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Developer in with revised Ash planBy Linda [email protected]

The long-awaited replacement of the devel-oper on the residential portion of the Ash Skyline project in downtown Fort Wayne was announced by Mayor Tom Henry in January.

It was a poorly kept secret that the city had been negotiating with Great Lakes Capital on the final component of the development. The mayor’s announcement of the development agreement made the deal official.

Work got underway in 2014 with construction of a parking garage and the office portion that will house the corporate headquarters of Ash Brokerage.

Hanning & Bean, the original developer for the residential and retail component of the project, pulled out in September 2014. At that time, the

total development, with the garage and office portions included, was estimated to cost $95 million.

The city at first predicted it might find a new residential and retail developer by the end of that year, but the process dragged on all through the next year, 2015, as well.

The $40 million in private investment by Great Lakes Capital, which has offices in Fort Wayne and South Bend, will create 124 apartments as well as 170,00 square feet of retail and office space. The design differs from the one proposed by Hanning & Bean, which was taller and included condos and townhouses, but was priced at $10 million less.

The retail component of what will be known as Skyline Tower will be on the first floor. Office space

A Great Lakes Capital rendering shows the mostly residential portion of the Ash Brokerage project in downtown Fort Wayne. The residential and retail components will be known as Skyline Tower.

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GE talks move forward on two frontsBy Linda [email protected]

A citizens task force formed to develop plans to save the downtown GE campus had three meetings scheduled in February to get ideas and input from the general public. But conversations also have taken place behind the scenes involving GE, city officials and Greater Fort Wayne Inc.

GE representatives met with both the city and GFW to discuss “the possible implications” of the region’s recent win of $42 million in Regional Cities grants, GE spokesman Matt Conkrite said.

“The possibilities this may bring in attracting development opportunities to the city are exciting. We continue to support the city

of Fort Wayne and Greater Fort Wayne (Inc.) as they work to identify actionable solutions that will benefit the community and meet the needs of the local market,” Conkrite said in an email.

“We continue to have positive discussions with GE about the future of the campus,” said John Perlich, spokesman for Mayor Tom Henry’s office. “Everyone realizes this is an effort that’s going to take time.”

The Regional Cities proposal submitted to the state by the North-east Indiana Regional Partnership included the redevelopment of the GE campus as a “vision” project, with no timeline for completion specified. It estimated the cost of repur-posing and redeveloping the GE campus at roughly $165 per square foot, or a

total of $165 million.The Regional Cities

funds from the state are conditioned upon other public and private invest-ment in each project.

“Regional Cities has the possibility of providing funding assistance for a number of projects to benefit the region,” Perlich said. “Collaboration will be key in moving forward to find an appropriate future use of the campus. We’re encouraged there’s open communication designed to find ways to make a mean-ingful difference for the community.”

The task force itself has not had any discussions with GE, said City Coun-cilman Geoff Paddock, who organized the ad hoc group last May. GE representatives were not specifically invited to the

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Crowded field running for seat in Congress

KPC MEDIA GROUPVoters of both parties

will have plenty of choices for U.S. repre-sentative on their ballots in the May 3 primary election.

Four Democrats and six Republicans are running for the 3rd District seat in Congress that is being left vacant by Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a Republican from Howe. Stutzman announced last spring that he will run for the state’s open seat in the U.S. Senate this year.

Brief profiles of the candidates to replace Stutzman:

DemocratsToby Lamp is described

by one political website, politics1.com, as a “nonprofit group relief coordinator, Himalayan trekking

guide and nurse.” His Facebook page says he recently completed a 9 1/2-week, 2,280-mile bicycle trip across the United States to raise more than $3,000 for projects to help victims of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and causes in other nations.

Todd Nighten-helser of Huntington owns retail gaming stores in Huntington, Marion and

Wabash. On his website, he pledges, “I will work hard to help families, workers and small busi-nesses.” He also endorses Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

John Roberson ran as a Democratic candidate for mayor of Fort Wayne last year, losing to the incumbent in the primary. He ran for Congress in the 2012 Democratic primary, placing sixth out of six candidates with 7.7 percent of the votes.

Tommy Schrader ran for Congress in two previous Democratic

primaries. He placed second of six candidates in 2012, with 13.5 percent of the votes.

He then finished second of three candidates in 2014 with 33.8 percent of the votes, losing by only 88 votes. He also ran in 2006 and 2010. A news report said Schrader is unemployed, opposes abortion rights and favors raising the minimum wage and outlawing workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

RepublicansJames “Jim” Banks of Columbia City is a member of the Indiana State Senate, first

elected in 2010. He is a commercial real estate broker for The Bradley Co. in Fort Wayne. He serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve as a supply corps officer and took a leave of absence from the Senate in 2014 and 2015 to deploy to Afghanistan. He and his wife, Amanda, have three daughters.

Mark Willard Baringer ran in the primary election for the House in 2014. He received nearly 10 percent of the votes, trailing Stutzman’s 82 percent. Baringer, 57, was identified then as a graduate of the Nuclear Power Training Unit at the Argonne National Test laboratory in Idaho and a veteran of service with the U.S. Navy in the submarine force.

Liz Brown of Fort Wayne is a member of the Indiana State Senate, first

elected in 2014. She has

worked as an attorney and served on the Fort Wayne City Council and Fort Wayne City Plan Commission. She has focused on pro-life issues. She and her husband, Steve, have seven chil-dren.

Pam Galloway of Warsaw is a former Repub-lican member of the Wisconsin

State Senate, serving from 2010 to 2012, when she moved to Indiana. She is a retired surgeon. Her website says she helped pass Wisconsin’s collective-bargaining reforms and sponsored a concealed-carry bill.

Kevin Howell was a staff assis-tant for Stutzman for two years and served as an Allen

County Councilman from 2010-2014. A U.S. Marines veteran, Howell said he is the, “first ever Republican Afri-can-American veteran to run for Congress from northeast Indiana.”

Kip Tom, from Lees-burg in Kosciusko County, is a managing member

of Tom Farms and presi-dent of CereServ Inc. His website says Tom Farms is a leader in agriculture and seed corn production. Tom said voters “are hungry for a conservative outsider with real busi-ness experience.”

The Federal Elec-tion Commission lists campaign funds on hand for five of the candi-dates at the most recent reporting deadline: Banks $358,639, Tom $353,550, Brown $167,409, Galloway $83,247, and Nightenhelser $311. No reports are available for the other five candidates.

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USF Battle of the Bands

invites musicians, publicThe University of Saint

Francis will host USF Battle of the Bands, a competition exclusively for high school and college-age musicians. The music begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 5, in the USF Robert Goldstine Performing Arts Center, 431 W. Berry St., Fort Wayne. The public is welcome, and

admission is free.Participants will compete

on stage for a chance to record their original music in the university’s Music Technology Department studios. This event, spon-sored by the USF School of Creative Arts, is open to all music genres including rock, metal, acoustic, folk, jazz, pop, hip-hop, and R&B.

Band members must be 25 or younger to enter,

a requirement unique to USF Battle of the Bands. Winners will be determined by originality and musical expression, technical skill, professional behavior and stage presence. The judges are all professionals with a variety of specialties in the music industry.

For more information, call Mark Everetts at (260) 399-7700, ext. 8025, or email [email protected].

By Linda [email protected]

While Don Steininger is best known in northeast Indiana as a real estate developer, philanthropist and stalwart member of area nonprofit and for-profit boards, his involvement in the devel-opment of Fort Wayne’s riverfront has him singing and dancing another role: principal pitch man.

Selling a vision of what Fort Wayne’s river-front can be to politicians, the public and potential donors, whose agreement and support are needed to get it done, has been the most difficult task he’s ever undertaken, Steininger said.

“I think all you can do is put on your best sales shoes you’ve got. Give it the best tap dance you know,” he said in his typi-cally blunt style.

In recognition of his decades of service to the community, Steininger was honored by Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Feb. 18 as the 2016 recipient of its Legends of Leadership award.

Timing is everythingThe Community Foun-

dation of Greater Fort Wayne, on whose board of directors Steininger sits, has taken a lead role in raising funds for river-front development and providing oversight for the project. The latter is something it hasn’t really done before, said David Bennett, the foundation’s executive director.

But after visiting Des Moines, Iowa, and seeing the activist role its community foundation had taken in redevelop-ment, Steininger helped persuade other board

members that Fort Wayne could and should do the same.

“He’s really taken a keen interest in that and sees the incredible trans-formation that can take place if we get this thing done,” said real estate developer and longtime friend Barry Sturges, of CBRE/Sturges.

About year ago, the foundation was offered a chance at $1 million from the Lilly Endowment as a 50-percent match to fund a community project, if the foundation could raise $2 million. When Mayor Tom Henry proposed a riverfront redevelopment project, “all those pieces came together,” Bennett said.

In part through Steininger’s efforts, the foundation is only about $150,000 away from its goal of raising the $2 million to get the river-

front development on track.

“That’s taken a lot of time and…personal good-will, whatever,” Steininger said. “I’ve beat on a lot of doors and called on a lot of friends and people have really stepped up.”

Steininger also sits on the city committee plan-ning the development, and it’s the public nature of the project that is making it a special challenge for him.

“It’s just not as fast as it would be in the private sector,” he said. “I’ve got to build a consensus. I’ve never had to do that before. If I wanted to do something, I just did it.”

Although Steininger is open-minded and will listen to what others have to say, “he doesn’t have a lot of patience for process. He knows what he wants,” said Irene Walters, who is working with him on riverfront

development.“He’s driven and he’s

determined and he’s orga-nized and he’s like a pit bull getting things done,” she said. “He’s a go-get-it-done person.”

