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Homestead to stage fairy tale parody

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net

Local student writes top Profile in Courage essay

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Actors learn about themselves by learning about their characters, says Vicky Malooley.

The director of Homestead High School’s “Once Upon a Mattress” said the acting experience “broadens your horizons and the lens through which you see the world.

And it helps you understand.”

Malooley chose the spring musical for another reason, too — because it’s fun.

“It’s a parody of ‘The Princess and the Pea’ fairy tale,” she said. “But it’s a kind of unconventional fairy tale and it kind of turns it up on its head.”

“I chose the show because it has a lot of strong female characters, and we have a lot of phenomenal senior girls every year, but especially this year,” Malooley said.

“And it has a lot of strong character roles, characters that are coming to life on

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Princess “Fred” (Clare Ramel) is the center of attention at the close of the first act of “Once Upon a Mattress,” at Homestead High School. the stage.”

“We have eight leading roles,” she said. The total cast — including knights and ensembles —numbers about 50.

She also chose the show because she sees the comedy as “a good See STAGE, Page A6

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Daughter of Jimmy Clark chases tennis court dream

By Rick Farrant rfarrant@ fwbusiness.com

Jimmy Clark was sitting there in his family room talking about tennis dreams he would never see, his face gaunt, his voice weak and his eyes hollow with the knowing certainty that this was a battle he would not win.

In 12 short days after that videotaped interview, he would be gone at age 67, his daughter and his wife lying beside him as

he took his last breath in the early morning hours of May 30, 2012.

All day Clark long, his daughter had talked to him, though she wasn’t sure he could hear her from the fortress of his illness.

“I just told him it was OK,” Cambi Clark said.

“He was always so afraid

of death. It was something he always talked about. So you could tell he was fighting it throughout the whole day. And I just said, ‘It’s OK. You can go.

Everything will be fine.’”

Fine, because his daughter had come home for good and would help carry out his vision of a bigger, better community tennis center that could change the lives of young people — just as tennis See DREAM, Page A2

What’s ahead Tennis enthusiasts plan a June event to kick-start fundraising for the Southwest Tennis Foundation and the new tennis facilities at Homestead High School.

The event will be from 6-9:30 p.m. Friday, June 21, at the Wildwood Racquet Club, 508 N. Hadley Road, Fort Wayne. The open house will feature appetizers and cocktails. Organizers are gathering donations for a silent auction that evening, and will update that list on the website, coachjimmyclark.com. Early donations include premium items such as IU sports tickets. To donate items for the fundraiser, call Cambi Clark at (312) 208-4999.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced that Jamie Baer, a senior at Homestead High School, has won the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students.

Baer’s prize-winning essay tells the story of former New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, who, in June 2011, crossed party lines to vote in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. Baer will be honored on May 5 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. She will also receive a $10,000 award for her first-place essay.

The national essay contest is sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and supported by John Hancock Financial.

The Kennedy Foundation will cover the costs

for Baer and her parents to attend the ceremony.

Homestead instructor Connie Baer Christophersen also will receive a $500 award to use toward a school project that encourages student leadership and civic engagement.

Another Homestead senior also placed among the top 10 essayists.

Victoria Barnard was awarded honorable mention for her essay on on former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.

The annual Profile in Courage Essay Contest invites high school students from across the nation to write an essay on an act of political courage by a U.S. elected official. The contest is a companion program of the John F. Kennedy Profile in See ESSAY, Page A7

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DREAM from Page had changed his life.

And fine, because his daughter would pursue her father’s dream with the same meticulous attention she applied trying to save him from cancer and that she uses today as general manager of a Fort Wayne transportation logistics company.

“I’m bound and determined,” Clark said, “I have to be. Because he

A1 would have gotten it done.

With his connections and determination, he would have made it happen. I know it. And so now I need to do that for him.”

••• Jimmy Clark’s introduction to tennis came by hardly virtuous means at the age of 8, as his daughter tells it.

He was living in an Anderson trailer with his

grandmother, who did alterations at the local Woolworths. To pass the time, he would play solitary pitch and catch by throwing tennis balls at the wall of a neighbor’s shed-like garage. One day, when the neighbor left the garage door open, he spotted an old, wooden Pancho Gonzalez tennis racket — and snatched it.

From that one youthful

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Jimmy Clark went on to play tennis in high school and Ball State University, and then coached the sport at Homestead High School and the University of Saint Francis. In 31 years at Homestead, his boys’ teams won 31 sectional competitions, 28 regionals, 18 semi-states and appeared in 18 state finals.

In time, he was named to the tennis halls of fame in Fort Wayne and Indiana.

Clark said her father was a strict leader, both on the court and in the classroom, where he taught seventh-grade science. Away from school, she said, he was funny and smart and the life of the party.

“He was just this funloving, hilarious guy,” she said.

He was also determined to give back for the gift of life he believed he’d received through tennis.

“He had tennis camps every summer and he would run tennis tournaments,” she said. “He was constantly doing fundraisers and constantly doing charity work. The

guy would never sit down.

He always took on extra things to, in his way, give back.”

Thus came the vision to build a better tennis center. The 10 courts at Homestead were falling into disrepair and were not up to United States Tennis Association standards. And the building beside the courts — now called the Jimmy Clark Tennis Complex — was hardly big enough to be of much use.

“Literally,” Clark said, “it’s a shack. It’s a oneroom area they use for storage.”

The condition of the courts prevented them from being used for higher-level tournaments and, while they can be accessed by people other than Homestead students, Clark said the gates are sometimes locked. It’s quite possible, she said, that many people might not even know the courts are open to the community.

“He wants to create a southwest community center for tennis,” she said. “Tennis turned his life around. He wants to spread that on.”

Sometimes, Clark does that — talks about her father’s dreams in the present tense, as if he’s still alive. She hasn’t figured out how to truly move on from his death,

except that she knows part of her recovery lies in the community tennis facility project.

She was daddy’s girl — so proud of him when he was alive and prouder still after he died of colon cancer, when the testimonials started flowing in.

“Oh gosh,” she said, tears coming, “you look at somebody as just your dad and then you start seeing him through everybody else’s eyes. You just think of him as yours. You don’t realize how impactful his life was.”

••• Clark is president of the Southwest Community Tennis Foundation, an organization she formed to drive the tennis project.

The Southwest Allen County School District, through a bond issue, plans to pay for the demolition of the current courts and building behind Homestead High and turn the space into a parking lot and driveway. The school district will also foot the bill for the construction of 12 new, higher-grade tennis courts across Homestead Road from the high school and south of Summit Middle School.

Jim Coplen, the business manager of Southwest Allen County Schools, expects the cost See DREAM, Page A3

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DREAM from Page of the demolition work and new courts will be about $1.1 million.

The foundation, meanwhile, is raising money for a 2,000-square-foot tennis clubhouse at the new courts expected to cost $450,000 to $500,000 and be called the Jimmy Clark Community Tennis Facility.

Clark said the foundation thus far has raised $200,000 and she hopes to raise the rest soon so the project can be finished by the end of summer.

The new building, she said, will have a coach’s office, trophy display area, restrooms, showers and viewing area — all accessible to residents of Allen County.

Even after the complex is built, Clark plans to keep the foundation going to pay for facility maintenance and to one day raise money for cancer research in her father’s memory.

She is, she said, motivated just like her father was to uplift the lives of others.

“I have,” she said, “his passion for wanting to do things. To be more. To continue working.”

••• Clark, a Bishop Dwenger High School and Indiana University graduate, always knew she would come home to Fort Wayne. She just never knew when that would be or that the ultimate reason would be her father’s illness and his unfinished project.

At 22, after graduating from IU with a bachelor’s in English, she headed out to Los Angeles to find work in the entertainment industry. She wound up landing a job as an assistant with Creative Artists Agency — one of Hollywood’s premier talent agencies — and then became a developer of

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Among the television shows she helped develop Cambi Clark were “Felicity,” “Sports Night” and “Wonderland.” She later worked for MTV in Tokyo for a short time and then followed her fiancé, Chad Ruston, to Chicago, where she worked for a year as a producer on the “The Jenny Jones Show.”

The talk show was not her cup of tea, she said, and at 29 she began looking for other employment. She wound up at the transportation logistics firm C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. when former high-school friends who worked there recommended the company to her.

It was a pretty abrupt career switch, but she said she found she liked the fast-paced, customerfocused environment of arranging timely, costefficient transportation of freight via truck, train or air for companies — and counseling industries on supply-chain management.

And after her father was diagnosed with cancer in August 2011, she sought a transfer to Fort Wayne, where she started in sales and rose quickly to the general manager position.

Her husband was also able to transfer through his health-care products employer, Hollister Inc. Business is growing at the Fort Wayne C.H. Robinson branch. Clark said net revenue rose 37 percent last year and she said revenue is headed for a 30 percent rise this year.

In the next few years, she expects continued growth See DREAM, Page A6

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Clark, 41, is happy being back home and being a wife and a mother to the couple’s two children, daughter Hensley, 5, and son Stellan, 8. “I feel so settled and relaxed,” she said. “All those things you look forward to later in life.”

