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By: Michelle Kinsey, Community Engagement Coordinator, WIPB-TV— Muncie, IN—After 40 rounds, Burris Laboratory School fifth-grader Alesya Rathinasamy was named the champion Saturday of the third WIPB-TV Spelling Bee. Nearly 60 school champions from Delaware, Jay, Blackford, Randolph, Madison and Henry counties competed this year in Sursa Performance Hall, on the campus of Ball State University. The first runner-up was Andrew Toney of Lee L. Driver Middle School in Winchester. Second runner-up was Samori McKell-Jeffers from Royerton Elementary School. Rathinasamy will now go…

By: Michelle Kinsey— Muncie, IN— Quartermania is coming to Muncie! (If you are wondering what Quartermania is, don’t worry, we’ll get to that in a moment.) This fun evening of bidding for an awesome array of prizes, all benefitting local robotics team PhyXTGears, is set for 5:30 p.m. March 16 at MadJax Muncie, 514 E. Jackson St. Team 1720 The PhyXTGears is “an independent, non-profit high school level robotics team that is affiliated with USFIRST Robotics,” according to Shawn VanNess,…

By: Charles Jamieson— Muncie, IN—Muncie Rotary has been a dynamic force for good in our community for the past one hundred years. Rotary’s motto, “service above self” has been exemplified by many members over the past century and now one of our own is being elevated to Rotary International District 6560 District Governor. Dale Basham will become just the 7th person to represent Muncie as District Governor in the 100 year history of Rotary in our community.  This is rarified…

By: Laurie Lunsford— Muncie, IN—“Connecting the Links” is coming to Muncie on Saturday, March 10th 10AM to 2 PM at the Garden at Gethsemane, 1201 W. McGalliard Rd. in Muncie.  “Connecting the Links” supports the ongoing mission to help our precious family members and friends get help for drug and alcohol addiction. Aubri Adney and Mariah Haffner, doctoral students in Occupational Therapy at the University of Indianapolis, are interns who are spearheading this project.  It is sponsored by Brianna’s Hope,…

By: John Carlson— Muncie, IN—For 42 years, under nine consecutive mayors, Gale Workman ran the Muncie Animal Shelter, decades when its necessary but heart-rending mission didn’t normally inspire soft, fuzzy feelings. What a change the last 19 years have made for him. “We are blessed to have an organization like this,” said the man who heads the Animal Rescue Fund’s Thrift Store, also known as the Meow ‘n Mutt Market, at 7600 Kilgore Ave. in Yorktown. As Workman spoke, he…

By: Jessie Fisher— Muncie, IN—The 2nd annual Cornerstone Center for the Arts and PrimeTrust Federal Credit Union Young Artist Exhibition, took place March 1. The show included just under 200 pieces of 2D and 3D artwork created by Delaware County students in kindergarten through twelfth grades. 14 area schools, multiple homeschool families, and students from Cornerstone submitted entries to the exhibition. Six community arts advocates anonymously judged each piece of artwork selecting the top three and one honorable mention in…

By: Michelle Kinsey, Community Engagement Coordinator, WIPB-TV— Muncie, IN – More than 60 spellers will compete in the third WIPB Spelling Bee, set for 9 a.m. Saturday, March 10, in Sursa Performance Hall, on the campus of Ball State University. WIPB will be broadcasting the regional bee LIVE as well as streaming the event on the PBS station’s website, www.wipb.org. If you want to watch the action in person, we ask that you are in your Sursa seats by 8:30 a.m….