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WELL GROUNDED: BRICKHOUSE COFFEE CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING If you were opening a brand new, independently-owned coffee shop, would you open it 1,000 feet east of one of the highest-grossing Starbucks outlets in the Indianapolis area? Jared Stayton would.
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If you were opening a brand new, independently-owned coffee shop, would you open it 1,000 feet east of one of the highest-grossing Starbucks outlets in the Indianapolis area? Jared Stayton would. “I love it”, he says. “We’ll follow wherever Starbucks is, because they’ve done all the market research. Besides, Starbucks paved the way for guys like us to do oldworld style coffee roasting. It’s like craft beer. Some guys still drink Miller Lite, but there’s a growing segment of the population that loves small-batch brewing. “It used to be that people would drink anything - McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts, Maxwell House - but then they taste ethically-sourced, properly roasted coffee that’s prepared well, and they can taste the difference.” Brickhouse Coffee opened its first retail location in August located in the former Jonathan Byrd’s Cafeteria building. The business grew out of the Stayton family’s mission effort in Spain. Jared and Lora Stayton met in Bloomington and occasionally thought about opening a coffee house on the Indiana University campus. After they got married, they went on a mission trip to Spain to assist with a fitness facility in a community center there. After the center opened, the expansion plans included a coffee house.
with their two daughters so Jared could attend barista school. When they went to Spain to help open the coffee shop they encountered visa problems. So, they returned to Indiana to pursue coffee roasting here. “We’ve been roasting coffee for four years now,” Jared says. “We started with a 1912 coffee roaster in an old brick house at our church’s property. It used to be a ministry of our church community. But I wanted to move it off the church property, so we got our church’s blessing to take it here, and that removed a financial burden from the church.”
9 p.m. on weeknights and 10 on Saturdays because we want to provide that night time coffeehouse where you can have a game night. We’re partnering with local restaurants like Jockamo’s Pizza so you can order their food and have it delivered here. “Six days a week this is our mission field. It’s not a Christian coffeehouse, per se, but we hope to build relationships in the community,” Jared says. Brickhouse Coffee is located at 100 Byrd Way in Greenwood or you can give them a call at 317-550-0034.
When the Staytons decided to expand the business into retail, they began looking for a space that was big enough for both the roastery and the coffeehouse and could accommodate delivery of 1500-pound sacks of coffee. “We needed semi-accessibility to deliver the coffee beans,” Jared says. “And when my partner showed me this space, we felt like it was a good fit.” Brickhouse celebrated its grand opening October 21. Patrons can enjoy a relaxed family atmosphere with coffee roasted on site. “Most coffee places in Indy close by six or seven o’clock,” Jared says. “We’re open until
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Greenwood Christian Academy is a K-12 school, so you’d expect it to be a bustling, active place. But on November 21, the action will be ramped up exponentially as the students prepare approximately 10,000 meals for delivery to the hungry in both Greenwood and Harlan, Kentucky. GCA Development Director Annie Houston has coordinated several different fundraisers for the school, but she wanted to tie fundraising more closely to the school’s Christian mission of serving others. “In prior years we’ve done the traditional fundraisers,” she says. “Silent auctions, discount cards, walkathons. It’s a great funding model, but we really wanted to do something that was service-based and
benefitted not only us but other people.” Though some of the money will stay with the school to fund scholarships, most of it will go toward providing meals for the poor. Locally, 1,500 meals will go to The Refuge, a faith-based community outreach organization in Greenwood. Another 8,500 will be distributed in Harlan, Kentucky. “We had other options to send the food to Haiti or Sri Lanka, but families in Appalachia are only four hours away from us and one in five go hungry every day,” Houston says. “It seemed like a really good place to get our students invested. “We’re looking at some options for our juniors and seniors to start doing mission trips there.” Champion Events is providing the
infrastructure for the fundraiser, purchasing the food and delivering the meals. Each school family is expected to work toward raising funds to contribute to the benefit. “We’re asking all of our families to set a goal of $1,500 in pledges,” Houston says. “Every family will have a web page, and we’re asking them to send out 30 texts, emails or personal calls asking for $50 or more. “Our family kickoff night was Oct. 24, and the families will fundraise until November 21. Then from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the kids will cycle through and pack the meals for shipping.” Though the project is a huge undertaking for a school of about 600 students, it will replace three other separate fundraisers. Houston sees the benefits in both efficiency and in tying fundraising to the school’s mission.
