October 20, 2020 — Zionsville

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State to remain in Stage 5, though cases, hospitalizations increase

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced during an Oct. 14 virtual press briefing that the state will remain in PANDEMIC Stage 5 of its reopening plan until at least Nov. 14.

He also extended the state’s mask mandate until the same date.

Holcomb made the announcements in the wake of a continuing rise of COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations in Indiana.

Stage 5 dramatically eases restrictions on Holcomb businesses and public gatherings. When the state entered the fifth and final stage on Sept. 26, hospitalizations were fewer than 1,000 patients, and the state’s seven-day positivity rate had briefly dipped to 3.9 percent days earlier.

As of press time, COVID-19 hospitalizations have increased to 1,357 patients, adding almost 400 patients in 10 days. The total is the most since spring, when as many as 1,799 patients were hospitalized. State health officials also expressed concern about the shrinking number of available ICU beds in some parts of the state.

In the seven days leading up to the Oct. 14 press conference, Indiana reported its most positive COVID-19 cases in a one-week time frame, including a single-day record of 1,937 cases on Oct. 9. As of press time, 3,609 Indiana residents had died of COVID-19, and another 227 are estimated to have died of the disease based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive tests are on record.

Holcomb said Hoosiers need to remain vigilant and continue to wear face coverings and practice social distancing, especially as temperatures drop and people spend more time indoors, which, according to health experts, promotes the spread of COVID-19.

“Stage 5 is not the stage when the check-

ered flag comes out,” Holcomb said. “Stage 5 is not an excuse for indifference or irresponsibility. Just the opposite.”

Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box announced Oct. 14 that she has tested positive for COVID-19. She said her daughter and grandchild also tested positive and planned to quarantine. State officials said Holcomb, members of the governor’s office and staff at the Indiana State Dept. of Health would be tested for the virus. Contact tracers attempted to contact anyone who came into contact with Box prior to her positive test. State officials Box reported Holcomb tested negative for the virus Oct. 15.

Box has warned that close-contact gatherings such as weddings and funerals can increase the likelihood of contracting the disease. Holcomb said statewide contact tracing efforts have shown such events to be problematic but that further capacity limits are not necessary at this time.

“Those events are the very events that turn out to be big contributors to our positive cases and illnesses,” Holcomb said. “It’s these events that have nothing to do with a 500 (-person) capacity limit. Tracing is proving that. We are proving that you can go to a Colts game or a soccer game or school or go shopping, and you can do it safely.

“The numbers have everything to do with how many of us are or aren’t letting our guards down, even at smaller events and medium sized and bigger events, where safety protocols are not put into place or practiced or reinforced.”

Holcomb, a Republican seeking reelection against Democratic challenger Dr. Woody Myers, stopped short of moving the state back to a prior stage of its reopening plan and implementing more stringent capacity limits on public gatherings and businesses.

Indiana Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane (D-Anderson) said continuing in Stage 5 is a mistake.

“Indiana is in the midst of an uncontrolled and frightening spread of COVID-19,” Lanane stated. “Yet, this dire situation was completely avoidable. Just last week, I pleaded with the governor to rethink his drastic reopening before the coronavirus surge worsened even more. Now, we find ourselves with record numbers of COVID-19 cases day after day.”

Lanane criticized Holcomb for not aggressively enforcing mandates on face coverings and gatherings.

“He encourages Hoosiers to not attend large gatherings, but yet he has placed no restrictions on such events,” Lanane stated.

“His message is inconsistent, and Hoosiers know that he is not serious. The governor keeps saying that stopping the spread is up to personal responsibility, yet when folks’ irresponsibility hurts others, the government must act. My question is this: What is preventing the governor from putting smart restrictions and enforcement in place to save Hoosier lives? What is he afraid of?

Is he truly letting a pending election sway how he responds to a public health crisis?

“Nothing about what the governor’s administration is doing right now is based in science or data. We don’t have much time to act before hospitals are literally overrun or deaths start to skyrocket.”

“The numbers have everything to do with how many of us are or aren’t letting our guards down, even at smaller events and medium sized and bigger events, where safety protocols are not put into place or practiced or reinforced.”

