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It is our position that all patriotic Americans now have occasion to and should say job well done to our elected Senate and House of Representatives! The Bipartisan Deficit Commission on Nov. 10 articulated recommendations aimed at curbing big-spending politicians of all persuasions (all too often more concerned with spreading the pork than with the statesman-like spending temperance due our good nation).

While much of the recommended course will require painful expenditure discipline and management of federal taxation, we must consider sacrificing im-mediate gain with an eye to the long term. While political rhetoric has become largely unreliable, the basics of elementary mathematics remain unchanged.

For each of the last few years and far into the future, we have chosen to spend more than a trillion dollars in excess of our collective budget. Doublespeak aside, we all must understand that this is not sustainable. The Commission urges that both foreign and domestic spending must be considered (defense and public dole included). Social Security must be made solvent, all the while encouraging self-responsibility and sufficiency. Any thoughtful tax discussion must include purposeful consideration of abundant benefit programs.

Deficit thinking Speedy moveIt is our position that the 50-mile-per hour

speed limit posted on the just-completed Keystone Avenue from the Marion County line to Westfield is a welcome change. The highway’s innovative design in absence of the once ubiquitous stop lights, coupled with the wide lanes and clear visibility, should lead to a safe and efficient driving experience for all.

While most are thankful the limit was raised from the construction-era maximum of 30 mph, many feel the new number to be too constraining. Thanks to the elimination of pedestrian traffic and to the broad crosswalks at the roundabouts, the road is no doubt safer to foot and bicycle traffic as well even at a higher limit.

But we also understand that the higher speed limits will lead some, believing traffic laws to them do not apply, to choose to drive at far greater rates. Those can expect continued police patrols to help keep the area safe scofflaws in check. With no stop lights, no pedestrians and broad lanes, we believe that behavior on the stretch should be monitored to consider an increase to that posted if we motorists prove able to drive both comfort-ably and securely.

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ness; but a smaller number may meet, adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. A quorum being in attendance, if either House fail to effect an organization within the first five days thereafter, the members of the House so failing, shall be entitled to no compensation, from the end of the said five days until an organization shall have been effected.

Section 12. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same. The yeas and nays, on any question, shall, at the

request of any two members, be entered, together with the names of the mem-bers demanding the same, on the journal; Provided, that on a motion to adjourn, it shall require one-tenth of the members present to order the yeas and nays.

Section 13. The doors of each House, and of Committees of the Whole, shall be kept open, except in such cases, as, in the opinion of either House, may require secrecy.

Section 14. Either House may punish its members for disorderly behav-ior, and may, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member; but not a second time for the same cause.

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We’re extremely familiar with what it takes – and how satisfying it ultimately is – to build something from the ground up. So when we hear that someone else is doing it, we aren’t as much amazed as we are com-pletely energized by the notion. Such is the case with Brad Little, the executive director of The Legacy Fund, which we back and will continue to back far into the future. Little, who is a not-for-profit leader across several categories, is giving up a sure thing with the fund, which benefits not-for-profits in Hamil-ton County, to take on the seemingly monu-mental task of launching a similar initiative in Ottumwa, Iowa. If anyone can do it, it’s Little, who said the chance to build something from scratch was too good to pass up. For years, we’ve watched his confident, measured handiwork with the Carmel Dads’ Club and now the fund, all of which added up to make a major difference for everyone those enti-ties touched. And now, it’s off to the upper Midwest, where he once again will deploy his skills to rally a community and make a posi-tive impact. In our view, Little is a rising star. Cliché though it may be, our loss is Ottum-wa’s gain, and the good folks who acquired

him will realize that in short order. Fare thee well, friend. Now, go work your magic.

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Carmel’s Holiday on the Square celebration last Saturday. Civic Square, as it should be for such community efforts, was packed with folks enjoying the various attractions and festivities. We might have noticed our own managing editor, Margaret Sutherlin, going gaga over reindeer. (Margaret: We need to have a talk.) To those who visited, thank you. To those who didn’t, please put it on your calendar and attend next year.

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Editor’s note: The following column by John Accet-turo, Carmel City Council member and candidate for mayor, is being presented here in response to Current in Carmel’s “From the Backshop” (Nov. 2, ), in which the writers challenged the council’s wisdom in making cuts to the city’s information budget for 2011.Editor,

In the spirit of transparency, I would like to offer you the “other side of the story” to the recent Carmel City Council’s reduction of the Mayor’s Proposed 2011 City Budget. Once you and your readers understand the facts, I am con-fident you will come to the same conclusion we did, CUTS HAD TO BE MADE.

First Fact: Personal income fell in Carmel by over $400 million dollars in one year. This decline equated to a $4.1M dollar reduction in County Option Income Tax revenues that can be collected by the City for 2011.

Second Fact: Assessed value of property in Carmel fell by $31 million dollars, which also will result in less revenue for the City next year. Just like in your household or business budget, less revenue means the City cannot spend as much in 2011 as it did in 2010.

Knowing these facts, if our Mayor was a Responsible Leader, he would have made the

appropriate cuts beforehand and submitted a balanced budget to the City Council. Since this did not happen, the City Council had no choice but to reduce expenditures to meet our income.

We, the Council, were committed to first look at everything else before any cuts to police, fire, and 911 would have been considered. I am pleased, at this point, that we have not had to make any cuts in crucial city services. However, if we continue to spend what we do not have, we may find ourselves in a more dire situation in the near future.

We can no longer afford line items such as $2 million dollars for the Performing Arts Complex operation without additional income to offset the expense. The Mayor must understand that we simply cannot afford to fund everything we think we want, when the revenues are not there. Unlike President Obama and Congress, the City of Carmel cannot print money. As our national government begins to wake up to the reality that we cannot spend and borrow our way to pros-perity, I ask the Mayor of our great community to understand that as well. Let’s be committed to making the hard decisions today, before con-ditions of tomorrow demand them.

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While I have known this elder community leader and businessman for several years, we have not enjoyed much time together without the dis-traction of other folks or a prescribed agenda. So we set a date specifically for me to learn from his vast experience and good perspective.

When the day arrived, our conversation flourished, and I found great joy in the encoun-ter. As, I think, did he. At a point sufficiently into our meeting to be socially appropriate, his demeanor turned more serious. It seems in men-tioning his upcoming talk with me to another, he encountered a note of concern. While the details of the circumstance are not important, suffice it to say my companion had encountered someone with whom I endured an unresolved conflict. Why is it so disconcerting if another from our social circle learns an embarrassing tidbit from our personal lives?

My would-be mentor, politely, but firmly, helped me to understand the impact of these is-

sues on my potential perception in our commu-nity. He gave me some pointers on how I might resolve the issues and even offered to help if desired. I appreciated his honesty and empathy. But I was still reeling that the imagined private affairs of my life had come to roost is such a way that might negatively affect this or any other relationship.

He knows something about me that I wish he did not. But does it really matter? Isn’t it more about how I respond to the information than his knowing it that matters? In this instance, the conflict had little to do with my action, but to be entirely honest, I could have taken a more active role in resolving it. And perhaps given the extraordinarily interconnected nature of our lives, I should have done so.

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» United Way helps two local orga-nizations – The United Way of Central Indiana awarded grants to two Hamilton County organizations: the Boys and Girls Club of Noblesville and PrimeLife Enrich-ment. The funding is designated to help improve and maintain their facilities, and also to help the groups further develop their technology.

» Online auction helps underprivileged children – Christel House International is hosting an on-line auction of dream vaca-tions, and 100 percent of the proceeds benefit the children of Christel House International. The on-line auction will take place from Nov. 22 – Dec. 3. Log on to www.biddingforgood.com/christel-house to participate in the auction. Your dream vacation can help their dreams for a better life come true!

» New acts at Gala – The Center for the Performing Arts announced that Dionne Warwick and Cheynne Jackson will be performing at the opening gala for the Pal-ladium in January. Warwick might be best recognized for her performances of Burt Bacharach’s music. Jackson was named as the master of ceremonies for the gala, and is well respected for his work on broadway and television. For more information visit www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org for more information.

» Let us do your holiday baking – It’s that time again! The Pilgrim Lutheran Church (102nd and Meridian) is having its annual all homemade cookie walk at 9:30 a.m., Saturday Dec. 11. Shop with us for your favorite holiday cookies and treats. For more information call (317) 846-2221.

» Christmas Cookies, Crafts & More – No time for holiday baking? Need a few more stocking stuffers? Fill small, me-dium, and large cans with cookies of your choice and shop for other baked goods and crafts at Carmel Lutheran Church (4850 E. Main St.) this Saturday, Dec. 11, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. All profits go to pay for a house in Guatemala to be built by members of the church. Questions can be directed to Pat Nash at (317) 844-2329.

