THURSDAY October 24, 2013
Band Semi-State Page A2 DeKalb to compete Saturday at Pike
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Weather Cloudy, chance of rain, high in the low 40s. Low tonight 30. Partly sunny Friday, warmer, high 47. Page A10
GOOD MORNING Health care clinic closing next week, reopening Nov. 4 AUBURN — St. Martin’s Healthcare will be closed the week of Oct. 28 at its temporary location at DeKalb Health in Auburn. The clinic is preparing to reopen Monday, Nov. 4, at 9 a.m. and resume its regular hours at its renovated permanent home at 1359 S. Randolph St., Garrett. The clinic has operated from the Auburn site since a fire on March 29 gutted the Garrett office. A community open house at the free clinic’s renovated office is planned for a later date.
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Judge to hear Showgirl case Friday Club owners asking for injunction BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — A federal court hearing in the lawsuit between Showgirl’s owners and the city of Angola will go on as scheduled Friday in U.S. District Court in South Bend. The hearing will involve only a motion for a preliminary injunction against the city that, if granted, could allow Fort Wayne strip club owner Alva Butler to
open a Showgirl club in Angola. The city has filed a motion for summary judgment in its favor, but that will not be heard Friday, Judge Robert Miller Jr. ruled Tuesday. The court had invited the parties to seek a continuance, which Angola did, because the court was lacking time to sufficiently address matters in the city’s motion. Butler and his wife, Sandra, have sued the city, claiming their
First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution have been violated by Angola’s efforts to stop them from opening a strip club at 310 W. Wendell Jacob Ave. “Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary injunction seeks to vindicate and enable to Plaintiffs to exercise their First Amendment rights. The abridgment of First Amendment rights, even for minimal periods of time, is irreparable injury sufficient to justify injunctive relief,” argued Matthew Hoffer, attorney for the Butlers.
FORT WAYNE — When the Headwaters Park Ice Arena opens to skaters on Nov. 22, it will feature a new refrigeration unit that replaces one that was beyond repair, meaning the rink will stay frozen when temperatures rise and in the future could allow for a longer skating season and an expansion of the facility, reports NewsChannel 15, our news partner. Geoff Paddock, executive director of the Headwaters Park Alliance, said several days of skating were lost when the original refrigeration unit broke down on Dec. 21, 2012. The Headwaters Park Alliance spent $20,000 to lease a unit for the rest of the season.
Merkel phones Obama to complain about spying
Judge blasts emails in Indy officer’s trial
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German leader grumbles
Park’s ice arena has new refrigeration
FORT WAYNE (AP) — Indianapolis police leaders are under fire after the judge overseeing a reckless homicide and drunken driving trial of one officer learned that another has been emailing trial summaries to department leaders, including at least one on the witness list. The Indianapolis Star reports the summaries went to five Indianapolis public safety leaders. Recipients included Police Chief Rick Hite and Deputy Chief Val Cunningham. Cunningham is a potential witness in the trial of Officer David Bisard. He’s charged in a 2010 crash that killed one motorcyclist and badly injured two others. Allen County Judge John Surbeck called the emails “unprofessional” Wednesday and said he may summon Hite to explain them.
Hoffer maintains that the Butlers and their company, BBL Inc., should be allowed to open a Showgirl in Angola because it qualifies under city law as it existed when Butler bought the former Slider’s Grill and Bar facility in August 2012. The Angola Common Council then enacted a law in September 2012 that rendered the former Slider’s location unqualified to house a sexually oriented business. Butler maintains that the city created legislation with the sole
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Tree for new trail Workers for Harlow Landscaping of Fort Wayne plant a dogwood tree Wednesday along Auburn’s new hiking-biking trail on North Van Buren Street. The company placed 14 trees along the trail, with three on North Van Buren and 11 on South
Jackson Street. The new trees included dogwood, maple and redbud varieties. The nearly complete trail connects the Rieke Park Trail on the city’s north side to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum on the south side.
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, saying that would be “a serious breach of trust” if confirmed. For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel’s phone calls now. “The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not “...she views such monitoring and will not monitor the communicapractices, if the tions of the chancellor,” White House spokesman indications are Jay Carney said. “The confirmed … as United States greatly values our close coopercompletely ation with Germany on a broad range of shared unacceptable.” security challenges.” However, Carney did not specifically say that U.S. had never monitored Steffen Seibert or obtained Merkel’s communications. Spokesman for Merkel The German government said it responded after receiving “information that the chancellor’s cellphone may be monitored” by U.S. intelligence. It wouldn’t elaborate, but German news magazine Der Spiegel, which has published material from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, said its research triggered the response. Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement the chancellor made clear to Obama in a
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Learning Link offers Impact Institute tours KENDALLVILLE — Impact Institute will host an open house for DeKalb County parents and business and community leaders on Wednesday, Oct. 30, starting at its site at 1607 E. Dowling St., Kendallville. Guests have three options for attending: • Option 1 — 8:30 a.m. to noon, touring areas where Welding, Precision Machining, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Criminal Justice, CAD and Automotive Technology are taught. • Option 2 — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., touring areas where Auto Body, Construction Trades, Interactive Media, Marine Mechanics, Primary Health Care and Health Occupations are taught. • Option 3 — 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., touring all of Impact Institute’s career and technical education programs. With each option, Impact Institute’s Culinary Arts Department will provide a working lunch for DeKalb County visitors from 11:00 a.m. to noon. Learning Link, an education initiative of the Community Foundation of DeKalb County, the DeKalb Chamber Partnership, and
DeKalb County’s Career Success Coalition are working together to coordinate the tours of career, technical and adult education programs offered to DeKalb County residents by Impact Institute, formerly Four County Area Vocational Cooperative. “A well trained work force is central to prosperity in northeast Indiana,” said Ken McCrory, director of the DeKalb County Economic Development Partnership. “Regrettably, local industries are reporting difficulty in finding workers in skilled and technical areas such as CNC operators, maintenance workers and engineers. Impact Institute is responding to this need with a broad range of career and technical programs for both traditional and nontraditional students.” One area of focus for Learning Link’s School-business Partnerships and Adult Education and Training teams has been raising the level of education in ways that assist in meeting the needs of DeKalb County employers. Other Learning Link teams focus on early childhood learning, third-grade literacy and parenting education. Learning Link’s overall
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Among the many career and technical programs offered, students can learn precision machining skills and receive a certificate at Impact Institute, formerly the Four County Area Vocational Cooperative.
vision, as an education initiative of the Community Foundation, is improving the quality of life for people of all ages in DeKalb County through continuous learning. For more information or to RSVP, people are asked to send email to Judy Sorg at JSorg@ DeKalbFoundation.org, or call 925-0311, by Friday, indicating a
time option of choice, No. 1, 2 or 3. There is no cost to attend the tour. Impact Institute is a coalition of schools that support career and technical education for adults and youth in DeKalb, Steuben, LaGrange, Noble and Whitley counties for the purposes of employment, re-employment or enhanced employment.