Monthly Archives: October 2013

Walker Career Center Receives Dow Grant

October 31, 2013 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Walker Career Center (WCC) has been named a recipient of a Dow AgroSciences grant “Circuitry Comes Alive.” On Wednesday, Oct. 24th, administrators and students were invited to Dow AgroSciences to share and demonstrate the activitis they have been exploring with the grant funds. The Dow Promise grant allowed … Read More

100 Years Ago This Week: Nov. 1-8

October 31, 2013 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Thursday, November 6, 1913: Taxicabs, transfer wagons, broken down trucks, electric and gasoline propelled vehicles of all descriptions are swarming the streets carrying passengers to and from the business district as a result of the street car strike. Every available vehicle is in service, but the … Read More

Connecting the Dots — Golden Days

October 31, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“I’m so glad that I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” — L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Along with December, October is my favorite month because it’s full of the vivid colors … Read More

Boo

October 31, 2013 | by CJ Woods III

My house in Clarksville, Indiana had some well-deserved notoriety. It was the place where adolescent children were given an uncensored look at the miracle of childbirth (and in my defense, I did not know that my daughter was showing off those Lamaze Prepared Childbirth slides), where two teenaged football players … Read More

And Yet , More Sports Trivia

October 31, 2013 | by Weekly View

1. Pittsburgh is the only city in which all three of the major sports franchises wear the same colors. The Pirates of MLB, the Steelers of the NFL, and the Penguins of the NHL all wear yellow and black. The color scheme of the coat of arms of the city … Read More