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By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Two days after ordering The GOAT tavern to close daily at 2 p.m., the City of Carmel reversed course.

On Dec. 10, the city CITY NEWS announced that its Dept. of Community Services has reached an agreement with the tavern’s owners to allow it to temporarily operate under certain conditions until the Board of Zoning Appeals votes on a new variance for the property, which is expected in February 2021.

The city mistakenly permitted the tavern to open on a residential site that had a variance allowing restaurant uses only between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Since The GOAT opened in mid-August, neighbors had frequently complained of loud noise, urination on private property and other issues, with many of the problems occurring after midnight. On Dec. 8, the city ordered The GOAT to abide by rules of the existing variance because of the repeated complaints.

The new agreement states that owners of The GOAT will have 24 hours to make changes if conditions are not met. If they fail to do so, the city can require them to immediately shut down.

A ‘Herculean effort’ The Dec. 8 order to shut down and reversal two days later came after a Dec. 7 Carmel City Council meeting that included several councilors sharing concerns about The GOAT. The discussion occurred as the council unanimously approved an ordinance that prohibits urinating and defecating in public places.

Brainard said the city assembled a task force in September of representatives from the city’s police, fire, IT and community services departments as well as the Hamilton County Health Dept. and Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to address how to handle The GOAT. City councilor Tim Hannon described the city’s response as a “Herculean effort” and questioned how the city overlooked the site’s variance requirements.

“From the medical standpoint, this is the

equivalent of wrong-site surgery or leaving a sponge in someone,” said Hannon, an anesthesiologist.

Brainard said the variance for the site is tied to the land, not the previous owner, meaning it is still in effect. He acknowledged the planning department made a mistake when it overlooked the detail.

In addition to the ordinance approved Dec. 7, the council is considering an amendment to its noise ordinance that would address issues stemming from The GOAT. The planning department had also petitioned to rezone The GOAT and the Carmel Clay Historical Society property to the north from residential to mixed-use zoning, but a revised Carmel Plan Commission agenda for Dec. 15 shows that the commission will only discuss the CCHS property that night.

City councilors surprised When the City of Carmel’s legal department sent a letter to the owner of The GOAT tavern on Dec. 8 ordering the establishment to close by 2 p.m. each day, perhaps no one was more surprised than a couple members of the city council.

Just a few hours earlier, at-large city councilors Kevin “Woody” Rider and Jeff Worrell had met with Kevin Paul, owner of The GOAT, to discuss complaints about the tavern and agree on a list of commitments Paul must follow for a set period of time to prove the business could be a good neighbor. Only then would they consider approving a rezone for the property to allow The GOAT to legally operate there with extended hours.

Rider said he alerted the mayor’s office about the meeting and commitments before the city sent the noncompliance order to Paul, so the swift reversal in strategy caught Rider by surprise.

“If we were going to take this type of action, why didn’t we take it five months ago?” Rider said. “I think the timing was odd.”

Paul described the commitments he discussed with Rider and Worrell — which include closing and clearing the space at 11 p.m. on weekdays and midnights on weekends — as “a big pill to swallow” but was willing to accept them. Those commitments

THE GOAT’S COMMITMENTS The conditions in the agreement for The GOAT to continue operating include: New hours of operation: • Sunday through Thursday – 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

• Friday and Saturday – 10 a.m. to midnight • All food and beverage service will end one hour prior to closing.

Noise Levels and Capacity: • Noise levels will be at or below 50 decibels.

• No live music.

• Only 40 persons or less per toilet in compliance with standards in the State of Indiana Building Code.

Security: • Operator will control the entrance, and exits of the premises to ensure all employees and patrons are using only public streets, sidewalks, paths and the Monon Greenway and not accessing through private residences.

• Operator will employ full time employee ”Bouncer” to be at the main entrance.

Cleanliness: • Operator will install a water hose to be used on a regular basis to clean outside of premises and surrounding area.

• Operator will be responsible for collection of trash in a three-block area following daily closing. formed the basis for the deal he reached with the city Dec. 10.

“Whatever they think is right and best and most expeditious is absolutely what we’re going to do,” Paul said. “I’m not going to fight anything. I haven’t tried to fight anything from the beginning.”

Paul has already taken several steps to address the complaints, such as installing a fence and hiring security during busy hours, but he acknowledged that the changes may not have been “fast enough” or “impactful enough.”

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Hamilton County health officials say they Walker said members of the general pubare ready to begin giving COVID-19 vaccinalic will likely be vaccinated in mid- to late tions as soon as summer 2021. He is hopeful that PANDEMIC they receive them, children will be eligible to receive which should be the vaccine at that time in advance 24 to 48 hours after emergency-use of the 2021-22 school year. Clinical authorization is granted by the U.S. trials of the vaccine have not yet Food and Drug Administration. That been completed for children. authorization was expected late As the vaccine becomes more last week for a vaccine developed widely available, Walker said he Hicks

by Pfizer and BioNTech SE. expects any health care facility that Hamilton County Health Dept. Emergency has experience giving vaccines should be Preparedness Coordinator Christian Walker able to provide it. said he doesn’t know how many doses the “The more people we can get adminiscounty will initially receive, although Inditering the vaccine the faster we can get ana is expecting more than 55,000 doses in people vaccinated, so nothing is off the its first shipment. table when it comes to getting creative,” Walker said three hospitals in the county he said. “The big thing is maintaining safety have been selected to receive the first dosand maintaining the security of the vaccine es of the vaccine and begin providing them so we know it’s being handled safely and on-site to health care workers who interact properly.” directly with COVID-19 patients, the first The vaccine, which is given in two doses, group eligible to receive them. can cause COVID-19-like side effects in the IU Health North Hospital in Carmel will 12 to 24 hours after it is given, with sympbe among the first sites to receive and toms often worse after the second dose. administer the vaccine in Indiana. Melissa Side effects include headache, fever, chills, Hicks, nursing executive for IU Health’s Indi- cough and sore throat. Hicks said IU Health anapolis Suburban Region, said the hospital has encouraged its staff members to get will set up a clinic for its workers and those the vaccine before they have a day or two from other health care facilities to receive off of work to more easily manage potential the vaccine. She said the state will contact side effects. top priority health care workers who live in Walker said a “huge concern” for the Hamilton County by email to schedule a visit health department is ensuring that people to the clinic. return for their second dose.

