November 8, 2013 Times Community Publications 3306 Independence Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46808 Serving New Haven & East Allen County INfortwayne.com INSIDE THIS ISSUE Classifieds..............................................................................A4 Community Calendar ................................................... A14,15 Downtown New Haven ...................................................... A11 Healthy Times ..................................................................... A10 Find It In Fort Wayne.................................................. A8,9 Erin’s House finishes move By Garth Snow [email protected]Erin’s House for Grieving Children has a new home. An Oct. 26 ribbon-cut- ting and open house introduced the public to the facility at 5670 YMCA Park Drive West. “We know everyone is eager to see the finished house,” Erin’s House Executive Director Debbie Meyer said in a news release. “It’s fun and colorful and full of kid-friendly spaces. Most importantly, it’s home.” Erin’s House was founded in 1993, in response to the unexpected death of 5-year-old Erin Farragh in 1989. The agency had found its most recent temporary location in Georgetown Square, in August 2012. Groundbreaking for the new site was held in November 2012. The board of directors Dave and Gail Farragh, the parents of Erin’s House for Grieving Children namesake Erin Farragh, help to cut the ribbon at the new building. Sharing in the moment are Steve Brody, Erin’s House board president, and Debbie Meyer, executive director. COURTESY PHOTO Lights of Love Parkview Field. Nov. 21-30, 5-8 p.m. (With the ex- ception of Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28). Free admission. Memorialize your loved one with the purchase of a lu- minaria for $25, or a luminaria and scoreboard message for $50. A memorial fundraising project for Erin’s House for Grieving Children, in partnership with Parkview Field. Contact Audrey at [email protected], or visit erinshouse.org. Parkview Field presents Fireworks Night Wednesday, Nov. 27, at 7:45 p.m. Free admission. See ERIN’S, Page A2 All aboard the Santa Train Santa Claus will visit New Haven three Satur- days in December to welcome children aboard the Santa Train. The 30-minute rides begin and end at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society home at 15808 Edgerton Road. Rides continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 7, 14 and 21. Each ride costs $4. For details, visit fort- waynerailroad.org. Kelly Lynch, FWRHS communications manager, said the Santa Train tradi- tion began here in about 1994, based on an earlier tradition in Fort Wayne. “And last year was our record — 2,300 people — which is pretty decent,” he said. “It’s gotten so busy in that last two years that we’ve added another caboose to expand the capacity per trip,” Lynch said. “We like to say it’s a good variation on visiting Santa at the mall, and it’s very affordable,” Lynch said. Larger families have another option available. “For the last three years we’ve been operating Santa charters, which allow families of 15 to 20 people to charter a caboose ride in the evening,” Lynch said. Santa will help to hand out some of the gifts from the family. The wood- and coal- burning stove, the Christmas lights, and the Bing Crosby-era music lend to the atmosphere. “We make a 45-minute or hourlong trip with Santa, cookies and refresh- ments,” Lynch said. “And it’s just a cool way to spend time with the family,” he said. “It’s gotten really popular See TRAIN, Page A4 Theater readies Christmas icons By Garth Snow [email protected]As she prepares a fabled tradition for another Christmas, Barb Richards talks about a child’s thrill at seeing the Wolf & Dessauer animated char- acters. When she was about 7, she watched the store’s blinds separate to reveal Santa and company in the windows of that legendary Fort Wayne department store. As she built a 37-year career in broadcasting, Richards often heralded the Thanksgiving Eve unveiling of the characters’ new windows on Harrison Street. In her first year as the Embassy Theatre’s marketing director, she still stands in awe of the assorted penguins and carolers that spend their summers on the third floor of the Indiana Hotel building. With the guidance of David and Kathy James, those characters will spring to life the evening of Nov. 27, during the Night of Lights celebration. Richards says the charac- ters never really rest. “They get busy at night,” she says. Santa, of course, is the leader, she jokes. She describes the plas- tic-covered, dormant collection as “creepy as heck.” “But I think they’re pretty,” she says. “Some of them are rather works of art. They are kind of fun.” “They all go down into the windows,” she says. “Some of them get repro- grammed to move. The penguins move. Oh this guy moves — Santa has to move.” “Those animals take a lot of work, and each year we have to change the animals so the animated characters do something different. One time they might be picking up a present and the next year they might be putting a star on top of a Christmas tree and their arms have to move differently, or their heads look in a different direction, so that they tell a Local organizations and businesses sponsor unique trees for the Festival of Lights. The Fort Wayne TinCaps’ tree stands beside the stairway at the 2012 festival. FILE PHOTO BY JANE SNOW See THEATER, Page A4
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INSIDE THIS ISSUEClassifieds ..............................................................................A4Community Calendar ................................................... A14,15Downtown New Haven ...................................................... A11Healthy Times .....................................................................A10Find It In Fort Wayne .................................................. A8,9
Erin’s House for Grieving Children has a new home.
An Oct. 26 ribbon-cut-ting and open house introduced the public to the facility at 5670 YMCA Park Drive West.
“We know everyone is eager to see the finished house,” Erin’s House Executive Director Debbie Meyer said in a news release. “It’s fun and colorful and full of kid-friendly spaces. Most importantly, it’s home.”
Erin’s House was founded in 1993, in response to the unexpected death of 5-year-old Erin Farragh in 1989.
The agency had found its most recent temporary location in Georgetown Square, in August 2012. Groundbreaking for the new site was held in November 2012. The board of directors
Dave and Gail Farragh, the parents of Erin’s House for Grieving Children namesake Erin Farragh, help to cut the ribbon at the new building. Sharing in the moment are Steve Brody, Erin’s House board president, and Debbie Meyer, executive director.
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Lights of Love Parkview Field. Nov. 21-30, 5-8 p.m. (With the ex-
ception of Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28). Free admission. Memorialize your loved one with the purchase of a lu-minaria for $25, or a luminaria and scoreboard message for $50. A memorial fundraising project for Erin’s House for Grieving Children, in partnership with Parkview Field. Contact Audrey at [email protected], or visit erinshouse.org.
Parkview Field presents Fireworks Night Wednesday, Nov. 27, at 7:45 p.m. Free admission.See ERIN’S, Page A2
All aboard the Santa Train
Santa Claus will visit New Haven three Satur-days in December to welcome children aboard the Santa Train.
The 30-minute rides begin and end at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society home at 15808 Edgerton Road. Rides continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 7, 14 and 21. Each ride costs $4.
For details, visit fort-waynerailroad.org.
Kelly Lynch, FWRHS communications manager, said the Santa Train tradi-tion began here in about 1994, based on an earlier tradition in Fort Wayne.
“And last year was our record — 2,300 people — which is pretty decent,” he said.
