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The friendship started more than 20 years ago when Chico Mbanu and Bob Goodpaster met while working at a bar in West Lafayette when they were attending Purdue University. Bob (aka Crazy B) was the deejay, Chico was the bouncer. They got to talking and Bob invited Chico to play in an intramural basketball tournament. That’s when their bond really started to form.

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The friendship started more than 20 years ago when Chico Mbanu and Bob Goodpaster met while working at a bar in West Lafayette when they were attending Purdue University.

Bob (aka Crazy B) was the deejay, Chico was the bouncer. They got to talking and Bob invited Chico to play in an intramural basketball tournament.

That’s when their bond really started to form.

They were thick as thieves all through college — so tight, in fact, they promised each other that down the road, once they were married with families, they would open up a business together.

“We didn’t know what that would look like, exactly,” Chico says. “We just thought

it would be great to work together and have our kids grow up together.”

It was a grand idea, but we all know how life tends to mess with our plans. Both men moved forward with their lives. Bob, with a degree in hospitality and tourism management, worked various jobs, including mortgage broker. All the while, he continued to deejay for various events. His wife, Amy, works as a nurse, enabling them to tag-team with the children (Maddox,

9, and Xarreffa, 7) since Crazy B works some crazy hours. Bob also has two stepdaughters: Kaysea (22) and Sylvia (19).

Chico, who was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, to Nigerian immigrants, earned a chemical engineering degree from Purdue and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from Wayne State. Now a sales director for a biotech company, his first job offer following grad school moved him to Atlanta, Georgia. Bob was crestfallen.

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“I remember thinking, ‘This is the beginning of the end,’” says Bob, assuming that work and family commitments would move their college friendships to the back-burner. For a while, it did. Though the friends occasionally connected, their conversations became fewer and far between. Then one day in 2016, Chico, who was living in Michigan at the time, dropped a bombshell on his buddy.

“Things are changing with

work,” he said. “I think I may end up back in Indiana — in the Indy area.”

Bob hung up the phone and the wheels started spinning as he recalled their college pact. Several months later, Bob dropped his wife off at Brownsburg’s Avant Gard beauty salon on Main Street.

By the time he returned a few hours later to pick her up, a plan was set in motion.

Turns out, the connecting space next door was about to become vacant, and the salon staff had surveyed their customers, all of whom agreed that a coffee shop should go in there.

as well, including coffee from other places such as Duncan Donuts and Starbucks. They invited the public to rank the brews, scoring on a scale of 1-5 — from “too bold” to “perfect.”

“Somewhere between the beginning and end of Amy’s haircut, it had been decided that I was going to open a coffee shop,” says Bob, who pitched the idea to Chico.

“We tried 30 coffees that day.

We were jacked up.” Chico says with a laugh.

After doing some viability research, the friends decided to go for it. Chico, his wife Jennifer, and their three children Adriana (19), Adanna (12), and Akagha (10), moved back to Indiana.

While Best Friends Coffee & Bagels was still under construction, the owners hosted a blind coffee tasting with a bunch of their blends

After tallying up the scores, the first, second and thirdplace choices were all of their blends. Duncan Donuts came in fourth, and Starbucks ranked towards the bottom.

“Given that it was a blind testing, we are confident that our coffee is superior to the big dogs,” Chico says.

Guests certainly agree.

John Hockett, a loyal customer who comes to Best Friends three to five

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times a week for food, coffee and conversation, started visiting the shop even before it was officially open.

“I kept checking on construction because I was so eager for them to open,” Hockett says. “Chico refers to me as Customer Zero.”

Best Friends Coffee & Bagels opened its doors in July 2018.

Right out the gate, business was strong.

“The community has embraced us wholeheartedly,” Bob says. “We’ve gotten nothing but love.”

Rashad Cunningham, another devoted patron, likens the shop to the 80s television show “Cheers.”

“Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and that’s definitely

the case here,” Cunningham says. “It really is like an extended family. Plus, their drinks and food are fantastic.”

Either Chico or Bob are at the shop daily. Often they’re both there. They treat every customer with kindness and appreciation. In fact, not a day goes by when they don’t plop down at a table and chat with whoever is sitting there.

“It’s not a fake gimmick,” Bob says. “We’re social guys.”

“We’re a mom-n-pop shop,” Chico adds. “No corporate stuffy feel here.”

Because the guys are kneedeep in work these days, they have to be careful not to let

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“Sometimes we just need to grab a beer and laugh — no business talk allowed,” Bob says.

Reconnecting as friends reminds them of why they yearned to enter into business together in the first

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“He’s not afraid to call me out, put me in my place or help me see things from another perspective,” says Bob of his ride-or-die friend.

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when a tornado hit Bob’s house several years ago, Chico was the first one at Bob’s doorstep during clean-up efforts.

As for Chico, he says nobody knows him better than his college pal.

“If something’s bothering me, Bob can tell just by looking at me,” Chico says.

“I can see it on his forehead when something’s up,” Bob adds. “That’s my green light to sit down and invite him to let it all out.”

Like any true friendship, theirs has been tested. For example, last year they didn’t speak for several days when ego took a front seat in their relationship. Ultimately, they agreed to meet and talk things through.

“I went into that meeting thinking Chico owed me an apology, but once I listened to his side of things, I realized it was I who needed to apologize,” Bob says.

All in all, these friends are having the time of their lives as they make their lifelong dream a reality.

And their customers couldn’t be happier to witness it.

Hockett praises the staff, the coffee and the made-fromscratch “out-of-the-park awesome sandwiches.”

“Both Chico and Bob are good family men who always have the customer in mind,” Hockett says.

“There have been other coffee shops in Brownsburg, but nothing measures up to Best Friends Coffee & Bagels.”

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“Local parks are among the top three amenities that a family looks for when making a move to a new area,” says Meghan Stritar, Marketing and Events Manager for the Parks Foundation of Hendricks County.

“They gravitate toward outdoor events and recreational facilities. We are fortunate to have a rich supply of town, township and county parks here in Hendricks County.”

Building, maintaining and enhancing those spaces is a significant economic task for a community dedicated to providing

quality recreational opportunities. In 2009, Hendricks County Parks and Recreation recognized the need to create a fundraising partner to offset the increasing strain on the county budget. The Parks Foundation was formed that year with the goal of raising private and corporate funds to develop resources and programs for our Hendricks County Parks while at the same time preserving public green space.

“There are misconceptions about what a parks department actually needs, as opposed to merely wants,” Stritar says.

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wanted to add a water feature to their dog park. They did their own fundraiser to gather donations toward that project.”

The Parks Foundation is in a state of transition at present. Traditionally, the group has focused on four different outdoor venues: McCloud Nature Park, Sodalis Nature Park, the Vandalia Trail Park and the soon-to-be-constructed W.S. Gibbs Park. The Gibbs project is 140 acres in Washington Township that will include a nature playground, pavilion, restrooms, hiking trails and a bike playground. The nine-member board of the Foundation has just recently voted to upgrade their mission to include all Hendricks County Parks. Their goal is to bring their past successes to other local parks in Hendricks

County. Stritar shares that “we love the idea that we are going to work toward the goal of giving back to these community parks.

The individual departments do so much for so little.”

A popular event coming up before long is the “Summer Fun Run Series.” The Foundation is committed to increasing the recreation and fitness opportunities throughout Hendricks County, so this activity is a natural fit. This summer, the Foundation — along with multiple

partners in the various town park departments and townships — will provide a series of 12 free fun runs in different parks. Every Wednesday, from early June to late August, runners and walkers are invited to complete one of two pre-set courses of different lengths at the designated site. These are non-timed run and walk courses that can be enjoyed by the whole family. There will be a kick-off event at the county fairgrounds to set the pace for the upcoming season. At each run, park staff and volunteers will be present to assist

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participants and answer questions. The host parks will be clearly marked with both courses. It’s an opportunity to enjoy the local facilities and get to know the work of the Parks Foundation.

