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The Carmel City Council will determine the fate of 200 dwellings planned at the DEVELOPMENT northeast corner of Keystone Parkway and 136th Street after the Carmel Plan Commission forwarded the proposal Dec. 18 without a recommendation for or against the project.

Carmel-based Old Town Companies is requesting a rezone from residential to planned unit development for The Overlook, a neighborhood designed for empty nesters that would include single-family homes, multifamily units and open space on nearly 60 acres of undeveloped land. Justin Moffett, Old Town principal, said he has made several concessions after meeting with neighbors, such as reducing the number of dwellings from 235 to 200.

“We are at a point we think this is an appropriate development plan,” he said. “We’ve given a lot. It’s the minimum for us to be able to justify moving the project forward.”

Commissioner Laura Campbell, who also is a city councilor, said she could not vote for the project because of the additional traffic it would bring

A 200-dwelling neighborhood is proposed at the northeast corner of Keystone Parkway and 136th Street. It includes the preservation of a historic home on the east side of the property. (Submitted photo)

to an area that already experiences frequent congestion.

“Even if you say (the project impact is) just during rush hour, morning and evening, those are the most critical times for people,” she said.

Commissioner Joshua Kirsh, engineering administrator for the City of Carmel, said he expects traffic to improve in the area, because construction of a new roundabout at Main Street and Gray Road is complete and a Hamilton County project to add a ramp from 146th Street to southbound Keystone Parkway should help alleviate congestion. He also said there have been discussions about expanding the roundabout at 136th Street and Keystone Parkway to two lanes.

“I think the traffic situation there likely gets better with all of the factors we’re throwing at it,” Kirsh said.

Four of the seven commissioners in attendance voted to send the proposal to the city council with a favorable recommendation, but because two commissioners were absent the vote did not constitute a majority, killing the motion. Commissioners did not have enough votes to forward the project with an unfavorable recommendation, so they begrudgingly voted, 5-2, to send it without an official recommendation.

2 injured by explosion in CHS maintenance room

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com

Two people were injured by an explosion in a maintenance room Dec. 26 at Carmel High School.

PUBLIC SAFETY Firefighters responded at approximately 6:20 p.m. after the explosion was reported in the northwest corner of the school on East Main Street. It occurred in a second-floor mechanical room where work was being performed. Firefighters climbed to the roof of the school to battle a small fire that they quickly

extinguished.

Carmel Fire Dept. spokesman Tim Griffin said a school employee and contractor were performing maintenance work in the mechanical room and were relighting a heater when the explosion occurred. They were transported to Eskenazi Hospital with their conditions unknown.

One of the workers suffered severe burns. No other serious injuries have been reported.

“Immediately police, fire and the school worked together to make sure the school was evacuated,” Griffin said.

Students on campus were sent to the stadium locker rooms to wait for pickup.

CHS junior Hannah Leonard said the locker room “reeked like gas” after basketball practice ended at approximately 5:45 p.m.

“We all got out pretty quickly to go home, and on my way home I got the news of the explosion,” she said. “I am so thankful that my team made it out just minutes before the explosion, and I can’t begin to imagine how different it would’ve been if our practice went any later.”

As of press time, all activities at the school had been canceled until further notice.

Reporter Riya Chinni contributed to this report.

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IUPUI basketball team embraces Carmel boy IUPUI men’s basketball coach Jason Gardner understands his players can learn as much from Cayden Baringer as he can from them.

SPORTS “We’re going to support him and he’s going to support us,” Gardner said.

Cayden, a 9-year-old Carmel resident, was diagnosed in 2017 with leukodystrophy, a rare, progressive, metabolic, genetic disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and often the peripheral nerves. There is no cure.

Cayden became connected with IUPUI through the Boston-headquartered national nonprofit Team IMPACT, whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children facing serious and chronic illnesses through the power of team.

IUPUI held what Team IMPACT calls a Draft Day ceremony, which included Cayden signing a letter of intent, as college athletes do, and a presentation of an IUPUI jersey and a press conference. Cayden will continue to attend practices, games, team dinners and other events.

