Thorns & roses, Sept. 25

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September 25, 2009

Anonymous Pharos-Tribune Fri Sep 25, 2009, 08:32 AM EDT

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• To the Cass County Community Resources Network and its associated agencies for last week’s Resource and Enrollment Festival. The event allowed the unemployed and underemployed, as well as businesses, to learn what resources organizations had to offer to help them through everyday life and assist in finding employment. A number of groups, including Work One and Ivy Tech, offered tips for preparing résumés and getting ready for interviews.

• To Life Scout Chris Gibbs for providing the Georgetown Fire Department with a flagpole at its Lake Cicott station. As one of the requirements for becoming an Eagle Scout, the teenager needed to plan, oversee and complete a project that benefits the community. His project consisted of converting a donated light pole into 28-foot-tall flagpole, and he and fellow troop members marked a successful end to the project at a flag-raising ceremony last weekend.

• To Logansport High School, which saw the ACT and SAT scores of its students go up. Composite scores for the ACT increased to 20.3. On the SAT, the school’s scores went up in every category. Reading scores improved by 18 points while the math average went up 16 points and writing scores increased by 11 points. Curriculum director Michele Starkey attributed the success to an increased focus on standardized testing by LHS teachers.

• To the Cass County Arts Alliance for its 14th annual Art on the Avenue. The nearly 60 exhibits included pottery, painting, sculpture, photography, stained glass and clay as well as mixed media, metal, wood, glass and gourds. The event also provided the Wall of Art for children to express themselves and create their own images. Music was also in the air thanks to the Buselli-Wallarab Swing Orchestra and the Logansport High School band and swing choir. Also performing were the Berryettes and middle school dance team, Logansport Civic Players and Logansport Junior Civic Theater.

• To Wal-Mart on its decision to move forward with a supercenter that should break ground next week. After a decision this year to delay construction, the company announced this month that Triangle Associates would be the general contractor for what is expected to be a 150,000-square-foot building that Wal-Mart says will be the first of its kind in Indiana. The approximately $10 million project will take eight to 10 months to complete and will employ about 300 people.

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