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Volume 28, Number 9 Thursday, March 8, 2012

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Michiana Humane Society Springs Forward With Spring Fling Michiana Humane Society Springs Forward With Spring Fling by Laurie Wink

Cinco (L) and Max (R) are among the current residents of the animal shelter that will benefi t from the Spring Fling proceeds.

These two dachshund chairs appear to belong with each other.

The onset of warmer weather triggers thoughts of relaxing outdoors in a favorite chair, a cool drink in one hand and a good book in the other. Or perhaps enjoying a stretch of unstructured time to play fetch with Fido or doze off to the gentle purring of Cleo the cat.

You can make this vision a reality by attending the 14th annual Spring Fling fund-raiser for the Michiana Humane Society and

SPCA on Saturday, March 10, begin-ning at 5 p.m. (Central Time). The theme “Come. Sit. Support!” beckons guests to come to the landmark Lakeside Inn in Lakeside, Mich., to sit in art-fully decorated Adirondack chairs and to support the Mi-

chiana Humane Society by bid-ding on the chairs at a live auction

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Event tickets are $75 and include cocktails and assorted gourmet hors d’oeuvres prepared by re-nowned Chef Tim Sizer, of Timothy’s Restaurant in Union Pier, Mich. Reservations are not required but can be made by calling the shelter at 219-872-4499.

The fundraiser’s focal point will be 20 classic wood Adirondack chairs that have been adorned by more than 20 area artists. Their one-of-a-kind cre-ations may be viewed at the Lakeside Inn, starting March 5 until the live auction on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. (Central Time).

Spring Fling guests will be able to mingle with other animal lovers, try out the adult- and child-sized chairs and plan their bidding strategies. Auc-tioneer Alan Palmer, owner of Charm Cottage in Lakeside, Mich., guarantees a lively experience for bidders and spectators.

The auction will include a unique model carousel that would make a delightful gift for a special young-ster. The illuminated, rotating carousel is adorned with charming exotic animals, such as a lion, tiger, giraffe, ostrich and elephant. It was handcrafted by Shirley Bunton, of Merrillville, and donated to ben-efi t the shelter.

Win or lose, all Spring Fling bidders and attend-ees will contribute much needed support for the nonprofi t animal shelter, according to Lorry Cates, director of marketing for the Michiana Humane So-ciety. The shelter serves both La Porte County in Indiana and Berrien County in Michigan, taking in more than 1,200 homeless, abandoned and abused

Rosie Martin tries out one of three chairs created by Jim Nova.

A handcrafted carousel will be auctioned during Spring Fling.

animals each year. The animals receive medical care as needed and are available for adoption. Be-sides cats and dogs, the shelter currently houses a rabbit, a guinea pig and a chinchilla.

“We’re a nonprofi t animal shelter and totally rely on private donations to function,” Cates said. “We hope lots of generous animal enthusiasts will at-tend Spring Fling to enjoy an entertaining evening and give us their support.”

Contributors to this year’s Spring Fling include: Kabelin Ace Hardware, La Porte, Ind.; Founders Wine Cellar, Baroda, Mich.; and the Four Horsemen Brewing Co., South Bend, Ind.

The chair artists include: Kathleen Peurling, DVM, Animal Wellness Center; Anne Bagby; Bon-nie Benson; Colleen Murray; David Aaker; Jenny Trainor; Dorothy Sheehan; Jessica Miller; Jim Nova; Kim Pruitt; Lawrence Von Ebeler; Liz Thom-as; Michiana Resources; Roger Boike; Sara Crouse; and Tom Hemingway.

The mission of the Michiana Humane Society is to promote the well-being of animals through pre-vention, intervention, education and advocacy. The animal shelter has been helping homeless, neglect-ed and abused animals since 1920. It is located at 722 U.S. Hwy. 212 in Michigan City.

The Lakeside Inn is located off Red Arrow High-way at 15251 Lakeshore Road. It’s a three-story frame structure with some 30 guest rooms built in the 1880s. It’s furnished in a casual style typical of the early 20th century, and features several rustic stone fi replaces.

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Veterinarian Kathleen Puerling decorated what she calls an adult time out chair, with the words sit and stay on the chair’s arms.

Cat lovers will enjoy artist Lawrence Von Ebeler’s special chair.

Timothy’s Restaurant, the Spring Fling caterer, is located in the Gordon Beach Inn in Union Pier. Built in the 1920s, the inn is a State of Michigan registered historical site.

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VU to Host Guitar Ensemble FestivalValparaiso University is proud to host the 20th

annual Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival, taking place March 23-25. Guest artists for this year’s festival are the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) and Shingo Fujii, one of the leading composers and classical guitar-ists in Japan.

The LAGQ will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sat., March 24 in the Chapel of the Resurrection on the Valpara-iso University campus. The public is invited to at-tend and may purchase tickets in advance by phon-ing the box offi ce at 219-464-5162.

In addition to its concert Saturday night, the LAGQ will join the festival orchestra, comprised of 230 student participants, to perform Fujii’s new work, “Shiki: Seasons of Japan,” which was writ-ten in dedication to the victims of the Japan earth-quake and tsunami. Conducted by Fujii, the event will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the tragedy and will serve as a dramatic fi nale to the festival weekend.

More than 230 students representing 20 colleges and universities from six states will be taking part in the three-day festival. Throughout the weekend, students will have the opportunity to participate in various master classes and clinics, such as a tech-nique clinic with Scott Tennant, author of the popu-lar book on guitar technique, “Pumping Nylon,” as well as a member of the LAGQ, and a jazz guitar clinic with Matthew Greif, also a member of the LAGQ.

All festival concerts are open to the public, while master classes, clinics, and the orchestra are open to festival participants only. A full schedule of events is available at www.valpo.edu/guitarfest.

The Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival was established in 1991 in an effort to foster camaraderie and pedagogical exchanges between classical gui-tar teachers and students, to provide performance and learning opportunities for student ensembles, and to contribute to the overall artistic and cultural enrichment of its audiences. The festival has also worked to increase the ensemble repertoire through the commissioning of new works for the festival or-chestra.

The fi rst festival took place at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and has since been held at schools such as Bradley University, Elmhurst College, Il-linois State University, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Northwestern Univer-sity, Roosevelt University, and Webster University.

For more information on the 20th Annual Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival, visit www.val-po.edu/guitarfest or contact Jim Konsbruck at [email protected] or (773) 206-4108.

“Prominent People” ExhibitQUESTION: What do Movie Star Anne Baxter,

Sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and Foot-expert Dr. Scholl all have in common? ANSWER: They all at one time or another resided in La Porte County! The new display at the La Porte County Historical Society Museum focuses on interesting past residents and is entitled “Prominent People of La Porte County.” The exhibit will be running for all of March, April, and May of 2012.

Oakland “A’s” owner Charlie O. Finley who lived in La Porte.

Movie Star Anne Baxter (l), who was born in Michigan City, in a scene with Bette Davis from “All About Eve” from 1950.

Other notable residents included in the display are former Oakland “A’s” owner, Charlie O. Finley, Concert Pianist Hazel Harrison, and Dr. William Mayo. Interesting information and some memora-bilia from the Historical Society’s vast collection of artifacts will be shown. Approximately 18 or so resi-dents are being highlighted including the 40th Gov-ernor of Indiana, Harold Handley and the Founder of NASA, Roy W. Johnson.

On Sat., March 31st, programs will be given throughout the day in the meeting room of the mu-seum. County Historian Fern Eddy Schultz, Muse-um Curator Susie Richter, and others will be giving talks on various Prominent People. The schedule will be posted in a news release and on the Histori-cal Society’s website.

The La Porte County Historical Society Museum is located at 2405 Indiana Ave., La Porte, and is open Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Phone ahead for admission prices at 219-324-6767, or visit the website at www.laportecountyhistory.org. The facil-ity is accessible to those with disabilities.


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PNC Brownbag Series on DiversityPurdue University North Central is presenting a

Brownbag Series with PNC faculty, staff and com-munity members leading programs that center on the topic of “diversity.”

