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Jon Busch: Former MLS All-Star Goalie on Life in Carmel After Pro Soccer After a couple of months of having focused our cover stories on important matters related to COVID-19 and the opening of Hotel Carmichael, it is nice to get back to our roots of introducing to the community remarkable people that choose to live and work in Carmel. This month’s cover story featuring Jon Busch is one such story. Originally from New York, Busch had an outstanding collegiate and professional career in the MLS. Busch was an MLS All-Star and was also named as the MLS’ Goalie of the Year. We talk with Busch about his career in soccer and why he and his wife have decided to make Carmel their home.

Cover Story Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photo // Laura Arick

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Local Farmers Are Absolutely Essential Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Courtesy of CFM and Jennifer Hershberger

Over the past few months, I have written articles supporting the Carmel Farmers Market and highlighting its continued dedication to the community by pivoting around the pandemic to meet the needs of its customers and vendors. Carmel Monthly has been a longtime supporter of the market and the long list of loyal vendors who have come out every Saturday to sell their products, all of whom would have had limited options, or no options, as to where they could sell their products if the market had not been classified as “essential” throughout the shutdown created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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spoke with two Indiana farmers and vendors of CFM about how the pandemic has impacted their ability to process and sell their products—in these cases, meat. As you may recall, once the news hit that national producers were shutting down their processing plants due to COVID-19 contagion, it became nearly impossible to find many meat cuts and chicken products that would have otherwise been in abundance. Couple that with the general public’s overbuying spurts, and voila— there was a shortage.

What many may not realize is what was going on behind the scenes on smallto medium-size local farms during the onset of the pandemic and how much worse it could have been had these local farmers not been paying attention to the impending shift in the nation’s food supply chain.

of hogs and cattle scheduled to butcher,” Phelps shared. “I saw how things were starting to shut down, and I doubled everything I could get in to slaughter.

And then I booked out for one year when usually I would book out six months.

Looking back, if I could’ve, I would’ve added even more. Once the pandemic hit and people panicked, it didn’t take long before we were overwhelmed by the demand. We had people wanting to buy hundreds of pounds of meat, and we had to put a limit on what people could have.”

Phelps added that now—six months later—they’re still working their way through a list of people wanting freezer beef and hogs.

“Six months later and the demand is still there,” Phelps reiterated. “I think people are eating more at home, and the demand for the product from the farmer will continue rather than from the restaurant. We’ve got a restaurant chain that we supply eggs to, and that dropped off to next to nothing— during the shutdown—and went from

Phelps Family Farm and Becker Farms on Pivoting Amid Pandemic

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300 dozen a week to zero. Fortunately, the demand was there from the consumer, and we were able to move those eggs.”

While farms like Phelps and Becker Farms are able to fulfill orders through Market Wagon—a home delivery service that works with local farms and purveyors—they heavily rely on the farmers markets such as CFM to get their products in front of consumers.

“We’ve been doing the markets for 22 years,” Phelps said. “We are always at the Carmel Farmers Market. And just because the meat is available in the grocery stores doesn’t mean you have to drop us. Please stay with the small guys because the small guys still need the support. If everybody goes back to Walmart, there won’t be a little guy.”

Kyle Becker added, “The date I will always look back on is March 13. That’s when Tom Hanks was on all the morning shows announcing he was COVID-19 positive. My first thought was ‘Americans don’t like stress.’ So, I sprang into action.”

Becker explained that prior to the onset of pandemic, 70% of his product was wholesale.

“I started converting to retail packaging.

We knew the schools would be sending everybody home, and so we had to get our products repackaged for retail. Our retail customers—farmers market and Market Wagon—buy 1- to 2-pound packages versus the 10-pound packages we sell to colleges.

My wife [Emily] gets most of the credit because she bagged all of the orders until midnight and would leave at 5 to 6 a.m. to start making deliveries.”

Becker concluded, “We need the customers to have access to us, and Ron [Carter] and the volunteer staff at CFM graciously took the time to open up the market and figured out how to do it responsibly so that the customers can continue to access our products.”

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The Children’s TherAplay Foundation’s Expansion Status Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Submitted

For nearly two decades, The Children’s TherAplay Foundation, a not-for-profit pediatric outpatient clinic, has been providing physical (PT) and occupational therapies (OT) on horseback for children with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, traumatic brain injury and developmental delay. The foundation’s therapists combine a sensory-rich, child-centered clinic with hippotherapy—a treatment strategy incorporating the movement of horses—to provide carefully graded motor, sensory and neurological input. It is one of the few clinics in the country dedicated to providing innovative PT and OT on horseback.

