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• Annual Benton House Book Sale July 17-19

  09-07-2020 07:11 via weeklyview.net
  he Benton House Book Sale will be taking place Friday, July 17 from 5-8 p.m., Saturday, July 18 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, July 19 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The sale will be held in the big tent in the parking lot at 312 S. Downey Ave. (Thanks to Montgomery Tent & Awning for the tent!) There’s still time to drop off donations for the sale at the Benton House ONLY until Sunday, July 12.The annual book sale is one of the biggest fundraisers for the Benton House, and proceeds go to suppor
  
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• Historic Decorator Showhouse to Benefit Eskenazi Health

  25-04-2024 07:11 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The 2024 St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild Decorators’ Show House and Gardens, the longest running decorator show house event in the nation, will once again welcome the public to tour a classic Indianapolis home with proceeds benefiting Eskenazi Health. This year’s residence is the Sylvan House at 4521 Sylvan Rd.The annual event runs from Saturday, April 27, through Sunday, May 12. Hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday; 10 a.m. – 7 p.
  
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• Rates and Taxes Set to Rise

  25-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANA — AES Indiana has received unanimous approval from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to adjust base rates for electricity. Starting in mid-May, base rates will increase by approximately 7.2 percent or a little under $10 for the average customer. While the proposed rate increase will vary among business customers, most small businesses can expect a rate increase in the 2 percent to 10 percent range. Base rates were last updated five years ago.In addition to the rate a
  
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• Mobility Projects Get $60.6 Million in Funding

  25-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization (IMPO) has awarded $60.6 million for 17 regionally important projects that will advance the region’s road safety, air quality, and infrastructure preservation goals.Projects in the area thatwere selected to receive funding in 2027 includ:• Madison Avenue Roadway Rehabilitation: This project includes the rehabilitation of Madison Avenue from Martin Street to Pleasant Run Parkway, including a “road diet&rdquo
  
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• Beastside Brewfest

  25-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  IRVINGTON — The Irvington Community Council is counting down six months to the 78th Historic Irvington Halloween Festival, marking the occasion with the annual Beastside Brewfest on Saturday, April 27 from 7:00-10:30 p.m. to support a great cause, hear some great music, and sample some great breweries as they compete for the Beastside Trophy, the most unique brewing trophy in Indiana. Both the professional beer judges and the audience will declare a winner this year.The event will take pla
  
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• Author Tiffany D. Jackson at Central Library April 30

  25-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson will visit Central Library,40 E. St. Clair, on Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m. to participate in a talk and Q&A session for teens and adults. A book sale and signing will take place thereafter, with books provided by Kids Ink Children’s Bookstore. This event is free and open to the public.Jackson is a Coretta Scott King and John Steptoe New Talent Award winner and an NAACP Image Award Nominee. She i
  
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• Starry, starry night…

  25-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  Field trips are adventures grade schoolers eagerly anticipate. When I was a student at IPS No. 57, annual field trips initially included the Childrens’ Museum (the old house on N. Meridian St. crammed with stuff), the President Benjamin Harrison Home, and the James Whitcomb Riley Home. Later, the newly completed Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium on the Butler University campus was added.My first visit to the Holcomb Observatory was not to peer at the heavens through the giant 38-inch ref
  
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• Soldiers Thru Time event at Ft. Harrison State Park May 4 & 5

  25-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  LAWRENCE — The Museum of 20th Century Warfare and Ft. Harrison State Park will be hosting “Soldiers Thru Time” at the park. Visitors will see camps and displays set-up by re-enactors from many different time periods.  Living historians spanning 2500 years of military history will be wearing clothing and uniforms from their chosen time period or conflict and have equipment and weapons to show and describe.Presently they have impressions of Greek Hoplite, Roman Legionary, Mo
  
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• IRT’s “Little Shop of Horrors” a Musical Delight

  25-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  As an enormous fan of musical theatre, I was looking forward to Indiana Repertory Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, the award-winning play based on the Roger Corman film of the same name. It was a joy to see a stellar cast belting out tunes and dazzling m oves on the Mainstage of the IRT after 10 years of musical theater drought!Little Shop of Horrors takes place on Skid Row in Los Angeles, a poverty-stricken area where Mushkin’s florist shop is on its last leg. Outside
  
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• Applause!: April 26-May 2

  25-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  • The next Coffee with a Cop will be on May 1 from 3-4 p.m. at Neidhammer, 2104 E. Washington St. Meet with East District officers for an informal chat, and a time to voice concerns about problems in your neighborhood.• The Crossroads Brass Band of Indiana invites everyone to their concert on Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m. at Scecina High School, 5000 Nowland Ave. The band is made up of volunteer musicians who love to bring great music to the community.• Landlocked Baking Company on t
  
