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It is our position that parents have a responsibil-ity for the overall health of the community by mak-ing sure their children are fully vaccinated. Many of the diseases that were once considered eradicated due to successful vaccine programs are now on the rise.

An increasing number of parents are making changes to the recom-mended vaccine schedule or opting not to vaccinate their children at all. Outside of a small percentage of children that have health-related issues that prohibit them from being fully vaccinated, most parents are mak-ing the choice to exempt their children based on philosophical reasons. Perhaps this generation has never known a person that has been paralyzed by polio; a person that has died from complications of the measles or a person that has become sterile from the mumps. Recently, cases of pertus-sis (whooping cough), which is extremely contagious and can be deadly to infants, were reported in several Hamilton County schools.

While it is understood that every good parent should be concerned about the health of their own child, parents must factor in the impact on the health of the community as a whole when making the decision to exempt their children from being vaccinated.

Give them a shot New Year’s resolutionsIt is our position that with the new year comes

a great opportunity to assess our strengths and weaknesses and make goals to better ourselves. We believe the time to make our New Year’s resolutions is now, so we can come up with an edu-cated plan to make the most of our goal(s).

We urge everyone to take a look at setting up goals and following through over the course of 2012. No one is so perfect they can’t think of anything, or so busy they can’t find the time. Resolutions are not confined to just losing weight and getting more exercise. In fact, we advocate com-ing up with some creative resolutions. Now is the chance to try something new. Go out and buy a bike and make it your goal to ride two or three times a week. Get certified to scuba dive and take a trip. Learn a new language. These are just a few ideas, but with a little creativity and research we can come up with some ideas more fruitful than just losing 15 pounds.

We recommend everyone starts to think about their goals now so when the ball drops we can hit the ground running and make the most out of 2012.

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Every week, we will print a por-tion of the U.S. Constitution, fol-lowed by a portion of the Indiana Constitution. We encourage you to benchmark government policies against these bedrock documents. Today: the U.S. Constitution.

Article. I. Section. 4. Clause 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Sena-

tors and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legisla-ture thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, (See Note 5) un-

less they shall by Law appoint a different Day.

Section. 5. Clause 1: Each House shall be

the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

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Do you find Union Chapel Road a heck of a lot more navigable these days? If you do, thank the city’s Department of Engineer-ing, which oversaw the massive five-phase project. As the city grows – which we hope it continues to do for a long, long time - the infrastructure must keep up. That’s what the broader Union Chapel project was all about. So now, before winter comes roaring in, we thankfully have major traffic-flow improve-ments at a handful of sites, where work began as long ago as summer 2009. The list: Town and Country leading up to Union Chapel (completed fall 2009), Union Chapel north of 166th Street (fall 2010), Pleasant Street leading to Union Chapel and Union Chapel heading north to Conner Street (Oct. 31), Connor east of Union Chapel (Oct. 31) and Union Chapel between Prom-ise Road and Greenfield Avenue. Well done!

• • •We’re suckers for art of almost any stripe,

so when we heard about the Parks and Rec-reation Department’s plan to teach classes on making unique, keepsake greeting cards (adults and kids welcome) beginning the first week of January, it caught our attention. We consider this yet another artistic outlet. Give

it a shot. Curious or want to register (which is required)? Call the parks staff at 770.5750.

• • •The research is back, the research is back!

Look for a little fine-tuning in your news-paper in the not-too-distant future. If you know anything about us, you understand how much we rely on research to pilot this ship. It has served us well – and you and our advertisers, we presume – and that never will change. Let us get through the holidays and keep sifting through the impressive results (thank you for sharing your thoughts!), and we will give you a thorough heads-up as to what to expect and when. Research. It’s pure energy!

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» Web site poll – We asked, you answered. Here are the results from the recent online poll question: “With less than a month before Christmas, how much holiday shopping have you done?” I shop through-out December – 33%; I stayed at home and shopped online – 22%; I wait until Christmas Eve to get every-thing done – 22%; I stood in line during Black Friday – 11%; I shop for Christmas all year long – 11%

To vote for the new online poll question – “What is your least favorite part of the holiday season?” – visit www.currentnoblesville.com.

COMMEntaRYBy terry anker

No one likes to feel undervalued. No one wants to believe that they are not competitive with their peers. Yet even as unemployment lines grow, job creators around this fine nation report refusal of work offers because folks sim-ply take the posture that they’d rather stay home than work for “so little.”

When crushing debt makes it impossible for a person or a family to make ends meet, a job that would otherwise have fed the family is no longer a solution. College students, once taking entry-level roles, now are wrestling with giant student loan debt and credit card payments racked-up by spring break revelry. And we adults, once coasting on the accumulation of our toil, have no time for retraining or sharpening when a career transition occurs – loss of home equity and, in many cases, old fashioned over-spending have positioned us ill-prepared when things do not progress according to plan.

So, who do we blame? The employee is in-

sulted by the pay, the customer is insulted by the price, and, it seems, the government is insulted by the entrepreneur who is working to bridge the two. If one assumes that most of us are both cus-tomers of someone and employees of someone, are we working against ourselves? Does our own spending (whether enticed by overconfidence, stupidity or victimization), lead us to an unten-able position and eventual surrender? If the mar-ket (all of us when we are customers) is unwilling to pay us enough to meet our bloated personal obligations do we have a right to anger? And, can we envy those employees among us who (through sweat, genetics or luck) thriftily are meeting their responsibilities with room to spare? Is it the sys-tem that is broken or is it our willingness to play by its natural rules?

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» Doing his best – Ryan Suiters, a senior at Noblesville High School, earned the highest honor in Scouting – the rank of Eagle Scout. Ryan, son of Dan and Theresa Suit-ers, is a member of BSA Troop 101 chartered at Noblesville First United Methodist Church. His community ser-vice Eagle Scout Project is an Ornamental Rain Garden with a brownstone stamped, wheelchair accessible walkway and patio. Intricate landscaping and benches accent the focal point of his project – a 20-foot flagpole with American Flag that once flew over the State Capitol in Indianapolis. The flag is illuminated by a solar powered pole light. Ryan’s project is located near the community park in Cicero.

» Salary schedule – The Noblesville Common Council recently approved the annual salaries of elected officials during its Nov. 29 meeting. Monies for the sala-ries are equally distributed from the Gen-eral Fund and the Wastewater Fund – un-less otherwise noted. The new salaries will begin on Jan. 1, 2012 and include: mayor – $99,554; clerk-treasurer – $75,378; city court judge – $36,555 (General Fund); common council: Monthly sal-ary – $1,165.34; Yearly salary – $3,932.53 (Wastewater Fund)

» Noblesville twins take the lead – Students ages 7 to 17 are currently rehearsing for Indiana Ballet Conserva-tory’s Nutcracker, includ-ing two local students from Noblesville. Twin sisters Julia and Morgan Rust of Noblesville have significant roles as they are sharing the lead role of Masha (also known as Clara). Performances are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday at the Indianapolis Museum of Art Toby Theater. To order tickets, visit www.IndianaBalletConservatory.org.

