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1 year after the Flood - The Mayor to dedicate high water marks through out Columbus

Its been almost one year after the flood hit Columbus Indiana and surrounding areas. Many people are still rebuilding their lives and some have just left their homes since they couldn’t afford or didn’t have insurance to cover the damages.

The city is working on putting together an event on June 7th starting around 3:30 at the 17th Street Bridge where the Mayor and Commissioners will read a Proclamation and dedicate a high water marker. This same Proclamation and dedication will also be done at 4:30 in Mill Race Park at the wooden bridge. At 5pm the church bells will ring for one minute across the county to end the year anniversary of the Flood.

The Pipers will also play and the city is thinking about inviting people to bring a picnic lunch to have at Mill Race park. Of course we are still hoping going to have the Flood DVD Photolicious Keepsakes and CPS staff along with the community put together played at YesCinema on the 7th at 1:30, this is a free showing.  

Don’t forget we are still seeking stories, Photos, videos to place online at www.columbusflood2008.com currently we have over 2200 photos. 

Photolicious Keepsakes website is www.photoliciouskeepsakes.com also we still have Flood Books published by Photolicious Keepsakes  containing photos submitted by the community for sale, please visit this page for further information on the book.

 

DRAFT ONLY (May 26, 2009)

FLOOD COMMEMORATION

JUNE 7, 2009

 

1:30 – 2:30 P.M.                Free showing of the Flood DVD at YES Cinema

 

Meet at Seventeenth Bridge

Meet along the People Trail below the bridge.  There is plenty of parking in the Lot for the doctor’s building just west of the hospital.  The Indiana Pipers will play while walking across the bridge (along the sidewalk on the northwest side).

 

3:15 P.M.                             Southern Indiana Pipes and Drum

3:20 P.M.                             Welcome by County Commissioners

                                               (May include a moment of silence)          

3:25 P.M.                             Commissioner Reads Proclamation

3:30 P.M.                             Commissioner’s remarks

Mayor’s remarks

Commissioner - Read Plaque dedicating high water marker     

3:45 P.M.                             Close

 

 

 

Meet at wooden bridge in Mill Race Park and walk to the wooden bridge.  There are steps leading down to a walkway. The Indiana Pipers will play as they walk across the wooden bridge.

 

4:15 P.M.                             Southern Indiana Pipes and Drums

4:25:P.M.                             Welcome by Mayor Fred L. Armstrong

4:35 P.M.                             Mayor Reads Proclamation

                                                (May include a moment of silence)

4:45 P.M.                             Mayor’s remarks and Commissioner’s remarks

4:55 P.M.                             Mayor - Read Plaque dedicating high water marker

5:00 P.M.                             Church bells ring across the County

Official Columbus Flood of 2008 Book — ORDER NOW

Have you ever heard you get what you pay for; well it has come time and is being developed now. We are going to be selling the Official Flood Book showing the devastation of the Columbus Flood.

The Republic created a Flood book and charge $29.95 but the feedback is already pouring in that the quality of photos just isn’t there and it wasn’t worth the money.

So with that in mind, we are going to be selling our best version. Our book will come in two flavors hard back and soft back with 158 pages. The pricing however will be a little higher than The Republic’s version since ours is being exported out to a company and the overall cost to create is higher. What that means is better product, and as you can see from the 2200 photos submitted to us we have the product to make an outstanding book.

The prices are as follows.

A soft cover is 39.95

A Hardcover is 54.95

If you pre-order today you could have it by Christmas 08. Images to come soon… if you are interested please Read more at http://columbus1.ath.cx/index.php?page=11

If you have submitted photos for the DVD, please keep in mind this policy. Read that here. http://columbus1.ath.cx/donate/?page_id=84

New photos, Take a look

Michele Freed submitted photos of the Hospital Inventory. The Hospital Furniture is not sterile enough for hospital use after flood.  It will be taken to a facility used for urban warfare training.

 

Take a look at her photos… Thanks Michele for sharing… http://columbus1.ath.cx/donate/?page_id=238

Production Closed

DVD Production Closed and will no longer be sold. The goal of helping the flood victims has been successful during the time of our production, we have however been told bootlegging of our DVD has been occurring which is one thing, but the bootleggers have been selling the duplicate copies. It has been happening since the first production version 1 but we continued creating them. We have sold hundreds and some have even made it to other states.

We have raised approximately $2300-$2400 which has been donated to the Heritage Fund for the Community Disaster Relief Fund.

In the near future the DVD may be online for download, but that is to be determined. We are still interested in your flood photos. If you have any to share please email me at columbusind@gmail.com   

Papa John’s Pizza Submitted photos

We would like to thank Papa John’s Pizza and their staff for the donation of photos showing the damage they suffered during the flood that took place on June 7^th 2008 along with the rebuilding of their business.   

Unfortunately due to a computer failure we lost the all the photos we scanned into our system. Since the loss our system has fully recovered, but we were unsuccessful in recovering the photo’s Papa John’s Pizza and staff submitted.

If you are interested in looking at their photos, please visit their establishment in East Brook Center next to Save a Lot.    

Skopos returned home, artist Richard says “I’m relieved to see it home”

I had every intention of being at the resurrection of Skopos today from 10am, I was going to stay until Skopos was placed back home, but I couldn’t make and with the heavy downpour I thought for sure it would be placed on hold until the weather subsided. �
I get a phone call from a friend around 12:30 and she say’s hey they are getting Skopos now and instead of listening I rushed out and headed towards the Senior Center to take photos. What I got was much more than I imagined.

Everyone who attended took many, many photos of the sculpture being removed from the river, but what I got was much more, a photo of the artist next to his work of art titled Skopos Greek word loosely translated as “The Watcher “.

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Richard Bauer who lives in Fort Walton Beach Fl, traveled by car to watch his sculpture be lifted from the river. Skopos was extracted from its watery home at approximately 9:40am Aug 5 2008 almost 2 months exactly to the day from when Skopos was washed from her concrete foundation on June 7th 2008.

 

I was able to speak with Richard after taking his photo, and I asked what his inspiration was for creating his sculpture. Richard said his inspiration was “traditional art forms, nature and Henry Morris’s for creating the arch” titled Chac Mool or know here in Columbus as “Large Arch” which sits in front of the library. Skypos was created using 3/16” thick steel plates that were welded together to make the sculpture one piece back in 1979. Richard said “I have always loved Henry Morris’s arch and this is kind of my version of an outdoor tree substitute.”

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I also asked Richard how he felt about the flood sweeping his sculpture away from its home in Mill Race Park along the people trail. Richard said “This was unbelievable how could a one ton steel sculptor float away; I just was amazed and shocked but it was gone for sure… it had been gone now in fact for 2 months and just this Morning they pulled it out of the river and its in real good shape and I’m relieve to see that, standing tall and pretty and strong again.”

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While we was talking Richard pointed out the damage Skopos had acquired during its journey.  He mentioned that Skopos must have scrapped along its edge which damaged it slightly.

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I would like to thank Richard for talking with me and allowing to document history in the making.