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OPEN FOR BUSINESS: MOTHER-DAUGHTER DUO FINDING SUCCESS WITH SECRET GARDEN, MAGNOLIA & FIG SHOPS

Some mother-daughter pairs love to shop with each other. They seek out the latest styles and the best bargains as well as enjoy quality time with one another. Other mothers and daughters avoid a retail excursion at all costs because they have different tastes, budgets and aggravation tolerance levels. Cheryl Susemichel and her daughter, Stephanie, have a unique retail relationship that goes far beyond what most mothers and daughters experience together.

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Middletown Returns Nov. 30 To Spread Cheer To The Community

Daughter Duo Finding Success With Secret Garden, Magnolia & Fig Shops

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Musician Jamey Aebersold Talks Career, Improvising & Giving Back

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NOVEMBER WRITERS

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FLIP THE SWITCH Writer / Julie Engelhardt

Santa Claus is coming to town — Middletown, that is — and his arrival will signal the return of a beloved tradition, Light Up Middletown, which has been a part of the city for two decades. This year the event will be held on Friday, November 30 starting at 6 p.m. and lasting for approximately three hours.

Light Up Middletown began in 1998.

Commissioner Marcie Willhite, along with other city commissioners, came up with the idea to bring holiday cheer to Middletown and its residents. Willhite, who passed away several months ago at age 85, helmed the Light Up committee, helping it grow and prosper over the years.

“She will be missed, for sure,” says Laura Wright, Assistant Executive Director of the Middletown Chamber of Commerce. “She worked hard, but she loved it. I feel like her

spirit will be here, and that she’ll be with us on the evening of the 30th. She just had a wonderful presence, and you know when someone is passionate about something.”

As always, the night will kick off at Wetherby Park with caroling and Santa Claus’s arrival. He will be seated in an 1800s-era antique sleigh and, instead of being pulled by eight tiny reindeer, it will be sitting atop a trailer towed by a tractor.

Once the jolly old man arrives, a designated person will flip the switch that will bring the lights to life at the park.

“We were trying to figure out who we could get to flip the switch, and we considered having a member of Marcie’s family do the honors,” Wright says. “We thought it would be nice to do this in her memory.”

After the lights have been set aglow in the park, residents will follow Santa down Main Street where he will set up his temporary

North Pole headquarters under a tent across from Celebration Hall. He will do a meet and greet with children, listening to their Christmas wishes and be available for pictures as well. Also, no matter if they’ve been naughty or nice, all boys and girls will receive one snuggly stuffed TY ™ toy from Santa. Donations for the toys are made possible through the generosity of Middletown. This tradition has been going on for many years, and the city makes sure that the children receive a different toy every time.

The children won’t be the only ones heading home with a gift. The city is trying something new with regards to a community giveaway. In past years, they’ve gifted poinsettias, but this year they will be handing out 500 glass ornaments to the ladies in attendance.

They are transparent red glass balls with a picture of Middletown’s city hall on the front. This will be the first of many given

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out over the years and all will have historic pictures on them, making them a true collectible. City Hall was chosen as the first building for the ornaments due to its historic significance as well as importance to the community.

“This building was constructed back in the early 1800s, and it was originally a tavern,” Mayor Chapman says. “It was a stagecoach stop, and the field to the east of us was a stable that could hold up to fifty horses. They needed to have a lot of horses for the stagecoaches. There’s a big rock out front which was used so people could climb in and out of the stagecoach.

The first floor was where they sold the liquor, and at the back of the building you’ll find stairs which head up to the second floor where they rented the rooms.

It’s quite a neat old building and a lot of history with it.”

The city bought the building in the mid-90s and renovated it. The city hall was originally

located across from the high school.

Entertainment plays a big part in Light Up Middletown. Area students from Eastern High School and Middletown Elementary provide choral music at the Community Center. Besides school group performances, Leslie Halfacre of the First Baptist Church will perform “God Bless America,” and Amber Martin, who is well-known for her performances with the Doo Wops, will also be entertaining.

Martin is an accomplished singer and has shared the stage or opened for well-known performers such as Crystal Gayle, Ernest Tubb, Little Texas, Little Jimmy Dickens and Neal McCoy. According to Freda Chapman, it was standing room only last year in the Community Center during the entertainment portion of the evening.

Once the performances have concluded and children have whispered their wishes to Santa, visitors are encouraged to get a jump

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on their holiday and Christmas shopping by visiting Celebration Hall and the fabulous Holiday Expo. The Expo features both hand-crafted and direct sales items, including children’s toys, women’s clothes and accessories, home décor, skin care, wooden wall art, ornaments and more. During the past few years, the Expo featured 40 vendors, but Wright hopes to double that number this year.

“It certainly has grown,” Wright says. “It takes two or three years for people to know about the event, and once they do, they love it.”

A returning vendor is Whitney Trowbridge with her LuLaRoe clothing and accessories.

“We are excited to participate in another great Middletown event after being part of the Fall Fun Festival these past three years as well as the Holiday Shop,” Trowbridge says. “Middletown offers so many fun events for families. Being able to stop and shop at the booths in November makes for easy gift giving.”

Returning this year is The Middletown Lions Club serving up free refreshments for the hungry crowd. The fare will include ham and turkey sandwiches, grilled hamburgers, hot dogs and bratwurst, drinks, a variety of cookies, as well as hot chocolate and coffee. Lions Club member Ron Wolf is pleased that the community is so receptive to this event.

