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Caucus picks new council member BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcnews.com
KENDALLVILLE — Frank Walkup will fill the District 3 City Council seat vacated by Republican April Waters who resigned last month after moving out of the district. Walkup, 64, was selected by District 3 precinct committee members Dave Langwell and Jack Frederick at Thursday night’s Republican caucus. Walkup was the only candidate to submit the form seeking to fill the seat, according to Mayor Suzanne Handshoe.
Walkup and his wife Rita reside at 423 Mathews St. and have a grown daughter and two grandchildren. The Guardian Industries retiree moved to Kendallville in 1958 and has lived on Mathews Street for more than 30 years. He graduated from East Noble and was assistant manager for Maloley’s Supermarket before being drafted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He was stationed in an army hospital in Denver, Colo. for most of his military service. After the service he returned to Maloley’s, then worked at
Newnam Foundry for 13 years before going to Guardian where he was one of that company’s original startup team members. Walkup said he became interested in city government through the mayor’s citizen academy. “I attended the first citizen academy in 2011 and learned a lot about how city government works. We toured city departments and got to know the department heads,” he said Thursday night. He accepted the mayor’s appointment to the plan commission, and he also was a member
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One person killed in Hamilton crash BY AMY OBERLIN aoberlin@kpcmedia.com
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of the sesquicentennial committee that planned the city’s 150th anniversary celebration. Walkup said now that he is retired he has more time to expand his interest in city government. “I love Kendallville, and when I saw the council had a vacancy I decided to apply.” Walkup enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, fishing, photography and working on his computer. He’s a member of the American Legion and Moose Lodge. He is expected to attend his first council meeting Tuesday night as District 3 representative.
Syria deal forged
Meet the medical staff who are saving lives all around us at area hospitals. And learn some tips on what you can do in emergency situations. In the special section, Life Savers, in today’s newspaper.
HAMILTON — One person died in a crash on Bellefontaine Road in downtown Hamilton Thursday afternoon. It appears the driver of a maroon passenger car pulled from a grocery store parking lot into the path of a pickup truck, said Hamilton Town Marshal Jeremy Warner. The car’s driver was killed in the crash. The name of the driver was being withheld Thursday so family members could be notified. Warner expected further information to be released today. Warner said it is the first fatal accident within the town limits in his 16 years on the department. The crash remains under investigation. The truck was driven by Tyler Nilson, 23, of Angola. Nilson was not injured, said Warner. The truck was totalled. Also damaged was a Town of Hamilton light pole, which was toppled from its cement housing into a yard in the 3800 block of Bellefontaine Road.
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Other rewards could be free time outside the lunchroom after lunch, free time in the gym, East Noble Knights bracelets, a movie night, an afternoon at the YMCA, concert tickets and gift certificates. Tickets could be earned for entries into a grand prize drawing. “The struggling students need a little push,” he said. In other business, school trustees: • endorsed a proposal by the
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The five permanent members of the deeply divided U.N. Security Council reached agreement Thursday on a resolution to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons, a major step in taking the most controversial weapon off the battlefield of the world’s deadliest current conflict. Senior U.S., Russian, British and French diplomats confirmed the agreement, which also includes China. Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said he would introduce the text to the Security Council’s 10 non-permanent members Thursday night. A vote on the resolution still depends on how the full council responds to the draft, and on how soon an international group that oversees the global treaty on chemical weapons can adopt a plan for securing and destroying Syria’s stockpile. Diplomats said the earliest the Security Council could vote would be late Friday. On Twitter, Lyall Grant said the five veto-wielding members, known as the P-5, had agreed on a “binding and enforceable draft … resolution.” A senior U.S. State Department official said the Russians agreed to support “a strong binding and enforceable resolution.” But the draft resolution, seen by The Associated Press, makes clear that there is no trigger for
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Champion horse pull team The Rich Montgomery and Kent Roush team from Hartford City wins Thursday’s heavyweight draft horse pulling contest at the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair. The team pulled 13,000 pounds a distance of 6 feet, 11 inches. The Dave Rossman team of Jonesville, Mich., pulled the same weight 3 feet, 6 inches for second place, and the Joe
Beckley team from Lacy, Ky., pulled 12,000 pounds 8 feet, 8 inches for third place. The lightweight contest was won by Tom Brown’s second team from Jonesville, Mich., which pulled 12,000 pounds. Brown’s first team took second place, and the team of Angola’s Rick Likes finished in third place.
ENMS students to aim for goals BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — East Noble Middle School is introducing a goal-setting program to encourage student improvement. “No student should get D’s and F’s,” Principal Andy Deming told East Noble school board members during their meeting Wednesday at the middle school. Students who get A’s and B’s are self-motivated, he said. He wants to focus on students who need motiva-
tion — who need to set goals for themselves and be rewarded for achieving those goals. Students will be given goals with help from their teachers and can be rewarded in the program, Deming said. He is discussing the proposed program with the school’s 579 seventh- and eighthgraders this week, and asking them what rewards would be appropriate. Local businesses are willing to provide prizes, Deming said.
Garrett man turns violent at sentencing AUBURN — A Garrett man head-butted a glass door in the DeKalb Superior Court I office Thursday, shortly after his sentencing hearing, authorities reported. Lance Krider, 28, of the 1700 block of South Road, had just been sentenced to 12 years in prison by Judge Kevin Wallace for dealing in methamphetamine, a Class B felony. As Krider was being escorted out of the court office and back to the DeKalb County Jail, he hit a glass panel in the door with his head, DeKalb County Sheriff Don Lauer said. “Apparently he was mad at SEE SENTENCING, PAGE A9
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Street reconstruction under way API Construction Inc. has begun reconstruction of Granada Drive between Pueblo Drive and Cortez Drive in the Arvada Hills residential community in
Kendallville. The $207,000 project is the city’s only major street improvement work scheduled this year.
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