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Making a house a home Salomon farm house needs antiques from 1910-1939

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Are there any pre-1939 antiques gathering dust in your attic?

Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation would love to showcase your treasures in the newly restored Salomon Farm homestead. The parks department is asking residents to help furnish the 1930s farm house by donating antiques from 1910-1939.

“We’re really relying on donations and finding the right pieces to purchase for this building,” said Kellie Adkins, manager of outdoor recreation at the parks department.

Work on the project

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Restoration of the farm house at Salomon Farm Park is nearly complete. Now, Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation is looking for antique items to furnish the home.

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started about two years ago and is being privately funded by local philanthropists. The renovations have included a new foundation, tearing down a garage, expanding the dining room, and adding an ADA-compliant wheelchair ramp.

“It’s something that wasn’t typical to a 1930s home, but we want to make sure everyone could come in and enjoy

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the project once it’s complete,” she said.

The project was originally estimated to cost $500,000, Adkins said, but the cost now totals almost $600,000. It’s not uncommon to encounter surprise expenses when restoring an old house.

Just how old is a little hard to nail down. The original house was built in 1871 after the Salomon family immigrated to the

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Bishop Dwenger High School student Megan Sheehan will play Ellie Blake in the spring musical, “Freaky Friday.”

Bishop Dwenger brings “Freaky Friday” to the stage

By Joshua Schipper For IN|Fort Wayne publications

Bishop Dwenger High School invites audiences to its spring musical, “Freaky Friday,” May 3, 4 and 5.

The 2018 musical, based on Mary Rodger’s 1972 novel and two Disney films, tells the story of a mother and her teenage daughter who swap bodies.

By spending a day in each other’s shoes,

the characters come to appreciate one another’s struggles, learn self-acceptance and realize the love and respect they share.

The musical will star students Faith Didier as the mother, Katherine, and Megan Sheehan as the daughter, Ellie.

Didier said her favorite part of performing is the connection she gets to create between her character and the audience.

“It feels really good when you know the audience is laughing, crying and engaging with the show and the story you are telling,” she said.

Sheehan said she is looking forward to bringing her character to life. “(Ellie) is so full of confidence, and she’s a little feisty. When she has to take on the role of her See MUSICAL, Page 10

area from Germany. At some point, there was a fire and the house burned down. Then, it was rebuilt on the same site.

In 1995, the Salomon family donated the property to the parks department. One of the stipulations of the donation was that it remain a working farm featuring demonstration plots utilizing See SALOMON, Page 11

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Dupont Valley News • April 2019

Free to fly

Carroll guard places second at state

Soarin’ Hawk announces new raptor rehab center

By Bridgett Hernandez bhernandez@kpcmedia.com

Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center will start construction on a new facility in Huntertown in March, the nonprofit announced Feb. 26 at Indiana Michigan Power Center.

The nonprofit, which is dedicated to conserving the local raptor population through education and rehabilitation, said a grant from the AEP Foundation will help fund a third of the project. I&M President and Chief Operations Officer Toby Thomas presented the $100,000 check on behalf of the foundation at the Feb. 26 announcement.

“This generous contribution from the AEP Foundation is the final piece of the financing puzzle that will allow us to begin building our long-awaited new ‘nest’ that will provide modern recovery enclosures, a new aviary and a long-needed operations building,” Harry Owen, president of Soarin’ Hawk, said in a prepared statement. “In addition to enhancing our recovery care for raptors, our new home will allow

us to greatly expand our educational programs, which already reach about 10,000 students annually.”

Soarin’ Hawk was established in 1996 to serve northeast Indiana’s injured or orphaned birds of prey.

I&M has a longstanding relationship with the nonprofit. For almost two decades, peregrine falcons have made their homes in a nest high atop the 26-story Indiana Michigan Power Center building. Soarin’ Hawk volunteers assist the Indiana Department of Natural Resources with banding falcon chicks several weeks after they hatch.

“I&M and Soarin’ Hawk have been partners in wildlife conservation for more than a quarter century. Soarin’ Hawk volunteers have provided veterinary services and other care for the multiple generations of peregrine falcons that have bred, hatched and fledged on the roof of Indiana Michigan Power Center,” Thomas said in a prepared statement. “In their new home, Soarin’ Hawk will be able to expand both its wildlife

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Mary Koher, volunteer for Soarin’ Hawk, handles a barred owl named Peabody.

conservation practices as well as the important education they provide.”

Right now, Soarin’ Hawk’s current operation, run by about 200 volunteers, is spread out across Allen County, according to Bob Walton, treasurer for the nonprofit. That includes a medical unit in Huntertown, a rehab center near Leo-Cedarville and volunteers’ homes, Walton said. The new facility will bring everything under one roof.

The nonprofit expects to start construction in March with a ground breaking ceremony at 17688 Lima Road in Huntertown. Site preparation will include restoring a portion of the acreage to prairie, pollinator and riparian habitats.

“We’re taking that old used up farmland and turning it back into what it’s intended to be – an ecosystem where it supports nature and wildlife,” Walton said.

The campus will feature a recovery enclosure and habitats designed to

provide a natural setting for raptors while minimizing maintenance.

An aviary will enable volunteers to exercise multiple birds in all weather conditions, which results in the return of birds-of-prey to their natural environment much quicker. Currently, volunteers must use a 100-yard tether to exercise birds.

However, new flight enclosures will allow the birds to move with more freedom.

“Here, they’ll be free to fly back and forth, back and forth. (They can) fly when they want to, not at our discretion,” Walton said.

The site will also house an operations building, which will provide climate-controlled space for triage and treatment; a preparation area for raptors’ food; and serve as a base for Soarin’ Hawk’s volunteers.

The project is expected to reach completion by this fall. For more information, visit www.soarinhawk.org.

Staff reports Carroll High School’s varsity winter guard was the runner-up during state finals at Center Grove High School. Carroll scored 87.59 points in the Class A finals to champion Zionsville’s 89.74.

Carroll’s varsity program is entitled “Operator.” The music is a cover of the Jim Croce song of the same name.

“What we wanted our show to portray was the feeling of being disconnected — whether that was physically by distance, emotionally or literally (being on a phone call and not being able to get through),” Director Ryan Long said. “The lyrics of the song also hint at wanting to be connected to a person but being unsure if that is a good idea or not, the stereotypical ‘What my heart and head are saying are two different things.’”

Carroll’s staff includes assistant director Brittany Krieg, dance choreographer Lauren Lawhead and dance tech Courtney Roop.

Geoff Goelz handles choreography and staging, and Chad Young also assists with staging.

Carroll’s junior varsity guard also placed second during Saturday’s Regional Class A finals, scoring 88.91 points, behind Franklin Central (91.57).

The JV program is entitled “Upon the Strings” and features “The Cello Song”

by Piano Guys. The group’s tarp is white with a black cello digitally printed on it, that spans from one corner to the other.

“This year has been extremely successful,” Long said. “The JV and varsity programs have both placed at the top of their classes at every contest.”

The Carroll varsity and JV guards placed first at their home invite in February.

The junior varsity also earned championship finishes at East Noble, Westfield and Zionsville. The varsity placed second at all three of those contests.

Both groups won their rounds at semi-state March 9.

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Dupont Valley News • April 2019

Carroll bands hosting musical 5K

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FORT WAYNE — After a successful first year, Carroll High School bands will bring back their newest fundraising event April 27. The Carroll Bands Move It for Music event is a fun twist on the standard 5K race, combining running and walking with musical entertainment.

Students in Carroll’s instrumental groups will perform along the 5K course as participants walk or run at their own pace.

“Last year, we had band students stationed about every half mile along the course, and it was really fun — especially having the drum line in the street,” Race Director Julie Hacker said. “We had a group of trumpets in one area, some mixed groups with trombones and flutes, and we even had the marimbas stationed at the registration area. People really enjoyed it.”

Last year’s event took place at Carroll High School, and nearby subdivisions made up the 5K

course. Carroll has partnered with the Parkview Family YMCA and Fort Wayne Trails this year to bring the event to the YMCA, 10001 Dawsons Creek Blvd., Fort Wayne, utilizing the Pufferbelly and Salomon Farm trails.

Anyone is welcome to participate in the event.

“This isn’t just for NACS families — we definitely like having community involvement,” Hacker said. “Our first year’s race was well attended. We had alumni, some local runners and families — kind of a mix. We had a lot of first-timers who were a little unsure about it, but a lot of them walked and I think they felt a sense of accomplishment after doing it. Walking three miles is a good distance, but you can get it done in less than an hour, and it feels good to get out there — especially on the beautiful trails at the (YMCA).”

Band students will perform before, during and after the race, and all proceeds will benefit Carroll’s many

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Carroll trumpeters perform along the 5K course during last year’s Carroll Bands Move It for Music event. The race will return for its second year April 27.

instrumental groups.

“The Carroll bands have a huge budget between the marching band and the three jazz bands now, the color guard and winter guards, indoor percussion — just a lot of different pockets within the

instrumental music department — so that money goes into things like the new semi-truck we bought last year and the new uniforms,” Hacker said.

The 5K will start and end at the YMCA, beginning at 8 a.m. The cost

is $25 per person now through April 1, but if you sign up with a friend before April, both of you will receive $5 off registration. The registration fee includes a race T-shirt and medals for age group winners.

Races will be chip timed with prizes for various age groups.

Strollers are welcome, but pets are not allowed.

Registration can be completed at runsignup.com/ move_it_for_music_5k.

Record Store Day celebration set for April 13 Staff reports The North Anthony Corridor Group invites the community to celebrate the 12th annual Record Store Day April 13 at Wooden Nickel Records, 3422 N. Anthony Blvd.

Record Store Day recognizes the unique culture surrounding independently owned record stores.

Wooden Nickel will host a full day of activities from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Bands will perform throughout the day, and guests can enjoy free cookies and coffee. Free prizes and goodie bags will also be given away, including several pairs of tickets to Clyde Theatre shows.

