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FIRST IN LINE Health care workers receive first COVID-19 vaccines / P9

Indiana officials welcome federal COVID assistance / P3

Former ZCS substitute teacher charged with child seduction / P8

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“Obviously, Indiana went into this pandemic in a strong position, sure footing beneath us, but some unprecedented things Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb lauded a federwashed upon our shores just as they have al COVID-19 stimulus package that awaited with Hoosier families,” Holcomb said during President Donald the virtual briefing. “And what was PANDEMIC Trump’s signature, passed is going to tremendously as of press time. help us get through this, and then Congress approved a $900 billion in turn accelerate away from this stimulus package Dec. 20. The bill is pandemic.” crafted to provide qualified recipiVaccine update ents with $600 stimulus checks and Indiana health officials said they unemployed Americans with weekly expected for more than 40,000 Holcomb $300 payments. U.S. Treasury Secfront-line health care workers in the retary Steven Mnuchin said individual paystate to have received their first doses of ments could begin as soon as this week.

Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine by The nearly 6,000-page bill is the result the end of Dec. 23. of months of partisan debate and comproPhase 1a of the state’s plan calls for mises in Washington, D.C., Sen. Todd Young front-line health care workers and residents (R-Ind.) said during a Dec. 22 virtual press and staff of long-term care facilities to be briefing. vaccinated first. The next groups to be vac“In terms of the household ($600) paycinated will be other health care workers ment, the number was just the right numand essential workers, according to the ber in order to get a bill passed,” Young CDC. said. “Hoosiers sent me to Washington in State officials expect another 50,000 order to get an outcome, and outcome often health care workers to receive first doses of involves principled compromise, and Hooa COVID-19 vaccine by Jan. 4, including 8,800 siers couldn’t wait any longer. that were scheduled to receive a vaccine “This should have passed months ago, Dec. 22. and it’s unfortunate that it did not and that On Dec. 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Adthe gears of Washington took so long to ministration authorized emergency use of finally get moving and come together.” a COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna, At the federal level, the package includes an American biotechnology company. Ship$325 billion for small business relief, includments of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna ing $284 billion for the Paycheck Protection vaccines will continue to be sent to Indiana.

Program second-draw loans. It also includes State health officials said Indiana received $25 billion for rental assistance and a oneapproximately 55,000 doses of the Pfizer/Bimonth extension of the Centers for Disease oNTech COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 18 and another Control and Prevention’s eviction moratori39,000 Dec. 22. The vaccine requires two um, and $82 billion for education, including doses administered at least 21 days apart. $54.3 billion for K-12 schools, and $22.7 Indiana has more than 400,000 health care billion for higher education. Another $10 bilworkers, most of whom are expected to lion is allotted for child care, $29 billion for request being vaccinated. vaccine development and distribution and “In just a week’s time, we have received $22 billion for COVID-19 testing and related not one, but two vaccines to help protect state-level efforts.

Hoosiers from this disease,” Indiana Chief

Medical Officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver said during the briefing. “It truly is the hope that we all need.”

Weaver said results from a recent survey, completed in conjunction with the Indianapolis Colts, indicated 57 percent of Indiana residents said they would get the vaccine, while 34 percent said they weren’t sure.

Health officials, however, said they would attempt to reassure those who are unsure about getting vaccinated by launching campaigns in the new year about the vaccines’ efficacy and the clinical data indicating they are safe.

Data collection error On Dec. 22, state health officials acknowledged a previously undetected reporting error.

Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box said an error in a computer algorithm used to determine weekly positivity rates was discovered and that fixing the error Box would change the state’s cumulative positivity rate and individual counties’ positivity rates.

The state initially tracked a seven-day positivity rate by averaging daily positivity rates during a reporting week, but Box said the formula failed to account for variances in the number of tests conducted each day. The state will now calculate seven-day positivity rates by assessing the number of positive tests compared to the number of total tests conducted.

Box said the change, which would affect data dating back to the start of the pandemic, would likely increase the state’s cumulative positivity rate. The change would have a less certain affect on individual counties, possibly lowering some rates while raising others and leaving some relatively unchanged.

“In just a week’s time, we have received not one, but two vaccines to help protect Hoosiers from this disease. It truly is the hope that we all need.”

– Indiana Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver

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Never underestimate a squirrel Commentary by Ward Degler Most mornings, I can look into the front yard and see three squirrels foraging under the bird feeder. Their names are Cheeky, Chunky and Cherky.

