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Developing Future Business Leaders of America This month’s cover features a story on ZCHS’s Business Professionals of America club. The group has successfully competed in national competitions. Its significance can be seen in the fact that the school has recently created a Leadership class that is based on the framework of BPA. Members of BPA have also become involved with an internship program with zWORKS. Our cover photo was shot at zWORKS and features two ZCHS seniors and BPA members, Katie Anderson and Will Hobrick, who competed for BPA last year.

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Staying Strong in Zionsville

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A Musical Showdown to Rock Zionsville: Beatles v. Stones

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14 Century Club Looking for a Few Good Men 18 Celebrating Ten Years of Artomobilia 19 A Tribute to Pete Estes: An Iconic Man and his Car 22 The Evolution of the Car Culture 26 Special Section: Home Improvement 34 Writing in the Real World 38 A Solar Eclipse Extravaganza

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Body Outfitters announced they are moving from their studio on Cedar Street to a new location in Zionsville. We talked with owner Mark Moreland about the decision to move and why it was important to remain in Zionsville where Moreland and his family live.

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oreland opened his personal training studio in the heart of the village seven years ago. Body Outfitters offers its clients personal training, small group training, family workouts, nutrition counseling and sports specialists for the professional athlete preparing for the next level of competition.

“We are predominantly a personal training studio,” Moreland said. “About 85% of our business is one-on-one or two-on-one training sessions. We do have a group

product that has a variety of intensity levels, but it is a smaller percentage of what we do. When we opened, there wasn’t anything in the village like us. Having grown up in this town, I had this idea that the people who owned stores and businesses here in town were like local celebrities to me as a small kid. I recognized that they worked hard and contributed to the town.

I worked for the clock shop and other local businesses growing up, and so when I had the opportunity to open my business and try to contribute back to the town

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As a testament to the town and the clients, Moreland said he had no intention of ever moving his studio out of town when he decided it was time to grow.

“A trend that I saw as a trainer and manager was creating career opportunities for people who wanted to make training their profession,” he said. “I’ve watched a lot of talented trainers who wanted to take care of people have to go get ‘real’ jobs when they got married and started their families because the indus-

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try didn’t support them unless they owned their own place. We said, ‘Can we figure out a business model that allows people to make enough money to stay in the industry?’ If they are ambitious enough, some trainers will stay with us long enough until they are ready to springboard and start their own thing. As we grew, we realized that this model really works. Ultimately, the clients had to decide if what we offer is valuable or not, and after seven years, the answer we got is yes.”

Moreland further explained that the goal is not just to grow the business but create opportunities for some of the trainers to move into some management positions within the new facility. He said, “The balance and the challenge that I love about this process is how to grow while remaining intimate and small. What makes our environment feel small and intimate is that our clients are getting results from a trainer that they trust and build chemistry with. From an owner’s point of view, I will always be a trainer first, take care of my employees second and grow my business third, in that order. It has to start with the clients and the service.”

Body Outfitters will be moving to the new location located in South Village in September 2017. The new location will offer additional parking and more restroom and shower facilities while the cardio area will be doubled in size. Clients are able to utilize the cardio equipment, at no additional cost, whenever the studio is opened.

Moreland emphasized that regardless if you train once a week or three times a week, the clients are invited and encouraged to use the cardio equipment at their leisure. Moreland will be hiring three more trainers when they move to the new location and mentioned that the clients will be able to take advantage of the connectivity to the fitness trail and ride or bike from the studio.

“I see a lot of advantages to moving to this location, especially as the area develops,” Moreland expressed.

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Celebrating 100 years of Lions International, the Zionsville Lions Club is pleased to announce this year’s Fall Festival theme, Yo! Ho! Ho! And a Park Full of Fun. The club, comprised of approximately 150 members, will host the 64th Annual Zionsville Lions Club Fall Festival September 8-10 with new attractions added to the traditional weekend festivities. The annual festival attracts approximately 25,000 attendees throughout the festival weekend.

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he weekend kicks off with the VIP Carnival on Friday, September 8. This unique opportunity provides a night of fun for special needs individuals, their families and caregivers. In partnership with the HAWK Foundation, the Zionsville Lions Club offers this opportunity every year and draws in families from all over the state.

The beloved Fall Festival Parade kicks off on Saturday, September 9 at 10 a.m.

The parade will begin at the Zionsville Community High School parking lot and will march down the historic brick street in downtown Zionsville, ending in the Lions Club park. Festival-goers of all ages will have several options to choose from for entertainment, shopping and food.

The Carnival and Midway will operate Friday from 6-11 p.m., Saturday from noon-11 p.m. and Sunday from 12-6 p.m.

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department, Zionsville Fire Department and Zionsville Police Department will present a Safety Fair with demonstrations on Saturday, September 9. The Kids’ Corner will have bounce houses, slides and interactive booths. The Pet Pavilion will feature vendors with a vast selection of items and products for your pets throughout the weekend and will feature live acts from Silly Safaris on Sunday. Live music from The Impalas

will entertain the crowds on Saturday night from 7-11 p.m. in the adult lounge.

The Lounge is open from 5:30-11 p.m.

The young adults in the community are invited to a drug and alcohol-free dance party in the gazebo on Saturday evening and will be entertained by the cool, rhythmic stylings of DJ Blazin Traxx.

The Silent Auction boasts a plethora of unique, must-have items this year.

