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Westfield Washington Schools superintendent addresses growth

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com

do we configure them? Where do we need to build? In all seriousness, if anyone has 75 acres to the west, drop me a card, because Westfield Washington Schools Supt. Paul sooner or later, in my lifetime, we’re going to Kaiser doesn’t think much about his own have to build something out there. legacy. However, “We are looking to buy land out EDUCATION he has one strong to the west. We do own a couple wish. parcels of property but they are “This is my 41st year. I hope only big enough for an elementary over my previous 40, and the next school.” five, six, seven, whatever, that I’ve Kaiser said 75 acres is needed for impacted kids,” said Kaiser, who a middle school and 100 acres for a was named superintendent in May. high school.

Kaiser “These people (Westfield teachers) “Nobody has any desire to build impact kids every single day. That’s why we a second high school, so don’t put that on do what we do. We’re here because we care Facebook,” he said. “We want to keep one about kids.” high school. The growth is not stopping Kaiser said educators have to not listen and they are building those neighborhoods to all the “noise” from the outside. pretty quickly.”

“Ninety-eight percent of the kids in our Kaiser said the new early learning center school, they just want to come to school is going to help free up space in the eleand get a top-notch, first-class, All-American mentary schools. education that we provide,” Kaiser said. “Get “If you walk in our buildings, we’ve got the kids involved in extra-curricular activikids tucked in all over the place,” he said. ties and they want to be safe.”

Among elementary schools, Shamrock Kaiser said he was humbled to give the Springs is at 100 percent capacity and Carey State of the Schools address Oct. 14 at Ridge is at 94 percent.

Westfield Chamber of Commerce luncheon “We are going to look to do upgrades and at The Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield. other things to our elementary buildings,” Kaiser has lived in Westfield since 1995 Kaiser said. “We like the community rooms and has experienced the city’s growth. we put in some buildings, but other build“I think we had 1,400 housing starts in ings don’t have them. You’ll see some conthis summer alone,” he said. “The good thing struction the next three to four years.” about growth is, we get more money from Kaiser said in the future the district will the state. The bad thing about growth is, have to explore the possibility of a seventh down the road we’re going to have to build elementary school and what to do about some buildings. Don’t panic, it’s good news the intermediate school and middle school. on tax rate. So, our biggest challenge is Westfield High School is at 82 percent cagrowth. What do our buildings look like? How pacity with 2,621 students.

Kaiser said officials are careful to keep the tax rate as low as possible.

“At least in my lifetime, we should not have to do a construction referendum because of the growth,” said Kaiser, who teaches school finance at Indiana State University in the spring.

Kaiser said the district is ranked in the top 5 percent nationally in academics, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The high school has added programs in health sciences, construction, coding and hospitality/tourism.

“Our high school is like a small university on the inside,” Kaiser said. “A lot of kids can go straight to a job without post-secondary education, and they can make great dollars.

Schools should not be a place where young kids come watch adults work. We take pride on getting our kids hands-on experience doing the things that make them successful in life.”

Kaiser said the school does not have an orchestra.

“We know we have parents that don’t choose our school corporation because we don’t offer this,” Kaiser said. “The high school and the middle school are going to be working on this, so we can transition over the next three years.”

Kaiser said the district loses students to Sheridan and Hamilton Heights because Westfield doesn’t offer agricultural science classes.

Kaiser said the district has a great choir program and is working to add a show choir.

Other proposed new classes include landscape management, welding and firefighting.

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Although natural gas prices are approximately double the level of last fall, Citizens is working to shield customers from the full impact of higher prices through a number of measures, including price hedging contracts with natural gas suppliers.

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Council approves 2022 budget, Coming Soon reduced to cover legal expenses to Carmel

By Ann Marie Shambaugh AnnMarie@youarecurrent.com

The Westfield City Council on Oct. 20 voted 6-1 to approve a 2022 budget reduced by $700,000 more than CITY NEWS cuts previously proposed to cover legal expenses incurred this year.

Councilors were already considering cutting $5 million to balance the $64 million budget by delaying certain construction projects, reducing the crack Johns seal street maintenance program and eliminating the purchase of three pickup trucks and five police vehicles.

City Council President Mike Johns said he was comfortable with the Willis budget — with the $5 million in cuts — except for the fact that the council will soon be voting on appropriating $700,000, primarily to cover mounting legal expenses incurred because of ongoing litigation between Mayor Andy Cook and Clerk-Treasurer Cindy Gossard.

Johns said the city will need to use cash reserves to cover the additional appropriation, and he said the 2022 budget should refill them.

“I’m proposing that rather than just raiding the cookie jar, we need to put that $700,000 back into the cookie jar next year,” he said.

Johns proposed the following cuts: • Reducing the budget for the city administration’s legal consultants from $652,200 to $352,200.

• Reducing the city administration’s budget for other consultants from $240,000 to $140,000.

• Reducing the number of hires for the community development department from five to four new employees, and spacing out the hiring throughout 2022, saving $125,000.

• Eliminating a new hire proposed in the city’s communications department, saving $75,000.

• Reducing the clerk-treasurer’s legal consulting budget from $50,000 to $10,000.

• Cutting the $344,500 budget for Westfield Welcome by $60,000.

Councilor Scott Willis cast the lone vote against the budget, saying he wanted more time to review the impact of the additional $700,000 in cuts, which he said he and other councilors had not seen before the meeting.

The council had tabled a vote on the budget at its Oct. 11 meeting to allow time for councilors to review the impact of the $5 million in cuts proposed by city administrators. Per state law, the council has until Nov. 1 to approve a budget.

“I find it inappropriate to hand (the new cuts) to me and say, ‘Vote on it,’” Willis said.

“I can’t believe after our last meeting, after the action we took, we’re going to turn around and do this.”

Before the vote, Community Development Dept. Director Kevin Todd phoned into the meeting to request the matter be tabled so he could determine the impact of cutting his department’s budget by $125,000. He said the city would only save $72,000 by eliminating a new hire from his department.

“I’d like some time to figure out where that money comes from and what other impacts on my budget that would have,” said Todd, who noted he hadn’t heard of the proposed cuts to his department’s budget before the meeting.

Johns told Todd he could appear before the council at a future date and request an adjustment, if needed.

“I find it inappropriate to hand (the new cuts) to me and say, ‘Vote on it,’” Willis said. “I can’t believe after our last meeting, after the action we took, we’re going to turn around and do this.”

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roundabout is under way, with a full closure of the Project: Wheeler Road traffic intersection expected for signals approximately 60 days.

Location: Construction Project: Transmission started on Wheeler and water utility work CONSTRUCTION Road at the Location: Veterans Way intersections of both between The Cat Theatre Ind. 32 and Tournament Trail. The and 1st Street SW. Partial closures will project will add a traffic signal at Wheeler occur but access to all addresses will be Road and Tournament Trail, complete maintained. the connection on Tournament Trail from Expected completion: The four-phase Wheeler Road to Oak Ridge Road and add project, which will later impact other a second left turn lane on Wheeler Road at areas, is expected to be complete by May Ind. 32. There will not be any closures.

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Expected completion: Before the end of Project: Burial of overhead lines the year.

Location: Guilford Road between Grand Project: New roundabout construction Boulevard and Main Street Location: The intersection of 151st Expected completion: End of 2021 Street and Ditch Road will be closed for NOBLESVILLE AND NORTH approximately 60 days. The construction Project: Small structure replacement began Sept. 20.

Estimated completion: End of November Location: 196th Street between Promise Project: New roundabout construction Road and Summer Road is closed.

Location: The intersection of 169th Street Expected completion: Dec. 1. and Spring Mill Road will be closed for Project: Small structure replacement approximately 60 days. The construction Location: 191st Street between began Sept. 7.

Cyntheanne Road and Prairie Baptist Road Estimated completion: November will be closed to all thru traffic.

Project: Jersey Street Expected completion: Dec. 1.

Location: From Union Street to Mill Street FISHERS Expected completion: Jersey Street will Project: Roundabout construction on 146th be closed for the remainder of the Grand street.

Junction Plaza construction.

Location: The intersection of Ind. 37 and Project: Grand Junction Plaza 146th Street. Best detour is bypassing Location: The parking lot west of Union 146th street by taking 141st street.

Street and south of Main Street Expected completion: May 2022.

Expected completion: The gravel parking Project: Roundabout construction on 131st lot on the east end of Park Street is street. permanently closed as the Grand Junction Location: The intersection of Ind. 37 and Plaza is moving into the construction 131st Street. Best detour is to avoid 131st phase. Parking is available on the west street by taking 126th street. end of Park Street.