She just has this really one big thing to accomplish — and it’s something she’s a bit anxious about. She worries, she said, about raising the remaining money for her father’s dream. She started working on the project even before he died and was part of the decision to videotape Jimmy Clark in his final days describing why it was important to build the tennis center.

“We said, ‘Dad, we want to have on record your vision. If something

A3 would happen, I think everyone needs to hear how this started. And they need to hear it not in writing. I think it will be more meaningful if we have this forever.’”

And so, there he was talking about tennis on videotapes that would eventually be posted on the foundation’s website and perhaps hoping that his daughter — his only biological child — would carry on his last act of giving.

“He always felt like he owed somebody something,” Clark said. “He never took credit for just being a good man and making good choices.

“So I think that, for me, I want him to know that everyone cares enough to say thanks and that we agree with you: We want to support the community, too, and we can do it in this way.”

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Student art on show

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Kaarin Herendeen’s landscape painting hangs on a lobby wall of the Southwest Allen County Schools Administration Office.

In all, 12 pieces of student art will be on display through the 2013-14 school year. Students and their artwork were introduced at the April 16 school board meeting. Students whose art was chosen are: Trinity Beverly, fourth grade, Aboite Elementary; Luke Gidley, third grade, Covington Elementary; Emmy Castle, fifth grade, Covington Elementary; Elizabeth Landrigan, fifth grade, Deer Ridge Elementary; Zac Zolman, second grade, Haverhill Elementary; Ana Ladig, third grade, Lafayette Meadows Elementary; Sabine Hicks, fourth grade, Whispering Meadows Elementary; Annebelle Whetsel, eighth grade, Summit Middle School; Kaarin Herendeen, seventh grade, Woodside Middle School; Tammy Do, senior, Homestead High School (two related photos of ink art); and Reagan Cook, junior, Homestead High School.

Parking fees and fines increase Fort Wayne’s downtown metered parking rates increased from 25 cents to 50 cents an hour beginning April 8. A new fine schedule for parking citations citywide also took effect.

In a news release, the city said the rates are the result of a comprehensive review of parking in downtown Fort Wayne.

The fine for parking over the time limit at a metered space increased from $5 to $10, with the fine increasing to $20 if the ticket is not paid within 30 days.

Fines for parking in loading zones or in no-parking certain hours zones went from $10 to $20, with the fine increasing to $40 after 30 days. The fine for illegally parking in a fire lane or in a handicapped space went from $50 to $100, increasing to $150 after 30 days.

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Courage Award, named for President Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Profiles in Courage,” which recounts the stories of eight U.S. Senators who risked their careers, incurring the wrath of constituents or powerful interest groups, by taking principled stands for unpopular positions. This year, 1,814 students submitted essays from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with U.S. citizens in Chile, Egypt, India and Taiwan.

In her essay, Baer describes how McDonald, a conservative Republican from Saratoga County, “shocked his constituents” when he voted for marriage equality. With a Republican majority in the New York state Senate, the decision to legalize gay marriage was uncertain until the final votes were cast. McDonald, along with three other Republican senators, voted to support the law, making the New York Senate the first legislative body with a Republican majority to legalize same-sex marriage. Baer asserts that McDonald’s vote cost him his senate seat.

Baer will receive a $5,000 cash award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation which will be matched with $5,000 from John

Hancock Financial to be contributed to a John Hancock Freedom 529 College Savings Plan.

Baer is the daughter of Bonnie and Jerome Baer, and younger sister of Allison Baer. The valedictorian of her class of 545, she received English Department awards her freshman, sophomore, and junior years and was selected by the Indiana

Association of School Principals as a 2013 Regional Academic AllStar. She serves as a board member for the National Honor Society at Homestead High School and is vice president of the Spanish Club. A founding student member of the Network Club, she works with a group of teachers and students to create a culture of kindness,

compassion, and acceptance at her school. Baer spent the summer before her senior year volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and Humanitarian Foundation in Costa Rica. She also participates on the board of the Fort Wayne Organization of Temple Youth and enjoys playing tennis, reading, running, and spending time with friends.

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Summit City Singers plan patriotic concerts The Summit City Singers will present music with a patriotic theme at three local venues in May and June.

The community choir draws 40-55 singers from throughout the area, including Fort Wayne, Roanoke, Grabill, Columbia City, New Haven and Huntertown.

The choir was founded in 2006.

Director Judy King said the choir sings four-part SATB music — music written in soprano, alto, tenor and bass — for men and women.

“There are no auditions,” King said in an email. “The singers must love to sing and be able to match pitch. One of the reasons the choir was started was because there are people in the area who love to sing but are intimidated by the audition process required by some other choirs.” Rehearsals are held at Shawnee Middle School on Cook Road.

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Tuesday, May 21, 7 pm.

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Sunday, June 2, 2:30 pm.

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All concerts are free and open to the public. format is repeated with rehearsals from February to May and concerts in May and early June.

King, the director, was a church choir director in area churches and also taught drama at Canterbury School. Barbara Krick accompanies the choir. Krick has been a church organist for many years, gives private lessons and accompanies school groups in the Northwest Allen County Schools.

This season’s program — “Music of America” — includes “Civil War Medley,” “This Land is Your Land,” “Fifty Nifty United States,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Stars and Stripes Forever,” an Irving Berlin medley, and others selections. King described the program as “patriotic numbers mixed with folk tunes, spirituals, and other types of music associated with our great country.”

Anyone interested in auditioning for next season’s choir may contact King at (260) 4894505.

Living statue artist to visit The Downtown Improvement District has teamed up with the Appleseed Comics and Arts Convention to bring a living statue workshop to the Grand Wayne Convention Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. May 11.

Mark Abbati will present a 2-hour workshop for attendees to learn the art of developing a persona from concept and costume to performance.

The workshop will take place in conjunction with the Appleseed Comic Con. Included in the workshop ticket price, attendees will also have all-day access to the Comic Con, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets for the workshop will cost $25, which includes admission to the Comic Con, or $15 for those who have already bought their Comic Con tickets. To buy Living Statue workshop tickets, visit downtownfortwayne.com/2013/04/living -statue-workshop.

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Miami Heritage Days begin May 4 Miami Indian Heritage Days kicks off on Saturday, May 4, at the Chief Richardville House, 5705 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne.

The Chief Richardville House was named a National Historic Landmark this past year, only one of two in Allen County and one of only 38 in the state of Indiana.

Sponsored by The History Center, Miami Indian Heritage Days programs are held from 1-4 p.m. the first Saturday of the month, May through November, and feature local artists, performers, and representatives from the Miami Indians and other Native American groups demonstrating aspects of their heritage for the public.

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Medicine Woman Drum will be featured May 4 beginning at 1 p.m. The group’s performances demonstrate the importance of drumming, singing and dancing in Miami society.

Miami Chief Jean Baptiste de Richardville built a trading empire in this area that made him the richest man in Indiana by the time of his death in 1841. His home, built in 1827, is one of the premier attractions in the historical society’s collection since the restoration

of the building’s exterior.

Today his house is recognized as the oldest Native American dwelling in the Midwest and the first Greek Revival style house in northeast Indiana.

Nov. 2-3 is Traders Days. Vendors, craftsmen and artists sell Native American fine art, gourd work, beading, carved wood pieces, corn husk dolls, Christmas ornaments, Native American shields, jewelry, clothing, feather work, homemade baked goods and more.

Traders Days events are free to the public and are open Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m.

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Wine Festival to benefit Hospice Home The Lutheran Health Services Society will present the 27th annual Festival of Wines on Friday, May 3, at the Fort Wayne Country Club. Hours are 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Guests will enjoy a variety of fine wines and microbrews provided by Andy Lebamoff of Cap ’n Cork, an hors d’oeuvres buffet, and chocolates for dessert. Pianist Joe Thomas will set the mood while attendees sample wines from California and around the world. These wines, and many more, will also be available for purchase — at a discount — during the event.

Tickets for the Festival of Wines are $50 per person and are available at Visiting

Nurse, 5910 Homestead Road, or by calling 435-3222. Cash, check or credit cards are accepted. The proceeds benefit patient care in Hospice Home.

The Lutheran Health Services Society is celebrating 108 years of service. The society supports area health care and charitable agencies. Proceeds from the Festival of Wines benefit Hospice Home, operated by Visiting Nurse. As the area’s only inpatient facility dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of terminally-ill patients and their families, Hospice Home’s 14-bed facility serves patients from a seven-county area.

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Homestead senior Boylan wins ‘We Must Remember’ essay contest

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Homestead High School senior Ryan Boylan is the winner in the high school division of the 2013 Yom HaShoah Essay Contest, sponsored by the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation. Boylan was recognized April 8 at Temple Achduth Vesholom, 5200 Old Mill Road.

The “We Must Remember� essay contest is held in conjunction with the National Day of Holocaust Remembrance.

Boylan chose the theme “We Must Do More Than Remember.� He opened his essay with a quotation from George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.� “And for a long time that quote has struck me as wrong,� Boylan said. “It seemed like there has to be more than just remembering. Maybe it’s not so much that we dwell on our past as that we should look toward the future and co-exist, rather than focus on our own race or interest groups.�

Boylan said he received many compliments on the essay, which he said began as an extra credit opportunity.

