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Angola professional earns health honor GOOD MORNING Chili cookoff set at Angola tonight ANGOLA — A dozen entrants have signed up for the first chili cookoff at Angola High School tonight. Groups from the high school and the community have registered, including brothers Tom and Dave Sanborn. “Each volunteered to cook for a group at the school, a great help to some of the smaller groups with few resources,” said AHS secretary Stacey Gilbert. The Sanborns have been involved in area barbecue contests and both claim to having the winning recipe, said Gilbert. A traveling trophy will be created for the winner. Angola Kiwanis have donated a large grill that will be set up on the sidewalk between Angola High School and Angola Middle School during the football game against Eastside Junior-Senior High School. First Federal Savings Bank of Angola provided seed money for what organizers hope will become an annual event.
ATV stolen from rural Angola garage ANGOLA — Sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday an all-terrain vehicle was stolen from a rural Angola barn, Steuben County Crime Stoppers reports. The ATV, a 2005 Kawasaki Bayou 250, is described as forest green in color with cracked plastic on both sides of the fuel tank. There are cargo racks on the front and rear of the four wheeler that show some rust and are bent in several places. Anyone with information about this crime can anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 668-STOP (7867) or 800-600-HALT (4258). Tips can also be left anonymously by email using the Crime Stoppers website at steubencountycrimestoppers.org or through the Crime Stoppers Facebook page.
Two shot dead at Elkhart store ELKHART (AP) — Elkhart police said two people were fatally shot at an Elkhart convenience store Thursday. Police said they were still working on identifying the victims of the shootings about 9:30 a.m. at Saleh’s Market.
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FORT WAYNE — An Angola health care professional is among the honorees in The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly’s 2013 class of Health Care Awards. The awards annually pay tribute to individuals, corporations and organizations for their contributions to improving health care in northeast Indiana. In the Medical Professional category, James Leslie, physical therapist with Indiana Physical Therapy, Angola, was honored. The health care champions will be honored at a special breakfast, Thursday, Sept. 12 beginning at 7:30 a.m. at The Landmark Centre, 6222 Ellison Road in Fort Wayne. The featured keynote speaker will be Brian
Bauer, interim CEO, Lutheran Health Net and CEO, Lutheran Hospital, who will address the changing face of health care. “We are so fortunate to have such high quality Leslie health care in northeast Indiana,” said Terry Ward, chief operating officer, KPC Media Group, publisher of The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly. “It is our privilege to recognize some of those in the health care industry every year who go above and beyond to ensure we all get the best care possible. That compassion and commitment is part of what makes this community great.”
The honorees this year include: • Community Achievement in Health Care, Tom Gutwein, emergency physician, Professional Emergency Physicians Inc., Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne; and James Cameron, neonatologist, Northern Indiana Neonatal Associates, Fort Wayne; • Advancements in Health Care, Parkview LiVe Community Health & Wellness Program, Parkview Health, Fort Wayne; • Physician, Mohammed Ghazali, pediatric cardiologist, Pediatric Cardiology Associates, P.C., Fort Wayne, and Greg Sassmannshausen, orthopedic surgeon, Fort Wayne Orthopedics; • Medical Professional, Leslie; and Gwendolyn A. Edmondson, dentist,
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Visitors to Trine exhibit allowed to handle rare literary works BY KATHRYN BASSETT kbassett@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — “It’s a once-in-alifetime opportunity,” said Trine University professor Tom Tierney as he unlocked display cases containing early and first-edition books in the university’s Wells Gallery. The public is invited not only to get up close to the texts and documents, but also to touch them and leaf through their pages. The works, which focus on human dignity and individual liberty, are on loan to Trine from The Remnant Trust through May 2014. A grand opening of the exhibit will take place Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Taylor Hall’s Wells Gallery. Other viewing hours are 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, 1-3 pm. Saturday, Sept. 21 and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Additional hours will be announced at a later date. The Remnant Trust, based in Winona Lake, was founded about 15 years ago by Brian Bex, an Indiana University graduate and longtime political commentator. A public educational foundation, it makes its growing collection available to colleges, universities and other organizations for use by students, faculty, scholars and the general public. It encourages those
