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INDIANAPOLIS – Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is now showing a classic sure to melt the winter blues away. Footloose, the Tony-nominated movie musical, is now on stage through March 26. Following the story of a bigcity kid who shakes things up when he moves to smalltown America, Ren McCormack is a rebel. The teen with a passion for movement quickly learns that the local preacher has outlawed dancing after a massive tragedy cost the little borough four precious lives.

Peter Halsten Thorkelson was born, 1942 Feb. 13 at 11 p.m., and just barely missed being what his beloved grandmother called a “Valentine Baby.” “I grew up believing that I had nothing to say, that nobody was interested in anything I had to say.

The Alex Theatre opened on July 28, 1950 with 550 seats, all on a single level. It is a plain red-brick Colonial style building with a plain marquee and red neon ‘Alex’ sign on the façade. It has always been an independently operated movie theatre. It closed in the 1980’s and was reopened in 1988.

It is devoutly to be hoped that you express your love for your significant other every day, not by words alone, but by working at demonstrating that she or he is the most important thing in your life by doing those things that make her or him happy. Yet the injection of a bit of romance into the relationship is essential. That should be done daily, too, if only by some simple gesture such as well, whatever simple gesture conveys joy. But Valentine's Day is set aside specifically to honor the loved one with romance. Commercialized? Yes, of course. The florists, the chocolatiers, the jewelers, have all jumped on the bandwagon to offer you means of (expensive) expression of your love for your Other. This all begins with a sort of strange feeling and awkward response to it which typically arises in the early adolescent years. Witness.

Douglas Hegdahl was born in September of 1946 in a small town in South Dakota. When he was asked to join the Navy in the 1960s he saw it as an opportunity to see the world. Hegdahl was assigned to the USS Canberra, a missile cruiser positioned in the Gulf of Tonkin, three miles off the coast of Vietnam.

Lifelong Tipton County resident Dan Mattingly is a local legend known for his positive, vibrant personality, gift for conversation and storytelling. Mattingly is a 1939 Tipton High School graduate, WWII veteran serving with the United States Navy, husband, father, and successful businessman who built a vast farming operation during his lifetime.