The Lions Club is still accepting items for the auction, which will be conducted from 2-6 p.m. Saturday. However, early bird bidding will begin online August 1 at qtego.net/auc/zlc. All donations are tax-deductible. Some of the items that will be available for auction include a signed T.Y. Hilton Colts jersey, a signed 16x20 photo of the infamous Bob Knight “chair-throw,” a signed Pete Rose jersey and a signed Johnny Lattner 1953 Heisman Notre Dame jersey.

Mike Moran, the 1st Vice-President of the Zionsville Lions Club, is excited to be overseeing the silent auction for the second time and emphasized that it takes the assistance and dedication of his fellow Lions to pull off the auction and the entire festival from top to tail.

“I really enjoy being part of such a great organization,” Moran said. “The Lions Club volunteers work tirelessly at putting together this wonderful tradition, in addition to the other events and

works that the club does throughout the year. What people may not realize is the amount of service hours and maintenance that goes into keeping the park in such excellent condition so that our park partners, residents and visitors can continuously enjoy the park’s amenities.

The club does not receive local funding outside of our fundraising efforts and donations received, so the festival and silent auction is our primary revenue generator for the funds that are necessary to maintain this park that is truly a remarkable treasure to not only the Lions Club but to the entire town and those who visit it.”

New to the festival this year will be a Wine and Canvas program on Sunday afternoon along with the return of the 15th American Dream Car Show and another day of carnival rides, arts and craft displays to discover. And of course, there’s the tasty carnival food to enjoy.

The ceremonial crowning of the Miss Fall Festival’s Outstanding Teen Pageant winner will take place the following Sunday, September 17.

For more information on the Fall Festival, visit zionsvillelions.com. Don’t miss an opportunity to start your bids early. The online auction begins August 1 at qtego.net/auc/zlc.

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s the summer winds down, the Zionsville Performing Arts Center (ZPAC) will host a musical showdown of some of pop and rock and roll’s greatest hits by the renowned tribute bands, Abbey Road and Satisfaction/The International Rolling Stones Show.

“Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown” performs at ZPAC on Sunday, August 20 at 7:30 p.m. Fans of the iconic bands, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, will be entertained by the tribute bands’ performances that are guaranteed to invoke the argument of who was the best band of all time.

The Beatles and the Rolling Stones crossed paths on the music charts 53 years ago, and the debate of who was the greatest has carried on over the generations. The “on-stage musical showdown” between Abbey Road and Satisfaction/The International Rolling Stones Show will feature beloved songs spanning the Beatles’ career as well as offer a faithful rendition of the music and style of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the bad boys of the British Invasion.

The genesis of the show came from the fact that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones never performed on the same night at the same venue. Members of both bands thought fans would be enthralled to see the performers portraying their favorite music gods “duel it out” on the same stage. “Music fans never had a chance to see the Beatles and the Rolling Stones perform on the same marquee,” said Chris Legrand, who plays Mick Jagger in the show. “Now music aficionados can watch this debate play out on stage.

The fans are in for an incredible night of music.” The Zionsville show is part of a 125-stop tour of the U.S., Puerto Rico,

Mexico and Canada and has been touring since 2011.The show also performs longterm residencies for a number of the Harrah’s Casino properties. The production includes some of the more popular songs from the two rock pioneers and covers the scope of their musical careers, although the set list for Satisfaction usually includes Rolling Stones songs up to the 1980s. During the two-hour show, the bands perform three sets each and end

the night with an all-out encore involving both bands. There’s a lot of good-natured jabbing between the bands as well.

“Without Beatlemania, the Stones might still be a cover band in London,” said Chris Overall, who plays Paul McCartney.

“There’s no question that the Beatles set the standard.”

Excited to be hosting this incredible night of nostalgia and high-energy entertainment is Rachel Vining, ZPAC Director.

Vining emphasized that the performing arts center is not just for the students and their families but is a place for all members of the community to come and

enjoy great performances and speakers.

Vining is constantly exploring ways to utilize the venue in ways to make it profitable and to bring more enrichment to the community while maintaining affordability for the patrons. “The vision of our programming is to bring events to the community of high interest in addition to the events that showcase our students,” Vining stated. “We have in the past and are looking to continue to incorporate our students when possible at the other events that take place at our center.

Over a year ago, we did an event with Vic Wooten, a renowned bass player and multi-GRAMMY Award winner. Wooten came in and did some workshops with our band students, and afterward, they performed with him. It was a fantastic show. That’s the direction that we would like to continue moving as a school district and as a performing arts center.

“The support of these events financially is important to our department and programming. The ticket sales are how we are able to continue to bring that caliber of artists and shows like ‘Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown’ to Zionsville. I’m excited about this show for multiple reasons, but I am also excited for our technical team. We’ve got a great sound tech and front-of-house engineer for this show.

There is a lot of cool stuff coming in with the backlines of the show. It is going to be really fantastic.”

Tickets are $35-$65 and may be purchased online at zvilleperformingarts. org, by phone at 317-733-4833 or at the box office. The Zionsville Performing Arts Center is located at 1000 Mulberry St. in Zionsville. The show is appropriate for all ages. Visit the show website at Beatlesvs-Stones.com.

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ZCC is Looking for a Few Good Men Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // JJ Kaplan and submitted

The Zionsville Century Club (ZCC) is a group of men interested in supporting our local community in the greater Zionsville and Indianapolis area. The members come from all walks of life and varying financial backgrounds. As individuals, it is challenging to make a meaningful impact in our communities, but as a group, these members have the ability to contribute to the growth of our community in ways that were never thought possible.

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he genesis of ZCC came from the “giving circles” model that originated in Jackson, Michigan, in 2006. The “100 Women Who Care” group started the fundraising model of bringing 100 individuals together in a single meeting and raising funds for the nonprofit of their choice.

