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Greenwood’s newest bakery features Amish baked goods “for those who want the best and know the difference.” Rise’n Roll Bakery opened in Greenwood Dec. 9. The bakery will carry pies, breads, cinnamon rolls, cookies, whoopie pies and doughnuts, including their signature cinnamon caramel doughnut and ice cream-filled doughnuts.

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17 Small Beginnings: The Garden

21 Grade A Business: Walker’s Eggs

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10 Marching On: GHS, CGHS Seniors Selected For U.S. Army AllAmerican Marching Band

13 Worth Fighting For: Marlin

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WEST GROVE ALUM FIND THE SPIRIT OF ‘76 It only took about four decades, but the West Grove Elementary 1976 Time Capsule was finally located with the help of longtime principal George Broyer and Center Grove Magazine Publisher Tom Britt.

CARLOS DIAZ ON FAME, FORTUNE AND FATHERHOOD For the past two decades, Carlos Diaz has worked in every aspect of media. The Greenwood High School alum shared what has made his journey unique.

CENTER GROVE DAD OF THE YEAR: MATTHEW LIMEBERRY The 2017 Center Grove Dad of the Year, Matthew Limeberry, is a Military Intelligence Officer within the Indiana Army National Guard and a father of four.

CENTER GROVE HIGH SCHOOL NAMES 2017 TOP 20 STUDENTS Center Grove High School named the Top 20 Students in the Class of 2017. The students were honored with a banquet in the Center Grove High School Hall of Excellence on May 4.

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GREENWOOD WELCOMES JACK’S DONUTS! Jack’s Donuts, started in New Castle in 1961 and has found a new home through a franchise in Greenwood.

PETSUITES PET RESORT & SPA PetSuites Pet Resort and Spa, the relaxing, luxurious, petfriendly boarding, daycare and grooming facility celebrated the opening of its new Greenwood facility in early 2017.

The Greenwood facility is similar to its other locations but overflowing with more luxuries than ever before.

A PIECE OF CAKE For nearly 30 years, Debbie VanVolkenburgh has been baking and delivering cakes. VanVolkenburgh started A Piece of Cake in 1988. The shop has been located in Greenwood for 14 years, becoming one of the more popular bakeries in the area.

SMALLCAKES PACKS BIG FLAVOR Aaron and Megan Evans’ Smallcakes Cupcakery in Greenwood is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. The popular bakery idea was dreamt up on during the couple’s honeymoon.

DROP THE MIC Andrew Butcher, hasn’t even graduated high school yet, but he is already making a name and career for himself on the local and national level. Butcher was recently a contestant on ABC’s show Boy Band, where singers compete to become part of a new fivemember boy band and get a recording contract with Hollywood Records.

CENTER GROVE SHOW CHOIRS NAMED GRAND CHAMPIONS The Center Grove show choirs swept the awards at the Shelbyville Singing Sensational at Shelbyville High School on March 11, with Sound System, The Debtones, and Surround Sound named Grand Champions. It marked another stellar year for the show choirs. atCenterGrove.com / JANUARY 2018 / CENTER GROVE MAGAZINE / 5

RISE’N ROLL BAKERY CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING IN GREENWOOD Writer / Michelle Kaufman Photographer / Amy Payne

Greenwood’s newest bakery features Amish baked goods “for those who want the best and know the difference.”

Rise’n Roll Bakery opened in Greenwood Dec. 9 by five business partners, including JC Price.

Price originally planned to open another chain in Greenwood, but visited Fort

Wayne’s Rise’n Roll, and a week after trying their products, talked about opening their franchise instead.

also be the first Rise’n Roll with a drive thru.

“It was a no-brainer for us - the quality and consistency - that’s what sold me,” Price says. “The product was so good, but it’s always good. We really trust the product, and we want everybody to try all of it.”

Rise’n Roll will carry pies, breads, cinnamon rolls, cookies, whoopie pies and doughnuts, including their signature cinnamon caramel doughnut and ice cream-filled doughnuts.

Samples of most of the products will be instore. Price is excited for customers to try the treats, including the Amish crunch.

Price says customers will be greeted with a smile and employees will engage them in conversation. The Greenwood location will

“It’s a very soft kind of peanut brittle. You can get it with pecans or nuts, but then they put chocolate on top of it. It’s incredible,” he

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Price owns other stores and built a business in Richmond, Indiana around what they could do for the community. He will bring that same philosophy to Greenwood. Price estimated he’s already visited 100 local businesses and met with schools, churches and hospitals to talk about fundraising and partnership opportunities.