Attendees can purchase a “Vinyl Rocks” limited edition Record Store Day T-shirt and Wooden Nickel will donate $5 per shirt to the Community Harvest Food Bank.

Additionally, the North Anthony Corridor Group will sponsor a beer tent with Old Crown Coffee Roasters providing the beer from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The tent will also feature performances from bands. The Sol Kitchen food truck will be on site for guests to grab a bite.

Wooden Nickel will also host celebrations at its other two locations on North Clinton Street and West Jefferson Boulevard. The record stores will have several hundred vinyl releases coming out on the day of the event.

For more information, visit www.northanthonycorridor.org/ events or www. woodennickelrecords. com/.

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Patrons browse records at Wooden Nickel Records during Record Store Day in 2017. The celebration will return this year on April 13.

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Celebrating 150 years of shared tradition A visit to Park Edelweiss on a Thursday evening makes it immediately evident why the Fort Wayne Maennerchor/Damenchor has persisted for 150 years.

Men and women gather around a small bar, sharing rounds of beers, stories and laughs. Everyone knows everyone, and some have even known each other for half a century — in short, gemuetlichkeit.

“Friendship, camaraderie,” Klemens Zumbraegel, a German native who has been a member of the club since 1972, explained.

Much as now, the society was formed on Oct. 4, 1869 as a way for German immigrants to keep a connection with their homeland and each other, choir director and 40-year member Tom Remenschneider said.

“German singing societies were big in Germany at the same time. So they came here and they wanted to start their own societies where they could sing the songs they remembered from the homeland,” he said.

The club was originally called the Fort Wayne Saengerbund, according to a brochure from the organization. While seven other singing societies also arose, by 1899 they all joined under the name Concordia Gesangverein. “The last holdout,” Saxonia Gesangverein, joined the club in 1922, and in 1926 the name was again changed to the Fort Wayne Maennerchor, according to the brochure.

A few things have changed since those first German immigrants gathered more than a century ago.

The club used to meet at a hall on West Main Street near O’Sullivan’s until it purchased its current location at Park Edelweiss in

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Members of the Fort Wayne Maennerchor/Damenchor rehearse March 7. The choir is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.

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For many years, the choir was exclusive to men, though a women’s auxiliary was formed in 1938. Although the women’s group began singing in 1974, meetings and practices remained separate until 1997, when they became full members and the name of the group was changed again to Fort Wayne Maennerchor/ Damenchor, according to the brochure.

Until recently, meetings were still conducted in German, Remenschneider said, though that’s no longer the case.

More important however is what hasn’t changed.

All the Maennerchor/ Damenchor’s songs are still sung in German, with the exception of the national anthem and some Latin in its annual Christmastime concert.

“There’s pressure to kind of be popular or appeal to a popular level and change who we are, but I don’t believe we ought to do that.

I believe we need to be genuine and authentic and be who we are and have been and the people who appreciate that will want to be a part of it,” club president Chad Trouten said.

The club still participates in the North American Society of German Choral Singers, an organization it helped found the Indiana District in 1871. And it also still participates in Germanfest, which its members helped start in 1982.

Since the mid-1990s the club has had a relationship with sister choirs in Gera, Germany, traveling there three times and hosting singers from Gera as well.

The clubs will share music and perform together, keeping the relationship to the homeland alive and well.

And though there are fewer German nationals than there once were, about half of the club is still fluent, Remenschneider and Trouten said — and those members will “eagerly correct” new singers who don’t pronounce the words quite right, Remenschneider said with a smile.

“To me it means that roots are important. This is about heritage and who we are and where we came from. We still can celebrate that, I think that’s really important,” Remenschneider said.

The Maennerchor/ Damenchor is celebrating in a big way this year. In

June 2 — Heimatabend at Germanfest, doors open at 3:30 p.m., Headwaters Park June 5 — Opening Germanfest show, 8 p.m.

June 5-9 — Cultural tent from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Nov. 2 — Stiftungfest; concert at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and dancing with a live band at 8 p.m.; Park Edelweiss, 3355 Elmhurst Drive Nov. 16 — Christmas Mart, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Park Edelweiss, 3355 Elmhurst Drive Dec. 15 — Weihnachtskonzert, 4 p.m. St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 518 E. Dewald St.

club is one of the oldest continuous groups in Fort Wayne.

Trouten aims to keep it that way.

“I feel a responsibility to see to it that it gets passed to the next generation. I would hate to be know as the last president of a 150-year-old group,” he said.

“For me (participating in this club is) a way to have a good time but also connect with something bigger than I am. You’re a part of something that’s not only worldwide, because there are German choirs all over the place, but also through time,” Trouten added.

When asked what kept him coming back for more than 50 years, Magin simply summed up what’s kept the club going all along: gemuetlichkeit.

“I enjoy the fellowship,” he said. “It’s like my extended family…that’s what it means to me.”

For more information on the choir and its events, visit fortwaynemaennerchor.us.

Local food occupies center stage at forum

desires of consumers.

“We’re making a commitment to our (community supported agriculture) members and they’re making a commitment to us,” Zach Hawkins said.

There were also several “lightning talks,” where organizations and businesses spoke for three minutes or less about their plans with the hope of connecting with others interested in what they had to offer.

This year’s event also included a social hour, with local producers and restaurants sharing their goods with consumers, and a local food after party with demonstrations and food sampling.

The Local Food Network also announced that $5 from each ticket sold went to start a scholarship fund to help with various education expenses for those involved in the local food supply chain.

“It’s about the people, it’s about those relationships,” Katz told the audience.

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addition to its annual celebrations like Freulingfest, at Germanfest and at Christmastime, the club will also be performing a special community concert as part of its Stiftungfest celebration the first Saturday in November, Trouten said.

The event, which is usually open only to club members, will include a dinner for $12 and a free community concert and dance, trustee Patti Knox said. The event will also include German choirs from Indianapolis.

The club also hosted an essay contest for local high school German students about how knowledge of German heritage and culture have impacted the student, and will have a display at the History Center from October through December showcasing items from throughout its history, Knox said.

“Mr. Maennerchor” Franz Magin, who has been a member of the group since 1953, pointed out the

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FORT WAYNE — Growers, restaurateurs, local food advocates and more gathered to discuss successes and challenges at the fifth annual Local Food Forum March 18 at Purdue Fort Wayne.

The event originally began as an education local food summit out of the Allen County Purdue Extension, said Janet Katz, director of the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network, which began organizing the event last year.

“The goal of the event is to grow and celebrate our local food community,” Katz wrote in an email. “We want to encourage more farmers, producers, processors, distributors, marketers, chefs, brewers and of course eaters to participate in our local food economy.”

The Local Food Network was launched in 2017 by a

steering committee tasked by the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership “with implementing an ambitious action plan for strengthening local food network across Northeast Indiana,” Katz wrote.

The group works to promote the demand and support the supply of local food grown and consumed in northeast Indiana, Katz wrote.

Supply and demand was a big topic of conversation at the forum. While emphasizing that Indiana is the 10th largest food producer in the country, speakers also shared that 90 percent of the state’s food is imported.

Speakers and guests alike also shared that some of their major challenges involved distribution, processing and getting the right products to the right customers in the right amount of time.

During one panel discussion, CultivationLab owner and facilitator Stephanie Henry pointed out that many “farmers are doing more than farming” to include distribution, retail, composting and more.

“We have a cluster of businesses who are trying to do all these things themselves,” Henry said.

Philippe Carroll of Young Urban Homesteaders said this was often out of necessity, as there are currently few distributors interested in the small scale his organization works on.

He and others also emphasized the need for producers to work together, perhaps through an intermediary, so farmers and those who create food from those products can meet their needs as well.

The event included booths of local growers as well as food researchers, community

organizations and others looking to help bridge the gaps between producers and consumers.

Keynote speaker Debra Tropp, former deputy director of local food research and development for USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, spoke about the benefits of a more direct supply chain to both consumers and producers, as well as farmers could best market their products to meet the changing demands of consumers.

“There is a lot of untapped demand,” Tropp said.

“People want health and convenience. How do we provide it?”

Also speaking were Jeff and Zach Hawkins of Hawkins Family Farm near North Manchester, who also spoke about their challenges to meet their goals for their family farm as well as the

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Dupont Valley News • April 2019

Fishing for a great meal Staff reports The Friday fish fry is a regular happening in the Midwest among people of all religious backgrounds, and Fort Wayne is no exception. Here’s how to find one near you.

Dan’s Fish Fry Service Dan’s Fish Fry Service out of Huntington is so popular that some devoted fans follow Dan’s to events across the region.

The business that Dan

Fulton started 40 years ago with one full-time employee and two school buses has grown into a service that caters more than 300 events each year.

To find an event near you, visit //dansfishfryservice.com/events.

Fish fries in the City of Churches Friday fish fries are popular church fundraisers during the Lenten season, when many people abstain

from eating other animal protein during certain days.

To find a Catholic parish hosting an event near you, visit //todayscatholic.org/event/.

Fort Wayne Maennerchor/ Damenchor Fort Wayne Männerchor/Damenchor is a men’s and women’s choir dedicated to the preservation and promotion of their German heritage

as expressed in choral music. The group was established by German immigrants in Fort Wayne in 1869. Its clubhouse is Park Edelweiss Reception Hall, a beautifully renovated two-story barn located at 3355 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. The group hosts an all-youcan-eat fish fry on the second Friday of each month (except June, July and December).

For more information about Fort Wayne Männerchor/Damenchor, visit // www.fortwaynemaennerchor.us/.

Southwest Conservation Club Southwest Conservation Club was founded in 1938 to promote sportsmanship and the principles of broad conservation, according to the club’s website. Located on 37 acres at 5703 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne, the club hosts an all-you-can-eat fish fry on the first and third Friday of each month.