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• “Acts of Faith” Exhibit at the Eiteljorg Opens April 20

  18-04-2024 07:11 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — A major new exhibition coming to Indianapolis explores how diverse religious influences shaped the cultures of the American West, and how the West itself impacted people’s beliefs. Organized by the New-York Historical Society, the exhibition Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West opens April 20 at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, and remains on view through Aug. 4.Featuring thought-provoking artworks, cultural belongings, exhibit panels
  
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• Indiana Landmarks Hosts Woodruff Place Tour May 9

  18-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — On May 9, stroll the historic tree-lined esplanades of Indianapolis’s Woodruff Place on a guided tour of the city’s first planned residential suburb. Entrepreneur James O. Woodruff purchased and platted the 80-acre district in 1872 east of downtown Indianapolis, creating an upscale, park-like neighborhood with stately homes, often cited as inspiration for settings in Booth Tarkington’s early twentieth-century novels. Woodruff Place’s unique cultural a
  
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• Health Dept. Relocating Some Clinics to New Eskenazi Campus

  18-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County Public Health Department will relocate its eastside dental clinic, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) clinic, and Beds and Britches, Etc. (B.A.B.E.) store to the new Eskenazi Health Thomas & Arlene Grande Campus in April.The 95,000 square-foot health center, located at 6002 E. 38th St. at the northeast corner of East 38th Street and North Arlington Avenue, began seeing new patients and those patients currently served by Eskenazi Health Center Forest Mano
  
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• Eastside Agrapreneur Passes Away

  18-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Kay Lavina Grimm, died peacefully in her home on Wednesday April 10, 2024. Ms Grimm was born in DeKalb County, Illinois on Dec. 24, 1961. Ms Grimm was preceded in death by her parents Curtis Glenn Grimm and Dolores Hawver Grimm and sisters Cindy Grimm Johnson and Jamie Sue Grimm. She is survived by her brothers Brian Grimm, Joel Grimm (Terry) and her twin Kevin Grimm (Lora) and many nieces and nephews. Ms. Grimm is also survived by her long time partner and friend Ms Sue Spi
  
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• Working Cats Need Adopters

  18-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis Animal Care Services (IACS) and Indy Neighborhood Cats (INC) are partnering to help working cats find homes.Between the two organizations, over 70 working cats are currently looking for homes. Working cats prefer being outdoors and maintaining their independence but benefit from an owner that can look after their needs. While some working cats are friendly, many are under-socialized. Working cats make great mousers for barns, warehouses, and other businesses and
  
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• “Little Shop of Horrors” at the IRT

  18-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — For the first time since 2013, the Indiana Repertory Theatre is bringing a musical back to its stages with the horticultural horror musical, Little Shop of Horrors, presented by Glick Philanthropies. Written by Howard Ashman with music by Alan Menken, this play is the third-longest-running musical and the largest grossing Off-Broadway production in history. The cult-favorite musical runs  through May 19 on the OneAmerica Mainstage and is directed by IRT’s Margot L
  
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• Free Mammograms Available at Certain Francisan Health Locations

  18-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Women in need of mammograms in Central Indiana may be able to receive them free of charge thanks to a grant to Franciscan Health from the Indiana Breast Cancer Awareness Trust.The grant supports mammograms at Franciscan Health Breast Center Indianapolis, Franciscan Health Indianapolis Imaging Greenbrooke in Greenwood and Franciscan Health Breast Center in Mooresville.The grant funds are awarded by the Indiana Breast Cancer Awareness Trust, Inc. (IBCAT), the mission of which
  
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• Eclipse Reflections

  18-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  At 3 p.m. on April 8, Paula, her brother Mark, and I set up chairs in the empty parking lot of our office at 195 N. Shortridge Rd. Through special glasses, we watched as the moon slowly nibbled away at the sun, inching the way to darkness. The air grew cooler, and turned that odd color it does when a big storm is moving in as the last sliver of sun dangled in the sky. Then it blipped out, and there, in the middle of the afternoon, it was dark as night. Planets and stars appeared in the sky, and
  
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• ArtSpoken Features Works From Incarcerated Individuals

  18-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Art from those incarcerated in Indiana prisons will be on display and available for sale during ArtSpoken on Thursday, April 25 at 6 p.m. at Public Advocates in Community re-Entry (PACE) headquarters in downtown Indianapolis, 1314 N. Meridian. Sales of the works will go to support the organization.The Indianapolis-based nonprofit provides a variety of services to currently and previously incarcerated individuals and their families to help them lead productive and responsible
  
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• 11th Annual PopCon Opens April 26