» Tentative agreement – Noblesville Schools and the Noblesville Teachers Fo-rum have reached a tentative agreement on a contract for the 2011-12 school year. Both sides were scheduled to vote and ratify the contract Monday. If the teach-ers voted in favor of the agreement the school board will consider the contract during a special meeting. For results of the scheduled votes, see next week’s edi-tion or visit www.currentnoblesville.com.

DISPatCHESCOMMEntaRY By Danielle Wilson

What do you get when you mix a hormonal soccer mom, eight hyperactive children and 14 strands of tangled Christmas lights? A bowl full of holiday crazy, that’s what! Read on for details of my day-after-Thanksgiving meltdown.

I could tell Friday was going to be rough al-most as soon as I woke up. The kitchen still bore the battles scars of the previous day’s feast, so I spent the first 30 minutes of my day unloading the dishwasher and emptying the sink – never a good start. By the time my husband arrived downstairs, I was in a mood. We proceeded to get in to a heated debate over the Kindle Fire versus the Nook e-reader, and the probability that our 10-year-old daughter would lose such an expen-sive item should Santa bring her one for Christ-mas. Doo was driving me so crazy that I happily sent him packing for his overnight hunting trip.

Shortly thereafter, my sister-in-law dropped off her three kids to play with ours. Two neigh-borhood children also miraculously appeared at some point, so that by lunchtime I had eight lit-tle munchkins between the ages of 6 and 11 run-ning amok and fighting over the computer, Xbox and television. I finally kicked everyone outside to literally play with knives and hunt snakes.

Alone at last, I made the unfortunate deci-sion to start setting up for Christmas. I thought it would get me out of my post-holiday PMS funk. I put on Nat King Cole, pulled some

boxes out of storage and began organizing my lighted village. Suddenly, four little girls de-scended upon me and completely usurped my town-planning power. Fine. I turned my atten-tion to lighting the back deck.

After a solid 30 minutes of detangling icicle lights, I discovered half of the strings didn’t work at all, and the other half would only par-tially light. So I spent another half hour in a futile attempt to replace blown fuses and mini-lights. I ended up throwing away all but three strands, which of course covered only one side of our deck, and abandoned the whole flippin’ project when I realized the outlet location wasn’t going to work anyway. Curse you, electricity!

Frustrated and frankly ready to shove Christ-mas up the chimney, I returned to my quaint village display. Holy mother! Who broke my lighthouse? And what idiot places Santa’s cot-tage in the town square! That’s when I knew I’d snapped. I quickly sent all non-offspring home, gathered up my precious angels, and abandoned the house for greener pastures, aka the movie theater. I’m not exaggerating when I say that buttered popcorn saved my sanity (and my sad little village) that evening. Peace out.

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As temperatures continued to drop Dec. 3, the importance of the “Shop with a Cop” program, which provides warm winter clothes to Hamilton County children, was never more evident at Noblesville’s Meijer store.

“It’s especially gratifying for us as law enforce-ment officers to meet these families with a smile on our faces and a smile on their faces to do something nice,” said Noblesville Police Officer

Jon Williams, who has coor-dinated the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 198’s “Shop with a Cop” program all 14 years. “It’s a positive interaction with the public. Sometimes when we meet people it’s the most traumatic event going on

in their life. They get to see us on a different level in a different light.”

“Shop with a Cop” participants walk around the store and, with the help of Noblesville police of-ficers and their wives and sometimes children, pick out a number of winter clothes, including coats, gloves, shirts, pants, boots and even underwear and pajamas. Once all of the children have the proper clothes for the cold weather, they head over to the toy department to select a present.

“That’s when they really open up,” said Wil-liams. “The trip down the toy aisle is probably the most popular part for the kids and officers alike.”

This year, 85 children participated in the program. Williams said because the F.O.P. Lodge collects money from all parts of Ham-ilton County, with the exception of Carmel, its “Shop with a Cop” program is open to all families within the county. Participants – in-fants through 16-year-olds – in the program come from a holiday assistance list given to the Noblesville F.O.P. by Nancy Chance of Good Samaritan Network.

“During the 14 years the program has grown, and the need has grown,” said Williams. “The amount of families being submitted has grown.”

Williams said the event included 27 non-officer volunteers – evenly split between wives and chil-dren – and two spouses assisted even though their husbands were working and couldn’t participate.

“It’s really a family event for us,” he said. “We could not host this event without our kids and spouses helping us. We don’t have the manpow-er and, all stereotypes aside, my wife is a better shopper. She can stretch a dollar.”

“It brings us together tighter as a group,” added F.O.P. Lodge President Mike Sadler. “We definitely appreciate the community’s support in making the ‘Shop with a Cop’ program possible.”

For the past six years, the “Shop with a Cop” event has been at Meijer, 17000 Mercantile Blvd. in Noblesville. The store devoted four lanes strictly to check out the families and police officers and provided them with a meeting space and refreshments for the day-long event. Meijer also donated gift cards to each child.

“Every year is just great – they rolled out the red carpet. We even had an employee assigned to the F.O.P.,” Williams said.

Noblesville’s F.O.P. raises money for the “Shop with a Cop” program by a telemarketing drive each year, donations at or after the event, direct donations from individuals and busi-nesses and from the Noblesville High School “Cops vs. Kids Flag Football Game.” Williams said those interested in making a donation can contact him at 770-5754 or mail the donation to: Noblesville F.O.P. Lodge No. 198, P.O. Box 1303, Noblesville 46061.

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Noblesville Police Officer Matt Johnston sizes up a T-shirt during the annual Shop with a Cop at Meijer on Dec. 3.

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Current investigates why the county has two child advocacy centers

Editor’s note: With a tug-of-war over child advocacy support services in Hamilton County, we decided to let those on the front lines of the issue tell the story. In the interest of disclosure, Current Publishing, LLC is a sponsor of Chaucie’s Place, which is a part of this story. Current Publish-ing owns this newspaper, but its owners and officers did not participate in this special report.By Jordan Fischer and Kevin [email protected]

Three children were in the care of the Carmel Police Dept. in October immediately after losing their parents in a murder-suicide at the family’s townhome. CPD took the children to Chaucie’s Place, a child advocacy center in Carmel, where they would await the help of the Department of Child Services and other members of a multidisciplinary interview team.

DCS, however, had kept its agents away from Chaucie’s Place since July 1, 2010 – and this case was no exception.

“It showed me that, even in extreme circum-stances like that, DCS was not willing to allow its personnel to go to that location, and I said, ‘I’m not going to allow this to continue from this point on,’” said Carmel Police Chief Tim Green.

After that incident, Green ordered CPD to begin taking all of its cases involving minors to another Hamilton County child advocacy center

– The Cherish Center, 493 Westfield Rd., Noblesville.“Ultimately what made that decision was that DCS would not

go to Chaucie’s Place,” Green said. “There were several instances when our department was involved in investigations and, had DCS gone to Chaucie’s Place, it would have been a smoother process in meeting the needs of the minors … I was no longer willing to accept that there was a potential here for a problem.”

How we got HereOn Sept. 7, 2009, the Board of Directors

of Chaucie’s Place received a letter from Doug Carter, then Hamilton County sheriff, expressing his concerns that, without a “substantial change of direction,” law enforcement no longer would be able to conduct interviews of child victims at the CAC.

The letter was undersigned by police chiefs from four major county departments: Kevin Jowitt, Noblesville; Michael Fogarty, then Carmel; George Kehl, Fishers; and David Hildebrand, Cicero.

