Lawrence Newsletter March 2015

MARCH 2015

Final Flory

Why this Lawrence CEO Keeps Getting Invited to the NCAA’s Big Dance

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STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Our cover story this month features Flory May and her company The Registration System. This Lawrence-based business has a long relationship with the Final Four and other major sporting events.

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Back in 1961 Heather Hills Country Club opened on Indy’s east side. It was the first 18-hole course designed by worldrenowned course architect Pete Dye, leading him to build other golf courses throughout the world. The course was reputed to be one of the most challenging layouts in Indianapolis, with mature silver maple trees, multiple bunkers and a meandering creek serving as a beautiful backdrop to the sport.

manager. “There is not much competition on this side of town that does all of what we do.”

All the amenities of a country club from unlimited golf and personal lockers to banquet facilities, a driving range and swimming pool exist. In addition there is a full-service restaurant and Pete Dye’s Pub.

can play unlimited golf with no cart fees,” Lorenzano said. If you’re not a golfer, but want access to other amenities, there are also social memberships and pool memberships.

Some aspects of the club will still be open to the public, such as the restaurant. Pizza & Pasta nights are every Wednesday along with Trivia Night. For Easter Sunday there The real selling factor is how inexpensive the will be a full brunch buffet and the famous Easter Egg hunt. Mother’s Day will also course is for members. “For just $3,500 a year for singles or $5,000 a year for families feature a full brunch buffet. Look at the new Fast forward to 1989, Heather Hills was website or call for reservations. Also, the you get full access to everything the club renamed Maple Creek Golf & Country Club has to offer,” explained Joe Lorenzano, facility is available to service organizations and continued to have a strong membership membership sales director and former and business groups during the week. until the economic downturn of 2006. The Cathedral H.S. golfer. club was destined to be sold to a housing Of course golf lessons are always available, developer. But then a local businessman and “Payments on a monthly basis include food even for non-members. Swing by former club member Dave Bego stepped sometime! and beverage minimums and members in, determined to protect the legacy of Pete Dye’s first masterpiece. His father had been a long-time member and Bego had grown up playing on the course, so he wanted to preserve the historic value of it.

Under Bego’s tutelage from 2007 to 2015 the semi-private/public club has been recognized as “Indy’s Best” Golf Course (2013, 2014) and “Indy’s Best Kept Secret.”

Bego brought back Pete Dye to assist with some course design tweaks, a pavilion was built for large (up to 220 persons) parties and golf outings, the pro shop was rebuilt and the club’s pool facility has been updated.

And now, in 2015, the club has reverted back to a private country club, to better serve its members. “We are targeting golfing families as a much more economical club,” said Jim Grossi, course PGA pro and general

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LC KEY CLUB TO HOST FIRST DANCE MARATHON Writer / Allie Nash

Lawrence Central students are gearing up for their first Dance Marathon on March 21.

The planning for the event began last summer when junior and Key Club President Sam Varie heard about Dance Marathon at IU. He thought that the event would be a great project for LC’s Key Club.

“After taking a tour of Riley Hospital for Children in the summer of 2014 and learning more about the true difference that Dance marathon makes in the lives of Riley patients, we decided that bringing DM to our school was a must,” said LCDM Executive Board member Caroline Harris.

The goal of the event is raise $4,000 for Riley Children’s Hospital, who uses Dance Marathon’s a way to raise money for their patients. The club also met with someone from the Hospital to get information and get the event off the ground.

The club also got help from Ball State student Alyssa Thompson, who has been a part of the Dance Marathon at Ball State.

Thompson has met with the LC students to help with planning and guiding. Other members of the Ball State Dance Marathon team will be at the event for support.

athletic teams and performing groups were invited to participate in the event.

According to Harris, the Key Club hopes to have 250 people in attendance to show support to the Riley patients and their families. Besides Key Club members,

Riley Dance marathon started at IU in honor of the death of Ryan White, a long time Riley patient. LC’s DM will be 4 – 10 p.m. March 21 in the Fieldhouse.

“There will be lots of dancing – Riley’s signature line dance, and a group called Lawrence Swingin Singles is coming to teach the crowd how to square dance – there will be games like corn hole, ping pong, and basketball,” said Harris. “There will be riley families speaking about their experience and stories. And lastly, there will be a band made up of Riley kids called Midnight Run performing. A DJ will be there, as well.”

