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Wolcottville man released in battery case BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com

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ANGOLA — A Wolcottville man who was arrested for allegedly battering an Angola woman has been released on his own recognizance after his alibi was confirmed by police. Christopher Allen Hamaker, 42, was released on Thursday afternoon after police checked an alibi he had given during a court hearing earlier in the day. “His alibi checked out,” said Angola Police Detective Tim Crooks. Hamaker is facing a felony battery charge after police found an Angola woman beaten and

Flood warning issued for area FROM STAFF REPORTS

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for portions of northern Indiana and northwest Ohio, including DeKalb and Noble counties. Heavy rainfall is expected from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. Runoff from the rain and melting snow will increase the threat for flooding, said a report from the NWS. Rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches are possible with the highest amounts south of Fort Wayne. The heaviest rainfall is expected between Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Low-lying areas are at risk of flooding as well as streams and creeks. River levels could rise significantly, causing potential flooding in the coming week.

left unconscious a second time this month. The case remains under investigation. “They OR’d him until we can have another interview with (the victim),” Hamaker Crooks said. A no contact order with the victim has been left in place. Crooks said police are trying to determine exactly who would have battered the woman twice this month, both times leaving her unconscious. Hamaker has been released to Clay County authorities where

he has an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court for a March 1, 2010, trial for Class D felony theft and burglary. Hamaker had been arrested Wednesday on a warrant for Class C felony battery resulting in serious bodily injury after an incident that allegedly occurred on Dec. 12. He also was charged with a habitual offender enhancement. Hamaker was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail in the Steuben County Jail before his release late in the afternoon Thursday. In his initial hearing Thursday, when asked by Magistrate Randy Coffey if he had any questions about his bail, Hamaker tried to

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ELKHART (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence says Hoosiers everywhere are mourning the loss of a northern Indiana soldier who was among six U.S. service members killed after a helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan. Thirty-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Jesse Lee Williams of Elkhart was aboard a Black Hawk transport helicopter when it crashed Tuesday. He was on his third deployment overseas. Pence said today that “it is with deep sadness” that he learned of Williams’ death. He says, “Jesse Lee Williams is an American hero whose service and sacrifice will never be forgotten by the people of this state and nation.” It’s not clear yet when Williams’ funeral will be.

using the school district’s power announcement as soon as the problem was detected. A letter was sent home to parents explaining the situation. Rome City Principal Heather Green updated parents on the situation. Water was boiled and purified in the school kitchen, and kitchen staff members used throwaway towels. Students were encouraged to wash their hands thoroughly in restrooms. East Noble has no confirmed reports of students becoming ill from drinking the water, according to East Noble superintendent Ann Linson. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management was alerted, and Kendallville water

Target is grappling with a data security nightmare that threatens to drive off holiday shoppers during the company’s busiest time of year. The nation’s second largest discounter said Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. The data theft marks the second largest credit card breach in the U.S. after retailer TJX Cos. announced in 2007 that at least 45.7 million credit and debit card users were exposed to credit card fraud. Target’s acknowledgement came a day after news reports surfaced that the discounter was investigating a breach. The chain said customers who made purchases by swiping their cards at terminals in its U.S. stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have had their accounts exposed. The stolen data includes customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the three-digit security codes located on the backs of cards. The data breach did not affect online purchases, the company said. The stolen information included Target store brand cards and major card brands such as Visa and MasterCard. The Minneapolis company, which has 1,797 stores in the U.S. and 124 in Canada, said it immediately told authorities and financial institutions once it became aware of the breach on Dec. 15. The company is teaming with a third-party forensics firm to investigate and prevent future breaches.

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All aboard Riders board a trolley in front of the Strand Theatre in Kendallville Thursday night for a free ride to see Kendallville’s neighborhood Christmas lights as part of the Save the Strand campaign. The trolley ran

from 6-9 p.m., with all available seats being taken by 6:45pm. A drawing was also held for an XBox gaming system with proceeds going to the fund.

School’s water problem fixed BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — Changes to Rome City Elementary School’s water filtering system may have solved the school’s bacteria problem. School corporation officials have been dealing with the problem for about six weeks. Tests on Monday, Dec. 9, were negative for the first time for coliform bacteria, East Noble business manager Brian Leitch told the East Noble school board Wednesday night. “We are testing the water three times in five different locations in January (an Indiana Department of Environmental Management recommendation), and should know for sure from the results,”

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get the charge dropped. “I’d actually move to have this dismissed. According to this (court paperwork) I have about 30 people who could place me at work in Kendallville,” Hamaker said. “From a preliminary phone call, I would believe that is correct,” Crooks said. The local case was initiated when Angola Police were called to the victim’s residence for a welfare check after she failed to report to work on Dec. 13, court documents said. When officers arrived at her home, she was found unconscious on the floor. The woman was taken to

Leitch said. Measures taken to prevent use of the water remained in place the past two weeks. Today is the last day of school before students go on a two-week holiday break. In early November, an unacceptable level of coliform bacteria was detected in the school’s water. The bacteria is an indicator of the sanitary quality of the water and not normally the cause of serious illness. Testing indicated it was at the low end of the acceptable level, Leitch said. School officials moved quickly to prevent use of the water. Drinking fountains were closed, and water stations were set up in the school with outside water brought in for the students. Families were notified by email

Several injured as roof of London theater falls LONDON (AP) — The roof or ceiling of a London theater partially collapsed Thursday night, showering a packed audience of about 700 with heaps of plaster, wood and dust, authorities and witnesses said. More than 80 people were injured, including at least seven seriously, and several trapped theater-goers had to be rescued. The collapse happened at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue at 8:15 p.m. (2015 GMT;

3:15 p.m.) during a performance of “The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime” at the height of the Christmas holiday season. “Complete chaos” erupted in the theater as the debris rained down, said Martin Bostock, who came with his family to see the show, which is based on the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon. “At first we thought it was part of the show,” he told Sky News. SEE THEATER, PAGE A10

A woman walks, bandaged and wearing a blanket given by emergency services, following an incident at the Apollo Theatre in London Thursday evening.

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Lee Pontius of Auburn shows the 1963 Avanti he bought 50 years ago this month.

Last-chance Avanti lasts 50 years BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com

AUBURN — Indiana’s Studebaker Corp. closed its doors in South Bend 50 years ago today, but not before Lee Pontius bought himself a Studebaker-built Avanti. The automobile company announced its closing plans Dec. 9, 1963. Four days later, Pontius, then 26, showed up at Studebaker Automotive Sales, 3625 E. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. Pontius aimed to buy a stylish 1963 Avanti before it was too late. “I was afraid I’d never get the chance when I got out of school. They’d all be gone,” said Pontius, who was finishing his engineering studies at Indiana Tech. Pontius paid $4,041 for his Avanti, setting up payments of $75 a month for three years. “I was scared to death” by the size of his commitment, Pontius recalled this week. But Pontius’ investment paid off, because he still owns that Avanti. He has driven the sporty car 120,000 miles, mostly to call on Borg-Warner customers in the mid-1970s. “It’s still fun to drive,” Pontius said. “People that aren’t even interested in cars turn their heads to look at it.” In 1964, he was visiting Cincinnati when people poured out of a barber shop — “even the guy in the chair” — to admire his car, he said. “They were just swooning over it and thought it was the new Mustang,” Pontius said, remembering his irritation at the mistaken identity. On Labor Day weekend of 1965, Avanti owners gathered in Auburn at the same time as the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club reunion, feeling a kinship with the ACD Club’s owners of trend-setting, orphaned, Indiana-built cars. Pontius took a photo of six Avantis, including his, lined up on West 9th Street where the ACD owners traditionally assemble.

Pontius moved to Auburn during his days as an engineer for the former Borg-Warner plant on the city’s south side. He once considered taking a job for two South Bend men who were building replica Avantis. One of them convinced Pontius to go into business for himself instead, so Pontius opened the NAPA Auto Parts store in Auburn, which marked its 40th anniversary this year. Pontius grew up with a family tradition of driving cars from small, independent makers. His grandfather ran a small Kaiser-Frazier dealership. “My dad and I owned Studebakers,” he said. Before buying his Avanti, Lee Pontius had driven a 1953 Studebaker hardtop. His father drove four or five stylish Studebaker Hawks in the 1950s. The Pontius family also has a long history of driving Hudsons. Today, Lee and his son, John, own 10 Hudsons, predominantly from the 1940s. “The independents were innovators,” Lee Pontius said. Studebaker introduced the Avanti in 1962 in a last-ditch attempt to save the struggling company, in the much same way Auburn Automobile Co.’s death throes produced the timeless 1936 Cord. The Avanti featured radical styling and enough power to set 29 land-speed records. The company built fewer than 6,000 before the end came. The Avanti “was different-looking than anything else,” Pontius said. Its fiberglass body was supplied by the same Ohio company that made the first Corvette bodies in 1953 Pontius’ 1963 Avanti came with a turquoise paint job. “I didn’t even like the color,” he said. He chose his car from four on the sales lot because “it had the least options and cost the least of any of them.” Finally, in the late 1980s, Pontius painted his Avanti black to suit his taste. After 50 years, it still does.

KENDALLVILLE — Mediacom, Kendallville’s only cable-TV provider, announced this week it is increasing rates Jan. 1 for some of its services. In a letter to Mayor Suzanne Handshoe, Esther C. Viles, Medicom’s senior manager for government relations, said Mediacom is reluctant to raise prices because when it does, the company loses subscribers. It added, “Cable and satellite companies are constantly being pressured by the programmers we buy from to pay more for the channels we carry.” Mediacom said it will be implementing these adjustments to monthly rates: • local broadcast station surcharge — from $2.93 to $3.27, a $0.34 increase; • HBO — from $16.95 to $17.95, a $1 increase; • Showtime — from $12.95 to $14.95, a $2 increase; • Starz — from $9 to $11, a $2 increase; and • Digital Plus — from $14 to $16, a $2 increase. The company said Digital Plus is no longer available for purchase by new customers. The rate adjustments affect all Mediacom customers in Indiana and the 21 other states where it does business. Viles said the fees Mediacom pays to retransmit local broadcast stations are its fastest growing programming cost. “Outdated federal laws give local broadcast stations monopoly power over network and syndicated programming within their respect markets,” she said in the letter. She said in the past few years, many broadcasters have used “real or threatened blackouts” to extract rate increases during contract negotiations, adding, “American consumers, through their cable and satellite bills, are now paying billions of dollars each year to broadcast station owners for free over-the-air television.” Mediacom began its local broadcast station surcharge in May in an amount equal to the fee increases local broadcast stations have demanded that Mediacom pay them since the start of 2012, Viles said. Handshoe shared the letter with City Council members this week. She said the city has no regulatory control over Mediacom, and no say in the rates the cable TV company charges.

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Avilla puts off sewer rate decision BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com

AVILLA — The Avilla Town Council discussed, but took no action Wednesday night, on sewer rates that need to be changed to keep the utility afloat. The town’s financial consultant, H.J. Umbaugh and Associates, presented the council with a rate study of the utility at a November meeting. Umbaugh said the town has begun losing money with its current sewer rates, and it would need an increase to meet bond payment obligations in 2014. The sewer fund had $862,000 in cash reserves as of the council’s November meeting for its sewer operations, approximately $300,000 above recommended minimum reserves. However, the cost of operating the system is exceeding revenues by approximately $121,000 per year, the rate study showed. The council discussed rate adjustment scenarios offered by its consultant, but tabled the issue until its January meeting. It is awaiting information on how tax increment financing revenues might be used to soften the blow of a rate increase. Three rate increase proposals discussed with the council in November involved a minimum $13.62 increase per month for a household producing 5,000 gallons of sewage a month. Rowe said 5,000 gallons is a typical benchmark figure for a family of four, but individual usage varies widely.

GARRETT — GarrettKeyser-Butler Schools sold out a limited number of retired Apple iPads in 45 minutes when it offered them to the public at $65 apiece. The sale was scheduled

to begin Wednesday morning and original plans called for it to continue Thursday. School officials said a line of buyers began to form before 7 a.m. Wednesday. Tickets were

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The consulting firm said Avilla’s current rate for 5,000 gallons is $41.61, placing the town in the bottom fourth for lowest rates compared to similar-size communities in northeastern Indiana. Rowe said Garrett residents pay $47.35 for 5,000 gallons of sewage. The rate for Auburn is $55.72. Residents of Waterloo pay the highest rate of $83.04 for 5,000 gallons. Butler residents pay $69.35. The lowest proposed increase for Avilla — to $55.23 for 5,000 gallons‚ would include installation of a new forced main from the Fourth Street lift station to the sewer plant, replacement of the Cranberry Acres lift station and the addition of a generator at that location and sewage pond sludge removal. The next potential increase, to $63.98, would include all of the improvements in the first increase and the addition of updating monitoring systems at the sewer plant, replacing manholes and installing a generator at the Sycamore Creek lift station. The highest increase, to $65.07, would include all of the improvements in the first and second proposals plus installing a gravity sewer from Sycamore Creek lift station to the Miner Road lift station. The town currently uses $190,000 per year in tax increment finance money to subsidize the sewer utility. The town council will consider the impact of putting additional funds in the sewer utility from TIF before making a final decision in January.

Also Wednesday, the council: • heard from Town Manager Bill Ley that through the generosity of several local businesses and hard work from the Avilla Street Department, holiday decorations have been restored and improved. Ley said local businesses and organizations contributed approximately $3,100$3,200 to the effort. The donors were the Avilla Chamber of Commerce, Restore Avilla Committee, Avilla Christmas Bureau, Community State Bank, Parker Industrial Supply and Harlan’s Country Kitchen. • heard from Fire Chief John Brazzell that his department made 17 runs in November, responding to a pair of vehicle accidents involving injury. Brazzell reported that Allen Township, which is in the department’s coverage area, has purchased 2,000 feet of fire hose. • heard from Town Marshal Glen Wills that his department had 165 calls for service and performed more than 2,000 business checks in November. Wills told the council he is working on cost estimates for putting computers in all of the department’s squad cars, a move required by the state for writing traffic citations and crash reports. • heard utilities superintendent Brian Carroll report that some residents in the town are blowing snow back into the streets when clearing their drives and sidewalks, creating a mess for town workers. Carroll said creating large piles of snow should be avoided, and it would be best if snow were blown back into residents’ yards.

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with no warranties. The devices were not capable of updating to the latest operating system and were not eligible for the school’s Bring Your Own Apple Device program due to application issues.

Some at IU bemused with choice of grad speaker BLOOMINGTON(AP) — Some graduating Indiana University students are scratching their heads that the University of Michigan’s president will be their commencement ceremony speaker this weekend. Indiana officials say Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman was picked to speak during Saturday’s ceremony at Assembly Hall because of her years as a highly respected leader in American higher education. IU golf team member John Beringer said he spent his college career considering Michigan a rival and found it odd that Coleman was selected as commencement speaker. “Admittedly, when I first saw it, it was kind of a shock, but I think everyone will be so excited about the day as a

whole that I don’t think it’s that big of a deal that she’s from another university,” Beringer told The Herald-Times. Coleman, who is retiring next year after 12 years as Michigan’s president, will be given a honorary doctorate degree at Indiana’s ceremony, during which nearly 1,900 students will be awarded degrees. Graduating Indiana senior Kody Gilliland said he was a bit disappointed in the choice of Coleman. “The University of Michigan?” Gilliland said. “The politically correct way to say it is ‘We are all in the Big Ten family’ and stuff like that, but, it’s like, ‘Oh, come on. You couldn’t get somebody who is not a Big Ten university president to come and speak?’”

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Police Blotter • Rear-end collision reported on Oak

reported Tuesday at 8:46 a.m.

