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ONE GIANT DRINK FOR MANKIND: ZHS ALUM OPENS MOONTOWN BREWING COMPANY IN WHITESTOWN

Whitestown’s first brewery has opened its doors on South Bowers Street, and while Moontown Brewing Company is brand new to the area, its physical location is a rather familiar sight to many locals.

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5 Spreading Out: Family-Owned B. Happy Peanut Butter Is Becoming A Central Indiana Favorite

8 The Pit Master: Grilliant Foods Cooks Up Savory Meats

14 Through the Lens: Roberts

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Jon Weed and his wife Kathy, along with their children Julia, Jackson and Sawyer, officially started B. Happy Peanut Butter in 2013.

SPREADING OUT FAMILY-OWNED B. HAPPY PEANUT BUTTER IS BECOMING A CENTRAL INDIANA FAVORITE

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There is a jar of B. Happy’s Go Lucky sitting on one of the uppermost shelves in my kitchen. I put it up there so it would be out of sight, and hopefully, out of mind. Otherwise, I would not be able to stop myself from devouring spoonful after spoonful of the smooth yet crunchy peanut butter studded with bits of milk chocolate, toffee and rice crispies. Yeah, it’s that good. Apparently, lots of other people agree, because the popularity of B. Happy has exploded since Jon Weed and his family (wife Kathy, and children Julia, Jackson and Sawyer) officially started their peanut butter business in 2013. Now, you can find jars

of B. Happy in shops big and small around Central Indiana (everywhere from Goose the Market in Fall Creek, to Target in Avon, to Fresh Thyme in Broad Ripple), as well as Market District grocery stores throughout the Midwest. But B. Happy has humble beginnings. The idea started when Weed couldn’t buy one of the brands of peanut butter his family liked anymore. So, he decided to make peanut butter himself. “Through a lot of trial and error, and some really bad attempts, I finally came up with some flavors that worked well,” Weed says. He didn’t have a culinary background, but he did have a computer. “I had to look on the Internet just to see how this whole peanutbutter-making thing worked,” he says. atZionsville.com / MAY 2018 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / 5

At first, Weed made peanut butter for himself and his family and would occasionally give jars to friends. “Our friends really liked it, and so when a friend offered to let us use their commercial kitchen, we decided it would be a fun family project to sell it at the Zionsville Farmers Market that summer,” Weed says. “Really, that was about all we committed to - every other week at the farmers market. We didn’t have some grand plan for the business that evolved.” Even though he didn’t have a business plan for the company, in the beginning, Weed knew from the start that he wanted to involve his family in the business. To Weed, B. Happy was a way to teach his children about all aspects of small-business owners and the nitty-gritty details that come with it.

“[B. Happy] was and is a true family business,” Weed says. “Our kids helped from the start. I do quarterly and annual financial meetings with the whole family, so the kids have learned a lot about business through these meetings. They are still involved in making and jarring, but we now have employees that help since we have grown so much.” B. Happy has grown significantly in these past few years. What was once a hobby has now grown into a full-fledged company that employs people outside the family. “B. Happy has grown into a semi-full-time job for Kathy and a few of our friends who are now employees,” Weed says. “For the first nine months of the year, most of the work can be done in three or four days a week.” During this time of the year, they usually produce about 1,000 jars per week. Once the holidays hit it’s all hands on deck though as that number triples to about 3,000 jars per week. “Come the holiday season, it is a five- to six-day-a-week job for most of us,” Weed says. The secret to B. Happy’s popularity can be attributed, in part, by the quality of ingredients used to make their nine signature flavors. “We start with really high-quality, honeyroasted peanuts that we get by the ton and grind ourselves,” Weed says. “We then mix in the various ingredients.” Those ingredients can be anything from white chocolate and pretzel pieces in the Dream Big flavor, or dark chocolate, coconut and almonds in Don’t Worry. Each flavor is made in small batches to ensure that every jar is of superior quality. “When we say, ‘made in small batches,’ we are not kidding,” Weed says. “The peanut butter is made in ridiculously small batches, but that is needed to give each jar the unique texture of B. Happy.” Weed says he likes all of B. Happy’s flavors, but if he had to pick, his favorite is Count Your Blessings, which includes dried cherries and milk chocolate.

