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Roncalli High School freshman Alec Viduya earned four victories to capture the IHSAA state wrestling title in the 113-pound class. Viduya is Roncalli’s fourth individual wrestling state champion and the first since 1985. He joins Don Mappes (1976, 145 pounds), Duane Lutgring (1980, 185 pounds) and Chris Maxwell (1985, 167 pounds) as Roncalli wrestlers with state titles. All of Roncalli’s three previous wrestling state champions accomplished the feat in their senior seasons. Viduya finished his first season of high school wrestling with a 47-2 record. His teammate and fellow freshman, Tyce Freije, finished eighth in the state in the 120-pound class. Freije concluded his season with a 38-10 record. Congratulations to Alec, his parents and Coach Wade McClurg!
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GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUM LANDS INTERNSHIP WITH PAT MCAFEE Writer / Michelle Kaufman Photographer / Brian Brosmer
Liam Pineiro is taking his passion for making videos and energetic personality to a national audience this summer while also being the CEO of a new video production company.
his accomplishments and send messages of support when hard times happen. He has met some of his subscribers, which he says is the “best thing ever.” Pineiro works for IUPUI as a videographer and, after some encouragement from his boss, family and friends, he started a production company, Dos Bros Productions with his brother Noel, who is a marketing strategist as well as a videographer.
Pineiro started his YouTube channel in 2015 and got 30 subscribers within a couple of months. After taking a break, he began getting around 1,000 subscribers per month in 2016 and currently has more than 10,000, “I decided I was just gonna go for it,” including some from New Zealand. Pineiro says. “We already have a handful of clients lined up and several events to film. Pineiro records parts of most of his videos If people need an idea that’s gonna stand in front of a floor-to-ceiling corkboard out from every other commercial or every in his bedroom. The board is filled with other ad, I can help them come up with a collection of things that he’s found that unique idea.” interesting over the years. His fans would frequently ask him what the board was, and Retired Colts punter Pat McAfee started he would explain it. Barstool Heartland this year and hosted a “After I kept addressing the corkboard, I was like, you know what would be really cool is if you guys sent interesting things that you found in your everyday life and sent them to a PO box,” Pineiro says. “In about two months, the entire wall filled up.” Pineiro says his subscribers have become a second family who congratulate him on
Twitter competition for internships with the company. About 20 of Pineiro’s Twitter followers tagged him in McAfee’s call-out post, and Pineiro made a submission video that he wrote, shot, edited and submitted all within one day. “The next day, I shared it on Twitter, and not 10 minutes later, I get a notification saying, ‘Pat McAfee liked your post’ and
then a minute after that, ‘Pat McAfee followed you’ and then after that ‘Pat McAfee sent you a direct message,’” Pineiro says. “It said, ‘love your hustle, cuz. Will send you the face-to-face interview details when we finalize a location.’ I ran around the neighborhood, I was calling everybody.” Pineiro interviewed Pat McAfee during the audition process and will spend June and July as an on-air personality for Barstool. In addition to his media work, Pineiro is also a junior media arts and science major at IUPUI. He doesn’t get much sleep, spending the day producing content and staying up late when his house is quiet to edit a video or script the next one. “I try to use whatever resources or opportunities that I have in the present to help me in the future,” he says. “Anything that I can use as a stepping stone, I will gladly milk all the opportunities I can for as long as I can in order to help me grow as an entertainer and as someone who enjoys making people laugh and bringing joy into their life. I’ve always wanted to entertain people and, for me, doing that through video suits me the best.”
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Work Hard, Picnic Often MALLOW RUN WINERY Writer / Michelle Kaufman . Photographer / Brian Brosmer
Mallow Run Winery sits on a 600-acre farm in Bargersville that has been in the Richardson family since 1835. The winery’s name, Mallow Run, is a creek that runs through the property and was named after owner Bill Richardson’s greatgreat-great grandfather, George Mallow, who settled on the property in 1835.
when I was a student at Purdue,” Bill says. “I were interested in doing more than just didn’t know that the creek even had a name.” growing grapes, so the winery just kinda grew out of that.” Bill Richardson and his wife, Laura, opened the winery in 2005, but the first acre of Bill knew he wanted to come back and grapes was planted on the property in 2000 do something on the family farm after after Bill’s father, John Richardson, saw an graduating from Purdue, so he read about article that said Indiana winemakers wanted wine making and worked at Oliver Winery farmers to grow grapes. as he learned how to make his own.
