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Scope of updated comp plan questioned

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com At the first of several meetings to take an in-depth look at proposed updates to the city’s comprehensive plan, CITY NEWS Carmel Plan Commission members asked their consultant to more clearly define the scope and intended audience of the document.

Refreshed approximately every decade, the comprehensive plan provides guidelines for development or redevelopment throughout the city. The comprehensive plan was last updated in 2009.

The Nov. 2 meeting was set to discuss the plan’s policy goals and objectives, but as the evening progressed, it became clear commissioners didn’t agree on what they should be.

During the meeting, CPC President Brad Grabow said he generally supports many of the proposed objectives, such as establishing a best-practices training program for city officials and promoting the advance-

ment of technology infrastructure, but that they don’t belong in the comprehensive plan because they go beyond the purview of the commission, which primarily exists to make land-use decisions City Councilor Kevin “Woody” Rider, who also serves on the plan commission, agreed.

“If people are looking for these concepts, they’re not going to go looking in Rider the comprehensive plan,” he said.

Commissioner Joshua Kirsh, who works as an engineering administrator for the City of Carmel, said the comprehensive plan should be a useful tool for Kirsh city employees, developers and others without ties to the commission, so it makes sense to keep the scope broad.

“This is all really good stuff, and to strike it from here because it doesn’t have to do

with land planning, I think, is criminal. I think it’s a waste of time,” Kirsh said.

Mark O’Neall, a senior associate with real estate and consulting firm Greenstreet, described the plan’s policy goals and objectives as “visionary and conceptual and high level” and designed to be easy to use beyond the plan commission and city staff.

“Most comprehensive plans, including (Carmel’s existing) plan, are quite long and unwieldy and, therefore, not transparent,” O’Neall said. “Our intent with a website you can open on your phone and with three taps of your thumb get to the depths of any section is that it’s easily accessible and usable by more than just you all.”

Additional meetings to review the comprehensive plan draft are set for 6 p.m. Nov. 29 and 30 at Carmel City Hall, 1 Civic Square.

The Carmel City Council will have the final vote on the plan after the commission makes a recommendation.

View the plan and share feedback at CarmelComprehensivePlan.com.

Councilors: drop plans for gas station

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Several Carmel City Councilors made it clear at their Nov. 1 meeting that they do not want a gas station in CITY NEWS the Village of WestClay.

The council unanimously approved a resolution directing the Carmel Plan Commission to amend the ordinance regulating development of the neighborhood to remove the sale of gasoline as a permitted use.

The vote came less than two months after the council approved an ordinance banning new gas stations within 500 feet of residential uses because of potential negative health impacts of benzene and other chemicals. The Village of WestClay is exempt because it is a planned unit development, meaning it has its own set of development rules as approved by the city council in 1999.

Just weeks after the city’s gas station ban went into effect, a gas station was proposed in the Village of WestClay at Harleston and Towne roads, within 500 feet of homes and a senior living community. The proposed gas station can continue through the planning process until the WestClay PUD

An eight-bay gas station has been proposed in the Village of WestClay at Harleston and Towne roads. (Rendering from documents filed with the City of Carmel

ordinance is amended. Many nearby residents are opposed to the gas station.

Before the Nov. 1 vote, some councilors said they’d like to see plans for the proposed gas station in the Village of WestClay dropped.

“At some point the petitioner needs to understand that a gas station is not wanted there and is not in the community’s best interest,” Councilor Jeff Worrell said. “We need to keep fighting, because this is a situation whose time has passed by. They didn’t get it built within the amount of time it should’ve been built. It’s not needed, it’s not wanted, and it shouldn’t be there.”

Council President Sue Finkam agreed.

“I hope the petitioner takes a long, hard look at this and asks himself if he wants to be in a neighborhood where absolutely nobody wants him,” she said.

After the vote, Councilor Kevin “Woody” Rider had some advice for those opposed to the gas station if it gets built.

“Don’t shop there,” he said. “If you don’t shop there, it goes away.”

The plan commission is expected to hold a public hearing on the proposed amendment at its Nov. 16 meeting. If approved, it would likely be on the city council’s Dec. 6 agenda.

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CFD places bleeding control kits in every classroom in Carmel

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Carmel firefighters respond to calls for help as fast as they can, but every minute can make a big difference CITY NEWS in the outcome of an emergency.

That’s why the Carmel Fire Dept. has proactively placed bleeding control kits in more than 2,000 locations throughout the city, including every public and private school classroom, school buses, City of Carmel buildings and vehicles, churches and other facilities.

“This is the most comprehensive program that we are aware of in the U.S., (and we are) super proud of it,” CFD Chief David Haboush said at the Nov. 1 Carmel City Council Haboush meeting, where he and other firefighters officially announced the program.

Each kit contains a tourniquet and other supplies needed to stop bleeding after a severe injury. This is crucial because an injury victim can bleed to death in less than five minutes, quicker than CFD’s average response target time.

“We turn a bystander into a first responder, that’s what we do with this program,” Haboush said.

CFD put together its own kits for $26 each, leading to a savings of 50 percent or more compared to similar kits supplied through other programs, according to CFD EMS Division Chief Jon Alverson. CFD is providing the kits at no cost to nonprofits.

Each kit has a QR code that leads to a

CFD has placed bleeding control kits in more than 2,000 locations throughout Carmel. (Photo courtesy of CFD)

30-second training video on how to use the contents. It also includes a simple set of printed instructions for those without a smartphone readily available.

David Woodward, director of student services at Carmel Clay Schools, said he is thankful to CFD for providing the lifesaving tool throughout the district.

“Bleeding control kits are often mischaracterized as only necessary after an act of great violence, but they can be valuable after any incident where bleeding is an issue,” Woodward said.

Tim Griffin, CFD firefighter and public information officer, said he hopes other fire departments will follow Carmel’s lead in supplying bleeding control kits throughout their communities.

“Our hope is this program will spread across central Indiana and through the state and through the country and it will become the standard,” he said.

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YOU HAD ME AT ALOHA! From left, City Councilor Jeff Worrell; Carmel Redevelopment Commission Director Henry Mestetsky; Great Lakes Capital Managing Director and Principal Clay Scheetz; Founding Principal of Tegethoff Development, Jeff Tegethoff; Mayor Jim Brainard; Managing Principal of Tegethoff Development Matt Cremer; Centier Bank Community Bank President Stave Watts; Carmel Redevelopment Commissioner Dave Bowers; and Carmel Redevelopment Commissioner Bill Hammer participate in the Nov. 1 groundbreaking for The Signature. The $66 million project will bring a mix of apartments, condos, a parking garage and ground floor retail space to the northeast corner of Old Meridian and Main streets. Learn more at The SignatureAtCarmel.com. (Photo courtesy of the City of Carmel)

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VFW post commander earns All-American honor

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Joel Watson takes his volunteer position as Carmel VFW Post 10003 commander very seriously.

MILITARY “This is my passion,” Watson said. “I care about this and the cause we are here for. I try to get people to remember what we’re here for and not the bar or drinking. We’re here for families and veterans in need.”

Watson recently received the All-American Post Commander Award for 2021. Former post commander Richard Leirer won in 2020. The only other time a Carmel Post 10003 commander earned the All-American honor was in 2017.

Watson, a Westfield resident who served in the U.S. Navy, is in his second year as post commander. His term ends in July 2022. He previously was senior vice commander.

“Every year you are up for (the All-American Post Commander Award), but you have to meet all the criteria to get to that point,” Watson said.

Watson said only seven of Indiana’s 130 posts received an All-American honor this year.

Growing membership is essential, regardless of the award.

“The Veterans of Foreign Wars have to continue to grow to be successful in the causes we are fighting for,” Watson said.

“You have to be 16 percent above the membership you were the year before to get All-American.”

Watson said Ken Lange, senior vice commander and a Fishers resident, has been instrumental in growing the membership.

Lange, a retired U.S. Marine Corps sergeant major, is the post’s membership chairman.

“He’s my right-hand man, and he beats the pavement to get the membership,” Watson said.

Watson said quartermaster Tim McNally of Carmel and adjutant Steve Wyatt of Fishers are responsible for getting the data entered so the national VFW headquarters can see if the post meets the award criteria.

Another criteria to earn the All-American Post Commander Award is participation in the Voice of Democracy audio-essay program and the Patriot’s Pen essay program.

Watson said there were 76 entries in the Voice of Democracy program and 60 entries

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Carmel VFW Post 10003 Cmdr. Joel Watson pauses at the post. (Photo by Ann Marie Shambaugh)

for Patriot’s Pen. Community service is a huge part of the criteria, too. Watson keeps track of community service hours each month.

“This post is very active,” Watson said.

“I’m blessed with a great auxiliary, a great volunteer base. We do breakfasts every other Saturday. We help veterans in need.”

Watson said bartenders can give gas cards to veterans in need.

In 2020, Watson said the post conducted a drive-thru Thanksgiving dinner.

“A big group of members came in and made up Thanksgiving dinners for people to pick up curbside,” he said.

There also is an active honor guard, which participates in funerals for fallen veterans, whether or not they fought in foreign wars or saw combat.

Watson said his post on average has 36 to 40 people volunteer 290 to 350 hours a month.

Watson served in the Mediterranean while in the Navy during tense times with Libya under dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the late 1980s. Watson, a 1985 Westfield High School graduate, left the Navy after four years, retiring as a third-class petty officer. He was an aviation mechanic.

Watson was previously a member of the Westfield VFW post, which Watson called a “paper post,” meaning it didn’t have a building or many members. The Westfield post merged with Carmel in 2017.

