258 search results for “Indiana Weekend”
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Indiana Weekend
Indiana Weekend 2/22/13 – Romance writers Jeanne Mangano, president of the Indiana chapter of the Romance Writers of America, on the enduring popularity of these books – and some of the latest trends.
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Indiana Weekend 02/15/13 – Catherine Winters (with Colleen Steffen, author) Writer Colleen Steffen on the 100-year anniversary of the Catherine Winters mystery in New Castle.
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Indiana Weekend 02/08/13 – Coffee Shops We’re in Franklin talking with the owner of a small-city institution, the coffee shop. In this case, Benjamin’s is the local gathering place just off the courthouse square, the kind of place where everybody knows your name – and the owner gets a daily, up-close look at the town’s […]
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Indiana Weekend 02/01/13 – Cayuga Eagles We visit Duke Energy’s Cayuga power plant for the annual eagle day bird-watching event, talking to visitors, a bird biologist, the plant manager — and a Hoosier environmental group.
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Indiana Weekend | 10.26.12
Indiana Weekend 10/26/12 – A Million Pumpkins; John Graham of Fleishman-Hillard Halloween is coming up, and with it comes finally a rest for the folks at Howell Farms in Henry County. Besides corn and beans, they grow pumpkins – and this time of year they ship more than a million and a half to stores […]
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Indiana Weekend | 10.19.12
Indiana Weekend 10/19/12 – Cyber Security, Politics and Myths October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and in our area few people are as acutely aware of that as Tobey Coffman, director of Information Security Services at Ball State University. Also, if you’ve watched the candidate debates, the endless campaign commercials on TV, the posturing […]
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Indiana Weekend | 10.12.12
Indiana Weekend 10/12/12 – Tipton Turbines We visit the Wildcat wind turbine farm, a $400 million construction project changing the landscape across parts of Tipton and Madison counties. Developers of wind-turbine energy are racing to complete the 125 towers – each one soaring more than 300 feet in the air – to qualify for tax […]
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Indiana Weekend | 10.05.12
Indiana Weekend 10/5/12 – Vera Mae’s Bistro (Pledge Show) For Pledge Week we talk about some of the places that make our area special, including Vera Mae’s Bistro in downtown Muncie. Co-owner Kent Shuff talks about the business; his grandmother, for whom the restaurant is named, and the changing face of downtown Muncie.
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Indiana Weekend | 09.28.12
Indiana Weekend 9/28/12 – The Big Vote: Are We Ready? Republicans and Democrats may be playing rough at the national level in this election year, but the picture on campus is somewhat different.
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Indiana Weekend | 09.21.12
Indiana Weekend 9/21/12 –Volunteer Firefighters Across the country, volunteer fire departments make up a vital part of the first-response network of public safety in countless small towns. But as USA Today reported a few years ago: “The volunteer fire company, an institution that dates to Ben Franklin, is slowly going the way of the horse-drawn […]
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Indiana Weekend | 09.07.12
Indiana Weekend 9/7/12 – Adoption Journey, Walking Man About 136,000 children are adopted in the United States each year. It’s an often complicated, expensive process. And the ordeal that couples go through to start a family in this way might be a reminder, if one was needed, how precious is the arrival of a child. […]
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Indiana Weekend | 08.31.12
Indiana Weekend 8/31/12 – Old Washington Street Festival Muncie’s 36th Annual Old Washington Street Festival and Historic Home Tour is Sept. 15-16. Along with the tours they’ll have arts and crafts, food and entertainment. But this festival also offers a chance to step back a bit – from the busy 21st century life of Muncie […]
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Indiana Weekend | 08.24.12
Indiana Weekend 8/24/12 – Boys & Girls Club of Muncie The Boys & Girls Club of Muncie has doubled its attendance this year, part of a new strategy to provide more mentoring for the young people who call the Southside club their part-time home. Bill Green is executive director. On a busy, hectic day at […]
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Indiana Weekend | 08.17.12
Indiana Weekend 8/17/12 – No. 12 — Horse Therapy, Minnetrista Civil War Letters We meet Rebecca Holmquist of Minnetrista to talk about the center’s exhibit of Civil War letters. The engaging exhibit includes numerous photos, some of the actual letters themselves, displays showing what life was like during the war, and even the sound of […]
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Indiana Weekend | 08.10.12
Indiana Weekend 8/10/12 – American Legion Good news comes as a surprise sometimes. The unemployment rate for Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans – while higher than the national employment rate – appears to be falling. The American Legion holds its national meeting in Indianapolis at the end of August. In Indiana, the state Legion has 100,000 […]
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Indiana Weekend | 08.03.12
Indiana Weekend 8/3/12 – Year of the Wabash, elder parents, motorcycle safety, Luck essay Indiana cherishes the Wabash River, so maybe it’s no surprise that several environmental and arts groups starting in Terre Haute have gotten together to designate 2013 as the “Year of the River.” Elsewhere, this is the season for two-wheel travelers. You’ve […]
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Indiana Weekend | 07.27.12
Indiana Weekend 7/27/12 – Bus Tours, Zombie Walk, China This is the time of year when lots of us hit the road for summer vacation. Also this week, the man behind the “zombie apocalypse” headed to Muncie in August, and a chat with one of the Ball State students just back from a six-week trip […]
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Indiana Weekend 01/25/13 – Comics and Fickle Peach A visit with Chris Piche’ and Brion Fickle of the Fickle Peach, and standup comedy lessons from the founder of the Comedy Mosh Pit at Be Hear Now in Muncie.
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Indiana Weekend 01/18/13 – MLK Day On Monday, students at Ball State and other schools can participate in the Martin Luther King Day of Service, meant to challenge folks to make it “a day on, not a day off.” The Muncie Bar Association, meanwhile, is joining other legal groups around the state for a […]
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Indiana Weekend 01/11/13 – Second Harvest Second Harvest, the East-Central Indiana food bank, distributed 12.5 million pounds of food last year. It’s a staggering number. Another way to put it: That amounts to more than 7.5 million meals. CEO Tim Kean gives us a tour of the group’s busy warehouse, where volunteers fill trucks […]