The founder of ZCC, Todd Sullivan, got the idea from his mother who is in a chapter in Dayton, Ohio, that has grown to over 200 members in their ladies group.

Sullivan seized the opportunity to pull together a few of his local friends and create ZCC. Word spread among the local gentlemen, and the group has raised nearly $70,000 for 11 nonprofits.

The goal is to get 100 men to give $100 at every quarterly meeting to a nonprofit that impacts the people of central Indiana. All charities and organizations up for consideration must be in the Indianapolis area, a non-profit 501(c)(3) and non-controversial.

“We come together and drop our charity or nonprofit name in a hat, and we pick three of those to present at the meeting that night,” Sullivan explained. “Each person representing those three gets five minutes to pitch their organization. Some members have a personal connection to the group that they are presenting, and some don’t, but they believe in the mission of that organization.

“The club is not just for Zionsville residents. It’s open to men from all of central Indiana. The idea is that we want to keep the money here in the central Indiana communities in which we live. It’s a simple concept. We are bringing together local men for one hour, and we all write a check that night. We vote, the winner is announced and everyone writes a check to that organization. Afterward, we deliver the checks to the organization, and it is a great feeling when we do that.”

Layth Hussain, Carmel resident and ZCC member, joined the club nine months ago, and his organization was a recent winner this past May. Hussain is the president of Helping Challenged Children,

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Inc. (HCCI). His organization was awarded $6,900. HelpingChallengedChildren.org was founded in 2002, and its volunteers and supporters have raised more than $130,000 to help children in need across Indiana purchase medical equipment that their insurance doesn’t cover.

“People ask me if there is payment for the work that we do at Helping Challenged Children, and I reply with, ‘Yes, every time that I get a picture of one of the kids from their parents, that’s the payment,’ Hussain said. “I use the analogy that I work to feed the family and volunteer at HCCI to feed my soul. We’re not a big organization. There are 10 of us in total. Together, we spend six months out of the year planning our one fundraising event in March. It’s a bowling event at Woodland Bowl, and we raise $20,000$30,000 in addition to other one-offs that we do.

“As word has gotten out about us, more families have come to us for help, and we ran out of funds last year, which was very difficult to have to turn people down. That led me to explore other fundraising mechanisms. In the meantime, I was recruited

Helping Challenged Children, Inc. members at their annual fundraiser.

to ZCC by a couple of the members, Rob Mutzl and Brian Pyne. They invited me to a meeting and told me to bring a blank check. I went out to the meeting and met Todd who explained that they wanted to broaden their scope and reach the 100 members quickly, so they were looking for guys to join from the surrounding areas.”

Hussain said that he was immediately sold on the concept of ZCC at his first

meeting and was thrilled when his organization was voted on this last May. “The hardest part is presenting why your organization is more deserving than the other two awesome organizations. I explained that we had run out of funds, and we had pending projects such as a set of hearing aids for a child, adaptive trikes for a couple of children and a learning aid for a family through the Indiana School

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Helping Challenged Children Inc ($6900)-Layth Hussain

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Ascent 121 ($7800)-Bob Sheridan

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College Mentors for Kids ($8,400)-Brian Pyne

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Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Indianapolis ($8,200)-Chris Jackson

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Noble of Indiana ($6,800)-Mark Plassman

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Rock Steady Boxing ($6,700)-Randy Judd

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the HAWK Foundation ($5,600)-Paul Dreier

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Little Wish Foundation ($5,000)-Joe Bevelheimer

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Just Win Ruby ($4200) Dave Campbell

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DAMAR Services ($2,200)-Jay Baker

for the Blind. With those funds, we were able to fulfill those requests, and it was just a great feeling to be able to do that.”

Ascent 121 was delighted to be the recipient of a ZCC donation. Ascent 121 provides long-term trauma recovery services for teen survivors of sex trafficking. When thinking about this issue, most people imagine that it only happens on the other side of the world. But the reality is that it happens right here in Indiana every day. Ascent 121 serves over 100 kids a year.

Most are teenage girls, but there are boys as well, and they see kids as young as 10 or 11 years old. Most kids spend six to 12 months in their care. One component of Ascent 121’s service that is unique is that right from day one, each of the kids has an individual therapist and a family therapist. Personal recovery is the focus for one, while family therapy is the focus for the other. “Funds from ZCC allow Ascent 121 to extend the scope of their

survivor services, both in the number of kids they can serve as well as the length of services provided for them,” explained Megan McGuire, CEO of Ascent 121. “Our agency is largely funded by the generosity of donors like ZCC. We are so grateful for their support of our work.”

The club has been meeting at the Zionsville American Legion every quarter and invites men who are interested in learning more about ZCC and what they do to attend their upcoming meeting and 1st annual cookout August 10 at the Zionsville American Legion. There will be food and drinks available from 6:30 pm on.

The meeting will follow the cookout from 8:30-9:30 p.m.

For more information, visit zionsvillecenturyclub. com. For more information on Helping Challenged Children, Inc., visit helpingchallengedchildren. org, and for more information on Ascent 121, visit ascent121.org.

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Artomobilia Writer // Janelle Morrison

The annual Carmel Artomobilia event has boasted one of the most eclectic gatherings of original period-correct automobiles anywhere, including Supercars, Exotic, Sports Cars, Classics, Racers, Historically Preserved, Indiana Built, Sedan/Coupe and more. The event brings in an estimated 15,000 spectators and enthusiasts into the heart of the city of Carmel.

The event’s organizers and sponsors are celebrating the 10th year of this remarkable display of automotive ingenuity and design.

