SATURDAY July 27, 2013
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Weather Rain today. High 75. Low 55. Some sun Sunday. High 73. Low 53. Page A7 Kendallville, Indiana
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GOOD MORNING Kendallville Car Show starts at 9 a.m. today KENDALLVILLE — The annual Kendallville Car Show takes place today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the downtown business district. Main Street between Mitchell and Rush streets will be closed to traffic. People entering cars and trucks in the show should register at the gate at Lincoln and William streets between 9 a.m. and noon. Volunteers will park the vehicles. The entry fee is $12 per vehicle, and more than 80 awards will be presented starting at 2 p.m. Live musical entertainment, food, a 50/50 drawing, door prizes and a Hula Hoop contest will be featured during the show.
Farmers Market in parking lot today KENDALLVILLE — The Main Street farmers market and Trunk Treasures will take place in the city’s Orchard Street parking lot today from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. because of the Kendallville Car Show. The farmers market will return to Main Street on Saturday, Aug. 3.
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sponsored the tour. The local men were amazed by South Korea’s transformation from a country devastated by bombs and human tragedy to a vibrant, bustling world industrial power. “Everything is green again, with lots of trees, tall apartment buildings and hotels. They’re building a new hotel that will be 103 stories high,” said Eshelman. “Seoul (the capital) is very clean — lots of little cars.” “It’s really changed,” said Hulwick. “South Korea is the
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of imprisoning three women in his home and subjecting them to rapes and beatings for a decade avoided the death penalty Friday, pleading guilty in a deal that will keep him in prison for life. “The captor is now the captive,” Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said of 53-year-old Ariel Castro. The women’s escape from Castro’s home two months ago at first brought joy to the city where they had become household names after years of searches, publicity and vigils, then despair at revelations of their treatment. Their rescue brought shocking allegations that Castro fathered a child with one of the women, induced five miscarriages in another by starving and punching her, and assaulted one with a vacuum cord around her neck when she tried to escape. Castro told the judge he was addicted to pornography, had a “sexual problem” and had been a sexual abuse victim himself long ago. He pleaded guilty to 937 counts in the deal, which sends him to prison for life without parole, plus 1,000 years. Prosecutors agreed to take a possible death penalty charge off the table. Castro, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and a bushy beard, was far more engaged than in previous court appearances when he mostly kept his head down and eyes closed. He answered the judge’s questions in a clear voice, saying he understood that he would never be released from prison and adding that he expected he was “going to get the book thrown at me.” “I knew that when I first spoke to the FBI agent, when I first got arrested,” he said. Castro, who was born in Puerto Rico, said he could read and understand English well but had trouble with comprehension. “My addiction to pornography and my sexual problem has really taken a toll on my mind.” At the end of the 2 1/2-hour hearing, the judge accepted the plea and declared Castro guilty. Sentencing was set for Thursday. The women said in a statement they were relieved by the conviction.
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Inside the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea is the building (with a rooftop exhaust) where an armistice was signed July 27, 1953, ending the Korean War. The imposing building is in the center is a tourist center in North Korea. Kendallville’s Bill Hulwick, a Korean
War veteran, and Wayne Eshelman, who was stationed in South Korea with the U.S. Army in 1958, recently visited this site. Eshelman noted that three South Korean guards facing North Korea stand erect with arms at their side for two hours at a time.
Vets see new South Korea Local men amazed by transformation BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
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KENDALLVILLE — Sixty years ago today on July 27, 1953, an armistice ended the Korean War after three years of death and destruction on the Korean peninsula. No peace treaty has been signed between the combatants, the Republic of South Korea, supported by the United States and 21 United Nations member countries, and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, at one time supported by the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Bill Hulwick, 83, of Kendallville, served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army’s 1st Calvary division and fought in five major battles during the Korean War from 1950 to 1952. Wayne Eshelman, 73, of Kendallville, was a sergeant in the same division stationed in South Korea in 1958. When Hulwick left South Korea in 1952 to return to the United States and Eshelman left in late 1958 reassigned to West Germany, they said farewell to a war-torn Korean nation. “The hills were void of trees, and the people were living in damaged homes and apartment buildings and temporary shelters,” said Eshelman. “They had little of anything,”
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U.S. Army 1st Calvary Division veteran Wayne Eshelman of Kendallville, left, who was stationed in South Korea in 1958, and Korean War veteran Bill Hulwick recently visited South Korea for the first time since they left the war-torn nation in the 1950s. A retired South Korean Army general presented Hulwick with a Freedom Medal.
said Hulwick. Eshelman and Hulwick went on with their lives in Kendallville after the war, still filled with memories of their experiences in South Korea. They wanted to see for themselves what they had heard about the new industrial giant of South Korea. The two Army veterans recently returned from a six-day visit to South Korea in late June as part of a U.S. tour group of Korean War veterans and military veterans who served in Korea. The South Korean government
Vermont Settlement festival celebrates Orland’s heritage BY EMILY ERNSBERGER news@kpcnews.com
ORLAND — The annual Vermont Settlement Days festival will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Orland town park. New to the festival this year is the Bill Henderson Memorial baseball and softball tournaments for boys 15 years old and younger and girls 14 years old and younger. The tournament will take place today through Sunday. All games will be played at the town park. The tournament is in commemoration of Bill Henderson, a business owner and Orland resident who supported the Orland Baseball Association. Henderson died on June 7 due to cancer. Traditional events such as the pancake breakfast put on by the Orland Lions Club at 6 a.m. and the 5K run at 8 a.m. will start off the festival today. This year’s parade, themed “Good Old Days, Good Old Friends,” will take place at 11 a.m. today and be led by Grand Marshal Harold Boocher.
The Mizpah Shriners Parade Units will also be featured. They are sponsored by Fort Financial and Gene and Betty German. Main stage entertainment this year includes magician Jim Barron, the Sweet Adelines Little River Chorus and Behind Barres performing on Saturday. Wasepi Bluegrass Gospel Singers and Dirt Road will perform Sunday. The mud volleyball tournament will take place Sunday at 11 a.m. Check-in and T-shirt pick-up for those playing starts at 9 a.m. The pedal pull for children 3 to 12 years old starts at noon Sunday. Pre-1840s primitive village camps will be open to the public today at 8 a.m. Campers will hold events such as mountain man shoots, women’s skillet toss, candy canons for children, games and ladies’ and men’s hawk and knife throws. The camps will host a Council Fire at dark, which is open to the public. Admission and parking for the festival is free. For questions, call the Orland Town Office at 829-6411.
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The primitive village will again be part of the Vermont Settlement Festival in Orland, which runs today and Sunday.