KENDALLVILLE — Slick road conditions and a vehicle following too closely contributed to a collision Wednesday on Oak Street near the Rush Street intersection, Kendallville Police said. Austin J. Becker, 18, of the 200 block of Lisle Street, Kendallville, told police he was driving a 1998 Pontiac Grand Am southbound behind a 2004 Honda Accord driven by Warren G. McMillan, 18, of Wolcottville. A police news release said McMillan stopped, and Becker applied his brakes, but the Pontiac slid into the Honda. No injuries were reported. Police estimated damage at $2,500 to $5,000.

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Six booked into Noble County Jail ALBION — Six people were booked into the Noble County Jail Wednesday, the county sheriff’s department said. • Glenn E. Becker, 33, of Wolcottville was booked on a warrant for alleged operating a vehicle while intoxicated-endangering a person and a probation violation on an underlying conviction for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. • Robert Roy Russ, 31, of Kendallville was charged with domestic battery. • Justin Burl Darby, 23, of Kendallville was charged with operating while intoxicated with a previous conviction. • Erin Gilbert, 23, of Ligonier was charged with possession of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana, hash oil or hashish; and resisting law enforcement. • Christopher Allen Hamaker, 42, of Wolcottville was booked on an outside agency’s warrant and transferred to its authorities. No other information was released. • Matthew Curtis Williams, 29, of Ligonier was charged with possession of methamphetamine.

Medication missing CROMWELL — Someone stole 69 hydrocodone pills and 51 clonazepam pills from a residence in the 3000 block of North C.R. 900W, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. The theft was

ROME CITY — Someone tried to use bad checks at a business in the 200 block of Kelly Street, the Rome City Town Marshal’s Office said. The fraud was reported Wednesday at 3:20 p.m.

Driver arrested after slide off LAGRANGE — A minor traffic accident led to an arrest on drug charges early Thursday morning, LaGrange Police said. Jeremy Wade Holliday, 27, of Rome City, was arrested on charges of possession of methamphetamine and maintaining a common nuisance, Class D felonies, and possession of paraphernalia and driving while suspended with a prior conviction, Class A misdemeanors. Thursday at 1 a.m., LaGrange Police stopped to help Holliday after his 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix slid off Spring Street near Walnut Street. A news release said police found that Holliday was in possession of methamphetamine and paraphernalia.

4 booked into jail LAGRANGE — Local police arrested four people from Friday through Tuesday, according to LaGrange County Jail records. Kyle Collins, 28, of the 4300 block of S.R. 3, Howe, was arrested Saturday by LaGrange town police on charges of resisting law enforcement with a vehicle and operating while intoxicated-refusal. Arturo Guzman, 35, of the 100 block of South Clay, Sturgis, Mich., was arrested Saturday by LaGrange County police on a charge of operating without ever having received a license. David Bontrager, 20, of the 200 block of North State Street, Shipshewana, was arrested Friday by LaGrange County police on a charge of reckless driving. Esteven Gallegos, 18, of the 0400 block of West C.R. 050N, LaGrange, was arrested Friday by LaGrange County police on a charge of operating without ever having received a license.

Regional Roundup • Shooting kills 1; woman charged PIERCETON — A woman who Kosciusko County police say broke into a house Wednesday evening and hid in a closet before she jumped out and shot two men who had just entered the home has been charged with murder, attempted murder and burglary, our news partner, NewsChannel 15, reports. Police say Sonya Lynn Armontrout, 42, of Warsaw, then stabbed one of the men as he stumbled down a hallway into a living room and fired several rounds into his head, killing him. The other shooting victim is expected to live. Armontrout and the deceased, 51-year-old Steven L. Carman, had been in an on and off relationship for several years. Authorities had been called out multiple times for domestic disturbances involving the two, according to a spokesman with the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department. Carman had custodial rights to their five and six-year-old daughters, who were inside the home when the incident took place.

Teen pleads in dog’s death GOSHEN (AP) — An Elkhart youth has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in connection with the fireworks-related death of

a dog. The Elkhart Truth reports 16-year-old Marquis Gary pleaded guilty to the animal cruelty charge and an unrelated armed robbery charge Thursday in Elkhart Circuit Court. He had been waived to adult court on the charges. Witnesses told police several children had been throwing lit fireworks at the dog July 5 and she picked one up in her mouth and it exploded. The dog had to be euthanized because of severe facial injuries.

Man arrested for allegedly killing brother SOUTH BEND — A South Bend man accused of shooting and killing his brother was arrested early Thursday, according to news reports. The South Bend Tribune reports William Anderson, 54, is being held in the St. Joseph County Jail on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter, a Class A felony that could carry a prison term of 20 to 50 years, police said. South Bend police first responded just before midnight Wednesday to the 300 block of Chestnut Avenue for a reported domestic dispute. Upon arrival, officers found Wayne Anderson, 48, with a gunshot wound. Officers tried to resuscitate him using CPR and he was rushed to the hospital but died a short time later.

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Donation for Helping Hands Kendallville Pizza Hut recently supported Helping Hands food pantry in Rome City with a donation to buy food for needy families in the Rome City area. From left are Helping Hands board member John Pierce and Helping

Hands coordinator Ellen Blanton accepting the donation from Kendallville Pizza Hut manager Kelly Broyles and Pizza Hut employees.

Prairie Heights looks ahead to graduation and building projects BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia

BRUSHY PRAIRIE — Weather is already having a possible impact on graduation at Prairie Heights. Or at least it is prompting discussion among members of the board of education. The board discussed the date of scheduling graduation, which Superintendent Alan Middleton said is contingent upon snow days and whether they need to be made up. “We talked and, with snow days, will finalize by March,” Middleton said. “The difference is Father’s Day, and we have many days lost.” Middleton said the concern is the

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corporation does not want to schedule graduation on the same Sunday as Father’s Day. The board also discussed possible building projects. “We’ve been meeting” with talks of stretching out projects “four to 10 years down the line with roofing, heating, ventilation and air conditioning. We’re trying to put together a comprehensive plan with the age of our buildings. We will have an idea in January,” Middleton said. The board also scheduled its reorganizational meeting for Monday, Jan. 6, at 7 p.m. at the administration office, 305 S. C.R. 1150E.

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BARTON LAKE — In the world of honors, a longtime camp-resort is proving it is perhaps smarter than the average bear. Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park at Barton Lake Inc., Fremont, has been named Camp Resort of the Year by franchise parent company, Leisure Systems Inc. The camp-resort has been privately owned and operated as a franchise by the families of Roger and Anna Barry since 1965. The park also won the same award in 2006. “It’s a huge honor considering all the quality parks,” said Julie Corcimiglia, co-owner and the Barrys’ daughter. “They give these out on a 20-page inspection. Every year we’re in the top five or 10.” For the honor, the camp-resort received a plaque that was presented at a symposium. “It’s a big deal. You’ve beat out 75 other parks” in the chain, said Linda Fulton, administrative assistant to the park’s CEO Roger Barry and reservation specialist. Judges “visit each and every park and grade it on recreation, housekeeping, amenities and adhering to franchise standards. They (scored) over 100 percent and have exceeded far and above every year.” Corcimiglia said the camp-resort has also won other honors, such as being voted one of nine best in the U.S. by grandparents.com. It was also voted top camp resort through the Official Best of Indiana 2013.

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HAMILTON — Bryan “Gene” Kuhn, 69 years, of Hamilton, passed away Wednesday, December 18, 2013, at Cameron Hospital, Angola, Indiana. Gene was born August 1, 1944, in Gary, Indiana, the son of Charles Raymond Kuhn IV and Wilma Viola (Waters) Kuhn. He was a 1962 graduate of Hamilton High School. Gene was a veteran, serving in the United States Navy. He married Peggy Hopkins on January 25, 1964, in Angola, Indiana, and she survives. Gene was employed as an electrician by Dana Weatherhead for 30 years, retiring in 2005. Gene loved to go fishing. Surviving are his wife, Peggy of Hamilton; two children, Kimberly L. Kuhn of Hamilton and Michael D. (Darlene Brown) Kuhn, also of Hamilton; four grandchildren, Michael J. (Amber Miller) Kuhn of Angola, Jennings A. Rowe of Hamilton, Ariana R. Kuhn of Hamilton and Tiana C. Kuhn of Hamilton; two great-grandchildren, Daniel Tyree and Athena C. Kuhn; two brothers, Ted Kuhn of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, and Fred (Karen) Kuhn of Pleasant Lake, Indiana; one sister, Sandra (Gary) Eicholt of Hamilton; as well as two nieces and nine nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; one great-granddaughter, Maddie G. Kuhn; and one brother, Charles R. Kuhn V. To honor Gene’s wishes, there will be no visitation or services and he will be cremated. Arrangements are under the care of Oberlin-Turnbull Funeral Home & Crematory, 3985 E. Church St., Hamilton. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Regional Cancer Care Center, 516 E. Maumee St., Angola, IN 46703. Condolences may be sent to the family or the online guest book may be signed at www.oberlinturnbull.com.

GARRETT — Florine (Wise) Mardini, 99, of Santa Monica, Calif., and formerly of Garrett, died Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, in Santa Monica. Services will be held at a later date. Thomas Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

John Brickey LIGONIER — John Brickey Sr., 57, of Ligonier died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, at his home. Funeral services will be at noon today at Ligonier Evangelical Church, 1911 Lincolnway South, Ligonier. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery. Visitation will be two hours prior to the funeral service at the church Memorial contributions are to the family in care of Yeager Funeral Home, 1589 Lincolnway South, Ligonier, IN 46767.

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Steven Van Zandt is sad Mandela will miss concert NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Van Zandt says his first thought when he heard Nelson Mandela had died “was a selfish one.” Van Zandt, guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, said he’d hoped Mandela would be able to attend one of the band’s South African shows next month. He said the trip will be the “first time I’ll be back since my research of ‘84.” That research led him to spearhead a cultural boycott of South Africa, forming Artists United Against Apartheid. Van Zandt released the protest song “Sun City” in 1985 that included influential musicians such as Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis. Van Zandt said he met Mandela twice, including at a U.S. reception Van Zandt hosted in 1990. “When I met him, I’d never felt this before or since — I felt like I was meeting a religious figure — like old-time,” the guitarist said. “I mean like Buddha, Jesus, John the Baptist. He had that kind of vibe.” He’s promoting the newly released second season of his Netflix series “Lilyhammer.” It’s about a New York gangster trying to start a new life in Lillehammer and ends up pretty much corrupting everybody around him in the small Norwegian town.

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kids aged 5-18: • More than 9 out of 10 ate meals with them at least several times weekly and talked with them about what happened during the kids’ day that often. • Almost 2 out of 3 helped with homework several times weekly. • About half took their kids to or from activities that often. Overall, almost 90 percent of dads said they thought they were doing at least a good job of fathering. The researchers noted that during the study years, 45 percent of U.S. men — 28 million — aged 15 to 44 had a biological child. About the same number had a biological, adopted or non-related child living with them or an adopted or biological child living elsewhere. Survey questions were based on whether dads were living with their biological or unrelated kids, or apart. Most lived with their kids. Not surprisingly, men who didn’t were less involved with parenting activities. Even so, several times weekly, at least 1 in 5 still managed to help bathe, diaper, dress, eat or play with their kids. Fathers of older children were generally less involved than those with kids younger than 5 but that’s at least partly due to the changing nature of parenting as children mature.

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Children see Santa, not color Minister booted ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In Atlanta, children of many races share their Christmas wish lists with a black Santa Claus. In Houston, Santa dons a red zoot suit and dances to jazz as he hands out gifts in Mexican-American neighborhoods. In Indian Country, Native American Santas add American Indian attire to their red snowsuits, visiting shops and community centers from the pueblos of New Mexico to the reservations on the Pacific Northwest. Santa Claus may be popularly known as a white-bearded benefactor with Dutch-English origins, but multiethnic versions of Santa are making the rounds out there too — illustrating that in an increasingly diverse United States, Santa takes on whatever color you imagine him to be. “Kids don’t see color. They see a fat guy in a red suit giving toys,” said Dee Sinclair, 50, of Atlanta, who bills himself as the “Real Black Santa” and sports a very real, very white beard to prove it. He said in his 12 years of Santa-dom, he has posed with children and adults of all backgrounds during appearances at art centers, private parties and the occasional suburban Christmas tree lighting. “The character to me is all about the spirit of Christmas,” Sinclair said. “If we leave Christmas to ourselves, we’d be all right.” This holiday season, however, not all reactions to non-white Santas have been jolly. At Indiana University in Bloomington earlier this month, a dormitory bulletin board posed the question, “Can Santa Claus be a black man?” in hopes of generating fruitful discussion about racial stereotypes. Instead, it generated outrage on

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social media because it also asked other questions that played to stereotypes, such as whether a black Santa would only visit the ghetto. The display, which a university spokesman described as well-intended but “misguided,” was taken down. Last week, a high school teacher in Rio Rancho, N.M., was disciplined, and apologized, for telling a black student who dressed as Santa Claus, “Don’t you know Santa Claus is white? Why are you wearing that?” The teacher has since been placed on paid administrative leave. Also last week, Fox News host Megyn Kelly sparked a heated debate when she declared on air, “And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white,” during a panel discussion about a blogger’s essay arguing that children of other races could feel alienated by constantly

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seeing Santa as white. Kelly later said her comments were motivated by humor, not “by any racial fear or loathing.” That situation was promptly skewered by comics such as Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Kenan Thompson of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, who, clad in a full Santa suit and beard, joked about Kelly’s comments and quipped: “You heard of secret Santa? Well, here’s a secret for you: I’m black as heck!” Richard Reyes, 62, of Houston, who has portrayed “Pancho Claus” for 32 years, found this year’s debate over Santa’s race surprising. He has seen Santa transformed into many images for years, he said; In his version, Pancho Claus has a goatee, and accessorizes his zoot suit with sunglasses and a fedora. “For these diverse times, it’s important for children to see Santa in all these different forms,” Reyes said.

Andrew Chesnut, the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, said depictions of Santa Claus as a white man came about mainly because he was a European import, a blend of the Dutch Sinterklaas and British folklore character Father Christmas, with elements of Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century Greek bishop in modern-day Turkey. “But there is no reason he can’t be portrayed as black or Latino,” Chesnut said. “We live in the most pluralist, diverse society on earth and this is going to happen.” Chesnut compared Santa’s evolution to that of La Virgen de Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. That image came from a black Virgin Mary from Spain who transformed into an indigenous icon in the Americas to relate to the population, he said.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — United Methodist church officials defrocked a pastor from central Pennsylvania on Thursday who violated religious doctrine by officiating his son’s gay wedding, and he later said he was shocked by their decision, calling his involvement in the wedding an “act of love.” Frank Schaefer immediately appealed the penalty, which he believed was meted out reluctantly by many members of the regional Board of Ordained Ministry. “So many of them came to me and they shook my hand and some hugged me, and so many of them had tears in their eyes,” Schaefer said. “They said, ‘We really don’t want to do this, you know that, don’t you?’” John Coleman, a spokesman for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the denomination, said Schaefer left the board no choice after defying the order of a religious jury by refusing to resign. “When asked to surrender his credentials as required by the verdict, he refused to do so,” Coleman said. “Therefore, because of his decision, the board was compelled by the jury’s decision to deem his credentials surrendered.” Schaefer has led a congregation in the central Pennsylvania town of Lebanon more than a decade. Earlier this year, a church member filed a complaint over Schaefer performing the 2007 wedding of his gay son in Massachusetts, where same-sex unions are legal. Although the Methodist church accepts gay and

lesbian members, it rejects the practice of homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching.” Last month, a church jury suspended Schaefer for 30 days and said he should use the time to decide whether he could uphold the church’s Book of Discipline. If he decided he could not, he was told to resign from the clergy by Thursday. Schaefer said he told officials Thursday morning that he could not uphold a book that he feels is contradictory and biased against gay people. He refused to voluntarily surrender his credentials when asked by the board president. “To which she said, ‘Well, we’re taking them.’ And that was the end of it.” Schaefer said. Later, he said, “I said to myself, ‘You know, I just can’t see them taking my credentials.’ I mean what I did was an act of love for my son. And they did anyhow.” Although the Methodist church accepts gay and lesbian members, it rejects the practice of homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching” and bars clergy from performing same-sex unions. The issue has split the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination amid a rapid shift in public opinion. Same-sex marriage will soon be legal in 16 states, and opinion polls show that a majority of Americans now support it. Hundreds of Methodist ministers have publicly rejected church doctrine on homosexuality, and some of them face discipline for presiding over same-sex unions.

