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Jillian Unitas, the granddaughter of one of the greatest NFL players in history , is keeping her family’s legacy while blazing her own trail and creating Hoosier roots for herself

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Unitas forges her own path and keeps the family’s legacy This month our cover story features Jillian Unitas, the granddaughter of one of the Colts all-time greats John Unitas.

Interestingly, just as the Colts have moved from Baltimore to successfully make Indy their new home, Jillian also made the trek from Baltimore to make Carmel her home.

Writer // Janelle Morrison

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Indy Home Design Center Saves Their Customers Time and Money

While “time is money,” we all know time is only one component of the cost of any home project. The price you pay for the new furnishings and fixtures that go into the project can also significantly affect its cost. Fortunately, if you are undertaking a home project or simply replacing furniture, the Indy Home Design Center provides unique time-saving convenience of one-stop shopping and direct-from-manufacturer pricing on a huge selection of brand name furniture and fixtures.

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or several years, Indy Home Design Center owners Jack and Genta Powell operated their award-winning design center as DirectBuy franchisees in the same 8450 Westfield Boulevard location as they do today. While the Powells are no longer DirectBuy franchisees, they still offer direct-from-manufacturer pricing and the highest level of personal service with the Indy Home Design Center.

The Indy Home Design Center is somewhat similar to the design centers operated by new home builders. You can go to one location and pick out carpeting, flooring, plumbing fixtures, cabinets, countertops, and other accessories.

However, a vastly larger selection at the Indy Home Design Center is one of the major differences you will find. In addition, the Indy Design Center has a team of professional assistants with years of experience second to none.

Jack and his wife Genta, who live in the Carmel area, have over 50 years of combined experience in owning and operating a design center. Genta says, “We have developed personal relationships over many years with quite a few clients who are repeat buyers. In fact, in some cases we have worked with them from the time they first became homeowners through furnish-

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ing the home as their families grew. It has been very rewarding to be a part of their lives and grow with their families.”

They are also active in the local community.

Since their eleven-year-old daughter Miah was diagnosed with Type 1 juvenile diabetes, the Powells have become very involved with and supportive of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.

Another member of the Indy Home Design Center team with tremendous experience is Tom Kahn, who has been in the home improvement industry for more than 30 years. In 2007, Tom joined the Powell’s design team and has become the go-to guy for clients who are building or remodeling. Through the years, Tom has developed relationships with hundreds of manufacturers and their reps. As a result, Tom has a wealth of knowledge that is unique in the industry to help make your buying experience easier.

The Indy Home Design Center also offers customers an experienced interior designer, Susie Kappes. As an interior designer, Susie opened the first design center in Indianapolis for a local home builder. With more than 35 years in her field, she has decorated more than 250 model homes as well as the centerpiece home at the Indianapolis Home Show. She is an award-winning designer who was recognized by St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild Decorators’ Show House as a top designer. Susie is available in the design center or by appointment for in-home consultation and design services.

Susie summarized what makes the Indy Home Design Center unique: “As an interior designer, it is an advantage to be able to bring my clients to the Indy Home Design Center. The variety of finishes and products offered in one location saves time, energy, and money. I no longer have to bring color samples from one store to another.

The client gets an overall view without all the hassle. Every product that the Design Center offers meets or exceeds my expectations. The owners and staff are well-versed in every item that they carry. I feel confident with the entire process from start to finish.”

Big box stores pick and choose items to sell from a manufacturer’s line based on what their buyers think you want and which ones will be most profitable for them. At the Indy Home Design Center, they simply provide you with the manufacturer’s catalog and let you be the one to decide which products you want to buy. Typically, the selection offered by the Indy Home Design Center includes the manufacturer’s entire line of products.

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If you are planning a home improvement project, the Indy Home Design Center is the best place to start. When you walk into the Indy Home Design Center, you will immediately notice it is filled with manufacturer’s product displays and bookshelves lined with hundreds of their catalogs. Genta and her experienced team will help guide you through the process and answer any questions you may have. As you might have guessed, the design center is a great place to meet with your contractor or designer where, together, you can order everything you will need in furnishings and fixtures for the project.

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Carmel resident Paul Adamson launched the Beautiful Taiwan Tea Company in 2011 and now sells to tea-lovers all over the world. “I just got a big order from Germany,” he says in a recent interview. Paul buys teas directly from more than 20 farmers in Taiwan, whom he has personally chosen after visiting their farms.

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have visited each one. I look at their tea to see if it is clean and where it is located; I meet the farmer and see what kind of person they are. If it’s a small family farm in a clean environment and they do a good job of growing excellent tea, then that’s who I look for,” he explains.

Adamson grew up in a family business, Adamson’s Karate Studios, which operates eight studios in central Indiana, including Zionsville and Carmel. His father and mother started the business 40 years ago and each studio is managed by one of

the family members. Paul, one of four Adamson brothers, is a sixth-degree black belt and has been studying and teaching martial arts most of his life. Paul’s wife, Jasmine, who holds a second-degree black belt, works at the front desk of their Zionsville studio. While they don’t have separate retail stores for their teas, local customers can pick up orders at one of their karate studios.

Paul, who earned a degree in Asian history, studied Mandarin Chinese and martial arts in Taiwan in the early 1990s, where he acquired his taste for tea.

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“I made a lot of connections with tea drinkers, tea farmers, and tea culture there. What impressed me most about tea is that you can discern the ‘terroir’ that is, the place where the tea was grown—its weather, kind of soil, amount of sunshine—by its taste. About six years ago, I decided to go ahead and offer teas over the Internet. So had a website built,” Paul says. He says he built the business mainly by promoting it on social media.

He met his wife, Jasmine, in Taiwan in 1996, and they have two sons and

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a daughter. His mother-in-law, who lives in Taichung, Taiwan, helps with the business. “When I get an order, I send it to my mother-in-law, and she ships it to us,” says Paul.

“We are one of the few companies that offer true Face-to-Farmer™ sourcing,” Paul says. “That means that every tea we offer, with few exceptions, is bought directly in cash from the farmer face to face. The tea comes from the tea plant,

and that’s all there is. There are no additives, no sugars, no preservatives, and no fl vorings. We deal with premium, high-quality farm-direct teas made just by the tea plant.” He travels to Taiwan about twice a year to visit farms and purchase tea.

