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Lenten season provides reminder of humanity
FAME Festival brings the arts together
By Megan Knowles
By Meghan Schrader
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For IN|Fort Wayne
As with many things in the church, the cycle of Palm Sunday palms to Ash Wednesday ashes and can offer a powerful lesson about our own humanity. Palms come from suppliers in tropic and subtropical climates around the world, according to an article on Catholic.org. Trinity English Lutheran Church sources its palms from a supplier or local florist, Senior Pastor Gary Erdos said. The church typically needs about 500 for Palm Sunday, he added. Ideally, parishioners would take the palms home and keep them in their home as a reminder of Palm Sunday, Erdos said. About a week before Ash Wednesday, Trinity English invites parishioners
Student performances and displays of dance, music and art, as well as guest artists, craft areas, a scavenger hunt and concert will all be a part of the Fort Wayne FAME Festival on Saturday, March 17, and Sunday, March 18, at the Grand Wayne Convention Center. This year’s festival will spotlight Australia and Oceania, culminating with National Youth Art Month and Music in Our Schools Month. What started in 1987 with just two teachers — Dorothy Kittaka and Mike Schmid — has grown to include more than 6,000 art pieces of all types and 15,000 children and adults performing and attending the weekend-long festival presented by The Foundation for Art and Music in
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March 2018
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Trinity English Lutheran Church Senior Pastor Gary Erdos administers ashes to local attorney Rich Karcher during the church’s Ashes to Go event at Parkview Field on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14. This is the second year the church has hosted the event at the ballpark, Erdos said, with about 40 people attending in 2017. “We’ve come to recognize for a lot of people they don’t necessarily make it to us in church but if we can make some of the religious sense of Lent available to other people they would come by and take advantage of that,” he said.
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Grand Wayne Convention Center, 120 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne Saturday, March 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Imaginarium: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Instrument Playground: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, March 18, noon-5 p.m. Imaginarium: noon-5 p.m. Instrument Playground: 1-4 p.m. Celebration of Youth Concert: 3 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children 18 and younger. Education. It began with the single question: “How can we get the kids’ artwork and music out there for performance and for people to see these See FAME, Page A9
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The New Haven High School winter guard members Abbie Janes, left, and Schivana Hazard perform with the show “In Boxes” on Feb. 10 at the Carroll High School Winter Guard Show. New Haven brought home a Performance Award in Regional A division, in which 17 guard units competed. Kayla Kelly and Megan Emmons direct the New Haven winter guard. New Haven will compete March 3 in the Indiana High School Color Guard Association preliminary competition at Mooresville High School. For more New Haven photos, see Page A2.
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