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City denies firing of director was ‘racially motivated’

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com

According to city spokesman Dan McFeely, Lamb provided tools for Knight to provide online content when in-person The City of Carmel’s plans to implement interaction was not possible because of the diversity training for its employees has pandemic. once again been During the Feb. 10 meeting, held CITY NEWS delayed with the with retiring HR director Barb Lamb termination of its and new director Lisa Hartz to equity manager, who was on the discuss issues related to the tranjob for less than a year. sition, the document states that Timothy Knight joined the city in Knight became “extremely unprofesMay 2021 as the employee developsional and hostile” to both women ment coordinator. Later that year, when asked about the status of Knight after Carmel ended a contract with employee training programs he was a company providing its diversity training, creating. city officials tapped him to develop the “Dr. Knight’s unprofessional behavior training in-house and changed his title to included shouting for an extended period equity manager. He was set to begin diverof time, which was substantiated by both sity training sessions on March 21. attendees at the meeting and witnesses According to a document provided by outside the room who reported that they the city, Knight was terminated because of heard Dr. Knight’s shouting through the performance concerns and insubordination. walls of the meeting room,” the document But Knight, who described his final months states. “Both women were shaken after the in the office as working in an increasingly meeting and felt that Dr. Knight’s behavior hostile environment, said he “cannot help was intended to intimidate them.” but believe this is racially motivated.”

Knight said both women in the meeting “The very things I’m there to help correct, were “interrogative” and “adversarial” toto improve and make better were the very ward him but that he did not shout or raise things that undermined my being there,” his voice at them. said Knight, who was terminated March 14.

Lamb and Hartz did not respond to re“More specifically, that is underdeveloped quests for comment. leadership, communication skills, attitudes “The City of Carmel denies allegations of of inclusiveness and connectedness in a hostile and racist work environment in the workspace. My experience there was the Human Resources Dept.,” McFeely said. textbook in what you don’t do in leadership, “Barb Lamb served the city for 25 years and textbook in what you don’t do in working there was never a complaint filed against toward equity and inclusiveness from top her. She was the driving force behind the to bottom.” creation of this position and hired Dr. Knight According to a city document outlining in May of 2021. During his short time with the reasons for the termination, Knight the city, she promoted him, raised his salary didn’t conduct “a single employee training” by almost $15,000, bringing him to a salary during his nine months of employment and level of $82,756 per year.” failed to provide “a single piece of training With most of the city’s residents and or DEI educational content that he had employees in City Hall being “monocultural,” produced” to his supervisors prior to a Feb. Knight said it can be difficult for people of 10 meeting. Knight refuted that, saying he different races and cultures to feel welconducted training on mental health and comed and connected to those in the “Carleadership but that he was asked to delay mel bubble.” the diversity training until the COVID-19 pan“I understand city pride, and there’s a demic had waned and meetings could safely great deal of that, but there are other types be held in person. of things, (such as) hiring practices with

a legacy policy that we have in place that gives preferential treatment to people that are related to folks,” he said. “It’s how it plays out in a way that prevents people from the outside from coming in.”

At the time of his firing, Knight, who previously worked as a detective and professor, said he was the only person of color working in the HR department. Michelle Leaks, who is Black, worked in the office as employee benefits manager from December 2019 until October 2021 when she left on her own accord. She also described the office as “hostile” toward outsiders.

“I walked away with a really sour taste,” Leaks said. “It’s like going backwards in time.

I thought things were better. I didn’t think race relations were really that big of a deal but working in that spot I came away feeling very naive, almost tainted. I felt so unsafe. I never felt that way in any place I worked. I have been the only Black person in the whole space (elsewhere), and never felt that way like I did there. I don’t like to be the first person that yells race-type stuff, but absent of everything else, what is it?”

City Councilor Sue Finkam, who urged the city’s administration in June 2020 to implement mandatory annual diversity training for employees and officials, said she was surprised to learn Knight had been terminated, as she had not heard of any issues or complaints regarding him or his work.

Finkam said employee issues don’t typically rise to the level of being presented to the city council, and she doesn’t want the council to micromanage city business. She said she would like to see a plan from Mayor Jim Brainard outlining how the city plans to implement diversity training now that Knight is not on staff.

“I’m really disappointed that the city hasn’t been able to pull off this training,” Finkam said. “I’m concerned that it’s not a priority and would really like to know the city’s plans.”

McFeely said the new HR director will take time to assess the situation and decide how to best move forward regarding planned diversity training and whether the city will hire another equity manager.

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Missing person update — A Carmel woman that police originally reported was last seen Feb. 25 in Carmel is now believed to have been last seen in Georgia, where she previously lived and has family. The Johns Creek Police Dept. has confirmed Ciera Breland’s last known location was at 10545 Highgate Manor Ct. in Johns Creek, Ga., at 7:17 p.m. Feb. 24.

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Hamilton County SWCD to conduct workshop — Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District and Hamilton County Invasives Partnership are conducting a spring sustainability workshop that focuses on invasive species. Attendees will learn about the threat of invasive species, practical management basics with demonstrations and how to identify and eradicate invasive species on their property. The workshop is from 9 a.m. to noon April 2 at the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds in Noblesville. The workshop is $10 per person. Registration can be

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Outdoor warning siren tests resume — Hamilton County Emergency Management has resumed weekly testing of the outdoor warning sirens at 11 a.m. on Fridays.

Otherwise, sirens are only sounded when the National Weather Service issues a tornado warning or when public safety personnel or a trained weather spotter sees a funnel cloud or tornado.

Food bank annual meeting — The public is invited to the virtual 2022 Hamilton County Harvest Food Bank annual meeting, which will be held at 7 p.m. March 22. Learn more at Please visit HCHFoodBank.org. Pre-register at bit. ly/3CPjcbC.

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CPC reviews restaurant plans Compiled by Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com The Carmel Plan Commission met March

15 to take a final vote on proposed updates to the city’s comprehensive plan and review plans for two new restaurants and an expansion of a veterinarian facility.

What happened: The commission voted to give a positive recommendation to updates to the city’s comprehensive plan.

What it means: The plan commission has spent the past several months reviewing and discussing proposed updates to the comprehensive plan, which provides guidelines for development and redevelopment throughout the city. It is refreshed approximately every decade.

What’s next: The city council will have the final vote on updates to the comprehensive plan.

What happened: The commission approved plans for The Steadman apartments at The Bridges.

What it means: The project includes 260 luxury units in five buildings on the northeast corner of Springmill Road and 111th Street on 12.5 acres. The site plan includes a three-story building facing Springmill Road with a clubhouse in the middle and three five-story buildings on the interior of the site. The Steadman is within the Bridges PUD, which permits up to 300 multi-family units on the site.

What happened: The commission sent a proposal to build a Culver’s restaurant to its commercial committee for further review.

What it means: Culver’s is planning a new restaurant on 1.3 acres at 431 E. Carmel Dr. to replace a car wash that has been closed for several years.

What’s next: The commercial committee will send the matter back to the full plan commission for a final vote.

What happened: The commission sent a proposal to build a three-restaurant concept in one building to its commercial committee for further review.

What it means: The new building on 1.15 acres of vacant land at 10920 N. Michigan Road is proposed to house an Oberweis Ice Cream & Dairy Store, That Burger Joint and Woodgrain Pizzeria, which are all owned by the same parent company.

What’s next: The commercial committee will send the matter back to the full plan commission for a final vote.

What happened: The plan commission approved plans to expand the MedVet Carmel animal hospital.

What it means: The emergency animal hospital on 4.5 acres at 9650 Mayflower Park Dr. will add 15,000 square feet to allow it to offer additional services and serve more clients.

What happened: The commission welcomed Dubbie Buckler as its newest member.

What it means: Buckler replaces Nick Kestner, who has been appointed to the Carmel Historic Preservation Commission. She was previously appointed executive director of the Carmel Music and Film Festival, an event scheduled to launch in 2021 but canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Buckler is also the former treasurer of Marion County and has served on Carmel’s Downtown City Center Development Corp. board.

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Man receives 25-year sentence for armed bank robbery

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com An Indianapolis man previously incarcerated for murder has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after a COURTS jury found him guilty of armed robbery of a Carmel bank and several other charges.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on May 13, 2019, Gary Tinsley, 47, and an accomplice used zip ties to bind bank tellers at Stock Yards Bank & Trust on N. Meridian St. as they stole approximately $67,000. An investigation led police to identify Tinsley as a suspect and owner of a vehicle matching the getaway car.

On Sept. 17, 2019, police conducted a traffic stop on Tinsley’s vehicle. They discovered three loaded handguns, five fully loaded magazines, marijuana and methamphetamine. Because Tinsley had been convicted of a murder in 1993 in Marion County, he was prohibited from possessing a firearm.

Investigators found five more firearms

at Tinsley’s home, along with zip ties, clothing used in the robbery and additional marijuana.

Tinsley’s sentence, ordered by U.S. District Judge James P. Hanlon, includes five years of probation following his release from prison and paying more than $67,000 in restitution.

In addition to armed bank robbery, the jury found Tinsley guilty of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Indiana Violent Crime Task Force investigated the case with assistance from the Carmel Police Dept. and the Indiana State Police.

The case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and promote neighborhood safety.

2 arrested for allegedly vandalizing Midtown restroom

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Two Indianapolis residents have been charged with criminal mischief for allegedly damaging a public restroom POLICE near Elm Street and Veterans Way in Carmel.

According to the Carmel Police Dept., video surveillance from the early morning hours of March 5 showed three individuals entering the restroom. Police responded and found fresh damage to the restroom.

Their investigation led to the charges against David Alejandro Foddrill, 19, and Dewey Jacob Curtis, 19. Police said the third individual was identified but not charged.

“Given the history of issues we’ve had in the area, officers were monitoring cameras for activity. It is uncommon for people to use that public restroom in the early hours of the morning, but there is nothing that prohibits it,” CPD Lt. Tim Byrne said.

“Contact was made (with the individuals) because of the history of issues in the area combined with the hour.”

Byrne declined to release details about damage to the restroom to protect the integrity of the investigation and potential future investigations. He said police have not determined if Foddrill and Curtis are involved in other incidents of vandalism recently reported in the area.

According to CPD, there has been a significant increase in vandalism and loitering in public areas and parking garages in Midtown since January, with police taking multiple reports about similar incidents weekly. They estimate the vandalism has led to $14,000 in damages.

Police have increased patrols in the area.

Anyone with information regarding this or other incidents in the area is asked to contact CPD at 317-571-2500 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477.

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Priest suspended for reported inappropriate conduct with a minor

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com A Catholic priest at a Carmel church has been suspended from public ministry after the Diocese of INVESTIGATION Lafayette-in-Indiana received allegations of inappropriate conduct with a minor.

The diocese declined to provide details about the allegations against the Rev. James De Oreo but stated that an investigation is ongoing. De Oreo was ordained in 2018 and started an assignment as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in August 2020. The suspension began March 11.

The allegations have been reported to Indiana Child Protective Services. Criminal charges have not been filed.

“The safety and wellbeing of our children and young people are of the utmost importance,” the diocese said in a statement. “We all share a commitment to be part of the Church’s mission to respect and protect people of every age. We invite you to join us in prayer for the healing guidance of the Holy Spirit on behalf of all who have been victims of abuse.”