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She said Boylan’s essay was extremely well written and reflected his knowledge of history and his awareness of current events. “We also have a very strong social studies department,� she said.

Ethan Zweig of Summit Middle School was selected the middle school-level winner.

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Mansfield said. “It was just a great experience.� “They talked about what we do as leaders — a lot of great perspective,� she said.

Mansfield said her essay stressed the value of a work ethic. “No matter how young you are, or your experience, if you put yourself into what you do then people will respect your effort,� she said.

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Lutheran Children’s Hospital was expected to begin work April 15 on a $2.4-million, 7,108square-foot pediatric emergency care unit adjacent to Lutheran Hospital’s main emergency department.

Lutheran officials said the seven-room pediatric emergency care department, which will be in an area now used occasionally for patient care, is projected to open in October.

Dr. Susan Frayer, currently employed with Elkhart Emergency Physicians, will be medical director of Lutheran Children’s Hospital’s pediatric emergency services, effective July 1.

Frayer said a separate pediatric emergency department offers a number of advantages, including enhancing the opportunity to provide the specialized care young patients often need and shielding them from the sometimes unpleasant atmosphere of an adult emergency department.

“Pediatric emergency departments and adult emergency departments

are different because the patients have different disease processes, they have different needs,” Frayer said. (The staff in pediatric emergency departments) are trained in recognizing special pediatric conditions that maybe adults don’t have.

Or if they do have, they present differently.

“In an adult emergency department, you’re also exposed to adult issues,” she said. “There are sights and sounds that most parents would not want their child to experience.

There may be people who are intoxicated. There may be people who are having psychiatric issues.”

The region’s other large health-care provider, Parkview Health, also has focused on specialized pediatric emergency care, but has chosen a different operating model. Five of 40 rooms in the emergency department at Parkview Regional Medical Center were dedicated to pediatric care.

Dr. Abby Massey, an emergency medicine and pediatric physician who oversees emergency pediatric care at the medical center, said Parkview felt that containing the pedi-

atric units within the main emergency department would provide better access to all services, staff and equipment.

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gency department, said pediatric patients enter the emergency department through a separate hallway and all five rooms have doors that can be closed.

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“Thousands of families have benefited from the high-quality care LCH doctors and nurses have provided over the years,” he said.

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Outreach grows in church gardens

By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net

Robinson Chapel United Methodist Church’s community garden will sprout for a fifth year, according to Tom Cochran.

The coordinator of the free service said heavy rain was just a setback.

“Our garden is actually a lake right now,” Cochran said April 19. “I was out there looking at it last night because I was going to lay it out tomorrow. It was just freshly tilled last Saturday.”

A second garden sign has been erected at the church, at Union Chapel and Tonkel roads. Passersby are invited to call the church — at 484-1163 — and sign up for a free garden plot. “The big sign is a brand new sign we just had made this week,” Cochran said. “That’s really the only advertising that we do.”

There is no charge for any of the 21 plots, which range in size from 8-ft.square to 16x22. The church even supplies the water.

Gardeners need not be church members. In fact, only two of the plots planted last year were kept by church members.

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Robinson Chapel United Methodist Church at the corner of Tonkel and Union Chapel roads offers garden plots, free of charge to members and to the public. said. “There’s a 3-foot walking path between the plots.”

“It’s free,” Cochran said. “We’ve never filled the garden up. Last year was our biggest and we had only half. We’d love to have all 21 spaces filled.”

“Pastor Jill (Wright) and I were at a conference down in Indianapolis, and one of the churches at the conference mentioned that they had a community garden,” Cochran said.

“So when I got home I did a little research on community gardens, and I thought ‘We’ve got 15 acres of ground and 10

acres is just sitting there, so let’s do something with it.’ “ “The first summer it was clear back at the cemetery, and we had it there two years, and it was just too far away from the water source and too far away from parking,” Cochran said. In the third year, the garden was moved nearer to the church.

“We’ve got a water spigot there on the side of the church and we’ve got enough hose to almost reach the garden, not quite,” Cochran said.

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GARDENS from Page Garden spaces are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to returning gardeners. Cochran said he began contacting the established gardeners in February.

He said the garden was in question this year. “We are at the start of a building project and the building project will consume our garden area, so we weren’t sure if we were going to turn dirt this spring,” Cochran said.

“As it turns out, we’re not.” Eventually the building expansion will overtake the present garden area, and the garden will be moved.

The garden project likely will be suspended during the construction, he said.

“We have a little set of rules that people have to abide by, and that’s that they don’t plant anything illegal,” Cochran said.

“And we ask that they don’t plant any perennials because they may not get the same plot next year.

And if they’re going to plant tall crops, like corn, they need to keep it near the center of the plot so they don’t cast shadows on their neighbors.”

Sprawling, vine crops such as watermelons or cucumbers are planted outside the garden sections, in an unfenced, low-lying area. Gardeners need to pay special atten-

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tion to those crops, remove the weeds, and ensure that the plants are prominent so the vines are not mowed.

“Most of the people plant tomatoes and peppers,” Cochran said.

“Just as soon as the ground is dry enough I’m going to get out there and lay it out. I’ll mark out all

the plots and number them,” Cochran said.

Gardeners will include residents of adjacent communities where gardens are not permitted.

Some people simply walk to their garden areas.

Participants have included a woman from an assisted living facility. Most are experienced gardeners.

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write about what inspired us as we were little and what captivated us as a teenager.”

Also recently, Mansfield was selected the national winner of the Robert Sheppard Leadership Award & Scholarship, a $2,500 scholarship presented by the National Society of High School Scholars. She also is the East Central Division winner of the DAR Good Citizen Essay Contest, and her essay has advanced to the national judging. She will be honored at a DAR banquet in Indianapolis on May 19. The Robert

Sheppard Leadership Award will be presented Aug. 17 in Washington, D.C. Mansfield has chosen to attend Yale University, where she said she will get a well-rounded education. “It’s a wonderful school,” she said.

“I love the student body, and the academics.” Mansfield plans to study English and to double-major in a business-related field.

After her graduation on June 8, Mansfield will coordinate the next steps in Operation U.S. Troop Support, which she launched when she was in the fifth grade.

Robinson Chapel United Methodist Church, 12707 Tonkel Road, Fort Wayne, is planning a three-stage building project.

Tom Cochran, who is a church trustee and the finance committee auditor, said the church has raised about $150,000 toward the $450,000 needed to obtain a mortgage for the first phase, which will cost $700,000.

He said the church was built about 160 years ago, and the last expansion was in 1958. “Our ministries have outgrown the facility,” he said.

An architect has been signed, and preliminary drawings are in place. The first phase will improve handicapped access compliance and will create a multipurpose room and more restrooms. The second phase will upgrade the current sanctuary. The third phase will create a new gymnasium. Building will take place to the north and the west of the existing building.

The entire project might take several years.

Cochran said the church is about 160 years old. The original part of the existing church stood closer to the corner of Union Chapel Road and faced Tonkel Road, which once was Indiana 427. When that road was widened, the building was moved to the north and west.

“Our ministries have outgrown the facility,” Cochran said. “We have a pie auction in the spring and you can’t hear the auctioneer and you can’t see the pies.

And we have very limited seating capacity and handicapped accessibility in our lower level, and it just needs to be brought up to date.”

Financial Focus “Munis” Can Still Work for You — Even in Tough Times No matter where you live, the chances are good that a state or local government near you may be having some difficulty in balancing its budget. As a citizen, you’re probably concerned about how this situation will affect your life and your community. But as an investor, you may also wonder how this might affect any municipal bonds you own.

Fortunately, the outlook might be brighter than you think.

Of course, taken to the extreme, the financial challenges of some state and local governments could conceivably affect their ability to fulfill the payment obligations on their municipal bonds. But

investment-grade quality municipal bond default rates historically have been very low, especially when compared to those of corporate bonds. And municipalities are cutting spending, eliminating nonessential programs and, in some cases, raising taxes or fees. In short, they are taking steps that, while potentially painful to residents, are likely to help them continue making timely payments of interest and principal on their municipal bond obligations. Furthermore, municipalities must still fund various projects, and even one bond payment default could impact their future ability to borrow money in the form of

new municipal bonds.

So are munis right for you?

The answer depends on your situation — your goals, need for investment income, current investment mix, risk tolerance and so on. But if you want to receive interest payments that are exempt from federal taxes, you may well be interested in exploring municipal bonds.

Keep in mind, though, that municipal bonds may be subject to state and local taxes and the alternative minimum tax (AMT).

In addition, you’ll want to be familiar with “taxable-equivalent yield.” Typically, municipal bonds pay an interest rate that’s lower than those paid by taxable bonds. Since this interest is free

from federal taxes, however, the rate may not be as low as it appears. The taxable-equivalent yield measures the rate you’d have to earn on a taxable bond to match the income from a tax-exempt municipal bond.

And the higher your tax bracket, the higher your taxableequivalent yield.

Suppose that you’re in the 35% marginal tax bracket, and you are considering a tax-exempt municipal bond with a 3.33% yield. You simply divide 3.33% (0.0333 in decimal form) by 1 minus 0.35 (your tax bracket), which would give you 0.0512, or 5.12%. In thistax bracket, a muni with a 3.33% yield is equivalent to a

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Almost time to pop cork: Huntington County winery nears opening

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A new kind of winery is expected to open soon in Huntington County.

