Aboite and About - January 2016

By Garth [email protected]

As the first 2016 competition approaches, the Homestead High School Winter Guard is preparing to build on the success of the 2015 season.

The guard’s first public performance will be at 4:12 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at Goshen High School. Homestead will be the final competitor of the day. Goshen will host 36 guard units, with competition beginning at 11 a.m. Admission is $6. The school is at 401 Lincolnway East, Goshen. Among the winter guard units from the Fort Wayne area, only Homestead will compete in the more advanced Open Class.

Jonathan Meader again directs the Spartan guard, which captured second

place in the state in 2015. “Coming off of a really strong year, we’re pretty excited about the show that we’re doing,” Meader said. The 2016 show has a different vibe from the 2015 show, which relied on ballads, he said. The theme is taken from music by the band Passion Pit. It’s about relationships, Meader said. “It gives you a sense of belonging to something, belonging to someone and in the end belonging to your-self,” he said.

Guard members begin the show in a central formation, and share in interactive routines as the show develops.

Six returning seniors are among the 22 members of the Home-stead guard. Ashley Mueller, a senior, is in

Homestead High School senior Allison Volk catches her rifle as junior Madi Dornseif emerges from a formation of winter guard members, rehearsing at the Homestead Freshman Center gymnasium.

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Homestead senior pursuesbotany in adopted countryBy Garth [email protected]

Angel Pallares has found his niche at Homestead High School and is working to do the same at Ivy Tech Northeast and Purdue University.

The Mexico native won a $3,000 engineering and mathematics scholarship in November in Chicago. He will need it. Indiana colleges’ in-state tuition rates are not available to undocumented residents, he said. The Homestead senior has begun seeking perma-nent resident status.

“I was born in Mexico. I was raised here half my life,” Pallares said. His father is a customer service engineer for an automaker.

“I grew up learning English at school and Spanish at home,” he said.

“My sister and two brothers were born here,” he said. His parents and siblings have resident

status, he said. His parents moved from Mexico to Fishers, Ind., and back to Mexico. “There was really nothing for us there,” he said.

As a result of the frequent moves, the budding botanist came to appreciate the variety of plant life across the conti-nent.

“I was exposed to different people, culture and

plants,” he said. “I started to develop an interest in cactus and fungus in the Chihuahuan Desert. In Indianapolis, it’s so green compared to Mexico. It’s

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USF welcomes volunteersto King Day service work


The University of Saint Francis community will share in 10 service projects in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 18.

The public is welcome to participate in those volunteer opportunities and in two related obser-vances.

“It’s our opportunity to reach out to the commu-nity, but we also have projects on the campus for people who would prefer that,” said Katrina Boedeker, who is coor-

dinating the university’s 12th year of MLK Day service projects.

Boedeker said people who have been affected by violence and people who have addressed violence are discussing the need for change. “We’re trying to get people to take some personal responsi-

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Volunteers Angel Pallares and Kathleen Meyer make ornaments from plant materials for a display at the Botanic Conservatory in Fort Wayne. Pallares, a native of Mexico, is a senior at Homestead High School.

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USF staff and students volunteer at the Associated Churches of Fort Wayne and Allen County food bank, 602 E. Wayne St., Fort Wayne.

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Rotary Club completesmiddle school in AfricaThe Rotary Club

of Fort Wayne has completed a three-year project to build an eight-room middle school in the Village of Gléi, Togo, West Africa.

Members of the Rotary Club of Lomé-Lumier in Togo shared photos of the celebration festivities when the last classrooms were complete.

“I’m so glad the local Rotary Club captured the enthusiasm and joy of the day by showing Rotarians, village leaders, the school headmaster, and, most importantly, the students celebrating,” said Jason Daenens, pres-ident of the Rotary Club of Fort Wayne and head of the school building project.

The project’s roots date back to 2010 when Daenens, past chair of the Club’s International Service Committee, attended the sixth annual

West Africa Rotary Fair in Accra, Ghana. During the conference he learned the Village of Gléi, Togo, needed a new middle school, books and other supplies.

In 2011, The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne International Service Committee developed an education/literacy plan in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Lomé-Lumier and Atak-pamé, Togo; U.S. Peace Corps — Togo, and Rotary Club of Chicago to support the Gléi middle school.

During 2012 and 2013, the Rotary Club of Fort Wayne bought playground equipment, supplies and textbooks, with the help of other clubs and grants from Rotary District 6540 of Northern Indiana.

Then, in 2013, the board of directors of the Rotary Club of Fort

Wayne unanimously voted to build the Gléi Middle School as the Club’s Centennial Inter-national Service Project. (The Club, which was founded in 1915, cele-brated its centennial last year.) Using a model to “build a classroom at a time,” the first two of eight classrooms were built in the spring of 2013, Daenens explained.

The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne International Service Committee coor-dinated a joint funding sponsorship for the new school with the Rotary Club of Chicago and Togo Rotary Clubs totaling over $45,000. Total cost for all Togo-re-lated projects is $59,000. The projects benefit nearly 28,000 Village of Gléi residents.

Today, school atten-dance has grown from around 600 students to more than 880 students.

A celebration marks the completion of a middle school in Togo, West Africa. The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne supported the service project.

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Homestead, Luers readyshows for preview nights


High school show choirs are rehearsing their 2016 productions for competition and to entertain at preview nights.

Homestead High School show choirs will present their 2016 shows at Cabaret Night, Saturday, Jan. 23. The entertainment begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15, and will be available at the door. Homestead H.S. is at 4310 Homestead Road, Fort Wayne.

Curtis Shaw directs the Homestead show choirs.

Homestead also will perform locally at

Northrop High School on Feb. 6, and at the Home-stead Classic Showcase on Feb. 19 and 20. Get updates at homestead-showchoirs.com.

Bishop Luers High School’s three show choirs will lift the curtain on their 2016 season at Cabaret Knight on Sunday, Jan. 10. Dinner will be served after 4:30 p.m.; the entertainment begins at 5 p.m. Tickets, which are $15 for adults, will be available at the door. Bishop Luers H.S. is at 333 E. Paulding Road, Fort Wayne.

The entertainment begins with a student talent show, including dance routines, singing

and music combos. Look for updates at bishop-luers.org.

The Luers show choirs will enter their first competition the following Saturday, at Twin Lakes High School. Shows continue each weekend leading up to Luers’ 42nd annual show choir invitational on Saturday, March 12. Middle school choirs will compete on March 11.

Karlene Krouse is Luers’ Performing Arts Department chair and director of the show choirs. Krouse said Luers established the first show choir invitational, and it remains the longest running show choir.

