Daily Local News - August 22, 2008

Local VFW post member Ed Hendrix says phone solicitations for donations in their name are bogus; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals stage a protest outside a westside fast food restaurant decrying cruelty to chickens; IU Dean of Students Richard McKaig talks about yesterday's forum on promoting diversity on campus; Indiana Students Against War will hold a rally tomorrow; Bloomington's Housing and Neighborhood Development department gets the full amount of their request for federal funds for local housing counseling services; American Cancer Society's Mary Margaret Moorhead says Baron Hill's reluctance to support a healthcare initiative because it might hurt tobacco farmers is weak logic; on-location coverage of Bloomington's annual Take Back the Night rally to end violence against women includes the stark facts in the cases of real women in our community whose lives were lost to the cycle of domestic and sexual abuse; and correspondent Richard Fish tells the sad story of a Bloomington woman ripped off in a roofing scam and what YOU need to do to avoid the same fate in a new edition of our consumer watchdog feature "Bloomington Beware".