“It’s gotten so busy in that last two years that we’ve added another caboose to expand the capacity per trip,” Lynch said.
“We like to say it’s a good variation on visiting Santa at the mall, and it’s very affordable,” Lynch said.
Larger families have another option available. “For the last three years we’ve been operating Santa charters, which allow families of 15 to 20 people to charter a caboose ride in the evening,” Lynch said. Santa will help to hand out some of the gifts from the family.
The wood- and coal-burning stove, the Christmas lights, and the Bing Crosby-era music lend to the atmosphere. “We make a 45-minute or hourlong trip with Santa, cookies and refresh-ments,” Lynch said.
“And it’s just a cool way to spend time with the family,” he said. “It’s gotten really popular
As she prepares a fabled tradition for another Christmas, Barb Richards talks about a child’s thrill at seeing the Wolf & Dessauer animated char-acters.
When she was about 7, she watched the store’s blinds separate to reveal Santa and company in the windows of that legendary Fort Wayne department store.
As she built a 37-year career in broadcasting, Richards often heralded the Thanksgiving Eve unveiling of the characters’ new windows on Harrison Street.
In her first year as the Embassy Theatre’s marketing director, she still stands in awe of the assorted penguins and carolers that spend their summers on the third floor of the Indiana Hotel building.
With the guidance of David and Kathy James, those characters will spring to life the evening of Nov.
27, during the Night of Lights celebration.
Richards says the charac-ters never really rest. “They get busy at night,” she says. Santa, of course, is the leader, she jokes.
She describes the plas-tic-covered, dormant collection as “creepy as heck.”
“But I think they’re pretty,” she says. “Some of them are rather works of art. They are kind of fun.”
“They all go down into the windows,” she says. “Some of them get repro-grammed to move. The penguins move. Oh this guy moves — Santa has to move.”
“Those animals take a lot of work, and each year we have to change the animals so the animated characters do something different. One time they might be picking up a present and the next year they might be putting a star on top of a Christmas tree and their arms have to move differently, or their heads look in a different direction, so that they tell a
Local organizations and businesses sponsor unique trees for the Festival of Lights. The Fort Wayne TinCaps’ tree stands beside the stairway at the 2012 festival.
FILE PHOTO BY JANE SNOW
See THEATER, Page A4
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approved the project early last year.
“It’s been quite a process, but we’re happy to see it come to such a great end,” said Rachel Burkholder, marketing and donor relations director for Erin’s House.
The agency said the 14,000-square-foot facility is the fi rst of its kind in Indiana. “Erin’s House is the only organization in northeast Indiana that addresses the needs of children and teens affected by the death of a loved one,” the agency said. “In its 20-year history, Erin’s House has served over 15,000 grieving children, teens and their families.”
Even as staff and directors celebrated the achievement, work continued to ensure future services.
“It’s not about the building,” Burkholder said. “As our board presi-dent, Steve Brody, likes to put it, ‘It’s not the end of the rainbow.’”
“We’ve built this wonderful home to ensure that Erin’s House is here for generations to come,” Burkholder said. “There will always be grieving children and teens and families that are looking for a place to go.
“All of our services are offered to them at no cost, and that’s where we need this rainbow to keep going.”
The many donors and approximately 115 volun-teers make it possible to sustain the service, she said. “We like to call them those who give of their time, talents and trea-sures,” Burkholder said.
“I think we’ve been very fortunate,” she said of the milestone. “We’re also celebrating our 20th year in existence and, honestly, we would not be here without the generosity of
the surrounding commu-nity.”
The volunteers stretch the budget, she said. “If they were paid staff, we wouldn’t be able to serve as many people as we do,” she said.
“We also have lots of special events, such as Wine for the Spirit,” she said. The eighth annual event was held in October at Headwaters Park East.
Kaleidoscope Walk/Run was held in September, in partnership with Fort4Fit-ness.
Next up is the Lights of Love memorial, Nov. 21-30 at Parkview Field.
For $25, a family can light a luminaria in memory of a loved one. For $50, families can sponsor a scoreboard message.
“It’s a somber but joyful time,” Burkholder said.
“So there are lots of avenues for people beyond the Erin’s House family to get involved, but all of that money comes back and supports the families that come to Erin’s House,” Burkholder said.
Erin’s House supports children and families through peer support, crisis response, in-school programming, the annual Camp Good Grief for children ages 8-13, Teen Retreat, and through other means.
“We’re just getting started. We’re hoping with the new facility that eventually we’ll be able to expand some of our program offerings, and provide training to other bereavement specialists,” Burkholder said.
“With this new space comes new opportunities,” she said. “We’re making sure we’re making Erin’s House is available to anybody who can benefi t from it.”
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AFTER 20 YEARSErin’s House was founded in 1993 in honor of all
grieving children and their families. The idea for Erin’s House was created when a 5-year old Fort Wayne girl named Erin Farragh died unexpectedly in 1989; the subsequent grief her surviving brother and sister expe-rienced inspired the adults in their lives to take this idea and grow it into what it is today. To date, the organiza-tion has served more than 15,000 individuals throughout northeast Indiana, and it continues to provide support services for children, teens and their families who have suffered the death of a loved one. As an industry center for excellence, Erin’s House is continually reviewing its programs and services to ensure they are effective for children, teens and their families. All Erin’s House pro-grams and services are provided at no cost.
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Erin’s House for Grieving Children has relocated to 5670 YMCA Park Drive West, off St. Joe Center Road. The public toured the building at an open house Oct. 26. Groundbreaking was held Nov. 15, 2012.
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Holiday happeningsBreakfast with St. Nicholas. University of Saint
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Star of Bethlehem 2013. The Schouweiler Plan-etarium, Achatz Hall of Science, University of Saint Francis, 2701 Spring St., Fort Wayne. Dec. 7, 3 and 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 8, 12:30 and 3 p.m.; Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 14, 3 and 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 15, 5 p.m.; Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 21, 3 and 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 22, 5 p.m. This 90-minute
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Christmas on the Farm. Salomon Farm Park, 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. Saturday, Dec. 7, 1-5 p.m. A traditional Christmas celebration on the farm with a live Nativity scene, wagon rides, a general store for gift-buying, live entertainment and refreshments. Admission is free.
Santa’s Workshop. The Community Center. 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne. Wednesday, Nov. 27, 4-7:30 p.m. Free holiday activities for kids. Create make & take crafts, watch a Christmas movie, and enjoy refreshments. Donate a new or gently used bear and enter a drawing
to win a giant elf bear. Kids can shop for inexpensive holiday gifts for $2 or less at the North Pole Stop-n-Shop. Mom and Dad can shop, too. Community Center patrons have been crafting holiday items to sell on Candy Cane Lane. Check out the holiday lights display on the Community Center roof when the lights are fl icked on at 6 p.m.
