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Consolidating parishes consider new name Staff Report Three names are under consideration for the new parish four North Dearborn Catholic churches have been told to form as part of a decree to merge St. Martin, Yorkville, St. Paul, New Alsace, St. Joseph, St. Leon, and St. John the Baptist, Dover. Fifty-eight names were submitted, which was narrowed down during a joint parish council meeting. A list was sent to Indianapolis Archdiocese Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin. The names pre-approved by Tobin were Church of the Resurrection, Blessed John Paul II and All Saints Church of the Resurrection. Registered parishioners 18 years and older are eligible to submit one vote, before or after all weekend Masses, which was scheduled to begin this past weekend, and continue through Sunday, Oct. 13. The goal is to have a name chosen by the first weekend in November. Decrees were issued Thursday, June 6, that made changes to many churches in the deanery, including the eventual closings of the four north Dearborn churches. According to the original decrees, the four churches were supposed to merge
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013
Drawings done, new LHS gym estimate: $11.5M Lancer+Beebe. The new estimate with schematics is $11.5 million for the new gym, and erussell@registerpublications.com an additional $750,000 for an artifiAs engineers continue monitoring cial turf football field. a structurally failing Lawrenceburg The gym built in 1964 on fill High School gym, a more concrete has major problems, stemming from estimate to replace it has been put fluctuating groundwater levels. The forward by architects from RQAW/ problems have continued to worsen By Erika Schmidt Russell Editor
since they were found in 2011. According to soil borings and other information gathered by engineers with ATC, the water level’s risen as much as five feet, said Lawrenceburg Schools Superintendent Karl Galey during a presentation about the new gym cost Thursday, Oct. 3. Footers under the gym rise and
RENDERING FROM RQAW-LANCER+BEEBE
The new Lawrenceburg High School gym would pull elements from the original 1937 academic wing.
fall with the water, and that’s caused beams to bow, settling, major cracks, and building envelope issues, said Galey reviewing why the new gym is a need not a want. The school corporation in 2008-09 had looked at renovating and expanding the academic wing of the high school, but those plans have been put on hold after the structural problems were found in the gym, said Galey. Engineers continue to monitor the building, and when looking at replacing the gym they did soil borings of other locations on the Lawrenceburg Schools’ campus. Every location on the campus would require deep piers to anchor the building, so the current location is still the best. Replacing the gym, rather than repairing it also remains the most cost effective option, since any thing that would be done to the current gym would have to meet current building codes and Americans with
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CRUISIN’ TO FUN AT FARMERS FAIR
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Bright Fire Dept. receives grant for tablet computers The Indiana Homeland Security Foundation has approved $373,804.72 in grant funding to local fire departments, law enforcement agencies and emergency medical services. The focus of the foundation is to support the future of the public safety and to provide grant funding to local agencies for critical public safety needs across Indiana. Grants are provided up to $4,000. Public safety agencies are eligible to apply for projects such a equipping emergency responders with personal protective equipment, acquiring equipment for use by emergency responders, providing radios and technology equipment and training for emergency responders. In Dearborn County, the Bright Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. received $3,839.34 to purchase six tablet computers with protective cases. The tablets will be used to outfit the fire trucks with quick and accurate information for their territory and mutual aid response area. The company is using multiple binders full of information that have to be updated consistently.
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Above: The 2013 Aurora Farmers Fair King and Queen are Brendan Slack of South Dearborn High School and Kelley Renninger of East Central High School, both on left side of photo; and runners-up, Tyler Gabor of Lawrenceburg High School and Hannah Teaney of Oldenburg Academy.
Top: The Aurora Lions golf cart carousel is popular with kids and Larry the Lion who likes to ride rather than walk. Middle: The Aurora Fire Department’s ladder truck is taken over by creatures from it’s upcoming Nightmare on Volunteer Drive, which starts this Friday night, Oct. 11, and goes Fridays and Saturdays 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. through Saturday, Oct. 26. Bottom: Kids up and down the parade route scrum for candy.
105th Aurora Farmers Fair Parade Grand Marshal Charlotte Hastings was joined by her mother Irene Peters, as well as some of her grandchildren as the parade starts to form Saturday morning, Oct. 5. Hastings three children also joined her on the float. See the list of parade and raffle winners on Page 10.
Attn. Aurorans: return recycling survey get $3 credit on utility bill By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter cmattingly@registerpublications.com
If you get a survey about recycling in Aurora, but live outside the city limits, forget it. The recycling survey reviewed by Aurora Utility Board at its Tuesday, Oct. 1, meeting will be enclosed in October utility bills. But the surveys are intended only for Aurora city residents, not for residents of Indian Ridge and other locations out of town. “A lot of those people called thinking they were going to be included in the city trash pickup,” Aurora Utilities Superintendent
Randy Turner said of folks who live outside the city but receive Aurora utility services – and bills. A similar enclosure notified residents of garbage collection fees which started in January. Now city officials want to know if Aurora residents would participate in curbside recycling, and if they'd be willing to pay $3 to $5 a month for it. The survey, approved by the utility board, which consists of Aurora City Council members, also asks if residents recycle, how often, and which materials. The board decided to offer a $3 credit toward a resident's bill if he or she returns the completed survey. In other business, Turner, who
also is Aurora Clerk-treasurer, told the board the city plans to abandon an old water line that runs under the railroad tracks and previously supplied the Westside Drive and Hanover Avenue area, but developed breaks some months ago. That area now is supplied by a new water line installed under Hogan Creek from the Manchester/Moore streets area to Ind. 350. Meanwhile, the new water line installation on Hanover Avenue, replacing an older, smaller line, is about halfway done, he said. Turning to paving, Turner suggested the board members take a look at Fifth Street's surface. If the state highway department repaves Fifth Street from Ind. 56
to Main Street due to damage from its being used for a detour during Ind. 56 renovation, the city ought to consider doing the rest of Fifth Street, he said. The road off the U.S. 50 ramp in west Aurora, that runs up to Indiana Avenue, also needs work, he said. “Another one that's really bad is Bridgeway, going down it,” said Turner. Asked by utility board chairman John Borgman if the city has the money to do the rest of Fifth Street, Turner said there are funds enough in savings. The board approved writing off as uncollectible $1,782 and approved $625 in sewer adjustments for water leaks.