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Town combines departments, creates department of public works

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com The Zionsville Town Council voted to create a department of public works, combining the street, stormwater and wastewater departSERVICES ments into a single entity, along with new divisions of facilities management, environmental stewardship and engineering.

Town officials said the move will improve services and provide economic benefit to the town by reducing the Lantz need to outsource services related to public works, thereby reducing expenses.

Each division will be managed by a division supervisor who will serve under the jurisdiction of the mayor, although the daily operations of each division supervisor will be overseen and managed by the director of public works.

New positions will be created for the department, increasing town staffing, and they will be accounted for in the town’s salary ordinance.

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could sustain added staffing levels as it grows. He said the town had not pursued the move in prior years because of concerns of maintaining added staff positions.

“If we can’t afford engineers, if we can’t add staff, that’s something we’ve faced in the past and something we will likely face in the future,” Lantz told to the town council during a recent meeting. “But it would be, in my opinion, wise to get this structure in place so that when financial capacities are there, if they are not this year, we can grow into it. But we can also begin immediately enjoying the operational efficiencies of operating under a single umbrella organization.”

Lantz said most towns and cities with similarly sized populations have a department of works. He said when he started in his position, the town debated whether to create a position to add an employee building inspector, noting that the duties were outsourced at the time. The town now has three full-time employee building inspectors, Lantz said.

“To think now that we would be operating without a town employee building inspector structure would make absolutely no sense,” Lantz said. “But at the time, some of these similar conversations were had, (such as) ‘Are we ready for a building inspector?’ We’ve done this before. These are growing steps as communities expand.”

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DISPATCHES Athletic combine scheduled — The Parisi Speed School at Correct2Compete at 10730 Bennett Pkwy. in Zionsville will host a free athletic combine for athletes ages 8 and older. The event is scheduled Oct. 24 for noon, 1 and 2 p.m. time slots and Oct. 25 for noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. time slots. The Parisi Speed School combine assesses athletes’ athletic skills including speed, power, strength and agility. If an athlete wants to be noticed for their skills, a combine is a perfect starting point for coaches and recruiters to evaluate an athlete’s overall ability. Register at parisiindy.com/combine.

ZGravy Chase — This year’s event, which includes a 2-mile and 4-mile in-person race and a virtual 5K, gives runners and walkers the choice to participate in multiple ways, but regardless of the choice, proceeds will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Boone County, which expects financial shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ZGravy Chase traditionally welcomes families from throughout central Indiana to run or walk through Zionsville. The goal for the 2020 race is to raise $145,000 for the Boys & Girls Club of Boone County. Race day is Nov. 26, Thanksgiving day.

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Feeding the birds Commentary by Ward Degler I fill our bird feeders twice a week. Sometimes I forget, and the birds flit about on the empty feeders chatterPLAIN TALK ing and wondering what’s going on.

As soon as I remember, I refill them and mutter apologies to the birds. I have the sense they’re not buying it. They sit in the nearby trees and mutter obscenities among themselves. I don’t want to know what they are saying.

The most vocal of our birds also are the smallest — a family of Carolina wrens. I’m told it’s only the male wren that sings and scolds, but this guy makes it clear he’s not happy with an empty feeder.

The quietest are bluebirds. They also are the most shy. We have several that come to the feeders only if no other birds are around. A sparrow shows up, and they are gone.

The most common birds around our feeders are the finches. Sometimes, eight or nine of them will flit around waiting for a chance to eat. They also are the ones that chatter the most when the feeders are empty.

The rest of the population is made up of sparrows, chickadees, tufted titmouses (or is it titmice?), flycatchers, siskins, cardinals, a single downy woodpecker

and a half-dozen brainless nuthatches. Nuthatches are the only birds I know that can’t figure out which is up and which is down. I will see one of them hanging upside down on a perch trying to figure out why he can’t reach the seeds above him.

Robins stick to finding bugs on the lawn along with the occasional blackbird. Also on the ground are the chipmunks, cute little devils that are sadly destructive around the house. They clean up what the birds drop under the feeders. I’ve tried to trap these guys, but so far they are smarter than I am.

That brings me to my favorite birds, a family of sharp-shinned hawks that have their nest in the upper branches of a tree across the street. Every year they have a single chick, and while he is still in the nest, the parents fly their wings off keeping up with his appetite.

