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LOCAL/AREA TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 • The <strong>News</strong>-<strong>Banner</strong> • Page 3<br />
Obituaries<br />
Rebecca Heare, infant<br />
Rebecca Mukisa Heare, infant daughter of Bud and<br />
Irene Heare, passed away on Friday June 28, 2013, at<br />
Riley Hospital in Indianapolis.<br />
Rebecca was born on Nov. 4, 2012, in Uganda and<br />
was loved and raised in America by her forever family.<br />
Rebecca was united with her forever family by a true<br />
miracle of God. Rebecca brought much joy and faith to<br />
many with her gentle smile, laugh and big brown eyes.<br />
Rebecca came into the world without much love but left<br />
knowing she was loved by many.<br />
Rebecca is a member of the Rock Church, Portland.<br />
She is survived by her parents Bud and Irene Heare of<br />
Portland; older brother James C. Heare and older sister<br />
Emily E. Heare, both of Fortville; grandparents Clara J.<br />
“Red” Newbold of Geneva; honorary grandparents Jajaa<br />
Kim McAbee of Portland, Mark and Midge Hinshaw of<br />
Portland and Dick and Nila Johnson of Decatur; Honory<br />
Uncle Jeff and Aunt Linda Horsman of Portland; godparents<br />
Josh and Molly Butler of Decatur; and aunts and<br />
uncles Jerry and Diane Brown of Decatur, Rose Jenkins<br />
of Decatur, Rose Combs of Decatur, Jim and Norma<br />
Newbold of Berne.<br />
She is survived by many other aunts, uncles and cousins<br />
and many others that called her their own.<br />
She was preceded in death by David and Evelyn<br />
Heare and Gerald “Jerry” Newbold.<br />
Visitation will be Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in<br />
the Baird-Freeman Funeral Home in Portland. Private<br />
family services will be held.<br />
Memorials can be made to the Sanyu Babies Home<br />
Medical Fund in care of the Rock Church. Checks can<br />
be made to the Rock Church.<br />
Arrangements are being handled by Baird-Freeman<br />
Funeral Home in Portland.<br />
Online condolences at www.bairdfreeman.com<br />
Nancy P. Carroll, 78<br />
— arrangements pending<br />
Nancy P. Carroll, 78, of <strong>Bluffton</strong> died at 1:25 p.m.<br />
Monday, July 1, 2013, at River Terrace Estates in <strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />
Funeral arrangements are pending at this time with<br />
the Thoma/Rich, Chaney & Lemler Funeral Home in<br />
<strong>Bluffton</strong>.<br />
Police Notebook<br />
INCIDENTS<br />
City:<br />
Monday, 12:07 p.m., report someone<br />
threw fireworks from a vehicle at McDonald’s,<br />
984 N. Main St.<br />
Monday, 6:32 p.m., someone stole a red<br />
2004 Dodge Ram pickup truck from Parlor<br />
City Pawn, 2357 N. Main St. Incident<br />
remains under investigation.<br />
Monday, 6:48 p.m., Save-On Liquor<br />
South. Report of a man and a woman arguing<br />
in the parking lot. Officers responded.<br />
David Crenshaw, 23, Fort Wayne, arrested<br />
on a warrant out of Allen County charging<br />
him with failure to appear in court.<br />
Monday, 7:50 p.m., Rich Lautzenheiser<br />
accidentally backed into the mailboxes at<br />
Valley Park Apartments.<br />
Monday, 8:50 p.m., report of a man<br />
shooting fireworks toward the Pak-A-Sak<br />
south gas station, 904 S. Main St. An officer<br />
spoke with the man who said he was shooting<br />
them out over the street.<br />
Monday, 9:14 p.m., report of a 13-yearold<br />
girl smashing glass bottles in the street<br />
in the Sleepy Hollow mobile home park.<br />
When a neighbor reportedly asked her to<br />
refrain from the activity, she reportedly<br />
responded by smashing another bottle. Officers<br />
responded and spoke with the girl and<br />
her mother.<br />
Monday, 11:07 p.m., two tires slashed<br />
on a vehicle parked in the 500 South Beth<br />
Street.<br />
County:<br />
Monday, 1:05 p.m., Uniondale man<br />
received a call from someone claiming to be<br />
from the sheriff’s department and asking for<br />
personal information. The call actually came<br />
from someone in Sabin, Minn.<br />
Monday, 4:30 p.m., someone stole a stop<br />
sign from the intersection of Meridian Road<br />
and 1000N.<br />
