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Angola football: Weather Partly cloudy today. High 87. Low 65. Chance of rain Thursday. Page A6
Team’s line will be key to Hornets’ season Page B2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013
Angola, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Free Saturday concert in the park ANGOLA — Spike & the Bulldogs will be playing in Commons Park this Saturday at 7 p.m. Bring your chairs and enjoy an evening out with family and friends. The Angola Parks & Recreation will be selling concessions to help raise funds for free concerts. For more details call the park office at 260-665-1588.
Old 27 Tour motors its way into Angola A crowd roams through the classic cars participating in the Angola stop of the Old 27 Tour Tuesday afternoon. The tour made its Angola stop at the Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County parking lot. There were 51 cars that participated in the Angola stop before heading north to Coldwater, Mich., for its first overnight stop of the tour. More photos from the event appear on Page A2. MIKE MARTURELLO
Fremont Music Department holding fundraiser Saturday
MSD ready for Day 1
FREMONT — The Fremont Schools Music Department will have a benefit car wash-a-thon Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Angola’s Tractor Supply Co., 1807 N. Wayne St. The department also will sell hotdogs. The car wash is free, but donations will be taken, said Betsy Fowler with the music department.
Sign violation help encouraged ANGOLA — Angola Councilman Gary Crum, who is also helping with sign ordinance enforcement, gave a reminder to residents. He said the city is asking residents not to place signs — especially for garage sales — on telephone poles or in the right-of-way. Not only are both safety hazards, he said, but also clutter up the landscape.
Fremont Cemetery Walk is Sept. 8 FREMONT — The Fremont Historical Society’s annual Cemetery Walk will be held Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. The rain date will be Sunday, Sept. 15. This year’s walk will be at the Teeters Cemetery on S.R. 120 east of Fremont and west of Clear Lake. This year’s walk will honor the late John Oberst, who was the cemetery’s sexton. The walk will also honor early pioneers and Civil War veterans. For more details, call 495-3262.
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An immature Merlin tests its wings in a conifer tree in Pokagon State Park. The bird is a raptor that apparently was born in Pokagon. It is
believed that this is the first time Merlins have nested in Indiana.
Staff ‘ready to go’ for today’s start BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — Former Ryan Park Elementary School Principal Mike Christ was hired Tuesday night to be the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County’s assistant superintendent. Christ announced his retirement this spring and will segue into district administration to replace outgoing assistant superintendent Niles Pfafman. Mike Wenzell, who recently retired as the district technology director, was hired as an assistant technology director BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com during Tuesday night’s meeting of the MSD school board. LAKE JAMES — It could be that 2013 will go The hirings were among a down in history as the year of the raptor at Pokagon slew of new teachers, coaches State Park. and staff put into place for the Just months after it was discovered that bald new school year, which starts this eagles were nesting in the park, quite possibly for the morning. Superintendent Brent first time in more than 100 years in Steuben County, Wilson said the staff is “ready to another raptor, one that’s even more rare, has been go” and principals reported good spotted at Pokagon. attendance at orientation meetings This time the bird is a Merlin, a pair of which this week. apparently has nested in Pokagon. A Merlin is a The board started the meeting small falcon found primarily in northern forests and with a budget workshop. Corporaprairies, the Cornell University Lab of Ornitholotion business manager Monte Van gy’s website says. Its breeding range is primarily Gessel said numbers are being in Canada, but it is known to pass through Steuben advertised high, but she hopes to County as it migrates south for the winter, said Fred see the final budget in the $9.3 Wooley, Pokagon’s interpretive naturalist. million tax levy range, which “To have these birds here at this time of year is equates to around 79 cents tax rate significant, as there are no known nesting records of per $100 assessed valuation. That Merlin in Indiana,” Wooley said. number has stayed pretty steady The birds were discovered by Montgomery, Mich., FRED ZILCH over the past several years. nature photographer Fred Zilch on Aug. 12. At first, A mature Merlin, believed to be a female, State support is now based on the avid birder thought he saw an American kestrel, perches in a spruce tree in Pokagon State Park. student counts. At this time, the but something didn’t seem right. Merlins have been delighting park visitors and May count of 2,842.5 students “Having my camera with me for just such an birders during what is believed to be their first would equate to a $18.6 million opportunity I clicked away. Through the view finder grant from the state. Another count SEE MERLIN, PAGE A6 nesting stop ever in Indiana. is taken in September, which can take the grant amount up or down depending on enrollment. At this time, Van Gessel said the district is about $132,000 less than last September’s count of 2,905 students. WASHINGTON (AP) — in the Arab world. Some cuts ensuing violence. To keep tabs on expected The Obama administration, are forthcoming, according The U.S. is in a bind. While student influx and outflow, the undertaking a major review to U.S. officials, speaking on it wants to continue aiding district has hired a company to of U.S. relations with Egypt, condition of anonymity because Egypt to maintain ties with do a demographic study that will edged closer to a decision they weren’t authorized to talk the military-run government look at enrollment project over Tuesday about curtailing some of publicly about the sensitive and assert its influence in the the next decade. It was done about America’s $1.5 billion in annual discussions. region, the Obama administra10 years ago, and Wilson said the aid after the Egyptian military’s Tensions in Egypt have tion and lawmakers do not want projections have been within 1 to crackdown on supporters of soared since the army ousted to appear to be condoning the ousted President Mohammed Morsi, who was the nation’s first bloody crackdown. To express its 2 percent of the actual enrollment. It was reported that 130 students Morsi. freely elected president. The displeasure, the U.S. suspended have transferred this school year Top administration officials July 3 coup followed days of the delivery of four F-16 fighter from other districts to attend MSD. met at the White House to protests by millions of Egyptians jets to Egypt and canceled The board also heard transporreview the possibility of cutting demanding that Morsi, who biennial U.S.-Egyptian military tation and after-school child military or economic aid to hails from the Islamist Muslim exercises planned for next care reports. Around 2,000 Egypt, a longtime U.S. ally Brotherhood, step down. Some month. SEE EGYPT, PAGE A6 SEE MSD, PAGE A6 and the most populous nation 1,000 people have been killed in
Merlins bring magic to Pokagon Falcon of the north may have nested in state park
U.S. weighs cutting aid to Egypt