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by Dann Veldkamp

5 The Gardening Nana: Water Wise and Plant Savvy

by Nancy Craig

6 Wamm! Greenwood’s Edge of Heaven

by Sonya Hallett

8 He Calls the Devil By Name

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by Ann Craig-Cinnamon

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 36097 Indianapolis, IN 46236-0097 Phone: (317) 823-5060 Fax: (317) 536-3030 The Center Grove Community Newsletter is published by Britt Interactive, LLC and written for and by local Center Grove area residents.

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August 2012 Vol. 1, No. 5

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Fair Trade Goods: Local Businesses Make Global Impact in our own Backyard

by Joyce Long

16 Business Spotlight: A New Day Counseling

by Sonya Hallett

19 London… Beyond the Olympics

by Ann Craig-Cinnamon

20 Making ¢ents: Paying for a Vacation in Cash

by Kate Rhoten

22 Word Search: Summer Daze

On the Cover: Top: Cambodian Homes Middle: Local Fair Trade Merchants Bottom: Fair Trade goods.

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We are “Celebrating the Hoosier Spirit” at the 2012 Indiana State Fair. As a showcase for youth, agriculture and education in an entertaining environment, 2012 will be a shining example of the pride we share each summer from the county fairs to our great Indiana State Fair. This year’s fair will be “action packed” with more to see and do around the grounds than ever before!

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Publisher’s Welcome

By Dann Veldkamp On the white board in our office is the statement “Center Grove people are doing great things.” This month’s cover story demonstrates just how true this is. A few months ago Center Grove resident Sally Kerchner talked with us about “fair trade.”

She and her husband Bill own the Tree of Life Christian Store.

What we found was an entire community of businesses in the area that are committed to helping women in the third-world make a living wage, improving their skills and their income.

We encourage you to support these local businesses and their mission to make a global impact.

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Its summer and that means WAMMfest. Regardless of the temperature, spending an afternoon in a park, sampling local wine, arts, music, and micro-brew beer is a great afternoon. Be sure to hold August 18 on your calendar and buy your tickets early to save a few dollars.

Many think exorcisms are a relic of the past or fodder for cheesy reality TV shows. No so. Center Grove’s own Father Vince Lampert is a trained exorcist for the Indianapolis Archdiocese.

While not everyone he encounters are truly possessed, he has commanded demons in the name of Christ. You can learn more about his work and his interesting personal life in “He Calls the Devil by Name.”

Of course, we also have an update from the Gardening Nana with some garden tips to help you manage through the drought.

In addition, Kate Rhoten, of 4 Walls Financial, explains how they were able to take a five-person European vacation without credit cards! She says you can do it too; it just takes planning.

We are very pleased with the positive feedback we have received on the magazine. If you have an idea for an article that you think would be of interest to the residents of Center Grove, please let us know. Who knows, it may end up on the cover! cg

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Water Wise and Plant Savvy We started our garden projects and containers with carefree watering. My great nephews, Max and Eli, used their squirt guns. Now we have to be more careful and learn to be wise in our watering. We also need to be more plant savvy in picking out drought-resistant plants for our projects.

We can still attract bees, butterflies, and birds because we have used mostly native plants in our projects and many of them are drought resistant. The book Indiana Max and Eli proudly show Gardener’s Guide, by Jo Ellen Meyers their huge elephants. These Sharp and Tom Tyler, is a great resource tropical plants are thriving to find plants. It has easy-to-read plant in the Indiana heat and characteristics codes from what wildlife humidity, but do need frequent watering. plants attract to sun and water needs.

The boys’ Jungle Garden containers are doing great, and the elephant ear plants are huge. These plants are tropical and love the hot, humid weather, but they do need water when the leaves get droopy. We are learning about using “gray” water, and we take the water from the dehumidifier for the plants in the containers and our Butterfly Window Box. The caterpillars have not arrived yet, so we have to keep watering the plants and waiting for the metamorphosis to happen and watch for the butterflies!