“The creek was named after him at some point, I actually found that [out] on a map
“That was my plan, to just grow grapes,” John says. “Then Bill and his to-be wife
Laura said the intentions were to keep the winery small at the beginning, but as the
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community and customer support have grown, so has the business. “We’ve just tried to listen and grow and just evolve with what the community has told us that they enjoy,” Laura says. “It’s definitely been stages of growth and change, and I think we’re open to continuing to change and evolve.” One of the things Mallow Run is most known for is their weekend events. On Saturday nights during the summer, there is a concert and either pizza or food trucks. Some are free admission, and others are ticketed. People are free to bring a picnic or buy food at the event. “We learned if there’s food and there’s music that people come,” Laura says. “We kinda kept thinking, ‘alright, what can we do with food and music that’s welcoming for everyone and hopefully will appeal to lots of different kinds of people?’ We do a Picnic Concert series that starts Memorial Day weekend and runs all the way through the end of September.” On Sunday afternoons, there is also music on the patio from 2-5 p.m. during the nicer months of the year. For the first time this year, Mallow Run will host a Red, White and Blueberry Festival during Fourth of July weekend, where they will unveil their limited edition blueberry wine and have fireworks. Around 3,000 people also participate in Wine At the Line, an annual 5k run/walk around Mallow Run’s property followed by a post-race party. A different charity every year is supported with the proceeds. This year’s run is on September 30. In addition to community events, Mallow Run is also available for private events. The tasting room is available to host events after hours. The Sycamore at Mallow Run, an event venue, opened last summer and is almost exclusively built to host corporate fundraiser events and weddings. “We saw as we were in this space that we just had so much demand for those type of events,” Bill says. “We didn’t have the space to do it or we didn’t have the time to do it. Weddings normally want to be on Saturday night, where we had our own concerts that were conflicting so we decided to build something separate. [The
“ We’ve just tried to listen and grow and just evolve with what the community has told us that they enjoy.” -LAURA RICHARDSON
Sycamore is] a quarter mile, half mile away so we can still have outdoor activities in both spots and they don’t interfere with each other.” Laura enjoys the relationships she’s formed with the employees of the winery and her customers. “Just to see people here enjoying the space, relaxing, taking a break from their daily grind and just being themselves, it’s fun to get to know people and be able to share a place that’s been special to Bill’s family for so many years and is now special to me too,” Laura says. Mallow Run started canning wine last year for the Indy 500 and has continued doing so, and they also can cider. “Canned wine is great for picnic season,” Laura says. “And that’s kind of our motto — work hard, picnic often.”
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GREENWOOD DAD OF THE YEAR RANDY BAUER Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photographer / Brian Brosmer
hearts, but pragmatically my wife and I had with words that she loves him, he can feel to figure out how to care for her brothers.” Samantha’s love by looking into her eyes.
Shelby Bauer, 24, nominated her father as Greenwood’s Dad of the Year because in her eyes — and in the eyes of many —he’s mighty special. Randy’s younger daughter, Samantha, was born with Rett Syndrome, a rare genetic neurological and developmental disorder that affects the way the brain develops, rendering the patient unable to walk or talk. Samantha, now 21, is wheelchair-bound and has been 100 percent dependent on others for all of her care since birth.
Bauer ultimately quit his job with the school corporation to become a full-time caregiver. It’s a move which has left him with zero regrets.
“These are the cards I was dealt in life, so I play my hand with Jesus by my side,” says Randy, noting that he draws his strength from his faith.
“We took a huge financial hit, but what I lack monetarily, I reap in abundant blessings,” Bauer says. “I’m not superhuman. I’m just taking care of my family.”
Married for 34 years and Greenwood residents for 20, the Bauers have great memories from the family vacation they took to Disney World six years ago through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Shelby, however, is astounded by her dad’s modesty and kindness.
“We’d never been to Florida. We’d never even been on an airplane, so it was quite an adventure,” Randy says. “When we “He has more than stepped up to the plate,” landed and I stood up to get Samantha’s wheelchair, an elderly woman reached out, she says. “Seven days a week he provides put a $100 bill in my hand, and whispered, care for my sister and my uncles. But he ‘I hope you have a wonderful trip.’ She was also always makes time for my mom and one of many angels we encountered during me, even in the midst of all of his other that dream vacation.” responsibilities.”