Referring only to “historic issues” with the “operation and direction” of Chaucie’s Place, the letter lays out three options for the future of the child advocacy process in Hamilton County. The first option was for the majority of the Chaucie’s Place board to resign; their replacements to be selected by undersigned law enforcement. Option Two was the creation of a new 501(c) (3) corporation which would operate as a child advocacy center, ef-

fectively creating a competing organization. Op-tion Three was the creation of a new nonprofit organization, into which Chaucie’s Place would then be folded.

Stories differ as to why reconciliation ulti-mately failed – despite apparent efforts by Sonia Leerkamp, then Hamilton County prosecutor and a founder and former board member of Chaucie’s Place, Carter, and eventually, the intercession of James Payne, director of the Indiana Department of Child Services – the result being the formation of The Cherish Center, a new 501(c) (3) organization created by Carter and other supporters, including several prominent former members of the Chaucie’s Place organization: Wendy Rayburn, former executive director; Judge Jerry Barr, former board president; and Deb Keaton, for-mer forensic interviewer.

Leerkamp, no longer officially affiliated with Chaucie’s Place, contends that problems stemmed from a failure on DCS’ part to collaborate with local law enforcement agencies, a dispute over the termina-tion of Rayburn from her position at Chaucie’s Place, and personality clashes between herself and others. Citing a desire to ease those tensions, Leerkamp resigned her position from the board toward the end of 2009.

“There was a great deal of concern that I was having too great an influence on the board,” she said.

On Jan. 4, 2010, Payne sent a letter to the heads of both CACs setting an ultimatum of 10 days, by which time, he wrote, the two should come up with a compromise that would combine the two groups into one entity.

“I always expected that, at some point, they would all agree to figure it out,” Payne said. “It

wasn’t that they even agreed to peace-ful disagreement. It was harsh dis-agreement. The animosity I saw was unique in the field of child welfare, in

my experience.”On Feb. 18, 2010, following a letter from both groups stating

that they could not reconcile, Payne informed the two sides that his staff would participate exclusively in interviews held at The Cherish Center.

“One of my responsibilities is to ensure that our staff locally isn’t torn apart because they have to choose personally between one CAC or another,” Payne said, when questioned why making a choice was necessary. “We talk about having a passion for kids, but what I saw was that tenet festering in Hamilton County. It was a hard decision I felt I had to make.”

On July 21, 2010, Leerkamp informed law enforcement and DCS that she would not prosecute any cases involving inter-views conducted at The Cherish Center. She later retracted that

statement. “I have reflected a lot on

my actions, and whether I was motivated by power or ego … and I think it’s hard not to be,” Leerkamp said. “For whatever responsibility I had in causing (the split), I regret it terribly.”

tHe Hard numbersThe lack of any DCS

presence at Chaucie’s Place, beyond a breakdown of the multi-disciplinary interview

team, represents a significant portion of referrals – and more than $30,000 in state funding – now being directed toward The Cherish Center. The remaining portion of cases Chaucie’s Place could have expected to see, most of them originating from CPD – which referred 44 of the 189 cases Chaucie’s Place saw in 2010 – has disappeared as well.

Toby Stark, executive director of Chaucie’s Place, expressed her dismay at Carmel’s decision, saying she believed DCS was exerting undue pressure on law enforcement agencies to choose The Cherish Center.

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“With a level playing field, the law enforcement agencies should determine where these children are best served,” Stark said. “It’s not the responsibility of DCS to determine whether or not Hamilton County needs two CACs – it already has them.”

Green said CPD would still be using Chaucie’s Place if DCS attended interviews there, and Hamilton County Prosecutor Lee Buckingham said his office has not noticed a difference in the quality of interviews conducted at both centers.

Still, Payne said the need in the county is far too low to justify two CACs. With only 1.1 CHINS (Children in Need of Services) per 1,000 children younger than 18, Hamilton County has the lowest rate of children in the DCS system in the state. In fact, despite having a child population of just over 80,000, Payne said Hamilton County places a smaller per capita demand on DCS services than Jas-per or Tipton counties, with child populations of 8,526 and 3,772 re-spectively – more than 10 times smaller than Hamilton County.

On the flip side, Indiana’s two largest counties, Lake and Marion, with child populations of more than 130,000 and 227,000, respectively, have an average of 14 CHINS cases per 1,000 children. And neither one of them, Payne points out, has two CACs. In fact, Lake County doesn’t have a CAC.

“At what point can Hamil-ton County justify two CACs when every other county in the state needs one?” Payne asked.

The matter of funding for the two entities lurks behind the debate. Other than funds received from a federal victim assistance grant, the entirety of Chaucie’s $250,000 annual budget is supported by private donations. And while The Cherish Center will receive a little more than $30,000 this year from DCS, an equal amount of its $101,000 annual budget will come from corporate donors.

Though both sides contend that their respective organizations are on solid financial footing, they concede that two CACs “com-peting” for the same pot of community dollars ultimately could end in trouble for both.

movIng forwardWhile differing opinions pulled the two sides apart, all par-

ties involved – including DCS – agree that the story and legacy of Chaucie’s Place must somehow be preserved. The center this year celebrated its 10th anniversary of serving Hamilton County children.

Chaucie’s Place opened six years after the death of its name-sake, Chaucie Quillen, who committed suicide in 1995. For eight years, Quillen was repeatedly raped by her father, Phillip Quillen, until she left home and filed charges against him in 1992. Three years later, her father was convicted of sexual battery and sen-tenced to six years of probation.

Quillen took her life that same year. She was 21.

Since its inception, the mission of Chaucie’s Place – to serve as a safe space for interviews of alleged child victims – has been driven by Quillen’s memory. But while the center was cre-ated to serve as an advocate for Ham-ilton County children and families, exactly how it will continue to do so moving forward is not entirely clear.

The community’s support for Chaucie’s Place seemingly never has been stronger, as the nonprofit raised record-breaking amounts during its annual fundraisers in 2010 and 2011. But with all but the Westfield Police Dept. now referring cases to The Cher-

ish Center, Chaucie’s Place could be forced to serve the community in a different way if it is to remain a

separate entity. “We’re going to have to change our

direction next year,” Stark said. “Be-cause our interview numbers are so low, the board and I have made a deci-sion that next year we will focus more on prevention.”

Payne said the need for prevention programs is great and government dol-

lars nationwide are being shifted to fund preventative measures. As things stand now, however, he does not see conducting foren-sic interviews in the future of Hamilton County’s original CAC.

As CPD’s Green witnessed in October, DCS case workers have been instructed to stay away from Chaucie’s Place. It’s an order that Payne said he does not expect to rescind in the near future.

“His job isn’t to regulate the number of social service agencies in the county; his job is to set policy that protects our children,” Stark said in an email. “Policy that prevents his case workers from participat-ing in the forensic interviews at both CACs is not good child protection policy.”

Chaucie’s Place has not had an active service contract with

DCS since July, meaning DCS will not compensate the CAC for forensic interviews. Yet the center is not asking for payment and only requests DCS’ presence during interviews.

