Southside Boomers - Summer 2015

SOUTHSIDE

BOOMERS

A DAILY JOURNAL PUBLICATION

SUMMER 2015

Goodbye, city life Couple left urban home to start farming

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Butch Zike: A lifetime of coaching, teaching

A guide to wineries within an hour’s drive

Cool tools for your home bar or bar cart

SOUTHSIDE

BOOMERS

SUMMER 2015

on the cover SOUTHSIDE

BOOMERS

SUMMER 2015

A DAILY JOURNAL PUBLICATION

Goodbye, city life Couple left urban home to start farming

INSIDE

Butch Zike: A lifetime of coaching, teaching

A guide to wineries within an hour’s drive

Cool tools for your home bar or bar cart

Farm Folks Steve and Anne Young had their ‘Green Acres’ moment, started a farm.

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Go Greek

Life Lessons

Butch Zike has spent an entire career teaching, coaching local youths.

Raise a Glass

Jazz up your grilled chicken with a tasty yogurt sauce.

Toast these Indiana wineries with a visit.

ALSO INSIDE Tools for your bar, bar cart Barbecue cookbooks Make your oatmeal special Southside Boomers is published by the DAILY JOURNAL

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Vine Time Relax, sip and shop at one of the many wineries within an hour’s drive of Johnson County COMPILED BY PAUL HOFFMAN

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ooking for a fun and relaxing weekend trip? You may want to include a stop at one of the area’s wineries.

The activities can be bountiful. Take a tour of the wine cellar, have a picnic on the grounds, enjoy a gourmet meal in a restaurant, browse the gift shop, or simply satisfy your taste buds in the tasting room.

Here is the Southside Boomers guide to wineries in and near Johnson County, listed in alphabetical order, including a locator map on Page 4.

Info from IndianaWineries.com and individual winery websites

BROWN COUNTY WINERY 4520 State Road 46 East, Nashville (888) 298-2984 www.BrownCountyWinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Gift items/shop Gourmet items/food Downtown tasting room: Old School Way, Nashville Note: The family-owned winery has been nestled in the rolling hills east of Nashville since 1985.

buck creek WINERY 11747 Indian Creek Road S. Indianapolis (317) 862-WINE www.BuckCreekWinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Specialty labels Gift items/shop Gourmet items/food Note: Started as Durm Vineyards, which was established in 1991 by Jeff and Kelly Durm.

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Brown County Winery - Page 3 4520 State Road 46 East Nashville, Indiana 47448

Buck Creek Winery - Page 3 11747 Indian Creek Road S. Indianapolis, Indiana 46259 3 Butler Winery & Vineyard - Page 5 6200 E. Robinson Road Bloomington, Indiana 47408 2

Cedar Creek Winery - Page 5 3820 Leonard Road Martinsville, IN 46151 5 Chateau de Pique Winery - Page 5 6361 N. County Road 760 E Seymour, Indiana 47274 4

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Country Moon Winery - Page 5 16222 Prairie Baptist Road Noblesville, Indiana 46060

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Easley Winery - Page 5 205 N. College Ave. Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

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Harmony Winery - Page 5 7350 Village Square Lane, Suite 200 Fishers, Indiana 46038

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Hopwood Cellars - Page 6 12 E. Cedar St. Zionsville, Indiana 46077

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Locator map for wineries in and near Johnson County

Madison County Winery - Page 6 10942 S. 400 E. Markleville, IN 46056 11 Mallow Run Winery - Page 6 6964 W. Whiteland Road Bargersville, IN 46106

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New Day Meadery - Page 6 1102 E. Prospect St. Indianapolis, Indiana 46203 13 Oliver Winery - Page 7 8024 N. State Road 37 Bloomington, Indiana 47404

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Simmons Winery - Page 7 8111 E. County Road 450 North Columbus, Indiana 47203 15 Traders Point Winery - Page 7 5520 W. 84th St. Indianapolis, Indiana 46268 14

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TRAVEL BUTLER WINERY & VINEYARD

CHATEAU de pique WINERY

6200 E. Robinson Road, Bloomington (812) 332-6660 www.ButlerWinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Specialty labels Gift items/shop Gourmet items/food Outdoor seating Banquet facilities Note: Established in 1983, is the fourth-oldest operating winery in Indiana.

6361 N. County Road 760 E, Seymour (812) 522-9296 www.ChateaudePique.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Gift items/shop Outdoor seating Banquet facilities Note: The main facility is housed in a quaint, 19th-century horse barn.

CEDAR creek WINERY 3820 Leonard Road, Martinsville (765) 342-9000 www.CedarCreekWine.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Recently opened brewery Shelter house rental Tasting room in downtown Nashville Note: The Elsner family opened Cedar Creek, Morgan County’s first winery, on Oct. 1, 2010.