“We’re happy to be a part of Middletown and the different activities that they hold every year,“ he says. “We help with the Concerts in the Park every summer by supplying food and drinks as well. By working with Light Up Middletown we can reach out further to the community to provide refreshments and some fun.”

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Other groups will be assisting as well, including Middletown Boy Scout Troop 321, who will hand out sandwiches and cookies to the visitors.

Mayor Chapman is thrilled that this event has continued on for so many years and welcomes all to enjoy the night. He, too, misses Willhite and is honored to carry on her tradition.

“It’s definitely a community event,” he says. “It’s one of the times of the year when you see people who are friendly and smiling and talking and laughing and the kids are having a good time.

It’s a time when the neighbors are all together. People like our community because it’s safe and we offer so much.”

The Mayor, City Commissioners and Middletown Chamber of Commerce hope all will come out for the evening to partake in their beloved event. A portion of Main Street will be closed for the evening, but parking is available on the west end of Main Street.

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Kristen Pawlak of KP Designs / Decorating Den Interiors has more than 20 years of professional decorating experience, but her love for design extends back even further. This love inspired her to leave a career in marketing and pursue design full time.

“It got to a point where I was waiting in a lobby to present marketing research to clients, and I was far more interested in how the space was designed,” she says. “Decorating has always been in my blood.”

Pawlak opened a franchise of Decorating Den Interiors, a robust boutique design firm, and has been beautifying residential and commercial spaces in Louisville ever since.

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can do as little as one wall or as much as an entire home including the outdoor area.”

KP Designs / Decorating Den Interiors offers full-service design with an in-studio contractor When working with clients, Pawlak and her team provide a highly personalized experience who happens to be Pawlak’s husband Ralph, so the outcome is truly reflective of the client’s owner of RK Renovations. needs and personality.

“Having a contractor really allows us to be turnkey for our clients to do any kind of construction projects that are needed to truly transform a space,” Pawlak says. “In addition, we have an extended team of installers, trade professionals and craftsmen we see weekly.”

Their connections and versatility allow the design team to specialize in anything and everything related to interior design.

“People always ask what our style is as a firm, but it’s really all about showcasing the client’s style,” Pawlak says. “We definitely stay on trend and have a good understanding of what people love, and the looks they’re seeing and liking, but we don’t carry a particular style. We use the client’s style, and if they don’t feel they have one, we pull it out of them, one way or another.”

“We can design every room in the house, and we even do outdoor spaces,” Pawlak says. “We

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and will love for years to come. As part of the Decorating Den Interiors network, Pawlak and her team have a huge variety of preferred supplies they can access.

“Our designs are as different as our clients are” Pawlak says.

While some firms focus on very specific aspects of the design process — such as furnishings or window treatments — KP Designs / Decorating Den Interiors offers virtually every service needed for a complete transformation.

Pawlak has a design studio in Lyndon, but she and her team like to go to the client’s home or business first. It’s important for them to get a feel for the space to be redone.

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Working with a designer may seem intimidating, but Pawlak is quick to share the benefits.

“We offer a real value to people in that we can save them a whole lot of time, headaches and often money for making costly mistakes,” Pawlak says.

Designers can help keep track of the big picture, as well as the small details of any project. Pawlak and her team also have a lot of experience working with clients who have never previously worked with a designer.

“We’re professionals who do this day in and day out,” Pawlak says. “It’s what we do, and it’s enjoyable, but we’re really skilled at it.

Instead of struggling with a project, call in a designer.”

The KP Designs / Decorating Den Interiors staff truly love their jobs and especially enjoy working with clients to create their dream space.

“Without a doubt, my favorite part of the job is the client’s excitement throughout the whole process,” Pawlak says. “When we’re finalizing a design we’re probably as excited as the client is to see it in place.”

Reveals of newly remodeled spaces are fun for Pawlak whether it’s for a small project or a full home makeover.

“We know what the space is going to look like when it’s done, but the client doesn’t always have a clear vision of the space until everything is in place,” she says.

Design can be hard work and present many challenges, but the KP Designs / Decorating Den Interiors team makes it enjoyable.

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When I was a young girl, my family purchased a small log cabin in northern Michigan. The first summer we stepped foot on the property, Mom bought a red binder and started keeping a “vacation journal” so that we’d have a written record of our days spent at the lake. At the time I remember thinking Mom’s entries were silly and mundane. Now, however, I recognize that those ink-soaked pages are literal snapshots of my childhood. And those “silly, mundane” moments are some of the best of my life.

In one entry, Mom wrote: “Yea! We’re here! We arrived at the cabin at 7:40 p.m.

Michigan time. (We never used Eastern or Central time. It was always “Michigan” and “Indiana” time unless you were my grandpa, in which case it was “my time” and “your time.”) Les (my dad) drove the Blazer, pulling the boat and brought Bonnie (our

dog). I drove the Oldsmobile with Fluffy (our cat) and the gerbils. We packed the metal utility cabinet, a microwave, the lawn swing, the Weber grill and the new kitchen sink.” (I suppose this is where I learned the art of overpacking as our family always hauled everything — and, in this case, even the kitchen sink.)

store and got back eight really nice shots!”

In another entry, Mom scrawled joyously, “Today we hooked up the Bug Zapper!”

Ah, yes. Back when you’d snap 24 pictures and be lucky if half of them were of any quality at all. In the absence of a preview function, inevitably at least a quarter would come out blurry, and if my grandma was holding the camera, the tops of everyone’s heads would be cut off (pre-technological era, I suppose this was her way of tagging a photo).

