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AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE Plans to widen Ind. 32 in jeopardy as Westfield council reconsidering agreement with INDOT / P12

Hamilton County updates comprehensive plan / P3

Plans under way for WWPL / P3

Major crimes decrease in Westfield / P3

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Hamilton County updates comprehensive plan for first time in 14 years

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com County comprehensive plans are typically reviewed once every 10 years, so after 14 years without an update, P0LITICS Hamilton County was in need of a new plan. The document outlines a foundation for all land use, transportation and environmental policies for the rural townships of Wayne and White River and the northeast corner of Noblesville and Adams Township.

“Especially with the explosive growth we’ve had here in our county, we felt like it was important we update it, and we have had a lot of people move into our county since the last time it’s been updated,” Hamilton County Commissioner Mark Heirbrandt said. “We really needed to get a lot of public input with it.”

Although the public input session occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, Carmel-based Innovative Planning CEO Corrie Meyer and her team conducted nine township meetings and seven council and plan commission meetings to gather input for the plan. On April 12, the Hamilton County Commissioners approved the Hamilton County Comprehensive Plan.

“We had tremendous public input on this,” Heirbrandt said. “Our last two plan commission meetings, not only were they opened up virtually to call in, but we had a packed house at the government and judicial center. There was a lot of public input, and we listened to the people.”

Meyer said one of the biggest hurdles was that although land outside of city limits makes up 50 percent of the acreage in the county, 95 percent of it is agricultural.

One of the common requests from the public was to keep the agricultural feel of the county.

“You think about the top grossing and top growth, population-wise, of the state that Hamilton County is right there, and there was a strong desire to preserve that,” Meyer said. “We needed to research how other communities were doing and also listen to what the citizens were saying they want-

FEELINGS REGARDING PRESERVING AGRICULTURAL LAND

Majority of the public wants to continue to preserve agricultural land use in Hamilton County.

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ed. Did they want to preserve agriculture or did they want to continue their family economy? Their main ask was, ‘We like the farming culture that is in Hamilton County, we like the access we have to the other communities. The other communities can continue to grow and provide amenities and shops and art, but let’s focus that growth within the city boundaries and continue to preserve the agriculture.’”

Although not a zoning change, the comprehensive plan lays out a series of action items for the plan commission to implement in the next 10 years, including recommended zoning changes.

“One of the things we recommended was to create a rural urban overlay zone in Wayne Township to strategically allow for growth to happen but not to sprawl,” Meyer said. “The rural urban overlay zone is a policy that establishes overlay zoning criteria that says density needs to be this and land use is flexible, but it needs to match this density and it needs to really limit the sprawl going into the rural areas. It’s a very focused geographic area.”

Another public request involved the 10-

“Especially with the explosive growth we’ve had here in our county, we felt like it was important we update it, and we have had a lot of people move into our county since the last time it’s been updated.”

– MARK HEIRBRANDT

acre rule, whereby current zoning code states that all residential land use has to have a minimum of 10 acres.

“That really limits families that may want to deed 2 acres to their kids so they can continue to stay on the property and work the property,” Meyer said. “That’s not allowed unless you go through a variance process. We ended up making a recommendation that basically says that the plan commission needs to revisit the minimum lot size and revise the residential codes.”

Heirbrandt and Meyers said many citizens attended public meetings with concerns about the future of Olio Road.

In 2008, the future of Olio Road was outlined in a thoroughfare plan for the county.

“That thoroughfare plan outlined future study areas for road connections, so we incorporated that information into this comprehensive plan,” Meyer said. “That (information) is an existing document that the highway department is working from, and until that document is replaced, it still is a study area. So, that is all we were saying.

It’s currently a study area for future road connection based on the existing plan.”

The plan highlighted a northern section of Olio Road where it passed through rural communities.

“People were really confused about what the comprehensive plan was recommending,” Meyer said. “We weren’t recommending anything associated with Olio Road. There’s another plan out there that talks about this.”

To view the plan, visit hamiltoncounty.in.gov/DocumentCenter/View/15781/ Comp-Plan-FINAL_March-03032021.

NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS • Endorsing the agrarian culture and quality of life • Balancing current land uses and growth in a sustainable manner • Protecting floodplains and natural resources • Strategically encouraging economic development in business and agriculture • Managing population growth by increasing clusters of population density

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Plans under way for new Westfield public library

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Westfield’s ever-growing population meant the Westfield Washington Public Library needed more space to GROWTH fill residents’ needs.

The WWPL moved into its present location at 333 W. Hoover St. in 1993. It was expanded for the first time in 1994.

Westfield’s population was 3,500 in 1990. By the second expansion in 2014, Westfield’s population had Sollars grown to 35,000. WWPL Director Sheryl Sollars said the last population count was nearly 44,000.