When the youngster gets his wings, the parents teach him how to hunt — usually for chipmunks in my yard. That’s when the little animals find out how fast they can run.

Most of the time, I don’t know who I’m cheering for, the chipmunk or the hawk.

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By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com At its Oct. 13 meeting, the Boone County Council voted to increase wages for fulltime Boone County employPANDEMIC ees, elected county officials and part-time county department heads by 2 percent.

The council was forced to decide whether to increase county employee wages during a time of financial uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recent local income tax data revealed the county is not constrained as much this year as anticipated by the pandemic, according to county officials. But in the future, it might encounter local income tax shortfalls, which are projected to be as high as 10 percent in 2022, according to Susan Cowen, a manager at Baker Tilly US, LLP, a public consulting firm. Some council members expressed concern about being able to maintain increased wages in the event of future shortfalls.

But some county officials, including Boone County Sheriff Mike Nielsen, said the council must support its employees, whom he called the county’s most valuable asset. Nielsen and others in his office have repeatedly called for increased wages to remain competitive with other law-enforcement agencies in the county. They say other law-enforcement departments in the county can entice BCSO employees by offering significantly higher pay. Nielsen has said not increasing wages would send the wrong message to county employees.

An initial motion to increase wages by 3 percent failed when council members Don Lamb, Marcia Wilhoite and John Riner voted against the measure. Council members Kevin Van Horn and Jennifer Hostetter voted in favor. The 2 percent raise was approved unanimously and is set to begin in January 2021.

“We are appreciative of any raise,” Boone County Prosecutor Kent Eastwood said.

“I am concerned that we want to keep up with certain municipalities to ensure we keep the best and the brightest within our community. Over the years, our salaries have not done that — so much so that we spent thousands of dollars on salary surveys. We now know that financially the county is significantly better off even with 2 percent raises than we were the same time last year.”

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lished Criminal Rule 26. The rule mandates that if an arrestee does not present a substantial flight risk or danger to themself Boone County Council member Elise or others, a court should release the them Nieshalla said she wants to play a part in without a cash bond or surety unless they planning the counare charged with murder, treason, ELECTION ty’s long-term future are on pretrial release not related by serving another to the arrest or are on probafour years. tion, parole or other community “We have set a lot of initiatives supervision. in motion recently,” Nieshalla said.

“They were finding that people “We have been working to set into were in jail because they couldn’t motion more of a long-term vision pay their bond,” Nieshalla said. “And Nieshalla for county infrastructure, but we when they finally got sentenced, are also looking at long-term planning for their sentence was, perhaps, half the time the back side of justice. The county has a they spent in jail because they couldn’t pay responsibility for community corrections, their bond.” probation, the jail, the court, the prosecuNieshalla said the county has the optor’s office, and with the continued growth portunity to take cues from the Indiana in the population of our county, we have to Supreme Court to make sure such instances continually be looking at those services we don’t happen in Boone County. provide.”

Nieshalla, who is unopposed in the Nov. Nieshalla said the county can implement 3 general election, grew up on the northfindings from other governing bodies, such east side of Indianapolis before moving to as the Indiana Supreme Court, which estabZionsville.

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BACKGROUND: Elaina Ededuwa, a former multi-sport athlete at Hamilton Southeastern High School from 2012-2016 and women’s basketball player at Indiana Wesleyan University from 2016-2020, had some unfortunate breaks along the way. Methodist Sports Medicine was there to get her back in the game each time. The daughter of E and Linda Ededuwa of Fishers, Elaina Elaina Ededuwa, former was a volleyball, basketball, and track & field athlete at HSE. In January 2015, she suffered a basketball player at tear of her left anterior cruciate ligament while playing basketball and underwent surgery for an Indiana Wesleyan University.

ACL reconstruction by Dr. Peter Maiers. She worked diligently to rehab and returned to highlevel competition.

On Jul. 5, Elaina returned to the court to play in her first game since her injury in an AAU tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the second half, she went up for a rebound, and when she came down, she was hit in the knee, suffering a contact injury that re-tore her ACL. Elaina worked hard in rehab once again, fully recovered, and amazingly went on to play at the collegiate level with the Indiana Wesleyan University Women’s Basketball team. She was just about to complete a successful collegiate career when injury struck again.

