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MUSIC IS LIFEPam Close teaches her violin students how to play,

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MUSIC IS LIFEPam Close teaches her violin students how to play,

but also more lessons about succeeding in life. By Michelle Browning

It’s 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon and Pam Close is giving a violin lesson.

The classical sounds of Mendels-sohn fi ll the Carmel woman’s living room as she sits on her leather couch

with her legs curled underneath her. But there’s no instrument in sight.

Today’s lesson is being conducted via speaker phone with a student who’s hundreds of miles away.

As 17-year-old Jake Rooney of Atlanta makes his way through crescendos and dimin-uendos, Close holds the cordless telephone, closes her eyes and slowly bobs her head.

“Make sure your E-fl at’s low enough there,” she charges. “Good, I like that.”

Rooney had only been taking private lessons with Close for a year when his family moved to Atlanta two years ago. The family searched and searched for a new violin teach-er, but couldn’t fi nd anyone who compared to Close. No one else had her dedication. No one else was able to pick up on the minute details of the music, Jake says.

So he stayed with Close, and says the weekly long-distance phone bills are worth it.

“She loves to teach, and she’s so good at what she does,” Jake says.

Close, a 52-year-old Hawaii native who has lived in Carmel for 20 years, has been playing the violin profes-sionally since her junior year of high school. In addition to giving private lessons to students from ages 6 to 18, she has per-formed with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra since its inception 23 years ago. She plays fi fth chair, fi rst violin.

Close fi rst picked up a violin at age 3 after her parents had her tested and discovered she was gifted. She says she’s not sure why they picked the violin for her.

“Knowing my mom, it was probably be-cause she’d always wanted to play.”

Her fi rst violin had to be ordered from Germany because she was so little.

In high school, Close played with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Her senior year, she left the Aloha state to attend the Interlo-chen Arts Academy in Michigan. She went on to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin performance from Indiana University.

Over the years, Close has studied with Josef Gingold and Dorothy DeLay, considered two of the top violin teachers in the world, she says. She’s recorded background music for re-ligious ceremonies and albums and says some of her work can be heard on The Weather Channel and CNN. She’s shared the stage with the likes of Bob Hope, Josh Groban, Barry

Manilow and Red Skelton, performing with their background orchestras.

She’s met them all, describ-ing Manilow as “a great guy to work with” and Groban as “just like the guy next door.” In fact — she laughs as she begins the story — the fi rst

time she worked with Groban she didn’t know who he was. He came up to her and a friend and said he was excited to play with them and was looking forward to a good show. Close says she and her friend exchanged confused looks until they saw Groban take center stage.

“There’s just no pretense about him,” Close says of the classical musician.

It’s the same way that Close’s colleagues and friends describe her.

Larry Shapiro met Close 30 years ago

at Indiana University. Sha-piro is concert master with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Carmel Symphony Orchestra. He and Close have played together for several years and have become good friends.

“She’s a fi rst-rate violinist and wonderful teacher,” he says. “She has a very intuitive sense.”

Elaine Eckhart is executive director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She says Close is dedicated, steady, dependable and “a team player in terms of advancing the orchestra.”

“She’s been on the roster at nearly every concert because she is a strings member, and we are an orchestra,” Eckhart says. “She has been very dedicated to us since our incep-tion.”

Close admits she tackles everything, from her music to her hobbies, with gusto.

She and her fi ancé are avid gardeners and have created a backyard wildlife preserve. In addition to the four dogs and rabbit that live inside, the couple shares their yard with hummingbirds, yellow fi nches and wood-peckers. Close says they like to eat under the pergola and listen to the birds as they perch above in the trees or drop in for a drink from one of the many birdfeeders. They also grow their own herbs, which Close — who once at-tended professional cooking school — likes to use in preparing seafood and vegetables.

Close also practices holistic medicine and enjoys mountain hiking.

After IU, Close says she had no intention of

going into teaching. She wanted to play. But one day a neighbor knocked on her door and asked if she’d make an exception and teach her daughter. Close says she wasn’t sure if she could, since she’d been playing so long.

“It’s like telling somebody how to eat with a fork,” she says. “What do you say?”

So she got some of the books other top violin teachers from across the world used and began to form her own lesson plans. Her teaching style is unique, as is evident with

Rooney’s long-dis-tance lessons. She doesn’t like to stand over her students’ shoulders while they play, pointing out wrong notes here and there. Instead, she wanders around.

“I just can’t sit still,” Close says. “I have such an ear for music. I can be in the kitchen getting the dog’s food and tell if they’re playing the wrong note or the wrong string.”

Close doesn’t have any children and con-siders her students family. She talks proudly of their accomplishments, about how many of them go on to become doctors or lawyers.

Her lessons don’t just focus on teaching music, but on life in general. With music, she says, there’s so much to pay attention to, from the notes to the conductor to the other players.

“It’s the same with life,” she says. “You always have to pay attention to what’s in front of you. I want to teach my students to have confi dence and be strong, independent thinkers.”

Pam CloseAge: 52Family: Fiancé Terry DickeySchool: Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin performance from Indiana University.Occupation: Professional violinist

See Pam Close perform when the In-dianapolis Chamber Orchestra kicks off its 23rd season Sept. 16 with the ICO Masterworks with Celeste Golden. For more information, visit www.icomusic.org or call 940.9607.(Cover photo by Tyler Gillaspie)

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It is our position that our community is well served by Bright House Cable’s Government Access Channel 16. If you haven’t paused to take a look as you channel-surf, you should make it a one of your favorites. And if you are not a cable subscriber, check the city’s Web site (www.ci.carmel.in.us) to see what it is all about.

You will fi nd updates on road construction and other city projects. You will fi nd interviews with local leaders, business people and just plain interesting folks on topics from fi re safety to Seward Johnson. They are not all Emmy-worthy, but they are fi ercely local and important for

you to see. City Council and other meetings are

televised, and the live drama of our legislative process is regularly on deck. While not every moment is exciting, and not every player is

ready for primetime, we do get a chance to see at work those who we

have entrusted to lead our community. Columnist Jeff Worrell and his co-host Stephanie Lewis bring “Connecting with Carmel” to life each month. This must-see show runs regularly,

delivering community news and in-depth looks at our assets like

the Library, Monon Center and Arts & Design District.

Our position is that spammers need to get a life. NOW! The rate of incoming junk e-mail nationally took a precipitous rise of more than 30 percent last week, and thus far there is no solution. “We’re working on it,” we’re told.

The spammers actually believe that we’re moronic enough to open electronic greeting cards and Adobe PDF fi les that are streaming into our inboxes. All this junk contains nothing, absolutely nothing, worth reading – unless you’re into various body-part enhancing creams, pills and lotions, or buying medicine from north of the border or closing on that “low, low interest” refi nancing option.

Much of it comes from overseas. We don’t

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a portion of $43,489,731 (USD) by helping some fl eecing idiot in Africa claim (and share) his or her “wealth” from a bank somewhere.

All this junk is a drain on time, which, in turn, becomes a drain on productivity everywhere.

Had we our way – and the time and money – we’d track down

these creeps and give them fi ve, rock-solid reasons to not ever again send us their crap. But we don’t, so we turn to the delete key.

Somehow, that’s less than satisfying.

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FROM THE BACKSHOPAN UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT

Steve Greenberg & Brian Kelly

FROM THE LEFTMALE BONDING: TRY IT

We think the notion of hanging portraits of former mayors in City Hall is fine — as long as it’s not done at the taxpayers’ expense.

Now that Mayor Jim Brainard has an-nounced a $20,000 commissioning of painted likenesses of his four predecessors, the fire-storm is under way. Let us add to it.

We like the mayor and what he has done for this city. We endorsed his candidacy in the May primary election.

What we don’t like — and what we can’t and won’t endorse — is his planned damn-the-torpedoes expenditure of $20-large, which goes to a Main Street artist who got the gig without a single bid being submitted. Whether the portraits will, indeed, be public art is left to conjecture. We know this, though: The mayor has taken taxpayer dollars without discussion, debate or approval (none of which he is required to have, since they come from his fund) and has launched a project he says will help preserve our city’s history.

We really do wonder, as have one letter-writer and more than a handful of callers, why the mayor chose not to run this past his Arts Advisory Committee, which includes the editor of this paper and City Council Member Rick Sharp, and instead forge ahead without input. Committee members were blindsided by the announcement. Some folks term his decision to do so cavalier.

We seriously would have preferred a not-for-profit to act as a clearinghouse for the project, one that would have gathered dona-tions from Carmel citizens and businesses (it worked for the Governor’s Residence). Your

Backshoppers would have advertised the cause for free. It’s what we often do, because we’re this community’s hometown newspaper and an active corporate citizen.

Brainard has shown himself to be a lone wolf in this effort, and that’s not a very flatter-ing portrait. To some, it’s frightening.

We’re for checks and balances on the expenditure of every cent of taxpayer money. In this case, in our view, the mayor was wrong. Anyone disagree?

