races involving Allen County, victors were: State Senate, District 16, David C. Long, Republican; State Rep. District 50, Daniel J. “Dan” Leonard, Republican; State Rep. District 52, Ben Smaltz, Republican; State Rep. District 79, Matthew S. Lehman, Republican, unopposed; State Rep. District 80, Phil GiaQuinta, Democrat, unopposed; State Rep. District 81, Martin Carbaugh, Republican; State Rep. District 82, David L. Ober, Republican; State Rep. District 83, Christopher L. Judy, Republican, unopposed; State Rep. District 84, Bob Morris, Republican; and State Rep. District 85, Dave Heine, Republican.

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42nd Annual Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ, 501 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne Dec. 29-30, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

250 participants tell the story of Christ as a child as it spread through the Middle Ages.

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PEARL from Page A1 share this.’ And at that point there were a number of friends of his — veterans, both Navy and Army Air Corps — who came to see it.”

Ruby proposed to take the model to elementary schools on a flatbed truck, “which would have been just untenable,” Hammond said. “Then he gave the contact information to the director of the National Museum of the United States Navy, and I offered to loan or even donate the model to them. They said they were planning a 75th-anniversary commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which signaled America’s entry into World War II, and he said they would very much like to have this as part of the exhibition.

That was more than two years ago that we started making those arrangements.”

Ruby, who celebrated his 99th birthday on Nov. 1, was chosen to lay a wreath to conclude an opening ceremony at 9 a.m. Dec. 7. The exhibit continues through March 1.

Ruby has shared his memories during his visits with Hammond.

“He related that when the planes came over they came over the submarine base and fleet resupply area, to attack the ships here at Battleship Row,” Hammond said, extending

Battleship Row remains calm on Dec. 6, 1941, a date frozen in time on Todd Hammond’s scale model of the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Tiny buildings reflect the many levels of military and civilian housing on Todd Hammond’s model of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

a pointer to near the center of the display. “He was at this point here where one of the submarines was moored. He remembers that quite vividly, he said.

Then his next memory was to awaken here at the infirmary with no recollection of how he came to be there.”

Ruby worked in salvage after the attack, then continued to serve throughout the war. He became part of a still celebrated but ever diminishing remnant of the league of survivors.

“He is from my hometown of Dayton, Ohio,” Hammond said. “In fact he was raised in the East Dayton Church of the Brethren. He was actually baptized by my dear wife’s great uncle, who was pastor at the East Dayton church for 50, 60 years.”

When Hammond and Chief Ruby met, Hammond was pastor of the Brookville Church of the Brethren, in Dayton.

“When I first told him this model was going to go Washington for the 75th anniversary, I said ‘I do

hope you will be able to come, Mr. Ruby.’ And he said ‘Well I’m 96 now; I can’t guarantee I’ll still be here.’ And we’re just very pleased that he is still with us.”

Hammond points to the plywood Pearl Harbor and shares notes on where the USS Nevada was beached after the attack. He explains the several types of housing. “These were military housing. See, there’s a loose one. I’ll just glue that one back on. And once the war started they needed civilian housing, as many as 12 in a small apartment. It’s quite spartan living.

“Admiral Nimitz actually lived in this home, which now is a museum.”

He found details in aerial photos from many sources. “You’d be surprised at what you can find,” he said. “For example, this photo is Hickam Air Force Base.

The source from the

Library of Congress isn’t sure whether it’s 1941 or 1942. I know from looking at it that it’s from 1941, early 1941.” He points to “a rather large repair building” on his scale model that was just a beach early that year, but which was complete before the attack.

He still dreams of visiting Pearl Harbor.

“We were going to go for our 25th anniversary and wound up going to a historic 300th anniversary of the founding of the Church of the Brethren in Germany that year,” he said.

He developed the scale model in sections in his basement and has assembled it in a single 113-inch by 76-inch unit that has turned his garage into a museum. He is raising money to ship the exhibit to Washington. After that, he hopes a museum will accept it.

A quarter-century into

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the project, Hammond cannot explain his level of interest in Pearl Harbor.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“I can name a number of reasons. Initially my fascination was with the sea and ships and particularly modeling these behemoth battleships. But to see so many collected together in one place — and then just the tragedy of all of it. Fascinating. Man’s capacity to be inhumane to his fellow man. It’s tragic, but fascinating.

“It’s not just the 3,000 people who died here at Pearl Harbor, but the more than 400,000 Americans who would die in the European and Pacific theaters in the world war. Their lives were as wonderful and precious to them as ours are to us, but they were cut short. And that’s not to mention the tens of millions of people who perished.”