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Final Flory

Why this Lawrence CEO Keeps Getting Invited to the NCAA’s Big Dance Writer / Neal G. Moore Photographer / Brenda Staples

Indianapolis is hosting the NCAA Men’s Final Four basketball championship early next month (April 4 & 5) at Lucas Oil Stadium. It will be the city’s seventh time hosting what arguably is America’s second most important sporting event after the Super Bowl. Indy’s love affair with the Final Four is well documented. Many attendees and media routinely give the city high marks for its state-of-the-art facilities, a compact, easy to navigate downtown, and an enthusiastic army of volunteers, many of whom are well-schooled in the nuance of the motion offense. Hey, we love us some college basketball here.

Still, this defining event may have slipped a bit in the city’s collective conscious. While familiarity has hardly bred contempt, the Final Four isn’t necessarily the novelty it once was. “We take it for granted,” says Flory May, founder and CEO, The Registration System (TRS). “We expect that Indy is going to do very large events because we’ve had so many.” Olympic qualifying events, the Indianapolis 500 and Super Bowl come to mind.

May, however, has never lost sight of the Final Four’s importance to her city and career. Her company has provided volunteer management and deployment software for eight such tournaments—the first in

Lyz Agnew, Flory May, Joelle Baugher and Amanda Fronek

things!’ I think now we’ve graduated—we expect that we do big events. I think we all would be devastated if we didn’t have the Final Fours, and Olympic Trials, and shooting for the Super Bowl again. I think it’s an expectation, and I think it speaks to the growth of the city.”

Joelle Baugher is an Indiana Sports Corporation veteran who recently joined TRS as a contracts and accounts manager.

“It put Indy on the map. I think it probably was a factor in us getting the Super Bowl because we have had so many experiences with NCAA Final Fours, The Women’s Big Ten Championship, and all that stuff,” Baugher says. “I think having that history definitely helps with getting future large events [like another Super Bowl] that we can manage, and makes our city more attractive to those organizers to come here because that’s great for the economy.”

Florie May of The Registration System.

Posing with client Sheila Bradley of Indiana Sports Corp.

The projected economic impact from this year’s tournament is $40-50 million, although economists have long questioned the legitimacy of such claims by organizing committees. Whatever the financial fallout, it’s hard to argue against the value and positive impact of the NCAA holding its premier event in its hometown—a massive A couple of years ago TRS relocated from undertaking reliant on the kindness of downtown to Lawrence, setting up shop in volunteers. “The Sports Corp puts its trust an office on Post Road near Ft. Harrison State Park. Staffed with event professionals, in people that are manning the event areas, and they’re well-trained. They’ve just got it TRS is widely recognized as the industry leader in logistics management and ticketing down. There’s just so much history. They’ve software for mega events like the Final Four. perfected it,” exclaims Baugher.

“I think when we first started hosting these More than 1500 volunteers have signed up events it was, ‘Oooh, we’re doing the big for next month’s Final Four including Lyz 2006 here in Indy. “In many ways TRS was designed around the Final Four, and has allowed us entrée into a lot of different championships,” she explains. “The NCAA was really the foundation of what has built the modern version of TRS.”

Agnew, one of several ‘point guards’—team leaders who “make sure everyone is where they are supposed to be, everything is going smoothly, and that organizers are getting what they need,” she says. “One of the things about being a point guard is them saying, ‘Hey we need you over here today.’ It’s our responsibility to stay over if we’re needed, to fill a shift if someone fails to come in and really take initiative.”

Watching it all unfold will be May who says working with the NCAA serves to keep TRS at the top of its game. “It raises our standards. It raises expectations because the NCAA comes in with a very well defined playbook of their expectations of every community and every host committee.

Year after year it has really pushed TRS to improve its technology.”

May emphasizes the importance of a Plan B so that TRS—and by extension, the event planners—don’t get caught without backup mechanisms. “What we see consistently is that you’ve got operations that are well laid out, but when things go wrong I don’t think the audience ever notices. And things do go wrong. There are things absolutely beyond anybody’s control. And the difference between a good event and a bad event is people being able to step up and fix it,” says May. After all, what’s the worst thing that could happen—a blizzard in April? Oh, yeah, we had one of those last year. Just like the Army soldier she once was May says you better be ready for anything. “In this town we think about those things,” she smiles.