» Weekly rotary meeting – The Carmel Rotary Club will meet Friday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Mansion at Oak Hill, 5801 E. 116th Street. For more informa-tion about Rotary Club or its weekly meetings, visit www.carmelrotary.com.

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I was talking to a good friend of mine who is literally about to burst with a twin pregnancy. She was surprised to learn that I had not deliv-ered my twins until three days before my 40-week due date, and that was only because I had gone mental on my OB and had begged him to induce labor.

“Yah, they don’t do that anymore,” she said. “It’s too risky to go past 38 weeks.”

That got me thinking about how quickly safe-ty recommendations can change, and how it’s a miracle anyone survives childhood. Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane, shall we?

Car safety: I distinctly remember driving to St. Petersburg with my family in a big old Ford LTD station wagon. Two of my sisters could lie spread eagle in back while another sister and I sprawled across the middle bench. My infant sister was snuggled up front at the feet of my mom in the front passenger seat. No seat belts,

no car seats. Today, Indiana law requires both. Click it or ticket!

Smoking: On said road trip, our favorite part was the “purses” my mom packed with goodies to keep us occupied on our 18-hour trek across the South. Among them, candy cigarettes. We would pop those babies out and smoke to our hearts content. I’ve also heard tales of how women in the 60s and 70s would smoke alongside their doctors while at their OB appointments. Can you imagine what would happen if I walked into a hospital with a cigarette, noticeably pregnant? In an Indy suburb? I shudder to think.

Sleeping: I am a stomach sleeper, and accord-ing to my mom, I always have been. “We used to put you girls on your stomachs to sleep, and none of you died!” True, true, but I could easily get CPS called on me if I put an infant to sleep on his belly in today’s world. And actually, that’s probably a good thing. SIDS-related deaths have decreased by perhaps as much as 25 per-cent since pediatricians began recommending

back or side sleeping. And guess what else pres-ents a potential suffocation risk? Those adorable crib bumpers! Who knew?

Miscellaneous: Gone are the old-fashioned walkers; stationary exer-saucers are the only way to prevent an accidental trip down the stairs. Forget about restoring your baby crib; lead paint and too-large spacing between the bars means you can’t turn it in to a family heirloom. And don’t even look for baby aspirin at the pharma-cy; those delicious candy-like morsels now cause Reye’s syndrome in children under 18.

The good news? Precedent shows that despite the evils I am surely exposing my own children to, they will probably turn out OK. Like me! Peace out.

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

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By Brandie BohneyCurrent in Carmel

Suzanne Cox started as a foster home for dogs awaiting adoption. After an unusual incident in her fostering experience, Cox decided that starting her own rescue operation would be a better fit for her.

So in July, Cox, a retired business owner, started Puppy Love Rescue. Since then, she has adopted out close to 60 puppies to homes that have been heavily screened for safety and the best possible compatibility.

“All of our parents have to go through screen-ing and a contract,” Cox said. “I have had the best parents ever.” She explains that her screen-ing process is more rigorous than most shelters, and while it may eliminate some potential adoptive homes, it’s in the best interest of the puppies.

She had some connections for finding pup-pies from her fostering experience. “The puppies come from all over,” she explains. “I always have a litter waiting to come in … I can’t take in as many as I’d like to.”

One of her current puppies came from a woman who had to return to China, but many come from various shelters and larger rescues.

She also currently has a puppy from Miami County’s shelter, Perry County’s shelter, and two puppies that were being sold off the back of a truck in Peru. “Of course, I bought them right away,” Cox said.

When Cox takes the pup-pies in, they get a thorough examination and vaccina-tions from Dr. Emily King in Westfield.

“I don’t know what I’d do without her,” Cox said.

Cox also gives each puppy a medicated bath and treats it for fleas and parasites. She adopts the puppies out young enough that they aren’t yet spayed or neutered, but families adopting her puppies must sign a contract stating that they will spay or neuter the dog by the time it is six months old.

Although the adoptions are a bit heartrending for Cox, who grows quite attached to the pup-pies, she acknowledges that there’s nothing else she’d rather be doing with her retirement.

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leader. Last week, Legacy Fund announced that its president, Brad Little, will leave Hamilton County’s Central Indiana Community Foun-dation affiliate at the end of November. Little joined Legacy Fund in 2007 but will soon as-sume the positions of president and CEO of the recently formed, Iowa-based Ottumwa Regional Legacy Fund.

“My new position is a once-in-a-lifetime op-portunity to build an organization from the ground up, and I am excited to lead this new

foundation through a strategic planning process, and help it have a lasting impact on the com-munity,” Little said in a release.

Under Little’s direction, Legacy Fund grew from $25 million to $40 million while raising nearly $28 in the down economy. The organiza-tion helps local families and businesses effec-tively donate funds.

CICF Communications Director Mike Knight said the process to find Little’s replace-ment is under way and Legacy Fund’s board “plans to have someone in place by the end of the first quarter of 2011.”

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project of Blair Clark’s career to date is now available to the public.

This summer, Face-book recommended that Clark become an online friend of Preston Glass, who performed with Clark in a band called Summit years ear-lier. The two had not remained in contact since the band’s split, but after watching a video of Clark’s performances, Glass asked the Carmel entertainer and vocal coach to come to L.A. and

collaborate on a project. Clark later learned that Glass has produced

multi-platinum albums and worked with the likes of Whitney Houston and Lionel Richie.

The original, 10-song R&B album, “Snapshot,” is now available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/blairclark and local businesses including Artisan Masterpiece, Joe’s Butcher Shop, Michael’s Family Restaurant, Brunchies and Bub’s Café. The CD also is ex-pected to be available now at www.blairclark.com, where buyers can request personalized autographs of the CD from Clark at no additional charge.

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Culture schoolby margaret SutherlinCurrent in Carmel

Over 300 students make their way to Carmel High School every Sun-day afternoon, book bags packed and pencils ready to go for a unique kind of education.

The China school is a four hour program of language and culture focused courses, offered on Sundays through the Indianapolis Chinese Community Center Inc. Hugely successful and offering classes for young children and adults, the program appeals not just to members of the Chi-nese community in central Indiana, but also to Carmel residents who are interested in learning more about the culture and language.

“We found that this was something important for our children,” said Keyun Quing, president of ICCCI. “They had little to do on weekends and in addition to being bored, were losing their language abilities. Be-cause we needed a place to come together we established ICCCI and the school.”

The school programming is just one example of the organization’s com-mitment to its heritage and culture and also education. ICCCI, founded in 1994, is active in a variety of ways throughout the Carmel community, from participating in the Carmel International Arts Festival and the Chi-nese New Year celebrations, and also contributes ot the Children’s Mu-seum of Indianapolis and works with big events throughout the city.

The Chinese school hosted on Sundays is a mixture of culture and lan-guage classes for students. For half the time, students spend time learn-ing Chinese. Professional teachers lead students through seven levels of language instruction, starting with students as young as four or five, and offering it also for adults.

“The Chinese language is quite tough for kids to learn,” said Julie Z Huang, Principal of the school. “We have children and adult classes, and the different levels allow students to work at a level that is best for them. The language courses are tough, but the cultural programming is also key to keeping the students focused.”

And while language classes are the major draw for parents, especially those who make frequent trips back to China, the cultural edu-cation is also a key component of the day, and kind of incentive for children who participate in the school.

Students can take enrichment courses in traditional Chinese dance, painting and draw-

ing, tai chi, martial arts, and a number of other subjects, offering a well-rounded experience.

“There is diversity here at this particular school you don’t see elsewhere,” said Juan Wang, the school’s newly chosen principal. “We are a nonprofit and are happy to be able to include the diversity and be inclusive and want students to really understand their heritage and language as well.”

The enrichment courses allow students not only to connect with their own heritage in an active and historical way, and also learn about other cultures, as the programs are not limited to just Chinese, but also include Russian Ballet and American type art lessons.

Because ICCCI is a nonprofit organization, many parents of students and active members step up to help teach enrichment courses and find ways to continue to diversify them in the future and the school really de-pends on the use of Carmel High School facilities to host classes, said the language courses coordinator Hong Gao. Many of the administrators or PTO members have children involved in the school.

Dance instructor Harry Wang first became involved through his mother, who participates in ICCCI. A dance major at Indiana University, Wang teaches and helps choreograph on Sundays as a volunteer, like nearly all the instructors in the enrichment side of the school. Like the other courses, he emphasizes a blend of traditional and modern dance in his programs.

“It’s interesting to be able to use what I learn about contemporary dance at IU and be able to combine it with the more traditional Chinese dance elements,” he said.

For parents and administrators in the school and involved with ICCCI, the school is a world of importance. Since relocating to Hamilton Coun-ty, they’ve seen a large increase of students, from the original 50 or 60, to now well over 300 students, and are growing, and they recognize the move was an important one to best reach those interested in the program. Though the school is open to all, the vast majority of students are Asian and Chinese, and a good portion of students are adopted Chinese chil-dren, who live with non-chinese families. The China School allows these particular students to connect with other children in their unique situa-tion and also better understand their heritage.

