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Hoosiers never forget 9/11 attack

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Sept. 11, 2001. The very mention of that date sends chills down the spine of all Hoosiers, indeed all Americans, who lived through it.

It was the day that terrorists from the Middle East turned commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction, killing nearly 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on board four hijacked planes.

“It was the first shot in the global war on terrorism,” reflects Teri Maude, the widow of one of nine Hoosiers who died that day.

Her husband was Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude, the highest-ranking general officer to be killed in hostile action since World War II.

Tim Maude was an Indianapolis native who enlisted in the military while a student at Marian University in Indianapolis. After serving in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 and earning a Bronze Star, he opted for a career with the Army. He never looked back. Along the way, he fell in love with a fellow Marian student, Teri Campbell, and they married and had two daughters.

When American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, Maude was in a meeting with contractors discussing the military’s survivor-benefit program. Teri, a civilian Army employee, was at a conference in San Diego where she watched the events unfold on TV.

By day’s end, although his remains had not been identified, it was clear to Teri and officials in Washington that Tim was among the victims as were many of their colleagues and friends. “Not only did I suffer personal loss, but my Army family took one hell of a hit that day,” Maude says. “There was a 27 percent casualty rate in Tim’s unit and a 37 percent injury rate.”

Maude was one of four Hoosiers killed in the Pentagon attack. The others were Col. Canfield Boone, Milan; Major Stephen V. Long, Cascade; and Brenda Gibson of Indianapolis, a civilian employee.

In New York City, four Hoosiers who worked in the World Trade Center died when American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 hit the North and South Towers. They were: Gary Bright, Muncie; Katie McCloskey, South Bend; Stacy Peak, Tell City and Karen Juday, Elkhart. Eddie Dillard, raised in Gary, was a passenger on Flight 77 en route to California to visit his son when that plane struck the Pentagon.

The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 43, crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew learned about the earlier attacks and attempted to retake the plane.

Teri Maude views all the victims as war heroes and says she is glad their sacrifice has been remembered at memorials in Washington, New York, Pennsylvania and cities across the country, including the Maudes’ hometown.

Now living in South Carolina, Maude was in Indianapolis in 2014 to help dedicate a 600-pound slab of Indiana limestone salvaged from the Pentagon’s devastation and included in the city’s 9/11 memorial on Ohio Street. The memorial features two upright beams from the Twin Towers and a pair of granite walls inscribed with remembrances of 9/11. A life-size sculpture of a bald eagle is perched atop one of the beams, its wings outstretched and eyes looking east.

Maude has visited that memorial and the one at the Pentagon on numerous occasions.

“I find these places more a place of reflection than a war monument,” she said. “I get great peace there because it is fulfilling the promise everybody made to each other that day: We will never forget.”

Andrea Neal is an adjunct scholar with the Indiana Policy Review. Contact her at aneal@inpolicy.org.

Letter: True ‘silent majority’ cast votes for Clinton

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From: John Vanderbur

Greensburg

I write this letter in response to a recent letter titled “Trump election win not really a mystery,” written by Sherry Grimes and published in The Republic.

As I read this letter, I underlined those segments that I disagreed with. When I was done, I had about 75 percent of the text underlined. Being confined to 500 words, I will refute what I feel are important contentions.

I believe she mentioned the “silent majority” four times. In the November election, the so-called “silent majority” were actually those who voted for Hillary Clinton. She beat him in the popular vote by 2.5 million votes. The “silent majority” was a catch phrase used by President Nixon, and we all know how that presidency ended.

In the following, I will put in quotation marks the verbatim comments from Grimes’ letter, and then I will give a rebuttal of those remarks. (1) “The silent majority knows that it is unconstitutional to force Americans to buy any product, even Obamacare, against their will.” *Better think again, the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is legal. The conservative Justice Roberts was the swing vote in that case. (2) “The silent majority is sick and tired of being called racist, homophobic, sexist and anti-immigrant.” *Well, you need only to listen to the racist remarks (Mexicans), sexist comments (some women are fat pigs) and the immigration remarks made by none other than Donald Trump. (3) “We want our First Amendment rights back.” *No one has taken them from you. You have freedom of speech and you may express yourself within the confines of civility and law.

