Monthly Archives: August 2014

Applause!: Aug. 8-15

August 7, 2014 | by Weekly View

• Many thanks to the children that participated in the Public Art summer day camp at LYN House. They decorated 7 panels to add to the art on the fence and 7 “stumps” for seating at the Rivoli Park Labyrinth which is located in the 900 block of North Kealing … Read More

Paul George and the Pacers

August 7, 2014 | by Steve Nicewanger

By this time everybody is aware of the horrendous leg injury which befell the Pacer’s Paul George while scrimmaging with the Team USA Basketball All Stars last week. George suffered a compound fracture of both the tibia and the fibula of his lower right leg in an accident that was … Read More

100 Years Ago this Week: Aug. 8-15

August 7, 2014 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, August 13, 1914: Food prices have steadily advanced in Indianapolis since the opening of the European war. Pork has started upward at a rate that threatens to shatter all former records and shortages in fancy hams and sausages is expected because Germany exports a considerable … Read More

Money in the Bank

August 7, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

First appearing in 1793, shortly after the first copper penny was minted in the U.S., the iron bank became an instant collectable for affluent children and their parents. Very few of the earliest banks survived the Civil War of the mid-1800s. The ones that did are found in museums or … Read More