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Canterbury play developsplot twist from Hamlet

By Garth [email protected]

Theater fans who cannot recite Shakespeares Hamlet from memory will get help setting the stage when Canterbury High School Winter Theatre presents Rosen-crantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

A brief introduction will tell just enough to introduce the characters, according to Joyce Lazier, director.

I suppose you dont have to know [Hamlet] intimately, Lazier said. If you have a general idea of what goes on, then the character makes sense. Were going to have a little narration at the beginning of the play to remind people who havent read it since high school and are maybe my age. When Claudius and Gertrude come on, you know who they are. And if you have never read

it, youll have enough to enjoy the show.

As the title suggests, the title character in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark receives the worst possible

news about his acquain-tances in the Shakespeare tragedy. In a news release, Canterbury said the audi-ence nds Rosencrantz and Guildenstern coming to

the realization that they are merely players in a play and not really in control over the events that take

Just Because Weeksmission is in its name


Homestead High School classrooms will have an extra sense of urgency that week in late February, because the ISTEP tests are at hand and the SAT tests will follow.

The athletic venues will see extra duty, because winter sports are coming to a close and spring athletes are limbering up in the hallways.

The school atmosphere will hint of change, because the college and career fair is at hand and because seniors soon will pick up their graduation caps and gowns.

But for that one, cold, late-winter week, students will become Dirty Duckers and Notorious Netters and variety show artists because well, just because its Just Because Week.

The annual Homestead tradition helps ght the winter blues, said Alyssa Braman, the faculty

adviser to the student government association. The observance runs Feb. 22-26. Each day has an assigned dress theme. Its juniors vs. seniors on Tuesday, Feb. 23, in the Notorious Netters basket-ball challenge. Because the gym is busy that week, the Dirty Duckers dodge ball challenge has been moved ahead to Wednesday, Feb. 17.

And then theres the two-night variety show. Students pay a small admission fee the evenings of Feb. 24 and 25. Beginning at 7 p.m. each evening, about 17 acts will entertain. It lasts two to two and a half hours, so its a pretty full night, said senior Sam Hagedorn, the student government president. Its the same program both nights; the show is repeated because both shows usually sell out.

Theres a ton of variety, mostly musical

Robotics teams prepareto capture strongholds


Homestead High School and Huntington County robotics teams are building machines to storm the castle for the 2016 chal-lenge.

More than 75,000 high school students on over 3,100 teams at 114 venues are participating in the FIRST Stronghold chal-lenge. The acronym stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. Teams received instructions on Jan. 9 via live broadcasts received at 114 sites worldwide.

Homestead co-coach Matt Elder explained that Stronghold is the name of this years challenge.

In competition, teams will form alliances with robot crews from other schools for 3-against-3 challenges. Alliances will direct their robots to hurl

a boulder made of foam through an opening in a castle tower. Robots also may have to overcome an outer wall or a lower wall or other obstacles. Each alliance will choose three challenges for the opponent to attempt. The audience will select a

fourth challenge for each team.

During the last 20 seconds, they can scale the tower. They have to reach up 6 feet, clasp and lift 2 feet, Elder said.

Huntington County robotics coach Chris

Evan Stoddard and Rebecca Alimoff rehearse for the Canterbury Winter Theatre production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Stoddard, a junior, plays Guildenstern. Alimoff, a senior, plays Rosencrantz.

PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW

Matt Elder is a co-coach of the Homestead High School robotics team, along with Robert Steverson, not shown. Dakota Alverson, a senior, and Sam Botchko, a junior, are the student co-captains.

PHOTO BY GARTH SNOW

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See PLAY, Page A14 See JUST, Page A15

By Rod KingFor Times Publications

Friends in Focus, a cappella chorus composed of blind and visually impaired singers, brought holiday cheer to residents of eight nursing facilities around Fort Wayne prior to Christmas. The 10-member group, which was formed three years ago, belongs to the Fort Wayne Chapter of the Indiana Association of Workers for the Blind.

The hour-long caroling session at Lutheran Homes on South Anthony Boulevard included a wide variety of traditional seasonal songs ranging from a swinging version of Marys Boy Child, Silver Bell and Walking in a Winter Wonderland to Go Tell it on the Moun-tain, Ill be Home for Christmas and Joy to the World. After O Come all Ye Faithful, The 12 Days of Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Let There be Peace on Earth, the group closed with We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

According to Nancy Ake, vice president of the local chapter of IAWB, Friends spokesperson, booking agent and one of the founders of the group, Friends in Focus is a social organization that enjoys singing. She said the ensemble also pres-ents concerts at churches, retirement functions and the annual Disability Expo.

Were obviously not a normal vocal ensemble. We dont have a director in the normal sense of the word standing in front of us to give the down beat with arm movements. Our director and lead singer, Rich Poncin, also one of the founders, stands in the second row and audibly gives the starting count. Rosevelt Carlisle, who stands next to him, uses a pitch pipe to give the begin-ning note.