That drive and deter-mination were not always part of his makeup, Steininger said. He had very little interest in school in Auburn, where he grew up, other than playing on every sports team he could.

“I didn’t study. I did what I had to do. At that age, I really didn’t believe there was anything in a book worth learning… You read them because someone told you you had to, but you weren’t expected to learn anything you would really use in life.”

Steininger’s first choice of career also was sports related: he wanted to be a basketball coach.

“Then I realized about

the time I was gradu-ating they (coaches) were teachers, and I wasn’t really sure I wanted to be a teacher,” he said. “And I also realized they didn’t make much money. So I thought, maybe that’s not for me.”

False startsFortunately, the 1961

Auburn High School grad had a math teacher who took a special interest in him.

“I think she was one of the few people who understood I was more capable than what I let on,” he said.

The teacher found him a co-op scholarship at what was then Tri-State College, through Borg-Warner, that would allow him to study one quarter, then work one quarter, and get a paycheck year round.

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Great expectations

Don Steininger speaks with his friend, local attorney Dennis Sutton, during the Legend of Leadership breakfast Feb. 18 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.

PHOTO BY RAY STEUP

Steininger sets leadership bar high

Don Steininger received his Legend of Leadership award from Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly at a ceremony Feb. 18. Video and photos are available at INfortwayne.com.

PHOTO BY RAY STEUP

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By Garth [email protected]

When the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir travels to Europe this summer, the young singers will have a unique musical moment on their itinerary.

The youths will visit

famed locations and even sing in beautiful cathedrals, Executive Artistic Director Jonathan Busarow said. “Unlike other visitors to Hungary, our students will have an opportunity to demonstrate their command of the Kodály method as active participants with their Hungarian peers when they visit the Kodály Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary,” he said.

Busarow said Zoltan Kodály created the music

methodology that the children’s choir follows daily. “The Kodály method teaches students how to be musically literate,” Busarow said.

Busarow said 39 members from the Concert Choir and the Youth Chorale – the high school ensemble – will leave June 24 to perform in Hungary, Germany and Austria. They will return July 3.

Busarow spoke at a Feb. 22 concert at IPFW’s

Rhinehart Recital Hall, where the Concert Choir presented the program they would repeat Feb. 25 at the American Choral Directors Association conference in Chicago.

Busarow said that trip represents a special honor for the choir. “Gospel choirs, community choirs, children’s choirs like ours. You name it, they’re there,” he said.

“So how did we get there? We went through

a very rigorous audition process. We sent them three years of recordings and in those three years the FWCC rose to the top, which is an excellent thing for our orga-nization,” he said. Officials who reviewed the tapes were judging blind, without knowing which choirs submitted the tapes.

“It’s our first time going. It’s the first time anyone from the Fort Wayne area has gone. And, other than Indianapolis, we’re the only other choir from the state that has gone,” he said.

Five members of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra participated in the preview concert at IPFW, and would accompany the 40 members of the concert choir and FWCC staff members on the Chicago trip. The program would include many styles of music.

Busarow thanked IPFW, Sweetwater Sound and Three Rivers Federal Credit Union for their support of the Chicago trip.

Busarow said 39 members from the Concert Choir and the Youth Chorale – the high school ensemble – will leave June 24 to perform in Hungary, Germany and Austria. They will return July 3.

“We’ve been fund-raising for this tour for two years, and the students have been fundraising like crazy for this trip, and to date students have raised $13,000,” Busarow said.

Children’s Choir prepares to share voices in Europe

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art has opened “Lure of Mexico,” an exhibit exploring the attraction many artists felt to Mexico from the 1920s-1940s.

“In the opening decades of the 20th century visual artists, composers, writers, filmmakers and dancers from all over the world flocked to Mexico,” the museum said in a state-ment. “This exhibition explores the extraordinary

art created during this time period and the cross cultural influences.”

The exhibit opened Jan. 30 and continues through April 17 at 311 E. Main St., Fort Wayne.

Drawn from FWMoA’s permanent collection and augmented by works from public and private collec-tions across the country, the exhibition is anchored by portfolios by African Amer-ican artists Elizabeth Catlett and Hale Woodruff, and

photographer Paul Strand as well as other works by John Taylor Arms, Thomas Hart Benton and Ben Shahn. Other featured artists include Tina Modotti, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and Edward Weston.

Lenders to the exhibi-tion include museums and private collectors.

FWMoA plans a Lure of Mexico Symposium from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, featuring Gilberto Cardenas of the Univer-

sity of Notre Dame and Phoebe Wolfskill of Indiana University. The cost to hear the two speakers and enjoy a lunch and guided tour is $20 to FWMoA members and $25 to nonmembers. Visit fwmoa.org/rsvp to register, or call (260) 422.6467 for more infor-mation.

General admission to see this exhibition at the museum is free for FWMoA members, $7 for other adults, $5 for students

and seniors 65-plus, and $20 for families. General admission is free for everyone from 5-8 p.m. Thursdays. Veterans, active military personnel, and their families receive free general admission. FWMoA gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursdays 10 a.m.-8p.m., and Sundays noon-5 p.m.

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is a funded partner of Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne.


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Unfortunately, Steininger, who chose to major in engineering, didn’t last long.

“It didn’t take me long to figure out I wasn’t an engineer at all. It was a very demanding curriculum and I wasn’t ready to make the commitment. I convinced myself that the school wasn’t good enough for me – despite the fact that I couldn’t cut it – and that I needed to leave home.”

Steininger convinced Case Tech in Cleve-land, “the MIT of the Midwest,” to accept him, but only if he could first complete a semester of pre-engineering courses, with a 3.0 grade average, at the University of Akron.

“Then I thought I had it all figured out,” he said. “I started school, dropped all my engi-neering courses, played my way through school and didn’t learn much.”

Fortunately, Steininger said, it was during that time he met Kathy, the woman who became his wife. She turned him around enough that, by the time he graduated from Akron with a degree in indus-trial management and a minor in accounting, “at least I wasn’t at the bottom of the class.”

First jobsThe Steiningers

moved to Fort Wayne, where he went to work at International Harvester. He quickly figured out that wasn’t the right place for him and switched to Central Soya. That wasn’t the right spot either.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better employer, better people to work with, but deep down I just didn’t quite think that was where I wanted to spend the rest of my life,” he said.

A friend convinced Steininger his next move should be to enroll in law school. He went back to Akron for his first year, and then trans-ferred to the Indiana University Law School in Indianapolis to get his degree.

“Once I got to law school, I understood for the first time in my life what education could be,” he said. “I think it was because you were there to learn how to think, to reason, to make sense out of things. And I did well. Like every-thing else, when it’s your passion and you believe in what you were doing, you usually do well.”

Steininger was hired by Fort Wayne attorney Bob Haller, who was a father figure and important mentor in his life. He later decided to strike out on his own,

forming a plan with Dan Coats to open a boutique firm specializing in commercial real estate. That plan fell apart when Coats took a job with new Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle instead, so Steininger opened his own firm.

Pat Hart, who went on to work with Steininger for decades as a secre-tary and assistant, met him in the mid-1970s when he taught a class she took in business law.

“He was a wonderful teacher. I did great in class and he hired me,” she said.

Steininger also was kind and encouraging to her children, offering them part-time jobs around the office, for example.

“He’s just one heck of a guy and I am so proud to call him not only a boss but a really, really good friend,” Hart said.

The pull of real estateDuring the 1970s,

Don and Kathy Steininger also began buying rental properties.

“The thing that I realized was, in prac-ticing law, you only get paid when you work,” he said. “A passive investment, like rental real estate, at least it’s making money every day and you don’t have to be there taking care of it. I guess that was the kind of thing that really appealed, and that’s how it all began.”

Steininger’s first commercial project, in 1977, was a deal to build a restaurant for an Arby’s franchisee – signed on a paper napkin at a meeting at a Clear Lake cottage. Three friends put up $25,000, he put in $5,000 in sweat equity, and they borrowed money and built the building.

Other projects followed – most of them office buildings – but also Casa D’Angelo restaurants, other Arby’s locations and some retail.

“There was no roadmap. I never had one major client. It’s not as if somebody said, ‘go do this,’” Steininger said. “The basis of how these things come about is, you just really keep your eyes and ears open. Figure out where the growth is and then try to figure out how to get in the way of growth.”

“Don is very, very strategic in planning and well organized, as good as anybody I know,” Sturges said. “He puts his strategy together and then does a very good job of executing his game plan.”

He brings those same qualities to the game of golf, added Sturges, who with Steininger and a group of other friends

has been making treks to Arizona to play for 30 years.

“Don, being the well-organized person, is in charge of the tour-nament games and the wagering that takes place and the scores. His expertise is well used on those trips. We call him the golf czar. He makes up the games, he makes up the rules and we all have to fall in line and do what he says,” Sturges said.

One of the last and the largest of the 50 or 60 development projects Steininger completed over the years was the Chapel Ridge shopping center on Maysville Road, anchored by Walmart and Kohl’s.

The subsequent sale of that center provided the Steiningers the ability to donate $1 million to build an office and community center for Fort Wayne’s community foundation. They followed that a few years later with a donation of $400,000 to the Community Founda-tion of DeKalb County to build a facility in the town where Don grew up.

Tired of retirementThe Steiningers

retired to Florida – but a life of leisure wasn’t a good fit for Don.

