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172 take plunge for Special Olympics
SHERRY SLATER | The Journal Gazette
Sunlight bounced off Danielle Wilson s metal braces and tight, wet, red curls as she stood in a parking lot at Metea County Park.
The 16-year-old East Allen University sophomore was considering how crazy she is on a scale of 1 to 10.
“I d say probably about an 81/2 or a 9,” she said, smiling cheerfully.
Wilson was one of 35 people from East Allen County Schools who participated in Saturday s Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics Indiana and Special Olympics Allen County. In all, 172 people jumped into freezing cold water to raise $45,000 for the annual fundraiser.
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Croninger Elementary School media clerk Sharon Grandmaison uses a homemade cart to deliver books to students unable to visit the school library because of coronavirus restrictions.
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Croninger Elementary School media clerk Sharon Grandmaison uses a homemade cart to deliver books to students unable to visit the school library because of coronavirus restrictions.
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Croninger Elementary School media clerk Sharon Grandmaison uses a homemade cart to deliver books to students unable to visit the school library because of coronavirus restrictions. Previous Next
Monday, February 08, 2021 1:00 am
Homemade library cart serves school
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
Croninger Elementary School media clerk Sharon Grandmaison began the academic year knowing she would have to travel to classrooms to deliver library books to students because of coronavirus restrictions.
Michelle Davies | The Journal Gazette
Barb Dusseau pushes neighbors Isabella Rash, 7, and brother Gabriel, 6, down a backyard hill while little sister, Julianne, 4, looks on Sunday. Previous Next
Monday, February 01, 2021 1:00 am
City sees most snowfall since 16
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
Plows are continuing to clear Fort Wayne s side streets after the biggest snowfall in years.
As snow continued to fall Sunday afternoon, measurements varied from 6 to 9 inches in the area, with 8.2 inches reported at Fort Wayne International Airport as of 1 p.m., said meteorologist Nathan Marsili of the National Weather Service of Northern Indiana.
About 2 inches fell Saturday night while 6.2 inches fell Sunday, making it the third-highest recorded snowfall for Jan. 31, Marsili said. The record was set in 1982 with 10.8 inches, he said.
Sunday, January 24, 2021 1:00 am
LINGERING EFFECTS
MATTHEW LEBLANC | The Journal Gazette
The virus wasn t done with her.
Melissa Rinehart, 50, tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-October after enduring what she thought was a sinus infection. The executive director of Wellspring Interfaith Social Services – a Fort Wayne charity that offers a food bank and programs for children and adults – later suffered “indescribable headaches” and lost her sense of taste.
That was just the start of an unwanted journey into the clutches of a treacherous disease that so far has infected nearly 10% of Indiana s roughly 6.7 million residents and killed 9,267 Hoosiers as of Friday.
“Even when I thought I was out of the woods, I had an emergency room visit several weeks after my symptoms (subsided),” Rinehart said in an interview last week.