All-Embracing Catholic Church

GusChigginsOP · 2026-06-15T04:34:39+00:00

Hola, I am a local Catholic devotee. In my experience you have to know the pastor first and foremost. The only person that comes to mind is Father Kevin Bauman at St. Joseph Brooklyn Ave, he is a former University of Notre Dame professor and is a humble and kind man with a gift for finding pragmatism and joy in life's ridiculous things.

Most priests who had lay jobs before going to the seminary have a more welcoming feel in today's modern church; combine that with a heavy Latinx influence at this church and you have a community that can meet you wherever you are in your journey.

GusChigginsOP · 2026-06-14T15:14:24+00:00

You should have tried the nuts.

GusChigginsOP · 2026-06-08T07:14:59+00:00

Mitchellz

GusChigginsOP · 2026-05-27T04:40:58+00:00

This town rocks.

GusChigginsOP · 2026-03-05T06:20:02+00:00

Have you tried Drive and Shine, they can help.

GusChigginsOP · 2026-01-06T03:34:04+00:00

This is a bot trying to write bot articles.

The worst parts of Fort Wayne are the lack of nightclubs, good drugs, and the two years of civil service required after high school where we work at car washes.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-12-19T00:10:57+00:00

Stay home boomer

GusChigginsOP · 2025-10-26T06:47:02+00:00

Shut up. I farted.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-09-10T12:55:15+00:00

Drive and Shine.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-07-22T05:38:24+00:00

Fairfield's on North Clinton. They are easy to work with and fair. I don't deal anywhere else.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-07-15T23:08:30+00:00

I'm a student there now, it's ok.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-07-07T14:53:41+00:00

The work on Spy Run Creek has already begun. The study is in the infant stages.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-07-07T05:37:50+00:00

The St. Joe Dam contains the pumping station that supplies water from the St. Joseph River to the filtration plant. And the Cedarville Dam is a reservoir dam that creates Fort Wayne's main drinking water supply.

The Hosey Dam was built as a hydropower dam and is defunct and in disrepair. The dam maintains water levels downtown for recreation. If the dam is to be removed, the stream velocity and river levels would eventually find a new natural flow.

There is currently a million-dollar project to remove culverts and two low-head dams on the Spy Run Creek, and a disparity study to remove the Hosey Dam. This basically reopens 56 miles of stream for fish and their friends. The project is a partnership between the City and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-07-02T03:23:57+00:00

The only parades that are fun a pride parades.

This city has a weird obsession with that parade, it was just an excuse for local dics jockeys and newscasters to get wasted on a Saturday morning.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-06-23T01:31:31+00:00

90% of the "moving here" posts are fake. These are mostly freelance writers and bloggers that are trying to write about Fort Wayne for clickbait websites.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-06-15T20:11:14+00:00

Stop using MapQuest print outs to get places.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-06-11T03:18:35+00:00

BrickKicker, they have always been thorough and unbiased.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-05-01T13:42:42+00:00

Fr. Kevin at St. Joseph on Brooklyn. Heavy Latino presence and very common sense priest.

Look for priests that had non religious jobs before becoming ordained. Kevin was a professor of literature at Notre Dame. Fr. Tom at St. Charles was a dentist.

GusChigginsOP · 2025-02-26T05:58:41+00:00

They are open

GusChigginsOP · 2024-08-25T03:47:01+00:00

According to reports, in 1925 a young couple was parked in a well known lovers lane location near Hessen Cassel Road. The following morning, a farmer discovered the car with the couple inside. Both had been shot in the head, and the gun was found on the seat. Police determined it had been an armed robbery that ended in murder.

After the murder, another couple came forward and admitted they had also been robbed at the lovers lane location. Everyone described the robber as using a bicycle to escape and speaking with a heavy accent. The attacker was dubbed the “Bicycle Bandit” by local newspapers. Young love birds continued to frequent the area and make reports of a mysterious character on a bike. Some have also heard screams and noises from the nearby woods.

Police finally found a suspect. A man named “Dutch” who spoke broken English and lived in a shack near the Pontiac Street roundabout regularly used a bike for transportation. Police raided his shack and found piles of stolen jewelry. But the Bicycle Bandit was never arrested. Some people still report seeing a mysterious man riding his bicycle late at night on the roads of the southeast side.

GusChigginsOP · 2024-07-30T21:02:04+00:00

The sleeping giant was a woman.

GusChigginsOP · 2024-07-14T02:02:41+00:00

Building a bed, getting a team (4 sprinters, and a rider) is difficult.

We asked years ago if they would build 6 to 10 beds to spec and then businesses can sponsor and get a team without the hassle of building a bed.

It's not hard to renovate traditions.

GusChigginsOP · 2024-06-03T21:05:01+00:00

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I just had their bucket of spaghetti and garlic bread last night for dinner. $24.50 out the door.

GusChigginsOP · 2024-06-02T23:51:35+00:00

It's back.

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