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Development of the Warren Business Park is set to begin this spring following the purchase of the property by a Huntington-based company.

T.D. Wall Inc. plans to relocate its showroom and service area, currently located on CR 200N, to the property just north of Warren. That business will occupy one of three smaller lots in the 44.5-acre business park.

Tom Wall, president of T.D. Wall, says the company plans to sell the other two smaller lots, as well as a 25-acre parcel that can be subdivided or sold intact, to other businesses or perhaps a manufacturing facility.

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Huntington North High School students Preston Shafer (second from left) and Jessica Baker (third from left) are the Huntington Rotary Club's Junior Rotarians for February. With them are their Rotary Club sponsors, Chuck Grable (left) and Cindy Krumanaker (right).

The Huntington University Board of Trustees approved a 2.5 percent increase in undergraduate tuition and fees for the 2012-13 school year at its January meeting.

The undergraduate tuition rate for the 2012-13 school year will be $23,300, with an additional $480 in fees and $7,940 for room and board costs.

According to College Board figures, the average tuition rate for a private college education in 2011 was $28,500.

The board also approved increases of $8 to $11 per credit hour for its adult and graduate programs.

As part of National Dental Health Month, the Huntington County Dental Society is again sponsoring "Family Day at the Dentist" on Feb. 4.

This year's event marks the 32nd anniversary of Family Day at the Dentist. The society estimates that nearly 4,050 Huntington County families have been served over that time.

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Dr. Blair Dowden, president of Huntington University, participated in a panel discussion on college affordability in Washington, DC, during the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).

The Jan. 31 panel was led by Zakiya Smith, senior adviser for education at the White House Domestic Policy Council. Additional panelists included Hardin-Simmons University president Lanny Hall and William Peace University president Debra Townsley.

The Huntington County 4-H Shooting Sports Program begins Sunday, Feb. 5 with the first classroom meeting for the 4-H Pistol discipline from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Family Living Building at Hier's Park.

4-H members interested in taking the pistol classes and their parents must complete the necessary enrollment forms and pay the registration fee and the state 4-H Program fee no later than the Feb. 5 classroom meeting. Payments may be made at the County Extension office prior to the Sunday class or with the 4-H Shooting Sports leader at the beginning of the first class.

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Handyman Services by Ron Kline was named February Business of the Month by the Huntington County Chamber of Commerce. Making the presentation are (from left) Chamber Ambassadors Bobby Bailey, of Bailey's Coffee, and Jean Wright, Habitat for Humanity; Steve Kimmel, the chamber's executive director; Tammy Kline, co-owner, Handyman Services by Ron Kline; Ambassador Gene Snowden, of Real Living Ness Bros.; Ron Kline, owner, Handyman Services by Ron Kline; and Ambassadors Steve Godfroy, of Western Southern Financial, and Tara Garretson, of Super 8 Motel.

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Del Doughty, Ph.D., longtime professor of English at Huntington University, has been named the interim senior vice president for academic affairs, effective June 1.

In this role, Doughty will be responsible for leading the faculty and developing new academic programs, including an innovative bachelor's degree program in heuristics, design and technology that will be launched this fall. This program aims to develop key cognitive skills for students entering the 21st century workforce.

The Huntington County Hare Raiser's Association will hold its 10th Annual Rabbit Show on Saturday, Feb. 4, at Hier's Park.

Entries can be registered from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., with the show starting at 9 a.m.

The show is a good opportunity for 4-Hers interested in the rabbit project to learn from other breeders about the various types of rabbits that may be for sale.

Anyone interested in helping with setting up the show may do so on Friday, Feb. 3.

Donations and contributions will be accepted.

Kayleigh Mower, of Huntington, was among students named to the dean's list at Anderson University for the fall semester of the 2011-12 academic year.

To be named to the dean's list, students must earn a semester grade point of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.

Huntington University's physical education students will again offer a homeschool physical education program for children ages 3 through fifth grade this spring.

Children will be placed into one of four developmental levels, preschool (ages 3 and 4), grades K-1, grades 2-3 and grades 4-5.

The nine class sessions will be offered from March to May. Class time is from 1:15 to 2 p.m. in the fieldhouse of the university's Merillat Physical Education and Recreation Complex. The dates for the sessions are March 1, 8, 22, 29, April 5, 12, 19, 26 and May 3.

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The youth of St. Peter Lutheran Church will go 30 hours without eating on Feb. 24-25 as part of a national "30 Hour Famine" organized by World Vision.

The students will go without food in order to experience what is a reality for people around the world who don't have enough to eat because of poverty, war, famine and drought.

Each of the six participants has a goal of raising enough to feed a child for a year through World Vision. Each participant will also have the opportunity to apply for a study tour to a foreign county to see how the money is used.

Huntington County Girl Scouts will sponsor World Thinking Day on Feb. 19 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Mt. Etna United Methodist Church.

The event is free and open to all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Those attending will learn about other countries through various activities and games. Information about the Girl Scout program, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, will also be available.

The Huntington County Lions Clubs in Andrews, Bippus, Huntington and Roanoke are offering two $500 scholarships to graduating high school seniors.

To be eligible, a student should be a resident of Huntington County, have an accumulative grade average of C or better, and have been accepted in a certified post-high school educational program of two years or more.

