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Roundabouts are planned on Main Street at 4th Avenue East and Lexington Boulevard. (Image courtesy of the City of Carmel)

City plans to install 2 roundabouts near CHS

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com The City of Carmel plans to construct two new roundabouts on Main Street near Carmel High School to slow DEVELOPMENT traffic and improve pedestrian safety in the busy area.

The roundabouts are planned at 4th Avenue East, soon to be renamed Richland Avenue, and Lexington Boulevard and will include raised crosswalks. Two mid-block crossings with rapid flashing beacons to alert drivers of pedestrian traffic are planned between the roundabouts.

Carmel City Engineer Jeremy Kashman presented plans for the roundabouts to the

Carmel Clay Schools school board at its Jan. 24 meeting. He said the existing road as designed does not encourage or force drivers to slow down as they pass the high school or Carmel Clay Public Library or enter the Arts & Design District, which are all busy pedestrian areas.

“This is a predominant area where we get a fair amount of speeding concerns, especially as you have vehicles driving fast through a school zone and then down into the Arts & Design District,” Kashman told the school board.

Work on the roundabout at 4th Avenue NE is expected to begin after the school year ends in late May. The city wants to construct the roundabout at Lexington Boulevard this summer, as well, but utility issues

could delay that part of the project. If that roundabout can’t be built this summer, it is expected to be constructed in the summer of 2023. The city plans to substantially complete the project before school resumes in mid-August.

The project will also include upgrades to Main Street, including reducing it from a four-lane to a two-lane roadway and installing a landscaped median to provide additional safety for pedestrians at the future mid-block crossings.

Main Street will be closed during construction between 4th Avenue East to Lexington Boulevard.

The project is expected to go out for bid in March.

CCS cuts back on contact tracing

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Carmel Clay Schools is significantly cutting back contact tracing efforts to reflect updated guidelines for PANDEMIC schools provided by the Indiana Dept. of Health.

The change comes as CCS saw its highest weekly COVID-19 case counts across the district since the pandemic began, with 207 positive cases reported at Carmel High School, 144 at middle schools, 167 at elementary schools and 62 among teachers and staff between Jan. 8 and 14.

The district sent an email to parents Jan. 20 explaining the change.

“With the large influx of cases statewide, there is a possibility that your student may be exposed to the virus either in the community or at school,” the email stated. “To prevent multiple notifications of exposure for families, individuals will no longer be notified. Due to the Indiana Department of Health quarantine guidelines, masks will remain in place until further notice.”

Because students are required to wear masks during the school day, state guidelines allow them to remain in the classroom after being exposed to COVID-19 in a

classroom setting. Parents are to monitor children for symptoms daily and keep them home if they are sick.

Contract tracing will not occur for possible exposures at extracurricular activities, even if students are not required to wear a mask.

Beginning Jan. 24, CCS began providing weekly positive case counts at individual schools on its online community report.

Cases are only reported at a specific school when it has more than five. View the community report at ccs.k12.in.us/about/ covid19-information/community-report.

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Women split from Unify Carmel to form new group

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trol” of children in the hands of their parents, not educators.

Besides Miller, several founders of Moms One of the founders of Unify Carmel has for Liberty are women who left Unify Carmel parted ways with the controversial group to en masse after they could not reach a resoluhelp lead another tion with other members of the leaderPOLITICS organization with a ship team over an internal dispute. broader vision and Miller said she did not support some different methods of pursuing it. of Unify Carmel’s tactics, such as adPaige Miller, a retired Carmel vising its members to continuously inClay Schools teacher, is serving as terrupt the Sept. 27, 2021, school board chair of the newly formed Moms for meeting by loudly speaking over board Liberty of Hamilton County, which members as they attempted to conduct Miller “is dedicated to fighting for the surschool business. After the meeting, CCS vival of America by unifying, educating, and banned public attendance at school board empowering parents to defend their parental meetings until December 2021. rights at all levels of government,” according “(Unify Carmel co-founder and board presto its Facebook page. ident Alvin Lui) was getting very combative, The group is affiliated with a national orand that’s never going to solve the problem. ganization of the same name and, despite its That’s not what we want to do. We want to moniker, is open to anyone who supports its engage our community, but we want to be mission, not just moms. able to sit down at the table and have discusUnify Carmel’s only goal was to “take back sions, not screaming and yelling,” Miller said. the school board,” said Miller, adding that “When they spoke over the school board, and the group chose not to focus on face mask I wouldn’t let my students do that, I thought requirements, vaccine mandates or statewide that set a bad example. That was not anyconcerns. Moms for Liberty plans to address thing I wanted to be part of, nor did I do any such issues in an effort to put “ultimate conof that. That’s not how we’re going to solve

this.”

Lui did not respond to requests for comment.

Unify Carmel’s online presence has been quiet of late, as its Facebook page hasn’t been updated since Nov. 15, 2021, and its Twitter and Instagram accounts haven’t been updated since Dec. 9, 2021, other than a merry Christmas message posted on Christmas Day. Miller said she was unsure if the group was still active.

Allon Friedman, another early supporter of Unify Carmel, said that the group still exists and has transitioned into a political action committee. PACs exist to raise funds to support or defeat specific candidates and are bound by a variety of election finance laws.

Miller said Unify Carmel’s transition to a PAC was another reason she decided to leave the group and help launch another one.

“What (the founders of the local Moms for Liberty chapter) came to find out is, this was a much bigger and broader problem than just the school board,” Miller said. “We wanted to get involved with a group that was like-minded and that would also start looking into some of the problems that are happening at the state level.”

DISPATCHES CCPL west branch closed to in-person visits — Carmel Clay Public Library’s Joyce Winner West Branch is closed to in-person visits until further notice because of the COVID-19 alert level in Hamilton County. Curbside holds pickup remains available at the branch from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

Merchants’ Square Main Library remains open regular hours.

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The program honors four high school students for their efforts and accomplishments in one of the STEM disciplines. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Feb. 4. Winners will be announced at a Statehouse ceremony in early May. Apply at https://bit.ly/35nviMB.

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Candidate filing continues for May 3 primary

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news@currentincarmel.com Candidate filing has begun for the May 3 primary and will remain open through noon Feb. 4. The following is a list of candidates who have filed as of Jan. 26 to run in districts that include Carmel: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE • 5th District Victoria Spartz — R STATEWIDE OFFICES • State Senator District 29 Alex Choi – R J.D. Ford – D • State Representative District 24 Donna Schaibley – R • State Representative District 32 Paul G. Nix – R • Suzie Jaworowski – R • Victoria Garcia Wilburn – D • State Representative District 39 Jerry Torr – R HAMILTON COUNTY

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‘New financial realities’ leads to CCPR program changes

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation to rethink its program offerings.

PANDEMIC In 2019, CCPR ran 1,721 programs with nearly 31,000 registered participants, but in 2021, as CCPR adjusted to managing its services through an ongoing pandemic, those numbers dropped to 720 programs with approximately 11,000 participants.

CCPR’s recreation programs were largely subsidized before the pandemic began through the Monon Community Center fund, but with the facility temporarily closing in 2020 and welcoming fewer users when it reopened, officials knew they needed to adjust to “new financial realities,” according to Jylian Riches, CCPR marketing and communications director.

“CCPR was forced to eliminate four fulltime positions that helped manage and support our program offerings,” Riches said.

“With this in mind, we began developing a new recreation program plan, dubbed Reimagining Recreation, to develop a strategic and financially sustainable approach to programming.”

This means that CCPR will focus its program offerings on its core service areas of aquatics, fitness/wellness, inclusion and nature. As a result, most programs outside of those areas — many of which were run by contractors — are on hold indefinitely.

“We looked at which programs were easily found elsewhere in the community, like dance classes, gymnastics, karate, soccer, etc.,” Riches said. “Since the community still has plenty of resources to choose from locally, we felt it is less necessary for CCPR to also offer those programs and instead focus on the programs we have resources already dedicated to and/or are less offered throughout the community.”

The change was difficult news for Tatyana Komarova, founder of the International Talent Academy, which had offered a variety of programs for children at the Monon Community Center since the center opened in 2007. She said she had enjoyed working with dedicated CCPR staff members to fine tune her programs over the years.

“The contractors lost a great facility to provide the programs, and people lost the ability to take their children to a safe,

convenient, centralized location as well as to find out about these programs,” Komarova said, adding that it will be difficult for small businesses and nonprofits to reach the same size audience that learned about their programs through the MCC’s marketing efforts.

Unlike some of the other contractors, the ITA does not have its own facility. Komarova said she’s been able to use space once a week in the building of another former CCPR contractor, Dance Class Studio, but she’s concerned about the long-term implications of not being able to present her programs in the Monon Community Center. She said most of her business came from families who discovered ITA in CCPR’s recreation magazine.

Riches said as demand for programs increases, CCPR plans to reach out to contractors who ran many of the programs that are on hold to gauge their interest in returning.

