TUESDAY September 17, 2013
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Weather Partly cloudy today. High 73. Low tonight 51. Chance of showers Wednesday. High 79. Page A6
GOOD MORNING Old Settlers Day planned for Sept. 25 AUBURN — Old Settlers Day at the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair will take place Wednesday, Sept. 25. The event will be at the First United Methodist Church, 1203 E. Seventh St. It will begin at noon with a meal sponsored by Smith Farms Manor. A program after lunch will feature entertainment by the DeKalb High School show choir. Emcee Kent Johnson will present awards to the oldest man and woman and longest-married couple. Door prizes also will be awarded. No advance registration is required.
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Walter sues to block school land gift Community foundation owns site BY KATHRYN BASSETT kbassett@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — Auburn City Councilman Mike Walter has asked a judge to declare a transfer of property from the DeKalb Central school district to the Community Foundation of DeKalb County as null and void. Walter has filed a complaint for declaratory judgment in DeKalb
Superior Court I. It names the school district, the foundation, the Steininger Centre for the Community Foundation of DeKalb County and the DeKalb County Fair Association as defendants. In his complaint filed Aug. 28, Walter said the school board adopted a resolution June 18 authorizing the “transfer by gift” of two lots on South Main Street
in Auburn to the Steininger Center. The site previously was home to the McIntosh Gym and its parking area. The Community Foundation announced it would build a new office on the property. Walter The facility would be named the Steininger Center for Community
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Shots kill 13 in D.C.
UN finds convincing evidence on Syria UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. inspectors said Monday there is “clear and convincing evidence” that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people. The findings represent the first official confirmation by scientific experts that chemical weapons were used in Syria’s civil war, but the report left the key question of who launched the attack unanswered. The rebels and their U.S. and Western supporters have said the regime of President Bashar Assad was behind the Aug. 21 attack, while the Syrian government and its closest ally, Russia, blame the rebels. U.S., British and French diplomats said the findings of the U.N. inspectors supported their conclusion that Assad regime was to blame. Russia disagreed. Secretary of State John Kerry briefed U.S. allies on a broad agreement reached over the weekend with Russia to end Syria’s chemical weapons program, pressing for broad support for the plan that averted U.S. military strikes. Kerry met in Paris with his counterparts from France, Britain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia before seeking a U.N. resolution that would detail how the international community can secure and destroy Syria’s stockpile.
Foundation of DeKalb County, the foundation said. In the resolution adopted by the school board, the DeKalb County Fair Association was named as having the first right of refusal to receive the lots if the foundation determined the real estate would be disposed of, Walter said in the complaint. Walter said the land is a valuable, saleable asset of the school district and that Indiana
Ex-Navy man goes on rampage
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An image of a painting of the Eckhart Public Library fountain by DeKalb County artist Rebecca Justice-Schaab has been selected to appear
in the book, “Painting Indiana III: Heritage of Place.”
Book features fountain painting FROM STAFF REPORTS
WATERLOO — For DeKalb County artist Rebecca JusticeSchaab, one of the most peaceful places is behind the Eckhart Public Library. “This is where I spent part of two days painting the fountain and the area surrounding it,“ JusticeSchaab said. An image of her painting has been selected to appear in a newly published book, “Painting Indiana III: Heritage of Place.” A gala opening and reception for the artists and the 100 paintings featured in the book will take place Sept. 20 at the Indiana Landmarks Center in Indianapolis. An exhibit there will continue through Oct. 12. A traveling exhibition also will take place over the course of the
next year. It will be at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art March 16-May 11, 2014. Indiana Landmarks partnered with Indiana Plein Air Painters Association and IU Press for the third volume of the coffee-table book series “Painting Indiana.” Artists focused on capturing historic places in this volume. Stephen Doherty, editor of Plein Air Magazine, selected the paintings, all completed in 2010-2011. Justice-Schaab, a contemporary impressionist oil painter, works from her rural home studio outside Waterloo. She was born in Atlanta and raised in Fort Wayne. Born in 1948, she has been drawing since childhood, and her artwork consisted of black-andwhite drawings in pencil and
charcoal and pen and ink. In her mid-30s, she began pursuing college courses toward a degree in painting, and that is where her interest in incorporating color into her art began. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, where she majored in painting. She describes he many years of producing black-and-white work as being valuable in building a knowledge of values, line and design. Adding color was the icing on the cake, she said. Her art includes a wide variety of subjects, but landscapes and figures are her dominant choice. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and locally in many juried, non-juried and traveling shows.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Navy man opened fire Monday morning inside a building at the heavily secured Washington Navy Yard, spraying bullets at office workers in the cafeteria and the halls, authorities said. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman. Authorities said they were looking for a possible second attacker who may have been disguised in an olive-drab militarystyle uniform. But as the day wore on and night fell, the rampage increasingly appeared to be the work of a lone gunman, and Navy Yard employees were being released from the complex and children were let out of their locked-down schools. Investigators said they had not established a motive for the rampage, which unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation’s capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol. As for whether it may have been a terrorist attack, Mayor Vincent Gray said: “We don’t have any reason to think that at this stage.” But he said the possibility had not been ruled out. It was the deadliest shooting rampage at a U.S.-based military installation since Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas. He was convicted last month and sentenced to death. SEE SHOTS, PAGE A6
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Steuben County helps deputy injured in crash Was responding to DeKalb incident BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — A reserve police officer injured the night of Aug. 24 while responding to an emergency call is getting some help from Steuben County government. Reserve Deputy Adam Meeks, 34, of Fremont, sustained head, ankle and wrist injuries in the crash. It occurred on S.R. 327, just north of Steuben C.R. 400S, while he was traveling south to assist with an incident being handled by DeKalb County police. Meeks is now out of the hospital and recuperating at home, but he has been caught in a dispute over who is going to pay for his health care.
Steuben County Commissioners have stepped up to pay for Meeks’ health insurance through his employer while he is on Family Medical Leave Act. The cost will be $1,580. “I think we should move forward in some way of taking care of our employee,” said Ron Smith, president of the commissioners. There was some discussion over whether paying for Meeks’ health insurance would constitute setting a precedent. Examples of similar benevolence on the part of county government were cited in a meeting of the commissioners Monday morning. As a reserve deputy, Meeks
is not a paid employee. He is employed by an Angola company and has insurance through his employer. Sheriff Tim Troyer has been working to get Meeks’ health care covered by the county’s worker’s compensation policy. Meeks’ original health care costs while in the hospital have been covered. There’s now some dispute between insurance Meeks companies over ongoing care. Meeks is married and has three children. He has a full-time job at a factory in Angola. Initially there were disputes over Meeks’ status as an employee
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Fairview Missionary Church
Tuesday, September 24 AT FAIRVIEW MISSIONARY CHURCH, ANGOLA, IN
The most fun a mother and daughter will ever have digging into God’s Word.
with the county because as a reserve, he is a volunteer. Then his insurance carrier through work said his health care would not be covered because his injuries were sustained through work for another employer, Troyer said. Meanwhile, Troyer said, many people in the community have come forward to donate money to the Meeks family to help while Adam Meeks is not earning due to medical leave. Fundraisers are planned. On the night of Aug. 24, deputies and Indiana State Police were responding to the Story Lake area south of Ashley to assist DeKalb County police with a 911 call reporting a man with a gun threatening to shoot people at a large gathering, Troyer said.
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