COUNTRY MOON WINERY 16222 Prairie Baptist Road, Noblesville (317) 773-7942 www.CountryMoonWinery.com Open by appointment only Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Butterfly garden Outdoor seating Facility and grounds rentals Note: Owners Brian and Rebecca Harger have won five medals, including one silver, in the Indy International Wine Competition since 2004.

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EASLEY WINERY 205 N. College Ave., Indianapolis (317) 636-4516 www.EasleyWine.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Specialty labels Gift Items/shop Gourmet items/food Restaurant/catering Outdoor seating Banquet facilities Note: Founders Jack and Joan Easley had a vineyard in southern Michigan before purchasing the former Fertig Ice Cream factory in Indianapolis in the early ’70s and installing their winery there.

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HARMONY WINERY 7350 Village Square Lane, Suite 200, Fishers (317) 585-9463 or (317) 408-4339 www.HarmonyWinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Wine making Specialty labels Gift items/shop Note: Owners Kevin and Tatyana Croak have been making fine wine both from juice and grapes since 2001 and have received 21 medals.

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HOPWOOD CELLARS 12 E. Cedar St., Zionsville (317) 873-4099 www.HopwoodCellars.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Gift items/shop Live music Friday and Saturday evenings Note: Founded in 1996 by Ron Hopwood, it was voted Boone County’s Best New Business of the Year for 2013 by the county’s chamber of commerce.

MADISON COUNTY WINERY 10942 S. County Road 400 E, Markleville (765) 778-1406 www.madisoncountywinery.org Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Gift items/shop Custom-made labels Note: Eric Hensley’s parents backed him when he started his wine-making venture. The original tasting room was a converted mobile home.

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MALLOW RUN WINERY 6964 West Whiteland Road, Bargersville (317) 422-1556 www.MallowRun.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Gift items/shop Gourmet items/food Outdoor seating Live music Note: The first grapes were planted in 2000. The vineyards cover eight acres of the Richardson family’s 600-acre farm.

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NEW DAY MEADERY 1102 E. Prospect St., Indianapolis (888) 632-3379 www.NewDayMeadery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Gift items/shop Craft mead and cider Weekly/monthly events Note: Founded in 2006 by Brett Canaday and Tia Agnew, New Day is located in historic Fountain Square.

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Some Indiana Wine Laws

OLIVER WINERY 8024 N. State Road 37, Bloomington (877) 308-2783 www.OliverWinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Gift items/shop Gourmet items/food Outdoor seating

SIMMONS WINERY 8111 East 450 North, Columbus (812) 546-0091 www.simmonswinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Motor coach tours Wheelchair accessible Gift items/shop Gourmet items/food Outdoor seating Specialty labels Banquet hall Stand at Greenwood Park Mall Brewery and restaurant Note: Opened in June 2000 on a 120-year-old farm.

TRADERS POINT WINERY 5520 W. 84th St., Indianapolis (317) 879-9463 www.TradersPointWinery.com Amenities: Wine tasting/winery tours Gift items Gourmet items/food Note: Named after a small town in the northwest corner of Marion County that is believed to have been a location where Native Americans, fur traders and settlers transacted business at the bend of Eagle Creek along an old Indian trail. B

l Consumers can purchase wine directly from in-state and out-of-state wineries, but consumers must visit the winery for an initial face-to-face transaction. l A consumer can purchase no more than 24 cases a year from any single winery, and no winery can ship more than 3,000 cases into the state annually. l After the first face-to-face purchase, consumers can order wine from that particular winery via phone or Internet. l Some Indiana wineries do not ship directly to consumers because they don’t want to comply with provisions of the law that are designed to reduce underage access.

Source: Wine and Spirits Distributors of Indiana

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Zike has taught hundreds X’s, O’s, life lessons

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ranklin College softball coach Butch Zike developed an interest in athletics administration at an early age that paved the way for a career path that allowed him to touch the lives of countless student-athletes.

“I knew as far back as seventh or eighth grade that I wanted to teach and coach,” said Zike, who has lived and coached nearly his entire life in Johnson County.

Back then, he was involved in many sports as a competitor. He ran cross country and played basketball, baseball, football and golf before graduating from Whiteland Community High School in 1968.

Now, after more than 40 years as a high school teacher, coach and administrator and college coach, Zike is even more focused on teaching his players more than just about the fundamentals of the game they play.

“My philosophy is that I’ll teach them more about life than about the sport; X’s and O’s are always secondary,” he said of his Grizzlies

softball players. “These kids aren’t going to grow up and be professional athletes, but they need to grow up and be productive members of society. They must understand that they will be held accountable for whatever they do.