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IMMERSED WITH SCOTT JONES

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tudying someone’s process of how they achieve success can only help others. Scott Jones generously shares his methodic approach of how he tackles challenges and projects through immersion.

One can only imagine how proud Scott Jones’ parents were to find out that their son was hired on as a research scientist at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, only to discover that after spending six years at IU, including summers, he had not yet earned a degree. A mere technicality of one economics course and a language requirement was needed for Jones to move to Boston.

The econ credit was completed via correspondence. What is interesting is the manner in which Jones studied for his Spanish language fulfillment exam – by locking himself in his grandmother’s attic for 10 days. Oddly, while immersing himself in his Spanish textbooks, Jones listened to German music.

During his time at IU, Jones applied to study abroad in Hamburg, Germany.

However, Jones was not accepted into the program because he had not done well enough in class. Ironically, while attending MIT, he lived with a family from Hong Kong. There were four generations under one roof speaking Cantonese, which is more challenging to learn than Mandarin.

Jones became mildly fluent in Cantonese conversation through this immersive experience.

The earliest memory Jones has of his extended focused attention was the time when he completely dismantled his journalist mother’s Selectric typewriter and reassembled it, which took all night. “I think it worked all right after I was done with it,” Jones recalled, smiling, from his reverse engineering experience.

This pattern of immersion would continue during the creation of Boston Technology, a voicemail company he co-founded. The hard-working crew barely left their offices, sleeping under their desks, ordering in

carry-out and completely immersing themselves into their voicemail services project. While this did result in a nice liquidity event for Jones, his partner and their investors, the process was not without moments of panic, sometimes expressed by partner, Greg Carr. What concerned Carr was Jones’ constant stream of entrepreneurial ideas.

“While perhaps valid ideas, most of these did not pertain to our project at hand,” said Jones. “And Greg was absolutely right, these were distractions for us.”

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Jones knew that in order to achieve what the team of Boston Technology set out to do, he had to get rid of all unrelated distractions.

They vi rtually did not leave the building for two years. His immersion paradigm would prove successful.

Jones needed to somehow release all other percolating ventures out of his head.

“I realized if I wrote these ideas down in journals, I could clear my head and focus,” shared Jones. By writing down his extemporaneous thoughts, Jones was able to declutter his brain and focus.

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After the Boston Technology liquidity event, Jones explored those notebooks of ideas. He has been able to “play” in a spectrum of playgrounds. A few results of this are: Gracenote music services which are integrated into every iPhone, ChaCha human-powered search, Precise Path Robotics, Galaxia Lighting, Escient Home Automation, Gazelle TechVentures and now Eleven Fifty Academy.

With the proven success of Jones’ immersive style, this quintessential entrepreneur — with an innate understanding of technology — has repeated this pattern of immersion in everything he does. His process is not without moments of doubt or fear creeping in.

It was a fear of failure that initially delayed him from diving into programming while at IU, but once he immersed himself into coding, he spent most of his time with computers in the basement of the HYPR building.

As challenges arise during Jones’ creative process, Jones focuses on the question, such as, “How can I solve this?” before he would sleep, then awake with an answer.

If this doesn’t work, he goes outside to walk and contemplate the solution.

During the Boston Technology days, Jones hiked around the famous Walden Pond in Concord, contemplating a snag that had arisen and a solution would inevitably surface.

Another coping mechanism that Jones employs is to look at all possible outcomes.

“I mentally fast forward to what’s going to happen,” shared Jones. “I look for what can

be done to prevent as many of the failed scenarios as possible and move forward.”

He has trained himself to take risks.

Back in 2005, Jones co-founded Indy Robotics, LLC, which funded a team of 120 researchers to create an unmanned vehicle in a competition sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Of the researchers, about 20 of them spent one month camped out in the Mohave Desert doing nothing but working on their 6,000 pound, autonomous robot vehicle. In truth, there was no other choice. They were in the middle of the Mohave Desert with the closest hotel 45 minutes away.

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“The 20 of us made more progress during that month in the desert than the full team of about 100 managed during the prior 18 months leading up to the race,” said Jones.

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THE VENTURE OF A LIFETIME IU KELLEY SCHOOL PROFESSORS EXTEND THEIR PASSION BEYOND THE CLASSROOM Writer & Photograher / Kara Reibel

What do two high-energy individuals who are passionate about their work consider fun? Investing in startups, consulting with business owners, mentoring, holding Board positions, supporting charitable organizations, traveling and training for triathlons.

