Looking Back – December 29

David Parks, 12, and Scott Suns, 8, improvised with an old bicycle tire on the garage roof to play a little basketball during Christmas break from school in 1994. From The Republic archives

2009

Cummins Inc. offered a 60,000-square-foot building, rent-free to agencies and organizations burned out of the United Way of Bartholomew County building.

1994

Rep. Lee Hamilton was awarded the Indiana Distinguished Service Medal, the highest honor that can be bestowed on a Hoosier civilian, in appreciation for his service to the Indiana National Guard.

1969

Exhausted city, county and state crews spread hundreds of tons of salt and sand on roads and streets as heavy Christmas snow turned to freezing rain and sleet.