Without DCS, part of the multidisciplinary team is missing. At the least, caseworkers must be brought up to speed and must review interview tapes at a later time. In some situations, Payne acknowledged that DCS must subject alleged victims to a second interview. Eliminating the need for multiple inter-views is one of the primary purposes of a CAC.

Asked to comment on DCS’ role in such situa-tions, Payne said, “It is unfortunate.”

His reasons for maintaining a firm stance against interviews conducted at Chaucie’s Place, he said, are rooted in his strong desire to prevent the divisive problems of the past from arising once again. According to Payne, not only could using both centers retrigger the animosity that previ-

ously existed between the two, but he added that he has heard of instances in which law enforcement agencies were confused as to which center they should bring alleged victims, unnecessarily delaying interviews.

But ultimately, Payne said the parties from both centers need to compromise.

“My goal here was to force a marriage between the two. There were lots of opportunities that fell apart,” he said. “I think it was an easy decision. They needed to merge. But they were unwilling to think that children were more important.”

The missed opportunities, Payne said, include Chaucie’s forced relocation, which occurred Dec. 3, when the CAC moved to 4607 East 106th St., Carmel. Stark said the leaders of Chaucie’s Place are “100 percent” open to discussing “how the two centers can help and work with the child victims of Hamilton County cooperatively,” though she said they don’t yet know how exactly that would be accomplished.

“I suppose the best of all worlds would be to take the abilities, assets and skills that both centers offer and create a comprehen-sive location that provides the best possible service to our com-munities,” said Chaucie’s Place board president Dan Stevens.

Carter said The Cherish Center also is open to such a discus-sion, but very little progress has been made to this point.

“(Chaucie’s Place) still talks about doing all of the forensic interviews,” Carter said. “According to their Web site, they’re still the same as they were three years ago. That doesn’t sound like they’re willing to compromise.”

Simply abandoning forensic interviews isn’t an easy solution for Chaucie’s Place, Stark said. If the center only offered educational programming, it would lose its status as a CAC. Because the com-munity created the center in the wake of Quillen’s death, Stark said becoming a different organization would mean Chaucie’s Place “would not be doing what the community created it to do.”

Regardless of how this situation plays out, Carter – himself one of the key players in the creation of Chaucie’s Place – said he does not want to see its powerful story lost.

“What Chaucie’s Place becomes is really up to them,” he said. “If there are things I can do to help them, I certainly will do that. I have great respect for the people there and Chaucie’s story … I would absolutely talk to them anytime they would like to talk.”

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total Chins

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parke 3,585 6 1.7

tipton 3,772 22 5.8

Jasper 8,526 10 1.2

clinton 9,175 67 7.3

Boone 15,534 38 2.4

hancock 18,032 48 2.7

madison 29,943 289 9.7

hendricks 36,778 43 1.2

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Is not good cHIld protectIon polIcy.”

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Despite having one of the highest child populations in In-diana, Hamilton County has the lowest CHINS (“Children in Need of Services”) rate in the state. (Numbers provided by the Indiana Department of Child Services)

Police at the scene of a murder-suicide at a Carmel townhome in October. After the incident, children were removed from the home and taken to Chaucie’s Place, but Department of Child Services case workers were instructed to stay away from the center.

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I was talking with my family last week about a cool idea I read on a blog – a “paying it forward” sort of thing. The idea is to either decide on acts of kindness to do each day for a couple weeks leading up to Christmas, or to let a situation present itself each day, and to follow through to show another human being extra kindness in this season.

Sometimes I struggle with feeling “Grinchy” during the holidays. I want the holidays to be meaningful, but what does that mean and how do I do it? I often become too focused on my wants, my agenda, my to-do list, the next place I have to be, and so on and so on. I feel overwhelmed and unable to enjoy the season. I want my kids to experience the joy of giving to others, but I have to set that example. How do I even start?

The premise is simple: Seek out ways to give freely to others, often strangers, this holiday season. One of the ideas I read was to buy a gift card to the store that you’re in when you check out – it can be just $5 – and then either give it to someone as you’re leaving the store or stick it under someone’s windshield wiper.

How cool would that be? What about this – pay for the person behind you in the coffee shop line. Tip the barista extra. Spend time with an el-derly neighbor who craves company. Bake cook-ies and leave them on someone’s doorstep with a note. Handwrite a note to someone who meant a lot to you growing up. Teach a child something you wish someone had taught you (or did teach you) when you were a kid. Donate stuff you don’t want or need to a local charity. Donate food to a food pantry. Shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk after a snow. Babysit for a single mom or dad. Hide quarters in a vending machine change slot. Compliment people freely. Wish the driver who cut you off well. Let go of a grudge.

I’m on a roll but also out of space. We plan to brainstorm ideas and make a list. Getting stuff isn’t just what a good life is made of; it’s being good to each other however we can. Merry Christmas!

Paying it forward at Christmas

Krista Bocko lives in “Old Town” Noblesville with her husband and four children. She can be reached via her blog at www.cachetwrites.com.

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She is the latest Hamilton County resident to win on Jeopardy! Who is Julia Kozicki of Noblesville?

Last Tuesday evening, Kozicki, 42, defeated Jeopardy! champion Bhibha Das of Mount Zion, Ill., and fellow contestant Rich Beimer of Clarksville, Tenn.

“It’s been crazy, people at work and around here have been talking about it,” she said. “I got 200 texts and Facebook messages tonight (Dec. 6).”

Going into Final Jeopardy, Kozicki had a slim $1,800 lead on Beimer, who was comfort-ably ahead of the competition midway through Double Jeopardy before betting $13,000 on a Daily Double.

“When he was way ahead it was certainly disappointing,” said Kozicki. “If he gets it we are done, and he didn’t.”

After Beimer’s miss, Kozicki took control of the game by answering four of the five questions in the HUD secretaries category and secured her victory by correctly answering the last question with a smile on her face.

“I did not have a moment’s hesitation on the Final Jeopardy question,” she said. “You have a lot of time to think about your wager during the commercial break. I had bet $1 more than him if he got it.”

Returning as champion, Kozicki faced stiff com-

petition and was just $1,000 away from first place as the Final Jeopardy question was asked – “The cup presented since 1887 to the man who wins this is inscribed ‘single handed champion of the world.” Kozicki began writing the correct answer of Wimbledon but changed it to the U.S. Open.

For her trivia knowledge, Kozicki won $28,401 as champion and $2,000 for placing second. The money she won will not be sent to her until 120 days after the show aired. Kozicki said her earnings will be used to pay off bills and for family travel plans.

“Anyone looking for a lovely Christmas pres-ent will have to wait,” she said with a smile.

The 1987 Noblesville High School graduate is no stranger to televised trivia games as she com-peted on the school’s “Brain Game” team three of her four years. Kozicki also creates much of

her trivia knowledge to playing a lot of Trivial Pursuit with her parents growing up.

Kozicki said Jeopardy! records a week’s worth of episodes (five) on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Trebek takes two weeks off before asking questions again. The episodes are recorded as they are shown during the week with a short break in between episodes for the winner to change clothes.

“It was very fun, it was interesting,” she said, adding that the rounds go quickly especially Double Jeopardy as it contains no breaks. “I was asked once if I had any brain lapses where I buzzed in and didn’t know the answer but I really couldn’t remember because it’s been two months (since the show was taped).”