Two EE’s Winery, near Roanoke, has bottled its first wines and is awaiting necessary federal approvals of the winery labels. It will be able to open for business shortly

after those are received, said winery manager Eric Harris.

Wine-bottle labels are subject to a number of federal legal requirements, including information about vintage and the usual surgeon general’s warnings about the risks of alcohol. But the color and contrast of the label and typeface also are

subject to federal approval to ensure readability.

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Two EE’s manager Eric Harris said the winery near Roanoke will start out selling 15 different varieties from about $10 to $20 a bottle.

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Construction of the winery began last fall, and the exterior shell of the building was completed before cold weather set in, said Emily Hart, who will manage the tasting room and the winery’s marketing.

Harris and his fiancée, Hart, are the two E’s in the winery’s name. She also is the reigning Miss Indiana USA, so she will continue to hold the title “miss” until after the national pageant.

The 6,000-square-foot winery sits on about 40 acres. Its first vines were planted last May and will produce grapes suitable

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In the meantime, the winery has sourced grapes and other fruits from a number of locations to make wines that will be bottled and ready to sell when it opens. Harris said he expects to start with 3,000 to 3,500 bottles representing 15 different varieties. Prices generally will range from about $10 to $20 per bottle.

The wines Two EE’s is producing are not what consumers here are more accustomed to seeing, and the winery’s sleek, modern design reflects that difference, Harris said.

The tasting room, which will accommodate

about 40 people at its long bar, is done in shades of black, white and steely gray. It will provide a backdrop for the colorful art on the walls and the racks of colorfully labeled wines.The sort of colorcoded labeling will make it easier for tasters to find what they like. “The varieties may be hard to pronounce, but they will be able to use the colors,” Hart said.

A window allows visitors to the tasting room to see the rows of tanks in the production area. The winery also has an ample outdoor area for seating, but a few tables might be brought indoors when weather is cooler.

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K.B. Young can only guess how many zinnias he has planted at Young’s Greenhouse and Flower Shop.

“I lost count about 40 years ago,” said Young, the fourth-generation operator of the greenhouse that opened in 1873.

Young worked in other fields, too, but returned to the greenhouse to stay in 1975. His sons Blake and Brian represent the fifth generation of Youngs in the plant business. Both say the family business is healthy, and they plan to stay.

“We’re pretty sure it’s a genetic problem,” K.B. said.

K.B. said Young’s will grow about 25 varieties of zinnias this year. “This one here is Zahara Starlight Rose,” he said.

Using tweezers to manage individual seeds, he said he would plant 600 to 800 plants of that variety. “We don’t do tons of any one

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Blake Young waters tables of plants at Young’s Greenhouse & Flower Shop, 4131 N. Clinton St. thing,” he said.

Across the desk, his wife, Sandy, designed and printed plastic labels for the trays of plants.

Sorting seeds can be tedious work, said Blake, who showed about a half of a thimbleful of seeds in a small glass vial. “There

are about a thousand begonia seeds in here,” he said.

Much of today’s seed is pelletized for easier planting, Blake said.

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Aqua Indiana continues talks with Fort Wayne

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Fort Wayne City Utilities and Aqua Indiana are continuing talks after an Indiana Supreme Court decision regarding the sale of the Aqua North Utility. The court issued its ruling April 11.

Aqua Indiana President Tom Bruns said talks also continue regarding the southwest service area. “We are confident that in the next 30 days we will reach a partnership that will allow us to move forward on water and sewer service in Aboite Township,” Bruns said April 18.

In a statement, Kumar Menon, the director of Fort Wayne City Utilities, said, “The decision made by the Supreme Court is about the procedure of review, not the value of the Aqua North Utility.”

The statement continues, “While the Supreme Court decision brings some finality to this issue, CU and Aqua Indiana are continuing negotiations for a fair settlement for the purchase of the North and the Southwest systems, that allows us to partner in Allen County and provide high quality services to residents.

We are evaluating the Supreme Court decision, but we, along with the residents of the northern system, stand by our decision to provide high quality, reliable water at an affordable price for the past four years and we look forward to serving them in the future.”

Bruns said, “We felt very much that the Supreme Court was a hundred percent on target, and have felt that way since the beginning back in 2002.” The court ruled, he said, that the agency that condemns a property for takeover should not also decide the value of the assets.

“The Supreme Court, in a pretty strong opinion, said this should not be taken lightly,” Bruns said. “They agreed it is either something that should be done by a judge or a by jury in a separate trial proceeding.”

According to City Utilities, the switchover of the Aqua North service area was completed by May of 2008. The city said that change affected 9,000 water customers and 1,800 sewer customers.

“All have saved significantly,” Utilities Director of Public Information Frank Suarez said in an email. He said in Pine Valley, which now receives both water and sewer service from City Utilities, the average customer has saved a little more than $2,000. The city wired payment of $16.9 million for the purchase of the service area.

Aqua Indiana provides water and sewer services to about 12,000 homes and businesses in Aboite Township and portions of Whitley County.

“We have for some time been in discussions with the city of Fort Wayne, when they’ve expressed interest in acquiring the southwest water system, and [we] remain hopeful that we can reach agreement not only on the Southwest area, but also on the north area that was subject to the court decision,” Bruns said.

On Jan. 22, the Fort Wayne City Council held a public hearing to receive comment on the proposed southwest sale.

On Feb. 5, in a joint announcement, City Utilities and Aqua Indiana asked the council to place the acquisition ordinance on hold to allow negotiations to continue.

Aqua’s regional manager, Bill Etzler, recently left the company. The search for a successor continues.

own innovation, a short metal scoop attached to an electric shaver to sift seed into the cells. Those modern advancements went unused, as K.B. picked up any fallen zinnia seeds and placed them, uniformly, in the See SPRING, Page B4

IndyCar driver Kimball to visit Lutheran campus The Lutheran Children’s Hospital Pediatric Diabetes Support Group and Novo Nordisk present “Diabetes Doesn’t Have to Slow You Down with IndyCar Driver Charlie Kimball,” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, in Kachmann Auditorium, 7910 W. Jefferson Blvd.

The auditorium is on the lower level of Medical Office Building Two on the Lutheran Hospital campus. The general public is invited to attend this free presentation.

Kimball will visit with pediatric patients from Lutheran Children’s Hospital at 4:15 p.m.

Kimball will speak about how he has been able to manage his Type 1 diabetes and fulfill his racing dream.

Kimball is the first licensed driver with diabetes in the history of IndyCar and he is again expected to qualify for the upcoming Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 26.

Kimball began racing go-carts at the age of 9, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2007 and suspended his racing career that year to get a solid grasp on his health. After returning to racing the following year, Kimball claimed a podium finish in his first post-diagnosis race. Today, he competes in one of the most competitive racing circuits in the world, proving that living with Type 1 diabetes does not restrict him from traveling at speeds of more than 200 mph and doing what he loves to do. Kimball’s message is that, when properly managed, diabetes will not stop them either from reaching their dreams.

While racing, Kimball has an alarm that alerts him if his blood sugar is high or low. The alarm, developed by his sponsor Novo Nordisk, constantly monitors his blood sugar during races. Kimball has both water and orange juice in the car to respond accordingly to keep his blood sugar in check.

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Spring Fling marks Roanoke milestones Roanoke is ready for its annual Spring Fling.

On Saturday, May 4, downtown Roanoke merchants welcome back spring with grand openings, re-openings and shopping specials.

The community will observe the grand opening of the new library, at 314 N. Main St., from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Helping to commemorate the event will be more than 15 area authors (Roanoke, Huntington and Fort Wayne) who combined have published more than 40 books.

Concurrently, the Coil Factory Building where the library is housed will have an open house. From 10 a.m. to noon, the public is welcome to peruse the reclaimed factory space which during World War II reportedly was on Hitler’s hit list for making electrical coils. Built in the early 1900s as a hardware and agricultural implement business, it grew to house more than 400 employees during the ’40s as part of the war effort. In addition to the library, the building now boasts 10 different business ventures plus a conference room, work-out facility and locker rooms.

One of the businesses, Crestwoods Frame Shop and Gallery, will be open with a special gallery showing of works by artist George McCullough. Known for his oil paintings and plein air works, McCullough was a beloved art professor at the Fort Wayne Art Institute and IPFW. He died in 2005.

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Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Around town, stores will be open and offering springtime specials. Of note, Moose & Mollies gelato and ice cream shop has its grand reopening and Paper Moon gift shop is celebrating its third birthday. More information is available at www.discoverroanoke.org.

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Kelly Miller Circus coming to Roanoke Park for two benefit shows The Kelly Miller Circus will visit Roanoke Park for shows at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11.

With tigers, elephants, horses and clowns, this traditional one-ring circus brings everyone close to the action.

The fun starts at 7:30 in the morning when the circus rolls into town.

Spectators are invited to come and watch the animals being unloaded and fed and witness the elephants raising the tent.

Guides will be on hand to answer questions.