The diocese asks anyone aware of misconduct during De Oreo’s ministry as a priest or seminarian to make a report to CPS by calling 800-800-5556 or local law enforcement. They are also encouraged to contact Jackie Montrie, victim assistance coordinator for the diocese, at 765-464-4988.

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Eagles guard continues to improve his shooting skills

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Zionsville Community High School junior guard Logan Imes’ value to the boys basketball team could be easily measured.

When he missed five games with an ankle sprain, the Eagles lost four of them.

The 6-foot-4 Imes averaged 17.8 points on 48 percent shooting and 3.6 assists per game for the Eagles (14-8).

“Logan has become much more confident at finishing around the basket and his jump shot,” said Eagles coach J.R. Howell, whose team lost to Noblesville March 1 in the opening round of the sectional.

“He worked tirelessly in the offseason to improve in those areas, and it showed this season. He is also a pretty unselfish player.

He doesn’t care about stats or points, he just wants to win.”

Imes suffered an ankle sprain against Brebeuf Jesuit Jan. 7 and returned Feb. 8 against Center Grove.

“The first two games (after returning) were an adjustment, and I didn’t feel I was quite all the way back,” Imes said. “Once I got used to playing and practicing again

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Imes said his shooting was off when he first returned because he had to get back into game shape.

“Before the injury, I was shooting way better,” he said.

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“I was way more aggressive this year,” he said. “I was using my ability better. Last

year, I was a little hesitant here and there.

This year, I wanted to go out and show dominance and be the player I know I’m capable of being.”

Imes said he made strides as a leader this past season in Howell’s second season as coach.

“We had a group that has played together for a year,” he said. “I think for me that was my biggest thing that I was a leader on the court and in practice, too.”

Imes said he is focusing on offers from Butler, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and Creighton.

“I’ll definitely make a decision this summer,” he said. “I’ll probably play some games on the (AAU) circuit and see if another team or so reaches out. As it stands now, I like the options I have.”

Imes, who will play for Indiana Elite this summer, said he will continue to concentrate on expanding his shooting range.

“Shooting off the dribble is a big next step for me,” he said. “I do it a little bit now, but I need to get more consistent. The sectional game wasn’t my best game. I didn’t shoot well at all and that let our offense down.”

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2 Republicans seek to replace term-limited county coroner Compiled by Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Two Republican candidates are vying to become Hamilton County’s next coroner and

will face off in the May 3 primary election.

Coroner John Chalfin is stepping down from the office because of term limits. A Democratic candidate has not filed to run.

Age: 60 Education: Noblesville High School, Ball State University, Indiana Law Enforcement Academy Occupation: Chief deputy coroner, Hamilton CounJellison ty Coroner’s Office City: Westfield Immediate family: Wife, Monique; son, Zack; daughter, Shelby; stepson, Ray McQueary; stepdaughter, Irene Heath Previous political experience: None Why do you want to run for office?

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What are the top three issues that your campaign will focus on? Employee mental health, technology and keeping pace with the growing population of Hamilton County What sets you apart from other candidates for this office? Being a certified medical-legal death investigator, current chief deputy at the coroner’s office, experience and training as a former police officer.

How long have you lived in your district? 60 years What other organizations are you involved with? Indiana State Coroner’s Association.

Something most people don’t know about you? My love for the outdoors Something you want people to know about you? My faith guides me daily to serve the residents of Hamilton County.

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Board member seeks trustee seat Compiled by Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Two candidates filed to run in the May 3 Republican primary election for Clay Township Trustee, but one has essentially ended his campaign after deciding to move out of the district.

Eric Morris plans to move to Westfield in the fall, but his name will remain on the ballot, as he made the decision to withdraw from the race too late to remove it. Paul Hensel, a member of the Clay Township Board, is running for the trustee position to replace Doug Callahan, who is retiring after more than 15 years in the role.

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What are your qualifications for this office? I am currently serving on the Clay Township Board, so I feel I understand the township office. I have been in banking for over 25 years, so I understand finances What are the top three issues that your campaign will focus on?

1. Public safety 2. Parks 3. Township assistance What sets you apart from other candidates for this office? I am currently serving on the township board. I have lived in Clay Township most of my life. (I’m involved with the) Carmel Dads’ Club, Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, Hamilton County Leadership Academy (past president) board of directors and Hamilton County Extension Board.

How long have you lived in your district? 50 plus years Something most people don’t know about you? My great-grandfather served on the Delaware township board.

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Freedom and Ukraine Commentary by Anthony Teal The war in Ukraine weighs heavy on my heart. It brings back memories of prior travels in Eastern Europe VIEWPOINT when I was young in the summer of 1993. The Soviet Union had collapsed two years earlier and Ukraine was a new country facing the challenges of forming a new government, transitioning its economy and hyperinflation.

I stayed with a family who rented their home as a bed and breakfast. It was a beautiful old multi-story home, built pre-1917, in downtown Kyiv, within walking distance of the park on the west bank of the Dnieper River.

The owner, Olga, lived with her daughter and son-in-law. She was 80-something, spoke perfect English and was a longtime language professor.

Because of her patriotism, she went back to full-time work as a schoolteacher, although without pay, as there was little to no funding for schools. She did this so that the children of the newly independent Ukraine could learn to speak Ukrainian.

When she was young, she was taught Ukrainian before the Soviet education system abolished teaching languages other than Russian.

After dinner one night, Olga’s son-in-law sat down to give a “presentation” of sorts.

He explained that he was a senior engineer at Ukraine’s space agency and provided me samples of the silicon solar cells his company made. And then came his sales pitch, which went something like, “We can make great products but we need help, we need funding, we need Western partners.”

Today, it is encouraging to see brave, defiant and democratic Ukraine as she defiantly stands up to Putin’s war of aggression.

I am glad to see our government assist Ukraine, but we can do more. The humanitarian crisis caused by Putin’s war of aggression on Ukraine is immense. Please consider sending help through your donations.

The Legacy Foundation has a list of U.S. charities at legacyfdn.org/donors/supporting-ukraine. Contributions can also be directly sent to the Ukrainian government at COMEBACKALIVE.IN.UA Anthony Teal is a native Hoosier and Zionsville resident and has been a database administrator for more than 30 years. He works for an Indiana based IT consulting firm, called Moser Consulting.

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The Rhodehamel House at 5320 N. Meridian St. is featured in the 61st annual Decorators’ Show House and Gardens. (Photo courtesy of Sherrell Smith)

Rhodehamel home in spotlight

By Zach Swaim zach.swaim@youarecurrent.com St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild is presenting the 61st annual Decorators’ Show House and Gardens event at the RhoEVENT dehamel House from April 23 to May 8.

It’s the longest-running show house event in the U.S. Built in 1929, the Rhodehamel House, 5320 N. Meridian St., is a two-story, five-bedroom brick Tudor home with a 5,226-square-foot main level, a 2,283-square-foot second level, a 2,253-square-foot basement and a 690-square-foot attic for a total enclosed living space of 10,452 square feet.

The home is within the boundaries of several community organizations: the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Association, Meridian Street Preservation Commission, Meridian Street Foundation and Midtown Indy.

All five bedrooms in the Rhodehamel House have a full, private bathroom. The home also has several half-baths on the main and lower levels. It also has fireplaces in the living room, library and recreation room and an attached three-car garage.

The event brought in 19 design firms and

four landscape companies to showcase their work in their designated sections of the residence.

Sherrell Smith, this year’s promotions director for St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild, said the nonprofit’s goal, along with highlighting classic homes in the area, is to raise money for Eskenazi Health to support the underserved in the community.

“Every year there’s a committee that works with Eskenazi to see what their greatest need is,” said Smith, who has been with the guild for seven years. “The last couple of years they’ve wanted to do some extra courses, so they said their greatest need is supporting their nurses, and that in turn would support the less fortunate in the community. Every year it’s something a little bit different, but we’re always happy to help.”

All proceeds from the event support the underserved community through Eskenazi Health. Last year, St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild raised $280,000 during the two-week run of the show house. To date, the organization has raised nearly $14 million for Eskenazi Health.

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OBITUARY Rear Admiral Thomas J. Hill (Supply Corps, USNR Ret.), 79, of Carmel, Indiana passed peacefully on February 17, 2022. Tom was born July 4, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan to the late James Hill and Dympna (Byrnes) Brown. He earned his business degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1964. He also studied at the Harvard Business School and at the Army War College.

In civilian life, Tom worked for the IBM Corporation for 25 years as a Senior Marketing Representative. After an early retirement program, he began a new career with Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor before joining Planned Investment Inc. as Vice President until his retirement in 2020.

Tom proudly served in the United States Navy and as a Supply Officer in the Naval Reserve for over 38 years. He served aboard the Destroyer USS Jonas Ingram (DD-938) until he left active duty in 1966. He affiliated with the Naval Reserve in 1969 and continued to wear the uniform in service to his country until his retirement in 2002. He was selected to the rank of Rear Admiral (Lower Half) in 1995 and Rear Admiral (Upper Half) in 1997.

In his flag tour, he served as Mobilization Assistant, US Transportation Command and Commanding Officer of the Joint Transportation Reserve Unit.

Rear Admiral Hill’s awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Joint Services Commendation Medal. His civilian

and community activities included leadership roles with Kiwanis International, the Indianapolis Navy League, the Naval Reserve Association, the Reserve Officers Association, and the Naval Supply Corps Association. Tom was an engaging public speaker for many functions including Veteran’s Day events for the City of Carmel, numerous Navy Balls and at a NATO Exercise for all senior Admirals and Generals of NATO Countries in Bergen, Norway.

Tom is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Karen (Beckley) Hill; his devoted daughters, Sandy (Richard) Burke, Kathi (Andrew) Vitale and Kelly (Matthew) McNairy; grandchildren Nat, Caden, Abby, Anna and Matthias; son-in-law David Parker and siblings, Linda (Joe) Hill-Lindsay, Bill (Susan) Hill and Gerry (Sharon) Hill and a host of lifelong friends, colleagues and sailors.

Tom was preceded in death by his daughter, Tracy Parker.

Visitation for Tom will be held on Saturday, March 26th at Leppert Mortuary – Smith Carmel Chapel from 12:00 pm until time of inurnment and full military honors at 2:30 pm at Carmel Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, we suggest memorial contributions in Tom’s name to The Navy Supply Corps Foundation or The American Heart Association.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www. leppertmortuary.com for the Hill family.

Warren Steven Williams was a loving husband, father, brother, grandfather, great grandfather, and friend to everyone he met. He left this world on Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at age 79.

He was born to Warren and Anne Williams in November, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Broad Ripple High School (1960), where he met the love of his life, Ruth Williams. The two were married for 58 years and had three children: Robin (Dan) Patras, Robert (Julie) Williams, and Roger (Ruth Z., ex-Renee) Williams, ten grandchildren: Danielle (Carl), Kristin (Dennis), Aimee, Nicholas; Jennifer (Dean), Mallory (Neil), Dylan; Jamie, Emilie (Zack), and Noah (Michaela); and five greatgrandchildren plus one on the way: Lucy, Olivia, Katherine, Gwyneth, and Brooke. He is predeceased by his parents and brother D. Michael Williams.

After attending Indiana University, Steve started a career in construction sales. He worked for American Buildings Company for over 20 years, then retired from Chief Buildings as District Manager. Throughout

his career, he provided mentorship to other industry professionals and stayed in touch years later. He is the past President of Indiana Metal Building Association and a 57-year member of Indiana Freemasonry, Logan Lodge #575.