“Most of these kids (in Team IMPACT) are in wheelchairs, the prognosis just depends,”

From left, front, Liam, Cayden and Lucas Baringer, back, IUPUI coach Jason Gardner and Cara Baringer pause at the Draft Day ceremony.

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said his mother, Cara Baringer, a Westfield High School graduate who recently got her nursing degree from IUPUI. “We’re just happy he’s still walking and leading a pretty normal life. He struggles with making friends, and he’s at the doctors so much.

I’ve seen him gain some self-esteem and confidence here in the last few months. He loves basketball, so going to the practices, we see a smile on his face we don’t always

see. He feels a part of the team and he loves to cheer them on.”

The family travels to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Leukodystrophy Center for treatment twice a year.

Cayden’s father, Benjamin Baringer, Cara’s ex-husband, is stationed with the Marines in California. Testing showed in February 2018 that Benjamin also has leukodystrophy, but his condition is not as severe as his son’s.

Cara’s sister, Lindsay Egan, heard about Team IMPACT while attending Butler University and suggested that Cayden might enjoy it.

Cayden already had been a visitor to the team’s practices and games, along with his younger brothers, Liam, 7, and Lucas, 5.

“He’s been in the locker room and I think the guys have enjoyed that part of it,” Gardner said. “I try to talk to our guys about life in general and I think it’s helped our guys understand that there’s more to life than just basketball.”

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See what’s down the road for Carmel residents in 2019

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com

fall 2019 • IU Health Joe & Shelly Schwarz Cancer Center, complete in January 2020 • Hotel Carmichael, a 122-room boutique hotel at City Center, complete in 2020 • The Kent building (three-story luxury apartments at City Center), complete in 2020 • The Holland building (five-story mixeduse at City Center), complete in 2020 • The Playfair building (five-story mixeduse at City Center), complete in 2020 • The Proscenium (mixed-use development at Range Line Road and 126th Street), complete in 2020

As Carmel residents prepare for the year ahead, their leaders are looking forward to completing projects COVER STORY along the Monon Trail in the city’s core they believe will benefit residents all across town.

Other projects and events coming in 2019 include several new roundabouts, municipal elections and an expanded parks system.

The following is a summary of what Carmel residents can expect this year.

Monon expansion

In 2017, the city began a $20 million project to widen the Monon Greenway and add roads alongside it to support development in the area, which includes the new Sun King Distillery and Allied Solutions headquarters. Work progressed throughout 2018 and is set to wrap up this year.

The project includes Monon Plaza, an area under construction just south of Sun King Distillery on the east side of the Monon Trail. It will have movable outdoor furniture, pingpong tables, bocce ball courts, shaded areas and space for outdoor movies, concerts and other events. It is expected to open to the public in the spring.

“It’s important to have places where people from different crowds can come together in the public realm,” Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard said.

Other upgrades along the Monon this year inBrainard clude improvements to the Kawachinagano Japanese Garden just south of City Hall and the installation of a splash pad for kids and an adult playground with exercise machines and places for guests to socialize in Midtown.

“This has become very popular in China and major cities around the world in the last couple of years,” Brainard said.

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Monon Plaza is expected to open in the spring. (Photo by Ann Marie Shambaugh)

Road work Carmel is expected to continue aggressive road construction, with the largest project — the transformation of the intersection of 96th Street and Keystone Parkway into a roundabout — targeted to be complete by the end of the year.

Range Line Road is expected to continue its transformation, with new roundabouts planned at 6th Street, Medical Drive and 116th Street.

“That’s going to make Range Line flow so much better in those areas and should encourage redevelopment in those areas as well,” Brainard said.

Other roundabouts coming in 2019 are at Guilford Road and Main Street, 96th Street and Gray Road, 96th Street and Delegates Row, Carmel Drive and Pennsylvania Steet and 116th Street and AAA Way.

The city also is expected to complete a reconstruction of Range Line Road between Eighth Street to just south of Clay Terrace.

