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Stronger Together as a Community With this month’s cover story we are proud to feature ZCS’s major new initiative, Strong in Every Way. This unique human capital campaign places focus on student growth in a way not commonly addressed in our public schools. As there is nothing, in our view, more important than helping to provide our young people with the tools needed to be successful adults.

As a complimentary story to our cover, we have also highlighted the upcoming presentation at ZPAC by best-selling author Jessica Lahey.

Writer // Janelle Morrison Photographer // JJ Kaplan and Zionsville Community Schools

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Indy Home Design Center Saves Their Customers Time and Money

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

Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Lori Koppold

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

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

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

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

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

They are also active in the local community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you are looking for a place to shop with unmatched savings, selection and convenience with award winning service, stop by or call the team at the Indy Home Design Center.

The Design Center has saved us time and thousands of dollars, providing one location for all of our home updating needs.”

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The Music Man

Zionsville teacher spreads the gift of music in concert venues and the classroom.

Writer // Rebecca Wood

Disastrous. That’s the word Josh Weirich uses to describe his first public saxophone performance.

As a then 8th grader, Weirich was asked to perform the “Star-Spangled Banner” for a school convocation. His patriotic duet with a trumpet player quickly unraveled due to mixed signals between adolescent musicians and a failed attempt to “wing” the end.

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n full view of the student body, the school principal grabbed Weirich by the shirt collar and escorted him out of the building.

Outside, the principal unleashed a fier tongue-lashing, using words that still linger in Weirich’s mind today.

Weirich wanted to quit music, but his musician father convinced him to stick with the saxophone. His father’s sage advice changed the trajectory of Weirich’s life and future generations of budding musicians. Few that hear this story believe Weirich could botch a performance.

The adolescent, fumbling musician has transformed into a talented, sought out performer whose passion is spreading music through both concert venues and the classroom.

“The irony is that all these years later I’m a middle school band teacher and a professional musician,” Weirich laughs.

“It’s funny how things work out.”

During weekdays, Weirich can be found directing the band at Zionsville Middle School. Come Friday night, Weirich is performing in concert venues across the Midwest.

Weirich is grateful that he can do both.

“I heard the expression, ‘Those who can’t, teach,’” says Weirich. “I want to be someone who can do what he teaches.”

Weirich began performing professional-

ly as a college student. His sophomore year at Ball State University, he landed a spot in the backup band for the Temptations. Weirich fondly recalls touring with the band.

A 70s disco show at Cedar Point Amusement Park was Weirich’s next performing gig. “For six months I played the exact same show six times a day, six days a week. I performed the same show over 800 times,” Weirich chuckles. “It drove me crazy. I started to feel like a robot.”

Weirich continued to perform in many different capacities with numerous colorful experiences. He toured the Bahamas with a Carnival Cruise Line band. He also served on a West Coast Princess Cruises’ band that journeyed from San Francisco to Alaska.

Weirich has played with an extensive list of musicians and bands. Notable names include Sandi Patty, The Four Freshman, Randy Brecker, and the Lawrence Welk Orchestra.

Working with George Clinton & the Parliament Funkadelic ranks as one of Weirich’s most memorable experiences.

How Weirich connected with the band is a story in itself.

Weirich recalls sitting in a practice room at Ball State University when his friend rushed into the room and announced that George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic were coming to his house. Weirich

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remained skeptical about his friend’s announcement.

“It was a Wednesday night in Muncie, Indiana,” Weirich recalls. “Wouldn’t you know it, about midnight this tour bus arrives at his house. George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic walk out with their instruments and immediately took over the music for this party.”

The band invited Weirich to play with them that night; he refers to the experience as “magical.”

Of all the musicians Weirich has played alongside, his favorite is performing with his father, a bluegrass and folk musician.

“We just have a really special connection when we get to play music together.

Whether it be on a stage, or in front of a church, or strumming guitars around a campfi e, it is very special to me,” Weirich asserts.

Today, Weirich regularly plays with the nine-piece rock band Groove Essentials. At every Colts home game, Weirich performs outside the stadium with the Colts’ band, Showtime Brass. He prefers performing close to home on the weekends to be near to his wife, Katie, and their three young children in Zionsville.

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nominated and enjoys sharing the experience with his students.

While Weirich loves performing, his greatest joy is teaching music.

For the last 16 years, Weirich has served as the director of bands and music department chair at Zionsville Middle School. In his role, he teaches 420 band students. The Zionsville Middle School band is the largest middle school band in the state.