“It’s hard to carry a box of doughnuts around and give them out without people smiling back at you, Price says. “If a community supports us, we’re supportive back. There’s a lot of things we’re trying to establish already. Obviously, with just now bringing the brand down, you don’t want to go in and commit to doing a lot of things.

You want to make sure people love the product.”

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Price is looking forward to introducing Greenwood to Rise’n Roll.

“I’m excited for people to have the same kind of first reaction that I had, to see the look on the faces of people that are going to look the same way that I did when I took a bite a year ago,” Price says.

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Mackenzie Hawley is a member of the Center Grove color guard.

MARCHING ON GHS, CGHS SENIORS SELECTED FOR U.S. ARMY ALL-AMERICAN MARCHING BAND the band perform during her job training.

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One Greenwood High School and two Center Grove High School seniors traveled to San Antonio, Texas Jan 1-7 to participate in the U.S. Army All-American Marching Band. Only 125 students from across the country were selected for the honor.

GHS senior Natalie Haynes is the first student in school history to be recognized with the honor. Her French horn teacher mentioned the program, but Haynes didn’t fully consider applying until her sister, Specialist Yelena Haynes, mentioned seeing

“Probably 4-6 weeks in, we got to go to the Army football game, she says. “During halftime, we got to watch the Army band, which was so awesome. After, I texted my dad and said, “Nat’s got to try this out, it’s so cool.”

Natalie found some videos of the band and was fascinated, so she applied and was chosen as one of eight mellophones.

Despite being involved in several orchestras and honor bands, Natalie didn’t think she’d make the Army band. When she found out she got in, she was ecstatic.

“It’s an honor,” Natalie says. “I am absolutely thrilled to represent Greenwood in this situation, and I cannot wait to see what it’s like. I think the thing I appreciate the most is when I’m performing something, and I get this feeling of contentment in what I’m doing. One thing I’ve found throughout these seven years of playing is I can’t seem to stop playing my instrument. It’s just what God built me for.”

Natalie will perform in the same stadium and on the same field that Yelena saw.

Yelena says the Army and Navy will be there watching her sister and the rest of the band

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perform.

“Just being in the marching band starting off, I knew what it felt like performing for others, and then I got to be up on the stands and watch them perform,” Yelena says.

“It meant a lot to me because I know that they’re out there to support us, so it’s cool to see my own sister go out and support the Armed Forces.”

Center Grove senior Breanna Motsenbocker will play the snare drum in the band. She was encouraged by her director to apply, and her brother also participated in the program when he was a senior.

“He just said it’s an experience that you can’t really describe because it’s not just a marching band show, it’s something for the Army and they sponsor you,” Motsenbocker says. “You get to be around all these Army people, and it’s really something more than just another marching band show.”

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Motsenbocker says marching band has made her a leader and better at time management and discipline. She has also been a section leader for three years.

GHS senior Natalie Haynes (middle) is the first student in school history to be recognized with the honor.

“I’m most looking forward to meeting all these new people,” she says. “Obviously, everybody has kind of the same thing in common that we’re all really driven and really excited about playing in marching band.”

Motsenbocker is one of only five snare drums in the All-American band. She says it was a huge honor to be selected.

“It just means a lot because it’s obviously super competitive and everybody’s really good that auditioned,” she adds.

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Mackenzie Hawley, a member of the Center Grove color guard, says she has wanted to be a part of the band since she was in eighth grade and has been in guard since first grade. She found out she had been accepted during the first week of July, around the same time she was getting a lot of emails from colleges and thought her acceptance email would be asking her to apply to a college.

“I opened [the email] and started reading and it said, ‘congratulations, you have been chosen,’” Hawley says. “I was so excited, I didn’t think I was going to make it in. I freaked out, I ran up to my mom.

I couldn’t even say I made it. I just had to hold my phone up to her and let her read the email herself. It was amazing, honestly.”

“There was a lot of screaming,” says Hawley’s mom, Christy.

Mackenzie has two of her friends from Ohio, where she used to live, joining her in Texas who were also accepted into the band. She is most looking forward for the opportunity to perform and being a part of a group with other talented band and guard members from across the country.

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“I just love the experience of actually getting to perform in front of so many people doing what I love with people I love,” she says. “I just think that’s the best part - putting myself out there.”