Our Sunflower Fort is also doing great except that the giant sunflowers have been slow taking off. The morning glories don’t have them to climb up as we planned, so the “fort” will not have a “roof.” Sunflowers love the sun, of course, and are droughtresistant plants so they should survive with a little water. The bees are busy and soon the birds will love the seed heads, the flowers are starting to bloom.

The boys are learning and getting a small taste of what their great grandpa (94 years old) did as an Indiana farmer who has seen many droughts and survived many weather, weed, and pest disasters! Since I’m a Purdue grad and former 4-H farm girl, I’m very familiar with the Cooperative Extension Service. (I took the Master Gardener courses at the Johnson County Extension office.) Purdue Extension has a good web site on the drought in Indiana: bit.ly/PBqMdu. Also, a good article to read is “In Times of Drought” by B. Rosie Lerner, Extension Consumer Horticulturist, Purdue University bit.ly/PBrDL3.

Last month, Ken and I visited our daughter, Ann, out in Fort Collins, Colorado, and my sister and brother-in-law in Colorado Springs when the devastating wildfires were happening. The beautiful mountain forests are gone, and it will take a long time for them to be green again. One method to replant is aerial revegetation or “seed bombs.” Our next project! cg Nancy’s love of flower gardening intensified while living in Holland and was perfected with Master Gardener courses.

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2012 WammFest Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Craig Park in Greenwood, Indiana Tickets: $10 in advance • $15 at the gate

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By Sonya Hallet “In Greenwood?! Cool.” That’s been a mantra for the past four years. Greenwood Sertoma is again rolling out the fun with WAMMfest, a festival showcasing local culture and talent.

WAMM will be held at Craig Park on August 18, promising wine, arts, music, and microbrews. Festivities include savoring

wines from world-class Indiana vineyards; browsing booths of unique artwork, photography, jewelry, and pottery; dancing along to the tunes of local music performers; sampling awardwinning beers and ales from breweries all across Indiana; and enjoying an icy treat or something hot off the grill.

Advance-sale tickets are now available for $10 each at any Heartland Community Bank, the Greenwood Public Library, the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, or all Ray Skillman locations. Tickets will be $15 at the door.

WAMMfest promises to bring a little edge of heaven to Greenwood. (Ok – my feeble attempt to revive a little of the 80’s and George Michael.) Best part is you can have loads of fun,

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keep Greenwood cool, and do good for the community.

The Sertoma Club of Greenwood developed WAMMfest as a charitable event. All net proceeds from this event are distributed back to the community to support our youth, individuals, and community organizations.

This festival is really the place to be in August. WAMMfest begins at 11:00 a.m. and goes until 8:00 p.m. Make sure you let your friends know and, of course, just tell them, “Wake me before you go…go.” Sorry. Had to. Enjoy!

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He Calls the

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“I don’t get all caught up in what I do because the focus is not on me, it’s all on the power and influence of God.” – FatherVince Lampert

By Ann Craig-Cinnamon

Here’s a movie quiz for you: If I said “split pea soup,” what’s the first thing that pops into your head? If you answered “The Exorcist,” then cue the Tubular Bells, the movie’s iconic theme!

The 1973 classic film remains one of the only horror movies ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and is considered a masterpiece. It is still one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, with an emphasis on the word “gross.”

People flocked to see it despite the fact that some moviegoers were said to have fainted in the theater because of the graphic scenes (including the split pea soup-spewing scene), and others fled the theater because it was too intense. It set the bar for horror movies, but was controversial for its portrayal of the demonic possession of a child. I personally didn’t see it until about 10 years or so ago and, even as a Catholic, I assumed that it was a Hollywood over-dramatization of a rite that is confined now to the archives of the Vatican.

I was wrong. Exorcisms are alive and well, and they are happening literally around the corner from where you live.

The exorcist for the entire Archdiocese of Indianapolis is Father Vince Lampert, the pastor of Saints Francis and Clare Catholic Church in Center Grove. Yes, the Exorcist lives in your neighborhood! If you’ve met or know Fr. Vince, you wouldn’t have a clue that such a mild-mannered, affable person had it in him to cast out demons, but apparently he does.