During basketball practice on Dec. 13, Elaina set a screen, rolled to the basket, and took a hit to the side of her knee, bending it in the wrong direction. She immediately knew she tore her ACL; this time, it was her right knee. She visited with Dr. Maiers the next morning. The diagnosis: right ACL tear, partial MCL tear, sprain of the lateral collateral ligament, tear of the lateral meniscus, along with a left knee lateral meniscus tear. Although heartbroken, Elaina cheered her team on that night at IWU and then boarded a flight to Arizona to cheer her team on from the sideline at their holiday tournament. Dr. Maiers performed surgery on both knees on Dec. 27, and she again battled back to a complete recovery. Today, Elaina is an Indiana Wesleyan graduate with three degrees, lives in Florida, and has been offered an opportunity to continue her basketball career in Europe.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com When Boone County Coroner Shon Hough asked his friend Justin Sparks if he was interested in being a depELECTION uty coroner, Sparks was hesitant.

“I had been a firefighter and paramedic for 17 years, and being a coroner was not something I initially thought of doing,” Sparks said. “Shon said, ‘Give it a shot. If you don’t like it, that’s fine.’ I went through the school and got credited as death investigator, and I’ve been working with him ever since.”

Sparks has been the Boone County deputy coroner for seven years. He is running unopposed in the Nov. 3 election to become the Boone County coroner, which is a parttime position. Sparks also was unopposed in the Republican primary.

“Being unopposed has allowed me to concentrate on being prepared on Day 1,” he said. “Shon will be a valuable resource.”

Sparks, who works as an executive officer for the Wayne Township Fire Dept. in Indianapolis, and his wife, Cami, and three daughters moved to Thorntown about 7 1/2 years ago.

Hough has served two consecutive terms, so he was unable, due to term limits, to serve a third.

“He is done as coroner for at least four years,” Sparks said. “We’ve talked on and off about me running. I’m a relatively private person, so this was a step out of my comfort zone. But my wife, my family, my friends and co-workers encouraged me.

If I’m going to do something, I want to be committed to it and want to make sure we are doing it as good as we can.”

Sparks said from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1 in 2019, the coroner’s office investigated 75 cases.

“This year from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, we’re already at 112 cases,” he said. “With the caseload and population going up, the office needs to grow with that.”

Before filing his candidacy, Sparks met with Boone County Sheriff Mike Nielsen and other county officials.

“My goal is to work with all the agencies around the county to get their insight on how the office can improve,” he said. “I want to take the coroner’s office to the next level.”

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GIVING BACK The event is normally held in one day during approximately 11 hours at Lucas Oil Stadium. Because of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year it will stretch from Oct. 13 to Nov. 7 at the Million Meal

The Million Meal Marathon will take place during several weeks instead of in one day this year.

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Carmel resident Nancy Hintz and her husband, Dan, co-founded Million Meal Movement, a nonprofit, in 2007. The Million Meal Marathon is the nonprofit’s signature event, but there are other events held throughout the year.

“Usually, we would have two to three thousand people that would come through the course of a day and help package dry ingredients into a plastic bag, a rice soy casserole meal people would be able to cook

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A Zionsville barbershop owner is confident his new venture will help men rediscover how to “feel good about themselves” by simplifying their grooming needs.

Edwin Veguilla, 31, has been in the hair care industry for 12 years and last year decided to start a business different from other offerings in Zionsville.

Veguilla said he struggled to find a great haircut in town for years. The search inspired him to open his own barbershop. He also was inspired by his own personal battles with health, including a liver transplant and being a cancer survivor. But he wanted to do more than offer a quality haircut.

He wanted to build a lifestyle brand.

“That was something in the forefront of my mind,” Veguilla said. “What could (I) build that could combat some of the issues that people live with day to day? And the idea was kind of born from that.”

On Oct. 24, Veguilla expects that vision will come to fruition when Razor Roar Wellness Barber Lounge celebrates its soft opening in Zionsville at 7161 Whitestown Pkwy.

“The whole concept is that it’s not just a barbershop, it’s a wellness experience,” Boone County Chamber Executive Director Diane Schultz said.

