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32 July | August 2020 PROFILE On a mission Dr. Ben Chastain is one of Columbus’ A Dream Realized front-line heroes The Buffos design their colorful home in the woods

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8 editor’s note 9 MEET THE TEAM 10 What do you think? 12 BOOK NOOK

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Finding peace at the lake

How are you, Columbus? It has been nice to venture out now that restrictions are being lifted and begin to enjoy my favorite season — summer! Few things can take us back to our childhood like favorite summer memories. I grew up living at a lake, so summer break meant waking up, throwing on a swimsuit and spending all day on the water. Boating, skiing, annual Fourth of July parties — summer was such a happy time. So it should come as no surprise, now that I have children of my own, we love spending as much time as possible kayaking, swimming and soaking up sunshine at our lake home. I’ll be honest that recent events around our nation have left me feeling a bit overwhelmed. There are so many different opinions about returning to normal after months of quarantine, opposing viewpoints on appropriate responses to injustice, and don’t get me started on the polarizing political climate. While I fully support speaking out, everything feels loud right now. So it has been nice to escape to the place that has always brought me peace — the lake. I hope you have a place where you can retreat from the world for a little while. In this new issue of Columbus magazine, please enjoy reading about Darren and Cheryl Buffo’s home in the woods. Get to know Dr. Benjamin Chastain and what life has been like for an ER doctor working on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about the READS program that helps dyslexic children in our community and discover the best places to find a cool, tasty treat in Columbus.

Have a wonderful summer!

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8 Columbus Magazine meet the team

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In each issue of Columbus, we ask people for their opinions on a variety of topics. This month’s question: Which locally owned businesses have you enjoyed supporting during the past few months?

I have a younger son who lives with me who has done most of the grocery shopping, so I would say staying home is something I have done a great deal. I Over the last few months have gone to the dough- at parks and rec, we have nut shop in the morning, started doing a Friday probably five or six times, night trivia. We try to a place called Donut Cen- pick a local business and tral. Today coming to the buy a gift card from them. farmers market is great During the trivia night, on because there is sunshine, We have gone to Otter Creek Facebook, we advertise people are out and prod- Golf Course and would love for that business and then ucts are available, so it is to go to Kramer’s. We are give away the gift card at fun to be here. waiting for them to open. We the end of that week. It is love coming to the farmers really important for us to — Jaye Lahee market because it is all local continue to be patrons of people and we like buying our local businesses, buy from them. Just bought some gift cards from them and Laura Jo’s Cookies. A per- direct people to those centage of the profits always businesses during this time. go to a not-for-profit, and this week they go to Founda- — Jacob Hendricks tion for Youth.

— Rick and Jane Siefert

10 Columbus Magazine Compiled By Carla Clark

We have been trying to sup- We have gone to Upland port all our local vendors at Brewing’s Columbus We try to go to local coffee shops, the farmers market when they Pumphouse and have or- Lucabe and also to Donut Central, are available; also, Blackerby’s dered from Savory Swine. which is owned by a friend of ours. Hangar, in serving produce We have gone to the We come to the farmers market and things like that for the pizza place on the corner, and have gone to Whipker’s. We city of Columbus during the Bucceto’s. That’s about it. downturn, as well as several have gone to the Vietnamese restaurant Pho Shiki. of our local restaurants. We — Kelly Haberfield are trying our best to help keep them afloat, too. — Piyush Khajanji and Mary Spalding

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“The Water “Lock Every Door” “Brown Girl “Broken” Dancer” By Riley Sager Dreaming” By Don Winslow By Ta-Nehisi Coates If you stay, you must fol- By Jacqueline Woodson The author has written sev- eral excellent crime novels. Best known for writing low the rules: No overnight This is a wonderful read for His latest work, “Broken,” is a nonfiction, Coates proves his visitors, do not disturb other middle schoolers and adults collection of six novellas that brilliance by venturing into residents, and you must stay alike. Written in verse, this have intriguing story lines, historical fiction in “The Wa- in your room every night. award-winning memoir cov- unusual characters, lots of ter Dancer.” Set on a Virginia Jules is hired as a room sitter ers the author’s early years action, sadness and humor. plantation, his protagonist, for a resident in The Barthol- in Columbus, Ohio, Greenville, His stories tell of people or the slave Hiram Walker, has a omew, an apartment building South Carolina, and New York institutions that are broken. unique gift of photographic of secrets. As she stays, she City. Woodson realized she “The San Diego Zoo” starts, memory, except for one hears rumors of dark events wanted to write from a young “No one knows how the chimp crucial element. He cannot re- from the past and odd things age. The stories swirling in got the revolver.” A patrol member his mother, who was begin to occur. People go her head eventually make cop is called to disarm the sold when he was a child, and missing. it out when “pen to paper” chimp, and things go down- it is that lack of memory upon This book has the right finally clicks for her. hill (for the officer) from which all his other powers amount of suspense and Covering the deep love of there. “The Last Ride” por- rise and fall as he endeavors creepiness, which left me family, the sting and struggle trays a Donald Trump sup- to transport his people to feeling tense. I enjoyed the of racism during a pivotal porter who is a border patrol freedom. writing style and had a fun time in history, belonging, agent. He is horrified by the Coates focuses on rela- time trying to figure out and friendships, this is a sight of a little girl in a cage tionships among kin, among what was going on with the beautifully written history and sets out to reunite her lovers, among the slave residents. It had a twist at the of a young girl’s dreams and with her mother. He must go community, both present and end I did not see coming. wishes, both for her and up against his Border Patrol afar, living and dead, those This is a book that I had to those she loves. superiors and several other the Christian community calls put down for a moment to governmental institutions. “a great cloud of witnesses.” I process what had happened. — Michelle Malina I don’t usually like collec- guarantee you will be moved It was dark. This was the first tions, but these stories are and enriched by this bril- book I’ve read by the author, unforgettable. All six are liant, beautiful and powerful and I look forward to reading worth reading. narrative. more in the future.