Remember those medieval torture chambers for flying insects that were all the rage in the 80s? We’d be hanging by the campfire eating Smores when suddenly there would be a bright spark followed by a distinct “zurp,” and just like that, a moth was toast. It never occurred to me that I was witnessing the electric chair, bug version.

If you haven’t started your own family vacation log, I suggest you do so. Write down the day you under-applied the sunscreen and the night you overcooked the burgers. Record when your toddler fell hard from chasing a butterfly and busted open his knee and the time your teen fell hard for the neighbor girl and busted open his heart.

Skimming through the journal, I had to appreciate my mother’s delight in the little things. For instance, she wrote, “Today we picked up our developed film from the drug

Time is fleeting, and so are memories so live it up and jot them down. Your kids and all future generations will thank you.

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Aebersold, 79, a New Albany, IN native, is an His brother started playing the saxophone internationally known saxophonist and an and when his brother stopped playing, Jamey authority on jazz education and improvisation. began. And so did his journey with jazz.

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He was exposed to music early – his father played piano and banjo, his mother played piano and sang. His two brothers played

“I kind of stumbled into it,” Aebersold says.

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going to the music store and buying his first record.

“It really intrigued me, the music they were playing,” he says. “I couldn’t figure out how they did it because they played so fast. It was so consistent, and it seemed like they never made a mistake. And I didn’t realize at the time that they practiced. And they practiced a lot. That didn’t dawn on me. I thought they were born with this gift.”

He wanted to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York, but they didn’t have a

degree in saxophone. He decided to attend Indiana University but discovered that they didn’t offer a degree in saxophone either. He improvised his education program, earning a bachelor’s degree in Woodwinds while learning to play the oboe, bassoon, flute and clarinet. He received a Masters in Saxophone from IU. During college summer breaks he worked in his father’s florist shop. After he married and graduated from college, he rented an apartment across from the florist shop. He improvised his career. He worked in the florist shop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., then gave private music lessons after school. He had about four or five students each day.

“In the back of my mind, I thought ‘next year we’ll move to New York. It never happened,” he says.

But what did happen established him as an innovative jazz teacher.

He developed the Play-A-Longs series of book and compact disc sets in 1967 to enhance music practice. Play-A-Longs recordings allow musicians to practice and improvise along with professional and well-known jazz musicians. He has produced 133 volumes of Play-A-Longs jazz records and books over the past 51 years.

“I guess you would say it was organic,” Aebersold says. “It just started. It kind of crawled along. One thing led to another.

People bought them because they could put the LP record on their turntables and practice with them.”

He also cultivated the concept of small group classes, combos which focused on jazz improvisation. He has been recognized and celebrated for his musical prowess.

Aebersold and the Summer Jazz Workshop (which he has presented for more than 40 years at the University of Louisville and in seven countries) was featured on the CBS “Sunday Morning” program with Charles

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He was inducted into the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame in 1989. In 1992, he received an honorary Doctor of Music from Indiana University. In 2004, he received the Medal of Honor in jazz education from the Jazz Midwest Clinic. In 2007, he was awarded the Indiana Governor’s Art Award by Governor Mitch Daniels. He has produced a best-selling DVD entitled, Anyone Can Improvise. He was also awarded the 2014 A. B. Spellman National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy.

Aebersold has directed the annual Summer Jazz Workshops since 1977 at the University of Louisville, which draws participants from more than 20 countries. The workshops offer intensive training in jazz improvisation.

The workshops have also been presented in eight countries. The 2018 workshop was designated as the final workshop, but it is possible that the workshop may continue.

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Is retirement on the horizon?

“I hadn’t really thought about retiring,” Aebersold says. “I like what I am doing. I like music. It’s so creative. I can’t imagine, if I retire, what am I going to do? I don’t think I am the type of person to retire and sit back in a chair.

I guess if I felt bad or got to the point where I couldn’t walk, if I was physically unable to do what I have been doing, I guess I would stop. I did modify my schedule when I wasn’t feeling well. It’s amazing how health can change the way you think about life.”

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a Little Lamb”, “Row, Row Your Boat” or “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” without music, then they start to realize that they can do things by using their mind and ears that they can create,” Aebersold says. “Most people don’t think they can.”

His other interests include listening to jazz music, playing basketball, metaphysics and spiritual pursuits.

He noted that the highlight of his career was being awarded the NEA Jazz Master Award for Jazz Advocacy.

“That was a big deal,” he says. “I was really shocked when the guy called me and told me I had been awarded the award. I “If we could get everybody to play music when thought they had made a mistake. That was a big surprise to me.” they are about six years old and teach them to improvise on something like “Mary Had He enjoys helping people release the melodies in their heads.

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Whimsical wizards, slithering snakes, dramatic dragons and scaly squid statues are part of our Louisville and Kentuckiana landscape. If you’re tenacious and diligently search for them, these entertaining pieces of art can be located in many places. They may be decorating your neighbors’ backyards or possibly adorning public parks or brightening local festivals. These fun figures are courtesy of sculptor Joe Autry and his ingenious imagination, artistic ability and hard work.

Autry is an internationally-recognized sculptor who lives just across the Ohio River in New Albany. His sculpting began

22 years ago when he was only 17 and taking art classes in high school. While some of his classmates preferred working with two-dimensional art pieces, his interest was in creating three-dimensional objects.

He spent all of his free time in the art studio before school, during lunch, during study hall, which caught his teacher’s attention.

While Autry had plans of entering the military after graduation, his teacher guided him towards a future in sculpting.

