May 12, 2020 — Zionsville

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Zionsville goes outside Residents stroll downtown after stay-at-home orders expire / P15

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Restaurants prepare to reopen dine-in services / P4

Hussey-Mayfield library plans to reopen in stages / P14

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Holcomb announces plan to reopen state

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com

vate, will remain closed through June 30, except for purposes previously allowed in executive orders pertaining to the stateGov. Eric Holcomb announced May 6 that wide public health emergency. the state is ready to loosen restrictions Stage 3 is set to begin May 24 for all outlined in his counties, but Holcomb said changPANDEMIC stay-at-home order es to the plan’s schedule are still in a five-stage possible and will be driven by “facts plan designed to open most of the on the ground.” During this stage, state’s economy by July 4. social gatherings of up to 100 peoThe state has been under a stayple will be allowed. Vulnerable popuat-home order since late March, and lations may venture out cautiously, Holcomb defined the time between Holcomb said. Retail and commerHolcomb then and May 3 as Stage 1. cial businesses, including malls, Stage 2 began May 4 for most counties, will open at 75 percent capacity, though with the exceptions of Lake, Cass and Marmall common areas, food courts and related ion, the last of which recently extended indoor areas where people congregate will its stay-at-home order until May 15. Lake only open at 50 percent capacity. Movie County was set to enter Stage 2 May 11. theaters can open for the first time at 50 Cass County, site of a COVID-19 outbreak at percent capacity. Playgrounds, tennis and a meat plant, could enter Stage 2 as soon basketball courts and gyms may open with as May 18. restrictions. Gyms and fitness centers can “What we don’t want is to entice people open with restrictions. to go back into an unsafe area by being Stage 4 is set to begin June 14 for all premature about any decisions that we’ve counties. Groups of 250 people may conmade,” Holcomb said during a virtual press gregate during this stage, and large venues briefing. “But we also don’t want to be recan reopen. Offices may resume at full caluctant to safely reengage and restart and pacity, as can retail and commercial stores. get back on track.”

Restaurants and dining room services will On May 4, the state began allowing open at 75 percent capacity, and bars that gatherings of up to 25 people, following don’t serve food can open at 50 percent social-distancing guidelines outlined by the capacity. Sports leagues will be allowed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, begin. Cultural, entertainment and tourism which includes staying 6 feet away from attractions such as zoos and museums can others. All five stages require residents to open at 50 percent capacity. adhere to the social-distancing guidelines.

Holcomb said the goal is to get every In Stage 2, people 65 and older and those county to Stage 5 by July 4. Sporting events with preexisting health conditions should can resume at this stage. Working remotely remain at home as much as possible, Holwill be optional. Gym and fitness center comb said. Retail and commercial businessrestrictions will be lifted. Retail businesses, es will be allowed to open at 50 percent nightclubs, bars and gyms may operate at capacity, as will shopping malls, so long as full capacity. Restrictions on amusement and they adhere to social distancing and saniwater parks will be lifted, and Holcomb said tation standards. However, food courts and the state will determine how to approach the other indoor common areas in malls will next academic school year at this time. only open at 25 percent capacity.

The plan states residents are recomRestaurants and bars that serve food mended to wear face coverings during Stagwere allowed to open dine-in services at es 2 and 3. But the face coverings are listed 50 percent capacity May 11. Bars that don’t as optional for Stages 4 and 5. serve food will remain closed during the By announcing a plan that details guidestage. Indoor worship services were allines months in advance, Holcomb said the lowed May 8 in all counties, but Holcomb state has allowed municipalities, businessrecommends they take place outdoors, if es and residents to “see how far out on possible. Hair salons, spas, tattoo parlors the horizon we’re looking and to see how and other personal service businesses were optimistic, quite frankly, we are right now, allowed to open May 11 by appointment only. looking forward.”

Office workers are still encouraged to work Holcomb previously said the state would remotely whenever possible. follow four guiding principles to determine All buildings, facilities and grounds for when to loosen restrictions outlined in the K-12 educational institutions, public or priorder: 14 days of decreased COVID-19 hospi-

tal admissions; retained ICU bed and ventilator availability; an ability to test all symptomatic Hoosiers; and an ability to track all contacts of positive COVID-19 cases.

Holcomb said the state has met all of the guiding principles in recent days, and the four guidelines will determine whether the state can adhere to the five-stage schedule.

He also said he would open churches and places of worship with no limits on gathering sizes, as long as they adhere to social-distancing requirements and sanitation standards. He said services can be conducted safely and be used as a litmus test for other industries. But he still recommends all services be conducted virtually or in parking lots, if possible, at this time.

“What we didn’t want to do was do all of the above at once,” Holcomb said. “And so, understanding the unique importance of our spiritual nourishment and guidance to our physical and spiritual health, we believe we can take that step right now.”

On May 6, the Indiana State Dept. of Health reported a total ICU bed capacity of 2,736. Of those, 40.9 percent are still available; 19.2 percent are in use for COVID-19 patients; and 39.9 percent are in use for non-COVID-19 patients. The department also reported 79.4 percent of its 3,091 ventilators are available.

On April 28, state officials announced a $17.9 million partnership with OptumServe Federal Health Services, a health services innovation company, which they expect will increase Indiana’s COVID-19 testing capacity.