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s the population continues to grow and the needs of The Children’s TherAplay Foundation’s clients also continue to grow, the foundation recognized the need to launch a capital campaign and expansion plan that has been underway—despite a global pandemic—and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.

Progress Amid Pandemic The foundation realized it was outgrowing its current approximately 4,800-square-foot facility located at 9919 Towne Road in West Carmel about five years ago. With the expansion and renovation of its current facility to an impressive 11,000 square feet—upon completion—it will be able to provide more treatments, options and space for growth and development. It will also be the nation’s largest hippotherapy facility in the country, once completed.

The expansion spaces include • More space for dedicated private evaluation and treatment rooms.

• Addition of speech therapy.

• A dedicated life-skills area, equipped with child-sized kitchenette and restroom.

• Centralized administrative offices.

• Spacious waiting rooms and both family-friendly and quiet areas.

• An all-weather event and meeting space, which will serve as a venue for fundraising events.

We spoke with Kathy Pelletier, executive director of The Children’s TherAplay Foundation, about the status of the construction and how the project has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Children’s TherAplay Foundation is such a special place,” Pelletier said. “There are still some great things happening here all the time, and we’ve really been able to navigate the uncertainty of the last several months. Interestingly enough, the road to getting to our [construction] kickoff on April 15 was so bumpy and full of so many starts, stops and delays, it was almost comical when the pandemic started. That was literally the first time our [expansion] project continued to move forward without hinderance.”

Pelletier explained that the project was held up for approximately six months after breaking ground in 2019 due to permitting delays.

“Of all the things that could stop this project from moving forward, a global pandemic was unable to make a dent,” Pelletier expressed. “We actually benefited from it. It just worked out that as we were closed [due to the statewide shutdown] and had switched to telehealth services, the construction crews put the pedal to the medal and probably completed 10 weeks of work in seven to eight weeks.”

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and was experiencing a growth in children and families that it is servicing.

“To give you some perspective, in 2013, we were roughly 300 sessions per month, and currently, we do over 800 sessions per month—continuously,” Pelletier shared. “It got to the point where we were able to do the great things that we’ve been doing [for nearly 20 years], but we were not able to customize our programming to meet each child’s individual needs.”

The foundation has been raising the necessary funds for the $4.4 million Giddy Up & Grow Capital Campaign through more than 170 generous donors and through its partnership with United Way Central Indiana, which offered a million-dollar match for The Children’s TherAplay Foundation fundraising.

But the goal isn’t quite yet met. The campaign is 75% fulfilled, and the foundation is seeking additional donations to raise the remaining balance.

Pelletier explained that naming rights are still available, or folks can make a legacy gift in honor or memory of someone, and all amounts of monetary donations will go a long way to helping the foundation’s fundraising efforts.

The foundation’s annual fundraiser, the 18th Annual Children’s TherAplay Hoe-Down, is scheduled for Saturday, September 26, 2020. However, due to the pandemic-related restrictions and safety protocols, the foundation is expecting the fundraiser to look vastly different from past events.

“The Hoe-Down is a huge part of our annual fundraising, and it’s not something we can take out [of the equation] without it being a tough [financial] blow for us,” Pelletier emphasized. “We have decided to do Hoe-Down Live with a much smaller crowd—200 max— and Hoe-Down at Home as a virtual option to participate in the event. We have so much sponsorship support and enthusiasm from our supporters, so we felt we had to plan something creative and as safe as possible so we can connect with those supporters and raise vital funds for our mission.”

To learn more about The Children’s TherAplay Foundation programs and services, visit childrenstheraplay. org, and to learn more about available naming rights and how to donate, go to childrenstheraplay.org/ capital-campaign.

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CertaPro Painters: Working Hard to Make Your Next Painting Project a Certainty Writer // Neil Lucas • Photography // Laura Arick

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e have all heard that old Ben Franklin saying that nothing is certain in this world except death and taxes. The folks at CertaPro Painters are working diligently to add one more certainty to your life: that you will be highly satisfied after they complete your next residential or commercial painting project. In these times of great uncertainty, it’s good to know there is someone out there working to add some certainty to your life. For Certa Pro, it starts with their mission statement: consistently delivering extraordinary experiences.

