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Spartz: Promote COVID vaccine not mandate it Compiled by Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com With the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, workforce shortages and global unrest, U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz from POLITICS Indiana’s 5th District is staying busy as she finishes the first half of her first term. She recently visited with Current in Carmel to discuss these issues and what’s next on her agenda.

States and municipalities are handling COVID-19 Spartz measures, such as mask and vaccine requirements, in many different ways. What role should federal politicians play in preventing the spread of the virus?

I’m a big believer in local control and discretion. The more power is centralized, the more ineffective it becomes, because one size never fits all. I think Congress can provide tools and mechanisms and help states provide guidance and be more transparent on some of the issues so people actually trust in us a little bit more, but ultimately, the decision should be on the local level.

If you take the state of Indiana, Marion County is very different than Grant County or Hamilton County, for example.

There are very different (situations) on the ground, and giving local control and discretion for people on the ground will be much better.

Plus, if (local elected officials) do something wrong, it’s much easier to get rid of them than get rid of your president, whether you like him or not.

What is your view on the COVID-19 vaccine? Should it be mandated?

For most people, the vaccine can pre-

vent very serious illness, and I think it’s important for us to promote that, but it should always be a personal choice what you want to put inside your body. You should never have the government tell you what (to put in your body).

Plus, people have different circumstances, and I think people need to be given information they can discuss with their doctor and look at risk and rewards.

Across the nation, school boards are facing increased scrutiny from parents over issues that include diversity initiatives and mask mandates, among other measures. What is your reaction to this increased interest among constituents?

I believe it’s good to have that local community discretion, but it involves citizens actually being involved. We probably need to have more civil debate on issues. Sometimes, we get too aggressive and are not willing to listen to each other, but it’s good to have people engaged. It’s good to see that people do care, and I think boards need to really start paying attention, too, because I think a lot of them are not used to (increased attention from the public).

Many businesses are having trouble finding workers, and some believe federal COVID-19 unemployment relief programs are to blame. What do you think?

Definitely the current relief package didn’t help. We had some challenges, with employee shortages and workforce development (before the pandemic), but we were getting better, and we were trying to retrain people. Indiana did a great job with new innovative workforce development programs to retool people and get them back in the workforce, but this problem before the pandemic didn’t exist in this scale we have right now.

The incentives for people not to work caused a lot of problems. It’s all across my district, even though I have a very diverse district, and it’s all across the country. When I get together with my colleagues, it’s a huge problem, so we have to figure out how we’re going to deal with it.

How can the workforce shortage be addressed?

We need to be able to think about how we can obtain better skills in K-12. We need to expose more kids to internships and apprenticeships during high school and give them the ability to learn different skills and decide which paths they can try.

What issues will be focus areas for you in the coming months?

One of the material issues is health care affordability and access. The pandemic showed how many problems we have, so I’m working on the Healthy Future Task Force to deliver (Republican) policy solutions. We cannot just do the talk, we must do the walk.

Another big issue I’m working on as a member of the judiciary committee is antitrust and big tech. We need to be thinking about how we are going to protect people’s rights to data privacy, data security and ownership. Then we need to strike the right balance so we can still have innovation but have people have rights to their data.

As a CPA, I am trying to at last revive the conversation about the long-term fiscal health of the country. I’m trying to revive our CPA caucus and maybe talk about some fiscal issues, because this level of (federal) spending is unsustainable. It will create a lot of inflationary trends and it’s not good for the long term for our country.

County cities named in Top 10 Safest Cities report news@currentnoblesville.com Four Hamilton County cities made it onto the 10 Safest Cities in Indiana list, recently published by SafeWise, a comCRIME pany that publishes security and safety reviews, videos and articles.

Zionsville topped the list, followed by Westfield, Carmel and Fishers, respectively.

Noblesville was No. 7 on the list.

The study showed that 44 percent of Hoo-

siers said they felt highly concerned about their safety, while 48 percent said they feel safe. For the second consecutive year, the level of daily concern has dropped. Property crime and violent crime rates also dropped.

The survey found a significant drop in victims of gun crime, which was 34 percent in 2020 and 10 percent in 2021. However, property crime rose to 20 percent comparted to 7 percent in 2020.

For more, visit safewise.com.

TOP 10 SAFEST CITIES IN INDIANA 1. Zionsville 2. Westfield 3. Carmel 4. Fishers 5. West Lafayette 6. Crown Point 7. Noblesville 8. Brownsburg 9. Greenfield 10. Munster

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On Oct. 1, the City of Westfield held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of East Street north of 196th Street. East Street now travels to Ind. 38. The project was completed approximately $800,000 under budget and two months ahead of schedule. From left, Anna Gremling, Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization executive director; city councilor Cindy Spoljaric; Jennifer Beck, INDOT senior project manager; city councilor Joe Edwards; city councilor Scott Willis; Mayor Andy Cook; past councilor Jim Ake; and Public Works Director Jeremy Lollar. (Photo by Anna Skinner)

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Elective procedures suspended — IU Health has temporarily suspended all inpatient elective surgeries and procedures in response to increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization. The suspension will relieve pressure on care teams and free up space for critically ill patients.

The hospital is notifying elective surgery patients of the suspension, which will be continuously monitored and extended as needed on a rolling basis for two-week periods.

Westfield Washington Township opens fall classes — Fall classes are now in session at Westfield Washington Township.

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Women donate health breast tissue

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com More than 15 years ago, Dr. Anna Maria Storniolo decided to pursue a “crazy” idea.

Prompted by RESEARCH breast cancer survivor and patient advocate Connie Rufenbarger, Storniolo began the process of creating a repository to store normal breast tissue. No one had done this, she learned, because no one thought a healthy woman would voluntarily Storniolo agree to a breast biopsy.

As an oncologist specializing in breast cancer, she knew that researchers could advance their understanding of the ailment by studying healthy breast tissue rather than only looking at samples already affected by disease. She knew launching a collection bank wouldn’t be easy, but she believed it would be worth a try.

So, one Saturday morning at her child’s soccer game, Storniolo began asking women in attendance if they’d voluntarily undergo a breast biopsy if it would help researchers find a cure.

“Nineteen of 20 women I had never laid eyes on before said, ‘No question, of course we would do that,’” said Storniolo, a Carmel resident. “I thought, if the women are going to do it, I can deal with the university that’s going to give me a hard time and the lawyers that are going to give me a hard time, so that was the beginning.”

Since launching in 2006, more than 5,000 women have donated healthy breast tissue to the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank within the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center. And nearly 11,000 donors have provided blood and DNA samples for research at the Indianapolis facility.

Those efforts have led to new research and several important discoveries, and Storniolo, executive director of the tissue bank, hopes they will one day lead to a cure, too.

“When the big breakthrough comes through, I honestly think that Hoosier women are going to be able to say, ‘We had a lot to do with that,’” Storniolo said.

‘The most important day of their life’ For Carmel resident Stephanie Lesher, donating healthy breast tissue was an easy decision.

Lesher is the daughter of Rufenbarger, who has survived breast cancer twice,

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She said the donation process — which she’s done twice — was painless and didn’t leave a scar, although that may not be the case for every donor.

However, one thing that Lesher is universal, she said, is a sense of accomplishment as a donor and the appreciation for women who choose to provide healthy breast tissue.

