Former Waynedale resident Captain Neil Newhard was in Waynedale in early March. Neil charters a sailboat out of Cruz Bay on the island of St. John. He left his 50 ft. . . Read More
Oh, my Gosh! What an unbelievable streak that our 412 Club Senior Softball team put together late in the 2008 Summer/Fall Season. We first played in the Age 55 and over Senior League at Turner’s Club in 2006, finishing with a 10 win/8 loss season. . . . Read More
City Saves Time, Residents Get Free Aerial Photos
A view from the sky of your home, your neighborhood, or any part of Fort Wayne is a click away at the City’s map website. . . Read More
…a slogan that Helyn Good Young has lived by all of her life. Helyn was surrounded by her friends and family, at the Waynedale United Methodist Church, on Saturday, April 4, to celebrate her 90th birthday.
Pianist Joe Thomas filled the air with . . . Read More
This weeks HTYH is a continuation of Tim’s story. I was laying on an emergency room gurney violently shaking when the ER doctor said, “Son, you have an alcohol problem.” I said, “No sir, you must be mistaken.” . . Read More
This week’s DYK is excerpted from Chapter 6, of a soon to be released book written by a prominent professor with long-term sobriety. The title of Chapter 6 is; The Ground of Being: In calculus and in the construction of infinite series, mathematicians . . . Read More
THRUSHES
By Karle Wilson Baker
Through Tanglewood the thrushes trip,As brown as any clod,But in their spotted throats are hungThe vesper-bells of God.
And I know little secret truths,And hidden things of good,Since I have heard the thrushes . . . Read More
HOLY COMMUNION
Dancing Feather (from Rhythm of the Drum)
I give you a sky of blue –It makes no difference how you feelor what you do.
I put birds in the skyso that they may fly and sing,a message just for you they bring. . . Read More
People always want to push spring season way too early, especially when it comes to tomato plants. I have always maintained that spring starts on April 21st, give or take a few days. . . Read More
Helen “Fran” Benzinger, 58 formerly of Fort Wayne, died Saturday April 11, 2009, at Visiting Nurse & Hospice Home of Fort Wayne.She is survived by her partner David Moss of Mt. . . Read More
WILLIAM W. STULTS, 82, of Fort Wayne, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at Hospice Home. Born August 19, 1926, in Fort Wayne, he was the son of the late Forrest and Kathryn (Baker) Stults. . . Read More
SENATE BUDGET PROTECTS EDUCATION AND MEDICAID STATEHOUSE
Indiana Senate Republicans recently unveiled a balanced, two-year state budget that protects education and Medicaid and funds job creation, roads and public safety.
Our Senate budget proposal . . . Read More
Several drugs aimed at clearing amyloid deposits from the brain—which investigators had hoped would reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease—have failed in late-stage testing. Reports on tests of other interventions to prevent or slow Alzheimer’s . . . Read More
The rich and dynamic history of baseball in Fort Wayne will be on full display when Parkview Field opens in April. Drawing on more than 100 years of baseball in our region, the TinCaps have teamed with Federated Media to bring the city’s baseball . . . Read More
In the eighties at high school I had to take biology along with all other sophomores. One day we got to the chapter on evolution. My teacher simply stated that she didn’t believe in evolution, that God created everything, but that we could read the . . . Read More
Julie Southwood and Jim Partin are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Madison Robin Valiton, to Samuel James McCloskey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McCloskey. A June wedding is planned at the Elmhurst Church of the Nazarene in Fort . . . Read More
I got a letter from an 86-year old man who used to reside in Waynedale. He was writing to tell me that he was familiar with many of the things I wrote about when I described my mother’s childhood. . . Read More
When I talk to people about the way Major League baseball used to be played, many are amazed. All Sundays were double-headers and all holidays were also double-headers. At that time many games were played in around 2 hours so a double-header could . . . Read More
FOLLOW “TAX FREEDOM DAY” WITH TAX-SMART INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
You won’t find it on your calendar, but April 13 is Tax Freedom Day. And although it’s not a national holiday, it can still be meaningful — if you use it as a starting point to . . . Read More
I recently received news from the Caribbean that Waynedale’s most infamous Racing Yachtsman, Charter Captain, and notorious practical joker has struck again. Local losers in the Virgin Islands were hanging around the captain’s boatyard doing drugs. . . . Read More
Continued From April 8th Issue
My mind was in turmoil at the prospect of marriage. The next evening when we had my father and his mother together, Phil silenced their well-founded objections with a plea to hear him out.This . . Read More
One day Sophie and her friend were at the YMCA. It was the middle of January and pretty cold. Sophie glided under the water looking side-to-side watching everything underwater. Once she hit the end of the pool, she kicked off doing a flip and glided . . . Read More
Editors Note: The Waynedale News receives an abundance of press releases and articles for each issue. Information that has a focus on Waynedale is given the highest priority. We try to evaluate all submissions on a timely basis. . . Read More
FLORENCE (CONFER) DROEGE, 89, longtime resident of Fort Wayne, passed away on Sunday, March 29, 2009, in Tucson, Arizona. Born February 3, 1920, in Wells County, she retired from Lincoln National Life Insurance Company after 28 years of service, in . . . Read More