The seminars have varied in style and subject, and all share the intent of presenting topics and issues that can contribute to the development of a tolerant, inclusive campus and community cultural practices. The Brownbag Series is coordinated by Bob Mellin, continuing lecturer of English.

The seminars are presented from noon-1 p.m. in the Library-Student-Faculty Building Room 170A, located just off the PNC cafeteria. They are free and open to the public and guests may bring their lunch. Varying opinions are welcome.

On March 14, the discussion, “Can You Conform to Proper English and Not Sell Out?” will feature fi rst-year composition students in a roundtable dis-cussion concerning problems with Standard Writ-ten English for culturally and/or politically margin-alized students.

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Fernwood Program Based on Dr. SuessThe Lorax Themed Program Teaches Us to “Speak

for the Trees” -- Sat., March 10, 1-3 p.m. MI timeTheodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss,

was born on March 2, 1904. Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated more than 40 children’s books before he passed away in 1991. One of his most controversial books, The Lorax, who “speaks for the trees, for the trees have no tongues,” has been made into a movie that opened in theaters on March 2.

Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Pre-serve will celebrate Seuss’s birthday and his book, The Lorax, with a program for kids of all ages, titled “I Speak for the Trees,” on Sat., March 10. As an option, and in the spirit of the Lorax and his “re-new, reuse, and recycle” lesson, consider stopping by your local thrift store for fun and colorful Dr. Seuss-inspired apparel. There will be a reading of The Lorax followed by a nature walk to learn about Fernwood’s trees and more. Enjoy a “Truffula tree” treat and make seed bombs to take home and dis-tribute. Copies of Seuss’s book will be available in Fernwood’s gift shop.

The “I Speak for the Trees” program is free with paid Fernwood admission (Fernwood members are free). It is open to kids of all ages, with children un-der 5 accompanied by an adult. Register by March 8 to be a part of this fun Lorax Day celebration.

Fernwood is located near Buchanan, Michigan, at 13988 Range Line Road, Niles. Winter hours are Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sun., noon-5 p.m. The Fernwood Café winter hours are Tues.-Sun., noon-3 p.m. Fernwood is closed on Mondays.

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LaPorte Convention & Visitors BureauExciting New Exhibit by artist Paul Jasels-

kisPaul Jeselskis will celebrate 24 years as an art-

ist with a solo show at Visit Michigan City LaPorte Convention & Visitors Bureau. Paul is well known for his ceramics, however, this will be the fi rst time he will combine his pottery with his paintings. The event will take place Fri., March 9th from 5-7 p.m. Enjoy lite bites and wine at the opening reception at 4073 S Franklin Street, Michigan City. The show will run through April 23rd.

Artist BiographyOver the past 24 years, Paul Jeselskis has devel-

oped a line of functional and decorative porcelain pottery. His work has won numerous awards and is widely recognized across the United States. He shows at art fairs throughout the United States and is represented in over 20 stores and galleries.

Paul fi rst forms his work on a potter’s wheel and then carves and ma-nipulates the surfaces. He uses a high fi re porcelain clay body that he has developed, along with a va-riety of bright colorful glazes that are easy on the eye and du-rable. Paul fi res his work in one of several kilns

that he has built. These include gas and electric.Unwilling to be confi ned to one medium, Paul is

also involved in furniture design, painting, photog-raphy, and sculpture. He fi nds it important to keep his work fresh, and each medium stimulates the others.

Paul earned an MFA in Ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1987 with a minor in painting. After completing a residency at Mill-ersville University of Pennsylvania in 1988, Paul moved back to the Chicago area in 1989 to set up a studio in Michigan City.

Paul has taught at the Indiana University North-west and has offered workshops in kiln building, glaze chemistry, throwing techniques, and sculptur-al techniques. He draws upon his extensive knowl-edge of ceramic history and glaze chemistry for the creation of his classic and artistic pottery forms.


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Dunes Artist Neil Kienitz at the VillageNeil J. Kienitz will be featured at The Village

Gallery at Pines Village Retirement Communities [PVRC] March 4 through April 12.

An award-winning artist, Kienitz is well known for his paintings and posters, as well as illustra-tions for children’s books. A Michigan City resident, Kienitz also created several of the popular “South Shore” series posters.

The Village Gallery at PVRC opened in 2009 and has showcased many artists from around the region and U.S. Located at 3303 Pines Village Circle (off Calumet Avenue just north of Cumberland Cross-ing) in Valparaiso, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. There is no admission charge.

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Beef & Turkey Dinner at St. John UCCSt. John United Church of Christ will have its

very popular Annual Beef and Turkey Dinner on Sat., March 10, 5-7 p.m. MI time. Dinner includes a choice of roast turkey or beef, mashed potatoes, stuffi ng, gravy, vegetable and homemade desserts. Beverage is included.

The meal is $7 for adults, $3 for children, and chil-dren under 5 years old are free. Tickets for the din-ner are available at the door or from church mem-bers. Takeout meals are available upon request.

The dinner is in Frohne Hall, at the corner of Buffalo St. and Barker St., next to City Hall, New Buffalo. For more information, phone the church: 269-469-3660.

Package Ticket DealThe Southwestern Michigan Home, Garden and

Leisure Show and the Southwest Michigan Sym-phony Orchestra have been sharing the same March weekend at the Mendel Center for a few years now. This year, for the fi rst time, they are collaborating to offer their respective patrons an opportunity to experience both shows at a discount.

A Two-Show Ticket Package provides the pur-chaser the chance to see “Celtic Celebration” - Sat., March 17 on the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center Mainstage and entrance to the 32nd Annual Southwestern Michigan Home, Garden & Leisure Show any day of the show March 16th-18th in the Grand Upton Hall and other adjacent areas of the LMC Mendel Center. A complimentary glass of wine or beer will also be available to Two-Show Ticket holders on the Saturday of the show only.

“Celtic Celebration” features the SMSO with guest artist Deborah Henson-Conant on electric harp and the Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra. The evening includes a Pre-Concert Conversation an hour before the performance with conductor Robin Fountain and other guest artists and a Post-Concert Reception with the evening’s musicians mingling with audience members. It promises to be a lively and unique evening of Celtic music in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

The Home and Garden Show features nearly 100 exhibitors and special guests, free workshops on a variety of topics form buying real estate to land-scaping, prize drawings, give-a-ways and special discounts for products and services in many aspects of home, garden and leisure. Nationally known an-tiques and art appraiser Dr. Lori, star appraiser of The Discovery Channel’s hit reality TV show “Auc-tion Kings,” will be at the show for four special pre-sentations on Saturday and Sunday.

The Two-Show Ticket Package prices range from $15-$30 depending on seat location.

Tickets are now available through the SMSO of-fi ce. Phone 269-982-4030 for more details or to or-der your tickets.

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‘Tis the season for preparing the Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve’s newly constructed bluebird nest boxes for their 2012 inhabitants. Come learn interesting facts about our na-tive Eastern Bluebirds and dis-

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The naturalist and Eagle Boy Scout working on this project will meet visitors at the Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve Outdoor Pavilion. This event is free of charge and all ages of visitors are welcome to attend. Please come prepared for a hike and for the weather.

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Corned Beef Dinner at St. LukeSat., March 10, 4-6 p.m.St. Luke United Lutheran Church, 2000 E. Cool-

spring Ave., Michigan City, will be having a Corned Beef Dinner. The menu consists of corned beef, cab-bage, carrots, potatoes, kidney bean salad, bread & butter, and beverages. Dessserts will be available for $1 extra. Tickets at the door are $10; children under 11 years can share their parent’s plate. For further information, phone 879-9415.

Great DecisionsMondays, March 12 & 26 -- 6:30 p.m.This is a foreign policy discussion group that

meets at the Michigan City Public Library. Top-ics for this month are “Middle East Realignment” and “Promoting Democracy.” For more information, phone 873-3049.

MC Art League ClassesThe Michigan City Art League began the 2012

Spring Work Session on Tuesday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m. at their studio, 321 W. 11th St., in Michigan City. (This is the former St. Mary’s Elementary School)

For 12 weeks, from March 6th through May 22nd, MCAL will hold classes on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 9 p.m., while showcasing different instruc-tors and their diverse styles and mediums.