“This is such a unique opportunity (for donors) to give physically of themselves in an extremely meaningful way that will help to forward breast cancer research, not only in the state of Indiana, but literally around the world,” said Lesher, program manager of the Catherine Peachey Fund, which provided initial funding for the tissue bank.

A donation appointment typically takes 60 to 90 minutes. After a check-in and screening process, donors undergo a blood draw before heading to an examination room. During the donation process, a doctor uses local anesthesia and a needle to remove one gram of tissue, which is approximately the size of two peas.

Storniolo said women are generally more likely to donate healthy breast tissue than write a check to support breast cancer research.

The tissue bank hasn’t held a donation event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the next one is planned for Nov. 13 at IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Leigh Flegge-Schlie, left, and Peggy Miller. (Photo courtesy of IU Health)

Breast cancer survivor calls oncology nurse her ‘godsend’

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com When 71-year-old Peggy Miller moved to Fishers four years ago, she didn’t want to change doctors from her CANCER small town in Glouster, Ohio.

Miller continued to be a patient of the same doctors for 50 years. That changed when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2021.

In November 2020, Miller called her gynecologist, Dr. Michael Clark, in Glouster to schedule her mammogram. However, a few days before her appointment, Ohio tightened its COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, and Miller didn’t want to risk traveling to the state, so her mammogram was delayed to May of this year.

After her mammogram, Miller returned to Indiana and received a call the next day encouraging her to have a follow-up appointment in Indiana because of some suspicious tissue. Miller found Dr. Kandice Ludwig at IU Health. After further testing, Miller learned she had breast cancer. There also was another suspicious area in Miller’s breast, but that turned out to be noncancerous.

Miller said her oncology nurse navigator, Leigh Flegge-Schlie, was a “godsend” for her during the emotional time.

“The whole time this was going on, Leigh had many conversations with me, and if I couldn’t talk, I just sobbed and she took care of me,” Miller said.

After her diagnosis, Miller had some im-

portant decisions to make on whether she wanted a lumpectomy to remove the tumor or a mastectomy. She chose to have a mastectomy, because the cancer had a less chance of recurrence than a lumpectomy.

Her surgery was in August at the IU Health Joe & Shelly Schwarz Cancer Center.

“When the doctor does the mastectomy, she can look to see if any lymph nodes are (affected by the cancer). I had one that (reacted to the testing dye), so they biopsied it while I was still in surgery, but it came back not cancerous,” Miller said. “The area around the tumor, she took samples of that, and none of that was cancerous, so when I met with her and Leigh, I (didn’t) have to have radiation.”

Miller said she isn’t sure if she needs chemotherapy. A decision by her oncologist hadn’t been made as of press time.

Flegge-Schlie began working for IU Health as an oncology nurse navigator two years ago. She said her primary role is “to be people’s buddy.”

“Medically, I meet (patients) on the day of diagnosis. I meet them on that first day.

And from that point to survivorship or to end of life, I’m with them,” Flegge-Schlie said. “I’m helping manage their surgical care, set up consults (with radiation or medical oncology). So, the entire time Peggy is doing her care, I am watching her care.

We have a lot of conversations about the diagnosis and what does it mean. We have a lot of conversations just about anything under the sun.”

Flegge-Schlie is 26. She lives in Carmel.

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Carmel researcher studying how ethnicity affects breast cancer

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com Dr. Harikrishna Nakshatri is leading a team of researchers to study healthy breast tissue to better unRESEARCH derstand what goes wrong when cancer develops, but he’s learned that what’s considered a normal specimen can vary with ethnicity — as well as the risk of developing certain types of cancers.

“Some of us can eat spicy food, and others Nakshatri cannot, but those who eat spicy food and those who do not are all normal,” said Nakshatri, a Carmel resident.

“That means there is a difference between the normal that makes us either susceptible for breast cancer or any disease where others are not.”

Nakshatri’s research and its impacts on health equity have caught the attention of philanthropic organizations, as he and his team of Indiana University School of Medicine researchers in 2019 learned they would

receive $750,000 over three years from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to map breast cell types as part of the Human Cell Atlas project.

The following year, Nakshatri, a researcher at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program to continue his work to characterize unique biomarkers with healthy breast tissue of Black women. His team is working to do the same for breast tissue from other ethnic minorities, as well.

What Nakshatri’s team is learning is that breast cancers are nearly as unique as the women diagnosed with them, and thus treatment should be, too.

“We are now beginning to recognize that every woman has her own type of breast cancer that needs to be characterized before we can understand it and come up with a treatment,” he said.

The research also has shown that it’s a

combination of factors that lead to disparities in breast cancer outcomes for women of color — who don’t as often receive preventative care and thus tend to have breast cancer diagnosed in a more advanced stage — compared to white women, Nakshatri said.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are 41 percent more likely to die after being diagnosed with breast cancer than white women.

“Not everything is socioeconomic, and not everything is biology, but it’s a mix of both,” Nakshatri said.

The researchers work with tissue samples donated to the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank within the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center. The tissue bank is the only one in the world to collect healthy breast tissue that is catalogued and available for research around the globe.

Because of research projects like Nak-

“We are now beginning to recognize that every woman has her own type of breast cancer that needs to be characterized before we can understand it and come up with a treatment.”

– DR. HARIKRISHNA NAKSHATRI

shatri’s, the tissue bank is especially appreciative of women of color who provide donations. The next donation event is set for Nov. 13.

“I can’t understate how important it is for the tissue bank to be effective that it actually is reflective of the population,” said Stephanie Lesher, a Carmel resident who has donated to the bank twice and whose mother helped launch it.

Learn more at komentissuebank.iu.edu.

BY THE NUMBERS: BREAST CANCER AND ETHNICITY STATS 41 percent: Black women are 41 percent more likely to die after being diagnosed with breast cancer than white women $1.3 million: The amount of the grant from the U.S. Dept. of Defense Congressionally DIrected Medical Research Program to continue research about unique biomarkers with healthy breast tissue of Black women $750,000: Funding over three years from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to map breast cell types as part of the Human Cell Atlas project.

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The Gift of More Time

a taxi driver for her younger daughter, who is 15.

“I get all this time in the car with my kid,” Brown said. “In different circumstances I may have dreaded all the dropoffs and pickups, but I’m so grateful to spend time with her. Every single worry I can help resolve and every milestone I get to be part of with my daughters feels like a miracle.”

Brown participated in a two-drug clinical trial, led by her oncologist, Kathy Miller, MD, at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.

IU cancer research has given Jenny Larner Brown time—and the chance to think about her future.

J

enny Larner Brown was planning her own funeral.

She was writing letters to her parents, her husband and her two children—the kind that leave nothing unsaid.

As a woman diagnosed with multiple forms of aggressive breast cancer, who had seen the disease subside only to return, these are things you do.

The possibility of relapse remains, but Brown knows that Miller and the 30 other researchers at IU’s Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research are doing everything they can to stay one step in front of her disease.

But, five years after her initial breast cancer diagnosis, Brown, is still here. She shows no sign of active cancer.

“I don’t want this disease to get ahead of the research,” Brown said.

“I need to know my caregivers have the next solution ready.”

And this 48-year-old mother of two teenagers is making the most of life—hiking sections of the Appalachian Trail, taking family vacations to places such as the Rocky Mountains and the Grand Canyon and, maybe best of all, being

IU scientists work to understand how each patient’s cancer is unique.

