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What’s on your list? – Santa will be available to the public this week from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15 at Santa’s House in downtown Nobles-ville. Families may bring their camera and take photos free of charge as children tell Santa what they’d like for Christmas.

Book signing – Indianapolis residents and authors, Lori Petrucciani, N.D., and Bea White will be presenting and signing their new book, Bring Back Vitality – Unleash Your Power to Reclaim Vital Health, from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Stony Creek Marketplace Barnes & Noble, 17090 Mercantile Blvd., Noblesville. Books will be available for signing and the authors also will demonstrate essential oils and offer neck and shoulder massages.

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“Despicable Me 2” is essentially more of the same, with super-villain-turned-super-daddy Gru (voice of Steve Carell) turning his attentions away from dastardly plots to raising his three adopted daughters and manufacturing “jams and jellies.” To read more, visit www.currentnightandday.com

The Indiana Artists Club, the oldest juried artists’ organization in the state, is hosting its annual member exhibition in the Art in Town Hall gallery at Fishers Town Hall, 1 Municipal Dr. The exhibition features more than 70 pieces in a variety of media and styles such as pastels, oils, watercolors, acrylics and more. To read more, visit www.currentinwestfield.com

During this month’s Arts & Design District Gallery Walk from 5 to 10 p.m. Dec. 14, participating galler-ies will feature works of art for sale for less than $100 along with the current artwork on display. Carmel artist Jerry Points introduced the theme with the hopes of increasing foot traffic during the doldrums of December. To read more, visit www.currentincarmel.com

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Top turkey – Clay Meixster (pictured) was the 2013 Michael Treinen Foundation’s Annual Tur-key Trot winner with a 16:08 finish. The race was held Thanksgiving morning.

Paying forward – To help celebrate the season of giving, The Fashion Mall at Keystone will do-nate $1 to the Salvation Army Indiana Division’s Southern Indiana Tornado Relief Fund for each new Twitter follower it receives through 9 a.m. Dec. 24, up to $5,000. The Fashion Mall can be followed at @ShopFashionMall or www.twitter.com/ShopFashionMall.

Girl Scouts from Troop 00959 in Hamilton County recently earned the Super Troop award from Girl Scouts of Central Indiana. The girls participated in several Girl Scout events and activities, including helping to increase girl and adult membership in Girl Scouts. To read more, visit www.currentinwestfield.com

Know more – “Second-class” cities have a popula-tion of at least 35,000 and up to 600,000 at time of designation, and have a nine-member city council and an elected clerk. Current “second-class” cit-ies include Anderson, Bloomington, East Chicago, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Hammond, Kokomo, Lafayette, Lawrence, Marion, Michigan City, Misha-waka, Muncie, New Albany, Richmond, South Bend and Terre Haute. Indianapolis is the only “first-class” city in Indiana under state law.

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The size of local government is going to increase as Noblesville’s days as a third-class city are

numbered.Noblesville Common Council

members voted 5-2 to elevate the city’s status to second-class after the next mu-nicipal election.

City attorney Mike Howard said the title change is allowed under state statue if a city has more than 35,000 people on the most recent U.S. Census and its council passes an ordinance to do so. Noblesville has grown from 28,000 to 53,000 within the past 10

years and has been eligible for the change since 2010.

“We’ve had seven councilors since the ’70s,” Mayor John Ditslear said. “As we grow it is important we have more representation.”

Ditslear said the difference between the two classifications is a “broader representation” and an

increase in the number of officials. Noblesville cur-rently has five districts and two at-large members. A “second-city” has six districts and three at-large members for nine total members. It also has a clerk for record keeping and a controller (financial officer) who is appointed by the mayor.

“It will provide additional representation, especially as some of the precincts are becoming so large it’s hard for one council member to address everyone’s needs,” Councilor Mark Boice said.

Ditslear estimated the financial impact of the

move as $100,000 to $120,000. Councilors Rick Taylor and Stephen Wood opposed

the status change.“I have strong concerns about the cost to the city.

Current cities in ‘second-class’ have economic situa-tions that are not favorable. At some point that could happen here,” Wood said. “I didn’t think it was the right time to do it.”

Wood, who was in favor of more council members, is concerned about the cost of the move.

“From the financial side I don’t see how it is go-ing to benefit the city. It takes more tax dollars than what it brings in,” he said.

Noblesville will become the second second-class city, behind Fishers as it intends to transition from a town in 2015. The Carmel City Council has voted down the status change each time Mayor Jim Brain-ard has presented it. Other third-class cities eligible for second-city status include Columbus, Greenwood, Jeffersonville and Portage.

Howard said the change would not take effect until Jan. 1, 2016. All common council positions, mayor and clerk-treasurer terms end in 2015.

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Noblesville Police Dept. investigators are working to discover details of the events that took place on

Nov. 26 at Rancho Alegre Mexi-can Grocery, 723 S. 10th St.

Based on preliminary infor-mation, a subject allegedly entered the grocery and displayed an object believed to be a handgun. NPD Spokesman Lt. Bruce Barnes said an undisclosed amount of cash was reported to have been taken

as a result of the alleged robbery. No injuries were reported to police officers.

At 6:38 p.m., NPD officers responded to the grocery in reference to a report of a holdup alarm. Barnes said within one minute of the call being dis-patched, officers arrived on the scene and found two male subjects in the alley next to the grocery.

“Responding officers reported that one of the sub-jects fled on foot while the other subject remained. Officers established a perimeter in the area in an attempt to locate the fleeing subject,” Barnes stated.

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Voted as one of the nation’s “Most Incredible Themed Races” in 2012, the next installment of

the annual Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis is Dec. 15. The race raises funds

to fight and cure arthritis. Arthritis is the nation’s leading cause of disability, a serious disease that affects 53 million Americans, and approximately one in four Hoosier adults, including 6,400 children.

In honor of its silver anniversary, this year’s Jingle Bell Run will feature 25 Faces of Ar-thritis – people from the Indianapolis area battling this debilitating disease. One medical honoree is Kathleen Thomas, DO, a board-certified rheumatol-ogist at Community Health Network in Noblesville.

“People think of arthritis as an old person’s disease, but many autoimmune diseases affect the whole age spectrum,” she stated. “Symptoms can be subtle or quite explosive and people will try to rationalize away the pain or treat them-selves. But early diagnosis and treatment are key to getting good control.”

Thomas, a Fishers resident, treats more than 1,000 people with differing forms of arthritis and related disorders of the joints, muscles, and bones.

“It’s a good time to be in rheumatology and a good time to have arthritis,” she stated. “Thanks to advances in research and medicine, we now have great treatments and the disease is man-

ageable. We can do things now that we couldn’t before.”

But she didn’t always want to be a rheumatologist. Thomas started out with the hopes of becoming a dermatologist.