“We see it as a great way to connect with the community and share ways we can partner to enhance the parks for all to enjoy,” Stritar says. “About 6,000 people enjoy the fun runs each year. We want to meet the community in these beautiful spaces and share the mission of the

Foundation and our efforts to preserve our county parks.”

Of particular interest in 2019 is that the new White Lick Creek Trail will be the site of one of the fun runs.

Donations to the Foundation are always welcome. You can make arrangements for monthly donations or a one-time gift.

Many of the most committed supporters choose to become “Friends of the Parks Foundation of Hendricks County.”

These individuals are recognized on the Foundation website and invited to special events. An annual picnic for the “Friends” is held at McCloud Nature Park, and it provides a special opportunity for donors to enjoy McCloud’s six miles of hiking trails. Volunteers are always welcome, too.

Those who have a passion for history, the out-of-doors or working with children can find a variety of different volunteer opportunities waiting for them within the Parks Foundation. If you want to know more about the work of the organization or how you can donate or volunteer, visit them online at pfohc.org.

“The Foundation would like for the local park employees to continue to focus on what they do best, coordinate programs and events, maintain the parks and plan new parks for us all to enjoy,” Stritar adds.

“We hope to take just a little off of their plates by partnering to add new features that will keep the community coming together through our wonderful parks. We would love to see legacy gifts, whereby a loved one is memorialized with a gift of flowers or greenery to a favorite park or recreational space. We are grateful for any and all donations.

What drives me is the commitment of local park employees and what they do with the little they have. Their world is all about doing a lot with a little.”

Thanks to the mission of the Foundation, our local park system will get a boost of financial help to enhance their cultural, recreational and natural resources.

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“The heart of this group is to educate, advocate and to collaborate,” Cotten says.

“That’s how we improve the health of families in our county by whatever means necessary. And everyone has equal access.”

Chase Cotten, a Public Health Education Specialist at the Hendricks County Health Department and the Partnership’s coordinator, is passionate about informing the county that there are people and resources available to help everyone

In 2010, the Hendricks County Health Department invited members of the community to gather and discuss local health issues. A group of about 20 health care professionals met for the first time in what would become the Partnership. They conducted their first project, a community health assessment, to identify what the key issues were in the county. Since then, they MAY 2019

have developed seven local coalitions to tackle all aspects of public health, growing from 20 members to currently more than 250.

Improving the health of the community may sound vague, and many may not think their own issues qualify for seeking out resources from the Partnership. But there’s a wide range of help available for all types of health-related issues. Whether it’s simply finding a nutrition and exercise plan, dealing with an addicted loved one, having suicidal thoughts or needing some tools for Seasonal Affective Disorder, there is a community resource for many issues on the broad spectrum of public mental, physical and spiritual health.

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The makeup of the group is not only dynamic, but it’s local: all are Hendricks County members.

“We are community members and neighbors,” Cotten says. “That’s the heart and the spirit of the Partnership. I know sometimes there’s a weariness in getting out of our silos and building bridges,

but the moment you open yourself up to someone’s input, explosions happen.”

The range of members allows bridges to be built across disciplines. Doctors, nurses, mental health counselors, therapists, social workers, businesses leaders, teachers, first responders and various other community members take part not only to offer their own expertise but to contribute to the cause of public health as a whole.

Members serve on one of seven local coalitions: Accessing & Utilizing Healthcare, Mental Wellness, Substance Abuse, Tobacco Free Coalition and the Physical Activity and Nutrition Coalition. The newest coalitions starting in December are The Minority Health Coalition and the Interfaith Coalition.