“Here we have an opportunity to build so much better programs and do good for the community,” said Watson, who owns Esler’s Auto Repair Shop in Westfield. “I’m in awe all the time when we have a breakfast and we have so many volunteers show up.”

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Cridge’s balanced approach leads to state cross country title

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Bishop Chatard High School junior Lily Cridge made sure to pace herself this cross country season.

That made all the difference. Cridge captured the individual state title in 17:32.7 in the 5,000-meter race in muddy conditions Oct. 30 at the IHSAA girls cross country state meet at Terre Haute.

Cridge won in dominating fashion, finishing 30.9 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.

The state title was Cridge’s second. She set a state record in winning the 3,200 meters in 10:03.16 at the girls track and field state meet in Bloomington in June.

“It was a huge blessing to get another state title,” said Cridge, a Geist resident.

“I’ve just worked so hard from not being able to race (at last year’s state meet) and not getting to run much of a season last year.”

Cridge, who placed eighth as a freshman in the state cross country meet, didn’t run in the postseason last year because of injuries.

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Bishop Chatard junior Lily Cridge, a Geist resident, won the girls cross country state title Oct. 30. (Photo courtesy of Mary Bea Sowinski)

was making sure my life was balanced with everything, nutritionally, mentally, physically, happiness,” Cridge said. “That played a huge role. Being able to train with the boys team really helped push me. I trusted my coach and we took it slow, and that worked in my favor as I peaked at the right time when I needed to.”

Bishop Chatard coach Dan Kinghorn said Cridge is a special runner.

“She has an incredible inner drive to be the best and she is not just willing to work hard towards her goals, but she thoroughly enjoys the hard work, and the harder, the better,” Kinghorn said. “It is very satisfying to see all of her hard work paying off for her as it has this season.”

Cridge won sectional, regional and semistate titles.

“I think the farther, the better for me,” Cridge said. “I’m really an endurance/ strength athlete. A lot of time, distance running is 90 percent mental. I think with that it can get me further. I have the speed in distance rather than in sprints.”

Cridge started running in second grade in the Saint Simon the Apostle school program, “I plan on running in college,” Cridge said. “I don’t know where yet. I think just focusing on what is ahead will be key in that factor. I will love to run professionally one day.”

Cridge said she is considering marathons in the future.

Cridge will compete in the Nov. 14 Nike Midwest Cross Regional in Terre Haute.

“After that, I’ll take some time off and prepare for track season,” she said.

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years flying with the Air Force’s Thunderbirds demonstration team for the 1996-97 shows.

Although it will be in a different format, “I left the team in February 1998 after retired U.S. Air Force Major Matt Modleski training my replacement,” Modleski said. will be making a Modleski served seven years as MILITARY return appearance an enlisted member prior to attendas keynote speaker ing Officer Training School in 1987. for the City of Carmel Veterans Day Modleski also has previously ceremony. appeared at Carmel High School’s Modleski, who appeared in a Veterans Day ceremony. virtual ceremony amid the COVID-19 Modleski is married to Dianne, pandemic last year, will give a new his wife of 34 years. The couple has Modleski speech during the ceremony set for two sons, Keaton, a junior at Purnoon Nov. 10 at The Tarkington at the Center due University, and Jacob, a junior at Guerin for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

Catholic High School.

“The theme of the day is ‘Freedom isn’t The ceremony will open with patriotic Free,’ so I will echo that theme as well as music by the Mohawk Trails Elementary share some lessons learned from my time School choir and a performance by Actors as a veteran and Thunderbird (pilot) and Theatre of Indiana. Carmel Mayor Jim Brainthank those in the audience who have also ard and Carmel Clay Schools Supt. Michael served,” said Modleski, who has lived in Beresford will give remarks.

Noblesville for seven years after living the “Freedom is Never Free” student poster previous 10 years in Carmel. and essay contest winners also will be Modleski, an executive vice president for recognized. corporate and business development for The ceremony is available on Carmel TV Orchard Software, retired Sept. 1, 2000, from on carmel.in.gov, facebook.com/cityofcarmel the Air Force after 20 years. He spent two and youyube.com/cityofcarmel.

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been working tirelessly to get these turned around in a timely fashion.”

Williams said the changes forced the The Hamilton County Election Office is Hamilton County Election Office to reevaluimplementing precinct changes because ate nearly all precincts. of congressional re“Nearly every precinct in HamilCOUNTY districting. The office ton County will change as a result filed its suggested — whether that’s in size, location, changes with the state of Indiana annexation or name,” Williams statafter the Hamilton County Commised. “Voters will get a notification of sioners approved the changes at their precinct changes some time in their Oct. 25 meeting.

December.”

Indiana is required by state and By law, each precinct must have Williams federal law to redraw the state’s at least 600 eligible voters and no legislative and congressional maps followmore than 2,000. A precinct may not cross ing the nationwide census every 10 years. a congressional or state legislative district The Indiana General Assembly approved the line. new congressional and state legislative State Senate and Indiana House of Repdistrict lines Oct. 1, and Gov. Eric Holcomb resentatives district lines were required to signed them into law three days later. be in place for candidates to meet residency “We typically do all of this in June or requirements by Nov. 8. Candidates must be July,” Hamilton County Clerk Kathy Williams residents of the district for one year before stated. “But with the delay in the census, the November 2022 general election. approval of new house, senate and congresThe county did not have the new map sional districts was delayed. Our office has online as of press time.

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It was the third time the Big East meet has been held at Northview. The Butler men’s team captured the title and the Bulldogs’ women’s team was second.

“We train consistently on the Northview course throughout the fall and race on it as well,” Butler men’s and women’s cross country coach Matt Roe said. “We consider it our home course, so we have a great deal of pride in how we compete when we are up in Carmel.”

Butler served as host of the Big East meet and IUPUI hosted the Horizon League meet.

IUPUI coach Chuck Koeppen’s men’s team won the Horizon League team championship Oct. 30. The women, coached by Antonio

The Butler men’s team captures the Big East title Oct. 29 at Northview Church’s cross country course (Photo courtesy of John Fetcho/Butler athletics)

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Bazaar to benefit Kenyan women

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Linn Asbury was touched by her visits to Kenya for business for travel organizations — so much so that the FUNDRAISER Carmel resident created Jubilee Spree, a nonprofit, to help Kenyan women sell their products in the U.S. to support their families.

Christmas for a Cause will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 13 at Carmel Christian Church.

The bazaar, which features handmade items

by Kenyan women and children, raises funds for Jubilee Spree. Some products are made by volunteers in the U.S. The nonprofit’s mission is to empower women to change the world one village at a time by selling handmade products made by the women of Kager, Kenya. All proceeds benefit the women and children of Kenya.

“We taught them how to market the products and we would bring them back here and sell them here,” Asbury said. “We do this so the women will have an income. We don’t believe in just giving money. We show them how to make their own money.”

Asbury, a 73-year-old widow, created Ju-

Kenyan women work on making products to sell. (Photo courtesy of Jubilee Spree)

bilee Spree eight years ago.

“I trained about 700 people over the course of that time,” she said. “I helped them identify what they can make. We taught them how to make beautiful handbags out of sisal. It sells like crazy here because it’s high quality and low cost.”

Asbury, a member of Venture Christian Church, wants to return to Kenya in March 2022. She booked trips several times but had to cancel them because of the pandemic.

“It’s hard to do a ministry 8,000 miles away,” she said.

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Golfer, 10, to compete at Augusta

By Les Morris news@currentincarmel.com If you receive an invitation to play golf at the Augusta National Golf Club in early April, you are, simply put, an ACHIEVEMENT elite golfer. Ten-yearold Carmel resident Maya Fujisawa Keuling already has her invite in hand for next spring.

Augusta is the site of the Masters Tournament, the preeminent golf championship of the year. Maya, a fifth-grader at Cherry Tree Elementary, will be in Georgia on April 3, 2022, competing in the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals.

Keuling qualified with an impressive performance last month in the regional qualifier at Oakland Hills Country Club in suburban Detroit. She took three shots in each of the three disciplines (driving, chipping and putting), and earned 135 out of a possible 225 points, with 75 points awarded for each skill. Accuracy and distance are rewarded in the driving skill while proximity is the key for chipping and putting.

“I’ve been teaching golf for 35 years, and I’ve never seen anyone with such natural ability as Maya at such a young age,” said Tony Pancake, director of golf and club operations at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel.

Pancake works with Keuling a couple times a month during the golf season.

“The thing that stands out to me is how powerful she is,” Pancake said. “She hits the ball a long way. Her hand/eye coordination is great, so not only does she hit it far, but she’s consistent in her ball striking.”

That consistency paid off at Oakland Hills, where Keuling’s three drives went 210-220 yards in a stiff wind and landed in the fairway. A shot landing out-of-bounds earns zero points.

Of all the skills, Keuling likes putting best.

Maya Keuling competes in a drive, chip and putt regional qualifier in October at Oakland Hills Country Club in suburban Detroit. (Photo courtesy of Eric Keuling)

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CHS girls finish second in state cross country meet — Carmel High School finished second in the girls cross country state meet with 92 points Oct. 30 at Terre Haute. Columbus North won with 79. Senior Alivia Romaniuk was the Greyhounds’ top finisher in 10th place. Carmel junior Kole Mathison finished fourth in the individual boys race to help the Greyhounds boys team finish fifth in state.

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‘UNIFY’ CARMEL? CCS responds to group’s divisive claims

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com When Alvin Lui moved his family from California to Indiana in 2020, one of the main reasons was so his young daughter could attend Carmel Clay Schools, which appeared to be “one of the best school districts in the country,” Lui said.

But instead of enrolling his daughter in kindergarten this fall, Lui found himself as the president of the board of directors of Unify Carmel, a nonprofit formed in the spring with stated goals of promoting an Lui increased focus on academics and parental involvement at CCS, in part by ending the district’s diversity and inclusion efforts.