Several of our singers are totally blind and read with their ngers in braille, while others are able to read from printed music. Im blind in one eye and the vision is impaired in the other so my music is in large print. I look up music for us on the Internet and Richs daughter gets it printed both in regular type and braille.

Members of Workers for the Blind are heavily involved every October

with the Lions Club for the annual White Cane Drive. Money raised goes to assist blind persons in the Fort Wayne area. Ake said there are nearly 8,000 blind and visually impaired people just within the city limits.

The 70 members of IAWB, including several members of Friends, look forward to bowling every Monday at 3:30 p.m. January through March at Thunderbowl on South Lafayette Street. Lions Club members drive us to the bowling alley and assist those who need help getting on their shoes, choosing a ball and lining up their shots, Ake said.

Persons interested in singing with Friends in Focus are urged to check out the IAWB website at workersfortheblind.org or by calling Nancy Ake at (260) 444-1609. The only requirement is that a person must be blind or visually impaired.

Southwest Allen schools tax goes on May ballotThe Southwest Allen

County Schools district will take a $3.5 million referendum renewal to voters on the May 3 ballot. The School Board approved the measure Jan. 4.

Voters of Aboite and Lafayette townships may vote on the school proposal without declaring a party preference.

For estimates of how the levy would affect prop-erties based on assessed valuation, visit sacs.k12.in.us and click on Our Referendum Renewal.

SACS has been oper-

ating with the assistance of a taxpayer-support refer-endum since 1985.

The renewal, which is expected to keep the tax levy and anticipated property taxes the same, supports districtwide goals of maintaining class sizes, programs, curricular and elective offerings; guidance counseling; and school safety, a district spokesperson said in a statement. It would fund 52 existing positions, including teachers, coun-selors and a school safety ofcer.

At Southwest Allen

County Schools, it is our mission to provide each child in our district with an excellent educa-tion that prepares them for the opportunities of tomorrow, Superintendent Philip G. Downs said. That excellent education is due in large part to the generosity of the people of Southwest Allen County. We are incredibly grateful for that community support and trust, espe-cially as we look toward this referendum renewal.

Historically, state funding for SACS has been one of the lowest in

the state, Downs said. This year, our funding is projected to be 358th out of the 363 school districts in Indiana. That puts SACS in the bottom 2 percent of all schools in the state. When the refer-endum is added in, SACS would be 275th out of 363 school districts, which is still well below the state average.

The current referendum,

approved by taxpayers in 2009, provides the district with $3.5 million each year, meeting payroll for about 11 percent of the SACS staff. That referendum runs out in December 2016.

If the referendum is not renewed, SACS will need to address the loss of nearly $3.5 million of funding annually, Downs said. That could likely

mean sweeping cuts across the district resulting in increased class sizes and reduced programs and support for the students of Southwest Allen County.

With the renewal being at the same levy as the current referendum, taxpayers in Aboite and Lafayette townships are not expected to see an increase in their property tax bills.

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Friends in Focus singers entertain a Christmas audi-ence at Lutheran Homes on South Anthony Boulevard. They are (seated, left to right) Sue Roe, Barbara Rhoades, Mary Fields, Cindy Smith, Theresa Schenkel, (and standing) Beverly Hunt, Leroy Lewis, Rich Poncin, Rosevelt Carlisle and Nancy Ake.

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Linus blanketeers provide comfort for sick kids

By Rod KingFor Times Publications

Every Wednesday is Project Linus day for 30 to 40 Fort Wayne area women. They gather from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the former parsonage of the Salem United Church of Christ on Lake Avenue. Theyre referred to as blanketeers, and they make blankets for children who are seriously ill, trau-matized or otherwise in need.

Last year they and hundreds of volunteers throughout northeast Indiana sewed, quilted, crocheted and knitted more than 3,000 blankets for kids and delivered them to 30 facilities where they were distributed to infants, toddlers, elementary age, pre-teen and teenagers up to 18 years old. Every blanket is unique in color, fabric and style, with little duplication. Each age group

has different size speci-cations. Infant blankets are 36-by-36, toddler 36-by-45, elementary 45-by-60, pre-teen and teen 60-by-72.

Joyce Pickett, chapter coordinator, pointed out that 95 percent of the fabric and yarn is donated (eece is sometimes purchased on sale) and nothing is wasted. Double-layer blankets that come to us are disas-sembled because theyre too hot and made into two blankets, she said.

Fleece scraps are sent to the Appleseed Quilters Guild, which turns them into dog beds for area animal shelters, and some eece scraps were made into scarves for the Chase the Chill Scarf Bombing event. A new project, started this past Christmas season, found blanketeers making tiny blankets to go with baby dolls for prema-ture babies.