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his year’s Artomobilia will take place Saturday, August 26 and will feature approximately 400 cars representing more than 26 classes, including the addition of a brand new class, the Resto-Mod Class. This new exhibition of vehicles will feature custom-built vehicles by Troy Trepanier of Rad Rides by Troy who is judging the new class.

Enthusiasts and collector cars come in all shapes and sizes, and the car corrals feature brand-specific examples across 26 different corrals. While these are not formally judged, they represent the best examples of what is going on in national and local car clubs as well as provide a great opportunity to see firsthand how you can participate in the car hobby.

Artomobilia Cofounder John Leonard is excited to share the event’s 10th anniversary with the 50th anniversary of the Chevy Camaro, including a display of various models of the iconic performance car, including a 1967 Chevy Camaro RS that was owned by the late Pete Estes, courtesy of his son, Bill Estes.

“We will see the return of the antique trucks class,” Leonard said. “Most of the classes are largely unchanged, but we’ve

added some additional cars that haven’t been seen in those classes. We will have a Porsche Singer coming this year. It’s a little bit like a Resto-Mod except that it’s built using the best of Porsche’s parts – body, suspension, brakes, etc. That car is coming up from Jeffersonville and is worth between $400,000-$500,000. It is sure to be a real crowd pleaser. We will have a lot of other vehicles on display that are historically significant as well.”

Over the years, Artomobilia organizers have and continue to collaborate with local galleries and artists to represent the automotive art and design, embracing the local art and design found within the Carmel Arts and Design District.

The Hoosier Salon, located in the Arts and Design District, will be featuring an invitational paint-out during Artomobilia where artists will be able to compete in a contest to earn the commission for the official promotional artwork for next year’s promotional materials of the event.

Adding another artistic component to Artomobilia, live music and area bands will perform at various locations throughout the event on Saturday. The businesses and restaurants are also a major component of what makes the event attractive to attendees and unique from other car shows around the nation. Participants and owners of the cars on display continue to enjoy the amenities provided by the Carmel Arts and Design District.

When asked what it meant to him to be celebrating 10 years of the Carmel Artomobilia, Leonard said, “Ten years is a fascinating milestone. We’ve had a lot of growth over the years. Predominantly over the last five years, we’ve seen a lot of growth on a lot of fronts. We have a lot more people from the local community involved in the event, and we’re getting a lot more attention both from within the greater metropolitan Indianapolis community as well as from around the country as we begin to bring on supporting organizations like Barrett Jackson and RM Sotheby’s Auctions.”

For more information and a list of events, visit carmelartomobilia.com.

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stes was an engineer who rose through the ranks of General Motors (GM) to be its 15th president. He was a true pioneer in the auto industry. Estes’ passion for machinery and “things that moved” began at a young age for the future visionary.

Eventually, after graduating high school, he applied to General Motors Institute (GMI) and was assigned to GM Research Laboratories. Estes apprenticed under the founder of the laboratories, Charles F. “Boss” Kettering, a renowned inventor.

Estes left the labs in 1946 after completing four years at GMI and two years at the University of Cincinnati where he earned his degree. He took a job as a motor development engineer at Oldsmobile.

There he had the opportunity to work on the famous Olds Rocket V8 engine, the industry’s first compression engine. He advanced through several promotions to assistant chief engineer at Oldsmobile.

In 1956, Estes was appointed to chief engineer by Semon E. Knudsen, the general

Fifty years ago, an American icon was born when the very first 1967 Chevrolet Camaro was sold.

Since then, more than five million units have been sold of the six generations of the Camaro. The car’s rich history and evolution over the past five decades are being honored at this year’s Carmel Artomobilia with a reverent and remarkable display that will feature the 1967 Chevy Camaro RS that was owned by the man who put the Camaro on the map, the late Mr. Elliott (Pete) M. Estes.

manager of Pontiac. At the age of 45, Estes was appointed as GM vice president and general manager of Pontiac. He was the youngest general manager at any of the GM car divisions. Under Estes, Pontiac’s share of the domestic market rose from 6.4 percent in 1961 to 9.5 percent in 1965.

Estes was elevated to general manager of Chevrolet in 1965.

During that year, Chevrolet built three million cars and trucks, the first single manufacturer in history to accomplish that in one year. After Ford debuted its very successful Mustang, Estes countered with the Camaro.

The iconic car became and has remained one of America’s most popular production line sports cars. It is one of the many accomplishments that have etched Estes’ name in the history books.

A local celebrity in his own right, Bill

Estes, president of the Bill Estes dealerships located in Central Indiana, shared memories of his father and the fateful night around the family’s dinner table when the car was dubbed with its illustrious name.

“I came for dinner one night, and it was just my mother and [me].

My brothers had gone away to school, and my dad pulled this piece of paper out of his pocket and said, ‘We’ve got to name this new little car that’s coming out,’” Bill said. “He had three names listed on this piece of paper, and he showed it to my mother and [me]. My mother liked the name Camaro that was listed and asked my dad what it meant. He replied that it meant a warm, friendly friend, and she said, ‘That’s it. That’s a perfect name.’ Months went by before we realized that the car had actual-

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LEFT: The next generation: Bill Estes and son, Zak Estes.

Interior of Estes’ 1967 Chevy Camaro RS which will be displayed at Artomobilia

ly come out and was called the Camaro, so that’s how it started.

“Chevrolet was losing some market share in the sports car area when the Mustang came out, and so my dad and his people identified the need and decided that they needed to bring the Chevy Camaro out. It has outsold the Mustang for many years, and it does have an unbelievable heritage.”