Another group to be among the first to “These shots are a two-shot series for a receive the vaccine will be residents in reason. That’s how you get your maximum nursing homes and assisted living centers. effective dose,” Walker said. “You may reWalker said federal and state officials are ceive some protection from the first dose, working with CVS and Walgreen’s to provide but you’re still not safeguarding yourself vaccines for this group. fully until you get that second dose.”

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DISPATCHES Indefinite city closures — As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, Mayor Jim Brainard has extended the closure of City Hall until further notice. The mayor will continue to closely monitor the situation and determine if City Hall can safely be reopened to the public in the coming months.

In the meantime, all city services will continue. and meetings will be held virtually unless specifically noted otherwise. The Household Hazardous Waste Center is also closed indefinitely.

Donation drive assists veterans — Residence Inn, 11895 N. Meridian St., and SpringHill Suites, 11855 N. Meridian St., in Carmel are collecting donations to support veterans at the Dr. Otis Bowen Veteran House and the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing of Indianapolis. Items to be collected through Jan. 15 include laundry detergent pods, paper products, coffee K-cups, individually-wrapped breakfast items and small household items. Items may be dropped off in the hotel lobbies.

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DISPATCHES CCHS hosts virtual Holiday Home Tour — The Carmel Clay Historical Society’s Holiday Home Tour’s virtual tour began Dec. 10 and will run through Jan. 30, 2021. Four of the homes are in Carmel and one in Madison.

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Feed the Frontlines returns — Carmel is gearing back up its Feed the Frontlines initiative to help provide hot meals from local restaurants to frontline workers at IU Health North and Ascension St. Vincent Carmel Hospitals. Feed the Frontlines Carmel launched in April but was suspended in late May when the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations subsided. The program remains funded through community donations collected in the spring. The City of Carmel is partnering with the Rotary Club of Carmel and Rotary District 6560 Foundation to coordinate the program. Restaurants interested in participating may contact Teresa Lewis at tlewis@carmel.in.gov.

Donut 5K race moves — The Donut 5K will relocate from Carmel to downtown Indianapolis for its 14th running. The event is set for 9 a.m. Dec. 19 in Military Park, 601 W. New York St. A post-race party will take place at Metazoa Brewing. A virtual race option is also available, with participants receiving a race hat, shirt and medal. Learn more at Donut5KRun.com.

Scholarships available — Midwest Academy has scholarship opportunities available for children in third through fifth grade.

The population MWA serves generally includes students diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, high-functioning autism, receptive and/ or expansive language or processing challenges resulting in school anxiety. For more information about admissions at Midwest Academy, contact Katie Erdmanis at kerdmanis@mymwa.org.

Free math, science homework help — Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s free AskRose homework helpline is available to help middle and high school students get a head start on understanding their math and science homework problems through a phone call, email or chat session. Rose-Hulman students are available Sunday through Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. during the school year to help youth in grades 6 through 12 review math and science concepts. Connections can be made at 877-275-7673 or AskRose.org.

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Council approves riverfront districts, sidewalk repair funds Compiled by Ann Marie Shambaugh • AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com The Carmel City Council met Dec. 7 to discuss rezoning requests, riverfront districts, launching a sidewalk repair grant program and other matters. Read the full story at youarecurrent.com/?p=197990.

What happened: The council approved the creation of four riverfront districts.

What it means: The state does not cap the number of alcohol permits approved within riverfront districts. Carmel had run out of available permits, leading to some restaurateurs wanting to open a business in the city choosing not to do so. The districts are in busy corridors in the northeast corner of Carmel, along Range Line Road and near Michigan Road.

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What happened: The council approved creating a nonreverting fund for the Carmel Sidewalk Program and transferred $50,000 of unused funds from the 2020 Common Council Fund to launch it.

What it means: The program will allow Carmel residents to apply for a grant to help cover the cost of sidewalk repairs, primarily in aging neighborhoods.

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What’s next: Details of the program are still being finalized, but it is expected to launch in the spring.

What happened: The council introduced an ordinance rezoning a parcel near the southeast corner of 116th Street and Range Line Road from residential to business use.

What it means: Most of the parcel just east of the Valero gas station is unusable for construction because it is in a floodplain, but a rezoning would allow development to occur along 116th Street. The Valero gas station will likely be removed when the city converts the intersection to a roundabout. It will not be replaced with another gas station, but the rezoning would open up possibilities for what could be built there.

What happened: The council amended an ordinance outlining the approval process for group homes in Carmel.

What it means: The amendment designates group homes as a residential special exception that would require a Board of Zoning Appeals hearing officer to conduct a public hearing on the proposal before voting to approve or deny the application. Previously, group homes with 10 or fewer residents were automatically permitted in residential neighborhoods.

What happened: The council approved rezoning 56 acres near 146th Street east of Towne Road to a planned unit development.

What it means: Ambleside Point is planned to include 260 two- and three-story townhomes and single-family homes. Councilors thanked the developers for working with neighbors, who had many concerns about the project when it was announced, to modify the proposal in a way that addressed their concerns.

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What happened: The council approved issuing developer tax increment financing bonds to finance improvements to support the Courtyards of Carmel development.

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Project: New roundabouts Location: 116th Street at College Avenue and Guilford Road. Lane restrictions are in place.

Expected completion: The city has not released an anticipated date.

Project: Grand Junction Plaza Location: The parking lot west of Union CONSTRUCTION Street and south of Main Street Expected completion: The gravel parking lot on the east end of Park Street is permanently closed as the Grand Junction Plaza is moving into the construction phase. Parking is available on the west ZIONSVILLE end of Park Street.

Project: Hamilton Boone County Road and Little Eagle Project: East Street extension Creek reconstruction Location: East Street is being extended north from 196th Location: Little Creek Avenue south of 146th Street will be Street to Ind. 38. Utility relocations are ongoing. closed for approximately 120 calendar days. The closure Project: Natalie Wheeler Trail began Aug. 10.

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FISHERS Project: 146th Street at Ind. 37 Location: All left-turn lanes are currently restricted on Ind. 37 and on 146th Street with traffic moved to the interior lanes. Through traffic and right turns on Ind. 37 and 146th Street will remain open. Drivers are encouraged to seek alternate routes for all left turn access. For more about the State Road 37 Improvement Project and to receive text updates, visit 37Thrives.com.