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12 Columbus Magazine Reviews by the staff of Viewpoint Books

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Columbus Magazine 13 Taste

Yo Mama Frozen Yogurt and More

14 Columbus Magazine GET THE

For many of us, summer is

synonymous with frozen

treats. Since we’ve been

homebound to one degree

or another for the past few

months, the urge is likely

strong in many throughout

Columbus to head out and

get a cone, shake, malt or

float fix in the increasingly

warm weather. Allow us to

be your guide in seeking

out your new frozen favor-

ites around town.

BY JON SHOULDERS // photography by JANA JONES

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Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor

329 Washington St. | 812-378-1900 | zaharakos.com

A Columbus fave for the past 120 years, cream, an abundance of whipped cream Zaharakos offers sundaes, malts, floats and a cherry on top. Oh, and it comes and more amidst a charming throw- with a side of hot fudge as well, in case back atmosphere. Manager Ann Spear you just can’t get enough. has recently noticed a steady demand For those hungry enough for a full for her banana split, and if you order meal before perusing the dessert menu, one at Zaharakos don’t expect a run-of- the Gom sandwich is Zaharakos’ take the-mill preparation. Each one comes on the sloppy Joe. It comes on a thick, with scoops of vanilla, strawberry and grilled white bread akin to Texas toast chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and can be prepared with cheese. banana, cherries and, finally, chocolate, “We also have an avocado grill that’s pineapple and strawberry sauce. been popular lately, and it’s with avo- Also be sure to consider the brownie cado, tomato and provolone inside the sundae, which Spear says is another sandwich,” Spear adds. “On the outside, customer favorite. It starts with a warm when it’s grilled, it’s coated with Parme- brownie drenched in hot fudge, then san right on the bread, which makes it topped with homemade vanilla ice unique.”

16 Columbus Magazine Musillami’s Drive-In 855 Jonesville Road | 812-372-7565

Owner Mike Musillami’s name- sake drive-in eatery offers classic chocolate and vanilla cones, sundaes, malts and unique shake flavors like hot fudge, butter pecan, blueberry, strawberry and pine- apple. “The hot fudge shake gives you a great sensory experience, when the hot fudge hits the ice cream and cools off and then you take that first taste,” says Musillami, whose son, daughter and grandchildren also work at the restaurant. “It’s darn tasty. We also use fresh strawberries for our shakes and our sundaes.” Guests can pull up to the estab- lishment and receive food, drinks and desserts right in their vehicles. “We always have a large ice cream cone sale around the Fourth of July,” Musillami adds. “That’s always quite popular, and we’ve done it for over 20 years.” Make sure to also try the pizza burger if your appetite allows. The food menu includes corn dogs, grilled cheese, tenderloins, burgers and breaded chicken.

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Yo Mama Frozen Yogurt and More 3780 W. Jonathan Moore Pike 812-799-0560

Variety is the name of the game and chocolate yogurt flavors. frogs, worms and bears. Oreo is at Yo Mama Frozen Yogurt and The No. 1 ice cream seller is a always popular, and we see a lot More, where customers can flavor called This Just Got Seri- of customers go for the classic choose from 24 yogurt flavors, ous — a smooth, salted caramel neon sprinkles, mini chocolate 16 ice cream flavors, and 70 top- ice cream with sea salt fudge chips and the peanut butter pings and sauces while building and salted cashews. buckeyes. There are always a lot their own dessert creations. As far as toppings go, Miller of choices, and you can get as They can opt for any combina- says, the sky is the limit, and creative as you want.” tion of yogurt desired. customers are free to make any Yo Mama also offers non- Manager Beth Miller says topping combinations they fat, gluten-free and nondairy many customers tend to gravi- might be in the mood for. options, as well as ice cream tate toward cookies and cream, “We get some weird combi- cakes and seasonal flavors like sea salt caramel pretzel, peanut nations for sure,” she says with lemon meringue in the summer butter, as well as classic vanilla a laugh. “Kids like the gummy months.