Though Randy and his wife, Tammy, took turns juggling tasks, with a bit of outside help, they managed to care for Samantha and both still work full-time. Then in September 2015, the family was dealt an emotional blow when Tammy’s mother passed away. She had been the primary caregiver to Tammy’s two blind, deaf, cognitively impaired brothers, both in their Randy, however, views these early 50s. responsibilities as a privilege rather than a burden, and he does so by soaking in the “The morning my mother-in-law passed moments that those with perfect health away forever changed our lives,” Bauer says. may take for granted. For instance, though “Not only did she leave a huge void in our Randy’s youngest daughter can’t tell him
Though meeting Mickey Mouse was certainly magical, Randy feels the pixie dust of joy in every day he spends with his family. “This is what I was meant to do,” Bauer says.
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WTHR ANCHOR, NAOMI PESCOVITZ, IS RIGHT AT HOME REPORTING IN INDY
WTHR anchor and reporter, Naomi Pescovitz, is a proud North Central High School alumna.
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Eyewitness News Weekend Anchor Naomi Pescovitz believes if she can relate to a story, her viewers will too. It's a belief system that has paid off. After three years at WTHR, Pescovitz has garnered a large following of loyal TV viewers who also follow her on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets. Viewers relate to her and her interest in a wide variety of people and stories. “I have really enjoyed finding ways to share a good story with people and make viewers relate to it,” Pescovitz says. “I've been able to do fun stories such as riding in a stunt plane and also more meaningful stories such as an interview I did with former Colts Cheerleader Tessa David who had a stroke but still keep pushing herself to be the best she could be. I love stories where people are able to bounce back from a setback. It's so inspiring.”
Pescovitz also loves continuously updating stories and keeping in touch with her viewers. “I follow news all the time, even when I have time off,” Pescovitz says. “I'm a news junkie. I love stories and getting as much information as I can. Social media is a really important part of that. It gives you an immediate connection with your viewers.” Pescovitz first became interested in journalism when she was in middle school.
speaking engagements at North Central,” Pescovitz says. “I love the school and enjoy going back there. It's always been a special place.” Pescovitz later graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism and International Studies. She was a reporter, associate producer, anchor and news director for Northwestern’s Emmy awardwinning Northwestern News Network.
Pescovitz, a North Central High School graduate, earned an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma from one of the first IB programs in the state. She was also the co-editor of North Central’s Northerner yearbook and the captain of the Pantherettes dance team.
“I knew I enjoyed writing, I liked people, and I thought television seemed like a lot fun,” Pescovitz says. “When I talk to younger people wanting to pursue a career in broadcasting, I recommend they do an internship with a smaller television market. You can shadow a reporter because you learn to do a lot more by yourself and have more opportunities to be on television. You can also make your own resume reel and get more experience working on stories.”
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After college, Pescovitz worked at KULR-8
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in Billings, Montana. She was also a reporter at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. She moved on later to be a reporter at KVOA in Tucson, Arizona. While working for the station, she was first on the scene when Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords was shot while meeting with constituents at a local grocery store.
fast as I can,” Pescovitz says. “I'm a true foodie. I love reading about restaurants and finding out what they serve.” Pescovitz loves Garden Table, Fat Dan’s, Bruge, Flatwater, Open Society, Café Patachou and Public Greens in Broad Ripple. She is also a fan of Blue Beard, Bru Burger, Mesh and Union 50.
Pescovitz went to work for KSTP, the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, St. Paul, next, where she was a reporter and fill-in anchor. While in Minneapolis, Pescovitz covered a wide range of stories. During her time there, The Minnesota Medical Association and LifeSource, the organ donation organization in the upper-Midwest, honored her for her medical reporting. When the opportunity to return home to Indianapolis came up and work at WTHR, she leapt at the chance. “It's been great to come home and feel connected to Indianapolis again,” Pescovitz says. “I've loved the way the city has grown so much over the years.” Pescovitz says there are so many great local stories like a father and son who ran The Mini-Marathon together, and Runner Tom Harleman, who ran the Mini in full race gear in support of Race Car Driver John Andretti, who is fighting stage-4 colon cancer. “There are so many inspiring stories of Hoosiers doing positive things to help each other,” Pescovitz says. Pescovitz herself is dedicated to women’s health issues, particularly finding a cure for breast and ovarian cancers. When she’s not working, Pescovitz enjoys spending time with family and friends and indulging in her favorite pastime — checking out new restaurants in Indianapolis. “I love getting to the new places as TownePost.com / JUNE 2017 / INDY METRO
“If people are looking at what I ordered, I know it has been a successful meal,” she laughs. “It's creating order envy. I also like finding out what the popular meals are and what the servers enjoy. I love restaurants and how the food is prepared. Indianapolis has so many wonderful restaurants to choose from. I never have to worry about finding a great one, and I love the suggestions from viewers.”