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Thomas Oestreich, staffing the district’s campuses amid a panEDUCATION demic and sweeping quarantines is like solving “a complex puzzle” every day.

“Our principals are up late at night.

They’re calling me, texting me and we’re talking early in the morning,” he said.

“There’s a lot of problem-solving going on in order to keep school going.”

That puzzle has become slightly easier to solve in recent weeks with an influx of new substitute teachers who answered Supt.

Michael Beresford’s plea for help. At the Nov. 17 school board meeting, Beresford said CCS was “extremely short” on subs and that not having enough could contribute to school buildings being forced to close.

Erika Frantz was one of 50 people to quickly step up as a substitute teacher after hearing about the desperate need. As a Realtor, her schedule has enough flexibility to allow her to spend a couple of days a week at Woodbrook Elementary, where her daughters attend school. She did not have any previous experience teaching a classroom.

“I saw a problem and thought I can be part of the solution,” she said. “We are all pulling together as part of this community to keep our schools open and support everyone who has tried so hard to keep (schools) open. I feel like we all need to look at it and say, ‘What can we do to help out?’”

Oestreich said an additional 25 people are

registered to go through the next training for substitute teachers but that the district could always use more — especially during a pandemic. CCS requires subs to have at least 30 credit hours from an accredited college or university and complete a background check. Most subs are paid $75 a day.

Not only is Oestreich managing the recruitment and hiring of more subs, but he also serves in the role himself. He and other administrators have filled in for school principals forced to quarantine.

“I think people forget that (district administrators) have (previously) been great principals and teachers, so anytime we have the opportunity to serve, we love to do that.

It’s been a positive experience,” Oestreich said from the office at Forest Dale Elementary, where he was filling in for an absent administrator.

Frantz said she was nervous before her first day at school but that CCS prepared her well and provided a detailed schedule outlining her responsibilities. She hopes her efforts will provide peace of mind to the teachers she is replacing and encourage others to find a way to serve.

“Our community really needs us right now,” Frantz said. “This may not be your calling in life that you’re going to do forever, but there is a need right now for people to come forward and do this. There are a lot of people who want to help out during this pandemic but don’t know how, and this is a way they can do that.”

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spread across Indiana. Thirty-six counties are now red. The remaining counties are orange (red represents the highest comBecause of rising COVID-19 cases in Indimunity spread and orange indicates the ana, the state will require hospitals to post- second-highest). The map, which can be pone or reschedule viewed at the online dashboard PANDEMIC nonemergent procoronavirus.in.gov, shows the numcedures from Dec. ber of people with the disease per 16 through Jan. 3.

100,000 residents and a county’s Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said positivity rate. during a Dec. 9 virtual press briefIf based solely on the number of ing that the mandate is designed people per 100,000 residents with to lessen the strain on hospitals the disease, Box said every county Holcomb caused by the pandemic, is red as of Dec. 9.

As of Dec. 9, more than 3,200 Hoosiers “Indiana is on fire right now,” Holcomb were hospitalized, a significantly higher said. number than the spring peak of 1,799.

In response to the worsening metrics, Indiana State Health Commissioner KrisHolcomb announced updated gathering tina Box said cases and deaths have inrestrictions. Social gatherings will now be creased at an alarming rate for the last four capped at the limit imposed by a county’s weeks. More than 220 Indiana residents metrics. Local health departments are not died of COVID-19 in the two days precedallowed to grant exceptions. In red couning the briefing, and total deaths now top ties, a maximum of 25 people are allowed to 6,200, with another 299 probable deaths gather. The maximum in orange counties is not included in the tally.

50. The maximum in yellow counties is 100 In addition, the state’s color-coded map, and the maximum in blue counties is 250. which monitors the level of community As of Dec. 9, Boone and Hamilton counties spread in each county, shows continued were orange.

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ring that program to Carmel Clay Schools to staff as they are able.

After-school program attendance is down The COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind 65 percent. Whereas ESE served approxito Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation. mately 1,200 students per day through the CCPR suffered a net program before the pandemic, it’s PARKS loss of $1.3 million for now seeing approximately 400 stuthe year through the dents per day. end of October, causing the departKlitzing told the city council the ment to terminate eight full-time declines can all be attributed to positions, roughly 10 percent of its COVID-19 and that he expects an full-time workforce. CCPR Director eventual rebound once the pandemMichael Klitzing told the Carmel City ic is under control.

Klitzing Council at its Dec. 7 meeting that “I’m very confident we’re planting more reductions are possible as the panthe seeds today to make sure we do come demic continues. back every bit as successful as before the Membership at the Monon Community pandemic hit us,” he said.

Center is as low as it’s been since the faCCPR announced in October that it had cility opened in 2007, Klitzing said. The MCC received the prestigious Gold Medal Award has approximately 3,000 members, down for Excellence in Park and Recreation from 5,000 before the pandemic. AttenManagement, but it has been unable to dance at recreational programs is down 92 celebrate the accomplishment because of percent. the pandemic and its restrictions. When the Extended School Enrichment, CCPR’s celebration finally occurs, Klitzing said efbefore- and after-school care program, has fects of the pandemic will dampen it. also felt the impact. Attendance in the be“Some of those (championship team playfore-school program has dropped by 74 perers) are not going to be with us when we cent, with numbers so low CCPR is transfer- have the opportunity to celebrate,” he said.

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TriCo, which had maintained an administrative office at the John Hensel Government Center in Carmel since 1997, moved all its staff into its expanded and renovated Water Resource Recovery Facility at 7236 Mayflower Park Dr. in Zionsville on Nov. 2.

Formerly Clay Township Regional Wastewater District, TriCo collects and treats wastewater for residents in the western half of Carmel, the east edge of Zionsville and sections of Indianapolis north of Interstate 65.

By virtue of the consolidation, TriCo staff can share more resources and improve efficiency in addition to expanding wastewater treatment capacity from 3.05 million to 5.7 million gallons per day.

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As part of the renovation, the Zionsville plant was expanded to 7,500 square feet and has amenities such as additional office space, larger windows to allow in more natural light and a redesigned lobby for easier access for customers.

