Shrine Circus expects 10,000 schoolchildren By Garth Snow [email protected]After decades of long hours working with elephants and clowns, Steve Trump still isn’t tempted to run away from the circus. That doesn’t mean that the job is easy, said the Pierceton businessman and director of the Mizpah Shrine Circus. It just means that the circus is worth- while. The circus will perform seven public shows Jan. 22-25 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. 2015 Marks Mizpah Shrine’s 69th circus, and the 26th year that the Tarzan Zerbini Circus will trade the Big Top for the winter comfort of the big roof. It marks Trump’s 31st year as a volunteer and sixth as director. For 10,000 schoolchil- dren, though, it might mean their first glimpse of the animals and acrobats. Schools from throughout northeast Indiana are invited to bring students to free shows Thursday and Friday mornings. Trump said that number will be higher this year because the weather made it impossible for so many schools to attend the circus last year. Each school decides which class will attend the circus. Kosciusko County sends its third-graders, for instance, Times Community Publications 3306 Independence Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46808 January 9, 2015 Serving Northeast Fort Wayne & Allen County INSIDE THIS ISSUE Classifieds............................................................................ A11 Community Calendar ...................................................A14-15 Health & Wellness............................................................ A5-7 School News .........................................................A2, 5, 9, 12 INfortwayne.com www.dickys21 taps.com 2910 Maplecrest Rd. VISIT US TODAY! 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She served at Wolf Lake UMC southwest of Albion, at Trinity UMC in Albion, then at a church in coastal St. Marys, Ga., before returning to northeast Indiana and serving at Forest Park UMC on Kentucky Avenue in Fort Wayne. In an interview, Ginder described her journey through the ministry as a succession of callings. “It was something that I’d wanted to do since I was a child, but in those days girls didn’t become pastors,” she said. “As a matter of fact, I was told I could become a pastor’s wife but couldn’t become a pastor. So it was something that was in the back of my mind for many, many years. Then it just seemed like the doors to that position just opened and other things closed.” She married Donald Lee “Rocky” Ginder in 1984, at Indian Village UMC near Cromwell. “My husband owned a farm just around the curve from that little church, and that’s where we were going to live and that’s where we were married,” she said. “My husband was the Sparta Township trustee, and his office was in our home,” she said. “So nightly there would be people coming to our home, more often than not young women with young kids. And they were being evicted from their homes, or they had no coats, or no running water.” “We had just adopted two little boys and I finally understood the responsi- bility of motherhood, so it really hit me hard when the The Rev. Brenda Ginder shares a Christmas Eve message with Forest Park United Methodist Church. She made no mention that it was her final service at the Kentucky Avenue church. PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW CIRCUS INFO Mizpah Shrine Circus, Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, 1 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. Tickets $12 to $20. Some discounts available. Call (260) 422-7122, visit the ticket office at 1015 Memorial Way in Fort Wayne, or buy online at mizpahshrinecircus. com. Singer to ‘bridge worlds’ with choir in Fort Wayne By Garth Snow [email protected]When the 75-voice St. Olaf Choir visits Fort Wayne in February, senior Kirsten Overdahl hopes to share something remark- able about her hometown. The choir will visit Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Minneapolis and 12 other cities between Jan. 24 and Feb. 15. “In many of those places, a choir member will be in their home- town,” Overdahl said. “So it’s going to be bridging a lot of different worlds and bringing people together.” Overdahl will get her chance to celebrate her hometown on Feb. 12, when the mixed-voice, a cappella choir sings a 7:30 p.m. concert at First Pres- byterian Church. “I’m excited to point out the buildings that we’ll drive by,” she said. “But in the past couple of years it has become very important to me that Fort Wayne is a very community-oriented place. We’re moving onward and upward and we’re nurturing values for our community. And I’m very proud of that, and that’s something that I want to share with our choir.” Overdahl said she had looked forward to joining the choir even before its concert at First Presbyte- rian in 2010. “I had grown up hearing the recordings of the choir, because my parents also graduated from St. Olaf,” she said. Her father, Michael, graduated from the four- Senior Kirsten Overdahl of Fort Wayne wears her choir robe for a photo provided by St. Olaf College. The 75-voice choir will perform in Fort Wayne on Feb. 12. COURTESY PHOTO See BIDS, Page A11 See CIRCUS, Page A2 See CHOIR, Page A10
After decades of long hours working with elephants and clowns, Steve Trump still isn’t tempted to run away from the circus.
That doesn’t mean that the job is easy, said the Pierceton businessman and director of the Mizpah Shrine Circus. It just means that the circus is worth-while.
The circus will perform seven public shows Jan. 22-25 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. 2015 Marks Mizpah Shrine’s 69th circus, and the 26th year that the Tarzan Zerbini Circus will trade the Big Top for the winter comfort of the big roof. It marks Trump’s 31st year as a volunteer and sixth as director.
For 10,000 schoolchil-dren, though, it might mean their first glimpse of the animals and acrobats. Schools from throughout northeast Indiana are invited to bring students to
free shows Thursday and Friday mornings. Trump said that number will be higher this year because the weather made it impossible for so many schools to attend the circus last year. Each school decides which class will attend the circus. Kosciusko County sends its third-graders, for instance,
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The Rev. Brenda Ginder closed her 20-year career in the ministry with the Christmas Eve service at Forest Park United Meth-odist Church.
She made no mention of her past or of her future as she guided the congre-gation’s attention to their reason for singing hymns that rainy evening. Enjoy the season, she said, but always look beyond the flowers and candles, to the cross.
Ginder founded Noble House in Albion before entering the ministry. She served at Wolf Lake UMC southwest of Albion, at Trinity UMC in Albion, then at a church in coastal St. Marys, Ga., before returning to northeast Indiana and serving at Forest Park UMC on Kentucky Avenue in Fort Wayne.
In an interview, Ginder described her journey through the ministry as a succession of callings. “It was something that I’d
wanted to do since I was a child, but in those days girls didn’t become pastors,” she said. “As a matter of fact, I was told I could become a pastor’s wife but couldn’t become a pastor. So it was something that was in the back of my mind for many, many years. Then it just seemed like the doors to that position just opened and other things closed.”
She married Donald Lee
“Rocky” Ginder in 1984, at Indian Village UMC near Cromwell. “My husband owned a farm just around the curve from that little church, and that’s where we were going to live and that’s where we were married,” she said.
“My husband was the Sparta Township trustee, and his office was in our home,” she said. “So nightly there would be
people coming to our home, more often than not young women with young kids. And they were being evicted from their homes, or they had no coats, or no running water.”
“We had just adopted two little boys and I finally understood the responsi-bility of motherhood, so it really hit me hard when the
The Rev. Brenda Ginder shares a Christmas Eve message with Forest Park United Methodist Church. She made no mention that it was her final service at the Kentucky Avenue church.
PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW
CIRCUS INFOMizpah Shrine Circus, Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m.Friday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 24, 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.Sunday, Jan. 25, 1 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.Tickets $12 to $20. Some discounts available. Call (260) 422-7122, visit the ticket office at 1015 Memorial Way in Fort Wayne, or buy online at mizpahshrinecircus.com.
When the 75-voice St. Olaf Choir visits Fort Wayne in February, senior Kirsten Overdahl hopes to share something remark-able about her hometown.
The choir will visit Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Minneapolis and 12 other cities between Jan. 24 and Feb. 15.
“In many of those places, a choir member will be in their home-town,” Overdahl said. “So it’s going to be bridging a lot of different worlds and bringing people together.”
Overdahl will get her chance to celebrate her hometown on Feb. 12, when the mixed-voice, a cappella choir sings a 7:30 p.m. concert at First Pres-byterian Church.
“I’m excited to point out the buildings that
we’ll drive by,” she said. “But in the past couple of years it has become very important to me that Fort Wayne is a very community-oriented place. We’re moving onward and upward and we’re nurturing values for our community. And I’m very proud of that, and that’s something that I want to share with our choir.”
Overdahl said she had looked forward to joining the choir even before its concert at First Presbyte-rian in 2010. “I had grown up hearing the recordings of the choir, because my parents also graduated from St. Olaf,” she said. Her father, Michael, graduated from the four-
Senior Kirsten Overdahl of Fort Wayne wears her choir robe for a photo provided by St. Olaf College. The 75-voice choir will perform in Fort Wayne on Feb. 12.
COURTESY PHOTO
See BIDS, Page A11 See CIRCUS, Page A2
See CHOIR, Page A10
At least 3 winter guards to share Carroll previewBy Garth [email protected]
The joy of Christmas cannot be contained by a calendar, according to the Carroll High School winter guard. So in mid-January, the community is invited to enjoy “A Christmas Carroll.”
