WINAMAC – The Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce will sponsor its third annual RiverFest from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Winamac Town Park.
The event will feature 30-plus vendors, food, crafts and music (open mic style), plus a River Ball Race at 5 p.m.
The Pulaski County Health Department will hold a respiratory vaccine clinic from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 15 at Parkview Haven in Francesville.
Public health nurse Stephen Stephen Newcomer reports the flu vaccine will be available at the clinic. Also a limited supply of COVID, RSV and pneumonia vaccines will be offered.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Rudy Yakym (IN-02) has announced that his staff will hold mobile office hours in Pulaski County Oct. 7, in Winamac.
Yakym’s mobile office will visit throughout Indiana's Second District in October to assist constituents with casework questions.
Pulaski County 4-H enrollment opened Oct. 1. New and current 4-H members can enroll online at in.4honline.com.
4-H is one of the largest youth-serving organizations in the country and provides youth in grades 3-12 with hands-on learning in the areas of healthy living, civic engagement and leadership, and science, technology, engineering, and math. The Indiana 4-H Youth Development mission is to provide real-life educational opportunities that develop young people who positively impact their community and world.
The Pulaski County Public Library has listed its programs and activities for October. They include a Revolutionary War program, lessons on spiders and bats, a Harry Potter book day, pumpkin painting, and a Medicare 101 session.
For more information on any program, call the library at 574-946-3432 or visit the library’s website at www.pulaskicounty.lib.in.us.
The Gifts of Grain program through the Community Foundation of Pulaski County (CFoPC) allows farmers to identify a portion of their harvest for a gift to CFoPC.
These donations, specified by farmers identifying a number of bushels at the farmer’s normal grain elevator, allow for tax advantages such as reduced adjusted gross income, taxable income, and more.
WINAMAC – The Warrior Up Kids Club after-school program is continuing for the 2024-25 school year at the Winamac First United Methodist Church.
The program offers bus transportation from the Winamac schools, snacks, homework help, some life-skills lessons, crafts and additional activities.
NORTH JUDSON - The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum will run Pumpkin Trains every Saturday in October in historic North Judson at the junction of four former railroads.
A diorama of the Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York Central railroads is on display in the admission-free museum, along with one of the largest collections of working railroad signals, a restored World War II Pullman Troop Car, and all types of rolling stock, engines and memorabilia of a by-gone era.
FRANCESVILLE - Indiana Department of Transportation contractor LaPorte Construction Company will close SR 114 between CR 1600 W and U.S. 421 on or after Tuesday, Sept. 24.
This stretch of SR 114 will be closed through early November for a bridge deck overlay preventative maintenance project at Hill Ditch. Motorists should seek alternate routes. The official detour will follow U.S. 231, SR 14 and U.S. 421.
