Noblesville Magazine January 2019

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NOBLESVILLE FOUNDRY, ID CASTINGS, LOOKS TO BE A STRONG COMMUNITY PARTNER AS IT REBUILDS AND REINVESTS IN NOBLESVILLE ID Castings bought the 13.9-acre Noblesville Foundry in October 2013, resurrecting a plant that closed after the 2008 recession. Over the past five years, ID Castings has invested $50 million and retrofitted the foundry in addition to restarting production at its facility on South 8th Street. In 2014, they had 17 employees and today they have 103. They are planning for a 20% growth in 2020.

By bringing back manufacturing jobs in an industry that is on a steady growth track, ID Castings has established itself as a reliable employer in the growing Noblesville workforce.

The plant has been at its current location

since 1890. In the early days, foundry workers handcrafted cast iron bathtubs.

Today, they use state of the art automated melt and molding equipment to produce iron castings commonly used in the automotive, construction and heavy equipment industries. In 2019, they are adding new technology & robotic equipment; working with Noblesville’s RZ Automation.

This reinvestment in Noblesville has helped add factory jobs and revitalize a manufacturing sector that was in sharp decline between 2008 and 2010. According to the 2018 Metalcasting Industry Forecast and Trends report published by the American Foundry Society, the U.S. metalcasting industry sales were expected

to total around $33 billion in 2018.

Indiana ranks 8th nationwide in number of metalcasting facilities, with 72.

General Manager, Lynn Funk, is committed to the Noblesville Community and wants ID Castings to be an elite employer in the city. ID Castings vision is to be a place people love to work. One of his priorities is to continue to improve the attractiveness of the building structure and grounds. He looks forward to continual building and technological upgrades in the future. The Noblesville Chamber is excited that ID Casting has joined their team as a Corporate Presenting Partner in 2019 and they look forward to the many collaborations with ID Casting in the new year.

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FORK IT OVER: CLOUD NINE CUISINE OFFERS EVENT CATERING & READY-TO-EAT MEAL SOLUTIONS

When Mary Piggott and Amy Huffman, owners of Noblesville-based Cloud Nine Cuisine, officially opened the business on October 8 of last year, they had a feeling their concept would catch on locally, not least because the partners planned to offer a service that they themselves felt a strong need for.

2 Noblesville Foundry, ID Castings,

Looks to Be a Strong Community Partner As It Rebuilds and Reinvests in Noblesville

5 Stunning Style: B’Dazzled

Boutique Owner Talks Success of Noblesville Shop

9 Circle City Traveler: Local

Entrepreneur Offers Short Term Rentals Long on Hoosier Hospitality

12 Krenolies Donuts: Popular

Noblesville Shop Is Finding Success In New Fishers Location

15 Fork It Over: Cloud Nine Cuisine

Offers Event Catering & Ready-toEat Meal Solutions

20 Griefshare: Noblesville First

United Methodist’s Grief Recovery Support Groups Are Changing Lives

23 Student Spotlight: NHS Seniors

Ayden Rayl & Jonathon Shankland Win $10,000 IUPUI Scholarships

26 Business Spotlight: James Allen Insurance

29 Friends Once Again: Friends Home Decor Experiencing Success After Reopening In Historic Hazel Dell School

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Stunning Style B’DAZZLED BOUTIQUE OWNER TALKS SUCCESS OF NOBLESVILLE SHOP Writer / Megan Jefferson . Photographer / Glenda White

Owners, Ingo and Beth Staedter

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eth Staedter moved from the U.S. to Germany when she met and married a man from there. She was a picture framer by trade and was planning to open a framing business when she got settled in Europe. Staedter soon realized that Germans rarely framed pictures and that business idea wouldn’t work. Over the next couple of years, she still hadn’t learned the new language but was meeting more and more people who complimented her clothing.

She went ahead and opened a boutique, selling American clothing. Her customers taught her German and her store attracted customers. Working with customs proved to be very challenging, so Staedter switched gears and started buying from Spain, Italy and France. After three years, she started to miss America, the people here and the lifestyle, so in 2008, she moved back with her two young children.