Sponsored by Honor Flight Roanoke, the circus will help raise money for the local Honor Flight Program. This organiza-

tion sponsors one-day trips for World War II veterans in northeast Indiana to see the World War II Memorial and other attractions in Washington, D.C., at no cost to the veteran. This year there are three flights scheduled; the funds raised from the circus will help pay for the trip scheduled for the fall.

Tickets are available in Roanoke at The American Legion Post 160, Carroll’s Flooring, Bippus State Bank, Hoosier Foods, Sparky Mart and Econo Mart. The presale tickets are $10 adults; $5 children ages 2-11. Tickets the day of the event go up to $15 for adults and $6

for children. For questions, call American Legion Post 160 in Roanoke at (260) 6722298.

The Kelly Miller Bros.

Circus, founded during the Depression, celebrates a milestone — its 75th anniversary — this year.

It was founded in 1938 by Obert Miller and his sons, Kelly and Dores, and remains a traditional tented circus.

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The Kelly Miller Bros. Circus says Ryan Holder is the world’s youngest tiger trainer. ances in each town.

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Three Asian elephants — Lisa, Tracy and Delrita — are described as “the biggest stars in show business.”

Springtime in Village garage sale May 18 Roanoke’s annual Springtime in the Village townwide garage sale will be held from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, May 18, and will raise money for the Roanoke Library and the Roanoke Volunteer Fire Department.

The downtown will feature additional booths with vendors of handcrafted goods and other items, and many of the local merchants will offer sidewalk sales that day.

A $5 registration fee will go to support the Roanoke Public Library and Volunteer Fire Department. The fee also will get the sale’s location put on the map of the participating garage sales. Sign-up sheets are available at the library’s new location, 314 N. Main St., Suite 120.

Others also will open their garages with resale treasures and join in the sale that day. For more information, call the library, (260) 672-2989. Main Street vendors also may contact Cameron Hoy, Chamber of Commerce president, at (260) 672-9602.

Participants in both the garage sales and the Main Street sale should sign up by Wednesday, May 8, to ensure that their location is included in advertising and on the map.

Maps will be distributed at various business locations

by Monday, May 13. “We’ll put the maps in stores and gas stations, so people can grab them the day of the sale,” Hoy said.

After the townwide sale, from 4 p.m.-7 p.m., the fire department will serve its annual hog roast at the fire station, 126 N. High St. Fire Chief Chad Taylor said the meal is the fire department’s annual fundraiser. “We have a hog roast, and we also are doing a raffle this year,” Taylor said. “There are multiple prizes. We will have tickets for sale at the station that day.”

The fire department asks guests to make a good-will donation for the dinner.

Proceeds will help the department buy a new personal accountability system. “We’re going to upgrade the system we have and make it more compliant with state and federal regulations,” Taylor said. “It’s probably going to cost around $3,000.”

Taylor was in Indianapolis on April 26 to research that

new system, which he described as a tracking system for use in a hot zone, such as a house fire. “It’s a pretty expensive system — double accountability,” Taylor said.

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“Sometimes it’s just old-school,” Blake said.

Blake’s daughters Lydia, 7, and Sophia, 9, followed tradition by transplanting begonias and marigolds over spring break.

A reluctant spring has arrived at 4131 N. Clinton St., where the Youngs spent the first week of April tending to 18,000 square feet of greenery, shipping plants to local landscapers, and sowing still more bedding plants for the May rush.

The greenhouse, which is open six days a week year-round, will add Sunday hours during May only.

“I believe we’re the oldest greenhouse in the city of Fort Wayne, and probably Allen County,” Blake said.

The Youngs continue growing bedding plants in

B1 season, and growing cut flowers and vegetables year-round. The family began growing winter vegetables long before gas mains and electrical lines.

“Back in the back greenhouse, which was the original one, they had an in-the-ground fire pit,” Blake said. “And then basically they exhausted it through the floor of the greenhouse and out the back. We were growing produce. It gave enough heat.”

Despite the modern conveniences, the family continues the original work ethic, and the pride in the product. Blake said gardeners can buy plants from the very tables on which the plants were grown, and he can vouch for the plants’ quality.

“Well, I’ve grown them,” he said of the plants. “I don’t put

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K.B. Young arranges zinnia seeds into trays. anything nasty on them.

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don’t spray any kind of dangerous chemical on them at all to kill bugs.”

Brian and Blake each asked gardeners to buy local products. “I’m all about shopping locally and keeping the money in the community,” Brian said.

Economic arguments aside, Brian said quality is key. “Obviously we grow our own. We know about the plants,” he said. “I put the seeds in that cell February the eighteenth,” he said, picking up a flat of lebelia. “I’ve grown it since then and I know where that plant’s been. I know what’s been on that plant, and I hopefully can answer any question about that plant. It’s all about customer service.”

The Youngs work inside a greenhouse that grows somewhat shady beneath a rubber tree that stretches into its eighth decade.

They sell seeds and cut flowers from a small, wooden building that reflects the architecture of the early 20th century.

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Brian Young said he planted a tray of lubelia on Feb. 18, and he can answer any questions the customers might raise. the evolution of the gardening culture.

“We jumped on the heirloom bandwagon early on,” Blake said of the open-pollinated varieties that are regaining market share. The Youngs will sell about 25 varieties

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of tomato plants, about half of them heirloom.

“And the same thing with peppers. We do probably about 25 to 30 kinds of peppers, too. We’ve done that since probably ’99, 2000.”

Some heirloom tomato

varieties do not turn red, but Blake said there’s an easy way to know when the fruit is ripe. “A lot of times the top is going to be a little green and hard, but the bottom’s soft,” he said. “That’s when I say to pick them. Not everybody might agree, but that’s Blake’s theory.”

This past winter was busy, because the Youngs took part in the farmers market at Parkview Field.

The Youngs sold pea shoots, microgreens, lettuce, spinach, and baby carrots. Blake said Young’s will continue growing and selling those products retail, and at the historic West Main Street farmers market on Friday afternoons this summer.

He might add a second farmers market.

The Youngs began preparing for the bedding plants rush months ago.

“We started sowing some seeds in the very end of December, the first couple weeks of January,” he said.

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He hopes gardeners find 2013 easier than the dry, hot summer of 2012.

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Development Alliance, Fort Wayne Chamber merge

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Community leaders say the consolidation of the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce and the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance will create a one-vision, onevoice approach that will enhance economic

stability and development.

“The missions of the alliance and the chamber are not the same, but they are very well-aligned,” said Scott Glaze, the chairman and CEO of Fort Wayne Metals and a member of the consolidated organization’s board. “We believe with common leadership, with common purpose, we will

continue to be able to make our community stronger.”

The new entity, announced April 9, is called Greater Fort Wayne Inc. and creates a combined work force of 26.

Twenty-one people, many of whom have served on the boards of the two organizations and

the Downtown Improvement District, now comprise the Greater Fort Wayne board.

Mike Packnett, the president and CEO of Parkview Health and the chair of the new board, said board membership eventually might be increased to as many as 36 people.

Left to be accomplished

in the short term, he said, is finding a downtown office location for Greater Fort Wayne and hiring a CEO. Pat Sullivan, a Greater Fort Wayne board member and the executive vice president of Hylant Group Inc. in Fort Wayne, said the search for a location has been narrowed to two sites and a decision is

expected within 30 days.

The alliance is now at 111 W. Main St. in downtown Fort Wayne. The chamber must move from its 826 Ewing St. building, which was sold last year to the University of Saint Francis.

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CHAMBER from Page days, Packnett said. Until then, alliance Interim President Mick McCollum and chamber President Mike Landrum will oversee the organization, with help from Greater Fort Wayne Vice Chair Ron Turpin.

The branding for the new organization, including its name, logo and mission statement, was developed by the Fort Wayne marketing firm One Lucky Guitar.

“Greater Fort Wayne Inc.,” OLG President Matt Kelley said, “captures simply what we were charged with capturing, which was: We wanted something that was bold, clear, powerful, timeless and something that could grow as the community grows.”

The mission statement of the new organization is: “Together, we’re growing a more prosperous, vibrant community in Greater Fort Wayne.”

The Downtown Improvement District, which shares offices with the alliance on West Main Street, is not officially part of the consolidation because it is prevented from joining by state statute.

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Former Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Chancellor Michael Wartell says he wants his job back, and he’s filed a discrimination suit in federal court to try to get it.

Wartell was forced to retire June 30, 2012, after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65. But his lawsuit filed April 1 claims Purdue University’s refusal to extend his retirement date wasn’t really based on age, it was based on gender.

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Wartell’s complaint said Purdue’s then president, France Cordova, wanted the university to increase its complement of female administrators, and in particular wanted to place a woman in the position of chancellor at IPFW. It names Purdue and several university officials — not including Cordova — as defendants.

Cordova was the one who made the decision, and her desire to replace him had nothing to do with Wartell’s performance of his duties, the suit alleges.

When the university forced him to retire as chancellor and demoted him to chancellor emeritus, Purdue cited its mandatory retirement policy. In fact, Wartell’s suit alleges, he was the only Purdue official subject to the mandatory retirement age whose request for an extension was refused.

