-
Author Biography
Cynthia Orr
Cynthia Orr was born in Indianapolis, but left at age 8 to live in France, New York, Arizona, Colorado and elsewhere as a military brat. She returned to Indy in 1979, where she married Greg Bowsher. She’s held many jobs over the years, and retired in 2010 from Ernst & Young,LLP. She is an artist, with paintings shown in the Hoosier Art Salon, and she’s illustrated children’s books as well. She was the director of animation for a television puppet show, Time for Timothy which was syndicated in 28 states. She currently has a stained glass business, Illuminations, and writes on a variety of topics for the Weekly View.
Cynthia Orr’s Story Archive
IMPD Explorers Highlighted at Meeting
IMPD East District Commander Waters opened the Aug 14th Task Force meeting with good news about crime statistics in the East District. Violent crime is down by 4 percent and residential burglaries are down by 11 percent. There was a preview showing of an upcoming episode of the TV show … Read More
Senior Abuse Discussed at Task Force Meeting
The guest speakers at the East District Task Force Meeting on June 12th were Cookie Vargo, representing Adult Protective Services and Barney who volunteers as a presenter from Senior Sentinels. Cookie told us that it is federally mandated that every state have Adult Protective Services but it is up to … Read More
East District Officers Recognized
If heroes are ordinary people doing extraordinary things, what do you call it when heroes do extraordinary things? I have no idea, but whatever it is, East District IMPD has a good number of them. At the East District IMPD monthly Task Force meeting on May 8, we were introduced … Read More
Eagle Scout Honors Fallen Officers
INDIANAPOLIS — Eagle Scout Tony Wooten, a student at Franklin Township Middle School East, created a memorial as his Eagle Scout project to honor officers from Indianapolis Police Department, Marion County Sheriff’s Department and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department who were killed in the line of duty. In addition, Tony created … Read More
IMPD Explorers Among CERT Graduates
Have you ever wondered how you would react in a serious crisis? Would you freeze or panic? Would you know what to do and how to organize people around you to deal with the situation at hand? For two CERT classes, a final exam on April 27th put those questions … Read More