Razor Roar Wellness Barber Lounge, whose name is meant to convey the feeling customers have after a great haircut, that of a powerful lion, aims to simplify men’s grooming and lifestyle needs, Veguilla said.

The shop will offer a line of vitamin C supplements and products designed to promote skin and hair health. Veguilla said the line could help men, in particular, because of their tendency to avoid skin-care routines and hair-care products.

“I think that we as men forget constantly to really take care of ourselves, and I wanted to create an environment that you feel really great. You feel sexy,” Veguilla said. “We are men, and we should feel good about ourselves.”

Veguilla’s customers will receive advice for creating regular skin and hair routines and learn about healthy life-

Razor Roar Wellness Barber Lounge owner Edwin Veguilla said the business’s name is meant to convey the feeling a customer has after a great haircut, that of a powerful lion. (Photos by Jarred Meeks)

Veguilla believes his business can make lasting changes for not only his clients’ hair, but also their daily lives.

“There is a big difference between a quality haircut,” Veguilla said. “Not all haircuts are created equal. To do a good haircut, it’s craftsmanship. It’s old world. It takes time to really shape a good, bespoke haircut. A lot of men don’t realize that it makes a huge difference in their image and their self-esteem when they get the best possible haircut they can get.”

PANDEMIC DELAYS The new shop will offer wellness products that promote hair and skin health, which Veguilla said is the foundation of a good haircut.

style choices. He said a customer’s skin and hair are chief concerns because they provide the foundation for a good haircut.

“No one has really tapped into that portion to really maximize the haircut with those products,” Veguilla said.

“If you don’t take care of the things that you put into your body, then we can’t maximize the results we can give you at the barber lounge. I think in our society, it has become OK for women to do it, but it has never really been socially acceptable for men because it is perceived as you are being high maintenance. The reality is, we should spend time on ourselves, too. We should pamper ourselves.”

Razor Roar Wellness Barber Lounge owner Edwin Veguilla had anticipated opening the Zionsville location earlier in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed his plans. However, the delay ultimately allowed him to design a barbershop to adhere to COVID-19 mitigation practices recommended by health experts.

“I had to sit back and rethink the whole concept,” Edwin said. “I decided to build it completely custom to basically be COVID-proof.”

For example, stations are spaced more than 6 feet apart, and, in the lounge area, Veguilla opted for chairs instead of couches to allow for adequate spacing. The shop also will offer its own hand sanitizer product.

Veguilla said the COVID-19 pandemic, while tragic, emphasizes the importance of valuing health, which makes him optimistic about opening a wellness business during a pandemic.

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Commentary by Terry Anker What does it mean to be human? Is it the notion of a physical or corporeal being? Is it the form and shape of our chromosomal spiral? Is it that we are distinctly less hairy than our ape cousins in Rwanda? There are countless, readily identifiable characteristics that distinguish us from myriad other lifeforms similarly bound to this spinning blue ball that we all call home. Still, we are, perhaps because of the necessities of the planet, remarkably similar. We breath oxygen-rich air. We thrive in a narrow band of temperature variation.

We eat, process calories and produce waste. Many of us have hinged limbs and brains protected in a skull. To a distant observer, we might not be that different from goat to person.

Still, these top-of-the-food-chain creatures, we humans, have long imagined and queried what is it, if anything, that makes us distinct. Do we have a soul, imbued by a creator? In the fourth century, theologian Augustine of Hippo claimed the individual human right to eternal salvation. Or, is our advanced sentient thought, as exhibited by complex interpersonal communication, sufficient for us to hold ourselves out as unique, special?

Cogito, ergo sum. Seventeenth-century French philosopher Rene Descartes held that because we humans could think, and then prove it, that we are special and distinctive from other beings.

Any first-year law student should be able to amply describe the principal of negative implication. That is, that some things are best defined by what they are not. What is it to be human?

It is not to be inanimate. It is not to be inorganic. Good. But can we be human if we lack thought? Can we be human if we lack civility? Can we be human if we lack faith, compassion or free will?

