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‘LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL’ Vaccines expected in Boone County in coming days / P13

Study for C.R. 300 S. project to conclude soon / P5

BCHD recommends 14-day quarantine despite options / P9

BCHD reports another record week for COVID-19 cases / P17

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By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Because of rising COVID-19 cases in Indiana, the state will require hospitals to postpone or PANDEMIC reschedule nonemergent procedures from Dec. 16 through Jan. 3.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said during a Dec. 9 virtual press briefing that Holcomb the mandate is designed to lessen the strain on hospitals caused by the pandemic.

As of Dec. 9, more than 3,200 Hoosiers were hospitalized, a significantly higher number than the spring peak of 1,799.

Indiana State Health Commissioner Kristina Box said cases and deaths have increased at an alarming rate for the last four weeks. More than 220 Indiana residents died of COVID-19 in the two days preceding the briefing, and total deaths, as of Dec. 9, topped 6,200, with another 299 probable deaths not included in the tally.

As of Dec. 7, more than 14,000 students had tested positive for the virus since when the state’s health department began tracking the cases. In addition, 2,999 teachers and 3,533 school staff members had tested positive.

In addition, the state’s color-coded map, which monitors the level of community spread in each county, shows continued spread across Indiana. Thirty-six counties are now red. The remaining counties are orange (red represents the highest community spread and orange indicates the second-highest). The map, which can be viewed

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at the online dashboard coronavirus.in.gov, shows the number of people with the disease per 100,000 residents and a county’s positivity rate.

If based solely on the number of people per 100,000 residents with the disease, Box said every county is red as of Dec. 9.

“Indiana is on fire right now,” Holcomb said.

In response to the worsening metrics, Holcomb announced updated Box gathering restrictions.

Social gatherings will now be capped at the limit imposed by a county’s metrics. Local health departments are no longer allowed to grant exceptions. In red counties, a maximum of 25 people are allowed to gather.

The maximum in orange counties is 50. The maximum in yellow counties is 100, and the maximum in blue counties is 250.

As of Dec. 9, Boone and Hamilton counties were orange. Health officials said counties are advised to wait until its color has remained the same for two consecutive weeks before enacting different gathering restrictions.

Holcomb asked Indiana residents to follow a number of steps to slow the spread of the virus. The steps are to limit the size of gatherings by following the metrics; pause nonemergent procedures done in in-patient hospital settings to free up hospital beds; follow the mask mandate; keep 6 feet between yourself and others; wear face coverings; wash hands throughout the day; get tested if you’re sick or symptomatic; stay home and isolate if you test positive for COVID-19; donate blood if you’re able; and stay informed about the distribution of vaccines.

In addition, Holcomb said employers are advised to talk to employees to help them understand their activities outside of the workplace and the community State health officials also caution against unnecessary holiday travel.

Vaccine update Dr. Lindsay Weaver, the state’s chief medical officer, said Dec. 9 that Indiana anticipates receiving more than 55,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech the first week the company begins shipping it to states.

The FDA was expected to grant emergency use authorization for the vaccine last week. Shipments of the vaccine are expected to be sent out within a few days of authorization.

The vaccines will first be sent to five Indiana hospitals across the state that have the ability to store the vaccines at ultra-low temperatures (the hospitals represent five sectors of Indiana). They will then be sent to local hospitals.

Weaver said the state expects to receive more doses of Pfizer’s vaccine the second week following its authorization. She said the state also expects to receive an initial shipment of Moderna’s vaccine the same week, assuming it is granted emergency-use authorization by the FDA after it convenes to consider authorization Dec. 17.

Box and Holcomb called the vaccines modern “medical miracles” during the briefing.

State health officials encourage all Hoosiers to receive a vaccine as soon as they are able, with the exception of children younger than 16. Clinical trials for children and pregnant woman are still under way.

O”Haver new EMS Manger for ZFD — The Zionsville Fire Dept. announces the hiring of Mr. Kerry O’Haver as emergency medical services manager. O’Haver has started in this role part-time and will transition to full-time after the holidays. O’Haver brings more than 36 years of experience in the EMS field. He previously worked for the City of Lawrence Fire Dept. where he served as the EMS duty officer, implementing training and mentor programs.

O’Haver has more than 20 years of service with the U.S. Army. This includes roles as a drill sergeant, flight medic and special operations. He is a registered EMT/paramedic in Indiana. He is a graduate of the Ohio Fire Executive program from Ohio State University. “Kerry’s enthusiasm and excitement to start his new position is inspiring, and I look forward to the innovative ideas that his years of fire and emergency experience will bring to (the) ZFD,” said ZFD Chief James VanGorder.

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The C.R. 300 corridor project is broken into four segments: 800 E. to 875 E. (Segment 1); 875 E. to 975 E. (Segment 2); 975 E. to U.S. 421 (Segment 3); and U.S. 421 to 1200 E. (Segment 4).

Study for C.R. 300 S. project to conclude soon

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Consultants soon expect to finish a study on an upcoming multi-million dollar construction project, paving the way for an improved corridor in CONSTRUCTION Zionsville.

The C.R. 300 corridor project, which will include the extension and widening of the road, is broken into four segments: 800 E. to 875 E. (Segment 1); 875 E. to 975 E. (Segment 2); 975 E. to U.S. 421 (Segment 3); and U.S. 421 to 1200 E. (Segment 4).

