City’s Community and Family Resources Department Director announces retirement
Beverly Calender-Anderson, head of the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department (CFRD) has announced she will retire May 17. A Chicago native, Calender-Anderson began her service with the City of Bloomington in 2006 as the Safe and Civil City Director. During her nine years of leadership, the Safe and Civil program focused heavily on diversity and public safety education. The program also responded to a variety of community issues to remediate noise, graffiti, and the town/gown divide.
Following the retirement of the previous CFRD director, Pete Giordano, then-Mayor Mark Kruzan appointed Calender-Anderson to the director role, where she served an additional nine and a half years. In this role, Calender-Anderson has annually overseen 39 programs as well as the work of seven commissions, the Council for Community Accessibility, and the Monroe County Domestic Violence Task Force. She’s provided leadership to collaborative efforts supporting agencies who provide services to the community’s unhoused residents and managed three City grant programs and the Local Income Tax Economic Equity Fund.
“A healthy, thriving community is one in which residents are engaged, care for and about one another, celebrate each other’s accomplishments, and stand with one another in times of trouble,” said Calendar-Anderson. “In my 18 ½ years at the City of Bloomington, along with my colleagues and community partners, I hope we’ve helped move Bloomington toward being a community all residents are proud to be a part of.”
IU celebrating 2024 commencement across the state; Scott Dorsey to speak at IU Bloomington
Indiana University will award nearly 19,000 degrees in commencement ceremonies and celebrations across the state from May 3 to 9. The ceremonies will include student speakers who were selected to represent their graduating classes and a guest speaker for IU Bloomington.
This year, the start times for some ceremonies were moved to the evening where possible to make them more convenient for families traveling from out of town, and to allow for more school recognition events beforehand.
Scott Dorsey, a tech entrepreneur and IU Bloomington alumnus, will address graduates during the May 4 IU Bloomington undergraduate commencement ceremony. Dorsey, a 1989 graduate of the Kelley School of Business, is the managing partner of High Alpha, a venture studio that launches, scales and invests in enterprise cloud companies. He also earned an MBA in 1999 from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
IU Bloomington’s student speakers will share converging messages about the power of mistakes and taking risks when they address their fellow graduates. The May 3 graduate student speaker is Patrick Blackstone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences who has done research in elementary particle physics. IU Bloomington’s undergraduate speaker is Hannah Pedersen, a biology major who will attend the IU School of Dentistry in the fall.
IUPUI’s May 9 commencement is a joint ceremony for graduate and undergraduate degree recipients
The graduate speaker is Kidist Yasin, a doctoral student in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy who is earning a degree in philanthropic studies. The undergraduate speaker is Faith Odiete, an Honors College Scholar and criminal justice major in the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Commencement events
IU Bloomington’s graduate commencement ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. May 3 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, and the undergraduate commencement ceremony will be at 7:45 p.m. May 4 at Memorial Stadium.
IUPUI’s combined graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremony takes place at 7:45 p.m. May 9 at Carroll Stadium.
Dates and times for regional campus commencements:
- IU Fort Wayne: 3 p.m. May 5 at Memorial Coliseum.
- IU Southeast: 10 a.m. May 6 at The Caesars Foundation of Floyd County Amphitheater.
- IU Kokomo: 10 a.m. May 7 at Campus Pavilion Lot.
- IUPUC: 10 a.m. May 7 at Circle K Fieldhouse at NexusPark.
- IU South Bend: 7 p.m. May 7 at the Joyce Center at the University of Notre Dame.
- IU Northwest: 10 a.m. Central Daylight Time May 8 at IU Northwest Savannah Parking Lot 2 (west section).
- IU East: 10 a.m. May 9 at Whitewater Hall parking lot.
Notable
- They represent 132 countries.
- The youngest is 15.
- The oldest is 77.
- There are 47 sets of twins and one set of triplets.
How to correct an Indiana Tax Return after filing
As a general rule, you have three years to file an amended return. Reasons for filing an amended return may include reporting additional income, correcting your income or correcting your deductions and credits.
You do not need to amend your return because of a simple math error or if you forgot to attach forms. DOR will contact you if more information is needed. You can file an amended return electronically. Or file another Form IT-40 with the box on the front page that reads, “place ‘x’ in box if amending” filled in.
If you owe, you can pay through INTIME, DOR’s customer portal. Amounts previously paid should be reported as an estimated payment. If you get a refund and then find you owe, don’t include any refund already received on the amended return. Instead, DOR will issue either a notice of proposed assessment or a demand for payment that includes the amount of the refund you received.
Learn more about filing an amended return.
Week of fun scheduled at Victory Field
Kick off the homestand against the Buffalo Bisons with a Tuesday night deal sure to sweeten your wallet and taste for fastballs. While snacking on $1 hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, potato chips, Cracker Jack® and churros with Tuesday Dollar Menu presented by Eisenberg, catch Minor League Baseball’s No. 3 prospect Paul Skenes take the mound for the Indians. This concessions deal is hot but Skenes’ fastball is even hotter, topping out at 102.1 mph on the radar this season. The Pirates’ young phenom was selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 First-Year Player Draft and has racked up 34 strikeouts in 17.0 innings with Indy.
On Wednesday, Victory Field turns into the largest classroom in central Indiana for Baseball in Education presented by Citizens Energy Group, IU Indianapolis and Lilly. Make sure to return for Thirsty Thursday presented by Sun King Brewery, which includes $2 Pepsi products and $3 draft beers. The weekend begins on Friday with Mental Health Awareness Night, when the Indians partner with Kicking the Stigma to help end the stigma surrounding mental health disorders. Kicking the Stigma, launched by the Indianapolis Colts and the Jim Irsay family in 2020, will be activating in-park with a ceremonial first pitch, kicking inflatable in the Center Field Plaza and more. The night rounds out with Friday Fireworks presented by AAA Insurance and FOX59. On Saturday, May the Fourth be with you when Victory Field turns into a galaxy far, far away for Star Wars™ Night. Fans will have the opportunity to meet their favorite characters, listen to music from the movies, watch themed in-game entertainment and bid on game-worn themed Star Wars™ jerseys benefitting Indianapolis Indians Charities. The homestand concludes with Kids Eat Free Sunday presented by Meijer and Sunday Game Day with Blippi and Meekah presented by MHS.
This Week in Hoosier History
1865 – The funeral train carrying the body of President Abraham Lincoln arrived in Indianapolis. The fallen President lay in state in the rotunda of the old Capitol. Although there was a steady rain all day, over 50,000 people passed by the casket. The train departed at midnight to go to Michigan City, its last stop in Indiana before traveling to Chicago and on to Springfield, Illinois, where burial would take place.
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