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JUST FOR KICKS EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COMPETE IN VANS CUSTOM SHOES COMPETITION launched its Custom Culture competition to JOINING THE TEAM encourage high school students throughout the country to inspire others through art The enthusiasm at Eastern for the Vans Every teacher and student in Jefferson and design. contest exploded. Hamilton-Cooper says, County, Kentucky has had to adapt to “After that first year, everybody wanted to be the chaos that COVID-19 brought to Trish Hamilton-Cooper, a two-decade on the team.” With only 20 slots available, education this spring. When schools veteran art teacher at Eastern High School, she had to create a system for students to began quarantining in mid-March, no one is the sponsor of the school’s Vans Custom apply and make the team. Students must knew whether it would last days, weeks or Culture team. She has seen how the contest submit resumes. months. Not only did extracurricular clubs has changed over the years because, for stop meeting in-person, many of them no seven years in a row, she helped her students The resumes help Hamilton-Cooper and longer had events and activities to plan for. get to the Vans Custom Culture finals. her colleagues see not only which students have talent but which ones are motivated There was an exception, though, at Eastern “Now, it’s more like a grant program,” she and excited. Being a good collaborator is High School: the Vans Custom Culture team. says, and the competition is among only 300 in some ways more important than artistic schools. For the past three years, Eastern talent (although both are preferable). This VANS CUSTOM CULTURE was unable to participate, but in 2020, it year’s team consists of 18 students. There made it back in. are eight sophomores, four juniors and six Vans is a shoe and apparel manufacturer seniors who make up smaller photography, based in California that has been on the When the competition was announced marketing, artistic and video teams. cutting edge of skateboarding since 1966. in January 2020, Hamilton-Cooper says Not only does it have its own line of designs, the first prize offering was $75,000 with The school’s past Vans success is both a lot it allows its customers to customize the smaller amounts for teams who placed to live up to as well as a motivator. shoes they purchase. In 2010, the company second and third.

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When students and teachers learned that March 13 would be their last day in a school building, Hamilton-Cooper and her team had no idea what would happen related to the Vans contest. Although uncertain, Hamilton-Cooper says, “I grabbed everything from the Vans table,” before heading home on that last day. It would prove to be a smart move.

She says Vans debated whether and how to proceed with the contest after schools across the country began closing. When JCPS dismissed classes, “We knew what all the designs were and one of the shoes had partial sketching, but that was the extent of the work that had been completed,” she says. “I wrote to the team and told them, ‘If we do it, it’s going to be difficult.’” All team members wanted to make it work, but they would have to figure out the safest way to proceed.

Because some high school teams’ shoes were locked in inaccessible buildings, Vans changed the contest parameters a bit. Rather than one contest with only physical shoes, it split the contest into physical shoes and paper/digital shoe designs. The top prize in each category is now $50,000 with smaller

prizes for schools that rank lower.

Hamilton-Cooper began a series of doorto-door drop-offs of the shoes to various team members. Students wore gloves, and Hamilton-Cooper delivered paint to front porches whenever students needed it.

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Each pair of shoes has a theme — a “local” theme related to the city where the team Both pairs glow under ultraviolet light and is from and an “off-the-wall” theme that Hamilton-Cooper says exemplifies the spirit had to be painted in the dark. of Vans.

While the creation process was much different during quarantine than it would Before the quarantine, Eastern’s Vans have been otherwise, Hamilton-Cooper students had decided their focus would be says her team was probably a lot more onto blend the ideas of “Louisville At Night” task because they had to work on the shoes and “Urban Legends” on the local theme individually in their homes. pair of shoes. The shoes depict Big Foot (also known as Hillbilly Beast) in front of “Initially, quarantine was disappointing the Big Four Bridge, as well as the Pope because of how much of a highlight of my Lick Monster and Waverly Hills. This pair week going to our meetings was, but now, has a removable platform that resembles when looking back, I think it encouraged us Mammoth Cave and is made of foam, hot to get more creative with our teamwork in a glue and crystals. way that has been very unique,” says senior Rachel Graves.