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1. Contact 599-0238 for more information. Kendallville Public Library, 221 S Park Ave, Kendallville. 6:30 p.m. 343-2010

Community Table: Free Meal & Groceries: Free meal from 10:30-11:30 a.m., and Community Harvest food truck delivering at 11 a.m. Trinity Assembly of God Church, 1288 W. Union St., Ligonier. 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21 Luckey Hospital Museum: The Luckey Hospital Museum began when Dr. James E. Luckey’s great-nieces Mary and Shirley decided to open a small museum to display their private collection. Both are retired RNs and have been collecting obsolete medical equipment for years. The collection has grown and expanded to include the entire first floor of the former hospital. Tours available by calling 635-2490 or 635-2256. Luckey Hospital Museum, U.S. 33 and S.R. 109, Wolf Lake. 10 a.m.

Moment’s from Mindy’s Kitchen: Join this monthly program where Mindy shares new dishes and recipes. Bring a sack lunch to eat while she cooks, and then sample the dishes she makes. This week, we’re introducing guest cook Lee Ann DePew. Registration is required. Kendallville Public Library, 221 S. Park Ave., Kendallville. Noon. 343-2010 Euchre Community Games: Call 347-4226 for more information. Noble County Council on Aging, 111 Cedar St., Kendallville. 12:30 p.m.

Yu-Gi-Oh: Stop in for the sanctioned Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament and battle your buddies. There is a $2 tournament fee that should be paid at the door, or you can pay a $5 fee and receive a pack of cards. Cossy ID cards are suggested. Prizes will be given to the top three players. Kendallville Public Library, 221 S. Park Ave., Kendallville. 10 a.m. 343-2010

Central Noble Food Pantry: Provides dry goods, health and beauty products, dairy and meat. Call Bonnie Brownell at 564-8160 for more information. Central Noble Food Pantry, 104 S. Orange St., Albion. 1 p.m.

Art Exhibit: Jason Lahr and Krista Koeffle: Jason Lahr’s paintings and works on paper combine darkly comic texts with appropriated images to create shifting narratives of working class male identity as shaped by popular culture. His work combines the visual language of digital culture with traditional painting techniques and references to illustration, print media and graphic design. Visitjasonlahr.net to learn more about this artist. Krista Hoefle investigates the underlying or hidden aspects of videogame structure that are not apparent during regular game play through the reinterpretation of virtual interactions and objects into physical spaces. Although she uses a wide variety of media (digital prints, screenprints, ’zines, objects, video), the spatial dislocation (or translation) from the virtual to the physical positions the work within the realm of sculpture. Visit kristahoefle.com to learn more about this artist. Hershberger Art Gallery at Goshen College, 1700 S. Main St., Goshen. 574-535-7400

Teen Movie Night: Love Percy Jackson? The next movie in the series is out! We’ll be watching ‘‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’’ at the Teen Movie Night. Snacks will be provided. This movie is rated PG and runs 106 minutes. Grades 6-12. Limberlost Public Library, 164 Kelly St., Rome City. 4:30 p.m. 854-3382 Taco Bar & Silent Auction: Topeka Methodist Tot’s Preschool is having a Taco Bar and Silent Auction fundraiser. An all you can eat taco bar will be served and we will have a silent auction. There are a lot of great auction items such as local restaurant gift cards, gift baskets, oil changes and even an overnight stay package to Farmsted Inn in Shipshewana. Topeka United Methodist Church, 124 W. Pine St., Topeka. 5 p.m. Community Christmas Greetings: Free drive-through display at Bixler Lake Park features 66 Christmas card boards crafted by area youth and organizations. Open nightly from 6-9 p.m. through December. Refreshments and horse-drawn wagon rides available Saturday. Bixler Lake Park, Kendallville. 6 p.m. 347-1064

Sunday, Dec. 22 Bingo: Bingo games. Warm ups at 12:30 p.m. and games at 1:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Sylvan Lake Improvement Association. Rome City Bingo Hall, S.R. 9, Rome City. 12:30 p.m.

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Chefs share holiday recipes BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcmedia.com

AUBURN — The chefs at DeKalb Health have long been involved in food service, but are relatively new to the hospital. Lisa Colberg and Dan Albers joined the staff in the past few years. Colberg has been working at DeKalb Health for one year and Albers 2 1/2 years. Colberg graduated from East Noble High School and earned a culinary degree in college. Today, she lives in Butler. What she loves about working at the hospital is the change of pace. “We’re always busy,” Colberg said. “There’s never a dull moment.” Her sidekick, Alber, never thought he would spend so much time working in food service. He started his first job at a restaurant at the age of 17. Though he earned a degree in vocal performance at Indiana University, he remained with food service. “I just never left,” he said.

Holiday recipes The recipe is a simple dessert that Lisa likes to make for the holidays. Layered Cranberry Mousse • 1/2 cup boiling water • 1 package Jello (8 oz.) cranberry or any red • 1 can (16 oz.) whole cranberry sauce • 1 cup cold water • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon • 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves • 2 cups thawed cool whip

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Stir boiling water into dry gelatin until dissolved, about 2 minutes. Add cranberry sauce and stir. Next, stir in cold water. Pour 2 cups of the gelatin mixture into a 6-cup mold. Refrigerate 45 minutes or until set, but not firm. Meanwhile, stir cinnamon and cloves into remaining gelatin. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until slightly thick. Add whipped topping and whisk. Now, pour the mixture over the first topping in the mold. Refrigerate 4 hours. Dan learned to make this pie in his early days of baking in Fort Wayne. The recipe is based on a convection oven and makes two pies. Buttermilk Pie • 3 1/2 cups of granulated sugar • 1/2 cup of flour • 1/4 tablespoons salt • 1 cup of buttermilk

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• 7 eggs • 1 cup buttermilk • 1/2 pound of melted butter • 3/4 tablespoon vanilla • 1 cup chopped pecans Mix together sugar, flour, salt and first amount of buttermilk. Combine well and beat. Place mixer on high speed and add eggs, two at a time, beating well after each addition. Lower the speed of the mixer and add the second amount of buttermilk. Fold in the melted butter and vanilla. Pour into unbaked pie shells and top each pie evenly with 1/2 cup chopped pecans. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Lower the temperature of the oven to 300 degrees and continue baking 15-20 minutes. The pie is done when a knife — inserted about 3 inches from the rim of the crust — comes out clean. This recipe from Dan is a side dish to complete most meals. The recipe serves a large group. Carrot, Raisin and Nut Salad • 1 1/2 quart grated carrots • 1/2 quart raisins • 1/2 quart diced celery • 1 cup sour cream • 1 cup salad dressing • 3/4 tablespoon salt • 1 1/4 tablespoon sugar • 1 1/4 tablespoon lemon juice

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This image released by CBS shows Lucille Ball, center, dressed as Santa Claus in a colorized “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” airing today on CBS.

‘Lucy’ special puts colorization back in spotlight BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

You look at them, and somehow it’s not how they’re supposed to look: Lucy and Ricky, Fred and Ethel, moving around familiar sets doing their familiar “I Love Lucy” thing. And yet they seem more substantial, more real. Because this time, they are rendered in color. Fred looks stylish in light-brown tweed. Ethel is resplendent in a purple Christmas dress. The furniture and carpeting in the Ricardos’ apartment is not gray and grayer but blue and subtly mauve. And Lucy — well, Lucy is her usual ball of chaos, with one key difference: Her red hair, implied over and over during the show’s 1951-57 run, is inevitably, assertively, undeniably, out-of-a-bottle red. With the “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” (8 p.m. ET Friday), CBS ventures into the world of colorizing two vintage episodes of an Eisenhower-era TV show that, perhaps more than any other from that period, sent a message down through the years of what life in the 1950s (or, at least, the sitcom version) might have looked like. The episodes, CBS says, “were colorized with a vintage look, a nod to the 1950s period in which the shows were filmed.” Which, of course, raises the questions that tend to come about when technology allows us to inject color into the once black-and-white mists of our cultural history: Does it make things better? And should we? Colorization of one sort or another has been around since the earliest photography and the earliest movies, but never has it been so sophisticated. Today, through digital algorithms, chunks of yesterday’s monochromatic pop culture are presented in entirely new ways to both fanfare and scorn. Inevitably, that does two things to the imagery: It looks more vibrant, and it takes a step away from the original. “In colorizing the ‘I Love Lucys,’ there’s an effort to kind of recreate this bright, brilliant, tail-finned polychrome world of the 1950s which existed in part but is kind of romanticized in memory,” says Regina Lee Blaszczyk, author of “The Color Revolution,” a look at how color was marketed to Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. “We’re trying to re-create EVERY SHOW IS A BARGAIN AT OUR THEATRE!

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this visual culture that never really existed,” she says. All kinds of things that never really existed have entered the realm of the visual in these recent years of technological fast-forward. We exist today in an era when old images can become new images, and vice versa. For each colorized old photograph of an early 20th-century Russian or dust-bowl worker that goes viral on the Internet and makes the past look more like right now, there are thousands of digitally faded, scratch-filtered images on photo-sharing services like Instagram that make right now look exactly like the past. Figuring it all out — developing a visual literacy for a culture of digital manipulation — can boggle the mind. Dana Keller, a colorizer who specializes in historical photos, adds hues to images of Lincoln, Amelia Earhart and the Hindenburg crash, among others. The results are compelling. His colorization forces us to think of the subjects as more tangible and, somehow, less distant. “When it’s in color, it’s easier to say, ‘Oh those are real people. They’re living lives like I am,’” Keller says. “It’s an opportunity for other people to see it in a new way and feel a bit closer to it. It’s just adding onto it, not replacing it.” Indeed, if you grew up watching “I Love Lucy” during its original run or in perpetual UHF and basic-cable reruns through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, watching the two colorized “Lucy” episodes is a singular experience. It’s the TV equivalent of adjusting your eyes to Oz after Dorothy lands there from Kansas. Unexpected things “pop” and catch the eye. Ricky’s striped tie, with its bursts of red, makes him even more the dandy. The colored furniture reminds you of something that could be in your own house, not in a TV studio on some distant planet called the past. And when Lucy stomps grapes in a vineyard in the classic episode “Lucy’s Italian Movie,” the juxtaposition of the purple mash with her red hair makes her character seem even zanier than she already was.

NEW YORK (AP) — “A big chunk of meat” is how Meryl Streep describes the sprawling, combative dinner scene at the core of “August: Osage County.” In a career filled with sublime crescendos, it’s a showstopper: a knockout feast of everything that has made Streep — perhaps you’ve heard this before? — the greatest American actress. As Violet Weston in John Wells’ adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Streep is the pill-addled, venom-spewing matriarch of a large Oklahoma family who, after the funeral for her husband (Sam Shepard), fires all of her bitterness at her gathered family, from the head of the table. It’s comic and caustic: “I’m just truth-tellin’,” she says. It’s a tour de force that looks like fun for an actor, but what it actually took gets to the heart of Streep’s considerable talent. The scene, 18 pages of dialogue (mostly of Violet), took nearly four days to shoot. As Wells’ camera traveled around the table getting each individual performance (the ensemble includes Chris Cooper, Julia Roberts, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson and Benedict Cumberbatch), Streep gave her full performance — varying it slightly from take to take — for each co-star. “It just goes to the deepest part of what I believe about being an actor, that you have to bring it even when the camera’s not on you,” Streep said in a recent interview. “It was very hard to sustain 18 pages of ranting — of seething and waiting and then pouncing and ranting. To maintain your fury. It’s great the first couple times you do it, you feel fantastic. … But by the 12th or 15th or 30th time I had done it, I was flagging. “I looked at it almost like an Olympic (event): OK. Everybody says you’re so good? Well, (expletive) show me! Do it for Benedict Cumberbatch! Do it for Abigail (Breslin) down there at the end! Because now the camera is finally turning around on them and they deserve every bit of it. But that’s acting. It’s just what it is.” What’s left to say about Meryl Streep? Her ability to transform into a role, adopting a constellation of accents over the years, has long been celebrated. Some have questioned whether her technique isn’t too good — too controlled and calculated — but the force of her personality always comes through, endearing audiences to both the actress and her characters. There is, of course, the litany of awards: 17 Oscar nominations and three wins; eight Golden Globes from 28 nominations, including one last week for “Osage County.” Most of her statuettes were accepted with eloquence, humility and an unapologetic mischievousness. When she won her third Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” last year, she dismissed the assumed reaction of “Her? Again?” with an eye roll: “But anyway.” Her stature, she says, is

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“the narrative that accompanies me like a caboose,” shorthand for “oh, you think you’re so great.” “It’s not anything that’s valuable,” Streep says. “Increasingly, it’s more of an obstruction to be gotten through. I’m not sure there isn’t a point of critical mass where it’s hard to have that stuff go away in order to be seen fresh as a character that you’ve poured yourself into. I don’t know. I just can’t seem to stop because I really like working. I’m just an actor. That’s all.” What most bothers her about her lofty reputation is that it can get in the way of working with other actors: “Sometimes people watch me while I’m in the scene with them, instead of being with me, which is a really disconcerting thing. It’s not good.” Those who work with Streep say she works hard to make it look so easy. Wells said when he first met with Streep about nine months before shooting, she was already working on the character. When rehearsals started, she was off-book. “In some ways she doesn’t get fully credited with how talented she is because there’s a little bit of a dismissive thing which is, ‘Oh, well, it’s Meryl. You know it’s going to be good,’” says Wells. “The assumption that you’re always going to be terrific puts a tremendous additional burden on actually taking the risks that are necessary to continue what you’re interested in doing as an artist.” Despite “the disgruntlement of some,” Streep says, she insisted the cast live together in condos near the on-location set in Oklahoma to foster a familial connection. She and Martindale, who plays her sister, worked “late at night, over the big red” (wine) to make their gestures and speech similar. The dinner scene, Martindale says, was “grueling” for Streep. “She raised the bar so high that everybody was there 150 percent,” says Martindale. “At the end of the film, she was exhausted. She was drained. She gave it her everything, I think.

Streep was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture musical or comedy for her role in the film.

She does it with ease, or you think it’s with ease.” Streep, though, denies any great preparation for Violet, a smoker with mouth cancer. “You can’t get ready to make a movie. A movie happens right in front of you,” she says. “I’ve had sad and close contact with people who have cancer and are in pain, and I know quite a few drug addicts. And that’s all I needed to know. I didn’t do any prep in that way. But I’m old, so I come with a big bag.” Though Streep, 64, has spent much of the last decade making comedies (“Julie & Julia,” ”It’s Complicated,” ”The Devil Wears Prada”), “Osage County” is a darker turn. Violet has a Midwest tenacity of having lived through the Depression and an abusive childhood. Streep, who grew up in New Jersey, drew partly from her own mother. “There’s a certain kind of impatience with the fact that they coddled their children and then got mad at them for being spoiled rotten,” she says. “My mother would say, ‘You kids are spoiled rotten!’” To describe Violet, she uses the phrase “shrill insanity,” said by Ewan McGregor’s academic character in the film. “I found the experience of making the film much less hilarious because, like all things that are funny, they’re rooted in real pain. Somehow, film brings that up close,” Streep says. “She’s somebody without any stops, no stops on anything — particularly unattractive in a woman. It’s a character I don’t know if people will respond to. I have no idea.” Asked if Streep, who has four children with her husband, sculptor Don Gummer, didn’t also identify as a mother with the generational divide in the Westons, she laughs and replies: “I have different resentments.” Streep has mostly remained on the East Coast, living between New York and northwest Connecticut. She chose family and nature (she has long been an

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Who’s Noteworthy • Angola • Mulligan’s, 1445 W. C.R. 275N. One Ton Trio. Live rock ’n’ roll December 20, 6:30 p.m. • Piggy’s Brew Pub, 2201 N. Wayne St. DJ providing music. December 20, until midnight. • Club Paradise, 3861 N. Bayview Road. DJ Rockin Rob will provide music. December 20, 9 p.m. • The Venue, 110 W. Maumee St. Big Caddy Daddy. Hot female vocals. December 20 and 21, 9:30 p.m. • Wacky Jac’s, 1108 W. Maumee St.. Elements. Live, local rock ’n’ roll December 21, 9:30 p.m. • Club Paradise, 3861 N. Bayview Road. Paul and Brian. Dueling keyboards. December 21, 9 p.m.

