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GARRETT â After taking 2020 off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Garrettâs Heritage Days Festival returns this weekend.
Events will take place in the downtown area or in Eastside Park on East Houston Street, across from Garrett High School.
A parade opens festivities at 6 p.m. Saturday. Night to Remember will provide live music from 7:30-10:30 p.m. on the outdoor stage in Eastside Park.
Several events are on the schedule for Sunday.
The Garrett Rotary Club will serve a pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m. The 14th annual cruise-in car show, sponsored by Rollin Heritage, runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Car show awards will be announced at 2 p.m.
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Bellmont Middle School eighth grade art students, from left, Caiden Beitler, Jaxon Braun, Serenity Price, Sophia Lopez, Adelyn Wells, Amaris Silva and Kim Le won accolades with the watercolor paintings.
Bellmont eighth grader Sophia Lopez won accolades for this watercolor painting of an Atlantic sailfish. Previous Next
Monday, June 28, 2021 1:00 am
Area students wildlife paintings honored
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
Bellmont Middle School eighth graders earned state-level accolades with their wildlife watercolor paintings in Wildlife Forever s Fish Art Contest and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Junior Duck Stamp Contest, according to a news release.
Their accomplishments are more impressive considering they are beginner watercolor wildlife painters who use kindergarten paint sets, the release said. It noted the students learn about conservation, specie biomes, anatomy and mixing and layering colors.
GARRETT â ILearn testing at Garrett has been met with little enthusiasm, according to J.E. Ober and middle school administrators.
Elementary Principal Kristi Surfus told school board members Monday the new state test is being administered as required, but the results will be stale by the time they are available at the end of the school year.
âThis test does not honor studentsâ thinking,â she said, adding teachers currently can pull up-to-the-minute data without the test. Classroom schedules have been interrupted in order to facilitate the testing that has no time restrictions. Testing has been taking place over multiple days, she added.
Landon Paris of Winona Lake; and
Anna Steely of North Manchester.
Ivy Tech
• Ivy Tech Community College Fort Wayne and the MERIT Center, 1109 Dayton St., Decatur, are bringing Ivy Tech classes to Adams County. The first class will be a non-credit certified production technician class from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting April 13. The course is free to qualified Indiana residents through Next Level Jobs funding. The MERIT Center and Ivy Tech plan to expand course offerings to academic and non-credit classes including CNC, welding, construction trades, writing, communication and medical terminology. Contact Heather Vance at hvance6@ivytech.edu or 260-355-9462 for information.