In addition to these, Grimes had a bullet list of five items. She prefaced the bullet list with this remark: “Here are some of the outrageous remarks I have heard from the anti-Trump faction since Nov. 8.” The following are some of the bullet list items:

• “People will die when Obamacare is repealed.” *Prior to Obamacare, some people who had pre-existing conditions could not be insured. As a result, those in the lower and middle levels of income could not afford the medicines that they needed to survive; in short, some of them died. I have no idea how many, but if it was just one, that’s one too many.

• “All illegal immigrants will be sent back to their native countries.” *Again, Trump’s words. Several months before the election, Chuck Todd interviewed Trump. On the subject of immigration, Trump said the following: “We’re going to keep the families together, but they have to go.” When pressed on what he would do if the immigrants in question had nowhere to return to, Trump reiterated, “They have to go.”

I find Ms. Grimes letter as preaching the gospel of untruth, exaggerations and a perpetuation of mistrust and division.

As President Obama once said in a speech: “Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America.” I wish that were true.

Letter: Get out the boots if history repeats itself

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From: John H. Boldt

Columbus

The staff at the county surveyor’s office recently did a search in the archives of The Republic for any mention of Haw Creek flooding dating back to 1890. In reviewing the summary of those articles, it was noted that major floods causing significant damage occurred 13 times in the last 115 years, or an average of once every nine years.

Since the last damaging major flood was in 2008, plus nine equals 2017. For those many residences and businesses in the flood area who experienced flooding in 2008, I suggest you keep your boots handy. Kidding of course, but you heard it here first.

Gap between ideal, real can leave us disappointed

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You dated his representative.

But you married him.

A counselor said that to a young woman who came to him because the dream of romance had become the reality of daily life with an imperfect man, a man who had a habit of celebrating bodily odors and making crude comments. Six years of marriage had taken their toll.

You dated his representative.

But you married him.

This is a common experience in all areas of human life. We often balk at the experience of moving from the ideal to the real, from heaven to earth.

The poet T.S. Eliot once wrote: “Between the idea and reality/Between the motion and the act/falls the shadow.”

We live in the shadows between the ideal and the real. This is true in marriage, careers, parenthood and in the church.

In the 1500s, a French political philosopher, Montaigne, addressed a crowd in this way: “Oh my fellow democrats, there are no democrats.”

Montaigne meant that we always fall short of great ideas and ideals. We never live up to lofty claims and identities completely.

The Apostle Paul in Romans 3:23 put is this way, more than a thousand years before Montaigne: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

The move from the ideal to the real often disappoints and depresses us. But we forget something. We forget that God blesses “the real.” God moves from heaven to earth in what we call “the Incarnation.” God becomes human flesh in the person of Jesus. Christianity does not deny the material world; rather, it affirms it.

In our adult Sunday school classes, we have been discussing Martin Luther’s “Theology of the Cross.” The Theology of the Cross gives up pretending to perfection. Luther developed his view of the cross by reading the teachings of Jesus and the apostle, Paul. The Theology of the Cross helps us admit to human limitations in thought, word, and deed. The Theology of the Cross enables us to see that Christians can experience fear, doubt, and failure in this world as we travel the road of faith.

God chose to work with real humanity and to become one of us in the person of Jesus, a Jew born in the first century. This has been called “The Scandal of Particularity.”

Christianity is not about “universals.” Instead, it is about “particulars.”

I mentioned the young woman who came to her counselor in despair over the universal of “romance” becoming “the particular” in her husband. Her counselor was wise. He told her she had dated her husband’s “best foot,” but marriage reveals the other foot. Someone told me, years ago: “We put our best foot forward; but it’s the other one that needs our attention.” The ideal becomes real in daily life.

The young woman’s counselor was wise. He helped the young woman see other aspects of her husband beside his celebration of bodily odors and his crude comments. The counselor helped her see things she could celebrate.

She began to remember how her husband’s eyes smiled when he held their children in his arms. She remembered her husband’s eyes filling with tears when he saw the suffering of an elderly woman who lived next door. She remembered him picking up extra groceries and taking them to a homeless shelter in their town. She remembered him offering to help do building maintenance at a local shelter for abused women and children. She remembered him taking the time to stop and talk with people that many other folks tend to avoid. She often marveled at how he valued those who are often devalued by most people.

In short, she remembered that her husband was not only about the celebration of bodily odors and making crude comments. He was also about specific acts of love and caring for his family and for the community.

The young woman concluded: “Life is a mixed bag, and so is my husband.” Indeed, reality contains both curses and blessings.

