The Indiana Bicentennial Torch Relay is expected to reach Bartholomew County on Sunday, Sept. 18th and festivities are planned at the library plaza on Fifth Street in Columbus.

The day’s schedule:

• Steps Through Time exhibit on Library Plaza – 2 to 8 p.m.
• United Way’s Bart the Bicentennial Bison on Library Plaza   2 to 8 p.m.
• Family-centered booths on 5th Street sidewalks —  2  to 6 p.m.
• Food booths in Library parking lot —  2 to 6 p.m.
• Indiana’s Bicentennial Experience (Mobile Visitors Center) on Lafayette Street – 4 to 8 p.m.
• Columbus City Band performance in front of First Christian Church – 4:30 to 5:15 pm
• Tim Grimm Family Band performance at Library Plaza – 6 to 7 p.m.
• Torch arrival 7 p.m. (estimated)
• 7 p.m. program – with Harry McCawley as emcee

The  7 p.m. program will include:

• Acceptance of Torch – Larry Kleinhenz, Bartholomew County Commissioner
• City Proclamation  — Mayor Jim Lienhoop
• Introduction of Bartholomew County’s Torchbearers  — Harry McCawley
• DAR Children’s Choir performance
• Remarks by Mark Newman, executive director of Indiana Office of Tourism Development.
• Cupcakes, balloons