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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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1,250 feet from homes on participating<br />

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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 />

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research and empirical data. We<br />

would question the motives of<br />

those opposed to wind energy.”<br />

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