Expected completion: July 2022.

CARMEL Project: Bridge rehabilitation Project: Rehabilitation of 116th Street Location: Lane closures are in effect for bridge over the White River 116th Street between River Road and Eller Location: Lane closures will begin on or Road for the rehabilitation of the 116th after Sept. 20 and be in effect for 116th Street bridge over the West Fork White River. One lane of traffic in each direction Street between River Road and Eller Road.

One lane of traffic in each direction will will be maintained at all times on 116th be maintained at all times throughout Street throughout construction. construction.

Expected completion: Nov. 9.

Expected completion: Nov. 9 ZIONSVILLE Project: Range Line Road reconstruction Project: Oak Street sewer/low pressure Location: Between City Center Drive force main and Elm Street. The project will include Location: The sewer will be on the north construction of a new roundabout at side of Oak Street and extend west of Walnut Street (6th Street) and Range Cooper Road, traveling east to just west Line Road. Alternate routes during of Irish Hill. All residents along the side construction include Keystone Parkway, streets of Oak Street who are in the direct Main Street, City Center Drive and 3rd location of the sewer project are being Avenue SW. considered for sewer, including residents Expected completion: Work on the as far west as 800 E. and as far east as WESTFIELD

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More living room From left, SERT members Ryan Ebbert, Travis Petrie, Michael McQueen, team leader Dalton Ballard, Cmdr. Matt Hyde, team leader Kyle McCoy, Justin Rennaker, Lane Snyder, Cole Leininger and Ryan Mosley. (Photo courtesy of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office)

SERT celebrates 25 years

By Chris Bavender news@currentinwestfield.com The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Special Emergency Response Team is marking its 25th year as the PUBLIC SAFETY Hamilton County jail’s frontline defense against unruly and dangerous inmates.

“SERT serves as an added safety measure inside the jail, just as SWAT operates for law enforcement,” said Matt Hyde, SERT comHyde mander. “In corrections, we are not immune to the dangers humans can do to others, the exposure to harmful drugs, handmade weapons, fights and hostage taking. It is not uncommon for a facility to Carey have a tactical response team to handle such unusual occurrences.”

SERT started primarily as a cell extraction team, according to Jail Capt. Josh Carey.

“Over time, the team began taking on cell block shakedowns once a month, which involves the team searching every inch of a single cell block, including each cell,” Carey said. “We search for weapons, drugs, intel, gang affiliations as well as any security risk or maintenance issue. The team then expanded to high-risk, high-profile inmate transports, transporting very high-risk inmates to prison or court.

“High-risk, high-profile inmates can include high-ranking gang members, inmates who are escape risks, inmates with a lot of media coverage, etc.”

That led to the team taking on high-risk,

high-profile courtroom security. The team also trains in custody/hostage rescue. In 2020, Hamilton County Sheriff Dennis Quakenbush tasked SERT with starting and leading the Sheriff’s Office’s first Mobile Field Force Team, which is tasked with handling large crowds and riot operations within the county.

A selection process is conducted once a year. To be invited, candidates must have worked one year from their Field Training sign-off date and received a letter of recommendation. The selection process includes a basic physical training assessment, a written test and a formal interview with team leadership.

All SERT members work regular 12-hour shifts. The team of 15 is split into two smaller teams. Each team has a team leader and one commander and is on call throughout the year to ensure quick response time.

“SERT trains four hours every month, covering hand-to-hand combat, legal considerations, riot operations, less lethal application, cell extractions, high-risk, high-profile transports, courthouse operations, lethal application, hostage rescue, and anything we find is necessary to train,” Hyde said.

SERT also trains other jail officers. It conducted its first academy in 2005. Since the first class, hundreds of jail officers have been trained by Hamilton County SERT. “Some of the officers were on established teams, and a few others were working on starting a team,” Carey said. “The course is open to patrol and corrections officers, even if they are not a team. We have trained with teams from Madison, Tipton, Hendricks, Morgan and Johnson counties. It is common for facilities to have some sort of tactical team within the facility due to the dangers.”

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Michael and Nicole Kobrowski run Historic Indiana Ghost Walks & Tours. (Photo courtesy of Nicole Kobrowski)

Ghost hunters are scary busy

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com With Halloween approaching, Nicole and Michael Kobrowski’s ghost tours are naturally extremely popular.

HALLOWEEN But this year, they have been busy since March. They usually offer weekend tours April through November.

“This year, we have been absolutely slammed,” Nicole said. “Business has been very good. We’re actually booked through December with private and public tours.”

The Westfield couple offer Historic Indiana Ghost Walks & Tours in Westfield, Noblesville, Anderson and Indianapolis. They also write books about the paranormal.

The couple’s most recent paranormal book is “Cursed Circle City,” which was released in July and is about Indianapolis spots that are reported to have paranormal activity. Nicole usually does nearly all of the writing, but Michael contributed four chapters.

“He helps with the research on all of my books because we love history so much,” Nicole said. “He and I collaborated on this because it was a long-overdue book, writing about a lot of the places we love in Indianapolis. The stories are very intensive. They have a lot of history and a lot of ghosts, seven of the 10 we’ve investigated, so that makes it even better for the readers who hear not only our version of things but other people who have had experiences as well. Some of the places are on the tour we can’t dig in as deep in the history because we have a limited amount of time.

“There is so much more to these places than what we present. Michael was really excited because he gives a lot of the India-

napolis tours.”

Nicole said her husband was nervous about writing the chapters.

“But I’ve had many years of experience writing and editing and was able to guide him through that,” Nicole said. “I think he did a great job.”

One story is about the Slippery Noodle Inn in Indianapolis, which was formerly a brothel.

“There are the ladies of the night that haunted the upstairs and who aren’t too awfully excited about men,” Nicole said.

“The building The Rathskeller is in and my favorite ghost of all time, Dr. Helene Knabe, haunts that building. She was a doctor who was murdered down the street (in 1911). She spent a lot of time in that building because it was a German community center.”

Knabe’s murder was unsolved. Nicole also wrote a book about her life and murder.

Nicole said another book, called “Ghosts of Hamilton County,” is due out in November from their publishing house, unseenpress. com. Nicole said they also have books about Indiana history.

Nicole recently wrote “A Letter to Krampus” that was published in October.

“I consider the Krampus books as folklore,” Nicole said of the horned figure who scares children who have misbehaved before Christmas. “The book is about a little boy who wants to be an apprentice to Krampus, and he is extolling his virtues on why he’s fit for that job.”

The next book is called “Krampus Starts the War,” where Krampus gets other folklore figures together. He tells them they are cramping his style and they need to move out of the way. Nicole has created two accompanying coloring books for the books.

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Senior shows her versatility leading Carmel girls soccer team

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Carmel High School senior Emily Roper has saved her best soccer season for last.

“I’ve made a lot of improvements with my leadership,” said Roper, calling 2021 her best season. “This year I’ve had a lot of composure up front being able to finish balls in the attacking third (opponent’s goal area). I think that one of the things I’ve improved most is getting my goals up as well as being diverse and being able to switch positions.”

Prior to the Oct. 23 Class 3A semistate against Bloomington South, Roper had 18 goals and nine assists for the Greyhounds (17-2-2).

Roper, who has committed to play soccer for Ball State University, had seven goals as a junior in 12 games. She had to sit out a few games because of having close contact to a student who tested positive for COVID-19.

Roper had six goals as a sophomore and seven as a freshman.”

Before the sectional, Roper moved from center forward to center back because the starting center back, Claire Simmons, suf-

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“I’ve had a lot of help from the other center backs on our team, telling me where to go,” Roper said. “The center back is more defensive and never goes forward. A center forward is all the time attacking. You never go back.”

Carmel coach Frank Dixon said Roper’s athletic skills were needed to defend.

Emily Roper leads Carmel with 18 goals. (Photo courtesy of Frank Dixon)

“We had a backup center back, but she is young,” Dixon said. “I wanted someone with experience to go back there, and Emily is a great athlete. So, I asked her to do it and she said she would. I think when she goes to Ball State, they may play her as a forward, but they could play her anywhere on the field.

She could play center back for them if they wanted her to.”

With Roper moving to defense, Dixon said the Greyhounds have struggled to score goals but did not give up a goal in three sectional and two regional games.

“I think we’re not giving up any goals because she is there and we’re finding enough (goals) to find our way through,” Dixon said.

Simmons returned to practice before the semistate.

Roper is one of the three team captains.

“It’s been a really good group,” Roper said.

