SATURDAY August 17, 2013
Government Meetings Page A2 This week’s schedule
St. Joseph Benefit Page A6 Todd Herendeen to perform
Weather A mix of sun and clouds today with a high near 80. Warmer temps on the way. Page A7
GOOD MORNING Miss America sendoff event set for Monday WATERLOO — A Miss America send-off reception for Miss Indiana Terrin Thomas will take place Monday from 6-8 p.m. at DeKalb High School. The open house will be in front of the school’s auditorium, Thomas and guests should enter through door 25. Thomas, 20, of Auburn, is a 2011 graduate of DeKalb High School. She won the title of Miss Indiana on June 22 in Zionsville. She will represent Indiana at the Miss America competition in Atlantic City, N.J., next month. Supporters can vote for Thomas to become a semifinalist in the competition at missamerica.org/videocontest or facebook.com/missamer icaorganization.
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Airport board votes to close road Runway extension would block C.R. 29 BY AARON ORGAN aorgan@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — The DeKalb County Airport Authority board on Friday voted unanimously in favor of an ordinance that vacates a stretch of C.R. 29 to make way for the airport’s planned runway extension project. In an airport terminal conference room packed with residents, the board heard the recommendation of airport manager Russ
Couchman to close C.R. 29 between C.R. 60 and C.R. 62. He proposed building a public access link of C.R. 62 between C.R. 29 and C.R. 31 to handle traffic as the most viable option to allow for the runway extension. The four-member board swiftly voted in favor of the closure. When the road will be closed remains uncertain, depending on the progress of Federal Aviation Administration approval of the
project. Plans call for extending the runway eastward by 2,000 feet for a total length of 7,000 feet, allowing larger airplanes to land and take off. Airporty Authority President Brad Stump acknowledged that the county commissioners and at least one county councilman have publicly denounced the closing of C.R. 29. He reiterated that airport authorities have the power to vacate roadways that fall in the way of planned expansion projects. In his recommendation,
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Couchman rehashed the numerous options the board had considered before settling on the C.R. 29 closure. He called the closure plan the “best solution,” saying it requires the lowest overall cost, eliminates the need for additional land acquisition and meets other concerns. The board also had considered tunneling C.R. 29 beneath the runway, closing C.R. 29 and extending C.R. 64, or extending the runway to the west rather than toward the east and closing C.R. SEE ROAD, PAGE A7
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Members of the Baron Brigade run practice drills Thursday after school in the DeKalb High School parking lot. The band will perform a preview of
its fall show, “We Are DeKalb,” at 6:30 tonight on the DeKalb High School football field.
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Annual sand sculpting contest gets participants digging, watering and molding on the beach at Pokagon. See some of the creations on Sunday’s C1 and C2.
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Marching band shows pride BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — A new season means a new identity for the DeKalb High School Baron Brigade marching band. That identity is not too distant from the DeKalb Central School District’s unifying theme, “I Am DeKalb.” The 121-member band will tout school pride in its 2013 competition show — “We Are DeKalb.” “Everything in the corporation says, ‘We are DeKalb,’” said DeKalb High School band director, Terry Fisher. “When it came to selecting the show, we asked the question, ‘Is there more that we can do to make this personal?”’
To bring home “We Are DeKalb,” the show will feature four life-size images of DeKalb County as backdrops. The banners have yet to be printed, but the pictures will 16 feet by 8 feet wide. They will feature the DeKalb County Courthouse, a scene from the Corunna countryside, a picture of the restored Waterloo train depot and the Ashley “smiley face” water tower. “We wanted to represent the communities that make up the district,” Fisher said. The band also will use three large banners with the words, “Excellence, Everyone, Everyday,” the high school’s motto. The banners will have pictures of
Band has busy day The DeKalb marching band hosts a Red Cross blood drive today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the high school’s Commons area. The band’s annual mattress sale also takes place in the Commons area from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. A portion of the sales prices go directly to the band. The band will perform a preview of its fall show tonight at 6:30 on the school’s football field.
former DeKalb students. “We travel to a lot of places,” Fisher said. “We want others to know about the great things our community is doing.”
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana debuted its latest effort to combat its climbing prescription drug abuse rate — a website detailing the symptoms exhibited by people hooked on pills — as state officials warned Friday that the epidemic is one of the greatest threats to the state’s children and young adults. Attorney General Greg Zoeller, who announced the new website at the Indiana State Fair, called it a “one-stop shop” for information on the symptoms of abuse, such as sudden secrecy or withdrawal from friends and relatives. Such information can help Indiana residents determine if someone close to them is abusing painkillers, anti-anxiety medications or other prescription drugs and act to get them help, he said. Prescription drugs were blamed for 718 overdose deaths in Indiana in 2011, a nearly 10 percent increase from 2010’s 654 deaths. Zoeller said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared two years ago that prescription drug overdose deaths have become a national epidemic and Indiana is part of that SEE DRUG, PAGE A7
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Barber pole still spins in spite of retirement BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
AVILLA — In an era when the community barber shop is fading from existence in many communities, Avilla’s is continuing. Steve Workman, who has been cutting hair at Steve’s Barber Shop since 1981, has retired from barbering following a stroke in 2012. In some places, that’s meant a barber shop would close, but not in Avilla. Joe Silva of Garrett has opened the Hoosier Barber Shop in the same storefront, continuing a tradition dating back decades. Steve Workman has lived in
Avilla since he was 2 years old, Steve’s wife, Becky Workman, said. Steve said he always wanted to be a barber. He attended the Indiana Barber College in Indianapolis in 1963, his wife said. “He cut hair in Fort Wayne when he first got out of barber school,” she said. That continued until he was drafted into the military in 1966 and served until 1968. On Steve Workman’s return from service, he went back to same shop in Fort Wayne and worked there until 1972, when SEE BARBER, PAGE A7
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Joe Silva, left, is now cutting hair in the former Steve’s Barber Shop in downtown Avilla. Silva is renting the business from retired barber Steve Workman.
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