“It’s about not heritage but also connecting with each other and the community,” said Julie Z Huang. “We want this to be a kind of cultural exchange and we don’t want to isolate our students. This is to help them connect with the Chinese culture and others.”

The programs are important to helping stu-dents be as successful as possible and really con-nect with their heritage and grow to understand the importance of traditional Chinese culture.

Parents of students and ICCCI members participate in a tai chi class

Instructor Jing Wang helps her students practice writing Chinese characters

Instructor harry Wang helps members of the dance class perfect a traditional Chi-nese dance

members of the adult Chinese language class take advantage of the school not just for fun, but to help their business skills for the future

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COmmEntaRyby Jeff Worrell

I believe something good always comes from something bad. Sometimes I have to dig deep for the good, but a positive result eventually fol-lows. This week’s column is an example of great good for hundreds of Hoosiers resulting from a tragic day in the life of one family.

It all started when an accidental fire struck the home of an employee at Woodland Country Club just days before Christmas. Not only was the smoke and water damage to the home sub-stantial, the family Christmas Tree and all of the presents neatly stacked beneath it were destroyed. The Christmas memories every family dreams of were shattered within a matter of hours.

Kent Whitten, a member of Woodland, heard about the disaster and started asking a few of the members to help out. After just one evening’s worth of fundraising, Kent came up with $800 to, at the very least, provide a Merry Christmas to a family trying to put their lives back together. Kent is the type of guy that won-dered aloud, “Look what we did in a matter of one evening. Imagine what we could do with a whole year.”

That was 25 years ago, and Kent Whitten is still at it, putting together a very Merry Christ-mas for needy families in Hamilton County. That first $800 launched what is now known as Woodland Christmas Club for Needy Children. The all-volunteer group of Santa’s Helpers, led

by Whitten, will build 2010 into their largest distribution yet. They will make available all of the fixings for not just a Thanksgiving meal, but also a huge Christmas feast four weeks later.

In addition to the food, some 550 children will receive $75 worth of Christmas presents, plus a shopping trip to Shoe Carnival and a new winter coat. All of this accomplished by the generosity and determination of Woodland Country Club members.

This summer, they held two major golf events: the Men’s Big Apple and the Women’s Big Apple to raise the necessary cash. Jon Bere-man serves on the committee responsible for this year’s event.

“I am always amazed how each year, the number of people we are able to help grows and grows,” he said. “This is a testament to Kent, the members of Woodland and the generous bene-factors of Woodland Christmas Club for Needy Children.”

If it were not for the fire, most likely Jon Bereman would not be amazed by big hearts in Carmel. If it were not for Kent Whitten, $2.5 million of donations would not have found their way to needy children for the last 25 years.

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In Carmel, the Carmel Clay Hisotrical Soci-ety hosts its 14th annual tour Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4. Each tour includes visits to some of Carmel’s 19th century homes to learn about the history of the area. Each home will be decorated with traditional holiday décor and also fine antiques. Friday’s tour includes din-ner and an auction, and hors d’oeuvres will be served after Saturday’s afternoon tour.

In Noblesville the second annual holiday tour will also be happening, along with the popu-lar Candlelight Holiday Home tour on Main Street’s First Friday event on Dec. 3.

Tour chairperson Joni Corbett had no idea what kind of attendance to expect last year. But she is planning for at least this year’s crowd to match last year’s. “We were pleasantly surprised when last year’s inaugural tour exceeded our expectations. This year we plan to build on that excitement by adding a fourth house and invit-ing additional retail shops to take part,” Corbett said. Four downtown shops will be participating in the event by showcasing their holiday wares

in these special settings. Each participating shop will be decorating a home, and décor items will be available for purchase the night of the event.

For Carmel, call (317) 846-7117 for more in-formation, or make reservations by calling (317) 587-1017. The Friday tour and dinner tickets are $55 and the dinner begins at 6:00p.m. The Saturday tours start at 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. and also 2:00 p.m. which also includes hors d’oeuvres after. Tickets on Saturday are $20. All tours meet at the Carmel Christian Church at 463 E. Main St. Visit http://carmelclayhistory.org/index.htm for more information.

In Noblesville, the Candlelight Holiday Home Tour, presented by the Noblesville Pres-ervation Alliance, is set for Dec. 3 from 5-9 p.m. Luminaries will light the way to the homes and welcome visitors into four warm and wel-coming historic private residences, all located on North 10th Street within walking distance of the Courthouse Square. Proceeds from the tour will fund NPA projects, such as the new homeowner façade grant program which will award $3,000 a year to historic home owners in the city limits for exterior improvements. Visit www.nobles-villepreservation.com or call 317.73.4549 for more information.

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by kevin kane Current in Carmel

A local photographer hopes to be surrounded by at least 150 smiling faces this weekend.

Chelsea Moore, a Carmel resident and co-owner of CW Photography (www.chel-seaandwendy.com), is organiz-ing a group of photographers and stylists for this weekend’s global Help-Portrait event. Started by celebrity photog-rapher Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is an annual world-wide event in early December during which photographers donate their time, talents and equipment to take professional portraits of indi-viduals who otherwise could not afford them.

For the past eight weeks, Moore has recruited other Hamilton County photographers and stylists to help her provide a special day for less fortunate individuals and families. There is no money involved, and no pictures taken this Saturday will appear in any photographer’s portfolio. These photo and beauty professionals are donating their time simply to provide some-thing special for those who really need it.

“It’s all about making the less fortunate feel appreciated, and it really does,” Moore said.

“You think it’s just a photo but they come in off the streets and people are seeing them for who they really are.”

Moore participated in last year’s Help-Portrait after being recruited by a friend, but when that photographer announced she would not be able to work this year’s event, Moore stepped up and took the reins. With a little help from her friends, Moore has posted fly-ers at area food banks and shel-ters, hoping to draw as many people as possible to the event

– both in front of and behind the camera. Moore said she’ll have about 35 to 40 volunteers help-ing her this Saturday, and while about 75 people were photographed for free last year, Moore said she’s aiming to double that number.

Moore’s group, one of about four participat-ing in Help-Portrait in the Indianapolis area, will work at the Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation center, 964 North Pennsylvania Street, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday. The group is still in need of donors of some financial support. Those interested in contribut-ing time or money can call Moore at 332-0594. To learn more about the event, visit www.help-portrait.com.

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by margaret SutherlinCurrent in Carmel

The process of drawing the new boundaries for Carmel schools may be wrapping up, but the debate over redistricting is just heating up.

Parent concerns over the origin of projected growth, uneven school population and a lopsid-ed student to teacher ratio across the district has many unhappy with the proposed plans, though the redistricting committee stands by the deci-sions and finalized maps.

“We know this is emotional and we’re try-ing to make this as easy as possible,” said Steve Dillon, Director of Student Services for Carmel Clay Schools and also heads the redistricting committee.

The most recent proposal moves a little over 800 students across the district to balance west Carmel growth against the east, and the elemen-tary schools that feed into middle schools will not be changed. The committee planned on finishing the maps by December to allow for the school board and superintendent to approve the plans and then move forward with implement-ing them, which involves redrawing bus routes and organizing orientation programs.

For some west side parents however, the new map doesn’t begin to address their concerns. While the new map reduces the number of stu-dents being moved from the projected 1,000, parents wonder how the redistricting committee arrived at projected growth at the schools and how they’re being held accountable to include Parent Action Committee suggestions. The new process this year uses grassroots parent liaisons to communicate the plan between the map making committee and parents.

“I think that no one is actually against re-districting, and the process is much improved since last time,” said parent Jill Chlyston, whose three children attend Smokey Row elementary and live in Spring Mill Ponds. “I just don’t think that the school has drawn geographically natural boundaries or created balanced enrollment. I

think the solution isn’t to start here at 146th but move the neighborhoods south and east first, which are closer to the other school (Carmel Elementary).”

Dillon said that he understood the emotion behind having to change schools, but said that the schools had to redistrict. While drawing maps, he said they took into account anticipated growth, and tried to cushion for continued west side development. While some parents seem frustrated by what they call a lack of transpar-ency on the part of the administration, Dillon argued that it wasn’t a lack of transparency but simply that specific requests for information referred to data that didn’t exist.

“The projected growth is derived by formulas created from data over the past two years, since we don’t have numbers for boundaries that didn’t exist before,” said Dillon referring to pro-jected west side growth and also the 2007-2008 redistricting. “You’re comparing apples and oranges because we just don’t know how many kindergarteners are coming in and how many families will move in and out with children at what ages. We don’t know what’s going to hap-pen with the economy either.”

