Winners
The Bostonian Society: The group, which operates a museum at the Old State House, has confirmed the presence of a time capsule from 1901 inside the copper statue of a lion at what had been the seat of Massachusetts government. The statue was recently taken down from the roof as part of a restoration. A fiber-optic camera found the copper box in the lion’s head. The next step will include an attempt to open the statue without damaging it, followed by the removal of the box and examination of its contents. The box could be opened as early as next week.
Tossups
Job-seekers: Fort Wayne metro area’s jobless rate falls to 4.9 percent in August, but the workforce declined by 3,200.
Losers
Larry Bucshon: Indiana congressman is skewered by comedian Jon Stewart for his climate change remarks at a House hearing. The Newburgh Republican, a heart surgeon, told a White House official he doesn’t believe published articles by climatologists.
Secret Service: Criticism of the agency that protects the president is harsh after a man vaults the White House fence, sprints to the front door and finds it open. “Secret Service management,” author Ron Kessler wrote in Time this week, “perpetuates a culture that condones laxness and cutting corners.”
Suleiman Abu Gaith: The spokesman for Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks this week was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to kill Americans. During his trial this spring in New York, the jury was not told that Abu Gaith was also bin Laden’s son-in-law.
Milestones
Joan Kimbrough: Community volunteer was first female president of the YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne. She died Sunday at 89.
Polly Bergen: Emmy Award-winning actress enjoyed success on the stage, the big screen and television. She died at 84.
Mike Harari: The man who led the Mossad’s operational unit before and after the 1972 Munich Olympics. Under Harari, Mossad delivered information enabling the hostage rescue at Entebbe airport in Uganda, and conducted the anti-terror war in Europe, killing those Israel held responsible for the attack. He died Sunday at 87.
Atz’s Ice Cream Shoppes: The two iconic Fort Wayne restaurants closed their doors this week. The company had been in business for more than 50 years.
Quotable
“What the CDC is reporting is clearly the tip of the iceberg.” – Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the division director of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, on an outbreak of respiratory illness among children. There are 226 confirmed cases of infection with enterovirus 68.