Friday
Arts Illiana Summer Exhibition opening reception coming up
Arts Illiana will present the artwork of talented Wabash Valley artists during the Summer Exhibition opening reception.
Art work in the Summer Exhibition includes beautiful and inspiring paintings, drawings, photography and more. In addition, Arts Illiana’s Sales Gallery also offers a great selection of jewelry, pottery, greeting cards, and other unique and original items. All art work in the exhibit is for sale.
The reception will also feature music by the husband-wife duo, Dave Goodier and Christina Blust, members of the popular local music group, Yearbook Committee. The exhibition opening reception will be on from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.
The evening is free and open to the public. Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be available. For more information about the exhibition, contact Arts Illiana at (812) 235-5007 or info@artsilliana.org.
Friday
Marshall band concert set
The Marshall (Ill.) City Band, under the direction of Ralph Stewart, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Friday on the Clark County Courthouse lawn.
Included in the concert are “Olympic Fanfare and Theme,” “The Syncopated Clock,” “Vaudeville Favorites,” “You Decorated My Life,” “Lullaby of Birdland,” “Lassus Trombone,” highlights from “Oklahoma,” and “Hello My Baby.” The concert will continue with “Ragged Rozey,” “Themes from Offenbach,” “One” from “A Chorus Line,” “Little Brown Jug,” “Colonel Bogey,” and close with the playing of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Concerts are free and open to the public. Bring lawn chairs.
June 30
Fish fry planned in Center Point
Center Point Volunteer Fire Department will present a fish fry at 4:30 p.m. June 30 at the firehouse on Main Street.
There will be drive-through pickup at the rear of the firehouse. The meal will include Jonah-club fried fish, baked beans, homemade slaw, green beans, apple sauce, homemade pies and cakes, abnd ice tea or coffee. The costs are $8 for adults and $5 for children.
There also will be live entertainment, a dunking booth, ring toss, and heavy weight horse pull starting at 8 p.m.
This is the fire department’s main revenue for the year to keep the department operating.
June 30
Summer Fest coming up
Summer Fest is planned from 4 to 7 p.m. June 30 at the House of Hope at 5525 W. U.S. 40, just west of Brazil.
The event will feature live music from Soul Patrol and Hearts-A-Fire Choir as well as a bike cruise-in with Unchained Gang, CMA and motorcycle ministries. All bikers are welcome.
There also will be a cook-out and bake sale. A $5 donation will cover each platter served with all donations going to support the ministry.
For more information, call (812) 446-1717.
Saturday
Fundraiser set to fight cancer
A fundraising party for Aubree Bonawitt is planned for 4 p.m. Saturday at Deming Park’s Larrison Pavilion.
Bonawitt has Neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer. The fundraiser will provide support and help cover her medical costs. Raffles, silent auction, 50/50 drawing, food, live music and face painting will be available.
A car raffle at $25 each ticket is planned and features a 1996 BMW 328i donated by Toyota of Terre Haute.
For more information, contact Mia Summers at Msummers8421@gmail.com or visit the Facebook page Aubree’s Fundraiser.
July 4
Register now for Fast Track Mile
The Wabash Valley Road Runners Club’s annual Fast Track Mile is coming up July 4.
Checkin and late registration will be from 7-8 a.m. at Gilbert Park. The race starts near Third Street and Wabash Avenue and ends at Gilbert Park at 8:15 a.m. for the men’s race and 8:30 a.m. for the women’s race and the co-ed walk.
Overall awards, age group awards, team awards and a special prize for most patriotic running attire will be awarded. There is no race day registration for teams.
Pre-registration cost is $6 for youth 18 and under and $14 for adults. Add $4 for race day registration.
Applications are available at WVRR.org.
All proceeds from the race go to the Wabash Valley Roadrunner Club Scholarship Fund.
Saturday
Dinner planned in Fontanet
The Fontanet Community Action Team will host a turkey or beef Manhattan dinner from 3 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Fontanet Community Center/firehouse. The cost will include freewill donation.
Saturday
Fund to help Rosedale native
A special fund has been established at all area First Financial Banks to help Jeff Huxford and his family after the Rosedale native suffered serious injuries in an automobile accident near his home in northern Indiana on May 3.