Bill went on to explain that there has been and continues to be a segment of our society that loves sports cars. While there is a market for the foreign and other domestic high-performance vehicles, there remains a niche in our society that loves the Camaro and represents the under $100,000 demographic. The Camaro continues to perform and enthrall this niche which is why it continues to have success beyond five decades.

Bill himself has kept four Camaros in his personal collection, one for each of the years that his three children were born and his father’s beloved 1967 Chevy Camaro RS. “I’ve always loved those [Camaros],” he emphasized. “It is just a great car. I do have my dad’s car. This will actually be on display at this year’s Artomobilia. He bought it as a company car and kept it. When he retired in Arizona, he kept in out there.

Sadly, he drove it to the airport the day that he passed away. It was a favorite car of his to drive all of the time. People thought that he would have driven a Cadillac or some other big car, but he loved to jump in that old Camaro and drive it.”

Pete also owned the one and only Chevy Camaro SS Convertible. Bill told us that he found his dad’s car but gave it a pass when he saw the opening bid on the Mecum auction page.

“My dad did have the only SS convertible that was ever made,” he confirmed. “It was a company car, and the engineering department made it for him. Those company cars are usually torn apart and sold as a ‘normal’ car and not as a design car. Eventually, somebody bought it and reconstructed it as an SS convertible. One day, an associate called me and said that I ought to buy my dad’s old car that was in a Mecum auction in Illinois, so my CFO and I got online to look into it, and the opening bid was $560,000.” Bill paused and then resumed.

“We promptly hung up the phone. At least I know that the car still exists, and there is a title with my dad’s name on it.”

Bill spoke about his dad with great pride and respect. The close-knit Estes family was supported by a devoted and caring father who was also an American innovator and brilliant industry leader. Bill shared a light-hearted story that displayed the bond and respect that the young Estes had in his teenage years for his father.

“I owned a baby blue Pontiac Tempest with small hub caps in those days,” Bill recalled. “You’d never know that it was a hot rod and that I had slicks in the back in the car. One Sunday morning, I decided to go to the local race track and drag it, just to see what it was like. I went down there, and they put me in whatever class they put me in because it was ‘just a stock Tempest.’ I went about 20 mph faster than everyone else, so I came back around and got in line, waiting to go again.

“I got out of the car and was standing and talking to a couple of people. I looked across the race track into the stands.

There was only one person sitting in those stands. It was my dad. I got into my car, stopped at the church, took off the slicks and put them in the trunk. I went home, and never was there a word spoken [about it] between my dad and [me] after that. I enjoy telling these stories about my dad.

Looking back at it all, it’s pretty neat. He was an industrialist and an innovator. I am obviously very proud of him.”

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A local automobile enthusiast, Les Acree is a veteran of car shows and fervently looks forward to showing his vehicles at Artomobilia every year. Acree’s collection includes original cars and trucks as well as RestoMods.

RestoMods have the timeless appearance of the original but have the more modern, high-performance parts of today.

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rtomobilia is one of the premier car shows anywhere in my opinion,” Acree said. “It involves not only car enthusiasts, but the city plays into it as well. It is a well-organized event, and the venue of downtown Carmel is an outstanding venue for people to show their automobiles.

There is a variety of automobiles at this event, and I believe that it has become the car culture mecca in Indiana. It also features quality cars that are usually several notches above most other car shows.

It’s a large show with over 400 vehicles, and it rivals some of the national shows.”

Acree has attended over the last few years and always bring something different to Artomobilia. This year, he is bringing a classic 1948 Chevrolet Hauler with a 1959 Corvette loaded on it.

“This year, I wanted to do something different that I think will appeal to a large demographic,” he said. “I think people will enjoy seeing the classic hauler with a classic car on it. Being there, supporting the event and supporting the city of Carmel are what it’s about for me.”

Acree talked about his affinity for Corvettes and the role that RestoMods will play in the future of the car collecting hobby.

“The future of the Corvette is already on the drawing board,” he stated. “The Corvette’s evolutions will take it from a front engine layout to a mid-engine layout. If you look at the Corvette that you can buy today for $100,000, it rivals a car that you buy in Europe that costs $300,000-$500,000. The Corvette’s technology, performance and styling rival its

European counterparts. There have been several iconic Corvettes over the years.

What I am really into now is RestoMods.

I have original Corvettes in my collections, but I will take a Corvette that is not restorable, and I RestoMod it using the original body but all modern parts.

“If you look at the hobby going forward, I believe that the RestoMod is going to be a significant part of the hobby. It is already bringing in huge dollars for the ones that are done right with the look and feel of the older car with all of the modern components of the new Corvette, such as Bluetooth technology, modern suspensions, brakes, air conditioning and everything that is available in today’s market.”

Acree talked shared his thoughts on the future of car shows like Artomobilia and on the upcoming gener-

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“Most collectors or enthusiasts start when they are young. They get the bug about cars,” Acree expressed. “Whether they grew up around cars that their father had or just grew up in the car culture, it’s started by being exposed to it in some way. I grew up in Greenwood, Indiana, and was kind of a ‘gear head’ even before I was a teenager. I have several Corvettes and old trucks in my collection now. I enjoy old GMC and Chevrolet pickup trucks, and I have some old semis.

“I believe that there are cars that are meaningful to some people that maybe belonged to their father or grandfather.

Some people grew up in Chevrolet or Ford families. Then there are some people who specialize in a genre of cars that are of particular interest to them, but if you are a true enthusiast, it doesn’t matter what kind of car it is. You admire all of the cars for their quality, restoration and their place in history.”

