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SPORTS ACCENT | B1 KEEP ON CAMPIN’ Summer events still | ART C1 popular for kids MORE THAN OF BARBECUE $229 COUPON SAVINGS WEEKEND <<INSIDE>> DAILY JOURNAL dailyjournal.net SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 28-29, 2014 Johnson County, Indiana $1.25 WEATHER Greenwood: Come along for the ride City to start low-cost borrow-a-bike program in 2015 to augment parks, trails usage Today BY STEVE GARBACZ rent a bike for a few hours or all that will be available for people to program this year and will decide The parks department also Skies: Partly cloudy; storms day hasn’t been set. In Indy, the rent for a fee from the community on details, such as rental fees and could develop programs to high- DAILY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Temps: High 82; low 70 [email protected] cost is $8 for an all-day pass. center for a full day or half-day. safety equipment, before rolling light cycling around the city and If the Greenwood program People can take the bikes out on the program out in early spring give out small rewards to someone MAP, PAGE A8 Next spring, you can borrow a proves popular, expect it to expand the city’s trails or around neigh- 2015, Greenwood parks director who rides a circuit of trails, or ar- bike, explore Greenwood’s trails to Franklin and encourage more borhoods and then return them in Rob Taggart said. range community rides for fami- and return the wheels at the end of trails projects to connect the cities the evening. Taggart hopes the bike program lies, park board president Mike the day. and the Center Grove area. The Johnson County Communi- will encourage more people to get Sawa said. The city is launching its own The goal is to get people out ty Foundation is providing a near- active, but also to explore city “Greenwood really wants to be borrow-a-bike program, similar to and active on more than 20 miles ly $4,000 grant to help the city buy parks and see more of Greenwood promoting health and wellness in one that launched in downtown In- of trails. the bikes to launch the program. than what they pass on their way dianapolis this year. The cost to The city will buy eight bicycles The park board is designing the to work or stores. (SEE RIDE PAGE A8) Remember rules before celebrating If you want to shoot ENGINEERING EDUCATION off fireworks to cele- brate the coming holi- day, don’t forget about the rules. You can only buy them and fire them off if you are 18 or older. You can shoot those bottle rockets, roman candles and fire- crackers on your own property or on property belonging to someone who’s given you permission to set off fireworks. On July 4, feel free to watch your own fireworks glimmer between 9 a.m. and midnight. For the rest of the month, you’re limited to using them between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. Those state laws apply in Greenwood and throughout Johnson County. In Franklin, residents can shoot off fireworks from 5 p.m. to two hours before sunset between June 29 and July 10. On July 4, you can set off fireworks from 10 a.m. until midnight. Find a full list of area Independence Day celebrations on Page A7. measuring TALENTS DEATHS INSIDE: Students get hands-on at Endress+Hauser forum Greenwood Endress+ Lawrence E. “Larry Gene” s Anna Muir looked up at four tanks, which Career Education Forum for middle school-aged students Whitaker, 79 Hauser open combined can hold 2,800 gallons of liquid, she was on Thursday. Indianapolis new customer asked to think of her favorite drink. At the event, the students and their families had the chance John W. Curd, 83 center. A8 Milk, she said. to see Endress+Hauser’s new Process Training Unit, or PTU. A Then, a manager with Endress+Hauser explained The PTU is used to simulate different kinds of processing Ellen Eveland, 80 Elsewhere to her that companies have to be able to measure and process plant conditions so Endress+Hauser, which manufactures James “Andy” Russell hundreds, sometimes thousands of gallons of liquid at a time devices that measure and regulate different kinds of liquid, Clockwise from left: when making milk and other beverages. Endress+Hauser employee Nikkole can show clients how they can use those devices. Anderson, 64 If Anna Muir does well in her math and Thombleson, right, helps 13-year- STORY BY The unit also can be used for training, and Thursday’s old Brooklyn Sanders of Indianapo- Tom Lange science courses, the manager explained, forum gave students the chance to see the kinds of equip- INDEX lis record a reading found on the she could one day have a job using the ment they could use if they want to work in manufacturing. equipment necessary to make all kinds of Students at the forum also met with representatives Accent......................B1-B3, B6 Process Training Unit. Whiteland PHOTOS BY beverages consumed by people all across