Weirich beams when he discusses his students.

“Middle school kids have so much energy, and they are not afraid to try new things,” Weirich asserts. “The hardest thing for me is to see them leave at the end of the school year.”

The secret to teaching middle school band is to maintain a sense of humor and to consistently keep the material fresh, Weirich maintains. He also credits a great

partnership with other faculty and administrators, coupled with support from parents, as keys to his success.

Zionsville Middle School principal, Sean Conner, notes that Weirich is always wearing a smile.

“He loves what he does; he loves interacting with his students,” remarks Conner. “He has high expectations, and he supports students in meeting those high marks. He is able to entice students to do their best, and they are eager to invest for him. It’s such a mix of a positive environment and a talented musician who is adept at teaching others.”

What’s clear is that Weirich is a beloved member of the middle school faculty. He has consistently earned accolades and awards for his teaching, including “Teacher of the Year,” “Most Valuable Educator,” and “Music Educator of the Year.”

Betsy Corridon, whose two sons played

in the Zionsville Middle School band, gushes about Weirich.

“Josh is one in a million,” declares Corridon. “Josh has big ideas, and he’s not afraid to use them. He models that for his students. He believes in them, and that helps them believe in themselves.”

Conner believes that Weirich’s professional performing contributes to his success as a teacher.

“I think the fact that Mr. Weirich is a practicing musician, one who plays gigs most weekends, lends an authenticity to what he does,” states Conner.

As a teacher, Weirich hopes to instill a lifelong passion for music in his students.

“Music doesn’t have to be just a subject you take in school for a few years and then don’t ever touch again,” argues Weirich.

“You can continue to enjoy it throughout your life. Many of my students are not still playing their instruments, but hopefully they have gained an appreciation of music and have become informed listeners. Even if they are not performers, they will be great audience members.”.

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Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // JJ Kaplan and Zionsville Community Schools

In November of 2016, the Zionsville Community Schools launched the Strong in Every Way human capital campaign with a core focus on student growth. Early in 2016 ZCS Superintendent Scott Robison, Chief Academic Officer Jenny Froehle, and Director of Academic Services Kris Devereaux introduced the attentive community model of Hastings, Minnesota to the ZCS counselors from each school. Subsequent meetings and common readings by all counselors and the ZCS Leadership Team have forged the three pillars of focus: (1) Developing webs of support, (2) Developing assets and resources, and (3) Developing cultural understandings.

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CS administrators and staff are identifying and developing assets known to help young people succeed. Their aim is to develop students’ capacities so they are strong in every way possible and ready for life as it unfolds during the years of schooling and beyond. ZCS is partnering with families to strategically produce experiences for our students that will build

their capacities to thrive academically, socially, emotionally, and physically.

Dr. Scott Robison, Superintendent of ZCS explained how the schools plan to do just that. “How is it that we can best partner with parents and community members and help them to be attentive to and not dismissive of the youth in our community?”, he queried. “We need to be attentive to the noncognitive skills that

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Dr. Amanda Slonaker, Dr. Scott Robison, Lynn Kissel

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perhaps were more easily leveraged in a simpler time. When conversations were primarily face-to-face or over the phone, where you could discern the tonal differences in speech versus a text message.

In one way, we are more connected than we’ve ever been and more disconnected, simultaneously. It is my observation that parents are busier than they’ve ever been in my thirty years in schools. Engaging them is a tough thing to do. Luckily, in this community, the clear majority of parents are still engaged in their kids’ lives. We want to capitalize on that while being careful that our message isn’t that parents are not doing the right things because that is absolutely untrue. We see amazing parenting in this community though we do have issues amongst the 7,000 plus that pass through our doors every day.”

Robison wants the focus of this campaign to be about noncognitive skills and driving experiences that allow kids to do things that, per the research, will advantage them in having a happy and productive lives. He believes that to create systemic change, they must focus their efforts on the youngest students and their

parents. ZCS and parents need to collaborate their efforts and create a system that yields higher noncognitive skills through experiences that will help the students gain from them.

A member of the ZCS staff, Dr. Amanda Slonaker, is a neuropsychologist by training and one of the core leadership members of the Strong in Every Way campaign.

“We know that alcohol, tobacco and drug use exists amongst the students,” Slonaker stated. “Upon talking with our K-12 counselors, we are seeing anxiety starting at the kindergarten level. Even if we are not thinking ‘testing’ at the pre-K and Kindergarten levels, we are hearing from our counselors and teachers that the kids are thinking about the high ability pieces. Our high school counselors took a survey from both students and parents.

