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GOOD Angola Moose 100 years old BY JENNIFER DECKER MORNING [email protected] ANGOLA — An Angola family Love’s to make fraternity has performed hundreds of good deeds and charitable acts donation to over the years. Make that 100 years’ Literacy Coalition worth in the city. ANGOLA — Oklahoma The Loyal Order of Moose, City, Oklahoma-based Angola Lodge No. 1568, 108 N. Love’s Travel Stops & Martha St., will mark its 100th Country Stores opened its year with a centennial celebration 12th Indiana location at Tuesday from noon to 10 p.m. at Interstate 69 and U.S. 20 the Angola Moose Family Center. Thursday. A special Moose ceremony will be At a Thursday, Sept. 4, held at 7 p.m. The celebration will ribbon cutting at 4 p.m., a highlight awareness of all which news release said Love’s will the Moose accomplish present a $2,000 donation to The Moose is an international the Steuben County Literacy family-fraternal organization Coalition. of men and women helping the The new Love’s travel community. It was founded in the stop features a Hardee’s 1800s with the goal of offering restaurant, gourmet coffee, men the chance to gather socially. travel items and gift Year round, the Moose stay merchandise. The new 24/7 busy with steak fries, barbecues location also offers 118 and other benefi ts to help funding truck parking spaces, seven assistance with children. At showers and a Love’s Truck Christmas time last year, the Tire Care Center. Moose adopted eight families and 31 kids to provide them with a PHOTO CONTRIBUTED holiday. And that’s what the group United Way regatta has long done. Eric Henion, governor of the Loyal Order of Moose Angola Lodge No. 1568, wore the fraternity’s costume and was swarmed by youngsters looking for candy during Angola’s Fourth of July parade. trivia clue presented SEE MOOSE, PAGE A9 ANGOLA — The last of six clues in the Steuben County United Way Cardboard Boat Regatta Steuben LIVE UNITED contest is Dog Idol Saturday at Pokagon available. The agency clue LAKE JAMES — cutest dog, most unusual dog Pokagon Dog Idol is: “Don’t go straight! Pokagon State Park and dog and Sometimes the road of life agencies will be going to the owner look WHO: Park guests takes a different path. This dogs on Saturday alike. Annual pet contest place is there to provide at 3 p.m. when the Six prize WHAT: individuals a step up on their annual Pokagon packages have WHEN: Saturday, 3 pm. journey.” Dog Idol contest been provided benefi t Today’s clue is the fi nal will be held at the by Pawsitively WHERE: Pokagon State Park provided by local media and park’s campground Paradise Pet campground amphitheater United Way’s Facebook amphitheater. Resort of Angola. ADMISSION: Regular park fee page. The six clues describe Campers and The audience from United Way partner agencies dog owners from and Smokey serving Steuben County. the general public Bear will be the Guests can park at the campers’ To enter the competition, are encouraged judges. store or behind it and walk to the people must list in order to bring their Following amphitheater. military the names of the agencies four-legged, furry the contest, Although the program is free described. No form is best friends to be there will be and open to all, there is the normal BY AMY OBERLIN necessary. In the event of a recognized in the opportunities for park entrance fee of $5 for in-state [email protected] tie, a drawing will take place. following catego- dogs and their vehicles or $7 for out-of-state JENNIFER DECKER One winner will receive a ries: biggest dog, owners to be vehicles. [email protected] $100 cash prize, a cardboard smallest dog, photographed Details are available by calling AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS boat created by master boat best-dressed dog, with Smokey. 833-2012. ANGOLA — Steuben County builder Mike Wyss and a free Sheriff’s Depart- entry into the competition, ment and Angola which is Sept. 6 at Pokagon Police Department State Park’s Potawatomi Inn have received beach. fi rearms and Submissions must Lake Life includes fi eld trips equipment from be received by noon on the U.S. military. Monday, Aug. 25, at the ANGOLA — Lake Life present on endangered species and the history of Lake James and Those items Steuben County United Way continues this fall with a traveling Nathan Simons of Blue Heron provide instruction on how to range from offi ce, 317 S. Wayne St., set of sessions highlighting the Ministries will discuss native record a lake’s history. batteries to M16s. Troyer Suite 3D, Angola, IN 46703 area’s rich natural gifts. plants. Session Five, Oct. 21, will be The Ferguson, or emailed to bobbi@united- The Steuben County Soil The class will move to the new hosted at the Fawn River State Missouri, police waysteuben.org. and Water Conservation District Trine State