18 Columbus Magazine Dairy Queen Grill & Chill

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More than 50 snow cone flavor varieties await guests at Sno Biz, including fruit, tropical, sugar-free, infusions like tutti-frutti and mar- garita, as well as festive options like birthday cake and bubblegum. The menu extends well beyond snow cones. Here you’ll find soft serve “CrunchiCreme,” classic vanilla soft serve, hand-dipped ice cream, offbeat shake flavors like butterbeer, rainbow sprinkles and blackberry (along with classics like cookies and cream, chocolate, va- nilla and peanut butter), slushes, and both sweet and savory hot pretzels. This summer brings six new Blizzard flavors to the menu at Dairy Feeling adventurous? Try a sui- Queen, including Oreo Cheesecake, Frosted Animal Cookie, Wonder cide milkshake, which Sno Biz offers Woman Cookie Collision, Raspberry Fudge Bliss, S’mores and Cotton for $2 and includes several shake Candy. flavors blended together from excess “The Cotton Candy is always a summer favorite, and the Blizzards milkshake preparations throughout are almost always the most popular category when it comes to our cold the day, preserved in the estab- stuff,” says Julie Franke, manager at the Third Street Dairy Queen loca- lishment’s freezer. The staff simply tion. “The Cotton Candy cone was really popular this spring, too.” scoops out the milkshake excess and Columbus DQ locations are also adding the Twisty Misty to the slush re-blends it with some added milk menu. It’s a lemonade-based take on the classic Misty Slush. and flavoring. “This year we’re coming out with a nondairy Dilly Bar, for people “The suicide shake has been fun who are vegan or can’t have dairy,” Franke adds. “It’s made with coconut for the high school kids,” says Sno cream, and it’s really good. My daughter’s vegan, and she’s really excited Biz Assistant Manager Evan Culli- about it. We also have a brand-new Brownie and Oreo Cupfection and gan. “It’s a fun mystery dish. As far Strawberry Cake Cupfection, and our triple chocolate brownie is getting as ice cream, cookies and cream has more and more popular with our customers also.” been a favorite here, and everyone While you’re there, make it a full meal and choose from burgers, pret- likes the flavor variety of the shaved zel sticks with queso, fries, chili dogs, chicken strips and more. ice we have here.”

Columbus Magazine 19 Home & Family

20 Columbus Magazine in the

From its custom design to its colorful walls, the Buffo home pays tribute to its surroundings

BY GLENDA WINDERS // photography by ANGELA JACKSON

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Darren and Cheryl Buffo with their dogs. 22 Columbus Magazine Darren and Cheryl Buffo say they live with intention. Early in their marriage it was with intention that they planned their expenses so that Cheryl could work part time and be at home with their children, Maggie and Matthew. It was also with intention that they took the kids traveling with them, starting with a trip to China and South Korea when they were 6 and 10 and over the years going on to such places as Italy, France and Morocco. “When you take your kids all over the world, they realize that while our skin color and language may be different, we are all the same,” Cheryl said. “We all love our families and want what’s best for them.” So when it came to design- ing and building their home, Buffo they did that with intention, family too. travels: “We can’t afford to do ev- Top: Trip to Asia in erything,” Cheryl said, “so we 2006. would rather spend our time Bottom: The Alps and money traveling than in 2019. maintaining a house. And we value high quality, so we chose wanted a place that reminded books, magazines and knowl- good construction over size.” them of the outdoor spaces edgeable friends, among them The couple spent three they had enjoyed there. They local architect Louis Joyner. years looking at properties be- also wanted their children to They compiled a long must- fore Darren found the perfect be surrounded by nature, and have list, but they say much of 22-acre spot in a forest west of Darren wanted a place to hike, it was made up of attributes Columbus that he knew right walk the dogs and ride his dirt they wanted to make sure away was the one. They had bike. their home didn’t have: high lived in North Carolina before During those three years maintenance, high utility bills, moving to Indiana to be closer they created a binder filled little-used formal spaces or to their families, and they with ideas gleaned from storage. They are committed

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to either using what they own or giving it away, so each bed- room has a closet and there is a linen closet, but they have no attic or basement. What they did want, however, was for the house to be beautiful.