* * *Fare thee well, Brandon Bowman, the

best intern we’ve ever had here at Carmel’s Best Weekly Newspaper™. (Wait, he’s the only one we’ve had! Whatever.) B-Squared is heading back to journalism school at Ball State University, but in his place will be Josh Mazur, whose work we believe you’ll like as much as B-Squared’s. Josh (no nickname yet) comes to us from Butler, and he’s eager to get after it. B-Squared will continue to report for us as he continues his education. We’ll miss his constant presence, though.

ILLNESSES ARE REAL

Editor:I am writing in regard to Bob

Walters’ column entitled “Drugs or Scripture?”According to Mr. Walters, “a heart full of Christ is a better way to cure emotional pain than a bottle of pills.”

No doubt we could all use a heart full of Christ. And I’m sure many people turn to pills rather than face the issues in their lives. But conditions such as Clinical Depression, Bipolar Disorder and ADHD are legitimate biochemical disorders which require medical treatment. To imply that those who suffer these diseases should merely read more Scripture is irresponsible, akin to bringing a child with appendicitis to a faith healer rather than a surgeon. Sadly many Americans, like

Mr. Walters, could use more education in the causes of mental illness.

John Kamerud46032

BURNS STRIKES A CHORD

Editor:I wanted to drop you a note and let you

know how much I enjoy reading Kent Burns’ column in Current in Carmel. I’ve done a great deal of leadership training in the past and currently teach management classes at the graduate level. Kent’s comments are nice refreshers on many things I’ve taught to others and are good reminders for me!

Cathy Langlois Entrepreneurship Education

Hamilton County Alliance 46290

In today’s business climate, human bonding is often considered to be an oxymoron. Long-term dedicated relationships

are often neither valued nor con-sidered. Divorce is rampant. Many of us are modern-day nomads. We move from country to country and from state to state following the elusive promotion. Sometimes I wonder if we aren’t chasing hap-piness when, in fact, happiness is actually chasing us. If we’d only slow down and enjoy the day, it might be able to catch up.

We invest less in bowling night. And in cooking class. Today we play video games. Alone. We surf the web. Alone. We withdraw. We focus on sustaining ourselves, and not relationships.

But, bonding is not dead yet. We were with friends last night who, now past their 40th anniversary, are look-ing forward to the next milestone. One is fighting a continued battle with cancer and the other is un-able to imagine a life without her.

Male bonding lives as well. I’m not refer-ring to the sophomoric he-man, woman-hating clubs that used to exist in corporate boardrooms, but instead about opportuni-ties to develop human relationships that make you a better person, better husband, better father and arguably a better man.

As I write this, I find myself steeped in testos-terone at Mickey’s Camp. Best described as a camp for wayward middle-aged guys who escaped from their busy careers for a few days to the wilds of a Ruth Lilly YMCA Camp to learn about — among other things — how to appreciate and taste wine, about how to invest in art, and about how to be a better fan of the game of football.

Local entrepreneur and philanthropist Mickey Maurer created this camp just under a decade ago in order to raise money for local

charities — many tens of thou-sands have been given away — and to provide men an opportunity to reconnect. It was a brilliant idea, and one that has been extraor-dinarily well received. This year, as in all years before, the camp is oversold. So, what really happens here? Well, that’s a deeply guarded secret. But I will say that it is good to be in the company of men. Please understand that I appreci-ate and enjoy mixed company, with the best of them. But there are times, albeit rarely, where it is

good to pause and talk only to my brethren.

And we’re not alone. Some weeks ago, my better

half, in anticipation of the impending nuptials of a good friend, joined a group of girlfriends and went to a spa for the day. It seems that this word “spa” may in

fact be code for female bonding. They took time off, lined up care for the kids (and for their hus-bands) and just relaxed. No men. No kids. It was just the sisterhood. I have no idea what they

did or talked about or disclosed. And I really don’t want to know. It was and is one of the glorious things about human interaction. It

can be wonderful and special in all of its combinations and permutations. Oc-casionally, my young sons

love time with Grand-ma. Occasionally, they eagerly seek the

company of their peers. Granted, Grandma can’t (or won’t) play the gross-out game.

But I bet they can’t get the comfort and

support needed from their peers either.

Do we worry too much about how specific gender bonding excludes and not

think enough about how it sim-ply celebrates that which is unique to our own side of the aisle? I can’t think too much about it now; it is time for my pistol shooting lesson.

Terry Anker is a Carmel resident and business-man. He is a member of Current In Carmel’s Editorial Advisory Board. E-mail him at [email protected].

We’ve all heard the horror stories: a new dad fi nds his wife

on the tile fl oor of her bathroom, covered in perspiration and sob-bing because she hasn’t moved her bowels since before the baby arrived 10 days ago, and she’s ter-rifi ed to try.

Her frightened husband has to make an emergency run to the drugstore for an enema and some menthol cigarettes, and fi fteen minutes later, the toilet is taxed.

The more children I have and the more children my sisters and friends have, the only fear we seem unable conquer is the initial, post-partum movement. Labor pains? No sweat! Making a mess during delivery? Everybody does it! The fi rst “deposit?” Oh, sweet mercy, why did I ever want children? Doing the big job following two hours of pushing and level three episiotomies scares the bejeesus out of all of us and for good reason: we just passed a watermelon out of us and now we have to push out a two-ton brick? No thanks.

Yet our doctors and nurses encourage us to try and “go” within our 48-hour hospital stay, because they know that once we’re on our own at home, in the quiet and cold confi nes of our tile-lined bathrooms, we won’t do it. We’d rather hold it for a week and slowly die a pain-ful death due to fecal poisoning than attempt a post-partum evacuation.

But here’s what I’ve learned over the past eight years of giving birth to four children and being an aunt to nine and a pretend aunt to more than 10: There are measures you can take while you are still in the hospital to make

this rite of passage go smoothly and with as little discomfort to you as possible.

1. As soon as your precious an-gel arrives, start pounding the caf-feine. You need to stimulate your metabolism to get things moving down there, and you’re unlikely to affect nursing because your milk won’t come in for a few days.

2. In between caffeine boosts, drink apple juice, prune juice, apple-prune juice, prune-apple juice and any other juice that helps fi ght constipation. I sent my husband on hourly trips to the

ward’s snack area with orders to fi ll my large thermos with a juice cocktail of his making, so long as it included at least 50 percent prune.

3. Take the stool softeners your nurse brings you, and when they run out get more! Believe me, this is not the time to feel embar-rassed about an addiction to Colace.

4. Attempt your fi rst movement in the hospital, so that if you do freak out, you can pull the safety string and have a nurse come talk you down. Your husband will be of no help here, ladies, but a post-par-tum nurse can become the cheerleader/coach of your dreams if you need her.

5. Let your mantra be, “Relief is good, holding is bad.” I know it feels like you are doing serious damage to yourself, but you really can’t pop stitches or re-tear your

episiotomy. Honestly, you can’t!Not every aspect of giving birth is pretty,

as we all know, but hopefully this advice will make this stinky phase of postpartum recover-ing a little more tolerable. Good luck! Peace out.

(Dedicated to my sister-in-law Lynsay, who had her fi rst baby last week.)

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

Just my luck, the water pump on my car bit the dust yes-terday. Estimates range from 300 bucks all the way up to a grand. I get grumpy as the

unexpected car repair hits me when I least expect it. I grumble under my breath as I ask, “Where do I sign?” having just pretended to

read the paragraph that authorizes someone to tear my car apart.

A couple of days later, I will pick up my, good as new until something else goes wrong, and pay the fi nal bill. But what do I do if I don’t have the money to cover the bill?

Deanna Poe, along with Bob Waeiss at Integrity Automotive

at 40 S. Range Line Road, doesn’t have to help me pay my bill this time, but they are going to help a special group of women that fi nd them-selves in this common car repair situation.

On Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m., they will host a fundraising event to benefi t an organi-zation called Fresh Start of Indiana. Fresh Start does just what the name implies. They help primarily women and their children who fi nd themselves in a chronic domestic battery situa-tion leave the bad environment and start over independently. Transportation is usually a key factor for women who have to fi nd and keep a job in order to live on their own. If they do not have reliable transportation, or fi nd themselves in the water-pump-just-went-kaput category, Fresh Start is there to help.

Once again the Carmel merchant com-munity has stepped up and donated enough items to fi ll the back end of a hatchback to be dispersed via a silent auction. One very gener-ous merchant even donated the whole car, which will be used by Fresh Start as a loaner when the inevitable breakdown occurs. The

rest of the money raised on Saturday will go toward a transportation fund that Fresh Start of Indiana will use throughout the year.

Deanna has planned games for the kids, entertainment via Tim Wright of the famous Wright Brothers band, a dunk tank for the sure-handed pitchers in the crowd and of course….clowns and face painting. Represen-tatives from Fresh Start of Indiana also will be on hand to answer questions.

For more information, go to www.fresh-startofi ndiana.org or Integrityautomotive.net. If you have some time and want to help domestic violence survivors, this is an easy way to make a difference. Thanks to the gang at Integrity Automotive for volunteering and thinking outside the box. And, should you have the desire to see my shiny new water pump, I would welcome help locating it.