“Everyone has bonded well. Even the people that have been brought up from the JV to be on the tournament team, they’ve motivated us to score.”

The Greyhounds were eliminated by Westfield in a shootout in last year’s sectional opener.

“So, I feel like this is our redemption year, and just making it this far, I’m super proud of how far we’ve made it,” Roper said.

The 6-foot Roper has played club soccer for the Indy Fire since eighth grade. She has played soccer since she was 4 years old and basketball since she was 7.

Roper also plays basketball for the Greyhounds. A post player, she averaged 4.7 points and 7.3 rebounds last season.

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Kelvin Lee, MD, became director of the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center in February.

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“Nobody says cure in the cancer field because it’s like, ‘We don’t want to touch that—that’s maybe too ambitious and maybe too fraught with disappointment,” Lee said.

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IU set goals to cure triple negative breast cancer, pediatric sarcoma and multiple myeloma when announcing its Precision Health Initiative.

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“For IU to come out and publicly say our objective is to cure this cancer,” he said, “that struck me as the mindset and the mentality at IU—to swing for the fences.” Lee came to IU from the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. There, he built up the center’s research arm and carved a niche

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in multiple myeloma.

He also established a groundbreaking collaboration with cancer researchers in Cuba, who have developed a lung cancer vaccine now in clinical trials.

school officials cleared up the mystery of the admissions letter. They intended to reject him.

Someone botched the mailing. “The fact that I am a physician,” Lee said, “was a complete accident.”

IU’s willingness to set the bar at cures, for one, Lee said. He wants the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center to be a top 10 cancer center in 10 years—10 in 10.

Simply put, he wants to do more.

“He saw things where no one else saw the opportunity, and he made them happen,” said Betsy Repasky, PhD, a professor in the Department of Immunology at Roswell Park. “He did that over and over and over.”

When Lee announced his departure for IU, people at Roswell Park— from senior faculty to maintenance staff— were in tears. So, why would Lee leave such a place?

“We all want to make a difference,” Lee said.

“I think IU offered me the opportunity to make even more of a difference. That was the attraction.”

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Lee’s mother phoned the school and yelled at the person who took the call, demanding an explanation. Flustered, the receptionist gave Lee an interview date.

He impressed the admissions team and was granted one of 10 spots for out-of-state students. He would finish second in his class. At graduation,

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A rendering of the 22-foot-tall concrete water tank proposed as part of a booster station at Oak Ridge Road and 146th Street. (Rendering courtesy of

Citizens to build 22-foot-tall water tank in Westfield

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Significant growth in Westfield is requiring a new water tank booster system at 146th Street and Oak Ridge GROWTH Road, raising concern from nearby residents.

Citizens Energy Group Corporate Communications Manager Dan Considine said no more public hearings are scheduled, and the tank is needed in the area because Westfield is one of the five fastest-growing communities in the state.

“Most of that growth is residential houses, so that’s the primary reason,” Considine said. “We had a lot of growth in that area, and we just need additional places to store water.”

Considine said a water system needs proper water pressure not only for residential use, but also to ensure proper pressure at the fire hydrants for fire protection.

“So, as we look at our system, we have water towers strategically located throughout the system to ensure proper water pressure for both residential service and fire protection,” Considine said. “That area just needs another tank, another storage vessel. That’s what this booster station will do. It’s got the tank and it has pumps to move the water throughout the system.”

A 40-foot-tall steel water tower was proposed for the booster station, but Citizens reevaluated its plans and went with a 22-foot-tall, 1-million gallon concrete water tank instead. Construction will begin in December and will be finished in spring 2022.

“We did have feedback from the commu-

nity, and after getting some input from the community, we revised the design and are going with a shorter, wider tank,” Considine said.

Most of the residential feedback came from residents living in Legacy Oaks, a Pulte neighborhood at the northeast corner of 146th Street and Oak Ridge Road. Attempts to reach Pulte for a statement were unsuccessful.

“This isn’t going to be right up next to someone’s backyard,” Considine said. “A natural gas pipeline runs across the field, so there will be at least 300 feet between the edge of the property and anyone’s backyard. We try to work with the community.

If people express concerns, we try to listen and do what we can to make changes, and we want to be good neighbors, and I think that’s what we’ve done here.”

The pumps will be stored in the building at the booster station and won’t run around the clock. Considine said people won’t hear the pumps from their home.

Considine said Citizens doesn’t need permission from the Westfield City Council to build the tank, but it did submit plans to the plan commission.

“They basically look at it to make sure we are landscaping it correctly and not creating any kind of drainage problem for the area. They don’t review whether we need it,” Considine said. “We try to cover it as much as we can.”

The new booster station will have a 1- to 2-foot-tall earthen berm surrounding the facility. Evergreen trees will be planted on the berm.

For more, visit citizensenergygroup.com.

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CHS tennis teammates make history

Westfield police arrest man after shots fired

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com The Carmel High School boys tennis team had already clinched its record sixth consecutive IHSAA state championship by winning four of the first five matches ACHIEVEMENT in 63 minutes or less. Even though Broc Fletcher was cramping badly and had already been eliminated from the singles tournament with a previous postseason loss, there was no way the Carmel senior was going to retire in the Oct. 16 team state final against Zionsville.

Despite the leg cramps, Fletcher defeated Zionsville’s Cole Chappell 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 at No. 1 singles to give the top-ranked Greyhounds a 5-0 victory against No. 5 Zionsville on CHS’s home courts.

“I basically told myself that if I end up in a hospital, it’s worth it,” Fletcher said. “I have to fight for every point. This team has meant so much to me. It’s my last high school match and it was just an unbelievable moment for me.”

Carmel coach Bryan Hanan told Fletcher the match was clinched, and he could retire if the cramping was too bad. Fletcher insisted he wanted to finish, even though the Greyhounds had already won enough matches to secure the team win.

“That’s the kid he always is,” said Hanan, whose team completed a 24-0 season. “He’s got no quit in him. I can always count on him. For him to go out with a win is amazing.”

Fletcher lost to North Central’s Alex Antonopolous in a

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Carmel High School boys tennis team celebrates state championship.

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three-setter Oct. 15 as the Greyhounds topped North Central in the quarterfinals. Then in the Oct. 16 morning semifinals, he rallied to beat Columbus North’s Nathan Lin 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in Carmel’s 5-0 victory over the No. 2 Bulldogs.

“We’ve been talking about it for two years,” he said.

Other winners in the semifinals and championship for the Greyhounds were senior Eli Mercer, No. 2 singles, freshman Rocky Li, No. 3 singles; junior Jack Jentz and senior Srisanth Malpeddi, No. 1 doubles; and sophomore Braedon McIntyre and senior Adrien Qi, No. 2 doubles. Jentz and Malpeddi were unbeaten heading into the state doubles quarterfinals, which are set to begin Oct. 22. Li finished 27-1 and the No. 2 doubles team was 19-0.

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Former teacher receives career achievement award

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“As a teacher she never said ‘die’ and was tireless in her efforts to help students and the community. Her own needs came last.”

Jan Brill figures she was born to be a Even after retiring, Brill was substitute teacher. teaching before the COVID-19 panBrill’s granddemic began.

EDUCATION mother, Edna The best part of teaching for Forrest, was a Brill was the relationships with the teacher, and her mother, Judy Schastudents and how funny they were, fer, was a teacher. Her aunt was a she said. teacher, too.

“What they would say and their “It’s just what my family did,” facial reactions,” Brill said. “I could Brill Brill said. “I’ve always liked to work tell by their eyebrows ‘Are you with other people, whether they be kids or happy, confused or sad.’ Watching kids was adults.” the delight of my entire career, even when The Carmel resident and retired Westfield I taught music. I could tell what they were Washington Schools teacher received the thinking. They did not need to say anything, 2021 Career Achievement Alumni Award from I could tell by their eyes I knew what they the Ball State University Teachers College wanted to tell me.”

Alumni Society. The ceremony was supDuring her time, Brill, who has a master’s posed to be this fall, but it has been delayed degree in school counseling from Butler Unibecause of the COVID-19 pandemic. versity, received a Lilly Endowment Teacher Brill, a 1974 Ball State University graduate, Creativity Fellowship to visit six national said getting the honor was exciting. parks, then created slide shows to present “Jan was an absolutely amazing science to her students. teacher for our students at Westfield InA unique teaching experience came in 2009 termediate School,” said Robb Hedges, now when Brill was one of seven public school Westfield’s Shamrock Springs Elementary teachers in Indiana to become an Armstrong School principal. “She engaged the students Teacher Educator through the Indiana Univerin hands-on activities, worked well collabosity School of Education, which allowed her rating with her peers and always kept the to participate in professional development students’ best interest first.” opportunities and work with IU faculty and Brill taught in several different positions students studying to become teachers. in Westfield Washington Schools for 22 Prior to teaching in Westfield, Brill taught years before retiring in 2018. After one year music lessons for 18 years. When her two as a Title I instructor, she primarily taught children were young, she gave private cello fifth- and sixth-grade math and science. She lessons in her home studio as well as at then served as the Westfield Intermediate Park Tudor.