Owner and designer With the property purchased, Darren, a cabinetmaker and construction project manager, began designing the house in earnest. At the time he had a 3,000-foot shop in Progress Park (he has since moved to a separate building near the house) that allowed him to lay out the 2,500-square- foot floor plan so they could walk around in it and make sure it worked. The couple also figured in the furniture they would be using. Since they were downsizing from a 3,600-square-foot house, they needed to know what would work and what they would need to sell or give away. Darren’s next step was to build a scale model, paint it the color they had chosen and situate it on a hillside made of sawdust so they could make sure it was oriented in the right direction. Once the house was framed and plumbers and electri- cians had done their work, the family took over and finished it themselves. As proof, the Buffos have photos of their children wielding nail guns and putting down the underlayment for the floor- ing. Darren had recently had shoulder surgery and his arm was in a sling, so he built a prop for himself so he could lay flooring with just one good arm. Initially the upstairs floors were covered with cork, which the family loved because of its

24 Columbus Magazine look and feel, but their pets’ and dog and cat doors allow claws destroyed it. Replacing the animals to go in and out it with DuraCeramic flooring at will. A small room by the has proven to be more practi- garage has hot and cold water cal for the animals as well as taps and a drain so that the for swimmers once they added pets (“And sometimes me,” the pool outside. Downstairs Darren said) can be cleaned they started with utilitarian before they come inside. carpeting that they replaced There is a bird feeder on the with dark laminate for the back deck and a deer feeder same reason. in front. They built a fence to enclose their plantings and Shared spaces put in some deer-resistant Animals play a big part in the shrubs, but beyond that they Buffos’ lives. At four chickens, leave everything for the wild four cats and two dogs, they animals that frequent their have fewer pets now than they surroundings. have ever had, and all of their “This was theirs first,” pets have been rescues. Their Cheryl said. three-legged cat, Jazz, lays Animals were on their claim to the best spot in the minds when they chose the house with a climbing tower siding for their home, too. that looks out into the trees, They had seen woodpecker Top: Matthew helps with the flooring during construction of the house. Below: Maggie and Darren use drills.

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her everywhere and compared it with every red she saw and liked. While they were building and wanted to spend as much time as possible at the site, Darren converted a premade storage shed into a paneled, insulated cabin with a porch so the family could camp there comfortably. When they discovered a new red possibility, they painted it that color, so the cabin — now their on-site retreat — has some 12 coats of red paint. Eventually the couple’s friend and interior design consultant, Margy Nierman, spotted the right color on a tissue box. Since then Nier- man has selected every paint color in the house, all 28 of them. They range from pale greens that make the rooms seem to merge with the woods outside to bright oranges, reds and yellows that combine seamlessly to create a home that is as warm and inviting as it is workable. “It takes a while to figure out what your style is,” Cheryl said. “Our first house was country traditional, probably some version of my mom’s. We completely renovated our second house, and by the time we came here we were leaning toward interesting colors and materials.”

holes in other wooden homes red against autumn leaves is Easy does it in the country, so they decided beautiful. The property is the With ease of maintenance on cement-fiber Hardiboard, perfect backdrop for the red being a priority, Darren which — as an added bonus house in every season.” designed a roof with only one — seldom requires repainting. Finding exactly the right slope so that water runs off Then they painted it the clear, red also required some time into the woods. That means no bright red Cheryl had wanted and effort. At one point valleys or eaves where leaves from the beginning. Cheryl saw a house whose could collect and that would “The red against the woods color she liked and went right need to be cleaned. And he and snow is beautiful,” she up to the door to ask the says it was easy to build. said, “and the red against owners its name. She carried Being energy-efficient was green is beautiful, and the a sheaf of paint samples with high on the couple’s wish

26 Columbus Magazine list, too, and a big factor in Darren’s design. To that end, the house is built on two levels of 1,250 square feet each. The bedrooms downstairs are built partially into the hillside, which makes them automat- ically warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Walls are 6 inches thick and have lots of insulation. In summer, the leaves on the trees around the house protect it from harsh sunlight, as do the 2-foot eaves. In winter the bare trees allow the sun’s warmth to shine through. The house is equipped for passive solar and an air-to-air heat pump for heating and cooling, and Darren arranged the doors for maximum cross-ventilation. Even with all of the practi- cal considerations, however, they have also managed to check the “beautiful” box.

Nothing in the home’s décor is by accident, starting with the storefront windows in the living room. They have no window coverings, since nature pro- vides them with privacy, and no trim to detract from the view, disturb the clean lines or make eventual repainting more difficult. Standing next to one of the windows feels like floating in the treetops, and indeed some of their friends have called their home a tree house. They made a conscious choice not to put a TV set in the living room and instead have it in a room that was the family office before they all got laptops. “The windows are our art- work,” Cheryl said. “It would be blasphemy to put a TV set in that room.” Having so many win-

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dows, however, means less made by Cheryl’s late mother three napkin drawings of wall space for the manmade with patterns she created The Commons, where Cheryl artwork they enjoy collecting. herself — a chair covering had worked as a community The solution was to build a in the TV room, a rose for developer, and Peter Exley, non-essential wall just for art, Maggie since “Rose” is her Chicago architect of the pilot and the pieces they decided middle name, a graphic design kidscommons, did a drawing to hang there determined the for engineer Matthew. Pieces as a gift to commemorate her color of the paint. on the walls include paintings contribution there. (Her work by local artists, some of them now has her at Columbus Re- Family favorites by a former housekeeper, and gional Hospital as community Every detail in the home wire sculptures of the family program leader working with comes with a story. Each room as well as family photos. substance-abuse programs, contains a piece of needlework Architect Tony Costello did such as Alliance for Substance

28 Columbus Magazine Abuse Progress.) serves as their breakfast nook. local artist Laurie Wright. The sleek, serviceable Darren reproduced a wood- “This is the family spot kitchen is Darren’s master- and-steel stairway railing where we all gather in the eve- piece. He built the cabinets they liked at the Indiana State ning,” Cheryl said, “and then and the central island, con- Museum using powder-coated we all go to our respective structing it first from card- rebar and then did the same bedrooms, which by today’s board so they could make sure thing for the railing that goes standards are small.” it was right. In the interest of around their deck. When the original Com- budget, the couple opted for The nearby laundry room mons was slated to be demol- laminate countertops and an is roomier than most. All ished and its fittings were sold undermounted IKEA farm of their coats and outdoor at auction, the Buffos bought sink. They chose appliances footwear are here, but nothing the rift-cut white oak doors that wouldn’t break the bank is in a closet. The coats and that had been on the offices and after budgeting $5,000 backpacks are on hooks and and conference rooms there. for lighting spent a whopping the shoes on shelves so noth- They are now bedroom doors, $580. Their one luxury was a ing is overlooked and unworn. and Darren built the cabi- hot-water dispenser so they The arrangement of the netry throughout the rest of can have tea on a moment’s rooms on the lower level was the house to match. Daughter notice. influenced by the children’s Maggie helped and inscribed A colorful and useful sur- area of the Miller House — in one of the bathroom draw- prise in the kitchen is a booth small bedrooms around a ers, “I love my mama and my from the pizza restaurant in common area. The colors were mama loves me.” the original Commons that decided by a rug designed by Darren also built most of

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“I know so many people who say building a house together exceeded their budget and almost ruined their marriage, but even with our strict budget we loved the process. We never argued. It was a joy.” — Cheryl Buffo

their furniture and gave new “I know so many people prom dinners on the roomy, life to antique pieces — a who say building a house to- screened-in porch and by Shaker cabinet, a cupboard gether exceeded their budget the pool two years in a row. from a hardware store, a dry and almost ruined their mar- Darren rides his dirt bike and sink, a china cabinet — by riage,” Cheryl said, “but even walks the dogs in the woods, taking off trims and refinish- with our strict budget we and Cheryl does yoga on an ing them or painting them in loved the process. We never outdoor platform and enjoys bold colors to fit in with their argued. It was a joy.” an outdoor shower. new décor. When they began living “We love having friends In the end the couple got there in 2009, Matthew (now over to hang out at the everything they wanted. They a civil engineer in Texas) pool or have a bonfire, and finished on budget and on had friends over for playing sometimes people don’t want time with a beautiful, ener- in the woods, and Maggie to leave,” Darren said. “We gy-efficient, easy-to-maintain (now an Indiana University couldn’t think of a better home. nursing student) hosted pre- place to be.”

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32 Columbus Magazine M EDICINE in the time of COVID Ben Chastain takes emergencies in stride

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Caroline, Ben, Autumn and Carter Chastain

34 Columbus Magazine You could say that Ben and jobs out of state and wanted Autumn Chastain arrived in to sell quickly, so it all came Columbus with a bang — but together.” not the kind anyone would Ben’s brother, Joe, who had have wished for them. come here to work at Cum- When Ben finished medical mins Inc. after graduating school at the Indiana Uni- from Purdue, had been the versity Medical Center they first to lobby for the couple to Ybought a house on the south come to Columbus. He teased side of Indianapolis in the them with clippings about the Richmond Hill neighborhood. hospital and the community After his residency at IU in anonymous envelopes, but Methodist Hospital he took they always knew who the a position as an emergency sender was. room physician at Columbus There were other factors, Regional Hospital, commut- too. ing from that home with the “Autumn and I aren’t big- plan to move to Columbus at city people,” Ben said, “and some point. Columbus was the right size Then came the Richmond for us. I really liked the hospi- Hill explosion in November tal, too, and that it was a really 2012 that killed two people strong community hospital.” and damaged 33 houses to the point of having to be demol- Hoosier couple ished. One of them was theirs. He had grown up in Lafayette “That made the decision and Autumn in Mitchell. They easy for us,” Ben said. “We met when they were resident had already been looking at assistants in the same dorm houses down here and found at Indiana State University one we liked near the Tipton and married while he was in Lakes area. The owners had medical school. Now they

“Autumn and I aren’t big-city people, and Columbus was the right size for us. I really liked the hospital, too, and that it was a really strong community hospital.” — Ben Chastain

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have two children, Carter, 8, something she had never expe- and Caroline, 6. Life was mov- rienced, either. ing along nicely, and then the “In the beginning I was coronavirus pandemic hit. an anxious, nervous mess “It’s the first time in my career “It’s the first time in my about everything,” she said. that I’ve been worried about career that I’ve been worried “He would come home, and I about bringing something would say, ‘Did you see anyone bringing something home home with me,” Ben said. with coronavirus? Were you with me. One of the toughest “One of the toughest things careful? Did you wear your things has been wanting to has been wanting to make sure mask? Did you wear your I don’t bring something home gloves?’ He finally told me to make sure I don’t bring some- from work that could affect quit asking. He said, ‘Yes, I’m thing home from work that my family.” going to see people with coro- They have stayed away from navirus, and yes, I always have could affect my family.” their extended family during on my protective equipment.’ — Ben Chastain the isolation period, too, since So I quit.” their parents are in the high- risk category. Following protocol Autumn said having to fear The fact is that Ben had been for her husband’s life every cautious from the beginning. time he went to work was “One of the things that was

36 Columbus Magazine sneaky about this virus was Stepping up said. “A big piece of that is asymptomatic carriers,” he Kelsey DeClue, public rela- strong physician leadership, said, “so I pretty much treated tions coordinator at CRH, someone who can assess risk everyone as if they had the vi- said the hospital is just as and respond in emergency rus by wearing the appropriate grateful for him as he is for situations. Dr. Chastain has mask and gloves to minimize what they have done. been a great leader, not just exposure, even if they were “Our emergency depart- through the pandemic but for there for an ankle sprain.” ment staff are truly our front- several years.” He wears his normal clothes line, health care heroes and She also applauded his to the hospital and imme- shining stars who are always adaptability since no one diately changes into scrubs. on, 24/7, for whatever shows knew what to expect when When he leaves for the day, up with our patients, and that the virus began, and she said he changes back and leaves has been double during the he relays critical information the scrubs behind. Then he coronavirus pandemic,” she to everyone involved to make showers at home. In between he said he has seen at least one coronavirus patient on every shift. In addition to being con- cerned about his family, he said another hard part was the uncertainty about whether the predictions of numbers of cases would turn out to be ac- curate, whether people would take social-distancing guide- lines seriously and whether Columbus would spike to the levels of Italy and New York. He credits the hospital with preventing such high numbers from becoming a reality. “I think we’re fortunate that the hospital did a really nice job of setting up some specialty clinics to coordinate care and divert some of the caseload away from the emer- gency department to leave us to take care of the patients who are more ill,” he said. He also applauded the hos- pital for setting up a hotline, quadrupling the capacity of the intensive care unit and postponing elective surgeries so that it would not have to operate at capacity or suffer from a shortage of ventila- tors and personal protective equipment. “They did all the right things,” he said, “and the com- munity’s response has been really good.”

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sure the physicians and staff who take over from him can give the best quality care to their patients. “We are blessed to have Dr. “Our emergency department staff are truly our front-line, Chastain’s leadership and his health care heroes and shining stars who are always on, medical expertise,” she said. 24/7, for whatever shows up with our patients, and that Despite all of his and the hospital’s efforts, Ben says, he has been double during the coronavirus pandemic. A big has seen a lot of heartbreaking piece of that is strong physician leadership, someone situations. One issue is that patients have been reticent who can assess risk and respond in emergency situations. to come to the emergency Dr. Chastain has been a great leader, not just through the room, so when they finally do pandemic but for several years.” come they are sicker than they might otherwise have been. — Kelsey DeClue Another is the inability of families to visit the hospital. “It’s really tough for fam- ilies not to be able to be with their loved ones during this time,” he said. “When you get a patient who is very ill, it’s a hard thing for them not to be able to be with their family. It’s difficult for the patients and the families both.” He said he has seen a lot of memorable patients, but none more so than a child from Honduras, where he volunteers for one week every six months. He had diagnosed a congenital heart condition and arranged for the boy to have surgery, but when the coronavirus emerged, the operation was postponed indefinitely.

Mission work He began doing this mission work in 2017 after attending an event in Nashville, Tennes- see, to raise funds for a group called “IC-13” that was started by a friend. It takes its name from the Bible reading — 1 Corinthians 13 — that talks about faith, hope and love. He stresses, however, that no reli- gious commitment is required of the people who come to them for help. Ben doing mission work with IC-13 in Honduras. Left: Helping a patient in a hammock. Photo by Jordyn Smalling Photography. Two photos on right: Ben with his patient, Mateo, on two separate visits.

38 Columbus Magazine “I would never go to a place Everyday changes where you have to listen to a Throughout the pandemic When spiel,” he said. “They show up, Autumn, who was an ele- we’re here to help and that’s mentary teacher until her Quality it. Nothing else is required.” children came along, has been In addition to physicians, coaching Carter and Caro- the group includes nurses line through their e-learning Matters! and pharmacists. They stay sessions. at a hotel in El Progresso and “I feel like Laura Ingalls drive one to two hours to set Wilder in a one-room school- up outreach clinics in rural, house,” she said. “Having a often mountainous areas, teaching background really typically seeing between helps, and I feel for the parents 1,200 and 1,500 patients in who don’t have that. The the time they’re there. Ben school district has classes on has even treated patients in Tuesdays, Wednesdays and the hotel lobby who have Thursdays, but I make my kids heard they were in town. He also do school on Mondays also does some micro-eco- and Fridays, and I come up nomic projects that help with the lesson plans for those people to sustain themselves days. They say my school is financially and to provide harder.” Only local body shop in the area that is I-car gold! clean water and housing. The couple say they have www.voelzbodyshop.com “The places we serve have used this time to teach their 3471 Market Street, Columbus IN 47201 very little access to food on a children to get rid of the train- 812-376-8868 normal basis,” he said, “but ing wheels on their bicycles TR-35046701 coronavirus has caused even and have spent as much time more problems. It has shut as possible playing outside. down factories and agricul- Autumn has caught up on tural work, and in the places her reading, and Ben has we go the family’s breadwin- been able to play a little golf. Real ‘Live Edge’ ner is often an agricultural In ordinary times they enjoy worker making the equivalent traveling. They’ve made sev- of $6 to $7 a day. We’ve upped eral visits to Mexico and often our support in providing go to Nashville (Tennessee) for food to some of the commu- the country music. They spend nities.” a week each summer in South He said he speaks “good Carolina where they rent a medical Spanish” but hopes house with friends. to become fluent, so he has For now they are staying at taken advantage of the quar- home and waiting to see what antine time to take online is going to happen next, like classes. Clearly he doesn’t everyone else. Autumn says Solid Red Leaf Maple plan to stop his Honduras they take all of the precau- visits anytime in the near tions — social distancing, future, and he and Autumn disinfecting and cleaning the American Made - plan to go as a family when house as much as possible. She Heirloom Quality Dining the children are older. said Ben does such a good job “This has been a powerful of “detoxifying” when he gets thing for me over the past home that she doesn’t worry few years,” he said. “It’s an as much as she used to. every-six-month reminder “So far we’ve been for- of how fortunate and blessed tunate,” Ben said. Autumn 812-522-2397 we are.” added, “Knock on wood.” 205 S. Chestnut St., Downtown Seymour Monday-Friday 9-6 and Saturday 9-4

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40 Columbus Magazine The Morminos enrolled (Recognizing, Educating, Max in tutoring programs and Advocating for Dyslexic and summer camps in Indy, Students), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit including the Dyslexia organization, in 2014. Institute of Indiana’s Camp “Coming under the Arc Delafield, and Max started to umbrella has been a great way make significant progress. The to launch our group, because couple learned along the way as parents we don’t have a lot When Adrienne and Brian that one in five people have of extra time for everything Mormino learned their son, some form of dyslexia and that goes along with running Max, was having difficulty began considering the idea of a nonprofit,” Brian says. reading in school back in helping others in the Colum- 2012, they initially expected bus area in need of the kind of Support and education the problem to be a typical, help they sought. Since 2014, READS has helped temporary stumbling block in “We felt a push to help to form student and parent his educational journey that more than just our child,” support groups, organize sem- would resolve itself. When Brian says. “The strategy inars featuring expert speak- the issue persisted and Max, group at Cummins, where I ers and panel discussions, who was in the first grade work, came alongside us to and direct parents to helpful at the time, was eventually do a project to determine the materials for their children. diagnosed with dyslexia, the community gaps and needs “Sometimes it’s something couple knew that a difficult here for dyslexia. We found as simple as offering some journey was in store for the some help north of here and advice and consultation on family. some other places, and that the phone,” Adrienne says of “Max’s teacher was the one made us want to do three the READS mission. “We’ve who first brought the issue things in Columbus — raise formed some partnerships to our attention, and then awareness around here to with groups like Decoding we had to go outside of the bring resources to schools and Dyslexia of Indiana, and par- Columbus school system to learning centers, help kids and ticipated in a lot of Cummins explore the issue and find their families navigate this and Rotary lunch talks.” out what was going on with problem, and advocate for lo- From 2014 through 2017, him,” Brian says. “There were cal and federal policy changes the Morminos worked on a resources in places like Indi- to help people.” pilot program for the Barthol- anapolis, Bloomington and In order to efficiently omew Consolidated School Seymour, but really nothing work toward those three Corp. to incorporate reading in Columbus. When we found goals, the couple partnered materials into schools for out he had dyslexia, we didn’t with The Arc of Bartholomew students with dyslexia. know what it was.” County and launched READS “What we found was that