Beautiful Taiwan Tea Company sells more than 40 varieties of teas from fi e basic tea families: Puerh, Black, Oolong, Green, and White. “Oolong teas are the

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most popular. They’re a great starting point to get into the tea world--not too green, not too dark, and kind of in the middle,” Paul says.

“I want three winners out of every deal: I want the farmer to be happy with the money he gets; I want customers to be happy by getting the world’s best teas; and then I want to have fun doing it and make a little bit of profit.” H offers free tea-tasting parties with a minimum of ten people.

“Tea connects people,” he says. “It’s a good connecting point. Not only is it interesting to talk about, it’s more fun to sit and drink it with somebody so you can comment on your experiences. It’s a very social, people-centric hobby. And it’s healthy.”

All teas can be ordered online; free shipping on orders more than $25. Visit www.BeautifulTaiwanTea.com or email Paul for more information: info@beautifultaiwantea.com

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Not Just for Books Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // JJ Kaplan and submitted by CCPL

seek out additional committee members.

This committee is unique in that most of the YP group’s members have grown up together and remained friends. They have moved back to Carmel and set out on this mission together to support the institution that helped to educate them.

“I cannot say enough great things about what the library does for the community and what it has done for me in the past,” Moore explained. “Anything that I can do to help others understand the resource

Libraries are no longer just book repositories, but active places for inspiration, knowledge, and meeting like-minded individuals. The Carmel Clay Public Library has always been on the cutting edge of technology and known for providing exceptional services and programs to members of all ages of the Carmel community. Now the library has introduced its latest resource that targets young professionals-- the CCPL Young Professionals Committee.

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his group of Carmel residents hope to engage their peers in meaningful and unique ways while promoting the library’s treasure trove of resources. Leading the committee is Carmel native Hadley Moore.

Moore graduated from Carmel High and Purdue University prior to earning her Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education in 2009.

Her fi st job was teaching English at the Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy in Baltimore, Maryland. She returned to Indiana three years later and taught English for six years at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. Moore was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 2015 to earn her MBA in Education Leadership at the University of Indianapolis.

She finish d her MBA coursework and administrative certifi ation this summer with one remaining requirement: to obtain an administrative position. “To meet that requirement, I accepted a new position created by the Indianapolis Public Schools just this year as a Multi-Classroom Leader,” Moore said. “I work at George Washington Community High School and create all curriculum and instructional materials for the English department, and I observe and coach them to meet their instructional and profes-

sional growth goals.” While establishing herself in her new position, Moore was also looking for a way to become more involved in her Carmel community. She is an active volunteer of the library and was approached by a mentor and CCPL Trustee, Jane Herndon, to help develop a YP group for the library. Moore did not hesitate to jump on board and

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ABOVE Left to Right: CCPL YP Committee members: John Boss, Stacy Doane and Hadley Moore

that we have, appreciate and utilize it, is a privilege for me to have. I reached out to my friends who have also moved back to Carmel and knew that I could count on them to want to give back to this community because it has given all of us so much.

It is the reason why we came back after college or after living in other places. We are planning on raising our families here and setting our roots here.”

Moore said the core group is comprised of six members to date and will have their fi st official eting in January. At that time, the group will identify some projects for 2017 and how to seek input and participation from their peers to develop and support the organization.

The group will be tasked with assisting with the 3rd Writers at the Pavilion, an annual event that is held congruently with The Guilded Leaf Book and Author Luncheon. The YP committee will be looking for ways to target and engage a young professional demographic and to develop a program for that evening that differs from the luncheon’s

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LEFT Young professionals enjoying the Writers at the Pavilion event in 2016

itinerary. It is easier to attract the young professionals to an after-hours event rather than a mid-day luncheon that confl cts with their work day.

Moore emphasized that the committee will look at ways to include the meet-andgreet with the authors who will present the following day at the luncheon while making the evening gathering more interactive and engaging. The CCPL YP group will be an arm of the CCPL Foundation working closely with Elizabeth Hamilton, the CCPL Foundation Director.

“It is inspiring to see your friends and neighbors come together and show enthusiasm for the library,” Moore emphasized.

“This event is another way for people to learn about the writing process and about the books that are on the market today.

It also provides another opportunity to showcase the different services that our library offers.”

Stacey Doan met Moore while in college.

Doan, a Butler University graduate, has always been an avid reader. She moved to Carmel in 2016 and Moore invited her to join the committee and get to know her new community.

“Hadley told me about the committee and it sounded like something fun and interesting to me,” Doan said. “I have volunteered at my local YMCA and when I moved to Carmel, I was looking for that next opportunity when she [Moore] contacted me.

I’m excited to learn more about the library and am looking forward to meeting people and being part of this community.”

One of Moore’s lifelong friends, John Boss, also moved back to Carmel after graduating from Indiana University. Boss has been actively involved with the athletics departments while he attended the Carmel Clay Schools and later. He is currently

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working with Jim Inskeep, the Director of Athletics at Carmel High School in addition to his day profession. Inskeep was Boss’s sixth-grade reading teacher.

“I enjoy reading about sports, music, and pop culture,” Boss stated. “I am interested in working with this committee to bring more people from our age group back to the library. When you are in high school and college, you go to the library because you must. Parents go to the library with their children because of the entertainment and educational programs. But there is a gap for the people in between those stages and that’s what I envision this committee will be focusing on. We will discuss ways to engage that demographic and bridge the gap.”

Young professionals will be able to follow the CCPL YP Committee and their events on social media and on the CCPL website. Founding members of the Young Professionals Committee are Hadley Moore, Jess Lawhead, John Boss, Stacy Doane, Michael Schmitz, and Tory Schmitz.

Details are forthcoming at www.carmel.lib.in.us.

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Jillian Unitas, the granddaughter of one of the greatest NFL players in history, is keeping her family’s legacy while blazing her own trail and creating Hoosier roots for herself. Her grandfather, the late Johnny Unitas, was a Hall of Fame quarterback for the Baltimore Colts from 1956 to 1972. In 2004, The Sporting News ranked him number one among the NFL’s 50 Greatest Quarterbacks. He held the record for most consecutive games with a touchdown pass for 52 years until 2012.

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LEFT Colts Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas and his granddaughter, Jillian.