The project is expected to cost more than $50 million.

In 2017, the Boone County Highway Dept. identified a deficient bridge on C.R. 300 that needed replaced.

“Obviously, with bridges having a 75-plus year design life, you want a to make sure that a bridge built today suits all needs in the future, so it became important to look at that corridor to see what it might be when it grows up,” said Lance Lantz, Zionsville’s director of public works.

In 2018, the Town of Zionsville and Boone County jointly applied for funding and received a planning grant to study the corridor. Beam, Longest, and Neff, an Indianapolis-based civil engineering company, was contracted to review the corridor to determine potential impacts of a future project.

John Beery, who represented Beam, Longset, and Neff during the Zionsville Town Council’s Dec. 7 meeting, said the company entered an agreement more than

a year ago with Zionsville, Boone County and other agencies to study construction costs for a potential extension and widening of C.R. 300 S. Beery said Dec. 7 that the company expects to finish its study of the corridor in the next “30 to 45 days.”

C.R. 300 S. is identified for pedestrian and cyclist improvements and as a Corridor Mini-Plan as part of the Boone County Thoroughfare Plan. The C.R. 300 S. corridor is intended to link Ronald Reagan Parkway on the west side of Boone County to 146th Street in Hamilton County.

According to the thoroughfare plan, county officials aim to balance needs for regional traffic flow and mobility with access to businesses and destinations along the 146th Street extension corridor. They also want to maximize opportunities for development and future growth, provide for multimodal transportation and enhance the aesthetic of the corridor. A proposed cross section of the corridor includes a multi-use trail on one side.

Beery said estimates for the C.R. 300 S. corridor project are projected by segment, intersection and bridge so that the project can be staged through a period of years in manageable portions. Although roundabouts may require more right of way, he said the cost difference between signal and roundabout estimates is manageable when considering long-term operational and maintenance costs for signals. Roundabouts typically outperform signals during their life cycle, he said.

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Case Design/Remodeling employee named to 30 Under 30 — Megan Heidel, an Interior Design Group Leader at Case Design/Remodeling, has been named to the “30 Under 30” group by the National Kitchen & Bath Association. The NKBA 30 Under 30 program recognizes talented kitchen and Heidel bath professionals under the age of 30. Nominees were evaluated on their career or educational achievements, commitment to excellence in the kitchen and bath industry and leadership within their organization. Heidel graduated Magna Cum Laude from West Virginia University with a bachelor’s degree in interior design.

While pursuing her degree, she interned with a local kitchen and bath designer where her passion for residential design and construction flourished. Since joining Case Design/Remodeling in 2015, she has been specializing in 3-D modeling software to help clients visualize their future remodel and prepare the production team for a successful build. Case Design/Remodeling Indianapolis is based in Carmel with locations in Zionsville and Meridian-Kessler.

Zionsville home sales — Zionsville’s residential estate market saw homes leave the market quickly in November 2020, fueled by a slight decrease in the average sale price.

According to F.C. Tucker Co., homes in Zionsville left the market in 37 days, 36.2 percent faster than November 2019. The average sale price for a Zionsville home was down 10 percent, to $483,413, compared to this time last year. However, the average price per square foot for a home in Zionsville increased slightly compared to November 2019, up 1 percent to $165.51.

Blood needed — Versiti Blood Center of Indiana is issuing an emergency appeal for blood donations. Because of remote work and virtual schooling, many of those drives have been canceled. Compared to an average year, donations have been cut by more than 50 percent — nearly 20,000 units of blood. Blood donors are needed now, Versiti officials say, to help ensure life-saving blood is available for Hoosiers who need it.

O-negative and O-positive blood donors are most needed now. O-negative and O-positive blood can be transfused to all patients, including trauma victims, cancer patients and those undergoing surgery.

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NOBLESVILLE AND NORTH Street and south of Main Street Expected completion: The Project: Road gravel parking lot on the east rehabilitation Location: A 3-mile stretch CONSTRUCTION end of Park Street is permanently closed as the Grand of 236th Street will be Junction Plaza is moving into closed for two separate the construction phase. Parking is availphases for road rehabilitation. The first able on the west end of Park Street. phase is from west of Devaney Road to Project: East Street extension east of Tollgate Road. This phase has reLocation: East Street is being extended opened. The second phase is from west of north from 196th Street to Ind. 38. Utility Deming Road to west of Devaney Road. relocations are ongoing.

Expected completion: The second phase Project: Natalie Wheeler Trail is expected to begin in spring 2021.

Location: On Union Street between Mill FISHERS and Jersey streets.

Project: 146th Street at Ind. 37 Expected completion: Closed during Location: All left-turn lanes are currently construction of the Grand Junction Plaza, restricted on Ind. 37 and on 146th Street estimated completion in 2021. with traffic moved to the interior lanes.

CARMEL Through traffic and right turns on Ind. 37 Project: Reconstruction of Range Line and 146th Street will remain open. Drivers Road, including a new roundabout at are encouraged to seek alternate routes Walnut Street and pedestrian and bicycle for all left turn access. For more about the connectivity State Road 37 Improvement Project and to Location: Between Elm Street and City receive text updates, visit 37Thrives.com.