Auburn • Mad Anthony Tap Room, 114 N. Main St. Live music from the Dan Smyth Trio December 21, 8 p.m.

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Patriarch off ‘Duck Dynasty’ after disparaging gay remarks LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson — suspended from the series indefinitely after making disparaging remarks about gays — is getting some support from key followers. Sarah Palin posted a picture on her Facebook page of her with the reality show clan with the message, “Free Speech is an endangered species.” And Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal also lamented the suspension on free speech terms. “It’s a messed-up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended,” said the governor in a statement Thursday (the show is filmed in his state. A&E announced Wednesday what it called a “hiatus” for Robertson, 67, after he disparaged gays in the January edition of GQ magazine. He also said that, growing up in Louisiana before the Civil Rights movement, he never saw mistreatment of blacks. In a statement, A&E said it was extremely disappointed to see Robertson’s anti-gay remarks, which it said were based on his personal beliefs and do not reflect those of A&E Networks or the show. A&E Networks, a joint venture of The Walt Disney Co. and Hearst Corp., called itself a supporter of the lesbian and gay community. The channel’s move was lauded by the gay and lesbian media advocacy group GLAAD, which had quickly condemned Robertson’s comments.

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Weekend Whereabouts • music from Christian blues artist Mike Reese 7 p.m. December 20 Ammunition. Cupbearer Cafe, 138 E. Seventh St., Auburn. Live music from Christian rock band Ammunition. 7 p.m. December 21 Fort Wayne Philharmonic Holiday Pops! Embassy Theatre, 125 West Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. Each year, The Phil is proud to bring you one of Fort Wayne’s greatest winter traditions, Holiday Pops. 8 p.m. December 20, 2 p.m. December 21

Music Exalt Brass. Das Dutchman Essenhaus, 240 U.S. 20, Middlebury. Exalt Brass, a national quartet with local roots, will be performing at Das Dutchman Essenhaus in Middlebury with three Christmas concerts. The concerts will be Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 21 at 2 and 7 p.m. local time at the Essenhaus Heritage Hall. Tickets for the Exalt Brass Christmas concerts at Essenhaus Heritage Hall are $10 per person and available at the door, online at exaltbrass.eventbrite. com, or at three Middlebury businesses: MAISCO, Max Myers Motors and Varns and Hoover Hardware 7 p.m. December 20, 2 p.m. December 21 Mike Reese. Cupbearer Cafe, 138 E. Seventh St., Auburn. Live

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Events Blubber, the Best Insulator? Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. It’s cold outside! So come in to the Conservatory and warm up for this science fun. We’ll experiment with what will keep you warm this winter and what’s just plain cold. See who can stand the cold and find out what materials might help you stay warmer longer while building the best insulator. 11 a.m. 427-6440. December 21 Santa & the Reindeer.

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KENDALLVILLE — The East Noble school district’s classified employees will get 2 percent pay raises in 2014. The East Noble school board Wednesday night voted to approve the school administration’s recommendation for the across-theboard pay increases. Classified staff employees include custodians, secretaries, instructional assistants and bus drivers. Trustees also amended a board policy covering days off without pay for extenuating circumstances. Superintendent Ann

Linson recommended the policy change. The policy has said support staff could take only one leave of absence without pay every five years. As an example of an extenuating circumstance, Linson said a member of the support staff could have an opportunity to go on a trip with dates that could not be changed. In other business, school trustees approved these East Noble High School extracurricular appointments: Richard Bentz as head girls’ golf coach; Kristian Jarrett as assistant football coach; Rob Berkley as head boys’ soccer coach; Paul Cook as head girls’ soccer coach;

Nicole Baker as assistant girls’ soccer coach; and Ashrie Onion as assistant volleyball coach. Stan White was approved as East Noble Middle School science fair chairperson, and Ann Hudson will be the Avilla Elementary School spell bowl sponsor. Trustees approved hiring Brenda Alanis as a part-time dishwasher at North Side Elementary School. They granted unpaid medical leave to Rome City third-grade teacher Lynette Foote and unpaid maternity leave to East Noble High School instructional assistant Hillary Scare.

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Cameron Memorial Community Hospital where she later regained consciousness and was treated for her injuries. The woman, who reluctantly told police about the incidents, said she did not remember being strangled or “anything else until she woke up in the hospital,” court records said. She sustained multiple bruises and had marks on

THEATER: Injured taken care of at nearby theater FROM PAGE A1

“Then I got hit on the head.” Witnesses said audience members were screaming “Get out! Get out!” as they fled the theater and were shaking with fear when they reached the street outside. “Within an instant, the entire roof caved in,” another man told the BBC. A passing public doubledecker bus was commandeered to transport some of the injured to a hospital. Police said they weren’t aware of any fatalities “at this early stage,” and that those who were seriously

injured had been taken to hospitals following the collapse. Dozens of “walking wounded” were treated at a nearby theater, police said, while the fire department reported that all those who had been trapped in the Apollo have been rescued. More than two dozen ambulances and eight fire trucks were sent to the scene. Shaftesbury Avenue, normally one of London’s busiest streets and teeming with pedestrians, was completely shut down. London was hit by a

Opinion turning more against NSA WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharp and unexpected shift, the national debate over U.S. government surveillance seems to be turning in favor of reining in the National Security Agency’s expansive spying powers at home and abroad. It’s happened suddenly, over a span of just three days. First, a federal judge ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone records was unconstitutional, and then a presidential advisory panel recommended sweeping changes to the agency. Together, the developments are ratcheting up the pressure on President Barack Obama to scale back the controversial surveillance programs. Obama is in no way obligated to make substantial changes. And, countering the public criticism he faces, he hears internal appeals from intelligence officials who insist the collection of phone and Internet data is necessary to protect the U.S. from terror attacks. But even that argument has been undermined in the course of an extraordinary week. Federal Judge Richard Leon said in a ruling on Monday — its

effect stayed, pending appeal — that even if the phone data collection is constitutional, there is little evidence that it has prevented terror attacks. The intelligence advisory panel, which had access to significant amounts of classified information and counted as a member a former acting director of the CIA, came to the same conclusion in its 300-page report. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a fierce critic of the NSA programs, concluded, “What this says to the millions of Americans who have been concerned that the government knows who they called and when they called and for how long, this says it wasn’t essential for preventing attacks.” The White House has already rejected one proposal from the task force, which would have allowed for a civilian to head the NSA. While Obama spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that the president was open to each of the panel’s other 45 recommendations, a U.S. official familiar with the deliberations said that Obama rejected a handful of the proposals out of hand when he met with the panel members this week.

strong thunderstorm about 7 p.m. (1900 GMT; 2 p.m. EST) that dumped heavy rain on the city, but it wasn’t immediately clear if that was related to the collapse. The Apollo Theatre, named for the Greek and Roman god Apollo, god of music and the arts, was built in 1901 and has 775 seats. The London fire department said it thought around 700 people were in the theater at the time. On its website, the theatre warned that its balcony was one of the steepest in London “so avoid if you have trouble with heights.”

her neck that appeared to be caused by a belt, court records said. Police later found in the woman’s home the belt they believed was used to cause the marks and possibly render her unconscious. Last week, the woman told police she and Hamaker had not seen each other since the early 1990s, then he reconnected with her recently. The victim told police Hamaker had been

trying to get money from her, but she had refused. On Dec. 4 the woman was found by police, lying unconscious in an Angola street near her home. Court records said the woman still had marks from that incident when she was hospitalized a week later, on Dec. 13. A woman who said she was Hamaker’s wife told Coffey Angola attorney Allen Stout was being retained as counsel.

FIXED: Chlorine purifying system sought by district FROM PAGE A1

department superintendent Scott Mosley helped isolate the cause of the problem. The school’s iron filters and water softener media were changed. A 600-gallon hot water tank was taken off line. Leitch said the school still has enough hot water

for students and staff. East Noble has applied to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for permission to install a chlorine purifying system to prevent growth of bacteria. Tests show no evidence of unacceptable levels of the bacteria in the school’s

well, and the well water is being used, Leitch said. The school’s water usually is tested once a month. Leitch thanked parents for their patience, and said he is grateful for the assistance from Kendallville’s water department superintendent.

TARGET: Company had previous tech woes when selling Missoni FROM PAGE A1

The breach is the latest in a series of technology crises for Target. The company faced tough criticism in late 2011 after it drummed up hype around its offerings from Italian designer Missoni only to see its website crash. The site was down most of the day the designer’s collection launched. The company angered customers further with numerous online delays for products and even order cancellations. But the credit card breach poses an even more serious problem for Target and threatens to scare away shoppers who worry about the safety of their personal data. “A data breach is of itself a huge reputational issue,” said Jeremy RobinsonLeon, a principal at Group Gordon, a corporate and crisis public relations firm. He noted that Target needs to send the message that it’s rectifying the problem and working with customers to answer questions. He believes Target should have acknowledged the problem on Wednesday rather than waiting until early Thursday. “This is close to the worst time to have it happen,” Robinson-Leon said. “If I am a Target customer, I think I would be much more likely to go to a competitor over the next few days, rather than risk the potential to have my information be compromised.”

Shoppers arrive at a Target store in Los Angeles on Thursday. Target says that about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been affected by a

Target advised customers on Thursday to check their statements carefully. Those who see suspicious charges on the cards should report it to their credit card companies and call Target at 866-852-8680. Cases of identity theft can also be reported to law enforcement or the Federal Trade Commission. “Target’s first priority is preserving the trust of our guests and we have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with confidence. We regret any inconvenience this may

data breach that occurred just as the holiday shopping season shifted into high gear.

cause,” Chairman, President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel said in a statement Thursday. Many displeased Target customers left angry comments on the company’s Facebook page. Some threatened to stop shopping at the store. Many customers complained they couldn’t get through to the call center and couldn’t get on Target’s branded credit card website. Target apologized on its Facebook page and said it is “working hard” to resolve the issue and is adding more workers to field the calls and help solve website issues.

Christopher Browning, 23 of Chesterfield, Va., said was the victim of credit card fraud earlier this week and he believes it was tied to a purchase he made at Target with his Visa card on Black Friday. However, he called Visa Thursday and the card issuer couldn’t confirm. He says he hasn’t been able to get through Target’s call center. On Monday, Browning received a call from his bank’s anti-fraud unit saying that there were two attempts to use his credit card in California.

Jellystone Park buys aqua play structure to add more fun BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com

BARTON LAKE — A 49-year-old camp resort is adding yet one more piece to its offerings as a summer destination point. Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park at Barton Lake, Fremont, has purchased a large aqua play structure with a tipping bucket from Splash Universe, Shipshewana. It is expected to be in place for use by the summer at the Barton Lake resort. It was one of five water

features at Splash Universe, which closed in May. It will be added as a separate feature from the park’s current Water Zone. “We have room there and wanted to add another water feature,” said Julie Corcimiglia, co-owner of the resort with her parents, Roger and Anna Barry and family. “We are at the point of looking at capacity.” The park already features three outdoor pools, an indoor pool, splash playground, three water

slides, 540 camp sites, 21 cabins and 21 cottages. Corcimiglia said the resort draws 35,000 campers and 200 seasonal users annually. “We’re not sure how many more people we’ll draw,” Corcimiglia said. She declined to share the purchase price of the additional water feature. Corcimiglia said the price for the use of all the water features is included with cost of camping. There are separate fees for non-camping users of all the

various water features. Linda Fulton, administrative assistant to the park’s CEO and reservation specialist, said the addition of the piece adds yet one more draw to the camp-resort that employs 125-140 people during peak summertime. Fulton said the Barry and Corcimiglia families try to add a new feature to the camp-resort each year. “Last year, they added floating docks that are Americans With Disabil-

ities Act-complaint. They dredged out the channel,” Fulton said. “They put in jumping pillows.” Fremont Town Manager Chris Snyder said the news that the Barry and Corcimiglia families are adding to their amenities is great news, not only for the longtime business, but also for the town and Steuben County. “It’s just another draw,” Snyder said. “Obviously they have a great crowd each summer coming to

Fremont and the whole area could benefit, from the Outlet Shoppes at Fremont, restaurants and wineries. Hopefully, the hotels will be busier.” June Julien, executive director of the Steuben County Tourism Bureau, said Jellystone was a quality facility that’s second behind Pokagon State Park when it comes to drawing visitors. “They do a very nice job there. It is a quality attraction for the county,” Julien said.

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THURSDAY’S GAME OKLAHOMA CITY ............107 CHICAGO..................................95

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Big-play Butler helping Colts INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Darius Butler is showing exactly what he is capable of. The Colts cornerback leads the team in interceptions and is tied for seventh in the league with four this season. In all, he has eight picks and has returned three for scores since joining the Colts as a free agent last year. Now in his fifth season in the league, Butler is starting to find his way. “The interceptions that he’s had over the last two years have been outstanding,” Colts defensive coordinator Greg Manusky said. “We’re trying to get everybody to get those interceptions, but for some reason he’s got a knack for it, he feels it, he has great hands, great vision and he does a great job of staying square and covering guys.” Butler played a big role in helping the Colts (9-5) pull away in a 25-3 win over Houston last weekend. He had two interceptions, setting up two field goals by Adam Vinatieri and helping the Colts take a 20-3 lead before halftime.

Indianapolis Colts free safety Darius Butler, front, intercepts a pass during play against the Houston Texans.

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awesome,” Vinatieri said. “But when you do it as an individual

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Area Events • TODAY BOYS BAS K ETBALL Central Noble at West Noble, 6 p.m. Churubusco at Prairie Heights, 6 p.m. Eastside at Lakeland, 6 p.m. Fairfield at Hamilton, 6 p.m. Leo at Garrett, 6 p.m. Westview at Angola, 6 p.m. Columbia City at East Noble, 6:1 5 p.m. DeKalb at Norwell, 6:1 5 p.m. SATU R DAY BOYS BAS K ETBALL Lakewood Park at Concordia, 6 p.m. DeKalb at Bishop Dwenger, 6:1 5 p.m. G I R LS BAS K ETBALL East Noble at Columbia City, 1 p.m. Hamilton at Fairfield, 1 p.m. Lakeland at Eastside, 6 p.m. Central Noble at West Noble, 6 p.m. Prairie Heights at Churubusco, 6 p.m. South Adams at Garrett, 6 p.m. Norwell at DeKalb, 6:1 5 p.m. W R E STLI NG Westview Invit ational, 8:4 5 a.m. Garrett at Carroll, 9 a.m. East Noble at Munster Super Duals, 1 0 a.m. BOYS SW I M M I NG Angola at Wawasee Invit ational, 1 0 a.m. M E N S C OLLEG E BAS K ETBALL Trine at Wabash, 3 p.m.

