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GROWTH SPURT Mt. Vernon school district considers options for new elementary / P11

Health officials talk vaccines, rising infections / P3

Column: A historical look at state’s health crises / P7

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Holcomb: ‘Indiana is on fire’

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Because of rising COVID-19 cases in Indiana, the state will require hospitals to postpone or PANDEMIC reschedule nonemergent procedures from Dec. 16 through Jan. 3.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said during a Dec. 9 virtual press briefing that Holcomb the mandate is designed to lessen the strain on hospitals caused by the pandemic, As of Dec. 9, more than 3,200 Hoosiers were hospitalized, a significantly higher number than the spring peak of 1,799.

Indiana State Health Commissioner Kristina Box said cases and deaths have increased at an alarming rate for the last four weeks. More than 220 Indiana residents died of COVID-19 in the two days preceding the briefing, and total deaths now top 6,200, with another 299 probable deaths not included in the tally.

In addition, the state’s color-coded map, which monitors the level of community spread in each county, shows continued spread across Indiana. Thirty-six counties are now red. The remaining counties are orange (red represents the highest community spread and orange indicates the second-highest). The map, which can be viewed at the online dashboard coronavirus.in.gov,

To our valued readers: It seems as though it was years ago when we communicated our revised distribution plan for Geist, but it was actually only the end of March. Time flies when you’re battling the fallout from the pandemic, we suppose.

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shows the number of people with the disease per 100,000 residents and a county’s positivity rate.

If based solely on the number of people per 100,000 residents with the disease, Box said every county is red as of Dec. 9.

“Indiana is on fire right now,” Holcomb said.

In response to the worsening metrics, Holcomb announced updated gathering restrictions. Social Box gatherings will now be capped at the limit imposed by a county’s metrics. Local health departments are not allowed to grant exceptions. In red counties, a maximum of 25 people are allowed to gather. The maximum in orange counties is 50. The maximum in yellow counties is 100 and the maximum in blue counties is 250.

As of Dec. 9, Boone and Hamilton counties were orange. Health officials said counties are advised to wait until its color has remained the same for two consecutive weeks before enacting different gathering restrictions.

Holcomb asked Indiana residents to follow a number of steps to slow the spread, including limiting the size of gatherings by following the metrics; pause nonemergent procedures done in in-patient hospital settings to free up hospital beds; follow the mask mandate; keep 6 feet between yourself and others; wear face coverings; wash hands throughout the day; get tested if you’re sick

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or symptomatic; stay home and isolate if you test positive for COVID-19; donate blood if you’re able; and stay informed about the distribution of vaccines.

In addition, Holcomb said employers are advised to talk to employees to help them understand their activities outside of the workplace and the community State health officials also caution against unnecessary holiday travel.

Vaccine update Dr. Lindsay Weaver, the state’s chief medical officer, said Dec. 9 that Indiana anticipates receiving more than 55,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech the first week the company begins shipping it to states, pending emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA was set to consider the authorization Dec. 10. Shipments of the vaccine are expected to be sent out within a few days of authorization.

The vaccines will first be sent to five Indiana hospitals across the state that have the ability to store the vaccines at ultra-low temperatures (the hospitals represent five sectors of Indiana). They will then be sent to local hospitals.

Box and Holcomb called the vaccines modern “medical miracles” during the briefing.

State health officials encourage all Hoosiers to receive a vaccine as soon as they are able, with the exception of children younger than 16. Clinical trials for children and pregnant women are under way.

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Students warn of tobacco use

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Five Hamilton County high school students have dubbed themselves The Action Five.

The group started a chapter of VOICE Indiana, which is a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE statewide initiative to engage, educate and empower teens on maintaining a tobacco-free lifestyle.

“The most important thing to me about being a core team member of VOICE Indiana is that I have the ability to educate my peers about vaping and help them learn that what they are doing to their bodies today can affect their futures,” said Guerin Catholic senior Lucy Schenk, a Westfield resident and Action Five member. “We created a QR code with a link to a Google survey asking students from Hamilton County to share with us their story about how tobacco has affected them, whether that be directly or through family/friends.