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Perhaps I’m assuming that exorcisms are theatrical and dramatic because of my Hollywood-induced expectation. But, in any event, you might be wondering how or why one chooses to be an exorcist.

In this case, it was a calling that chose him. One day in 2005, Fr. Vince was minding his own business walking through the Catholic Center in downtown Indianapolis when the Archbishop saw him and said, “I have a job for you.” That new job required spending weeks in Rome studying the rite and participating in some 40 actual exorcisms, the tales of which will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

Back then in 2005, Fr. Vince was only one of 12 exorcists in the entire U.S. Now there are 50. He says he spends half his time on his exorcism duty now, and he gets calls daily from all over the country – and even the world – with half of those calls coming from non-Catholics.

So, the question arises of why there seems to be more need for his services now. Is it indicative of the amount of evil in the world? To that Fr.Vince answers, “It’s not that there’s a greater sense of evil in the world today, I would say, it’s just that there

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need to be more folks to help people sort things out in their lives.

And I always tell people that I don’t feel like the devil has upped his game, so to speak, but that more people today perhaps will play his game because faith has become less relevant in people’s lives.”

“If one is truly possessed it doesn’t mean that somehow evil has taken up residence in them,” he says, “it just means that some kind of connection was made between this person and a demon, or demons. The rite of exorcism is meant to break that link and to then create or reestablish one’s relationship with God.”

When someone calls him for help, Fr. Vince says he first asks a series of questions to determine if that person has left open an entry point for evil to enter his life. You can do that in five different ways: with ties to the occult, through a curse, by dedication to the devil, through a life of hardened sin and, the most common way today, through broken relationships.

And now we get to the especially fascinating part. What is an

Have you ever used a Ouije board, even innocently, at a party? I hate to admit that I have. If so, you’ve left yourself open to evil, Fr. Vince says.

He always requires the victim to have an evaluation with a mental health professional, and then he confers with the professional on whether they found a medical cause or something that they can’t explain. Overall, the goal is to give the person the help he or she truly needs.

Fr. Vince says there are four different ways that people might experience what he calls the “extraordinary activity of the devil.” The first is infestation, which is related to a place or object. For instance, he gets lots of calls from people who say strange things are happening in their house. Next is oppression, which is physical attacks on the person by something evil.

Third is obsession, which is a mental attack. And last is actual possession, which he says is rare. Out of the hundreds of people that he has met with in his role as Exorcist, only a half dozen have been truly possessed and required a formal exorcism.

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exorcism really like? How do possessed people act during an exorcism? Is it really like in the movies?

a Bible, a crucifix, and holy water come in pretty handy.

The official liturgical rite was written in 1614 and was used until it was revised in 1999. So the Catholic Church has been performing this for hundreds of years. And, Fr. Vince says, it is a series of proscribed prayers and rituals in an official book that he keeps right there in his parish office.

During the exorcism, he commands the demon to depart. He describes the manifestations of the possessed during an exorcism as being animalistic in nature. They will growl and snarl and even foam at the mouth. Their eyes will roll back in their head, their jaw will go slack and they will yell and curse at him.

One subject during a Rome exorcism actually levitated off the chair. Scared yet? Other characteristics of individuals who are possessed are speaking in languages they don’t know, having super strength, and having knowledge of things they should not know. They also have an aversion to anything holy, which is why

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As far as how realistic Hollywood portrays an exorcism, Fr. Vince says they don’t happen in somebody’s house during a thunderstorm like in the movies. They must take place in a sacred place like a church. So, if you’re wondering if exorcisms have taken place in Center Grove, the answer is yes. He’s done them right there in his parish office.

Of course, the proof is in the pudding, as they say, and Fr. Vince says exorcisms do work. During the course of a rite, he will ask the demon to name itself and to give him a time that it will depart. He says the demons answer him and do eventually leave, although it may take a little time. He stays in touch with all the people on which he has performed exorcisms, and they are all doing well.