Setting the pace for the season is Scott Schwaller of La Porte. His easy style and bright acrylics on canvas are well know throughout the area. He will teach through March 18 and suggests that you bring with you -- your paints, brushes and a 11 by 14 can-vas, as he will guide you in painting a cat. Those who have studied with Schawaller know that these hours are fi lled with fun and lots of laughs.

Membership for MCAL is $25.00 a year and the fee for the 12 weeks is $30. If you have any ques-tions you can phone 219.561.1284. Also check out the website at: http://themichigancityartleague.org

Mother Daughter Book ClubLa Porte County Public Library’s Mother Daugh-

ter Book Club will discuss The Indian in the Cup-board by Lynn Reid Banks at 6:30 p.m., at the li-brary, 904 Indiana Ave., LaPorte, Mon., March 19.

The book is about a boy who fi nds a toy Indian that comes to life. It has been made into a movie. This group is open to girls in grades 4-6 and their mother/grandmother/aunt. Check out a copy of the book at the desk in the Children’s Department. There is no admittance charge. Phone 219-362-7128 for more information; or 219-362-6156 to re-quest signing for the hearing impaired 48 hours in advance.

The Women of RagtimeSun., March 11, 2 p.m.Pianist/composer Deborrah Wyndham returns to

the Michigan City Public Library for a performance to celebrate National Women’s History Month.

Deborrah plays rags written by women of the early 20th century when ragtime was gaining its popularity. She discusses the lives of these women and how their works were unknown until recent de-cades and sheds light on this subject through music and history. The program is free and open to the public.

American Girl Doll Tea at BarkerMichigan City’s Barker Mansion will host its an-

nual American Girl Doll Tea Sat., April 14 at 2 p.m. Barker Mansion was the childhood home of Cath-erine Barker, a Michigan City heiress.

This year’s featured doll is Kit who is growing up during the dark days of the depression. Kit is a resourceful girl and always sees the bright side of life with family and friends. Girls are invited to bring their American doll or their favorite doll to this event.

The afternoon’s program begins with a brief tea party etiquette lesson, followed by typical 1930 re-freshments of sponge cake, ginger snaps, thumb print cookies, scones, strawberry jam, hot tea and lemonade served in Barker Mansion’s elegant Drawing Room. There will be chairs at the tables for each girl’s doll. A fun craft, favors and viewing of the movie “Kit” complete the afternoon. American Girl books and American Girl play scenes will be for sale.

The cost is $8 for girls (age 5 and above) and $12 for adults. A minimum of one adult attending per two children is required. Pre-paid reservations are necessary as seating is limited. Reservations may be made beginning March 12. For more information, phone (219) 873-1520. Barker Mansion, 631 Wash-ington St. is one block east of Lighthouse Place Pre-mium Outlet Mall.

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Neil Kienitz. 12 sessions - Thursdays, March 8 - May 31, 1.30 – 3.30 p.m. Fee: members $150, Non-members $180.

Come with an open mind, prepared to learn a very different approach to drawing. A supply list will be emailed to participants. Class size will be no fewer than 5, no more than 10, no April 26 class.

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•Design and Composition in Painting: In-structor Neil Kienitz. 12 sessions - Fridays, March 9 – June 1, 9.30 – 11.30 a.m. Fee: members $150; Non-members $180.

This course is a comprehensive approach to de-sign, addressing the ten elements and seven prin-ciples of design. A supply list will be emailed to participants. Class size will be no fewer than 5, no more than 10, no April 27 class. Neil Kienitz: 219-872-0206 – [email protected]

•Introduction to Oil Painting: Instructor Dana Dabagia. 6 sessions - Saturdays, March 10, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $135 for members, $165 for non-members.

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•Photo ClubBrett Maniscalco continues to add members to

the Photo Club at The Southern Shore Art Associa-tion and is utilizing the dark room that they have in the loft of rooms above the gallery. Contact Brett at [email protected] to join.

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Gardens and Sculpture Parks’ most popular annual exhibition and the largest temporary tropical butter-fl y exhibit in the nation. Fernwood will visit Meijer Gardens on March 23 to enjoy the more than 6,000 tropical butterfl ies fl ying free in the 15,000-square-foot Lena Meijer Tropical Conservatory. The exhibi-tion boasts more than 40 different species from the Far East, Africa and Central America. It’s a won-derful place for photos and the perfect opportunity to observe the butterfl ies up-close and personal.

From Meijer Gardens the day will take you to the Grand Rapids Public Museum to enjoy some inter-esting, educational, and fun exhibits. The Public Museum has been collecting since 1854, and now has more than a million objects in the collection.

The trip fee of $75 (Fernwood Members $60) in-cludes transportation and admission fees. Lunch at Meijer Gardens is on your own. Phone Fernwood at 269.695.6491 to register, or register online at www.fernwoodbotanical.org. Registration is required by March 11.

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See the butterfl ies in Meijer Garden’s Conservatory. Photo by David Walenga.

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“Give-Back” DinnerBentwood Tavern has been gracious enough to al-

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The Samaritan Center will receive 50% of the evening’s proceeds on all food & beverages. Reser-vations can be made on their webpage, www.bent-woodtavern.com, or by phoning 269.469.1699.

2nd Annual Dyngus Day DashThe Northwest Athletic Club organized and host-

ed the 1st annual Dyngus Day Dash on April 25, 2011. The 2nd Annual Dyngus Day Dash is sched-uled for April 9th, 2012. This year, the NAC has partnered with Michigan City Park & Rec Depart-ment as well as Sauers Buick/GMC to fundraise for the LaPorte County Red Cross.

The Dyngus Day Dash will consist of a 5K Race as well as a fun run/walk for all ages with registra-tion at 5 p.m. and the race at 6 p.m. The run will go down 400N to 110 (Hitchcock) down to Weather-stone and back with chip timing and course support throughout followed by a party for the community, complete with a live band, food and drinks.

Entry fee for preregistration is $25; and day of race $30. Awards will be presented in various age groups. Complete race information can be found at the website www.northwestathleticclub.net or www.thtiming.com

New Issue Outdoor Indiana Magazine Outdoor Indiana magazine’s March-April issue

features a cover article on the dogs of the DNR Divi-sion of Law Enforcement.

Indiana Conservation Offi cers have built a repu-tation as having one of the top canine programs of its kind in the nation, having trained similar units from Kentucky, Kansas, Maryland, Idaho and Vir-ginia.

The 48-page full-color magazine also includes a special removable eight-page insert article on Spring Mill State Park, which is in Mitchell in Lawrence County. The feature continues a series in which one state park or reservoir property is featured in the fi rst fi ve issues of each year. Issue six features a re-movable calendar for the new year. The state park/reservoir insert series runs through 2016, the 100th anniversary of Indiana state parks.

Look for Fury the canine cop on the cover of this issue of Outdoor Indiana, available now at most DNR properties and most Barnes & Noble stores in Indiana for $3 a copy. Purchase of a $12 subscrip-tion gets you six issues to keep you up to date on Indiana’s outdoor heritage.

To subscribe, go to OutdoorIndiana.org or phone (317) 233-3046. Join Outdoor Indiana on Facebook and see bonus photos: facebook.com/OutdoorIndiana

NB Missions Team Spaghetti DinnerThe New Buffalo Missions Team will be holding

a Spaghetti Dinner on Sun., March 10, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) at the New Buffalo Ameri-can Legion Post 169 at 19139 US Highway 12, New Buffalo, MI.

Tickets include spaghetti, Brewster’s famous salad, bread, dessert and drink for $7/adults, $5/students and $20/family of 4 or more. Tickets may be purchased at the door or from any NB Missions Team Member. There will also be a silent auction.

Proceeds will go towards the NB Missions Team’s Summer 2012 trip to Costa Rica where they will share their faith, energy and supplies. Collection bins will also be present at the Spaghetti Dinner for personal hygiene items, school supplies and small toys that the team members will take with them to Costa Rica. Contact Karla Madison at 269-612-0239 or [email protected] for more information.