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player, I mean, he was real close to getting a third one. He’s that kind of guy. He finds the ball.” Butler almost picked off Keenum against on Houston’s second play at the start of the second half. On Houston’s 23-yard line, it would have been a clear shot to the end zone. “It would have been the trifecta, hat trick, if you will,” coach Chuck Pagano said. “Great instincts. Nose for the football. Johnny-on-the-spot type of guy.” Indianapolis led by more than two scores by that point and cruised to a win. Still, Butler wanted that interception. “No excuse for dropping that one,” he said. “I got a good break on it. Should have been a pick six, really, but I guess I kind of took my eyes off it, like you said. I pictured the end zone and didn’t concentrate and bring it in.” But overall, it’s been a pretty good month for Butler. He has started three straight games and his two picks against Houston tied a career-best. SEE COLTS, PAGE B2

Edwards gals leaving teams seeing double BY JAMES FISHER jfisher@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — They both stand 6-foot-1-inch tall. They BY JAMES FISHER have the same last name and play jfisher@kpcmedia.com the same position on the same EMMA — Every game counts team. Not to mention, both of their when the goal is a conference title. first names start And in the Northeast Corner with the letter K. Conference girls basketball race, Kourtney and nothing less than perfect will do. Kavan Edwards It’s taken an unbeaten 10-0 have a lot of things record to come away with a in common. conference title the last three Are they twins? seasons. Westview has completed Nope. half the task, moving to 5-0 in the Gotta be NECC with a 64-45 victory over sisters? Or at least Kourtney Fremont on Thursday. cousins? “Our goals are still in place,” No. They’re not said Westview coach Randy related. Yoder. “One of our goals is to win The two seniors the conference. We had a good are part of an week with wins over Angola and East Noble (7-1) Fremont, both good programs.” team that takes a JAMES FISHER six-game winning Angola captured the last two NECC titles with 10-0 records. streak into Friday’s Westview’s Sidney Byrkett, left, and Brooke Yoder celebrate on Fairfield went 10-0 to capture game at Columbia Thursday. The Warriors registered a 64-45 victory over Fremont to Kavan the league crown the year before. City (7-2). It’s move to 5-0 in the NECC girls basketball race. Westview cleared a huge hurdle a key Northeast when the squad defeated Angola Hoosier Conference matchup for 51-46 on Tuesday. Westview and Fairfield won’t had nine. Also scoring for the Knights, which are 2-0 in the “Each game, if you want to meet until Jan. 24 in a contest the Westview were Sidney Byrkett (8 league. keep the goal intact, you have Falcons will host. points), Riley Hochstetler (3) and Both Edwards girls have nearly to stay focused,” Yoder said. Sophomores led the Warriors Kaitlyn Warren (2). identical numbers on the season. “There’s always that chance if in scoring. Grace Hales had a “It’s hard to beat a team that Kavan Edwards is averaging 11.5 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. you’re not ready to play someone game-high 20 points and Maria has balanced scoring, because a Kourtney Edwards is averaging will beat you.” McCoy scored 12 points. Junior team can’t focus on one player,” 10.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per Fairfield remains the only other Kristen Duff finished with 10 Yoder said. NECC team without a loss at 4-0. points and senior Brooke Yoder SEE WESTVIEW, PAGE B2 contest. The duo has given many teams matchup troubles in the post. In Tuesday’s 60-45 win at Snider, the Knights took a slim 39-36 lead into the fourth quarter of the nonconference game but outscored the Panthers 21-9 to keep their streak alive. Kourtney Edwards led the team in scoring with 18 points. Kavan Edwards scored 12 points and led the Knights in rebounding with 10. The Knights are averaging 62 points per game through the first eight contests, with a school record 90 points in the team’s opener with Eastside. The Knights also have wins over Fort Wayne North Side, Lakeland, New Haven, Northrop, Bellmont and Snider. Homestead and DeKalb are the only other NHC teams with 2-0 league records. Homestead is 8-0 overall and averaging 73 points per game, while the Barons are 6-2 overall and averaging 54 points per contest. Friday’s game will be the last NHC game for the Knights until Jan. 10 when the Knights face Homestead at home. They’ll follow PHIL FRIEND that with a league game at DeKalb on Jan. 18. East Noble’s girls team will take part in a holiday tournament The 24th annual KPC Media Group All-Area Boys Noble. Back row: Kyle Burchett, Eric Herber and at Northridge on Dec. 27-28. Cross Country Team will be featured in Sunday’s Joseph Trost of Lakeland, Dante Graham, Prep On the opening day they’ll face edition. Front row: Josh Perkins and Mitch Perkins of the Year Mark Beckmann and Clay Travis of NorthWood at 11 a.m. and South of Prairie Heights, Daniel Flores of Westview, DeKalb, and Coach of the Year Rusty Emmert of Bend Adams at 2:30 p.m. The Nate Roe of Angola, and Alex Beams and David West Noble. Not pictured are Brad Pyle, Salvador second day the Knights play Schmucker of Fremont. Middle row: Tyler Klinger, Campos and Logan Weimer of West Noble, and Highland at 11 a.m. and see action Jonathan Kane and Joe Vandiver of East Noble, and Isaiah Mortorff of Angola. in a second game depending on Alexander DeLuna and Brandon Arnold of West their outcome throughout the tournament.

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Whitko tops West Noble with shot at the buzzer

East Noble makes waves

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Swimming to victory Above, East Noble’s Keegan Gura takes a breath as he flys out of the water during the butterfly in the 200 yard medley relay in Thursday’s meet against Northrop in Kendallville. At left, Kari Guthrie glides through the water as she swims the breast stroke in the 200 yard medley relay. Below, Phillip Phan swims the backstroke in the 200 yard medley relay. Both East Noble teams earned victories. PHOTOS BY CHAD KLINE

SOUTH WHITLEY —In a game that saw 77 free throws attempted, the Whitko Wildcats nipped the West Noble Chargers, 64-62, in a nonconference girls basketball game Thursday night. The road loss dropped West Noble’s record to 6-4 while Whitko is 6-3 on the season. Kelsie Peterson led West Noble with 27 points in a game that saw the Lady Chargers come from behind to tie the game in the final seconds. The game was knotted up at 62-62 when a Whitko player tossed up a shot with just seconds left in the game. The ball bounced

around the rim before falling in as the buzzer sounded, giving Whitko the victory. “Whitko’s a really good team,” West Noble coach Dale Marano said. “We battled them all night; our intensity was unbelievable. Either team could have win, but our effort was amazing.” Marano watched as four of his players fouled out, leaving him with just five eligible players for the final minutes. And one of those girls on the court had four fouls. West Noble made 28 of 45 free throws while the Wildcats were 22 of 32 from the charity stripe. Whitko led 20-11 after the first quarter and 30-26 at the intermission. The Chargers trailed by five,

50-45 after three quarters before coming on strong in the final stanza. “We’re still learning; we have one senior and a lot of young girls,” Marano said. “But we’ll be okay. We need to bounce back against Central Noble on Saturday and I’m sure the girls will be ready to play.” Other West Noble scorers were Becca Schermerhorn 10; Taylor Fisher 8; Kenzie Cox 5; Kaylie Warble 5; Paige Shearer 4; and Shawna Young 3. Peterson had three three-point field goals and Schermerhorn one for the Chargers. West Noble is home Saturday night against cross-county rival Central Noble.

Knights swim past Northrop WARRIORS: Lakers up next for Westview FROM PAGE B1

KENDALLVILLE — Both East Noble swim teams came away with victories on Thursday. The girls squad defeated Fort Wayne Northrop 137-41 to move to 4-4 overall and 2-2 in the conference. The boys squad won for the first time this season, beating the Bruins 106-68. For the girls, senior Alyn Clark won the 100 Butterfly and 100 Backstroke. Megan Goldsmith, another senior, captured the 50 Freestyle and 100 Freestyle. Junior

Kari Guthrie topped the field in the 200 IM and 500 Freestyle. Sophomore Ashley Nichols won the 200 Freestyle and 100 Breaststroke. Sirahia Ostermeyer also won the diving competition and the squad ruled the relays, winning the 200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay and 400 Free Relay. For the boys, Matt Lewis won the 200 Freestyle and 100 Freestyle. Anthony Phan claimed the 100 Butterfly, Calvin Hinsey

topped the 500 Freestyle and Josh Engle won the 100 Backstroke. The Knights also won the 200 Medley Relay and 200 Free Relay. Both squads lost to Carroll a day earlier. The girls were defeated 182-95 and the boys team fell 174-97. Guthrie had the lone individual first for the East Noble girls against the Chargers. The girls also won the 400 Free Relay. The boys had their only win in the 400 Free Relay.

COLTS: Butler playing at his best since 2009 FROM PAGE B1

Last year, Butler intercepted two passes against Jacksonville and returned one for a touchdown. He also broke up three passes against the Texans — another careerhigh. Earlier this month,

in a win over Tennessee, Butler made eight tackles — another career-high and a total he’s reached just twice before. Butler is playing his best football since being drafted by New England back in 2009.

“Fifth year, the game is kind of slowing down a little bit,” he said. “I’ve got some freedom in Manusky’s system to kind of make my own adjustments throughout the game and throughout the season and I think that kind of helps me.”

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Fremont was led by 19 points from Shae Rhonehouse. Also scoring for the Eagles were Melissa Beer (10), Miranda White (8), Kayla Stroup (6) and Mercedes Lyon (2). The Eagles are 2-2 in the NECC and 5-4 overall. Fremont has league wins over Central Noble and Lakeland. Westview improved to 9-2 overall and won its sixth-straight, the most since 2007-08 when the team went on a 12-game rampage. The Eagles hung with Westview for a quarter and a half. “For a quarter and a half the game was flowing our way,” said Fremont coach Neal Frantz. Back-to-back scores by Stroop and Beer gave Fremont a 15-11 lead three minutes into the second period. Only trouble was, those would be the final field goals for the Eagles in the half. Westview followed the Fremont buckets with a 3-pointer from Yoder and

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Westview sophomore Maria McCoy eyes the hoop during Thursday’s meeting with Fremont. McCoy had 12 points in a 64-45 win.

then went ahead to stay when Hales scored on a drive up the lane. The Warriors also got a 3-pointer from Hales and Westview scored the final seven points of the half. Hales began the 7-0 spurt that closed the half with a score on a drive to the basket, with Duff scoring four points during the effort. McCoy also had a free throw. Up 30-19 at the break, Westview would hold the Eagles scoreless for the first three minutes of the second half to move ahead by 18, at 37-19. If that wasn’t enough, the Warriors produced a 13-2 run late in the third period to lead 50-25 after three quarters.

“They have skilled players, two great sophomores and a great guard,” Frantz said of the Warriors. “Fairfield and Westview are the two teams that have stepped to the front of the pack.” The Warriors close out the 2013 portion of their schedule with a girls and boys doubleheader at home with Lakeland on Dec. 28. “We still have to stay hungry,” Yoder said. “There are certainly more hurdles ahead of us.” Fremont plays in a holiday tournament in Coldwater, Mi. on Dec. 27-28. The Eagle girls face Carleton Airport on Dec. 27 at 1:30 p.m. in the opening round.

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Boys Basketball Standings Northeast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Homestead 0 0 3 1 New Haven 0 0 2 1 Carroll 0 0 2 2 Columbia City 0 0 2 2 Norwell 0 0 1 1 DeKalb 0 0 2 3 Bellmont 0 0 1 3 East Noble 0 0 0 3 Monday’s Game DeKalb 46, Goshen 33 Tuesday’s Games Snider 74, East Noble 35 Bishop Dwenger 64, Norwell 59 (OT) Wednesday, Dec. 18 Garrett 45, Bellmont 42 Friday, Dec. 20 DeKalb at Norwell Columbia City at East Noble Bellmont at New Haven Homestead at Carroll Saturday, Dec. 21 DeKalb at Bishop Dwenger Monday, Dec. 23 Leo at Homestead Northeast Corner Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Prairie Heights 1 0 4 1 Angola 1 0 3 1 Hamilton 1 0 4 2 Westview 1 0 2 2 Fairfield 1 1 2 1 Lakeland 1 1 2 2 West Noble 0 0 4 0 Eastside 0 0 3 2 Churubusco 0 1 0 3 Fremont 0 1 0 4 Central Noble 0 2 0 4 Tuesday’s Games Hamilton 48, Central Noble 46 Eastside 68, Lakewood Park 59 Prairie Heights 64, Bronson, Mich. 30 Wednesday’s Game Concord 67, Lakeland 55 Thursday, Dec. 19 Lakewood Park 62, Fremont 61 Friday, Dec. 20 Westview at Angola Fairfield at Hamilton Eastside at Lakeland Churubusco at Prairie Heights Central Noble at West Noble Saturday, Dec. 21 Fairfield at Goshen Monday, Dec. 23 Angola at Garrett Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Garrett 1 0 4 1 Bluffton 1 0 3 1 Leo 1 0 2 1 Adams Central 1 0 3 2 South Adams 0 1 2 3 Woodlan 0 1 1 3 Heritage 0 1 0 3 Southern Wells 0 1 0 4 Tuesday’s Game Northfield 71, Southern Wells 38 Wednesday’s Game Garrett 45, Bellmont 42 Friday, Dec. 20 Leo at Garrett Adams Central at Woodlan Bluffton at Southern Wells Heritage at South Adams Saturday, Dec. 21 Snider at Bluffton Manchester at Leo Parkway, Ohio at South Adams Monday, Dec. 23 Angola at Garrett Leo at Homestead

Girls Basketball Standings Northeast Hoosier Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Homestead 2 0 8 0 East Noble 2 0 7 1 DeKalb 2 0 6 2 Norwell 1 1 6 1 Columbia City 1 1 7 2 New Haven 0 2 5 5 Carroll 0 2 2 7 Bellmont 0 2 0 9 Tuesday’s Games DeKalb 70, Lakeland 33 East Noble 60, Snider 45 Blackhawk Christian 49, Bellmont 43, OT Carroll 46, Northrop 36 Homestead 76, FW South Side 63 Columbia City 38, Warsaw 24 Wednesday, Dec. 18 New Haven 49, Adams Central 32 Norwell 56, Huntington North 44 Saturday, Dec. 21 East Noble at Columbia City Carroll at Homestead New Haven at Bellmont Norwell at DeKalb Northeast Corner Conference Conf. W L Fairfield 4 0 Westview 5 0 West Noble 4 1 Angola 4 2 Fremont 2 4 Prairie Heights 2 3 Lakeland 2 3 Churubusco 1 3 Central Noble 1 4 Hamilton 0 3 Eastside 0 4 Tuesday’s Games Westview 51, Angola 46 DeKalb 70, Lakeland 33 Garrett 44, Fremont 25 Central Noble 55, Hamilton 38 Eastside 52, Lakewood Park 47 Thursday, Dec. 19 Westview 64, Fremont 45 Whitko 64, West Noble 62 Saturday, Dec. 21 Hamilton at Fairfield Central Noble at West Noble Lakeland at Eastside Prairie Heights at Churubusco

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Allen County Athletic Conference Conf. Ovrl W L W L Garrett 3 0 10 0 Southern Wells 2 1 4 4 Leo 2 1 8 1 Woodlan 2 1 7 2 Heritage 2 1 7 3 South Adams 1 2 8 2 Bluffton 0 3 2 8 Adams Central 0 3 1 7 Monday’s Game South Adams 69, Wes-Del 18 Tuesday’s Games Garrett 44, Fremont 25 Leo 52, FW North Side 45 Concordia 52, Heritage 27 Southwood 44, Bluffton 33 Bishop Dwenger 60, Woodlan 50 Wednesday, Dec. 18 New Haven 49, Adams Central 32 Thursday, Dec. 19 Heritage 75, Lakewood Park 33 South Adams 63, Daleville 36 Saturday, Dec. 21 South Adams at Garrett Adams Central at Bluffton Southern Wells at Leo Woodlan at Heritage

Prep Boys Basketball Scores Thursday Andrean 54, Wheeler 37 E. Central 57, S. Dearborn 39 Indpls Herron 90, Indiana Deaf 46 Lakewood Park 62, Fremont 61