God came into a real world in the person of Jesus. God continues to call together a real people called “The Church.” In that Church, and in our specific churches, we realize that we are all “a mixed bag.” We have wrong ideas about what “church” is; and we have right ideas about what “church” is. We sometimes do the wrong things as a church; and we sometimes do the right things in response to the gospel.

We are all “a mixed bag.” At work, at church, and at home we leave a trail of dirty laundry. But we also become a source of great blessing to our families, to our community, and to our church — as God continues to become flesh in, with, and under our communities of faith and our practices.

The Rev. Larry Isbell is pastor of First Lutheran Church in Columbus. He can reached at janetti600@comcast.net.

Overdose antidote recall doesn’t affect county first-responders

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Mark Webber
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Staff reports

The recall of certain containers of an antidote given to heroin overdose victims will have no impact on Bartholomew County first-responders who carry the drug.

A faulty piece in the dispensing mechanism of a two-milligram nasal spray version of naloxone prompted a recall of 200 kits received by the Jackson County Health Department, the agency announced this week.

However, the Bartholomew County Health Department does not have the same supply program as its counterparts in Brownstown, nursing director Amanda Organist said.

In addition, Organist said she is unaware of any emergency responders in the Columbus area with the faulty dispensers that are impacted by the recall.

Instead of two milligrams, containers with a four-milligram dose are provided to officers with the Columbus Police Department, spokesman Lt. Matt Harris said.

The recall also does not apply to containers carried by local deputies who patrol outside the city limits, said Sgt. Jim Stevens of the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department.

Man arrested, accused of threatening woman with knife

A local man was arrested after he was accused of pulling a knife and making threats to a woman during an argument.

Melvin G. Foree, 34, 1113 California St., was arrested on a preliminary charge of intimidation with a deadly weapon at about 4:35 a.m. Friday, said Lt. Matt Harris, Columbus Police Department spokesman.

Officers were sent to the 1100 block of California Street about a disturbance inside a home, Harris said. When they arrived, they heard an argument upstairs in the home and saw that a bedroom door had been kicked in and knocked off its hinges, Harris said.

Residents in the home said Foree was intoxicated and began threatening a woman inside the house with a knife, Harris said. The witnesses told police Foree kicked open a bedroom door and a struggle ensued, he said.

Officers recovered a knife from behind a couch in the home, Harris said.

Foree is being held in the Bartholomew County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bond, jail officials said.

Spirit of giving

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Brian Blair
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A slicing, 20-mph wind and a temperature falling into the 30s made many a shopper dip their head determinedly against the cold and trudge onward with a grimace.

Until they heard the booming, a capella voice of local Southern gospel singer and WYGS Radio deejay Jim Hutson, and smiled warmly.

Silver bells, silver bells

It’s Christmas time in the city.

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He sang and rang a golden bell instead, the classic one that heralds The Salvation Army’s spirit of giving for the less fortunate. Hutson serves among 18 volunteer bell ringers — more are needed — during the church and social service agency’s annual 2016 Red Kettle Campaign running through Dec. 24.

It marks a time when a not-so-silent night is a good thing.

Hutson, 48, rings for two hours each Tuesday, usually with his two granddaughters. For this night, in front of the Kroger Marketplace store, Hutson stood alone, in jeans, sneakers and one bright blue glove, which looked especially apropos when he crooned “Blue Christmas.”

“My other hand stays warm from moving constantly (with the bell),” he said.

He began volunteering weekly at the kettles with wife Mary in 2012 when their son, Robert Hutson, was deployed overseas. They wanted to channel their family concern toward compassion for others.

At many kettle locations in years past, ringers — especially the silent ones — might go 15 minutes or more with no one stopping or even looking directly at them. But here, nearly every few seconds, they stopped — in the name of love.

Love for their fellow man, perhaps. Love for the season or the savior, for some.

And love for Hutson’s voice and singing.

Shopper Misty Lang said so.

Decked in fitness gear and a headband and moving energetically even with a full cart, Lang probably could have sprinted past him more easily than others.

“But you’re a great singer,” she said, beaming as she talked to Hutson and dug $5 in change from her purse after joking that her teen children spent the rest of her money. “That caught my attention.

“I think it takes a lot for someone to stand out here and sing.”

The annual fundraising effort kicked off Nov. 12 — the earliest start in the past several years locally.