When all 50 sites outlined in the partnership are open, as many as 6,600 more Indiana residents can be tested per day, which the ISDH expects will provide a more accurate measure of the spread of the new coronavirus in Indiana. Before the partnership was announced, the state only once tested more than 4,000 residents in a day.

On April 29, the ISDH announced a plan to enhance the state’s contact tracing efforts.

On May 11, it began centralizing all contact tracing for COVID-19 through the ISDH for all Indiana counties. The state entered a $43 million contract with Maximus, an American outsourcing company, that renews yearly to open a call center staffed with more than 500 people trained by ISDH epidemiologists.

Local health departments have performed contact tracing since before the pandemic was labeled as such by the World Health Organization on March 11. State officials believe the partnership will allow the state to test all symptomatic Hoosiers, as outlined in its four guidelines.

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Health care workers celebrate on International Nurses Day

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com At Witham Hospital Services, nurses and other front-line health care workers have adapted through the PANDEMIC COVID-19 pandemic, and the community has supported them along the way.

The Boone County-based hospital system received more than 100 donations since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic from individuals, families and businesses ahead of May 12, International Nurses Day. Georgetta Hinkle, the clinical director of the Witham medical search department, has assumed the additional role of staffing coordinator during the pandemic.

Hinkle has three children and said she is “incredibly close to her family.” She went six weeks without seeing them but recently got to see some of her grandchildren while following social-distancing guidelines.

“I have never gone that period of time without seeing my family,” Hinkle said.

Witham, like virtually all hospital systems, has enacted strict visitation restrictions.

She said the memories of seeing patients, some gravely ill, alone in the hospital would stick with her “forever.”

Another difficult aspect for Hinkle has been watching nurses in her department, her “teammates,” log long hours in hot personal protective equipment and watching as the emotional toll of caring for critically ill patients mounts.

“We’re all kind of working this thing together and we all just wear a different hat,” Hinkle said. “But we are all here for the same purpose, and that is to get through all of this safely with the least amount of casualties and trying to keep each other safe.”

Rena Zenarosa, a Witham ED medical director and EMS medical co-director, said despite the long hours and personal sacrifices (she hasn’t seen her mother for weeks who lives on the same street) she still finds it difficult to accept being called a hero.

“I feel grateful that I’m able to serve in this position,” Zenarosa said. “I mean, it’s everything you train for your entire life. In some ways, I almost feel that, although I appreciate the outpouring of support, I don’t know if I really, truly deserve it because it’s really what we signed up for. This is the oath we took.”

Rebecca Bradley, the clinical director

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of Witham’s emergency department, said she typically knows how many patients to expect in her department each day and how to care for them. But the pandemic has changed that.

“It has really thrown us into a strategizing daily event,” Bradley said. “It’s constantly a Rubik’s Cube, and it just gets figured out. We have people who are so flexible and fluid within their position. That’s what makes us work. It’s so humbling to see what the community has done for this hospital.

“The team we have in this emergency room is truly one of the best teams, not only based off of their knowledge and experience, but the amount of heart and care and compassion they have for the patients and the families. I couldn’t do my job for anybody else.”

Annette Preston, the director of the Witham Health Services Foundation, said the pandemic has been like nothing she has ever seen.

“What has been the most comforting and the most amazing has actually been our community,” Preston said. “The donations are great. The food is great. It’s a huge boost, but it’s a whole different story when you go outside from work, and you’ve been in full PPE for eight hours, and you walk into the parking lot, and there’s a prayer chain, and people are clapping and calling you heroes. Or you go to get in your car, and right there at your car is a ‘Thank you for all you do. ‘ “Those are the things that make you truly realize the type of community we live in.”

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Restaurants plan to reopen dine-in services

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Restaurants, along with other businesses, will be forced to adjust to a new normal in the coming weeks as the PANDEMIC state gradually reopens its economy.

Starting May 11, restaurants were able to open at 50 percent capacity. Nonessential retail and commercial businesses were able to do so a week prior.

According to a recent statewide executive order, all business and restaurant owners were required to create a plan by May 11 to ensure the safety of employees and customers. They were tasked with creating a plan that would accommodate social distancing guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, enact mandated employee screening, ensure employees wear face coverings and use barriers and enhanced cleaning methods whenever possible.

Cobblestone co-owners Kent and Liz Esra said they weren’t opposed to the state’s five-stage plan to reopen, but they were opposed to the timing of the rollout.

“It looks like we’re going to be OK,” Kent said. “The governor said you’ve got about two weeks and then we’re going to be doing something, and I just felt I don’t know why he waited until Friday when he could have told us a little earlier that week what was going on. I guess, at the end of the day, it’s OK, and he’s doing the best he can.

I just wish we would have gotten a little more time.”

On May 11, Cobblestone was set to open dine-in services, resuming its normal schedule. The Esras contracted a cleaning of the building and held several meetings with staff.

“Pretty much all of our processes are changing,” Kent said. “Our employees were bringing up different scenarios as far as, ‘How do we present a check? How do we take food to a table?’ (They presented) all kinds of different situations. It’s not possible to totally keep social distancing and those types of things and serve people food, but we’ll do our very best.”

The Esras’ plan is to follow guidance issued by the state and the Boone County Health Dept. Because all food-serving establishments can’t serve customers in bar areas, the Esras determined how many

Cobblestone owners Kent and Liz Esra plan to provide customers with dine-in service as the state gradually reopens its economy. (File Photo)

customers they could seat throughout the restaurant, minus the bar, by walking every square foot with measuring tape. They then determined how many customers they could seat inside the restaurant and outside on the patio on pleasant days. They also factored in a number for unpleasant days when everyone would be seated indoors.