At the Nov. 22 School Board meeting several parents spoke about their concerns as to why their neighborhoods were being moved and how decisions were reached. In particular, parents referenced suggested the district hire a demogra-pher and the school board consider making new maps after the final December submission.

“We’re trying to be fiscally responsible and we want to keep it locally focused, an outside firm would create the most efficient plan possible and wouldn’t care about neighborhood ties,” he said in regard to the suggestion of hiring an outside firm.

But for parents the concern is still their chil-dren. “I’m worried our kids will lose friends. Neighborhoods here are very much intertwined and it will be hard on them,” said Chlyston.

Redistricting process winds down, parent concerns continue

By Lauren BurdickCurrent in Carmel

For Carmel High School junior Shaina Pan and sophomore Sunhee Han, co-presidents of the Share the Music Club at Carmel, the holidays bring with them the sound of classical Christmas music. The club, which visits local hospitals and nursing homes to play orchestral music, will be at Clarian North Hospital on Saturday, Dec. 11 and Sunday, Dec. 19 from 3 to 4 p.m.

According to Ann Sawyer, Volunteer Coor-dinator at Clarian North, the members of the club visit twice each month during the week-ends and will continue to do so through May of 2011. “They play classical, season-oriented selections.” Sawyer said.

“Since it’s the holidays, we encourage (club members) to play holiday music to add to the mood of the season,” Pan said.

Sunhee echoes this sentiment. “People in nursing homes and hospitals like when we play Christmas music,” she said.

The club visits various facilities each month throughout the year, and all members sign up on a voluntary basis, insuring that different per-formers are present each time. Sawyer said that the performances average around five student volunteers that bring their own instruments.

The club was started two years ago by Jane

Han, the sister of Sunhee. Since then, accord-ing to club sponsor Soo Han, the praise has continued to grow. “The feedback I’ve gotten back from the community and Clarian is tre-mendous,” Soo said.

Sawyer agrees. “Music therapy is one of many types of therapies that benefit all of us: patients, families, visitors and associates,” she said. “It has been researched to decrease blood pressure, lower anxiety, create calmness and elevate relaxation.”

For Pan, the benefits of the Share the Music Club expand beyond the volunteering. “We allow new members to gain experience as pub-lic performers,” Pan said.

Soo encourages members of Share the Mu-sic Club to broaden their horizons further than playing music. “Obviously, this provides a musical outlet, but it also provides non-musical experience as well,” Soo said. “(Pan and Sunhee) will call hospitals and set up per-formance dates. These are incredible life skills that music education has the ability to teach.”

According to Han, the Share the Music Club at Carmel High School allows students to expand their musical skills while learning life skills as well, and the benefits are extremely vis-ible. “It’s truly student-sufficient and student-run,” Soo said. “I play a very little role in it. I’m really proud of the work that they are doing.”

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» A Very Tacky Christmas – Join Tacky the Penguin and all his friends from Nice Icy Land at the Westfield Washington Library as they get ready for the holidays. Read the book, play penguin games, hear penguin Christmas carols, and make Tacky into a Santa Christmas tree. Kids 18 months to kindergarten can come at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec.6, or Tuesday, Dec.7. Then there will be a special pro-gram for everyone on Saturday, Dec. 11, also at 10:30 a.m. All the programs are free, and registration is not required.

» Holiday Art Contest – Students through K-12 can create their own holi-day artwork for the Holiday Art Contest sponsored by the Carmel Arts and Design District and THe Great Frame Up. Stu-dents have until Dec. 1 to submit their original two dimensional works and winners will be chosen Dec. 12. The first prize receives custom framing, second place winner gets free art lessons and the third will receive art supplies. Drop off works at The Great Frame Up (21 1st West St. SW) by Dec. 1 and go to www.carmelartsanddesign.com to learn about regulations and rules.

» Teacher training could be overhauled – Teacher-training programs have long been criticized for not putting enough emphasis on inside-the-classroom prac-tice, but eight states have signed on to adopt recommendations that would turn teacher-training programs “upside-down” by putting practical training first and foremost. The recommendations advise creating formal mentorship programs for student teachers akin to those at medical schools and suggest that more scrutiny be given to teaching programs.

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PaREntIngby becky kapsalis

Internationally renowned author and inspi-rational speaker Dr. Wayne Dyer has authored a book titled Excuses Begone. I use it as a refer-ence for the many times I find myself making excuses for myself, my children and, yes, even my grandkids.

Dr. Dyer makes perfect sense. For example, he writes, “When you resort to using an excuse, the ultimate payoff is that you remove responsibility for your own shortcomings and place responsibil-ity for them on the shoulders of someone else.”

In other words we blame others for our shortcomings. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “When you point your finger to blame some-one else ... three are pointing back to you.” I interpret that to mean, “When I blame you, I’m making three more excuses for myself.” Put an-other way, any excuse means something did not get accomplished that we were responsible for.

Which of these excuses sound familiar?He hit me is an attempt to dodge the fact he

shouldn’t hit at all.She made me do it passes the blame on some-

one else to justify doing something you weren’t supposed to do in the first place.

I’m too tired is the age-old excuse for getting

someone else to do the chore.The quickest excuse, without accountability,

is “I can’t.” It is also the lamest excuse.In most instances of making excuses, we focus

on being convincingly right. The necessity to be right feeds the ego, which, in turn, fuels the excuse.

We make and hear excuses all the time, and if you think back on any excuse, it’s almost always, a disappointing response: “Were you able to get your homework done? No, I forgot my books at school.”

When we allow our kids to make excuses, we’re teaching them how to be helpless. There are plenty of opportunities for our kids to stand up to their responsibilities without making excuses. When they say “I can’t” our response should be, “What can you do?”

Hugs!

You can contact Becky Kapsalis at [email protected] or 317-508-1667 for Parenting Classes.

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Becky’s last column (Nov. 23) incorrectly stated the content was from Paul Harvey, but was in fact Becky’s own writing and ideas.


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Brandie Bohney is a grammar enthusiast and former English teacher. If you have a grammar-related question, please email her at [email protected].

gRammaR lESSOnby brandie bohney

This year, just to shake things up a bit and put you in a festive mood, I’ve set my annual holiday-card grammatical warning to music. Of course, this is a newspaper, so you’ll have to listen to the music in your head, but I think I’ve chosen a really recognizable tune. Sing the following lyrics to “The Christmas Waltz.” You can choose whether it’s the Carpenters or Frank Sinatra who is singing in your head.

“Apostrophe Waltz”Writing Christmas cards, a tradition you see,

And you’ll sign your name frequently.So remember dears, to punctuate it well.

There’s no apostrophe!It’s that time of year when grammar goes amok

Sprinkled punctuation everywhere: “Happy holidays” should have no apostrophe.And this song of mine in three-quarter time

Wishes you will save apostrophes!

*****OK, OK, so the rhythm is a bit off, and I’m

not going to win any awards for lyricists any-time soon, but I hope you get the picture. Holi-day cards should be signed The Bohneys or The Bohney Family, not The Bohney’s, The Bohneys’, or The Bohneys’s. Of course, you should be using your own family’s name rather than mine.

If your family name ends in s, You can add –es or you can avoid the whole issue altogether: The Joneses or The Jones Family.

Happy Holidays does not get an apostrophe, but Season’s Greetings does. And it’s New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve, but Happy New Year.

Let the card writing begin!

It’s that time of year …

Writing Christmas cards, a tradition you see, And you’ll sign your name frequently. So remember dears, to

punctuate it well. There’s no apostrophe!


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Partners in SoHo Café and Gallery: Micah Davis, Jess Lawhead, Nick Lawhead, and J. Scott Bugher (standing, left to right), Sarah Lawhead and Vivian Lawhead (seated, left to right)

What: Polar Bears to Penguins Exhibit at the Children’s Museum of IndianapolisWhen: Now-Jan 2, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Where: Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, 3000 N. Meridian St.Price: Included in museum general ad-mission: $10.50 Youth (ages 2-17), $15.50 Adult (ages 18-59) $14.50, Senior (60+) $13.50Info: www.childrensmuseum.org Details: An educational and fun multi-media exhibit for families, Polar Bears to Penguins looks at the unique nature at the polar regions and the scientific en-deavors being undertaken there. Learn about the animals how they survive the extreme environments, and the different people that live in these chilly conditions! After learning about the arctic, take a trip to the North Pole to go ice fishing, visit Santa and ride the Yule Slide during Jolly Days. Target Family Free Night is Dec. 2 from 4-8 p.m., where there is free admis-sion to the museum and exhibits.

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By Barbara E. CohenCurrent in Carmel

SoHo Café and Gallery opens on Friday, Dec. 3 at Mohawk Place, on Range Line Road between the growing Arts & Design District and Carmel’s new performing arts center. The new-est business in Carmel’s oldest shopping center – originally developed by Harry C. Elliott and now owned and managed by the Lawhead family – consists of a café serving light refreshments, an art gallery featuring works by local and regional artists, and studio space for working artists.