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Parables inspire retired rabbi’s books for children

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com A retired rabbi is drawing inspiration from the New Testament to create books for children AUTHOR featuring the parables of Jesus told in an innovative way.

Carmel resident Sandy Sasso, who retired as rabbi at Congregation Beth-El ZeSasso deck in 2013, has authored several books, but some of her most recent endeavors aim to explain popular Bible stories in a way that’s easy for children to understand.

“I believe that children have an innate spirituality and a yearning to discuss the bigger questions of life and that sometimes adults do not recognize that,” she said.

“These books aren’t about answers. They are about questions to help have a deeper conversation with our children about what really matters in life.”

Sasso partnered with Amy-Jill Levine, a professor of New Testament and Jewish

studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School, to write “Who is My Neighbor?,” which was published by Flyaway Books in early 2019. The book is a retelling of the parable of the good Samaritan featuring “Who is My Neighbor?” blue and yellow retells the parable of creatures that the good Samaritan in historically haven’t a way that’s easy for been able to get children to understand.

(Submitted photos) along — although they don’t know why.

Through the book, which includes a discussion guide, Sasso hopes to dispel the notion that the priest and Levite who failed to stop to help a fellow Israelite in the parable were merely concerned about purity laws.

She said in Judaism, saving a life overrides ritual concerns and that the parable shows that a neighbor is one who, regardless of cultural or ethnic differences, shows care and compassion for another.

“Adults need to help children make sense of diversity in a way that’s honest but

doesn’t degrade another group of people,” Sasso said.

Sasso and Levine also partnered to write a children’s book inspired by the parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and prodigal son.

Sasso’s most recent book is inspired by a story that appears in the Torah and Old Testament. “A Very Big Problem” was released Aug. 4 and tells the story of creation with a focus on its interconnectedness and God’s capacity to love all of it.

“So often we think as humans we have the right to exploit the earth because we’re more important, but we should have recognized that with climate change we are very much connected to the earth,” Sasso said.

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Sasso’s two children are grown, so she turns to her grandchildren for help as she writes new books.

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Clothes With A Cause had a modest start in Kelli McLaughlin’s living room with one rack of clothes.

“I invited my girlfriends over to shop just to see what would happen,” she said. “That turned into two racks and then four, which turned into me convincing my husband we need to redo the dining room to put a little shop in the house.”

Then the Carmel resident started conducting festivals for her business, which donates profits to charity.

“We gutted a 1972 vintage camper and turned it into a mobile boutique to take to shows, except for this year,” McLaughlin said.

The camper is named Betty June in honor of her late grandmother.

“She loved to shop, so it was a fitting name for the camper,” McLaughlin said. “The business just exploded, and this space came up.”

Clothes With A Cause, which started in July 2017, moved into Clay Terrace in Carmel in October 2019. The store, at 14300 Clay Terrace Blvd., Suite 105, is moving to a larger Clay Terrace spot across the street next month.

“The concept of the store is twofold,” said McLaughlin, a 1995 Carmel High School graduate. “We donate 100 percent of our profits every month to a different local charitable organization. Our goal is to bring awareness to the good things that are happening locally and then help raise money for them. The other side of things is pretty much everything in the shop is giving back in some capacity. I only stock things that are already paying it forward.”

For example, the company that makes the tumblers the store sells donates 25 percent of its profits to whatever cause is displayed on that tumbler.

“So, everything we sell has a purpose,” said McLaughlin, who taught private piano lessons for 22 years before the Clay Terrace store opened. “We make sure everything is ethically sourced and people are being paid for their wages and things like that.”

In addition to clothes, the store sells gifts and accessories for women. There is a section featuring items made in Indiana.

McLaughlin is in the process of receiving nonprofit status for the store, but the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed the effort. She has been told it will likely be another 12 months before it is granted by the federal government.

“We have a few high school girls that work here and they are paid a fair wage,” McLaughlin said. “I just started taking a small salary. Obviously, I want to pay my workers, but what is most important to me is we are doing good out in

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the community.”

Store sales were going well before it had to close in mid-March for two months because of the pandemic. Online sales were offered during that time.

“I have a Facebook group of about 1,000 women, and they bought a lot of masks during that time,” McLaughlin said. “I started ordering masks about the beginning of March because I sensed things weren’t going to get better for a while, so I had them in stock before a lot of other places did.”

In December, profits from store sales will go to the Indiana Center for the Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide, formerly known as Chaucie’s Place. The following two months, the profits will be donated to COVID-19 relief funds.

“We also do smaller fundraisers where people can invite their friends to do two or three hours of shopping and we’ll donate the profits (to a cause of the organizer’s choice) after that,” McLaughlin said.

The shop is a family affair. McLaughlin’s mother, Gloria Abell, a former Mohawk Trails Elementary School teacher, helped in the store regularly before the pandemic struck.

Her father, John Abell, who was a history teacher and then assistant principal at CHS before retiring in 2008, is president of the board.

“The whole idea is what we can do for people rather than worry about profit,” said John, who moved with his wife from Carmel to Westfield 12 years ago. “It’s grown tremendously. (Kelli has) done great work.”

McLaughlin initially got the idea for fundraising for a cause after watching her brother, Ryan Abell, and his wife raise money to pay for the adoption of two boys from China.

“I thought, ‘What can I do to alleviate some of that burden for people?’” McLaughlin said. “I thought, ‘What are profitable things that people can use for every day?’ I love clothes. I came up with the idea and ran it by my brother. At first, I said, ‘I’m going to donate 10 percent of my profits.’ He was honest and said, ‘With what we are doing, people are looking for checks with two zeroes, not three zeroes, so think bigger.’ Bigger to me meant donating 100 percent of our profits.

We’ve been doing that faithfully now for 3 1/2 years.”

PROJECT SUPPORTS HOMELESS Clothes With A Cause owner Kelli McLaughlin describes the Hoosier Humanity Project “as a side brainchild of mine.”

The initiative assembles boxes with personal-care items for people in need.

The boxes include handmade fleece blankets from the Carmel High School National Honor Society, a fleece hoodie, socks, personal toiletries, hat, gloves and nonperishable food items. The boxes will be sold for people to donate through Dec. 23.