Along with the account, a fundraising dinner and silent auction will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Rosedale Firehouse to also help Huxford. Donations for Huxford can be sent to any First Financial Bank, including the one at Rosedale at 62 E. Central St., Rosedale, IN 47874.
Donations of desserts to serve at the dinner and silent auction items will be gladly accepted. For more information about the benefit, or to donate to it, contact Angie Stutler Wittenmeyer at angnjason@hotmail.com.
Features
COMMUNITY: June 21, 2012
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Banks of the Wabash Festival kicks off
The 2013 Banks of the Wabash Festival, scheduled May 23 through June 1 in Fairbanks Park, celebrates 40 years along the banks of the Wabash River, 30 under the sponsorship of the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department.
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Community Theatre concludes season with ‘Social Security’
Community Theatre of Terre Haute’s main stage season finale opens this Friday, with the hit Broadway comedy “Social Security,” directed by Sonni Crawford.
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Bruce’s History Lessons: Morse’s telegraph and its impact as a ‘game changer’
This week (May 24) in 1844, Professor Samuel F.B. Morse sat in the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., surrounded by members of Congress, who had come to witness history.
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Singer-songwriter Aly Tadros to perform at The Verve
Although she calls Brooklyn, N.Y., home, singer/songwriter Aly Tadros has spent the last decade traveling (and touring) across Egypt, Turkey, Canada, Mexico and nearly all of Europe in an attempt to coalesce the diversity that is being both Egyptian and Texan, both a performer and a songwriter. Next on her list is Terre Haute. Tadros will be playing at The Verve on Friday.
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Longtime weatherman Jesse Walker relates well to people of Wabash Valley
While in middle and high school, Jesse Walker developed a strong interest in the weather. He thought about a career at the National Weather Service or at a storm prediction center, but the idea of becoming a television meteorologist never entered his mind.
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CULINARY COURSES: Clabber Girl Classroom Kitchen provides variety of cooking courses for the Valley
There are a few taste-bud-tantalizing-perks for having America’s leading baking powder producer in your backyard. For nearly 120 years, Clabber Girl has been a staple in Terre Haute. In 1899, Hulman and Company began offering up what was to become one of the oldest brands in the country, Clabber baking powder. In 1923, the company changed the baking powder brand name to Clabber Girl.
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RIVER OF SOUND: Composer sees symphony bring his musical imagination to life
David Watkins smiled as he stood on the Tilson Auditorium stage. The audience stood, too, applauding.
Two of his compositions had just been performed by the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra. Neither piece — “A Wabash Portrait” and “River Fanfare” — had been played publicly in decades. -
The Beauties of Spring: Stunning array of wildflowers bloom each spring in Collett Park
Groundskeepers put off the first mowing of Collett Park each spring.
Admirers of the place, Terre Haute’s oldest park, like it that way.
A stunning array of wildflowers covers the 21-acre lawn for a few short weeks. Those plants, known as “spring beauties,” emerge in March, bloom in April and go dormant by May, when the brilliant waves of white and pink flowers disappear. -
Day spent with daughter inspires Valley man to write children’s book for her
It started with a warm sunny blackberry picking outing, a bee buzzing, a little bird nest with eggs in it and a little girl begging her daddy for a night-time story. And from those ingredients the children’s book, “The Bee in the Blackberry Bush” came to fruition.
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From kilts to haggis, Wabash Valley Scottish Society marks a decade of preserving heritage
As soon as Richard Cooper breaks into his Scottish accent, a smile automatically follows.
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Witness to history: April movie chronicles Jackie Robinson’s trials as be breaks Major League Baseball’s color barrier — something Vigo County native Harry Taylor witnessed first hand
The upcoming movie “42” aims to show America what Jackie Robinson endured.
Harry Taylor witnessed it firsthand.
Robinson wore jersey No. 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Taylor wore 41. Both were 28-year-old rookies, considerably older than most. Taylor got delayed by military service in World War II. Professional baseball’s unwritten but ironclad code of racial discrimination had kept Robinson and other African-Americans out of the majors since the 1880s. -
Sisterly Habits: Fillenwarth sisters are linked together in more than one sense
The Fillenwarth sisters are sisters in more than one sense of the word.