Staedter moved back to Indianapolis, opened B’Dazzled Boutique, selling women’s clothing and accessories in Pendleton and had a picture framing business in the back. Over time, the boutique grew and she sold the framing business.

“The boutique has literally grown from nothing,” Staedter says. “It has grown with lots and lots of hard work and from loving my customers.”

There are two locations for B’Dazzled Boutique, one in Pendleton and one in Noblesville. There’s also an online store.

“I loved fashion when I was younger and would always go into my grandma’s closet, put on fancy clothes and high heels and walk up and down the hallway,” Staedter says. “I always liked all things makeup, fashion and home decorating.”

With her picture framing business, Staedter gained experience in interior design, helping clients choose frames focusing on colorization. She feels this really helped her learn how to put outfits together and play with different color combinations.

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B’Dazzled Boutique carries fun, casual and trendy clothing. There are lots of off the shoulder tops and trendy prints like leopard and camouflage. Staedter looks at the L.A. top 25 fashion list every day and orders new items that are delivered daily. She doesn’t look to see what other stores are buying, she chooses items based on her own taste.

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Staedter says that the Noblesville store is an absolute doll house, it’s gorgeous inside and has great people working there. The community has really embraced B’Dazzled.

Even though there are quite a few boutiques in Noblesville, there are many people in the community, so there’s enough business for everyone, she says. Each shop owner has his or her own style that attracts different clientele.

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LOCAL ENTREPRENEUR OFFERS SHORT TERM RENTALS LONG ON HOOSIER HOSPITALITY significantly changing the travel landscape in his home to make some extra cash. The around the world and in Indianapolis thanks home was located a couple of blocks from to a local entrepreneur.

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Each year millions of visitors travel to It was not long after that renting one room Indianapolis for business, sporting events, Jim Borthwick, a lifelong Hoosier, had turned into the entire house. He knew he conventions and a whole host of other spent a decade working in the service and was onto something when neighboring reasons. Most will stay in hotels out of hospitality industry and loved everything homeowners began asking him how they convenience to their events or meetings about Hoosier Hospitality. While working could get involved. The idea was born and even out of habit. But there is a growing his “day job,” he fell asleep each night to provide vacation rentals, property demand for a different experience that watching the ABC hit show, “Shark Tank” management that combined his love of provides the environment and amenities of and was bit by the entrepreneur bug. One Hoosier Hospitality. home that many say is more economical and thing Borthwick, a Noblesville High School allows them to experience the destination in and Ball State University graduate, knew for Borthwick launched Circle City Traveler a different way. sure was that whatever he decided to do it three years ago. He offers premium vacation would be based in his home state. rentals for groups of all sizes. They can Made popular by such websites as Airbnb, bundle several of their houses for groups HomeAway, Booking.com and VRBO, Borthwick continued working his day job traveling for events at the Convention they are short-term rentals, and they are when he got the idea to rent out a room Center, professional, college and amateur Writer / Lynda Hedberg Thies Photography Provided

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sports teams, church conferences, business retreats, family gatherings, bachelor and bachelorette parties, couples and solo travelers visiting Indianapolis and Madison, Indiana. They offer property management to help others optimize their rental properties and homesharing, and it is all wrapped up in providing positive Hoosier experiences.

Circle City Traveler now manages about a dozen properties in the Indianapolis area, including one in Madison, Indiana and all can be booked through vacation rental company’s like VRBO and Airbnb. But they offer what no one else can offer which is Hoosier Hospitality and the concept seems to be working.

The mission of Circle City Traveler is to provide a real Hoosier experience as they provide their guests with information about local restaurants, information about Indianapolis landmarks, where they can hear live bands and events happening around the city. He will even take his guests around the city, join them at dinners and ensure that they fall in love with the city.

While he has never travelled outside of the United States, he has played host to international guests from Australia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Germany.

“My philosophy was live locally, think globally,” Borthwick says. “And while I would like to travel for now, I enjoy having the opportunity to meet people from around the world.”

Through satisfied guests and referrals, business comes from conventions, business travelers working with local corporations, Indy 500 Race Teams, fans of the NFL Combine, Colts fans, sports teams and even people looking to move to Indy that don’t want to stay in a hotel.