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‘Blessings’ from Aboite reach larger communityBy Rachel MartinSubmitted to Aboite & About

1,700 Fort Wayne Community School students went home with food to eat over winter break thanks to volun-teers from Blessings in a Backpack. Volun-teers from The Chapel gathered at Fairfield Elementary School on Dec. 16 and worked with Principal Lindsay Amstutz-Martin to help pack bags of food to feed students.

When Aboite Township residents Gretchen and Mike Gouloff heard in 2006 that Fort Wayne had a higher percentage of children qualifying for the free and reduced meal program than any other city in Indiana, they were moved to action. In 2006, they launched the first Bless-ings in a Backpack program in Fort Wayne.

Blessings in a Back-pack is a national, nonprofit organization that provides food to children who might otherwise go without food over the weekend.

Thousands of Fort Wayne children live at or below the poverty level, and many of them rely on the school meal program as their only source of food during the week. This leaves 65 hours over the weekend where food is either scarce or unavailable to these children. This school year, nearly 11,000 Fort Wayne Community School students qualify for the government’s

free and reduced meal program.

“I was surprised that the problem even existed,” co-founder Gretchen Gouloff said. “When you think of our city, we don’t see the poverty, but it exists, and it affects so many chil-dren.”

Blessings in a Back-pack, using community resources, volunteers, and local donors, feeds about 1,700 of these students over the weekend.

“Our ultimate goal is to feed all 11,000, but we need the funds and support to do so,” Gouloff said. “We have other school districts asking for assistance, but we need to first fulfill our commitment to Fort Wayne Commu-nity Schools. We want to reach all 11,000 students and not stop there.”

The organization is currently serving students at Abbett, Adams, Fairfield and South Wayne elementary schools. According to the Indiana Blessings in a Backpack website, bless-ingsindiana.org, surveyed students receiving food report positive results. 59 percent find it easier to learn, and 60 percent have fewer behavioral issues.

“Community involve-ment is so important,” said Aboite resident and volunteer Kathy Lentz. She said 78 percent of the food recipients say they feel cared for by their community.

“You never know how

a program is going to impact,” said Bob Lovell, a member of The Chapel, who coordinates a team of volunteers who fill bags of food at Fairfield Elementary every other week. “The Chapel says to ‘believe, grow, serve and change your world,’ and we are here to serve. I taught in Fort Wayne Community Schools for 35 years. It feels good to continue to serve these students.”

“The federal grant in addition to the Bless-ings in a Backpack is a good safety net for our students,” Amstutz-Martin said. All 600 Fairfield students receive food from Blessings in a Backpack. “Good people fall on hard times, and having this program is a great, consistent thing to rely on to help our fami-lies,” Amstutz-Martin said.

The charity relies on its partners, Parkview Health and Sodexo, along with individual volun-teers and donors.

“$89 feeds one student every weekend for a school year. We want to move into more schools in 2016, but need the funds to do so,” Gouloff said. “I hope readers will consider becoming involved with Bless-ings to help grow this program.”

Blessings in a Back-pack is at 111 E. Wayne St., Suite 555, Fort Wayne, IN 46802. Dona-tions can be mailed to this address or made online at blessingsin-diana.org.

Students at Fairfield Elementary School in Fort Wayne helped volunteers from The Chapel to fill backpacks for Blessings in a Backpack.

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‘Goodies for God’ raisescash for Women’s Center“Goodies for God”

at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School raised $1,006, which was donated to the Women’s Care Center.

First-graders and their parents made cookies to be sold for 25-cents from Dec. 7 to 10. On Dec. 11,

after the school Mass, first-graders brought their small bowls of quarters to pour into a large basket in front of the altar.

First-grade teachers Jessica Patton and Julie Peters presented a large check representing $1,006 to Ann Koehl, the director

of the Women’s Care Center.

The agency has centers in Fort Wayne and in other towns in northern Indiana that work to help young women in crisis pregnancies find ways to keep and care for their babies.

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Starbucks mug features local woman’s mug designBy Aimee [email protected]

A line of coffee cups and mugs sold by Starbucks Corp. includes artwork created by a Fort Wayne native.

Suzie Reecer, a member of the visual merchandising team at the coffee giant’s global creative studio in Seattle, designed the bicycle mug as part of the Dot Collection 2015 — a holiday season drinkware series that features art

centered on Starbucks’ circular green brand.

Reecer’s sketch of a bicycle with the front tire encircling the green dot appears on 16-fluid-ounce ceramic mugs sold by Star-bucks.

She and other team members took the opportu-nity to craft designs for this year’s line, she said.

“They asked us to use personal stories as inspira-tion to come up with this,” Reecer said. “I used my entire background with

philanthropy and cycling as inspiration.”

While she isn’t a big cycling enthusiast, she believes her experiences as a youth helped her see riding as having positive individual and community effects.

Her mother, Lynn Reecer, helped found Aboite New Trails — now Fort Wayne Trails — giving her a strong sense of how pedestrian and biking trails can enhance a community’s quality of life.

As a student at Indiana University in Bloom-ington, she served with the school’s Student Founda-tion and its annual Little 500 bicycle race, a key fundraiser for the organi-zation to support working students. She also partici-pated in rides to help raise money for friends with cancer.

“Growing up around that showed me how important philanthropy is and helping

your community,” she said. “For me, it was cycling, how that all helps you do good for your community.”

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Area students may enter comedy videos contestStudents in area middle

schools and high schools are invited to submit their comedy videos to Concordia Lutheran High School’s inaugural Concordia Comedy Festival. Videos may

range from sketches to parodies to interviews and everything in between.

The submission dead-line is Feb. 12. Entries can be uploaded at Concor-diaComedyFestival.com via FilmFreeway. An adult must sign up for a free FilmFreeway account.

A submission fee of $5 will charged for each entry to help offset administrative and processing costs. However, this fee will be waived for any students submitting entries as part of a required assignment in a class at their school. Teachers can request this waiver by emailing [email protected].

The Concordia Comedy Festival is open to any student in grades 6-12 attending a school or

being home-schooled in Allen, Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells or Whitley County.

Submissions may not be longer than three minutes, including credits, which are not required. Entries should be free of profanity and appropriate to show in front of a large audience of students and adults.

“We wanted to make something to showcase the innovative, funny videos being done by students all over the area,” said Nathan Gotsch, CLHS media arts teacher and creator of comedy content for FX, Funny or Die and Yahoo! “This festival is a chance for students to have their work seen in front of an audience as well as encouraging those that are

thinking about a career in comedy.”

To learn more, visit ConcordiaComedyFes-tival.com or contact Gotsch at [email protected] or (260) 483-1102.

Judging the competition will be Joe Harkenrider, a 2002 CLHS graduate and producer for Comedy Central’s digital division; Nick Rutherford, who wrote for “Saturday Night Live” during the 2014-15 season; and Julie Kraut, currently writing for Bravo’s TV series “Odd Mom Out.”

