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GOOD MORNING Dinner helps with costs at health clinic ANGOLA — Brats, macaroni and cheese, salad and dessert are the fare for this month’s Third Saturday Supper. The supper is held at the Holy Family Episcopal Church, 909 S. Darling St., Angola, 5-7:30 p.m. The proceeds go to the church’s building fund for Faith Community Health Clinic, which cares for uninsured and underinsured people at poverty level in Steuben County. The clinic is operated by a rotating slate of local doctors, nurses and laypeople on Wednesday evenings.
Hospitals error free in 2012 FROM STAFF REPORTS
INDIANAPOLIS — Hospitals in the four northeastern counties of Indiana reported no errors in the Indiana Medical Errors Report for 2012. The Indiana State Department of Health released the annual report this week. It shows a total of 100 medical error incidents were reported in 2012, the same number as in 2011. The average over the past seven years stands at 99.4 errors. Four local hospitals performed 15,404 surgical procedures without errors, the report says. In 2012: • DeKalb Health in Auburn
reported 2,265 inpatient discharges, 19,833 outpatient visits and 4,721 procedures. • Parkview LaGrange Hospital reported 1,351 inpatient discharges, 11,427 outpatient visits and 2,266 procedures. • Parkview Noble Hospital reported 2,070 inpatient discharges, 24,644 outpatient visits and 3,769 procedures. • Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola reported 1,042 inpatient discharges, 17,036 outpatient visits and 4,648 procedures. In Fort Wayne, Lutheran Hospital and Orthopaedic at
Lutheran each reported one error. Luterhan reported one instance of retention of a foreign object in a patient after surgery. Orthopaedic of Lutheran reported one instance of surgery performed on the wrong body part. Statewide, the most reported incidents in 2012 were: • 30 stage three or four pressure ulcers acquired after admission to the hospital; • 19 incidents of a foreign object retained in a patient after surgery; • 15 surgeries performed on the wrong body part; and • 14 falls resulting in a death or serious disability.
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Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, have been the most reported incidents in six of the seven years the report has been compiled, including in 2012. As a result of the 2012 meningitis outbreak, which was linked to a compounding pharmacy, incidents of death or serious disability associated with contaminated drugs showed a significant increase in the Indiana report. The annual report is based on the National Quality Forum’s 28 Serious Adverse Events. A total of 289 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, abortion clinics and birthing centers were surveyed.
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Unemployed Hoosiers must have meetings to get benefits INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Unemployed Indiana residents risk losing their jobless benefits if they fail to show up for an in-person meeting required under a new rule taking effect next month. Department of Workforce Development will begin mailing notices in mid-October to unemployed Hoosiers who’ve received at least four weeks’ worth of jobless benefits. Those individuals will need to schedule an in-person meeting at a local WorkOne office, where they must show a photo ID and provide proof that they’ve been looking for work. Agency spokesman Joe Frank says the provision is aimed at cutting unemployment fraud and making sure people use the agency’s resources to speed their return to work. Unemployment recipients who repeatedly fail to show up for an in-person meeting will have their benefits cut off until they meet the provision.
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FILE PHOTO BY BRIAN GLICK
A rare Cessna 195 float plane is parked on the beach in front of Potawatomi Inn, Pokagon State Park, during the 2012 Seaplane Splash In.
The plane is believed to be one of three Cessna 195s mounted on floats in the U.S. This plane is owned by Troy McVey, Rising Sun.
Classic planes to make a splash BY MIKE MARTURELLO mmarturello@kpcmedia.com
LAKE JAMES — People often associate northeast Indiana with classic cars, but when the Indiana Seaplane Pilots Association 11th Annual Seaplane Splash In arrives at Pokagon State Park and the Potawatomi Inn on Sunday, there will be many classic aircraft. Many of the approximately 30 planes that will be in the lake and on shore of Lake James are classics. “The vast majority of them are from the ’40s to the ’60s,” said Randy Strebig, Lake James, who heads the Indiana Seaplane Pilots Association. His plane is one of the newer ones to participate, and it was built in 1998. Unlike a car, the engineering for a plane is much more fine-tuned, and aircraft have to go through rigorous annual inspections. The planes land and take off in the first basin of Lake James and park either on the beach or the lawn in front of Potawatomi Inn. Visitors can mingle about the planes and pilots. The weather is expected to be decent Sunday, which could help attendance. “Sometimes while it might be sunny here, it might not be a hundred miles from here,” Strebig said. The event takes place from 8 a.m. to about 4 p.m., though some pilots have been known to stay later in the day, depending on the length of their flights home. Some might only have to travel 50 or 60 miles, while others travel hundreds of miles. During the event, people are asked to be respectful of the aircraft, which will be landing and
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ANGOLA — Enrollment at the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County is down nine students from last year. That’s significantly less than the 72-student deficit expected from spring projections, but it will negatively affect funding, said Superintendent Brent Wilson. According to the formula for state funding, MSD will receive $7,139 less this school year due to the lowered enrollment; which amounts to 23 students when tabulated by average daily enrollment, which includes half-time kindergarten students. There are 3,005 students in the district. “We still have a lot of students and a lot of programs we’re going to keep in place,” said Wilson. “Inflation is just eating us up.” He said the district wants to maintain its quality services and give raises to its employees, but will have difficulties making ends meet. Wilson attributed a strong kindergarten class to the “good SEE MSD, PAGE A6
FILE PHOTO BY BRIAN GLICK
A Grumman Widgeon owned by Randy Wilhite, Jackson, Mich., is shown taking off during the 2012 Seaplane Splash In on Lake James in front of Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon State Park. This year’s event is on Sunday.
taking off throughout the day. “Safety is a paramount issue for our event,” Strebig said. “Volunteers will be doing crowd safety when aircraft are in motion. Please respect them and moving aircraft on the land and the water.” To accommodate the pilots, who will be using sight to land and take off in the first basin of Lake James, there will be a rectangular shape set up with large orange buoys that acts as a runway in the lake. “We ask boaters to reserve this area for the seaplane operations,” Strebig said. Pilots from around the Midwest will be flying in seaplanes, landing on Lake James and floating up onto the inn’s front lawn. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., park
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy visitors may view planes, visit Yard had been hearing voices with pilots and sign up for and was undergoing treatment free-ride drawings. in the weeks before the shooting “We will be doing random rampage, but was not stripped of drawings for rides,” Strebig said. his security clearance, officials said “This is subject to volunteer pilots’ Tuesday. energy and willingness to donate Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old their time and aviation gas.” information technology employee To participate as a pilot and for with a defense contractor, used a more information, visit seaplanepi- valid pass to get into the highly lots.org/inspa. secured installation Monday All activities take place on morning and started firing inside the beach and lawn area at the a building, the FBI said. He was inn. The event is free. Unless one killed in a gun battle with police. travels to the park by boat, the The motive for the mass standard, daily, park entrance fee shooting — the deadliest on a ($5 per in-state vehicle, $7 per military installation in the U.S. out-of-state vehicle) or annual since the attack at Fort Hood, park pass ($36 in-state, $46 Texas, in 2009 — was a mystery, out-of-state) is required. Both investigators said. are available at the front gate at U.S. law enforcement officials Pokagon. SEE SHOOTER, PAGE A6
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