HAMILTON COUNTY Hamilton County’s Hometown Newspaper www.ReadTheReporter.com REPORTER Facebook.com/HamiltonCountyReporter TodAy’S Weather Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 Today: Mostly cloudy. Spotty snow showers, possibly mixed Arcadia | Atlanta | Cicero | Sheridan with freezing rain and rain. Tonight: Rain and possibly a wintry Carmel | Fishers | Noblesville | Westfield NEWS GATHERING Like & mix of snow and freezing rain. PARTNER Follow us! HIGH: 37 LOW: 31 And about Get your Girl Scout cookies the apology … Are you sorry or COLUMNIST on demand with Grubhub are you apologizing? I remember when By HANNA MORDOH iPad a lot. Her troop now meets my kids were little. WISH-TV | wishtv.com online, plus she’s helping men- Brandon and Emily tor a Brownie group through were almost four years People in Central Indiana Zoom. apart. They taught me can now get Girl Scout cookies “We are really pushing our what it was like to on demand. The organization is digital platform called Digital have a sibling as I was partnering with Grubhub and Cookie,” Sanchez said. “And, an only child. JANET HART LEONARD offering quick, contact-free de- it is a place where girls can set Brandon: "Emily, From the Heart livery of Girl Scout cookies. up a website where it has our I'm sorry." It’s a great option since no cookie goal. It has what our Emily: "Brandon, I'm sorry." in-person sales are happening troop might be doing with the I knew their "I'm sorry" came from their due to the pandemic. Local Girl money, it has all of the cookies desire to get out of "time out" rather than Scout troops will track and ful- listed and a brief description of from their heart of true repentance. fill the orders, plus Grubhub has the cookies and it is very nice.” One of them was a bit more stubborn waived all the fees, so the pro- With no in-person sales and stayed in "time out" longer. ceeds will still benefit local Girl this month, the Girl Scouts are Sometimes an "I'm sorry" comes from Scout troops. getting creative. Sanchez even getting caught. You all know what I mean. “I love cookie-selling,” said created a text-to-buy number Other times it is sincere. 16-year-old Gloria Sanchez. for her sales. Anyone who texts Harsh words. Bad decisions. Betrayal. She has been earning Girl Scout “cookie” to 66866 is linked to An omittance. Lies. All offenses. Some patches and selling cookies in her Digital Cookie website. little. Some not so little. Some not inten- Carmel for half of her life. “Anyone who doesn’t have tional. Some planned and directed to hurt “I have been part of my a hookup for Girl Scout cookies Photo provided Carmel girl scout Gloria Sanchez has created a text-to-buy your heart. troop for eight years and I start- can text this number and they My thinking has always been that a sin- ed the winter of first grade be- can buy cookies from me,” she number in order to make it easier for potential customers to get connected to her cookie-selling website. cere apology would include an admission cause I wanted to sell girl scout said. “Having the cookie mon- of wrongdoing, remorse for doing it AND cookies,” Sanchez said. She’s ey funds what we do and what Carmel and Lafayette, but more egy, the cookies help fund the how a change would be made. Then ... fol- extremely successful, selling a we use.” locations will be added soon. most important part of the Girl lowing through on the change or changes. whopping 2,000 boxes last year. Grubhub said there is free In February, the Girl Scouts Scout mission. Sincere repentance and then forgive- “I have an Apple pencil and delivery through Feb. 14 with a hope to sell some cookies in “My main takeaway from ness can be work, on the part of both sides. an iPad from selling girl scout minimum of a $15 purchase. On person again. However, San- Girl Scouts is the friendships It takes work to change and it takes work to cookies,” she said. Friday, the on demand cookies chez thinks sales will soar on- and the skills that I have built,” These days she uses that are only offered in Indianapolis, line. Whatever the selling strat- Sanchez said. See Apology . Page 2 Monon Trail pedestrian crossing at One-of-a-kind historic covered bridge funded U.S. 31, 161st draws ire of INDOT Hamilton COLUMNIST eral alternative By DAN KLEIN But he never crosses the road. “Nev- County is likely transportation WISH-TV | wishtv.com er,” he said with a laugh. the only place in program which The current crossing configuration America where grants 80 per- A controversial crossing on the is just a flashing yellow