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GOOD MORNING Scientist to discuss Shroud of Turin in Angola talks
Contractor error zaps Mediacom’s Indiana phone, ’Net services
BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com
BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — J. Dee German, who performed comprehensive testing of the Shroud of Turin, will speak in Angola Thursday, Aug. 15. German, a member of the U.S. scientific team that traveled to Turin, Italy, in 1978, will speak in the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church Parish Hall, 700 W. Maumee St., at 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., a news release said. The Shroud of Turin is an ancient church relic kept in Turin and is believed by many to be the cloth used by Joseph of Arimathea to wrap Christ’s body after the crucifixion. In 1978, select U.S. scientists from the Air Force, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, NASA and several private companies spent five days and nights performing dozens of scientific tests on the Shroud in Turin. The purpose was to determine the nature and composition of the Shroud image and seek answers to the many unresolved and controversial theories. In his 45-minute presentation, German will explore the nature of the image and cloth, Biblical correlations with its features, its history, 1978 tests and conclusions and current research. He will follow with a discussion of what this work has meant to him. The Shroud is 14 1/2 feet long and 3 1/2 feet wide bearing the ventral and dorsal image of a crucified man. Since 1578, the Shroud has been kept in Turin and is owned by the Catholic Church. German comes to Angola at the invitation of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church and parishioners, Joe and Barb Caruso and Liatt Peters, who have heard German speak on numerous occasions. The presentations are free and open to the public.
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The Groggs’ 1979 Buick Electra Light is parked on a tour of Route 66. The couple
received an elite award for this car at the Buick Club of America meet last month.
Groggs earn top honors for their original Buick Electra BY EMILY ERNSBERGER news@kpcnews.net
ANGOLA — Dale “Bud” and Linda Grogg of Angola received a top honor at the Buick Club of America national meet in South Bend. At the national meet, which took place July 17-20, Buick owners from across the nation gathered to display their cars and were judged in specified categories. The Groggs entered their 1979 Buick Electra Limited into the archival class, which meant cars must be still in the original condition after being manufactured. Exempt from being changed are tires, belts and other parts of the car that would pose as safety issues if they were not fixed. Winners were placed under bronze, silver and elite statuses. Because the Groggs’ Electra Limited had minimal changes, they received an elite. They will not know what parts of the car caused point deductions until they receive their score sheets on a later date. The car was originally owned by Linda’s parents, Wayne and Lelah Hoover of Pleasant Lake. One unique attribute of the car is the original citizens band radio that is still installed. “It’s really an honor,” said Bud about winning the elite award, “but we do it because we love the cars and meet fantastic people.” And while they take the car to many shows, they still believe the car is meant to be driven and not only shown. “It’s a driver, not a trophy queen,” said Bud. The Groggs have taken their two cars, the
EMILY ERNSBERGER
Linda and Bud Grogg stand with their award won at the Buick Club of America national meet last month. They received an elite for the original condition of their 1979 Buick Electra Limited.
Buick and a 1946 Oldsmobile, to many shows and on many trips, including tours on Route 66. Bud will participate in the Old Route 27 tour this month, driving the Buick to Cheboygan, Mich., and back to Angola. The Groggs have participated in the drive for many years. This year’s event begins locally at the
ANGOLA — Upward of 30,000 Mediacom Internet and phone service customers across northern Indiana lost service for 10 hours due to a fiber optics cable cut Tuesday. “When a fiber cut like this occurs it has a very negative effect on our customers and we are very sorry for that,” said Mediacom spokeswoman Phyllis Peters. The cut occurred at about 12:37 p.m. EDT near the Illinois-Indiana border when a private contractor not working for Mediacom was doing soil boring work and cut a major Mediacom fiber cable in multiple places, Peters said. Service was restored at 10:40 p.m. Between 20,000 and 30,000 customers lost phone and Internet service. Complicating the issue was the fact that boring rods used by the contractor became stuck in the soil, Peters said. Once Mediacom crews determined the extent of the damage, they set about replacing the damaged fiber with 800 feet of new fiber. The repair was difficult because the contractor’s equipment was difficult to remove so repairs could be made. Typically a cut of this magnitude takes between 5-7 hours to repair, Peters said. Peters said the fiber that was cut was the main line that services all of northern Indiana. Mediacom television was interrupted for about 20 minutes, Peters said. Television service was rerouted through other lines. Mediacom has not determined whether customers will receive credits for time lost due to Tuesday’s outage. Typically that is reserved for outages caused by acts of God. Numerous businesses in northeast Indiana, particularly retail, had difficulty conducting transactions or day-to-day operations that relied on Mediacom Internet.
Grading ‘manipulation’ found in probe INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s top education official on Wednesday acknowledged “manipulation” in the way the state’s schools are graded, the latest fallout from an Associated Press report that found her predecessor worked behind the scenes to improve the score of a charter school founded by an influential Republican donor. Superintendent Glenda Ritz told state school board members that this year’s school ratings would be held up, at least temporarily, as a result of the independent review into the A-F grading system and left open the possibility some of last year’s grades could be changed. The system was established by Tony
SEE GROGGS, PAGE A6
SEE PROBE, PAGE A8
Picking up Youth helps keep lake shore clean BY EMILY ERNSBERGER news@kpcnews.net
LAKE JAMES — Some children hardly want to clean their rooms, let alone the environment. Jonathan Armstrong, 11, however, has taken on picking up trash along the shore of Lake James. “A lot of people keep littering and my mom picked up a lot of glass off the shore,” said Armstrong about previous summers, which inspired him to do the same on his own this summer. “I try to do it every day. Sometimes I wait a few days for (the trash) to come on the shore.” PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
SEE ARMSTRONG, PAGE A6
Topping Out
Friday, August 9, 2013 3:00 p.m.
Celebration
Please join us as we raise the final beam for the new Cameron Memorial Community Hospital. Refreshments will follow a brief ceremony.
For more information, please call 260.665.2141 ext. 5337.
Jonathan Armstrong shows some of the litter he’s removed from Lake James this summer. Armstrong is following in the footsteps, literally, of his mother, Michelle, who started cleaning up the Eli’s Point shoreline a few years ago.