REAL LIFE MEETS REAL GARDENING IN THE CITY Writer / Carrie Petty
This little boy was not going to help. He was not there to plant anything. He was stuck in the midst of his own anger and life trials. Damien was in the third grade but appeared to be older than the other boys. His shirt was navy blue and dirty but not from the garden work at the school’s newly installed learning garden.
At the age of 44, Kimbal Musk is waging war on the American food system. More power to him! He is striving to change the nutrition of our children by teaching them about clean, garden grown produce. His high-end bistros are sweeping the country with one right here in Indianapolis on Mass Avenue. One of my favorite joints, the Kitchen Garden.
I tried to connect with him as the day went along. We were at a new build site installing a Kitchen Community Learning Garden for these great kiddos.
There are now five of these Learning Gardens installed in IPS Schools. Not so much here to solve hunger issues but to teach elementary children about the love of gardening and growing your own clean food.
Urban garden projects have been in Indianapolis for a long time. First Lady Judy O’Bannon and I worked on several projects in the late 1990’s together, but I have never witnessed one like this. The Kitchen Community is a newer 501c3 nonprofit co-founded by Kimbal Musk, the brother to Elon Musk of Tesla fame and fortune. Both South African-born business magnates, each are changing the world in their own way.
Many great partners are helping with this project here in Indianapolis. Gardens of Growth are the company contracted in Indy to do these unique installs. Large white raised bed containers sit of hard-poured or paver surfaces, a well-engineered design. They also find many other partners like Greendell Mulch to donate supplies and materials for the projects. The goal is to build 20 learning gardens by the end of June and 100 gardens are planned for IPS.
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At IPS School #63, Wendell Phillips, a Third grade class of about 21 kiddos is standing in order around the planting beds. Damien is standing among his peers. Rules are very preset, and the children are respectful of their instructors and the rules given. There is transference of ownership going on here. They get that this is their place to care for. Garden Educator Joris or “JoJo” to the kids is teaching the children to be the ‘guardians of the garden’ and teach others to follow the rules. This gives these kids some form of control in their often manic home lives. Soil is the very first lesson taught to the kids. “Bring a handful of the soil up to your nose and smell it, what does it smell like!” The children giggle and all yell out fun answers like, “Worms!” or “Sunshine!” Schools have an entire garden team. Garden team leaders get everything started. The STEM K-12 program is deeply tied to
the learning garden program and is in partnership with the STEM Connection Program. Common threads of learning and growing are woven together throughout the day, as well as some deep life lessons. As the project got started, Damien was truly having trouble with his day. The emotions from some outside life stress were very present. He was angry and not engaging. I could feel his pain. I found myself saying a prayer to myself, “God, please let this sweet little boy have a moment of reprieve from whatever is going on in his life, to just see the beauty of your garden here today.” The lessons continued. The garden instructors second lesson was, “How to keep seeds happy. You need soil, air, water and sunshine!” Just like people. The learning garden really holds the children’s interest for long periods of time. Damien was starting
to plant his first seeds. He asked lots of questions like, “why’d ya build this for us?” The children’s hands were moving the soil aside to make a trench for their seeds. Everyone had something different. Tomatoes, carrots, watermelon, peppers and celery were being spaced out to plant. Damien was planting Chard, and he learned it has an edible stem. He was most interested in the Salsa Garden the kids planted in one box with peppers, onions and tomatoes. I witnessed children digging their hands deep into the soil and connecting with something larger than their own lives. You could see something awakening in some of the children’s faces. It was a beautiful day, and it was evident that the garden is a place of rest and healing. If you want to learn more about the Kitchen Community, visit their website at TheKitchenCommunity.org.