“Kathy loves Dream Big with white chocolate with pretzels, Sawyer and Jackson like Go Lucky with chocolate and toffee, and Julia is a fan of Pay It Forward with apple and cinnamon,” Weed says. “Our best seller is the Dream Big white chocolate with pretzels. There is something about the combo that people are addicted to and the pretzels stay super crunchy.”

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Although you can eat B. Happy on a sandwich, Weed says that it’s not really made to just go on a sandwich. The B. Happy website suggests to try using it as a dip with apple slices or pretzels, stirred into yogurt or slathered on pancakes. But really, the best way to eat B. Happy is straight from the jar with a big spoon. Weed credits B. Happy’s success to the legion of family and friends who have given their time and effort to the company. “Our employees are good friends who have invested a lot of time and pride into the business, which makes them awesome to work with,” Weed says. “We literally couldn’t do it all without them. We didn’t know that five years ago we would become ‘The Peanut Butter Family’ but it has been a great experience, and we feel lucky and blessed that it has become much more than we ever expected.” Visit the B. Happy website to find retail locations or to order online: bhappy-peanut-butter.myshopify.com.

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THE PIT MASTER GRILLIANT FOODS COOKS UP SAVORY MEATS

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Ernie Verbarg is dedicated to barbecue. Not only is he the owner of Grilliant Foods on West 96th Street, but he’s also the sole pit master and spends almost every day smoking up savory pulled pork, ribs, beef brisket and more for the establishment’s restaurant and catering customers. Heck, he even has a bunk bed in the back of the restaurant for the occasional brief respite during lengthy shifts. “I have four smokers on hand, and which ones I use depends on how much I’m smoking and what I’m making,” Verbarg says. “A lot of barbecue places have multiple

people running the pit and with that sometimes you achieve different flavors. Here, I can maintain a consistency and quality of taste. In that way we’re able to get the customer the same level of quality over and over.”

competition and did pretty good,” Verbarg recalls. “Each year I got a little better, and eventually I thought, ‘Why not open a restaurant?’”

In 2014 Verbarg took home Grand Champion honors at the Indiana State A veteran of the food industry, Verbarg Fair barbecue cook-off, and not long served as a meat cutter for O’Malia’s Food after he moved into the space on 96th Market for 25 years, and after receiving Street formerly taken up by Taste of a barbecue smoker from his wife and Europe, an Eastern European grocery, daughter for Father’s Day back in 2010, he deli and restaurant. He opted to keep that found smoking came easily and discovered a establishment’s deli and grocery concepts natural love for the endeavor. to complement his own catering and restaurant services. “My family started asking if I wanted to do competitions and at first I didn’t, but “Early on I was very involved with the by 2013 I had signed up for the State Fair Carmel High School marching band and

Owner Ernie Verbarg took home Grand Champion honors at the Indiana State Fair barbecue cook-off in 2014 before opening Grilliant Foods.

music program through my daughter, and whenever they needed someone to cook and cater for an event there, I was the go-to person,” Verbarg recalls. “I also did some stuff for my church, and I think those things helped get the word out about what I was doing.” Verbarg now works with seven importers based in Chicago to stock specialty candies and grocery items at Grilliant from European countries including Croatia, Poland, Germany and Serbia, and he also carries a variety of locally-sourced coffee, barbecue rubs and more. As for the restaurant, Verbarg says his pulled pork and beef brisket have been consistent best sellers so far, and the ribs aren’t far behind. “The ribs I do are just fall-off-the-bone tender,” he says. “I make all my own sausages too, and I’m always trying to come up with different seasonings. Another big seller right now is my Zesty Hawaiian Brat. It’s got a little cheese and jalapeño in there and pineapple to give it that Hawaiian style.” Hoosier pork tenderloin, buffalo shrimp, and sides like baked beans, cole slaw and smoked mac and cheese fill out the menu, along with a selection of wines and beers from local breweries including Sun King, Flat 12, Upland and 3 Floyds. Verbarg also stocks an extensive selection of sauces, seasonings and barbecue supplies for sale, and Grilliant is capable of catering private events, social functions and corporate gatherings of all sizes. This June marks three years since Verbarg opened his doors to the public, and he feels he’s only just begun in the barbecue game. “I’ve increased the restaurant flow here eight to nine times what the original owner was doing,” he says. “Lunch time here is usually pretty packed. I’m still learning, but I do want to expand eventually. I want to start looking maybe in a year and a half or so for a larger location. We’ve grown a lot, and I anticipate we’ll continue to do so.” Grilliant Foods is located at 4320 West 96th Street in Indianapolis. For more info, including restaurant and catering menus, call 317-s3348797 or visit grilliantfoods.com. 10 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / MAY 2018 / atZionsville.com