The second pair celebrates girls who are skateboarders, musicians and artists.

Despite distance, Hamilton-Cooper says her Hamilton-Cooper’s daughter, Katie, a team communicated constantly during the sophomore member of the team, even process of designing and creating the shoes. composed and recorded a song called

Public voting for the shoes opened in early May and ended on May 15. Despite their efforts and energy, the Eastern Vans team did not walk away with a win at the end of May. The Vans Custom Culture experience during the pandemic helped all of the students see the value of perseverance.

“This team has stayed so determined. This experience has just proven how much heart this team has when we could have easily given up,” says senior Grayson Scheuning.

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN STAGEONE FAMILY THEATRE DIRECTOR ANDREW HARRIS TALKS ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT ON LOCAL YOUTH Writer / Carrie Vittitoe Photographer / Bruce Hardin (Blue Harvest Photography)

“It was horrible. I sounded more like I was strangling a cat than singing notes,” he says.

Andrew Harris has been a fixture at StageOne Family Theatre for nearly two decades, but his start in theater as a teenager isn’t what you might imagine.

He wasn’t the kid who, from an early age, dreamed of breaking box office records as a theatrical success.

As he left that audition, without being cast in a part, he was angry, not because he didn’t make it but because he didn’t know what he was doing.

“I was a kid who found theater by accident,” he says.

Although his mom encouraged him to join the local community theater’s children program in Oak Ridge, Tennessee where he grew up, he showed no interest.

“When I was about 14-years-old, some friends of mine got in a play, and they got to miss school to perform,” he says. “I thought to myself, ‘I like missing school. I should get involved in this.’”

He went to his first audition completely unprepared, and when he was asked to sing [since it was a musical], he picked “Amazing Grace,” which is a challenging song for even the best vocalists.

“I couldn’t handle failure. I couldn’t handle the not-knowing,” Harris says.

Determined, he returned to the next audition a little more prepared. He knew that it was not a musical, and he wouldn’t be expected to sing. However, he did not have a monologue prepared. Although a kid handed him an excerpt from T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” to help, Harris stumbled through it and then stormed out.

Fortunately, he says a man who had seen him at both auditions offered him the opportunity to work on the lights for the show. Harris’s response to him was, “Do I get to miss school?” When the gentleman answered yes, Harris signed up.

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pirate in the play.

That determination and stamina served Harris well when he became a teenager and developed a summer theater camp for kids with a friend. While he intended to become an actor, he continued teaching because he didn’t want anyone to find theater in the way that he did. His first full-time job after graduating from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga was instructing teachers how to use theater in their classrooms. That focus on education is what brought him to StageOne, where he was originally the education director.

He liked the fact that education has always been the core of what StageOne does, which is different from a theater that also does education.

Most people think of StageOne as the performances it does at Kentucky Performing Arts, but it also has robust in-school programming. Not only do StageOne staff come to the classrooms to instruct students, they meet with teachers individually to collaborate on how to connect theater to what the teacher is actually teaching students, learning what

their goals and objectives are.

“We custom-design that programming so it’s not one-size-fits-all,” he says. “Instructional time is incredibly important so it’s important we design programs that enhance their instructional time.”

StageOne also has a wide range of summer camp programming, the goal of which is to help kids develop life skills such as listening to others and collaborating.

While some of them may go on to pursue theater professionally, most of them will grow, learn, enjoy theater and be the future generation of audience members.

Through his many years at StageOne, Harris has seen producing artistic directors come and go as well as structural changes for the organization. In 2007, StageOne and the former Music Theater of Louisville combined to form a hybrid entity for a number of years. It was at this time that Harris became associate artistic director

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while still filling the role of education director, which he did for a number of years. Since the departure of Idris Goodwin, Harris has been serving as interim producing artistic director. “As my wife jokingly called it, the iPad,” he says.

