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Through the years it has grown substantially in order to meet the growing needs of the community.

managing ocular diseases, perioperative care and fitting specialty contact lenses. All three women are Hoosiers - Curts is from Brownsburg, Streff is from Carmel and Foerg is from Monticello.

“The growth in Brownsburg has been considerable, and since 2019 we have also recognized that growth in our practice,” says Dr. Stephanie Curts, who has been with the practice since 2003. Dr. Christina Streff joined in 2020, and this spring they brought on Dr. Brittany Foerg. They felt it was important to add another doctor because patient load had increased significantly.

The team at Bogan Eyecare Center serves patients ranging from infants up to 100plus years of age, offering comprehensive eye examinations, glaucoma and cataract diagnosis and nonsurgical management, complete contact-lens care, and dry-eye evaluation and treatment. The team is currently growing their dry-eye practice and specialty contact lens services.

“We wanted to fill that gap so that we can provide the best service possible and get people in when they want to come in,” Curts says.

“Because people are spending so much time staring at screens these days, dry eye has become more prevalent,” Curts says. “Plus, as we age our eyes become more dry.”

Now a woman-owned, woman-run business, their focus has always been on taking care of patients as if they are members of their own family. Curts, who is married with four children ranging in age from 9 to 18, is a jackof-all-trades, though she especially enjoys providing complete family eye care, from InfantSEE assessments to refractive care and ocular disease management. In her free time she likes running, scrapbooking and traveling.

Streff and her husband have two daughters, a 7-year-old and a 10-month-old. She enjoys baking, exercising and traveling. Fluent in both English and Spanish, her focus at the practice is on building the dry-eye clinic.

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STAYING ON TRACK LARRY DIXON TALKS CAREER BEHIND THE WHEEL Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photographers / Amy Payne & Jimmy Mack

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rofessional drag racer Larry Dixon has been around the block - or track, rather - enough times in life to know what’s really important. He is a secondgeneration Top Fuel racer with three National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Camping World Drag Racing Series championships under his belt. While he’s proud of all he has accomplished in his drag-racing career, one of his biggest passions now is sharing the experience with others.

In 2015 Dixon got the idea for creating a two-seat Top Fuel dragster.

He designed, constructed and debuted that dragster on Halloween in 2017, allowing others to experience traveling down a 1/8-mile racetrack in just over three seconds at speeds of more than 250 miles per hour.

“To have made a living from your passion felt a little like cheating the system,” Dixon says. “Now when I go to a two-seater event and that person gets that ride, they feel indebted to you for giving them that opportunity. It outweighs all lows I’ve been through.”

Dixon’s journey has been anything but a straight and forward path. The common thread linking it all together has been drag racing. Born and raised in Southern California, Dixon has fond memories of his mom picking him up from school on Friday almost every weekend, driving to a track and spending the weekend watching his father Larry race.

“Racing was the coolest thing in the world and that’s what I wanted to do when I grew up,” Dixon says.

Once he was old enough to drive, Dixon started earning experience in street cars on his high school racing team. However, knowing his dad maxed out at 250 miles per hour while he was barely crossing over 100 meant the wow factor just wasn’t there. The only question was how to get his start in drag racing.

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“You don’t just get a top-tier ride by knocking on a door and someone lets you in,” Dixon says. “I didn’t have family money and I didn’t have a sponsorship, and I didn’t have the experience. I asked myself what’s the best path, and that was to work my way up on the pit crew and do some driving on the side. That’s what I did.”

Dixon didn’t get his big break with a top-level team. He actually seized his big moment with a smaller team out of Montana, in a tiny town of less than 250 people. Dixon began working for John Mitchell, putting cars together while the rest of the world was racing. He drove for John Mitchell for a year, gaining as much experience as he could before moving on to working for Don Prudhomme. During that time he was allowed to test-drive a car.

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That test drive became a turning point in his career, as he ran the test quicker than his boss. He became licensed to race in Top Fuel, began racing under Miller Brewing Company, and thus began his racing career.

in IndyCar vehicles - but the difference between an IndyCar ride and a dragster is significant.

“I’ve been driving for 25 years,” Dixon says.

“I can step on the throttle and it still amazes me how much acceleration the car has. That was part of the reason why I built the twoseater. I know so many that would love to experience that acceleration.”