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WESTFIELD Project: Jersey Street Location: From Union Street to Mill Street Expected completion: Jersey Street will be closed for the remainder of the Grand Junction Plaza construction.

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Project: Hamilton Boone County Road and Little Eagle Creek reconstruction Location: Little Creek Avenue south of 146th Street will be closed for approximately 120 calendar days. The closure began Aug. 10.

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DISPATCHES Boone County Toy Drive — New or gently used toys can be donated through December 17 at any Zionsville Fire Station in the vestibule area at the following stations: Station 91, at 100 N. Ford Rd., Station 92, at 998 S. U.S. 421, and Station 93, at 5793 S. 700 E. The Boone County Toy Drive has been an annual event for over 40 years. County officials ask residents to help make sure all children in Boone County have a gift to open this holiday season.

County agency modifications — Operations of many Boone County offices have been modified due to the spread of COVID-19 within the community. The county assessor’s and treasurer’s offices are closed to the public. These changes will remain until further notice. The following county agencies will only be open to in-person visits by appointment only, though phone and email appointments are encouraged: adult probation, area plan, auditor’s office, clerk’s

office, commissioners’ office, community corrections, guardian ad-litem, health department, highway department, juvenile probation, maintenance, prosecutor’s office, recorder’s office, soil and water district, solid waste district and surveyor’s office.

The county courts and sheriff’s office will operate as normal. Further inquiries regarding office availability should be addressed to the respective offices.

Diaper drive — Indiana Diaper Bank has launched a virtual campaign and diaper drive called “#sharethelove” running through Jan. 2. The need for diapers and baby essentials for those in need has sky-rocketed since COVID-19 hit. The diaper drive aims to collect 150,000 diapers to provide to Indiana parents. Visit smile.amazon.com/hz/charitylist/ls/2Q189KEUTZLZI/ to donate. Learn more at facebook.com/ events/410909859899892/.

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Whitestown receives nearly $1 million Community Crossings Grant news@currentzionsville.com Whitestown has received a Community Crossings Grant from the Indiana Dept. of Transportation for $999,423.

The funds will be used for repairCONSTRUCTION ing and paving C.R. 750 S. from Indianapolis Road to the town limit to the west and resurfacing Anson Boulevard from Albert S. White Drive to C.R. 450 S. The project is expected to be complete by fall of 2021.

The estimated cost of the projects is $1,332,564, according to town officials.

Whitestown plans to use grant funds for repairing and paving C.R. 750 S. from Indianapolis Road. to the town limit to the west.

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“The Town will contribute 25 percent of the cost and INDOT will contribute the remaining 75 percent,” Whitestown Director of Public Works Danny Powers stated. “Roads are a critical component of economic development and quality of life.

This grant has helped the town stretch its paving dollars.”

To qualify for funding, local governments must provide local matching funds and submit an INDOT-approved asset management plan for maintaining existing roads and bridges.

Whitestown is one of 241 Indiana cities, towns and counties to have received a combined $101 million in state matching funds for local road projects.

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Boone County access to testing supplies, ventilators strained

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Boone County Health Officer Dr. Herschell Servies said Witham Health Services had one available ventilator as PANDEMIC of Dec. 7 when he spoke to the county’s commissioners at their morning meeting.

Servies said the hospital had six patients on ventilators at the time he spoke. As with available ICU beds for COVID-19 patients, he said the number of available ventilators fluctuates daily, or even hourly. He said the hospital is trying to obtain more.

In addition, Servies said Witham can only conduct 700 COVID-19 tests a week under its testing agreement with Indiana University due to limited supplies. As a result, he said the hospital is prioritizing symptomatic patients for testing. The hospital also is requiring a doctor’s note at its testing site at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds.

“A couple weeks ago, we were doing close to 700 or 800 (tests) a week,” Servies

said during the meeting. “IU wanted to cut us down to 500 tests a week because everybody’s running out of testing (supplies).

We did get that changed to 700 a week.

That’s why we’ve remained at the position of trying to only test symptomatic people, trying to cut back a little bit, trying to save some of these testing (supplies). And it’s not just us, it’s across the country.”

The scarcity of resources reflects the toll the COVID-19 pandemic has exacted on the hospital. Health officials have said staff is stretched to cover for nurses and other staff members who have either needed to quarantine because they contracted COVID-19 or because they have been in close contact with someone who tested positive for the disease.

Servies said Witham has periodically been on diversion — sending ambulance patients to other facilities — for three weeks. Diversion has become widely practiced at Indiana hospitals as hospitalizations have increased and facilities struggle to care for more patients.

BCHD recommends longer quarantines than CDC

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com The Boone County Health Dept. has announced it will continue recommending 14-day quarantine periods PANDEMIC for residents who contract COVID-19, breaking from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest guidance that states 10- and seven-day quarantines may be advisable under specific conditions.

Two weeks ago, the CDC announced it would advise people who contracted COVID-19 to consider whether a 14-, 10- or seven-day quarantine was sufficient, reflecting a change from its original guidance of 14 days.

“The BCHD is going to follow the Indiana Department of Health’s recommendation to promote and recommend sticking with a 14day quarantine period over the new 10- and 7-day guidance issued by the CDC,” BCHD

Public Health Educator Claire Haughton stated in an email. “We will, however, support a 10-day quarantine period without testing.”

