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Design plans for North Anthony revealed

Hoch Associates works to develop 20-minute neighborhood concept

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The Greater North Anthony area residents finally laid eyes on plans for their neighborhoods Aug.19 when Hoch Associates’ design plans for North Anthony were officially revealed at an open house in St. Joe Community Church.

In the spring, North Anthony won a $15,000 award for free architectural design plans and conferences from Hoch Associates, a group of architects, engineers and interior procurers. North Anthony competed against nearby neighborhoods on Facebook by vocalizing the most neighborhood pride in March and was announced the winner soon after.

Hoch and its Ball State University interns, seniors Michael DePrez, Georgia Pogas and Jenna Hoch, who

have assisted in the research, design and presentation process, intend to transform North Anthony into a “20-minute neighborhood,” a concept first made popular by Portland, Ore. The idea is that anyone in the neighborhood should be able to have access to all PHOTOS BY WHITNEY WRIGHT that they may need Design plans for the intersection of Lake and Anthony include more greenery, outside of work new sidewalks, adding a few extra shops and a pub with a beer garden, reconwithin a 20-minute tructing current storefronts and building a second concept for housing. bike ride or walk. It not only creates less sary plans and in 1912. what they would like to see car traffic but makes tools, Hoch and Currently, North Anthony for North Anthony. the neighborhood its subconsultants is trapped in the suburban The designs presented for more attractive and Wunderkammer and sprawl a lot of Midwestern the Greater North Anthony Several models were available to look at, desirable to home Big Car Collaborative neighborhoods and towns area focused on connecting including this bird’s-eye view of the North buyers. hope to inspire each now face — giant parking the neighborhood to downAnthony Corridor. Old buildings are in “The goal is to of Fort Wayne’s 32 lots, generic shop buildings town, replacing some of the white while additions are clear. hand it [the designs] nearby neighborhoods and fast traffic. Hoch and concrete and asphalt with over to the neighborsaid Dan Kennedy, director to follow suit and its interns observed the greenery and parks, giving hood and give them a tool of marketing at Hoch Asso- transform them back to how neighborhood this summer storefront makeovers and to ask people looking to ciates. neighborhood was initially and asked neighborinvest and to ask for help,” By providing the necesdesigned by George Kessler hood residents about See NEIGHBORHOOD, Page A17

Historic homes regain integrity and character A more personal look at two of featured homes on West Central Home and Garden Tour A tour of some of the oldest buildings still standing in Fort Wayne is back for its 34th year.

About 10 homes each year are featured during the West Central Home and Garden Tour.

Attendees have a chance to not only learn the history behind the historic buildings and homes but also learn the good, bad and the ugly behind restoring and renovating the structures in the neighborhood that dates back to the 1830s. Houses on this year’s tour were See TOUR, Page A2

PHOTO BY WHITNEY WRIGHT

Steve and Shirley Oyer stand on the porch of their 1883 brick home on Wayne Street.

The couple’s home will be one of the buildings on the 2016 West Central Home and Garden Tour.

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TOUR from Page A1 built between 1861 and 1928. They have seen their fair share of tenants, landlords, additions and makeovers over the years.

Shirley and Steve Oyer and Tom Cain provided sneak peeks of their homes, both stops on the 2016 West Central Home and Garden Tour.

1122 West Wayne Street, Steve and Shirley Oyer The Oyers purchased their 1883 rustic brick house and began renovations in June 2014, moving in the following year. The couple wanted to move closer to downtown to enjoy a more urban lifestyle after their children moved out. A contractor told the Oyers they knew of a historic home in the downtown area, however, the home was in desperate need of renovations due to a 2012 electrical fire on the third floor that damaged the back half of the house.

“The project was more than we anticipated,” said Steve Oyer.

Fire, smoke and water damage sat untouched for years after the fire department had boarded up the house. The floors and the walls were not salvageable and most of the house had to be stripped down to studs.

The Oyers kept what original pieces of the home they could and, after updating the electric, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, laying the necessary new floors and constructing some fresh walls, the home is a balanced blend of history and modern amenities.

Plaster covers large portions of the wall but artfully allows sections of the original brick to peek through, while most all of the woodwork, fireplaces, stain glass windows and doors are original.

West Central Home and Garden Tour

Date: Sept. 10 and 11 Website: westcentralhomeandgardentour.org Details: Tickets are available for purchase at Jamison Meats, Umbers Do It Best Hardware, Antiques on Broadway, Third World Gift Shoppe and House of Furniture for $13. They are also available for $14 on Eventbrite and day-of for $15 at the Swinney Homestead, the St. Joseph Hospital parking lot and at the neighborhood ArtsFest taking place that weekend on Wells Street. Free carriage rides and pedicabs also are available.

In addition to some of the initial woodwork and brick walls, the Oyers decided to not renovate a section of a bedroom wall, about the size of a piece of paper, because there appears to be a signature of some sorts.

Some of the words the Oyers have been able to decipher are “Centennial Year” and “1894.”

The home was built

by Joseph and Elnora Hughes, next to her brothers Charles and Winfred’s homes, with features of both the Italianate and Queen Anne architectural styles.

Luckily, the home next door to the Oyers’ is nearly a mirror-image, and was used for reference during the renovation process. The third floor was added in 1919.

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The entire house was split into five apartments in 1935, a commonality for these grand homes during the Great Depression and World War II as soldiers came home and real-estate became scarce.

The Oyers reconverted the home from five apartments to the large home in which they now reside, encompassing 3,500 square feet and leaving the leftover 2,000 for an apartment. They are currently unsure of how they plan to use the apartment space.

Features of the home include an original square tower with a small room at the top, two side porches and a carriage house that now functions as a five-car garage. The Oyers will participate in the West Central Home

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(Pictured top left) The Oyers are unsure where this sealed door led to or its purpose, as it is placed next to a set of stairs. Some of the brick-and-plaster style can be seen next to the door. (Pictured top right) Tom Cain stands in his early 20th century-style garden. As an urban designer and professional landscape architect, he has used his talents and skills to give life back to the home and backyard. (Pictured at bottom) Tom Cain has renovated much of his 1913 house himself, keeping a lot of the spirit of the home while implenting some modern touches.

and Garden tour for the first time this year and their home is No. 10 on the tour.

1301 West Jefferson Boulevard, Tom Cain Tom Cain has owned his 1913 Arts and Crafts and Classical-style home since 1989, after moving to Fort Wayne from the suburbs of Chicago seven years earlier for an urban designer position in community development.

Cain originally lived next door to his current

home but, at the time, it was an old, run down rental that irked him. He had to make a decision: either move to a new area of Fort Wayne or buy the rental and completely restore it.

Cain chose the latter and has completed most of the renovations himself.

When he bought the house, it was split into two apartments from the housing shortages of the 1950s. Windows were boarded up, the dining

room floor was bowing and sagging 2 inches and a bad plaster renovation covered some of the ceiling. Since then, new plumbing, electrical, heating and air-conditioning were installed. He also reconverted the home from two apartments into one house, merged some of the small rooms into larger ones and transformed the basement from a furnace room into a den.

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Labyrinth guides walkers on path to solace

Cities, county receive matching road and bridge grants

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Resurrection Lutheran Church wants the community to pause and pray at the new labyrinth, which was dedicated Aug. 13.

“The public is always welcome,” the Rev. William H. Smith said. “… anytime anyone wants to come out and use this facility or walk the path and use the exercise stations.

That’s what it’s here for.”

The church at PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW 14318 Lima Road, A cross overlooks a bench Fort Wayne, dediand contemplation station at cated the labyrinth with an afternoon Resurrection Church, 14318 Lima service, festivities Road. The church was established near Northrop High School, but and fireworks. now serves its congregation from “We have a gentlemen here at the edge of Huntertown. the church, and winding path from the that’s one of his edge to the center. passions,” Smith said.

“It provides an opporBarb Limbach, tunity to slow down and associate in ministry, clear your head and to explained the purpose of place the focus on what the labyrinth. “The idea actually matters,” Smith is that the early Chrissaid. “It most certainly tians used labyrinths to is an opportunity to just facilitate pilgrimages, commune, to be with because oftentimes people God and allow God to could not go to Rome or speak or not speak. It is a Jerusalem, so they had very intentional activity. labyrinths,” she said.

Whereas prayer can “So that’s what’s still happen at home or in the happening today. This is car, this is a committed a journey, a walk with time when it’s just you God. So when you get to and God, and that happens the center you spend time entirely too little.” with God and walk back Limbach said the labyout.” rinth helps her to find The labyrinth measures clarity. “You’re asking 48 feet in diameter.

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Allen County received $1 million for road and bridge improvements, Fort Wayne received $1 million, Leo-Cedarville $232,790, Huntertown $112,300 and New Haven $1 million.

All of the grant funding came from Indiana Department of Transportation’s Community Crossings fund which provides matching grants to communities across the state.

“With these funds, our communities now have the opportunity to address areas of their infrastruc-

ture that needs immediate attention,” state Rep. Martin Carbaugh (R-Fort Wayne) said. “With the growing economy in our state, it is vital we ensure our roads and bridges are maintained and capable of handling various expansions.”

Frank Suarez, director of public information for the city of Fort Wayne, said in a statement that the city’s $1 million grant money will go toward Phase II of the North Clinton Street resurfacing project — between Colony Drive and Jacobs Creek. The project is expected to begin this fall

and will be completed by September 2017.

In total, 121 northern Indiana cities, towns and counties were awarded $51 million through the fund.

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apply for the 50/50 matching program using wheel tax revenue, an income tax distribution that the state returned to communities earlier this year or money saved in their rainy day funds.

The grant program was created as part of a road funding package state legislators approved last spring. More than $150 million was available for the statewide program, with 50 percent of it earmarked to go to communities with fewer than 50,000 residents.

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Promoters of the 42nd annual Johnny Appleseed Festival are gearing up for more than 300,000 visitors during the two-day event, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17 and 18, at Johnny Appleseed/Archer Park off Coliseum Boulevard.

Vendors from more than 42 states will present about 200 booths. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

Visitors to the event will find that everything is centered on celebrating the pioneer spirit of John Chapman (AKA Johnny Appleseed) who spent years planting orchards in the Fort Wayne area and the Midwest. It commemorates his life and good deeds performed by him back in the 1800s.

His grave site, which is believed to be on top of the hill in the park, will be surrounded by a variety of booths.

The festival is dedicated to preserving American history. That’s why all vendors will be dressed in 1800s clothing. They will demonstrate trades, exhibit crafts and perform entertainment appropriate to that time in our nation.