“We posted this QR code around our schools, on our social media and handed out flyers to have participants take the survey.”

Schenk will participate, along with her four other core team members from Hamilton County, in the Rotary Club’s Dec. 1 meeting.

“We will be presenting our ‘sweet deceptions’ program there,” Schenk said.

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Smokeout is that we will be taking those responses from our Google survey and creating a banner mural to display all the stories.

With the use of symbols and images, we have a group from Noblesville High School who will be designing our mural for us.

“After the mural is created, we will make copies and ask to hang the murals in most of the high schools in Hamilton County.”

Westfield High School sophomore Alana Halsted is another Action Five and core member.

“What is important to me is helping those who use tobacco know the dangers and get help with quitting,” she said.

Halsted participated in Red Ribbon Week, which began Oct. 26.

“I participated by telling my friends and other students about what we were doing and how they could participate (and) I shared my story as an example on a video so others could feel more welcome to join and share their stories,” Halsted said.

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Other Action Squad members are Alison Beckwith, Hamilton Southeastern High School and Isabella Miller, Noblesville High School.

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A historical look at Indiana’s public health crises Commentary by Robert Bowling We are certainly living in unprecedented times. COVID-19 has forced all Americans to change their way BACK IN THE DAY of life. Students have had to adapt to online learning as schools have been forced to close. Businesses are struggling to remain open while the virus wreaks havoc on our economy. Face masks have become part of our normal attire. And the virus is testing the limits of government intrusion in the lives of its citizens, all in the name of public health. While we continue to encounter new restrictions, here is a look at how history has dealt with contagious diseases in Indiana.

The word quarantine has become part of our daily lexicon. Although quarantine is a new experience for many of us, it has been around since the 14th century. During the bubonic plague, ships arriving in Venice, Italy, would have to sit for 40 days before docking. The practice became known as quarantine and the word is derived from the Italian words for 40 days.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw Indiana impose numerous travel advisories from neighboring states like Ohio and major cities like Chicago. Residents were requested to quarantine for 14 days if they traveled to Indiana due to the state’s high positivity rate.

Chicago actually introduced fines for those that violated it, up to $7,000. But this isn’t new. In 1902, Kentucky declared quarantine against Indiana because Gov. Winfield Durbin refused to use funds to stamp out smallpox.

Ferries and trains denied tickets to Indiana residents, and anyone caught in Kentucky without a health certificate was fined and was transported back across the state line.

The pandemic also has changed how we grieve. There have been stories of loved

ones having to FaceTime as they said their goodbyes. Many funerals are now closed to the public, limited only to immediate family members. But this isn’t a new practice, either. In 1897, Indiana listed 17 different contagious diseases that would require being quarantined. Anyone who died of these diseases was required to be buried within 24 hours and the funeral was limited to immediate family members, pallbearers, minister and an undertaker.

Many people have begun to question the government’s power to force people to quarantine, wear masks or dictate what they do in their private homes. But during the smallpox epidemic in the 1900s, health officers were invested with power to compel people to quarantine. Sometimes, force was used to enforce the quarantine, like in 1906 in Franklin, where eight armed men under the control of the sheriff confined 23 people who were infected with smallpox.

A unique difference between the quarantine of the past and present is that it was the government’s responsibility to provide food for those locked in their homes. But sometimes, politics overruled public health.

During the scarlet fever epidemic in 1912, the City of Richmond was so broke that it had to release people from quarantine early in order to save money.

In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox globally eradicated. But only time will tell about the duration of COVID-19 and if our efforts will be enough.

Robert Bowling has been a Fishers police officer for 16 years. He is a school resource officer and is the Fishers Police Dept. historian. He has a love of history and enjoys sharing it with others. He recently wrote the script and performed in the “Battle of Mudsock” re-enactment.

