Ann Still Dancing Downtown

 

 
Ann Dancing by artist Julian Opie in front of Old Point Tavern on Mass. Ave. The art installation is part of the permanent public art collection in the city.

MoFoCo and Founders "Beer Share" This Wednesday

Grand Rapids, Michigan microbrewery Founders Brewing Company, well known for its handcrafted ales and lagers, is partnering with popular Broad Ripple eatery Monon Food Company for a special one day “Beer Share.”

The Founders Day Beer Share takes place this Wednesday, October 13^th  at 7pm, and offers food and beer aficionados the opportunity to sample 5 different Founders micro brews and a specially-prepared menu of food "nibbles" and desert all for one special tastings price of $25.
  

 

Explaining the subtleties of each brew will be John Host, Regional sales representative for Founders Brewing Co., who’ll introduce attendees to Founders’ Centennial IPA, Red’s Rye P.A., Dirty Bastard, Porter and Breakfast Stout.  MoFoCo chefs have married each beer with ‘nibbles’ designed to highlight the unique quality of each micro brew. On the menu will be: apple walnut lettuce wraps; smoked salmon with fava bean puree and sun-dried tomato tapenade; coffee-seared beef with porter-hazelnut cream sauce and portabella mushrooms; and for desert a chocolate stout brownie with raspberries and crème Anglais.

We the People Demand Justice

Around 50 people, many of them on motorcycles, gathered this afternoon at 56th Street and Brendon Way South Drive demanding justice for the family of Eric Wells. Wells was killed when he and the group of motorcyclists he was with including Mary Wells and Kurt Weekly -- were struck by a speeding police car while waiting at a traffic light. Behind the wheel of the squad car, a drunken police officer, whose blood alcohol far exceeded legal limits, plowed into the group.  The accident killed Eric Wells and seriously injured the other two riders, but because of sloppy police work by his fellow officers, the responsible drunken cop was not charged with being under the influence.

Public outrage has barely simmered down in the two months since the accident, and the family and supporters pledge to keep the heat and public attention on full blast to ensure that justice is done. 

Today they did that with prayers, their gathered presence and banners that read "Remember Eric Wells, killed by a drunk driver August 6, 2010" -- the word driver had been crossed out and replaced with COP" and "We the people demand justice for the Victims." 

The somber roadside crowd stood gathered around a small shrine, prepared a sunset candle vigil and waved to the approving honks of passing cars.

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