“That’s why after 38 years, the library is looking to rebuild,” Sollars said. “Not expand but build from the ground up for a library that will better meet those needs.”

The library hired KRM architects to conduct a feasibility study in 2019. Sollars told the Westfield Chamber of Commerce audience April 15 at the Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield that the study showed building a new facility on a new site would be the most cost-effective option.

The site is downtown at Westfield Boulevard and Park Street.

“The purchase of land and the building of a new building, it sounds expensive, right?”

Sollars said. “It is, but we think we can get it done without any significant impact on your property taxes. We will continue to work with our partners at Westfield Washington Schools, the Westfield Washington Trustees Office, the City of Westfield and this project will most likely be tax neutral.”

The library’s construction and land cost will be $16.7 million. A general obligation bond is scheduled to go before the city council later this year. That will cause a 2 cent increase in the library tax rate, but Westfield Washington Schools is projected to continue to decrease its tax rate during the next several years. Sollars said that will allow the new library project to be net neutral for the total tax rate.

The groundbreaking will be as soon as the spring of 2022, with completion planned for the fall of 2023.

Sollars said there will be Thomas a series of public meetings in the coming weeks to provide more information on the new project.

Sollars said a previous public survey indicated a desire for a new, innovative library.

She said about half of respondents indicated they use other libraries in Hamilton County, and 35 percent said they use Carmel Clay Public Library to meet their needs.

The issues with the location now are a lack of parking, insufficient study rooms and need for more programing space. Residents would like to see remote working space, a coffee shop, a courtyard for outside activities and drive-thru services.

The Westfield Library Foundation’s mission is to raise private donations and pursue grants to sustain the library for generations, Sollars said.

Mike Thomas, Westfield Library Foundation president, said the library has great programs for the entire population.

For more, visit westfieldlibraryfoundation. com.

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WPD releases annual report news@currentinwestfield.com The Westfield Police Dept. 2020 Annual Report was released April 29. Data shows a decrease in major PUBLIC SAFETY crimes and an increase in domestic disturbances.

“Just last week Westfield was named the top suburb in the U.S. and one of the reasons cited was our low crime rate,” Mayor Andy Cook stated. “The Westfield Police Dept. Annual Report highlights the people and processes that help us to continue to be a safe community. I am proud of the proactive and professional policing from our officers.”

WPD Chief Joel Rush attributes the domestic-related runs to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“No one could have predicted the challenges we faced in 2020,” Rush stated. “Our team rose to the challenges presented by the pandemic and social unrest in the country. Our team adapted and responded to the challenges of 2020. We have a dedicated group of men and women who continue to show they can manage transition and still meet and exceed the demands of one of the fastest growing cities in Indiana.”

In 2020, the department transitioned to the National Incident-Based Reporting System, also known as NIBRS. NIBRS is a criminal reporting system designed to capture details on each crime incident. Using the new system, WPD reported a decrease in major crimes. Westfield saw a decrease in rapes, robberies, thefts and automobile accidents. In 2020, there was one reported rape compared to six in 2019; four reported robberies compared to five in 2019; 18 reported batteries with serious injury compared to four in 2019; and 232 batteries with no or minor injuries compared to 149 in 2019.

There were two cases of arson, 27 burglaries and 286 thefts.

The department also received national accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. It was the department’s second award of national accreditation, the first coming in 2016.

WPD added nine officers and assigned three officers to the Noblesville/Westfield Emergency Services Unit, a highly trained tactical team for high-risk critical incidents.

To view the entire report, visit westfield. in.gov/egov/documents/1619704004_91291. pdf.

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Indiana delegation asks FCC to provide broadband map

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the FCC, offer the most accurate snapshot of which areas of the U.S. have access to broadband internet. Because of the rapid In a display of bipartisan, the Indiana pace of development, the most recent maps Congressional delegation is urging the Fedwere obsolete upon publication. eral Communications “Now, there is a new process P0LITICS Commission to prowhere there would be more revide a status update al-time process mapping,” Spartz on the production of broadband said. “Money was given last year, coverage maps. The maps indicate but it seems like the federal govwhich areas in each state — and ernment was moving really slow, even each county — have access to and it’s important where you know internet broadband. (broadband access is).”

Spartz “I truly believe (broadband) is Congress passed the Broadband the electricity of the 21st century,” said Deployment Accuracy and Technology AvailU.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), who repability Act in 2019, which provided $98 milresents the 5th District. “We need to be lion to address the mapping issues. smart. Where it is feasible we will have to The other Hoosier congressional memsubsidize, but we also shouldn’t be wasting bers are: Democrat Frank Mvran, Republican money where there is economic (advantage) Jackie Walorski, Republican Jim Banks, and where people already have (broadband Republican James Baird, Republican Greg access). It will improve access to health Pence, Democrat Andre Carson, Republican care, education and economic opportunities Larry Buchson (R-08) and Republican Trey for businesses.”

