Stories from Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Signups are now available for the mass COVID-19 vaccination site on the DePauw University campus on Friday, April 2. While the one-day site is not listed among the sites on the state map at www.ourshot.in.gov, if a person wanting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at DePauw on Friday clicks on another local site, the DePauw Lilly Center will appear among the appointment options, while spots remain available...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention month, which means the community will be seeing many blue pinwheels throughout Indiana. The Putnam County Child Abuse Prevention Task Force, with an organizing committee made up of representatives from Family Support Services Healthy Families and Victim Services Programs, the Department of Child Services, Cummins Behavioral Health, Mental Health America, the Putnam County Youth Development Commission/CASA Program and the Children’s Bureau, will be hard at work increasing awareness during the month by placing multiple pinwheel gardens around the county and other planned efforts...

As part of its latest COVID relief grant cycle, the United Way of Putnam County awarded the Sunny Side Concert Series $10,000, a fitting example of a way to address mental health during this pandemic. The Concert Series was created by Greencastle resident Bobbie Lancaster in an effort to reach and connect with loved ones at local long-term care facility Mill Pond...