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On December 5, 2012, Dave Hawkins, a CPA, had just finished a grueling two-day tax seminar when he got into his car to head home. “It was dark, but the roads were dry,” Hawkins says. “I remember looking up and seeing this car going off the road.” Before he had time to process what was happening, Hawkins’ vehicle collided, head-on, with the other. Though he was fortunate to not sustain internal bleeding or severe injuries, he suffered six broken ribs — a pain so searing that Hawkins likens it to a root canal. At the emergency room, Hawkins had a CT scan. Then he sat and waited for what seemed like an eternity before the doctor returned with unsettling news. “You’re pretty busted up with those broken ribs,” the doctor said. “But in addition to that,” the physician continued, “I see a tumor down by your abdomen, so I’ve paged a surgical oncologist to consult.”
Hawkins had six weeks to let reality sink in as he recovered from his broken ribs. Then he went in for a biopsy, at which time he learned he had testicular cancer. Not only is the cancer, itself, rather uncommon, with just 85 to 100 new cases identified nationwide each year, but given Hawkins’ age (60) at the time, it was especially surprising.
Though Hawkins initially tried to shield his diagnosis from his elderly mother because he didn’t want to worry her, he found himself in a tricky spot when his hair began falling out.
What wasn’t unusual, however, was the way in which Hawkins learned of his condition. Physicians told him that it’s not uncommon for work or athletic injuries to reveal the often-elusive form of cancer.
After six months, Hawkins’ strength returned. He had to have routine blood tests and chest X-rays to ensure the cancer had not spread to his lungs or brain. Thankfully, all tests have come back clear.
Ultimately, doctors confirmed that the tumor they saw on the CT scan was actually three lymph nodes that had expanded — one 4.5 centimeters and the other two just over three centimeters. Hawkins was given the option of either undergoing radiation or chemotherapy. He was told that the recurrence rate for chemo patients is five percent, whereas the recurrence rate for radiation is 50 percent.
Eight months after the accident, Hawkins knocked on the front door of the man who smashed into him that fateful December night.
“Those numbers helped me make up my mind real quick,” Hawkins says.
Hawkins’ eyes widened. A bit later, when the surgical oncologist confirmed that Hawkins had lymphoma, he was rendered speechless.
He had surgery on his ribs, then endured 15 rounds of chemotherapy treatments, which depleted his energy.
Wincing in pain yet dazed and confused, Hawkins sat dumbfounded in the ER, absorbing the shocking diagnosis. None of it made sense as he had experienced no lower back pain or night sweats — typical symptoms of cancer.
“Chemo is hard to explain,” Hawkins says. “There’s no pain associated with it, yet the nausea and fatigue is incredible. You sit in a chair, thinking about how you really ought to get up and do something, but you literally cannot move because your body is so fatigued.”
“One day she asked me why I was always wearing a hat,” Hawkins says. “I couldn’t keep it a secret any longer.”
“I explained to him how grateful I was that the accident happened because it actually saved my life,” says Hawkins, a resident of Noblesville. Hawkins and his wife are eager to go to Hoosier Park Casino so he can play blackjack and she can play the slots. The awesome prize package is partly why he entered the Luckiest Hoosier Alive Contest. “I’m not sure if I’m the luckiest Hoosier alive, maybe the most blessed Hoosier alive because I really do feel blessed,” says Hawkins, who credits both his amazing medical team and the unwavering support of his family and friends during the bleakest days of his journey. “They were crucial to my recovery. I’m grateful for literally every day I get.”
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The Miss Indiana pageant has evolved since its inception. While early records are fuzzy, documentation commences in the early 1900s and took a hiatus during World War II, with consistency since the end of the war in 1945.
While the location for the Miss Indiana Pageant has changed over the years, this will be the 13th year Zionsville has hosted the event. Since 2005, Zionsville has celebrated the state’s road to Miss America with dinners, a parade, competition and many other events culminating in the Miss Indiana finals on the Saturday night of pageant week.
Even though Zionsville played host, it did not have its own event for local contestants. A few community members approached (then) Zionsville Town Council member and Lions Club member, Dr. Jeff Papa, to help remedy that. In 2011, Papa founded the Miss Fall Festival’s Outstanding Teen pageant, held in conjunction with the Lions Club Fall Festival, as part of the Miss Indiana’s Outstanding Teen Pageant. “It made sense for Boone County to host its own local competition to increase awareness and involvement,” says Papa, who has served on the Zionsville Town Council and served as the first Mayor of Zionsville.