Fr. Vince is an interesting person in other ways, too. Not only has he presided over incredible growth of the Saints Francis and Clare parish and school, but he’s an avid traveler having visited more than 30 countries. He has a special interest in America’s National Parks and has visited about 200 of them. He dabbles in foreign languages and speaks Spanish, Russian, Italian and, of course, whatever language the possessed speak!

He professes having no fear during his work and takes his exorcist job in stride saying, “Ultimately God is the One acting here, and the exorcist is just nothing more than an instrument for God to do His work. That is why I don’t get all caught up in what I do because the focus is not on me, it’s all on the power and influence of God.” However you want to look at it and whatever you believe, it’s still fascinating and quite a conversation starter. Tubular Bells fade out. cg Ann Craig-Cinnamon is a 30 year Radio & TV Broadcast veteran. You may recall her as the host of popular radio morning shows in Indianapolis for many years. She and her husband, John are also business owners. Her lifelong love of world travel led them to start a travel franchise, CruiseOne, in Center Grove. Ann is a writer, travel speaker and author of an upcoming book about her time spent living in Iran.

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Local Businesses Make Global Impact in our own Backyard b y J o yce Long

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ith compassionate hearts, Center Grove-area business owners have become creative in investing their resources and establishing partnerships to help the poor develop the means to support themselves. The catalyst for this involves the Center for Global Impact (CGI), located in Fairview Place across from LA Fitness. According to CGI President Chris Alexander, “Starving people need more than one bag of rice. They need sustainability and training.”

Photo by Barry Rod Photograpy

Alexander’s experiences as an agricultural field missionary in Zambia and then later in the Ukraine cultivated his heart for those living in extreme poverty. “The poor that CGI works with are just one crisis away from making a bad decision. That decision can result in the sale of a child.”

While there are no easy answers to extreme poverty and human trafficking, fair trade, along with development and training, helps. Bill and Sally Kerchner, owners of Tree of Life Christian Store, share this passion. Sally’s recent trip to Kenya stirred her heart to provide a market for items like purses and jewelry that widows and orphans create.

Sally understands that when people purchase fair trade items, they double the impact of their money by helping the impoverished afford food, education, and shelter. She will be traveling to Cambodia later this year to see how she can further help.

Chris Alexander, founder and president of the Center for Global Impact (CGI).

Fair trade is a growing market-based movement to help producers in developing countries make money above

the poverty level so they can support their families. Non-government organizations (NGOs) like Center for Global Impact often come alongside to offer training, development, and a

Sally Kerchner with Fair Trade Display. Sally and her husband Bill are the owners of Tree of Life Christian Store in Greenwood.

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market to encourage fair trade. The goal is to help the extreme poor avoid being exploited by below-poverty-level wages and inhumane work hours. The ultimate goal with fair trade is to provide a better life for those struggling to survive.

Empowering the Poor Two years ago, local dentist and CGHS graduate Dr. Doug Harty encouraged his family and co-workers to purchase beehives for families in Kosova rather than to exchange Christmas presents.

“With the donated money, we were able to provide training and give four hives to a Muslim woman who lost her husband and four sons during the Balkan War of the 1990s as well as five hives to a man who was thrown out of his father’s house along with his wife and three children when they became Christians.

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How can you heLp? For more information on global Fair Trade initiatives, or to make a donation, contact the Center for Global Impact at www.mycgistory.com.

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Sophia’s Bridal, Tux & Prom Store 7015 US 31 South Indianapolis, IN 46227 www.sophiasbridalandtux.com

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Nicole Krajewski (designer) and Andraea Reed, owner of Sophia’s Bridal Tux & Prom.

Makaria Heng explains her job as a culinary labtech at Ivy Tech Community College.

These little gifts changed two families’ lives,” said Harty.

through sponsorships, these young women learn to sew formal dresses marketed through Reed’s store south of Southport Road on U.S. 31. “Bringing the Daughters prom gowns to Sophia’s helps us educate our customers on the global issue of trafficking and participate in their redemption,” said Reed.

Another sustainable enterprise, byTavi, was launched after Alexander led a trip to Cambodia in 2009 where the vision team met Tavi, an HIV-positive widow who had just lost her husband and daughter to AIDS. She lived in a simple house without electricity, void of running water. Tavi tried to care for her two remaining children even though the cost of food, transportation, school uniforms, and medicine extended well beyond what she earned.