“He wanted to come back and help make the community better,” Walters said. “He’s not only generous with his resources…it’s the giving of himself.”

Walters and Steininger had known each other for years, but reconnected on the business junket to Des Moines, Iowa, to view that city’s riverfront redevelopment.

“On the way back, Irene and I are sitting in the airport in Detroit discussing how impressed we were, and what a shame it was that other people in Fort Wayne who really need to hear this weren’t there,” he recalled. “I said, I’ll go find a jet, you find another one, and we’re going to fill both of them up…We’re going to fly to Des Moines and let them see and hear exactly what we did, and by golly we did it. We pulled it off.”

Steininger leads by example, and “for him, it’s not about the credit.”

“It’s because it’s the right thing to do,” Walters said.

“He is forthright, he is blunt, you know where he stands and you can deal with it. He is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Whether he is leading from in front or (pushing) from behind, he makes himself known.”

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College Fair at IPFWStudents from Fort

Wayne Community Schools, Concordia Lutheran High School and East Allen County Schools will have the opportunity to consider where they are heading after graduation during the North-east Indiana College Fair on Tuesday, March 8, at the IPFW Field House.

Admission to the event is free, and free parking is available on IPFW’s campus, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne.

Dozens of colleges, universities and military units from in and around Indiana — both public and private — will have infor-mation available at the fair on programs and services

offered. To see a list of which schools and organi-zations will be represented at the fair, visit fortwayne-schools.org.

Representatives also will be available to talk with students about what they are looking for in students and what the school can provide academically, socially and financially.

Northrop, Concordia to host jazz eventsThe sound of jazz music

will ring from local high schools over the next few weekends. Northrop High School will host the annual Barry Ashton Jazz Festival on Saturday, March 12. Concordia Lutheran High School will host the ISSMA Jazz Festival on March 4 and 5.

The Northrop festival will feature competition among high school and middle school bands and

combos during the day. The evening concert at 6 p.m. will feature the top two high school bands, Northrop Jazz 1, and guest artist Michael Eaton.

Eaton is a tenor saxo-phonist from New York. He also will perform with his ensemble, the Indi-vidual Quartet.

Northrop High School is at 7001 Coldwater Road, Fort Wayne. Ticket information was not avail-able.

John VanPatten directs the Northrop High School bands.

Concordia is hosting the Indiana State School Music Association jazz contest for the second consecutive year. Jazz bands from all over northern Indiana will compete, playing for guest judges. Watch for schedules at issma.net. Concordia is at 1601 St. Joe River Drive, Fort Wayne.

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Television stations WANE-TV and WFFT-TV face the prospect of becoming step siblings as their parent companies dial up plans for a multibillion- dollar merger.

The future for the two stations in Fort Wayne depends on how the deal between WFFT owner Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. and WANE owner Media General Inc. shakes out over the coming months in regards to conforming with Federal Communications Commis-sions regulations and an upcoming federal auction of TV airwaves.

Nexstar reached a defin-itive agreement in late January to acquire Media General for $4.6 billion, Nexstar said in a statement.

Maximum reachThe merged entity will

be named Nextar Media Group Inc. and become one of the largest station operators in the nation with projected annual revenues of more than $2.3 billion. The combined company would operate 171 full-power TV stations in 100 markets nationwide to reach nearly 39 percent of TV households in the U.S., doubling Nexstar’s current audience reach.

A piece of the market that big means the new company would skim the FCC’s limit that bars any company from having a more than 39-percent national reach.

Divesting stastionsCompanies are also

prevented from owning two of the top four stations in a television market, as is the case of WANE and WFFT.

The Fort Wayne market is among a few where Nexstar and Media General have ownership overlaps. Other markets include Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va.; Green Bay-Appleton, Wisc.; Terre Haute; and Lafayette, La.

“It’s not as bad in Fort Wayne with the two as it would be in a smaller market,” Dom Caristi, a telecommunications professor at Ball State University, said while referencing the Lafayette market where Nexstar and Media General already own three major-network stations.

To meet federal regu-lations, Nexstar will divest several stations, but representatives from both companies could not discuss specifics about those plans. In WANE and WFFT’s case, the combined company could decide to seek a waiver from the FCC to keep both, Caristi said.

“You’ve got these isolated markets where you’ve got the overlap, but Fort Wayne is a two-channel overlap,” he said. “If anything gets a waiver, top of the list would probably be Green Bay. Second on the list would be Fort Wayne.”

License auctionThere’s also a chance

the companies could sell WANE’s or WFFT’s licenses during the FCC’s upcoming incentive auction. The event aims to streamline the nation’s broadcast spectrum to provide wireless networks more space on the airwaves for wireless broadband services.

“It might be the plan to offload one of these stations,” Caristi said. “If they don’t auction, they may decide to keep a station and seek a waiver.”

TV companies can decide

whether or not to sell back their stations’ licenses to use the spectrum. They’ll then have options to take the station off the air, share a channel with another station or move to a channel on a lower band. Once that auction is done, and the FCC has reached the target amount of space to clear, the agency will reorganize the spectrum and auction space to wire-less networks, according to the FCC’s website.

The auction is set to begin March 29. After receiving applications, the FCC imposed a “quiet period” where bids and bidding strategies can’t be discussed.

Nexstar and Media General registered stations for the auction, Perry Sook, Nexstar CEO, said in a conference call with analysts on Jan. 27. What stations are involved won’t

be disclosed until the auction ends.

Finalizing detailsThe companies could

finalize the merger near the end of the year, but the auction could affect the closing date, Tom Carter, Nexstar’s chief financial officer, said during the conference call.

As Nexstar considers divestitures, the company also projects savings of $76 million in the first year after the deal closes by cutting costs and eliminating redundancies. A third company, Meredith Corp., received a $60-million payment to quit its earlier bid to merge with Media General. Meredith will also get first dibs to purchase certain assets owned by Media General, according to Nexstar’s statement.

Media General share-holders, meanwhile, will

receive $10.55 per share as well as about $6.59 per share of Nexstar stock as part of the deal. They’ll also receive a “contingent value right” which will be determined by the proceeds from the FCC spectrum auction.

The outcome of the Nexstar-Media General merger involving WANE and WFFT would differ from the deal that put Fort Wayne’s other top TV stations, WPTA-TV and WISE-TV, under control of Quincy Newspapers Inc.

The Illinois-based company purchased WPTA’s license last year while a partner company, SagamoreHill Broad-casting, bought WISE’s license. Quincy received FCC approval to operate both stations through a temporary shared services agreement that’s set to expire later this year.


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Parkview Hospital Randallia campus opened a new family birthing center and a remodeled intensive care unit.

Work on the departments was part of a larger $55 million renovation project that’s still underway at the facility, according to a statement by Parkview Health.

The new family birthing center is now located on the hospital’s first floor

and contains 10 private suites. Instead of moving to different rooms during the birthing process, families will remain in a single room for labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum care.

The ICU, meanwhile, was expanded to provide 12 beds with upgraded state-of-the-art critical care technology.

Both units opened in December.

“The demand for care and services at this hospital has exceeded our expecta-tions, and many residents continue to choose this

location as their preferred source of health care,” Ben Miles, president of Parkview Regional Medical Center & Affiliates, said in the statement.

“We’re excited to continue to invest in this campus as we address the needs of our community.”

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Concordia Lutheran High School will celebrate Fine Arts Week, March 7 to 13.

Fine Arts Department Chairwoman Dianne Moellering said high school artwork will be displayed throughout the school week in the PFC, which used to be the Physical Fitness Center.

“And then on Tuesday, each of the arts – media department, visual arts department, drama and choir and the band – will do a short presentation during an assembly,” Moellering said. “It’s featuring the arts and celebrating together the talent that’s God-given. And that will culminate on Sunday with the Lutheran area elementary schools joining us.” The Sunday program will be from 1-3:30 p.m.

Elementary artists also will display their work. The theme is “Growing Toward Eternity.”

A 2 p.m. concert will feature one song each from

the Lutheran elementary schools, and then one piece from the mass band and one piece by the mass orchestra from the Lutheran elementa-ries and the high school. “It’s a hymn that everybody will be singing,” Moellering said.

Admission to the concert is free. Concordia Lutheran High School is at 1601 St. Joe River Drive, Fort Wayne.

Participating Lutheran elementary schools are from Fort Wayne, Kendallville and the outlying area.

Moellering said the purpose of Fine Arts Week is to “celebrate the arts in our Lutheran schools, give God the glory.”

The Concordia high school choir tour is on tour through Feb. 28. The group will visit Boston. “They will be singing and enjoying some of the culture for a great educational experi-ence, but also sharing the Gospel at schools, churches and community places,” Moellering said.

Upon their return, the

choir will present a concert for the home audience at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at Concordia Theological Seminary, 6600 N. Clinton St., Fort Wayne. Admission is free.

SCAN Inc. is accepting orders for its 31st annual Brown Bag Lunch to take place 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, March 16.

The Summit, 1025 W. Rudisill Blvd., Fort Wayne, will host the fundraiser.

Casa Restaurants will donate 3,000 lunches featuring pasta with meatballs and Casaburo salad.

Proceeds from this event benefit services and programs that support SCAN’s mission to protect children, prepare parents, strengthen families, and educate the community to Stop Child Abuse and Neglect.

Lunches must be ordered in advance, and sponsors said they expect the meals to sell out for the fourth consecutive year.

For more information, including how to place an order, volunteer, or sponsor the event, visit scanfw.org/brownbaglunch/, or contact Heather Leas, events manager, at (260) 421-5000, ext. 2318, or [email protected].