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of modern appliances.

They will make food that would have potentially been available within that era. Some of the food may look modern, but its basic ingredients probably date back a couple hundred years.

Homestead High School’s Band Boosters will operate one of the 42 food booths. They will dish up some 8,000 servings of old-fashioned chicken and dumplings cooked in huge iron kettles over open fires, as they have done for the past 26 festivals. Keeping the fires going is critical.

They cook in six kettles and have two 6-by 6-foot pits to keep the water hot because cold water would damage the kettles.

The booth is manned by 300 parents and band members who spend five to six hours prepping the celery, onions, carrots and making the dough for the dumplings. Funds made at the booth help to cover the band’s contest travel expenses.

Northrop High School music department boosters have been on the scene in their period costumes for 20 years providing barbequed chicken dinners fixed over an open fire. Some of the 70-plus volunteers gather the Friday before the festival to hand-prepare the chicken for grilling the next day.

Members of the school’s show choir will man the booth Saturday and the band will take over its operation Sunday. The booth typically raises around $15,000 for the

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Apples will fill be for sale by pound and by the dumpling at the Johnny Appleseed Festival, Sept. 17 and 18. Enjoy chicken and dumplings and other frontier foods at the celebration at Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne.

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Concordia Lutheran High School will operate two booths. Marching Band Boosters will serve baked potatoes stuffed with choices that include cheese, green onions, bacon bits, butter and sour cream. They also will have apple-berry shortcake. They are partnering with Suburban Bethlehem Lutheran Church members who will offer caramel corn.

The second booth, sponsored by the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, will whip up apple cobbler, deep-fried onion stacks and root beer floats.

They’ve had a booth at the festival since 2000 and have raised some $20,000. Money earned at this festival will be split between the two school programs.

Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church has been serving sizzle chops at the festival for the past 25 years. They marinate pork chops in a mixture that includes apple cider, vinegar, molasses, ground cloves, cinnamon, ground mustard, salt and pepper and a splash of brandy to give them their special taste. They also will serve hot and cold apple cider.

For the past 35 years, members of the South Side Optimists Club have been serving festivalgoers ham with beans and corn bread made using their own special recipe. The 30 service club members will be assisted in their booth by volunteers from the Elmhurst Little League, who will share in the proceeds along with 16 other local nonprofit organizations.

There’s no charge to enter the festival, but with that many people, parking can be a challenge. There are a couple of options available. The first is, of course, pulling into the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum parking lot and paying $6 for the privilege of being within a very short walk to all the activity.

Option two is parking for free across Coliseum Boulevard at the IPFW campus lots or a short distance up Anthony Boulevard at Concordia Lutheran High School.

Free shuttles will be available to take visitors to the festival and back to their cars.

Take a step back in time Sept. 17 and 18 to enjoy some really great food at one of the most popular festivals in the area.

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Bricklayer Union field representative Glenn Head demonstrates how to use a trowel to spread mortar. Head told Fort Wayne United youth that he has been active with the union since age 18.

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Organizers launched Fort Wayne United with a series of events to make young African-American males more aware of dangers and opportunities.

Those efforts will continue on several fronts, said Iric Headley, the program manager.

“It’s two national initiatives under one roof,” Headley said. “It’s the Cities United initiative and also the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, which came out of the White House. [Fort Wayne] Mayor Tom Henry brought those two together under one umbrella called Fort Wayne United.”

Headley spoke after a luncheon at Bricklayer Union No. 4 at 7301 Decatur Road. Union

r e p r e s e n t a t ive s a l s o demonstrated how to join bricks and blocks, and encouraged the students to consider careers in the trades.

Over two days, the youths also visited Indiana Tech, the courtroom of Allen County Superior Court Judge Wendy Davis and the Sheet Metal Workers union hall at 3019 Waynewood Drive.

“So they were exposed to two different trades, they were exposed to college, and they were exposed to the consequences of negative choices,” Headley said.

He said Davis spoke about opportunities, not just consequences.

“Some of these guys are not going on to college, so we want them to have the opportunity to focus on something else,” Headley

said.

The group also played a basketball game with law enforcement officers at Indiana Tech’s Schaefer Center, and took in a block party at the Renaissance Pointe YMCA. Chris Wallace Jr. lives in the former Harding High School attendance area, and will be a freshman at Woodlan High School. He watched as Bricklayers field rep Glenn Head demonstrated how to use a trowel, and he listened as Head recommended a career in the trades and the security of a union.

Wallace said the program caused him to think about his opportunities after high school.

His father, Chris Wallace Sr., represented the Boys & Girls Club at the union

Staff reports Drivers with disabilities who have business to conduct at Allen Superior Court’s Small Claims Division, Community Corrections or the Bud Meeks Justice Center will have an easier time finding a place to park.

The Allen County Board of Commissioners and Fort Wayne City Clerk Lana Keesling announced the creation of three metered downtown parking spots to better accommodate disabled motorists.

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Stellhorn Camera No. 2 develops last roll of film

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dise that had filled CAMERA SPECIALISTS walls and racks (Many shops coordinate transferring imand tables now While bargain hunters ages from film, slides or VHS to newer was clustered at raced the final hours at the center of the media. The shops listed below offer these Stellhorn Custom Photo store. The “75 additional services.)

No. 2, Dave and Joyce percent off” tags To have film processed and photos Evans packed up a few of had produced the printed in-house: their customers’ memointended result.

Specialized Printed Products, ries, and a few of their The 35mm 6844 N. Clinton St., Fort Wayne own. black-and-white (260) 483-7075 In 12 years at Coldfilm was long To send a camera to a specialist for water and Dupont roads, gone. “There was repairs: they had developed film as a run on it,” Joyce Sunny Schick Camera Shop a core business, then for said. Even the 120 407 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne hobbyists and students.

B&W film at $1.50 (260) 424-1615 Now, they just wanted to a roll was running To have a camera and lens cleaned, or to spend more of the next low. Batteries to send it for repairs: several years with family. match the saga of Blosser’s Camera & Video “We have seven and a half camera evolution 1002 E. Center St., Warsaw grandkids,” Dave said. hung on pegs.

PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW (574) 267-5400 “We can’t close up the Behind a glass With a final markdown, black-and-white 120 film was just $1.50 a roll on the shop at 6 and be out at display case final day of business at Stellhorn Custom Photo No. 2. The 35mm film was Woodburn at a ballgame marked “Sold,” a busy lives. They each made the gone. at 6.” table held boxes of have full-time jobs. And digital They had given several envelopes of prints. now the seven and a half switch. and printed. Or they had and Joyce had waited, weeks’ notice of the Customers had brought grandkids.

They would bring in their brought photos to be and then they had made store’s closing. Merchantheir film to be processed “We enjoyed the heck cameras and ask Dave to restored and copied. Dave phone calls, and then they out of it,” Dave said. remove and develop the had waited some more.

He said Stellhorn film and load a new roll.

On top of the stack was a Camera opened in 1981.

Even when the cameras yellowed World War I-era Shop No. 2 opened in would wear out, Dave photo. It had been in some 1985 and outlasted the would load film into factosoldier’s family for most original shop. ry-reconditioned cameras of a century before it was Dave is referring and absorb the cost of the entrusted to the Evans’ his camera cleaning cameras. Three like-new, shop; that was 10 years customers to Tom Skaggs boxed and ready, 35mm ago and a few reminders at Blosser’s Camera – “a film cameras waited for ago. very similar operation” – buyers on that final afterThe soldier and its thouin Warsaw. noon. sand companion photos The photo-processing “(Digital) really has would remain safe, but not equipment is waiting just not had an impact on us at Stellhorn Custom Photo across town. Customers because we do so many No. 2. Like the photo can now develop or print other things,” Dave said, processing machine, they or retrieve their restored pointing to the stack of were bound for Specialphotos at 6844 N. Clinton envelopes. ized Printed Products, on St. “People bring in this Clinton Street. So were Dave fears that future sort of thing and say ‘I the store’s three other 1816 2016 generations may not have need this restored’ and we employees. pictures of their relado restorations. People Recently, that machine tives because people are bring in their tapes and has been processing 10 not making the effort to say ‘Hey, I’ve got an old to 20 rolls of film a day. archive their photos.

VHS here, and I need you “Before digital, it was B u l s a i c n i g e s o “We’ve got pictures of to throw this onto a DVD s l o L 80 to 90 a day,” Joyce n i s o tings C hr all our great-grandparents for me.’

Or they bring me said. High schools and and all our great-greattheir reel-to-reel. We do colleges still assign film so many things. But photo aunts and uncles and all photography. “We can tell printing is like the anchor those family members...” when they have a project to it all.”

Dave said. because there will be a For Dave and Joyce, the “We’re losing memoconstant run,” she said. store has been a temporary ries. That’s a shame.”

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Enrollment underway for driver’s ed

Allen County government will visit Poe, New Haven and Huntertown during this fall’s County Night Out open houses.

County Night Out allows residents to meet the commissioners and other elected officeholders and get information about programs and services offered by various county departments. Among the departments and elected officeholders to be represented at the meetings are the Parks Department, Highway Department, the Fort Wayne-Allen County Health Department, Department of Homeland Security, Election Board, County Extension Service, recorder, auditor and treasurer.

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Bishop Dwenger High School offers driver’s education classes to its students and the community three times a year.

The fall session will run Sept. 12-23. Students must be at least 15 on or before Sept. 12 in order to register.

The cost of the program, including the driving portion, is $350.

This fee also includes the road test required by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, if students qualify with a B- or better in both the book work and driving.

The cost for just the book work portion, whether taken at Bishop Dwenger or online, is $50.

Registration information can be found at bishopdwenger.com/Drivers-Education.

Out will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at the Poe Volunteer Fire Station, 3619 E. Yoder Road. Fire Chief Paul Vonbank and his staff are assisting with the meeting arrangements.

All three meetings start at 6:30 p.m. and end by 8 p.m.

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, an open house will be held at the police training room of the New Haven City Administration Building, 815 Lincoln Highway East.

The City of New Haven is hosting the event.

On Thursday, Oct. 6, officials will visit the Huntertown Volunteer Fire Department, 15412 Lima Road. Perry Township Trustee James McIntosh is helping with the arrangements.

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Deadline to register to vote is Oct. 11 Indiana residents have until Oct. 11 to register to vote in the Nov. 8 general election.

Federal, state, county and school board offices will be decided this fall.

