Roots of Mural Irises Start with Two Men Community Has Long, Storied History with the Flowers
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Site of church part A visit to the Coffin Tigers, Knights of sewer project House near Richmond earn big wins Area State Entertainment Guide Page 3 Sports Page 6 Good Morning! The News-Bannerwww.News-Banner.com SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2020 BLUFFTON, INDIANA • Wells County’s Hometown Connection $1.00 Officer and pastor to discuss domestic violence By DAVE SCHULTZ police experience and Ewing’s experience Stephanie Tucker is a veteran police offi- as a pastor and counselor are able to ducktail cer and Lyle Ewing is a for a look at the prob- veteran clergyman. Sun- lem. day, they’ll team up for Two factors brought a program on domes- For more information ... the program together, tic violence at Ewing’s • The National Coalition Against Ewing said: “With her church. Domestic Violence, 800-799- perspective, what she The program is nota- SAFE has witnessed as a law ble for several reasons • The Indiana Coalition Against enforcement officer, — personal and profes- Domestic Violence, 800-332- and with my interpreta- sional. 7385 tion of scripture — what It is a natural fit for • Adams Wells Crisis Center, 260- God has for victims and Tucker and Ewing to 728-9800 or toll free 877-728- what the church should work together. Tucker is 9800 have as well.” • YWCA Fort Wayne, 800-441-4073 now a sergeant with the • A Better Way, 765-288 -HELP They will also be Ossian Police Depart- showing a three-minute ment and has served sev- video produced by the eral years on the force, Wells County Domes- and one of Ewing’s previous pastorates was tic Violence Task Force. Purple ribbons, at the First Presbyterian Church in Ossian — emblematic of the fight against domestic so they have known each other a long time. violence, will also be passed out. To the point of Sunday’s program, they October is Domestic Violence Awareness Ossian Police Sgt. Stephanie Tucker and Lyle Ewing, the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of are both members of the Wells County Month. There will be no public candlelight Bluffton, are shown in Ewing’s office as they discussed a program on Sunday that will highlight Domestic Violence Task Force. Tucker’s (Continued on Page 2) domestic violence issues. (Photo by Dave Schultz) Roots of mural irises start with two men Community has long, storied history with the flowers By MARK MILLER Indeed, the American Iris Society to Part 1 of 3 this day has two annual awards named You may have noticed at least one after our Bluffton celebrities: the Wil- common theme between the two new liamson-White Medal (“restricted to min- murals in downtown Bluff- iature tall-bearded irises,” ton: They both contain iris- according the AIS web- es. There’s more ... site) and the Cook-Doug- There’s a reason for that. las medal (“restricted to Actually there are several. • How did Bluffton get two standard dwarf bearded Bluffton was once world- murals this year? The irises”). Those obviously renowned for irises. The story on Page 2. pertained to the irises Longfield Iris Farm, located each specialized in. The at the end of Market Street on the city’s AIS website also stipulates that the Wil- west side, produced award-winning iris liamson medal is named in honor of both E. B. Williamson, left photo, working in his beloved Longfield Iris Farm, where he plant- hybrids for years under the direction of E.B. and Mary. ed as many as 70,000 seedlings each year. He registered 85 new varieties of irises, E.B. Williamson and then his daughter, That’s the very short version of why many of which won awards, during his lifetime. After withdrawing from a partnership Mary. Paul Cook, once a partner with Mr. you see irises painted on two walls in with Williamson, Paul Cook, right photo, took a job as a rural mail carrier so that he could devote his afternoons to his own iris fields. He earned numerous awards, includ- Williamson there, would go off on his Bluffton. The longer version is much ing being named the 1946 Hybridist of the Year by the American Iris Society. (Photos own and produce more award-winning more interesting. courtesy of Jerry Oswalt) irises. (Continued on Page 2) Crown Point considers cameras to help in virus contact tracing CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) Crown Point is waiting on Uran said the cameras are very — A northwestern Indiana city proposals for the project. detailed. wants to install a facial recog- Graper said during a Board “There’s other applications nition video network camera of Works meeting that the city that are going to be beneficial system downtown in hopes of has reevaluated how it uses to the city of Crown Point, but slowing the spread of the coro- technology to interact with the our main focus on this right navirus. community. now is to be able to comply The step comes as state “Since March, we found with the COVID pandemic health officials on Friday added some weak points on where we that’s out there; put us in a 13 more COVID-19 deaths to are,” he said. better situation to be aware of the state’s pandemic toll. Along with heat maps to what’s taking place,“ he added. The newly recorded deaths identify large groups of people, But facial recognition could Royal raise the state’s death toll to Graper said the city would be be hit or miss if people are 3,656, including confirmed and able to put in custom crowd wearing masks to protect from Knights presumed coronavirus cases, notifications, which would alert the COVID-19 virus. Maiah Shelton since the state’s first such death officials if there are too many A preliminary study pub- was crowned was reported on March 15, people in a specific area. lished by a U.S. agency this queen and Cam- according to the Indiana State The project would include summer found that even the eron Willson king Department of Health. Most 24 analytical cameras with 4K best commercial facial recog- at Friday night’s homecoming of the new deaths happened resolution. They are portable nition systems have error rates ceremonies at Wednesday or Thursday. That and can be moved to other parts as high as 50% when trying to The Courtyard. is an increase of 90 deaths in of the city. identify masked faces. It was a celebra- the past week. Since they can identify the The National Institute of tion all around Crown Point media director lack of social distancing, pro- Standards and Technology says as the Knights Adam Graper said the analyti- duce heat maps and utilize it is launching an investiga- romped to a cal cameras can identify when facial recognition for contact tion to better understand how 50-0 victory over people aren’t social distancing tracing, the project should be facial recognition performs on DeKalb. Story through a heat map that shows eligible for reimbursement covered faces. Its preliminary and game photo on Page the concentration of individu- under federal coronavirus relief study examined only those 6. (Photo by als, the (Northwest Indiana) funding, Graper said. algorithms created before the Glen Werling) Times reported Friday. Crown Point Mayor David (Continued on Page 2) Inside Outside Online Detailed How to contact us: Call us: 824-0224 Local/Area Dental Care or 1-800-579-7476 Obituaries . 3 Follow us on Facebook! • Wisdom Teeth Removal Go to www.facebook.com/ • Fax us: 824-0700 Police Notebook . .3 Immediate Dentures [email protected] newsbanner • Sedation Dentistry ————— On the Web: Opinion • General Dentistry Sun, chill and maybe rain Place Your Classified • Root Canal www.news-banner.com Saturday Sub . 4 all in the mix this weekend Ads 24/7 Follow us at: Today Sunday Monday Call Dr. Hott! twitter.com/newsbanner Also... High 58 High 55 High 60 Vol. 91 No. 284 706 N. 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[email protected] “Law enforcement has been year involvement, he said. “Abusers are very good at iso- “They learn how to read their doing an excellent job and the Tucker said she would like to lating their victims,” she said. abusers,” she added. Roots of mural irises (Continued from Page 1) addition to his irises. This ing iris enthusiasts to Bluff- ern tall bearded irises.” from the partnership in 1929 E.B. Williamson’s and Paul First, some brief biogra- led to his position as the ton every year. One newspa- After the bank failed in and accepted a position as Cook’s respective — and phies: Assistant Curator of Insects per report in 1936 noted “75 1928 (“due to no fault of a rural mail carrier so that highly respected — work.