SATURDAY August 10, 2013
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Weather Partly cloudy today. High 77. Low 57. Some sunshine Sunday. High 78. Page A6 Kendallville, Indiana
GOOD MORNING Police investigating Mongo man’s death MONGO — Police are investigating the death of a Mongo man early Thursday. Kelly J. Morgan, 43, was found dead in a home in the 3100 block of North C.R. 780E shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday, the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department said. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death.
Event re-enacts Civil War history
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Thousands flocked to the ninth annual KidCity event at the Noble County Fairgrounds August 3. See some of the many booths, games and activities from the event on Sunday’s C1 and C2.
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Historic mill grinding to halt BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com
GREENFIELD MILLS — David Rinkel isn’t exactly sure just what his next move is. Rinkel, the owner of Greenfield Mills, a LaGrange County water-powered mill that has been part of the local landscape for nearly 170 years, said this week that he is shutting down the LaGrange County institution and putting it up for sale. Greenfield Mills, which has been producing New Rinkel brand flours and pancake mixes for generations, has been operated by the Rinkel family for over a century. Rinkel, 58, admits that shutting down his family’s business was not an easy decision to reach. “What are you going to do? It’s
LAGRANGE — The first-ever Civil War History Day living history exhibit is in full swing today on the lawn of the LaGrange County Courthouse and the parking spaces around the building. The event brings a group of re-enactors to LaGrange to portray the legendary 44th Infantry, a group of men from northern Indiana who banded together to fight in the Civil War. Dozens of booths and displays have been set up around the Courthouse, in the LaGrange County Public Library and LaGrange Historical Society’s museum to tell the tale of LaGrange County life during the 1860s. The event is free and open to the public.
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been in my family for 109 years, how do you shut down something like this?” he said, gesturing to the mill behind him. The mill was built in the northeast corner of LaGrange County not long after the first settlers started to arrive. It used the Fawn River to power the mill, and later to spin two water-driven turbines that generated enough electricity to run the mill, with enough surplus to create the state’s smallest power utility. Rinkel made the announcement about shutting down the mill on its Facebook page. He wrote, “It is with deep emotion and sadness that I write to inform you that Greenfield Mills will be closing, and is for sale. We have tried our hardest over the past 9 SEE MILL, PAGE A6
PATRICK REDMOND
David Rinkel, owner of Greenfield Mills, a 167-year-old business in LaGrange County, has announced it will be shutting down and closing its doors this year. Rinkel, whose family has run the mill for 109 years, said the mill no longer is making ends meet.
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Obama: NSA reforms ahead President wants to restore confidence in the programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to critics, President Barack Obama promised Friday to work with Congress on “appropriate reforms” for domestic surveillance programs that were thrust into PATRICK REDMOND the public eye by leaker Edward Northeast Indiana Steam and Gas Association A Ford industrial tractor leads the parade of Steam and Gas show. The show continues today Snowden, saying he understands tractors past the grandstands Friday night why Americans are skeptical about at the LaGrange County Fairgrounds. during the parade of tractors at the 32nd annual the collection of telephone and Internet information. “It’s not enough for me to have confidence in these programs,” the president declared at a White House news conference shortly before a BY PATRICK REDMOND Hundreds of tractors, garden up the steam engines to power scheduled departure on a weeklong predmond@kpcmedia.com tractors, dozens of antique steam antique wheat threshers for a vacation. ” The American people LAGRANGE — The crowd engines and vendors of new and display this afternoon. A parade of have to have confidence in them that showed up at the Northeast used farm equipment, farm toys antique tractors lines up to drive as well.” The president announced Indiana Steam and Gas Associaand just about every item found past the grandstands at 5 p.m. a series of changes in a program tion show at the LaGrange County in a farm shop have taken their “It’s been a great show,” said begun under the anti-terror Patriot fairgrounds Friday rivaled what place on the fairground for the Jim Eberly, president of the steam Act that was passed in the wake of the event usually draws on a show. and gas association. the terror attacks of Sept, 11, 2001. Saturday, traditionally the show’s Saturday is typically the biggest Admission to the show is $4 a As for Snowden, recently biggest day. day in the annual’s show four day person, children under 12 are free granted temporary asylum by The steam and gas show has run. The day’s event will kick off with a paid adult. Russia, Obama said he is not a returned to the LaGrange County at 9 a.m. with a farm stock fun Parking is free on the patriot, as some have suggested, for its 32nd year. pull. Show members will later fire fairground’s property. and challenged him to return to the United States to face espionage charges. And on Russia, he said that given recent differences over Syria, human rights and Snowden, it is “probably appropriate for us to take BY DENNIS NARTKER A Purdue University graduate, with a small public housing a pause, reassess where it is that dnartker@kpcmedia.com Anderson has a bachelor’s degree authority, and this position Russia is going … and recalibrate KENDALLVILLE — She likes in public managecame up, so I applied,” she the relationship.” what she sees. ment and a minor said. The hour-long news conferNew Kendallville Housing in project manageHer duties will include ence ranged over numerous issues, Authority executive director ment and supervimanaging the HUD-subsidized although the president became Denise Anderson said Friday sion. She has 114-unit Lamplighter complex at especially animated when the during an open house in her extensive training 240 Angling Road. The Housing questions turned to Republicans honor that she is impressed by the in U.S. Department Authority does not manage the in Congress. He said they would authority’s Lamplighter housing of Housing and R.A. Streb public housing complex risk the wrath of the public if they complex on Angling Road. Urban Developacross the road, or the Carriage vote to shut down the government “It’s well-kept. Staff are good,” ment programs and Anderson House Apartments complex north this fall in an attempt to cut off she said. regulations. of the Lamplighter on Angling funding for his signature health care Anderson, who started work Anderson worked for the Road. program. Aug. 6, replaces a previous Fort Wayne Housing Authority Anderson said she is a goal-oriHe said that while he was director who was let go in May as director of development and ented person, but for now wants to receptive to House Republicans by the authority’s board of capital funds for three years, and spend time getting acclimated to proposing an alternative immigracommissioners. She resides in Fort she did consulting work for public the job, working with staff and the tion bill, his preference was for a Wayne with her husband and two housing authorities. commissioners and meeting all the vote on a Senate-passed measure SEE OBAMA, PAGE A6 children. “I decided I wanted to work residents.
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Services held for area Amish faith healer BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — Services were held Friday for Solomon Wickey, an Amish faith healer and herbalist who had a following that stretched around the globe. Wickey, 75, died Monday at his home. He married Anna Mae Graber on Jan. 29, 1959, and she survives
in Auburn. The Internet is filled with testimonials from people who said they were healed by Wickey, including those with ailments such as leukemia. Wickey did not charge for his services, according to various websites and media reports, but he did sell books and herbs from his home office on C.R. 43.
Wickey was the subject of a book, “Solomon’s Touch: The life and work of Solomon J. Wickey,” that is still available on Amazon.com. The book describes him as being “happy, fun loving, musician, carpenter, gardener, fisherman; devoted husband, father, brother and friend.” Wickey’s efforts were not without controversy. Media
reports indicate that in the early 1980s he was the target of a civil complaint from the Indiana Attorney General’s Office for allegedly practicing medicine without a license. There were no such complaints in DeKalb County, where Wickey had resided for more than a decade, according to DeKalb
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