And what makes this budding entrepreneur so amazing is his interest in shaping this industry and the selfless way he is helping others that are even in competition with him.

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legislation to protect homeowners interested in short term leasing. He has also established a local organization called Hoosier Hosting Network for those getting involved in the short term rental business to engage in regular dialogue about the industry and share best practices to ensure the success of this booming business.

“If I have done my job well, my guests will feel that they have an Indiana home,” Borthwick says.

He is passionate and enthusiastic about the business.

“I love the journey, the process and providing Hoosier Hospitality,” he says. “I want to earn their business and help them fall in love with the city.”

His guests consider him family, they often do fall in love with the city, and his guests go back to where they live and they become ambassadors out in the world for Indy.

This translates to more visitors to Indianapolis sharing what we already know, that Indiana is a great place to call home.

For more information, visit them online at circlecitytraveler.com.

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Krenolies Donuts P O P U L A R N O B L E SV I L L E S H O P I S F I N D I N G S U CC E S S I N N E W F I S H E R S LO C AT I O N Writer / Matt Keating Photographer / Brandy Hornback

Travis Roseberry, a former stockbroker, had a dream to start his own business. He thought it was worth the risk to leave his old job, and strike out on his own.

His gamble paid off. His business, Krenolies Donuts, has prospered with two locations: Noblesville and recently in Fishers.

“Our hand-cut donuts are very popular,” Roseberry says. “I think they have taken off and become a very popular treat for both

Fishers and Noblesville residents.”

Roseberry opened the Noblesville Krenolies Donuts at 14300 Mundy Drive in 2015, and the Fishers location at 11513 Allisonville Road in 2017. Customers can sit down and eat their sweet treats in the

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cozy shop or take them to go.

“We are still growing,” Roseberry says. “I see new faces in the shops all the time, and I love it. I couldn’t ask for anything better.”

Roseberry is glad he followed his dream and pursued his passion.

“I was a stockbroker for 10 years, and I came to realize that I wanted to own my own business and do this,” he says. “I really wanted to be an entrepreneur.”

Roseberry has a positive theory why Krenolies Donuts have been such a big hit.

“We make the donuts fresh daily,” Roseberry says. “We make our own icing.

We are not part of a big chain, and I think our customers have responded to that. They show their support by coming back to get fresh donuts.”

Customer favorites include the cake donuts, the fried danishes, custard donuts and the glazed ones.

“Our powdered sugar French Cream donuts and Apple Fritters are also popular,” Roseberry says. “We get a lot of customers coming in asking for those all the time.”

Roseberry’s personal favorite is the glazed donut.

“It’s definitely our number one seller, without a doubt,” he says. “Sometimes I’ll eat one myself when I’m making a lot of them. They are a staple here. I get a lot of nice compliments from the customers telling me they really like them.”

Other delicious donut choices include the cinnamon twists, white iced raspberry jelly, powdered sugar raspberry jelly, Maple bacon, blueberry cake and raspberry danishes.

Roseberry noted that his newer location in Fishers has been well received, too.

“Fishers is a growing community, and I’m very excited to be a part of it,” Roseberry says.

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driving down Allisonville Road. I like the number of people who say they see us from the road and stop in for some donuts.”

Krenolies also makes specialty donuts.

“We have a donut of the month, and we rotate the menu, but we still keep the popular staples that people ask for on a regular basis,” Roseberry says.

Coffee lovers have also responded favorably to Krenolies’ delicious hot java.

“We tried out 30 different blends before we decided on a ‘Breakfast Blend’ by Farmers Brothers,” Roseberry adds. “We grind fresh coffee every day. We have a lot of people who just stop in for the coffee. I love seeing repeat customers. It makes my day.”

Krenolies Donuts is located at 14300 Mundy Drive, Suite 500 in Noblesville and 11513 Allisonville Road in Fishers. You can visit them online at krenolies.com.

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CLOUD NINE CUISINE OFFERS EVENT CATERING & READY-TO-EAT MEAL SOLUTIONS Writer / Jon Shoulders . Photographer / Amy Payne

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hen Mary Piggott and Amy Huffman, owners of Noblesville-based Cloud Nine Cuisine, officially opened the business on October 8 of last year, they had a feeling their concept would catch on locally, not least because the partners planned to offer a service that they themselves felt a strong need for.