“I was struck early on by how female-dominant autoimmune diseases are,” Thomas stated. “These diseases

affect women during their child bearing years, which is a critical time in a woman’s life. I want-ed to be an advocate for the millions of women living with chronic pain.”

Thomas’ office has participated in the Jingle Bell Run for the past seven years raising close to $3,500 for arthritis research and education.

“It’s a great way to be involved with my pa-tients outside the office,” Thomas stated. “Plus I know the Arthritis Foundation does great work in terms of educating people about the disease and providing them with the recourses they need to manage their care.”

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$1.6M awarded for Noblesville paving – INDOT has awarded two paving contracts for sections of Ind. 32, 37 and 38 in Hamilton County. Calumet Civil Contrac-tors will resurface more than two miles of Ind. 32/38 between Hague and Union Chapel roads. The $775,000 contract includes reconstructing the railroad crossing at the intersection of Ind. 32/38 and Eighth Street in downtown Noblesville, which requires closure of both roadways. The closure is anticipated to take place between March 29 and April 13. During the closure, state highway traffic will be detoured to U.S. 31, I-465, I-69 and Ind. 37. Eighth Street will have a local detour that follows Cherry, 10th and Logan streets. A separate contract calls for E & B Paving to resurface more than four miles of Ind. 37 between Allisonville Road and Ind. 213. A work schedule for the $840,000 contract is yet to be established. Both projects are expected to be com-pleted by September.

THE COMMUTENorthbound I-69 opening to five lanes – Contractors have opened northbound I-69 between 96th and 116th streets to five lanes. Rieth-Riley Construction has built auxiliary lanes along northbound I-69 that connect the interchange ramps at 82nd, 96th and 116th streets. The auxiliary lanes are intended to improve traffic flow and strategically alleviate recurring commuting bottlenecks by allowing traffic traveling from one interchange ramp to the next to avoid unnecessarily merging with mainline interstate traffic. As part of the $11 million contract, Rieth-Riley is also constructing an additional lane on southbound I-69 between 116th Street and I-465 and a southbound auxiliary lane connecting interchange ramps between 116th, 96th and 82nd streets.

Rebranded – Noblesville Main Street has unveiled its new logo. The logo, created by Angie Foreman Designs, aims to capture the authenticity of downtown Noblesville while enriching Noblesville Main Street’s brand. “Noblesville Main Street is pleased to present ‘Hipstoric.’ It personifies the true essence that the community feels about their downtown,” stated Executive Direc-tor Renee Oldham. “This brand exemplifies Noblesville’s sense of place, pride, history and significant architecture. The ‘Hipstoric’ logo not only embraces downtown’s past but a center city that is not only hip but continually forging a path to a stronger future.” NMS is a nonprofit whose mission brings together diverse community interests and resources to promote the economic vitality, architectural heritage and cultural vibrancy of the downtown business district for the benefit of the greater Noblesville area.

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Sheriff Mark Bowen and members of the Ham-ilton County Sheriff’s Office recently attended

an awards banquet in Winston-Salem, N.C., to receive their award from

the Commission of Accreditation for Law Enforce-ment Agencies, Inc. CALEA is an international organization that recognizes outstanding achieve-ment in law enforcement agencies. The CALEA accreditation award is for three years, and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is now required to maintain continuous compliance during the award period by submitting annual reports attesting to

the compliance with the standards under which it was accredited. This is the second accreditation award for the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.

To earn accreditation, agency employees had to comply with 188 standards. A team of as-sessors from CALEA visited Hamilton County in August to examine policies and procedures, man-agement, operation and support services.

“The accreditation process allows the mem-bers of the agency, as well as the members of the community, to be confident that the policies and procedures that guide the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office are based on current, effective, and equitable best practices in policing,” Bowen stated.

From left: Allison Nicholson, Sheriff Mark Bowen, Major Tom Gehlhausen and Tim Garner receive CALEA re-accreditation at an awards banquet in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Submitted photo)

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Back in the Day To reach out to the community, the library participated in the Noblesville Chautauqua in 1915 by setting up a tent with displays describing its services. It continued to do so for several years. Displays were set up at other community events as well. Librarian Lulu Miesse also experimented with placing collections of books in the district schools. She started to branch out the collection by including more than just books. Circa 1918, the library began collecting stereopticon slides. In a sense, this might be considered an early audiovisual collection and is actually still part of the library. There are approximately 3,000 slides and several viewers presently stored in the Indiana Room. (Photo and information provided by Hamilton East Pub-lic Library-Noblesville Branch.)


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The Noblesville High School Singers presented the gift of music at the Noblesville Chamber of Com-merce Holiday Luncheon on Dec. 4 at Purgatory Golf Course. (Submitted photo)

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Members of the Noblesville Police Department and Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office present the colors and lead the annual holiday parade.

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Royalty passes as 2013 4-H Queen Court members Dorian Bush, second runner-up, Rachel Flanders, fourth runner-up, and Queen KyLeigh Kimbrell make their way down Ninth Street.

Stephen Craig of the Noblesville Lions Club hands out candy to patrons lining the route.

State Rep. Kathy Richardson (R-Noblesville) waves to the crowd.

Grand marshal Larry Stork was honored during the annual Christmas parade through downtown Noblesville on Dec. 1. As always, the holiday parade will mark the debut of Santa Claus to Noblesville for the season. For more photos, visit www.cur-rentnoblesville.com (Photos by Robert Herrington)

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Nicolas “Nic” Paquette, 51, of Noblesville died on Nov. 28, 2013. He was born on Dec.4, 1961 in Mus-kegon, Mich. Paquette was a graduate of Parkway North High School. He was an ammo ser-geant in the U.S. Air Force where he graduated the Community College of the Air Force. He was active in the Indiana Army Na-tional Guard, 38th Sustainment Brigade and proudly served his country during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. He became a master carpenter, gifted in woodworking, and his presence is seen over their entire home with many furniture pieces he constructed by hand. For a time he was a custom cabinet maker working for Fremont Interiors, Inc. He enjoyed playing Euchre, cribbage, salmon fishing and gardening. He espe-cially loved his dogs, Lucy Lu and Bella. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Engel Paquette; mother, Susan (Robert) Mixer; father, Kenneth (Marge) Pa-quette; children, Vittorio (Tiffany) Paquette, Ricardo (Donna) Paquette, Lucas Paquette, Cierra Paquette and Jacob Paquette; granddaughters, Ariana and Arabella Paquette and Isabella Sheffield; grandson, Landin Paquette; brothers, Chris Paquette, Greg Paquette and David Paquette; sisters, Yvonne Hol-liday and Alysia Paquette; and many nieces and nephews. Burial with military honors was Dec. 3 in Marion National Cemetery, 1700 E. 38th St., Marion. A Celebration of Life service followed at Cross-roads Church, 19201 Grassy Branch Rd., Westfield. In memory of Nic, memorial contributions may be given to Crossroads Church. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Bussell Family Funerals.