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MARLIN JACKSON’S FIGHT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION IS MAKING A STRONG IMPACT IN THE LIVES OF YOUTH

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Marlin Jackson grew up in the projects in Sharon, Pennsylvania to a mom who had addiction issues. Jackson did not grow up with a nurturing parent. He did not have positive social or emotional role models.

He was not presented with a solid example of how to love himself or other people, but he persevered.

with law enforcement. Your foundation is so important to the fabric of who you become, seeds are planted, with a different environment, that goes with you.”

At the University of Michigan, Jackson was an All-American as a freshman and as a sophomore. Jackson was postured to enter the NFL after his junior year. His football career came into jeopardy when he had been engaged in an altercation. Jackson was not the instigator of the situation, but had “As a youth, I had a lot of grace,” Jackson been arrested nonetheless. Michigan Coach says. “I could have followed down the wrong Lloyd Carr told him that if he was found path but was able to escape altercation guilty, he would be off the team. For the first INDY METRO / JANUARY 2018 / TownePost.com

time, Jackson realized that this could all be gone. The feeling was devastating.

The guy who had started the altercation later sued Jackson after graduation, Jackson countersued and won. He didn’t collect any money from the lawsuit, he simply wanted his name cleared.

While Jackson was at the University of Michigan, his psychology class volunteered in inner city Detroit schools. As Jackson listened to the stories of the students. He could relate, for he had lived their life.

When Jackson shared that he had the same

experiences, the kids didn’t believe him.

“You’re lying, you’re Marlin Jackson, All-American,” said one of the students.

Jackson had opened their eyes to possibilities and these kids had opened his. The kids could dare to dream, and so could Jackson. It was in this inner-city school that Jackson knew he would start a program to help kids like these, kids like him. The Fight for Life Foundation is the program that Jackson needed when he was young.

When Jackson was drafted by the Colts, he listened to Coach Tony Dungy speak of faith, family and football, Jackson was surprised. It was the first time he heard a coach mention faith and family sequentially before football.

“The positivity that Dungy and Bill Polian spoke of was something that I’d never heard before,” Jackson says.

“They emphasized our role as a man in the community, our faith and our relationship with God. I was hungry for something that I didn’t know that I was starving for.”

In his second year in the NFL, Jackson created The Fight for Life Foundation.

As his football career was winding down due to injuries a few years later, he poured his passion into Fight for Life. Jackson made a commitment to himself and God and moved forward on his social entrepreneurial path.

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“Fight for Life focuses upon social and emotional learning,” says Lisa Mitchell, Director of Programming for Fight for TownePost.com / JANUARY 2018 / INDY METRO

Life. “It provides kids with a common language to express core concepts of accountability, integrity, self -worth and honesty. It also emphasizes the concept of volunteerism and being good citizens in their family, school and community. For many of these kids, these are concepts that they are not being exposed to at home.”

Implementation happens in the classroom with a comprehensive curriculum that is age appropriate. The programming may be implemented from Pre-K to 8th grade and is currently in six schools. A plan is in place to roll it statewide in the next year, with the ultimate goal of nationwide impact.

The first pilot for the program was adopted by Jackson’s alma mater,Musser Elementary. Early adopters in Indianapolis include Pike Township, Phalen Leadership Academy and IPS. “Fight for Life provides teachers with a program that allows students to feel seen, heard and valued every day,” Mitchell says.

“In today’s society, we must create treatment programs for the opioid surge, but more importantly: prevention,” adds State Senator Jim Merritt. “Marlin’s Fight for Life program is exactly what we are in need of because prevention is a much-needed part of the solution. With prevention programs like Fight for Life, we all benefit.”

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THE GARDEN CYCLE BEGINS WITHIN THE SEED over again for the gardener. I love the organic, non-GMO seed providers like, Seed Savers The real birth of any garden begins within Exchange, Seeds of Change, and Baker Creek the seed. Seeds are an incredible thing to Heirloom Seeds. But my two favorites are work with and teach your children about Renee’s Seeds and Johnny’s Select. They have particularly when it comes to teaching about a fantastic selection and a great corporate where our food originates. While it is way culture. Renee often answers her own phone too soon to begin your seeds for the garden while working in her California garden. I indoors, January is an excellent month to have trusted the germination (when the seed begin planning and dreaming a bit about pops open) of their seeds for many years. All what you would like to accomplish once can be found online. the rush of spring chores arrives. This is the time to get organized!