Fireside Christmas. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Nov. 23-Jan. 5. To re-create the warm and cozy feeling of a traditional Christmas celebration, the Conservatory Show-case will be fi lled with red poinsettias and elements that spark feelings of nostalgia for the happy family holiday of yesteryear. The comfortable family room vignette with fi replace and Christmas tree, and the atrium with a 12-foot-tall poinsettia tree will provide backdrops for
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different story.”As part of that process,
an air compressor rests in the narrow passage separating the expanded Embassy stage from the characters’ windows. Some of the characters are oper-ated pneumatically, she explains.
Also in that cramped
space, Richards shows gift boxes that still show the W&D brand more than four decades after the store ended its 73-year history. Asked whether she ever received gifts in such a box, she answers, “Oh my gosh, my Etch A Sketch.”
That understanding of the tradition expresses itself in Richards’ description of the downtown Christmas, the Embassy Christmas, and the Embassy’s future.
“I can actually remember I was probably about 7 years old, standing at the corner of Calhoun and Wayne,” she says. “They had a big arch over the street, and they had a tree that they put up on the arch so that the cars went underneath it. And that Wednesday before Thanksgiving they would do the lighting, so they would light up the tree and then we’d walk across the street to what was Wolf & Dessauer’s, and then the windows came open. You’d go along and see the windows, and then you’d go into the store and see Santa Claus.
“And the coolest thing about that Santa Claus, and I’ll remember this forever, is they did a half an hour TV show. Every day I would come home from school, because they’d have it on like at 4:30. So you would watch for your friends, or your friend would say ‘I was on TV, did you see me?’ And all it was, was like a half-hour show of kids visiting Santa.
Live from W&D.”“It was just so magical.
It was all about the holiday, and of course as a kid you start anticipating Christmas about July 25th,” she says.
Once again, Richards has been anticipating Christmas since summer, but this time as the person respon-sible for orchestrating the Embassy Festival of Trees.
“Look at all this stuff,” she says, pointing to a roomful of decorations. “I panicked when I took the job and I looked at this and I thought ‘wow we won’t have to buy any decora-tions.’ But this is just part of it. This is just a little bit of it. They recycle some things, they buy new things every year. This is where we keep the things for the windows, and then upstairs we have all the trees and just boxes and boxes of decorations and trees. Some
trees come back every year. Most trees are re-created from the bottom up. It’s just amazing. I’ve been working on it since I hired in in June, because it’s just an amazing, amazing process.”
Richards predicts 16,000 guests will visit the Embassy to see more than 50 decorated Christmas trees, before the Festival of Trees ends Dec. 4.
Richards makes sure to thank the window sponsors and the tree sponsors, and the Helping Hands workers who put all the decora-tions in place. “They’re so helpful. But they know the building,” she says. “And what is also cool to me about working here is the care that they have, not just them, but everybody really cares about the building.”
Richards, too, cares about the building, its
history and ornamentation. She points to the details that cover the ceiling of the narrow outer lobby. “It’s the most beautiful ceiling in the world,” she says, “and I think people just rush from one door to the other.”
She talks about that future of the Historic Embassy Theatre and the restored Indiana Hotel lobby, how renovations will create rehearsal space, a two-story ballroom, and a rooftop garden. She talks about how her own office will move to an upper floor that now houses Christmas decorations.
“We don’t want to be a hotel. We have a hotel on either side of us,” she says. “We’re a rental venue business. That’s what we do well. That rental is what gives us the money that we need to sustain the building.”
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this year because every-body’s been going to our website to learn about the Cannonball trips, and they see the Santa Train.”
“We have a lot of repeat visitors,” Lynch said. The first weekend is usually the lightest, he said.
Unlike the steam-driven Engine 765 that pulled the Wabash Cannon-ball excursions, a diesel
engine will pull two cabooses.
While waiting for their turn on the Santa Train, visitors may visit the food vendors, shop for souve-niers, see footage of the recent Cannonball excur-sions, or climb aboard the 765. The railroad society is considering entertain-ment options.
Lynch said the Cannonball excursions to
Lafayette drew passengers from a wide area, and cultivated interest in the organization. He urged the public to stay tuned to the website for possible future trips.
The ultimate vision is to return to Fort Wayne, where the tradition began, Lynch said. “We only have a half-mile of track to operate on out there,” he said.
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Festival of Trees The 29th annual Festival of Trees. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort
Wayne. Wednesday, Nov. 27, through Wednesday, Dec. 4. Tickets on sale starting Nov. 1, $7 for adults and $3 for children. This year’s theme is “Merry and Bright.” The lobbies of the Indiana Hotel and the Embassy are transformed into a wonderland of dozens of uniquely decorated Christmas trees. The event is a community goodwill and fundraising event that supports the operational and restoration efforts of the Embassy Theatre Foundation Inc. Visit fwembassytheatre.org. Also on Nov. 27, the legendary Wolf & Dessauer department store animated characters and their 2013 show will be unveiled in the Embassy’s Harrison Street windows. Kids may enjoy Breakfast with Santa from 9:30-11 a.m. Nov. 29 and 30 at the Embassy. The event sells out every year; tickets are on sale at the Embassy box office. Santa has partnered with McDonald’s to cater this year’s breakfast. Dec. 2 is Kingston Seniors Day, so the event is open to everyone but has a special focus for senior citizens. Area youth groups perform dance, songs and entertainment on the Embassy stage Friday through Sunday, Nov. 29-Dec. 1. The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1. On Nov. 27 and again on Dec. 4, during Tots & Trees Days, giant inflatables will be set up on the Embassy stage so children may enjoy a winter carnival for a small additional fee. Hours are: Nov. 27, open 6-9 p.m. during the Night of Lights; Nov. 28, open 4-8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day; Nov. 29 and 30 and Dec. 1, noon-8 p.m.; Dec. 2, 3 and 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Night of Lights will shine even more brightly in 2013. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, the University of Saint Francis will light a wreath near the Christ Child Festival’s living Nativity scene at the new USF Performing Arts Center at 431 W. Berry St.
“And then there’s going to be a kind of a Christmas surprise, and then light the wreath on the west side of the building,” said Janet Patterson, the coordinator for Christmas at USF.
Patterson said the imposing wreath had been in storage at the Scottish Rite building. The wreath measures 16 feet across, and has 400 lights on the bow and 700 on the wreath.
“After we purchased
the building, USF brought the wreath to one of our campus barns, where it was completely refurbished with new lights for hanging last year,” Patterson said in an email. “During the summer of 2012, our Oper-ations Department replaced
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Night of Lights welcomeswreath at Saint Francis
Santa and his Reindeer lights from the historic Wolf & Dessauer store have found a seasonal home at the PNC Building. Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry will join Santa and his special guests at Main and Calhoun streets at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, to light up the display for the 2013 holiday season.
