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Local Churches and Synagogue Win Grant to Install Solar Panels

First Posted: 5/2/13 03:29 PM EDT Updated: 5/2/13 03:29 PM EDT
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BY JEREMY SHERE For the past few years, the faith-based environmental organization Hoosier Interfaith Power and Light (H-IPL) has been combating climate change by encouraging its member congregations to use less fossil-fuel-derived energy and encourage their members to do the same. Now, with the aid of a $150,000 grant from the Indiana Office of Energy Development (one of only five awarded to 58 applicants), six H-IPL congregations in Bloomington and Indianapolis will go one step further by installing electricity-producing solar panels. “[Getting the grant] is extremely exciting because it’s a product of Indiana congregations from across the religious spectrum coming together to help curb climate change,” says Madeline Hirschland, vice chair of H-IPL and manager of the solar grant. “Our [...]

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‘Bring It On!’ Marks 7 Years On the Air at WFHB

First Posted: 4/23/13 04:49 PM EDT Updated: 4/23/13 04:54 PM EDT
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BY JEREMY SHERE For the past seven years, the best way to learn about news and issues affecting Bloomington’s African American community has been to tune in to Bring It On!, a weekly one-hour program airing Monday evenings on WFHB, hosted by Bev Smith and William Hosea. “Our goal is to foster conversation by challenging commonly held beliefs, pushing people out of their comfort zone, and getting people to dialogue on relevant issues in a respectful way,” says the show’s founding and current producer, Clarence Boone, a veteran WFHB gospel music programmer and director of Diversity Programs at the IU Alumni Association. Boone first came up with the idea for Bring It On! in 2004. Noting that WFHB had programs [...]

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Horse-Angels: An Equine Rescue Center with Bushels of Heart (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 4/10/13 09:17 AM EDT Updated: 4/18/13 03:56 PM EDT
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BY JANET MANDELSTAM In his glory days, Guy was a show horse. But those days were long gone when animal control officials brought him to Horse-Angels Inc., a nonprofit equine rescue and rehabilitation center in Owen County. “That horse was starving to death,” says veterinarian Sue Whitman, owner and “chief angel.” Like Guy, all the abused, stray, and unwanted horses that arrive at Horse-Angels are brought back to health, professionally trained, and, in most cases, adopted by new, caring owners. Whitman, a graduate of Purdue University College of Veterninary Medicine, who claims she was “born obsessed with horses,” says it takes a minimum of a year to get a horse ready for adoption. “They’re always in horrible condition, and we’re [...]

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The Good Deeds of Student Volunteers Win Praise from President Obama

First Posted: 4/2/13 03:10 PM EDT Updated: 4/2/13 03:10 PM EDT
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Forty-five local students are recipients of the 2012 President’s Volunteer Service Award, which “rewards and encourages young people who contribute to meeting the needs of their community through volunteerism.” The students received a certificate and pin from President Barack Obama and another pin from Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan. Those honored include (1) Alex England, (2) Matthew Kubisch, (3) Henry Levesque, (4) Grace Oeding, (5) Lois Moon, (6) Alan Nguyen, (7) Emily Moon, (8) Toni Deckard, (9) Christian Kammel, (10) Adam Baker, (11) Sam Buehler, (12) DohHyun Kim, (13) Drew Couper, (14) Katie Rivera, (15) Hailea Howard, (16) Molly Swindle, (17) Danielle Dingman, (18) Olivia Milam, (19) Kayla Post, (20) Sunny Aldrich, (21) Samantha Clevenger, (22) Audrey Post, (23) Lauren Means, [...]

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Saving the Lakota 
Language: A Bloomington-based Initiative

First Posted: 3/29/13 11:11 AM EDT Updated: 3/29/13 11:11 AM EDT
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BY DAN COLEMAN Time has robbed many Native American cultures of their languages. The Bloomington-based Lakota Language Consortium (LLC) is working to bring one back from the brink. LLC began as a project of Wilhelm Meya, a native of Austria and a doctoral anthropology candidate at IU, who has been working with Native Americans since 1994. With 150,000 Lakotas living in the Dakotas, Meya viewed the language as one of the few with a viable chance of surviving into the 21st century. Working initially with Indiana University, LLC became an autonomous nonprofit in 2004, culling the resources of Lakota tribal leaders, linguistics experts, and educators to form an organization dedicated to the preservation, revitalization, and promotion of the Lakota language. [...]

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