It is so important to select heirloom and non-GMO varieties. Heirloom seeds are This is the month that seed catalogs begin defined seeds found prior to World War II to arrive in the mail. It is like Christmas all and of original origin. Organic non-GMO Writer / Carrie Petty

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seeds are defined as seeds that have not been ‘Genetically Modified’ or cross-pollinated with GMO seed pollen. Non-GMO seeds are not owned by mega companies, I think food and seeds are a natural born right, just like food. If you own the seed, you own the food. And if you own the food system…

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This is an excellent month to search seed catalogs and find the type of plants you would like to begin indoors in the month of February. In Indianapolis, we are in Zone 5b. Hoosiers begin ‘sowing’ (placing seeds under the soil) seeds indoors around February 15. You can begin with your ‘cold crops’ like Kale, Spinach, Kohlrabi, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage and more. These veggies are called cold crops because, you guessed it, they love the cold. Cool, fun fact, did you know Pansy flowers are in the Spinach family and are also edible? They are a cold crop too and you may begin sowing Pansy seeds really early.

Organization is the key to excellent seed germination and success. Keep a journal and a garden calendar. Note when you started and when you see the first leaves emerge. The back of your seed envelope will have all the instruction you need, so keep them for further seasonal instructions.

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If you need help, ask your local garden center for instruction. Gardeners in general love to teach, and I love sharing these tips with you all to help you learn how to, “Grow a More Beautiful Life!”

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Brian Walker’s grandfather started Walker’s Eggs in 1946.

GRADE A BUSINESS WALKER’S EGGS REMAINS FAMILY-OWNED MORE THAN 70 YEARS LATER like a milk route,” Walker says. “It wasn’t were forced to reevaluate their business much of a money-maker. There couldn’t model. have been more than 10 houses between the Brian Walker doesn’t have a lot of free time. store and County Line Road.”

“It just got to the point where the profit As a vice president at Endress-Hauser, he margin was very tight,” he says. “It was has plenty to keep him busy more than By the 1960s, the Walkers were selling eggs pretty costly to have 30-40 people on the 40 hours per week. But, as a Walker, he’s in quantity. They closed the hatchery in the payroll. So, we had to decide whether to determined to keep his family’s decades-old 1970s, but continued processing eggs. start raising chickens again to increase the business alive selling fresh eggs, honey and margin, and that has other issues like feed other products to Central Indiana families.

“At our peak, we were processing 200 cases costs, and we didn’t have the facilities to a day, 30 dozen eggs to a case,” Walker says. match.

His grandfather started Walker’s Eggs in “Of course, now, big hatcheries do that 1946, hatching chickens and selling eggs in a much in 15 minutes.”

“We looked at buying a place up north, decidedly more rural Greenwood. but they had older equipment. They had In the late 1980s, Walker and his father Dale a million birds in the house, and my dad “Back then, they had kids deliver eggs just Writer / Matt Roberts Photographer / Brian Brosmer

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wanted me to run it. But I told him, ‘you’re looking at a million dollars to clean up the equipment,’ because it was outdated. So, we realized it wasn’t going to work out.”

Walker’s Eggs now operates solely as a retail operation out of the store at 1275 West Main Street.

“We’re selling a lot of eggs,” Walker says.

“Somewhere around 90 cases a week. So, it’s quite a few for just a dozen here and there out the front door. We get eggs from two places: a farm in northern Ohio and one in northern Indiana. We have just enough to get by for a week, so they’re always fresh.”

Walker’s father Dale passed away in March of this year. Since then, Walker’s has ceased deliveries as well as its sideline of peeling eggs for sale to produce companies for salad bars.

Yet another reinvention may be in the works for the store soon, though. Since they don’t need the back of the building for egg processing, Walker plans to re-purpose the space and take the business in a new direction.

“The goal is to renovate the building and use the back part to rent out for birthday parties and events at a low cost,” he says. “There are a lot of people in Greenwood who just don’t have the space or parking availability for medium-sized events, so we might be able to fill that need.”

Whatever changes happen with the business, Walker expects to permanently maintain it in some form. The family settled in Johnson County in 1834, and he doesn’t expect to pull up stakes anytime soon.

“There aren’t a lot of places in Indiana that sell eggs like this,” he says. “Some people might say it’s kind of crazy, but we’ve been here a long time. We like our community.