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Ice cream with Santa – The Noblesville Rotary Club will host its annual ice cream dessert with Santa Claus from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 10 at Culver’s in Noblesville, 557 Westfield Rd. Ice cream will be free to chil-dren under age 13, as well as to those kids age 70 and older. Santa Claus will arrive promptly at 5 p.m., and he will be available to talk to and have his picture taken with those children who want to talk with him. The Rotary Club will have a photographer on hand to snap the child’s meeting with Santa Claus, and all pictures will be sent to the e-mail addresses given by the parents of the children. The event also includes a face painter and a coloring contest for kids aged two to 12 will take place that evening. Eight winners will be selected from submissions and will receive a cash prize of $25.

New show – The Hamilton County Artists’ Association presents its “Marvelous Minis” art show and sale now through Dec. 27 at the Hamilton County Art Center & Birdie Gallery, 195 S. Fifth St., Noblesville. The show features paintings no larger than 8-by-10-inches in size created by Hamilton County artists. Start or add to your collection of local art as the HCAA gift shop is full of prints, cards, and other artwork that make wonderful Christmas gifts. The Birdie Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. For more information, call 776-2278 or visit www.hcaa-in.org.


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Members of the First United Methodist Church Bluegrass Band, featuring Niles Clark on vocals, perform “God’s Choir.” For more photos, visit www.currentnoblesville.com. (Photos by Steven Furlow)

The now-illuminated tree next to the historic courthouse in downtown Noblesville.

Noblesville Mayor John Ditsler reads “The Night Before Christmas”

Susie Long, left and Sarah Hilbert perform “Sing We Now of Christmas” with the First United Meth-odist Church Handbells.

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By Robert Herrington • [email protected]

The Noblesville Preservation Alliance is looking to literally bright-en the holiday season with the organization’s Twelve Houses of

Christmas program. In its second year, NPA quickly is creating a family tradition – a holi-day historic neighborhood driving tour.

“We used to drive around as a family growing up touring the lights. We spent an hour or two doing it,” Tim Parker said.

Tim and his wife, Lauren, moved to Noblesville in 2009. The two found and fell in love with a home in the Second Ward Historic Dis-trict, but it had one problem that was rectified two years ago – no outside electrical outlet.

“I wanted it purely for Christmas lights. There’s something so magical about it. It brings me back to my childhood,” Lauren said. “My par-ents are huge Christmas people. Their house is full of flashing lights timed to music.”

Lauren said her theme was a “happy medium.”

“It’s a hybrid mix of the Griswolds and classic,” she said, allud-ing to the family from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”

Lauren enjoys the fall home tour and believes it and the driving tour are an opportunity to engage the community.

“NPA does a really great job of encouraging and protecting a sense of community. This adds to that charm,” she said. “We loved that Norman Rockwell feel. It’s why we moved here.”

The home tour will focus on the 12 historic districts in Nobles-ville. Within each district, NPA has recruited one “showcase” home that will be placed on the tour map, including the Parkers’ residence.

“It’s been really fun to participate. We enjoy it just as much if not more than anybody else will,” Lauren said. “Our layout is not great for indoor tours so it’s fun to still be able to participate.”

NPA Board Member Emily Compton said the “showcase” home-owner encourages their neighbors to join the fun and ultimately the neighborhood will decorate the exterior of their homes for the tour.

“It brings people together around an event. It’s building within neighborhoods,” she said. “We’re hoping that will increase as we continue to do this event. People get to know their neighbors.”

The Parkers and Compton each commented on how the number of decorated homes has increased this year.

“On South 10th (Street) more people have decorations than usual,” Compton said.

“I see more people getting involved,” Tim said. The tour expanded this year to include fea-

tured businesses. Compton said most were on 10th and Conner streets.

“They’re historic homes that are now busi-nesses,” she said.

While the event provides an additional family-friendly holiday event, it is also educational.

“We’re educating the people to the historic structures in the area and the districts and dates in which they were established,” said Georgia Pate, last year’s event chair. “We want to bring to their attention the history.”

Each neighborhood will be voted on by the people who tour with each vote costing $1. The votes can be cast online at www.noblesvillepreservation.com. Hand drawn souvenir maps also will be available for $1.

Compton said all proceeds will benefit the continued preserva-tion of Noblesville�s historic resources and districts through proj-ects such as the Homeowner Façade Grant program. The facade grants provide financial assistance to residential properties, 50 years or older, for exterior restoration work. To date, NPA has awarded $11,000 in grant funding. Grants are distributed as match-ing funds, with NPA contributing 50 percent of the total project cost (up to $1,000).

“�It�s modeled after the city�s downtown façade grant, we just don�t have as much money,�” Compton said, adding this year NPA created a smaller seed grant in the amount of $500 which do not require a match. �”It�s a program for someone who really needs help getting a handle on a project. In its first year we had three grants. It�s popular and seems to have made an impact.”

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Map Key1 – Pioneer Homestead, 123 S. Eighth St.2 – Johnstown, 675 S. Eighth St.3 – Plum Prairie, 1640 S. Ninth St.4 – Central Square, 810 Conner St.5 – Gilded Age, 1179 Conner St.6 – New Frontier, 1688 Conner St.7 – Midland, 1807 Conner St.8 – Old Second Ward, 1374 Maple Ave.9 – Old First Ward, 1225 Harrison St.10 – Lincoln Park, 1552 Central Ave.11 – Broadview Manor, 1125 N. 12th St.12 – Gentleman Farmers, 894 N. 10th St.

Featured businesses:A – Parker & Maguire Law Firm, 1058 S. 10th St.B – Center Stage Vintage Guitars, 988 S. 10th St.C – The Birdie Gallery, 195 S. Fifth St.D – Santa House, Courthouse SquareE – Adriene’s Floral and Gifts, 1249 Conner St.F – Box, Pack, Ship, 1592 Conner St.G – Animal Arts, 998 N. 10th St.H – Yankee Clipper Barber Shop, 1330 N. 10th St.

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one entity managed all communication. Could we lose TV, the Internet and phone all at the same mo-ment and without warning or hope of recourse? Without the duplicate and competitive cell phone company with whom we maintained an account, would we have been isolated?

Can the benefits imagined in a single point of contact for all essential services ever fully out-weigh the risk in the event of failure (intended or not)? Does a single payer, single provider system work to increase our freedoms or restrict them? Somehow, monopolies, even benevolent govern-ment-sponsored ones, raise suspicion. In a world where our own mighty federal apparatus cannot create a working Website, are we foolish to even contemplate such consolidation?

