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SMOOTH SAILING LOCAL COUPLE OVERCOMES OBSTACLES AS PORTSIDE MARINE OWNERS

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In May of 2019, Jarret Silagyi and his wife Lauren purchased Portside Marine Sales and Service in Cicero.

Within a year, a fire had destroyed the boat dealership, the Silagyis were battling serious injuries from a boating accident, and Jarret no longer had his corporate job.

That doesn’t count the pandemic that seemingly brought the world to a standstill earlier this year.

However, the Silagyis’ luck finally turned when Jarret learned there might be a new

home available for Portside Marine. That home that would allow the boat dealership to join forces with similar business a few miles away. The two boat dealerships have been serving the Morse, Geist and surrounding areas for over 75 years combined.

And business is booming. As a statedesignated essential business, boat sales and service have been in high demand despite the coronavirus pandemic.

“A lot of people didn’t expect us to make it through the fire,” Jarret Silagyi says. “I look back and say, ‘Well, this wasn’t the easiest path, but here we are. And we’re happy to be here.’ ”

However, the future didn’t look so rosy to Silagyi as he raced up Olio Road from his home in Fishers on October 14, 2019. He was heading to a flame-engulfed Portside Marine at its prior location in Cicero. He didn’t have to guess what he might find when he arrived. The billows of smoke, visible in the sky even as he traveled from miles away, told the story.

In June of this year, Portside Marine moved to the Lakeview Marina property, and the Silagyis own the separate businesses located on North Hague Road in Noblesville.

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“It’s been busier than ever,” Silagyi says.

“It was a gut-wrenching half-hour drive, seeing smoke and knowing it was the dealership,” Silagyi says.

The fire, caused by a combination of an electric spark and fuel vapors in Portside’s service area, destroyed the business.

Employees were safe, and Portside never closed. Another boat dealership owner, Jeff Lingenfelter, offered any help that his business, Lakeview Marina, could provide.

Lakeview assisted with getting the word out about Portside’s plans to remain open, moving boats off Portside’s damaged property, providing extra tools, and even referring customers to Portside.

One year prior, Jarret had ended the limousine and bus company he’d owned while also serving as chief operating officer of a paper-shredding company. In the fall of 2019 he and Lauren were battling back after seeing their business go up in flames before their eyes, but bad luck wasn’t done with them yet.

On New Year’s Eve in 2019, a boating accident in Florida left the Silagyis with serious injuries that kept them in the area recovering for two months.

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searching for a new home for Portside, when state officials alerted them that they planned to use Portside’s property as the location for a bridge. Then Jarret’s corporate job ended.

A chance conversation with a friend helped the couple turn the corner. That friend said he knew someone who might be interested in selling his business. And that someone was Lingenfelter, who’d been such a good partner following the fire at Portside.

Portside had found a new home.

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Owners Jarret and Lauren Silagyi

Today Portside Marine and Lakeview Marina each remain open. They both deal in new and used boats at the same Noblesville address, but the businesses are separate. Portside sells many fiberglass boats, and Lakeview’s offerings include pontoons and personal watercraft.

“Hopefully customers will see a benefit to our being together, all on one property,” Silagyi says.

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While the Silagyis own both businesses, the Lingenfelter family, who opened Lakeview in 1983, remain involved. Jeff and his wife Anita are retiring in August, but there are still five Lingenfelters among the Lakeview staff.

“Both businesses are long-tenured community businesses,” Silagyi says of Portside and Lakeview. “Both names deserve to continue on.”

Silagyi hopes this focus on family continues with his own twin sons, who are toddlers. After all, Jarret and Lauren both grew up in family businesses and as boating enthusiasts - Jarret in Pittsburgh and Lauren near Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

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He is referring to the group’s recent recognition by Forbes magazine’s SHOOK rankings as a top wealth advisor with a #16 “Best in State” ranking for Indiana. This is up from a #25 ranking in 2019, which Gagne says was a “shocking” move up in the state rankings.