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gave me a lot of experience and I began experimenting with other metals. I also worked with another bronze sculptor, David Lind. They both were great, as they had different styles of creating. I eventually went on to work in blacksmithing with another sculptor. All of this opened my world and my ability to use tools. I eventually continued on to be a manager at a foundry in Louisville, at Quality Cast.”

Autry attended Indiana University Southeast but only stayed in school for a couple of years. His yearning to learn more about sculpting and to create pieces had a stronger pull than classroom studies.

He also worked a variety of trades while in his 20’s, doing everything from house

remodeling to working on riverboats.

The waterways carried him, and his imagination, along for a few years, traveling from Pennsylvania to Texas.

His boat excursions offered him his first inspiration to start carving wood.

“Driftwood would wash up on the boat,” he says. “I found them to be interesting pieces. I’d let them dry off and would carve them with a little chisel. During my last few trips is when I really became interested in working with wood. It became fascinating. I hadn’t really done any wood carving before that. I’d just been doing bronze.”

research about doing this type of carving and getting the right tools for the right job.

I kept doing it for myself and eventually entered art shows. Once I had a collection of pieces, more and more people began to see what I’d been doing and doors began to open up for me.”

Autry began to receive requests from local patrons to have him carve statues from the trees on their property. The first piece was for a friend’s father. The next year, he was asked to do more work for other

people, carving older trees. Keeping the old trees intact as they aged was potentially dangerous, due to limbs and branches possibly breaking off, but they didn’t want to cut them down completely. They wanted to keep part of the tree as a tribute to their family’s legacy. Most of his work is carved from ash trees, which unfortunately have been ravaged nationwide by beetles and other insects.

Autry’s woodwork has resulted in beautiful pieces ranging from abstract to fantasy

Once his life on the riverboat came to an end, the pull to carve wood became even stronger, experimenting with bigger, more powerful tools.

“My wife and I had been living in Jeffersontown and we had trees in the backyard that were dead, and I wanted to carve those trees,” Autry says. “I wanted to use a chainsaw, but I had no experience carving with a chainsaw. The first time I carved in wood it wasn’t much of anything. But it stayed with me, and I did smaller wood carvings. I started doing more

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to Russia, carving on an international level with some of the world’s best ice sculptors.

“There’s nothing wrong with bunnies, bears and raccoons, I just prefer not to do them,” he says.

“I didn’t do so well,” he admits, humbly. “I didn’t have the right tools, I wasn’t dressed properly, and I wasn’t prepared for the language,” he says.

Some of his pieces remain the color of the original wood, but he will often enhance them with different types of stain, to give them color. Once they are complete, they are sealed to protect them from the outdoor elements.

Over the years, Autry has expanded his reach and has sculpted using salt, ice, snow and sand. His ice sculpting began as a whim. A friend wanted to hire an ice carver for a party, so Autry gave it a try. At his next event, he carved an ice sculpture in Anchorage, Kentucky, for an AIDS fundraiser. A woman at the party suggested he participate in an ice carving competition in Perm, Russia, a Louisville sister city. After much planning, he eventually made the trip

Yet, that didn’t discourage him from becoming more proficient in working with this medium.

“I came home and carved every day,” he adds.

The next year he traveled to Siberia and competed in the frigid minus-45 degree weather. But now he had the right clothes, the right tools, and he’d studied the language for several months. His preparation and diligence paid off. He was presented with the Spirit Award for his work.

After taking on ice, Autry decided to

tackle snow sculpting. He and a Russian colleague teamed up and participated together in a snow carving competition in Japan in 2015. They collaborated for months via the Internet, working to develop their design. They finally decided on a piece that incorporated Autry’s vision, which was geometric and abstract forms, and human forms, which his partner wanted to include in the piece.

The two met up in Japan, worked on their piece, and they won first place. They were the first American and the first Russian ever to win this competition during its 18year run.

Autry’s love for sculpting has inspired him to use other materials. He’s traveled to Berezniki, Russia, where he was introduced to sculpting with salt but not the plain, white salt that we know. The salt was in colors — reds, blues, yellows, blacks and other shades. He is also fascinated with sand sculpting and is currently working with Jeffersonville to bring these pieces to

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his work in Utica at Bob Hill’s “Hidden Hill Nursery and Sculpture Garden.” He even has a statue in Riga, Latvia. He, along with eight other artists had been chosen out of 60 applicants to create their work in a public park in Riga.

Though he’s traveled the world and explored different methods of carving, Autry’s main interest still lies in wood sculpting and also creating with metal. You can find his work most anywhere, locally and abroad.

“My big vision for the future is to help create a metal sculpture as large as the Statue of Liberty and place it in the Ohio River,” he states. “It would be between Louisville and Southern Indiana, and it would represent the original indigenous people of the area or represent all of the Americas united.”

“I have several projects located throughout the Louisville Metro area,” he says.

“They’re in Oldham and Shelby Counties — in Prospect, LaGrange and Anchorage.

You can also find them in the PeWee Valley and in the Hal Warheim Park in the Highlands.”

If you were to cross the river, you will find

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He says it would be placed in the area where the Louisville Falls Fountain used to be.

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If you’ve ever listened to the BBC, you’ve likely heard about Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority, fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh. What you may not realize is that they are not the only ethnic group fleeing persecution and civil war in Myanmar. The Karen (pronounced Kahrin) are another minority people that has primarily fled to Thailand, where many live in refugee camps. For Middletown resident Hannah Ensor, the plight of Karen refugees has become a personal mission.

In 2010, Hannah was living in California and decided to travel for a few months.

During her adventure, she wound up in Thailand and fell in love with the country.

She returned home and spent the next 10 months saving money and selling everything she owned so that she could purchase a one-way ticket back to Thailand.