Business...........................C7 residents Denay Glithero and from local companies, including American Industrial Scott Roberson the country, prompting excitement from Corp., Caterpillar, Electro-Spec, Heartland Machine & Classifieds.....................D1-D5 12-year-old son Ryan Glithero find components and record readings the Clark-Pleasant student. Engineering, Nachi and NSK and others, so they could see Editorials............................A4 found on the PTU. The PTU can be Anna Muir and her brother Jacob Muir, who attend what businesses need workers with strong math and Obituaries..........................A5 used for training and demonstrating Clark-Pleasant Intermediate and Clark-Pleasant Middle science skills. Police, fire............................A3 the company’s products schools, were among 300 students and parents who Sports............................C1-C5 for customers. attended Endress+Hauser’s first annual Community and (SEE TALENTS PAGE A8) Southside............................A3 Weather..............................A8 CALL US Main switchboard 736-7101 Slain Whiteland grad remembered for love of outdoors Delivery: 736-2777, BY STEVE GARBACZ together like they’d been friends for faint pulse and couldn’t speak. Tucker, The man police say is the shooter, 888-736-7101 years, his friend Sean Patrick said. 31, died within minutes. Albert Rogers, 26, lived a few houses DAILY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Advertising: 736-2700 [email protected] Patrick and several other friends were “I miss him dearly. It’s a hole in my away from Tucker. He was arrested News tips: 736-2712 at his house June 5 to hang out and heart that will never fill. I loved that guy and has been charged with murder. A Whiteland Community High talk about hunting, when Tucker was just as much as my own living brother. His next hearing is planned for Sep- WEEKEND School graduate loved the outdoors gunned down in the driveway of his I’ll never forget him,” Patrick said. tember, according to the Marion Coun- and was a masterful fisherman and southside home after getting into an Tucker graduated from Whiteland in ty Prosecutor’s Office. hunter, always managing to bring argument with a neighbor. 2002 and lived for a few years in Trafal- About a week before the shooting, home two deer when he’d go out shoot- Patrick saw him ducking under the gar and Greenwood. He then moved to Rogers had fired two shots at one of ing with friends. front of a parked car and thought he the southside of Indianapolis and had Tucker’s dogs when it started running Josh Tucker could bring together was OK. been there for about five years, and was toward the sidewalk as Rogers was friends from high school with new peo- But when they rolled him over, he living with his girlfriend and her 3-year- TUCKER ple he met and they’d all spend time had been shot multiple times, had a old son, friend T.J. Trueblood said. (SEE GRAD PAGE A8) A2 SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 28-29, 2014 NEWS DAILY JOURNAL, JOHNSON COUNTY, IND. Pence: SAME-SEX UNION CONTROVERSY Limit federal JUDGE PUTS HOLD power BY STEVE PEOPLES ON GAY MARRIAGES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday called on Republicans to dramatically limit the federal government’s role in public education, welfare programs and trans- portation in a speech aimed at boosting his pro- file among New PENCE York’s powerful political donors. “I’m more convinced than I’ve ever been in my life that the cure for what ails this country will come more from our nation’s state capitals than it ever will from our nation’s capital,” Pence, a former congressman, told a packed hotel ballroom shortly after donors paid $5,000 each for a picture with him. The comments came at the New York GOP’s annual dinner, a fund- raising event set in Times Square that attracts ambitious Republicans each year eager to tap into the city’s massive bank of campaign cash. Recent speakers include Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — each of whom is weighing a THE ASSOCIATED PRESS presidential bid. Hundred of same-sex couples line up to apply for marriage licenses at the Marion County Clerks office in Indianapolis on Wednesday. A federal judge struck down Indiana’s ban on Pence declared that Washington same-sex marriage Wednesday in a ruling that immediately allowed gay couples to wed but an appeals court put a hold on the order Friday. Republicans must “permanently reduce the size and scope of the federal government by restoring to the states those resources and re- Status of Indiana marriages already performed in limbo sponsibilities that are rightfully theirs under the Constitution,” spe- BY TOM LOBIANCO immediately let county clerks know The attorney general’s office argued it “In time, Americans will look at cifically citing education, welfare about the decision.

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