“Most two-seat, drag-racing experience rides barely go 160 miles an hour,” Dixon says. “To be honest, you can go to the Dodge dealership, buy a Hellcat and go 160 yourself. This is a real race car, with real acceleration at 10,000 horsepower. It goes from zero to 250 miles an hour in three seconds.”

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from a team because a driver with more money came along. That’s just the business in motor sports, he says, so he had to pivot within a career he was passionate about.

“I love this sport so much,” Dixon says. “I love sharing it.”

He’s poured his time, energy and money into creating an unforgettable and very real racing experience.

The experience itself lasts nearly three hours. Dixon’s team takes their time going through waivers, releases and insurance

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as part of their open-door policy. Since the two-seater is an actual Top Fuel car, all maintenance that takes place is the same as it would be on race day. The rider gets to be part of the crew as they prep the car. Then the rider finally gets to make the run.

“We make the run, lift the throttle, pull the parachute, then coast,” Dixon says. “That person in the back seat is almost always screaming like a little girl at a boy-band concert. That’s why I do it. I love sharing this with people. It’s like letting someone backstage that would never get the chance to go, and I just love that. Each person doing it has a different reason. Hearing their stories is something I love.”

Riders experience close to four Gs, which means experiencing pressure four times their body weight. Dragsters create more than 10,000 horsepower. When the car leaves the starting line, the driver applies more and more power as the car moves.

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power increases in the three seconds.

One ride that stands out for Dixon is when he gave Burnell Russell a ride in 2019.

Russell lost his son Darrell in a crash at the NHRA nationals in 2004. Russell’s family surprised him with a dragster ride.

“He’s really the only rider who ever showed emotion and didn’t scream,” Dixon says.

“He was very subdued and said he just wanted to stay there. He felt one with his son, and wanted to soak up the moment.”

Moments like that keep Dixon going. He barely pays the bills with what he charges.

When he first created the program he realized a ride would cost $14,000, but pared it down as much as possible, without minimizing the experience, to $10,000.

Dixon offers a couple dozen runs each year, traveling anywhere from Michigan to South Carolina to Florida. He has time to run about three people per day.

While Dixon built the cars with big plans to attend NHRA events, upper-management concerns have kept his business low-key.

“In the grand scheme of life this isn’t even a big problem,” Dixon says. “I have plenty of perspective. I’ve had bad things happen but so many people out there have it worse.”

Dixon himself has survived throat cancer, and his wife Ali is now fighting breast cancer. Knowing they’re still alive and together, and how successful and happy his kids are, is all Dixon cares about.

“I’ve literally flown through the air at 300 miles an hour, got out of a car and walked away,” Dixon says. “But going through cancer let me know my life is fragile. I feel safe in a car going 300 miles per hour, but cancer can take you if it wants you.”

As Dixon reflects on his career, he acknowledges that even though his racing career didn’t last forever, those first 25 years put him in a position to offer two-seater

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“I feel blessed to have had the opportunity as long as I did,” Dixon says. “When I give a person that ride, it’s meaningful. For example, giving Burnell Russell a ride so he can feel closer to his son outweighs it all.”

Dixon misses racing but still loves being in the middle of the sport he loves most. He isn’t upset about the slower pace he enjoys now.

“If God doesn’t want me out there working a million things a year, then he wants me doing other things, like watching my daughter win sectionals or watching my son play high school basketball,” Dixon says.

“I’m not being deprived of racing.

I’m being blessed by living with my family, and that is good.”

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Dan Brancolini is a bit of a Renaissance man. Through the years he has reinvented himself time and again. He grew up in a Pennsylvania steel town that had the largest Coca-Cola production plant in the world. During his youth he played jazz saxophone with various bands. After attending art school, he got into advertising for 15 years. When that opportunity fizzled, he managed shoe stores in Ohio and Indiana. He switched gears again and became a trucker, then later was hired by Walmart to open some superstores in the area, including one in Brownsburg.

He was working as a training manager in 2012 when he started feeling tired and foggy-headed. He also began to notice that every time he climbed a flight of stairs, he was breathless.

“I didn’t know what was going on,” says Brancolini, who was only 58 at the time. “I thought I was just getting old.”