The CDC said a 14-day quarantine more efficiently minimizes the risk of spread compared to 10- and seven-day options. A 10-day quarantine without testing would apply in specific situations and would be beneficial in cases where testing isn’t readily available, Haughton said. The 10- and seven-day quarantines would require an infected person to not exhibit any symptoms during the duration of the quarantine.

“I don’t think we’re quite at that point where people in Boone County can’t get to testing, but I’m sure there are some communities out there that are having difficulties,” Haughton said. “Honestly, as far as timing goes, people may not be able to get tested and get results back in time to even end quarantine at seven days, anyway.”

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Lights on the Christmas tree Commentary by Ward Degler The Christmas tree is up. At least the lights are glowing, and the decorations are down from the attic. Before week’s end, the tree will be in full PLAIN TALK splendor.

This year’s tree is new.

Artificial, but looks like it just came in from the woods. The lights are already on it, and when we put the three pieces of it together, they lit up red, blue, green and yellow.

There’s even a switch that turns them all white and another that makes them twinkle.

When I was a kid, the Christmas tree was different. So were the lights.

We always cut a fresh tree from local woods and built a stand from wood. The lights were stored in the closet, and Dad always approached them like he would a live snake.

His first step was to carefully pull them out of the box and try to remember how he had rolled them up and put them away the previous year. He never could, of course, and they always wound up on the floor a hopeless snarl of wire.

It takes time and concentration to undo a knotted strand of Christmas lights, and even though the rest of us were champing at the bit to get the lights on the tree, we wisely left Dad alone to unsnarl the mess.

For the next step, we all crossed our fingers. Dad plugged the lights into an outlet.

If we were lucky, the lights would come on, and we’d all cheer. That seldom happened.

Usually, there was nothing. The lights stayed dark.

In those days, Christmas tree lights were wired in series. That meant if one bulb burned out, the entire strand went out. Then we had to wait patiently while Dad tried to figure out which of the lights had burned out. He removed each bulb one at a time and screwed in a new one. When the lights finally went on, we knew he’d found the one that had burned out. Then we cheered.

On a couple occasions, there were two bad bulbs. I don’t remember how Dad solved the problem. We usually just left the room and waited for him to announce that the lights were on and give us a short lecture on mathematical probabilities.

Once the lights were on the tree, we hung the ornaments pretty much like we do today. Tinsel back then was made of lead.

After Christmas, we would remove it from the tree, roll it into a ball and play catch with it. Happily, no one got lead poisoning.

It’s simpler today, of course, but the true meaning of Christmas still goes well beyond a tree and lights.

Ward Degler lives in Zionsville with his wife. He is the author of “The Dark Ages of My Youth ... and Times More Recent.”

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DISPATCHES Donut 5K race moves — The Donut 5K will relocate from Carmel to downtown Indianapolis for its 14th running. The event is set for 9 a.m. Dec. 19 in Military Park, 601 W. New York St. A post-race party will take place at Metazoa Brewing. A virtual race option is also available, with participants receiving a race hat, shirt and medal. Learn more at Donut5KRun.com.

Scholarships available — Midwest Academy has scholarship opportunities available for children in third through fifth grade.

The population MWA serves generally includes students diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, high-functioning autism, receptive and/ or expansive language or processing challenges resulting in school anxiety. A major change like remote learning can be extremely challenging for a student who has come to feel safe in their school environment. For more information about admissions at Mid-

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Legislative internships — Applications are open for paid internships with the Indiana State Democratic Caucus. Interns are assigned to assist legislators and staff as they expand their knowledge of the Indiana General Assembly and legislative process.

For more information and to learn how to apply, visit indianasenatedemocrats.org/ opportunities/internships.

Free math, science homework help — Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s free AskRose homework helpline is available to help middle and high school students get a head start on understanding their math and science homework problems through a simple phone call, email or chat session.

Connections can be made at 877-275-7673 or AskRose.org.

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SANTA STOPS BY ZIONSVILLE

Santa says hello to a young Zionsville resident. The Zionsville Chamber of Commerce reimagined Christmas in the Village this year, but Santa was still a prominent feature. To make sure children could still see him but do so safely, Santa’s house was blocked off to ensure social distancing.

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DISPATCHES BCHD seeks volunteers — The Boone County Health Dept. seeks volunteers to help administer COVID-19 vaccines to residents.

The department’s need for volunteers is expected to increase as more residents can be immunized in later phases of its vaccination plan. For more information about volunteering with the BCHD, call 765-482-3942.

NCL opens scholarship — The Crossroads Chapter of National Charity League is offering a $500 scholarship to a female high school senior in Boone or Hamilton counties who has shown consistent involvement in community service and leadership. Applicants will have until Feb. 15 to apply. The winner will be notified in March. NCL was formed to encourage mothers and daughters to build relationship and leadership skills, while serving together in their community. The scholarship allows the chapter to recognize others outside of NCL that hold the same values of community service, leadership and cultural experiences. To apply, visit nationalcharityleague.org/chapter/crossroads/.

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By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Some Boone County residents are likely to receive COVID-19 vaccinations soon, but federal, state and county health officials are coordinating a historic immunization effort that is still under way, leaving some questions unanswered.