About Certa Pro In 1992, CertaPro Painters began with the vision of making residential and commercial painting services easier and more convenient for homeowners and business owners. From the beginning, their promise has been that of certainty, aiming to reassure customers of their quality and expertise. Today they are the largest residential painting contractor in North America. CertaPro operates through a network of locally owned and operated franchises.

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Darr stated that one of the main ways CertaPro creates certainty in its work is by having developed over the years effective systems that help them monitor and manage nearly every aspect of their business. As Darr explained, “Metrics are important to us. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. We like to have processes so that we can create standards and hold teammates accountable for positive results for our clients.”

At the heart of CertaPro’s customer service is what they call the Certainty Service System (CSS). Darr explained that CSS is a six-step process that CertaPro developed to ensure their paint crews can deliver great results to their customers. It begins when the sales associate responsible for the project has an in-person handoff to the head of the paint crew in order to go over all the details of the project. The job site supervisor, who will be wearing a gold shirt, on arrival at the job will walk through the project with the client. At the end of each day, that same individual will go over with the owner the progress made that day and the plan for what will be accomplished the following day. At the end of the project, the site supervisor will do a “pride walk” with the owner to make sure the owner’s expectations have been achieved.

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standard operating procedures where painters are required to wear masks, painters’ temperatures are taken each morning before showing up to a job site and, to the extent possible, painters exercise social distancing. Second, each painting crew carries a bottle of disinfectant and is instructed in proper procedures on its use. In addition, many of the documents that used to be on paper have been converted to digital and are loaded on a tablet.

Another major development by CertaPro to address the issues related to the pandemic was the creation of its unique online estimate system.

CertaPro Offers Both In-Person and Online Estimates Typically, projects begin when a potential client calls the CertaPro office where they are directed to a sales associate who is responsible for the specific area in which the caller lives. The sales associate will then come to the home and look at the project, but prior to arriving, they will call the client to alert them they are on their way. The sales associate will talk with the client, take a look around the

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The status quo during COVID-19 emphasizes the need for distancing and separation. For senior citizens who live by themselves, this new way of life can lead to isolation. Research has shown that isolation for seniors can have adverse effects on physical and mental health.

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Safety Procedures To ensure the safety of its residents, The Stratford has implemented rigorous health and safety standards for team residents and permitted visitors to abide by. This includes disinfection protocols on surfaces throughout the day, daily staff and resident checks, social distancing, full transparency and updates from the community’s leadership team.

“The biggest benefit of having everything our residents need within our community is that they don’t need to leave and unnecessarily put themselves at risk during these uncertain times,” says Sam Carrillo, executive director at The Stratford.

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Dining Experience In addition to an extensive social and wellness calendar, the community’s full-service dining team makes mealtime and grocery shopping easy.

Their menus are personalized for their residents’ tastes, and small and large menu items include starters, soups, salads, sides, casual eats and rotating specials. Residents choose the meals they want, and they’re delivered freshly prepared to their home with no need to maneuver through crowded grocery store isles and checkout lines. However, if they’re craving their favorite snacks or want to prepare a meal at home, the dining department offers grocery delivery twice per week with their requested items dropped off right at their doors.

The “new normal” at The Stratford is everything you want it to be with an entire community of dedicated professionals providing an exceptional and safe experience. There’s no better time to pivot into this all-inclusive lifestyle that aligns with your needs and desires.

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Are you typically more reserved at work but when 5 p.m. strikes, you’re ready to put the pedal to the metal and live your best life? Perhaps you should try kart racing! Now before you shake your head “no” and flip the page, let us introduce you to Carmel residents James “Jim” Enney and his wife, Erin Rake.

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y day, Enney is a CPA, CFO at Central Indiana Hardware and Rake is a dentist at My Dental Care in Fishers, but after hours they are team Dancing Dragon Racing.

They are also parents to three adult children.

How Their Love for Kart Racing Got Started “We started thinking about reliving our youth and doing the things we wanted to do when we were younger but didn’t do, and this was one of the topics,” Enney shared. “We both wanted to be race car

drivers when we were kids but never had the opportunity, and we thought why not [be race car drivers] at this age? Neither of us had any expertise in terms of a mechanical side or had even worked on our own cars per se, but we decided that karting might be a good option.”

The duo went out to New Castle Motorsports Park (NCMP) to check out the kart-racing scene, and they fell in love with it. NCMP is their home base and where they have a year-round garage for their karts.