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Our ordinarily rock-solid electrical power sup-ply has been interrupted several times these past many weeks. While we’ve experienced a long run with only the most brief flickers in the grid – the kind that requires that you reset the microwave clock but not persistent enough to go find and light a candle for illumination. But re-cently, we’ve encountered unexpected darkness for hours at a time. While it is fun to camp, I find that I miss the light (heat and internet, too).

Recently, the cable for television and internet access failed. For what seemed like an eternity, we were off the World Wide Web! What could be happening that we’d miss? But it did remind us of our dependency on these centrally provided essen-tials. That night, our calls to Bright House would be answered by an automated attendant, and after a lengthy phone tree laden with questions about our account and language proficiency, the provider’s computer would promptly cut the call leaving us to start the process over. I imagined a world where

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We’re suckers for original art of all medi-ums, and so we’re pleased to tell you that two Noblesville Schools educators have had their works selected for exhibit at Nickel Plate Arts, 107 S. Eighth St., Noblesville. Darlene Patterson, a photographer and an art teacher at Promise Road Elementary School, and Carol Land, a photographer and calligrapher and speech pathologist at Noblesville East Middle School, will display what their lenses captured in diverse reaches of the globe. The exhibits run Jan. 3 through Feb. 8. Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Grants funded the travels of the two artists. Patterson, a two-time recipient of the grant, traveled to Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic to participate in the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association Festival. While there, she engaged children of Iqaluit in a photography project and she kayaked in Sirmilik National Park. She will display her own photographs and also share work from Promise Road’s spring photo club and the children of Baffin Island. Land, who long has had a passion for calligraphy, traveled to England and Paris, where she visited abbeys and museums and studied calligraphy in order to refine her let-tering, master new artistic techniques, and personalize her writing. Her display will feature photographs from her trip and also samples of her calligraphy. For more information about the center, please visit www.nickelplatearts.org.

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retailer HomeGoods for its $5,000 award to the Westfield Youth Assistance Program. HomeGoods is endeavoring to make a differ-ence in Hamilton County, and the program, which was established to help foster better lives for youth in the county, is the beneficiary. The money will be used for the program’s men-toring initiative. Noblesville recently launched a program, and Fishers will have one in 2014.

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I must credit Lauren and Tim Parker for this column. What I thought was going to be a short interview ended up being an hour and a half conversation (it’s not often you get to meet someone who’s heard of my birthplace, Camp Lejeune, let alone was recently sta-tioned there). After the interview concluded we swapped a few military stories and the tables were turned as the friendly couple asked me about my profession.

I don’t mind having the questions thrown at me and here are a few they asked me:

Do I like what I do? I truly do. The hours are sometimes long – especially the night before deadline – and it can be very stressful, but I get to meet people and provide information to my neighbors about our community. It may be ego, but I feel local journalists can make an impact on where they live. I take that role seriously because I want Current in Noblesville to be recognized as the source of information. I want it to be a place that provides news and events readers care about and also is entertaining.

What do I prefer to write about? If I en-joy writing a story, I hope that comes across and the readers will enjoy reading it. Human interest stories tend to have aspects that draw people in and charismatic interviewees make for great stories. However, there are some stories that just need to be told because of their importance. Many may not care about the common council until a decision impacts them. Since there are a lot of empty chairs surrounding me at meetings, it’s my job to let people know what’s happening at the local government level.

What do I like about my job? It’s a bless-ing and a curse, but I enjoy meeting people. Unfortunately with the number of years I have been covering Noblesville (nine for those of you wondering), nothing is “quick and easy” anymore. I often joke with my wife that I should be heading home soon.Then an hour passes and I call her back saying I’m just now leaving. I try to attend as many public events as possible and usually that includes running into several people I know.

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Commentary by Mike Redmond

I don’t have all the Christmas lights up on the house yet. I know, I know, as a card-carrying

Christmas nut, I should have had it finished before Thanksgiving, but I just couldn’t after I went on the

Internet and saw this:“For every Christmas light that burns before

Thanksgiving, an elf kills a baby reindeer.”Well, I know me, and I know that if I had my

lights up before Thanksgiving, I’d have been throwing the switch on those suckers. Like I said, I’m a Christmas nut, and once they’re up, they’re burning. I put up a lot of lights. Or should I say, put up about half of a lot of lights. For the other half, the half that goes up all the way to the peak of my very tall roof, I have decided to hire a service. I’m not the ladder climber I used to be, and I decided it was worth the expense to avoid the embarrassment of a headline that reads: Homeowner croaks trying to save a couple of bucks hanging Christmas lights himself at his advanced age.

Actually, I did this last year, too, when my weight exceeded the load limit for the ladders on hand. I hired a service that came out and hung lights for a reasonable price and it worked out rather well (after I went out and corrected some of their mistakes).

See, I am a McKenzie on my mother’s side, and

Supervision requirednobody ever does work quite as well as we can do it ourselves, or so we think. Therefore, when we do hire someone to work for us, we believe we owe it to all concerned to make sure things are done properly. Really, we McKenzies should all have tattoos that say “Born To Supervise.”

Anyway, I eventually found what sounded like a nice bunch of people willing to do the work for a good price and more to the point, get up on the ladder and go to the top of the house where I do not belong.

The important thing is that the lights go up. You see, I live in a neighborhood where about half the residents have those oh-so-tasteful minimalist Christmas displays, and the other half of us roll our eyes at them. Which is a big part of why I put up enough lights (according to my tasteful neighbors who commented online) to drag airplanes off course.

Well, fooey on them. I’m having Christmas, and that means lights. Lots of them, some of them (the low ones) put up by me, and the others personally supervised by my McKenzie self. Hey, I may be late but at least the baby reindeer are safe.

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I had the absolute pleasure of attending my twin nephews’ birthday celebration recently at a

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children racing around quite literally like chickens with their heads cut off to the dismay of parents and caretakers alike. And they don’t even serve alcohol! This particular party was entertaining nonetheless, and it all boiled down to poo. Yes, you read correctly.

I was kind of in a bad mood heading into the evening’s festivities. Doo had abandoned me for his beloved tree stand for the second weekend in a row, and my kids had been fighting like cats the entire day. But family calls, so I downed two Advil and headed into the fray with my three tween-agers.

As expected, kids were everywhere, scream-ing, crying, laughing, falling, jumping, spinning … this place could make bank if they just sold whiskey. Two whole hours. How was I going to make it? Here’s where poo saved the day.

First I was regaled by my sister-in-law and her husband about their new puppy’s intestinal condition. Apparently she has giardia, a parasitic condition which results in extreme diarrhea at all hours. Hearing them recount a night of pure fecal horror made me laugh so hard I cried, and reminded me of our own canine catastrophe last

Watch where you stepChristmas Eve when we discovered our Labrador had utterly destroyed her kennel and the bed-room’s white carpet. Good times.