Casa chefs, along with community volunteers and SCAN employees, will prepare, package, and deliver the lunches in just over two hours.

There are several menu options. An individual portion of pasta with meat-balls and a side Casaburo salad is $9. A large Casa-buro salad is available for $7. Family style meals are also available.

Serving up to 20 people, these meals are $180 for pasta with meatballs and a side Casaburo salad. All lunches include a dinner roll, butter, a sweet treat, and thank you card. Family style orders also include a sheet cake donated by Walnut Hill Catering and Events.

Lunches will be avail-able for pickup the day of the event at The Summit, or for free delivery with a minimum of seven indi-vidual or one family style order.

Delivery must be within one mile of the Interstate 69 and 469 boundaries or no farther north than Hunt-ertown.

SCAN, 500 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, affected the lives of 5,133 families in 23 northeast and north central Indiana counties in the agency’s fiscal year 2015.

In 2016, SCAN now serves 28 counties.

SCAN provides preven-tion and preservation services for children and families who are victims of or are at risk for child abuse and neglect. Most services are provided at no cost to the clients. For more infor-mation, visit scanfw.org.

To report child maltreat-ment, call the Indiana Child Abuse/Neglect Hotline, at (800) 800-5556.

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Second Chances art tells 13 stories of redemptionBy Garth [email protected]

Shaquilla was only 5 when her trust was violated. By age 13, she had been victimized by four people.

“As a result of that she had a lot of anger that she never dealt with, and it was like a volcano that explodes,” artist Deb Washler explained. Washler met with Shaquilla several times to hear her story and to retell it through her embroidery.

Thirteen such stories will be shared by 13 artists on March 11, at the Second Chances Art Exhibition & Auction. Proceeds benefit the host venue, Artlink, and the Blue Jacket Career Academy. As many as 150 pieces of art will tell the stories of Blue Jacket graduates.

Blue Jacket Executive Director Anthony Hudson described the exhibit as “13 successful redemption stories of people who have earned their second chance in the Fort Wayne commu-nity.”

“Those stories are being highlighted by 13 of the best artists in Fort Wayne, who have a diverse foot-print in the mediums, so there will be paintings, drawings, photography, ceramics, sculpture,”

Hudson said. “It will be a really neat show, high-lighting those stories of people who are doing very well in our community.”

The artists have been meeting with the clients and creating their artwork for several months, Hudson said.

Washler was paired with Shaquilla. “We met one time just to get to know each other and decide how we were going to continue,” Washler said. “We met three or four times total, one time really

focusing on the whole story.

“She is a really warm person. She’s one of those people who likes people. I don’t know that it took anything special on my part to get her to open up.”

Washler tells Shaquilla’s story through emotion and symbols. The first panel shows a child with a lamb to denote innocence; storm clouds are approaching. In the second panel is an image of a pred-ator, a wolf. In the third

one, the clouds will be receding.

Hudson said the artists will receive a small stipend to produce the work. Some pieces will be sold at a live auction at the opening reception on March 11. The remaining pieces will be offered in a silent auction through the duration of the exhibit, which closes April 13. “Proceeds from the live and silent auctions will fund both missions, the Blue Jacket mission and

the Artlink mission,” Hudson said.

Blue Jacket no longer charges the clients who learn job skills, or the employers that accept those clients. “That’s why we are fund raising so much,” Hudson said. “I am thankful for this opportunity that Artlink gave us.”

Washler is familiar with both agencies. She served nine years as the Artlink director before moving to Lincoln Financial Group in 2014.

She also serves on the Blue Jacket committee that organized the project. “They needed another female artist to pair with one of their female clients,” Washler said.

Washler said she stum-bled into hand embroidery

about two years ago, when she bought a box of thread from a friend whose mother had died. “I spent the first year just playing with it, figuring out what different fabrics will do and how threads react with it, if I needed to stretch it first or I needed to put it in a hoop,” she said.

Previously, photography was her medium of choice.

Washler also plans a fourth piece for her project, a portrait of Shaquilla.

Shaquilla has faced battery charges, has served time, and has completed Blue Jacket training.

She will not profit finan-cially from the exhibit. “It helps her just talking about it. I think that’s the biggest part of it for her,” Washler said.

Fort Wayne artist Deb Washler shows embroidered scenes that tell the story of Shaquilla, a graduate of Blue Jacket Career Academy. Art depicting 13 such stories will be offered at the Second Chances Art Exhibition & Auction, at 6 p.m. Friday, March 11, at Auer Center for the Arts, 300 E. Main St., Fort Wayne.

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A company that special-izes in renting out trucks and equipment for utility projects will serve more customers through an expansion.

Fort Wayne-based Nesco

Rentals recently created a new division, called Nesco Specialty Rentals, to focus on equipment for more specialized fields in indus-tries like rail, telecom, and lighting, Nesco said in a statement.

Equipment for those industries will include hi-rail devices, fiber optic

trailers and pullers, cable placers, boom trucks, and sign and lighting trucks.

Tim Bryan was named president of the new divi-sion.

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If you goSecond Chances Art Exhibition & AuctionFriday, March 11, 6 p.m.Artlink, Auer Center for the Arts, 300 E. Main St., Fort WayneAdmission: Free to Artlink members; $2 suggested donation for the public.The event will feature musical entertainment by Jon Durnell and food and a cash bar provided by Calhoun Street Soup, Salad & Spirits.Three exhibitions open this evening. Second Chances art will be on display in the main gallery. Fusions of Concert Colors with FAME art will be displayed in the Friestoffer Gallery. Art-work by Artlink artist member Catheryn Blyth will be featured in the Betty Fishman Gallery. All three exhibitions continue through April 13. Artlink’s gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.


FAME celebrates Indiana with art and performanceThe 2016 FAME Festival

will be held Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20, at the Grand Wayne Center, 120 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, and free for anyone under 18.

The Foundation for Arts and Music in Educa-tion announced the 2016 schedule.

Themed “Artfully Cele-brating Indiana,” this year’s festival is an official Indiana Bicentennial event in partnership with the History Center.

The 2016 festival will feature over 6,000 pieces of art from 60 schools, and 35 choir, band, dance and drama performances by over 2,000 students from local schools and organiza-tions. Visitors may create and take home Indiana theme art projects from FAME’s Imaginarium. Art projects include Indiana lanyards, popcorn art, and sandpaper art. Sweetwater Sound’s Instrument Play-ground will give children the opportunity to try out different instruments.

At 3 p.m. Sunday, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic

in collaboration with FAME, the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company, and the Fort Wayne Chil-dren’s Choir will perform the Celebration of Youth Concert. The performed piece includes writings by the students of the FAME Composition Project, and is composed by Indiana native David Crowe. The dance is choreographed by the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company and Alexis Ingram.

FAME’s Fusion of Concert Colors is made up of artwork created by students as they listened

to the music of Indiana legends Cole Porter and Hoagie Carmichael. This program encourages students to draw emotional connections between music and visual arts. There will be a public exhibition of the students’ artwork during the Celebration of Youth Concert.

Several Hoosiers are among this year’s visiting artists. Helping FAME to celebrate Indiana’s bicen-tennial are Reed Steele, the Hearth Stone Ensemble, and Katrina Mitten. Steele is a mime, performing his original piece titled

“Raiders of the Lost Art.” The Hearth Stone Ensemble is a traditional pioneer music group, and will provide dulcimers for the

children to try out. Mitten is skilled in Native American bead working.

Visit famearts.org for more information.

The March 19-20 FAME Festival at the Grand Wayne Center in Fort Wayne will feature dozens of performances and 6,000 pieces of art from 60 schools.

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Themed “Artfully Celebrating Indiana,” this year’s FAME Festival is an official Indiana Bicentennial event in partnership with the History Center.

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Rotary Club picks Bennett

David Bennett was elected the 2018-19 president of the Rotary Club of Fort Wayne. The

Club elected Bennett and four new board members.

Bennett received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Williams College, and a master’s in public affairs from Princ-eton University. From 1988 to 1995, he was the presi-dent of Taxpayers Research Association. Bennett joined the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne as executive director in 1995.

Jason Daenens, CEO of Commercial Filter, is current president of the humanitarian service club; he will be succeeded on July 1, 2016, by pres-ident-elect, Candace Schuler, owner of Candace Schuler Writes! The 2017-18 club president is Timothy “Tim” G. Gibson, first vice president of Wells Fargo Advisors.

Incoming Rotary Club of Fort Wayne board members are Kurt Beuchel of Old National Insurance, Ruth Ford of Huntington University, Bruce Haines of PBS Channel 39, and Greg Solon of Edward Jones Investments.

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Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly congratulates the winners of the 8th annual Forty Under 40 Awards.

The awards honor 40 individuals under the age of 40 who are making a difference on the job and in their community.

These young profes-sionals were chosen by a panel of distinguished judges out of a record number of entries.

The following are the members of the Business Weekly Forty Under 40 Class of 2016:

Eric Ade, 37, general manager, Three Rivers Running Company, Fort Wayne

Dana Berkes, 34, public affairs manager, NIPSCO, Fort Wayne

Rachel Blakeman, 39, compliance officer, City of Fort Wayne,

Fort WayneMargaret Brooks, 35,

project superintendent, Brooks Construction Company, Inc., Fort Wayne

Zeke Bryant, 36, assistant director of media services, Ivy Tech Community College, Fort Wayne

Ellen Cutter, 34, director, Community Research Institute, Fort Wayne

Jordan Essman DeMond, 26, broker, RE/MAX Results, Angola

David Faust, 36, CEO, Ro12 Enterprises/The PWT Group, Fort Wayne

Jennifer Ford, 37, owner, Choice Designs Inc./Jennifer Ford Art, Huntertown

Marietta Frye, 39, director of advising for the College of Arts and Sciences, IPFW, Fort Wayne

Alison Gerardot, 34,

director of programming & events, Riverfront Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne

Ryan Giese, 23, asso-ciate broker, Imagine Real Estate, New Haven

Damian (Dom) Gosheff, 37, counsel, Faegre Baker Daniels, Fort Wayne

Adam Hamid, 37, electrical engineer, Raytheon, Fort Wayne

Brent Harring, 32, assistant director of group sales, Fort Wayne Tin Caps, Fort Wayne

Sheenah Johnson, 32, director/lead chore-ographer, SheeKriStyle Academy of Dance Arts, Inc./Jam ‘n Learn Early Learning Center, Fort Wayne

Susie Kaiser, 38, director in-school education programs, Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana, Fort Wayne

Michelle Kearns, 38, marketing commu-nications director, Physicians Health Plan, Fort Wayne

Kara Kelley, 38, senior vice president, Asher Agency, Fort Wayne

Lucas Konger, 33, president, Vintage Archonics, Fort Wayne

Ryne Krock, 24, president and CEO, LaGrange County Economic Development Corporation, LaGrange

Ryan Krueckeberg, 32, senior business data analyst, Lincoln Finan-cial Group, Fort Wayne

Tin Hein Latt, 38, president, Fort Wayne Halal and Grocery, Fort Wayne

Matthew Marshall, 37, business relationship banker, IAB Financial Bank, Fort Wayne

Brandon McClain, 31, branch manager, PNC Bank, Fort Wayne

Max Meyer, 37, director of children’s education, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne

Carrie Meyer, 38, director of online learning, Taylor Univer-sity, Columbia City

David Nicole, 39, president and CEO, United Way of Allen County, Fort Wayne

Edmond O’Neal, 34, senior program director, Northeast Indiana Works, Fort Wayne

Kelli Packnett, 33, building instructional coach, Levan Scott Academy, Fort Wayne

Jeremy Redding, 31, vice president opera-tions, Commercial Filter Service Inc., Fort Wayne

Heather Regan, 38, REALTOR/broker, Reecer Properties Inc.,

Fort WayneMolly Rommel, 38,

marketing director, Barrett & McNagney, Fort Wayne

Shelley Lopez Schwab, 38, chief development officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Decatur

Shauna Shafer, 38, Parkview senior services, Parkview Health, Fort Wayne

Gary Skeel, 36, owner, Wine Down Tastings and Tapas, Fort Wayne

Shawn Sollenberger, 38, senior manager, Baden Gage & Schro-eder, Fort Wayne

Mychal Thom, 38, principal, Concordia Lutheran High School, Fort Wayne

Carmen Tse, 38, financial analysis manager, Lincoln Finan-cial Group, Fort Wayne

Ian White, 26, front desk manager/EMR administrator, Matthew 25 Health and Dental Clinic, Fort Wayne

The winners will be honored at an awards dinner 5:30-10 p.m. March 24. The event will be at the Memorial Coliseum in the new Conference Center. The Conference Center is the official venue for all 2016 Business Weekly events. Tickets are $50 each. Tables of eight and 10 are available. To purchase tickets, visit fwbusiness.com under the “events” tab.

A special publication will complement the event in the March 25 issue of Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly featuring profiles of each of the Forty Under 40 honorees.

“We had an amazing group of nominees this year. A record number, in fact,” said Randy Mitchell, KPC Media Group CEO and publisher of Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly.

“I am excited to meet these outstanding leaders in person at the event March 24.

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public meetings on Feb. 11, Feb. 13 and Feb. 18, although they were welcome to attend.

“This portion of the journey is designed to get ideas from the public and put that in a format that can be presented” to GE and GFW, Paddock said.

The public meetings were to be moderated by Andrew Downs, asso-ciate professor of political science and director of the Mike Downs Center for Politics at Indiana Univer-sity - Purdue University Fort Wayne.

The “structured conver-sations” will include discussions of some options members of the task force – concerned citizens, preservationists

and GE retirees – already have discussed, “but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to hear any idea out there,” Paddock said. “We’ll winnow it down afterward.”

Greater Fort Wayne Inc. provided the funding to conduct the public meet-ings.

Since it closed its last Fort Wayne operations in 2014, GE demolished a few of the buildings on the downtown campus, most notably a large office building on Broadway that it said had deteriorated beyond repair.

Vandalism in the empty buildings has also been an issue, and last summer the sign atop the tallest GE building was damaged,

with most of the special LED bulbs broken or removed.

GE initially said it would repair the sign, but later acknowledged problems finding replacement bulbs and reversed that decision. Conkrite said the company has no additional plans “at this time” for anything else to be done to the buildings or the site.

Among the ideas that have been proposed for various GE buildings are: a city museum similar to one St. Louis created in an old industrial building; artists lofts; small retail, including an indoor farmers market; indoor growing/greenhouse operations; a film studio; and an expansion by TekVenture.

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Four Catholic parishes in Fort Wayne will join the celebration of “24 Hours for the Lord” on March 4 and 5.

The motto for this Jubilee Year of Mercy is “Merciful Like the Father.” In all, 12 parishes throughout the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend will join the celebration.

“Catholics all over the diocese are invited to attend some part of 24 Hours for the Lord, even if it’s simply spending time in quiet reflection and prayer,” the diocese said in a statement. “There will be numerous opportunities for the faithful to encounter Jesus Christ anew in the Sacrament of Confession as well as during Eucha-ristic Adoration.”

In the Bull of Indiction of the Extraor-dinary Jubilee of Mercy, “Misericordiae Vultus,” which was announced in Rome last April in Saint Peter’s, Pope Francis called for an observance of 24 Hours for the Lord to be celebrated in each diocese on the Friday and Saturday preceding the Fourth Week of Lent. The emphasis will be

on Reconciliation, but participating parishes will also include Eucharistic Adoration, Stations of the Cross, various prayer services and quiet prayer throughout the 24 hours, which will run from noon on Friday, March 4, till noon on Saturday, March 5.

The 12 parishes hosting 24 Hours for the Lord in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend will be:

• Saint Therese, Little Flower, South Bend;

• Saint Thomas, Elkhart;

• Saint Joseph, South Bend;

• Saint Mary of the Annunciation, Bristol;

• Holy Family, South Bend;

• Saint Francis Xavier, Pierceton;

• Saint John the Baptist, Fort Wayne;

• Christ the King, South Bend;

• Saint Jude, Fort Wayne;

• Saint Vincent de Paul, Fort Wayne;

• Saint John the Evan-gelist, Goshen; and

• The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne.

A full schedule from

the individual parishes and more information on 24 Hours for the Lord can be found at MyYearOf-Mercy.org.

In his writing, “Miseri-cordiae Vultus,” Pope Francis wrote of the importance of the sacrament of Reconcili-ation: “So many people, including young people, are returning to the sacra-ment of Reconciliation; through this experience they are rediscovering a path back to the Lord, living a moment of intense prayer and finding meaning in their lives.”

Scheduled times of Confession during 24 Hours for the Lord are an opportunity to talk to a priest “to discover, or rediscover, the mercy that is extended to all.”

Pope Francis said, “Every confessor must accept the faithful as the father in the parable of the prodigal son: a father who runs out to meet his son despite the fact that he has squandered away his inheritance.

“Confessors are called to embrace the repentant son who comes back home and to express the joy of having him back again.”

Diocese plans ‘24 Hours for the Lord’ for Jubilee


Ash Skyline building signs new tenant

A law firm will move into Ash Skyline Plaza as the new building in down-town Fort Wayne nears the end of construction.

Barnes & Thornburg signed a long-term commercial lease to occupy the south half of the plaza’s sixth floor, Ash Brokerage said in a statement. The legal firm, which has about 30 employees, plans to move its services out of the Indiana Michigan Power Center building on East Wayne Street and into the new offices by mid-Au-gust.

“Having the support and commitment of a respected firm like Barnes & Thorn-burg means a lot to us. It says a lot about their loyalty to Fort Wayne and the impact this building will have on our entire community,” Tim Ash, Ash Brokerage’s CEO, said in the statement.

Ash Brokerage plans to move its headquarters and its approximately 250 employees into the Ash Skyline building’s top three floors around the end of May.

The city-owned parking garage, on which the Ash

structure sits, recently opened to monthly parking and will open to the general public soon, according to the statement.

Several businesses – Lake City Bank, DeBrand Fine Chocolates, Fort Wayne YMCA, The Golden restaurant, and new boutique store The Find – have signed on to occupy the building’s ground-level retail spaces.

Ash Brokerage plans to announce which business will take up the other half of the sixth-floor commer-cial space soon.

will be on the second floor and the apartments will occupy the 10 floors above that.

“GLC will be a great partner, and we appre-ciate their commitment to Fort Wayne as we work together to move our community forward in the right direction,” Henry said. “We’ve done our due diligence to ensure the residential piece is reflective of the tremendous investments taking place in our down-town and community as a whole.”

GLC and Bradley Co., which also has offices in Fort Wayne, will collabo-rate to build and manage the project long-term, CEO Brad Toothaker said in the statement.

“This project is the quintessential model of a public-private partner-ship with businesses and the community coming together to create a project that truly moves the needle for the region as it elevates the land-scape of Fort Wayne’s downtown,” he said.