“A lot of it is we won’t know until we get there,” Boone County Health Dept. Public Health Educator Claire Haughton said. “At this point, the state of Indiana isn’t sure how much vaccine we’re going to get, and how much vaccine we get is really going to affect quite a lot of different things.”

As the pandemic stretches into its ninth month, a trio of vaccines offer a glimmer of hope for an eventual end, though when that could happen is uncertain.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was expected to approve a vaccine last week produced by Pfizer Inc., in partnership with BioNTech. The vaccine received a favorable review from an independent panel advising the FDA on Dec. 8. Moderna, which produced another COVID-19 vaccine, announced it had also applied for emergency-use authorization for its vaccine, which was scheduled for Dec. 17. AstraZeneca, which also produced a vaccine, said it will seek emergency-use authorization from the FDA. Great Britain also has approved Pfizer’s vaccine and began vaccinating its residents on Dec. 8.

As vaccines are granted emergency-use authorization in the U.S., states will receive shipments, and each will be responsible for coordinating distribution to residents. Indiana health officials said the state’s health department would review the vaccine before allowing it to be given to Hoosiers.

If and when the state’s health department approves a vaccine, shipments will be sent to five sectors of the state by region: central, northwest, northeast, southeast and southwest. Boone County, which is in the same sector as Marion County, expects to receive shipments within a few days after approval.

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The Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds in Lebanon will be where the first Boone County residents will receive COVID-19 vaccinations. (Photo by Jarred Meeks)

When shipments arrive in Boone County, they will be stored at Witham Health Services. The hospital is equipped with the ultra-cool storage needed to store the Pfizer vaccine, according to county health officials. The hospital will head the effort to immunize front-line health care workers and residents and staff at long-term care facilities during Phase 1a of immunizations.

CVS and Walgreens pharmacies also will help with the vaccinations, Haughton said.

Witham will vaccinate eligible residents at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds during Phase 1a. After that, the county will prepare for Phase 1b, where critical infrastructure workforces are expected to be vaccinated.

A site for Phase 1b hasn’t been determined.

The general public will receive vaccinations during a later phase.

For the moment, it is unknown how many vaccines the state will receive. Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box said Indiana, like all states, would receive vaccines relative to its population. Other factors, like the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths will not be considered when distributing vaccines, she said.

BCHD Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Tom Ryan said the county is ready to receive vaccines and begin immunizing residents almost immediately. He estimated

Phase 1a to last into January, with Phase 1b starting in mid-February, at the earliest.

He said there is no way to project when exactly the general public will start to receive vaccines. However, he said the health department would need additional help vaccinating what is expected to be many more residents in Phase 1b and beyond.

County officials and the health department are exploring options, such as hiring parttime employees or recruiting volunteers. For more information about volunteering with the BCHD, call 765-482-3942.

Vaccines will be free for all county residents, Haughton said, thanks to federal action. Residents might be asked to provide health insurance information, but the vaccine will be free to those who don’t have insurance.

In addition to vaccinating Boone County residents, Witham has been tasked with vaccinating applicable groups in Montgomery and Clinton counties in Phase 1a. Boone County Health Officer Dr. Herschell Servies said those scheduled to receive the vaccine during the first phase would likely have to come to Witham due to the hospital’s already short staff.

“Honestly, we don’t have the staff to go there,” Servies said during a Dec. 7 county commissioners meeting.

Pfizer’s vaccine is administered in two shots 21 days apart in people 16 and older.

Moderna’s vaccine will be administered in two doses 28 days apart.

Pfizer’s vaccine’s possible side effects, according to reports, closely mirror those from other vaccines. Muscle soreness, a fever, chills, a headache, fatigue are all side effects reported after participants received COVID-19 vaccines, but symptoms mostly disappeared within 24 hours.

“I think a lot of folks have been concerned about side effects, and some side effects have been noted,” Haughton said. “But honestly, research that I’ve been seeing shows the vaccine is pretty well tolerated.”

Pfizer, based on projections in a late November press release, is expected to produce up to 50 million doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021.

Pfizer’s vaccine, according to clinical data, has an efficacy rate of 95 percent.

Moderna, in a press release, announced it expects to have 20 million doses available in the U.S. by the end of the year. The data analysis indicates a vaccine efficacy of 94.1 percent. The company expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses available globally in the first quarter of 2021, with 85 to 100 million available in the U.S.

HEALTH OFFICIALS: VACCINES ARE THE ONLY WAY Regardless of timing, Boone County Health Dept. Public Health Educator Claire Haughton said inoculating the nation’s population is the only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic.

Haughton said nations like Sweden, which initially aimed for herd immunity by not imposing strict lockdowns at the start of the pandemic, is not a viable option without suffering many “needless deaths.”

Herd immunity is achieved when roughly 70 percent of a population contracts a virus.

“We have already learned people can get COVID multiple times, so we need the vaccine in order to achieve herd immunity, and we need the majority of the population to receive that vaccine if we want to start seeing light at the end of the tunnel,” Haughton said.

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Commentary by Jim Serger There’s something wonderfully uniting about watching your neighbors decorate their homes for the holidays, because it’s not really for them, it’s for the community.

Those who walk or drive by often slow down and inch by to experience all the love and joy of the season. We decorate the front of our homes to bring joy to others.

The idea of piling into the car to drive through local neighborhoods is something I look forward to each year. This year feels extra special!