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“This is replacing everything except possibly a fun run in the spring,” she says. “But we won’t be asking for pledges for that. All the money will come from registrations. “I think it’s really appropriate for a Christian school to model and teach that they need to serve others,” Houston adds. “It’s part of our faith. And, from a sustainability perspective, you can only do those traditional fundraisers for so long before people get burned out and bored with that. We had really kind of plateaued with those, and I felt like we were doing more selling than serving. I’d really like to move us more toward service.” GCA is still accepting sponsorships for the event at several different giving levels. More information can be found at the event website gcak12.org/feedtheneedcorporate-sponsors/.
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As a college sophomore, Center Grove graduate Brooke Van Paris was leading a pretty good life. As she drove through an intersection close to the Indiana University campus on October 29, 2009, her uppermost thought was how good a turkey sandwich would taste when she got home.
“It was 25 degrees outside, and we had to do 10 burpees, then submerge in an ice bath, get out, do 10 more and get back in the ice. I made it nine rounds, but then passed out with stage three hypothermia.”
Moments later her life changed drastically when she was struck by another car in a head-on collision. Over the next two years, Van Paris wore elbow-to-fingertips casts. The former gymnast and cheerleader couldn’t feed, bathe or dress herself. After graduation, she took a job in Indianapolis and resigned herself to a more sedentary life. Finally, a co-worker’s “pestering” convinced her to enter a 3-mile obstacle course race in Ohio. “I’d never run a mile without stopping in my life, and I probably failed 75 percent of the obstacles,” she says. “But it changed my life. Nobody judged me. People were all at different fitness levels, and everybody helped me over obstacles. Over the next nine months, I ran 48 races and lost 40 pounds.” Van Paris was contacted by the Fox Television Network and selected to compete in Season 1 of “American Grit”, a fitness competition and reality show. In the second episode she was chosen to compete
Van Paris lost all motor control and remembers hearing the other competitors ask if she was dead. “I remember thinking, ‘I just did this for some stupid reality show?’” she says. After she recovered and returned home, Van Paris decided to add body building to her fitness regimen. In April of 2017, she took first place in her first competition. Representatives of another reality show had noticed the obstacle-course-racing bodybuilder, and she signed on to compete in Season 5 of “The Broken Skull Challenge,” hosted by former WWE wrestler Steve Austin. The show began in late September, with Van Paris first appearing in an episode in early October. “One of my biggest life lessons is to take opportunities as they come up,” she says. “If I’d never done an obstacle course race, I wouldn’t have been on American Grit or lost the weight. If I’d never done bodybuilding, I wouldn’t have gotten invited for Broken Skull. I just want to live every day and wake up with a smile on my face.”
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Zeke Sodrel is only 21 years old, but according to his mom, Angie, she estimates that he’s already burned through most of his nine lives. He was just 14 years old when he was messing around on his dirt bike. After taking a jump, he had a fight with gravity on his way back down to earth when the handle bars went between his goggles and his helmet, crushing his septum upon landing.
pole. Because Zeke’s window was rolled down, his face scraped the wooden pole. Splinters punctured his face, which also sustained multiple fractures. “My face hurt and was swollen for a couple of months,” he says. It was another situation where had his body been positioned just an inch in a different direction and the impact could have been fatal.
“The doctor said Zeke’s nose was crushed worse than any he’d ever seen other than a drag racer he had worked on who had crashed into a wall,” Angie says. “The doctor also made it clear that had the handle bars hit just a half an inch upward, he would have died instantly because they would have been driven into his brain stem.”
“Thankfully, God kept all my kids safe that day,” Angie says.
After repairing the septum, Zeke was told no contact sports for eight weeks. Not that recovery slowed him down much. It seems nothing does.
Despite these near-misses, Zeke, landscaping manager for Sodrel Lawnscapes, LLC in Greenwood, hasn’t taken his foot off the gas pedal of life. He still approaches every day, fearless and full of highenergy spirit.
