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NOVEMBER 2018
In their honor BY BRIDGETT HERNANDEZ
Covington Plaza 6410 West Jefferson Boulevard Fort Wayne, Indiana
bhernandez@kpcmedia.com
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Check out pages 10-11 to see pictures of all the veterans who participated in the Oct. 17 Honor Flight.
Honor Flight Northeast Indiana provided 84 local veterans the trip of a lifetime during its last trip of the year Oct. 17. The nonprofit, which provides free flights to Washington D.C. for veterans to see the memorials built in their honor, celebrated its 30th Honor Flight and fourth trip this year. To date, it has brought more than 2,000 veterans to the nation’s capital. The most recent Honor Flight veterans included two World War II era veterans, 75 Korean War era veterans and seven Vietnam veterans. Honor Flight president Dennis Covert said veterans submit applications for the program and priority is given first to WWII veterans and veterans of any era who are terminally ill, followed by veterans of following eras. The veterans got an early start to the day. They met at the 122nd Fighter Wing of the Indiana Air National Guard at 5:30 a.m. where they enjoyed breakfast served by the American Legion
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William Duncan, an Air Force veteran who served during the Korean War era, is greeted at the Fort Wayne International Airport after returning from Washington D.C.
Post 241 in Waynedale and members of the USO. The veterans also enjoyed a program in their honor. U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd,
attended the send off and addressed the veterans. “We live in the greatest SEE VETERANS, PAGE 8
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If you have spent any time on the two-mile trail around Foster Park this fall, you might have caught a glimpse of Leah Hall running past with the rest of the Bishop Luers Cross Country team. At practice, the high school senior is a blur with a brunette ponytail and an armful of roadside rubbish from food wrappers to paper cups. The practice actually has a name: plogging. It’s a trend that started
in Sweden around 2016. Plogging is a combination of “jogging” and the Swedish “plocka upp” or picking up litter. As a workout, plogging provides participants variation in body movement by adding bending, squatting and stretching to the main activity of running. There’s even a Fort Wayne Plogging Group on Facebook that organizes meetups for runners to get together, exercise and pick up litter. However, Hall said she had no idea what
plogging was or that it was a growing trend. She just started doing it one day this season. Each practice, the cross country team runs four or five miles around Foster Park. During practice, she runs past a stretch of Bluffton Road that is always littered with trash. She thought, “Why not?” It seemed silly to just run past it every day, so she reached down and picked it up. At the end of practice, she throws it away. “Whenever I’m SEE PATH, PAGE 6
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Leah Hall (far right) runs with the Bishop Luers cross country team at Foster Park as the team prepares for the semi-state competition. bhernandez@kpcmedia. com
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