Jeff Worrell is a local business owner. He rec-ognizes volunteers on “Connecting with Carmel” on Cable Channel 16. Contact him at [email protected].

DISPATCHESKIDS DART. DRIVE SMART: Motor-ists are being reminded “Kids Dart. Drive Smart,” thanks to a part-nership between Riley Hospital for Children, Riley Hospital for Children at Clarian North Medical Center and various area neighborhoods, schools and com-munity organizations. Signs feature children running and playing as a reminder to slow down and watch for children. Signs are available at the Welcome Desk in the Grand Atrium of Clarian North Medical Center, 11700 N. Meridian St.

KIWANIS GARAGE SALE: The fourth annual Carmel-Clay Kiwanis garage sale will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

on Saturday at Range Lane Road and 116th Street on the east side of the Harris Bank parking lot. Proceeds will go

toward Riley Hospital for Children and Hamilton County children’s charities. For information, call Christy Troxell at 345.3459.

SPARK BUTTON PRIZES: The CarmelFest Spark Button Com-mittee will hold a drawing for all unclaimed Spark Button prizes between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Fri-day at the Carmel Redevelopment Offi ce in the Arts & Design District, 111 W. Main St., Suite 140. Anyone holding a Spark Button, no mat-ter if you previously won a prize, is eligible. You must show your button and then you will be given the opportunity to randomly pull a prize from those that remain. One prize draw-ing per button. You must physically come to the offi ce on this date only to participate.

CLUBS WELCOME SPEAKERS: Sally Bindley will discuss her School on Wheels and tutoring homeless children at the Camel Clay Kiwanis Club meeting at 7 a.m. Monday at 515 E. Main St. For information, call Don Moehn at 873.1956.Dr. Ron Kovacs, Group Study Ex-change Team Leader to Bangladesh, will be talking about his experi-ences in Bangladesh at noon on Friday at the Carmel Rotary meet-ing at the Oak Hill Mansion at 116th Street and Hazel Dell Parkway.


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This is a view of the north side of the intersection of Range Line Road and Main Street, around 1946 or ’47. Brown’s drugstore on the left is now Grosser & Co. Master Jewelers. National City Bank has taken the place of the Crystal Flash on the right. (Photo courtesy of Carmel Clay Historical Society)

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SERVICE WILL REMEMBER LOST PETSThe Pet Angel Memorial Center of Carmel

and the Humane Society of Indianapolis will host a memorial service for loved and lost pets at 6 p.m. Sept. 13 at the society, 7929 Michigan Road, Indianapolis.

The memorial service is free and open to the public. Those attending will have the op-portunity to light a candle in memory of their loyal companions.

The memorial service is for anyone that has lost a pet. It is not necessary that the pet had been adopted from HSI and it does not make

any difference how long it has been since the animal passed away.

Participants can have their pet’s photo, along with a quote or message, set to music on a DVD that will be played at the service. Digital photos, the pet’s name, and any quote or message must be sent to [email protected] by Sept. 10 to insure placement on the DVD.

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Albert Pickett, Car-mel’s fi rst mayor, still lives with his wife, Phyllis, in the Carmel home

where he was born in February, 1918. He’s “one of the oldest original Carmel residents still liv-ing here,” and he’s proud to have played a huge role in Carmel’s history and development.

Al and Phyllis lost their son, William Joel Pickett, to pancreatic cancer in 2006. Their daughter, Diane Smith, lives in Cicero. The Picketts have three grandchildren. Al was tickled to tell me his 22-year-old grand-son “is in the grocery business like you and your dad were, but at Trader Joe’s!”

After a lengthy career in the aerospace industry (as a quality engineer), which took him to the West Coast and included stints with Aero Jet General, Lockheed, Hughes, FMC Ordnance Aero and Honeywell Aerospace, Al and family returned to Carmel for good in 1962.

When, in the mid 1970s, Car-mel voters voted overwhelmingly to change from a town council to having a mayor, Al joined fi ve other Repub-licans in the city’s fi rst primary. He remembers logging 33 percent of the total vote, winning the nomination easily; but he cannot remem-ber what percentage the runner-up earned. He does remember crushing his opponent in the general election by an 85-15 percent margin!

He campaigned “with yard signs and by knocking on doors.” No TV. No debates. No appear-ances at Rotary or Lions clubs.

Before that fi rst campaign, the town was governed by a fi ve-member town board. They had no written procedures. Issues were decided on by “majority rule.” Al helped Carmel garner a state grant that led to the city’s fi rst written procedures. These included the fi rst job descriptions and pay scales for city employees.

When asked about the major accomplishments of his one term,

Al boiled it down to the procedures above and “upgrading and maintaining the infra-structure” (roads and water). He added that during those four years, Carmel’s population

increased from around 7,000 to about 20,000.

He remembers the new city council of seven members was always split. “The same three always voted with me. The same three always voted against me. Dave Coots was the swing vote.” Still, he remem-bers getting his programs passed about 90 percent of the time.

Al lost in his second primary to Jane Reiman.

His role in Carmel’s develop-ment was certainly valuable and should

be appreciated.

Danny O’Malia is a Carmel resident. Contact him at [email protected].

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trouble. I know it is frustrating to determine the

truth once a child has lied. A lot of blame, shame and embarrass-ing tongue lashings go on. I also know that I’ve — unintentionally — taught my children to lie.

Before caller I.D. when they would answer the phone and I didn’t want to speak to the person on the other end, I would say, “Tell them I’m not here.” That was a lie.

Sometimes we trap a child into lying by asking, for example,

“Who ate the last piece of chocolate cake?” when we see the crumbs all over his or her face.

A lie can never be ignored. There are consequences to lying, and the consequences need to be connected to the lie. For example:

Child: “I never took his pencil!” Parent: “I find it hard to believe that you

would do that. We don’t take things that don’t belong to us. That’s stealing. Return the pencil now or come with me to see how thieves are treated in jail.”

Or, rather than throwing out accusatory remarks such as, “You’re a liar,” try saying, “I don’t believe you. How are you going to show me that you’re telling me the truth?”

Children must learn to come to us with whatever they need because, we hope, they TRUST us to listen without verbally or mentally labeling them as liars. If we’re trying to get them NOT TO LIE, we have to give our children reasons to tell the truth. A lie should never be rewarded by confessing the truth.

The reward for telling the truth is learning “integrity.”

Quick Tips on how to teach truthfulness:• Be honest.• Know that lying is the symptom, not the

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Ask YiaYia (grandmother in Greek), aka Becky Kapsalis, is a mom, grandmother and certified parent coach. She can be reached by phone at 810.9358 or e-mail at [email protected].

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DISPATCHESACT SCORES EXCEED AVERAGE: Carmel High School composite scores on the ACT, one of the two major college admissions tests, again exceeded Indiana averages, according to figures released last week. Carmel students earned a composite score of 24.8, while the state average was 22. Twenty-sev-en percent of Carmel students, 258 members of last year’s senior class, completed the exam last spring, compared to 19.4 percent the year before.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The Carmel Library will host a Volun-

teer Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sept. 8 in the Program Room. Teens needing to fulfill com-munity service requirements or just looking for something new can check

out local organizations offering volunteer opportunities, includ-ing Carmel CAN!, Humane Society, Harbor Light, Horizon House, Meals on Wheels, Museum of Minia-ture Houses, Indiana PAW, Inc., and PrimeLife Enrichment. Call 844.3362 with questions.

GOING TO INTERLOCHEN: Rachel Goldberg, 14, of Carmel has been selected to attend Interlochen Arts Academy, a prestigious fine arts boarding school in northern Michi-gan. Rachel, daughter of Stephen Goldberg, plans to study voice. In November of 2006, Interlochen was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest honor in the arts. It is one of only a hand-ful of arts organizations ever to receive such recognition.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC CLASSES: Brenda Iacocca’s Preschool Mu-sic Plus Music Together Fall class schedule is now available online at www.PreschoolMusicPlus.com. Music Together classes are geared for infants to kindergarteners and their parents or caregivers. FREE demonstration classes will be held at Carmel Lutheran Church 4859 E.

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How many Gods are there?

The correct answer is “One,” of course, but

there sure is a lot of lively – and also deadly – discussion and dis-agreement throughout history and today about the number of God. The number is one.

The Holy Trinity of the Chris-tian faith is one God. God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three manifesta-tions, three persons, of the same one single God. That’s Christian doctrine and expresses Holy Communion … and by the way, includes us.

It is easy to understand how this three-in-one, one-in-three nature of God is difficult to understand for one of God’s children who is outside the Christian faith. The math doesn’t work: three equals one. The grammar doesn’t work: the Trinity is? The Trinity are?

I guess most of Western culture, while debating specifics, accepts that God exists. I would point out that the multiple pagan gods of antiquity (Thor, Zeus, Apollo) have not withstood the test of time that the God of the Bible has withstood.

I realize it’s kind of a conundrum to even

say that “God” our eternal Father has withstood a “test of time.” After all, He is eternal (outside of time) and is very different from us. Isaiah 55:8-9 tells us His thoughts and ways are higher than our ways, and 2 Peter 3:8 tells us God’s time is different from ours (a day is like a thousand years and vice versa).

