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Girl Scouts ready for cookie sales By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

Connie Frederick and Maryann Kummer begin separate conversations about their special roles in the business of Girl Scout Cookies, then turn to a subject even more dear to them — their daughters. Frederick is product manager for the 22-county Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana. “My daughter was the shy little girl who hid behind her order card to sell cookies,” Frederick said. “It is a learning experience, and we’re teaching these girls how to market,” Frederick said. “It’s a girl-led business. They learn money management, people skills and business ethics,” she said. “Little girls come in here with their mothers, who pick up cookies, and I always ask them ‘How many cookies have you sold?’ And by the third time they don’t have to look at Mom and ask how many cookies they’ve sold. They know I’m going to

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Tony Belton and Connie Frederick show some of the Girl Scout cookie varieties that will go on sale again Jan. 9. Belton is communications manager for Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana. Frederick is product manager for the 22-county district.

ask them that question.” Sarah Frederick, who once wore the sash of Troop 200 in Fort Wayne, now applies the skills she gathered in Girl Scouts and other experiences to the business of operating a traveling museum in the city across the bay from Seattle. As collections manager for Eastside Heritage Center, in Bellevue,

Wash., she takes the museum’s exhibits to the public. “Our exhibits go into places like shopping centers, libraries, schools, and our programming is done basically the same way,” she said. “We take it to the people.” “The appreciation of community — that’s one of the things that’s really great about Girl Scouts,

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is you have to go out and engage with people,” she said. Sarah Frederick was involved in Girl Scouts from elementary school through high school, and holds a lifetime membership. “I always have a soft spot for when the troops approach me,” she said. “I See SCOUT, Page A4

Fort Wayne City Utilities water has begun ﬂowing to portions of the city service area purchased from Aqua Indiana. More of the southwest territory will begin receiving city water by mid-January. Customers in the affected areas of Aboite and Lafayette 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 neighborhood 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. Visit cityoffortwayne. org/aquatransition for a map of the conversion phases and for answers to frequently asked questions about the Aqua Indiana purchase. “[Phases] 2A and 2B will switch over the same week, and we expect that they both will be in operaSee WATER, Page A13

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School that receives also gives to others By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

A Carroll Road church and a Fort Wayne school wrote another chapter of their partnership with the gift of an estimated $30,000 in food. The members of Pine Hills Church bought food for more than 300 families’ holiday meals, with enough extra food to feed the families through the two-week holiday break. The students and families of Abbett Elementary School picked up the food at the school Dec. 20. This holiday season marked the third year of the food donation. The church has not sought outside help with the project, and has not announced its gift, but did reply to requests for information. Joseph Rodgers, the principal of the prekindergarten to ﬁfth grade school at 4325 Smith St., sees it as part of a wider relationship. “This is my second year here, and from the start Pine Hills was involved and an integral part of our community relationships,” Rodgers said. “All the schools have community relationships, and they are probably our biggest supporter in what we do as public educators.” Kathy Chairs, the

administrative assistant of the church at 4704 Carroll Road, said the benefits flow back to the church. “The stories that we’ve heard are a blessing both ways,” she said. “It’s more of a blessing to give than to receive sometimes, and some of the kids see that firsthand when they are in that home and they see how thankful a child is to receive two boxes of food.” The Pine Hills congregation shopped at two Lima Road stores on Dec. 7, after a shortened Sunday service. “We all go out together with a hundred percent participation, and we shop at Aldi and Walmart,” Chairs said. “And we have specific lists made up of what we want purchased because then the boxes given to families all have the same things in them.” The approximately 400 students of Abbett Elementary also enjoy giving, Principal Rodgers said. Abbett is a leader in donations to the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, and frequently is honored as the top school in that campaign, he said. Teachers volunteer for an after-school leadership and character development program, called Leaders of the Pack. Last school year, the 40 girls and 30 boys in the group raised more than

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$600 for the Allen County SPCA. “We have a wonderful school, very diverse, some very good children,” said Malika Abdullah, a school secretary. “It can be challenging but very rewarding when the light bulb ﬂashes on.” “I’ve been here for probably eight years or more because I used to sub, and I’m still here because I enjoy my student population and I know almost everybody by name except now the pre-K and kindergarten,” she said. Abdullah said secretary Mary Burns works closely with the Pine Hills partners. “They’re a great bunch of people,” Burns said. “They come on Thursdays

and they do Blessings in a Backpack. They do birthday parties. They adopt a classroom and they bring birthday treats once a month for that classroom, so everybody gets their birthday celebrated.” “I’m really excited and I can’t wait to get started,” she said before the Dec. 20 food distribution. “Families can pick up the food here, or it will be delivered to people who don’t have transportation.” She said the children write thank-you letters to Pine Hills Church. “The pre-K did a really cute picture saying Happy Thanksgiving to them,” she said. “We’re trying to initiate some of that giving back with the kids.” Rodgers said Pine Hills

also assists Abbett with a school carnival and joins with other partners to offer a basketball camp. Rodgers said more than half of the Abbett students beneﬁt from the English as a Second Language program. About 190 are enrolled now, he said. “But there are about 30 or 40 kids out there who have graduated from the program.” Rodgers said the children of Abbett Elementary do not take their education for granted. “They take the attitude of their parents,” he said. “Their parents want them to have a good education, and they’re taking it seriously. They’re here to learn.” Pine Hills Executive Pastor and Elder Steve

Shaffer has guided the holiday food program on behalf of the church, as part of the Love in Action ministry. In three years, the church has not issued a news release about its giving. “People were very excited about having an opportunity to give items of food and clothing,” he said. “It’s also a great way of sharing Christ’s love. When we go to the homes, we come not just as a church, but as representing Christ.” “The people in this community, they’re just down-to-earth, hardworking people that want their kids to get a good education,” Rodgers said. “And if there’s a food drive going on, we’re going to donate to that as well.” “People are willing to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done for the kids,” he said. “I would say we have a pretty strong PTA. We have about 20 to 25 parents that are involved, which is pretty good for a school our size. We’re a smaller, neighborhood school.” “Sometimes it’s hard for some parents to get to PTA because they may work certain hours,” he said, “but deﬁnitely people make an effort. If you set up the systems to do it, they’re there.”