“We want to take the good things about Christmas — the joy, the kindness — and celebrate it year-round,” said guard co-director Erica Widmer. “And we’re spelling it like Carroll High School, with two R’s and two L’s, and kind of playing off our name.”
The guard invites the public to enjoy a preview show at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in the school field house at 3701 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne. Admis-sion is free; donations will
be accepted.The Heritage and
Bishop Dwenger high school winter guards have confirmed that they will perform that same evening at Carroll.
“The kids don’t get to see each other perform very often because of our sched-ules,” Widmer said. “So it’s a time to hang out together and cheer each other on. We did it last year, too, and we had a lot of fun.”
The list of participating guards might increase as other schools accept Carroll’s invitation.
Widmer also is guard director at Heritage High School. Most area winter guards are among the 42 groups from throughout the state that will perform at the Heritage winter guard festival on Jan. 31.
Most also will be back at Carroll again Feb. 28.
Widmer said 62 schools so far have confirmed that they will perform at the Carroll festival. “So it will be a big show,” she said. “It’s the last week before state prelims. So it’s the last chance to see each other before the process of making state finals.”
Widmer shares the Carroll directing duties with Geoff Goelz. She also choreographs and designs the winter guard show at East Noble High School.
Widmer described the color guard that takes the field during marching band season as “the visual repre-sentation of the music.”
“And winter guard is similar, but we’re inside in a gym performing to prere-corded music,” she said.
The 19 members of the Carroll winter guard were rehearsing long before Christmas. “We had a
long rehearsal yesterday,” Widmer said on the first Saturday of the winter break.
The guard has new costumes this season. “They’re really pretty, red-sequined, full-length body suits that have a red velvet skirt,” she said. The uniforms are not Santa costumes, she said, but will evoke thoughts of Santa and Christmas.
“A Christmas Carroll” is told in three parts. Recorded vocals will share “Christmas Waltz” in the voice of Michael W. Smith and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” sung by Michael Buble. “We also have some voice-overs,” Widmer said. “The members of the guard sing what Christmas means to them — family, cookies, kindness — and the members’ own voices are recorded and they’re over-lapping,” she said.
She said the Heritage show is about the stages of life that girls experience. “So it’s the toddler, then teenager, then adult stage, and our tarp is cut into the shape of the female symbol with the cross,” Widmer said. The costumes are “pinks and purples, very girly,” she said.
Heritage music director Jim Widmer said at least 500 guard members will be among the 2,000 to 3,000 people visiting the school at 13608 Monroeville Road, Monroeville. “We have a young guard this year. We’re excited to see what they can do,” he said. “They have a lot of talent and I think they’re going to have a really good year.”
At nearby Woodlan High
School, new winter guard director Lindsay Hoffman said the guard will present “If You Really Knew Me” at the Heritage festival.
“The show is about cyberbullying, so the students will be dressed up in school uniforms. Its’ very thought-provoking,” Hoffman said.
“Winter guard is a chance for our color guard during the [marching band] off-season to come out and show their skills without the actual band,” Hoffman said. “They have music, they have drills, they have routines. But there’s no band behind them.” Like color guard, the winter guard might carry flags, sabres or rifles.
Hoffman is a graduate of Woodlan, where she partic-ipated in marching band for five years and winter guard for three years. She has been working with the band since 2012.
“I have a great staff and it’s going to be a great show,” Hoffman said.
Other local winter guard festivals will be held: Jan. 24 at DeKalb High School, 3424 County Road 427, Waterloo; and Feb. 21 at Bishop Dwenger High School, 1300 E. Wash-ington Center Road, Fort
Wayne. The admission price at most festivals is $6. For starting times and an updated list of participating schools, visit ihscga.org. Click on a school’s name to see that winter guard’s full schedule.
Area schools with winter guards this year include: Bishop Dwenger, Carroll, Columbia City, Concordia, DeKalb, East Noble, Heritage, Homestead, Huntington North, New Haven, Northrop, North-wood, Snider and Wayne.
The Homestead High School winter guard numbers 28 this season, guard director Jonathan Meader said. That number includes six seniors.
“We’re letting the show develop,” Meader said during the winter break. The guard will move to the music of the group The Civil Wars, including “Dust to Dust” and “The One That God Away.”
The guard will invite the community to a showcase at a date to be determined. Watch for updates at spar-tanallianceband.com.
Last year’s guard placed third in the state finals.
State competitions begin March 7, and are separated into classes. The season ends March 21.
and Whitley County sends its seventh-graders. They will join circus specta-tors from Allen, DeKalb, Noble, LaGrange, Steuben, Elkhart, Fulton, Wabash, Huntington, Grant, Adams and Wells counties and points south.
“I never get tired of it,” Trump said. “I mean for a month or so while I’m trying to do my job while I’m doing the circus, it’s like ‘Why am I doing this?’ But then I see everyone working together and I know why I’m doing this. Seeing the guys selling tickets. They’re all volun-teers. It doesn’t cost me, except some food and that’s about it. Otherwise
they show up every day. And it’s neat to see the camaraderie.”
Volunteers staff a ticket office inside the Shrine Center on Memorial Way, between Clinton Street and Parnell Avenue. The Shrine also keeps a ticket office within the nearby Coliseum.
“Those guys are so eager to help [the public],” Trump said. “If you see anybody come in the front door you’ll see two or three guys go to the window at the same time.”
The circus office opened after Thanksgiving. Begin-ning in January, hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tickets also are available online, at mizpahshrine-circus.com.
“Internet sales have gone much higher,” Trump said. “Sales are way ahead of last year, and we do have some tickets to certain shows that we are shocked at how fast they are going.”
As usual, the Shrine Circus Fair will welcome guests in the Coliseum basement. Visitors will see circus animals and domes-ticated animals. Admission is free. Charges apply for treats, souvenirs, face-painting, the petting zoo, and car and pony rides.
Profits from the circus go toward Shrine opera-tions. Payments are not deductible as a charitable contribution.
Shriners support chil-dren’s hospitals in Chicago, Cincinnati and nationwide, and transport the young patients to those hospitals without charge.
The Tarzan Zerbini Circus begins its annual travels each January in Fort Wayne. Trump said the troupe just completed the 2014 tour at Thanksgiving. The 2015 show is still taking shape. Find photos, updates and a virtual tour of the circus at tzproduc-tions.com.
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GUARD FESTIVALSHigh school winter guard festivals in northeast Indiana. For details of this events, other festivals, and the schedule for the state competition, visit ihscga.org.Jan. 24, DeKalb High School, 3424 County Road 427, Wa-terloo. Admission $6.Jan. 31, Heritage High School, 13608 Monroeville Road, Monroeville. Admission $6.Feb. 21, Bishop Dwenger High School, 1300 E. Washing-ton Center Road, Fort Wayne. Admission $6.Feb. 28, Carroll High School, 3701 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne. Admission $6.
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Terry R. Ward, chief operating officer of KPC Media Group Inc., has been promoted to chief executive officer of the northeast Indiana-based firm, effective Jan. 1.
The Dec. 19 announce-ment came from Terry G. Housholder, president, publisher and CEO of KPC Media Group. Housholder, 62, who has worked for the Witwer family-owned company since high school, has been KPC’s CEO since 2001. At his request, Housholder is taking the role of senior executive over content strategy for the company. He will continue as president and publisher.
“I am very pleased to be handing over the reins of our company’s leader-ship to Terry Ward, who
is a seasoned newspa-perman with strong digital management experience,” Housholder said. “He has the skills, enthusiasm and commitment to move us forward as we strive to better serve our communi-ties.”
Ward, 42, joined KPC as vice president of sales, digital and marketing in November 2012. In May 2013, he was named chief operating officer for KPC. In addition to his role as CEO, Ward was promoted to publisher of the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly and the Times Community Publications.
Ward, his wife, Quinn, and three young children, live at Waldron Lake near Rome City.
“This is such an exciting time for KPC,” said Terry Ward. “With our recent acquisitions and the new
products and staff we have added, KPC is growing by leaps and bounds at a time when most newspaper companies are shrinking. I credit the strong visionary leadership of Terry Housh-older and the board of directors for the success and extraordinary growth KPC has experienced. I take on this new role with an great appreciation for the support and enthu-siasm this family-owned company offers to the communities it serves and I will continue to honor that tradition.”
A native of Oklahoma,
Ward started his career as a reporter in high school at his hometown newspaper in Chickasha. He previ-ously was the director of sales and digital for Gate-House Media’s Community Newspaper Division where he worked in a leadership capacity with publishers, advertising directors, sales managers and their teams representing 142 publica-tions and related digital portfolios at 72 operating locations in 11 states.
