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GOOD MORNING State to dredge Little Turkey Lake STROH — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will dredge Little Turkey Lake beginning next month, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division announced Saturday. Beginning sometime during the second week in September and continuing through the end of October, the public access boat launch site on the lake will be closed. Access to the lake will be inaccessible from the boat ramp due to the location of equipment on the lake. Anyone using Little Turkey Lake should watch for navigational hazards during the dredging operation. Danger buoys will mark piping and other equipment. There could be underwater dangers as a result of submerged piping. Work will continue throughout the duration of the project, including weekends. When completed, normal access to the lake from the boat launch will resume. Indiana’s Lake and River Enhancement program is funding the project.
Auburn car festival founder dies at 74 AUBURN — Jack Randinelli, a founding father of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, died unexpectedly Sunday morning on the festival’s final day. Friends said Randinelli suffered a heart attack at his home in Auburn at age 74. Thursday at the festival’s opening event, Randinelli had received an award for his 50th year of serving as a volunteer for the classic-car celebration. Saturday afternoon, he drove his 1932 Auburn automobile in the festival’s Parade of Classics, carrying the parade’s grand marshal, Wayne Carini, host of the “Chasing Classic Cars” television series. An obituary for Mr. Randinelli appears on page A4 today.
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PARIS (AP) — Syria’s president warned Monday that the Middle East is a “powder keg” CHAD KLINE and potential Western military strikes against his country risk Gary Ehinger stands in his studio at his rural Albion home. Behind him are some of the portraits he triggering a regional war. has taken. In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, Bashar Assad also was quoted as saying that Syria has challenged the U.S. and France to provide proof to support their allegations that Damascus has used chemical weapons, but that the leaders of both countries “have been incapable of doing that, including before their own peoples.” BY JAMES TEW Video at kpcnews.com jtew@kpcmedia.com President Barack Obama and Gary Ehinger his French counterpart, Francois ALBION — Photography is in shows off some Hollande, have accused Assad’s Gary Ehinger’s blood. of the photos NOBLE COUNTY regime of carrying out a deadly His father, Morris, won awards in his studio chemical attack against rebel-held for his photography in contests in video at suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21. sponsored by Fort Wayne-area kpcnews.com. The Syrian government denies the newspapers. His son, Aaron, works series of portraits to send in, and Scan the QR allegations, and blames opposition as a photographer in Chicago, I thought, ‘What the heck? I’ve code with your fighters. doing mostly portraits along with never done it before, and I’m going tablet or smartphone to see the Obama initially seemed poised some landscapes and cityscapes. to give it a try.’ “ interview. to launch military action, but And now Gary, who said he His father, who taught English abruptly announced on Saturday started getting into photography at Fairfield Junior High and Ben he would first ask Congress for only in the last two or three years, F. Guyer Middle School in Fort authorization. Hollande also has has won the fourth annual Perfect Wayne, had his own darkroom and son, Aaron, started getting into called for a forceful response Portrait contest run by Digital shot landscape photos during the it about five or six years ago — Photo magazine — the only contest summer on property the family Aaron eventually went to school at against Assad, but is awaiting a he ever has entered. owned in Michigan. the Chicago School of Photography decision from Washington first. If the U.S. and France decide to “I receive a subscription for “It was a hobby, but he took it — and Gary saw “some of the strike, Assad said “everyone will Digital Photo, and I saw that very seriously,” Gary said. amazing shots that he’s taken.” lose control of the situation.” they had the contest,” Gary said. However, Gary said he wasn’t “To see some of the things that “Chaos and extremism will “I thought I had a pretty good bitten by the shutter bug until his SEE EHINGER, PAGE A10 spread. The risk of a regional war exists,” he added. Asked whether France, which has been a staunch supporter of the opposition, has become an enemy of Syria, Assad said that whoever contributes “financially and militarily to terrorists is an enemy of the Syrian people.” “The French people are not our enemy, but the policy of their government is hostile to the Syrian people. Insofar as French fee would not be charged for for new information technology BY JENNIFER DECKER jdecker@kpcmedia.com government policy is hostile to the Freedom Academy to use the equipment within an economic Syrian people, this state will be its ANGOLA — The Angola premises for classroom purposes. revitalization area. enemy,” he said. Common Council will have Under the proposed lease, the Swick is proposing to add As the U.S. has been presenting the issues of a lease with city will not make any alterations $255,000 in broadcast radio its case to a wary public, the Freedom Academy Inc. and a tax within the premises, but will pay equipment and $45,000 for a abatement on its plate tonight. utility fees. In addition, Angola tower/antenna with installation by SEE RISKS, PAGE A10 Because of Labor Day, the will make all repairs to the the Feb. 28, 2014. meeting was switched to 7 p.m. property. Swick’s tax abatement today at City Hall, 210 N. Public In turn, Freedom Academy, paperwork said the company Square. the lease stated, will not abandon employs 32 employees, with six The city purchased the former the premises without written new jobs proposed with $180,000 Angola Lumber Co. property, 306 consent. in annual salaries, which equals W. Mill St., and wants approval Also on tonight’s agenda, $12 per hour. of a month-to-month lease with Swick Broadcasting LLC., 330 Swick scored 107 out of 265 Freedom Academy, Kendallville. Intertech Parkway, is requesting points in the city’s tax abatement The proposed lease says for a six-year tax abatement on scoring system, which means it is the city-owned structure a rental personal property improvements eligible for a six-year abatement.
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Saturday crash injures two on motorcycle ANGOLA — A motorcycle driver and his passenger were injured in a crash shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday. Information from the Steuben County Sheriff’s Department said a 2008 Toyata Avalon driven by David White, 58, Fort Wayne, pulled into the intersection of U.S. 20 and S.R. 327 in the path of Dan Fuller, 50, Pleasant Lake, who was driving a 2012 Harley-Davidson motorcycle with Rhonda Fuller, 48, Pleasant Lake, as his passenger. The Fullers were taken to Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, by Samaritan helicopter. Neither was wearing a helmet, police said. Alcohol was not a factor, and the crash remains under investigation, police said. No citations have been issued. Assisting at the scene were the Orland Police Department, Orland and Salem Center fire departments and Steuben County Emergency Medical Service.
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Orland Fire Rescue and Steuben County Emergency Medical Service provide emergency care to Dan and Rhonda Fuller after they struck a vehicle that pulled into their path on U.S. 20 at S.R. 327 Saturday afternoon. The two were flown to Parkview Regional Medical Center.
Stutzman ‘skeptical’ on Syria
HOWE — U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., issued a statement Saturday night in response to President Obama’s request for congressional authorization of using military force in Syria. “I am deeply skeptical of American military involvement in Syria,” Stutzman said. “After ignoring his own ‘red line’ in recent days, President Stutzman Obama again outlined no clear strategy or objective today should we take military action. “The American people deserve to have their voices heard regarding whether the United States takes military action in this volatile region, and I look forward to hearing the thoughts of Hoosiers as well as the analysis of our intelligence community, and the strategy of this administration in the coming days.”