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“Deciding to hold the Outstanding Teen pageant during the Fall Festival, which is the largest fundraising effort of the year for the Zionsville Lions Club, made sense in a lot of ways with attention drawn to the event,” says Louanne Giralte, Miss Fall Festival’s Outstanding Teen Director. The decision was made to have the Miss Fall Festival’s Outstanding Teen pageant be a “closed” pageant, meaning its only open to local young women living in Boone County.
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“This seemed the most logical filing for the competition based upon increasing local awareness of the pageant system,” Papa says.
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Gail Robbins, President of the Zionsville Lions Club, has helped with the Miss Fall Festival’s Outstanding Teen and with Miss Indiana Week in various capacities since it began. “The addition of the Miss Fall Festival’s Outstanding Teen pageant to our Fall Festival has helped the community feel more a part of Miss Indiana Week,” she says. The Miss Indiana program engages girls and boys of ages 5-12 through participation in the non-competitive
This year's Miss Indiana parade will take place on Saturday, June 17 in downtown Zionsville.
Prince & Princess Camp. Pre-teens, age 10-12 can sign up for Preteen Princess Camp to learn more about becoming a contestant. The competitive levels for young women begin with Teen (ages 13-17), and the Miss (ages 17-24) pageant. “We have our largest number of contestants ever competing this year,” says Aren Straiger, Executive Director of the Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant. “Zionsville is so good to us! Most of our food donors are local caterers and restaurants in the area. The Miss contestants will visit the Zionsville Lions, Lebanon Elks Lodge and the Boys and Girls Club, while our Teen contestants visit the R.O.C.K. Program at Zionsville United Methodist Church. On Saturday of the Miss Indiana Week, the Main Street Parade takes place through Zionsville. The contestants get to ride in convertibles through the town, followed by an autograph session in Boone Village. “This offers the young women an opportunity to meet the community and encourages Zionsville residents to buy tickets,” Straiger says. “I believe we have the best entertainment for the price, which is affordable. These women are so talented, well-spoken and are wonderful role models.” All participants in the pageant raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network benefiting Riley Hospital for Children. For more information, please visit missindiana.org.
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Fans of the show Good Bones have been hanging from the rafters waiting for more episodes of the Indy-based HGTV show, but the wait is over. Season two of the home-flipping hit kicked off May 30. HGTV and the show’s sponsor, Berkshire Hathaway, came to Indy to celebrate the upcoming premiere of season two of Good Bones. As the execs from HGTV and Berkshire Hathaway got a peek at Indy’s hometown secrets, the show’s stars, Karen Laine and Mina Starsiak, spilled secrets about season two. Fans of the show know that the two have tackled a load of unforeseen construction issues and they simply go on handling whatever life throws at them. Laine and Starsiak say they handled life before the show in a similar way. It was 2007, and Starsiak had just graduated from Indiana University. Without a plan, she returned to Indianapolis, began working a part-time waitress job, and decided to buy a
home. The home was priced low and needed the end of season one, the two didn’t know if they would be picked up for season two. lots of renovations, so Starsiak asked her “The hard part wasn’t waiting to hear if we mom to help her with it. got picked up for season two,” Starsiak says. Laine was working as a full-time prosecutor “We had to be prepared with 10 houses in inventory ready to go as soon as filming at the time, a job she still holds today, began because filming for the next season but one for which she now only devotes begins about a year ahead. It will be the limited hours. Laine’s job provided little same way for season three.” free time, so she helped her daughter on weekends to get the job done. Laine also Among the challenges in season one was bought a little house in Fountain Square having a production team that had to shoot that they eventually fixed up. After they completed both makeovers, the two formed from the hip as they shot scenes, working to create a format for the brand new show. Two Chicks and a Hammer, and with the help of some savings account funds, they “It was like the blind leading the blind, slowly started off rehabbing two houses a because they didn’t really know the recipe year. They even set up a Two Chicks and a for the show,” Starsiak says. “But now Hammer Facebook page. that we know what the format is, we can accomplish a lot more in a much more That’s when HGTV found them. manageable amount of time.” “Someone from the show reached out The ladies have found a rhythm to finding in 2014,” Laine says. “We did a phone their properties, too. interview, a Skype interview and finally arranged to do a pilot.” “We choose our properties based on After all the waiting, the network gave Laine location and price,” Starsiak says. “If it’s in and Starsiak the thumbs up. Filming of the right location at the right price, we can season one began shortly after that. After make it work.” TownePost.com / JUNE 2017 / INDY METRO
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“There’s always something new,” Laine says. “We never know exactly what the problem is going to be, we just know there’s going to be one. It could be a sewer line, a gas line or a foundation.”