Housholder first went to work at KPC in 1969 as a sports writer. He attended Indiana Universi-ty-Purdue University Fort Wayne, served two years in the U.S. Army and then returned to KPC. From 1974-79, he was a reporter for The News Sun. He was managing editor of The News Sun from 1979-2001. He has been CEO of KPC
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KPC Media Group has been locally owned since its founding in 1911. Along with a weekly business newspaper, it publishes three daily newspapers, five weekly newspapers, one semi-weekly newspaper, four community oriented monthly newspapers in Allen County, a bimonthly family magazine, phone books and real estate guides. The company also has commercial design, printing and direct mail divisions and offers expanded digital services.
Local advocates for people with disabilities applauded a landmark federal cause to reform assistance for the disabled by providing savings accounts for medical and living needs.
“This is probably the second-biggest thing Congress has done since the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990,” said David Nelson, president and CEO of the League for the Blind and Disabled in Fort Wayne.
President Obama signed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 into law on Dec. 19 as part of legislation to extend expiring tax credits for indi-viduals and businesses. The ABLE bill reached his desk after winning overwhelming bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate.
The measure amends the Internal Revenue Code for states to establish programs that let residents with disabilities set up tax-free
accounts similar to section 529 college-saving plans, according to language
in the measure.Eligibility for the
accounts includes those under 26 years old who are considered legally blind or diagnosed with a phys-ical or mental disability that results in severe and continued functional limita-tion, or whose blindness or disability entitles them to Social Security benefits, the bill states.
The accounts are intended to be used to help people with disabilities and their families save money to pay for expenses related to that disability, such as health care, education, transportation, employment support and housing.
Up to $14,000 can be deposited into an ABLE account annually under gift-tax rules. Account holders would not lose their
benefits through Social Security, Medicaid, private insurance or other sources.
The accounts have an asset limit of $100,000. Those who exceed that amount would have their supplemental security income benefits suspended, though Medicaid would not be affected, according to the act.
That’s a huge change from the current rules where the asset limit for supple-mental security income has been $2,000. Any more than that and benefits get cut off.
Nelson sees this as an important victory.
“The limitations have kept people with disabilities in poverty,” he said.
He believes the ABLE Act will break that cycle by allowing the disabled to confidently save the money they need for important uses.
The ABLE Act cleared the House, 404-17, on Dec. 3 before it was attached to the tax credit extension measure. Northeast Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, both voted for it and
was one of the House’s 380 cosponsors.
“For many of our vulnerable neighbors and friends, this legislation will be a wonderful help and is exactly the type of bi-partisan reform that our constituents expect from their elected officials.” Stutzman said in a state-ment.
The Senate subsequently passed the measure by a 76-16 margin with Indiana’s senators split. Democrat Joe Donnelly stood with the majority, while Republican Dan Coats voted against the bill.
What comes next is giving states time to launch the program. Indiana has only just begun to work on the issue.
“As this is very recently passed legislation, we are still evaluating what steps need to be taken to imple-ment the ABLE Act here in Indiana in the New Year,” Jim Gavin, a spokesperson for the state Family and Social Services Adminis-tration wrote in an emailed statement.
Sports, Lake & Cabin Show adds ziplineThe Outdoor Sports,
Lake & Cabin Show will mark its sixth year Friday to Sunday, Jan. 23-25, at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave.
For the first time, brave visitors can zipline from almost three stories high and soar over a 25,000-gallon kayak lagoon.
Showgoers will be able to take flights, and fish in two stocked ponds, as part of a fundraiser set up for the Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Chapter — a nonprofit that raises money to honor World War II mili-tary veterans by sending them on a one-day,
all-expense-paid trip to Washington. D.C., to visit the war memorials.
Honor Flight represen-tatives will be at the the three-day show, hosting presentations and taking applications from fami-lies of living World War II, Korean and Vietnam War veterans. Show admission for active military or veterans is half off — $5— and military families can zipline and fish for free from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25.
New show features include chainsaw wood-carving demonstrations (and auction for the honor flights), an inflat-able BB gun range and
a concert on Sunday. And for the first time, Schnelker Marine Focus Powersports will display and have official Bass Pro Shop catalog prod-ucts on-site for purchase.
An amateur lumber-jack competition will feature local military branches competing against one another at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. The STIHL Timberworks Lumber-jack Show, as seen on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” Discovery Channel’s “The Trav-elers” and MTV’s “The Real World” and “Road Rules,” will return to entertain audiences by speed climbing
poles 45-feet high, axe throwing, log rolling, and sawing. Shows are set for 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 8 p.m. Friday; 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturday; and 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
More than 100 outdoor exhibitors will fill the space with a wide range of sporting goods and services related to: biking, hiking, camping and fitness, hunting and fishing, boats and water sports, vacation and travel, recreational vehicles and motorsports, cottage living and more.
“It’s a great way for the whole family to break away from feeling cooped up at home, and
instead, re-create the great outdoors under one roof,” said David Marquart, the director of operations for Coliseum Productions. “While the drab winter might keep us inside more, our show helps motivate people to be active and start plan-ning for their outdoor adventures.”
Cost is $10 for adults and valid for re-ad-mission all weekend. Children 12 and under are free. Two-dollar discount coupons are available on Sportsand-CabinShow.com, and at Fort Wayne area Gander Mountain and Dick’s Sporting Goods stores prior to the show.
Enrollment at Indiana Tech Law School grew this year as the program defies a trend of declining student numbers at other law schools nationwide.
“We’re bucking the trend, and it’s good,” said andre pond cummings, the interim dean.
The school initially had hoped to enroll 100 students in its first year, however, and it is still well off that annual level.
A total of 60 students are now enrolled at the $16-million law school on East Washington Boulevard in Fort Wayne, he said. That means the number of students who took final exams to wrap up this fall semester was more than double the year before when the program began.
Thirty-five students make up the new class of
freshmen who started the 2014-15 academic year. They include graduate students from Princeton University, Penn State and Indiana University.
They join 25 second-year students at the campus. All of the students in that class who finished their first year in May returned to the school when classes began in August, cummings pointed out.
Median scores from the Law School Application Test, or LSAT, are also up with the new freshman class.
“Those are very positive trends in an environment where law school appli-cations and law school enrollments continue to decrease,” cummings said.
Nearly 40,000 first-year students were enrolled in American Bar Associa-tion-accredited law schools for the fall 2013 semester, according to figures on the
Law School Admission Council’s website. The number was down nearly 11 percent from the fall 2012 semester, and down 24 percent from 2010. Applications also fell steadily between 2010 and 2014.
Indiana Tech Law School is not an accredited law school at this time since the program is in just its second year. Administrators are working to achieve that status, and they face a crit-
ical test to do so in 2015.As part of the accredi-
tation process, cummings said ABA members visited the campus last summer to inspect the school. Their final report was then deliv-ered by mid-December, and a period of 30 days was allowed for the school to respond to any errors.
The school noted a few inaccuracies in the 86-page report and will respond, cummings said, but he felt the report was good overall.
After that, cummings, incoming dean Charles Cercone and Indiana Tech president Arthur Snyder plan to appear before the accreditation committee in Chicago in April to discuss the report. The committee should vote then on whether to recom-mend provisional approval for accreditation. If that’s made, the final decision for provisional status would be up to the Council on Legal Education, cummings said. He anticipates a decision by May or June 2015.
Cercone is set to take over as the law school’s new dean on Jan. 5, succeeding Peter Alex-ander, who helped launch the school in 2013 but stepped down as dean in late May.
Cercone comes to Fort Wayne after serving as dean of faculty of Western Michigan University’s Thomas M. Cooley Law
School since 2003. His background in legal educa-tion includes experience with undergoing the ABA’s accreditation process, which cummings sees as a key strength for Indiana Tech.
As dean, cummings expects, Cercone will bring vigorous and enthusiastic leadership while main-taining the law school’s direction as an institution based primarily on an experiential education model.
The three-year program combines traditional classroom academics with real-world learning expe-riences provided by local professionals.
“The more we progress, the more certain I am that we will become a national leader in delivering integrated experiential education in law school,” he said. “It’s exciting to be a part of.”
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There’s a certain “if you build it, they will come” approach to the new construction up on the hill at Homestead and Liberty Mills roads.
The rising 20,000 square-foot, two-level building will house Community Grief Center, an addition to the adja-cent Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home Center. The bereavement support center — one of only a few in the nation — has been a long time coming for the Visiting Nurse operation that has been serving the community for 126 years.
While hospice centers are required to provide some level of grief support, quarterly mailers or phone calls are the norm to comply. With literally hundreds potentially in need of some sort of grief support, though, Visiting Nurse officials said the need to do more than the minimum — much more, as it turns out — is now and real and great.
“Over the last 5 to 7 years, we have really
increased how much we do in the area of grief support for our families,” said Visiting Nurse CEO Phyllis Hermann. Its grief services grew more than 100 percent from 2010, while the number of grief support groups doubled in 2013.