Komarova said she is hopeful that ITA will be able to partner with CCPR again in the future.

“The Monon Center has always been a great part of our community, not only for its fitness center and water park, but for its amazing and unique kids programs that were offered to our community families,” Komarova said. “We sincerely hope the Carmel community can get together and help our community center to get the children’s programs back.”

SUPPORTING THE CONTRACTORS In a blog post announcing changes to its recreation programming, Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation urged those looking for discontinued programming to consider using its former contractors. They include: • The National Basketball Academy • Indy Fencing Club • Adamson’s Karate • Rhythmic Gymnastics of Indiana • Hamilton County Community Tennis Association • Off the Wall Sports • Dance Class Studio Carmel • International Talent Academy • Lift Up Tumbling and Nutrition • Let’s Go Sports • Amazing Athletes Read the blog post at carmelclayparks. com/recreation-program-resources.

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Senior develops into versatile threat for Fishers basketball team

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Jeffrey Simmons’ college future will be on the football field, but for now, he is flourishing for one of the state’s top high school boys basketball teams.

“I think I’ve grown in becoming an allaround basketball player,” the Fishers High School senior said. “Throughout my younger years, I was mainly a post-up guy. With Coach (Garrett) Winegar coming in, he has helped a lot with handling the ball my junior and senior year (and) making 3s, hitting shots off (the) drive and pick-and-pop.”

Prior to the Jan. 28 game at Franklin Central, the 6-foot-5 Simmons was averaging team-highs of 18 points and 6.4 rebounds per game for the Class 4A No. 3 Tigers (14-2).

“He’s our leader,” Winegar said. “He does a lot of other things that don’t show up on the stat sheet. Defensively, he is always guarding the other team’s big guy. I really think he’s the best big guy in the state. He’s so good in football, he doesn’t get the recognition in basketball that he deserves.”

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Winegar is in his second season as Fishers’ coach.

“When we came in, we challenged him to do more than score inside,” Winegar said.

“He started as a freshman and sophomore and did some good things, but most of his scoring came on the inside. We wanted to

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Jeffrey Simmons is Fishers High School’s leading scorer and rebounder. (Photo courtesy of Fishers High School)

challenge him to handle the ball more, shoot a little more from outside and still get his buckets inside — just become a little more

versatile. I think that’s where he’s shown the most improvement. One of his advantages is, he’s faster and more athletic than some of the big guys that guard him. We worked on his ballhandling and shooting.

He’s doing a better job attacking off the bounce.

“Now, he can shoot at all levels, shooting 3s, driving, mid-range and inside.”

Although he’ll play football in college, Simmons said he was committed to finishing his high school basketball career. He said he’s played with most of his teammates for six years.

“I knew we had a great group coming back and I didn’t want to miss out on an opportunity like this,” he said.

Simmons is the all-time leading scorer and rebounder for FHS, which opened in 2006.

“I can’t thank my teammates and coaches (enough) because they have done just as much as I have with putting the work in,” he said.

Simmons chose Miami, which plays in the Mid-American Conference, even though he had offers from Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati.

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County fairgrounds slated for major improvements

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com

fairgrounds improvement project for more than seven years.

“Input was gathered from Extension proThe Hamilton County Fairgrounds may gramming groups, families that have been soon receive significant upgrades. involved in programming for years, addiMussett Nicholas tional users of the grounds (such as other DEVELOPMENT Associates has been county partners and renters), (Hamilton hired by the Hamilton County) Buildings and Grounds, 4-H Council County Commissioners to create a master and the Extension Board,” Peterson said. plan for the fairgrounds’ property at 2003 “This has been a long-term discussion on Pleasant St., Noblesville. what not only meets the “The intent is to put needs of Extension protogether a master plan gramming now but what that will make sure that it will look like around life we maximize the available sciences programming in space that we have there the future.” and really start looking Peterson said the fairinto life sciences and edugrounds need to be flexible Knowles Heirbrandt cational programs that are for a variety of uses. going to help our youth,” Hamilton “The first focus of request from County Commissioner Mark Heirthe committee at this time is that brandt said. we focus on upgrading some of the Heirbrandt said the master plan current facilities,” Peterson said. also will map updates to all the “We realize that a number of projfacilities to make them “state of the ects, such as Ind. 37 and Pleasant art.”

Street changes, affect this plan, so Peterson Heirbrandt said he expects the an overall plan will be determined master plan to take three to six months to to help us with this. Our first area to emcomplete. phasize is technology upgrades and sound “It’s been 20-plus years since any types system upgrades.” of improvements (have been made) out Mak Knowles, a volunteer committee parthere to the fairgrounds,” Heirbrandt said. ticipant and past Purdue Extension Board “We know we need to make an investment member, said by first upgrading technology out there.” and audiovisual capabilities, visitors will Heirbrandt said life sciences and techhave a better experience when attending nology education will be priorities when events. updates to the fairgrounds are made.

“The other biggest need is a new show “Technology is really changing the way arena to replace the existing outdoor show we look at everything from (agriculture) arena,” Knowles said. “Our goal is to build business to things like technology, (which) a year-round, modernized arena that will now is a crucial part of it, and if you are not be versatile in its uses with the additional up to date with what’s available out there focus on life science programing. from software packages to different hybrids “Visitors would benefit from new opand things like that in the ag world, you’re portunities to participate in events and missing out,” Heirbrandt said. “We felt like programing and (by having) a better-quality we needed to take the next step and take show arena during the fair.” this up to the 21st century.”

Heirbrandt said private investors might Heirbrandt said county officials won’t have opportunities for naming rights. know the total cost of improvements until “We are looking at this a little differently the master plan is completed, but he said in the fact that we never used a lot of namif everything is included that “needs to be ing rights and things like that to generate done,” the project could cost in excess of revenue there,” Heirbrandt said. $30 million. He said the project would be Heirbrandt said fundraising efforts might completed in phases. be similar to the Humane Society for HamilPurdue Extension Hamilton County Extenton County’s construction project that was sion Educator Susan Peterson said a voluncompleted in 2021, with assistance from the teer committee has been working on the community and the private sector.

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DISPATCHES Carmel ranked as ‘Most Caring’ — Carmel has been ranked as the “Most Caring” city in Indiana according to Insurify, a company that compares auto insurance quotes. Insurify analyzed its database of more than 4 million car insurance applications, where city, state and primary occupations are listed, to determine the rankings. Insurify’s data science team identified the following occupations as the most caring in 2022: caregiver, counselor, firefighter, hospice volunteer, nurse practitioner, paramedic, physician/medical doctor, teacher, therapist and social worker. Carmel’s 3.94 percent of the share of drivers with these occupations was 55 percent greater than the state average.

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Carmel Marathon alumni update — Two Carmel Marathon alumni will be included in the women’s elite field of the 126th running of the Boston Marathon set for April 18.

Kathy Derks of Appleton, Wisc., and Ziyang Liu of Kirkland, Wash., will compete in a field that includes Olympians, Olympic medalists and former Boston Marathon champions. At the Carmel Marathon in 2021, Derks and Liu finished first and second, respectively.

Sock drive — Sun King is partnering with the Indiana Independent Venue Alliance to be a dropoff site for the second Sock On sock drive benefiting Indiana’s homeless community and Horizon House. New socks may be dropped off at Sun King, including the Carmel location at 351 Monon Blvd., through Feb. 18. Learn more at bit. ly/3HzvRAH. Earth Day Art Contest — Carmel Green Initiative is inviting students in kindergarten through 12th grades to enter in the 2022 Earth Day Art Contest. Entries will be displayed at several community exhibits to give youth a voice, empowering them to inspire the community to live more sustainably. Participants will receive a free postcard with their artwork. Entries are due Feb. 18. For details visit Carmelgreen.org.

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CONSTRUCTION CARMEL Project: Range Line Road reconstruction Location: 116th Street to Carmel Drive. The initial phase affects the right southbound lane of Range Line Road as crews replace a water main. Work will stop for the winter and resume in mid-March with construction of a roundabout at Medical Drive followed by construction of a roundabout at 116th Street.

Expected completion: Summer Project: Transmission and water utility work Location: Veterans Way between The Cat Theatre and 1st Street SW. Partial closures will occur but access to all addresses will be maintained.

Expected completion: The four-phase project, which will later impact other areas, is expected to be complete by May. FISHERS Project: Roundabout construction on 146th street.

Location: The intersection of Ind. 37 and 146th Street. Best detour is bypassing 146th street by taking 141st street.

Expected completion: May Project: Roundabout construction on 131st street.

Location: The intersection of Ind. 37 and 131st Street. Best detour is to avoid 131st street by taking 126th street.

Expected completion: July WESTFIELD Project: Chad Hittle Drive roundabout Location: A section of 191st Street from Tomlinson Road to U.S. 31 will be converted into a boulevard with a roundabout at Chad Hittle Drive.