PLAIN TALK Cheeky is one of those in-your-face characters that neither fears nor respects humans.

If I walk out the front door, he will simply stand on his hinds and yell at me.

Chunky is the polar opposite from Cheeky. He doesn’t bother standing, yelling or even noticing I’m there. All he does is eat, and his girth testifies to it. He is fat.

Cherky is the elder statesman of the troupe. When I approach, he runs a short distance away, stands on his hinds and lets loose with the only word he knows by heart: “Cherk!”

When I first installed the bird feeder, all three squirrels found it easy to shinny up the pole and suck seed from the feeder.

I found myself refilling the feeders daily.

Someone said if I greased the pole, they wouldn’t be able to climb. They were wrong.

Squirrels apparently work on the theory that if you get a good enough running start, you can scale just about anything, including an oily pole.

I finally bought one of those metal cones that attaches to the pole. Problem solved.

Or so I thought. While I was watching the birds chowing down one morning, Cherky showed up, cast a calculating eye at the cone and leapt to the pole just above it.

Dinner time! Never underestimate a squirrel.

The solution, of course, was to raise the cone higher. I really thought this solved the problem. But the other morning, I was dumbfounded to see Cheeky hanging upside down over the feeder and gobbling up birdseed. Never underestimate a squirrel.

Mostly, these guys get plenty of food from the ground under the feeders. No creature on earth is a messier eater than a bird.

Finches are the worst, I think. Chickadees seem to be the tidiest.

Over time, the squirrels have gotten used to me. They do their thing, and I do mine. We’ve settled into a comfortable truce, and nothing seems to faze them. Except for Chippy.

Chippy is our resident chipmunk, and one morning he showed up under the feeder at the same time Cheeky, Chunky and Cherky arrived. When the squirrels saw the chipmunk, they froze. For several minutes, they watched transfixed as Chippy stuffed his cheeks with cast-off birdseed. Then one of them moved. Startled, Chippy issued an ear-piercing whistle and sent all three squirrels scrambling for safety in the trees.

They didn’t come down for an hour. Like I said, never underestimate a squirrel.

Or a chipmunk.

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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ZCS officials released the following stateThe Boone County Sheriff’s Office Dec. 18 an- ment after Martin’s arrest: nounced the arrest of a former Zionsville Com“On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, our high munity Schools substischool administrative team received ARREST tute teacher on charges a report alleging that a former ZCHS of child seduction. substitute teacher engaged in sexual In early November, the Boone relations with a ZCHS student at the County Sheriff’s Office received instudent’s home the prior weekend. formation about an alleged child seZCHS leaders contacted the family of duction case when ZCS reported to the student, the Department of Child the Indiana Dept. of Child Services Services, and both Zionsville Police Martin that Shawn Martin II, 26, allegedly and the Boone County Sheriff’s Office engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct (BCSO). The substitute teacher was immediwith a juvenile ZCS female student. ately blocked from ZCS. According to a press release and infor “That ZCHS reporting became entirely mation from ZCS officials, the incident took a police matter, and ZCS officials have place off school property and involved “sexcooperated fully with BCSO detectives’ inual relations.” vestigation across the weeks that followed.

Martin turned himself in Dec. 10, accordAny inquiries about this matter should be ing to the BCSO, and was arrested and directed to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office booked into the Boone County Jail the same or the Boone County Prosecutor. day on a Boone County felony warrant for “Substitute teachers are required by law (IC two counts of child seduction, a Level 5 fel20-26-5-10), and by ZCS policy, to undergo an ony. He was released later the same day on extended criminal history background check.”

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Health care workers receive first COVID-19 vaccines

By Jarred Meeks jarred@youarecurrent.com Witham Health Services administered the first COVID-19 vaccines in Boone County Dec. 18, marking what health officials hope is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. But they caution that the winter months are likely to tax hospitals and residents with new patients.

Witham is among the more than 50 sites across the state charged with administering the first COVID-19 vaccines. During the first phase of the state’s vaccination plan, which relies on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, frontline health care workers and residents and staff at long-term care facilities will be the first to receive immunizations.

Shipments of the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech arrived Dec. 17, and front-line health care workers at the hospital were the first to be vaccinated, Witham officials said.

Boone County Health Dept. officials were unsure how many doses the county would receive from Pfizer or Moderna, whose vaccine was authorized Dec. 18 for emergency use for people 18 and older. State health officials said shipments of both vaccines are expected this week.