Hollingsworth. Each joined Spartz in signBroadband coverage maps, provided by ing the letter to the FCC.

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HCHD struggles with no-shows

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com After months of patients waiting to receive COVID-19 immunizations, the Hamilton County Health Dept.

PANDEMIC announced it has noticed a sharp increase in the number of people who do not show up for their vaccination appointments.

HCHD Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Christian Walker said the department is averaging up to 50 no-shows each day.

“Unfortunately, that puts us in a bad position as we don’t want to risk losing a dose because we opened a vial and don’t have an arm to put it in,” Walker stated.

More COVID-19 vaccination clinics are opening, allowing people to schedule appointments sooner than their previously scheduled appointment, leading to the noshows. The only way to cancel an appointment is by calling the state’s 211 number, which can lead to long wait times.

Patients can still expect either a call from 317-776-2585 or a text from 78015 the week prior to confirm their appointment. However, if they need to talk to someone about the appointment or cancel the appointment, they should leave a voicemail including their name, date of birth, phone number and appointment date at 317-776-8566.

DISPATCHES Centier announces promotion — Centier Bank CEO and Chairman Michael E. Schrage recently announced the recent promotion of Anthony Contrucci to Senior Vice President of Community Relations. Since 2016, Contruccihas served as vice president of community relations and business development.

Contrucci originally joined Centier Bank in 2011 as the wealth management and strategic products consultant and then went on to serve as the director of investment services in 2014.

Westfield chief of staff receives credential from ICMA — Westfield Chief of Staff Todd Burtron received the credentialed manager designation from ICMA, the International City/County Management Association. Burtron is one of more than 1,300 local government management professionals currently credentialed through the ICMA Voluntary Credentialing Program.

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(Above) On March 29, U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) spent the day connecting with the local agricultural community in the 5th Congressional District. Spartz toured Atlanta-based Beck’s Hybrids, one of the largest seed producers in the nation. She also met with the members of Indiana Farm Bureau from across the district, hosted by George Kakasuleff, president of the Hamilton County Farm Bureau Board, at the family farm in Cicero. Issues discussed included infrastructure, workforce, immigration, regulatory environment, taxes, sustainable agriculture and rural broadband. (Right) U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, right, speaks with Daniel Bechman of Beck’s Hybrids in Atlanta, Ind. (Submitted photos)

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, two Westfield sisters have volunteered at The Restoracy of Whitestown to VOLUNTEERING brighten the spirits of residents in the assisted living facility.

Nisha Roy, 14, and Rayna Roy, 12, are Cadette Girl Scouts with JoSheWe Troop 0065 of Central Indiana and have been Scouts since kindergarten. During a 2020 troop meeting, the girls were told they needed to complete 50 hours of community service with a cause they care about to earn a Silver Award, the highest honor a Cadette can earn.

The sisters said they thought of their grandmother, Jerilyn Knopp, who lives at Crestwood Village North, a retirement community they frequently visited before the pandemic.

“My grandma, she’s in a nursing home,” Rayna said. “We took her out a lot before (the pandemic) because she got bored a lot, and

Nisha Roy, 14, and Rayna Roy, 12, create signs for a Whitestown nursing home. (Submitted photo)

she’s stuck there, so we wanted to make something to keep other people from getting bored since they’re all stuck at home, and they can’t really go out and do anything – so just things that could keep them busy and happy were what we wanted to do.”

Soon after learning about the award’s requirements, Diane Roy, Nisha and Rayna’s mother, saw The Restoracy of Whitestown, which opened in 2020, had posted online to NextDoor, a social networking service, asking for volunteers.

“They felt they could help give them something to do,” Diane said of her daughters.

“Mostly, The Restoracy of Whitestown has different houses, so (Nisha and Rayna) made wooden signs they could use from year to year as a welcome sign.”

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, all of the girls’ materials and kits have needed to be individually wrapped. They baked sugar cookies for the residents and packaged icing packets separate so that the residents could decorate the cookies.

Nisha and Rayna also completed other tasks for the nursing home, including coordinating library services, making wreaths, stockings and developing a resource binder of senior community activities.