“We’re selling 100 boxes at $50 a box and we’ll be delivering them to the homeless in Indianapolis on Christmas Eve,” McLaughlin said. “We’re hoping that this is a project that takes off every year that we can take to surrounding large cities as well.”

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Constant surveillance

City inconsistent in zoning process

Commentary by Terry Anker In 1989, Bob Saget (nee sitcom dad-extraordinaire Danny Tanner) delivered to ABC Television and “Full House” viewers a new concept based upon the successful series from Japanese television, “Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan.” And “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has been on the air ever since. Originally capitalizing on the home movie craze precipitated by the advent of more affordable, especially VHS, amateur recording technologies, it has come to prove that we are all, to some degree, voyeurs.

In advance of the first U.S. airing, producers advertised to encourage folks to send in home movies of family members in accidental (and occasionally staged) physical pratfalls.

Today, picture-taking has become a daily routine. We are photographed, videoed and scanned more times per day than most of us can imagine. Each stop for a cup of coffee is recorded.

Each walk into City Hall is preserved.

Each fill of fuel for the Oldsmobile gets us from several different angles. Some fear that our phones and computers are recording us.

So, if we all take the stage daily, what are we doing? MTV’s “Ridiculousness” curates clips to mock our haplessness.

Law enforcement posts photos and asks us to be on the lookout. At home, we see whose cat is digging up the flowers and what neighbor is cutting across our lawn. Cameras record when the kids come home and when they go.

But for all the footage, what good does it do? Are we better? In many ways, we are safer than ever, so why are we more anxious? In many ways, life is easier, so why are we more depressed? Can we humans live under constant surveillance like all-too-many Skinner’s rats? Maybe it is best not to know.

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

Crushing my holiday spirit Commentary by Danielle Wilson My December is off to a shaky start, friends. It’s not surprising given the current apocalypse, but still, can’t a HUMOR gal catch a break? Two of our annual FFXOs (Forced Family Xmas Outings) have been hijacked by, I can only assume, the masses of people finding themselves on social lockdown and in desperate need of distraction. But you’re messing with my holiday spirit!

The first Wilson event to bite the dust was the Winterlights at Newfields display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. We started going a few years back despite much complaint from our angsty teens, but once they realized we would buy them outrageously overpriced hot chocolates for appropriately uttered “oohs” and “ahhs,” they were completely onboard. Not in 2020! Unless we go at 4:30 p.m. before it’s even dark, or at 9:30 p.m., an hour after my bedtime, we are out of luck. They’re booked solid, like, forever.

The second FFXO to meet a quick demise

was the purchase of a live Christmas tree.

We have our secret go-to spot where the firs are ginormous and the price tags are tiny. They even deliver! But when our somewhat grumpy six-pack pulled up, just a few days post-Thanksgiving, there was not a tannenbaum in sight. I naively thought maybe we were too early, that their northern shipment had yet to arrive. But, alas, they’d been sold out for two days. Even the sad little Charlie Brown ones … gone. Bah, bleeping, humbug!

I know you’re looking for diversions so you won’t shiv your spouse come New Year’s, but could you please avoid my cherished FFXOs? This gal needs a break!

Peace out.

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

Editor, Reading the story about The GOAT and what has been going on around that property reminded me of what the Al Salam Foundation had to go through to build a mosque. The GOAT, despite being on property zoned residential, had to obtain no type of zoning approval. The zoning has only become an issue several months later now that residents are complaining, even though the city was well aware of the zoning beforehand.

In contrast, the Al Salam Foundation was dragged to two different zoning board meetings for approval for a permitted use within residential zoning in an area that already has several religious congregations. During one of those meetings, a Carmel city councilor attempted to pressure the zoning board in saying that if this was a council matter, the council would vote down the proposal. It just seems strange that one development, which is a permitted use, had to go through every step of the process, whereas a for-profit business, operating against the zoning of the property it occupied, did not.

Will we ever hear a convincing explanation as to why that happened? I doubt it.

Matt Stone, Carmel

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Editor, I am writing in response to the Dec. 1 Current in Carmel cover story: “A cautionary tale: After overdose deaths of family members, authors publish book about dangers of addiction.”

First, my heart goes out to the writers for the pain and loss they’ve experienced. Awareness, through any means, can be an effective tool to help fight the devastating disease of addiction.

Having struggled with a family member myself, it’s important to know that there is another way to help their loved ones. I was introduced to an organization I had never heard of while attending sessions at a treatment center where my family member was staying. They referred me to Al-Anon, which is a sister organization to Alcoholics Anonymous.

Al-Anon Family Groups were started over 65 years ago and meet in over 130 countries to help families and friends.

There are over 50 meetings in the Indianapolis area alone.

What I discovered was an anonymous, spiritual (not religious) program, and a community of people that helped me make better decisions for myself and consequently, my loved one. As a result of years in meetings and working the program, which I’ll gladly do for the rest of my life, I can gratefully say my family member recently celebrated six years of sobriety in AA. There is help and hope for family members, and lives can be changed and restored.

Alice Howe, Carmel

Editor, I just read the letter from James J. Smith in the Dec. 8 issue of Current in Carmel. I must say I am chagrined that Current would even consider printing a letter that is so overtly partisan, xenophobic and misleading. Mr. Smith advocates disenfranchisement to non-homeowners and renters. He also wildly asserts that people who do not pay property taxes “want all kinds of freebies and other asinine programs.”

There are so many important voices on so many issues in Carmel. Please print only truthful letters and/or those that provide constructive criticism.

Elaine Mancini, Carmel

Time for a name change?

Editor, I recently read an article about Columbus Day, and I think we need to make some changes.

First, Columbus wasn’t looking for America, he was looking for India. Second, the Native Americans lived here already, so technically, Native Americans found America. Third, Columbus thought because they had a different colored skin and spoke a different language he could take them and sell them as slaves, and that’s not right no matter what color their skin is or what language they speak.

So in conclusion, I think we should change the name to Indigenous Peoples Day. It’s the least we can do.

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Spacey solutions to storage problems Commentary by Dick Wolfsie I decided to clean out the storage closets in our basement. We have one filled with clothes, one chock-full of tools HUMOR and lawn equipment and one that I simply have no idea how to describe the contents because I just chuck stuff in there and never look inside.

