Through its Community Impact Grants Program, The Home Depot Foundation has awarded $3,300 to the Dubois County Humane Society.  The donation will be used to replace chain link fencing and guttering and to install rain barrels.

The Home Depot Foundation’s Community Impact Grants Program supports the work that local nonprofit organizations, public schools and other community organizations are doing to improve the physical health of their neighborhoods.

With exactly one week left until Easter Seals’ scheduled raffle* drawing, just over half of the original 3,000 tickets have been sold for the “Cool Car, Cold Cash” Contest.

As of Thursday, approximately 1,776 tickets have been purchased and 1,224 are still available. Last year, over 2,670 tickets were sold, and this year’s goal is to surpass that total before the drawing, which is scheduled for noon on March 1. The funds raised are extremely important to the mission of the Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center, because all ticket sales underwrite therapy sessions for local children and adults with disabilities.

“Cool Car, Cold Cash” offers the grand prize winner a new 2012 Dodge Challenger SXT (valued at $29,820) donated by Larry Bennett’s Audubon Chrysler Center. The contest will also award one second prize of $5,000 and one third prize of $1,000.

Tickets are $50 each OR 3 for $100. They are available until March 1 at noon at:

Lt. Governor Becky Skillman congratulates Allen Hanselman, owner of the Schnitzelbank Restaurant, in her office at the Indiana Statehouse last week. The Lt. Governor also presented Mr. Hanselman a Partner in Progress Award after the restaurant's Bratwurst sandwich was voted the best sandwich in Indiana Office of Tourism Development's Super 46 Sandwich competition.