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NIGHT OF LIGHTSOn the evening of Nov. 27, around downtown Fort
Wayne, generations will flock to watch the return of Christmas icons.
Those highlights include: 5:15 p.m., History Center turret lighting, on Barr
Street; (Stay or return for a first look at the Festival of Gingerbread, for just $2. Special hours this evening are 5-9 p.m.)
5:30 p.m., USF Performing Arts Center Nativity and wreath lighting, on Berry Street;
5:45 p.m., Aunt Millie’s Northern Lights, on Pearl Street;
6 p.m., Community Center’s Santa’s Workshop dis-play, on Main Street;
6:15 p.m., Santa and his Reindeer lighting at PNC with Mayor Tom Henry, Santa and special guests, at Main and Calhoun streets;
6:45 p.m., Wells Fargo Happy Holidays display and Indiana Michigan Power Merry Christmas wreath, at Wayne and Calhoun streets;
7:15 p.m., Botanical Conservatory and animated holiday windows at the Embassy Theatre, on Harrison Street.
7:45 p.m., Parkview Field Fireworks, at Jefferson Boulevard and Webster Street.
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donated their time to hang the wreath.”
The wreath will be placed on the building during the week of Nov. 18.
The university commu-nity is excited about participating in the celebra-tion, Patterson said. “First of all, Christmas is very important. We’re a Cath-olic university; we’re a Franciscan university. And there are a lot of traditions that we kind of take for granted that are Franciscan, and one of those is the creche, and we are having a living Nativity.
“And that goes back
to Saint Francis in 1223, in Greccio, Italy, when he decided he wanted to know what it was like to be at Bethlehem, at the stable,” she said.
The celebration will place that Christian symbol at the heart of downtown, she said. “For us, when we purchased the Scottish Rite building, it was important to have that presence downtown, to let people know that we’re part of the community.”
The Christ Child Festival, which is indepen-dent from the university, will continue its fami-ly-centered event on Dec.
6, 7 and 8. For details, visit christchildfestival.com. The university plans a dozen other holiday events, including a separate Living Nativity at the campus on Leesburg Road. For details, visit sf.edu.
The university’s newest event joins a Thanks-giving Eve tradition that encompasses a half-dozen downtown locations. And USF is right on the route. “Because we’re downtown by Aunt Millie’s, people can just walk over to Aunt Millie’s and see the Northern Lights,” she said.
Frank Howard of the Downtown Improvement
District works with the many partners in the down-town Night of Lights.
“We’re really looking forward to this year, because we have a new partner in the University of Saint Francis and their Performing Arts Center,” said Howard, whose official title is director of marketing, environmental and business services.
Howard said the university recovered the wreath and placed it on the building last year as a trial run, without officially joining the lighting proces-sion. He commended the university’s work with the wreath. “Refur-bishment projects like that are always a lot of work that the community doesn’t see, but they’re always a benefit,” Howard said. Melissa Dunning, the senior director of marketing for Aunt
Millie’s Bakeries, said the familiar Northern Lights first were placed on the Pearl Street building in 2010. Dunning said the display used more than 63,000 light emitting diode lights. The lighted area of the building is about 41 feet high and 226 feet long.
In an email, Dunning described it as “truly a ‘green’ decoration.”
“It uses less than 15 amps of power,” she wrote. “Two hair dryers use more power than the entire display.” The display was designed and created by Yvonne Mateer of Y Light LLC.
Once again, the evening’s celebration ends with one of the brightest moments of the evening. Fireworks will light up the sky above Parkview Field for about 12 to 14 minutes, said Tony DesPlaines, the creative director for
the Fort Wayne TinCaps. That’s typical length for a Parkview fireworks show, he said. Admission is free.
“It’s one of the biggest downtown events of the year, and so we just like being a part of it and bringing people back to the ballpark and reminding them that we’re still here,” DesPlaines said. “And what better way than fire-works?” Concessions will be available. “We’ll have some small food items and hot chocolate and coffee,” DesPlaines said. The TinCaps have supported the downtown lighting for a few years, DesPlaines said. Team mascot Johnny TinCap is expected to join the spectators. “That might be one of his last events before we send him off for the offseason,” DesPlaines said.
Howard, of the Down-town Improvement District, works with Anita Homco, the coordinator of events and marketing.
Howard said the cele-bration unites “so many fantastic partners.”
“It’s really going well,” he said. “There are no egos when we build up this program,” Howard said. “Everybody just wants it to be the best it can be for the community, and every-body’s just gracious about the time schedule and the progression. Everybody just wants everybody to have a great crowd.”
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More than 63,000 LED lights will create a Northern Lights display 41 feet high and 226 feet long, on the Pearl Street side of Aunt Millie’s Bakeries. The display uses less than 15 amps of power.
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For almost 20 years now, the Stuff-A-Bus food and medicine drive has helped countless families in their time of need. Sponsored by 101.7 WLDE, this fund-raiser was started to help raise awareness for the need of food in our community.
“The generosity is overwhelming when you see some people who look as though they barely have a nickel to their name donate two bags of groceries to help others in need,” said Captain Chris, program director at WLDE, about the astonishing support from the community. Now in its 18th year, this event has generated more than 18,000 pounds of food.
This year the event takes place from Monday, Nov. 25, through Wednesday, Nov. 27. Donors can bring nonperish-able goods, as well as over-the-counter
medicine to any one of the three loca-tions from 5:30 a.m.- 7 p.m. Buses will be stationed at Georgetown Square, Pine Valley in front of the Rustic Hutch and Travel Leaders, and MidWest America Federal Credit Union on Bluffton Road. WLDE will be broadcasting live from the Georgetown location daily. After the event is over, all of the items collected will be donated to the Associated Churches of Fort Wayne and Allen County and the Franciscan Center’s Medicine Chest.
Volunteers are also needed to man the buses and collect food. To arrange volun-teering, contact the Associated Churches of Fort Wayne and Allen County at (260) 422-3528. “Just remember,” Captain Chris stated, “it could be you or I that needs help someday, so don’t overlook the opportu-nity to do your part and make a donation or volunteer. You’ll be glad you helped.”
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Fantasy of Lights tells stories in crisp LED
The four new displays added for 2013 will join favorites such as the “Peace on Earth” display at the Fantasy of Lights in the Franke Park woods.
The 32,000 LED bulbs get top billing at the Fantasy of Lights, but some of the thousands of visitors might argue that Nature plays a vital supporting role.
The 1.5-mile trail mean-ders through the Franke Park woods next to the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. The temperature can plummet and the grass can yield to snow in the weeks between Thanksgiving Eve and New Year’s Eve.
