The Paper of Miami County - Oct. 26, 2022Ma

Braves grab the Gold!

Marching band competes, wins state competition

Miami County Train Show coming to fairgrounds Oct. 29

The 2022 Fall Miami County Train Show will be held at the Miami County Fairgrounds, Saturday, Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be over 130 tables of vendors, exhibits and train layouts.

Aside from trains, there will also be vendors there for the ladies to enjoy. As always, there will be food available while attendees browse and shop. Admission is $3 and kids six and under are free.

Kids attending are invited to wear Halloween

costumes and candy will be handed out to those attending (even kids who do not dress in a cos tume). Proceeds from the show will go toward the Relocation and Restoration of train cars. Paul Forman, organizer for the show hopes to raise at least $5,000 to help with the new train project. Train cars located at the former Siding Restaurant are set to be moved to the west side of Peru on their own set of tracks. The cars will be remodeled and on display for all to enjoy.

One of two railroad cars to be relocated and restored with fund Forman raises from show. Photo provided

Community Calendar

Every Monday

10:30 a.m. –Movers and Shak ers, a music and movement program at the Peru Public Library. Ages 0-5.

Noon – AA Recov ery Meeting – First Christian Church Library, 53 W. Main Street, Peru (use el evator entrance).

7:30 p.m. – AA Re covery Meeting –Miami Nation of In dians Tribal Head quarters, 80 W. Sixth Street, Peru (use east entrance).

First Tuesday/every month

6 p.m. - The Miami County Republican Party holds its monthly meeting at party headquarters, 171 N. Miami St., Peru.

Every Tuesday

10:30 a.m. – Story time at the Peru

Public Library.

6 p.m. – AA Recov ery Meeting –Miami Nation of In dians Tribal Head quarters, 80 W. Sixth Street, Peru (use east entrance).

Every Wednesday

7:30 p.m. – AA Re covery Meeting –Miami Nation of In dians Tribal Head quarters, 80 W. Sixth Street, Peru (use east entrance).

Every Thursday

4:30 p.m. – Lego Club at the Peru Public Library. 6 p.m. – AA Recov ery Meeting –Miami Nation of In dians Tribal Head quarters, 80 W. Sixth Street, Peru (use east entrance).

Every third Thurs day each month

4:30 p.m. – Ameri can Girl Club at the Peru Public Library.

Every Friday

Noon – AA Recov ery Meeting – First Christian Church Library, 53 W. Main Street, Peru (use el evator entrance).

7:30 p.m. – AA Re covery Meeting –Miami Nation of In dians Tribal Head quarters, 80 W. Sixth Street, Peru (use east entrance).

Every Saturday

10 a.m. – AA Re covery Meeting –First Christian Church Library, 53 W. Main Street, Peru (use elevator entrance).

Every Sunday

2 p.m. – AA Recov ery Women’s-only meeting, First Christian Church Library, 53 W. Main Street, Peru (use el evator entrance).

Now – Nov. 16

Parkview United Methodist Church is having their an nual Mincemeat

and Pie sale. Mince meat quarts are $12. Apple, Apple Crumb, Mincemeat Pies are pre-order only and are $12 each. Call Maureen Cook at 765-473-6706 to place orders. Pick up will be Nov. 17 between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 29

10 a.m. – 3 p.m. –Fall Miami County Train Show –Miami County Fair grounds. 130 tables of vendors, exhibits and train layouts. Admission is $3. Kids six and under are free.

Oct. 31

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – Fall Fest DriveThru - Parkview United Methodist Church, 1785 S. State Road 19 will have treats avail able for children. Please enter on the east drive and out the west drive. Questions? Call the

church at 765-4735526.

Nov. 4 & 5

Nov. 4 – 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. – Nostalgic North Pole Christ mas Market Nov. 5 – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. - Nostalgic North Pole Christ mas Market – Both days, Christmas store flip – pine, hot chocolate, ginger bread, peppermint lattes, live music and more.

Nov. 5

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. –Holiday Craft Show – 4-H Fairground Project Building, 1029 N. 200 W., Peru. For information concerning booth space, contact Kathy Kline @ 765431-4342.

Nov. 8

4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. –The Main Street United Methodist Church will have a Chicken Noodle Dinner, 81 West Main Street, Peru. This will be a drivethru dinner only. Enter from the parking lot from Third Street. It is $12 per person. Tickets are avail

able in the church office or at the door the day of the event. For more informa tion, call 765-4723323.