He has pondered the irony of a Church of the Brethren pastor who has worked so hard to reveal a reminder of war. “It’s meant to honor those who were lost,” he said. “It’s meant as a tribute to those who served, though others have served in nonviolent ways. It’s keeping before us the tragedy, the sorrow, the cost of war, and in a way expressing a hope that humankind would find a better way to solve differences.”

(Find more information about the attack on Pearl Harbor at nationalww2museum.org.)

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SATURDAY, DEC. 10

Santacon. Downtown Fort Wayne. To get more details and a lanyard, visit santaconfortwayne.com. The $20 lanyard entitles the wearer to visit selected restaurants and bars from 1-6 p.m., for specials and drawings. The lanyard also admits the wearer to a party from 6-9 p.m. at the Freemason’s Hall, at Washington Boulevard and Clinton Street.

Admission to the party alone is $10. Participants are asked to dress as their favorite Christmas characters, whether it be Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, an elf or Ralphie from “A Christmas Story.” Proceeds benefit the Mizpah Shrine Patient Van Replacement Fund.

Holiday Bazaar and Cookie Walk. Mizpah Shrine Center, 1015 Memorial Way, Fort Wayne. (Between Clinton Street and Parnell Avenue, near the Coliseum) 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sponsored by the Daughters of the Nile, an organization that supports the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Crafters may rent a table for $20; contact Karen Rothgeb for information and table rental at (260) 229-0600.

Cookie Fair. Emmaus Lutheran Church and School, 8626 Covington Road, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m.-noon. Christmas cookies and other homemade favorites incluging gluten-free will be sold for $6 per pound. Free decorative tins will be available to package the cookies as gifts. Sponsored by the Emmaus Women’s Guild.

Christmaspalooza! The Pointe Church, 5335 Bass Road, Fort Wayne. 2-8 p.m. Free indoor Christmas carnival. Have photos taken with Santa.

Enjoy the bounce houses, indoor snow and value-price snacks.

Christmas cookie walk and crafts. Agape Church of the Brethren, 11610 Lima Road, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m.-noon. Treats sell for $6.50 per pound.

Featured cookies include holiday cut-outs, buckeyes, peanut butter blossoms, monster cookies, and many more. Also available will be homemade chocolate covered caramel apples decorated for Christmas.

Proceeds will be used for Women’s Fellowship projects and Outreach Ministries. In addition, holiday and gift items, handmade by Agape craft persons, will be sold. A variety of wooden, quilted, knitted, crocheted, and “crafty” specialties will be available with proceeds going to the Agape Women’s Fellowship projects. For more information, contact the church office at (260) 489-6908 or email agapefort@frontier.com.

Sport card show. Hotel Fort Wayne, 305 E. Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free and open to the public.

SUNDAY, DEC. 11

“Santa Tells the Story of Jesus.” Covenant United Methodist Church, 10001 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will follow the Covenant Children’s annual pageant.

Sunday Night Singles Dance. American Legion Post 47, 601 Reed Road, Fort Wayne. 6-9 p.m.; doors open at 5 p.m. Tonight’s dance includes a free dance lesson at 5:30 p.m. $7 cover includes disc jockey, cash bar and potluck carry-in. For more information, call Doug at (260) 7043669.

Christmaspalooza! The Pointe Church, 5335 Bass Road, Fort Wayne. 2-6 p.m. Free indoor Christmas carnival. Have photos taken with Santa.

Enjoy the bounce houses, indoor snow and value-price snacks.

An afternoon of Christmas favorites. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 4 p.m. Concordia Lutheran High School presents the annual Christmas at the Embassy program. Tickets are on sale at the Embassy Box Office and Ticketmaster. Tickets are $13 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. No reserved seats. The 2016 event, “In the Fullness of Time … Amazing Love, Everlasting Life,” will showcase the talents of CLHS music department students as well as many Lutheran elementary school students, including those from Holy Cross, Suburban Bethlehem, Lutheran South Unity and Saint Paul Lutheran schools. The concert will include both traditional and contemporary Christmas favorites.

Free, public lecture. University of Saint Francis North Campus Auditorium, 2702 Spring St., Fort Wayne. The USF Department of Philosophy and Theology presents Sr. Felicity Dorsett, whose topic is “Incarnate Wisdom Scripture.”

MONDAY, DEC. 12

Band and choir concert. New Haven High School, 1300 Green Road, New Haven; in the Auditeria. 7 p.m. Admission price to be determined.

