Archive - May 8, 2012
SOUTH WHITLEY — Cleveland Township resident Natalie Thorne signs her signature prior to casting her ballot Tuesday as Poll Clerk JoEllen Fitch assists. This year, Cleveland Northeast and Cleveland Northwest voting location moved from the Cleveland Township Fire Station to the South Whitley United Methodist Church, lower level.
LARWILL — Locally-based contract manufacturer Red Star Manufacturing, Inc. recently collaborated with Whitko High School to support component manufacturing for a custom-ordered 10-ton plastic injection molding machine.
In late 2011, Red Star owner Scott Werstler approached Whitko Engineering and Welding Technology teacher Jay Ocken about providing his students with hands-on experience with tools and techniques in component manufacturing.
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City High School band members are frequently seen in the community performing at football games and basketball games. They are a competitive team and a talented ensemble representing the community in parades as well as honoring our local veterans in several events. Although successful and growing, the band is experiencing a shortage of funds.
With help from the CCHS Band Boosters, a nonprofit organization in charge of raising funds for the program, Helen Foster, the director of bands at CCHS, is asking for the community’s help in funding the band program.
COLUMBIA CITY — Prosecutors in Whitley County delayed the hearing Monday of a man involved in a fatal car crash April 29 in southern Whitley County that killed a three-year old boy.
According to officials in the Whitley County Circuit Court, as well as a spokesperson from the Whitley County Prosecutor’s Office, the hearing slated Monday morning for Mya Tha Tun, 52, of Fort Wayne, was delayed and no future court date has yet been set.
Police say Tun was intoxicated when the vehicle he was driving slammed into a van carrying a family of six.
COLUMBIA CITY — The 2012 Columbia City trash pick up will be divided up into two weekends this year. The city will be divided down Main Street (Ind. 9). The west side of the city will be picked up on Saturday, June 9 starting at 6 a.m. The east side of the city will be picked up on June 16 starting at 6 a.m. All trash will be picked up at the curb side or alley.
CHURUBUSCO — An annual event timed to coincide with the Churubusco Junior Senior High School prom is worth the effort that goes into it, if even one life is saved, according to the event’s coordinators.
CJSHS’s chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions cleared the school’s parking lot Friday for an exercise designed to show students the effect of drunk driving, according to co-chairwomen Angie Glick and Brenda King.
Helen I. Fink, 85, passed away Sunday, May 6, 2012, at Canterbury Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Fort Wayne.
Born in Defiance, Ohio, Helen retired from L.S. Ayres and International Harvester where she had been a radio dispatcher. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.
Helen had a nurturing heart for raising Yorkshire terriers and enjoyed working in her yard.
Surviving are sister, Laura Craig of Auburn, goddaughters, June Keiser, Deanna Kissinger, and Tara Van Houten all of Columbia City, and several nieces and nephews.
