Princeton Daily Clarion from Princeton, Indiana • A1

PRINCETON DAILY $1.49 Friday, December 14, 2018 pdclarion.com Gibson newspaper INSIDE Comics B7 Classifieds B3-5 Crossword B5 hints A3 Deaths A3 Drs. Oz Roizen A3 Sports B1 Weather A8 Opinion A5 OUTSIDE Rain Likely High 51 Low 45 Vol. 172, No. 89 RICHMOND A 14-year-old boy who arrived at an Indiana middle school Thursday morning that was already on lock down after a tip about potential violence shot out glass in a locked door and entered the school before exchanging gunfire with officers inside, authorities said. The boy, who police said died inside the school from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a current student at Den nis Intermediate School in Richmond, said Indiana State Police Capt.

Dave Bursten. Bursten did not release additional information on the suspect or the weapon he used, but he said officials are extremely grateful that someone alerted them about the potential for violence. That tip meant the school was on lockdown when the teen arrived around 8:20 a.m., Bursten said. are very, very grateful for the person who made that call. Had they not made that call, there is no doubt in my mind that we would be having a much different conversation here right he said at a news conference hours after the shooting.

Bursten did not identify that caller. No officers and no one else at the school were injured during the shooting in Richmond, which is near the Indiana-Ohio SEE GUNFIRE PAGE A2 Police: Teen, officers exchange gunfire BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Boy dies from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound PRINCETON A Princeton Fire Territory engine blocked the southbound lane of the 400 block of South Main Street Thursday as a precaution during an investigation into a reported bomb threat, while clients of The Arc of Gibson County watched from the sidewalk. Fire Chief Mike Pflug said a similar dispatch was made west of the city. Later, a second shift call-back to assist in the response was canceled. Earlier in the afternoon, The Associated Press reported that authorities believed bomb threats sent to dozens of schools, universities and other locations across the U.S.

appear to be a hoax. The New York City Police Department said email threats sent Thursday were meant to cause disruption and compel recipients into sending money and are not considered credible. Palm Beach County, Florida, office and Boise, Idaho, police said they had no reason to believe that threats made to locations in those areas were credible. Across the country, some schools were closed early and others were evacuated because of threats. Penn State University notified students via a campus alert.

Near Atlanta, people were ushered out of a courthouse. ursday bomb threats appear to be hoax DAILY CLARION STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS FRANCISCO hen Terry Wallace took his cousin to her first round of chemotherapy, he was touched by the attitude of those around him. Wallace sat in a chemo room with about 15 other people who may or may not survive their individual forms of cancer. Those strangers made him feel welcome and also took in his cousin, Nancy Norrick, who had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Since that time, Wallace, owner of HT Painting Powder Coating in Francisco, has grown close with members of community in Cincinnati, Ohio.

There he met Tom and Chris Kinnaman through church, Christ The King Lutheran Church in West Chester, Ohio. Chris is a cancer survivor and Tom is currently dealing with congestive heart failure. The congestive heart failure makes it hard for him to be active, but Wallace said Tom stand to just sit around. Tom started making wire angels and giving them out to his fellow parishioners at church. He gave one to Norrick, and Wallace had the idea to paint them since when they are raw, it is simply bare wire.

His cousin was partial to purple and she fell in love with hers after it was powder coated. made Nancy really Wallace said. she is sick all the time, going through chemo. It brightened her After the first angel was powder coated, the Advent season was approaching for Christ The King. Wallace was asked if he could powder coat angels for the event all in purple.

It until later that Wallace discovered there are specific colors for individual cancers, when his resident powder coater, Teri Oakley, pointed it out to him. SEE ANGELS PAGE A2 Local business highlights cancer awareness with painted angels BY SARAH LOESCH DAILY CLARION STAFF WRITER Sarah Clarion HT Painting Powder Coating creates cancer awareness angels that are colored to correspond with individual cancers. The angels are created from wire by Tom Kinnaman in Cincinnati, Ohio before they are powder coated by Teri Oakley locally. PRINCETON OK. Go ahead and have that cardboard wrapping paper roll duel.

But when finished, make sure that recycling the cardboard and other extra items are on your Christmas to-do list. Gibson County Solid Waste Management District recycles cardboard, which produces revenue for the district and saves the expense of taking it to the landfill. Over the past year, the district has recycled more than 296 tons of cardboard, generating about $19,100 in revenue and saving about $10,300 in landfill tipping fees. The solid waste district, which is supported by property tax dollars, pays $31 for every ton taken to the landfill, so recycling is a priority. District controller Patricia Doyle said the district has also generated about $7,000 in plastics recycling revenue, keeping about 52 tons of plastic of the landfill thus far in 2018.

The solid waste district offers recycling at each compactor station in the county, and at the Gibson County Recycle Station on Old 41 on the north side of Princeton. Sites accept household trash and separated recyclable plastics and cardboard. The recycling center also accepts electronics for disposal, some for a small fee. SEE RECYCLE PAGE A2 Christmas checklist: Recycle! BY ANDREA HOWE EDITOR, THE DAILY CLARION Above: Terry Wallace sorts through wire angels that have already been individually bagged Thursday morning at HT Painting Powder Coating in Francisco. Left: Prior to powder coating, the large angels are bare steel.

They are created by Earl Parker of Custom Iron Works. Photos by Sarah Clarion The solid waste district, which is supported by property tax dollars, pays $31 for every ton taken to the landfill, so recycling is a priority..