The project had been planned to wrap up in 2018 but has been delayed to spring.

A county project adding a ramp from 146th Street to southbound Keystone Parkway is expected to be complete by June. A second phase of the project will begin and includes extending Lowe’s Way to a new roundabout at Range Line Road. It is expected to be complete in 2020.

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Building construction is under way throughout central Carmel and beyond. Projects include: • KAR Auction Services headquarters, complete in summer 2019 • Eastern Hamilton (commercial and residential at City Center), complete in

“It’s important to have places where people from different crowds can come together in the public realm.”

— Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard

All municipal offices are up for election in 2019. The primary election will be May 7 with the general election Nov. 5.

Brainard confirmed in the summer that he will seek his seventh term as mayor, and all seven members of the Carmel City Council have indicated that they will seek re-election.

An additional council district and third at-large seat will be added in 2019 as a result of Carmel becoming Worrell a second-class city. The council approved the new districts in November.

Councilor Jeff Worrell, who currently represents the southeast district, announced in August that he will seek a newly created at-large position. Adam Aasen Aasen, a local business owner and former reporter for Current in Carmel, is running for office in the southeast district.

Home Place resident Matt Milam announced in October that he would Milam seek election to the Carmel City Council in 2019. In 2018, Carmel annexed Home Place, which did not have representation on the council before the annexation.

Home Place will be in the southwest district for the 2019 election, which means Milam will challenge incumbent Tony Green.

Carmel City Court Judge Brian Poindexter also has announced his re-election campaign.

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Home Place Carmel annexed Home Place in 2018 after more than a decade in court, and this year the full impact of the annexation will take effect.

In 2019, the Carmel Police Dept. will begin patrolling and responding to calls in Home Place and the Carmel Street Dept. will begin maintaining roads and converting streetlights to LED. Carmel also will be responsible for sweeping the streets, mowing the rights-of-way and removing snow.

Home Place residents also will begin paying Carmel’s tax rate this year, although it isn’t due until 2020. The city’s tax rate for 2019 has not been announced.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in conjunction with the Mayor’s Advisory Commission on Human Relations on Jan. 21 at the Tarkington Theater.

Carmel included $125,000 in its 2019 budget to use as seed money to launch an international films festival, but city officials have declined to elaborate on details.

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New playground equipment will be unveiled at Lawrence W. Inlow Park in the spring. It will include a skywalk, a 32-footlong high-rope walkway 16 feet above the ground. Other elements will include swings, slides and a ground-level ropes course.

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The Carmel Clay Public Library soon will add board games to its collection of items in circulation.

LIBRARY “Board games are a great fit for our strategic goal of serving as a catalyst for learning, creating, discovering and sharing,” Sara O’Sha, audiovisual services supervisor, stated in an email.

“We recognize game play as a way to encourage creative thinking and develop social and problem-solving skills. Games are also a fun way for family and friends to connect and the library wants to be part of that.”

The collection is designed to appeal to a wide range of ages and includes 40 modern games.

“Players will be able to do everything from escaping a jungle to building civilizations, outrunning evil space cyborgs and laughing while solving old mysteries,” O’Sha stated. “We sought out games that rely on strategy, creative thinking, and sometimes cooperation.”

There will be two events Jan. 5 to celebrate the new collection.

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There also will be an event Jan. 5 for adults ages 18 and older from 6 to 9 p.m.

“We’ll be debuting the library’s new board game collection, and attendees with a library card can be the first to check one out,” O’Sha stated. “The evening will also feature roleplaying games run by Paizo and a mini retro arcade with games set to free play.”

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ESSAY Maintaining dignity

LETTER Do the right thing with library café

Commentary by Terry Anker

Editor, I would like to comment on your Dec. 18 article “SoHo to expand.” I would like to preface this note as “do the right thing.”

After many good years, the Russell family is being thrown out and forced to close down their library coffee shop. Now, it’s hard to convince me and others that there wasn’t some kind of deal put together when the owners of the SoHo shop currently in Monon Square and who owned the center sold the center to the City of Carmel. Now, the Lawheads will be receiving a lot of money for this property, and I’m very happy for them. It’s the American dream.