School’s lab instructor for 12 years. She also Brill, who plays cello, is one of two was a mentor for first-year teachers. founding members remaining in the Carmel Brill’s friend, Kathy Knochel-Graveel, was Symphony Orchestra, which began in 1975. her teaching partner at Westfield Intermedi- She also plays in her church orchestra at St. ate School. Knochel-Graveel is a sixth-grade Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapinstructor at the school. olis. She performs in two musical trios.

“Jan is the type of person that always “My outlet is music,” said Brill, who also gives 100 percent of herself and then more,” is a Master Gardener and volunteers with Knochel-Graveel said in her nominating letter. different groups.

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Noblesville Youth Assistance Program to hold Haybale Ball

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com The Noblesville Youth Assistance Program wanted to make a bigger impact with its fundFUNDRAISER raising event.

So, Noblesville City Attorney Lindsey Bennett, a NYAP board member, said the Haybale Ball was developed to take the place Bennett of Yee-Haw for Youth. The Haybale Ball will be from 7 to 11 p.m. Nov. 12 at Lindley Farmstead at Chatham Hills in Westfield. Jai Baker 3 will serve as musical entertainment, starting at 8 p.m.

“Yee-Haw was first at Stony Creek Farms in 2018 and then Conner Prairie in 2019,” Bennett said. “We wanted to make it a bigger event to raise more money for NYAP, so we moved it to Mustard Seed (Gardens) last year. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, we canceled that event, though we had Jai Baker scheduled for it last year as well. We decided to rebrand the event and make it more in line with the main fundraisers of other local nonprofits.”

So, Bennett said NYAP chose a new name and a new venue with increased capacity and included a silent auction and wine and bourbon pull. Bennett said the organization asked Mayor Chris Jensen for his support as the honorary chair for the event sponsored

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“The Noblesville Youth Assistance Program helps make a positive impact on the lives of youth and families in our city,” Jensen said. “We know that supporting our families now will pay dividends in the future. Despite all our current actions, we can do more to reach our children who are at risk of falling through the cracks of society,

which is where Noblesville Youth Assistance Program enters and excels through family assistance, tutoring and mentoring programs.”

NYAP was formed in 2012 to help strengthen youth and families through community involvement. It provides professional coordination of services and referral services to students and families of Noblesville Schools.

Jensen Lindley Farmstead holds up to 250 people.

“The venue is a big, beautiful barn and in line with the country theme of our event,” Bennett said.

The event will be country/casual attire amid the rustic decor. The event will start with a cocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres downstairs, then will move upstairs at approximately 7:45 p.m. NYAP Board President Tanya Wilhite will address the audience, followed by Jensen. There will be dinner and an open bar.

The fundraising goal is $50,000. Bennett said although 2020 was a difficult year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, NYAP persevered with support from the community and was able to provide help in the following ways: Raising $30,000 through the Meals for Millers Campaign that helped provide 13,080 meals for 327 Noblesville Students during the summer; provided 16,240 meals for 406 Noblesville students during spring and fall break combined; and assisted with Holiday Assistance for 53 Noblesville children, and 250 STEM kits were sent home with students during the stayat-home order.

Tickets are $150 per person or $1,200 per table of eight. For tickets or sponsorships, visit bidpal.net/haybaleball.

DISPATCHES Westfield Chamber conducts trunk-ortreat – The Westfield Chamber of Commerce will conduct a trunk-or-treat event from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 27 at Community First Bank of Indiana, 381 S. Junction Crossing. There will be trick-or-treat themed booths, adoptable pets from the Humane Society for Hamilton County and interaction with Batman and Elsa characters. For more, visit cfbindiana. com/trunkortreat.

Trick-or-treat hours – Trick-or-treat hours for Westfield are 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31. The Westfield Police Dept. and Westfield Fire Dept. will conduct a Boo Drive Thru in the Oak Trace Elementary parking lot at 16504 Oak Ridge Rd. from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 30. Police officers and firefighters will be dressed up and passing out treats to cars as they drive through the parking lot. Families are encouraged to dress in costume.

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Three Hoosier women behind anonymous podcast go public to aid people with loved ones battling addiction

By Chris Bavender news@currentinfishers.com For two years, three Hoosier women hosted a podcast using fake names to help others by telling their ADDICTION stories of spouses battling addiction, support groups and friendship that eased the burden of keeping their secret from others.

The women met in 2015 when Fishers resident Katie McHone-Jones and Westfield resident Jessica Miller-Bock’s husbands were admitted to Fairbanks, an Indianapolis provider of addiction treatment services.

At a weekly family support group, McHoneJones asked Miller-Bock if she wanted to grab dinner. At a meeting a few weeks later, they met Shannon Sullivan, of Indianapolis, and invited her to dinner, too.

“The initial dinner led to multiple meals together chatting about our lives, the decisions we were trying to make and helping each other move through them,” McHoneJones said. “One day at one of these meetups during lunch, we realized how lucky we were to have a group of people who understood what it was like to be in a relationship with someone in recovery. This realization encouraged us to bring a microphone to these conversations and share them with anyone who needed to listen.”

So, the women created a podcast. Now, the podcast is called “Boy Problems” and is part of the Recovering Too website. The podcast initially was created to help others, but in looking back, Miller-Bock said starting the podcast and doing it anonymously gave her the space to process the things she’d experienced in a different way.

“It was the ultimate ‘letting go.’ I just put these truths out into the public, and they served a larger purpose, which took some of the weight of them off my heart,” she said. “While the podcast was anonymous, I was also still keeping this part of my life very private. No one outside of my recovering community or my closest family knew about my husband’s recovery.”

Miller-Bock met her husband, Casey, in 2012. They’d attended the same high school but reconnected a few years later after he returned from Iraq after serving in the military. The first night they hung out, he told her he was in a drug recovery program at the VA for a pill addiction he developed after returning from deployment.

From left, Shannon Sullivan, Katie McHone-Jones and Jessica Miller-Bock met in 2015 and began a podcast using fake names to help others whose spouses were battling addiction. (Photos courtesy of Aubrey Smith Creative)

“One of his best friends from the military committed suicide. Shortly after this, I noticed he was acting weird,” she said. “This led to finding out that he was using again.

He went to the VA for treatment, and we postponed our wedding. There was a period of sobriety and we got married. Shortly after that, I found out about him using again.

And this cycle of using for a few weeks and me finding out, followed by a longer period of sobriety, continued for a couple of years.”

McHone-Jones said she wasn’t aware of what was going on with her husband, Kemmon Jones, after they got married. She just knew she wasn’t happy.

“He was always sick and in a grumpy mood,” she said. “(I) didn’t know he was going through withdrawals and his immune system was shot. At the end, nothing was making sense. He just kept layering lie after lie on top of each other. Money was going missing, and he couldn’t explain where it was all going. I was so unhappy, but no one knew. I started to withdraw into myself and not going out and not talking to friends. I was very lonely.”

When Sullivan started dating her partner, Jay, he wasn’t using drugs at the time and was honest about his past struggles. She admitted she was “pretty naïve” about addiction, and she assumed it was all in the past. And, for the next few years, it seemed to be that way.

“Eventually, Jay started using again,” she said. “I did not learn about it for nearly eight months. During this time, things felt off, but I couldn’t put my finger on why.

There always seemed to be an explanation for the weird things that were happening.

I would often convince myself that things were all in my head or that I was being paranoid. When things started unravelling, Jay confessed what had been going on and was ready to get help. I remember feeling shocked and numb and clueless on where to turn for help.”

And it is help and hope the three women now aim to offer others going through a similar experience through “Boy Problems,” which is no longer anonymous, and Recovering Too. “I felt that even if we could just help one

person, all of the pain and awkwardness I was feeling would be worth it. I knew that if we went public, we could help so many more people,” McHone-Jones said.

“Recovering Too was created to help others like we’ve been helped. There are not many other resources for families, so we think we can help fill that gap.”

The men are supportive of the trio’s efforts to help others.