Cloud Nine Cuisine offers catering for corporate and special events of all types, as well as family and individual meal solutions that can be tailored to dietary needs. Both partners have busy families constantly on the go and realized early on in the business’s formation that there would likely be many other Northside families in similar situations that could use some help at mealtimes.

“With our lifestyles, we actually needed a resource like this,” Piggott says. “I think it’s a dilemma for all types of people and families — how do you put a healthy, delicious and affordable meal on the table when you’re crazy busy?”

Customers interested in Cloud Nine Cuisine’s meal solutions can choose from a menu published on the company’s Facebook page monthly and either pre-order from the menu or choose from daily specials that are also posted online. As Cloud Nine’s chef, Piggott strives to maintain a wide variety with choices like cheddar garlic chicken breast with Italian peas and roasted potatoes, southwest salad with chicken tortilla soup, lasagna with or without meat served with a garden salad and breadsticks and more.

“We thought the meal planning was going to be secondary to the catering and corporate services we do, but we’re finding the demand for that is really high and people are excited,” Piggott says. “It meets the needs of both types of people — those who have certain days of the week that are busy and really need to plan ahead, and then those like me who take it one day at a time.”

Owners, Mary Piggott and Amy Huffman

The company’s event catering falls into Italian Feast, Mexican Fiesta, Backyard BBQ, Heavy Apps and Home Cookin’ categories, and food selections can be customized for special events.

“With our corporate events, we’re doing stuff that you wouldn’t always expect to be brought in when you think of corporate luncheons and that kind of thing,” Huffman adds. “We did chili with salad and cornbread for a group of architects and they went crazy.”

Both long-time Central Indiana residents, Piggott and Huffman met several years back

when their kids began school together and started discussing the Cloud Nine concept last spring. With a background in sales, Piggott had been contemplating starting a food-related business, and when Huffman got wind of the idea she was instantly intrigued. By May of 2017, they found themselves building out the Cloud Nine Cuisine space on Hague Road.

“Last year, I catered my son’s graduation party for about 300 people and found that I enjoyed it, and eventually I ran into Amy at a school carnival and talked about starting this,” Piggott says. “Her background is in marketing, and it seemed like we’d make a

good team. That carnival was on a Friday, and by that Monday we had agreed that we were going to do this together.”

Piggott and Huffman occasionally recruit family members to help out with kitchen and cleaning duties, and all Cloud Nine operations are otherwise carried out solely by the duo. Although Piggott says her customer base is growing at such a pace that they’ll likely have to bring on additional staff later this year.

Pre-ordered meals can be customized to fit dietary needs including vegetarian, glutenfree and low carb options, and Cloud Nine

also offers kids’ school lunches, adult work lunches and seasonal rotating desserts.

Huffman says Cloud Nine’s business model represents a step beyond meal kit delivery options that have gained traction in recent years.

“With services like HelloFresh, the ingredients are sent to you but you still have to take the time to cook,” says Huffman, who worked as a nurse prior to co-founding Cloud Nine Cuisine. “With us, it’s hot and ready to enjoy, and the community can feel good that this food is what they might have made in their own kitchen with the same ingredients. And we try to be as minimally processed as possible, just like grandma would’ve made.”

Cloud Nine Cuisine is located at 20817 Hague Road in Noblesville. For additional information including menu details, corporate catering info and more, call 317-774-5398 or visit them online at cloudninecuisine.com.

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NOBLESVILLE FIRST UNITED METHODIST’S GRIEF RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS ARE CHANGING LIVES Writer / Megan Jefferson Photography Provided

Carol Miller, Parish Care Coordinator, is a facilitator of GriefShare programming at Noblesville First United Methodist Church.

In 2012, a couple from her church lost their 20-year old son and were looking for grief counseling. They found a program at another church and were so impressed with how much it helped them, together with Miller, they started a GriefShare program at their own church.