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and professional development, the local coalitions themselves meet once a month, or every other month, to work on their own projects specifically dealing with their particular health issue.

Jenny Bates, the Wellness Director for Hendricks Regional Health and Vice Chair of the Partnership’s Advisory Board, has been with the Partnership since its inception. She also chairs the Substance Abuse Task Force’s “Projects Committee” and sits on the Mental Wellness Coalition.

“Our main goal is to improve the lives of those around us,” Bates says. “I got involved because this was the first time there was a unified and coordinated effort to invite anyone interested in improving public health from all angles, whether it’s private, nonprofit, or public. I loved the idea of bringing everyone to the table.”

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There are many different types of projects the Partnership works on throughout the year. For example, they help the Health Department spread the word about available training for lay responders and distributes Naloxone kits, as well as administers HIV/STD screenings and handles used sharps in attempts to deal with opioid overdoses.

Some projects don’t revolve around such heavy issues. The Physical Activity and Nutrition Coalition produced a map of food pantries, community gardens and farmer’s markets for the public, which is available on the Partnership’s resource guide. These are just a couple examples of the many ways the work groups work locally to tackle health issues and provide specific resources to the Hendricks County community dealing with those issues.

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lump formed in the same breast. This time she opted to have a double mastectomy.

“I’d been to so many appointments and had so much help with the LIVESTRONG program that when it was all over, I had this feeling of, ‘Now what do I do?’” Templin says.

Left weak from treatment, she needed to find a way to build herself up so that she could resume her life in the best and healthiest way possible. It wasn’t easy, however, especially when she felt drained physically, emotionally and financially.

“You spend a lot of money fighting cancer,” Templin says.

So when she heard that the Cancer Support Community (CSC) of Indianapolis was offering a free weekly Gentle Stretch Yoga for Cancer class, she considered it a godsend. Offered Monday evenings through Hendricks Regional Health (HRH), the class is for anyone impacted by cancer — those who are newly diagnosed, in treatment, gathering strength, a survivor or someone who supports another individual who is journeying through cancer.

The classes use gentle movements (usually seated on a chair) to assuage symptoms, balance energy, build bone density and stimulate the lymphatic system. Lori Coffey, who teaches the class, utilizes various breathing techniques, restorative postures and guided meditation to reduce stress, improve physical function, manage pain, improve sleep and support the immune system. Coffey remains mindful of the poses she asks the class to engage in to ensure that it’s always a positive, uplifting experience.

“It’s important to keep it basic because those who are going through the cancer process are already so overwhelmed that the last thing you want to do is present them with something that’s going to serve to overwhelm them some more,” Coffey says.

“Those in treatment will be more depleted than those who are done with treatment. Also oftentimes other health issues pop up, too, such as arthritis.”

When Coffey was training to become a yoga instructor, she participated in a research project that focused on cancer patients wherein she researched the population’s needs, wants and limitations, then led a yoga class designed just for them. Around that same time, one of her sisters was diagnosed with breast

cancer. Soon thereafter, another sister was hit with the same diagnosis. Being dealt a one-two family cancer punch only increased Coffey’s passion for helping this particular community.

“This has been something that’s been true to my heart for years,” says Coffey, who appreciates the connection she sees amongst her students, likening the class to a pseudo-support group.

“I remember when some of these gals first started coming to class, they were still wearing hats because their hair hadn’t started growing back following chemo,” Coffey says. “Witnessing that transformation from bald to peach fuzz to a full head of hair is so exciting.”

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turning, she uses some of the relaxation techniques Coffey teaches in class.

Templin began attending Coffey’s class two years ago and always looks forward to her one hour of bliss each week.

“It gave me a way to work on my health without costing me a cent. I’m so thankful for that,” says Templin, who admits that prior to taking the class she had been skeptical of the practice.

Nevertheless, she stepped outside of her comfort zone and has been transformed by the experience.