Both GLC and Bradley have committed to relo-cating their offices to Skyline Tower.

GLC will use Commu-nity Revitalization Enhancement Credits from the Indiana Economic Development Corp. and New Markets Tax Credits to assist with the financing of the project. The city’s investment toward Skyline Tower will be

a $4 million bond that will require approval by the Fort Wayne Rede-velopment Commission and Fort Wayne City Council. In addition, the Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority is expected to consider Skyline Tower as part of the Regional Cities initiative.

The city also paid for the construction of the $39 million, 1,200-space parking garage, which is substantially complete.

Construction could begin in late summer or early fall, with the retail and office spaces to be completed in late summer or early fall 2017 and the residential portion in late 2017 or early 2018.

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By Linda [email protected]

A scaled down version of what residents have come to expect from the Greater Fort Wayne YMCA will open in mid-April on the ground floor of the new Ash Brokerage Skyline Plaza downtown.

The 10,000-square-foot Ash center, “more of an express hub,” according to Nicole Hansen, director of mission advancement for the YMCA, will cater to people who live and work within easy walking distance of the Harrison Street development.

It will have functional

training equipment, including cycles and ellip-tical machines, and space for personal and group training and exercise classes.

To encourage “active living,” there will be bicycle storage for bike commuters, who also will have access to showers. More than 100 bike lockers will be available and users won’t have to be a YMCA member to rent a bike locker.

The Ash Y is not expected to compete with the busy Central YMCA located just a few blocks away.

“I don’t think any of our Ys are in competition with

each other,” Hansen said.The Ash and Central

YMCAs will be run by the same executive director, and membership allows users to visit any of the facilities the Greater Fort Wayne YMCA operates.

The much larger Central YMCA recently received a face lift and and upgrades to maximize the use of space and make it a little more family friendly, Hansen said. Its offerings and amenities include an indoor pool, indoor track, racquetball courts, aerobics, cardio, cycling and weight rooms, dance studio, sauna and steam rooms, wellness center and a child watch area.

Ash YMCA slated for April opening

Picture of Ash Skyline development from January 2016.

PHOTO BY RAY STEUP

A Great Lakes Capital rendering shows the retail section of the Skyline Tower, which will be part of the Ash Skyline development.

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Foellinger Theater spring, summer season setConcert and movie series offers big names and free family funCourtesy of Fort Wayne

Parks and Recreation

The concert season, which begins May 13, will feature nationally acclaimed musicians such as Ringo Starr, Heart, Alice Cooper, The Monkees and The Osmond Brothers.

“I continue to be impressed with the excel-lent work being done to provide our commu-nity and region with tremendous concerts at the Foellinger Theatre,” said Mayor Tom Henry Feb. 23. “Fort Wayne continues to move in the right direction with a commitment to being a leader in developing quality of life amenities and activities for resi-dents to enjoy.”

Tickets for the following concerts went on sale Friday, Feb. 26.

Alice CooperThursday, May 19,

7:30 p.m.$49 - $99, $5

processing feeWith his influence

on rock & roll, there is little that Alice Cooper, born Vincent Damon Furnier, hasn’t achieved in his remarkable career, including plat-inum albums, sold-out tours and any number of honors and career achievement awards.

Hotel California: A

Salute to the EaglesMonday, May 30, 7:30

p.m.$20This wildly popular and

extremely talented Eagles tribute band returns to perform their faithful and accurate renditions of the timeless songs of the Eagles.”

Ringo Starr &

His All Starr BandTuesday, June 21, 7:30

p.m.$59 - $129, $5

processing feeSince beginning his

career with The Beatles in the 1960’s, Ringo Starr has been one of the world’s brightest musical luminaries.

The Osmond BrothersSaturday, July 9, 8 p.m.$25, $35The Osmond family

has spent more than 50 years working together and entertaining audi-ences all over the world, with music historians noting them as the longest running group in history, having never been disbanded.

Sounds of TouchSaturday, July 23,

8 p.m.$15Enjoy the best in

“Old School” and The Motown Sound as Touch sings smash hits from artists such as The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, The O’Jays, Smokey Robinson and the Mira-cles, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, and many more.

Little River BandSaturday, July 30, 8

p.m.$25, $35Little River Band is

considered to be one of Australia’s most significant bands, with worldwide album and CD sales topping 30 million.

The Stranger,

featuring Mike

Santoro (Billy Joel

Tribute)Saturday, Aug. 13, 8

p.m.$20The Stranger is the

complete premiere tribute to the music of one of the world’s most beloved performers, Billy Joel.

Stayin’ AliveSaturday, Aug.20, 8

p.m.$20From traditional Bee

Gee’s songs like “To Love Somebody” to disco era songs like “Stayin’ Alive,” the authentic look

and falsetto voices of this Toronto based group will get you in the mood to re-live the 1970’s.

Tickets for the following concerts will go on sale Friday, March 4 at 8 a.m.:

HeartFriday, May 13, 7:30

p.m.$49 - $99, $5

processing feeFormed in Seattle when

sisters Ann & Nancy Wilson joined forces in 1974, the American rock band Heart had break-through record sales and radio airplay with the 1976 singles “Crazy on You” and “Magic Man.”

REO SpeedwagonFriday, May 27, 8 p.m.$49 - $99, $5

processing feeFounding member

Neal Doughty and Kevin Cronin bring this Cham-paign, Ill originated band back to the Midwest.

The MonkeesTuesday, June 7, 7:30

p.m.$49 - $99, $5

processing feeA one-of-a-kind,

multimedia evening with the Monkees — Micky Dolenz & Peter Tork — including live performances of their classic hits, deep cuts and fan favorites.

StyxSaturday, June 18, 8

p.m.$49 - $99, $5

processing feeTommy Shaw,

James ‘JY’ Young, and Lawrence Gowan will be leading this Chicago founded band through “Renegade,” “Come Sail Away,” “Too Much Time on My Hands,” “Babe,” “Fooling Yourself” and many more of their hits from soaring power ballads to big rockers.

Other performances this season, many of them free, are:

The Fort Wayne

Philharmonic Youth

Symphony and

Concert OrchestraSunday, May 15, 4

p.m.FreeThe youth ensembles

of the Fort Wayne Phil-harmonic perform an afternoon pops concert.

Fort Wayne Area

Community Band “All

American Concert”Tuesday, June 14, 7:30

p.m.FreeArea high school

band students will be joining the FWACB for his performance.

Air National Guard

Band of the MidwestTuesday, June 28, 7:30

p.m.FreePerforming an exciting

and diverse musical repertoire that preserves our national heritage as Americans, the Air National Guard Band of the Midwest instills patri-otism, national pride and esprit de corps.

Fort Wayne Area

Community Band “An

Evening with Sousa”Tuesday, July 12, 7:30

p.m.FreeDavid Blackwell’s

tribute to the great John Philip Sousa.

Fort Wayne

Children’s Choir

Choral FestFriday, July 29, 7:00

p.m.FreeThe Choralfest

Concert is the culmi-nation of a week-long music day-camp for Fort Wayne Children’s Choir members.

Fort Wayne Area

Community Band

“Love is All You

Need”Tuesday, August 9,

7:30 p.m.FreeVocalist Tom Didier

returns to sing with the band.

Happy Together TourSunday, Aug. 21, 7:30

p.m.

$49 – $99, $5 processing fee

Featuring The Turtles with Flo & Eddie, this concert includes Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night; Gary Puckett & the Union Gap; the Spencer Davis Group; The Cowsills and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and The Raiders.

38th Infantry Division

Band of the United

States Army National

GuardSaturday, Sept. 17,

4:00 p.m.FreeThis Indianapolis based

ensemble brings you an afternoon of patriotic favorites and popular songs.

Foellinger Theatre will also feature eight free, family-friendly movies this summer, scheduled for Wednesdays at 9 p.m., sponsored by 97.3 WMEE .

• June 15, Minions• June 22, Tomorrow-

land• June 29, Goosebumps• July 6, Sponge Bob:

Sponge Out of Water• July 13, Hotel Tran-

sylvania 2• July 20, The Good

Dinosaur• July 27, Inside Out• Aug. 3, Star Wars:

The Force Awakens

The 2016 Foellinger Theatre Summer Concert Series is sponsored by Lincoln Financial Foun-dation, Old National Bank and MedPartners.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 1Audition to sing the national anthem. Parkview Field. The Fort Wayne TinCaps are looking for talented artists to perform the national anthem before the team’s 70 home games in 2016. Singers, instrumentalists, and even groups are invited to try out. Auditions continue Thursday, March 3, and Saturday, March 5. To schedule a try-out time, contact Ben Snider at (260) 407-2828 or [email protected]. Interested performers must reserve their audition time in advance, as the team will not accept walk-up auditions.A tribute to the Civilian Conservation Corps. Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, in Meeting Rooms AB. 6-8 p.m. Performer and author Bill Jamerson will present stories and songs about the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era program that provided employment for young men. Audience members are encouraged to bring photo albums and other CCC memorabilia. Since 1992, Jamerson has researched the CCC. He produced a documentary for Michigan PBS, recorded a CD of songs, and wrote a historical novel. He presents “Dollar-A-Day Boys” all across the Midwest. Over 2.5 million men enlisted in the corps and today, their children and grandchildren often show up with CCC photo albums and memorabilia; they also share stories about their relatives with the audience. Fort Wayne was home to Camp Anthony Wayne D-2, Company 1590, from 1933 to 1942. For more information on Jamerson, visit billjamerson.com/cccboys.php.Fort Wayne Area Community Band concert. John & Ruth Rhinehart Music Center on the IPFW Campus, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne. Downbeat is 7:30 p.m. Tickets $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, children 6 and over $3; and IPFW students admitted free with ID. The 80-member concert band, under the direction of conductor Scott Humphries and assistant conductor David Blackwell, will perform a variety of music including “Highlights from Camelot,” “Children’s March,” “Canzone,” “At Morning’s First Light,” “An Outdoor Overture,” “Appalachian Spring” and more. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Free parking is available in the parking garage across from the Music Center.Three Rivers Woodworking Club. Woodworkers Club House, 16471 Lima Road, Huntertown. 7 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, call (260) 637-6415.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3Comedy and dinner with Christian comedians. IPFW International Ballroom, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne; in Walb Union Rooms 149-150. Doors open for social hour at 6 p.m.; dinner at 7 p.m. The 5th annual It’s a Spring Thing fundraiser for the biblical counseling ministry of Cross Connections, with comedic duo Barnes & Miner. Individual tickets $100. Order tickets and get details at crossconnectionscounseling.com.The Disorderly Bear Den. The Community Center, 233 W. Main St., Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. The public is welcome to this free meeting. Free parking is avail-able behind the building. This nonprofi t, public charity collects and gives away teddy bears and other stuffed animals — new or in mint condition —

to those in need. For details, contact Donna Gordon-Hearn, (260) 409-9886 or email [email protected] to sing the national anthem. Parkview Field. The Fort Wayne TinCaps are looking for talented artists to perform the national anthem before the team’s 70 home games in 2016. Singers, instrumentalists, and even groups are invited to try out. Auditions continue Saturday, March 5. To schedule a try-out time, contact Ben Snider at (260) 407-2828 or [email protected]. Interested performers must reserve their audition time in advance, as the team will not accept walk-up auditions.Educational presentation. The Community Foundation, 555 E. Wayne St., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. The Allen County Chapter 187 of AARP will hold its monthly free educational presentation. The community is welcome. Timothy Price of the Positive Resource Connection will present on “Why HIV Edu-cation is Important in our Community.” PRC has the mission to prevent new cases of HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis and STDs and advance a compassionate and stigma-free community response. PRC provides education, testing and care coordination to clients.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4Day of Prayer and Praise. North Christian Disciples of Christ Church, 5201 S. Camden Drive, Fort Wayne. 1 p.m. Reservations are $3 and can be sent to Barb McCoy, 1025 Brandon Way, Fort Wayne, IN 46845. Women of all faiths are invited to attend the celebration. The theme for the day is “Receive Children, Receive Me.” Shirley Lewis from Saint John Baptist Missionary Church is the Bible study leader.Fish fry. American Legion Post 160, 1122 N. Main St., Roanoke. Serving be-gins at 5 p.m. Sponsored by Sons of the American Legion.

SATURDAY, MARCH 5Audition to sing the national anthem. Parkview Field. The Fort Wayne TinCaps are looking for talented artists to perform the national anthem before the team’s 70 home games in 2016. Singers, instrumentalists, and even groups are invited to try out. To schedule a try-out time, contact Ben Snider at (260) 407-2828 or [email protected]. Interested performers must reserve their audition time in advance, as the team will not accept walk-up auditions.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6“Downton Abbey.” Embassy Theatre, 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. Free. The public is invited to a sneak preview of the entire fi nal episode of the fi nal season of the Masterpiece PBS hit series “Downton Abbey,” a full seven hours before it is scheduled to air on PBS39 Channel 39.1 at 9 p.m. The Embassy’s front doors will open at noon with theater doors open-ing at 1 p.m. Seating is on a fi rst-come, fi rst-seated basis.History lecture. The History Center, 302 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne. 2 p.m. Free, and open to the public. The George R. Mather Sunday Lecture Series presents the story of Captain Asa Fairfi eld, one of Fort Wayne’s founding fathers. Fairfi eld’s colorful life in the nineteenth century took him from the shores of Maine to command at sea and service during the War of 1812. Captain Fairfi eld later moved to the rough-and-tumble town of Fort Wayne where he became a prosperous businessman, operator on the old Wabash & Erie Canal, as well as a civic leader, gentleman farmer and landowner. Johnny Warren shares a biographical sketch of this Indiana legend in “Cap-tain on the Indiana Frontier: The Life and Times of Captain Asa Fairfi eld.”

MONDAY, MARCH 7College and Career Fair. Homestead High School, 4310 Homestead Road, Fort Wayne. 6-7:30 p.m. Homestead High School will host its annual College and Career Fair. The program is open to the public. There is no admission charge. Organizers expect participation by more than 80 4-year universities, 2-year colleges and vocational schools from across the United States. Representatives from various careers will participate, as will representatives of the armed services and fi nancial institutions. One junior or senior student in attendance will win a $200 schol-arship.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8Huntertown Heritage Days committee. Huntertown Town Hall, 15617 Lima Road, Huntertown. 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call Jenny McComb at (260) 637-6232.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9Get Checking workshop. Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 5-9 p.m. 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. Visit extension.purdue.edu/allen for details.

THURSDAY, MARCH 10“What Color Is Your Money?” Allen County Extension Offi ce, IPFW Campus, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. The public is invited to help under-stand each person’s perception of money and why a person uses it in a cer-tain way. The program promises to help each person develop skills to better use money. Registration is not required.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11Luers-Midwest Show Choir Invitational. Day 1, for middle schools. Bishop Luers High School, 333 E. Paulding Road, Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. $5. Luers hosts six local middle school show choirs.Fish and chicken strips dinner. Cornerstone Youth Center, 19819 Monroeville Road, Monroeville. 4-7 p.m. $9 for adults, $6 for ages 6 to 10, and free for children 5 and under. Burns Catering & Fish Fry will provide the fi sh and chicken. All meals will include scalloped potatoes, applesauce or coleslaw, dessert, roll and butter and beverage. Drive-thru and carryout orders are available for adult meals only. This is the sixth annual dinner for the the youth center, which was founded in 2002 to provide a wide range of services to the youth of southeast Allen County. For more information about the fundraiser, call Cornerstone at (260) 623-3972. For program details, visit cornerstoneyc.orgFish fry. American Legion Post 160, 1122 N. Main St., Roanoke. Serving be-gins at 5 p.m. Sponsored by Saint Joseph Catholic Church.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12Luers-Midwest Show Choir Invitational. Day 2, for high schools. Bishop Luers High School, 333 E. Paulding Road, Fort Wayne. Day competition 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Evening competition begins at 8 p.m. Tickets $10 for day or evening, or $15 for all. Luers hosts show choirs from 17 high schools. This marks the 42nd year of the longest running show choir competition in the nation.“Believe You Me.” University of Saint Francis North Campus auditorium, 2702 Spring St., Fort Wayne. 6 p.m. Tickets $10, available in advance. The Jesters of the University of Saint Francis will present their annual spring perfor-mance. This year’s show is about the evolution of ideas. The purpose of the Jesters is to enhance quality of life for people with disabilities by engaging them in the creative arts. Call the School of Creative Arts at (260) 399-7700, ext. 8001, for information.Pancake breakfast. Leo Masonic Lodge 224, 13711 Leo Road, Leo-Cedarville. 7-11 a.m. $5. Pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee.Josh Wilson, Jason Gray & JJ Heller, live in concert. County Line Church of God, 7716 N. County Line Road, Auburn. 7 p.m. Tickets $10-$30. Visit Trinity-Communications.org for details.Children’s clothing resale. Fellowship Missionary Church, 2536 E. Tillman Road, Fort Wayne. 8 a.m.-noon. Proceeds to benefi t children in need. This huge community event offers children’s clothing, maternity clothing, toys, baby furniture and miscellaneous baby equipment at affordable prices. Over 100 sellers from the community are registered to participate. All items are inspected to ensure excellent quality.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13Fort Wayne Hobby and Collectibles Show. Classic Cafe, 4832 Hillegas Road, Fort Wayne; in the catering and reception hall. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. Hobby and Collectible show along with the Vinyl Record and CD show next door! Find vintage and new toys, comic books, sport and non-sport cards, TV and movie memorabilia, coins, models, magazines, games, and more. Admission also is free to the vinyl record and CD show next-door. For more information, call (260) 450-4147.“Believe You Me.” University of Saint Francis North Campus auditorium, 2702 Spring St., Fort Wayne. 3 p.m. Tickets $10, available in advance. The Jesters


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TUESDAY, MARCH 153rd annual Feed a Farmer event. Huntington University, 2303 College Ave., Huntington. In the Zurcher Auditorium of the Merillat Centre for the Arts. Free. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m., with lunch available for purchase in the Habecker Dining Commons starting at 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit huntington.edu/agriculture. The Haupert Institute for Agricultural Stud-ies and Huntington University host this event in celebration of National Ag-ricultural Day. Farm equipment authority “Machinery Pete” Greg Peterson will speak at three different sessions.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16Fort Wayne Artists Guild meeting. Concordia Lutheran High School, 1601 St. Joe River Drive, Fort Wayne. 6:30 p.m. Nazar Harran will demonstrate painting still life arrangements. He is currently represented by Sharon Eisbart, Corpo-rate Art. The art guild’s meetings are for artists and art appreciators age 18 and above.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17“The Addams Family.” Snider High School, 4600 Fairlawn Pass, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Reserved seating is $8. Karen Hines Benson directs this presentation of the Snider Theatre Arts Department.