“We are excited to get it, really,” said Witham Health Services Director of Infection Control Gene Davis, who was one of the first health care workers to be vaccinated.

“The number of people a month ago when we first began to talk that this was going to roll out, there were a lot of people who were skeptical about it, and a lot of people were not really sure they wanted to (receive it). Over the last week, now that we’re here and people have begun to see the studies, there is quite a bit of interest, and people are swinging to the point that they really want this vaccination.

“We have something we can finally do to not just get rid of the symptoms but truly prevent this virus from spreading.”

For many at Witham, the vaccines are

Witham Health Services Director of Infection Control Gene Davis receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Witham Registered Nurse Ruth Page Dec. 18. (Submitted photos)

a sign of hope for an end to the pandemic that has exhausted health care workers for nine consecutive months. But Witham officials expect the winter months to still challenge hospitals.

“Nine months has felt like an eternity,” Davis said. “It’s something that none of us have lived through. We have never had a frame of reference of what to expect next.

Every day it is beginning to wear on health care professionals. To finally have a vaccination, something that may actually give us some light at the end of the tunnel, is extremely welcomed.

“We are probably not going to see the effects of the vaccine until spring of this year, so the effects of the holiday (means) health care systems will probably be more taxed

THE PLAN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national vaccination plan, through its first phase, is to balance the simultaneous goals of preventing morbidity and mortality while preserving societal necessities. To accomplish the objectives, Phase 1a calls for vaccines for front-line health care workers and long-term care facility residents and staff.

Phase 1b is scheduled to begin Jan. 11 in Boone County, health department officials said, during which people 75 and older and front-line essential workers will be vaccinated.

In Phase 1c, people 65 to 74 and people 16 to 64 with comorbidities will be vaccinated, along with other essential workers.

A start date hasn’t been determined for Phase 1c in Boone County.

The general public will receive vaccines in later phases, and health officials said an online portal would be created to register those who want to be vaccinated.

Vaccine recipients are required to stay for 15 minutes after immunization to monitor for allergic reactions.

“As we have been told, our allocation will be based on need and interest,” Boone County Health Dept. Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Tom Ryan said during the county commissioners Dec. 21 meeting. “So those who do sign up, the state will base their shipments of the vaccines to us to make sure there is no wasted vaccine.”

over the coming weeks. It may get darker before there’s more light.”

Witham is tasked with vaccinating applicable Phase 1a recipients from Clinton and Montgomery counties. Davis said Witham employees worked throughout the day to vaccinate a line of people who were scheduled to receive their first dose. People receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine must wait at least 21 days before receiving their second dose. Moderna recipients must wait at least 28 days between doses when those vaccines become available.

Dr. Chris Huffer, a pulmonologist at Witham who also was one of the first to receive Pfizer’s vaccine, said he was eager to get his first dose.

“There was a rush to sign up,” Huffer, who has primarily treated COVID-19 patients since April, said.

“You feel helpless,” Huffer said. “Basically, patients come in, and we care for them, but we can’t really cure it or fix it. They just have to get better, but some of them don’t.

So you feel awfully helpless in the face of it.

That’s why this vaccine has been so eagerly anticipated among the medical staff. This is what will finally turn things back to normalcy, I think.”

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Commentary by Terry Anker Here we sit at the precipice of another year as 2020 wanes. Some might say good riddance. Others, probably quietly, took great advantage of the previous months and are unhappy to let them pass. For the introverts, a little less water cooler talk is welcomed. For the extroverts, the daily performance art that is the protracted Zoom meeting is a joy.

There are those who love the time at home — day drinking is harder to pull off when “officially” on the job. Household chores are attended, and commuting is a thing of the past.

But also, there are those who suffered their partner’s “harmless” afternoon “just to make it through that last Zoom” beer that led to six more and a drunken night of abuse. Too many face being evicted because carry-out doesn’t replace the lost shifts and tip income. A few mourn the death of family or friends, from COVID-19 or from other causes, and will long regret that they were unable to hug one last time and say goodbye.

Regardless of the perspective, time marches on and this rotation of our planet around the sun is about to culminate for all. Yet even as 2020 spins off, its reality marches on. Dec. 31 is only a made-up day on a made up-calendar (the Romans fought over who were the namesakes for the longest and most coveted periods of the year). With each day bringing more light, are the darkest days now behind?