Fleece blankets take the least time to make because

they do not fray and dont need sewn edges. Most of them, however, get a decorative crocheted fringe or one with colorful ties. Quilted and crocheted blankets take much longer to make. Sewing, quilting, knitting and crocheting are important skills, but not necessary for our volun-teers. There are plenty of other jobs around here to keep people busy, Pickett said. They can attach our Project Linus tag to nished blankets, disassemble double-layer blankets, measure and cut, store inventory, package for delivery, make deliv-eries and pick up donated fabrics.

Though most of the blan-kets stay within northeast Indiana communities, the chapter occasionally gets emergency calls from chap-ters around the country for specic sizes of blanket to ll a special need.

A Project Linus blanket went to a 5-year-old boy when he was hospitalized with a broken arm that required several surgeries. His dad said the blanket helped make his sons surgery and recovery easier and more comfortable. He

now donates printed tags which are attached to each blanket.

Project Linus, which is international in scope, has produced and delivered 5.5 million blankets worldwide. The local chapter, the only one in northeast Indiana, was started in Peggy Albertsons basement 11 years ago. Linus operated in a storefront on Dupont Road for a short time before the Salem churchs pastors wife suggested the former parsonage would be a good headquarters for the organization.

Albertson served as chapter coordinator until a year ago when she turned the position over to her sister, Joyce. Linus Project, Pickett said, is more than making blankets. Were also a social group and have a lot of fun. Twice a year (spring and fall) we have a work day which involves cleaning up the sticks and leaves around the house.

Individuals interested in helping provide security to children through blankets can contact chapter coordi-nator Joyce Pickett at (260) 486-2010 or visit bestlinus.org.


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Rotary Club picks Bennett to be president in 2018-19David Bennett has

been elected the 2018-19 president of the Rotary Club of Fort Wayne. The Club elected Bennett and four new board members.

Bennett received his bachelors degree in economics from Williams College, and a masters in public affairs from Princeton Univer-

sity. From 1988 to 1995, he was the president of Taxpayers Research Association. Bennett joined the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne as executive director in 1995.

He lives in Fort Wayne with his wife of 33 years, LuAnn. They have three sons.

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Huntington University, Bruce Haines of PBS Channel 39, and Greg Solon of Edward Jones Investments. They begin serving a three-year board term July 1, 2016.

Incorporated in 1915, the Rotary Club of Fort Wayne is an organization of 150 business, profes-sional and community leaders who open doors

through service through local, national and inter-national service projects, as well as international exchange programs. The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne meets every Monday, except holidays, at noon at Parkview Field, second floor suite level. For more information, visit fortwaynerotary.org.

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Churchs fundraiser offersmotivation and pamperingGrace Episcopal

Church will present its ninth annual Graceful Night Out fundraiser at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at 10010 Aurora Place, off Liberty Mills Road, in southwest Fort Wayne.

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spirits of women. The men of the church serve hearty hors doeuvres and sweets, while women have a chance to bid on rafe and silent auction items and enjoy a few pampering stations. After the keynote address by Aaron Brown, the evening will culminate in a live auction. As in years past, one of the auction items is a weeks stay at Waves of Grace, a vacation home on Edisto Beach, S.C., that sleeps up to 10 people.

Brown, the founder of Impact52, has chosen Its My Choice and I Choose Light as the title of his talk. His message is intended to direct its audience toward a life of purpose. Brown believes that when we choose to be kind, love people, and serve others, we have the ability to change our lives and the lives of those around us, the church said in a state-ment.

Money raised that evening will support the churchs mission, with a portion going to Forgotten Children Worldwide, Browns charity of choice. The mission of Forgotten Children Worldwide is to safeguard orphans and vulnerable children from poverty, abandonment and human trafcking.

Lions sh fry to fund shoes for schoolchildrenThe Waynedale Lions

Club has teamed with Waynedale Elementary, the PTA and other local organizations to buy a local child in need a pair of shoes with every adult dinner sold at an upcoming fundraiser.

From 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, the Waynedale Lions will host a sh dinner with a dessert bake sale at

Waynedale Elementary School, 7201 Elzey St., Fort Wayne.

Jim Springer, president of the Waynedale Lions Club and lead organizer of the event, said, Many parents have trouble affording the many basic school supplies, and shoes are often over-looked when budgeting. Every child needs a good pair of shoes for success

in an educational environ-ment, especially now with so many students walking to school.

Each adult sh dinner sold will fund a pair of shoes for a child in need. Dinners include Dans Fish Fry sh, two sides, a roll and a drink. Advance tickets are available for $10 for adults. Tickets at the door will cost $12. A childs meal is $6.50.

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Lower Huntington Road, Fort Wayne; Waynedale Elementary, 7201 Elzey St., Fort Wayne; and other locations to be listed on waynedale.com/lions.

We are still accepting donations and volunteer assistance to make this event even better, the Lions Club said in an email. To assist, go to waynedale.com/lions or call Springer, (260) 747-7224.

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Elston said his team and Homesteads are the only competition squads in Region 3, Northeast Indiana. Our 4-H team is unique because we can pull from the home schoolers association, one kid from Wabash, one kid from South Whitley, a couple kids from Fort Wayne. The 4-H umbrella allows us to be open to any high school kids, Elston said.