His responsibilities are varied and include identifying talent, hiring actors, directing several shows and guest relations.

“It’s also season selection. I’m constantly looking at what are the trends in theater for young audiences,” he says.

He explains that while some theaters break artistic and business responsibilities into two tracts, StageOne and other companies that follow a producing artistic director model, a single executive “who is responsible for both the artistic vision and programming as well as maintaining, supporting, and supporting the business aspect [marketing, public relations, etc.],” he says.

A huge shift in the industry came in 2010 when the economy bottomed out. StageOne used to do six or seven shows per season, but it scaled back to four shows per season with extended runs.

“We had a comparable amount of performances,” he says.

It also made the decision to retire the Music Theater of Louisville brand. At this time, StageOne developed Play It Forward, a ticket underwriting program to provide free tickets to schools and students that struggle.

Harris says the company made changes to ensure it could meet its business costs, but it asked the public to help support kids.

“It’s a program that continues today. We work tirelessly to remove barriers,” he says.

When planning for upcoming seasons, StageOne works to ensure it is providing shows that children want to see as well as shows that teachers and parents choose to come to. It strives to find a balance between plays that are well-loved or recognizable favorites and those that have important messages. Its show “LawBreakers: A Fast

and Furious History of Women’s Suffrage”

by Diana Grisanti was one that StageOne commissioned.

“Most school audiences aren’t going, ‘Yeah, let’s go to the suffrage play.’ But it’s an incredibly important story that resonates,” he says. “It is still very relevant.”

Harris is excited by the next season of shows, which he says is focused on love, acceptance, words and community and is what he is calling “Our Season of What Matters.”

Although StageOne is beloved by children and families, and many people have wonderful memories of their own childhood experiences at shows or education programming, StageOne isn’t only for children and families.

“Whether you have kids or are just young at heart,” he says. “If you come see the work that we do, you’re going to be engaged.

If you come play with us, you won’t be disappointed.”

When Harris is not crafting shows and educational opportunities at StageOne, he is spending time at home with his wife, Clara, who is a professional actress and playwright, their son, Flynn, and their dog, Copper.

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They enjoy camping and have had great experiences out west at the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park. His son has even convinced him to begin martial arts.

“He looked at me one day and said, ‘Dad, no offense, but you’re kind of fat and out of shape, and I’m afraid you’re gonna die,” Harris says.

In the years since Harris began martial arts, he has caught up in rank with his son in a shared experience they both love.

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Scarlet’s Bakery Maintaining Its Mission Despite Coronavirus Writer / Carrie Vittitoe Photographer / Bruce Hardin (Blue Harvest Photography)

Rachelle Starr is not a lifetime Louisvillian, but through her efforts over the years, she has had a profound impact on many of the city’s residents.

The individuals who have personally benefited from Starr’s work are not the wealthy or the well-connected. Many of them have been hidden in a world of trauma and trafficking. Starr’s work to create Scarlet Hope and Scarlet’s Bakery has provided a new start for numerous Kentuckiana women who have determined that adult entertainment is not where they want to spend their lives.

The Beginnings When Rachelle’s husband, Josh, transitioned from the corporate world to

nonprofit work in 2006, they moved to Southern Indiana from Clearwater, Florida (and eventually crossed the bridge to live in the Clifton neighborhood in 2011).

Starr’s background was in advertising and marketing, not social work.

“When I moved up here, I wanted a purpose for my life,” she says. “I really wanted to help people.”

She grew up in a Christian home with a pastor for a father, so acts of service and compassion had been instilled in her from a young age.

they were charity. We were truly coming to share the love of Christ and provide opportunities if anyone wanted that.

She says she realized how much a meal to the women was both physical and relational nourishment. Many of them rarely sat and ate a home-cooked meal in friendship.

Starr says that within six months of visiting the first adult entertainment establishment, she was invited to bring a meal to another one.

“Honestly, we’ve been invited to all of them over the course of 12 years,” she says.