Todd Saxton is an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship for the IU Kelley School of Business. He is also the 2015 president of the board of directors for the Venture Club of Indiana and Indiana Venture Faculty Fellow. Kim Saxton is a clinical associate professor of marketing at the Kelley school, leads Lean In Circle for women MBA students, and holds a doctorate in statistics. As popular professors, both instruct an unusually high number of classes per year, across a number of Kelley’s leading programs.

Not only are Todd and Kim committed to education, they are involved beyond the scope of their jobs and have immersed

themselves in the venture community.

For example — 15 years ago — Todd sought opportunities to strengthen the relationship between Kelley and the Indianapolis venture community, so he joined the Venture Club of Indianapolis, of which he is now president. Both Todd and Kim are involved with numerous

other organizations, including being board members for Marlon Jackson’s Fight for Life organization, which facilitates social and emotional learning programs for kids.

Entrepreneurs at heart, neither set out to be educators, but eventually tapped into their natural talent in the area, as both have parents that were teachers. The two met as employees of a startup company in D.C., providing competitive analysis and acquisition support for Fortune 500 companies.

The appeal of IU’s doctorate and MBA programs brought them to Indianapolis.

“We were looking for a program that would work with the needs of our growing family,” said Todd. IU won out over several schools, including a few Ivy League options.

Once their girls were older, Todd and Kim made a commitment to each other and set new goals to celebrate turning 50. After years of shorter events, some with their daughters at kids’ triathlons, they decided to train for an Ironman distance event. No small undertaking, this fits right in line with their “all in” modus operandi.

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“My parents encouraged me early on to find the activities that I most enjoy and pursue them,” shares daughter Lindsey. “Going to their triathlons has helped foster part of my giving nature. At triathlons, you’re not just cheering on the people you’re there with; you’re supporting every runner that passes you, as well as other spectators.”

Everything that Todd and Kim do is done with intensity and tenacity of purpose. An Ironman race is the pinnacle of a personal fitness challenge, consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run over the course of one day. Supportive and dedicated, the time spent training only brought Kim and Todd closer.

Todd and Kim are people of initiative and action, engaging and energetic. Whether it is triathlons, corporate ventures, the entrepreneurial community, or teaching, the Saxtons are fully engaged.

The Saxtons note many parallels between the triathlon and venture communities.

Both are made up of supportive, fun, inspiring and very generous people taking on very complex and challenging endeavors; but ones nearly all of us could be successful in undertaking with the right encouragement and training.

“There is an entrepreneur inside of all of us. Depending on circumstance and provocativeness, it can come out at any time,” said Todd.

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CAMPAIGN AGAINST CANCER Writer / Tom Britt Photographer / Brenda Staples

Luke Andritsch was the official starter of the 2010 St. Vincent Geist Half Marathon & 5K.

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n early 2010, I received a phone call from a Geist resident telling me about a 5-year-old boy battling leukemia named Luke Andritsch. He was diagnosed on Mother’s Day at the age of 3. Through The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, they had formed a Team in Training group called Team Luke and began running various races around town in his honor. They were talking about running the St. Vincent Geist Half Marathon & 5K, and I thought this would make for a good story for our Geist Community Newsletter.

The Andritsch family in their Geist home.

Arriving at their front door, Luke greeted me donning a Spiderman costume complete with padded muscles. He was short, chubby and nearly bald. Vicky, Luke’s mom, gave me and our longtime photographer Brenda Staples a tour of their home ending in Luke’s bedroom upstairs. Luke was anxious to show us his superhero toys, “get well” letters on his walls, and his stuffed animal toys wearing scrubs and surgical masks.

Vicky told me that trying to explain leukemia to a child is difficult. “We told him that the cancer was a bunch of bad guys in his blood, and the chemo was the good guys going in there to kill them.”

Now the Spiderman suit made more sense.

In many ways, the visit and ensuing story was inspiring. In other ways, it was heartbreaking. No child should have to deal with such a horrific disease as leukemia.

Luke framed his Spiderman costume which now hangs in his bedroom. I’m wearing one of the Team Luke capes which gives whoever wears it superpowers.

