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St. Joseph UMC to mark 150 years By Garth Snow
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As St. Joseph United Methodist Church prepares to honor its story and its future, Mary Jo Baughman’s thoughts are with the dozens of pastors and thousands of members who have called the church home for 150 years. Mary Jo and Arthur Baughman joined the church in December of 1955, when the congregation still gathered each Sunday at the corner of St. Joe Road and St. Joe Center Road. They took part in the 1957 procession east to the new church building at the corner of Reed Road. They celebrated the church’s centennial in 1963. Their two sons took their wedding vows at the new church. Arthur is now deceased. Senior pastor the Rev. Russ Abel worked with Baughman and others to choose the tone and scope of the celebration of a century and a half of
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getting this church going. The people who shoved us down the road from one corner to the next.” The church will re-enact
The summer’s final Georgetown Fridays concert will feature the country music of John Curran & Renegade. The outdoor concert will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at Georgetown Square. Admission is free. John C. Curran Sr. leads the five-man band, and is lead singer. He also plays the acoustic guitar and the mandolin. Taking the stage with Curran are: Aaron Wood on drums; Jack Allen on bass and vocals; Billy Gillenwater on lead guitar and vocals; and Gary Martin on guitar, banjo and the dobro. Curran explained that the dobro is a guitar with a slide and a hollow metal cone. Curran and Martin went to Nashville on Monday, Aug. 5, for the American Country Star performance and competition. For details, visit americancountrystar.com. The Monday competition was the second round of the preliminaries. Curran said he formed the band and chose the name in 1997. “I just wanted something that was different and unique and that kind of represented me,” he said. “I’ve always been the kind of person that I just do what I have to do to make it happen, and ‘renegade’ just fits the description.” “It’s kind of transformed through the years, as bands normally do,” Curran said. Most of the current band members have been with Renegade for about two years. “I started off in rock ‘n roll and got out of it because of work, life — things happen,” he said. “It seems that you have to grow up and move on. About 13 years later my younger brother wanted to play some music and asked if I could help him write some country music for a contest down in Nashville. I wrote three songs and we won first
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A photo from about 1957 shows the St. Joseph Methodist Episcopal Church meeting in cramped quarters at the corner of St. Joe and St. Joe Center roads. The photo shows the Rev. James J. Babbitt, who was the church’s first full-time pastor, and who served from from 1954 to 1961. “That picture shows why we needed to move,” said sesquicentennial committee member Mary Jo Baughman. St. Joseph, which is now a United Methodist church, has almost 1,000 members.
worship. “I think it was one of the first meetings,” Baughman said, “and Russ asked us about being on this committee for the 150th, and what kind of
emotions it involved. I was surprised; but mine was kind of solemn, because it made me think of all the people that are gone, who used to be here, who had so much to do with
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Miss Allen County 2013 and members of her court accept applause after the pageant at Carroll High School. Shown, from left, are: Lauren Vernasco, third runner-up and Miss Photogenic; Caylee Knafel, first runner-up; Morgen Figel, Miss Allen County; and Courtney DelaCuesta, second runner-up. Seventeen young women competed in the pageant.
when Figel’s name was announced. She said family members and her friends from Bishop Luers were there to support her. “That’s all my family and friends,” she said. “They’re a loud bunch. But it’s awesome. I love hearing them in the crowd. It gives me more motivation to even do
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Morgen Figel will represent Allen County at the Miss Indiana State Fair Pageant, Aug. 16-18 in Indianapolis. Figel, a 2012 Bishop Luers High School graduate, accepted the crown of Miss Allen County 2013 at a pageant at Carroll High School. She and her court reigned over the fair, July 23-28 at the Allen County Fairgrounds. The 18-year-old Figel will vie for the title of Miss Indiana State Fair 2014. Figel, who was second runner-up in the 2012 county pageant, said she was surprised to hear her name announced as the 2013 pageant queen. “I was getting really nervous, my heart was beating, and I was just hoping for the best,” she said. “And I was very thankful. Very thankful.” Applause erupted
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