When she returned to Thailand in 2011, she settled in Mae Sot, a city close to the Thai-Myanmar border, and began teaching English to children in a Karen refugee camp. While she had no prior teaching experience, the job required a bachelor’s degree and being a native English speaker. She had those two qualifications plus a desire to help.

Although Hannah was the “teacher,” her experience was mostly about being a student: learning about the civil war in Myanmar and why Karen people were fleeing their villages to settle in Thai camps.

For nearly four years, Hannah lived and worked with the Karen people in Thailand. During that time she contracted dengue fever, a mosquitoacquired virus endemic to Southeast Asia that results in high fever, severe headache and joint pain. There are four strains of the virus, so while Hannah became immune to the strain she acquired in 2012 when she came down with a different strain 18 months later, the doctor who treated her said she had to return home to the US. According to researchers, someone who is reinfected with dengue fever is likely to develop extreme symptoms.

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Hannah returned to Shelbyville, Kentucky where her parents live. She reconnected with her high school sweetheart, Chad Ensor, married him and gave birth to their son, Kash. During these years, Hannah remained in contact with friends and colleagues in Thailand.

“My heart never left,” she says.

Her love of Karen refugees inspired her to create her nonprofit, Baht Babies, in 2017. Hannah works as a real estate agent with Remax Properties and says, “Most everything I make, after I pay my expenses, goes into my nonprofit.”

Any money she puts into her 501(c)(3), as well as any tax-deductible contributions from others, is used to purchase school supplies, medical supplies and water filters for refugees.

In March 2018, after a five-year absence, Hannah returned to Southeast Asia where

she worked inside Myanmar at an internally displaced person (IDP) camp. She plans to return in October 2018 where she hopes to film a documentary to bring increased awareness to Karen refugees. She maintains a website and Facebook page for Baht Babies where she lists upcoming fundraiser events.

It is difficult to imagine what life is like in a refugee camp. Hannah says there are no permanent structures, only makeshift bamboo shelters with leaves for roofs.

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and charcoal subsidies from international relief agencies to survive. IDP camps are even less functional in part because their food subsidies have been cut off. Residents can’t safely return to their villages due to the military presence and landmines.

“Myanmar has the longest civil war in the world, and no one knows about it,” she says.

The primitive conditions make water filters a necessity to prevent cholera and other water-borne diseases. Hannah takes two

types of filters with her to give to refugees and their families. Katadyne filters cost $55 and are portable, which is useful for refugees who need to travel, while Sawyer filters are for more stationary purposes.

They cost $60 and have a bucket attached.

When Hannah visits the camps, she works with a translator and conducts workshops with refugees to teach them how to properly use the filters.

She is hoping to help build a school because the need for education is so dire.

Families in Myanmar are often uprooted quickly, without access to transcripts and other documentation. Even if children receive an education in a refugee camp, Hannah says the international community often does not recognize that diploma.

Hannah says her husband has supported her visits back to Southeast Asia, and she hopes to eventually take both him and their son with her. She wants to wait until Kash is older, though, so that he can both remember and appreciate the experience.

It is difficult for Hannah to put into words how the Karen refugees make her feel.

“I feel more at home in the middle of a refugee camp than I do in a dining room here,” she says. She knows the privileges she has but says “none of that matters unless you help others.”

The refugee work Hannah began in 2011 has taken her onto paths she never anticipated. She started her nonprofit organization with only her passion and a Nonprofit for Dummies” book.

“I just jumped without looking and figured it out,” she says. “I had tons of questions.”

She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in international relations with a focus on conflict resolution at American Public University, and she volunteers once a week at Hope Center Rising Ministry Center.

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Some mother-daughter pairs love to shop with each other. They seek out the latest styles and the best bargains as well as enjoy quality time with one another.

Other mothers and daughters avoid a retail excursion at all costs because they have different tastes, budgets and aggravation tolerance levels. Cheryl Susemichel and her daughter, Stephanie, have a unique retail

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Cheryl has been the proud owner of Secret Garden for nearly 23 years. Over the years, she has moved locations and added inventory, but her love of gardening and her desire to give customers unique gardening products has never wavered. She is now experiencing a new kind of joy that comes from seeing her daughter, Stephanie, find NOVEMBER 2018

success as the owner of Magnolia & Fig, a clothing boutique that shares 1,000 square feet of space with Secret Garden.

Stephanie has long had an eye for color, form and line, so it makes sense that clothing and jewelry would be her niche.

“When she was three years old, she was little Cyndi Lauper,” Cheryl says. “She’s always been extremely talented, even from an early

age, at putting things together. Sometimes she’d put on all her favorite things all at the same time.”

Although Stephanie has a bachelor of fine arts in painting, she always wanted to be in retail.

“I knew I wanted to have my own store, but I didn’t know it would be clothing,” Stephanie says.

The entrepreneurial gene dates back to her grandparents, and she gained experience from a young age when she would accompany her mom to Atlanta, Georgia, where they attended the AmericasMart, a market that features gift, merchandise and apparel items.

“I started her, when she was working for me, with doing some buying. She’s very good at picking good-looking things,” Cheryl says.

Selecting products is a time-consuming endeavor that takes a lot of research. Cheryl spends time with sales representatives as well as reading gardening, retailer, garden center and landscaping magazines.

“I’m constantly feeding myself with material so I can see the new things that people are going to be decorating with,” Cheryl says.

She is thankful for her mom’s guidance over the years, which has helped her learn the discipline that is necessary to order just enough and pay bills on time.