It was through the Andritsch family that I learned more about the research work being funded and sponsored by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In 2011, Luke was named their “Boy of the Year” and participated in a 10-week fundraising campaign called “Man and Woman of the Year.” After the Grand Finale Gala, the Andritsch family had a party of their own for Luke. His chemo port in his chest was removed that summer and the Team Luke TOWNEPOST NETWORK / MARCH 2015 / TownePost.com

followers and friends hosted a “Port Party” in his honor. Luke was cancer-free and done with chemo.

Last fall, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society called to inform me that I had been nominated to run for the 2015 “Man of the Year.” After seeing how they had helped the Andritsch family and several other friends and neighbors dealing with blood cancers over the years, I accepted the challenge.

Much like a political election, the man and woman who raise the most money during a 10-week campaign (Feb. 26 – May 9) wins the title.

My campaign will look and sound much like a political campaign; after all, we are in primary season. You’ll see campaign posters at restaurants around Indy like Mama Bear’s and Lincoln Square Pancake Houses. You’ll hear my “negative campaign” commercials on various radio stations. You might even spot a political yard sign asking you to “vote against cancer.”

A campaign against cancer is personal to everyone. Only cancers of the respiratory and digestive systems, including lung and colon cancers, are more deadly. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20. One person is diagnosed with blood cancer every three minutes. Every 10 minutes, another person loses the fight.

More than 1.6 million people in the United States are living with or are in remission from a blood cancer.

To date, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has funded more cancer research than any other voluntary health agency in the United States or Canada. When they started in 1949, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (which is the type of cancer Luke had) was only three percent. Today, thanks to advances in research, the survival rate is more than 90 percent. For other blood cancers, the survival rate has doubled, tripled and even quadrupled. However, one third will not make it five years post diagnosis. We have a long way to go.

On a personal note, I’ve had several friends and family suffer through cancer. My wife and I started a charity event the year we met the Andritsch family called Vines for Life, which raises money for three local cancer charities supporting patients and survivors.

While we’ll continue to help those dealing with the fallout of cancer, this is our one opportunity to get out ahead of cancer and fund the cure. My hope is that we’ll have a cancer-free society in my lifetime.

I’m asking each of you to donate to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and support our campaign against cancer. There is a donor envelope in the center of this publication that you can send back with your generous donation. You can also visit my website at TomBritt.com to learn more about the campaign, sign up for emails from the campaign trail, and donate online via a secure link. You can also read about the latest advancements and treatments that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has funded. Every dollar you donate gets us one dollar closer to the cure.

As for Luke, he’s a healthy 11-year-old boy that still visits Riley Hospital for Children every month passing out “rhythm pax.”

Team Luke is now its own charity that raises funds year round to give other children and families who have been dealt the cancer card some hope. Please join us in our campaign and thank you in advance for any and all support you offer us along the way.

Luke framed the front cover of the Geist Community Newsletter from 2010.

Today, he’s a healthy 11-year-old boy.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

There are several ways you can join our negative campaign against cancer:

• Sponsoring • Volunteering • Host a “Meet and Greet” • Emailing Your Friends • Liking my “Tom Britt 2015” page on Facebook To find out more information and to follow the campaign, go to TomBritt.com.

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OLD OAKLAND CELEBRATES 50 YEARS! Golf continued during construction with refreshment tents set up in the parking lot. But, members missed the camaraderie of the bar It is a new year for Old Oakland Country Club at 75th and and restaurant, and were anxious to get back into their clubhouse.

Oaklandon Road and a milestone for the club as they celebrate 50 Today there is a new patio, dining room, bar and locker rooms. The years in business! It is also a new beginning for Old Oakland as they décor may be all new, but overall Old Oakland remains the same. open this spring in their new building, which they finished up last year after a fire in 2013.

“It was built to be a private golf course first,” said Palmer. "The original owners never planned for it to be a place with a pool and “It really is a new beginning,” said General Manager Lyle Palmer tennis courts, just a place to play some good golf and to socialize who has been with the club for 25 years. “Although we moved after.” in May of 2014, it is just like starting the new year off with a new clubhouse. Everyone is excited about the new space and the 50 year Palmer says still their main asset is the 27 hole golf course on more anniversary!" than 200 acres. “We can almost get a member out to play on the course anytime they show up,” said Lyle with a smile. He also said a The clubhouse was under construction for almost a year after the new chef has been hired and some new menu items will be offered building caught fire on a summer night in June almost two years ago in the new season ahead. after closing for the night.