Volunteers from civic and school groups take turns accepting the $5-a-car fees and warming their hands in their pockets.
Some visitors park their cars and opt for carriage rides, and bundle up against the chill.
Steve Cornelius operates those carriage rides. For $25, visitors get a relaxed tour of the 61 individual displays. Visitors also get to take their hands off the steering wheel and their eyes off the dimmed tail-lights.
“There are bells on the wagon,” said Chris Palmer, who organizes volunteers for the sponsoring AWS Foundation. “And some-times Santa comes and rides and meets the kids.”
For many civic groups, the Fantasy of Lights is an annual project. The Time Corners Kiwanis Club and the Homestead High School Key Club will welcome visitors once again on Dec. 13.
The gates open at 6 each evening. “We ask volun-teers to be there by 5:45 p.m.,” Palmer said. “We want to get our volunteers acquainted with what they’ll be doing, safety vests, fl ashlights. The volunteers greet the cars, collect money and hand out brochures.”
About eight volunteers are needed each evening. Palmer said students from Bishop Dwenger High School and Concordia Lutheran High School frequently help to fi ll the ranks. As many as 12 volunteers are needed on the busier, weekend nights, Palmer said. Crews may work in shifts Sunday through Thursday, from 6-7:30 p.m. and from 7:30-9 p.m. Santa Claus suits and elf suits are avail-able.
“We still get quite a few visitors coming through after Christmas, and we usually get snow. It can be very pretty out there,” Palmer said.
Money helps the foun-dation to award grants to programs that benefi t people with disabilities, and their families. The goal is to help those individuals live as independently as possible.
“We have 61 individual displays,” said Lynne Gilmore, the AWS Foun-dation executive director. Sponsors purchase displays, and then pay an annual
sponsorship fee, to cover utilities, security, storage and maintenance.
“We converted to LED lights two years ago and last year was the fi rst time that absolutely everything was updated,” Gilmore said. “So it added crisp-ness and brilliance to the displays, and of course it was more energy-effi cient.”
“This event has become a family tradition for thou-sands of people in northeast Indiana,” Gilmore said. “Last year we had over 14,000 vehicles come through, which is incred-ible. In previous years, the highest was a little over 10,500.”
The total display now includes 31,928 light bulbs, plus several thousand feet of rope lighting.
“So we’ve seen atten-dance skyrocket, and I think part of it is the updated look to the displays,” Gilmore said. “We continue to add displays. We have four new displays this year. So there’s always a new reason for people to come out.”
FANTASY OF LIGHTS Franke Park, 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne. Nov.
27-Dec. 31. Opening night from 6-9 p.m. Closed Thanks-giving Day. Then, 6-9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 6-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission $5 for a car, $10 for a van, $25 for larger vehicles such as a bus, trol-ley or wagon. Drive through the park and see displays ranging from a Nativity scene to an animated rocking horse. Last year, more than 14,000 vehicles took the 1.5-mile drive through the park adjacent to the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo. The tour will feature 61 individual dis-plays, including four that have been added since 2012. All displays were switched to LED lighting two years ago, for energy-effi ciency and to make the visual ap-peal more crisp and brilliant. The show features 31,928 light bulbs and several thousand feet of rope lighting. Carriage rides can be reserved; call Steve Cornelius at (260) 691-3780. All proceeds benefi t the AWS Founda-tion. Since 1995, the Fantasy of Lights has raised almost $600,000 for grants for deserving organizations. For details, visit awsfoundation.org or call (260) 744-6145. Groups who would like to volunteer to collect fees and direct cars may call Chris Palmer at (260) 207-5769.
Healthy Times A10 • INfortwayne.com East Allen County Times • November 8, 2013
ER tailored to kids opensThe region’s only emer-
gency room exclusively for children opened Oct. 23 at Lutheran Children’s Hospital on the West Jefferson Boulevard campus.
The $2.4 million LCH ER spanning 7,108 square feet is next to Lutheran’s adult emergency room.
Administrators, employees, physicians and board members from Lutheran Hospital and Lutheran Children’s Hospital joined community leaders and children gath-ered to reveal kid-friendly lobby elements, to cut a paper chain made by children, and to peruse the recently completed pedi-atric ER.
“Not all emergency rooms are the same, Lutheran’s is now vastly different,” said Brian Bauer, CEO, Lutheran Hospital and CEO, Lutheran Health Network. “Most hospitals have some dedicated pediatric patient exam rooms, but those young patients are sometimes exposed to the unsettling sights and sounds of adult ER situations. We wanted to change that experience.”
The pediatric emer-gency department will be staffed 24/7 by two pedi-atrics-trained nurses and it
will be covered by physi-cians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants experienced with pediatric patients. The LCH ER also has a dedicated pediatric medical director.
A key factor for initi-ating the LCH ER project was the hospital’s aware-ness that children and adults often have different concerns and reactions when receiving emergency care.
Amenities include a separate waiting area, nursing station and seven private exam rooms. All exam rooms have televi-sions and DVD players, access to video games, a rocker recliner and size-ap-propriate equipment for pediatric patients.
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Hospital is located in-side Lutheran Hospital at 7950 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. Find information about visiting hours and pre-admission tours at lutheranchildren-shosp.com. Contact Lutheran Children’s Hospital at (260) 435-7337.
Mirro Center work begins at PRMCParkview leaders joined members of the community to
break ground on the Mirro Family Research and Educa-tion Center on the Parkview Regional Medical Center campus.
The new facility will be among just a few research and education centers in the United States that are affi liated with a not-for-profi t community hospital.
The Mirro Family Research and Education Center will be almost 82,000 square feet, with more than 90 rooms. The center’s work will focus on translational research, device and pharmaceutical clinical trials, and education
for medical professionals and their patients. The center will offer cutting-edge medical simulation, classrooms and more.
“The Mirro Center provides an opportunity that will open up new doors, giving patients access to new trials and research that could potentially revolutionize health care and save lives,” said Mike Packnett, president and CEO, Parkview Health. “The philanthropic actions of those in this community have made this a possibility and patients from around the region will forever benefi t from their altruistic actions.”
St. Joseph Hospital starts $5.9 million in renovationsLutheran Health
Network has announced the beginning of construc-tion for St. Joseph Hospital’s new $5.9 million surgical depart-ment renovation to update and enlarge OR suites and pre- and postoperative
areas.The project will also
include the remodeling of nursing stations and the replacement of surgical equipment. Scheduled to be completed late 2014, the 20,000-square-foot project will be conducted
in three phases as not to disrupt surgical care being administered. The fi rst phase will update half of the OR suites and support areas.