There are thousands of GriefShare recovery support groups meeting throughout the US, Canada and in more than 10 other countries. GriefShare seminars and support groups are led by facilitators who understand the grieving process and want to help. The program includes a video component that includes experts speaking about different aspects of grief, a workbook that participants use and home and small discussion groups at the meetings.

Miller says everyone’s grief is important and every person’s experience of grief is different. The most important thing to offer someone who is grieving is just to listen.

She says there’s no need to feel pressured to

Participants learn to accept that they will get through the difficult grieving process and they will get better. Miller says that being with others who understand, who “We talk about how you can’t go over, under will listen and who will accept their tears, has a huge impact. or around grief, Miller says. “You must go through it.”

“For us facilitators, it is a blessing to see people transform within the 13-week If grief is not dealt with, it will, at some program,” Miller says. “We have seen point, come back. people’s lives changed. We have seen them “It’s not easy work, there are nights we walk come from remorse, anger, fear and very deep in their grief to become accepting out in tears,” Miller says. “But when we see of their new position and a become new these people blossom and grow it’s just person.” amazing.” say anything inspirational, just listen. The most important action one who is grieving needs to take it head-on.

All the facilitators at Noblesville First have experienced grief in some way. Miller knows how difficult the grieving process is, first hand. She lost her entire family she grew up with.

“Through the GriefShare process, we learn that our loved ones are never forgotten,” Miller says. “We learn to be very thankful for the memories and the time we had with them. “We also learn to look forward to new beginnings.”

The program also helps participants realize that what they’re experiencing is normal.

Participants are welcome to join at any point of the program.

Noblesville First also offers a Divorce Care program which is a 13-week program, structured in the same way as GriefShare.

The church will be offering a Surviving the Holidays program for both groups, too. This is a one-night program and will provide ideas of how to get through the holidays when your life has drastically changed.

Visit griefshare.org/countries/us/states/in/ cities/noblesville to learn more about the program and when classes meet.

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Two Noblesville High School seniors, Ayden Rayl and Jonathon Shankland, won $10,000 scholarships to IUPUI during the recent Computer Science Day programming competitions as a team in the web design contest.

“I was surprised but also excited, since I don’t really win a lot of stuff,” Shankland says.

Rayl adds that he was “excited and happy.

We both had the mindset that we were not going to win at first. We were there just to

have fun and enjoy the competition. We did end up putting some effort into it in the long run after seeing that we had a pretty good chance of winning.”

Their pursuit for excellence paid off. ​“ We had to build a website with a company with specific guidelines and requirements,” Shankland says. “It was a landscaping

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company, and we had to create specific pages.

We had to make a navigation bar to those pages. They gave us the freedom to style it how we wanted.”

The freedom helped them creatively.

“We were given a mock company we had to create a website for, using only HTML and CSS,” Rayl adds. “I had heard of the competition a couple of months in advance, and seeing that this was the first year they were offering the web development competition, I jumped at the opportunity.

“Jonathon and I had both taken at least one

class in HTML and CSS. He had only taken Web One, and I took Web One and Two in Web Development. Web Two included responsive design and JavaScript, which was included in the competition. I had also taken AP Java A with Mrs. Hied, who told me about the competition in the first place.”

Shankland says he and Rayl are both involved in other school activities and jobs.

Rayl believes entering the competition for the first time was actually helpful.

“​ I was involved in a game design and web design class,” Shankland says. “Right now, I’m in film and animation at J. Everett Light Career Center. Outside of school, I work at Pizza Hut.”

“We ended up going in blind, learning along the way and winning and having fun doing it,” he says.

Rayl added that he used to play football and track but is now only involved in Noblesville wrestling.”

S​ hankland plans to major in Game Design at IUPUI, and Rayl plans to major in something in the IT field or Networking SQL code.

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Shankland and Rayl both want the same opportunities for younger students and have good advice for them.

Shankland believes students should “find what you like to do and base your education around that. Some self-education doesn’t hurt. Do your best within your limits, and don’t push yourself so hard that you get burned out.”

Shankland added that winning the Computer Science Day programming competitions was more than he hoped for.

“It was a good experience, and I’m happy to have had the opportunity to participate in it,” he says. “I want to thank my best friend, Ayden Rayl, for asking me to join him.”