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ABOVE Jillian sporting granddad’s Colts helmet.

nitas was the type of man who would never turn away a fan seeking an autograph, especially children. He founded the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, along with his son, John Unitas, Jr., who is Jillian’s father. The foundation awards the Golden Arm Award every December to the most outstanding college quarterback who exemplifi s the character of Johnny Unitas on and off the fi d. The foundation also awards grants to deserving high school athletes who want to play in college but lack the financial esources to do so.

Jillian Unitas continues her grandfather’s philanthropic efforts and shares his passion for making a difference. She found her way from Baltimore to Indianapolis by way of her work in the racing industry. After graduating college, she was hired by Andretti Sports Marketing to assist with the PR and marketing of the Baltimore Grand Prix. There she had a chance encounter with Anderes Krohn, a former Indy Car driver, who took Unitas and her co-worker for a spin in a pace car as part of the pre-race festivities.

After the Baltimore Grand Prix, Unitas accepted a full-time position with Andretti Sports Marketing that is headquartered in Indianapolis. Unitas’s fi st race with the company and team was in St. Petersburg, Florida. In an act of fate, Unitas and her co-worker were dining at a restaurant when Krohn appeared. Unitas’s colleague was a friend of Krohn and made the proper introductions. Unitas explained that she had met him in Baltimore when he drove her in the pace car though the two never exchanged words. One thing led to another, and Unitas and Krohn were

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recently married in the fall of 2016.

The couple have each made career changes better suited to married life. Unitas, whose previous position required frequent travel, decided that she was ready to establish roots in Indianapolis and become more engaged at the local level.

She is currently a manager at Just Marketing, Inc. and continues to work with local drivers on their PR and branding.

Her husband co-owns a company that mentors and promotes young, up-andcoming drivers such as Stefan Wilson, a rookie who made his debut at the 100th running of the Indy 500. Krohn, who is Norwegian, used to work with children with special needs back in Norway. He researched organizations in the greater Indy area that he was interested in volunteering with and discovered Children’s TherAplay in Carmel, Indiana.

The Children’s TherAplay Foundation is a not-for-profit ediatric outpatient clinic that serves children with special needs. It is one of the few clinics in the country dedicated to providing physical and occupational therapies on horseback.

The foundation’s therapists combine a sensory-rich, child-centered clinic with hippotherapy – the movement of horses – to provide carefully graded motor, sensory, and neurological input. In 2001, Children’s TherAplay became a not-forprofit o ganization on the grounds of Lucky Farms.

In the ensuing years, Children’s TherAplay’s founder Craig Dobbs and other caring individuals helped expand not only the facility, building the therapy clinic and administrative offices they still use, but also the program. It offers pediatric physical and occupational therapy to nearly 150 children each week. Any child who needs physical and/or occupational therapy may be eligible to receive therapy at Children’s TherAplay.

The board of directors for Children’s TherAplay invited Krohn to join their board and become the organization’s spokesperson. Unitas joined her husband at the events, and it wasn’t long before she was asked to join him as a board member.

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We were honored and means so much to us that the board asked us both to join the organization”

ABOVE Jillian Unitas and Shannon Wade “horsing” around at Children’s TherAplay

“We were honored and means so much to us that the board asked us both to join the organization,” Unitas said. “I enjoy graphic design and enjoy lending my skills by creating invites, tee-shirts, brochures and so forth, and Anders and I enjoy attending the events for Children’s TherAplay. My grandfather and Dad both loved children so having grown up watching and learning from them, I am inspired to carry on that work in honor of my grandfather.”

Shannon Wade, Marketing Programs

Manager for the foundation, spoke about Unitas and her husband’s contributions and dedication to the organization. “They bring caring and are helping us to meet new people and make new friends. Jillian is also the reason why we were able to purchase Thor, a new therapy horse that is currently in pre-training.

Thor is a magnifi ent Norwegian Fjord horse. Now Jillian has two Norwegians in her life!” Wade said.

Thor will join the rest of the therapy horses when they are moved over into a

neighboring barn while the existing one is demolished to clear the space for the new Phil and Sharen Meyers Stable. The new facility will provide additional stalls, a heated indoor bathing station, laundry facilities, abundant hay storage and an additional paddock along with other amenities for the staff and amilies that Children’s TherAplay serves.

“As a small nonprofit, e depend so much on the community,” Wade stressed.

“People-power makes just as much difference as the financial don tions that impact us. That’s one of the things that Jillian and Anders have brought. Jillian has done so much design work for us (pro bono) and has brought the racing community to us. At the Horsepower 500 this past year, one of the big hits for our children was that they got to see and touch an Indy 500 car. Jillian brought them that. Together, she and Anders are a super power.”

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Dan was named as the 2016 Indianapolis Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Man of the Year.

The Man & Woman of the Year (MWOY) campaign is a spirited fundraising competition in communities across the U.S. in which participants build fundraising teams to compete for the title of Man or Woman of the Year. They raise funds for LLS blood cancer research in honor of local who are blood cancer survivors, the Boy & Girl of the Year. Dan a Carmel resident, and someone go to children Facebook.com/Ranjputhranhelpinghands his wife Robin have 2 children, Morgan and Garrett. Goodrich works as a realtor for The Mitchell or ranjitputhran@allstate.com Group at RE/MAX ability plus. Dan and his team raised more than $100,000 in the 10-week campaign. Half of the funds were raised with the help of his Carmel hockey community from the charity hockey tournament held earlier this year. Congrats Dan!

If you would like to nominate someone you know who is volunteering in the community, please email me at ranjitputhran@allstate.com

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Country star Wynonna Judd, center, poses with girls from the D.I.V.A. Songwriting Program during a Firestone FrontRow session before her December 2015 concert at the Palladium.

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The Center for the Performing Arts welcomes, engages, inspires, and transforms through compelling performing art experiences and provides cultural enrichment through its outreach and educational programs. The Center’s Community Engagement Manager, Julia Shildmyer-Heighway, has been building its catalog of educational and outreach program since she arrived in 2015.

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he has developed programs such as the Palladium PALS (performing arts literary season) Book Club that encourages students to read books aligned with Center Presents performances and earns them a free ticket to a show.

The Palladium Bookies, a group that meets every other month, is dedicated to books about performing arts. These programs are only two examples of the Center’s literacy initiatives that span babies to seniors.