Throughout his life, Steve was an avid collector of Coca-Cola memorabilia, connoisseur of good music, outdoor adventurer, and world traveler. In retirement, Steve founded “Steve’s Stuff” to buy and sell vintage records and antiquities at the Antique Emporium in Carmel, Indiana. Steve never knew a stranger and will be missed by everyone who had the honor of knowing him.

Steve’s family would like to express their gratitude to the staff at Heartland Hospice and Wellbrooke of Westfield for their care and compassion.

Steve was honored in a celebration of life Saturday, March 19 at Flanner Buchanan Oaklawn Memorial Gardens (Conner Suite).

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Riley Cheer Guild, 705 Riley Hospital Drive, Room 4510, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202.

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Inaugural Culture Fair set for March 27 at CHS

By Mark Ambrogi mark@yourecurrent.com Tsion Daniel is committed to providing exposure to different cultures in Carmel.

The Carmel High School junior, EVENT a member of the Carmel Mayor’s Youth Council, is the event chair for an inaugural Culture Fair. The CMYC and the Carmel Clay Public Library’s Teen Library Council are co-hosting the fair from 2 to 5 p.m. March 27 in the freshman cafeteria at CHS. Daniel “We plan to have booths with representatives from different cultural organizations at Carmel High School, performances, crafts and much more at the event,” Daniel said. “As the event chair for both this fair and the International Movies at Midtown initiative, one of my main goals as a member of the council has been to spearhead events that foster cross-cultural dialogue and awareness for the greater

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Military Veterans Hall of Fame — The Indiana Military Veterans Hall of Fame is accepting nominations for the Class of 2022 through Aug. 1. To be eligible, the nominee must have been born in Indiana, entered military service from Indiana, lived in Indiana for a minimum of five years and have no felony convictions. A nomination form can be found at imvhof.com/nominate. To learn more about the organization or to make a tax-deductible donation, visit imvhof.com.

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“One of my main goals as a member of the council has been to spearhead events that foster cross-cultural dialogue and awareness for the greater community.”

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The performances likely will include musical groups and dancers, Daniel said.

The CMYC aims to empower high school leaders to engage the Carmel community.

“We are looking forward to putting together the inaugural event for the greater Carmel community, and as a council, we are committed to providing future events that celebrate the diversity of Carmel,” Daniel said.

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Project: Range Line Road reconstruction WESTFIELD Location: 116th Street to CONSTRUCTION Project: Sanitary sewer Carmel Drive. The initial project phase affects the right southbound lane of Range Line Road Location: Phase 1 occurred on Oak Road as crews replace a water main. Work between 171st Street and 161st Street. It resumed in mid-March with construction is expected to reopen this week. Phase 2 of a roundabout at Medical Drive followed closed Oak Road between 161st Street and by construction of a roundabout at 116th 151st Street. The closure started March 21 Street beginning in June. and will last for up to four weeks.

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Expected completion: Late April Project: Burial of transmission lines in the Project: Chad Hittle Drive roundabout Arts & Design District Location: A section of 191st Street from Location: Main Street is closed at Tomlinson Road to U.S. 31 will be converted Veterans Way as lines are buried under into a boulevard with a roundabout at and across Main Street. Detour using 4th Chad Hittle Drive.

Avenue SW, W. Elm Street and S. Range Estimated completion: Drivers will Line Road. continue to see construction signs and Expected completion: Main Street is activity off the road, but no associated expected to reopen April 1, but work to closures at this time. bury transmission lines in the area will Project: Median construction continue until May. Location: A section of the Midland Trail is Project: New roundabout closed at Carey Road.

Location: E. Main Street and Richland Expected completion: April 4 Avenue.

ZIONSVILLE Start date: On or after May 26 Project: New bridge over Starkey Avenue Expected completion: Fall Location: The southern portion of the Project: New roundabout Rail Trail is closed for the installation of a Location: E. Main Street and Lexington new bridge over Starkey Avenue that will Boulevard. connect to the future Overley-Worman Start date: On or after May 26 Park. The southern portion of the Rail Expected completion: Fall Trail will also be repaved and widened.

Project: Widening and improvements Replacement of the bridge over Starkey along Smoky Row Road Avenue is in progress.

Location: Between the Monon Greenway Expected completion: Spring and U.S. 31. The road will be fully closed Project: Templin Road Bridge during the project. The Monon Greenway reconstruction will be closed on or after June 1 for 30 Location: The Templin Road bridge days for a bridge replacement. over Eagle Creek was inspected and an Start date: Late May engineering firm has been hired by the Expected completion: Late summer Boone County Highway Dept. to work on Project: Widening of the Monon Greenway design of a complete bridge replacement.

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Project: Installation of a slip lane FISHERS Location: Smoky Row Road and Keystone Parkway Project: Roundabout construction on 146th Start date: On or after May 26 street.

Expected completion: July Location: The intersection of Ind. 37 and Project: New roundabout 146th Street. Best detour is bypassing Location: College Avenue and 106th Street.

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Expected completion: Aug. 1 Project: Roundabout construction on 131st Project: Reconstruction of College Avenue street.

Location: Between 96th and 106th streets Location: The intersection of Ind. 37 and Start date: On or after July 1 131st Street. Best detour is to avoid 131st Expected completion: April 2023 street by taking 126th street.

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CARMEL RESIDENT SERVES WITH AMERICORPS

Brooke Herhusky of Carmel serves with AmeriCorps, which works to combat hunger and homelessness, responds to natural disasters, fights the opioid epidemic and much more. Herhusky, a 2019 Zionsville Community High School graduate, is serving with the National Civilian Community Corps as part of a 10-month, full-time commitment. She began her term of service in fall 2021 in Sacramento and expects to graduate from the program in June. Learn more at americorps.gov/nccc. (Photo courtesy of AmeriCorps)

Inaugural Spring Sensation set

By Mark Ambrogi mark@yourecurrent.com The idea for Spring Sensation came from a Coxhall Guild brainstorming session.

The Coxhall Guild, an FUNDRAISER affiliate of The Friends of Hamilton County Parks, Inc., is hosting the inaugural Spring Sensation, a tablescape spring fundraising event, April 30.

“The goal of this event is primarily bringing attention to the Coxhall Mansion and Gardens as a place for families and businesses to spend time,” Coxhall Guild member Kimberly Shoemaker said. “Additionally, the Coxhall Guild’s intent is to continue funding improvements and beautification to the mansion grounds, the park and the various gardens within.”

Shoemaker said the guild recently purchased 10 garden urns for placement around the outside of the mansion and by the park’s two entrances.

“Coming this spring will be a large-scale kaleidoscope to be placed in the Children’s Garden,” Shoemaker said. “We are fortunate to have attracted interest in 13 businesses creating tablescapes highlighting their

Amy Barragree’s table display for Spring Sensation. (Photo courtesy of Coxhall Guild)

businesses and services for display in the mansion’s conference room. An additional dozen or so specialty vendors will have their products available for sale throughout the many rooms in the remainder of the mansion’s four levels.”

Spring Sensation will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Tea Room experience, taking place in the third-floor ballroom at Coxhall Garden Mansion in Carmel, will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Guests will be able to enjoy live harp music courtesy of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra. Cocktails will be available for a small additional cost.

Tickets are $25, plus a small handling fee.

For more, visit coxhallguild.org.

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Northside Food Pantry feeds 400 families weekly

By Grace Wyer editorial@youarecurrent.com Every month, approximately 400 families rely on the Northside Food Pantry at Second Presbyterian Church to GIVING BACK provide grocery staples, including meat and fresh produce, to meet their daily needs.

Much of the produce is harvested from the church’s on-site community garden at 7700 N. Meridian St. and cultivated by a multi-generational group of volunteers.

It takes 50 volunteers to run the pantry each week. Teens, families, students and retirees from across the Indianapolis area are among them.

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School senior Sarah Hoke has volunteered at the food pantry since July 2021. She’s worked in several roles and enjoys getting to know the clients and other workers.

“I cannot recommend volunteering enough,” Hoke said. “We often talk about

being the hands and feet of Jesus, and being able to serve the community with open, loving arms is what Northside Mission Food Pantry at Second is all about.”

Lisa Enright, a Carmel resident and coordinator for the Northside Mission Ministries at Second Presbyterian Church, has worked with volunteers at the food pantry for several years. She worked throughout the pandemic, serving clients from their cars for safety.

“I am so grateful for the opportunity to learn from and understand the community we are serving, to walk alongside our neighbors and build relationships and provide a little hope,” Enright said. “It helps me to appreciate the little things we sometimes take for granted.”

The pantry operates from 12:30 to 3 p.m.

Tuesdays, 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Learn more about services offered through the food pantry and how to volunteer at SecondChurch.org/ Northside.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES The Northside Food Pantry offers several types of volunteer roles. They include: Client intake: Works outside, giving clients their number in line and intake sheet for when they come inside.

Client liaison: Assists clients during their shopping experience inside.

Data entry: Requires special training and is a sit-down job. It involves the use of a computer and the ability to multitask.

Car loader: Helps clients load their vehicles and assists with traffic control.

Food delivery processing: Involves unpacking, sorting and storing food from vendors. Food delivery takes place when the pantry is closed to the public. It is a behind-the-scenes job with no food pantry client interaction.

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out of abject poverty than any other type of system in the world. I got involved to provide a medium for a civil conversation on individual As a proud alumnus of Northwood Universi- freedoms, individual responsibility, a strong ty, Don Gottwald is a strong supporter of The work ethic and how that is paramount to a free Northwood Idea. society. I thought that was extremely EVENT “I’m looking for ways important.” to expose these prinGottwald said free markets are parciples to more people,” the Carmel amount to having a free, civil society resident said. “The idea of bringing where people get to keep the fruits of some of the tenets of The Northwood their labor and are free to make their Idea to an online audience like other own decisions. institutes have done, we could reach Gottwald was a corporate executive Gottwald a wider audience.” for several years.

The Northwood Idea emphasizes the im“More recently, I’ve gone out on my own portance of individual moral responsibility, as an entrepreneur,” said Gottwald, who private property, free marketing and self-govhas an MBA from Duke University. “The ideas ernance. Gottwald and his wife, Pamela, are have definitely influenced me over time. I’m the principal donors in raising $150,000 to on a couple for-profit boards in addition to teach it in public online courses. my nonprofit work. I own a couple of small Gottwald said Northwood University, a businesses. One is a furniture retailer and private business school in Midland, Mich., bills (through) the other I provide growth capital to itself as America’s free enterprise university. some other young entrepreneurs.”

“It starts with the idea that a free society is Gottwald said Northwood has been offerfor the better of more people than not,” he said. ing a unique course called the Philosophy of “The more free our exchange, the more people American Enterprise for decades in various can participate in the economy, we’re all better formats. off. More free markets have lifted more people “I took that class as a first-year student

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Gottwald said he views business as a noble profession.

“Embedded in The Northwood Idea is the expectation that students will look at a career in business as more than just a means of obtaining wealth or leisure, but as a way of using their highest human capacities in a life well spent,” Gottwald said. “The first modules in the online course articulate how business is the way we organize voluntary cooperation in a civil society and make it more productive in a way that ultimately benefits the most people. These benefits capture more than the products and services business provides yet also creates the wealth that supports our important institutions such as schools, the arts and government services.”

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World’s largest collection of statues featuring women includes Carmel entomologist

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com As a high school student, Ronda Hamm felt a bit scared when she learned she’d been assigned to work with insects in an entomology lab as part of an internship program.