He or she must be a high school senior or a recent graduate of an accredited high school who has not started a post-high school education program.

The Parkview Huntington YMCA is launching its annual Partners With Youth campaign.

Contributions to the campaign will be used to help individuals and families in need participate in programs such as preschool, youth sports, health and wellness, swim lessons, summer camp, teen leadership programs and more at the YMCA.

In 2011, the Parkview Huntington YMCA provided more than $80,000 in subsidized memberships and programs to families in the community.

Nine Huntington North High School students have earned awards in the 2012 Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition.

Their work will be on display Feb. 11 through April 8 at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. They will be honored at an awards ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 1 p.m. at the Grand Wayne Convention Center, 120 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne.

The Joe Mertz Center for volunteer service, an outreach program of Huntington University, is partnering with Café of Hope for a spaghetti dinner on Thursday, Feb. 9, from 6 to 8 p.m.

The all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner is open to the public.

Gluten-free spaghetti will be available.

This is a fund-raiser event for the Joe Mertz center.
Proceeds will help provide a new van for the group and to help fund future service projects.

Café of Hope will host live trivia during the event.

Café of Hope is located at 950 E. State St., Huntington.

Photo by Cindy Klepper.

Dairy Girl Scouts (from left) Sophie Shockney, Maddie Watts and Chloe Morris are dressed as Girl Scout cookies - Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties and Carmel deLites, respectively - as they sell the treats Saturday, Jan. 28, at Owen's South. The girls are members of Troop 00175, which mainly includes students at Roanoke Elementary School. The troop's leader is Brandi Shockney.

The next meeting of the Korean War Veterans Association, Indiana Chapter One, will be Saturday, Feb. 11, at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 857 in Fort Wayne.

The meeting will start promptly at 10 a.m. and will be followed by lunch.

Spouses and friends are welcome to attend.

The post is located at 2202 W. Main St., Fort Wayne.

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Planning has begun for the post-prom party for Huntington North High School seniors.

All seniors are invited to attend post-prom for free, even if they don't attend the prom.

The party is fully chaperoned and will provide entertainment with food, games, music, dancing and door prizes.

This year, the theme is "In it to win it!"
The event will be held on May 13, from 1 to 4 a.m. in the HNHS field house following prom.

The post-prom is presented and staffed by the senior parents. Funding is provided by senior parent donations and by community donations.

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Shoshannah McKinney's Chinese language class from Huntington North High School celebrated the Chinese New Year with Nancy Peace's first grade class at Northwest Elementary School. HNHS students (from left) Laresa Lund, Alysse Bustos, Dan Jacobs and Andrew Sizemore lead the first-graders in practicing the tones found in the Chinese language. The younger students learned many different words through activities, games and stories. The Chinese New Year was celebrated on Jan. 23.

Huntington County Sheriff Terry Stoffel recently announced that the Indiana Sheriff's Association (ISA) will again be awarding scholarships to qualified high school seniors or college students pursuing a degree in criminal justice studies.

Approximately 40 $500 scholarships will be made available for qualified applicants. Scholarship requirements include:

• The student must be an Indiana resident.

• He or she must be a current member of the ISA or a dependent child or grandchild of a current ISA member.

Ed Vessels, owner of HiValu LLC, a leadership and consulting firm in Roanoke, has been elected president of the Huntington University Foundation Board of Directors.

Vessels will serve a three-year term. As president he will also serve on the university's board of trustees.
Vessels succeeds Brooks Fetters, recently elected mayor of Huntington.

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Three Huntington University faculty members have been granted promotions for the 2012-2013 school year.

Dr. Thomas Bergler will be promoted from associate to professor of ministry and missions. Dr. Luke Fetters will be promoted from associate to professor of ministry and missions. And Diana Shenefield will be promoted from instructor to assistant professor of nursing.

The changes were approved by the HU Board of Trustees at its January meeting.

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Bruce Langton, a contemporary artist and children's book illustrator, sketches a fantasy animal during a program at Northwest Elementary School on Jan. 27. Langton visited the school as part of an educational outreach program sponsored by the Honeywell Center in Wabash. He showed students what inspires him and how he makes his art.

Community members are invited to hear about the Vision 2020 project and its impact on Huntington County at the Huntington University Foundation breakfast on Feb. 8 from 7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Habecker Dining Commons.

The Optimist Club of Huntington will be awarding three $1,000 scholarships for 2012.

Applicants must be Huntington County residents who are high school seniors.

Applications are available at Huntington North High School, and at the office of Matheny, Hahn, Denman & Nix LLP.

The application deadline is April 2, 2012.

For additional information, please contact Jeremy K. Nix at 356-7030.

Pathfinder Community Connections, the community development division of Pathfinder Services, will host a series of workshops focused on overall financial wellness beginning Feb. 2 in Huntington.

The series will emphasize building and improving credit scores, and will include four different sessions intended for any community member who would like to improve their financial situation.

A benefit dinner will be held for Jeromy and Pam Bowman, of Markle, on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The dinner will be held at the Markle Fire Sta-tion, 150 W. Sparks St. in Markle.

The Bowmans were victims of a house fire late last year.
Jeromy Bowman has also been a veteran with the Markle Fire Department for over five years.

The menu includes soups, sandwiches, deserts and drinks.
In addition to the dinner, a silent auction will held.

Admission to the event is by free will donation.