“I have told Stephanie how important it is to stay on top of trends and try to get items before her competition does,” Cheryl says. “I’ve told her to always be honest in her business, with her employees and her customers.”

One of the most important pieces of advice her mom has given her is about being an owner who models a strong work ethic.

“Mom’s really big about, ‘Don’t ask your employees to do it, if you’re not willing to do it,’” Stephanie says. “You can’t expect your staff to work hard if you don’t work hard.”

Stephanie differs in that most of her research is done online, although she does go to market twice a year. She also has to think beyond just what individual pieces she likes and thinks her customers will “I clean the bathroom just like the rest of like. She has to think of entire outfits and combinations that will work together to give ‘em do,” Cheryl adds. her clients a range of style options.

Being back in Middletown has been a Buying for Secret Garden is much different real treat for Cheryl. She has moved a couple times over the past two decades from buying for Magnolia & Fig. and learned valuable lessons from those experiences. The realtor adage “Location, “We run a business really similarly, but location, location” is especially true for retail clothing is so different from gardening establishments. One of the things she loves and home accessories,” Stephanie says. about being back in Middletown is the high “Clothing is so seasonal. If you don’t sell visibility of the space. a dress in three months, it’s pretty much worthless. It’s not like you can sell a Derby “I also love that it’s 5,000 square feet which dress this time of year. You have to move is perfect,” she says. “I love that a lot of my it out.”

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customers that I had in 2000 when I was in old Middletown are happy I’m here.”

High visibility has been a boon for Magnolia & Fig, too, and at the beginning of 2019, it will expand into the space next door to Secret Garden. The new space is 2,700 square feet, which more than doubles the boutique’s current size.

“I knew pretty soon after opening that when a space became available I was going to want to look at it,” Stephanie says. “It was always my intent to grow the store.”

She is excited to put in fitting rooms, change the flooring and paint and make it her own.

The 1,000 square feet that has housed Magnolia & Fig will once again be Cheryl’s domain, and she has exciting plans for it.

She will create a walking path with fountains and flowers in faux beds.

“You’ll feel like you’re walking through a garden,” she says. The middle of the space will be used for Fusion Mineral Paints classes and workshops.

Magnolia & Fig’s move next door is both exciting and a little nerve-wracking, which is why planning is essential, whether the risk is expanding or selecting items for the store.

Stephanie has learned to listen to her gut instinct and modulate entrepreneurial risks.

Sometimes she takes a chance on buying a unique piece of apparel, but she takes steps

to ensure that risk is well-managed.

“When the item gets here, you merchandise it, you have a staff that’s trained to sell it, and you help people know how to wear it,” Stephanie says. “That makes it a lot less scary if it’s a piece you took a risk on.

Having a plan ahead of time makes it not as big of a risk.”

Cheryl has passed on her love of retail to her daughter, and while they focus on different merchandise, they share a passion for what they sell and how much they value their customers. Stephanie loves Magnolia & Fig’s out of all the merchandise she carries. rayon bamboo basics.

“When you buy it and pick it all out, it’s like “Our leggings are the best on the planet,” she they’re all your babies,” Stephanie says. says. “They are my number one selling item.”

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“So I found a job at a newspaper,” Bernson says. “And I realized you could actually do that for a living. You could be a journalist.

Barry Bernson may not be on television I went back to school and graduated anymore but perhaps he should be. He’s with honors in journalism. So I started in just got that face, the kind you know but newspapers and that led me to a radio job can’t quite put your finger on, sure that you and then I came to Louisville to work in recognize him from somewhere. Even today, radio. And that grew into a T.V. job. WAVE years after his last WDRB broadcast, he still Radio and WAVE3 T.V. were in the same gets called out sometimes. building and so I got into T.V. and never left.”

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“Some people remember,” he says.

Bernson, it seemed, had found his calling.

But Bernson has long moved on, finding myriad other pies in which to place his fingers and keep him busy.

“It’s what I was put on earth to do,” he says.

For a man who seems to know exactly his purpose on this world, Bernson certainly didn’t come molded that way. The New Jersey native dropped out of college after half-heartedly pursuing a law degree at the University Of Iowa before returning home to live with his parents. His father, however, issued an ultimatum: join the Army or get a job.

He worked his way from a general assignment reporter to doing features in “sort of on-the-road, Charles Kuralt, human interest” segments. Storytelling was the aspect Bernson most enjoyed about his career and a defining feature of his that he never relinquished, even after becoming a a full-fledged WHAS anchor in 1992.

“I still like reporting better than anchoring,” he admits. “I’m most proud of that.”

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And while he admits that he never “aspired” to be a T.V. anchor, Bernson, coupled with his journalistic drive, found himself in the right place at the right time to become just that.

“I had made my career doing feature stories, and I really only got into anchoring back in the 90s,” he says. “My news director at that time said they were thinking of upgrading the morning news. He rightly saw that people were not staying up late to watch the 11 o’clock news, that people were getting up earlier. He said ‘I think you can be a morning anchor.’ And I said: ‘what?’ I had never even considered anchoring. I liked being out and telling stories. But I tried it and did it for more than 20 years.”

In 2003, Bernson became disenamored with WHAS and left for WDRB where he worked for eight years until he was unceremoniously asked to leave for reasons tantamount to ageism. The repercussions of that, he says, still haunt him.

“I was very happy doing morning news and features but around 2011 they came to me and said, ‘we don’t want you anymore.’”