They are developing new drugs to treat disease.

And they are studying how to charge up the body’s immune system to fight cancer with a “living drug.”

For Brown, the bleak outlook from just a few years ago has given way to a new perspective.

She’s decided to pursue a master’s degree in medical social work—to help other people with breast cancer navigate their treatment. With her husband, Danny, she’s visiting national parks, hiking, and planning bucket list trips to Alaska and Scotland.

“The moment I realized I could start thinking about a long-term future, there was a shift in my mindset. I became so energized,” Brown said.

“There are still so many places I want to see, so much more to do and learn,” she said. “Cancer was a reminder to get on with it.”

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By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Indiana University School of Medicine researchers Dr. Milan Radovich and Dr. Bryan Schneider recently STUDY published findings from an analysis that they hope will provide breast cancer patients with better outcomes in the future.

Researchers analyzed plasma samples taken from the blood of 196 women. Radovich and Schneider found circulating tumor DNA and circulating tumor cells in the blood plasma of women diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer who have undergone chemotherapy prior to surgery can help predict their chances of recurrence.

The researchers concluded the presence of ctDNA in patients was significantly associated with worse chances of survival and an increased chance of disease recurrence.

When the presence of ctDNA was combined with the presence of CTCs, the outcomes were even worse. “(Triple-negative breast cancer) is one that preferentially impacts young women and commonly impacts Black women, and it is one that (has) pretty high aggressiveness and one for which we have limited therapeutic options,” said Schneider, a Zionsville resident.

Triple-negative breast cancer is often treated with chemotherapy while the tumor is still in the breast. Surgery often follows.

Two years after surgery and chemotherapy, the researchers’ analysis found distant disease-free survival for women with the presence of ctDNA in their blood was 56 percent, compared to 81 percent for women without ctDNA. Patients with the presence of both ctDNA and CTCs at two years had a 52 percent likelihood of distant disease-free survival versus 89 percent who were negative for both markers.

Based on the study’s findings, a clinical trial called the PERSEVERE study will stratify women with triple-negative breast cancer based on whether they are ctDNA positive and assign them a targeted therapy. The study recently opened and aims to create personalized, targeted therapy options for patients at high risk for relapse and for whom no treatments currently exist.

Schneider said the study will likely take two to three years to complete.

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Fishers woman navigates cancer with network of support

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com When Fishers resident Karen Witte sought medical advice about the possibility of a breast cancer diagnoRESEARCH sis after a self-exam raised concerns, her doctor told her she had nothing to worry about. Witte was only 41.

However, after two mammograms and some biopsies, doctors confirmed that Witte had hormone-positive invasive ductal carcinoma breast cancer. She was diagnosed in March 2020 on the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was a whirlwind,” Witte said.

Witte not only had to cope with a cancer diagnosis, she also had to make a very difficult decision.

“Hormone-driven breast cancer is one of the more common kinds, and when you’re younger and diagnosed with hormone-driven breast cancer, they put you on an estrogen blocker for 10 years. That forces you into chemical menopause until you reach normal menopause range,” Witte said. “What that leaves with younger women is deciding

Karen Witte, a breast cancer survivor, pauses with her daughter, Cameron. (Photo courtesy of Karen White)

to not have any more kids or go through egg retrieval and freeze their eggs.”

Witte didn’t opt for egg retrieval. She has a 5-year-old daughter named Cameron.

“I was 41, so even though I chose not to have any more kids, still being told you cannot have any more kids is a punch in the gut,” she said. “It makes the diagnosis sting a little more.”

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“Some women opt to, we call it, ‘stay flat,’ and I can understand that, because with the trauma alone of going through cancer treatments, you decide you’re done,” Witte said.

“But me, with my age, I felt like I wanted to try to look and feel like my old self, or as normal as can be after the cancer.”

Witte also had to cope with attending all her appointments and treatments alone last year. Hospitals didn’t allow visitors because of the threat of spreading COVID-19.

“Definitely going through all of the appointments, and especially the initial diagnosis, alone was difficult,” Witte said. “I was allowed to have my best friend on speaker phone (during my diagnosis), and she’s actually a thyroid cancer survivor, so she was my go-to on everything cancer related. So, I was able to have her on speaker phone for some of the initial appointments. I did see people coming to the hospital with their spouse or support person with them and being told, ‘I’m sorry, they can’t come in.’ It broke my heart for them.”

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“I have an amazing team. Both my manager and my director are female, and I don’t know if that made a difference, but I feel like it did,” she said. “They had the compassion and empathy and flexibility to let me rest if I needed to rest or take time off for appointments.”

Witte also was going through the Hamilton County Leadership Academy at the time.

The academy shifted to a virtual format, and Witte completed it.

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WHS golfer McGinnis finishes career on a high note

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Sophie McGinnis knows golf perfection is elusive.

“Golf is one of those sports where you could shoot 59 and be like, ‘If I hadn’t done that, I could have shot 58,’” she said.

Yet, the Westfield High School senior said a part of her is pleased with how she performed in her final high school tournament.

McGinnis finished ninth individually with a 76-75 for a 151 total to help lead Westfield to a third-place finish in the Oct. 1-2 IHSAA Girls Golf State Tournament at Prairie View Golf Club in Carmel. Her sophomore teammate, Samantha Brown, tied for 13th at 79-75 for a 154.

“I was pleased with the consistency and my ball striking,” McGinnis said. “As a competitor, part of me is thinking, if I could have done this better or hit this shot close (I could have scored better), but overall, I’m happy with how everything panned out.”

McGinnis, who will play for Butler University next season, said this has been her most enjoyable high school season.

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“This season, she has really taken her game to a new level,” Neu said. “She has not allowed herself to be affected by a mistake.

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“She does a tremendous job of getting ready to play in tournaments, studying the course and having a game plan of how to play that course, and this has been a good example for our younger players.”

McGinnis dabbled in multiple sports growing up.

“I played every sport you can possibly imagine, except I was never a swimmer,” she said. “We moved to Bridgewater (from Hendricks County) when I was 10 or 11 and I picked up the game, playing at the Bridgewater Club. I gave up basketball in seventh grade. Basketball was my second sport.

After a broken ankle and spraining both ankles, I decided golf was a less dangerous and better sport for me.”

When she started golf, she would spend all day practicing and playing.

McGinnis attended Guerin Catholic High School her freshman year and was a member of the Golden Eagles first girls team to make a state championship appearance.

Guerin finished fifth. She then transferred to Westfield, which finished fourth in the team standings in 2019 and fifth in 2020.

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County establishes Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Team

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Hamilton County has formed a Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Team in an effort to reverse the PUBLIC HEALTH number of suicides and fatal overdoses.

According to a press release, nearly 20 percent of overdoses reported in the county are fatal. So far this year, 54 county residents have died because of an overdose.

The team meets monthly to review the circumstances of recent deaths. The Greer team consists of representatives from public health, public safety, the courts, the Coroner’s Office and local treatment facilities.

“We look at the decedent’s life cycle in terms of drug use, major health events, social/emotional trauma, encounters with law enforcement and the criminal justice system and treatment history to facilitate a deeper understanding of what happened,” stated Monica Greer, the executive director of the county’s Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs. “Where were the gaps? Where were the missed opportunities for prevention and intervention that could have saved this person?”