But by the end of the eight-week program, she had found her calling.

“I fell in love with a science that I didn’t even know existed and was actually kind of terrified of to start with,” Hamm said.

Now, Hamm works as the global academic relations leader at Corteva Agriscience, an agricultural company on the northwest side of Indianapolis, visiting with students and teachers throughout the nation to engage them about how insects impact agriculture and thus the food supply and daily life. Hamm describes it as the “dream job I never knew would exist.”

In 2019, her educational platform grew when Lyda Hill Philanthropies selected her as one of 125 ambassadors nationwide for the IF/THEN initiative, which highlights women with careers in STEM and encourages young girls interested in the field to pursue it. The program culminated during Women’s History Month in March with #IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit, a collection of 3D-printed statues of the IF/THEN ambassadors on display in Smithsonian gardens and museums in Washington, D.C. The statues will be on display through March 27.

Hamm, a Carmel resident, was among 90 of the ambassadors who traveled to the nation’s capitol the first weekend in March for the official unveiling of the life-size statues and to meet with members of the public who came to view them. She described the experience as “amazing” and “completely overwhelming.”

“It was so supportive and so touching to see little girls looking up and staring at these statues in awe, then looking over and seeing the real-life scientist,” Hamm said.

That’s exactly the response organizers hoped to see.

Margaret Black, director of Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies, said there is a “leaky pipeline” for girls interested in a STEM career, as gender biases and other factors tend to steer some away from jobs

tive equipment for health care employees as the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep acroundthe globe.

Hamm said she’s enjoyed getting to know the other ambassadors, who she describes as her “sisters in STEM,” but she said she’s been just as inspired by the young students she’s met along the way. She hopes they’ll remember her unexpected path to becoming an entomologist and the words of encouragement she’s been sharing for the last few years as an ambassador.

“Don’t take no for an answer if it’s something you want to do,” Hamm said. “Go after it. Keep an open mind, because you never know where life will take you and what kind of experience you can have that will change your path in life.”

Learn more about Hamm and the other ambassadors with the IF/THEN initiative at ifthenshecan.org.

ON THE COVER: Entomologist Ronda Hamm pauses next to a statue of herself on display as part of the #IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ryan Jeske)

Entomologist Ronda Hamm shows an insect to young visitors near her statue during the opening weekend of the #IfThenSheCan — The Exhibit in Washington, D.C. (Photos by Ryan Jeske)

Ronda Hamm is the global academic relations leader at Corteva.

in those fields as early as sixth grade. The IF/THEN initiative is designed to highlight

high-achieving women working in science and technology to inspire the next generation of girls to consider it as a career option.

“When a little girl sees a woman successfully pursuing a STEM career and what it is and how much fun it is, she’s more likely to imagine herself that way,” Black said.

Beyond the exhibit, which is the largest collection of statues featuring women ever assembled, the IF/THEN initiative includes the world’s largest free digital resource featuring women in STEM, which has been made available to museums and educators, as well as “Mission Unstoppable,” a television series hosted by Miranda Cosgrove that airs on CBS during the network’s Saturday morning educational programming.

In addition to Hamm, IF/THEN ambassadors include Jessica Esquivel, one of only 150 Black women with a doctorate in physics in the U.S., and Karina Popovich, a Cornell University student who produced more than 82,000 pieces of 3D-printed personal protec-

A SNEAK PEAK Carmel entomologist Ronda Hamm got a sneak peek at the statue of herself created as part of the IF/THEN initiative by taking a day trip a couple of hours north.

The statues were 3D printed in Fort Wayne at Group Delphi, which had to install a new printer to handle the life-size replications.

Hamm was able to observe several aspects of the 3D printing process and got to view her statue. She said it was “surreal” to see herself in that form.

“I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around it. It’s not something you dream of as a kid,” Hamm said.

“The thing I’m most proud about is not the fact that it’s me, but the fact that I can represent my field of science, agriculture and entomology as well as inspire those little girls who are catching bugs.”

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Commentary by Terry Anker “You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything,” so proclaimed the poet. Well, it was a 70-year-old, one-time bad boy Hoosier rocker named John Mellencamp who introduced it to many of us.

The good reader can decide if it is poetry or not. As with so many artists, Mellencamp borrowed the truism from others who quoted it, or something very close, years before. Some cite early American patriot Alexander Hamilton for originating the thought. Like much about Hamilton these days, the attribution is contested.

Later, a 1945 edition of the journal “Mental Hygiene” employed the expression in its concern for the “boys” understanding World War II in terms of what was being opposed by the war but also what was being sought.

Some things never really change.

Today, we have opened what could become the costliest war ever. We watch, horrified, as missiles are fired into civilian targets. One might conclude that the ultimate objective is not a military victory but the submission of a people by terror. It leaves us wondering what is it that we can tolerate? The leader of the aggressor state has insinuated, if not outright claimed, his right and intention to rain down nuclear death if his desires are refuted by the victims now suffering in his smaller, largely unarmed European neighbor.

Should we stand for something? Are we prepared to pay the price? Nuclear winters? Conscription for young women, as it is for young men? The lives of so many sacrificed for national sovereignty and megalomania. Does it really matter if we speak English or Russian? But what of the caution after the comma that we’ll fall for anything? Can one trade 40 million or so far-off souls for our own peace? Should we? Or is it likely certain that ours would be next?

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

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Some of my favorite movies growing up in the ‘80s were set within the context of the Cold War – “Spies Like Us,” “Red Dawn,” and, of course, “War Games.” My sisters and I particularly enjoyed a film called “Gotcha!” about a college guy who becomes embroiled in a CIA undercover operation with a sultry Czech spy. Comedy and romance abound amid a deadly Soviet-era game of cat and mouse. Anyhoo, The Cold War may though you could be over, friends, easily contribute but its redheaded my childhood stepchild nostalgia to Assassins is alive recent events, and well in central I’ve been drawn Indiana teendom. there through a phenomenon – DANIELLE WILSON currently capturing the hearts and minds during shouldbe-studying time of hundreds of local high school seniors. It’s called Assassins, and it’s hilariously intense.

Rules vary from school to school, but the general idea is the same: For a small fee, kids enter into a pool of assassins and have seven days to take out their assigned mark with a water gun and avoid being “hit” themselves. Those who accomplish both tasks advance to the next round, with the sole survivor making bank. School, work and home are the only designated DMZs. The girl who sniped my daughter was unbelievable. I foiled her first attempt when I discovered her tucked up against our garage and sounded the alarm. But then she enlisted her mom and waylaid Maddie at the dance studio, bursting forth from an inconspicuous minivan, Rambo-style. One of my students was dispatched at a McDonald’s drive-thru, and countless more have met their ends in vulnerable parking lots and driveways.

The Cold War may be over, friends, but its red-headed stepchild Assassins is alive and well in central Indiana teendom. Gotcha! Peace out.

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

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Here we go again. We’ve arrived at another year of not paying attention.

We had a 72-degree day in February, SHOP TALK and the Monon Trail crowd was packed and hyped for their outdoor adventure for the day, which is awesome. The problem, as usual, is that bikers and hikers ignore the stop signs on the trail and ride or walk right in front of your moving vehicle, which will win that matchup every time.

The confusion began when the trail first opened, because in Indiana, we’re always taught that pedestrians have the right-ofway. However, that’s not the case along the Monon. Pedestrians don’t have the right-ofway until they’re in the road.

To be cautious and courteous, I proceed slowly through the trail. More times than I can count, someone darts in front of me and ignores the stop signs, endangering themselves and setting me up to hang out

and talk to the ambulance and police about what happened.

I love the trail, but I have no desire to hurt someone because of their own actions.

If I ran a stop sign, I would be pulled over and ticketed for that.

I also always look for bikers and skateboarders who come racing down the sidewalk on Main Street, flying by the business doors that people walk out of, not to mention the bikers and skateboarders who pass or ride with traffic on Main Street. Luckily, nobody, to my knowledge, has been run into one of the iron fences by a motorist who didn’t see them. I have witnessed multiple accidents just standing outside Main Street Barber Shop hanging out in the sunshine.

We love our community, so please pay attention to your surroundings.

Jason “Hogjaws” Peek is the owner of Main Street Barbershop in Carmel. You may email him at hogjawz@att.net.

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By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com With regard to preserving historic homes, specifically in Noblesville, local experts offer a range of advice.

Realtor Kurt Meyer, who lives in a house built in the 1870s in downtown Noblesville, consults with clients on what they can do to enhance their home’s value while retaining its history.

“I can think of a time where on 10th Street, I saw an original Victorian-era staircase torn out of a house laying in the side yard waiting for the dumpster,” Meyer said.

“I know people pay extra for that detail, and they were

taking their trump card and throwing it in the dumpster.”

Meyer said property owners should consider preservation for two reasons.

“One is you can never get it back,” he said. “And two, a lot of people watch too much HGTV and think they can Chip and Joanna Gaines every house. I think you need to have a longer view than whatever is trendy right now.”

WHAT TO PRESERVE If an owner wants to sell or restore a historic house, Meyer urges them to retain as much of the original architectural detail as possible.

“But the house has to work like a modern house,”

The after photo of Preservation Hall after MacInnis Construction restored the exterior. (Photo courtesy of Heather MacInnis)

Meyer said. “So, bathrooms, kitchens, mechanical systems — if you want top dollars, those all have to function like a brand-new house.”

A common mistake Meyer notices is removing original doors.

“That’s something where you can lose a lot of detail because when you lose a door,” he said. “You lose the ornate hinges, beautiful, ornate doorknobs.”

Meyer said owners should take their time when finding contractors to help with historic restoration.

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Creative Works president designs environments for play

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com As president of Creative Works, a design and manufacturing company, Armando Lanuti supervises projects for attractions and themed environments in the entertainment industry.

“That’s everything from laser tag arena, mini golf, Escape Rooms,” said Lanuti, a Carmel resident. “We have Lanuti done some work here locally with locations like Woodland Bowl, Urban Air, Laser Flash and Bowl 32. We were able to take part in the Peyton Manning statue.”

Besides designing recreation environments, Lanuti serves on the board for MakeA-Wish Foundation. He helps develop unique ways to help Make-A-Wish kids’ dreams come true.

“A lot of people think of Make-A=Wish and think of trips like going to Disney, but the kids don’t always have that ability based on their condition or the timeliness,” Lanuti said. “So, what we do is, we can help do extreme home makeover updates to their

Creative Works President Armando Lanuti serves on the Make-A-Wish Foundation board and uses his expertise to make kids’ dreams come true, such as incorporating a bear and wildlife mural into a boy’s bedroom. (Photos courtesy of Creative Works)

room or a basement or something like that to give them a cool experience to have with their families in a space they oftentimes have to spend a lot of time in.

“That’s been really awesome and epic for us to be able to use our unique talents in such a way.”

For example, Creative Works painted mural in a child’s room to represent a bear and wildlife scene. Lanuti said Creative Works can incorporate a child’s interest into designs.

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students to the world of manufacturing through, again, a different lens. A lot of times people interested in manufacturing Launched in June 2021, Hamilton County anticipate that it is standing in an assembly Center for Career Achievement, has several line putting parts together and sending that initiatives under way. The HCCCA is down the line, but that is so far a countywide program that creates from the truth of what we see in comprehensive career and technical Hamilton County in manufacturing.” education opportunities for stuApproximately 100 students atdents attending Hamilton County tend manufacturing courses offered high schools. at the county’s high schools.

