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Police are investigating a reported burglary at Grandma Betty’s Ice Cream Shop in the Village but said the main suspect in the case said he was given permission to take items from the store. Jeannine Lee Lake said she walked into her not-for-profit dessert shop and found tables lying on their sides. Neon red, blue and green gumballs spilled from their broken machines and covered the floor, mixed with shattered remains of expensive equipment, most of which was missing. “It’s just a bad day,” she said. “If you are going to steal everything, I can understand it, you need the money. But why do you have to destroy everything?” Lake said computers, refrigerators and freezers were taken from her small store. A few hours later, Kent Kurtz, University Police Department detective sergeant, told Lake that most of her equipment was recovered in two apartments — one owned by a person Lake said comes to the shop every night. Kurtz said other metal items, including large metal preparation trays and ice cream containers, were sold for scrap to OmniSource Corporation, a local metal recycling facility. Lake and UPD would not release the name of the suspect, and UPD had not filed a police report by the time of publication. Lake told police she had given the man permission to take a microwave from the shop a few days prior to the break-in. Kurtz said the suspect in the burglary told a different story. He said the man told police that Lake had given him permission to take “anything he wanted” because the business was going to close down soon. Lake said the man was mistaken. “Even if he did think he could take more things, why would he ransack the shop?” she said. Despite the discrepancy, the incident is still being treated as a crime, Kurtz said, because the man used force to enter the building. Kurtz said it isn’t up to him to decide what the possible misunderstanding means.
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cellphone ring shattered the silence of a pitch-black bedroom. Julian Welsh-White rolled over and called the number back. It was his aunt’s number, but not her voice. The voice was high-pitched and scratchy, unlike any voice he could recognize. It was his mother’s. She was speaking through her throat because of her recent tracheotomy. He had forgotten what she sounded like. He hadn’t heard it for nearly three months.
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Stacie Welsh embraces her son, Julian Welsh-White, after a win against Princeton on Feb. 8. It was the first time she saw him play in a Ball State uniform.
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Jeannine Lee Lake, owner of Grandma Betty’s Ice Cream Shop, surveys the damage done to the business after a reported break-in late Tuesday. Police found the missing equipment Wednesday.
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Last year, Ball State University Dance Marathon raised almost $200,000 for Riley Children’s Foundation. For the BSUDM president, raising this much money and awareness has become her life. Emily Probst, a junior child life specialist major, said she has spent around 140 hours in meetings this school year. The meetings plan various fundraising events the group sponsors, including the annual dance that starts at 2 p.m. Saturday
and lasts for 12 hours. “It’s a big time commitment, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” she said. She also has spent time in weekly adviser meetings, various weekend events and around two to three hours daily on other Dance Marathon preparation and activities for the event that hopes to raise $250,000 this year. The organization donates $30,000 of the money raised each year to the Magic Castle Cart, which gives patients toys, games and jewelry. Katie Glesing, the Riley Children’s Foundation Dance Marathon coordinator who works with Ball State, said what Magic Castle Cart does is “smile therapy.” “When the kids see it, it’s a pretty big highlight to the day,” she said.
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