“We saw a need for a different kind of experi-ence within the city, not only connecting to the design district and arts center but also focusing on foot traffic along the Monon Trail,” said Jess Law-head, a co-owner of the new gallery and snack bar.

The success of a pop-up gallery in the shop-ping center in July emboldened the entrepre-neur to undertake the SoHo project, named by co-owner Vivian Lawhead after New York City’s art-friendly SoHo district.

SoHo Café will feature locally made baked goods with premium coffees and specialty drinks. Revitalized greenspace fronting the Monon will make a welcome spot for convivial breaks come spring, when the new patio land-scaping is completed.

Two local artists, J. Scott Bugher and Micah Davis, have already taken up residence in the re-configured building, which formerly housed the

offices of Molly Maids. Three other studios await tenants, and there’s room to create an additional 8-10 affordable artists’ studios – creative space in short supply elsewhere within the A&D District.

Bugher and Davis will curate the 1,500-square-foot gallery, specializing in shows of works by regional artists not otherwise rep-resented in Carmel galleries. The art space will also host fundraisers for aspiring middle and high school artists, and the resident artists will offer basic and advanced drawing and painting classes for children through adults.

“We’ll concentrate first on exhibitions, with the education component to follow as the SoHo grows,” said Bugher, a former Nashville sessions

musician turned artist and writer. “Our goal is to help people discover the great artists working and developing here.”

Davis agrees that an important goal is to spot-light the variety and quality of local art.

“You think you have a handle on who’s work-ing here, and yet you quickly find, as a curator, all of this other work by artists without local representation,” Davis said.

True to their vision, the gallery’s first exhibi-tion features 35 eight-inch by eight-inch carved and painted wood reliefs by Andrew Jendrze-jewski, formerly of Vincennes University. The abstracted landscapes ($500 each) – which will be shown in a single row but can be hung in groups – are part of a series begun in 2000, the first 50 of which are illustrated in the exhibition catalog, Beyond Landscape (also available for sale at the gallery).

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» High School Holiday Show – Join 500 Carmel performers for their annual “Holiday Spectacular” in Toyland the first week of December. Watch as the Dale E. Graham Auditorium at Carmel High School is transformed into a festive holi-day world. See the performance Dec. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 4-5 at 2 p.m. Tickets for the performances are on sale at the Carmel High School Book Store during regular school hours.

» ‘Catch 22’ now an e-book – The late Joseph Heller’s million-selling send-up of war and military bureacracy, one of the notable missing links in the digital library, has been released electronically by Simon & Schuster, the novel’s original publisher. “Catch-22” first came out in 1961 and Simon & Schuster plans a spe-cial 50th anniversary edition in hardcover and paperback next year, featuring an introduction by Christopher Buckley and reprints of essays by Norman Mailer, Anthony Burgess and others.

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» The best red you’ve never heard of – While Blaufränkisch is hardly a household wine term, it has risen from nothing in 1995 to, well, more than nothing. During that time, growers in eastern Austria, the grape's ancestral home, have started to take care with the grape to plant it in good sites, reduce yields and stop blend-ing it with other varieties. Some of these wines sell for about $130 in the U.S., but there are at least a couple entry-level options, such as the Moric 2007 Blau-fränkisch (about $22). The only trick will be hunting it down, which you can try to do at www.wine-searcher.com/find/moric/2007/usa.

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Start your Thanksgiving feast with this delicious appetizer.Ingredients

• 6.75 ounces all-purpose flour (about 1 1/2 cups)

• 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda• 1/2 teaspoon salt• 3/4 cup granulated sugar• 3/4 cup packed brown

sugar• 6 tablespoons unsalted

butter, softened• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract• 1 large egg• 3/4 cup finely chopped dried apple slices• 3/4 cup caramel bits or 16 small soft caramel

candies, choppedDirections

1. Preheat oven to 350°.2. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry

measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (through salt) in a bowl; stir well.

3. Place sugars and butter in a large bowl; beat

with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and egg; beat well. Gradually add flour mixture; beat at low speed until just combined. Fold in apple and caramel bits.

4. Drop dough by 2 teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Flatten balls slightly with hand. Bake at 350° for 9 minutes. Cool on pans 3 minutes. Remove cookies from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

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Broad Ripple restaurant Taste, located near Butler University, has been open for five years and recently added After-Taste, an evening dining option.

Taste provides delicious, savory café-styled breakfasts and a relaxed vibe for soups, salads and sandwiches for lunch. Striving to stimulate its customers’ senses for the ultimate dining experi-ence, Taste offers a large variety of foods, created by professional chefs. The restaurant also features healthy style menus, com-plete with smoothies, parfaits, omelets and Belgian waffles.

The restaurant is now ready to serve up a new, tasty variety of foods. Taste transforms into a sophisticated, urban dining restaurant by night. Its extensive dinner menu offers signature champagne cocktails and other selections from an expansive wine and beer list. Taste’s unique, savory foods from appetizers to desserts make the experience.

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Mo’s Irish PubThe following musical acts will be playing live at Mo’s Irish Pub, 13193 Levinson Lane in the Hamilton Town Center, Noblesville. For more information, call (317) 770-9020.Dec. 3 – Sour Mash Dec. 4 – Through Being Cool Dec. 10 – Loo Abby Dec. 11 – Cari Ray Band

A Carol of ChristmasThis musical adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” will be playing dinner theater performances this Friday and Saturday and a free matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Reserved seat tickets are $15. For tickets ordetails call 773-4630 or visit www.familypraise-center.com.

Mickey’s Irish PubThe following performances and events will take place this week at Mickey’s Irish Pub, 13644 N. Meridian Street. For more informa-tion call 573-9746.Friday – Soul StreetSaturday – Peace Train and the Flower Power Brass

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Hanukkah with HoosirIndiana University’s premier a cappella group, Hoosir, will perform a special Hanukkah concert of tradition Jewish liturgy and more contemporary popular music at the Carmel Community Playhouse, 14229 Clay Terrace Blvd, Suite 140 in Carmel, December 4 at 8 pm. Sponsored by Hillel Jewish Community Center. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at http://www.carmel players.org/tickets or by calling the Carmel Community Playhouse box office at (317) 815-9387.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told Three actors, instead of performing “A Christ-mas Carol” yet again, decide to throw together a Christmas show based on stories and tradi-tions from all over the world. The Carmel Community Players will present this show at the Carmel Community Playhouse at Clay Ter-race Dec. 9 through Dec. 19 with performanc-es Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and students. Visit www.carmelplayers.org or call 815-9387 for tickets or details.

Redneck ChristmasMain Street Productions at Westfield Play-house is bringing a little Redneck to Christ-mas. A Good Old Fashioned Country Red-neck Christmas opens for a limited engage-ment on Thursday, December 2. Show dates are December 2 – 5, and 9 – 12. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m., with a 2:30 p.m. curtain for Sunday matinees. Tickets are $12 for adults, and $10 for seniors. For reservations, call 896-2707. For details, visit www.westfieldplayhouse.org.

IBC Nutcracker The Indiana Ballet Conservatory will present “The Nutcracker” Dec. 17 at 7 p.m., Dec. 18 at 2 and 7 p.m. and Dec. 19 at 2 p.m. at the Ma-dame Walker Theatre Center, 617 Indiana Av-enue, Indianapolis. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for teens, seniors and military personnel and $10 for children age 2 and older. For tick-ets or more information, call 866-398-NUT or visit www.Indianaballetconservatory.org.

A Year with Frog and ToadJoin Actors Theatre of Indiana as they pres-ent the family-friendly musical A Year with Frog and Toad. Performances are at the Pike Performing Arts Center (6701 Zionsville Rd.), Friday Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Dec 4 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 for children, $19 for students and $25 for adults. For more infor-mation visit www.actorstheatreofindiana.org or call (317) 216-5455.

Slippery Noodle InnThe following musical acts will perform live at the Slippery Noodle Inn, 372 S. Meridian St. in downtown Indianapolis. For more information visit www.slipperynoodle.com.Dec 1 - Blues Jam with Gene DeerDec 2 - Quintas McCormick BandDec 3 - Big Daddy Caddy, Them Bones w/ Sweet Alice HoskinsDec 4 - Dwight Edwards, Them Bones w/ Sweet Alice Hoskins


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COmmEntaRyby Vicky Earley

Just like diamonds paired with holi-day attire, crystal is the perfect acces-sory to dress a home for the holidays in 2010!

A holiday party is the ideal time to open the china cabinet and gather crystal pieces and allow them the honor of center stage. The dining room is the natural place to appoint a home with such radiance.

