Each of these projects represents who we as Hoosiers are today, and also what we believe our tomorrow ought to include, Governor Frank O Bannon said, kicking off the Hoosier Millennium awareness campaign. The O Bannons were joined in Indianapolis by former Governor Robert Orr and in South Bend by former Governor Otis Bowen and his wife, Carol. The state s other two living former governors, Evan Bayh and Edgar Whitcomb, also support Hoosier Millennium, a project to help Hoosiers appreciate their past and plan for their future as individuals, as communities and as a state.
Most kids come in here thinking they ll never amount to anything.
But a powerful new computer, recently donated by the Indiana Youth Services Association, is helping to rebuild those young lives among them Isaac, from southern Indiana, and Tim, from the eastern part of the state. The previously unmotivated Isaac is proving himself a Web wizard as he builds an Internet homepage for Garrard House. Seeing what their fingers can accomplish on that computer keyboard gives them a sense of empowerment and connectedness to other people, he and Tim both say. Fort Wayne s bicentennial in 1994 started folks thinking about the city s history. That consciousness has carried over to the city s millennium efforts.