STEVE SHONDELL RETIRES Women’s volleyball coach steps down after 40 years in Muncie
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ELIZABETH WYMAN VOLLEYBALL REPORTER @Heavens_2betsey
Kelly Hopkins remembers the first time she met Steve Shondell in the eighth grade. She had always dreamed of playing college basketball. But when she joined a Munciana Volleyball Club team, Shondell
stopped her one afternoon and said he wanted her to play for him at Ball State. Hopkins said from that point on, her dream was to play for him with the Cardinals. She went on to play for the program from 2012-15. Shondell has coached thousands of players throughout the years. After six seasons as the head coach of the Ball State women’s volleyball team, he announced his retirement from the program on Monday. He said he thought it was the
best time for him to step away from the game and the program, citing his health as a reason to retire at this point. While he said his health was not the sole reason he decided to retire, it did play a role. “I hadn’t been feeling well for the past eight weeks. My body was just telling me that it was time to step away from the battle,” Shondell said. “I’ve been doing this for years and enjoyed every minute of it.” He is planning on getting a physical soon to figure out why
he has been feeling under the weather. Shondell has been the head coach at Ball State for six years, but he’s been around the sport for his entire life. The son of legendary Ball State men’s volleyball coach Don Shondell, Steve played for the Cardinals and followed his father’s footsteps to Burris Laboratory School, where he took over as women’s volleyball coach in 1976.
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Owner anticipates den will be ready around 1st week of April PATRICK CALVERT GENERAL REPORTER | pcalvert@bsu.edu The new Two Cats Café in The Village should have hookah available for customers around the first week of April. Basam Helwani, the owner of Two Cats, has been waiting for the weather to warm up, and he plans to do some modifications to the building and landscaping on the front patio. The hookah den, an indoor area at the front part of Two Cats, will be undergoing changes due to a county ordinance that prohibits smoking in a room with a floor, ceiling and four walls. “We are taking these windows out and transforming this space into a outdoor seating place,” Helwani said. “I’m taking one wall out, so this becomes an outdoor area and we will have people sit here and smoke, or they can smoke outside on the patio.” Helwani plans to put up a tent on the front patio, and once the patio is open, the menu will also be updated. Two Cats will have custom flavors of hookah, and possibly fruit heads (where tobacco is put into a fruit and is smoked). “I’m thinking about [fruit heads] because we have smoothies here, so maybe we will use our fruits from the smoothies,” he said. “All of our smoothies are fresh so we can make them from our fresh fruit.” Helwani said he thinks the hookah will be popular in the area, referencing the number of daily calls asking about it. “Since we opened two months ago, we have been getting two or three calls every day about the hookah,” he said.
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HOW MUCH CAN YOU BUY? Legally, you can purchase 25 boxes of 12-hour Sudafed, or 61.2 grams of pseudoephedrine a year. There are 20 pills in each box of 12-hour Sudafed, equaling 500 doses.
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fter leading the nation in meth lab seizures for two years, Indiana passed a law attempting to cut down on meth labs — by limiting access to a common cold medicine that can be used to make meth. On March 21, Gov. Mike Pence signed Senate Bill 80, a bill that empowers pharmacists to deny the sale of products containing pseudoephedrine (pronounced SUDA-feDRIN), the active ingredient in Sudafed, and ephedrine, which is what pseudoephedrine breaks down to in the body. Pence also signed two other bills that require certain meth felonies to be logged in a database so meth offenders cannot purchase pseudoephedrine.
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