To register, visit the Allen County Voter Registration Office at the Rousseau Centre, 1 E. Main St., Ste. 176, Fort Wayne, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Or, register online at

allencounty.us/voter-registration. Direct questions to (260) 449-7154.

Voters can confirm their registration status, locate their polling place and review their ballot at indianavoters.in.gov. Ballots will be online by the end of September.

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The youths will continue to hear speakers and share ideas at quarterly forums.

They will be invited to take part in workshops at the Public Safety Academy.

A late-night basketball program will offer recreation in a positive environment.

“We’ve got a pretty robust steering community. We’ve got a wide variety of programs,” Headley said.

“Now more than ever, we must come together as a community to trust and support one another,” Henry said in a statement announcing the program.

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PARKING from Page A5 served population of the community to address the problem of accessible parking for the disabled is local government at its best,” Peters said.

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In addition, a standard parking space on Harrison Street between Superior and Main was converted to accessible. The third accessible space will be in the County-owned parking lot next to the Small Claims building.

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Children’s Choir prepares for more than 50 events The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir is preparing for four concerts and dozens of other engagements as part of the 2016-17 season.

Rehearsals began Aug. 29.

With the exception of the Concert Choir and Boychoir, singers ages 6-18 meet weekly to rehearse and engage in the music education program.

The Concert Choir, the advanced unchanged voice ensemble, meets twice a week.

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Star*Quest observatory nearing completion

By Rod King

For Times Community Publications

Star*Quest, dream of the 49 members of the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society, is nearing completion in Jefferson Township Park. For the past four years the Society has been planning, designing and raising nearly $200,000 to build the state-ofthe-art observatory which they hope to have open to the public next spring.

According to Gene Stringer, Society member since 1966 and Star*Quest project manager, “this is the only place in the area where people can come to look through telescopes to see the wonders of the sky and should not be confused with a planetarium. Our 16- and 12.5-inch telescopes will be permanently mounted and a 42-inch video monitor will show what stars and constellations they are focused on.

People are welcome to bring their own scopes and set them up in the building or on one of five circular viewing pads outside.

“What makes the building unique is its

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Check fortwayneastronomicalsociety.com for conditions and whether or not sessions will be held. delta-wing roof that will open. Half of the roof will roll off on exterior rails to the east and the other half will roll to the west, exposing stargazers to the vast southern sky in an open-air room. “ The observatory covers a total of 1,000 square feet and includes the observation area that runs the length of the structure and a control room/office/library/ storage room.

“We will hold free stargazing sessions here just as we have been doing since 2012 every clear Saturday night (weather permitting) from April through November. And, there will be no admission charge when the building is open to the public.

Free-will donations are appreciated.

“Our main scope, the Meade 16-inch RCX 400. can swing 360 degrees

to lock onto stars in deep space, locate nebula and maybe find a comet or a passing satellite. It can capture 4,000 times more light than the human eye and its magnification is 60 to 300.

“It is computer-controlled and has a GPS receiver that is used to center on two known stars for alignment. Once that’s done, the computer data base can identify 180,000 objects in the night sky. The scope can be raised or lowered to accommodate a child or a person in a wheelchair.”

Once contractor Rob Koors and his Custom Builders crew have completed their work, Society members will take over to paint, install flooring and LED lighting fixtures on the inside and do all the landscaping, as well.

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Siding is being installed to the exterior of the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society’s new observatory, which will be open to the public in April. Members of the Society will paint the walls, install the flooring and put up the LED lighting fixtures. Red lamps will be used when the roof is open to preserve night vision.

when the roof is open to preserve night vision.

Until Star*Quest opens next April, the Society will continue to operate out of an 8-by-15-foot storage shed which requires moving the 275-pound Meade scope and its wheeled carrier, which weighs 100 pounds, to a concrete pad for stargazing.

FWAS, which is 58 years old this year, operated an observatory at Fox Island County Park for 30 years, but the presence of tall trees made observing the heavens difficult at times.

Stringer said the Society expects that when the observatory opens next spring it will act as a magnet to attract visitors from the New Haven area, throughout the county and western Ohio. He speculated that their Saturday night stargazing sessions will no longer be the best kept secret in the county.

The Society will offer star parties for schools on other nights of the week by appointment.

The long-term goal is to set up a scholastic for-credit program with area colleges to teach

astronomy.

Jefferson Township Park, which is administered by the National Park Service, is located between three and four miles east of New Haven on Webster Road. To get there, take Lincoln Highway through town.

It changes to Dawkins Road on the east side.

Follow it to Webster Road, turn left, cross the railroad tracks and the park will be about 100 yards on the left. Turn in and take the entry road all the way to the back of the park. Signs will point the way.

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IN Fort Wayne • August 31, 2016

Shepherd’s House: A respite for veterans

By Rod King

For Times Community Publications

Gov. Mike Pence, state Rep. Dennis Zent and judges Frances Gull, Tom Felts and John Surbeck recently visited Shepherd’s House, a transitional living center for homeless veterans struggling with addictions. The visitors were there presumably to tour the facility at 519 Tennessee Ave. The real reason, it turned out, was to present the Sagamore of the Wabash award to founders Lonnie and Barb Cox. Taken completely by surprise, Barb Cox said “we were in shock.� She added, “We were very pleased that the work we’ve been doing here in helping homeless

veterans reclaim and budgeting their lives and classes and become producmedical care. In tive citizens for addition, they the past 18 years receive help in is appreciated in getting jobs. the community.

Shepherd’s And, it makes us House, which even more deteris a long-term mined to serve residential/tranthose who fought sitional housing for our freedom.� center, provides Over the years, a strong support Shepherd’s House environment has helped more that encourages than 2,000 honorhealthy selfably discharged image, which is veterans by basic to recovery PHOTO BY ROD KING from addiction. giving them a faith-based home The structured Even the Shepherd’s House office wall with a beautiful approach is conveys appreciation for veterans.

Shepherd’s House has beds for 41 veterans serenity garden designed to help and another five in a house a couple doors for relaxing and participants playing corn-hole. down the street on Spy Run Avenue. develop a solid With that comes foundation of management, classes free room and board, sobriety and holds them tailored to their indidaily therapies, nightly accountable to the rehavidual needs, educational recovery meetings, case bilitation community for

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The facility has 41 beds at the Tennessee Avenue house and another six in a house just two doors away on Spy Run Avenue, where graduates of the program can stay while getting established in the community. They are still welcome to avail themselves of the services at the main house, including meals. A couple residents are presently enrolled at Ivy Tech Community College, and at one time 23 were attending classes at local colleges.

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The Coxes spent 18 months preparing the old St. Andrews Convent on Schele Avenue in the Harvester neighborhood to accommodate homeless people. When that lease ran out, the Coxes stumbled across the Landmark Building on Tennessee Avenue. In the 1850s it was owned by the grandparents of actress Carol Lombard and her parents were married in the office. It was known then as the Knight Mansion.

It later became the Fort Wayne Sanitarium, and was an office building before becoming Shepherd’s House.

Developing Shepherd’s House to be the efficient program that it is today was a long, frustrating struggle. It was not set up to house people and required a great deal of work to get it up to code. “Even though we were the only place in the area taking in veterans,�

Barb said, “we were turned down twice by the Veterans Administration.

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HOUSE from Page A10 kitchen in order to meet their standards. It took four years to get recognized and established with the VA,” she added.

“We did everything ourselves because we didn’t have the money to hire it done.”

Thanks to that hard work, residents now are eligible for dental work, psychiatric help,

medications, disabilities assistance and a pension.

Shepherd’s House provides a shuttle to take them to and from the VA Hospital.

“The Lord has continued to make the ‘impossible’ happen on a daily basis,” Barb said. “We got a grant for the sprinkler system, a furniture dealer donated

new furniture, the owner of Rustic Hutch whose son served in Iraq gave us leather couches and Sweetwater Sound donated guitars and amplifiers. Lonnie, who plays keyboard and guitar in a local band, gives music lessons to interested residents. We were able to give 11 cars to program graduates through the kindness of area dealers. We’re particularly thankful to 10 local churches that are big supporters of the program. Some have even hired residents.

“One of the most gratifying parts of our job,” Lonnie said, “is when the veterans who have stayed with us drop in from time to time to say hello and fill us in on how they’re doing. Some keep in touch through Facebook and a few come back to

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Shepherd’s House founders Lonnie and Barb Cox have helped more than 2,000 honorably discharged veterans get their lives together and become productive citizens.

lead classes.”

Shepherd’s House is open to all veterans who meet the criteria. Persons

who know of a homeless veteran or one who needs assistance are urged to call (260) 424-2500 any

time of the day or night.

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Saturday, Nov. 12, in the Auer Performance Hall, IPFW Rhinehart Music Center.

Tickets are $5 for adults and seniors; students and children are admitted free.

FWCC ensembles perform in multiple holiday events under the banner “Angels Sing.”

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Visitors flock to admire railroad history’s future

By Rod King

For Times Community Publications

Long lines of kids, parents and grandparents snaked across the driveway and along the tracks at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society property. For three days, visitors took caboose rides and peeked into the cab of restored Engine No. 765 at the fourth annual open house at the Edgerton Road museum east of New Haven.

The traffic filled the parking spaces within the grounds and along the road for a quarter of a mile east and west of the entrance. According to society vice president and spokesperson Kelly Lynch, “this simply emphasizes the fact that there is still a great deal of interest in 1940s and ’50s railroading.”

Open house visitors could also walk through two passenger cars. One was a 1947 New York Central tavern/lounge car.

The other was a 1950s Pennsylvania Railroad concession car. Adding atmosphere to the occasion was World War II re-enactor Matt Champion, dressed in uniform with his duffel bag heading off to war. The Plymouth High School freshman accompanied his father, Greg, who was outside in full battlefield gear.

Lynch explained that the number on the historic Engine 765 has been changed to 767, the number it had when it was used to inaugurate the elevated Nickel Plate tracks through downtown Fort Wayne in the mid-1950s. Engine 765, now 767, sat in Lawton Park from 1963 to 1974 before being moved to

the society’s Edgerton Road facility where it was taken apart, refurbished and returned to operating condition.

It’s now the organization’s focal point and attracts attention from around the world when it goes out on excursions. The number 767 will stay on the engine through 2016.

Engine 765 will be taking passengers through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park on Sunday, Sept. 18, and Saturday, Sept.

24. Boarding for the three-hour trip will take place in Akron, Ohio. Railroad enthusiasts can learn more about the trip on the Society’s website, fortwaynerailroad. org.