However, do they really need to open a coffee shop in the library? The Russells need this shop so at least they can pay off the debt they owe from the startup.

It’s because of people like Mr. Russell, who is a disabled veteran, that all of us have the opportunity to do as well as the Lawheads. If it were me, I would sit down with Mr. Russell and help him with the debt he owes so this veteran doesn’t have to go bankrupt. I’m sure it would be a very, very small fraction of a percent they would have to pay Mr. Russell from the millions they are receiving from the city. Do the right thing.

Doug Knott, Carmel

Dignity is a word bursting with so much emotion that it packs a social and political wallop. Human dignity. Basic dignity. Since the 18th century brought with it our own age of enlightenment, we have found our way to the notion that there are inalienable and inherent “rights” bestowed on all. Dignity stands among those rights as a demand that we are worthy of ethical, moral and respectful treatment.

So far, and for the last almost 300 years or so, we have all managed to agree on these fundamental tenants.

But as with many things, we gild the lily to the point that it is really not so much a lily as an object of gilding. Dignity is so broadly defined that it now demands attention almost in any circumstance that includes we humans. In fact, some extend the thinking to animals, plants and the animate and inanimate environment around us.

OK, is it necessarily a bad thing to live a life dedicated to the general respectful treatment of the world around us?

Still, if dignity, or anything, becomes inure to all things then what does it really mean? If there is dignity in work, can there be dignity in not working? If there is dignity in honesty, can there be dignity in guile? Is there dignity in doing the right thing, quietly and without fanfare? Still, too, is there dignity in doing the right thing publicly for all to see? It is all a bit confusing.

If we progress to a fully dignified place, how do we reconcile our disagreements without being, well, undignified? Perhaps it is best not to dignify that question with an answer.

Terry Anker is an associate editor of Current Publishing, LLC. You may email him at terry@youarecurrent.com.

Nirvana: A survivor’s tale Commentary by Danielle Wilson Last weekend was a travesty, people. Doo and I were forced to spend the Saturday before Christmas in a swanky HUMOR hotel in Louisville, without our precious little angels. Can you imagine? We drove two whole hours to celebrate with my family and they could only muster enough air mattresses for our kids.

Such bull.

This stupid arrangement meant we had to leave the party early, before we could help clean up after 15 grandchildren. The Uber driver wasn’t going to wait forever to whisk us off to the dreaded, marble-clad Omni, so we karaoked one Adele song and snuck out the back. After checking in, we wandered around the dump and discovered its 1920sinspired Speakeasy Bar. White-coated servers mixing cocktails and pouring bourbon alongside a charming two-lane bowling alley? The horror! Even worse, our room had two beds. That’s right, Doo and I had to

sleep separately, tolerating six down-filled pillows each and an absurdly heavy but nottoo-hot comforter. Very disappointing.

In the morning, I was stuck eating French toast and eggs perfectly cooked over-easy across from Doo, commenting on the industrial-loft feeling as we perused newspapers and sipped coffee. Ridiculous.

The kicker of this nightmare? I wrote this piece alone in a quiet space called “The Library,” next to a fireplace and surrounded by wall-to-wall bookshelves, black-and-white photos and tufted velvet settees. Think Restoration Hardware meets Maker’s Mark.

Truly uninspiring.

I hope at least part of your holiday was as awful as mine.

Peace out.

Danielle Wilson is a contributing columnist. You may email her at info@youarecurrent.com.

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The discovery of this simple feature has changed my life. No longer do I send messages that say things like: “I gat your email anf hipe to see yiu doon.”

“Wait, don’t you have spellcheck?” you might ask. I don’t use spellcheck. If I type principal instead of principle, it doesn’t get corrected and it makes me seem ignorant when I text a friend saying, “I stand up for my principals.” It looks like I’m complimenting local school officials.