And so, Visiting Nurse green lit a build. In June the health care service broke ground on what Visiting Nurse officials said will be a beautiful, no-expense-spared center for calming and healing. Community Grief Center is on schedule for a May 2015 dedication.
“There are very few grief centers in the nation, so this is one of a kind for the community, especially for adults,” said Laura Ankenbruck, Visiting Nurse director of opera-tions and human resources. “Over the last few years grief support services had grown so much that there is a definite need for this in the community.”
The grief center, designed by Fort Wayne architectural firm Grinsfelder Associates Architects, will inhabit the
top level of the building. Visitors will cross a skybridge to the entrance and enter into an open lobby with a water feature, fireplace and coffee bar. Just off the lobby, a large sunroom overlooking a pond will be furnished with an oversized couch and several seats. A large rooftop garden with paths and seating connects.
Two small support group rooms exist just off the main areas, where individual counseling and support groups can be held for up to 15 people. Just down from there is a 50person meeting room for larger groups.
The bottom level primarily will house offices for Visiting Nurse officials, though a massive 150 person multipurpose room directly below the rooftop garden was built to extend the healing operation there. It will be outfitted with partitioned walls so it can be divided if need be, as well as auto-matic projector screens. It opens to the pond and a patio.
Detailed landscaping and a natural Indiana prairie will tie the grief center with the hospice home to create a circular campus, with paths mean-dering around for guests to
walk and a heated sidewalk to connect the buildings. A veterans garden with a flag pole and fire pit will go in, and a mothers garden and fathers garden have been planned for the future. Every furnishing and color detail and fabric selection was made with influence from Visiting Nurse’s grief team.
“They know it better than I do, better than Laura does,” said Hermann.
The lower level also will house Visiting Nurse’s education and training department, handling programs that will be ramped up as a result of the additional space, Ankenbruck said. The large room, which sits just off the large multipurpose room, will be used to hold continuing education for local universities. It will be furnished with work station tables and a hospital bed for training purposes.
“It’s going to be a highly utilized room,” said Ankenbruck.
Visiting Nurse launched a $5.5 million campaign to fund the build, 93 percent of which has been met.
Construction costs and furnishings claimed $4.6 million of that, Anken-bruck said, while the remaining funds will go toward ongoing operating expenses. An endowment is also being created to help support the costs of additional staff, counseling and operating of the freeto the public center, she added.
“We see this as a way of giving back to the commu-nity,” said Hermann. “The organization has been blessed with wonderful gifts and donations and grants over the years. Our board wanted us to do something where we could give back.”
Hermann said Visiting Nurse, which currently has 140 staff members and 155 volunteers, plans to add a social worker by the second year of the new grief center. It also plans to advance a part-time admin-istrative assistant position to full time within the year, she said
“We’re really excited about it,” said Hermann of the new center. “Our dream is really coming true now.”
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The officers of the Time Corners Kiwanis Club pose with District Lt. Gov. Rachel Jordan, second from left, at the club’s annual installation at Casa Ristorante on West Jefferson Boulevard. Also shown are club President Dan Guse, Vice President Linda Ogram, Treasurer Kay McKay and Secretary Kevin Warren. The club meets at 7:15 a.m. each Tuesday at Bob Evans restaurant in Jefferson Pointe.
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Kiwanis club installs Philharmonic to present‘All Mozart’ night Jan. 10The Fort Wayne Philhar-
monic, conducted by Andrew Constantine, will dedicate one entire program to a master of classical music. “All Mozart” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Embassy Theater.
World-renowned clarinetist David Shifrin will perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with a specially constructed clarinet to hit every note written. Two symphonies, Symphony No. 31 — “Paris” — and Symphony No. 41 — “Jupiter” — will also be performed.
Tickets for “All Mozart” start at $17 and can be purchased by calling 481-0777, online at fwphil.org, or at the Embassy box office, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.
“I had the great pleasure of performing Mozart’s concerto with Andrew Constantine with another orchestra about a year ago
and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to play it again with Andrew and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic,” Shifrin said.
Shifrin is one of only two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since the award’s inception in 1974. Constantly in demand as an orchestral soloist and recitalist, Shifrin has appeared with the Phil-adelphia and Minnesota orchestras and the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Detroit and Denver sympho-nies among many others in the U.S., and internationally with orchestras in Italy, Swit-zerland, Germany, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
“Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet was the first great masterpiece for clarinet and orchestra. Mozart loved the pure sound of the clarinet with its enormous range, its vocal qualities and virtuoso
capabilities. It can almost be considered an ‘opera’ for clarinet and orchestra,” Shifrin said.
The other pieces on the program are two symphonies. The “Jupiter” symphony is the composer’s longest. The name was coined not by the composer but by a concert promoter. Mozart’s “Paris” symphony was written while the composer was looking for work in the French capitol. It is one of his most famous symphonies performed regu-larly today.
Musically Speaking, the pre-concert lecture series before every Masterworks performance, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Lectures are held in the Gallery of the Grand Wayne Center and free to all ticket holders.
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‘Stillness Retreat’ Jan. 31By the middle of winter,
people might feel that spring will never come.
On Saturday, Jan. 31, Victory Noll Center will host the program “Still-ness Retreat” teaching wellness and spiritual practices designed to bring an awareness of God’s presence.
Jan Parker, Cheri Krueckeberg and Sue Wilhelm will facilitate the program“Be Still and know that I am God,” based on the 46th Psalm.
The program runs from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will include healthy snacks. The cost is $30 and registration is required by Jan. 24.
For more information about Victory Noll Center or to register for the program, call 356-0628, ext. 174, or contact the center by email at [email protected]. More information is also available on the center’s website at olvm.org/vncenter. Payment plans, scholarships and pay-it-for-ward opportunities are available.
The Fort Wayne Community School Board approved the purchase of property to allow for the relocation of the Anthis construction trades program.
The property at 125-129 Murray St. will be acquired for $385,000. The new space will allow for future expansion of career and technical programs offered by Anthis.
The construction trades program already offers dual credit courses with Ivy Tech Community College and Vincennes Univer-sity, including electrical basics, OSHA certifica-tion, American Concrete Certification, carpentry basics, construction safety, Powder Actuated Nailer Certification and more. Students participating in
the Construction Trades programs have the oppor-tunity to build a house, work with the city of Fort Wayne Street Department and work closely with local construction businesses and trades to prepare for careers after high school.
By moving construction trades to a new facility, FWCS will be able to move Student & Family Services as well as other departments to the current construction trades facility on Douglas Street to create a resource center for families. The Student & Family Resource Center will provide families with a one-stop shop as they enter the district to determine what school their chil-dren will attend and what services may be needed to support the student
and their family. Depart-ments including English Language Learners, special education, health services, guidance counseling and more will be centrally located to allow easy access for parents.
The new resource center will also allow the district to provide space to community partners.
“The Resource Center gives parents a visible sign that they have a place to go, that they matter,” said Superintendent Wendy Robinson.
The entire project is expected to take up to two years to complete. FWCS is seeking outside funding to support the costs of the expansion of construc-tion trades programs as well as the opening of the Resource Center.
A Kansas City devel-opment firm is now officially the owner of 40 acres in the Stonebridge Business Park, Allen County’s first-ever shov-el-ready site.
NorthPoint Devel-opment and the Allen County Redevelopment Commission signed the paperwork finalizing the transaction Dec. 10. NorthPoint is paying $2.1 million for four, 10-acre parcels near the intersection of Fogwell Parkway and Lafayette Center Road. NorthPoint also has the option to buy the remaining 84 acres of available property near the General Motors plant in southwest Allen County.
The $2.1 million is the same amount the county had invested in those four parcels, including both acquisition and infrastruc-ture costs.
“The County Commis-sioners, County Council and Redevelopment
Commission all take seriously our fiduciary responsibility of spending taxpayer dollars in a most prudent and responsible manner,” said Commis-sioner Nelson Peters. “We’re pleased with the outcome of this deal since losing taxpayer money was not acceptable.”
“By having the infra-structure in place, the county mitigated the time frame immensely for a developer to come and move dirt,” noted Rich Beck, president of the Redevelopment Commis-sion.
“Having the infra-structure already in place was key a factor in our decision to purchase Stonebridge,” said Chad Meyer, president and chief operating officer of NorthPoint. “We just wish there was more land in the park, as it will be absorbed very quickly.”
The planned expansion of Lafayette Center Road between I-69 and U.S. 24
in Allen and Huntington counties is also expected to add connectivity to Stonebridge, improving the transportation infra-structure which will help to attract more companies looking to locate opera-tions in Allen County.