Water has always reminded Jay of his youth growing up on northern Indiana’s Tippecanoe Lake and is, unsurprisingly, what grounds him and keeps him centered.

“Not only did we repeat, but we moved up,” he says. “I was very happy, but I didn’t know if I would even make the list two years in a row.”

Gagne, 50, spends his days doing financial planning and managing the personal investment assets of approximately 300 clients, which he takes very seriously and handles with great care and consideration.

He describes his day as one filled with multi-faceted roles.

That is due to a complex assessment the firm underwent each year, such as assets under management, broker record, creative planning solutions for clients, staff interviews and, as Gagne proudly emphasizes, “a perfect service record. No reportable client complaints in 25 years.”

“This industry is hard, it’s not easy,” he says.

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Gagne points to a humorous story that emphasizes creativity while serving clients.

When his wife Tessa was in labor in 2017, he was very underdressed from his usual professional attire. He had a client who needed immediate attention, and his client conversation as a wealth advisor was overheard by the attending anesthesiologist.

After a business card was requested and given, the next week Gagne promptly had a new client — and a week-old son, Conor.

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family. He says a lot of inspiration came from his mother Paula, who is also licensed and maintains 1% of the business ownership as law requires. Paula is co-president and still maintains an office and a very active interest in the daily business functioning as well as on going client needs.

More than 35 years ago, with two teenage sons, Paula Gagne, the stay-at-home mom, was inspired to make her mark as a financial advisor. She earned her required license’s but needed someone to give her a chance, Wall Street had large barriers to entry at the time. The generally male-dominated field proved hard to enter but Paula had a plan.

She made an appointment with a firm under the guise of being an investor and talked her While she was making waves in the financial world, Jay Gagne was busy way into her first job. gaining his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington.

Success quickly followed the motivated advisor and corporate entities came recruiting due to her proven success in the name of Merrill Lynch.

“I thought about law school but was inspired by the stories I would hear at the dinner table. If she could be so successful in the field, maybe I could too,” Gagne says.

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Both mother and son worked for Merrill Lynch and were high performers before moving under the Raymond James umbrella. Gagne says it is a better fit overall for their approach to providing career investment services, including but not limited to, retirement planning, estate planning, wealth management, tax planning, college planning, insurance needs and business valuations.

His clients seem to agree.

“The crazy dot.com bust, financial decline of ’08 — we still have many of our early on acquired clients,” Gagne says. “As clients move, they often choose to retain our services. People do business with people they like, know, and trust.”

From its perch just west of I-465, Gagne’s Wealth Management firm advises for clients in 29 states, with Florida being the second largest state as people often retire from Indiana and move south for the sunshine.

Paula likes to point out that clients sometimes let fear and emotion guide their financial decisions, which is understandable.

“We sometimes have to talk them off the ledge,” Paula says. “We keep them focused on the long-term plan. We have at times talked them out of cashing out when markets get volatile, and when markets eventually recover they’re so grateful.”

As president, Gagne wears many hats for his clients. He has to keep an eye on markets, oversee financial plan implementation, client investments, manage his day-to-day business operations, and still make time for his family.

Gagne Wealth Management is constantly preparing for the next wave of investors, as his initial clients often times refer Gagne Wealth Management to their grown children.

Jay Gagne has another financial advisor on board, Vinya Sagi, as well as an experienced administrative team, Kelly Hudson and Jamie Montisano, to serve client needs and requests.

Typically his firm operates primarily through client referrals, specified investment minimums, and careful selection of who they allow on board as new client relationships. He recently received a hand-written card from a client that he took on with a smaller amount than his investment minimum thanking him for accepting them as a client.

“It doesn’t matter how many zeros are at the end of the number when someone needs help,” he says.