Out of sight, out of my mind (so to speak).

I discovered in that storage area lots of magazines I had never read, including several issues of Storage Solutions. I glanced through one “Special Double Issue.”

Interesting that the editors couldn’t fit everything into one edition. On the cover was the tease, FIND SPACE YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU HAD. My guess is that at one time you knew you had it, but you put it somewhere and now you can’t find it. I know that makes no sense, but when I make myself laugh, that means it’s going in the column.

The back page was an ad for fifthroom. com. This company sells solutions for people who don’t want to install shelves, hooks and cabinets and instead just want to buy a prefab shed, gazebo or pool house and cram all their crapola into one place outside their

home. You can also purchase something called a pergola, but I had no idea what that was, and I didn’t want to make any room in my brain for more useless information.

When Mary Ellen saw me reading Storage Solutions, she asked if she could see it when I was finished. I told her I’d leave it rolled up and stuck in the wine rack.

That idea was not in the magazine. Proud to say, that one was all mine.

The editorial that month was titled, “Help, I Need More Space!” The month before that, it was, “Do You Need More Space?” And before that, “Space, I Think That’s What We All Need!” The pages are filled with colorful photographs of homes that don’t have much furniture, but instead have a lot of adjustable nooks and crannies. With every picture, the first thing you think of is not how

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These are actual tips from the magazine.

You can thank me later for bringing them to your attention: • Store books on a shelf vertically so you can read the titles (I know, I know, how cool an idea is that?).

• Use large hooks for coats, backpacks and gym bags, but use smaller ones for keys and dog leashes (seriously, why didn’t I think of this?).

• Use empty jars to store paper clips and loose screws (was this magazine the best eight bucks I ever spent?).

When Mary Ellen saw me reading Storage Solutions, she asked if she could see it when I was finished. I told her I’d leave it rolled up and stuck in the wine rack. That idea was not in the magazine. Proud to say, that one was all mine.

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Hotel Carmichael was the Carmel award winner and Flexware Innovation’s headquarters earned the honor for Fishers. The awards were selected by a OneZone Awards Committee.

“We are excited to highlight such incredible buildings,” Russell said. “They each show innovation, creativity and are the result of so many great people. We look forward to highlighting the people and these buildings at our January event.”

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The three-story, 30,000-square-foot building features an open three-story stairs, clad in curtainwall, which encourages employees and guests to use the stairs and pulls in natural light to the center core, according to a OneZone press release. The second- and third-floor balconies overlook the Nickel Plate Amphitheater. The project also incorporated a top-tier, high-efficiency Virtual Routing and Forwarding HVAC system for

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Although the library site is closing, the cafe’s SoHo To Go coffee vehicle will remain in operation. In August, the coffee vehicle was retooled and hit the road to bring espresso to those in need of a caffeine boost.

Vivian said retirement will allow the couple to spend more time with their seven grandchildren, travel and volunteer.

“We thank (our customers) from the bottom of our hearts for putting SoHo on the map the past 10 years,” she wrote. “We have had nothing but wonderful experiences and look forward to what’s ahead.”

To schedule a visit from the SoHo To Go coffee vehicle, call 317-564-4800 or leave a message on the Facebook page at facebook. com/SoHoCafeGallery.

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“My husband and I have considered retiring from the coffee business for a while, but COVID simply confirmed our decision,” Vivian wrote in a Facebook post.

SoHo was closed for nearly eight weeks after Gov. Eric Holcomb issued a statewide shutdown order in March to slow the spread of COVID-19.

“It is our bittersweet decision to close SoHo Cafe & Gallery as of Dec. 30, 2020, and look forward to a new, healthy year in 2021,” Vivian wrote. “Oh how we’ll miss the ‘daily grind,’ our employees, and our customers.”

SoHo’s cafe in the Carmel Library has been closed since March, originally because of the pandemic but now because the library is being renovated. Vivian said because the library won’t move back into its main building until 2022, she can’t speculate on what that will mean for the future of the on-site cafe.

CCPL Communications Manager Christy Walker said the library is planning to go through a request-for-proposal process for a vendor to fill the cafe spot once the building reopens. She said that was the plan before SoHo announced its closing.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com As a traveling art fair artist, Mark Grosser has felt the pain many have experienced since the coronavirus ONLINE pandemic struck.

“All the art fairs started canceling in March and there is a huge group of people out there unemployed, and it might be a long time before they find employment as art fair artists,” said Grosser, who owns M. Grosser Jewelry Design, 580 E. Carmel Dr., Suite 130, Carmel. “We came up with the idea of putting an art fair in people’s homes.”

Grosser, who has lived in Carmel for 25 years, got help from programmers Doug Lentz, a Fishers resident, and Carmel resident Jay Jackson to launch a selling platform featuring art fair artists.

“I came to them with the idea and it took us seven months to make the idea happen,” Grosser said. “I had decided in April that we needed to make something not just for myself but for all of our artist friends. Our goal with ArtFairNational.com is to bring art fair artists and patrons together for an online art festival. No masks required, just shop from the comfort of your home.”

The site launched Oct. 26 and 80 artists have joined so far. Grosser said 12 test artists signed up two weeks prior to launch to offer feedback.

In a normal year, Grosser works at art shows in Florida from November through April, then has several shows in the Midwest and on the East Coast. He then participates in events in Colorado from July to September.

Grosser said only a few places have allowed art events, and then only with strict social distancing policies and crowd restrictions The artists pay a monthly fee of $25 to be included on the platform.

“We don’t take any percentages. When you go Etsy, Shopify and some of those bigger sites, they all want a percentage

Civic Theatre “Elf The Musical,” a recorded showing of the 2019 performance of the Civic Theatre production from The Tarkington in Carmel with added features, will be streamed at select times through Dec. 26. For more, visit civictheatre.org.

‘Live at the Center’ The “Live at the Center” series presents Bashiri Asad in livestream from the Palladium at the Center for Performing Arts, Carmel, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 16. Free to register. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

Actors Theatre of Indiana “A Christmas Carol,” featuring Jefferson Mays as every character, on-demand livestream available through Jan. 3, 2021. For more, visit atistage.org.