My dad served as county commissioner, school board member and on the Merit Board. I’ve been a Merit Board and Advisory Board member and served on the Johnson County Council. So, we care a lot about the community. It’s our home.”

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THEE INDY DESIGNER LOCAL SEAMSTRESS LANDS GIGS WITH IKEA, INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER Writer / Cathy Wendorff Photographer / Brian Brosmer

When you can do it all, you can have it all which is exactly what local seamstress, Jamie Lee Bushong, Thee Indy Designer, is accomplishing in her new design studio.

Sewing since the age of five, Bushong learned from her great-grandmother how to do alterations by taking clothing apart and putting them back together. With very little formal training and a passion for designing,

she can create everything from decorative home furnishing to hand-tailored elegant gowns.

challenged herself to learn new techniques.

Getting noticed for her impeccable custom work, her business grew by referrals, and when her biggest customer IKEA came Thee Indy Designer, has come a long way from making choir costumes in her early 20s knocking, she answered with quick, highquality service. to decorating the new Fishers IKEA store and sharing office space with Photographer, Micala McClain, in downtown Greenwood. “It’s amazing, this huge company hiring this Previously known as EIMAJ Designs by local seamstress,” Bushong says.

Dampier, Bushong is grateful to those who happily shared their tips and tricks with her Using their fabrics, she created furnishings to decorate the store with samples of over the years as she mastered skills and

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pillows, curtains and even huge, perfectly fitting and removable lamp shade covers.

Before IKEA’s public grand opening, Bushong got a sneak peek with her family, celebrating a proud moment and showing off her talents. It means a lot for her to know that she will continue to be their go-todesigner in Indy when new fabrics arrive.

In the meantime, as Bushong has mastered alterations, she is now creating and living her dream in her glitter-floored, whimsical, backroom workshop. Along with many sewing machines, is an area for private fittings, but what makes the space perfect is the special art table for her son. As a working mom, she has made it easy to schedule consulting, fittings and alterations online using Schedulicity.

“I can tell people that’s a great shape on you, but that waistline needs to come up an inch.” Bushong says. “If you get something custom made, it’s going to fit your body and be exactly how you want it.

“I can do about everything, I even dabbled in shoe making, but my favorite thing is gowns,” she says, speaking about her specialty. “I love wedding gowns and pageant gowns. That’s really what I’m trying to conquer right now. I eventually want to have a collection in both that I could sell in local places and expand from there.”

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family dresses, vintage pieces and new fabrics.

“I want to be able to help because I love doing bridal,” Bushong says. “For someone to come to me with their wedding dress is a huge honor to me, so if I can help them, I will do it anyway I can.”

Bushong occasionally travels to Chicago and L.A. to find fabrics but mostly orders materials online, or, if in a pinch, she buys from local retailers like JoAnn’s.

Wanting to give back and hopefully to inspire young designers, Jamie has taken on a part-time role as a sewing teacher at the Indianapolis Art Center. Along with the wearable art and textiles sessions for kids, she is leading an introductory sewing class.

Another fun way to donate her expertise, Thee Indy Designer is excited to be a judge at an upcoming pageant and evaluate evening gowns.

Keeping her costs reasonable, Bushong tries to work within budgets by being upfront and honest about her pricing. Thee Indy Designer is friendly, super dedicated and ever learning by practicing more hand sewing for higher variety intricate wedding, sophisticated pageant and glamorous red carpet ready gowns.

Thee Indy Designer is located at 211 W Main St. in Greenwood. Book appointments online by Schedulicity or call or text 317500-4560. For more information contact Jamie Bushong at eimaj.indy@gmail.com and follow her on Instagram and Facebook.

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Frank Sweeney, managing partner with Bar Louie.

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BAR LOUIE OFFERS GREAT FOOD, DRINKS & FAMILY ATMOSPHERE IN GREENWOOD “I like to have a grand feel when walking into a restaurant, and we have 16-foot ceilings,” Sweeney says. “We were able to Several factors have conspired to make Bar build a big center island bar, which is kind Louie one of the southside’s most popular of our concept – we always have an island restaurants after a mere 24 months in bar so there’s no dead-ends or corners. business.

Whenever we build a space we always want to make sure the bar is kind of the focal Frank Sweeney, managing partner with Bar point of the restaurant, even though we Louie’s Greenwood, Carmel and Mishawaka are family friendly. We like to have that bar franchises, says the prime location of the focus, so the space worked out perfectly for southside eatery at the highly-trafficked our concept.”