“We really want to take away the “There’s definitely a discrepancy stigma that it’s college or careers between what the job outlook is Lively — we are working on rebranding and what our student pipeline is,” to help take away that stigma of a career Lively said. “We are working hard to rebrand center not being equal to a college path,” that manufacturing is a lot of automation HCCCA Executive Director Carrie Lively said. and a lot of robotics and a lot of technical “That’s our focus to really take any stigma skills go into that.” away associated with career and technical Lively said the HCCCA is enhancing its education.” nursing, health care, IT and cyber security The HCCCA, which is working to become career paths. It also helps guide curriculum a nonprofit by 2024, also is expanding its so that instruction is relevant to specific career and technical education program job fields. The programs are offered at area options for students immediately after high schools. school graduation.

“We are partnering with all schools in “Or they can continue on and get a fourthe county to build out the current proyear advanced degree,” Lively said. “It really grams they have and build upon those and is for all students. We are looking at exexpand,” Lively said. “We are pushing repanding in quite a few different pathways.” sources to the schools where the students Lively said agriculture is one of the pathare. We know the model of students leaving ways available to high school students. (school) to go to a career center is not “There’s a big push for agriculture and effective.” through the lens of entrepreneurship as Lively only 500 Hamilton County stuwell, being able to be a business owner dents are participating in career center through the agriculture lens,” Lively said. programming.

Other career paths include construc“We want a more effective means of detion and trades, civil engineering and livering those courses to students,” Lively architecture. said. “We want to “Those are pathways support as much as we we are really pushing can in the school buildas well,” Lively said. ings. If Westfield is HCCCA is partnering offering a course that – HCCCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR isn’t filled by Westfield with area schools, such CARRIE LIVELY High School students, as Hamilton Heights High School, which they could open that recently held a job fair with more than 50 up to other students in the county.” employers looking to hire students.

Lively said the HCCCA is working with “That wasn’t to learn about the jobs that school on details such as offering transporwere available, they were really looking to tation. She said online courses also are an hire kids,” Lively said. “We had kids from option. seven different schools in attendance.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “There are a lot of contractors out there who know how to buy and attach pre-fab things from Lowes and Home Depot, but are they really carpenters in a way we thought of carpenters 50 years ago?” Meyer said. “Do they really know how to build a staircase or do they preorder it and shove it in place?”

DEFINING ‘HISTORIC’ Peterson Architecture Principal Architect Darren Peterson said when restoring a home, it’s important to establish value.

“What makes a piece historic or non-historic?” said Peterson, who also serves on the Noblesville Common Council. “Being old doesn’t always mean it’s historic.”

Peterson said to be aware of context when making restorations.

“Sometimes they tear the front porch off, but that may have been what made that whole block have historic value,” he said.

“Something we talk about on the (downtown Noblesville) square is which of those buildings holds its own value? The courthouse, obviously. But are all of the buildings on the square important as single buildings, or is it because they create the feeling and façade of the square? Can you remove one of those buildings and put something back and have it carry the same historic value?”

The after photo of a residence after MacInnis Construction restored the exterior. (Photo courtesy of MacInnis Construction)

RESTORATION COSTS In the past, costs associated with high-quality, long-term restorations were enough to make owners tear out historic touches and replace them with modern items. But now, as the cost of materials increases, Peterson said owners realize they can refinish parts of their home and save money versus replacing it with something new.

Meyer said if someone truly wants to preserve history, they should take the time

to find the right kind of contractor. He said the search could take up to two years. He recommended MacInnis Construction, based in Noblesville. It is a full-service general contracting and design company specializing in historic restoration and rehabilitation of commercial and residential properties.

Co-owner Heather MacInnis said homeowners should be aware of unforeseen expenses associated with historic restoration.

She said kitchen remodels can range from $50,000 to $70,000 and take two months to complete. A complete exterior renovation can range from $100,00 to $150,000 and can take up to 2 1/2 months.

“Always be aware that there will likely be expenses added to the job that are unforeseen at the time the estimate is completed. As much as we’d like to have one, the contractor’s magical crystal ball does not yet exist,” said MacInnis, who owns the company with her husband, Gary. “Historic buildings always come with interesting surprises that only reveal themselves as the project progresses. Personally, we love working on historic homes and businesses for this reason, but the owner needs to be prepared for the extra cost.”

MacInnis suggests budgeting 10 to 20 percent above the estimate to prepare for unforeseen expenses.

Some projects MacInnis Construction has worked on include façade remodels or updates to several downtown Noblesville buildings, such as the Allstate building at 828 Logan St., Texy Mexy at 818 Logan St., Carmack’s Cigar Shop at 822 Logan St., Uptown Café at 809 and 813 Conner St., the Nationwide building at 817 Conner Street and Noblesville Preservation Alliance’s Preservation Hall at 1274 Logan St. “We’ve also worked on the Historical Society Museum in the Sheriff’s Residence on the square,” MacInnis said. “We’ve done work on over 26 historic homes in Noblesville.”

MacInnis said most people approach the company through word-of-mouth referrals.

“Historic property owners are very sensitive to how their home or business will be remodeled, as they should be,” she said.

“They typically don’t want someone they just found through an internet search to work on their home. They know we are familiar with how historic structures are put together and how they should be finished out in a way that is sensitive to their needs without sacrificing the historic authenticity of the home or business. Sometimes those historic details, unfortunately, do get put by the wayside if the customer’s budget or modern codes will not allow for them.”

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By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Whether wanting to donate time, materials or projects, United Way of Central Indiana can people fulfill the mission.

UWCI’s second Go All IN Day is set for June 24. said the program is an opportunity to connect people to organizations in their community. It serves Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Marion, Morgan and Putnam counties.

UWCI Community Engagement Manager Abbi Garvey said Go All IN Day is a way to connect volunteers with community-based organizations in those seven counties.

Projects include everything from spreading mulch and building community gardens to organizing shoes and painting.

“Our real goal for this event is to introduce people in the community and their families to organizations they can volunteer at and support,” Garvey said. “Giving them something they already have an affinity for or just wanting to get to know what is out there or how to support local organizations while checking off those wish list items organizations have (are our goals).”

Volunteers participate in UWCI’s inaugural Go All IN Day in 2021.

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Garvey said more than 500 people participated in the inaugural Go All IN Day in 2021.

All projects will be announced May 2. Last year, the organization assisted with more than 70 projects.

Garvey said businesses can donate

Volunteers can assist with indoor and outdoor projects.

supplies, such as mulch, and some organizations participating in Go All IN Day can apply for a $500 grant to help support their project.

“It’s getting people out to introduce them to volunteer opportunities so they can get

to know those community organizations that serve their community and make a difference,” Garvey said.

To register for Go All IN Day, visit uwci. org/go-all-in-day.

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Going solar in Indiana Who doesn’t want to harvest the sunshine to pay for your electric bills? That’s why thousands of Hoosiers across the state have invested in rooftop solar. If you’re interested in making the switch to solar, here are some things to consider.

NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT June 30 is the deadline to secure net metering. Net metering provides a credit each month for the electricity solar owners share with their neighbors at the same price you pay for electricity — an even swap. If your solar panels are installed by June 30, you’ll receive net metering until 2032. Systems installed after June 30 will receive lower compensation for the electricity shared with the electric grid.

Systems placed in service this year are also eligible for the federal Investment Tax Credit, or ITC, valued at 26 percent of the installation cost. The ITC is scheduled to dip to 22 percent for 2023 and then end entirely for residential installations.

Installing your panels this year to secure net metering and the 26 percent federal ITC will help to maximize your solar investment.

The process for installing solar panels can take several months to complete, so there’s no time to waste.

SOLAR ECONOMICS Rooftop solar saves money by reducing your monthly electric bills.

Each individual solar installation will be different, with the size and upfront cost of the system based on your individual needs.

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investment in a 10- to 12-year period. The solar panels should be producing efficient electricity for at least 25 years, meaning the panels will be producing monthly savings well after breaking even on the investment.

Solar companies should provide an estimate of the energy your system will produce, the breakeven point, and what your total return on investment will be as part of the sales process. If you don’t have the ability to pay for your solar panels with cash, there are several financing options to consider.

HOW THE BOONE & HAMILTON COUNTY SOLAR CO-OP CAN HELP One way to learn more is to join the Boone & Hamilton Counties Solar Co-op. The solar co-op, facilitated by 501(c)3 nonprofit Solar United Neighbors, or SUN, is free to join and requires no obligation to install solar panels. Joining the co-op allows you to leverage the bulk-purchasing power of the group along with vendor-neutral technical support from SUN to make the process of installing solar panels easy. Group members select a single solar company through a competitive bidding process facilitated by SUN. The deadline to join the group is March 31, to ensure that all members can install their panels before the June 30 net metering deadline.

You can learn more at a solar 101 webinar at 7 p.m. March 29. To register for the webinar, visit solarunitedneighbors.org/event/ indiana-solar-101-22-03-29/.

Zach Schalk is the Indiana program director for Solar United Neighbors, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Hoosiers go solar and fight for their energy rights.

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School choice bridges disparities Editor, As an elementary school teacher, I count it a privilege to be a part of my students’ educational stories. My goal as a teacher is to honor the personhood of the child and to play a role in equipping future servant leaders. These goals are framed by both my sense of civic duty and my personal beliefs. It is also the basis for my advocacy of school choice.

I am a second-grade teacher in Hamilton County. Hamilton County is developing rapidly. What not long ago were cornfields are now sprawling, beautiful neighborhoods.

One vestige of a bygone era are the neighborhoods of Hamilton Estates Mobile Home Park and Grayland Place. Due to land development, these neighborhoods will be eliminated. These families are required to find

new housing. Urban renewal is sometimes referred to as gentrification. Suburban renewal is called land development. School choice is a tool in the hands of those who might otherwise be displaced by infrastructure change, reducing the collateral impact.

School choice is about giving families agency. It is about giving families the right to choose schools that may currently be out of reach. It is a means of bridging the educational disparity for all children, regardless of their ZIP code. It has been an honor to serve these families as a teacher. Decisions are being made regarding their housing, and in turn, their children’s schooling will be affected. These families need to have a voice in where their children attend school.

Joan Walden, Carmel

Do you still value free speech?

First Amendment right is eroded if we don’t allow a paid advertisement because someone might find it offensive.

One reader suggestion is to make use of a fact checker. How does one fact check an opinion or point of view? Where does this end? I think we’re treading into dangerous territory if opposing points of view are not allowed to be presented. Readers can decide for themselves what is propaganda and what is not.

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are too many to mention by name, but we know who you are. Each and every one of you who has reached out, bought trees to honor Jake, sent flowers and gifts, sent your love and prayers, brought food, sent cards, sent text messages, reached out on social media, those who attended the service in person, those who watched the livestream or the recording, every prayer, and everyone who has supported us in numerous ways.

Your spontaneous acts of kindness and generosity have, and are, lifting us as we move forward.

We are deeply grateful, Kara Kavensky (Jake’s mom), Adam Gibson, Alex and Luke, Carmel

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Editor, How do you know you live in an amazing community? When people reach out at an overwhelming rate.

With the passing of my son, (Fishers High School student) Jake Reibel, the abundance of support from our community has wrapped us in love.