“My kids today kind of laugh because at the start of practices, we have life lessons,” he added.

One recent group discussion covered the topic of social media.

“Once you put something out there, it’s out there so I want my players to understand they could actually lose a job because of social media.”

Zike has been subtly providing life-related guidance to students, family members and even co-workers throughout most of his life.

“When I was an athletics director, I learned there are many ways of doing things to be successful and the best approach is to direct people in order to help them avoid pitfalls that others have experiSEE ZIKE, PAGE 23

Franklin College softball coach Butch Zike chats with some of his players. The Whiteland Community High School and Franklin College alumnus has spent more than 40 years teaching, coaching and working as an administrator of athletics, mostly at his high school alma mater.

“These kids aren’t going to grow up and be professional athletes, but they need to grow up and be productive members of society. They must understand that they will be held accountable for whatever they do.”

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COVER STORY

Anne and Steve Young sit under their grape arbor in chairs painted with green thumbs. Their cat, Shadow, looks on.

Living the Dream

Husband, wife glad they started farming seven years ago

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STORY BY JENN WILLHITE/PHOTOS BY MARK FREELAND

hen it comes to living your dream, Steve and Anne Young are boomers who have proven it’s never too late to start something new.

As the couple saw retirement approaching quickly on the horizon they began contemplating how they wanted to spend their golden years.

Since they married 17 years ago, the couple goes on an annual retreat to reflect on the previous year, consider what’s coming up and make plans and talk about what they want to do.

“Seven years ago or so we each made a list of what’s important to us,” 69-year-old Steve said. “Both

of us wanted animals and land and that’s when we said this living in the city isn’t going to work.”

They originally planned on being sensible, Anne said. After all, they loved their home in Franklin and

adventure didn’t seem like too much of a stretch. As a master gardener, 69-year-old Anne had the knowhow to choose the right produce and plants and the creativity for designing how the farm and landscape

“Both of us wanted animals and land and that’s when we said this living in the city isn’t going to work.”

Steve Young it was close to doctors and all the amenities city life has to offer. But one day they looked at one another, said “the heck with it” and decided to take the plunge. They would be farmers.

Steve grew up on a farm, so tackling the new

would look.

In 2009, the couple purchased 11 acres in southwestern Johnson County near Morgantown. The intention was to establish a sustainable farm that not only met their needs, but would also set an example

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for others with similar interests to follow.

“We were going to use heritage breeds of animals,” she said. “And we were going to be as sustainable as possible and not use chemicals or anything. We were going to try to do things the right way.”

The couple continued to work while building their dream. Anne later retired from her career as a school principal at Clark Pleasant Middle School in Greenwood in 2010. Steve followed suit in 2012, retiring from his building maintenance work as chief of facilities for Indianapolis Public Schools.

They started out with a horse and three black cows, and their animal population has since grown to include more horses, donkeys, sheep, chickens, guineas

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Far left: Steve and Anne with their Lowline cattle. Lowline is a breed of small, polled beef cattle that was developed by breeders in Australia from black Aberdeen Angus cattle.

At left: Raisedbed gardens with some early vegetables photographed in late May.

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and a turkey named Red. Besides their farm animals, the Youngs also host a feral cat colony under an agreement with the local humane society that spays and neuters the cats in return for the Youngs offering food and shelter.

Edible landscape

At left: Steve Young shows off an American Peony at his farm near Morgantown.

Below: Anne Young checks out some fringe tree blossom.

Based on the idea of offering an edible landscape, the Youngs grow hundreds of varieties of fruits, nuts and perennial vegetables on roughly six acres, including everything from plums and peaches to mulberries, persimmons, quince and kiwi.

“We do a few annual flowers for decorations,” Steve said. “But what Anne has been focused on lately are native plants, which the wildlife depends on.”

A rain garden, located near the driveway, filters all water from the pasture and deposits it into the pond.

“All the water for us and the animals comes from the pond,” Steve said. “We don’t have well or city water at all.”

A lesson the Youngs quickly learned is that animals eat just as well at 8:30 a.m. as they do at 6:30 a.m., which adds to one of the perks of retirement: leisurely mornings.

“We get up about 8:30 a.m. and feed the animals first thing,” Anne said. “Then Steve walks to get the paper and we come back in. And this is where retirement is heaven: we sit here, watch the pond, have coffee and read the paper for about two hours. Then we go strolling out about 10:30

a.m. and do what we need to after that.”

One early hurdle the couple didn’t anticipate was how much it would take to feed the animals. Giving the animals grain was one thing, but without enough pasture for them to graze in, Steve found himself making weekly trips to pick up bales of hay.