Nov. 16

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. –Childhood Food In security presenta tion - This presentation will be held at the Peru/Miami County YMCA, 751 W. Second Street, Peru. It includes food insecurity in formation specific to Miami County, how it affects the health of the popu lation, and what the community can do about it. The pres entation will ex plore what living in a food insecure home looks like, and learn how food insecurity affects children physically, emotionally, and mentally. Learning objectives are: To understand what childhood food inse curity looks like in Miami County; To learn what efforts are already in place to address local food insecurity; To learn how food insecurity affects children physically, emotion ally, and mentally;

To share ideas of what we can do as a community to ad dress childhood food insecurity. This event is being coordinated by Mindy Duckett, Community Well ness Coordinator, Purdue Extension in partnership with Miami County United Way and More for Miami. There is no cost for this event and lunch will be pro vided. Those attend ing are invited to bring business cards or program/service in formation to share. Arrive early and stay afterward for networking. To reg ister for this event, go to: www.iyi.org/events. Nov. 19

6 p.m. – Peru Christmas Parade and Courthouse Tree lighting. The parade begins at the Peru Depot on Canal Street and turns onto Broad way. The route ends at Circus City Festi val, 154 N. Broad way.

If you have an up coming event, send it to: mboswell@thepap erofmiami.com.

Obituary

Nathan Or lando Brooks passed away on Oct. 17, 2022, in Balti more, Mary land.

He was born Sept. 6, 1978, to Rick and Roberta Brooks. Nathan gradu ated from Maconaquah Schools and was a vet eran of the United States Army Reserves. He was employed by Global In dustries as an iron worker, having many li censes to operate large machinery. He traveled extensively in and out of the country having his own crew. When possi ble, he attended the Mex ico First Brethren Church. Nathan loved the Lord.

He married Nicole Hearm, Oct. 26, 2021.

He was preceded in death by his mother, and leaves behind two sons, Eron Karl and Eathan Ricky, his parents, Rick and Sue Brooks, broth ers Robert Brooks and Michael Jason Brooks, and a sister Denise Brooks along with many

members of the Brook’s family including aunts, uncles, cousins, and many friends.

Nathan loved life and was always ready to lend a hand to anyone who needed it. He loved all sports but was an avid Notre Dame football and New York Yankees fan.

A memorial service will be held Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, at 11 a.m. at the Mexico First Brethren Church, South Miami Street, Mexico, Indiana, with Pastor Lorie Keck officiating.

Friends and family may sign the online guestbook at www.Flow ersLeedyAllen.com.

Slacian named GM of Hometown and WK Media

By Eric Christiansen echristiansen@nm paper.com

Hometown Media and WK Media Pres ident Don Hurd an nounced the promotions of Joseph Slacian as General Manager and Michelle Boswell as Assistant General Manager.

Hometown Media and WK Media con sist of The Paper of Wabash County, The Paper of Miami County, the North Manchester NewsJournal, the News Herald in Grant County, and The Huntington County Tab.

“Joe has several decades of newspa per editorial experi ence with other Indiana newspa pers,” Hurd said.

“Joe is a champion of solid local jour nalism…and has un selfishly mentored hundreds of bud ding journalists early in their ca reers.”

Slacian, who is in his 48th year in the newspaper business, started his journal ism career at the age of 16 as a junior in high school.

“I figured if I can’t play baseball, I might as well write about it,” Slacian said. “It took off from there. My par ents got four of five newspapers, three of them daily, one which I started writ ing for came twice a week, and another came once a week.”

Slacian said he covered his local high school for the Sun Journal, based in Lansing, Ill., and went wherever when they needed some one to fill in.

He then wrote for the student newspa

per at Indiana Uni versity-Northwest in Gary and IU-Bloom ington. Less than a week after gradua tion he got offered a job in Hoopeston, Ill.

“I started as a re porter at the end of May,” Slacian said.

“By December, I was managing editor and held that position until I came to Wabash in 1984.”

Slacian’s move was a transfer to the Wabash Plain Dealer, a sister paper to Hoopeston, both owned by Nixon Newspapers.

He served as a re porter, news editor, and eventually man aging editor for 20 years before retiring from there in 2014.