For more information, follow Southwest Conservation Club on Facebook.

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Local certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator at the Veg Academy and founder of Fort Wayne Veg Heather Dahman has released the Fort Wayne Vegan Dining Guide, an online guide of vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants.

It can be found at veganfortwayne.com.

The Fort Wayne Vegan Dining Guide lists almost 30 (and counting) restaurants that have several on-menu plant-based options. The interactive map included on the guide will help users find what options are closest to them.

Ivy Tech opens dinner series in April As part of its Classical Cuisine class, hospitality administration students at Ivy Tech Community Colleges Fort Wayne Campus, 3800 N. Anthony Blvd., Fort Wayne, will create and serve French cuisine to the public.

Students write the menu and cook the meals, which follow the principles and techniques of renowned French chef, Auguste Escoffier. There will be five dinners and featured regions this semester: April 4, Normandy; April 11, Pays de la Loire; April 18, Bourgogne-FrancheComté; April 25, AuvergneRhone-Alpes; and May 2, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

Dinners start at 6, 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. each date in Hospitality Room 1640.

Park in the north lot, which faces Coliseum Boulevard, and enter through Door 24.

Dinners are $20 a person, and wine is available for purchase for $5 per glass or $15 per bottle.

To make reservations,

which are required at least 24 hours before the dinner, call (260) 480-2002.

Visit IvyTech.edu/fortwayne/dinners to learn more.

American Freedom Distillery launches in Indiana American Freedom Distillery, the craft distillery of American-made, premium spirits, officially entered the Indiana market at Indianapolis’ Premier Bourbon Celebration in late February. Hosted by the Indiana Historical Society (IHS), the brand debuted its Horse Soldier Bourbon and auctioned off a bottle of its limited production Commander Select.

Horse Soldier Bourbon is now available in more than 200 locations throughout Indiana, including participating Big Red Liquors, Walmart and Payless Liquor store locations. It will also be available in Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, with more locations to come, according to a news release.

Botanical Conservatory seeks butterfly volunteers The Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne, needs volunteers for this year’s butterfly exhibit coming up in April. Two at a time, paid and volunteer staff provide customer service and exhibit oversight in the Botanical Conservatory’s temporary live butterfly exhibit during public hours.

Formal training is required and provided annually. USDA regulation requires that an exhibit containing insects from out of state be constantly staffed to ensure containment. The time commitment for this position involves a threehour mandatory training or appropriate refresher training annually, along with as many two- to three-hour shifts as mutually agreeable during the 10- to 12-week run of the exhibit from mid-April through early July.

Interested candidates should fill out a volunteer application, contact Liz Firestine at (260) 427-6446 and plan to attend one three-hour training session.

The last session is April 9, 1-4 p.m.

For full details on all events and programs happening at the Botanical Conservatory, go to botanicalconservatory.org.

Art This Way seeks muralists The Art This Way Alleyway Activation Project is building an outdoor art gallery in the alleys and pedestrian corridors in downtown Fort Wayne and has announced its 2019 artist call for entry.

The selected mural design will be installed on the west and north wall of 840 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. The mural design is expected to account for the scale and scope of the passage. This project is meant to make use of the west wall and the design should wrap around to the north wall. Extra consideration will be given to designs that best uses the space.

The design will be chosen through a blind jury process.

The selected artist will receive a stipend and will install the work this summer or fall. This is a worldwide artist call. Further eligibility information is available on the prospectus.

A complete artist application can be found at ArtThisWayFW.com. The artist application deadline is May 1.

Clyde announces 3 more shows The Clyde Theatre, 1818 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne, has announced three more shows with a range of diverse rock acts.

Re-creating the “Thunder From Down Under” throughout the Southwest, Midwest, Southern and Northeastern United States, Thunderstruck is constantly adding new cities and aims to please every crowd, playing the songs fans know and love from all eras of AC/DC. They will perform April 5. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show begins at 8 p.m.

Standing general admission tickets are $15 in advance, $18 the day of and $30 for a four-pack.

With steadfast determination, drive, and

dedication, HATEBREED cement themselves as one of heavy music’s strongest institutions. They will perform with Obituary, Madball, Prong and Skeletal Remains on May 7.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 6:30 p.m. All ages are welcome.

Tickets for standing general admission are $25 in advance, $30 the day of and $80 for a four-pack.

Los Angeles born guitarist Nita Strauss‘ skill, exuberant stage presence and love for all things guitar have earned her a stellar reputation and endorsements from many top companies.

She will perform May 25 in the Club Room.

Doors open at 10 p.m. and the show starts at 11 p.m.

All ages are welcome; tickets are $20.

Tickets for all shows can be purchased online at www.clydetheatre.com, over the phone at (800) 514-3849 or in person at the Clyde box office, all three Wooden Nickel Records locations, Neat Neat Neat Records and Sweetwater Sound.

Fort Wayne Food Tours’ 2019 season begins April 13 Fort Wayne’s first foodie tour, which also combines historic and architectural commentary, returns on April 13. The tours will run on weekends through September

Club, located at 3102 Ardmore Ave., Fort Wayne, was founded in 1927 by a group of soccer players who came to the community from Germany. The club promotes soccer football and German culture. In addition to serving as a regional hub for recreational and competitive soccer, the club hosts a number of social events and fundraisers throughout the year, including a monthly fish fry.

For more information about the Fort Wayne Sport Club, visit //www. fortwaynesportclub.com. or call 260-432-6011. at 3 p.m. on both days and are limited to a maximum of 12 persons. Saturday tours are open to the public and Friday tours are typically reserved for private groups.

The tours will be a combination of tapas-sized tastings at four locally owned downtown establishments: Don Hall’s Gas House, 305 E. Superior St.; The Hoppy Gnome, 203 E. Berry St.; Proximo, 898 S. Harrison St.; and DeBrand Fine Chocolates, 878 Harrison St. Guests should expect to have had a full meal by the end of tour. In addition, the tours, which last about three hours, will include six commentary stops that will highlight the history and architecture of Fort Wayne during the slow and easy 1.25-mile central core loop.

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Find a summer camp in Fort Wayne Staff reports Looking for a camp for the kids this year? Here are some offered around Fort Wayne, tailored to a variety of interests.

Allen County Parks Department Outdoor Adventure Camp Date: June 17-21 Location: Fox Island County Park, 7324 Yohne Road Age range: 6-12 Cost: $120 Survival Camp Date: June 24-28 Location: Fox Island County Park Age range: 6-12 Cost: $120 Canoe Camp I Date: July 8-12 Location: Metea County Park, 8401 Union Chapel Road Age range: 6-12 Cost: $120 Canoe Camp II Date: July 15-19 Location: Metea County Park Age range: 6-12 Cost: $120 More information: www. allencountyparks.org Science Central Location: Science Central, 1950 N. Clinton St. Full-day STEM Camps: Age range: 5-11 Cost: $30 per day/ Non-Member, $25 per day/Deluxe Member Summer Sampler Platter Date: June 10-14 Don’t Try this at Home!

Date: June 17-21; Aug. 5-9 Design and Destroy!

Date: June 24-28 Walk on the Wild Side Date: July 15-19 S.T.E.A.M. Machine Date: July 22-26 The Super, Stinky, Sorcerous and Saber-wielding!

Date: July 29-Aug. 2 Full Day, Week-long Tech Camps Cost: $150 per week/

Non-Member, $135 per week/Deluxe Member Engineering Tech (age 10-13) Date: June 24-28 Mission (age 8-13): Movie Maker Date: July 22-26 Half-Day, Week-long Tech Camps Cost: $125 per week/ Non-Members, $115 per week/Deluxe Members Junior LEGO Robotics (age 6-8) Date: June 10-14; July 15-19 (mornings) Introduction to LEGO Robotics (age 8-11) Date: June 10-14 (afternoons) Introduction to Gaming (age 6-8) Date: June 17-21 (mornings) Introduction to Gaming Date: June 17-21 (afternoons) Introduction to EV3 LEGO (age 8-11) Date: July 15-19 (afternoons) Half-Pint Technology Sampler! (for pre-kindergarten) Date: July 29-Aug. 2 (mornings) Introduction to EV3 LEGO (age 6-8) Date: July 29-Aug. 2 (afternoons) Junior Computer Programmer (age 8-13) Date: Aug. 5-9 Ms. Tech (girls age 8-13) Date: Aug. 5-9 (afternoons) More information: https:// sciencecentral.org/ programs/programs-onsite/stem-camps/summercamp.html YMCA Camp Potowatami Date: TBD Location: 7255 E. C.R. 700S, Wolcottville Age range: 6-17 Cost: Around $650 More information: http://bit. ly/2URlJvv

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Purdue University Fort Wayne Location: Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.?

Appleseed Writing Project Summer Camps: Cost: $100 ($90 for returning campers and siblings) Elementary Writing Camp for students entering grades 4, 5 or 6. June 10-21 Middle School Writing Camp for students entering grades 7,8 or 9.

June 10-21 High School Writing Camp for students entering grades 10, 11, or 12. June 10-13, 17-21 Fort Wayne Athletics Camp and Clinics: Costs, locations and dates vary. Visit the website for more information.

Niecee Nelson Basketball Camps — Elite Camp for girls grades 9th-12th Niecee Nelson Basketball Camps — Kids Fundamental Camp for girls grades 1st-8th, boys grades 1st-6th Jon Coffman Basketball Camps — High School Team Camps Jon Coffman Basketball Camps — Kids Camp for K-8th grade Jon Coffman Basketball Camps — Elite Camp for 9th-12th graders and JUCO Prospects Steve Florio Volleyball Camps for JV and varsity teams Purdue-Fort Wayne Women’s Soccer Camps: for high school teams or 9th-12th grade girls Other camps: Costs, locations and dates vary. Visit the website for more information.

