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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ind. Courts - Calendar Girls to support SB 176 on Courthouse Preservation
According to a press release, Sen. James Merritt Jr., (R-Indianapolis) is holding a hearing on SB 176 – Courthouse Preservation Commission, tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 1:30 p.m., Senate Public Policy and Interstate Cooperation Committee, Room 233 of the Statehouse.
Notably, the release continues: The Historic Farmland Calendar Girls will be present to show their support for SB 176 and will have calendars to distribute as well.
As it turns out, the Girls have a website of their own, access it here. Caution, it sings!
It was the Courthouse, or Calendar, Girls who rallied to save the Randolph County Courthouse - see this ILB entry from August 6, 2005. Here is a little history from the Girls' website:
It all started in the kitchen of one of the club members in early June. Incensed over the county commissioners’ decision that morning to destroy the county’s historic courthouse, Eileen Herron, 86, and her family devised a plan: photographing Eileen and her bridge club friends in “intriguing” poses using porcelain replicas of the courthouse as strategic cover-ups. After all, they reasoned, what better way to demonstrate the 1877 structure’s worth than to showcase the lovely longevity found in these women, all of whom had lived long and full lives in the Farmland area. Not only would the calendar be the women’s personal protest against demolishing the old building, $5 from the sale of each calendar would be contributed to a Save the Courthouse Fund set up by Historic Farmland USA.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 15, 2008 11:28 AM
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