The other day I was in my home office texting my friend, Bob, and I said into the phone, “Can we meet at Starbucks tomorrow?” As the text was being transcribed, my wife heard me from upstairs and thought I was talking to her.

“Dick, why are we meeting at Starbucks tomorrow?”

I yelled upstairs, “I wasn’t talking to you! You and I are not going to Starbucks tomorrow.”

My message read: “Can we meet at Starbucks, tomorrow? I wasn’t talking to you.

You and I are not going to Starbucks tomorrow.” Then, I accidentally sent the text. I got this back from Bob: “Dick, are we meeting at Starbucks or not? And if you aren’t talking to me, why are we getting together?”

I texted back and told Bob that I was actually talking to my wife but the text said that I was not talking to Mary Ellen, so Bob thinks she and I aren’t on speaking terms.

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the end of December to do the volunteer day and designate the charity of their choice. The response to the day of volunWith The National Bank of Indianapolis teering has been so positive that it might celebrating its 25th anniversary in Decembecome something the bank offers ber, bank ofANNIVERSARY ficials wanted on an annual basis, Merkel said.

President and CEO Morrie Maurer to give someaccepted United Way’s Spirit United thing back to the community.

Award on behalf of the bank in The National Bank of Indianapolis June. has always been focused on partThe bank has 340 employees in nering with charitable organizations its headquarters and 13 banking in the Greater Indianapolis area, Merkel locations, including five in Carmel.

Senior Vice President and Chief MarA group of 18 people from Indianapolis ket Development Officer Ann Merkel said. launched the community bank in December “We felt it would be very appropriate 1993. It is now the largest locally owned and part of our overall mission to make it bank in the Indianapolis area and one of the possible for our employees to designate a 350 largest in the nation. $100 gift to the local nonprofit organization Merkel said all the growth during the last of their choice,” Merkel said. “So many of 25 years has been organic. our employees are engaged in volunteer“We’ve not acquired any organization, any ing already that we felt it would be great other banks, so our focus is to continue to for them to know they had a paid day they grow our organization organically and to could use to either volunteer at a new orremain committed to the mission that has ganization or expand their service to their brought us from 18 employees and about charity of choice.”

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Neil Berg might be better known for his Broadway work and his “100 Years of Broadway” tour.

MUSICAL However, the composer/ lyricist has ties to the rock ’n’ roll world, so doing “50 Years of Rock and Roll” seemed a natural progression.

Berg will bring the show to the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel at 8 p.m. Jan. 12.

“It’s been a lifetime of work,” Berg said.

“I probably researched it for a year before I did it.”

Berg said the show had some test runs and then he launched it in 2017.

“It’s been incredibly well received,” Berg said. “It’s been heartening to see people respond so passionately to this creation.”

Berg said he had a dual path coming out of college, touring with a band called Joe D’Urso & Stone Caravan. The band has opened for groups like Stray Cats and Steppenwolf.

“After my Broadway career took off, I was asked to be the musical director for the 100th anniversary of the Harley-Davidson tour (in 2013),” Berg said. “They played speedways. They had huge rock concerts.

I was out with bands like Aerosmith, The Doors reunion, Ted Nugent, Journey, you name it. There were a lot of top acts from the ’60s and ’70s.”

Berg said his background is storytelling.

“That’s the Broadway side of me,” Berg said. “I felt the best thing to do was do it chronologically. We start at the beginning of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson. We go through the great musical influences, the gospel blues of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, jump jive of Louis Jordan, then we get into Jimmy Preston and Ike Turner’s ‘Rocket 88.’ People come to the show and they are learning something they didn’t know. The average rock ’n’ roll fan had no idea these influences got them there.”

Eventually, the journey takes Berg to Bill Haley and the Comets and the explosion of rock ’n’ roll. Berg serves as narrator.

Neil Berg’s “50 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll” is set for the Palladium at 8 p.m. Jan. 12. (Submitted photo)

“I have the best performers in the world performing the music authentically,” he said. “These are Broadway stars who specialize in rock and roll. That helps us tell the story very well.”

The story goes from 1931 to 1981.