NorthPoint Develop-ment is a national real estate development, management, and leasing firm that is principally focused on the design, construction and leasing of industrial distribution and modern manufac-turing facilities. Previous and current clients of NorthPoint have included original equipment manu-facturers and automotive suppliers at similar proj-ects nationally.
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year liberal arts college in 1982. Her mother, Carla, graduated from the Northfield, Minn., school in 1984.
“And when I heard that choir it took the excitement to a whole new level, and it set in my mind that dream,” she said.
“So it’s pretty special for me that I get to bridge my worlds in this way in the same place that I
heard the choir for the first time,” she said.
Overdahl graduated from Homestead High School in 2011. St. Olaf is a college of the Evan-gelical Lutheran Church in America. The Over-dahls are members of Fort Wayne’s Trinity English Lutheran Church, which is an ELCA church.
“It is always exciting to have the St. Olaf Choir passing through Fort Wayne,” Trinity Director of Music Robert Hobby
said in an email. “The ensemble has distin-guished itself as one of the leading collegiate choirs in the United States for decades, a vibrant tradition that is still perpetuated under its current esteemed director, Anton Armstrong. As a choral director, I am always inspired by the varied repertoire and vocal precision of Anton’s choirs. As a music lover, I find the group’s singing to be a spa in which my soul finds respite.”
Hobby said Overdahl sang from time to time while at Trinity. He said he introduced Overdahl to Armstrong during the choir’s visit to Fort Wayne during Overdahl’s senior year at Homestead. “It will be great joy to see her ‘on the other side’ this year,” he said.
The concert includes some new songs and some songs hundreds of years old, Overdahl said. “But it’s all about humans trying to understand their place in life and what they can do for other humans. It has the common thread of people coming together,” she said.
Chelsea Vaught is the director of music at First Presbyterian. “It’s pretty neat to have the choir here,” she said. “I’ve never heard them in person. They’re known for their Christmas specials, including a new one,
‘Christmas in Norway with the St. Olaf Choir,’ on PBS.”
The concert is presented by the Music Series at First Presbyterian. Vaught said plans for the visit began with a phone call from the college. “It had
been one of my main goals to bring them here, and it’s very nice when things just fall into my lap,” she said.
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Overdahl is working toward receiving her chemistry degree in 2015. She then plans to complete her bachelor of music degree at St. Olaf in 2016. She plans to attend graduate school for one of her major interests, environmental science. In addition to that career, she hopes to become part of a choir and to teach voice lessons.
She said the St. Olaf choir audition was in two parts. “The first round is Doctor Armstrong,” she said. “And Part II is the people who are called back are called into a room together, to hear how the ensemble will blend together.”
“It’s scary, not because it’s intimidating, but because it’s something you really want,” she said. Choir members rehearse five days each week, in addition to their music department and other academic studies.
Overdahl, who sings first alto, is the only current choir member from Indiana.
In Fort Wayne, Over-dahl also has sung with the Heartland Chamber Chorale.
She spent one summer volunteering at the Hawkins Family Farm in North Manchester. “I wanted to learn about sustainable agriculture,” she said.
Armstrong came to St. Olaf in 1990, returning to his alma mater to become the fourth conductor in the history of the choir, which was founded in 1912. Visit wp.stolaf.edu/stolaf-choir/ to learn more about the choir, including its full 2015 tour schedule.
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“But the landlords were asking like $150 a week rent, and these people couldn’t afford it,” Ginder said. “And I mentioned in church one week that we need to do something, and my pastor said we shall do something, and we did.”
She established Noble House as a homeless shelter for women and children, and stayed at that organi-zation for a year and a half until she entered the semi-nary. Since her departure, the ministry has grown to include domestic violence treatment and a shelter for men. “Because I was able to let go of it, it has gone to where God wanted it to go instead of where I thought it should go,” she said. “It is serving a lot more people and a lot more programs.”
She recalled that she thought she would remain at Noble House. “But I really did feel that God was nudging me to go to seminary and learn what I didn’t know, which was everything, and everything just happened from there,” she said.
“When you’re in the Methodist Church you go wherever the bishop sends you,” she said. A Noble House board member was a pastor who was serving Wolf Lake UMC in his retirement. “One day after a board meeting he said ‘You know, you really ought to go into the ministry,’ and to make a long story short, I wound up being appointed to his church,” Ginder said. She served there for five years as a student pastor while she studied at the seminary.
“So I took a course that summer and just fell in love with learning, so I wound up going to seminary not intending on getting a degree or anything like that,” she said. “I was just going to learn about the Bible, and I wound up getting my [master’s of divinity] and going through the process of being ordained as a United Meth-odist pastor. So God just kind of yanked me along, and I was appointed to things I didn’t plan to do.”
She was appointed to
Trinity UMC in Albion. “While I was there I was actually called by God to a church in Georgia right after 9/11, and it was a Navy town, St. Marys, where the Kings Bay Naval Base was, and they partic-ularly wanted someone to minister to the wives of the sailors going out to sea,” she said.
She served at that church near the submarine base for two and a half years, then returned to Indiana and was appointed to Forest Park. She stayed at that church ten and a half years — more than half of her ministry.
Her husband, who also was active in Forest Park leadership and ministries, died on Thanksgiving Day, 2012. His service was held at Forest Park.
The Rev. Ginder continued officiating funerals, sharing sermons and feeding the hungry for two more year.
“I need to start anew,” she said on the eve of her final service at Forest Park.
“I’m moving back to my hometown of Toledo, because my two sisters are there,” she said. “I’m going to find an apartment, and just see what happens next.”
“Technically, I retired a year ago,” she explained. “The church couldn’t afford me anymore, and I was of retirement age so I couldn’t be appointed anywhere else. So the leadership worked out a program where I would stay on a three-quarters-time basis. I would be affordable then.”
Forest Park staff parish chairman Max Robison said the arrangement worked for the church. “Her pay dropped 25 percent because she was Medicare-eligible and that freed us from paying her health insurance, too, and we were allowed to stop paying into a pension fund.”
Ginder’s successor probably also will work three-quarters time, Robison said. That person has not been appointed, and those arrangements are not final. The bishop, the district superintendent and a cabinet will make that choice.
“We’ve had a very good
working relationship,” Robison said of Ginder. “When she came in I was staff chairperson and now when she’s leaving I’m chairperson again. I’ve worked with her closely, and we’ve had a great working relationship.”
“We could use some more members,” Robison said. “We’re an older congregation, so because of that we’ve lost a lot of members,” he said.
Though Ginder has offi-ciated at many funerals, she also has been busy in community ministries.
Ginder brought new life to the church efforts to share food with those in need, Robison said. “The
food pantry is a very active ministry of our church,” he said.
“She established the Wednesday night suppers, too, and that’s something that’s open to anybody that wants to come on Wednesday evening,” he said. “It’s a free-will offering, and if they don’t have the money to do that, it’s a free meal.”
“And now, it’s just time,” Ginder said of her decision to retire.
After more than two decades of putting faith and grief into words, Ginder still falters when asked to explain the calling that set her career in motion. “There’s just a knowing,”
she said. “Just an inner knowing that this is the way you’re supposed to go. I can’t explain it. I don’t think anyone can.”
In her final service at Forest Park, Ginder broke the bread and prepared the wine, and handed it to three communion stew-ards. Her sons Frank and Wilson Ginder shared the work with Ruth Bontrager. The sons, who as children caused Ginder to be even more aware of the needs of young mothers, now towered above her in their own white robes as they accepted communion from her.
Christmas was an espe-cially difficult time for the pastor two years ago, just a month after her husband’s death. She had pledged to stand strong despite the emotion of her final
service.“I think she did pretty
well,” Wilson Ginder said after the service.
The pastor closed the service with a request and an assurance. “I hope you continue with this celebra-tion through tonight and tomorrow, and that some-thing good will happen,” she said. “I know that in some special way God is going to show God’s self to you before tomorrow is over, so be looking out for it, be waiting for it, and know that is a gift, espe-cially at Christmas time. And now will you leave here knowing that you are not alone. You will be leaving here with the love of God, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of course the companionship of the sweet, sweet Spirit. Amen.”
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Flood control project completeExtra flood protection
is now in place for resi-dents of the Fernwood Avenue and Dalevue Drive neighborhood. Chronic and repeated flooding has affected this low-lying area along the Fairfield Ditch since the 1950s. After another flood in the spring of 2013, Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry went to the neighborhood, met with residents, and began steps to move flood protec-tion efforts forward.
Henry recently joined residents of the neighbor-hood to cut a ceremonial ribbon with sandbags, often used in flood-fighting, attached to the
ribbon.Six homes were volun-
tarily purchased and removed from the neigh-borhood to create more green space to absorb floodwater. In addition, the city moved forward with installation of a larger, 48-inch stormwater pipe and additional inlets to take water away from the area, and an earthen berm to hold back high water overflowing from the Fair-field Ditch.