Remember those cast off crystal pieces that have kept vigil in the depths of the china cabinet? Every home has an inventory of clear glass candlesticks. Orphan crystal goblets can be given a new opportunity to serve. These simple elements, paired with an abundance of white candles, can serve in the new role of holiday jewels.

A crystal table-scape can be used as a grand holiday decoration or as the focal point for a holiday feast.

If the table will be used for food presentation, begin by protecting it with a solid white table cloth. White is the only supporting color since it projects purity, cleanliness, and neutrality. It is white that will allow candle light to flicker and dance through the crystal without interference.

Follow the tablecloth with the placement of a lift for varied height. Try using a solid piece such as a silver ware box at the focal point of your table. If the table is to be used for serving rather than dining, select a focal point other than the predictable center and build forward.

A second white table cloth should be allowed to gently fall and twist naturally over around the “lift” with gentle folds. A generous sprinkling of

artificial snow on the cloth will provide a delicate bedding for the crystal orna-ments, bowls and candlesticks that are to come next.

Look through holiday decorations for clear glass or crystal reindeer or trees. The varied sizes and shapes are will provide even more opportunity for the candle light to dance across the table. The sizes and shapes of the can-dlesticks are best if varied from votives to pillars. Mixing old with new creates an even richer play of light.

White tulips and greenery flocked with white are perfect organic elements to add to this scintillating presentation without detracting from the play of light. As with diamonds, crystal has the quality of unleashing the pure essence of light so include an abundance of candles.

When artificial lights are dimmed and the candles are lit, this well dressed home will be ready to welcome the holidays!

Home for the holidays

Vicky Earley is the principal designer for Artichoke Designs in downtown Carmel. If you have an interior design question, please contact [email protected].


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Building muscle as a teenager is not an easy task. Some teens might find difficult to achieve this with a high metabolism and busy extracur-ricular schedule. But there are no short cuts. It’s about a solid diet and getting both enough calo-ries, as well as muscle building proteins.

To promote muscle building, it is crucial that you are getting enough nutrients to maintain your muscles in an anabolic state, which allows for muscle growth. As an active teenager, you need to shoot for at least 20 times your body weight in calories, and in a daily diet, include approximately your body weight in grams of protein. (Example: If you weigh 160 pounds, shoot for 160 grams of protein throughout the day.) Also, it helps to spread your meals throughout the day into 4 to 6 meals, with no longer then a three-hour time period in the day without eating. Your calories should come from sources such as lean meats, raw or cooked veg-etables, fruits and nuts, and plenty of water.

Supplements are simply what the name states: They are meant to supplement your diet and not be used in place of food. The products I would highly recommend for a teenager are a whole

food multi-vitamin, a quality fish oil, and whey isolate protein. Whey isolate protein is an excel-lent source of readily absorbable amino acids and is the best form of protein for building muscle and recovering after sports activities.

As a rule, supplements in the form of vita-mins, protein and carbs are a safe and effective means to help build muscle for a teenager. Any supplements that affect hormones, or could have unnecessary health risks, should be avoid-ed. At a young age, you have more than enough natural hormonal activity going on. Also, proper use of any supplement is important. Even some-thing like creatine that is a naturally occurring and generally safe can cause problems when tak-ing too much. More than what’s recommended doesn’t mean you can reach your goals more quickly.

Keeping healthy calories, protein and vita-mins first in mind, any active teenager can build muscle.

Teenagers: It’s about diet and nutrition for building muscle» HATS has a new location – Touch-

point Healthy Aging Transition Services (HATS) now has a location in the Ham-ilton Healthcare Campus in Noblesville, 9669 E. 146th Street. This new loca-tion brings the program’s expertise in caring for the complexities of elderly patients closer to northern Hamilton County residents. The new office offers the program’s multi-disciplinary team consultation approach for patients in Hamilton County. For more information, visit www.ecommunity.com\touchpoint.

» Hip and knee open house – Dr. R. Michael Meneghini, an orthopedic sur-geon with the Indiana Clinic and Clarian Human Motion, will host an open house for patients considering knee and hip replacements or other treatment op-tions from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 1 at Indiana Clinic Orthopedics. Spring Mill Medical Center, 200 West 103rd St., Suite 1400, Indianapolis. Please call (317) 688-5980 to RSVP.

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With cold and flu season descending upon us, many are driving to the local pharmacy to find the latest and greatest over-the-counter cold remedy. However, just because a medication is available without a prescription doesn’t guaran-tee it will be safe for everyone to use. In fact, it was the number of emergency room visits and some fatalities in infants that prompted the 2007 ban on over-the-counter could medicines for children under 2 years of age. Since that time, a CDC study has shown a 50 percent drop in the number of cold medicine related ER visits in that age group.

But infants aren’t the only ones that can have bad reactions to cold medications. Adults can have severe side effects too, and it is important to talk with your doctor before you get sick to see what he or she suggests as appropriate over-the-counter remedies given your unique health conditions. The most common medical condi-tions of concern with these medications are the following:• Heart disease, abnormal heart rhythms and

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What makes a great team? It seems obvious, but teamwork and team chemistry are critical factors to the success of a team. The ability of players, or coworkers, to work together to-wards a common goal is crucial for producing touchdowns, homeruns, fast laps, jump shots or revenue for your business. Often, superstars just want the limelight and to pad their personal stats. They don’t help others succeed, so as a result, no one is winning.

Great coaches will tell you that if you don’t have a great team in the locker room, you won’t have a great team on the field. Everyone has to get along and be committed and accountable to a mutual purpose and shared respect. Take ei-ther away, and you have infighting, complaining and cliques. And you’ll see a truckload of excuse making and finger pointing when it comes to accountability.

I had a client call me yesterday and let me know how much she had enjoyed working with the client team assigned to her. I started to think about the keywords “assigned to her.” Customer service seems to have an instant hurdle, since no one picks each other – the company sells some-thing and assigns a service person.

Relationships are fundamental to most busi-

nesses. And I’d never really thought about how important it was to find the right chemistry. The “team” goes well beyond your company’s walls when it comes to delivering exceptional service. The shared purpose and respect has to extend from your team and also be respected by the client.

When it comes to business, how are your teams structured? Do members of your teams get along? Do you have any consideration to how someone in your organization is “assigned” to a client or a service? Especially if you are in a business that delivers a service, maybe it’s time to consider the chemistry of your account ser-vice team and how they fit with the client.

I’ve always thought that a good and healthy relationship between a company and a client is like a marriage. It’s got to make sense and be grounded in honest and open communication with a shared purpose – and you have to like each other. If you don’t have that, you’re prob-ably just arranging marriages and hoping they work. Not exactly a recipe for success.

How to kill team spirit» Local business designs award-winning church – The creative designs of local church design/build company, Aspen Group, resulted in a Northwest Indiana church winning national honors at the 2010 Solomon Awards. Grace Fel-lowship Church partnered with Carmel-based Aspen Group to design and build a 10,900-square-foot addition that would provide much-needed space for its grow-ing ministries and a facility that would be welcoming with a “wow” factor.

» The web’s big upstart – Marc Benioff left a top spot at Oracle a little over a decade ago to launch Salesforce and has since created a $1.4-billion-a-year business selling Web software to sales departments. Salesforce tracks a slew of sales-rich data--leads, detailed histories of who bought what when, and how to reach them. Benioff was the first and loudest cheerleader of the software migration from servers to the Web and has waited for the rest of the industry to catch up. Since going public in June 2004, it has returned an average 36.8 percent a year to investors, compared with 15.1 percent for Oracle.

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stocks, according to a regulatory filing. Berkshire appeared to have sold all shares it held of Home Depot Inc., CarMax Inc., Iron Mountain Inc., NRG Energy Inc. and trash-hauler Republic Services Inc. It also reduced holdings of Comcast Corp., Ingersoll-Rand PLC, Nalco Holding Co., Nike Inc. and Fiserv Inc.

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Even though the economy is tight, I will still give. Usually, my money goes to my church and the Carmel library.

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I already donated to Zaquat, which means “ a system to increase goodness”, at the end of Ramadan. We’re taught that charity starts from home.

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I donate to the United Way through work, and I do this every year.

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Offering 30 flavors year round, Boyd’s Fudge adds a certain sense of creativity to a seasonal treat every-one is familiar with. Fudge flavors at Boyd’s Fudge include heath English toffee, raspberry chocolate, pumpkin pie and apple pie. “You know, someone came up to me an asked if I could make a hot pep-per fudge. It turned out to be a surprisingly delicious flavor,” owner of Boyd’s Fudge Lori Shreve said. Shreve has been making the fudge by herself since 1996.

She started the business in the small town of Greentown, Ind. When Shreve talks about how she learned to make these flavors of fudge, it sounds like an epic tale. “In Kentucky, I met this gentleman who made fudge. I was looking at his antique fudge case. He told me some secrets to making fudge. I’ve been inspired by him to make interesting flavors ever since we met,” Shreve said.

