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September 4, 2015
Band takes on more difficult show By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
Nine Spartans attend leadership conference By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
The Homestead Spartan Alliance Band embraces challenges in both the movement and music of the fall show. Staff members said the 292 members of the nationally ranked band are dedicated to achieving even higher goals in 2015. The band hopes to present “Poiesis — An Act of Creation” more than a dozen times, beginning with the “On the Banks of the Wabash” band festival, Sept. 12 at Bluffton High School. Performance times have not been finalized. “It’s quite challenging for our color guard and our musicians,” said Steve Barber, Homestead band director. “I believe some of the music that we’re playing is the most difficult in the last 29 years.” Barber said a design team created the show concept. “Everybody talks about the music and the program title, and so it’s
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Homestead High School color guard member Abbey Piel tosses a rifle during rehearsal for the band’s 2015 show, “Poiesis — An Act of Creation.” Piel, a senior, is one of 66 members of the guard.
really a group project,” he said. That team includes assistant director Brad Wadkins, visual director and drill designer Mike Hardiek, percussion director and music arranger Kent Klee, color
guard director Jonathan Meader, and Barber. “Our show is probably one of the most difficult pieces of music that we’ve put on the field,” Klee said. “I think that we’re exploring some different
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Nine Homestead High School students took part in the IHSAA Student Leadership Conference during the summer break. Homestead girls’ basketball coach Rod Parker accompanied the students to the conference at Plainfield High School. “They really brought a lot back, and it’s going to be our job at Homestead to put those kids in a position to take what they learned and have some impact on our teams and our student body,” Parker said. “I’m sure that we’ll consider sending anywhere from 9 to 14 again next year.” “The speakers were entertaining and their message had a point,” Parker said. “They talked with the student athletes not just about their leadership within the team, but the different ways they can become leaders in a school. I thought they did a really nice job of giving the kids
a global message as to how they can have an impact on the schools.” He said the Homestead delegation, consisting of incoming freshmen to incoming seniors, attended various breakout sessions that interested them. “That gave us an opportunity on the way home to share some of those points,” he said. In all, 36 workshops were available. Each student attended five. Workshops covered topics such as eating to win, sportsmanship and philanthropy, hazing and sports careers. Twelve schools sent delegations. “The students that I took down were very positive. I asked the underclassmen if they get the opportunity next year would they like to come back, and they said yes,” Parker said. The Spartan mascot took second place in a dance-off before the student assembly. Students also shared in a T-shirt exchange.
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Marilou Borne said an iron pot that dangles from a mantle at her rural Allen County home was brought to DeKalb County in the 1840s. Borne safeguards four generations of family treasures. She also directs the antiques area of the Johnny Appleseed Festival.
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In her Eel River Township home, Marilou Borne preserves items that would be pricey in antique stores but which are priceless to her. The photos, furniture,
iron pots and oil lamps from four generations fill the rooms and walls. Each has its place of honor, and each has its story. Marilou lists the owners of each item. Those include an iron pot and a coal oil-burning lamp that her
great-great-grandparents brought to DeKalb County in the 1840s. Borne is knowledgeable about that era. That’s part of her responsibility as the director of the antiques area at Fort Wayne’s Johnny See FESTIVAL, Page A13
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