Gagne Wealth Management Group outreach extends to the greater Indianapolis area in the spirit of building community. The firm is a contributor for the Indianapolis Zoo, the Carmel Symphony, Pathway to Recovery, the Humane Society, Cystic Fibrosis Society’s Indiana chapter and Diwali celebrations for the local Indian community.

“We love to give back,” Paula says. “Our client base is diverse. When we’re blessed, we should give back. It’s important.”

The financial duo’s next plan involves further entrenching themselves in the Geist community, where they already live within one lawn of each other. Gagne and his wife are finishing new construction on a home overlooking the reservoir and Paula purchased the adjacent lot hoping to build next year.

After all, it is the water that brings them home.

Gagne Wealth Management Group is located at 6081 E 82nd St in Indianapolis.

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ARE YOU LISTENING? Carmel Against Racial Injustice Seeks Change in Schools, Community & Policing

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ollowing the tragic death of George Floyd, communities across the country united to demand real and lasting change regarding racial equality. In June, Ashten Spilker, a 2014 graduate of HSE, proudly displayed a #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) sign in her Carmel front yard. When the sign was vandalized, she posted a video to social media acknowledging her frustration.

“I wanted to do a protest, but as a white person, I didn’t think it was my place to take that step,” says Spilker, who works as a behavioral therapist in the Special Education Department at HSE. When two of her former classmates (also ‘14 HSE grads), Breanna Hargrove and

Kayla Seymour, saw Spilker’s video, they reached out and within five days they mobilized a plan to hold a Sit-In Against Racial Injustice at the gazebo in Carmel.

They expected to draw a crowd of 50.

Instead, 500 people showed up to show their support.

“Everyone was asking, ‘What can I do? How can I help?’” says Hargrove, a respiratory therapist.

As the crowd shared stories, it became clear that many people of color did not feel welcome in the community. That’s when the trio knew they had to do more.

And since there was no organization in Carmel that was dedicated to such work, Hargrove, Seymour and Spilker launched Carmel Against Racial Injustice (CARI) and quickly assembled a passionate 24-member team all dedicated to the

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mission of invoking change in schools, in policing and in the community as it relates to racial justice.

CARI, which will soon be an official 501(c)3, has created three different petitions people can sign: one for the city, one for the school district and one for the police department.

CARI is pushing for changes in the school district to protect students and make them feel safe. They want to see a knowledgeable chief equity officer hired in Carmel Clay Schools who can give direction from the top-down about introducing racial equality initiatives in all school improvement plans. They want a better process in place for students being able to report racial incidents at school. In addition, they want to see more diverse teachers and counselors hired at

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Carmel High School. Such changes could impact academic performance. According to Spilker, 38% of black students pass ISTEP compared to 70% of white students.

“Black students are underperforming [perhaps because] they have to deal with racial abuse while still going to school,” Spilker says. “Black students are expected to shoulder so much more and perform in the same way.”

Hargrove is disheartened that the same issues she faced seven years ago at school are still around today.

“Students should be able to go to school without hearing racist remarks by their teachers, classmates or walking down the hallway,” says Hargrove, who believes that black history month should be taught year-round. “Sometimes I was the only black person in my classes. This is a school of 4,000 students. When you’re not exposed to different races and cultures, it makes it easier for you to have prejudices or biased tendencies.”

As for the BLM movement, unfortunately sometimes people hop on board because it’s the trendy thing to do. That’s not the reason to get involved, according to CARI. If you’re genuinely interested in

creating change, however, the founders of CARI suggest you start by cracking open a book. The CARI team recommends “White Fragility” and “How to Be an Antiracist.” They also list additional book recommendations on their Facebook page that are written by Black authors who are experts in their field.

“There’s a fine line between asking the opinion of a person of color and expecting them to educate us on racism because it’s not their job,” Spilker adds.

“It’s our job to educate ourselves.”

For those who counter the BLM movement with the proclamation, “#AllLivesMatter,” Spilker explains that it’s not about stating that one race is superior to another.

