From left, Megan Colglazier, Alisha Miracle and Emily Heimann from Columbus North High School took time from their fall break to scoop pennies out of Chaos’ moat at The Commons into bank bags then were escorted to three banks in the city where the coins were counted and donated to United Way of Bartholomew County in 1998.
From The Republic archives
Nov. 2
2013
Local American Legion officials said they were close to securing a loan of about $30,000 that would allow them to refurbish the Columbus Legion hall, with the hope of reopening before the end of the year.
1998
Volunteers from Columbus North School used coffee cans and dust pans to scoop up hundreds of thousands of pennies tossed into the moat around Chaos at The Commons by area students to be donated to the annual fund drive for United Way of Bartholomew County.
1973
Red and green flashing lights and lots of racket were not UFOs as some area residents reported but instead were created by an air cavalry squadron from Fort Knox, Kentucky, on an annual training mission at Camp Atterbury.