Estimated completion: Drivers will continue to see construction signs and activity off the road, but no associated closures at this time.

ZIONSVILLE Project: Templin Road Bridge reconstruction Location: The shoulder of this bridge is closed. The Templin Road bridge over Eagle Creek was inspected and an engineering firm has been hired by the Boone County Highway Dept. to work on design of a complete bridge replacement.

Estimated completion: Construction will start this year.

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The Indiana Arts Commission receives funding each year from the National Endowment for the Arts. The IAC then distributes the funds to arts organizations to support arts projects.

According to a press release from Nickel Plate Arts, Regional Arts Partners work alongside the IAC to promote and expand participation in the arts in Indiana. The partners provide broad local access to arts services and funding opportunities and provide services such as grant-making, information and referrals.

“There are just too many organizations and projects throughout the state for (the IAC) to handle themselves, so they really need regional partners to help connect with all those partners, understand their needs, communicate the rules and regulations and just provide guidance and support throughout the granting process,” Nickel Plate Arts Executive Director Ailithir McGill said.

Previously, Region 7 was managed by the IAC. “They have undergone some major personnel changes and started setting new goals for the future,” said McGill, a Noblesville resident. “They want to free themselves up for new and better projects, so they

wanted to seek a new partner for Region 7 to take on those responsibilities.”

McGill said Nickel Plate Arts becoming a Region 7 partner for the IAC is a tribute to the organization’s comprehensive contributions to the arts in the past 10 years.

“They felt we were best positioned to take on this responsibility to connect with local organizations and artists and to just help them move the arts in Indiana forward to a new level,” McGill said. “It’s really an exciting nod to our leadership and a really fun opportunity for us to get to know even more partners and players in the arts in the central Indiana region.”

IAC Executive Director Miah Michaelsen said Nickel Plate Arts has a history of networking with other arts organizations.

“We are thrilled to welcome Nickel Plate Arts as the new Regional Arts Partner for Region 7,” Michaelsen said. “The role of the regional partners is to work alongside the Indiana Arts Commission to promote and expand participation in the arts in Indiana. The Nickel Plate Arts team has a proven track record of forging connections and fostering community growth, and we are looking forward to partnering with them to grow local access to arts services and funding opportunities for the central Indiana region.”

McGill said Nickel Plate Arts’ services won’t change because of the partnership.

“It does hopefully allow us to open up new opportunities for artists, in that our primary role has always been as a connector,” McGill said. “We want to connect artists to opportunities. We want to connect businesses to artists and connect like-minded arts groups to get similar projects done. This gives us more opportunity to do that and to help everyone in the central Indiana region work more efficiently and effectively together.”

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Group offers gifts, gratitude to Vietnam War vets

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Vietnam War veterans often didn’t receive the same warm recepRECOGNITION tion returning home as other veterans.

Fishers resident Jill Fewell wants to help rectify that.

“We estimated there are 120,000 Vietnam-era veterans in the state of Indiana,” said Fewell, executive director of Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans, Inc. “We are trying to find them and give them the thanks, the long overdue gratitude and appreciation and respect they weren’t shown even being affiliated with that war or when they came home.”

The gift of gratitude is for Indiana Vietnam-era veterans between 1955 and 1975.

The gift includes “A Time To Honor,” a hardcover book, with an expanded digital book and e-book, and “The Journey Home,” a documentary on DVD. The gift can be ordered through VetsGift.com.

The expanded digital version will include a photo of the veteran receiving the award.

The program started in March 2021. Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans is in the Indiana Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 777 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. Gifts also can be picked up at that location.

The other part is connecting the veterans with someone who can supply them with benefits information.

“The benefits have really ramped up,” Fewell said. “It’s almost like an emergency mission. There are now 17 presumptive illnesses that are associated with the Vietnam War. There were four just added, including diabetes. Now more than ever, we just want to find these guys because we also estimated that half of these 120,000 Vietnam veterans have either never applied for benefits or they filed a claim years ago and it was denied. There (are) a lot of benefits that can be life-changing to these veterans. It’s just a matter of navigating or finding someone to help them through the process.”

Fewell said the government is allowing for more benefits, but a lot of veterans have given up on getting benefits from the government.

“They may be getting health care benefits but there are more benefits available,” she said. “For instance, for disabled veterans,

Vietnam veteran Bill Akin, left, a Fishers resident who was in the Air Force, receives the Indiana Vietnam veterans gift from Jill Fewell, right. (Photo courtesy of Jill Fewell)

there (are) property tax deductions. There are caregiver benefits that they might be eligible for if they have an interest. There are a lot of things the veterans might not be aware of that have been recently added.”

There is a county veterans service officer at the gift-giving events. Fewell said veterans are then introduced to the county veterans service officer to make them aware of benefits.

“Half of that era’s veterans are not getting any benefits,” Fewell said. “These are benefits they’ve earned for their service.”

Fewell said it took many years for the government to recognize the negative effects of the exposure to Agent Orange, an herbicide and defoliant chemical used by the U.S. military in Vietnam, had on U.S. veterans.

Fewell said her group has hand-presented more than 4,200 gifts to veterans in Indiana. There were 63 events in 2021. Fewell also is a member of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Those volunteers help distribute the gifts.

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sible inflammation, and eating more beans and legumes, which not only benefits our During the past several months, we’ve health but also our budgets. established boundaries to protect ourselves Strength training and vigorous exercise and others. While doing provide life-extending benefits. Finally, PLAIN TALK this we may have felt resocial engagement is integral to longevity. sentful and discouraged.

Living alone for older adults may shorten But not all boundaries are their lives if they are cut for protection. Some are off from others and don’t Social engagement is set in our minds regarding get out often. integral to longevity. relationships, both with As we are evaluating – LORENE BURKHART our boundaries for this family and friends.

Another area for boundyear, we would find it aries is how we treat our bodies: The foods beneficial to think seriously about our lonwe choose for our nourishment, the lack gevity boundaries. If we truly want to live of medical care when we know better and longer lives with good mental and physical whether we get the exercise that will keep health, then we need to make it a priority us healthy. to take care of ourselves. It’s an inside job Longevity science is a new field that exthat requires our personal attention. plores the possibility of slowing or reversing the aging process. The real beneficiaries of this science are people born after 1997 Lorene Burkhart resides at The who may live 20 years longer than the curStratford in West Clay. She is rent lifespan. Some of the evidence-based the author of seven books. options include changes in diet to eat less red meat, which reduces all types of pos-

OBITUARY Stephanie Ann Swart, loving mother, daughter, sister, and friend passed away on January 9, 2022 at the age of 32 due to complications from organ failure. Stephanie was born in Dunwoody, GA on August 27, 1989 to parents, Garret and Tammy (Cooper) Swart. She graduated from Noblesville High School in 2008. After high school she attended the J.Everett Light Career Center’s LPN program and worked in the private sector as a caregiver. Her most recent place of employment, American Senior Community, was a place Stephanie loved. She cared for and brought so much joy to the residents and staff who she worked with.

Stephanie loved the beach and springtime in Atlanta, but most of all, she enjoyed spending time with her beloved daughters, Ansley and Amelia. She was a very attentive mother to her two girls, and she loved every minute with them.

Stephanie was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Garret & Patricia Swart, and maternal grandfather, Richard Cooper; her uncle, Randy Cooper; and cousin, Adam Garret Swart.

She will be lovingly missed by her daughters, Ansley and Amelia; parents, Garret and Tammy Swart; brother, Andrew (A.J.);

half-brother, Josh King (Paula); nieces and nephew, Chloe, Lilly and Conor King; her maternal grandmother, Leona Cooper; aunts and uncles: Dirk and Kathy Swart, Greg and Cindy Hagerman, Matt Swart and Lara Ferguson, and Rodney and Lisa Cooper; cousins, Nicolas, Tiffany and Angela Cooper, Aaron Swart, Jonathan Swart (Brooke Berry), and Ashley and Samantha Swart; as well as her two best friends, Abby Landes and Kelsie Pasquale; and many other loving extended family and beloved friends.

A Celebration of Life ceremony and mass will be held on Friday, March 11, 2022 at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church (17102 Spring Mill Rd, Westfield, IN 46074).

Visitation will be from 9:30 am until the time of mass at 11 am.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are encouraged to be made to her daughters.

Contributions may be made payable to Edward Jones; please enter Ansley and Amelia Blair in the memo line, and address the envelope as shown below: Edward Jones ATTN: Ginger 245 Sheridan Road Noblesville, IN 46060 Memo Line to Read: Ansely and Amelia Blair

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After a one-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Carmel Winter Games are returning to THINGS TO DO The Ice at Carter Green.

Featuring an array of unique family friendly games on the ice-skating rink at 10 Carter Green, the twopronged event — presented by the City of Carmel — begins Feb. 11 with the Hometown Hero-Olympics, followed the next day by the Winter Games.