She began visiting adult entertainment venues in 2007 and bringing a meal to share. Rachelle and Josh created Scarlet Hope as an official nonprofit in 2009. While they wanted to continue providing meals, Rachelle also “I didn’t know how they were going to receive us, how they were going to perceive dreamed of creating a business that offered second-chance employment for women, what we were doing,” she says. “We didn’t want to be like we pitied anybody or felt like particularly for those who had legal troubles.

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“When somebody has a criminal background, it is very difficult to get a job that they’re going to be able to support their family at. I wanted to be able to provide a transitional job opportunity for them,” she says.

While making a meal was helpful, Rachelle felt there was more that could be done.

Getting Scarlet’s Bakery to come to fruition was not a quick-andeasy accomplishment. Rachelle unsuccessfully went to the Scarlet Hope board in 2010 and 2012, but she says the timing, people and money didn’t line up until 2014. In December 2015, the first Scarlet’s Bakery location in the Shelby Park neighborhood opened.

How COVID-19 Changed Scarlet’s Bakery Because the Shelby Park venture was going so well, in March 2019 the bakery opened a retail outlet in St. Matthews, which included a coffee and dessert bar. While it was exciting to launch this new space, it meant more stress and logistical challenges since everything that was sold at the St. Matthews shop was made at the Shelby Park location where the program is housed. Rachelle says breaking into the St. Matthews market was difficult due to the high level of competition.

When COVID-19 hit in March 2020, “We were still trying to break even [in St. Matthews]. We were still not where we needed to be,” Rachelle says.

The overhead was high, and the cafe didn’t have the infrastructure to offer drive-thru service. Even though Rachelle created a bakery task force to help her utilize all of the nonprofit’s resources in the most efficient and responsible way, as the quarantine lasted longer, she and her team realized the St. Matthews location would have to close.

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Eventually, it became necessary to also close the Shelby Park location’s cafe.

“We’re a nonprofit business, and we’re going to figure out a way, but in this current season, it’s not going to be in retail,” Rachelle says.

Prior to the pandemic, Rachelle and her team had looked into e-commerce, which has now become the way to carry on after the retail closings. Scarlet’s Bakery is currently selling three kinds of cookie mixes, which individuals can order online and bake in their own kitchens. Even without the pandemic, there are a couple benefits to e-commerce.

“It cuts down on a lot of waste, and you can extend your market,” Rachelle says.

Customers can now go to scarletsbakery. org to purchase either chocolate chip cookie mix, Keto pancake mix or lactation cookie mix. Rachelle says they have offered these

options in three distinct niches to see what sells well and what doesn’t. They are offering free shipping and buy one, get one free to encourage sales.

Even though the offerings of Scarlet’s Bakery have changed as a result of COVID-19, the mission hasn’t.

“We don’t just provide jobs. We provide what I call holistic, trauma-informed programming,” Rachelle says, which includes life, job and soft skills, as well as case management. Fitness, financial and parenting classes are part of what Scarlet’s Bakery provides to its employees in the program. Since the bakery opened and programming began, it has been able to provide a job to 36 women. While retail and bakery associates were laid off as a result of the COVID-19 cafe closings, the participants in the program are still taking online classes and being paid.

Scarlet’s Bakery gets referrals from agencies

and has an intake process for women who are interested in second-chance employment. Rachelle says there is an interview process as well as job-readiness assessments.

“If they are not a good fit for our program or aren’t ready, we refer them to another program. We serve anyone and everyone who comes to us,” she says but notes that there are only 20 spots a year for the bakery positions. The program is a 12-month commitment for the women who are hired. Under normal circumstances, Scarlet’s Bakery would be preparing to interview its next round of applicants but due to social distancing, the application process is being postponed.

“In October, we hope to bring in 10 new women,” Rachelle says.

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the things she has lost sleep over is feeling like she is letting down the bakery’s beloved customers who have been sad to see the retail spaces go.

“I love our customers, and I’m thankful for their support, but we just can’t keep doing the same thing,” she says.