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What Does 2015 Hold In Store For Investors? If you’re an investor, you probably had a pretty good year in 2014. But what’s in store for 2015? It’s essentially impossible to make precise predictions about the performance of the ﬁnancial markets — but it is possible to identify those economic conditions and market forces that may help shape outcomes in the investment world for 2015. By paying close attention to these conditions and forces, you can gain some valuable insights as to what investment moves might make sense for you. Here are a few of these moves: • Consider adding stocks. With stock prices having climbed higher and higher for more than ﬁve years, you might be wonder-

ing if it’s time to scale back on your ownership of equities. After all, no “bull” market lasts forever. Still, some factors point to continued strength for stocks over the long term. First, we are seeing signs of improving economic growth; employment gains and low oil prices are giving consumers more conﬁdence, leading to a boost in spending. Second, corporate earnings — a key driver of stock prices — were quite strong in the second half of 2014, and companies appear poised to show more good results in 2015. Third, stocks — at least large-company stocks — are still reasonably valued, as measured by their priceto-earnings ratios (P/E). Given these factors, you might want to think about adding quality stocks to your holdings — assuming,

of course, these stocks can help meet your needs for a balanced portfolio. And be aware that even the most favorable conditions can’t assure a continued run-up in stock prices, which can and will ﬂuctuate. • Prepare for rising interest rates. For several years, interest rates have been at, or near, historical lows. Given the strengthening economy, and the decreased need for stimulus, the Federal Reserve may well raise short-term interest rates in 2015, perhaps as early as this summer. But long-term rates may start rising even before then, so you may want to take a close look at your bonds and other ﬁxed-rate investments. As you probably know, when interest rates rise, the value of existing bonds typically falls because in-

vestors won’t pay full price for your bonds when they can get newly issued ones that pay higher rates. One way to combat the effects of rising rates is to build a “ladder” consisting of short-, intermediate- and long-term bonds. With such a ladder, you’ll be able to redeem your maturing shortterm bonds and reinvest them in the new, higher-paying bonds. • Look for investment opportunities abroad. Although economic growth has been slow in parts of the world, especially China, many countries have now initiated policies to spur economic growth. These actions can create opportunities for international equity investments. Keep in mind, though, that international investing involves particular risks, such as currency ﬂuctua-

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experience has been valuable to her career.” Fresh out of college, Ladd took over a troop of fourth-grade Girl Scouts and was with them through high school. She also served on the regional Girl Scouts board. Like Sarah Frederick, she holds a life membership in Girl Scouts. “That volunteer experience started way young, and I’m still very active when it comes to kids,” she said. “In those days it was a lot different,” she said. “It was a lot harder to sell cookies then, because you had to take orders and there weren’t store sales, so it was a different ballgame than it is now.” “That’s really what the sale is all about anyway,” she continued. “It’s developing the ability of young women to ask for something, ‘Will you buy this from me?’ Later in life it’s going to be asking for a job. I think, personally, that that is the reward.” “In this digital world that we live in now, that faceto-face interaction is really lacking,” she said. “And I think selling cookies for Girl Scouts is one of those opportunities. I will buy as long as they ask me. I won’t buy from parents, I won’t buy from grandparents, but I will buy from the young person as long as they ask me. And if they’re raising money for school, all they have to do is come ask and I always buy what they’re selling or

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Girl Scouts will sell or take orders for eight varieties of cookies. Scouts also will have a limited supply of a new gluten-free variety, called trios.

make a contribution.” She said she also gained business experience by operating a paper route. “I think it’s important that people understand that the program is vital and strong. So buy those cookies,” Ladd said. Besides Girl Scouts, Ladd also shares her business guidance with young people through Junior Achievement, where she talks about entrepreneurship. “That is the future of our business, because big business is getting smaller every day,” she said. “And a whole boatload of those leaders will be women.” “God gave me boys, so I didn’t get to share the Girl Scout experience with my children. All four of my nieces are or were Girl Scouts. The joy of that is certainly in my family,” Ladd said. “My dad [Charles] is a Girl Scout, for heaven’s sake, because Mom couldn’t operate the Cookie Cupboard without

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him.” Tony Belton is communications manager for the area Girl Scouts, and so talks of Girl Scouts every day. He, too, talks of his daughters. “It’s a great organization and I ﬁrmly believe in the cause,” he said. “I plan on getting my girls involved. The camaraderie that the girls form and the bonds that they create, a lot of it is centered around cookies.” Alexis is 11. “She wants to be part of a group,” Belton said. Laylah is 5. “Her eyes are wide and she’s ready to go,” her dad said. “Last night we had an event and my little girl was in here and saw all the Girl Scouts in their vests and their sashes, and she was like ‘I want to be part of that.’ And all the girls are so excited about selling cookies,” he said. “It’s how they fund all the activities that they do as a troop. This past summer we had a group of girls who went to Disney World, and they paid for it themselves by selling cookies and fall product merchandise. They set their own goals, and they realize how much they have to sell in order to get from here to Florida, and