Kozicki said the contestants have little inter-action with Trebek besides the brief on air Q&A and after the show wraps as everyone stands

Not a trivial experience for Jeopardy! contestantJeopardy! winner Julia Kozicki has this

advice for anyone wanting to be a contestant on the long-time trivia show: “Sign up for an online test right now.” Kozicki said more in-formation about online tests can be found at www.jeopardy.com.

“You don’t have to have a perfect score. I know I missed my very first question,” she ex-plained. “They don’t tell you the passing score.”

After taking the online test, the next step is receiving an in-person interview. Kozicki has her interview in Lexington, Ky. There she took another test, was interviewed and practiced using the hand buzzers. If you do well on the online test and aren’t notified about a follow-up interview don’t get discouraged. Kozicki said she passed the online test but didn’t make the interview cut and had to wait the mandated two years before trying again. It was on her second try that she made the cut and competed in Los Angeles.

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together talking. Following those few minutes after the show, the contestants get their picture taken with Trebek, who asked Kozicki one final question – “What’s going on with the Colts?”

Kathy Church, J.D., Josh, Julia and Jeff Kozicki watch Julia compete on Jeopardy! and become a champion on Dec. 6.


» Santa Claus House – Don’t miss your opportunity to tell Santa what you want for Christmas. Re-maining times for the Noblesville Santa Claus House are Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.; Thursday and Dec. 22, 4 to 7 p.m.; Dec. 23, 5 to 8 p.m.; Dec. 24, noon to 3 p.m. Families may bring their camera and take photos free of charge as children tell Santa what they’d like for Christmas. Santa’s House is located in Downtown Noblesville. For more information, call 776-6367 or visit www.cityofnoblesville.org.


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Remember, these suggestions are not meant to be legal advice. You should consult an attorney to discuss the specifics of your situation.

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The plan is now in place for kindergarten to eighth grade stu-dents as new district maps have been approved by the Nobles-ville School Board. This will be the second consecutive year that Noblesville Schools will redraw elementary school boundaries. Students that were affected this year following Forest Hill’s closing in June did not face changes with the new redistricting lines.

The maps outline the attendance areas for the district’s seven elementary schools and two mid-dle schools and are effective with the 2012-13 school year. Beginning with the 2012-13 school year, elementary schools will house kindergarten through fifth-graders and the middle schools will teach sixth to eighth grade students.

Officials said the approved maps contained changes from the first maps presented earlier this year. The redistricting committee met to review the original maps after new enrollment data became available in mid-September.

“We improved the balance between buildings with the free and reduced lunch population,” said Julia Kozicki, a school board member who served on the redistricting committee. “We also

put more students at NMS West to accom-modate the area going to grow at Sagamore and Stony Ridge.”

The differences in the earlier elementary map and the one approved include keeping Harbour Woods at Hinkle Creek; Hazel Dell Woods at Hazel Dell; Sagamore, Sagamore East and Stony Ridge at Stony Creek; Rivers Edge, River Run and Westridge at Noble Crossing; and moving Green Valley to White River.

The board amended the Hazel Dell and Noble Crossing districts, but otherwise ap-proved the maps as proposed by the redistrict-ing committee. The amendments moved Slater Farms North back to Hazel Dell and moved the proposed Promenade development along the north side of Ind. 32 between Little Chicago Road and Mill Creek road to Noble Crossing. School Board member Chris Hamm suggested the amendments saying the Slater Farms North area lived adjacent to Hazel Dell.

“It’s not a large group of students,” explained Kozicki.

The difference in the middle school maps is that the dividing line on the new map follows White River through the township – moving the Riverwood neighborhood and Overdorf Road area to Noblesville West Middle School.

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If you’re getting headaches regularly, you’re

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strong scents, dehydration, bad posture and

even a too-tight ponytail. Sometimes, women’s

headaches are related to their menstrual cycles

— increasing in frequency as hormones change

during peri-menopause and menopause.

Treatments and solutions depend on the cause

of your headaches. (Keep a headache log to

identify triggers.) Taking steps to manage stress

may be a big help. Eat regular, healthy meals.

Get a massage. Go for a walk during the workday.

And, if your headaches come the week before or

during your menstrual cycle, talk to your doctor

about taking hormones during the week of your

period. Other medicines are available to help

prevent headaches or stop severe ones from

getting out of control.

For more Tips 4HER, visit 3384HER.com or call

our 24/7 nurse advice line at 317-338-4-HER.

And don’t forget to find us on Facebook at

Facebook.com/3384HER.

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Specs: 12” x 22” 4C Publication: Current In NoblesvilleIf you have any questions regarding this art, please call Joe Judd at 317-816-8810 or e-mail [email protected]

Layout Date: 11/16/11 CR:1 IR:5

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2012 5K Race to the New Year

Saturday, December 31 9 a.m. Cool Creek Nature Center 2000 East 151st Street #1, Westfield

Join Washington Township Parks & Recreation, Hamilton County Parks, and the City of Westfield for the 7th Annual Race to the New Year! Sponsored by St.Vincent, the race is a 5k run/walk through Cool Creek Park. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, Dec. 31, at 9 a.m. Each participant will receive an official “Race to the New Year” T-shirt. Early bird registration is $15.00 (postmarked) by Dec. 19. After Dec. 19, the fee is $20.00. You may register the day of the event. Participants who register after Dec. 19 are not guaranteed a T-shirt. In case of extreme weather conditions, the event may be cancelled and your registration fee will be accepted as a generous donation to the Parks Department.

For more information, please visit www.washingtontownship-hc.us.

Throughout most of the year, Dr. James Bicos focuses on helping Central Indiana residents overcome orthopedic injuries. But, for a couple of weeks last month, he applied his trade in the high-pressure environment of the Pan Am Games.

Dr. Bicos served as the team physician for the U.S. Gymnastics Team in this year’s games, held in Guadalajara, Mexico. In previous years, he has traveled with the team to London and Rotterdam for the World Gymnastic Championships. This time, though, the stakes were higher. “These gymnasts train for years just for this event,” Dr. Bicos said. “Their entire careers hang in the balance.”

While the team fared well, success didn’t come easily. Two days before the full-team competition began, Indiana’s own Bridget Sloan suffered a freak foot laceration. With just 48 hours before she was slated to compete, Bicos and his team had to act fast.

“We sutured it up, glued it, and came up with a custom tape job to splint the area,” he said. Sloan had to sit out the beam and vault competition, but thanks to Bicos’ handiwork — along with some help from St.Vincent associate Holly Heitzman, who was on the trip with the USA Synchro Team — Sloan

managed to compete in the floor competition and uneven bars, helping the team win the gold medal.

Now home in Indiana, Dr. Bicos is back to helping college athletes, weekend warriors, and even non-athletes overcome everything from sprains and strains to complex joint problems. But his experience in the Pan Am Games has made him a better doctor, he says.

“I really understand where athletes and other patients are coming from when they want to get back on track,” he said. “And if USA Gymnastics trusts me with their athletes, I hope other people will trust me with their injuries, too.”

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Bicos at St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast, contact his office directly at 317-415-5885. He is located in Suite 304.

