The Daily Journal from Franklin, Indiana • Page 6

DAILY JOURNAL, JOHNSON COUNTY, IND. SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 20-21, 2015 A6 NEWS 880 U.S. 31 North Greenwood Across from The Closed Sunday for Faith and Family 882-0500 yes We can fix 420 E. Old Plank Rd. Northwest corner of 144 135, up on the hill BARGERSVILLE 317-422-3072 Dresslar Dent and Auto Body LET US RESTORE YOUR DREAM CAR! INSURANCE CLAIMS ACCEPTED Certii ed Technicians For more information call Jan Campbell, Clinical Liaison at 317-560-1700 or 317-736-6141 Rehabilitation Center and Skilled Nursing Care 690 State Street Franklin, Indiana 46131 Accepting Medicare, Medicaid Anthem A 5 Star Facility www.indianamasonichome.org How the Indiana Masonic Home improved my quality of life.

This past April, I went to visit my son who lives in Lawrenceburg Indiana. He had an accident in his home missing 2 steps causing him to fall with an injury. I am his mother and I felt I needed to go take care of him. While staying with him in his home, I missed the 2 steps causing me to fall just like my son. I was admitted to the local hospital and was diagnosed with a pelvic fracture.

It was very painful, but I did not have to have surgery. I was not able to walk and I was not allowed to bear weight on either leg. The doctors told me that it would take 6-8 weeks to heal and that I would need to go to a place for rehabilitation. I decided I wanted to go to the Indiana Masonic Home Rehabilitation Center. The irst week I was not allowed to get up or stand.

I was told by my doctors I was to rest. Within the second week, I began to do therapy exercises. I began to stand for short periods of time and I took a few steps pushing a wheelchair. I told the nurses that I am going to walk again! I enjoyed going to therapy. The nurses, the therapy staf and even the other residents were supportive and would encourage me.

You knew you would have to work hard, but everyone there was working hard too. It was fun. It was like a big party! Eventually I was walking with a walker. Before I was discharged, the therapy staf came to my home to do an assessment to make sure I would be safe when I returned. I was discharged June 11th walking independently and able to take care of myself.

I am very happy with my care and therapy that I received at the Indiana Masonic Home. Everyone was friendly and it was such an encouraging environment. I want to thank the nurses and therapy staf for helping me to return home. I am very happy! Delores Wilmoski Families of Charleston 9 confront suspect EFFREY OLLINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. hey forgave him.

They advised him to repent for his sins, and asked for mercy on his soul. One even told Dylann Storm Roof to repent and confess, and be Relatives of the nine community leaders shot down during a Bible study session at their historic black church confronted the shooting suspect Friday during his initial court hearing, and spoke of love. forgive you, my family forgives said Anthony Thompson. would like you to take this opportunity to repent. Do that and be better off than you are right Roof, who faces nine counts of murder, was ordered held on $1 million bond on a separate gun charge.

He appeared by video from the county jail, looking somber in a striped jumpsuit and speaking only briefly in response to the questions. A police affidavit released Friday accused Roof of shooting all nine victims multiple times, and making a inflammatory as he stood over an unnamed witness. Felecia Sanders survived the Wednesday night attack by pretending to be dead, but lost her son Tywanza. She also spoke from the courtroom, where image appeared on a television screen. welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms.

You have killed some of the most beautifulest people that I know. Every fiber in my body hurts and never be the Sanders told Roof. was my Sanders said, but even she showed some kindness as she confronted the man accused of killing her son: we said in Bible Study, we enjoyed you but may God have mercy on Roof, 21, bowed his head slightly as the relatives spoke. From the jail, he could hear the people talking, but see them, because the camera shows only the judge. The remarkable comments seemed in keeping with a spirit evident on the streets of Charleston Friday, where people built a memorial and planned a vigil to repudiate whatever a gunman would hope to accomplish by attacking the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the most important African-American sanctuaries.

hateful person came to this community with some crazy idea be able to divide, but all he did was unite us and make us love each other even Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said as he described plans for the evening vigil at a sports arena. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Above: Gary and Aurelia Washington, the son and granddaughter of Ethel Lance, who died in shooting, leave a sidewalk memorial Thursday in front of Emanuel AME Church comforted by fellow family members in Charleston, S.C. Below: Lydia Blessing, 4, places a handwritten note at a memorial Friday in front of the Emanuel AME Church.

