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PROUD TO SERVE: TWO WORLD WAR II VETERANS OF JOHNSON COUNTY RECALL INCREDIBLE STORIES Born in Indianapolis in 1922, Walter Johnes joined the Army as a 21-year-old in mid-1943, assigned first to Fort Benjamin Harrison, a U.S. Army post that was located northeast of Indianapolis.
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At Center Grove High School, there is a new sport that is growing rapidly — Lacrosse.
the Boys and Girls team reached Team All-State and the Girls U12 team came in second place overall in the Indiana Youth Lacrosse Association U12 Girls State Championship. “The [Center Grove Girls U12] girls team showed where grit, teamwork and determination can lead,” says Jill Vaughn, current Girls U12 coach and member of the board. “Much of the work was done both on the sideline and behind the scenes to enable the team’s success.”
Although it’s not a very well-known sport in the state of Indiana, students at Center Grove are getting their heads in the game, and they want other schools to join them. Lacrosse is currently considered a club sport since there are only 412 schools in the state who have a team and that is not enough to have it sanctioned. States Head Coach Jason Arthur and members of the board recruit surrounding Indiana — Ohio, Michigan and Illinois — have had athletes by hosting call outs and free ‘try it’ nights, where students lacrosse sanctioned in their schools. from all schools can come and try out the sport and equipment before deciding to commit. By inviting people in, the U12 Girls “We want to grow the sport,” says Michele Coffey, mom of two team has become nearly 20 girls strong. lacrosse players and a member of the lacrosse board, “We want to get as many sticks in as many hands as possible.” “Lacrosse has taught me dedication and determination,” says Will The only other school in Johnson County that has a team is Whiteland Community High School. Even when the sport isn’t sanctioned, the Center Grove teams have achieved major heights. Several high school players of both
Bauer, junior defense player on the Trojan Lacrosse Boys team. “I’ve also learned that hard work pays off. Hours and hours of work, in both blazing weather and freezing, really does pay off to show what you can do on the field.” The traditional season for lacrosse is spring. Center Grove typically
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has six week seasons for the middle school and high school level that last from spring break to near the end of the semester. There are opportunities for players year-around to participate in, such as the winter league and multiple tryouts. There are also lots of opportunities for players and their families to become more bonded as a team, give back to the community and build life skills. “Lacrosse has always helped me try new things and get out of my comfort zone, but I think the most impactful thing it has taught me
is that it’s okay to not be perfect,” says Olivia Oliver, a senior on the Trojan Lacrosse Women’s Varsity team. “The thing is, if you mess up, you can’t just stop mid-game. If you make a mistake, you have to pick yourself up, figure out what you did wrong and make the next play better.” If you are interested in learning more about lacrosse, visit centergrovelacrosse.com.
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Going away on a vacation brings the typical worries like, “What if my mail stop didn’t go through?” or “With the heatwave, here’s hoping our air conditioning didn’t conk out.” For Kevin and Shellie Giles, however, they were presented with a nightmare upon returning home from their September camping trip when they pulled into their driveway and saw that their roof had been stripped of all its shingles. The couple asked around and their neighbors confirmed that, yes, they had seen a crew atop their house early one weekday morning, tearing off shingles. Soon thereafter, they jumped into their cars and left. It seems a roofing company
mistook the Giles house for the home they were supposed to work on and when they realized their error, they fled, neglecting to right their wrong. The Giles posted the incident to social media in hopes that someone could help lead them to the culprit. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, but a local news channel chose to cover the story, which caught the attention of Dustin Rees, Vice President of SPG Roofing & Restoration, a Johnson County-based roofing company. “I saw their story the morning of Wednesday, September 11 and knew storms were supposed to roll in on Friday,” Rees says. “I talked to Brady Clements, the president of our company, to see if he’d be
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Two World War II Veterans of Johnson County Recall Incredible Stories Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photographer / Amy Payne
Born in Indianapolis in 1922, Walter Johnes joined the Army as a 21-year-old in mid-1943, assigned first to Fort Benjamin Harrison, a U.S. Army post that was located northeast of Indianapolis. “The Army decided that everyone should have some kind of training so they sent me to Camp Blanding in Starke, Florida,” Johnes says. There he joined an intelligence program. “I was going to head to the College of William and Mary in Virginia, but they were losing a lot of people in the war so they sent me to Basic Training.” Johnes was put in the rifle company at
Camp Blanding and remained in Basic Training from September 1943 until February 1944. When he arrived overseas in New Guinea, he was scheduled to go to the 8th Army as a rifleman, training to go to the Philippines. One day he was called to the office.