“In my opinion, those 50 years ended with the death of John Lennon in 1980 and culminated the next year with the beginning of MTV, which was more about video than the music,” Berg said. “It’s a good place to stop. Obviously, disco had taken over a lot of charts and radio air play in the late ’70s. We do the real history. It went so well we’ve been invited back to every single venue.”

Berg has added a Part 2 for venues that have already hosted Part 1. It covers the same time period but with different musical selections.

“There is only so much you can do in a 2

1/2-hour show,” Berg said.

Part 1 is what people will most expect with a few exceptions to make sure the story is authentic, Berg said.

Berg doesn’t like medleys, but he takes out the repetitive parts of songs.

“We do the beginnings and endings, but we may not repeat every verse and chorus,” he said.

The show includes Brook Wood, who graduated from Warren Central High School in Indianapolis. He also has toured with Berg’s Broadway show.

“This show is just loads of fun,” Wood said. “People sing along, dance in the aisles and get to take a walk down memory lane.

We perform all the hit numbers of these decades, so rarely will you hear a song you don’t know. I sing about eight tunes.

I’d have to say my favorite is ‘Piece of My Heart’ by the incomparable Janis Joplin.”

CHS theater alums set to stage full-length play editorial@youarecurrent.com Three Carmel High School theater products are combining their skills in Chicago.

Scott Jackoway, a 2012 CHS graduate, and Ben Claus founded NoMads Art Collective in 2013. Claus attended CHS for two years before his family moved and he finished high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio. NoMads’ focus shifted in 2018 to be a play-development company.

Joining the Chicago roommates is 2011 CHS graduate Bethany Arrington, who serves in a talent acquisition position for NoMads.

In December, NoMads launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $10,000 to produce its first full-length play, “Mr. Kotomoto is Definitely Not White,” a dark comedy written by Claus and directed by Jackoway.

The money will cover theater rental space, design budgets and pay the actors.

The show is set to run March 29 to April 21 at Strawdog Theatre in Chicago.

For more, visit nomadsartcollective.org.

To contribute, indiegogo.com/projects/ mr-kotomoto-is-definitely-not-white#/.

Carmel — Living Proof, a popular cover band, will be featured on the Palladium stage at 9 p.m.

Dec. 31 during the New Year’s Eve Extravaganza. Other performers include Martinie’s Boogie, Scott Routenberg Jazz Trio, DJ Futon John and A Touch of Grass. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

Noblesville —An acoustic, family friendly open-jam session for folk, rock, blues, bluegrass, country and more will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at Hamilton East Public Library. For more, visit hepl.lib.in.gov for more.

Whitestown — Chamber Music Band, a soul music band, will perform at the Moontown Brewing New Year’s Eve party from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31. Tickets are $20 and include appetizer buffet and midnight champagne toast. Music will be from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. For more, visit events.ontaptickets. com/e/moontownNYE.

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Commentary by Anna Skinner Address: 800 E Main St., Westfield What to get: The Captain Price: $7.99 Anna’s take: The thing I love most about Big Hoffa’s, other than the barbecue, is the diversity of the menu. A lot of barbecue places I’ve visited stick to just barbecue.

Although I love barbecue as much as the next person, I think it’s important to have an offering for different tastes, and Big Hoffa’s does.

I ordered The Captain. It reminds me of poutine. French fries rest atop pulled chicken and creamy macaroni and cheese. Buffalo sauce and ranch dressing are drizzled on top. You’ll need a fork and several napkins to eat these, but it’s so worth it. Be sure to add a generous helping of pickles on the side.

Big Hoffa’s also offers traditional barbecue meals with a sandwich and two sides.

It also offers meat-only, served by the halfpound and pound, so pick some up before stopping by your next family gathering.

The Captain reminds me of poutine because it serves French fries on top of pulled chicken and macaroni and cheese with buffalo and ranch sauces drizzled on top. (Photo by Anna Skinner)

Big Hoffa’s is in the same building as Main Street Shoppes, a two-story antique store. Big Hoffa’s has purchased the space and will begin to expand later this month.