The group, like so many others that have formed across the nation in the last 18 months, has made headlines by its tactics at recent school board meetings. Its members used the public comment section of the July meeting to read sexually graphic content found in books available to CCS students in school libraries. That demonstration largely contributed to CCS eliminating public comment at meetings, according to an Aug. 18 email sent to parents. Unify Carmel supporters protested that move and other concerns at the September meeting by presenting a loud, scripted conversation as the school board attempted to conduct business.

That led to CCS suspending public attendance at meetings.

Lui said he’s fully aware that not everyone will agree with Unify Carmel’s “theatrics,” and that they may alienate some who agree with the group’s message. But if that’s what it takes to shock people into paying attention, he said he believes it’s worth the cost.

“We recognize that you can only ask so much of the public before the public gets sick of you. To be honest, I’m kind of sick of us, because it’s not natural to be in people’s faces like this so much,” he said. “Once we get past letting people know there’s something wrong with the school board, I’d like to see us get into more public service where we try to educate more than we’re trying to enrage. When you’re starting and you really need people, you have to do that.”

Those efforts have made an already difficult year even

worse for school board members.

CCS school board President Layla Spanenberg stated in an email to Current that it’s “sad any group would turn to theatrics to prove a point” and that school board members and district officials are willing to meet with parents to discuss concerns. She stated the pandemic and divisive environment have led to challenges like she’s never seen before during her 11 years on the board.

Spanenberg “While we try to have a healthy relationship with our parents and community, we do see the comments that are allowed on certain social media forums that promote showing up to our houses or protesting on our lawns. We have had our home addresses posted on social media,” Spanenberg stated. “During school board meetings parents have called us names, yelled (at) and harassed board members going to their cars after meetings. This kind of environment is not appropriate and sets a terrible example for our students.”

Spanenberg declined to be interviewed by phone. No other school board member responded to Current’s requests for interviews. A spokesman for the Carmel Police Dept. said he was not aware of any threats against school officials or related harassment incidents being reported to law enforcement.

Lui said Unify Carmel has never shared the home addresses of school board members and does not condone personal attacks. “(CCS officials) do so many things wrong within the bounds of their work, there is no shortage of angles of attack there,” Lui said. “If anybody is supporting us and they insist on doing that, then guess what, we don’t want your support.”

Unify Carmel is aiming to make an impact on the district through the 2022 election, when three of five school board seats will be on the ballot. Unify Carmel plans to endorse a slate of candidates to fill them, Lui said.

Paige Miller, a CCS elementary teacher for 33 years who retired in 2020, originally attempted to change the direction of the schools by running for school board in 2020. She lost in a nine-way race for two Miller seats, but through the election she met Lui, one of two community members she said reached out

to her to learn about her platform during her campaign. She and Lui helped to found Unify Carmel this spring along with other community members who shared their concerns.

“It’s for the kids I left behind, because I want them to have the education that I gave my students for 33 years,” Miller said. “I want to do for them what I think is best for them. Kicking parents to the curb and treating kids like they’re the victim or the victimizer is what it’s come down to.”

Lui declined to provide to Current the names of other co-founders or Unify Carmel board members.

Lui acknowledged that the nonprofit is having the opposite effect of its name in many ways, but he hopes its work will bring the community together in the long run.

“We believe we can unify Carmel, because a good education unifies everybody, whether you’re rich or poor, Black or white or Asian or Indian or whatever,” Lui said. “But in order for us to get to that point which will unify Carmel, there’s got to be this really messy phase.”

Lui said his first several months in Indiana were great, but in the summer of 2020, he began to see signs of liberal influence in schools that he had tried to leave behind in California. It started with the launch of Carmel Against Racial Injustice, now known as Communities Allied for Racial Equity, founded by three young former Hamilton County classmates after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis to raise awareness and dismantle systemic racism in Hamilton County schools, police departments and communities.

The speed with which the group organized and set meetings with top local officials convinced Lui that “operatives” had been working behind the scenes for a few years to bring left-wing ideology to Carmel, and he believed it would next show up in the schools. He said the operatives aren’t from a single group but come from left-leaning organizations such as the National Education Association, which he described as openly pushing critical race theory, a once little-known academic concept that has become a fixture in the U.S. debate over how to teach children about the country’s history and race relations. CRT promotes the idea that racism, intentional or not, is inherent in U.S. legal and social systems.

The NEA did not respond to a request for comment.

Ashten Spilker, a co-founder of CARE, said the group does not have ties to any organizations outside of Hamilton County and its leaders were able to quickly get meetings with local officials simply by asking. She said the group has formed good relationships with entities they’ve been seeking to reform.

Spilker “Sometimes what we’d like to see is not always the exact result we get, so we work with the organization. We compromise. We work to understand their point of view and be respectful,” Spilker said. “One of the big ways we’ve done that is with the police department. We have a very good working relationship with them.”

Meanwhile, when CCS announced it would hire its first diversity, equity and inclusion officer in late 2020, Lui felt he was proven right about the direction of the district. He describes DEI as “a Trojan horse for a lot of political indoctrination” and that in the schools it leads to producing students who “only know how to vote one way.”

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Continued from Page 16 “My issue is (with) trying to indoctrinate a captive audience when they’re little, when they can’t fight your ideas,” Lui said. “If it was Republican conservative ideals, I would be equally enraged by it. If your ideas are good, wait until they’re an adult to win them over. Anyone can sell a child bad ideas, and unfortunately, most, if not all, of these ideas being indoctrinated are coming from the leftist ideology. You don’t see anybody pushing Jesus Christ or pro-life propaganda in schools.”

CCS TEST SCORES REMAIN NEAR TOP According to Unify Carmel, the evidence of CCS’ lack of focus on academics can be seen in decreasing test scores, as the district’s standardized test results have steadily fallen from 80.7 percent of students passing all portions in 2017 (29.2 higher than the stage average) to 56.2 (27.6 higher than the state average) percent in 2021.

When compared to the statewide averages, however, Carmel has continued to perform at or near the top of the pack. Statewide, 51.5 percent of students passed the test in 2017, but those totals steadily have fallen to 28.6 percent in 2021.

The sharpest drop occurred between 2018 and 2019, when the state began using the ILEARN test instead of ISTEP. ILEARN is defined by the Indiana Dept. of Education as a “summative accountability assessment for Indiana students in grades 3 through 8 and high school biology.” ILEARN measures student achievement and growth according to Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts (grades 3 through 8), mathematics (grades 3 through 8), science (grades 4 and 6) and social studies (grade 5). ISTEP was an annual No Child Left Behind test designed by the state to measure students’ mastery of basic skills, particularly reading, writing and mathematics.

The ILEARN test was not given in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and CCS officials and many others believe the lower 2021 scores can be attributed to learning disruptions caused by the pandemic.

Carmel’s achievement gap compared to the state average has remained steady as test scores have declined, with 27 to 30 percent more Carmel students passing the standardized tests each year compared to the statewide average since 2017.

“When you compare us to districts our size, we’re No. 1 across the board.

When you compare us to other districts, we’re No. 1, 2 or 3 in the different grade levels in English and math,” said Amy Dudley, CCS assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction. “Our test scores are at the same level. They’re not going down at all. You can’t compare ISTEP and ILEARN.” Unlike ISTEP, ILEARN is a computer adaptive test that presents questions with varying difficulty levels based on how the student answered the preDudley vious question. It assesses Indiana academic standards, such as content literacy, that were not part of ISTEP. Lui acknowledges that falling test scores are a problem statewide, but he blames the decrease on the introduction of social emotional learning as a state standard. He said Carmel students have been able to perform better than the statewide average because of the affluence of the community, as many parents can hire tutors and employ other resources not as readily available elsewhere.

Beresford “To say that we’re bad but not the worst, that doesn’t fly with us,” Lui said. “That’s only a testament to the resources that parents have personally here in Carmel.”

Despite Carmel students consistently performing better on standardized testing than the rest of the state, Supt. Michael Beresford said the success of a district shouldn’t rest only on those numbers. He pointed to rising SAT scores, an increasing graduation rate and the high number of National Merit Semifinalists in the district as evidence that CCS is committed to rigorous academics.

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SEL’S EFFECTS ON ACHIEVEMENT One of Unify Carmel’s main objectives is to rid CCS of the diversity, equity and inclusion officer position, a role added in late 2020 and funded through the school safety referendum.

Lui said hiring a DEI officer — or DIE, as Unify Carmel calls it — is a sign that CCS is becoming more left-wing, a pattern he said he witnessed several times during his years in California. He said it led to schools “creating social justice warriors” who are burdened by fear and anxiety because of a constant focus on perceived oppressors and victims.

He said he believes his concern has been validated in several ways, such as DEI Officer Terri Roberts-Leonard promoting the books, “Something Happened in Our Town” and organizing an employee study of “Me and White Supremacy.”

“Her position isn’t there to solve problems but to look for them,” Lui said.

The district’s diversity efforts also are a sign that CRT has taken hold, Lui said.

The theory generally is taught only at the university level, but Lui believes it’s pervasive in how CCS and other districts throughout the nation operate.

“We understand that critical race theory is not a curriculum (at CCS). It is an ideology that comes through social emotional learning, and it’s invasive to every subject and in the way the teachers talk about race and the seminars they take,” Lui said.

Beresford said the district does not have a policy or specific guidelines it presents to teachers on how to handle discussions about race.

“Critical race theory is not being – Amy Dudley, taught as a subject matter. It’s CCS assistant superintendent not an Indiana state standard,” of curriculum and instruction Beresford said. “I don’t know what the ideology of critical race theory means. If we’re not teaching something, logic would tell you the ideology of it isn’t being taught, either.”