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the reading instruction that works for that dyslexic need, in order to learn to read well, does no harm and works really well for any student,” Adrienne says of the BCSC pilot program. “We figured, let’s get kids started off right, and the pilot program began in kindergarten in a few schools.” The Morminos have been contacted by parents whose kids span a wide range, from early reading ages through high school, as well as tutors working with local adults struggling with learning disabilities. “We tend to see a lot of par- ents of third to sixth graders reach out to us,” Adrienne adds. “That’s when kids are supposed to have started to transition from learning to read, into reading to learn. And that’s when things can start to break down. We’re seeing a need for people to become literate all throughout the community.”

From left, Adrienne, Brian, Max, Sam and Tess Mormino, in front. Finding help Brian stresses that READS essentially acts as a bridge for “We’re not the experts, and we’re not going parents, teachers and tutors in search of some direction for to diagnose. We can point people in the those with mild, moderate or right directions and maybe provide a list severe dyslexia. of websites, resources and places to go for “We’re not the experts, and we’re not going to diagnose. professional assessment. We try to make We can point people in the the discovery process for parents a lot right directions and maybe provide a list of websites, more streamlined. We’re mainly a resource resources and places to go for for families and here to help talk people professional assessment,” he explains. “We try to make the through their process.” discovery process for parents a lot more streamlined. We’re — Brian Mormino mainly a resource for families and here to help talk people through their process.” For parents or guardians first becoming aware of their child’s potential issues with

42 Columbus Magazine dyslexia, Adrienne recom- of questions for teachers and on the child and family needs, mends simply recording specialists, because parents as opposed to categorizing what’s going on in written have been spending more time people right away, and think- form and consulting with sitting with kids and observ- ing in terms of public versus READS to get pointed in the ing at home in a learning private schooling and things right direction. situation,” she says. like that.” “Getting things written Columbus resident Phuong Ultimately, Adrienne says, down so you have a con- Faye reached out to Brian and READS exists to let families crete view of the problem is Adrienne several years ago and educators know they’re a big deal,” she says. “You’ll to take advantage of READS not alone in the journey probably get a lot of questions resources, after being intro- to help kids find a proper thrown at you by tutors and duced to the couple through a learning path tailored to their other professionals, so it’s a mutual friend. One of Faye’s needs. good idea to have that starting children has issues related to “Even if nothing else gets point, and you can always go dyslexia and was in the second taken away from a conversa- back and revise.” grade at the time. tion we have with parents, you Adrienne says the past few “When we moved to Co- have that point of contact to months have been a crucial lumbus from another state, we know you’re not alone, and it’s time for all parents, including realized we needed support OK if you didn’t pick up on those with kids with learning if our child was going to be the problem sooner,” she says. disabilities, as families have in any kind of school system, been forced into home school- and the Morminos gave us For more information on ing due to the coronavirus some resources on getting a READS, including postings outbreak. child diagnosed and what you on upcoming events and “I think when kids go back do from there. What makes seminars, visit facebook.com/ to school, there will be a lot READS great is that it focuses columbusinreads.

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Kirsten McCorry moved to Columbus with her family from the U.K. when she was in elementary school. She graduated from Columbus North High School in 2007. She moved to Arizona in 2012, where she met Idel Dawson. “We met at the Boys and Girls Club, where we both worked in Mesa, Arizona,” she said. Their engagement began when they were on vacation in Paris. “Idel proposed at the Palace of Versailles in the gardens.” They decided to move back to her home- town and get married here. The wedding had family and friends from all over the world. “Idel is originally from California, so his family and friends traveled to be here. My family came all the way from the U.K. We also had friends travel from Germany, Mexico, Arizona, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida and North Carolina. It was amazing to see all of our loved ones in my hometown,” Kirsten said. “Our wedding day was amazing. We had all of our favorite people in one place. I was happy to marry my favorite guy, and we had a blast celebrating with our friends and family. I wish I could do it all over again the exact same way,” she said. The couple honeymooned in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, at an all-inclusive resort on the beach, and went parasailing, swimming with dolphins and zip lining. “We ate tacos every day (our favorite food) and enjoyed the people and the weather.”

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