WEDNESDAY September 25, 2013
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GOOD MORNING Tenneco announces intent to hire 100 LIGONIER — Tenneco Inc. has begun hiring 100 people at its Ligonier facility to support the recent launch of a new product line for Chrysler Corp., the Northeast Indiana Regional Workforce Investment Board announced Tuesday. “This is an exciting time for folks to join Tenneco and get in on the ground floor of a brand-new product launch,” said plant manager Doug Bonecutter. “We’re pleased to expand our workforce here in Ligonier. An increase of this size creates promotional opportunities for both existing and new employees.” The open positions include machine operators, welders, material handlers and equipment set-up operators. Starting wages for the full-time positions range from $13 to $14.50 an hour. Tenneco, in partnership with WorkOne Northeast, will be holding hiring fairs this Saturday and Oct. 19 and Nov. 9. Tenneco’s Ligonier facility currently has 600 employees.
Frog race Sunday benefits show choirs AUBURN — DeKalb High School show choirs will sponsor their annual frog race Sunday at 2 p.m. at the DeKalb Outdoor Theater. Plastic frogs to enter in the race down Cedar Creek may be purchased for $5 apiece. First prize in the raise is $500. Frogs will be on sale this week at the popcorn stand at the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair’s main stage and from any show choir member. All proceeds go toward competition expenses for DeKalb’s state champion show choir program.
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Confidence carries queen Miss DeKalb County title a ‘dream come true’ for Hunt BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — Being the oldest contestant in the Miss DeKalb County pageant made Samantha Hunt nervous, but her experience helped claim the title of Miss DeKalb County 2013 Monday night. Hunt, a sophomore at Ball State University, competed in the pageant two years ago as a DeKalb High School senior. She finished as second-runner up. “It was a learning experience,” Hunt said of her first pageant in 2011.
“Going into this competition I felt so confident,” Hunt said. “I knew everything I wanted to work on, and I felt confident in myself.” Hunt said she wanted to convince judges that she was “fully committed 100 percent” and that being at Ball State wouldn’t conflict with fair activities. “I’m very organized. My planner is my best friend,” Hunt said. While classes are ongoing at Ball State, she made preparations in advance with her professors. “I plan to be at the fair all week,” she said. “I worked so hard
for this. It’s a childhood dream come true.” One of her favorite parts of the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair is walking down its junk food alley. “You see 10 different people you know,” Hunt said. “You feel love that the whole county is coming together.” A double major in apparel design and fashion merchandising, Hunt made her own professional wear attire for the pageant — a two-piece suit. She is a member of the fashion design society at Ball State and in the spring participates SEE QUEEN, PAGE A6
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Doughnuts doing good for charity BY AARON ORGAN aorgan@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — At a DeKalb County Free Fall Fair able to serve up just about anything a hungry belly desires, one tasty treat stands out among the rest: fresh, homemade, sugared doughnuts such as those from the Spencerville Order of the Eastern Star trailer. Thousands of the delectable doughnuts will be sold from the Eastern Star’s classic, white trailer at the corner of Seventh and Main streets this week — and only this week. The sale is the only project held by the organization to support its community giving efforts. The popularity of the treats allows the organization to fund a lot of charity. From 2012 through today, the Spencerville Order of the Eastern Star has donated $6,962 to a bevy of children, families, churches and charities in the area, funds built entirely from doughnut sales. Arden Dwyer, the Eastern Star’s worthy matron, said the organization will donate $10,000 by the end of the year. The organization donated $60 to a family whose home was destroyed in a fire. It pushed hundreds of dollars into local food banks and spent more than $1,100 for school clothes for children. The Eastern Star put more than $1,800 into the purchase of backpacks and stocked them with school supplies for students. It bought $340 worth of winter coats for children and donated $100 to a charity that flies sick children to the Shriners Hospital for Children for treatment. That’s doughnuts doing good. “We do something other than make doughnuts,” said Dwyer. “We are a charitable organization, and sometimes people don’t realize we so a lot of good things, especially for children.” The doughnut trailer is run by volunteers and is staffed by 8-9 makeshift doughnut makers at any given time. Inside the trailer, it’s both chaotic and organized, with each worker assigned to
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Volunteers with the Spencerville Order of the Eastern Star pour ingredients into a mixer to make fresh, homemade, sugared doughnuts Tuesday. The Eastern Star will sell thousands of the famed treats during this week’s DeKalb County Free Fall Fair.