Displays range from the simple and elegant white icicle lights to the fantastical rotating light shows on the sides of houses, and to giant dangling ornaments hanging in trees to a motorized silly T-rex holding a present. They are truly lovely and allow us to see the heart of our community.

Christmas lights seem to hit the heart every single time we look at them. We remember past Christmases and think back to our childhood and reminisce about the big family gatherings we had.

Commentary by Terry Anker In 1989, Bob Saget (nee sitcom dad-extraordinaire Danny Tanner) delivered to ABC Television and “Full House” viewers a new concept based upon the successful series from Japanese television, “Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan.” And “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has been on the air ever since. Originally capitalizing on the home movie craze precipitated by the advent of more affordable, especially VHS, amateur recording technologies, it has come to prove that we are all, to some degree, voyeurs.

In advance of the first U.S. airing, producers advertised to encourage folks to send in home movies of family members in accidental (and occasionally staged) physical pratfalls.

Today, picture-taking has become a daily routine. We are photographed, videoed and scanned more times per day than most of us can imagine. Each stop for a cup of coffee is recorded.

Each walk into City Hall is preserved.

Each fill of fuel for the Oldsmobile gets us from several different angles. Some fear that our phones and computers are recording us.

So, if we all take the stage daily, what are we doing? MTV’s “Ridiculousness” curates clips to mock our haplessness.

Law enforcement posts photos and asks us to be on the lookout. At home, we see whose cat is digging up the flowers and what neighbor is cutting across our lawn. Cameras record when the kids come home and when they go.

But for all the footage, what good does it do? Are we better? In many ways, we are safer than ever, so why are we more anxious? In many ways, life is easier, so why are we more depressed? Can we humans live under constant surveillance like all-too-many Skinner’s rats? Maybe it is best not to know.

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

Crushing my holiday spirit Commentary by Danielle Wilson My December is off to a shaky start, friends. It’s not surprising given the current apocalypse, but still, can’t a HUMOR gal catch a break? Two of our annual FFXOs (Forced Family Xmas Outings) have been hijacked by, I can only assume, the masses of people finding themselves on social lockdown and in desperate need of distraction. But you’re messing with my holiday spirit!

The first Wilson event to bite the dust was the Winterlights at Newfields display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. We started going a few years back despite much complaint from our angsty teens, but once they realized we would buy them outrageously overpriced hot chocolates for appropriately uttered “oohs” and “ahhs,” they were completely onboard. Not in 2020! Unless we go at 4:30 p.m. before it’s even dark, or at 9:30 p.m., an hour after my bedtime, we are out of luck. They’re booked solid, like, forever.

The second FFXO to meet a quick demise

was the purchase of a live Christmas tree.

We have our secret go-to spot where the firs are ginormous and the price tags are tiny. They even deliver! But when our somewhat grumpy six-pack pulled up, just a few days post-Thanksgiving, there was not a tannenbaum in sight. I naively thought maybe we were too early, that their northern shipment had yet to arrive. But, alas, they’d been sold out for two days. Even the sad little Charlie Brown ones … gone. Bah, bleeping, humbug!

I know you’re looking for diversions so you won’t shiv your spouse come New Year’s, but could you please avoid my cherished FFXOs? This gal needs a break!

Peace out.

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

Jim Serger is a Carmel resident.

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Spacey solutions to storage problems Commentary by Dick Wolfsie I decided to clean out the storage closets in our basement. We have one filled with clothes, one chock-full of tools HUMOR and lawn equipment and one that I simply have no idea how to describe the contents because I just chuck stuff in there and never look inside.

Out of sight, out of my mind (so to speak).

I discovered in that storage area lots of magazines I had never read, including several issues of Storage Solutions. I glanced through one “Special Double Issue.”

Interesting that the editors couldn’t fit everything into one edition. On the cover was the tease, FIND SPACE YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU HAD. My guess is that at one time you knew you had it, but you put it somewhere and now you can’t find it. I know that makes no sense, but when I make myself laugh, that means it’s going in the column.

The back page was an ad for fifthroom. com. This company sells solutions for people who don’t want to install shelves, hooks and cabinets and instead just want to buy a prefab shed, gazebo or pool house and cram all their crapola into one place outside their

home. You can also purchase something called a pergola, but I had no idea what that was, and I didn’t want to make any room in my brain for more useless information.

When Mary Ellen saw me reading Storage Solutions, she asked if she could see it when I was finished. I told her I’d leave it rolled up and stuck in the wine rack.

That idea was not in the magazine. Proud to say, that one was all mine.

The editorial that month was titled, “Help, I Need More Space!” The month before that, it was, “Do You Need More Space?” And before that, “Space, I Think That’s What We All Need!” The pages are filled with colorful photographs of homes that don’t have much furniture, but instead have a lot of adjustable nooks and crannies. With every picture, the first thing you think of is not how

people have effectively used their limited space, but what possessed them to buy so much junk to begin with.

These are actual tips from the magazine.

You can thank me later for bringing them to your attention: • Store books on a shelf vertically so you can read the titles (I know, I know, how cool an idea is that?).

• Use large hooks for coats, backpacks and gym bags, but use smaller ones for keys and dog leashes (seriously, why didn’t I think of this?).

