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A BIWEEKLY SERIES
Fort Wayne, Indiana
UNIQUE CARS, OWNERS
Tom Stinnett
A 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air
He fully restored and named the old race car in memory of his late wife
BY ELLIE BOGUE
ebogue@news-sentinel.com
kleininger@news-sentinel.com
Lutheran Hospital is preparing for a major expansion
of its campus at 7950 W. Jefferson Blvd.
Although construction
is not imminent, the hospital’s parent company, IOM
Health System, has asked
the Fort Wayne Board of
Zoning Appeals for permission to erect three medical
office buildings and expand
two existing parking structures. BZA approval is needed in part because two of
the buildings and one of the
parking expansions would
exceed normal height limits in the “airport overlay”
planning district intended
to minimize possible obstructions near Fort Wayne International Airport.
According to the application to be considered at
a public hearing Sept. 17,
the plan calls for a new
four-story office containing 125,000 square feet of
space; a five-story building with 100,000 square
feet; a 75,000-square-foot,
three-story office; addition
of two stories to an existing
three-story parking structure, adding 402 spaces; and
Photos by Ellie Bogue of The News-Sentinel
Tom Stinnett and his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air,
“Candy’s Dream.” The name is in memory of
his wife, Candy, who died in 2006.
The antenna
is decorated
with a pink
ribbon emblem,
a reminder of
Stinnett’s wife,
who died from
breast cancer and bone
cancer.
Stinnett and his nephew installed this engine last winter. It’s the
eighth engine that’s been in the car.
See STINNETT, Page 6A
GOP DEBATE LINEUP:
Trump and Bush in; Fiorina and Perry out
Organizers challenged by 17-candidate field.
BY STEVE PEOPLES
of The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — It’s the
first really good news — and
really bad news — for Republicans seeking the presidential
nomination: Who’s in the first
prime-time debate and who’s
not.
In: billionaire businessman
Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker, Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz, Kentucky Sen. Rand
Paul, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben
Carson, former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee, New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio
Gov. John Kasich.
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Out: former tech executive
Carly Fiorina, former Texas
Gov. Rick Perry, Louisiana Gov.
Bobby Jindal, South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham, former
Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former New York Gov.
George Pataki and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.
The largest field of contenders in modern memory challenged debate organizers, who
wanted to ensure that the event
Thursday night in Cleveland
didn’t turn into a 17-ring circus.
Fox News relied on an average
of five national polls to decide
the lineups for the prime-time
debate and the consolation
See GOP, Page 3A
TODAY’S PAPER
Business
The project is still in
its early phases.
BY KEVIN LEININGER
T
om Stinnett and his wife,
Candy, bought a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1998. The
idea was to restore the car,
then take it to cruise-ins and
car shows.
The day Tom Stinnett retired from
the U.S. Postal Service at 55 was the
day Candy was diagnosed with breast
cancer and bone cancer. In many
ways, Tom Stinnett
said his retirement
couldn’t have come
at a better time because he had the
time to take care of
her — driving her to
her many appointments and nursing To see video
her when the treat- of Stinnett’s
ments made her ill. Bel Air ride,
On her good days find this story at
they would go to NEWS-SENTINEL.COM.
cruise-ins, but they
cut back on the car
shows. In 2006, Cindy died.
It was then that he decided to have
a full restoration done on the vehicle,
which was originally a race car, in
Candy’s honor. So he took it to Barry’s
Speed Shop in New Haven. The car is
now two colors, blue on blue. He had
a custom interior, which is also a twotone blue, done in Ligonier at Bohde’s
Custom Interiors.
Over the years, Stinnett has had
eight different engines in the car.
His nephew, Rick Stevens, builds the
Lutheran
Hospital
planning
to add
three
buildings
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See LUTHERAN, Page 3A
Mood relaxed
as Diana Krall
plays Embassy
Concert stirs up nostalgia for the
1920s and vaudeville era.
A COLUMN BY JAMES GRANT
nsfeatures@news-sentinel.com
Associated Press file photos
Recent poll results for Republican presidential candidates Donald
Trump, left, and Jeb Bush, right, earned them a place in the first primetime Republican presidential debate Thursday.
THE MOOD TUESDAY night was relaxed,
reflective and most definitely musical as
Diana Krall and her five-piece band performed a stellar show at Embassy Theatre
to an ecstatic and appreciative crowd.
The audience was clearly in Krall’s corner from the moment she walked out on
the stage until they gave her a standing
ovation after her last encore.
Throughout a 17-song set, Krall and her
band — Anthony Wilson (guitar), Dennis
Crouch (bass), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Karriem Riggins (drums) and Patrick Warren
See GRANT, Page 5A
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