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Mt. Vernon school district considers options for new elementary

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com It’s no secret that the Mt. Vernon Community School Corp. district is growing.

“We’re going to be growing a lot in the future,” Supt. Jack Parker said. “We contracted with a demographer a couple of years ago who predicted we would grow 2,000 students in the course of 10 years.”

The 2020-21 enrollment of 4,338 is expected to grow to 6,235 by 2028-29, according to the demographer. Parker addressed the growth in a Dec. 3 Zoom presentation with the community.

“Our next decision as part of our future growth plan is, do we build an elementary school from scratch or we do we renovate our current administration building, which years ago was an elementary school, back into an elementary school?” Parker said.

Parker said the decision can’t be made without understanding all of the other variables, so the district has hired Lancer + Beebe, LLC, a construction management firm, to work on the scope of the future growth plans to see what the possibilities are before making the decision on the next elementary school.

“They’ve done a great job putting this together, and (it) helps put in perspective what we choose to do as we manage the growth in our district,” Parker said.

The 2020-21 enrollment is slightly below the demographer’s projected enrollment.

“We had a smaller growth while many districts had a decrease in enrollment,” Parker said.

Parker said many kindergarten parents have chosen to hold their children back a year because of the pandemic.

“We’re likely to see a boom with our kindergarten enrollment just next year,” he said.

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Mt. Vernon Community School Corp. projected enrollment growth over the next 10 years. (Submitted images)

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“We met at least monthly with our Community Champions advisory committee to

go over the thoughts and feelings of the community and develop recommendations on how to move forward,” Parker said.

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COMMITTEE SUPPORTS ADDING INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL The advisory committee, which has nearly 50 members, presented the recommendations to more than 200 community members in February.

“The scope of this plan was to focus on, how would the district manage growth and what would the grade configuration look like?” Parker said. “They recommended we would move back to an intermediate school.”

Mt. Vernon has three elementary schools for kindergarten through fifth grade, a middle school with three grades and a high school.

“We are working on reconfiguring elementary schools to go to just grade four and reinstituting an intermediate school with grades fifth and sixth, and then we would have a middle school with only two grades, seventh and eighth,” Parker said.

“The idea is you are allowing room for growth in your middle school by peeling a grade level off of that. You are providing growth in our three elementary schools by peeling a grade off all those.”

Parker said the intermediate school building already is top-notch.

“It was used as an intermediate school just a few short years ago and now, it’s Fortville Elementary School,” he said.

The building was converted into an elementary school when the school had budget issues and the elementary schools were reduced from six to five grades. It has large hallways, a large cafeteria, band room, choir room and a large gym.

Parker said although the school might need to expand capacity, it was designed as an intermediate school. Turning Fortville into an intermediate school would require a third elementary school.

“Our Community Champions committee determined even with peeling a grade off the middle school, a little more capacity will be needed at that school,” Parker said. “We don’t have the luxury of building something early and waiting for it to be filled. We’re going to be very careful and very conscious of what we need to build. We are focusing on what we need, not what we want. We need to have capacity in the quality facilities to educate our students.”

Parker said with the pandemic and the slowdown in the economy, there likely will not be a new school for the 2023-24 school year, which was projected to be completed for that year in accordance with the district’s growth plan. Another element of a future growth plan is a high school renovation to increase classroom space in the 2024-25 school year.

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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, I am very sorry Mari Briggs was disappointed in the election results, but her letter on Dec. 1 was nothing but a compilation of various conspiracy theories. There was no truth to anything she wrote, but shame on Current newspaper for printing her letter without a hint of rebuttal.

Election officials in virtually every state have concluded that, despite Trump’s insistence on fraud and rigging, the results were fair, honest and accurate. President-elect Biden garnered over 80 million votes, the most in history, and it had nothing to do with how he chose to campaign during a pandemic.