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they make it happen.” Frederick, Kummer and Belton are about to enter the busy season. Girls begin taking cookie orders on Friday, Jan. 9, and will sell cookies through March 1. The scouts range from Daisies to seniors in high school, ages 5 to 18. Last year about 6,000 girls in 20 counties in Indiana and two Michigan counties sold an average of 200 boxes of cookies each. “Our girls have cookies in hand from the first day they go out to sell cookies, so they knock on the door and you can purchase your cookies,” Frederick said. “It’s instant gratification.” Cookies are $4 a box. The same eight varieties sold last year will be available again: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Cranberry Citrus Crisps, Shortbread, Thanks-A-Lot shortbreads with fudge, Lemonades, and Caramel deLites. A gluten-free cookie has been added this year. Called trios, the cookies combine peanut butter, chocolate chips and oatmeal. “It’s a very good tasting cookie,” Kummer said. The trios are being sold as a test project this year, to determine demand. Girls will have an initial supply, but will not be able to order more trios. That variety costs $5. Girls will begin with four semi loads of cookies from Interbake Foods in Sioux Falls, S.D. Cookies will be distributed to the cookie cupboards such as Kummer’s in Roanoke. “She does an awesome job,” Frederick said. “She’s been doing this longer than anyone else. And they are all wonderful. They do a super job.” Then more trucks will arrive at the Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana Council headquarters near Dupont Hospital. That building is the largest of the council’s cookie cupboards. Belton took the Girl Scouts communications post about eight months ago. “Being a newbie, I didn’t know what to expect when I came on board, and I quickly found out that Girl Scouting is so much more than just cookies and camping,” he said. “It’s life lessons in a fun environment. And everybody loves Girl Scout cookies, and I remember eating them all the time, but I didn’t know what went on behind the scenes.” “And I mean who doesn’t love Girl Scout cookies,” Belton said. The scouts also operate a lesser known fall products sale, with Caramel Treasures, Peanut Butter Bears and 15 other foods. “We’ve got the Girl Scout 15 here that I’ve already gained,” Belton said. “I’m always in Connie’s office, and I’m like what have you got to eat?”

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KPC Media Group appoints Ward new CEO Staff reports 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 announcement 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 leadership to Terry Ward, who is a seasoned newspaperman

with strong digital management experience,” Ward Housholder said. “He has the skills, enthusiasm and commitment to move us forward as we strive to better serve our communities.” 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 atWaldron Lake near

Rome City. “This is such an exciting time for KPC,” Housholder 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 Housholder 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 enthusiasm 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 previously was the director of sales and digital for GateHouse Media’s Community Newspaper Division where he worked in a leadership capacity with publishers, advertising directors, sales managers and their teams representing 142 publications 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 University-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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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 applications and law school enrollments continue to decrease,” cummings said. Nearly 40,000 first-year students were enrolled in American Bar Association-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

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the program is in just its second year. Administrators are working to achieve that status, and they face a critical test to do so in 2015. As part of the accreditation process, cummings said ABA members visited the campus last summer to inspect the school. Their ﬁnal report was then delivered 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 recommend 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 education 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 maintaining 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 experiences 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.” Over the summer, members of the 2016 class served as interns at various offices, including five who clerked for Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office. The Indiana Tech students were able to tackle assignments effectively and confidently thanks to their education, cummings said. A member of Zoeller’s staff complimented the performance of the Indiana Tech students and those from other law schools. “In general, we’ve had a great relationship with all the law schools,” said Jaime Barb, marketing director for the office of the attorney general. She also noted that one of the Indiana Tech clerks stayed on to help with the agency’s outreach services in the Fort Wayne area. When students returned to the campus for the fall semester, members of the second-year class were invigorated by their internship experiences.

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Thereâ€™s a certain â€œif you build it, they will comeâ€? 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 adjacent Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home Center. The bereavement support center â€” one of only a few in the nation â€” 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 ofďŹ cials said the need to do more than the minimum â€” much more, as it turns out â€” is now and real and great. â€œOver the last 5 to 7 years, we have really increased how much we do in the area of grief support for our families,â€? 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 ofďŹ cials said will be a beautiful, no-expense-spared center for calming and healing. Community Grief Center is on schedule for a May 2015 dedication. â€œThere are very few grief centers in the nation, so this is one of a kind for the community, especially for adults,â€? said Laura Ankenbruck, Visiting Nurse director of operations and human resources. â€œOver the last few years grief support services had grown so much that there is a deďŹ nite need for this in the community.â€? The grief center, designed by Fort Wayne architectural ďŹ rm 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, ďŹ replace 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 50 person meeting room for larger groups. The bottom level primarily will house ofďŹ ces for Visiting Nurse ofďŹ cials, though a massive 150 person multipurpose room directly below the rooftop garden was built to extend the healing operation there. It will be outďŹ tted with partitioned walls so it can be divided if need be, as well as automatic 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 meandering around for guests to walk and a heated sidewalk to connect the buildings. A veterans garden with a ďŹ‚ag pole and ďŹ re pit will go in, and a mothers garden and fathers garden have been

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The new grief center adjacent to Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home on Fort Wayneâ€™s southwest side will be one of just a few of its kind in the country.

planned for the future. Every furnishing and color detail and fabric selection was made with inďŹ‚uence from Visiting Nurseâ€™s grief team. â€œThey know it better than I do, better than Laura does,â€? said Hermann. The lower level also will house Visiting

Nurseâ€™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. â€œItâ€™s going to be a highly utilized room,â€? 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, Ankenbruck 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 free to the public center, she added. â€œWe see this as a way of giving back to the community,â€? said Hermann. â€œThe 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.â€? 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 administrative assistant position to full time within the year, she said â€œWeâ€™re really excited about it,â€? said Hermann of the new center. â€œOur dream is really coming true now.â€?

