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What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.

March 17, 1905: “ ‘It is a singular fact,” says A. Roy Knabenshue, ‘that when one is going as much as 15 or 20 miles an hour in an airship one has no sensation of moving whatever. The air beats in your face as you move along, but it only creates the impression that one is standing still in a strong breeze. There are no objects flying past you as when you are traveling on the surface of the earth, and as you must keep your eyes looking ahead of you you observe only distant objects, so distant because of your high point of view that you approach them apparently so slowly youdo not seem to move at all.’ ” — The South Bend Tribune

March 18, 1913: “Artists and designers in South Bend and elsewhere have an opportunity of winning cash and fame in a competition instituted by the National Highways association in its desire to secure a satisfactory design for its membership certificates.” — The South Bend Tribune

March 19, 1927: “Speaking from WSBT, The Tribune’s broadcasting station, Friday evening R. C. Stephenson, president of the St. Joseph Loan & Trust company, told his radio audience of the advantages of South Bend and the great St. Joseph valley for residence and business. He was the ninth speaker in the series of talks on South Bend being broadcast from WSBT at the suggestion of The Tribune for the purpose of advertising South Bend and the St. Joseph valley to the American people.” — The South Bend Tribune

March 20, 1932: “Sentenced by Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick Saturday to serve a year and a day in the federalpenitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., for violation of the prohibition act, Joseph Gordon, one of the larger wholesalers of alcohol in South Bend, was enroute to prison to-day. He was one of 10 prisoners being taken there under heavy guard by Deputy Marshals William Cordier and Homer Atkins. With Gordon was another prisoner who was sentenced Saturday by Judge Slick. He is James DeGarzio, Melrose Park, Ill., alcohol runner and alleged Capone henchmen. He was given a year and a day for violating the prohibition act.” — The South Bend Tribune

March 21, 1948: “Riley High school is preparing to share its books with a teachers’ seminary at Coburg, Germany. The project, sponsored by the student council, is the result of a pleading letter from a student in the German school. The letter was addressed to “The Headmaster of a high school in South Bend, Ind.,” and found its way to Riley because of its previous projects of sharing with European schools.” — The South Bend Tribune

March 22, 1954: “A demonstration in the use of foam pumped through section hose in extinguishing a fire was given Sunday afternoon on the grounds of Fulmer School by the South Side division of the Penn Township volunteer fire department.” — The South Bend Tribune

March 23, 1969: “Art class isn’t just a way of ‘getting a grade’ at Washington High School. To those students involved it is practically a way of life. Some 30 students devote 10 hours a week to art classes, virtually every minute of which is spent in intense concentration. Discipline is no problem. Teachers know that when they leave the room the same work pace will continue uninterrupted.” — The South Bend Tribune

LOGANSPORT — South Bend Saint Joseph held off a late Peru rally for an 88-80 win in the IHSAA Class 3A boys basketball semistate semifinal Saturday at Logansport High School. The Huskies (19-9) advance to the championship game at 8 p.m. against Delta, who beat Fairfield, 54-45, in the second semifinal.

“It’s semistate, so know it’s going to be a dog fight,” said Saint Joseph head coach Eric Gaff. “Coming in, we knew it’d be a tough one, but our team really showed how tough they can be. It was a fun game.”

Saint Joe never trailed in the game. It led, 44-31, at halftime and 58-51 through three quarters. The lead was at eight, 77-69, with 1:59 to go before the Tigers (16-11) put in one last late surge.

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Some big shots by Peru, coupled with struggles at the free-throw line by the Huskies, led to the Tigers cutting it to 78-75 with 48.5 seconds left. A quick foul led to two made free-throws from Saint Joe junior Chase Konieczny to extend the lead to five.

Peru missed a ‘3’ on its ensuing possession and Nick Shrewsberry grabbed the rebound for the Huskies and was fouled. The 6-foot-4 guard sank both foul shots, putting the game out of reach.

Jayce Lee’s dunk at the buzzer put an emphatic note on the game. He finished with a team-high 24 points. Konieczny added 19 points, Shrewsberry 18, freshman Elijah King 13, senior Jerry Barca five and sophomore Braylen White two.

