Friday, September 11, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
IU Health Officials Schedule Next Hospital Mock-Up
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Members of the public will have a chance to walk through a life-size mockup of the next phase of the new IU Health Starke Hospital next week. The scale model has been dubbed “cardboard city.” Construction workers last month built the first phase at the former Freeman Products Building at the corner of 300 East and Culver Road in Knox.
The second phase will be ready for public tours on Tuesday, Sept. 15 from 4 until 6 p.m. and Friday, Sept. 18 from 9 until 11 a.m. It will feature pharmacy, administration, registration, medical/surgical units and therapy services.
IU Health officials say the model helps stakeholders fully understand the space so they can create a hospital that will best meet the needs of patients, caregivers and the entire community. Suggestions offered during last month’s tour of the first phase have been incorporated into the project design. “Cardboard city” is being constructed in two phases due to limited warehouse space.
The new building will be constructed between the existing hospital and the medical office buildings. Once it is done, plans call for the demolition of the current hospital building in order to accommodate parking.
North Judson Clerk-Treasurer Announces Switch In Credit Card Processor
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People doing business with the town of North Judson will soon be able to pay online with a credit card.
The Town Council voted to change its credit card processor to PayGOV.US at its meeting Tuesday. Clerk-Treasurer Donna Henry says the main reason for the change was the current processor was having a mandatory update, requiring the town to buy or lease new equipment. Instead, the council decided to switch to a new processor.
As an added feature for the town’s customers, PayGOV.US lets users make credit card payments on the company’s website or 800 number, while the current system requires credit card users to pay in person.
They hope to complete the switch within the next month.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Starke County Election Board Finalizes Ballots
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The ballots are set for the Nov. 3 General Elections in Starke County. Voters in the towns of North Judson and Hamlet will elect clerk-treasurers. In North Judson, Republican incumbent Donna Henry has drawn a challenge from Democrat Alicia (Amidei) Collins. North Judson voters will also choose between incumbent Republican Wendy Hoppe and Democrat Joan Haugh for the Ward 2 town council seat. Democrat Ward 1 incumbent Jane Ellen Felchuk and Republican Ward 3 candidate Nathan Bradley are both unopposed.
Democrat Hamlet Clerk-Treasurer Kristina Pitts drew a challenge from Republican Betty Barnett. Incumbent Republican Councilman Dave Kesvormas, Sr. will face Demcorat Dean Goble in the November contest. Ward 1 Democratic incumbent Brian J. Earnest is unopposed, as is Democrat Connie J. Bailey. She’s seeking the Ward 3 seat and beat incumbent Frank Lonigro, Sr. last month’s town caucus.
Knox voters will decide the outcome of one contested race. Republican Anthony (Tony) Radkiewicz, Sr. and Democrat Tim Manns are vying for the seat currently held by Greg Matt. He lost to Manns in the May primary. Other names on the Knox ballot include Democrat Dennis Estok for mayor. He’s unopposed in the general election after defeating incumbent Rick Chambers in May. Incumbent Councilmen Ron Parker, Don Kring and Jeff Berg are also unopposed, as is Knox Clerk-Treasurer Jeff Houston. Democrat Bertha Blue is the only candidate for the Knox council-at-large seat, and Republican City Court Judge Charles Hasnerl is also unopposed.
Voters who live within the North Judson-San Pierre School District will also decide whether property taxes should be raised in order to fund the school’s general fund operating budget. The district includes Wayne, Railroad and Jackson Townships and California Township Precinct 2 in Starke County as well as Rich Grove and Cass Townships in Pulaski County.
Click Starke County General Election 2015 Ballots to see a copy of the ballots.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Be Sure You Can Vote This Year
You have until October 5th to register to vote in the coming election. Not sure you're registered? You can check online at the site below.
(Thank you to JG for the timely reminder.)
Verne Trinoskey - Starke County Tidbit #63
Starke County No. 63 --- Verne Trinoskey
Another Greek Tragedy – this one in January 1944-----
The B-17 was known as the flying fortress. It had thirteen 50-caliber machine guns on board. Enemy fighters could hardly get close to it. Verne was the tail gunner on his plane.
