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Weather Rain possible today. High 85. Low 60. Partly cloudy Friday. High 80. Page A7
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Angola, Indiana
GOOD MORNING
Revving up for ACD Festival Garage tour one of lead events BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
Steuben United Way sponsors hidden regatta contest ANGOLA — The Steuben County United Way is starting a “Where’s the Boat” contest promoting the 2013 Cardboard Regatta to be held on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Potawatomi Inn Beach at Pokagon State Park. Seven boats from last year’s race will be placed window-front at businesses throughout the county, United Way Executive Director Bobbi Grill said. Each day beginning today a new clue will be announced by The Herald Republican, WLKI and on the United Way’s website, unitedwaysteuben.org. The numbered clues will direct participants to the name of the boat and the business where it is located. “Use your imagination, it’s all there,” Grill said. To enter the competition, entrants must list in order the number, name and exact location of each boat. In the event of a tie, a drawing will take place. One first place winner will receive $100, a cardboard boat created by boat master Mike Wyss and a free entry into the competition on race day. One second place winner will receive a cardboard boat created by Wyss. Submissions must be received by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28 at the Steuben County United Way located at 317 S. Wayne St. Suite 3D, Angola. Email address is bobbi@unitedwaysteuben. org. Rules, registration forms and event details are also available at unitedwaysteube n.org.
Clue No. 1 “Ruthless sea robbers are roaming the state. Queens’ and farmers’ daughters should not angst.”
Youth for Christ auction slated Sept. 7 AUBURN — Youth for Christ is collecting items for its upcoming benefit auction scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 7, at 10 a.m. at the Youth for Christ Center, 1600 S. Grandstaff Drive, Auburn. Donations of new and slightly used items with a value of $25 or more are being accepted at the Grandstaff location. All donations will be sold Sept. 7, with the funds to be used toward fall Campus Life programs for junior high and high school students in the four-county area. For information, call 925-1058 or visit yfcweb.com.
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This 1969 Hemi ’Cuda dragster by Sox & Martin will be on display at the National Auto & Truck Museum in Auburn during Sunday’s annual Garage Cruise. The car has been appraised twice at $1 million or more.
AVILLA — As a big fan of the annual Garage Cruise, Don Monesmith is backing up his words. “I think this garage tour is just an incredibly great idea,” Monesmith said this week. Sunday, he’ll open his own garage as one of five stops on this year’s route. Others are in Kendallville, Auburn and Fort Wayne. The five stops will be open Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. as an early event of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival. Admission costs $10 for all stops or $5 for only one. Monesmith said he’s impressed by the work of other local vehicle restoration hobbyists. “To actually see them in the process is, to me, a lot of fun,”
Going Green In Steuben
he said. The current work in progress at Monesmith’s garage north of Avilla is a 1924 Meteor school bus with a wooden body, produced in Piqua, Ohio. “It’s the last one known to exist, and I’m the only one goofy enough to tackle it,” Monesmith said about the bus. When Monesmith found the Meteor last fall in Plymouth, it had just enough of its framework left to use as patterns for rebuilding it. Monesmith started work in March and has nearly completed the body with its curving wood surfaces. “It’s been a fun project,” he said. Monesmith enjoys woodworking, mechanical work and restoration. “This one kind of pulls it all together,” he said of the bus project. SEE GARAGE, PAGE A7
Scare starts school Ryan Park put on alert Day 1 FROM STAFF REPORTS
marketing. Delta Alliance is working with officials with the Steuben County Economic Development Corp. and town of Fremont to make the industrial development a reality. In addition to solar and wind, the facility will incorporate indoor gardens that will purify the air and recycle rain and facility water. It will utilize the electric grid, but use as little of it as possible, Singh said.
ANGOLA — A tense situation at Ryan Park Elementary School interrupted the start of school Wednesday morning. A high school student and his mother got into a “spat” in the Ryan Park parking lot, which resulting in police being called to the school. Classes were already in session and a kindergarten orientation had just been dismissed. “It was a mom and a kid having a spat in a parking lot,” said Stu Hamblen, Angola Police chief. “It was a juvenile, so we can’t release anything, but we are getting him some help.” The argument was overheard by a person in the parking lot and reported to to the school, said Ryan Park Principal Amy Heavin. She immediately contacted police and locked the school, per MSD policy. “It’s better to be safe,” said Heavin, who was in her first classroom day with MSD as Ryan Park’s principal. Students and teachers were
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SEE SCHOOL, PAGE A7
MIKE MARTURELLO
Satnam Singh, vice president of marketing with Delta Alliance International, stands outside of Solar Usage Now in Hamilton. Delta Alliance and
Solar are partnering on solar projects around the country.
Firms provide solar resources Company eyes energy efficient industrial park in Fremont BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
HAMILTON — A Toronto company with ties to a Hamilton firm is working to build an energy efficient industrial park in Fremont. Delta Alliance International is in the process of lining up tenants and possibly starting construction on a park that will incorporate cooperative ownership and use the latest in solar and wind technology. The facility will be
STEUBEN COUNTY ponders putting solar panels atop Steuben Community Center, SEE PAGE A7 built in Crossroads Industrial Park in Fremont. “The reason why people would want to be in this industrial park is because we greatly reduce their costs,” said Satnam Singh, Delta Alliance’s vice president of
Toxic gas suspected in latest attack in Syria BEIRUT (AP) — The images showed lifeless children — wrapped in simple white cloths, their pale faces unmarked by any wound — lined up shoulder to shoulder in a vivid demonstration of an attack Wednesday in which activists say the Syrian regime killed at least 130 people with toxic gas. The Syrian government adamantly denied using chemical weapons in an artillery barrage targeting suburbs east of Damascus, calling the allegations “absolutely baseless.” The U.S., Britain and France demanded that a team of U.N. experts already in the country be granted immediate access to investigate the claims. Videos and photographs showed row upon row of bodies wrapped in white shrouds lying on a tile floor, including more than a dozen children. There was little evidence of blood or conventional
injuries and most appeared to have suffocated. Survivors of the purported attack, some twitching uncontrollably, lay on gurneys with oxygen masks covering their faces. Activists and the opposition leadership gave widely varying death tolls, ranging from as low as 136 to as high as 1,300. But even the most conservative tally would make it the deadliest alleged chemical attack in Syria’s civil war. For months now, the rebels, along with the United States, Britain and France, have accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons in its campaign to try to snuff out the rebellion against President Bashar Assad that began in March 2011. The regime and its ally, Russia, have denied the allegations, pinning the blame on the rebels. SEE TOXIC, PAGE A7
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Kicking off the new school year Carlin Park Elementary School students and parents enjoy a picnic on Monday evening. The Angola elementary’s faculty and staff treated students and parents participating in a back-to-school night to the picnic as a kick off to the new school year, which started Wednesday in the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County.