Then one day after unloading a produce truck at work, he passed out. After a doctor chalked up the fainting spell to exhaustion, he went back to work, but a week later he woke up feeling terrible. A second trip to the doctor revealed that he had dropped 10 pounds in a week, which was abnormal. After a full workup of labs and tests,

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he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that he suspected was a result of having grown up near steel mills.

Doctors said they didn’t know the cause.

“I was told that I needed a transplant or else I only had three to five years to live, but first I had to lose a bunch of weight to qualify for the transplant,” says Brancolini, who changed his diet and began exercising regularly.

Ultimately he dropped 100 pounds over the course of five years.

In November of 2017 he finally qualified for the transplant.

It couldn’t come quick enough, as he had gotten to the point where he was wearing an oxygen mask 24/7.

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He didn’t know how long he’d be waiting for new lungs, though he was told to be prepared to go on a “dry run,” during which he would get a call to go to the hospital but ultimately get sent back home if something didn’t pan out or match up. As luck would have it, his phone rang a week and a half later. When he heard the words, “We’ve got a set of lungs for you,” time stood still. He went to the hospital, still anticipating a “dry run.”

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the green light, the red phone on the wall would ring. A few moments later, it did.

“The doctor answered and I heard him say, ‘It’s a go,’” Brancolini says. “That’s the last thing I remember until waking up in the ICU.”

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He ended up having complications with his kidneys and had to spend Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s in the hospital. When he finally got home, the first thing he did was call the oxygen company to come pick up his tanks and machine.

“That felt good,” he says.

Though he was past the hard part, the following year he was mostly sequestered in his home in order to give his new lungs time to adjust.

“I love working outside, but I couldn’t mow the grass because my lungs were super sensitive,” he says. “That first year I hardly saw anybody.”

It was a pretty lonely existence, but during that time he found solace in

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going out to his garage and staring at his beloved car, an ultra-rare 1964 Ford Falcon Sprint convertible that he paid $100 for in 1978 when he was 24 years old. Throughout his life he regularly updated, upgraded and maintained the award-winning piece of Americana.

Watching the Falcon sit untouched for five years while he struggled with his health was heartbreaking.

Once he could be around people, he reintroduced himself to car culture by attending the Indianapolis World of Wheels, the largest indoor car show in Indiana. That’s where he met Bobby Williams, owner of Legacy Motorsports in Plainfield. Not surprisingly, the two men talked cars. Williams was impressed with Brancolini’s sweet ride and invited his new friend to stop by his shop. Brancolini took him up on his offer and after dropping by nearly every day for three months, Williams offered him a job.

Affectionately known as Falcon Dan, he’s the president of the Hoosier chapter of the Falcon Club of America. When he joined the club in 1979, there were 135 members. Today, membership exceeds 12,000.

“Car people are different from any other group,” Brancolini says.

“They are like a band of brothers and sisters in the way they help one another out. For example, if you’re on the road and you see a

guy with a hot rod or custom car broken down, you pull over and ask how you can help. It’s one big family.”

This is why proceeds for most car shows benefit great causes. For instance, Brancolini will be involved with Cruisin’ for a Cure, an annual fundraiser for breast cancer in Hummel Park on April 23.

He also has a friend who is putting on a show in May to support a family who lost their father.

“In the car culture we help people,” says Brancolini, who notes that his car club hosts two shows per year to raise money for local food banks. One is in July at the Avon American Legion, and the other is in September at Lucas Oil Raceway.

Thrilled to have a new lease on life, Brancolini has a few bucket-list items he plans to check off. Topping that list is traveling to Italy and meeting family, as he is of Italian descent. He’d also like to hop in his convertible with his wife Jan and travel west on Route 66. He still has his sax and would love to assemble a band to play some oldies.

“My health scare showed me that our time on this earth is limited, so make every day count,” he says. “Don’t take life for granted, and tell people you love them.”

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LIVES OF PROMISE FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY GIVES FAMILIES FRESH HOPE

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As a survivor of domestic abuse, Alicia Qualls knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom. At one point she had a gun to her head and was ready to end it all. For more than a decade she experienced homelessness, which added to her stress.

“The street alone will kill you,” she says. Hope came by way of the dedicated team at Family Promise of Hendricks County, whose mission is to help the homeless and do their part to prevent homelessness so families can achieve sustainable independence.