“We both looked at it and said this was something we can do and acknowledged

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We’ve had other interactions with other IndyCar drivers out there.

They’ve all come up through karting, like many of the folks we race with, and for us having all that help has been huge.”

with two “slow and easy” karts, and with all the safety equipment, accessories and tools, the pair bought into their new hobby with an initial investment of around $18,000–$20,000.

“There was a lot of research, especially when you just jump into it,” Enney shared. “There are options if you want to get into for as little as $5,000 if you buy a used kart and go with a less expensive engine platform. The ‘slow and easy’ platform or Briggs LO206 has a top speed on a straightaway at Newcastle of 55 mph. The next step up, the X30, is a two-cycle, water-cooled platform, and it will push 70–75 mph. The top-of-the-line shifter cart is also water cooled and is a six-speed transmission that puts you between 82–85 mph, and at IMS, some have done over 100 mph.” that it was going to be a steep learning curve,” Enney admitted. “We bought carts in 2015 and had no idea what we were doing and bought a bunch of tools that we had no idea what they were called. It was a challenge because we were fish out of water.”

Rake and Enney explained that there are different engine platforms from “slow and easy” to “insanely fast.” They began

Crushing the Steep Learning Curve The pair had the rare opportunity to have a driving coach come out to NCMP when they first started—IndyCar driver Pippa Mann. Rake and Enney had tweeted out that they were getting into kart racing and that since they had no idea what they were doing, they were going to hire Mann.

To their surprise, she replied and accepted the challenge.

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“She [Mann] agreed to come out,” Enney said. “She’s a driver coach [for kids], and we told her that we were adults and she agreed to come out anyway. Her enthusiasm was fantastic! She gave us a lot of written instructions and even showed us how to carry our helmets ‘the right way’ for pictures. We’ve had other interactions with other IndyCar drivers out there.

They’ve all come up through karting, like many of the folks we race with, and for us having all that help has been huge.”

As the pair has gained more on-track and pit experience with their karts, they have become more confident about driving them, having learned more about what feels right and when it’s time to pit.

“A big example of that is Jim used to be our ‘wheel’ guy and make sure the wheels were on, air pressured and the hubs were on the karts,” Rake shared. “We’ve had some excitement with lug nuts getting loose and wobbly wheels. This year, I’ve been trying to do it myself so that I know when it happens, I can feel it and fix it.”

Racing at New Castle Motorsports Park Enney explained that the races last 12–15 minutes per race, depending on how quickly you get through the course, and Rake added, “It’s a mile or a little over a mile long for each race, depending on the course configurations.”

While each driver races as an individual, the couple thought it would be fun to create a team with all the fun merch and accessories that go with a racing team.

“We thought it would be creative to come up a name, logo, colors and outfits,” Enney said. “It was more for us a tongueand-cheek thing. Some people take it very seriously.”

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There are several different classes to race in based on engine platforms as well as weight and age classes.

“These are fee-based entries at New Castle,” Enney explained. “It’s regional club racing, so it’s $40 or $45 per entry, which isn’t bad for what you get out of the experience.”

As the years have passed, both Enney and Rake have improved their skills tremendously both in the garage as well as on the track. They both attributed a lot of their growth and success to their friend John Martin, an iconic IKart Indianapolis builder/creator who passed in July. Coincidentally, the weekend before he passed, Enney won his first medals.

“John passed away that following Wednesday, so to me, it was a cool experience because he was there with us and that weekend will always be special,” Enney emphasized. “John was a huge influence and helped us become better drivers and mechanics. He had been driving since he was a kid and knew how karts worked, so having his expertise to navigate us through our learning curves was huge.”

Both Rake and Enney encourage anyone who might be interested in kart racing to come out to NCMP and check it out. Feel free to ask questions, and you’ll find the people at NCMP are very welcoming and willing to help. But once you meet on the track, you’d better hit the pedal, or you’ll be left eating someone’s dust!

Rake concluded, “It’s a fun hobby, and we have met some really great folks along the way!” .

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Jon Busch: FORMER MLS ALL-STAR GOALIE ON LIFE IN CARMEL AFTER PRO SOCCER Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Laura Arick and submitted

For all of you soccer fans out there, I caught up with Carmel resident and former Major League Soccer (MLS) veteran and All-American collegiate goalkeeper Jon Busch to talk about his 21-year career as a pro and why he and his wife, Nicole, decided to settle down in Carmel after his retirement from professional soccer. Busch was an MLS All-Star and also named as the 2008 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year. Busch has grown his businesses here in the city and coaches both youth and adult goalkeepers. It’s worth noting that Busch recently was inducted into the University of North Carolina at the Charlotte 49ers inaugural athletics Hall of Fame class, which commemorated the school’s 50th anniversary as a Division I program.