Hamilton County Health Dept. Health Education Specialist Jim Ginder conducts psychological autopsies on many deaths caused by suicide or overdose by interviewing family and friends to better understand their history of substance use disorder, trauma and any barriers to recovery.

“We believe overdose and suicide deaths can be prevented, so we take this very personally,” Ginder stated. “The more we know about the decedent and their journey, the better we can begin to see patterns of need and opportunity, not only within specific agencies but across systems. This input helps us Ginder to develop program and policy recommendations, to improve collaboration between agencies, and to ultimately prevent future overdose deaths.”

Action items the team is working on include educating people about available resources in the county, conducting training programs and educating first responders how to react when somebody dies.

“That’s a critical time for family members who lost somebody,” Ginder said.

Hamilton County is one of 22 counties in the state with a Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Team. For more, contact Sarah Richardson at sarahrichardsonlmhc@gmail. com.

“The more we know about the decedent and their journey, the better we can begin to see patterns of need and opportunity, not only within specific agencies but across systems.

This input helps us to develop program and policy recommendations, to improve collaboration between agencies, and to ultimately prevent future overdose deaths.”

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Weed Wranglers — The Hamilton County Invasive Species Partnership will debut Weed Wranglers events this year to remove invasive species at various locations. Volunteers will learn how to manage a targeted invasive species and work as part of a collaborative effort to improve a natural area.

Learn more at hcinvasives.org/weedwrangle. Registration is required.

Pedal Perks — Hamilton County Tourism’s Pedal Perks promotion has returned for the fourth year. The goal is to incentivize locals and visitors to explore Hamilton County by bicycle. Through Oct. 31, more than 30 participating Hamilton County businesses are offering deals and discounts redeemable on a smartphone. Visit PedalPerks.org to learn more and register.

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Pups & Pints — Clay Terrace is hosting the fifth annual Pups & Pints series from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. the third Friday of each month through October at the shopping center’s dog park, 14395 Clay Terrace Blvd. Participants can socialize with other dog owners at the free event and purchase beer from Bier Brewery. Water will be available for the pups.

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“We are not affiliated with that. It’s just a “In some schools, kids that participate special competition they give us permission in theater or drama like to play the role to put on,” Gookins said. “Students prepare of the witness,” Gookins said. “There are both sides of the case, plaintiff and defena substantial amount of students who do dant. They are provided an attorney observspeech and debate or We the People, things er, from Hamilton County, generally, who that do involve critical thinking and public volunteers their time.” speaking.”

Gookins said the attorney helps the Gookins said nearly all the county schools teacher sponsor to prepare students how have participated during the years. to write an opening statement, how to “Last year, Westfield and Hamilton make objections and learn the rules of Heights didn’t participate because we had evidence. to do it virtually,” Gookins said.

The competition is held at the JudiFishers won the competition for the first cial Center in Noblesville in January and time in 2021.

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“Hamilton Southeastern, Carmel and No“For five weeks, the teams come together blesville have historically won every year,” once a week and compete against one anGookins said. “It’s been around for 21 years. other,” Gookins said.

One of those three schools have won alGookins, who lives in Washington Townmost every year.” ship outside of Westfield, sets up the Gookins has been the Mock Trial coordipairings. nator for 13 years. She has participated for “We invite elected judges and other at20 years, taking one year off when her son torneys to come in and judge the rounds of was born in February. competition,” said Gookins, an attorney with The 2022 dates are Jan. 12, 19, 26 and Feb. Terry & Gookins LLC in Carmel.

2 and 9. The single-elimination tournament After the five preliminary rounds, Gookins will begin Feb. 16 and end either Feb. 19 or said the teams are seeded like the NCAA 26. Gookins said if students have interest Tournament. A single-elimination tournain the Mock Trial Club, they should ask ment follows to determine the winner. their government or history teacher how There are always six witnesses, three to participate, or they can email Gookins each for the plaintiff and defendant. There at sgookins@tandglaw.com.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Prevail will again take to the runways to raise funds.

The Noblesville-based FUNDRAISER nonprofit’s annual fashion show is set for Oct. 27 at Ritz Charles in Carmel. Prevail works with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, along with victims of stalking, robbery and home invasion.

Registration and shopping start at 10:30 a.m. The program and lunch are at 11:30 a.m., with the fashion show ending at approximately 1 p.m.

“There are several boutiques that come for the day and provide selections for guests to shop from, dress our models for the runway fashion show and give Prevail a portion of their sales,” said Natasha Robinson, marketing and event coordinator for Prevail, Inc. “We will be joined by Bash Boutique, Linden Tree Gifts and AH Collections.”

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Project: Transmission and water utility Expected completion: Before the end of work the year Location: Veterans Way between The Cat Project: New roundabout construction Theatre and 1st Street SW. Partial closures Location: The intersection of 151st will occur but access to all addresses will Street and Ditch Road will be closed for be maintained. approximately 60 days. The construction Expected completion: The four-phase began Sept. 20. project, which will later impact other areas, Estimated completion: End of November is expected to be complete by May 2022.

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Project: Bridge rehabilitation Location: Lane closures are in effect for 116th Street between River Road and Eller Road for the rehabilitation of the 116th Street bridge over the West Fork White River. One lane of traffic in each direction will be maintained at all times on 116th Street throughout construction.

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GEIST Project: Water Main replacement Location: Maple Lane, Zoeller Ave and Wallingwood Drive, had been scheduled originally to be completed by late summer, the project has been delayed due to supply chain issues and has been rescheduled to begin at the beginning of September.

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Vaccination clinics at businesses — The Hamilton County Health Dept. is offering on-site COVID-19 vaccination clinics to Hamilton County businesses. Businesses should consider hosting a workplace vaccination program only if they have enough space to stand up a clinic while maintaining social distancing. Businesses interested in setting up an on-site clinic can contact Chris Walker at Christian.walker@hamiltoncounty.in.gov or by calling 317-776-8500.

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VENUE The downtown Indianapolis fieldhouse, which was renamed from Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Sept. 27, is nearly at the conclusion of Phase 2 of the Fieldhouse of the Future project, a threephase, $360 million renovation that began in April of 2020 and will continue through the fall of 2022. After being closed since the Pacers’ season ended in May, the fieldhouse reopened with a Dan and Shay concert Oct. 1. The Indiana Pacers play a preseason home game on Oct. 13.

“We’ve taken the best, most iconic arena in the NBA and we’re making it even better, even more state of the art, and even more appealing to a new generation of fans by creating a premium experience for all,” said Rick Fuson, president and chief operating officer of Pacers Sports & Entertainment and a Carmel resident.

Phase 1 concentrated on lower-level improvements and also included a new stateof-the-art scoreboard.

“Even if you were back last season, fans will be blown away by the number of changes we’ve made since we started construction in May,” said Mel Raines, executive vice president of corporate communications, community engagement and facility operations for Pacers Sports & Entertainment.

“Everything on the main concourse and the Krieg DeVault level is going to be brand new. There are all new concessions and new restrooms. There are new seats on the Krieg DeVault level. We’ve added a nursing mothers’ rooms. We added a sensory room for those guests who might want to step out of the show or the game for a minute and have quiet time.”

New food offerings will be rolled out at the end of this month.

“We are opening up the sides of the fieldhouse, the east and west sides, with glass curtain walls,” Raines said. “The seating bowl is much more open to the concourses.

