November is National Veterans and Military Families Month

November is designated as National Veterans and Military Families Month. MuncieJournal.com will be publishing Letters To Veterans, written by students from Burris and Muncie Community Schools. We will be publishing one letter each weekday.

Producer Stephanie Tedder tells WMUN’s “Delaware County Today” an event also will serve as a fundraiser for a charity near and dear to her heart.

Local director Thomas Peek’s new movie “A Rosetown Christmas: Lights, Cameras, Chaos” will premiere at Muncie’s Cornerstone Center for the Arts on Dec. 5 with doors opening at 6 p.m. 

Jack’s Donuts has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  In a social media post last week, they shared they “have plans for continued and uninterrupted future operations that will be filed in the case.”  The Jack’s franchisor and certain related entities are the subject of the bankruptcy proceedings, and no independently owned franchisee is subject to this action.

The American Red Cross will host a blood drive today (Nov. 4) at Muncie’s Multicultural Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Lawyers representing Carl Roy Webb Boards II have been granted additional time to review transcripts of calls Boards made while incarcerated. The Herald Bulletin says defense attorney Joe Duepner is not objecting to all 13 transcripts introduced but would like to redact the transcripts only to information pertaining to Boards’ January trial for the 2022 shooting of Elwood police officer Noah Shahnavaz. A hearing on the transcripts has been scheduled for Thursday.

The annual “Christmas in Pendleton” event takes place Saturday beginning with breakfast downtown as early as 7 a.m. and ending with the lighting of the Christmas tree in Falls Park at 6:30 p.m. Main Street Pendleton vice president Amy Turner tells the “Anderson Journal” it’s about celebrating the community.

As the search for a Taylor Haven Maternity Home continues, Lil Miracles founder Debbie Danner tells “Anderson Talks” she’s open to all solutions, including the donation of an existing home. And the need is urgent.

Plastic leaf bags in Muncie:  they won’t pick them up.  Leaf season began Saturday in Muncie. This year, leaves must be bagged in biodegradable leaf bags only. Free bags can be picked up at the Muncie Sanitation and Recycling Department Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Leaves will be picked up on or after your normal trash day.

The Heartland Scholar House is a recent winner of our Airwaves in Action award, and executive director Briana Price tells Woof Boom Radio’s Jay Garrison the organization’s mission is to turn single mothers and fathers into college graduates across East Central Indiana. …

ecoREHAB has been awarded a $10,000 donation through Goosehead Insurance/Metzler Agency’s “Make More Happen” awards program. ecoREHAB is a non-profit committed to advancing the community through sustainable design, rehabilitation and education.

After that 41 – 7 loss for Senior Day, AU football has two road games remaining this season – this, and next Saturday.