“We would like to schedule more excursions that originate in Fort Wayne,” Lynch said.

PHOTOS BY ROD KING “They’re very popular and Clockwise, starting at top left: 1) World War II re-enactor Greg Champion from Plymouth is in full field gear for the Fort Wayne sell out as Railroad Historical Society open house. 2) A young railroader operates controls of an HO gauge model layout with help from soon as they’re Gary Evans. 3) Visitors to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s seventh annual open house queue up for caboose rides. announced.

They also toured the inside of two vintage passenger cars. 4) The proposed Headwaters Junction in downtown Fort Wayne Unfortunately, would feature train rides, a rail camp for kids and adults, equipment displays and an operating roundhouse. we have to work around the busy proposed Headwaters Lynch said. “There hasn’t bring lots of people to caboose rides with Santa, railroad schedule and Junction project were been an idea like this Fort Wayne. which draw around 4,500 the availability of tracks. on display in the engine anywhere in the country.

“We’ve got a fundpeople the first three We’re looking into operhouse. The project is part It would feature train raising strategy in place Saturdays in December. ating some trips out of The rides, which take of the downtown Fort rides, a rail camp for kids and hope to raise the Chicago next year.” about 20 minutes, will run Wayne redevelopment and adults, equipment money through private The next big event for from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each effort. “We’re really displays and an operating donations. Hopefully it the society is the annual day. excited about the prosroundhouse. This is the will be a reality in the Drawings of the pects of this attraction,” kind of attraction that will next 10 years.”

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Deaconess finds purpose in comforting the dying

By Garth Snow

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Having invested 25 years as a deaconess and years before that as a hospice chaplain, Roberta Ring believes in many things. She believes in the need to be available to the dying. She believes that God is in the silence of her home.

But she does not believe in something called coincidence. And she does not believe in retiring abruptly.

Grace Episcopal

Church at 10010 Aurora Place in Fort Wayne will pause to celebrate with Ring as she retires in the formal sense of the word.

The congregation invites the community to a liturgy and luncheon from 9:30-11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. The invitation is uncomplicated. “Just come,” said the rector, the Rev. Kathy Thomas.

“I think I knew from the time that I was a teenager that somehow I would work with the dying,” Ring said. “I

didn’t know how that would come about or when that would happen.

And as I married and had a daughter I knew that it would not be until she left home or was an adult in one way or another.”

That time came, almost 30 years ago. Ring saw the evidence of her calling. “I was in the middle of a terrible rainstorm and as I jumped into one side of a cab a gentleman jumped into the other side. We decided we were going close

LABYRINTH from Page A3 questions and you’re not sure which direction to go, and it gives you a place to focus on that for a period of time and to be open to what God has to say to you,” she said.

“You find yourself moving closer and further away from the distractions and everything else,” Smith said. “So when you come into the center that’s the one time that you stop. It’s not only prayer but it’s also solace.”

Work continues on a walking path surrounding the labyrinth and connecting it to the church sidewalk. Each of the 10 meditation stations will have a fitness element

and a Bible verse. Music stations offer walkers a chance to play hymns on stationary chimes. “It’s the thing that separates our park from a lot of other parks, is that there’s a faith element to it,” Limbach said.

An Eagle Scout project completed the first four stations.

“We started raising the funds for it in 2010 and we did most of the construction in the fall of 2015 and then we’ve been working on the finishing touches and the landscaping this spring and summer,” Limbach said.

Resurrection Park also includes a slide and two

crawl-through, plastic lined tunnels for children to explore. There’s also a fire pit and a community garden. Limbach said Resurrection opened at Cook and Coldwater roads in Fort Wayne, across from Northrop High School. After the building was sold, the congregation met in a warehouse in Huntertown for three years. The new building was completed about 11 years ago. The brick behind the pulpit is from the original church, as is the cross.

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enough to the same place that we could share the cab, and in the course of the ride he started to talk about his wife who had just died,” she said. “And on a boat in the middle of an ocean I noticed that someone was crying and I just went over and sat next to her. I didn’t say anything. And she told me about her 3-year-old son whom she had just buried before she got on the boat.

“Those things happened to me, over and over.”

Ring believed she was being called to work with the dying. She offered to volunteer for Visiting Nurse hospice, and completed training. “The head of the nurses asked

me if I would consider being a chaplain,” Ring said. “Never in my life had I considered that.

And yet after the training I worked almost full time as a volunteer for free.”

Then she became a chaplain on contract. “I just did what I knew I was supposed to do, and what experience with the dying had taught me to do,” she said. “And I tried so hard to encourage people in the love of God, to trust in that love. I was there 18 years.”

She received her master’s degree in pastoral care and counseling from Neumann University in Ashton, Pa. Even while working at Visiting Nurse, she was

ordained in the Episcopal Church, at Saint Alban’s Church on St. Joe Road.

She same to Grace at the invitation of the Rev. Robert L. Fitzpatrick, now bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii.

“It was a very important step. Oh, I couldn’t have continued [in hospice] if I had not been ordained,” Ring said.

“I cannot tell you how rewarding it is to be with someone who is saying goodbye to everything they know, and we don’t know what is going to happen when we stop breathing on this earth,” Ring said. “We can’t say for sure what is going to happen, and so for me to be able to encourage a person in the love of God was such a rewarding, meaningful thing. What a blessing.

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Roberta Ring has ministered to the dying for more than 25 years. Grace Episcopal Church will observe Ring’s formal retirement Sept. 11.

PURPOSE from Page A13 the process of dying and they needed to know that it was OK, that all they had to do was trust in the love of God.” Even after her retirement from Visiting Nurse, she has continued working with the dying in association with her role as a deaconess.

“Roberta has this endless energy,” said Thomas, the pastor.

“Roberta brings such an important presence here at Grace, this enthusiasm for life and this deepseated knowledge and relationship with God that just kind of permeates her being.”

“Roberta has been a spiritual presence and a rock that helped this congregation know that even as they struggled there was hope,” Thomas said of Ring’s service before Thomas arrived at

Grace in 2008. “She took on a lot of the liturgical planning. She made sure the Gospel was being proclaimed, even as we had supply priests coming in. And she did that in addition to her job at hospice.

“This has been a team ministry since I came.”

Ring is so integral to the church that talk of her retirement caused concern, Thomas said.

“It just gives her an opportunity on Sunday mornings to do her own worship, to be with her family, and to be among the people in a new way,” Thomas said.

“There are too many things happening in my life that people call coincidence. And it’s not coincidence,” Ring said.

“Now that I’m taking retirement, I’m letting go of certain symbols in the

church. There is a change happening inside of me.

But I really believe God is not through with me. I still have a good amount of energy. But more importantly, I still have a love for people. So my ministry may be going sort of underground, kind of going inside.”

“My ministry is not in the church, necessarily,” Ring said. “There are certain things that I do within the church that are symbolic of what my ministry is, like assisting at Eucharist, like visiting the sick. My ministry is really in the world.

However I’m 78. But who knows what tomorrow’s going to bring.”

“I love being at home, and it’s really quiet and I love just sitting in that silence. I think God is so present,” she said.

Concordia Lutheran High School will sponsor the first citywide middle school musical, “Annie Jr.,” to be performed at Concordia Elementary School, 4245 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne, on March 17 and 18.

Auditions for this musical will take place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11.

“We are looking for guys and girls in Grades 6-8 to be part of our show,” Director Chris Murphy said. “We will also be looking for students who are interested in painting/constructing the set, working backstage and working with lights and sound. We are looking to have students run as much of this production as possible.”

Anyone who is interested in auditioning for this show or working on any part of the show should contact Murphy at cmurphy@clhscadets.com.

Audition packets will be distributed by email.

Practices will begin mid-September and will be held on Sunday afternoons and Wednesday evenings.

All rehearsal information will be included in the audition packet.

Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony award-winning musical, “Annie Jr.” follows the tale of a little, redheaded orphan as she moves from her next-tonothing home and into the heart of billionaire Oliver Warbucks.

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Two dance companies will join efforts to present “The Incomplete Gesture” on Saturday, Sept. 24, at IPFW. Show time is 7:30 at the Rhinehart Music

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IPFW’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and Shruti – the Indian Cultural Society of Fort Wayne – have made it possible for tickets to be priced at $10 each. In a statement, the groups said that is a substantial savings compared with other venues. Students with a current school ID are admitted free of charge.

Tickets are available at the IPFW box office, or at ipfw.edu/tickets, or by calling (260) 481-6555.

The Incomplete Gesture is a fusion of traditional Indian and contemporary Indonesian dance. It is presented by Natya Dance Theatre of Chicago and Nan Jombang Dance of West Sumatra. “This dynamic cross-cultural work explores the tensions and challenges of the contemporary saga of communication clashes,” the groups said in an announcement.

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During a two-day celebration of the arts community, Aug. 26-27, patrons had an opportunity to experience Fort Wayne’s art, culture, food, drinks and more. The 2016 Taste of the Arts festival that took place at the Downtown Arts Campus featured muscians young and old, fine artists painting in front of a live audiance for a wet paint auction and plenty of food trucks and other vendors. The annual festival was free and open to the public.

Dinner, golf outing to benefit Youth for Christ Youth for Christ of Northern Indiana will host its annual fundraiser for teen programs on Sept. 11 and 12. The annual golf classic, dinner and auction will support youth mentoring programs, including Campus Life, City Life and Juvenile Justice Ministry.

The event will honor law enforcement officers, public safety professionals, civic leaders, veterans and other volunteers who strengthen the communities. Notre Dame football player Drue Tranquill (Carroll High School 2014) will be among the featured guests, and retired Navy Admiral Bruce Clingan will deliver the keynote address.

The dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

11, at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research, 10622 Parkview Plaza Drive, Fort Wayne.

Tickets are $50. Advance tickets are required and may be obtained until Sept. 2 through the Youth for Christ website, yfcnin.org, or by email at bamico@yfcnin.org.

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The following day, Monday, Sept. 12, YFC will host its annual Allen County golf outing at Sycamore Hills Golf Club in Fort Wayne.

The morning flight will begin at 7:30 a.m., while the afternoon flight will begin at 1:15 p.m.

The cost is $250 for an individual and $1,000 per team. Advance registration is required.

“Special events such as these enable us to continue our mission of serving more young people and sharing the life-giving message of Jesus Christ,” said Larry Lance, CEO of YFC of Northern Indiana.

For more information, contact Breanna Amico at (260) 484-4551, ext. 211, or bamico@yfcnin.org.

