Looking Back – September 25

Jeanna Fredricksen and her dogs Smokey, left, and Jake braved inclement weather to walk for Jerry's Kids in the 1994 K-9 Walk for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. From The Republic archives

2009

A groundbreaking ceremony for the $7.8 million Mill Race Center was conducted.

1994

Bob Chappell, tennis coach at Columbus High School and then Columbus North High School for 35 years, reached his 500th career victory.

1969

Closed since spring when it was washed out by high water, the one-lane humpback bridge over Wolf Creek just off Old State Road 46 was being replaced.