P R O V I D E R S P O T L I G H T Robert Blankenship, MD Emergency Physician

Dr. Robert Blankenship, emergency

physician and medical director at

St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast,

is both a well-trained and well-traveled

physician. He attended medical school

at the University of Cincinnati College

of Medicine; completed his residency

at the C.R. Darnall Army Medical Center

in Killeen, Texas; cared for patients at

Ft. Lewis in Tacoma, Washington;

and even served as a battalion surgeon

in Samarra, Iraq, with the 4th Infantry

Division. And his experience has

taught him a lot about the importance

of connecting with patients on a

personal level.

“At St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast

we strive to provide high-quality care in

a manner that assures our patients and

their families that we genuinely care for

them,” said Dr. Blankenship. “We try to

be personable and do whatever it takes

to ensure they’re comfortable when

we’re caring for them. The staff here

is also close with one another, and I

think our patients benefit from that.”

Emergency Department

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How St.Vincent Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. James Bicos helped the U.S. gymnastics team bring home the gold at the 2011 Pan Am games.

A W E E K L Y P U B L I C A T I O N O F S T . V I N C E N T M E D I C A L C E N T E R N O R T H E A S T

northeast.stvincent.org • I S S U E # 4

H E A LT H Y T I M E S • A publication of St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast

Healthy Times 13914 Southeastern Parkway (I-69 & State Road 238)Fishers, IN(317) 415-9000

Dr. James Bicos

To better serve the Fishers community’s growing healthcare needs, St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast is expanding to become St.Vincent Fishers Hospital — a comprehensive medical center designed to provide a wide range of new amenities and services to area patients. Among them are all-in-one Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum rooms. These innovative rooms are specially designed for expecting mothers, enabling them to remain in the comfort of one room from the beginning of their labor until the day they return home with their new babies. The LDRP rooms offer many of the comforts of home for mother, baby and family members, and even includes a full-size Murphy bed for overnight stays. From ceiling to floor, the Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum rooms at St.Vincent Fishers are designed to give mothers and their families the comfort they deserve during this exciting time in their lives.

Be sure to stay up-to-date with our monthly column where we will provide updates each month about the ongoing expansion at St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast.

T I P 4 H E R

You don’t have to live with headache pain

If you’re getting headaches regularly, you’re

not alone. Reasons for headaches can include

stress and tension, hunger, weather changes,

strong scents, dehydration, bad posture and

even a too-tight ponytail. Sometimes, women’s

headaches are related to their menstrual cycles

— increasing in frequency as hormones change

during peri-menopause and menopause.

Treatments and solutions depend on the cause

of your headaches. (Keep a headache log to

identify triggers.) Taking steps to manage stress

may be a big help. Eat regular, healthy meals.

Get a massage. Go for a walk during the workday.

And, if your headaches come the week before or

during your menstrual cycle, talk to your doctor

about taking hormones during the week of your

period. Other medicines are available to help

prevent headaches or stop severe ones from

getting out of control.

For more Tips 4HER, visit 3384HER.com or call

our 24/7 nurse advice line at 317-338-4-HER.

And don’t forget to find us on Facebook at

Facebook.com/3384HER.

Copyright©2011St.ClaireGroupClient: SVH Job Name: MCNE Current In Noblesville Spread Job Number: SVH-MCN-MCN-1608 (4)

Specs: 12” x 22” 4C Publication: Current In NoblesvilleIf you have any questions regarding this art, please call Joe Judd at 317-816-8810 or e-mail [email protected]

Layout Date: 11/16/11 CR:1 IR:5

C O M M U N I T Y E V E N T S

2012 5K Race to the New Year

Saturday, December 31 9 a.m. Cool Creek Nature Center 2000 East 151st Street #1, Westfield

Join Washington Township Parks & Recreation, Hamilton County Parks, and the City of Westfield for the 7th Annual Race to the New Year! Sponsored by St.Vincent, the race is a 5k run/walk through Cool Creek Park. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, Dec. 31, at 9 a.m. Each participant will receive an official “Race to the New Year” T-shirt. Early bird registration is $15.00 (postmarked) by Dec. 19. After Dec. 19, the fee is $20.00. You may register the day of the event. Participants who register after Dec. 19 are not guaranteed a T-shirt. In case of extreme weather conditions, the event may be cancelled and your registration fee will be accepted as a generous donation to the Parks Department.

For more information, please visit www.washingtontownship-hc.us.

Throughout most of the year, Dr. James Bicos focuses on helping Central Indiana residents overcome orthopedic injuries. But, for a couple of weeks last month, he applied his trade in the high-pressure environment of the Pan Am Games.

Dr. Bicos served as the team physician for the U.S. Gymnastics Team in this year’s games, held in Guadalajara, Mexico. In previous years, he has traveled with the team to London and Rotterdam for the World Gymnastic Championships. This time, though, the stakes were higher. “These gymnasts train for years just for this event,” Dr. Bicos said. “Their entire careers hang in the balance.”

While the team fared well, success didn’t come easily. Two days before the full-team competition began, Indiana’s own Bridget Sloan suffered a freak foot laceration. With just 48 hours before she was slated to compete, Bicos and his team had to act fast.

“We sutured it up, glued it, and came up with a custom tape job to splint the area,” he said. Sloan had to sit out the beam and vault competition, but thanks to Bicos’ handiwork — along with some help from St.Vincent associate Holly Heitzman, who was on the trip with the USA Synchro Team — Sloan

managed to compete in the floor competition and uneven bars, helping the team win the gold medal.

Now home in Indiana, Dr. Bicos is back to helping college athletes, weekend warriors, and even non-athletes overcome everything from sprains and strains to complex joint problems. But his experience in the Pan Am Games has made him a better doctor, he says.

“I really understand where athletes and other patients are coming from when they want to get back on track,” he said. “And if USA Gymnastics trusts me with their athletes, I hope other people will trust me with their injuries, too.”

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Bicos at St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast, contact his office directly at 317-415-5885. He is located in Suite 304.

P R O V I D E R S P O T L I G H T Robert Blankenship, MD Emergency Physician

Dr. Robert Blankenship, emergency

physician and medical director at

St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast,

is both a well-trained and well-traveled

physician. He attended medical school

at the University of Cincinnati College

of Medicine; completed his residency

at the C.R. Darnall Army Medical Center

in Killeen, Texas; cared for patients at

Ft. Lewis in Tacoma, Washington;

and even served as a battalion surgeon

in Samarra, Iraq, with the 4th Infantry

Division. And his experience has

taught him a lot about the importance

of connecting with patients on a

personal level.

“At St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast

we strive to provide high-quality care in

a manner that assures our patients and

their families that we genuinely care for

them,” said Dr. Blankenship. “We try to

be personable and do whatever it takes

to ensure they’re comfortable when

we’re caring for them. The staff here

is also close with one another, and I

think our patients benefit from that.”

Emergency Department

St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast

13914 Southeastern Parkway, Fishers

CARE AT THE HigHEST LEVEL:

E X PA N S I O N S P O T L I G H T

All-In-One Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum Rooms

Real nurses. Real answers. Free 24/7.

KidsHealthLine.com

317-338-KIDS

How St.Vincent Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. James Bicos helped the U.S. gymnastics team bring home the gold at the 2011 Pan Am games.

