THURSDAY August 29, 2013
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Weather Sunshine with a high of 85. Low tonight falls into mid-60s. Page A11 Serving Noble & LaGrange Counties
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GOOD MORNING Spike and the Bulldogs to perform at ARC benefit event ALBION — ARC and the Noble Foundations will be hosting a benefit dinner and dance Saturday, Sept. 28, in The CrossWalk at Ligonier United Methodist Church. Spike and the Bulldogs will perform in a concert to benefit the organization that helps challenged adults. The evening starts at 5:30 p.m. with dinner and a silent auction. Music begins at 7 p.m. Door prizes will also be given throughout the night. Organizers are asking for reservations to be made as soon as possible, because last year’s event was sold out. Tickets cost $30 for a single; $50 for a couple; or a table of eight may be reserved for $175. In addition, the nonprofit organization is looking for sponsors to help underwrite the event. A Platinum sponsorship for $1,000 includes a table for eight guests. Other sponsor levels are Double Diamond $500; Diamond, $250; Gold $200; Silver $100; and Bronze, $50. Donations of silent auction items and door prizes are being accepted. Checks should be made payable to Foundations Inc. Send payment and reservation information to Foundations, 506 S. Orange St., Albion, IN 46701 by Sept. 16. More information is available by contacting Lonnie Waltenberger or Steve Strasser at 636-2155. The CrossWalk is at 466 Townline Road, Ligonier.
Court clarifies rule for expunging records INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A state appeals court has ordered a lower court judge to seal the criminal records of an Indianapolis man who received a suspended sentence under a plea agreement. Alec Lucas asked a judge in 2012 to expunge his arrest record in a drug case in which some charges were dropped. But the judge said the expungement law didn’t apply unless all charges were dropped. The Indiana Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the local ruling reflected a new 2013 law more than the statute that was in effect at the time.
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EN board outlines 2014 budget BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — East Noble’s proposed 2014 budget of approximately $35 million includes a general fund of about $24 million controlled by the state and determined by the school district’s enrollment. At Wednesday night’s East Noble school board meeting, corporation business manager Brian Leitch explained the proposed budget during a public hearing. No public comment was registered. “The general fund has nothing to do with local tax dollars,�
Leitch said. The school corporation official enrollment count is determined Sept. 13. That figure is sent to the state and used to determine how much East Noble will receive from the state for its proposed general fund that makes up 69 percent of the overall budget. The general fund includes approximately $14.5 million for instruction and about $2 million for operations, $1.7 million for special programs, $1.2 million for support services, $1.4 million for building administration and $851,000 for administration. Other items in the fund are: remediation and summer school, $363,463;
vocation and transfer tuition (EN students at Impact Institute), $530,000; curriculum and library, $553,559; business office, $382,190; and extracurricular activities coaches and sponsors wages, $466,747. For funds the school district controls, proposed figures and their percentage of the overall budget are: debt service fund, approximately $5.5 million, 16 percent; capital projects fund, approximately $3 million, 9 percent; transportation fund, $1.7 million, 5 percent; and bus replacement fund, $597,118, 1 percent.
The debt service fund makes payments on what the school district owes on borrowed money for capital improvements and new school buildings. The proposed budget has a $13,327 increase in the fund. East Noble will be debt-free by December 2019, school officials said. The remaining pension debt of $254,666 will be paid off in December. The capital projects fund has approximately $1.1 million for technology, $1 million for facilities and $853,537 for maintenance. Utility payments come SEE BUDGET, PAGE A11
King’s dream lives DENNIS NARTKER
Nationally known student motivational speaker Jerry Ackerman talks with East Noble Middle
School students following his presentation of an anti-bullying message Wednesday.
ENMS students challenged to ‘defend the defenseless’ BY DENNIS NARTKER dnartker@kpcmedia.com
KENDALLVILLE — “Be a leader. Defend the defenseless.� That’s the message nationally known student motivational speaker Jerry Ackerman conveyed to East Noble Middle School students Wednesday in a convocation at Cole Auditorium. Using role-playing situations, entertaining anecdotes from his
own life, startling statistics and loud music, the former teacher had the seventh- and eighth-graders clapping, head-bobbing and swinging their arms, but in quiet moments reflecting on his anti-bullying message. “It takes courage and a willingness to lead on this issue. Are you a leader?� he asked. The former student life coach and campus student coordi-
nator challenged students to do something to stop bullying when they see it. “Research shows the number of bullying incidents is cut in half when student peers become leaders and do something about it,� he said. By walking away and ignoring it a student is condoning it, he said, adding, “Yes, your reputation may take a hit if you
WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing at ground zero on the civil rights movement’s battlefield of justice, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of racial equality and honor the “glorious patriots� who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington. In a moment rich with history and symbolism, tens of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds and colors thronged to the National Mall to join the nation’s first black president and civil rights pioneers in marking the 50th anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream� speech. Obama urged each of them to become a modern-day marcher for economic justice and racial harmony. “The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice but it doesn’t bend on its own,� Obama said, in an allusion to King’s own message. His speech was the culmination of daylong celebration of King’s legacy that began with marchers walking the streets of Washington behind a replica of the transit bus that Rosa Parks once rode when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.
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Deputy improving, still in intensive care BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
ANGOLA — A reserve police officer injured late Saturday night while responding to an emergency call remained in intensive care Wednesday afternoon, said Steuben County Sheriff Tim Troyer. Reserve Deputy Adam Meeks, 34, of Fremont, suffered head, ankle and wrist injuries in the crash, which occurred on S.R. 327, just north of Steuben C.R. 400S while he was traveling south to assist with an incident being handled by DeKalb County police at about 11:40 p.m. Meeks is married and has three children, Troyer said. The reserve officer has a full-time job in a factory in the Angola area. “It appears he’s on a path to recovery,� Troyer said Wednesday
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Classics visit historic site The 38th annual Hoosier Tour of Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg autos makes its first stop Tuesday morning at the Gene StrattonPorter State Historic Site in Rome City. Here, a replica Auburn Boattail Speedster passes between the site’s Bedford limestone owl pillars. Tour participants later stopped for lunch in LaGrange before heading to their destination in Kalamazoo. The tour returns to Auburn at noon today to begin this weekend’s Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival.
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afternoon. “He knows who you are when you come into the room.� When Troyer first arrived at Meeks’ hospital room in Fort Wayne on Sunday morning, Meeks said, “Hi, sheriff,� when Troyer entered the room. The next words out of the injured man’s mouth? “‘I’m sorry I wrecked the car,’� Troyer recalled. Troyer said Meeks was sitting up in his hospital bed when he visited him Tuesday. Damage to the vehicle was extensive, and Troyer said a combination of factors likely saved the deputy’s life, including the fact he was driving a heavily built, large squad car, that he was wearing his seat belt and that his body armor may have protected him somewhat. “I think the good Lord was
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