The staff at Family Promise moved quickly to help Qualls and her

“Everybody at Family Promise is amazing,” Qualls says. “Now I’m stress-free because I don’t have to worry about food or rent.”

Family Promise originally started in 2015 as a shelter program that helped between 20 and 25 families per year. It soon became clear, however, that the homeless problem was much larger than what they had anticipated.

“It was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the need in our community,” says Executive Director Julie Randall. Over time they

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have expanded their services, and in 2021 alone they assisted more than 2,000 families. Three years ago they moved from their Avon resource center to the State Bank of Lizton Resource Center in Plainfield. They have a second center in Brownsburg. These centers allow people to eat, shower and get warm.

State Bank chose to partner with Family Promise because as a community bank, they recognized the opportunity to come alongside an organization focused holistically on ending homelessness in our counties.

“They addressed underlying issues like lack of child care or reliable transportation, no permanent address when applying for jobs, and financial management skills, while at the same time providing shelter, food and clothing,” says Diane Stennett, senior vice president at State Bank. “When Family Promise was looking to relocate their resource center to Plainfield, we knew that supporting them financially would make a direct, deep and lasting impact on families in our community.”

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“WE DON’T WANT TO KEEP PUTTING BAND-AIDS ON PROBLEMS. WE WANT TO CREATE SOLUTIONS.” —EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JULIE RANDALL “It’s all about keeping stability in their lives because nothing sticks unless there’s stability,” Randall says.

Stability comes in the form of providing transportation and/or car repair. Family Promise also has their own child-care center where all homeless kids can go for free (lowerincome individuals are on a sliding scale).

Currently they can take 45 children, but they are soon expanding to 75.

Family Promise has a program called the Stability Builders Network, which consists of a group of churches, businesses, nonprofits, local government entities and individuals that all pool their resources to make a difference.

If someone is behind two months in rent payments, for example, Family Promise can pull from the Stability Builders Network to pay that fee.

Randall notes that many people in the community don’t understand the homelessness problem in Hendricks County because they don’t see panhandlers in parking lots or folks pushing shopping carts down the street.

“It’s hidden here because people are living in cars, hotels or homeless shelters,” says Randall, who has worked as a social worker for 25 years and seen many well-intentioned endeavors fail.

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“We don’t want to keep putting Bandaids on problems,” she says. “We want to create solutions,” she says. “When you focus on what people who are struggling are telling you they need, and create solutions based on how they view those needs, the community becomes a part of the solution that really works.”

Stennett is thrilled to partner with Family Promise because their values are perfectly aligned.

According to Randall, in Hendricks County there are four main barriers that create and perpetuate homelessness and poverty, including lack of reliable transportation for work, appointments and other tasks, lack of affordable child care, lack of living-wage jobs for supporting a family, and lack of affordable housing.

“We mustn’t be afraid when our towns want to allow developments that are affordable in our community because we aren’t bringing people in who are going to deteriorate our community,” Randall says.

“These affordable-housing complexes are about helping the people who live here have housing they can actually afford.”

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“Like us, Family Promise believes in relationships,” Stennett says. “The bank isn’t just another financial donor and families there are not just transitioning residents. Julie and her team make sure it’s clear that once you’re involved, you’re forever a part of the Family Promise family. For us, that means sitting down each year to determine how our organization and our employees can make the greatest impact. Sometimes our staff volunteers time, providing financial workshops and counseling. Other times we provide meals, child care, or collect diapers and personal-care items.

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Family Promise provides servicing and housing for domestic violence survivors. They also help people with chronic mental illnesses or substance-use disorder, and those who have formerly been incarcerated.

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“Those are the hardest people to house because of those barriers, but we want to make sure that everyone has a home, including those people that are often marginalized,” Randall says. “We want them to have the opportunity for stability too.”

Once families move into permanent housing, Family Promise follows up with them for a couple of years to make sure they remain stable.

“That’s the key to their success, that we don’t just go away,” Randall says. “We continue to provide services and check in with them.”

Qualls is forever grateful to Family Promise.

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“If not for them, I’d still be treading water trying to figure out what to do,” she says.

The State Bank of Lizton Resource Center is located at 238 North Vine Street in Plainfield. The Brownsburg Resource Center is located at 725 South Green Street in Brownsburg. For more information, call 317-296-3742 or 317-852-1019, or visit familypromisehendrickscounty.org.

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