“We started the Palladium PALS last season,” Shildmyer-Heighway said. “The children read books that align to the shows in our season. For example, our

jazz pairing was a book written by jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Every program is connected to the performing arts.

I am big on cross-curricular connections.

We have programs that are language arts, science and geography focused but are integrated with the arts.”

Musical Images of Indiana is a live, interactive videoconference where students actively engage in examining songs about Indiana and by Hoosier songwriters. The students discuss how lyricists incorporate the use of metaphor, simile, and hyperbole. Made possible by grant funding, this signature project of the Indiana Bicentennial Commission is free to any Indiana fourth-grade class.

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“Some of our programs align with the standards for Language Arts Social Studies, Science, and Math,” Shildmyer-Heighway explained. “Our Science of Light and Sound reinforces the terms taught in the classroom through real-world application. You may have a student who loves performing arts but doesn’t do well in math, but if they see how it connects, and they can make that real-world connection, then it starts to make a little more sense to them.”

The Center’s Firestone FrontRow gives high school and college students with special interest in the genre the unique access to Center Presents performers.

Students sit in on the sound check and

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rehearsal and then engage in Q & A with the performers followed by dinner and tickets to the performance.

“Wynonna Judd was so great,” Shildmyer-Heighway exclaimed. “She was changing the songs and instruments up; it was a true rehearsal. Afterwards, she got the kids up on stage with her and talking with her. She really went into the details of her life and gave them meaningful advice. These experiences are always so wonderful.”

The Preshow Experiences are one way that the Center connects with and promotes the talented youth from our own Indiana communities. The Master Classes & Residencies further study the art that they learn directly from worldclass Center Presents performers in a classroom/studio setting.

The Koresh Dance company instructed a hip-hop class with some IPS students.

Later that night, they drove with Shildmyer-Heighway to Frankfurt, Indiana, and did a master class with a dance company, The TAP Academy, whose students represent all four school districts in Clinton County.

“This is just an amazing opportunity for our students,” said Tap Academy owner Lynne Brinkley. “This is an international company, and their choreography is cutting edge. This is not something I could even dream of doing without our partners at the Center for the Performing Arts.”

Brinkley’s students – about 18 young ladies ages 8 to 16 – later came to Carmel to catch the company’s Friday night performance at the Tarkington theater, which also included a post-performance Q&A. “The TAP Academy received tickets to come down the next night for dinner and watch the Koresh Dance Company perform,” Shildmyer-Heighway said.

“During their time with us, the Koresh Dance Company also spoke at the Hasten Hebrew Academy and then came back to Carmel where they instructed a Master Class with the students at the Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre.”

The Scene is another outreach program designed for young profession-

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As a not-for-profit, community-based organization, we have a mission that extends well beyond commercial concerns, and our education and engagement programs are among the clearest examples of that mission.”

-Jeffrey C. McDermott, Interim President/CEO als. Other outreach programs include, but aren’t limited to, the Luminaries-a dynamic women’s group, group vocal coaching, Classics in Context that is complimentary to ticket holders and is a pre-concert lecture that provides an insider’s perspective on the works being performed at the Center’s classical performances. New this year is the Intro to Stand-up comedy class. The instructor, Mat Alano-Martin, is the co-founder of the Limestone Comedy Festival and

Budding percussionists share a drum during the Center’s Jungle Jams summer camp, which teaches kids about positive character qualities while introducing principles of rhythm through a range of fun activities.

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a full-time touring comedian performing at clubs, colleges and festivals across the country. He has appeared on The Bob and Tom Show, Laughs on FOX and his debut album “Profil d as Such” can be heard daily on Sirius/XM. This class looks at the history and evolution of stand-up comedy and offers a practical course covering joke mechanics and writing for stand-up as well as performance theory and practice. During the class, students write and practice a fi e-minute routine, which they perform for friends and family at the graduation show. This class is recommended for ages 17 and up.

“So many cultures around the world incorporate the arts into their everyday life,” Shildmyer-Heighway concluded.

“Art is not a separate thing that you go do. It is part of your life whether it is performing arts or visual arts. It seems that in our communities, we’ve kind of divorced the arts from everyday life.

I think that these outreach and education programs make it more accessible to anyone who is interested.

We want everyone to know that they are welcome. The hope is to show even novices that the arts can be part of your life, and that they will enrich your life with beauty, joy and depth. It is about embracing the human experience and getting all that you can out of life.”

For more information on any of these programs and for a complete list of available programs, email Outreach@TheCenterPresents.org. www.thecenterforthepermormingarts.org

Roots-rocker Chris Isaak and his band let students from the Carmel School of Rock try out their instruments during a Firestone FrontRow session at the Palladium in July 2016.

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All Aboard the Indiana Railroad Writer // Janelle Morrison

The days of pausing at the crossing and waving at the engineer as the train rolls through town are long gone. However, the business of trains continues to prosper in the 21st century, partly through the efforts of Zionsville resident Thomas (Tom) G. Hoback. A third-generation railroader and former president and CEO of the Indiana Railroad Company (INRD), Hoback’s passion for trains didn’t cease when he retired in 2015. He continues to serve on INRD’s board of directors. Hoback and his wife, Sue, spend time traveling the globe via train as often as possible. They also enjoy the views of the countryside from the comfort of their own train car, the Santa Fe 56.

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The magic of Indiana’s premier Nutcracker tradition, presented by the Indiana Ballet Conservatory (IBC), returns this holiday season. IBC is proud to welcome back its guest dancer, the acclaimed principal dancer from the Boston Ballet, Lasha Khozashvili. The company is excited to be celebrating its tenth anniversary and sixth season with Khozashvili performing in IBC’s homage to the artistry of Vasily Vainonen.

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he original Nutcracker Ballet debuted over 100 years ago in Russia. Produced by IBC Founding Artistic Director, Alyona Yakovleva-Randall, this production is based on the 1934 choreography of Vainonen. Yakovleva-Randall is a highly acclaimed ballet dancer, choreographer and artistic director with a brilliant career of her own that began in St. Petersburg, Russia.

“I have been dancing ‘The Nutcracker’ since I was a child,” Yakovleva-Randall said. “I have performed all roles from a Little Mouse to Masha to a Sugar Plum Fairy. These wonderful memories are so

dear to my heart and the details that I remember from my experiences are what I wish to share with my students now.