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Indiana’s Longest Running Juried Art Fair Moves to the Middle of June The Talbot Street Art Fair, is moving to the third weekend in June. This decision was made by the Fair Committee as more events were scheduled for the second weekend in the popular month. Since there are several other art festivals on the second weekend, many artists have had to make a decision as to which city they will exhibit. By moving the show, more artists will be able to bring their talents to Indianapolis.
Celebrating it’s 62nd year, the fair features over 250 artists both locally and nationally. The artists exhibit on Talbot Street between 16th & 20th Streets presenting work in various mediums. These include sculpture, glass, painting, jewelry, photography, ceramics, wood, printmaking, mixed media and fiber. The host neighborhood, HerronMorton Place has planned a special food-court area at the fair this year. Located near the Herron High School, this area will provide some seating and shade for attendees. This is a family -friendly event and, as always, the admission is free!
to master the weather. Many good conversations have been held in artists’ tents during a rain shower. This year’s fair will be held June 17–18. Hours on Saturday are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hours on Sunday are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Talbot Street Art Fair provides scholarship programs to various educational institutions in the fine art disciplines. This fair is administrated by all volunteer help and all proceeds, after expenses, are donated to the above. For more information about the fair, please visit talbotstreet.org.
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On a bright spring morning, Jeremiah Floyd unlocks the front door of the Salty Siren Tattoo Lounge. Inside are comfortable couches and brightly colored walls decorated in a nautical theme. It doesn’t look like a typical tattoo and piercing shop. “We don’t want it to look like Satan’s basement,” he says.
Jeremiah and his wife Lenny are owners of Salty Siren, located at 480 East Main Street in Greenwood. Open for just over a year, they’re trying to update common perceptions of the industry that include dark, sketchy spaces populated by bikers and felons. “We want to spread the change that we want to see in the industry throughout Central Indiana,” Lenny says. “I’ve always been interested in tattooing, but so many people in tattoo shops are closed off or
condescending and not welcoming. I don’t want the industry to have a persona of rough-and-tumble, rude people.” “There are biker bars, and there are martini bars,” Jeremiah says. “We want to be a martini bar. We want to provide a different atmosphere where everybody is welcome.” The shop offers four separate stations for tattoo and one for piercing. In addition to her responsibilities as owner, Lenny works as a tattoo artist. She graduated from Center
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Grove High School and went on to earn a Fine Arts degree from Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI.
don’t realize how hard it is until they tattoo themselves or a buddy, and then they’re like ‘oh, whoops’.”
After college, she went to work as an instructional aide at an elementary school but gravitated toward tattooing as an outlet for her artistic bent.
Ill-conceived or poorly executed tattoos often end up getting corrected at Salty Siren. Jeremiah estimates that 40 percent of their business consists of covering pre-existing art, and it’s not always the artist’s fault. Sometimes it’s the result of a youthful, hasty decision.
“I started tattooing six years ago working under a mentor that I met at church,” she says.
because of the size of the tattoo, or your art is simple or not in the style of the tattoo artist. Probably the weirdest thing I’ve done is Chester Cheetah from the Cheetos commercial. “There are lots of reasons why people want particular tattoos. It could be a part of memorializing somebody’s life, whether it’s something tragic or happy. We had a group of brothers come in that got a tattoo in memory of a trip they took together, and I got to hear all about the trip. It’s neat to have families and groups of friends come in together. You get to hear some really cool stories.”
Lenny believes the mentoring process was critical to her development, regardless of her artistic talent.
“Lenny’s 30 and I’m 32,” Jeremiah says. “In our age group, everybody was getting a tattoo at 18. Putting something on your body that lasts forever shouldn’t be done impulsively.”
“It’s not just the artistry skills,” she says. “You have to understand the calibration of your machine. It’s about depth, speed, consistency and setting the voltage of the machine to your specific hand.
“A lot of them just got a tattoo to say they got one,” Lenny adds. “One woman I talked to yesterday told me, ‘You shouldn’t be allowed to get a tattoo when you’re on spring break in high school.’”