CGI helped Tavi by providing professional seamstress training, which quickly grew into a microenterprise. Currently, 27 women are enrolled in the byTavi program (www.byTavi.com).

Their quilted items are marketed through local businesses and salons (Sage Salon Indy and TLC in Greenwood), trunk shows, conferences/retreats, and at the CGI office. According to Whitney Vance, byTavi’s marketing coordinator, sales in 2011 fully funded the program.

Preventing Human Trafficking “When there is not enough money to buy food, even a child can be considered an economic resource,” said Alexander. As an example, he cites a 15-year-old girl sold by her father to a brothel owner to pay off a $500 debt.“But more often children are trafficked as a way for families to afford food, medicine, and other basic necessities.”

After Andrea Reed, owner of Sophia’s Bridal, Tux & Prom, visited Cambodia during a CGI Vision Trip, she realized the impact her store could provide for young women at risk for trafficking. Soon CGIDaughters (www.cgidaughters.com) emerged. A two-year vocational program near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, it includes seamstress training and housing, food, transportation, care for parents, and a stipend. Supported

Training also involves developing businesses “in-country.”

Local chef and Ivy Tech Community College culinary instructor Paul Vida helped plan and then open the Culinary Training Center’s (CTC) restaurant, Green Mango Café & Bakery, in Battambang, Cambodia.

A year ago a partner NGO, Asian Hope, contacted CGI to help place one of their graduates into higher education. Through Vida’s influence, Makaria Heng currently studies and works in Ivy Tech’s culinary/hospitality program with the goal of managing the Green Mango Café in late 2013. Later this fall a cookbook will be available that features recipes from the café (www.acouplecooks.com).

Vida’s involvement simply began by asking his friend, Chris Alexander, a simple question: “What can I do to help the poor?”

After a vision trip to Cambodia and much prayer, the answer came quickly: “Use your gifts and resources.”

Fair trade begins with people like you and me who use what they’ve been given and then give back. cg Joyce Long, Greenwood Middle School language arts teacher from 1992-2000, has called Center Grove home for the past 25 years. Currently Joyce works as the communications coordinator for Center for Global Impact and is passionate about engaging people to empower the poor.

Photo Credits: Cambodian photos by Jocelyn Post. All other fair trade photos

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By Sonya Hallet Most of us have been touched somehow, at some point in our lives, with alcohol and drugs. All of us worry about our teens, and even pre-teens these days, falling prey to whatever the newest high is and still to the old standby of beer and those cheap Kool-Aid flavored alcohols. Remember Purple Passion or that orange Mad Dog 20/20. Still around? As parents we at least remember those days. So we fear for our children.

I’m writing this on a flight to Seattle. To prove the point, I elbow the guy next to me. He’s already given me a Delta coupon for one of those little wine bottles, so I ask him if he ever drank. In high school? He said, no. Lost my point.

Two seconds later, David with the beautiful blue eyes, graying temples, and a tan with the lines carved by RCI trips to Figi, Singapore, St. Martin, etc. told me he had a 3.86 GPA and was 6th in his class, a four-sport athlete, and an all-state QB. Then he went to college. “I discovered alcohol and I made up for lost time.”

He came home at the end of the semester with a .9 (that’s point nine). I didn’t realize that could be a grade. He said he learned he could buy notes, show up for class only on test day, and that there’s always a happy hour going on somewhere. He assured me though that he only drank on the days that ended in “y.”

His story ended well. After a couple more semesters of the same, he climbed atop a backhoe and started digging ditches. Great money at the time, he said. But he learned. He went back to college at night and graduated eleven years after high school. He was flying back home after landing a great job in Indy and he’d soon be traveling all over the world. A career that takes a college degree and a sober person.

But life didn’t turn out as well for an old friend of mine who passed this year. Actually, he wasn’t old. He’d just turned 45. He too discovered alcohol young. But unlike David, he stuck with it. He wanted to quit, badly, but he was an alcoholic. So was his dad, a product and pilot of a time when the cockpit was stocked full of liquor.