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

Sweet dreams are made of this Commentary by Danielle Wilson Friends, I am sitting on the screened-in porch of a second-floor condo overlooking a large bay of water, name HUMOR unknown, somewhere near Fort Myers, Fla. And no, I’m not dreaming.

My husband Doo and I had planned this fall break trip way back in January, wanting to take advantage of his company’s rental place in Florida and my school district’s week off in October. Of course, we’d organized several vacations for 2020, all of which were canceled due to the apocalypse.

But we were determined to salvage at least one slice of heaven and decided to drive the 16-plus hours to finally gain a little rest and relaxation in this dumpster of a year.

We arrived last night. I awoke at 4:30 a.m., having already slept nine hours, then went back to sleep for another two. The sun is just now rising, and the only sounds are birdsong and the gentle lapping of waves.

I am alone, as Doo is still in bed, but have a hot cup of coffee and phone Sudoku to keep me company. Alhough the temperature is already in the mid-80s, with equally high humidity, I feel content in a way that I haven’t since spring. I’m finding it easy to block thoughts of the election and COVID-19 and almost as easy to recall memories of my dad, who passed away in September. There is less pain there.

Is it the ocean healing my heart? The quiet morning? Maybe the hope inspired by these next few days of downtime in a semi-tropical rental? Does it matter?

If I am dreaming, please don’t pinch me.

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

I’m finding it easy to block thoughts of the election and COVID-19 and almost as easy to recall memories of my dad, who passed away in September. There is less pain there.

Editor, I am a U.S. Navy veteran and a Carmel resident. I am very concerned with the direction of the 2020 presidential campaign by Trump and the RNC. Trump’s tweets are clearly irrational, even disconnected from reality. Consider his comments on wearing masks, his approval of extra-judicial punishment by killing, his push to arrest his political opposition and not accept election results if he loses. Consider his ugly and persistent attacks on women, veterans and journalists. When asked about his agenda for the next term, he cannot even articulate one, Under Trump’s lack of leadership, over 215,000 Americans have died. Trump and the RNC take no responsibility.

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Don’t take this topic for gratin Commentary by Dick Wolfsie If you had to choose one food to live on for the rest of your life, what would it be? I provide this question as a pubHUMOR lic service for those in longterm relationships who are pretty much stuck at home and desperately need something to debate.

I asked my wife for her response, and she said I had to give my choice first. That sounded like a trap, but I replied, “OK, Mary Ellen, if I had to pick one thing, I’d say your delicious chicken piccata.”

“So, what you are saying is you don’t like my chicken marsala?”

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A decade ago, this question was easy for Chris Voight, an unrepentant spud lover who at the time was the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission. Chris decided to put his money where his mouth is … as opposed to his hero, Mr. Potato Head, whose mouth Chris could put where his nose is.

Chris was unhappy with the local school district’s decision to cut fattening foods from the lunch menu, so he pledged to eat

nothing but taters for 60 days. No sour cream, no bacon bits — not even on the side. Just potatoes. He ate approximately 1,200 of them in two months. Chris needed some kind of libation, so he opted for a beer made from potatoes. Yes, Chris, this spud’s for you.

Chris was unhappy with the local school district’s decision to cut fattening foods from the lunch menu, so he pledged to eat nothing but taters for 60 days. No sour cream, no bacon bits — not even on the side. Just potatoes.

Doctors supervised his two-month regimen. Their biggest concern was the lack of essential fatty acids in the diet. Chris agreed to downing several servings of French fries every day, and he got a kick out of being asked at the drive-thru, “Do you want a burger with that?”

“There are lots of myths about potatoes,” Chris said. For example, the conventional thinking is that potatoes are very fattening

and full of empty calories. On this last point, there is some spirited disagreement, one of many wedge issues Chris had to deal with. Chris claims he lost 20 pounds on the potato diet, but I suspect that’s because he finally put down the sack of potatoes the last time he weighed himself.

Chris still dines on the simple baked potato, the twice-baked potato, and the yummy thrice-baked potato. Also, cottage fries, mashed potatoes, potato pancakes, gnocchi and tater tots. Has Chris gone a bit over the edge in enthusiasm for potatoes? “I just don’t want people to take the potato for gratin.” Yeah, that’s the way he talks now.