“I have another physical issue — a connective tissue disorder that causes me a lot of pain,” she says. “Yoga, with all the stretching and deep breathing exercises, helps me feel better.

Plus, I sleep better now.”

For instance, when her mind is spinning and she’s tossing and

“I focus on counting in my breath, holding it, then releasing it,” Templin says. “It slows my mind down and helps me fall asleep.”

When Gentle Stretch Yoga for Cancer was initially offered at HRH back in February 2016, it was a monthly class, but Griffaw petitioned to transform it into a weekly class because if someone had to miss a session, it was eight weeks between classes. Once the class became weekly, they saw a huge increase in attendance, and it has continued to grow steadily. Though the class started out with just one student, now typically between 8-12 people come on a weekly basis. And if one person is missing, the others ask, “Where is so-and-so?”

“They definitely look out for one another,” Coffey says. “It’s truly an inspiring group.”

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ometimes following your passion leads you right back home. Such was the case for Jim Snapp, a 1980 graduate of Brownsburg High School who returned in 2010 to accept the job as Superintendent of the Brownsburg School Corporation. Snapp, who has worked in the field of education for more than 34 years as teacher, principal, assistant principal and now superintendent, was thrilled to return to Brownsburg.

“I always said, ‘If I could ever go home, that would be great,’” says Snapp, who credits the phenomenal education he received to the career path he chose.

“I’m in education because of how the educators in Brownsburg supported me when I was a student,” says

Snapp, whose mom passed away when he was just 13. As he navigated his grief, teachers and coaches encircled him with care. One of those teachers was Jon Dunn, his social studies teacher and the school’s basketball coach.

“I was an awkward, gangly kid, but Coach Dunn recruited me to play,” Snapp says. “He knew that I needed the team more than the team needed me.”

Snapp also loved theatre, though he admits he wasn’t very good at it. That didn’t stop the drama teacher, Betty Randall, from casting him in the school play.

“She told me I could play the lead — Harvey, the invisible rabbit,” says Snapp with a chuckle.

By the time he was a senior in high school, Snapp had

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his mindset to become a principal. He worked as an assistant principal for three years and principal for 11 years before switching gears.

“Students can find their people here,” Snapp says.

“Sometimes you need to find your people in order to find your comfort zone.”

“The tipping point came when I was a principal and we needed an instructional assistant, which is a fairly economical position,” Snapp says. “I knew the district had enough money to get one and that doing so would have a tremendous impact on the students and teachers.”

When students graduate, they look back fondly on their time in Brownsburg. Vicki Murphy, Coordinator of Communications for Brownsburg Community School Corporation, notes that the district sends out a survey to alumni six months after they graduate to get a pulse on their feelings.

The request was denied, and a fire was lit beneath him to get into a position where he could remove roadblocks teachers face.

“Now when people tell me they need certain things for kids, I find a way to get them,” Snapp says. “As superintendent, my purpose is to help our teachers by reducing class sizes, providing instructional resources and making sure they have great facilities. This frees teachers up to focus on teaching and developing positive relationships with kids.”

Snapp is proud of Brownsburg’s stellar academic performance as students do well when it comes to graduation rates, academics honors diplomas, advanced placement class enrollment and ISTEP scores (ranking number one in the state for the past three years both in math and language arts).

Then there are the clubs, organizations and sports teams the district offers that help amplify the full schooling experience — band, choir, theatre, athletics, art, photography, robotics and the list goes on.

“What we find is that they miss more about high school than they anticipated,” Murphy says. “They recall that successful choir performance or that high-energy game.

Mostly, they remember the community they created within that group that can’t be duplicated outside of high school.”

That sense of community is part of the culture of the schools. One unique thing the district does for its high school students is called “teaming” where a group of adults is assigned to follow a certain number of students throughout their four years of high school (they do something similar in middle school). This group, which consists of an assistant principal, two guidance counselors, an academic coach and an administrative assistant, is designed to ensure that no student gets lost in the shuffle. They not only make sure their students are on track for graduation but they also help get them placed after high school in college, vocational work or the military. Most importantly, they act as the students’ biggest cheerleaders.

