THURSDAY October 3, 2013
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Festival guide The 28th annual Apple Festival of Kendallville takes place Friday and Saturday at the Noble County Fairgrounds. Our 16-page guide to enjoying the festival appears inside today’s edition.
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Talk, but no action in D.C. AP Special Correspondent Eds: Refreshes photos. AP Video. With AP Photos. Multimedia: http://hosted.ap.org/ interactives/2013/us-budget-2013. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for the first time since a partial government shutdown began, but there was no sign of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. Obama “refuses to negotiate,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio., told reporters after private talks that lasted more than an hour. “All we’re asking for here is a discussion and fairness for the American people under Obamacare.” But Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid of Nevada said moments later, “We’re locked in tight on Obamacare” and neither the president nor Democrats will accept changes in the nation’s 3-year-old health care law as the price for spending legislation needed to end the two-day partial shutdown. With the nation’s ability to borrow money soon to lapse, Republicans and Democrats alike said the shutdown could last for two weeks or more, and soon oblige a divided government to grapple with both economy-threatening issues at the same time. The White House said in a statement after the meeting that Obama had made it clear “he is not going to negotiate over the need for Congress to act to reopen the government or to raise
Stutzman would give up pay WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 80 federal lawmakers have said “no” when it comes to getting paid during the government shutdown — including U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Howe. A report in The Washington Post said through early Wednesday afternoon, 42 Republicans and 44 Democrats said they plan to donate their pay or refuse compensation earned during the impasse. Stutzman announced his decision on his Facebook page Tuesday evening. The statement said, “Today, I asked Congress’ chief administrative officer to
Trout thriving in Little Elkhart River MIDDLEBURY (AP) — A northern Indiana group dedicated to protecting and restoring cold-water fisheries has turned the Little Elkhart River into a permanent habitat for trout. The success is the work of the local chapter of Trout Unlimited. The group has enlisted volunteers to build log jams and underwater shelters to create a better habitat for the trout.
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Voucher use rises in region
Fort Wayne home to curling facility FORT WAYNE — The Fort Wayne Curling Club has leased warehouse space within the Wells Street Commerce Center that will become the first dedicated curling facility in the history of the city. Located a block south of the Lutheran Health SportsCenter, where the club has been operating, the new facility is at the site of the former Nickle’s Bakery & Thrift shop. It will have three sheets of ice dedicated to curling and a 2,400-squarefoot warm room to provide off-ice viewing of curling matches. The location will be used for curling from Oct. 1 through mid-April each year, and will offer men’s, women’s, junior’s, mixed and open leagues. One night a week will be reserved for “learn to curl” sessions and corporate and private events.
withhold my pay during this shutdown. House Republicans have passed four plans to fully fund the federal government, but the Senate has rejected each of them. It’s time for (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and President Obama to come to the table.” The Post report said Stutzman members of Congress are paid $174,000 annually, and this money is constitutionally
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This postcard from the John Martin Smith collection shows Dr. Bonnell Souder of Auburn driving a McIntyre automobile in 1909, according to original writing on the back of the card. Images
from thousands of historically significant local postcards will be added to the library’s digital collection.
DeKalb digitizing its history Historian Smith to be remembered at open house AUBURN — Eckhart Public Library has partnered with the family of the late John Martin Smith to digitize selections from Smith’s personal collection, giving the public online access to the cultural artifacts. Through his lifetime, Smith built the largest private collection of DeKalb County historic materials, including photographs, maps, ledgers and more. Included in the collection are thousands of antique postcards, many from the Auburn Post Card Co., depicting early scenes of DeKalb County. The public is invited to an open house Oct. 12 from 1-5 p.m. at Willennar Genealogy Center, 700 S. Jackson St., to view selected items and see the library’s digitization technology. Smith’s son and law partner, Thompson Smith, will speak at 1:30 p.m. John Martin Smith and his wife, Barbara, died in an automobile crash in 2011. Smith was a literal neighbor to Eckhart Public Library for years, working out of his office on South Jackson Street. He was a library trustee and board president, volunteer and donor. Smith’s collection served as the basis of numerous books and articles that he wrote or edited. He was founder of the DeKalb County Historical Society, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum and the National Auto and Truck Museum. To bring his collection to the public, library staff and volunteers will make digital copies of the historic materials. The library will upload the images and descriptive information to the Willennar Genealogy Center’s online photo database and retain digital rights to the images. The materials will be returned to the Smith family following the digitization process.
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Genealogy assistant Mike Mapes shares selections of the John Martin Smith postcard collection with Thompson Smith, the historian’s son and law partner, at the Willennar Genealogy Center. Thompson Smith will speak at an open house Oct. 12 introducing the project and the library’s digitization technology.
The scope of the project has meant the library has needed key partners to accomplish its goals: Because the size of the collection exceeds the genealogy center’s current storage capacity, Vicki and Rick James and Metal Technologies Inc. have provided temporary storage space. The size of the collection also brings a need for off-site workspace. The library has used
funds from a Library Services and Technologies Act grant, administered by the Indiana State Library, to purchase a mobile digitization lab — a computer and scanner unit — that library staff and volunteers can use off-site. Workspace for the project has been provided by Oscar and Bonita Roberts at the restored former Sinclair gasoline station on SEE HISTORY, PAGE A6
The number of students applying to attend northeast Indiana private schools with School Choice Scholarships continues to grow each year, school administrators report. This week the Indiana Department of Education said the private school voucher plan received more than 20,000 applications for 2013-14. The program has grown from 3,900 when it first started in 2011 to more than 9,300 last year. School Choice Scholarships are awarded based on family income. Local private schools report similar patterns in the rising numbers of voucher students. “We’ve seen an increase in the number of voucher students each year,” said Tim Walz, principal of St. John Lutheran School in Kendallville. This year, 51 of the school’s 166 students are enrolled through the voucher program. Last year, St. John had 27 voucher students, compared to 10 voucher students reported by the DOE in 2011. This year, Lakewood Park Christian School in rural Auburn has 143 voucher students, superintendent Ed Yoder reported. Lakewood had 62 voucher students at this time last year. In 2011, Lakewood had 26 voucher students. The Howe School has not seen an increase in its number of students attending through the voucher program. Three students at the school are receiving vouchers this year, the school reported. This year’s voucher enrollment was not available for St. Joseph’s School in Garrett and St. Mary School in Avilla. The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Catholic Schools Office has asked principals not to share student data that might compromise the confidentiality of families and children, said Mark Myers, secretariat for the Office of Catholic Education Superintendent of Schools. Myers said in some cases, public disclosure of numbers could lead to speculation about the identification of children who have been awarded School Choice Scholarships. Statewide, the number of vouchers awarded to students attending Indiana Catholic schools has grown 3,970 this year, up from 766 in 2011-12 and 1,767 in 2012-13, Myers said.