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Conrad shared Christ over long career GOOD MORNING US Forces hit extremist behind East Africa attacks MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya’s capital, U.S. military forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried out terrorist attacks in East Africa, snatching a man allegedly involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies 15 years ago but missing a man linked to last month’s attack on a Nairobi shopping mall. A U.S. Navy SEAL team slipped ashore near a southern Somalia town before the al-Qaida-linked militants rose for dawn prayers, U.S. and Somali officials told The Associated Press. The raid on a house in the town of Barawe targeted a specific al-Qaida suspect related to the mall attack, but the operation did not get its target, one current and one former U.S. military official told AP. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the raid publicly. Within hours of the Somalia attack, relatives of a Libyan al-Qaida leader wanted for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania said he was kidnapped outside his house Saturday in Tripoli, Libya. A U.S. official said it was American forces who captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, who has been wanted by the U.S. for more than a decade. The U.S. official says there have been no U.S. casualties in the Libya operation. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
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AUBURN — After 41 years with Youth For Christ, Ken Conrad knows the secret for keeping young. “I’ve discovered that, if you want to stay young, you hang around teenagers,” Conrad said. “If you want to feel old, you try to keep up with them.” Conrad retired Tuesday after 41 years with Youth For Christ, the last 34 of them working out of its Auburn office. For most of that time, the organization has served
DeKalb, Steuben, Noble and LaGrange counties, he said. Conrad spent his first two years with YFC in its Van Wert, Ohio, office. He then moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he served two years as the associate director before becoming executive director there. After three years as Dayton’s executive director, Conrad moved to Kendallville and took a job with the northeast Indiana YFC office in Auburn. He became its associate director. At that time, the office served DeKalb, Noble and Steuben
counties, Conrad said. LaGrange merged with them in the early 1980s because it made more sense than being linked to Elkhart County as the focus in that area shifted toward Conrad South Bend. About a decade ago, Conrad became executive director of the northeast Indiana YFC location. Some things are very different
Noble County Fairgrounds. Today, former Miss America Katie Stam of Indiana is scheduled to perform with the cast.
Apple Festival: Mmmmmm good BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — Two distinct groups of people came Saturday to the Apple Festival of Kendallville: those who were in line for food, and those who were talking about the food. Early morning rain couldn’t dampen the crowd, the enthusiasm or the eats Saturday, as thousands
packed the Noble County Fairground by noon time to experience life — including the culinary part of it — in the 1800s. The craft areas were filled. So was the primitive area. The people were getting full, too, with the various staples of Apple Festival, from tenderloins to apple dumplings to boneless chicken wings with apple barbecue sauce. The festival continues today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Fairgrounds parking costs $3. However, festival organizers encourage visitors and park free at East Noble High School and No-Sag on
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Thousands flock to Kendallville for annual event
Ken Conrad
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Raising a Ruckus
Miss Indiana Terrin Thomas, center, of Auburn joined the cast of Raise a Ruckus Saturday during the Apple Festival of Kendallville at the
“It’s a tremendous honor to be allowed into a teenager’s life.”
Allen Chapel Road to take a free shuttle bus service between the parking lots, the fairgrounds and the downtown business district. All pioneer-themed festival activities are taking place at the fairgrounds this year. Saturday, Peggy Stolte of Albion was in one of the 4-H barns, selling her hand-crafted decorative dish towels from her booth. “It’s been really good,” she said. “We’ve done well this morning. So far, the crowds have been bigger than last year.” Crowds were big and hungry. “We can’t keep up right now,” SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE A6
WASHINGTON (AP) — A rare flash of bipartisanship Saturday served as a cruel tease to those hoping Congress is moving toward reopening the government and averting an unprecedented default on the federal debt in less than two weeks. Only two days after House Speaker John Boehner raised hopes by telling colleagues he won’t let the nation go into default, key members of both parties conceded that no one has presented a plausible plan for avoiding it. Instead, they continued to bicker and to ponder the chasm between two warring parties, each of which seems convinced it’s on the winning side morally and politically. There was, however, relief Saturday for thousands of furloughed Pentagon workers and the promise of back pay for all federal workers who have been forced off the job. The Pentagon on Saturday ordered at least 90 percent of its roughly 350,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work, significantly reducing the number of sidelined federal workers. In all, about 800,000 federal workers had been furloughed. Defense Department said the recall is based on a law passed by Congress this week that allows the Pentagon to end furloughs for “employees whose responsibilities SEE BUDGET, PAGE A6
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Eberhardt earns state urban forest honor BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Art Eberhardt likes birds and music and people. In tribute to these profound yet simple pleasures, Eberhardt has given his community trees. His years of caring have not gone unnoticed, and recently the Indiana Urban Forest Council chose Eberhardt as the recipient of its 2013 Outstanding Individual Award. Eberhardt has served around 15 years on the Angola Tree Board and more than 40 years on the McClue Nature Reserve Board and ACRES Land Trust board of directors. He also is on
the board for the Stockbridge Audobon Society. He and his late wife, Marion, helped organize the annual Adopt-A-Tree Festival at Wing Haven Nature Preserve, where thousands of people have spent time with the Eberhardt family — loving nature and learning what planting one small tree every year can mean over a lifetime. Possibly the crowning event in Eberhardt’s selfless dedication to Mother Nature was his choice to make a large donation for the purchase of the last parcel of untouched forest in the Angola city limits. It is called Marion’s
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Art Eberhardt gave a large donation to make the purchase of Marion’s Woods off Calvary Lane possible. The ACRES Land Trust SEE EBERHARDT, PAGE A6 Preserve opened this year.