“This group of people keep track of their kids and

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check in with one another, saying, for instance, ‘Johnny looked tired when I saw him. Did you talk to him lately?’” Snapp says. “Having that group of adults know you and check in on you regularly makes a big school seem smaller.”

But make no mistake — Brownsburg High School is a big school. In fact, out of 460 high schools in the state, it’s the 13th largest.

“When I graduated from here in 1980, there were 1,200 students,” Snapp says. “Now there are 2,800.”

Due to the growth, through the years the building, originally erected in 1971, has undergone 13 additions.

“It’s like rings on a tree, renovation after renovation,” Murphy says.

Finally, it became clear that a major overhaul was necessary. Currently, the district is halfway through a massive 40-month expansion to the high school.

“While this renovation has been inconvenient for the students, they have been troopers,” Murphy says.

Estimated to be complete in the summer of 2020, it will feature an upgraded auditorium, cafeteria, science labs and more spacious hallways.

“Our hallways have been jam-packed. But the hallways and common spaces are all going to be large enough to accommodate 4,000 kids,” Snapp says. “We’ll never be pinched for space again.”

In addition to the high school construction project,

the district also opened Lincoln Elementary in the fall of 2018 — the first new school in a decade.

It’s reason to celebrate, which the Brownsburg community enjoys doing.

“It’s fun seeing parade lines four and five people deep for the Fourth of July,” Snapp says. “This is the kind of thing that makes our town unique when compared to other communities our size.”

The same is true of the homecoming parade, which Snapp loves attending. For starters, it’s during his favorite season when he spends hours outdoors engaged in projects on the nine-acre piece of land he owns with his wife Betsy, an elementary principal in Speedway. One project they did was renovate a barn on their property that was built in 1890. They’ve hosted several family events in that barn, including their daughter’s wedding. In addition, Snapp invites Brownsburg staff and spouses out for shuffleboard, ping pong, corn hole and darts.

“We grill out, go on a hayride and have a bonfire,” Snapp says. “It’s my wife’s and my way of showing staff how much we appreciate them. Plus, it builds camaraderie.”

Brownsburg employs 1,100 people, and Snapp works hard to know them all by name. He admits that the Brownsburg School Corporation holds high expectations for its staff.

“What I’ve found is people who like that challenge are drawn here and stay here, and those who don’t like to be pushed professionally opt out on their own,” Snapp says.

“Our results speak to that culture. Our people are all in.

They pour themselves into our kids. I don’t know that too many of our employees consider this a job because they love what they do so much.”

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“I don’t know how he did it, but he did,” Nicole says.

Born in the small village of Linden, Germany, in 1941, Rudy Hoellein had a difficult life during the upheaval that followed World War II. His family was left penniless due to communism, causing him to endure much emotional turmoil before escaping to southern Germany. At that time, Germany was rebuilding itself and every young man learned a trade. Rudy moved to stay with his uncle and at age 13 began his watch making apprenticeship.

By age 16, Rudy was working full-time. In 1961, he applied to immigrate to the United States. Because he had a skilled trade, he was sponsored by Bethlehem Lutheran Church and began his career at Rost Jewelers in Indianapolis where he stayed until 1987 when he and his wife, Jutta, opened their own store, Rudy’s Watch & Jewelry Repair, in Lafayette Square.

“The way he learned was by mastering one skill at a time,” says his daughter Nicole Hoellein. “For instance, he would file for hours every day for weeks at a time until he learned to file straight. Then he would be taught the next skill like hammering and it was the same thing. Each skill set he learned to perfection before moving on to the next thing.”

For his final exam, he was given a block of steel and told to fashion a watch out of it.