Monday, 4:36 p.m., 1000N east of 300W.<br />
Officer pulled over Tim Shake, rural<br />
Ossian, and cited him for driving while suspended.<br />
ACCIDENTS<br />
County:<br />
Monday, 12:46 p.m., Hoosier Highway<br />
at a curve just west of Ash Road. Marcus J.<br />
Hill, 33, Fort Wayne, driving a box truck for<br />
Iron Mountain Information Management of<br />
Mt. Laurel, N.J. Truck hydroplaned, went<br />
off the road, clipped an REMC pole and<br />
then broke a second pole in two, knocking<br />
out power to the area. Total damage exceeded<br />
$2,500.<br />
Monday, 5:30 p.m., 600E north of<br />
700N. John D. Buskirk, 45, rural Blufton,<br />
was southbound on 600E in a pickup truck<br />
when he tried to make room for an oncoming<br />
vehicle as he approached a bridge. He<br />
moved over too far, overcorrected when<br />
coming back onto the road, the truck spun<br />
sideways and struck a bridge barrier. Damage<br />
exceeded $2,500.<br />
Monday, 11:45 p.m., Ind. 116 south of<br />
200N. Justin J. Miller, 19, Ossian, hit a deer<br />
with a sport utility vehicle. Damage to the<br />
vehicle exceeded $1,000.<br />
FIRE RUNS<br />
Monday, 2:32 p.m., report of smoke in<br />
the basement of a residence at 1100NW-Ind.<br />
116. Uniondale Fire Department responded.<br />
Incident was terminated by 3:13 p.m.<br />
Monday, 5:26 p.m., Wells County Public<br />
Library, 200 W. Washington St. Woman<br />
stuck in the elevator. The elevator had<br />
moved about three feet up from the ground<br />
floor and stopped and the doors would not<br />
open. Firefighters used a tool to force the<br />
doors open and the woman was able to step<br />
out of the elevator.<br />
ARRESTS<br />
Darren Lee Sively, 26, Huntington; probation<br />
violation. No bond set.<br />
Jeremy J. Turner, 39, Fort Wayne; dealing<br />
methamphetamine and possession and/<br />
or sale of precursors for the manufacture of<br />
methamphetamine. Bond set at $25,000.<br />
Drainage Board will do away with per diem pay<br />
By JESSICA WILLIAMS<br />
County Surveyor Jarrod Hahn<br />
told the Wells County Drainage<br />
Board members that they would<br />
be paid $59.58 per meeting for the<br />
rest of the year at Monday’s regular<br />
meeting.<br />
When it comes time for the Wells<br />
County Council to determine the<br />
budget for next year, however, the<br />
decision to continue per diem pay<br />
TIPTON, Ind. (AP) — A consumer<br />
advocacy group that backs<br />
a proposed central Indiana wind<br />
farm has accused the project’s<br />
opponents of spreading misinformation<br />
about the electricity-generating<br />
turbines in an attempt to<br />
keep it from being built.<br />
The Indianapolis-based Citizens<br />
Action Coalition sent a letter<br />
to the Tipton County Plan<br />
Commission last week calling the<br />
opponents’ arguments off-the-wall<br />
and unsubstantiated, the Kokomo<br />
Tribune reported.<br />
or to wrap the pay into the commissioners’<br />
salaries will lie with County<br />
Council, Hahn said.<br />
He said he has budgeted $55 per<br />
meeting for next year if the council<br />
wants to continue per diem.<br />
By consensus, the drainage board<br />
members, who are also Wells County<br />
Commissioners – Kevin Woodward,<br />
Blake Gerber and Scott Mossburg<br />
– decided they would rather<br />
One wind farm developer last<br />
year finished building 125 turbines<br />
in Tipton County and neighboring<br />
Madison County, while some residents<br />
of Tipton and Howard counties<br />
are fighting plans by another<br />
company to put up nearly 100<br />
more turbines.<br />
Jeff Hoover of Tipton County<br />
Citizens for Responsible Development,<br />
a group that opposes the<br />
project, said it’s time for county<br />
officials to realize how many<br />
people don’t want industrial wind<br />
farms in the area about 40 miles<br />
have the payment included with their<br />
commissioners’ pay.<br />
In other business, the drainage<br />
board approved a project near the<br />
Wells-Adams county line.<br />
Jody Kraatz requested an allowance<br />
to build a structure within 30<br />
feet of the joint Werling Lambert<br />
drain’s right-of-way.<br />
With the qualification that Kraatz<br />