An Indiana native, Clingan is the former commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe–Africa and Allied Joint Force Command. He served the United States Central Command as deputy director of operations after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He also served as deputy commander of the

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Tranquill, a Fort Wayne native, was an Associated Press all-state linebacker.

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Students come from many different cultures and religions, including Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Hindi, said Grace Housholder, 35-year volunteer for AFS who resides in Kendallville.

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AFS helps find host families for students coming to the area through the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program, which was developed and funded by the State Department in 2002 after Sept. 11, 2001. The program seeks to host students from predominantly Muslim populations who attend school for one academic year to engage in and learn about American society and for American society to learn from them.

Similar opportunities exist for U.S. students to study abroad.

Rotary clubs Local Rotary clubs also sponsor foreign exchange students. The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne and the Anthony Wayne Rotary Club have placed hundreds of students in host homes.

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Fort Wayne brings in hundreds of foreign students through multiple exchange programs

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Featured are foreign exchange students who participated through the Rotary program in the 2014-2015 school year. From left to right are Sergio Apumayta from Peru; Orsi Nagy from Hungary; Maggie Blackwell exchanged to Turkey; and Sophie Lahey exchanged to Denmark.

This year, a Finnish girl is arriving to attend Northside High School and a girl from Chile will be attending Carroll High School. The Rotary International program sets up a student for 11 months, switching between two to three host families. This can save students from spending a year with families with whom they don’t click.

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The Rotary clubs try to place foreign exchange students in a home which has a student that will go to the same school.

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The North Anthony Corridor’s phase one also focuses on eliminating the giant stretches of parking lots. Parking lot entrances will be reduced and a boulevard will replace the current turn lane on North Anthony Boulevard, while roundabouts will be constructed at the intersections of Crescent and also St. Joe. Phase two focuses on breaking up the parking lots by adding pocket parks, places to sit and ride bicycles and a fountain, and also reconstructing storefronts like Longe Optical and Baan Thai.

Now that the designs are developed and presented, Hoch is passing the baton on to those in the North Anthony neighborhood and the city of Fort Wayne to begin making the changes happen.

Business Weekly to honor 20 millennials making a difference Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly will honor 20 individuals under the age of 34 who are making a difference on the job and in their community during its 3rd annual 20 Millennials Making a Difference Awards. These young professionals were chosen by a panel of distinguished judges for their dedication and determination.

The following are the members of the Business Weekly 20 Millennials Making a Difference Class of 2016: Jon Brown, 29, Fort Wayne Free Art Collective Catherine Collins, 32, Franklin Electric Jaclyn Garner, 33, Ivy Tech Community College Northeast Ruthie Hall, 30, United Way of Allen County Candice Holbrook, 34, West Noble School Corp.

Melissa Hostetler, 25, Turnstone James McFadden, 29, McFadden Resource Center/Check and Connect Laine Mello, 26, Design Collaborative Silas Norris, 30, MBN Properties

Jorge Ortiz, 28, Office of Sen. Joe Donnelly Lance Price, 29, Price Automation, LLC. Katie Robinson, 26, Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority Jennifer Rohlf, 26, YWCA Northeast Indiana Amanda Seilheimer, 29, IPFW Jennifer Sharkey, 31, Steuben County & Angola High School Tiffany Templeton, 26, Asher Agency Nicholas Wisel, 31, Sodexo Justin Vedder, 33, Design Collaborative Rachel Vedder, 32, Design Collaborative Andrea Zwiebel, 32, The Honeywell Foundation The winners will be honored at an awards reception 5:30 -7:30 p.m. Sept.15 at the Allen County Memorial Coliseum Conference Center.

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Day of Caring volunteers arrive early at FWCS More than 100 volunteers pitched in July 28 to clean, paint and spruce up the landscaping at six Fort Wayne Community Schools buildings, as part of a special United Way of Allen County Day of Caring.

The official Day of Caring will take place Sept.

1, but because school will be in session at that time, volunteers took care of the schools early.

Five businesses and community groups signed up to work at schools throughout the city from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

At Franke Park Elementary School, Hylant Group volunteers applied mulch, and painted curb lines, bicycle racks and playground equipment.

The partnerships formed on Day of Caring often turn into long-term relationships between the businesses and the schools, with employees returning to volunteer or help the schools in other ways throughout the school year.

“We appreciate the commitment that so many in our community make to our schools each year during Day of Caring,” FWCS Superintendent Wendy Robinson said.

“While the event to spruce up the schools is done in one day, the relationships are long-lasting. So many people who have participated in Day of Caring have come back to support our students in a variety of ways, from tutoring to mentoring to internships.

These partnerships show our students, staff and families how much the community cares.”

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• Study Elementary, 2414 Brooklyn Ave., NIPSCO. • Northwood Middle School, 1201 E. Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne Community Schools.

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Volunters join in a group photo after preparing Franke Park Elementary School for the new school year. Principal Brian Howard snapped this photo of the workers, who included staff from the Hylant Group. Fort Wayne Community Schools staff, several local businesses, and other local volunteers turned out July 28 to work at six FWCS buildings.

EXCHANGE from Page A16 Germany; and Taizhou, China. Each year, the program switches the sister cities with which it works. This year, Polish and Chinese students will come for two to three weeks, often in August or September, and then participating American students will travel to Poland or China in the spring. Next year, students from Germany and Japan will travel here in the fall and American students will go to Gera or

Takaoka.

The Sister Cities program is more of a shadowing experience than a traditional foreign student exchange. The exchange student lives with a host family with a student of the same age and then attends school with them to have a cultural and educational learning experience, said Lorrie Freiburger, corresponding secretary for Fort Wayne Sister Cities International.

High school connections Many high schools already have their own connections with foreign schools and exchange programs. At Canterbury High School, most foreign exchange students arrive through one of three programs. The school has a longstanding relationship with a school in Canberra, Australia; Australian students come to Canterbury for October through December and then Canterbury students

travel to Canberra in the spring. It also works with ASSIST, receiving students predominantly from Europe. Canterbury currently teaches Japanese and so it sent students to Yokohama, Japan, this summer and will receive Japanese students sometime in March or April for 10 days.

A Guatemalan school also recently showed interest in developing an exchange student relationship with Canterbury through Jump the World Experiencias Interculturales, said Bob Schantz, principal of Canterbury High School.

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students and programs are essential for many reasons, one of which is the U.S. economy. In the 2014-2015 academic year, international students contributed roughly $30.5 billion to the United States via small businesses, airlines, hotels and non-governmental organizations, as noted by the Institute of International Education. Foreign exchange programs also create lasting connections from the hosted student to its host-area and vice versa, allowing the opportunity for global business relations and locations.

However, exchange programs are most important because they connect students,

teachers and parents from around the globe, creating relationships in which understanding and flexibility can develop and then transfer to the global economy while also strengthening worldwide security and leadership for the future.

All of the aforementioned exchange programs are always looking for host families to participate, though it is often helpful if the host family has a member that has participated either in the specific program the exchange student is arriving through or has traveled as an exchange student through another program.

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I’m not trying to trick anybody,” Cain said.

He currently owns the mirror-image sister house that shares a porch and backyard with his home and the one next to it.

The twin houses were built by the Sauerteig family, who had the homes constructed after their two sons were in high school. The family owned a bakery and lived in the home in which Cain currently resides.

He has had the pleasure of meeting some of the Sauerteig relatives.

Although a modest family like the Sauerteigs would not have been wealthy enough to afford a garden or spend time in it, Cain has taken his professional landscape architect skills and changed the backyard into a lovely garden in a style popular around the time the house was built.

The two homes each have their own square, grassy yard and are bordered by flowers and shrubs, meeting together in the center at a brick, circular

walkway surrounding a small fountain. The back area also has a three-car garage that used to be a carriage house.

Cain has participated in the West Central Home and Garden Tour multiple times, once in the 1990s as a work-in-progress, in 2000 and 2008 as a renovated home and a couple of times with just the garden.

“I enjoy sharing the potential of these homes,” said Cain.

Cain’s home is No. 2 on the West Central Home and Garden Tour, running on Sept. 10 and 11. Tickets are available for purchase at Jamison Meats, Umbers Do It Best Hardware, Antiques on Broadway, Third World Gift Shoppe and House of Furniture for $13. They are also available for $14 on Eventbrite and day-of for $15 at the Swinney Homestead, the St. Joseph Hospital parking lot and at the neighborhood ArtsFest taking place that weekend on Wells Street.

Free carriage rides and pedicabs are available.

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fire on the upper level.

The fire was caused by someone smoking in bed.

The mattress was taken to the bathtub in an effort to quell the fire, but the owner left due to the amount of smoke. The fire rekindled, causing fire, smoke and inevitably water damage.

Cain has worked to restore much of the home’s original character and features, either through careful care of the original glass and woodwork or through replicating some of the older styles while making repairs. Although much of the furniture and décor is equally or more historic — some of it dating 300 years old — the home is still a mix of modern and old. Cain cares about the integrity of the house and has made sure some of the pieces of more recent glasswork have a small signature and date on it to show it is just a replica.

He will also be the first to point out woodwork in the home that is new but mimicking the older style.

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IN Fort Wayne • August 31, 2016 AUBURN-CORD-DUESENBERG FESTIVAL, THROUGH SEPT. 5 Auburn Celebrating the community’s automobile heritage.

Saturday, Sept. 3, 11 a.m., Courthouse Square. Enjoy performances by The Auburn Community Band and the DeKalb High School show choir.

Free.

Saturday, Sept. 3, 1 p.m., Parade of Classics. acdfestival.org VAN WERT COUNTY FAIR, THROUGH SEPT. 5 Van Wert County Fair Grounds, Van Wert, Ohio Find a full list of grandstand events online. vanwertcountyfair.com TRI-STATE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL, THROUGH SEPT. 4 Noble County Fairgrounds, 508 N. Fair St., Kendallville Program, hours and ticket prices vary daily. Festival highlights include a Saturday band scramble and a Sunday morning gospel sing and nondenominational church service.

Sponsored by Northern Indiana Bluegrass Festival, which also sponsors a Memorial Day festival. bluegrassusa.net GRABILL COUNTRY FAIR, SEPT. 8-10 Throughout the community The country style highlights the area’s Amish heritage. The fair welcomes about 130 craft booths. Buy food from vendors or enjoy homestyle meals at the Fudergong. Games for adults and children include frog jumping, a baby crawl, apple peeling, watermelon eating, cherry pit spitting, nail driving, cross-cut saw, and more. Entertainment includes gospel, country and bluegrass music.