Tom had no support. His school wasn’t equipped to handle an alcoholic teen. Our courts failed him. I tried to help, but had no idea how. Tom could have had a 3.86 and 6th in his class. He was smart. But I’m not sure he even graduated high school. Behind a wheel drunk, convicted of attempted murder, he went to prison.

His life was ruined from the start and cut way too short.

We worry. I would have done anything I could have to help Anthony Morgan, a certified instructor at New Day Counseling and Education Services, uses the Prime for Life® motivational program to focus on the positives, saying “Everybody is good, but everyone makes bad choices at some point.”

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Tom. I just didn’t know how. David said he turned out quite well, but he acknowledged it was eleven wasted years.

The Prime for Life® program is designed to gently, but powerfully, challenge common beliefs and attitudes that directly contribute to high-risk alcohol and drug use.

The program is an investment in the family and community. If a kid spends a few hours in the program and changes his attitude about drugs and alcohol, Morgan asks isn’t it worth it?

Today, we do have tools. We do have support. Every Center Grove parent. Every school and every church should take note.

A New Day Counseling and Education Services, located on Smith Valley Road in the quirky new office complex near 135, offers a nationwide drug and alcohol prevention and education program.

The program, PRIME for Life®, is evidence-based for people of all ages. It is designed to gently, but powerfully, challenge common beliefs and attitudes that directly contribute to high-risk alcohol and drug use.

“PRIME for Life® is the choice of most drug and alcohol courts, the military, companies, and organizations nationwide, but few parents, schools or churches are familiar with it,” says Anthony Morgan, certified instructor.

“The program is a way to educate on the facts of drug and alcohol abuse, and the often tragic outcomes that making highrisk choices can have on our lives.”

PRIME for Life® was developed by Preventive Research Institute out of Lexington, Kentucky. Courts refer those arrested for drinking and driving. Several studies show that the program can cut recidivism rates in half.

“Research shows it works, but we want to focus on reaching adults and teens before they ever get to court,” says Morgan.

For more information on how you can bring the PRIME for Life® program to your group or if you’re a parent, guardian or even an individual in need, please contact Anthony Morgan at 317-884-5075 (office), or 317-3739850 (cell). You can also email Anthony at anewdayces@gmail. com. For more information, visit www.anewdayces.com. cg In addition, A New Day Counseling and Education Services is full service and offers PRIME Solutions® for some PRIME for Life® participants who are referred to after they have completed the PRIME for Life® program. PRIME Solutions® is for individuals who may have discovered that they need more support in making low-risk choices in regards to drugs and alcohol. PRIME Solutions® is therapy, not education, and offers ongoing help and support to individuals who are struggling with addiction. The PRIME Solutions® program at A New Day Counseling and Education Services, LLC is led by Judith McKinney, LMHC, LCAC. Judith has been assisting individuals, and their families, with addictions issues for more than fifteen years. For more information on PRIME Solutions®, please contact Judith at (317)884-5075 (office), or email at anewdayces@gmail.com.

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London … Beyond the Olympics

By Ann Craig-Cinnamon London, which is in the world spotlight because of the Olympics this month, is one of our favorite cities of the world to visit.

Not only is London a fun, vibrant city with lots to see and do but we find the history vastly interesting. Indeed, there’s no other country in the world whose history is more linked with our own. London, itself, has tons of iconic sites to see such as Big Ben, the Parliament building, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. A tour of the Tower of London is like taking a 1,000 year tour through time. It’s where kings and queens ruled for centuries, you can view the Crown Jewels and you can see where a few of Henry the VIII’s wives literally lost their heads.

For those more into glitz, check out Piccadilly which is like our own Times Square and where you’ll find the very first Hard Rock Café. Don’t forget to visit a pub and have a pint or two. A visit to London is not complete without a ride on the subway, called the Underground or simply “the Tube,” but be sure to “mind the gap,” as they say!

far away, is our all-time favorite castle, Warwick. It has been restored and looks like something straight out of a movie set in the English Middle Ages.