The local goal stands at $115,000 — money to be used for expenses for the ministry and social service’s food pantry, for utilities for the struggling, summer camp for youth, after-school programs and a variety of other projects for the 2017 calendar year.

Capt. Alan Sladek, a leader of the local Salvation Army outreach, mentioned just before Hutson’s shift that warm November and December weather has hurt donations in recent years. His theory has long been that holiday giving never really kicks in until the temperature or the snow drops — and reminds people of Christmas.

“So we’re hoping for a little snow,” Sladek said.

And more volunteers, especially those willing to ring more than once during the season.

“It means everything to us,” Sladek said. “It really is such a blessing.”

Shopper John Bundick would agree.

“Grocery shopping can be like drudgery,” Bundick said. “But when you can hear a guy like him (Hutson), you realize, ‘Hey — this isn’t so bad.”

In fact, one female shopper who walking briskly toward the store entrance suddenly began singing along in mid-stride with Hutson’s version of “Away In a Manger.”

“That happens quite often,” Hutson said later.

In a two-hour stretch, about the only time he quit singing was to look toward donors young and old and thank them. And ask if they wanted a free candy cane from his red bowl matching his red kettle.

Although others shivered and huddled under coat hoods against the chill, he never reacted. And it never seemed to change the timbre of his voice that some residents know as one part of the nationally touring Christian group The Woodsmen.

An hour into his volunteer duty, in fact, his vocals seemed to get stronger. As he crooned the crescendo chorus to “O Holy Night,” a shopper just getting out of her car about 50 yards away suddenly whirled her head sharply to investigate the source of the echoing song.

A few minutes later, a walk to the furthest edge of the Kroger parking lot proved that, even amid passing National Road traffic, Hutson’s songs could be clearly heard as something of a Christmas clarion. Plus, his tunes apparently impacted another Salvation Army volunteer group at the store’s opposite entrance.

Initially, several young women merely chatted as they rang at the store’s southern entrance. Later, they too, began caroling, though with a measure of timidity.

“You’ve got to find a way to get people’s attention,” Hutson said. “Otherwise, they’re busy, and most are going to walk right on by.”

By his shift’s end, he had collected $198.75. Organizers agree such a total is something of a ringing endorsement of the agency’s work.

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You can help the Salvation Army by volunteering to ring a bell at one of its locations throughout the Columbus area, includes outlying areas such as the Edinburgh Premium Outlets through Dec. 24.

Organizers are asking volunteers to consider a shift of a minimum of two hours.

People can sign up for shifts at registertoring.com.

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Here are major Salvation Army kettle locations open Mondays through Saturdays through Dec. 24:

  • Edinburgh Premium Outlets, 11622 NE Executive Drive near Edinburgh.
  • Hobby Lobby, Clifty Crossing Shopping Center, 1149 N. National Road, Columbus
  • Kroger Marketplace, 3060 N. National Road, Columbus
  • Rural King, 2985 N. National Road, Columbus
  • Sam’s Club, 2715 Merchant Mile, Columbus
  • Walmart, 735 Whitfield Drive and 2025 Merchant Mile, Columbus

Donors also can give by sending a check to the local office at 2525 Illinois St. in Columbus. It also is accepting donations by mail to P.O. Box 807, Columbus, IN 47202.

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Ogilville clergyman looks forward to sabbatical abroad

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After nearly 40 years of ministry, a veteran clergyman looks expectantly to a long and refreshing rest.

Oh, but hardly in retirement.

No, the Rev. Virgil Clotfelter eyes a 15-week sabbatical so eclectic next year that he will explore family roots in Switzerland, get a fresh perspective on the Old Testament with time in Egypt (“thinking of how Joseph dealt with his challenges”), and even catch a NASCAR race in Michigan.

The multi-faceted $50,000 getaway grant project is all part of the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Program for Indiana Congregations.

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The effort encourages congregations to partner with their veteran ministers to find ways to address their need for renewal amid the often-stressful work of the ministry. The program especially encourages clergy to include their family and some measure of sheer fun in time away, especially since many ministers acknowledge that church work often takes them away from family activities.

“There’s a lot more information today coming out of now from seminars and conferences advising that ministers had better take care of themselves,” said Clotfelter, the associate minister for the past two-and-a-half years at Ogilville Christian Church. “There’s a better awareness today of how tough the ministry sometimes can be.”