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Closure Project: 146th Street Location: Citizens is doCONSTRUCTION roundabouts ing an emergency sewer Location: A section of repair project at the exit 146th Street between lane of the Silver Thorne Towne Road and Shelborne Road is neighborhood (Oak Road and 151st Street). being rerouted south for a Hamilton CounThe repair began May 3 and is expected ty project. This section of 146th Street to last approximately three weeks. The is being constructed to connect to the project will not affect 151st Street or the roundabouts. Drivers are encouraged to entrance lane to the neighborhood, but use caution in the area and follow the residents will need to exit the neighbordirection of signage. hood at the south entrance near 147th Expected completion: Aug. 1.

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Project: East Street extension Expected completion: End of May Location: A section of Grassy Branch Project: Ind. 38 lane shift Road between 203rd Street and Ind. 38 Location: There is a temporary lane shift is permanently closed as of March 23. on a section of State Road 38 near Grassy Additionally, a section of 203rd Street Branch Road while work on the south is permanently closed as of March 26. side of the road is completed for the East Both closures are associated with the Street Extension Project.

East Street extension project which will Expected completion: The lane shift will improve safety at the Ind. 38 intersection be in place until the first week of June when complete. Recently, a section of Ind. 2021.

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By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com The Westfield City Council plans to move forward with introducing an ordinance at its May 10 meeting to terminate an interlocal agreement with INDOT to widen Ind. 32 between Poplar Street and Timberbrook Run. Originally set to be introduced April 12, the council held off on introducing the ordinance to allow the city council — which has five different members from when the agreement was unanimously approved in 2018 — to work with the project team to address concerns. The efforts culminated with a public information session May 4 at the Grand Park Events Center, during which attendees watched a 20-minute video before visiting with City of Westfield, INDOT and American Structurepoint officials in an open house format to ask questions and share concerns.

Westfield City Council President Mike Johns called the event “extremely disappointing.” He said he had requested a meeting with the project team that would have allowed councilors and community members to discuss the matter and have questions addressed in front of other attendees.

Because that didn’t happen, and because he was told INDOT officials likely wouldn’t be able to attend the May 10 council meeting with such short notice, Johns said councilors decided in a May 5 pre-council meeting to introduce the ordinance terminating the agreement at their next meeting, although he said they do not plan to vote.

Johns said he’s not sure why the May 4 event wasn’t structured as he requested, but he’s not yet comfortable moving forward with the project.

“We’re going to go back and do it again, and this time do it at Town Hall, and do it open to the public, and do what we asked for last night,” Johns said.

City of Westfield Communications Director Vicki Duncan Gardner said the May 4 session was organized “at significant cost and effort” to meet Johns’ request.

“More than 100 residents had an in-depth opportunity for good information to be exchanged in an open forum. The experts were there to answer all questions in the public forum. It was also advertised as a special

see a new and improved agreement.

“It doesn’t mean we’re not going to support the project, but we sure as heck want to know what it is, and possibly we need to think about a new interlocal agreement,” Johns said. “Maybe we just need to revise the agreement a little bit, let’s tweak it.”

Learn more about the project and submit feedback at structurepointpublic.com/ sr32westfield.

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Right, Sarah Everhart, an environmental specialist with American Structurepoint, discusses the Ind. 32 widening project with Westfield resident Marsha Alexander. (Photo by Ann Marie Shambaugh)

city council meeting so the entire council could attend and get questions asked and answered thoroughly,” she said.

She also said that Johns has been in various meetings with the project team as far back as January 2020 and has attended at least four meetings this year and that “every single issue related to this project has been asked and answered.”

Johns said he still has questions about the design of the project, but his primary concerns are potential cost overruns and a lack of transparency with the 2018 vote.

“You have an agreement that was put in place with a total of a 16-minute discussion and vote back in October 2018 without having any public comment,” Johns said. “It’s an agreement which is an open checkbook.

It’s a $15 million cost, and anything above the $15 million will be borne by the citizens of Westfield. I don’t think that’s a good agreement.”

Per the interlocal agreement, INDOT and Westfield will split the cost up to $15 million, with Westfield covering overruns. Since that time, INDOT has said it will split the cost of project-critical overruns.

The current cost estimate is $15.9 million, with historic mitigation activities in the Downtown Westfield Historic District leading to the increase. INDOT spokesperson Mallory Duncan said the mitigation efforts are critical to the project and that INDOT will pay for half of the cost.

The project’s impact extends far beyond the .6-mile construction zone. Connecting to its east, INDOT has plans to spend $35 million to reconstruct Ind. 32 between Westfield and Noblesville. Construction is planned to begin in 2025, but Duncan Gardner said the project “will be put in jeopardy” if Westfield terminates the interlocal agreement with INDOT. Duncan Gardner said Westfield Mayor Andy Cook was scheduled to ask the council to vote on the termination ordinance at the May 10 meeting, because he “is adamant that we cannot continue to spend taxpayer money if the council does not want to adhere to the will of the people and proceed with the project.”

