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January 29, 2016
Show choirs unite diverse talents
Heritage Days touts Indiana Bicentennial By Ryan Schwab rschwab@kpcmedia.com
PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW
The Elegance girls show choir rehearses at Bishop Dwenger High School. The choir’s show has a rock ’n’ roll theme.
(High school show choirs have begun their competition season. In this newspaper’s circulation area, Bishop Dwenger, Carroll and Northrop high schools share in show choir.) By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
• Bishop Dwenger High School
From fall to spring, 75 Bishop
Dwenger High School students commit their energy to show choir. They tell stories in dance and music at host schools, including Dwenger’s own invitational. “Show choir is an activity that spans multiple sports seasons,” said Christy Maloney, the director. “We share some of these kids in the fall during fall sports, but once we hit winter season, this IS their sport.” The Elegance girls choir boasts 36
members. The Summit Sound mixed choir embraces 40 students. “Eight girls are in both choirs. It takes quite a commitment,” Maloney said. Backstage, the seven members of the Bow Tie Mafia band perform with both choirs. The Elegance girls group is mostly freshmen and sophomores. This year’s show has a rock ’n’ roll theme, See SHOW, Page A11
Gardening classes offer early glimpse of spring Steve Pawlowski took the first 2016 seed catalog from his mailbox just days after the first hard frost signaled the end of the 2015 garden season. “I just got it this week. I couldn’t believe it,” he said in early December, adding that he expected to see dozens more seed catalogs by January. That first catalog was from Territorial Seeds. “They have a lot of really diverse heirlooms and hybrids,” he said. “It’s a really nice catalog. They have all kinds of different tomatoes. You can even get a wasabi plant.” Kathy Lee also has been gearing up for another year of gardening. She plans to start leeks from seed by the middle of February. Lee, too, is studying seed catalogs.
“It’s a lot cheaper,” she said. “You can buy a package of seeds that might have 30 seeds in it for the same amount of money that you’d spend for four plants from the nursery or box store. You get a greater variety at much less cost, so you can try new things.” Both Lee and Pawlowski have earned the rank of Master Gardener. Both will share their enthusiasm and knowledge at February workshops at Salomon Farm Park Learning Center. Lee will instruct a “Gardening in Winter” workshop on Feb. 13. Pawlowski will instruct the “Backyard Composting” workshop on Feb. 20. Serious gardeners may warm up by attending “Selling Homemade Edibles: Understanding the Rules.” Steve Niemo-
For details Q Salomon Farm Park Learning Center is at 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. Class fees and registration deadlines apply. See the Community Calendar.
Page B9 eller from the Allen County Health Department will direct that Feb. 6 workshop. Lee said seed packages tell whether to plant seeds after the last frost, or whether to plant inside and move the plants outside. “So you have to count back on your calendar,” she said. Lee will start leek seeds in mid-February. “March and April are heavy times for starting most seeds. Some are even planted the first part of May,” she said. See SPRING, Page A13
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One year off was enough for Huntertown Heritage Days. Jenny McComb is seeing to that. McComb has reclaimed the throne as coordinator of the festival, which is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, Aug. 5-7. “Right after last year’s festival was canceled, I’d already made up my mind there was going to be a Heritage Days [in 2016],” McComb said. “I think the community looks forward to it. When they don’t have it, they miss it. I have had several people tell me they missed it last year.” McComb said she was contacted by a member of the 2016 Indiana Bicentennial Allen County Outreach group, who was interested in having the Heritage Days Festival coordinate with the county’s bicentennial
events. McComb said the theme is “Huntertown Heritage Days celebrates Indiana’s Bicentennial” and that parade floats should encompass that theme. McComb is urging area businesses to participate in the parade and would like to see each of Huntertown’s subdivisions enter a float in the parade. “I expect the biggest parade we’ve ever had. Even bigger than the year the McComb family was honored,” McComb said with a laugh. The first weekend in August was the traditional date for the festival. Two years ago, the festival was moved to the second weekend in September in hopes for cooler weather. Crowds were smaller, competing with Friday football games and Saturday youth league soccer, See DAYS, Page A14