The students are reporting time management, organization, career planning, and college planning as their top four concerns. How can we create a web of support so that they know who to go to when they feel stressed and need to talk about what is causing their stress?”

The research used by ZCS to help develop the campaign is demonstrating noncognitive skills, a term used to describe social and emotional skills or traits of personality that are not fi ed, are associated not only with academic achievement but also with positive adult outcomes such as better health, work productivity and collegiality, and civic engagement.

Students demonstrating social competence in Kindergarten have been shown to be more likely to graduate high school on time and complete college. Social competence demonstrated at this young age has been associated with fewer years in special education as well as fewer grade retentions.

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Beyond high school, research has found a positive association between adults’ social and emotional skills and employment outcomes, such as job stability or fulltime employment. Negative outcomes have been associated with weak noncognitive skills. Such outcomes have been shown to include the abuse of substances, such as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs; mental health difficul es; greater reliance on public assistance; and criminal activity.

Also of concern in society today is child and adolescent suicide. Although child suicide is less common than adolescent suicide, it was the 10th ranked cause of death for children of school age in the United States in 2014.

Adolescent suicide is four times higher now than it was in 1950. For adolescents ages 15 – 19, suicide is the second leading cause of death. Suicide attempts are two times as great in high school girls as in boys. However, boys are three times as likely to complete suicide. Furthermore, students of sexual minority (e.g. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning; LGBTQ) demonstrate suicidal ideation more than two times as often as students not of sexual minority. Also of great concern are cluster suicides, or a group of suicides or attempts, occurring within a close time frame and community proximity.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates approximately one to fi e percent of adolescent and young adult suicides are accounted for by cluster suicides.

Substance abuse is of increasing concern.

The most current results of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSUDH) in 2014 indicated 2.3 million adolescents (9.4%) ages 12 to 17 used illicit drugs within the past month, including misusing prescription medicine; approximately 149,000 adolescents (0.6%) were users of inhalants; 136,000 adolescents (0.5%) were users of hallucinogens; and 28,000 (0.1%) used heroin within the past year.

“Rolling forward is like shoveling up the beach, there is always more,” Robison said. “We just keep trying to move forward with creating awareness and we’re looking at helping our partner parents as well as those of us who are teaching and working in our schools to move from assumptions to awareness. The assump-

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tion that stress isn’t a big deal for a sophomore who hasn’t yet decided where he/she wants to go to college, if he/she wants to attend college at all, is number one for that student. Remaining optimally aware so that we can better accommodate and help students acclimate and build capacity from the stress.”

Lynn Kissel is the ZCS Community Relations Coordinator and another member of the leadership group for Strong in Every Way. “I believe that we need to work with our community members to create safe spaces where our youth feel safe and welcome to go to and talk about the things that are worrying them. We hear that our students are stressed about their futures and the uncertainty of their futures. What they need to know is that no one’s future is certain and that what they are feeling is normal. We need to help them to identify their strengths and help them onto the path that will guide their futures.”

ZCS has already in place or in processes, activities which are aligned with Strong in

Every Way aimed to prepare our students to be life-ready. Activities and initiatives such as, Wellness 360/Wellness teachers in every elementary, Common Sense Media series, ZCHS Ambassadors, BME Lifelines, Districtwide anti-bullying series and more are either in play or coming on-line throughout 2017. Programs designed to address cultural understanding such as training sessions for the ZCS staff an

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Meet with Peace Learning Center are either already rolled-out or will begin in spring of 2017. The community engagement piece of Strong in Every Way will identify community stakeholders and will continue to be developed throughout the year as well.

To find out mo e about Strong in Every Way, contact Lynn Kissel at lkissel@zcs. k12.in.us.

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Why Failing is a Gift Writer // Janelle Morrison

The Zionsville Performing Arts Center (ZPAC) will host a visit by Best-selling author, Jessica Lahey this upcoming March 14. Lahey is a New York Times bestselling author and parenting expert. Her book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, explains how parents and educators can give students the support and encouragement they need to stay motivated over the long term. Her book has received positive reviews in more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, and The Huffington Post.

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he timing of Lahey’s appearance is no coincidence. Her invitation to speak comes as the Zionsville Community Schools human capital campaign, “Strong in Every Way” was launched last November, and related programs are being implemented in 2017.

Lahey is an English and writing teacher, correspondent for the Atlantic, commentator for Vermont Public Radio, and writes the “Parent-Teacher Conference” column for the New York Times. She earned a B.A. in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. with a concentration in juvenile and education law from the University of North Carolina School of Law. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two sons.

