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Teacher Appreciation Week and Upcoming HHSC Events
This is Teacher Appreciation Week. A week hardly seems like enough time to recognize our educators for all they do and the incredible impact they have on a child’s life. Teaching has never been more important or challenging. I can’t say enough about how grateful I am for the caliber of educators, principals, instructional assistants,…
Read MoreAla Carte
On the Wolfsie refrigerator, next to a photo of me hugging Goofy at Disney World (I was a mere 57 years old at the time) is Mary Ellen’s list of items to be purchased on her next trip to the supermarket. Needless to say, there is frequent updating, like if we consume the last of…
Read MoreOne Man’s Ranking of Purdue Football’s Previous First Round Draft Picks
George Karlaftis became the 24th Purdue football player taken during the first round of a professional football draft, going 30th overall to the Kansas City Chiefs last week. His selection ended an 11-year first-round drought for the Boilermakers, whose last first-round pick was another All-American defensive end: Ryan Kerrigan. Those 23 first-round selections include three…
Read MoreAunts, Uncles, and Cousins
My friend Mel just got back from an uncle’s funeral, where he met family members he did not know he had. Personally, I’ve met more relatives at funerals than I have at weddings…but maybe it’s because weddings require an invitation. Last month, my uncle told me that my third cousin had died. No, two cousins…
Read More‘Sense & Sensibility’ Play Offers ‘Something Different’
Bill Smith has always been a fan of Jane Austen’s classic stories. Add that to his love for theater, and his experience locally as an actor and director. So it’s easy to understand why he would want to bring Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” to the local community theater stage. “Typically, I have directed mysteries or…
Read MorePrimary Over, Time to Move Forward
Polls are closed. Voters have spoken. It’s time to get going. It’s been said before – many times – in this space that we’re so lucky here in this little corner of God’s green earth. Politically speaking, we don’t have the issues that our brothers and sisters in Washington, or even Indianapolis, have. For sure,…
Read MoreHolocaust Survivor Eva Kor Teaches Us to Be Forgiving
Eva Kor was about hope, healing, respect and responsibility by shining a light on the story of the Holocaust. I last saw Kor’s picture — a larger-than-life-size color poster — in the hallway at Franklin Central High School on Friday night when our Noblesville High School show choirs were competing there. Her picture on the…
Read MoreCraycraft’s, Penney’s, Kirk’s and Stringtown
Boy, am I late with a reader column this time! I had to go all the way back to February to catch up. Remember when I wrote about the Craycraft’s Dry Goods Company? Pam Ferber had clearer memories of the water fountain in Craycraft’s than I did. She described it as a white bubbler fountain…
Read MoreEarly Voting Polls Slow, Election Day is Here
Poll workers played trivia games, worked on crossword puzzles and discussed their favorite movies and TV shows. They read books, put together jigsaw puzzles and did “a lot of talking.” These are just a few of the ways that poll workers pass the day while waiting for voters to come in. Poll workers kept busy…
Read MoreBringing Me into the Fold
The one thing that you will not find in my underwear drawer is organization. There are no neat stacks; no neatly regimented ranks and files of folded tidy whities, ready to serve the underlying cause. What you will find is row after row of briefs, rolled tightly, and stacked like cordwood, cushioning the top drawer…
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