So it’s a mistake to put God into earthly constraints of time, math or grammar, and probably oxymoronic to argue about “One True God.” How can there be more than one? (Think about

that.) And it’s nonsensical to say “my God” or “your God” as if they are different. God is the one who put all of us here. Whatever name you call God, only One God can be the Creator God Almighty.

I’ll go ahead and worship the one God who created me and loves me, and not some random god I created because I love myself. Those gods are called idols; there are lots of them, and they never created anything.

Bob Walters ([email protected]) admittedly is non-patronizing toward atheists but believes that if there is no God nothing matters; and if there is a God, nothing else matters. His views do not represent those of this newspaper or its staff.


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Bob WaltersSpirituality

HOW MANY GODS ARE THERE?

Family Members: Matt Nelsen, 37; Jennifer, 38; Anna , 7; and Kayla, 5Residence: Hayden Run Meadows Why we worship at Pilgrim Lutheran Church: I was raised Lutheran and am a second generation Pilgrim Lutheran member. I was baptized and confirmed at Pilgrim, and my husband and I were married there. Pilgrim has always been an important part of our lives. We value the importance of Christian education at Pilgrim. We appreciate that there are many opportunities for all age groups to strengthen their faith. In particular, our daughters enjoy Vacation Bible

School, Sunday School and Kids In Christ on Wednesday evenings. They love being with their friends and learning about God. They both attended Pilgrim’s Preschool, as well. We feel at home with the friendly congregation at Pilgrim. We are so fortunate to be part of a wonderful church family.

Pilgrim Lutheran ChurchLocation: 10202 N. Meridian St., IndianapolisPhone: 846.2221Web site: www.pilgrimindy.orgPastor: Alan Goertemiller

WHERE WE WORSHIP (and why)Meet the Nelsens

DISPATCHESCHECK OUT SELF-HELP CLASSES: The Church at the Crossing, 9111 Haverstick Road in Indianapolis, welcomes the public at the following Wednesday night self-help and self-improve-ment classes. Classes include Parenting 101, Lose it for Life, Biblical Financial Study (Crown Ministry), Women’s Bible Study and Divorce Care. All of the classes are located at the church and are free of charge except for materials. Additional information about any class can be found at www.churchatthecrossing.org or by calling 844.9355.

C.H.O.W. DOWN AT CHURCH: King of Glory Lutheran Church located at 2201 E. 106th St. in Carmel, will

begin gather-ing for C.H.O.W. (Church Happen-ings on Wednes-days) on Sept. 5. C.H.O.W. is its midweek program, which includes a fellow-

ship dinner between 5:30 and 6:30 pm, children’s activities and Bible studies for adults. Music programs for children ages 3 through 5th grade and sports (outside as weath-er permits), games, crafts/mission projects (materials provided), and tutoring/homework time will be offered. For more information, go to www.kogcarmel.com or call 846.1555.

GRANTS FOR FAITH-BASED GROUPS: Information sessions are planned for faith-based groups in-terested in apply-ing for an Ameri-Corps State Grant through the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initia-tives. OFBCI was formed to insure that the faith-based institutions of Indiana were provided equal access to state and federal resources and services. It is mandatory to attend a Technical Assistance Session in order to apply for funding. The Indianapolis session will be from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 31, at the Indiana Government Center South, Conference Room 19, 302 W. Washington St., Indianapolis. For more information, go to http://www.in.gov/ofbci/2362.htm.

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DATEBOOKToday• Plan Commission Special Studies Commit-

tee, special meeting, 5:45 p.m.• Plan Commission Subdivision Committee,

special meeting, 5:45 p.m.• Carmel Redevelopment Commission,

executive meeting, 6 p.m.; regular meet-ing 7 p.m.

• Plan Commission Public Hearing, 6 p.m., Council Chambers, Carmel City Hall

Wednesday• Carmel Street Tree Committee, Depart-

ment of Community Services, 5:15 p.m.

Next Tuesday•Board of Zoning Appeals Hearing Offi cer

meeting just prior to BZA meeting (about 5:15 p.m.)

• Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, 6 p.m.

CARMEL ROAD CONSTRUCTIONHere are some of the road projects going

on in Carmel. For full details, visit the city’s Web site at http://ci.carmel.in.us/services/roadconstruction.htm.

116th Street and Clay Center Road Roundabout:The 116th Street and Clay Center Road intersec-

tion will be reconstructed as a roundabout. This project is in the design stage and is anticipated to begin construction in late summer of 2007. Please anticipate further updates as construction dates become available.

136th Street, (Ditch Road to Spring Mill Road):136th Street in Carmel was scheduled to be

closed Monday from approximately 50 feet west of Six Points Road to 300 feet east of Ditch Road. This portion of the project will remain closed to through traffi c until mid November when it will re-open to traffi c from Six Points Road to Ditch Road. Asphalt paving and concrete curb is near completion and continues under traffi c between Spring Mill Road and Six Points Road. Access remains for local traffi c only with no through traffi c allowed. The detour route for through traffi c remains in effect.

Traffi c will still be able to go north and south through the intersection of Spring Mill Road and 136th Street.

136th Street (Spring Mill Road to Oak Ridge Road):The road closure is in place and construction

progresses from Oak Ridge Road to the east side of

Spring Mill. The closure is for through traffi c and access to destinations within the closure is being maintained. The road project is to be completed in November. The infrastructure continues and the sub-grade has been prepped and the paving operations and concrete curbing have begun and is ongoing.

136th Street and Oakridge Road Roundabout:

The intersection of 136th Street and Oak Ridge was opened to traffi c on Aug. 2; however, the in-tersection is only open to traffi c to the north and east of the intersec-tion due to ongoing construction of Illinois Street to the south and 136th Street to the west.

The new detour route for 136th Street will be Oak Ridge Road replacing Rohrer Road as the North/South corridor. The bridge just east of Spring Mill remains unpassable so through traffi c cannot be allowed.

Old Meridian Street, Penn-sylvania Street to Guilford Road:

Construc-tion continues under traffi c on the

project. Two-way traffi c (north and south) remains open to traffi c at this time. The east half of the Grande Boulevard Roundabout, located within the limits of this project, is now open to traffi c. Traffi c was switched to the east side of Old Meridian north and south of the roundabout and two-way traffi c will be maintained between Carmel Drive and Main Street during the construction of the west half of the Grande Boulevard Roundabout. Ongoing work may require lane restrictions on Carmel Drive at the Old Meridian intersection, so please anticipate this

to happen.

Shelborne Road/ 116th Street Roundabout/ Realignment

Project:This intersection is now open to through

traffi c. Land-scaping and

other minor incidental items may

cause future lane restrictions,

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136th Street and Oakridge Road 136th Street and Oakridge Road

The intersection of 136th Street and Oak Ridge was opened to traffi c on Aug. 2; however, the in-tersection is only open to traffi c to the north and east of the intersec-tion due to ongoing construction of Illinois Street to the south and 136th Street to the west.

The new detour route for 136th Street will be Oak Ridge Road replacing Rohrer Road as the North/South corridor. The bridge just east of Spring Mill remains unpassable so through traffi c cannot be allowed.

Old Meridian Street, Penn-Old Meridian Street, Penn-

Street during the construction of the west half of the Grande Boulevard Roundabout. Ongoing work may require lane restrictions on Carmel Drive at the Old Meridian intersection, so please anticipate this

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DISPATCHESKNOW SOMEONE NOTEWORTHY? Nominations are being accepted for the Dick Lugar Health and Fitness Awards in conjunction with the 29th Annual Dick Lugar Community

Run, Walk at Butler Univer-sity on Satur-day, Sept. 15. The awards are presented to Indiana profes-sionals or volun-teers who have made signifi cant contributions to their commu-

nity in health or fi tness awareness and education. For questions, contact Mark Doud at 226.5555. A nomination form is available at Sen. Lugar’s Web site, http://lugar.senate.gov/health.cfm.

NEXT TAX MEETING: Indiana’s Commission on State Tax and Financing Policy will examine the feasibility of elimi-nating property taxes at its fourth meeting of the summer, scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday in Room 404 of the Statehouse in Indianapolis. Sen. Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, who chairs the commission, said the next meeting will include presen-tations on proposals to reduce or repeal property taxes, how much replacement revenue would be needed, and experiences of other states efforts to signifi cantly reduce property taxes. Kenley rep-resents Hamilton, Grant, Madison and Tipton counties.

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RD DISPATCHESREAL ESTATE RECOVERY: Accord-ing to Forbes.com, these are the real-estate markets with the best prospects for recovery, expected date of the market bottoming out, and their estimated price apprecia-tion after the bottom:1) Tampa, Fla., Q1 2008

10.6 percent.2) Phoenix, Ariz., Q4 2008

7.7 percent3) Las Vegas, Nev., Q2 2009

7.2 percent4) San Diego, Calif., Q2 2008

5.3 percent5) New Orleans, La., Q3 2007

4.3 percent— forbes.com

FALL FAIRE: The fifth annual AutumnFaire, sponsored by First Merchants Bank, will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Mansion at Oak Hill. More than 60 door prizes will be given away. Attend-ees showing their Colts pride by wearing blue and white will be entered in a special door prize for the evening. Admission is $10 per person, $5 for any employee of a Carmel Chamber business. For more information, call 846.1049.

