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Tips on Fertilizing Your Yard This Spring
It’s hard to believe with the wind howling and the snow falling, but spring is coming, and one of the items on the top of your “to do list” is probably to hire a lawn care company or prepare to fertilize your lawn yourself during the upcoming growing season. Unfortunately, the traditional methods of [...]
Carmel’s Color Guard on Top of the World
When you hear the words “World Guard,” most of us think of some military force or group. However, to Carmel High School, the term is far from that. To local residents, World Guard means greatness, dedication, and to be the best of the best. To be a part of the Winter Color Guard is to [...]
River Oaks Community Church Embraces Carmel, Technology
Over the past twenty years, River Oaks Community Church (ROCC) has provided an intimate setting for people from Carmel and beyond to gather as a community and worship. I recently had the opportunity to talk to Dominic Francese, Pastor of ROCC, about the mission and future of this particular body of believers.
Pastor Francese tells me [...]
Greek Orthodox Church Moves to Carmel
Beginning in Indianapolis with several families in 1910, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church has grown to over 2000 members and on Christmas Eve 2008 held their first services in a newly constructed Byzantine Temple in Carmel. I recently had the opportunity to sit down in this truly beautiful structure and talk to the Reverend Anastasios [...]
Roundabout Hose Load Invented by Carmel Fire Crew
The Carmel Fire Department (CFD) continues to look at ways to improve a new way to load hose onto the fire truck that is more efficient to load and unload than previous methods. Station 44 B crew experimented with the Cleveland High-Rise Pack, a hose load used in high rise buildings and adapted it for [...]
Regional Performing Arts Center Adds New Staff
Steven Libman, Executive Director of The Regional Performing Arts Center (RPAC) in Carmel, officially announced today the appointment of Jeremy M. Hatch as the Center’s Director of Development along with John R. Hughey who will serve as the Center’s Public Relations Manager. Hatch, of Indianapolis, and Hughey, of Fishers, will assume their duties next month.
“I [...]
Something’s Coming in 2010
Take a walk or a drive through Carmel and be a firsthand witness to the mounting excitement that’s building in our city. Some days you can all but hear that song of anticipation and expectancy from West Side Story, reverberating throughout the streets: “Could it be? Yes it could. Something’s coming, something good.”
It’s almost a [...]
Come as You Are to Lifepointe Church
Lifepointe Church first came together on Easter Sunday in 2005. Meeting in a rather unconventional space, which happens to be an office complex called Hamilton Crossing, Lifepointe invites the community of Carmel through the doors to a gathering of a real casual faith. I recently had the opportunity to talk to Josh Riedy, Youth Minister [...]
Northview Christian Life Church
Northview Christian Life Church began in 1980 with about thirty people meeting at Carmel Elementary School. Today, ministering to over 3,000 people weekly, Northview has its own property overlooking a sea of homes in Carmel. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with K. Paul Maurer, Local and Global Outreach Pastor of Northview, to [...]
Holiday Bazaar Honors Woodbrook Student
Sue Eckl is a mother of three beautiful girls; wife of 16 years; friends with many Carmel moms; and most notably, founder of the Woodbrook Elementary Holiday Bazaar.“I know several people with at-home businesses, such as Silpada, Arbonne and Pampered Chef, who don’t have time to ‘host’ parties and network,” said Eckl. “So I thought [...]
Donating Children’s Shoes is Keen Act
All right everyone; start gathering all your kiddo’s outgrown shoes, including sandals, rain and winter boots and slippers. Now put them in a box and donate them to Keen Children’s Shoe store in Carmel. For over five years Keen’s has collected over 2,000 pairs of shoes. That’s 4,000 individual shoes, for 4,000 little feet and [...]
Early Readers Club Launches in Hamilton County
Carmel families with kids up to 6 years of age can now enroll their kids in United Way of Central Indiana’s Early Readers Club.
Club members will receive 12 high-quality children’s books each year for $20 a child.
The books will be mailed quarterly in packs of three to children’s homes. Anyone who enrolls by December [...]