He went on to talk about the benefits of meeting like-minded people and craftsman when attending shows like Artomobilia.

“You have a shared passion with the people that you meet at these events,” Acree said. “You meet talented craftsmen, and you develop not only a business relationship with them, but you also build friendships simply by being enthusiasts.”

Acree said that some classes of cars are diminishing in value and appreciation due to the fact that large scores of people who were driving these cars in those decades have passed on. However, he is confident that the car culture will remain strong in the upcoming decades in spite of the younger generations having a plethora of alternate entertainment options.

“I believe that demographics with any sport or hobby or even in the professional world are always changing, and you have to adapt with the change,” Acree emphasized. “If you look at the car culture now, a lot of cars have a shelf life.

For example, the 1940 cars are diminishing in value because the men and women who grew up with those cars are no longer here to appreciate them, so there’s no emotional connection to those cars.

The ‘50s cars are beginning to diminish in value because the men and women who grew up with those cars are now in their late 70s, so now we are looking at the ‘60s and ‘70s cars, and they are very popular. That segment of the car culture and the customization of that genre are appealing to the people in their 50s and 60s. The interest in those cars is going to be around for at least another 10 years.”

He said very few cars stand the test of time and beyond the generation that grew up with them like the timeless Duesenberg.

“If you look at kids today, in particular the ones who are growing up in our area, they will eventually obtain a level of success and want to buy a nice car,” Acree said. “The Vipers and the Corvettes of the ‘80s and ‘90s are of interest to the younger generations. I believe that the car culture will always be evolving, and it will evolve into an affinity that people have with cars they grew up with.”

Be sure to check out Acree’s collection and his explanation of his RestoMod work on YouTube (search “Three Amazing Corvettes”).

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the Real World Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Courtesy of the Zionsville Education Foundation

Back in the day, working on the school paper meant that you got to cover the sports games and school performances from the good seats, and it also meant that you got the coveted “hall pass” that permitted you to roam the hallways while in pursuit of the next big story or interview without any flack from the hall monitors.

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he student newspaper has long been a cherished tradition at many of the nation’s schools.

It allowed students to take initiative and develop their writing, critical thinking and photography skills. It also provided lessons in ethics and responsibility. Writing for the local school paper also provided a public forum for debating the issues with a sense of respect and intellect.

Over the years, budgetary constraints and the popularity of digital media, Facebook, Instagram, etc., among younger generations have attributed to the demise of many traditional school newspapers or print journalism classes at the high school level. Without an actual journalism class operating a newspaper, the students are no longer receiving grades for their work and have less incentive to produce articles.

So, is this the end of school-produced publications and the impending demise of the print publication industry? Absolutely not.

Two local teachers, Mikayla Koharchik and Blake Mellencamp, who teach language arts at Zionsville Middle School, decided that it was time for a student-operated print publication to make a comeback. Mellencamp applied for a grant through the Zionsville Education Foundation and was awarded $1,200 for the Writing in the Real World initiative.

This project will allow the seventh grade students at ZMS to self-publish their very own magazine this fall.

Mellencamp, who drafted the grant, said that the funding will cover printing 500 full-color copies of the student’s magazine.

“We will create student teams of designers, writers and editors and incorporate the students’ work into the publication,” Mellencamp explained. “I’m taking a sharp shift in my classroom and getting away from traditional ‘school’ types of writing and getting into ‘real life’ types of writing.”

In lieu of information essays and persuasive essays, the students will be required to produce news articles and even asked to write op-eds. They will be writing book reviews and other creative writing pieces that are typically read in professional publications. They will be writing about subjects such as social studies and science, making the project cross-curricular. The project will likely include the students learning about the revenue generating aspect of publications and will be selling ads to the local community to give them the real-world experience of dealing with advertisers and ad sales. The design students will also have the opportunity to design and build an advertisement from scratch and learn how to convey the client’s message in his/her advertisement.

Koharchik explained that at ZMS, the teachers work in teams. “We work with

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the science and social studies teachers, so our goal is that the students’ writing for those subjects would also carry over into this publication. The students could tie in what they are learning in social studies to create articles or political cartoons and other things beyond just writing.”

The student-produced magazine will be completed by the end of the first semester and will be approximately 12 pages, including articles on language arts and others that will be dedicated to the aforementioned subjects. The students will also launch an online version of their publication that will feature more students throughout the school year and allow their writing to be published beyond the capacity of the print version. With 300 students, the challenge to publish all of the students’ work will be resolved with the online version of their publication.

Mellencamp is already seeking alternative funding for publishing a potential volume two for the following semester.

“What is selected for the magazine’s content will be student driven,” Mellencamp emphasized. “Just like any writer or author, I want them to choose something that they are passionate about. They will be supported by their teachers, peers and their community. I want them to get to that place where they are almost more author than student in this project.

Having their work viewed by an authentic audience transforms them from being a student to having the identity as a writer, especially when they really own the process. ” Both teachers will be relying heavily on the support of the parent network, local business community and residents to encourage the students and to help spread the word when the website has launched and the magazine has gone to print. They will also be maximizing the positive influence of social media outlets while building their online presence.

They will be teaching the students how to properly use social media and instilling ethics and responsible use of disseminating information.

Mellencamp plans to attend educational conferences where he will discuss the results of this project with his peers from other districts, including the benefits and challenges of doing a project like this one.

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“We want the kids to feel empowered and excited and to keep submitting to the website,” Mellencamp stressed. “When students are empowered, assume autonomy and are able to write things that they feel impassioned about, the results are good compelling work. I think there’s capacity to build an audience here.”