Johnes served in Tokyo, New Guinea, Manila, Okinawa and Yokohama.
“We want you to take nine men over to Port Moresby,” he was told. “From there you go to Brisbane, Australia, where you’ll be assigned to General [Douglas] MacArthur.” Johnes was assigned to the paper mill.
“You had to learn to breathe,” he says. “And the civilians were starving. We had a garbage can outside of our mess hall and Japanese civilians would line up for half a block to eat from it.”
“It was all paperwork as we kept track of all the units who were out in the field,” says Johnes, who handled top-secret materials as there were no computers at the time.
Sadly, Johnes had friends and acquaintances who perished in the war, as did his brother, who got killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Johnes recalls stories from the war that sound like they came straight from a soap
The condition on the ground in some cities was incomprehensible. In Manila, for instance, there were still dead bodies in the buildings when Johnes arrived.
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opera script. For instance, there was a soldier who had an ill-fated love affair while he was serving overseas. “One fella fell in love with a Japanese girl. The only trouble was he was married back home,” Johnes says. “He cried his eyes out [when he left her.]” In Manila, a friend of Johnes’ was suffering from brain fatigue so he was sent to New Guinea to rest. “The first night he was there, a Japanese plane came over and dropped a bomb and he was killed,” Johnes says. As for his own crazy stories, when he was in the Philippines, he recalls drinking milk from raw coconuts and getting sick as a dog. He also had to take tablets to keep from contracting malaria. And then there were the bugs. “One night I was sleeping with my mosquito netting down and something bit me,” Johnes recalls. Inside his bed was a big black and yellow bug that looked like a caterpillar. Johnes’ extremities started swelling instantaneously so he ran to the medical tent. “I was yelling, but the medic didn’t wake up so I turned his bed over,” Johnes says. Ultimately, he was told not to worry about it. But during the war, worry came with the territory as death surrounded him regularly. Men died from malaria, poisoning, bombs and war wounds. Johnes was relieved to not lose his life, though he did lose his hair. “I had a full head of curly hair when I left and when I returned, I was completely bald,” Johnes says. During the two and a half years he served, Johnes corresponded frequently with family. “I wrote letters. Boy, did I write letters. It was good therapy for me,” he says. “I had a big family so I wrote to everybody — my mom, sisters, cousins. I wrote every day to my wife.” He let her know where he was through code
by writing a single letter where her middle initial would go on the envelope. For instance, “A” stood for Australia or “P” for the Philippines. Three years ago, on Johnes’ 94th birthday, he participated in the Indy Honor Flight where he flew to Washington, D.C. to visit the WWII and several other memorials. At the Arlington Cemetery, he was invited to put the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Though he declined due to mobility issues, he says it was an honor to be asked. Johnes, who turned 97 last month, boasts that he doesn’t feel a day over 93 and has his eyes on the big 1-0-0. “I read the obituaries today and saw a woman who lived to be 107. I thought, ‘Shoot. I can do that,’” says Johnes, who currently resides in Perry Township at an assisted living facility. “I quit smoking in 1960. My lungs are clear as a bell. I don’t feel one bit sick.” In December 1945, Robert Bruce Phillips got notice in the mail that he had been drafted into the Army. He was a high school senior living in Eaton, Indiana, a town north of Muncie, when he and four of his classmates received the same letter from the President of the United States. “That was a shock,” Phillips says. “None of us were expecting such news in the middle of our senior year.” In May 1945, the young men boarded a bus to Camp Atterbury in south-central Indiana and were sworn into the Army. Phillips was then shipped to Camp Polk in Louisiana.