In spite of the stress, Rachelle says one of her favorite things to talk about is the women who have successfully completed the Scarlet’s Bakery program and moved onto greater opportunities.

“The very first woman to ever graduate our program got a scholarship to go to Sullivan University, and she graduated with a culinary arts degree,” she says.

Another graduate got her radiology certificate from the University of Louisville.

Another has started nursing school.

Numerous local companies have partnered with Scarlet’s Bakery to offer internships to

women who have completed the program.

In an effort that is as grassroots as it gets, Scarlet Hope is now a national organization with locations in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee, Reno, Nevada and Las Vegas, Nevada. The executive directors in these cities are former volunteers with Louisville’s Scarlet Hope who moved away.

“Each one of them wanted to start similar work,” Rachelle says.

While there are other Scarlet Hope locations, Louisville is the only one with a certified kitchen and bakery. Despite having legs in other cities, Rachelle is the primary fundraiser for the organization so she continues to spread the word about its mission both near and far.

“About 30% of our bakery is supported through donations,” she says.

COVID-19 has changed so much of what

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is normal for so many people, including Rachelle Star and her Scarlet’s Bakery colleagues, but what hasn’t changed is the motto behind the baked goods. “When people choose Scarlet’s Bakery, they are purchasing for a cause. We like to say we’re baking the world a better place,” she says.

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EATING SEASONALLY & SOURCING LOCALLY Writer / Meredith Iacocca . Photography Provided

When you think of your local Farmer’s Market, you probably don’t get as excited to go in the dead of winter than you would during the peak of summer. Fresh tomatoes! Sweet Corn! Peppers galore!

Yes, the summer seasons of produce do provide us with some beautiful, tasty produce. But what about the rest of the year? We tend to forget that there still is delicious produce to be had all through the year.

It’s easy to miss what’s close by and why it’s so important, maybe because we have the enormous privilege and ability to have almost any type of food all year round.

Tropical fruit, avocados, berries, you name it. It is absolutely a privilege that not all countries have. But why does it matter to eat seasonally? It’s so much easier to just run to the store and grab what you need. Sourcing your food seasonally and locally, however, can have great nutritional and economic advantages.

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How will various fields change? For example, in the field of child care and early education, many families are hesitant to send their children back to school. Many companies are hiring for in-home services, including tutor and nanny jobs.

Participate in online job fairs. More and more employers are offering this option.

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It was a crazy emotional roller coaster.

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Our lives are an emotional mess. No matter if you are at home or at work, the virus consumes you. You can’t hide or pretend it isn’t here.

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Nurses have so many opportunities that are gifts. We have the chance to be there for the life-changing and life-ending events. As difficult as this may be, it is a true blessing.

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The results have exceeded anything we ever imagined.”

For example, the CAL symphonic and chamber orchestras under MacDonald’s direction have been invited to perform for the Kentucky Music Educators Association (KMEA) and the National American String Teachers Association. In fact, both of these groups were asked to perform twice in the past four years for the KMEA (there is a required three-year waiting period between invitations).

Today, students ranging from novices to the

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“Our goal was not to create a great arts program, but to create a great opportunity for students to see that God provides talent, and we can develop those talents to honor him, be inspired by what he has created and encourage others with his glory,” Wooten says. “Students get excited when they see purpose behind what they do. They want to do their best and we want to give them every opportunity to do so. I’ve been blessed by a wonderful staff that believes in the same mission.”

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“Even those who don’t major in music at college often receive scholarships to play with college ensembles,” Wooten says.

“They find music continues to be part of their lives, and they enjoy being able to play after they leave here.”

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in music made me more receptive when I heard Mr. Wooten share his struggles in life, and that gave me the inspiration to fully put my faith in Christ.”

The SOA leaders are looking to expand the Students don’t lose what is most important program to include an already extensive in the program — seeing their talent as a gift theater program in the near future. to be used for God. “We want to use all the arts to develop our students’ hearts and talents,” Wooten says.

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