The 62-year-old Clotfelter never says that. But he believes in the biblical idea of rest, and aims to return to his work more energetic than ever.

The Rev. Martin Wright, the Ogilville Christian senior minister who has enjoyed two Lilly sabbaticals and who encouraged Clotfelter to apply to the program, is glad to see his ministerial associate get a chance to find renewal.

“Virgil is an integral part of Ogilville Christian Church’s growth in attendance, giving and outreach,” Wright said. “He has been a tremendous blessing to our community.”

Clotfelter recently sat in his office at the church at 7891 W. County Road 450S and talked of his plans.

How did you come up with your ideas for your sabbatical?

They tell you in the application process to dream about what would make your heart sing.

Since the sabbatical program in part is meant to help clergy avoid burnout, have you ever experienced elements of that?

Oh, there have been brief moments. But not long periods.

How do you view rest in light of your calling and profession?

The Bible clearly includes the idea of a Sabbath rest. And rest in general is very biblical. If even God himself needed some form of it (at creation), then how much must we need it?

Your getaway will include plenty of travel. In your past excursions, what has been one stop or site that affected you significantly?

One of my most spiritual moments was sitting at that great big statue at the Lincoln Memorial (in Washington, D.C.) and reading the Gettsyburg Address.

You will visit the site of crash of United Flight 93 in the Pennsylvania countryside. Why that stop?

I just stand amazed that there were people (on 9/11) who agreed to surely go to their death in order to save the life of others. Scripture reminds us that no greater love has any man than he who lays down his life for that of a friend.

You are also visiting Christian missions in Mexico that you helped launch for the past 28 years and taking leaders to the beach?

(Wife) Dorri and I get to offer them a blessing. It’s our way of saying to them after all these years, ‘You deserve this.’ And we never could something like that without this grant.

You’re also visiting the Swiss Alps?

I’ve had a desire in me for a while to see where my family name came from. I used to think it was German.

And of course, I’d like to see the Alps. That’s a bit of a boyhood dream.

How will you feel about coming back after so much fun and relaxation?

(Pastor) Marty (Wright) says re-entry is probably the hardest part. But I will come back with a heart full of song.

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Position: Associate minister of Ogilville Christian Church, where a primarily role has been teaching Sunday School classes.

Age: 62.

Years of ordained ministry: 39, with 36 of that being at Garden City Church of Christ locally.

Family: Wife Dorri. Grown sons McClain and Alex. One granddaughter.

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  • Administered by Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.
  • Established in 1999, it encourages clergy to make time for rest and rujevenation, and makes funds available for congregations to have fill-in speakers and such while ministers are gone.
  • More than 2,300 congregations have participated in the program since it went national in 2000.
  • Information: cpx.cts.edu/renewal or email to clergyrenewal@cts.edu

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Piano competition winners named

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Kaitlyn Evener
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The Music Association of South Central Indiana conducted a piano competition Dec. 3 at Asbury Methodist Church.

Kimm Hollis, music department chairperson at Hanover College, was the judge and presented trophies to the winners with trophies. Ed Bruenjes, secretary of the music organization, presented scholarships.

Overall champion scholarship and trophy winners are:

  • Grace Huang (elementary)
  • Saylor Lancaster (junior)
  • Hannah Walker (senior)

Other division winners were: Isabella Goodin, Eli Varchenko, Judah Stellwagen, Andrew Huang, Akul B. Lall, Sasha Varchenko, Kimberly Carouthers, Grace Huang, Saylor Lancaster, Wyatt Lancaster, William Lancaster, Rebecca Walker, Hannah Walker, Katie Haase, Ryan Huff, Andrew Scott, Jasmine Yang, Lulu Yang, Izzy Munn and Abby Schutte.

Religion News 12-10

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Kaitlyn Evener
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Services and studies

First Baptist — The Rev. Dan Cash will deliver the message, “Water Always Wins,” with Scripture from Isaiah 35:1-10 and John 1:1, 10-13 at the 9:30 a.m. service Sunday at the church, 3300 Fairlawn Drive. Communion will be shared during the service. Music worship will be led by the Glad Ringers and the Chancel Choir. Child care is available for infants. Older children will leave during the service for Children’s Church. Their lesson will be “Mary and Elizabeth” with Scripture from Luke1:39-56. Classes for all ages will begin at 10:45 a.m. There will be a business meeting at 11:45 a.m.Christmas Caroling will begin at 5:45 p.m. Sunday. All singers are welcome to join in.