Several anniversary events will also be planned throughout Palmer, a former Geist resident before moving to Carmel to be the spring and summer this year to celebrate the club’s 50th closer to his wife’s job in Zionsville, got a call and drove to the anniversary! clubhouse that night. But upon his arrival, he found there wasn’t much left. The rebuilding process soon began and the construction For more information on Old Oakland Golf Club and Residential process was posted on Facebook and social media for all to enjoy.

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Nominated by Dana Altemeyer Kim works part time in education and has three children. Kim is involved with Amy Beverland PFO, and the schools of her other two children as well as Special Olympics, supporting her brother Nick (age 32), who has Down syndrome. She cares for him as one of her own. Recently her mother died and she is the rock of their family.

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She works tirelessly in her role as an attorney representing indigent clients navigating their way through involvement with the Department of Child Services. At home, she provides constant positive and and loving care for our two-year-old son. Many times I worked long hours requiring her to be solely responsible for taking care of our son as well as the chores around the home. Even with so much on her plate she does not complain and always, always puts the health and happiness of her family ahead of anything else.

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Nominated by Mackenzie Reetz My mom is the definition of someone who can do it all. She works full time AND has a second job; however, she manages to be present for all three of her children. She works as the ESL coordinator for IPS, is an adjunct instructor at Marian University and the mother of three children ages 19, 15, and 4. My mom is kind, caring, funny, beautiful, smart, and my role model. I can’t think of anyone who deserves to be named Mom of the Year more than Jessica Feeser!

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such a new partnership between the city, the which can be scheduled using a web-based tool. The monthly rents (ranging from $395 Reuse Authority and the developers.” to $695) include the use of the conference rooms, break-room, kitchenette, high speed Baldwin of Envoy said, “One of the most internet, all utilities, reception, mailroom, exciting opportunities for us and the and a wireless cafe where Lawrence’s own community is the opportunity to blend Brickhouse Coffee Roasters will be serving A few years back Freddie Burris, Executive business incubation with co-working, up freshly ground coffee products.

Director of the Fort Harrison Reuse virtual office suites, and small office suites.

Authority approached developers and Our goal is to provide our tenants with It is a formula that Yeager excels in, longtime friends Scott Yeager of Yeager everything they need to conduct business, having other similar buildings in Carmel, Properties and Scott Baldwin of Envoy, all at an affordable and flexible rate.”

Noblesville, Greenwood, Plainfield for help in drawing new businesses to and Fishers plus another three in the the Lawrence area. They eventually drew The building will have approximately Dallas area. up a plan that includes a public-private 11,000 square feet of retail space, half of which holds Jockamo Upper Crust Pizza. partnership, an emerging trend with “We might not normally have chosen this municipalities and developers, allowing the Another popular restaurant is yet to be location on our own,” mentioned Baldwin. announced. There are 100 individual developer to charge a lower rent.

“But the value was clear; we can drive costs office suites available for small and startdown with the assistance of the city and “There has been so much great collaboration up businesses. The tenants will have their Reuse Authority and it’s a good partnership own suite as well as the use of four “smart” with this,” commented Burris. “This would conference rooms in the building and other that will help to bring more business into never have happened if our board wasn’t as the area.” conference rooms around central Indiana, driven and creative as they are, to work out You’ve seen the construction at 56th near Post Road. You might even have heard the building will hold a new Jockamo’s Upper Crust Pizza location. But there is so much more to the story.

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Jockamo’s agrees. When the Reuse Authority approached owners Mick McGrath and Bob Stark 2 ½ years ago, they weren’t necessarily planning on expanding beyond their 2-restaurant existence. But the lure of the historic area as well as its walkability and cycle-ability drew the entire Jockamo team to meet with Burris. “They were the first guys to come see me on a Saturday,” chuckled Burris. “And Saturday is a big pizza-making day for them!”

The partners eye the other building tenants, Ivy Tech, DFAS and other commerce in the area as obvious potential pizza-eaters, but their beer and wine license will also be a draw for evening meals. The restaurant will be much like the original in Irvington and the newer Greenwood location, seating 150 people plus outside seating. They also have a separate room seating up to 50 for meetings or parties. In the future delivery will be available, but not right at the beginning.

“There is no one else like us in the area,” pointed out Stark. “Even in a downeconomy pizza always sells.”