“When we first started, we didn’t have the equipment to handle it,” he said. “I would go get a big, round bale of hay that wouldn’t really fit in my pickup. We would put a chain around it, fasten it to a big post and I’d drive the truck out from under it and wherever it fell that’s where it was.”

Anne said the biggest challenge is the physical work involved, but she firmly believes manual labor

“This is our entertainment and lifestyle. It’s a good life.”

Anne Young is a good thing. The couple has definitely learned to work smarter, not harder, whenever they can, she said.

“A lot of things we might have done in retrospect you really can’t do until you get to the point where you know what to do,” Anne said. “The only reality when you’re older is how much do you invest and

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now, because we don’t want to get to the point where we have to move,” Steve said. “We plan to both be healthy and able to do things for a long time.”

The Youngs consider the term “bucket list” clihow long will you get to enjoy it assuming your health is good.”

There is always something blooming on the farm from January through November, Anne said. In the spring, the couple looks forward to 10-hour days, but they don’t consider it work.

“This is our entertainment and lifestyle,” she said.

“It’s a good life.”

On average, the couple gets about 50 visitors each year, including gardening clubs and other individuals of like mind who come to learn techniques for smallscale, sustainable farming.

The self-described realists plan to keep Cardinal Point Farm for a long time to come.

“We did some modifications to the house to allow us to stay here if we aren’t as physically able as we are

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Top left: The Youngs’ pond has muskrat and fish in it.

Top right: Red, a Bourbon Red turkey, is one of the Youngs’ fowl.

chèd and believe it’s important to decide what you want to do and take steps to make it happen regardless of your age.

“We’re the oldest of the boomers,” Steve said. “A lot of them are going to be deciding what they’re going to do. It’s very important for them to focus on what they want to do and if it’s something they can do, then take a chance, take the risk and go for it.” B

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ENTERTAINING

Cool tools for your home bar or bar cart

By S. Irene Virbila Los Angeles Times odern bartenders have all sorts of complicated gizmos they use to create cocktails, such as an immersion circulator for flash infusing. But do we cocktail enthusiasts really need the equipment to get into barrel-aging Negroni or concocting our own bitters or distillates?

Wizard Los Angeles bartender Gabriella Mlynarczyk (of Cadet) is into all that techno-gear, but she also makes some lovely old-school, newschool cocktails with stuff anyone can have at home. We talked with Mlynarczyk and with Joe Keeper of Bar Keeper in LA’s Silver Lake about what cool tools they’d recommend people have in a home bar kit, from the basics to the quirky or sublime.

Here is what they suggested:

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Mixing spoons

Go beyond utilitarian Cutting board Made specially for with these handsome spoons in gold and sil- bartenders, it’s just 8 by 12 inches with an extra Muddler ver. $18 to $30. deep well to catch juices Give up that plastic and a slot that fits the nonentity in favor of a sleek bamboo model Kuhn Rikon paring made by a fellow in knife. $25.

Silver Lake or a fluted walnut one. $18 to $23.

cal strainer, this one is rounded, more like a bowl. “Beautiful and functional,” Keeper says. $21.

Ice tapper Mixing glass This Yarai etched, crosshatched mixing glass adds some elegance to your cocktail setup. $45 to $60.

Hawthorne strainer

Japanese double-mesh strainer Cobbler Not your typical coni- shaker

This nifty tool used to be common in the 1950s and is now back. Made of plastic and stainless steel, it’s perfect for breaking ice with a whack right in your hand. About $21.

Koriko’s strainer has super-tight coils, elimiJiggers nating double straining.

How stylish is this Update your collec- “Barely anything gets one with its etched, tion with elegant bell- through that’s not liqcrosshatched glass botshaped and gold-plated uid,” says Mlynarczyk. tom and stainless steel models. Why not show This one comes in coptop? $90. Stainless off while you’re doling per, gold or stainless. steel, $45 to $65. out the spirits? $28. $17 to $30.

The original swizzle stick “It comes from Mauritius,” Keeper said, and is made from a special tree that grows branches perfectly perpendicular to the trunk. It’s used mainly for tiki drinks. You spin it back and forth between your palms to froth a drink. $21.

Cocktail shaker Ron Arad designed this ultramodern “Chiringuito” in mirrored stainless steel for Alessi. It has a nifty lock on top and includes a strainer. $204.

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3 new barbecue books will help you get your grill geek on

By J.M. Hirsch AP Food Editor ith grilling season solidly upon us, let’s all take a moment to reflect on the various ways we send our food to the fire.