The robot is fairly large, Elston said. Its 3 feet by 4 feet by 5 feet. It cant weigh more than 120 pounds.

Elder is in his rst year with the robotics program at Homestead, where he teaches physics. He shares the program with third-year adviser Robert Steverson, who teaches astronomy and integrated chemistry and physics. The Homestead program has 23 students this year.

Dakota Alverson, a senior, has been with the program each of its three years. She is a co-captain of this years team. Its going very well this year, in my opinion very productive, she said. Weve developed more of a leadership structure.

A winning strategy has been apparent in other years, but not so much this year, Alverson said. Teams must adhere to

budgets and safety rules, she said, but after those constraints there are no guidelines.

Co-captain and third-year member Sam Botchko, a junior, said he sees more involvement this year.

Its exciting to see so much energy and thought and commitment by the students, Elder said. This gives them something to do thats the same as a sports team or with a different extracurricular activity.

Two years ago, the Homestead team named its robot Nike. Last year, the robot was named Exploding Fruit Salad. It was a last minute thing, Alverson said. This years

robot had not been named midway through the rst 6-week build season that began when the rules were announced Jan. 9.

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Last spring, Homestead entered the state compe-tition and advanced to the quarter-nal round, nishing 22nd out of

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The 2016 season offers a Feb. 20 Have Fun Storming the Castle scrimmage at Center Grove High School in Greenwood. Teams can test new robots and drivers and review game strate-gies. Qualifying rounds will be held at Indianapolis and West Lafayette. The winner of the state cham-pionship in Kokomo will represent Indiana at the World Championship in St. Louis, Mo., April 27.

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Elston, of the Huntington County team, is an engineer for Yamaha Robotics technology company. He said real world engineers make themselves available to mentor youths. They

really get to apply the things that they learn in school in the robotics program, and get a more precise skill, a technical approach, by being able to pick the brain of an engineer, he said. So we have kids who are involved in electrical engineering, or software engineering, or mechanical engineering, and we have mentors on the team who come from those backgrounds. I wish when I was a kid I could have talked with an elec-trical engineer and had been able to pick his brain at an early point in life.

We dont have a teacher. We actually partner with the technology companies and the compa-nies provide engineers. All volunteer their time, and we use that robot as a vehicle to teach the kids, Elder said. Its a really good networking tool for the kids. We know those kids. We know their work ethics.

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Roanokes Cottage Event Center will present The Brat Pack on Friday, Feb. 19. Tickets are $10. The doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.

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Each week, Roanoke Elementary School designates a life skill to pursue through its Our Strongest Link effort. A recent focus was Friendship. The following students were chosen by their teachers as exhibiting the life skill of Friendship: (front, from left) Josie Fritcha, Josiah Rake, Aiden Wohlford, Belle Ottinger, (middle row, from left) Samantha Walter, Alexys Blank, Norman Wilkinson, Max Leon, Emily Fritz, Chloe Emley, (back row, from left) Lane McClure, Sydnee Wilson, Grace Michel, Trey Myrice, Elise Neher, Jeff Gross, Lucy Fritz, Blake Hoover (and, not pictured) Aydia Utterback.

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Church has 2-day eventSaint Peters First

Community Church in Huntington will offer A Taste of Sacred Rhythms Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transforma-tion. The event is open to everyone. It will be held 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6.

The church is at 206 Etna Ave., Huntington.

The cost is $20 and includes a book for the rst 100 registrants. Registra-tion begins at 5:30 Friday, with tickets available at the door. For more infor-mation, go to spfcc.org/SacredRhythms.

The French Revolution would not be complete without arguments, debates or opposing dele-gate factions, and neither would be Huntington Universitys You Say You Want a Revolution?: Role Playing the French Revo-lution class.

The class is taught by Dwight Brautigam, professor of history. It consists of a role playing game from the Reacting To The Past curriculum. In RTTP classes, the students take control of the class activities and the instructor adopts the role of observer, clari-fying rules and refereeing as necessary as students learn and dig into primary sources.

I discovered this curriculum/methodologyduring my fall 2014 sabbatical, and after receiving a Bright Star grant from HU last spring, I was able to attend a training institute last June at Barnard College (part of Columbia University) in New York City where I learned more about the Reacting To The Past curriculum, Brautigam said. I also used some RTTP games in my fall classes.

In Brautigams class, students are members or observers of the French National Assembly in 1791, two years into the French Revolution. Working in delegate factions, as undecided delegates or as rambunc-tious Parisians observing the proceedings, students try to shape Revolutionary

Frances government through speeches, debates, newspapers and public demonstrations that may turn violent (not with real violence, of course).

Brautigam has noticed that students end up learning much more from role playing the material than from sitting through a traditional class lecture. He said he has seen higher student engagement.