The overall renovation will improve workfl ow effi ciency. The operating
rooms will be redesigned to be larger so there will be fi ve OR suites rather than seven and one shelled out space for future expansion. The suites will feature new surgical lights and all new surgical equipment.
Brian Bauer, now offi -cially the chief executive offi cer of Lutheran Health Network, has been known to drop in, unannounced, at one of the network’s hospitals just to visit with patients and staff.
On one occasion, Bauer, the Lutheran Hospital CEO who acted as interim network CEO for four months, showed up on a weekend, dressed in shorts, and had a hard time persuading people he was who he said he was.
He doesn’t plan to change now that the LHN board has formally approved his selection as network CEO. “Having that opportunity to interact with patients and staff is very important to me,” Bauer said.
Bauer left his position as CEO of Terre Haute Regional Hospital to become Lutheran Hospi-tal’s CEO in June 2011. He replaced Joe Dorko, who left his dual role as both hospital and network
CEO to concentrate on the network position. Lutheran Health is owned by Community Health Systems Inc.
After Dorko moved on last June to become special projects CEO at Commu-nity Health, Bauer assumed the duties of the network job on top of his hospital role. He plans to continue doing both, as most of his predecessors have done.
His visits to the facilities in the network, including an affi liate in Hicksville, Ohio, have been his way of getting to know them better. “I understand how important they are to those communities, and I think that’s important for this role,” he said.
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photos, as visitors stroll through the lighted, deco-rated, indoor and outdoor gardens. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, and noon-4 p.m. Sunday. The conservatory is closed Monday. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children ages 3-17, and free to age 2 and under. For photos
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Dancing Holiday Lights. Foellinger-Frei-mann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St. Nov. 27-Dec. 26. Best viewed Thursday and Friday evenings, 5-8 p.m. Dress for the weather so you can enjoy the synchro-nized holiday lights set to music outdoors in the Terrace Garden. Walk under twinkling arches to enter a space of sound and holiday rhythm,
where instrumental and vocal treasures come to visual life as lighted spheres, trees, arches, and scrolls take up the beat. You might fi nd yourself dancing in the snowy night. The light show walk is included in regular Botanical Conservatory admission.
Christmas at the Fort. The Old Fort, 1201 Spy Run Ave. Saturday, Nov. 30, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Welcome the holidays with fun and festivities at Fort Wayne’s Historic
Old Fort. Jump in your car, hop on the Holly Trolley (sponsored by the Downtown Improve-ment District) or hitch up your sleigh and revel in a time when life was simpler with activities for the kids, period artisans with unique gifts for sale, a bake sale, and more. Warm up by the fi re at this unique seasonal event for all ages. Admission is free. Freewill donations accepted.
Breakfast With Santa. The Fudergong Building,
13720 First St., Grabill. Saturday, Dec. 7, 8-11 a.m. Pick up tickets in advance at Grabill Hardware or the Grabill General Store. Visit with Santa and Rudolph, and enjoy juice and dough-nuts. A face painter and a balloon artist will entertain inside, while children enjoy a ride on a miniature, trackless train outside.
Santa & the Reindeer. Foellinger-Freimann
Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St. Satur-days before Christmas, Dec. 7, 14 and 21, noon-4 p.m. Santa and two of his reindeer will greet the children while Mom and Dad take pictures to capture the moment. Explore the Conservatory in its holiday glory; this year’s theme is “A Fire-side Christmas.” Regular admission fees apply. Sponsored by PBS 39 and WAJI Majic 95.1.
New Haven will cele-brate Christmas with open houses, Santa and carriage rides on Friday, Dec. 6.
Santa will arrive by fi re truck at Canal Landing Park across from the old city building at 5:45 p.m. to light the city Christmas tree. Then he will travel to the Train Depot to meet with children and to hear their Christmas wishes, until 7:30 p.m.
Peter Franklin Jewelers, downtown at 507 Broadway St., will be host to an open house from 4-8 p.m. The gathering doubles as a New Haven Chamber of Commerce Meet Me @ 5 event. The downtown will hold a Christmas open house from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Children may visit Ruhl Furniture and Flooring at 501 Broadway St. to sign up for a chance to win a bicycle. Santa will visit Ruhl’s at 7:45 to draw the name of the winner.
Horse-drawn carriage rides will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m., also in front of Ruhl Furniture. Rides are free to the public, on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis. Free ornaments and refreshments will be avail-able at Power House Youth Center, 830 Main St., from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The public is invited to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and a cookie. Children may paint free, ceramic ornaments while supplies last.
Children in kindergarten through second grade are eligible for the Find the Snowman contest. Children may locate the snowman on any of the banners that will be posted along Broadway begin-ning Nov. 22. Pick up an entry form and register for the family prize package, which will include a family pass to Jury Swimming Pool in 2014. The drawing will be held at 7:45 p.m. Dec. 6, in front of Ruhl Furniture.
In other New Haven Christmas plans:
Wednesday, Dec. 11, marks the Senior Christmas Party at the
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Saturday, Dec. 14, marks the annual Pancake Break-fast with Santa. Hours are 8-10 a.m. The breakfast will be served at the Parks & Recreation Center, 1125 Hartzell St. The Masonic Lodge and the parks department are collabo-rating to offer this event. Santa will ride in on a fi re
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Visitors to the 28th annual Festival of Ginger-bread might marvel at how much work goes into each tiny gingerbread world.
For a perennial winner, the task takes months.
“Figure five months, plus we have several shall we say emergency meet-ings,” said Betty Olry, whose Creative Confec-tion Cake Club won the People’s Choice Award in the the Adult Group category at the 2012 festival. Festival judges also selected the club’s re-creation of the Embassy Theatre’s Festival of Trees for second place in the Adult Group category. The Embassy likeness also
received a special award, for its historical value.
The entry must rest on a board no larger than 24 inches by 28 inches. “So we went up; we had a balcony,” Olry said. “As soon as people looked at it, they knew it was Festival of Trees at the Embassy.”
Olry said the club also worked for months on the 2011 entry, a grandfa-ther’s clock and cat.
Sometimes the project requires more attention than the approximately 10 members can offer in the once-a-month, two-hour sessions at Country Kitchen. Olry described Country Kitchen as a sweet art store.
The central location serves club members from throughout the area. “Three of us live right here in good old downtown Waynedale,” Olry said. “The Country Kitchen works pretty well because some are way out north, and we hit every corner. And they are gracious enough to let us have their kitchen.” Olry said restaurant owners have been involved in the club in the past.
“Last year we had all the trees — we had 52 trees — so everyone took some gingerbread trees,” Olry said. “I made mine
out of gum paste. Some were made of gingerbread, or candy canes, so we had a variety. We took them home and decorated them at home.”