Every lawsuit Trump’s lawyers have taken into various courts, even in courts with Trump-appointed judges, have been thrown out. Trump is free to Tweet out conspiracy nonsense, but when lawyers go into a court of law, they must present evidence. There is none. The election was secure.

This is the United States of America, not a banana republic. We must no longer allow a single person to undermine our trust in our democracy.

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Condoning falsehoods Editor, I’m writing in response to the letter printed in your newspaper on Dec. 1 by Mari Briggs. While the opinion page is a place to share thoughts and opinions, Current’s policy states that it reserves the right to reject or return any letter it deems to carry “unsubstantiated” content.

If this is indeed your policy, please share with your readers what sources you used to substantiate Mari’s accusations of Joe Biden stealing the election. In this time of so much disinformation, misinformation and an assault on the truth, I expect our local journalists to adhere to fact-checking and at the very least, if a letter contains blatant untruths, as Mari’s letter did, to comment below the letter with the facts. Allowing lies and disinformation to be published without comment is irresponsible, dangerous to our democracy and gives the appearance that you condone these falsehoods.

Since you chose not to address her falsehoods, I feel compelled to share the facts as reported in the mainstream media, not right-wing news outlets peddling disinformation, propaganda and fake news.

Joe Biden won the election by more than 6 million votes. Donald Trump has lost more than 30 lawsuits because he has no evidence of election fraud. He can say all he wants on TV and social media, but courts deal in factual evidence and it has not been provided. Our election officials, both federal and state, have stated over and over that 2020 is the most secure election in history.

I’m not going to address her other charges because they were ripped from the headlines of Fox News. The bottom line is that the truth matters, and as journalists, you should ensure if you are allowing information to be printed that is not true, you comment with actual facts.

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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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SPOTLIGHT Exchange Club of Hamilton County meets in Noblesville Adrenaline Family Adventure Park offers many indoor activities for families. (Submitted photo)

Adrenaline Adventure Park opens

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Families now have a new place for entertainment and for their children to burn off some energy.

NEW BIZ Director of Operations Brittany McClary said the idea for Adrenaline Family Adventure Park started when owner Chuck McNulty wanted to find a way to offer activity and indoor family entertainment.

McNulty also is the founder of Mustard Seed of Central Indiana, a Fishers-based nonprofit which provides furniture for those in need.

McClary, a Fishers resident, joined the team because she had experience opening a SkyZone franchise in Florida.

“I love the idea of active fun for families and children. I have two boys of my own,” McClary said. “I have a degree in occupational therapy and worked in schools for a long time, and play is important to peoples’ lives. There aren’t a lot of places other than these facilities to go as a parent and have fun and be active with their kids.”

In March, SkyZone closed in Fishers, and Adrenaline Family Adventure Park ownership saw an opportunity. It was previously planned to open in the building next to SkyZone, which was formerly an indoor training facility. But when SkyZone closed, Adrenaline ownership decided to combine the two spaces. Now, the park has more than 50,000 square feet.

Adrenaline Family Adventure Park is at 10080 E. 121st St., Suite 182, Fishers. Activities include trampolines, a climbing wall and jousting. It also has a ropes course and an all-sports course, among other features.

For more, visit adrenalinefishers.com.

The Exchange Club of Hamilton County is a chapter of the National Exchange Club. The club’s core values are: family, community and country. The Exchange Club of Hamilton County supports the national club initiatives in Veterans Matter (housing homeless veterans) and child abuse prevention, and it also raises funds for local nonprofit organizations. The club conducts various fundraisers and looks for local nonprofit organizations to support financially. It meets twice a month, the first and third Wednesday of the month in Noblesville.

New nonprofit established Healthy&Dwell is a new nonprofit that was established this year in Noblesville. It is It was created after founder Ronda Owens-Dehmer, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, became aware of the lack of supportive housing in the area. She started Healthy&Dwell in hopes to alleviate some of that for people with a serious mental illness. The nonprofit’s goal is to provide safe, secure housing for people who need it and help with other basic necessities that they struggle with. The nonprofit has closed on a property and is in need of beds, a washer/dryer, a security system and a variety of other household items.

