Archive for November, 2006

Tree Farmer Milt Yakee

We have our own Paul Bunyan right here in Fishers. Well, he might not be a hundred feet tall, and he doesn’t have a blue ox that measures 42 axe handles. But he does have four cute dogs that are willing to help when they are allowed. Besides, taking care of four acres of trees […]

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A Season for Giving

Arturo Tovar is a 3rd grader at Hoosier Road Elementary. Like most kids his age, he enjoys participating in sporting activities, playing with friends and taking in the world around him. However, all that changed for Arturo this past summer.
While in route to go bowling with his mom and older brother, the three of them […]

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Fishers Town Government Academy: A Worthwhile Experience

The classmates of the first Fishers Town Government Academy celebrated our graduation last month at the Fishers Town Council meeting. Dr. Suellen Reed, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction, handed us our graduation certificates in front of the hundreds of Fishers residents at the meeting. The academy was a seven week course, meeting each Tuesday night […]

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Motivation and Basketball Tricks with Jim “Basketball” Jones: A Slam Dunk for HSE Students

I won’t quit! This was just one of the messages students at Harrison Parkway Elementary School heard from an energetic guy with several basketballs. That energetic guy is Jim “Basketball” Jones. Growing up in Ohio, Jim struggled with a learning disability, dyslexia. He spent his early years in special education. By high school, Jim was […]

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Fishers says ‘Willkommen’ to Inge’s German Market

As Fishers continues to grow, it continues to attract residents and entrepreneurs from all across the country, and even from around the globe. Two of our community’s newest members are the owners of Inge’s German Market & Deli, located at 8395 East 116th Street. Chris Kauth and Jacqueline Belus-Kauth recently settled here from out of […]

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World Renowned Violinmaker Lives in Fishers

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with one of my neighbors. Mark Russell and I have been neighbors for several years; he was known to me as the “Violin Guy.” I knew that he had a violin shop in his home, but that was the extent of it. It wasn’t until […]

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Reminds me of our Neighbor

The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition episode that aired tonight was helping a family in our great state of Indiana. Shawna Farina’s mom unfortunately contracted breast cancer at the young age of 29. As a young child she watched her mom fight and survive the difficult battle against cancer. When she started to have a family […]

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