TUESDAY, DEC. 13

Fort Wayne Area Community Band Holiday Concert. IPFW Campus, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne; in the Rhinehart Music Center. Downbeat is 7:30 p.m. Tickets $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $3 for children under 12. IPFW students admitted free with student ID. Parking free in the garage across from the Music Center. Theme of the concert is “Christmas in the City,” featuring a backdrop of the city’s three tallest buildings with special lighting. There will also be a barbershop

quartet, flute ensemble and a Salvation Army bell ringer, and Santa is expected to make an appearance. Music will include “Silver Bells,” “Welcome Yule,” “Sleigh Ride,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Polar Express” highlights, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “White Christmas” and more.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14

Lighted Christmas parade. Throughout Woodburn. 7 p.m. Businesses, organizations and residents decorate floats, cars, horses and even themselves with lights of the Christmas season. This year the parade will begin at the Community Center and travel down Main Street to the Woodburn United Methodist Church, where the crowd will join in the singing of Christmas carols. Bob’s Restaurant has donated hot cocoa. Santa will be located inside the storefront on the corner of Main Street and Bull Rapids, in front of Sam & Carter’s. Woodburn youth will present a live Nativity. Parade entry forms can be found at City Hall. To volunteer or for more information, contact Beth at (260) 466-5976 or beth@ indianawild.org. The Woodburn Community Association will announce results of the holiday lighting contest, which is open to all businesses and residents with a Woodburn mailing address. Anyone not located inside Woodburn city limits should register to ensure they are not missed.

Everyone should have their holiday lights on for judging from 6-9 p.m.

Dec. 10 and 11.

THURSDAY, DEC. 15

Christmas concert. Bishop Luers High School, 333 E. Paulding Road, Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. The Bishop Luers bands, choirs and show choir will perform music of the season.

SATURDAY, DEC. 17

Christmas cookie and candy sale. Monroeville Fire Station, 205 W. South St., Monroeville. 9 a.m.-noon. Sponsored by the Saint Rose of Lima Altar and Rosary Sodality. Homemade goodies will be sold for $5 a pound with containers being available.

The Music Show, featuring Mikki White. Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne; in the Rhinehart Recital Hall. 6:30 p.m. Tickets $25. Get tickets at ipfw.edu/tickets or call (260) 481-6555.

White, who grew up in Fort Wayne, is the author of a book about her experience as a background singer to Prince.

Selah. County Line Church of God, 7716 N. County Line Road, Auburn.

7 p.m. Tickets $15-$35. Visit TrinityCommunications.org for details.

SUNDAY, DEC. 18

Christmas Cantata “Upon A Midnight Clear.” Covenant United Methodist Church, 10001 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne. 9 and 11 a.m. Featuring the chancel choir, children’s choir, orchestra, four actors, dancers, narrator and soloists.

Christmas Prayer in Music. Bishop Luers High School, 333 E. Paulding Road, Fort Wayne; in the new Chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi. 4 p.m. The Bishop Luers choirs and musicians will offer a reading and Christmas prayers in the form of music. The service is expected to last one hour.Community welcome.

“Canticle of Christmas.” Forest Park United Methodist Church, 2100 Kentucky Ave., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. The Calvary United Methodist Church choir and the Forest Park United Methodist Church choir combine their voices in a cantata titled “Canticle of Christmas” based on Luke 1:46-47 — “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”

FRIDAY, DEC. 23

“It’s a Wonderful Life” celebration. Cinema Center, 437 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. $9 general admission or $7.50 seniors and students without Cinema Center membership. The celebration pays homage to the 70th anniversary of the classic movie, which has been digitally restored. Festivities include a holiday tree lighting, free hot cocoa and holiday snacks, mulled wine, holiday tunes, a cash bar, and more.

Because it’s the holiday season, Cinema Center encourages guests to bring hats and gloves to be donated to the Salvation Army. The film will screen at 7:30 p.m., following the celebration in the Spectator Lounge.

The film also plays on Dec. 22 and 24; follow cinemacenter.org for those show times.

SATURDAY, DEC. 24

Christmas Eve services. Saint Michael Lutheran Church, 2131 Getz Road, Fort Wayne. 5 p.m. - family worship with puppet; 7 p.m. - candlelight worship; 11 p.m. - worship with Holy Communion. All are welcome.

For more information, visit stmfw.org.

Christmas Eve candlelight services. Covenant United Methodist Church, 10001 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne. 5 p.m., family and children service; 7 p.m., contemporary service; 9 p.m., traditional service.

THURSDAY, DEC. 29

Christmas concert. Most Precious Blood Church, 1515 Barthold St., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Free. Presented by choir director Jim Didier and bell choir director Kathy Schall.