Bernson laughs, something he can do now, looking back and shrugs in a ‘past-is-thepast’ kind of way. “It happens. That’s the thing about being on the air. You’re only as good as your last ratings. That’s why we call it the dangerous side of the camera because there’s nothing you can do about getting older, right? And they wanted someone younger. Of course, they can’t tell you that, can’t say it out loud. It was kind of hurtful.

Most of my dreams are still about losing my job and having to clean out my desk. To this day. And I’ve been gone from that job for seven or eight years.”

But if you learn anything about Bernson during a conversation with him, it is that setbacks are not setbacks at all but instead new avenues of life in which to explore.

There’s much more to the man than a history as a news anchor and television personality. He brandishes a storied resume

of feats and accomplishments that almost any person would be wildly jealous of. He’s a published author, a PBS narrator, a singer and an actor. Bernson even recently stepped a little deeper into the limelight with an appearance as a doctor in an independent movie, “The Killing Of A Sacred Deer,” starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman.

“I signed up with an agent here in town and get called in to audition every now and then,” he says. “For this one audition [Killing Of A Sacred Deer] they called me

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back and they decided to give me a bigger part in that same movie which is not the part I read for. And so, I was in the movie.

That was a totally different experience.

When you’re on television there’s some theater involved, you have to play a role if you will, so it’s not terribly different than being in a movie. But memorizing lines and following a director is totally different. But it was fun. And it was challenging. Way out of my comfort zone. But, hey, you know, I was in a movie with Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell.”

Perhaps a lesser known fact about Bernson is his time with the American Printing House For The Blind as an audiobook narrator. He began reading there in 1971 and has been there ever since, minus a stint when he worked in Chicago during the late 70s and early 80s.

“I find that I need projects, things to keep me interested,” Bernson says. “Which is why I still read audiobooks. I think I’m up to more than 700 books read now. That’s a lot of books. I enjoy it. When you do a novel you can kind of be an actor. You have to get the character’s voices in your head. Non-fiction you can pretty much just do it as you go. But a novel you want to be able to differentiate the characters. You have to remember who’s talking where and what they sound like. It’s a challenge and it’s the kind of thing I like to do. I never thought I’d be doing it for a living but I also never thought I’d be doing news for a living either.”

It becomes apparent when talking to Bernson that he has zero desire to drop gears anytime soon. He’s always planning ahead, looking for the next gig. But he admits that he enjoys the simple pleasures in life as much as the fast-paced.

“I like to mow the grass,” he says. “I like to watch the sun go down. I like to listen to music and watch movies.”

He also enjoys spending time with his wife, Andrea, a piano teacher, and has two daughters, a step-daughter and three grandchildren in which to occupy any other spare time he might find. Which, considering Bernson’s work ethic, is probably hard to come by.

For a man who has spent a large portion of his life and career in front of the camera, Bernson prefers his anonymity to celebrityhood. Being recognizable only interferes with the storytelling, he says. Much better to remember the stories and not the storyteller himself, he says.

“Even though I was in the public eye for years and years I was happiest when I wasn’t,” Bernson says. “Some people say, ‘I want to be on television.’

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FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY KENTUCKY Ben Chandler Is Leading the Way In Facing the State’s Health Challenges America’s other favorite pastime, politics, with relish.

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It could have been a swing and a miss.

Instead, it was a home run that ultimately benefited everyone in Kentucky.

During the 1990s, insurance giants Anthem and Blue Cross/Blue Shield merged.

Anthem, a for-profit company, took over In the early 1990s, Ben Chandler was all the resources of Blue Cross/Blue Kentucky’s attorney general. He had already Shield, which was a non-profit insurer. In enjoyed robust law and public service the conversion, Anthem did not account careers, bolstered by a family legacy of for the value of charitable assets, and public service, that included his legendary Chandler, as Kentucky’s attorney general, grandfather, Albert Benjamin (A.B.) sued. The complicated case progressed, and eventually, it was settled for $45M, which a “Happy” Chandler, who served two terms as judge ordered be placed into a foundation.

Kentucky governor and parts of two terms as With that, the nonprofit, nonpartisan a U.S. Senator. The elder Chandler also was Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky was famously the second commissioner of baseball, born in 2001, with a goal of improving the from 1945-1951, helping Jackie Robinson health of people in the Commonwealth of break the baseball color barrier in 1947.

Kentucky.

A.B. “Ben” Chandler III, who also shares his grandfather’s passion for baseball, took on

Fast forward to 2018, and Ben Chandler, as president and CEO, now leads the

organization, which is nestled in the corner of an office complex off Hurstbourne Lane.

“I never dreamed that would happen,” Chandler says. “After the lawsuit, I ran for governor, and then served nine years in Congress.

Three years after that, in 2016, I was approached to take this job and come full circle. I’m thrilled to do that.”

During Chandler’s time in Congress, he focused on legislation addressing child and elder abuse prevention, air travel safety, veterans’ healthcare and more. He also played a central role in passing a tobacco buyout. Now, as head of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, he feels at home.

“The whole notion that I could come and help shepherd an entity that had been a legacy for me was very exciting,” he says.

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“I can contribute on a day-to-day basis in a meaningful way for my fellow citizens.”

It’s no secret that Kentuckians face numerous health challenges.

“The Foundation is trying to make an impact,” he says. “It’s a great job because day in and day out we try to improve the health of our fellow Kentuckians. There’s nothing more important than our health.”

Rather than focusing primarily on giving grants out as a central effort, the Foundation, under Chandler’s leadership, believes advocacy and policy work will ultimately reap the best rewards for Kentucky.

“We believe we can accomplish a great deal more by addressing health challenges through good public health policy,” Chandler adds.