Coincidentally, one of the birthday boys also was experiencing bowel issues. On the heels of his dad whisking the potty-training cutie away after the second accident of the night, I heard my other sister-in-law scream to her crawling 1-year-old, “Don’t eat that!” We all looked up to see her snatch her son away from a perfectly cubed pieced of poo. As I went to clean it up, we noticed several other “nuggets” lying around. Ap-parently the star of the show was leaving a trail straight through the main play area, sanitation warnings be damned.

I don’t know if these establishments follow swimming pool protocol when contamination oc-curs, but we weren’t taking chances. Swiftly yet covertly, we spread out to contain the situation and eliminate all traces of corruption, struggling to keep the giggles in check. We succeeded on the first, failed on the second, and thus ended my best time ever at a play park.

You could say the poo hit the fan twice that night, but for once, I think we all welcomed it. Peace out!

Danielle Wilson is a contributing columnist. You may e-mail her at [email protected].

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Trace Adkins – The country singer and actor will present “The Christmas Show,” at 7 p.m. Dec.

15 at the Palladium in Carmel. The holiday-themed show will complement the release of The

King’s Gift, Adkins’ new Celtic-flavored Christ-mas album. The family-friendly performance will feature stories and carols. Throughout “The Christmas Show” Adkins will alternate between fireside story-telling and performances of classic carols like “We Three Kings,” “Silent Night,” “Little Drummer Boy” and more. For more information, call 843-3800 or visit www.thecenterfortheper-formingarts.org.

Holiday Cheers – Sample beer from Union Brew-ing Co., participate in sausage-making demon-

strations and learn different holiday cultures and traditions from the 19th century from 6

to 10 p.m. Dec. 12 at Conner Prairie’s Interactive History Museum, 13400 Allisonville Rd. Enjoy a free photo booth with your friends or relatives at the event and end your evening with a party at the Campbell home on the grounds of Con-ner Prairie. Tickets are $35 in advance online at www.holiday-cheers.eventbrite.com or may be purchased at the door. For more information, call 776-6006 or visit www.connerprairie.org.

Plaid Tidings – Frankie, Spark, Jinx and Smudge return to the Walnut where they once wove the

magic of the 50’s and 60’s into the hearts of every-one. Rosemary Clooney

has encouraged the boys to return to Earth this year, to make things right in the world. So stuff your stockings with 1950’s tunes and Holiday gems like “Let it Snow” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Shows are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at The Belfry Theatre, 10690 Greenfield Ave. Cost: $12-$17. For more information, call 773-1085 or visit www.thebelfrytheatre.com.

Nuncrackers – Westfield Playhouse, 1836 Ind. 32 West, will present the musical at 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Nuncrackers is “about” the Christmas spirit –

sharing a good laugh, enjoying friends and family, and taking a respite from worry. It’s an evening celebrating the love of fun, the gift of sharing, and the joy of being alive. It’s a communal experience between the actors and the audience, where the fourth wall doesn’t even pretend to exist. Cost: $13-$15. For more information, call 896-2707 or visit www.westfieldplayhouse.org.

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“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” • 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays • Dec. 13 through Jan. 4 • Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre in Carmel • Tickets are $46.50 • The final performance on Jan. 4 will feature ASL interpretation for the deaf • For more information, call 843-3800 or visit www.civictheatre.org.

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Perhaps you’d like a new coat for Christmas? What color would you like?

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can enjoy. On Dec. 13, the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre

stage will swirl with the festive, uplifting colors, costumes, dancing and songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

The show is based on a story from the Book of Genesis, and tells the tale of a boy who has 11 brothers, all of whom are jealous of him be-cause he is the father’s favorite and has been given a glorious coat of many colors to prove it. The brothers sell Joseph off as a slave, but tell their father that he is dead. Joseph is ultimately imprisoned by his new master. While in prison, he realizes he has the gift to interpret dreams, which puts him in a position of great power in Egypt. He is ultimately in a position to first test

and finally forgive his brothers, when he sees how sorry they are and how much they have learned while he was away.

A pop/rock opera, the story is told entirely in song. Written in the early ’70s, it rose to success on the heels of Webber and Rice’s hit, “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The show employs numerous musical styles and genres, including country-western, Calypso, funk, rock and roll, French ballad and disco.

The title role of Joseph has been played by such heartthrobs as David Cassidy and Donny Osmond. In Civic’s production, it will be played by Butler University graduate and student advi-sor Patrick Clements, who is reprising the role and has been seen on the Booth Tarkington stage in “My Fair Lady” and “West Side Story.”

“I love this show because it’s easy for the actors to have a lot of fun, which leads to the

audience having a lot of fun,” Clements said. “It’s quirky and there are just so many different mu-sical styles in it. But there’s an emotional string running through it, which really pulls everyone in in the end.”

The show will be directed by Michael Lasley. “It’s a big production,” Lasley said. “We have

three rotating kids’ casts and there will be about seventy-five people involved in a per-formance. And we have a lot of first-time Civic performers, so it’s really bringing a fresh energy to the show.”

“I think of it as a good alternative to tradi-tional Christmas shows that maybe the kids have already seen,” Lasley said. “It will appeal to every age group. And we’re adding in some pop culture references and some other fun surprises.”

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ervation Alliance, historic homes in Noblesville will accent their Victorian features with holiday lights and decorations. People can drive or walk the self-guided tour. Visit the Website for maps. • Nobles-ville Preservation Alliance and various Noblesville homes. • 6 to 9 p.m. nightly through Dec. 31. • Free • Contact Charlie Hyde at 750-2565. • www.noblesvil-lepreservation.com

Santa’s Mailbox in the Carmel Arts And Design District • Visit Santa’s special mailbox at Carmel’s ArtSplash Gallery and when kids post their wish lists, they will receive a personalized, hand-written response from Santa. • 111 W. Main St., Suite 140, Carmel. • Today through Dec. 20. • Free • www.carmelartsanddesign.com.

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Fishers Parks and Recreation: Santa’s Mailbox • Children everywhere are finishing up Christmas lists and two special mailboxes are set up in Fish-ers to make sure those lists make it to the North Pole. Santa’s mailboxes are at the Parks and Rec-reation office and at Town Hall. Kids who drop let-ters in these mailboxes will get a reply from Santa himself if letters include a self-addressed stamped envelope. • Fishers Parks and Recreation office, 11565 Brooks School Rd., Fishers and Town Hall, 1 Municipal Dr., Fishers, • Dec. 11 through 16. • Free • 595-3150 • www.fishers.in.us

Winter Wonderland • The inau-gural Winter Wonderland in Fish-ers will showcase more than

20 holiday light displays. Come down to the Nickel Plate Amphitheater and start a new family tradition by choosing your favorite Christmas light exhibits. • Nickel Plate Amphitheater, Fishers. • 6 to 10 p.m. nightly through Dec. 31. • Free • 595-3155 • www.fishers.in.us/parks.