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THROUGH THE LENS ROBERTS CAMERA CELEBRATES 60 YEARS IN BUSINESS Writer / Jon Shoulders Photographer / Brian Brosmer

Roberts Camera’s ability to thrive in the photography, lighting and electronics retail business for 60 years has involved much more than just keeping up with industry technology that seems to evolve almost daily. Meredith Reinker, marketing and human resources director, says the Indianapolisbased, family-owned company’s willingness to adapt its business model to customer habits and shopping methods has been just as important to its success as keeping up with the camera and lighting industry’s ongoing technological advancements.

“The jewelry wasn’t doing great at the time so they started to pick up additional lines – service merchandise catalogs were how people shopped back then so they basically became a catalog showroom,” Reinker says. “One of my grandfather’s employees at the time was a high schooler who was taking a photography class and told my grandfather he could sell cameras. It was good timing in the sense that film was really evolving at that point and film cameras were getting popular, and then, of course, eventually digital took us into the next era.” Since its founding, Roberts Camera has continually found effective ways to reach beyond its Indy customer base, from a thriving mail-order business through the 1970s and 1980s to a successful sales presence through its official website, which was launched back in 1997. In 2012 the Roberts staff began a buy, sell and trade sister company called UsedPhotoPro, which deals exclusively in used camera equipment primarily online.

The company, which offers a full range of new and used photography, audio, video and lighting gear and currently operates two brick-and-mortar locations in Carmel and downtown Indianapolis, was founded by Reinker’s grandfather Robert Pallman as a modest jewelry business on South Capitol Avenue in August of 1957. Almost Reinker says her father Bruce, who has immediately, Pallman began adjusting his run the company for the past 45 years, business concept to meet customer demand. has brought an open-minded approach to INDY METRO / MAY 2018 / TownePost.com

sales and customer service that has helped Roberts Camera stay in business in a time where many camera shops have closed their doors due to dwindling sales. “Over the past 10 years, the evolution has been going fast with how people shop,” Reinker says. “Retail has changed so much as it’s gone from people having to walk into a retail store to shopping online – our sales now are about 60 percent online and 40 percent retail. So again, it’s that combination of staying with the technology and then how people actually approach retail.” To commemorate 60 years of service in Indianapolis, Reinker and her 64 full-time and part-time Roberts co-employees – many of whom have been with the company for 20-plus years – held an in-store celebration in August with special deals and promotions as well as free photography classes and camera cleanings. “Twice a year we also do a spring and fall photo expo where we bring in our manufacturer representatives, and tech reps from Nikon, Canon, Panasonic and all those types of brands,” Reinker adds.

“We offer free classes all day long, which helps to promote the classes that we offer regularly. We usually have anywhere from 10 to 12 classes a month for every level of photographer from fundamentals of photography up to specialty lighting and that kind of stuff.” Reinker adds that the explosion in iPhone camera use has had a twopronged effect on her industry, phasing out less expensive, pointand-shoot cameras while at the same time increasing interest in higher-end equipment and accessories. “The iPhone has gotten a lot of people interested in photography that otherwise might not have been, especially with social media where everybody is a photographer now,” she says. “So, we have people coming in now that have been using their iPhone for a long time but want to take that next step and get better images with better equipment.” Reinker believes the company is primed for another 60 years of success as long as it remains adaptive and flexible in the face of an ever-changing marketplace. “As Indianapolis has grown we’ve received a ton of support. Indianapolis has a very strong and vibrant community of photographers,” Reinker says. “In a time where photography has changed drastically, I think our customer base and the support we get from Indiana as a whole is awesome. Indy is a great place to be.”