The Board of Works also has awarded a contract to begin flood and stormwater improvements in the Thompson/Huestis/Maple neighborhood.
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Bishop Luers High School announced that freshman Casey Woodfill is the first recipient of the Julie Edwards Baker Memorial Scholarship.
Baker, who graduated from Luers in 1978, died of colon cancer in August 2013.
Woodfill attended St. John the Baptist School, and is a member of St. John the Baptist Church. She was awarded $1,000 for tuition assistance.
While at Luers, Baker was involved in sports and a member of the Girls Athletic Association. “She loved the years she spent at Bishop Luers High School and wanted her memorials to be used to support a student attending Bishop Luers,” the school said in a news release.
Get Checking workshopsplanned January to JuneThe Purdue Cooperative
Extension Service in Allen County continues to host the Get Checking work-shop for the Bank On Fort Wayne initiative.
This workshop is for clients and families who: a) have never had checking or savings accounts at a bank or credit union, b) have mismanaged accounts at banks and credits unions so those accounts are now closed without commit-ting fraud, or (c) have accounts, but continue to use predatory lenders.
Workshops are held at the Allen County Extension Office, 4001 Crescent Ave. on the IPFW Campus. Work-shops are free and open to the public.
April 29, 5-9 p.m.; May 20, 1-5 p.m., and June 16, 5-9 p.m. Workshop topics include an intro-duction to the program as well as “Choosing an Account Right for You”; “Managing Your Account; Keys to Successful Money Management and Credit”.
For further information, to register or to receive a registration form, contact Vickie Hadley at the Allen County Extension Service, at 481-6826 or by email at [email protected]; visit the Home & Money page on the website at exten-sion.purdue.edu/allen; or visit the office.
Advance registration by phone or mail is preferred. At the comple-tion of the workshop, the participants will receive a certificate that will allow them to open an account at a participating bank or credit union.
Former gallery owner opens Bluffton showLocal artist Juanita
Boyd will display her work through Feb. 13 in the Balentine Gallery located inside the Arts, Commerce & Visitors Centre, 211 Water St., Bluffton. Many of her works will be available for purchase.
“Juanita is a fasci-nating lady who traveled the country teaching art classes for the famous art supply company, Grumbacher. She is a local treasure, and we are very excited to show the community her work,” said Joel Harmeyer, the executive director of the Creative Arts Council.
Boyd entered the world of photography painting in the 1950s. She took classes in photography painting, set up a home studio, and started painting oil portraits from pictures taken by a Fort
Wayne photographer. She continued this type of painting for 15 years until the invention of color film changed the face of the photograph-to-painting market. Around this time, with the encouragement of her husband, Garland, Boyd painted on tradi-tional canvas for the first time. Having only painted on the more difficult photography paper, she found it a dream to paint on canvas, opening up a whole new world to her imagination. Many of these creations are on display at the Balentine Gallery.
While she was teaching painting classes, her husband learned frame-making, and became a certified picture framer. In the 1980s, they opened Frames by Garland, which later became Garland’s Art Galleries
in Fort Wayne. They sold their business in 1998, and retired to a home they built in Ossian.
Now 82, Boyd is excited to share her life’s work with the community. Nearly one hundred paint-
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Roanoke’s Cottage Event Center will welcome back guitar virtuoso Kenny Taylor with a Jan. 24 concert titled “Let the Good Times Roll.” The event, like last year’s “Elvis Birthday Bash” starring Taylor, is a fundraiser for Honor Flight Northeast Indiana. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins around 7:30. All seats are $10.
The Cottage Event Center is at 9524 U.S. 24 North, Roanoke. Call 483-3508 for ticket infor-mation.
The show will feature the music that defined the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, including songs by artists like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley & The Comets, and Buddy Holly. In addition, Taylor and his band will perform several examples of “jump blues” music, including the title song “Let the Good Times Roll” from which the rock genre evolved.
Taylor’s former band, The Blue Moon Boys, opened for such guitar legends as Bo Didley, Dick Dale and former Stray Cats front man Brian Setzer.
He has also played lead guitar with Detroit based rockabilly band Twistin’ Tarantulas and has played with Carl Storie of Indi-anapolis’ popular Faith Band.
Taylor’s current projects include playing lead guitar for popular oldies band The Bulldogs, formerly Spike & The Bulldogs. He is part of the duo The Atomic Sharks, featuring children’s music accompanied on ukuleles. He plays with the jump blues band Kenny Taylor & The Swing Set Quartet. Taylor also plays banjo with Fort Wayne’s Farmland Jazz Band, and teaches guitar at the Sweet-water Academy of Music.
A cash bar will be avail-able, along with chili and hot dogs.
Northeast Indiana Honor Flight provides World War II veterans along with veterans of other conflicts with free trips to Washington, D.C., to visit various memorials.
The Cottage Event Center is owned and operated by Hamilton Hospitality Group LLC. For information or to tour the facility, call 414-2015.
Fort Wayne City Utilities water has begun flowing to portions of the city service area purchased from Aqua Indiana. More of the south-west territory will begin receiving city water by mid-January.
Customers in the affected areas of Aboite and Lafay-ette townships became City Utilities customers effective with the signing of the documents on Dec. 3, and began receiving water bills from City Utilities on about Dec. 20.
City Utilities spokesman Frank Suárez stressed that customers whose water payments have been drafted automatically need to set up payments based on new account numbers.
Aqua Indiana’s sewage service area is not changed,
and customers will continue receiving bills from Aqua Indiana.
City water began flowing to about 2,200 customers in a section of eastern Aboite Township on Dec. 4. Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry joined residents in the Abbey Place Villas neigh-borhood near Illinois and Hadley roads to flush a fire hydrant and to drink a toast with City Utilities water. Suárez said customers should have noticed a change in water quality by the following day. That service area extends from Bass Road south to Jefferson Boulevard. That area was designated Phase 1.
“[Phases] 2A and 2B will switch over the same week, and we expect that they both will be in opera-tion that second full week of January,” Suárez told
Times Community Publi-cations. Phase 2A is near Kress Road and Lower Huntington Road. Phase 2B is a small area near Ellison Road, including the Indiana State Police post, a few businesses and some apart-ments. “[Phase] 2C would include the rest of the Village of Coventry, all the way down U.S. 24, some housing additions and all the way out to West County Line Road,” Suárez said.
Phase 3 is bounded by Aboite Center Road on the south, West County Line Road on the west, Bass Road on the north, and the Phase 1 service area on the east.
All 12,500 customers will be connected as pipe connections are completed over a 10-month period.
City Utilities said customers will save an average of $120 to $140
per year on their water bills. “City Utilities does not charge a minimum usage fee, therefore customers that use less than Aqua’s 4,000-gallon minimum are likely to save the most,” City Util-ities said in a letter to water customers.
City Utilities Program Manager Mary Jane Slaton said most of the former Aqua water employees now work with City Utilities. “We agreed to make offers of jobs to anybody that Aqua released,” she said. Job offers were extended to 12 people; the city hired 10.
The city will pay Aqua Indiana an additional $50.1 million, on top of the $16.9 million paid to Aqua by the city in 2008, for a total price of $67 million.
Aqua Indiana President Tom Bruns and Mayor Henry held the signing cere-mony at Citizens Square.
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TUESDAY, JAN. 13Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Par-nell Ave. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Par-nell Ave. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free admission.
THURSDAY, JAN. 15Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Par-nell Ave. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission.
SATURDAY, JAN. 17Trivia Night. Bishop Dwenger High School, 1300 E. Washington Center Road. 6:30 p.m. $10 per person in advance or $15 per person at the door. Put your team of 10 together or be placed on a team. You can carry in food; cash bar will be available. For more information, go to bishop-dwenger.com or contact Bishop Dwenger’s Development Office at (260) 496-4775.Fort Wayne Farmers Market. Lincoln Financial Event Center at Parkview Field, 1301 Ewing St. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Local vendors offer meats, baked goods, spices, honey, eggs, plants, fudge, herbs, wine, orchard products, soap, jewelry, woodworking and more. Indoor markets continue the first and third Saturdays of each month: Feb. 7 and 21, March 7 and 21, April 4 and 18, and May 2 and 16. For details and updates, visit ftwaynesfarm-ersmarket.com.
SUNDAY, JAN. 18Humorist Mike Leiderman. Congregation B’nai Jacob, 7227 Bittersweet Moors Drive. 2 p.m. The congregation invites the community to an after-
noon of Jewish education and entertainment. The event is free due to the support of the Harry W. Salon Foundation. For details, call 672-8459.Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative concert. Plymouth Congregational Church, 501 W. Berry St. 6 p.m. A free-will offering will be taken; sug-gested donation is $10. The legacy of the civil rights leader comes to life in a commemorative concert by Heartland, northeastern Indiana’s only professional vocal ensemble. The performance features Heartland and soloist baritone Carver Cossey. The group will be accompanied by bass player Brad Kuhns and drummer David Mendonhall. Learn more about Heartland at heartlandsings.org, and about Carver Cossey on Facebook.
