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June 15, 2012
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Hoagland Days full of events for all By Nichole Hacha-Thomas nthomas@kpcnews.net
When Hoagland Days rolls into town June 21, the festival, tucked into southeast Allen County, will celebrate its 140th anniversary. Along with it will come plenty of fair food, rides and annual events. Some of those — like the Greased Pig Contest and the Dachshund Dash — are sure to be crowd-pleasers.
Greased Pig Contest is slippery fun
One event sure to be a winner is the Greased Pig Contest. Planned for June 21 at 7 p.m. it will be a bunch of slipping, sliding fun, said Marciel Kleine, who has coordinated the event with her husband, Harry, for several years. Kleine said the contest is one of the most popular at the festival, dating back as long as she can remember. More than 300 children routinely show up to compete. The contest is just like it sounds, Kleine said. The Hoagland Community Park arena is hosed down with water — to make it muddy, of course — before three local pigs are greased with cooking oil and a throng of children, divided by age into groups of a dozen or so, have their hands greased with Vaseline before. Then, the game begins. The pigs are let loose and the f irst person
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A line-up of other festival events can be found on page A10.
to catch one wins $3. The second pigcatcher wins $2 and the one to snag the remaining animal takes home $1. Each child receives a free ice cream cone ticket from the Lions Club, too, Kleine said. After the fun, the participants have the option of being hosed off by the Hoagland Fire Department, which, Kleine notes, is a big favorite.
SDI ventures into copper production $40M joint venture near New Haven will make wire rod
Kleine said the contest lasts a few hours, as sometimes corralling the pig is swift and other times it isn’t. Also, there may be several groups for one age. If there are 30 10-year-old children, Kleine said, they will be split into three groups of 10. Kleine said the event has been a longstanding tradition at Hoagland Days and is one of the favorites.
“The pigs just run around and hope the y don’t get caught,” Kleine said. “It’s a lot of fun.” Registration for the event is free and takes place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. the day of the event and is located behind the pavilion. Kleine said each contestant should wear See HOAGLAND DAYS, page A12
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SDI La Farga LLC General Manager Roy Perala says the new plant can produce up to 180 million pounds of copper wire rod a year. Perala, general manager of SDI La Farga LLC. “Steel Dynamics is in the steel business, and this is a totally different, new market for us.” But for Fort Waynebased SDI, it’s a market that makes a lot of sense. The company acquired
metals recycler OmniSource Corp. in 2007. Last year, OmniSource shipped 1.1 billion pounds of nonferrous metals, with 17 percent of that being recycled copper. At SDI’s annual meeting See SDI, page A13
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Since Steel Dynamics Inc. was formed in 1993, the company has grown from a single mill in Butler to an array of mills, finishing facilities and fabrication plants across the country that together posted $8 billion in sales last year while employing roughly 6,500 workers — all built on the strength of SDI’s steelmaking capabilities. Now with its $40-million SDI/La Farga Group joint venture just east of New Haven nearly ready to begin production, the company is hoping to capitalize on another metal: copper. “It’s a completely different field from what SDI is used to,” said Roy
Children chase after a pig during a past running of the Greased Pig Contest at the annual Hoagland Days festival. The event t akes place June 21 at 7 p.m. with sign-up from 4:30-6:30 p.m.