RELIABLE DIVIDENDS: Looking for the most reliable dividend payers? Investment Quality Trends favors companies that have a strong Standard & Poor’s earnings-and-dividend-quality ranking, and those that have consistently paid and increased dividends. I.Q. Trends’ system says it’s time to buy the fol-lowing stocks:PepsiCo. The company has a dominant posi-tion in salty snacks with popular product lines such as Frito-Lay and a “formidable presence” in beverag-es, which should continue to help it grow nicely abroad. The stock has a dividend yield of 2.3 percent.Johnson & Johnson. The pharma-ceutical and medi-cal-device company should benefit from a ro-bust pipeline of new drugs and cost cutting. The stock has a dividend yield of 2.8 percent.

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NETWORKING BREAKFAST: Join the Carmel Chamber of Commerce from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday at Mitchell’s Fish Market, Clay Ter-race. Cost is $10 for members and $20 for guests. Reservations are required. To reserve your spot, e-mail the chamber at [email protected] or call 846.1049.


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HOPE IS NOT THE BEST Marketing STRATEGY

My daughter is just over 1 year old. She is at the age where she rants exces-sively, and no one knows what she is saying. When

someone talks, she talks louder. Sometimes she will flat out yell and not say one distin-guishable word or phrase.

Does that remind you of advertising you’ve seen (or someone you met at a party)? You’re not sure what they are saying, yet they get louder and louder as they interrupt you.

And did you ever notice that humans have a talent for not hearing things that don’t interest them? “I’m sorry, what were you saying?” “Sorry, I didn’t even notice.” Sound familiar? Some-times we don’t even pay attention to those

we love, so why would we listen to advertising messages that don’t interest us? The answer is simple; we don’t.

Digital video recorders (DVR), satellite radio, and generally short attention spans all contribute to the great “tune out.” It’s being called a “pull” world where people pull

information they want versus a historically “push” world where we are fed information. No matter what it’s called, the reality is that people tune out almost anything that isn’t relevant to them. And the same rules apply online.

When was the last time you clicked a banner ad on a Web site? When was the last time you remembered what a banner ad said? Industry statistics show that most banner ads realize a click-through rate (someone clicks on the ad) of less than one-half of one percent. It doesn’t matter who or what the ad is for or how cool it looks — people just don’t want to be interrupted from what they are doing — and they probably don’t trust what might happen.

Although most advertisers understand that visitors don’t want to click the banner ad, some companies still use this type of advertis-ing to build awareness for their company or brand. They still buy “impressions” on Web sites with a lot of visitors hoping to get the

most brand awareness for the money spent. Even so, this is clearly “hope advertising.” Put out a message and hope someone is look-ing at it or cares. Not a very effective strategy considering all of the promise the online world offers to a company looking to connect directly with buyers.

David Cain is president of MediaSauce, a digital marketing company in Carmel. David welcomes your comments at [email protected].

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We tell ourselves it isn’t a big deal if we fl irt with a co-worker.

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Harmless fl irtation turns into more, and we lose our job.

We discover that our child is experimenting with drugs, alcohol and sex.

We get caught in a lie and lose the trust of someone important to us.

A parent dies, and there is no longer a chance to bring closure to a painful past.

Sometimes I’ll hear that thud on my window and mutter under

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Dp you have your head up, looking around? Stop and do an assessment. You don’t want to be like the birds fl ying into the win-dow of my offi ce. You’re better than that.

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• Type: Cottage Style• Age: Built in 1993• Location: Near Keystone and 99th Street• Neighborhood: Brooks Bend • Square footage: 1,590• Rooms: This 3-bedroom 2.5-bath home

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“I shop at Girly Chic Boutique down in Broad Ripple. The clothes are different and you can’t fi nd clothes like those anywhere else.”

Laura LinnemeierCarmel

“I shop at Rise because they have a lot of skate-boards and stuff like that.”

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State Farm InsuranceJohn Wollenburg Agency4950 Greyhound Court, Carmel

Phone: 569.9200Hours: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, after hours by appointment

John Wollenburg’s fi rst couple of months at his new agency have been fast-paced and exciting. “We’re learning lessons every day we’re open,” Wollenburg said. He worked for State Farm Insurance before opening his own agency in Carmel.

The agency offers traditional insurance as well as commercial insurance and other options. “Right now we have our foot on the gas and are doing all we can to reach out to the community,” Wollenburg said. Networking has become a top priority. Wollenburg is aiming to get people in the door through referrals. “We have a great staff on hand. The team we have here are top-notch,” Wollenburg said.

Wollenburg has two agents on staff with another one coming at the end of August. Located near 146th Street, Wollenburg says his location is perfect for connecting with the community and getting the agency’s name recognition.

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S We all have our favorite thirst quencher.

After a hot day of hard

work, what beverage do you reach for to replete your thirsty body? Does an icy beer, diet soda, full sugar cola or a

vodka tonic satisfy your thirst? What do you mean? Do you hate water? With-out water, one would die in three days.

Americans guzzle 56 gallons of soft drinks each year, but before chugging that next can of soda, sip on this: one can of soda has about 13

teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine (a diuretic), artifi cial food colors and sulphites.

Water lost its role in maintaining overall health in a tsunami of deceitful advertising telling us what’s best to drink. You’re smarter than that! Speak out if you are against soft drink consumption.

Alcohol dehydrates us, much like caffeine. Gatorade is full of sugars, cola s are full of high fructose corn syrup, and diet soft drinks are full of food colorings, neurotoxins and phos-phoric acid. The idea of having a dehydrating beer after mowing the lawn may be macho, but it will render you even more dehydrated and set you up for a pounding headache.

Water is essential for your body to digest and absorb vitamins and nutrients. The Fountain of Youth also detoxifi es the liver and kidneys, and carries away waste from the body. But that only happens when you drink water only. That’s why Sandi and I drink a large glass of fi ltered water fi rst thing in the morning following an eight-hour fast. No one is perfect, so do the best you can. That fi rst urine will be

very yellow and very odiferous. If your urine smells strong all the time, it is likely that you are one of the 75 percent of Americans who live in a state of constant dehydration: toxic.

During the night while you are snoozing, your amazing Earth suit was busy cleaning house. My suggestion is to drink a large glass of fi ltered water the fi rst thing in the morning. We are composed of 70-80 percent water and we need to be re-freshed after an eight-hour fast.

The ocean is undoubtedly the most beautiful and largely

unexplored eco-system on our blue planet, yet it’s becoming a corporate dumping ground. Without the water, life on Earth would be non-existent: it is essential for everything on our planet to fl ourish and prosper.

Dehydrating renders the brain less active, it’s hard to concentrate, your body feels fatigued, your work quality dips, and you’re always “pooped.”

Have a glass of cool, crisp water, and remember to recycle the containers.

Wendell Fowler is a retired chef, as well as an inspirational and motivational speaker. Contact him at [email protected] or go to www.wendell-fowler.com

Wendell Fowler

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WORK THOSE CALVES: Strong calves can defeat a frequent run-ner or walker’s worst enemy: shin splints. If you do only one calf ex-ercise, make it the toe raise. Stand on a step with your feet slightly apart, drop your heels down below it, then push straight up onto your tip-toes. Slowly lower your heels and repeat. Squeeze your calves at the top of the exercise to get the most benefi t. Do 3 sets of 8, adding dumbbells as you get stronger.

— Womenshealthmag.com

A COCKTAIL A DAY: A healthy hap-py-hour habit is linked to a 25 to 50

percent lower risk of heart disease and diabetes in women, says Eric Rimm, associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Har-vard School of Pub-lic Health. The brain

benefi ts, too, since the occasional cocktail may also keep memory intact. The key is moderation: one drink a day on average and never more than three, a level defi ned as “binge drinking” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

— Womenshealthmag.com

YELLOW NAILS? Try dipping them in denture cleaner for 15 minutes, three days in a row, says Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, artistic director of OPI. Teeth and nails have the same basic chemical makeup, so denture cleaner is ideal for getting the stains out. To prevent your nails from getting discolored again, use a ridge fi ller as a base coat; this should keep dark polish from seeping into the narrow dips in your nails, where remover some-times can’t reach.

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RD

Students of all ages are now ex-pected to have computers and access to the Internet to do their homework and research papers and to be able to com-

municate with the faculty. So is your (or their) computer good enough to do this?

Despite your son or daughter’s plea to get them a new laptop, the likelihood that your

two- to four-year-old system is more than adequate is very high.

Your fi rst step is to see if the school they are attending has published their rec-ommended minimum system requirements for attaching to the school’s network. (This is more of a col-lege situation where you connect wireless-ly to the network.)

In most cases if you have Windows

2000, XP or Vista, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Internet access and an e-mail account, you have everything they will need to be productive.

