Looking Back, Aug. 26, 2023

April Juengel of Lawrence Productions got Andrew Ranck ready for his close-up in television commercials for Riley Hospital for Children filmed at Lincoln Elementary School in 1998.

From The Republic archives

Aug. 26

2013

Bartholomew County Council put the brakes on a County Commissioners plan to begin work on a new county office building on State Street, stripping away all funding except $30,000 to perform a study on what it would take to repair the existing 85-year-old building.

1998

Lawrence Productions crews spent four days at Lincoln Elementary School filming two commercials to be aired in September promoting Riley Hospital for Children.

1973

Some 20 service station operators in the Columbus area met at Donner Center to discuss “getting organized” for a possible boycott on gasoline sales to express their displeasure at the federal government’s price controls on gasoline.