The Prayer Shawl Ministry will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church.

The Mending Ministry will gather at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Four Seasons Retirement Center, 1901 Taylor Road, to do mending for the residents.

The Men of Faith will meet at 6:15 a.m. in the private dining room at Four Seasons for breakfast and study. All First Baptist men and their guests are welcome.

Live streaming is available for the Sunday service at sundaystreams.com/go/fbc columbus or through the church web page, fbccolumbus.org/WP/sermons.

Information: 812-376-3321; fbccolumbus.org

First Presbyterian — The Sunday worship service will focus on joy. The youth and children will lead the 9:30 a.m. service at the church, 512 Seventh St. They will present the annual holiday program, “Advent Express.”

Infant and toddler care is available until noon. Sunday school for children up to Grade 3 will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday school for grades 4 to 12 will begin at 11 a.m. The adult fellowship and education hour will be at 11 a.m. The Men’s and Women’s Support groups meets at 7 a.m. Friday. People in need of a meal are invited to the Hot Meals at 5 p.m. Friday, with entry through the glass doors on Franklin Street.

Information: fpccolumbus.org

Flintwood Wesleyan — Sunday service times are: Amplify, the non-traditional service, at 9 a.m., and The Well, the traditional service, at 11 a.m. in the main sanctuary of the church, 5300 E. 25th St. Sunday school classes begin at 10 a.m. The Prayer Team will meet at 8 a.m.

The children’s Christmas program, “Back to the Manger,” will be at 6 p.m. Sunday at the church. A cookie reception in the Friendship Center will follow the program.

The Connections small group meets at 10 a.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of each month.

The small group A Christian Journey With Paul will resume Jan.10.

Greater, the women’s group, will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the large Sunday school classroom, located in the basement of Curry Hall.

Wednesday activities begin with supper served at 5:30 p.m. Prayer Team will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the Prayer Room, JAM begins at 6:15 p.m., Youth, for grades 7 to 12, begins at 6:30 p.m. and Adult Bible study begins at 7 p.m. in the main sanctuary.

Cub Scout Pack 588 meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, followed by Boy Scout Troop 588 at 7 p.m.

The annual Christmas Breakfast will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Dec. 18, when Sunday school classes will be dismissed. The Amplify service will begin at 9 a.m. and The Well service will begin at 11 a.m. Regular evening activities will be dismissed.

The annual Walk-in Candlelight Communion is scheduled from 3 to 6 p.m. Dec. 18.

Christmas Caroling begins at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 21. Be at the Friendship Center ahead of time if you are interested in joining.

A combined Amplify and Well service will be at 10 a.m. Christmas Sunday. No Sunday school is scheduled that morning. No evening activities will take place Christmas night.

Information: 812-379-4287; flintwoodoffice@gmail.com

Old Union United Church of Christ — Pastor Kirby Rupp will deliver the message, “Joy in the Promises of God,” during the 10 a.m. service Sunday at the church, 12703 N. County Road 50W, Edinburgh. Scripture will include Isaiah 35:1-10, Psalm 146:5-10 and Luke 1:46b-55. Sunday school begins at 9 a.m. with fellowship at 9:40 a.m.

Wednesday Bible study is on hiatus until January.

The Voices Christmas Concert will be at 6:30 p.m. today.

The Candlelight Christmas Eve service is set for 11 p.m. Dec. 24 and the Christmas service will begin at 10 a.m. Dec. 25.

Information: 812-526-9430

Petersville United Methodist — The Rev. Stormy Scherer-Berry will give the sermon, “The List — What is on Yours?,” at the 9 a.m. service Sunday at the church, 2781 N. County Road 500E. Patsy Harris will serve as liturgist, reading Scripture from Luke 1 and Isaiah 35. Maxine Harden will light the third Advent candle and Teresa Covert will present the children’s message. The adult choir, under the direction of Kathy Bush, will share the song, “Christmas Grace.” Chris Kimerling will be accompanist. A time of fellowship will follow the service.

The Monday night Bible study at the Noltings and the Sit and Stitch Group will not meet again until after the holidays; the other Monday night Bible study usually at the Kimerling home will meet at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 and 19 at the church. The Sign Language class, led by Allyson Loper, will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the church.