The Hometown Hero-Olympics is an on-ice competition between the Carmel police and fire departments. The Winter Games are onice activities for teams consisting of local businesses or individuals.

“This will be the fourth year we have had the Winter Games,” City of Carmel spokesman Dan McFeely said. “The idea behind the Games was to find a way to allow some fun, non-skating activities on the ice rink as part of our annual Festival of Ice season.”

Although each Winter Games activity takes place on the ice-skating rink, none require ice skates. Games include Ice Trike

The Carmel Winter Games features teams competing in a variety of events on ice, including Human Hungry Hippos. (Photo courtesy of the

Relays, Human Curling and Human Hungry Hippos.

“Not everyone ice skates, but many people still love to have fun on the ice,” McFeely said. “Winter Games is a chance to have some slippery, sliding fun and gives adults a chance to play like kids.”

Open to participants 15 and older, the cost is $300 per team. Teams can have between four and 12 members. Registration is limited to 10 teams. All registration fees benefit Carmel-area food pantries.

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By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com At 73, Marie Millikan can’t complete the same jumps, twists and spins she performed as a figure skater at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, but she can still be found on the ice six days a week in Carmel.

These days, Millikan spends her time at the rink coaching young athletes as director of skating at the Carmel Ice Skadium, where she’s worked since the facility opened in 1974. She arrives before dawn several days a week to work with skaters before the school day begins, returning most afternoons or evenings to coach after school or on Saturdays.

She only recently stopped working Sundays.

“People say, ‘You are 73, you should retire and find a hobby,’” Millikan said. “(They) don’t understand that my job is my hobby, so I don’t mind getting up at 5 a.m. or 4:30 a.m. to open the rink.”

Marie Víchová Millikan coaches Carmel High School freshman Grace Nie during an early morning training session at the Carmel Ice Skadium. (Photo by Ann Marie Shambaugh)

‘THE SWEAT IS THE SWEAT’ Millikan was born in Prague, in the former Czechoslovakia, a nation where ice skating was as popular as Little League baseball is in the U.S., she said. So, like most everyone else around her, she learned to skate at a young age.

She didn’t always dream of being an Olympian; rather, she sought to make small improvements each time she took to the ice.

By the time the 1964 Winter Olympics rolled around, she realized she might be within reach of making the 1968 Olympic team with enough hard work.

Millikan — then known by her maiden name of Marie Víchová — performed one of the best routines of her life in the Czechoslovakian national competition to make the Olympic team. She headed to the 10th Winter Olympics in Grenoble with fellow Czechoslovakian figure skater Hana Mašková, who earned a bronze medal in the ladies competition. U.S. skater Peggy Flemming captured the gold. Millikan fell short of the podium.

Skating in the Olympics is an experience Millikan will never forget, and it led to lifelong friendships with athletes from around the world.

“It was special, because the Olympics only

Millikan said. “She said, ‘I’ve skated in front of 10,000 people all by myself, having a chance of falling on my face any second, so talking in front of people is nothing.’”

Grace Nie, a Carmel High School freshman who trains at the Carmel Ice Skadium six days a week, started skating five years ago, and — thanks in part to Millikan — has learned to appreciate many aspects of the sport.

“It’s fun. I like how you can be artistic and have a technical side,” Nie said. “It’s artsy, but also a sport, and it helps you exercise.”

Millikan may not still be able to perform the same routines as her students, but she loves the “freedom of motion” that comes from gliding across the ice as much as she ever has.

“We have ballet dancers being totally jealous of us, because we can move like the ballet dancers, but we have the motion to go with it and travel across the ice and feel the wind on your face,” Millikan said. “You can express yourself fully with the music and body movement. It’s very liberating.”

ON THE COVER: Marie Víchová Millikan coaches Carmel High School sophomore Zoe Tu during an early morning training session at the Carmel Ice Skadium. (Photo by Ann Marie Shambaugh)

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Marie Víchová Millikan in 1968, the same year she competed in the Winter Olympics. (Photo courtesy of Marie Víchová Millikan)

happen every four years,” she said. “But as far as the individual training and the individual performing, that’s all the same. The sweat is the sweat.”

Soon after competing in the Olympics, Millikan retired from competition and began performing professionally with Holiday on Ice, a touring show still in existence.

Millikan’s older daughter, Michelle, later performed with Holiday on Ice before pursuing a career in nursing. Her younger daughter, Melissa, is a researcher at Eli Lilly and Co. While on tour in Japan, Millikan met an American man who would become her husband, which is what led to her relocating to the U.S. She moved to Carmel in 1975.

Marie Víchová Millikan as a performer for Holiday on Ice in 1969. (Photo courtesy of Marie Víchová Millikan)

‘IT’S VERY LIBERATING’ Millikan, who has a degree in engineering and speaks six languages, has long been passionate about working with young skaters because of the lessons they can learn on and off the ice. The sport teaches them about dedication, handling disappointment and building confidence, she said.

For example, she once heard from the parents of a former student she trained who reported that skills she learned on the ice helped her excel in medical school.

“She had to give a speech in front of a couple hundred people, and she wasn’t afraid,”

Marie Millikan only competed in the Olympics in 1968, but she’s attended most of the Winter Games since 1988 — and many other major figure skating competitions — as an analyst for the Associated Press.

Her role includes interviewing athletes, translating, proofreading, writing and helping journalists understand the technical aspects of the sport.

Millikan said she’s retired from covering the Olympics, which she last attended in 2014 in Sochi, Russia, but she still works as an analyst at times covering other major figure skating competitions. She plans to watch the next Winter Olympics, to be held Feb. 4 to 20 in Beijing from the comfort of her home.

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Information about what we might like, or not, is being collected and sold all around us. In fact, if we are reading this article online right now, chances are that someone, somewhere, is taking note. Certainly, it is not all nefarious.

Some are legitimate retailers attempting to bring to us messages that may be more likely to be of interest. But for just as many others, our presumed preferences are being bought and sold in back-alley marketplaces deeply hidden from our view. Who knows what about us? Why don’t they tell us how they got our information and from whom?

Ask a marketer how they came to know your telephone number or email address and they are as likely to hang up as they are to answer. In most cases, the front-line workers are not informed of how our contact information was collected. Plausible deniability is important in this game. In a day, not that long ago, if someone reached out by name, it was a safe assumption that they either knew us directly or knew someone who did. The social contract required that their interactions with us be predicated upon a connection to another person.

If the newly introduced individual or organization acted badly, it would reflect poorly on the person making the introduction. The axiom played, “It is not what you know but who you know.”

Today, our inboxes are filled with emails from supposed long-lost friends.

“Hey, insert name here, you must have missed responding to my last email, but I hope you and your terrific spouse, insert name here, will get back to me.”

The problem is that it is all fake. There is no previous contact. There is no relationship. It seems that today it is, “What you know, not who you know.”

It’s finally happened, friends. I hit the big 5-0 this week and am now officially eligible for full AARP benefits. Naturally, I celebrated with a hands-y mammogram and a successful bone density test.

Happy birthday to me! I am one Fifty is the new step closer to 40, after all, and that senior livI’m planning to ing community lifestyle I have embrace every dreamed about second of it. for so long.

– DANIELLE WILSON But seriously, I don’t feel 50, at least not what I thought it would feel like 20 years ago. I can still jog a few miles with only minor incontinence issues, I can walk up and down stairs with very few knee creaks, and apart from hating everyone and everything after 8 p.m., I am generally content most of the time.

Nor do I think I look 50. When I flip through photos of my grandmother at the same age, I see a gray-haired matron straight from central casting. But if I put my red mop in a ponytail and bravely forgo eyeliner, I have a good shot at being carded. Maybe not in a Bloomington bar but definitely at Meijer.

And though I wear comfy sweats around the house, I keep my “public” wardrobe fairly on trend, thanks to two brutally honest daughters. Harsh criticism equals fashion kindness apparently.

Fifty is the new 40, after all, and I’m planning to embrace every second of it.

There’s a certain gravitas that comes with meeting the half-century mark. I have experienced love and loss, witnessed compassion and cruelty and raised four moderately well-adjusted young adults. I even survived ‘80s bangs and a Skid Row concert. Think of the wisdom I can impart!

AARP, my application is on its way!

Peace out.

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School board candidates needed to rid CCS of CRT Editor, Denials from the Carmel school superintendent, school board and certain community activists notwithstanding, events in 2021 have established that Carmel school leadership remains committed to pushing critical race theory through their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Kimberle Crenshaw, arguably the most prominent proponent of CRT nationwide, recently admitted that DEI activism helps spread CRT into K-12 schools, which, according to her, is a “good thing.”

So, the debate over whether DEI promotes CRT is settled. The big question now is whether Carmel residents agree with Crenshaw’s assessment.