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Oh May, your glorious month. Time to get busy! If April is the time when the garden is emerging from sleep, then May is the time in the garden when she has had two full cups of coffee and ready for high gear, time to bloom! Where to begin. Let’s talk lawns first. Make sure that mower blade is sharp people, and do not ever mow when it is wet. This is the first step to preventing diseased lawns. Also, to prevent moles set out multiple traps along the moles trail. An old American Indian trick — it is said that the moles move to the surface on a warm, sunny day at high noon. You can get them with a garden spade if you have the constitution to do so. I call the hubby for that trick.

Saturday worth of mulching and gardening chores, make sure you give the old body a good stretch and warm up a bit. Your back will thank me in the morning. At the age of 54, I have settled for one of those seat thingies that you can flip over and kneel on too. It has saved my gardeners back from strain. Visit all your local gardening centers and pick up something new. I suggest every year adding a new tree or bush to the landscape and at least a couple of new perennials to the flower garden. Always, always, try new veritable varieties. So many cool ones come out each year. If you have not tried Purple Kohlrabi, then you need to.

When planting any newly purchased pot grown specimen, a good tip is to scrape off the top half inch of soil out of the pot If you did not get your crab grass and toss it in the trash, not the compost preventative down in April, do it as soon as bin! This is where the weed seeds reside. possible. And make sure you cut your lawn Taking that soil off the top of the pot will to the highest setting on the mower, this way help prevent the introduction of new weeds you are shading out weed seeds in the soil in your garden. Particularly, the hard to and will have a much healthier lawn. The eradicate Thistle-It is a monster. taller the blade, the deeper the root! Many Indiana landscapes now have Hostas Now, when it comes to general gardening peeking up through the soil, their tall green chores for the month of May, first things spikes curled into a cone format, this is the first, stretch. Before you head out for a full perfect time to divide them and make more TownePost.com / MAY 2018 / INDY METRO

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Co-owners Bobby Mattingly (left) and Cody Peczkowski opened Moontown Brewing Company on March 15.

One Giant Drink For Mankind Whitestown’s first brewery has opened its doors on South Bowers Street, and while Moontown Brewing Company is brand new to the area, its physical location is a rather familiar sight to many locals.

“The town owned the building since 2012, and the original plan was for the town to turn it into a community center,” says Whitestown Town Manager Dax Norton. “That would have been a big taxpayer burden, so I went to the city council and suggested we start showing the building to some businesses.”

“We had been home brewing as a hobby for quite a while, and had talked about doing it professionally,” says Bobby, a 2007 Zionsville High School graduate. “(Norton) knew we were looking for a place to take it to the next level, and we decided it was the right place for us. We just thought it was awesome.”

Co-owner and General Manager Bobby Mattingly, who runs Moontown along with long-time friend Cody Peczkowski and his father Pete, says he and his dad were approached about acquiring the 10,000-square-foot building three years ago. It wasn’t long before they realized the structure, then owned by the town, was perfect for their collective brewery vision.

Home brewers since the mid-2000s, the Mattinglys took first place in the Home Brew contest at the first annual Whitestown Beer Fest in 2015. Shortly after, Norton suggested the crew launch their own brewery in the historic Bowers Street space, which served as a grade school and high school from the early 1900s until the early 1960s.

Bobby and Pete then enlisted the help of Peczkowski, a close friend and fellow home brewer, to take charge of brewing operations. More than a year of renovations followed including electrical, plumbing and HVAC updates, and the construction of a wall to separate Moontown’s Brew Pub from its event space and brewery.