A W E E K L Y P U B L I C A T I O N O F S T . V I N C E N T M E D I C A L C E N T E R N O R T H E A S T

northeast.stvincent.org • I S S U E # 4

H E A LT H Y T I M E S • A publication of St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast

Healthy Times 13914 Southeastern Parkway (I-69 & State Road 238)Fishers, IN(317) 415-9000

Dr. James Bicos

To better serve the Fishers community’s growing healthcare needs, St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast is expanding to become St.Vincent Fishers Hospital — a comprehensive medical center designed to provide a wide range of new amenities and services to area patients. Among them are all-in-one Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum rooms. These innovative rooms are specially designed for expecting mothers, enabling them to remain in the comfort of one room from the beginning of their labor until the day they return home with their new babies. The LDRP rooms offer many of the comforts of home for mother, baby and family members, and even includes a full-size Murphy bed for overnight stays. From ceiling to floor, the Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum rooms at St.Vincent Fishers are designed to give mothers and their families the comfort they deserve during this exciting time in their lives.

Be sure to stay up-to-date with our monthly column where we will provide updates each month about the ongoing expansion at St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast.


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each half into a 10-in. x 2-1/2-in. rectangle. 4. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully remove to wire

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3. Mix the topping ingredients and put in a small bowl.4. Remove cookies from oven and gently roll in topping mixture

to coat evenly. Cool on wire rack.

The recipe for “Cinnamon Fingers” was submitted by Current reader Sue Trent of Noblesville. “This is a favorite of everyone I have ever given them to during the holidays,” she said. “If you want to make them more festive you can use colored sugar.” If you have a holiday recipe to share with the community, please email Robert Herrington at [email protected]. Recipes can also be mailed to 30 S. Rangeline Rd., Carmel, IN 46032.

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LIVE MUSICMickey’s Irish Pub, 13644 N. Meridian St. For more information call 573-9746.

Friday – The Late ShowSaturday – Meatball Band

Mo’s Irish Pub, 13193 Levinson Lane in the Hamilton Town Center, Noblesville. For more

information, call 770-9020.Friday – The BishopsSaturday – Through Being Cool

Moon Dog Tavern, 825 E 96th St., In-dianapolis, 46240. Call 575-6364 for more information.

Friday – Cousin RogerSaturday – Tastes Like Chicken

Now to Dec. 20 – Continue a family tradition and take a hayride to the field to choose and cut your own Christmas tree during Stonycreek Farm’s Country Christmas, 11366 Ind. 38 East, Noblesville. You will also find a wide selection of freshly cut trees, fresh wreaths and garland at the greenhouse. Sip hot cider and browse through the gift shop featuring custom-made wreaths and other unique items. For more infor-mation, call 773-3344 or visit www.stonycreek-farm.net.

Now to Dec. 31 – Tempt your taste buds as you stroll through a wonderland of gingerbread creations in all shapes and sizes at Gingerbread Village at Conner Prairie, 13400 Allisonville Rd., Fishers. Guests can visit the Science Lab for some gingerbread-themed experiments. Gin-gerbread village will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 776-6006 or visit www.connerprairie.org.

Thursday to Sunday – The Carmel Repertory Theater presents “A Christmas Carol” at The Studio Theater, 3 Center Green, Carmel. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Based upon the book by Charles Dick-ens, an old miser who makes excuses for his un-caring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve. For more information, call 843-3800 or call www.thecen-terfortheperformingarts.org.

Friday to Sunday – It just wouldn’t be the holidays without a trip on the Polar Bear Ex-press. The 17th Annual Polar Bear Express is a holiday tradition for many families who enjoy story time, a train ride with refreshments, a visit with Santa and a special gift for each child. The Polar Bear Express departs from the Fishers Train Station, 11601 Municipal Dr. There are multiple departures each day and reservations are re-quired. For more information, call 773-6000 or visit www.itm.org.

Friday and Saturday – ‘Twas the night before Christmas more than 175 years ago and you and your family are in Prairietown helping prepare for the holidays. During Conner Prairie by Candlelight, guests will visit different homes in Prairietown on this family-friendly, 60-minute guided tour. Chat and joke with the Rowdies

around the bonfire and join in the dancing, sing-ing and good conversation at the Campell family holiday party. Tour start times are staggered between 5:30 to 9 p.m. Reservations are required by calling 776-6006.

Friday to Jan. 7, 2012 – Grab your golden ticket as Civic Theatre pres-ents Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” at The Tark-ington, 3 Center Green, Carmel. Performances are 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday with no shows on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Join Charlie Bucket and his quirky cohorts on a tantalizing tour of the mysterious candy-maker’s fantastical factory. For more information, call 843-3800 or visit www.civictheatre.org.

Saturday – The Winter Market at Carmel City Center will feature 20 vendors from the Carmel Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to noon. The Winter Market will be held in a storefront at 719 Hanover Place on the interior of Carmel City Center, located on the southwest corner of City Center Drive and Rangeline Road. For more information, visit www.carmelcitycenter.com.

Sunday – Come be merry with the Hamilton County Parks & Recreation as they welcome Mrs. Claus and the Jolly Old Elf himself, Santa Claus, during the Holly Jolly Jamboree from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Cool Creek Nature Center, 2000-1 151st St., Westfield. The Claus’ will be available for pictures throughout the event. From 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Jingle John of Silly Safaris will be pre-senting his Animals of the North Pole program which will include several animals that like the cold weather, including a reindeer. For more in-formation, call 774-2500 or visit www.hamilton-county.in.gov/ParkCalDetails.asp?id=9230.

Dec. 31 – Start your New Year’s resolution to get in shape with “Race to the New Year” at Cool Creek Park, 2000-1 151st St., Westfield. The Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Depart-ment is partnering with Washington Township Parks and Recreation and Westfield Parks and Recreation for this 5th Annual 5K walk and run. Awards will be given in seven age groups. Regis-tration begins at 8:15 a.m. with the race starting at 9:30 a.m. For more information, call 574-9450.

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A special Holiday Farm-ers Market held on Dec. 3 at the Hamilton County 4-H Grounds Exhibition Hall C, 2003 Pleasant St., Noblesville, wrapped up the Noblesville Farmers’ Market season as patrons purchased crafts, art and gifts.

“The event is good, we need to keep it,” said Noblesville Main Street Executive Director Joe Arrowood. “We had plenty of vendors with this to buy for Christmas. It was a good time to have it.”

Arrowood said the event included more than 50 vendors and a steady crowd of shoppers.

“It’s a nice opportunity for these people to show their products,” he said. “We had a good turnout. You might think it’s starting to slow down but then in comes another group of people.

Dana Thompson of Danawear definitely en-joyed the steady flow of customers as and Amy Ebbinghaus kept replenishing their display with handmade jewelry and accessories.

“I think we had an exceptional turnout,” said Thompson. “It was very well attended.”

Thompson, who is a board member of Nobles-ville Main Street and a vendor during the farmers’ market summer season, anticipates a 20 percent increase in her profit from last year’s event.

“A lot of people came out and did their holi-day shopping,” she said.

The farmers market is presented each year by Noblesville Main Street in partnership with the city of Noblesville and Riverview Hospital. For more information about the market, contact Noblesville Main Street at 776-0205.

“We’re always looking for diverse vendors to grow and provide a good variety,” Thompson said.

