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Life .................................................................A6

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Weather........................................................A8

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Vol. 161 No. 160

Area-StateTrine student studies while deployed, A2

Day trips abound in the area

COMINGSUNDAY

Sunny, pleasantMORE WEATHER, PAGE A8

Angola, Indiana $1.25T H E H E R A L D R E P U B L I C A N . C O M

SERVING THE STEUBEN COUNTY 101 LAKES AREA SINCE 1857

SATURDAY

JULY 7, 2018

KPC NEWS SERVICEANGOLA — The

2018 Angola Balloons Aloft festival got off to a windy start on Friday, with the media fl ight getting canceled a third straight year.

Winds died down throughout the day but it was iffy if there would be fl ying on Friday night at the festival held at Angola High School.

Saturday promises to bring a lot of family fun and better weather for

fl ying, with less wind and sunny skies.

The event schedule is as follows for today:

Today7 a.m. Balloon competi-

tion and paid balloon rides7–10 a.m. Pancake and

sausage breakfast by the Angola Band Boosters — open to the public

9:30–10:30 a.m. Remote control air show

10 a.m.–6 p.m. Helicopter Rides

11 a.m.–4 p.m. Classic Cars/Antique Tractors

11 a.m.–9 p.m. Food and retail vendors

Noon –9 p.m. Kid’s Fun Zone

2 p.m. Parkview Samaritan helicopter

2-4 p.m. Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center demonstration

3-5 p.m. Science Central experiments and demonstrations

3:30–4:30 p.m. Meet the balloon pilots

3:30–5:30 p.m. Paw

BILL EYSTER

The nighttime illuminations at Angola Balloons Aloft are always popular with the crowds. The ninth annual event got started on Friday and promises a day fi lled with family fun today at Angola High School.

Great weather expected for today’s Angola Balloons Aloft

BY ASHLEE HOOSahoos@kpcmedia.com

AND MIKE MARTURELLOmmarturello@kpcmedia.com

ANGOLA – Pleasant Township’s fi re contract and payment were signed and dated before the deadline to extend coverage from the city of Angola for the rest of 2018, but the document and check were not received until after the June 30 deadline, city offi cials say.

Township Trustee Craig Rice said city offi cials were out to embarrass him by talking about the issue during a Monday meeting of the Board of Public Works and Safety.

Rice, who did not seek re-election as trustee and failed in a bid for a Republican nomination to the Pleasant Township Advisory Board, also took issue with a story about the contract issue that appeared in Friday’s Herald Republican.

“There’s not a stitch of that article that was true about the township,” Rice said, admitting that it might have been an accurate portrayal of the meeting.

Angola offi cials, meanwhile, said

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana lawmaker at the center of groping allega-tions against Attorney General Curtis Hill came forward Friday to accuse him publicly of groping her twice during a party earlier this year, ratcheting up pressure on the embattled Republican to resign.

Democratic state Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon published her own account of the March 15 incident, which occurred at an

Indianapolis bar, in The (Northwest Indiana) Times newspaper.

She describes Hill’s behavior as “deviant” when she encountered him in the early morning hours after the legislative session ended for the year. She says he leaned toward her, put his hand on her back, slid it down and grabbed her buttocks. The Munster

lawmaker says she told Hill to “back off,” but he approached her again later in the night, put his hand on her back and said: “That skin. That back.”

Hill has denied allegations that he groped Candelaria Reardon and three other legisla-tive staffers, which were included in a confi dential memo leaked to news organiza-tions earlier this week. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual misconduct or assault unless they come forward publicly.

“My name is Mara Candelaria Reardon. I am not anonymous. I am a wife, mother,

BY ASHLEE HOOSahoos@kpcmedia.com

ANGOLA — Former Miss 101 Lakes Scholarship Pageant director Jeri Mow of Angola is bringing a pageant back to the area this summer during the Angola Art Festival on Aug. 4.

The pageant will be open to girls ages 5-18 and boys ages 5-8, with the girls portion of the pageant being split into the following age categories:

• Princess, ages 5-8• Junior Miss, ages 9-14

• Miss, ages 15-18Boys will compete in the

prince category.Contestants for any

category must live, work or attend school in Steuben County.

Mow said earlier in the year she spoke with Colleen Everage about the possibility of bringing a new pageant back to the county, but she didn’t want to get back to the long hours and out-of-pocket expenses required, so she dismissed the idea.

Sometime later, Everage

called her back about a pageant to take place during the arts festival and Mow said she “immediately said yes!”

Mow said it takes a lot to put a pageant together, but that she’s grateful the people in the community remember her work from the Miss 101 Lakes days and they’re hopping on board to support this pageant as well.

“Fortunately my church, Angola United Methodist Church and The Gathering are with me so we can use

the facility at The Gathering for the program,” she said.

Contestant interviews will begin at 10 a.m. at The Gathering, 205 W. Maumee St., Suite B, which she said is the perfect location because it’s downtown.

The pageant program itself will begin at 2 p.m., also at The Gathering.

Contestants involved with the pageant will be served lunch, because Mow said with it being an all-day event

Trustee says fi re coverage never in jeopardyContract was signed June 29 but not received until July 2

Lawmaker

comes

forward to

accuse Hill

Candelaria Reardon

Pageant coming to Angola Art Fest

SEE PLEASANT, PAGE A8

SEE PAGEANT, PAGE A8

SEE BALLOONS, PAGE A8

SEE HILL, PAGE A8

DeKalb Special Olympians are goldenBY BRICE VANCEbvance@kpcmedia.com

SEATTLE — The DeKalb County Special Olympics basketball team struck gold on Friday morning with a 31-30 win over Nevada in the gold-medal game at the 2018 USA Games.

The game came down to the wire with DeKalb holding on for dear life as Nevada had an opportunity to win the game with 3.9 seconds left.

DeKalb led 31-29 with 7.7 seconds left and Nevada cut the game to one after hitting one of two free throws. DeKalb inbounded

the ball on its end but quickly turned the ball over to Nevada and committed a foul a few seconds later.

Nevada went to the free throw line with a chance to tie the game or take the lead. The player from Nevada missed both free throws and Nevada couldn’t get another shot off as time expired, sending Team Indiana into a euphoric celebration on the court.

“Happiness,” DeKalb Special Olympics basketball head coach Rob Allen said on how he felt after the fi nal buzzer. “Just happiness for every athletes and parent that made this journey.”

As representatives of Team Indiana, DeKalb went undefeated at the USA Games with a 6-0 record, including a 28-25 over Nevada on Tuesday in pool play. However, Friday was its closest win while in Seattle, and its average margin of victory was 4.67 points.

It was a back-and-forth contest between DeKalb and Nevada through the fi rst half. There were six lead changes in the fi rst 13 minutes.

“I think we had a little case of nerves in the fi rst half,” Allen said. “But when we were in the locker room

SEE GOLD, PAGE A8

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

DeKalb Special Olympics basketball team receives their gold medals after beating Nevada 31-30 at the 2018 USA Games on Friday. The team fi nished with a 6-0 record at the games.