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FROM THE PUBLISHERS Welcome to issue #1 of the Lawrence Community Newsletter, the latest addition to TownePost Media Network and its family of community newsletters including the Geist, Fishers, Carmel, Zionsville and Center Grove Community Newsletters.

As publishers, we are excited about our (your!) newsletter as the preeminent voice for news and information about Lawrence residents, businesses and nonprofit organizations. We’ll be publishing the newsletter monthly and updating the website atLawrence.com daily.

We are longtime Lawrence Township and city residents who have been married for 31 years. We have three adult children, three dogs, two cats and a passion for communications.

You may remember Neal as WISH-TV weekend co-anchor in the 90s. He’s worked in public relations, teaches journalism at IU Bloomington and owns a video production company (NealMoore.com). Kathi’s career includes media sales, photography and communications with major Indianapolis companies including The Indianapolis Star, Emmis Communications and the Indiana State Museum. Our complementary skills are why we decided to launch atLawrence.com, and we believe the community will embrace the newsletter and website.

Also a word of thanks to Tom Britt, founder of TownePost Media Network. We’ve known and worked with Tom a long time and appreciate his confidence in us with the launch of atLawrence.com. As many of you know, Tom has worked tirelessly for our communities, including Lawrence, and we’re so pleased to be a part of the team.

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CHAMBER CHAT | Jessica Tower The Greater Lawrence Chamber of Commerce is pleased for the first issue of the Lawrence Community Newsletter and atLawrence.com. Each month, you will find this column to keep you updated on Chamber happenings.

2013 Chamber Recap

The Greater Lawrence Chamber is excited to report a third consecutive year of 20 percent growth as it works to build the local business community and connections. A new website was launched, providing members more exposure. The second annual job fair was hosted to help growing companies and pair individuals with careers. The Chamber introduced other new features to spur economic growth, enable connections with local officials and expand network opportunities.

In September, the Chamber hosted its Annual Membership Luncheon. This was a time to celebrate the community’s accomplishments and to inspire them for the upcoming year.

During the celebration, two members are awarded:

2013 Business of the Year

Recognizing businesses that have evidence of growth relative to the rest of the industry in employees, sales volume and profitability

FINANCIAL CENTER FEDERAL CREDIT UNION For the second consecutive year, Financial Center was also ranked #10 in ‘Best Places to Work in Indiana.’ Financial Center credits its unique wellness benefits package, its educational culture and its opportunity for upward mobility for the designation.

2013 Volunteer of the Year

Recognizes individuals that provide outstanding community service and foster a spirit of volunteerism

MS. VALLY ALLEN She has served the Lawrence community since the 1980s, participating with many organizations and has been a key volunteer with the Greater Lawrence Chamber Ambassador group. She exemplifies the Chamber’s brand voice not only in Lawrence but surrounding areas. Vally has a polite “take charge” attitude and is well-known and respected in several industry circles.

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As the Chamber continues to innovate, 2014 is forecast to be another exciting year. Building on the solid community and commerce foundation, the Chamber will work with area schools to start a junior chamber. Other additions to the calendar are business education events, arts and cultural events, introducing an International Council plus ongoing support of business growth by collaborating with local entities. Together the Chamber, members and business leaders will continue to innovate and elevate our community in 2014.

The Greater Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Jessica Tower Executive Director, serves as the voice of local businesses and organizations. Their mission is to cultivate the intersection of community and commerce.

To learn more and for membership information, please contact the Chamber at 317-541-9876 or lawrencechamberofcommerce.org.

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Act Naturally: Beatles Fan and Radio Star Bob Kevoian Calls Lawrence Home | Neal G. Moore Longtime Lawrence resident opens up about his off-air life including his relationship with long-time show partner Tom Griswold and living the good life in Lawrence.

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LOCAL BUSINESS HAS A "SUPER" LEGACY That led to the development of the company’s state-of-the-art proprietary software that largely automates the process. A decade later, TRS has, well, punched the right ticket. “We have good software, great customer service and expert account managers,” said May.

In late 2010, TRS held a planning meeting at Fort Harrison State Park Inn. “I stepped outside and looked across the street, and there was a sign that said ‘Lease Available,’” she recalled. “We moved in a week later.”

Relocating to a building at the former Army base (Harrison

By The Park, 5833 N. Post Rd.) held significance for May. In the 1960s, her father, Lt. Col. Michael Fleck, US Army (ret.), completed his officer training at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Like her father, May also trained at Ft. Ben, and her youngest brother was born at the base hospital. “It brought together all the pieces of my world.”

May said she likes what she sees in Lawrence. “The Fort redevelopment is a bit of a hidden secret. Many times people think of it as still being a military base and have not seen what’s happening here – the beautiful brick façades, the growth of businesses in this area and clearly a really nice redevelopment plan,” she observed.

Flory May, owner, The Registration System is proud of her software that will train and manage thousands of volunteers at Super Bowl XLVIII in New York.

TRS is expected to triple in size over the next three years, and with eight employees on TRS’ payroll, May – who was an expert marksman while in the Army – is laser-focused on the future. Not, however, without grateful appreciation for the city of Lawrence and the vital role it played in her family’s military heritage.

| Neal G. Moore When tens of millions of people tune into Super Bowl XLVIII February 2, one viewer will likely do so with a profound sense of accomplishment. Flory May’s Lawrence-based business, The Registration System LLC (TRS), is responsible for providing the software to train and manage thousands of volunteers for what is annually the nation’s largest sporting event.

