Monthly Archives: August 2021

Rescue Plan Funds to be Used to Support Schools

August 19, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — On Thursday, Aug. 12, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced the approval of Indiana’s American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) plan and distributed remaining ARP ESSER funds to them. Indiana’s plan details how the state is using and plans to use ARP … Read More

Statewide Event Will Support the Indiana 9/11 Memorial Expansion

August 19, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The American Legion Department of Indiana is hosting a 9/11 Remembrance event that will honor the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and help raise funds for the Indiana 9/11 Memorial expansion to include the lives lost at the Pentagon. Open to all, the event will consist of a vehicle … Read More

Software to Help Venues With Proof of Vaccination

August 19, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Independent Venue Alliance (IIVA) and the Arts Council of Indianapolis have partnered with Bindle, a software platform built to help communities safely reopen, to support entertainment entities through the ongoing pandemic. Venues across America, Broadway shows, major international promoters and well-known touring artists have already begun to … Read More

100 Years Ago: Aug. 20-26

August 19, 2021 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, August 25, 1921: “The sweetest name I’ve ever known is Mary,” begins the poem Mary by John Kinsella, which was the theme today for the annual reunion at the Garfield Park pavilion of the Mary Association of the United States. About 300 women and girls … Read More

The Vision of Ruth Handler: Barbie

August 19, 2021 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

The room full of middle-aged ad executives were not impressed. Oh, they were smugly polite. After all, they were in the presence of the company founder’s wife. But the proposal before them would be expensive and there was just no mass appeal to the buying public. Disappointed but not discouraged, … Read More