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A23 News briefs .... A12 Homestead band ............................ A6 INSIDE City of Churches Tour adds 5 stops Night of Lights brighter this year Second harvest By Louisa Danielson For IN|fortwayne publications On Friday, Dec. 8, at 6 p.m., 17 churches in the downtown Fort Wayne area will open their doors to visitors who want to explore a little bit of Fort Wayne history. Some churches will be decorated for Christmas, offering the perfect time Contributed Just mention “Night of Lights” to generations of Fort Wayne residents and visitors, and they will list the holiday traditions that play out on Thanksgiving Eve. Downtown will light up again on Wednesday, Nov. 22, as iconic symbols begin glowing for yet another HolidayFest. Santa and his rein- deer will dash across the wall of the PNC Bank Building, just one of a dozen highlights of the evening. Downtown churches will offer the Ringing of the Bells at 7:30 p.m. Parkview Field spectators will lift their eyes to holiday fireworks at 7:45 p.m. Also this year, Ash Brokerage joins the lighting ceremonies with Holiday Illumination at 6:40 p.m. Family-friendly lighting ceremonies and indoor and outdoor holiday activities will take place throughout the late after- noon and evening. Warm up with cocoa and carols at the Allen County Court- house. Enjoy a special outdoor holiday concert with Renee Gonzales and her Merry Musicians at I&M Power Center Plaza, presented by Wells Fargo. Take in the kickoffs of both the Festival of Gingerbread at the History Center and Festival of Trees at the Embassy Theatre. Participate in activities like Cookies & Cocoa with Santa at Salin Bank, Santa’s Workshop at the Commu- nity Center, the Holiday Open House at the Grand Wayne Convention Center, Create a Scarf at the Allen County Public Library or Santa at the Train Station at the Baker Street Train Station. The Downtown Holiday Window Decorating Contest returns this year. Visitors will stroll past the decorated windows of participating businesses The first City of Churches Tour in 2016 visits St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, which will be open again during the 2017 tour. FILE PHOTO BY RAY STEUP See TOUR, Page A19 See NIGHT, Page A20 Area Holiday Events list. Page A5 Gift cards: Buy $50 Get $10 FREE Serving over 55,875 readers* monthly November 22, 2017 INfortwayne.com Community Calendar.......... A22 News briefs .....A15 Carroll band ............................ A5 INSIDE Banquet Room Available For Holiday Parties Small Coupons! 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Santa and his reindeer will dash across the wall of the PNC Bank Building, just one of a dozen high- lights of the evening. Downtown churches will offer the Ringing of the Bells at 7:30 p.m. Parkview Field spectators will lift their eyes to holiday fire- works at 7:45 p.m. Also this year, Ash Brokerage joins the lighting cere- monies with Holiday Illumination at 6:40 p.m. Family-friendly lighting ceremonies and indoor and outdoor holiday activities will take place throughout the late afternoon and evening. Warm up with cocoa and carols at the Allen County Courthouse. Enjoy a special outdoor holiday concert with Renee Gonzales and her Merry Musicians at I&M Power Center Plaza, presented by Wells Fargo. Take in the kickoffs of both the Festival of Gingerbread at the History Center and Festival of Trees at the Embassy Theatre. Participate in activities like Cookies & Cocoa with Santa at Salin Bank, Santa’s Workshop at the Community Center, the Holiday Open House at the Grand Wayne Convention Center, Create a Scarf at the Allen County Public Library or Santa at the Train Station at the Baker Street Train Station. The Downtown Holiday Window Decorating Contest returns this year. Visitors will stroll past the decorated windows of participating businesses and organizations. This The first City of Churches Tour in 2016 visits St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, which will be open again during the 2017 tour. FILE PHOTO BY RAY STEUP See TOUR, Page A19 See NIGHT, Page A18 Area Holiday Events list. Pages A7-10 Serving over 46,389 readers* monthly • IN|FortWayne Publications are localized community monthly newspapers serving specific neighborhoods in and around Fort Wayne. • We offer a full range of print marketing services including direct mail campaigns on local and national levels, production of glossy to commercial web print products, and sticky note printing and insertion. • Our services also include many online and digital services including mobile responsive website design, social media solutions, email blast options, and so much more. *Readership is calculated using 2.9 average readers per copy based on the National Newspaper Association study NEWS IN BRIEF Serving Huntertown, Dupont, White Swan & Arcola areas of Allen County $1.00 Vol. 21 No. 46 WEDNESDAY November 15, 2017 PHOTO BY LOUIS WYATT Hickory Center students thank members of Honor Flight Northeast Indiana present at the school’s Nov. 8 Veterans Day event. By Louis Wyatt [email protected] “I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.” Last week, the words of Gary Hart NACS elementary schools honor veterans Staff reports Local nonprofit Friends of Cedar Creek welcomes the public to its next meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the ACRES Land Trust office in the Tom and Jane Dustin Nature Preserve, 1802 Chapman Road, Hunt- ertown. The group will gather at 6:30 p.m. for social time and snacks, and the program will start at 7 p.m. The guest speaker will be Megan