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“The bones of the building are good, and we didn’t have to do anything to the actual structure,” Bobby says, adding that his brother Pat has also joined the Moontown team as co-owner. “We cleaned up the exterior and the interior, redid the inside concrete, and we took the brick from some windows that had been bricked in and used it at our main bar as a foot rail. Anything we took out, we tried to reuse.” Moontown officially opened on March 15 after a soft opening in January, and offers a full food menu as well as eight rotating taps and a liquor and wine list. Peczkowski oversees a 15-barrel brewing system, and house favorites so far include King of Troy, a German-style lager, Cecil, an IPA, and HefeCzkowski, a traditional German Hefeweizen named in honor of the head brewer himself. “My dad, Pat, Cody and I all have input on the beer recipes, and we try to have a balance of brewing what the people want, as far as what our staples are, and having the freedom to brew what we want as well,” Bobby says. Moontown Chef Dave Slama has developed relationships with several Indiana farmers and artisans including Saint Adrian Meats & Sausage in Lebanon and Fischer Farms in Jasper for the Brew Pub menu, which features sandwiches, wings, burgers and flatbreads. Norton is optimistic that the brewery will have a positive economic and cultural impact on the area. “You can’t find a better economic development project than one that rehabilitates an important piece of history and brings some economic vitality with it,” he says. “When I walk in there and I see faces that I don’t know, that’s exactly what we want. I think it’s going to jumpstart some private investment here.” Moontown Brewing Company is located at 345 South Bowers Street in Whitestown. Call 317-769-3880 or visit moontownbeer. com for more info including beer and food menus and hours of operation.

Writer / Seth Johnson Photography Provided by the 500 Festival

Every year, the 500 Festival and its correlating events impact 500,000 people. With such a massive reach, the humble festival team relies heavily on help from devoted volunteers to make sure everything goes off without a hitch. From a mini-marathon to a world-class parade, the 500 Festival executes about 50 different events each year. Of course, the point of these events is to celebrate the spirit and legacy of the Indianapolis 500, the world’s greatest spectacle in racing. “The 500 Festival dates back to 1957,” says

Sabrina List, 500 Festival vice president of marketing and communication. “It was actually started by a group of volunteers that were involved within the community that thought, ‘Every year, we host this big race, the Indy 500. There should be more that the community should be doing in coming together and celebrating it.’”

So in 1957, the 500 Festival was born.

The idea for the festival was actually prompted by a similar festival in Kentucky that was created to celebrate the Kentucky Derby, aptly named the Kentucky Derby Festival. “The Kentucky Derby Festival is an organization that’s similar to ours,” List says. “They thought, ‘Look, they do this in Kentucky. We should do something similar.’”

While they may no longer have a square dance, the annual parade now draws hundreds of thousands of people to Downtown Indianapolis every year. In addition to this grand event, there are also several other affiliated 500 Festival occurrences, including a mini-marathon, Kid’s Day and much more. In total, the festival relies on 7,000 volunteers to make

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“It all started with our parade, believe it or not,” List says. “They got together, and they said, ‘Alright, let’s throw a parade, and then we’ll also have a square dance.’ So that’s how it all started and it all came together, with a parade and a square dance.”

these events happen. “Volunteers are the lifeblood of our organization,” List says. “Our organization was built upon volunteers. That’s how we got started, and that is not lost on us. We are a small, nimble team of full-time employees at the festival, and we could not execute what we do without the dedication and enthusiasm of our festival volunteers.” On their website, the 500 Festival has a way you can browse all of the potential volunteer positions. “You can see every single job, the time requirement for it and the description of what’s involved with it,” List says. Over the years, they’ve had all kinds of volunteers rave about their experience working for the 500 Festival. “We provide a really positive volunteer experience, and we have a really, really high volunteer retention rate, along with pretty good word of mouth,” List says. “About 92 percent of our volunteers say that they would recommend the volunteer program to family or friends.”

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“You get pretty good perks for volunteering with us,” List adds. “You get a shirt and pin, but you also get an invitation to come to our volunteer appreciation day. That’s held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the Saturday of qualifications for the Indy 500.”