“My husband, Casey, did know about the podcast from the beginning and was even a guest a few times,” Miller-Bock said. “He even helped us get new guests. He’s always been supportive of me sharing this story because he believes it helps me and others.”

“Kemmon was always on board with me sharing my story, podcast and otherwise,” McHone-Jones said. “From the start, he always thought it was a great idea and loves that we have the opportunity to help others. He is such a fan of the podcast, and every Wednesday he is always one of the first listeners.”

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Heroes Run set for Oct. 30 For Hamilton County Sheriff Dennis Quakenbush, the inaugural Heroes Run will meet the mission EVENT of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Community Foundation.

“The goal of the community foundation is to connect with the community, Quakenbush help those that are less fortunate and to support the men and women here in the sheriff’s office,” Quakenbush said. “It’s about building relationships in the community. This is a great way for us to be able to do that. (Lt.) Jon Robison came up with the idea and he is working on planning and getting this thing up and running for our first big event.”

The Oct. 30 Heroes Run will include events for people of all ages and abilities at Strawtown Koteewi Park, 11800 Koteewi Drive, Noblesville. Participants can sign up for a 1-mile walk, 5K run/walk, 10K run or a virtual challenge. The first race starts at 9

a.m., with the 10K on the trail that travels along the White River.

Robison, a purchasing agent for the sheriff’s office, said he runs in a lot of races.

“It seems everybody is having a good time,” he said. “People are running, people are walking, bringing their kids and bringing dogs, but some (running events) are pretty lame. You show up and you run, and you are done.

I like the ones that have Robison events with periphery stuff going on like food trucks and vendors. There will be things for kids like face painting.”

Robison said some events can be a logistical nightmare when spread out.

“But Koteewi Park is all contained, so you won’t be running on the road,” Robison said.

“We won’t have to close any roads or maintain traffic or anything. It’s such a beautiful park. The trails are wide enough and they accommodate strollers and dogs.”

Robison said the race organizer plans to have music and food trucks.

To register, visit runsignup.com/ indianaheroesrun.

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Zionsville topped the list, followed by Westfield, Carmel and Fishers, respectively. Noblesville was No. 7 on the list.

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Retired Westfield Middle School teacher turns to music for strength after Parkinson’s diagnosis

By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com Retired Westfield Middle School teacher Joe Stemnock has played music since he was in his early teens, but a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in October 2017 enhanced his desire to play.

“I think that kind of motivated me to go solo,” Stemnock said.

A multi-instrumentalist, Stemnock had played in bands for several years, playing mostly cover songs, but learning he had Parkinson’s encouraged him to write and record his own music while he still had the ability to do so. Playing music also has led to an improvement in Stemnock’s cognitive function, which can be affected by the disease.

“I have some memory issues, but it’s not anything profound,” Stemnock said. “Just recalling things takes me a little longer.

Music as a therapy for Parkinson’s has really gained popularity. Not only does playing guitar keep your hands loose and flexible and strengthened, but when you play music, you are using multiple parts of your brain, and so there’s kind of a hypothesis that it stops or slows cognitive decline.

“I find when I play, I’m a little more alert, and it tends to help my cognitive state to some degree.”

Stemnock, 60, also said he experiences stiffness and soreness, and playing music is beginning to cause him more pain.

“I have to really stretch and make sure I take medications properly and I can usually play for a couple hours before I get fatigued and can’t play,” he said. “I actually treat it like a job because I’m retired, so it keeps me busy.”

Stemnock knew he had Parkinson’s before the official diagnosis.

“My right hand, whenever I would use my mouse at school, my pinky would twitch,” Stemnock said. “It got to the point where kids would look at my hand and say, ‘Mr. Stemnock, are you nervous?’”

After doing some research and seeing a neurologist, Stemnock’s intuition was verified.

“I didn’t tell anybody at school for quite some time,” said Stemnock, who taught seventh-grade language arts. “I didn’t want it to affect my employment.”

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Joe Stemnock said playing music helps keep him strong and cognitively sharp, despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in October 2017. (Photo by Anna Skinner)

However, the disease progressed to the point that it led Stemnock to retire in December 2018.

Stemnock and his wife, Kelly, recently moved to Westfield from Carmel. He has a music studio in the upstairs of his home. He records songs from all musical genres. They are available on YouTube and Spotify under his stage name “Stemmy.” He has produced more than 175 songs.

“I’ve always been a multi-instrumental player,” Stemnock said. “I actually started playing guitar and was interested in drums when I was younger. Right now, I basically do my music completely solo.”

When recording a song, Stemnock uses digital audio workshops and can play keyboards and guitar. He plays everything except the drums in his songs. Drums are provided by a loop service.

“I play everything myself, and I produce

and write everything myself,” Stemnock said.

He also provides the vocals.

“I do all the singing, which to be honest is getting a little more difficult because one of the common issues with Parkinson’s is issues with the voice,” Stemnock said.

Stemnock records, writes and plays songs between six and eight hours a day.

Stemnock and his wife have known each other since they were 18 years old, so listening to Stemnock play music is nothing new for Kelly.

“Music has always been a part of Joe’s life since I’ve known him,” she said. “It’s always been very much a part of him.”

ON THE COVER: Retired Westfield Middle School teacher Joe Stemnock plays music in his Westfield home. (Photo by Anna Skinner)

Joe Stemnock left the last band he played in because of artistic differences, but it also was important to him to show people he could still play and produce music, despite his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.

“It provides a therapeutic release for me from the standpoint it involves me cognitively and keeps my mind intact,” Stemnock said. “It’s a positive thing for me to keep me cognitively sharp.”

Stemnock’s wife, Kelly, said being diagnosed with Parkinson’s gave her husband a different perspective.

“He saw life differently with Parkinson’s, ‘This is my one chance to do what I want to do now,’” Kelly said. “He was concerned what the future might bring him as the disease progressed, and he felt like this was his opportunity to say, ‘I’m going to do it my way.’ I’m really excited for him. He’s worked really hard at this. It means a lot to him, and it really fulfills him. He’s very creative. It fills that for him. It’s a great addition to his life.”

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Commentary by Danielle Wilson

They are polite, petite prevarications.

Well, maybe we should call them fibs.

The passing remarks that we make as we open conversations. “You look great.

Have you lost weight?” Sure, it makes us feel good, even as we know that the scale shows roughly the same number as it did a year ago. Perhaps it has creeped up a little. Could it be that we appear more attractive these days than previously? Could it be that the last time we looked terrible, depositing a lasting impression of disarray?

Compliments reinforce communal groups. You are our friend, and we want for you to feel good. Feeling good makes you like us. We like that you like us, it makes us feel good. It is a silly little circle but one that may be required to keep the social fabric intact. Yet, for the most cynical of us, each passing remark of praise is met with resistance, even suspicion. How could we look better now when we do not believe that we do? How can we be called thinner when we know we are not? Are we being manipulated to some nefarious end?

Still, denying the seemingly gratuitous remark isn’t the solution. We only injure the well-intentioned well-wisher to claim some abject moral superiority.

Isn’t our truth better than theirs? So, we accept it with a banal “thank you.”

Or we deflect, “No, I’ve not lost weight, instead I’ve decided to grow taller. It seemed easier.” Regardless, we manage to keep the discourse moving.

Aren’t we better when we are better connected? What’s the harm in accepting a tribute, even if a might superfluous, that benefits both the sender and receiver? Would it be easier to simply say, “I like you. Do you like me, too?”

Are you superstitious? I am. I truly believe that the only way the Louisville basketball team can win a game is if I wear my Cards T-shirt with a pair of Express jeans and avoid caffeine and pickles for the entire day. And that hearing Rod Stewart’s “Forever Young” in full means a family member is pregnant. I also never take chances with sidewalk cracks, tails-up pennies, spilled salt, or black cats, and will under no circumstances commune with the dead using a Ouija board. I prefer to chat with my Nanny directly, not through some unmonitored portal to the beyond, for obvious reasons.

Part of my superstitious nature I blame on genetics. I am a ginger twin and have supposedly inherited special sensory connections to my sister, although it’s really only worked one time, and that was on her end. Furthermore, by all accounts, my maternal grandmother was “born under the veil” and therefore had “the sight” (I can’t explain what any of that means but it sounds cool). And my mom is extremely intuitive; always knew when I was “with child,” even before me or Rod Stewart.

So, I’ve grown up with both an appreciation for trusting my instincts and the belief that “signs” foretelling the future do exist for those who choose to read them.

Anyway, I bring this entire topic up because the most superstitious (and awesome-est) holiday of the year, Halloween, is upon us. Weird things can and will happen, especially if you’re not prepared. So, grab a rabbit’s foot, wear some garlic and take care around mirrors. And if you hear “Forever Young,” congratulations! Peace out.