We will forever be grateful to the following (this is an incomplete list): The City of Fishers, Mayor Scott Fadness, Fishers Police Dept. Chief Ed Gebhart, Hamilton Southeastern Schools, FHS Principal Jason Urban, HIJH staff, Heartland Church, Seals Funeral Home, Nameless Catering (Jeremy Brown is the BOMB!), Carmel Police Dept., our clients, our family and our friends, who

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Editor, The sentiments pouring in to Current with regard to the paid advertisement

by Unify Carmel miss the mark on free speech. Leveling the charge against the organization that it seeks to bully people into silence is a bit extreme and is that reader’s opinion.

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Cleaning is an obsession with the companies that advertise in these mailers. There Do you get junk in the mail? Of course are always services that clean your air you do. We all do. And I am getting a little ducts — something I have never done in 30 tired of it. I can screen phone years of home ownership, which might exHUMOR calls for telemarketers, and I plain my murky complexion. Now, salespeohave a spam filter on my comple will be calling me in the morning, and puter, but somebody needs to do something because I’m an easy mark, strange men will about the clutter in my mailbox. be crawling up my vents by noon tomorrow.

I’ve given my mailman full authority to Many dentists use coupons to market stuff any unsolicited their services to pocorrespondence down tential new patients. the sewer. He’s afraid I can screen phone calls for Maybe the Novocaine he might accidentally them insentelemarketers, and I have a makes throw out a utility bill. sitive: “YOUR TEETH spam filter on my computer, REALLY—AND WE I told him not to worry about that. These but somebody needs to do MEAN REALLY—NEED TO things happen.

BE CLEANED.” something about the clutter I know I’m not the Here’s my favorite first person to write from the pack, a “perin my mailbox. about junk mail, or sonal letter” from a – DICK WOLFSIE junk food, or all the colorectal physician: junk in my basement.

YOU NEED A I admitted last year in a column that I once COLONOSCOPY! invested in junk bonds.

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Grant addresses statewide issues

By Chris Bavender news@currentincarmel.com A new state grant could help Hamilton County address local health challenges such as diabetes and obesity. The STATE Indiana Health Issues and Challenges Grants will award $50 million to local and statewide service providers, along with planning organizations, to address longstanding problems.

State Rep. Donna Schaibley (R-Carmel) co-authored the law. She said Indiana is doing well in many ways, but there is a “need to improve the overall health of Hoosiers.”

“With this grant program, local and statewide service providers can receive funds to develop programs to improve health outcomes in specific areas and based on the needs of the community,” Schaibley said.

“Funding can be used to prevent or reduce mental and physical health issues for Hoosiers, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. The pandemic shined a bright light on the need to tackle these chronic health issues.”

Schaibley said Indiana is a national leader

in many areas and is often noted for low taxes, low unemployment rate, new business developments and job commitments, and investments in infrastructure.

“Unfortunately, we are also a national leader when looking at some negative health indicators like smoking rates and obesity,” she said. “This targeted grant program is an important step in improving the health of Hoosiers by encouraging the development of programs to address specific health concerns in Indiana with the funding to back those efforts.”

With the grants, organizations can pinpoint specific health concerns in their community and develop programs targeting those areas.

“This program is results driven with attainable goals, and we expect the funds to net positive outcomes for Hoosiers,” Schaibley said.

The Indiana Dept. of Health is accepting grant applications through March 31 and is expected to award grants based on the proposal and need within the communities.

Award notices will be issued by July 1.

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By Chris Bavender news@currentincarmel.com Priority Physicians will open a new office in Carmel in late June. The office will replace the current location on EXPANSION Naab Road in Indianapolis near the St. Vincent Hospital campus.

“We have outgrown the Naab Road facility. We have been on a waitlist to have new patients join us for almost two years now,” said Joe Rizzuto, the group’s chief operating officer. “Our other office in Fishers has been growing mightily, but there definitely was a strong need and a lot of interest in expanding capacity at the northside location.

“By getting out of that building (on Naab Road), we will significantly increase square feet and open doors.”

The new facility at 12174 N. Meridian St., Suite 300, is 45 percent larger than the Naab Road facility with 14,000 square feet of space. It will allow Priority Physicians, which operates with a concierge medicine model, to add up to 10 team members, including four doctors, during the next five years while continuing to preserve a ratio

Priority Physicians plans to move to 12174 N. Meridian St. in June. (Photo courtesy of Priority Physicians)

of no more than 250 allowable patients per physician.

“It will certainly let us address the waitlist out there and give us some room to grow over the next several years,” Rizzuto said. “We will also be able to have a second procedure room so we can do more simultaneously for folks, so that also helps. The on-site pharmacy will also be larger.”

For more about a personal, family or business concierge medical membership, or to learn more about Priority Physicians’ offices in Carmel and Fishers, call 317-688-9000 (Indianapolis) or 317-415-9900 (Fishers), or visit priorityphysicianspc.com.

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DISPATCHES Home prices decrease — Carmel’s residential real estate market remained steady in February as homes continued to sell at a fast pace, and prices decreased. According to F.C. Tucker Company, homes in Carmel left the market 24 days, or 66.7 percent faster than this time last year. Average home sale prices for Carmel homes decreased 2.8 percent to $468,889, and the average price per square foot increased to $194.87, up 14.6 percent compared to February 2021.

Century business awards — The state of Indiana is accepting nominations for the Governor's Century and Half Century Business Awards, which honor Hoosier businesses that have remained in operation for at least 100 or 50 years, respectively, and have demonstrated a commitment to serving the community. Eligible companies are encouraged to apply by April 1 at bit.ly/3MiekAc. Fanning Howey appointments — Fanning Howey has appointed Tim Lehman as chief executive officer and Andy Miller, a Carmel resident, as chief operations Lehman Miller officer.

The appointments will become effective on June 30. CEO Bill Payne will remain in his role as chairman of the board and as a project executive for the firm’s Indianapolis office. COO Bruce Runyon will remain on the board and will continue to serve as a project executive.

Merchants Bank honored — Carmel-based Merchants Bank of Indiana and Merchants Capital have been named among the best places to work in Indiana for the seventh consecutive year. Since 2006, the annual Best Places to Work in Indiana program, created by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and Best Companies Group, has recognized companies around the state.

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“I own a dog that is trained to find bed bugs in areas that are difficult to visually inspect,” she said. “I actually stumbled upon this type of business by accident. I was intrigued with the scent-detection aspect and after talking to and shadowing business owners in two other states.”

Her dog, Buddy, a purebred English springer spaniel, was trained by a company in California specifically for bed bug detection.

“He is trained to find bed bugs in all life stages, from eggs to adults,” Woods said.

“He does not detect dead bugs.”

Woods said a canine successfully detects bed bugs with an accuracy rate of more than 90 percent compared to a 35 percent success rate for a human visual inspection.

“Bed bugs are extremely good at hiding in very tiny places,” she said.

Woods provides services for both commercial and residential properties.

“I started the business right before the pandemic hit,” she said. “Difficult timing for sure. However, business is going well, and I look forward to growing even more now that most businesses are open and people are traveling again. Precision Canine is one of only a few canine bed bug detection businesses that is independent and not affiliated with a pest control or heat treatment company in Indiana.

“By remaining independent, I do not have a vested interest in the outcome of the inspection. I only provide confirmation of the presence or absence of bed bugs.”

Woods said the training process is the same for all scent-detection canines, whether the target is explosives, drugs, currency or cadavers.

“It’s about isolating the specific scent, repetitive exposure and rewarding the dog with either food or a toy when they find it,” she said. “Buddy’s ongoing training includes the use of live bed bugs in all stages of life, pseudo scents and dead bugs. Dead bugs are used during training to make sure he

Karen Woods and her dog Buddy work as a team for Precision Canine Bed Bug Detection Services.

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does not positively alert on them while working in the field.”

Woods said she and Buddy are certified as a team through the National Entomology Scent Detection Canine Association. The certification is granted after a team passes a detection test under observation by NESDCA officials. The team must test annually to be considered current.

Woods said bed bugs are commonly found in apartment complexes, nursing homes, libraries, office buildings, public transportation, emergency rooms, hotels and college dorms.

“I really enjoy being able to help people and provide some peace of mind,” Woods said. “Having bed bugs or thinking you may have bed bugs is extremely stressful. It’s hard for someone to get a restful night’s sleep under those circumstances. It’s always a great day for me and my customer when Buddy doesn’t find any bugs.”

After graduating from Carmel High School and Purdue University, Woods worked in management in the financial services industry for several years. She then took time off to raise her three kids, who are all CHS graduates.

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Indy-area cannabis company keeps expanding

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ucts,” Journay said. “We just completed a NASCAR deal. We became the first sponsor of a NASCAR team. We’ve been able to 3C Labs Chief Executive Officer Justin succeed here in Indiana and everyone has Journay’s business has grown rapidly. been very supportive of that. We are going The company, a to keep doing what we do, making 3C LABS cannabinoid research products and selling products. To do and manufacturing that, we need a lot of employees.” firm, started in 2018 in the Cleveland The products are sold nationally area. and internationally.

“We moved operations to Indiana Journay said the company needs in September of 2019,” said Journay, employees in manufacturing and a 39-year-old Fishers resident. “It shipping.

Journay grew to a point where we needed “We also do a lot of (research help, and Indiana had the best laws at the and development) in production, and that time. (Indiana legislators) were the innoends up being a lot of engineers, chemists, vator of the CBD laws. They were the first research individuals, so there are a lot of ones to come out and say how to do CBD STEM careers we are responsible in starting correctly and abide by the laws. We loved or continuing,” he said. “It’s very possible that, so we came here.” we exceed the 270 number. The thing about The three primary sites are in Carmel, hemp is, it’s pretty reliant on legislation, Fishers and north Indianapolis. With 3C and that seems to be ever-changing in this Labs’ plans to invest at least $1.5 million industry.” in expansion at the three sites and hire The company also will hire sales and cusas many as 270 employees by the end of tomer service employees.

2023, the Indiana Economic Development 3C already has approximately 350 employCorp. has pledged up to $2.97 million in tax ees, mostly in the Indianapolis area. Journay credits. said the company will add at least one more Under the brand name 3Chi, the company site in the future, somewhere in northern sells a variety of edibles such as gummies, Indianapolis or the Hamilton County area. candies and baked goods, vaping items and “The name comes from the three parts of oils, tinctures and terpenes.

Chi, what we feel cannabis can help people “We’re one of if not the biggest hemp with mind, body and spirit,” he said. company in America as far as selling prod-

DISPATCHES Merchants Mortage hire — Merchants Mortgage has hired Ronald Berry as vice president, retail mortgage sales manager. Berry will join the Merchants Mortgage office at the company’s headquarters in Carmel. In his new role, Berry will oversee the recruiting, hiring and training of all mortgage Berry sales professionals as well as hold responsibility for the financial performance, budget adherence and growth in customer base for a defined local region. Berry is a graduate of Ball State University with a bachelor’s degree in management.

Stocks benefit from cancer test breakthroughs — Amid the race to develop coronavirus tests, vaccines and treatments,

many investors might overlook another realm of medical breakthroughs. Molecular diagnostic firms are developing innovative blood tests that can detect many forms of cancer, some even at the earliest stages before cancerous cells mass together. In the past five years, genomic blood testing has become a $6 billion-a-year market, mostly driven by tests such as “liquid biopsies” that allow patients with potentially cancerous tumors to avoid expensive and invasive surgery to remove sample tissue. Over the next decade, the diagnostics market is expected to soar to more than $50 billion annually as companies develop early-detection tests to screen asymptomatic patients for cancers. Three promising companies are Exact Sciences (EXAS), Guardant Health (GH) and Natera (NTRA).