County health department guidance mandates that restaurants limit tables to six people unless the table seats family members. Tables and booths are to be spaced 6 feet apart. Self-serving stations, such as salad bars, buffets and beverage dispensers are not permitted at this stage.

“We had to reconfigure the tables that we have, eliminating some tables, putting some tables in a corner and not using them,” Kent said. “We took all of the bar seats where the bar top (is and) we moved them. Yeah, it’s difficult.

“We were able to figure out what we think is good spacing, but it’s definitely not ideal, and it’s difficult.”

Live entertainment has been canceled, and the patio’s surface is being repaired.

The Esras also plan to ask the town to continue to allow curbside parking spots to deliver carryout orders, not only to help make more sales, but to limit the number of customers picking up carryout orders in the restaurant, further maximizing the restaurant’s use of the 50 percent max-capacity guidance.

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Dunlop ready for shot at NFL

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Former Zionsville Community High School offensive lineman Josh Dunlop waited patiently to hear his name FOOTBALL called during the final day of the NFL Draft April 25.

It didn’t happen, but 25 minutes after the draft concluded, his agent called with news from the Los Angeles Chargers.

“The first thing he said was, ‘Congratulations, you are going to Los Angeles,’” said Dunlop, who played offensive guard and tackle for The University of Texas at San Antonio. “I asked him to say it again because it didn’t register. I was so excited, I ran downstairs to tell my mom (Karlin Dunlop). We watched the entire draft, but we knew there was a strong possibility of free agency.”

The Chargers officially announced Dunlop’s free agent signing April 30.

The 2015 ZCHS graduate redshirted and then played one year at Dodge City (Kan.) Community College. The 6-foot-6, 315-pound lineman played three seasons at Texas-San Antonio in Conference USA, starting 31 of

Josh Dunlop blocks a defender while playing for The University of Texas at San Antonio. (Submitted photo by Jeff Huehn/UTSA Athletics).

35 games. He played both tackle spots and right guard.

“The Chargers said just be ready, it could be guard or tackle,” Dunlop said. “In my mind, take some reps at tackle, take some reps at guard and keep your technique as high as you can be because the more versatile you are, the better chance you have of making the roster.”

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They don’t make cars like they used to Editors note: This column originally ran May 14, 2019.

Commentary by Ward Degler My first car was a 1948 Studebaker pickup. I had just gotten out of the Army and it was something I could PLAIN TALK afford. That is to say, it was cheap.

It also wouldn’t go faster than 40 mph, and it got wretched gas mileage. I had gotten to the point I was ready to sell it, preferably to someone I didn’t like, when a neighbor asked me what was wrong with it.

“Top speed is 40 mph, even when I floor it,” I told him.

“I’ll bet the gas mileage is rotten, too,” he said.

“Horrible,” I said. “How did you know?”

That was when he took another leisurely swig of his beer, scratched his chin and smiled. I hate it when people do that. It usually means they’re going to tell me something that will make me look really stupid.

I was right.

“This Studebaker has a special doodad under the gas pedal,” he said. “It’s the choke. When you floor it, you choke the en-

gine.” He sipped his beer again, smiled and said, “If you stop flooring the gas pedal, it’ll probably go faster.”

Once again, he was right. After that I could cruise with the rest of them, and the mileage was better, too. When I tried to swear my neighbor to secrecy, he smiled again and asked me how much beer I had.

When I tried to swear my neighbor to secrecy, he smiled again and asked me how much beer I had.

My second car was a 1950 DeSoto. Powder blue with seats so soft it was like being in bed. As a matter of fact, that may be what the factory intended when it was built. The thing about the DeSoto was, it had something called a fluid drive transmission. It was the kind where you put the car into drive, push down on the accelerator

and then you waited. Slowly, the car would wake up, stretch and then begin to move.

Eventually, it would get up to road speed, and it was downright comfortable on the highway. In town, however, not so much.

Other drivers hated to get behind me at a traffic light. Not only could that car never peel rubber, it couldn’t get up enough speed to make the next light before it turned red.

I’ve had a lot of cars through the years.

Some, like the Studebaker and the DeSoto, had definite personalities. When I bought my farmstead in Minnesota, it came with a 1956 GMC pickup.

I immediately named it Horsey Sauce.

That was because a bottle of horse liniment had spilled behind the dash and filled up the heater core. With the heater on, you had to open the windows. Even then your eyes burned.

They don’t make cars like that anymore.

And for that, I am eternally grateful.

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Town employees continue to work in recently cleaned town facilities, such as Zionsville’s Town Hall, after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.

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REDUCING TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL DEFICITS He will eliminate wasteful spending and tax breaks that benefit the richest 5% of Americans. Increase rates on capital gains to the same rates paid on wages, so the 400 richest people no longer pay rates lower than the middle class, thereby avoiding another financial crisis and bankrupting our children.

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE, NOW He will get rid of $40 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and invest the savings in clean energy technology research. Climate change is impacting our health, agriculture and security by causing increases in respiratory and infectious diseases, droughts and national disasters.

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REDUCING MINDLESS DEATHS BY FIREARMS He supports the International Association of Chiefs of Police approach to firearm safety. Requiring universal background checks for all gun purchases and stopping production of semi automatic assault weapons is a common sense approach to protecting our children, innocent citizens, and the 2nd amendment.