“If councilor Johns does not want this project, as he has told the mayor, he should just be straight with the public,” Duncan Gardner said. “As it stands now, if councilor Johns is successful in killing the (Ind. 32) reconstruction, the city will lose about $1.5 million spent thus far by either INDOT or our consultant, the future $35M (Ind. 32) upgrade between Westfield and Noblesville jeopardized, and our downtown will continue to have the capacity, public safety problems it has now.”

Johns said every member of the Westfield City Council believes Ind. 32 should be improved and that terminating the interlocal agreement with INDOT wouldn’t mean upgrades won’t happen. Instead, he’d like to

More than 100 community members attended the May 4 meeting at the Grand Park Event Center to ask questions and share concerns about the project to widen Ind. 32 through downtown Westfield.

“The impact of this is the first step in making sure the traffic flows from one side of the county to the other, thus impacting the counties east and west of us, too. The significance of it is very critical to central Indiana’s development.”

— Ron Rothrock, Westfield resident “It looks like (the project team has) done a fine job of really considering what the City of Westfield wanted and what they asked for, which satisfies me very much. Moving forward with this particular (project), they’re still going to have an open mind about some of the fine details that might be thrown in or taken out based on what the need might be.”

— Ron Moore, Westfield resident “I think what they’ve proposed is great. My concern is just our little intersection. Turning left into it is dangerous. We had one person killed and another badly injured, because people are going into and coming out of a 40 (mph zone) into a 30 (mph zone), which they don’t recognize sometimes, anyway.”

— Marsha Alexander, Westfield resident in the Willow Creek neighborhood

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Commentary by Terry Anker About six months into the COVID-19 lockdowns, many of us came to know that we needed another, perhaps larger, pair of sweatpants. While our lungs remained gratefully clear, our arteries were filling with too many snacks and too little movement. With stores closed, we either had to Zoom with no pants or order online. For most of us, anyway, we clicked.

There are scores of options out there promising the sublime and the ridiculous. Eventually, we make our choice and advance to check out. The sites then turn from smiling sales clerk to more ominous back-office sweatshop.

“Give us your personal information!

Give us your financial information! Give us your permission for an endless parade of spam from us and anyone who will pay us to direct their harangue at you! Sure, we’ll say that we value your privacy and care deeply about you. But in the fine print, oh, the fine print, we may conceal a bit.”

Once someone decides that we have “opted in,” is there any limit to that license? It is a slippery slope. We should not have peered into the internet abyss.

But now we have, and can no more stop, the marketing deluge than we can get the excess super glue from our fingers. We try to unsubscribe. Seemingly, it only makes it worse. We plead to talk to a person. The automated attendant disconnects. We are promised that we’ve been removed. They lie.

Once they have us, will they ever let go? The sweatpants are nice, but the end of the lockdown has paused the ballooning waistline. New sweats are not required. Still, there are fresh messages every day — often two. Specials, sales, colors, comments on social issues, financing options and reminders of past purchases. Stop! Maybe pant-less was a better option.

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

Commentary by Danielle Wilson

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It has begun. The mass emigration from college campuses to homes of origin is in full swing, friends, and I, for one, am not looking forward to its completion.

For context, Doo and I have four children, three of whom are “livin’ the dream” as coeds in dorms or apartments. We’ve basically spent the past year flirting with an attractive empty nest that promises endless quiet, clean countertops and small Meijer bills. Sure, we still have our youngest around, but she’s the consummate teenager, appearing at mealtime and the occasional holiday party. Her existence here is literally only evidenced by drying leggings in the laundry room and her stupid healthy foods. I exercise for Twinkies, people, not soy-based, protein-enriched nut bread.

But I digress. The point is, the domestic sanctuary I’ve recently started enjoying is about to be overrun by a bunch of loud-mouthed, newly opinionated, incessantly hungry, “independent” young adults who are thrilled to be once again on the dole. We will go from an easy, family of 2 1/2 to a terrifying mosh pit of six. Empty bedrooms will become war zones, the driveway a mine field, and the kitchen, a 24-hour mess hall barely operating because of low rations, a broken dishwasher and ever-flowing trash cans. Am I mixing my metaphors?

Of course I am! The impending onslaught has me discombobulated enough to compare their homecoming to both a Metallica concert and an armed conflict.

All right, all right. Before you go bashing my lack of maternal affection, know that I love my kids dearly. I simply love them more now that they live away. So, wish me luck, for it has begun.

Peace out.

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

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Editor, Hamilton County has many animal lovers who want end to puppy mills, yet some may not know that pet store dogs overwhelmingly come from puppy mills, even though they are licensed, inspected and AKC registered.