Edmondson & Marks Dentistry, Fort Wayne; • Volunteer, Carolyn Riley, hospice volunteer, Visiting Nurse and Hospice, Fort Wayne, and Don and Dorothy Rhodes, senior care volunteers, Woodview Senior Care, Fort Wayne. The honorees will be featured in the Sept. 13-19 issue of The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly. Tickets for the breakfast event are $25 each or $175 for a table of eight. Tickets can be purchased online at fwbusiness.com under events or by calling 426-2640, ext. 313. The 2013 Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Health Care Awards are sponsored by Walgreens, PHP and Keyflow Creative.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed fellow world leaders on Thursday to support a U.S.-led strike on Syria, but he ran into opposition from Russia, China and even the European Union — which condemned the deadly recent chemical weapons attack in Bashar Assad’s country but declared it too soon for military action. “The use of chemical weapons in Syria is not only a tragedy but also a violation of international law that must be addressed,” Obama insisted during a meeting with KATHRYN BASSETT Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Trine University professor Tom Tierney holds a 1758 translation of Abe on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit, where he Epictetus that is part of a collection of rare texts and documents on loan to the university from The Remnant Trust. A grand opening mostly made his case behind the scenes. of the collection will take place Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in China’s G-20 delegation Taylor Hall’s Wells Gallery. spokesman, Qin Gang, was among those who countered, saying: “War exposed to the works to touch, feel will be nervous about touching the isn’t the fundamental way to solve works. However, Remnant Trust and read the originals, including problems in Syria.” first English translations. president Kris Bex shares the Obama’s public and private Tierney first saw works of the founder’s wish that the rare finds diplomatic wrangling partly was Remnant Trust five or six years be read, touched and enjoyed, not intended to ratchet up pressure on ago at Indiana University-Purdue simply locked away to be kept lawmakers back in Washington as University, Fort Wayne. safe. they debate authorizing military “I was amazed at the concept,” A Gutenberg Bible leaf from action. The Senate Foreign Tierney said. “They want students 1455 and a 1250 manuscript Bible Relations Committee passed a to see (the books) as significant leaf are among the rare pieces use-of-force resolution this week, on display at Trine. Other works material objects and to show them but the measure’s prospects in include a first edition of the King that there is inherent value in the full Senate and the House of James Bible from Shakespeare’s them.” Representatives are uncertain. Tierney believes some people SEE OBAMA, PAGE A8 SEE HANDS ON, PAGE A8
Fremont’s fire rating scores improvement BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
FREMONT — Based on an improved insurance rating for fire protection, coverage rates for properties in the Fremont Fire Department’s service area will likely decrease or at least remain steady, officials said. Insurance Services Office Inc., Marlton, N.J., recently gave the Fremont Fire Department an ISO-5 rating, which was an improvement from the previous ISO-6 mark. “The fire department’s rating went from a ISO-6 to an ISO-5 which is an improvement and should keep insurance rates steady or reduce them hopefully,” said Fremont Town Manager Chris Snyder. Fremont received a Public Protection Classification Summary Report from the ISO group for fire protection. “The cover letter from the ISO folks states, ‘communities whose PPC improves may get lower
insurance rates.’ Since the rating is important in the underwriting process, it very well could lower insurance rates or prices or at the very least keep them from rising,” Snyder said. If that happens, it could naturally save property owners money. ISO collects and evaluates information from communities on their structure fire suppression capabilities. By using a rating schedule, a public protection classification number is assigned to the community. That classification is based on needed fire flow, receiving and handling fire alarms, fire department and water supply. Classes 1-8 present a fire suppression system including a creditable dispatch center, fire department and water supply. ISO is an independent company serving insurance companies and communities in providing information about risk that help determine insurance rates.
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A little extra glow A sunflower collects some extra glow thanks to a setting sun Sunday at Snow Lake.