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usch was the program’s second player to earn All-American recognition and led the 49ers to the NCAA soccer finals in 1996 before embarking on his minor and major league career.

REALIZING HIS PASSION EARLY ON IN LIFE Busch was born in Queens, New York.

His family moved to Virginia when Busch was about 10, and he began to realize his passion for soccer.

“I have an older brother, Mathew, who was striker [forward], and we built a goal in our backyard and he put me in it

and started taking shots at me,” Busch shared. “For some crazy reason, I enjoyed it. There really weren’t goalie coaches like there are today, so the little bit of coaching I would get was from my brother’s buddy, Joey, who was a goalie for the high school team. He would come to my practices now and again and would teach me a little bit about goalkeeping.”

Busch continued, “I played in the field and as goalkeeper until about age 14 to 15, and then I realized two things right about then: One, I was halfway decent at this goalkeeping thing and wanted to focus more on that, and two, I learned that I really don’t like running. I figured

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the ball’s eventually coming to the goalie so I’m the smarter person. Now, whether or not I could save it is a whole different story.”

Busch’s family moved to Pennsylvania during his middle school years and then back to New York to Albany where he finished high school.

“When I was in high school, I played for youth national teams,” Busch said.

“I was very fortunate that I played for two straight years with the U-17 national team. We went to the FIFA U-17 World Championship in 1993 in Japan. That was pretty cool. From there, I went to the U-20 national team.”

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forming keeper, Busch had played for the Columbus Crew, Chicago Fire, San Jose Earthquakes and the Indy Eleven.

“My last two years I played here for the Indy Eleven,” Busch stated. “I knew coming towards the end of my career that I wanted to start learning the coaching and administrative side of the game. The Indy Eleven coach at the time asked if I’d be interested in coming over [to Indy] as a player/assistant coach. I jumped at the chance and played for two years while learning the responsibilities as goalie coach and second assistant coach.”

SETTING DOWN ROOTS IN CARMEL

After high school, Busch went to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) on a full-ride scholarship.

“I WANT TO GIVE BACK EVERYTHING THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME FROM DIFFERENT GOALKEEPER COACHES. IT IS MY TURN TO GIVE BACK.”

PURSUING A DREAM TO GO PRO Busch worked with UNCC goalkeeper coach Eric Vaughter—an icon in the nation’s soccer world.

“I was very fortunate to work with ‘E.V.’ [Eric Vaughter],” Busch expressed. “He is like my second father, and we still talk pretty much every day. A lot of pros would come down to UNCC to train with him. I remember after my freshman season, there were like seven professional goalkeepers that started showing up and training with us.”

Busch’s relationship with Vaughter and his commitment to improving his game eventually led him to his dream job—goalkeeper on an MLS team.

“I played close to 150 professional minor league games before I got drafted by the Columbus Crew [Ohio] in 2002,” Busch said. “I was there for five years total before I got traded to Chicago Fire. What was cool about Columbus was they had the first soccer-specific stadium in the MLS. And even though I was disappointed at first to be traded, I had three fantastic years in Chicago, and we had a fantastic team at that point.”

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At this point in Busch’s career, he and his wife had decided it was time to set down some roots and call Carmel their home.

“My wife and I love the Midwest,” Busch emphasized. “She had been building her personal stylist/branding specialist business here, and we think that Carmel is very affordable and comfortable. The pace of life is great here.”

Knowing that he’d always wanted to be a goalkeeper coach, Busch has been focused on developing goalkeepers at both the youth and adult levels.

“When I first moved here, I did a little part-time work for the Indy [Indiana] Fire club,” Busch explained. “I want to give back everything that was given to me from different goalkeeper coaches. It is my turn to give back.”

Busch serves as goalkeeper coach for the Indiana Fire professional team and the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis men’s and women’s programs. He also established High Performance Goalkeeping, which makes goalkeeper gloves that Busch designs and sells to youth and adult goalkeepers at an affordable price. His company offers discounts to the local area youth clubs to help parents with the cost of the gloves.