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Philharmonic to present ‘All Mozart’ night Jan. 10 The Fort Wayne Philharmonic, 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 Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras and the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Detroit and Denver symphonies among many others in the U.S., and internationally with orchestras in Italy, Switzerland, 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 regularly 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. Fort Wayne Philharmonic is performing its 71th season. For more information, visit fwphil.org.

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Six of the 44 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton National Junior Honor Society members show a two-sided ﬂeece blanket that they recently cut and tied together and donated to Vincent Village. Students also donated children’s books to the center, which helps families with transitional housing. Students ﬁrst held a bake sale to help fund the project.

Flood control project complete Extra flood protection is now in place for residents 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 protection efforts forward. Henry recently joined residents of the neighborhood to cut a ceremonial ribbon with sandbags,

Volunteers count birds Eagle Marsh and other prime birding sites in southwest Allen County will be included for the first time in an annual Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Jan. 3. The count is sponsored by Stockbridge Audubon Society, Little River Wetlands Project, and Fox Island County Park. Registration closed Dec. 30. “This new count area allows us to include what have become some of the best birding sites in Allen County,” said Cynthia Powers, one of the leaders of the project. “Each team will visit a different park or preserve in which to watch, listen, and tally all the bird species found.” Part of a nationwide effort by the Audubon Society to count birds every Christmas season for the last 114 years, the count in this area has previously been focused only on other parts of Allen County. Information about the national Christmas Bird Count can be found at birds.audubon.org/ christmas-bird-count.

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protection project for $422,000. In recent years, the city has moved forward with many flood control improvement projects, coupled with buyouts, throughout the community. Nearly 60 homes prone to flooding have been purchased in low-lying areas since 2008. During those same years, the city completed flood protection in the neighborhoods of Park/ Thompson, Woodhurst, Winchester Road, Calhoun/Tillman, Fairfield, and Eastbrook/Westbrook.

Luers gives Baker scholarship Bishop Luers High School is offering a scholarship in memory of 1978 graduate Julie Edwards Baker, who died of colon cancer in August 2013. 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. “During her

battle with colon cancer, Julie was hopeful that knowledge of her situation may make a positive impact on someone’s life by encouraging colon screening.” The school announced that freshman Casey Woodfill is the first recipient of the Julie Edwards Baker Memorial Scholarship. Woodfill attended St. John the Baptist School, and is a member of St. John the Baptist Church. She was selected by the Bishop Luers faculty and staff. As the

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County learning center campaign tops $1 million A campaign to raise $1.3 million for a Huntington County Community Learning Center has topped the $1 million mark. Reaching the milestone of nearly $1.1 million in contributions and pledges was achieved in part

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production, agricultural education, and ministry and missions. Established in the fall of 2014, HUâ€™s Institute for Agricultural Studies promotes a Christian perspective on agriculture, which recognizes a responsibility to be good stewards of creation and to examine questions of sustainability and justice. For more information about the program, log on to huntington.edu/agriculture.

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Kenny Taylor will play Jan. 24 at â€œLet the Good Times Rollâ€? at the Cottage Event Center.

Taylor to headline Honor Flight beneďŹ t Roanokeâ€™s Cottage Event Center will welcome back guitar virtuoso Kenny Taylor with a Jan. 24 concert titled â€œLet the Good Times Roll.â€? The event, like last yearâ€™s â€œElvis Birthday Bashâ€? 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 information. The show will feature the music that defined the early days of rock â€˜nâ€™ 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 â€œjump bluesâ€? music, including the title song â€œLet the Good Times Rollâ€? from which the rock genre evolved. Taylorâ€™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 Twistinâ€™ Tarantulas and has played with Carl Storie of Indianapolisâ€™ popular Faith Band. Taylorâ€™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 childrenâ€™s music accompanied on ukuleles. He plays with the jump blues band Kenny Taylor & The Swing Set Quartet. Taylor also plays banjo with Fort Wayneâ€™s Farmland Jazz Band, and teaches guitar at the Sweetwater Academy of Music.

A cash bar will be available, 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.

By the middle of winter, people might feel that spring will never come. On Saturday, Jan. 31, Victory Noll Center will host the program â€œStillness Retreatâ€? teaching wellness and spiritual practices designed to bring an awareness of Godâ€™s presence. Jan Parker, Cheri Krueckeberg and Sue Wilhelm will facilitate the programâ€œBe Still and know that I am God,â€? 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.

Victory Noll Center is located at 1900 W. Park Drive in Huntington. Krueckeberg is a yoga practitioner and teacher, and an assistant professor of social work and gerontology program director at Manchester College. Parker earned the certiďŹ cate of completion in training in healing and transformation from Capacitar International Inc., and is an accredited tâ€™ai chi chih teacher. Wilhelm is director of Victory Noll Center and offers her expertise in spirituality and the labyrinth. 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 victorynollcenter@olvm.org. More information is also available on the centerâ€™s website at olvm.org/ vncenter. No one is ever turned away from a because of inability to pay. Payment plans, scholarships and pay-it-forward opportuni-

ties are available. Victory Noll Center is a ministry of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, and is dedicated to fostering spiritual growth and personal development in a welcoming environment, advocating social justice awareness and response, and nourishing people to live and share Godâ€™s love in todayâ€™s world.