“He’s a fearless kid with a high tolerance for pain,” says Angie, who describes her son as a hard worker who also likes to have fun to the extreme. An avid fisherman and hunter, Zeke likes to build wheeling rigs, which he takes to off-road parks. He also races dirt bikes on the weekend at various motocross races. Zeke admits that he’s got a reputation for pushing the limits. “Everybody does kind of call me a daredevil,” he admits. It turns out that the high pain tolerance is a characteristic that has served him well through the years. In July 2013, Zeke was riding in the car with his sister, who was driving, when suddenly a squirrel darted in front of the car. She reflexively jerked the steering wheel in the opposite direction, overcorrecting and sideswiping a telephone
And that wasn’t the only day the divine intervened on Zeke’s behalf. When he started driving, he took a corner too fast in the rain and totaled his truck. He also totaled two other vehicles in two separate accidents — each time walking away without a scratch.
“Honestly, none of these accidents have altered my son’s personality in the slightest,” Angie says. “In fact, he just broke his ankle a month ago in a dirt bike race. He goes for it — always living life to the fullest. In doing so, he’s given me a lot of gray hairs.” Zeke was unaware that his mom had even entered him in the Luckiest Hoosier Alive contest until she delivered the news that he had won. “That’s awesome!” he says of learning that his prize winnings include going to Hoosier Park Racing & Casino for an evening of gambling and a free dinner for two. Perhaps he’ll take his mom. I think mothers everywhere will agree that she’s earned it.
CARDINALS SEEK BREAKTHROUGH SEASON Writer / Matt Roberts Photography provided by Ball State Athletics
Entering their fifth season under Coach James Whitford, Ball State University basketball may be poised for a breakthrough.
“(Recruiting in-state) is critical,” Whitford says. “Indiana is such a talent-rich hotbed. The talent here is one of the main reasons I wanted to come to Ball State.” The Cardinals return a wealth of experience in the backcourt including junior point guard Tayler Persons. Whitford credits Persons with speeding up the team’s offensive tempo last year.
After posting fewer than eight wins in each of his first two years, the next two seasons ended with the Cardinals winning more than 20 games each and enjoying “We’ve always tried to play fast, but we were postseason play for the first time since 2002. better on offense and Tayler Persons is a really good point guard,” he says. At least part of the reason for the turnaround may be the Cardinals’ success Whitford’s greatest concern is a scarcity of at recruiting Indiana high school players. options in the post. Over the course of his four years in Muncie, Whitford has landed eight Indiana “If there’s something that keeps me up at All-Stars. In the 10 years immediately night it’s our depth in the frontcourt,” he prior, Ball State signed only two. Those 10 says. “We really can’t afford injuries there. years resulted in only one winning season We have (Tahjai) Teague and Trey Moses, and no postseason berths. but after that we go sophomore-freshmanINDY METRO / NOVEMBER 2017 / TownePost.com
freshman. Those guys are going to have to contribute this year.” The Cardinals lost two starters to graduation from last from last year’s 21-13 team in Franko House and Indianapolis Roncalli product Ryan Weber. Though both will be missed, Whitford worries more about replacing House. “Ryan was a good player, but we have a little more depth there,” Whitford says. “We’re pretty deep in the perimeter. Franko was a unique player. He was a playmaker from the 4 and 5 spot, so we’ll have to make up for him by committee.” The 2017-18 season opens with several tough tests, including dates with Oregon, Dayton, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. Mid-November has the Cardinals bouncing between Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania over the course of just eight days.
“There’s no question that this is our toughest schedule by far,” Whitford says. “It’s really difficult not only with the competition but with the travel. “Since I got here, I’ve been trying to get involved in the more high-profile ESPN events. It’s not that hard for us to get games with major schools on the road, but it’s very hard to get them at a neutral site, and it’s hard for us to get on ESPN.” With increased success and higherprofile opponents come higher fan expectations. The last time Ball State played in the NCAA tournament, most of the current roster was in preschool. It’s quite a leap from the College Basketball Insider Tournament (CIT) to the NCAA. But with consecutive 20-win seasons capped by postseason play, the Cardinals may be ready for the next step.
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Walking the grounds at the Penrod Arts Fair on #IndianasNicestDay, First Lady Janet Holcomb readily points out the artistic technique used by one of many talented artists.
to 10 years in 4-H. She was also a Girl Scout. Her drawing cultivated her desire for creativity, which she says applies to her decision-making and many areas of her life.