THURSDAY, JAN. 22Mizpah Shrine Circus & Fair. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 6:30 p.m. Reserved tickets, $12, $14, $17 or $20. For more information, visit mizpahshrinecircus.com.
FRIDAY, JAN. 23Mizpah Shrine Circus & Fair. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 7 p.m. Reserved tickets, $12, $14, $17 or $20. For more information, visit mizpahshrinecircus.com.Outdoor Sports, Lake & Cabin Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. Noon-4 p.m. $10 for adults, kids 12 and under free. For more information, visit outdoorsportslakecabinshow.com.
SATURDAY, JAN. 24Mizpah Shrine Circus & Fair. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Reserved tickets, $12, $14, $17 or $20. For more information, visit mizpahshrinecircus.com.Outdoor Sports, Lake & Cabin Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $10 for adults, kids 12 and under free. For more information, visit outdoorsportslakecabinshow.com.
SUNDAY, JAN. 25Mizpah Shrine Circus & Fair. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 1 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. Reserved tickets, $12, $14, $17 or $20. For more information, visit mizpahshrinecircus.com.Outdoor Sports, Lake & Cabin Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 for adults, kids 12 and under free. For more information, visit outdoorsportslakecabinshow.com.
TUESDAY, JAN. 27Fort Wayne Women’s Midday Connection. Orchard Ridge Country Club, 4531 Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $15.50, inclu-sive of lunch. The program is by Cheryl Friar of Touchstone Crystals, featuring Swarovski Crystal. Reservations due by Jan. 20 to Meridith, 672-3414. Baby sitting is available with advance notice. Sponsored by Stonecroft Ministries.
THURSDAY, JAN. 29Fort Wayne RV & Camping Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. For ticket prices and other details, visit rvshows.org.
FRIDAY, JAN. 30Fort Wayne RV & Camping Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. For ticket prices and other details, visit rvshows.org.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31Fort Wayne RV & Camping Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. For ticket prices and other details, visit rvshows.org.
SUNDAY, FEB. 1Fort Wayne RV & Camping Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For ticket prices and other details, visit rvshows.org.
SATURDAY, FEB. 7Fort Wayne Farmers Market. Lincoln Financial Event Center at Parkview Field, 1301 Ewing St. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Local vendors offer meats, baked goods, spices, honey, eggs, plants, fudge, herbs, wine, orchard products, soap, jewelry, woodworking and more. Indoor markets continue the first and third Saturdays of each month: Feb. 21, March 7 and 21, April 4 and 18, and May 2 and 16. For details and updates, visit ftwaynesfarmers-market.com.
SOUTHWEST ALLEN COUNTY SCHOOLS CALENDAR(Weather conditions may force schools to cancel classes or to open later or dismiss earlier. For the latest information, visit sacs.k12.in.us.)Monday, Jan. 19. Martin Luther King Day — no school.Friday, Feb. 13. Teacher in-service day — no school.Monday, Feb. 16. Presidents Day — no school.Friday, March 27. No school. Work day for 12-month employees.
Monday, March 30 — Thursday, April 2. Spring break — no school.Friday, April 3. Good Friday — no school.Monday, May 25. Memorial Day — no school.Wednesday, May 27. Last student day.Thursday, May 28. Teacher records day/ in-service.Saturday, June 6, 11 a.m. Homestead High School graduation.
ABOITE BRANCH LIBRARY ACTIVITIESAboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane, Fort Wayne. Call 421-1310.Born to Read Babies and Books. Mondays, Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, 10:30 a.m. Sto-ries, songs, and activities for babies and their caregivers.Smart Start Storytime. Tuesdays, Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27, 10:30 a.m., and Thursdays, Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29. Stories, activities, and crafts for your pre-schooler.Baby Steps Toddler Time. Wednesdays, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, 10:30 a.m. Stories, songs and games for your toddler.Art for Homeschoolers. Thursdays, Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2 p.m. Study a variety of different art techniques and mediums ranging from drawing to paint-ing in 3D. All supplies provided.Art for Homeschool Teens. Fridays, Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30, 10:30 a.m. Study a variety of different art techniques and mediums ranging from drawing to painting in 3D. All supplies provided.Aboite Branch Adult Book Group. Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2 p.m. Visit the Aboite Branch each month for a lively book discussion. This month the group will read “And the Mountains Echoed,” by Khaled Hosseini.Cookbook Book Club. Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2 p.m. Read the club’s selection beforehand. Call 421-1310 for more information.LEGO Club. Monday, Jan. 19, 7: p.m. Do you have bricks on the brain? Join us for LEGO club and build to your heart’s content!You-Name-It Book Club. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join this discussion of a wide variety of books. This month the group will discuss “The Circle” by Dave Eggers.Choose Your Own Book Club. Thursday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Young Adults each month will read a book and discuss it over snacks and games. This month the group will discuss “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien.
LITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT ACTIVITIESLittle River Ramblers. Every Tuesday morning in January, 9 to 11 a.m. Meet at the Boy Scout office parking lot, 8315 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne, to hike and explore the interesting plants and wildlife of Eagle Marsh. Contact [email protected] or 478-2515 for information.Wetlands in Winter: a Place of Quiet Beauty. Saturday, Jan. 10, 9:30-11 a.m. Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. While many native plants of the area sleep in subtle beauty in winter, others have different survival strategies — and look very different from their summer selves. Join us on a hike to look for and identify our favorites. Dress for the trails and the weather. Free. Contact [email protected] or 478-2515 for information.Short Hikes for Short Legs: Seeds, Grocery Store of the Marsh! Wednesday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. (For children ages 3 to 5 and a responsible adult.) We’ll start in the barn exploring the variety of seeds found at Eagle Marsh. Then we’ll take a short hike to see how the marsh provides food, through its many seeds, for the animals that winter with us. Dress for the trails and the weather. Free. Contact [email protected] or 478-2515 for information.Scat: Identifying Wetland Wanderers. Saturday, Jan. 24, 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. Scat (poop) is a great way to identify who’s been on the marsh or on your property when no one was looking. We’ll start in the barn making scat models of animals common to this area, then take a hike to look for scat and other animal signs. For all ages. Dress for the trails and the weather. Free. Contact [email protected] or 478-2515 for information.
ALLEN COUNTY 4-H ENROLLMENT CONTINUESIndiana 4-H enrollment is now open in Allen County through Jan. 15. 4-H is a source of enjoyable, educational programs to help young people reach their full potential. Enrollment is now easier with the 4-H online system, in.4honline.com.For more information about specific 4-H subjects in Allen County or the 4-H program in general, visit extension.purdue.edu/allen or call 4-H Youth Development Extension Educator Samm Johnson, at 481-6826.Indiana 4-H is the state’s largest youth development program for grades 3-12, reaching over 200,000 youth in all 92 counties. 4-H Youth Development Educators in each Purdue Extension county office coordi-nate local activities.In Allen County, approved adult volunteers teach young people specific skills related to a wide variety of subjects through hands-on, experien-tial learning. Youth also develop leadership and citizenship skills by par-ticipating in one of 17 organized 4-H Clubs. Subjects include: science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); agriculture; citizenship; healthy living; art; consumer and family sciences; and more.Or visit the Allen County Purdue Extension office, 4001 Crescent Ave.in Fort Wayne, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays. The $25 annual program fee per child includes an Indiana 4-H program fee of $15 and an Allen County 4-H program fee of $10.
