THURSDAY November 7, 2013
Tri County Pageant Page A3 Nine teenage contestants seeking titles
Still Undefeated Page B1 Pacers blast Bulls to go 5-0
Weather Mostly sunny today. High 47. Partly cloudy tonight with a low of 31. Sunny Friday. High 49. Page A6
GOOD MORNING DeKalb H.S. invites veterans to program WATERLOO — Two local military veterans will share their stories with DeKalb High School students in a Veterans Day program Monday at the school. Other military veterans are invited to attend the program and occupy seats of honor alongside the speakers. Visitors may arrive at the school beginning at 1:55 p.m. and check in at the office before proceeding to a reception in the media center. The Veterans Day assembly will begin at approximately 2:25 p.m. and end shortly before dismissal. Veterans scheduled to speak at the ceremony will be Dari West, a 1990 graduate of DeKalb High School who has served in recent military conflicts, and Paul Yoder, who served during the Vietnam War from 1972-75.
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Electricity rates rising in Garrett BY SUE CARPENTER scarpenter@kpcmedia.net
GARRETT — Garrett electric utility users will see an increase in rates beginning in 2014. Consultant Rod Sibery of Spectrum Engineering presented findings from a cost-of-service study to the Garrett Common Council Tuesday. Sibery said he used the 12 months from June 1, 2012,
through May 31, 2013, as a test year for the study. He presented figures showing the city’s revenue requirement for the utility at $8.98 million for the period, with operating revenues at $7.31 million, resulting in a deficit of $1.67 million. The last study was conducted in 1981, Sibery said. Of the revenue requirements, 72 percent goes to purchase power through Indiana Michigan Power
Co., with the remainder for meter reading, substation and infrastructure maintenance, truck and equipment replacement and other capital improvement costs. Sibery said the average Garrett resident using 1,000 kilowatthours per month would see an increase of $22.97 per month, or 30 percent. Customers using 500 kilowatt-hours would see a $6.06 per month increase or a 13 percent
Woman donates for school technology ELKHART (AP) — A woman who credits her elementary school teachers with helping her overcome learning problems as a youngster has donated nearly $50,000 to the school for a technology upgrade. The gift from Ashley Martin and the Martin Family Foundation will equip Riverview Elementary School with interactive, computerized blackboards.
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Man fatally shot near Fort Wayne school FORT WAYNE (AP) — A man has been found fatally shot across the street from a Fort Wayne high school an hour after dismissal. The shooting was reported about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday outside Premium Cuts Barbershop, across the street from South Side High School. Some students who were leaving the school at the time were ushered away from the crime scene. Fort Wayne Community Schools spokeswoman Krista Stockman says the school was placed on lockdown until students involved in after-school activities were sent home. The school day had ended at 2:30 p.m.
rate hike. The study listed Garrett as having 2,894 residential users, 161 commercial single-phase users, 128 three-phase commercial users, 27 three-phase small power customers, 70 outside security lighting users and municipal street lights. Failure to keep the utility solvent could result in it being
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Two DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department deputies graduated Friday from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Plainfield. From left are
Chief Deputy Gerald Kline, new graduates Jarrid Treesh and Nick Grate and Sheriff Don Lauer.
Deputies complete academy GARRETT — Two DeKalb County deputies graduated Friday from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Plainfield. Jarrid Treesh and Nick Grate both participated in the 15-week training and have returned to their duties with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. Treesh is a 2006 graduate of
Garrett High School and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2008-2012. He is taking classes at Indiana Tech toward a degree in criminal justice. He and his wife, Katie (Fogt) Treesh, are the parents of two children, Carigan, 3, and Jace, four months. They reside in Garrett. Grate is a 2004 graduate of
DeKalb High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and an associate’s degree in business from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is engaged to Katie Freeman, and they reside in Auburn. Gov. Mike Pence was the keynote speaker for the graduation ceremony.