Reputable breeders do not sell to pet stores. The mothers in puppy mills are overbred, forced to endure horrible existences in tiny cages and are often abandoned or killed after they can no longer breed. Their puppies are shipped to pet stores, typically spending days in cramped cages on a truck exposed to sick puppies, and sometimes die on the trip. Consumers can be faced with enormous vet bills or even the death of

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We must also ask our local (pet stores) to change (their) business plan to a more humane model, like most pet stores already do, or we must ask the Westfield City Council (councilmembers@westfield.in.gov) to prohibit stores from selling dogs.

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Since (being published in) Current in Westfield, Mallard Fillmore has focused on

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“We were seeing it a lot more in otherwise healthy patients with a vaccine history,” Crook said. “As health care workers Shortly after COVID-19 vaccines befirst started getting the vaccine and those came available nationally, a trend began women came in for mammograms, we found to emerge from more and more women with enPANDEMIC mammogram larged lymph nodes.” screenings.

Crook, however, said it doesn’t “When patients have a COVID-19 happen with all patients who get vaccination, one of the side effects is the vaccine. it can cause lymph nodes in your unCrook said the Society of Breast derarm region to become swollen or Imaging created guidelines IU Health enlarged, which is a natural reaction is following, such as recommending Crook to your immune system responding patients schedule their mammogram to the vaccine,” said Dr. Susan Crook, a radiolscreening prior to having their vaccine or ogist who specializes in breast imaging at IU four weeks after their second dose.

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Kim Hamather said her father, Pete Corbett, was always in the tuxedo business, and she’s never seen somePROFILE one love their job more than he did.

“My parents moved up to Carmel in 1977,” Hamather said. “They opened a bridal and tux shop.”

In the 1980s, Hamather’s brother, Don Corbett, who owned a company called DC Designers Tux Shop, partnered with their father, Pete Corbett, to go into business with DC Tux. In 2000, the Corbetts sold the bridal shop but kept DC Tux open.

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“My dad’s brother had a tuxedo wholesale business, and so my dad saw the value in having his own inventory.”

Pete Corbett died in August 2020.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Melissa Manchester has been performing for more than 50 years, so the COVID-19 pandemic halting perforCONCERT mances in March 2020 has been difficult.

“I think like various people I went through stages of experiencing this tremendous shutdown of our society,” said Manchester, who is based in Los Angeles.

“I was thrown into an abrupt retirement, so to speak. I had to deal with the grief.

The struggle was to stay present and not deal with the past or future and just take each day at a time.”

It helped that the singer/songwriter had a 24th album to work on called “Re:View,” which features fresh takes on several of her classic songs and some previously unreleased songs.

The album is expected to introduce a new audience to her big hits and help regain streaming rights by re-recording her songs.

“Because we are in precarious times, there was an opportunity to roll this out slowly, one a month,” Manchester said. “In order to do that effectively, we’ve come out with a video per song. We’ve been doing that since last September. We’ll continue on it until we have an album.”

Manchester, 70, will make her first live performance since the pandemic hit along with Michael Feinstein at 3 and 8 p.m. May 15 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Tickets are sold out for the evening show, but a livestream is available. Feinstein and Manchester were originally supposed to perform together in the spring of 2020 before the pandemic.

“I’m very cautiously optimistic,” Manchester said. “I love my dear friend Michael Feinstein. Michael and I have performed together many times. It’s wonderful when Michael and I share the stage. We do sing some songs together and that’s very lovely.”

Manchester visited the Palladium to

“Light on the Horizon” Civic Theatre will present “Light on the Horizon” through May 15 at The Tarkington at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Performances are at 7 p.m. May 14-15. For more, visit civictheatre.org.

“A Few Good Men” Civic Theatre’s production of “A Few Good Men” is set for May 12-23 at Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Performances are at 7 p.m. May 12-13, 2 and 7 p.m. May 15 and 2 p.m. May 16. In-person and livestream options are available.

For more, visit civictheatre.org.

Evening with Michael Feinstein with guest Melissa Manchester Evening with Michael Feinstein with guest Melissa Manchester is set for 3 and 8 p.m. at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. Livestream tickets are available as well. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

Melissa Manchester will appear with Michael Feinstein in two shows May 15 at the Palladium in Carmel. (Submitted photo)

teach at the Songbook Academy. This will be her first concert at the Palladium.

“The hall is as beautiful as can be,” she said.

Manchester became the first recording artist in the history of the Academy Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year, “Through The Eyes Of Love” from “Ice Castles” and “I’ll Never Say Goodbye” from “The Promise,” and to perform both songs on the Oscar telecast.