Choir practice will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church and the Prayer group will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday, also at the church. The Walking group meets at 9 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Fair Oaks Mall.

A musical program by the youth of the church will be presented at 9 a.m. Dec. 18, during the worship service. The Rev. Bev Perry, Southeast District superintendent, will bring the message that morning.

A candlelight service will be at 7 p.m. Christmas Eve at the church and an informal worship service will be at 10 a.m. Christmas Day.

Information: 812-603-8378; 574-780-2379

St. Paul Lutheran — The theme of Pastor Doug Bauman’s sermon will be “Leaping for Joy,” based on Isaiah 35:1-10 at both the 8 and 10:45 a.m. services Sunday at the church, 6045 E. State St. Sunday school classes for both children and adults begin at 9:25 a.m. The Spanish worship service is at 12:45 p.m. each Sunday in the chapel with Spanish Sunday school at 1:45 p.m.

An Advent service focusing on Martin Luther’s hymn will be at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Pastor Bauman will deliver the message, “A Royal Welcome.”

Las Posadas service will be at 5 p.m. Saturday, beginning in the education building and ending in the chapel. This is a traditional service in Latin America that recounts Mary and Joseph’s difficulty finding a place to stay. A fiesta will follow the service.

Information: 812-376-6504

Music

St. Paul Lutheran — The second Presbyterian Church Beecher Singers and six–piece Orchestra of Indianapolis conducted by Dr. Michelle Louer will present a Christmas Concert at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at the church, 6045 E. State St. A pre-concert harp recital will begin at 6:40 p.m. Everyone is invited and admission is free.Information: 812-376-6504

Events

Faith Victory — Everyone is welcome to the Christmas Eve Circle of Joy Concert, held at 6 p.m. Dec. 24 at the church, 4286 W. Jonathan Moore Pike, Columbus. This is a free concert. It will feature the Faith Victory Church praise team and children.Information: 812-372-6625

Award honors critical designs

By
Kirk Johannesen
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Cummins Inc. has honored nine employees with its highest technical award for their contributions to significant technological advances that have benefited the company.

The Julius Perr Innovation Award is presented annually in honor of the inventor or co-inventor of 80 U.S. patents. Perr joined Cummins in 1958 after fleeing Communist Hungary. He retired from Cummins in 1997 as vice president of fuel systems, and died in 2005.

The recipients are scientists and engineers who developed critical advances in filtration and aftertreatment products. They each received a trophy-like award.

“In the spirit of Dr. Perr’s rich legacy, these inventors have demonstrated that the Cummins commitment to innovation and technology leadership continues to grow through our development of products that help enable our customers’ success,” said Jennifer Rumsey, vice president and chief technical officer. “Our ability to develop differentiated products, information and technologies to meet future challenges will continue to set us apart from the competition.”

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Beginning in 2007, the United States Environmental Protection Agency required diesel particulate filter exhaust aftertreament in order to meet ‘07 emission requirements.

Serviceability of these systems is necessary because of the need to clean the particulate filters from ash and other contaminants during their life.

Engineers Patrick Klein, Jeff Sedlacek and David M. Grimm — all who work in Wisconsin — developed a compact, serviceable aftertreatment system that made it shorter and easier to package, and limited impact on the places where parts joined together. This enabled packaging of the particulate filter in key customer applications in the United States in 2007.

What was learned from their project also was applied to the Global Single Module Next Generation Aftertreatment Platform, which Cummins is launching in 2017.

Engineers Stephanie (Faber) Severance, Brad Smith, Brian Schwandt, Chris Holm, Gerard Malgorn and Peter Herman developed a means of separating oil mist from crankcase gasses to protect the engine and the air people breathe.

This flexible, scalable method removes oil mist from crankcase ventilation gases across a wide range of temperature conditions engines operate in. The product lasts the entire life of the engine with no service, and assisted Cummins in meeting EPA emissions regulations.

This invention allowed Cummins to offer a product with high performance, low-cost, service-free filtration, compact packaging and high reliability, and it replaced more expensive serviceable technology that was larger in size and higher in cost.

This invention has been applied to a variety of engine platforms from the ISF2.8 to the QSK95.

Severance works at the Cummins Tech Center in Columbus, and Smith also is based in the city at Cummins’ new downtown offices along Third Street. Schwandt, Holm and Herman work in Wisconsin, while Malgorn works in France.

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