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

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Not subscribing to unsubscriber’s remorse Commentary by Dick Wolfsie I am undertaking the unpleasant task of unsubscribing from all of my spam email.

Unsubscribing is apparently not a word, or so says Microsoft Word when it places squiggly red lines under the term when I use it.

I understood when I began purging spammers that my chances of total success were unquestionably small. Initially, I was unfamiliar with exactly how to do it and was unaware that my address might be sold to other unreputable businesses.

Was it unrealistic to pursue this? There was something scary about stepping into the unknown world of cyber marketing.

I was unnerved. It was unbelievable how much junk mail I had. To unsubscribe from a repeating promotion, you open one of the messages and search for a teeny, tiny, almost invisible link at the bottom of the email. Clicking on it redirects you to a website where you are asked a series of questions about this unthinkable decision you are about to make. The sender of the original email is, of course, unhappy with what you are about to do.

The page says, “We are sorry to see you go!” which makes me feel guilty. Have I unwittingly hurt their feelings? I am not an unsympathetic person.

There’s a checklist letting them know why you no longer want their mailings. If you don’t check off a box, you can’t unsubscribe. It’s unavoidable, if you want to be removed from their database. They ask you to indicate which statement(s) apply to your decision to unsubscribe. I have posted them here, and added a few sarcastic comments, which is not unlike me. I hope I don’t appear

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Check! (yes, that’s the reason I am unsubscribing).

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Check! (yes, it is totally unrelevant. Which Microsoft just told me also is not a word).

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It’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month Commentary by Dr. Cameual Wright October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month and Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness PRENATAL CARE Month. Historically, Indiana has a higher-than-average infant mortality rate that varies based on socioeconomic factors. The Indiana Dept. of Health reported the IMR for white infants was six per 1,000 live births in 2019, while the IMR for Black infants was 11 per 1,000 live births.

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IMPORTANCE OF PRENATAL CARE In 2020, the United Health Foundation reported that only 78 percent of women who had a live birth had adequate prenatal care in the first four months of pregnancy. According to the U.S. Office on Women’s Health, babies of women who don’t receive prenatal care are three times more likely to have a low birth weight and five times more likely to die. The UHF also reported a 6.6 percent difference between the minority group with the highest percentage of infants with low birth weight and white

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• Use a firm, flat sleep surface covered with only a fitted sheet.

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By Anna Skinner anna@youarecurrent.com iBeach31 will soon expand with three new indoor sand volleyball courts at Rev Volleyball Academy, 6825 W GROWTH County Rd. 400 N Mt. Comfort, Greenfield.

The building borders the Mt. Comfort freeway between Greenfield, McCordsville and Fortville. iBeach31’s satellite location is expected to open in mid-November. iBeach31 opened in 2018 at 17341 Westfield Park Rd., Westfield. It offers outdoor sand courts from April to October. Those operations will continue.

“We want to expand to indoor (volleyball) year-round in Westfield. We just had an opportunity to start a little sooner and do a satellite location and see how it goes and learn the demand for the sport,” said iBeach31 owner Katie Conner, a Westfield resident. “We are pretty much the first business in the Indianapolis area to have indoor sand courts.”

Conner’s daughter plays for Rev Volleyball Academy, and Conner coaches at the academy.

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The new location will offer adult leagues and tournaments and junior training and tournaments for grades K-12.

“The demand is high. Everyone, all of our players, are asking when we will open (indoors) in Westfield,” Conner said. “About 50 percent of our players live around the Westfield area. We are looking forward to having the same opportunity year-round in Westfield.”

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DISPATCHES S&P raises Hamilton County’s long-term raiting — S&P Global Ratings raised its longterm rating to ‘AAA’ from ‘AA+’ on Hamilton County’s existing general obligation bonds (GO) and its lease debt not subject to annual appropriation. At the same time, S&P Global Ratings assigned its ‘AAA’ long-term rating to the county’s 2021 general obligation refunding and project bonds, with a preliminary par amount of $38.61 million. The outlook is stable. “The savings on the refunded bonds will allow the county to fund the county-owned parking garage by extending the current tax rate for four years,” Hamilton County Attorney Michael Howard said.

“That ensures the project can be completed with no tax increase.” In assigning its AAA bond rating, S&P analysts noted the County’s “very strong economic profile, characterized by robust economic growth, including the highest population growth among Indiana counties in the latest census,” among its key attributes. It also noted the county’s “robust tax base growth combined with strong budgetary management practices,” remarking that Hamilton County “can maintain better credit characteristics than

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Hamilton County is the only county among the 92 counties in the State of Indiana to receive Standard & Poor’s AAA rating.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com For Stephanie Carlson Miller, her new Indiana Design Center showroom in Carmel gives proper space to display NEW BIZ the work of her company.

Great GrowINs’ showroom features a working design space along with a retail storefront that sells living walls, plants and containers.

“We started our business in 2016 with the idea we were going to build vertical gardens and teach people how to farm their own food and just bring greenery into spaces that were smaller because we have so many apartments in Carmel,” Miller said.

“It kind of evolved into learning more about biophilic design, which has been a trend in the last 10 years of adding more greenery to workspaces, homes, schools and hospitals.

It’s a way to make places more pleasing for people and healthier environments.”

A 1983 Carmel High School graduate, Miller lived in Carmel most of her life before moving to Westfield four years ago for more space to create.

“One of the reasons is we need more space because we were building these huge moss walls,” Miller said. “We were building

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them in our kitchen and said, ‘We can’t do this any more.’ We moved to Westfield, and we have 7 acres, so we build all our large pieces in our workshop there.”

Miller said biologist E.O. Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis study showed that since people spend 95 percent of their time indoors at work, bringing nature inside allowed those people to be healthier and more productive.

“Plants give oxygen, we give carbon dioxide and so it’s a win-win for both,” Miller said. “Plants love our toxins, and we love their oxygen. It keeps us happier, healthier and more productive.”

Miller said her business is probably the first biophilic design firm that totally focuses on bringing nature into indoor spaces.

Great GrowINs previously had a smaller space in Carmel but needed to move after a dumpster fire burned all of the storage area.

“When we had to rebuild, we couldn’t have customers in, so we moved to the Indiana Design Center,” Miller said. “We’ll most likely stay because we have so much more room now. We can display so much more of our living wall, mobile privacy units, moss walls, planters and plants.”

The space in the IDC is approximately 1,000 square feet.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com The more Don Farrell read about legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, the more intrigued he PLAY was.

Farrell portrays the coaching legend in the title role of “Lombardi” in Actors Theatre of Indiana’s production of the play from Oct. 29 to Nov. 21 at the Studio Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. The play by Eric Simonson is based on David Maraniss’ book, “When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi.”

“Being a strong leader is a lot of what our nation is looking for, not just immediately, but for a while now,” Farrell said.

“It harkens back to when leaders were real leaders. It was about winning, and he had one hell of a track record. But it was instilling the mentorship. The more I learn about him, the more I’m inspired by him and intrigued by him, too. He’s not a perfect guy. There is no such thing as perfection. You can strive and try to achieve perfection, and through that you’ll achieve excellence.

“There’s a lot of lessons he applies to the game of football that you can apply to life.”

Lombardi, who died in 1970 at age 57, was coach of the Packers from 1959 to 1967. His teams won the first two Super Bowls. He also coached the Washington Redskins in 1969.

“We want to be inspired by our leaders,” said Farrell, one of ATI’s co-founders. “We want to push to greatness and surprise ourselves with being able to overcome obstacles. But, yeah, you can. It’s a mindset.”

Farrell said he loves Lombardi’s sayings, such as, “Leaders are not born, they are made.”

“He was one of the major players in bringing more integration into the league in the 1960s,” Farrell said. “It’s touched on in the play that all the players had to stay in the same hotel.”

FEINSTEIN’S Feinstein’s in Carmel’s Hotel Carmichael will feature Michele McConnell performing a tribute to Linda Ronstadt at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28. Corrina Sowers-Adler will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29 and Sharon McNight will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30. For more, visit feinsteinshc.com.

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

GREGORY HANCOCK DANCE THEATRE Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents “There’s No Place Like Home,” Hancock’s autobiographical piece, from Oct. 28 to 30. For more, visit gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org.

ACTORS THEATRE OF INDIANA Actors Theatre of Indiana’s production of “Lombardi” runs from Oct. 29 through Nov. 21. For more, visit atistage.org.