The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky recently set about forming a coalition of more than 160 entities to work on reducing tobacco use and exposure to tobacco emissions throughout the Commonwealth. Members of the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow include the State Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Medical Association, the Kentucky Nurses Association, Greater Louisville Inc., the Kentucky Council of Churches, several schools, public health departments and more. This powerful coalition took on two immediate tasks: getting a cigarette tax passed in Kentucky, followed by current efforts to pass more smoke-free laws across the state.

Chandler is buoyed by the mix of minds in the coalition.

“All these groups agree on our essential agenda of improving the health of

Kentuckians,” he says. “There may be discussions on compromises in the legislature, but in general, that keeps the conversation going and, ultimately, supports our citizens.”

Whether it’s in the Foundation’s work with the coalition, with legislators or on the ground with Kentuckians, the Foundation remains completely nonpartisan.

“We don’t care whether you’re a democrat, republican or independent,” Chandler says.

“We just care whether people are interested in improving the health of our citizens. If they can agree with us on issues, then we will work with them any way we can.”

Following an intense, six-month coalition campaign to pass a $1 tax increase on cigarettes, the Kentucky General Assembly eventually passed a 50-cent increase in 2018.

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as a win.

“From our perspective, we got the largest cigarette tax increase in the history of Kentucky,” Chandler says. “We wanted more because we thought a $1 or more would encourage many people to either quit smoking or not start in the first place.

But, to still come away with the largest tax increase in Kentucky ever for cigarettes is an accomplishment. That doesn’t happen every day, particularly in a tobacco state.”

The Foundation has now turned its sights towards enacting more smoke-free laws across the state.

“We’re going community by community,” Chandler says. “I’ve been to 113 of 120 counties this year already, talking about the importance of smoke-free laws. We currently are working with multiple communities and have helped spur laws in nearly half a dozen, but this doesn’t happen overnight, especially in an election year. Next year, we will get into the meat of it.

“We’re also working on how the Medicaid waiver moves along in Kentucky,” Chandler adds.

Gov. Steve Beshear expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to include 450,000 Kentuckians who didn’t previously have healthcare coverage. Recently, Gov. Matt Bevin added work and premium paying requirements to the program.

hamper you from working together to accomplish things. If you keep your eye on that ball, you’ve got to conclude that cooperating with people to get good policy passed trumps everything.”

Whether that’s related to health care policy, tobacco cessation programs or other issues, Chandler always comes back to the health of Kentuckians. He points out that health is different from health care.

“I’ve never met a person who wants health care if they have good health,” he says.

“Our country has created a rescue system,” “Our goal is to keep as many of those 450,000 he adds. “As a nation, we’ve spent a lot of people covered as possible,” Chandler says. money to rescue people from bad health and provide health care, but as a nation, we For the lifelong democrat, being the spend twice as much per capita in the U.S. nonpartisan head of the Foundation can have on health care than in any other country, and its challenges. we rank 37th in outcomes. That’s something we must address. We need to invest more in “When I was in Congress, I was a dying good health prevention on the front end of breed — a moderate,” he says. “I believe the equation.” compromise is a good thing and it comes naturally for me to look for areas to find Is that attainable? common ground. Disagreements shouldn’t

“We believe it’s the right way to go,” Chandler says. “If we invest more of the health care dollars to prevention, we’d have a higher quality life. We need to build our economy on wellness, instead of sickness.” And, for Chandler, that begins at home in Kentucky.

Service to his state and country is in Chandler’s blood.

“I have truly been blessed,” he says. “I grew up to believe that public service was a noble thing, and I was lucky enough to be entrusted by the people of this state to be the state auditor, attorney general and a congressman.

It was a tremendous opportunity. Now, I’m incredibly fortunate to add the Foundation my resume.”

On many days, Chandler sees his career as a grand slam.

“If I’m able to make a difference, I will look back on my career as a legacy,” he says. “To create this Foundation with others, and to have an impact and to be shepherding it on to do good work for others is what we do. I don’t know what else I could accomplish in public service that would mean more than that.”

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE On Sept. 29 the Eastwood Village Council sponsored its Inaugural Arts & Crafts Fair and by all measures, it was a huge success.

“I can’t say enough about how proud I am of our council and our volunteers,” says Council Chair Dennis Benzel. “This was a great day for our community.”

The council had been considering such an event for more than a year. The first order of business was to decide on a venue. It needed to be large enough to accommodate the anticipated number of vendors and preferably visible from Shelbyville Road. The large parking lot of the Eastwood Christian Church was determined to be perfect. The request was presented to Pastor Johnny Marion and he graciously accepted.

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When the attendees entered the event site of more than 50 vendors they were met with several choices — hang a left toward the very successful Eastwood Village Farmers’ Market where they could pick up fresh local produce and meats, artisan bread and cheeses or even fresh cut flowers, or turn right and enter the food court area where they were presented with the difficulty of choosing between The Block Gourmet Deli and three food trucks, All Thai’d Up, Bourbon Bent BBQ or the Copper Cantina. While they sat in the dining area enjoying the local fare, they got to listen to the beautiful sounds of Nick Peay, Gabe Close and Phil Rowley.

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THE EASTWOOD VILLAGE COUNCIL

Would like to thank our sponsors for making our recent events so successful!

The Council would also like to invite you to attend our

2018 ANNUAL MEETING You will have the opportunity to meet and talk with State and Local elected officials and other important decision makers related to infrastructure issues facing Eastwood and surrounding areas. We will also be electing our 2018-2019 Executive Board Members.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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