• Use empty jars to store paper clips and loose screws (was this magazine the best eight bucks I ever spent?).

When Mary Ellen saw me reading Storage Solutions, she asked if she could see it when I was finished. I told her I’d leave it rolled up and stuck in the wine rack. That idea was not in the magazine. Proud to say, that one was all mine.

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Source:BottomLineInc.com Cryptocurrency risks — Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson wants to remind Hoosiers to be cautious about such investments.

Common cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. Unlike traditional currency, these have no physical form and are not backed by tangible assets. They are not insured or controlled by any central authority and are subject to very little regulation. As a result, the potential for fraud is high. To learn more, visit IndianaMoneyWise.com.

Hiring a tax professional — In most states, including Indiana, tax preparers do not have to meet any licensing standards, so you need to do your homework if you plan to hire a professional to do your taxes.

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By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com The Boone County Health Dept. has reported another weekly record for COVID-19 cases.

PANDEMIC Last week, the BCHD reported 500 new cases.

No new deaths were reported. Some of the spread was linked to long-term care facilities. The department reported 14 new cases at Hoosier Village and 12 new cases at Zionsville Meadows. The week prior, the BCHD reported … (The rest of the graph is fine.)

BCHD Public Health Educator Claire Haughton said the increase likely reflects spread related to the Thanksgiving holiday.

“I think we are going to continue to see an increase in cases for those people who wind up getting sick toward the tail end of the two weeks after Thanksgiving,” Haughton said. “They’ll unfortunately spread it to others, and we’re worried about Christmas and Christmas shopping and things like that.”

Haughton said the county’s increase in positive COVID-19 cases also could be linked to an increase in testing. She said the county administered between 1,100 and 2,100 tests in October and between 2,400 and

3,600 in November. Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 5, 2,278 tests were administered to county residents.

Haughton said it is possible the increase in tests have contributed to preventing the county’s positivity rate from tipping past 15 percent. The county remains orange on the state’s color-coded coronavirus map. Orange reflects the second-highest level of community spread.

But Haughton warned the new coronavirus’ rate of spread in the community would likely increase the county’s positivity rate, which would make Boone County red on the state’s map and limit social gatherings to 25 people.

An additional concern is that college students returning home for winter break could widen the spread, exposing family and friends they haven’t typically interacted with while at school.

“Hate to say it, but I think we would probably see an increase related to that as well,” Haughton said. “It’s another opportunity for pathogens and germs to come back.

We have gotten a couple of calls from folks that said, ‘My child came back from college, and all of a sudden now people in the household are starting to feel sick.”

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By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com As a traveling art fair artist, Mark Grosser has felt the pain many have experienced since the coronavirus ONLINE pandemic struck.

“All the art fairs started canceling in March and there is a huge group of people out there unemployed, and it might be a long time before they find employment as art fair artists,” said Grosser, who owns M. Grosser Jewelry Design, 580 E. Carmel Dr., Suite 130, Carmel. “We came up with the idea of putting an art fair in people’s homes.”

Grosser, who has lived in Carmel for 25 years, got help from programmers Doug Lentz, a Fishers resident, and Carmel resident Jay Jackson to launch a selling platform featuring art fair artists.

“I came to them with the idea and it took us seven months to make the idea happen,” Grosser said. “I had decided in April that we needed to make something not just for myself but for all of our artist friends. Our goal with ArtFairNational.com is to bring art fair artists and patrons together for an online art festival. No masks required, just shop from the comfort of your home.”

The site launched Oct. 26 and 80 artists have joined so far. Grosser said 12 test artists signed up two weeks prior to launch to offer feedback.

In a normal year, Grosser works at art shows in Florida from November through April, then has several shows in the Midwest and on the East Coast. He then participates in events in Colorado from July to September.

Grosser said only a few places have allowed art events, and then only with strict social distancing policies and crowd restrictions The artists pay a monthly fee of $25 to be included on the platform.

“We don’t take any percentages. When you go Etsy, Shopify and some of those bigger sites, they all want a percentage

Civic Theatre “Elf The Musical,” a recorded showing of the 2019 performance of the Civic Theatre production from The Tarkington in Carmel with added features, will be streamed at select times through Dec. 26. For more, visit civictheatre.org.

‘Live at the Center’ The “Live at the Center” series presents Bashiri Asad in livestream from the Palladium at the Center for Performing Arts, Carmel, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 16. Free to register. For more, visit thecenterpresents.org.

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of your money,” Grosser said. “There is a need for a fine art platform that doesn’t let in production studios and imports. We do have a certification when they sign up so we can check up and make sure they are truly handmade American artists.

That’s the drive in our platform that it’s handmade art by Americans that are small businesses and don’t have 10 to 15 employees making art for them.”

Grosser said setting up a portfolio for the platform is simple.

“You pull your own URL off of it, just like it was your website,” Grosser said.

“We found that 50 percent of the traveling art fair artists didn’t even have websites before.”

The website has different art categories or can searched by an artist’s name.

“As we grow and get bigger, we will find need to organize and categorize this stuff to make it easier for users,” Grosser said.

Initially, getting word out about the site had been accomplished through artists’ social media platforms. Grosser said a marketing company from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., started a marketing campaign after Thanksgiving that will run through the end of this month to help attract customers to the site.