HU Nursing Department to host summer academy The Huntington University Nursing Department will give high school students a sneak-peek into the life of a nursing student in summer 2015 through the departmentâ€™s ďŹ rst-ever nursing camp academy. The camp, which is designed for high school juniors and seniors interested in pursuing a career in nursing, will feature opportunities to gain a broader understanding of the nursing ďŹ eld and what Huntington University has to offer. Participants have the opportunity to experience activities in the Nursing Simulation Center and classrooms, tour area

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CHOIR from Page A1 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 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Overdahls 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 distinguished

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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

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Anton Armstrong is just the fourth conductor in the 102-year history of the St. Olaf Choir.

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. Vaught said group rates will be established for the February concert. Call 426-7421. 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 Alto I, is the only current choir member from Indiana. In Fort Wayne, Overdahl 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.

Get tickets Saint Olaf Choir. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, First Presbyterian Church, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. Anton Armstrong, conductor. Tickets $30 for adults, $15 for students. Buy tickets at the church, call 426-7421, or visit stolaftickets.com.

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WATER from Page A1 tion that second full week of January,” Suárez told Times Community Publications. 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 apartments. “[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. The city has been pursuing the purchase for years. “Mayor Henry was hearing a lot about the quality of the water,” Suárez said. In 2008 the mayor instructed the utilities administration to contact Aqua Indiana and starting working on the

conversion, Suárez said. 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 Utilities 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 ceremony at Citizens Square. “Our southwest residents have called for City water for years, and today I’m proud we can fulﬁll my promise of bringing our award-winning water to

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Prayer begins in sanctuary rebuilt after ﬁre By Garth Snow

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A month of prayer will precede the first service in the new sanctuary of Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church. The worship area of the Maysville Road church was destroyed by fire early on the morning of Dec. 31, 2012. Work continues on the replacement structure, where Taylor Chapel plans special events Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. “As the sanctuary comes to fruition, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 30, we will be having 30 days of prayer vigil in the new space,” said Pastor the Rev. Steven Conner, “so the first thing that happens in the new sanctuary will be a season of prayer and blessing of what will take place in the years ahead in the sanctuary, the lives that will be transformed, and the baptisms and weddings that will take place there.” On Saturday, Jan. 31, from 1 to 4 p.m., the community is invited to see the new sanctuary. On Sunday, Feb. 1, the two services will be combined into a single 10:30 a.m. service. That service will begin in the Family Life Center, where the congregation has been worshipping for almost two years. After hymns and prayers, the congregation will process into the

Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church, 10145 Maysville Road. Jan. 1-30, prayer vigil in the new sanctuary. Saturday, Jan. 31, 1-4 p.m. Grand opening in the new sanctuary, welcoming the entire community. Sunday, Feb. 1, 10:30 a.m. The service begins in the Family Life Center and moves to the new sanctuary. Bishop the Rev. Michael Coyner presides. Sunday, March 1, 10:30 a.m. Consecration service for the new sanctuary.

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Exterior work continues on the new sanctuary of Taylor Chapel United Methodist Church, 10145 Maysville Road.

new sanctuary space for “worship, sacrament and a new beginning,” the pastor said. The Rev. Michael Coyner, the bishop of the Indiana Area of the United Methodist Church, will preside over the worship. “A follow-up on that, on March 1, will be our Consecration Sunday, where we actually consecrate the new sanctuary to the glory of God,” Conner said. Again, a 10:30 a.m. service will replace the regular 8:30 a.m. traditional service and the 10:30 a.m. contemporary service. “We want the community to gather in one place on those special days,” the pastor said. “It’s been a challenge. I

have to admit,” Conner said in an interview. He said members of the congregation, other churches and other pastors have made monetary and spiritual contributions. “It’s not been easy. And the times of testing make you go deeper, and that’s what I feel in the long run this church has done and will look back upon and realize that they have done. It has forced some change, just dealing with the crisis, dealing with reconstruction, and it has taken longer than we thought [it would take].” “We’ve had some people leave. We’ve had some new people come,” Conner said. “It all kinds of works out in the end. And I think that at the end of the day

when we look back upon this time we will have realized that God made this church stronger and that we learned things about ourselves that we otherwise would not have learned about what it means to be the church in mission.” “I just told them Sunday that I was very proud of this church and this community,” he said, explaining that the continuing recovery from the ﬁre would have made it easy to become focused inward. “But three weeks after the ﬁre we sent a check for several thousand dollars to a project for digging water wells in Burkina Faso, Africa. We’ve dug seven water wells there as part of a project called

Clean Water in Africa, along with a number of other churches,” Conner said. “And we’re going to emphasize that again.” Church leaders knew that the church would need the insurance money, and would need to borrow, and would still need to raise money. “So we challenged the congregation to a Miracle on Maysville,” he said. And in one service, pledges totaled more than the typical offerings for a full year. “And we don’t have anyone who wrote a check for half of it or a third of it or anything like that. It was just people digging in and contributing, making sacriﬁces,” Conner said. The year 2015 marks the church’s 150th anniversary. The church began as a little chapel at what is now Bowers Cemetery. “And my goal as pastor is not to take them back there,” Conner said. “I love the idea that it

is 150 years old. I think it’s got a great story ahead of it as well that we have yet to discover,” Conner said. “We’re not sure how we’re going to celebrate the 150 years yet. I guess by opening the new sanctuary. I guess you can’t get much better than that. And we will probably do some things through the year to remember that, celebrate it.” Though the congregation will begin worshiping in the sanctuary in February, additions will continue as possible. Clear glass windows will work for now; stained glass windows might be possible later. The cross that was salvaged from the burned sanctuary also might be restored. “We are hoping to refurbish it. It’s in our garage right now,” Conner said. “We’ve worked out in our building committee a plan to hang it central in the tall glass windows that sit behind the sanctuary.”

