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May 15th, 2013
NEW HAVEN â âElated is an understatement to describe my feelings after the meet.â
Needless to say, Columbia City Head Coach Bob Fahl was pleased with his teamâs performance at the New Haven sectional girls track meet Tuesday.
âEveryone we anticipated to qualify for the regional made it,â Fahl said. âThere were no disappointments.â
The Lady Eagles placed second as a team, only topped by Bellmont, 156-106, in a field of 11 teams. Whitkoâs girls also competed, placing seventh overall.
Editorâs note: The following is a series highlighting unique summer jobs to be held by area students.
COLUMBIA CITY â Although students view the weeks between school ending and school beginning as a vacation, summer jobs can be a temporary way for students to earn cash.
For Foster Eber, a Columbia City High School senior, the weeks between graduation and starting his freshman year at Ball State University will be spent working.
However, he wonât just have any job. Heâll be employed at one of his favorite summer spots â Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
COLUMBIA CITY â A second man who was charged with dealing drugs in the Walmart parking lot in Columbia City pleaded guilty Monday.
Shane Bocskey, 26, Columbia City, admitted to dealing in methamphetamine. Four other counts that Bocskey was charged with at the time of his February arrest were dismissed.
In February, Bocskey was arrested with Derek Kohut after a confidential informant exchanged $120 and two boxes of pseudoephedrine for 2.85 grams of meth.
COLUMBIA CITY â Ordinance enforcement has created more agenda items for the Columbia City Board of Works and Safety.
Those who violate Columbia City ordinances can appeal to the board. Two families who made appeals Tuesday had their requests satisfied.
Christine Broni lives on Old Trail Road near the edge of town. She and her husband were cited for having two horses on the property as well as chickens, a violation of the animal ordinance.
COLUMBIA CITY â It took no longer than the blink of an eye for the city to change its ordinance on flashing message signs.
Columbia Cityâs Common Council gave the final stamp of approval to an ordinance change regarding electronic message centers Tuesday. However, those signs, which flash in seconds, have been debated for months at the Columbia City Planning Commission.
Dave Sewell, of the commission, spoke to the common council and informed them of this ordinance change. Some were concerned with potential current violations, but Sewell noted all existing signs will be allowed.
Glenn âSpikeâ R. Martin, 87, of Columbia City, passed away at 8:51 a.m. Monday, May 13, 2013, at his home. Born March 25, 1926, in Etna, he was the son of Chester Edward and Nita Gertrude (Keister) Martin.
He lived his entire life in Etna, graduating from North Webster High School with the Class of 1944. On Dec. 30, 1949, he married Boneta âBonnieâ Vesta Coverstone. Together they spent 63 years in Etna. He worked at Weatherhead, Columbia City, as a set-up operator for 30 years, retiring in 1987. Glenn was an avid Cubs baseball fan and IU basketball fan, and farming was his life.
Diane S. Jordan, 68, of Huntertown, passed away at 3:27 am, Monday, May 13, 2013, at her daughterâs home. Born March 3, 1945, in Fort Wayne, she was the daughter of Kenneth C. and Dorothy L. (Harmeyer) Young.
She lived in Fort Wayne and then moved to Whitley County as a child. She graduated from Churubusco High School with the Class of 1963. She worked as a waitress at various locations in Whitley County, Tri-Lake Tavern most recently.
May 14th
Andrue Bechtold, of South Whitley, recently found a rather large Morel mushroom in a âsecret locationâ in Whitley County.
Andrue is the grandson of Dennis Bechtold.
SOUTH WHITLEY â John Langmaid, IV was awarded his Eagle Scout rank at a ceremony held at Whitko High School March 21.
Langmaid, a student at WHS, planned, surveyed, organized, and helped build a 65-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant sidewalk.
The project, which was completed during July 2012, was done for the school as his Eagle Scout project.
He earned the Eagle rank Sept. 13, 2012. The sidewalk gives disabled students access to the school and ease to leave the school during exercise and emergency situations.
COLUMBIA CITY â Churubusco High School graduate, Alex Husk, has tapped into her many years of dance to launch a new business, Astound Dance Academy.
At the age of three, Husk started to dance, but it wasnât until she was in middle school that she began perfecting her craft.
Now 24 years old and with many years of instruction experience, Husk is ready to pass on the love of dance to others in her own studio.
Q: What is it about dance that inspires you?