There is, of course, Monday through Friday grilling. This is when the intense heat of the grill helps us along that painful march to what we call “weeknight dinner.” This is where we crank the grill — gas only, thank you very much — slap some chicken or salmon or veggies on the grates and call it good about 15 minutes later.

Then there is weekend grilling. Real grilling.

This is when we have the luxury of getting our geek on. This is when we break out the charcoal and the wood chips and the water pans. This is when we marinate, baste, rub, soak and slather, then use a heat that is low and slow to nuance thick slabs of pork and beef.

And every year, book publishers unleash a deluge of grilling and barbecue books to help you navigate all of this. Selfless man that I am, I waded through them all so you don’t have to. The

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short take — this is going to be a great year to be a grill geek. There are some fine new books ready to walk you down that fiery road:

“Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto”

By Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay (Ten Speed Press, 2015) This is more text book than cookbook, and that is a delicious compliment. Aaron Franklin — coowner with his wife, Stacy, of Texas’ cultishly popular Franklin Barbecue — spends 122 pages walking the reader through every step of classic smokebased barbecue, from how to build a smoker and what sort of wood to burn to which meats work best and how to trim and slice them. And that’s all before he ever gets to the recipes.

For that, you get another 75 pages that take you through everything from how to make a great dry rub to how to maintain an ideal cooking temperature. Finally, he gets to the actual recipes, and he spares no detail. Fourteen pages to cook a pepperrubbed brisket? Yes, please! Ten pages for pork spare ribs? Why not?

“Feeding the Fire”

By Joe Carroll (Artisan, 2015) Where Franklin is steeped in Texas barbecue culture, Joe Carroll is more have-it-your-way.

This New Yorker — the man behind a string of big deal barbecue shops, including Fette Sau — found his own way in the barbecue world, borrowing ideas and approaches from various Southern traditions. The result is more freewheeling, but no less educational or delicious.

Carroll starts off teaching you how to barbecue no matter what your equipment, whether gas grill, charcoal smoker or kettle grill. He doesn’t spare the how-to details, but he gives equal time to the recipes, including sides and drinks. And everything packs big, bold flavor.

I kind of want to take a bath in his “tiger sauce.”

“Smoke it Like a Pro”

By Eric C. Mitchell (Page Street Publishing, 2015) When it comes to gear, true barbecue geeks generally go one of two ways. They either build their own rig or the buy a Big Green Egg. And if you don’t know what the latter is, you aren’t a grill geek.

For those who are, Eric Mitchell has written the definitive guide to walk you through your favorite toy (though he also covers other ceramic-style grills). He keeps the front matter to a minimum, instead focusing on the many ways low and slow charcoal cooking can be a transformative experience. The “Sully’s marinated steak tips” sounds trashy (Coke and Italian dressing are ingredients), but I can’t help but want them. B

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FOOD

Jazz up your grilled chicken routine with Greek yogurt sauce

By Alison Ladman The Associated Press t’s pretty unlikely that we’ll ever get bored with burgers on the grill. But chicken?

Yeah... That actually happens pretty early in the season every summer.

Because as much as we like all manner of chicken on the grill, after a while it all starts to taste the same. Yet another chicken breast marinated in this or that and tossed over the flames. Doesn’t matter whether you put it on a bun or a bed of greens...

It’s chicken.

So we decided to create a recipe to brighten our summer chicken landscape. We wanted easy. We also wanted something friendly to the do-ahead crowd. And most importantly, we wanted delicious.

These grilled Greek chicken pitas were just right. The chicken thighs can be marinated in the

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Bored with your oatmeal? Here are 10 ideas for making it special

By ALISON LADMAN Associated Press

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atmeal is the vanilla ice cream of the breakfast world. Some of us like it plain and straight up, appreciating its clean,

oaty flavor, its firm yet giving texture, the way it cloyingly stays in your mouth just a second longer than you think it should.

And then there is the rest of humanity, those

Chicken FROM PAGE 16 cumin- and garlic-rich yogurt sauce overnight for dinner ease. The rest of the ingredients prep in no time, and the chicken itself is on and off the grill in under 15 minutes.

The result? An easy chicken that eats like a burger and won’t leave you wishing for something more exciting.

GRILLED GREEK CHICKEN PITAS Start to finish: 30 minutes plus marinating Servings: 6 1 teaspoon ground cumin

folks who — as with vanilla ice cream — treat oatmeal as a carrier for whatever you care to pile on and mix in. This list is for those folks, the people who like to dress their breakfasts to impress — or at least to taste awesome.