“Yes, all lives matter. No one is saying that they don’t, but the whole concept is that all lives can’t matter if Black lives don’t matter,” says Spilker, who uses the analogy of how silly it would be if someone’s house is on fire and you went outside while everybody was trying to put out the fire on that house and cried, “What about my house? My house matters, too!”

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fire and you just look silly trying to get everyone to put the fire out on your house when there is no fire there.”

The CARI team recognizes that Black people are struggling due to a broken system. White privilege means that when the work gets too heavy, white people have the luxury of being able to take a break from it.

“I can turn off my phone, turn on the TV and not think about it. Black people don’t have that ability because they live it,” Spilker says. “And it’s important to note that their skin color is not the problem.

It’s the system that’s the problem. We [white people] built the system. It’s our job to dismantle it.”

Moving forward, the group plans to continue organizing events and peaceful protests to effect change. CARI has organized several walks for equity so far, including its latest event in August — “Walk For Equity In Education.”

For more information on CARI, you can find them on Facebook or visit them online at stopracialinjustice.wixsite.com/ carmel.

AND, ACTION! Carmel High School Senior Enjoys Success as Filmmaker CHS student Raymond Mo Writer / Shelly Sack Photography Provided

Social distancing in recent months has required many people and businesses to reimagine the way they handle events. For example, the Indy Shorts International Film Festival showcased 128 short films virtually, and the films were streamed 10,000 times. The festival leaders also showed 41 short films in July the oldfashioned way - at a drive-in theater.

Carmel High School incoming senior Raymond Mo was one of the 800-plus filmgoers who trekked to the Tibbs Drive-In Theatre on the west side of Indianapolis for the event, but he was there for a personal reason.

Film Competition Summer White Lynch Memorial Award. Mo competed not only against local and national competition, but also international entries. The Heartland International Film Festival will be held in October.

The memorial award was named for Carmel High School alumnus Summer White Lynch, a strong proponent of random acts of kindness to inspire others to give selflessly. She was married with two young sons when she lost her battle with breast cancer in 2014.

This theme of giving is an underlying element in Mo’s film. The six-minute piece follows a Korean-American teenage girl struggling with the balance of keeping up with school, her friendships, and other hard choices that result when her family’s special event upsets her hard-to-manage schedule. Whipped cream cake is an important element in the overall story and is also a cultural tradition, Mo says.

Not only was Mo, 17, the co-writer and co-director of one of the short films shown, but his project also won two awards at the Heartland Film Festival. His six-minute film “Whipped Cream Cake” won the Indiana Spotlight Award, one of four categories specifically for high school Mo, who is Chinese-American, developed students. the idea for the film with his co-director Minju Hong. Hong is from Detroit, His project went on to the next level, Michigan, and is of Korean descent. and “Whipped Cream Cake,” won the The pair met in the summer of 2019 grand prize at the Heartland High School during a five-week film theory camp at

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Northwestern University, just outside of Chicago, Illinois, where Hong is now a freshman.

Mo and Hong decided to work on the project together, which would end up being their award-winning short film.

“As we brainstormed, we considered common traits we could translate into our passion,” Mo says.

Mo says he and Hong saw an opportunity for increased representation of Asian culture in films, and the high expectations the two experience in their culture.

“We poured our hearts into it, writing it, revising with our mentor, and filming and editing in a matter of weeks,” Mo says.

“It was an intense process for us, but it worked out for us in the end.”

The lead character, Haejin, is played by fellow film camp attendee Yinuo Jiang, a high school senior.

Mo learned about the awards via email.

“I was shocked, amazed and ecstatic,” he says. “I wish it had happened at a different time, because I didn’t get the in-person

opportunity to walk on a stage and thank my parents. My parents were very supportive of me and were also happy that I won. Getting the email was still shocking to me.”

society and seeing it through different lenses. It might be economic conditions and how people handle scarcity, or the historic impact of the pandemic shown visually.