would pay for cleaning expenditures<br />
north of Indianapolis.<br />
“We have provided scientific<br />
and empirical data,” Hoover said.<br />
“That data shows property value<br />
loss and health and safety concerns.<br />
Every group has the right to<br />
their own opinion.”<br />
Colorado-based juwi Wind<br />
is seeking approval to build<br />
about 90 turbines for the Prairie<br />
Breeze Wind Farm in a rural area<br />
northwest of Tipton. Its request<br />
includes a reduction in the county’s<br />
required 1,500-foot distance<br />
between the wind farm’s turbines<br />
in the future, the allowance was<br />
approved 3-0.<br />
Hahn also provided a few updates:<br />
• The contractor started the Shady<br />
Tile project Friday.<br />
• The project at 500s and 500W is<br />
slated to begin today.<br />
• The Wabash River near Ind.<br />
303, about 1,000 feet downstream,<br />
needs clearing out.<br />
jessicaw@news-banner.com<br />
FSSA lets<br />
some info<br />
be open<br />
to public<br />
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)<br />
— The personal information<br />
of at least 14 Indiana welfare<br />
clients was shared with<br />
others because of a contractor’s<br />
computer programming<br />
error, Indiana officials<br />
said Monday. The security<br />
breach potentially affects<br />
more than 187,000 people.<br />
The Indiana Family and<br />
Social Services Administration<br />
said some of the personal<br />
information possibly<br />
shared with others included<br />
the Social Security numbers<br />
of as many as 3,926 clients.<br />
“We do not believe this<br />
was a widespread disclosure<br />
of information,” FSSA<br />
spokesman Jim Gavin said<br />
in an email message. “To<br />
this day, we have been made<br />
aware of 14 instances where<br />
information was received by<br />
the wrong person.”<br />
A programming error<br />
by FSSA contractor RCR<br />
Technology Corp. resulted<br />
in an undetermined number<br />
of documents being sent to<br />
the wrong clients. In addition<br />
to the Social Security<br />
numbers, FSSA said, information<br />
disclosed possibly<br />
included monthly benefit<br />
amounts; financial information,<br />
such as monthly<br />
income and expenses, bank<br />
balances and other assets;<br />
and medical conditions.<br />
“We are ultimately<br />
responsible for the safekeeping<br />
of that information<br />
and regret that in this rare<br />
instance some information<br />
may have been accidently<br />
shared inappropriately,”<br />
FSSA Secretary Debra<br />
Minott said in a statement.<br />
The error occurred April<br />
6 and affected correspondence<br />
sent to clients from<br />
that date until May 21,<br />
FSSA said.<br />
Consumer group backs Tipton County wind farm<br />
Large hog farm near youth camp OK’d<br />
MONTICELLO, Ind.<br />
(AP) — A northern Indiana<br />
county approved plans<br />
Monday for a 9,200-hog<br />
farm near a youth camp<br />
whose leaders fear the<br />
farm’s odors will impact life<br />
at the popular camp.<br />
The White County Commissioners<br />
approved a zoning<br />
petition allowing for the<br />
farm’s construction following<br />
two hours of testimony<br />
for and against the farm,<br />
which will be about a halfmile<br />
from the YMCA-operated<br />
Camp Tecumseh.<br />
Six children wearing<br />
YMCA T-shirts who attended<br />
the meeting carried signs,<br />
one of which accused the<br />
hog pig industry of being<br />
bullies.<br />
The camp’s activities<br />
include camps for children<br />
with asthma and kidney<br />
troubles, and those who<br />
have suffered burns. The<br />
90-year-old facility attracts<br />
more than 35,000 campers<br />
a year.<br />
Local farmer John Erickson<br />
plans to build two large<br />
hog barns about a half-mile<br />
from Camp Tecumseh,<br />
which is about 20 miles<br />
north of Lafayette.<br />
The Journal & Courier<br />
reported that Camp Tecumseh<br />
CEO Scott Brosman<br />
told the commissioners he’s<br />
convinced the farm will<br />
cause water contamination<br />
or odors to waft over the<br />
600-acre camp, impacting<br />
its outdoor activities.<br />
“That’s our biggest concern,”<br />