The French Revolution has so many complex parts that would have been hard to learn through a traditional class structure, said Bradey Wright, a junior history and pre-law major from Fort Wayne, who is participating in the class. By role playing and becoming completely immersed in the game, I am learning so much more than I could have ever hoped to know about the French Revolution. I hope to take away the skills that the game has helped me learn like negotiating, debating and the work that is needed to get legislation through on a government

level. The class is a lot more fun than sitting through lectures on the topic would be.

I want students to understand how chaotic revolutions are, and how peoples choices at the time of the French Revolution profoundly inuenced how that revolution turned out, Brautigam said. Theyre learning that the course of history is not inevitable.


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Retreat contemplates Stations of the CrossThe Stations of the

Cross will be the focal point of a Lenten retreat at Victory Noll Center, 1900 W. Park Drive, Huntington. The program will be 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20.

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Two USF discussions examine Syrian refugee crisis

The University of Saint Francis is hosting two events that will examine the issues surrounding the plight of Syrian refugees. Each event will be free and open to the community at the USF North Campus, 2702 Spring St., Fort Wayne.

The Syrian Refugee Crisis Facts vs. Fiction will be presented from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11. Attendees will learn about the current crisis and its historical context amid

the ood of information and misinformation in the media, the university said in a statement. Hear the accounts of three Fort Wayne men Sam Jarjour, Amar Masri and Caleb Jehl along with their friend Troy E. Spier, an activist and Ph.D. student whom they met on the ground in Eastern Europe while working with Syrian refugees. Attendees will hear personal stories of Syrian families and those trying to help them

in their perilous escape from a war-torn homeland to places of safety in the West.

Ed and Paula Kassig, parents of American aid worker Peter Kassig, who was taken hostage and was slain by ISIS in November 2014, will also be present to discuss how they have continued their sons work in serving Syrian refugees.

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Young adventurers can don their explorer vests and pith helmets to explore mysteries hidden underground through April 10 at the Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. Children may test their digging-and-nding skills with different tools and media. Regular Conservatory admission fees apply: $5 for adults, $3 for ages 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free.

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moff plays the role of Rosencrantz, who feels little surprise about the weirdness that is going on and goes with the ow. Junior Evan Stoddard plays Guildenstern, who is more worried by the oddity of the lack of free will in their lives.

Lazier said both Canter-bury actors are up to the challenge of playing characters who realize that they are characters.

One of the reasons I decided to do his play, is its a pretty difcult play, Lazier said. Im not sure other high schools could do it. We have a very strong Shake-speare program here. It starts off in the middle school and [Fine Arts Department Chairwoman Ranae Butler] does a whole theater class. And then its taken up in our

English class. So I knew we had people who were very comfortable with Shakespeare. Rebecca, in particular, is in charge of the student Shakespeare production at the end of the year, so she just loves it. So she can handle it. Evan similarly knows his Shakespeare. You kind of have to know that to be the player thats looking at the play. So they were both very excited about it.

Canterbury released the following description of other characters and production members: Junior Hyehyun Hwang is the Player the lead of a traveling troupe of actors. The Player knows more about what is going on than she is letting on. Junior Bo Geyer plays Alfred, a minion to the Player and hilariously unhappy as his role as an actor. Senior Nicole Baumgartner plays both Queen Gertrude and the Poisoner in the troupe

of actors. Sophomores Kiah Myers and Brianna Joyce round out the troupe of actors with their improvisation abilities. Twenty more students are cast in various roles. Students also have taken on responsibilities of student directing and stage directing, being in charge of lights and sound, and helping backstage.

Sophomore Emmett Greider is in his fourth Canterbury production. His Hamlet goes from title character in the Shakespeare play to a less prominent character in this production. Its exciting. Its different. Its a chance to go crazy with it and go out of your comfort zone. So I like it, he said. Its very witty and funny and

quick. We have really good actors, so I really enjoy myself.

Lazier is a social studies teacher at Canterbury Middle School and High School and is active in Fort Wayne community theater. She is in her second year at Canterbury, where she has assisted with three other produc-tions.

She said she had a very good director when she attended Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Ill., in Chicagos west suburbs. Lazier was a music production major for two years at Illinois Wesleyan University. I took a philosophy class and then fell in love with that, and I got my Ph.D. in philosophy, she said. After she arrived in Fort Wayne she became involved in Civic Theatre. She taught four years at IPFW. Then came the opportunity to teach philosophy at Canterbury.

One of the reasons why I really like it is because it embraces the arts, she said. Our students can come in and play the

piano, our artworks up everywhere. They value our theater productions. I love that they offer philos-ophy. And my colleagues are smart, creative, funny, just a nice group of people to be with every day.

She is pleased with the progress of the latest production. From even the run-throughs that theyve had, the students are doing an in incredible job and Im so proud of them, she said. Wed love to get a good audi-ence out here for them because theyre working so hard.

Rosencrantz and Guil-denstern are on stage the entire time, and so asking a high school student to do that is asking a lot. But they are already doing really well with it. But its fun. Even though its got death in the title its a comedy and its a fun show.

