CEC to put used cooking oil to work! Will run tractors and mowers on biodiesel produced on the property!

Centerville, Indiana - Cope Environmental Center was recently awarded a grant from the Norcross Wildlife Foundation to purchase a FuelMeister II. This piece of equipment will convert used cooking oil (from restaurant fryers) to biodiesel suitable for use in tractors, lawn mowers, and even vehicles. CEC will be partnering with the local Elks Lodge and Country Club to make this long-awaited effort a reality. “I’m really looking forward to this project and partnership. Hopefully, this will help us both and do something good for the environment at the same time,” said Glen Alexander, General Manager at Elks.  continue reading »

It's time for the most challenging potluck yet! Whether it's your 1st or 6th, please join us for a 100-Mile Radius Potluck!

What do you love about local food? The taste? The safety? The sustainability? The joy? Celebrate these reasons and more - meet new people, see friends and eat delicious food!  continue reading »

Please join us at Arden Hearth, 202 N. 15th St., for an elegant evening of sharing recitations and readings of poems or short excerpts from your favorite books. If all books were to be destroyed by fire, what fragments of literary greatness would you snatch from the flames? What lines of poetry are etched in your memory safe from the fate of ashes? After sharing our readings and reasons for preserving these writers, we’ll enjoy well-read conversation, coffee, and dessert in the charming setting of a fine old Victorian home of Richmond.  continue reading »

The Cope Environmental Center is pleased to once again participate in the Wayne County Alternative Gift Fair held on December 6th from 1-4pm at the New Reid Hospital in Richmond!

At the Fair, “shoppers” can purchase donations to area agencies in honor of loved ones in lieu of buying physical presents. The shopper will walk away with certificates wrapped elegantly in reusable boxes with beautiful ribbon. More importantly, they will walk away with a sense of satisfaction that they completed their holiday list while helping the community. This year, we are fortunate to have the support of the Wayne County Foundation, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, and Summersault, LLC. All three organizations will match a portion of the funds raised that day based on attendance, so don’t forget to stop by Reid Hospital on December 6th for this great community-based event! Enjoy a sustainable shopping experience while you relax to music, free chair massages, refreshments, and free childcare!

From today's Palladium-Item:

Center City Richmond has created what local officials believe is the largest free Wi-Fi hot spot in Indiana. At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Innovation Center will hold a "wire cutting" to officially open the free "hot spot."

Over the past year, committee members Phil Quinn of KICKS 96, Mike Dickerson of Summit Computers, Rich Cody of Parallax Systems, Police Chief Kris Wolski and Renee Oldham, Main Street Richmond Wayne County (MSRWC) and the Urban Enterprise Zone, have worked to implement this initiative.

The Center City Wi-Fi District will provide free wireless Internet access to businesses, retailers, students, residents and visitors in an area encompassing the city's central business district. Also included in the network are the Historic Depot District and the Old Richmond District.

For more, read the full article.

John Dalton, station director at WCTV, has this exciting announcement:

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, the staff of WCTV has created special programs throughout the year to celebrate two decades of local programming by and for the citizens of Wayne County. We are using this milestone as a way to remind our viewers what public access television can mean to a community.

One program our staff developed was Wayne County U, a new show designed to support the educational discourse going on in our community at present by allowing content experts airtime to share important educational information. Our initial programs focused on completing the FAFSA and getting involved in the 21st Century Scholars program. This month we are showcasing “Math Fireworks” with Christie Joy, Workforce Development Facilitator for Adult Education; and “Workplace Safety Orientation” with Lisa Dollar of Personnel Management, Inc. We are committed to producing twenty episodes of Wayne County U from August 2008 to May 2009.  continue reading »

Earlham College is once again hosting a computer recycling event, Saturday October 25 2008 form 9 AM to 3 PM in the Carpenter Hall Parking Lot. Bring desktop computers, laptops, monitors, printers, keyboards, peripherals, cables, cell phones, copiers, and microwaves. TVs will be collected for an additional fee.  continue reading »

Mediator Training with the Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond will be taking place September 26, 27, 28 & October 10, 11, 12 at Indiana University East. Mediator Training focuses on communication skills and mediating family, neighborhood, workplace and a variety of other disputes. Participants also complete post-training role play mediations, and are then ready for mediating community conflicts with the guidance of a CRC Mentor Mediator. For more information about the training, contact CRC at 765-973-8511.

After a year of helping lead the charge for a change in the American Psychological Association's (APA) stance on allowing members to participate in certain interrogations, the Earlham College Psychology Department and convener Michael R. Jackson can claim victory. This week APA announced that its membership has voted in favor of a petition resolution to specifically bar members from working where "persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law or the U.S. Constitution."

Last year, the psychology department at Earlham passed a resolution calling for a change in the interrogations policy of APA. Breaking new ground by taking this national leadership role, Earlham's Resolution Regarding Participation by Psychologists in Interrogations in Military Detention Centers was the first of its kind issued by an American college or university academic unit. Nearly a dozen additional colleges have since signed onto the Earlham resolution.  continue reading »