Nazi Germany had been taking over Europe. The United States military had driven them out of North Africa, and by January of 1944, had taken over Italy. The U.S., during a very cold winter, now had airfields on the island of Sicily. On January 11, 1944, squadrons of B-17s departed Sicily to bomb the ports of Greece in the fight against Germany.
With dozens of bombers flying through the cold, icy clouds, windows in the planes froze over, making it hard to see. As the first squadrons unloaded their bombs on the targets, they turned back to Italy. Instead of turning and returning in a different elevation, they turned into the path of the oncoming squadrons. Plane after plane destroyed one another. Fifty three airmen lost their lives.
Verne Trinos
key’s plane was sliced in two by one of the other bombers. A plane without a tail cannot fly. Likewise, a tail without a plane cannot fly. , Already injured from the crash, Verne found himself falling fast, still in his tail section. Somehow he worked himself free from the wreckage and pulled the ripcord on his parachute. He landed in the snow on the foot hills of a mountain range and was saved and hidden from the Nazis by the local Greek patriots. In April, 1944, three months later, he and two of his fellow airmen made it back to Sicily. He had been “missing in action” since January 11, 1944. He had completed 45 combat air missions for his country.
The North
Judson News report of Verne, May 4, 1944 says – Missing in Action, Local Boy arrives Home Safely
“ ‘Back home again,’ the dearest words I’ve heard in a long time,” says S/Sgt. Verne Trinoskey, as he arrived in North Judson, Tuesday noon.
Jim ShillingStarke County Historical Society
INDOT Announces State Road 39 Closure
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A stretch of State Road 39 in LaPorte County will be closed through mid-November. Crews will resurface the highway between U.S. 30 and U.S. 6 south of LaPorte and replace guardrails. Residents and emergency responders will have access to the highway throughout the project’s duration.
State road detours must be along state-maintained roadways. INDOT’s marked detour will use U.S. 30, U.S. 421 and U.S. 6 to get around the closure.
Friday, September 4, 2015
9/24/2015 Lighthouse Autism Center to Hold Open House
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Families of children with autism now have a closer option for getting therapy. Last month, Lighthouse Autism Center opened a new location in Plymouth, and on September 24, it will have an open house from 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Co-founder Sandy Maggioli says the Plymouth location was needed, “Several of our families were driving from the Plymouth area to our Warsaw or our Mishawaka location and asked us if we would look into opening a center. And what we ended up doing, we went and met with a lot of local people, advocates, families, doctors, and held a community outreach meeting and found that Plymouth was definitely in need of our services, and that was how we ended up there.”
She says they’re starting with six kids who had been going to their other locations, “Then once we get the six, we have a wait list of about nine to 10 other children that are wanting to enroll in Plymouth, and so slowly, throughout the balance of 2015 and then into 2016, we plan on bringing in another six to nine children. Plymouth could hold, in total, about 18 children.”
Lighthouse Autism Center specializes in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, which can be described as a scientific way of teaching children how to learn. Kids with autism typically have trouble mimicking what other people are doing, and Maggioli says that can make learning hard, “Our therapy takes something that they’re trying to learn and breaks it down into very small pieces and teaches it slowly. For example, if you’re trying to teach somebody how to tie their shoe, we would start with just folding the shoelace and then we would show them how to tie it around and then pull the bow, and we would break it down into very small steps to teach them how to do it.”
For more information, visit www.lighthouseautismcenter.com or call 574-387-4313.
Knox Harvest Festival Pageant Entry Deadline Approaching
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There’s still time for Starke County youngsters to enter the Harvest Festival Pageant. The competition will take place Saturday, Sept. 12th at 3 p.m. at the Nancy J. Dembowski Community Center in Knox. The Little Miss and Mister Pageant is open to boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 5, and girls between the ages of 16 and 18 are eligible for the Miss Harvest Festival competition.
Registration forms can be picked up at the Knox Moose Family Center after 3 p.m. You can also call 574-772-2098 or stop by the community center on Tuesday, Sept. 8 between 6 and 8 p.m. Contestants who are already registered also need to stop by the community center Tuesday evening at 6 for an informal rehearsal.
The Harvest Festival will take place Sept. 19th and 20th in downtown Knox.
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