“It’s one of the reasons we’re here," Gaff said. "If you shut down one guy, we have three others that can step up for us. I thought Elijah King was huge for us inside with his scoring, Shrewsberry hit some big shots, and Chase and Jayce were steady all the way through.”

Turnovers cost Fairfield in semifinal loss to Delta

Sixteen Falcon turnovers compared to six for Delta proved to be the difference in a 54-45 loss for Fairfield.

“If you’re going to beat a really good team, you’re going to have to have attention to details,” Fairfield coach Derek Hinen said. “We didn’t today. It was just things here and there where we weren’t quite as locked-in as we needed to be. There’s not a lot of margin for error when you play great teams.”

The Falcons only led once, going up 3-2 early before the Eagles scored seven unanswered. Fairfield (20-7) didn’t let the game get away until late, though, trailing, 11-9, after the first quarter, 21-18 at halftime and 31-26 through three.

D’Amare Hood scored 26 points and Jackson Wors 13 to power Delta to its second-straight semistate championship game appearance. They lost to NorthWood in last year’s 3A finale.

For Fairfield, Mitchell Miller and Carson Smith had 12 points each and Tyson Frey 10 to reach double-digits. Brant Garber added five, Brooks Custer four and Noah Mast and Elijah Miller two each.

“I have tons of pride for those guys graduating, and being able to put together a pretty historical season at Fairfield — winning the conference tournament championship, winning sectionals and regionals,” Hinen said. “It doesn’t happen a lot at Fairfield, so those guys should be really proud. A 20-win season doesn’t happen a lot at Fairfield. There’s a lot of things to look back and reflect on.”

A cosmic cover-up is coming to our area and the IU South Bend campus is gearing up to take full advantage of the learning experience.

North America will experience a total solar eclipse that passes over Indiana on Monday, April 8. South Bend will not experience a total eclipse, but it will be close.

We asked Dr. Henry Scott from the Department of Physics and Astronomy to answer questions about this relatively rare phenomenon.

Q: What happens when you’re watching a solar eclipse?

Dr. Scott: Every month, the moon goes through a series of well-known phases, including full, gibbous, quarters, crescent and new. A full moon occurs when Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of Earth, and we therefore see the lit side of Moon, whereas a new moon occurs when they’re on the same side, and we see the unlit side. Earth and Moon both cast shadows, but usually the shadows miss the other body because they’re not in a perfect line. Every now and then, however, they do line up, and that’s when we experience lunar (during a full moon) or solar (during a new moon) eclipses. The next new moon will occur on April 8, 2024, and Moon’s shadow will travel across parts of Earth, thus enabling those in its path to observe a solar eclipse.

Q: What will people here on campus experience during the eclipse?

Dr. Scott: The shadows that can cause eclipses have portions that completely (“umbral”), or only partially (“penumbral”), block sunlight. Although the eclipse phenomenon will be visible in South Bend, at no point will South Bend be in the umbral shadow. As a result, even during the maximum portion of the eclipse, some direct sunlight will still be visible, which is called a partial solar eclipse. Notably, areas south and east of South Bend will experience the “totality” of a total solar eclipse because the umbral shadow will pass over them.

Even in South Bend, however, it will get noticeably darker (and perhaps colder) during the partial eclipse, and IUSB will offer safe viewing so that visitors will be able to see Moon passing in front of Sun. Even if you can’t go somewhere that will be in totality, it is still worth wonderful to see a partial solar eclipse!

Q: How long will the entire eclipse last?

Dr. Scott: South Bend will experience the partial eclipse over roughly two and half hours, beginning at 1:53 PM and ending at 4:23 PM, with the greatest coverage (97% of Sun blocked by Moon!) occurring at 3:09 PM.

Q: What should people do to protect their eyes and safely view it?

