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Leesburg Council To Meet
In Executive Session Monday Night
LEESBURG – The Leesburg Town Council will have an executive meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at 100 W. Van Buren St.
The meeting will be to discuss the proposed salary ordinance.
Fire Association Collecting For Toys 4 Tots
Kosciusko County Fire Association is delivering its toys for Toys 4 Tots on Dec. 1.
Staging will be at JB Furniture at 8 a.m., with refreshments by 1-800-Boardup. The toy drop will be at Martin’s Supermarket at 9 a.m.
The Fire Association will be escorted to Martin’s by the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department.
Toy donations can be dropped off at any fire station in the county.
For more information, contact any of Santa’s helpers: Kyle Miller, 574-377-3947; Bryce Good, 574-551-6537; or Kevin F. McSherry, Kosciusko County Fire Association president, 574-328-7604 or kmcsherry@jkcomm.com.
Deer reduction at Trine SRA, Nov. 26-27
ANGOLA – Trine State Recreation Area will be closed to the public Nov. 26-27, for a deer reduction.
Only hunters whose names were drawn will be allowed on the property during this time.
Nearby Pokagon State Park will remain open—it is not holding a deer reduction hunt this year.
The hunt at Trine SRA will be archery-only. Hunters are also limited on the number of deer they can harvest.
DNR To Test Hunter-Harvested Deer
For Disease This Weekend
INDIANAPOLIS – Attention deer hunters: The DNR will set up additional disease check stations in northeast and northwest Indiana this weekend to sample hunter-harvested deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).
The check stations will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday at Fish & Wildlife Areas and partnering businesses.
CWD sampling involves removing lymph nodes from the deer’s neck just below the head. Any deer harvested within the CWD surveillance areas that are 1.5 years or older can be tested. Submitting samples for CWD testing is voluntary.
CWD check station locations and surveillance areas can be found at: wildlife.IN.gov/9650.htm.
Hunters interested in submitting deer harvested outside the current surveillance areas for CWD testing are now able to submit samples directly to Purdue’s Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (ADDL) for a fee. Hunters may submit lymph nodes or whole heads. More information and a submission form is available on the ADDL website at vet.purdue.edu/addl/tests/fees.php?id=303.
CWD is a serious neurologic disease affecting white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose. Although it has been associated with captive deer and elk in the past, CWD is also found in free-ranging white-tailed deer in several Midwestern states close to Indiana, including Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin.
To date, all deer samples tested for CWD in Indiana have tested negative for CWD.