FRIDAY, MARCH 18“The Addams Family.” Snider High School, 4600 Fairlawn Pass, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Reserved seating is $8. Karen Hines Benson directs this presentation of the Snider Theatre Arts Department.“Death in the Dugout” mystery event and dinner. Lincoln Financial Event Center at Parkview Field, 1301 Ewing St., Fort Wayne. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., performance starts at 7 p.m. $30 per person. The Fort Wayne Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha hosts this event to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Center. Local figures will present the story. The evening includes appetizers, desserts, cash bar, raffles and a silent auction. For more information or for tickets, contact Jennyfer Balkema at [email protected] fry. American Legion Post 160, 1122 N. Main St., Roanoke. Serving be-gins at 5 p.m. Sponsored by Roanoke Lions Club.

SATURDAY, MARCH 19Breakfast with the Easter Bunny. St. Joseph Township Fire Rescue, 6033 Maplec-rest Road, Fort Wayne. 8-11 a.m. Free and open to the public. Pancakes and sausage. Food, fun and carnival style games. Bring your camera. Sponsored by the St. Joseph Fire Rescue & St. Joseph Township Trustee. Attendees will also be able to see the firetrucks and equipment, weather-permitting.Roaring ’20s auction. The Philmore on Broadway, 2441 Broadway, Fort Wayne. $50. This is an evening auction to benefit student scholarships and school funds at Emmaus Lutheran School, 8626 Covington Road, Fort Wayne. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. From 6-7 p.m., cocktails, craft beers and a silent auction will be available. Lutheran pastor and Purple Heart recipient Chap-lain Michael Frese will offer opening remarks. Casa Ristoranti will cater a classic Italian buffet from 7-10 p.m. Live and silent auctions and games will be available. Tickets include the full buffet, a Mad Anthony drink ticket, and dessert. Buy tickets at the school office, or online at eventbrite.com.Gathering of Quilters 2016. Wayne High School, 9100 Winchester Road, Fort Wayne. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration fee $20. Quilt designer Pat Sloan will be the featured speaker. For more information, visit appleseedquiltersguild.com or email [email protected]. The registration fee of $20 per person includes a box lunch from Goeglein’s Catering, door prizes and a shopping bag with commemorative pin. The deadline to register is March 1. Walk-in guests will be charged $15 at the door and receive a shopping bag with commemorative pin only (while supplies last); lunch and door prize opportunities will not be included.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24Guided history tour and lunch. From 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Settlers Inc. member and educator Linda Huge will lead a guided history tour of the Historic Swinney Homestead and the Allen County Courthouse. Lunch will be at the Home-stead, 1424 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne. The cost is $25, and reserva-tions and payment are required by March 17. Transportation is not included, however downtown parking suggestions will be presented. This event is for ages 14 and older. Call (260) 747-1501 or (260) 747-1229. Event proceeds support the maintenance of the Historic Homestead. For more information, visit settlersinc.org.Special Cuisines dinner series: Italy. Ivy Tech Coliseum Campus, 3800 N. An-thony Blvd. 6 p.m. Open to the public. $25 per person. Students in Ivy Tech’s Special Cuisines class take turns creating, preparing and serving world-cuisine theme meals for class credit. Reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance: visit IvyTech.edu/northeast/dinners or call (260) 480-2002. Pay on-site with cash, check or charge. Wine is available for an additional cost. Dinners are served in the Hospitality Room (Door 24, at the back of the building and facing Coliseum Boulevard). The culinary students rotate through various positions in the kitchen and dining room, providing a full restaurant experience. The rest of spring’s series include the following dates and themes:• March 31, Thailand; • April 7, Turkey; • April 14, Persia-Iran; • April 21, Africa; • April 28, India.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25All-you-can-eat fish and chicken dinner. American Legion Post 420, 112 E. South St., Monroeville. 5-7:30 p.m. Adults $9, advance sale $8, children 5-12 $5, under 5 free. Advance tickets available through Brenda Wolff, (260) 623-6401. Sponsored by the American Legion Post 420 Auxiliary.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31Special Cuisines dinner series: Thailand. Ivy Tech Coliseum Campus, 3800 N. Anthony Blvd. 6 p.m. Open to the public. $25 per person. Students in Ivy Tech’s Special Cuisines class take turns creating, preparing and serving world-cuisine theme meals for class credit. Reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance: visit IvyTech.edu/northeast/dinners or call (260) 480-2002. Pay on-site with cash, check or charge. Wine is available for an additional cost. Dinners are served in the Hospitality Room (Door 24, at the back of the building and facing Coliseum Boulevard). The culinary students rotate through various positions in the kitchen and dining room, providing a full restaurant experience. The rest of spring’s series include the following dates and themes: • April 7, Turkey; • April 14, Persia-Iran; • April 21, Africa; • April 28, India.Cooking with Wine class. Allen County Extension Office, IPFW Campus, 4001 Crescent Ave., Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Learn from a chef how to cook with wine to enhance the flavor of food for special occasions. Questions may be directed to Extension Educator Vickie Hadley at the Allen County Extension Office, (260) 481-6826, or TDD -711.

FRIDAY, APRIL 1Big Daddy Weave, Plumb & Jordan Feliz, “Beautiful Offerings Tour.” First Assembly of God, 1400 W. Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Tickets $15-$40. Visit TrinityCommunications.org for details.

NOTICES / REGISTRATION / MULTIPLE DATESHuntertown High School graduating class of 1966 reunion. The 50th year class re-union is scheduled for August 2016. For more information, contact Suzi Cain (260) 447-9300 or Denny Gloyd at (260) 466-4014.Concordia Lutheran High School plant sale. Our Creator’s Classroom greenhouse, Concordia Lutheran High School, 1601 St. Joe River Drive, at North An-thony Boulevard, Fort Wayne. April 29 and 30 and May 6 and 7. Plants typ-ically include decorative planters, potted flowers, bedding plants, perennials, herbs, raspberries and vegetables. Prices vary. Details to come.Vera Bradley Annual Sale tickets available. Vera Bradley handbags, travel items, accessories, stationery and eyewear will be available at the Vera Bradley Annual Sale, April 13-17 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, 4000 Parnell Ave., Fort Wayne. Tickets for the first three days of the sale are $5 each and are available at ticketmaster.com, authorized Ticketmaster loca-tions and the Coliseum Ticket Office. Tickets are not required Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17. However, attendees who wish to make a purchase will need to complete the free registration process. Registration is under way at verabradley.com/outletsale. Find hours and details at that same site. Registration kiosks will also be available at the Memorial Coliseum during

the sale.Summit City Chorus auditions. Avalon Missionary Church, 1500 Lower Hun-tington Road, Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Monday evenings. This men’s a cappella chorus sings in the barbershop harmony style. For more information, call Dale at (260) 402-1330, or visit summitcitychorus.org and barbershophar-mony.com.Fort Wayne Farmers Market indoor market. Lincoln Financial Center at Parkview Field, Fort Wayne. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of each month through May.Summit City Singers rehearsals. Shawnee Middle School, 1000 E. Cook Road, Fort Wayne. 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays. This SATB community choir is starting rehearsals for the spring season and welcomes new singers. The choir sings a variety of music and this season will be a celebration of Indiana’s Bicen-tennial featuring songs from a variety of songwriters and recording artists from Indiana. The choir is open to anyone high school age on up. There are no auditions but singers are required to match pitch. Rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings from 7-8:30 p.m. at Shawnee Middle School. For more information, contact Judy King at (260) 489-4505.Rotary Peace Fellowships. Rotary International is seeking applications for its 2017 Peace Fellowship Program. Each year, 100 Rotary Peace Fellows are selected to receive full funding to earn either a professional development certificate in peace and conflict studies or a master’s degree in any of a range of disciplines related to peace and security. Rotary Peace Fellowships are designed for professionals who have already worked in careers related to international relations or peace and conflict resolutions. Visit rotary.org for details.

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE BOTANICAL CONSERVATORY— Courtesy Fort Wayne Parks Department

“Dig This!” Through April 10. Botanical Conservatory, 1100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne. This winter, young adventurers can don their explorer vests and pith helmets to explore mysteries hidden underground. Why do people dig? What do they look for? Try out your digging- and-finding skills with differ-ent tools and media. Enjoy our active learning garden as a winter retreat, full of lush green plants and colorful flowers. Regular Conservatory admission fees apply: $5 for adults, $3 for ages 3-17. Children 2 and under are admitted free.$1 Nights. March 3, 5-8 p.m. On the first Thursday night of each month we offer a $1 admission price for both adults and children (instead of the usual $5 & $3). Babies and up to age 2 are still admitted free. For more informa-tion, call (260) 427-6440.$1 Night Insight: Flower Pounding. Thursday, March 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m. If you have never tried your hand at flower pounding — transferring the colorful pig-ments of flowers onto paper or cloth to use in crafts or art projects — this is your chance. Mallet on wood can be a little noisy but you’ll find the activity a stress reliever, too! And you will walk away with a sample of natural color to brighten your late winter days. Master Gardener Kay Musgrave will have the flowers and tools needed. No registration required. You can explore the botanical gardens afterward. All ages. $1 per person.


Local produce

Fort Wayne’s Farmers Indoor Winter Market gives local small business owners an opportunity to sell their goods on the first and third Saturdays of every month from October through mid-May. Go to INfortwayne.com to check out a video where Sara Smith, from Wholesome Meadows Family Farm, talks about how she enjoys interacting with her customers. Market coordinator Leigh Rowan emphasizes the importance of supporting small businesses by buying local.

PHOTO BY RAY STEUP

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