Koharchik added that they will be bringing in industry professionals to speak with the students about the various aspects of publishing. “As we are educators, we are seeking professional input, giving the kids feedback and helping them look through the process at each stage,” she said. “The students will also learn to critique one another. That’s another component of our standards. We want kids to help critique and revise each other’s work.

“There is so much opportunity for learning and for failure. The students will have to figure it out throughout the course of the project, and that’s why bringing in the professionals will be such a help because while we can guide, we do want to be hands off. They will have the information and the tools, and they will

Mellencamp and his students received the ZEF grant for the Writing in the Real World project.

have to apply those. This is in construction, and we are learning together along the way with the students, but we think that this is a great opportunity for not just having an authentic audience but for learning how to be a problem solver. We have the Strong in Every Way initiative here at the Zionsville schools, and one of the ways to become stronger and more confident is by teaching that we solve our problems. We can fail and mess up, but we can overcome our failures with the tools that we have been given.”

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of Zionsville Schools, Zionsville Monthly is proud to announce that we will be partnering with these two teachers and their students on this project. Our magazine will be conducting a contest for the student writers this fall. The students will submit their works, and the selected writer will be featured in our December issue. In addition to being interviewed and published in our publication, the student writer will also be compensated for his/ her work. Stay tuned for more information to come on this incredible project and the details of the competition.

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Future Business Leaders of America Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // JJ Kaplan

This past May, nine members of the Zionsville Community High School (ZCHS) Business Professionals of America (BPA) club competed at the BPA National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida. As the club gears up for the upcoming school year, the club’s teacher, Johnathan Grismore, was ecstatic to announce that the school board approved the addition of a Leadership class based on the framework of BPA.

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PA is a co-curricular business club that further enhances classes by providing students with a real-life, authentic learning environment that extends well beyond the classroom. BPA prepares students for the business world through the skills of leadership, citizenship, academic and technology. One of the highlights of the organization are its leadership conferences, enabling students to network with both professionals and students, attend leadership workshops and compete in events against other schools from around the area, state and country in events based on the following business categories: Finance, Administration, Information Systems, Digital Communication and Marketing.

“Due to the impact BPA has had on our students, we will be starting a Leadership class for the 2017-18 school year,” Grismore

said. “This will enable us to expand upon BPA as more than just a club/organization as well as provide an avenue for leadership development that will be new to ZCHS. We are very excited to offer this to our students. We will have around 15-20 students in the fall.”

Seniors Will Hobick and Katie Anderson both competed at the nationals this year and spoke to us about what their involvement with BPA has done to prepare them for college and beyond. Hobick has a passion for graphic design and logo creation, so he competed in the Digital Media Promotion events.

“This was my first year in BPA,” Hobick said. “I’ve always liked graphic design but wasn’t sure that I wanted to do it full-time as a career. Now, after being in BPA and competing, I see where I can use my skills in graphic design and combine it with the

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business skills that I am learning. For my event, I had to design a logo and a video for next year’s national completion. The promotional video had to give an overview of next year’s competition. Before competing, I knew that I loved doing graphic design and making logos, but I wasn’t sure where my level was compared to my peers. After competing, I was able to evaluate my skills compared to the other students and build my confidence.”

Anderson chose Human Resource Management for her events. She explained, “My events were presentations, and presenting has taught me that the only way to gain confidence is by doing it over and over again. My first year in BPA, I decided that I wanted to do Human Resource Management. I wasn’t quite sure exactly what that was when I got into it, but I learned quickly, and it has been fun. I made it to State that first year, and it was actually more fun as the cases became more challenging. At nationals, I was presented with a problem in my fictitious work place, and as the ‘HR manager,’ I have to think quickly. I was given 20 minutes to prepare a three to five-minute speech about my solution.

There is a lot of mental preparation that goes into this.”

ZCHS’s BPA has grown from 31 members to 96 in its three years of existence. Grismore attributes that to a strong business department and supportive administration.

“As a teacher, I get more excitement and joy out of seeing them go above and beyond the classroom stuff, and taking them to BPA Nationals is a highlight of my year.

It’s hard for me to get away from my family, but seeing these kids put in the extra effort makes me want to put in the extra effort for them. Our program has been around for three years, and we’ve had at least one student attend nationals all three of those years. Last year, we took seven, and this past May, we took nine. There are approximately 5,000 students in Indiana that participate in BPA.” With the addition of the Leadership class, Grismore is excited about growing the program and reaching out to the local business community to explore ways to create even more learning opportunities with local business owners and mentors. He is also excited to see what the extra classroom time will

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provide the BPA students throughout the year.

“Going into this year with our new elective class, we will be able to do more with that extra hour a day and have more one-on-one and small group time,” Grismore said. “After seeing what these kids have been able to accomplish on their own time, imagine what they can do having this extra time in class. Even if the kids don’t major in business in college, they are developing skills that they will use in any career and throughout their lives.”

Kate Swanson, executive director of zWORKS, explained that the schools’ Entrepreneurial Club is already involved with an internship program with zWORKS, and she welcomes the continued collaboration with Grismore and his BPA students for additional learning and internship opportunities.

“I am thrilled with the collaboration that I’ve already seen with the Entrepreneurial Club and zWORKS,” Swanson emphasized. “It’s been interesting to see what the student interns and the entrepreneurs get out of the internship program. The experience that these kids are getting is amazing. Having phenomenal examples of entrepreneurship in our community is such a bonus to the kids.

Being able to see it firsthand and watch them create these businesses is a valuable learning experience for the kids.”

Follow Mr. Grismore and the BPA club and class this year at smore.com/4aeyr-zionsville-bpa.