Boyd’s Fudge is a participant in the Indiana Artisan Development Project, which is a group of Indiana’s best artisans. Boyd’s Fudge is reasonably priced, considering Shreve crafts every batch herself. A half-pound of fudge only cost $7.50. A 20-ounce assortment of four differ-ent flavors is priced under $10. The real pay off for Shreve is watching her customers take a walk down memory lane with every bite of her fudge. “I love it when people tell me it’s like their grandma’s fudge,” Shreve said.

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The BMW E24 series was the first 6 Series, produced between the 1976 and 1989. The name reappeared with the E63 chassis beginning in the 2004 model year. The E24 was a replacement for the CS and CSL coupés first produced in 1965. Pro-duction started in March 1976 with two mod-els: the 630CS and 633Csi.

The ultimate E24 is the M635CSi was intro-duced at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1983. It is essentially an E24 powered by the powerplant of the M1 with 282 hp. Most M635csi’s were equipped with special metric 415 mm diameter wheels requiring Michelin TRX tires. A cata-lyzed, lower compression ratio version of the car putting out 260 hp was introduced in the U.S. in 1987.

This very attractive “Personal Luxury” Coupe was very expensive when new, and has always been a desirable car. Sporting a nicely trimmed and stylish interior, shark-like grill and austere lines, this was the German car to have in the 80s. They drive very well, handle very well, and do everything really very well. This is a car that has fallen to the absolute bottom of its value range and will only increase in future years. Pre-sentable examples can be had under $5,000.00,

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The importance of a fast Internet connection in today’s multimedia world goes without say-ing, but understanding all the variables that can impact your actual user experience is vital.

The first thing you must understand is that consumer-grade Internet services are on “shared pipes,” meaning that others in your neighbor-hood or others on the same service can have an impact on your overall speeds.

Most Internet providers tier their packages, so as long as your speed is within the range of the tiered package, they have provided the service that’s in their fine print.

For example, a provider’s first tier may be an offering up to 3 Mbps, while their second tier is may only be up to 15 Mbps with “PowerBoost or Turbo” (or 12 Mbps without).

Unless you are willing to pay for a substan-tially more expensive business grade service, which has a tighter guarantee of speeds, your actual speed on their “preferred” package at any given moment will range from 3-12 Mbps.

Another very important factor for anyone who wants to upload pictures and video to YouTube or Facebook or for those who want to remotely access their computers is the “upload” speed.

In various tests, the upload speeds were gen-erally the biggest problem with what was per-ceived as a slow connection. There are a number of speed tests you can run to check the average speed between your Internet connection and a remote Internet server; however, understanding how to use these tools is essential.

Running a speed test on one site one time is absolutely useless, as it simply gives you the speed for that one moment. Since we know speeds will vary throughout the day, you should use at least three different test sites (running each three times in a row) at three different times of the day.

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In our society, we are constantly encouraged to “give back.” And I’m obviously all for it, as some of you long-term readers can tell from my columns. If we are giving for the right reasons (not just to make ourselves look like saints in our community), it can be very fulfilling.

I’m grateful that the world has become so fo-cused on helping others. But sometimes I won-der why there is not as much focus on building a strong foundation in our family. If our family life – our “foundation” – is suffering, √

I would like to encourage all of us to partici-pate in the following exercises to help strength-en our relationships with our closest loved ones. Try it and see if your family’s “foundation” grows stronger!

Sit down alone with your significant other without any distractions and without being de-fensive and ask the following questions:• “What can I do to make your life easier?”• “Do you feel that I am being as support-

ive in your work/home life as I should be? If not, help me understand how I can improve.”

• “If there were some things I could do to make you happier what would they be?”

(Of course, we shouldn’t rely on others to make us happy. However, perhaps your spouse would be happier if you spent more time with him or would listened more in-tently when she’s talking to you, etc.).

• We’ve all heard it; now let’s practice it. Schedule a date night each week to spend time alone (no friends, no kids, no col-leagues allowed).

• Play a game as a couple or family each week (with no TV or other distractions).

• Spend at least three nights per week eating at the dinner table and discussing your day. If you cannot find three nights to do this, perhaps it’s time to cut some activities out of your lifestyle. How sad is it that there will probably be very few families who would actually do this one? Yet they donate their time and money to charity! As wonderful as charity is, perhaps it’s also time to start thinking about our needs and building a stronger foundation within our own homes.

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SPIRItUalItyby bob Walters

There’s an old theology joke about God play-ing hide and seek with man.

Everywhere God hid – mountains, oceans, stars, streams, books, paintings, culture, music and magistrates – man found Him. God suc-ceeded only when an angel suggested, “Hide in the human heart; man will never look for You there.”

Then there is Dorothy, who needed only to search her heart and click together the heels of the shoes she was already wearing to find her way home.

And there is the wandering drunk who stum-bled upon a riverside revival. He was grabbed and dunked. The third time the unwitting sot was pulled up out of the baptismal waters, the thundering preacher once again demanded, “Have you found Jesus?” The soaked and stam-mering man gasped, coughed and sputtered, “I-I-I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for him!”

So, three quick lessons: 1. God is always right here. 2. Home is where our heart is. And 3. The most underrated belief is to simply believe we’re supposed to look for Jesus.

Christmas is a great time to look for Jesus – the person of Christ, the Son of God, the unique and holy Word of God, the salvation of mankind ... the voice crying in the wilderness.

Jesus is especially easy to see this time of year.

What does one think all the lights are for? Notice loving people doing loving things for

other people – buying gifts, preparing meals, decorating their homes, being hospitable. That’s the servant heart of the Lord Christ in action. Yet we also notice the immense efforts of those trying to hide God, cloak Christ and make Christmas about worldly desires. That’s the wicked heart of Satan, the lord of the earth who exalts man over a God who Satan prefers people don’t seek.

At His earthly arrival, Christ wasn’t the pow-erful conquering warrior for whom the Jewish Nation awaited and prayed. Jesus was a help-less, humble baby born away in a manger to the frightened teenager Mary whose immaculate heart led her to obey God regardless of legiti-mate earthly peril.

And so Jesus came gently, I like to think, into that still, silent, good night.

Satan vigorously seeks to remove all that gen-tility, love, servant, humility, salvation stuff from the Christmas story, but commerce and greed are no match for the glory of God in Christ.So be strong. Seek Jesus, search your heart, and find Christmas.

Bob Walters (www.believerbob.blogspot.com, email [email protected]) notes that a great place to start one’s search for Christ is by reading Isaiah 40. More next week.

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ORIGINAL BATHROOM: This home in the Woodland Springs subdivision on the east side of Car-mel was built in the late 1960s and included the original master bath-room. Over the years the bathroom had been updated by painting over the original dark cabinets and add-ing minor cosmetic upgrades like new sinks and faucets. The goal of this project was to completely gut the room and start over.

PULL AND REPLACE: During the design phase the home-owner decided to save the cost of relocating the major plumbing fixtures by keeping everything in the same place.

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LIGHTING & MIRRORS: New recessed can lights were in-stalled over the vanity and shower. Small decorative pendants were hung between the sinks and new 24”x 60” vanity mirrors with finished edges were installed.

PLUMBING FIXTURES: New white, 12”x18” rectangular under-mount sinks were installed with new Delta Lahara single handle faucets in brushed nickel. A new Kohler Cimarron toilet was installed. A Kohler Villager 60”x30” white alcove tub was

paired with a Moen tub and shower faucet in brushed nickel including a hand-shower on slide-bar.

TILE WORK: New Thermae Saturnia 12x12 porcelain tile was installed in a straight set pattern on the bath floor and shower walls. The shower included a recessed niche with shelves to match quartz countertops.

VANITY WALLS: New Amethyst Brick glass tile was installed from the countertop all the way to the ceiling behind the vanity.

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I thought I was having trouble selling my books. Apparently, the phone company can›t even give theirs away. They›re piling up in hallway closets and on doorsteps. Hallow-een night, witches and goblins grabbed for a Reese›s Peanut Butter Cup at the Wolfsie house and then stumbled over huge a stack of phone books.

Will the White Pages survive? This is a gray area. Telephone companies claim that people who want to reach out and touch someone simply go to the Internet – but not before those subscribers reach for the new phone book and put it in the recycling bin.

A typical phone book weighs 3 pounds, 9 ounces, a little more than a dozen iPhones. Or exactly the same as 3 pounds, 9 ounces of potato salad, which I think is a much funnier image. Half a billion phone books are printed each year in the United States, the product of 19 million trees. That›s pretty funny because the best phone number I ever got in my life was carved directly into a tree.

Emily Goodman of Northwestern Universi-ty is doing her doctoral thesis on the history of phone books, probably because her roommate took her first choice: What ever happened to the doily? Emily may need to change the names of all 300 million people in her poten-tial page-turner because this is clearly a class libel suit waiting to happen. Emily laments the passing of this cultural icon. «It›s sort of heart-breaking,» she said. This is one sensitive chick. I hope her cat never dies.