Start with your favorite way to prepare a bowl of oatmeal, whether it’s cooked steel-cut oats, slowcooked extra-thick oats, or a packet of instant. Jazz it up by adding any of these toppings:

Tropical: Stir in 1 tablespoon of cream of coconut, then top with a spoonful of crushed pineapple and chopped toasted macadamia nuts. l Bacon and Gouda: Stir in a handful of shredded aged Gouda cheese, then top with crumbled crisp-cooked bacon. l Pumpkin pie: Stir in 1/4 cup canned pumpkin puree and 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, then top with crumbled shortbread cookies.

Brûlée: Spoon into an oven-safe ramekin.

Sprinkle turbinado sugar over the top, then broil until golden and caramelized, 2 to 3 minutes. l Morning glory: Stir in 1/2 cup finely grated carrot, 1 teaspoon orange zest and a handful of golden raisins. Top with toasted sunflower seeds. l Caramel mocha: Stir together 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules, 1 tablespoon cocoa pow-

4 cloves garlic, chopped 6 tablespoons red wine vinegar, divided 1 cup plain Greek yogurt Kosher salt and ground black pepper 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh oregano 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 6), trimmed and halved 2 tablespoons sugar 1 English cucumber, thinly sliced 6 small pita bread pockets, to serve Feta cheese, to serve Chopped tomato, to serve In a medium bowl, combine the cumin, garlic, 2 tablespoons of the red wine vinegar, the yogurt, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and the

oregano. Whisk until smooth. Set half the mixture aside in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to assemble the pitas.

Leave the remaining yogurt mixture in the medium bowl and add the chicken. Turn to coat all sides. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.

In another bowl, stir together the remaining 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar with the sugar. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper.

Stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved. Add the cucumber, cover and refrigerate until time to assemble the pitas.

When the chicken has marinated, heat the grill to medium-high. Using an oil-soaked paper towel

held with tongs, coat the grill grates with oil.

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Fill each pita pocket with a few pieces of chicken, a few of the marinated cucumbers, a drizzle of the reserved yogurt sauce, a sprinkle of feta cheese and chopped tomatoes. Serve immediately.

Nutrition information per serving: 340 calories; 90 calories from fat (26 percent of total calories); 10 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 155 mg cholesterol; 750 mg sodium; 22 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 38 g protein.

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sharon randall Away but present in grandkids’ hearts

he photo took my breath away: A little boy with a big grin, waving at the camera (hello or goodbye?) all dressed up in his first cap and gown.

Randy, my oldest grandchild, graduated from preschool last week. I couldn’t be in California for the ceremony, so his mom sent me a photo.

I wish you could’ve seen him.

I wish I could’ve seen him, too.

When you get a chance to share a child’s rite of passage (even if it’s only one of many in his life) you shouldn’t pass it up. There will be other graduations in his future, but I was sorry to have to miss this one.

Not that Randy minded. He knows I live far, far away in a strange galaxy called Las Vegas. He understands, as best he can, that I can’t always be with

him as often as we would like.

Sometimes, when it’s time for me to go, he gets a little sad. Saying goodbye is hard at any age. And it never gets any easier. But when you’re 4 years old, and your nana leaves you and doesn’t come back for a month, that’s a big chunk of time.

A month is one-twelfth of a year and a year is one-fourth of Randy’s whole life. So a month for him is, like … well, a lot.

I’ve lived a bit longer than he has. When you’re my age, a month goes by so fast it makes you dizzy.

But a month away from someone you never want to leave can feel like forever.

I pop in and out of my grandchildren’s lives like a nana-jack-in-the-box. They see a jet streaking across the sky and ask, “Is that Nana’s plane?”

(Also, for some reason, when they see a FedEx

delivery van, they yell, “It’s Nana’s truck!”)

The first question they ask when I show up is, “Are you going to stay for a long time, Nana, or just a little bit?”

It’s never an easy question to answer. Little or long, it always ends with my leaving.

To make the parting less teary (for them, not me) I’ve taught them a ritual. It goes like this: “Where is your nana,” I ask, “when you can’t see her?”

Wylie, at 2, is still working on the answer. Baby Eleanor will pick it up in time. But Randy, who’s almost 5, and Henry, who’s almost 4, point to their chests and say, “In my heart!”

“That’s right,” I say, “and you are in mine. So don’t forget it.”

I want them to know I carry them with me wher-

ever I go, and that a part of me remains with them when I leave. We don’t have to be in the same room to know we are loved.

It’s such a mystery — isn’t it? — the everlasting, everpresent transportability of love? Yet they understand it in the only way it can ever be understood — with a childlike innocence and trust.

In years to come, they will celebrate countless rites of passage: graduations, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, the births of their children and grandchildren. I intend to be at every one of them.

If not “in the flesh,” surely in their hearts.