Right when you walk in at the entry pavilion, you’ll see the scoreboard and feel like you are already at the game. On the north and south end, we are opening up new bars that will be done at the end of the year.”

A new bar area, the Yuengling Flight Deck, is at the south end of the building that also looks into the bowl.

Raines said with mobile ticketing, there isn’t a need for as much space as the box office occupied when the Fieldhouse opened in 1999. The new, smaller box office will be complete in December, but a temporary box office is open from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays on the corner of Maryland and Delaware streets.

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Westfield Middle School football team supports 6-year-old battling rare cancer

By Chris Bavender news@currentinwestfield.com Six-year-old Londyn Hoffman is a familiar figure on the sidelines of Westfield Middle School football games. Not only does she cheer on big brother Lincoln, but the team also supports Londyn in her battle against a rare cancer.

“We see her at games, and she is smiling with complete joy, and we look up at the stands and chant, ‘We love Londyn,’ and we always greet her after our warm-ups,” said Zach Zimmer, head coach of the seventh-grade team. “We get together on the field and say, ‘It’s Londyn time,’ and run over to the sideline, and sometimes we beat our pads together or wave.”

Londyn, who has a rare genetic mutation, was diagnosed in April 2021 with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare, fast-growing tumor behind her eye. Approximately 500 children are diagnosed with it every year in the United States.

Then, only four weeks into treatment, Londyn was diagnosed with another rare condition, Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the immune system attacks the nerves. Londyn’s cancer and Guillain-Barre syndrome are not related.

“She had a runny nose and we noticed she was falling and not able to hold her sippy cup and wasn’t smiling, and we ended up in the PICU at Riley,” said Jenna Hoffman, Londyn’s mother. “It had attacked her respiratory system, too, and she ended up on a ventilator.”

Londyn spent 25 days on the ventilator.

Her cancer treatment was temporarily halted but resumed when she began rehab.

“They got her into a gait trainer and were figuring out how to move her legs, but to this day she cannot move her legs without us moving the gait trainer,” Jenna said.

“She’s not paralyzed, but they said it can take a long time to regain strength.”

It is Londyn’s strength and positivity as she faces hurdle after hurdle that so many admire.

“The cool thing about Londyn and why so many have fallen in love with her is that she is always smiling and happy, except when she was really sick with GBS,” Jenna said. “I think even as parents when you see

The Westfield Middle School football team supports Londyn Hoffman during its games. (Photos courtesy of Jenna Hoffman)

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her happy, how the heck can we sit there and cry? So many times, she is leading us through it emotionally.”

Londyn’s oncologist, Dr. Michael Ferguson, said Londyn’s upbeat personality helps those who are helping her.

“It’s not easy to give chemo to any child knowing you are giving them something that makes them sick, but her spirit just lightens up nurses and doctors here,”

Ferguson said. “Having a positive attitude seems to help (children) cope and deal with being treated for cancer.”

Londyn’s type of cancer has a cure rate of between 80 to 90 percent, with no recurrences, according to Ferguson.

As Lyndon continues her battle, the community also is uniting to help support her brother, Lincoln.

“We wanted to do something for Lincoln because we knew he was carrying a lot on his mind. He told me she loved unicorns, and so we did a pink decal that says, ‘Play for Londyn’ with a unicorn,” Zimmer said.

“We had Lincoln stand up in front of the team to talk to them about Londyn and give out the stickers to all the players, and they huddled around him and hugged him. That is why she is teaching these boys more than we can.

“They are playing for something much bigger than winning a game. They are playing for their brother.”

And, Jenna said, Londyn would tell others not to give up, just as she hasn’t.

“Her big brother’s mantra this season has been, ‘We play for those who can’t,’ and I think Londyn would want people to take advantage of their strengths and do something with it on and off the field,” she said.

“She just has such joy watching people do what they love, and I think if she could be out there, she would be.”

Follow Londyn’s journey on her Facebook page, Londyn Time, at facebook.com/ londyntime.

ON THE COVER: Londyn Hoffman, 6, was recently diagnosed with a rare cancer and also a rare condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

(Photo courtesy of Jenna Hoffman)

PLAYING TOGETHER Other teams have shown their support by sporting the “Play for Londyn” decal as well, including the Fishers Middle School team at a Sept. 2 game.

“It was a complete class and a powerful moment,” Westfield Middle School seventh-grade football coach Zach Zimmer said. “They played against each other, and then as one group they went to greet her, and we were reminded in that moment there was no winner or loser because, as it says on the helmets, we are playing for Londyn as a team.”

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Commentary by Terry Anker As happens today, the world confronted crises many years ago. Much like it had done many years earlier, and many years before then. It seems that crises, like most things, tend to be cyclical. With each one, we discover that we are not quite as powerful and all-knowing as we’d hoped. The tide rises. The tide falls. The tide rises again. As tough as it may be for those of us stranded by the tide, isn’t there comfort in knowing that it will soon flow the other way? Is it our mission to prepare for its inevitable reoccurrence or to curse the sea for its flow?

Among the challenges of these phases is that a human life may be too short to experience them from such a perspective as to understand their pattern. Do we imagine caprice where symmetry exists? Do we imagine chaos where there is order, so when the world shifts, we condemn it as ruthless and uncaring? We wonder how it could do us such harm with so little warning.

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Thirty-fifth U.S. President John F. Kennedy once famously proclaimed, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

While many have said some variation before and after, the theme remains the same – seek to contribute rather than to benefit. Many of us believe it. Alas, many others just as fervently hold that they cannot, or should not, participate.

“What’s the use?” To win, one must gain advantage.

If we focus on our contribution and not our take-home, do we ultimately benefit more than if we retreat entirely?

Do we have nothing to offer? Labor, time, compassion? When we take and not give, do we eventually lose?

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

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Friends, it has begun. My husband Doo and I are approaching the last few miles in the Empty Nest Marathon. And I’m surprised to find that when I stop to rest and hydrate, I’m a tad bit weepy.

Me! The cold and dead inside, “Don’t let the door hit you in the buttocks”-kind of mother. Let’s explore.

Our youngest of four is a senior in high school. Her older siblings are off living their best lives in various locations — Bloomington, Colorado, France — and she is plotting to join them in their campaign against staying close to home. Fine. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, after all, and I’m a fairly decent FaceTimer. So, what’s the difference with this last kiddo?

I suppose that’s exactly it. She’s the last. Everything she does is the last. I didn’t cry at my older daughter’s last marching band competition, but I found myself sentimental this week at her sister’s last dance team performance.

I shed not one tear at any of the other’s absences from my Halloween Yard Spectacular, but I’m already lamenting that this will be the last time with one of my children helping to scare/impress the neighborhood toddlers. Lord knows how I will be for her actual graduation!

Previous ones have been joyful celebrations, filled with the anticipation of smaller grocery bills and a less crowded driveway. But her graduation will be the last. Her departure will be the last. And then it’ll be just Doo and I, crossing the finish line to Empty Nest, pretending my tears are sweat to save my stoic reputation. Ugh. Wish me luck in these final miles.

Peace out.

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

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Chirping up a storm Commentary by Dick Wolfsie The other morning, Mary Ellen shared with me at breakfast that she had not slept well the previous night.

Chirp.

Apparently, an annoying sound had continually awakened her.

Chirp.

I’m a heavy sleeper and am hard of hearing, which is why I am always shocked when Mary Ellen tells me we had a thunderstorm the night before. But as we poured our coffee, I heard it, too.