Mo hopes to continue exploring his creative side through photography and videography as he finishes high school.

He is involved with the Carmel High School newspaper and DECA club, which helps students become emerging leaders and entrepreneurs.

Mo says he would like to film or photograph as-yet-untold stories of the coronavirus-related recession, and the different impacts it has had on people.

Regarding the $2,000 prize money, which will be split down the middle with Hong, Mo says he is considering camera equipment as an investment in his future. With college in his sights, he is interested in studying economics, finance or business.

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“Whipped Cream Cake”, which can be viewed on YouTube, was also a Korea Pinoy International Film Festival Official Selection, National Film Festival for Talented Youth Works in Progress Official Selection, and Southeastern Michigan Region Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key award winner.

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According to Carmel Mayor James Brainard, Midtown Plaza is the result of a big-picture, collective vision among local leaders.

“As we try to redesign the area to be competitive, we’re trying to design the center part of the city where people can live, work and play, and really not need their car very much,” he says. “The Plaza is just one part of that.”

the things we’re doing to try to go from becoming a suburb where you always need a car to a walkable, neighbor-centric place with strong amenities.”

The Plaza opened on July 4 of last year, and Brainard says the response was immediately positive. The overall Midtown Carmel development is an Old Town Design Group project. The development has seen great community response.

“It’s crowded almost every day - in fact we had to close in March when The end result for the 14,000-square-foot COVID-19 started because people were Midtown Plaza, which sits adjacent to not distancing,” he says. “We have signage the Monon Greenway, is a family-friendly out now and the screen there does public space with plenty of amenities, including service announcements about how to green spaces for families and groups to physically distance. The southern two congregate and enjoy, as well as shaded blocks of street nearby just opened up in tables, patio furniture, benches and a large August so we’re very excited about video screen used for the free Movies that too.” at Midtown film series. The Railyard at Midtown complex features luxury All-ages play areas at Midtown Plaza apartment units, many of which include feature ping-pong tables, bocce ball Monon Greenway views. courts, cornhole equipment and public “When I was a kid and a young adult, people found a job and then went to that city,” Brainard says. “Now it’s the other way around. Now economic development has to work in such a way that the employers have to go where the workers want to be. Midtown Plaza is one of

art. Visitors can bring their own picnic materials like coolers, food and lawn chairs, and nearby restaurants offer drinks that visitors can take out to the Plaza area.

A few eateries like Sun King Brewery and Fork + Ale House offer guests the option to dine while they are taking advantage of

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the Plaza’s various amenities.

This summer Midtown Plaza hosted Midday at Midtown, during which visitors could take a lunch break outside at the Plaza’s tables and benches, and listen to live music, every Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Movies at Midtown series this season has included “The Incredibles”, “The Lion King”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “A League of Their Own.” The screenings are held on Mondays with three show times per day at 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m and 7:30 p.m.

Brainard says Carmel leaders recognize the importance of revitalizing the city’s old industrial area, which is south of the Arts and Design District.

“In the midtown area we’ve reduced the lanes on Rangeline Road, but we’ve added Veteran’s Way and Monon Boulevard, so we’ve increased the number of lanes, but we’ve made them smaller and less high-speed traffic areas to encourage pedestrianism,” he says.

After Brainard, a board member with the nonprofit organization International Making Cities Livable Council, talked with a fellow board member, Copenhagen-based architect and urban

design consultant Jan Gehl, about Carmel’s development, the city leaders hired Gehl’s firm to undertake a study of the area and how it could be improved.

“I think all the people who worked on the designs for the Plaza really hit a home run on it,” Brainard says. “The Monon Boulevard is busy all the time, and we’ve had a tremendous amount of good attendance at the Plaza. The idea behind this redesign for the area is to keep the urban density low but to have it dense enough that your ground-floor retail is supported. That’s what people want - they want those ground-floor restaurants, dry cleaners, outdoor cafes and so on.”