Beresford said social emotional learning has been present in CCS classrooms for years and is more crucial now than ever. In the last 15 to 20 years, he said he’s seen an uptick in the number of children who are unable to regulate their emotions, and social emotional learning teaches them the skills to do that, so they and their classmates can focus better on learning.

Dudley said studies have shown that a focus on social emotional learning can increase student achievement. She pointed to research by University of Melbourne (Australia) Professor John Hattie that shows having emotional intelligence and self-control are among factors that lead to above-average, year-toyear learning growth.

“If you’re stressed, your brain is not in the right mind for learning,” Dudley said.

One way Unify Carmel believes CRT and social emotional learning have crept into CCS is through a survey service, Panorama, that can be used to gather information from students. Miller said the survey is concerning because it takes time away from learning and its questions focus on social and emotional aspects rather than academics.

According to Panorama, the data can be used to show which students may need more attention in certain areas of social emotional learning, but Emily Bauer, CCS director of community relations, said district employees can’t view individual responses from students. Rather, school officials use the surveys to track trends among cohorts CCS officials can customize a list of available questions or create their own for each survey before administering it. Parents can see the questions ahead of time and can opt out. They can’t view their children’s individual responses. CCS students in third through 12th grades took the survey in September.

“It used to be that adults would decide what we think kids need,” Beresford said. “Sometimes we were right, and sometimes we missed it, but with these kinds of surveys you can actually get information from the students.”

“If you’re stressed, your brain is not in the right mind for learning.”

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EXPLICIT BOOK REVEALED, REVIEWED At the July 26 school board meeting, several people associated with Unify Carmel spoke during the public comment portion to read content from books in CCS schools’ media centers they found inappropriate, such as one graphically describing a sexual assault and another featuring a boy in kindergarten who likes to wear dresses.

After the meeting, Beresford said CCS would review the six books mentioned. CCS formed a committee of district officials, parents and others to complete the review, and Beresford said he recently received the committee’s report.

“One of the (positive) things we learned from that whole scenario was the idea that parents should know how to see what books their kids check out. They need to know what those books are about,” Beresford said.

CCS declined to provide the committee’s report to Current. Bauer said the district soon plans to release information from the report as well as provide detailed instructions about how parents can monitor and find more information about which books their children have checked out from school libraries. The technology is already available to parents, but most don’t know how to use it, she said.

A search of the school’s online catalogue shows that some of the books, such as “The Infinite Moment of Us,” still appear to be available to students, while others, such as “l8r, g8r,” do not.

Many members of Unify Carmel argue that some of those books shouldn’t be accessible to students, as they cover topics that they believe are better addressed with parents at home.

Beresford said that in a public school system, there’s a “big continuum of thoughts on books,” so parents should have the tools they need to review their content. But he said it’s also important that CCS have books that represent students in various types of family situations.

CCS has different processes to select books that will be part of instructional materials — meaning all students in a class will use them — and those available in media centers.

For instructional materials, a committee of teachers, administrators, parents and, sometimes, students will make recommendations to the school board, which decides whether to adopt them. The committee looks at program evaluations, state standards, curriculum and other factors in making its recommendations.

Books in the media centers are curated by media specialists at each school who consult with campus teachers and administrators and look at reviews of the material to build a collection that provides a variety of educational resources and books students want to read, Dudley said.

Bauer said most books in classrooms are related to the curriculum but that teachers can supplement reading options by selecting additional titles.

Beresford said selecting or eliminating books for schools isn’t as simple as examining one segment, which can sometimes be taken out of context.

“There’s a lot of texts that are hallmarks of education that wouldn’t make it because of different pieces or passages that are in a book,” Beresford said.

Dudley said there’s a difference between having books with gay or transgender characters and books that teach children about those topics.

“There might be a book about a student who has two moms. That’s reflective of some of our family structures,” she said. “You want to reflect that, but you’re not turning around in first grade and teaching, ‘They have two mommies and that means they’re lesbians.’ We’re not teaching that.”

VIRTUAL MEETINGS NOT LONG TERM The move by CCS administrators to ban the public from meetings and instead welcome viewing of meetings online did not surprise Miller, who said she believes district officials don’t care about transparency or concerns of parents.

“None of our issues, when we were emailing (CCS), were being addressed,” Miller said. “The only reason we did the (July 26) reading is because they wouldn’t respond to us. This isn’t what we want to do, but they won’t talk to us. It’s not like all of a sudden we decided to be complete jerks.

That’s not who I am.”

Lui said he met with Beresford in November 2020 to discourage him from creating a diversity officer position for the district but that he came away from the meeting feeling his concerns weren’t taken seriously. He said many other Unify Carmel members have had similar experiences.

Beresford said in September that most people associated with Unify Carmel have not attempted to meet with him or other school officials to discuss their concerns but that his door is always open to meet with parents. Lui refuted that, providing Current an email sent Aug. 6 to Beresford requesting a meeting to discuss “immediate demands” that included the resignation or termination of Dudley, transitioning social emotional learning surveys from an opt-out to an opt-in system, reimplementing formal parent/teacher meetings in the fall and spring and a districtwide independent book audit.

Beresford said parents have many avenues to give feedback, including by calling, emailing or meeting with teachers, principals, school board members and administrators. The district also has surveyed parents at various times to gather input.

Spanenberg, the school board president, agreed.

“I do not think that we are any less communicative. I have answered hundreds of emails,” she stated. “At our last meeting with the public present, we had four opportunities for public feedback, so the notion that we are not accessible is not accurate.”

The opportunities for feedback were during public hearings for teacher contracts and budgets, which are mandated by law.

Time for public comment at school board meetings, which is not required by law, is only one communication method among many, Beresford said, and is often less productive because it’s a time-limited, one-way conversation.

Because the purpose of a school board meeting is to conduct business, not gather public feedback, Beresford said he believed he didn’t have much of a choice but to suspend public comment and in-person meetings when those in attendance became too much of a distraction.

“No one would tolerate that environment in any business, anywhere, so it’s just sad,” – CCS Supt. Michael Beresford Beresford said. “I don’t think people that are in the room are bad people, but their behavior isn’t good.”

Indiana Public Access Counselor Luke Britt, whose role includes preserving access rights of the public, said CCS is only able to ban the public from school board meetings because Indiana is still under a state of emergency. Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an executive order in 2020 that allows government meetings to be conducted virtually during the public health emergency, recently renewed for the 20th time and set to expire Dec. 1.

“It doesn’t say you have to use the emergency itself as a pretext, only that you can do it, so eventually this strategy is going to fall flat. Once the emergency expires, they can’t do it anymore,” Britt said. “Technically it’s legal, but I don’t know that it’s completely advisable, except in certain limited circumstances.”

Britt said he told Beresford it made sense for CCS to “take a little breather” and hold virtual meetings, but he also said it’s not a long-term solution.

“In the end, they’re going to have to take control of their meeting room. They have to be appropriately forceful in doing it, because if people are standing up, interrupting, shouting them down and disrupting the meeting, that’s compromising the rights of other attendees to observe that meeting,” Britt said. “While there is a time and place and manner for those people to protest, it is not while a board is trying to do public business.”

“No one would tolerate that environment in any business, anywhere, so it’s just sad. I don’t think people that are in the room are bad people, but their behavior isn’t good.”

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Among the many new words that are added to our burgeoning lexicon each year, a recent one, humblebrag, is especially salient in a time when “influencers” on social media paint an unrealistic and overly curated self-portrait of their lives.

Where each photo or comment is intended to elicit some manipulated response, it only stands to reason that we adaptable humans would adjust our language to reflect the phenomena, in this case of purporting humility while hoping to draw attention to something of which we are not-so-secretly very proud.

Humblebragging is likely intentional but not necessarily so. Are we only stating what we think to be fact while tone deaf to how others might hear us?

Or are we repeating that which we’ve heard without much consideration as to what it might mean?

Around the table at a fashionable brunch, the conversation of those gathered turned to the state of their now adult children. “Well,” one hoping-soonto-retire patriarch asserted, “our kids will never have to worry about money.”

It seemed that the estate they’d created might be expected to ensure some ongoing income to the offspring. He was probably bragging, just a little, about the capacity he asserted in “loving” his children more from the grave than some others might. Or it could be that he was disposing of wealth like some might their old clothing through donation.

Still, one wonders how to predict the future. Can the benefactor know the coming spend rate, need, or circumstance of investment? What is it to never worry? And is the absence of any such concern necessarily a good thing?

Is a safety net better than a hammock if we didn’t earn the lifestyle someone else is giving us? Can our progenitors’ generosity be a curse?

OK, fine. I’ll admit it. Sometimes, I am a terrible wife.

Take last week, for example. My husband Doo came down with either a nasty cold or, more likely, an early bird flu. Fever, aches, cough, fatigue, the whole nine non-COVID-19-which-wasconfirmed-by-two-separate-tests yards.

As I’m typing, I can hear him still hacking up lung parts, a full 10 days after he first succumbed. And I am purposely using the word “succumbed” for all its dramatic implications, because whether Doo was actually behaving like he was on his death bed or not, that’s how I perceived it.

Which brings me back to my point of being an awful spouse. Other than making a one-time separate Meijer run for NyQuil, Canada Dry and generic chicken noodle soup, I carried on per usual. I went to work. I drove to Louisville for an overnight and I generally ignored his sniffles and sneezes and superfluous sighs of sickness. By Day 4 of his convalescence, I was blatantly rolling my eyes and contorting my face in disgust whenever he’d clear his chest or hawk a loogie. Nights were the bane of my existence, and I found myself plotting his demise as he hacked and wheezed and kept me from my most sacred ritual of sleep. How dare he!