Recreational Facility Fish Hatchery in Orland and department, at the center of an has partnered with The Steuben for Session Two on Sept. 30. the Orland Legion. Neil Ledet uproar over the Aug. 9 shooting County Lakes Council to offer Pokagon State Park naturalist Fred of Indiana Division of Fish and death of an a series of sessions detailing life Wooley and property manager Ted Wildlife will give a tour of the unarmed black amidst the 101 lakes of Steuben Bohman will discuss the history hatchery facility. Brian Musser, teenager, acquired County. The 2 1/2-hour sessions and vision of the new Pokagon NRCS district conservationist, two armored start at 6 p.m. and end about 8:30 property. will speak about soil health and Humvees and SPORTS ON TWITTER p.m. They start Tuesday, Sept. 23 Session Three, Oct. 7, will present a soil demonstration. other military gear Get updates from area and will continue every Tuesday be a county department panel Session Six, Oct. 28, will wrap for free through a sporting events until Oct. 28. featuring the treasurer’s offi ce, up Lake Life at Caruso’s Restau- Pentagon program Cost is $50 for new students assessor’s offi ce, recorder’s rant on C.R. 200W. Participants that critics blame twitter.com/kpcnewssports and $15 for returning students. offi ce, auditor’s offi ce, health will receive their certifi cate of for “militarizing Hamblen This year’s Lake Life class department and coroner’s offi ce. completion, meals prepared by America’s Main Contact Us includes several fi eld trips, with Session Four, Oct. 14, will Caruso’s staff, a presentation of Streets” and aggravating clashes the fi rst class in the Steuben be held at Dry Dock Marine, Italian cooking and the history of between police and protesters. • Community Center auditorium, 2195 W. C.R. 175N. Owner Caruso’s. Thursday, the governor of The Herald Republican 317 S. Wayne St., Angola. Bill Terry Archbold will speak about Details and reservations are Missouri ordered the withdrawal 45 S. Public Square Lambert of the Natural Resource boats and boating. Flaim Cupp at the Steuben County SWCD, of National Guard troops from Angola, IN 46703 Conservation Service will discuss and Jim Somers of the Lake 665-3211, ext. 3, or the Steuben the riot-torn city, a largely black forestry, Mel Hathaway will James Association will discuss County Lakes Council, 665-1730. SEE MILITARY, PAGE A9 Phone: (260) 665-3117 Fax: (260) 665-2322 Classifi eds: (toll free) (877) 791-7877 Circulation: (800) 717-4679 Doctor with Ebola Index • leaves isolation unit Classifi ed ...... B5-B7 ATLANTA (AP) — Calling it infectious disease unit at Emory Life ...... A3 a “miraculous day,” an American University Hospital. Obituaries ...... A4 doctor infected with Ebola left Brantly’s reappearance — Opinion ...... A5 his isolation unit and warmly together with his wife and a parade hugged his doctors and nurses on of hospital workers — was festive Sports...... B1-B4 Thursday, showing the world that and celebratory, a stark contrast to Weather...... A9 he poses no public health threat their arrival at the hospital three TV/Comics ...... A8 one month after getting sick with weeks earlier, when he arrived Vol. 157 No. 231 the virus. under police escort and shuffl ed Dr. Kent Brantly and his inside wearing a bulky white fellow medical missionary, hazardous material suit. Nancy Writebol, who was quietly “I am thrilled to be alive, to be discharged two days earlier, are well, and to be reunited with my AP still weak but should recover family,” Brantly said, choking up Ebola victim Dr. Kent Brantly, right, hugs a member of the medical completely, and no one need fear several times as he read a written staff that treated him after being released from Emory University being in contact with them, said statement. Then he hugged and Hospital Thursday in Atlanta. Dr. Bruce Ribner, who runs the SEE DOCTOR, PAGE A9 AREA • NATION A9 FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2014 •kpcnews.com THE HERALD REPUBLICAN

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 7 a.m. Mostly cloudy with a high of 86. Low tonight 70 with a slight chance of showers PHOTO CONTRIBUTED and storms. Partly sunny Saturday, high Sunrise Saturday 6:58 a.m. The Loyal Order of Moose Angola Lodge No. 1568, 108 N. Martha St., is celebrating near 90 with a 20 percent chance of rain. its 100th anniversary this year. The Moose have helped hundreds of needy people Saturday night will be mostly cloudy with a Sunset Saturday 8:30 p.m. over the years. Eric Henion, the Lodge’s governor, wears the group’s signature low around 70. Sunday’s high 89. costume. National forecast Thursday’s Statistics Forecast highs for Friday, Aug. 22 Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Local HI 82 LO 70 PRC. 0.9 South Bend HI 81 LO 68 PRC. .16 Fort Wayne HI 78 LO 67 PRC. 0.2 Indianapolis HI 85 LO 66 PRC. .16 MOOSE: Organization has history of helping kids FROM PAGE A1 Women of the Mooseh- “I like the idea of “Over the 30 years, eart Legion. They were Today's Forecast City/Region all the activities — Forecast for Friday, Aug. 22 High | Low temps we’ve helped over 200 recognized in 1913. MICH. kids,” said Eric Henion, Women of the Moose has bowling, golfi ng, we Chicago 82° | 72° Angola Moose governor grown in membership South Bend have a pool league, 88° | 71° about helping children at to more than 540,000 Fort Wayne Christmas. in approximately 1,600 barbecues, cornhole. 