Returning to the Fort Wayne area for the second time this year is the heralded Purdue Varsity Glee Club. The 65-member male chorus will present their entertaining brand of music and showmanship in concert at the John & Ruth Rhinehart Music Center on the Purdue Fort Wayne campus Friday, October 26. They’ll be joined by…
The Payne Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring their 9th annual 5-K to raise funds; this year for P.A.S.S.: Paulding Area Support Society, formerly known as Paulding County Crippled Children and Adults Society. This is the same organization that receives the funds raised by the annual basketball marathon that has been held every Spring for the…
Wayne Trace Remains On Top Of The County Wrestling Meet For the sixth year in a row, The Wayne Trace Varsity Wrestling team was crowned County Champions. The Raiders defeated Paulding 64-6, And the host Antwerp Archers 58-6. Match Results: Wayne Trace 64, Paulding 6: 106 Daniel Ruiz, WT won by void 113 Tyler Bauer,…
Generous donations collected at the CHP Hospice dinner/auction in April are enabling the Noah’s Ark Fund at Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center to purchase items to benefit hospice patients and families during their stay at the center. Tisha Fast and Tonia Verville, members of the Noah’s Ark Fund committee, posed recently with some of…
The Van Wert Area Community Concert Band (VWACCB), under the direction of band director Richard Sherrick, will be presenting a free Christmas concert for the entire Van Wert community at the Marsh Foundation School Auditorium located at 1229 Lincoln Highway in Van Wert on December 21st at 7:00 p.m. Each year, the VWACCB travels to…
Fort Wayne-area business leader and sports legend Tom Kelley, president of Kelley Automotive Group, has made a record-breaking donation to the Burn Council of Northern Indiana. His $100,000 contribution was announced at the St. Joseph Regional Burn Center in downtown Fort Wayne, a location where Kelley recently spent eight days battling a rare and life-threatening…
The Land of Gosh By: Stan Jordan The fact that the state of Ohio issue 3 about legalizing the use of marijuana, compels me to tell you about an old WWII army buddy of mine and their state of chaos dealing with the same issue. After the end of WWII, Ben went back to his…
The Grover Hill Summerfest Parade is set for Saturday July 25th at 10 a.m. This year’s parade theme is “Homegrown on the Hill” with a red, white and blue color theme. The Grover Hill Summerfest parade committee is accepting parade entries for this year’s parade. There is no entry fee to participate in the parade.…
The ground-breaking took place at the building site on Monday, July 20 with county officials attending including the Commissioners and plenty of hard working ladies for the Bargain Bin! The Bargain Bin has it’s sites on the third location since it’s original opening in 1962. Currently the facility is housed at 118 Perry St. near…
The Paulding County Area Foundation has announced the recipients of the Anonymous Donor Scholarship to the six Paulding County graduates of the Class of 2015. The $1,000.00 scholarships have been awarded to: Collin Perry, Antwerp High School: Collin plans to study Journalism/Sports Media at Butler University. He is the son of Angel and Jan Perry.…
About 200 motorcycle riders will be part of a poker run and fundraiser for the CHP Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center on Sunday, May 24 at Family Christian Center, 1834 E. Second St., Defiance. There will be food, entertainment and a blessing of the bikes beginning at 11:00 a.m. There will be a car and…