Nominated for a Grammy in 1980 for “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” she won the Grammy Award for best female vocalist in 1982 with “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.” Manchester also co-wrote the radio mainstays “Midnight Blue,” “Come In From The Rain” and “Whenever I Call You Friend.”

“I feel very grateful that I’ve grown into these songs,” she said. “They’ve become living monologues for me, and I never get bored singing them. For the ones I’ve written, I’m amazed I knew so much because it’s such a long time ago. It’s a privilege to see how much they’ve met to the audience and they were so much the musical

landscapes of my fans. It’s very touching.”

Manchester said the video for “Midnight Blue” is a “musical conversation of present me and older clips of when I was first performing it in the 1970s.”

Manchester has acted at times throughout her career. In 1993-94, she acted in 10 episodes of “Blossom” as Blossom’s mother.

“Acting is not something I really pursued,” she said. “I had to replace Bernadette Peters for the national tour of ’Song and Dance.’ I had done a piece of the tour on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Music of the Night.’ I could have pursued that more, but my track was really to be a concert performer and songwriter.”

Manchester composed music for the animated features “The Great Mouse Detective” and “Lady And The Tramp II,” the sequel to the Disney classic. She also composed the scores for the theatrical musicals “I Sent A Letter To My Love” and “Sweet Potato Queens.”

For more, visit melissamanchester.com.

For tickets, visit thecenterpresents.org.

Beef & Boards Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre will present “Smoke on the Mountain” through June 20.

For more, visit beefandboards.com.

Westfield Playhouse Main Street Productions’ performances of “Silent Sky” are at 7:30 p.m. May 13-15 and 2:30 p.m. May 16. For more, visit westfieldplayhouse.org.

Actors Theatre of Indiana ATI Drive-In Theatre will feature Indiana’s “Start Your Engines” concert at 7:30 p.m.

May 14 at the Monon Square Shopping Center in Carmel. For more, visit atistage.org.

Indianapolis Opera Indianapolis Opera will present “Madame Butterfly” at 7 p.m. May 14-16 at the Indianapolis Zoo’s Bicentennial Pavillon. For more, visit indyopera.org.

Comedy at The Cat The Comedy at The Cat features a comedy lineup of Jeff Jena and John Branyan at 7:30 p.m. May 14 and Jeff Jena and Dave “The King” Wilson at 7:30 p.m. May 15. For more, visit eventbrite.com/.../ comedy-at-the-cat-tickets.

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Three Carmel High School students and two Zionsville Community High School students are among 40 of the naMUSIC tion’s top high school vocalists who have been selected to participate in the 2021 Songbook Academy summer intensive, a week of personal instruction and mentoring by arts and entertainment professionals presented each year by the Great American Songbook Foundation.

Nathan Koon, Jack Sullivan and Cara Nowlin are the CHS students. They are joined by Carmel resident Piper Murphy, who attends Park Tudor School. Lily Cross and Jilayne Kistner are the ZCHS students.

The other Indiana finalists are Annie Flowers, Indianapolis; Jonathan Grimes, Avon; and Camden Zetty, Avon.

Now in its 12th year, the Songbook Academy is the nation’s leading youth music intensive focused on timeless standards from the worlds of jazz, Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. Typically offered on-site

at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, where the Songbook Foundation is headquartered, the program is again shifting to a virtual format in response to the logistical and safety issues posed by the ongoing pandemic.

Still, during the week of July 17-24, the 40 finalists will receive professional vocal training and performance coaching and participate in workshops, daily social activities and educational masterclasses with a team of mentors led by five-time Grammy Award nominee and Songbook Foundation Founder Michael Feinstein.

“There is no reason to expose our finalists or others to any health risk when the virtual format has already proven successful and meaningful to students across the country,” Songbook Foundation Executive Director Christopher Lewis stated. “We look forward to making a difference in the lives of these young artists in creative, safe and accessible ways that preserve the quality, the camaraderie and the personalized nature of the experience.”

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the fall.”

Savia said the acoustics at the Zoo are surprisingly good.

Indianapolis Opera will present a different “We have to do some amplification beversion of the classic “Madame Butterfly” cause some of the seats are back farther,” when it performs Savia said.

CONCERT at the Indianapolis Indianapolis Opera previously Zoo’s Bicentennial staged a production of “Madame Pavilion for the first time.

Butterfly” Nov. 1, 2020, at the Basile “It will be more of a concert proOpera Center in Indianapolis. The duction,” principal guest conductor cast was shrunk because of the Alfred Savia said. “There will be COVID-19 pandemic and only resimore emphasis on the music and dent artists were used.

