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Stutzman defends Farm Bill changes BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry plan fundraising event HUNTERTOWN — Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry will sponsor a fundraising bow shoot, barbecue and auction Sunday, Aug. 25, at Izaak Walton League of America, 17100 Griffin Road, Huntertown. The bow shoot will run from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the barbecue from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a live auction at 2 p.m. The event will feature games of chance, a silent auction, live auction and mystery blind. Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry is a nonprofit organization that has provided more than 1 million meals to Indiana families in need. All shooters will be entered in a drawing with a chance to win a .12 gauge Mossberg shotgun. Organizers said the event will feature more than $14,000 worth of auction, silent auction and raffle items.
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U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, addresses a constituent’s question during Saturday’s legislative forum at the Kendallville Public Library.
KENDALLVILLE — U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., told constituents Saturday morning Congress is dysfunctional due to ideological differences, but he’s optimistic Congress will pass a Farm Bill when it returns to Washington, D.C., in September after a five-week recess. “It’s a mess,” he said at the Kendallville Public Library. “I’m optimistic we will work through our differences. I think a Farm Bill will pass.” Stutzman spoke at a legislative forum sponsored by the library’s legislative committee. He qualified his comments about various issues, saying the
national debt at $17 trillion and growing is always on his mind when reviewing legislation. “The national debt is the greatest threat to our country,” he said. Much of the two-hour session with about 25 people in attendance dealt with the Farm Bill and agriculture issues. In July, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated a five-year $939 billion farm-andfood bill after lawmakers adopted food-stamp amendments opposed by Democrats, including $20.5 billion in cuts to the food stamp program over a decade. Just before Congress took a five-week recess this month, the
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Forces storm mosque
Police checking new information on Diana’s death LONDON (AP) — British police say they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information’s “relevance and credibility.” Scotland Yard declined to provide details about the information, only saying Saturday in a statement that the assessment will be carried out by officers from its specialist crime and operations unit. The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the 1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in Paris.
Republican-controlled House pushed through a Farm Bill without the food stamp program by a 216-208 vote. A Senate version of the Farm Bill includes the food stamp program, and only about $4 billion in cuts. The current agriculture legislation passed in 2008 expires Oct. 1. Stutzman voted against the initial Farm Bill and supported the version without the food stamp program. He said he favors separation because of the impact the food stamp program is having on the national debt. “I support giving food to people who need it, but the food stamp program is out of control with a
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Kids Triathlon Bryson Ortiz, right, runs out of the water at Bixler Lake following the swim portion of the Kendallville Parks Department Kids Triathlon Saturday morning
in Kendallville. A video of the triathlon may be viewed later this week on kpcnews.com.
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces stormed a Cairo mosque Saturday after a heavy exchange of gunfire with armed men shooting down from a minaret, rounding up hundreds of supporters of the country’s ousted president who had sought refuge there overnight after violent clashes killed 173 people. The raid on the al-Fath mosque on Ramses Square was prompted by fears that deposed President Mohammed Morsi’s group, the Muslim Brotherhood, again planned to set up a sit-in, security officials said, similar to those that were broken up Wednesday in assaults that killed hundreds of people. The arrest of the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri came in connection to the raid on the mosque. Officials said that he planned to bring in armed groups to provide support to those holed SEE MOSQUE, PAGE A6
$100,000 grant will help teen parent center BY GRACE HOUSHOLDER ghousholder@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — Ten years of work by staff and volunteers at Life and Family Services has resulted in a $100,000 grant for its endowment fund. The Dekko Foundation last week awarded a $100,000 Model of Organizational Sustainability and Effectiveness grant to the Teen Parent Early Learning Center, a program of Life and Family Services. The $100,000 must remain in the endowment and cannot be spent. However, the interest earned each year will be used for the Teen Parent Early Learning Center’s operating expenses. Building a strong endowment fund increases the nonprofit’s solid financial footing, said Donna Conrad, executive director of LFS. Carol Blackman, the former director of the TPELC, worked on the grant for the first eight years. “This grant means that high school and single college students have scholarship support so that they can afford the best care for their child while they complete their education,” Blackman said. “What a wonderful opportunity for our childcare and our community!” The center has been state-licensed, nationally accredited, and at the highest level of Paths to Quality (a state rating system for child care centers) for a number of years. Ten years ago the Dekko Foundation challenged 52 locations that offered early childhood education to reach the goals established by the foundation’s MOOSE grant. The TPELC is the first to reach that goal. “For 10 years our leaders went all out!” Conrad said. “They wanted to meet the growth
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These staff members helped Life and Family Services cross the finish line after 10 years of hard work on efforts for the Model of Organizational Sustainability and Effectiveness grant. In front are April Beitz,
left, and Christine Mory. In back, from left, are Amy Carpenter, Kayla Perlich, Debbie Derby, director of the Teen Parent Early Learning Center, and Amanda Mountz.
and learning needs of children and sustain the program’s work through sound financial practices.” “Even if we never received the money, all
the positive changes that we made as a result of this challenge made all our efforts worth it,” she added. SEE TEEN, PAGE A6