Events at Fernwood Botanical GardenSunday JourneysTwo Sunday Journeys remain this season. On

March 11, photographer & Fernwood Volunteer of the Year 2010, Phil DeVore, presents “In the Foot-steps of Charles Darwin: The Galapagos.” And on March 18, Fernwood Naturalist, Wendy Jones, takes us “North to Newfoundland.” Sunday Jour-neys are 1:00-2:30 p.m. MI time. Register by the Friday prior to each program.

Basics of Edible GardeningSat., March 17, 10:30 a.m.-noon MI timeSusan Gilbert shows you how to grow your own

healthy and delicious food in this class. $10 (Mem-bers $8). Register by March 11.

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Girl Scouts Celebrate 100 Year Anniversary The year 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of

Girl Scouts of America. The organization is planning events at councils all around the country culminat-ing with an event in the nation’s capitol in June.

Locally, Duneland Girl Scouts are celebrating by hosting “Girl Scouts Through The Decades,” a fun fair which highlights milestones in the organiza-tion’s history since its founding in 1912. This family event is free and the public is invited.

The event will be held on Sat. March 10, at West-chester Intermediate School, 1050 S. 5th Street in Chesterton from 1-4 p.m. Local Girl Scout troops will have activity booths with presentations on Girl Scouting in various decades and attendees will be able to make themed crafts. Girl Scouts can also trade SWAPS, special trinket gifts made for shar-ing, with other Girl Scouts.

Light refreshments will be served and Girl Scout cookies will be available for purchase. In addition, any girls wishing to become a Girl Scout will be able to register at the on-site registration booth. Addi-tional information with Julie Gillen, 219-395-8654.

Footlight Spring FundraiserFootlight Players of Michigan City will be holding

a “Spring Rummage Sale” on Sat., March 10th from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the theatre, located at 1705 Frank-lin Street. Proceeds from this event will be used to complete the theatre renovation started last year.

“Becoming an Outdoors-Woman”Women can choose their own adventure at an

outdoor sports workshop with courses ranging from shotgun shooting to fl y-fi shing.

The 17th annual Becoming an Outdoors-Woman is May 4-6 at Ross Camp in West Lafayette, Indi-ana. The workshop is open to women ages 18 and older and limited to 100 participants.

Registration began March 1 at IndianaBOW.com and costs $185.

The program is designed for women to learn out-door skills in a relaxed, low-pressure environment. Participants will choose four activities from among 27 offerings, including archery, survival 101, orien-teering, and learning to hunt small game.

New for 2012 are classes on muzzleloading and driving with a trailer.

The workshop is for women who have never tried these activities, but have hoped for an opportunity to learn; who have tried them but are beginners hoping to improve; or who know how to do some of the activities, but would like to try new ones.

Women who enjoy the camaraderie of like-mind-ed individuals and who seek time away to reconnect with nature are also prime candidates for BOW.

AAUW March MeetingThe Michigan City Branch of the American As-

sociation of University Women will meet at 7 p.m., Mon., March 12, at the Barker Mansion, 631 Wash-ington St., Michigan City. The program for the meeting is “Dealing With Stress.” The speaker will be Phyllis Baker, co-owner of Massage Therapy and Wellness Center in Michigan City.

The Michigan City Branch sponsors the Read-ing is Fundamental program for the Michigan City Area Schools. Members also participate in numer-ous interest groups including antiques, readers and crafts. AAUW is a leader in advocacy for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination in higher education. The AAUW Educational Founda-tion funds research on girls and education, commu-nity action projects, and fellowships and grants for outstanding women around the globe.

Anyone with an associate’s or bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is eligible to join AAUW. This organization has been active in the cause of equal rights for women and girls for more than 100 years. To learn more about AAUW, phone Joan Robinson at 872-1217.

Calling All Artists and Crafters Artists and crafters with unique items are being

sought for our 3rd Annual Arts and Crafts Show to be held in May. This show, sponsored by St. John United Church of Christ, will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MI time, on Sat., May 26th in Frohne Hall, and outside in the church yard, 200 W. Buffalo, New Buffalo, Michigan.

Inside spaces are $35, outside spaces, $30. For more information and to request an application, email [email protected] or phone Pam Oselka at 734-277-3180 or 269-469-2706.

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Israeli Dance Group ConcertThe Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana is

excited to announce the performance of the Ga’aton Dance Group from the Galilee in Israel. The dance concert will be Tues., March 13, at 7 p.m. at Wirt-Emerson Visual and Performing Arts Academy The-atre, 210 N. Grand Blvd., Gary. Tickets are $5 at the door or in advance by phoning 219-922-4024.

Nine dancers comprise the ensemble on tour in the Midwest. In addition to performing a variety of dance pieces created by the young Israeli choreog-raphers, the members of the ensemble will conduct dance workshops in several area schools for ballet, modern dance, folklore and repertoire.

The Kibbutz Ga’aton Dance Group was founded in 1977 by Mrs. Yehudith Arnon with the aim of training graduate students to become dancers in the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Co. (KCDC).

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Splashing and Dashing Around Good Old Brookfi eld Zoo

by Charles McKelvy

No sense in wasting all that beautiful weather by being indoors at a museum, so we unanimously ap-proved a movement to nearby Brookfi eld Zoo in the town of the same name.

I could easily say “been there; done that,” at this point, but that would be pointless because, in addi-tion to beholding the delightful Dolphin Show from seats well behind the designated “Splash Zone,” we watched the seals and sea lions cavort in the not-so murky depths of Pinniped Point. Seeing a seal at “see” level was as thrilling as going below after the Dolphin Show and watching the stars hang out at the bottom of their tank.

Seals, sea lions, and dolphins, it would seem, seem to have as much fun watching us as we do watching them.

Welcome to Brookfi eld Zoo.

Mary Alice Fitzpatrick (left) and her big sister Natalie McKelvy take in the Dolphin Show at Brookfi eld Zoo.

The Sloth Bear of India was enjoying the afternoon sun. He rarely comes out, according to regular visitors.

Not to give away my age or anything, but when they opened the fabulous Seven Seas exhibit at Brookfi eld Zoo and started offering Dolphin Shows, I was all of 12.

Yes, it is true, and we were truly pleased the other Sunday afternoon when we went to the zoo that has been world-famous since 1934 and heard the emcee at the afternoon Dolphin Show proudly proclaim that they have been presenting “fi fty years of Dolphin Shows.”

Natalie and I went our separate ways to the Dol-phin Show as adolescents when it fi rst opened, and on that sunny Sunday afternoon, we were there as a happily married old pair of ducks in the company of Natalie’s sister Mary Alice Fitzpatrick and her husband Dennis and their eldest daughter Beverly.

We were over-nighting at Casa Fitzpatrick in his-toric old Hinsdale, and we were all wondering what to do with ourselves that unseasonably warm Sun-day afternoon. And that proved to be the case for a Sloth Bear of

India who was patrolling the perimeter of his envi-ronmentally correct enclosure. A regular visitor told us we were most fortunate to see the sloth-like bear in the open “because he rarely ever comes out.”

The Sloth Bear of India must have known that Natalie and I were back at the Brookfi eld Zoo of our childhoods to celebrate 50 years of Dolphin Shows and to catch up on all the latest exhibits and crit-ters.

We got to hear the wolves howl in the Regenstein Wolf Woods and we spotted both a mature and an immature Bald Eagle as we headed on over to Trop-ic World to behold our nearest relatives at the zoo.

I told my brother-in-law that we might see a cous-in or two among the gorillas, but Dennis said they would all be from my family.


Primates of two types can safely observe one another at Tropic World.

So be it, but so absorbing was the openness of Tropic World that we felt as though we had landed on the Planet of the Apes.

Primates of our type get to safely observe pri-mates of the gorilla type from safe observation points, and the Zoo has kindly set out a history of each individual who lives at Tropic World. Because this is a family newspaper, I will say no more than to say that those gorillas act like, well, gorillas.

But they looked happy, and we were quite happy at the end of our big day at Brookfi eld Zoo, and, yes, we will return many times, and, perhaps you will see Natalie and me at Seven Seas in 2062 celebrat-ing “100 years of Dolphin Shows.”