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Juanita Boyd began photography painting in the 1950s. She will display her art and teach an art class at the Balentine Gallery in Bluffton.

Former gallery owner plans Bluffton exhibit Local artist Juanita Boyd will display her work from Jan. 5 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. â€œJuanita is a fascinating 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,â€? 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 ďŹ lm changed the face of the photograph-to-painting market. Around this time, with the encouragement of her husband, Garland, Boyd painted on traditional canvas for the ďŹ rst time. Having only painted on the more difďŹ cult 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 framemaking, and became a certiďŹ ed picture framer. In the 1980s, they opened Frames by Garland, which later became Garlandâ€™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 lifeâ€™s work with the community. Nearly one hundred paintings will be on display. Boyd also will teach a painting class. No prior painting experience is required. The class will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9. This class will be held at the Balentine Gallery, and costs $25 for nonmembers of Creative Arts Council and $20 for members. Materials will be included, and class size is limited to 15 people. The Creative Arts Council of Wells Countyâ€™s mission is to encourage, present and promote the arts. Register at wellscocreativearts.com.

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attaining her private pilotâ€™s license at age 17. Ringenberg, who started ďŹ‚ying for the WASPs in 1943, was her daughterâ€™s ďŹ‚ight instructor and racing teammate and raced with and against her in numerous races. Ringenberg was 72 when she ďŹ‚ew around the world. In this tribute to her mother, Wright shows how Ringenberg overcame generational and temperamental expectations even as she overcame the expectations of society in the 1940s. Ringenberg received the Congressional Gold Medal on Dec. 10, along with several other honors for their work with the Civil Air Patrol. Ringen-

berg founded the Fort Wayne Civil Air Patrol squadron, in which she is said to have transported people, documents, and supplies during World War II. This yearâ€™s Mather Lectures are featuring biographies of persons important in Allen County and Fort Wayne history. Several of the lecturers, including Wright, are authors presenting on their most current books. Sponsored by the Dunsire Family Foundation, all lectures in this series are free to the public, at 2 p.m. on the ďŹ rst Sunday of October and November as well as January through June. The April lecture will occur one week later

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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 Methodist Church. She made no mention of her past or of her future as she guided the congregation’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

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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.

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

At least 3 winter guards to share Carroll preview By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com

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. Admission 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 schedules,” Widmer said. “So it’s a time to hang out together and cheer each other on. We did it last year, too, and

Homestead show developing 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’s ﬁrst competition will be at DeKalb High School on 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

Jan. 24. The guard also will compete Feb. 7 at Danville High School, Feb. 14 at Anderson high school, Feb. 21 at Bishop Dwenger High School and Feb. 28 at Carroll High School. The guard will invite the community to a showcase at a date to be determined. Watch for updates at spartanallianceband.com. Last year’s guard placed third in the state finals. 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 representation of the music.” “And winter guard is similar, but we’re inside in a gym performing to prerecorded music,” she said. The 19 members of the Carroll winter guard were rehearsing long before Christmas. “We had a See WINTER, Page B5

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 See BIDS, Page B2

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 worthwhile. 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 schoolchildren, though, it might mean their first glimpse of the animals

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BIDS from Page B1 responsibility of motherhood, so it really hit me hard when the women came in with those little kids,” she said. “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 organization for a year and a half until she entered the seminary. 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,

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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-quarterstime 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

Just an inner knowing that this is the way you’re supposed to go.” The Rev. Brenda Ginder reﬂecting on her calling to the ministry

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 Methodist 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 particularly 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

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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.

A Kansas City development firm is now officially the owner of 40 acres in the Stonebridge Business Park, Allen County’s first-ever shovel-ready site. NorthPoint Development 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 infrastructure costs.

“The County Commissioners, County Council and Redevelopment Commission all take seriously our ﬁduciary responsibility of spending taxpayer dollars in a most prudent and responsible manner,” said Commissioner Nelson Peters. “We’re pleased with the outcome of this deal since losing taxpayer money was not acceptable.” “By having the infrastructure in place, the county mitigated the time frame immensely for a developer to come and move dirt,” noted Rich Beck, president of the Redevelopment Commission. “Having the infrastructure 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 infrastructure which will help to attract more companies looking to locate operations in Allen County. NorthPoint Development 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 manufacturing facilities. Previous and current clients of NorthPoint have included original equipment manufacturers and automotive suppliers at similar projects nationally.

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Ledo, CEO of AWP Sports. “Together, we will grow our emphasis to positively impact the community and provide an excellent experience for athletes of all sports seeking purpose beyond athletics.” Zach Lesser, executive director of The Summit, said, “Partnering with AWP and Parkview Sports Medicine is a critical component in our strategy to effectively serve the community and propel athletes and residents to reach their full potential.”

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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. Beginning in January, hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets also are available online, at mizpahshrinecircus.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 domesticated 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 operations. Payments are not deductible as a charitable contribution. Shriners support children’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 tzproductions.com.