Gene Marcus Piano Camp and Festival for Intermediate through advanced pianists in grades 7 through 12.

Institute of Reading Development for age 4 to adults.

Lighting Technology Intensive for high school and college students.

Purdue University Fort Wayne Math and Science Camp for age 11-13 Summer Choir Camp for 1st-6th graders Summer String Camp: All grades welcome; students need to have a minimum of two years of string

instruction.

Summer Wind Music Week: Beginning to advanced woodwind students age 12-18 More information: https:// www.pfw.edu/continuing-studies/community/ summer-camps University of Saint Francis Art in the Morning Date: TBD Location: Mimi and Ian Rolland Art and Visual Communication Center Age range: 1st-8th grade Cost: Visit website for more information Beauty Will Save the World Summer Theology Camp Date: July 6-11 Location: USF Student Center Age range: High school Cost: $99 More information: https:// www.sf.edu/about/ camps-and-community-programs/ Indiana Tech Build + Learn Middle School Summer Camp Date: June 18-22 Location: Zollner Engineering Center,Indiana Tech, 1600 E. Washington Blvd.

Age range: Middle school students Cost: $25 Indiana Tech Engineering Summer Camp Date: TBD Location: Indiana Tech campus Age range: High school Cost: $350-$400 More information: https:// www.indianatech.edu/ engineering-camp/ high-school/ Ivy Tech More information: https:// www.ivytech.edu/indianapolis/12794.html STARBASE Indiana Cost: Free STARBASE Advance Camp Date: June 17-21 Location: TBA Age range: Students entering 7th-9th grade STARBASE Traditional Camps Date: July 8-12; July 15-19 Locations: 5 different locations TBA Age range: Students entering 5th-7th grade

Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Franke Park Day Camp Date: June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26 Location: Franke Park, 3411 Sherman Blvd.

Age range: 4-18 Cost: $73-$93 City Safari Day Camp: Park Explorers — June 10-14 Geology Week — June 17-21 Recycle, Reduce and Reuse — June 24-28 Indiana through the Ages — July 8-12 Farm to Fork — July 15-19 Animals All Around — July 22-26 Location: base camp is located at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St. Age range: 1st-6th grade Cost: $120 per week Farmin’ Fun Day Camp Date: June 10-14; June 17-21; June 24-28; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26 Location: Salomon Farm Park, 817 W. Dupont Road Age range: 4-18 Cost: $57-$90 More information: http:// www.fortwayneparks.org/ programs/camps.html Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo Location: Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, 3411 Sherman Blvd.

Zoo Explorer Date: June 11 & 13; June 25 & 27; July 9 & 11; July 23 & 25 Age range: 3 with adult Cost: $43 Zoo Buddies Date: June 10, 12 & 14; June 24, 26 & 28; July 8, 10 & 12; July 22, 24 & 26 Age range: 4 with adult Cost: $59 Animal Alphabet Date: June 3-7; July 1-5 Age range: 4-5 Cost: $99 Number Safari Date: June 17-21; July 15-19 Age range: 4-5 Cost: $99 Who’s Who at the Zoo Date: June 3-7; June 24-28; July 15-19 Age range: 5-6 Cost: $159 Movers and Shakers Date: June 10-14; July 1-5 Age range: 5-6 Cost: $159 I Can Fly Date: June 17-21; July 8-12; July 22-26 Age range: 5-6 Cost: $159 Design a Zoo Date: June 17-21; July 1-5; July 15-19 Age range: 7-8 Cost: $159

World Traveler Date: June 3-7; June 24-28 Age range: 7-8 Cost: $159 Positively Predators Date: June 10-14; July 8-12; July 22-26 Age range: 7-8 Cost: $159 Zoo Detective Date: June 10-14; June 24-28; July 15-19 Age range: 9-10 Cost: $159 Survivor Date: June 17-21; July 1-5; July 22-26 Age range: 9-10 Cost: $159 Zoo Artists Date: June 3-7, July 1-5 Age range: 8-10 Cost: $169 Photo Safari Date: June 17-21; July 8-12 Age range: 11-12 Cost: $169 Animal Training 101 Date: June 3-7; July 15-19 Age range: 11-12 Cost: $169 Junior Zoo Keeper Date: June 10-14; June 24-28; July 8-12; July 22-26 Age range: 11-12 Cost: $189 More information: https://kidszoo.org/ programs-and-events/ summer-day-camps/ Camp Red Cedar Location: 3900 Hursh Road, Fort Wayne Adventure Camp Date: June 17-21; June 24-28; July 1-5; July 8-12; July 15-19; July 22-26; July 29-Aug. 2 Age range: For campers with disabilities ages 6-21 Cost: Cost for Private Pay Individuals, cost is based on level of assistance needed, Medicaid waiver accepted Quest Day Camp; Quest Retreat Camp Date: June 3-7; June 10-14; Aug. 5-9; Aug. 12-16 Age range: For campers with disabilities ages 18 and older Cost: Cost is based on level of assistance needed, Medicaid waiver accepted Discovery Kids Camp Date: June 24-28; July 1-5; July 22-26 Age range: For campers without disabilities ages 6-12 Cost: $175 per week Range Riders Camp Date: June 24-28; July 1-5; July 22-26 Age range: Horse camp for campers without disabilities ages 8-15 Cost: $285 per week Journey Camp Date: June 17-21 Age range: For campers on the autism spectrum age 6-12 Date: July 15-19 Age range: For campers on the autism spectrum age 13-18 Cost: Cost is based on level of assistance needed, Medicaid waiver accepted You can find a more complete list of summer camps on infortwayne.com

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Welcome spring with an Earth Day walk

This article is provided by Visit Fort Wayne. Visit Fort Wayne helps visitors discover the best things to do and provides Current Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne’s Community Calendar at CurrentFortWayne.com.

Staff Reports Little River Wetlands Project has a day of fun and learning planned for its 8th annual Earth Day celebration April 28 at Eagle Marsh, 6801 Engle Road (which will be closed).

Activities are planned from 1-5 p.m.

• Learning stations for all ages — displays, hands-on activities and wildlife you can see, touch and explore.

• Bid on a decorated rain barrel from talented local artists with all proceeds benefiting LRWP • Catch various speakers discuss topics such as; “Urban Turtles”

by Dr. Mark Jordan, biology professor at Purdue Fort Wayne, “Raptors” by Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rescue, and “Urban Wildlife”

by Jessica Merkling,

urban biologist with the INDNR. • Shop for native plants, local honey, pressed flower décor, artwork and fudge at the market.

• Talk to conservation organizations about their current projects and what you can do to help conserve the environment.

• Grab a snack from food trucks and vendor—Bravas, Pizza Bomba, Kona Ice, and Young Urban Homesteaders.

Parking is available directly on Engle Road, follow parking attendants and signage, with overflow parking in Midwest Office Park.

Sponsors include Indiana Michigan Power, General Motors, NIPSCO, Aqua Indiana and OmniSource.

When the weather is right, there are many opportunities for enjoying the changing seasons outdoors, from tasks as simple to gardening and yard work to more social activities around the city.

The Fort Wayne Parks Department will host Sunrise Saturday Hikes at the Lindenwood Nature Preserve April 20 from 8-9 and 10-11 a.m. There will also be a Spring Wildflower Walk May 11 and 18 from 10-11 a.m. both days.

For those who don’t want to or can’t get out to exercise, there are plenty of in-home indoor options, including yoga, tai chi and qigong “which is more of a Chinese type of practice where there’s

movement and also you work with your energy. It’s very powerful and I also think its very therapeutic,” Bartelheim said.

She’s also a fan of qoya, or free-flow mindfulness dance that she was introduced to via a program at the Fort Wayne Dance Collective.

Guided versions of all of these can be found on YouTube, she said. The Fort Wayne Dance Collective also offers drop-in dance classes in a variety of styles six days a week, according to its website.

Being mindful of what we’re doing can have an impact as well.

Bartelheim encourages people to participate in

creative activities they enjoy, such as painting, writing or poetry.

“That gets us out of our left brain and we’re not constantly thinking about certain worries we might have because our imagination and creative side is starting to play a bigger picture when we are working in those areas,” she said.

For those looking to learn a new skill or hone one they already have, the parks department again offers options ranging from backyard fruit production to blacksmithing to various cooking classes. More information can be found at fortwayneparks.org/.

As we welcome the signs of spring — blooming flowers, green grass and chirping birds — take part in Earth Day celebrations in an effort to appreciate the great outdoors in Fort Wayne April 22.

Get outdoors and take in all of the outdoor beauty of your hometown with these spring walks.

Lakeside Park and Rose Garden Enjoy a short leisurely stroll around the pond and take in the sights at Lakeside Park and Rose Garden.

Although the roses are not in full bloom yet, you can catch glimpses of early spring flowers.

Lindenwood Nature Preserve Lindenwood Nature Preserve offers hikers the chance to walk through trails in a wooded nature

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For a list of local trails and maps, visit fwtrails.org.

preserve. Welcome the spring and unwind as you hike along any of the four designated paths.

Discover one of the best spring time walks in Fort Wayne at VisitFortWayne.com/SpringWalk.

Rivergreenway by Kreager Park The Rivergreenway trail

by Kreager Park is another ideal location for a relaxing

springtime walk. This is a great place to visit if you want some exercise, as well as time to recharge in nature. The paved path takes you along the riverbank of the Maumee River.

Enjoy wooded trails as the path curves alongside the water.

Shoaff Park With the entire trail being 1.80 miles in length,

Spring into happiness

By Megan Knowles

mknowles@kpcmedia.com

The weather is warmer, the sun is shining more and people are in better spirits during the springtime — or at least it seems.

“Counseling people throughout the various seasons I notice more of a depressed affect when I’m seeing people in the winter time,” Dr. Lisa Bartelheim, licensed mental health therapist at Cameron Community Memorial Hospital, said.