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Zionsville, BCSO employees test positive for COVID-19 news@currentinzionsville.com On the afternoon of April 29, Zionsville received notification that a town employee tested positive for COVID-19.

PANDEMIC According to town officials, the employee left work on the afternoon of April 27 after displaying symptoms of the disease. The employee was tested that day and has since been under self-quarantine at home under the care of a physician.

Town officials have informed all employees in the department whom the employee may have come in contact with and is providing testing to employees who may have worked in the same facility. The employee did not interact with members of the public in a professional capacity, according to town officials.

Since March 20, Zionsville has instituted enhanced cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting procedures through its contract cleaning service provider at all town facilities.

As part of the town’s COVID-19 policy, all employees working in town facilities are required to wear a mask while at work. Town

operations will continue as scheduled.

Last week, the Boone County Commissioners also identified a potential vulnerability within the Boone County Courthouse.

A Boone County Sheriff’s Office merit deputy tested positive for COVID-19 after regular mandated department testing. The sheriff’s office began biweekly testing all its employees April 14, and none of the 131 employees tested positive. In the second round of testing, a merit deputy tested positive.

The merit deputy was quarantined May 2 when the results came back. An individual who works at the courthouse had direct contact with the merit deputy and last reported to work May 4. When commissioners were notified, the individual was asked to quarantine. As a precaution, the commissioners closed the Boone County Courthouse Annex, also known as the Boone County Office Building, and the prosecutor’s office buildings for sanitizing.

The buildings were scheduled to reopen May 7. A third-party sanitization company was contracted to sanitize them. COVID-19 screenings will continue for the foreseeable future, county officials said.

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Zionsville home designated SullivanMunce Century Structure news@currentinzionsville.com The SullivanMunce Cultural Center recently announced a Zionsville home was designated as one of the center’s HISTORY Century Structures. The home is at 545 West Poplar St. The Century Structure program spotlights Zionsville’s historic architecture — both for residential and commercial structures.

The Century Structures program began as a community service provided by the Zionsville Historical Society. During a 1987 meeting, the Zionsville Historical Society authorized the development of a program to properly designate, recognize and honor the town’s historic structures so that the town’s architectural legacy endures.

Standards for the structures were established during the meeting. They require that a structure be “at least 100 years oldâ€? at the time of application. The exterior façade “frontâ€? of the structure has not been un-

reasonably altered. The authentic building construction materials (are) maintained or restored and the integrity of the ‘façade’ ‌ remain true to the architectural style or styles of the structure with the goal being the preservation of the structure.â€?

The home, comprised of slightly more than 100 acres, was the largest single addition to “old Zionsville,� according to Ralph Stacy, the Century Structure Committee chairman.

The late Robert L. Randall, in his roster entitled, “Restorable Zionsville Houses,â€? which was published in the 1990’s, described the home’s architectural design as â€œâ€Śoutstanding restoration or at least one which contributes to the Village Scene.â€?

The brick home was built circa 1870, according to Stacy. The first homeowners were John M. and Elizabeth Poe, who purchased the property from Herman B. Ball, a pastor of the Zionsville Methodist Episcopal Church from 1865 to 1867.

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ZFD PROVIDES VIRTUAL BIRTHDAY VIDEO Because of multiple requests for drive-by birthday parades, the Zionsville Fire Dept. recently created a birthday video for parents to share with their children on their birthdays. The department is unable to provide parades for children at this time because, as a precaution, firefighters have been directed to only leave fire stations for emergency calls and for essential items. “We truly miss interacting with you all at community events and look forward to doing so again in the future,” a ZFD spokesperson wrote in a Facebook post. Parents can request a copy of the video by sending a message to the department on Facebook.

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Zionsville Times Sentinel merges — Due to the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Zionsville Times Sentinel recently announced the newspaper will merge with the Lebanon Reporter, another CNHI-owned newspaper. The Lebanon Reporter will now cover both communities. The Reporter also announced it would cease publication on Wednesdays and Fridays, adapting a three-day-a-week print schedule.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Zionsville resident Diana Coffield Baisa has designed and produced show choir clothing for groups across PANDEMIC the nation for more than 30 years.

In the last few months, she shifted her expertise to make protective masks.

“We were able to easily transition because of the custom work that I do,” said Coffield Baisa, who attended a European tailoring academy when she was younger.

“We manufacture a lot of things.”

Coffield Baisa knew that making masks was going to be important in late January when she saw news of the new coronavirus. She started My Shield Masks just as the stay-at-home orders were starting to be placed.

“To change your business to something new is not something I’m unfamiliar with, but to do it within a week was pretty amazing,” she said. “I was on the verge of tears because of frustrations all the time because you just can’t get things.”

With New York garment sites closed, Coffield Baisa flew to Los Angeles in midMarch to get the material she needed from vendors. “(Los Angeles) Mayor (Eric) Garcetti shut everything down that day, and I couldn’t even fly out that day like I planned,” she said. “I brought what I could on a plane and had the rest shipped on a truck.”

The workers wear masks and disposal gloves while making the products.

“We’re pleased we were able to keep people working through this entire time,” Coffield Baisa said.

With schools across the nation closed because of the pandemic, the work the company would normally do in spring for show choirs wasn’t needed, Coffield Baisa said.

