Monthly Archives: September 2015

Global Health Champion Paul Farmer to Speak Oct. 6

September 24, 2015 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Physician, anthropologist and international health activist Paul Farmer will discuss his globetrotting humanitarian work in a special appearance Oct. 6 at the University of Indianapolis. “Health Care as Social Justice: Overcoming Presumed Economic Barriers to Providing Health Care to the Poor” is the title of Farmer’s presentation, which … Read More

It’s Flu Season – Don’t let it be Open Season on YOU!

September 24, 2015 | by Weekly View

How bad will this year’s flu season be? It’s impossible to predict, and thus the only safe thing to do is get protected now. Which camp are you in? It seems there are two groups of people on opposite sides of the fence regarding flu shots. There are those that … Read More

The Covered Bridges of Parke County

September 24, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

The fall Sundays of my preteen years followed a format. Church with the family, one of Mom’s fried chicken dinners, and then everyone piled into Dad’s ‘57 Chevy and off we would go for a drive in the country. Dad was a farmer, so much of our journey entailed driving … Read More

Madge’s Bully Gets His Due

September 24, 2015 | by Al Hunter

Sometimes far away events that normally draw little local attention can trace their genesis right back to Irvington. On the morning of July 1, 1934 a Jefferson, Wisconsin fisherman named Charles Bartel was heading down to the Rock River to wet a line. As he walked through a city park … Read More

The Sea Tells Many Stories

September 24, 2015 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Travel Diary Late Thursday afternoon, we drove through Pennsylvania’s beautiful Pocono Mountains and crossed the Delaware River Gap cut through the mountains. Then we crossed the Hudson on the nearly five-mile-long, seven-lane Tappan Zee Bridge from which we could see in the distance the towers of New York City. Eek! … Read More