Combine the end of the phone directory with the demise of the phone booth, and that means the end of late-night retreating into the glass enclosure looking up and phoning people with names like Bart Simpson, James Kirk and Barney Rubble. «Hey, Barney, you are my favorite actor,» or «Captain Kirk, can you tell

Scotty to beam me up?» I›m sure going to miss those days.

Robert Thompson, a pop culture professor at Syracuse University, is now on AARP›s hit list with this tacky observation: «Anyone who doesn›t have access to a computer is probably too old to read the small print in the White Pages, anyway.» This prompted his 87-year-old mother to get out her bifocals, look up her attorney›s phone number, and hack little Bobby right out of the will.

No more White Pages also means the end of notoriety for three residents of the India-napolis area. The name Aaaron (yes, three A›s) will no longer have the status of being first in this soon-to-be-defunct book. I tried to call all day last week, but the line was always busy. That›s what happens when your name starts with AAA. You get lots of calls from people who drove their SUVs into a ditch or left their lights on while they were in Walmart.

Zymbroski is the very last name in the In-dianapolis phone book. The couple used to live in Toledo, which has a higher population of Polish people, so they were bested by the Zyponskies and the Zyronskis. Motivated to move down in the world, they relocated to Indy and secured their highly coveted lowly position. I called the other day to see how they felt about the news. «This is Dick Wolfsie. I wanted to talk to you about the phone direc-tory possibly ceasing production.»

«I guess you›re calling us because we are the last name in the Indianapolis phone book?»

«Actually, I called everybody in the book. I’m just glad this nightmare is finally over.”

What will come of phone books?

Dick Wolfsie is an author, columnist, and speaker. Contact him at [email protected].

Mike Redmond is an author, journalist, humorist and speaker. Write him at [email protected] or P.O. Box 44385, Indianapolis, IN 46244.

hUmORby mike Redmond

The other day, I was reminded of something so important that I can’t understand how I lost track of it to begin with.

I was getting dinner at that restaurant named after a group of guys who number more than four but less than six. I got the usual: one of their exceptionally good cheeseburgers (with everything) and an order – well, they call it an order but it’s more like a truckload – of the best fries I’ve had that weren’t homemade. Oh, and a Diet Coke. Gotta watch my calories, you know.

(My friend Frank and I used to point to this as an example of just how stupid we humans are becoming. You see it all the time, too – some-one ordering a 4,500-calorie cheeseburger and a bushel of fries, and the getting a diet soda to wash it down. Like that low-cal soda is really going to make a difference when you’re already taking in enough fat, sugar and salt to stop your heart and three others besides.)

Anyway, I was sitting there waiting for the man to call my number when the music in the restaurant caught my ear. It was old school soul music: Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Sam and Dave, Aretha Franklin… you know, the really GOOD stuff.

And then I noticed something else.Everyone in the restaurant – white, black,

young, old, male, female, worker, customer – was enjoying the music, too. They were smiling, tapping their feet, softly snapping their fingers, and in the case of the true devotees, doing that thing where you stick your head out like a chicken in time to the music. This is known to musicologists as “doing that chicken head thing.” It indicates that you are so in love with the music that you really don’t care how ridicu-lous you look.

It hit me just how unusual that was – to have an entire restaurant, a well-mixed bag of people, all truly enjoying the same music.

I went looking for the manager and found myself talking to a bright young woman from Indianola, Mo. (that’s B.B. King territory, for you blues enthusiasts), someone from the hip-hop generation who puts the store radio on the satellite soul station and keeps it there.

“I was raised on it,” she explained. “It’s what I like. It’s from the heart.”

That it is. And the great thing about hearts is they only come in one color.

You know, Berry Gordy founded Motown Records under a very clever motto: “The sound of Young America.” Not young BLACK Ameri-ca. Young America. And it was.

Soul music tells stories of love and loss, heart-break and glory, with immediacy and rhythm. And it is the flip side, if you will, of another of my best-loved genres, classic country music. In fact, during my days as a music critic, I talked to any number of soul singers who loved country music, and country singers who loved R&B.

I guess it just goes to prove what Duke El-lington always said: “There are only two types of music: Good and bad.”

There was good music in the burger joint, and everyone, as the saying goes, knowed it and showed it – smiling, snapping, doing that chicken head thing.

The hamburgers brought us to the restaurant. The music brought us together.

Good music crossesall genres’ lines


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PEtSby John mikesell

At this time of year, with all of the holiday hustle and bustle, we must be especially careful with our pets. Doors are left open. Children are running in and out. There is a good chance the family pet might take off. The following are some ideas about what to if that happens.

1. Temperament of the dog. Friendly dogs are the most likely to walk up to the first person they see, be rescued and either returned to the owner, taken to a shelter or “adopted” by the finder. Aloof dogs are more likely to avoid strangers until they get hungry, and they may travel a considerable distance be-fore someone befriends them. Fearful dogs are likely to travel farther and actively avoid contact with humans, even when hunger calls. Sometimes the only way to capture a fearful dog is with the use of a humane trap.

2. Circumstances of the disappearance. A dog that wanders out of curiosity is likely to stay close to home and wander back in fairly short order. One who bolts from fear can run for several miles in blind panic.

3. Terrains. Wide open spaces are more condu-cive to distance travel than residential neigh-borhoods, where fences create barriers to travel.

4. Appearance of the dog. “Warm fuzzy” dogs are quicker to be rescued than large, aggressive-appearing dogs.

5. Weather. A dog in a blizzard or a driv-ing rainstorm is likely to seek shelter. A

dog wandering in 95-degree heat will seek a cool spot and settle down. A dog on a sunny autumn day may happily chase deer and wander farther than one inhibited by bad weather conditions.

6. Population density. It’s just common sense that more people there are around, the more likely it is your dog will be seen and reported to you or rescued by someone who calls you or the local shelter.

7. What you can do. Make sure you have sev-eral forms of identification solidly attached to your dog or cat. We strongly recom-mend using implanted microchip IDs, too.

Put your dog’s name on its ID so it can be as comfortable as possible.

Things influencing a lost dog’s travel Venus is a six-year-old female reddish-yel-

low Labrador Retriever/Boxer/Terrier mix. Venus is a very sweet girl who just loves human com-panionship. She was sur-rendered to us because her previous owner could no longer afford to care for her when they lost their home in foreclosure. Venus is making new friends easily and her previous owner told us she is good with children. She is spayed and highly intelli-gent; she knows the commands sit, down, come, off and stay. She is good natured and would make a nice family pet in a home with older children.

Cleopatra is a nine-year-old female calico DSH. Cleopatra is a beautiful girl whose name is quite fitting as she believes she is a queen. She enjoys being scratched and she even enjoys sleeping under the covers next to her human friends, but being held is not on her list of things she likes. Cleopatra is spayed and her claws have been removed from all four paws. She is currently staying with a local business, Purrs & Grrs, so stop by to meet her or call 774-1263 to set up a time to meet.

For more information on these and other animals at the Humane Society, call 773-4974 or go to hamiltonhumane.com

» Leo’s celebrates 10 years – Indianapo-lis veterinarian Gregory Magnusson re-cently celebrated his 10th year in practice with the opening of Leo’s Pet Care, a new veterinary clinic at the southwest corner of the shopping center at 106th Street and College Avenue in Carmel. For more information, visit www.leospetcare.com.

» Choose toys based on personality – Good Housekeeping’s pet expert, Kathy Santo, says because all dogs are unique, they should not all be given the same toys. Choose toys based on your dog’s personality and style of play, she says. For a tough dog that enjoys chewing through things, try Galileo bones, Orka Jack, Kong toys, Tire Biters, and indestructible plastic balls, which are tested on elephants. Very clever dogs or ones driven by food re-wards, however, should be given toys that keep them working towards a payoff.


» Indulge your dog healthily - Made with real meat -- slow-grilled chicken and beef -- Dog Joy Treats by Freshpet pro-vide a healthy, irresistible snack for dogs. The all-natural treats break into smaller pieces, making them ideal training tools. Dogs tested by www.pawnation.com re-sponded immediately to the texture and taste of these goodies, preferring Dog Joy Treats over less wholesome, drier biscuits.

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John Mikesell, owner of Izzy’s Place, A dog Bakery in Carmel, can be reached at [email protected].

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We’re not just celebrating a birthday. We’re celebrating babies we’ve brought into the world, athletes we’ve patched up, partnerships we’ve built in Hamilton County and lives we’ve saved. Still, we’re eagerly anticipating what’s to come and looking forward to future innovations. Until then, we wanted to take the time to say thanks for these first 5 years.

Like every 5-year-old, we’re growing fast.

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