The Gift of Failure coincides with the three primary objectives of Strong in Every Way; developing webs of support, developing assets and resources, and developing cultural understandings. Lahey drills down into the factors that attribute to adolescent anxiety and depression that can lead to drug and alcohol addiction and or youth suicide.

“I work as a teacher at an adolescent rehabilitation center and work with drug and alcohol addicted youth,” Lahey said. “I have been talking about these issues more at speaking engagements in northern California where they are experiencing clusters of teen suicides. If we are specifi ally talking about the addictions and suicides, we are only discussing one half of the coin. The other half is about the pressure that the kids feel of being in a community where it is expected that they will do better than their parents and or will go on to a respectable college.”

Lahey continued: “The fact that there is a lot of pressure on kids to be involved in multiple activities and good at everything they are involved in is causing anxiety and

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creating a mindset that if they don’t make it look effortless and perfect all of the time than they are not really smart and that is really stressful for kids.” She says this tends to happen more frequently in communities with high standards, such as getting into an Ivy League or top-ranked college while performing in the orchestra or playing for the travel soccer league. These standards have created “a new base line,” she says, “and is…how some parents measure their own parenting. If you read the chapter in my book, ‘The History of American Parenting,’ I discuss how we got here and why we, generally speaking, go crazy about needing that external validation of our own parenting.”

Lahey will also speak at ZPAC in March on how parents are their children’s number one advocate

and that it is their job as parents to protect their children’s individual talents and skills, especially the ones that are not easily measurable.

“We’ve completely lost sight of what is reasonable while in pursuit of raising perfect children and that is simply not what parenting is about. It is about supporting what is special and unique about our children and being their advocate until they develop self -advocacy themselves.”

You can read reviews and purchase The Gift of Failure at www.jessicalahey.com. Tickets for Lahey’s presentation are available at www.zvilleperformingarts.org.

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

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

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

passionate woodworker and inventor.

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

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

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

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

He also built his own saw mill with the

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big blades and tractor parts, from scratch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All Aboard the Indiana Railroad Writer // Janelle Morrison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I have probably traveled well over half a million miles by train on six continents and at least fif y countries,” Tom Hoback said.

“I particularly like traveling in Switzerland and western Europe because the scenery is so extraordinary. There is so much to see.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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DANCE Russian National Ballet

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

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

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Neil Simon’s Rumors

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

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

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

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Zionsville Showchoirs to host “Sip and Swirl” Fundraiser at Ruth’s Chris

Anyone who has ever attended a choral program at Zionsville Community High School, has, no doubt, enjoyed performances by the Choralaires and Royalaires, directed by Aaron Coates and Deana Broge.

Following each performance, audience members agree that “Zionsville has a lot of talent,” but it takes more than talent to prepare these ensembles for crowd-pleasing performances and the upcoming competition season.

Costumes, clinicians, and choreographers are expenses that are not covered by the school system’s budget. Ensemble participants all pay fees to help underwrite the cost of pursuing excellence. “But those fees don’t cover ALL of these expenses,” says Jen Luczak, President of

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Zionsville Showchoirs, Inc. (ZSI), the non-profit parent organization that supports the young people’s efforts. “That’s where ZSI steps in. We raise money throughout the year to lessen the burden on show choir ensemble members and their families. Events, like our Holiday Home Tour, presented in conjunction with Christmas in the Village, help us to make up the difference for ensemble members and their families.”

A new fundraiser, Sip & Swirl, has been introduced as a fun event to support the Showchoirs without requiring the investment of time on the part of the ensemble members, who are busily preparing for the competition season, which starts in February.

“We really wanted something fun that CARMEL MONTHLY JANUARY 2017

parents and community members would enjoy, post-holiday,” says Lorene Wright, co-chair of ZSI Fundraising.

The event, scheduled for January 22, from 5-8 p.m., at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse’s new Keystone location, will be a wine-tasting event, including hors d’oeuvres and instruction from the sommelier. “We hope the Zionsville community, show choir alumni and families will participate in the fun and gather to reminisce and anticipate competition season.”

Reservations can be made by contacting Lorene Wright (lwright@simon.com) or Ann Soards (asoards@gmail.com), ZSI’s fundraising co-chairs.F

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Healthier You Writer // Ann Craig-Cinnamon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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This is the time of year when people make resolutions to be healthier, lose weight and often start a workout regimen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He says their commitment is to pro-

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

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

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