It also is looking for attorneys in the area who are interested in providing some pro bono services. For more, visit healthyanddwell.org.

Indiana Parkinson Foundation offers programs, services The Indiana Parkinson Foundation is a local nonprofit that has programs and services for those with Parkinson’s and their families. Programs include The CLIMB exercise program, support groups, educational events and resources. For more, visit indianaparkinson.org.

Financial Literacy and Intelligence Center of Knowledge hopes to end poverty cycle FLiCK’s mission is to end the cycle of poverty and create economic mobility in Indiana. It works to accomplish that mission by providing financial education to students, and financial counseling to adults struggling with their budgets. Especially with COVID-19 worsening and the holidays coming up, many people are struggling to make the money they have work for them. FLiCK focuses on the client’s unique emotional perspective about money. Most people have a tough time changing their financial behaviors, and FLiCK’s goal to get to the root cause of financial problems and help families thrive. FLiCK is located in Carmel near Clay Terrace, but it wants to focus on

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CYAP adds board members The Carmel Youth Assistance Program recently added five new board members. They are Adam Bray, Brian Henson, Jeff Nolan, David Schnase and Stephanie Whiteside.

Cherish Child Advocacy Center postpones 10K Cherish CAC, based in Noblesville, recently announced it will postpone its virtual 10K to next spring. For those who have already registered for the 10K, someone from Cherish will reach out soon.

Meals on Wheels of Hamilton County seeks donations Meals on Wheels of Hamilton County serves a huge population of homebound seniors, those with disabilities and also those who are recovering post-surgery. With COVID-19 cases spiking, the group has seen increased need. However, due to COVID-19, the nonprofit had to cancel Dancing With Our Stars, which is its biggest fundraiser of the year. It now is seeking for donations from the community. For more or to donate, visit mealsonwheelshc.org.

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Benefits of cayenne — Cayenne is a spicy powder made from red chili peppers. It has many health benefits including pain relief and weight loss. Many people dislike spicy foods, however, and don’t get any cayenne in their diet. It can be taken as a supplement, though. The recommended dose is 2mg of capsaicin daily – higher doses may irritate the stomach.

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diagnosed with COVID-19. Versiti Blood Center of Indiana is appealing to Hoosiers who have recovered from coronavirus to donate their antibody-rich plasma immediately at any one of its donor centers throughout Indiana, in Indianapolis, Fishers, Carmel, Greenwood, Lafayette and Terre Haute. Versiti collects then supplies convalescent plasma, blood and blood products to more than 80 hospitals throughout the state.

Plasma demand surges in Indiana hospitals — Hospital demand for convalescent plasma throughout Indiana is now far exceeding donations coming in. Demand is 50 percent in recent days compared to what it was just 30 days ago. Convalescent plasma is used by hospitals across Indiana to help treat a surging number of patients

Benefits of 3-D mammogram – Is a 3-D mammogram really worth the extra cost? The 3-D images make it easier to distinguish normal breast tissue from tumors, so it’s harder for cancers to hide. That means better detection and fewer false positives and callbacks, when you’re asked to come back because of a potentially abnormal

finding. So, even though it costs a bit more, it may be worth it in the long run.

Source: BottomLineHealth.com Dehydration in seniors – Dehydration can present differently in the elderly than it can in younger people. And because seniors tend to lose their awareness of thirst, they may forget to drink enough fluids. Symptoms of dehydration in an elderly person can range from confusion and dizziness to uncoordinated movements and altered mental states.

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Carmel jewelry designer starts website for unemployed art fair artists

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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remember that our souls and spirits need to be nurtured, even while we work to remain physically safe during this pandemic.”