Brosman said last<br />
week. “If people start and<br />
continue to notice odors,<br />
the chances of them coming<br />
back diminish greatly.”<br />
The commissioners’<br />
3-0 vote changes the zoning<br />
for a 7-acre tract from<br />
agricultural to agriculturalindustrial<br />
— a designation<br />
that allow for a more intense<br />
agricultural use of the land.<br />
That will allow Erickson to<br />
build a concentrated animal<br />
feeding operation capable of<br />
housing nearly 10,000 hogs<br />
in two buildings.<br />
Before Monday’s<br />
approval by the county<br />
commissioners, Erickson<br />
had already received a state<br />
permit for his planned hog<br />
farm and approval from the<br />
White County Plan Commission<br />
for the project.<br />
Heading into Monday’s<br />
meeting, Erickson<br />
had assured camp officials<br />
that the hogs — and their<br />
manure — would have no<br />
effect on Camp Tecumseh.<br />
Erickson, a fifth-generation<br />
farmer, spoke briefly at<br />
Monday’s meeting, calling<br />
the big hog farm a natural<br />
extension of his longtime<br />
family farm.<br />
Erickson’s attorney, Joe<br />
Bumbleburg, told commissioners<br />
the hog farm represents<br />
the type of farming the<br />
county wants. He noted that<br />
the county approved a plan<br />
in 2011 calling for entrepreneurial<br />
farming.<br />
Dueling marriage rallies draw hundreds in Fort Wayne<br />
FORT WAYNE, Ind.<br />
(AP) — Two rallies supporting<br />
opposing views of marriage<br />
have drawn hundreds<br />
of people to the lawn of the<br />
Allen County Courthouse.<br />
The Stand Up for Marriage<br />
Rally sponsored by<br />
several ministers Monday<br />
promoted marriage from a<br />
biblical perspective and as<br />
a foundation of culture and<br />
the role marriage plays in<br />
religious liberty.<br />
The Journal Gazette<br />
reports police estimated<br />
about 400 people gathered<br />
for the ministers’ rally while<br />
State: Most OK with smoking ban<br />
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say only a tiny<br />
percentage of businesses covered by Indiana’s first statewide<br />
smoking ban have been cited for violations in the year<br />
since the law took effect.<br />
State Excise Police say just 108 of the 300,000 Indiana<br />
businesses covered by the law have been cited for violating<br />
the law, which took effect in July 2012.<br />
The law bans smoking in most indoor workplaces,<br />
including all restaurants, and requires people to stand 8 feet<br />
from an entrance before lighting up.<br />
Travis Thickstun of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco<br />
Commission’s enforcement division says the vast majority<br />
of covered businesses are complying with the law.<br />
200 others stood with rainbow<br />
flags and signs promoting<br />
equality in marriage.<br />
The rally came days after<br />
the U.S. Supreme Court’s<br />
decision striking down key<br />
provisions of the Defense of<br />
Marriage Act.<br />
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feet from homes on properties<br />
not involved with the project and<br />
1,250 feet from homes on participating<br />
properties.<br />
Construction finished late last<br />
year on 125 turbines in eastern<br />
Tipton County and northern Madison<br />
County for the Wildcat Wind<br />
Farm developed by E.ON Climate<br />
and Renewables of Chicago. Nearly<br />
200 more turbines are planned<br />
in neighboring Howard and Grant<br />
counties in later phases.<br />
Kerwin Olson, executive director<br />
of the Citizens Action Coalition,<br />
disputed claims that property<br />
values decrease around a wind<br />
farm and said data indicates wind<br />
power is less expensive than electricity<br />
from a new coal-fired plant.<br />
Olson said it isn’t clear who is<br />
paying for the research cited by<br />
wind farm opponents.<br />
“We don’t doubt that there are<br />
concerns,” he said. “But the claims<br />
should be backed up by scientific<br />
research and empirical data. We<br />
would question the motives of<br />
those opposed to wind energy.”<br />
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