Chris is considering eating raw potatoes, which apparently have some additional health benefits but lack the classic taste we all enjoy. His wife suggested splitting the difference and cooking them just a little. Said Chris: “It’s just another one of her half-baked ideas.”

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As of Oct. 15, the Boone County Health Dept. had reported 1,228 COVID-19 cases and 53 deaths, including the first two deaths attributed to the disease since late July, both of which were related to long-term care facilities. For the week ending Oct. 9, the BCHD reported a countywide positivity rate of 4.44 percent and 66 new cases. The week prior, 43 new cases were reported.

The Indiana State Dept. of Health reported Boone County had a seven-day positivity rate of 5.19 percent as of Oct. 15.

It also reported the county had 104 positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents. The two metrics moved the county into the department’s yellow classification, which lists counties exhibiting the second-lowest risk rate. Previously, Boone County was given a blue classification, the ISDH’s lowest-risk classification. Orange and red classifications are given to higher-risk counties.

The uptick in cases and an increased positivity rate indicate a larger community

spread across Indiana, where cases have reached record highs, according to state health officials. Boone County Health Dept.

Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Tom Ryan said the most important message for Hoosiers is to continue to practice mitigation efforts that have been proven to slow the disease’s spread.

“The important thing right now is that everyone do everything they can to protect themselves — social distancing, washing their hands, wearing a face covering, avoiding large groups and poorly ventilated areas,” Ryan said. “With all the practices we are doing right now, it might make it hard for people. I just want them to know that we do have places for them to turn to get help if they need help.”

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The second most common cause of sleep loss is money, cited by 36 percent of respondents.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com If University High School was going to have its fall play, the timetable would be tight.

PERFORMANCE The decision was made that any performance would have to be outside during the COVID-19 pandemic because the school’s indoor theater was too small for social distancing, and delaying the play too long could create issues with colder temperatures.

“I normally run the play the last weekend of October, which means the kids normally would’ve had three or four extra weeks to settle into school,” said University theater teacher Callie Hartz, who directed the play. “We had auditions six days into the school year. The kids had a total of 17 rehearsals, and that included the three dress rehearsals.”

University staged its play, “Clue,” Oct. 1-3 on the soccer field at the Carmel school.

Senior Daniel Vesper was just pleased there was a show.

“The experiences for the other actors and I of doing theater outside and inside really aren’t that different,” he said. “The only major difference is the variability of weather.”

That was a factor on opening night when temperatures were cooler, and it rained.

“But the show went on, and I seriously do not know professional actors who could’ve pulled off what these high school kids did that night,” Hartz said “They did not miss a beat. I literally went out to my car after we packed up for the night and sat in the parking lot and just cried with pride.”

Keeping distance on the stage was one of the biggest challenges for Vesper, a Carmel resident.

“There were definitely many difficulties with having to perform socially distanced, but all of them were manageable and worth dealing with since it meant we were able to have the production,” Vesper said.

Vesper played the role of Wadsworth.

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people or take their coats, which was difficult to do with social distancing,” he said. “The other major problem is when we were supposed to move dead bodies across the stage, we were unable to do so because we couldn’t touch each other, so we had to just have the dead bodies get up and walk across the stage.”

Elsie McNulty said presenting the show outdoors was a new experience for the entire cast.

“We all learned new things about both the thrills and hardships of outdoor theater with every rehearsal and performance,” McNulty said. “(Hartz) told us that outdoor theater is one of the most common first gigs for young performers, so I feel better equipped for future performing opportunities.”

McNulty, who played Mrs. White, said she initially was concerned there would not be any plays this school year.

“Would we be acting with masks on?” she said. “How would all of us be able

to occupy one stage? How would the audience be socially distanced? It all just seemed unfeasible, and being a senior who has done every production since freshman year, this made me really sad.

So when I learned that we would be doing an outdoor show, I was elated.”

McNulty said the cast had to be extra cautious while blocking or moving around the stage with the other actors.

“Our instincts tell us to get close to others or touch them in order to convey emotion or mood, so it was difficult to ignore those impulses,” McNulty said.

“We had to get pretty creative with some scenes that called for physical contact.

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That will be in the show. The show works well with the Great American Songbook and Indiana Pride.”