It is truly as though I am transferring my memory of ‘The Nutcracker’ to them with each year and each production. I hope that someday they will share their memories with their own students.”

Refl cting back on the last decade, Yakovleva-Randall discussed what is unique about the IBC’s production of the holiday favorite, “The Nutcracker,” and what it means to the company and its students to perform with a world-class principal dancer.

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“It used to be that I would not let our students perform the roles in the Sugar Plum Fairy act because of the high level of skill those roles demand to properly perform the techniques,” she explained.

“It was only a few years ago that I began letting the students perform the Sugar Plum Fairy along with one of the world’s most talented dancers in the world right now, Lasha Khozashvili. He is a dear friend and we have a wonderful relationship with him. He brings a level of professionalism to our production and to our students who are eager to learn and work with him. Not every dancer is a good

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oback’s story begins with his father, Glenn Hoback, who was the chief dispatcher for Santa Fe’s Illinois Division at Fort Madison, Iowa. Hoback traveled more than 100,000 miles with his father on Santa Fe streamliners and locals before Amtrak emerged. He later graduated from Golden Gate University in 1969, where he majored in transportation and minored in economics.

After graduation, Hoback became an economics analyst for Western Pacifi .

Later, he joined the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company as the director of coal marketing. Then he acquired ICG’s nearly defunct Indiana line and formed the Indiana Railroad Company in 1986.

He and his team transformed it into what became a model for the new American regional railroad.

After the interstate highways came along and air travel became more effi ent in the 1960s and 1970s, many people thought railroad companies would disappear. The federal government subsidized the construction of

During our first five years in business, INRD doubled in business and doubled again in the five years after. We grew INRD to a 500-mile route system.”

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airports and air traffic ontrol systems while railroads still competed as a regulated industry, he explained.

“Railroad companies lost a lot of business [during this time] and then after they were deregulated in 1980, they began running their railroads like businesses again. They started to implement more technology and became a lot more aggressive with marketing. It’s been an extraordinary turn-around story in the last 30 or 40 years for the railroads,” he said. Today’s railroads move nearly half of everything transported in the U.S. “During our fi st fi e years in business, INRD doubled in business and doubled again in the fi e years after. We grew INRD to a 500-mile route system,” he said. The company moved over 15 million tons of coal last year, which was only half of its total business.

“Looking back, the last 30 years have been a good ride,” Hoback said. But his days of riding the rails are far from over.

He purchased a railroad car, the Santa Fe No. 56, from a San Francisco friend.

It was one of 12 cars that the Santa Fe Railway purchased from Pullman Company between 1918 and 1928 for use by the railroad’s senior executives. The car is 81 feet long, weighs 180,000 pounds, and still has the original Pullman light fix ures and brass racks. The car can comfortably travel and is authorized to operate at speeds up to 110 mph on Amtrak’s rail system.

While it was in excellent condition when Sue and Tom Hoback purchased the car in 2004, it needed some restoration. Tom brought the car for refurbishing to the Indiana Railroad Company’s Senate Avenue shop in Indianapolis.

INRD’s skilled electricians and mechanics took great care to replicate the original Santa Fe 1950s décor including the interior fabrics, shades and curtains. The dining room was outfi ted with the original china featuring Mimbreno patterns created by Mary Jane Colter and fl tware with Reed and Barton’s Embassy pattern.

The car is modernized with the best accommodations for rail travel. The kitchen boasts stainless steel appliances including a refrigerator and full-range stove.

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luxurious comfort on mattresses from locally renowned Holder Mattress Company. The car also has an office and observation area for travelers to work or relax in.

Sue Hoback likes to travel through Canada and especially Halifax. “Halifax is absolutely gorgeous,” she said. “I love to go when their fall season begins. I remember a trip that we were on, heading to Hudson Bay, and Tom asked the staff of the railroad company we were traveling on if it would be possible to eat our dinner in our room. They were more than accommodating and brought us our dinner with lit candles. They were all about the customer service and the customer experience.

I do enjoy traveling by train. If you can go that way, it is very pleasurable.”

“I have probably traveled well over half a million miles by train on six continents and at least fif y countries,” Tom Hoback said. “I particularly like traveling in Switzerland and western Europe because the scenery is so extraordinary. There is so much to see.”

Both Tom and Sue emphasize that trains give travelers opportunities to experience countries, cities and mountainsides that they can’t experience from 30,000 feet in the air. It gives them a chance to slow down, strike up a conversation, and take in the bigger picture. As best-selling author Anna Funder wrote, “I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

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third generation woodworker and craftsman, Doug Marvel grew up apprenticing along with his grandfather and father who were the masters before him.

While he dabbled in woodworking all throughout his adolescence and early adulthood, Marvel was also interested in the drafting and engineering side of building products. Keeping the dream on the horizon that he would one day retire from his day job and start a woodworking business, Marvel did not realize that the economic downturn in the mid-2000s would actually launch his new career and fulfill his oal earlier than planned.

Marvel created Marvelous Woodworking in 2009 and has grown to be known as a reputable specialist in custom woodworking and household furniture projects. Marvel has taken his knowledge that was passed onto him from his grandfather and father and has combined this with his education and training in drafting and engineering to become a highly-skilled and

passionate woodworker and inventor.

He designs and produces his projects out of his work shop in Lebanon that boasts a 1,800-square-foot garage with 12-foot high ceilings and an abundance of workspace for his myriad of high-grade tools and lumber supplies. Marvel specializes in custom woodworking projects such as staircase updates, custom fi eplace mantels, handcrafted furniture, custom cabinetry, coffered ceilings and crown molding.

Marvel’s work is truly customized and built specifi ally for each of his of clients.

He views his relationship with his clients as a partnership that results in creating an heirloom-quality, built-by-hand product.

“Growing up on the family farm, we were always building, creating and repairing things,” Marvel said. “We didn’t have power tools so we were drilling, nailing and sawing by hand. My grandfather, who never graduated high school, was the ultimate ‘tinkerer.’ He liked to build clocks.

He also built his own saw mill with the

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big blades and tractor parts, from scratch.

He would go out and cut down trees, mill and store the lumber, then he would make things out of it. I have some of his original tools and use his wood lay for my projects.