Seriously, I showed so little compassion and empathy that I surprised myself. Not that it stopped me from putting in earbuds to mute his moans or anything. Poor guy. He felt miserable, and instead of me offering some much-needed “there, there’s,” I basically bullied him.

So, yeah, I’m a terrible wife. At least I can admit it.

Peace out.

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

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Unify Carmel pushes national political agenda, not truth Editor, In a recent paid advertisement, Unify Carmel claimed that the latest ISTEP/ILEARN test results show a dramatic decline in the academic performance of CCS schools. Unify Carmel blames a greater focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in education for this decline. These claims are simply untrue.

For one thing, it is difficult to compare the two sets of tests. Indiana shifted from ISTEP to the more rigorous ILEARN in 2019.

It is reasonable to expect a decline in results when introduced to a more difficult testing regime. A better metric would be to compare CCS with local and Indiana schools.

CCS retained a clear lead over many other districts in the state. Indeed, CCS continues to be one of the leading school districts in the country.

Unify Carmel omits another important factor when lamenting the state of local schools: the pandemic. The 2019-2021 testing period coincides almost entirely with the

spread of COVID-19 across the globe. Imagining that the uncertainty and worry generated by the pandemic would have no effect on student performance is simply an exercise in magical thinking.

As for claims about diversity, equity and inclusion, what actual effect has this had?

Unify Carmel uses smoke and mirrors to avoid the fact that claims rest on nothing but anecdote and hearsay. LGBTQ+ students should feel more welcome in CCS. When teachers focus on the Black experience in America in social studies, history and English lessons, they are performing academic excellence.

Unify Carmel wants you to think that CCS schools are failing. But their recent two-page advertisement is just an exercise in sleightof-hand. Don’t fall for their lies. Instead, ask why this group is trying to pursue a national political agenda by insulting the hard work of parents, students and teachers.

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This is false. Test scores are widely known to reflect a community’s affluence more than anything else. Further, we actively damage our students and our society by relying on test scores for assessment and funding. Teachers, parents and students will all attest to the destructiveness of the “teach-to-the-test” paradigm. It increases student anxiety, decreases love of learn-

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Last year, I commented in a column how strange it was that an over-the-counter medication touted to enhance memory was produced with ingredients from jellyfish — ironically the only animal on the planet with no brain. They have since scrapped that commercial. You’re welcome.

Now, in every TV ad for Prevagen, you see an elderly couple walking through the woods. Then we see them sitting on their deck talking about their improved memory and boasting about how much they hike every day. And apparently, they always find their way back home. The Prevagen people might be on to something, after all.

Mary Ellen has been concerned about my increasing forgetfulness, so she decided it was worth a try.

“How about you, Mary Ellen?” I asked.

“Aren’t you going to take it? Remember, last month we got pizza delivered four times, brought in Chinese food three times and had TV dinners seven times.”

“What does that have to do with my memory?”

“I thought maybe you forgot how to cook.”

For a long time, every time I went to CVS, she told me to buy Prevagen. It kept slipping my mind when I was at the store, which is a real conundrum for the Prevagen people — the kind of marketing concern that Mr. Wonderful on “Shark Tank” would have been quick to point out: “What good is a memory product if consumers keep forgetting to buy it? I’m out.”

“What good is a memory product if consumers keep forgetting to buy it? I’m out.”

– DICK WOLFSIE I wish I had not asked my wife to take the drug. A month later, she was annoyed at something, and I asked her what was bothering her.

“About six months after we got married, you told me I looked like I had gained weight. Now that I think about it, I’m still angry at you for saying that.”

“That was 39 years ago. What made you remember it now?”

“I don’t know. It just came back to me.”

“Well, Mary Ellen, I just remembered when

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“Dick, that was 42 years ago. Whatever made you think of that again?”

We then decided to switch from the Extra Strength Prevagen to the regular strength.

There were a few moments we wanted to erase from our brains, and we didn’t want to go overboard with this memory thing. I’m writing a letter to Prevagen to suggest they put this on their warning label: “This product will not only improve your bad memory but may also bring back bad memories.”

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Full disclosure: I have written several hundred columns through the years about Mary Ellen and me. Up until now, every story was based on something that really happened. This is the only time everything in the column is completely made up — assuming my memory serves me correctly.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Becky Null is a firm supporter of the Annie Solan brand of decorative furniture paint.

Null said she has used the paints for more than 20 years.

“I have tried other CITY CENTER paints and always went back to Annie’s,” the Fishers resident said.

“Annie’s paints are simply the best of the best, and I only stock her paints in my studio.”

Null hosted the grand opening Oct. 26 of her 317Home Studio, a furniture restoration and workshop, which is in Carmel City Center’s interior plaza at 715 Hanover Place.

Guests can purchase fully restored furniture with the Annie Sloan finish or join in-studio workshops to learn decoupage, molding, transfer and other restoration techniques using their own furniture pieces. A wide selection of Annie Sloan products is available for purchase, including paints, waxes and brushes.

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By Les Morris news@currentincarmel.com Fast casual restaurant Ali’i Poke plans to open two locations in Carmel in the coming months.

COMING SOON Poke bowls, a traditional Hawaiian cuisine, will make their Carmel debut with a planned mid-December opening at 12545 Old Meridian St. Approximately a month later, in early 2022, another restaurant will open in Carmel near the Zionsville border at 4335 W. 106th St. Poke is a Hawaiian dish rich in protein and fresh ingredients. Also known as “deconstructed sushi,” the rice at Ali’i Poke comes in a bowl instead of wrapped in a roll.

At its core, Hawaiian poke is seasoned tuna over a bowl of rice. However, as the dish has moved eastward over the mainland, it’s evolved into more choices.

At Ali’i Poke, customers select their base

(sushi rice, brown rice, or a spring mix), protein (mainly fish choices such as tuna, salmon and shrimp), ingredients (an array of choices like edamame, pickled ginger and avocado) and sauce (like spicy mayo or sriracha).

Every order is individually prepared, and the staff can work with customers on a gluten-free diet as well as those with allergies.

The menu is popular with customers on the run — literally.

“Our protein-based food helps people refuel right after their workout,” Ali’i Poke Regional Manager Nef Lopez said.

Lopez said he’s seen 20 percent growth in the customer base each year since 2018 when the first store opened.

The new Carmel locations will join existing restaurants downtown near the IUPUI campus and a location in Fishers.

Lopez said that managers and other key employees are needed at the two Carmel restaurants. Learn more at nowhiring.com/ Ali’i Poke.

Mimi Blue closes in Carmel

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Mimi Blue in Carmel has become another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The restaurant, RESTAURANT known for its meatballs, on Oct. 30 closed its Carmel location at 12505 Old Meridian St. Its restaurants in Indianapolis on Mass Ave and The Fashion Mall will remain open.

The restaurant owners released a statement explaining how the pandemic impacted business.

“Restaurants nationwide have had many challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandem-

ic,” the statement reads. “The Carmel location experienced significantly decreased sales — especially those derived from the normally filled commercial buildings, whose occupants frequented Mimi Blue during the last 4 1/2 years. The majority of those buildings have not yet returned to full occupancy and the uncertainty of when that will occur resulted in our decision to close this location.”

Employees have either transferred to another Mimi Blue restaurant or received financial severance.

Mimi Blue launched on Mass Ave in Indianapolis in January 2015, and the Carmel restaurant opened the following year.

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Monterey Coastal Cuisine co-owners to open new eatery

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com The quick success of Carmel’s Monterey Coastal Cuisine in the Carmel Arts & Design District has motivated the DINING co-owners to take the next step.

Paul Estridge Jr. and Chris Thomas plan to open Tiburon Coastal Cuisine in early fall 2022 at 8701 E. 116th St. in Fishers. It is in the First Internet Bank headquarters.

“It was in the back of our minds that if things went well to keep our eyes open for new opportunities,” Estridge said. “I will say this came quicker than we imagined, but it’s just an opportunity we couldn’t pass up in the Nickel Plate District.”

Estridge said the area has a lot of foot traffic with activities in the Carmel Arts & Design District.

“Our concept is, our restaurants are named after coastal towns in California,” Estridge said. “Chris is really one of the best partners I’ve ever had in my life. He’s really

Tiburon Coastal Cuisine will operate inside the First Internet Bank building in downtown Fishers. (Rendering courtesy of ALO Property Group)

the one who deserves all the credit for the success.”

Estridge said the food will be similar to Monterey Costal Cuisine, but unique in its own way. Monterey opened in April, featuring its high-end menu of sushi, seafood and steaks.

“The combined lunch and dinner seven days a week has proven to be a winner,” said Estridge, a Westfield resident who also owns Estridge Homes.

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Here are some ways the whole family can participate in and encourage your loved one with healthy choices and actions: • Managing blood sugar levels is one way to maintain a healthy glucose level and help prevent diabetic foot complications. Everyone can benefit from the healthful-eating guidelines that your diabetic family member needs to follow. Select fresh and healthy options.

• Make fitness a part of your day. Taking a walk together is a great way to help the entire family stay in shape, and to help your diabetic family member.

• Encourage your loved one to inspect their feet daily and to check for cuts, blisters, redness, swelling or nail problems.

• Have your loved one visit a podiatrist for appropriate treatment of foot-related issues. No “bathroom surgery” or medicated pads.

• Ask your diabetic family member if they have noticed any tingling or numbness in their feet. People with diabetes are more likely to develop a condition called peripheral neuropathy, which is permanent nerve damage that impacts a person’s ability to feel sensations like hot or cold. Tingling, pain, numbness and a burning sensation are among the symptoms.

