SATURDAY August 3, 2013
Veteran Honored
Commentary
Longtime VFW member feted
Baseball
With August’s arrival comes the lasts of summer
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White Sox fall to Tigers
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Weather Cloudy today, with scattered showers possible. High 78. Low 55. Page A10 Kendallville, Indiana
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GOOD MORNING Vera Bradley unveils major growth plans FORT WAYNE — Vera Bradley Inc., a designer of handbags, gifts, travel bags and accessories, on Friday announced plans to expand its operations in Fort Wayne, creating up to 128 new jobs by 2017. The company will invest approximately $26.6 million to expand and equip its current 40,000-square-foot design center by 149,000 square feet and expand its distribution center by 10,000 square feet. Both facilities are on Stonebridge Road off the Lafayette Center Road exit on Interstate 69 and are expected to be operational next year. “We are proud to invest in our home state,” said Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, chief creative officer and co-founder. “Our design center expansion will bring nearly all of our northeast Indiana employees together on one campus.” The project will be Vera Bradley’s second major expansion in northeast Indiana in less than two years. In 2011, the company announced plans to invest $22.5 million to expand its Roanoke distribution center to 420,000 square feet, adding 124 new jobs.
Coming Sunday
Pianos on the Square
Everyone is invited to not only play but to attend free concerts with this interactive art exhibit, which features decorated pianos. Read more about the exhibit, going on now, in Auburn, Butler, Waterloo and Garrett.
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Auction boosts Habitat for Humanity what will be next to cross the auction block. More than 40 quilts and hundreds of household items were sold to help fund local Habitat projects in the coming year.
LaGrange County Habitat for Humanity executive director Mont Arnold grabs the microphone Friday afternoon at Habitat’s 18th annual fundraising auction in Shipshewana. Arnold tells the crowd
Ready for re-enactment LaGrange prepares for Civil War event slated for next Saturday LAGRANGE — LaGrange is about to take a giant step backward in time. On Saturday, Aug. 10, LaGrange and the LaGrange County Courthouse will host a day-long re-enactment of a day in the midst of the Civil War. The first ever Civil War History Day was dreamed up by local historians Jean Fremion-McKibben and DaLonda Young. The event is free and open to the public. The event is designed to honor and teach about the kind of life someone might have lived in the area during 1863, the midst of the Civil War. A group of Civil War re-enactors from Fort Wayne will portray the men of the 44th Indiana, an infantry regiment first organized in Fort Wayne in 1861 and composed of men from northeast Indiana, including
LaGrange. Their camp will be set up near the courthouse. The event begins at 7 a.m. Aug. 10, when members of the 44th will open their encampment to the public. The community room at the LaGrange County Public Library and the LaGrange County Historical Museum also will open their doors to displays of antique toys, daguerreotype pictures and other Civil War vintage artifacts. At 8 a.m., a Civil War era medical tent will open to display and highlight the state of medical knowledge during the war. At 9 a.m., Indiana authors Margaret Hobson and Cheri Mattox will be available to discuss and sign their books. Hobson is the author of a book about Indiana’s 44th, while Mattox penned a book about the men of SEE READY, PAGE A10
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Event Highlights 7 A.M.: Encampment opens 8 A.M.: Medical tent opens 9 A.M.: Authors Margaret Hobson and Cheri Mattox sign books; artist Tammy Lugar demonstrates paper art technique; model of village on display
9:30 A.M.: State Sen. Sue Glick delivers keynote address 10 A.M.: Children’s book author Joan Stiver and illustrator Karen Gruntman at library; actor Marc Satterfield portrays slave on Underground Railroad 11 A.M.: Actor Jan Mishler portrays Southern spy 12:45 P.M.: Wreath-laying and rifle salute ceremony
1 P.M.: Food tasting 2 P.M.: Band concert ALL DAY: Historic crafters display, sell merchandise
Travelers around the world advised of al-Qaida plot
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend. The alert was the first of its kind since an announcement preceding the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This one comes with the scars still fresh from last year’s deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and with the Obama administration and Congress determined to prevent any similar breach of an American Embassy or consulate. “There is a significant threat stream and we’re reacting to it,” said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He told ABC News in an interview to be aired Sunday that the threat was “more specific” than previous ones and the “intent is to attack Western, not just U.S. interests.” The State Department warning urged American travelers to take extra precautions overseas, citing potential dangers involved with public transportation systems and other prime sites for tourists and noting that previous terrorist attacks have centered on subway and rail networks as well as airplanes and boats. It suggested travelers sign SEE THREAT, PAGE A10
Local woman selected as state’s Dairy Princess INDIANAPOLIS — Carmen Metzger of rural Kimmell has been selected as the 2013-14 Dairy Princess for the American Dairy Association of Indiana. She was crowned Tuesday before a crowd of dairy industry members and their families and friends at the Embassy Suites North in Indianapolis. Metzger, 20, is the daughter of John and Susan Metzger. She represented Dean Foods in the 2013 Indiana Dairy Princess Scholarship Program. She graduated from Central Noble High School and attends Michigan State University as a junior pursuing a career in animal genomics. Metzger will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for Indiana’s dairy farmers during the coming year, making a number of public appearances and participating in promotional events. She will work to educate the public and her peers on the importance of dairy to Indiana’s economy and to Hoosiers’ health. “I’m really excited for the year to come to help educate the public about dairy farming,” Metzger said Friday. She said she will emphasize how “just the cows in Indiana can feed so much more than just the people in Indiana.” As the Indiana Dairy Princess, she will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the American Dairy Association along with other gifts of appreciation from sponsors.
“I’m really excited for the year to come to help educate the public about dairy farming.” Carmen Metzger Dairy Princess
• Following a personal interview in the princess selection contest, Metzger spoke on how Indiana dairy farmers can help feed the state and Indiana’s hungry residents. Contestants were judged on poise, personality, speaking ability, education, and dairy knowledge. Judges for the contest included Deborah Hearn Smith, CEO for Girl Scouts of Central Indiana; Martha Rardin, director of nutrition and dietetics for Hendricks Regional Health; and Dave Blower, editor of Farm World publication. Metzger said she grew up on dairy farm near Wolf Lake and participated in 4-H in Noble County. She is spending the summer South Dakota on an internship in swine genetics. After graduation, she intends to continue to graduate school, she said. She is interested in a career in herd improvement, helping to produce better animals faster, in the swine or dairy industries or both.
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Carmen Metzger of Kimmell wears her crown as the 2013-14 Dairy Princess for the American Dairy Association of Indiana.