He quickly jumped back into the jour nalism business when he was hired as editor of The Paper of Wabash County in January 2015.

Asked why he loves what he does, Slacian answered, “It’s something dif ferent every day. No two days are alike. You can be inter viewing the gover nor one day and Joe the custodian the next day.

“I’ve always be lieved that every body has a story to tell.”

Slacian will con tinue to oversee edi torial content of the five newspaper and will be heavily in volved with the dayto-day operations within the company

assisting Hurd.

Slacian and his wife, Jody, two daughters, Jana and Jeri, and a dog, Alley Jo.

“I couldn’t do what I do without the sup port of my family, especially my wife, who has to put up with the odd hours, weekend work and everything else that goes into having a husband in the newspaper busi ness,” he said.

Boswell’s move to Assistant General Manager will be a change from her work as editor of The Paper of Miami County where she will oversee the rev enue development and promotional planning for both companies.

“Michelle will take over and develop several advertising accounts in Wabash and Miami Coun ties,” said Hurd.

“She will also work with national and regional advertising agencies to facilitate their placements.

“Additionally, Michelle will assist me in hiring and staff development.”

Boswell will con tinue her work as editor of The Paper of Miami County until a replacement is found, according to Hurd.

Boswell started her newspaper career at the age of 15 as a photographer.

“I worked at the Peru Tribune for nearly 25 years and

worked my way up through the busi ness,” she said. “I’ve been a reporter, news clerk, worked in the camera room, sold advertising, and served as an adver tising director.”

Boswell took a hia tus from journalism to go into banking where she worked as a loan officer and branch manager be fore going back to where it all began.

“An opening for the ad director opened at the Peru Tribune and that’s when I went back to what I loved, which is newspapers,” she said.

Boswell has been the editor of The Paper of Miami County at its incep tion in 2019.

Boswell has been a long-time member of the Peru Circus Fes tival and served as ringmaster.

Talking about the newspaper business, in nearly every ca pacity, Boswell men tioned community.

“It’s never the same thing every day,” she said. “You meet different peo ple, and you get to be out in the commu nity and see all of the exciting things that are happening in the community.”

Boswell is married to Jim and the cou ple celebrated their 21st anniversary this week.

They have three children, Brittainy, Molly, and Zak.

“(Joe’s and Michelle’s) hard work and dedication to their careers made this an easy process in promot ing them,” Hurd said. “I’m looking forward to many years of success for them within our company.”

Nathan Orlando Brooks, 44

Joseph Slacian

Michelle Boswell

Police Reports

Miami County Sheriff’s Department

Oct. 15

A car vs. guardrail acci dent was re ported at Logansport Rd. and U.S. 31, Peru. Damage was re ported with the crash.

County officers at 382 W Main St, Peru were as sisted with a do mestic situation.

Officers re sponded to the area of 2024 Shaw Ave, Peru for a report of marijuana odor coming from an adjoining du plex. The resi dent of the duplex was standing outside upon officer ar rival and was ad vised of the complaint. The subject advised he had just re turned home. He opened the door, allowing investi gators to look in side to confirm

no other occu pants may have been responsible for the incident. No marijuana odor was de tected.

Officers spoke to a female at 1834 Norton Ave, Peru over the phone who had questions re garding protec tive orders.

A verbal dis pute between a husband and wife was re ported at 39034 Edwards CT, Peru. The unli censed female was late to work, and the male was unwilling to drive her. The fe male was pro vided a courtesy transport and parties were sep arated for a cou ple of hours.

A property damage accident

on private prop erty was re ported at 12111 S 200 W, Kokomo.

A speeding driver was halted in a traf fic stop at 1156 E St. Rd. 124, Buck’s Bait, Peru. The driver was issued a warning.

A mental case was reported at 2 Mount Hope Rd, Mount Hope Cemetery, Peru.

A parking problem was re ported at Warhawk Rd. and Shaw Ave, Peru. The own ers were asked to move their vehi cles.

A juvenile was reportedly offroading in a field at E 1200 S & S 950 E, Converse. The owner of the field said they would check dur

Answers for puzzles,

ing the day to de termine if there was any damage due to this be havior.

A welfare check was con ducted at 314 E Washington Ave, Prescott Greene, Apt. 29, Bunker Hill. All checked okay.

A traffic stop was conducted at S Bus. 31 and W Ellis Rd, Peru. This resulted in an arrest.