The menu will grow along with beer and wine selections.

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“But I love Neil Simon’s writing,” SchmitBeef & Boards is celebrating the 40th tou said. “I think ‘The Odd Couple’ is one of anniversary of the Broadway premiere of the great American comedies of all “They’re Playing Our THEATER Song” by bringing the time. And I think ‘Barefoot in the Park’ is also a really fantastic and show to the stage. well-written play that still holds up Not only has New York City-based today.” actor David Schmittou never perSchmittou usually spends seven formed in the musical, he’s never or eight months each year out of seen a production of it. town performing.

The musical, which runs from Jan. Schmittou “My last appearance at Beef & 4 to Feb. 3, centers on a composer Boards was as Professor Henry Higgins in and his relationship with a quirky young ‘My Fair Lady,’ which was also one of my female lyricist. It was written by Neil Simon with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by favorite experiences there,” he said. “I also loved doing ‘The Sound of Music,’ ‘Lend Me a Carole Bayer Sager.

Tenor’ and ‘The Drowsy Chaperone.’”

Schmittou, who plays the composer, said Indianapolis resident Jeff Stockberger there are some challenges with a cast of is directing “They’re Playing Our Song” and only six performers.

Doug King is the choreographer.

“On a small-cast show like this, of course Beef & Boards previously presented the there is a lot more material to be learned by musical in 1983 and 1986. each person in the same amount of time,” “It is a gem that is not done very often Schmittou said. “But it can also be a reand the audience will love it,” Beef & Boards ally wonderful experience because with so owner Doug Stark said. “And how can few people, you really have to time to build you go wrong with Neil Simon and Marvin strong relationships with each other.”

Schmittou said the other Neil Simon plays Hamlisch?” he’s has done were the musical “Promises,

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Blueprint for Improvement: Northern Indianapolis condo expansion Commentary by Larry Greene

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The goal was to take the two neighboring condos and create one cohesive and modernized home.

1. One of the largest changes was opening up the wall between one of the kitchens and the existing dining room. The change also allowed more natural light and ultimately made the kitchen feel larger.

2. The cabinets were updated and functional storage solutions were incorporated.

3. Countertops were replaced with quartz and a waterfall butcher block countertop was added around the wine fridge for a unique focal point.

4. The doorways to the hallway and dining area were expanded to create more of an open concept.

5. The project also included a second kitchen and multiple bathroom updates. Details on the rest of the project can be found in the next Blueprint for Improvement.

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All work for the complete construction of the Project will be under one or more prime contracts with the Owner based on bids received and on combinations awarded. The Construction Manager will manage the construction of the Project.

Construction shall be in full accordance with the Bidding Documents which are on file with the Owner and may be examined by prospective bidders at the following locations: Office of the Construction Manager The Skillman Plan Room The Skillman Corporation www.skillmanplanroom.com 3834 S. Emerson Avenue, Building A Indianapolis, IN 46203 Prime and Non-Prime Contract Bidders must place an order on www.skillmanplanroom.com to be able to download documents electronically or request printed documents. There is no cost for downloading the bidding documents. Bidders desiring printed documents shall pay for the cost of printing, shipping and handling. Reprographic Services are provided by: Eastern Engineering 9901 Allisonville Road, Fishers, IN 46038, Phone 317-598-0661 or WAGE SCALE: Wage Scale does not apply to this project.

A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on January 2, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., local time, at 5201 East Main Street, Carmel, IN, 46033. Attendance by bidders is optional, but recommended, in order to clarify or answer questions concerning the Drawings and Project Manual for the Project.

Bid security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the Bid must accompany each Bid in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.

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Contractors submitting bids for the performance of any Work as specified in this building Project should make such Bids to Carmel Clay Schools (a public/private building corporation). Contractors are advised that the Contract as finally entered into with any successful Bidder may be entered into with either the School Corporation or the Building Corporation or certain portions of the Contract may be entered into by both the School Corporation and the Building Corporation.

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