Chirp.

“That’s driving me crazy,” my wife said.

“What is it?”

“It must be a bird.”

Chirp.

“A bird?” asked Mary Ellen, astonished by my answer. What bird chirps once every 30 seconds, eight hours in a row?”

Chirp.

Where was the sound coming from? It was now driving us both nuts. We walked around the house trying to zero in on the origin of the noise. We put our ear to the microwave, which usually dings when completing its task. We checked in the laundry room because the dryer buzzes when its cycle is finished. The fridge door beeps when I leave it open too long. Those were not the sounds we were investigating, but who knows — maybe after all these years, our appliances had finally changed their tune.

Chirp.

I listened closely to Alexa as I asked her several times if she was the one chirping. She basically shut down, refusing to respond.

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“Let’s retrace this from the beginning,” Mary Ellen said. “When you first heard that

chirp this morning, what was the first thing you thought?”

“That I forgot to fasten my seatbelt.”

Chirp.

I headed downstairs to see if my computer was having a hissy fit. Nope. But on my way back upstairs I walked under the smoke detector.

Chirp.

There was the culprit! How could I not have realized this? Clearly, the battery needed replaced. I’ve always been good with batteries. I understand their plusses and minuses. But here was the problem: The detector was attached to a 10-foot ceiling. I couldn’t quite get to it with the portable stepladder. I told Mary Ellen she could reach it if she’d just get those sexy high heels out of storage.

Chirp.

We have a longer ladder in our garage.

But there were several obstacles to using it.

1. The ladder was way too heavy and unwieldy for me to lug into the house.

2. I had never used this expandable ladder, so I had no clue how to extend it properly.

3. No matter: Mary Ellen won’t let me climb up on a ladder, anyway.

We called our son, Brett, who came over and replaced our battery with ease. Mission accomplished.

By the way, that full day of intermittent chirping in our house has not had any lasting negative effects on Mary Ellen and me.

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In high-end custom fashion, designing your own clothes, cars or jewelry is a luxury reserved only for the VISION uber-wealthy and intrinsically creative. But the great news is that bespoking is making its way into the optometric world, and it isn’t just found on Rodeo Drive or the Magnificent Mile anymore.

According to Wikipedia, “Bespoke is an adjective for anything commissioned to a particular specification. It may be altered or tailored to the customs, tastes or usage of an individual.” Synonyms include “custom-made” and “made-to-order.”

With countless color palettes to choose from in varying arrays of finishes, there are almost unlimited combinations that a creative individual can put their personalized stamp on for their very own frames. Traditional materials of plastics and metals lead the mainstream optical world, but newer frame materials are now finding their way onto Hoosier faces each week.

Patients can enjoy customizing frames made from European woods, buffalo horn

and various precious metals. Diamonds and other jewelry gemstones also are options for those looking for some statement pieces and extra bling.

Even customizing the shapes of the lenses are viable options when creating your own personalized look. Of course, the ultimate in customization will be 3-D printing of frames, but the industry hasn’t quite gotten to that point. Stay tuned as technology continues to race toward that eventuality.

With so many options, it is becoming a great time to step outside the box of bigbox chains’ opticals and create a custom look for yourself. So, the next time you are looking for a little piece of affordable luxury, give your local optical a call and ask about their bespoking options. You will be surprised how fun, easy and creative the process will be.

Dr. Jeremy A. Ciano, an international lecturer and published author, is a Current Publishing columnist. For more information or to ask a question, he may be emailed at DrCiano@ Revolution-EYES.com.

DISPATCHES HCHD reopens vaccination clinic — The Hamilton County Health Dept. has reopened its mass vaccination clinic at the 4H Fairgrounds in Noblesville, Hours are 1 to 7 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Only those who are 65 years of age or older as well as those who are 18 years and older with underlying medical conditions or who live or work in high-risk settings are eligible for a Pfizer booster. High-risk residences include health care settings, schools, correctional facilities, and homeless shelters. High-risk occupations include first responders (healthcare workers, firefighters, police, congregate care staff), education staff (teachers, support staff, day care workers), food and agriculture workers, manufacturing workers, corrections workers, U.S. Postal Service workers, public transit workers, and grocery store workers.

For a more complete list, visit cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot. html#HighRisk. Walk-ups are welcome, but appointment are preferred. To register, log on to ourshot.in.gov.

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Arugula for ulcers — Arugula, a peppery type of salad green, contains sulforaphane, a compound already known to reduce the risk of cancer. Now it appears that the same compound can also help prevent ulcers. It helps the body eliminate H. pylori, a bacterium that causes peptic ulcers and increases the risk for gastric cancer.

Source: BottomLineHealth.com Eat sprouted garlic – If your old garlic has started to sprout, is it safe to eat, or should you throw it away? Actually, garlic that has been sprouted for five days has twice as many antioxidants as unsprouted garlic, and it has greater flavor and pungency than the clove itself. So, it is safe to eat, and also is better for you.

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Country star Clint Black brings tour to Palladium

By Dave Gil de Rubio editorial@youarecurrent.com Clint Black considers himself lazy — a rather absurd statement when you consider what he did during CONCERT the pandemic-fueled yearand-a-half of lockdown.

Besides performing on a regular livestream and launching a line of coffee called Clint Black Cowboy Coffee, he hosted “Talking in Circles with Clint Black,” a television show where he talks shop with other artists. Country artists Travis Tritt and Brad Paisley have already been guests.

All this came on top of releasing 2020’s “Out of Sane,” Black’s 13th studio album and one that retains his signature country sound. And now with live music venues open again, Black embraces his return to the road.

“My booking agent — we renamed him ‘rescheduling agent’ — did a great job of keeping

things moved up just far enough in front of us so (live shows) might happen,” Black said in a recent phone interview. “Now, I’m as busy as I like to be.”

Black’s October dates, including an Oct. 24 concert at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, are nearly two-hour shows dubbed “An Evening With.” Black has recorded nearly 30 top 10 country hits since his multi-platinum 1989 debut “Killin’ Time.” The next decade saw him consistently release hits as follow-up albums such as 1990’s “Put Yourself in My Shoes,” 1993’s “No Time to Kill,” 1994’s “One Emotion” and 1997’s “Nothin’ but the Taillights” all went top 10.

But as the 1990s moved on, Black said his relationship with his label, RCA, soured because of the label’s desire to have Black, who up to then had written his own songs, collaborate with Music Row songwriters. A conversation with RCA President Joe Galante was a turning point.

“I didn’t understand the pressure to record outside songs when I have so many songs that I had written,” Black said. “He said they just wanted a little taste, and it broke my heart.

If he would have said that

he didn’t think my songs were that great anymore, I would have felt better. It would have still hurt. But it wasn’t about that. It was about spreading the revenue from my record to share it with the people on Music Row, and I thought that was the exact wrong reason to do anything.”

Following the release of 1999’s “D’lectrified,” Black left RCA. Although he has continued making albums and touring, he has expanded into television and film roles.

Among the shows he’s appeared on are “Secret Talents of the Stars,” “Celebrity Duets” and “Celebrity Apprentice.”

“I’m glad I have it behind me,” he said of the “Celebrity Apprentice” appearance, where he sang a song with Cheech Marin.

“That up close, up front and personal exposure to ugliness is more than I ever want to see again.”

