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Historic Powers Church holding final summer service tonight
Weather Warm weather continues through Labor Day. Today, a high of 87. Low 64. Page B7 Angola, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Clue No. 4 presented for United Way regatta contest ANGOLA — The fourth clue in the Steuben County United Way Cardboard Boat Regatta hidden regatta contest is available. The clue is: “Don’t leave me high and dry my friend … I am forever falling in love … down by the boon docks!” Boats are scattered around the county. People must identify all seven boats to win. It is a lead up to the Cardboard Boat Regatta, which is Sept. 7 at the Potawatomi Inn beach at Pokagon State Park. To enter the competition, entrants must list in order the number, name and exact location of each boat. 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.
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A good substitute is hard to find Local school districts search in a variety of ways BY MATT GETTS mattg@kpcmedia.com
There is more than one way to skin the proverbial cat when it comes to finding substitute teachers at area school corporations. In northeastern Indiana, East Noble, DeKalb Central and West Noble school corporations
all make use of a computerized system offered by the Region 8 Educational Service Center of Northeast Indiana, a nonprofit cooperative serving 33 school corporations. School districts such as MSD of Steuben County, Westview, Lakeland and Hamilton have staff members who find substitutes when needed. For larger school corporations with comparatively large staffs, finding substitutes can be time-consuming. Avilla Elementary School Principal Dave Pine remembers what it was like in the old days, before Region 8.
“We just had a paper list, and we’d start from the top and work our way down,” Pine said. Region 8’s SubService system takes care of that hassle. If a teacher knows she is going to be sick the night before school, for example, she calls or uses a computer to log in to the SubService system. The system takes the information and finds a match with substitutes in its database. If a math teacher calls into the system, “within five minutes it would call the subs who are willing to do math,” said Connie Rich, the executive assistant at
Bailey performing at Salem Center SALEM CENTER — Michael Bailey will be singing at the Salem Center Presbyterian Church, 3935 S. C.R. 800W, today at 10:15 a.m. Bailey will open worship and provide music throughout the service.
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Syria warns U.S. to stay out
Remains of Marine killed in WWII return to Indiana NASHVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The remains of an Indiana Marine killed during World War II have returned home nearly 70 years after he died during the U.S. invasion of a group of Japanese-held islands. Marine Pfc. Manley Forrest Winkley was 20 when he was shot and killed in combat on Nov. 20, 1943, during the first day of the invasion of the Tarawa Island Atoll in the Pacific Ocean’s Gilbert Islands. The Indianapolis man’s remains were finally returned to Indiana on Friday.
Region 8 who coordinates the program. “We have found the Region 8 substitute service to be extremely beneficial in securing substitute teachers,” DeKalb Central Superintendent Sherry Grate said. “Region 8 does their best to match substitute teachers with positions where subs may have a teaching license or a certain area of expertise.” “The system works exceptionally well for us and provides a much broader base for subs,” East Noble Superintendent Ann Linson said. “Using the sub system allows
Chinese teachers to relax their instruction methods. In Chinese schools, Rayle said, “They pretty much stay in their seats and rows all the time. We try and get them to break it up and do some interactive learning.” Rayle gets things moving at the camp by leading songs to start each day. “The vast majority of the students really enjoy doing the music part,” he said. His playlist consists mostly of simple children’s songs, although this year he introduced the pop hit “YMCA,” complete with choreography. In the afternoons, Rayle engages the students in relays and
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze. The accusations by the regime of President Bashar Assad against opposition forces came as U.S. MOVES an international FORCES closer aid group said to Syria, it has tallied SEE PAGE A10 355 deaths from a purported chemical weapons attack on Wednesday in a suburb of the Syrian capital known as Ghouta. Syria is intertwined in alliances with Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militant groups. The country also borders its longtime foe and U.S. ally Israel, making the fallout from military action unpredictable. Violence in Syria has already spilled over the past year to Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Battle-hardened Hezbollah fighters have joined the combat alongside Assad’s forces. Meanwhile, U.S. naval units are moving closer to Syria as President
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Terry Rayle of Auburn leads an activity this summer at a camp for Chinese students improving their English skills. An arm of
Huntington University operates the camp in Doumen, in southern China.
Exporting English and fun Local man livens up Chinese summer camp BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — More than 130 Chinese students can sing “YMCA” with all the dance moves, thanks to Terry Rayle, a retired director for the YMCA of DeKalb County. But that’s not all Rayle accomplished during his three-week stay in China this summer. Rayle puts the fun in a camp
helping Chinese students learn English, sponsored by an arm of Huntington University. Rayle, of Auburn, has worked every year since 2009 at the summer camp in Doumen, a short distance west of Hong Kong. Students from elementary age to high school attend the camp voluntarily in hopes of improving their English-language skills. Every teacher of English in the Doumen region has gone through the camp at least once. Chinese education officials invite a team of 15-25 Hoosiers to make the annual trips to run the camp. This year’s journey ran from July 11 to Aug. 4. Rayle said the camp’s education specialists encourage
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Marching for King’s dream
Hobby Lobby store coming to Angola
‘Task is not done’
BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. The event was an homage to a generation of activists that endured fire hoses, police abuse and indignities to demand equality for African Americans. But there was a strong theme of unfinished business. “This is not the time for nostalgic commemoration,” said Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of SEE KING, PAGE A10
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Crowds rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Saturday.
ANGOLA — A leading retailer in the arts and crafts industry is supposed to fill a large retail void at Country Fair Shopping Center in the 1800 block of North Wayne Street. Hobby Lobby, whose parent company Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Okla., is supposed to announce its plans on Monday, officials said. “They apparently signed the lease yesterday (Friday),” Angola SEE HOBBY LOBBY, PAGE A10