Greenwood Park Mall, coupled with its distinctive physical layout and extensive Signature burgers, sandwiches, flatbreads food and drink menu, propelled Bar Louie and distinctive plates like blackened fish into Johnson County’s culinary spotlight street tacos and voodoo pasta are all part relatively quickly. of the sizeable menu, along with martinis, Writer / Jon Shoulders Photographer / Amy Payne

“I think we’ve started to make a name for ourselves in the Greenwood market,” Sweeney says. “Every market is different, and what we like most about Greenwood is that it’s really true to that neighborhood community feel, where everybody around the southside is from the southside and kind of knows everybody else. We’ve gotten that true neighborhood bar feel that we really love.”

margaritas, mojitos and a local beer selection. Several weekly specials have become popular with Greenwood locals, including $5 burger nights on Tuesdays, five-beer buckets for $6 on Wednesdays and Girls Night Out Thursdays with deals on signature martinis and half-off wine bottles.

Sweeney plans to launch at least three new Bar Louie franchises around the state over the next three to four years and hopes each one will have the local flavor and repeat customer base that marks Bar Louie’s Greenwood presence.

“Up on the north side you have a lot of people who are maybe Chicago transplants or other places,” he says. “The southside is very true to people being homegrown from the southside, and it’s a really nice community feel that we’ve built down there.

We thrive on having a regular customer base, where you know before people walk in what they like to order. That’s kind of cool for us to be able to have so many regulars and those personal relationships.”

Bar Louie is located at the Greenwood Park Mall at 1251 U.S. 31 North. For more information call 317-215-5400 or visit barlouie.com.

After settling on a space formerly occupied

by BRAVO Italian eatery, Sweeney and his partners set about renovating the interior to provide something refreshingly different for southside diners and officially opened to the public, armed with a staff of approximately 70 employees, in December 2015.

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CENTER GROVE Events VIEW FULL EVENT CALENDAR AT TOWNEPOST.COM/EVENTS

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Indiana Chinese Lantern Festival

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Calling all yarn lovers! Grab your needles (or hooks) and join us for an evening in the tasting room with friends who knit, sew or crochet. This is an open group to all crafty wine lovers.

Mallow Run Winery 6:00 p.m.

Find your inner artist (with a little bit of inspiration from your favorite adult beverage!) at our Cork & Canvas event!No artistic skill? No worries!

The Sycamore at Mallow Run 6:30 p.m.

Sip & Stitch

Dating all the way back to China’s Han Dynasty -- we’re talking 206 B.C. here -- the Lantern Festival has been lighting up the night sky in celebration of the Lunar New Year.

Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center

Cork & Canvas

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Center Grove Schools Winter Break Ends

Time to turn the alarm clocks back on, first day back to school is today!

Greater Indianapolis Garage Sale & Marketplace Shopping! More vendors, more unique items, more for your money. The hunt is on! Indy’s bargain hunter’s paradise is back with over 700 booths in two pavilions, offering a plethora of items at unbelievable rock bottom prices.

Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center 9:00 a.m.

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Are you considering a Christian Education? Are you interested in finding out more about Greenwood Christian Academy? Join us for Campus Day. Greenwood Christian Academy 9:30 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.

Join us for live music by Phil Pierle, in the Saloon. Cash Bar and Food Trucks! $10 admission includes one beverage ticket. Tickets sold at the door.

Barn at Bay Horse Inn 5:30 p.m.

Campus Day Open House

Center Grove Schools Winter Break Ends

The museum opens its doors with FREE admission to all children and families to celebrate the life, achievements, and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- Listen to storyteller Portia Jackson speak about courageous children from the Civil Rights Movement.

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

Live Music in the Saloon

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Ticket order deadline for Center Grove Night at the Pacers

Sunday, February 11th, 2018 will be Center Grove night at the Indiana Pacers game. The Pacers are giving Center Grove an opportunity to sell tickets for the game to raise money for our schools. The evening will be dedicated to Center Grove schools with recognition during pre-game and a presentation during half time.

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Gala for the Grove SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2018 | 6:00 PM | INDIANA ROOF BALLROOM TICKETS GO ON SALE JANUARY 14, 2018 AT WWW.CENTERGROVEFOUNDATION.ORG

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