Can we feel empathy for those near us most suffering while still celebrating our own improved condition? Will we be amongst those who survive (and even flourish) during winter? If so, can we reconcile the disproportional effect of it? Or is it more likely that we don’t really care as long as we come out on top?

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

The (dead) beat goes on Commentary by Danielle Wilson Wouldn’t you know it, to close out 2020, I got sent to collections! How’s that for a fitting end to this awful year?

HUMOR Not surprisingly, the alleged incident involves a February ER run and mishandled insurance claims.

Admittedly, as the point person for this particular bill, I dropped the ball. I confused the physician statement with the hospital one, assuming they were the same, as they were both outrageously expensive and within $50 of each other. And because I was preoccupied with my dad dying from cancer and the intensifying COVID-19 pandemic, I pretty much ignored the perpetual flood of statements for most of the summer, thinking insurance would ultimately take care of it. If only it had been filed correctly!

When the first “pink slip” arrived in August, I immediately sought to remedy the situation. I spoke with insurance directly, set up a payment plan, and even signed up for auto draft so I wouldn’t forget to pay. But for

whatever reason, none of this was communicated to one of the health care providers, which obviously proceeded with collections.

The kicker is, we only discovered the debacle because the interest rate on yet another student loan I was co-signing (so our oldest could return to an exorbitantly priced in-state school, mind you) came back at 13 percent! Thirteen! My husband, Doo, applied and was offered 6 percent. What the what!

Now, I’ve been financially blackballed.

Fiscally shamed. Deemed unworthy of a respectable credit score. Seems about right, given the apocalypse. Thank goodness I only have to survive a few more days before I can legitimately say, “Farewell, 2020, you stupid awful year!”

Peace out.

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

Now, I’ve been financially blackballed.

Fiscally shamed. Deemed unworthy of a respectable credit score. Seems about right, given the apocalypse.

Editor, We are all excited about 2020 coming to an end, but let’s not forget the good and the lessons learned.

We confirmed that our political leaders can work together, albeit at the very last minute after bickering like adolescent monsters.

We learned that diversity and inclusion remain a chronic social issue, ignored by many and not given the correct cultural, religious, political and business entity prioritization.

We learned one person (could) almost destroy the social fabric of our country.

We learned (that) collectively, government and public and private sectors can rally to achieve an unimaginable feat in developing a vaccine for COVID-19, breaking all estimated time frames.

We learned the media has too much influence and is intentionally destroying our culture and respect for each other.

We learned that our first responders, doctors, nurses and all medical professionals should be Time Magazine’s Person/People of the Year.

We learned that Zoom is a communication lifesaver.

We learned that what we learned we need to remember in 2021.

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Something actually funny about 2020 According to the cover of the Dec. 14 edition of Time magazine, the year 2020 was “The Worst Year Ever.”

HUMOR Sad to say, there is a lot of truth in that for many of us, but I have sought for the last 50 weeks to find humor in a world that desperately needs some laughs. So, as I do every year at this time, here is a quick look back at a few of my most comment-generating columns of the past year. In this case, hindsight really is 2020. So, thanks to…

• My wife, who refused to characterize my daily exercise routine as running, or jogging, or even fast walking. I Googled the difference and showed Mary Ellen the mph rundown for each definition.

“Look up running in place,” she said.

• An article in Consumer Digest that warned we are all unknowingly eating too much plastic. Apparently, the average person eats the equivalent of a credit card each week. You can imagine how deadly it would be to swallow your entire Mastercard. You don’t want

to expire before the card does.

• Our local HOA that organized a cornhole tournament this summer. Mary Ellen was very concerned about COVID-19, so I had to constantly rub my hands with antibacterial gel. I also wasn’t allowed to eat off the pitch-in buffet table because, to quote my wife, “You’ve touched everyone’s equipment in the neighborhood.”

• The PlantSnap app claims that with a click of your smartphone camera it can name any plant you might want to identify. One night, I was messing with the app and accidentally snapped a photo of my toes. I was surprised to find that I do not have a foot at the end of my leg but rather a fine example of a pleurotus cystidiosus — or for those unschooled in the world of fungi, my toes are actually mushrooms.

• My wife (again), who apparently has major crushes on two men seen on TV. First, Idris Elba. The 6-foot-3 talented actor is a major hunk with a British accent. She also has a thing for Dr. Anthony Fauci. Standing 5-7, he’s a brilliant

immunologist and is articulate and measured. What do I have in common with either of these men? I was once 5-7.