I think of him every time I use it. My dad is also very creative and likes to make up his own little jigs and projects. He really enjoys model airplanes. Engineers and inventors at heart, I like to think that in my own way that I am carrying on their engineering tradition and the creative process that I’ve learned from them.”

Starting out as his hobby, Marvel would take on small jobs for his friends and family while he was working as a computer consultant. He would take his profi s and reinvest them back into his shop, purchasing new and additional tools knowing that one day he would “retire from his cubicle, start his wood working business and live happily ever after.”

When the effects of the recession really took hold of the nation in 2008, Marvel’s contractor friends in the construction industry came to him with special projects that they knew he had the skills to take on.

“At this time, I had my own computer consulting firm, ut I took on these side jobs for my friends who are contractors and the success of those jobs, along with a little marketing, my woodworking business just took off. I officia y retired from my cubicle life and became Marvelous Woodworking in 2009.

It was a time that we saw a lot of small or micro businesses born out of that experience, redefining s ccess. Success isn’t about the dollars. It’s about what you do and enjoying it.”

One rather unique project, historic in nature, that Marvel took part in was the recent rehabilitation of the Parry Mansion located in the Golden Hill subdivision in Indianapolis. Built in the early 19th century by David M. Perry, an automobile, railroad and insurance mogul, the 21,000-square-foot mansion once entertained celebrities like Clark Gable and hosted elaborate parties in the exquisite third story ballroom. The mansion was sold to William Avery Atkins who remodeled and expanded the mansion’s already

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massive footprint. The mansion’s deed exchanged hands a few more times over the decades and had fallen into decay after being left vacant in 2006. The current owner, John Lethen, decided that the historic mansion was worth saving and brought in various contractors, like Marvel, to repair and remodel the dilapidated structure.

Marvel was hired on to revitalize the grand conservatory. He painstakingly rec-

reated the room’s original wood moldings and elegant décor. The before and after pictures of Marvel’s project are astounding. For him, his work in the conservatory has become part of a permanent fix ure in the Parry Mansion’s history.

“My clients come to me because they are looking for a very specifi , high-quality project or piece of furniture that they could not find a ywhere in the existing market. They will bring me pictures of things that they like and get ideas from the various manufacturers and we combine the ideas to create the perfect design and outcome for their unique project. We live in such a virtual world now with computers and other technology and in my previous career, I did computer drafting and used to build things with computer software, but there is something really satisfying about building things with your hands. I am an engineer at heart and I love figuring out the angl s and how it comes together and then going out to my

shop and actually physically build it. It seems that today, we are losing some of our craftsmanship and are getting most of our things from China, Taiwan, etc. So for me to have a business and a skill where I get to make other people’s visions come to life is very rewarding to me. Unfortunately, in today’s society, there is this stigma that if you choose this line of work, you are somehow under achieving in life.

There is this expectation that you have to go to college and get a degree and sit in a cubicle and make a million dollars in order to achieve success. It is a false definit on of the ‘American dream.’ There are excellent and creative jobs available in various trades like welding, carpentry, electrical, and other fie ds within the construction industry. There are many great opportunities to make a good living, creating great things and loving what you do.”

For more information on Marvelous Woodworking visit www.marvelouswoodworking.com.

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Healthier You Writer // Ann Craig-Cinnamon

Something about ripping another December off the calendar and turning the page to a brand new year makes many of us vow to make changes in our lives. A new year is full of fresh hope for the future and a clean slate that inspires us to take on new challenges, discard bad habits, and start healthy new ones. Maybe we want to lose weight, look younger, or perhaps just feel better.

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ccording to statistics, almost half of us make New Year’s resolutions every year and most of those resolutions involve living a more fit and h althy lifestyle. So, with these kind of resolutions in mind, we’ve gathered advice and ideas from health and wellness experts to consider to become a healthier, happier you in 2017. Here’s to positive change!

Zeph Cosmetic Surgery It’s a fresh new year, so why not a fresh new face? Zeph Cosmetic Surgery located at 13590B North Meridian in Carmel specializes in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. If you have thought about having facial cosmetic surgery but were afraid that it would leave you looking different, or that it would be too obvious that you had something done, Dr. Richard Zeph says

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the techniques his office now uses allow a natural “lift” for the face, not a “pulled” one. He says it helps elevate the cheek pad and corner of the mouth, in addition to tightening the jawline and neck, which means patients looks like they did when they were younger, not a young version of a different person.

“In general, facial cosmetic surgery is a positive experience, allowing one to look as good as they feel,” says Dr. Zeph, who adds, “The person looking back in the mirror is in synch with the appearance the patient would expect to see.”

The success rate for having a facial cosmetic procedure is very high if the patient is realistic, he says. “We are not going to make someone look 21. The typical result allows the patient to look younger and very good for his or her age,” says Dr. Zeph, who thinks patients will see benefi s from the surgical procedures for a lifetime. “We all continue to age, but it’s as if we have reset the facial aging clock as we resume the aging process,” he says.

Dr. Zeph says the fi st of the year is a very popular time for people to have facial

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cosmetic procedures. “It seems to go handin hand with the ‘fresh start’ feeling we all associate with that time of year,” he says.

Bravo Mobile Chiropractic Are you living with aches and pains but don’t want to go to a doctor? Let the doctor come to you! Bravo Mobile Chiropractic is a fully mobile practice serving Hamilton County and the surrounding areas. Dr. Kristen Bravo, who is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Licensed Professional Acupuncturist provides chiropractic, acupuncture, and other forms of treatment in the comfort of patients’ homes and offices, which eliminates wasted time in traffic and waiting rooms.

Dr. Bravo says that many people learn to live with aches and pains, even accepting them as part of the aging process, when they don’t have to. “Chiropractic care can help alleviate or even rid patients of those aches and pains.

Dr. Bravo says success rates vary depending on the condition being treated, but she confide tly claims that the large majority of patients experience improve-

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ment in their condition after a course of chiropractic care. Some patients choose to continue receiving chiropractic care on a regular basis once their initial complaint is resolved. This is called wellness or maintenance care. “I have personally heard wellness patients say that regular adjustments help them stay well during the cold and flu season, keep allergies at bay, and of course, prevent or minimize fla e-ups of headaches, migraines, neck pain, and back pain,” says the doctor.

