Monday - June 13, 2011
Woodburn resident arrested on meth charges
The occupant of a home in the 21800 block of Indiana 101 North in Woodburn is facing felony drug charges after police were called Saturday to check on the well-being of three children under the age of 5, according to a Woodburn Police Department report.
An officer found an active meth lab in the home, according to the report, and arrested the occupant for possession of meth, dealing in meth and possession of precursors in the manufacturing of meth. Police did not release the occupant's name.
Police are continuing their investigation into the case and more arrests are possible, the report said.
The Woodburn Police Department was assisted by the Allen County Sheriff's Department vice and narcotics division and the Indiana State Police Clandestine Lab Team.
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Today is a sad day for the students and teachers of Harlan Elementary.
They will close as a school because of the redesign plan that was voted
upon by the school board last year. This was a plan that parents were
never given any input about.The voices of the students, parents, and
teachers were ignored. The closure of six elementary schools will cost
the district over $82 million dollars. All of this to save $2 million.
This is not nor will it ever be fiscally responsible.
We can thank our school board for failing our children. We can thank our
school board for hiring a superintendent who does not even live in this
district. The same superintendent who had the audacity to threaten
teachers. It was made clear that they were not to speak up or out
against the changes.How can we trust this person to lead our children
forward? What I see is a road that is not promising. Our children should
not be simply a number. They deserve better. At least at Harlan
Elementary, they were a person, with a name, with dreams, with a future,
with caring teachers who helped them reach for the stars and to touch
them. Too much emphasis has been on the closing of Harding. The focus
should have been on the younger students who truly are the future. It is
time for change- I suggest the change start with the superintendent and
the school board.
Roxanne Becker
Grabill, Indiana
Pond Report:
More Bills Moving from House to Governor’s Desk
More than 40 bills that we have debated and discussed in the Indiana General Assembly this session have passed through the legislative process and have been signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels to become new state laws. As a week remains in our legislative session, we in the Indiana House of Representatives have had 12-hour workdays this week as we discuss and vote on more bills that could go to the governor’s desk to become law. In order for a bill to become a law it must pass both the Indiana House of Representatives and the Indiana Senate. The governor has final approval. This process, despite seeming extremely slow at times, makes sure 
the state adopts laws that have been thoroughly discussed and voted on by separately elected legislative bodies. While more than 800 bills were introduced at the start of the session, only a few have made it through the process and have become law. Here are a few of the bills that I have supported and have been signed by Governor Daniels. House Bill 1405, which was signed into law last week, makes it a Class C infraction for a store employee to knowingly buy or sell dissolvable tobacco products to a person less than 18 years old. It will also be a Class C infraction for a minor to purchase or possess of a dissolvable tobacco product. House Bill 1340 moves the responsibilities for career, technical and adult education between the State Board of Education to the Department of Workforce Development (DWD). House Bill 1386 affects Hoosier farmers and allows the state chemist to adopt rules concerning the inspection, auditing and certification of commercial feed manufacturers and distributors that export commercial feed. The law also will allow the state chemist at Purdue University to develop a process to provide a certification of commercial feeds being sold in and out of the United States. House Bill 1371 creates a four-year study committee to examine and find possible solutions to some of the problems with transportation and infrastructure in Indiana. The bipartisan committee will be comprised of Indiana House and Indiana Senate members, and they will report their findings to the governor. House Bill 1251 requires the Indiana Economic Development Corporation to create a young entrepreneurs program. This program would promote college students’ business proposals throughout the state, including in the suburbs and rural areas. The law also requires the IEDC to organize at least one auction per year for communities to bid and locate possible young entrepreneurs’ start-up businesses for their community. Senate Bill 32 gives each county the option to create vote centers and gives the county election board authority to run the centers and determine where they will be located. This new law will put voting centers closer to more Hoosiers, and it will help decrease the amount of time a person has to wait at voter center before filling out their ballot. With one week remaining in this year’s legislative session, there still many bills being debated in the Indiana House and Indiana Senate. I am looking forward to spending the remaining days in Indianapolis discussing bills that could be good laws that benefit Hoosiers and voting to send them to the governor’s desk so they can become law.
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