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As a part of this volunteer appreciation event, participants are truly treated to a very special day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “You get two free tickets to qualifications that day,” List says. “You get free parking for qualifications that day. And, you can also sign up to do the tour of the garages and a tour of the pits. You get to have a really fun day out at the track for free, just for giving a few hours.” For more information on how you can volunteer with this year’s 500 Festival, be sure to visit 500festival.com or call 317-927-3378.

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his works come along and deliver a painting which delivers on all of that.

Some art fulfills its purpose on a wall for its matching colors or the scenery matching a theme. Some art hangs on the wall making a statement about the owner’s affinity for the artist. But, once-in-a while, an artist and

Artist Gabriel Lehman’s works are a touchstone for all the reasons art appeals to fans, and his paintings are available at Zionsville’s CV Art and Frame. Lehman’s works will be featured at the Annual Brick 28 / ZIONSVILLE MAGAZINE / MAY 2018 / atZionsville.com

Street Market, May 12, a one-day event for all the vendors in the village to feature the works of select artisans outside in their store fronts. “It’s always exciting to meet and promote a fabulous artist,” Owner of CV Art and Frame, Barbara Jennings says. “We want to

expose people to Gabriel’s works, and we want them to know they can get it here.” CV Art and Frame has been carrying Lehman’s works for just about a year, but the artist has been painting for almost a decade. In that short time, he’s already accomplished more than many, having been named an Indiana Artisan, an elite group of Hoosier artisans exemplifying excellence in their craft of art, food and wine. The distinction was a great honor to Lehman in 2016, considering he was the first artist accepted in five years. He says he got started just doing it for fun for himself, and he landed on cartoons, eventually landing his first show in 2010. Lehman’s style is whimsical, joyous, sunny and even biblical. “I’m a huge fan of the bible, biblical truth and surrealism,” he says. “I want the action to look fairly real, but I add just enough exaggeration and hidden light sources to make it surreal.” Lehman’s paintings are set in a world that doesn’t include modern technology, but all of them have a story behind it to which the modern-day world can relate. “I want folks who see my paintings to have a jovial experience. I see light everywhere and I want people to feel that,” he says. “Some will laugh, some will cry, but, I don’t plan that when I start the painting. I give my paintings fun and introspective titles to evoke emotion, and the connection it makes is different for everyone.” The bible connection in Lehman’s paintings is obvious to some, and not so obvious to others. In “Climbing Towards the Sun,” all the characters are climbing branches to see the sun like the way Zacchaeus the tax collector wanted to see Jesus. “Blessings of Jacob” is straight from the bible and makes a clear statement about blessings and giving of yourself. Most of Lehman’s work has been for art galleries but he’s been commissioned for specific works. Dr. Chuck Dietzen, founder of Timmy Global Health,

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Lehman will be bringing about 20 to 30 of his new works to display at the Brick Street Market. Among them will be an eight feet tall original painting of “A World Within a World,” a painting about imagination and the transformation that happens. Lehman will have a good selection of original paintings and prints available for sale. See Gabriel’s works at CV Art and Frame, 110 S Main Street in Zionsville. You can also browse Gabriel’s paintings online at gabriellehman.com.

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Treat your mom and yourself to a day in the Village of Zionsville the Saturday of Mother’s Day Weekend. From 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. visitors can stroll through arts, crafts and food booths set up on Zionsville’s historic brick Main Street, while also browsing unique Village shops and restaurants. Zionsville Main Street 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Books & Brews Zionsville is working with the local library to hand out comic books for Free Comic Book Day! Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May 5. Anyone who grabs a free comic at Books & Brews Zionsville will be entered into a drawing to win free tickets to PopCon! We will be passing out comics from 1-5 or while supplies last, so make sure you come out to Books & Brews Zionsville. Books & Brews - Zionsville 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Learn the process of making your own paper. Then create a unique card just in time for Mother’s Day. We’ll even try our hand at paper marbling. Registration is required as space is limited. Zion Nature Center 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

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We have Bingo every Tuesday at Books & Brews Zionsville, but once a month, we have a special themed Bingo. This month, join us for Friends Bingo! Bring your friends out for a night of fun! Or meet new ones at Books & Brews Zionsville. Books & Brews - Zionsville 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

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