Finalists will be announced March 4 and shown on the big screen at a special event on March 18 at the Cinema Center in downtown Fort Wayne, when the winners will be announced. First-prize

entries in both the high school and middle school categories will receive a copy of Final Cut Pro X, Apple’s professional editing software.

Harkenrider and Rutherford will be in attendance at the Cinema Center for a conversation about pursuing a career in comedy following the screening as well as at a special private reception for all finalists immedi-ately after the awards are unveiled.

“If it weren’t for my time at Concordia, I wouldn’t be working at Comedy Central or even have a career in Holly-wood,” Harkenrider said. “I’m really excited to be a part of this and get to give back to kids like me who are thinking about pursuing a similar path.”

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For Dianne Moellering, her marching band success is only one measure of her 23 years as Concordia Lutheran High School band director.

“It’s nice, but it’s not who we are,” she said. “It’s the interaction with the kids. It’s the relation-ships that you develop. For me as a Christian teacher, it’s the opportu-nity to stand in front of all the good people that I love and share the two gifts that I love — one being Jesus and one being music; that’s what makes my life.”

Moellering, who has directed Concordia’s young musicians since 1993, will retire after this school year.

She instructs the concert band, a younger group whose members receive basic skills training. She directs the symphonic band, whose advanced members work more independently.

“When students come into Concordia, if they want to be in band, I ask them to play for me, because I want to put them in the band where they’re going to have the best work,” she said.

She teaches music at Saint Paul Lutheran Elementary School, and directs the music programs at all Lutheran schools in the Concordia network.

“And if there are fires I get to put some of them out and work together to make sure that our program in the elementa-ries stays strong and goes in the right direction,” she said. “As a teacher, it keeps me more focused on where they’re going, to be able to work in the elementaries rather than

to be just tied to one elementary school and not with the high school.”

She also has earned awards, respect and friendships for the most visible element of her career, as director of the Concordia Marching Cadets.

“The major part of my job I see as teaching music and luckily for me and the students the main criteria is how you play. It’s the music,” she said. “The two sit-down bands are still the core of what we do and what we are. It’s not the marching band; the marching band is just a happy offshoot.”

Moellering taught at Denver Lutheran High School before coming to the Fort Wayne area. Both she and her husband, Tom, taught at Central Elementary School. Her husband is retired.

“It’s a really hard deci-sion, probably the hardest decision I’ve ever made, because I love what I do,” she said. “But I do know that it’s time. I’m still healthy. I’m not leaving because there’s something wrong with me. But I want to leave while I can make the decision. And

Tom and I would love to travel, too.”

The Moellerings’ two children and four grand-children live in the Fort Wayne area. “I want to be involved in their lives and they want Grandma and Grandpa to be involved, too,” she said. “And I’ve missed a lot of it.

She has guided the marching band through Indiana State School Music Association competitions, reaching the 10-band state finals 12 times, including every year since 2007. When Concordia was first runner-up in 2012, she said it was as thrilling as winning the state title. Then, in 2013, Concordia won the state title.

“The marching band thing I’ve loved more than I ever knew that I would love,” she said. “But it’s because of education. Some people look at that as a waste of time; it certainly is not. It does take time, but it doesn’t take any more time for us at Concordia than your varsity sport.

“I really see a ton of not only musical growth during that time because of how picky we are in

details and how they have to stand and how they have to hold their instru-ments, and how they have to breathe. That carries over into the sit-down bands. You can’t play music well unless you have those relationships.”

Moellering listed Homestead High School band director Steve Barber among her local counterparts who are available to share ideas.

Barber, who has led Homestead’s band to its own share of honors, said Moellering is highly respected among Indiana music educators. “She’s done wonders with the program at Concordia Lutheran, both the marching band program and the concert band program, and has won numerous awards,” he said. “She has helped countless students throughout her years at Concordia.”

Moellering’s students knew of her decision to retire before the Marching Cadets headed to the 2015 ISSMA state finals, on Nov. 7, where they placed

sixth in Class C.Weeks later, she

thanked the many alumni who had returned to perform in her final

Concordia Christmas at the Embassy show, on Dec. 13. “You have no idea how much it means to me,” she said at the rehearsal.

“People come up and

Moellering retiring after 23 years with Concordia

Dianne Moellering conducts rehearsal before the tradi-tional Concordia Christmas at the Embassy on Dec. 13. Moellering, the band director at Concordia Lutheran High School since 1993, will retire after this school year.

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The two sit-down bands are still the core of what we do and what we are. It’s not the march-ing band; the marching band is just a happy offshoot.”

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say, ‘Oh my gosh, what are we going to do without you?’ ” she said. “I just kind of smile. The good Lord had a plan when he put me there, and he’s worked with me and he’s not going to throw the program away now. He still has a plan even though I don’t know what it is. And I think he’s trying to teach me to trust him a little bit more,

to relax and know that he does have a plan.

“When the kids get frustrated, I say, ‘I’m not dying. I’m just not going to be here in front of you every day. I will still be your friend. I will still be around to help you, I hope. Depending on who they hire, I’m hoping to make that transition absolutely as smooth as possible.

“I’m not complaining. I’ve loved every minute

I’ve spent. But now I look forward to being able to say to my husband, ‘Hey, let’s go away for the weekend,’ and to do different things, and plan different activ-ities. I do love working with bands. I hope to get to work a bit with the Concordia band or maybe even different band or maybe help with the music store, or just be involved with music and share my love of it.”

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Homestead goes to state in We the People contestBy Garth [email protected]

A team of 20 Home-stead High School students placed sixth among 14 teams at the state finals of the We the People compe-tition.

U.S. Government teacher Keith Potter coached the team through two levels of competition on Dec. 13 and 14 at the Crowne Plaza

Union Station, Indianap-olis. Homestead narrowly missed the cut to five teams in the final rounds.

Homestead won the regional competition on Nov. 6. A team from Northrop High School and two teams from North Side High School also advanced to the state competition.

The Indiana Bar Foun-dation sponsors the We the People competition in the

Hoosier state.Homestead has won the

northeast regional compe-tition each of Potter’s 19 years at Homestead, and has finished as high as third at the state level.

“It’s a competition between high schools and middle schools and even elementaries about their knowledge of the Consti-tution and Bill of Rights,” Potter explained.

Teams that did not advance to the final round of five were eligible for unit awards. Homestead groups took unit honors in two categories. Unit 1 covers the historical and philosophical functions of the American political system. “Unit 4 is basi-cally how the values and principles embodied in the Constitution shaped American institutions and practices,” Potter said.

The students have been studying textbooks covering the six units of the competition. “So our kids break up into six different groups and they are given three questions over that material and they have to prepare a 4-minute response to that,” Potter said. “After the 4-minute response the judges ask questions, and the students have no idea what the questions are going to be.