“We were getting started with masks as a fashion item in November (2019),” she said.

“So, we were ahead of the game.”

Encouraged by a customer in late January to make more masks for the women’s business, Coffield Baisa tried to speed up design.

Andrew Guiyangco, who is based in Los Angeles and helps Coffield Baisa with the marketing and the website, along with Coffield Baisa’s son, Falcon Baisa, said the company had trouble advertising because

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other companies have been price gouging and social media sites have dropped the ads he was trying to place. State Sen. J.D. Ford, District 29, visited the Zionsville facility and wrote a letter on behalf of the company, assuring quality and that the company was offering fair pricing. The letter is displayed on My Shield Masks’ Facebook page.

“Shopify and Amazon were holding all the funds because there was so much scamming,” Coffield Baisa said. “With all these companies, you couldn’t tell who was really going to deliver.”

My Shield Masks has sent out approximately 35,000 masks since the end of March, Guiyangco said.

The company is in the process of hiring more people and adding a second manufacturing facility in Indianapolis.

“The goal is to produce 3,000 to 5,000 masks a day,” Guiyangco said.

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Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library recently announced its plan to reopen in stages.

PANDEMIC The library announced it would follow recommendations outlined in the state’s five-stage plan to open its economy, along with guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On May 6, the library opened and patrons began returning library materials, but the building remains closed to allow staff to safely handle the materials after the materials have sat for three days without being touched, to avoid exposing staff to the new coronavirus.

All library due dates have been extended through July 1, and no overdue fines will be charged until after that date.

Patrons are directed to only use the library’s drive-up drop boxes to return materials when the library is open. Patrons should not leave materials outside the library. If the drop box is full, they are instructed to return their materials at another time.

Starting May 11, during Stage 3 of the library’s reopening plan, the library began offering curbside pick-up of materials. Only a select few, during scheduled times, by appointment only, are allowed to pick up library materials that have been put on hold.

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while it is prepared for reopening in Stage 4 of the library’s plan.

On May 26, during Stage 4 of the library’s plan, the facility will reopen to the public with a 50 percent capacity cap. Library staff is currently working to add safety equipment and directional signage to the building in preparation for this stage.

Library officials will continue to follow recommendations from the state and CDC to determine when it may move to Stage 5 in its reopening plan. Details will be announced as they are finalized, according to the library.

Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library Executive Director Sarah Moore said the library has two goals as it reopens: To keep staff and patrons safe and provide needed services to the community.

“We are doing everything we can to keep people safe,” Moore said, which includes securing personal protective equipment for staff and mandating 6-feet social distancing and installing Plexiglas guards for service desks. “What we wanted to do was build in enough time for us to have all of the equipment we needed to open safely. This is an entirely new world for us, and we are are trying think of all the different aspects of the library and what being open is going to mean and trying to have a plan for that.”

The library will continue to provide virtual programming during its gradual reopening, including tutor.com, which provides live homework help for students as they are taught remotely.

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By Jarred Meeks • jarred@youarecurrent.com On May 2, friends Lacy Edwards, who wryly insists she isn’t a day older than 50, and Mike Edwards, 69, walked down Zionsville’s Main Street, peering COVER STORY in closed shops, questioning whether an open door meant it was OK to enter or the owner simply wanted to let in the warm outdoor breeze.

Across the street, The Friendly Tavern delivered white plastic bags filled with food to customers in an adjacent parking lot. The restaurant, Zionsville’s oldest, had temporarily shuttered Mach 30, when restaurants were ordered to close dine-in services. Owner Scott Barnes wanted to ensure the safety of his employees and customers, so he completely closed the restaurant for at least 14 days, the same time as the new coronavirus’ estimated incubation period. The restaurant eventually opened to curbside delivery April 29, and in the four days following, it sold 4,000 pounds of wings.

As employees walked out with masks to deliver orders, dripping sweat from the heat of the kitchen and sun, a group of a dozen of so teenage boys on bicycles, some shirtless and wearing swimming trunks, none wearing masks, waited under a tree a few yards away. Main Street was busier than normal, one day after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a five-stage plan to reopen most of the state’s economy. Groups of friends and families gathered on patios, eating ice cream. Couples walked hand-in-hand.

Others took pets for walks. Many rode bicycles.

Barnes approves of the governor’s plan. He said every business would love to reopen and get back to normal but doing so gradually is the only way to get there. In the meantime, he hopes the meat supply chain doesn’t unravel.

He hasn’t been able to order certain meat products, especially pork, and said inflated prices for other meats are all but assured.

A day after the statewide stay-at-home executive order expired, some customers shared wings on a shaded patch of grass across from the restaurant.

Lacy and Mike happened upon a lit open sign. Lacy was scared. She said it’s too soon to let residents patronize nonessential businesses. More Indiana residents are diagnosed with COVID-19 each day, and death tolls continue to climb.

Mike, however, has no problem with the state reopening nonessential businesses. He said if data shows the state can gradually reopen, it could save more businesses and help the unemployed.

“It’s a tough call, there’s no doubt about it,” Mike said.

“A tough call and common sense,” Lacy said.

Lacy feels sorry for shuttered businesses. She understands they are hurting but she also wants people to be safe.

Zionsville residents venture outside May 2 after the statewide stay-at-home order was lifted.

A garden statue at Kogan Antiques & Accessories is outfitted with its own mask. (Photos by Jarred Meeks)

Nick Rebic, a manager at The Friendly Tavern, takes an order from a customer May 2.

