Daily Almanac: April 12, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset: RISE: 7:09 a.m.SET: 8:20 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: HIGH: 78 °FLOW: 51 °F Today is…: • Big Wind Day• National Bookmobile Day• Drop Everything and Read Day What Happened On This Day: • 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space. The Soviet Cosmonaut orbited the Earth aboard the Vostok-3KA spacecraft (Vostok 1 mission).•…

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The Postscript by Carrie Classon

“Burro in Pants” I saw the burro wearing pants and carrying a basket filled with paper flowers. “Oh, my gosh!” I said. “That poor burro.” There are several burros with this job in this Mexican town and, as burro employment goes, it’s a pretty easy gig. The burro wears a rustic basket filled with bright…

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Don’t Believe Everything You Hear!

We are definitely living in a post-truth world. It’s not just in the political sphere that we have to be careful of facts and “alternative facts,” it also extends to the scientific and medical realms as well. The public is being constantly bombarded with scientific information via mainstream media, social media, and other internet sources.…

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Hoosiers unTrumped

By Brian A. Howey For the first time in American history, a former president has been indicted, this time by a grand jury and District Attorney in Manhattan for allegedly making pre-election hush money payoffs to a pornographic actress and a Playboy bunny. In the coming weeks, Donald J. Trump could be facing a cascading…

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Red Cross and PEANUTS®: Be Kind, Give Blood in April

Exclusive Snoopy T-shirt for coming to donate April 1-23. April is National Volunteer Month, and the American Red Cross is celebrating the millions of people who volunteer to give blood, platelets and plasma throughout the year. This month, the Red Cross and PEANUTS® are joining forces as a reminder that it’s cool to be kind…

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Indiana Members Credit Union Contributes $10,000 To Iwin Foundation For Cancer Awareness Card

(Indianapolis, IN, April 7, 2023) On behalf of Indiana Members Credit Union (IMCU) members, IMCU recently presented a check for $10,000 to IWIN (Indiana Women In Need) Foundation as part of its exclusive Cancer Awareness Debit Card Program. IMCU members nominate a different local cancer related organization to be the beneficiary each year. IWIN Foundation…

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