Busch also established his High Performance Goalkeeping with Jon Busch—a coaching academy where he offers private lessons and group sessions.

For more information about HPG, visit hpgoalkeeping. com or visit jonbuschgoalkeeping.com for more information on Busch’s coaching services.

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Election 2020: What You Need to Know to Safely Cast Your Vote Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Submitted

There has been a good deal of information posted on social media regarding in-person and absentee voting for the upcoming general election, and most of it I found to be utterly confusing or partially inaccurate. To set the record straight, I contacted the Hamilton County Election Administrator Beth Sheller to learn more about how registered voters can safely vote amid the pandemic, where they can vote and how early they can vote to avoid long queues on Nov. 3, 2020.

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isted on the Hamilton County Election Office webpage are the 12 qualifiers for absentee voting.

Sheller explained the difference between no-excuse mail-in voting (that Gov. Holcomb rejected for the general election) and absentee voting.

“Absentee voting is always available for people who qualify,” Sheller said.

“Absentee requires you to request and complete an application for an absentee ballot. With absentee, you have to have a reason to request and mark one of the 12 listed reasons for us to send you a ballot to vote absentee. No-excuse mail-in voting is where our office would mail every registered voter an application and they wouldn’t have to have a qualifying reason.”

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Sheller emphasized that the deadline for absentee ballots is Oct. 22, 2020, but warned that waiting until the 11th hour could be too late. By the time the ballot would be mailed and received, then completed and mailed to her office, it may not arrive on or before Election Day. Ballots received after Nov. 3 will not be counted.

“We’re accepting applications right now and have already received well over 7,000 absentee ballot applications,” Sheller said. “We will start sending out ballots on Sept. 14. If you get your application in now and by Sept. 18, you’ll be among the first ones to get a ballot. The state requires that any applications we receive by Sept. 18 must go out [via mail]

by Sept. 19.”

I received some emails from folks wanting to know the election office’s definition of “confined” and if claiming confinement due to COVID-19 is a legitimate reason to apply for absentee or would it be considered voter fraud.

Being a high-risk member of the population myself, I thought it prudent to ask, on behalf of these readers, how the election office views the definition of confinement.

“I’ve had a lot of people call me and ask me that question,” Sheller stated.

“We’ve also had a lot of people marking ‘confined’ on their ballots. I ask people, ‘Are you going out to the grocery store or to church or going out of your house at all?’ and all but one person that I’ve asked told me that they’ve gone absolutely nowhere since March. If you’re going out to the grocery store, then you are not truly ‘confined.’ If you are truly confining, then you can mark ‘confined’ as one of the reasons to apply for an absentee ballot.”

Expect Social Distancing and Safety Protocols at the Polls In-person voters can expect the same distancing and safety protocols that they experienced at the polls during the primary election with the added requirement of masks so as long as the governor’s mask mandate remains in effect.

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Absentee requires you to request and complete an application for an absentee ballot.

With absentee, you have to have a reason to request and mark one of the 12 listed reasons for us to send you a ballot to vote absentee.” we will need from the primary,” Sheller confirmed. “When people walk into a polling place, they will automatically be socially distanced by the Xs on the floor that will be 6 feet apart. There will be hand-sanitizing stations for poll workers and voters, and yes, right now we are required to wear masks—poll workers and voters. We also have the sneeze shields that you saw during the primary. They’re

like the shields that you see in stores [and will be used] where the person checks in and signs the poll pads. We have a special sanitizer that the state provided for the machines and poll pads, and we will be sanitizing those as much as possible.

Gloves and masks will be provided to the poll workers. I tell people that it is safer to vote in person than when they go to the grocery store or other places because of all the measures that we are taking.”

Take Advantage of Early Voting Hamilton County is offering eight early voting locations for this general election.

“There will be two [locations] in Carmel, two in Fishers and two in Westfield,” Sheller explained. “These will be available two weeks before the election. All of the sites

For more information on how to register to vote, how to apply for an absentee ballot and for all other election-related questions and topics, visit www.hamiltoncounty.in.gov/222/Current-Election-Information.

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and times are located on our website. Of course, early voting will be available here at the judicial center where we always have it, and then at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds, we will have an entire month of early voting available beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 6. We added at least 10 poll sites, and I’m hoping that with truly eligible absentee voting and early voting, the polls won’t be as crowded on Nov. 3. There are 124 polling locations in our county, and 33 are in Carmel.”

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