Then they are judged on their prepared response and their response in the ques-tion-and-answer.”

“They get in their partic-ular unit and they have to spend time researching and finding examples to really understand the questions,” he said. “It’s not just factual questions. It’s more explanation and you have to take a position on an issue and justify it. When the judges are asking questions you’re going to have to have more than just general knowledge because the questions are quite in-depth.”

“I would like to congrat-ulate the students on the hard work they put in to prepare for the competi-tion,” Potter said.

Fishers High School took first place in the state, and will represent Indiana at the national finals in April in Maryland.

The middle school competition was held Dec. 15. Entrants from northeast Indiana included Woodside Middle School, Canterbury Middle School, and two teams from Carroll Middle School. Robert Westfall advised the Canterbury team. Brown County Jr.-Sr. High School in Nashville, Ind., took first place.

More than 700 teens tested their knowledge of the Constitution in the three-day competition.

“Indiana attorneys and judges are proud that 200,000 students have learned their responsibil-ities as citizens through this educational model since 1987,” said Charles R. Dunlap, executive director of the Indiana Bar Foundation. “This exem-plary program creates the engaged citizenry our state needs in its local commu-nities.”

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Kiwanis ChocolateFest tickets on sale for $30The John Chapman

Kiwanis Club will hold its second annual Kiwanis ChocolateFest in partnership with Fort Wayne Chocolate Fountain from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, at the YOLO Event Center, 4201 N. Wells St., Fort Wayne.

Tickets are $30 in advance. A limited

number of tickets will be available at the door, at $35 each.

A silent auction will raise funds to present to Riley’s Hospital for Children and Fort Wayne charities. There will also be hors d’oeurvres, a live band and a cash bar.

For details, to reserve tickets, or to donate silent auction

items, contact the John Chapman Kiwanis Club at (260) 749-4901. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door.

“We are delighted to partner with Fort Wayne Chocolate Fountain to deliver such a presti-gious event,” said Holly Barnett, president of the JC Kiwanis Club. “This

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just so different. I love it.”He puts that interest

to use in Fort Wayne by volunteering at the Botanic Conservatory.

Rebecca Canales is the Fort Wayne Parks Depart-ment’s site manager at the conservatory, and super-vises volunteers. “He was willing to do whatever he could to help out,” Canales said. Pallares has picked up leaves, put up Christmas lights, and helped to make ornaments for the holiday display.

Pallares said many flavors and medicines are derived from plants. “So it

fascinates me how much we depend on them and yet not many people highly regard plants. It invites me to like them more,” he said.

Pallares hopes to find a career in agricultural engi-neering or botany. He plans to attend Ivy Tech for two years while he saves money to go to Purdue his third and fourth years, to study chemical engineering.

He got a boost on Nov. 9 when he participated in The Hispanic Heritage Foun-dation’s regional Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards ceremony in Chicago. He placed first in engineering and mathematics, and was awarded a $3,000 schol-arship from ExxonMobil.

Students also competed in six other categories. The seven winners will compete against their counterparts at 10 other sites for the chance to travel to the national awards ceremony.

He moved to the school district in the second semester of his sophomore year. “Homestead’s really inviting,” he said. “I was so closed up and I didn’t want to see people. And during my junior and senior year I started to get more involved in clubs.”

Pallares participated in the We the People program at Homestead, focusing on how America’s earliest leaders framed the Consti-tution.

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Indiana Grown feeds demand for local foodsBy Doug [email protected]

Seven Sons Farms is a farm-to-consumer opera-tion near Roanoke known for its pastured eggs, dairy

products, grass-fed beef and free-range poultry and pork.

The popularity of its eggs at Earth Fare and the 3 Rivers Natural Food

Co-op & Deli stores in Fort Wayne convinced Seven Sons to expand just as the state was launching a program to help restau-rants and retailers accom-

modate growing consumer demand for locally sourced food.

The July launch of the Indiana Grown program by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture could not have been timed better for Seven Sons, said Blaine Hitzfield, who is in charge of the company’s marketing and distribution.

“We were kind of scaling our egg business and were just starting to work with a distributor out of Indianapolis. This distributor was working closely with Indiana Grown on some projects, some promotional things, and we were just redoing our egg carton labels,” he said.

“We were one of the first producers to put 100 percent Indiana Grown labels on our product, and Indiana Grown has done a lot to create awareness with some of the grocery retailer chains in the state. There was a lot of synergy there. It sure helped things.”

Since putting on the new labels, Seven Sons’ pastured eggs were picked

up by Lucky’s Market in Bloomington, Market District in Carmel and teds market in Fort Wayne. The company also has talks underway with Whole Foods in Indianapolis.

Many other local food businesses also are growing as a result of the program, including some in northeast Indiana, said David King, who manages it for Indiana’s Agriculture Department.

“Since we launched, our membership has already doubled,” he said. “We’re at 300 and adding two or three members a day. We even have some non-food products now that are under the Indiana Grown logo.”

Many consumers feel strongly enough about locally grown food that they are willing to pay more for it but, until Indiana Grown marketing brought attention to source locations through labels and special displays, it was not easy to tell where a food was grown.

Consumers have appre-ciated the information the program provides and are

using it.“Our Indiana Grown

program is growing at a much greater rate than we anticipated and that’s a great thing,” King said. Consumers are paying more attention to where food comes from, he said, “and are buying more products from Indiana, which keeps more money circulating in our state.”


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Library chosen to receiveNext Indiana Bookshelf

Roanoke Public Library has been selected to receive the Next Indiana Bookshelf, a collection of 13 titles designed to spark conver-sation during the 2016 Indiana Bicentennial.

In a competitive appli-cation process, Roanoke Public Library was chosen to receive one of 55 sets awarded in 42 counties across the Hoosier state.

The Next Indiana Bookshelf was created by

Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Center for the Book, and is designed to encourage thinking and discussion about the present and future of Indiana. The collection features 12 books including Hoosier classics such as “Raintree County,” the writings of Kurt Vonnegut and the poetry of Etheridge Knight, as well as contemporary books like “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf” and “Invincible, Indiana.”

Additionally, Roanoke Public Library will receive a poster of “The Indiana Chant,” written for the bicentennial by South Bend, Ind.-based children’s author April Pulley Sayre. Teachers and librarians

are encouraged to use the chant for readings and performances in the weeks and months leading up to Statehood Day on Dec. 11, 2016.

“The awarded books are going to be the showcase of a display the Roanoke Public Library will have celebrating Indiana’s Bicentennial in 2016. We hope that many people will come in, look at the display and learn something new about our great state,” said Celia Bandelier, Roanoke Public Library director. She added that we should be sure to look forward to other events happening in the library and Town of Roanoke celebrating this historic landmark.