This fall, Randy will start kindergarten at the school where his dad went to kindergarten some 30 years ago, and where he now teaches third SEE RANDALL, PAGE 22

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Baby boomers face financial anxiety

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While the recession is over, Barthlow says some people who should feel good about the prospects of retirement are fearful because they’re stuck stringing together a variety of jobs to keep paying their bills.

They’re living examples of “giganomics” — where people tap into their assorted skills and contacts to make money for daily living. The word “gig” once was used mainly to apply to bands or musicians. But Barthlow said the gig now could mean selling chocolate, acting as a chauffeur, or taking on extra odd jobs, all stuff she did after losing better-paying work.

“I am the queen of giganomics,” said Barthlow, who runs a financial education and coaching firm called the Alpha Advisory Group. “You have to adjust until you’re back on track with what you want to do.”

Barthlow said she didn’t want to make $8 or $10 an hour as she had to do for some odd jobs. She took what work she could to “keep it moving” during about a four-year slump.

Only recently, she said, she obtained a good contract that will involve offering financial counseling to military members transitioning to civilian life.

She is moving back on financial track.

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Overall, many people feel better about their job security, debt levels, net worth and overall financial situation compared with how they felt a year ago, according to the latest Bankrate Financial Security Index.

But when it comes to people age 50 and older, just 13 percent of that group said they are feeling better about their savings than they were a year ago. Only 17 percent in the 50 and older group felt better about their job security than they did a year ago. And 19 percent of that group reported a better overall financial situation, according to the Bankrate Financial Security Index.

Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com, said those in the 50-plus group may be feeling more uncertain about their jobs, and some could be making less money working than they did before the recession or last layoff.

The stock market has bounced back and the Dow Jones industrial average has risen above 18,000 but many baby boomers may have dumped their stock investments long ago.

“This is a group that was more prone to bailing out of the stock market after the 2008 crash and not getting back in,” McBride said.

“Those that hung in there, they’ve more than recovered and then some. Those boomers that bailed, they’re still standing on the platform but the train is long gone.”

Adding to woes: Low interest rates.

Retirees who put a savings in certificates of deposit are seeing miserably low rates of return, nothing like the 5 percent a year on CDs that some saw before the economic downturn.

southside boomers I summer 2015 In contrast, the Bankrate survey indicated that millennials are feeling better about their finances.

About 32 percent of those ages 18 to 29 report higher job security relative to a year ago. Overall, about 23 percent of employed Americans are feeling better about their job security than they did in April 2014, according to the survey.

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Barthlow advises people who are worried about their finances to take control and look at how they’re spending their money, as well as their opportunities to make more money.

Maybe a buyout or a retirement has not worked out as some expected.

If so, one needs to adjust and make some changes.

“Being flexible is key to the game,” Barthlow said.

“Those that hung in there (stock market), they’ve more than recovered and then some.

Those boomers that bailed, they’re still standing on the platform but the train is long gone.”

Greg McBride, financial analyst About 30 percent of millennials say their savings are in better shape now than a year ago, compared with 20 percent of Americans overall.

When it comes to net worth, millennials do feel they’re still lagging behind. About 18 percent of millennials reported a higher net worth than a year ago, 22 percent of those 50 and older reported a higher net worth, and 23 percent overall reported a higher net worth.

The most positive sentiment was observed among those 30 to 49, with 29 percent of that group reporting a higher net worth than a year ago.

“It completely refutes the notion that millennials are completely buried in student debt, can’t get jobs and are still living with mom and dad,” McBride said.

Overcoming financial anxiety requires patience and persistence for anyone in any age group.

For some, it may be necessary to ditch a shoe or a clothing habit. Some might need to stop writing checks to a family member who needs financial help. Others might need to cut back on vacations or eating out.

And some might need to learn how to deal with “giganomics” and find extra work for a year or two to get through a slump. Barthlow said she knows one man in his 60s who is willing to work like a teenager to keep up with the bills and take care of family members.

Others, though, aren’t willing to adjust to some new realities.

“A lot of folks are on automatic pilot, and they don’t want to think about what they’re doing,” she said. B Susan Tompor is the personal finance columnist for the Detroit Free Press. She can be reached at stompor@freepress.com.

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Bacon and gouda oatmeal

Raspberry-lime oatmeal

Oatmeal

teaspoon dried oregano. Top with roasted marinated tomatoes (often available where fine olives are sold) or jarred sun-dried tomatoes and crumbled feta cheese. l Banana bread: Mash a very ripe banana and stir into the oatmeal along with a pinch of nutmeg. Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar and toasted walnuts.

FROM PAGE 17 der and 2 tablespoons half-and-half. Stir into the oatmeal, then drizzle the top with caramel sauce.

