INSIDE THIS ISSUE Business & Professional .......A18-19 Classifieds......................................A19 Community Calendar.............A20-21 Dining & Entertainment .........A10-11 Sports........................................A22-23 Worship List......................................A7 Serving Northwest Fort Wayne & Allen County www.DupontTimes.com June 24, 2011 Praise Lutheran lends a hand to strangers BY KELLY MCLENDON husband, Todd, and they decided this was [email protected] something Praise should get involved in. Todd called his employer, Shambaugh & When the congregation members of Son, who agreed to let Praise use a semi,” Praise Lutheran Church decide to do fellow volunteer Sandy Wright said. something, they go all out. Klopfenstein then contacted the prin- When Little Praisers child care director, cipal of Martin Luther School in Joplin to Alicia Levitt received a message about see what help they needed. people needing help recovering from the “The school has sustained significant tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., the congrega- damage, but it is able to be used by the tion jumped on the opportunity to give community as a gathering place,” Wright back. said. Collection coordinator Chris Klopfen- The principal provided a list of commu- stein heard about the message as well and nity needs and Klopfenstein continues to felt compelled to give back. Photo by Kelly McLendon “At home, Chris discussed it with her See PRAISE, page A3 The church will collect items for victims of the May 22 Joplin, Mo. tornado, until this truck is full. Students ‘dance like no TRF brings ‘Sights and Sounds of Summer’ By KELLY MCLENDON one is watching’ [email protected] This season’s Three By VALERIE CAVIGLIA Rivers Festival theme, [email protected] “Sights and Sounds of Summer,” shows that fun Nine hundred eyes in the summer sun doesn’t followed Jan Hagedorn as necessarily always involve she danced in front of an leaving the city. audience for the first time The Festival Parade, at the 2008 Fort Wayne presented by Lutheran Dancing with the Stars. Courtesy photo TRF/Mark Lahey for the I Du Creative Group She was invited to partici- See TRF, page A19 pate without any prior Food Alley returns for the 43rd year of the Three Rivers Festival. knowledge of dancing or performing. She made it to the top three. “It was a little nerve- wracking, but it was just really exciting,” Hagedorn said. “I had never done anything like that, but it went pretty well. People still come up to me and comment about it.” Despite the initial fear, Hagedorn was hooked. She began taking ball- Photo by Valerie Caviglia room dance instruction Jan Hagedorn, student at American Style Ballroom, and Tony Didier, with Tony Didier at Amer- dance instructor, prepare a bolero routine for the ninth annual ican Style Ballroom. In Independence Day Showcase. It will be Hagedorn’s first showcase her third summer of appearance. classes at the studio, she will perform July 16 at the ninth annual Inde- awards. Later, after an see on TV. Even what you pendence Day Showcase open-dance session where see on Dancing With the at the Grand Wayne spectators can take their Stars, as impressive as it Center. The showcase is a own twirl around the is, nothing compares to Three Rivers Festival- floor, showcase winners seeing a top couple - a affiliated event presented will perform once more. world class couple - by American Style Ball- The evening’s finale dancing right before your room. promises to keep specta- eyes,” Didier said. More than 100 ball- tors in their seats when He compared it to room dance routines will U.S. Standard finalists watching auto racing on play out in front of and North American TV. It looks fast, but it’s hundreds during the Showdance champions, nothing compared to real Pro/Am Showcase from Igor Litvinov and Julia life. “You never knew that 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dancers at Ivleva, take the stage for a somebody could turn so all skill levels will feature performance. fast. You never knew that compete for best male, “The caliber of the somebody could move so best female, best couple show that you are going and people’s choice to see is beyond what you See DANCE, page A7 826 Ewing Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802 IN Wayne, Fort Street, Ewing 826 Times Community Publications Community Times A2 • www.DupontTimes.com Dupont Valley Times • June 24, 2011 Hump Hump Day 622622 E.E. 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PRAISE from page A1 periodically stay in The project is expected They are also in search of contact. to last as long as it takes. boxes to help pack the Once the truck is full, “This will be an items into, to put on the “a driver from Sham- ongoing project at truck. baugh and Son will drive Praise,” Wright said. Anyone from the the truck to Joplin,” she “Right now, we are community who is inter- said. collecting the immediate ested in helping with this Wright hopes the semi needs for the survivors. program should call the will be refilled many We’ll then move on to church office at 260-490- times. their long term needs.” 7729. Praise Lutheran is In addition to helping, The Church is asking located at 1115 West she is also assisting in that people who wish to Dupont Road. getting the word out to donate only bring new, the community. unused items to donate. Frontier is pulling the plug on FiOS. 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