The News Sun – August 19, 2013

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MONDAY August 19, 2013

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Alpaca farm thriving

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Bricks aid animal sanctuary

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Central Noble sports new look

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Weather Partly cloudy skies. High of 84. Low of 63. Page A6 Kendallville, Indiana

Hunter fatally shot by another near Kokomo

Trooper arrested after restaurant disturbance FISHERS (AP) — An Indiana State Police officer who allegedly waved a gun inside a central Indiana restaurant faces preliminary charges of public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting law enforcement and criminal recklessness with a weapon. Thirty-year-old Christopher Dyer was being held on $10,000 bond Sunday at the Hamilton County Jail in Noblesville. Police were called to the restaurant shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday. They located Dyer nearby walking along a road. Fishers police spokesman Tom Weger tells The Indianapolis Star that Dyer had a blood-alcohol level of 0.27 percent. An Indiana State police spokesman says Dyer had been assigned to road patrol duty at the Evansville post but he’ll be placed on administrative duties and face an internal investigation.

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Classifieds.................................B7-B8 Life..................................................... A5 Obituaries......................................... A4 Opinion .............................................B4 Sports.........................................B1-B3 Weather............................................ A6 TV/Comics .......................................B6 Vol. 104 No. 228

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Where the wild things are

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KOKOMO (AP) — Authorities say a central Indiana man has been fatally shot in an apparent hunting accident. The Howard County Sheriff’s Department says 28-year-old Joseph Steele of rural Kokomo was shot in the chest Saturday evening and died a short time later. Capt. Greg Hargrove says witnesses told investigators that Steele had been hunting with family members in woods near his home west of Kokomo when the group split up and others lost sight of the victim. One of the hunters fired at what was believed to be a squirrel, only to hear Steele cry out that he had been shot. He was able to talk to others before losing consciousness.

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Beam relishes teaching about the outdoors

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Woman dies after crash BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com

PATRICK REDMOND

LaGrange County Parks Department naturalist Scott Beam stands in the woods just outside his office at the Maple Wood Nature Center, four miles west of LaGrange. Beam has been with BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com

LAGRANGE — Scott Beam isn’t above putting on a silly hat, or a cowboy hat, or a pioneer hat, just to draw a little attention to himself. But there is a method to his madness. Beam, the resident interpretive naturalist with the LaGrange County Parks Department, is trying to create a teaching moment, a lesson he feels a visitor to a LaGrange County park, most often a child, might benefit from knowing. “I didn’t go to college to be a teacher, but learned a long time ago, I am a teacher,” he explained. It is a job Beam relishes. “To be an interpretive naturalist is to make the realms of the natural world understandable, thought-pro-

the parks department for more than 20 years, teaching both children and adults about the wildlife in the county.

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voking, and connected to our own thoughts and hearts,” Beam said. “Education programs do claim the bulk of my time. But the beauty of being a naturalist is that I get to be so much more. I get to do habitat management and preservation. I get to be a writer. I get to be a scientist. Above all, I still get to be a student.” Beam, a native Hoosier, earned a college degree in American history. He came to the LaGrange County Parks Department in 1992 after spending three years working as a naturalist in northern Michigan at the Au Sable Institute.

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“I got into this work after taking some classes in environmental science. In college I sought time in the outdoors to refresh from the hectic world of higher learning. Eventually I had friends coming with me on my outings,” he said. “I participated in an internship where we taught elementary youth SEE BEAM, PAGE A6

KENDALLVILLE — A Butler woman died Sunday as a result of injuries she received in a single-vehicle accident Saturday, the Noble County Sheriff’s Department said. Susan Allen, 52, was pronounced dead from internal bleeding at 2 a.m. Sunday at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, from injuries she sustained in a motorcycle crash on S.R. 8 near C.R. 600E Saturday at about 6 p.m., said Noble County sheriff’s Deputy Lesley Fox. A motorcycle driven by Jack Allen, 49, of Butler — Susan Allen’s husband — was eastbound on S.R. 8 behind a pickup pulling a trailer, Fox said. The pickup started to turn in to a driveway just over a rise in the road, which was obscured from Jack Allen’s view, Fox said. He came over the rise and tried to stop, but the motorcycle’s brakes locked up. He laid the motorcycle down, and Susan was ejected. She suffered internal and head injuries. The motorcycle was at first believed to have struck either the pickup or trailer, but actually struck neither, Fox said. Susan Allen was transported by Noble County EMS to Parkview Regional, Fox said. Jack Allen suffered a mild concussion, road rash and a bruised kidney.