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 thirdgraders, for instance, and Whitley County sends its seventhgraders. They will join circus spectators 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 volunteers. It doesn’t cost me, except some food and that’s

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WINTER from Page B1 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 voiceovers,” 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 overlapping,” she said. “Carroll and Heritage each have a boy for the ﬁrst time in a long time,” Widmer said. The male student in each guard will serve “a bit of a character role,” she said. “We graduated over half the color guard last year, so we have a lot of young members in the winter guard this season,” she

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said of the Heritage guard. Those guard members are excited about the new experience, 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. It’s 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 participated 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. Washington 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, Northwood, Snider and Wayne. State competitions begin March 7, and are separated into classes. The season ends March 21.

Get Checking workshops planned January to June The Purdue Cooperative Extension Service in Allen County continues to host the Get Checking workshop 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 committing 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. Workshops are free and open to the public. Advance registration by phone or mail is preferred. At the completion of the workshop, the participants will receive a certiﬁcate that will allow them to open an account at a participating bank or credit union. Workshop dates include: Jan. 28, 1-5 p.m.; Feb. 17, 5-9 p.m.; March 24, 1-5 p.m.; April 29, 5-9 p.m.; May 20, 1-5 p.m., and June

16, 5-9 p.m. Workshop topics include an introduction 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 hadleyv@purdue.edu; visit the Home & Money page on the website at extension. purdue.edu/allen; or visit the ofﬁce.

Trades program to get new home 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 University, including electrical basics, OSHA certification, American Concrete Certification, carpentry basics, construction safety, Powder Actuated Nailer Certification and more. Students participating in the Construction Trades programs have the opportu-

nity 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 children will attend and what services may be needed to support the student and their family. Departments 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 and the Fort Wayne Area PTA to further offer easy access to resources needed by families. “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 several outside funding sources to support the costs of the expansion of Construction Trades programs as well as the opening of the Resource Center.

Winter Guard festivals For details of these events, other festivals, and the schedule for the state competition, visit ihscga. org. Jan. 24, DeKalb High School, 3424 County Road

427, Waterloo. Admission $6. Jan. 31, Heritage High School, 13608 Monroeville Road, Monroeville. Admission $6. Feb. 21, Bishop Dwenger

High School, 1300 E. Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne. Admission $6. Feb. 28, Carroll High School, 3701 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne. Admission $6.

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Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free admission.

Fort 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.

THURSDAY, JAN. 15 Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission.

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Visit InFortWayne.com We round up the best of the best each weekend, so you can spend less time planning, and more time doing. SATURDAY, JAN. 3 Southwest Christmas Bird Count. Gather at Little River Wetlands Project ofďŹ ce, 7209 Engle Road, Suite 200. 8 a.m. to completion. Free. Join other birders of all experience levels and Ed and Cynthia Powers of Stockbridge Audubon Society for the ďŹ rst Southwest Allen County Christmas Bird Count. Teams of birders will visit Eagle Marsh and other LRWP preserves, ACRES preserves, Fox Island County Park and other preserves. Sponsored by Stockbridge Audubon Society, Little River Wetlands Project and Fox Island County Park. 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 ďŹ rst and third Saturdays of each month: Jan. 17, Feb. 7 and 21, March 7 and 21, April 4 and 18, and May 2 and 16. For details and updates, visit ftwaynesfarmersmarket.com. Winter Bridal Spectacular. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. Noon-4 p.m. $10 at the door, ages 12 and under free. Drawings and prizes. For details, visit fortwaynebrides.com. Gun & Knife Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $6 for adults, ages 6-12 $2.

SUNDAY, JAN. 4 Winter Bridal Spectacular. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. Noon-4 p.m. $10 at the door, ages 12 and under free. Drawings and prizes. For details, visit fortwaynebrides.com. Gun & Knife Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $6 for adults, ages 6-12 $2.

TUESDAY, JAN. 13 Fort Wayne Farm Show. Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission.

Trivia 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 bishopdwenger.com or contact Bishop Dwengerâ€™s Development OfďŹ ce 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 ďŹ rst 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 ftwaynesfarmersmarket.com.

SUNDAY, JAN. 18 Humorist Mike Leiderman. Congregation Bâ€™nai Jacob, 7227 Bittersweet Moors Drive. 2 p.m. The congregation invites the community to an afternoon 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; suggested donation is $10. The legacy of the civil rights leader comes to life in a commemorative concert by Heartland, northeastern Indianaâ€™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. 22 Mizpah 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. 23 Mizpah 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. 24 Mizpah 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. 25 Mizpah 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. 27 Fort Wayne Womenâ€™s Midday Connection. Orchard Ridge Country Club, 4531 Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $15.50, inclusive 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. 29 Fort 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.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 7 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 ďŹ rst 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 ftwaynesfarmersmarket.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. 5. Teacher records day â€” no school for students. Monday, Jan. 19. Martin Luther King Day â€” no school. Friday, Feb. 13. Teacher in-service day â€” no school. Monday, Feb. 16. Presidents Day â€” no school. Friday, March 27. No school. Work day for 12-month employees. Monday, March 30 â€” Thursday, April 2. Spring break â€” no school. Friday, April 3. Good Friday â€” no school. Monday, May 25. Memorial Day â€” 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 ACTIVITIES Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane, Fort Wayne. Call 4211310. Born to Read Babies and Books. Mondays, Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26, 10:30 a.m. Stories, 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 preschooler. 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 painting 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 â€œAnd the Mountains Echoed,â€? by Khaled Hosseini. Cookbook Book Club. Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2 p.m. Read the clubâ€™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 heartâ€™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 â€œThe Circleâ€? 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 â€œThe Hobbitâ€? by J.R.R. Tolkien.

LITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT ACTIVITIES Little River Ramblers. Every Tuesday morning in January, 9 to 11 a.m. Meet at the Boy Scout ofďŹ ce parking lot, 8315 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne, to hike and explore the interesting plants and wildlife of Eagle Marsh. Contact info@lrwp.org or 478-2515 for information. Breakfast on the Marsh: Tracks â€” Learn Whoâ€™s Sharing your Space. Thursday, Jan.8, 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. Light breakfast and nature presentation for nature lovers 50+ at Coventry Meadows Senior Community on West Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. Dane Nagy, Indiana Master Naturalist and expert tracker, will share tips on how to recognize animal signs and tracks on your property and at Eagle Marsh. Free. Contact info@lrwp.org 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 â€” 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 info@lrwp.org or 4782515 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

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Indiana 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 coordinate local activities. In Allen County, approved adult volunteers teach young people specific skills related to a wide variety of subjects through hands-on, experiential learning. Youth also develop leadership and citizenship skills by participating 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 / CONTINUING Basketball sign-up. Parkwood Church of God, 3320 Trier Road. $125 registration 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 information or to order tickets, call (574) 267-8041 or visit wagonwheeltheatre.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 basketball 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 allsports pass, senior citizen, SACS employee I.D., etc., does not guarantee a seat at these games. Due to the limited capacity and fire code restrictions, 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 information, 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 appointment. To schedule an appointment, call 749-5300 or visit eacchurchofchrist.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 techniques, how and when to talk with a 9-1-1 dispatcher, injury prevention,

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FRANCINE’S FRIENDS MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY Appointments 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. Monday, Jan. 5, Parkview Physicians Group - Family Practice, 1331 Minnich Road, New Haven. Tuesday, Jan. 6, Kroger / Scott’s, 4120 N. Clinton St. Wednesday, Jan. 7, Adler J. Salonspa, 5129 Illinois Road. Thursday, Jan. 8, All American Stores, 6467 Merchants Drive, LaOtto. 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 between Francine’s Friends, Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Breast Diagnostic Center.

call (800) 733-2767). Adams County. Monday, Jan. 5, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at Riverside Center, 231 East Monroe St. in Decatur. Sunday, Jan. 11, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at St. Mary Catholic Church, 414 Madison St. in Decatur. DeKalb County. Tuesday, Jan. 6, 12 noon-6 p.m., at First United Methodist Church, 1203 East 7th St. in Auburn. Wednesday, Jan. 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Wal-Mart, 505 Touring Drive in Auburn. Allen County. Sunday, Jan. 4, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 2213 Brooklyn Ave. in Fort Wayne. Tuesday, Jan. 6, 3 p.m.-7 p.m., at Precious Blood Catholic Church, 1515 Barthold St. in Fort Wayne. Tuesday, Jan. 6, 3 p.m.-7 p.m. at Third Place, 1601 West Cedar Canyon Road in Huntertown. 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. Saturday, Jan. 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Cafe of Hope, 900 E. State St. in Huntington. Monday, Jan. 5, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m., at Evangelical United Methodist Church, 1000 Flaxmill Road in Huntington. 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. Wednesday, Jan. 7, 12 noon-6 p.m., at Helmer United Methodist Church, 7530 S. Indiana 327 in Helmer. Thursday, Jan. 8, 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m., at American Legion Post 423, 6215 Indiana 327 in Orland. Friday, Jan. 9, 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., at Fremont Community Church, 601 N. Coldwater St. in Fremont. 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.

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Jim Mickelini

Brian Bowes

Mark Freed

Service Manager

Service Advisor

$29

Fall & Winter care

500 off

Regular Oil Change *Save $5, plus Additional $7 mail in rebate. Plus Tax and shop fees. Not *Save $5, plus $7 mail in rebate. Plus Tax and shop fees. Not applicable toto synthetic or dieselor oildiesel changes. oil applicable synthetic May not be combined with other offers. Up to 5 qts. of oil. changes. May not be combined with other offers. Up to 5 qts. of oil. Preferred Automotive Group Exp. 1/31/15

John Lazarek ASE Master Tech

Larry Jackson

Scott Poor

ASE Master Tech

ASE Technician

Caleb Pozorski

James Seitz

Austin Osborne

Parts Manager

ASE Technician

Winter Tire Care

109.95

Balance & Rotate 4 Tires Plus 4-Wheel Alignment Plus Nitrogen Refill *Two wheel front end alignment. Upgrade to 4 wheel alignment for just $15.00 additional. Price plus tax Preferred Automotive Group Exp. 1/31/15

Andrew Wegner

Miranda Murphy

Technician

Office Manager

Yes, we work with large and small fleets. We offer pick up, fleet discounts, and next “Bay” service.

5005 Illinois Road

Just west of Jefferson Pointe

(260) 434-4467

FREE Charging System Test Quick test of star ter, alternator and battery

FREE

COOLING SYSTEM INSPECTION Just in time for Winter! Inspect hoses and belts, radiator, and coolant levels and effectiveness. Preferred Automotive Group Exp. 1/31/15

20 off

Cooling System Flush OR Get your car ready for Winter Cold, with fresh coolant. This offer includes FREE coolant system inspection.

10% off

Cooling System Repairs Save 10% on any repairs associated with your cooling system. Offers may not be combined. Preferred Automotive Group Exp. 1/31/15

Buy One Get One

FREE

Wiper Blade Some exclusions may apply. Not valid on beam blades. Preferred Automotive Group Exp. 1/31/15

Preferred Automotive Group Exp. 1/31/15

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