(Karen Belcher contributed material for this arti-cle. Belcher is director of digital communication for Canterbury School.)

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Hagedorn is back for his second year as an emcee. He shares that role with senior Hannah Dickey. The two have chosen two juniors to share the stage this year. Audrey Pick and Liam Schoff will return to the stage their senior year, and select their junior successors.

About 42 acts tried out for the show last year. Homestead students will try out on Feb. 10 and 11 for the 2016 show. The emcees have been brain-storming their scripts. That job takes on extra urgency after the try-outs, as the emcees tailor the their script to the program.

The variety show is the climax of Just Because Week. I think its really to just build the school spirit and it incorporates the entire student body into one event to have some fun and let off some steam at the end of the third quarter, Hagedorn said. Its really just to have fun and show the talent of your fellow students as well as put on a little friendly competi-tion.

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The Jesters of the University of Saint Francis will present Believe You Me as their annual spring performance.

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The show choir season represents a commitment by Homesteads student performers and their parents.

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welcome at least nine mixed choirs, four unisex choirs, and eight middle school choirs for a day of dance and song. Partici-pating schools are from Indiana and Ohio.

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include Carroll, Northrop, Bluffton, Churubusco, Columbia City and Woodlan. The Fort Wayne areas Catholic Middle Schools show choir also is signed up to perform.

Homesteads own Anonymous Blue backup band will support both Elite and Class Royale.

For a full list, follow showchoir.com.

The cafeteria will be open throughout the day.

Homestead show choir parent Missie Madsen, right, signs a booster banner for the Class Royale show choir. Sounya Harvey, left, is a senior and friend of Madsens daughter Kiersten. The banners are hung in the choir room, to wish the students well every day.

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Animal care chief retires; says city works togetherBy Garth [email protected]

Belinda Lewis sheltered thousands of animals during her 28 years with Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control.

She cleaned out her ofce and headed to her home and pet on Jan. 29. We have one dog, she said. After all those years

you get over the emotional need to adopt many animals.

She said she will stay in touch with her long-time colleagues, and with animals. I will continue fostering kittens and puppies, helping them get to the size and age where they can be adopted, she said.

Lewis will leave the actual adopting to her successors. Im leaving it in good hands, she said. They will continue doing a good job for the commu-nity.

That community, Lewis said, is a major reason that Fort Wayne was the fourth and ultimate stop of her career. There were other

offers. But Fort Wayne works together, she said. When we need help from another agency, no one ever says Thats not my job or Thats not my area of responsibility. Its more like Im not sure how we will handle that, but we will work it out.

Lewis began working with animals in college in

the south Chicago suburbs, near Hinsdale and Darrien. It was too crowded there, she said. She scat-tered resumes over the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, where her family owned property. She was not recruited as a veterinarian assistant, but a veterinarian who sat on the board of a nonprot private

animal shelter spotted her resume. She was invited to move to Alpena, Mich., to start up an animal shelter. There, she learned more of the bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable and other duties associated with any ofce.

She built on the commu-nication skills that she

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A weekend rehearsal pools the talents of the Jesters of the University of Saint Francis, as they prepare to present Believe You Me.

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Breakfast items will be available starting at 7:30 a.m. For a full menu and other information, visit homesteadshowchoirs.com.

The show choir class involves students about 45 minutes each day. The groups practice from 3-5 p.m. two days a week until winter break, and then from 3-6 p.m. two days a week. Then there are 3-9 p.m. rehearsals and all-day Saturday rehearsals.

So its 18 hours plus their school days, said parent Missie Madsen. Her daughter Kiersten is a senior. They love it. Its a thrill, Madsen said. Its exciting and they learn to work together, because you have to sync. They need discipline. They become a family and they respect each other.

Parents work on costumes and sell refresh-ments. Youre driving your kids to practices and home, and if youre dropping them off at the 4 a.m. call time and picking them up at 2 the

next day, its a big day, Madsen said. We support our kids. A lot of parents go to every single perfor-mance, and we travel and there are a lot of moms who work behind the scenes.

The dads group, known as the Wing Nuts, prepares the stage for every show. They put up and take down sets sometimes twice a day, Madsen said.

The students value audience support. I think its very important, Madsen said. Were hooting and hollering.

Its fun to be there. It gives the kids some extra energy. They feel the excitement of the audi-ence.

Madsen has been supporting her daughter in show choir since Kiersten was in seventh grade. As she signed the Class Royale show choirs booster banner the night of the parents potluck dinner, Madsen was conscious of the fact that the familys show choir years are about to close. Its going to be quite a moment. Its going to be very sad, she said.

Even the parents become a family because we see each other all the time, and well be losing a little family.

Kiersten is in Class Royale for the second year. She previously competed in the Elite choir and before that at Woodside Middle School.

