🌱 Animal Shelter Donations + COVID Surge + Weekend Shooting

Welcome back, Indianapolis! Let's get you started this Wednesday with everything you need to know going on around Indianapolis today.

First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy and mild. High: 48 Low: 44.

Here are the top three stories in Indianapolis today:

1. A south side animal shelter is in need of supplies to help adoptable dogs and cats. Rosie Ellis opened Rosie's Southside Animal Shelter 32 years ago, and to date, estimates she's saved over 40,000 animals in need. Donations can be shipped or dropped off at the shelter during open hours at 1614 W. Edgewood Ave. (WTHR)
2. A COVID-19 surge due to the holidays is keeping the Indianapolis Motor Speedway testing and vaccination site very busy. The IMS site, which has been extended through Jan. 22, performed more than 3,100 tests Monday through Wednesday of last week, and crews administered more than 2,800 vaccines. Among those tested, approximately 15 percent were positive. (WISHTV.com)
3. A woman is on life support after a weekend shooting, which has left the LGBTQ community shocked. Ke’Yahonna Stone was out at a northeast-side nightclub in the Castle Run Shopping Center for a night of fun when she tried to intervene in some kind of fight and was hit by a bullet. Police responded at around 3:00 a.m. to the Epic Ultra Lounge parking lot where the incident occurred, and are investigating what led up to the shooting. (WISHTV.com)

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Today in Indianapolis:

• Introduction to Microsoft Windows 10, At Martindale-Brightwood Branch (10:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has teamed up with Donatos Pizza to give a lucky family a New Year’s Eve Party Pack! It includes fun Museum Store and Donatos branded items as well as 12 free large pizza coupons. (Facebook)
• If you're wild about animals and giving back to the community, maybe you belong in a zoo! The Indianapolis Zoo is taking applications now for the 2022 Adult Volunteer program. (Facebook)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.