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• Fort Wayne residents have an opportunity to go sky high in two rare ...

  

  August 6, 2016 Updated Aug 6, 2016 at 6:57 PM EDT FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21Alive) - For the first time in over a decade, Fort Wayne residents had the opportunity to go for a ride in an open cockpit biplane. The rare, single passenger plane was brought to the Summit City by Waldo Wright's Flying Service. The Indiana-based Nostalgic Flights also offered joyrides today in their T-6 Texan Warbird--a war trainer from World War II. The Fort Wayne Allen County Airport has worked hard to bring these unique ..

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• Psychics and mediums gather at Grand Wayne Center

  

  Psychics and mediums gather at Grand Wayne Center FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The Healing Body and Spirit Psychic Expo continues Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grand Wayne Center in Fort Wayne. Psychics and mediums from across the United States and Canada are gathering at the convention center. Guests can enjoy tarot and angel readings, meet with spirit artists and stone healers while discovering numerology, aromatherapy and much more. Clothes, jewelry and essential oils will be availabl..

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• Business Weekly announces Health Care Awards honorees

  

  FORT WAYNE — Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly will recognize 12 health care professionals and organizations at an awards ceremony Thursday, Aug. 25. The honorees were selected by a panel of judges from nominations submitted online. All the winners exemplify the significant contributions one individual or organization can make to the quality of health care for all in northeast Indiana. The following are the 2016 Health Care Awards honorees: • Robert Barnes — pediatrician, St. Joseph Medical ..

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• Fielding errors plague TinCaps in loss to Lansing

  

  LANSING, Mich. — In a game that would’ve made Tom Emanski cringe, the TinCaps lost to the Lansing Lugnuts, 7-4, on Saturday night at Cooley Law School Stadium in the opener of a four-game series. The game featured seven errors, three balls that fielders apparently never saw in the air that resulted in hits, a couple passed balls, and a general poor quality of play.  The TinCaps, who won a 15-inning game at South Bend on Friday night, played like a team that had checked into their hotel on Satur..

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• Hard sell? Wright fans not buying it

  

  When Fort Wayne Realtor Joe Leksich bought a side-by-side duplex in Fort Wayne’s historic West Central neighborhood, the two homes needed a lot of work. But he was willing to invest the time and money because he knew there would be a payoff. The homes sold quickly for about $200,000 each. Buyers purchased the homes, Leksich said, because they wanted to live in a house with a history. “I think it adds value to a house,” Leksich said of homes having a historic designation. “In my opinion, I get..

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• TIF is a key to rev engine of development

  “You can’t jump-start economic development without government subsidy. ... It’s what is needed to ignite the change of economic development, and it has to be done. Nobody can get away without a sparkplug to get the ignition running in a car’s engine.” – Architect Eric Kuhne, speaking to the Fort Wayne City Council in January 2013. Kuhne, who designed Headwaters Park, died in London on July 25.   City Council last week helped fill in one more piece of the rapidly resolving puzzle of downtown d..

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• Scrabble tourney participants: Playing 'chess with tiles'

  

  Why Fort Wayne? This is the first time the North American Scrabble Players Association has held its annual tournament in Fort Wayne. The Summit City wasn’t even on the group’s radar, director Dallas Johnson said. But then Josie O’Donnell, Visit Fort Wayne’s group sales director, contacted the organization. “We told her ‘no’ twice, but she persisted,” Johnson said. “So we did a site visit and fell in love with Fort Wayne and the people. And the hospitality that we have enjoyed since we’ve been ..

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• Leave city to see the meteors

  

  Every August we are reminded that the Perseid meteor shower is about to be on us, and every year I wander outside in the middle of the night on the recommended date, stare at the sky for a few minutes and see nothing. Well, the Perseid meteor shower is coming around again – the hot date will be Friday starting around 10 p.m. – and we’re told that it will be bigger and better than it has been in a long time. There will be what is called an outburst. Instead of a paltry 80 meteors an hour, we’r..

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• 'Neighborhood festival' showcases campus

  

  Andrew Welch had big and small goals for this year’s South Side Fest. The spokesman for Ivy Tech Community College Northeast knows Saturday’s event didn’t compare in size to some of the city’s splashier annual events, including Greekfest, Ribfest and the Three Rivers Festival. “It’s more like a neighborhood festival,” Welch said. “We just want everybody to have a good time and maybe meet some new people.” Even so, he knows the modest gathering could change the trajectory of someone’s life. Th..

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