Looking Back – February 29

2006

Interstate Bakeries Corp. announced it would lay off about 230 employees in Indiana and Michigan as it consolidated routes, depots and retail outlets in the upper Midwest, but a spokeswoman would not say whether the Columbus operation, the Dolly Madison plant on National Road, would be affected.

1991

Organizers of a renovation project won zoning approval to build two restrooms, three picnic shelters, a boathouse, an arbor, a lookout, an amphitheater and an 84½-foot observation tower in Mill Race Park.

1966

Asbury Methodist Church hosted a World Day of Prayer observance.