“During college, I took business classes, having been influenced by my parents and grandparents, who are small business owners,” says Holcomb, who earned “This is encaustic painting, which involves her undergraduate and master’s degrees a method of warming wax, adding colored in Fine Art from Ball State University. pigments and applying on a specially treated “I understood the importance of canvas or wood,” Holcomb says. “It gives the entrepreneurship as a supplement to a painting depth.” potential career in the arts.” A few feet behind us, the artist is encouraging other attendees to touch his painting, for it is approachable. The term “approachable” also describes Holcomb. She is walking around Penrod with her niece, relatively under the radar, for few people recognize her and she is quite comfortable with this.
Holcomb has served as Vice President of her family’s business, R&R Engineering, headquartered in Summitville, Indiana. Due to her responsibilities as Indiana’s First Lady, she needed to step away from R&R to take on an entirely different role, yet in some ways she is coming full circle with her passions.
Growing up near Muncie on a horse farm, Holcomb’s first loves were horses, ponies and drawing. The equestrian passion led
Upon her husband taking the oath of office, one of Holcomb’s first meetings was with the Indiana Arts Commission. INDY METRO / NOVEMBER 2017 / TownePost.com
“The Arts are so important. It enhances the quality of life in our community, shows a richness of culture and diversity, and there is so much talent in Indiana to celebrate,” Holcomb says. “Art adds so much to our lives and shows us new things. An experience with the arts has a tremendously positive impact.” A serendipitous moment occurred at Penrod Arts Fair when the First Lady visited with local artist Jessica Green, who does a lot of plein air painting in and around Indianapolis. The First Lady commented that Green might enjoy painting at the Governor’s Residence some time. This simple suggestion became a reality a couple weeks later. Armed with paint brushes, a small army of en plein air painters set up their easels around the exterior of the Residence, capturing the beauty of the grounds. Green, alongside six other Indy painters, went to work painting a scene in the garden. Green is known for her fresh and modern style, utilizing bright colors.
“Indy has a great, thriving arts community,” Green says. “It’s a pleasure to have our First Lady be so supportive of the arts.” Harrison Arts Center resident Justin Vining was among the painters. Vining is a renowned landscape painter with a specialty in architecture. Artists Addie Hirschten, Alicia Zanoni, Donna Shortt, Stephanie Thomson, and Jed Dorsey were also engaged in creating landscapes alongside one another. “The grounds are beautiful all year long,” Holcomb says. “It is wonderful to capture the spaces on canvas by these talented artists.” “It’s surprising where this (creative approach) intersects: with cooking, decorating at home, business decisions. It is all bound by a common thread of creativity,” adds Holcomb, who sees elements of her formal art training as a creative problem solver. Another passion of Holcomb’s was facilitated by an unpleasant experience, and one that illustrates her strength and resilience. A few years ago, while Holcomb and her husband were asleep, their home was burglarized and her purse stolen. The police told them that it was for the best that they did not wake up during the home invasion, as the suspects were likely armed. Holcomb had been afraid of guns but decided to take a gun safety class. The experience did not end there, because she enjoyed it. This led to several more classes and becoming an instructor. She focuses upon the safety and responsibility, proper usage and education of fire arms. “I felt vulnerable and violated,” says Holcomb, who realized she had several thousands of dollars charged to her credit cards by the time she woke up after the burglary. “We need a way to defend ourselves. I had reached out to some friends who were into shooting sports and took some classes.” TownePost.com / NOVEMBER 2017 / INDY METRO
This year, for the first Gridiron Dinner since her husband took office, one of the best jokes of the evening centered around First Lady Janet Holcomb and her accomplishment of being an experienced markswoman. “The barricades that used to line the front lawn of the Governor’s Residence have been replaced with signs of Janet Holcomb holding a gun that read, ‘Go ahead, make my day!’” shared the pundit, garnering one of the biggest laughs of the evening. Holcomb, who was not present for that dinner, smiles and says, “Yes, I heard about that!” Given her many interests, which include entrepreneurship, gun safety, Veterans affairs, and the arts, Holcomb is thoughtful in her approach as her role as First Lady with defining her agenda. She thoroughly enjoys being in public and meeting fellow Hoosiers. One of her favorite moments was meeting 4-H students at the Indiana State Fair who share the same passion that she had as a young girl. Holcomb and her husband proudly attend events all over the state and around the world, yet perhaps the most popular Holcomb family member has four legs. With his own social media following, the First Dog, Henry, a Miniature Schnauzer, tends to steal the show when accompanying the Holcombs. You can follow Henry on Twitter at @FirstDogHenry and the Holcombs at @FLJanetHolcomb and @GovHolcomb. INDY METRO / NOVEMBER 2017 / TownePost.com
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Topgolf, a restaurant, entertainment and golfing venue with more than 30 locations nationwide, opened its first Indiana location on October 13 and is now in full swing on 116th Street in Fishers across from IKEA and Portillo’s.