At the exhibition hall at Grabill Missionary Church, see hundreds of entries in baked goods, canned goods, fruits, flowers, garden vegetables, quilting, needlework, woodworking, arts and crafts, and graphic artwork. See entries for the largest gourd, cantaloupe, watermelon, pump-

kin and sunflower, and tallest sunflower and cornstalk.

The Saturday morning parade begins at 10 a.m. and winds throughout the town. This year’s theme is “Saluting America’s Heroes.” Awards will be presented in: animal entries, floats, marching units, best use of theme and best commercial entry.

For the complete schedule, visit grabillcountryfair.org ROANOKE TRACTOR PULLERS FALL FESTIVAL, SEPT. 9, 10 Roanoke Park Friday, Sept. 9: NTPA Truck and Tractor Pull. Gates open at 5:30, with open pits. Show begins at 7 p.m. Classes are as follows: Limited Pro Stock Tractors, 3 Engine Modified Tractors, Super Modified TWD Trucks, Light Pro Stocks, Invitational Super Stock Diesel Class. Friday night tractor pull admission is $15 for adults, $5 for ages 6-12, and free to under age 6.

Saturday, Sept. 10: 10 a.m., Kiddie Tractor Pull, main tent of Fall Festival; 10 a.m., Northern Indiana Pullers Garden Tractor Pull, on pull track; 7 p.m., demolition derby, on the pull track (gates open at 6 p.m.).

Kiddie pull and garden tractor pull admission are free. Demolition derby admission is $10 for adults, $5 for ages 6-12, and free to under age 6.

BE A TOURIST IN YOUR HOMETOWN, SEPT. 11 Visit 16 Fort Wayne museums and attractions from noon-5 p.m. Free.

Download a passport, or pick one up at Kroger after Aug. 15.

Additions for 2016 include the Indiana Bicentennial celebration at the Allen County Public Library, the Bicentennial Trolley Tours at The History Center, 9/11 Memorial events at Parkview Field from 10 a.m.-noon, and tours of the new University of Saint Francis Downtown Campus.

Also see the African/African-American Historical Museum, the Allen County Courthouse, the Artlink Contemporary Gallery, the Cathedral Museum, the Embassy Theatre, the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The History Center,

Lincoln Tower, Science Central and the Visitors Center. visitfortwayne.com JOHNNY APPLESEED FESTIVAL, SEPT. 17, 18 Johnny Appleseed Park and Archer Park, off Coliseum Boulevard at Baals Drive, Fort Wayne.

Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free admission. Parking $6 in Coliseum lot. Or free shuttles connect to free parking at the Concordia Lutheran High School athletic field and IPFW. See trappers and traders, early military groups, and clothing from the Frontier era. Enjoy food cooked by the means available in the early 19th century. See caramel corn prepared in giant cast iron kettles, or observe how old-fashioned chicken and dumplings are prepared and served. johnnyappleseedfest.com BLUFFTON STREET FAIR, SEPT. 20-24 Downtown Bluffton, Ind. With Poor Jack Amusements.

See horse and pony events at the Wells County 4-H Fairgrounds, Sept.

17-22.

See and hear Dirty Deeds — Xtreme AC/DC at 9 p.m. Sept. 23. The craft beer garden opens at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 the day of the show.

See Brian Miser, billed as The Human Fuse. This circus daredevil has been launched from a cannon more than 7,000 times. blufftonstreetfair.com ART AT THE RIVERSIDE, SEPT. 24 Riverside Gardens, Leo-Cedarville. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sponsored by the Leo-Cedarville Foundation. artattheriverside.com

USF gala to showcase landscape artists’ works The University of Saint Francis will open the arts season with “2016 Presidential Gala: Thomas Hilty / Tamara Monk” from 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.

The gala is free to the public; reservations are not required. Visitors will enjoy food, beverages and live music as they view the art in the Weatherhead and Goldfish galleries of the Mimi and Ian Rolland Art and Visual Communication Center, Leesburg

Road.

The exhibits continue through Oct. 9. Gallery hours are: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

Hilty is a professor emeritus of Bowling Green State University and emeritus trustee of Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. He creates abstract figurative works in pastel and mixed media. Over the past four years, he has adapted

his aesthetic focus to the contemporary landscape and untouched wilderness, working in black-andwhite with graphite.

Hilty will also deliver a lecture about his work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the USF North Campus auditorium, 2702 Spring St. This lecture will be free and open to the public.

Tamara Monk, an oil painter, focuses on the luminous qualities of water and its relationship

to the wooded environments of the Upper Peninsula and northwest Ohio.

This exhibition will showcase both artists’ unique interpretations of the natural world.

Artist Spotlight Gallery will present “Ethan Ross – Hybrid Landscapes” through Oct. 9. This portfolio, shot with a 4x5 camera, is an exploration of nature’s adaptation and humankind’s instinctual need to alter its habitat.

Annual monarch fest to light at local marsh An outing in a Fort Wayne marsh will share lessons on one of nature’s most storied travelers.

Little River Wetlands Project will hold its 2016 Monarch Festival at Eagle Marsh, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne, from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

11. Visitors can view monarchs from caterpillars to adults while learning about their life cycle and 2,000-mile migration.

Visitors can also walk an interpretive trail through wildflowers to observe these butterflies nectaring or roosting.

Food will be available for purchase, as will items celebrating monarchs and other pollinators.

To help monarchs recover from recent population declines, guests will be given varieties of milkweed, the only plant on which the butterflies lay their eggs, to plant at the preserve or in home gardens. They will also be able to buy native plants to help pollinators including monarchs and other butterflies, bees and birds.

Visitors can learn to tag

monarchs to help scientists learn more about their migration to Mexico.

Little River Wetlands Project is a local land trust that protects almost

1,200 acres of natural and restored wetlands and offers free wetland and nature education programs. Its 716-acre Eagle Marsh preserve is

the largest inland urban wetland restoration in the U.S. More information is available at lrwp.org, info@lrwp.org, or (260) 478-2515.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 1

Charlie Daniels Band. Foellinger Theatre, at the Franke Park entrance on Sherman Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Reserved seats $59 and $79, bleachers $49, all plus $5 ticket fee. Visit foellingertheatre.org and click on “Purchase Theatre Tickets.”

FRIDAY, SEPT. 2

Fridays in September 2016 music series. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free. James Ator directs the Trinity Saxophone Quartet, in the Krauss Chapel. A sandwich lunch for $2 immediately follows the program.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 3

Miami Indian Heritage Days. Chief Richardville House, 5705 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne. 1 p.m. Admission $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and youth. History Center members and children ages 2 and under are admitted free. Admission to Miami Indian Heritage Days includes a guided tour of the Chief Richardville House, a National Historic Landmark. Today’s program is “Wikiami Cattail Matting,” with M.I.A.M.I (Miami Indian Alliance of Miami Indians). For more information, contact the History Center at (260) 426-2882 or visit fwhistorycenter.com.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 6

“Walkin’ by Faith in the USA.” The Town House, 2209 St. Joe Center Road, Fort Wayne. 6:45 p.m. The Senior Saints choir representing 28 churches present patriotic music and songs of faith. Marsha Wright directs. For details, visit GrabillMissionary.org/SeniorSaints.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7

Liberty Cruisers Car Club cruise-in. Athenian Family Restaurant, 1020 W. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6-8 p.m. Spectators welcome. For details, call (260) 485-5886. The 2016 schedule continues at the same hours and location: Sept. 21; and Oct. 5. For information on cruise-ins from Orland, Ind., to Bryan, Ohio, visit libertycruisers.com.

Summer Nights at the Embassy. Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 5-9 p.m. Tickets are $5, and are on sale two weeks in advance through ticketmaster.com, at (800) 745-3000 and the Embassy box office. This weekly event on the new Parkview Health rooftop features a variety of entertainment, a cash bar and views of the downtown skyline. The entertainment and food schedule are posted at fwembassytheatre.org. In the case of inclement weather, Summer Nights at the Embassy will move inside to the Ballroom at the Embassy.

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“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. All seats $12 for this opening night of the theater’s season opener — about a Broadway opening night. Visit firstpres-fw. org/the_arts/theater for ticket information.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 9

“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 for ages 65-plus, free for full-time students with a reservation. If a student buys tickets at the door, tickets are $10. Box office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Or buy tickets at firstprebyteriantheater.com.

Heartland Sings concert. The Philmore on Broadway, 2441 Broadway, Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25 in advance, or $25 at the door, or $10 with a Heartland Passport. Tickets are available by calling (260) 4368080. The Heartland Vocal Artists and the Heartland Jazz Combo, led from the piano by Maestro Robert Nance, present a program of jazz standards “There Will Never be Another You,” “Moonlight Serenade” and “My Funny Valentine,” pop hits “Sweet Caroline,” “Hey Jude” and

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“Don’t Stop Believing,” and a bicentennial tribute to Indiana composers Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael. This concert opens the 20th anniversary season. Reserved seats are available. These include premier tables and a complimentary beverage, for $50. For more information about reserved seats, contact the Heartland office at (260) 436-8080.

“Good Old Days — Across the Decades.” Kingston Residence, 7515 Winchester Road, Fort Wayne. 4-6:30 p.m. Free. Donations will be accepted toward the Waynedale Trails and Sidewalks Initiative. Performers Janelle and Jonze will feature songs of the ’50s and ’60s and The Old Fort Model A Car Club will have a number of cars on display. Local Southwest Honey Co. will be on hand with live bees and information about their honey products and hives housed at Southwest Conservation Club. Magic Jerry will perform magic tricks. Kingston Residence will offer corn hole, homemade caramel corn made over an open fire, chicken and noodles and ice cream. An old-fashion apple pie baking contest will be held.

WTSI has donated over $20,000 toward the design and engineering of both trails and sidewalks slated for Bluffton Road between Lower Huntington and Winchester roads beginning in 2017.

Fridays in September 2016 music series. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free. The Philharmonic Brass performs in the church nave. A sandwich lunch for $2 immediately follows the program.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 10

“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 for ages 65-plus, free for full-time students with a reservation. If a student buys tickets at the door, tickets are $10. Box office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Or buy tickets at firstprebyteriantheater.com.

Saint Therese Fall Festival. Saint Therese Church and School, 2222 Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission. Buy tickets at the first tent for kids’ games. Use tickets or cash for food. Mass in the Grass, 5 p.m. Beer tent and music, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Young Eagles Flight Rally. Smith Field Airport, 426 W. Ludwig Road, Fort Wayne. Register beginning at 9 a.m. Young people ages 8-17 may get a bird’s-eye view of the area thanks to the Experimental Aircraft Association. The free rides will be aboard general aviation aircraft. For more information, visit eea.org, or youngeagles.org, or call (260) 4026764.