light. As the the number of cent of such Monon Trail has brought state trans- nearby sign clearly states for pedestri- covered wood- costs for trails portation leaders to the point where ans, cars are not supposed to stop. But en bridges is and bridges. if things don’t get resolved to their as they frequently do, it’s easy to see increasing. On Actual re- satisfaction, they may close the in- why the sign is there. Vehicles quickly Monday, coun- construction will terchange at U.S. 31 and 161st Street line up, making rear-end collisions a ty commission- FRED SWIFT start late next in Westfield. Pedestrians, city leaders real possibility. ers will accept The County Line year, according and engineers seem to agree some- Nail Patton “It’s understandable that people $2.77 million in to County High- thing has to change. The question is “Pretty dangerous for everyone are being courteous. What we see federal highway funds to way Director Brad Davis, what’s the best way to fix it? involved it seems,” said Noah Borton, though is a major issue,” said West- largely pay for the resto- whose department will Trying to cross 161st Street on the who lives nearby. He was walking his field City Engineer John Nail. ration of the nation's last be the lead agency on the Monon Trail on foot or bike can feel like dogs Hazy and Jojo on Friday after- known post truss combi- project. The bridge will be a game of chicken around rush hour. noon, one of their four daily strolls. See Monon Trail . Page 2 nation bridge. a link in the county trail Known as the Bell Ford system for pedestrians and Bridge, it stood for 135 bikers, but will not carry Fishers Arts Council presents The Art of years over the East Fork motor vehicles. of White River in Jackson Hamilton County once County. When it virtually had at least six covered Bridging the Gap at the city hall art gallery collapsed about 10 years bridges. After the loss of The REPORTER portant message. uated with high with proper funding and re- ago, Jackson County of- Eller Bridge in 1957, Pot- The Fishers Arts Coun- As an artist, it is honors. In 2019, sources. ficials said they could not ters Bridge was the only cil is offering a three-month my duty to push she began the Her exhibit of 11 paint- afford to restore it. wooden span until Conner exhibit by noted artist Re- the envelope and initial steps of ings includes the media of Hamilton County Prairie salvaged a covered becca Robinson entitled, create artwork forming her non- stained glass, acrylic on Commissioner Mark Heir- bridge and placed it on its The Art of Bridging the that sparks a di- profit organiza- canvas and concrete, tar brandt worked with Jack- property several years ago. Gap, in The Alcove on the alog and remains tion called “ONE and white latex. The exhibit son County Commission- Now, the third such second floor of The Art timeless.” ARRT,” which will run through March. ers to take the bridge with historic bridge will be Gallery at Fishers City Hall. Robinson will become the The Art Gallery at City the understanding it would located here. The scenic As long as I can remem- studied fashion first Black-owned Hall, 1 Municipal Drive, be reconstructed over Fall bridges were numerous ber art has moved me,” design in Atlanta, robinson art supply brand Fishers, is open from 8:30 Creek at Geist Park. throughout the nation in Robinson said. “Expressing Ga., and continued her ed- that specifically supports a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday The bridge was dis- the 19th century, but be- myself with my artwork ucation at North Carolina all artists, art organizations, through Friday, excluding assembled and brought gan disappearing with the allows me to convey a Central University where art education, museums/ holidays and Saturdays here. It has been in storage advent of steel and con- thought, an emotion, a per- she majored in Art/Visual galleries and communities during the Fishers Summer for several years await- crete bridges in the early sonal experience or an im- Communications and grad- in need who would prosper Farmers Market. ing funding under a fed- 20th century. More than $100K in scholarships available for Carmel High School seniors The REPORTER Director, at [email protected] or The Carmel Education Foundation call (317) 844-9961 ext. 2680. (CEF) has announced plans to award About the Carmel Education Foundation more than 90 scholarships totaling over One of the oldest foundations of its kind, $100,000 to Carmel High School’s Class the Carmel Education Foundation was cre- of 2021 this spring.