Don Farrell and Judy Fitzgerald play Vince and Marie Lombardi n Actors Theatre of Indiana’s production of “Lombardi.” (Photo by Ed Stewart)

Lombardi would not stay anywhere that didn’t allow Black players.

“His idea was, we are all a family here,” Farrell said. “He never saw his players as black or white, he saw them as Packers green. It was always about winning. It’s not about figuring out ways to divide us, it’s about bringing us together. There’s so much division out there.”

Joel Ashur portrays Packers linebacker Dave Robinson.

“It’s amazing to play a real person. I think that’s something everyone is enjoying,” Ashur said. “To represent someone that is real and still alive, there is a certain gravitas to it. I even watched his Robinson Hall of Fame speech. It’s inspiring.

I think their relationship is one of a hard coach with a player who wants to raise his game to the next level. Coach Lombardi made room for African American players on his team to be treated fairly. It’s cool to hear there was community on that team.”

Christian Condra plays running back Paul Hornung, who died at age 84 in 2020.

Condra said he knew absolutely nothing about Lombardi or Hornung when he saw

the auditions.

“I saw a video documentary (on Hornung). I felt like we had a lot of similarities, so I’ll just use that,” Condra said.

“Paul was a very charismatic and confident guy, but he also has a lot of heart.”

Mat Leonard is cast as Packers fullback Jim Taylor.

“They were both perfectionists in their own way,” Leonard said. “Which is often the case when you have two people who really believe they know the right way to do things, they have a mutual respect for one another, but they definitely clash.”

Adam LaSalle, who plays magazine writer Michael McCormick, the only fictional character, said he was wrong in his initial assumption that the play was just about football.

“It’s far from a show just for football fans,” LaSalle said. “Michael tries to make sense of how this legend of a man does what he did How did he encourage and inspire a nation?”

ATI co-founder Judy Fitzgerald plays Lombardi’s wife, Marie, in the six-person play.

For more, visit atistage.org.

BELFRY THEATRE The Belfry Theatre presents its season opener, “Cheaper by the Dozen,” at Noblesville First United Methodist Church. The production runs through Oct. 31. For more, visit the belfrytheatre.com.

Krall to perform at Palladium editorial@youarecurrent.com Celebrated jazz artist Diana Krall’s upcoming national tour includes a Jan. 25, 2022, stop at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

Tickets starting at $50 are available at the Palladium Box Office, online at thecenterpresents.org and by phone at 317-843-3800.

The 7:30 p.m. event is part of the Faegre Drinker Encore Series and the 2021-22 Center Presents Season sponsored by Allied Solutions.

Krall is the only vocalist to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. A native of British Columbia, she has earned two Grammy Awards and 10 Juno Awards and has had nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums.

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disaster that killed our culture, killed people we love, we’re finally back to communicating this incredible opera.”

Kirsten Chambers is poised to make her Chambers performed concerts during the long-awaited Indianapolis Opera debut. summer, but this will be her first live theThe wait was ater role since the pandemic began.

INDY OPERA especially long “One of the reasons I’m super because she excited to be doing ‘Don Giovanni’ is was supposed to make the debut my husband (Keith) will be conductin March 2020 when rehearsals ing the opera,” Chambers said. “We stopped a week before the “Don don’t often get to work together.

Giovanni” performances were shut While I’m prejudiced, he’s one of the down because of the COVID-19 most brilliant conductors I’ve ever Chambers pandemic. worked with.”

Chambers will appear as Donna Anna in In the opera, Donna Anna’s father was the Indianapolis Opera’s production of “Don killed by a masked man.

Giovanni” Nov. 5-7 at The Tarkington at the “Throughout the opera she is consumed Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. with grief and finding the killer of her father When the production was shut down, and avenging his death,” Chambers said.

Chambers said Indianapolis Opera General “My father died during the pandemic, so it’s Director David Starkey said he would try to going to be a much more real and meaningbring everyone back together when it was ful debut in that character for me. He had possible. been sick with something, and we really “It’s really heroic in a way that David did don’t know what it was. I wish I didn’t find a way after all this time and all we’ve know what it felt like, but certainly if you been through to bring our cast back togethexperience something.” er,” she said. “It was incredibly special after For more, visit indyopera.org.

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‘King Richard’ earns award editorial@youarecurrent.com “King Richard,” starring Will Smith, won the Heartland International Film Festival Overall Audience Choice Award, MOVIES earning the top score across this year’s entire film lineup.

HIFF also honored Smith with the Pioneering Spirit Award in celebration of Smith’s portrayal of Richard Williams, which he accepted via surprise video message before the Anniversary Gala Event screening of “King Richard” Oct. 16 at Newfields in Indianapolis. The festival concluded Oct. 17.

The festival, which began Oct. 7, showcased 143 films that included 14 event titles, 11 world premieres and eight U.S. premieres.

HIFF’s hybrid festival hosted 162 in-person screenings and streamed 11,000 films during the course of the 11-day festival. HIFF had the highest number of attendees in its 30year history.

“The Addict’s Wake” received the Indiana Spotlight Audience Choice Award. The film centers on Brown County residents’ mission to deal with the opioid epidemic. The director was Zionsville resident Michael Husain. The documentary was produced by

Geist resident Amy Pauszek and Lisa Hall, a former Fishers resident who lives in Brown County.

Besides the previously announced FIPRESCI Award (International Film Critics) for Best U.S. Narrative Directorial Debut, “Mass” (Bleecker Street) also was voted the winner of the Narrative Special Presentation Audience Choice Award and was selected by the Indiana Film Journalists Association as winner of the IFJA Award for Best Special Presentation, selected across the HIFF slate of studio event and special presentation titles.

During the festival, HIFF also honored “Mass” actress Ann Dowd with the Pioneering Spirit: Lifetime Achievement Award.

“Returning to theaters with enthusiastic audiences for our 30th anniversary was a transformative experience,” stated HIFF Artistic Director Greg Sorvig, a Carmel resident. “Prior to last year’s mostly virtual pivot, I had been able to predict the Festival’s top audience winners by listening to crowd reactions, and I had a strong feeling that ‘King Richard’ would go on to be the top winner after many rounds of applause, laughs, and tears.”

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of Madhu, said a type of collage seemed best suited for the piece.

“It’s what you would see if someone took Gregory Hancock was looking for an the different elements of India and put them authentic artwork representing India for in the form of a mural,” Mandal said. his autobiographical piece, Mandal said it was satisfying to ART which pertains to his jourdo the piece. ney to India.

“First off, I got to put together So, who better to turn to than something I was so familiar with his friend Madhuchhanda Manthe first half of my life,” she said. dal, an India native and Carmel “I have been deeply associated resident? with the different art forms. I was The original artwork of India trained as a dancer. I was involved Mandal created by Mandal has been transwith a drama company. I was doformed into the theatrical backdrop for ing the fine arts. The piece was extremely Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre’s “There’s fulfilling because I could incorporate a lot No Place Like Home,” which will be present- of things I’ve been a part of, and not just ed Oct. 28 to 30 at The Tarkington at the (as) a passive witness. I get to show off my Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. roots because it’s so colorful, and India is Hancock briefed Mandal on the storyline colorful in its most colorful form.” behind the production a couple of months Mandal earned her bachelor’s and masago. ter’s degrees in India.

“What triggers his interest in commission“I learned different kinds of art but deing the piece to me was the fact that I am of cided to focus in fine arts,” Mandal said. “I India origin and my roots would render some moved to New York for my graduate school authenticity,” Mandal said. “I’m quite familiar studies when I was 25 years old.” with the art forms that prevail in India.”

Mandal is a neuroscientist. She is marMandal, who is known by her nickname ried with two sons.

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Concerts for a Cause returns

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Concerts for a Cause founder Bruce Kidd wanted the fifth anniversary of the concert series to be special.

FUNDRAISER “When we originally planned this big event, I wanted it to be in a classic, vintage concert venue, and The Vogue was the logical choice,” said Kidd, a longtime Carmel resident. “The new owners were all in immediately to help out. We just had to wait an extra year because of COVID. It was originally planned for November of 2020.”

The fifth anniversary event is set to start at 6 p.m. with food and drinks at The Vogue in Indianapolis. Singer/songwriters Shawn Mullins, Atlanta, Pat McGee, Rhode Island and Stephen Kellogg, Connecticut, will perform on stage together from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

All revenue from ticket sales will be donated to three organizations: Flight1, which uses aviation to rebuild the confidence of kids battling illnesses; Hoosier Burn Camp, a unique summer camp for kids suffering severe burns; and Children’s TherAplay,

Singer/songwriter Shawn Mullins will perform at the Concerts for a Cause fifth anniversary event. (Photo courtesy of Concerts for a Cause)

which helps special needs kids through hippotherapy.