• To my insurance company that gave me a gadget to insert in the car dashboard. It monitors my driving habits to demonstrate I am a safe driver and therefore less likely to have an accident. I had a perfect driving record.

Maybe that’s because I haven’t gone anywhere in 10 months, unless you count backing out of the driveway to get to the mailbox.

• Finally, to WISH-TV. The day I retired after 30 years, I said to my boss it seemed like just yesterday that I had no idea what camera to look into, and that I felt nervous and unprepared for my segment on the air.

“That was yesterday,” he said.

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Music and menu choices — It’s no secret that restaurants use colors, lighting and music to influence diner’s food choices.

Now a study suggests that theory may be fact. The study analyzed customers’ food choices during periods of loud, upbeat music and during periods of quiet music.

When the music was quiet, customers made healthier menu choices than when the

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HSE graduates Ahlwardt, Luginbill produce holiday album

By Mark Ambrogi mark@youarecurrent.com Ryan Ahlwardt and Mike Luginbill are making music together again.

The 1999 Hamilton SouthMUSIC eastern High School graduates released a holiday album, a five-song EP, “This Year,” under the duo’s name of Small Town City. It is their first album of original music together in 17 years.

The two met in junior high and became close friends while performing together in choir at HSE. The friends then went on to sing together at Indiana University for the a cappella group Straight No Chaser.

Ahlwardt said when Straight No Chaser’s video of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” from 1998 went viral on YouTube in 2007, Atlantic Records soon after offered the group a recording contract, “Mike and I joined SNC again and performed around the world together,” Ahlwardt said. “I was part of the professional group with Mike from 2008 to 2012. He remains a current member and recently sang on ‘The Today Show’ with the group.”

Ahlwardt lives in Fishers and Luginbill is based in Nashville, Tenn.

“Mike and I formed our songwriting duo Small Town City in 2003 during our senior year at IU,” he said. “We chose the name Small Town City in our early 20s from a lyric we liked in a James Taylor song, ‘Her Town Too,’ and recorded ‘Round In Circles,’ our first album of original songs, a handful of years before our adventure performing around the world with Straight No Chaser began.”

Ahlwardt said after several years of recording holiday and pop cover albums together with Straight No Chaser on Atlantic Records, two of which have each sold more than 1 million copies, they decided in 2019 that it was time to return to thir roots of writing original music together. “(The EP) was written and recorded virtually during the pandemic,” Ahlwardt said.

“We plan on writing a new full-length Small

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Town City album in 2021 and performing live shows together as soon as we can.”

The duo had two writing sessions in person in January in Nashville and March in Indianapolis before COVID-19 restrictions were implemented.

“The virtual writing process included sending home demos and voice notes on our phones to each other,” Ahlwardt said.

“We recorded our vocals individually from our home studios and sent the files to our producer, Matt Mellinger, who assembled all the parts from the musicians on each song. The pandemic not only inspired many of the lyrical themes on the album, but also forced us to get creative on how we were going to complete the recording process and release the album on time.”

Ahlwardt said Luginbill wrote four new original songs on ‘This Year,’ including the title track that features Brian Newman of Lady Gaga’s band on horns.

“Very Merry Christmas” is their favorite song, Ahlwardt said.

“It’s an upbeat, catchy song with a sound that is reminiscent of The Beatles and The Beach Boys,” Ahlwardt said. “Mike arranged and sang lead vocals on the fifth and final song on the album, a beautiful and modern cover of Joni Mitchell’s song ‘River’ from 1971.”

The EP is streaming on digital platforms, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon and is available on CD at RyanSongs.com. The duo can be found on social media at @ SmallTownCityMusic.

Latin jazz, Celtic rock, funky jams and more are on tap as the Center for the Performing Arts has announced MUSIC seven 2021 dates in its new livestream concert series featuring Indiana artists.

Free to view on YouTube, Facebook and the Center’s website, the “Live at the Center” series, sponsored by Allied Solutions, delivers a front-row perspective. More information on registration and viewing options are available at TheCenterPresents.org/LATC. Shows from January through March include sets from Jeff Kelly and the Graveyard Shift, 800 lb. Gorilla, Pavel & Direct Contact, Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery, Highland Reign, Huckleberry Funk and the Warrior Kings.