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“We have games for beginners, or you can play more advanced practice games if you’re a golfer,” says Adrienne Chance, director of corporate communications for Topgolf. “There’s the rooftop terrace where you can just come and enjoy a drink and live music. We also have pool tables in the lower-level lounge. And you can change the channel on the TV in your hitting bay to watch whatever game you want. It’s a very unique
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“When we started exploring this area, Fishers was consistently recognized as a top place to live, work and play, and there’s lots of businesses coming here,” says Chance, adding that Topgolf Fishers offers free gaming sessions Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for high school golf teams and any charity serving youth. “So, we wanted to be part of this community.
The support from the community’s been incredible.” Zariah Lombroso, marketing manager for Topgolf Fishers, says one of the company’s strengths is the diverse experience it can offer patrons. “Topgolf is for everyone – all ages, all skill levels,” Lombroso says. “We want to be a place where the community can come together and have a great time. Whether it’s a family night out, a meeting or first date, Topgolf is a place for all. “The majority of the food is made from scratch daily, and we strive to make awesome food for every occasion,” she adds. “Topgolf isn’t your typical bar food, and we can’t wait for guests to experience it.” The Fishers City Council approved construction of the facility in January of 2016, and Chance says Topgolf ’s economic output is projected to be $264.5 million over a 10-year period. “The biggest thing I can tell those who have not been to Topgolf is be prepared to have a great time,” Lombroso adds. “You do not have to be a golfer to enjoy Topgolf. In fact, half of our guests are non-golfers. We have many different entertainment options for all to enjoy.” Topgolf is located at 9200 E. 116 St. in Fishers. For more information, call 765-212-3488 or visit topgolf.com/us/fishers.
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BUTLER BASKETBALL HEAD COACH LAVALL JORDAN LOOKS TO CONTINUE WINNING TRADITION Writer / Matt Roberts
Butler University basketball has been remarkably resilient through its last six coaching changes. From Thad Matta to Chris Holtmann, the Bulldogs regularly promoted assistant coaches to the top job and continued to enjoy success. New Coach LaVall Jordan spent last year at the University of Milwaukee, but that doesn’t mean he’s a stranger to the program. After playing at Butler under coach Todd Lickliter, Jordan served as an assistant coach at Butler for four years. He then joined Lickliter’s staff at Iowa and moved on to Michigan before accepting the head coaching
job at Milwaukee. That team won only eight games during the regular season and lost its last nine in a row. But entering the Horizon League tournament as a 10-seed, the Panthers won three games and lost to eventual champion Northern Kentucky by six points.
the mark of a champion. “I give that group a lot of credit. There were a lot of reasons not to believe, losing nine in a row, but when we won the first game (in the tournament) it was like, ‘Hey, we just did it the way we wanted to all year.’”
A first-year head coach might be expected to question his coaching philosophy after such Working with multiple successful coaches a tough start, but Jordan believes staying has provided Jordan with an opportunity to true to the process facilitated the late-season absorb distinctive strengths and styles. turnaround. “I’ve been fortunate with the type of people “Nothing changed,” he says. “Which is I’ve been around,” Jordan says. “They’re all what allowed us to have good results. If great human beings. With Barry Collier, guys didn’t believe in what we were doing, it was instilling values and holding people if we hadn’t been consistent as a staff, we accountable. Thad was an unbelievable wouldn’t have advanced. Consistency is motivator who just had a gift for getting
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guys ready. Todd was terrific at team building. He got a lot of respect from the locker room because players knew he cared about them. Brad’s (Stevens) organizational skills are off the charts. Coach Beilein is a great tactician. I really learned how to run a program from him. “I still lean on them all now,” Jordan adds. “The nice thing is, they’re just a phone call away.” Jordan was named Butler’s head basketball coach in June, which left only a few weeks to verify that all the freshmen were staying and make arrangements for the team’s trip to Spain. The Bulldogs got four games against international competition and the trip provided a good opportunity for the team to gel with its new coach. “That was really beneficial,” Jordan says. “We had 10 days just to be together and build relationships, especially with the freshmen. It was also good to be able to go
against an opponent. Because in practice, you’re trying to figure out if it was good offense or bad defense. Facing somebody else and having some adversity and seeing who was communicating, having guys make some important shots and seeing what the freshmen can do.” Jordan will put his own stamp on the team, but don’t expect any wholesale changes to
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“The Butler Way.” “We’ve always been opportunistic here, but valuing the basketball has been a staple,” he says. “We’ve always been rated pretty highly in fewest turnovers, and that won’t change. If it does, we’ll have to have some conversations. And playing unselfishly has always been a staple, I don’t see the way we play changing that much.”
