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TODAy’s WeaTHER THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 Today: Showers/storms in the morning. Partly sunny in the afternoon. Wind gusting to 25 mph. SHERIDAN | NOBLESVIllE | CICERO | ARCADIA Tonight: Partly cloudy. IKE AtlANTA | WEStfIELD | CARMEL | FISHERS NEWS GATHERING L & PARTNER FOllOW US! HIGH: 84 LOW: 65 Celebrate the opening of Mayor Fadness: Indy region needs Midtown Plaza in Carmel one collective voice The REPORTER Midtown is set to debut By LARRY LANNAN | LarryInFishers.com its new vibrant Midtown Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness sent Plaza at 4:30 p.m. on Fri- out a Twitter message the day before day, May 24 at 365 Monon delivering his State of the City address. Boulevard, near Sun King As he was putting the finishing touches Spirits, Allied Solutions, on the speech, he wrote, “It looks to be and Fork + Ale along the a bit unconventional.” Monon. On-street parking Unconventional it was. The mayor and garage parking is avail- gave up a good deal of his allotted time able free of charge. to local school officials and his senior A range of free ame- staff to talk about what they are doing. nities will be available at The mayor was brief but to the Midtown Plaza including point on what needs to be done in neighborhood green spac- his second term – Indianapolis, as a es, community tables and metropolitan area, has problems, and benches, swings and big those problems can be solved only screen entertainment. The if all local officials in the region are plaza will also serve as an willing to be part of the solution. Then interactive play area for the mayor reeled off a litany of data kids and adults of all ages, showing Indianapolis metro as behind featuring a pool table, ping- a number of other regions. Fadness pong tables and corn hole. For example, the Indy area ranks Photo provided There will be live music un- very low in public health, quality of life, higher education, til 7 p.m. and a commemo- Remarks will be made Parks and Recreation Di- CrossRoad Engineers and health and environment, smoking and mental health. rative picnic blanket for the by City Council President rector Michael Klitzing Rundell Ernstberger Asso- Fadness called on local officials in the Indianapolis first 200 people. Jeff Worrell, Carmel Clay and representatives from ciates. metropolitan area to “come together and work as a region to tackle these … issues, not because it’s simply the right thing to do, but because every other region out there that we are competing against is already doing it.” Riverview Health announces When companies look to relocate, Fadness says they do not look at a state, they look to a metropolitan area, such as Indianapolis. The mayor compared the Indy area to other regions and our area does not fare well in data such locations of four new facilities as poverty levels and wages. Based on that data, other ar- By FRED SWIFT been identified. Other locations under- will be built just off 86th eas such as Nashville, Tenn., and Austin, Texas, have made ReadTheReporter.com The first, in the Fish- way are located at Michigan Street in the Nora area of progress on those areas, while during that same period, the ers area, will open this fall Road (U.S. 421) and Not- Marion County. Indianapolis region has been falling behind. Riverview Health's at 116th Street and Exit 5 tingham Way, a short dis- Costs of the ER and ur- Fadness argues that a state measure, championed by lo- first of four new emergen- Parkway, just east of Inter- tance north of 106th Street. gent care units have not been cal State Representative Todd Huston, would have allowed cy room and urgent care state 69. It, just like three It will open next year. revealed. But, the hospital regions to “marshal revenue streams” to improve an entire facilities is scheduled to others being planned, will A third satellite location is in the process of a $100 metro area. That bill did not pass during this year’s legis- open within the next four or be open 24 hours a day with will be found at 146th Street million expansion program lative session, but the mayor vows there will be an effort five months. Locations of a doctor on duty. It is not a and Hazel Dell Road near announced last year which to enact the proposal in next year’s session of the Indiana the four new free standing hospital in that there will be existing Riverview medical presumably includes the mini-hospitals have now no overnight beds. offices. The fourth facility four new outreach facilities. See One Voice . Page 2 Noblesville Schools appoints deans at East, West middle schools The REPORTER Noblesville Schools announced Tuesday that it has appointed new admin- istrative