United Way campaign kicks off this week KENDALLVILLE — Teams of volunteers will be leading the United Way of Noble County as the organization kicks off its 2013-14 campaign in three locations, covering all three school districts in the county. Avilla attorney J. Seth Tipton is serving as volunteer chairman of this year’s campaign, and he has assembled a cabinet of volunteers to lead the upcoming efforts. Free lunches will be served in Albion, Kendallville and Ligonier in the coming weeks, with the first event set for Thursday in Albion, at the corner of Main and Orange streets at the Noble Courthouse. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. volunteers will be serving grilled hamburgers, chips and bottled water, free of charge. Similar events are set for Aug. 29 in Kendallville and Sept. 5 in Ligonier. Also as part of the United Way kickoff, cheerleaders at all three

Noble County high schools will be tossing out T-shirts to the crowds at the first home football games of all three schools. Assisting Tipton are these United Campaign Cabinet members: John Wicker, who will be the industry ambassador; David Ober, community ambassador; Drew Baker, professional ambassador; Chad Arnold, commerce ambassador; and Fred Inniger, leadership ambassador. Each ambassador will have five team leaders. United Way staff members Tanya Evard and Cheryl Pogorelc will assist, along with board members and other volunteers. “I was pleased when Seth Tipton agreed to accept the campaign chair position this year,”

said United Way campaign manager Cheryl Pogorelc. “What I really like about this campaign is that it has a hometown theme — United as Neighbors — Live the United Way,” she said in a news release. Tipton has come to the realization that it is time for the next generation to get involved. He noted, “It is our parents who have done this in the past, maybe it is time for us to step up.” With that in mind, Tipton set about gathering together a group of young men in Noble County to assist him. “To be honest, I had to ask myself to why I got selected to be on this drive. With God’s help, I’ve become educated about how United Way works and all the help that goes out to the groups

that touch people,” said Wicker, who will be heading up the industry campaign effort. “I don’t believe in a handout, I believe in a hand up. Praise God that I took the time to see the impact that United Way makes in our community. Trust me, if anyone thinks they’re too busy to get involved, they’re wrong. It’s time well spent!” “I was asked by Seth Tipton to serve on the committee and was thrilled to join,” said Ober, who is a state representative in the Indiana legislature. “I viewed this as another opportunity to help support great initiatives in Noble County. United Way seeks to serve as a bridge between these initiatives and partners in the community.” In the greater Noble County area, numerous agencies receive support from United Way of Noble County. Donations are made to these groups from the SEE CAMPAIGN, PAGE A6

Egypt: 36 killed in prison truck escape attempt CAIRO (AP) — Security forces fired tear gas at a prison truck Sunday in an attempt to free a police officer from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 suspects rounded up during streets clashes between Islamist supporters of the country’s ousted president and police, officials said. The deaths of the prisoners, captured during the fierce fighting in recent days around Cairo’s Ramses Square, came as Egypt’s army leader Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi vowed that the military would not tolerate further violence after four days of nationwide clashes left nearly 900 people dead. While el-Sissi called for the inclusion of Islamists in the government, security forces detained Muslim Brotherhood members in raids aimed at stopping more planned rallies supporting ousted President Mohammed Morsi — which the

military-backed government says fuels the violent unrest. The killed detainees were part of a prison truck convoy of some 600 people heading to Abu Zaabal prison in northern Egypt, the officials told The Associated Press. Detainees in one of the trucks rioted Sunday night and managed to capture a police officer inside, the officials said. Security forces fired tear gas into the truck in hopes of freeing the badly beaten officer, the officials said. The officials said those killed died from suffocating on the gas. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists. However, the officials’ version of events contradicted reports about the incident carried by state media. The official website of Egyptian state television reported that the deaths took place after security forces clashed with

militants near the prison and detainees came under fire while trying to escape. The official MENA state news agency also said the trucks came under attack from gunmen. State media also said all those killed and the gunmen belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that Morsi hails from. The officials who spoke to AP said some of the detainees belonged to the Brotherhood, while others didn’t. The differences in the accounts could not be immediately reconciled Sunday night. The officials who spoke to the AP said that the detainees were rounded up during the past two days of street violence around Cairo’s Ramses square, clashes that killed scores of people. On Saturday alone, clashes between Morsi supporters and police killed 79 people, according to a government tally released Sunday and carried by MENA. That raised the

death toll for four days of unrest across the country to nearly 900 people killed. El-Sissi, speaking earlier Sunday at a gathering of top military commanders and police chiefs, again said the army has no intention of seizing power in the Arab world’s most populous country. El-Sissi removed Morsi in the July 3 coup after four days of mass rallies by millions of Egyptians who demanded the president step down. “We will not stand by silently watching the destruction of the country and the people or the torching the nation and terrorizing the citizens,” el-Sissi said in a speech aired on state television. El-Sissi also said Islamists must be included in the country’s politics moving forward. A military timetable calls for the nation’s constitution to be amended and for presidential and parliamentary elections to be held SEE EGYPT, PAGE A6


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