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internal complaint with Purdue alleging harassment and discrimination in the university’s failure to extend his retirement date. He and the university agreed to the appointment of a neutral, third-party investigator to look into the allegation, the lawsuit claims.

Wartell subsequently spoke with someone he believed was acting in that role. Only after his complaint was denied by Purdue’s board of trustees in February 2012 did Wartell find out that the person he thought was a neutral investigator was actually an attorney hired to represent Purdue, the complaint says.

A year ago, Wartell filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. He was demoted to chancellor emeritus at the end of last June, and filed an amended version of the complaint in September.

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He’s also asking for attorneys fees and damages for what he claims was Purdue’s breach of contract, along with whatever other relief the court deems appropriate.

The two suits filed last April name Wartell, the trustees of Purdue and IPFW, and vice chancellor William McKinney as defendants. Linda Finke, the former dean of the College of Health and Human Services, alleges she was demoted from that position effective June 30, 2011, based on factors of age and gender discrimination, although as a tenured faculty member she continued to teach. She’s asking for reinstatement and back pay and benefits.

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‘Brilliant Optics’ a feast for the eyes at art museum The Fort Wayne Museum of Art unveils its most recent curator collaboration on May 11 with “Brilliant Optics: A Spectrum of Mediums and Color,” curated by Fort Wayne artist Josef Zimmerman. The exhibition features work by contemporary artists from across the country who use color in their work as a tool to communicate with the viewer.

The show will make its public debut at 6;30 p.m.

Saturday, May 11, at the museum, 313 E. Main St. Zimmerman will lead a panel discussion of selected artists in the show. A party with cash bar and food by Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, and Spirits will follow.

Admission is $5 to the event, and free for FWMoA members.

“Brilliant Optics” will be on display at FWMoA from May 11 – July 14, 2014.

In a news release, the museum said, “In short, vibrancy is the key to this show.”

“This exhibit revolves around a single word — color — a simple word but a complex theme,” the news release said. “This concept was the guiding force for Zimmerman’s curatorial journey throughout the United States to find the most adventurous use of color by today’s artists. What he found in the best work was that great use of color transcended mediums, and that subject matter and genre wouldn’t be the things unifying the work.”

Artists from four states, Australia, and Canada use acrylic, oil, screen-printing, aerosol, photography and ink to demonstrate Zimmerman’s vision of color. The artists represented are Kristin Cammermeyer, Jeff Depner, Daniel Dienelt, Kay Gregg, Justin Miller, Michael Porten, Britt Spencer, Alex Ziv and the art duo Dabs Myla.

“Color has the power to seduce us and the power to repulse us,” Zimmerman said.

“What we know is that color can be a powerful symbol that plays a critical role our visual world. Color

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makes us love things we see or it can do the opposite.

Like an upbeat song with heartbreaking lyrics, bright, bold color can dramatically alter how we perceive the subject matter of artwork.”

Beginning with art classes in 1888 given by J. Ottis Adams and later William Forsyth, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art has evolved into a center for the visual arts community in northeast Indiana.

Regularly exhibiting regional and nationally acclaimed artists, the FWMoA also boasts a permanent

collection of American Art in addition to prints and drawings from artists such as Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

The news release explained, “The museum is committed to the collection, preservation, presentation and interpretation of American and related art to engage broad and diverse audiences throughout the community and region, and add value to their lives.”

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is a funded partner of Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne.

Huntington University announces next president; board OKs campus The Huntington University board of trustees selected Sherilyn Emberton as the institution’s 13th president.

The board also voted Friday to create a campus in Peoria, Ariz. With an expected vote from the Peoria City Council, the campus could open as early as spring 2014, an announcement issued by the university said.

Emberton, who will be Huntington’s first female president, begins her tenure there June 1. She currently serves as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas.

A native Texan, she earned a doctorate in education degree in 1999 from Texas A&M University-

Commerce. She completed her undergraduate study at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she received a bachelor of science in education degree 1979. She earned a master’s in education from the same institution in 1981.

Prior to her work at East Texas Baptist, she was the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn.

Upon completion of her doctorate, she was hired by LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, to lead its new teacher education program. In 2005, she was named the associate vice president for academic affairs for the institution.

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sity initiatives and academic program development, having launched graduate programs in counseling, education, law, medicine, religion and sports leadership.

The decision to establish a branch campus in Peoria comes after the university entered into a 180-day exclusive negotiating agreement with that city. Trine University, in Angola and St. Scholastica College, Duluth, Minn., also are establishing campuses in Peoria.

Each university will offer different academic majors to students based on their institutional strengths. The Huntington campus also will offer the opportunity for local students to study in Arizona for full semesters or for shorter term classes.

United Way campaign tops $5M The United Way of Allen County raised more than $5 million during its community campaign, the organization said.

More than 12,000 people donated to the community campaign, and more than 250 workplace campaigns were organized in support of it. Commu-

nity-campaign donations are used to help fund the United Ways’ 34 agency partners as well as the nonprofit organization’s own early childhood education programs and 21-1 service.

It was the second year in a row that the community campaign raised more

than $5 million.

At an event April 25, BF Goodrich Tire Manufacturing/United Steelworkers Local 715 received the Spirit of Giving award — the United Way’s top workplace campaign award — for raising more than $15,000.

IPFW taps O’Connell to lead college John O’Connell, who has been serving as interim dean of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne’s College of Visual and Performing Arts since last July, will lose the interim tag this summer.

In an announcement, IPFW said after a nationwide search was conducted, O’Connell was chosen to become the

school’s next dean, effective July 1.

He joined IPFW in 2007 as a professor and chair of the Department of Theatre. He previously was an assistant and associate professor of theater at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Ark., working there from 1998 to 2007.

“I am grateful to the search committee and my

colleagues for their vote of confidence in this appointment,” O’Connell said in the announcement.

IPFW also announced that David Peterson was named director of financial aid. Peterson, who starts, May 1, worked in a variety of roles at colleges during the past 17 years, and served in the Army and Army Reserve for a total of 24 years.

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Fort Wayne woman receives WorkOne Achievement Award Denise Burton of Fort Wayne was presented with the WorkOne Achievement Award for overcoming several employment barriers and pursuing a better life for herself. She received the award in a ceremony at the Indiana Statehouse.

Burton was laid off from her job and as a high school dropout, she realized she needed to increase her skills. She decided to visit her local WorkOne for assistance and enrolled in the Adult Education program to work toward her GED. While pursuing her GED, Burton took the advice of WorkOne staff and began taking MIG Welding training to get an American Welding Society Certificate. She also took advantage of workshops at WorkOne to improve her resume and began looking for a new job.

Burton’s completion of the GED and welding certification helped her obtain a referral by WorkOne to Rea Magnet Wire for a shaped film operator position through the On-the-Job Training program. Because of Burton’s success with WorkOne programs, she was asked to be a speaker

at the adult education graduation.

She has since donated financially to the adult education program because of the impact it had in helping her find a path to a new career.

“Denise’s hard work has enabled her to turn her life around,” said Scott B. Sanders, the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. “Her efforts are an inspiration to everyone.”

The Indiana Department of Workforce Development awarded 12 individuals with WorkOne Achievement Awards for their accomplishments while participating in the workforce development system. Twelve awards were also presented to employers who partner with WorkOne. Awards were also presented to an individual and employer for their participation in the Hoosier Initiative for Re-Entry program. The HIRE program is a collaborative effort between WorkOne, the Indiana Department of Corrections and participating Indiana employers to educate, train and transition eligible ex-offenders from incarceration back into society and employment.

Bach Collegium to present 11th season finale’ May 5 The Bach Collegium, a Baroque music ensemble, will present its 11th season finale at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 518 E. DeWald St. Bach’s “Credo” from the “Mass in B Minor” will be featured along with “Te Deum” by Marc-Antoine Charpen-

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The Bach Collegium is the region’s only early music ensemble, made up of 40 area vocalists and numerous instrumentalists.

Daniel Reuning directs the Collegium.

Perry Hill Elementary students presented a check for almost $1,300 to representatives of Riley Children’s Hospital. The money was raised from sales of tiles that were decorated by students for Fine Arts Week in March.

About 400 tiles were sold for $2 each.

Also during Fine Arts Week, students raised almost $500 by bringing in one dollar to be able to participate in themed week which included Hat Day, Crazy Hair Day, Twin Day and Career Day. Perry Hill Elementary art teacher Christina Baloski said that Riley was picked because, “We have supported them in the past because we have and have had several students who have spent time at Riley with illnesses.”

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Light the Night Walk, Sept. 29, to honor girl, 6 The Indiana Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has announced that Ariana Ugalde, 6, is the 2013 Fort Wayne honored hero for the organization’s annual Light The Night Walk.

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ton St. Many species share cognitive skills that are considered key signs of higher mental abilities. Exhibit continues through Sept. 8. During the school year, open noon to 5 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. For admission prices and more information, call 424-2400 or visit scienecentral.org.

Garage sale. Pathway Community Church auditorium, 11910 Shearwater Run, Fort Wayne. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The church will be host to a garage sale for the community, to help adopting families and to give support to orphans and children in need. Sale items include clothing, sporting goods, furniture, home decor, baby items, and more.