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JAMES ALLEN INSURANCE: CREATING A LEGACY THROUGH NATIONAL COVERAGE “We’ll be celebrating 50 years in August and writes insurance programs and policies 2019,” says Jim Craig, chief underwriter officer for areas of coverage that are new to the and board chairman at James Allen Insurance. general marketplace or are of a highlyniched nature.

James Allen Insurance ( JAI) is an Indianabased business that underwrites various About that upcoming gold anniversary. Jim insurance programs for several domestic is referring to his wedding anniversary to insurers and on behalf of their partners Carol, manager of accounting and billing at at Lloyd’s of London. Its primary focus is James Allen Insurance (which is in its 28th on farm and ranch products for the top year). He and Carol have known each other agricultural agents in the United States, since high school and attended the same and it specializes in rounding out coverage college, Cincinnati Christian University. in emerging areas of need. In addition to They are two of the four Craigs who make underwriting services, JAI creates, develops up the family business.

Their son Tim, CEO and Lloyd’s of London correspondent, jumped on board at JAI in 1998 after graduating from Ball State University with a major in business management. A father of five, with children ranging from newborn to age 10, he is married to Kristen Craig, farm underwriting manager at James Allen Insurance.

“Innovation,” Tim says. “We always wanted to create something for farmers that was necessary but non-existent at the time. We don’t want to be like the status quo. We aren’t like everyone else. Once you work

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with us, we believe you will see it. We are leaders – best packages, best coverage, best availability – we don’t come in second.

When no one can figure out how to do it, we do and we execute.”

Work ethic along with innovation runs in the Craig family blood, and it’s safe to say the legacy has just begun.

BECOMING JAMES ALLEN INSURANCE In 1994, Jim was introduced to Lloyd’s of London, an insurance and reinsurance market located in London, United Kingdom. After a successful dinner with Lloyd’s executives, Jim entered into a partnership that would go on to create something bigger than he anticipated.

After the initial meeting, the Craigs were overseeing both retail and agribusiness insurance.

Retail insurance agents deal directly with an insurer to arrange coverage. Retail agents also work with managing general agents or wholesale brokers to secure coverage for their clients. Agribusiness insurance offers coverage for companies that manufacture, process and distribute agricultural products. Agribusiness insurance agents work to develop superior coverage plans with specialized protection for the agricultural industry.

client should receive, how much the client should pay for it, or whether they should even accept the risk and insure the client.

Along the way, the Craigs made a strategic decision to continue solely with general agribusiness underwriting. From there, they started laser-focusing and building what they have now – researched and developed niche products and countrywide underwriting.

Since then, the Craigs have traveled to London more than 75 times.

Tim is passionate about new products, such as Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRS), Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PED), African Swine Fever (ASF) and Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). Tim’s passion has definitely paid off as James Allen Insurance has the only PRRS, PED, ASF and FMD coverage in the nation. While a farmer may not face these threats every day, it’s devastating when they hit. Such is the case this year with already 20 international ASF outbreaks.

With momentum flowing in the right direction, Tim decided to start underwriting. Insurance underwriters evaluate the risk and exposures of potential clients. They decide how much coverage a

Jim’s inclination for agribusiness is firmly rooted in his early years working on his grandfather’s farm, while his business aptitude has been nurtured and mastered over the last nearly three decades.

“On the agribusiness side, I realized that farm pollution was an untouched niche,” Jim says. “On my first trip to London in 1995, I placed my first farm pollution policy. Tim had always been interested in joining me, so eventually we teamed up and decided to take on the areas no one else had thought of, let alone would even consider.”

A THANKFUL FAMILY “Family business has its challenges,” Jim says. “You’re always trying to balance family versus the company, so it is important to draw those lines and be prepared to hold them. Thankfully for us, we haven’t butted heads too much, and we have given each other the room to grow.

I attribute this to our mutual respect, foundation and Christian principles.”

James Allen Insurance also believes in giving back to the community. This past year, JAI donated each month to a charity chosen by one of their 11 employees.

In 2019, they will begin donating every month to a charity on behalf of each of their employees’ interests. Not to mention, three Hoosier college students are currently being sponsored by James Allen Insurance.