The lack of sunshine during the wintertime has an effect on mood, she said.

“When we’re exposed

to less sunlight our body produces more melatonin, which is the hormone that makes you feel sleepy,” Bartelheim said. “(At the same time) your brain is producing lower levels of serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter that affects mood, appetite and sleep.”

Not only does the colder weather affect our hormones, it also affects our desires and abilities to take the best care of ourselves, she said.

“The lack of daylight, the cold, it makes people kind of just want to stay inside and not be active. This impacts

our appetite and so then we’re not maybe eating the best, so there’s a lot we might not be tending to because of the weather and that kind of keeps people feeling down,” Bartelheim said.

Fighting the urge to be inactive can be an important first step in boosting mood when its still dreary outside, Bartelheim said.

“It’s so vital to work on your body. I truly believe that mind, body and soul, it all integrates, and if we’re not tending to our body its hard to flourish in other areas,” she said.

Eagle Marsh celebration set for April 28

this walk can give you a moderate workout, as well as a chance to enjoy the sights.

Enjoy views of Shoaff Park’s golf course as you walk along the wide trails.

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Fox Island’s Ron Zartman retires after 33 years

By Lisa Esquivel Long llong@kpcmedia.com

Some people may enjoy Fox Island so much that it’s a second home for them. For park and education manager Ron Zartman, it really was home for more than 30 years.

After 33 years of working as an Allen County Parks naturalist, superintendent and, finally, as manager at Fox Island County Park, Zartman decided it was time to retire earlier this year.

Fox Island and Metea county parks volunteers celebrated his retirement at the annual volunteer appreciation dinner March 7 at Fox Island, 7324 Yohne Road.

Zartman, 62, who’s from Fort Wayne, said he felt lucky when he got the naturalist job in November 1985.

“Most people have to move to get a naturalist job,” said Zartman, who retired Jan. 25.

At that time, the parks offices and nature center space was where the Vera Dulin Wildlife Observation Building is today.

“The nature center was all pine trees,” he said.

The current nature center was opened in 1997.

Zartman started living at the 605-acre

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Ron Zartman, who retired as Fox Island park and education manager this year, started living at the 605-acre park in 1986.

park in 1986. The Fox Island Alliance ran the cross-country skiing rentals, which were very popular, before the county parks department took over the responsibility.

“There was less paid help and lots of volunteer hands,” Zartman said.

“Ron had a long career here at Allen County Parks, most of it before my time,” said Jeff Baxter, superintendent of Allen County Parks. “I knew him back when I worked at (Fort Wayne) Parks but more as a business associate.”

With so many years at the park, Zartman has seen numerous visitors.

“There are many many school kids he led hikes for,” Baxter said, “and just like a teacher who

has taught for many years he probably has led hikes for kids of kids he led hikes for when they were little. He was wonderful at leading kids on hikes and they all loved him from what I could see. They’d color him thank-you notes and pictures, and he’d keep them up for years.

Ron didn’t throw away a lot, never those.”

They didn’t always see eye to eye, but each worked to do what was best for the park.

“I was raised up as a Parkie (more maintenance sided),” Baxter said. “He was more the naturalist (or Reckie (recreation) as we called it at Fort Wayne Parks.”

Zartman had a couple of interesting run-ins with deer over the years at the park.

“I had a close encounter with triplets, three fawns,” he said.

The three wobbly babies were playing in a water puddle.

“Finally, one stood by me and nuzzled me,” he said. “I couldn’t help but reach down and pet it.”

The other encounter was a little less pleasant, and more reminiscent of “Alien.” Zartman said he had seen the body of a deer that had been hit on Yohne Road.

“I went back one day and all of a sudden out popped this bloody possum.”

He and his wife, Rita, got married at the park 10 years ago this year and are now living in a home that she had before their marriage.

It’s been an adjustment

LISA ESQUIVEL LONG

Retired Fox Island County Park Manager Ron Zartman talks with a volunteer March 7 at the annual volunteer appreciation dinner, which also recognized Zartman for his decades of work with Allen County’s parks.

for him to have neighbors again.

“We’ve looked at retiring for awhile and figured we could,” he said.

Looking back, he credits the help he got over the years.

“I’ve been helped and assisted by the alliance and volunteers,” he said.

Baxter expected to announce Zartman’s replacement soon. The home will likely be occupied by the park’s maintenance worker, he said.

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Dupont Valley News • April 2019

RiverDrums artists present “art-shops” to youth at Vincent Village

By Bridgett Hernandez bhernandez@kpcmedia.com

Performers from RiverDrums, a one-day event that celebrates Fort Wayne’s diversity through the performing arts, have channeled the spirit of that festival into a series of “art-shops” for children at Vincent Village.

For five weeks in February and March, 10 artists presented interactive programming to elementary school students in the community’s transitional housing program, which serves homeless families with children.

RiverDrums is presented

by Three Rivers Art Center for Kids (TRACK), whose mission is “to generate awareness of the causes and remedies of abuse in American society

by working with other organizations to create programs that combine artistic expression with social commentary.”

TRACK founder and community advocate Terry Doran said RiverDrums recently received a grant from the city of Fort Wayne to fund the event in 2019 and expand it to send artists into the community. He applied for the grant from the Cable Fund Advisory Board through RiverDrums sponsor Friends of the Third World.

The grant funds programming that can be broadcast on public-access TV, so the art workshops or “art-shops,” can be viewed by the public.

Doran, who has taken a special interest in the issue of homelessness

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Children pass around an imaginary egg during an improv exercise led by Jodi Depoy during her theatre workshop at Vincent Village.

in Fort Wayne, hosted a panel discussion titled “Homelessness in the City of Churches” in 2016.

He was excited to work with Vincent Village and proud that RiverDrums performers were sharing their time and talent with

the young people there.

“I hope they feel inspired by these people.

Not only by their talent, but by their character and compassion,” he said.

Each session included two interactive performances from

artists involved with RiverDrums.

Theatre artist Jodi Depoy presented an introduction to theatre art-shop Feb. 15. Her goal is for children to tap into theatre as a “training ground for real life.”

“It exercises different parts of your brain so that you can visualize ‘I’m going to walk into this meeting, and give this presentation and I’m going to nail it’ or … ‘I know this test is going to be hard, but I’ve got this,’” she said.

Teaching young people how to harness their ability to visualize success is rewarding, Depoy said.

She hopes to continue to offer theatre workshops at Vincent Village, eventually helping students write their own scripts and plays.

Additional participants in the artshops included video artist Paul Brandt; musical artist and social activist Diane Rogers; coloring book artist Frank Louis Allen; Ashley Benninghoff, who leads the Fort Wayne Dance Collective’s Pineapple Dance Project youth performance group; martial arts instructor Steve Basche; Ginger Karns, who plays Native American flute; musical artists Kelsicote; brother-and-sister teen hip hop duo The Chrome Cats; and musician Steve Vachon.

RiverDrums 2019 will take place June 15 at the Allen County Public Library. For more information, visit facebook.com/ threeriversartcenterforkids.

Residents’ wants and needs discussed at riverfront meeting

By Bridgett Hernandez bhernandez@kpcmedia.com

Fort Wayne residents were invited to learn about the planning progress for the next phases of riverfront development at North Side High School March 7.

The school, situated on the bank of the St. Joseph River, was a fitting venue for the night – the waterway is even mentioned in the school song, North Side senior and class president Trinity Mitchell noted in her welcoming remarks.

At the school that “stands majestic by the stream,” residents filled the lower level of the auditorium for a presentation by David Rubin Land Collective, the landscape architecture and urban design firm contracted to lead the next phases of planning for Riverfront Fort Wayne.

Other members of the riverfront implementation team include: Agency Landscape + Planning, Beyer Blinder Belle, HR & A, Bruce Mau Design, One Lucky Guitar, Christopher B. Burke Engineering (CBBEL), DLZ, CE Solutions, MSKTD & Associates, Wilson Consulting and Dharam Consulting.

Phase 1 construction of Promenade Park is nearing completion on the south and north banks of the

St. Marys River between Harrison Street and the Historic Wells Street Bridge. The city is planning a grand opening celebration for the nearly $20 million project June 21-23.

Now, the city is preparing for the next phases of riverfront development, a project that is expected to stretch along the St. Marys River from the Van Buren Street Bridge to the confluence of the three rivers.

After decades and millions of dollars invested in dikes and levees to prevent flooding events, the city is finally ready to stop fighting and start embracing its rivers, Mayor Tom Henry said in his opening remarks Thursday evening.

“Now we’re at a point where we can embrace our rivers and make them an asset in our community, a point of destination,” he said.

David Rubin, principal of David Rubin Land Collective, said the firm is about halfway through the master planning phase. In his presentation, he shared the public feedback gathered at the previous public input meeting Jan. 10.

Based on their participation in exercises designed to collect public input, residents identified

the city’s strengths (parks, trails, food, culture and diversity) and weaknesses (safety, public access and lack of diversity).

Public input collected also pointed to residents’ wants and needs, including a downtown grocery store. According to Rubin, a majority of respondents said that they leave downtown to shop.

“The economic reality suggests that a 20,000-30,000-squarefoot grocery and pharmacy should be downtown because it can be supported by your wishes and wants,” he said.

Public feedback also suggested a demand for more downtown restaurants, housing and office space for smaller tenants.

Rubin said the next step in the planning process is creating a schematic design for the second phase of riverfront development.

Construction could start as early as this fall.

The goal of the next phases of riverfront development is to clear the way for private development around the riverfront, he said. The key will be enhancing and connecting key areas around the rivers like the Historic Wells Street Corridor, the water filtration plant, the Broadway Corridor and

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David Rubin, principal of David Rubin Land Collective, the firm contracted to lead the next phases of planning for Riverfront Fort Wayne, addresses residents gathered for a public input meeting at North Side High School March 7.

the Arts Campus on East Main Street.