Prep Girls Basketball Scores Argos 51, N. Judson 28 Attica 64, N. White 20 Austin 74, Clarksville 40 Barr-Reeve 73, Shoals 23 Beech Grove 54, Indian Creek 53 Benton Central 51, Lafayette Jeff 41 Bethesda Christian 45, Faith Christian 39 Bloomington South 45, Bloomington North 36 Blue River 55, Muncie Burris 33 Borden 63, Madison Shawe 35 Castle 48, Henderson Co., Ky. 44 Columbus North 79, Columbus East 43 Eastern (Pekin) 53, New Washington 42 Ev. Central 60, Ev. Reitz 36 Ev. Mater Dei 67, N. Posey 48 Forest Park 47, Paoli 36 Greencastle 72, Rockville 47 Heritage 75, Lakewood Park 33 Indiana Deaf 63, University 31 Indpls Irvington 60, Indpls Howe 57, OT

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Indpls Northwest 58, Tindley 40 Indpls Washington 58, Indpls Park Tudor 28 Jasper 44, Dubois 37 Jeffersonville 61, Corydon 49 Lou. Ballard, Ky. 63, New Albany 38 Madison 75, Jennings Co. 49 Morgan Twp. 40, Boone Grove 20 Mt. Carmel, Ill. 72, Ev. North 37 N. Central (Farmersburg) 61, Sullivan 58 N. Decatur 59, Waldron 31 N. Harrison 77, Salem 50 N. Knox 44, Wood Memorial 41 Oldenburg 51, Southwestern (Jefferson) 39 Penn 83, S. Bend Clay 7 Perry Central 57, Orleans 33 Plymouth 32, Warsaw 26 Providence 67, Christian Academy 45 S. Bend Adams 55, S. Bend St. Joseph’s 49 S. Decatur 54, Morristown 49 Scottsburg 60, Mitchell 37 Seeger 57, Clinton Central 17 Shakamak 45, Linton 25 Shenandoah 54, Monroe Central 41 Southwestern (Shelby) 88, Edinburgh 19 Tecumseh 54, Tell City 45 Terre Haute North 53, W. Vigo 34 Tippecanoe Valley 52, Winamac 51 Tri 62, Randolph Southern 36 Tri-West 57, Zionsville 42 Triton Central 69, Indpls Attucks 39 Twin Lakes 73, Rossville 28 Vincennes Rivet 54, Ev. Memorial 50 W. Central 57, Tri-County 24 Wapahani 87, Cowan 53 Washington 66, Loogootee 13 Westfield 76, Avon 44 Westview 64, Fremont 45 White River Valley 46, Eastern (Greene) 25 Whitko 64, W. Noble 62

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 4 0 .714 369 311 Miami 8 6 0 .571 310 296 N.Y. Jets 6 8 0 .429 246 367 Buffalo 5 9 0 .357 300 354 South W L T Pct PF PA y-Indianapolis 9 5 0 .643 338 319 Tennessee 5 9 0 .357 326 355 Jacksonville 4 10 0 .286 221 399 Houston 2 12 0 .143 253 375 North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 9 5 0 .643 354 274 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 296 277 Pittsburgh 6 8 0 .429 321 332 Cleveland 4 10 0 .286 288 362 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Denver 11 3 0 .786 535 372 x-Kansas City 11 3 0 .786 399 255 San Diego 7 7 0 .500 343 311 Oakland 4 10 0 .286 295 393 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Philadelphia 8 6 0 .571 364 349 Dallas 7 7 0 .500 393 385 N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 .357 251 357 Washington 3 11 0 .214 305 434 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 10 4 0 .714 359 270 Carolina 10 4 0 .714 328 208 Tampa Bay 4 10 0 .286 258 324 Atlanta 4 10 0 .286 309 388 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 8 6 0 .571 406 391 Green Bay 7 6 1 .536 353 362 Detroit 7 7 0 .500 362 339 Minnesota 4 9 1 .321 363 425 West W L T Pct PF PA x-Seattle 12 2 0 .857 380 205 San Francisco10 4 0 .714 349 228 Arizona 9 5 0 .643 342 291 St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 316 324 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game San Diego 27, Denver 20 Sunday’s Games Minnesota 48, Philadelphia 30 Atlanta 27, Washington 26 San Francisco 33, Tampa Bay 14 Seattle 23, N.Y. Giants 0 Chicago 38, Cleveland 31 Indianapolis 25, Houston 3 Buffalo 27, Jacksonville 20 Miami 24, New England 20 Kansas City 56, Oakland 31 Carolina 30, N.Y. Jets 20 Arizona 37, Tennessee 34, OT St. Louis 27, New Orleans 16 Green Bay 37, Dallas 36 Pittsburgh 30, Cincinnati 20 Monday’s Game Baltimore 18, Detroit 16 Sunday, Dec. 22 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Denver at Houston, 1 p.m. Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Arizona at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 4:05 p.m. Oakland at San Diego, 4:25 p.m. Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. New England at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m. Chicago at Philadelphia, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23 Atlanta at San Francisco, 8:40 p.m.

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 12 15 .444 — Toronto 9 14 .391 1 Brooklyn 9 16 .360 2 New York 8 17 .320 3 Philadelphia 7 19 .269 4½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 19 6 .760 — Atlanta 14 12 .538 5½ Charlotte 12 14 .462 7½ Washington 11 13 .458 7½ Orlando 8 18 .308 11½ Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 20 5 .800 — Detroit 13 14 .481 8 Cleveland 9 15 .375 10½ Chicago 9 16 .360 11 Milwaukee 5 20 .200 15 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 20 5 .800 — Houston 17 9 .654 3½ Dallas 15 10 .600 5 New Orleans 11 13 .458 8½ Memphis 10 15 .400 10 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 21 4 .840 — Portland 22 5 .815 — Denver 14 10 .583 6½ Minnesota 13 13 .500 8½ Utah 7 21 .250 15½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 18 9 .667 — Phoenix 14 10 .583 2½ Golden State 14 12 .538 3½ L.A. Lakers 12 13 .480 5 Sacramento 7 17 .292 9½ Wednesday’s Games Utah 86, Orlando 82 Miami 97, Indiana 94 Charlotte 104, Toronto 102, OT Detroit 107, Boston 106 Atlanta 124, Sacramento 107 Washington 113, Brooklyn 107 Minnesota 120, Portland 109 New York 107, Milwaukee 101,2OT Dallas 105, Memphis 91 San Antonio 108, Phoenix 101 Houston 109, Chicago 94 L.A. Clippers 108, New Orleans 95 Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City 107, Chicago 95 San Antonio at Golden State, late Friday’s Games Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Utah at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Houston at Indiana, 8 p.m. Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m. Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Saturday’s Games Memphis at New York, 12 p.m. Washington at Boston, 1 p.m. Sacramento at Orlando, 7 p.m. Houston at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at Phoenix, 9 p.m. New Orleans at Portland, 10 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Boston 35 23 10 2 48 96 74 Tampa Bay 35 21 11 3 45 97 84 Montreal 37 21 13 3 45 92 81 Detroit 37 16 12 9 41 94 101 Toronto 37 18 16 3 39 101 106 Ottawa 37 14 17 6 34 103 122 Florida 36 14 17 5 33 85 112 Buffalo 35 9 23 3 21 63 100 Metropolitan Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 37 26 10 1 53 117 80 Washington 34 18 13 3 39 107 102 Philadelphia 35 16 15 4 36 86 97 Carolina 34 14 13 7 35 79 94 N.Y. Rangers35 16 17 2 34 79 95 New Jersey 35 14 15 6 34 83 87 Columbus 35 14 17 4 32 91 100 N.Y. Islanders35 9 19 7 25 85 121 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Chicago 37 25 7 5 55 138 102 St. Louis 34 23 7 4 50 119 81 Colorado 33 22 10 1 45 96 78 Minnesota 37 20 12 5 45 86 88 Dallas 33 16 12 5 37 95 101 Nashville 35 16 16 3 35 80 99 Winnipeg 36 15 16 5 35 95 106 Pacific Division GP W LOT Pts GF GA Anaheim 36 24 7 5 53 116 91 Los Angeles 35 23 8 4 50 97 68 San Jose 34 21 7 6 48 112 84 Vancouver 36 20 10 6 46 100 86 Phoenix 34 18 10 6 42 106 105 Calgary 35 13 16 6 32 88 111 Edmonton 36 11 22 3 25 93 123 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SO New Jersey 5, Ottawa 2 Thursday’s Games Toronto 2, Phoenix 1, SO Buffalo 4, Boston 2 Philadelphia 5, Columbus 4 Pittsburgh 5, Minnesota 2 Florida 4, Ottawa 2 Detroit 3, Calgary 2, OT Tampa Bay 4, Nashville 2 St. Louis 5, Montreal 1 Dallas 4, Vancouver 1 Colorado 4, Edmonton 2 San Jose at Los Angeles, late Friday’s Games Anaheim at New Jersey, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Chicago, 8 p.m. Florida at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Saturday’s Games Calgary at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Phoenix at Ottawa, 2 p.m. Colorado at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Columbus, 7 p.m. Montreal at Nashville, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Anaheim at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Edmonton, 10 p.m. Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Major League Baseball Free Agents The 63 free agents who have signed, with name, position, former club if different, and contract. The contract information was obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources. For players with minor league contracts, letter agreements for major league contracts are in parentheses: AMERICAN LEAGUE BOSTON (3) -- Signed A.J. Pierzynski, c, Texas, to an $8.25 million, one-year contract; signed Edward Mujica, rhp, St. Louis, to a $9.5 million, two-year contract; re-signed Mike Napoli, 1b, to a $32 million, two-year contract. CHICAGO (1) -- Re-signed Paul Konerko, 1b, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract. CLEVELAND (2) -- Re-signed Jason Giambi, 1b, to a minor league contract; signed David Murphy, of, Texas, to a $12 million, two-year contract. DETROIT (3) -- Signed Joe Nathan, rhp, Texas, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Rajai Davis, of, Toronto, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Joba Chamberlain, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract. HOUSTON (3) -- Signed Scott Feldman, rhp, Baltimore, to a $10 million, three-year contract; signed Chad Qualls, rhp, Miami, to a $6 million, two-year contract; signed Matt Albers, rhp, Cleveland, to a $2.45 million, one-year contract. KANSAS CITY (2) -- Signed Jason Vargas, lhp, Los Angeles Angels, to a $32 million, four-year contract; signed Omar Infante, 2b, Detroit, to a $30.25 million, four-year contract. LOS ANGELES (1) -- Signed Joe Smith, rhp, Cleveland, to a $15.75 million, three-year contract. MINNESOTA (3) -- Signed Ricky Nolasco, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $49 million, four-year contract; signed Phil Hughes, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $24 million, three-year contract; signed Jason Kubel, of, Cleveland, to a minor league contract. NEW YORK (6) -- Re-signed Brendan Ryan, ss, to a $5 million, two-year contract; signed Brian McCann, c, Atlanta, to an $85 million, five-year contract; signed Kelly Johnson, inf-of, Tampa Bay, to a $3 million, one-year contract; re-signed Hiroki Kuroka, rhp, to a $16 million, one-year contract; signed Jacoby Ellsbury, of, Boston, to a $153 million, seven-year contract; signed Carlos Beltran, of, St. Louis, to a $45 million, three-year contract. OAKLAND (2) -- Signed Nick Punto, inf, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $3 million, one-year contract; signed Scott Kazmir, lhp, Cleveland, to a $22 million, two-year contract. SEATTLE (4) -- Signed Willie Bloomquist, 2b, Arizona, to a $5.8 million, one-year contract; signed Robinson Cano, 2b, New York Yankees, to a $240 million, 10-year contract; signed Corey Hart, of-1b, Milwaukee, to a $6 million, one-year contract; re-signed Franklin Gutierrez, of, to a $1 million, one-year contract. TAMPA BAY (2) -- Re-signed Jose Molina, c, to a $4.5 million, two-year contract; re-signed Juan Oviedo, rhp, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract. TEXAS (3) -- Re-signed Geovany Soto, c, to a $3.05 million, one-year contract; re-signed Jason Frasor, rhp, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract; re-signed Colby Lewis, rhp, to a minor league contract. TORONTO (1) -- Signed Dioner Navarro, c, Chicago Cubs, to an $8 million, two-year contract. NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA (1) -- Signed Gavin Floyd, rhp, Chicago White Sox, to a $4 million, one-year contract. CINCINNATI (2) -- Signed Brayan Pena, c, Detroit, to a $2,275,000, one-year contract; signed Skip Schumaker, 2b, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5 million, two-year contract. COLORADO (3) -- Signed LaTroy Hawkins, rhp, New York Mets, to a $2.5 million, one-year contract; signed Justin Morneau, 1b, Pittsburgh, to a $12.5 million, two-year contract; signed Boone Logan, lhp, New York Yankees, to a $16.5 million, three-year contract. LOS ANGELES (2) -- Signed Dan Haren, rhp, Washington, to a $10 million, one-year contract; re-signed Brian Wilson, rhp, to a $10 million, one-year contract. MIAMI (2) -- Signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia, c, Boston, to a $21 million, three-year contract; signed Rafael Furcal, ss, St. Louis, to a $3 million, one-year contract. NEW YORK (3) -- Signed Chris Young, of, Oakland, to a $7.25 million, one-year contract; signed Curtis Granderson, of, New York Yankees,

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to a $60 million, four-year contract; signed Bartolo Colon, rhp, Oakland, to a $20 million, two-year contract. PHILADELPHIA (4) -- Signed Marlon Byrd, of, Pittsburgh, to a $16 million, two-year contract; re-signed Carlos Ruiz, c, to a $26 million, three-year contract; signed Wil Nieves, c, Arizona, to a $1,125,000 one-year contract; signed Roberto Hernandez, rhp, Tampa Bay, to a $4.5 million, one-year contract. PITTSBURGH (2) -- Signed Edinson Volquez, rhp, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Clint Barmes, ss, to a $2 million, one-year contract. ST. LOUIS (2) -- Signed Jhonny Peralta, ss, Detroit, to a $53 million, four-year contract; signed Mark Ellis, 2b, Los Angeles Dodgers, to a $5.25 million, one-year contract. SAN DIEGO (1) -- Signed Josh Johnson, rhp, Toronto, to an $8 million, one-year contract. SAN FRANCISCO (4) -- Signed Tim Hudson, rhp, Atlanta, to a $23 million, two-year contract; re-signed Javier Lopez, lhp, to a $13 million, three-year contract; re-signed Ryan Vogelsong, rhp, to a $5 million, one-year contract; signed Michael Morse, of, Baltimore, to a $6 million, one-year contract. WASHINGTON (1) -- Signed Nate McLouth, of, Baltimore, to a $10.75 million, two-year contract. Remaining Free Agents The 105 remaining free agents: AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (6) -- Alexi Casilla, 2b; Jason Hammel, rhp; Brian Roberts, 2b; Francisco Rodriguez, rhp; Chris Snyder, c; Tsuyoshi Wada, lhp. BOSTON (4) -- Stephen Drew, ss; Joel Hanrahan, rhp; John McDonald, ss; Matt Thornton, lhp. CLEVELAND (3) -- Rich Hill, lhp; Ubaldo Jimenez, rhp; Kelly Shoppach, c. DETROIT (5) -- Joaquin Benoit, rhp; Jeremy Bonderman, rhp; Octavio Dotel, rhp; Ramon Santiago, 2b; Jose Veras, rhp. HOUSTON (1) -- Erik Bedard, lhp. KANSAS CITY (4) -- Bruce Chen, lhp; Carlos Pena, 1b; Ervin Santana, rhp; Miguel Tejada, 2b. MINNESOTA (1) -- Mike Pelfrey, rhp. NEW YORK (6) -- Travis Hafner, dh; Lyle Overbay, 1b; Andy Pettitte, lhp; Mark Reynolds, 1b-3b; Mariano Rivera, rhp; Kevin Youkilis, 3b. OAKLAND (2) -- Grant Balfour, rhp; Kurt Suzuki, c. SEATTLE (6) -- Endy Chavez, of; Raul Ibanez, of; Kendrys Morales, dh; Oliver Perez, lhp; Humberto Quintero, c; Joe Saunders, lhp. TAMPA BAY (6) -- Jesse Crain, rhp; James Loney, 1b; Fernando Rodney, rhp; Luke Scott, dh; Jamey Wright, rhp; Delmon Young, of. TEXAS (3) -- Lance Berkman, dh; Nelson Cruz, of; Matt Garza, rhp. TORONTO (3) -- Munenori Kawasaki, ss-2b; Darren Oliver, lhp; Ramon Ortiz, rhp. NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (1) -- Eric Chavez, 3b. ATLANTA (7) -- Luis Ayala; rhp; Scott Downs, lhp; Freddy Garcia, rhp; Reed Johnson, of; Kameron Loe, rhp; Paul Maholm, lhp; Eric O’Flaherty, lhp. CHICAGO (3) -- Scott Baker, rhp; Kevin Gregg, rhp; Matt Guerrier, rhp. CINCINNATI (6) -- Bronson Arroyo, rhp; Shin-Soo Choo, of; Zach Duke, lhp; Cesar Izturis, ss; Nick Masset, rhp; Manny Parra, lhp. COLORADO (5) -- Rafael Betancourt, rhp; Jeff Francis, lhp; Todd Helton, 1b; Roy Oswalt, rhp; Yorvit Torrealba, c. LOS ANGELES (6) -- Chris Capuano, lhp; Jerry Hairston Jr., 3b; J.P. Howell, lhp; Carlos Marmol, rhp; Juan Uribe, 3b; Michael Young, 3b. MIAMI (4) -- Matt Diaz, of; Austin Kearns, of; Juan Pierre, of; Placido Polanco, 3b. MILWAUKEE (2) -- Yuniesky Betancourt, 1b; Mike Gonzalez, lhp. NEW YORK (7) -- David Aardsma, rhp; Tim Byrdak, lhp; Pedro Feliciano, lhp; Frank Francisco, rhp; Aaron Harang, rhp; Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp; Johan Santana, lhp. PHILADELPHIA (1) -- Roy Halladay, rhp. PITTSBURGH (4) -- John Buck, c; A.J. Burnett, rhp; Kyle Farnsworth, rhp; Jeff Karstens, rhp. ST. LOUIS (2) -- Chris Carpenter, rhp; Jake Westbrook, rhp. SAN DIEGO (3) -- Ronny Cedeno, ss; Mark Kotsay, of; Jason Marquis, rhp. SAN FRANCISCO (3) -- Chad Gaudin, rhp; Andres Torres, of; Barry Zito, lhp. WASHINGTON (1) -- Chad Tracy, 3b-1b.