Fishers Claus for PAWS Family Holiday Program • Plan to be at the Fishers Library at 6 p.m. to meet Santa, decorate cookies and work on fun projects in the elves’ workshop. Stick around until 7 p.m. to visit with a live reindeer and feel free bring a gift for the Hamilton County Humane Society • 5 Municipal Dr., Fishers • 6 to 8 p.m. • Free. • www.hepl.lib.in.us/

Central Indiana Dance Ensemble per-forms ‘The Nutcracker’ • Relive this holiday classic at the Zionsville Per-

forming Arts Center. Watch Clara’s journey with the Nutcracker Prince and Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score will keep the audience entranced. • 1000 Mulberry St., Zionsville. • 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13; Dec. 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. • Adult tickets are $30 and children’s tickets are $23 for 18 years and younger. • 844-7453 • http://www.cidedance.org/.

A Beef & Boards Christmas 2013 • Start a holiday tradition and watch Beef & Boards celebrate the holidays in style. • 9301 Michigan Rd., Indianapolis • 8 p.m. Dec. 13; Dec. 14 at 1:30 and 8 p.m., Dec. 15 at 1:30 and 7 p.m. • Tickets start at $47.50 Dec. 13 and 14; tickets start at $42.50 on Dec. 15. Members save 10 percent • 872-9664 • http://beefandboards.com.

Westfield Playhouse Presents: ‘Nuncrackers’ • Main Street Productions in Westfield provides an evening celebrating the spirit of Christmas with their presentation of ‘Nuncrackers.’ Have a good laugh and enjoy a theater experience that includes interactions between the actors and the audience. • 1836 Ind. 32 W., Westfield • 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13 and 14; 2:30 p.m. Dec. 15. • Regular admission $15; senior admission is $13. • http://westfieldplayhouse.org.

The Center Presents: Dave Koz & Friends Christ-mas Tour 2013 • Saxophonist Dave Koz, a prominent contemporary musician, brings his holiday tribute show to the Palladium. This family friendly musical experience will delight all ages. • The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 1 Center Green, Carmel. • 8 p.m. Dec. 13. • Tickets start at $23. • 843-3800. • www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.com.

Santa’s House on the Square • Visit Santa’s House on the court-house square in Noblesville so

kids can let the big guy know everything on their lists. Santa’s House admission is free and parents are welcome to bring cameras and take pictures. • One Hamilton Square, Noblesville. • 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15. • Free • www.cityofnoblesville.org.

Gingerbread Scavenger Hunt in the Carmel Arts & Design District • This fun event begins at Teabuds at 111 W. Main St. in Carmel and continues along the Arts & Design District; merchants will decorate gingerbread houses which can be seen in their win-dows. Find clues along the way and end the hunt at Simply Sweet Shop at 30. N. Rangeline Rd. where hunters will receive a treat and can enter a raffle for a basket of gingerbread goodies. • Carmel Arts & Design District, Carmel. • Today and daily through Dec. 23. • 571-2787 • http://carmelartsanddesign.com.

Candlelight Tour at the Museum of Miniature Hous-es • View the spectacular miniature house exhibits by candlelight while holiday carolers provide the sounds of the season. • 111 E. Main St., Carmel. • 5 to 8 p.m. • Free • 575-9466 • www.museumofminiatures.org.

Actors Theatre of Indiana Presents: ‘A Year with Frog and Toad’ • Popular characters Frog and Toad lead audiences on a fun-filled tour of the season and learn lessons about friendship along the way. • The Studio Theater, 1 Center Green, Carmel. • 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14; and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 15. • Tickets start at $32.50. • 843-3800 • www.thecenterforth-eperformingarts.org

Carmel Symphony Orchestra Presents: Holidays with Five by Design • Five by Design comes to the Palladium and provides a holiday concert full of fun favorites like “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Silent Night” and more. • The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 1 Center Green, Carmel. • 3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 14. • 843-3800 • www.thecenterfortheper-formingarts.org.

Santa in the Santa House in Downtown Zionsville • Christmas in the Village in Downtown Zionsville

continues, and on Dec. 15 Santa will be in the Santa house. Visit the shops and make time for little ones to tell Santa what they wish to find on Christmas morning. • Downtown Zionsville. • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 15. • 873-3836 • www.zionsvillechamber.org.

Beef & Boards Presents ‘A Christ-mas Carol’ • This one-hour adapta-tion of the classic Dickens tale is

perfect for a holiday lunch party. Enjoy the sounds of traditional carols against the backdrop of Scrooge’s story. • 9301 Michigan Rd., Indianapolis. • 1 and 8 p.m. Dec. 16; 1 p.m. Dec. 17 and 20. • Tickets start at $34. • 872-9664 • www.beefandboards.com.


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There are a handful of Christmas films that have endured over the years. Some of them we

have watched so many times that we can quote the lines. “Miracle on 34th Street,” “White Christmas,”

and “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” to name a few. What do they all have in common? They are sto-ries of friendship, family, love and redemption. “A Year with Frog and Toad” is one of those stories.

“A Year with Frog and Toad,” performed by Ac-tor’s Theatre of Indiana, follows the lives of two amphibian friends, lively and optimistic Frog and curmudgeonly Toad, through the four seasons. They, along with other animal friends, experience the same kinds of problems we all do in our day-to-day lives. They’re not happy with the way they look in a swimsuit but they’re still eating cookies with wild abandon.

The score is filled with snappy, memorable tunes; catchy to adults and irresistible to children.

“We first did this show in 2006, and the par-ents clamored for more performances,” said ATI’s artistic director, Don Farrell, who plays Toad. “They bought the soundtrack for their kids and they said that they listened to it in the car all the time. For many kids, this show will be their intro-duction to musical theatre, and it’s a great one.”

“ATI’s season has been about friendship,” Far-rell said. “Frog and Toad is particularly special to me because I get to portray the dear friend of

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Tim Hunt, Jessica Murphy and Mary Jane Wad-dell round out the cast.

ATI is also adding a special performance with discounted ticket prices at 7 p.m. Dec. 17 for families with children or adults on the autism spectrum, in which they will provide a safe and comfortable environment for everyone to enjoy the show.

“A Year with Frog and Toad” • Dec. 13 through 22. • 2:30 p.m. performance Dec. 22 will feature two ASL interpreters for the Deaf. • Studio Theatre at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. • Tickets start at $32.50. • For more information call all 843-3800 or visit www.the-centerfortheperformingarts.org.