Dr. Scott: At no time is it safe to directly look at the sun during a partial solar eclipse. Even for the few minutes when nearly 97% of Sun will be blocked by Moon in South Bend, direct viewing can damage your eyes. Telescopes with special filters to drastically attenuate the sunlight or configured to project an image of the sun onto a screen, can be used, but these need to be done correctly or they can be extremely dangerous. Alternatively, “eclipse glasses” that meet the ISO12312-2 standard will block enough light that one can look at the sun through them to see the partially obscured solar disc. It’s also possible to make a simple pinhole camera to safely project an image of the sun onto a screen or surface. All such safe viewing methods will be freely available to the public at IUSB.

Q: How could the weather impact the experience?

Dr. Scott: Current long-range forecasts suggest reason for optimism in South Bend, in terms of having clear skies during the eclipse, but such predictions this far out are very hard to make! Even if it does turn out to be cloudy, it will still be possible to tell that it’s getting darker, but if it’s overcast, we won’t be able to see or make images of Sun being eclipsed.

Q: How will this eclipse event compare to what we experienced a few years ago?

Dr. Scott: The upcoming April 8th eclipse will feature nearly 97% coverage of the solar disc, whereas the last highly publicized partial eclipse in South Bend (August 21, 2017) only experienced 88% coverage. That was still amazing to observe at IUSB, so be sure to observe this year, even if you can’t be in totality!

ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR THE ECLIPSE

Tuesday, March 26 from 8:30-9:30 p.m. in Northside Hall

Meet The Stars event

Hands-on activities for all ages designed to build intuitive understanding of eclipse phenomena, eclipse overview presentations and observatory tours. Coordinated by Terri Hebert from the School of Education and Henry Scott and Jerry Hinnefeld from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Open to the public.

Wednesday, April 3 from 2:30-4 p.m. in the University Grill

Lecture: How Early Cultures Explained an Eclipse

Before scientific astronomy, how did people account for the shadow that happens when the moon passes between the sun and Earth? Hear about some of the myths and folklore people around the world told themselves when their world went briefly dark.

Monday, April 8 from 1:30-4 p.m. on the lawn between Student Activity Center and Northside Hall

Solar Eclipse Viewing Party

Lawn games, “Sun Chip” snacks and free solar eclipse glasses. Coordinated by Office of Student Life and Titan Productions. Open to the public.

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SOUTH BEND — The British are coming! The British are coming!

Back to Notre Dame Stadium, that is.

Chelsea LC and Scotland's Celtic FC, two of the most tradition-laden soccer clubs in the world, will conduct a friendly match on July 27 at the home of Notre Dame football. Pete Bevacqua, designated athletic director for Notre Dame, made the announcement on Monday afternoon.

"Notre Dame and the surrounding South Bend community is used to hosting big-time sporting events," Bevacqua said. "I think South Bend will be ready. It’s happening at a great time of year. To have it in the summer, well before football season starts, I think it’s just going to be a great economic boon for the city of South Bend and a great way to further showcase how South Bend can handle big events and certainly what we can do here on campus at Notre Dame."

Chelsea, six-time champions of the English Premier League, toured the U.S. the past two summers. Currently 11th in the league standings, the famed Blues previously announced preseason matches for July 24 in Santa Clara, Calif., and July 31 in Atlanta.

While those matches will take place at the home venues of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons, Chelsea will reportedly face Manchester City at Ohio Stadium, home of the Ohio State Buckeyes, this summer as well.

Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Celtic has claimed the Scottish Premiership title a record 53 times. Known colloquially as The Celts or The Hoops, Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, becoming the first British club to do so.

Celtic was founded in 1887, the same year Notre Dame football played its inaugural game against Michigan.

Chelsea FC dates to 1905 at Stamford Bridge, its West London home where the club was originally known as The Pensioners. Forbes Magazine estimated Chelsea FC’s value as of 2022 at $3.1 billion, eighth highest among all soccer franchises.

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This will mark the second such exhibition match at Notre Dame. In July 2019, Borussia Dortmund of the German Bundesliga handed Liverpool of the EPL a 3-2 defeat on a 90-degree night.

Paid attendance was just 40,361, half of Notre Dame Stadium’s nearly 81,000-seat capacity. That record for largest crowd to witness soccer in the state remains the 41,983 who watched Chelsea play Inter Milan (Italy) in 2013 at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts.