Midtown Plaza is situated near a few of the area’s major employers like Merchants Bank, F.C. Tucker, MJ Insurance and Allied Solutions, which Brainard says adds to the Plaza’s appeal.

“Mark Lautman wrote a book called ‘When the Boomers Bail’ recently, and

he’s been in economic development his whole life in the Phoenix area,” Brainard says. “His thesis is that we have almost 35 to 40% of our workforce that is going to retire in the next 10 years, and there will be a tremendous shortage. There will be cities that win and cities that lose, and the cities that win will do things like what we’re trying to do in midtown.”

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Poplar Ridge Monthly Meeting assume ownership of the school.

As the 2020 school year begins, it is worth noting that this year is the 160th anniversary of high school in Clay Township. What many might not know is that Carmel High School was not the first.

The Friends spared no expense to make it an exceptional school. Isaac Jones was hired at $60 a month to teach the high school class. Some in the community protested, asking why the teacher should earn three dollars a day in the For most Hamilton County students schoolhouse while they toiled in the fields in the 1860s, education ended upon for 75 cents. Others offered to cover the completion of common school, which was difference should tuition income fail comparable to present-day middle school. to cover his salary, and the complaints However, Clay and Delaware Township subsided. The school flourished and (Range Line Road to White River used to was “full to overflowing” for many years, be a part of Delaware Township) provided drawing students from all over the county. two of the earliest public high schools in the state. Both of these schools were When high school enrollment reached built by Quakers, who sought to shelter 36 students in 1868, Jones’s salary was their children from the corruptions of the raised to $75 dollars a month. The world and believed that a well-educated classes taught that year were orthography, membership could operate the church in reading, arithmetic, geography, grammar, place of a trained ministry. astronomy, algebra, physiology and On May 28, 1860, Jonathan and Drusilla Wilson donated two acres on the southwest corner of Main Street and Six Points Road upon which the Friends built a private academy. The Poplar Ridge Seminary was a two-room frame building with a belfry. The school was administered by a board of trustees until 1867, when the board requested that the

chemistry. The school also served as a community center for Clay Township, which opened a public library in the school in 1866. By 1874, it had a collection of 425 volumes.

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Monthly Meeting’s Committee on Education recommended that the school be donated to the township to “obtain the benefit of the public school fund,” but no action was taken. Though the school made a profit in 1870, it closed the following year.

In the fall of 1871, the meeting allowed Clay Township to use the unoccupied seminary building for public school purposes. During the fall term, the school caught fire and burned to the ground. In November of 1872, the meeting deeded the empty lot to the township, which rebuilt the school. Clay Township opened its first public high school in the new building in 1873 under the direction of Principal Rebecca Trueblood, who taught at the old school intermittently with Isaac Jones throughout the 1860s. The township allowed the meeting some level of oversight regarding the management of the school and the hiring of its teachers for many years thereafter.

In 1887, Clay and Delaware Township partnered to move Carmel High School into a modern building that would accommodate more high school students from both townships and allow Clay to discontinue high school at the outdated Poplar Ridge Seminary. When

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FOR MOST HAMILTON COUNTY STUDENTS IN THE 1860S, EDUCATION ENDED UPON COMPLETION OF COMMON SCHOOL, WHICH WAS COMPARABLE TO PRESENT-DAY MIDDLE SCHOOL. construction was completed in the summer of 1888, the two-story graded school had seven rooms, including a nearly 1,800-square-foot reception hall.

Clay Township ended the high school program at Poplar Ridge but continued to operate it as a district school. The building was moved to the northeast corner of 116th Street and Clay Center Road in 1899 and served as a consolidated school until it was replaced in 1911.

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Much of this article was taken from the book, “Early History of Carmel Schools”, published by CCHS in 2019 and available at the Monon Depot Museum in Carmel. You can find CCHS online at CarmelClayHistory.org or facebook.com CarmelClayHistoricalSociety.

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