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Brawner to honor Ray Charles’ legacy in Palladium concert

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Kenny Brawner regards his show as something more than a tribute to Ray Charles.

MUSIC “I call it a hybrid theater-concert piece where we actually play Ray’s music and tell the story,” Brawner said. “I go into character as Ray. I stay into character the whole show.”

Brawner will perform “Ray On My Mind: The Ray Charles Story” at 8 p.m. March 25 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

Brawner, a pianist-vocalist, will lead an 11-piece orchestra and three vocalists, similar to the Raelettes who sang with Charles, in performing some of Charles’ biggest hits.

“The arrangements are very close to Ray’s arrangements,” said Brawner, who performs monologues to detail Charles’ journey.

Brawner said trumpet player Roger Ingram, who will play in the Palladium performance, played with Charles for five years.

“It’s a big orchestra sound,” Brawner said.

Brawner started working on the Charles concerts in 2014.

“Even in my own music, people say they can hear a little Ray Charles in everything I can do,” said Brawner, who usually played a couple of Ray Charles songs in his own concerts.

Like Charles, Brawner is a Georgia native.

“He was a big influence on my music growing up,” Brawner said.

Brawner said the Charles concerts consume most of his schedule.

“I’m going to Europe in the summer to do some blues festivals, just me and some Italian musicians I’ll be working with,” he said.

Brawner said many of his shows were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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‘WAIT UNTIL DARK’ Civic Theatre’s production of ‘Wait Until Dark’ runs through March 26 at the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit civictheatre.org.

GILBERTO SANTA ROSA Gilberto Santa Rosa, an accomplished Latin music vocalist, will perform at 8 p.m. March 24 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

‘RAY ON MY MIND’ Kenny Brawner brings his show “Ray On My Mind: The Ray Charles Story” at 8 p.m. March 25 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org

Kenny Brawner, center, will perform as Ray Charles in his concert at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. (Photo courtesy of Center for the Performing Arts).

“Since the fall, we’ve been working pretty steadily,” he said.

Brawner’s Palladium performance marks the first time he has brought the show to central Indiana.

He said the purpose is to keep Charles’ music alive. Ray Charles Jr. attended a recent performance of the show in California.

“He came backstage, gave us his OK and took pictures with us,” Brawner said. “We had a lot of fun with him. He thought we did a great job and was pleased with the show.”

Brawner attended several of Ray Charles’ concerts.

“When I was 17, I went back to see if I could talk with him,” Brawner said. “I asked for an autograph, and he said, ’Son, I can’t write.’ I was a little bit embarrassed.

To this day, I’m still embarrassed by that.”

Charles, who died in 2004, was completely blind by age 7.

Brawner said one of his favorite Charles’ songs is “You Don’t Know Me.” “Every time I start that song, the audiences, no matter where we are, they always go in applause when I open up that song,” he said. “‘Georgia on my Mind’ gets the same response.”

Brawner said Ray Charles Jr. said he appreciates the fact that Brawner plays many of his father’s older songs, such as “A Fool for You” and “Drown in My Own Tears.”

The concert also includes favorites such as “I Got a Woman,” “What’d I Say” and “Baby it’s Cold Outside.”

“We have a good time on stage,” Brawner said. “We project that to the audience and hope they are having a good time. I can say we have not had one show that bombed. We usually get a standing ovation at the end.”

For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

Discovering Broadway writers retreat set editorial@youarecurrent.com Discovering Broadway’s first writers retreat of 2022 will be May 12-23. The new musical has book, lyrics and music by Zack Zadek and is not yet titled. He will be joined

by Forbes 30 Under 30 director Sammi Cannold, who is also a conceiver on the piece.

A special concert premiering the music will be presented May 21 at The Cabaret in Indianapolis, featuring two New York Citybased actors and three Indianapolis-based actors. Audition information and casting will be shared later.

“This is the first writers retreat where a full draft of the new musical does not yet exist,” stated Joel Kirk, chief executive officer and rounder of Discovering Broadway Inc. “It’s exhilarating to think Zack will compose and workshop the entire piece at Discovering Broadway.”

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After a highly successful show choir season, Carmel High School’s four choir groups will perform their shows one final time for family, friends and PERFORMANCE the community.

“Evening of Show Choirs” is set for 7 p.m. March 26 in the CHS varsity gym. The auditorium is under renovation.

Along with the Ambassadors, the mixed show choir and the all-female Accents, the concert will feature two other show choirs, New Edition, a mixed show choir, and the all-female Allegro.

“The Ambassadors are doing a New Year’s Eve theme with the countdown to midnight in Times Square in New York,” CHS choirs director Kathrine Kouns said. “The Accents show is all about the power of our hands, to touch, to pray, to communicate, to celebrate and to serve. New Edition performs a Renaissance-themed show, and Allegro’s show doesn’t have a specific theme. It’s a celebration of singing and dancing.”

Kouns said each group will perform an

Carmel High School’s mixed show choir, the Ambassadors, has a New Year’s Eve theme this year. (Photo courtesy of CHS choirs)

entire show.

This is the first “Evening of Show Choirs” since 2019.

“I think everyone has a newfound appreciation for it,” Kouns said. “We’ve had other years where people are burned out and ready to be done because of the exhausting schedule. This year, everyone has so much gratitude for everything we do because we all realize how much we miss it when we don’t do it.”

The 2020 show choir season was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was no show choir season in 2021.

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Vocalist returns to Feinstein’s

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Vocalist Mark William had such a good time the first time he played Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel CONCERTS in August 2021 that he decided to return.

“Everybody at the club is so wonderful and took such good care of us while we were there,” William said. “I had quite a few friends and family come to the show from Ohio, plus a good number of Indiana (residents). I had a wonderful time and I’m very much looking forward to being back.”

William will perform his new show, “Mark William: Back With A Beat,” at 7:30 p.m.

March 25-26 at Feinstein’s.

“It does include a few favorites from the show I did last year, but there are quite a few new numbers,” William said. “There is even an original song that I wrote called ‘Wherever We Land.’ There are all those good classics but always through my youthful crooning lens.”

William said the first show was grounded in classic Great American Songbook and Broadway songs.

Mark William will appear March 25-26 at Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel. (Photo courtesy of Mark William)

“This show, we step out a little. There is plenty of that material but there is also a sprinkling of pop material of various decades,” William said.

Some of the songs are “The Girl From Ipanema,” “The Look of Love,” “The Way of Love” and “On A Clear Day.” Andrew Morrissey and Charles Abbott are writing a new musical called Dorian’s “Wilde Affai,r” as in Oscar Wilde. William is co-writing the music and lyrics with Morrissey, and Abbott is the book writer and director.

For more, visit feinsteinshc.com.

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Center relaxes safety protocols editorial@youarecurrent.com In light of improving public health conditions and changes in federal and state guidelines on COVID-19, the POLICY Center for the Performing Arts and its resident companies announced March 15 it will no longer require masking and proof of vaccination or a negative test result to attend events on the campus.

The new policy applies immediately to all events at the Palladium, The Tarkington and the Studio Theater, except when artists contractually require stronger measures as a condition for performing. Ticket holders will be notified when stricter standards are in place. The Center will continue with cashless concessions and the enhanced cleaning and disinfection procedures instituted in response to the pandemic.

Factors behind the decision include

the CDC’s recent relaxation of masking recommendations and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s decision to end the statewide public health emergency, as well as shifting public expectations and entertainment industry trends, said Jeffrey C. McDermott, the Center’s President/CEO. “Our policy from the start of the pandemic has been to follow the science and the guidance of public health authorities, prioritizing the safety of all patrons, performers, employees and volunteers while acknowledging concerns about comfort, convenience and privacy,” McDermott said. “After two years of this challenging situation, we all want to put the pandemic behind us, though we must remain vigilant. If risk factors increase again, we will be prepared to act accordingly.”

Questions my be directed to the Center’s Patron Services staff at 1-317-843-3800 or Tickets@thecenterpresents.org.

FHS grad develops passion for art

By Chris Bavender editorial@youarecurrent.com

The COVID-19 led to the permanent closure of the school, so Moore enrolled at the Grand Central Atelier in New York City under When Fishers High School graduate Tyler Jacob Collins.

Moore left Indiana University with a degree “I learned so much in this time as I felt I in informatics, he also had a second chance to apply the ART walked away with a skills I had learned at The Florence passion for art.

Academy, and I felt my technique “In my sophomore year, I found develop much more,” Moore said. the works of John Singer Sargent “I then went into the painting year and early works by Picasso, which there and have since left the atelier inspired me to dedicate time to system pursuing a professional art as a practice,” said Moore, who career with commissions and sales, Moore graduated from FHS in 2015. “In giving me some momentum.” college, I would spend as much time as posMoore describes his art as a “pursuit in sible painting and practicing piano while at the tradition of the old masters that have the same time attending classes and doing inspired me.” homework.

“It’s not that I’m trying to copy them or “I took art classes at IU, but I found them imitate their technique, but rather finding lacking in any sort of technical training, so I the freedom in my own sense of sight decided to look beyond IU.” connected to my hand that they achieved,” Through Instagram, Moore, 24, found The he said. “I wish to translate my experience Florence Academy of Art, which reminded of life onto the canvas the same way they him of the type of school Sargent had atachieved, and that is my sole goal.” tended. During his senior year, Moore — who Moore focuses mainly on landscape and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. — applied with portraiture but also works from other subthe works he had been making in his living jects such as florals. room studio and was accepted.

“My goal in my artwork, though, is just After graduating from IU, he moved to to chase this perhaps impossible goal of a Jersey City, N.J., to attend the school under complete translation of my experience of Amaya Gurpide and Jordan Sokol, two modlife itself to the viewer,” he said. ern masters.

For more, visit tcmoore.co. To inquire “It completely redefined art for me, and it about a piece, visit info@tcmoore.co. was a very exciting transition,” Moore said.

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Given what has been going on in the world the past two years amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Brian Nichols COMEDY wanted to provide laughs for audiences.

So, he suggested he direct the comedy, “Flaming Idiots,” for Westfield Playhouse.

“I directed this show before and I find it to be very funny,” said Nichols, who lives in the Castleton area of Indianapolis. “It was not in the Indianapolis area previously and I wanted to bring it here. It’s a farce. There’s lots of laughter and lots of craziness. I thought it would be great now as we’re coming on the other side of the pandemic.

Whether it’s over or not, I don’t know, but just to have people laugh for a couple of hours, forget about the war in Ukraine and the heaviness of everything else going on, just come in here and laugh.”

Main Street Productions will present “Flaming Idiots” from March 31 to April 10 at Westfield Playhouse. Nichols is making his Main Street Productions debut as a director.

He previously was an assistant director for “The Main Who Shot Liberty Valance” in 2019 at Westfield Playhouse.

The “Flaming Idiots” plot centers on two postal workers who want to open a restaurant. They borrow money from a mob associate to open it and realize they know nothing about the restaurant business, and it’s been empty. The owners figure restaurants where there has been a mob hit are always busy, so they stage a fake mob hit.

Ethan Romba plays Phil, one of the owners. The other owner, Carl, is played by Austin Uebelhor.

“It’s been a riot,” Romba said. “It’s a hilariously written story line. The dialogue is really funny. We have a great cast with the right people in each role.”