  18-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — PopCon is back in Indianapolis for its 11th year, returning to the Indiana Convention Center the weekend of April 26-28. April’s event is set to be the biggest yet, with a star-studded lineup of celebrities, epic after-parties, gaming experiences, content creators and non-stop entertainment.Celebrity guests include Johnny Yong Bosch, aka Adam Park, the Black Power Ranger and a prominent voice actor in numerous anime and video games such as “Trigun” and &ldq
  
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• Workshops Will Help Build Sustainability

  11-04-2024 07:11 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Office of Sustainability, in partnership with Indy Parks, recently announced a series of sustainability- and climate-focused workshops for community members to learn more about different aspects of environmental action and well-being. The Indy’s Thriving Neighbors Series includes different topics presented by local experts and hosted at Indy Parks family centers. Each workshop is free to attend and open to all ages.More details and registration informa
  
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• Nickel Plate Construction to Close Fall Creek Parkway for Two Weeks

  11-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The Nickel Plate Trail project is set to initiate a full closure of Fall Creek Parkway at Evanston Avenue from April 15 to April 30. This closure marks a significant step forward in the ongoing efforts to transform the Nickel Plate Railroad bed into a dynamic multi-use trail, spanning from the State Fairgrounds into Hamilton County.The $14.9 million project broke ground in late 2023 and is expected to remain in construction until mid-2025, adding nine miles of trail to the c
  
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• IndyRama Downtown Home Show Tickets Available

  11-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The Builders Association of Greater Indiana (BAGI) is counting the days until the opening of the 2024 Lee Supply Corp. IndyRama downtown home show.IndyRama will take place over two weekends, on April 19th – 21st and 26th – 28th. For the show, five of Central Indiana’s premier custom home builders — Compendium Group, Green Square Design | Construct, Integra Builders, Onyx+East, and Wedgewood Building Company — have crafted six show homes featurin
  
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• Curfew For Youth Announced

  11-04-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Recently, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) announced the department will step up enforcement of Indiana’s current curfew law for those under the age of 18. The action came days after seven youths were shot downtown.Current Indiana Law states that children from 15-17 years of age may not be in a public place between 1 a.m.-5 a.m. on Saturday or Sunday, after 11 p.m. on Sunday – Thursday, before 5 a.m. on Monday – Friday. Children younger th
  
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• “Try the Y” for Free April 13

  11-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS —The YMCA of Greater Indianapolis invites the community to “Try the Y” and check out its offerings for free at one of its 12 centers between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 13.Opportunities to participate include open swim, open gym, wellness center equipment and classes. In addition, families will find activities for children. Information on youth sports, swim lessons, day and overnight camps, as well as employment and volunteer activities will be available.A
  
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• State Imposes Fines for Late Tax Filers

  11-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANA — The deadline to file your Indiana Individual income taxes is Monday, April 15. If you need more time, you can request an extension of time to file. Otherwise, if you don’t file or pay any taxes owed by this deadline, fees and penalties may be charged.• Failure to pay tax: 10% of the unpaid tax liability or $5.00, whichever is greater. Penalty is imposed on payments that are required to be remitted electronically but are not.• Failure to file a state tax return (pr
  
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• LISC Awarded Grant from National Clean Investment Fund

  11-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Power Forward Communities, a coalition of some of the country’s most trusted housing, climate, and community investment groups, was awarded a $2 billion, seven-year National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide capital for affordable residential decarbonization throughout the country, with a specific focus on low-income and disadvantaged communities.The coalition — led by Enterprise Community Partners, Rewir
  
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• Help Birds Avoid Window Collisions

  11-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANA —The Indiana Department of Natural Resources  offered tips to homeowners so that birds don’t fly into windows. The secret is to break up the reflection in the windows, because birds see the trees and sky reflected in the glass and think it is real. Up to one billion birds die in the U.S. annually from striking glass, but you can reduce the number at home by making your windows safe for birds.Apply visible patterns to the outside of the windows. Patterns need to be on the
  
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• City Announces Elevation Grant Recipients

  11-04-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — City officials and the Indianapolis Foundation recently announced the fifth round of grantees receiving funding through the Elevation Grant Program. Twenty-seven grants, totaling more than $5.1 million, will be distributed to Indianapolis organizations. The funding supports local, grassroots nonprofits working to address root causes of violent crime and comes as part of Mayor Hogsett’s three-year, $150 million comprehensive violence reduction strategy.Since 2022, 116 n
  
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• The Poetry of April: Redux

  11-04-2024 07:08 via weeklyview.net
  My friend in Florida sent me a text message telling me to expect an early birthday gift. My birthday is in March, but her gift was delivered to me late in February. She was excited about the present because she knows that I love poetry. The gift was a book of poetry edited by Kwame Alexander called “This Is The Honey.”When I was an adult student at Indiana University Southeast, I was enrolled in an “Introduction To Poetry” class. I was a 35-year-old student who had &ldquo
  
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