• Feet can get cold on chilly autumn nights, so anyone with diabetes should wear socks to bed if their feet are chilly. They should never use a heating pad or hot water bottle.

• Encourage your loved one to always wear shoes or slippers, even at home, to prevent them from getting a scratch or cut.

Regular visits to a podiatrist to check for issues associated with diabetes are important. And as always, if your loved one experiences problems with their feet, make an appointment with our office for an exam.

The Indiana State Dept. of Health recently announced that Hoosiers ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for a free PANDEMIC COVID-19 vaccine.

The announcement follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s authorization of Pfizer’s vaccine on Nov. 2. The Pfizer vaccine is the only COVID-19 vaccine that is authorized for use in individuals under age 18.

Parents who want to schedule an appointment for their child to receive the vaccine can do so at ourshot.in.gov or by calling 211 or 866-211-9966 for assistance.

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should ensure they visit a site that carries the pediatric dosage. To find a clinic, visit ourshot.in.gov and look for a pin designating sites with pediatric vaccine.

Supplies might be limited initially as shipments arrive on a staggered basis, the ISDH stated in a press release, so individuals are encouraged to make an appointment or call ahead to ensure a site has the vaccine. A parent or guardian must provide consent, and children under 16 must be accompanied to the vaccination appointment by an adult.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com As a 16-year-old, Abigail Kimball is making her 14th appearance in Indiana Ballet Conservatory’s production of DANCE “The Nutcracker.”

“I’ve been here my whole life,” Kimball said.

“I know these teachers so well.

Kimball, a Fishers resident, is making her second appearance as Sugar Plum, having performed Ausserer in a taped 2020 production. She is sharing the role with Aurora Ausserer.

“I’m super excited to perform ‘Nutcracker’ with Aurora because she’s my best friend,” Kimball said. “I really like being able to share this role with her and planning all our ‘Nutcracker’ events.”

Both students are seniors and take online classes. The Carmel-based Indiana Ballet Conservatory will present “The Nutcracker” Nov. 27-28 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

The performances are at 2 and 7 p.m. Nov. 27 and 1 and 6 p.m. Nov. 28.

“It’s such a beautiful theater,” Kimball said. “We appeared there with the Indianapolis Children’s Choir two years ago. It’s really big and we have a ton of room to move.”

IBC is presenting the “The Nutcracker” for the second time at the Palladium.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the performance was recorded for families in IBC’s studio.

“It was different because we had to socially distance,” Kimball said. “It was a different experience trying to partner but not touch. We had to do everything without touching. It was really crazy.”

Ausserer, 16, will appear in the opening and closing shows as Sugar Plum, and Kimball will perform the role in the shows in between. The dancers perform Arabian soloist and waltz roles when not doing

CARMEL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Carmel Symphony Orchestra will present “Masterworks 2” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

BEEF & BOARDS Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre presents “Phantom” through Nov. 21. For more, visit beefandboards.com.

CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Live at the Center series will present “Strangebirds” featuring Jake Schlegel at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at The Tarkington in Carmel. Ben Folds will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Palladium. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

ACTORS THEATRE OF INDIANA ATI’s production of “Lombardi” runs through Nov. 21 at the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts. ATI Lab Series will present a reading of “The Family Line” at 2 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Studio Theater. For more, visit atistage.org.

Abigail Kimball performs as Sugar Plum in a 2020 performance. (Photo courtesy of Indiana Ballet Conservatory)

Sugar Plum.

Ausserer, who is in her second year at IBC, moved from Seattle to the north side of Indianapolis with her family to dance at IBC. “I’m really excited because this will be my first one on a stage with IBC,” Ausserer said. “When I was just studying ballet, I always wanted to do Sugar Plum. I’m especially excited to do it at IBC with all my friends. I’m thankful because Abigail and I are so close. We had so many seniors leave this year, but we got to be together another year. I think we are even closer.”

There are only seven dancers in the elite level classes that Ausserer and Kimball take. There were 15 last year but eight graduated.

“We have more 1-on-1 time and (IBC founding Artistic Director Alyona Yakovleva-Randall) can help us grow ever more,” Kimball said.

Yakovleva-Randall, a Carmel resident, said the staff has been working hard on

creating a set. And guest artist Sebastian Vinet is part of the show.

“It’s the first time we’ve collaborated with Sebastian, and we are very excited,” Yakovleva-Randall said.

Vinet is a traveling international artist from Chile.

Yakovleva-Randall’s IBC presentation is based on the original choreographed version from Russia.

“I always adjust from the student numbers and talent level,” she said. “It’s always adjusting. It’s never the same performance. It’s always different performers.

I know all the parts because I’ve danced in it from A to Z.” IBC members will perform selected choreography from “The Nutcracker” on the Carmel Christkindlmarkt stage from 4:10 to 4:35 p.m. Nov. 20; 3 to 3:45 p.m. Nov. 24; 2 to 2:45 p.m. Dec. 10; and 4 to 4:45 p.m.

Dec. 16.

For more, visit indianaballetconservatory.org or thecenterpresents.org.

CCP launches campaign for new playhouse editorial@youarecurrent.com After 28 years and more than 150 live performances at different venues around town, Carmel Community Players officials announced the group is embarking on a capital campaign to raise funds for its own Playhouse.

The new facility will offer 133 theater-style seats for each performance, a state-of-the-art sound system, modern energy-efficient ventilation and plenty of parking. Additionally, the CCP Playhouse will be available to other performing arts organizations. As a result, CCP will be able to expand a rehearsal space and programs.

There will be a patron special open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 11 at Bier Brewery, 13720 Meridian St., with information about the new playhouse, which is nearby at 13750 N. Meridian St. For more, visit carmelplayers.org.

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Songbook Academy, plans to study opera in college.

“I love to act, but over quarantine, I got Every actor enjoys an opportunity to play really involved with music,” he said. “I devela funny villain. oped my skills as a musician.”

Carmel High School senior Jack Sullivan can sing in Italian and Sullivan is no exception.

German.

PLAY Sullivan portrays the “I’m studying opera to improve as villain Sebastian Hardacre a vocalist and to deepen my knowlin the CHS production of “Because edge of music,” he said.

Their Hearts Were Pure,” an old-time Sullivan said he has been part of melodrama, set for 7 p.m. Nov. 11 to 13 12 or 13 productions at CHS. at the Studio Theater at CHS. There CHS theater and film teacher Jim Sullivan also is a 2 p.m. show Nov. 13.

Peterson is directing the play.

“It’s fun. I’m both the comedic relief and “We’re doing it with audience participathe antagonist,” Sullivan said. “It gives me tion,” Peterson said. “They’re going to boo. leeway to play around. I get a lot of interWe got showgirls doing a can-can. It’s everyaction with the audience. It gives me a thing you know of with a melodrama. It’s for chance to play with the audience. I’ve always all ages. There is a lot of over-acting. It’s very favored characters who are over the top becampy.” cause it’s more fun.

Other lead performers are Michael Geary “This is the most intensive character of as Goodwin Dalrymple and Madelyn Wood as that nature I’ve had to play, but it’s a blast.”

Melody Truelove.

Sullivan, who was selected as one of For tickets, visit the CHS performing arts the 40 participants in this summer’s 2021 page at ticketracker.com.

CMS to present ‘Freaky Friday’

more work to do that part. Playing someone that confident isn’t really my thing.”

Vahrenkamp enjoys the song “Go,” which is performed during the scavenger hunt.

Carmel Middle School choral teacher “You get to run around and just be a kid, Trisha Scheidies is so glad to have her even though I’m playing students a mom,” she said. “My MUSICAL performing character’s goal is to get again. an hourglass (to turn back Carmel Middle wasn’t time).” able to stage a musical in Jackson Koechel, an the 2020-21 school year eighth-grader, plays Mike, because of the COVID-19 Ellie’s soon-to-be stepdad. pandemic.

Vahrenkamp Koechel “It makes me step out “It’s an incredible thing of my comfort zone a little bit,” to put live theater back on stage, Koechel said. “I’m playing someone even with precautions in place,” much older. There are way more said Scheidies, who is co-directing lines than I had in sixth grade the musical. “It was really missed. with (the school’s production of) It’s a great way for kids to get in‘Footloose,’ and there is a lot more volved in school again. We’ve been choreography.” so lucky we have students and parKuznasky Eighth-grader Jett Kuznarsky porents willing to help.” trays Adam, Ellie’s love interest.

The school will present “Freaky Friday” “I never had this much impact in a show at 7 p.m. Nov. 12-13 at CMS. The musical before,” said Kuznarsky, who played the involves a mother and teenage daughter police officer in ‘Footloose.’ “I wasn’t very switching bodies. confident in the beginning, but now I am Sixth-grader Alexis Vahrenkamp plays super excited. I really enjoy dancing.”

Ellie, who switches bodies with her mother.

Tickets are $6 and $7 in advance. For tick“I think I’m better being the mom than ets, visit carmelms.booktix.com. the daughter,” Vahrenkamp said. “Playing a teenager doesn’t come naturally to me. It’s

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Jewell nearly 90 years ago.

“Fred Jewell was one of the top march composers of the early 20th century, and As the Indiana Wind Symphony celebrates recently we were presented a collection of more than two decades of enchanting about 40 manuscripts by Jewell and a few local audiences, “A other composers,” Conrad said. “We CONCERT Time for Reflection” will introduce these works to the seemed a fitting title band world over the next several for its upcoming performance at the years. This one is a terrific march Palladium. that does not yet have a title, and “For the ensemble, it is a time to we will accept suggestions from reflect on a few highlights of our 23 the audience for a possible title.” years of performing in Carmel and Other selections for “A Time for Conrad central Indiana,” said Charles ConReflection” are Stephenson’s “Fanrad, the IWS’s founder and music director. “I fare for Democracy” and “Luther: In Canon”; always look forward, especially coming out Holst’s “Suite No. 2 in F”; Reed’s “Symphonic of the pandemic, to seeing the audience and Prelude on Black is the Color”; and Barnes’ sharing great music with them.”