“We want communities to be connected with each other. We want development opportunities that foster that engagement and that connectivity,” he said.

After the presentation, attendees were invited to share their ideas and feedback on what approach they would like to see the city take for the next phases of

riverfront development.

Local resident Robert Chalfant shared his idea for a riverfront sky tram that would transport passengers from place to place along the riverfront.

“I wanted to come up with something fun and exciting for the whole family for the riverfront instead of just stores.

I wanted some sort of amusement that would

attract people,” he said.

Rubin also invited residents to share their ideas on social media by identifying Fort Wayne’s “Diamonds in the Rough” – places that have unmet potential. Residents can post their pictures on social media with the hashtag #DiamondsFW. For more information, visit www.riverfrontfw. org.

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A mad whirl Armour finds her voice in the local jazz scene

By Michele DeVinney For IN|Fort Wayne publications

Always involved in music, Trinell Armour turned to more practical matters as she moved into adulthood.

After graduating from Paul Harding High School and attending Purdue University, Armour began working full-time and raising her three young children.

She thought her musical days were behind her until one fateful August day in 2014 when she attended downtown Fort Wayne’s Taste of the Arts.

With two of her children involved with Fort Wayne Ballet, the single mom was there to support her kids but stuck around to hear some music.

“It was later in the evening, and there was a jazz quartet playing so we stayed to listen to the music,” Armour said.

That quartet was the Alicia Pyle Quartet, and among its members is Derek Reeves, a violist for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and a friend of Armour’s. The combo

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quickly earned some new fans.

“We were completely enamored,” she said. “I love music in general, and so do my kids. The looks on their faces were so great. They just came alive. APQ fuses jazz with classical pieces that my kids were familiar with. From that point on we started following

find my niche. And I’m basically an introvert so I was scared, but my nieces were there. What kind of example would I be if I didn’t do it? How can I tell them to pursue their dreams if I’m too afraid to follow mine?”

Armour took the stage and sang the classic “Autumn Leaves,” filling in with scatting when she

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them around town, seeing them play as much as we could.”

One evening she decided to catch a performance at Club Soda, a venue her kids were too young to enter. Instead Armour took her nieces, and that night changed Armour’s life forever.

“Derek told Alicia that they should have me sit in with them so she asked me. I was terrified, and I didn’t want to do it.

I missed having music in my life, but I’d tried gospel, hip hop, all kinds of music and could never

got lost in the moment and couldn’t remember the words. The scatting became a means of finding her voice, and her on stage persona, the Mad Scatter, became a way for her to more comfortably take the stage and sing to an audience.

“From there it just took off. I started working with Eric Clancy, who had taught Alicia. I sort of think of him as my jazz uncle, and Alicia is my jazz aunt. She really took me under her wing and has been such a mentor to me.”

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Along the way she started her own record label and has been releasing singles digitally. Her first, “Wrong Turn,” featured Pyle while her more recent release, “This Love,” features Clancy.

Another collaborator, bassist Michael Patterson, joins her for her upcoming single, “A Mother’s Love,” which will be available at the end of April. She joins Patterson’s sister, Joanna Patterson, at Wunderkammer for a performance on Sunday, May 26. She hopes to have summer dates to announce in the weeks

ahead. She also hopes to have a CD release later this year.

Armour’s music and schedule can be found at madscattermusic.com.

“When we get out more in the summer season, I’ll have a CD available because even though a lot of people only access music digitally, some of my fans still like a hard copy. I want to make my music accessible to everyone in whatever format they feel most comfortable with.”

Many will relate to Armour’s lyrics in “A Mother’s Love,” a song she dedicates to her young sons, ages 17 and

15, and her daughter, who turns 13 this year. She also juggles a job as a data analyst, runs a record label and finds any chance to perform. She credits Pyle with helping her find her way back to music and giving her the confidence to perform again.

“I don’t think I’ve had any other experience that’s been this comforting or gratifying. For an introvert like me to become the Mad Scatter and feel confident performing and writing music, it’s been incredible. I could not have accomplished it without Alicia helping me the way she has.”

reserved seating (guaranteed first five rows).

General admission is free for children age 4 and younger.

Bishop Dwenger will also offer specials on tickets each night. Friday is family night, and families of 10 or more pay $5 for general admission.

Saturday is date night,

and students can buy two tickets for the price of one. Date night will also feature a “Freaky Friday” photobooth and musical-themed treats at the concession stand. Sunday is grandparents day, and seniors will be offered half-price tickets.

Each Friday, a clue will be posted on social media

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Physicians share how opioid epidemic has impacted health care

By Bridgett Hernandez

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Health care professionals shared stories from the frontline of the opioid crisis during a recent panel discussion hosted by Visiting Nurse, a nonprofit that provides end-of-life and palliative care.

The Feb. 28 event, the second in Visiting Nurse’s “Everyone’s Epidemic” speaker series, featured three local physicians who discussed how the opioid epidemic and substance use disorder have impacted health care on a local and national level.

The panel included Allen County Health Commissioner Dr. Deborah McMahan; Dr. Matthew Runyan, a psychiatrist with Parkview Health; and Dr. Ann Moore, chief medical officer at Visiting Nurse.

Dealing with underlying issues For years, doctors commonly prescribed opioids to treat pain without understanding the dangerous complexities of the drug, McMahan said. The medical community now understands that some people have a genetic predisposition to becoming addicted and others, who suffer from anxiety and depression, use the painkiller to alleviate their mental anguish.

Runyan said he sees a lot of overlap in mental health and substance use disorder, including patients with a history of trauma. Post-traumatic stress disorder is not

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farming methods popular in the 1930s.

“We landed on 1930s because that was a really interesting time for American farmers because of the Great Depression as well as shifting from using horses to do the work to finally getting into tractors with these two cylinders that start showing up. It’s a nice eclectic mix to be able to show that transition of American agriculture,” Adkins said.

The 170-acre park features barns and farming equipment from the era. The homestead will provide the last piece to give visitors a full picture of a Hoosier family’s life on the farm in the 1930s, she said.

The restoration has only included the main level of the house, which includes a living room, parlor, dining room, kitchen, pantry and bathroom.

Upon completion, the home will be used for both public programming and private rentals.

Couples who are getting married at the barn

just something that combat veterans suffer from, he said.

Some individuals with PTSD will self-medicate with illicit drugs because getting high makes them not care about their problems.

For this reason, dealing with underlying mental health issues is critical to addressing addiction, he said.

Consequences of crackdown In recent years, prescriptions for opioid painkillers have decreased sharply.

While this was a well-intentioned shift in prescribing practices, it had unintended consequences, McMahan said.

Many patients who were addicted to their prescribed opioids turned to illegal drugs like heroin because they were cheaper than buying prescription painkillers on the street.

“Instead of spending $150 on pills, (someone) can spend $60 on heroin. It’s a lot easier,” Runyan said.

According to the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health, 126 deaths resulted from drug overdoses in 2017 — an increase of 70 percent from the previous year.

“For mental health and medicine, this is the (Hurricane) Katrina for us,” McMahan said, describing the scope of the epidemic.

In addition to the cost of human lives, the crisis is also closely linked to an increase in the spread

will now have a place to get ready with their wedding party before the ceremony.

Salomon Farm Park is funded almost entirely by its Farmin’ Fun Day Camp and facility rentals.

It receives no tax dollars, Adkins said.

Recently, the house’s walls and floors have been restored. Soon, new cabinetry will be installed. The restoration has now come to its final hurdle: furnishing the house. The house’s original furnishings were previously auctioned off.

“We’re starting from scratch,” Adkins said.

The parks department is looking for antiques, including furniture, clothing, trinkets, kitchen implements/ware, wall décor, toys, china cabinets, record players, radios, table cloths and seasonal décor.

So far, members of the public have donated a music player, furniture and a handmade quilt from the 1800s. An antique crib that belonged to the Salomon family is making its way back to the house from Florida.

Period items have also been acquired from auctions.

The restoration team has consulted with both

of infectious diseases, including HIV, hepatitis A and hepatitis C, due to users’ risky behaviors like sharing needles, she said.

While communities have increased their capacities to address the epidemic with medication-assisted treatment centers to treat people who are addicted to opioidbased drugs, McMahan said another illicit drug has risen in popularity: meth.

Treating a patient who is addicted to meth presents different challenges than treating a patient who is addicted to opioids, she said.

Individuals who use meth might be less motivated to seek treatment because they don’t get “dope sick,” that is they don’t feel the effects of withdraw as severely as individuals who use heroin, she said. Also, there is no medication approved to treat addiction to meth.

Physicians navigate new guidelines In response to the opioid epidemic, state lawmakers have recently expanded access to Inspect, a database that logs what controlled substances a patient has been prescribed as well as the doctor who prescribed it and the pharmacy that filled the prescription. The goal is to ultimately require all medical practitioners to refer to the database by 2021.

Runyan said the database has been a powerful tool to identify individuals who are trying to get multiple prescriptions for controlled substances. Inspect allows

him to run a search that includes data from multiple states.

Stricter prescribing laws have made doctors more informed, but they have also made it harder for some patients to get the medicine that they need.

Moore practices exclusively in hospice and palliative medicine and treats patients who have terminal or life-threatening diseases.

She regularly fields calls from pharmacies confirming that she did indeed prescribe certain medications.

“I want those phone calls, because if they’re calling me and they’re calling my team — and they know the type of medicine that we’re practicing in the community — they’re also calling the other doctors who may not do this on a daily basis,” she said.

That said, the additional layer of oversight is burdensome at times. Communicating with insurance companies to justify why she is prescribing certain medications is almost a fulltime job.

“I had my nurse on the phone today for 51 minutes with one insurance company trying to get a pain medicine for a cancer patient,” she said.

Generally, the new guidelines also mean more paperwork, added stress, less time with patients and less job satisfaction for health care professionals, she said.