Actors Theatre of Indiana co-founder Don Collins said one of her favorite songs is Farrell figures Cole Porter and Hoagy CarCarmichael’s “I Walk With Music.” michael are a winning This will be the second ATI DriveMUSIC combination on any In Theatre. The first was Sept. 18, stage. with the ATI trio paying tribute to “We’re thrilled with highlighting songs from movies. and honoring two of Indiana’s great “The first concert we felt was a composers and lyricists,” Farrell huge success,” Farrell said. “We had said. “You can’t go wrong with their responses from patrons that have music.” been overwhelmingly positive.

Farrell The ATI Drive-In Theatre show, Farrell said the production was “Cole with a side of Hoagy,” is set for 7 to 9 smooth for a first time. p.m. Oct. 23 at the Monon Square Shopping “It went without a hitch,” he said. “It was Center in Carmel. a true joy to see people following the safety Farrell will be joined by fellow ATI protocol and wearing the masks and stayco-founders Cynthia Collins and Judy ing within vicinity of their vehicles.”

Fitzgerald.

Farrell said sales are strong for the secThe show will feature timeless classics, ond show. including Porter’s “You’re the Top” to Carmi“Last time, we were at 85 percent paid cachael’s “Stardust.” pacity for what we had to offer,” Farrell said.

“For me, ‘Night and Day’ is one of my faRandy Sorrell will serve as emcee. Terry vorite Cole Porter tunes,” Farrell said. “There Woods and his band will perform with the are so many to choose from. He’s very ATI trio. A third Drive-In Theatre performance witty. There were so many of Hoagy Caris set for Nov. 27 at Monon Square Shopping michael’s songs that were great, too, like Center.

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com This will be a little different than Charlie Ballantine’s previous appearance at the Palladium at the Center for the CONCERT Performing Arts in Carmel.

Ballantine opened for a smooth jazz musician, Brian Culbertson.

“This will be completely different because I think it was completely sold out that night,” Ballantine said.

This time, it will be live with no in-person audience.

The Charlie Ballantine Quartet will be the first performers in the “Live at the Center” series at 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Palladium.

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“These days we’re just happy for any opportunity to play some music for people, whether it’s in person or via livestream, let alone like a place like the Performing Arts Center,” Ballantine said. “We’re excited to play in that beautiful space.”

Ballantine, an Indianapolis resident, said the quartet hasn’t cemented a setlist.

“It definitely will be a mix of some jazz standards, some original music and some of our favorite covers,” Ballantine said. “We’re just going to have fun playing music for an hour or so.”

The music will be all instrumental, with Ballantine on guitar, “We started a successful house concert series at our house where we had about 50 to 80 people spread out in our yard,” Ballantine said. “We had livestreams at the Jazz Kitchen and Chatterbox Jazz Club. We had some private events because as much as we miss it as musicians, music lovers and audiences feel just as deprived.”

The other members of the quartet performing at the Palladium will be Cassius Goens (drums), Amanda Gardier (saxophone) and Jesse Wittman (bass).

“I hope this is an opportunity to get some of the northside listeners into it,” Ballantine said of their jazz style.

Ballantine’s latest album is “Vonnegut,” inspired by Indianapolis author Kurt Vonnegut. Ballantine teaches guitar at the University of Indianapolis and Marian University.

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Although an initial version collapsed, the Monument to Independence was dedicated by President Díaz on Sept. 16, 1910. The 118-foot-high column is topped by a gilded bronze statue of winged Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, holding in her right hand a laurel wreath above a statue of Hidalgo at the base. Because Mexicans call the statue El Ángel, the column itself is commonly called El Ángel. In 1925, the remains of Father Hidalgo and 13 other insurgents were entombed in a mausoleum beneath the monument. In 1929, an eternal flame was added at the base to honor the heroes of the rebellion. The circle around El Ángel is a popular place for national celebrations and political rallies. Until the monument was closed for restoration in 2019, energetic people could climb about 200 narrow steps to the top.

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In 2021, Mexico will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its independence from Spain, the same year that Indianapolis will celebrate its 200th anniversary as a city.

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Financial Advisory firm is seeking an office administrator to work 35 hours a week.

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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

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Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Valid Driver’s License and Criminal History check.

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