“Third Symphony.”

“A Time for Reflection” will be presented at “We hope the audience takes away the 6:30 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Palladium at the Censway of emotions that a live concert in a ter for the Performing Arts in Carmel, 1 Carter wonderful facility such as the Palladium Green. The show will feature the works of can present,” Conrad said. “It’s been a tough concert band composers James Stephenson, road for all of us, and it feels great to be Gustav Holst, Alfred Reed, James Barnes and able to present music again to an audience Indiana native Fred Jewell. in a beautiful performing space.”

As one of the evening’s highlights, the For more or for tickets, visit indianawIWS will debut an untitled piece written by indsymphony.org.

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Finn has just lost his mother to the disease and is sent to live with his estranged faActors Theatre of Indiana will feature pro- ther. Jonah is assigned to drive Finn across lific film and TV series character actor Richthe U.S. As they spend 24 hours together in ard Riehle in ATI’s the car, the story examines whether THEATER Theatre LAB Series they will find common ground and reading of Lee Blessdiscover a family bond. ing’s “A Family Line” at 2 p.m. Nov. 13 Riehle will be joined by Carmel at the Studio Theater at the Center High School graduate Jake Letts as for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

Finn. Letts graduated from Ball State Riehle’s career has spanned more University with a Bachelor of Fine four decades. His is one of the most Arts degree in musical theater. Letts Riehle recognizable faces in the industry started as an instrumentalist and as he has appeared in more than 397 films branched into classical voice and theater in and has made multiple television appearhigh school. He recently appeared as Rosenances. Some of his most notable movies crantz in “Hamlet” (Discovering Broadway). include “Casino,” “Office Space,” “Fried Green Letts’ favorite past roles include The DocTomatoes,” “Lethal Weapon 4,” “Transformtor in “Matilda” (Weathervane Playhouse in ers: Age of Extinction” and “The Fugitive.”

Newark, Ohio) and Jack Kelly in “Newsies” Riehle’s television credits include being (Civic Theatre in Carmel). a regular in “Grounded for Life” and “The Jane Unger will direct “The Family Line.”

Young and the Restless.”

She also is directing “Lombardi,” which runs In “A Family Life,” Jonah, played by Riehle, through Nov. 21. is the white grandfather of Finn, a mixedTickets are available at atistage.org or by race 15-year-old whom he has just met. calling the box office at the Center for the Taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic, Performing Arts at 317-843-3800.

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HOF celebrates inductees editorial@youarecurrent.com

Besides the video induction, the foundation will unveil new opportunities at theLegendary lyricist Sammy Cahn, singer/ songbook.org for viewers to learn about the songwriter Melissa Manchester and commusical legacies of this year’s Hall of Fame poser/ inductees. Videos and interactive GREAT AMERICAN arranger learning opportunities will include Billy Straybassist/composer Marlon Martinez’s SONGBOOK horn will Strayhorn Sundays; Songbook Acadbe honored in an upcoming online emy master class moments with event as the 2021 inductees to the Manchester; a peek at the Emmy Great American Songbook Hall of Award won by Cahn and frequent Fame. collaborator Jimmy Van Heusen for Manchester Premiering at 8 p.m. Nov. 13 on “Love and Marriage,” courtesy of the Great American Songbook Foundation’s Van Heusen’s great nephew Brook Babcock; Facebook and YouTube channels, the 2021 music playlists and more.

Songbook Hall of Fame Virtual Induction The program is free to view. For event also will present video testimonials, interreminders and viewing links, register at bit. views and tribute performances by Songly/2021SongbookHOF. book Foundation founder Michael Feinstein; The Songbook Hall of Fame celebrates Manchester; Alyce Claerbaut, niece of the composers, lyricists and performers who late Strayhorn and president of Billy Strayhave “created the soundtrack of our lives” horn Songs Inc.; Galen Demus, nephew of with their contributions to American popStrayhorn and board member of Billy Strayular music. Hall of Fame inductees are horn Songs Inc.; Tita Cahn, widow of Sammy selected based on factors including musical Cahn; and rising NYC-based jazz singer influence on other artists, length and depth Anaïs Reno, an alumna of the foundation’s of career and body of work, innovation and annual Songbook Academy summer intensuperiority in style and technique, and oversive for high school performers. all musical excellence.

Where’s Amy? Amy Pauszek is a photographer, award winning film producer and scouting and casting associate for Talent Fusion Agency in Indianapolis. She can be reached at Amy@ youarecurrent.com. To see more of her photos, visit currentnightandday.com.

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Directed by Bob Harbin Where’s Amy finds ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ Where’s Amy attended the Oct. 28 opening night of Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre’s “There’s No Place Like Home.” The live performance was a personal piece created by GHDT Executive Artistic Director Gregory Hancock focusing on his purposeful and enlightening travels to India. The beautiful choreography, colorful handmade costumes, dramatic lighting and joyful songs from the Indian culture made this show memorable. If you missed this production, be sure to see “The Nutcracker” opening Dec. 4 at Pike Performing Arts Center in Indianapolis. For more information and tickets, visit gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org. Above, GHDT company dancers, front, from left, Abigail Lessaris (Carmel), Olivia Payton (Carmel), Hannah Brown (Carmel) and back, from left, Thomas Mason (Indianapolis), Chloe Holzman (Carmel), Zoe Maish (Carmel), Camden Lancaster (Indianapolis), Josie Moody (Noblesville), Adrian Dominguez (Indianapolis) and GHDT Executive Artistic Director Gregory Hancock (Carmel). (Photo by Amy Pauszek)

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Grateful for great graters Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt As we turn our calendars to November, I always wonder why there isn’t any good Thanksgiving music out there. Halloween has a handful of hits.

GRAMMAR GUY Obviously, Christmas and Hanukkah have their own genre of “holiday” music. Why doesn’t Thanksgiving get any good songs?

These songs would be great. I’d be grateful to have a song connected with Thanksgiving in addition to Adam Sandler’s lonely “Turkey Song.” Wait a second — is it “grateful” or “greatful”? Let’s get to the bottom of this cornucopia of spelling confusion.

I’m going to cut to the chase and let you know that “grateful” (with one “l”) is the correct spelling. The misspelling “greatful” is not a word. Don’t use it. Don’t let your friends spell it that way. It’s incorrect. Of course, always be kind when correcting others’ spelling or grammar, and only do it on a 1-on-1 basis. Never correct someone’s spelling or grammar in public!

How do we get this word “grateful” that just looks strange? After all, Tony the Tiger never says, “They’re grate!” when referring to a heaping bowl of Frosted Flakes. A “grate” is a noun that means “a frame of metal bars used to block something.” When used as a verb, “grate” means to either “reduce to small pieces by using a grater” or “to make an unpleasant sound.”

If we think again about this “grat-” word stem, we can recall words like “gratify,” “gratitude” and even “gratis” (something for free). It’s time to bust out our Latin dictionaries, folks.

The root Latin word we get “grateful” from is “gratus,” which means “pleasing or grateful.” This has no connection whatsoever with potatoes “au gratin.” “Gratin” is a French culinary term for something that

is topped with a browned crust. “Gratin” comes from the French word “gratter,” which means “to scrape” or “to grate.” There it is!

Now we can see where these two “grat-” words get their different meanings. A sound that is “grating” to your ears is incredibly unpleasant. It’s the sound of nails on a chalkboard or a fork scraping against a dinner plate.

Words including “ingratiate,” “gratuity” and even “congratulate” come from the Latin root word that means “grateful.” Although initially it makes sense to spell “grateful” incorrectly, now it all makes sense.

Cheese is great. You can grate cheese.

If a friend gives you an entire wheel of cheese, you are grateful for the thoughtful gesture. Now, if we can just get someone to write songs about Thanksgiving and cheese, that would be great.

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

Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on the 22nd day of November, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the City Hall Caucus Rooms (1 Civic Square, 2nd Floor, Carmel, IN 46032) will hold a Public Hearing upon a Development Standards Variance application to review a pool setback variance request with the property being known as 2918 Gadsen Cir N, Carmel, IN 46032. The application is identified as Docket No. PZ-2021-00189V. The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: Lot #1020 in Village of West Clay, Section 10010B. The petition may be examined on the City’s website, through Public Documents - Laserfiche.

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.

Petitioner: Matthew McClain

NOTICE TO CLAY TOWNSHIP TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Clay Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of Clay Township at their regular meeting place at the John W. Hensel Government Center, 10701 North College Avenue, Carmel, Indiana, at 6:00 p.m., on the 16th day of November, 2021 will consider the following additional appropriation in excess of the budget for the current year.

AMOUNT REQUESTED General Fund #0101 Category 3 – Other Services and Charges 3FF – Sprinkler System ………………………………………………. $52,500 3O – Special Projects…………………………………………………. $79,500 Category 4 – Capital Outlay 4CC – Office Equipment……………………………………………… $18,000 GENERAL FUND TOTAL ……………………………………………………………………… $150,000 Taxpayers appearing at the meeting shall have the right to be heard. The additional appropriations in the General Fund #0101 as finally made, will be referred to the Department of Local Government Finance (GLGF). The DLGF will make a written determination as to the sufficiency of funds to support the appropriation made within fifteen (15) days of receipt of a Certified Copy of the action taken.

