MONDAY August 12, 2013
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GOOD MORNING Plane crash near Waterloo injures man WATERLOO — An Angola man was injured when his small plane crashed near Waterloo Sunday morning, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department said. An ultralight plane piloted by Patrick Hale, 66, crashed into a corn field in the 4200 block of DeKalb C.R. 22, just before noon. Hale told investigators he lost rudder control before the crash. He was flying from Waterloo airport at the time. A witness found the plane without a pilot. Meanwhile, Hale walked to a nearby residence for help. He suffered bleeding from his head and a hand injury. He was transported to a hospital by a private vehicle. Assisting at the scene were Waterloo Fire and Rescue, DeKalb EMS and the Indiana State Police.
Ohio woman dead, 3 airlifted after collision BENTON — One person has died and three others have been airlifted to a hospital after a car and a minivan collided along a northern Indiana highway. The driver of the van, Cynthia L. Gilleo, 47, of Celina, Ohio, was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision about 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of U.S. 33 and a rural road about four miles south of Goshen. Gilleo was northbound on U.S. 33 near C.R. 146 at about 11:30 a.m. when a southbound 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Sarah M. Fields, 31, of Elkhart went left of center and hit the 2002 Pontiac Montana Gilleo drove, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Gilleo was pronounced dead at the scene. She was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. Fields suffered a fractured pelvis and head and neck lacerations. Two passengers in the van, Andrew Clinger, 41, and Allison Clinger, 16, also were injured. Andrew Clinger complained of leg and foot pain. Allison Clinger suffered a fractured femur and neck and back pain. All three injured persons were airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital. The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department Crash Investigation Team is investigating the crash. Reprints of all KPC photos can be purchased online at kpcnews.com under Marketplace: Photo Reprints.
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OCTAVIA LEHMAN
Sally and Gene Kessler of Kessler’s Kountry Line Dancing teach line dancing at their Auburn
home. Some students come from Ohio and Michigan.
They walk the line Auburn couple lead dancing classes at their home BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — Once September hits, Sally Kessler’s schedule gets busier. Besides working as a manager at McDonald’s and running her Avon business, she’s back at her favorite activity: line dancing. From her Auburn home, Sally leads line dancing classes on weeknights, teaching beginning, intermediate, advanced and partner dances. The garage in her backyard doubles as the studio. The walls, lined with country memorabilia, include photos of her dance students. A life-size cutout of Brooks and Dunn, the popular country duo, beckons from one corner. The studio is Kessler’s Kountry
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Line Dancing, a place where friends are made and dancers train. Sally and her husband Gene operate the dancing group, but they don’t claim to be professionals. Sally teaches the line dances and Gene plays the music. “We don’t dance for perfection,” Sally said. “It’s a lot of fun and socializing.” Their passion for line dancing began in 1991, after Sally saw an advertisement for Country Connection, a country dance club in Fort Wayne.
Video at kpcnews.com Sally and Gene Kessler show some line dancing moves and Sally shows more of their studio in video at kpcnews.com. Scan the QR code to watch the video on your tablet or smartphone.