The real question: Is your computer in shape for the new school season?

For example, has the unit been tortured

and abused all summer long with heaps of games, screensavers and fi le-sharing programs (music, videos, games, and so on) that are popular with teens and young adults? Does it take forever to boot up? Is it sluggish?

If so, a good cleaning can rejuvenate virtu-ally any computer that has excessive processes running on it (and save you money!). The easiest way to tell if things have gotten out of control is to open the Task Manager (press Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows 2000, XP and Vista) and look at the bottom left corner of the window that comes up.

That number represents the processes you currently have running. If that number is in the 50 to 70 range, your system will likely perform much better if you eliminate the unnecessary processes that are being forced on Windows every time you start the machine.

These excess processes tend to sneak into your com-puter from adware, spyware, software pro-grams that like to heap on trialware and silent

“drive-by downloads” from malicious Web sites that typically target users who like free stuff.

Figuring out what each of the processes are and which ones can be removed can be a little complicated. Rather than spend the exorbitant amount of time to fi gure this out and then actually do it, I recommend that you seek professional help. This can be done at a fraction of the cost of new computer.

Finally make sure your son or daughter has a thumb drive (portable storage device) so they can back up their important papers. I recommend a 1GB or higher device. There is nothing worse than having your school project or term paper due tomorrow and your hard

drive crashes. Remem-ber, there are only two kinds of hard drives: those that

have already crashed and those that are going

to crash.

Gary Hubbard is owner of Data Doctors Computer Services:

www.datadoctors.com. Data Doctors is also a drop cen-

ter for electronic dona-tions and recycling. Have a technology question? Send it

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DISPATCHESSTOP FUMBLING FOR QUARTERS: Imagine parking at a meter that lets you pay with your debit or credit card. Or even change, if you have some. The patented, state-of-the art PhotoViolationMeter by Photo Violation Technologies Corp. does all that. The smart parking meters are currently installed for a testing period in Vancouver, British Columbia and Niagra Falls, New

York. The PVM can actually call to

warn you that your meter is

running low and allows you to pay for more

time over the phone.

MOVE OVER IPHONE. The tech world is now drawing its attention to a rumored gPhone. Reports are popping up everywhere that Google is shopping around prototypes of mobile phones. Confi rmation came from a report from The Wall Street Journal. It re-ported Google has built prototype cell phones, to be mass-produced by multiple hardware manufactur-ers.

— pcworld.com

YAHOO JUMPS AHEAD OF GOOGLE: Yahoo jumped ahead and took the lead over Google in a satisfaction survey by the Ameri-can Customer Satisfaction Index.

Yahoo led the list with a score of 79, Google fell to

78, Ask.com improved to 75, and AOL trailed with a score of 67. The index is a national economic indi-cator of customer evaluations of the quality of products and services available to household consumers in the United States.

— www.theacsi.org

MORE E-MAIL STORAGE: Hot-on-the-heels of Google’s announce-ment that it will start selling additional storage space to be used across its applications, Microsoft has reportedly now announced increasing the storage limit for Windows Live Hotmail from 2GB to 5GB. The move places Microsoft squarely ahead of Google yet far behind Yahoo’s unlimited storage offering. Signifi cantly, users will now be able to store 10GB of email data for an annual subscription of $14.99. They will be able to forward email from their Hotmail account to a Gmail or any other e-mail account.

— techtree.com

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Have you noticed the stunted performance this year of large leaf hydrangea and roses? I am in the enviable possession of several variet-

ies of normally profusely fl owering hydrangea — but not this year. I can count the number of pink and blue mophead fl owers on one hand. Usually there are hundreds.

My four meidiland roses had a rather embarrassing bloom cycle, too. But this is not about me; it’s about you and your thriving landscape!

How have your ornamental grasses been this year? (That’s always a great ice breaker at a wine tasting.) Annette Han-cock, offi ce manager for Brehob Wholesale Nursery in Nobles-ville, said that many

dwarf fountain grasses simply did not break the ground, and maiden grasses emerged in deformed partial clumps.

Borderline, Zone 5 liriope took a major hit as well, particularly the more susceptible variegated variety. Even hardy spirea and lilac have shown signs of stress, with a weak fl ower-

ing performance and sparse foliage. Bummer.

It seems that there is always some sort of en-vironmental issue affecting our favor-ite gems that we lovingly tend, fertil-ize and water, and water, and water. What’s the cause this time? The very late winter prolonged freeze and extended snow pack caused most of these woes. Our hostas were just beginning to recover when the heat and drought visited several weeks ago. Water those lovelies a few times a week now through early October and they will reward you with a stellar perfor-mance in 2008.

Artifi cially elevated humidity has prompted powdery mildew and fungus on redbuds, dogwoods, serviceberry and other ornamental trees. Expect those same ornamentals to show off their fall color a little prematurely due to these added stress levels.

I suppose if stunted fl owering hydrangea performance and sparse spirea foliage are the worse things that happens to us today, it’s sim-ply not a bad day. Perspective helps.

Happy trails.

Randy Sorrell is president of SURROUNDINGS by NatureWorks+, a Carmel design, landscape and remodeling fi rm. He may be reached at 679.2565, [email protected] or www.choosesurroundings.com.

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LACK OF BLOOMS DUE TO LATE FREEZE, SUMMER DROUGHT DISPATCHESBUG BITE BALM: Dab a bit of antiperspirant onto itchy mosquito bites; its aluminum salts help the body reabsorb the fl uid in the af-fected area, says Ken Haller, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine “The swelling goes down and the itching goes away.” Note: This won’t work with a plain deodorant, which does not contain salt.

— quickandsimple.com

ROUT THE DROUGHT: This sum-mer’s drought has left many lawns straw-colored and dormant. Fall lawn care can help your lawn re-cover. During a drought, you should continue to fertilize your lawn every eight weeks with a slow-re-lease fertilizer. A lawn that has the proper nutrients grows dense, deep roots and recovers from drought faster. A regularly fed lawn will also be healthier and thicker than an unfed lawn. Couple feedings with infrequent, deep watering to promote deeper roots, which pro-vide a larger reservoir of water to draw from.

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DISPATCHESFOR A BETTER SHAVE: Try a shav-ing brush. “Shaving with a brush is the easiest and fastest way to pre-pare your skin and facial hair for a

close and pain-less shave,” says Danielle Malka, founder of the groom-ing retailer E Shave. You make lather instantly as you swirl the brush against your face, lift-ing beard hair off the skin. And, a bristle

brush is an antique male object, linking you to centuries of empire builders who lathered up long be-fore the aerosol can was king.

— Menshealth.com

TOMATO BUYER’S GUIDE: Heirloom tomatoes — grown from older seed varieties — are cultivated for their fl avor and texture. Unlike mass-market varieties — bred for consis-tent looks and durability — heir-looms come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Buy tomatoes as close to home as possible. Look for those that are plump and shiny and give slightly when pressed; smell the stem end for that distinc-tive, sweetly acidic aroma. Refrigeration destroys the fl avor of tomatoes; free them from any packaging and store at a cool room temperature, away from sunlight.

— msn.com

CHURCH OF BMW: With Lexus ranked 19 places ahead in the lat-est J.D. Power & Associates survey of car quality, BMW is staking its sales on its heritage, reports The New York Times (8/5/07). Specifi cally, BMW is opening a $275-million edifi ce called “BMW

Welt (World)” in Munich where

customers can pick up their new cars in some-thing like a

religious ex-perience. “Our

dealers are like local churches, while BMW Welt is St. Peter’s Cathedral,” says a BMW marketing director.

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Heirloom tomatoes — grown from older seed varieties — are cultivated for their

market varieties — bred for consis-

and colors. Buy tomatoes as close

Flowers make great gifts any time of the year. However, when attending a summer dinner

party, they make an ideal hostess gift. Why summer? Because you can pick a bouquet from your garden. If you are not a gardener, simply purchase fl owers from a farmers market or your local grocery store or fl orist. You may want to be mindful that in-season

fl owers are your best buy.

Send the fl owers ahead of time, if possible, so that your host-

ess can have them displayed when guests arrive. It would also be a courtesy to have them pre-arranged, so that your hostess does not have to leave her guests to put them in a vase. Or, when you present them to your hostess, simply ask for a vase and offer to arrange them in water yourself. When a man gives the hostess gift, instead of fl owers, he can give a planter, if fl owers seem too

“feminine.”A nice bottle of

wine makes another thoughtful host-ess gift. The hostess is not obligated or expected to serve the wine with that evening’s meal. As-suming the guest knows what will be served, you may still

want to choose a wine to pair with the entree.

What if you have been invited to a pitch-in dinner? You could offer to bring copies of your favorite recipe to share or, if the hostess asks you to bring a certain food group (bread, salad, or dessert), simply take it in a serving dish complete with serving utensils. In this instance, there is no need to bring a hostess gift.