Oct. 16

A suspicious vehicle was re ported at 3976 E 1400 S, HowardMiami Mennon ite Church, Kokomo. The ve hicle was in the parking lot when officers investi gated the scene. The subjects checked okay. After releasing the individuals, a building check was conducted. An unlocked door was located. No signs of forced entry

were located on or around the door. The inte rior of the build ing was checked, and nothing ap peared to be out of place.

A suspicious white VW Jetta was reported at 600 E Walnut St, Converse Ele mentary School,

Converse. The vehicle in ques tion was parked in the yard of the property. The vehicle checked out okay. This call card was made for record only.

Domestic dis turbance was re ported at 2845 S Hilltop Dr, Apt. 7,

Peru. The victim advised that her boyfriend had battered her and fled the scene on foot. A sworn statement was taken.

A car vs. deer crash with dam age was reported at E U.S. 24 and N Paw Paw Pike,

Sports

All three Miami County football teams saw their sea sons end with losses in the first round of section als in the IHSAA football state tournament.

Hamilton Heights 51, Ma conaquah 18

The Ma conaquah foot ball team stayed close in the first quarter of their sectional matchup against Hamilton Heights Friday, Oct. 21, but the Maconaquah got on the board first on an eightplay, 65-yard drive, ending on a 42-yard passing play from Brax ton Birner to Fuddy Kile for a 6-0 lead.

The Huskies re sponded with two touchdowns to take a 14-6 lead but Birner found Kaleb Shelton 14 seconds later for a 71-yard touch down to cut the lead to 14-12.

A blocked punt by the Huskies that saw the ball roll out of the end zone gave

Hamilton Heights a 16-12 lead, and that would be it for the Braves.

Birner finished the game with 319 yards on 2343 passing.

Austin Ringeisen led the Braves with eight tackles, fol lowed by Brady Dausch with seven, Kile and Shelton each with six, and Ayden Jernagan and Kelly each with five with Kelly forcing a fumble and Oak ley Reeser recov ering the ball.

The Braves fin ish the season with a 6-4 record and 6- in the Three Rivers Conference.

Class 1A Madison-Grant 41, North Miami 23

The MadisonGrant Argylls scored 27 points in the third quar ter to take con trol of their sectional road game at North Miami, defeating the Warriors, 4123, Friday, Oct.

21.

The Argylls led 6-0 after one quarter and led 14-9 at halftime.

The 27-0 third quarter put the game away for Madison-Grant.

Austin Smith did all he could to keep the War riors in the game, rushing for 256 yards on

45 attempts with three touch downs.

Bradyn Fennel rand for 24 yards, followed by Lucas Keim with 18 yards, and Hartley Hoover with eight yards. Hoover passed for 26 yards on 3 of six attempts.

Keim caught two passes for 21

yards and Austin Smith added a five-yard catch. Smith led the defense with 13 tackles, followed by Fennell with 13, Keim with nine, Ryan McGuire with three, and Bryce Gosnell and Silas Freeman with two each.

North Miami

ends its season with a 4-6 record and 3-5 in the TRC.

Tippecanoe Val ley 50, Peru 0

After a tight first half where Tippecanoe Val ley led the Peru Tigers, 6-0, the Vikings exploded in the second half with 37

third-quarter points and ran away with a 50-0 lead.

Matthew Roettger passed for 44 yards on 6 of 14 attempts. Braxten Strong caught three passes for 17 yards and Brax ten Robbins pulled in one 9yard pass.

Alex Ross led the Tigers on the ground with 28 yards, followed by Tanner Boggs and Roettger with 21 yards each, Zakk Parks with five, and Alex Smithers with three.

Ross led the team with 13 tackles, followed by Roettger and Josh Watkins with 10 apiece, Robbins, Brantlee Ed wards, and Don avyn Tyson with five each, and Lucas Boggs, Parks, Bode Ream, and Strong each with three.

Peru’s season ends with a 3-7 record and 3-5 in the TRC.

Maconaquah girls advance to cross country state meet

For the first time since 1988, the Maconaquah girls cross country team has earned the right to compete in the IHSAA state championship by placing 4th at the New Prairie Semi-State meet.

Freshman Zoie Laber was the first Lady Brave to cross the line, placing 22nd overall and clocking in at 19:51. Right behind her was junior Abby Jordan, who ran a 19:54 and placed 23rd.