Personally, I doubt that most willingly support an ideology that defines each student as oppressor or oppressed; sees everything through a racial lens; promotes a sense of victimization; suppresses civil dialogue; values dogma over academic excellence; and teaches that our nation is irredeemably evil. Though last year groups and individuals in our region began to speak out against CRT, the hard work has just begun.

If Carmel residents want to rid their schools of CRT and refocus efforts on educational excellence, they will need to step up and run for Carmel school board this fall to wrest power back from the current board and thereby restore responsible educational leadership.

Allon Friedman, Carmel

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Protect constituents, not utilities Editor, Lawmakers need to protect constituents, not utilities. It’s frustrating that electric utilities continue to not see solar installations as a positive for their company. They need to embrace it and add the infrastructure where it benefits everyone, including them. Instead, utilities are bending the law to cheat solar customers for energy pushed back to the grid. Utilities are changing from monthly netting to instantaneous netting, which financially harms those who invested in solar, including schools, businesses and cities.

For our family, it cuts the value of the solar investment we made, which was based on monthly netting. Our state senator, Scott Baldwin, sits on the Utilities Committee and has an opportunity to correct this problem to ensure that Hoosiers like me who embrace solar technology are credited on a monthly basis — the way the state law was written. Senate Bill 248 fixes this problem by making it clear that utilities have to use monthly netting.

Chris Lord, Carmel

Masks, vaccines benefit others Editor, I was incredibly angry after reading the article, “Councilor ‘inclined to want to slash funding’ for CPA over policies.” I don’t want to play politics, but once again a Republican has focused on ‘me, me, me’ instead of ‘we, we, we’! This is a community. We should want to do everything in our power to help out our fellow citizens, and that includes wearing a mask and being vaccinated.

While I know a vaccinated person can carry

COVID-19, I don’t particularly want to risk sitting in an auditorium next to a stranger who isn’t vaccinated. I want to send a message to the performing arts community that we want them to come perform in Carmel, and having patrons show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test accomplishes that. I am grateful that the CPA has instituted these policies.

Ilene Arends, Carmel

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Yes, I had been out carousing. At Kroger.

Since COVID-19 started, my wife prefers that we not go into stores, but instead pick up our food orders curbside. I’m sorry, but you can’t indulge yourself in guilty delights on a computer screen, so … I put on my N95 mask and silently slipped out the door.

Sounds mysterious, doesn’t it?

I returned home with a bagful of goodies. I’ve devised many clever places to hide questionable food choices. I once got caught hiding a Johnsonville sausage link in an empty lamp socket.

“What is that?” she asked.

“It’s a 40-brat bulb,” I told her.

Back to my attempted covert entry into the house. Mary Ellen eyed each item as I unloaded my bag onto the counter: Muffins: “Are they gluten free? How much added sugar?”

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were cracked? These are not from cage-free farms. And they’re cheaper at Costco. Brown eggs don’t go with the new fridge.”

French bread: “It’s just going to go bad.

You never finish it. It gets hard as a rock overnight because you don’t seal the package. After three days, the birds won’t even eat it.”

I returned home with a bagful of good- ies. I’ve devised many clever places to hide questionable food choices. I once got caught hiding a Johnsonville sausage link in an empty lamp socket.

– DICK WOLFSIE Pistachios: “Why did you buy those? You know we’re just going to eat them. Almonds are better for us.”

Milk: “A quart? It’s so much cheaper by the gallon. And how many grown men still drink chocolate milk?”

Cheese dip: “That reminds me, did you remember to pick up your Lipitor?”

My wife doesn’t have food cravings like I do. If Mary Ellen turned to me one night and said, “I have this hankering for a pastrami sandwich and a half sour pickle,” well, I can tell you right now, I’d want to check her photo ID before we spent the rest of the night together.

Last week, I was yearning for a jumbo shrimp cocktail. By the time I got to the store, I had lost that desire and opted instead for a bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos. That poor nutritional choice required finding the perfect hiding place at home to avoid my wife’s disapproving eye. I can never use the space under the back deck. The raccoons know exactly what I’m up to.

Truth is, I get a kick out of the game of Hide and Eat. I recently stashed a chocolate chip cookie under my pillow. That night, just after we turned off our bedroom TV, Mary Ellen made me promise to think about laying off of bad food. I told her I’d sleep on it.

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Laser treatment spa opens in Carmel

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Patrick Cowherd sees the eSpot Medical Spa of Indiana as a growing way to treat injuries and pain.

NOW OPEN The Carmel company uses the Phoenix TheraLase System, which is non-invasive laser therapy for pain.

“We wanted to open a clinic because of all the things it helps, like neuropathy, diabetes and concussions,” said Cowherd, a longtime cheerleading coach. “It can help athletes with concussions, ACLs, meniscus tears and everything else. This technology is so cutting edge.”

Cowherd and Margi Beaver are the general managers of the Carmel business, which is at 11405 N. Pennsylvania St. Milton Thompson is assisting as counsel and a consulting general manager.

Jen Aslin, an audiologist who serves as the technical trainer, has been trained in using the laser equipment.

“It’s a Class 4 cold laser that generates heat,” Aslin said. “It doesn’t touch the skin.

We hold it 12 to 14 inches out.”

The system works by supplying energy to the body in the form of nonthermal protons of light.

“It helps reduce inflammation,” she said.

Aslin said it is known to treat more than 60 problems that include soft tissue injuries, migraines, chronic back pain and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

“It helps expedite healing, so if people have a sports-related injury, they can get back onto the field quicker,” Aslin said. “It’s been known to regenerate tendons and nerves. Right now, our focus is on soft tissue injuries.”

The treatment typically takes 30 minutes, along with a 30-minute assessment. The initial cost is $500.

“They’ll make an assessment and a customized plan,” Thompson said. “It won’t be $500 for subsequent sessions, but it will be based on the need.”

Deb Knapp, a coach and personal trainer, helps with assessments. Nieasha Richardson, a nurse practitioner, will have an office there.

“We eventually will have a mobile unit that can go to nursing homes,” Aslin said.

Along with the Indiana licensing rights, Thompson said his group has negotiated a

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master license with Phoenix Thera-Lase.

“We’re going to have some licensees in various areas around the country and hopefully internationally,” Thompson said. “We can bring on up to 20 more markets within our license period of three years. (The spas) will look remarkably like ours.”

Some prospective licensees from out of state have already visited Carmel to see the operation.

The company has the license for Indiana and plans to establish eSpot Medical Spas across the Indianapolis area.

“When we negotiate the license, this is a chance for them to make royalty income,” Thompson said.

Thompson said the Phoenix Thera-Lase System sells anywhere from $90,000 to $150,000 and is FDA-approved.

“Because it has such a high wavelength, it can treat any skin color, which is huge,” Aslin said.

Beaver said the laser can assist with skin care, and treating acne will eventually be part of the program.

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The Stutz racing team plans to move Since selling the repurposed Stutz autointo the renovated building, which will give mobile factory building in downtown Indiavisitors an opportunity to view racecars in napolis in various stages of repair and restoREDEVELOPMENT early 2021, ration. Other tenants have not been Turner determined.

Woodard has turned much of his “We’re going to let the market attention to Carmel. decide what it could be. We’ve Woodard announced Jan. 20 talked about a maker-space conthat he has purchased the vacant cept and possibly a spot for small 80,000-square-foot Horton Fan manufacturing and startup compaWoodard Factory building at 201 W. Carmel nies,” Woodard stated. “We’ve been Dr., which sits on 6 acres just east of the approached by last-mile distribution compaMonon Greenway. In the past year, Woodard nies who see it as a great location to quickhas also purchased the Rich Furniture build- serve the dynamic Carmel area. I’ve also had ing at 1030 S. Range Line Rd. and the Keltner discussions about the possibility of an auto Business Plaza at 520 W. Carmel Dr. enclave where car collectors could store, “I find it interesting going from factory detail, repair and socialize around beautiful to factory after selling the Stutz and now automobiles.” buying Horton,” Woodard stated in a press Woodard purchased the former release. “I embrace the real estate concept 400,000-square-foot Stutz factory building of adaptive reuse, and I get a lot of joy out in 1992, transforming it into a small business of turning buildings into something unique, incubator. His improvements to the Rich Furwhen many other buyers would put the niture building in Carmel include restoring it wrecking ball to them. Horton has good to its original use of boutique office space.

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know when another Carmel ClusterTruck location would open.

“Our customers have been outspoken on ClusterTruck will expand its partnership social media and via email asking when the with Kroger by relocating its Carmel kitchen Carmel kitchen will reopen, and we’ve been to the grocery store on hard at work behind the scenes to FOOD Range Line Road. It was relaunch the location as quickly as set to begin operations possible,” Howenstein said. there Jan. 31.