Neighborhood garage sale. Hillsboro Community Association, southeast corner of Maplecrest Road and Rothman Road. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Settlers Inc. annual plant sale and Swinney Homestead open house. Historic Swinney Homestead, 1424 W Jefferson Blvd. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Flat-grown herbs in the basement, garden-diggings outside. Bake sale, music by Hearthstone Ensemble, refreshments, Settlers, Inc. memberships. Parking by tennis courts. Sale continues 8 a.m.-non Sunday. Call 637-8622 or go to settlersinc.org.

Fridays in May concert: The Resonators. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 405 W. Wayne St. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Featuring: Anne Lewellen, harp; Adrian Mann, string bass; Jason Markzon, percussion; Michael Pape, percussion. Free admission. Sandwich lunch immediately after each program in Wagenhals Hall, $2.

Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St. 7:30 p.m. Play adapted and directed by Thom Hofrichter. For full box office schedule, ticket information and performance schedule, visit firstpresbyteriantheater.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 4 AIDS Walk. Headwaters Park, 333 S. Clinton St., Fort Wayne. AIDS Task Force of northeast Indiana 17th annual AIDS Walk, followed by postparty, performances and live entertainment. Registration 4-6 p.m.; walk step off 6 p.m. Opening entertainment will start at 6:30. Registered walkers may attend the after-walk party at no charge. Public is encouraged to attend for a $5 fee. Contact: Lisa Terry, 744-1144; lisa@aidsfortwayne.org; AidsFortWayne.org.

Fort Wayne Farmers Market. Parkview Field Lincoln Center, Douglas Avenue and Webster Street. 9 a.m. to noon. Free admission. Dozens of vendors of plants, vegetables, baked goods, candy and more. For more information, visit ftwaynesfarmersmarket.com.

Wildflower Walk. Arrowhead Marsh. Master Gardener Laura Stine will lead a tour of the preserve’s native plant garden and along its trails to see wildflowers in bloom. Sponsored by Little River Wetlands Project. Free.

Contact info@lrwp.org or call 478-2515 for information.

Gospel Sing. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway E., New Haven. 6:30 p.m. Free event features large choir of voices from many churches. All are welcome to come and hear popular, old-

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MONDAY, MAY 6 PAWS to Read. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 6:30 p.m.

Children up to age 11 stop by and read to the PAWS dogs, Mason and Martha.

TUESDAY, MAY 7 Little River Ramblers. Eagle Marsh Barn, South Side Engle Road, onehalf mile east of West Jefferson Blvd. Hike to explore and record the flora and fauna of Eagle Marsh. Make sure to dress for the weather.

Sponsored by Little River Wetlands Project. Contact info@lrwp.org or 478-2515. Program continues every Tuesday in May and June. Free.

Fort Wayne Area Community Band concert. IPFW Campus. 7:30 p.m. The 70-plus-member concert band, under the direction of Scott Humphries and assistant conductor David Blackwill, will perform a variety of music, including “Carmen Suite,” “Fantasy Adventure at the Movies,” “Folk Song Suite,” “Ghost Train,” “Imperial March,” “Let the Amen Sound,” “Metroplex” and “Pie in the Face Polka.” Tickets are available at the door: adults, $5; seniors, $4; children 6 and under, $2; IPFW students free with student ID.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 Cookbook Book Club. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 2 p.m.

Read the club’s selection beforehand. For details, call 421-1310.

THURSDAY, MAY 9 “Ephemeral Pools.” Coventry Meadows, 7833 W. Jefferson Blvd. 8-10 a.m. Light breakfast. Nature presentation for nature lovers 50-plus. Master Naturalist Ronnie Greenberg will discuss the plants and animals that depend upon natural pools at Little River Wetlands Project. Sponsored

by LRWP. Free. Contact info@lrwp.org or 478-2515 to reserve a place.

Teen Thursday. Georgetown Branch Library, 6600 E. State Blvd. 3:30 p.m. This week’s activity is Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?.

Plant sale members’ preview. McMillen Ice Arena, 3901 Abbott St. 4-7 p.m. Botanical Conservatory memberships will be available. Public sale is Friday through Sunday. More than 600 varieties of plants for sale, including herbs, tomatoes and vegetable starts along with annuals, perennials, houseplants, bonsai, color bowls, and hanging baskets.

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FRIDAY, MAY 10 Francine’s Friends mobile mammography. Fifth Third Bank, 5925 Illinois Road. Appointments preferably should be scheduled prior to the date.

For an appointment, call 483-1847.

Fridays in May concert: Cole Burger, piano. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 405 W. Wayne St. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free admission. Sandwich lunch immediately after program in Wagenhals Hall; $2.

Mother’s Day plant sale. McMillen Ice Arena, 3901 Abbott St. 4-7 p.m.

More than 600 varieties of plants for sale, including herbs, tomatoes and vegetable starts along with annuals, perennials, houseplants, bonsai, color bowls, mixed containers and hanging baskets.

Civic Theatre presents “Cinderella.” Arts United Center, 303 E. Main St. 8 p.m. Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” enchanted viewers with the magic of the fairy tale paired with Broadway-style music and lyrics. This stage adaptation remains true to that movie, with some modern twists.

Get tickets at the box office in front of the Arts United Center, or call 424-5220. Or visit fwcivic.org. Performances May 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m., May 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 2 p.m., and May 16 at 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 11 Show choirs clinic. Homestead High School, 4310 Homestead Road. 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Southwest Allen Schools students, private school students and home-schooled students in grades 3-8 are welcome to attend.

Eighth-grade students may participate in a Q&A with Director Curtis Shaw to learn more about auditions for 2013-14. To register, call Michelle Ritchie, 437-6507.

EAA Chapter 2 Young Eagles Rally. Smith Field Airport, 426 W. Ludwig Road, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free airplane rides for kids ages 817. Registration: 9-11 a.m. Flights: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (weather permitting). Parent or legal guardian must be present. youngeagles@eaa2.org. www.eaa2.org.

Family Fun Hike: Pond Life. Eagle Marsh Barn, South Side Engle Road. 910:30 a.m. An interactive session among tanks of insects and tadpoles to learn about the life cycle of frogs, toads and insects that start their lives in the ephemeral pools. Use dip nets to pull up what swims, wiggles and hops in the water. Contact info@lrwp.org for more information.

Mom’s Day 5K Run & 3K Walk. Grace Presbyterian Church, 1811 Fairhill Road. 9 a.m. The second annual event benefits the North Highlands Center for Learning. Register at Grace Presbyterian Church or online at gpcfw.org or running.fortwayne.com. Advance registration continues through May 7. The cost is $15 for adults and $10 for participants 17and-under. Race day registration is available beginning at 8 a.m., but at higher rates. Children 12 or under may participate for free with a parent

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Emmaus Annual Car Show. Emmaus Lutheran Church and School, 8626 Covington Road. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be many cars available to be viewed. If you are interested in submitting a car for the show, call Emmaus Church at 459-7722 for details. There will be prizes and awards for different categories of cars. Concessions will be available for purchase. buscokarl@msn.com. emmausfortwayne.org.

Sweetwater’s Sound Off Saturday 2013. Sweetwater, 5501 U.S. 30, Fort Wayne. Noon to 5 p.m. Fundraising benefit to support Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society. Silent auction, bake sale, craft bizarre, and food trucks on site (Affine food truck, Big John’s Ragin’ Cajun food truck, The Getaway Grill, and Blue Stack Smokehouse).

Rusty Ammerman’s Dimension of Illusion. Allen County Public Library, 536 E. Dupont Road. 2:30 p.m. A program for the whole family, with a mix of magic and comedy.

Soarin’ Hawk’s 1st annual Raptor Expo. Franke Park Pavillion 1. 4-7 p.m.

Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehab, a nonprofit organization, will be host to its first ever Raptor Expo, with a live raptor presentation with owls, hawks, and an eagle. There will also be hands-on learning labs, pellet dissections and more. soarinhawktalk@gmail.com. www.soarinhawk.org.

Charis House Gala 2013. Grand Wayne Center, 120 West Jefferson Blvd.

5:30-9 p.m. Sponsorships for the 2013 Charis House Gala are still available. Tickets are $60 and include appetizers,a sit-down dinner, and silent and live auctions. The proceeds help support homeless women and children. andrea@therescuemission.net. therescuemission.net/auction.

“The Music of Queen.” Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio, 10700 SR 118 S., Van Wert. 7:30 p.m. Four singers from the United Kingdom join a symphony orchestra to perform music by Queen, including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” and “We Are the Champions.” Tickets start at $27. Call (419) 238-6722.

SUNDAY, MAY 12 Mother’s Day in the Garden. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St. Noon to 4 p.m. A special outing for “Mom,” whether she be mother, grandmother or aunt. Each mom will receive free admission and a special Mother’s Day plant while supplies last. Regular Conservatory admission applies for everyone else.

MONDAY, MAY 13 Art class. Salem United Church of Christ, 2401 Lake Ave. 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Carl Mosher instructs an art class, in which participants will paint a summer scene. Cost: $20. Call to reserve a place: 749-5847.