Dated: November 9, 2021 Douglas Callahan Clay Township Trustee

Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals, meeting on the 22nd day of November, 2021 at 5:15PM in the City Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall, One Civic Square, Carmel, Indiana 46032 will hold a Public Hearing upon a Use Variance application to allow Fence Height Variance (Max 42” front yard fence height allowed, 60” requested) with the property being known as 14223 Avian Way, Carmel, IN 46033. The application is identified as Docket Number PZ-2021-00182 V. The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: Acreage .47 Section 21, Township 18, Range 4 AVIAN GLEN Section 5 Lot 108. 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. Petitioner is Daryl Buck.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS HEARING OFFICER Docket No. PZ-2021-00190 Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on the 22nd day of November, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the City Hall Caucus Rooms (1 Civic Square, 2nd Flr, Carmel, IN 46032) will hold a Public Hearing upon a Development Standards Variance application to: UDO Section 5.09.B., Fence in corner lot to exceed 42 inches in height and be a 6-ft tall full privacy fence.

With the property being known as: 11352 Fieldstone Ct. Carmel, IN 46033.

The application is identified as Docket No. PZ-2021-00190.

The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: 16-14-04-01-02-026.000 The petition may be examined on the City’s website, through Public Documents – Laserfiche.

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.

Michelle Glozman & Cooper Marsh PETITIONERS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS HEARING OFFICER Docket No. PZ-2021-00188V Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on the 22nd day of November, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the City Hall Caucus Rooms (1 Civic Square, 2nd Flr, Carmel, IN 46032) will hold a Public Hearing upon a Development Standards Variance application to make improvements to the backyard including landscaping, privacy fence, swimming pool, and proposed concrete patio/pool deck, as well as a proposed concrete walkway leading from the driveway to the backyard.

Proposed concrete areas will push us over the 35% lot coverage limitation, so we are seeking a variance for 42%, from UDO Section 2.10.

With the property being known as 842 West Auman Drive, Carmel, Indiana 46032.

The application is identified as Docket No. PZ-2021-00188V. The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: Acreage .00 Section 31, Township 18, Range 4 Aumans Addition Lot 13.

The petition may be examined on the City’s website, through Public Documents - Laserfiche.

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.

Brandon and Lindsay Rust PETITIONERS

Kite Realty Group (30 S. Meridian Street, Suite 1100) is submitting a Notice of Intent to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management of our intent to comply with the requirements of 327 IAC 15-5 to discharge stormwater from construction activities associated with the Hamilton Crossing – Construction phase project located at 12201 N. Meridian Street, Carmel, IN 46032. Runoff from the project site will discharge to White River – Carmel Creek Subwatershed. Questions or comments regarding this project should be directed to Mike Timko of Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Docket No. PZ-2021-00210 V: Doniela Fence Height Variance Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on November 22, 2021 at 5:15 pm will hold a Public Hearing at Carmel City Hall (2nd floor Caucus Rooms, 1 Civic Square, Carmel, IN) upon Development Standards Variance Approval to install a wrought iron fence 5 feet tall along Ditch Road.

For property being known as 11590 Ditch Road, Carmel, IN 46032 The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: 17-13-04-00-00-051.000 The petition may be examined on the City’s website, through Public Documents - Laser Fiche.

It is recommended that persons wishing to view this meeting do so online via the City’s website or on Carmel TV. All interested persons desiring to present their views on the above application are encouraged to submit written comments, up to 2:00 p.m. the day of the meeting, via email to Joe Shestak administrative assistant: jshestak@carmel.in.gov.

Andrius Doniela By: E. Davis Coots, attorney for Petitioner NOTICE TO BIDDERS CITY OF CARMEL Notice is hereby given that the Board of Public Works and Safety for the City of Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana, will receive sealed bids, until 10:00 a.m., local time, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at the office of the Clerk, One Civic Square, 2nd Floor, Carmel, Indiana, 46032, for the following project: Path Preservation The scope of work for this project includes (but is not limited to) asphalt repair, crack sealing, and total path sealing for specified asphalt paths in the City of Carmel.

All bids are to be sealed with the word “BPW: Path Preservation” on the lower left hand corner of the envelope. Bids will be opened and read aloud at 10:00 A.M. on December 1, 2021 at the Board of Public Works 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.

The specifications are set forth in detailed documents on file at the Carmel Street Department, 3400 W. 131st Street, Carmel, IN 46074.

Questions regarding this solicitation must be written and delivered to the Carmel Street Department. All responses will be written and made available with the specifications at the Street Department. Please call the Street Department to confirm whether or not any such written questions and/or responses exist.

The submitted proposal must be in compliance with IC 36-1-12-1 et seq. The Board of Public Works reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Matt Higginbotham Street Commissioner

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS HEARING OFFICER Docket No. PZ-2021-00211 V Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on the 22nd day of November 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the City Hall Caucus Rooms (1 Civic Square, 2nd Flr, Carmel, IN 46032) will hold a Public Hearing upon a Development Standards Variance application to: UDO section 5.02.B.3 The combined square footage of the Ground Floor Area of a Private Garage and/or Accessory Building shall not exceed 75% of the Ground Floor Area of the Principal Building, 81% is being requested.

With the property being known as (address): 1460 East 111th Street, Carmel IN 46280 The application is identified as Docket No. PZ-2021-00211 V The real estate affected by said application is described as follows 17-13-01-02-05-012-000 The petition may be examined on the City’s website, through Public Documents - Laserfiche.

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.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS HEARING OFFICER Docket No. PZ-2021-00209 V Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Board of Zoning Appeals Hearing Officer meeting on the 22nd day of November, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the Carmel City Hall, 2nd Flr Caucus Rooms, 1 Civic Sq., Carmel, IN 46032 will hold a Public Hearing upon a Development Standards Variance application to: Docket No. PZ-2021-00209 V Silvara PUD Section 6.1 Maximum 50% lot coverage allowed, 55.9% requested.

With the property being known as: 517 Dickson Lane, Carmel, IN 46032.

The application is identified as Docket No. PZ2021-00209 V. The real estate affected by said application is described as follows: Tax ID #17-09-34-00-12028.000.

The petition may be examined on the City’s website, through Public Documents – Laserfiche.

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.

The Old Town Design Group, LLC PETITIONERS

NOTICE TO BIDDERS City of Carmel, Indiana Department Board of Public Works and Safety One Civic Square City of Carmel, Indiana 46032 Project: Carmel Data Center – Technology Infrastructure Package 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 Treasurer, One Civic Square, Carmel, Indiana (City Hall) 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 November 17, 2021 , 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 – CARMEL DATA CENTER – TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE” 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: PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project is for the installation, service, and maintenance of various Mechanical and Electrical fixtures supplementary to the construction of the Carmel Data Center project.

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

Payments and costs of Contract Documents are non-refundable.

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

This Project will be funded by the City of Carmel.

A pre-bid conference for discussions of the Project, the bidding requirements and other important matters will be held on November 10, 2021 at 2:00 PM in the Caucus Room on the 2nd Floor of City Hall (One Civic Square). All prospective bidders are invited to attend the pre-bid conference. The pre-bid conference is not mandatory.

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

No bidder may withdraw any bid or proposal within a period of thirty (30) days following the date set for receiving bids or proposals. The Carmel Board of Public Works and Safety reserves the right to hold any or all bids or proposals for a period of not more than thirty (30) days and said bids or proposal shall remain in full force and effect during said period. The City of Carmel reserves the right to reject and/or cancel any and all bids, solicitations and/or offers in whole or in part as specified in the solicitations when it is not in the best interests of the governmental body as determined by the purchasing agency in accordance with IC 5-22-182 Sue Wolfgang Clerk

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View of downtown Indianapolis from James Whitcomb Riley tomb. (Photos by Don Knebel)

A visit to Crown Hill Cemetery Commentary by Don Knebel Crown Hill Cemetery, the nation’s third-largest nongovernmental cemetery, provides an opportunity to TRAVEL enjoy the most picturesque site in Indianapolis while remembering many who helped make the city what it is today.

In 1863, 30 Indianapolis civic leaders formed a nonprofit association to establish a nondenominational “rural cemetery” of the type popular in Europe. They purchased 236 acres of rolling farmland about 3 1/2 miles northwest of the city, including Mount McCormick, the highest point in Marion County also known as “Strawberry Hill” or “Crown Hill.” The association engaged a Pittsburgh architect to design the cemetery, which was dedicated on June 1, 1864. In 1866, the United States government purchased land from the association as a cemetery for Union Civil War dead and later purchased the Confederate Mound for 1,616 soldiers who died while Union prisoners. An ornate vault, built in 1875 to hold bodies until ground thawed, is now Gothic Chapel.

Today, Crown Hill Cemetery includes 555 acres along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, between 32nd and 42nd streets. Its beautiful grounds, including 110 species of tagged trees, attract about 50,000 visitors a year. Many follow a white line to the tomb of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley (for whom Riley Hospital for Children was named) atop Crown Hill that offers a panoramic view of downtown Indianapolis. The tombs of President Benjamin Harrison and author Booth Tarkington are just below. One area honors Indiana law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty and another, above a yard of bricks, remembers legends

Gothic Chapel at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Tombs of novelist Booth Tarkington and U.S. President Benjamin Harrison at Crown Hill Cemetery.

from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The other 200,000-plus graves include those of Vice Presidents Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Hendricks and Thomas Marshall, and those of well-known Indianapolis names from the past (Allison, Ayres, Butler, Claypool, Duesenberg, Fletcher, Lilly, Stutz and Taggart) and present (Binford, Carson, Conrad, Eiteljorg, Hinkle, Irsay, Mays, Sanders). John Dillinger’s tombstone was removed recently because of repeated vandalism.

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

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