But don’t wait that long to enjoy a day at Brook-fi eld Zoo, and know that they are open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults, $10.50 for seniors 65 and older and $10.50 for children 3 to 11. Forthcoming attractions include “Bugs!” which runs (or crawls) from May 17 through September 3, and those dolphins do their thing daily at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at $4 for adults and $2.50. The Zoo admits all active, reservist, and retired members of the military for free with valid ID.

Brookfi eld Zoo now has a new mobile Website that delivers the essential information for your visit in a concise format right to your smart phone. Open your mobile browser and input bzoo.mobi and you will be taken to the home page. Or go to: www.czs.org/CZS/Brookfi eld/Zoo.

Brookfi eld Zoo is located at First Avenue between Ogden Avenue and 31st Street in Brookfi eld, Illi-nois, just 14 miles west of downtown Chicago. There are exits to First Avenue from the Eisenhower Ex-pressway (I-290) and from the Stevenson Express-way (I-55). Signs on First Avenue will direct you to the zoo’s main entrance and zoo parking.

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Trainers and dolphins know it’s show time.

A dolphin takes to the air during the afternoon show at Seven Seas.

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Historian of the Year Nominations SoughtThe LaPorte County Historical Society, Inc. is

currently seeking nominations for the Historian of the Year award. There are two categories for nomi-nation: Individual and Organization.

The Individual may be someone who currently is or in the past has been involved in projects of La Porte County historical preservation. The Organi-zation must be an organization that currently is responsible for preservation activities of La Porte County’s history.

Documentation of the individual’s or organiza-tion’s activities must be provided in order to be con-sidered. Items of documentation that may be used are newspaper clippings, photographs of activities, examples of the accomplishments and any items or information that would document the reason for nomination for the award. Do not include originals. Anything provided as documentation will be placed in the fi les at the museum along with the Nomina-tion Form. These are one-time awards. Nomina-tions will not be carried over from year to the next—only nominations submitted during the current year will be considered for an award.

Awarding is at the May dinner/meeting of the So-ciety at the Activity Center for Older Adults. Dead-line for receipt of completed nomination forms with documentation is April 15, 2012. Copies of the forms are available at the museum or by e-mail from His-torian of the Year Chair, Fern Eddy Schultz, at [email protected]

Toastmasters International Contest Twice a year Toastmasters’ clubs compete in an

International Contest. The Twin City Toastmasters Club’s contest takes place Tues., March 13 at the Stevensville library, 2099 W. John Beers Rd., Ste-vensville, Michigan, 7–8:30 p.m. EST. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. According to Contest Chair, Marcia Bednar (Stevensville), “Participating in the Inter-national Contest is a big deal. I hope everyone who knows one of the six participants attends the FREE event to show their support!” The contest’s Chief Judge, Karen Coffey (Bridgman) agrees. “Having friends and neighbors in the audience adds to the excitement. We hope each of the represented com-munities shows up to in droves!”

The Spring 2012 Contest participants are John Chaddock, Sr. (St. Joseph), Own Conner (Stevens-ville), Josephine Dewey (Baroda), Julie Maddux (New Buffalo), Tom Martin (Bridgman), and Dan-iel Salazar (St. Joseph). The contest has two cat-egories. The March 13 winner of each category advances to compete in the Area Level Contest on Wed., March 28 at Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor. Visit http://twincity.toastmastersclubs.org or contact Karen Coffey at [email protected] or 773.316.7619 for more information.

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Page Turners Book Discussion GroupThe Page Turners book discussion group will

meet from 12:00-1:00 p.m., on Tues., March 13 at La Porte County Public Library, 904 Indiana Ave., LaPorte, to discuss the book Hunger Games by Su-zanne Collins. The movie based on the book pre-mieres on March 23.

The novel is about Katriss who lives in the ruins of what was once North America. She is chosen to represent her district in the Games, an annual sur-vival event viewed by everyone on TV. The story is the fi rst in a trilogy.

The book may be requested for check-out in regu-lar and large print, in Spanish, and as an e-book.

Everyone is welcome. There is no charge. Refresh-ments appropriate to the book will be served. People may bring a lunch if they wish. Phone 219/362-6156 for more information or to request signing for the hearing impaired 48 hours in advance.

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March 22, 2012 will be the day the NEW BUFFALO TIMES

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“Earth and Ice” Works in Ceramics Derek Walter, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at

Indiana University Northwest will be exhibiting ce-ramic work at the Chesterton Art Center in March.

Derek has traveled extensively, teaching both in China and Japan. He has also taught at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. At IU Northwest he teaches wheel throwing and hand building tech-niques to beginning, intermediate and advanced students.

Derek explains: “Some of these sculptures have variable positions, much the way a stone is found in nature. A sense of timelessness and timeliness is embodied within these forms. They are a combina-tion of stoneware and porcelain with celadon glaze on the porcelain pieces.”

The show will remain in the gallery the entire month of March. The Chesterton Art Center is lo-cated at 115 S. 4th St. in Chesterton. Phone 219-926-4711 for more information. Hours are Monday through Friday 11 a.m.-4 p.m., and weekends 1-4 p.m. There is no charge to view the show.

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site of a free basic weather spotter training class on March 14 at 4:30 p.m. in the Library-Student-Faculty Building Assembly Hall, Room 02.

The LaPorte County Emergency Management Offi ce and LaPorte County Skywarn, in conjunc-tion with the National Weather Service, will host the training sessions. A meteorologist will lead the class that will teach participants how to accurately observe weather phenomena such as funnel clouds, tornadoes, squall lines, and others. The two-hour class is open to the public, law enforcement, fi re de-partment, EMS and amateur radio operators. There is no fee and advance registration is not required.

“This class will be ideal for the person who wants to become a weather spotter,” said Robert Gaekle, chief of the PNC Police Department. “Participants will also learn what to watch for when severe weather strikes. A wealth of valuable information will be presented.”

It is important to note that the National Weather Service requires weather spotters to attend a weath-er spotter class every two years to remain active.

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Volunteer Day at Washington Park Zoo The Washington Park Zoo will host a Volunteer

day on Sun., March 11th from 8 a.m.-noon. Mayor Ron Meer, in coordination with Al Whitlow, Direc-tor of the Boys & Girls Club in Michigan City, have been asked to provide volunteer work for Minnesota State University Moorhead students in exchange for room & board on their travels through Indiana on their way to Washington, D.C.

This group of volunteers, known as “Students Today, Leaders Forever,” has a mission to “reveal leadership through service, relationships, and ac-tion.” Ashley Overman, student organizer of this group, announced that a group of 40 volunteers would be arriving in town on Sat. March 10th and will be housed at St. Andrews Church on Moore Rd. Mr. David Joselin, Senior Warden for St. Andrews Church has donated the use of his church as board-ing for the college volunteers.

The volunteers will paint and help with general clean up of the Zoo buildings and grounds in prepa-ration for its opening day on April 1st. Anyone inter-ested in joining in these efforts are invited to meet at the Zoo on Sun., March 11th at 8 a.m. to sign-up. Visit www.washingtonparkzoo.com or www.michi-gancityparks.com for more news from the Washing-ton Park Zoo or phone 219/873-1510.

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Greed and need lay behind America’s oldest per-manent community.

On those two pillars of human endeavor, the Jamestown story got its start in mid-May of 1607. The fi rst arrivals were 105 men and boys who sailed up the foaming tidewaters of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. The 1600s fort built

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panorama of trees and open land in an aerial

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Three ships were called upon to transport adventurers to Virginia to help establish the colony at Jamestown. The three were the “Susan Constant,”

the “Discovery,” and the “Godspeed.”

The group hadn’t come to North America for farms or religious tolerance. They had come for gold.

Partly because they harbored dreams of opulence, the adventurers sent to the new land were, by any standards, an unlikely band. A third of them were English gentry who held themselves aloof from the laborer majority.

Some of the highborn gentry types expected to be obeyed and waited on just as they had been back in Dear Old Blighty. Some others seemed to realize that all would rise or fall together.

Nearly all had hopes of fi nding rich veins of yel-low wealth--gold.