Freshman Chloe Jordan was the third Maconaquah girl to finish, placing 52nd with a time of 20:45.

Lucy Loshnowsky finished in 63rd place and finished in 20:55.

Samantha Jones (71st, 21:07) rounded out the scoring for the Lady Braves, and Aubrey McClain (143rd, 22:46) was the final Maconaquah girl to finish.

The Lady Braves will run in the IHSAA state champi onship meet next Saturday, Oct. 29 at Lavern Gibson Championship course in Terre Haute.

Peru Tiger, Zakk Parks, runs with the ball during the Friday, Oct. 21 game between Peru and Tippecanoe Valley. The Vikings won the game, 50-0, ending Peru’s season. Photo by Michelle Boswell

Fall flowers

Peru Save-A-Lot Beacon Credit Union

Down on the Farm Paul Richard GM Kroger

Gallahan Travel Plaza

Family Farm & Home

Casey’s West Casey’s East Conny’s Little Ger man Breadshop Main Street Market and My Pizza My Way

Peru High School

Peru Junior High CVS Walgreen’s Ladd Dental Group of Peru Miami County Recy cling District Office

JJ’s Pit Stop Village PantryEagle’s Point Peru Mart

Start time for the race is noon.

Boys

The Maconaquah boys cross country team wrapped up their season today by competing in the New Prairie Semi-State meet for the first time since 2010. The boys finished in 17th place out of 20

teams.

Isaiah Wittenberg led the way for the boys, finishing in 53rd overall with a time of 17:38.

Freshman Kaden Hanson was Ma conaquah’s second runner to finish (109th, 18:18).

Daylen Schrock ran the course in 18:22 while finish ing in 109th place.

Kaden Miller placed 129th over

all and crossed the line in 18:32.

Isaiah Moore (153rd, 19:02) was the final scorer for the Braves.

Senior Quinn Richard ran one of his best races of the year, placing 174th and finishing in 22:02.

Jacob Sayger was the final Brave to finish, running a 25:14 and placing 175th.

Knight’s Inn Best Western 58 East Anita’s Boutique 6th Street Coffee Kehrer Fish Com pany

YMCA Fashion Dry Clean ers

Midwest Eye Con sultants

Olson Paint & Body Conoco

Peru Pantry Marathon Gas Sta tions

McClure’s Oil- W. Main

McClure’s Oil- S. Broadway

Miami County Soil & Water Dr. Gregory Quin St. Charles Bor romeo

Community Re source Center Miami County Courthouse

Friermood Tire Peru Glass & Screen Blair Ridge USDA

Miami County Arti san Gallery Gallery 15 Edward Jones A Cut Above Knapp Kustom Vinyl Decals

First Farmer’s Bank &Trust Phil’s Barber Shop

VFW

Bill’s Meat Market

Gilead Squirrel Creek Raber’s Kountry Store

Gilead General Store

Denver

Body by Moose A Lil Off the Top Hoosier Hot Spot North Miami High School

Roann Todd’s Corner

Mexico Marathon Gas Sta tion Macy Post Office

Bunker Hill Marathon Gas Sta tion

Maconaquah High School Bunker Hill Mini Mart

Grissom Air Base Marathon Gas Sta tion C-Store on Base Grissom Museum

Many gardeners in Miami County are bringing in the last of their fall flowers from their gardens. While the weather has been warm, temperatures will begin to fall and rain is in the forecast for the week. Photo by Michelle Boswell

Halloween Hijinks!

by Laura Kurella

According to the History Channel, the Halloween we celebrate today is very American.

From holding par ties where ghost sto ries are told to going from house to house looking for treats, Americans have been celebrat ing Halloween in this fashion since the 19th century.

In recent years, Halloween has de veloped into a fam ily festival full of parties and hi-jinx.

Fun, games and cos tumes all in the safety of your own home has become the new "norm."

The shift from parading from house-to-house to hanging in one (safe) home has cre ated a completely new need for food that can carry on a creepy theme which, if you’ve been paying atten tion, can take a re ally nasty direction if you're not care ful. Lord knows I was disgusted when I saw my first kitty

litter cake, and we'd all need a witch to conjure up an ap petite!