Olry said gingerbread creations in the adult group are not required to be completely edible. But Olry, who creates the templates, said she is used to professional baking, which does require edible creations. “So we worked very hard to have every-thing edible,” she said. “It was last year and it will be again this year. Actually, every year when I’ve done the templates, it’s been all edible.”
“The year before we did a grandfather’s clock that was all edible. It was three feet tall,” she said. “It was a hand-molded cat, and all the mice were hand-molded.”
The grandfather’s clock stood upright in her home kitchen for three months, she said.
Olry said she has been involved in the club for more than 20 years. “Golly, I had my grand-kids in it, and one is 24 years old,” Olry said. In all, she has been deco-rating for more than 30 years.
“I love to create and I
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28TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF GINGERBREAD
The History Center, 302 E. Berry St. Nov. 27-Dec. 15. Get a first look at the festival for just $2 from 5-9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, during the Night of Lights in down-town Fort Wayne. The festival officially opens Friday, Nov. 29. Fill out a slip to vote for the People’s Choice Award. Judges also will award three prizes in these categories: kindergarten-grade 2; grades 3-6, teen, adult, family and professional. The festival opens on the Night of Lights, Wednesday, Nov. 27, from 5-9 p.m. The exhibit and museum are closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28. The Festival of Gingerbread continues through Dec. 15. Special History Center hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 9-5 p.m. each Saturday, and noon-5 p.m. each Sunday. Admis-sion is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors 59 or older, $3 for stu-dents 3-18, and free for ages 2 and under. Children may listen to Christmas books being read, watch cookie dec-orating, or enjoy other special activities, all at no extra charge. Last year’s Festival of Gingerbread featured 123 gingerbread houses. Schools from Allen, Noble, La-Grange, Steuben and DeKalb counties are expected to participate, but schools from throughout the region are invited. For updates and details, visit the History Center website at fwhistorycenter.com, or call (260) 426-2882.
Gingerbread fest creationstake skill, months of work
The Creative Confection Cake Club’s re-creation of the Embassy Theatre Festival of Trees took first place in its category at the 2012 Festival of Gingerbread at The History Center.
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love doing the unusual, and I am a professional cake decorator, so it’s just another way to work with food,” said Olry, whose A Touch of Heaven work can be seen at cakesby-betty.com.
At the end of the festival, the group’s work probably will be donated. “We’ve done several
things,” Olry said. “I usually donate it to the festival, and it goes into a silent auction, and any money goes straight to the museum, and then whoever wins it takes it home and puts it on display in their home.
“We have also displayed it at the library on Dupont Road when
we have not put it in the silent auction.
“We also have taken it to Higher Grounds coffee-house in Leo, and it’s been on display there, too. We feel like it gets good use.”
Olry would not discuss the club’s 2013 entry, except to say, “It will be a big surprise.”
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High school stages play based on Shakespeare“I’ve always wanted to do a little
Shakespeare,” said Matt Derby.And, in his 30th year as New Haven
High School drama director, Derby got his chance.
“The Haunting of Will Shakespeare” filled the NHHS Auditeria stage for two performances on Nov. 2 and 3.
“I chose this play because I was looking for something that would match our kids,” he said. It’s not just a comedy, he explained, but “a blend of parody and Shakespeare, and a good fit for the students we have this year.”
Derby offered this description:“The NHHS cast is looking forward
to presenting this fun parody of some of Shakespeare’s most famous works.
“The witches of Macbeth are trapped in the woods and cannot escape unless they can find someone to immortalize them in writing. They discover William Shake-speare who at this point in his life wants to be an actor. The witches decide to call upon spirits to haunt Will into becoming a playwright. Some of the most famous characters do their best to impress on Will the need to write. Hamlet and Ophelia, Petruchio and Kate, Juliet, and Bottom, Starveling, and Flute are some of the characters drawn into this haunt.”
Thomas Mian portrayed Will. Other cast members were: Jerrica Kart, Jocelyn Chilcote, Megan Emmons, Sierra Clevenger, Brooke Mayer, Makayla Moering, Amy Rowland, Pyay Thu, Daniel Romary, Kali Alexander, Hayley Reynolds, Tim McCartney, Meredith Lancaster, Maryann Beck, Michelle Same, Emily Ream, Ashton Doctor, Myresha Brook and Abi Wilson.
Some of his best-known characters urge a young William Shakespeare to immortalize them in writing, in “The Haunting of Will Shakespeare” on the New Haven High School stage. The characters include Ophelia (Hayley Reynolds), left, Will Shakespears (Thomas Mian), and Hamlet (Daniel Romary).
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HOLIDAY GIFT EXTRAVAGANZAExperience the charm of Roanoke with a stroll through our festive small town. Merchants will open their
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SATURDAY, NOV. 9Benefi t for the family of Bill Shannon. 469 Sports & Spirits, 1324 Minnich Road, New Haven. 5-9:30 p.m. Free admission. Shannon, the longtime body shop manager of Crumback Chevrolet, died recently, soon after his diagnosis of cancer. Friends are raising money to help his family with the unexpected cost. Shannon was an avid Harley-Davidson enthusiast, well known in the biker community for his paint jobs and restoration work. The fundraiser will include raffl es, a 50/50 drawing, and food and beverages. This is is a 21-and-over facility. If you cannot attend and would like to make a donation, visit or call Crumback Chevrolet, (260) 749-9674. Shannon, 66, of Convoy, Ohio, died Oct. 11.Allen County Council of Veterans hosts Veterans Day parade and ceremony. Line up at 10 a.m. at State Street and Parnell Avenue. The parade route line up along Parnell Avenue. At 11 a.m., the parade will step off toward the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. Find a regis-tration form at accov.org.Harvest of Talents. Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church, 10145 Mays-ville Road. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free admission. Craft items and homemade goodies available for purchase. Auction items include a week’s stay in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Proceeds go to support Our Mission to a Hurting World. Volunteers and more auction items are welcome. Contact the church at (260) 749-8597.Craft fair. Bishop Dwenger High School gymnasium, 1300 E. Washington Center Road. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Public welcome. Admission free. Proceeds from the craft fair benefi t the music program at Bishop Dwenger High School. Nelson’s Chicken also will be available at this event.Pancake breakfast. VFW Post 857, 2202 W. Main St., Fort Wayne. 8 a.m.-11 a.m. $5 for adults, $3 for children, or $10 for all you can eat. Because all food is donated, and volunteers provide the labor, all revenue goes to the fi ght against pancreatic cancer. The eighth annual Pancakes for Pan-creatic Cancer is held in memory of Ron Gutmann. A silent auction and raffl e also will be available.“9 to 5: The Musical.” Arts United Center, 303 E. Main St., Fort Wayne. 8 p.m. The Fort Wayne Civic Theatre presents the story of three female co-workers who are pushed to the boiling point by their sexist boss. They conspire to take control of the company. The musical features a score by Dolly Parton and characters from the fi lm. Tickets are $26 for adults, $22 for Sunday senior matinees, and $15 for age 23 and under. Buy tickets and watch for future productions at fwcivic.org. Or call (260) 424-5220. Visit the box offi ce from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Friday, or from noon-4 p.m. Saturday, in front of the Arts United Center. Remaining performances are: Sunday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 17, 2 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.; and Sunday,
Nov. 24, 2 p.m.SUNDAY, NOV. 10Monroeville Auxiliary Thanksgiving Dinner. Monroeville American Legion Post 420, 112 E. South St., Monroeville. 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Choose turkey or beef, and the customary side dishes. Adults, $7; children 5-12, $5; chil-dren 4 and under eat free.