Ballet Theatre of Carmel Academy Artistic There will be four performances at Star Bank Director Jane Hachiya-Weiner is especially Performing Arts Center at Zionsville Community glad to presHigh School. There will be BALLET ent “The Nutperformances at 2 p.m. and cracker” amid 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19-20 the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hachiya-Weiner said one “We are very pleased blessing is that dancers that we have had dancers do not remain in one place and families come alongfor long because of all side of us to entrust us the traveling steps and and our safety protocols choreography. enough to let their dancers “Therefore, they reduce participate in this staging their risk of staying in of the ‘Nutcracker,’” Hachiclose contact with one ya-Weiner said. “We’re hapanother,” she said. “We are py about the Zionsville theblessed to be in a rather ater whose doors remain large venue for this event open in accordance with Natalie Heinemeyer, Westfield, will on many levels.” the current guidelines. It Natalie Heinemeyer, a high perform as Sugar Plum Fairy for has been a hard year. Our the third time in the Ballet Theatre school senior from Westfield, dancers truly need a perof Carmel’s production of “The will reprise her role of Sugar Nutcracker.” (Submitted photo) formance as a culmination Plum Fairy in the Dec.19 evepoint for all of their hard work, both virtuning show and the Dec. 20 matinee. ally and masked in the studio. The viewing For tickets and livestreaming options, public needs a moment in a theater to visit ballettheatreofcarmel.org/nutcracker/.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE FISHERS CITY COUNCIL Docket No. ANX-20-4 The Fishers City Council (“Council”) hereby gives notice that it will hold a public hearing on Monday, the 21st day of December, 2020 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. (the “Public Hearing”), to consider a Petition for voluntary Annexation (the “Petition”) of two (2) Lots, located at 10765 E 121st Street, Fishers, IN 46037, west of Hoosier Road on the south side of 121st Street, also known as parcels 13-11-33-00-00-020.000 and 13-1133-00-00-019.101, and consisting of approximately 1.65 acres. The legal description can be found at the Fishers City Hall in the Planning & Zoning Department. The Fishers City Council meeting will be conducted as a VIRTUAL/TELECONFERENCE MEETING. The public may stream the meeting online at http://tinyurl. com/FishersCityHall.

A copy of the Petition is on file for examination at the Planning & Zoning Department, One Municipal Drive, Fishers, Indiana, 46038.

Interested persons may file written suggestions or objections relative to the request with the Planning and Zoning Department at or before said meeting, and/or they may contact Trevor Preddy, Planner II with the Planning and Zoning Department at 317-595-3137 prior to the Public Hearing for assistance.

All interested persons desiring to present their views on the above Petition, either in writing or verbally, will be given the opportunity to be heard at the above-specified time and place. The Public Hearing may be continued from time to time as may be found necessary.

FISHERS CITY COUNCIL PETITIONER: City of Fishers City Hall 1 Municipal Drive Fishers, IN 46038 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE FISHERS CITY COUNCIL Docket No. ANX-20-5 The Fishers City Council (“Council”) hereby gives notice that it will hold a public hearing on Monday, the 21st day of December, 2020 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. (the “Public Hearing”), to consider a Petition for voluntary Annexation (the “Petition”) of one (1) Lot, located at 13485 Howe Road, Fishers, IN 46038, north of 131st Street on the west side of Howe Road, also known as parcel 13-11-29-00-00-009.001, and consisting of approximately 2 acres. The legal description can be found at the Fishers City Hall in the Planning & Zoning Department. The Fishers City Council meeting will be conducted as a VIRTUAL/TELECONFERENCE MEETING. The public may stream the meeting online at http://tinyurl.com/FishersCityHall.

A copy of the Petition is on file for examination at the Planning & Zoning Department, One Municipal Drive, Fishers, Indiana, 46038.

Interested persons may file written suggestions or objections relative to the request with the Planning and Zoning Department at or before said meeting, and/or they may contact Trevor Preddy, Planner II with the Planning and Zoning Department at 317-595-3137 prior to the Public Hearing for assistance.

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