MULTIPLE DATES / REGISTRATION / NOTICES / CONTINUINGBasketball sign-up. Parkwood Church of God, 3320 Trier Road. $125 regis-tration fee covers 13 games, a tournament, a T-shirt, banquet and awards. Summit City Youth Prep Basketball League is registering for its seventh season. For ages 14 to 19. Registration is 4:30-6 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sign-up continues through January. The season begins the first week in February. For more information, contact founder and coach Steve Emerson at 418-7009.Frank Caliendo tickets on sale. The Wagon Wheel Theatre, 2515 E. Center St., Warsaw. The comedian and impressionist will present shows at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, May 9. Tickets range from $55-$65. For more
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information or to order tickets, call (574) 267-8041 or visit wagonwheel-theatre.org.Sinbad tickets on sale. Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 State Road 118 S, Van Wert, Ohio. The actor and comedian performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. Tickets begin at $20 are now available at npacvw.org or through the box office, Monday-Friday, noon-4 p.m.Homestead High School notice. Homestead anticipates a few sold-out basket-ball games this season, and suggests planning ahead to ensure fans get a seat. All of the home freshman and JV games begin at 6 p.m. with the varsity game following. The most current athletic schedule can be found on the HHS Athletic website; see the link called “schedules.” An all-sports pass, senior citizen, SACS employee I.D., etc., does not guarantee a seat at these games. Due to the limited capacity and fire code restric-tions, the school will be forced to close the doors and not allow anyone in once attendance reaches seating capacity.Rock, Paper Scissors. Artlink Gallery, Auer Center for Arts and Culture, 300 E. Main St. Exhibition dates are Jan. 23-March 4, 2015. Community choir welcomes new members. The Summit City Singers, a SATB community choir, is starting rehearsals for the fall season and welcomes new singers. The choir sings a variety of music, with the theme for this season being “Christmas Is For Children.” No auditions are required but singers must be able to match pitch. Rehearsals are held from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Shawnee Middle School, 1000 E. Cook Road. For more information, contact Judy King at 489-4505.Overeaters Anonymous meetings. No weigh-ins, dues or fees. Call 704-0453 for local meeting information.GriefShare. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. A new seminar will begin in January. Meetings are held in the church parlor. For more informa-tion, call Margie Williams, 749-9907, or the church office, 749-9565. Throughout the 13-week cycle of videos, discussions and journaling, participants gain insight into their personal journey through grief. Each session is self-contained, so members may enroll at any time.English as a Second Language classes. East Allen County Church of Christ, 3800 Minnich Road, New Haven. The church is searching for new students who either want to learn English or improve their English. A Sunday morning class is offered for beginning Spanish speakers. For those seeking to better their English skills, classes are available by ap-pointment. To schedule an appointment, call 749-5300 or visit eacchur-chofchrist.org.Safe Sitter Classes. Lutheran Children’s Hospital, 7950 W. Jefferson Blvd. Safe Sitter is a medically based instructional program that teaches girls and boys how to handle emergencies when caring for young children. Classes include two days of instruction that incorporate lifesaving tech-niques, how and when to talk with a 9-1-1 dispatcher, injury prevention, behavior management, managing a toddler or preschool guest, tips on child care and how to screen baby-sitting jobs. The classes are taught by Lutheran Children’s Hospital staff and prepare babysitters to confidently handle crises. Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, and class size is limited. The cost for the two-day class is $50. Students must be at least 11 years old to participate. Call Child Life Specialist Tammy Else with Lutheran Children’s Hospital at 435-7344 to register. More details are available at lutheranchildrenshosp.com. Classes take place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the following dates: Dec. 29 and 30; (and in 2015) April 2 and 3; June 25 and 26; July 22 and 23; Aug. 4 and 5; and Dec. 28 and 29.
FRANCINE’S FRIENDS MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHYAppointments preferably should be scheduled prior to the date. For an appointment, call 483-1847 or (800) 727-8439, ext. 26540. Walk-in openings are available depending on schedule.
The Breast Diagnostic Center performs the screening. For women who have insurance, they will bill the insurance company. If the patient does not have insurance but has the ability to pay, the BDC offers a reduced rate if paid the day of the screening. For women without insurance, a high deductible, or resources to pay, funding is available.A partial list of locations follows. For more dates and locations beyond the immediate Fort Wayne area, visit francinesfriends.org. All locations are in Fort Wayne unless otherwise noted.Thursday, Jan. 15, Paul Harding Junior High School, 6501 Wayne Trace.Friday, Jan. 16, Fantastic Sams, 10019 Lima Road.Monday, Jan. 19, Peerless Cleaners, 515 Main St.Tuesday, Jan. 20, Nelson Global Products, 3405 Engle Road.Thursday, Jan. 22, New Haven High School, 1300 Green Road, New Haven.Saturday, Jan. 24, Woodburn Missionary Church, 5108 Bull Rapids Road, Woodburn.Monday, Jan. 26, Manchester University, 604 E. College St., North Manchester.Tuesday, Jan. 27, Parkview Physicians Group - Family Practice, 1331 Minnich Road, New Haven.Friday, Jan. 30, McMahon Tire, 4201 Coldwater Road.Monday, Feb. 2, Ivy Tech Community College, 4900 St. Joe Road.Thursday, Feb. 5, HealthVisions of Fort Wayne, 2135 S. Hanna St.Friday, Feb. 6, Georgetowne Place, 1717 Maplecrest Road.Monday, Feb. 9, Parkview Physicians Group - Family Practice, 1331 Minnich Road, New Haven.Tuesday, Feb. 10, Huntington Free Clinic, 1255 Engle St., Huntington. Open to the public.Wednesday, Feb. 11, Kroger Marketplace, 5725 Coventry Lane.Monday, Feb. 16, Kroger, 7008 Bluffton Road.Wednesday, Feb. 18, Garrett-Keyser-Butler Schools, 801 E. Houston St., Garrett.Thursday, Feb. 19, Parkview Physicians Group - Family Practice, 10515 Illinois Road.Friday, Feb. 20, New Haven Middle School, 900 Prospect Ave., New Haven.Monday, Feb. 23, DeBrand Fine Chocolates, 10105 Auburn Park Drive.Wednesday, Feb. 25, Kroger, 218 E Pettit Ave.Thursday, Feb. 26, Parkview Physicians Group - Family Practice, 1331 Minnich Road, New Haven.Saturday, Feb. 28, Christy Weber Memorial Folkstyle Open Tournament at Leo Jr./Sr.High School, 14600 Amstutz Road, Leo.Note: Francine’s Friends Mobile Mammography is a partnership be-tween Francine’s Friends, Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Breast Diagnostic Center.
RED CROSS BLOOD DONATION OPPORTUNITIESThe American Red Cross asks eligible blood donors to make a resolution to give blood regularly in 2015, beginning with National Blood Donor Month in January.National Blood Donor Month recognizes the importance of giving blood and platelets while honoring those who roll up a sleeve to help patients in need. It has been observed during January since 1970, and that’s no coincidence. Winter is an especially difficult time to collect enough blood to meet patient needs. Unpredictable winter weather can result in blood drive cancellations, and seasonal illnesses, like the flu, may cause some donors to be unable to make or keep blood donation appointments.Donors of all blood types are needed, especially those with O negative, A negative and B negative. With a shelf life of 42 days, red blood cells must be constantly replenished to maintain an adequate supply for patients. Individuals who come out to give blood through Jan. 4 will re-
ceive a long-sleeve Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last.A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identifica-tion are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental consent in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.To learn more about donating blood and to schedule an appointment, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call (800) 733-2767).Adams County. Sunday, Jan. 11, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at St. Mary Catholic Church, 414 Madison St. in Decatur.Allen County.Saturday, Jan. 10, 12 noon-4 p.m., at Costco, 5110 Value Drive in Fort Wayne.Sunday, Jan. 11, 8 a.m.-12 noon, at First Wayne Street United Methodist Church, 300 E. Wayne St. in Fort Wayne.Monday, Jan. 12, 2 p.m.-8 p.m.m at Grabill Missionary Church, 13637 State St. in Grabill.Thursday, Jan. 15, 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at International Business College, 5699 Coventry Lane in Fort Wayne.Thursday, Jan. 15, 12:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m., at Fort Wayne Nissan, 4909 Lima Road in Fort Wayne.Huntington County.Thursday, Jan. 15, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., at Pathfinder Services, 1152 E. State St. in Huntington.Thursday, Jan. 15, 2 p.m.-6 p.m., at Knight-Bergman Center, 132 S. Nancy St. in Warren.Steuben County.Monday, Jan. 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E. 200 N. in Angola.Thursday, Jan. 15, 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m., at Hamilton United Methodist Church, 7780 S. Wayne St. in Hamilton.Wells County.Monday, Jan. 12, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church, 215 E. Dustman Road in Bluffton.The Fort Wayne Donor Center. 1212 E. California Road in Fort Wayne, across Coliseum Boulevard from the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.Monday and Tuesday: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Wednesday and Thursday: 12 noon-6 p.m.Friday: 8 a.m.- 2 p.m.Saturday: 8 a.m.-1 p.m.The Lutheran Hospital Donor Center.7900 W. Jefferson Blvd., Suite 107, in Fort Wayne, in the South Lobby of Lutheran Hospital.Monday and Tuesday: 12 noon-6 p.m.Wednesday: closed.Thursday through Saturday: 6 a.m.-noon. Except the second Thursday of the month, when hours are 12 noon-6 p.m.
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Share news of your organization’s eventsPublicize your church or school’s Christmas events, your civic organization’s programs, or other activities of interest to your neighbors. Submit entries by Jan. 30 for the Feb. 6 edition of Aboite & About. Email [email protected], or call 426-2640, ext. 3321.
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