87° | 71° Fronts Pressure Cold Warm Stationary Low High According to informa- chapters. We’re starting a Wii tion on the fraternity’s The Angola Moose OHIO ILL. Lafayette long history, Henion said membership includes bowling league.” 91° | 73° -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s100s 110s the Loyal Moose started a around 700 men and Indianapolis chapter in Angola Aug. 26, women. Many members are Eric Henion 93° | 74° Today’s drawing by: 1914. Membership started multi-generational. Terre Haute Moose member 93° | 75° Aaron Crabill with 159 members. Henion joined the Two causes most dear to Moose eight years ago Submit your weather • Evansville KY. drawings to: Weather the Moose are Mooseheart and said he likes helping 95° | 75° Louisville 96° | 75° Drawings, Editorial Dept. and Moosehaven. others through the © 2014 Wunderground.com P.O. Box 39, Kendallville, Mooseheart, in Mooseh- fraternal organization. and an Internet safety IN 46755 eart, Illinois, is a residen- “Other members invited program for children. tial facility that cares me,” Henion said. “I like On the Moose website, for needy children. The the idea of all the activi- Henion wrote: “Let us all name was conceived by ties — bowling, golfing, look back and remember Ohio Congressman John we have a pool league, the great strides that have DOCTOR: Lentz who said: “This will barbecues, cornhole. been made over the past No one sure if or how much drug helped always be the place where We’re starting a Wii 100 years in our Moose FROM PAGE A1 worst” after learning of the despite the drug. The the Moose fraternity will bowling league.” Lodge — countless shook hands with each staff outbreak in March, and saw treatment is so novel that it collectively pour out its Henion said what’s offi cers, members and member. For some, it was their fi rst patient in June. hasn’t been tested in people, heart, its devotion and unique is Steuben County especially volunteers their fi rst direct contact after Soon, many more arrived. and it might not have made sustenance to the children is one of the few across have tirelessly given their wearing protective gear in He said his team took any difference at all. of its members in need.” the state with two Moose time and resources to the isolation unit. all the precautions they “Experimental means At the height of the Great lodges. The other is Fremont guarantee the continued After Brantly, 33, and could. His wife and children exactly that. They are the Depression, housing there Moose Lodge No. 1555. success of ‘their’ lodge Writebol, 59, were infected returned to the U.S., and he very fi rst individuals to have was barracks style, which Henion said the Angola and the mission to support while working with Ebola focused on work, moving received this treatment and is unacceptable by today’s Lodge provides about numerous charities.” victims in Liberia, their patients to a bigger isolation frankly we do not know,” standards. Mooseheart $500 assistance across the Angola Mayor Dick charity organizations, unit. Three days later, he Ribner said. offi cials now consider the county monthly. Some of Hickman noted in a procla- Samaritan’s Purse and SIM, woke up feeling sick and was Both patients were campus’ maximum capacity that has gone to an Angola mation this week to the reached out to top infectious diagnosed with the disease. discharged after their to be 500. Kids League 14-and-under Moose that its members disease experts for help. “As I lay in my bed in medical team made sure they Moosehaven, in softball team to go to the have been generous in Working connections, Liberia for the following pose no public health risk, Jacksonville, Florida, is a World Series this summer, supporting the community, they obtained one of only nine days, getting sicker and he said. Neither patient’s retirement community for a Steuben County Sheriff’s especially youth. fi ve courses yet created of weaker each day, I prayed blood showed evidence Moose members. Department golf fundraiser, For more details, call the an experimental drug known that God would help me to be of Ebola, which is spread Women of the Moose Special Olympics, Fremont Lodge at 665-9361 or visit as Zmapp, and Brantly and faithful even in my illness,” only through direct contact were originally termed the