"We think the crowds will be here," Bevacqua said. "We think we’ll get hopefully at least 70,000 people. Hopefully we can do more than 70,000, but we’ll drum up excitement. Hopefully we’ll have a beautiful day in July. I think we’ll pack the stadium. That’s our intent, that’s our hope and certainly our expectation."

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Liverpool drew 101,000 at Michigan Stadium in July 2018 during its summer tour of the U.S.

For the 2019 match at Notre Dame, which plays on artificial turf, a temporary grass playing surface was hauled in from New Jersey and installed in 2,000-pound strips measuring 100 feet long.

The extreme heat hampered the process and made the playing surface a post-match topic for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.

“Difficult because it’s not a soccer pitch,” Klopp said. “They put grass on it. Everybody tries his best, but in the end you saw these two teams can play much better football. It’s difficult when the ball is not rolling. That’s an important part of the game — that the ball rolls.”

Mike Berardino covers Notre Dame football for NDInsider.com and is on social media @MikeBerardino.

SOUTH BEND — Although Thursday celebrates the mathematical constant pi, or 3.14, Barbara Funnell and her son, Skye, plan to celebrate a different sort of homage to pie — the first anniversary of Grateful Pie Co.

Nestled in a 143-square-foot business incubator spot in the Commerce Center at 401 E. Colfax Ave., Barbara Funnell has offered pies, pizza and breads to customers since her grand opening on Pi Day 2023.

As Skye prepared dough Tuesday afternoon and Barbara prepared the fruit and put topping on her praline pumpkin mini-pies, she said she expects Thursday to be very busy.

She pulled out an apple pie from the oven, complete with a crust with a large pi symbol.

"We are growing," Barbara said on Tuesday. "We are preparing our orders for pie, and for pi day, we are expecting more and we'll be making a lot of pies available."

Barbara Fennell and her older son, Corey Gascho, the financial part of the business, and Skye have a business that is an extension of the small family orchard near Niles. The orchard had extra fruit, and Barbara had restaurant experience and her bakery skills went from selling goods at farmers markets to this business.

The Grateful Pie Co. will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday for Pi Day.

How Pi Day began

Pi Day came about because it is the 14th day of March — 3.14. Physicist Larry Shaw, an employee at the San Francisco-based interactive science museum Exploratorium, came up with the concept of “π Day” in 1988.

According to History.com, pi is the constant ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Its value is about 3.14, or 22/7, but it is an irrational number and its digits do not repeat.

"In 2015, Pi Day fanatics had a special treat. Celebrations took place on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 a.m., the numerical date and time together representing the first 10 digits of pi, 3.141592653," according to History.

The day, coincidentally, also happens to be the birthday of Albert Einstein.

Businesses are offering a variety of special Pi Day deals:

Blaze Pizza

Blaze Pizza on will be offering a medium build-your-own pizza for $3.14 all day Thursday.

7-Eleven

7-Eleven is offering a whole pizza for $3.14 at participating 7-Eleven, Speedway and Stripes stores when using 7Rewards or Speedy Rewards.

Also, 7NOW users can get $14 off $30 using the promo code PIDAYDEAL and free delivery with a purchase of $15 or more on Pi Day.

Domino's Pizza

Domino’s is offering a mix-and-match deal on Pi Day.

Customers can pick any two or more menu items for just $6.99 each, and Domino’s is offering a carryout deal that includes all one-topping pizzas for just $7.99.

Burger King

In honor of Pi Day, Royal Perks members can get a free Hershey’s Sundae Pie all day long with any purchase of $3.14 or more.

Marco's Pizza

Marco’s is offering a medium, one-topping pizza for $3.14 with a regular purchase of any large or extra large pizza with the code PIDAY2024.

Martin's Super Markets

Pies are being offered at Martin's Super Markets on Thursday only for $6.85 each, a $3.14 discount from the normal price.

A Pi Day hike

A Pi Day hike is planned from 2 to 4 p.m. at Lydick Bog Nature Preserve, 25898 U.S. 20, South Bend.

Email Tribune staff writer Greg Swiercz at [email protected].