“We love to be very supportive of the community,” said McGrath. “We want to be part of Lawrence and will support local

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teams and raffles as much as we can, just like we do with our other locations.”

Jockamo’s and the rest of the building is scheduled to be open between mid-April and early May. “Small business owners can grow here at a sustainable pace, then graduate into the Lawrence community where they will eventually need more traditional office, industrial, and retail spaces. To top all of that off, they will be able to get a great pizza after work at Jockamo’s!" said Baldwin.

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New York has its Central Park, but Indianapolis has its own urban park, double that size, in Fort Harrison State Park, on 1,700-acres of Indy’s northeast side, where beautiful landscape and history blend together. The park features walking and jogging trails, picnic sites, fishing access to Fall Creek, Pete Dye championship golf course, two national historic districts and the Museum of 20th Century Warfare.

Thankfully this state park also has the Friends of Fort Harrison State Park, a not-for-profit group with a mission of supporting the park and its initiatives. The organization just got its official 501c3 status in 2014, but has been working with the park for many years prior to that.

“We communicate with the community to be more involved with the park on a volunteer basis or donate through the friends group to help accomplish things in the park,” said friends group president Kirk Wheeler.

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The group regularly supports the park through various projects such as purchasing three expensive bike racks, handing out candy and fliers at the Lawrence 4th of July parade, supplying eggs and candy for the Easter Egg Hunt on the lawn, buying a truckload of pumpkins for the Haunted Halloween Bash and more.

“We are determined outdoors people,” stressed Wheeler. “I got involved to spread the word about Ft. Harrison.” Wheeler, along with other members of the group were very Involved with the Hoosier Mountain Bike Association to help build (by hand) the seven miles of mountain bike trails in the park. “I love building something like that and sharing it with the public… that’s my passion.”

There have been many other ongoing projects that involve taking care of the land, addressing soil erosion, invasive species, pond skimming with a lot of sweat equity invested by the 35 or so members of the

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club. They’ve yanked honeysuckle plants, pulled fish line and trash out of trees surrounding the pond, and helped at various park hikes and events. They also offer the popular annual Master Naturalist training program each spring. The latest project is the Millennium Grove picnic area. Most state parks offer little handicap access, but they are working on a tree identification path around the trees that will be fully handicap-accessible. The plan costs $30,000, so they are still seeking funding.

You can be a part of this group. Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of every month at the park Visitors Center conference room back by the horse stables.

Annual dues are $15 single/$25 family and dollars of course go to help fund all the things the group supports.

More details at friendsoffortharrison.org and Facebook.

Annual members meeting will be in April, including a silent auction!

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7 / YOGATHON 7 / MSD OF LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS SHOWCASE

1:30 – 4 p.m. (rescheduled from 2/21 snowed-out event) Lawrence Education and Community Center / 6501 Sunnyside Road – Door #3 / Visit one convenient location to learn about the many choices and programs that Lawrence Township offers. Families can meet staff, ask questions, and learn why MSDLT is an “A”mazing district!

8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. / Inner Peace Yoga Center 5038 E. 56th St., Indpls, IN 46226 Beat the winter blues! Bring your own mat and do yoga all day. A variety of classes will be offered for all levels. Come and go as you like. Free snacks and free raffle included with $25 admission. Part of proceeds go to Inner Peace Yoga Center scholarship fund. To register, call 317-257-YOGA (9642). Ipyc.org / Inner Peace Yoga Center is a 501(3)c educational non-profit.

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Indianapolis Public Library, Lawrence Branch / 317-275-4444 Children of all ages and families are invited to hear members of the Indiana Pacers read their favorite stories in children’s literature during “Call-a-Pacer” on The Indianapolis Public Library’s 24-hour Call-a-Story telephone line. Schedule includes: WEEK OF MARCH 2 / Paul George reads “Green Eggs and Ham” / by Dr. Seuss MARCH 9 / Rodney Stuckey reads “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” / by Judith Viorst MARCH 16 / Ian Mahinmi reads “Pete Won’t Eat” / by Emily Arnold McCully MARCH 23 / Luis Scola reads “Nino Wrestles the World” / by Yuyi Morales MARCH 30 / Roy Hibbert reads “Gilbert Goldfish Wants a Pet!” by Kelly DiPucchio6 – Greater Lawrence

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