A collage of artists’ work on Mark Grosser’s website. (Submitted photos)

Mark Grosser and his wife, Paula Ritchey, launched ArtFairNational.com to help artists sell their work.

of your money,” Grosser said. “There is a need for a fine art platform that doesn’t let in production studios and imports. We do have a certification when they sign up so we can check up and make sure they are truly handmade American artists.

That’s the drive in our platform that it’s handmade art by Americans that are small businesses and don’t have 10 to 15 employees making art for them.”

Grosser said setting up a portfolio for the platform is simple.

“You pull your own URL off of it, just like it was your website,” Grosser said.

“We found that 50 percent of the traveling art fair artists didn’t even have websites before.”

The website has different art categories or can searched by an artist’s name.

“As we grow and get bigger, we will find need to organize and categorize this stuff to make it easier for users,” Grosser said.

Initially, getting word out about the site had been accomplished through artists’ social media platforms. Grosser said a marketing company from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., started a marketing campaign after Thanksgiving that will run through the end of this month to help attract customers to the site.

“I hope it grows and will eventually become an income for me, but I don’t see that happening for a while,” said Grosser, who noted that his wife, Paula Ritchey, a Carmel High School graduate, is part of the ArtFairNational.com company.

For more, visit artfairnational.com.

Songbook Academy alumni reunite online for holiday special editorial@youarecurrent.com A coast-to-coast lineup of rising stars and top students in the performing arts will gather online this month for a virtual holiday show presented by Great American Songbook Foundation founder Michael Feinstein.

Featuring alumni from the decade-plus history of the annual Songbook Academy summer intensive, “Twelve Songs of the Season: A Virtual Holiday Special,” will stream online at 8 p.m. Dec. 19. The one-time webcast is free via YouTube, with registration available at TheSongbook.org/Holiday.

Along with fresh renditions of seasonal classics — “ I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Let It Snow” and “White Christmas,” among others — “Twelve Songs of the Season” will include historical anecdotes from Feinstein about the featured songs, as well as glimpses of rarely seen artifacts from the Songbook Archives at the Foundation’s home, the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

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BEEF & BOARDS “We plan to reopen in March,” owner Doug Stark said. “We are eager to get back to doing what we love – entertaining our audiences!”

Opening the theater’s 48th season will be the audience favorite, “Smoke on the Mountain.” One of the most popular shows at Beef & Boards, “Smoke on the Mountain” is the story of the Singing Sanders Family, who are invited to perform at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church by its new pastor, the Rev. Oglethorpe. Filled with energetic tunes, unforgettable stories and lovable characters, “Smoke on the Mountain” is a heartwarming reason to return to live theater.

Originally scheduled for 2020, “The Sound of Music” will be presented in the 2021 season. The iconic work of Rodgers and Hammerstein will be the 2021 Family Show, with $10 discounts off tickets for kids ages 3 to 15. Follow the adventures of free-spirited Maria, a high-spirited novice nun, as

“Smoke on the Mountain,” a musical about the Singing Sanders Family, is set to open Beef & Boards’ season in March 2021. (Submitted photo)

she is sent from the convent to become a governess for seven children of Capt. von Trapp in Austria during World War II. The famous score includes “My Favorite Things,” “The Hills are Alive,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Every Mountain” and the title tune.

Other shows include “Shear Madness,” “Disney’s Newsies,” and “Phantom.”

Those who have 2020 VIP Memberships to Beef & Boards will have their credits and benefits extended through Nov. 21, 2021.

The box office remains closed through Feb. 22, 2021. To contact Beef & Boards before that time, send an email to boxoffice@ beefandboards.com.

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Dancers do not remain in one place for long because of all the traveling steps and choreography.

“Therefore, they reduce their risk of staying in close amid the COVID-19 pandemic. contact with one another,” “We are very pleased that Hachiya-Weiner said. we have had dancers and Natalie Heinemeyer, a high families come alongside of us school senior from Westfield, to entrust us and our safety will reprise her role of Sugar protocols enough to let their Plum Fairy. dancers participate in this Heinemeyer will perform in staging of the ‘Nutcracker,’” the Dec. 19 evening show and Hachiya-Weiner said. “It has the Dec. 20 matinee. Riley Stay Home. Be Moved. been a hard year. Our dancTerBush, Carmel, will perform ers truly need a performance as the Sugar Plum in the othRiley TerBush, Carmel, will as. a0 culmination point for all er two performances. c h o o s •e KITCHENS s u r r o u n•dADDITIONS i n g s . c o m | 3 1 7. 5 7 5 482 INTERIORS: • BATHROOMS ofU their hard Ciara Farley, Carmel, will INDIANA DESIGN CENTER | CARMEL | S ITE 1 work, 2 0 A both virtu- perform as Sugar Plum Fairy ally and masked in the studio. in the Ballet Theatre of play the role of Clara on the EXTERIORS: • PATIOS • LANDSCAPES • PORCHES • DESIGN / BUILD Carmel’s production of “The The viewing public needs a Dec. 19 evening performance Nutcracker.” (Submitted photo) moment in a theater to reand on the Dec. 20 matinee.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Kathy Landschulz and her son, Will, have long shared a love of singing.

Will, 28, joined his mother CONCERT this year in the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir. Kathy has been an ISC member for 12 years.

“It’s been a lot of fun to join the choir with Mom,” Will said.

The Zionsville residents will perform in the ISC’s annual “Festival of Carols,” which will celebrate 30 years with a special broadcast of the performance on MyINDY-TV 23 at 7 p.m. Dec. 21. The broadcast is in lieu of a live audience because of COVID-19 precautions.

“When Will was in high school, he really discovered of all the different musical things he tried that singing resonated, and it was a real joy,” Kathy said. “That delighted me because singing has been a lifelong joy for me, so to have Will discover that was really extra nice.”

Will graduated from University High School in 2010, where he started out in the orchestra but switched to choir.

Kathy Landschulz and her son, Will, are Indianapolis Symphonic Choir members who will appear in “Festival of Carols.” (Submitted photo)

Mother and son performed together in a small group at Zionsville Lutheran Church.

Kathy said ISC Artistic Director Eric Stark and staff also encouraged Will to join.

“He’s a tenor and they’re always looking for tenors,” said Kathy, an alto.

Will said the “Festival of Carols” features a fun set of songs.

