BGCN to Receive $50K NBA All-Star Legacy Grant
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TodAy’S Weather Sunday, March 1, 2020 Today: Filtered sunshine under high clouds. Arcadia | Atlanta | Cicero | Sheridan Tonight: Cloudy. Showers develop, mainly after midnight. Carmel | Fishers | Noblesville | Westfield NEWS GATHERING Like & PARTNER Follow us! HIGH: 57 LOW: 47 Life happens … and then what? Sometimes in life COLUMNIST you are just walking along whistling and singing "merrily mer- rily merrily merrily, life is but a dream," Photo provided and then you turn left The Boys and Girls Club of Noblesville is one of 21 grantees across Indiana which received funding from the NBA at the end of the block All-Star 2021 Legacy Grant Committee. BGCN says it plans to use the money to build a new outdoor court. and BAM you are hit with a nightmare on JANET HART LEONARD Elm Street. From the Heart You never saw what was coming. BGCN to receive $50K You drop to your knees and try to pray. Your words are garbled. You struggle with your conversation with God. How could this happen when you have tried to live a good life, obeying all 10 of the NBA all-star legacy grant Commandments and the Golden Rule? The REPORTER The NBA All-Star 2021 Legacy Com- struct a new outdoor space that promotes a You are robbed of your security. You The NBA All-Star 2021 Host Commit- mittee was tasked to create a meaningful sense of community. The new court will be struggle to sleep and even when you do, you tee has awarded 21 organizations with an grant opportunity to leave a legacy long primarily used for basketball and will be wake up exhausted. All-Star Legacy Grant, the $1 million ini- after the game is played. The Committee, used for pickleball, fitness classes and rec- You try to function and do what needs to tiative focused on youth-serving non-profit led by NBA All-Star 2021 Host Commit- reational games, as well. be done. You are in robot mode. organizations across Indiana. In connec- tee Board Co-Chairs Tamika Catchings and “The Boys & Girls Club of Noblesville I sat beside a friend this week who had tion with NBA All-Star 2021 in Indianap- Rafael Sanchez, launched the initiative in is thrilled to have been selected to receive just turned left, again, and found themselves olis next February, the initiative provides October 2019. an NBA All-Star 2021 Legacy Grant that on Elm Street. grants up to $50,000 for each of the select- The 21 grantees, representing 18 coun- will combine our mantra of ‘Great Futures A few weeks ago, I sat with another ed 21 brick-and-mortar projects focused on ties, were chosen from 182 applicants from Start HERE’ with the All-Star Legacy ini- friend and her daughter, in a courthouse hall- health and wellness or education. The 21 across Indiana. tiative ‘We Grow Basketball Here’ in an way, waiting for a decision which would, projects will impact an estimated 90,000 As a recipient of the grant, the Boys & youth statewide. Girls Club of Noblesville (BGCN) will con- See Grant . Page 2 See Life . Page 2 Young climate change Farming remains major industry in Hamilton Co. advocates speak out An interest- COLUMNIST probably our big- years old, the report says ing publication gest purely local 8.3 million bushels of corn by the Hamilton industry. are produced in the coun- County Farm There are ty, 3 million bushels of Bureau caught now about beans and 84,000 bushels my eye this week 325,000 people of wheat. when visiting the living in Hamil- Total net income to county court- ton County with farmers annually is listed house. Included most of them in at $29.9 million. The as- in statistics from FRED SWIFT the southern half. sessed value of the coun- the Farm Bureau The County Line There are only ty's farmland was placed is the fact that 585 working at $233 million two years half of the county's 400 farms, most of them north ago, and property taxes square-mile area is devoted of 196th Street, which is paid on this ground was to farming despite all the the county's north/south di- a little over $4.3 million residential and commercial vision line. each year. development. Most years at least It's probably all rather The information tells 50,000 acres are devoted surprising for folks who an interesting story about to corn production, near- have come to think of agriculture in our county. ly 60,000 to soybeans Hamilton County as being For example, the market and around 1,200 acres of suburban. In fact, virtually value of farm products is wheat. The remainder is half the county is still high- about $100 million annu- pasture and woodland. ly productive, rural farm Photo provided ally, which