Both were born two of the eight children of city cop Henry and his wife Catherine Fillenwarth. Both grew up among a large and giving Catholic extended family in inner-city Indianapolis in the 1940s. -
Geocaching Indiana: Clay County man develops idea to use geo-art to create outline of state in caches
Indiana, long-known as the Crossroads of America, has for years been a destination for people coming from around the world to witness such activities as the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, Indianapolis Colts football games and Indiana University Hoosiers basketball games.
Since October 2012, Indiana’s attractions have come to include the surprising geo-art creation of a group of Wabash Valley geocachers — people who use Global Positioning Systems and similar location-sensitive devices to find hidden objects for fun. -
Voice of a Storyteller: Chance meeting of Twain, Paris youngster inspired narrative voice of Huck Finn
The block offers no hints of its place in American literary history.
Customers dodge raindrops, walking in and out of an auto parts store. -
Pearls of the Wabash: Efforts to reintroduce mussels
Broken bricks, shattered large clay tiles and thin strips of lumber nailed into a crimped piece of sheet metal, sit piled down a county road in Hillsdale.
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Natural Habitat: Meet 17-year-old Ben Cvengros, who has a knack for capturing wildlife — in particular, birds — on his camera
I would like to introduce you to a 17-year-old Parke County teenager who has an incredible level of patience. Ben Cvengros was 12 years old when he found his passion for photography.
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WORD PLAY: Scrabble Club broadens Greene County youngsters’ vocabularies and experiences in a fun way
Drew Helton nodded his head like a wise college professor dispensing scholarly advice.
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Doing a lot with a little: Family’s resourcefulness leads it to reuse vegetable oil as fuel
Up a winding driveway, tucked off a main road in Clay County, sits an average-looking house in a hardwood forest. The homeowners, Chris and Lori Hart, are two resourceful people.
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Coming full circle: Vigo County 4-H’er hopes donation of livestock auction money helps youth
The phrase “giving back” is often quoted but sometimes lacks personal follow through.
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CRUISIN’ TO A CAREER IN MUSIC: Terre Haute native Will Foraker on a roll with new album, job as cruise ship entertainer
On his way to the Panama Canal, Will Foraker sounded energized.
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YOUR GREEN VALLEY: Keep your garden — and yourself — safe from lead
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lead poisoning is the No. 1 preventable environmental cause of illness in children.
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TRIED ‘N’ TRUE: Need something for the kids? Try these Ritzy Cookies
When we have dinners at the church, one of the ladies brings these cookies. Nancy Kahl has been making these for some time now. They are so good. Need something for your kids? Make sure that there isn’t any one who can’t have peanuts. These are so easy and extra good.
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‘A Song for Indiana’ to raise money for Dresser sculpture
Art Spaces will present “A Song for Indiana – The Paul Dresser Project” at 5:30 p.m. on June 6 at the Holiday Inn of Terre Haute.
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Sign up for Community School of the Arts classes
Summer is the perfect time to enroll children and teens in theater and visual arts and music classes at the Indiana State University Community School of the Arts.
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FAMILY TIES: While searching for my grandfather, I found my mother
I remember the afternoon my mother received the chilling news from her nephew that her oldest sister and brother-in-law had been killed in a car/bus collision.
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GRAPE SENSE: Same old whites getting you down? Try something different
If the same old Chardonnay, Riesling or Pinot Grigio is getting you down, try something different.
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TRIED ‘N’ TRUE: A Rhubarb Nut Bread for the season
Last fall we went to the Covered Bridge Festival. Gene loves to go. Anyway, I got to talking to this lady, Treva Smith, at Bridgeton.
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Diamond Hill Station goes bold in ‘Katy Bar the Door’ album
On the second track of Diamond Hill Station’s new CD, the band deftly rambles through a catchy, love-gone-wrong song called “Same Old Thing.”
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Roxie Randle takes next step with single ‘Everything I’m Not’
The next step for singer-songwriter Roxie Randle is a single with the attitude and power to crack radio airplay lists.
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Opening reception Friday for ‘Mud Musings’
Indiana State University’s Community School of the Arts is scheduled to host an opening reception for an art exhibition from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday in the Gallery Lounge of ISU’s Hulman Memorial Student Union.
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