When an invitation says, “No gifts, please,” the request should be honored. If you are es-pecially close to the honored guest, you could send a gift ahead of time or after the party. A greeting card is always an ideal acknowledge-ment to bring to the party when the invitation

specifi es no gifts.Lastly, if

your new neighbors invite you to a housewarm-ing party, consider taking a

small gift. It need not be expensive, but select a more perma-nent gift than

fl owers. Some ideas might

include selecting an address book that

lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers of recom-

mended local businesses; seeds or bulbs for their garden; or a subscription to the local newspaper.

No matter what the occasion, acknowledg-ing your hostess in some small way is always appreciated.

Sally Cooksey is a certifi ed professional party, event and meeting planner. She can be reached at 258.1008 or by e-mail at [email protected]

“where glass becomes art”A stained glass art studio and supply store

We’re continuing our sale on glass through this week. We’re also taking names for classes starting in September,

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S I have always wanted to be a grumpy old man. Over the years, I thought I had made a lot of headway in this area, especially in the

getting older part, which is easy. I also found myself getting progres-sively grumpier, as well. Or so I thought.

My father was a grumpy old man by the time he was 60, and I always admired my dad, so I aspired to be just like him. But I wanted to do it even sooner. Remember, 60 is the new 50. Or is it 50 is the new 60? Whatever.

I first tried to be a grumpy old man when I was in my 40s. But, sadly, people mistook my crankiness for wittiness. I complained to the manager at Kroger that their entrance and exit doors were on the wrong side. “I’ll never shop here again,” I told him. “I don’t know if I’m coming or going.” That’s pure old man stuff, don’t you think? But did he call me grumpy? No, he burst out laughing — and told me I should use that line on TV.

In the ’90s, my crabbiness got me no-where. I once protested to a couple of Girl Scouts who came to the door selling cookies that their product was too high in fat and that eating Samoas would shoot my lipids through the roof. Their mothers called and thanked me, saying this was a good health lesson for 7-year-olds. Maybe I shouldn’t have bought three boxes.

I did everything I could to acquire the grumpy old man label before my time. Noth-ing worked. I don’t know how my dad did it with such ease. It must have been a gift.

Last year, I complained to some of my neighbors about their unkempt lawns. I fussed at others who were putting their garbage out two days early, and I put my foot down about kids making a ruckus shooting hoops on Sun-

day mornings when I was trying to sleep. This had codger written all over it. They made me president of the homeowners association.

I was starting to get worried. When does one officially become a grumpy old man? I combed all my AARP magazines for a few hints, but their publication seemed more interested in readers avoid-ing this label than celebrating it. I called the periodical to grumble about their lack of coverage on this, and complained to one of the editors in the most crotchety way I knew how. “We welcome your

feedback,” she told me. “Please call again.”I think the problem here is that most

people won’t call you a grumpy old man to your face. They just think it.

“Did you get my e-mail birthday card, Dick?” asked my friend David, a few days after my 60th.

“Yes, I did. But I must tell you, David, that I find e-mail greeting cards rude. They lack the personal touch and it’s annoy-ing when I have to wait forever while they down-load.”

“Why, you, you…”

“Go on, David, say it. Say it, please.”

“OK, you, you … you probably have a good

point. I should have taken the time to go to the store and buy you a nice Hallmark card, instead.”

Even my best friends won’t cooperate.Maybe part of the problem here is that I

don’t have the right “look.” I’m going to stop dyeing my hair and start hoisting my pants up to my ribcage. That will make a big difference.

I’m optimistic about my success. I’m not getting any younger, you know.

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

As rants go, this one is an Old Fa-miliar, but I think it bears repeating. No, wait. I KNOW

it does, because the thing I am going to rant about is happening every day in ball parks, arenas and stadiums from sea to shining sea.

I speak of the ritual desecration of our national anthem by singers who apparently can’t be bothered to learn the proper words or melody.

The latest offender, brought to my attention courtesy of the Weird Wired Web, is Antonella Barba, whom you may recall as an “American Idol” contestant whose 15 minutes of fame were unfortunately stretched to 16 minutes of fame when it became known that she had posed for semi-naughty pictures.

Well, Ms. Barba has a page on the My Space social network site, and on it she posts her interpretation of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” recorded, from the sound of things, before the opening of a pee-wee hockey game. No, wait. That can’t be right, because then she would also have gotten to post her interpreta-tion of “O Canada.” Which, I have to admit, I have always admired as a near-perfect national anthem. And, unlike our own, one which did not have its melodic origins as a British drink-ing song.

Anyway, let’s start by discussing Ms. Bar-ba’s version of the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” shall we?

Where most of us – that would be the ones who were paying attention in grade school when they taught us the song – sing “whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,” Antonella gives us:

“Whose broad stripes and bright stars, ooh! The perilous fight.” And, of course, she pronounces perilous in contemporary-singer fashion, “perulis.”

Then, a little later, she gets to the line about “the rockets’ red glare, the bombs burst-ing in air,” although in Barba World it’s:

“The rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in there.”

In where, she doesn’t say. Perhaps there’s a clue at the

end of the song, the line about “the land of the free, and the home of the brave,” because to hear her tell it, it’s:

“The land of the free in the home of the brave.”

Where rockets burst.Now, so far we’ve just talked

about lyrics. Of course, Antonella had to embellish the melody with all those “American Idol”/Patty Labelle-wannabe vocal tricks, the

swoops and melisma and loop-the-loops, none of which are in the melody I learned, and all of which serve only to call attention to the singer, and not the song.

Sheesh. I don’t want to come off all Archie Bunker here, but I just think there are some songs that ought to be exempt from this sort of foolishness, and the national anthem is No. 1 on the list. Mike’s Rule, were he in charge, would be as follows:

“You want to sing the National Anthem all by yourself at the beginning of an athletic event? Fine. First, learn the song. Second, remember it’s about the song, not about you. And third, the moment you start yodeling, we pull the plug and let the audience finish without you.”

Oh, well. At least we’re not alone. The same Weird

Wired Web that told me about the Barba version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” also showed me Deborah Cox doing the same sort of showoff job on “O Canada.” She got the words right, but boy, did she turn the melody into a roller-coaster ride.

I guess some kinds of silliness are interna-tional, eh?

Mike Redmond is an author, journalist, humorist and speaker. Write him at [email protected] or P.O. Box 44385, Indianapolis, IN 46244. For information on speaking fees and availability, visit www.spotlightwww.com.

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RD DISPATCHESMCLAUGHLIN TO PERFORM: Carmel resident Jon McLaughlin, a 2006 Anderson University alumnus,

will return to his alma mater and Reardon Auditorium for a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 as a part of the 2007 homecom-ing festivities. Tickets are $19 for individu-

als and $17 for AU students with a valid ID and groups of 10 or more. Tickets will go on sale Monday at the Reardon Box Offi ce and all TicketMaster locations.

WEST CLAY HOMES FEATURED: Two homes in the Village of West Clay are featured in the India-napolis Monthly Dream Home: City Homes Edition from Sept. 1-16. Proceeds benefi t the Dyslexia Institute of Indiana. For a complete schedule, go to www.indianapolis-monthlydreamhome.com.

FACULTY RECITAL: The 2007-08 Butler University School of Music

Faculty Recital Series begins next Tuesday with a perfor-mance by School of Music Chair Andrea Gullickson on oboe, accompanied by Kate Boyd and Gary Walters on piano. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. in Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall on Butler’s campus, 4600 Sunset Ave., Indianapolis. For more information, call 940.9246.

PREVAIL FUNDRAISER: It’s not too late to help Prevail Inc., a victim awareness and support program. Reds, Whites and Blues, its largest fundraising event of the year, will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Ritz Charles in Carmel. Presented by Riverview Hospital and the Riverview Hospital Medical Staff, the event features more than 80 types of wines, samplings from area restaurants and live blues provided by “Circle Trio.” Tickets are $60 per person in advance and $70 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at the Prevail offi ce, 1100 S. Ninth St., Suite 100, in

Noblesville. For more informa-tion, contact Judi Johnson at 773.6942, [email protected] or visit our website www.prevailinc.com.


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SPAINTER JULIE M. HOUCK READIES FOR FALL

ART FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITS

Carmel’s Julie M. Houck is one of a dozen artists from central Indiana to donate their time and talent to raise money for the Carmel Symphony

Orchestra. The night before the baton rises on CSO’s 32nd season, the Carmel Symphony Or-chestra League will host its annual fundraising gala, auctioning a dozen elaborately decorated violins that have been on display around town all summer.

Houck, an impressionist painter of water-colors and oils, created a unique design for her violin, called “Playing for the Bunnies.”

“It’s such a great opportunity for an artist,” Houck said. “The CSO League splashes your name all over the place.”

This is the second year Houck has partici-pated in the league’s major fundraiser, which pairs artists with corporate sponsors who underwrite the cost of the project.

Artists painted the violins, which are provided by Mark Kurkowski of Frank’s Violins, between February and April 2007. The completed violins were displayed for the fi rst time at the league’s summer luncheon at the Bridgewater Club on May 30. Since then, they’ve been on display at Carmel Chamber of Commerce luncheons and at the Deborah De-Fazio Lyons Gallery and Studio on Main Street. They’ll make their fi nal appearance as a group

on Sept. 28 at the League’s black-tie gala at Oak Hill Man-sion.