makes farming While figures are two country. Hamilton County youth leaders Leo Berry and Siddarth Chavali of Helping Ninjas recently attended State Representative Carey Hamilton’s (D-Indianapolis) Climate Change Resolution hearing in support of efforts and initiatives for a more sustainable future. The youth-inspired Resolution was heard Wednesday in the House Environmental Committee. Earth Don’t push your luck: Charter Indiana student member Vernice Riego gave her testimony during the hearing, stating urgency for political leaders to consider the resolution. This was the first time climate change was officially discussed Drive sober this March were 433 al- the mobiliza- in the House. (From left) State Rep. Hamilton, HSE senior Vernice The REPORTER Drive sober or get cohol-related tion. Riego, College Wood Elementary fourth-grader Leo Berry and Creekside pulled over. crashes across The follow- Middle School seventh-grader Siddarth Chavali. That’s the important Indiana, result- ing list includes reminder coming from the ing in 205 in- several safety Hamilton County Sher- juries and five tips to prevent iff’s Office with two of the fatalities. Of impaired driv- Fishers EMS sees rare one heaviest drinking events those, 65 crash- ing this March. of the year around the cor- es (15 percent) • Before the ner: St. Patrick’s Day and and one fatality celebration be- day rise in mental health calls the NCAA tournament. occurred during Quakenbush gins, plan a safe WISH-TV | wishtv.com says, there’s no ous contact.” All throughout March, the St. Patrick’s Day holi- way home. Seven out of 10 Fish- one group of peo- The depart- officers will be conduct- day weekend alone. • Never drive im- ers ambulance runs this ple experiencing ment says it is ing overtime patrols and “St. Patrick’s Day is paired. past Tuesday were mental more issues. completely fine sobriety checkpoints to one of, if not the, big- • Remember: Buzzed health-related. That’s ac- “The predom- with people call- prevent dangerous and gest drinking days of the driving is drunk driving. cording to a tweet Thurs- inant number of ing 911 if they’re impaired driving. year,” said Robert Duck- • If you do drink, use day morning from Fishers behavioral issues going through This is part of a state- worth, ICJI Traffic Safety a taxi, public transpor- Mayor Scott Fadness. we had for 2019 a mental health wide enforcement cam- Director. “If you’re out tation, ridesharing ser- Fishers Fire Depart- was over the age episode. They paign, funded by the Na- celebrating, make the vice or designate a sober ment and the Emergency of 19,” Mehling say if you need tional Highway Traffic right choice and find a friend or family member, Medical Services division said. “But unfor- Mehling the help, they Safety Administration sober driver to get you, and give them your keys. say the statistic is rare. Out tunately, it’s all ages.” want to be someone you through the Indiana Crim- and your friends, home • If you see a drunk of their total calls, 80 per- The department says it can trust. inal Justice Institute. safely. Luck won’t keep driver on the road, call cent are for medical ser- doesn’t have a way to cut “We acknowledge that “This March, we’re you out of jail if you’re 911. vices and a small percent- down on the calls that come there are mental health is- conducting our own full- caught driving under the • If you know some- age are for mental health. in. They can, however, be sues and we want to open court press targeting influence.” one who is about to drive “In Fishers, last year, we prepared for when some- the curtains on this,” Meh- anyone driving under the Impaired driving isn’t or ride impaired, take had 410 behavioral health one calls for help. ling said. “Friends, neigh- influence,” said Sheriff the only risk on the road their keys and help make responses,” said John Me- “These firefighters have bors, family members Dennis Quakenbush. “As in March, according to arrangements to get them hling, the fire department’s special training in which all are affected by this. It a basketball state, we ICJI. Dangerous driving, home safely. public information officer, they respond out to these doesn’t matter how much want everybody watching which includes factors Click here to learn “which is about 10 percent incidents,” Mehling said. money you make, how the tournament to have a such as speeding too fast more about the Hamilton of our EMS runs.” “They create a relationship much money you don’t good time, but not at the for weather conditions County Sheriff’s Office. The fire department with these patients so that make, what job you’re in, expense of others.