Rensselaer Adventures

This blog reports events and interesting tidbits from Rensselaer, Indiana and the surrounding area.

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

A final post for August

 On Friday S-Blended Nutrition had a ribbon cutting. The business is not new. It opened several years ago as Healthy Haven. The original owner sold it and then recently repurchased it. She decided it needed a rebranding and hence a new name, which is not supposed to be pronounced as "ess blended nutrition" but as "sblended nutrition" with "sblended" sounding almost like "splendid".

The owner also owns two other juice bars, one in Monticello and the other in Brookston. Below is the menu.

Ayda's is erecting a roof over its outdoor seating area. It should be ready for Spring 2023 seating.

The new tennis courts at Brookside Park are painted and ready for use. They also have the markings for pickleball.

Work on the restrooms at Foundation Park has made some progress. This work is being done with money raised by Rensselaer Baseball (RBI).

There is nothing currently in the new addition.

On Saturday mornings the Foundation Park is very busy with youth soccer. 

The pool at Brookside Park was drained last week. It had a good season in 2022.

Most of the metal from the demolition of the cooling tower at the power plant has been removed.


On Monday the dumpster of trash was picked up and hauled away.


I took a peek at the construction site for the new lift station over the weekend. The building is finally starting to emerge.

Last week I traveled on SR 10 near Wheatfield. I saw a number of fields that are part of the Dunns Bridge solar park and almost all had the posts up but no panels. 

In mid August I traveled south on I-65 and in checking gasbuddy.com I was surprised to see that the gas prices in Rensselaer were among the lowest along the route. At least until Kentucky, where Elizabethtown had prices about 50¢ a gallon lower. For years Lebanon has had low gas prices but not this time.

The Saturday Farmers Market had entertainment this past weekend. 


I noticed a poster on the door of City Hall announcing that SJC was establishing a Coworking Center and renting office space. When I first looked at their website for more information, there was nothing there. But now there is. I hope this endeavor works out well. It provides a resource that the community currently lacks.

On Wednesday evening at 7:00 the Ritz Theater will show a video of last year's cemetery walk. The admission is $5.00. Among the people featured last year were Samuel Sparling (1809-1894) for whom Sparling Avenue is named (he lived near where the Sparling Annex is now), Moses Marion (1791-1869) who fought in the war of 1812, Harry Kurrie (1875-1938) who was president of the Monon Railroad, and author Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1863-1942). Planning for this year's Walk is almost complete and tickets are on sale at Browns Garden Shop and the Willow Switch.

1 comment:

Ed said...

Ah Pickelball has invaded the midwest as well. We definitely have a very vocal pickelball community here in Flagstaff.