“I think it’s good to have Zionsville back open again,” Mike said. “I mean it’s just — there’s no right or wrong answer.

It’s just more of an opinion of where you are on the age scale and where you are as far as —” “I don’t know if I agree about the age scale,” Lacy said.

“What, as if the older you are the more it’s OK to get sick and pass away? No. No, to me it doesn’t matter what age you are.”

Cars drove by occasionally, their engines temporarily interrupting their conversation. During the stay-at-homeorder, birds would often make more noise than cars. Main Street was almost completely empty. On this day, cars occupied parking spots reserved for curbside orders, their drivers having no intention to pick up food.

Karin Glass, owner of Serenity, sat inside her restaurant on Main Street, front door ajar, as a car parked in a designated curbside parking space in front of the building. She asked the driver if he was there for an order, but he didn’t answer. He just stared out the driver side window. Earlier, a man and woman did the same thing, but they ignored Glass’ questions by kissing. Glass left them alone.

“Eh, they’re making out,” she said.

Lacy and Mike stopped in front of another storefront.

“I would hate to see this turn into a virtual world, because everything has turned into a virtual world and so forth,” Mike said. “I want to see people come back out and interact and not be stuck inside.”

“Well, of course, we all want that,” Lacy said.

Farther down Main Street, in a storefront surrounded by hanging and potted plants, Donna Lennox Hobson readied her new business. She planned to celebrate the grand open-

ing of her flower shop, Events and Florals of Zionsville, April 4 but couldn’t because of the governor’s executive order closing nonessetial businesses.

Since March, Lennox Hobson has been uncertain how to plan for her business’ future. For weeks, she and her husband had prepped the shop themselves, hauling pots, displays and decorations while they awaited news of when the store could open. She informed staff their jobs would not be available until an unknown date. Revenue shrank.

Expenses continued. Then, she discovered May 1 she had less than 72 hours to prepare to open her business. Gov. Eric Holcomb had announced during a virtual press briefing that retail and commercial businesses like hers would be allowed to open at 50 percent capacity May 4.

Lennox Hobson, who was raised in Zionsville, owns another floral business in Cincinnati. She recently moved to Zionsville after marrying, and expected the new business to be more of the same. Instead, it has been challenging. Lennox Hobson regularly only receives about half of her daily floral orders because of the pandemic. Most orders come from South America, and customs have held up many of her shipments. Ahead of the floral industry’s most important business celebration, Mother’s Day, she scrambled to get ready for May 10.

On the other side of Main Street, Lacy and Mike continued disagreeing on whether it was safe to enter a reopened business.

“You would go in sooner than me,” Lacy said.

“Yeah, I’d probably have a face mask on, you know,” Mike said.

“Well, you can’t eat with a face mask on,” Lacy said.

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Commentary by Terry Anker A hallmark of good stewardship for our corporeal bodies is regular health care. But in a time of isolation and lockdown, how do we keep up with routine maintenance? Many general practice physicians are waiting by the phone with patient counts low and offices closed. Do we have a responsibility to our good doctors to keep our regular checkups in much the same way that we are ordering carryout from the local trattoria?

Many caring citizens have marched on with scheduled appointments, hoping to support the local team and to keep the baseline of personal care up to date. One such recent virtual visit illustrated the gaps of nontouch medicine to both medical professional and patient. The pleasantries of general self-reporting on weight, overall comportment and the vagaries of aging aches and pains became the focus of the exam. Thankfully absent were the more physical elements of the physical.

One does not look in their own ear or throat. Also gone were the more invasive examinations that occur as we age.

There was some talk of the current state of medicine. There was some talk about appropriate ways to fend off, or forestall, contagion. There was some talk about coping with the stress of it all. Then, there was a prescription for a blood draw – to be administered at a time and place that was available, open and comfortable. One can assume the results would bolster the chat and lead to a bit more accurate diagnosis. It is dangerously reminiscent of the 2006 film on government overreach, “Idiocrasy,” where medicine is largely practiced by vending machine. Still, there is comfort in the abnormal normalcy of it. The doctor closed by admonishing that we get a “real” appointment when able.

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

Zooming in on normalcy Commentary by Danielle Wilson One of the benefits of all this time at home is that I am now officially an expert in video conferencing. I Zoom HUMOR or host webinars probably 15 times a week. I know how to schedule, record, moderate, participate, mute, share screen, enable a waiting room, change my name to something funny like Mommy Dearest or System Error, invite people in and kick people out. I’m a veritable Hugh Jackson (as P.T. Barnum, not Wolverine) of the greatest online circus shows in history!

Not that it beats in-person interaction.

I’d give up my red hair (which, I must say, is still looking incredible given I haven’t seen my stylist in forever. Miss you, SP!) to be in a classroom with my students or host a Derby party with my neighborhood peeps.

But I have been pleasantly surprised by the way virtual gatherings have filled the social void. Yesterday, for example, I was

on a Zoom call with my friends from high school who live in North Carolina, Kentucky and California. We talked and laughed and cried (not me, I’m stone-cold dead inside) for well more than an hour. And if it hadn’t been past my bedtime, we might have gone on all night, or at least until 10 p.m.! Getting to see their faces, read their body language and toasting each other with our various cocktails made a huge difference for me.

Even us introverts need an occasional dose of community to lighten the spirit.

