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• Trump Saved Jobs at Carrier, but More Midwest Jobs Are in Jeopardy

  01-12-2016 03:17
  The 1,000 jobs the president-elect saved represent just 0.2 percent of total manufacturing employment in Indiana.
  
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• Primary Voting 2024 on May 7

  02-05-2024 07:11 via weeklyview.net
  If you couldn’t tell from all the political ads on TV or gumming up your social media, this is an election year. The primary in-person voting will be held on Tuesday, May 7, from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. You must be a registered voter with a current Indiana State ID, such as a driver’s license or other official ID from the Dept. of Motor Vehicles. You will be asked if you want a Democrat or Republican ballot for the primary. You will only be able to vote for candidates from one party for the pr
  
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• State of Indiana Launches SUN Bucks

  02-05-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS – The state of Indiana recently announced that applications for the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (SEBT) program, also known as SUN Bucks, are now open.SUN Bucks is a new benefits program that provides families a one-time payment of $120 for each eligible school-aged child to help purchase groceries during the summer. This ensures that students continue to have access to healthy meals beyond the school year.Children are eligible for the program if:• The household al
  
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• Damenchor Maifest at Indianapolis Leiderkranz May 4

  02-05-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Leiderkranz, located at 1417 E. Washington St. will hold Damenchor Maifest on May 4 from 5-10 p.m. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by a concert at 7 p.m., and a dance to the music of POLKAMOTION from 8-10 p.m.The dinner menu includes authentic German fare, and a full cash bar is available. Tickets are $30 for Dinner, Concert and Dance. For more information and tickets call Margit Ball at 317-783-1433 or 317-965-4656.There will be free parking in the FOP par
  
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• 2024 Summer Reading Registration Begins May 1

  02-05-2024 07:10 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Public Library staff are busy preparing for the 2024 summer reading program. This summer, the books and events include pet-themed workshops, reading and activity challenges for prizes, and readers are even a chance for local youth to win a Nintendo Switch, Amazon gift cards, or 529 College Choice CD Savings Accounts.The Indianapolis Public Library is partnering with IndyHumane to provide a Pet Adoption Wagon at branch locations on select dates and times. Lib
  
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• YMCA Holds Cycle-a-Thon

  02-05-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — The 8th annual YMCA Cycle-a-Thon will bring together over 1000 people across Greater Indianapolis pedaling for a purpose. All the money raised through the event will go towards their Chronic Disease Prevention Programs, including but not limited to our LIVESTRONG at the Y Cancer survivor program.The Cycle-a-Thon will be held Fri., May 10 and Sat., May 11 (times vary for your local YMCA) at all local YMCA facilities for the Cycle-a-Thon. Virtual option available for all YMCA
  
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• Just a Little Motion Can Dramatically Improve Your Health

  02-05-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  When we picture getting fit, we usually think of at least 20 minutes of exercise, such as a jog or swim. But even a few minutes of exercise can lengthen our lives and make us feel better too. Three daily exercises lasting just a minute or two each — according to a December 2022 study in Nature Medicine by Emmanuel Stamatakis, Ph.D., et al. — gave non-exercisers in the study a 38-40% lower risk of death from cancer and 48-49% lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease than those
  
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• “Full Court Press” Episode 1 Special Screening at Newfield

  02-05-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — On Monday May 6, Heartland Film is proud to present the world premiere and screening of Episode 1 of the upcoming ESPN+ Original Series Full Court Press at Newfields. The new series chronicles the ongoing journeys of senior South Carolina center Kamilla Cardoso, senior Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, and sophomore UCLA guard Kiki Rice.Kristen Lappas is the director of the series, and an award-winning alumna of Heartland Film’s Indy Shorts and Heartland International Film Fes
  
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• Franciscan Health Hosts ASIST Suicide Intervention Course May 10-11

  02-05-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  BEECH GROVE — Franciscan Health in conjunction with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention will be hosting a LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) course on Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 at the Hornet Park Community Center, 5245 Hornet Ave. in Beech Grove.The course will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and attendees must be present for both days of the course to receive certification. Also, attendees must be registered for the course and class
  
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• Coburn Place Launches Campaign for Housing for Domestic Violence Survivors

  02-05-2024 07:09 via weeklyview.net
  INDIANAPOLIS — Domestic violence is worse in Indiana than elsewhere in the country, and in Indianapolis, it’s getting worse. In Indiana, 42.5% of women report having experienced domestic violence in their lifetimes, the fifth highest percentage in the country.“Domestic violence is a community problem, and we need community support to help families heal and break the cycle,” says Coburn Place President and CEO Rachel Scott. “We know transitional housing is the most c
  
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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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