Bingo event to benefit McCordsville facility
INDIANAPOLIS – A designer Bag Bingo event at a VFW Post in Indianapolis will raise money to help support programs and scholarships in McCordsville.
The Jack Roysdon Memorial Foundation/VFW Auxiliary Post 7119 Designer Bag Bingo will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16 at 6525 Lee Road, Indianapolis. Cost is $40 for 10 games with extra games and raffles available. Dinner will be provided by Kinsey’s Italian Cafe and beer and wine are available for purchase at the event for people 21 and older.
The organization adopts the residents at Traditions at Brookside Memory Unit in McCordsville throughout the year and gives high school seniors scholarships. The volunteers assist with Easter, Christmas and Veterans Day celebrations at Traditions at Brookside and all of the funds raised go back into the community. Tickets are available through Venmo @JRMF1; call Deb Roysdon for questions at 317-671-0125 or JRMFonline@yahoocom.
Upcoming events to benefit humane society
GREENFIELD – Two events this summer will benefit the Hancock County Humane Society.
A free Feline Fun Run 5K event will start at 8 a.m. June 11 at Depot Street Park in Greenfield. The event welcomes runners and walkers in support of Matthew Hentz’s Eagle Scout project. The Hancock County Humane Society will be on hand for free will donations.
A Paint Your Pet fundraiser is scheduled for June 18 with two sessions at Scarlet Lane Brewery in McCordsville. Tickets for the 21-and-older event are on sale now at $45 each; participants will email pictures of their pet to artist Zach Lowe, who will sketch the pet on canvas and provide supplies for participants to paint their animal. Visit hancockcountyhumanesociety.org for details; tickets must be purchased in advance.
Charity ride, car show scheduled
GREENFIELD – Bucks for Brian charity event will be all day June 18, hosted by Snapper’s Bar and Grill in Greenfield. The benefit event is for longtime Greenfield resident Brian Miller, who faces cancer and the tumor has caused his neck to be broken.
The event will include a charity ride with registration starting at 10 and kickstands up at 11; cost is $20 for a single and $25 for a rider with a passenger. A car show will be at 2 p.m.; there will also be a live auction, silent auction, food, cornhole tournament and an appearance by the Hickory Huskers bus from the movie “Hoosiers.”
For questions or donations, or to donate auctions for the auction, call Barb Geary at 317-292-8137.
Rotary Club hosts memorial meeting
GREENFIELD – The Rotary Club of Greenfield hosted its Memorial Day meeting May 26 with veteran Hart Summeier speaking about his fellow Hoosiers who have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. He shared about Corporal Chrales Abrell who died in North Korea; Captain Marion Anderson who served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War; Brigadier General Hiram Bearss who served in the Marines during the Philippine Insurrection; Private Armstrong who served in the Army during the Civil War; and Commander Richard Antrim of the U.S. Navy who stepped forward to take the punishment for a fellow officer being beaten while in a Japanese Internment Camp during World War II. The Japanese were so taken by the commanders’ courage and selflessness that they ceased the beating and saved his fellow officer’s life.
Summeier reminded club members to pray for those who returned from war alive and could not stop reliving the horrors they experienced. A service member dies every 22 minutes from suicide, he said. As the meeting adjourned, members walked to the Veterans Memorial Park and met with the Hancock County Veterans Honor Guard. A prayer was said, “Taps” was played followed by a 21-gun salute. Flags were placed at the memorials of family and friends honored in the park.
HCPL to host blood drives
GREENFIELD – A Fallen Officer Blood Drive honoring the 1986 sacrifice made by Captain Malcolm Grass will be 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18 at the main branch of the Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road, Greenfeld. A Verisiti Blood Center bus will be in the library parking lot. Grass was fatally wounded in the line of duty while serving with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department.
A Versiti Blood Center bus will also be in the parking lot of the New Palestine branch the same day. The blood drive at 5731 W. U.S. 52, New Palestine, will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 18.
Walk-ins are welcome at either blood drive but appointments are preferred. Sign up through hcplibrary.org and click on the Events calendar.
Children’s author camp available
GREENFIELD – Dani’s Dreams, a Hancock County-based nonprofit organization, is offering an online summer author camp for children in grades 4 thorough 9. Author/educator Donna Griffin will teach children about how to take a story idea and create it into a book. There are two sessions available in June; deadline to register is June 10. Sessions will be done through Zoom and cost is $125.
For information, email [email protected] or text/call 317-640-4430.
