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🌱 Terre Haute's veterans museum makes room for more stories

Terre Haute, Indiana Patch AM: a 4 min read

What's up Terre Haute! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Terre Haute's veterans museum makes room for more stories
  • Terre Haute hosts a milestone flight for Indiana's drone corridor
  • Alpha Performance lands $20,000 for training upgrades

Also on today's calendar: Read to Walter and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 67 and low of 42 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with showers around, temps: high: 51, low: 32.
  • Friday: Mainly cloudy and chilly, with a high of 44 and low of 26 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. 'If you build it': Military museum founders find collections growing beyond expectations (goshennews.com) — Terre Haute's veterans museum is making room for more of the military history residents keep donating. Founder Brian Mundell and veteran volunteers are renovating space for Korean War artifacts, freeing room for other exhibits, including 23-year-old local collector Kylan Norman's World War I collection.
   

2. Purdue drone completes milestone 50-mile Indiana flight (jconline.com) — A Purdue-owned autonomous aircraft flew more than 50 miles beyond its operators' sight as Indiana's new drone corridor opened at Terre Haute's airport. The Oct. 31 demonstration marked a step toward testing uses such as parachuting emergency supplies into flood-hit communities, though those deliveries remain a potential application.
   

3. Local sports organization gets $20K boost in grants (mywabashvalley.com) — Terre Haute baseball and softball training organization Alpha Performance has received a $20,000 grant to improve its facilities, equipment and employee training. Indiana State University Federal Credit Union awarded the funding through the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis' Elevate Small Business Grant program.
   

4. Dixie Bee fourth grader raises $600 for school food drive (wthitv.com) — Nine-year-old Harrison Card raised $600 for Dixie Bee Elementary's food drive by asking family and family friends for donations. The Terre Haute fourth grader then shopped at Aldi, choosing foods that could make complete meals for a drive benefiting foster grandparents at school and throughout the community.
   

5. West Central Indiana Partnership study examines internships, AI and young workforce retention (wthitv.com) — A West Central Indiana Partnership study examines how three internship programs prepare students for work and how its own program could help keep graduates in the region. The October study also explored artificial intelligence in employer projects, with the partnership emphasizing that human review remains important for accuracy, particularly in engineering.
   

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💬 Chatter

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  • Hey neighbors!
    Me again, so I've got some work going on at my place and I'm looking for someone to help supervise it. It's part-time and pays well. No technical… (Nextdoor Seelyville-Terre Haute)
  • Anyone had experience with Pirate Ship???
    This is one of the sites that sells cut-rate shipping labels for shipping. Can be UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc. Pirate Ship is rated as legit, but the… (Nextdoor Graham)
  • Sonic posted a job opening for Cook in Terre Haute. Apply here.
  • Mastec, Inc. posted a job opening for Surveyor in Terre Haute. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Terre Haute here.

Ok Terre Haute! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Terre Haute

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.

Stay in the loop with what's happening in Terre Haute

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.