Most recently, he and wife Lisa Hartman Black appeared in last year’s season of “The Masked Singer” as “Snow Owls,” competing while riding in a mobile egg.

“It was really challenging in a good way,” he said. “The challenge in a bad way was singing inside that suit. You can’t see. The little lenses you’re looking out of are fogged up after 30 seconds and you’re sweating. If you have to move at all, it’s perilous because it’s inside of that egg.

We had inches at a time. But I typically like stuff like that because I don’t see myself as too precious to step into weird things. I sometimes second-guess myself after getting in it. I like being a little afraid of things and I like finding myself in situations where something comes out that otherwise wouldn’t have happened.”

Clint Black will perform at 7 p.m.

Oct. 24 at the Palladium in Carmel.

(Photo by Kevin Mazur)

FEINSTEIN’S Feinstein’s in Carmel’s Hotel Carmichael will feature actress/singer Marilu Henner with a show of music and memories at 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 15. For more, visit feinsteinshc.com.

BEEF & BOARDS Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre’s presentation of “Phantom” runs through Nov. 21. For more, visit beefandboards.com.

CIVIC THEATRE Civic Theatre’s production of “The Color Purple” will be presented through Oct. 23. For more, visit civictheatre.org CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Buckets N Boards Comedy Percussion Show is set for 3 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

WESTFIELD PLAYHOUSE Main Street Productions of “Dracula” runs through Oct. 17 at Westfield Playhouse. For more, visit westfieldplayhouse.org.

BOO ’N BREW returns to Clay Terrace editorial@youarecurrent.com Clay Terrace will celebrate the fall season by hosting the DC Construction ninth annual BOO ‘N BREW Fall Festival from 2 to 6 p.m.

Oct. 23.

Adults can enjoy a craft brew in the beer garden and the kids can enjoy the annual trick-or-treating event. Children ages 10 and under can dress in a costume and trick-ortreat while supplies last.

Children can enjoy activities like a Silly Safari animal show (2:30 and 4 p.m.), face painting, balloon artists, hayrides and a pumpkin patch. Stella Luna and the Satellites (2 to 3:30 p.m.) and Toy Factory (4 to 6 p.m.) will perform live music.

Visitors can dress up pets in the spookiest and silliest costumes for the chance to participate in the Pet Costume Contest (2:30 p.m.) for prizes.

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IWS to present wind ensemble

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of the piece. “Each movement is dedicated to either one of Santos’ children or one of his professors. Some are conductors and At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of them are composition instructors.

Indiana Wind Symphony Music Director It’s a very interesting piece with a lot of Charles Conrad said different textures and a lot of CONCERT there was an expectdifferent sounds for the different ed need for music for movements.” smaller groups.

Three soloists from IWS will be “The thinking was, if the composfeatured in the program. er was writing pieces for smaller Fishers resident Larry Purdue, ensembles, they would have a principal horn, will perform on better chance for getting them “Melancholy.”

Purdue performed,” he said. “That was true The second soloist is principal in some cases and not in others. Unfortutrumpet Brian Hoover, from Indianapolis, on nately, the entire season was canceled for “Le Gay Paris” by Jean Francaix. some groups. We got in on one of these Carmel resident Christian Starnes, who (new) pieces.” plays string bass, will perform “Mozart newThe Indiana Wind Symphony will perform look” by Francaix. composer Giovanni Santos’ “Miniatures for The other pieces IWS will perform are by Chamber Wind Ensemble” as the opening composers more well-known, such as Gorpiece of its “Wind Gems in Miniature” condon Jacob and Alfred Reed. cert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Studio TheA maximum of 16 musicians will play at a atre at the Center for the Performing Arts in time, Conrad said. He will conduct most of Carmel. Santos is an assistant professor of the concert. Assistant Director Nathan Vogmusic and conducts the wind ensemble at es will conduct a couple of pieces.

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Cellist plays with Harlem Quartet

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tion. Sphinx sponsors a national competition every year, primarily for Latino and Black students. The group was originally This concert will be a homecoming for made up of four first-prize winners of that cellist Felix Umansky. competition.

The 2004 Carmel Umansky said the quartet still CONCERT High School graduate has a relationship with Sphinx but will be making his is not directly managed by it anyfirst appearance with the Harlem more. The two violinists have been Quartet in the Indianapolis area with the quartet from the start. since he joined in the spring of “The repertoire that we play and 2015. the program we curate is still as Umansky “I can’t wait to be back in my diverse as it was in 2006,” Umansky hometown to see and perform for all of said. “We program not only standard classithese people I know and love,” said Umancal music, but we do quite a bit of contemsky, whose parents, Konstantin and Polina, porary music. We do a lot of jazz, Latin and still live in Carmel.

Afro Cuban tunes in our concerts.”

Umansky will appear with the Harlem This year, the group became the quarQuartet with Cuban pianist/composer Aldo tet-in-residence at Montclair State UniverLopez-Gavilan at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the sity in New Jersey. It also has been the Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis. quartet-in-residence at the Royal College The concert is part of the Ensemble Music of Music in London. Since the COVID-19 panSociety of Indianapolis series. Lopez-Gavilan demic, the group’s work in London has been is the younger brother of Harlem Quartet virtual. first violinist Ilmar Gavilan, who is originally “When we were going there in person, it from Cuba. was two to three times a year,” Umansky The Harlem Quartet formed in 2006 and said. was put together by the Sphinx organizaFor more, visit ensemblemusic.org.

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Carmel resident to receive Woman of the Arts Award

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HONOR learned a few months Nancy Thompson, who won the ago she was being Woman of the Arts Award in 1998, honored with the Kathryn Taurel has worked with Feigenbaum for a Woman of the Arts Award, which is number of nonprofit arts organizapresented to a woman in the Indiations as a volunteer. napolis area who has made signif“She has a wonderful vision for Feigenbaum icant contributions as a volunteer the organization she is working for, for a local arts organization. and she knows the importance of raising “This award came very unexpectedly,” Fei- funds,” Thompson said. “In addition to the genbaum said. “I had no idea I was going to efforts as a volunteer, at the end of the day, receive this award. I am indeed very proud. she also takes out her checkbook.”

It’s a great tribute. I have great respect for A former Indianapolis Opera board memthe late Kathryn Taurel.” ber, Feigenbaum is now an honorary board Feigenbaum will be presented the award member. She was co-chair of the first Indiat Wings of Love, which serves as the annual anapolis Opera Ball. She also served on the Opera Ball, from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at board of Dance Kaleidoscope, the Internathe Scottish Rite Cathedral in Indianapolis. tional Violin Competition and the Society of Feigenbaum was selected from nominaFriends of Music, which raises money for the tions provided by central Indiana arts orgaJacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Pascarelli creates movie on cult

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writing professor, Jeff Pollard, to rewrite various aspects of it so it would translate to the screen better.”

Eric Pascarelli had some time on his Pascarelli, who worked on the script for hands during the COVID-19 pandemic. approximately three months, said there “Over the pandemic I were many revisions and story FILM watched several cult-rechanges. lated documentaries and “I have been submitting it to varwanted to incorporate some of ious film festivals both locally and that into a movie,” Pascarelli said. worldwide,” said Pascarelli, a 2007 “I wanted to somehow blend those Carmel High School graduate who aspects with a 30-something-yearstudied telecommunications at Ball old, coming-of-age story.”