Top with whipped cream, if desired. l Spinach, tomato and feta: Stir in 1/4 cup chopped, cooked, well-drained spinach and 1/2

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Thirty years is the blink of an eye in a mother’s memory, but I well recall Nate’s first day of school.

He hurried up the walk, curls bouncing like springs, so excited to get to his new classroom and set sail on the grand adventure called school.

“Have a great day!” I called after him, fighting my tears.

He stopped and looked back at me. I grinned and waved. No big deal, just letting my baby go.

Suddenly he unzipped his backpack and pulled out a ratty blankie he’d promised to leave at home.

Apparently, he was trying to smuggle it into school.

Taking one last whiff of the blankie, he shoved it into my hands. “You keep it, Mom,” he said. “You Caramel-mocha oatmeal might need it.”

And with that he was gone. l Raspberry-lime: Stir in the zest and juice of He was right. I did need it. Some days I still do.

1/2 lime and a spoonful of brown sugar. Top with Everybody needs a blankie once in a while. a handful of fresh raspberries and a drizzle of I carry a ragged little piece of it in my heart. B fresh cream. l Honey-pear: Stir in a chopped ripe pear, drizzle with honey and top with a few slices of a brie cheese. Add shredded pan-fried prosciutto, if desired. B

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Zike FROM PAGE 9 enced,” he said. “I didn’t force my way on people.

I just gave suggestions.”

Grizzlies to a school-record 21 victories and equaled that mark again this past season.

Coaching his daughter

In addition to serving on the New Whiteland town council for one term in the 1970s and another Military academy first in the 1980s, he also found time to raise a daughter, His route to coaching started with a short stint Bethany, who now works as the assistant principal at at the U.S. Military Academy before he transPleasant Crossing Elementary School in Whiteland. ferred back to attend Franklin College.

“We didn’t have traditional time together. In “I wanted to be a varsity basketball coach and I fact, most of our time was spent at athletic events realized that I would owe the government five or on the field together. That was just the way it extra years if I stayed at West Point. So I transwas,” said Bethany Guilfoy. “But he still made ferred to Franklin,” he said. “I just figured I could time to teach me character and the important become a varsity basketball coach faster by going things in life. We had a very active lifestyle and I in a different direction.” wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.”

Zike played baseball and basketball for the Zike coached his own daughter in travel softball Grizzlies and graduated in 1972. with the Indy Road Runners and also directed her His coaching career high school team for a started as an assistant “I loved watching him, the relation- couple of years. basketball coach and In 2001, Guilfoy’s ships he had with kids and the impact junior year, Whiteland varsity cross country he had on the community,” she said. was, at one point, coach at Thorntown “I experienced that every day with ranked the top Class for a year. He moved on to serve as assistant him and that’s why I’m in the position 2A team in the state. basketball, baseball “With the position I’m in now. I wanted to follow in his and cross country he had, I knew people footsteps.” coach at Silver Creek. were watching me and Bethany Guilfoy, Butch Zike’s daughter waiting for me to make “I was very fortunate to have the opportunimistakes. So I had to ty to come back to make sure I represented him well,” she said.

Whiteland when I was hired by the Clark Pleasant “There were times that were tough when friends School Corporation prior to the 1974-75 school would get in trouble, but we would talk about it year,” he said. and work through it.”

Zike coached junior high football and freshman Zike is equally complimentary of his daughter. baseball for Whiteland in the mid-1970s but even“I told her she had to be the hardest working tually saw his role expand dramatically. During a player on the team. That way, I could coach every38-year career at his high school alma mater, Zike body else,” he said. “When you’re coaching your served as a teacher, coach and athletic administra- own child, you’re either much easier on them tor. than you are the others or much more difficult.

He coached baseball there for 14 seasons, spent It’s a tough situation to handle. Fortunately for two years as an assistant softball coach, another me, she made it very easy.” seven as head softball coach and even guided the Zike’s guidance played a significant role in boys varsity basketball team for three seasons. Zike Guilfoy’s career decisions, too. also spent his last 24 years at Whiteland as the “I loved watching him, the relationships he had school’s athletic director. He was honored as the with kids and the impact he had on the communiIndiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrator ty,” she said. “I experienced that every day with Association’s Athletic Administrator of the Year him and that’s why I’m in the position I’m in in 2011 and guided the Warriors’ baseball team to now. I wanted to follow in his footsteps. an IHSAA state finals appearance in 1985. “...“I’m so thankful that I’ve had that model to follow,” Guilfoy said. “He has been a wonderful Zike retired from Whiteland in 2012 and took father to me and is even a better papaw to my over as head coach of the Franklin College softdaughter now. I’m proud to call him my dad.” B ball team that same year. In 2014, he guided the

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