THE GREENHOUSE NEW COWORKING SPACE OPENS DOORS IN GREENWOOD
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Pioneering Greenwood’s new cooperative work space is Laura Kennedy, the Executive Director of Greenhouse JoCo Coworking, a non-profit organization that will encourage entrepreneurship through a new format. After months of planning, considering other successful models, like Launch Fishers and collaborating with Greenwood Mayor Mark W. Myers, Brent Tilson, Christian Maslowski, President of the Greater Greenwood Chamber, Greenhouse is growing into a temporary and donated home inside the Tilson HR Building. Just imagine — you are working from home taking an important business call, when the doorbell rings sending your dogs into a barking frenzy, which wakes the napping baby causing you to snap and lose the deal, or you are meeting a client in a coffee shop because having them in your home is uncomfortable. Scenarios like these, along with an increasing number of remote employees, are the reasons that coworking spaces are popping up around Central Indiana. This unique environment cultivates growth by providing a resource with enrichment workshops by experts for start-ups and provides business owners or independent contractors a place to network by sharing ideas, skills and talents across industries. “We want to do educational programming, hold meet ups to connect people in Greenwood, and we want Greenhouse to be a community asset for the southside,” Kennedy says. After a successful Pre-Launch Brainstorming Party in late September, Kennedy and her collaborative team feel confident that there is a market and a need for this type of shared office amenities. In addition to Brent Tilson and Barnes and Thornburg, Greenhouse is looking for other corporate sponsorships for support to help offset the costs associated with running this completely voluntary undertaking. As a former WISH TV reporter, Laura
Brent Tilson, President and CEO of Tilson, helped launch the Greenhouse coworking space, which is currently located inside the Tilson HR Building.
Kennedy has made many business contacts covering the Greenwood City Council and has utilized her MBA as she became an entrepreneur with her business, Tilt Up Media. “I’m in a unique position in Greenwood as the current owner and operator of a startup and to be organizing a group of people doing start-ups in Greenwood,” she says. Elaborating that she could help someone who needs a video and that they may in turn help her with a website. These are the types of connections that they are excited to build. Another important aspect for members of Greenhouse is working with Indiana Passport Network to establish across the office services within Launch Fishers and Launch Indy. “The idea behind passport is that someone who is a member of Greenhouse could go
up to Launch Fishers and they could come down here to work,” Kennedy says. “The idea of being very inclusionary and to have lots of cross pollination of all these great ideas and new companies that are starting up across the whole area.” She is ready to grow Greenhouse and establish a sense of community that will branch out to nourish new business growth on the southside. The introductory membership fee is $250 and members receive a key fob to enter the Greenhouse office space with access from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Experts are being scheduled that will provide information for start-ups on topics such as, formulating corporations, taxes, legal matters, marketing strategies, business basics, negotiating, working with partners, interviewing and hiring techniques. For more Information email Laura@ greenhousejoco.com or follow on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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One Tenth Boutique recently opened in Greenwood, but the store’s products and mission have a global impact. Owning a store has been a dream of Theresa Carmichael’s for a decade, but it wasn’t until about two years ago that she knew what kind of store it would be. “I wanted to create a place for women to come that they could feel loved and worthy and to know that they were wonderfully and beautifully created,” Carmichael says. “About two years ago, I actually just started
with a journal. As I would have dreams and visions and just through supplication of prayer, I would have different ideas and I would just continue to write them down.”
the boutique, that I was supposed to also carry products that help those in other countries that are not as well blessed as we are here in America.”
She went on a “boutique mission” with her daughter, visiting several boutiques in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee to see what products they carried and how their customer service was. Her and her daughter also traveled to Haiti on a mission trip a year ago, and it was eye-opening for Carmichael.
One Tenth Boutique carries gift items from countries such as El Salvador, Kenya and Vietnam as well as American fashion trends and accessories.
