• Congratulations to Chilly Water Brewing Company, who won the Brewer’s Cup Best in Show, Grand Champion Brewery of the Year, and Indiana Brewery of the Year. The recent Brewer’s Cup brought the best and brightest from the craft brewing industry. Chilly Water is located on Virginia Ave. in the Fletcher Place neighborhood.
• You’ve probably heard about the City of Indianapolis’ deal with Covanta for a combined trash, incineration and recycling program. You’ve probably also heard about the strong opposition to not only the deal but the “process” that was followed to strike the deal. On July 28 at 6 p.m., the Irvington Green Initiative will present Carey Hamilton, the Executive Director of the Indiana Recycling Coalition to talk about the Covanta deal. The meeting will be held at Jockamo Upper Crust, 5646 E. Washington St.
• The Auxiliary to Community Hospital East will sponsor a Masquerade $5 Jewelry and Accessories Sale July 21 at 7 p.m. and ending July 23 at 3 p.m. The sale will be held at Community Hospital East, 1500 N. Ritter Ave., in the breezeway near main lobby. Proceeds will benefit hospital programs/services.
• The Out to Lunch Bunch quilter’s group will meet July 23 at 11 a.m. at the Southside Knights of Columbus Hall at 511 E. Thompson Rd. Harriett Carpanini will discuss finishing quilt tops. Visit www.quiltguildindy.net for more information.
• What Indianapolis needs is a serious art supply store — and one recently opened in the Art Bank. Founded by Art Bank Artist Gina Soo Golden and Brendon Entwistle, Strumento fills a need in the downtown area. Strumento is a boutique which stocks supplies suggested by the downtown artist clientele, and their inventory continues to grow. Golden and Entwistle will also search for requested items that are unusual or hard to find, at a good price, and will assemble class materials packages. The shop is open Wed.-Fri. 1-8 p.m. and Sat. 1-9 p.m. and Sun. 1-4 o,n, Call 227-9485 or visit www.StrumentoArt.com. The Art Bank is located at 811 Mass Ave.
• Indianapolis is moving forward to become a more sustainable community. IndyGo recently announced it is rolling out its electric buses, which operate at a fourth of the cost of diesel buses. They’ll have 21 of them on the roads by the end of the year. IndyGo is also installing a solar panel system on the roof of its garage to help offset the cost of charging the buses. The buses get about 130 miles on a single charge.
• After three and a half weeks and over 8,000 miles traveled through Europe, Gregg Nowling, Media Specialist from Arsenal Tech High School, has returned to share his experience. Nowling was one of five IPS teachers awarded a Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship for this summer. As a huge fan of the hit show Dr. Who, Nowling was challenged by a student to visit the last standing call boxes (familiar to Dr. Who fans as the TARDIS) in England. He used his grant to fund this experience and documented the trip to share with his students. Now that he has returned, he plans to use his findings to write a book and build a full-size replica of the TARDIS.