ROOM FOR BRIEFS STATE Man arrested after 15-hour police standoff CLOVERDALE State Police said the arrest of a western Indiana man has ended a nearly 15-hour standoff that began when authorities arrived to take custody of his infant daughter. Thirty-three-year-old James E. Kirby was arrested without incident at his Cloverdale apartment about 5 a.m. Friday and the 2-week-old girl and her mother were unharmed. Kirby faces preliminary neglect, criminal confinement and resisting law enforcement charges.

Police said Kirby brandished a handgun about 2 p.m. Thursday when police and a Department of Child Services staffer arrived to serve a court order and take custody of the child. A standoff included a State Police SWAT team. Police negotiators worked overnight to negotiate surrender. Two handguns were found in the apartment about 45 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

Sawed-off shotguns legal in starting July 1 INDIANAPOLIS Indiana residents soon will be able to legally own manufactured sawed-off shotguns under a repeal of the ban on their possession. The change takes effect July 1 under a bill approved by state lawmakers earlier this year allowing the manufacture, selling or ownership of shotguns with barrels 18 inches long or less. Bill sponsor Sen. Jim Tomes, R- Wadesville, said the change would bring state law into line with federal regulations allowing ownership of short-barreled shotguns by those who pass background checks for permits from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Federal law prohibits someone from altering a shotgun to have a barrel less than the minimum length, he said.

can saw off the barrel but spend 10 years in a federal penitentiary doing Tomes told WRTV. guns are manufactured by licensed manufacturers and under heavy One person was sentenced to an Indiana prison on a sawed- off shotgun during 2012 and 2013, according to nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency. Tomes said short-barreled shotguns are expensive to buy and mainly owned by gun collectors. Leaders of the Indiana Chapter for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America oppose the sawed-off shotgun ban repeal during the legislative session, saying the group was more concerned about proposals for repealing the state laws for handgun licensing and allowing colleges to impose campus bans on firearms. Both of those bills failed to advance.

New Lincoln exhibit opens at museum SOUTH BEND The Studebaker National Museum in northern Indiana has a new exhibit about President Abraham Lincoln, with a carriage he once owned among the artifacts on display. The South Bend Tribune reported the exhibit marks the 150th anniversary of death. It opens Friday and focuses on his assassination as well the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and the response. The carriage was recently returned to the South Bend museum after a stint at a Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. Other items in the exhibit include a replica of the pistol Booth used to kill Lincoln and part of a blood-stained towel that was used at deathbed.

The museum in South Bend has items on loan from the Smithsonian, Theater and the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois. Toll Road rest stops to be demolished, rebuilt SOUTH BEND The rest stops along the Indiana Toll Road will be torn down and rebuilt. Ken Daley is the new CEO of the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company. He tells WNDU- TV that the 1950s-era plazas will be demolished. He said the rest stops have served motorists well but they need to be moved the current Daley said the preliminary budget to build new rest stops is $34 million and the project is in design development.

He said the company wants to finish the project quickly as we Daley said there also are plans for $130 million in pavement improvements over the next five years. Most of that work will take place on the western part of the roadway. IUPUI promotes vice chancellor INDIANAPOLIS The executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has been selected to succeed Charles Bantz as the next chancellor. Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced Thursday that Nasser Pay- dar will become fifth chancellor on Aug. 16.

He described Nasser as an outstanding academic and an energetic, able leader who has a deep understanding of goals and mission. He has been an IU faculty member for nearly 30 years and has held various administrative and executive leadership positions since he joined IUPUI in 1985 as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering..