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March 16th, 2011
Jack E. Fry, 88, of South Whitley, died at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at Renaissance Village where he had been a resident since December 2008
He was born June 15, 1922 in Elwood, a son of Clifford Clayton and Ida Marinda (Bowers) Fry. His formative years were spent in Osgood and Greensburg areas. He completed his education in Nebraska School in Jennings County.
On Nov. 7, 1942 he was inducted in the United States Army, serving in the South Pacific on the Island of Kwajalean during World War II. He was honorably discharged Nov. 8, 1945.
COLUMBIA CITY â The Whitley County Domestic Violence Task Force has officially teamed up with local law enforcement.
According to Sherry Sausaman, task force organizer, early this month training was completed for the South Whitley and Churubusco police departments and the Whitley County Sheriffâs Department, with the Columbia City police coming on board by the end of the month.
âWe canât do it alone,â Sausaman said, and the community collaboration now includes such organizations as the Whitley County Salvation Army, Beds and Britches Etc. (BABE), the Lighthouse and the YMCA.
COLUMBIA CITY â Imagine a young girl championing the cause of the bullied and harassed, advocating acts of kindness to uplift her classmates oppressed by their peers.
Now imagine that the very ones she stood for, in retaliation for the bullying, shot her in cold blood as she ate her lunch at school.
COLUMBIA CITY â By the time the Whitley County Board of Commissioners convenes Monday afternoon, at least nine names should be presented to the three-man board for approval.
That list of names will be known as the steering committee for wind energy research.
The Whitley County Plan Commission discussed the formation of the committee at its regular meeting Tuesday night.
The need for the advisory board was born out of a hotly-debated issue on the need, or lack thereof, of wind energy in the county.
COLUMBIA CITY â The Whitley County Plan Commission ratified the countyâs newest comprehensive plan at its meeting Tuesday night and will take the plan, with one alteration, to the Whitley County Board of Commissioners for approval on Monday.
âThis is a normal course of action for the comprehensive plan,â said Dave Sewell, Executive Director of the countyâs Building and Planning Department.
âWeâve had various input meetings, this is the fourth draft (Draft D) and we have not received any correspondence or written objections to the comprehensive plan.â
COLUMBIA CITY — Coming out as a freshman, Columbia City’s J.T. Biggs wasn’t on the radar for college athletics.
He’ll be the first to admit it.
“My freshman year I wasn’t the greatest at all by any means,” Biggs said. “I was playing at the bottom of the barrel.”
By his senior season, Biggs had changed that helping No. 1 doubles go 7-0 in the Northeast Hoosier Conference and finding a spot at the collegiate level.
Five boys and five girls from the Churubusco track and field team will compete at the indoor state finals Saturday on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette. Front row, from left: Danielle Pippenger (long jump), Peyton Summers (55-meter dash), Heather Monk (shot put), Katie Monk (shot put), Erika Lehner (shot put). Back row: Jeremy Forker (800-meter relay), Alex Zolman (800 relay, long jump), Zack Armstead (800 relay, pole vault), Austin McClure (shot put), Kyle Mathewson (800 relay, long jump, 55-meter dash).
Post & Mail photo / Andrew Shultz
March 15th
COLUMBIA CITY â Three men with a broad range of knowledge regarding wind energy have been invited to speak at a information session March 23.
Chad Martin, a renewable energy extension specialist at Purdue University; Todd Samuelson, a CPA with H.J. Umbaugh and Associates and Travis Murphy, a business development manager for renewable energy will share their perspectives during a community discussion about wind energy.
The community discussion is planned for 6 p.m. March 23 at Indian Springs Middle School. It is free and open to the public.
March 14th
COLUMBIA CITY â It was a day like any other in the classroom. Students talking and laughing, studying and dreaming about the future.
But a darkness that had begun years earlier broke in on the scene and lives ended too soon, dreams never to be realized.
Columbine High School.
The first student killed that day, April 20, 1999, was Rachel Scott. The shooters were allegedly victims of bullying for years and had taken their revenge in a random shooting spree at their high school.
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