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“School choirs, church groups and professional musicians have been invited to share their gifts with our customers,” said owner Lyneen Burrow. “While we always welcome quil-ters, knitters, crocheters and cross-stitchers to the store, we hope everyone will come to enjoy even a few minutes of the music.”

Scheduled to perform are Cassandra Hale, flautist. 11 a.m.; North Elementary School Hand Chimes Choir, 1 p.m.; Noblesville East Middle School Show Choir, 3:30 p.m.; violinist Joe Wie-

gand, 4 p.m.; White River Elementary School Fourth Grade Choir Connection, 4:30 p.m.; Grace-notes, the hand chimes choir from Indiana Acad-emy, 5:30 p.m.; Bethel Lutheran Church Children’s youth choirs and students from Julie Sprung’s Music Studio, 6 p.m.; and Hamilton Heights High School carolers, 6:30 p.m.

Staff and customers are invited to bring cook-ies to swap. Recipes will be collected and posted on the shop’s Website, www.AlwaysInStitches1.com.

“While you’re here, visit our cookie table,” Bur-row said. “It’s one way we can say Merry Christ-mas to the community.”

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• Divas Vocals Camp: This is a two-day camp on Jan. 2 and 3 which will focus on vocal technique for live performance. The students will also leave with an audio recording of themselves singing, which they will also use as a learning tool during the camp.

• Blues Improv Camp: This is a two-day camp on Jan. 2 and 3 for students on all instruments (guitar, bass, drums, keys and vocals). It will be a fun, low pressure way for students to get familiar with the core components that make up the Blues form.

• SoR Rookies Camp: This is a one-day camp on Jan. 4 for beginners or those who would like to try a lot of different instruments before they choose which ones they’d like to pursue. The students will rotate on instruments that have been modified for students to be able to put together a song in one day.

Camps are $100 per day. Registration is available at https://carmel.schoolofrock.com/camp-signup. For more information, call 848-7625.



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Need to get into the holiday spirit this year? Then let the holiday classics wash over you,

sending you down the chimney into Christmas bliss.

Dave Koz and Friends Christmas tour is an uplifting, high-energy show the where some of music’s biggest names will jam on lively arrangements of sea-sonal favorites, led by multi-Grammy nominated saxophonist Koz.

Joining Koz onstage will be Japanese-born pianist/composer/producer Keiko Matsui, world-renowned singer Oleta Adams and Jonathan Butler, the first black artist played on white radio stations in his native South Africa.

“Our show since its inception, started out of love,” Koz said. “I was waiting to interview the great musician, David Benoit, and my father had just passed away and his mom had too and we were talking about the holidays and how we would deal with that loss of love during the holi-days. Music can be so healing so he said, ‘Why don’t we go out and do some shows?’ And that’s how the whole idea was created.”

Koz said he wants his show to be a place of warmth and intimacy, with a feeling of gathering with family and friends.

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And that’s a lot of pressure for Koz and Friends after 16 years.

“Every tour is slightly different, and that difference comes from the cast. This year’s cast is exceptional – we are a really unusual mix. We’ve not had a cast of two women and two men and two incredibly talented singers,” Koz said.

He also feels Christmas music is so special to so many people.

“There are beautiful things about Christmas music, you can do all the songs in amazing dif-ferent ways, easily pushed and pulled in different directions, that’s why they are timeless and we can arrange them in a new way every year.”

Koz is also excited about returning to Camel and remembers his first time here.

“’In a town that’s not Indy, is there really a performing arts center?’ I thought,” he said. “Then driving up to Carmel there was this beacon that was absolutely incredible. It’s an incredible, and beautifully sounding room, intimate, and there’s not a bad seat in that house. And for a little town like Carmel, that is amazing.”

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As we said last week, now is a good time to do Christmas shopping for that tailgater on your list because every merchant seems to have a pre-Christmas sale going.

Tailgating gadgets, which are basically camp-ing gear, are marked down further because they are out-of-season. If you think about it, probably the only person that thinks camping gear is in season at this time of the year is someone who wants to try out for that Survivor Man series on TV featuring eight days lost in a Norwegian winter.

During the season, we gave you lots of ideas for neat gifts. For an up-to-date list of sugges-tions with photos, details, and where-to-buy information, visit www.tailgatershandbook.com.

Don’t forget that new aspect of tailgating – breakfast. It’s because we now have far too many games starting at noon.

Just try to tell your kids that all games used to start at 1 p.m. They’ll never believe you.

Noon games mean we need to start tailgating no later than 10 a.m. and that’s a perfect time, as the British say, for a “proper breakfast.” And that doesn’t mean just a cup of fast food coffee and a

easily packs into your car. Its oven holds baking-dish size items on two shelves and the burners are just right for two skillets. Buy your tailgater one of these and you’ll see smiles all around for seasons to come.

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Adkins is board certified in internal medicine and specializes in caring for patients over age 16. She has special interests in women’s health, preventive healthcare and diabetes. Adkins earned her undergraduate degree in occupational therapy from Indiana University and later earned her medical degree with hon-ors from Indiana University Medical School. She completed her residency in internal medicine at St. Vincent Hospital.

McLaren is board certified in family medicine and sees patients of all ages as a family medi-cine physician. He has a special interest in pedi-atrics, sports medicine and dermatology and is fluent in Spanish. McLaren studied chemistry at Ball State University before earning his medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his residency in family medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., where he was chief resident in his final year, followed by a fellowship in obstetrics at Brown University in Providence, R.I.

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“IU Health Saxony Hospital is committed to helping the community in meaningful ways that extend beyond our healthcare services,” said Gaurav Arora, chief medical officer of IU Health Saxony. “It was a privilege for our staff to par-ticipate in the IU Health Day of Service by build-ing panels for Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County to benefit local families in need.”

2012 IU Health Saxony Hospital community benefit highlights include:

• During the annual IU Health Day of Service in May, 59 IU Health Saxony team members spend a total of 236 volunteer hours build-ing a panel for a Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County home.

• To raise awareness of sudden cardiac death and to prevent resulting deaths, IU Health Saxony donated automatic external defibrillators to three junior high schools in the Hamilton Southeastern Schools district and one church in Fishers. Hospital team members worked with the school and church staffs to ensure effective AED place-ment and also provided hands-on training for using the machines.

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Every day on the radio and television, com-panies advertise how important it is for you to

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worse, and all of this is preventable. What most Indiana residents don’t realize is

that the State has passed legislation to allow Indiana residents to protect themselves. It’s called a “credit freeze.”

The biggest risk relating to identity theft is that someone obtains your personal informa-tion and uses that information to set up a credit card or other credit facility. This allows them then to borrow money and make pur-chases in your name. In an extreme case they may even buy a house or a car once this credit has been established.