“Historically, we always support one small local nonprofit at each concert, but we wanted to focus on three organizations that all help kids dealing with serious medical issues, cancer and other life-threatening diseases, severe burns and neuromuscular diseases,” Kidd said.

Tickets are $100 and include all food, beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages.

There also will be a cash bar for those who want other alcoholic beverages. For more, visit indyconcertsforacause.org.

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ABCs of abecedarians Commentary by Curtis Honeycutt

Walker Building on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis. (Photos by Don Knebel

Exploring the legacy of Madam Walker Commentary by Don Knebel Madam C. J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 on a Louisiana plantation where, until just before, TRAVEL her parents were enslaved.

In about 1905, in response to her own hair problems, she invented and then sold hair care products for African American women. After marrying Charles Joseph Walker in Denver in 1906, uniformed “Walker Agents” began selling her products throughout the United States. In 1910, she moved the headquarters of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Co. to 640 North West St. in Indianapolis. In 1914, during a visit to Indianapolis from her home in New York, a downtown movie theater attempted to charge her a 10-cent “Black tax.” She reportedly decided on the spot to establish her own theater and purchased a lot along Indiana Avenue, the center of African American culture. Madam Walker, famous as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and anti-lynching activist, died in 1919, America’s first selfmade female millionaire.

Walker’s daughter A’Lelia took over the company and engaged Rubish & Hunter, renowned Indianapolis architects, to design a building for the still-vacant triangular-shaped Indiana Avenue lot. When completed in 1927, the four-story brick building included a factory, offices, a drug store, the Coffee Pot Restaurant, a ballroom and a 1,500-seat Art Deco theater, featuring Egyptian sphinxes flanking the stage, an ornate lobby and colorful African-themed terra cotta. The Walker Building, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991, became the hub of African American life in Indianapolis, but went into decline, along with the rest

Front of theater inside the Madam Walker Legacy Center.

of Indiana Avenue, in the 1950s. A recent renovation and reimagining, supported with $15.3 million from Lilly Endowment, has resulted in the renamed Madam Walker Legacy Center, including facilities for community events, a meticulously restored 849-seat theater, offices for IUPUI and a street-side Coffee Pot Lounge. One of the most culturally significant buildings in Indiana deserves your attention.

At around age 6, I began collecting baseball cards. Almost immediately, I sorted the players on the cards into each of their respective GRAMMAR GUY teams and split the teams into American and National Leagues. Among the leagues, I alphabetized the team names beginning with “Angels” and ending with “White Sox.” Within teams, I alphabetized the players by last names.

Early on, I found that combining an interest with a specific cataloging system brought me a massive amount of nerdy joy. You should see my spreadsheet for my vinyl record collection.

I hate to get all alphabetical on you today, but I recently learned a new word that I have to share with you: abecedarian (pronounced “ay-bee-cee-dair-ee-un”). This word has a handful of interesting definitions, and I intend to share them with you from least interesting to most interesting.

Starting with the slightly interesting definition, abecedarian is a noun that means “a person who is a beginner” or

“a person who is learning the alphabet.”

When my daughter was 3, she was an abecedarian. If I decided to start learning the fine art of chainsaw juggling, I’d be considered an abecedarian at chainsaw juggling. In chainsaw juggling, you don’t get any mulligans.

As an adjective, abecedarian can mean “relating to the alphabet” or “in alphabetical order.” When I started collecting baseball cards, I began to approach life with an abecedarian outlook. As an adjective, abecedarian also can mean “primary, elementary or rudimentary.”

My favorite use of abecedarian comes with abecedarian words. These words are exactly what they sound like — words that are spelled with their letters in alphabetical order. Nothing gets my geek-o-meter going like words whose letters line up alphabetically.

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PAINTING INTERIOR & EXTERIOR ROOFING GENERAL CONTRACTING ROOM ADDITIONS GARAGES | KITCHENS BATHS | DRIVEWAYS DECKS | PATIOS 317-443-8107 PO BOX 3024, Carmel In 46082 millwoodhomes@yahoo.com William H McKinley MILLWOOD HOMES Since 1961

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NOW HIRING IMMEDIATE OPENINGS FOR SKILLED CARPENTERS!

Looking for job security? Simpson Construction Services has so much work that it must hire five people for residential remodeling NOW. The skilled carpenters we select will have strong abilities in bathroom remodeling, but also with respect to kitchens, decks, basements, wood and tile flooring, doors and windows, interior and exterior painting, drywall, plumbing and electrical, siding and room additions. Again: Only skilled carpenters need apply. For immediate consideration, call Gary Simpson at 317.703.9575.

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UPSCALE HOTEL AND SPA FOR DOGS IN CARMEL SEEKS ADDITIONAL STAFF: We are looking for daycare members. This job entails you to be familiar with dogs and their behaviors. We need individuals who enjoy taking care of dogs in a setting where dogs play together , that includes cleaning up after messes, playing with them, watching body behavior and make sure dogs are getting along.

Hotel Staff Members: We also need hotel staff members who can follow feeding instructions, walk dogs, and engage their minds. Keep up with simple chores: such as dishes, laundry, and suite cleaning.

Our staff works as a team and we require a team minded spirt, client driven, detail oriented. Professional and a dog loving candidates.

Full time and part time positions available. If you meet the criteria, we want to hear from you. Email your resume to : Kim@happydoghotelandspa.com

Private Property Manager This position is responsible for the cultivation and care of the landscaping and grounds. Manager will manage the care of grounds and buildings as well as facilitate projects, which may include lawncare including specialized golf greens, cultivation, fertilization, and irrigation. Flowers and bed maintenance, repairing and maintenance of buildings/structures of 30 ac private estate.

Key Responsibilities • Hire and manage temporary/seasonal employees • Perform grounds keeping and building maintenance duties.

• Lawn mowing and trim and edge around walks, flower beds, and walls.

• Landscape by planting flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes.

• Apply pesticide, fertilizer • Snow removal • Tree shrubs maintenance • Perform repairs and maintenance of equipment • Project management • Maintain expenses and contracts with outside contractors • Interact with owners and family members • Special projects: Seasonal/Holiday decorations, other Successful candidate must be a hands-on working manager, capable of managing others and projects to successful completion, have an eye for 5-star quality, demand perfection, detail and results oriented and the ability to work independently and self manage.

NOW HIRING Automotive Dealer In Westfield is Looking for person(s) to help with the cleaning of vehicle interiors.

Must have exemplary driving record, have dependable transportation, and be detail oriented. *FULL-TIME & PART TIME *EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER *$15 TO $18 TO START *$250 SIGN ON BONUS *All benefits are negotiable SEND RESUME TO: dan@dansdetail.info Hiring experienced lawn care laborers, shrub and tree trimmers, Bobcat operators immediately. Text/call Jay 574-398-2135

COMPUTER TECHNICIAN NEEDED

Local Computer repair shop in need of PC and Mac techs with experience pref both PC and Macs, certification strongly desired, pleasant personality & some sales experience. Pay starting at $16/hour and up for F/T. Send resume with cover letter to jobs@ ctcarmel.com

HELP WANTED:

Looking for an entry level employee to round out my help desk. It is a perfect job for college aged students or someone looking to return to the workforce.

Primary duties would be inbound tech support calls, emails, and light office work. Mid-morning, approximately 15 hours per week. Please send resumes, work history, or questions to: mkress@theankerconsultinggroup.com

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Mail resumes to: laura.miller@heartlandfpg.com

OPERATIONS MANAGER Clevernest is a growing company servicing homebuilders, architects, and residential clients throughout central Indiana, as an Andersen Window and Door Dealer, specializing in the installation of all that we sell.

We are looking for an Operations Manager, who possesses a strong supportive mindset of “how can I help” and deeply appreciates finding joy on executing tasks and projects on a daily basis.

This position is responsible for the activities related to operations after the sale; therefore, one must have the ability to juggle multiple projects at once and be an advocate for our clients.

Requirements: The ideal candidate is professional, entrepreneurial minded, and able to lead and assist with all aspects of a project post sale until completion; day to day warehouse, inventory, and field supervision; and likes to get his hands dirty! Construction or Carpentry skills required.

To Apply: CLEVERNEST INC 240 W. Carmel Drive 46032 tom@clevernest.com; 317-688-8100 www.clevernest.com

CLASSIFIED AD HERE! Call Dennis O’Malia 317-370-0749

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