Most of the travelers had personal or legal rea-sons for globe-trotting to Virginia. One such was George Percy, youngest brother of the Ninth Earl of Northumberland. Since the earl had become impli-cated in a plot to blow up Parliament, Percy decided that it was a good idea to disappear.

As a further incentive, because of England’s sys-tem of inheritance, Percy stood to gain nothing from his family’s estates.

Also on board the “Godspeed” were a few carpen-ters, a preacher, a bricklayer, and a tailor. Not by accident, most were members of England’s lowest class--laborers accustomed to hefting heavy loads as dock-workers and draymen.

To the laborers it could easily have seemed a logi-cal choice to join the venture. Instead of living at the edge of starvation in England they would dig for gold in return for subsistence from a communal stock of food and other necessities.

What they did not know was that the pamphlets drawn up to recruit them completely misrepresent-

ed the prospects of fi nding gold, silver, pearls, or other earthbound treasures in Virginia. Even King James was taken in by claims that Virginia’s gold equaled the fabled hoards of which the Spanish con-quistadors boasted.

The organizers of the voyage had thought out their program. None of the adventurers had been promised land, which was to remain in the control of the London Company of Virginia, the venture’s funding source. As for the envisioned gold, four-fi fths were to go to London Company investors and one-fi fth to the King of England.

Sailing without promises of land, gold, or other rewards, the “Godspeed” passengers must have planned at least to spirit away a few nuggets of pre-cious metal.

They had certainly not foreseen what became dis-ease and often almost instant death.

Within months, sickness had reduced the total of 105 (or 107) to 60. The small survivor group had en-countered some rude surprises. For example, they found no gold, silver, or other valuable digs. In the Jamestown area, there wasn’t even land for plant-ing crops.

The local Native Americans had no apparent de-sire to surrender the yields of their fi elds.

Archae-ologist Dr. William Kelso of the Jamestown Rediscov-ery Project shows a seventeenth century digging tool found in excavations on the site of the original town of Jamestown.


A Colossal MistakeChoosing a site for a permanent settlement, the

adventurers relied on instructions that they had brought courtesy of the London Company. Those instructions led them astray. They placed their set-tlement on swampland surrounded by the James River.

Otherwise described, the site was on an isthmus of land when the tide was low and on an island when the tide was high.

The choice of location began a life and death struggle against blistering heat, mosquito-borne disease, and a water supply thought to have been contaminated by salt. Making bad matters worse, stores of food sent from England were found to be contaminated.

Some of the colonists tried their hands at working the land. But few experienced farmers were among the adventurers, and not a single plow had been in-cluded in the “Godspeed’s” supplies.

When some colonists began raiding the Indians’ own stores of food, the Native Americans turned hostile.

The colony was dying, but that news was kept from England. The London Company punished la-borers who were found to be writing home about diffi culties in Virginia. Its offi cers spun tales of suc-cess as a means of recruiting more adventurers to Virginia and to avoid alarming company investors.

Hope sprang eternal. Its real name was John Smith or, better, Captain John Smith. In the autumn of 1608, Smith as president of Jamestown’s governing council stepped for-ward to save the remnant of the colonists.

To deal with starvation, Smith taught survival tactics. He sent one group of settlers upriver to hunt game; an-other went downriver to trap fi sh, and a third detachment

left to fi nd supplies of oysters in the Chesapeake.Smith also imposed a policy of strict discipline.

His order was: “He who doesn’t work won’t eat.” That edict was intended to spur on those who thought they were too good to engage in work; it applied also to those who had become so discour-aged they could not continue to work. Things began to come together. Smith, however, had to return to England the next fall to recover from a gunpowder wound.

Without Smith, matters drifted. Starvation loomed. Reports of cannibalism began to reach Eng-land.

Writing of the winter of 1609-10, when nearly 90 percent of the remaining settlers died off, survivors reported:

As the leader of the Jamestown colony, Captain John Smith established the

community’s regulations that proved the answer to

the need for discipline.

“(We) were driven through unsufferable hunger naturally to eat those things which nature most ab-horred. . .”

The London Company refused to give up. It con-tinued to produce books and pamphlets--twenty sev-en in all--falsely advertising abundance in Virginia and thus luring more Englishmen to their deaths.

The King granted the Virginia Company a second charter in 1609, inviting a wider range of English citizens to buy investment shares; among those who took the plunge was William Shakespeare.

Intending to whip the colony into producing profi t, the King decreed that henceforth it would be ruled by a governor with powers similar to those of a dictator. Under the ruthless governors who ad-opted the title, brutal punishments were devised for even petty crimes and lesser offenses.

In subsequent years the colony gradually pros-pered. John Rolfe not only began to deal in Virginia tobacco; he also married the Indian maiden Pocahontas, daughter of a tribal chieftain.

Soon Rolfe was not only growing tobacco in Virginia; he visited England with Poca-hontas and while there he took orders for new shipments to be grown in Virginia and sold in London, where it was taxed to benefi t the Crown.

Company offi cials intro-duced reforms, allowing colo-nists to buy land for farming rather than having to sharecrop it. A colonist who paid the cost of anoth-er person’s trip to Jamestown from England could claim 50 acres of Virginia Company land. The ad-venturer brought by such means to the settlement could work the land of the colonist who had paid his way.

Eventually Jamestown received from the Virgin-ia Company a representative Legislature. English Common Law, rather than the whims of governors, became the basis of legal decisions.

As other changes took place, the colonists found it possible to support themselves and even estab-lish large estates. Jamestown ceased to exist as a town by the mid-1700s, but the earlier colonists had learned that their Virginia gold had the scent of to-bacco.

Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian Chief

Powhatan, saved the life of Captain John Smith and later married John Rolfe.

The modern replica of the “Godspeed,” the Jamestown Settlement ship, prepares to sail into the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island as part of a 400-year anniversary celebration. The “Providence,” another replica, follows at left.


LaPorte Co. Genealogical Society Have you found something in your genealogical

research that may not be related to your family, but is too good not to pass along? Then bring it to the meeting of the La Porte County Genealogical Soci-ety 7 p.m., Tues., March 13, at the Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State St., LaPorte. Members and friends will share their favorite “lucky fi nds” of all sorts.

Weather permitting, the society meets there on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. The public is welcome at all meetings. Membership dues are $10 individual, $12 family.

The society’s annual bus trip to the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne is Wed., April 18. Paid reservations are due by March 30 -- use the form at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/printable.pdf.

Bazaar Booth Reservations Open NowVillage Park Enrichment Center [VPEC] has an-

nounced that booth reservations for the 2012 Spring Bazaar are now open. A popular community event, the annual bazaar features exhibitors selling fur-niture, crafts, jewelry, antiques, linens, art, collect-ibles, clothing, and more. This year’s Bazaar will also feature a baked potato bar, ice cream sundae bar, and bake sale.

The 2012 Spring Bazaar is set for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sat., April 28 at VPEC, located in the former Banta School building at 605 Beech St., near down-town Valparaiso. Lunch will be served from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The bazaar is a fundraiser for VPEC, Valparaiso’s center for older adults in the community. Proceeds from the event support programs and activities at VPEC.

The booth fee for VPEC members is $40 ($55 for non-members) for one six-foot by 30 inch table and two chairs in an area measuring approximately 48 square feet. An early bird special allows members to pay only $35 ($50 for non-members) if reservation and payment are received by March 31, 2012. There is no admission charge for people who want to shop at the bazaar, buy lunch, or make purchases at the bake sale.

According to VPEC program coordinator Anna Rogers, the Spring Bazaar is one of the organiza-tion’s “best events of the year.”

“People love coming because we have so many vendors with so many interesting items,” Rogers ex-plained. “We have one gentleman who makes new furniture out of older pieces and his work is very creative. There’s something for every interest and age group.”

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The Service League is a volunteer non-profi t or-ganization dedicated to loaning medical equipment such as walkers, wheelchairs, shower and toilet aids to Michigan City area residents free for a three month period.

It was reported that 85 patients were served in January with 138 items being loaned out. Six do-nations were received. Three new bariatric wheel-chairs were ordered along with two bariatric trans-fer benches to add to their inventory.

