Monthly Archives: June 2013

ICAN Celebrates 100th Service Dog Placement

June 20, 2013 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Canine Assistant Network (ICAN) will partner its 100th service dog with a client on June 21. Other service dogs will be placed with clients living with post traumatic stress disorder, diabetes, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or autism will receive a service dog to provide them … Read More

The Ties That Bind

June 20, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

The day of my beloved sister Christine’s funeral, I was overwhelmed with grief and a sense of finality and loss that nothing could heal. Then came a total shift in the physical and emotional landscapes. Vicki had come down from Angola and wanted to do some genealogical sleuthing about my … Read More

Can You Dig It?

June 20, 2013 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

It’s a mess now, but look at the possibilities . . .”. If I said that once I said it a dozen times before I finally convinced my husband to buy our house. The lot was overgrown with a dense thicket, half the trees were dead or dying, there were … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: June 21-28

June 20, 2013 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, June 22, 1913: The novelty of quick restaurants will come to Indianapolis this week with the opening of the Merchants Cafeteria in the basement of the Merchants Bank Building on Thursday.  Only a few months ago there were only four houses in the country offering … Read More

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train Disaster

June 20, 2013 | by Al Hunter

When I was a kid, like most Hoosiers, I visited Chicago often. I was as big a history nerd back then as I am today. I made sure to visit the obvious places: the St. Valentines Day Massacre site, the alley next to the Biograph Theatre where Johnny Dillinger breathed … Read More