Looking Back – May 7

{&subleft}Around Columbus

May 7

2011

Forty-eight fifth-graders at Columbus Signature Academy Lincoln Campus participated in Project Greenhouse, a service-learning initiative in which they revitalized the kitchen garden and one of the greenhouses at Irwin Gardens.

1996

Upwards of 15 Hope businessmen gathered and unanimously agreed to form Hope Chamber of Commerce to provide a unified voice for the unique needs of Hope area business owners.

1971

Thunderstorms rumbled across the Columbus area, bringing showers that broke one of the longest spring dry spells in a century of weather statistics.