Archive for July, 2008
County fair blog!
Now that the Three Rivers Festival is over, our staff and interns will turn their attention to the Allen County 4-H Fair.
And here is the fair blog!
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Fireworks Finale
The 40th annual Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival gave its final farewell to the city with a stunning showing of pyrotechnics Sunday evening. Beginning at 10 p.m., TRF’s over-the-hill celebration was capped off with a bang as fireworks sprayed the night sky over One Summit Square.
Below is a gallery of some of my favorite shots of the [...]
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Yesterday Andy Culbertson got to tell The News-Sentinel readers about The Meijer Marketplace.
Read it, check it out.
Posted by Kelly Metz of The News-Sentinel.
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Dead Head’s Delight
Kelly and I arrived at the Dark Star Orchestra concert dressed in T-shirts and cropped pants, sticky and sweaty from the intense humidity. Both of us more or less self-proclaimed hippies at heart, we decided that in order to get the full immersive experience we needed to dress the part of a retro jam band concert-goer. Lucky for [...]
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Peace, love and journalism
Last night I became an embedded journalist. I didn’t get to cover any supreme conflict or anything, but I did get to dress up in “hippie wear” and attend the Dark Star Orchestra.
The night started at 6 p.m. when we walked down to the Verizon Event Pavilion at Headwaters Park. The Dark Star Orchestra started [...]
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But officer, I was racing a bed!
The Three Rivers Credit Union Bed Race started at 6:50 and was over in an hour. That’s because the beds were zooming as fast as they could go down Main Street with a finish line between Calhoun and Clinton.
For a first-timer, the bed race was extraordinary. For some reason, when I first thought of a [...]
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Passport Fair
I set out with minimum fuel in my 2001 Ford Focus this afternoon to check out the Passport Fair held at the post office on S. Clinton Street. When I got there, there didn’t appear to be much traffic. Although this doesn’t seem as big a deal to some readers, I want to express a [...]
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I was up a bit later than usual last night working on writing a story about Trey Songz. After the ringing in my ears stopped (Kelly and I caught the show speaker-side to mingle with fans and take up-close snapshots of performers), I sat down to recount the evening’s activities. And there were a lot of them, for some starting [...]
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Tonight Amanda had the privilege to cover the Trey Songz concert at Verizon Event Pavilion at Headwaters Park downtown. I received a text from her at about 8 p.m. begging me for help because her camera battery had died (RIP, until you are charged again…). I went to save the day and stayed for the [...]
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Cathy Quinones loses the wine carafe from her tray as she heads for the finish line after clearing a table during the Gordon Food Service Waiter/Waitress Competition at the Fort Wayne Newspapers Three Rivers Festival on Monday morning. She was with the Bandido’s team. Read more on the traditions of Sprint Food Alley on Page [...]
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