With more shows planned later in the spring, the initial 2021 dates for the livestreams include: Jeff Kelly and the Graveyard Shift, Americana, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7, from the Studio Theater; 800 lb. Gorilla, funk/jam, 8 p.m. Jan. 23, the Palladium; Pavel & Direct Contact, Latin jazz, 8 p.m. Feb. 6, Palladium; Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery, psychedelic rock, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, the Palladium; Highland Reign, Celtic rock, 7:30 p.m.

March 4, Studio Theater; Huckleberry Funk, funk, 7:30 p.m. March 16, the Palladium; and The Warrior Kings, rock, 7:30 p.m. March 24, The Tarkington.

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Other excellent items are the signature waffle dessert ($8), with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, a dollop of house-made whipped cream and Belgian chocolate. Another entrée option is the Fortville Burger ($15), with 8 oz. of locally sourced beef, bacon and American cheese. Taxman Brewing Company was a great place to discover and is now one of my favorites.

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Blueprint for Improvement: A dream kitchen at Geist Commentary by Larry Greene

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1. The rounded end of the island — while popular in the ’80s — was replaced with an island that provides more storage, workspace and seating.

2. The existing tiled floor was in good condition; the new components and finishes were chosen to complement the flooring, which helped keep costs down.

3. The window over the sink was enlarged; the trim color remained the same to blend with the other windows in the space.

4. The kitchen gained significant storage space in the form of a wall of cabinetry with pull-out shelves.

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Larry Greene is the owner of Case Design/ Remodeling; email him at lgreene@caseindy. com. Visit caseindy.com for more remodeling inspiration and advice.

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Every year, about 1 million people visit Petra, the ancient city in southern Jordan famous for elaborate facades TRAVEL carved in pink sandstone. A bonus is a Byzantine church featuring evocative mosaics on its floors.

In about 400 B.C., the Nabateans, a nomadic people, founded Petra at the center of trading routes crisscrossing the Middle East. By 200 B.C., the Nabateans had prospered through trade and used their wealth to make Petra an impressive capital. In 106 B.C., the Roman Empire annexed the area controlled by the Nabateans and made it part of the Arabian Province. By the third century A.D., Petra contained a few Christians. The number of Christians in Petra grew after Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in A.D. 313. In A.D. 450, Petra’s Christians erected a large church on a hill overlooking the colonnaded main street.

The church was destroyed by fire in the early seventh century and abandoned by the Muslims who then controlled the area.

The remains of the church were discov-

ered in 1990. Much of the church’s interior had been looted for other buildings, but two aisles, covered in mosaics on either side of the church, remained largely intact. The mosaics include personifications of the seasons, sensual depictions of human beings with lifelike faces and a variety of animals.

The apparent intent was to show the extent of God’s creative works. In 1993, 140 papyrus scrolls were discovered in a room near the church, carbonized in the fire that destroyed the church. The dated scrolls, written in an early form of Arabic, describe transactions involving important members of the church between 537 and 594. Archaeologists have discovered two other churches near the large church, suggesting that Christianity was a minority religion, relegated to a small section of town, and that not all of Petra’s Christians shared the same beliefs.

Don Knebel is a local resident who works for Barnes & Thornburg LLP. For the full column visit donknebel. com. You may contact him at editorial@youarecurrent.com.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CARMEL PLAN COMMISSION Docket Nos. PZ-2020-00198-00199 DP/ADLS and PZ-2020-00206-00208 ZW Notice is hereby given that the Carmel Plan Commission meeting on January 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, 2nd Flr., 1 Civic Sq., Carmel, Indiana 46032 will hold a Virtual Public Hearing upon a Development Plan, ADLS Approval, and Waivers of Development Standards application for two new retail buildings.

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NOW HIRING: OPERATIONS MANAGER

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

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

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

Requirements: The ideal candidate is professional, entrepreneurial minded, and able to lead and assist with all aspects of a project post sale until completion, and day to day warehouse, inventory, and field supervision.

APPLY AT Clevernest Inc. 240 W. Carmel Drive Carmel IN 46032 tom@clevernest.com; 317-688-8100; www.clevernest.com

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

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

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

Requirements: The ideal candidate is professional, entrepreneurial minded, and able to lead and assist with all aspects of an incoming project and day to day office functions.

Apply at Clevernest Inc. 240 W. Carmel Drive Carmel IN 46032 tom@clevernest.com; 317-688-8100; www.clevernest.com

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

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS FOR SKILLED CARPENTERS!

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

For immediate consideration, call Gary Simpson at 317.703.9575.

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