Men’s College Basketball Top 25 Schedule Friday’s Game No. 2 Syracuse vs. High Point, 7 p.m. Saturday’s Games No. 3 Ohio State vs. Notre Dame at Madison Square Garden, 7:30 p.m. No. 5 Michigan State at Texas, 4 p.m. No. 6 Louisville at Florida International, 6 p.m. No. 7 Oklahoma State vs. No. 20 Colorado at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, 11:30 p.m. No. 8 Villanova vs. Rider, 4 p.m. No. 13 Oregon vs. BYU, 10:30 p.m. No. 14 North Carolina vs. Davidson, 5 p.m. No. 15 Memphis vs. Southeast Missouri State, 8 p.m. No. 16 Florida vs. Fresno State at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla., 4:30 p.m. No. 18 Kansas vs. Georgetown, Noon No. 19 Kentucky vs. Belmont, Noon No. 21 Gonzaga at Kansas State, 3:30 p.m. No. 22 UMass vs. Florida State at the BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla., 2 p.m. No. 23 Missouri vs. Illinois at Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m. No. 24 San Diego State vs. McNeese State, 10 p.m. Sunday’s Games No. 10 UConn at Washington, 3:30 p.m. No. 11 Wichita State vs. North Carolina Central, 8 p.m. No. 12 Baylor vs. Southern U., 5 p.m. No. 17 Iowa State vs. George Mason at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 5:30 p.m. No. 25 Iowa vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 2 p.m.

NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 30 New Hampshire 45, Lafayette 7 Furman 30, South Carolina State 20 Coastal Carolina 48, BethuneCookman 24 Fordham 37, Sacred Heart 27 Tennessee State 31, Butler 0 Sam Houston State 51, Southern Utah 20 South Dakota State 26, Northern Arizona 7 Jacksonville State 55, Samford 14 Second Round Saturday, Dec. 7 Towson 48, Fordham 28 Coastal Carolina 42, Montana 35 New Hampshire 41, Maine 27 Eastern Illinois 51, Tennessee State 10 North Dakota St. 38, Furman 7 Eastern Washington 41, South Dakota State 17 Jacksonville State 31, McNeese State 10 Southeastern Louisiana 30, Sam Houston State 29 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 13 Towson 49, Eastern Illinois 39 Saturday, Dec. 14 North Dakota State 48, Coastal Carolina 14 Eastern Washington 35, Jacksonville State 24 New Hampshire 20, Southeastern Louisiana 17 Semifinals Friday, Dec. 20 New Hampshire (10-4) at North Dakota State (13-0), 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21 Towson (12-2) at Eastern Washington (12-2), 2 p.m. Championship

Saturday, Jan. 4 At FC Dallas Stadium Frisco, Texas TBD, 2 p.m.

NCAA Division II Football Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 23 Winston-Salem 27, Slippery Rock 20 West Chester 38, American International 7 Carson-Newman 37, Newberry 27 Grand Valley State 40, Saginaw Valley State 7 West Texas A&M 27, Indianapolis 14 North Alabama 30, Tuskegee 27 Minnesota-Duluth 55, Emporia State 13 St. Cloud State 40, Henderson State 35 Second Round Saturday, Nov. 30 Shepherd 7, Winston-Salem 0 West Chester 40, Bloomsburg 38 Lenoir-Rhyne 27, Carson-Newman 20 North Alabama 37, North Carolina-Pembroke 13 West Texas A&M 34, Ohio Dominican 27 Northwest Missouri State 45, Minnesota-Duluth 21 St. Cloud State 54, Minnesota State-Mankato 48 Grand Valley State 34, Colorado State-Pueblo 30 Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 7 West Chester 28, Shepherd 7 Lenoir-Rhyne 42, North Alabama 39 Grand Valley State 35, West Texas A&M 28 Northwest Missouri State 59, St. Cloud State 21 Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 14 Lenoir-Rhyne 42, West Chester 14 Northwest Missouri State 27, Grand Valley State 13 Championship Saturday, Dec. 21 At Braly Municipal Stadium Florence, Ala. Lenoir-Rhyne (13-1) vs. Northwest Missouri State (14-0), Noon

NCAA Division III Football Playoff Glance All Times EST First Round Saturday, Nov. 23 Mount Union 34, Washington & Jefferson 20 Wittenberg 58, Lebanon Valley 17 Ithaca 20, Framingham State 17 Wesley 29, Johns Hopkins 24 Franklin 17, Washington (Mo.) 10 Hampden-Sydney 42, Maryville (Tenn.) 34 Hobart 34, Gallaudet 7 St. John Fisher 25, John Carroll 16 Rowan 24, Endicott 0 North Central (Ill.) 63, Albion 7 Wisconsin-Platteville 54, Concordia (Wis.) 20 Wartburg 41, Illinois Wesleyan 7 Bethel (Minn.) 70, St. Scholastica 13 Wisconsin-Whitewater 31, St. Norbert 7 Mary Hardin-Baylor 35, Redlands 7 Linfield 42, Pacific Lutheran 21 Second Round Saturday, Nov. 30 Mount Union 56, Wittenberg 21 Wesley 23, Ithaca 15 St. John Fisher 27, Hobart 6 North Central (Ill.) 52, Wisconsin-Platteville 24 Bethel (Minn.) 34, Wartburg 27 Wisconsin-Whitewater 33, Franklin 3 Mary Hardin-Baylor 59, Rowan 8 Linfield 31, Hampden-Sydney 21 Quarterfinals Saturday, Dec. 7 Mount Union 62, Wesley 59 North Central (Ill.) 41, Bethel (Minn.) 17 Mary Hardin-Baylor 45, St. John Fisher 23 Wisconsin-Whitewater 28, Linfield 17 Semifinals Saturday, Dec. 14 Mount Union 41, North Central (Ill.) 40 Wisconsin-Whitewater 16, Mary Hardin-Baylor 15 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Friday, Dec. 20 At Salem Stadium Salem, Va. Mount Union (14-0) vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater (14-0), 7 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Ronald Belisario on a one-year contract. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with RHP John Axford on a one-year contract. Designated RHP Trey Haley for assignment. NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with OF Carlos Beltran on a three-year contract. Designated RHP Brett Marshall for assignment. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Acquired OF Corey Brown from Washington for cash considerations. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum NBHFM — Announced Thomas Tull was elected to the board of directors. Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Traded 1B Jeremy Hamilton to the Gary SouthShore (AA) for RHP Tim Verthein. JOLIET SLAMMERS — Exercised the 2014 contract options on OF Nick Akins, RHP Andrew Busby, C Zak Colby, C Kolin Conner, RHP Chase Doremus, INF Grant DeBruin, RHP Matt Dillon, RHP Shawn Kale, OF Joe Meggs, OF Darian Sandford, INF Niko Vasquez, and RHP Brett Zawacki. Declined the contract options on RHP Ryan Hartman, OF David Christensen, RHP Anthony Figlioia, LHP Lucas Goodgoin, LHP Corey Kimes, OF Seth Schwindenhammer, RHP Jason Sullivan and OF Jarod Yakubik. ROCKFORD AVIATORS — Signed RHP Kyle Brueggemann and OF Jeff Kremer to contract extensions. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed 1B Brian McConkey to a contract extension. Exercised the 2014 contract options on RHP Tony Delmonico, RHP Mike Giovenco, RHP Preston Hatcher, LHP Danny Jiminez, RHP Matt LaMothe, RHP Clark Labitan, LHP Cameron Roth, LHP Adam Tollefson, RHP Seth Webster, C Ty Nelson, C Mike Valadez, INF Gerard Hall, INF Frank Pfister, INF Keith Werman and OF Alexi Colon. Declined the contract options on RHP Cody Griebling and LHP Randy Sturgill. FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed S Sean Cattouse to the practice squad. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed DT Jerrell Powe. Released WR Chad Hall. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DT Almondo Sewell to a the contact extension through 2015. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DT Bryant Turner to a three-year contract extension. Released K Sandro DeAngelis. HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled G Jason LaBarbera from Rockford (AHL). Reassigned G Kent Simpson (AHL). NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled F J.T. Miller from Hartford (AHL). Assigned F Arron Asham and D Dylan McIlrath to Hartford. PHOENIX COYOTES— Recalled D Rostislav Klesla from Portland (AHL). WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with F Scott Kosmachuk on a three-year entry level contract. American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed F Andrew Clark to a professional tryout agreement. Released F Jon Sim from his professional tryout contract. Southern Professional Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Acquired G Kyle Rank from Fayetteville for future considerations. SOCCER Major League Soccer SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Signed F Kenny Cooper. W-League W-LEAGUE — Announced the addition of the Gulf Coast Texans, beginning with the 2014 season. COLLEGE ARKANSAS STATE — Named Blake

SPORTS BRIEFS • Lakers’ Bryant likely to miss six weeks with knee fracture EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Kobe Bryant is expected to miss about six weeks with an injured left knee. The Lakers said Thursday that an MRI showed Bryant has a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau of his knee. The team said Bryant had hyperextended the knee in Tuesday night’s game at Memphis. The injury is the latest setback for the Lakers star, who had only returned to the court on Dec. 8 after nearly eight months away because of a torn Achilles tendon. Los Angeles had signed the fourthleading scoring in NBA history to a two-year contract extension last month. Bryant’s new deal is reportedly worth $48.5 million and takes him into his 20th season with the Lakers.

Red Wings win in overtime DETROIT (AP) — Daniel Alfredsson scored two goals, including a power-play score at 1:03 of overtime, and Detroit earned a win over Calgary. Detroit snapped a six-game losing streak (0-4-2) and a five-game skid at home. Alfredsson added an assist, and Joakim Andersson also scored for Detroit. Pavel Datsyuk had three assists, Niklas Kronwall added two assists, and Jonas Gustavsson made 20 saves. Mikael Backlund and Mark Giordano scored for Calgary. Mike Cammalleri had two assists, and Karri Ramo stopped 35 shots. Alfredsson’s winner came on a one-timed slap shot from the inside edge of the left circle for his ninth goal. He also earned his 700th NHL assist.

Youth safety program gets medical nods INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — USA Football’s Heads Up Football program has become the first youth sports program to earn official support from three major medical entities. The American College of Sports Medicine, the National Athletic Trainers Association, and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society, organizations representing more than 80,000 medical professionals, have approved the youth football initiative. The PFATS is the latest to partner with USA Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing Heads Up Football. PFATS includes more than 100 certified athletic trainers who serve NFL teams. Nearly 2,800 youth football leagues representing approximately 600,000 players in 50 states and Washington, D.C., have registered for Heads Up Football in 2013. The program is being piloted on the high school level this fall in 35 schools spanning 10 states. “Athlete safety is advanced through education, and that is the heart of USA Football’s Heads Up Football program,” PFATS President John Norwig said. “Education converts awareness into action. This program is establishing needed standards and behavior modification built upon the best medical science and research. Young athletes deserve this level of commitment. We are proud to endorse it.” Heads Up Football includes coach certification, safer tackling techniques, concussion recognition and response protocols approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and proper equipment fitting instruction. USA Football is the official youth football development partner of the NFL.

Giroux tops 100 goals PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Claude Giroux scored the tying and winning goals in the final minutes of the third period, rallying the Philadelphia Flyers past the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-4 on Thursday night. Giroux scored two of the Flyers’ five third-period goals as Philadelphia stormed back from a 3-0 hole. Giroux’s 100th NHL goal was perhaps his most amazing, a backhanded and blind shot that beat Curtis McElhinney up high with 1:39 left. The Flyers captain had tied it with 4:39 left. Jakub Voracek, Braydon Coburn, Erik Gustafsson also scored goals for the Flyers. Steve Mason got the win in his first game against his former team. Cam Atkinson, Jack Skille, Nick Foligno and Blake Comeau had goals for Columbus.

No. 1 Wildcats are winners TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Aaron Gordon scored 21 points, Nick Johnson added 17 and Arizona opened its second week at No. 1 with a 69-43 rout over Southern on Thursday night. Arizona (12-0) had no trouble with the Jaguars early on, racing out to a 15-point halftime lead while playing without injured center Kaleb Tarczewski. The second half wasn’t quite as smooth and the Wildcats went 22 of 37 on free throws, but it was good enough to get them to 12-0 for the second straight season. Brandon Ashley had 11 points and 10 rebounds for Arizona. Southern (3-8) fought back after a miserable first half, but fell in too deep of a hole to make a game of it. Malcolm Miller and Calvin Godfrey had 11 points each for the Jaguars.

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Combustible dust rules important First it was going to be in the spring of 2011. Then the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said November. That’s when they would convene a panel to consider a rule to protect workers from combustible dust and how any rules would affect small businesses. Now, OSHA says April 2014, maybe. Unglamorous as it may be, controlling combustible dust, not just in coal mines, is a significant safety issue for workers across the country, whether workers realize it or not. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has investigated numerous accidents and deaths that turned out to have combustible dust in common, even among different industries. A report from the Center for Public Integrity found that since 1980, dust has been involved in more than 450 accidents, killed almost 130 people and injured 800, and those numbers are probably underreported. The Chemical Safety Board recommended that the federal government issue safety standards for general industry to prevent dust fires and explosions. The rule should be based on the National Fire Protection Association’s standards and cover hazard assessment, engineering controls, housekeeping, building design, explosion protection, operating procedures and worker training. Of course, it’s hardly a surprise that this safety issue gets bumped down the Obama administration priority list. It seems every time the administration makes a move on something like worker safety or environmental protection, they get nothing but grief, even from places such as West Virginia, from the governor to lawmakers to union and business leaders. The president might expect a place so historically blue-collar as West Virginia would welcome efforts that protect workers, but he is probably not counting on it. No one wants a rule that industry is unable to follow, or another death or injury from a preventable cause. That’s why OSHA should get this panel convened and sensible rules enacted.