Activities of Excellence The following students were honored for a variety of activities/contests: Katie Anderson – Ambassador Torch (the highest individual student honor; award based on community service and leadership activities) Sam Ungar and Kurt Roeder – 1st place, Accounting/Finance Virtual Business (each awarded a $500 scholarship) Sam Ungar – 4th place, “Bank On It” Finance Challenge The following students competed in the Finals of their individual event: Vita Frohlich – 6th place, Interview Skills Will Hobick – 10th place, Digital Media Production Alex Carr – 10th place, Extemporaneous Speech Kurt Roeder – 11th place, Human Resource Management Also in attendance: Annie Hockel, Thomas Hoops and Alex Buttars

The following are recognitions that ZCHS BPA students were awarded as an overall chapter: Community Service Marketing & PR

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A Solar Eclipse Extravaganza Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Submitted and Courtesy of Link Observatory Space Science Institute

Libraries across the nation are planning events that are centered around the Sun and the impending solar eclipse that will take place August 21. The Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library is hosting educational events leading up to the main viewing event at the library, “Solar Eclipse Streaming.” At these events, eclipse glasses will be distributed for free on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Julie Myers, youth librarian at the Zionsville Library.

Greg McCauley with LOSSI

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ore than two million pairs of eclipse glasses are being distributed free through public libraries in the U.S. for the eclipse of the Sun. The project is supported, in part, by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with additional help from Google, National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA. The eclipse project was conceived by three astronomers, Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College), Dennis Schatz (Pacific Science Center) and Douglas Duncan (University of Colorado). Together they brought

the idea to Paul Dusenbery, Director of the Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL).

NCIL manages the STAR Library Education Network (STAR_Net), supported by NASA, NSF and other organizations, to help libraries with STEM programming.

Youth Librarian Julie Myers applied to STAR_Net for the grant and to receive the glasses to share with the local community. “The state library sent out an email informing libraries that STAR_Net was doing this nationwide project, so I applied, and we were awarded the

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grant and supplies,” Myers said. “To get the glasses, we had to commit to offer related programs and generate excitement leading up to the eclipse. We have some fun programs coming up. We have committed to giving the local schools 25 kits. Each kit contains 30 pairs of eclipse glasses with instructions. The remaining glasses will be given away to our patrons at our upcoming events on a first-come, first-serve basis.” Myers announced that one of the unique solar eclipse events that the library will be hosting will take place August 14. The event is “Eclipse Across America: Standing in the Shadow of the Moon” with Greg McCauley, executive director, CEO and co-founder of the Link Observatory Space Science Institute (LOSSI) in Indiana. The family-friendly, multi-media presentation will explore the science behind solar eclipses. LOSSI, founded in 2012, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to informal science education and public engagement programs in NASA missions, astronomy and space exploration.

McCauley worked for NASA at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas, in the Mission Planning and Analysis Division for the lunar missions of Apollo 15 and 16 and was a member of the Lunar Launch Team for Apollo 17. McCauley serves as a Solar System Ambassador for NASA/JPL and lectures throughout central Indiana on planetary exploration.

The Solar System Ambassadors Program is sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, an operating division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a lead research and development center for NASA. “I was born and raised in Kokomo,” McCauley said. “I graduated in 1969, the year when Neil Armstrong walked down the ladder onto Tranquility Base. I was a child of the space race. The space race started in 1957 with the launching of Sputnik 1, and that was a huge deal. We countered that launch by the Russians with Explorer 1, our first satellite, and then one thing led to another. Kennedy made his famous speech that we would have humans on the moon by the end of that decade. NASA was relatively new

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then. It was developed in 1957, and that started the space race that changed the world. When I was a kid, we watched the launches from school, and it was such a big thing.” McCauley knew he had to be part of the program in some way.

He graduated from Purdue University and had “this feeling” that he had to be a part of space exploration. “I was a kid from Kokomo, Indiana, so how was I supposed to accomplish this?” he asked.

“I’ll tell you what I tell students in our lectures: the way to be successful at whatever you want to do in your life is a simple equation: Dream big, work hard and follow a plan.” Per McCauley, the U.S. is ranked 20th globally in science and technology. Indiana is ranked in the bottom third in STEM education. He and his colleagues are committed to working with educators informally and with their partners such as NASA to reenergize students on STEM subjects and to cultivate ingenuity and wonderment.

“When I was growing up, the astronauts were our heroes,” McCauley said. “Today, kids have different heroes. I believe that is part of the challenge. We need to

change who our kids’ heroes are, and if we once again had explorers and space explorers that became the new role models, we will once again have people excited about exploring outer space.

We are in the beginning of a new space race. There are 386 scheduled rocket launches by 14 countries by the end of 2020. Five months ago, China declared that by 2030, they would dominate space exploration. I remember in 1957, Russia said that very same thing.” McCauley is dismayed at the nation’s and the state’s STEM rankings. “At the Link Observatory, we do not find that acceptable, so we’ve decided to do something about it. It is our goal to propel the state of Indiana to a leadership role in STEM education in the U.S. I believe that we

can do that by getting kids engaged and bringing NASA into the classroom to get that emotional connection to human space exploration once again.” The funding for the Eclipse Across America event with Greg McCauley came from the Defalque Memorial Fund. It is a fund maintained by the Defalque family to honor John Defalque, a former Library shelver who passed away in 1990. The fund is designed to support special children’s educational events offered at the Library.

For a complete listing of the library’s free solar eclipse events throughout August, visit zionsvillelibrary.org.

For more information on the Link Observatory Space Science Institute, visit linkobservatory.org.

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