Beech Grove City School Bus Driver Fred Shonk celebrates Ursula's "bus #5" birthday. Each year, he has a birthday party celebrating the bus' birthday with party hats and Hostess Twinkees. He claims it gives the kids a sugar-high going into the school, which is payback for all of the times the teachers send the kids out with candy. All in fun, of course.
Shonk, a lifelong Southsider, is a 1960 graduate of Southport High School, a '63 graduate of Indiana Central College (now the University of Indianapolis) and a bus driver for Beech Grove Schools. He is a columnist at The Southsider Voice newspaper, 3145 Madison Ave., Indpls., IN 46227. 317-781-0023. www.southsidervoice.com.