So, I think once the madness has subsided and we return to our normal lives, I’ll continue to be the master of the Zoom domain.

Peace out.

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

Even us introverts need an occasional dose of community to lighten the spirit.

Editor, Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Today, we see politicians across the country trampling on the rights of citizens under the guise of a “little temporary safety.”

Businesses are being forced to close and churches are banned from gathering.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood is allowed to continue taking innocent lives.

The liberty and livelihood of thousands of Hoosiers is being ripped away, and it’s time for patriots to stand up and say enough is enough. If we continue to allow unconstitutional bans on the rights of Americans to provide for their families, we are going to see an economic collapse beyond repair. Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction, and we cannot allow our freedom to be stolen from this generation under a false sense of security.

We need a leader in Congress who will defend liberty, not destroy it. I stand with the small-business owners, religious leaders and hard-working Americans who are ready to get back to work. It’s time to open Indiana!

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Boone REMC grants $10,000 toward coronavirus relief news@currentinzionsville.com Boone REMC recently announced CoBank granted the organization an additional $10,000 to support local PANDEMIC COVID-19 relief efforts.

Operation Round Up initially funded $6,000 toward the Boone County Boys & Girls Club Emergency Food Program. Boone REMC gave an additional $4,000 to the Boone County Community Foundation for COVID-19 relief efforts.

CoBank, a cooperative bank serving agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and Farm Credit associations throughout the United States, recently awarded a matching donation through its Sharing Success program. Boone REMC plans to present a check for $20,000.

“This is perfect timing to partner with CoBank for our giving efforts, especially when there is so much need in our community,” Boone REMC CEO Bill Conley stated.

“The Boone County Community Foundation has done an excellent job at assessing the

needs in our community and collaborating the efforts of all the organizations working to meet those needs.”

Sharing Success was established in 2012 to celebrate the International Year of the Cooperative. Since the program’s inception, CoBank and its customers have provided more than $44 million in support to charitable organizations across the nation.

The Boone County Boys & Girls Club has served more than 8,000 meals since the COVID-19 pandemic began and plans to serve hot meals on weeknights until at least May 29.

The Boone County Community Foundation is working with the Boone County Cancer Society, Boone County Senior Services, Inc., Love, Inc., Shalom House, the Caring Center, and the Boone County Boys & Girls Club to provide services to those in need.

In addition, the Boone County Community Foundation provides grants on a rolling basis to assist Boone County communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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IDOC virtual job fairs – Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Recruitment and Retention Team within the Indiana Dept. of Correction is continuing recruiting through virtual job fairs. It has already completed eight live events scheduled through new software. The link is shared on a variety of platforms, including social

media, QR codes and press releases. The fairs generally last between 20 and 30 minutes. The IDOC has a variety of openings but the greatest need is for correctional officers and maintenance staff. For more, call or email Recruitment and Retention Coordinator Carlos Williams during regular business hours, 765-524-7743 and CarlWilliams@idoc.in.gov.

Updated grocery hours — During the COVID-19 pandemic, many grocers are updating their hours and adding special hours for elderly shoppers. Here are some local grocers’ updated hours: • Kroger: For central Indiana stores, store hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. For seniors 60 and older, early shopping hours are 7 to 8 a.m. Monday through Thursday.

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Wall angels (two or three sets of five repetitions): • Stand with your back against the wall and walk your feet out just far enough that you can keep your entire back, including hips, lower back, upper back and head, against the wall. Keep all of these points of contact through the entire exercise.

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• When you have reached the bottom of your range of motion, reverse the movement to bring your arms back overhead while maintaining all points of contact with the wall. Repeat this for five reps.

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For filmmaker Katherine Crump, her short film has a deep personal connection. “’Telling the Bees’ PRODUCTIONS is inspired by the loss of my lifelong friend who passed away in December of 2018,” said Crump, a Geist resident who wrote and is directing the 20-minute film.

“We knew each other for 15 years, grew up together, we were Girl Scouts together and moved to Bloomington to attend Indiana University together, and losing her so suddenly was a major adjustment for me and everyone who knew her. The movie focuses on both the mourning process as well as many nostalgic, joyful memories that we shared, and ultimately portrays the nonlinear, muddled nature of grief by intercutting those two timelines.

“We’re honoring the memory of a friend, but the more people I talk to about it the more I realize we’re also commiserating in a common experience of grief and loss.”

Crump said the story is a fictionalized version of the grief she experienced.

The title comes from the custom of beekeepers telling their bees major events in their lives.

Like all productions, the schedule of “Telling the Bees” has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

“The necessary need for quarantine has affected our schedule because we were meant to be shooting this month (May) but are obviously needing to create a new plan,” said Crump, a 2014 Hamilton Southeastern High School graduate. “We are still uncertain as to when that new schedule will take place, but we’re still moving forward, doing the work and making plans from home as well as we can.”

Crump said she hopes to film in late summer or fall depending on actors’ schedules.

Kristina Wagner, who plays Felicia on “General Hospital,” is Crump’s aunt. Wagner and “General Hospital” co-star Haley Pullos are in the short film, along with Cassidy Mack.

“Telling the Bees” is the third short

The summer concert season is in a state of flux for most area venues because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Indiana Gov. Eric HolCONCERTS comb released guidelines May 1 for sites to reopen June 14, with limit gatherings of 250 until July 4. After that, social distancing guidelines will be in place.

