Archive for category: Local People

Ready, Set, Pour! The Annual Lemonade Day

Ready, Set, Pour! The Annual Lemonade Day

1 / May 11, 2012 3:28 am

The annual and much anticipated Lemonade Day of Greater Indianapolis is scheduled for Saturday, May 19. So if you haven’t already, get signed up, get your Lemonade Day backpack and start building your lemonade stand! For one local youth, Brady [...]

Carmel to Get “Chopped”

Carmel to Get “Chopped”

0 / April 1, 2012 1:33 pm

Tantalize your taste buds as Carmel native, Ted Allen, dishes up his new cookbook featuring amazing and colorful recipes complete with mouth-watering photos brought to the table by his affection for mixing unique ingredients with fresh techniques. On Friday, May [...]

Carmel High School Basketball Players Receive Kiwanis/Pacers Scholarship

Carmel High School Basketball Players Receive Kiwanis/Pacers Scholarship

0 / March 22, 2012 1:47 pm

Carmel residents Austin Kyker (fourth, right), a senior at Park Tudor High School and Daniel Wagner (second, right), a senior at Bishop Chatard High School each received a $1,000 Indiana Pacers Boys Basketball Academic All-Star Scholarship by the Kiwanis Club [...]

Road to the LPGA Stops in Local Pro’s Backyard

Road to the LPGA Stops in Local Pro’s Backyard

0 / March 19, 2012 10:34 am

Give an 8-year old a golf club and a little white ball, and you never know what might happen when she tees it up. In Brittany Kelly’s case, that golf club felt like it belonged in her hands, but before [...]

Divvy it Out – Small Plates, Big Impression

Divvy it Out – Small Plates, Big Impression

0 / March 8, 2012 3:25 pm

Good things come in small packages…and that is the absolute truth at the new, innovative and fun Divvy restaurant in Carmel, where small plates to share and “fun” are their specialty. There are over 100 cute, little scrumptious dishes on [...]

Carmel Caddie Breaks Par and Earns Scholarship

Carmel Caddie Breaks Par and Earns Scholarship

0 / February 28, 2012 12:43 pm

Like a typical little brother, Jackson Schuette followed in the footsteps of his older sibling, Jordan, when he signed up for the caddy program at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel. Six years later, both he and his twin brother, [...]

Mellencamp’s Former Guitarist Back Home Again

Mellencamp’s Former Guitarist Back Home Again

0 / January 25, 2012 9:26 am

John Mellencamp’s long time lead guitartist, Larry Crane, is back home again and sharing his talents with fans in a series of guitar clinics. Crane, who has resided in Florida for the past few years, is back in Indiana and [...]

Building a Bridge to China: Guanxi

Building a Bridge to China: Guanxi

0 / January 21, 2012 8:48 am

Albert Chen is no stranger to building concrete Guanxi (Gwan-chee) in business and in life, and he believes education is the mortar that bonds relationships. Thus, he established the America China Society of Indiana, an organization created as a foundation [...]

A Brief Apology

A Brief Apology

0 / January 19, 2012 12:28 pm

I recently spent an hour in another man’s underwear. Telling the story of how I took a complete stranger’s briefs may help me locate the original owner and wash away the guilt I am feeling. Let me put my readers [...]

Colt’s Fever

Colt’s Fever

0 / November 21, 2011 7:16 am

Have any of you out there realized that every fall it seems your Sundays take on a new meaning? Does your spouse, partner, or significant other turn into an entirely different person for 17 to 22 weeks from September to [...]

Young Entrepreneurs Bring Energy to Noblesville

Young Entrepreneurs Bring Energy to Noblesville

0 / November 10, 2011 5:31 am

Noblesville is blessed with a town square and merchants that draw in visitors from around the county. But as beautiful a city as Noblesville is, what completes the draw for those who live in the area is the small-town community [...]

Let the Holiday Battles Begin

Let the Holiday Battles Begin

0 / October 27, 2011 2:53 pm

Thanksgiving gets no respect. It’s the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays, and I’m not going to take it anymore. Every year I stand by and watch as Americans abruptly switch their attention from stale, leftover Halloween candy to twinkling lights and [...]

Mopey Dick: Deep Thoughts From A Shallow Mind

Mopey Dick: Deep Thoughts From A Shallow Mind

0 / October 24, 2011 3:57 am

Dick Wolfsie is an Indiana icon, a long-time WISH-TV television personality, a gifted author and syndicated columnist, and the funniest curmudgeon I’ve ever kept in my garage for six months. (Editor’s note: It was a life-sized cardboard cut out to [...]

Autism: Putting the Pieces Together

Autism: Putting the Pieces Together

0 / October 12, 2011 2:31 pm

There’s a reason why one of the most recognized symbols for autism is a ribbon made of puzzle pieces. Autism is perhaps one of the most mystifying disorders that a family can deal with. Why? Because no one really knows [...]

Sporting Events Leader Kicks Up Super Plans for 2012 Super Bowl

Sporting Events Leader Kicks Up Super Plans for 2012 Super Bowl

0 / September 12, 2011 4:55 am

The “BOWL” game is on and Indianapolis is “SUPER” excited. So is Allison Melangton, president of the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee. “We never slowed down during the NFL lockout. We’ve been moving full-steam ahead since our bid was accepted [...]

Biking the Crossroads for a Good Cause

Biking the Crossroads for a Good Cause

3 / September 6, 2011 5:42 am

Ride for those who can’t – a simple, but significant reason to cruise the crossroads through scenic central Indiana. Hundreds of cyclists have accepted the challenge to saddle up and put pedal power into action by riding 30, 50, 75 [...]

WWII Vet Joins CHS History Class on Trip to Europe

WWII Vet Joins CHS History Class on Trip to Europe

0 / September 2, 2011 6:29 am

For the past seven years, Will Ellery, a history teacher at Carmel High School, has taken a group of students and staff on a European trip based on World War I and/or World War II events. “I generally design it [...]

Art Angels Set Out to Help Indiana State Fair Victims

Art Angels Set Out to Help Indiana State Fair Victims

0 / August 26, 2011 11:22 am

Rainbows, lollipops, flowers, colorful mosaics and Magic Banana Man; Art Angels will draw anything as long as it yields a contribution to the victims of the Indiana State Fair tragedy. Carly and Grace Hahn, 8-year old twins, felt bad for [...]

Weighty Decision

Weighty Decision

0 / June 24, 2011 4:35 am

Mary Ellen casually mentioned to me the other night that I had a pathetic looking chest. While I suppose your better half is permitted to assess your upper half, I’d suggest not responding in kind. She thinks my body lacks [...]

Mailbox Memories: A Childhood Visit from Roy Rogers

Mailbox Memories: A Childhood Visit from Roy Rogers

0 / June 15, 2011 5:45 pm

It all started when I was just a little girl. I loved Roy Rogers and his beautiful horse, Trigger. I decided to write a letter to Mr. Rogers and ask for a picture of Trigger. I told him that I [...]