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Mobile home blaze claims woman’s life
Pragmatic strategy fuels election wins WASHINGTON (AP) — Electability and pragmatism won. Ideology and rigidity lost. In Democratic-leaning New Jersey, voters gave Republican Chris Christie a second term and rewarded him for his bipartisan, get-it-done, inclusive pitch. In swing state Virginia, voters narrowly rejected Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s uncompromising, conservative approach. If there’s a lesson from Tuesday’s off-year elections, it might be that during a time of deep divisions within the Republican Party, staunchly conservative GOP candidates who press ideological positions have difficulty winning general elections in competitive states. Candidates with mainstream appeal like Christie in New Jersey and Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia can overcome obstacles that might trip up others. Christie, in a victory speech aimed at national Republicans, said Americans “angry with their dysfunctional government in Washington” could look to his state as a model for getting things done. “I know that if we can do this in Trenton, New Jersey, maybe the folks in Washington, D.C., should tune in their TVs right now,” Christie said. “See how it’s done.” Christie trounced his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barbara Buono, offering a template for Republicans who want to win and attract a broad coalition of voters. His re-election, the largest by a Republican governor in New Jersey since 1985, could help him make a case for governing as a conservative without ceding the political middle ahead of a possible presidential bid. In Virginia, McAuliffe held off a late charge by Cuccinelli in a polarizing campaign that exposed liabilities that could drag down both parties next year: President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul for Democrats and a partial government shutdown for Republicans. McAuliffe is a
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration officials are facing mounting questions about whether they cut corners on security testing while rushing to meet a self-imposed deadline to launch online health insurance markets. Documents show that the part of HealthCare.gov that consumers interact with directly received only a temporary six-month security certification because it had not been fully tested before Oct. 1, when the website went live. It’s also the part of the system that stores personal information. The administration insists the trouble-prone website is secure, but technicians had to scramble to make a software fix earlier this week after learning that a North Carolina man tried to log on and got a South Carolina man’s personal information. A serious security breach would be an unwelcome game-changer for an administration striving to turn the corner on technical problems that have inconvenienced millions of consumers and embarrassed the White House. Two computer security experts
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks to the news media in Union City, N.J., Wednesday, the day after winning re-election as governor.
longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, giving the former secretary of state an important ally should she seek the White House again. In Republican-friendly Alabama, Bradley Byrne, a lawyer backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, defeated tea party-backed candidate Dean Young in a special GOP primary to succeed retiring Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala. Byrne will be the heavy favorite in December to hold onto the congressional seat and gives business groups a victory over the tea party. Far from the intensity of a presidential campaign, the low-turnout elections don’t offer a greater meaning into the nation’s political psyche. But Virginia and New Jersey often give parties clues to the electorate’s mood heading into congressional elections. The backdrop was a partial government shutdown triggered partly by tea party demands and a clunky rollout by the Obama administration of the health care law.
ORLAND — A fire east of Lake Gage took the life of a local woman at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, officials report. The blaze in a mobile home in the 5200 block of North C.R. 550W in Millgrove Township on property owned by Stephen Bachelor claimed the life of Sandra (Hart) Campbell, 73, Angola. The fire broke out at about 2:30 p.m., said Sheriff Tim Troyer. Fire departments from Orland and Fremont were dispatched initially, along with sheriff’s deputies. When emergency crews arrived, they found the mobile home completely engulfed in flames. Once it was extinguished, firefighters found Campbell inside the structure. Steuben County Coroner Bill Harter ruled the cause of death as smoke inhalation. As of Wednesday evening, officials had yet to determine an exact cause of the fire, though it has been ruled accidental. “We’re working in conjunction with the state fire marshal and the coroner, of course,” Troyer said. “They’ve got some ideas of the general area of the home where they think it started.” Campbell was found in the rear of the mobile home, Troyer said. She lived with family members but was home alone at the time of the fire. It is believed that Campbell lived alone. She was home alone at the time. Angola firefighters assisted in the investigation.