Upcoming important dates are: March 13th will be a Give Back at Holly’s; April 10th will be a Give Back at Swingbelly’s; The Annual Meeting and Luncheon will be held May 8th at the Long Beach Country Club starting with cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at noon, and the installation of new of-fi cers after lunch.

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Cavaliers Announce LineupThe Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corp from Rose-

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The Cavaliers are touting their 2012 Michigan City lineup as one of the most talented shows they have ever assembled.

Competing with the Cavaliers this year are: Caro-lina Crown from Ft. Mill, South Carolina; Bluecoats from Canton, Ohio; Blue Stars from LaCrosse, Wis-consin; Glassmen from Toledo, Ohio; Troopers from Casper, Wyoming; Spirit of Atlanta from Atlanta, Georgia; Pioneer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Colt Cadets from Dubuque, Iowa.

June 30th is the date for the Summer Festival Committee’s annual parade down Franklin Street in which the Cavaliers and many of the above listed drum corps will participate. That evening at 7:00 pm, the 52nd Pageant of Drums competition will kick off at Ames Field.

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with the Andreas Kapsalis and Goran Ivanovic (gui-tar duo) as opening act. 8 pm MI time at The Acorn Theater, 107 Generations Dr., Three Oaks. Tix $12 in adv., $15 day of the show. Reserve at 269/756-3879 or www.acorntheater.com

March 8-12 -- Vickers Theatre. “My Week With Marilyn.” Marilyn Monroe meets Sir Laurence Ol-ivier in 1956. Fri thru Sun/ 9 pm MI time. Also Sat/Sun 4 pm. Also showing: “Carnage.” A razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences star-ring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly; di-rected by Roman Polanski. Fri thru Mon/6:45 pm. Also showing: “Oscar Nominated Short Films: Ani-mated.” Thurs/8:30 pm. “Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action”. Thurs/6 pm. Vickers Theatre, 6 N. Elm St., Three Oaks, MI. www.vickerstheatre.com

March 9 -- U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters in con-cert. 7 pm in the Civic Auditorium, 1001 Ridge St., LaPorte. Free, but you must get a ticket: 219-362-8262.

March 9-11 -- “Down the Road.” (Adult drama) LaPorte Little Theatre, 218 “A” St., LaPorte. Fri/Sat 7:30 pm; Sun/2 pm. Tix $12; reserve at 219/362-5113 or e-mail [email protected]

March 10 -- Footlight Players Spring Rummage Sale. 9 am-3 pm at Footlight Theatre, 1705 Frank-lin St., MC.

March 10 -- St. Patrick’s Day Parade down Franklin St., Michigan City. Steps off at 1 pm.

March 10 -- Kalita!! Magic Show. 2 pm at the MC Public Library (after the St. Patty’s Day parade). Fun for all ages. Free.

March 10 -- 100 Yr. Anniversary of the Girl Scouts Fun Fair. 1-4 pm at Westchester Intermedi-ate school, 1050 S. 5th St., Chesterton.

March 10 -- Corned Beef Dinner. 4-6 pm at St. Luke United Lutheran Church, 2000 E Coolspring Ave., MC. Corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, kidney bean salad, beverage; desserts $1 extra. Tix $10; children under 11 yrs. share parent’s plate.

March 10 -- Beef & Turkey Dinner at St. John United Church of Christ, corner Buffalo St. and Barker St., next to City Hall, New Buffalo. 5-7 pm MI time. Tix at the door: $7/adults, $3/children, free/children under 5 yrs. Takeout dinners available.

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March 10 -- Singer/storyteller Lee Murdock in concert at Mainstreet Theatre, 807 Franklin St., MC. 8 pm. Tix $14/adults, $13/seniors, $7/students high school age and below; reserve at 219-874-4269.

March 10-11 -- Maple Sugar Time at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Chellberg Farm, Por-ter, IN. 10 am-4 pm. See how the pioneers and Indi-ans made their syrup. Purchase some syrup to take home. See what’s cooking in the Chellberg farm-house kitchen. All activities free. 219-395-1882.

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March 11 -- The Women of Ragtime with pianist Deborrah Wyndham. 2 pm at the MC Public Library. Discussion and music. Free, open to the public.

March 12 -- American Association of University Women meeting. 7 pm at the Barker Mansion, 631 Washington St., MC. Guest speaker Phyllis Baker-- “Dealing With Stress.” Info about the AAUW from Joan Robinson, 872-1217.

March 13 -- LaP. Co. Genealogical Society meet-ing. 7 pm at Swanson Center for Older Adults, 910 State St., LaPorte. Public invited to attend.

March 14 -- PNC Brownbag Series on Diversity: “Can You Conform to Proper English and Not Sell Out?” Noon-1 pm Library-Student-Faculty Bldg, Rm. 170A on campus. Free, open to public.

March 14 -- Craft Time at the MC Public Library Children’s Dept. 3:30 pm. Make a St. Pat’s Day craft; all materials provided. For ages 3 yrs. & up. Free.

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March 10 -- Opening reception for the ILLIANA Artists group exhibit presented by the Hobart Arts League, 3850 Howard St., Hobart, IN. 5-8 pm. Pub-lic invited to attend. Exhibit up thru March 24. Di-rections and other info at 219-942-3834.

March 10 -- Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (gospel music) in concert at Howard Performing Arts Center on campus of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI. 8 pm MI time. Tix $25/reserved seat-ing; www.howard.andrews.edu or 888-467-6442.

March 13 -- Ga’aton Dance Group from the Gal-ilee in Israel in a dance concert presented by the Jewish Federation of NW Indiana. 7 pm at Wirt-Emerson Visual and Performing Arts Academy The-atre, 210 N. Grand Blvd., Gary, IN. Tix $5 at the door. www.kcdc.co.il/IndexEng.aspx

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On March 8, 1849, President Zachary Taylor ap-pointed Ohio’s Thomas Ewing to be the fi rst Secre-tary of the Interior.On March 8, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry made his second landing in Japan. Within a month he had concluded a treaty with the Japanese.On March 8, 1894, New York became the fi rst state to require dogs to be licensed.On March 8, 1999, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio died in Hollywood, FL, at the age of 84.On March 9, 1451, Italian navigator/explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to the two American continents, was born in Florence.On March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, the iron-clad “Monitor” and the “Virginia,” formerly the “Merimac,” fought for fi ve hours off Hampton Roads, VA. Neither vessel was able to seriously damage the other.aOn March 9, 1959, the original Barbie doll debuted in U.S. stores.On March 9, 1996, comedian George Burns died in Beverly Hills, CA, just weeks after turning 100.On March 10, 1849, Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent, the fi rst person to do so and become U.S. President. He would receive it in May 1849 for in-venting a way of “buoying vessels over shoals.”On March 10, 1862, during the Civil War, paper money was fi rst issued by the government of the United States.On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s fi rst telephone call, telling his assistant in an adjoining room, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”On March 10, 1965, Neil Simon’s play “The Odd Couple,” starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway.On March 11, 1847, American pioneer John Chap-man, better known as “Johnny Appleseed,” died (in Indiana’s Allen County) at the age of 73.On March 11, 1990, the Lithuanian parliament, annexed 50 years earlier against its will, voted to break away from the Soviet Union and become an independent nation.On March 11, 2002, two columns of light soared skyward from Ground Zero in New York as a tempo-rary memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.On March 11, 2003, after a four-day walkout, Broadway musicians settled their short-lived strike, the fi rst on the Great White Way in nearly 30 years.On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low, of Sa-vannah, GA, founded the fi rst Girl Scout troop in the United States.