a specific station, from mixing dough to sugaring the doughnuts to bagging them and sending them out the window. Handshakes are sticky and sweet, there’s not much room to move about, and there’s always a patron waiting patiently outside the window for a sack of doughnuts. Four machines sit side by side at the back of the trailer. They accept the mixture and plop rings of dough into a waiting fryer automatically. Once inside the fryer, the machine flips the doughnuts so they’re cooked evenly on both sides before they are shoved out and into a pan, where a worker picks them up for sugaring. From there, the trays of doughnuts are sent over to the front of the trailer, where another worker bags them and they are sold. With 1,320 doughnuts made
per 100 pounds of mix, it has to be all business. Dwyer said she purchased 8,400 pounds of mix, 250 pounds of shortening and 1,200 pounds of sugar ahead of the fair, and figures it a likelihood she’ll have to go out for more ingredients before the week is over. Fair-goers come en masse from miles around for the treats, which have become one of the signature items of the county fair. “A lot of people think we are the fair,” said Arden Dwyer. “One year we didn’t come, and I had people calling me up asking where we were. After that, the fair board told us they would save our corner for us.” So there they’ll be, on the corner of Seventh and Main streets, during fair week, selling warm and fresh homemade doughnuts for a good cause.
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9-11 a.m. — Cookies With Preschoolers, Exhibit Hall 9:30 a.m. — 4-H dairy beef show, show barn, fairgrounds Noon — Old Settlers Lunch, First United Methodist Church, 1203 E. Seventh St. 1:30 p.m. — Old Settlers Day
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Samantha Hunt, a sophomore at Ball State University, was named Miss DeKalb County 2013 at the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair Monday night.
Program, First United Methodist Church 4 p.m. — Carnival open, wrist band $15, Downtown 5 p.m. — Saddle horse show, show ring, fairgrounds 5:30 p.m. — 4-H beef steer and market heifer show, show barn; following beef show, alumni beef
showmanship, show barn 6:30 p.m. — Maggie Rose, main stage 7 p.m. — Scout Parade, downtown 7:30 p.m. — LoCash Cowboys, main stage 8:45 p.m. — Jon Pardi, main stage
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president proclaimed victory Tuesday over the terrorists who stormed a Nairobi mall, saying security forces had “ashamed and defeated our attackers” following a bloody four-day siege in which dozens of civilians were killed. President Uhuru Kenyatta said the dead included 61 civilians whose bodies have been recovered so far and six security forces, while some 175 were injured, including 62 who remain hospitalized. Three floors of the mall collapsed and several bodies were trapped in the rubble, said Kenyatta. His office later said a terrorist’s body was among those in the debris. Five other extremists were killed by gunfire, Kenyatta said in the televised address to the nation. He said 11 other suspects had been arrested; authorities had previously announced the arrest of seven at the airport and three elsewhere. “These cowards will need justice as well their accomplices and patrons, wherever they are,” Kenyatta said. Kenyatta declared three days of national mourning starting Wednesday. At the Westgate mall, there were no immediate signs of the Kenyan Security forces closing their operation. Two Kenyan soldiers who had recently been inside the mall told The Associated Press shortly before the president spoke that the operation was effectively finished, but they said security forces were still combing the facility and had not definitively cleared all the rooms inside. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were under orders not to speak to the media. Kenyan forces had for two days said they were in the “final phase” of the operation, only to be battled back by the militants inside the building. Explosions rang from the upscale Westgate mall in Nairobi throughout Tuesday, and the chatter of gunfire from inside the building could also be heard. Fresh smoke rose from the building in the afternoon.
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