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Synergy Spa of The Guyer Institute Do you have some fat that just refuses to go away? Freeze it! That’s essentially what CoolSculpting™ does, and you can have that procedure performed at the Synergy Spa of the Guyer Institute.

The Guyer Institute at 836 E. 86th St. in Indianapolis was established in 1994 by

Dr. Dale Guyer. It offers a range of healing therapies and services. In November of 2015, the Synergy Spa was opened within the healing garden at the Institute to offer combined scientific and dvanced aesthetic technologies.

Synergy Spa delivers a full range of aesthetic services to improve skin including all Vampire procedures, which utilize PRP (platelet rich plasma). According to Denise Kaler, the CEO of Synergy Spa, the most popular service of the Spa is CoolSculpting,™ which freezes your fat away. “We have an abundance of happy patients with magnifi ent outcomes,” she says.

The Institute and the technicians are CoolSculpting™ certifi d and follow advanced training protocols to deliver the best possible results. Kaler says she was asked to go to CoolSculpting™ headquarters in Pleasanton, California, to present webinars worldwide.

She explains that CoolSculpting™ is a revolutionary non-surgical contouring treatment that freezes stubborn fat that

If sun damage, heredity or even gravity has caught up with you, contact Richard D. Zeph, M.D., F.A.C.S. Together you can find so utions to crow’s feet, wrinkles or any other facial concerns. Dr. Zeph will give you the quality care that comes from dedicating his practice to facial plastic surgery. Included with our quality care are the comprehensive skin care services provided by our outstanding aestheticians, Linda Adams, LE and Deborah Graber, LE. Uncover that youthful appearance you always knew was there.

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Kaler says the procedure is effective in treating the abdomen area, love handles, inner thighs, outer thighs, arms, back fat, and even the turkey gobbler fat on the neck. The results look natural and can be seen as early as three weeks following the treatment, with the most dramatic results occurring three months following.

She does point out that CoolSculpting™ is not a weight loss treatment, but says is very motivating to those who need to lose some weight. “Some just need a jump-start to begin a better regimen, and CoolSculpting™ is just what they needed.

We also have a physician assistant who can assist with weight loss if a person desires that, and can offer a multi-faceted approach,” says Kaler.

She encourages anyone interested to come in to Synergy Spa for a complimentary consultation. You can check out a complete gallery of before and after photos at www.guyerinstitute.com or call 317-580-9355.

Wellness Department of Witham Health Services The best way to look and feel your best is by maintaining your health, and the Wellness Department of Witham Health Services can help you do that.

Trina Rose, the Wellness Coordinator for Witham Health Services, says they offer a comprehensive wellness program to their employees and several local businesses in Boone County. They also offer customizable wellness programs to all businesses, such as health screenings, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and sleep presentations to companies and groups in the area.

“Witham Wellness truly has something for every age demographic. We are

We must encourage ourselves and our loved ones to move all day.”

proud to offer FitnessGram testing in the Lebanon, Western Boone, Zionsville and Trader’s Point Christian Academy School Corporations to help give our local students a strong start and encourage lifelong heathy habits,” she says. A personalized report is sent home with each student and an aggregate data report is given to the School Corporation so they can address any needs the students may have as a whole.

According to Rose, Witham has offered Tai Chi for Health to the community for more than fi e years now. “Tai Chi focuses on building strength, balance, and fl xibility through slow, fluid movements combined with relaxing deep breathing.

Tai Chi can be practiced regardless of age or fitn ss level,” she says and adds, “We are proud to offer the SilverSneakers program to our older adults. We encourage these folks to come exercise with us three days per week. We work on muscular strength, cardiovascular fitn ss, balance and fl xibility,” says Rose.

In addition, the Witham Wellness program added the Rock Steady Boxing Program a year ago for Parkinson’s patients and Rose says the impact of this program has been incredible. “We see this growing each year, and the connections and progress our patients are seeing is

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truly a blessing.” Rock Steady Boxing is a non-contact boxing program for people with Parkinson’s disease. The mission of Rock Steady is to maximize the mental, emotional, and physical potential of people with Parkinson’s.

Another program offered by Witham’s Wellness Department, in partnership with the local Boone County Cancer Society, is Cooking for Wellness and Gentle Stretch Yoga. The classes are free to the community. “We know that cancer touches everyone and we all need to do our best to give our bodies the nutrients it needs, reduce our stress and encourage healing. We feel these two programs do just that,” says Rose.

As for New Year’s resolutions to get in better shape, Rose has some advice: “January is a popular time to begin a new routine or start incorporating health habits. However, wellness is a lifelong journey of small tweaks and daily decisions so we encourage people to move at their own pace,” she says. “We must encourage ourselves and our loved ones to move all day. Stand up, dance, bike, walk, take the stairs, park in the furthest spot in the parking lot, get away from the desk/computer/phone every hour, take a stretch/walk break. Wellness isn’t that one hour in a gym. Wellness is achieved through nutrition, movement, and life balance,” says Rose.

She says Witham Wellness would love to help you in your journey to lifelong health and wellness. Check out www.witham.org or call the Wellness Department at 765-485-8126 for more information on their current offerings and opportunities.

Health and Wellness of Carmel Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? The answer may be functional medicine, which is practiced at Health and Wellness of Carmel located at 11900 N. Pennsylvania, suite 200, in Carmel.

Health and Wellness Medical Director, Dr. Clifford Fetters, describes his practice as a group of medical physicians, nurses and assistants who work in partnership with patients to develop an individualized health plan focused on prevention

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that includes proactive strategies to help individuals achieve and maintain optimal health. “For those who do not enjoy ideal vitality or suffer from health problems and illness, we will determine the root cause of the problem and we will design a treatment program that will allow the body to repair itself. We rarely use prescription drugs for chronic symptoms and illnesses,” says Dr. Fetters.

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chemistries. Dr. Fetters describes Methylation disorders as the most common root cause of many seemly unrelated health problems. In addition to these problems the center specializes in the non-drug treatment for weight loss, irritable bowel, inflamm tory bowel disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and a wide range of ailments.

However, Dr. Fetters calls holistic cancer treatment the most exciting aspect of his practice. “We can now obtain circulating tumor cells from a simple blood test. These cells help us determine the aggressiveness of the tumor, monitor the progression of the cancer, and allow us to design specific the apies for an individual’s cancer. By using state-of-the-art equipment, we are now able to provide oxidative treatment, SOT, IST (Advanced Dendritic Cell Therapy), hyperthermia, SPDT and many natural IV therapeutics.