A number of local food businesses that started selling products in Kroger and Marsh supermarkets or increased the variety of their products sold in the chains have had to step up production to keep pace with the increased demand, he said.

Roanoke-based Best Boy & Co., for example, has seen its sales increase 400 percent through partic-ipation in the program, according to its founder, Wayne Shive.

Shive started the hand-crafted, all-natural artisan food products company

— known for its savory and dessert sauces — in 2009 to support the good work of nonprofit groups. Inspired by Newman’s Own, Best Boy donates all of its profits to charities.

The business started out selling three fudge sauces at the Joseph Decuis restaurant and Crestwoods Frame Shop and Gallery in Roanoke. It now sells six dessert sauces, four fudge sauces, two caramel sauces, three barbecue sauces, three hot sauces, three rubs and three mustards.

Whenever possible, the company uses ingredients produced in the region, such as Red Gold tomato

products, in its sauces, mustards and rubs.

Its Best Boy Grained Deli Mustard took a gold medal in the whole seed/grainy mustard category of the National Mustard Museum’s 2014 World-Wide Mustard Competi-tion.

“We’ve now given way over $10,000 in cash and at least that much in product,” Shive said. “ A lot of that has been due to Indiana Grown; they’ve got us in 40 Marsh stores. Kroger just had the three mustards and three barbecue sauces, and now they have everything.”

Best Boy products are in a couple of Fort Wayne

Kroger stores now and will be in the rest of the chain’s stores in the city by the end of January, he said. It also will be in the local Fresh Thyme store by then.

Working with the Indi-anapolis distributor, Tiny Footprint, has helped with the expansion and Best Boy products also are now in Lucky’s, a couple of Whole Foods stores and three Fresh Market stores.

And demonstrating the ability to supply Marsh and Kroger stores in Indiana well has help the company get prod-ucts into Kroger stores in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.

Huntington County DCShas new office director

The Indiana Depart-ment of Child Services has appointed Alexys Vosmeier the new local office director for the DCS Huntington County office. She began her new duties Dec. 7.

Vosmeier will set goals and objectives for child welfare management, helping to ensure children are protected from abuse or neglect. She will oversee a staff of 18 while handling general office operations.

“Alexys’ firsthand expe-rience in the field and as

a supervisor has given her the needed skills to lead her team,” said Jane Bisbee, DCS’ deputy director of Field Operations. “We are pleased to have her in this new role.”

Vosmeier was born and raised in Fort Wayne.

In 2007, Vosmeier began her DCS career as a family case manager working in assessments and permanency in Huntington County. She remained in that office until her promo-tion to Allen County assess-

ment supervisor in March 2015. She remained in that position until her appoint-ment to Huntington County local office director.

In 2004, Vosmeier received her bachelor of science degree in crim-inal justice from IPFW. In 2007, she earned her master of business manage-ment degree from Indiana Wesleyan, Fort Wayne.

The DCS Huntington County office is located at 2806 Theater Ave., Suite C, in Huntington.

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Feb. 6 LOVE OF ROANOKE Winter Shopping Fun in Roanoke

March 12 - Get your Green On! Small Gifts for lucky Roanoke Shoppers

April 16 DISCOVER ROANOKE 10K/5KRun benefits Roanoke Elementary PTO

April 30 Quilts Show in Roanoke Trolley rides around town to view quilt displays

May 14 SPRINGTIME IN THE VILLAGE Town Wide Garage Sales & Hog Roast benefits Roanoke Town Library and Fire Department

Fridays FRIDAY NIGHT STREET FAIR June 3; July 1; Aug 5

Family Fun, Games, Food & live music on Main St.

June 18 VINTAGE & HANDMADE MARKET Outdoor festival featuring vintage items & more on sale

June 30 PATRIOTIC CONCERT Concert honoring veterans and celebrating America

Sats. ROANOKE FARMERS MARKETSJuly 9- Fresh, local farm produce & moreSept 10 A Chamber of Commerce event

July 23 ROLLING into ROANOKE CAR SHOW Indiana's Premier Car Show - not to be missed! Benefits Roanoke Beautification Foundation

Aug. 20 TASTE OF ROANOKEMain Street block party with lots of food & live music

Aug. 27 Roanoke Classic 3on3 basketball tourney raising funds for the park

Sept 8-10 ROANOKE FALL FESTIVAL 63 years of action packed family fun

Oct. 8 RENAISSANCE IN ROANOKEJuried fine art show on beautiful Main Street

An artistic treat in a beautiful town! Oct. 29 Trick or Treat Roanoke

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Roanoke Elementary School held a spelling bee on Dec. 11, with 21 fifth-graders participating. Grant Beckner was runner-up and Ashlee Schwieterman was the champion. Ashlee’s winning word was “frequently.” She will represent Roanoke Elementary School at the Huntington County Spelling Bee on Monday, Feb. 8, at Huntington University.

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The Roanoke Elementary School Student Council held a canned food drive from Nov. 30-Dec. 4, to gather food for local food pantries. Posing with the 2,197 food items are four Student Council members, from left, Graci Shopoff, Sophia Shockney, Stella Scheer and Brett Donaldson. The school also is doing a cap collection, to have a Buddy Bench made for the playground.

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Victory Noll to discuss Jubilee Year of MercyPope Francis

proclaimed a Jubilee Year of Mercy from Dec. 8, 2015, to Nov. 20, 2016. Victory Noll Center will explore what that means with an evening of reflec-tion with Sister Jacinta Krecek. All are welcome Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 6-8:30 p.m. for an evening of presentation, discus-sion and reflection on this topic. A light supper is included. The cost is $20. Registration is due by Feb. 10.

Sister Krecek has been a sister of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration for 29 years. She is currently teaching theology and coordinating the ministry program at the University of Saint Francis, Fort

Wayne.Victory Noll Center is

located at 1900 W. Park Drive in Huntington.

For more informa-tion about Victory Noll Center or the program, call (260) 356-0628, ext. 174, or contact the Center by email at [email protected]. More information is also available on the Center’s website at olvm.org/vncenter.

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bility,” said Boedeker, the director of the USF Office for Service and Social Action.

All programs are free. Volunteers are asked to register at sf.edu/mlkday.

The outreach follows the model of the Corpo-ration for National and Community Service.

Students, faculty and staff participate. “Students are from all different majors,” Boedeker said. “A lot of times the student athletes are participating. It’s not uncommon for me to get a call from a coach, saying ‘I’ve got 20 students.’ “

New this year, some students will serve as co-leaders along with faculty and staff.