Gene liked country music, so the two decided to check it out. “I never danced before,” Sally said. The two wanted to get better at line dancing and started taking lessons at Bev’s Western Wear in Auburn. SEE KESSLER, PAGE A6
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s effort to carefully craft her post-Cabinet image has hit a few bumps. A sexting scandal in the New York City mayoral race and a federal investigation that’s roiling the Virginia governor’s race are recalling politically problematic chapters of her past. Republicans are amplifying the parallels while also making a separate stink about television programs that CNN and NBC are developing about the former first lady and secretary of state. The GOP contends that the media are promoting Clinton’s image ahead of a potential White House campaign. It all adds up to a dose of unwanted attention, if not a distraction, for someone trying to maintain a golden image among Democrats during a respite that could precede a second presidential bid. While Clinton has tried to maintain a relatively low profile this summer, her aides have found themselves having to answer for her family’s connections to the two campaigns. An electric car company started by Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton friend and former Democratic National Committee chairman, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission along with a firm led by Anthony Rodham, Clinton’s brother. The investigation centers on how they sought visas for foreign investors to McAuliffe’s company. SEE HILLARY, PAGE A6
Slice of 1800s life may come to LaOtto BY BOB BRALEY bbraley@kpcmedia.com
LAOTTO — A proposal will come before the Noble County Plan Commission Aug. 21 that could bring an 1800s craft village to a rural area near LaOtto. Doug and Kimberly Jennings propose to rezone land at 11330 E. C.R. 500S to Village Mix status, so it can include multiple low-intensity shops. It’s part of a plan to build a village recreating aspects of 1800s life on the property. The proposal would be part of Moose Lake Christian Craft Village, an area intended to offer people a chance to learn and experience life as it was in teh 19th century, Doug Jennings said. The property already is zoned to allow bed-and-breakfast facilities, Jennings said. Several cabins already have been put in place to be part of the bed-and-breakfast
operation. But the cabins aren’t for camping in the traditional sense. Each is equipped with heating, air conditioning, a refrigerator and microwave oven, along with enough beds and futons to sleep small or large parties. As designed by architect Phil Troyer, plans also show 17 shops or other sites at which master craftsmakers would work their trades, offering items for sale or lessons in the crafts as they chose. One of the shops, Exclusively Yours Jewelry & Boutique, would be operated by a former jeweler with Kay Jewelry. Other shops would include an authentic 1800s general store, a mercantile shop with handmade items, a pottery shop, a blacksmith and knife-maker, a woodworker, a nostalgia shop, a western and SEE LIFE, PAGE A6
BOB BRALEY
Some of the buildings and a giant rocking chair at Moose Lake are shown near LaOtto. A proposal is in place for the site to have an 1800s-style Christian craft village next year.
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Deaths of wandering autistic kids prompt action FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The 3-year-old girl wandered away from her grandmother’s home in Wareham, Mass., in mid-April. A frantic search began almost immediately, and within an hour little Alyvia Navarro was found unresponsive in a nearby pond. She was pronounced dead the next day. A month later, across the continent, a larger search unfolded over three days as hundreds of emergency service personnel and volunteers fanned out around Clearlake, Calif., looking for 9-year-old Mikaela Lynch after she vanished from her backyard. The outcome grimly echoed the Wareham search: A dive team found Mikaela’s body in a muddy creek. The two girls were the first of
at least 14 children with autism known to have died this year after slipping away from their caregivers. All but one of them drowned, evidence of a fascination that many autistic children have with water. The body of the latest victim, 11-year-old Anthony Kuznia, was found Thursday in the Red River after a 24-hour search near his home in East Grand Forks, Minn. The tragic phenomenon goes by various names — wandering, elopement, bolting — and about half of autistic children are prone to it, according to research published last year in the journal Pediatrics. That would be a huge number. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last year that 1 in 88 children are affected
by autism, and a federal survey this year pegged the prevalence rate at one of every 50 schoolchildren — more than 1 million children in all. Wandering has led to the deaths of more than 60 children in the past four years, and the fear of it can make daily life a harrowing, never-let-your-guard-down challenge for parents. “We take steps at home — locks on every door, gates, alarms,” said writer Jo Ashline of Orange, Calif., whose 11-yearold son has autism. “But there’s always, in the forefront of our minds, the thought that one tiny mistake could prove fatal.” Groups that advocate for autism-affected families, including the National Autism Association and Autism Speaks,
are now making it a priority to increase awareness of wandering — among parents, professionals who deal with autistic children, and first-responder agencies that handle missing-children cases. The study in Pediatrics found that half of parents with autistic children had never received advice or guidance from a professional on how to cope with wandering. Among those trying to change that is Sheila Medlam of Colwich, Kan., whose 5-year old son, Mason, drowned in a pond in July 2010 after squirming out of the family home through a window that had been raised about 8 inches because the air conditioner went out. Medlam was at work; her SEE WANDERING, PAGE A6