She said she enjoys both the singing and dancing aspects. I grew stronger vocally this year, she said. And choreographically its really great, just the entire experience of show

choir.Curtis Shaw directs the

Homestead show choirs.Visit showchoir.com

for details of these other northeast Indiana show choir events: Northrop Classique, Feb. 5, 6; DeKalb Show Choir Invitational, Feb. 20; Churubusco Show Choir Invitational, Feb. 27; Huntington North Midwest Showcase, Feb. 26, 27; East Noble Knight Edition, March 5; and Bishop Luers Midwest Show Choir Invitational, March 11, 12.

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The Homestead Elite womens choir will perform at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Northrop Classique show choir festival.

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Workshopsteach basicsof checkingThe Purdue Coopera-

tive Extension Service in Allen County continues to host the Get Checking workshop for the Bank On Fort Wayne initiative.

This workshop is for clients and families who have never had checking or savings accounts at a bank or credit union, who have mismanaged accounts at banks and credits unions so those accounts are now closed without committing fraud, or have accounts, but continue to still use predatory lenders.

Workshop dates in 2016 include: Feb. 9, 1-5 p.m.; March 9, 5-9 p.m.; April 13, 1-5 p.m.; May 26, 5-9 p.m., and June 21, 1-5 p.m. Workshop topics include an intro-duction to the program plus Choosing an Account Right for You; Managing Your Account; Keys to Successful Money Management, and Credit. All workshops will be held at the Allen County Extension Ofce and are free and open to the public. Advance registration by phone or mail is preferred. At the completion of the workshop, each partic-ipant will receive a certicate that will allow that person to open an account at a participating bank or credit union.

For further infor-mation, to register or to receive a regis-tration form, contact Vickie Hadley at the Allen County Exten-sion Service, at (260) 481-6826 or by email at [email protected], visit the Home & Money page on the website at extension.purdue.edu/allen or visit the ofce at 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne, on the IPFW campus.

Amy-Jo Sites has been appointed director of Fort Wayne Animal & Care Control. Sites replaces Belinda Lewis, who retired. Sites began her new duties Feb. 1.

Sites has been with Animal Care & Control since 2004. Her duties have included deputy director from 2011 to today and

ofce super-visor from 2004 to 2011. Sites has expe-rience in community relations, crisis and

emergency communica-tions, nance, employee and operations manage-

ment, and customer service.Were looking forward

to having Amy-Jo as the new leader at Animal Care & Control, said Rusty York, public safety director for the City of Fort Wayne. Amy-Jos professionalism, dedication, leadership, and passion for people and animals make her a great t for this position.

We appreciate and value her expertise and ability to make a meaningful differ-ence as we work each day to provide excellent care to animals in need and help educate residents about the importance of animal care and safety.

Im honored to have been chosen for this lead-ership position, said Sites. Our team is passionate about caring for animals

and ensuring our commu-nity is as safe as possible. This is a great opportunity to continue to build on our outreach efforts, policies, and programming we have in place aimed at having a positive impact on animals and their caregivers.

While employed at Animal Care & Control, Sites served as a criminal justice adjunct instructor at Harrison College and

ITT Technical Institute. Prior to joining Animal Care & Control, she was a cognitive intervention coor-dinator for Allen County Community Corrections. Sites has a bachelors degree in criminal justice from IPFW and masters degree in public affairs from IPFW. During her free time, she volunteers as a co-leader for Girl Scout Troop 20623.

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had gleaned from her father, an industrial elec-trical supplier. Learning to work together and nd solutions was in my history, she said.

It was the right job at the right time. I was very young and I had a lot to learn and I didnt realize it, she said.

She also found the specialty that she would follow throughout her career.

An opportunity that I had up there was to be mentored under a pros-ecutor, and to become involved in animal cruelty investigations and the prosecution of them, she said. And I knew then that what I really wanted to do was move more over to the government side of animal care.

Her three-year growth experience in Michigan led to an opportunity in Evans-ville. After a short time, she took the job in Fort Wayne. It would be almost three decades before she would leave that job.

I love this community, she said.

Whenever we have an animal stranded in a tree and we believe it can be rescued, the Fire Depart-ment is always there, she said.

In the spring, duck rescues are almost a given. Ducks will wander all over town and sometimes the ducklings will fall through

a sewer grate. The Street Department never says theyre too busy. Other places, there might be a delay and the ducklings might be washed down-stream and they might lose their opportunity to unite the family. But not here.

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry presented Lewis with a Key to the Fort, a hand-forged replica of the iron key that was at the citys namesake fort in the days of Anthony Wayne, circa 1790.

Belinda is very deserving of this presti-gious honor, the mayor said. We appreciate and value Belindas years of service and dedication to improving the lives of animals and educating

the community about the importance of caring for animals. Shes a true professional and we wish her a great retirement.

Lewis is succeeded by Amy-Jo Sites, who had been the agencys deputy director since 2011.

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Belinda Lewis accepts a Key to the Fort from Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry.

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Skating party assists burn centers aid to families

A roller skating party will raise money for the Regional Burn Center at Saint Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne.