For those in need of a little less dis gusting inspiration, there are books out there that have spooky, creepy, and even cute and deli cious ideas for Hal loween that won't make you gag. Hal loween Treats, Recipes and Crafts for the Whole Fam ily, by Donata Mag gipinto (Chronicle Books) is filled with delicious recipes and charming ways to present them.

Maggipinto, a for mer food and enter taining director for Williams-Sonoma, gives ideas that all ages will enjoy and includes tasks even the youngest of helpers can do safely. She uses mini cookie cutters to cut ghosts out of flattened marshmal lows for a hot cocoa topping, creates spooky spiders using Oreo cookies with licorice legs, and spirals black and white icing over cupcakes to

create a cute web ef fect.

Pumpkin seeds roasted with herbs are served up with a couple of glass eye balls peering out of the pile. Carameldunked pint-sized pears or apples are stuck with craggy natural licorice sticks and rolled in granola. And who could refuse a drink called Devil's Breath or Witch's Kiss? (Adult and kid versions included.)

Of course, if you are one of those that like to creep your guests out, you'll need look no further than this column, especially if you are looking for some really dark-humored recipes to help you get some Halloween hi-jinx started, and no age limits re quired!

I put special thought into these so that I could pres ent you with three spook-tacular snacks that are lit erally a real scream!

There are no tricks to my treats, which makes them

as much fun to make as they are to watch your friends try to eat!

My personal fa vorite are the Fin ger Sandwiches because they not only go together in the snap of your fin gers, but are so fin ger-licking good that your guests will want to eat them by the hand ful, and I do mean that literally, ha-haha-ha-ha!

Whatever you plan for this Hal loween, please make sure to keep it safe and happy for everyone, and if you serve up some of my Halloween Hijinks recipes, I'll be there in spirit. ENJOY!

Laura Kurella is a nationally awardwinning recipe de veloper and food columnist who loves to share recipes from her Midwest kitchen. She welcomes your comments at lau rakurella@yahoo.co m.

Finger Sand wiches

A treat that goes together in a snap and is eaten by the handful!

2 (8 ounce) cans re frigerated Crescent Dinner Rolls 48 fully cooked cock tail smoked sausage links

1 red pepper, sweet or hot Heat oven to 375. Separate dough into 8 triangles. Cut each triangle lengthwise into thirds. Place sausage on the shortest side and roll to opposite points.

Bake at 375 on an ungreased cookie sheet until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Using a po tato peeler, gouge the end of the sausage to create a nail bed then using a paring knife, cut

pepper into finger nail shapes and place in the bed to create a humanlooking finger. Serve hot or cold with your favorite condiments.

Servings per recipe: 48.

Eye-cubes

A great way to keep an eye on your drink!

16 radishes

16 olives with pi mento

1 ice cube tray

With a potato peeler or a sharp paring knife, thinly peel radish to create the red vein-looking streaks. Then in the flat end of the radish, using the business end of po tato peeler, carve out a hole large enough to accom modate an olive. Stuff olive in hole. Drop radishes into an ice tray and fill the tray with water. Freeze until use.

VARIATION: Omit freezing and serve as an appetizer.

Servings per recipe:

16.

Hear No Evil Chips ‘n’ Salsa

A great conversa tion starter!

3 cups all-purpose flour

5 tablespoons veg etable shortening

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup very warm water

1 drop of red food coloring

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a food processor, com bine 2 3/4 cups of the flour with the lard or shortening. (Reserve remaining flour for rolling the dough). Pulse sev eral times until flour resembles cracker crumbs.

Add red food color ing to 2/3 cup warm water then add salt. While the machine is running, slowly pour water mixture through the feed tube in a steady stream. Stop puls ing dough once it becomes a ball.

Cover with plastic wrap and allow the

dough to rest for 30 minutes. On a lightly floured sur face, pinch a piece of dough off and roll into a thin 6”circle. Cut dough using a 5” heartshaped cookie cut ter then cut the heart vertically in half to create 2 ear shapes. With wet fingers curl the outer edge into the shape of a lobe then, using your thumb, push the inner center of the ear towards the top of the lobe to create the ear creases.

Gently place ears on a non-stick cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until lightly brown. (For crispier ears, bake in the oven for 7 minutes to set shape then deep fry for 1 minute in 350 de gree oil. Store in an air (or ear) tight container until use.

Serve hot or cold. Servings per recipe: 12.

These Eye-Cubes offer a crisp and clever way to keep an eye on your drink.