“I hope it grows and will eventually become an income for me, but I don’t see that happening for a while,” said Grosser, who noted that his wife, Paula Ritchey, a Carmel High School graduate, is part of the ArtFairNational.com company.

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Songbook Academy alumni reunite online for holiday special editorial@youarecurrent.com A coast-to-coast lineup of rising stars and top students in the performing arts will gather online this month for a virtual holiday show presented by Great American Songbook Foundation founder Michael Feinstein.

Featuring alumni from the decade-plus history of the annual Songbook Academy summer intensive, “Twelve Songs of the Season: A Virtual Holiday Special,” will stream online at 8 p.m. Dec. 19. The one-time webcast is free via YouTube, with registration available at TheSongbook.org/Holiday.

Along with fresh renditions of seasonal classics — “ I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Let It Snow” and “White Christmas,” among others — “Twelve Songs of the Season” will include historical anecdotes from Feinstein about the featured songs, as well as glimpses of rarely seen artifacts from the Songbook Archives at the Foundation’s home, the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

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BEEF & BOARDS “We plan to reopen in March,” owner Doug Stark said. “We are eager to get back to doing what we love – entertaining our audiences!”

Opening the theater’s 48th season will be the audience favorite, “Smoke on the Mountain.” One of the most popular shows at Beef & Boards, “Smoke on the Mountain” is the story of the Singing Sanders Family, who are invited to perform at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church by its new pastor, the Rev. Oglethorpe. Filled with energetic tunes, unforgettable stories and lovable characters, “Smoke on the Mountain” is a heartwarming reason to return to live theater.

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“It’s been a lot of fun to join the choir with Mom,” Will said.

The Zionsville residents will perform in the ISC’s annual “Festival of Carols,” which will celebrate 30 years with a special broadcast of the performance on MyINDY-TV 23 at 7 p.m. Dec. 21. The broadcast is in lieu of a live audience due to COVID-19 precautions.

“When Will was in high school, he really discovered of all the different musical things he tried that singing resonated, and it was a real joy,” Kathy said. “That delighted me because singing has been a lifelong joy for me, so to have Will discover that was really extra nice.”

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Kathy said ISC Artistic Director Eric Stark and staff also encouraged Will to join.

“He’s a tenor and they’re always looking for tenors,” said Kathy, an alto.

Will said the “Festival of Carols” features a fun set of songs.

At the annual ISC gala, there is a choosea-carol silent auction.

“I won and I chose ‘Welcome Christmas’ from ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas,’” Will said. “I’ve had an utter blast singing that.”

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pickle. Instead of “Ack!” in this situation, Cathy lays down a “%#@$!” or maybe even If I told you that a grawlix infestation a “$@&*!” Those are examples of grawlixis inevitable, you’d probably respond es (or grawlices.; both are correct plural with something to the effect of, “What forms of grawlix). the $#@! are you When you employ a grawlix into your GRAMMAR GUY talking about?” comic strip, text message or email, you’re I think I speak for replacing actual curse words with keyall of us when I say I’m ready to kick the board characters that convey the words flaming, heaping pile of garbage called without having to spell them out. It allows 2020 to the curb. the reader to fill It allows the reader to fill in the in the blank with Between a once-inblank with their own profanity- their own profana-century pandemic, murder hornets ity-laced Mad Libs laced Mad Libs interjection. and everything else interjection. in between, I’ve strung together quite the So, based on the one-after-another creative list of profane words when curscalamities that have bombarded us this ing 2020’s series of unfortunate events. year, I’m ready to declare 2020 “the year The polite way to express these words on of the grawlix” while we bid it good a page is through the graphical bleeping %@#&$ riddance. Here’s hoping 2021 of swear words called a “grawlix.” brings much happier happenings.

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History of Prague’s mortuary Commentary by Don Knebel The former Jewish quarter of Prague, Czech Republic, now known as Josefov in honor of Austrian Emperor TRAVEL Joseph II, who relaxed restrictions on the Jews in 1782, is one of the city’s most popular destinations.

One of Josefov’s most important buildings was once a mortuary.

Jews have lived in Prague since at least the 10th century. In A.D. 1215, a church council called by Pope Innocent III issued a series of decrees intended to minimize contact between Jews and Christians. The Prague government took these ideas a step further, requiring that all its Jewish residents relocate to a walled area between Old Town Square and the Vltava River. Beginning in the 16th century, Prague’s self-governing Jewish quarter, which had its own flag, attracted Jews expelled from other European countries and eventually included more Jews than anywhere else in the world. They buried their dead in a small cemetery, which eventually held more than 200,000 bodies, many buried 12-feet deep. A burial society (chevra kadisha) was responsible for assuring that bodies of

the dead were prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition.

Between 1906 and 1908, Prague’s Jewish burial society erected a Romanesque Revival ceremonial hall adjacent to the cemetery. A morgue in the basement held the bodies until they could be ritually purified on the first floor. The second floor included a meeting and banquet room for members of the society. After World War I, the building ceased being used for burial activities and became part of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Among the building’s most important items are 15, 18th-century Baroque-style paintings illustrating what was involved in preparing and burying the Jewish dead.

The ceremonial hall and nearby synagogues survived the Nazi efforts to exterminate the residents of Josefov because Hitler envisioned the area as the “Museum of the Extinct Race.”

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