SUNDAY, JAN. 8

Sunday Night Singles Dance. American Legion Post 47, 601 Reed Road, Fort Wayne. 6-9 p.m.; doors open at 5 p.m. $7 cover includes disc jockey, cash bar and potluck carry-in. For more information, call Doug at (260) 704-3669.

“Three Rivers: A Brief History.” The History Center, 302 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. Free and open to the public. Don Orban presents this installment in the 23rd annual George R. Mather Sunday Lecture Series.

SUNDAY, JAN. 15

Mannerchor, an 80-voice male chorus. Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 3425 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. At the 8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services.

All are welcome. The chorus represents Holy Cross and five Michigan churches. Various hymns and anthems will be offered, including a recent arrangement of the “Te Deum” by Kantor Kevin Hildebrand, Concordia Theological Seminary. Kantor Hildebrand will also be the guest organist for those services along with brass and timpani. Jonathan Busarow, executive artistic director for the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, will serve as guest soloist. Holy Cross’s senior pastor, Rev. Dr. Thomas Ahlersmeyer, will share the Gospel found in John 1:38.

MONDAY, JAN. 16

Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Day celebration. Grand Wayne Center, 120 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 8 a.m. Breakfast with the Clergy, $20. The keynote speaker is MLK look-alike Troy Thomas, who has been performing the civil rights leader’s speeches around the country for more than 20 years. The breakfast program also includes a film tribute to the Obama White House years. Buy breakfast reservations in advance by calling Bennie Edwards at (260) 760-6867, or email bjecsm011@frontier.com. Unity Day is admission is $5. Buy a membership for $20 and receive a ball cap and souvenir booklet.

SUNDAY, JAN. 22

Sunday Night Singles Dance. American Legion Post 47, 601 Reed Road, Fort Wayne. 6-9 p.m.; doors open at 5 p.m. $7 cover includes disc jockey, cash bar and potluck carry-in. For more information, call Doug at (260) 704-3669.

NOTICES / REGISTRATION / MULTIPLE DATES

Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. Free admission. Hours are: Tuesday, Jan. 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday, Jan. 18, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; and Thursday, Jan. 19, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

71st annual Mizpah Shrine Circus. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. Tickets start at $14. Performances: Thursday, Jan. 26, 6:30 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Jan. 29, 1 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. For tickets, visit mizpahshrinecircus.com.

Outdoor Sports, Lake & Cabin Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. Tickets $10 for adults, with children 12 and under admitted free. Show hours: Friday, Jan. 27, noon-10 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Visit outdoorsportlakecabinshow.com for details. Beer & Bacon Fest will be held within the outdoors show area from 5-10 p.m. Jan. 27, for a separate admission.

Community Sew-In. The Pieceful Quilters club will gather Feb. 18 at the Monroeville Branch of the Allen County Public Library to make items for various non-profit groups. They have selected five groups for their first service project: Parkview Regional Hospital – Neonatal Unit, Woodburn Christian Children’s Home, Adams Heritage Nursing Facility, Res Care Youth Services and Lutheran Social Services. Quilters will make baby quilts/blankets, lap quilts/blankets, pillow cases and walker bags. The community is invited to participate in this project.

Everyone is welcome to help. Those who do not sew can help by cutting fabric or ironing. The club will accept donations of cotton, flannel, fleece fabric or thread. Contact Kathy Beauchot at (260) 623-2290 to help at the sew-in, donate items or to obtain additional information.

FRANCINE’S FRIENDS MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY

The Breast Diagnostic Center performs the screening. For women who have insurance, they will bill the insurance company. If the patient does not have insurance but has the ability to pay, the BDC offers a reduced rate if paid the day of the screening. For women without insurance, a high deductible, or resources to pay, funding is available.

Appointments preferably should be scheduled prior to the date. For an appointment, call 483-1847 or (800) 727-8439, ext. 26540. Walk-in openings are available depending on schedule.

Francine’s Friends Mobile Mammography is a partnership between Francine’s Friends, Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Breast Diagnostic Center.

• Friday, Dec. 16. Tuthill, 8825 Aviation Drive, Fort Wayne.

• Monday, Dec. 19. Prkview Physician’s Group Family Practice, 1331 Minnich Road, New Haven.

• Tuesday, Dec. 20. Community State Bank, 802 E. Albion St., Avilla.

• Wednesday, Dec. 21. Sage Bluff Health & Rehabilitation Center, 4180 Sage Bluff Crossing, Fort Wayne.

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