“After serving there for two weeks, I was just like what can I do? I have to do more,” Carmichael says. “I knew that it was part of
“They’re uniquely made, you can’t go a lot of places, especially here in Greenwood and find these products because they’re made out of kay-ay grass or they’re made out of just the resources they have,” Carmichael says. “There’s products here that have a
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story behind it and that’s the biggest thing shopping with a purpose.” The name One Tenth comes from a Bible verse, Malachi 3:10, which says that if someone tithes, or gives 10 percent of one’s income back to God, there will be an abundance of blessings upon that person. One Tenth’s 10 percent will go to local and global charities. A T-shirt line that One Tenth carries will allow customers to choose which of three charities their 10 percent will go to. Carmichael hopes that as they grow, eventually they can give 100 percent of those T-shirt sales back to charity. In addition to the variety of merchandise, the furniture was hand-crafted. Some of the walls came from a barn built in the 1800s, including a prayer wall where customers can place prayer requests on a tag. Those requests are prayed over by Carmichael daily.
Theresa Carmichael owns One Tenth Boutique in Greenwood.
“The heart behind One Tenth is to give back, to be the change, to be different, to be kind,” Carmichael says. “I think my biggest thing is sometimes we just have to be still. I just hope when people come into One Tenth, that they slow down and realize that we live in such a bigger world than what we even see. And I hope that the pieces that we carry actually show that we go from here to there.” One Tenth Boutique is located at 202 N. Madison Ave, Suite 5. Greenwood, IN 46142 or you can give them a call at 317893-2116.
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The Teal Canary LOCAL ART STUDIO PROVIDES A PLACE TO CREATE
Hommell believes making art with a friend, family member or oneself is purposeful time to create something. She says the space has turned into more than she ever imagined, and the space is available to rent for parties and showers.
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Amy Hommell has been working on her craft since childhood and opened an art studio in downtown Greenwood to provide a bigger space to share her love and passion for art with the community.
I’ve always been an artist my whole life,” Hommell says. “When I opened, I envisioned it to be a space for me to do my art and sell my murals and my personal art. I One of the most impactful moments in thought, ‘well, I’ll throw in some classes here Hommel’s career came when she was and there, and we’ll call it a day.’” approached by a man who wanted a private art lesson for he and his wife’s third Her art studio became a gathering place anniversary. The event was on Hommell’s for other artists and a place for her to have son’s birthday, but she made it work. lessons and host classes.
During the lesson at Vino Villa, Hommell “Little did I know that it was going to learned the couple did missions work, which completely turn into this business of She opened Teal Canary in 2013 after giving impacting people’s lives through visual arts or is something she had always private art lessons for several years in her even just impacting their lives through them creating,” Hommell says. home. “I’ve always painted, I’ve always drawn,
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wanted to do. “They kind of started getting emotional, and we all got emotional for a second. He said, ‘we’ve been praying for an artist for two years [to go on a trip],’” Hommell says.
Street next to DeBaun’s Auto Service. More than 300 community members showed up to help paint the mural, and Hommell finished the higher areas.
Hommell travelled to Nicaragua, where she did art with orphans. She had a translator, but the kids watched her movements and picked up the red when Hommell did.
Hommell describes the feeling of driving by the mural as surreal and something that makes her happy. People will text her to tell her they think of her when passing by it or send her photos of their kids in front of the mural.
“It was indescribable, really, you can’t describe what you see,” Hommell says. “Most of those children had never even touched a paint brush before, let alone saw canvas. They don’t even really have stores there. Their hearts are so full, though. It was probably the most incredible experience I’ve had as an artist — to be able to share my knowledge with people.”
“It’s a representation of the beautiful things that we see, and the things that we all experience,” she says. “We all experience agriculture and we all experience education. All of the things that the community foundation gives back to, we are all experiencing every day. It just makes you happy to see a symbol on one of those mandalas.”
Hommell also won the Color the County Contest in 2016 that was put on by the Johnson County Community Foundation. Hommel’s mural design of eight mandalas represent the eight fields of interest areas that the foundation gives money to, such as education, agriculture and health and human services.
Hommell says there is still more to do in the community, and her love for art comes from confidence in her ability. She’s a visual person and knows others learn visually, too.
The mural was designed and sketched by Hommell on the side of a building on Main
“I think that when you can teach someone visually or give someone a visual picture, it just speaks louder than words can,” Hommell says.
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