AUBURN â The Community Foundation of DeKalb County has hired Kathleen Alter as its new director of community engagement and leadership.
Alter brings extensive executive management experience, the foundation said. Her business expertise includes a focus on policy creation and implementation, fiscal management, accreditation compliance, fundraising and grant writing, event planning, public relations, human resources and marketing.
She is the former executive director of the Three Rivers Festival, French Quarter Festivals in New Orleans, Louisiana, Cityfolk in Dayton, Ohio, and the Womenâs Bureau. She also has worked for the American Medical Holistic Association in Cleveland, Ohio, where she planned its biannual medical conference, and Fort Wayne Newspapers, where she planned all special events.
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Thomas Adkinson shows off the car he won in 1982. He says he has taken good care of it over the years, and it only has 24,800 miles on it. Previous Next
Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:00 am 82 car winner still owns Pontiac, rarely drives it
COREY MCMAKEN | The Journal Gazette
If you won a new car, you would probably drive it, right?
Thomas Adkinson didn t – at least not more than the occasional trip on clear roads. Never in winter or if it is going to rain.
“I took real good care of it,” Adkinson says. Almost 39 years later, the car sits in his Albion garage with only 24,800 miles on it.
CrimeStoppers getting app
JAMIE DUFFY | The Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers will soon take tips and video through an app, P3Tips.
Although Crime Stoppers slated the app s debut for Feb. 1, Crime Stoppers television spokesman Ken Fries, a former Allen County sheriff, has been promoting it on local TV spots.
“It was obvious we needed to get things modernized,” Fries said Wednesday in a telephone interview. Additionally, Fort Wayne detectives were asking for “a system to get videos where people can remain anonymous,” Fries added. Fries became part of Crime Stoppers about two years ago.
P3Tips is nothing new to Crime Stoppers nationwide, but it will be new for Fort Wayne. The app has also been used in schools to report bullying, Fries said.