McMahan encouraged the health care professionals who attended the panel to reach out to policy

the Fort Wayne History Center and the Salomon family’s friends at Trinity English Lutheran Church.

Members of different volunteer groups have also offered insight on what their mothers and grandmothers had in their homes.

Don Wolf, a local philanthropist and major supporter of Salomon

Farm Park, has led the project and helped find the funding. Born in 1929, his boyhood days were spent on a farm a couple miles outside of New Haven.

“It was a lot of hard work,” he said, remembering when farm work was done with horses and small tractors.

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makers and make their voices heard and their stories known.

“I can’t imagine that you’re not all impacted by this. The reality is you can suffer alone or you can start letting the policy makers know, ‘You work for me and at least this is what I think should be done right now.’”

The next event in Visiting Nurse’s “Everyone’s Epidemic” speaker series is “Signs of substance use disorder in children and family members” featuring Captain Kevin Hunter of the Fort Wayne Police Department Vice and Narcotics Division. The event is free and open to the community and begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Peggy F. Murphy Community Grief Center, 5920 Homestead Road, Fort Wayne. Call (260) 435-3261 to RSVP.

for the next generation has become his passion.

“It makes me feel great because so many kids haven’t had a chance to get out and touch nature. They don’t know it’s 1935, they just see animals and have a good time,” he said.

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TEDx Fort Wayne scheduled in April Staff reports Organizers of TEDx Fort Wayne — Momentum have released a lineup of regional and national presenters for the idea-based conference taking place in the city next month.

The annual event attracts optimists who believe creative, generous, hard-driving, like-minded people can work together to make the region’s greatness inevitable.

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for the TEDx scheduled for 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 13 at Manchester University School of Pharmacy, 10627 Diebold Road in Fort Wayne.

The speakers will include Eric Beck, Jennifer Bermejo, Christie Browning, Jim Buck, Paige Clingenpeel, Jake Farris, Joshua Gale, JoHannah Greene, Carolyn Greer, Daniel Jingwa, Eli Nash, Aaron Robles and Salena Scardina.

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in a statement.

“The TEDx Fort Wayne Team has worked hard to curate a collection of talented, qualified speakers who bring unique insights to a diverse

offering of topics and we look forward to another successful event.”

Presenter photos were available at www.tedxfortwayne.com/speakers2019 and brief biographies of

them were to be posted at the event’s website soon.

Tickets for the event designed to present diverse perspectives on “ideas worth sharing” went on sale March 8.

Death Done Differently wins competition

By Doug LeDuc dleduc@kpcmedia.com

Death Done Differently plans to promote its end-of-life and home funeral advocacy services with proceeds from the first micro-grant dinner of the year held by Fort Wayne SOUP. The nonprofit group, SOUP — using an acronym that stands for socializing, organizing, uniting people — collects $5 from everyone attending its quarterly micro-grant dinners and invites the diners to vote on their favorite of four or five funding pitches they hear from startup businesses or nonprofits.

Its most recent dinner took place Feb. 28 at the Summit in Fort Wayne.

Sponsors donate food for the event, and the money collected goes to the startup that receives the most votes when ballots are counted after the pitches are made.

Presenters have 4 minutes to make a pitch and an additional 4 minutes to

answer audience questions about their startups.

Lauren Richwine founded Death Done Differently to help families in the region navigate their end-of-life and funeral options, including those associated with natural or green burials.

Many families do not know which funeral practices are legally required and which may be unnecessary but have become customary within the industry, partly because they generate income for service providers, she said in her pitch.

Indiana is among only nine states that require the hiring of a funeral director at the time of death. There is no legal requirement in the state “to do things like use a casket even, or embalm. Those are all things that have become general policies because they drive profit,” she said.

The average cost across the country for a combined funeral and cemetery, if a family chooses burial, is about

$10,000, Richwine said.

Cremation can bring the cost down to between $5,000 and $7,000, she said.

“That’s a pretty steep number for a significant percentage of our population,” Richwine said. “In other states where you aren’t legally required to hire a funeral director, you can accomplish very similar things for as little as $2,000 or $3,000, so there’s a vast difference there.”

She estimates it would take a family two to three weeks to search and find the information she can give them in a couple of hours.

“I don’t just want to save my clients money; I want to save them time so they can spend it where it matters most, with the one they love. I was made to do this,” Richwine said.

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In addition to preparing families for dealing with the funeral industry by sharing her research, Richwine will accompany them during funeral home visits to “sit with them as they go through the price list and make sure they’re not taken advantage of during the sales procedure,” she said.

Richwine also can recommend which funeral directors in town are willing to work with families on the particular types of observances they would prefer, from a wake to an in-home funeral that is more intimate and personal.

“There’s only a few of them that will do that and I can put them in touch with those individuals,” she said.

“There’s only one cemetery here in Fort Wayne that currently offers natural burials. It’s not green.

Green is like another more stringent level of burial, but they offer natural burial and so it’s just something that’s beginning to become more talked about.”

She also helps clients near the end of their lives write legacy letters, which can impart love, summarize beliefs and advice, and share how they would like to be remembered in some last words intended to be kept in the family for several generations, she said.

Death Done Differently has a Facebook page, and Richwine has been planning further promotion of the business through a website and fliers, which could be distributed at places such as oncology departments and emergency rooms and by professionals such as hospice nurses or social workers.

For about $200 she could get an informational flier in the hands of 225 individuals facing a terminal diagnosis, so they and their families will be better equipped to deal with what’s coming, she

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Lauren Richwine, founder of Death Done Differently, makes a pitch for her business during Fort Wayne SOUP’s February event.

said.

Within Indiana, “one of the other pieces of my business plan is to duplicate myself as quickly as possible, because it is something that is being talked about more; it is a huge need,” Richwine said.

She does not expect the development of Death Done Differently to meet resistance from funeral homes in the region because businesses like it are going to spread to the state sooner or later, she said.

“What I’m doing is much more common in other states and larger cities,” she said. “We work with them all the time still because there’s going

to be clients in families that want to go with all different kinds of funeral homes, so it’s not necessarily that we’re against them; we just want everybody to know what their full range of rights and choices are.”

After winning the vote tally, Richwine said she already has seen families reach out to her from the hospital after traumas, and she believes the boost her business receives from the Fort Wayne SOUP funding will benefit the community.

The amount collected for the winner came to $1,330.

The next SOUP event will take place May 2.

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Dupont Valley News • April 2019

Crews install final sections of Promenade trail

By Bridgett Hernandez bhernandez@kpcmedia.com

BRIDGETT HERNANDEZ

A worker uses safety cables as he does detailing Feb. 28 on the Parkview Tree Canopy Trail, 20 feet above the St. Marys River in Fort Wayne.

Progress on downtown Fort Wayne’s riverfront reached a major milestone Feb. 28 as construction crews installed the final sections of an elevated boardwalk on the north bank of the St. Marys River.

Parkview Tree Canopy Trail, a key feature of Promenade Park’s design, stretches between the Wells Street Bridge and the Harrison Street Bridge. The walkway will provide views of the river, the park and the downtown skyline from about 20 feet above water level.

“It’s going to be a unique experience in Fort Wayne. You’re going to be walking through the trees,” said Steve McDaniel, director of Fort Wayne Parks and

Recreation.

“There’s nothing like that in our area, so we’re really excited. It’s one of our key, iconic elements within our design.”

Don R. Fruchey Inc., Almet Inc. and Fetters Construction Inc. are among the companies working on the project.

The Tree Canopy Trail is 23 sections long, supported by 22 piers.

McDaniel said the next step will be to “shoot the tree canopy with a laser” to determine the precise placement of the walkway’s handrails, which will be fabricated locally and installed at a later date.

With the walkway’s infrastructure now in place, McDaniel said the public will notice even more construction activity along the riverfront in

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The Tree Canopy Trail is situated between Fort Wayne Outfitters & Bike Depot. McDaniel said a stairway or ramp way will allow access to the dock on the north bank.

Huntertown man honored for 25 years of UPS safety

By Dave Kurtz dkurtz@kpcmedia.com

Jerry Moser, of Huntertown, now wears a new patch on the shoulder of his brown UPS uniform, signifying his 25 years of accident-free driving.

Moser recently joined 1,436 UPS drivers worldwide — including 40 from Indiana — who are new members of the Circle of Honor for quarter-century safe drivers.

Moser starts his route each day from the UPS site at Waterloo, where 35 drivers are based. He just began a new route in the Cromwell, Wolf Lake and Kimmel areas.

His previous territories included Hamilton and the lakes area of northern Steuben County He drives 160-170 miles per day, making about 100 delivery stops daily.

“I really don’t like to call them my customers, because they’re almost your extended family,” he said about the people on his route. “You might go to the same house three times a week, every week, and you get to know these people, and they get to know you, and their kids, their dogs, their pets.”

Moser began working for UPS while he was in college in 1987. He saw an advertisement for part-time help from 3:307:30 a.m., which he said worked well for his school schedule.

He loaded UPS trucks in Kendallville for a couple of years until a driving position opened.

Moser was studying toward a degree in criminal justice at the time.

“I looked at my college

degree and what I was going to make there, and I looked at UPS, and I thought, ‘Man, I can make more money working at UPS than my four-year degree was going to be,’” he said.

Moser did not give up on public service, however. He has been a volunteer firefighter for about 40 years and was an emergency medical technician 12 years. He belongs to his local Lions Club and is active in his church.

“I like helping people and trying to be a positive influence in the community,” he said.

On the job, he buys into the UPS emphasis on safety.

“When I first started, we had the five seeing habits, which we still use today,” he said. “It’s

The Willing Workers Extension Homemakers Club of Allen County, which celebrated its 80th anniversary in February, consists of 18 charter members. Front row from left, Darlene Stahlhut, Sharon Kincaid and Teresa Fuhrman. Second row, Virginia Fick, Marsha Hibben, Dolores Kuehnert, Marilyn Long, Cathie Timmis and Annette Wigge. Back row, Rebecca Fick, Debera Price, Jerrine Warner, Lisa Long, Vicki Hoffman, Becky Olrey, Carol Dillman and Donna Koch.