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To the editor: I’m writing in response to the article Sunday, Dec. 15, “Words complicate gay marriage debate.” “Words complicate” sounds funny from a man who has earned a good living from them. Words also define. If you use a spell checker and grammar checker then you know there are absolutes. Even changing one letter can change the definition, or at worse yet, make you sound unintelligent. Words are very important. Especially this time of the year when we celebrate “The WORD” becoming flesh. If there are no rules or absolutes in literature or writing, then we might be able to say, “Did God really say …” Genesis 3:1. But there are absolutes.

To the editor: Join Concerns Of Police Survivors as part of Project Blue Light and let your blue lights shine for law enforcement during the holidays. Remember, the color blue is also a symbol of peace. When you display your blue lights, you’ll be sending a dual message to everyone driving by that you support America’s peacekeepers, and that you hope the coming year will be a time of peace. The idea began in 1989 when Mrs. Dolly Craig wrote to C.O.P.S. that she would be putting two blue candles in her living room window that holiday season. One for her son-in-law, Daniel Gleason, who had been killed in the line of duty while serving with the Philadelphia (Pa.) Police Department on June 5, 1986, and Charles H. Summers one for her daughter and Danny’s wife, Garrett Pam, who had been killed in an automo-

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bile accident in August 1989. Danny and Pam had six children. Dolly Craig is now deceased as well, but her idea is her legacy. Project Blue Light now burns bright in the hearts of the nearly 32,000 survivors of America’s fallen law enforcement officers during the holiday season. C.O.P.S. adopted this idea as a way for everyone to honor the officers who serve and protect us while remembering those who have died in the line of duty. Project Blue Light has grown steadily as a way of remembering our departed law enforcement officers across America. The concept is simple. Place a single blue light in your window in memory of fallen officers. At this time of year, ornamental light fixtures, such as candlestick replicas, are easy to come by and serve this purpose well. Jess Jessup, patrol chaplain DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department

Santa Claus and the children have it under control Katelyn was talking to Santa at the mall. When her mother Dawn asked Santa what Katelyn wants for Christmas, Santa winked and told Dawn, “It is between Katelyn and me. It is already taken care of and on my list!” — Dawn Keen of New Mexico Dawn has been trying to get Katelyn to eat more vegetables. When Dawn put carrots on Katelyn’s plate, Katelyn said, “I don’t want those.” Dawn told her she needs to eat them because they will make her strong. Katelyn replied, “I talked to my stomach and it said it doesn’t need carrots today. My muscles say they are strong enough too!” When Gloria’s daughter, Connie, was going into first grade, she asked her dad, “People who speak different languages than we do … do they have different voice boxes?” — Gloria Gordon of Bluffton (Connie is now in her 50s.) When Connie got ready to go into first grade Gloria took her to buy some dresses. She was a little plump and they had two dresses that Connie and Gloria both liked. Gloria decided to buy them both, even though they were both the same. At school

when Connie started down the slide, her dress caught and tore. Gloria brought the other dress for Connie to change into. When the students saw Connie in the new dress (identical to the torn one) they said, “Boy, your mom is a good sewer!” About four years ago Linda’s grandson GRACE Ean (now 12) from Tennessee was HOUSHOLDER visiting (along with Linda’s daughter and son-in-law) at Christmas time. They enjoyed an outing to a pizza place with games and prizes. When they returned, Ean proudly displayed a ukulele he had gotten with the tickets he won. Linda explained to him that the ukulele comes to us from Hawaii. Ean looked at his instrument, turned it over, and said, “Not mine. It came from China!” — Linda Wingfield (grandmother) of Kendallville

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granddaughter Lily that she had seen very large birds (maybe vultures) sitting on the beach while she was walking her dog at Bixler Lake Park. Linda noted that she frequently saw gulls and geese but seeing the very large vultures or hawks was new for her. Lily said, “Well, Nana, they might have been on break.” In church the sermon was about Jesus being, among other names, the Prince of Peace. Lily leaned over and whispered to Linda, after seeing that phrase projected onto the screen at the front of the sanctuary, “I thought it was the Prince of Pizza!” (She was probably pulling Linda’s leg.) Lily has always loved church. When she was 3 or 4, after Children’s Church, her mom, Lucinda, asked her what the lesson had been. Lily replied, “We learned about Jesus and the monkey in the tree!” Not familiar with that story, her mother asked the teacher about it and learned it was from Luke 19, the story of Zacchaeus, who climbed a tree to hear Jesus preach. Thank you to everyone who contributes stories. If you have a story to share

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please don’t put it off … call 347-0738 or email me. (I welcome photos by email, too.) My new email address is ghousholder@kpcmedia.com. You can also mail stories to me at 816 Mott St., Kendallville, IN 46755, but please don’t mail me any photos (only use email for photos). Thank you in advance! GRACE HOUSHOLDER is a columnist and editorial writer for this newspaper. Contact her at ghousholder@kpcmedia.com.

It’s that time of the year! Christmas lights, cameras, actions! “You can see it from space!” Kirby complained about his next-door neighbor’s Christmas lawn display. In his living room, at 9 p.m., with the curtains drawn and the lights off, it was as bright as daylight. The only difference was that daylight doesn’t twinkle and blink in different colors. “Did you see the six wise men?” he asked. “I thought there were only three wise men,” I said. “And I thought people were smaller back then. These guys are two feet taller than I am. I thought maybe they were the three wise men’s bodyguards.” “It started out with three — until another three went on sale right after Christmas last year. Next year there may be nine. Who knows? And what did you think of their camel train?” “Is that what that is supposed to be? I thought they were creatures

from ‘Star Wars.’ I wondered you see the holy family gathered what that had to do with around a T-shirt display Christmas.” in a Gap store on level 2B Normally, I like while shop clerks gathered Christmas lights. It gets around to celebrate the dark so early in the winter blessed event?” that it’s cheery to see the “Well, shop clerks are outlines of houses, the kind of like shepherds.” multicolored lights in the “Don’t tell me you’re shrubberies, a roly-poly buying into this. Doesn’t Santa waving at me as I it bother you that Jesus, JIM Mary and Joseph didn’t drive through town in the evening. As ever, some even have electricity and MULLEN we celebrate his birthday people do more decorating than others and some are by …” more tasteful than others There was an but this — this was what earthshaking thud. I ran to Liberace would have done if he had get under a doorway, thinking the had the money. house was about to collapse around “Did you see the manger?” us. Kirby just sat there. I yelled at “No, but I liked that big cutaway him to run for cover while he still of the Mall of America. You could could. park a car in it. What does that “It’s not an earthquake,” he said. represent?” “It’s the ‘Little Drummer Boy’ “That’s the creche. Didn’t segment starting up.”

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“That’s isn’t a drum, it’s artillery.” “No, Barry’s turned his entire roof into a speaker. Wait until you hear ‘Silent Night.’ It’s done by a marching band of life-size mechanical tin soldiers.” What I had mistaken for a natural disaster was starting to vaguely sound like a booming pa-rum-pum-pum-pum. From inside Kirby’s house, it sounded like one of those cars that go by with the music blaring and the windows up so all you can hear is the DNA-splitting bass. It was very hard to nail down any melody. “I know this will sound as if I don’t have any Christmas spirit, but can’t you put out a hit on your neighbor? Just have somebody whack him?” “No, because then I’ll look like the bad guy.” “People can be so judgmental.”

“Especially this time of year. Do you want to sleep on the sofa?” “Why would I sleep on the sofa? I’m going home to get some peace and quiet.” “I don’t think so. Take a look outside.” There was a solid line of cars snaking slowly through his subdivision past his house at 2 miles per hour. “That’s all right; someone will let me through.” “Really? I sat there for two hours last night before I was able to get out. But only because some woman who was taking pictures with her cellphone dropped it and stopped for two seconds to look for it.” JIM MULLEN is a syndicated columnist with Newspaper Enterprise Association. He can be contacted at JimMullenBooks.com.

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Couple need compromise on his time with friends DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for a year and a half, and we have an infant child. I work while my wife stays home. My problem is she doesn’t like me playing sports and hanging out with friends. I have tried to make concessions and cut down playing sports to once a week. (I used to play two or three times a week, but that’s not good enough for my wife.) On game night, when I get home she gives me the silent treatment. She used to come to my games but won’t now, even though she has girlfriends who attend them. As for hanging out with my friends, I barely see them anymore — and when I do, they come here. If they stay any longer than 30 minutes, it causes a problem and my wife again won’t talk to me for the rest of the night. I have tried to compromise, but she feels as though

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any time I spend away from her and the baby is a no-no. Am I wrong to want to play sports and see my guy friends? I have tried talking to DEAR her about ABBY this, but she thinks any compromise Jeanne Phillips ismebasically doing what I want and her having to deal with it. — ONTARIO, CANADA, READER DEAR READER: You should not become a couch potato or become isolated from your friends because you are married and a parent. And neither should your wife. She may resent the time you spend with your friends

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because she’s stuck at home taking care of the baby. You are her only adult company, and in a way she may be jealous that you’re enjoying freedom that she can’t. Your wife should not be doing all the parenting. One day or evening a week YOU should take care of the baby while SHE takes a break with her friends or family. It could do wonders for your relationship. If you can agree on this, it could save your marriage. If you can’t, then the two of you should get counseling. Marriage isn’t supposed to put people in isolation — and that’s what it appears your wife is trying to accomplish with you. DEAR ABBY is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby atDearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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On this date Dec. 20: • In 1864, Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, Ga., as Union Gen. William T. Sherman continued his “March to the Sea.” • In 1963, the Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners, who were allowed one-day visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays. • In 1973, singer-songwriter Bobby Darin, 37, died in Los Angeles following open-heart surgery.

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1999 Honda Accord EX

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Local Trade, Great Condition, Sunroof, 4 Cylinder, Auto, Air, All Power

4,995

1999 GMC SUBURBAN 1500 SLE 4X4 3rd Seat, 5.7L V8, Power Seat, Running Boards, Tow Package, 78,000 Miles

8,995

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2002 Ford Taurus SES

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5,995

One-Owner, Power Seats, Alloy Wheels, All Power Options, 65,000 Miles

6,995

9,995

2004 Dodge Stratus SXT

2008 Pontiac Grand Prix

2006 Ford Fusion SE

2005 Dodge Caravan SE

2010 Mitsubishi Galant FE

2007 Chevrolet HHR LT

One-Owner, Automatic, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels, 48,000 Miles

“3800” V6, Power Seat, Automatic, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels

Local Trade, Power Seat, Automatic, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels

One-Owner, V6, Auto, Air, All Power Options, Dual Sliders, 46,000 Miles

Automatic, Air, All Power, Side Airbags, Alloys, Warranty, 57,000 Miles

One-Owner, Power Seat, Automatic, Air, All Power, 58,000 Miles

7,995

8,995

9,995

2002 Lexus IS 300 Sedan

2010 Dodge Avenger SXT

2009 Chevrolet Impala LS

2009 Pontiac G6 Sedan

2007 Chrysler Town & Country Touring

One-Owner, Sunroof, Leather, Heated Seats, Automatic, Side Airbags

One-Owner, Auto, Air, All Power, Side Airbags, Warranty, 56,000 Miles

One-Owner, Auto, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 39,000 Miles

One-Owner, V6, Auto, Air, All Power, Spoiler, Alloys, 39,000 Miles

Power Sliders & Liftgate, Full Stow ‘N Go, Power Seat, Alloy Wheels

9,995

10,995

9,995

2012 Ford Fiesta SE Hatchback 5 Speed, Heated Seats, “Sync”, All Power, Cruise, Warranty, 12,000 Miles

11,995

FEATURED TRUCK OF THE WEEK 2010 Chevrolet Malibu LS

2008 Saturn Aura XE

2006 Nissan Titan XE Ext. Cab

2005 Lincoln Navigator Ultimate 4x4

One-Owner, Automatic, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 45,000 Miles

V6, Sunroof, Leather, Heated Seats, Alloys, All Power, 62,000 Miles

Local Trade, 5.6L V8, Automatic, Air, Tilt, Cruise, CD, 41,000 Miles

DVD Player, Navigation, Power Liftgate, Sunroof, Heated/Cooled Leather

12,995

2004 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 Z71 CREW CAB 4X4 2013 Chrysler 200 Touring

2012 Ford Fusion SE

Power Seat, Auto, Air, All Power, Alloy Wheels, Warranty, 10,000 Miles

One-Owner, Power Seat, Alloy Wheels, Factory Warranty, 27,000 Miles

14,995

5.3L V8, Power Seat, Running Boards, Tow Package, “Bose” Audio

14,995

15,995

2008 Lincoln MKZ

2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4

Leather Seats, Heated and Cooled Seats, All Power Features, 53,000 Miles

Sunroof, Power Seat, Stability Control, Side Airbags, 54,000 Miles

14,995

2012 Chevrolet Malibu 2LT

2011 Ford Fusion SEL

2005 Chevrolet Colorado LS Crew Cab 4x4

2011 Ford Escape Hybrid 4x4

2012 Ford Fusion SEL

2013 Ford Fusion S

Sunroof, Heated Leather, Remote Start, Chrome Wheels, Warranty

Back-Up Camera, BLIS, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Warranty, 32,000 Miles

One-Owner, 3.5L 5 Cylinder, Auto, Air, All Power, Alloys, 58,000 Miles

30 MPG, Power Seat, All Power Options, ALloys, Warranty, 66,000 Miles

V6, Back-up Camera, BLIS, Sunroof, Heated Leather, 25,000 Miles

Local Trade, Automatic, Air, All Power, Sync, Warranty, 2,000 Miles

15,995

16,995

17,995

18,995

2009 Ford Edge Limited

2012 Lincoln MKZ

2013 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ

2010 Dodge Ram 1500 ST Crew Cab 4x4

2013 Mazda 6s Grand Touring

2012 Lincoln MKZ Ultimate AWD

One-Owner, Panoramic Roof, Heated Leather, Power Liftgate, Chromes

One-Owner/Off-Lease, Sunroof, Heated & Cooled Leather, 28,000 Miles

Rear Camera, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Factory Warranty, 21,000 Miles

One-Owner, V8, Auto, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 49,000 Miles

V6, Navigation, Rear Camera, Sunroof, Leather, Bose Audio, 10,000 Miles

Navigation, Rear Camera, Sunroof, Heated/Cooled Leather, 24,000 Miles

18,995

19,995

20,995

FEATURED SUV OF THE WEEK 2013 Ford F-150 XLT Crew Cab 4x4

2013 Ford Taurus SHO AWD

V8, 7350 GVWR Package, All Power, Factory Warranty, 15,000 Miles

EcoBoost V6, Navigation, Sunroof, Heated/Cooled Leather, 33,000 Miles

29,995

2006 HUMMER H3 4X4 $

11,995

23,995

FEATURED TRUCK OF THE WEEK

Local Trade, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Chrome Wheels, Tow Package

21,995

2004 DODGE RAM 1500 LARAMIE QUAD CAB 4X4 2013 Ram 1500 SLT Quad Cab 4x4

2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT Crew Cab 4x4

Big Horn Edition, Hemi V8, Power Seat, 20” Chromes, 16,000 Miles

5.3L V8, Automatic, Air, All Power, Factory Warranty, 17,000 Miles

29,995

One-Owner, 5.7L Hemi V8, Leather, Power Seat, 20” Chromes, Tow Package

30,995

14,995

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