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April 19, 2013
Tour to discover artists’ love of work By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
FedEx project to mean more New Haven jobs By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
Lisa Vetter’s search for more studio space led her from Fort Wayne to Spencerville, where she eventually teamed up with Kristy Jo Beber to create the Rural Studio Tour. That tour of shops and studios marks its fourth year Saturday, April 27. Vetter and fellow artist Paul Siefert operate one of the eight stops, The Art Farm, at 17612 N. County Line Road E., Spencerville. Siefert and Vetter create art and jewelry from found objects. At other stops, visitors will see pottery, photography, painting, and more. Vetter said she had lived and worked downtown for 20 years. “And we really just outgrew the house,” she said. “Our studio had pretty much overtaken our house and we just needed more space. “So we thought let’s look around here, out it
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Holly Heath Photography, 14435-B Leo Road in Leo, will be open April 27 for the Rural Studio Tour. Heath describes her work as “capturing true emotion, personality and a memory.” the country,” she said. studio building is right a labor of love.” They found a home behind the house, nicely She described her art as within 30 minutes of their located. And we have five mixed media, found work. They also found a acres, which is more than objects art. “We make project. “The price was we were initially looking clocks and lamps and wall right, but it was pretty for, but we enjoy having pieces,” she said. “It’s rough,” she said, “so we the land. mostly functional stuff, took on the challenge of “And we lived in the but some of it is purely restoring the house. And studio building for three architectural. I love to it’s a small house, which and a half years, while we is good news. And the worked on the house. It’s See TOUR, Page A7
New Haven leaders will gather at 10 a.m. April 24 for the formal groundbreaking for a FedEx enterprise in Gateway Park. The project is expected to create 87 jobs. New Haven Mayor Terry E. McDonald, New Haven Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Vince Buchanan and Allen County Commissioner Nelson Peters are expected to participate, with Buchanan acting as emcee. The Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance organized the ground-breaking ceremony. “They’re actually starting to do the excavation right now,” said Brian Yoh, the economic development director for the city of New Haven. He estimated construction will be complete by the end of 2013 or the first quarter of 2014. Shambaugh & Son Construction of Fort Wayne is the prime contractor. Yoh said will Shambaugh likely will enlist many subcontractors. The FedEx Ground Package System announcement represents about $12 million in the building alone, Yoh said. “They’ll have about $6.5 million invested in equipment, conveyors, automated sort systems,” he said. “FedEx has been really good about ensuring that when they make a substantial investment that they hire as many local contractors as possible,” he said. The company was granted tax abatements that will save about a half-million dollars over five years. With the deal, Yoh said, New Haven will retain about 107 jobs and create about 87 jobs. Some of the new jobs will be managerial, and some will be sort positions on the See PROJECT, Page A4
Johnson Academy seeking sponsor for charter school By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
Timothy L. Johnson Academy continues to look for a new sponsor, after the East Allen County School Board rejected the school’s sponsorship request. The school board issued a ruling April 9. Principal Steve Bollier told the East Allen County Times that the students and the community are making Photo by Jane Snow Johnson Academy a Visitors to Timothy L. Johnson Academy find directions to the office success. and eight class levels. The academy shares a cafeteria with the “This school is not East Allen County Alternative School. East Allen owns the building, failing,” Bollier said April which still carries the sign for Village Woods Elementary School. 11. “We have never had an F or anything close to it. We had a D this year; if the grading system Bollier said. hadn’t changed we’d have had an A this “This used to be a place where weeds year.” were growing, where there were fights He said the 11-year-old academy after school on Friday night. There has moved into the former Village Woods not been a single act of vandalism. There Elementary School two years ago, has not been a fight. It has not been sharing it with the East Allen County there,” he said. “It’s not because of me, Alternative School. or us. It’s because of the people that are “We had people walking across the here. It’s because of the neighborhood. street and saying how pleased they were See SPONSOR, Page A8 that this school was coming open,”
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