AUGUST 2009

WEDNESDAY (8/26)

n Benjamin Rush Middle School will host a Taco Night and open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Carry-outs available. Cost is $4.50 per person. The open house will be from 7 to 8 p.m.

n Manilla Town & Country Homemakers Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Dutch Mill Buffet in Milroy. Norene Wright is co-hostess. The "Homemakers Grace" will be the devotion. Roll call: "What dish did you particularly enjoy eating tonight?" There will be no lesson this month.

n Noble Niters will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Amy Ploeger. Linda Murphy will be the co-hostess. Title of the lesson will be “The Challenge of Healthy Restaurant Eating.” Dixie Meyer will serve as leader. Connie Meyer will provide inspiration. Roll call response will be “Do You Fly A Flag?”

THURSDAY (8/27)

n The I-CAP Board of Directors will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the New Castle office.

FRIDAY (8/28)

n Manilla Lions Club is hosting a pork chop dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday at their community building in Manilla. Adults, $8; children 12 and under, $4.

SATURDAY (8/29)

n The premier A Walk for Alex will be Saturday. Registration for the autism awareness 5K walk will be from 8 to 9 a.m. with the walk from 9 to 11 a.m. starting at the Rush County Fairgrounds. All proceeds will go into an ongoing endowment fund that has been set up at the Rush County Community Foundation to help aid families in Rush County that have autistic children. Preregister by Aug. 1 to be guaranteed a shirt. May also register on day of walk. Fees: Walk only $5, walk and T-shirt $15, family includes two T-shirts $25, each additional T-shirt $10. Send payment with youth or adult shirt size to Aimee’s Beauty Boutique or A. Workman, 1226 N. Perkins Street, Rushville IN 46173. Make checks payable to RCCF; memo: Alex Workman Memorial Fund. For more information call 765-932-5303 or 765-914-4608. Questions may be directed to Marie Godar (765-561-7669), A. Workman (765-561-4295) or Michele Houston (765-561-4106).

n There will be a benefit ride to help raise money for improvements as well as new equipment in McNabb Park in Carthage Saturday. The event is being held in memory of Crysten and Jett Williams, a mother and son killed in an auto accident on I-70 earlier this year. Sign-up begins at 9 a.m. at the Pit Stop in Carthage. Last bike leaves at 11:30 a.m. Ride will conclude at the Hall residence, 11961 N. Goose Road, Knightstown where there will be a hog roast, benefit action, live band and cash bar. Hog roast free to all ride participants; $5 for non-participants. Everyone welcome. Primitive campsites available. For more info call 317.498.0453 or 765.571.0112.