That prompted the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra to announce May 4 it is canceling the 2020 Symphony on the Prairie outdoor concert series at Conner Prairie in Fishers.

For those who have purchased a value pack, ISO has provided three options: Ticket donation: ISO would like patrons to consider a tax-deductible donation of the value of the ISO tickets to support ISO’s mission during the tough economic times.

Value Pack Voucher Exchange: Symphony on the Prairie Value Pack holders may exchange their current Value Pack for 10 ticket vouchers to the 2021 40th season of Symphony on the Prairie performances.

Value Pack Gift Certificate: Symphony on the Prairie Value Pack holders may exchange their current Value Pack for a gift certificate, which is good through August 2021. The gift certificate can be applied to any ISO performances throughout the season.

The release stated: “Due to ongoing physical distancing recommendations and crowd size regulations from local, state and federal authorities, the ISO anticipates it will be several months before musicians and patrons can safely gather for concerts in reasonable numbers. Even if concert restrictions are lifted mid-summer in the state’s reopening plan, the remaining guidelines combined with the infrastructure required for producing Symphony on the Prairie is so complex that presenting a partial season is not financially feasible.”

Hamilton County Parks Resource Development Specialist Don Nicholls said a virtual staff meeting discussed plans May 6 for the Cool Creek Concert Series, but details aren’t established.

Riley Dismore, left, and Katherine Crump are the producing partners on “Telling the Bees.”

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film under the umbrella of the production company, Film Wives Productions. Crump’s producing partner is Riley Dismore, a Geist resident and Fishers High School graduate. Dismore and Crump met at Indiana University.

Geist resident Amy Pauszek, whose Where’s Amy photo column runs in Current newspapers, is a producer on the film.

Pauszek is the executive producer for “The Addict’s Wake,” which focuses on the opioid epidemic in Brown County. Zionsville resident Michael Husain is the director of the full-length documentary.

“The pandemic has made production for our feature documentary film more challenging, but it is also important that we gather material during the crisis,” Pauszek said. “The forced isolation is very difficult for those seeking recovery. We have continued to film during the pandemic because being isolated and no work for addicts makes it extremely difficult for them to stay clean, sober and healthy.

“There are more overdoses, and COVID-19 has added more stress and disruption to Brown County.”

Pauszek said they are conducting online interviews via Zoom and similar software to stay updated with those featured in the

documentary.

“We will continue fundraising avenues to get the film done because this film is not only educational for addicts and their families left behind to pick up the pieces of the wake, but we want to leave the audience with a solution and hope,” Pauszek said.

‘Mayberry Man’ filming delayed Westfield resident Cort Howell’s film, inspired by “The Andy Griffith Show,” was originally scheduled to begin principal photography May 15-17 during the “Mayberry in the Midwest” festival in Danville, but the festival has been canceled because of the pandemic.

The production schedule has been consolidated, as a portion of the movie was already scheduled to be filmed in September to coincide with the “Mayberry Days” festival in Mount Airy, N.C., Griffith’s hometown. The schedule calls for two weeks in Indiana and one week in North Carolina and Virginia, followed by two days in Los Angeles.

Howell and other producers are working with representatives from the Town of Danville to secure locations for the new dates.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Senior Olivia Broadwater expected to give a proper sendoff to her Zionsville Community High School show choir MUSIC career with the traditional final concerts in May. “When I found out Finale was canceled, I was heartbroken,” said Broadwater, president of the Royalaires, the mixed show choir. “As seniors in show choir, we have tried not to cry during the season or get too sentimental in our speeches because we always thought that would have its time and place at Finale and the senior banquet.

With these being canceled, it has been hard to close the curtain on our show choir and high school careers on our own.

“The directors have done an amazing job of keeping us connected with Zoom calls, class assignments and with making a Virtual Finale performance. Even a pandemic can’t keep us from sharing our message of love, hope, joy and family.”

The Virtual Finale featured recordings of show choir competitions and solo/small ensemble performances recorded specifically for when it was scheduled to be held May 8-9.

The Royalaires and Choralaires celebrate their grand championship titles in separate divisions March 7 at the Heart of America competition in Nashville, Tenn. (Submitted photo)

Hilary Pobanz and Camile Weston are senior co-presidents of the Choralaires, the all-female show choir.

“It has given me friendships and memories that I will cherish forever,” Pobanz said.

“Choralaires has taught me a lot that I apply in the classroom and in my life outside of it.

The directors and clinicians we are blessed to have in the (Zionsville show choir) community have educated us about life lessons such as hard work, commitment, positive attitudes and teamwork.”

Pobanz said the loss of the rest of the season has impacted all the show choir members, especially the seniors.

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• House Wash • Roof Wash • Concrete Cleaning & Sealing • Stamped Concrete Cleaning & Sealing • Deck Cleaning & Staining • Fence Cleaning and Staining • Paver Cleaning and Sealing • Dock Cleaning and Sealing

Give us a call at 317-490-2922 to schedule your Free Quote & Demonstration omaliashsr.com Serving, Hamilton, Marion, Boone Madison & Hancock counties

NOW HIRING

GARAGE SALE

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. Hours are Mon-Thurs 10:00am-2:00pm.

Please send resumes, work history, or questions to: mkress@ theankerconsultinggroup.com

ANNUAL COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE Village of West Clay - Carmel (Towne and Main St) Saturday, MAY 16th 8 am - 2 pm Something for everyone!

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