TUESDAY September 10, 2013
Electronics Recycling Page A2 Cub Scouts offer free service Saturday
Charity Golf Page B1 Brad Miller event tops $1 million
Weather Partly sunny, humid today. High 93. Low tonight 70. Chance of showers Wednesday. Page A6
GOOD MORNING Motorcycle crash kills Steuben man GARRETT — A Pleasant Lake man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Garrett Sunday at 1:30 a.m., police said. Paul Denman, 57, lost control of a 2003 Harley-Davidson motorcycle while traveling southbound in the 1300 block of Randolph Street, Garrett Police reported. Denman Denman was thrown from the motorcycle and pronounced dead at the scene from blunt-force trauma, police said. The Garrett Police Department was assisted by DeKalb EMS, the Garrett Fire Department, DeKalb County coroner and an accident reconstructionist from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. Speed and alcohol were contributing factors in the crash, the police report said. An obituary for Mr. Denman appears on Page A4.
Commissioners pick two for airport board AUBURN — The DeKalb County commissioners on Monday named two Auburn residents to the DeKalb County Airport Authority board. The commissioners chose John Harris and Jesse Myers to fill vacancies left by the death of former board president Jim Mason and the recent resignation of board member Brad Moore. Harris, a political independent, is a retired former plant manager who served as a neighborhood liaison for the airport for several years. Myers, a Democrat, works at Dana Corp. in Fort Wayne. The commissioners had been working to find a Democratic member for the board since June 20, when Mason unexpectedly died at age 70. Last week, Moore announced his resignation from the board, creating another vacancy. Moore, a financial advisor, has been transferred to Indianapolis. The commissioners described Harris and Myers as “pro-county.” The commissioners said previously that their top priority was finding someone who would place the county’s needs ahead of the airport’s needs.
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Garrett man No. 2 in national Legion INDIANAPOLIS — A Navy veteran from Garrett was elected as a national vice commander of the 2.4-million-member American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans organization, during its national convention last week in Houston. Robert E. Newman took his oath of office after being unanimously elected by delegates Aug. 29. A member of American
Legion Post 178 in Garrett, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1965-1969. He has held offices at every level of The American Legion, including department (state) commander of Indiana, northern vice commander of Indiana, Americanism Commission chairman of Indiana, department Children and Youth Commission chairman, Internal Affairs Commission chairman and Rehabilitation Commission
chairman. Nationally, he has served on the Veterans Preference and National Insurance committees. Newman retired from the U.S. Postal Newman Service. During his career, he served as postmaster in Butler from 1997-2001.
He also was commander at Post 178, and he lives in Garrett with his wife of 43 years, Kathryn. They have two sons, Charles R. Newman and Robert E. Newman Jr. Newman will serve a one-year term in the Legion’s secondhighest elective office and is one of 12 national officers. Dan Dellinger of Vienna, Va., was elected national commander on Aug. 29.
Syria offers deal Would surrender chemical weapons PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JOHN MOHRE
Baron Brigade takes first at Bluffton DeKalb High School’s Baron Brigade performs Saturday at the Bluffton Marching Band Invitational. In its first competition of the season, the band
placed first out of seven bands in Class B and swept all three caption awards for best music, best visual and best general effect.