American Legion Riders lodge1568.moosepages.org. Writebol split the doses Brantly said. “Through the with the bodily fl uids of before being evacuated care of the Samaritan’s Purse sick people experiencing to Atlanta. The other four and SIM missionary team symptoms. Ebola survivors MILITARY: have since been given to a in Liberia, the use of an generally are not contagious Items sometimes previously used Spanish priest, who died, experimental drug, and the once they’ve recovered. FROM PAGE A1 Logistics Agency. Wilson, 83, went and three doctors in Africa, expertise and resources of the David Writebol said suburb of St. Louis with a “I think its important missing for nearly 23 hours who have been improving. health care team at Emory in a statement that his mostly white police force. to know that many of in June 2011 in a swampy Brantly didn’t take University Hospital, God wife is recuperating at an News footage and the items we receive are area near Salem Center. questions at Thursday’s saved my life.” undisclosed location, and photos of police outfi tted in broken or not usable. It She was recovered without news conference, but he did His doctors cautioned that is “greatly encouraged paramilitary gear clashing then requires more of them injury. The children were briefl y describe how they it remains unknown whether knowing that there were with protesters in Ferguson to piece things together also found following a confronted Ebola back in the experimental drug helped so many people around the have provided new impetus to get one usable. This multi-agency search. Liberia. He said aid workers Brantly and Writebol, or world lifting prayers to God to efforts to rein in sharing is the same regardless if After receiving FAA had begun “preparing for the whether they improved for her return to health.” through the Defense it’s a vehicle, fi rearm or approval to mount it, the clothing,” said Sheriff Tim device was requested but Troyer. “We also have arrived with a broken received desk and offi ce screen, said Troyer. It furniture, clothing, wool would be costly and blankets, secured thumb diffi cult to repair, he drive storage devices, etc.” said, and has been stored In April 2012, the indefi nitely in the sheriff’s sheriff’s department department evidence room. received six M16 rifl es, In October 2011, the valued at $120 apiece. sheriff’s department The M16 is the military received 80 thumb drives, adaptation of the AR-15 worth $4,835, according to assault weapon, which a federal report. Troyer said is employed by Angola Police Chief deputies. They generally Stu Hamblen said it’s a cost between $900 and matter of luck as to what $1,800 for law enforcement he can be given or obtained pieces. Most used by the through the surplus sheriff’s department have program. been modifi ed to semi-au- “The strangest, to me, tomatic, though the depart- was we acquired four ment’s SWAT team can battery backup systems use the automatic versions for computers. Brand new, for training and certain they’re $1,000 each,” he operations. said. The nine .45-caliber Hamblen said a pistols received by the statewide network is department in 2011 are set available to law enforcement at $58, were previously agencies notifying them of used and required some what is available in surplus alterations to used properly, equipment or being sought. said Troyer. They are “It’s a great program. secondary service weapons Taxpayers have already paid for the deputies. They are for it,” Hamblen said. If sold new for $900 or more. usable, it’s salvaged. The sheriff’s department “I think the government also received a truck used is trying to help smaller for hauling equipment, agencies,” he aid. valued at $35,000, in July Hamblen said most of 2011, and an infrared the items he receives are in device in August 2011 excellent shape. That which valued at $544,0000. he can’t use is shared and “This device came to transferred to other police us after what we learned departments around the from the Trois Wilson state. incident on C.R. 800W “It’s against the law to and then shortly afterwards sell it,” he said. “It belongs the three small children to the U.S. government.” that wandered into the Through the surplus large cornfi eld on Metz program, Hamblen said he Road,” said Troyer. “We received enough .45-caliber are blessed to have two pistols to arm each of his 17 citizens that own helicop- police offi cers. ters and offer them to us in In August 2011, some a time of need. When we of the items Hamblen’s saw the helicopter mounted department received were 40 infrared we researched magazine cartridges worth a if this would work in the total of $1,760; one $301.82 event of another silver- or survival vest; several amber-type alert where the .45-caliber pistols; and 20 person is in a rural open close quarter kits for a total area, especially at night.” of $552.