TUESDAY, NOV. 12Property tax bills due. Allen County Chief Deputy Treasurer William Royce reminds everyone that payments must be in the Treasurer’s Offi ce or postmarked by Nov. 12 to avoid penalty. Visit the post offi ce at Suite 104 of the Rousseau Centre (City-County Building), 1 E. Main St., Fort Wayne. Please bring the entire statement when paying in person. Hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. The deposit in front of the Treasurer’s Offi ce is open 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mail to: Allen County Treasurer, P.O. Box 2450, Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2540. Check the Treasurer’s web site, allencountytreasurer.us, for information about paying by credit card, single electronic payment or signing up for the monthly payment plan or the spring/fall payment option. Follow the links on the home page.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13
Bishop Luers open house. Bishop Luers High School, 333 E. Paulding Road. Registration begins at 6 p.m., and the open house begins at 6:30 p.m. All interested families are welcome to attend. Browse through information about courses. Opportunities also will be available to gather information about clubs, sports and more. Register for the open house by visiting bishopluers.org. For more information, visit the admissions offi ce or call (260) 456-1261, ext. 3008.Holiday Shopping Bazaar. Leo United Methodist Church Preschool. 13527 Leo Road. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Handmade gifts and crafts and other vendors, such as Pampered Chef and Tupperware. Lunch is available for purchase from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Other goodies will be available for purchase. Coffee, tea and hot chocolate will be available all day. The bazaar is sponsored by the preschool.“In The Mood.” Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $49. A fully staged tribute to Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and the Big Band greats of the ’40s. Visit the Embassy box offi ce or buy tickets online at fwembassytheatre.org or through Ticketmaster.
SATURDAY, NOV. 16Euchre Knight. Bishop Luers Cafe’, 3300 E. Paulding Road. Doors open at 6 p.m., euchre begins at 7. $15 per person, or donate an item for the LuersKnight auction. Cash prizes awarded. Reserve a spot by emailing Angie Brown at [email protected], or call Kathy Skelly at (260) 456-1261, ext. 3142.
SUNDAY, NOV. 17Kids Against Hunger. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 405 W. Wayne St.. Purdue Wind Ensemble. IPFW Campus, Auer Hall at the Rhinehart Music Center, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. 2 p.m. Admission is free. The 64-mem-ber Purdue ensemble under the direction of Jay Gephart will partner with Concordia Lutheran High School musicians.
THURSDAY, NOV. 21“Murder on the Nile.” Leo Jr./Sr. High School Auditeria, 14600 Amstutz Road, Leo. 7 p.m. The Leo Drama Department presents a play based on a book by Agatha Christie. Tickets will be available at the door. Other performances are at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, and Saturday, Nov. 23.
FRIDAY, NOV. 22Fall instrumental concert. Concordia Lutheran High School auditorium, 1601 St. Joe River Drive. 7 p.m. A free-will offering will be taken. The CLHS Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band, and the Lutheran Elementary Bands, will perform.
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Submit your Community Calendar itemsPublicize your event through InFortWayne.com and Times Community Publications. Submit your calendar entries online, or email [email protected], or call (260) 426-2640, ext. 321. Please submit your items by Dec. 4 to ensure publication in the Dec. 13 edition of the East Allen County Times.
SATURDAY, NOV. 23Three Rivers Choral Festival. IPFW Rhinehart Music Center, 2101 E. Col-iseum Blvd. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. An all-day choral festival for high school choirs. The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir Youth Choir also will par-ticipate. A public concert will be presented at 4 p.m. at the Rhinehart Recital Hall. IPFW students with ID will be admitted free. Tickets are $7 for adults, $6 for seniors (60 and older), and $4 for non-IPFW stu-dents. Children age 10 or younger are admitted free. The IPFW Music Department and the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir are the hosts for the event. David Rayl, the director of choral activities at Michigan State University, will be the guest clinician and will work with each visiting choir, and with a combined choral piece for the culminating concert. The IPFW University Singers will perform in the concert, along with choirs in attendance performing several of their own works. For information, call the IPFW Box Offi ce at (260) 481-6555 or visit ipfw.edu/music.Surviving the Holidays. Leo United Methodist Church, 13527 Leo Road, Leo-Cedarville. 10 a.m.-noon. A special GriefShare seminar for those who are grieving the loss of someone close this year. This two-hour meeting is for those who are not looking forward to a different holiday this year. Call 627-2580 for reservations or information.
SUNDAY, NOV. 24“Christmas Movie Memories.” Huber Opera House, 157 E. High St., Hicksville, Ohio. 3 p.m. Free. The Summit City Singers present fami-ly-friendly songs from movies such as “Elf,’ “Lemon Drop Kid,” “The Polar Express,” “White Christmas,” “Holiday Inn,” “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Christmas Vacation.” The Summit City Singers is a commu-nity choir with approximately 60 members from Fort Wayne and sur-rounding communities. The choir sings a variety of SATB music. Judy King directs the Summit City Singers.
THURSDAY, NOV. 28Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The church invites anyone who does not have plans for Thanksgiving dinner to join the group for dinner. All are welcome. Questions may be directed to the church offi ce, 749-9565.Galloping Gobbler. A 4-mile run and walk begins at 8:30 a.m. at Hutzell Athletic Center on the campus of the University of St. Francis, and continues through Lindenwood Cemetery and back to campus. The 15k Towpath Run begins at 8 a.m., at Towpath Trail off West Jefferson Bou-levard, then along the trail to Rockhill Park, across Jefferson Boulevard, and then merges with the 4-mile route. Register at veepraces.com. More than 4,000 runners are expected to participate. The Merge, Christian singles group. Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church, 10145 Maysville Road. 6-11 p.m. $5. A potluck dinner, games and a DJ for dancing, plus ice-breakers to allow Christian singles to get together. The last Saturday of every month, from 6-11 p.m. Locations vary.