We are making chemotherapy and radiation therapy obsolete”, says Dr. Fetters.

He says their commitment is to pro-

actively prevent disease and maintain wellness, vitality, and quality of life. “We partner with our patients and base our medical decisions upon the most appropriate treatment, supported by the most up-to-date medical research. Our holistic cancer program is just one of many treatment protocols designed to provide an alternative for our patients. Chemotherapy and radiation can have profound negative effects on the immune system, and our holistic methodologies take that into account,” says the doctor.

“Functional medicine works whether it is a cold or cancer. It makes financia sense in these times for those who have been troubled with repeated illnesses, they are just sick and tired of being sick and tired,” says Dr. Fetters. Functional medicine is now being more readily accepted by some of the largest health care entities in the country. “The year ahead is a great time for people to make changes in their lives, and their health should be one of them,” he says.

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Exhibitors will soon be setting up for the Taste of the Chamber presented by OneZone and their sponsors later this month. Attendees will be invited to mingle with 145 area businesses and organizations, enjoy tastings from the myriad of delicious menu items from the area’s top restaurants, and sample libations from local breweries and wineries.

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his year marks the 13th year for the annual business expo, which is popular with OneZone members and the public alike. It offers a relaxed and casual atmosphere where businesses and organizations can interface with prospective customers, existing clients, and their fellow members. It is a highly-anticipated reunion of sorts for colleagues and friends whose support of the event remains unyielding. This year’s Taste of the Chamber has received a record number of vendor table reservations and expects more than 1,000 attendees to come through the Ritz Charles in Carmel.

“The Taste of the Chamber is truly a 13-year phenomenon,” Mo Merhoff,

OneZone President, expressed. “Years ago, like many chamber organizations, we had a very successful all-day business fair that included lunch sometime in the middle and an after-hours at the end. Like almost all events, sooner or later, it got tired.

Businesses couldn’t take an entire day out of their offices to participate, and neither could attendees.”

Merhoff xplained how they rethought the business fair concept, defin d parameters for success and created a modifi d progressive dinner. “You can eat your way around the Ritz and connect with businesses, friends and potential clients all at the same time. We picked January pretty much because it was opposite our other major fundraiser – the golf outing –

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and because that was when we used to do the Business Fair. But it’s proven to be the perfect pick,” she said.

“Fans of the event will tell you there’s been more bad weather than good over the years – snow, sleet and even below-zero temperatures. But what’s better in the midst of a gray Indiana winter than a warm room full of people and enticing food?”

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit onezonecommerce.com $5 for Chamber members and $10 for guests.

Date: 1/19/2017 Time: 4:30 PM TO 7:30 PM www.onezonecommerce.com

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Songbook Academy “All Stars” in Concert

Prague Philharmonia

The Prague Philharmonia was founded in 1994 by the world-famous conductor Jirí Belohlávek to bring a breath of fresh air to the Czech and the global music scene in the form of a contagious élan and a drive to achieve superior performance of every detail of the score.

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Sara Evans

Each summer, the Great American Songbook Foundation brings together 40 of the nation’s top high school vocalists for its weeklong Songbook Academy® and competition. Only one is named Songbook Youth Ambassador for the coming year, performing with Foundation founder Michael Feinstein at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. On Saturday, Jan. 7, for the fi st time, the foundation will welcome back all seven of its previous Ambassadors when the Center for the Performing Arts presents the inaugural Songbook Academy®All-Stars concert, a special evening of music at the Palladium.

Multi-platinum selling country singer and songwriter, Sara Evans has been called “one of the most compelling vocalists of her generation.” Since emerging in the late 1990s, Evans has had a prolific ecording career that has seen the sale of more than 6 million albums.

She’s had fi e #1 songs, four others appearing in the Top 10, two #1 Billboard Country Albums, fi e appearing on Billboard’s Top 200 allgenre chart and four consecutive RIAA certifi d Gold, Platinum or Multi-Platinum albums.

She’s received awards from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, Billboard Music Award and has garnered nominations for Grammy Awards (2), American Country Awards (10) and CMT Music Awards (5).

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THE PALLADIUM SATURDAY JANUARY, 7 AT 8:00 PM.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra presents Music of the Earth: Mahler’s Das Lied Von Der Erde Mahler’s serene “The Song of the Earth,” drawn from delicate lines of Chinese poetry, is the fi st of his great farewells: music a life giving, life sustaining, live loving as the Earth itself.

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DANCE Russian National Ballet

This ballet double bill represents some of the very best of classical ballet with all of the beauty, grace, and passion that defin s the grand Russian ballet tradition. Growing out of Chopin’s Seventh Waltz, Chopiniana, also known as Les Sylphodes, does not follow a traditional plot but rather it is a poetic portrayal of romance and grace as represented by ballerinas and a young man or poet. Carmen is based on the iconic opera and includes Georges Bizet’s acclaimed score, which was adapted by Rodion Shchedrin in what he called “a creative meeting of the minds.” The ballet tells of Carmen, the fier , freespirited gypsy, and the love triangle between her, the soldier and the toreador.

Upholding the national tradition of classical ballet, Russian National Ballet Theatre brings these ballets to life with impressive technique and artful poise, extravagant sets and gorgeous, colorful costumes. The whole family will enjoy the pageantry and elegance of this magnifi ent performance.

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Five Irish Tenors

Following in the footsteps of Irish Tenor John McCormack, “The Five Irish Tenors” fuses Irish with and boisterous charm, with lyricism, dramatic flair an operatic style to bring you a unique Irish tenor concert experience.

Broadway’s most uproarious family affair! Blushing brides, nervous grooms, overbearing moms, unexpected guests and enough twists and turns to make even the most experienced wedding planner throw up his hands and say ‘HOLY MATRIMONY!’ IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU puts a refreshingly modern spin on the traditional wedding comedy, proving that when it comes to wedding day insanity…it’s all relative!

THE PALLADIUM SATURDAY, FEB. 4 AT 8PM

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Neil Simon’s Rumors

At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden’s Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself.

Though only a fl sh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive.

As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off i to classic farcical hilarity.

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