“I think the students really enjoy the oppor-tunity to serve side by side with faculty and staff members, to do

something that’s not typical of what they would be doing in the classroom,” Boedeker said. “The students really enjoy seeing the different nonprofits. It’s an opportunity to get inside an agency and see how they operate, find

out the kind of services that they offer and then also become involved with that particular agency. A lot of students volunteered and then just continued to volunteer for the rest of their time on campus. That happens quite frequently.”

It’s an additional day for the students. “Using the national model, it’s a day on, not a day off,” Boedeker said.

The USF observance begins with “Connecting With the Dream: Call to Service and Mass,” from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the

North Campus Audito-rium, 2502 Spring St., Fort Wayne. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in that same building.

Service projects are assigned from 1-4 p.m. On campus, Linus Blan-kets volunteers will prepare fleece blankets for children in need or hospitalized, crochet or knit warm outerwear for children in need, or write

letters to political leaders in support of federal food projects.

Off campus, volunteers will assist seven agen-cies.

The university will host a related panel discussion from 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the North Campus Auditorium. The topic is “Why We Can’t Wait: Our Beloved Community Seeks Nonviolence.”

USF volunteers create Linus blankets for children who are in need or who are hospi-talized, as part of the university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance.

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Officials representing different levels of govern-ment from throughout Allen County raised the official Indiana Bicenten-nial flag during a ceremony at the Allen County Court-house on Dec. 11.

The kickoff event included the reading of a proclamation from the Allen County Board of Commissioners designating Dec. 11, 2015, as “Indiana Statehood Day” and the “Official Kickoff of the Bicentennial.”

“The history of our state, our county and its people is valuable to our shared experience, and we recognize and celebrate the growth and greatness of our state and the limitless potential inherent in its future,” the proclamation read.

Speakers at the event

included County Commis-sioners Nelson Peters, Therese Brown and Linda Bloom; Curt Witcher, Allen County coordinator of Bicentennial events; Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry; State Rep. and House Majority Leader Matt Lehman; and Bill Davis, district director for Rep. Marlin Stutzman. Bishop Luers High School student Antonio Menson sang the national anthem and Emily Harrigan performed “Back Home Again in Indiana” as the Bicentennial flag was raised alongside the State of Indiana flag atop the Courthouse.

The white flag presents the Indiana 200 Bicenten-nial logo in the blue and yellow of the Indiana State Flag. The flag will continue to fly atop the Courthouse throughout the year.

her third season with the winter guard. All winter guard members are part of the color guard during the marching band’s fall season, she said. They move indoors to continue synchronizing move-ments and working with props through the winter. “It’s a more advanced version of fall guard. We really get to know each other a lot better and we compete on a bigger scale,” Mueller said. “My freshman year I was an alternate and I gained a lot of skill sets. My second year I learned more about myself as a performer. This year I’ve been through it enough that it’s just natural, and it’s nice to be in a place where you’re comfort-able.

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personalities. It helps you overcome chal-lenges, because you’re not going to catch a

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Homestead High School senior Khira Wesley and freshman Rochelle McCoy rehearse the winter guard’s show, which follows the theme of belonging and relationships.

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Local goods draw crowds to indoor winter marketsBy Garth [email protected]

Doug and Nancy Laslie set up booths and sell hot drinks two Saturday mornings each month at the Fort Wayne Farmers Market.

Their reward is the success of the local vendors who sell meats, vegetables, soap and more.

“I volunteer because I think it’s important,” Nancy Laslie said. “I think people need to support our local growers instead of these big corporate giants who are producing things in Wyoming.”

“We enjoy doing this, and it’s nice to see people taking advantage of the local products,” Doug Laslie said.

The Laslies are marking their third winter as volunteers at the market. Hours are 9 a.m.-1 p.m. the first and third Satur-days of each month at Lincoln Financial Event Center at Parkview Field,

1301 Ewing St.Vendors offer soap,

farm and garden products, orchard products, baked goods, crafts, meats, spices, honey, gluten-free baked goods, jewelry, eggs, plants, fudge, wood-working, herbs, wine and more.

“I think what sets them

apart is that these are small-business growers, trying to get themselves established and to get people to know their name and get people to buy their products,” Nancy said.

Leigh Rowan is one of the vendors, and also the market coordinator.

Rowan, who bakes bread at her Fort Wayne home, was instrumental in founding the winter market in 2012.

Rowan opened her bakery in Wabash, but realized the need to locate in a bigger market. She bought a location in Fort Wayne, and began selling

bread at the various summer markets. “I woke up and said ‘I’m gong to try to start a winter market,’ and the rest is history,” she said.

“I have a stone mill and I mill my own flour and then I make homemade breads,” she said.

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story. I had an old man approach me and he said he had bought one

Doug and Nancy Laslie sell coffee and other hot drinks just inside the entrance to the Fort Wayne Farmers Market at Lincoln Financial Event Center at Parkview Field. Security coordinator John Luckey stops for a visit.

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Steve Pawlowski took the first 2016 seed catalog from his mailbox just days after the first hard frost signaled the end of the 2015 garden season. “I just got it this week. I couldn’t believe it,” he said in early December, adding that he expected to see dozens more seed cata-logs by January.

That first catalog was from Territorial Seeds. “They have a lot of really diverse heirlooms and hybrids,” he said. “It’s a really nice catalog. They have all kinds of different tomatoes. You can even get a wasabi plant.”

Kathy Lee also has been gearing up for another year of gardening. She plans to start leeks from seed by the middle of February. Lee, too, is studying seed cata-logs. “It’s a lot cheaper,” she said. “You can buy a package of seeds that might have 30 seeds in it for the same amount of money that you’d spend for four plants from the nursery or box store. You get a greater variety at much less cost, so you can try new things.”

Both Lee and Pawlowski have earned the rank of Master Gardener. Both will share their enthusiasm and

knowledge at February workshops at Salomon Farm in Fort Wayne. Lee will instruct a “Gardening in Winter” workshop on Feb. 13. Pawlowski will instruct the “Backyard Composting” workshop on Feb. 20.

Serious gardeners may warm up by attending “Selling Homemade Edibles: Understanding the Rules.” Steve Niemoeller from the Allen County Health Department will direct that Feb. 6 workshop.

Lee said seed packages tell whether to plant seeds after the last frost, or whether to plant inside and move the plants outside. “So you have to count back on your calendar,” she said.

Lee will start leek seeds in mid-February. “March and April are heavy times for starting most seeds. Some are even planted the first part of May,” she said.

“Our weather is so vari-able, and it’s getting even more variable it seems,” Lee said. “But the plants need to be started inside under grow lights or some kind of lighting so that it can get established.” A heat mat also helps the seeds to germinate. Lee also will explain how mini-green-houses allow some control

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seed that can be started as early as the workshop, and perhaps even an herb. “You don’t want to plant them too soon or the plant will get too long and spindly before it goes outside — they call it ‘leggy’ — from reaching for the light,” Lee said.