State University. “I really hope the Pascarelli The result is his recently comCarmel Film Festival, or whatever pleted 1-hour and 40-minute independent the name actually will be, will get going film, “Chasing Rabbits,” which he co-wrote, soon, so I can try to be in that. (It) would be directed and was executive producer. a real treat.”

The Carmel resident said the plot centers The “Chasing Rabbits” cast includes on Penny, whose mother abandoned her to Carmel residents Drew Russell, Michael join a cult when she was a child. Now in Davidson and Denise Reiter. The main cast her 30s, Penny’s father has gone missing. members are Leanne Johnson, Lafayette; Penny suspects the cult kidnapped him, so Holly Anspaugh, Bloomington; and George Penny decides to infiltrate the cult, posing Juarez, Battle Ground. as a new member, to save her father before Pascarelli has run his own video producit’s too late. tion company, Pascarelli Productions, for “I came up with the idea and wrote sevapproximately 10 years, focusing on corpoeral versions of the script,” Pascarelli said. rate and business videos.

“Eventually, I teamed up with a screen-

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Address: jimsamazingbread.com What to get: Bread Price: $22 per two loaves Anna’s take: One of the co-owners of Jim’s Amazing Bread reached out to me after I wrote a review on Native Bread, a dairy-, gluten- and egg-free product. Jim’s Amazing Bread is not certified gluten-free but is made with whole cell wheat. The wheat is gently crushed, which leaves the wheat cells intact, and therefore Jim’s Amazing

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The bread has only six ingredients — whole cell wheat, water, honey, flax, yeast and salt. I don’t have gluten sensitivity, so I couldn’t validate those claims. Ideally, the beard should be toasted, then topped with whatever you prefer. I was less impressed with the price — $22 for two loaves.

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Ashley Thibodeau and Megan Peck have a simple goal for their new Carmel enterprise: To provide small businesses NEW BIZ that cater to arts and movement with a space to prosper and grow in the community.

So far, Thibodeau and Peck already have five businesses housed in The Main Squeeze, which opened Sept. 1 at 33 E. Main Street, Suite 300, in Carmel.

“You can find all your favorite arts and movement classes in one amazing space, right on Main Street,” Thibodeau said. “We currently have several small businesses offering ballet, yoga, music and art at The Main Squeeze.”

Thibodeau and Peck own two of those five businesses. Thibodeau owns The Ballet Studio of Carmel, and Peck owns the Indy Ananda yoga studio. The women, who met in 2018 when Peck’s daughter took dance lessons at The Ballet Studio, had operated their businesses in a shared multi-purpose room at Mini Minds in Carmel before coming up with up with the concept for The Main

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Peck, a mental health therapist, also owns Mini Minds, which is not housed at The Main Squeeze.

“We were talking about the high demand for our (arts/movement) businesses, and we both agreed that we had outgrown that multi-purpose room,” Thibodeau said.

“We both lived in major cities before and had known about shared spaces and arts and movement co-ops in those places. We thought, ‘Why not do that here in Carmel?’”

Besides The Ballet Studio and Indy Ananda, the other three businesses inside The Main Squeeze are The Art Lab (owned by Maren Bell); Resounding Joy (owned by Lindsay Zehren); and JumpBunch of Indianapolis (owned by Stacy McIntyre).

“Megan and I already had relationships with these women (business owners), and so we decided that these five businesses were a great starting point for The Main Squeeze,” Thibodeau said. “Our goal is to house even more businesses who fit into our two-fold mission of supporting small arts and movement businesses and bringing a wider variety of arts and movement classes to the community.”

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Names behind the eponyms Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt

George Rogers Clark Memorial in Vincennes. (Photo by Don Knebel)

Visiting George Rogers Clark National Historical Park Commentary by Don Knebel George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, along the Wabash River in Vincennes, honors the young leader of TRAVEL a daring American military campaign.

When the American Revolution began, the British Province of Quebec included the land north of the Ohio River between the Mississippi River and the Appalachians.

Quebec Lt. Gov. Henry Hamilton, stationed at Fort Detroit, enforced a royal proclamation barring further European settlement by encouraging Native Americans to attack settlers. In 1777, 25-year-old George Rogers Clark convinced Virginia Gov. Patrick Henry to authorize him to recruit volunteers to attack British outposts. During 1778, Clark and 175 frontiersmen captured Fort Kaskaskia, along the Mississippi, and Fort Sackville, along the Wabash. Hamilton soon recaptured Fort Sackville.

After learning from Italian ally Francis Vigo (for whom Vigo County was named) that Hamilton was there, Clark led 170 American and French volunteers through harsh winter conditions from Kaskaskia back to Fort Sackville. A surprised Hamilton surrendered and was taken prisoner on Feb. 25, 1779. Virginia then claimed Quebec Province south of the Great Lakes, which later became the Northwest Territory. Clark, hailed as the “Conqueror of the Old Northwest,” was supported later in life by his brother, William, co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

In the 1930s, Indiana and the United States jointly erected a classical-style circular memorial to George Rogers Clark (for whom Clark County was named) on the pre-

Statue of Francis Vigo in Vincennes.

As autumn dawns, I get excited about college football, scalding-hot soup, pumpkin-flavored everything and warm woolen cardigans. This got GRAMMAR GUY me to thinking: From where do we get the word “cardigan”?

The cardigan is named after Lord Cardigan, also known as James Brundell, 7th Earl of Cardigan. Lord Cardigan won fame for his questionable leadership during the Crimean War. In October 1854, he led his British Light Cavalry Brigade against Russian troops at the Battle of Balaclava. Although Cardigan lost 107 out of 654 of his men, his troops reached the Russian battery and took out the enemy’s guns. Lord Cardigan came back without a scratch.

Capitalizing on Lord Cardigan’s military legend, clothiers began calling the knitted military jacket he and other officers wore during the war “cardigan jackets” and “cardigan waistcoats.” This term for naming an item after a person is called an eponym.

Although Lord Cardigan didn’t invent or design the cardigan, many eponyms are

named after the person who either discovered a place or invented an item. We see this in the Caesar salad, a salad named after Caesar Cardini, an Italian restauranteur who operated the aptly named Tijuana restaurant, Caesar’s, in the early 1900s.

Other examples of eponyms credited to their creator or discoverer include America, nicotine, silhouette, saxophone, sandwich and boycott. I’d rather be known as the guy who invented the sandwich than the poster child for saying “no” to things.

Believe it or not, the cardigan isn’t the only eponymous clothing term that emerged from the Crimean War. The largest global conflict of the mid-1850s also gave us the “raglan” sleeve. Named after Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron of Raglan, a raglan sleeve is “a sleeve that extends to the neckline with slanted seams from the underarm to the neck.”

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

EN’S MUSEUM GUILD’S HAUNTED HOUSE THE CHILDR George Rogers Clark statue in Vincennes.

sumed site of Fort Sackville. The 80-foot-tall granite structure features a dome resting on 16 columns. Writing above the columns reads: “The Conquest of the West -- George Rogers Clark and The Frontiersmen of the American Revolution.” Inside, a 7 1/2-foottall bronze statue of a uniformed young Clark is surrounded by seven 16-foot by 28-foot murals depicting scenes from his famous expedition. The memorial grounds became a National Historical Park in 1966 and include a riverside statue of Vigo.

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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