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I’ll admit, when I heard they were making a prequel to the “Planet of the Apes” series, and it was to be called “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” I LOL’d.

A cheesy, long-dormant franchise about talk-ing simians rebooted? Starring James Franco, he of the seemingly stoned Oscar-hosting gig? And a title containing two clauses? (What’s the sequel to this movie going to be called, I joked, “Return of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes”?)

Then I saw the movie, and the giggling stopped. Easily the best movie of this past sum-mer, “RotPotA” is a thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking film – goofy title and all.

Set in the near-future, the story entails a young scientist, Will (Franco), who develops

a serum to cure Alzheimer’s. He tests it on a chimpanzee, Caesar (Andy Serkis provides the voice and body-motion capture), whose intel-ligence soars.

As the ape grows smarter, he begins figuring out that taking orders from people isn’t really his bag. After being imprisoned in a facility for apes run by some cruel humans, Caesar leads a revolt against their evil overseers.

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Every business requires customer service. Even with technology today, you can’t hide from your customers. You can’t ignore them. And, today’s technology actually makes it easier than ever for your customers to find you. It makes it easier to talk to you or about you.

Working in a business where customer ser-vice is the cornerstone of what we sell, there are two secrets to providing a successful customer experience I’ve learned. Here they are in no par-ticular order:

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REMODElIng By larry greene

Original kitchen: This home was built in 1998 in the Foster Estates Subdivision on the east side of Carmel. When asked why they de-cided to remodel, they homeowners said, “We think our kitchen is the hub of the house. It needed some updating and a refreshed look and a little color added.”

Backsplash details: The homeowners said, “We didn’t like the existing backsplash.” The remodel included a new natural stone tile back-splash featuring Sandalwood Monterrey 3x6 pillowed limestone in a staggered pattern with pencil molding and desert bloom colored grout.

Cabinet molding upgrades: The homeown-ers decided to add new decorative moldings to the existing cabinets. This included new, taller crown molding on the top of all wall cabinets, which were painted to match the existing cabi-net color as close as possible. In addition, new light rail molding was installed on the bottom of the wall cabinets. Finally, the refrigerator cabinet and various other wall and base cabinets were relocated to complete the new design.

Lighting upgrades: The upgrades included electrical modifications for new appliances and

new hard-wired under-cabinet xenon lighting with dimmer switches. According to the home-owner, “Some areas in the kitchen were very dark and now the new lighting hits almost all areas of the countertops. It looks so warm and homey with all the lights on.”

Final result: The kitchen perimeter, island and desk include new 3-centimeter Amarello Boreal granite countertops with a standard edge. A new Delta Leland pull-down faucet in Vene-tian bronze was matched with new Amerock oil-rubbed bronze cabinet knobs. The home-owner commented, “I’m looking forward to the holidays this year. We’re looking forward to

having people over for dinner now. We are so glad we remod-eled. We’ve already had a lot of compliments on the upgraded kitchen.”

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gEnEalOgYBy Darla Kinney Scoles

Leave it to a child to shake things up – with genealogy.

“It’s a great thing for history,” stated 12-year-old Bridge Anne d’Avignon, of her unique fam-ily history discovery.

According to a news report from Watsonville, Calif., young d’Avignon has successfully traced every U.S. President – via male and female ancestry and with the excep-tion of one – back to the King of England from 1199-1215.

Says a Central Coast News reporter in a video clip now on YouTube, “A seventh-grader at Monte Vista Christian School, with the guidance of her 80-year-old grandfather, has researched the ancestry of all the U.S. presi-dents. She discovered that all the presidents, but one, are cousins, with a common ancestor in King John “Lackland” Plantagenet, signer of the Magna Carta. The odd president out is Martin van Buren, whose Dutch ancestry did not link into every other presidents’ English lines, although he is a cousin to a few presidents through different ancestors.

“Bridge Anne spent her summer compiling the information and collaborating on creating a chart to display it. She hopes to deliver a signed and framed version to President Obama in person.”

“They’re all cousins and all grandsons of John Lackland,” said d’Avignon, of the presidents’ lineage. The project began with a desire to trace her one ancestry back to France and blossomed from there. More than half a million names later, d’Avignon declared, “We are all related –

it’s just a matter of prov-ing it.”

d’Avignon even has a website to help the rest of us find out if we are related to a president as

well. At www.weareallrelated.com, she offers a chance to submit genealogical information and even join a club for those in the presidential family tree.

Stated d’Avignon, “Many people, especially those with ancestors from England, will find that they are related to some or all of the U.S. Presidents. My grandfather and I have a well-documented and extensive database representing decades of research into the presidents’ lineages.”

She herself, discovered d’Avignon, is an 18th-cousin to President Barack Obama.

Presidential ancestry reveals royalty?

Darla Kinney Scoles is a freelance journalist living in Noblesville. Her most recent work involves the creation of “Stories”, an individual-ized writing service helping people get their personal histories down on paper. Contact her at [email protected].

The project began with a desire to trace her one ancestry back to France and blossomed from there.


laUgHS By Mike Redmond

You can see a lot from the roof of my house. I know, because I was up there the other day.

What did I see?I saw that the gutters need cleaning. I saw a

Frisbee that I lost about 14 years ago. And I saw that falling off my house would be an exceed-ingly dumb way to die.

The occasion, of course, was the ceremony I like to call The Stringing of the Festive Holiday Christ-mas Lights, also known as Mike’s Stupid Idea.

Like most of the nonsense in my life, it all goes back to childhood.

Although both my parents were bona fide Christmas nuts, we were not a Christmas light family. Oh, they liked Christmas lights. They just liked them on other people’s houses.

We used to drive around for hours on Decem-ber evenings, oohing and aahing at Christmas lights in one neighborhood after another, debat-ing the merits of miniature lights vs. the colossal C9 bulbs, or the multi-color spectaculars vs. the all-blue extravaganzas. But we never had Christ-mas lights on our house. All we had was a big wreath with one measly string of bulbs on it.

I wanted lights all over the house – along the windows, along the gutters, on the roof. I made this request every year.

“Less is more,” our father would intone. I thought he was talking about lights, but what he really meant was the less I bugged him about

Christmas lights, the more he would like it.When I got out on my own, holiday deco-

rating was for other people too. I didn’t even put up a bough of holly. “Less is more,” I told myself. I told myself I was happier this way, that this was the way to get the past behind me. Which was a big fat lie.

So I decided that the best way for me to shake off the “Nonsense of Christmas Past” wasn’t to take it to the minimal extreme. It was to do my holiday decorating by MY rules. That meant Christmas lights. Lots of them.

And that is how I found myself on top of my house the other day. It’s two stories with an attic, but when I was up there with a string of lights between my teeth, I would have estimated the altitude at about 600 feet. And I didn’t like it. See above under “Dumb Way to Die.”

But you know what? I got the job done. And when I clambered down the ladder, back to terra firma, and plugged them in, I saw that I finally had the Christmas lights I always wanted. I saw that I had persevered, in more ways than one.

I also saw one blue bulb up near the top that needs to be replaced. And it’s going to stay that way.

Christmas lights a risky proposition

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

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Using the letters in ELLER ROAD, create as many common words of 4+ letters as you can in 20 minutes. No proper nouns or

foreign words.

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