Horology (the art and science of measuring time) is crucial to function in society. Beyond that, though, watches themselves commemorate life’s milestones.

“I’ve never had a person walk into our store and say, ‘Boy, I remember the first cell phone my parents gave me,” Nicole says.

“But I regularly have people in their 70s and 80s who tear up as they tell me they still have the Bulova watch they got for their high school graduation or the Elgin watch given to them by their grandfather when they turned 16.”

These days Rudy’s daughters, Nicole and Monique Baez, co-own and run the shop with a team of seven sales associates, jewelers and watchmakers. Monique, who apprenticed under her father, carries on the family tradition of watch repair, focusing primarily on Quartz watches and does a lot of shortening or lengthening necklaces, bracelets and watches and sizing up or down rings so that they are functional for the customer. She also gets a great deal of satisfaction from restoring jewelry that’s been given hard wear.

“The look on a person’s face when I’ve restored their precious piece of jewelry is the best,” Nicole says. “I remember this one woman who brought in her husband’s wedding band, all scuffed and dull. I made it look brand new and when she saw it, she burst into tears.”

Nicole also loves to redesign jewelry — particularly generational pieces.

“Sometimes I have a customer who comes in with a diamond from their grandma, a bracelet from their mom and an earring

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from their aunt, and they ask me to put it all together into one new piece of jewelry,” says Nicole, who calls every jeweler a cross between an engineer and an artist.

And then there’s the elite artists like Rudy (now 77), who still does the high-end watch work for the shop, tackling the complicated repairs. For instance, a customer with a Patek Philippe pocket watch from the late 1700s sent the watch to the service center in Switzerland because it had a missing stem. It

was estimated at $5K-$10K to fix so the man asked Rudy if he could help.

“My dad had never seen this exact winding set-up in a stem and crown. It had a hole there and a part that needed to go in it so he had to imagine what that part was like and how it would function,” Nicole says.

Rudy joined forces with a “Patek Philippe” expert located in another state to ask him to fashion the stem. Rudy then assembled it, charging the customer a fraction of the cost of the original quote.

Rudy’s Watch & Jewelry Repair relocated to Brownsburg in the summer of 2015, partly because the owners loved the community but also because they wanted to remain close to their customer base since many of their clients had moved to Brownsburg. The shop had a long history of doing business on the west side of Indy, and, through the years, the family has established close relationships with customers.

“They are more than a business relationship to us,” Nicole says.

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the highlights of life.”

They also share the difficult transitions. One Saturday a flustered woman rushed into the shop just before closing. She explained how her mother-in-law, who was in hospice, was beside herself that her watch battery was dead. Monique stayed late and replaced the battery. A week later, the woman returned to the store with tears in her eyes.

“I want to thank you for what you did for my mother-in-law,” the woman said. “She was so agitated not being able to wear her watch, but when I took it back to her fixed, she put it on her wrist and a peace immediately settled over her. Hours later, she passed away.”

According to Nicole, when Bulova came out with the first quartz movement, everyone thought that automatic and mechanical watch sales were going to plummet. People worried again when pagers were invented. And again in the advent of cell phones. In all instances, the watch persevered.

“Watches are fashion. They represent personal style. Plus, they’re functional,” says Nicole, who has not seen a decrease in watchwearing. In fact, quite the opposite.

With the Internet, watches are so easy and cheap for people to order that she sees more of them than ever before. It’s part of the reason she encourages young people to learn the trade of watchmaking.

“Craftsmanship is slowly dying out, but you can earn a very good living in these careers if you like to work with your hands,” Nicole says.

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Racing for Time Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, racetracks used manual stopwatches to time laps. Since Rudy’s Watch & Jewelry Repair was located in close proximity to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, drivers and pit crew often sought Rudy’s help when a stopwatch went bad. Many IndyCar teams are located in Brownsburg, so racers still come to Rudy’s when watches go wonky.

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