leaders at Nobles- ville East and West middle schools. • Gwendolyn Gaw, No- blesville East Middle School (NEMS) • Bert (BJ) Kite, Nobles- ville West Middle School (NWMS) Photo provided Photo provided The new middle school Gwendolyn Gaw (left) and Bert (BJ) Kite will serve dean positions are responsi- as deans of Noblesville’s East and West middle ble for building strong stu- Carmel synagogue vandal says he dent relationships and school schools, respectively. culture, as well as providing from the 2018 referendum. al arts teacher and middle enhanced student behavioral Noblesville High School al- school leader for the last wanted to break in, set off bombs analysis, interventions and ready has two deans. nine years. She brings exten- By JULIE DOW & ERIC FELDMAN support. The positions were Gaw joins NEMS from sive experience developing WISH-TV | wishtv.com “On behalf of the Congregation Shaarey Tefilla created thanks to mental Carmel Clay Schools where community, we thank Assistant United States health and safety funding she has served as a visu- See Deans . Page 2 A federal judge sentenced a 21-year- Attorney Nick Linder and his team for the support through the progress of this case – as old man to three years in prison after the for the sentence, we believe that justice has man pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime been handed down. While we can hope that in a 2018 attack on a Carmel synagogue, this is the last we hear of this case, and that the Carmel stops Lucas Estate events the U.S. Department of Justice announced sentence will help deter others from this type of Submitted taking this action. listed on Facebook and a Tuesday. hate crime, we know better and must continue The City of Carmel is “It doesn’t matter who website as the location for Court documents released Tuesday to be strong and band together, just as we did at the solidarity gathering event last August.” filing requests for a pre- you are, we owe it to the a concert series. show that Nolan Brewer, Cloverdale, liminary and a permanent residential neighbors in the The fact that the Lu- planned to set fire to Congregation Shaar- – Corey Freedman, injunction against the Lu- community to require com- cases claim they are do- ey Tefilla, detonate homemade bombs and President of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla cas Estate to prohibit them pliance from the Lucases,” nating the event space for release what he referred to as homemade from conducting a business said Mayor Jim Brainard. non-profit events does not napalm, as well as burn swastika symbols Video also shows them buying Gato- at their private residential “The neighbors rely on the hide the fact that the Lu- into the synagogue floor. rade bottles, aluminum foil, Drano clean- property. city to enforce the zoning cases are making a profit Brewer told the FBI that he and his er, rubber gloves, Styrofoam plates and For the past two years, ordinances in place, which from the catering for these wife – whose name was not released be- bandanas. They planned to use those sup- the city has tried to work helps protect their property events. Other for-profit cause she is a minor – planned to attack plies along with gasoline to create "Drano with the Lucases to come values.” event venues often donate the synagogue because it was "full of bombs" and "homemade napalm," accord- to an equitable solution to The events at the Lu- or reduce room charges ethnic Jews." ing to the documents. the issue created by their cas Estate have repeated- when the cost of the food In the months leading up to the attack, Court documents say they brought all repeated violations of the ly created a large volume and beverage service Brewer "openly identified with Nazism the things they bought and parked about a residential zoning ordi- of traffic, generated noise reaches a certain level. and white supremacy at work," wore a mile away from the synagogue early in the nances that occur when complaints and violated the The fact that the venue swastika necklace and made racist and an- morning of July 28. They planned to "break they make a profit from zoning ordinance. While is not required to install the ti-Semitic remarks, according to multiple in, place the burning napalm on top of the hosting large scale events the Lucases claim that they same safety features as oth- co-workers' testimony. Brewer also tried to Drano bombs, and let the explosion spread at the property at 116th are only making this venue er event venues also puts recruit co-workers to his "movement," ac- the fire throughout the synagogue," Brew- Street and Ditch Road. available to close friends event attendees at greater cording to the testimony of one of Brewer's er told the FBI in an interview.