South from London is Windsor Castle which is still used by the queen, and Dover Castle which has the ruins of a 2,000 year old Roman lighthouse. Bath

and Brighton along the southeast coast are worth a visit too.

If you’ve never been outside the US, England is a great place to start. The natives are generally friendly and they do speak the same language … well, sort of. And, as the Brits say, it’s a jolly good time! cg

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Making ¢ents

By Kate Rhoten

Paying for a Vacation in Cash In just a couple weeks, the kids will be back in school. It’s hard to believe that we are wrapping up another season of barbecues, swimming, and vacations.

Ah, vacation. That little getaway that gives you time to recharge or seek adventure in a new land. Living debt free in our home and not having a credit card to even use as a deposit tool requires us to plan our vacations in advance. This can be challenging; but after nearly eight years of living on debit – not credit – cards, I have learned these have been the best vacations.

We plan our vacations out in advance and save cash. Separate checking and savings accounts without any fees or use requirements help us leave our everyday household account alone while saving and traveling. We typically plan a big trip (planes, car, hotel) somewhere every other year, and it has always been in the United States. The other year, we do

something more local that doesn’t require plane tickets. Our vacation this year was in the making for over a year and a half.

In late 2010, very good friends shared job news with us that would have them living in Europe instead of Ohio. We decided to start saving so we could vacation overseas at the halfway point of their work assignment in Switzerland. It took planning, budgeting, and coordinating on our part, but we were determined to visit them.

Don’t believe what you hear – that a credit card is necessary. It just takes a few more steps using debit cards, but with the same protection as a credit card. For example, when I was preparing to purchase international airline tickets, I had to call the customer service department of the bank to ask for a temporary increase in my daily spending limit. Traditionally, debit cards with the Visa or MasterCard logo will only allow $400-500 in purchases per day. Purchasing five tickets (my mother-in-law joined us on the trip) was not a small transaction.

The customer service department asked me about the amount and what merchant. Once the purchase is made, the increased limit falls off the card and everything is back to normal.

Smaller online transactions with companies located outside the U.S., like city travel passes or hotels, normally have to be attempted without bank assistance. If the transaction doesn’t go through, a call from Visa or MasterCard fraud should be received. Once your information gets verified, the transaction can be attempted again, usually without incident. It’s just a minor inconvenience, but it’s easy to make it work.

The Rhoten family in Florence, Italy. The Rhotens were able to take a long awaited credit-free European vacation by saving for over a year and a half.

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The Indianapolis South Radio-Control club is hosting its 27th annual benefit air show “Fly-In for Diabetes “ on Saturday, September the 15th, at their flying field just south of Greenwood, Indiana. The public is invited to visit Rike field (Worthsville Rd. and Griffith Rd.) to see a great Radio-Control model air show and help raise money that will go directly to the American Diabetes Association.

The air show begins at 10AM and continues until 5 PM. There is no admission charge.

Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs/blankets. Refreshments available.

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The only other challenge is that our bankcards don’t use the chip-and-pin technology that is preferred in most of Europe. Our swipe cards can still be used in most places; but in some places, they can’t. Accessing cash at ATMs is easy and in the currency of the country you are visiting. The key here would be notifying your bank when and where you will be traveling.

An additional step we took was requesting a second debit card for each of us in case something happened to one of our primary cards. This gave us peace of mind since we don’t have a credit card. As it turned out, we did need one of those cards. Fraud departments want to protect your account, so we were okay with the block of one card even though the charge they were concerned about was legitimate.

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As I look back on these vacations since being debt free, they all are great. But this last one to Italy, Germany, and Switzerland topped the cake. We were able enjoy our vacation and not have it follow us home in an envelope with a due date. cg Kate is a financial expert of what to do and not do with money as well as owner of 4 Walls Financial, A Coaching Focused Company. She has attended and completed Dave Ramsey’s Counselor Training. Follow Kate on Twitter 4WFCoach, reach out to her via email at kate@4wallsfinancial.com or visit www.4wallsfinancial.com. Feel free to share ideas or questions for future articles.

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