Photographer: Laura Kurella

These Finger Sandwiches go together in a snap and are satisfy ing enough for even the most savage of appetites. Make plenty because they'll be eaten by the handful!

Photographer: Laura Kurella

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Police continued from

Peru. Heeters Towing removed the vehicle. A state crash report was completed.

A car vs. deer crash with dam age was reported at 3321 W Logans port Rd, Peru.

The owner drove their vehicle home from the scene. A state re port was com pleted.

A caller at S Hilltop Dr, Front Section Drive, Peru had received a report of a sub ject sleeping in a car in the parking lot. It was be lieved to be a sus pect in a domestic complaint from the previous evening. The ve hicle was unoccu pied on arrival.

Officers at tempted contact at the residence but got no re sponse. The door was unsecure and ISP K-9 units were en route to check the resi dence. The female resident arrived while investiga tors were waiting for K-9 units. Res idence was checked and no one was located inside. She was able to retrieve personal items, including keys. She left the area. Officers were un able to locate the suspect.

A caller at 5575 E 325 S, Peoria Church, Peru had reported a firearm lying in the roadway.

A caller at 41026 Gunter CT, Peru had sent intimate images to an un known subject, who was at the time of report threatening to post the images online. The caller believed it was not the subject he was initially speaking with.

A report of a male subject at 1968 W 1050 S,

Miami making suicidal com ments to family was taken. Four County Crisis Team responded.

Assault was re ported at 3126 E 850 N, Denver.

Robert Alan Bex was arrested for domestic battery.

Lost property was reported at 930 W Glenway Dr, Peru.

Officers at N U.S. 31 and N Eel River Cemetery Rd, Peru assisted Indiana State Po

lice with an oper ating while intox icated traffic stop.

A speeding resi dent was issued a citation during a traffic stop at S U.S. 31 and W 850 S, Bunker Hill.

Oct. 17

Officers at 416 Harrison Ave, Bowman’s Tow ing, Peru assisted city and state offi cers with a case in reference to burglary. Two males were taken

into custody. Offi cers transported one male to the Sheriff's Depart ment for Indiana State Police.

A car vs. deer accident with damage was re ported at 12580 S St. Rd. 19, Con verse. No injuries were reported.

A complainant at N Eel River Rd. and W Leffel Lane, Peru re ported a young male walking up the road alone.

The male report edly had nowhere to go. Officers lo cated the male. The male was thirteen years old and lived at 303 N Water St. in Peru. Officers found his mother at Elec tro-nite. The juve nile was turned over to the mother.

A caller at 2923 Travis St, Peru wanted to make a report of an unauthorized ac count on credit

report. Officers spoke to a complainant at 1802 N 175 E, Peru about a pos sible trespassing issue. Located a broken fence/gate where they may be en tering. Officers were unable to lo cate anyone.

Driving under the influence was reported at W 1400 S and S U.S. 31, Kokomo.

A single vehicle property damage

backing crash was reported at 3807 S Strawtown Pike, Peru. The owner called Bowman's prior to officer arrival. The owner drove their vehicle from the scene once it was recovered. Local report only. Officers assisted Bunker Hill 1 with a dog bite at 167 S Water St, Bunker Hill. The dog was moved to Bunker Hill ken nel.

Bunker Hill man found dead in Huntington County jail

The Indiana State Police is in vestigating an inmate death at the Huntington County Jail.

Preliminary in formation has found that at ap proximately 3 a.m., Oct. 22, Huntington County jail staff were alerted by

another inmate of a possible medical condi tion in one of the cellblocks. Jail staff found inmate Nicholas Parks, 42, of Bunker Hill, In diana, unrespon sive. Jail staff immediately at tempted medical resuscitation

Disappearing

until EMS per sonnel arrived and took over emergency med ical treatment. On scene treat ment was unsuc cessful. Parks was pronounced dead by the Huntington County Coroner at the jail.

ISP Detectives

stated that there did not appear to be any sign of physical alterca tion or struggle.

Parks has had previous med ical problems in the past. Toxicol ogy and autopsy results to deter mine cause/manner of death are pend

ing with the Huntington County Coro ner’s Office.

Family notifi cation has been made.

This is an on going death in vestigation. At this time there is no further infor mation to re lease.

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Debris continues to disappear at the former jail location in downtown Peru. Photo by Michelle Boswell