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GOOD MORNING Cemetery Walk set for Wednesday NEWVILLE — The Willennar Genealogy Center will present its eighth annual Cemetery Walk at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Evergreen Cemetery near Newville. Genealogy service coordinator Lynn Kaiser will lead the walk as cemetery “residents,” portrayed by actors, share stories about their lives and those of their families. The cemetery is behind a church at the intersection of S.R. 8 and C.R. 79-A. Traveling from the west, cross the bridge over the St. Joseph River at Newville and continue east one-fourth mile.
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A good substitute is hard to find Local school districts search in a variety of ways BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
There is more than one way to skin the proverbial cat when it comes to finding substitute teachers at area school corporations. In northeastern Indiana, East Noble, DeKalb Central and West Noble school corporations
all make use of a computerized system offered by the Region 8 Educational Service Center of Northeast Indiana, a nonprofit cooperative serving 33 school corporations. School districts such as MSD of Steuben County, Westview, Lakeland and Hamilton have staff members who find substitutes when needed. For larger school corporations with comparatively large staffs, finding substitutes can be time-consuming. Avilla Elementary School Principal Dave Pine remembers what it was like in the old days, before Region 8.
“We just had a paper list, and we’d start from the top and work our way down,” Pine said. Region 8’s SubService system takes care of that hassle. If a teacher knows she is going to be sick the night before school, for example, she calls or uses a computer to log in to the SubService system. The system takes the information and finds a match with substitutes in its database. If a math teacher calls into the system, “within five minutes it would call the subs who are willing to do math,” said Connie Rich, the executive assistant at Region 8 who coordinates the
Marine’s remains returned to Indiana NASHVILLE (AP) — The remains of an Indiana Marine killed during World War II have returned home nearly 70 years after he died during the U.S. invasion of a group of Japanese-held islands. Marine Pfc. Manley Forrest Winkley was 20 when he was shot and killed in combat on Nov. 20, 1943, during the first day of the invasion of the Tarawa Island Atoll in the Pacific Ocean’s Gilbert Islands.
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Area prep football player hospitalized FORT WAYNE (AP) — A high school football player from northern Indiana is in critical condition one day after he was injured in a football game. WANE-TV reports that Columbia City High School football player Sam Dailey was listed in critical condition Saturday at Fort Wayne’s Lutheran Hospital. Columbia City football coach Randy Hudgins says Dailey sustained an injury in Friday night’s game between Columbia City and Warsaw Community High School in Warsaw. Hudgins says Dailey was immediately taken to the hospital. Hudgins says it’s hard to tell where Dailey was hurt and how the injury happened, but he says everyone is optimistic about Dailey’s chances for recovery.
program. “We have found the Region 8 substitute service to be extremely beneficial in securing substitute teachers,” DeKalb Central Superintendent Sherry Grate said. “Region 8 does their best to match substitute teachers with positions where subs may have a teaching license or a certain area of expertise.” “The system works exceptionally well for us and provides a much broader base for subs,” East Noble Superintendent Ann Linson said. “Using the sub system allows us to draw from multiple counties
Chinese teachers to relax their instruction methods. In Chinese schools, Rayle said, “They pretty much stay in their seats and rows all the time. We try and get them to break it up and do some interactive learning.” Rayle gets things moving at the camp by leading songs to start each day. “The vast majority of the students really enjoy doing the music part,” he said. His playlist consists mostly of simple children’s songs, although this year he introduced the pop hit “YMCA,” complete with choreography. In the afternoons, Rayle engages the students in relays and
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze. The accusations by the regime of President Bashar Assad against opposition forces came as an international aid group U.S. MOVES said it has FORCES closer tallied 355 to Syria, deaths from SEE PAGE A10 a purported chemical weapons attack on Wednesday in a suburb of the Syrian capital known as Ghouta. Syria is intertwined in alliances with Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militant groups. The country also borders its longtime foe and U.S. ally Israel, making the fallout from military action unpredictable. Violence in Syria has already spilled over the past year to Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Battle-hardened Hezbollah fighters have joined the combat alongside Assad’s forces. Meanwhile, U.S. naval units are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers
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Terry Rayle of Auburn leads an activity this summer at a camp for Chinese students improving their English skills. An arm of
Huntington University operates the camp in Doumen, in southern China.
Exporting English and fun Local man livens up Chinese summer camp BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — More than 130 Chinese students can sing “YMCA” with all the dance moves, thanks to Terry Rayle, a retired director for the YMCA of DeKalb County. But that’s not all Rayle accomplished during his three-week stay in China this summer. Rayle puts the fun in a camp
helping Chinese students learn English, sponsored by an arm of Huntington University. Rayle, of Auburn, has worked every year since 2009 at the summer camp in Doumen, a short distance west of Hong Kong. Students from elementary age to high school attend the camp voluntarily in hopes of improving their English-language skills. Every teacher of English in the Doumen region has gone through the camp at least once. Chinese education officials invite a team of 15-25 Hoosiers to make the annual trips to run the camp. This year’s journey ran from July 11 to Aug. 4. Rayle said the camp’s education specialists encourage
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Marching for King’s dream: ‘task is not done’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. The event was an homage to a generation of activists that endured fire hoses, police abuse and indignities to demand equality for African Americans. But there was a strong theme of unfinished business. “This is not the time for nostalgic commemoration,” said Martin Luther King III, the oldest
son of the slain civil rights leader. “Nor is this the time for self-congratulatory celebration. The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.” Eric Holder, the nation’s first black attorney general, said he would not be in office, nor would Barack Obama be president, without those who marched. “They marched in spite of animosity, oppression and brutality because they believed in the greatness of what this nation could become and despaired of the founding promises not kept,” Holder said. Holder mentioned gays and SEE KING, PAGE A10
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Crowds rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Saturday. Fifty years ago, on the actual anniversary, April 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.