The New Haven Lions Club has signed on as the gold sponsor of the fund-raiser, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at Bells Roller Skating Rink, 7009 Indiana 930, in New Haven. Admission is $5 per person.

The Lions Club is seeking donations for a silent auction to be held during the skating party. Donors should contact James Rorick, club presi-dent, at (260) 417-1730 to arrange for silent auction items to be picked up. Donations can also be mailed to: New Haven Lions Club, c/o Lions James Rorick, 5717 Green Road, New Haven, IN 46774.

Rorick said the burn center and supporting burn council are not widely known except to those whose families have used

the services. The burn council was created in 2001 as a charity to help families with loved ones in the burn center.

The burn council provides hospitality suites to families being cared for at the downtown Fort Wayne burn center. The suites offer a place for families to rest, reect and regroup while a loved one is in the burn center. Fami-lies can sleep, eat, shower and wash clothes only a few steps away from the patients rooms.

The rooms are proving to be a great comfort for families during a time that often involves a great amount of stress, especially for families that may live hundreds of miles away and would have to sleep in the lobby or pay for a hotel room, the burn council said in a statement. We have hosted guests from locales ranging from South Bend to New York City.

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opened in 2010.The council also offers

burn survivor assistance, to help survivors and their families of limited nan-cial means. The assistance includes: gas cards for family members traveling from out of town and for burn survivors to return for follow-up treatment; food vouchers for families at Saint Joseph Hospital; custom bandages, dressings and other items for healing at home that insurance does not cover; and many other customized needs such as bus tickets and gift cards for a change of clothes.

The Lions have set a $3,000 goal for the Feb. 13 fundraiser.

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Whos a Hoosier? images wantedThe Genealogy Center

in Fort Wayne will collect Whos a Hoosier? images through Dec. 11 in honor of Indianas 200 years of statehood.

We are interested in old and new images of daily life and the people

of Indiana that showcase Hoosier life, the Gene-alogy Center said in a statement. These can include children at play, people at work, people hanging out, sporting events, homes and build-ings, and so much more.

Contributors are asked to submit photos and descriptions of the images, too. Upload photos at GenealogyCenter.info/WhosAHoosier/ or at facebook.com/Gene-alogyCenter or email [email protected].

FRIDAY, FEB. 5Fish fry. American Legion Post 160, 1122 N. Main St., Roanoke. Serving begins at 5 p.m. $9. Sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary.

SATURDAY, FEB. 6Three Rivers Honor Band Concert. IPFW College of Visual and Performing Arts, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. In the Auer Performance Hall of the Rhinehart Music Center. 1:30 p.m. Admission is free for ev-eryone. Honor band participants from high schools throughout northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio will perform together on the IPFW campus to conclude a weekend of concentrated musical training. This year the students will be conducted by Robert M. Carnochan, who currently serves as director of wind ensemble activities, music director/conductor of the Frost Wind Ensemble and professor of conducting in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and by Shelley Schwaderer Roland, a graduate of Eastern Michigan University where she teaches and conducts in the Clarkston Community School District. Daniel Tem-bras is the event coordinator. For more information, visit ipfw.edu/music or call (260) 481-6714.

SUNDAY, FEB. 7Chinese New Year celebration. Walb Student Union, IPFW Campus, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. 4-8 p.m. $15. Visit The Fort Wayne Chi-nese Friends and Families Association will host a spring festival party. Mayor Tom Henry will deliver the welcome speech. To register, visit purdue.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6yEWKw3kXmbgqEd.Souper Bowl of Caring. Trinity English Lutheran Church, 450 W. Washing-ton Blvd., Fort Wayne. This soup and salad luncheon will begin imme-diately after the 11 a.m. service. There is no cost, although a free-will offering will be received for ELCA World Hunger. The church also will collect canned goods for Wellspring Interfaith Social Services. Last year, more than 6,600 youth groups from across the country participated in Souper Bowl of Caring, raising more than $8 million to feed hungry people in the United States and around the world.

MONDAY, FEB. 8Candy making program. Allen County Extension Ofce, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. Learn to make various chocolate candies, just in time for Valentines Day. Creations will include homemade peanut butter cups, chocolate covered cherries, lled caramels, barks and other confec-tions. Bring two containers to transport candy. Cost: $5. Class limited to 25 people.Kindergarten roundup. Concordia Lutheran Elementary School, 4245 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. Kindergarten information and registration for the 2016-2017 school year will be available at this meeting. For more information, call the enrollment director, Lori Stout, at (260) 426-9922, ext. 208.LEGO Club. Aboite Branch Library, 5630 Coventry Lane, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Buckets of LEGO bricks await at the Aboite Branch LEGO Club. Build a creation to be shown in the LEGO City display window for a month.

TUESDAY, FEB. 9Looking at the human side of business. The University of Saint Francis North Campus, 2702 Spring St., Fort Wayne. Opening blessing and brea

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