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On March 12, 1912, Army Capt. Albert Berry made the fi rst parachute jump from an airplane.On March 12, 1925, the fi rst transatlantic radio broadcast took place.On March 12, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt held the fi rst of his many radio broadcast “fi reside chats,” telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation’s economic crisis.On March 12, 1951, “Dennis the Menace,” created by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, made its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers.On March 12, 1954, in Cranston, RI, each player in a bridge game was dealt a perfect hand - 13 cards of the same suit. The odds against such a happen-ing goes to 69 digits - or about equal to “the sands of time.”On March 12, 1959, the House joined the Senate in approving statehood for Hawaii.On March 12, 1987, “Les Miserables” opened on Broadway.On March 12, 1989, more than 2,500 protesters marched at the Chicago Art Museum demanding the removal of a U.S. fl ag placed on the fl oor as part of a student’s exhibit.On March 13, 1639, Harvard University was named in honor of clergyman John Harvard.On March 13, 1781, English astronomer Sir Wil-liam Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.On March 13, 1852, a drawing by Frank Bellew, which appeared in the New York Lantern, was the fi rst cartoon that depicted Uncle Sam as the symbol of the United States.On March 13, 1947, Lerner and Loewe’s “Briga-doon” debuted on Broadway.On March 13, 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on the nations of the Western Hemisphere to join in an “Alliance for Progress.”On March 13, 1972, Clifford and Edith Irving pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy in the fake Howard Hughes autobiography case.On March 14, 1743, America’s fi rst town meeting was held in Boston’s Faneuil Hall.On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin, an invention that was to revolutionize the cotton textile industry throughout the world.On March 14, 1923, Warren Harding became the fi rst president to fi le an income tax report.On March 14, 1945, the American fl ag was raised on the Pacifi c island of Iwo Jima in World War II.On March 14, 1974, the government of Quebec an-nounced that, henceforth and forevermore, French would be the offi cial language of the province.On March 14, 1995, astronaut Norman Thagard became the fi rst American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.

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WANT TO SELLFILES • 4 DRWRS • USED • ALL STEEL • MC STORE ONLY - FIRME’S

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2-5 FT. OAK CHURCH PEWS like new. $250 ea. or 2/$400 obo • MAHOGANY SECRETARY w/attractive inlays $1000 obo • DOUBLE DROP LEAF TEA CART $400 obo • LIGHT OAK BUFFET w/mirror $1000 obo • NEWLY REFINISHED HARVEST TABLE 5-leafs and 5

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GARAGE SALES, ESTATE SALES, ETC.ESTATE SALE ITEMS. Michiana Shores area. Tan leather couch, glass top dining room table w/steel base, 4 black dining room chairs, 3-brown

metal bar stools, 2-leather bar stools, black wicker king size bed, wicker & metal Baker’s Rack. Must sell. Call Diane at 219-776-3117.

WANT TO BUY-REAL ESTATELONG BEACH HOME on or very near Lake Michigan.

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RENTALS INDIANAHOUSE FOR RENT IN LONG BEACH

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DUNESCAPE BEACH CLUBLAKEFRONT CONDOS -- 2 and 3 bedrooms.

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From the MC Public LibraryGenealogy Bus Trip to Allen Co. Public Li-

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Send $21 per person to: Patricia Harris, 504 Greenwood Ave., Michigan City, IN 46360. For more information, phone 873-3049.

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ALL LINENS, BEACH CHAIRS & TOWELS$2,200/WK. – ADD’L DISCOUNT FOR JUNE

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cable. ½ blk. to beach. Close to park, zoo and shopping. Ping pong and foosball for those rainy days. $1,200/wk. Call Pam 708-383-2635.

CHARMING VINTAGE MICHIANA HOME – ¼ blk. from lake, Stop 37. Furn., 3BR, 2BA. Sleeps 8. C/A, frpl, BBQ, screen porch, deck off master BR, all

util except phone. $1,900/wk. For info email [email protected] Judy 847-814-8215.

LAKE RENTALS. Live in beauty of Lake Michigan, beach, dunes. Enjoy conveniences of Michigan City. Lg. 1BR, $625/mo. util. incl’d.

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W/D, hardwood floors, deck w/grill, big yard. Call 312.953.9570.Lovely family house for rent in Sheridan Beach, overlooking beautiful Lake Michigan’s widest beach. 3BR, 2BA, living room, family room, eat-in kitchen, porch, cozy backyard patio, central heating and air conditioning. Sleeps at least 6. $2,000/week. For information, call 219-879-3962.

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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardThis book was the 2011 winner of the

National Book Award for fi ction. This is an American honor bestowed upon writ-ers by writers. Established in 1950, the National Book Foundation has set the bar for excellence in fi ction, non-fi ction and poetry and has helped shape the face of American literature.

That being said, I think you can under-stand that Salvage the Bones is a story worthy of your consideration and one reason I have picked it as my book recom-mendation this week. Here are the other reasons...

It is 2005 in the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The weather channel is warning that a hurricane will be hitting Florida soon and its likely path will take it along the coastal communities of the Gulf of Mexico before turning inland. They have named it Katrina.

The narrator of our story is African American Esch Batiste, and it’s the summer after her 10th grade in high school. Each summer her English teacher assigns summer reading; this year’s it’s Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, and Esch becomes caught up in the story of Medea and Jason and the Argonauts, drawing parallels between Medea and her own life. There is also her daddy, older brothers Randall and Skeetah and younger brother, Junior. This last child had been the death of her mother and the reason her father has retreated into his drink, leaving his children to their own devices. But this summer, with the threat of a hurricane coming, he suddenly and frantically starts stacking up lumber to close up the house with, and orders the children to start stocking up food and bottles of water.

The children, of course, don’t take the whole thing seriously and go about their own lives, while reluc-tantly carrying out daddy’s orders. Skeetah has his pit bull, China, a winning fi ghter in the dog ring, and now a new mother, recently giving birth to a litter of puppies he hopes will bring him hundreds of dollars. Randall is a basketball player who wants desperately to go to a basketball camp where scouts could see how good he is and get him a college schol-

arship, but where will he get the money for the camp?

Esch has been used sexually by the neighboring boys since she was twelve, but for the past year only Manny has been coming around and now she fi nds herself pregnant. How can she admit this to her family and Manny? And how will Manny take the news?

All these events will, of course, culmi-nate in the century’s worst hurricanes of all. The story of Esch and her family is one of sadness and pain, and yet, for all their fi ghting and bickering, the Batiste

family comes together when the need is there.But that isn’t what makes this story the unfor-

gettable one it is. This is the modern day, rural, poor South told by a voice that can’t be denied or overlooked. Jesmyn Ward doesn’t just describe the bayou country -- she takes you there. She doesn’t just describe the Batiste family, she takes you in-side their very beings -- you begin to understand what they live with on a daily basis. You will see them as people, not just two dimensional characters on a page.

The voice of Esch is both lyrical in its southern form and unyielding in its frank assessment of life as she knows it. Here is the reality of poverty that most of us cannot comprehend.

Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi and received a MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of many other awards besides the National Book Award and is currently an assis-tant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama and she is currently working on a memoir which will be published later this year.

The Boston Globe said, “Ward’s writing is star-tling in its graphic clarity...[This] author has an un-usual gift.”

The Dallas Morning News said, “Ward’s redolent prose conjures the magic and menace of the south-ern landscape.”

The Washington Post said “Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it.”

I couldn’t agree more.Till next time, happy reading!

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Beverly Bullis, GRI 872-3216Tom Cappy* 874-6396Richard Klare 872-0947Rosemary Braun 879-9029

Zakaria Elhidaoui 219-448-1052Elizabeth George 219-575-8313*Licensed in Michigan and Indiana

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1306 Lake Shore DriveExecutive luxury on the lake. 4 stories of palatial living. Lake views from every floor, 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, club room, gourmet kitchen, marble patio. Exquisite home. $1,499,000

3103 Lake Shore DriveUnobstructed lake views, lovely Stop 31 beach access, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, large deck, plenty of parking equals fabulous beach getaway. Excellent rental history also. $759,000

410 Lake Shore Drive3 bedrooms, 3 baths easy care home is perfect for year round or seasonal living. Lounging decks to enjoy the lake breeze. Fireplace in the great room for chilly evenings. $284,900

601 Lake Shore DriveSpectacular lake views. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, fireplacewith wrap around decks and several patios. Guest suite inlower walk-out has a full kitchen, bedroom and bath. $449,000

Lovely Lake Shore Drive Leisurely Living Awaits

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