Anderson, who will discuss the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. Anderson is the associate organizing representative for the Indiana Sierra Club. While attending Indiana University, she was a Beyond Coal field organizer for the Sierra Student Coalition. In 2012, she earned a degree in public affairs Sierra Club representative to speak in Huntertown By Louis Wyatt [email protected] Carroll High School will put on its annual winter musical begin- ning Thursday, Nov. 16, and this year’s production has some- thing for the whole family. “We haven’t done a family one for a while, and this should be corporation-wide. It’s mainly to get back to a family-friendly, K-through-senior-cit- izen age group,” said Steve Pearson, head of Carroll’s theater program and the director of this year’s play. The 2017 musical will be a re-envisioning of P. L. Travers’ classic “Mary Poppins,” popularized by Walt Disney’s 1964 film adaptation starring Julie Andrews and In recent years, Carroll theater has focused on more young-adult-and-up plays, such as 2015’s production of “Foot- loose,” but Pearson hopes to reach a larger audience with this year’s musical. “Last year was more adult. It was a Shirley Temple movie, ‘Little Princess,’ but only adult people would know it. And, as a result, we’re kind of limiting who’s going to come to the play,” Pearson said. “When we did ‘Footloose’ the year before last, that’s high school and above. Grade-schoolers aren’t going to come to that. The good news with this play is the draw.” “Mary Poppins” was first adapted for the stage in 2004 with a run in London’s West Carroll performing arts to stage ‘Mary Poppins’ this week Serving over 2,175 readers* monthly Serving Huntertown and northwest Allen County October 13, 2017 INfortwayne.com Community Calendar..... A18-19 News briefs .... A14 Halloween ............................ A6 INSIDE Leo Barber Shop Personal, Professional, Friendly Service “one customer at a time” 14920 State Road 1 Leo, IN 46765 Greg V. Peck www.leobarbershop.com Marching Saints find gold in Silver trophy By Garth Snow [email protected] After two months of practice, only 53 minutes of warmup separated the Bishop Dwenger Marching Saints from their season-de- fining 6-minute show. The band was ready for Dwenger’s first ISSMA competition in three years. They gathered between the Dwenger bus and band trailer in a Homestead High School parking lot, ready to wind around the school and to the field. Jordan Stevens, a color guard instructor, handed out lanterns that guard members would need to present “Journey to Her Wings.” Second-year band director Don Cochran offered just a little more encouragement. Two Homestead band-parent volunteers led the staff and 48 musicians and guard members to Warmup Area A, for 14 minutes of prac- tice without music. “No sound. No sound,” Cochran reminded the band. As the band practiced their steps, band volunteer George Gallacher told of his attachment to the program. “This is a new beginning,” Gallacher said. As with many band parents, Gallacher’s chil- dren outgrew the program but Gallacher did not. His youngest daughter last marched for Dwenger in 2004. But there he was, yet again, pulling instruments and driving the band trailer. “I volunteer for the love of the program,” he said. “I didn’t have much of a niche in life when I was younger. And this is my niche, as a present to the kids. I’d love to see 75 or 80 kids, just like in the old days.” Stevens guided the guard as they limbered up and then walked their patterns. The 16 guard members gathered around her. “Keep smiling. You girls are gonna do great today,” she said. “Remember the eyebrows.” Then on to another warmup area, this time with music. Parent coordinator Brian Dumford towed a gener- ator, just in case the power connection wasn’t working. He had been happy to assist when Dwenger restored its marching band this season. “When I put out the call for parent volunteers, I was very happy with the great turnout we got,” he said. The band played and marched, and Cochran gave just a little more encourage- ment. Dumford watched the Indiana State School Music Association timing judge, who held up a sign showing 5 minutes left in rehearsal. Dumford gave the thumbs-up to the judge, and took the news to Cochran. The group gathered in tight formation one more time. Cochran encouraged them again. Then all was silence. The Sign of the Cross. The Lord’s Prayer. The Sign of the Cross again. “Let’s have fun,” Cochran told his charges. They waited for the North Side band to pass them into a separate rehearsal area. Then the Dwenger band followed the Homestead volunteers past the Freshman Center and toward the field where New Haven’s band was just wrapping up its show and Chesterton’s was staging in the end zone. They lined up yet again and they waited yet again. Then more volunteers ushered them toward the end zone. Cochran gave a thumbs-up. Then he gave more encouragement. Then parents pushed instruments along the sidelines and guard members and musi- cians took the field. The announcer gave the charge for ISSMA Scholastic Class A performance. The show unfolded, the story of a young fairy being following the path to earn Haley student gathering Jordan Stevens, a Bishop Dwenger High School color guard instructor, gives lanterns to the guard before a competition at Homestead High School. PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW Related story nConcordia, Leo and Snider complete. Pages 2-4 See SAINTS, Page A12 Serving over 76,415 readers* monthly ne Northeast News Serving Georgetown, New Haven & northeast Allen County