“There are a lot of people who get tattoos done by non-professional artists,” she adds. “They’re people who maybe work out of their home and didn’t complete a formal apprenticeship. They bought their equipment off Amazon or at a yard sale, they got no formal training and a lot of them
The Floyds’ clients come in all ages and from varied backgrounds. They’re open to any art that doesn’t oppress people or serve as a symbol of hatred.
“Being a part of the community is important to us,” Lenny says. “We’re hosting a blood drive on June 3, and we’ll be a part of Freedom Fest. I’m from Greenwood and graduated from Center Grove. I love Greenwood.”
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Greenwood Community School Corporation’s Teacher of the Year was recently awarded to Jennifer Hussung, a second grade teacher at Southwest Elementary. Growing up, Hussung’s would play school with chickens on her family’s farm. Today, she is in her 16th year of teaching and has taught a variety of grade levels. “Second [grade] is definitely my favorite,” she says. “[The students are] starting to really put all of the pieces together. Seeing the students’ growth, the things they were not able to do at the beginning of the year that they can at the end, it’s very rewarding to get to see that growth and see all those lightbulbs go off and make connections and to be more confident in themselves.” Hussung’s favorite part of her job is the relationships that she builds with her students. She gets daily visits from past
“You’re with them for 180 days, so you spend a lot of time together,” Hussung says. “Just building those relationships and getting to see them grow throughout the grades and the school years is fun too. My girls go to school in [the Greenwood corporation] too, so it’s kinda fun to follow [former students] and get to see your students grow up.” Hussung’s class has RTI time, which allows her to spend some one-on-one time with her students on what they specifically need to work on. A laptop cart sits at the front of her classroom, and lesson demonstration and remediation programs are used. She looks forward to walking into her classroom each day and seeing her students.
happens every single day.” Hussung was nominated for the Teacher of the Year award by Southwest Principal Beth Guilfoy. She didn’t know she was nominated but got called into a meeting with Guilfoy and found out she won. “I was very surprised. I wasn’t expecting it at all,” Hussung says. “I’m very thankful to win the award.” Throughout her teaching career, Hussung has learned how to better handle situations and to be an advocate for students who need help with learning, behaviors or situations at home.
“I’ve just learned how to be an advocate for those kids that need a voice and to make sure that they get their needs met,” Hussung says. “You can go to college and learn how to teach reading and math and writing and “At this age especially, they’re still very spelling and all that, but there aren’t really compassionate and are excited to see you,” she says. “It’s never the same day in teaching. courses on how to handle unfortunate situations that kids are dealing with.” There’s always something different that
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you necessarily,” she says. “Because if you love people well, that gives you a peace and a satisfaction, knowing that you have tried to honor the Lord in the best way that you can.” A bright smile, a happy attitude and a pair of flip flops describe the person that Mrs. Schellin is daily. Beloved by all her students, she will always be their mom away from home and mentor. After serving GCA for fourteen school years, she leaves to spread her love to others in the greater Greenwood community and beyond.
“It seemed like family,” Schellin says. “I knew everybody and everybody’s parents, and it really felt like we were all together raising each other’s kids with the same focus in mind of honoring the Lord.” After working there for some time, the school promoted Mrs. Schellin to assistant principal and later to elementary principal. While advancing in her workplace, she witnessed many children, including her own, grow up and leave GCA. “[GCA] has invested in my own children, and I feel like it has been a privilege to try to care for and help other people see great things happen for their children,” she says. After serving at GCA for fourteen school years, she has helped the children grow, learn and serve God in everyday life, and she leaves one last challenge to the entire student body. “My challenge to students would be to make the most of every opportunity that you are given here and take advantage of the relationships that you can have with the teachers, because that is something that other schools, because of size, do not always have,” Schellin says. “A student does not always have that opportunity. I have seen what a difference in my own children’s lives taking advantage of those things can be.” Looking ahead into her future, Mrs. Schellin has an exciting adventure awaiting her at Southland Community Church. Continuing to pursue her passion for helping others in her community, Mrs. Schellin is working as the director of children’s ministry and adult education at Southland Community Church. Greenwood Christian Academy said its goodbyes in May, and Mrs. Schellin is growing, once again, in a place where she will succeed through serving others, leaving one last bit of advice. “Love people well, even those who may not have always been the best to you, treated you kindly or maybe not even get along with 30 / GREENWOOD COMMUNITY MAGAZINE / JUNE 2017 / atGreenwood.com
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