“When you go to the nursery or the box store to buy your plants, you have a very limited number of vari-eties,” Lee explained. “They get them from distributors, so you might be limited to three or four varieties of tomato plants or pepper plants. If you’re going to start your own seeds, you can go online or get a mail catalog and you have 50 varieties of tomato plants to choose from.

“Many of your newer plants are hybrids. That means the seed has been cross-pollinated; two vari-eties have been crossed in order to get a certain characteristic in the fruit or flower or whatever. So

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WATCHING THE MARKETSFort Wayne Farmers Market offers indoor markets from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of each month through May 21 at Lincoln Financial Event Center at Parkview Field, Fort Wayne. FWFM also sponsors summer markets at seven locations in and around Fort Wayne. For details, visit ftwaynesfarm-ersmarket.com.

Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana offers indoor markets from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second and fourth Saturdays of each month through April 23 at Wunderkammer Company, 3402 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne. YLNI also sponsors summer markets at the Barr Street Market in downtown Fort Wayne. For details, visit ylni.org.

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back in the ’70s and he actually was the original owner. And he would mill his own grain that he grew and make bread for his family. And he approached me because he was in his 90s and they weren’t baking anymore. And he asked if I would like to buy it.

“I had two small stone mills that are about the size of a microwave, and I would have to alternate so the stones didn’t heat up and you didn’t burn the gluten and the nutrition.”

She said her Meadows stone mill is the smallest stone mill manufactured for commercial use. “I use wheat berries. I use spelt berries. I use triti-cale rye. I use a variety of grains. Then I also have seeds and other things that I can grind,” she said.

Nancy Laslie said she and her husband volunteer

at each market. “We’re down there selling coffee and tea and hot cocoa,” she said. The money goes toward the rent, to control costs to the vendors.

“We want them to make as much money as they possibly can,” she said.

“Some of the best ground beef and chicken that I’ve had comes from

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of course the company that has done that cross is going to charge you more for those seeds because they’ve had to work harder and use their resources, their labs and people. And if you try to save seed from that particular tomato plant, those seeds might not be the same tomato plant.

“The heirlooms maintain their original sweet tomato taste. It’s like the tomato you tasted when you were a kid.”

Lee said many seed companies are no longer owned by the founding families. “I like to believe that they’re still producing the quality seed that they did before,” she said. Lee added that private orga-nizations of everyday gardeners also operate seed exchanges.

In the composting workshop, Pawlowski will share tips on ways to help those plants flourish. The compost adds bulk material to the garden bed. “The soil is like a living organism with fungus and bacteria,” he said. “It acts as a sponge and it will hold water. It’s friable – looser – so oxygen can get to the roots better.”

Gardeners can follow Pawlowski’s lead and solve two backyard problems at once. He gathers up leaves and grass, and then uses the yard waste to enrich the soil. “I break it down in tumbling composters for maybe two and a half weeks, and I put it in an

outside composter that’s open-air and I let that work all summer. Then I keep refilling my tumbling composter,” he said.

He also uses vegetable peelings and sawdust. “You need a mixture of green material and brown mate-rial, carbon and nitrogen,” he said. “I try to make a cubic yard of compost every year. It goes into little raised beds. And it just makes for beautiful soil.”

“You divert good organic matter from the landfill and put it back in the soil and grow stuff,” he said. “I have tomatoes, peppers. I grow garlic. I grow shallots. This year I grew leeks – leeks love compost. I have dill and I do a lot of basil, a couple types of basil.”

Pawlowski volunteers his time at Salomon Farm, as does “Gardening in Winter” presenter Lee.

Lee has taught the spring gardening class there, and at other venues. “I watched my dad start seeds when I was a kid,” Lee said. “But I’ve played around with it for most of my adult life.”

The process still fasci-nates her. “I like the idea of the circle of life, so to speak,” she said. “You make the selection for the seed that you want, you get them started, you plant them, care for them as they need care, harvest them, prepare them or preserve to feed yourself and your family with them. And that’s just really valuable to me.”

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• Selling Homemade Edibles: Understanding the Rules. Salomon Farm Park Learning Center, 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. 1-3 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 6. What are the rules governing the sale of home-grown or homemade edibles? Steve Niemoeller from the Allen County Depart-ment of Health will share information on what is required to sell as a home-based vendor and answer any questions. His presentation will be followed by a brief overview of the Salomon Farmers’ Market and how to become a vendor. Call by Jan. 22 if you plan to attend by calling Amy Hicks at (260) 427-6005 or e-mailing [email protected].•• Gardening in Winter. Salomon Farm Park Learning Center, 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13. You don’t have to wait for spring to get your garden started. Learn how to prepare for your own garden, what you need to plant seeds indoors, and how to keep your seedlings healthy as they grow. You will receive seeds, starter pots, and soil, in this hands-on class taught by Master Gardener Kathy Lee. Kathy has been a volunteer gardener at Salomon Farm Park for 10 years and begins starting seeds as early as February for the gardens. The course will also feature a Power Point presentation. $10. Registration deadline Feb. 7. Visit fortwayneparks.org.• Backyard Composting. Salomon Farm Park Learning Center, 817 W. Dupont Road, Fort Wayne. 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20. Learn how to prepare a compost pile, the materials that you can and cannot compost, different methods of composting and the use of different compost recep-tacles. Presenter Steve Pawlowski is a Master Gardener (in progress), compost enthusiast and Salomon Farm volunteer and has been an active urban vegetable gardener for the past 20 years. For ages 18-plus. $9. Registration deadline Feb. 12. Visit fortwayneparks.org.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE BOTANICAL CONSERVATORY— Courtesy Fort Wayne Parks Department

Family Garden Close-Up: Dead or Dormant? Saturday, Jan. 23, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Visit the Botanical Conservatory on the fourth Saturday of each month to get a closer look at our plants and gardens through short walks, crafts and snacks. Discover a different feature each time. While most plants appear to be dead in the winter, many are just going through a period of dor-mancy or inactivity in growth and development. In January, join us as we look at some of the plants that go dormant for the winter and learn more about this survival adaptation. We’ll also see if you can tell dormant from dead plants. FGC is especially fun for young learners. The activ-ities are included in regular Conservatory admission fee: $5 for adults, $3 for ages 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free. Members and volunteers are admitted free.Winterval at the Conservatory. Saturday, Jan. 30, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Make a winter bird feeder and have fun exploring in our “Dig This” exhibit. Other activities will be held around town at the Community Center, the Old Fort, and Science Central. Don’t forget about the Fort Wayne Rugby Club’s annual Snow Bowl at Lawton Park at 1 pm. Winterval is sponsored by the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department, the Downtown Improvement District and Majic 95.1. Regular Conservatory admission applies: $5 for adults, $3 for ages 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free. For more information, call (260) 427- 6440.V-Day Array. Saturday, Jan. 30, 1-2 p.m. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. With Valentine’s Day approaching, we will be learning the basics of designing fresh flowers in a clear glass vase. Red and white carnations with baby’s breath will show off your talents. We will also be teaching bow making. Registration deadline: Jan. 22. Fee: $45/public; $39/Conservatory member or volunteer. To register, call (260) 427-6000.Crystal & Geode Jewelry. Saturdays, Jan. 30-Feb. 13, 3-4 p.m. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Polymer clay is the most versatile medium to work with, and its only limit is your imagi-nation. Over several class periods you will learn how to work clay to mimic the natural beauty of crystal and rock formations. Your kit in-cludes tools and supplies to make two finished pieces of wearable art. In-structor Lissa Brown is a Fort Wayne jewelry designer and mixed media