“We find immense joy in giving back to our community and contributing to the success of others,” Tim adds. “That is why Christmas is such a special time for us. It is a time to reflect and feel gratitude. At James Allen Insurance, we have a lot to be thankful for.”

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There is a trend that is growing in popularity called “adaptive reuse” which says it is okay and even preferable to find a new purpose for old structures like churches and schoolhouses.

in downtown Kokomo. When she and husband Gary decided to start their family, they moved into an old farmhouse in the country and left her teaching job. But she still wanted to do something.

When the couple relocated to Noblesville in 1991, she rented space in the Emporium But not everyone has the ability to see the Antique Mall and then moved to the hidden beauty in a dilapidated building Logan Mall. While driving on Hazel Dell that may be slated for demolition. Mary Road, the once two-lane country road, Ann Huffman did and the Hazel Dell Huffman noticed the dilapidated Hazel Dell Schoolhouse, a Noblesville landmark, was Schoolhouse. The two-room school built in given another chance. She saw what no one 1892 was the second building for the school else could see and refurbished the 126-year- but it had not been used as a school since old schoolhouse, slated for demolition, and 1927. The building was missing half the opened and operated her design business bricks, there was no electricity or gas and there for 10 years until the economy took a windows were missing. If the building itself downturn. But the building meant too much did not scare any potential buyers away, to Huffman and the community, so she rethe overgrowth of weeds surrounding the opened the store in November of 2017. building certainly would. But not Huffman.

Her vision was clear this was the future An Interior designer, Huffman not only has home of Friends Home Décor. that ability, she has been ahead of the trend her entire career. As a Purdue graduate, She was determined to bring this important Huffman earned an education degree piece of Noblesville’s history back to life, and taught mildly mentally handicapped and she knew this was where she wanted children, while living in an old home to run her design business from so she

contacted family friends, Jim Pickering and Janet Vawter to see how she could go about finding the owner. They not only knew how, they knew the owner and the vision began to take shape.

“I spent two years tracking down permits to get the building zoned for commercial use, and my family and I began the process of clearing all the weeds away from the building,” Huffman says. “We were able to salvage the original beams and kept as many of the original architectural elements as we could, including the original bell.

“We added a kitchen so that we could bake cookies fresh at the store for our customers,” she adds. “We also added a parking lot, a staircase to the renovated attic and that still left 15-foot ceilings on the first floor.”

Adding in electricity, gas, new windows and a bathroom helped to modernize the schoolhouse.

When Huffman opened the doors to Friends Home Décor the first time in 2002, local residents visited and showed a strong interest in the building. They came armed

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with original report cards from family members that went to school there. They also came with photos of the children that attended in front of the original building and one even came by with the original clock that Huffman bought for the store and, while no longer in working condition, provided authenticity to the space.

where Huffman opened three home décor stores while renovating the 1856 original plantation house. For a while, Huffman returned to Indiana regularly to visit friends, family and the clients she was still serving.

She had some renters in the building but refused to sell the building for the offers that were coming in at half the value.

When the 2008 recession came somewhat unannounced, Huffman and other small businesses in the area began to notice that “something was just not right.”

By the summer of 2017, she made the decision to re-open the store and within a matter of months she would close her Georgia stores and move the inventory to her Indiana store.

“We toughed it out for a few years, and, when the economy did not bounce back, we made the decision to put the property up for sale and close our store,” Huffman says.

The store offers a variety of home décor and gift items that reflect her vintage and antique style but from vendors unique to Indiana. She offers pillows, napkins, lamps, The couple also moved to southern Georgia candles, unique gift items and continues to

provide design services. The store opened its doors in November of 2017 with all but two of her former employees and she added in two vendors in the attic, Hey Little Diddle and Delaney’s Loft.

Huffman believes that the schoolhouse and the store will help others see what is possible and invites the community to stop in to chat, peruse the store and relive a bit of history. The store is located at 16810 Hazel Dell Road, Noblesville.

To find out about events, sales and her famous “porch sale” follow Friends Home Décor on Facebook and visit them online at friendshomedecor.com. The store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed on Sundays. You can give them a call at 317-219-7490.

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