Forest Park Neighborhood Party. Forest Park United Methodist Church, 2100 Kentucky Ave., Fort Wayne. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Carnival, bounce house, free hot dogs and popcorn. Planning continues for more activities.

5th annual hog roast. Martini Lutheran Church, 1400 Elm St., New Haven.

4-7 p.m. Adults, $8 in advance or $9 at the door; children 5-10, $5; children 4 and under, free (dine-in only).

The menu includes pulled pork or a hot dog for children, green beans, roll, dessert, beverage and sides. Carry-out orders are available.

Proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit the Martini Lutheran Church Family Education Fund. To buy tickets in advance, call the church office at (260) 749-0014. The church also will hold a silent auction as part of this fundraiser.

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Haute Gathering and Farmer’s Market. The Shiloh Event Center, 3127 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Public welcome. Local artisans will display unique home décor, upcycled furniture, boutique chic items and farmer’s market goods. Shoppers may enjoy tasty treats prepared by the Shiloh’s Chef or a wine slushy. There will be live music and games for the kids. Contact info@ShilohHall.com for more information about The Shiloh or emiley.roman@yahoo.com for vendor/booth information.

Liberty Cruisers Car Club cruise-in. Liberty Diner, 2929 Goshen Road, Fort Wayne. 5-7:30 p.m. Spectators welcome. The season ends with a cruise-in at the same time and location on Oct. 9.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 13

MD & Me: Walk-n-Learn. Salomon Farm Park Trail, near the Parkview Family YMCA, 10001 Dawsons Creek Blvd., just south of Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. 6 p.m., after registration at 5:45 p.m. Parkview Physicians Group sponsors these free programs, in which a physician presents a health topic and then the group joins the physician on a walk.

Free blood pressure screenings and education materials are provided.

Today, Dr. Michele Helfgott discusses “Pros and Cons of Vitamins and Supplements.”

THURSDAY, SEPT. 15

Aldersgate Art Show. Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 2417 Getz Road, Fort Wayne. Opening reception and awards presentation, 6:30-8 p.m. Featuring work of members of the Fort Wayne Artists Guild.

Works may be in oils or acrylics, watercolors or open media. The show opens Sept. 11 and continues through Oct. 2. For a list of participating artists and links to their work, visit fortwayneartistsguild.org.

Fall rummage sale. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 800 Green St., New Haven.

9 a.m.-7 p.m. The Ladies’ Society sponsors this annual sale. Items will be available outside beginning at 8 a.m. Money will go causes such as Emanuel’s vacation Bible school, the New Haven Food Bank and Worship for Shut-ins.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 16

Fridays in September 2016 music series. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free. Baritone Eric Klickman sings in the Krauss Chapel. A sandwich lunch for $2 immediately follows the program.

Fall rummage sale. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 800 Green St., New Haven.

9 a.m.-2 p.m. The Ladies’ Society sponsors this annual sale. Items will be available outside beginning at 8 a.m. Money will go causes such as Emanuel’s vacation Bible school, the New Haven Food Bank and Worship for Shut-ins.

“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 for ages 65-plus, free for full-time students with a reservation. If a student buys tickets at the door, tickets are $10. Box office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Or buy tickets at firstprebyteriantheater.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 17

38th Infantry/US Army National Guard Band. Foellinger Theatre, at the entrance to Franke Park on Sherman Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 4 p.m. Free; tickets not required. Presented by the Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation Department.

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“A Toast to Life.” Club Soda, 235 E. Superior St., Fort Wayne. 4-7 p.m.

Visiting Nurse hold its eight annual specialty beer and food pairing dinner. $125 per person. Call (260) 435-3222 or visit vnfw.org/donate to buy tickets or to make a donation. Reservations are requested by Sept.

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by Club Soda, with each course paired with a select specialty beer chosen by Five Star Distributing. “A Toast to Life” toasts the lives and memories of family and friends, while supporting the work of Visiting Nurse. This event also features a live and silent auction of leisure- and sports-related items donated by area businesses and individuals who support Visiting Nurse’s mission to alleviate suffering and ensure quality of life for those affected by serious illnesses.

George Thorogood in concert. Foellinger Theatre, at the Franke Park entrance on Sherman Boulevard, Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Reserved seats $59 and $79, bleachers $49, all plus $5 ticket fee. Visit foellingertheatre.org and click on “Purchase Theatre Tickets.”

“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 for ages 65-plus, free for full-time students with a reservation. If a student buys tickets at the door, tickets are $10. Box office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Or buy tickets at firstprebyteriantheater.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21

Passport to Manhood. Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, Parkview North, 10622 Parkview Plaza Drive, Fort Wayne. $75; open to the public. 7:30-9 a.m. This event is a breakfast. Dr. Michael Mirro of the Mirro Center will deliver the address. Boys & Girls Club of Fort Wayne serves school age men and women from financially challenged households. Limited financial resources and the breakdown of the traditional nuclear family creates educational and employment challenges for these young people. To assist, the BGCFW provides financial and support resources through donors to improve educational opportunities. The Passport To Manhood program works with several hundred young men, several of whom are recognized at the Passport To Manhood event. For more informaiton, contact Deborah Stellwagen, (260) 744-0998, Ext. 110, or Volunteer Support: Henry Phillips, (260) 213-6117.

Violins in the Vineyard. Two-EE’s Winery, 6808 North U.S. 24 E., Huntington; near Roanoke. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $50 per tickets. Get tickets at the United Way of Huntington County, 356 W. Park Drive, Huntington.

Ticket price includes two wine tastings, sweet and savory appetizers, and a string quartet from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic playing songs from the 1960s and ’70s. The event is a fundraiser for the La Fontaine Arts Council. Programs benefit school-age children in Huntington County.

Liberty Cruisers Car Club cruise-in. Athenian Family Restaurant, 1020 W. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6-8 p.m. Spectators welcome. For details, call (260) 485-5886. The 2016 schedule concludes with a cruise-in at the same hours and location on Oct. 5. For information on cruise-ins from Orland, Ind., to Bryan, Ohio, visit libertycruisers.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 22

“Walkin’ by Faith in the USA.” Huber Opera House, 157 E. High St., Hicksville, Ohio. 7 p.m. The Senior Saints choir representing 28 churches present patriotic music and songs of faith. Marsha Wright directs. For details, visit GrabillMissionary.org/SeniorSaints.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 23

“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 for ages 65-plus, free for full-time students with a reservation. If a student buys tickets at the door, tickets are $10. Box office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Or buy tickets at firstprebyteriantheater.com.

Fridays in September 2016 music series. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free. The string trio of Neborah Nitka-Hicks, Pablo Vasquez and Kristin Westover will sing in the Krauss Chapel. A sandwich lunch for $2 immediately follows the program.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 24

Free ukulele music. Pizza Hut, 5735 Coventry Lane, Fort Wayne. 11 a.m.

The Fort Wayne Area Ukulele Club — the TRU Ukes — performs for an hour and a half and then has lunch. Restaurant patrons may listen for free.

“It’s Only a Play.” First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 for ages 65-plus, free for full-time students with a reservation. If a student buys tickets at the door, tickets are $10. Box office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Or buy tickets at firstprebyteriantheater.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 25

Fort Wayne Hobby and Collectibles Show. Classic Cafe catering and reception hall, 4832 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission.

Hobby and collectibles show, with vinyl records and CD shows next door. Find vintage and new toys, comic books, sport and non-sport cards, TV and movie memorabilia, die-casts, coins, models, magazines, games, and more. For more information, visit facebook.com/fortwaynehobbyandcollectiblesshow/.

Live Well Fit & Fun event. Southwest Lutheran Church and Sonshine Christian Academy, 5210 Homestead Road, Fort Wayne. Begins with outdoor worship at 10 a.m. The event will feature a classic car show, games, horseback riding, activities for the kids and health and wellness information booths, including Live Well exercise and Christian counseling. Sonshine Christian Academy will be on hand to give information on child care needs and possible enrollment opportunities. Mocha Lounge will provide coffees, teas and other goodies. Big Eye Fish and Blue Stack Smokehouse will have a few culinary choices. Walgreens will provide a no-cost flu shot clinic. This event is a 10-year celebration for SWLC being at this location. For more information, visit southwestlutheran.org, call (260) 260-436-4474, or email swlc@southwestlutheran.org.

“Walkin’ by Faith in the USA.” Grabill Missionary Church 13637 State St., Grabill. 6 p.m. The Senior Saints choir representing 28 churches present patriotic music and songs of faith. Marsha Wright directs. For details, visit GrabillMissionary.org/SeniorSaints.

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Fridays in September 2016 music series. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washington Blvd., Fort Wayne. 12:10-12:40 p.m. Free. Timothy Denton performs on the organ in the church nave. A sandwich lunch for $2 immediately follows the program.

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Miami Indian Heritage Days. Chief Richardville House, 5705 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne. 1 p.m. Admission $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and youth. History Center members and children ages 2 and under are admitted free. Admission to Miami Indian Heritage Days includes a guided tour of the Chief Richardville House, a National Historic Landmark. Today’s program is “Miami Harvest: Edible and Usable Plants and Materials,” with Dani Tippmann. For more information, contact the History Center at (260) 426-2882 or visit fwhistorycenter.com.

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Liberty Cruisers Car Club cruise-in. Athenian Family Restaurant, 1020 W. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. 6-8 p.m. Spectators welcome. For details, call (260) 485-5886. Today’s cruise-in concludes the 2016 schedule.

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— Courtesy Fort Wayne Parks Department Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Admission: $5 for adults, $3 for ages 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free. For more information, visit botanicalconservatory.org.

Empyrean Café serves breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., with extended hours on Thursday until 8 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. For details or to order online, visit empyreancafe.com.

Our Japanese Sister Garden Exhibit. Through Nov. 13. The city of Fort Wayne has a “twin,” a sister city in Japan called Takaoka. We honor our friendly relations with our Japanese Sister in this lovely garden with a distinctly Japanese flavor. Pass through the entry gate to discover a green and peaceful space. In the outer garden, spots of summer annuals will give way to autumn chrysanthemums as the season progresses.