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Recently honored for 25 years of accident-free driving, UPS driver Jerry Moser sits in the truck.

more alert.

“It’s usually on a nice, sunny day that something will happen. You can’t let your guard down,” he said.

Indiana now has 286 UPS Circle of Honor drivers, topped by Charles

Roach of Frankfort, with 49 years of accident-free driving.

Moser does not aim to break Roach’s record.

“A couple more years,” Moser said, “and I think I’m going to be lying on a beach in Florida.”

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all about getting the big picture, aiming high in steering, stay focused, make sure you’re seen, try to make good decisions, stay away from at-risk behaviors.”

Moser started his UPS career with a three-day driving school. For today’s new UPS drivers, it has expanded to five days.

“You’re drilled on it, and drilled on it and drilled on it,” Moser said about highway safety.

“They stress: Don’t assume something. Don’t think, ‘This isn’t going to happen today.’”

On the road, he said, “It’s unbelievable the things people do. It’s like, crazy.”

Moser said bad weather may not be the most dangerous situation, because drivers tend to be

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7. April 7

Concert saxophonist Ashu: Performance at First Presbyterian Church, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. in the sanctuary. A free-will offering will be taken. Learn more at ashuonline.com.

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Appleseed Quilt Guild meeting: Classic Cafe, 4831 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. with the meeting at 7 p.m. The Guild is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the art of quilting and providing an opportunity for sharing ideas and learning new techniques. Membership is open to anyone interested in quilts or quilting. Annual dues are $30 with special rates for members age 17 and younger. Members receive the guild’s newsletter, have use of the lending library and attend monthly meetings.

4. April 4

Yahweh Sisterhood Book Club: The Chapel, 2505 W. Hamilton Road South, Fort Wayne. Enter through door 2.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Pastor and speaker Donnie Foster, author of “Face Down” will be present. The event will also stream live on Facebook. For more information, visit www.yahwehsisterhoodbookclub.com.

6. April 6

Fort Wayne Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The market is open every Saturday at Parkview Field in the Lincoln Events Center (October-May).

Cinda b spring outlet sale: Cinda b, 1530 Progress Road, Fort Wayne. Three-day event: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 10; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 11 and 12. Shop styles and patterns up to 70 percent off. Fort Wayne-made travel bags, rolling duffels, tote bags, crossbodies, cosmetic bags, backpacks, tennis bags, and accessories of all colors and sizes.

Admission is free.

Genealogy program: The Allen County Genealogical Society will present a free program by Sara Allen and Allison Singleton on “DNA Company Comparisons.” The meeting is open to visitors as well as members and begins at 7 p.m. in Meeting Room A of the Allen County Public Library. Gathering time is 6:30 pm. For more information, visit www.acgsi.org.

11. April 11

Rummage sale: Saint Joseph United Methodist Church, 6004 Reed Rd., Fort Wayne. Three-day event: 5-8 p.m.

Thursday; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday with a $3 bag sale.

12. April 12

All-you-can-eat fish fry and pork tenderloins: Park Edelweiss, 3355 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. 4:30-7 p.m. $9 for adults, $5 for children. Meal includes scalloped potatoes, coleslaw, dessert and coffee. Full service bar with German beer and wine and soft drinks available. Enjoy dinner accompanied by live, German music. Sponsored by Fort Wayne Mannerchor/Damenchor. For more information, contact Patti Knox at (260) 444-3634.

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Karaoke Classics: C2G Music Hall, 323 W. Baker St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Sing along with Heartland Sings through the decades. From pop divas to classic rockers, Heartland Sings channels your favorite artists, performing their hit singles accompanied by its professional instrumental combo. Audience members are invited to sing along (with lyrics provided on screen) or even sign up in advance to do a solo. The vocal artists and band will back you up.

Food and drink available for purchase. Cover is $5. To purchase tickets, visit HeartlandSings.org/Tickets or call (260) 436-8080.

13. April 13

Soldiering School at the Old Fort: The public is invited to interact with re-enactors and the families who portray the people involved in the French and Indian War at the Old Fort, 1201 Spy Run Ave., Fort Wayne. The fort will be open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free and donations are welcome. Parking is available at Headwaters and Lawton Parks.

Spring Craft Bazaar: Allen County Fairgrounds, 2726 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne. 2-4 p.m. The event will feature more than 85 local vendors inside two connected buildings.

Patrons can enjoy free parking and admission. Concessions will be provided by the Allen County Fairgrounds and all proceeds from the event and concessions benefit the fairgrounds.

Spring Craft Bazaar and Bake Sale: Emmanuel Lutheran Church (Soest), 9909 Wayne Trace, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will feature more than 50 crafters and vendors and a raffle drawing. Breakfast and lunch concessions available.

17. April 17

Fort Wayne Artists Guild meeting: Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. in the Globe Room. Jina Lauer, Service Manager at ARC Document Solutions, will share information about the process of making fine art reproductions. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www. fortwayneartistsguild.org.

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Allen County Retired Educators: Biaggi’s Restaurant in Jefferson Pointe, Fort Wayne. Check- in at 10:45 a.m., lunch at 11 a.m. Email reservations to Mary Jo Purvis at mpurvis1@frontier.com.

Fish fry and chicken dinner fundraiser: Grabill Fire Station, 13413 State St., Grabill. 4:30-7:30 p.m. The meal will include all-you-can-eat fish, chicken, baked beans, applesauce, potato chips, bread, coffee and lemonade.

Carry out is available. The cost is $10 for adults and $7 for children age 4-9. Children age 3 and younger eat for free. Proceeds will benefit the fire department and support the Northeast Allen County Fire & EMS and the local community needs. The event is hosted by the Cedar Creek Lions Club. For more information, contact Rick Slayback at 260-627-2791 or raslayback@aol.com.

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3. May 3

Fish Fry: Bethel United Methodist Church, 8405 Lima Road, Fort Wayne. 4:30-7 p.m. Meal includes Dan’s fish and chicken strips, coleslaw or applesauce, dessert and a soft drink. Dine-in, carry-out and drive-thru available. Tickets available in church office or night of fish fry. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for children age 6-10 and free for children age 5 and younger. Call 260-489-3651 for more information.

High’s Chicken Sales to benefit The Cedars: A stand will be located at the four-way stop in Leo and by the Do-It-Best Hardware store in Grabill. 10:30 a.m. until sold out. The Cedars Branch Auxiliary is hosting the sale with proceeds used to benefit the residents of the nursing care facility at The Cedars.

The Sound of Soul: Downtown Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Globe Room, Fort Wayne.

11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The public is invited to experience “the chanting of HU—a sacred word that can spiritually uplift people of any religion, culture, or walk of life.” This free event is presented by Eckankar, The Path of Spiritual Freedom. For more information, visit hwww.eckankar.org.

MercyMe concert: Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Casting Crowns with special guests Zach Williams and Austin French. Tickets range from $10-$77. For more information, visit www. trinitycommunications.org.

Beacon Street, Fort Wayne. The theme for the day is “Agree to Differ” and the Bible Study will be led by Pastor Kara Bussenbarger from Covenant United Methodist Church.

Women of all faiths are invited to attend this celebration of Christian unity. Reservations are $3 and may be obtained by calling Barb McCoy at 260-637-1842.

Settlers plant sale: Historic Swinney Homestead, 1424 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. Two-day event: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 3 and 9 a.m. to noon May 4. The herb and perennial plant sale will feature Early Americana music and spinning, refreshments, bake sale and hand arts. For more information call 26-637-8622 or visit settlersinc.org.

Discussion on mental illness: Lutherans for Life will host speaker Emily Boller for a discussion on mental illness and suicide at 7 p.m. in Room A at the Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne. Boller, who lost her 21-year-old son to mental illness and suicide in 2012, will share her story in an effort to destigmatize mental illness.

Rummage Sale: The Ladies Society of Emanuel Lutheran Church at 800 Green Street, New Haven, will host a two-day rummage sale 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 2 and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 3. There will be outside sales starting at 8 a.m. both days. Proceeds benefit charities, including the New Haven Food Bank, Emanuel Vacation Bible School, Kenya Missions, Central Lutheran School, Concordia Theological Seminary and other needs of the church and community.

4. May 4

Joseph of Arimathea: Woodburn Missionary Church, 5108 Bull Rapids Road, Woodburn. 7 p.m. Musical performance by middle and high school students in the Fort Wayne Area Home School Drama Camp. Admission is free. For more information, visit fwahsdrama.org/east.

High’s Chicken Sales to benefit The Cedars: A stand will be located at the four-way stop in Leo and by the Do-It-Best Hardware store in Grabill. 10:30 a.m. until sold out. The Cedars Branch Auxiliary is hosting the sale with proceeds used to benefit the residents of the nursing care facility at The Cedars.

Charis House Gala Live & Silent Auction: Grand Wayne Convention Center, 120 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne.

5:30-9 p.m. Guests can bid on silent auction items from their mobile phone and try their shot at a fabulous vacation and more during a live auction with Mitch Kruse. Guests can also enjoy a meal and dessert, all while supporting the women and children at The Rescue Mission’s Charis House.

Tickets are $75. For more information, visit www.therescuemission.net/gala2019.

A Day in the Country: Woodburn Missionary Church, 5108 Bull Rapids Road, Woodburn. 7 p.m. Musical performance by elementary students in the Fort Wayne Area Home School Drama Camp. Admission is free. For more information, visit fwahsdrama.org/east.

May Friendship Day: Church Women United of Fort Wayne/Allen County will observe “May Friendship Day” at l pm at Beacon Heights Church of the Brethren, 1820

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