Monthly Archives: January 2016

Indy Parks Summer Camp Registration Opens

January 28, 2016 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Indy Parks offers a variety of camps across the city for all ages and interests, including specialty environmental education camps, creative arts camps, acting camp, therapeutic recreation camps, along with traditional day camps with swimming, crafts, games, sports and weekly themes. Early bird registration is open until March … Read More

Winter Wander-Land

January 28, 2016 | by CJ Woods III

I was visiting with a friend in Southern Illinois when someone told my friend and me that a snow storm was coming. I made an arrogant reply: “I don’t care: I’m from Pittsburgh, and driving in snow does not bother me.” The first part of that statement is true; the … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Jan. 29-Feb. 4

January 28, 2016 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Monday, January 31: Government-owned automobile mail service will begin in the city tomorrow, Tuesday, February 1. When the nine new brightly painted red motor cars are placed in service, Indianapolis will become the sixth city in the United States to have such a system. Mail service … Read More

Whatever Happened to John Brisker? Part 1

January 28, 2016 | by Al Hunter

I was an ABA fanatic when I was a kid. Of course, it didn’t hurt that I was growing up in the greatest basketball state in the nation and the hometown of the American Basketball Association’s greatest team. My parents did not necessarily share my rabid enthusiasm for the Pacers. … Read More

World War 1 100 Years Ago: Jan. 29-Feb. 4

January 28, 2016 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, January 29: L. S. Ayres & Co, the William H. Block Co, the New York Store, H. O. Wasson & Co, and the Star Store have agreed to assist in helping clothe 2,000,000 destitute persons in Belgium and northern France with a special 10 per … Read More