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• Fishers Town Council Re-elects Faultless as President for 2007

  January 2, 2007 / Local News, Local People

  At the Monday, January 2, 2007, meeting of the Fishers Town Council, the first of 2007, the Council voted Scott A. Faultless and Daniel E. Henke to serve as its president and vice president during the new year. Faultless has been a member of the Town Council since 1996 and president since 2001. Henke has been a member of Council since being appointed in September of 2000. He replaces Eileen N. Pritchard (Council vice president in 2005 and 2006).

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  Tree Farmer Milt Yakee

  November 29, 2006 / Local People

  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 nearly single-handedly is no mortal feat. Milt Yakee and his wife Jane moved to Fishers in 1978. “We wanted a cabin in the woods, and [...]

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  A Season for Giving

  November 29, 2006 / Local People

  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 stopped to get something to eat. Mom noticed Arturo became very tired at the table and lost his appetite. Within minutes of getting into [...]

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

  November 28, 2006 / Local People, School News

  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 no longer in special education classes but continued to require tutoring. It was also during this time that he began learning to spin and juggle [...]

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  World Renowned Violinmaker Lives in Fishers

  November 27, 2006 / Local People

  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 I sat down with Mark for this interview that I found he wasn’t just a “Violin Guy.” He is truly a “Violin Artist.” Mark has [...]

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• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Reminds me of our Neighbor

  November 12, 2006 / Local People

  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 of her own, she realized she needed to do something and became an organizer of Relay for Life in her small town of St. Meinrad [...]

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  Fishers Brownie Troop Receives Amazing Response

  October 28, 2006 / Local People, Not for Profit

  In times like these, it’s not uncommon to do something nice for someone without looking for a response back. Fishers Brownie Troop 1916 has been very busy for the last year making gifts, selling cookies and sending emails and letters. “I think so many times when you pick a charity, or you do something nice for the community, you don’t get a response and you don’t expect it. But for these girls, their first experience with this, they’re getting that [...]

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• Indiana Teacher of the Year Anna Shults

  October 25, 2006 / Local People

  Gray Eagle resident Anna Shults said she knew early on what she wanted to be when she grew up: a teacher. Today she is living her dream and doing it very well; she is not only in her tenth year as a third grade teacher at Fall Creek Elementary school but she has also been awarded the prestigious honor of being named Indiana Teacher of the Year for 2007. This HSE teacher was chosen from 47 educators from public and [...]

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• Hawthorns Golf Pro and Indiana PGA Player of the Year Alan Schulte

  September 30, 2006 / Local People, Sports

  From the time he was 10 years old, Fishers resident Alan Schulte has been swinging a golf club, honing his game and building his golf career. I caught up with this golf pro and PGA member at his home course of Hawthorn Country Club one overcast morning. We sat outside overlooking a perfectly manicured putting green while I gathered some insights on this local pro; his life, career and what keeps him going. Schulte had a pretty impressive and busy [...]

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• Fishers Author, Historian and Humorist: Larry Reynolds

  August 9, 2006 / Local People

  The 150th Indiana State Fair finished up last month and this is the 45th year Reynolds Farm Equipment has displayed their John Deere tractors and other farm and lawn equipment. Larry Reynolds has been there since the beginning. “This is my 47th one, my dad’s 46th, I worked two years with John Deere. It could be my 48th year, I don’t know, but we came as a company in 1961,” Larry partially remembered. This year Larry thought he came up [...]

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