ClusterTruck has intentionally “We have seen great success small and strategic delivery zones, with our Fishers and Dublin, Ohio, which ensures that food never sits on-site Kroger kitchens and plan to under a heat lamp and will spend further grow this partnership with less than 10 minutes on the road, Howenstein three more upcoming locations in Howenstein said. With the new the greater Columbus (Ohio) area opening kitchen, the delivery zone will shift slightly, soon,” ClusterTruck COO Brian Howenstein allowing more Carmel customers to order said.

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ClusterTruck is a delivery-only restaurant Howenstein said the pandemic has acwith a street food-inspired menu made celerated the demand for food delivery, and fresh just minutes before it is delivered. ordering food is no longer an option just for Howenstein said the location in the Carspecial occasions. mel Kroger will allow customers to benefit “With many having transitioned from from ClusterTruck’s ordering system “that working downtown to working from home streamlines the entire delivery process from in the suburbs, it’s a no-brainer to expand online order to curbside delivery.” our services to more families and individuClusterTruck closed its previously leased als surrounding Indianapolis,” he said. “As space in October 2021 in the Hamilton Cross- we continue to bridge delivery zones in our ing retail center after Kite Realty Group home market, more and more customers and Pure Development announced plans can satisfy their need for fast, fresh, madeto redevelop the site as the headquarters to-order, restaurant-quality food delivered and training facility for Republic Airways. to wherever they are.”

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Hannah Brown is delighted to get another opportunity to be “The Black Dahlia.”

“It’s exciting to do PERFORMANCE a leading role and to get to do it more than once,” the Carmel resident said. “It’s nice to be able to look back on what you did five years ago and see what worked and what could have been improved and then work harder to try to make it better this time — grow the character a little more and dig a little deeper to the path of the character and her motivations.”

Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre will present “The Black Dahlia” for six performances Feb. 12 to 27 at The Academy of Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, 329 Gradle Dr., Carmel. Performances are at 7 p.m. Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. The rehearsal space will be transformed into a black-box theater to create a cabaret.

The production is inspired by the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles. She was nicknamed the Black Dahlia by the press for her rumored penchant for wearing sheer black clothes. The film “The Blue Dahlia” also had come out in 1946.

The show was previously presented by the Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre in February 2017.

“I’m working on the acting elements of the part,” Brown said. “I’ll try to make the dancing elements stronger and cleaner.

Not that I think it went bad the last time, but five years later I’ve grown as a dancer.

I’m trying to elevate myself. My confidence and comfortability on who I am as a dancer has grown.

“I’m more aware of my strength and where I need more work.”

Carmel resident Abigail Lessaris, who plays Short’s sister, said although the show is based on the gruesome murder, it is an entertaining “whodunit.”

“We’ve taken it and twisted it and given it fun characters on what could have

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“THE BIG BANG” Actors Theatre of Indiana will present “The Big Bang,” a musical, through Feb. 20 at the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

“THE 39 STEPS” Civic Theatre’s production of “The 39 Steps” is set from Feb. 4 to 19 at The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, civictheatre.org.

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The body of Elizabeth Short, portrayed by Hannah Brown, is discovered. (Photo by Lydia Moody)

happened,” Lessaris said. “It’s really not so dark. It’s kind of like if you went to a murder mystery dinner and everyone was acting out these dramatic parts that could have happened. There is a nostalgic feeling.”

Gregory Hancock, the theater’s executive artistic director, said the production, which has a film noir atmosphere, has a lot of fun music.

“I like to take some beautiful, light music and put something a little dark with it,” Hancock said. “It’s not that we’re being disrespectful of the story. It’s very sad and emotional at the end. For the audience, it’s nice to have this nostalgic feeling about the music, about the old Hollywood style of hair and makeup.

“At the end, this was a real person and murder. We’re taking artistic liberties to make it more theatrical.”

Lessaris said several people falsely confessed to the murder.

“What was their motivation for saying they did it, even though they didn’t?” Les-

saris said. “What could have driven someone to murder her? Before she dies, there is a lot of interaction with the character.

There is a lot of buildup to the murder.”

Hancock said the audience can decide what happened at the end between four scenarios.

There are five monologues as part of the show.

“It’s very much a dance show, but we’re speaking and delivering our monologues to the audience,” Lessaris said.

Hancock said it’s a little easier for performers to do monologues in the more intimate space of the Academy of Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre than their usual home at The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

“Some of the monologues have been tweaked to help the storyline,” Hancock said. “I’ve added three new sections of choreography to elaborate on the stories a little bit.”

For more, visit gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org.

Singer/songwriter Eleri Ward will appear at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, and John Lloyd Young will perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4-5 at Feinstein’s Cabaret at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel. For more, visit feinsteinshc.com.

Elton John Tribute set for Palladium editorial@youarecurrent.com Actors Theatre of Indiana will present “Remember When Rock Was Young: The Elton John Tribute” at 8 p.m. March 18 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

The tribute features singer/actor/pianist Craig A. Meyer, a 1981 Carmel High School graduate, and The Rocket Band.

The musical journey follows John through his decades of major hits.

Meyer has had roles in film, television and on Broadway. He has toured internationally and recorded with music legends such as Frankie Valli and Barry Manilow.

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Civic presents zany ‘whodunit’

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Matt Kraft’s role is unique in “The 39 Steps.”

“I personally PLAY am the only member of the cast who plays one character and one character only,” Kraft said. “So, I am lucky in that I just get to Glickman watch everyone else jump in and out of playing different characters. They are so good at switching between characters that I think the audience will really get a kick out of it.”

The Carmel resident Relberg plays Richard Hannay in Civic Theatre’s production of “The 39 Steps,” which is set from Feb. 4 to 19 at The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

“The fast-paced whirlwind chase of this story is a huge part of what makes it such a great time,” Kraft said. “There are a lot of great plays that are also really emotionally heavy and serious, so I’m excited to be in one that is just zany fun.”

The other three actors in the show play a combined 150 different characters.

Carmel resident John Walls and Eric Reiberg are listed as clowns.

“It is such a great challenge to take on this role and its many characters appearing throughout the show,” Walls said. “It is an extreme test of mental, technical and physical acting skills. Because there are so many changes which come about so quickly, it requires complete concentration. We are all exhausted at the end of rehearsal.”

Walls said he has been in a few fast-

paced shows and acted in several farce comedies in the past. Most recently, he performed in “Lend Me a Tenor” with the Carmel Community Players.

Walls said he has only seen the original Alfred Hitchcock movie version of “The 39 Steps,” which wasn’t a comedy and actors didn’t play multiple roles.

“But I think that can sometimes be a good thing Kraft (because) you know that whatever you bring to the play will be your own and not derivative of someone else’s interpretation,” he said of not having seen another production of the play. “The biggest challenge Walls is probably the fact that I play male and female characters, and there are at least four different accents which need to be employed all on command.”

Carmel resident Haley Glickman plays Pamela, Annabella and Margaret.

“As an actor, it’s very rewarding to be able to create three separate, distinct characters,” Glickman said. “Each woman has her own physicality and voice, which has been a delight to discover in rehearsals. I actually performed ‘The 39 Steps’ before when I was at Carmel High School, so it has been a joy to have the opportunity to revisit the production.”

Reiberg said he plays 10 different specific roles. “’It’s a lot of fun really trying to make each one a very specific individual characterization,” he said. “I haven’t done any (show) that (transition) quite as quickly as this. Since there are only four actors, there are very few moments when we aren’t on stage or getting ready to go on.”

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hear from other festivals, but our focus at the moment is Sedona and this exciting opportunity to have the film seen by those A documentary focusing on the opioid epaffected by addiction to give them stories of idemic in Brown County has taken its next hope,” said Pauszek, a Geist-area resident. major step on “We want to spark conversation DOCUMENTARY the film festiabout the depth and breadth of the val circuit. problem to start to remove stigma “The Addict’s Wake” will be and move collaboratively toward screened at the Sedona (Ariz.) Intersolutions to this dangerous public national Film Festival, which runs health crisis.” from Feb. 19-27. The feature docu“The Addict’s Wake” won the mentary will have showings at 7 Heartland International Film FestiPauszek p.m. Feb. 24 and at 10 a.m. Feb. 26. val’s 2021 Indiana Spotlight Grand “This is my second time attending the Prize and the Indiana Spotlight Audience festival where my short film ‘Grateful’ won Choice Award.

Audience Choice for Best Documentary in Director Michael Husain of Zionsville, pro2019,” said producer Amy Pauszek, whose ducer/executive producer Lisa Hall, a former Where’s Amy photo column runs in Current Fishers resident who lives in Brown County, newspapers. “It’s one of my favorite festiand Pauszek were presented the Distinvals, and I can’t wait to go back.” guished Hoosier Award by Indiana Gov. Eric The documentary also will be screened at Holcomb after a Heartland screening at the March 4-5 Heartland Film Festival Best Newfields in October 2021. of the Fest at the 100-year-old Historic Art“Brown County residents have supported craft Theatre in Franklin. The film also will this project from the very start,” Hall said. be shown at the March 24-27 Hoosier Films “The community wants to heal and become Annual Festival in March in Bloomington. healthier, no doubt.”