At the annual ISC gala, there is a choosea-carol silent auction.

“I won and I chose ‘Welcome Christmas’ from ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas,’” Will said. “I’ve had an utter blast singing that.”

Kathy and Will will sing Christmas carols as part of ISC’s “Christmas at the Zoo” at the Indianapolis Zoo from 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 19.

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One of Josefov’s most important buildings was once a mortuary.

Jews have lived in Prague since at least the 10th century. In A.D. 1215, a church council called by Pope Innocent III issued a series of decrees intended to minimize contact between Jews and Christians. The Prague government took these ideas a step further, requiring that all its Jewish residents relocate to a walled area between Old Town Square and the Vltava River. Beginning in the 16th century, Prague’s self-governing Jewish quarter, which had its own flag, attracted Jews expelled from other European countries and eventually included more Jews than anywhere else in the world. They buried their dead in a small cemetery, which eventually held more than 200,000 bodies, many buried 12-feet deep. A burial society (chevra kadisha) was responsible for assuring that bodies of

the dead were prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition.

Between 1906 and 1908, Prague’s Jewish burial society erected a Romanesque Revival ceremonial hall adjacent to the cemetery. A morgue in the basement held the bodies until they could be ritually purified on the first floor. The second floor included a meeting and banquet room for members of the society. After World War I, the building ceased being used for burial activities and became part of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Among the building’s most important items are 15, 18th-century Baroque-style paintings illustrating what was involved in preparing and burying the Jewish dead.

The ceremonial hall and nearby synagogues survived the Nazi efforts to exterminate the residents of Josefov because Hitler envisioned the area as the “Museum of the Extinct Race.”

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Cursing out the @#$% year of the grawlix Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt If I told you that a grawlix infestation is inevitable, you’d probably respond with something to the effect of, “What the $#@! are you talking GRAMMAR GUY about?”

I think I speak for all of us when I say I’m ready to kick the flaming, heaping pile of garbage called 2020 to the curb. Between a once-in-a-century pandemic, murder hornets and everything else in between, I’ve strung together quite the creative list of profane words when cursing 2020’s series of unfortunate events.

The polite way to express these words on a page is through the graphical bleeping of swear words called a grawlix.

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section of the newspaper. Picture Cathy, with I have responded to most of 2020 with a series of grawlixes. For instance, when I her eyes so close together that they touch.

She hasn’t had her coffee yet, and “Ack!” just learned that we’ve had more than 26 hurwon’t suffice. You see, she has just attempted ricanes, so the hurricane-naming people moved to the Greek to dye her hair, and it It allows the reader to fill in the alphabet to start turned out the same naming hurricanes, green shade as a pickle. blank with their own profanityInstead of “Ack!” in this I said, “You’ve got laced Mad Libs interjection. to be &#@$ kidding situation, Cathy lays me!” The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo down a “%#@$!” or maybe even a “$@&*!”

Those are examples of grawlixes (or grawlicwere postponed until 2021, which caused my synchronized swimming team to coles.; both are correct plural forms of grawlix).

When you employ a grawlix into your lectively cry, “%&$@#! Now, we have to comic strip, text message or email, you’re change our flights.”

The year 2020 has been so monumentally replacing actual curse words with keyboard full of bad news, I barely remember the characters that convey the words without Australian bushfires that burned 47 million having to spell them out. It allows the reader to fill in the blank with their own profani- acres, killed at least 34 people, displaced ty-laced Mad Libs interjection.

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The successful Bidders will be required to furnish Performance and Payment Bonds for one hundred percent (100%) of their Contract amount prior to execution of Contracts.

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

The Owner reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid (or combination of Bids) and to waive any irregularities in bidding. All Bids may be held for a period not to exceed 60 days before awarding contracts.

Carmel Clay Schools By: RON FARRAND

thousands more and killed, harmed or displaced 3 billion animals. Oh, $%@#&. I mean, the fires did start in late 2019, so it’s easy to forget that we rang in the new year with this terrible event.

So, based on the one-after-another calamities that have bombarded us this year, I’m ready to declare 2020 “the year of the grawlix” while we bid it good %@#&$ riddance. Here’s hoping 2021 brings much happier happenings.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received: By: Carmel Clay Schools 5201 E. Main Street Carmel, IN 46033 For: New Carmel Elementary Schools 5201 E. Main Street Carmel, IN 46033 At: Carmel Clay Schools 5201 E. Main Street Carmel, IN 46033 Until: 2:00 PM (local time), January 20, 2021 Bid Opening: Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 PM (local time), at 5201 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN 46033 or via Microsoft Teams.

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting +1 317-762-3960 United States, Indianapolis (Toll) Conference ID: 893 529 282# All work for the complete construction of the Project will be under one or more prime contracts with the Owner based on bids received and on combinations awarded. The Construction Manager will manage the construction of the Project.

Construction shall be in full accordance with the Bidding Documents which are on file with the Owner and may be examined by prospective bidders at the following locations: Office of the Construction Manager The Skillman Plan Room The Skillman Corporation 3834 S. Emerson Avenue, Building A www.skillmanplanroom.com Indianapolis, IN 46203 Prime and Non-Prime Contract Bidders must place an order on www.skillmanplanroom.com to be able to download documents electronically or request printed documents. There is no cost for downloading the bidding documents. Bidders desiring printed documents shall pay for the cost of printing, shipping and handling.

Reprographic Services are provided by: Eastern Engineering 9901 Allisonville Road, Fishers, IN 46038, Phone 317-598-0661.

WAGE SCALE: Wage Scale does not apply to this project.

A Virtual Pre-Bid Conference will be held on January 6, 2021 at 1:00 PM, local time, via Microsoft Teams.

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting +1 317-762-3960 United States, Indianapolis (Toll) Conference ID: 630 751 081# Attendance by bidders is optional, but recommended, in order to clarify or answer questions concerning the Drawings and Project Manual for the Project.

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

The successful Bidders will be required to furnish Performance and Payment Bonds for one hundred percent (100%) of their Contract amount prior to execution of Contracts.

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

The Owner reserves the right to accept or reject any Bid (or combination of Bids) and to waive any irregularities in bidding. All Bids may be held for a period not to exceed 60 days before awarding contracts.

Carmel Clay Schools By: RON FARRAND

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