Born to Read Babies and Books Story Time. Georgetown Branch Library, 6600 E. State Blvd. 10:15 a.m. Babies and their caregivers are expected at a story time designed to develop early literacy skills. The group will enjoy books, stories, puppets, tickles and singing during this 20- 25minute program.

Free community dinner. Salem United Church of Christ, 2401 Lake Ave. 4:30-5:45 p.m. A one-time gift to the community.

PAWS to Read. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 6:30 p.m.

Children up to age 11 stop by and read to the PAWS dogs, Mason and Martha.

Family Fun Night. Georgetown Branch Library, 6600 E. State Blvd. 7-8 p.m. A different theme each Monday. Tonight’s activity is Paint a Portrait.

TUESDAY, MAY 14 Tourette Syndrome Association: Family Night. Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza. 6 p.m. A presentation on understanding Tourette syndrome and its challenges for families affected and those wanting to learn about it. Refreshments. Check in 5:30 p.m. mlehman5@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 Homebuyer Education Class. American Red Cross, 1212 E. California Road. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The class will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

The class uses the “Realizing the American Dream” curriculum developed by NeighborWorks America. Participants receive a Certificate of Training signed by a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Certified Housing Counselor. The certificate may be used to apply for local homebuyer assistance programs, such as the City of Fort Wayne Down Payment Assistance program. Completion also allows individuals to enroll in the Bank On Fort Wayne program. Anyone interested in taking the class should call 427-8585 or 311.

Short Hikes for Short Legs: Pond Life. Eagle Marsh Barn, South Side Engle Road, one-half mile east of West Jefferson Blvd. 9-10 a.m. For children 3 to 5 and a responsible adult. Learn about swimmers, wigglers and things that go hop in the water. Groups are asked to call to schedule a hike at another time. Call 478-2515.

THURSDAY, MAY 16 Neighborhood spring garage sale. Glenwood Park Community Association, East State Boulevard. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The neighborhood is bounded by East State Boulevard and Trier Road on the north and Reed Road and Coliseum Boulevard on the west. Sale hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 16 and 17, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 18.

Smart Start Story Time. Georgetown Branch Library, 6600 E. State Blvd.

10:15 a.m. A preschool story time enhanced by the books, finger plays and maybe a craft.

Teen Thursday. Georgetown Branch Library, 6600 E. State Blvd. 3:30 p.m. This week’s activity is silly games.

Anonymous By Adoption. Parkview Main Campus, 2109 E. State Blvd. 7 p.m. Support group for adoptees, adoptive parents, and separated siblings. Call (260) 238-4529 or (260) 744-1518.

FRIDAY, MAY 17 Fridays in May concert: Bach, Brats and Pop. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 405 W. Wayne St. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Mitchell Rorick, organist.

Free admission. Sandwich lunch immediately after the program in Wagenhals Hall; $2.

Comedian-impressionist Craig Tornquist. Cottage Event Center, 9524 U.S. 24 N., Roanoke. 7:30 p.m. Family-friendly routine includes impersonations of Kermit the Frog, Elvis, “The Church Lady” and George Burns.

All seats $10. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For ticket information, call 4833508.

SATURDAY, MAY 18 Fort Wayne Spring Clean. Fort Wayne International Airport. Volunteers of all ages will cleanup litter and debris from area neighborhoods, parks, roadways, trails and riverbanks as part of the local Great American Cleanup effort. To receive event T-shirt, gloves and trash bags, pre-register by calling 311 or go to cityoffortwayne.org/greatamericancleanup.

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Free Fishing Day. Shoaff Park, 6401 St. Joe Rd, Fort Wayne. Indiana’s adult residents do not need a fishing license in order to fish today only; all other regulations apply. Just in time, the DNR has stocked catchablesize channel catfish in 12 urban lakes, including Shoaff Park Pond. Free Fishing Days also are scheduled June 1 and 2.

Science Saturdays. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St. On the third Saturday of each month, investigate a different topic with fun and family-friendly experiments, demonstrations, and activities, most of which can be repeated at home. Each program lasts 4560 minutes and is appropriate for ages 5 and up. Participants in NISTEM (www.nistem.org) can also earn points for attending. Preregistration not required. The program is free with conservatory admission.

International Learn to Fly Day. Smith Field Airport, 426 W Ludwig Road.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EAA Chapter 2 is hosting a Learn To Fly Day event.

Free seminars on flight training at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon by Sweet Aviation. Introductory flights in a Diamond DA20 or DA40 will be available (weather permitting) for $59 and will include a logbook. View static aircraft, visit with pilots, flight instructors and local aviation organizations. vicepresident@eaa2.org. www.eaa2.org.

Yard sale and bake sale. Lincolnshire Church of the Brethren, 6404 S. Calhoun St. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Baked goods and sandwiches available during search for recycled treasures.

MONDAY, MAY 20 Born to Read Babies and Books Story Time. Georgetown Branch Library, 6600 E. State Blvd. 10:15 a.m. Babies and their caregivers are expected at a story time designed to develop early literacy skills.

PAWS to read. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 6:30 p.m.

Children up to age 11 stop by and read to the PAWS dogs, Mason and Martha.

Encourage, Empower and Enjoy the Autism Spectrum. Easter Seals Arc, 4919 Projects Drive. 7-8:30 p.m. Parents, grandparents, teachers, professionals and others wanting to learn more about autism are welcome.

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TUESDAY, MAY 21 Trillium Garden Club annual plant sale. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 10700 Aboite Center Road. 8 a.m. Sale features all home-grown plants and shrubs.

Alpha-1/COPD Support Group. Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza. 5:30-7 p.m. This group provides an opportunity for those of affected by COPD or Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency to come together for mutual support and learning. Support group meetings are open to patients, friends, family members and caregivers. There is no cost to attend. For more info, email tcorron@live.com or call 245-0199.

Alice in Chains at the Embassy. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 Diversity Dialogue. YWCA, 1610 Spy Run Ave. Noon to 1:30 p.m. The Diversity Council of YWCA Northeast Indiana presents topics to incite conversation. The May topic is Indiana HJR-6 — Marriage Between a Man and a Woman. Free and open to the public. Free parking. RSVP on

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SATURDAY, MAY 25 Explore Outdoors. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S.

S. Calhoun St. Noon to 1 p.m. Take an ordinary paper towel and transform it into a lotus, or a water lily. Conservatory volunteer Nancy Jimenez demonstrates origami paper folding. Bring a sandwich and stop in at the conservatory for an entertaining “garden moment” on the last Thursday of the month. Free coffee and tea. Conservatory admission applies: $5/adult, $3/child ages 3-17. Conservatory members and volunteers admitted free.

Rummage sale. St. Joseph United Methodist Church, 6004 Reed Road. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 31; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1. Everything is $2 a bag on Saturday.

Calhoun St.. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Examine the plants and gardens on the fourth Saturday of each month. Regular conservatory admission applies.

Today, go outside and enjoy this spring day in the exploration garden.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Tracks II. Eagle Marsh Barn, South Side Engle Road, one-half mile east

the YWCA Northeast Indiana Facebook page, or contact Administrative Coordinator Sue Hiatt at SHiatt@ywcaerew.org or 424-4908, ext.254.

Church rummage sale. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven. 5-8 p.m. Sale hours are 5-8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 23. All items are 25-cents, except outer coats, with are $1. Household items are priced as marked. Dollar bag sale 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday.

TUESDAY, MAY 28 Classics adult book group. Allen County Public Library — Dupont Road, 536 E. Dupont Road. 7 p.m. Adults are invited to read the classics or to read them again. “Around the World in 80 Days” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne will be discussed at the May event.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 Adult book group. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane. 2 p.m. A lively book discussion. This month’s selection is “State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett.

THURSDAY, MAY 30 Botanical Brown Bag. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100

of West Jefferson Boulevard. 9-10:30 a.m. Dane Nagey, a master naturalist and expert tracker, leads another sesssion on how to tell past events from the tracks and signs. Anyone who is interested may participate, even if they missed the first session. Sponsored by the Little River Wetlands Project. Free. Contact info@irwp.org or 478-2515 for information.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2 Free Fishing Day. Shoaff Park, 6401 St. Joe Road. Indiana’s adult residents do not need a fishing license in order to fish today only; all other regulations apply. Just in time, the DNR has stocked catchable-size channel catfish in 12 urban lakes, including Shoaff Park Pond.

Germanfest 2013. Headwaters Park, 333 S. Clinton St.. Join the community downtown for a weeklong celebration of essen, trinken, und Gemütlichkeit (eating, drinking, and having a really good time). Pavilion

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TUESDAY, JUNE 4 2013 Canal Days Festival. Schnelker Park, 956 Park Ave., New Haven.

“Faith and Family” is the theme for the festival. The entertainment stage will welcome Spike & the Bulldogs on Friday night and national recording artist The Sidewalk Prophets on Saturday night. Other events include the Army invading Schnelker Park, the Great Andini and DJ Double K, the Bulldog Beauty Pageant, a parade, Kid’s Day, New Haven’s Got Talent show, teen dances and more. Details at newhavenparksandrec.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6 $1 Night. Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St. 5-8 p.m. The first Thursday evening of the month features $1 admission for adults and children. Babies and up to age 2 are still admitted free. For details, call 427-6440.

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