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“That day (that article ran), I got an email from Ghostlight Records saying they were interested. (It read) ‘How can we help you?’”

A fan of the late Stephen Sondheim, Eleri Ward said. “I released my album through Ward made acoustic folk arrangements of Ghostlight, which I never thought would his songs. happen. I have a lot of passion CONCERT “I made everything for this project as I’ve always had myself, so I recordpassion for Sondheim and his work. ed the guitar layers and added Putting my own spin on it was keyboard and vocals and recorded something I never thought about. in my walk-in closet in Boston at It’s very organic and natural.” the time. That’s what I was doing Ward said she looks forward to during the pandemic,” Ward said. “It performing the music live.

Ward became something so much more “We all have, I think, collective than I imagined. I never thought I would experience with this music in very different make an album of indie-folk Sondheim ways,” Ward said. “This music is so universongs.” sal and human that I think the meanings of Ward, who is based in New York, will perthe songs hit everyone a little differently. It form songs from her album, “A Perfect Little hits me differently in different times of my Death,” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at Feinstein’s life.”

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The album has 13 songs from different Less than a year ago, she posted some of Sondheim shows. She said she chose her her TikTok arrangements of Sondheim songs favorite songs. Besides the album, she said she had made since 2019. she will add new arrangements for the “People resonated with it and wanted me shows. to release it,” Ward said. “I made the album.”

Ward’s songs are on Spotify and Apple She asked the publication Broadway Music. For more, visit eleriward.com. For World if it could do an article. tickets, visit feinsteinshc.com.

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A street in downtown Cairo. (Photos by Don Knebel)

A visit to historic Cairo

Round 1: February 22

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A State Bank & Carmel Education Foundation Partnership

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Today, in the first of a series about Egyptian cities with pleasant winter weather, we will visit Cairo, with TRAVEL February high temperatures averaging 69 degrees, with a75 percent of sunshine.

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, lies along the Nile River about 100 miles upriver (south) of the Mediterranean, near the beginning of the Nile Delta that has been important to Egyptians for thousands of years.Beginning in about 2,600 B.C., Old Kingdom pharaohs built the famous pyramids of Giza on a plateau now on the outskirts of Cairo. Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt, was in the same area. The modern history of Cairo began in A.D. 969, when the Muslim rulers of Egypt established a city on the east bank of the Nile, which became Egypt’s capital 200 years later. By the 14th century, Cairo had replaced Baghdad as the center of the Islamic world.

Today, Greater Cairo, with more than 21 million people, is the world’s sixth-most populous urban area. Despite having its share of slums, overcrowding and traffic, the downtown area rivals most European cities for its attractiveness and accommodations, with luxurious hotels offering a great view of the Nile. The five-star Mena House Hotel, once a royal hunting lodge, is within walking distance of the Giza pyramids and Great Sphinx. Visitors to Cairo who want to learn about the city and its history should visit, in addition to the pyramids, Coptic Cairo (home to early churches), Islamic Cairo (with many historic mosques), the Citadel, the Egyptian

A view of downtown Cairo from the water.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Museum, the Khan el-Khalili bazaar and Saqqara (an ancient burial ground including the Stepped Pyramid). Visitors next winter should be able to visit the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum next to the pyramids, said to be the largest archeological museum in the world, displaying all 5,000 items from the tomb of King Tut.

Don Knebel is a local resident who works for Barnes & Thornburg LLP. For the full column visit donknebel. com. You may contact him at editorial@youarecurrent.com.

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Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt Have you been seeing strange updates on your friends’ social media accounts? I’m not talking about armchair GRAMMAR GUY political hot takes or quack medical advice — that’s standard social media fare. I’m Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice Prime Storage - Fishers Britton Park Rd. located at 13323 Britton Park Rd., Fishers, IN 46038 intends to hold a sale to sell the property stored at the Facility by the below list of Occupants whom are in default at a Auction.

The sale will occur or otherwise disposed as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 2/16/2022 at 12:00pm. Chad Robison unit #C12; Jordan Cline unit #F22; John Marvin unit #F8. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice.

Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details.

referring to rows of gray, yellow and green squares. Your friends and work acquaintances aren’t posting secret codes; they’re posting about a viral game called Wordle.

How can Grammar Guy resist talking about the Wordle phenomenon? After all, I’m a proud word nerd (and I hope you are as well).

The game is simple: Figure out the five-letter word of the day in six attempts or fewer.

If you guess a correct letter in the correct spot, that letter will turn green. If you try a letter from the word in an incorrect spot, that letter will turn yellow. Finally, if you guess a letter that isn’t in the word at all, it will become grayed out on your keyboard.

Your goal, of course, is to arrive at the word of the day in as few chances as possible. Believe it or not, there’s not an app for this (although there is an app called Wordle,

NOTICE TO BIDDERS City of Carmel, Indiana Department Board of Public Works and Safety One Civic Square City of Carmel, Indiana 46032 Project: 3rd Avenue SW Reconstruction from Autumn Drive to 2nd Street SW (Project # 20-ENG-03) Notice is hereby given that the Board of Public Works and Safety for the City of Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana will receive sealed bids for the above described “Project” at the office of the Clerk, One Civic Square, Carmel, Indiana (City Hall) until 10:00 a.m. EST on February 16, 2022 and, commencing as soon as practicable thereafter on the same date, such bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Council Chambers of City Hall. No late bids will be accepted.

All bids and proposals shall be properly and completely executed on the proposal forms provided with the plans and specifications, which will include the non-collusion affidavit as required by the State of Indiana. The bid envelope must be sealed and have the words “BID – 3rd Avenue SW Reconstruction from Autumn Drive to 2nd Street SW (Project # 20-ENG-03)” A bid bond or certified check in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount bid must be submitted with each bid. A one hundred percent (100%) performance and payment bond will also be required of the successful bidder. It is intended that actual construction of all work divisions shall be started as soon as practicable, and each bidder shall be prepared to enter promptly into a construction contract, furnish a performance bond, and begin work without delay in the event the award is made to him.

The Project consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: Roadway Reconstruction of 3rd Avenue SW from Autumn Drive to 2nd Street SW including full depth pavement construction, curb and gutter construction, storm sewer construction, sidewalk and curb ramp construction, driveway construction, and water and sanitary construction.

Contract Documents for the Project have been assembled into one bound project manual, which together with drawings, may be examined at the following locations: City of Carmel Department of Engineering - 1st Floor One Civic Square Carmel, IN 46032 (317) 571-2441 Copies of such drawings and project manuals must be obtained from Reprographix (Reprographix.com).

Payments and costs of Contract Documents are non-refundable.

Bidders shall assure that they have obtained complete sets of drawings and Contract Documents and shall assume the risk of any errors or omissions in bids prepared in reliance on incomplete sets of drawings and Contract Documents.

This Project will be funded by the City of Carmel.

A pre-bid conference for discussions of the Project, the bidding requirements and other important matters will be held on February 9, 2022 at 11:00 am in the Caucus Room on the 2nd Floor of City Hall (One Civic Square). All prospective bidders are invited to attend the pre-bid conference. The pre-bid conference is not mandatory.

For special accommodations needed by handicapped individuals planning to attend the pre-bid conference or public bid opening meeting, please call or notify the city of Carmel, Engineer’s Office, at (317) 571-2441 at least forty-eight (48) hours prior thereto.

No bidder may withdraw any bid or proposal within a period of thirty (30) days following the date set for receiving bids or proposals. The Carmel Board of Public Works and Safety reserves the right to hold any or all bids or proposals for a period of not more than thirty (30) days and said bids or proposal shall remain in full force and effect during said period. The City of Carmel reserves the right to reject and/or cancel any and all bids, solicitations and/or offers in whole or in part as specified in the solicitations when it is not in the best interests of the governmental body as determined by the purchasing agency in accordance with IC 5-22-18-2 Sue Wolfgang Clerk

but it’s not the one everyone is playing). You have to go to powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle to play the game that’s sweeping the English-speaking world. Everyone gets the same word each day. Once you finish the word for the day, you have to wait until the next day for the new one. I love the pure egalitarianism of it.

Of course, as a wonky word warrior, I wanted to figure out how to dominate Wordle. Naturally, I turned to my next-door neighbor, Beth. According to Beth (who hasn’t missed a word yet), the first word to pick is always “least.” You’ll likely get multiple “yellow” or “green” letters from this

word. Her second-round word is “round,” which covers five more common letters.

Once you tackle those two words, you’ll probably have a decent idea of the word for your third round.

While you can find online advice to start with words including “roate” and “adieu,” I’m going to stick with Beth on this one.