This is the first show Romba has done in the Indianapolis area since moving from Chicago to Fishers in December 2021.

The last production Romba, 31, was in was a student show at Northwestern University about 11 years ago.

Romba learned about auditions for the show when he attended “Of Mice and Men” at Westfield Playhouse.

“I feel blessed to get this part,” Romba said. “The biggest challenge is memorizing the lines. I have over 400 lines.”

Cast members of “Flaming Idiots” pause on stage before a rehearsal. (Photo by Mark Ambrogi)

Noblesville resident Eric Bowman plays a goofy 73-year-old hit man named Louie, who is losing his memory.

At 48, Bowman is playing a character who is quite a bit older.

“I enjoy the role because he has memory issues,” Bowman said. “It relieves a little tension of having to memorize the lines so much because if I forget something, it kind of fits in with the character. I got all the lines pretty well down. I have probably the third-largest role in it after the two main characters.”

Bowman said it’s a fun role to play because he has to walk and talk like he is 25 years older than he actually is.

“I started acting three years ago and haven’t stopped since,” he said. “I’ve been in 27 shows, both acting and production.

Right now, I’m doing this show and running sound for ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Duck Creek in Elwood, and then will be acting in ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at the Attic Theatre at Ivy Tech (in Noblesville).

“I’ve always wanted to do something at Westfield Playhouse and I’ve worked with Brian a few times.”

Bowman directed his first play in Shakespeare in the Park, and Nichols played a role.

Bowman said this is his first full comedic role.

“I’ve had roles that had comedic lines,” he said.

A theater fan, Bowman said he wanted to give acting a try.

“I’m actually a really shy person. My first few auditions I almost passed out on stage to try to do the cold reads,” Bowman said. “I had to sit down because I was lightheaded.

I’m getting pretty good with accents. I don’t memorize quickly but I memorize pretty well. I have 130 lines in this one.”

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Hamilton County for Phase 39 has been awarded $40,208 and Phase ARPA-R, $121,264 in federal funds through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP). These funds are to supplement emergency food and shelter programs within Hamilton County. The selection was made by the National Board, which is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and consists of representatives from the following: American Red Cross, Catholic Charities USA, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, the Jewish Federation of North America, the Salvation Army, and United Way Worldwide. The Board was charged by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-needs areas around the country. It is a needsbased program and not meant for disaster relief.

The Local Boards in Hamilton County, which is made up of government, non-profit, and faith-based partners, will determine how to allocate and distribute these funds in the area based on community needs.

The Local Board is responsible for recommending agencies to receive these funds and any additional funds made available under this phase (i.e. Phase 38) of the program.

Eligible local agencies must 1.) be private, voluntary non-profit with a voluntary board or an agency of government, 2.) eligible to receive federal funds, 3.) have an accounting system, 4.) practice nondiscrimination, and 5.) have a demonstrated capacity to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs, including feeding, sheltering, providing rent/mortgage and utility assistance. This federal grant program has strict guidelines that require accurate record keeping, documentation, fund tracking, and regular reporting.

Qualifying agencies that have the capacity to effectively adhere to the rigorous federal guidelines and to expend funds in a timely manner are encouraged to apply.

Public or private voluntary agencies interested in applying for Emergency Food and Shelter Program funds must contact Lydia Watson at lydia.watson@uwci.org or (317) 921-1303 for an application. The deadline for applying is March 24, 2022 at 5:00 pm.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS City of Carmel, Indiana Department Board of Public Works and Safety One Civic Square City of Carmel, Indiana 46032 Project: 116th Street, Carmel Drive, Main Street and Smoky Row Road over Keystone Parkway Bridge Rehabilitations 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 Carmel City Hall, Front Desk Attn: City Clerk, One Civic Square, Carmel, Indiana until 9:45 EST and in the Council Chambers at the same address between the hours of 9:45 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. EST on or before April 6, 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 – 116th Street, Carmel Drive, Main Street and Smoky Row Road over Keystone Parkway Bridge Rehabilitations”.

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. A Certificate of Insurance is required for 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 them.

The Project consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: 116th Street, Carmel Drive, Main Street and Smoky Row Road over Keystone Parkway Bridge Rehabilitations 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.

No pre-bid conference will be held.

For special accommodations needed by handicapped individuals planning to attend the 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

NOTICE TO BIDDERS City of Carmel, Indiana Department: Carmel Street Department 3400 W. 131st Street Carmel, IN 46074 Project: 2022 – PAVING Notice is hereby given that the Board of Public Works and Safety for the City of Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana, will receive sealed bids, during regular business hours, up to, but not later than 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 at the office of the Clerk, One Civic Square, 3rd Floor, Carmel, Indiana, 46032.

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

The bid envelope must be sealed and have the following words only written in ink on the outside of the envelope: Bid: 2022 – PAVING Project manuals may be obtained from the Carmel Street Department, 3400 W. 131st Street, Carmel, IN 46074. Bid packets will be available after March 11th.

All bids are to be sealed with the word “BID – 2022 PAVING PROGRAM” on the lower left hand corner of the envelope. Bids will be opened and read aloud at 10:00 a.m. on April 6th at the Board of Public Works and Safety meeting on the 2nd floor of Carmel City Hall, One Civic Square, Carmel, IN. All persons interested in bidding shall register a contact name and address with the Street Department to ensure that all changes or questions and answers are available for review by all interested parties.

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 and proposals for a period of not more than thirty (30) days, such bids and proposals to remain in full force and effect during said time 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 solicitation for bids when, in the City’s sole discretion, it believes that it is in the best interests of the City to do so, as determined by the purchasing agency in accordance with IC 5-22-18-2.

Matt Higginbotham Street Commissioner NOTICE TO BIDDERS City of Carmel, Indiana Department Board of Public Works and Safety One Civic Square City of Carmel, Indiana 46032 Project: Sophia Square - Plaza Waterproofing Repairs 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 May 18, 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 – Sophia Square - Plaza Waterproofing Repairs” 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: Removal and replacement of existing waterproof sheet membrane with hot rubberized asphaltic liquid membrane with associated protection board, and drainage mat with integral filter fabric and accessories. This shall include removal and disposal of existing brick unit pavers and sand/gravel setting bed, concrete topping repairs, removal and replacement of drain bodies, installation of new pavers and sand/gravel setting bed, and removal and reinstallation of the cast stone cladding on the planter and fountain walls.

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 Street Department 3400 W. 131st Street, Carmel, IN 46074 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 April 13, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. 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 Street Department at (317) 733-2001 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 5-22-182 Matt Higginbotham Street Commissioner

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I vowel to define vocalic Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt

Grant House in Galena, Ill. (Photos by Don Knebel)

A visit to Galena, Illinois Commentary by Don Knebel With spring upon us, we will explore places closer to home. Today, we visit Galena, Ill., 344 miles from Indianapolis.

TRAVEL Galena, located along the Galena River in far northwestern Illinois, was named for its deposits of galena, a lead-bearing ore mined by Native Americans for more than 1,000 years. When European settlers discovered these deposits, they rushed to the area. By 1825, the town’s population had reached 10,000, roughly the same as Chicago’s. Mississippi riverboats traveling between St. Louis and St. Paul stopped in Galena for its exuberant nightlife along the river. In 1860, Ulysses S. Grant moved to Galena with his wife, Julia, to work in his father’s leather goods business. After commanding the victorious Union forces during the Civil War, Grant returned to Galena, where grateful Republican residents gave him a two-story brick house. Grant visited Galena often while serving as the 18th president but did not return when his second term ended in 1877.

Today, Galena has a population of about

3,200. The house where Grant and his wife lived is a National Historic Landmark, providing guided tours. The grounds include a statue of Julia Grant, erected in 2006. Galena includes many other well-maintained Victorian homes built by steamboat captains and mining executives. The most visited is the 22-room Belvedere Mansion, built in 1857 by J. Russell Jones, a friend of Abraham Lincoln who championed Grant’s run for the presidency and became ambassador to Belgium. Beautifully maintained Grant Park, located along the Galena River, includes a 9-foot statue of Grant, erected in 1896, and a victory column honoring Civil War veterans from the area. A bridge connects the park to the so-called ““Helluva Half Mile,” Galena’s downtown, itself a National Historic Landmark, featuring a variety of shops and restaurants catering to the more than 1 million people who visit each year.

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.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL PLAN COMMISSION Docket No.: PZ-2022-00025 Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Plan Commission meeting on the 19th day of April, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1 Civic Sq, Carmel, IN 46032 (See Map), will hold a Public Hearing upon a Primary Plat Amendment application to allow: An amendment to the plat in place to remove the landlocked lot, and to create two new lots on the South parcel. For those familiar with the home site, our goal is to maintain the lot with the existing home on 510 1st Avenue, the carriage house lot, and the block north of the tree, merging them all into one large parcel. We are proposing to landscape and develop two lots for new homes on the South block off of the alley on 5th.

With the property being known as: 510 1st Ave NW, Carmel IN 46032 & 500 1st Ave NW The application is identified as Docket No. PZ-2022-00025 The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: 16-09-25-08-05-001.000 (house on 510 1st Ave NW) 16-09-25-08-05-002.000 (carriage house) 16-09-25-08-01-010.000 (wooded area north of the tree house) 16-09-25-08-01-010.000 (south block with same parcel number as the north block) All interested persons desiring to present their views on the above application, either in writing or verbally, will be given an opportunity to be heard at the above-mentioned time and place.

PETITIONERS Tom Lazzara, Custom Living, Inc.

When I began college, I opted for the easiest science course I could find. This was the early 21st GRAMMAR GUY century, and online courses were a bit of a novelty. Enter yours truly, the science goof-off who decided to take “Volcanoes and Earthquakes (Online)” at the University of Oklahoma.

I’ll skip the part about not doing any of the homework (since only the four tests counted toward our grades in the class), and let you know that I needed to get an “A” on the final to get a “C” in the class. I did it. I became a last-second master of all things volcanic.

When I first saw the word “vocalic,” my brain saw the word “volcanic.” Especially now that I’m an expert in mountains blowing their tops, I like to unleash my volcanic wisdom on anyone walking by. In fact, “vocalic” has nothing to do with volcanoes; it is a word that relates to vowels.

I want to stick to traditional vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. After all, in the Wordle era, we all want to master our vowel movements.

A “univocalic” word is a word that contains only one of the vowels. It can have only one vowel, like in the word “ash,” or it can have one vowel used multiple times, like “lava” or “magma.”

My favorite volcanic univocalic word is the Hawaiian word “aa” (or a’a). It precedes “aardvark” in the dictionary, which makes it one of the best words of all time.

According to the U.S. Geological Society, aa is “a Hawaiian term for lava flows that have a rough rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinkers.”

If a word has more than one of the vowels, we call it “plurivocalic.” Examples of plurivocalic words include volcano, erupt, tectonic and pumice.

I hope you have learned something about vowels today. If tomorrow’s Wordle puzzle throws you a plurivocalic word, please try your best not to blow your lid.

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

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If you’re interested in volunteering at Riverview Health in Noblesville or Westfield, please contact the manager of Volunteer Services, Melinda Nash, at 317.776.7236 or mnash@riverview.org. You can also scan the QR code to download an application.

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The International Montessori School (www.intlmontessori.com), located in Carmel, Indiana, has several Teacher Assistant openings available immediately. Working hours will be 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM or 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday.

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