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GOOD MORNING Veterans Day parade is Saturday in Garrett GARRETT — The DeKalb County Veterans Day Parade is planned for Saturday at 1 p.m. in Garrett. The parade will begin at Garrett American Legion Post 178, 515 W. Fifth Ave. and end at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 118 N. Cowen St. Lineup will begin at noon at the Legion post. The parade will travel east on Fifth Avenue, then north on Cowen Street to the VFW Post, where auxiliary members will serve a goulash luncheon for ages 18 and older. Following a short break, parade units will continue west on Quincy Street, then south on Peters Street to return to the Legion post for vegetable soup or ham and beans. Brian Lamm, DeKalb County veterans service officer, will present the DeKalb County Volunteer Award at the Legion post at the conclusion of the parade. Members of the American Legion Riders will lead the parade, followed by many other participating units. Any group or individual wishing to join the parade should report to the Legion post by noon.
Clear-cutting scenic hillside stirs anger NEW ALBANY (AP) — A utility that cut a 200-foot swath across a scenic southern Indiana hillside for a power line project is facing criticism from local officials who believe there’s no excuse for the number of trees that were felled. Crews for Louisvillebased LG&E recently cut the trees, including large oaks, through the Floyds Knobs area for the power line and substation project. The utility said the work was unavoidable. But nearby area residents and officials in the Ohio River city of New Albany who have worked to protect the scenic landscape believe the trees’ destruction was inexcusable.
Network valued at $31 billion after IPO NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time Thursday, instantly leaping more than 70 percent above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street’s lofty hopes. By the closing bell, the social network that reinvented global communication in 140-character bursts was valued at $31 billion — PHOTO CONTRIBUTED nearly as much as Yahoo Inc., an Nucor Building Systems employees are shown across the nation. The company is featured in Internet icon from another era, and fabricating building components at the Waterloo a segment of the “Today in America with Terry just below Kraft Foods, the grocery plant. Established in 1987 in Waterloo, Nucor Bradshaw” television show, seen nationally on conglomerate founded more than a Building Systems now has four plant locations the Discovery Channel. century ago. Twitter, which has never turned a profit in the seven years since it was founded, worked hard to temper expectations ahead of the IPO, but all that was swiftly forgotten with the stock’s opening surge. WATERLOO — Nucor The most anticipated initial Building Systems, a leading public offering of the year was manufacturer of custom-engicarefully orchestrated to avoid neered metal building systems, the glitches and eventual letdown is featured on the “Today in that surrounded Facebook’s first America with Terry Bradshaw” appearance on the Nasdaq 18 television show, broadcast nationmonths ago. ally on the Discovery Channel. Trading on the New York Hosted by former NFL Stock Exchange under the symbol quarterback and television “TWTR,” shares opened at $45.10, personality Terry Bradshaw, 73 percent above their initial the educational program brings offering price. viewers business stories and In the first few hours, the stock firsthand insights from leaders in jumped as high as $50.09. Most various industries. The segment of those gains held throughout the on Nucor Building Systems PHOTO CONTRIBUTED day, with Twitter closing at 44.90, is part of the show’s Industry Former NFL quarterback and television personality Terry Bradshaw despite a broader market decline. Solutions series focusing on introduces a segment on Nucor Building Systems on the “Today in The narrow price range topics, trends, and issues related America with Terry Bradshaw” television show, seen nationally on indicated that people felt it was to construction solutions for the Discovery Channel. Filming for the show took place at Nucor “pretty fairly priced,” said JJ today’s industrial challenges. Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Filming for the show took place Building Systems in Waterloo. Ameritrade. early this year at Nucor Building The immediate price spike United States. Future airing watch?v=7rHIecMy634. Systems in Waterloo and includes “clearly shows that demand dates for regional broadcasts in Nucor Building Systems, a several interviews, footage of the exceeds the supply of shares,” said select markets across the country division of Nucor Corp., has design and manufacturing process Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. will be announced as informabeen a leader in the design and and an in-depth profile on the Earlier in the day, Twitter gave tion is received from the show’s manufacture of custom-engisignificance of the company’s role a few users rather than executives producers. neered metal building systems in the metal building industry. the opportunity to ring the NYSE’s The segment is available for more than 25 years. The “Today in America with Terry opening bell. The users included for viewing in its entirety by company employs 1,030 people Bradshaw” airs nationally on the actor Patrick Stewart, who played visiting the Nucor Building across its four manufacturing Discovery Channel and regionSystems company website at operations in Waterloo, Swansea, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star ally on a variety of networks, Trek: The Next Generation”; S.C., Terrell, Texas, and potentially reaching more than nucorbuildingsystems.com or a SEE TWITTER, PAGE A7 Brigham City, Utah. 104 million households in the YouTube page at: youtube.com/
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LAKE JAMES — More than 150 youth from six counties will attend this weekend’s Extreme Makeover Youth Pod Edition philanthropy conference at Pokagon State Park starting today. The conference is sponsored by the Dekko Foundation. “We tend to refer to it as a retreat,” said Kimberly Schroeder, Dekko program officer. The event has been held annually for some 20 years. Youth pods from Steuben, LaGrange, DeKalb, Noble, Whitley and Kosciusko counties, in addition to Iowa, Alabama and Minnesota, will attend. This will be Forever Improving Steuben County Together President Jana Olson’s third retreat, and she said the experience is invaluable. She attended other retreats in Michigan and Iowa. FIST is the 15-member youth arm of the Steuben County Community Foundation. All 15 FIST members are expected to attend the retreat. “It’s actually awesome,” she said. “It’s a humbling experience. You get to collaborate with other youth pods, and it’s really intriguing. This helps the group grow and it’s really exciting. We want to thank Dekko and the community foundation.”
One thing FIST will look for at the retreat is service project ideas, Olson said. Dekko defines youth pods as groups helping teens discover their talent, learn how to manage a nonprofit organization, play a role in community development and work alongside adults to address community issues. The youth pods encourage the use of philanthropy. Schroeder said youth pods and other teens in the community will attend. The conference is filled with activity. “We’ll do a lot. We’ll have three rounds of breakouts and a pretend natural disaster, then move to a press conference and talk about the last 20 years and think what we’ll rebuild. We’ll go into a town meeting and talk about evolving youth pods,” she said. “We’re coming in as 13 youth pods, and when we leave, we’ll focus on positive community change.” Other retreat speakers will be Tom Leedy, Dekko Foundation president; Kevin Wanzer, national speaker; and Craig Kielburger, Canadian activist for children’s rights. Jennifer Danic, CEO and president of Steuben County Community Foundation, said this is the first time the conference will be held at Pokagon.
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Steuben County Prosecutor’s Office deputy prosecutor Nicholas Wallace, right, has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain as a judge advocate general in the Indiana Army National Guard. Here, he is congratulated by Col. Steve Sonnega. As a JAG, Wallace provides pro-bono military law legal counsel to soldiers.
Lawyer-soldier promoted BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — When Nicholas Wallace isn’t serving as a deputy prosecutor in the Steuben County Prosecutor’s Office, he’s with the Army National Guard 38th Infantry Division in Indianapolis as a captain. Wallace recently was promoted from first lieutenant to captain as a judge advocate general with the Army National Guard 38th Infantry Division in Indianapolis. With the National Guard, he’s a
military attorney. He has been with the National Guard since last year, when he was directly commissioned as an officer. Wallace said it’s a standard promotion in that short of an amount of time. With the rank, there’s more responsibility, Wallace said. “I think I’m following a natural progression. It was my desire to serve,” said Wallace, an Auburn native and DeKalb High School graduate. “I’m the first one in my SEE PROMOTED, PAGE A6