The Carmel Arts & Design District recently snapped up the chance to become the pri-mary sponsor of the Painted Violins of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, adding its cachet to the project.

“I’ll have more of my works on view at the gala,” Houck said. “A lot of people were able to see my paintings that way the last time I participated, too.”

Art and music patrons will have a number of other chances to see Houck’s work in the weeks leading up to the CSO League’s gala and auction. Her paintings will be on sale at the Penrod Art Fair at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on Saturday, Sept. 8; at the Riverview Memorial Fund Show in Noblesville on Sept. 15 and 16; and at the Carmel Interna-tional Arts Festival on Sept. 22 and 23.

In addition, Houck will participate in the Hamilton County Art Association’s next exhibition, which runs from Aug. 31 to Oct.

27 at the HCAA Art Center, 195 S. Cherry St., Noblesville.

Each artist in “From Field to Finish” created a small work or sketch within three blocks of the HCAA Art Center in July and then returned to the studio to create a larger, more formal piece. The sketch and studio pieces will be shown side by side.

For more information about the Painted Violins of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, contact Jean Book at 846.1851. To reach Julie Houck, call 705.0126 or visit www.juliem-houck.com.

Barbara E. Cohen is a freelance writer who cov-ers the arts for Current in Carmel and teaches art history at Ivy Tech Community College. You can reach her with comments or story ideas at [email protected].

What: Auction for “River Odyssey: Two Artists Follow the Wabash”When: 1 p.m. Saturday, (public preview, 1 to 8 p.m. Friday)Where: Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers, 12232 Hancock St., CarmelCost: Free for previewDetails: For four years, Indiana landscape painters David Dale and Jim Faulkner sketched and photographed along the entire course of the Wabash River. Their project resulted in 70 paintings of varying sizes and styles that depict the Wabash River, its tributaries, its people and its seasons. After traveling around the state on exhibition since March 2006, these works of art (watercolors, oil paintings and pastels) will be auctioned. A percentage of the proceeds will support projects of the Wabash River Heritage Corridor Commission.Info: 844.7253, www.wickliffauctioneers.com

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Jan Miller is celebrating her 10th anniversary as owner of Jan’s Village Pizza. “After all these years, it has been great to see for-mer high school employees coming back with children,” Miller said. Jan’s Village Pizza offers pizza and ice cream for lunch and dinner. Just recently, Miller had her an-nual cook-off between her Sheri-dan location and her Westfi eld location. “What we do is have the two places coming up with a brand new kind of pizza and let the customers decide which one we will serve in the restaurant,” Miller said. This year the winner was a Bacon and Potato pizza with a ranch sauce. The pizza at Jan’s is gourmet style pizza with a lot of interesting combinations. “One of the favorites is our Chicken Alfredo Pizza. It’s pretty good,” Miller said.

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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

This novel begins with the birth of Norah and David Henry’s fi rst child. David, an orthope-dic surgeon who had struggled from the depths of poverty, has achieved profound happiness as an expectant father, loving husband and respected clinician. A series of events forces David to deliver his son at the medical clinic with only Caroline, a trust-ed nurse, as an assistant. Paul is perfect, but to David’s surprise, he also delivers Phoebe, “a mon-goloid.” Reeling from the shock, David makes a fateful decision. Over the next 25 years, members of the Henry family and Caroline must deal with the deception that Phoebe died at birth.

CommunityThe Carmel Farmers Market Date: Saturdays. Time: 8 to 11:30 a.m. Nearly 50 vendors offer a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, fl owers, plants and perennials, and farm-raised meats. Price: Free. Web: carmelfarmersmarket.org.

CultureLinda M. BachofnerExhibition of works by Carmel painter. Dates: Through Aug. 29. Location: World’s Smallest Children’s Art Gallery, 40 W. Main St. Time: 1 to 6 p.m. daily. Price: Free.Phone: 844.4989.

The Best Little Whorehouse in TexasDates: Through Sept. 23. Location: Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, 9301 N. Michigan Road, Indianapolis. Cost: $32.50 to $52.50. Phone: 872.9664. Web: beefandboards.com.

Special EventsD’Vine opens new locationD’Vine a Wine Bar will open for business at its new location today. Located in the Echelon building, 5252 E. 82nd St.,

Suite 102, on the northwest corner of Allisonville Road and 82nd Street, the space was formerly occupied by Cibo Italian Restaurant. The new location will feature 5,500 square feet (up from 3,200) and a fl oor-to-ceiling wine tower.

Bob Lamey: A Tailgate Party with the Voice of the ColtsDate: Tuesday. Location: Laikin Auditorium, Arthur M. Glick JCC, 6701 Hoover Road, Indianapolis. Time: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Price: Adults $6 (JCC members), $9 (nonmembers), children 12 and under $4 (members), $7 (nonmembers), for reserved tickets. $10 at the door. Phone: 251-9467.

Live MusicJennifer Kirk and FriendsDate: Thursday and Friday. Location: Kincaid’s at Clay Terrace. Time: 6:30 to 10 p.m. Featuring half-priced appetizers and drink specials for beer wine and cocktails, everyday from 4-7 p.m. and from 9 p.m. until closing.

Mickey’s Irish PubToy Factory. Date: Friday. Location: 13644 N. Meridian St. Phone: 573.9746. Web: mickeysirishpub.com.

Dog TalkDate: Wednesday. Location: Indianapolis Art Center, Riverfront Amphitheatre, 820 E. 67th Street, Indianapolis. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. Cost: $9 at the gate, $8 in advance, $7 for Art Center members, $2 children ages 3-12. Cash only.

Serebro, Metal in the Microwave, Marking TwainDate: Wednesday. Location: Birdy’s, 2131 E. 71st St., Indianapolis. Time: 8:30 p.m.Phone: 254.8971. Web: birdyslive.com/July2007.html.

KaraokeNippers Bar & GrillDate: Friday and Saturday. Time: 9 p.m. to close. Location: 1772 E. 116th St. Phone: 818.9980. Web: nippers2.com.

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ComedyJoe DeVitoDate: Wednesday-Sunday. Location: Morty’s Comedy Joint, 3625 E. 96th St.,

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1:42 p.m., Accident with property damage, 4443 E. 131st St.3:24 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 106th St. / Pennsylvania St.3:27 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 116th St. / N. Meridian St.4:01 p.m., Theft, 14218 Dove Drive4:13 p.m., Accident with property damage, W. 126th St. / S. Guilford Road4:52 p.m., Animal complaint, 1217 S. Range Line Road5:37 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 116th St. / Hazel Dell Parkway6:19 p.m., Domestic, 11472 Regency Lane7:22 p.m., Accident with property damage, 4304 Worchester Court8:02 p.m., Damage to property, E. 281st St. / U.S. 31 N.

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Aug. 95:39 a.m., Fire Department, advanced life support, serious, 382 Uxbridge Lane6:08 a.m., Fire Department, advanced life support, serious, 1708 E. 116th St.7:03 a.m., Accident with property damage, E. 131st St. / Hazel Dell Parkway.7:17 a.m., Accident with property damage, 13590 N. Meridian St.2:14 a.m., Suspicious activity, 1183 Claridge Way N.5:39 a.m., Fire Department, advanced life support, serious, 382 Uxbridge Lane6:08 a.m., Fire Department, advanced life support, serious, 1708 E. 116th St.7:03 a.m., Accident with property damage, E. 131st St. / Hazel Dell Parkway.

7:17 a.m., Accident with property damage, 13590 N. Meridian St.9:42 a.m., Accident with property damage, 10290 N. Meridian St.9:58 a.m., Accident with property damage, 500 Parkwood Crossing12:52 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 96th St. / N. Meridian St.1:48 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 146th St. / Woodfield Way1:45 p.m., Theft, 11922 Dubarry Drive1:56 p.m., Accident with property damage, 250 E. 96th St.2:15 p.m., Accident with property damage, W. 116th St. / Shelborne Road2:40 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 106th St. / Pennsylvania St.3:31 p.m., Domestic, 13048 Broad St.3:59 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. Carmel Drive / SR 431 N.4:04 p.m., Fire Department, advanced life support, serious, 1424 W. Carmel Drive

4:27 p.m., Accident with property damage, Old Meridian St. / N. Meridian St.4:34 p.m., Domestic, 1158 Golfview Drive6:12 p.m., Theft, 9601 College Ave.7:08 p.m., Theft, 152 Lotus Drive8:39 p.m., Accident with property damage, E. 126th St. / Brookshire Parkway.10:09 p.m., Theft, 14536 Stonegate Court

Aug. 1012:07 a.m., Burglary, 13989 Hazel Dell Parkway.8:08 a.m., Accident with property damage, W. 131st St. / Antonia Blvd.8:23 a.m., Accident with property damage, I-465 E. / N. Meridian St.11:07 a.m., Domestic, 140 First St. NW12:24 p.m., Theft, 626 Lockerbie Place2:03 p.m., Theft, 1085 Third Ave. SW2:16 p.m., Accident with property damage, 255 E. Carmel Drive3:31 p.m., Damage to

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