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“We had no idea how many people would come,” says Himebrook of the first Movember held at Oaken Barrel Brewing Co. in Greenwood. “While we were setting up that morning, we probably had about 100 men waiting in line an hour before. We were like, ‘Whoa. This is big.’” Over the years, several success stories have come out of the event, with men discovering ailments that could’ve worsened if it weren’t for their free Movember screening. After attending the first Movember at Oaken Barrel, Jerry Brown returned in 2017 with a slight concern. “I had a little place under my left eye that I didn’t really think looked right, but I really didn’t think that much about it,” Brown says. “I went to the skin doctor that was there at Movember, and she said, ‘ I really think you should come in and have me look at this in the office.’” Upon visiting Dr. Emily Keller from IndyDerm, on the south side of Indy, Brown discovered the skin issue was worse than he thought, and a serious medical situation was avoided thanks to Movember. “I made an appointment and got into see her,” Brown says. “It could’ve been very serious, but she was able to treat it that day. So if I wouldn’t have gone to the Movember event, it might’ve developed into something pretty serious.” In 2018, another man made his way to the event after hearing it mentioned on 107.5/93.5 The Fan. Rather than continuing his drive
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Center Grove High School sophomore Nya Schank represented the U.S. this past August on the U.S. Junior Karate Team. As part of the team, she competed in the Pan American Championships in Ecuador. Schank, 15, is the third student of Shodan Karate Academy to join the U.S. Team and she’s worked hard to get to this point since 2011. “Making the U.S. team is a really big goal,” Schank says. “It’s what you’re working toward your entire career in karate.” Before she joined Shodan Karate Academy, she participated in dance, but it was karate that captured her heart and kept her engaged.
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Committee. This year it took place in Chicago, where Nya competed in the elite division and qualified for the U.S. Junior Karate Team.
Shodan Karate Academy was established 10 years ago and has been located at the Gathering Place at the Community Church of Greenwood for about seven years. Guerrero is originally from Venezuela. It was there that he competed in karate and was part of their national team. In 2009, wanting to teach and share his passion for the art of karate, he started Shodan Karate Academy. A few years later in 2011, he made the U.S. Karate Team.
“Once you reach that level, you represent a team, instead of just representing the school or yourself,” Guerrero says. “There is a real bonding of the U.S. Team.”
Shodan has a team that travels the country yearly to compete. Their team competes in the U.S. National Karate Federation National Championships, the only Karate Federation recognized by the Olympic
When Schank competed at the Pan American Championships, she won two out of the three rounds. “We always say whether you’re going to nationals or a local tournament, it’s always just a tournament. I go and do my best,” Schank says. “Of course a big tournament is always daunting, but I try to put it into perspective. These competitors are people too and they’re not superhuman. They’re just like me.”
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Her humbleness mixed with her focus, dedication, and confidence shines— giving her the ability to compete at such elite levels. This was also her first time out of the country, allowing her to have the experience of a new culture and language. “It’s surreal,” Schank says. “Once we were at the tournament when the team was together, and everyone was cheering, there was a sense of camaraderie. You realize you’re part of something bigger than yourself.” Karate has two divisions — Kata (forms) and Kumite (sparring). Sparing is what comes to mind to most people when they think of karate. It’s point fighting, where students barely make contact with the other person and have good form. There are different points awarded for different attacks, whoever has the most points at the end of the timed session wins. During the competition season, from January to July, Schank is busy. With group classes twice a week, a competition class, a private class, and independent practices, she spends around 12-15 hours a week training. “I could see a difference this year when we started training,” Guerrero says. “Sometimes I would show up at the dojo and she would already be there practicing. I could tell she was going for it.”
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When she’s not training, she’s taking AP classes at Center Grove and teaching karate to kids from 4-11 years old at Shodan. Starting in November and December, she’ll complete in a few tournaments in Illinois and Ohio to get warmed up for the competition season. “[Making the U.S. team] was the goal for so long,” Schank says. “I hope to make the U.S. Team again next year and go to the championship, then going to worlds and placing. That’s my goal for right now.”
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