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Angola, Indiana
Orland Returns To Its Roots
George marina returns
GOOD MORNING Lakes Council sets annual meeting for next Saturday LAKE JAMES — The Steuben County Lakes Council will hold its 41st annual meeting next Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Lake James Christian Assembly, 1880 W. C.R. 275N. A free pancake breakfast will be offered at 8 a.m. A short business meeting will follow the breakfast, starting at 9 a.m. Presentations will be given by Terry Archbold, owner of Drydock Marine; Bill Schmidt, Lakes Council advisor; and Dave Hazelett, lake visitor. A silent auction will be held throughout the meeting. This meeting is open to the public.
Steuben board considering proposal Aug. 7 BY MIKE MARTURELLO mikem@kpcnews.net
STEUBEN COUNTY TOURISM BUREAU
Tim Frederick of the Pokagon Longrifles enjoys the primitive village at a previous festival. The primitive village will again be part of the Vermont
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Dutch Creek Animal Farm of Shipshewana is host to 40 different types of animals visitors can view by wagon or on foot. Read more about the park that opened in 2008 on Sunday C1 and C2.
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Settlement Festival in Orland, which runs today and Sunday, with most of the events in the Orland Town Park.
Vermont Settlement festival celebrates Orland’s heritage Boocher is parade marshal; tourney fetes Henderson BY EMILY ERNSBERGER news@kpcnews.com
ORLAND — The annual Vermont Settlement Days festival will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Orland town park. New to the festival this year is the Bill Henderson Memorial baseball and softball tournaments for boys 15 years old and younger and girls 14 years old and younger. The tournament will take place today through Sunday. All
games will be played at the town park. The tournament is in commemoration of Bill Henderson, a business owner and Orland resident who supported the Orland Baseball Association. Henderson died on June 7 due to cancer. Traditional events such as the pancake breakfast put on by the Orland Lions Club at 6 a.m. and the 5K run at 8 a.m. will start off the festival today.
This year’s parade, themed “Good Old Days, Good Old Friends,” will take place at 11 a.m. today and be led by Grand Marshal Harold Boocher. The Mizpah Shriners Parade Units will also be featured. They are sponsored by Fort Financial and Gene and Betty German. Main stage entertainment this year includes magician Jim Barron, the Sweet Adelines Little SEE ORLAND, PAGE A7
Antique boat show today at Lake James BY EMILY ERNSBERGER news@kpcnews.net
LAKE JAMES — An antique boat and car show will take place today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Approximately 60 boats, outboard motors and cars will be parked and on display at the old Boat House Marina, located next to the former Bledsoe’s Beach, on Jimmerson Creek, at the Four Corners area of Lake James and Jimmerson Lake. “Most of the boats are from the 1940s to the 1980s,” said Mike McBride, who organized the event. McBride, co-president of the Indiana Chapter of the Antique Classic Boat Society, will also feature boats of his own. He will display his 1952 Chris Craft Holiday and a 1959 Owens Cabin Cruiser, which he shares ownership with Terry Archbold, owner of Drydock Marine. The Owens Cabin Cruiser “has never been off Lake James,”
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Nancy and Mike McBride show off their antique wooden 1952 Chris Craft that is a holiday model named Nancy II. The couple spent two years refinishing the boat that will be on display at an antique boat and car show they helped organize for Saturday at Jimmerson Creek.
said McBride, and has recently been restored. It has not been out, however, in 19 years. McBride and the Antique Classic Boat Society chapter recently held an antique boat show in Wawasee last month. “We try to do a couple shows a year,” said McBride. Those interested in displaying their car or boat at the event can register today. There is a $15 dollar fee for boats and no cost for cars. Those displaying boats
receive a free t-shirt upon registration. Door prizes will also be available. Local artists and food vendors will also be a part of this year’s boat and car show. It is a free event open to the public. For more information about the show, call Mike McBride at 833-1853. For more information on the Antique Classic Boat Society, visit acbs.org.
ANGOLA — A proposal to restart a marina at Lake George will return to the Steuben County Plan Commission on Aug. 7. Dan Smith, an Angola businessman and car lot owner, had a proposal to rezone the Lake George Marina property to general business struck down by the Steuben County Board of Commissioners in June, following a negative recommendation by the plan commission. Smith will now bring the marina proposal back before the Plan Commission as a request for a special exception, which is how the business had operated before it went out of business and the property became run down, requiring a Plan Commission/ building code cleanup. Smith had bought the former Lake George Marina property contingent on getting it rezoned at auction last year. For decades the property has been used as a marina. There were indications last month that the Plan Commission would act favorably on a request for a special exception to operate a marina at the property. Smith, who owns a car lot in SEE MARINA, PAGE A7
Man pleads guilty in Cleveland kidnap case CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of imprisoning three women in his home and subjecting them to rapes and beatings for a decade avoided the death penalty Friday, pleading guilty in a deal that will keep him in prison for life. “The captor is now the captive,” Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said of 53-year-old Ariel Castro. The women’s escape from Castro’s home two months ago at first brought joy to the city where they had become household names after years of searches, publicity and vigils, then despair at revelations of their treatment. Their rescue brought shocking allegations that Castro fathered a child with one of the women, induced five miscarriages in another by starving and punching her, and assaulted one with a vacuum cord around her neck when she tried to escape. Castro told the judge he was addicted to pornography, had a “sexual problem” and had been a sexual abuse victim himself long ago. He pleaded guilty to 937 counts in the deal, which sends him to prison for life without parole, plus 1,000 years. Prosecutors agreed to take a possible death penalty charge off the table. Castro, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and a bushy beard, was far more engaged than in previous court appearances when he mostly kept his head down and eyes closed. He answered the judge’s questions in a clear voice, saying he understood that he would never be released from prison and adding that he expected he SEE KIDNAP, PAGE A7