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Focus 2020

Want to make Indianapolis a more welcoming city? Want to be part of shaping our future? Attend a stop on the Focus 2020 Listening Tour on Friday, June 1st from 6-7:30 pm at Peace Learning Center in Eagle Creek Park. This is your chance to share thoughts and contribute to the creation of Focus 2020 – a civic engagement and education initiative organized by Peace Learning Center with help from a wide variety of community partners Registration and more information is at www.infocus2020.org

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Indianapolis Promise Walk for Preeclampsia

@ Ft. Benjamin Harrison State Park, 5753 Glenn Road - Reddick & Sycamore Shelters - Indianapolis, IN 46216-1066
The Promise Walk for Preeclampsia™ supports the mission of the Preeclampsia Foundation as we provide patient support and education, raise public awareness, catalyze research and improve health care practices for millions of mothers and their babies every year who are impacted by preeclampsia and related hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. $20.00 Adults, $10.00 under 13

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PC Awareness Day around the world

@ Extra Blessings (Next to church), 9220 Crawfordsville Rd (US 136) Indianapolis(Clermont) IN 46234
CarWash. All proceeds will go to PC Project. See www.pachyonychia.org for more info $5.00 car wash or donate more if you can

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Girls Inc. Body Appreciation Day

On June 7, Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis is sponsoring Body Appreciation Day, a full day of interactive activities to promote positive body image. The day will begin and end with free exercise classes on Veterans Memorial Plaza, and during lunchtime, Girls Inc. staff will be stationed at various locations downtown to distribute resources, start conversations, and engage community members with fun and inspiring activities. A free yoga class will be offered in the morning, from 7 to 8 AM, and a free Zumba class will take place in the evening, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Free

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Cocktails for Choice

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Illuminate!

Experience artwork and music under the tent as we explore the many ways artists incorporate light into their work during a special art project, Illuminate, on Friday, June 8. This free event under the tent will feature exhibits and demonstrations by local artists. We will also bring to light the global issue of modern day slavery by sharing information from Not for Sale, a non-profit organization group that fights to end human trafficking. For a complete list of featured artists, visit www.stmarkscarmel.org/art or call 846-4912. free

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Devotion to Wildlife: Wright Brothers Trio, Unplugged & Acoustic

Join us for the 2nd installment of IWF's annual fundraising concert event Devotion to Wildlife: Wright Brothers Trio, Unplugged & Acoustic. The trio will play an intimate set of covers and crowd favorites! Set up your lawn chair by 6:30 when the Wright Brothers Trio will take the stage. We will have beer for sale from Sun King Brewery and tasty treats from Byrne's Grilled Pizza and Scratch Street Food. General admission tickets are $15 and available online: http://www.indianawildlife.org/concert.htm VIPs ($50) get admission to the concert plus free food and drinks shaded under our tent close to the stage. $15

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Run For Ronald

Runners get ready! IREM Indy’s 6th annual 5k road race to benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Indiana. This year’s run will start and finish at the NCAA Hall of Champions in downtown Indianapolis and all participants get FREE entry into the Hall after the event. Run proceeds help families with children in area hospitals stay at the nearby Ronald McDonald House at little or no cost. Over the past 5 years IREM Chapter 24, with the help of our sponsors and participants, has raised over $65,000! $25 Adults / Children 10 & Under Free

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YLS WISHFEST

The Indiana State Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section is teaming up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to sponsor a benefit concert at the Rathskeller Biergarten in Indianapolis on Sunday, June 17, from 4 to 9 p.m. The bands Zanna-Doo and Jester Kings and singer/songwriter Alexander Webb will be playing. The Young Lawyers Section intends to grant two wishes for local children with life-threatening medical conditions. Visit the link to find out more about the two children, Eliza and Tyler. $20/person $10/children 12 and under

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World Refugee Day

Join with Catholic Charities Refugee Program for an evening with ethnic food, cultural dances, a screening of the film "Crossing Salween" which was highlighted at the 2011 Heartland Film Festival, art & a model of Karen Refugee Camp Hut, and a silent auction. $35/per person OR $250 for a table of 8

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16th Annual Sickle Cell 5K Walk/Run

Martin Center ehances the lives of those suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. This is a great oppotrtunity to come together, learn more and join the chain to stop the pain of Sickle Cell Disease.

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Hair Therapy with AfrosNBabyHair - A Natural Hair Event

@ The Elbow Room - ParkView Banquet Room, 605 N. Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, IN
A natural hair workshop featuring natural hair expert Alecia Tucker (AfrosNBabyHair) from Chicago, IL. $35/$45 at the door

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Raising the Stakes for Noble

Raising the Stakes for Noble, a Casino Night Charity Fundraiser, presented by the United Hope Foundation: Up to 500 attendees will enjoy a fun evening of playing “the tables” with blackjack, craps, roulette, Texas Hold ‘Em poker, Wheel of Fortune, and more. Game tables and dealers will be hosted by the Sertoma Club of Broad Ripple, an organization that has supported Noble for over 50 years. The event will include a sit-down dinner, open bar, champagne Diamond Drop, casino games, raffle, live entertainment by Radio Echo and more. $100 ($150/Couple)

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A message from the VA

A message from Eric K. Shinseki, secretary of veterans affairs, on Veterans Day 2011: At the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month of 2011, we will pause to honor America’s Veterans and celebrate their contributions to our way of life. Few have given more to our Nation than the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces in peace and in war. Generation after generation—from Bunker Hill and Bennington to Baghdad and Abbottabad—protected, defended, and preserved the principles and ideals that define our democracy. Across that remarkable sweep of history, today’s America was shaped at Lexington and Concord, Antietam and Gettysburg, in the skies over Midway, on the beaches of Normandy, in winter’s grip at Chosin Reservoir, in the heat of Ia Drang Valley, from the Persian Gulf into Afghanistan and Iraq by those who wore our Nation’s uniforms. Over twenty-two million living Veterans today embody our exceptional character and values as a people—each a line in our Nation’s history, but together many chapters towards today’s future. The Department of Veterans Affairs fulfills its obligation to serve Veterans, their families, and survivors of the fallen by living a set of core values defining who we are as an organization: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence—I CARE. Veterans trust that we will live these values, every day, in our medical facilities, our benefits offices, and our national cemeteries. And VA is committed to serving them. We are privileged to provide the very best in compassionate and quality care and services, delivered by our more than 300,000 employees. As we honor and celebrate the contributions of all of our Nation’s Veterans, we take special pride in those Veterans who work here at VA—over 100,000 of us—bringing to our mission the skills, knowledge, attributes, experiences, and unwavering commitment to the well-being of our fellow Veterans. Take a moment and visit VA’s Flicker site to see our photographs and snapshots from earlier times in uniform. You can access those photos today at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/VeteransAffairs/sets/72157627830104759/ I am privileged to join all my VA colleagues in saluting the service and honoring the sacrifices of the special men and women who walk the halls of our hospitals and clinics, offices and Vet Centers each day. God bless our Veterans. And may God continue to bless this wonderful country of ours.