artist, emphasizing the artistic expression of nature. No experience is required; just bring your curiosity. All materials provided. Ages 14-plus. Registration deadline: Jan. 22. Fee: $149/public; $139/Conservatory member or volunteer. To register, call (260) 427-6000.Art Display — Julie Wall Toles: Printmaking. January and February. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Get to know local and regional artists in a variety of media through the Botanical Conserva-tory’s bi-monthly art exhibits. Inspired by growth, transformation, and change, Toles utilizes an array of natural organic imagery paired with simplified geometric shapes to create pieces that depict a balance be-tween two worlds. Push and pull, give and take, ebb and flow are ideol-ogies behind her current work. Regular Conservatory admission applies: $5/adult, $3/child age 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free.Artist reception. Sunday, Jan. 10, 1-3 p.m. Enjoy meeting local artist Julie Wall Toles. A free cookie and punch reception is included in public admission today. Regular Conservatory admission applies: $5/adult, $3/child age 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free. For more infor-mation, call (260) 427-6440.

TUESDAY, JAN. 12Canterbury School Early Childhood Program open house. 5601 Covington Road, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The Early Childhood Program offers an aca-demic curriculum that fosters creativity, stimulates cognitive growth and promotes physical, social and emotional development for age 2 through junior kindergarten. Prospective parents will meet the teachers and learn about French, music, library, outdoor education and gymnastics in addition to the core curriculum, extended day and enrichment options. Prospective students also are invited. For more information contact [email protected]. No RSVP needed. The open house also will be held Wednesday, Jan. 13, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

THURSDAY, JAN. 14“Three Steps to Organizing Your Medical Records.” Allen County Extension Office, IPFW Campus, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 1 p.m. The public is invited. Registration is not required. Organizing and maintain-ing your medical records can help you receive better medical care and make the best use of your medical dollars. The goal of this program is to encourage participants to prepare for medical appointments and em-power participants to organize and maintain medical records to reduce stress and medical billing confusion. This program includes a variety of record-keeping forms to assist you in getting organized.

FRIDAY, JAN. 15Fort Wayne Ski Club celebrates 80 years. Classic Cafe, 4832 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres included; guests pay $5. Advance registration not required. The club organizes ski trips in the winter, and shares in parties, tennis and bicycling in other months. Guests are always welcome. For more information, visit fwsc.org or follow Fort Wayne Ski Club on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents “Romeo & Juliet.” The Embassy Theatre, 123 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. Tickets $25 to $55. Buy tickets at the box office or at ticketmaster.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 235th Grade Scholar Challenge. Canterbury Middle School, 5601 Covington Road, Fort Wayne. 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Area fifth-graders are invited to test their skills. As many as eight $6,000 scholarships toward Canterbury

Middle School tuition will be awarded ($2,000 for each year of middle school, grades 6-8). Awards will be based on standardized testing, an essay, school transcripts and a personal interview. Parents of participants are invited to visit the Middle School campus from 9 to 10:30 a.m. for an information session and to meet Canterbury faculty and students. Regis-ter at canterburyschool.org/challenge.“Midwinter Mozart.” Rhinehart Music Center, IPFW Campus. 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $17. Purchase at fwphil.org. Conducted by Music Direc-tor Andrew Constantine, “Midwinter Mozart” includes the Overture to Don Giovanni, Symphony No. 40, K. 550, G minor and the Piano Con-certo No. 21 in C major, K467, featuring pianist Boris Slutsky.

TUESDAY, JAN. 26Fort Wayne Women’s Midday Connection. Orchard Ridge Country Club, 4531 Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $15.50, inclu-sive of lunch. The theme of the luncheon is “It’s Snow Wonderful.” Kurt Witcher, director of the Genealogy Center, will tell how to trace one’s ancestors. Baby-sitting is available. Fort Wayne Women’s Midday Con-nection is part of Stonecroft Ministries.

MONDAY, FEB. 1“The 5 Love Languages.” Allen County Extension Office, IPFW Campus, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 1 p.m. The public is invited. Regis-tration is not required.Millions of couples have seen their relationships transformed through learning to speak the five love languages. As you discover your own love language, you will understand yourself better and hold a priceless advantage in the quest for love that lasts a lifetime. Based on a book by Gary Chapman.

MONDAY, FEB. 8Candy making program. Allen County Extension Office, 4001 Crescent Ave. 6 p.m. Learn to make various chocolate candies, just in time for Valen-tine’s Day. Creations will include homemade peanut butter cups, choco-late covered cherries, filled caramels, barks and other confections. Bring two containers to transport candy. Cost: $5. Class limited to 25 people.

FRANCINE’S FRIENDS MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHYAppointments preferably should be scheduled prior to the date. For an appointment, call 483-1847 or (800) 727-8439, ext. 26540. Walk-in openings are available depending on schedule.• Monday, Jan. 11. Cedarville Elementary, 12225 Hardisty Road, Fort Wayne.• Thursday, Jan. 14. Genesis HealthCare, New Haven Center, 1201 Daly Drive, New Haven.• Friday, Jan. 15. Paul Harding Jr. High School, 6501 Wayne Trace, Fort Wayne.•Monday, Jan. 18. Empowered Sports Club, 12124 Lima Road, Fort Wayne.• Tuesday, Jan. 19. Peerless Cleaners, 4121 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne.• Wednesday, Jan. 20. Nelson Global Products, 3405 Engle Road, Fort Wayne.• Monday, Jan. 25. New Haven High School, 1300 Green Road, New Haven,• Tuesday, Jan. 26. PPG Family Practice, 2710 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne.• Wednesday, Jan. 27. PPG Family Practice, 1331 Minnich Road, New Haven.• Friday, Jan. 29. McMahon Tire, 4201 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne.• Monday, Feb. 1. Manchester University, 604 E College St., North Man-chester.

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