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GOOD MORNING PH classified staff members get raise BRUSHY PRAIRIE — The Prairie Heights Schools Board of Education approved a 2 percent raise for 86 classified staff members at Monday’s meeting. The classified staff members include such employees as bus drivers and mechanics in the corporation. In an unrelated matter, the corporation held a public hearing on the proposed 2014 budget that has a general fund of around $10 million — which is slightly less than in 2013. It also includes about $2 million for capital projects. No comment was received during the public hearing.
Fremont to hold blood drive Tuesday FREMONT — The Fremont High School Student Council will hold an American Red Cross Blood Drive Tuesday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the high school gym, 701 W. Toledo St. Student blood donors must be age 16 and up and have parental permission. The goal of the drive is 50 pints. For more details, visit the American Red Cross at redcrossblood.org.
Company plans to hire 23 workers COLUMBIA CITY — Breyden Products Inc. will invest $2.2 million to buy and equip a 35,000-square-foot facility in Whitley County’s Park 30 Business Center, and hire up to 23 workers by 2016, said an announcement from the Indiana Economic Development Corp. Breyden, which makes lacing tapes, twines and yarns for electrical-system wire harnesses, will keep its existing Columbia City headquarters at 71 E. Radio Road. The company relocated to Columbia City from California in 2004 and presently has about 40 employees.
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KENDALLVILLE — At Thursday’s sixth annual Northeast Indiana Regional Economic Development Forum, site selector Paige Webster said he was amazed at what the region has to offer industry looking to expand or relocate. “I’ve never been to this part of Indiana, but after only 14 hours here, I’ve been completely amazed what’s going on in this
area,” he told about 140 business and industry representatives and elected officials from northeast Indiana. When Webster learned that Trine University in Angola produces a lot of engineering graduates each year, he again was startled, saying, “That’s something this region should market. I’ve got a client who’s looking for 500 engineers.” The Noble County Economic Development Corp. sponsored the
forum at Cobblestone Golf Course and Event Center west of Kendallville. Webster, owner of Webster Global Site Selectors in Phoenix, Ariz., spoke about what site selectors look for when recommending sites for clients. Webster is one of 275 site selectors in the nation who assist with about 75 percent of new and expanding industrial projects in the country. Site selectors are hired by companies to research and
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GOP tries to present unified front with budget fray looming
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of three articles on Teacher Creativity Fellowship grants used by Steuben County teachers over the summer. BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Pottery of all shapes and sizes, colors and textures were created in the backyard of an Angola Middle School art teacher this summer. Pat Schlup, who has taught art at the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County for the past 20 years, received a Teacher Creativity Fellowship from the Lilly Endowment to experiment with clay. This year, the endowment gave 100 $10,000 grants to teachers, principals and assistant principals. Their projects are meant to be personally renewing and intellectually revitalizing. Schlup is one of three teachers in Steuben County who received the award. “I would really like to pay it forward,” Schlup said. Forty of the pots she created will be given away in a drawing to benefit the Boomerang Backpack
recommend sites that fit various criteria. They must be knowledgeable about the communities they’re considering, the properties available in each community and the availability of labor. Company and site selectors evaluate communities for costs of labor, real estate, utilities and transportation and quality of life. Companies moved their operations to Asia and Mexico because of cheap labor, but labor
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Pat Schlup prepares a barrel fire as one of three major firings she did over the summer on a pottery project that has continued into the present thanks to materials purchased with Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship funds.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans struggled to tamp down a family feud Thursday as they approached a politically charged showdown with the White House that combines the threat of a government shutdown, a possible first-ever federal default and the GOP’s bid to repeal the nation’s three-year-old health care law. One day after conceding that the Democratic-controlled Senate probably would prevail on the last part, Sen. Ted Cruz still vowed to do “everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare.” That includes a possible filibuster of legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown, added the Texas Republican. That was a step further than Sen. Mike Lee of Utah — Cruz’s partner in a summertime run of “Defund Obamacare” television commercials — was willing to go. President Barack Obama’s health care law “is not worth causing a shutdown over,” he said. The two men spoke at a news conference with several House Republicans where lawmakers stressed they were unified and thanked Speaker John Boehner for agreeing to tie the anti-shutdown and anti-Obamacare provisions into one bill. That bill is on track for House SEE GOP, PAGE A10
Fremont students learn through Waterworks BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcnews.com
FREMONT — Fremont Middle School seventh-graders were scientists Thursday at the traditional Waterworks learningacross-the-curriculum day. Ken Wertz, science teacher, has spearheaded the grant-funded Waterworks, which has been held more than 10 years. “The reason we get grants is with 101 lakes we’re a floating county,” he said. “It’s important to teach our next generation.” Wertz had his students look at pond samples. Because of the weather, students weren’t able to go outside to use their plankton nets they made. Wertz said they will do that another day. Instead, he had students get a drop of gathered pond water and put it on a slide to view microorganisms under a microscope. “You have all kinds of guys floating around,” Wertz told his students. “It’s an invisible world and they’re everywhere.”
At one table, Mykala Hoyer, Payton Boekhout, Taylor Dove and Taylor Morton looked at their micro-organisms and drew what they saw. “We’re finding little strings,” Dove said after not seeing anything on the slide at first. “It’s like a science lab. We can learn how to work better with real people,” Hoyer said, as she found something on her slide that looked like a stick. At a nearby table of boys, they excitedly called Wertz over to show him a bug they found on their slide. “I love doing this. We get to observe and see what we can’t in real life,” said Justyn Morrison. Members of the Clear Lake Water Quality Committee, part of the Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy, taught students about water including Don Luepke, Annie Skinner and Mary Jo Fitzenrider. The committee tests the water entering Clear Lake from Steuben County tiles and other SEE WATERWORKS, PAGE A10
JENNIFER DECKER
Fremont Middle School seventh-graders look at micro- and macro-organisms from pond water samples at the annual Waterworks day. Students evaluating their findings are, from left, Mykala Hoyer, Payton Boekhout, Taylor Dove and Taylor Morton.
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