Once you have identified that your identity has been stolen, it can take a great deal of your time and money to unwind this debt in your name or separate yourself from the obligation. By the time you identify what is happening to you, the thieves have already realized the benefit of this devious conduct and are gone.

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Simply click on each link and follow the instructions for each agency to freeze your credit report. Make sure that you freeze all three agencies. Many states charge for each freeze. By Indiana law, there is no cost for this service.

After you have completed this process, you will receive a PIN number from each of the agencies in the mail. Don’t lose these PIN num-bers. Keep them in a safe place. If you need to secure credit or borrow money in the future, you will want to un-freeze your credit reports. You will need your PIN numbers to do this.

This is a process that every Indiana resident should be aware of. Taking advantage of what our State government has created, with no cost to any resident, makes good financial sense. Especially considering the times we now live in.

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Commentary by Jordan Fischer

Question: Will you please address the use of the following: “The President he is giving a

speech,” as opposed to what I was taught - “The President is giving a

speech.” I’ve noticed lately that news anchors/readers on both local and national/cable broad-casts are using the first example, and it drives me crazy! THANKS! (Susie in Zionsville)

Answer: Susie, I don’t have an explanation for why newscasters would construct their sen-tences this way other than – if I may take the liberty of inventing a phrase – a case of “stumbly mouth.” We all remember the trials of high school speech class, and I, for one, am prone to forgive the occasional on-camera tongue slip. I mean, I can barely manage talking to myself.

That being said, we certainly can take a look at why the above construction is wrong. It boils down to pronouns and the rules for their use.

First: What is a pronoun? A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or a noun phrase. The noun being substituted for is called the “antecedent.”

To quickly illustrate the point, an example: “Ann grabbed the ball and then quickly ran it in for a touchdown.” The pronoun “it” takes the place of its antecedent “ball.”

Pronouns have a lot of uses, but the most common one is to avoid repetition. This is the

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Out-of-place pronounscase in our example sentence. Without a pro-noun, we would have: “Ann grabbed the ball and then quickly ran the ball in for a touchdown.” Is it grammatically incorrect? No. Does it sound awk-ward and repetitive? You betcha.

Pronouns come into play when we want to refer back to a noun in a later clause or phrase. I’m hav-ing trouble coming up with an occasion in which it would be appropriate to use a subject pronoun like “he” to refer back to an antecedent within the same phrase, i.e. “the president he is…” Why is this? Because the pronoun can effectively be read as its antecedent, meaning the sentence would be, “The president the president is giving a speech.” That takes repetition to a whole new level.

You might see a noun and a pronoun right next to each other if they are separated by a comma, though, again, they would not be part of the same phrase or clause. Example: “Ann, she is my friend, scored a touchdown.” The main clause is “Ann scored a touchdown.” “She is my friend” serves as a parenthetical dependent clause.

In conclusion: Is, “The president he is giving a speech,” correct? No. Do I think it’s a case of “stumbly mouth?” Yes. Am I overly enthusiastic about using the phrase “stumbly mouth?” Possibly.

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Commentary by Don Knebel

Because a volcanic eruption froze Pompeii forever in the first century, today’s visitors can

explore an ancient city having ame-nities still enviable by residents of some cities. Houses had running

water, indoor toilets, colonnaded courtyards and colorful, if sometimes obscene, frescos. Scholars have long known that Pompeii’s destruction was chronicled by a famous eyewitness. Some believe its opulence and sudden demise are also described in the Bible.

Pompeii was located on the Bay of Naples, about five miles from Mt. Vesuvius. Ash from past volcanic eruptions had made the surrounding soil unusually fertile. Pompeii’s proximity to the sea made it an attractive vacation destination for wealthy Romans and home to local merchants made rich importing luxury items. Pompeii resi-dents were well known for their conspicuous consumption and enjoyment of pleasures of the flesh. With a population of maybe 10,000 people, Pompeii had more than 120 bars and up to 35 brothels, some displaying explicit pictures of their services.

Pompeii and thousands of its inhabitants were destroyed in 79 A.D., when Vesuvius erupted with unexpected ferocity, quickly burying the city

Does the Bible describe Pompeii?Plaster cast of Pompeii victim (Photo by Don Knebel)

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under about 20 feet of pumice and ash. Plaster casts made from cavities formed around de-cayed bodies show many victims died suddenly while covering their faces to avoid the hot vol-canic gases. The actual location of Pompeii was lost until 1599 when it was accidentally rediscov-ered and its buildings and art found to have been remarkably well preserved by the hardened ash.

The story of Pompeii’s destruction is known from letters written by Pliny the Younger, who watched from across the bay as his uncle, a Ro-man sea captain named Pliny the Elder, attempted an unsuccessful rescue by boat. Pliny the Young-er’s later letters documenting his persecution of Christians provide some of the earliest evidence of Christianity outside the Bible. It seems fitting that a growing number of scholars believe the Bible contains another account of Pompeii. The eighteenth chapter of Revelation describes God’s sudden annihilation of a great city by fire and dust because of its great wealth, excessive luxuries and carnal sins. The parallels are many and strik-ing, as you can read for yourself.



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Commentary by Larry Greene

EXISTING BASEMENT: This home located in the Springmill

Ridge addition on the west side

of Carmel was built in 1989. The basement was already completely finished but was lacking the archi-tectural details the homeowners wanted.

“We wanted to upgrade the basement,” stated the home-owner. “It was boring. We wanted to add a little character and make it a place we wanted to hang out in.” The homeowners wanted a rustic feel to the space, including a wine tast-ing area, which drove the design and material choices.

STACKED STONE: A dry-stacked stone wall in Ledgewood Chisel Gray was installed on the TV wall, providing the look of a fireplace without having to actually build one. As a focal point of the basement, the style of the wall was carried out throughout the basement.

DECORATIVE MOLDINGS: To add a more fin-ished feel, wainscoting was added to most of the basement walls. Columns and a decorative wall were added to create a drink ledge near the

Existing basement adds architectural details

main bar area. Faux columns gave an exception-ally long wall purpose by creating a niche for family photos.

CUSTOM SHELVING: Having a place for the family’s memorabilia collection was included in the final design as well. Floating stained shelving was custom built around the items they would hold. Beyond their functionality, the shelves were designed in varying depths and lengths to add dimension to the long, flat wall.

WINE TASTING AREA: To bring the expansive space of the lower level into a comfortable scale, multiple seating and activity areas were created.

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A bar, a TV-viewing area and a pool table took up the most space. Stacked stone surrounds a curved decorative door and wine racking to create the wine tasting area. A bar-height table and chairs near the picture nook create another gathering space.

BEfOrE & AfTErFINAL RESULTS: “We have had a few parties since the remodel,” stated the homeowner. “Before, there was never enough space for people to sit. Now there are many choices. Our family is now using the basement together, and will even more now that the weather is turning colder.”


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