Savia less on the staging. The main thing “This is going to be quite differis the audience is going to get to hear the ent because the one in the fall, we elimiincredible music of (Giacomo) Puccini.” nated the chorus,” Savia said. “We had one The performances will be at 7 p.m. May soprano join our resident artists. We made 14-16. a lot of cuts to cut out some of the second“The biggest challenge is keeping some ary characters. That’s opened up and we are distancing because we are going to do this doing all of Act 1.” without masks,” said Savia, noting that the Yulia Lysenko is playing Cio-Cio-San/ entire cast has had a COVID-19 vaccination Madame Butterfly. Hugo Vera is playing and expects most of the orchestra will be Pinkerton. vaccinated by the time the performances Savia said the show runs approximately 2 are held. hours and 10 minutes, including an intermis“It’s a small orchestra, about 23 or 24, sion. A normal production would run around and we’re spreading them out,” Savia said.

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I am a huge smoked brisket fan, and that’s what I suggest you order ($10), with a side of smoked mac and cheese ($3) and green beans ($3), cooked with bacon and onions.

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My other favorite part about Gocki’s Smokin’ BBQ is the four homemade sauces, ranging from no heat to sriracha-level heat. Wilgocki offers pickles and jalapeños to customize orders, and I was overall very impressed with his ability to cook (smoke) up a good meal. Gocki’s Smokin’ BBQ motors around Hamilton County and surrounding areas and often sets up in neighborhoods. So, be sure to follow Gocki’s Smokin’ BBQ on Facebook.

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Exploring the Khan El-Khalili souk Commentary by Don Knebel A visit to a Middle Eastern outdoor market, called either a “souk” or “souq” (from Arabic) or a “bazaar” (from TRAVEL Persian), provides a sensory experience like few others. The oldest and one of the most famous souks is Cairo’s sprawling Khan El-Khalili, at the center of Islamic Cairo, between Al-Muizz Street and the important El-Hussein Mosque.

Khan El-Khalili is named for Jaharkas el-Khalili, a government official who established an open-air market in the area in the late 14th century. By the 15th century, the market had become an important center of international trade, including trade in slaves. Today, Khan El-Khalili is the most visited site in Egypt, attracting both locals and visitors from around the world.

The hundreds of stores and workshops attack all the senses, sometimes simultaneously. Bright colors can be found in the many shops selling clothing, including shops displaying lingerie, an unusual site in a predominantly Muslim nation. The aromas of freshly baked bread, burning incense

and tobacco smoke from hookahs are everywhere. Strong Turkish coffee and tasty Middle Eastern food are available in the many cafes and coffee shops, including the famous El Fishawi’s, established in 1773. The sense of touch can be threatened by the crowds of people walking along the narrow streets and rewarded by the feel of luxurious handmade rugs. Artisans, working on leather and precious metals, fill the air with sounds of hammers, and shop owners create a cacophony of many languages as they seek to entice foreign visitors to enter their tiny stores, where they may be more easily coaxed into buying something. On Fridays at about noon, sounds from the nearby El-Hussein Mosque call the faithful to prayers.

When you visit Cairo, make sure you spend a few hours in Khan El-Khalili. And make sure to take your haggling skills.

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

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Nonce upon a time Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt Have you ever heard or uttered a sentence and then thought, “I’ll bet no one’s ever said that before?” For instance, yesterday I was playing GRAMMAR GUY with my daughter, Maeve, who is 3 1/2. She has some stretchy, colorful toys called Monkey Noodles. Maeve has a vivid imagination, but I’ll spare the details of the game she invented only to say the game ended with me exclaiming, “We don’t put Monkey Noodles in our mouths after we bake them in our tummy ovens!”

I doubt the same words had ever been put together in the same order in the same sentence before, and I doubt they’ll ever need to be uttered again.

I think about these kinds of sentences all the time. Do you know that there’s a version of this “once-in-a-lifetime” occasion for standalone words? They’re called “nonce” words, or “occasionalisms.” Nonce words are born when one word gets invented and subsequently utilized one time for one occurrence in one work of writing.

The word “nonce” means “for the once,” or “for one purpose.” Yes, back in the day, regular people knew what “nonce” meant.

James Murray, editor of the 1884 “New English Dictionary on Historical Principles” (which, in later editions, changed its title to the Oxford English Dictionary), coined

the term “nonce-word.”

Lewis Carroll’s 1871 poem “Jabberwocky” includes several nonsensical words that — up until that point — hadn’t been invented, let alone used. The poem introduces us to one-time terms including “brillig,” “frabjous,” “frumious” and “manxome.”

While I wasn’t there when Carroll penned this work, which would later be included in “Through the Looking-Glass,” I doubt he intended these nonce words to exist outside the universe of Alice’s Wonderland.

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

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