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publisher Bud Hunt FEATURES 6 Welcome Editor David Hill 8 Our Communities 26 Community Spotlight advertising 12 Events & Festivals director 78 Educational Development John Senger 16 Area Parks 98 Based in Faith contributors 20 Area Markets Kristy Deer Mitchell Kirk 22 Arts Organizations 112 Sports Rorye Hatcher Brian Heinemann Ben Middelkamp Patrick Murphy Anne Durham Smith Published by All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced photographer or duplicated without the written permission of the publisher. Tom Russo

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Hancock County is a place of contrasts. From the fast-growing communities in our western townships to the rural beauty of cropland that reaches in places all the way to the horizon, the county is a study in demographics, growth and the things that make a Sunday drive or bike ride out in the Hcountry so enticing. Visit New Palestine, Fortville and McCordsville, and you will find yourself on the frontier of Indianapolis’ ever-expanding boundaries. Stop in downtown Greenfield for a meal and a little shopping, and you’ll feel the welcoming aura of small businesses whose personal touch will make you want to come back. And drive along the Blue River — the only river that flows through the county — and you’ll put more than miles between yourself and the stresses of the world. It’s all here. Right in Hancock County.

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Top: Paisley Hall enjoys a sucker while attending the annual Community Night. Bottom: Jordon Blythe of Smith’s Bell and Clock Service checks the function of newly installed hands on the Hancock County Courthouse clock. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter)

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 7 Our communities

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Charlottesville Cumberland Fortville Charlottesville, platted in The town of Cumberland Fortville, a town 1830, is a quiet little town straddles both Hancock incorporated in 1865, is on Hancock County’s east and Marion counties, with located at State Road 67 and side in Jackson Township. a population estimated at Fortville Pike in Vernon Described by those who 5,500 people, according Township. The town is live there as a close-knit to the latest U.S. Census. named after Cephas Fort, community, Charlottesville The town was established who platted the original is home to Eastern Hancock in 1831 along East settlement on his land in Schools, the smallest of Washington Street, or U.S. 1849. Fortville has a vibrant Hancock County’s four 40, also known as part Main Street divided by public school corporations. of the Historic National a rail line; the tracks are Road. Main Street is still a prominent feature of considered the main town, both visually as well thoroughfare connecting as audibly, as trains pass Cumberland with through daily with their Indianapolis to the west and whistles blowing. Fortville’s with Greenfield to the east. population was 3,929 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census.

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 9 Our communities

Greenfield The heart of Greenfield is centered at State Road 9 and U.S. 40, an area dotted with local antique stores and small businesses. Its population is just more than 21,000. Selected as the county seat of Hancock County in 1828, it was incorporated in 1876. Greenfield was once a stop along the old Penn Central Rail Line, on which presidents and the Liberty Bell traveled, historians say. Fortville residents, eager for a moment of worldwide internet fame, wave at the Google Street View car. The camera- toting vehicle was driving through Fortville on a mission for Google’s online mapping features. (Tom Russo | Daily McCordsville Reporter) McCordsville, one of the a quaint, quiet town with a Brown Township in Hancock fastest-growing towns in population estimated at just County and Greensboro Indiana, is located in the more than 2,100 residents. Township in Henry County. northwestern corner of The town sits along U.S. 52, Hancock County. It grew about 20 minutes east of Wilkinson more than 27 percent from downtown Indianapolis. New Located in the northeast Palestine was established in 2010-2016, according to U.S. corner of Hancock County, 1838. It first consisted of 15 Census Bureau data. The Wilkinson boasts a blocks and 36 lots. The area heart of this town of more population of 449, according than 6,400 is at State Road became incorporated as a to the 2010 U.S. Census. 67 and County Road 600 town in 1871. West (also known as Mt. State Road 109 runs through Comfort Road). Local leaders Shirley the heart of this small are working on a network Shirley was established in town, connecting it with of trails with neighboring 1890 when the Cincinnati, Anderson to the north and communities, such as the Wabash and Michigan Knightstown to the south. neighborhoods surrounding railway extended to the area. Celebrated aviation pioneer nearby Geist Reservoir. The town’s name comes from Harvey Weir Cook was born Joseph A. Shirley, a railroad and raised in Wilkinson. The New Palestine official. With about 830 town’s favorite native son Nestled on the southwestern residents, the town straddles is often called a flying ace edge of Hancock County, the Hancock and Henry for his distinguished career the town of New Palestine is county lines, claiming both during World War I.

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 11 Festivals, celebrations offer food, entertainment If you’re looking for a festival to take your family to, Hancock County’s got you covered all year-round. Here’s a look at some of those area events, festivals and fairs.

Riley Festival ChalkFest Cumberland Arts Festival rileyfestival.com greenfieldmainstreet.org/annual-events/ cumberlandarts.org The works of Hoosier poet James ChalkFest attracts people to downtown Bringing together more than 100 art, Whitcomb Riley are the focus of the Greenfield with colorful — albeit craft and farmers market vendors annual Riley Festival, but even folks temporary — art and musical together, this event also includes who aren’t familiar with his poetry entertainment. Chalk artists spend entertainment, children’s activities, can find something to their liking hours creating sidewalk drawings for food vendors and a silent auction. It during this four-day celebration, which visitors to enjoy. Artists of all ages and takes place the third Saturday in August coincides with Riley’s Oct. 7 birthday. abilities are invited to participate for near Cumberland Town Hall. Visit the The festival features entertainment, cash prizes. The 2019 event is scheduled festival’s page on facebook.com. arts and crafts vendors, a Riley Festival from 3-6 p.m. on Sept. 14. For more Queen, carnival-style food and contests information, visit greenfieldmainstreet. New Palestine Fall Festival in poetry writing, photography, org/annual-events/. nplions.com running, fiddling, baking and more. The festival, which takes place annually Highlights include the Parade of on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday Flowers, in which children place after Labor Day, is a community flowers Friday at the base of the homecoming to New Palestine Riley statue north of the Hancock residents. Organized by the New County Courthouse, a large parade at Palestine Lions Club at its community 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, and an building at 5242 W. U.S. 52., it features entertainment tent. music, a parade, karaoke, entertainers and a merchants’ tent. The theme for the 2019 festival, set for Oct. 3-6, is “The Old Swimmin’ Greenfield Christmas Hole.” Learn more at rileyfestival.com. Festival and Parade of Lights rileyfestival.com Shirley Founders Day Downtown Greenfield lights up for Christmas in early December with townofshirley.com the Parade of Lights and the arrival Marching bands, crafts, show cars, of Santa Claus by fire truck. The event gospel music and plenty of food can typically includes craft vendors, a be found at the Shirley Founders Day dinner, musical entertainment, the celebration in downtown Shirley. lighting of the plaza tree during The annual event, typically held in opening ceremonies and a live nativity mid-August, includes a parade, talent scene. Following the parade and show and the presentation of the David entertainment, children can visit with L. Estell Civic Award. For information, Santa in his house on the plaza to share see Shirley Historical Society on their Christmas lists. More information facebook.com. can be found at rileyfestival.com.

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Will Vawter Juried Art and refreshing lemon shake- Competition Hancock County 4-H Fair ups, there’s something to satisfy hancockcountyarts.com any hankering. The 2020 Hancock County The Will Vawter Juried Art 4-H Fair is scheduled Competition, conducted as a for June 19-26, 2020. For celebration of Vawter’s April more information, visit birthday, features a juried art yourhancockfairgrounds.com. exhibit as well as a plein aire competition designed to capture scenic Hancock County on Pennsy Trail Art Fair canvas. This event is organized and Music Festival by the Hancock County facebook.com/ Arts and Cultural Council. pennsytrailartfair/ For more information, visit Artists, musicians, authors, hancockcountyarts.com. runners, craft beer enthusiasts and local food vendors Strawberry Festival combine for the Pennsy Trail fpcofgreenfield.org Art Fair and Music Festival, A full week of preparation goes traditionally taking place into the annual Strawberry Festival near the end of July. Visitors at the First Presbyterian Church in can peruse a range of artistic downtown Greenfield. offerings from pottery and Proceeds from this early June basketry to chic jewelry and event are combined with other fine art. The festival features food fundraisers to donate interactive art therapy activities thousands of dollars to local for children and adults, arts organizations. and crafts vendors and live music. The event is a benefit The fundraiser, started in 1984 for Mental Health Partners by the church’s men’s group, relied of Hancock County. Find on local hand-picked strawberries. out more at facebook.com/ Today, frozen berries are mixed pennsytrailartfair. with fresh berries to pour on the get outside in the parks and watch local top of shortcake and ice cream. For more children play baseball and softball. information, visit fpcofgreenfield.org. St. Thomas Festival The event includes a parade and vendor stthomasfortville.com/festival booths. Ball Day is scheduled for June Entertainment on the The parish festival of St. Thomas the Plaza through a partnership with the Fortville- Apostle Catholic Church in Fortville McCordsville Area Chamber. For more gbcbank.com traditionally takes place the first information visit mvoptimist.com. weekend in August. Features events Music fills the air at the Hancock County ranging from a kids zone, beer garden Courthouse Plaza on Friday nights Hancock County 4-H Fair and parade on Thursday, Friday and during June and July. Free concerts yourhancockfairgrounds.com Saturday. Visit the church’s website, sponsored by Greenfield Banking Co. This annual event celebrates the stthomasfortville.com/festival, for more take place at 7 p.m. downtown as they achievements of children and teens information. have since 1987. who have spent months preparing to The concerts feature musicians show animals and complete a wide Lord’s Acre Festival performing everything from oldies to variety of projects including foods, www.mccordsvilleumc.org patriotic marches and Southern Gospel. tractor maintenance, sewing and model Learn more about the series by logging The festival, which traditionally rocketry. on to gbcbank.com. Click on “Connect,” happens over the second weekend of Fairgoers can enjoy the projects on then “Sponsored Events.” September at McCordsville United display in the 4-H building in addition to Methodist Church, features a fish fry, Ball Day checking out the fun at the baby contest, live entertainment, vendor booths and pet parade, tractor pull and talent show. children’s activities. The event, started mvoptimist.com Family-centered fun also includes live in 1952, takes its name from the concept Mt. Vernon Optimist Ball Day gives music, carnival rides and fair food. From of farmers donating proceeds from an families and other residents a chance to tangy barbecue to gooey grilled cheese acre’s crops to the church.

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 15 Beckenholdt Park

Area Parks Cumberland Landmark Park Riley Park Lions Park 200 E. Church St. Apple Street and U.S. 40 301 Buck Creek Road This 3.2-acre park is in a more urban Riley Park, the feature park of the city, setting, as it is centrally located one-half is 40 acres and offers a 7,200-square- This 6.5-acre park features a baseball block from the main street in town. foot skate park, two basketball courts, field used by the Cumberland Cardinals It has an area adjacent to Fortville six tennis courts, five baseball fields, Youth baseball league for home games United Methodist Church for passive playground equipment, sledding hills and practices. The various facilities, or recreation with paved walks through the and plenty of open areas for play and the entire park (except for the baseball landscaped setting and a gazebo. It also fishing along Brandywine Creek. In fields), may be rented. All shelters have has a soccer/football field. addition, located within the park is the electrical outlets. The small shelter is Riley Park Shelter House, Riley Park located near the parking lot, and the Hampton Field Pavilion, Riley Pool and the Patricia large shelter is located at the west end 400 block of West Church Street Elmore Center. near the large playground. One baseball This six-acre park includes two tennis diamond, playground equipment, one courts, a picnic shelter, paved parking, Beckenholdt Park tennis court, one basketball court, concession station (in season) three 2770 N. Franklin St. one sand volleyball court and rentable baseball diamonds, seven bleachers, Beckenholdt Park includes a large pond shelter. playgrounds equipment and six picnic with a fishing pier, wetland with an Fortville tables. observation deck, a two-acre dog park, walking paths, interpretive signs, a Memorial Park Greenfield picnic shelter and more. 9088 W. County Road 1025S Greenfield Parks and Brandywine Park This 25-acre community park is situated Recreation Department 900 E. Davis Road at the junction of Stottlemeyer Ditch 280 N. Apple St. and Jackson Ditch that creates rolling Brandywine Park is a 60-acre sports The city’s parks and recreation hillsides and running water. The park complex offering 20 soccer fields, three department offices are located in the also has many facilities for activities softball fields (two adult, one youth), Patricia Elmore Center in Greenfield. and recreation as well as playgrounds playground equipment and a wooden For more information about activities equipment. Amenities include four trail along Brandywine Creek. and events available throughout the shelters, three playgrounds, two tennis year, visit greenfieldin.org/recreation or Commons Park courts, two softball/baseball diamonds, call 317-477-4340. 856 W. Fifth St. a basketball court, foot trails and sledding. Commons Park is a small residential park, measuring less than one acre, offering playground equipment in a quiet setting.

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 17 area parks

Henry B. Wilson Park East end of Martindale Drive at Riley Park Pool Greenfield Village subdivision This 14-acre park offers mulched walking trails in a wooded setting along Brandywine Creek. Future development plans include fishing piers. Mary Moore Park 951 N. Franklin St. Mary Moore Park is an eight-acre nature park offering mulched trails running through a wooded setting. Information markers are located along the trails with plant and bird life points of interest. Thornwood Preserve County Road 200 South and Morristown Pike The park boasts 40 wooded acres. Attractions include trails, benches and an overall emphasis on the natural features and wildlife. Herb and Judy Brown of Greenfield donated the land to the city in 2009 with the hope of providing solitude and nature education for generations to come.

McCordsville McCordsville Town Hall Park 6280 W. County Road 800N This two-acre park is filled with green space and offers shelters for rent. Old School Park County Roads 600W and 750N The three-acre park features four picnic Jacob Schramm Nature Malcolm Grass Memorial tables, playground equipment, green Preserve Park space, a baseball field, one tennis court 1586 S. County Road 600W 201 Main St. and a basketball court. Thirty acres of the Schramm Woods This small park features a seating area, were donated as a nature preserve. Jacob a war memorial and a memorial to New Palestine Schramm came to Indiana in the mid- slain former Hancock County Sheriff Southeastway Regional Park 1830s from Germany. Malcolm Grass. 5624 S. Carroll Road This 188-acre forested park features Shirley Wilkinson hiking trails, a prairie preserve and Shirley Park Weir Cook Community wildlife and is often the site of local 200 Second St. Park educational programs. Shirley’s main park offers an outside 147 N. Main St. Sugar Creek Township Park shelter, a community building available About a half-acre, the only park 4136 S. County Road 700W for rent, playground equipment, two in Wilkinson offers playground The park includes shelters, playground baseball diamonds, an outdoor stage, equipment, two shelters, open green equipment, a nine-hole Frisbee golf course, one volleyball court and two basketball space, a veterans memorial, a Weir Cook soccer fields, a fitness trail and a veterans courts. memorial and a basketball court. memorial. Overall the park includes 88 acres, with development on 35 acres.

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Greenfield AHN Discover Hancock Co. 2018.indd 1 8/23/18 2:11 PM Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 19 Area Markets Cumberland Farmers Farmers Market at the Other: Fairgrounds Market Hoosier Harvest Market: hoosierharvestcouncil.com/farmers- hoosierharvestcouncil.com/farmers- hoosierharvestmarket. markets/cumberland-farmers-market/ markets/farmers-market-at-the- com fairgrounds/ 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays, May to (Online food hub to connect with local October at Cumberland Town Hall, 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays, May to producers.) 11501 E. Washington St., Indianapolis October, at the Hancock County hoosierharvestcouncil.com/farmers- 4-H Fairgrounds, 620 N. Apple. St., markets/cumberland-farmers-market/ Fortville Farmers Market Greenfield fmacoc.com/community-info/farmers- 8 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, July market/ through September, at the fairgrounds 4 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, mid-May to 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. first and third September, 701 S. Maple St., Fortville Saturdays, November through April, (Church of the Nazarene parking lot) in the heated show arena at the fairgrounds

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 21 Hancock County Arts Address: 20 N. State St., Greenfield www.hancockcountyarts.com Mission statement: “Hancock County Arts will provide leadership for the creative community by encouraging, celebrating, and promoting arts and culture throughout Hancock County.” Showcasing gallery shows, workshops and events promoting local art and artists, including the Will Vawter Fine Arts Competition and participation in the annual Chalk Fest and other community events. Friends of the Theater www.hctheaterfriends.org [email protected] Friends of the Theater is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the H.J. Ricks Centre for the Arts. Holding regular volunteer days and raising money through a membership program, grant seeking and donations and an annual holiday variety show, the Friends help assure the Ricks remains a place for all ages to enjoy. Visit the website to learn more.

THEATER GROUPS CrazyLake Acting Company Address: 582 N. Sunset Court, Greenfield 317-294-3087 www.crazylakeacting.com

Hancock County Children’s Theater Workshop Address: 1339 Greenhills Road, Greenfield 317-694-9010 [email protected] www.hancockcountychildrenstheater.org Hancock County Children’s Theater is a The CrazyLake Acting Company’s summer 2019 production of “Mamma Mia!” Pictured from left: Amy Studabaker, Shari Jacobs, Noelle Russell. summer workshop for Hancock County children in grades 4-8. Students spend the month of June learning all aspects of theater production culminating in two performances. Promoting KidsPlay Inc. children’s theatre Address: 582 N. Sunset Court, Greenfield 317-294-3087 the arts KidsPlay Inc. children’s theatre on Facebook. in Greenfield and Hancock County com.

22 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Our Community

Cumberland is a truly connected community with over six miles of multi-use trail. Almost every neighborhood in town is connected 1.to either the Pennsy Trail, Buck Creek Trail, or 21st Street Trail, and those trails connect to parks, restaurants, and shops. Eventually the town will be connected to both Irvington and Greenﬁ eld via trail.

Spend a little time on the Pennsy Trail and you will ﬁ nd a 1:1 billion scale model of the solar system with interpretive panels 2.for each of the planets that were designed to meet state school testing requirements.

Cumberland is a great place for family friendly entertainment. The Blues, Beer & BBQ summer concert series brings regional and 3.national blues artists to a family friendly space for an evening of music and, of course, beer and BBQ from local vendors. In August, the Cumberland First Baptist Church hosts the Cumberland Arts Festival and is a great place to pick up art from local artists. We wrap up the year with the town’s annual Weihnachtsmarkt (German holiday market) on the ﬁ rst Saturday in December. This all-day festival features local craft vendors, children’s activities, visits with Santa, a tree lighting, and a free concert by the Flying Toasters!

The town is a great place to raise a family. Cumberland enjoys a low crime rate with a police department truly dedicated to 4.reducing and preventing crime. In 2018, total calls for service were down 10% and thefts were down 25%. The Cumberland Police Department serves its community well through its hard work and community policing.

Cumberland also beneﬁ ts from great access. Being located within a 20 minute drive to both Greenﬁ eld and Indianapolis, 5.residents can take advantage of numerous cultural events and amenities. Cumberland also has access to public transportation via IndyGo.

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 23 Promoting the arts

Ricks-Weil Theatre Company Address: H.J. Ricks Centre for the Arts, 122 W. Main St., Greenfield 317-477-8689 [email protected] Ricks-Weil Theatre Company on Facebook.com.

ARTS VENUES Main Street Arts at the Carnegie Gallery Address: 115 N. Main Street, Fortville, IN 46040 Social Addresses: @ mainstreetartsmusichistoricfortville @ artbattlefortville Bringing You: Indiana’s only ArtBattle tourney, a competitive painting Hancock County Arts plays host to the Twenty North Gallery at 20 N. State St. experience; festivals; gallery exhibits including: plein air paint outs, modern Ricochet Cloggers Mission statement: To provide an artistic art paired with rare manuscripts and Directed by Annie Wing avenue for area musicians to prepare and NASA artifacts; and local performing Address: Elite Performing Center, 4202 perform music for the enjoyment of our artists and concerts. N. EMS Blvd., Greenfield community and each other. 260-409-3005 Ten West Center for the Greenfield Community Arts [email protected] Choir Ricochet Cloggers on Facebook Address: 10 W. Church St., Fortville President: Helen Jackson 317-403-0323 Classes for ages 3 and up. Recreational & [email protected] competitive levels offered [email protected] greenfieldcommunitychoir.com and on www.tenwestcenter.org and on Facebook Rhythms by Stacey Facebook and Instagram Directed by Stacey Poe The Greenfield Community Choir, Inc. Twenty North Gallery 317-627-4750 is all about bringing quality choral Address: 20 N. State St., Greenfield [email protected] music to the Greenfield community. Rhythms By Stacey on Facebook Our concerts are designed to be of high 317-477-7664 Specializing in Ballroom Dancing, quality, entertaining, engaging, and [email protected] Zumba Fitness, POUND Fitness and occasionally will bring a smile to your face. hancockcountyarts.com Booty Barre Wilkerson Dance Studio Greenfield Community DANCE Address: 1114 W. North St., Greenfield Orchestra Hearts Ablaze Clogging 317-462-1673 Angela Mickler (317-467-7510) Team [email protected] Rehearses at Trinity Park United Methodist Church, Greenfield. Directed by Cristy Corwin-Howard wilkersondance.com Address: 3254 W. County Road 400 S., Greenfield Dance classes for all ages; seasonal Hancock County Performances. Children’s Choir Phone: 317-498-5566 hancockcountychildrenschoir.org Email: [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] Website: www.heartsablazeclogging.com Brandywine Wind 317-620-0096 Hearts Ablaze Studio is a recreational Call Jerry Bell (317-4652-2033) or Gary Mission statement: Through excellent and competitive clogging studio that Davis (317-440-0834) musical education and mentorship, we also offers private piano and violin Greenfield’s all-volunteer community equip youth with essential life skills lessons convenient to both New orchestra regularly performs in various while igniting a community interest in Palestine and Greenfield families. venues throughout the county. our youth and the arts.

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Greenfield planning director Joanie Fitzwater, at left, and Mayor Chuck Fewell break into wide smiles at news that their regional collaboration with Fortville and Hancock County has been designated a Stellar Community for 2019. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER)

and McCordsville, was not selected. The two winners — a group of communities from northeastern Indiana also was selected — will each Going Stellar receive up to $15 million in grants to Region selected as grant recipient fast-track economic development and quality-of-life projects over five years. By Ben Middelkamp Representatives with Fortville, Green- Daily Reporter field and Hancock County plan to use [email protected] the funds for housing projects, park GREENFIELD upgrades, trail extensions and other added amenities. Millions of dollars in grants Greenfield Mayor Chuck Fewell said will soon start pouring into Greenfield, being named a Stellar Community Fortville and Hancock County — the allows the area to be progressive. region picked as one of the two Stellar “We were elated,” Fewell said. “You Communities in Indiana for 2018-19. can’t describe anything as great as The Indiana Office of Community hearing that you’re going to push and Rural Affairs announced the forward. This gives us an opportunity Health and Heritage Region as a Stellar to grow as a city and bring amenities designee in December 2018, follow- that’s going to allow citizens to enjoy ing months of planning by a team of the fruits of the hard work that took local officials. A second finalist from place to make this happen.” Hancock County, a collaboration The Greenfield-Fortville-Hancock Mamong New Palestine, Cumberland County team focused its regional plan

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Discover Hancock County 2019 • Daily Reporter 27 community Spotlight What ‘Stellar’ The Stellar finalists means WINNERS The Stellar Communities Health and Heritage Region — city of program began in 2011 as a way Greenfield, the town of Fortville and on health, heritage and heart — for state officials to encourage Hancock County preserving the historic components progressive development in New Allen Alliance — Allen County, rural communities. the towns of Grabill, Leo-Cedarville of the region while still adding new, According to one study, the and Monroeville and the cities of modern amenities. program has distributed $100 New Haven and Woodburn “My initial thought was, oh my million in grants, spawning OTHER FINALISTS gosh, now that the state has given us an additional investment of Mt. Comfort Gateway Corridor — the this award, how are we going to live $135 million in community towns of Cumberland, McCordsville up to this? We’ve got to make the contributions. and New Palestine Eastern Indiana — the cities of state proud of their selection,” said Winning the Stellar designation is a prestigious accomplishment Richmond, Rushville and Union City, Joanie Fitzwater, planning director for communities because of and Randolph County for Greenfield. the funding — as much as Marshall County Crossroads — Health and Heritage has 15 $15 million in grants — that is Marshall County, the towns of Argos, projects it wants to complete over available to the winners. That Bremen, Bourbon, Culver, LaPaz and Plymouth the next four to five years — split money will be a catalyst for a wide range of community Source: Indiana Office of Community among Greenfield, Hancock County improvement projects. and Rural Affairs and Fortville, said Jenna Wertman, associate city planner. In Greenfield and Hancock County, that includes renovations to the Riley Wertman said it was a “no- ning. She appreciated how the group Boyhood Home, adding inclusive brainer” for Greenfield to collab- wanted to preserve the history of the playground equipment at Franklin orate with Fortville for the grant area while also creating new cultural Park, creating a park along Depot program, as both municipalities amenities and developing trails and Street downtown, building the Riley have historic downtowns and a surge Literary Trail, improvements to the park improvements for people of all in entrepreneurship as of late. Memorial Building, extending the ages and for those with disabilities. “We want to grow in all these Pennsy Trail and paying for multiple “Seeing how they were going to ac- other ways, but we don’t want to lose beds at the Talitha Koum Women’s complish that, to us, set them apart,” these cores that we have,” she said. Recovery House for county residents. Crouch said. “We want regional Greenfield is pursuing the Depot Fitzwater said the city will have to communities to be able to demon- Street park first. apply for the grants that are awarded strate how they can transform a Fortville’s anchor project is Broad- through Stellar over the next few years, community, how they are planning way Commons, said the town’s plan- and Greenfield will continue to seek for the future.” ning director, Adam Zaklikowski. public input on design along the way. Crouch also commended the Mt. Forza Development, out of Zionsville, “People have to understand, we’re Comfort Gateway Corridor group — is proposing a mixed-use building excited, but you’re not going to see Cumberland, McCordsville and New with retail/office/restaurant space on this pop up instantly and have new Palestine — as being among the five the first floor and “workforce devel- amenities everywhere and say, ‘wow, finalist Stellar regions. opment” housing on the top floor. that’s quick,’” Fewell added. “It’s a time- “It speaks to the leadership of Zaklikowski said the housing proj- driven opportunity, and we’re going to Hancock County that you all were ect will get built on the land where take our time and do things right.” able to generate two Stellar finalists,” Broadway Carwash sits as well as OCRA, which is overseen by the she said. the adjacent vacant lot, at the corner office of Indiana Lt. Gov Suzanne The other Hancock County finalist Broadway and Madison streets. Crouch, launched Stellar in 2011 included workforce housing in Zaklikowski also said the money the and has since designated 14 different Cumberland, a roundabout at Mt. town is spending on the Main Street cities and towns across the state. Comfort Road and County Road reconstruction project and Mt. Ver- This year is the first time the grant 600N as well as pocket parks and an non trail project will get rolled over program focused on regional initia- interactive street in New Palestine. into the Stellar match. tives instead of specific municipali- Their project also proposed a town The project is being revised after ties turning in applications. center in McCordsville, renovations input from the public. Crouch said that state officials were to a historic New Palestine building “We’re really excited and definitely impressed with how the Health and and a new facility at the intersection honored,” Zaklikowski said. We want Heritage Region demonstrated sound of Buck Creek and Pennsy trails in to make the most of it.” leadership, collaboration and plan- Cumberland. D

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Destination: Hancock County third-fastest-growing in state, figures show

By Ben Middelkamp HANCOCK COUNTY Daily Reporter [email protected] Over the past two decades, tion, which now stands at 76,351, more than 20,000 people have increased by 1.9 percent year- moved into Hancock County. Many over-year, bringing in nearly 1,400 Above: New homes at the have built new homes. Families people. Hamilton and Hendricks Villages at Brookside in have enrolled their students in the counties led the state in population McCordsville have been built at a brisk pace in the past year. (TOM county’s schools. gain, according to the Indiana Busi- RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER) So why here? Location. Location. ness Research Center. Location. The 11-county Indianapolis-Car- As the 2020 census approaches, mel-Anderson metro area — of the U.S. Census Bureau estimates which Hancock County is part Hancock County was the third fast- — added nearly 22,000 residents Oest-growing county in Indiana from last year — 69 percent of the state’s 2017 to 2018. The county’s popula- 2018 population growth, accord-

30 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 ing to the research center’s analysis. The area’s population of nearly 2.05 By the numbers million represents about a third of the 76,351 state’s population. Population of Hancock County in 2018 Matt Kinghorn, senior demographic analyst at the Indiana Busi- 55,702 ness Research Center at the Indiana Population in 2000 University Kelley School of Business, said in some suburban central Indi- 1,400 ana counties, like Hancock County, Estimated number of people who moved to Hancock population growth is driven by avail- County in 2017 able residential construction and the perception of quality schools. 20,756 Population of older adults (ages 45 to 64) in the county. It The Indiana Business Research is the largest population by age group in the county. Center’s analysis found that Hancock County has the second-highest rate 27,576 of net in-migration, or people who Number of households in the county. move into a county. In 2018, there were 16.5 movers per 1,000 residents $73,294 in the county. From 2012 to 2017, Median household income close to 1,500 movers came from Marion County, while 917 people left 39,772 Hancock County to move to Mar- Size of the county’s labor force ion County, according to the census bureau. That analysis shows true in Hancock County’s uptick of new- home construction permits. Close to 600 single-family house permits were issued throughout the county That’s an increase of 19% from five planning ahead. Parker said more in 2018. That pace is expected to years ago, when 3,545 students were students means the corporation will remain steady in the coming years, enrolled, according to DOE data. need to hire additional teachers and areas planners have said, since more Mt. Vernon recently commis- staff members at a time where the than 1,000 lots will open in new and sioned a demographic study to pool of workers is shrinking. existing subdivisions in Fortville and prepare for the upward trend of Mt. Vernon Middle School was McCordsville, the fastest-growing enrollment. The study shows the renovated earlier this year to house areas in the county. district could grow by 150 students all three school grades. For years, As more people — and families — each year for 10 years, resulting in sixth- and seventh-graders had move into the county, especially in 2,000 new students. That would been at the middle school building, the northern and western parts, that push the district enrollment over while eighth-graders had been at means schools will have to adjust. Mt. 6,000, almost five times larger than Mt. Vernon High School. The $12 Vernon Community School Corpora- the current enrollment of Eastern million renovation added 17 new tion could soon surpass Greenfield- Hancock schools. classrooms and a new gymnasium. Central — which has historically Most of that projected growth Parker said the corporation been the largest county district — in is expected to come from families intends to study where most people enrollment. moving into new homes in the are moving to in the district, so For the 2018-19 school year, 4,476 district, said Jack Parker, superin- they can see the best places to build students were enrolled at Greenfield- tendent of Mt. Vernon schools. He new school buildings in the next Central, according to the Indiana De- said the corporation can manage five to 10 years. partment of Education’s latest count. the growth if officials remain Mt. Vernon will also start a six- Mt. Vernon’s enrollment was 4,226. “conscientious and purposeful” in month “community conversation”

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Hancock County recorded nearly 600 residential building permits in 2018. Nearly 1,000 lots are expected to open in new and existing subdivisions in Fortville and McCordsville, the fastest-growing areas of the county. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER)

in August with district residents attended Southern Hancock about a 10-year-plus facilities and schools. programs plan, Parker said. They’ll At the beginning of the school “Our goal is to have invite hundreds of people to two year, Southern Hancock reopened the people who come meetings, one in August and a sec- the former Doe Creek Middle ond in January, to discuss the plan School as New Palestine Junior here and want to start and to receive input from various High School for seventh- and a job may be from members of the community. Parker eighth-graders, while operating someplace else, but it said he anticipates presenting the New Palestine Intermediate School looks nice enough here plan to the school board by March for fifth- and sixth-graders. The and it’s clean and it’s 2020. changes come in response to stu- Similar to Mt. Vernon, Southern dent body growth. safe, that they might Hancock schools has also experi- Wes Anderson, public relations want to reside here.” enced incremental growth over the director for Southern Hancock CHUCK FEWELL past few years. DOE data indicate schools, said the district is preparing the corporation had 3,770 students for at least 10 new or expanding enrolled for the 2018-19 school housing additions in the district that year. That’s 15% more than five will result in close to 500 new homes. years earlier, when 3,283 students Southern Hancock is in the early

32 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 stages of talks to expand the high mated at 22,094 in 2017 — grew by school to add more classrooms and about 2,000 residents since 2010, space. according to census estimates. “We haven’t reached a growth Fewell said the steady growth rate yet that would allow us to add has allowed the city to expand its a significant number of programs,” services at an even pace, adding he said, “but as we grow, that’s that the city’s utilities and street de- certainly an option that we hope partment is focused to handle the we can take advantage of.” level of growth Greenfield has been While some of the smaller com- experiencing. The city also expects munities in Hancock County get to draw in hundreds of new em- larger, the county seat of Greenfield ployees at BeijingWest Industries. has kept a steady rate of growth, “Our goal is to have the people Below: A new home under construction in Greenfield Mayor Chuck Fewell who come here and want to start McCordsville likely means the Mt. Vernon school district will grow yet again. Mt. noted. He likes the moderate and a job may be from someplace else, Vernon has 4,215 students enrolled as of last consistent growth Greenfield has but it looks nice enough here and month, and the district might soon surpass experienced over the past several it’s clean and it’s safe,” he said, “that Greenfield-Central as the largest in the county. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER) years. The city’s population — esti- they might want to reside here.” D

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Room to grow Spacious new Sugar Creek library branch welcomes patrons

By Rorye Hatcher For the Daily Reporter

Easy-to-browse magazines are displayed on well-lit shelves in a reading area at the new Sugar Creek Branch of the Hancock County Public Library. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER)

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For Jeanette Sherfield, the new The new library is twice the size of the li- building is both library and lighthouse. brary’s previous location, a former drugstore Sherfield, the manager of the Sugar Creek and post office measuring 7,480 square feet. Branch of the Hancock County Public Li- The new library branch has a lot of room brary, noted the way the new 15,000-square- to grow, Sherfield and library director Dave foot facility shines like a beacon, built the Gray said: The collection is laid out in a way it is to take advantage of natural light, more spacious fashion, and the bottom and with lots of lights illuminating the shelves of the main library’s stacks aren’t in shelves of books, magazines, public comput- use yet, Sherfield said, which should provide ers and seating spaces. a better line of sight for patrons reading the FSherfield and other staff members made books’ spines. many trips from the old branch location to Sherfield said it’s been exciting to begin the new site, 5731 W. U.S. 52, about a mile working in a brand-new facility instead of west, to transfer the library’s collection and making do in a structure built for another other items they could reuse at the new site. use and then retrofitted. The $4.8 million facility opened in February. Deborah Williams, who manages the

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ing problems with limited parking and overcrowded events. From 2012 to 2016, the library saw nearly 20,000 more visitors each year walk through its doors. Limited event seating forced librarians to get creative, issuing first- come, first-serve tickets for popular programs to prevent overcrowding. The new building contains a large children’s area with a playhouse, a designated teen section, more study and lounging areas and meeting and youth programming rooms that are big enough to accommodate many more event-goers, Gray said. Former board president Beverly Gard said the library’s board of directors had planned and saved for many years to make the building a reality. Her last official action in 2016 as board president was to sign the papers to purchase the property, about five acres located in front of the Woodland Terrace senior living youth section of the Sugar Creek Li- years early thanks to a $3.5 million complex. brary, was excited to welcome the li- gift from the couple’s estate, which “(The new branch is) a testimony brary’s youngest patrons to the new was received in 2017. to the hard work of the staff and the department, which boasts a large The library’s board in July 2016 board,” she said. “The new board blue-and-green clubhouse pur- purchased the land from Justus seems just as committed as we were.” chased with help from the Friends Property Management for $700,000, At official dedication ceremonies of the Library, a reading nook, kids’ using money from the library sys- three months later, officials were computers and the Hancock Health tem’s rainy day fund. The board said thrilled with the initial reception. On children’s programming room. then that the construction wouldn’t its first day, 1,800 items were checked “There’s lots more seating and happen any time soon. out. The compares to the 400 to 500 space,” she said. She added the three For years, the board had weighed items normally checked out. While librarians and youth assistant who building a new branch or renovat- circulation leveled off somewhat in work in the department are also ing the existing facility that serves the months that followed, librarians excited about the new storage areas Sugar Creek township; in 2010, still have noted that more people are for crafting, story time and other the library made preliminary plans checking out more items. They’re needs. to move forward with a $985,000 averaging 1,500 to 2,000 additional Stones outside the main entrance renovation but later scrapped the items checked out per month, Gray are emblazoned with “Hancock effort. said. County Public Library Sugar Creek The branch’s former location One of the areas Gray is most Branch, Dr. Ralph and Grace Rea at 5087 W. U.S. 52 had for years proud of is the flexibility for pro- Memorial Building.” The library was proved cramped for the increasing gramming. Events at the old library able to move ahead on the project number of patrons visiting it, caus- tended to be first-come, first-served.

36 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Now, there is plenty of space for been visiting the new library on a seating for programming, which steady basis, she said, and while they plan to kick-off this summer her husband misses the coziness with concerts. of the older library, she’s certain “We’re expecting to see our in time, he’ll love the new one as numbers go up there as well,” Gray much as she does. said. The bigger, more modern facility The library has also attracted is good, she said, for the area and “I think people might a steady flow of visitors from the the county. have a tendency to think nearby Woodland Terrace Senior “I think people might have a ten- Living complex with group visits. dency to think of Hancock County of Hancock County as Gray said he’s hoping they’ll also as kind of a rural, woodsy kind of kind of a rural, woodsy be able to develop some special place, but we’re losing that image kind of place, but we’re programming for them and other particularly when people drive losing that image par- groups. by and see this wonderful place,” ticularly when people Vicki Crocco, New Palestine, has Crocco said. D drive by and see this Stories about the Sugar Creek Branch of the Hancock County Public Library wonderful place.” originally were published on Feb. 9 and May 21, 2019. VICKI CROCCO

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Marked in service Radio call opens new fire station in Fortville

By Mitchell Kirk Daily Reporter FORTVILLE [email protected] Todd Jordan, Vernon Town- tion project and the beginning of ship’s new fire chief, reached for his a new era for public safety in the radio with a message for Hancock northwestern Hancock County County’s emergency dispatch center. township. Not only does the town- “Please mark the new Vernon ship have a new fire station, but paid Township Fire Station 3 in service,” firefighters are on duty for the first he said. time in its history. They’ve joined The audience in the recently two formerly separate volunteer fire- completed station’s truck bay burst fighting outfits to form the Vernon into applause. A dispatcher’s voice Township Fire Department, with Vernon Township firefighters sounded from Jordan’s radio, ful- finances and policies falling under ceremoniously push a truck intoT its filling the request before signing off township government control. bay as part of the opening of the new station on Vitality Drive in Fortville. with a “Congratulations.” Before Jordan called the new (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER) It marked the end of a construc- station on Vitality Drive in Fortville

38 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 into service during a ceremony in May 2019, Vernon Township Trustee Florence May swore in the firefighters to their new department. The township has been contract- ing for fire protection with volunteer fire departments in Fortville and McCordsville. Fortville’s outfit has moved from its former station in the town’s municipal building and into the new $4.25 million facility, out of which 15 part-time firefighters will also work. Seals Ambulance, the township’s EMS service, has moved into the new station as well. The new fire station has sleeping quarters, which McCordsville’s fire station and Fortville’s former one lack. Along with its four-door ap- Vernon Township firefighters held a ceremony to put the new station in service in June. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER)

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paratus bay, the new station also has have dedicated so much of their “We owe a debt of gratitude to our a living room, kitchen, recreational personal time to protecting our predecessors on getting here and to room and bathrooms with showers. township,” May said. all those people who are willing to The chiefs of the former Fort- After the remarks, firefighters come together,” May said. ville and McCordsville volunteer carried out the traditional washing Rich Lau, one of the recently hired departments will maintain leader- of a fire engine before helping push part-time Vernon Township fire- ship roles as station chiefs. Jordan, it into the apparatus bay. As digni- fighters, visited the new station for who recently started as fire chief for taries and visitors toured the new the first time on Wednesday. the township, is also the township’s facility, May said she was grateful for “It’s beautiful,” he said. “They did public safety director. former Vernon Township Trustee a great job. It was very well thought “The three organizations have Jim Nolte and his administration’s out. You can tell that firefighters had persevered to an amazing degree,” work on starting the station project a hand in it. It’s just very comfort- May said of the two volunteer fire before she took office in January. able, very user-friendly.” departments and Seals Ambulance. She also reflected on the amount Lau also works full-time as a fire- Emergency runs in Vernon Town- of cooperation that was needed fighter in Avon. ship have been rivaling those with between township officials, volun- “Most of us are on another de- fire departments that have full-time teer firefighters, paid firefighters and partment somewhere,” he said of staffs, she added. the ambulance service to see the Vernon Township’s paid part-time “We salute those volunteers who endeavor through. firefighters. “We’re always looking

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40 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 for opportunities to reach out, learn new things, give back to the communities.” The changing approach to public safety in Ver- non Township signals the decline of the one that’s lasted throughout much of its history. Since 1889 in Fortville and 1952 in McCordsville, firefighters have been rushing from work, home or wherever they are to burning buildings and people who are sick and injured. That was on McCordsville-based Vernon Township firefighter Doug Roberts’ mind as he mingled with fellow public safety workers following the ceremony. “That’s several years of history,” Roberts said. A public safety task force that’s been guiding the changes in Vernon Township is made up of officials from the township, its towns and Hancock County along with volunteer firefighters. May said its tasks in the future will include determining staffing and After remarks to open the new fire station, firefighters carried out the traditional washing of a equipment needs. D fire engine. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter) DR-35013533

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Diagnosis: Improving County rises in health rankings, but trouble spots remain

42 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 By Mitchell Kirk Daily Reporter [email protected]

HANCOCK COUNTY Hancock County has become County’s health sector credit according to the data, were one of the healthiest in Indiana, the improvement to hard work; a relatively low number of according to a report released identifying needs; and then uninsured residents; access to in the spring of 2019. addressing them. primary-care physicians; and That’s the conclusion of the The data is a comprehensive fewer preventable hospitaliza- Robert Wood Johnson Foun- look at the health of the popu- tions than the statewide aver- dation and the University of lation. The health rankings are age. Hancock County also has Wisconsin Population Health based on information including fewer children in poverty and Institute, which has been health behaviors and clinical fewer single-parent households studying health trends nation- care outcomes along with social that the statewide average. wide for a decade. Hancock and economic factors, such as But there are shortcomings. HCounty’s ranking, according housing and hunger. The local data reflects a decline Josh Gentry goes to the new data, is fifth in the Hancock County ranked be- in smoking but a rise in obesity. through his set of state, up from seventh last year hind Hamilton and Hendricks It also reflects a deficiency in weight training and 27th in 2011 — the first counties in the Indianapolis availability of mental health at Hancock year the organizations started metro area and Dubois and care. Hancock County is also Wellness Center. (TOM RUSSO | the rankings. Warrick counties in south- below the state average in ac- DAILY REPORTER) Representatives of Hancock western Indiana. Key factors, cess to exercise opportunities, DR-35016854

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ications for quitting smoking. Brandee Bastin, Hancock Regional Hospital’s tobacco initiative coordinator, said the drop in smoking over the past eight years is also likely influenced by what she called a supportive infrastructure. The county’s smoke-free-air regulations are some of the strongest and most comprehensive in the state, she said. The rules prohibit smoking in many public places and places of employment. “If you’re not able to smoke, it’s a catalyst and encouragement for them to quit smoking,” Bastin said. She added fewer adults are smoking because fewer young people are smoking and carrying the habit into adulthood. Adult smoking may be down, but adult obesity is up. According to the report, 35 percent of the Hancock County adults surveyed reported a body mass index of 30 or more, which Myron Applegate pumps his legs through a cardiovascular workout at Hancock Wellness Center. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER) is the threshold for obesity. For Indi- ana, it’s 33 percent. Last year’s Hancock although efforts are under way to bacco use, mental health care access County data indicated 34 percent were increase that availability. and stigmas associated with mental obese, and in 2011 it was 28 percent. Steve Long, CEO of Hancock health and addiction. The hospital The report also indicates 48 percent Health, said the organization’s goal developed a program called Healthy of Hancock County residents surveyed is to rise to No. 1 on the list. He 365 to help address those issues. reported adequate access to loca- called the latest standing “a valida- Robert Wood Johnson Foun- tions for physical activity, compared tion of the work many, many people dation and University of Wiscon- to 75 percent for the state. Hancock have been involved in over the past sin Population Health Institute’s County’s data reflected 60 percent last several years.” reporting reflects a gap in mental year. The category was not included in “I believe that if a person knows health access in Hancock County, the reporting for the first year in 2011. they will have a longer, healthier, too. According to the report, there Hancock Regional Hospital has happier life just by living in our are 1,740 residents for every mental wellness centers in Greenfield and Mc- county, we will be a magnet for fu- health provider in the county. The Cordsville and is building one in New ture growth,” Long said in an email state’s ratio is almost two-thirds less: Palestine. Several retail fitness centers to the Daily Reporter. 670 to 1. also have outlets in the county. Nancy Davis, executive director The report indicates 16 percent of The wellness center in Greenfield of the Hancock Health Foundation, Hancock County adults are smok- provides medical fitness programming said she found the latest rank amaz- ers. That’s the same as last year but for patients as well as general member- ing but not surprising. down from 22 percent in 2011. ships. It also offers education on dia- Davis said Hancock Health im- Hancock Regional Hospital betes and nutrition, a group exercise pacted the latest ranking through has had tobacco prevention and studio, cycling studio, free weights, initiatives like completing the Com- cessation programming since 2002. exercise machines, a gymnasium and munity Health Needs Assessment, It offers resources like free smoking a pool. which revealed the county’s top four cessation classes, referrals to the Yvette Dixon, general manager of the areas of need: healthier living, to- Indiana Tobacco Quitline and med- Hancock Wellness Center in Green-

44 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 field, said the facility has about strength she lost after a bout with By the numbers 3,500 members and that McCords- cancer. Hancock County health data ville’s has about the same. She said she likes how her State rank: 5 Dixon echoed Long’s happi- trainer moves at her speed and Adult smoking: 16 percent ness over the county rising to pushes her when it’s beneficial. Adult obesity: 35 percent fifth-healthiest in the state and Ash had been visiting the Access to exercise opportunities: 48 percent also shares his objective for the Hancock Wellness Center off and Ratio of population to mental health future. on for about five years before providers: 1,740:1 “Our goal is to be No. 1,” Dixon starting to attend more regularly said. “We’re getting there.” over the past few months. She Sharon Mohler of Greenfield visits at least twice a week but her Indiana county health rankings said she exercises at the wellness goal is three. Her husband and center for about two hours a daughter work out there, too. Healthiest Least day about six days a week. Her Ash said she never gave exercise 1. Hamilton healthiest workouts range from weights to much thought until she got sick. 2. Hendricks 88. Wayne cardiovascular exercise. She added it’s important to take 3. Warren 89. Jennings “It helps relieve my stress,” care of herself so she can partici- 4. Boone 90. Grant Mohler said. “...It makes you feel pate in activities she wants to take 5. Hancock 91. Scott better, sleep better; there are so part in, like spending time with 92. Fayette many pluses to it.” her grandchildren. Sources: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Carol Ash of Greenfield visits “It really has helped me a lot,” she University of Wisconsin Population Health the wellness center to build up said of exercising at the facility. D Institute

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Nail by nail A future homeowner’s dream takes shape as Habitat for Humanity tackles another project

Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity work on building a new home in 46 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Greenfield. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter) By Mitchell Kirk Daily Reporter [email protected]

GREENFIELD Debra Cavaletto is looking for- Cavaletto said she felt excited Then she came across Habitat ward to having a home her son and blessed as she watched the for Humanity on Facebook. She can invite his friends to, a yard work start on her new three-bed- went straight to the organization’s for their dachshund and a place room home. local thrift shop, ReStore, and to have a barbecue. “It’s been a privilege for me filled out an application. She drove the first nail into that and my family to partner up with “I prayed to God and said, dream in August, followed by Habitat,” she said, adding she’s ‘God, if you want me to have this many more from volunteers with been involved with the organiza- house, it’ll happen. If not, I’m OK Greater Indy Habitat for Human- tion since April 2018. where I’m at,” she said. ity’s latest endeavor to provide Before her home was finished, Within a week, Habitat for an affordable home to a Hancock she was renting an apartment in Humanity was at her door to DCounty family. Greenfield, where she lived with inform her that she and Landon Saws buzzed and hammers her 14-year-old son, Landon. had been chosen. pounded as helmet-clad workers “I knew that I wanted to be a “I had the desire but yet I had to erected walls on the concrete slab homeowner one day, but honestly be content where I was and trust on West Sixth Street in Green- I didn’t have much hope, being a that if it was meant to be, it would field. single parent,” she said. happen,” she said. “And it did.”

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surprised to learn Cavaletto would be moving next door. “I didn’t know who was moving in, but it was nice to know it was somebody that I knew,” she said. Cavaletto’s apartment doesn’t allow for barbecues or a lot of space for Landon to have friends over. “He’s a teen, so it’s important that he be able to have a home that he can bring his friends to,” she said. She’s looking forward to having her adult son and daughter over for holidays and visits as well. As a Habitat for Humanity home buyer, Cavaletto was offered a zero-interest loan for her house. Abri Hochstetler, associate director of communications and annual giving for Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity, said homeowners qualify based on need, affordability and willingness to partner. Cav- aletto meets the criteria based on her stable income and inability to qualify for a traditional mortgage, Hochstetler said. Cavaletto is almost finished with her 300 hours of “sweat equity” with the organization, too. She’s been working on other Habitat for Humanity projects in Indianapo- lis and Greenfield through tasks like painting, siding, assembling pre-built walls and working at the organization’s ReStore. “That’s my passion as well — to Volunteers leave encouraging Cavaletto noticed the Sixth help others,” she said. messages for the new Street property driving around She also completed financial liter- homeowner as they work. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter) town before Habitat for Humanity acy and home maintenance classes. even offered it to her. Landon’s “You are very much prepared to father lives the next street over. She be a homeowner when you com- already knows one of her neighbors plete the course,” she said. “You can — Sue Sanders, who babysat her know you have confidence that you eldest son. can maintain your residence and “I believe this is where I’m sup- keep it up.” posed to be,” Cavaletto said. Chase Yanzer, construction Sanders said she was pleasantly superintendent for Greater Indy

48 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Habitat for Humanity, led the everything we can for every- building efforts as work began body in our community.” on Cavaletto’s home. “It’ll look Cavaletto’s home is the really nice from the street,” he fourth project in Hancock “You are very much said. County for Greater Indy Hab- Hancock Regional Hospital itat for Humanity, which also prepared to be a and Vectren employees made carries out projects in Mar- homeowner when up much of the volunteer ion, Hamilton and Hendricks you complete the force. Angie Kennedy, transi- counties. Hochstetler said course. You can tional care liaison for Hancock Hancock County’s three other know you have Regional Hospital, said the homeowners have settled in hospital holds a lottery every well and are keeping up with confidence that you year for employees to volun- their payments. can maintain your teer with Habitat for Humanity Those interested in volun- residence and keep projects. Kennedy was happy teering on Cavaletto’s home it up.” to help Cavaletto, whom she’s and other area Habitat for Debra Cavaletto known for a long time. Humanity projects are encour- “This is our community,” aged to visit indyhabitat.org/ Kennedy said. “We need to do volunteer. D

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‘Saving grace’ Hope Center Indy battles ‘a form of modern slavery’

By Mitchell Kirk Daily Reporter INDIANAPOLIS [email protected] For more than 20 years, her life was of dozens the center has helped in the “miserable” and “chaotic.” nearly two years it’s been accepting “It definitely turned me into some- residents. A steady flow of volunteers thing that I didn’t want to be,” she and donations has made the nonprofit added. “It was a lot of abuse, sexual organization’s Christianity-centered abuse, drugs, alcohol, just a really bad programming possible on its sprawling lifestyle.” campus. Those driving forces are also Then she found Hope Center Indy, behind Hope Center Indy’s plans for a facility just west of Marion County’s the future. Thoma Bastin, a volunteer at Hope border with Hancock County that From hardship to Hope Center Indy, works in the center’s helps women exiting sex trafficking. The National Human Trafficking kitchen preparing the day’s lunch F for residents. (Tom Russo | Daily The woman, whose name is being Hotline calls human trafficking “a form Reporter) withheld to protect her identity, is one of modern slavery.” According to the

50 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 most recent statistics available from owes them and oftentimes introduce law enforcement and court systems the hotline, 59 human trafficking them to drugs, Helfers continued. along with government agencies. cases were reported in Indiana in “They lose all control,” she said. The woman who found refuge at 2018 by June 30 of that year. In the “They don’t have any access to their Hope Center Indy after two decades U.S., 5,147 cases were reported in friends or their family because of misery and chaos said she found that time frame. they’ve been so isolated for however the facility after fleeing another state “It’s right in your backyard,” said long ... A lot of it’s just a gradual and entering an addiction rehabili- Michelle Hensley, volunteer group fade and they don’t even realize the tation program in Indianapolis. coordinator for Hope Center Indy situation.” “While I was there, after 90 days, and a Hancock County resident. Victims can also be children traf- I knew something else was missing,” “It is rampant. It is a lot more than ficked by their parents to get money she said. “I didn’t really know what what people believe.” for rent, mortgage payments and to do though. I was kind of scared Joyce Helfers, leadership develop- addictions, Helfers added. to go out into the world because I ment for the organization, said traf- Helfers said 35 to 50 women from knew I wasn’t really prepared. I was fickers target their victims and initi- all over the country have come sober, but I still had a lot of issues.” ate a grooming process that involves through Hope Center Indy’s pro- She went to a chapel to pray. flattery and gifts while establishing gram since August 2017. The orga- David Nolen, who served as Hope trust and a relationship. Then the nization does not charge the women Center Indy’s associate director trafficker will consume the victim’s for the program. Women arrive until his passing last month, was time, isolate them from their family through a variety of avenues, Helfers at that chapel speaking about the and friends, insist that the victim said, including their own initiative, organization.

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“I kind of felt like it was too good do not want for food, clothing or Along with her faith and Hope to be true,” she said of the program, hygiene products. She has benefited Center Indy’s programming, the “but when I looked into it, it was from resources the center has made other women staying at the center more than what I needed.” available for education and practic- also help her strive for that goal. Hope Center Indy has been “ex- ing Christianity along with coping “We all are really good about lean- tremely helpful” throughout her stay, with addiction and trauma. She’s ing on each other, holding each other she continued. gaining new skills by working for a accountable,” she said. “Sometimes “They’re able to help me learn company that trained her to do com- there will be something that I won’t how to love myself on days that I puter-aided design work right form see in myself that one of them will don’t,” she said. “It’s a saving grace, the center. see in me and it really helps by just definitely. There’s no other place that Learning to return to society and listening to each other a lot of the I know of in the United States like lead a healthy life is a formidable time. We’ve all been there, so we can this, and I’ve been all over the United challenge after experiencing the trust each other.” States, so I know it’s very unique and opposite for so long, she said. hopefully in the future there will be “You’re so used to living one way,” ‘Right before our eyes’ more places like this.” she said. “You come here to the Hope Hope Center Indy’s campus spans She said she is grateful for the Center and you learn how to live in about 25 acres with several buildings staff’s patience with her and her this vicinity — we have a really big totaling about 210,000 square feet. fellow residents and for what she campus — but eventually you have A program providing help to adult described as a refuge of safety and to start baby steps out into the real students earning credit through stan- comfort. Program participants w or l d .” dardized tests formerly operated on

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Calv52a rDailyy Baptist Repor tehalfr • pgDiscover process Hancock County 2019 wn Special Sections - Discover 2013 Calvary Baptist half pg process wn the property. Before that, the site served as an orphanage. Sara Feasel, grants coordinator for Hope Center Indy, said the facility is currently able to accommodate about 30 women. There’s enough space for 160, a capacity the organization hopes to one day meet through continued fundraising. Programming guides residents through personal success plans under the direction of the facility’s program director and staff. The program is made up of five phases. Each is designed to take 90 days, but can last as little or as long as each woman needs. “We want to keep the woman however long she needs to be Redefined Hope Boutique is a store inside the Hope Center Indy. Its proceeds go to support the center. (Tom Russo | Daily here,” Feasel said. “We won’t move Reporter)

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anybody forward if they’re not ready sobriety and financial literacy along skills by helping at the facility’s bou- and we also won’t hold anybody with education courses if they’re tique, coffee shop, and wedding and back if they’re seeking a event venue, all of which serve as ready to move degree. Ob- fundraisers for Hope Center Indy. forward.” “Week after week, ligations also The organization also provides The program’s you can tell that include trauma transportation to and from work for five phases are God’s hand is upon therapy sessions, women in the program’s employ- introduction Bible studies ment phase. and acclima- this center and these and church “They’re getting income and tion, education, grounds because of and worship starting to save up their money so employment, his provisions. No one services. when they do transition out, they’ll sustainability could have dreamed Some of the have a lot of resources to help them,” and reintegra- women don’t Helfers said. tion. Five goals this up.” have high school The campus has a prayer center, accompany those Joyce Helfers diplomas or art room, library, computer lab, phases: spiritual, an equivalent, greenhouse, kitchen and cafeteria as career, wellness, Helfers said. well. financial and relational. Some can’t read. Others have college Among Hope Center Indy’s team Residents have weekly require- degrees. members are a case manager, medi- ments like attending classes on Program participants learn job cal director, educational director and

54 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 This story previously appeared in the Daily Reporter on June 19, 2019. 24/7 resident technicians. No one could have dreamed this offer transitional housing in the fu- Volunteers power about 97 percent up. It’s just unfolding right before ture to women who have completed of Hope Center Indy’s operations, our eyes. With this many volunteers the program. She said it will allow Helfers said. It is funded entirely by and this many people involved, our the women to build an employment local churches, individuals, compa- hands are just completely off and and rental background that will help nies and grants. we’re just watching things happen.” them secure their own housing in a There are more than 400 volun- People who shop at the Redefined good neighborhood after they leave. teers on record, with 150 of them Hope Boutique on campus help the Women will also be able to live with contributing their services on a center continue to function too. their children at the transitional regular basis. Those tasks run the “Shopping is serving,” Helfers said. housing, which isn’t possible at the gamut of housekeeping, helping in “If anyone wants to serve the Hope center. the boutique and coffee shop and Center, they can shop.” Hensley has been volunteering for serving as resident technicians, The transformation the campus Hope Center Indy for about a year mentors, transporters and case has undergone over the past two and a half. managers. years continues. Hope Center Indy “The reward that you get from giv- “God is good,” Helfers said. “Week has plans for a beauty salon, botani- ing back to other people and seeing after week, you can tell that God’s cal garden and space for pet groom- it make a difference in their lives is hand is upon this center and these ing, training and veterinary care. priceless,” she said. “I wouldn’t want grounds because of his provisions. Hensley recently joined efforts to to do anything else.” D

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A volunteer paints a military bronze marker with a 56 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 special epoxy. (Tom Russo| Daily Reporter) Shining through Man’s campaign to restore markers honors veterans’ service

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A volunteer salutes the flag at Park Cemetery. (Tom Russo| Daily Reporter)

families of the veterans, but to teach paint dries, he sands the letters and back and “haunt” him. others how to do it on their own. seals it with a clear protective coat. In 1969, shortly after his first of After an hour or so of Brown’s Gravestones require a bit more el- two tours to Vietnam, a car travel- coaching, the volunteers immediately bow grease. Brown scrapes the algae ing 70 miles per hour struck Brown started to refurbish several head- and lichens off the stone and then while he was temporarily assigned to stones and bronze markers at Park scrubs in a biodegradable solution a base in Blanding, Utah. The impact Cemetery in Greenfield, scrubbing called D-2 that cleans it. One of the left his back broken in four spots and and sanding away. cleaning agents in the solution is shattered his leg in 134 places. Brown “It’s like wildfire,” Brown said activated by ultraviolet light, he said. spent one year and eight months in about the restoration process. “You When the sunlight hits the stone, it’ll the hospital. give them a taste and they’re off and start brightening the marker after a More than three decades later, running. They love it.” few minutes. Brown had another battle to over- There are two types of bronze “The Lord says if you do 50% of come. He began taking opiates for markers, Brown said. One needs a the work, he’ll do the rest,” Brown the past pain that flared up, and he brushing off of dirt, sanding of the said. “The sun just works it out.” trapped himself in his home for four filigree and lettering and also a wax Cleaning grave markers of fallen years while he took the medication. that seals the bronze. The other type soldiers wasn’t on Brown’s radar After his doctor advised him to join of marker, which typically turns when he retired from a 20-year a program designed to ease veterans green in color, has to be cleaned with career with Simon Property Group off opiates, Brown completed the a wire brush and repainted with a in 2001. Instead, he said the “old six-month class and stopped taking special epoxy, Brown said. Once the breaks” of his body decided to come pain medication, replacing it with

58 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 electrotherapy and tai chi. Brian Smith and Chuck Gill, both Civil War at Ben Harrison Camp, A few years later, Brown met a members of American Legion Post has for years been cleaning head- man on Facebook from Mission: 119, volunteered their time to learn stones belonging to Hoosier veterans Restore Bronze in Arizona, and from Brown last month. Smith, a of the Civil War. He and Brown are it piqued his interest. Brown later veteran of the Army, said he planned constantly exchanging tricks and restored his father’s grave in Rich- to keep restoring markers and assist tips about marker restoration, he mond. His father had served as a in meeting Brown’s goal of cleaning said. Floyd said their work goes bombardier on a B-17 in World War each Vietnam veteran’s grave by beyond shiny bronze. II. Veterans Day. “If we can’t honor those who have “I went over and did his marker, Gill, who served in the Navy, fought to defend our freedom, then and then I did one next to it,” Brown previously restored eight markers who can we honor?” he said. said. “And then I did the one next to at a nearby pioneer cemetery with As the dirt and grime washes off that. I thought, you know, I can do his daughter. The American Legion the markers, Floyd said the mem- this a lot of different places.” post in Greenfield is working on ories of the veterans who died will Over the past six years, Brown uncovering its history for not only shine through as a reminder of the said he’s visited 600 cemeteries in its members to realize, he said, but sacrifice put forward to make the the state. Brown said he’s restored a to share with the community. United States great. few more markers in Greenfield and Jim Floyd also joined Brown at the “Let’s learn from the history of also cleaned some in Knightstown, training day. Floyd, the commander these heroes so we can teach future Morristown and Martinsville. of the Sons of Union Veterans of the generations,” he said. D DR-35016813

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Dozens of pins on a map of Indiana mark places Steve Redden has visited by bicycle. Right: Redden biking in Oahu, Hawaii.(Tom Russo| Daily Reporter)

part of Mississippi’s stretch of the Natchez Trace Parkway, he drove 50 states on to Louisiana, took his bike off his car and did a quick 5 or 6 miles. “Then I drove up to Arkansas and did the same thing,” he added. 2 wheels He finished his feat by putting New Palestine man finishes biking Alaska and Hawaii under his tires in the past two years. in every state with a ride in Oahu His 2018 Alaska cruise made stops in Juneau and Ketchikan, and he hopped on a bike in both cities. By Mitchell Kirk rode back and forth to school.” He even added a new country to Daily Reporter Redden first rode in the Ball [email protected] his record on that cruise by mak- State University Bike-A-Thon in ing a cycling stop in Vancouver. his 20s. Then he joined the Cen- NEW PALESTINE Taking trips across the country tral Indiana Bicycling Association with his wife, Margie, and their Steve Redden has crossed the and started going on rides the children, allowed Redden to ride finish line. group organizes. in even more states. His course? The United States He checked a slew of states off “I took a bike with me whenever of America. the list when he and his brother- we went on vacation,” he said. The 73-year-old New Palestine in-law went on the cross-country Redden spent his career teach- resident has now ridden a bicycle Bikecentennial in 1976 celebrating fifth and sixth grade in the in every state in the union after ing the nation’s 200th anniversary. Mt. Vernon Community School a jaunt through the Hawaiian is- Redden had finished biking in all Corporation. land of Oahu earlier in May 2019. 48 of the contiguous states about “That had an effect on me It all began in his home state 25 years ago. He said he can’t help riding a lot of places — because of Indiana, growing up in Rush but feel slightly guilty about the last of the fact that we studied United County. couple in that category. States geography in fifth grade,” S he said. “I always had a big map “I used to ride a bike a whole lot “Two states that I really feel like when I was a kid,” he said. “I had I half-cheated on were 47 and 48,” on the wall of the United States.” a bike when most people had cars. he said. When he returned from the Bike- In high school, I never had a car; I After a 100-mile ride down centennial, he covered that map

60 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 with pins representing his stops. As he and I got two states,” he said. older, I had to get better and better completed more and more rides, more Redden has ridden around Florida’s bikes so I can keep up.” and more pins went up on the map. enormous Lake Okeechobee, and he And keep up he has. Some of his most memorable ex- participated in central Indiana’s Hilly “It’s a great, healthy life,” he said. cursions involve funny failures. Hundred for over 40 years. Health hasn’t been the only thing “I’ve done that several times on Out of all 50 states he’s biked in, the keeping him coming back to handle- rides — where I end up riding way prettiest, he said, was Kentucky. bars and pedals after all these years. too much because I wasn’t paying “Green, green, green,” he said. “The best thing is, you just get out attention,” he said with a laugh. “Lots of green. Plus, the places we there, and...” he trailed off, unable to One of those journeys was a stayed — they treated us like kings. convey the reason. Then it struck him in the form of 200-miler that started in Spartanburg, Just really, really green and unbeliev- ably friendly people.” one word — the founding principle South Carolina, and continued up at Someone even drove down the of the country he’s now cycled all Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. road to return the change pouch he over. And for a moment, his face lit “I followed some guys that were just left at a gas station, he recalled. up as if he wasn’t in an office build- flying along and I thought, ‘Those guys Redden has seen his preferred ing’s conference room answering know what they’re doing, I’ll just follow mode of transportation evolve signifi- interview questions, but cruising on them,’” Redden recalled. “And they cantly over the decades. His cur- two wheels through the green, green, weren’t going on the ride!” rent 15-pound carbon fiber bicycle green of Kentucky. By the time he arrived at the course’s “jumps up the hill” compared to the “Freedom,” he said. terminus and realized he’d missed a department store bike he started out Redden added he came upon that good stretch of the route, he decided with long ago. realization on his recent ride through to just get on the bus waiting for him “They have invented such unbeliev- Hawaii. and the other cyclists and call it quits. ably light stuff,” he said. Then, with “Man, I’m out here, I’m just me, I’m “But I got 100 miles out of that day, a chuckle, he added, “As I’ve gotten f re e .” D DR-35014984

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The family of former Hancock County Sheriff Clarence Watson is handing over his old 1930s service revolver to Sheriff Brad Burkhart. The former sheriff was in charge back in 1936 when the Brady Gang, three criminals in jail for murder, escaped. Alfred James “Al” Brady became one of the FBI’s “Public Enemies” in the 1930s. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter)

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By Mitchell Kirk Daily Reporter GREENFIELD [email protected] One day in the fall of 1936, Hancock notorious Brady Gang with far more County Sheriff Clarence Watson fought firepower. desperately to keep a trio of violent The violent escape has become the gangsters from escaping the county jail. stuff of legend in Hancock County, a One of the absconders bludgeoned notorious brush with infamy involving him repeatedly with a steel bar. Another gangsters every bit as lawless and violent got hold of a gun. The scuffle spilled out as John Dillinger’s gang and Bonnie and into American Legion Place in down- Clyde. town Greenfield, where the gang stole a So when three of Watson’s grandchil- car and fled. dren visited the Hancock County Jail in While the outnumbering bandits the spring of 2019 to donate their grand- Oprevailed that day, it was only a matter father’s service revolver to the sheriff’s of time before the law caught up to the department, the occasion was steeped

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in history. The family thinks the shiny during their many gunfights with law report, here is what happened next: .38-caliber weapon might well be the enforcement. When they walked into the jail’s gun brandished by one of the gang Back then, Hancock County’s jail was dining area shortly before 8 a.m. that members as they made their escape, where the prosecutor’s office currently Sunday morning, Brady had the bar they told Sheriff Brad Burkhart. They operates, at 27 American Legion hidden in his shirt. The scheduled jail brought out copies of old newspaper Place. The Brady Gang members were employee had yet to show up for his articles and reflected on the jailbreak incarcerated there awaiting trial for shift. After serving breakfast, Wat- and the sheriff they described as one of the murder of an Indianapolis Police son entered the dining room; Brady Hancock County’s heroes. sergeant. attacked him from behind with the bar, Greenfield getaway A change of venue had brought clubbing him repeatedly over the head. The three main members of the their case to Hancock County. Watson Dalhover and Shaffer bolted out of Brady Gang in jail here on Oct. 11, feared outsiders would try to spring the the dining area and down the hall. Wat- 1936. Alfred Brady, 26, was accom- gang from the county jail and tried un- son fought his way to his feet and gave panied by James Dalhover, 30, and successfully to get them transferred to a chase with the bar-brandishing Brady Clarence Lee Shaffer, 20. After forming nearby prison, according to an archived not far behind. the gang in 1935, Brady and his accom- Daily Reporter article. Watson lived with his family in the plices would go on to commit upwards That article goes on to recall how the living quarters on the third floor of of 150 robberies throughout the Mid- gangsters carefully removed rivets from the jailhouse. Hearing the yells of the west. They knocked off jewelry stores a yard-long steel bar from inside their fight, Philip, Watson’s 12-year-old son, and banks, traveled with an extensive cell. hurried downstairs with the family dog, arsenal and killed two police officers According to the contemporary Trix. The dog chased Shaffer outside,

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nipping at his heels. Edna Tinney, grabbed Brady’s steel bar and attacked Royal Center in northwestern Indiana. Watson’s sister, made for a room where Ridlen. Dalhover recovered the The Brady Gang eventually made it Watson kept a .38-caliber revolver. revolver and fired. The bullet tore onto the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. Dalhover soon disarmed her, however. through Ridlen’s overcoat but missed About a year after their Hancock Watson and his flesh. Dalhover County jailbreak, the Brady Gang Brady tumbled then tossed Ridlen met its fate in New England. They down the jailhouse “I feel like he was off him and fired thought they were going to com- steps and onto the quite a hero. I’m at point-blank plete a prearranged purchase for a street, where their very proud to be his range but missed Thompson submachine gun in Ban- brawl recom- granddaughter.” again. Ridlen’s wife gor, Maine, but the sporting goods menced. jumped between they were headed to was filled with A man named Connie Wilson the two and told undercover FBI agents and police Edgar Ridlen, who Dalhover to take officers. was driving by, their car along with After discovering the sting, a gun- slammed on his brakes and got out of her purse and leave. The beaten and fight ensued. Brady and Shaffer were his bottle-green Chevy. According to bloodied Watson slumped off Brady. killed. Dalhover was arrested and later the archived report, he shouted to his The gangsters jumped in the car and tried, convicted and executed for the wife, “It’s those murderers trying to get sped away. murder of the state trooper. away!” Brady and his henchmen continued Watson died at 54 in 1942. His Ridlen kicked Shaffer to the their spree while on the lam. In May obituary reported he had been in ill ground, punched Dalhover and 1937, they used a machine gun to kill health for more than a year and that fought him for the gun. Shaffer an Indiana State Police trooper near it was thought that the injuries he had

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68 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP! FORMERLY RANDY’S YOUR ONE STOP OUTDOOR sustained while trying to prevent the Brady SOLUTIONS SHOP! Gang’s escape contributed to that ill health. SALES • SERVICE • PARTS Full circle In Watson’s day, sheriff’s department Greenfield officers had to furnish their own weapons. Greenfield Burkhart said that was still the policy when he started with the department in 1988. The department didn’t start issuing weapons We service all makes and models! until the mid-1990s, he added. ALL RESIDENTIAL Watson’s granddaughter, Connie Wilson WALK-BEHIND SINGLE STAGE SNOWBLOWER of Fortville, said her grandfather’s .38-cal- MOWERS DUAL STAGE SNOWBLOWER iber revolver was passed down among his sons, Reva, Page and Philip. Then it went to

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Ronald Watson, left, and other relatives of the late Sheriff Clarence Watson donated his service revolver to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department. (TOM RUSSO | DAILY REPORTER)

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72 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Director of instruction Miles Hercamp [email protected] 217-861-4463, ext. 118 Schools: New Palestine High School 4485 S. Victory Drive, New Palestine, IN, 46163 317-861-4417 Keith Fessler, principal A beautiful setting [email protected] to come home to each day. New Palestine Junior High School Featuring custom home 2279 S. County Road 600W, New Palestine, IN 46163 sites and builders who care. 317-861-4487 Jim Voelz, principal [email protected] New Palestine Intermediate School 5613 W. County Road 200S, New Palestine, IN 46163 317-861-3267 Vincent Meo, principal [email protected] Brandywine Elementary 413 E. County Road 400S, Greenfield, IN 46140 317-462-7396 Austin Theobald, principal [email protected] New Palestine Elementary 4801 S. County Road 500W, New Palestine, IN, 46163 317-861-5287 Katy Eastes, principal [email protected] Sugar Creek Elementary 2337 S. County Road 600W, New Palestine, IN, 46163 Jan Kehrt, principal [email protected] Mt. Vernon 1806 W. State Road 234, Fortville, IN, 46040 317-485-3100 2018-19 Enrollment: 4,226 davesegobuilders.com 2017-18 graduation rate: 95.8 percent 2017-18 accountability grade: A carringtonhomes.com The district: Children in Buck Creek and Vernon townships attend Mt. Vernon schools. School Board: Mike McCarty Shannon Walls joynerhomesonline.com Kellie Freeman Tony May Beth Smith daveparishhomes.com N 200 W to Indianapolis Administration: 200 N Superintendent Jack Parker W 100 N [email protected] N 200 W

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76 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Weston Elementary School 140 Polk Street, Greenfield, IN, 46140 317-462-1492 Matt Davis, principal [email protected] Eastern Hancock 10370 E. County Road 250N, Charlottesville, IN, 46117 317-936-5444 2018-19 Enrollment: 1,211 2017-18 graduation rate: 92.2 percent 2017-18 accountability grade: A The district: Children in Blue River, Brown and Jackson townships attend Eastern Hancock schools. A smart Utility Providing School Board: Administration: Scott Petry Superintendent Infrastructure for James R. Jackson Jr. David Pfaff Scott Johnson [email protected] Tammy Settergren 317-936-5444 Communities to Thrive Tammy Stunda Schools: Eastern Hancock High School 10320 E. County Road 250N, Charlottesville, IN, 46117 317-936-5595 or 317-467-0095 Adam Barton, principal [email protected] Eastern Hancock Middle School 10380 E. County Road 250 N, Charlottesville, IN, 46117 317-936-5324 BROADBAND | DIGITAL TV | VOICE | SECURITY Adam Barton, principal [email protected] POWER | WATER & SEWER Eastern Hancock Elementary School 10450 E. County Road 250N, Charlottesville, IN, 46117 317-936-5829 Amanda Pyle, principal [email protected]

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“community circle.” While the kids she said. When she saw a position open up sit “criss-cross applesauce” on a After graduating from Greenfield- at Harris Elementary, Shockley said mat, they’ll review the days of the Central in 2015, Shockley enrolled at she immediately applied. During week, the weather and the chang- IUPUI to study elementary educa- high school, she used to cadet teach ing seasons. Every tion with a concentra- for Kim McKee, a first-grade teacher student will also “I’ve had tion in reading. During at Harris and a family friend. have a classroom no second her last year in college, “It’s been a dream for sure,” she job, Shockley said, to Shockley student-taught said about teaching at Harris. keep them engaged. thoughts third-grade and fifth- McKee, whose classroom is now Kids are a big part about being a grade classes for India- across the hall from Shockley’s, said of her life, she said. teacher. It’s just napolis Public Schools’ she remembers how engaged stu- Shockley not only something I’ve William Penn School 49. dents were with Shockley as a cadet grew up helping her always wanted While she enjoyed her and also when she visited the class younger siblings time teaching in India- for a college practicum. with homework, but to do.” napolis, Shockley said “As she transitions from her col- she spent several Katie Shockley her goal was to return to lege experience to teaching, I think summers as a nanny. her hometown. she’ll find how rewarding it’ll be,” She’s also coached “I wouldn’t want to be McKee said. the high school’s cheer team over the anywhere else,” Shockley said about Shockley, who was hired just two past few years. So, pursuing a career Greenfield. “I don’t think I’ll ever weeks before the start of school, said in education was a natural fit for her, move anywhere else.” she’s grateful to have a supportive

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80 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 staff at Harris, especially as a new teacher. She’s been able to easily ask questions and get advice. It can be overwhelming for new teachers, so Shockley, McKee and fellow first-grade teacher Kristin Fewell have been in constant communication as of late, making sure Shockley has a smooth transition. After her first two days, Shockley said she felt “all of the emotions” starting something new. But, she said she’s mostly ecstatic to see how her students grow and learn over the year. “Our team, the school and our students are ready to rock the year out,” she said. D Sitting “criss-cross applesauce,” Katie Shockley’s first-graders pay rapt attention to their teacher. (Tom Russo | Daily Reporter)

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By Kristy Deer NEW PALESTINE Daily Reporter [email protected] The students are learning mental and stra- to develop competitive and mathematical tegic skills — things they’ll be able to use skills. for a lifetime. “You can’t help but learn something And here’s the kicker: The teaching tool when you’re playing the game of chess,” doesn’t have anything to do with a com- Molinar said. puter screen or smartphone. Molinar likes to quote one of the Students at New Palestine Intermediate nation’s founding fathers, Benjamin School have fallen in love with an old-time Franklin, who once referred to chess has a Right: New Palestine Intermediate School chess coach board game taught with a new twist — metaphor for life. Will Molinar goes over strategy chess. Their instructor, Will Molinar, an in- “You have resources at your disposal, and with his students. (Tom Russo | structional assistant at New Palestine High we have to sort of galvanize the troops in Daily Reporter)TSchool, is using the game to get students our life to overcome obstacles and make

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82 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 sacrifices,” Molinar said. Molinar is a 1993 Greenfield-Cen- tral High School graduate. He teaches the game in a way for students to learn about problem-solving, point values and making sacrifices for the betterment of an overall positive out- come — like using a pawn to set up a move to capture the king. Chess Club, an after-school activity at New Palestine Intermediate, has been offered to Southern Hancock fifth-and sixth-graders this school year, and dozens of kids are taking part. Molinar works with a group of educators called Cloud City Youth, an after-school enrichment program whose philosophy is to enrich students by helping them discover their

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passions. Chess is one of the ways students how important each piece is Molinar likes to use chess as sort the program helps students have fun and how best to use them. This kind of transitional tool. While he doesn’t while learning valuable lessons and of conceptual thinking, he said, is discourage technology and what it skills. Molinar and his wife, Jenna, important for children at the inter- has to offer students, he wants them his assistant, teach four to five differ- mediate grade school level to grasp. to understand there are other ways ent chess classes at different schools Students agree. of learning and having fun. throughout Indiana each week. “Chess really makes you think a lit- He first introduced chess to the While he doesn’t think educators tle more,” said student Taylor Burke. club via a fairy tale story about a should go back to using an abacus, She joined the after-school club king who was the ruler of 64 squares. he likes using other forms of teach- in hopes of learning more about He tries to make the game sound ing than just technology. the strategy within the game so she fun, and it has worked. “With chess there are lots of tech- could one day beat her father, who Jack Kleiman didn’t really want nical and mathematical obstacles to introduced her to the game. to be part of the club, but his mom overcome, and that’s like life,” Moli- Cailynne Sumner likes the game signed him up. He’s glad she did. nar said. Depending on the student, because it makes her think before “It’s so much fun,” Jack said. “I’ve some have an aptitude for this kind she acts, she said. While she has learned a lot about strategy, and this of problem-solving learning, Molinar downloaded a chess app on her iPod is probably one of my favorite things has discovered. since joining the club, playing the to do now because I’m good at it.” With point values assigned to the game in person is “way better” than Jaden Junkins plays the game all chess pieces, Molinar makes sure his playing any kind of game she has on the time and was one of the students lesson plans are designed to show the her device. who wasn’t new to the game when

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84 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 the club started. “I signed up just so I could come here and play against different people,” he said. “I love this game.” Molinar told the students who didn’t understand the game at first not to worry. In time, he told them, they’d learn to make the right moves and progress. Molinar, a wrestling, cross country and track star in high school, also likes the fact that chess allows students who are not competitive on an athletic field a chance to learn about competition. “They may not be able to beat Johnny on the football field because he’s bigger than they are, but they can beat him on the chess board because they can use their brain,” Molinar said. D

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86 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Elementary students discover benefits of mindfulness

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Beitel has been practicing yoga for Muffler agreed. school too, adding even some of the about 20 years and teaching for about “We have a lot of students that most athletic students struggle with four. She is president and CEO of In- struggle to identify what emotion the practice. It teaches the valuable dianapolis-based Jo Pro Health. Her they’re feeling,” she said. “As adults, lesson of learning how to work students range in age from around 3 we can’t expect kids to respond ap- through not excelling at something to around 90, she said. propriately to emotions they don’t un- right away, she continued. Yoga’s postures and breathing derstand. Sometimes our lives are just Parents have told her that their exercises spur physical benefits like so busy and go-go-go that we have to kids are teaching them yoga at home. strength, endurance and aerobic ca- stop and feel, and this gives them that Muffler recalled a Facebook post over pacity, Beitel said, while also prompt- opportunity to stop and feel.” spring break showing three sisters ing mental advantages like mind- She’s seen the benefits firsthand. doing yoga on a beach. fulness. The practice helps students “I know hands-down we have seen “The kids are taking this outside replace fear-based, fight-or-flight the number of office referrals decline of school, which is what we want; we responses with the ability to think since we started this program,” Muf- want this to be something they can about how they feel and respond in a fler said. have as an outlet,” she said. healthier manner. That doesn’t mean students still Muffler said the motivation behind “We realize that if we slow down, don’t have their struggles, she con- the program was to also offer yoga to we recollect, that there’s always a tinued, but lately they’ve often been faculty, who have been participating chance to start again,” Beitel said. able to work through those struggles alongside the students. Many staff “There’s poses all the way through by themselves or with a teacher’s help members have never done yoga before, our yoga class that teaches us all of before an office referral is necessary. she continued, adding their inexpe- these things. It’s amazing to watch the Muffler said she’s seen yoga’s phys- rience helps make them a model for kids go through it.” ical aspects result in benefits at the their students and forge a bond. When

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88 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 students see that their teacher has peace, it really translates into the we’re not all stressed out about it,” never done yoga and is giving it their classroom as well,” she said. she said. “And I think it makes us best, it encourages them that they can Stopping for 40 minutes to breathe calmer so we’re not as rowdy, we’re find their way together, she said. mindfully and pose in challenging not messing around as much.” Nicole Privett, a fifth-grade teacher positions helps counter the demands Taylor’s favorite yoga posture is at Fortville Elementary School, said of students’ curriculum, according to crow pose, which requires a person she had taken one yoga class and Privett. to hold his body up with his hands admitted she wasn’t impressed. “In our class, we have a very rapid planted on the ground and their knees “I don’t think I was ready or in the schedule throughout the day,” she resting atop the backs of their arms. right frame of mind, so when they said. “We go from one subject to Beitel worked on leaving the brought it to us for the kids, I was the next, one room to the next and school with several yoga-inspired skeptical about whether or not the everything is go, go, go. But when we strategies teachers and students can kids would get on board or how it take the time to give that space, I feel use for a quick break in the class- would go or if it would even make a like our work time is more focused. room in the future. Muffler said the difference, but it sure has,” she said. We can effectively use that time, and school is exploring ways to continue Students have their own academic we feel more prepared.” funding yoga there as well. and emotional needs, Privett contin- Taylor Bastin, one of Privett’s “We definitely see the benefits, but ued, adding yoga helps each of them students, enjoyed the weekly yoga it comes at a cost, so finding a way to meet those needs. sessions throughout the school year. sustain that in the future is our next “Those emotional needs some- “I think it’s been helpful because step,” she said. D times get in the way of learning, so through the week we get a lot of when we can give them the space work, so it relieves the stress and it This story originally was published in to practice yoga and find calm, find helps us relax to get work done so the Daily Reporter on April 16, 2019.

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His name is Fred Jr., named after an excavation near Fort Wayne. of art education experience and put the massive American mastodon Fred Jr. is the creation of two it to good use through the project at whose 13,500-year-old skeleton Southern Hancock art teachers the Indiana State Museum, where was on display at the Indiana State who made him as part of the Card- they were artists in residence Museum. board Engineering Experience Their creations went on display Fred Jr. stands over 9 tall and is interactive learning exhibition at inside an interactive 3,000-square- nearly 20 feet long, but he was made the Indiana State Museum, 650 W. foot play space stocked with card- out of remnants of cardboard boxes Washington St., Indianapolis. board boxes of all sizes, and other held together by homemade glue, Clyde Gaw and Clark Fralick art materials to encourage those making him considerably lighter like to think unconventionally. For visiting to create. than the 9-foot-tall Fred, who years they’ve encouraged students “The thing about cardboard is Hweighed an estimated 6,000 pounds to create whatever their minds can it’s a very versatile medium,” Gaw when he walked the Earth. His imagine — a holistic art approach. said. “You can cut it and bend it skeleton was found in 1998 during The two took their nearly 60 years and if you have a stick of card-

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board, you can use it like a line to “As soon as I found out we were people could still use it. create anything.” doing the Cardboard Engineering In January, the teachers decided The Fred Jr. mastodon was just one Experience, I knew I had to reach out they wanted to make a statement of several creations the artists had on to them, and they’ve been absolutely with their work, make something to display at the Cardboard Engineering fantastic,” Thomas said. really get the kids talking and want- Experience, which began in September Thomas asked the two teachers in ing to make things, too. 2018 ran through May. September to stop by Gaw has always been interested in The two were asked to At a glance whenever they had dinosaurs, he said, so he made a tiny be part of the current What is cardboard a chance and start one, a brontosaurus out of cardboard interactive project by creating. Their first strips. The project gave them the idea Bethany Thomas, vice engineering? Using work of art was a gi- to go bigger, and they eventually set- president of programs an everyday box to ant cardboard pinball tled on making a mastodon, inspired and education engage- create whatever the machine. by Fred, as their statement piece. ment. Then they made “It’s the same size mastodons were Thomas met the mind can imagine. the 12-foot marble when they were alive,” Gaw said. teachers after seeing run they called “the When they started making Fred one of the monster beast” in December. Jr., back in January, Gaw was certain cardboard marble Fralick even created they could finish the project in a few runs they created during a Global a string pull to launch the marble, days, Fralick said with a laugh. But, Cardboard challenge and thought but so many kids and parents used like true artists, they wanted to make their work would be ideal for the it, the string wore out and they had something authentic, so they decided interactive section of the museum. to go back in and alter the project so to start from scratch and give it as

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Rev. Joey92 Claus, Daily RepoGenerationsrter • Discover Pastor Hancock / Rev. CSaraounty Whitaker, 2019 Visitation Pastor much time as they could. gineering Experience, she said, thanks About the artists The two even made their own glue in part to the work the teachers have Clark Fralick, art teacher, Sugar recipe. Gaw calls it a “medieval book done, and because cardboard is an art Creek Elementary. binding glue,” of sugar, flour, water medium easy to work with. Clyde Gaw, art teacher, New and oil. “Everybody has boxes at home,” Palestine High School. After it’s boiled and cooled, the Thomas said. -The educators have nearly 60 ingredients become a sticky paste Just like his namesake, Fred Jr. has years of art education between base, which they have used to help found a permanent home at the mu- them. build the frame — the spine and the seum. He’ll more than likely be placed -They hold an annual summer hips — of the mastodon, giving Fred into the creativity studio or in the art camp, Block, Paper, Scissors, Jr., stability, Fralick said. nearby walkway, Thomas said. for elementary-age students. The thing they like most about the Fred is on display in the natural his- -They host a podcast on art mastodon is that it’s their creation, tory galleries and greets visitors when education called Block, Paper, Scissors. something they made without an they first enter the museum. instruction manual. It’s the way they Having their work on display and - They have a facebook page, Teaching for Artistic Behavior always encourage students to create. associated with a piece of history has (TAB) Art Educators. “We preach experimentation and been a rewarding endeavor. -Both were adjunct professors creativity, and that’s what we’re prac- “It’s been a really cool to build it at the Massachusetts College ticing,” Gaw said “We feel like it’s a there and have people watch us make of Art and Design last summer. one-of-a-kind creation.” it,” Fralick said. D They taught other artists from Thomas has heard nothing but posi- This story was previously published in the around the world and created projects. tive feedback from the Cardboard En- Daily Reporter on April 19, 2019.

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94 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 On the air Video projects showcase G-C students’ media skills

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the groups and developed interview on a tour of the facility. Dyer filmed more about what I want to do,” he questions. B-roll of the items discussed during said. “The kids have been fantastic,” the tour to be spliced throughout the The students’ videos on local non- Hudson said. “They’re very focused; shots of Rowlett walking and talking profit organizations aired on NineS- they’re ready to go; they’re profes- with Ebbert. tar Connect’s Channel 9. Audio from sional; they know what they’re doing. Hudson said so much of the the interviews provided program- It makes it very easy.” project is driven by technology, ming for Greenfield-Central-based Hudson said he taught the stu- something members of his students’ WRGF-FM (89.7), which Hudson dents a “60 Minutes”-style interview generation already understand. also leads as general manager. technique using two cameras and “As far as it being a career choice, WRGF plays a role in the curricu- positioning the interviewer across I think a lot of youth already have lum as well. from the interviewee. the skills in them just by growing up McKinney wants to work in the “In editing, it looks very personal,” with technology,” he said. “It’s just a music industry after high school. She he said. “It looks like a very intimate matter of focusing it in, fine-tuning said the radio/TV class is teaching conversation.” it .” her how to use the equipment of The project also requires students Kottlowski plans on pursuing that the business, like the soundboard at to recall lessons they’ve learned on kind of work for his career. WRGF. lighting and recording sound that “I really want to get into telecom- She enjoys the collaborative nature later gets synced with video using munications and making movies, of the class’s projects as well. computer editing. and if high school can help me with “It’s helping build my teamwork After the interview with Ebbert, that, then I should take something in skills,” McKinney said. she led the young production crew high school to help me learn a little Kottlowski said the class has

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Claus recalls. coming into his own,” Edwards said. Doubman noticed that one young He became more involved at the “They accept him for who he is and man came early and stayed late, un- church, joining the choir and the the role he’s fulfilling.” asked, helping set up and tear down tech team and becoming one of those That journey from youth partic- for each meeting. Nearly 10 years people, as the saying goes, who is ipant to adult staff member has its ago, Paul Galbraith joined Brandy- “there every time the doors are open.” potential pitfalls, some local minis- wine’s staff to work with children. In his teens, he went to a confer- ters point out. What if adults can’t Today, their offices are next door to ence at Olivet Nazarene University move past a teenage prank? What if each other at the church. in Illinois with his church youth the oldest students still see a young “It wasn’t anything that he voiced,” group. He was moved by what he staff member as a peer? Doubman recalls. “It was his attitude heard there in a way he couldn’t fully Yet at its best, they say, the journey and his heart to minister to his peers. explain. can leverage relationships that have ... It was my heart to have him work- “Something was stirring in me, but been built over many years. ing beside me.” I didn’t know what it was,” he said. About 16 years ago, Troy Doubman Like Claus, Galbraith said working In time, he understood it as a call to was leading youth group meetings in his childhood church has been a ministry. at the Hancock County Boys & Girls good fit. The Rev. Phil Edwards, senior Clubs in Greenfield. Brandywine “I love serving where I grew up,” pastor at Fortville Nazarene, said Community Church had not yet built he wrote in an email to the Daily it’s been rewarding to watch Claus’ its building at 1551 E. New Road; the Reporter. journey come full circle and thinks church met in a storefront at 1260 Similarly, Andy Flink said it’s “a the transition has been smooth. N. State St. and conducted Sunday blessing” to get to be a leader in his “He’s not ‘little Joey Claus.’ He’s evening youth activities offsite. home church. He’s one of several

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100 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 staff members at Brookville Road photo on their fridge than as an Community Church in New Pal- associate pastor of the church. But estine who grew up attending the he’s chosen to embrace the positives church. While he said positions don’t in that. automatically go to a candidate who “I have people who have been pray- grew up there, there is an advantage ing for me for almost 30 years,” he of knowing how a person interacts said. “How amazing is it that people with people and knowing he or she is love me in that way?” familiar with a church’s approach to During some of his pastoral care ministry. visits, he not only sees the older peo- “If we’re just looking at a resumé, ple he’s visiting; he also remembers we can see competency,” he said. “It’s the class they taught, their greeting really hard to put a price tag on, ‘Oh, at the door — their kindness through we know what this person’s chemis- the years they have shared with him try is like.’” in the same church family. Flink has been attending the “On some small level it’s just me church for about 30 years. During repaying,” he said. “’Let me try to part of that time, his parents min- minister (to you) in this season of istered in China. He realizes some your life.’” D older people in the congregation may The Rev. Joey Claus grew up attending Fortville Church of remember him more as an 11-year- This story previously was published Jan. the Nazarene, where he is now a staff member. ( Anne old boy in a missionary prayer card 12, 2019, in the Daily Reporter Durham Smith | Daily Reporter )

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Betty Lou Hoover cradled the strips of The annual dinner draws people building. The Thanksgiving dinner dough, following them as they pushed who form a line about half an hour is now served in a large ground- outward from the noodle cutter. before the doors. Between then and level fellowship hall, drawing about She was satisfied by the silky the dinner’s close three hours later, three times the average attendance strands she saw. “Nice,” she said. about 300 people will be served. of a typical Sunday morning. But Many a Thanksgiving meal begins The church has offered noodles the congregation stepped up to the with preparations made days ahead at this dinner and at its annual task of welcoming a larger number of time. That’s true not only for home Lord’s Acre festival for decades. For of people around the table. cooks welcoming loved ones, but also years, women of the church labored Several years ago, the noodle for a congregation inviting the com- individually at home, pooling their makers began meeting in the new munity to join it around the table. efforts to have noodles for the festi- kitchen to tackle the task together, BIt was noodle-making day in the val or for dinners that drew a crowd working in assembly-line fashion. kitchen at McCordsville United to the church basement. “It’s fun to do all this. We get a lot Methodist Church, where about a “They all crammed in down there of camaraderie,” Lee Guthrie said in dozen members of the congregation somehow,” Regina Bowen said, between covering tables. “Every- were mixing, kneading, rolling and between feeding sheets of dough body works together, and we have a cutting homemade noodles that through a noodle cutter. lot of fun.” would be served during a Thanks- In 2009, however, the church built Catherine Cook said that close- giving dinner at the church, 6247 an 11,000-square-foot addition that knit feel drew her in a few years ago W. Broadway, McCordsville. more than doubled the size of its when she was looking for a church.

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“You just feel the love when you walk Hoover later re- in,” she said. “It’s just like my family.” turned to the church About a dozen members, both and gathered the dry newer and longtime, met a few weeks noodles onto large before the holiday at the church trays. They’ll soften to make the dinner noodles. They back up again when lugged in some extra stand mixers they’re boiled in — someone quipped they were an chicken broth and endorsement for Kitchenaid — along served at the Thanks- with some 10-pound bags of flour giving dinner. and 18-count cartons of eggs. They The church does used those mixers and attachments to accept donations from combine the ingredients, roll sheets those who come to Marge Phillips feeds noodle dough through a roller at McCordsville United Methodist of dough through twice to make it the dinner, and from Church. (Anne Durham Smith | Daily Reporter ) thin enough, and cut it into strips. those who come to the They care more about people finding About two hours and nine dozen church’s monthly community dinners a warm welcome and a good meal. eggs later, they had filled about a (second Saturdays, January through Au- “We’ve had people tell us, ‘This dozen covered tables in the fellowship gust) and community breakfasts (third is the only Thanksgiving dinner I’ll hall with noodles laid out to dry. (Had Saturdays, January through October). have,” Carolyn Scott said. “If we can this been preparation for the Lord’s Those donations go toward the building give someone a Thanksgiving dinner, Acre Festival, they said, there would fund to finish paying for the addition. that’s what it’s all about.” D have been 20 dozen eggs and more But members say there’s no require- This story previously was published on tables loaded with drying noodles.) ment or pressure for people to give. Nov. 17, 2018.

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106 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 duties, she worked with another finally gave in to his tearful daugh- was offered to him at the church — woman. About three years later, she ter and went — and he said it wasn’t even though he had a good job in began cleaning solo, though she’s so bad. The children’s pastor was an fabrication that he’d never expected had help at different times through old school classmate, and people to leave — he took a pay cut and the years. invited him to a Saturday night ser- made the switch. She used to fit cleaning in two vice the church had at the time. Julian made the case for buying nights a week, outside of her full- He started getting to know people equipment such as a floor scrubber time job. Since she retired from at the church. They’d hire him for or a snowplow and bringing some that job about 10 years ago, she handyman work at their houses. of the services the church had been spends a couple of mornings each Over pizza after one of those Sat- paying for in-house to save money. week dusting tables, wiping chairs urday services, they learned he was Then he began hiring middle school in classrooms, cleaning bathrooms into music and could operate sound and high school students and teach- and mopping floors. These days, and lights, so they recruited him to ing them to do some of the tasks, husband Ben is there helping. help the band. developing a program that gives the Connie Wilson’s duties began Then they needed his skills for youth work skills and some mentor- those years ago after a church build- a three-week mission trip to U.S. ing from him and other adults on ing project expanded the size of the Army and Air Force bases around the team. church and therefore the number of the country. Julian said more than 70 students rooms to clean. It was a whoa moment for Julian. have gone through the Operations Julian has seen the building of Does a non-Christian man go on Team Ministry over the years. He’s the church he serves grow and a mission trip? He thought hard been invited to weddings and grad- change, too. The church moved about what he really believed. uations, and some of those students from Oaklandon, where it was And then the guy who didn’t are now adults with children of known as Oaklandon Christian want to go to his daughter’s baptism their own. Church, to a new site and new name approached a minister. He has found that rewarding. In in McCordsville in 2009. Outlook “I want you to baptize me,” Julian fact, he said, the last 14 years have Christian Church added to that new remembers telling him. “I’m ready.” been a highlight in his life. building several years later with a The mission trip that followed “I feel like God led me to this,” 25,000-square-foot expansion in that decision amazed him. “I was he said. “I’ve tried to lead others to 2015-16. surrounded by the most loving have what I have, which is an awe- Through the years, Julian has seen people I had ever been around in some relationship with God.” D himself grow, too. my whole life.” Remember that baptism service Julian said he saw what he wanted This story previously was published he didn’t want to attend? Well, he for the rest of his life. So when a job June 15, 2019, in the Daily Reporter.

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‘Beacons of hope’ Group connects with others’ stories during Australia trip

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The fifth-graders’ words revealed part of the trip as impactful. more than their thoughts on an “It just kind of flooded our assignment. hearts with God’s presence,” said Listening to their class discus- Shelly Wiggington, who went on sion on which ideas would make the trip with her teenage daughter good laws, Jacob Hockett found Evelyn. their answers pointing to how Mychal Wood, New Palestine familiar they are with domestic High School senior, said the violence and alcoholism. encouragement to “Find 30,” 30 “Everything they’re exposed to at minutes to spend in prayer and Rsuch a young age is pretty surpris- Bible reading, stayed with him. ing,” he said. “I learned the importance, that I Hockett, a recent New Pales- need to do it every day,” he said. tine High School graduate, was After those sessions at Towns- one of more than 30 people from ville, part of the group went to Brookville Road Community Palm Island, and the rest went to Taylor Lehman (front), a youth pastor at Brookville Church who traveled in June 2019 Yarrabah. Both sites have strong Road Community Church, cleans a church in Australia to Australia, where they helped in aboriginal roots. alongside a Youth With a Mission staff member. outreach with the international Audrey VanderWal, a New ministry Youth With a Mission. Palestine graduate, was one who An older woman invited the The group spent several days at boarded a ferry for the two-hour group to dinner two nights, telling the YWAM base in Townsville, ride to the island. The group stayed the team about the racism of the Queensland, in sessions that were at a church, sleeping on the floor past, the struggles of the present, a taste of the Discipleship Training in sleeping bags at night and clean- and the hope she feels for the Schools that some college students ing it up by day. Those not on the future. VanderWal said the woman take a semester away to attend cleaning crew visited schools, as has felt more hopeful for the com- around the globe. Several group Hockett did, while others walked munity within the past 10 years, members mentioned that initial the area, praying. and that’s about how long YWAM

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Drew Pieratt, a recent New Palestine High School graduate, talks with has been sending groups to the island, “The power behind her story ... never Peana, a native Aborigine, who told VanderWal added. faded once from beginning to end,” she the history of the island when her “Seeing glimpses of joy shows the said. tribe was enslaved. She attends church on Palm Island. She played beacons of hope that are in that com- In Yarrabah, Tyler Horsley and her ukulele, and his guitar, on some munity,” she said, specifically in the Matthew Bergeron asked a woman if old-time gospel songs. children. they could pray for her. They found Evelyn Wiggington, a New Palestine her very open to that, and they lis- senior, was also in the Palm Island tened as she told them about strug- group and also spoke of an older gles her teen and adult children were woman who left a lasting impression, facing. one who’d been serving at a homeless Bergeron, a New Palestine senior, shelter for more than 30 years. Though said the trip was a time for growing in she told of challenges such as her move boldness. Horsley, a graduate, found from England and losses she’d known, the trip a lesson in being flexible

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110 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 and dealing with unpredictability ble task such as building a house or Brookville Road Community Church mission team — “through all of that, to see God installing a well. This time, though, members sing worship music during a gathering at the Youth With a Mission base in Townsville, take control even when it was least she learned about being ready for Queensland, Australia. expected.” whatever was asked of her, whether Laura Hall, another New Palestine it was saying a few words in a church This story previously was published graduate in the Yarrabah group, said service on short notice or listening to July 6, 2019, in the Daily Reporter. team members’ roles varied widely another person’s story. each day, from serving as greeters at “We just learned so many new an arts and music festival, to play- things ... having comfort in that God ing volleyball with youths and with has a plan ... how to let go and let God visitors from the local youth hostel, to control it all,” she said. praying with a girl at a hat store. “It was still so rewarding to create Other mission trips Hall has been those relationships and see how God on, she said, often included a tangi- can work.” D

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There already have been so many than a national championship. She That made it all the more mean- moments that have made Ryan did that earlier this year during a ingful for the entire family when and Carey Willis proud. different softball tournament. Brooklyn smacked the ball over Their daughter, Brooklyn, 13, an In April 2019, Brooklyn and the fence for the first time in her Eastern Hancock Middle School the Indy Edge competed in the softball career. student, has accomplished a lot 3rd Annual Autism Awareness “Colten goes to all the practices, at a young age. She’s a straight-A, tournament, hosted by the Center the hitting lessons, he’s in the car honor-roll student who plays three Grove Lassie League in Green- riding along,” Carey Willis said. sports and excels on the softball wood. Brooklyn achieved a major “He doesn’t miss a game.” diamond. milestone during the event, an Part of the team TWith the rest of her Indy Edge emotional memory for the entire Pretty much everything Brook- travel softball teammates, she family. lyn Willis does is for her brother. became a national champion in During that tournament, She is strongly motivated in mid-July, as the Edge won the Brooklyn Willis hit her first home many ways to become a better per- United States Specialty Sports run. That would be a memorable son for his benefit. That starts in Association’s Eastern National moment for any athlete and her the classroom. She isn’t just study- Championship in Ocean City, family, but this was different. ing hard to make the honor roll Maryland. Brooklyn was named There was a deeper meaning to and keep straight-A’s for herself. the tournament’s MVP, an added this particular home run. Growing up with Colten has honor on top of the national title. “Brooklyn hit her first home run driven Brooklyn to set some big It was a special moment for the and came right out to me and said, goals for herself that require a entire Willis family. ‘That was for my brother,’” said dedication and commitment to “Obviously, it’s tough to top Carey Willis, Brooklyn’s mother. her school work. nationals, but …” Ryan Willis, Colten Willis, 10, is non-verbal “I want to be a research doctor Brooklyn’s father, said before and is on the autism spectrum. because of my brother,” Brooklyn trailing off. This year’s tournament in Green- said. “Being around, going to the Somehow, Brooklyn Willis man- wood was being played in his hospital a lot and wanting to learn aged to set the bar even higher honor. how to maybe be able to fix some

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of those things so you don’t have to to him. They treat him just like a take so many trips and find maybe, teammate.” possibly, a cure for it, so it doesn’t Family connections keep happening to kids.” No matter where she goes, Brook- “Growing up, she lived a differ- lyn can’t seem to get away from her ent life with having a special-needs family for long. brother,” Carey Willis said. “She had That’s not a bad thing, given their to learn things a little different or at closeness. Her mother coaches a faster pace. I think that goes a long Brooklyn in both volleyball and bas- way when you are dealt the cards that ketball. Her father is a coach on her w ay.” school’s softball team. Her drive and her work ethic “It’s nice to have them there for extend to the softball diamond and support, and also to help me improve beyond, to both the basketball and as an athlete in all of my sports,” volleyball courts. As a three-sport athlete at Eastern Brooklyn said. Hancock Middle School, Brooklyn For Carey Willis, who herself was a keeps plenty busy. It’s worth the time standout three-sport athlete at East- and energy commitment, all the ern Hancock and was inducted into homework done in the car, to be able the Eastern Hancock Hall of Fame in to share those experiences with her 2008, it’s been rewarding watching younger sibling. her daughter experience a similar “I feel like I’m working for two level of success in athletics at such a people,” she said. “I feel like I’m Brooklyn Willis is pictured with her parents, Ryan and Carey, young age. helping my brother by getting good after a game at Grand Park with her travel team, the Indy “Her work ethic and the level of grades and playing sports, because Edge. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) play these days is held at a lot higher obviously he can’t do all that stuff like standard than when I played,” she and with the Indy Edge. They had other kids can.” said. “To see her and her teammates Being on three school teams, along that with Brooklyn’s previous softball just come together and accomplish with travel softball, keeps the entire team, the Pendleton Irish, as well. these goals is very rewarding for family on the move. It’s important to “When we do our sports and our her and the team. But most impor- Brooklyn and her parents that wher- travel softball, we also look for a tantly, when we left the ballpark (in ever they go, Colten is welcomed team that accepts Colten for who Maryland after winning nationals), right along with them. he is,” Carey Willis said. “Our Edge I told her that she would remember They’ve found that welcoming family and our Royal family all this moment for the rest of her life. environment at Eastern Hancock support Colten. They are so good I hope that she can build on those

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114 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 goals and accomplish whatever they national championship and MVP “It definitely set out for.” honor. She said that she feels the best Brooklyn’s main sport, her main part of her softball game is being makes us very athletics passion, is softball. She a good overall teammate, so it was proud. She has plays almost everywhere on the field special to her to get the share that a great group of but considers her main position to experience with her friends and be a left fielder. She played five po- teammates. family and friends sitions during the national tourna- “It was pretty awesome,” she that surround ment in Maryland. said. “It was awesome sharing the She started playing the sport when moment with our teammates and her and push her, she was 5 years old. She was driven everything like that. I also enjoyed whether it’s her toward that, unsurprisingly, by her the experience of going out of state teammates or her parents. and traveling.” “I think what led me to it was The national tournament was classmates.They going and watching my mom and another proud-parent moment just challenge each dad play softball in co-ed,” she said. for Ryan and Carey Willis. They “I wanted to try that, and obviously are growing accustomed to having other to go to the wanted to try any new sports when I those, and it goes beyond just sports next level. I think was little.” success. that friendship If she isn’t at a game or a practice They are proud of what Brooklyn now — or participating in 4-H activ- has accomplished, of her work ethic and that bond that ities or hobbies such as photography and her drive. They are proud of her she has has taken and rock-climbing — she’s probably caring personality and the person trying to squeeze in time to work on she has grown up to be. her where she her softball skills at home. “It definitely makes us very proud. needs to go.” That, too, includes her parents. She has a great group of family and Carey Willis “If she doesn’t have practice or hit- friends that surround her and push ting lessons or anything, she wants her, whether it’s her teammates or to go outside and practice if we’re her classmates,” Carey Willis said. available,” Ryan Willis said. “We try “They just challenge each other to go to help really any chance we get. Any to the next level. I think that friend- time we’re all available, we try to do ship and that bond that she has has it .” taken her where she needs to go.” D The hard work Brooklyn puts This story previously was published Aug. in paid off in Maryland with the 1, 2019 in the Daily Reporter.

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Into the hall New Palestine softball coach honored after 6th title

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It didn’t take long for Ed Marcum to start accumulating wins, and championships, at New Palestine. He was an assistant coach for Pete Cook during the Dragons run to the state championship in 2003, which ended with a 1-0 loss to Gibson Southern in the state final. That was the last time the Drag- ons would lose in the state finals. When Cook left to take a job at Ia junior college in Ohio, Mar- cum inherited a talented roster for his first year as head coach in the spring of 2004. The Dragons again advanced to the state finals, this time topping West Lafayette, 5-1, making Marcum a championship-winning coach in his first Marcum greets Ashley Prange as she rounds the bases after hitting a first inning home run against New Castle on year. April 5, 2018. “To step in my first year, and to be honest I didn’t really know what where he’d be, 16 years after first coach, an average of 26 wins to just I was doing, but I had great seniors taking the New Palestine job and four losses per season. and great players, stepped in there 15 years after his first champion- “That’s usually a great year for a and to be able to win it my first ship. program,” Marcum said of the 26-4 year was just incredible,” Marcum He now leads all Indiana soft- average. “To think that you’ve been said. “I was very nervous, I guess ball coaches with six state titles, able to average that for 16 years you could say, especially going to surpassing retired Center Grove is once again a testament to the the state championship game. It coach Russ Milligan this spring players. They buy in to what we try was hot, humid, I thought I was with a third consecutive cham- to do and they work really hard.” going to pass out. I felt better after pionship win. He surpassed 400 The New Palestine softball we scored four runs.” career wins this year, currently team has become both a state and He never could have imagined holding a 414-62 record as a national powerhouse under Mar-

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Marcum stands with his team before the start of the IHSAA 3A Girls State Softball Championship at Purdue University on June 8, 2019. New Palestine won the title defeating Yorktown, 10-0. (Tom Russo | daily reporter) cum’s tutelage, finding itself atop the like that. You just want to come in were two players he’s known for Indiana rankings for the past three and do the best job you can as a many years, recent New Palestine years while also rising to the upper coach. We’ve been so fortunate to graduates Jaylin Calvert and Emily echelon of both the MaxPreps and have so many great players through O’Connor. USA Today Super the years, and The coach is used to seeing some 25 rankings. that’s really of his players honored by playing in For all of his “It was obviously what it reflects the annual all-star series — just last accomplish- exciting. Very humbled back to. It’s just year, Ashley Prange was named Miss ments, Marcum by the honor. When you been an honor Softball during the event — but hav- was recently to be able to ing two of his own players in atten- inducted into the start coaching, you don’t pour into the dance for his Hall of Fame induction Indiana Softball even imagine anything position and made the event extra special. Hall of Fame, an try to do your “For all the players that are there, honor that was like that. You just want to best and try several of them I’ve known and bestowed on June come in and do the best to get their competed against, to have Emily and 21 at the North/ job you can as a coach.” best. It’s just a Jaylin present and to represent New South All-Star very humbling Palestine as well as they have was Game banquet. ED MARCUM experience to certainly an honor for me to have “It was obvi- be recognized them there,” Marcum said. ously exciting. for all the work “It was really cool, especially Very humbled by the honor,” Mar- you’ve put in.” knowing how successful he is and cum said. “When you start coaching, Joining Marcum at the Hall of how he coaches,” Calvert said. “It you don’t even imagine anything Fame induction and all-star banquet was really awesome to see him get

118 Daily Reporter • Discover Hancock County 2019 Championship culture New Palestine softball coach Ed Mar- cum has helped guide the Dragons program to national prominence and a record six state championships. Overall record: 414-62 Championships (with record): 2004 (29-4) 2008 (29-3) 2009 (30-1) 2017 (31-2) 2018 (30-1) Marcum poses with his wife, Becky, after he was inducted into the Indiana Softball Hall of Fame on June 21. 2019 (29-3) such a huge reward for all of his ac- really an experience for the whole to have fun while they compete, colades throughout the years. It was family. I’m sure I wouldn’t have been and he wants his teams to have the really nice to be there and experi- in this position without my family chemistry and the bond that the past ence that with him.” being so heavily involved in the few years’ squads have had. Also in attendance were many game of softball.” He’s come a long way as a coach in members of Marcum’s family, who While Marcum is quick to deflect the past 16 years, as has the Drag- have been a huge part of his softball credit to his players, they are just as ons softball program. Each year is success. quick to credit him for the culture another opportunity to learn and to His daughters, Michelle Hokl he’s built around the Dragons soft- grow. Each new year brings another and Alyssa Dillard, both played for ball program. opportunity to hopefully compete him and are coaches in the New “I think his record definitely says for more state championships. Palestine softball program. His wife, a lot. Just being able to have the “From that first year, I tried to Becky, has also been a huge support opportunity to play here and for learn as we go along. I’m intense, I system for Marcum. him, for a coach that has so many expect the best from my players, but I “It’s a humbling experience to be state championships, he made our also understand that it is a game and able to share this with my family,” team chemistry awesome,” Prange I want them to enjoy the experience,” Marcum said. “All the hours that said. “We were all so close. I respect Marcum said. “It’s been overwhelm- Becky has poured into me being able him a lot, and I’m thankful for the ing to think about six state champi- to coach for these 16 years, and then opportunity.” onships. That’s not ever anything that to have not only Alyssa and Mi- It’s about more than just wins and you would imagine when you were chelle as players but to come back as losses and championships at New starting off. We just try to take it year coaches and want to be part of it, it’s Palestine. Marcum wants his players by year and do the best we can.” D

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It was during a youth football game, where Greg Hall had enough with a collision-based sport. Hall began the search for a different sport for his son and found lacrosse. In that game, Hall watched from the sidelines as his 8-year-old son, a tight end on the offensive line, was involved in a play. Hall’s son was kicked in the head and sus- Itained a concussion, which made him a “little loopy,” according to Hall. That was the final straw. “I did some online research and found that lacrosse’s concussion rate was drastically lower,” Hall said. “Just because of the nature of the game. They still have some but it was really not that prevalent. It was more like one out of 10 concussions.” Hall created the Greenfield Lacrosse Club in 2016. During this time, Hall had various clinics offered to everyone who wanted to play the sport at Brandonwood Park. The first clinic was coached by Andy Gruber, Indianapolis Cathedral’s lacrosse head coach. stepped in to help. “Until he got there, it was me After the first clinic, Hall ran Before becoming involved with doing it all by myself,” Hall said. the rest of the clinics on Saturday the Greenfield Lacrosse Club, “Coach Miller really got it going nights, teaching the kids how to Miller had coached at Center because he has done it before. He’s catch, cradle, shoot and run with Grove. Miller coached six years at an amazing guy. His willingness a stick and ball. Hall coached for Center Grove and recorded a 36- just to be able to be here and be 20-plus years in a variety of other 31 overall record. the driving force behind the for- youth sports, but never coached Ever since then, Miller has been mation of the club.” lacrosse. the “driving force” for the Green- In October 2018, Hall and That’s when Alonso Miller field club. Miller made a plan and put it into

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action. Between the fall and the start season was a success and Miller said Miller is also planning to have a of the spring season, they tried to the wins were “just the icing on the tournament, where the kids rep- convince as many kids as possible cake for us.” resent each school in Hancock to play lacrosse. In January, the club During the season, Hall and Miller County. The schools would play for joined the Indiana Youth Lacrosse had raised over $52,000 worth of the “Riley Cup.” The winner would Association as a full member, by a endowments, grants and fundraising take the cup to their school and rule Miller had proposed when he in six months. claim bragging rights until the next was on the Indiana Lacrosse Board. “I don’t know any other club tournament. Miller said he took this On both of the teams were kids from that has done as much as we have,” idea from Canadian lacrosse, where Warren Township, New Palestine, Miller said. “The only other sport their community teams play for a Fortville and Eastern Hancock. Hall that I see doing that much fundrais- cup at the end of the summer. and Miller accomplished their goal ing is soccer, but I don’t think they Miller wants to create a lacrosse and there were two teams, one at the h av e .” community in Hancock County. 10-and-under age and another at Through the “New Start” grant, At some point in the future, Miller 12-and-under. the club received $8,000 worth in plans on hosting a lacrosse tourna- They played their first season in equipment. The equipment included ment, which would be open to teams the spring of 2019. It was successful, 20 sets of shoulder and knee pads, in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. He Miller said. In total, the two teams gloves, sticks and goalie gear. Miller said this would do wonders for the won three games. But that did not said this was a huge accomplish- city and bring in outside money. define how successful the season was ment by Hall. This allowed kids But mainly, Miller wants the sport in the eyes of Miller. to play for free and not pay for to be an outlet for kids. “To me, success is measured in equipment. “I see we have a drug problem in the kids improving their game,” For next season, Miller is hoping the county and a suicide problem Miller said. “They started slowly more kids come out and play. In the with young people,” Miller said. as beginners. What I tell everyone, fall, Miller said his teams are joining “Native Americans consider la- and sometimes people get offended, a fall league at Grand Park for eight crosse to be a medicine sport. They lacrosse isn’t like baseball or soccer, weeks, before conditioning for the played for a few things: for God, where you can learn how to play in spring season. One of the ideas heal the sick and to settle disputes an afternoon. It’s a little harder than Miller wants to accomplish is having between different tribes. I want it people know until they pick up a the schools participate in lacrosse. to be keeping kids away from drugs stick.” Miller wants to put in gym and give them a support system In the beginning of the season, lacrosse and instructional activi- with teammates who will be there Miller taught all the kids the basic ties, through US Lacrosse. Hall and for you. You don’t have to feel alone skills of lacrosse: throwing, catching, Miller would buy equipment for the in this world.” D scooping and cradling. By the end of gym teachers and teach the gym the season, kids on both teams were teacher on how to set up the proper The story previously appeared June 28, familiar with the four skills. The activity. 2019, in the Daily Reporter.

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