Move slowly along the garden paths to calm your mind as you approach the Tea House and its simple and intimate surrounding garden. Peering into the house, you will see the utensils used for the tea ceremony as well as a scroll and flowers presented for quiet study. Gain insight into Takaoka’s culture through a display of items presented by their city to ours, on loan from The History Center.

The 11th season of Botanical Roots concerts. Friday Sept. 2, 8:30-11 p.m. It’s the final act of the 11th season. Zion Lion is the “baddest” band to hit the Kalamazoo music scene, with just the right mix of reggae: African zouk, mucosa, zoukous and some Afro-latin influences. Concerts are held rain or shine in our outdoor Terrace Garden. Seating is limited so please feel free to bring your own chair. Food and beverage will be available for purchase from Mad Anthony Brewing; no outside food or beverage allowed. Admission: $6/age 13 and older; age 12 and under free. Member entrance and early admission.

Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown. Sunday, Sept. 11, noon-4 p.m.

Rediscover your own backyard during the annual Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown celebration. During the afternoon, participants can enjoy the vocal performance of The Brat Pack, 1-3 pm. Sponsored by the Fort Wayne-Allen County Convention and Visitors Bureau. For more information, go online to visitfortwayne.org or pick up a passport at Kroger stores or area attractions.

New volunteer orientation. Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1-4 p.m. The Botanical Conservatory is inviting new volunteers to join their support team. We look for help at the front desk, in the gift shop, with special events and to assist with programs. Meet new people, build your skills, and support a community treasure. For front desk and gift shop, some familiarity with computers and retail settings is an advantage, but not required.

Training is provided, and benefits include free garden admission, discounts on classes and purchases, and annual recognition. For more information, contact Megan at (260) 427- 6446 or megan.butler@cityoffortwayne.org.

Ikebana flower arranging. Saturday, Sept. 17, 10-11 a.m.Explore the mesmerizing art of Ikebana flower arranging. This highly artistic style of flower arranging is from Japan, and we are pleased to offer it in conjunction with Our Japanese Sister Showcase exhibit. Instructor Tea Malloizel has extensive experience in flower arranging and has traveled to Japan to learn this art from the masters. Flowers and a vase are provided, but please bring garden gloves and scissors. You may bring along

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Bishop Dwenger High School driver’s education. The fall session will run Sept.

12-23. Students must be at least 15 on or before Sept. 12 in order to register. The cost of the program, including the driving portion, is $350.

This fee also includes the road test required by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, if the student qualifies with a B- or better in both the book work and driving. The cost for just the book work portion, whether taken at Bishop Dwenger or online, is $50. The driving portion, which is six hours of behind-the-wheel driving, can be done during the spring, summer or fall sessions. Visit bishopdwenger.com/Drivers-Education for registration information.

Calling craft vendors. The Bishop Dwenger Craft Bazaar is accepting registrations for vendors and crafters for the Nov. 12. Crafters may rent tables for $50 each and some electricity is available for a selected number of spots. Registrations and information can be found on the Performing Arts page at bishopdwenger.com/Performing-Arts. Contact Karen Graham at (419) 518-0241 for more information. Bishop Dwenger High School is at 1300 E. Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne.

Church bazaar recruiting vendors. Waynedale United Methodist Church, 2501 Church St., Fort Wayne. Saturday, Nov. 5, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sponsored by the U.M.C. Women. Table rental is $25 for a 6-foot table.

To reserve a table, call Carol at (260) 632-5443.

Preschool openings for fall. Saint Michael Lutheran Preschool, 2131 Getz Road, Fort Wayne. A Christ-centered program for ages 3-5. For more registration information or to set up a visitation appointment, visit stmfw.org/preschool, call the Saint Michael Church office at (260) 432-2033, or contact Preschool Director Michelle Wolfer at michelle@ stmfw.org Advance tickets to Violins in the Vineyard. Wednesday, Sept. 21. Two-EE’s Winery, 6808 North U.S. 24 E., Huntington; near Roanoke. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $50 per tickets. Get tickets at the United Way of Huntington County, 356 W. Park Drive, Huntington. Ticket price includes two wine tastings, sweet and savory appetizers, and a string quartet from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic playing songs from the 1960s and ’70s. The event is a fundraiser for the La Fontaine Arts Council. Programs benefit school-age children in Huntington County.

2016-17 theater schedule. Home Stage Productions has announced the next year’s schedule of “excellent, thought-provoking and family-friendly plays” for all for One productions. All performances will be given at the PPG ArtsLab Theater, 300 E. Main St, Fort Wayne. The schedule includes: “Freud’s Last Session,” Sept. 16-18 and 23-25; “The Wind in the Willows,” Nov. 4-6 and 11-13; William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Feb. 17-19 and 24-26, 2017; and “A Wrinkle in Time,” April 28-30 and May 5-7, 2017. Friday and Saturday curtain is 7:30 p.m.

Sunday matinee curtain is 2:30 p.m. Season ticket information, play descriptions, audition instructions and details of the nonprofit arts organization can be found at allforonefw.org, or call (260) 745-4364.

Science Central fall shutdown. Science Central, 1950 N. Clinton St., Fort Wayne. The learning center closed for its annual fall shutdown, Aug. 29-Sept. 9. Normal school year hours will resume Sept. 14. Visitors then will notice new exhibits and new items for sale in the gift shop. Science Central will be open on weekends throughout the shutdown. Science Central school year hours are: Monday, closed; Tuesday, closed; Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.-4

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Fall bonsai display. Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Explore a forest of miniature trees carefully trained and pruned by members of our local bonsai club. Elms, maples, junipers and other familiar plants look just like their outdoor cousins — but a fraction of their size. The club also grows tropical bonsai that don’t need special winter treatment. Learn about the fascinating hobby or just enjoy “a stroll in the miniature forest.” Bonsai pots and young plants will be available to purchase.

Sponsored by the Fort Wayne Bonsai Club. Special discount admission: $3/adult, $2/child age 3-17, children 2 and under free.

Japanese family event. Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Konnichiwa!

Join us as we celebrate Our Japanese Sister! This family-friendly event will allow you to peek into Japanese culture as you enjoy our beautiful Japanese garden exhibit which features a tea house and items from Takaoka on display. Learn more about our Sister City in Japan as you enjoy crafts, tastes of Japanese food and tea, performances, and fun and games. No reservations required; special admission applies: $3/adult, $2/child age 3-17. Children age 2 and under free.

Art displays. Get to know local and regional artists in a variety of media through the Botanical Conservatory’s bi-monthly art exhibits, open to view in our meeting room during public hours. Visit botanicalconservatory.org for links to artists. Regular Conservatory admission applies. For more information, call (260) 427-6440.

Dave Mikautadze: Photography. September – October. David Mikautadze is a composer and jazz guitar player living in Fort Wayne whose vision is to communicate his sentiments of a subject, mostly landscape and architecture, using controlled gradations of light, a selective color palette, and compositional interest. His goal is to create fine art photography.

His exhibit at the Botanical Conservatory’s Saguaro Room is entitled “Light-Shadow-Darkness.” $1 Nights. Thursday, Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m. On the first Thursday of each month we offer a $1 admission price for both adults and children (instead of the usual $5 & $3). Babies and up to age 2 are still admitted free. For more information, call (260) 427-6440.

LITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT ACTIVITIES

— Courtesy Little River Wetlands Project This local nature organization protects almost 1,200 acres of natural and restored wetlands in Allen and Huntington counties, and offers informative nature events. All events are free and open to the community.

Contact info@lrwp.org or (260) 478-2515 for information or to reserve a spot.

• Every Tuesday in September, 9-11 a.m. “Little River Ramblers.” Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne, to hike and explore the plants and wildlife.

• Thursday, Sept. 8, 8:30-9:45 a.m. “Breakfast on the Marsh: Striving for Sustainability in the Valley: Aquaponics.” Light breakfast and nature presentation for nature lovers 50+ at Indiana Wesleyan University Education & Conference Center, Room 102/104, 8211 W. Jefferson Blvd, Fort Wayne. Get Fresh Farms is a local aquaponics operation that is focused on sustainable farming. Aquaponics technician and biologist Kate Sanders will discuss their farming methods and food self-sufficiency practices.

• Sunday, Sept. 11, noon-4 p.m. “Monarch Festival at Eagle Marsh.”

Come to the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne, for this free family-friendly event. You’ll view monarch butterflies from egg to adult while learning about their life cycle and amazing 2,000-mile migration through educational presentations, displays, outdoor stations and

hands-on activities. You can also stroll through spectacular wildflowers to observe these iconic butterflies and learn to tag them to help scientists learn more about their migration. Attendees will be given a milkweed, the only plant on which the butterflies lay their eggs, to plant at the preserve or at home.

• Saturday, Sept. 17, 9-10:30 a.m. “Wildflowers of Eagle Marsh.” Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. Join Sam Schwartz, naturalist and co-founder of Little River Wetlands Project, to wander among the colorful blooms along Trail 8 identifying and learning about the abundant late summer flowers. This is an Allen County Trailblazers hike for those working to earn their medallion (allencountytrailblazers.org). Boots and bug spray recommended.

• Wednesday, Sept. 21, 9-10 a.m. “Short Hikes for Short Legs: Butterflies and Blossoms, our Living Rainbow.” Meet at the Eagle Marsh barn, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. (For children ages 3-5 and a responsible adult.) We’ll start in the barn learning about the many butterflies that call Eagle Marsh home and creating a colorful butterfly.

Then we’ll hike to look for butterflies and the flowers on which they feed.

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For more information or opportunities, or to schedule an appointment to donate, use the free Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call (800) 733-2767) • Sunday, Sept. 4, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saint Joseph Catholic Church, 11337 Old U.S. 27 South, Fort Wayne.

• Sunday, Sept. 11, 8 a.m.-noon. Pine Hills Church, 4704 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne.

• Sunday, Sept. 11, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saint Joseph Catholic Church, 2213 Brooklyn Ave., Fort Wayne.

• Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2:30-7 p.m. Resurrection Lutheran Church, 14318 Lima Road.

• Thursday, Sept. 22, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. IPFW Science Building, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne.

• Thursday, Sept. 22, noon-6 p.m. University of Saint Francis Hutzell Athletic Center, 2701 Spring St. (Leesburg Road), Fort Wayne.

• Monday, Sept. 12, 3-8 p.m. Grabill Missionary Church, 13637 State St., Grabill.

• Monday, Sept. 19, 2-6 p.m. New Haven United Methodist Church, 630 Lincoln Highway East, New Haven.

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• Historic West Main Street Market, 1936 W. Main St., Fort Wayne. 3-8 p.m. Fridays, through October.

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