Curtis Honeycutt is a national award-winning, syndicated humor writer. Connect with him on Twitter (@curtishoneycutt) or at curtishoneycutt.com.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS City of Carmel, Indiana Department Board of Public Works and Safety One Civic Square City of Carmel, Indiana 46032 Project: Smoky Row Road from Old Meridian Road to Rangeline Road (Project # 20-ENG-01) Notice is hereby given that the Board of Public Works and Safety for the City of Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana will receive sealed bids for the above described “Project” at the office of the Clerk, One Civic Square, Carmel, Indiana (City Hall) until 10:00 a.m. EST on February 16, 2022 and, commencing as soon as practicable thereafter on the same date, such bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Council Chambers of City Hall. No late bids will be accepted.

All bids and proposals shall be properly and completely executed on the proposal forms provided with the plans and specifications, which will include the non-collusion affidavit as required by the State of Indiana.

The bid envelope must be sealed and have the words “BID – Smoky Row Road from Old Meridian Road to Rangeline Road (Project # 20-ENG-01).

A bid bond or certified check in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount bid must be submitted with each bid. A one hundred percent (100%) performance and payment bond will also be required of the successful bidder. It is intended that actual construction of all work divisions shall be started as soon as practicable, and each bidder shall be prepared to enter promptly into a construction contract, furnish a performance bond, and begin work without delay in the event the award is made to him.

The Project consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: Reconstruction of Smoky Row Road from Old Meridian Road to Rangeline Road, a roundabout will be installed at the intersection of Smoky Row Road at North End Drive. The reconstruction of Smoky Row Road will include new full-depth pavement, curb and gutter, enclosed storm water network, lighting, and shared-use path with new curb ramps and raised crosswalks. The existing 9.3 ft by 6.3 ft by 62 ft long corrugated metal pipe conveying Little Cool Creek under Smoky Row Road will be replaced with a 53 ft single span concrete box beam bridge. The two span (13.5 ft, 12 ft) by 35 ft concrete box culvert conveying Little Cool Creek under Monon Trail will be replaced with a 42 ft long steel pedestrian truss bridge.

Contract Documents for the Project have been assembled into one bound project manual, which together with drawings, may be examined at the following locations: City of Carmel Department of Engineering - 1st Floor One Civic Square Carmel, IN 46032 (317) 571-2441 Copies of such drawings and project manuals must be obtained from Reprographix (Reprographix.com).

Payments and costs of Contract Documents are non-refundable.

Bidders shall assure that they have obtained complete sets of drawings and Contract Documents and shall assume the risk of any errors or omissions in bids prepared in reliance on incomplete sets of drawings and Contract Documents.

This Project will be funded by the City of Carmel.

A virtual pre-bid conference for discussions of the Project, the bidding requirements and other important matters will be held on February 2, 2022 at 1:00 pm on MS Teams at https://bit.ly/32Bf4yi or via telephone at +1 872-242-9833, then enter code 483 409 886#. All prospective bidders are invited to attend the pre-bid conference. The pre-bid conference is not mandatory.

For special accommodations needed by handicapped individuals planning to attend the pre-bid conference or public bid opening meeting, please call or notify the city of Carmel, Engineer’s Office, at (317) 571-2441 at least forty-eight (48) hours prior thereto.

No bidder may withdraw any bid or proposal within a period of thirty (30) days following the date set for receiving bids or proposals. The Carmel Board of Public Works and Safety reserves the right to hold any or all bids or proposals for a period of not more than thirty (30) days and said bids or proposal shall remain in full force and effect during said period. The City of Carmel reserves the right to reject and/or cancel any and all bids, solicitations and/or offers in whole or in part as specified in the solicitations when it is not in the best interests of the governmental body as determined by the purchasing agency in accordance with IC 5-22-18-2 Sue Wolfgang Clerk

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Looking for job security? Simpson Construction Services has so much work that it must hire five people for residential remodeling NOW. The skilled carpenters we select will have strong abilities in bathroom remodeling, but also with respect to kitchens, decks, basements, wood and tile flooring, doors and windows, interior and exterior painting, drywall, plumbing and electrical, siding and room additions. Again: Only skilled carpenters need apply. For immediate consideration, call Gary Simpson at 317.703.9575.

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This is a live-out position work, from Monday to Thursday. $700 weekly Childcare and Light housekeeping Must be able to interact with children Speak English, and non-smoker.

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OPERATIONS MANAGER Clevernest is a growing company servicing homebuilders, architects, and residential clients throughout central Indiana, as an Andersen Window and Door Dealer, specializing in the installation of all that we sell.

We are looking for an Operations Manager, who possesses a strong supportive mindset of “how can I help” and deeply appreciates finding joy on executing tasks and projects on a daily basis.

This position is responsible for the activities related to operations after the sale; therefore, one must have the ability to juggle multiple projects at once and be an advocate for our clients.

Requirements: The ideal candidate is professional, entrepreneurial minded, and able to lead and assist with all aspects of a project post sale until completion; day to day warehouse, inventory, and field supervision; and likes to get his hands dirty! Construction or Carpentry skills required.

To Apply: CLEVERNEST INC 240 W. Carmel Drive 46032 tom@clevernest.com; 317-688-8100 www.clevernest.com

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SYSTEM SOFTWARE ARCHITECT.

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Carmel, IN. Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, and schematics.

Research, design, evaluate, install, operate, and maintain mechanical products, systems, equipment, and processes. Develop, coordinate, and monitor all aspects of production. Investigate equipment failures of difficulties to diagnose faults and recommend solutions. Work with engineers to implement operating procedures, resolve malfunctions, and provide technical support. Requires Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Automotive Engineering and coursework in CAD/CAM Theory and Application, Finite Element Analysis, Advanced Dynamics, Composite Materials, and Design Optimization Methods. Mail resumes to: Aptiv Corporation, Attn: Lori Tucker, HR Site Manager, 13085 Hamilton Crossing Blvd., Carmel, IN 46032. Ref: 70783A.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Carmel, IN. Develop physical platforms for Active Safety/IDI/advanced sensor automotive products. Develop total systems solutions through logical and systematic transformation of customer/product requirements. Create design artifacts, perform technical planning, requirements analysis/management and systems architecture/ design/integration/verification. Lead technical design analysis, trade off studies, FMEAs, design reviews and customer presentations. Lead project technical discussions with cross-competency team, management and customers. Requires Master’s degree in Mechanical or Systems Engineering and one year of automotive embedded engineering experience, including implementing DIDs, PIDs, DTCs and CPIDs in DMS diagnostics, camera alignment, vehicle validation and testing of front camera module (FCM), root cause analysis of FCM issues, and debugging tools CANalyzer, Wind River IDE, Vector CANdela, and CANoe DiVa. Mail resumes to: Aptiv Corporation, Attn: Lori Tucker, HR Site Manager, 13085 Hamilton Crossing Blvd., Carmel, IN 46032. Ref: 70739A.

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• Must have a valid driver’s license.

• Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. frequently and up to 100 lbs. on occasion • Must be able to operate a computer and communicate via the telephone.

• Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing • May work in areas where toxic, flammable, and hazardous materials are present.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

Carmel, IN. Develop high level software architecture, defining the safety and control data flows for multicore complex software in Active Safety Area. Estimate and verify software architecture design meets all derived software requirements. Develop Software architecture to meet functional safety, and other automotive standards. Develop performance and resource consumption matrix for microprocessor usage. Perform the safety analysis of the software design and develop the software architecture that addresses software safety and cybersecurity requirements. Requires Master of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering with coursework in Advanced Computer Architecture, Advanced Hardware Design, Micro Electronics, Computer Architecture, Digital Imaging Processing, and Digital Control Systems. Mail resumes to: Aptiv Corporation Attn: Lori Tucker, HR Site Manager, 13085 Hamilton Crossing Blvd, Carmel, IN 46032. Ref: 70618A

Carmel, IN. Design and Develop ADAS products (radar, cameras, ECUs, software).

Collaborate with engineering teams to determine development cost, resource requirements, and project timelines. Present project quotes to engineering management for approval. Generate BOM for product design and work with purchasers to determine cost. Interface with technical teams to perform requirement analysis. Generate pursuit business case inputs for the Active Safety product lines. Requires Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or Electrical and Computer Engineering and two years of experience with automotive electrical or systems engineering, creating DFMEA documentation, developing validation test plans and reports, performing cost optimization, and coordinating design change activities. Experience must include use of pSpice, Altium, and PSIM. Mail resumes to: Aptiv Corporation, Attn: Lori Tucker, HR Site Manager, 13085 Hamilton Crossing Boulevard, Carmel, Indiana 46032. Ref: 70677A.

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We are the premier Personal Services Agency serving elders across Central Indiana.

And, we are an amazing place to work!

Are you compassionate? Are you service and detail-oriented? Do you have a heart of service?

If you have these qualities, and caring for vulnerable adults is or could be meaningful for you - please send your resume to: apply@claritycaregivers.com or call Amber and Suzanne at 317.774.0074, Option 3.

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