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December 5, 2014
Plymouth tradition to mark 40th Get tickets The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival
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Jim Clauser sings the part of The Herald in a Plymouth Congregational Church presentation of The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. This is Clauser’s 40th and final year in that role.
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Plymouth Congregational Church will dedicate the 40th Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival to four people who have been part of the service since its beginning. Shirley Slater, Michael Popp and Louise Misegades have been in different roles in the cast and crew through the years.
Jim Clauser has filled the same role since the first festival. Clauser said this will be his final year as The Herald, the central role in the secular portion of the festival that also presents religious themes in six free services each December. “He has never missed a service. He’s the only one that’s in the original character,” said Jim Schmidt,
the festival artistic director. “He won’t sing The Herald anymore, but he would like to stay involved with the Boar’s Head.” “That’s going to be quite a legacy,” said festival music director Robert Nance. “It’s been a great run for me, and I’ve really enjoyed doing that,” Clauser said. “I’m only leaving because I feel like 40 years is 40
Needy benefit year-round from cash in Red Kettles
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Volunteers, from left, Sarah Carter Owen Wade and Jordan Meintel ring Salvation Army bells at the Kroger Marketplace, Coventry Lane. The students are Homestead High School sophomores and members of the Key Club. Wade is a member of the Time Corners Kiwanis Club.
of the Homestead High School Key Club to ring at the Kroger Marketplace, Coventry Lane, on Nov. 22. “It can be cold depending on the day,” said Dan Guse, club president. “That day definitely got chilly. But we do it because we just want to help the community. That’s part of our mandate with being part of Kiwanis, is helping the community in doing things.” He said the Key Club would ring one
more day this year. “This is probably our tenth year we’ve been doing this,” Guse said. “They came and talked to us and we decided it’s a worthy project to take on, and so we’ve been doing it ever since.” “Our goal is over 40 percent of our annual budget,” said Smith, the Salvation Army official. See RED, Page A15
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A familiar holiday fundraiser serves a year-round need. The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign funds more than 40 percent of the organization’s annual budget, said Timothy Smith, the social service director for The Salvation Army, Fort Wayne. Bell ringers have begun taking their posts outside stores throughout Fort Wayne and New Haven, and will continue the campaign through Dec. 24. Volunteers may sign up at registertoring.com. Or call Roxanne at 744-2311. No bell ringing shifts are scheduled on Sundays. This year’s goal is $456,000, including kettle collections and mail-in donations. Members of the Time Corners Kiwanis Club worked with members
Plymouth Congregational Church, 501 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne Dec. 28, 29 and 30, at 5:30 and 8 p.m. each evening. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Get tickets at the church office beginning 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18. The ticket office will remain open as late as 7 p.m. if tickets remain available. years, and I feel like it’s time for somebody else to pick up the gauntlet.” “I lead in the boar’s head in the very beginning after the candle is lit,” Clauser said. “And that starts the processional and there are six verses that I sing.” Those six verses introduce an audience of perhaps 350 to a story that is acted and voiced by See BOAR, Page A5
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Stephanie Kanouse portrays an angel in Breakfast at Bethlehem at Sonrise Church.
Sonrise’s Bethlehem ‘to recalibrate Christmas’ By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
The 50 young people who give their talents to Breakfast in Bethlehem also receive a gift, said Lauren Kirkland. “They get to tell the best story ever told.” Church members from elementary age to high school age will present the Nativity story four times over two days at Sonrise Church, where Kirkland serves as children’s
ministry coordinator. The worship band will provide live music. The costumes are as authentic as possible. The shops and animals add to the effect. “We want to create what it really must have been like to be at Bethlehem on that morning that Jesus was born,” said Kirkland, “so the whole feel of the stable is created in Breakfast in Bethlehem.” Sonrise, at 10125 Illinois Road, will host two See SONRISE, Page A15