Co-workers win lottery millions INDIANAPOLIS — Linda Spindler and Ken Townsley of rural Huntertown in southern Noble County claimed a $19 million Hoosier Lotto prize at Hoosier Lottery Headquarters in Indianapolis Monday. The lucky co-workers matched six of six numbers in Saturday’s Hoosier Lotto drawing. The winners were accompanied by their spouses, Dave Spindler and Pam Townsley. The co-workers defied odds of 1 in more than 12 million to win the jackpot, and they did it on a free ticket, Hoosier Lottery officials said. The two co-workers have played Hoosier Lotto together regularly for about eight years. They said they usually play $20 worth of tickets containing numbers of their own choosing and use their weekly winnings to buy a few additional quick picks. One of their tickets in Wednesday’s drawing matched two of the six numbers, which carries a prize of a free ticket. It was that free quick pick that matched all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing and turned out to be worth $19 million. The pair’s winning numbers were: 4-33-34-35-3648. Townsley and Spindler are co-workers at CMA Supply Co. in Fort Wayne, where she is the office manager and he is the operations manager. The $19 million ticket was purchased at Belmont Beverage, 1103 W. State Blvd., Fort Wayne. The store will get a $100,000 bonus, based on 1 percent of the prize, capped at $100,000. The co-workers could have taken $19 million as an
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Co-workers Ken Townsley and Linda Spindler of southern Noble County hold a ceremonial check Monday, representing their winnings in a Hoosier Lottery drawing Saturday night.
annuity paid over 30 years, but opted to take the cash option and will split a $7.1 million lump sum payout before taxes. The lucky winners are the third Hoosier Lotto jackpot winners this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rapid and remarkable chain of events, Syria welcomed the idea of turning over all of its chemical weapons for destruction on Monday, and President Barack Obama, though expressing deep skepticism, declared it a “potentially a significant breakthrough” that could head off the threats of U.S. air strikes that have set the world on edge. The administration pressed ahead in its efforts to persuade Congress to authorize a military strike, and Obama said the day’s developments were doubtless due in part to the “credible possibility” of that action. He stuck to his plan to address the nation tonight, while the Senate Democratic leader postponed a vote on authorization. The sudden developments broke into the open when Russia’s foreign minister, seizing on what appeared at the time to be an off-the-cuff remark by Secretary of State John Kerry, appeared in Moscow alongside his Syrian counterpart and proposed the chemical weapons turnover and destruction. The Syrian quickly embraced the idea, and before long U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did, too. Obama, who appeared Monday evening in interviews on six TV networks, said the idea actually had been broached in his 20-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week on the sidelines of an economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Obama said he directed Kerry to have more conversations with the SEE SYRIA, PAGE A6
Garrett dealer joins in Ford franchise at Angola BY SUE CARPENTER scarpente@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Bill Yoder’s longtime interest in owning a Ford dealership in Angola is now in gear. He and partner Walt Fuller opened Yoder-Fuller Ford on July 1 at the former Angola Ford location on U.S. 20 at the city’s east edge. Yoder said he approached the previous owner in August 2012, but the timing was not right. “Ford Motor Co. (recently) came out with a incentive to build or renovate facilities, and that just made it all the more attractive,” he said of buying the dealership. “With the current market and Ford incentives, that made it too good of an opportunity not to pursue the Angola dealership,” Yoder added. “I just felt this was a great business opportunity for myself and my family.” He met with Scott Benjamin, who expressed interest in becoming involved as a minority
partner and general manager of the facility. Benjamin is experienced in running Ford dealerships in Knox and South Bend. “Scott’s a real progressive, energetic young man, and he wanted to be a Ford dealer,” Yoder said. Benjamin and Yoder are in charge of the operation of the Yoder-Fuller Ford dealership. They formed a partnership with businessman Walt Fuller, who is owner/investor in the business and also the facilitator for the new showroom to be built at the current site. Plans are to begin construction in October with completion in the spring. “We felt it might be better for the community for appearance and beneficial to build on the current site,” Yoder said of the planned new, 14,000-square-foot showroom, office, garage and parts facility. The dealership currently employs 10 people, most from the previous dealership, and Yoder
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Yoder-Fuller Ford recently opened at the former Angola Ford location on U.S. 20 on the city’s east side. From left are partners Walt Fuller, Scott Benjamin and Bill Yoder.
said the owners hope to expand to 15-20 workers. “The employees are very professional and outstanding,” Yoder said. The new owners plan to
approach Ford Motor Co. about becoming a Lincoln franchise, as well, he added. Yoder has strong ties to the Angola community, having owned SEE FORD, PAGE A6