“More than 10,000 people will fill about 50,000 shifts including meet-and-greets at four New York and New Jersey airports, at train stations and hotels, and all major events and activities,” she explained during a recent interview. “The logistical needs for volunteers are tremendous.”

It is the fourth time TRS has provided this critical component – including the recent Indianapolis Super Bowl. TRS has earned a sparkling reputation handling online ticketing, event registration and volunteer training for major events including Men’s and Women’s NCAA Final Fours and the Indy 500, among others.

And that, May, 47, explained, is why New York City came calling.

“It was because of our success with the three previous Super Bowls. The organizers wanted to emulate the smooth, organized Indy Super Bowl volunteer support operation.”

A former US Army officer who served during Operation Desert Storm, May launched a downtown Indy startup after working several years in the hospitality industry. At the time, volunteer logistics involved lots of manual data entry into spreadsheets.

“I think we were making about a dollar an hour, and we said, ‘There’s got to be a better way,’” she remembered.

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Lawrence Township Lawmaker Pushing to Expand State’s "Lifeline Law"

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The purpose, he added, is to eliminate panic-fleeing by party attendees.

While Merritt doesn’t condone such illegal activity, he said it is important to remove any barriers for taking action that might save a life. “Like any parent, I want to help protect my children and our communities from unnecessary dangers,” Merritt said. “These proposals are ways, I believe, we can accomplish that goal.”

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Bob Kevoian just might be Lawrence’s most famous resident. When he’s not zinging one-liners and laughing infectiously as co-creator of nationally syndicated The Bob & Tom Show, the 63-year-old radio personality retreats to a private, wooded compound complete with a small lake and tiny fishing cabin. “Lawrence is our home, and we love being here,” he said during an interview at the comfortable, sprawling house.

When your voice, jokes and comedy songs are heard on 130 radio stations across the U.S., you’re pretty much a radio rock star. But, forget pretense. Bob is as down to earth as they come (and a huge Beatles fan.) If his life were a song, it might well be the Fab Four’s oxymoronically titled, “Act Naturally.”

He’s earned a very comfortable living just being, well, Bob. “HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE” [REVOLVER, 1966] That’s not to say Bob is some kind of introverted slap. This is a guy who plays golf with Johnny Bench and calls Vince Gill a good friend. However, he likely never imagined such celebrity while growing up in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk. Music was his thing including work as a performer and sound engineer for The Young Americans, a song and dance group funded initially by Rod Serling of all people. Eventually Bob turned to radio and found his way to Petoskey, Michigan.

“COME TOGETHER” [ABBEY ROAD, 1969] In 1980, Bob was tending nighttime bar (after his on-air job) when a guy walked in, following a J. Geils Band concert.

Tom Griswold ordered a drink and told Bob he’d just left a Florida radio station. Bob invited Tom to visit the studio the next day, and that afternoon, the station manager hired Tom as program director. Bob did afternoons, Tom the evening shift, and they starting sharing comedy bits on each other’s shows. They clicked, and the fledgling duo joined forces to do a morning show across town.

Bob & Tom was born.

“GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING” [SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, 1967] To say they were a hit is an understatement. WJML pulled a 44 share in the morning (that’s a lot.) “Competing stations were sending out tapes of us to get us out of the market,” said Bob. In 1983, WFBQ in Indy took the bait and hired them as its morning team. “It was slow going at first. Then it kept growing. It was just something that happened. It was magic,” Bob recalled.

At the time, WNAP and WIFE were faltering in the ratings.

There was blood in the water, and B&T hit like a 58,000 watt shark. The NFL Colts had also just arrived, vaulting Indy into the national consciousness. “The Colts training facility was just down the road from the radio station, and Jim Irsay was a big rock and roll nut. He found the station, and we got players on the air – it helped out a great deal,” Bob offered. In short order, they owned Indy’s airwaves.

“MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR” [MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, 1967] Bob said Tom is a good pal with whom he infrequently has minor disagreements. Their humorous bits have long defined the show, and the duo learned early on to create comedy bits separately. “It makes for genuine humor when jokes are heard on-air for the first time,” Bob said. And they quickly learned that a good, hearty laugh sells stuff. Indeed. ‘Bob Kevoian’ and ‘hearty laugh’ are interchangeable terms – a source of delight for listeners (and to some, a distraction).

What’s their secret sauce? Bob said the show has no agenda other than to make listeners, and each other, laugh, adding that it’s humor frequently inspired by everyday experiences.

“Honesty has a great deal to do with our success,” noted Bob. “We have eight divorces (among our cast). We’ve shared our lives and families with our listeners.”

Left: The beautiful backyard view at the Kevoin's compound . Right: Bob holding a framed, signed photograph of Beatle Paul McCartney who Kevoian has interviewed on several occasions.

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Do You Want To Know a Secret? [Please Please Me, 1963] While radio listeners know much about Bob Kevoian, here are a few additional items:

Bob and wife, Becky, sharing a laugh. [Becky actually coaxed Bob into removing his Dodgers cap for their wedding.]

• Kevoian has no interest in politics (“I want people to like me!)

• He and Becky are bird watchers • His musical tastes include classic rock and ‘new’ old country (think “Time Jumpers”) • His brother Peter is a Broadway actor • Favorite cocktail? Jack and Coke • Bob’s golf handicap has gone from a seven to about 15

“THINGS WE SAID TODAY” [A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, 1964] Longtime listeners (even first time callers) know that B&T humor often creeps into the T&A zone. But cultural standards have loosened, and the radio show is now rarely criticized publicly. That wasn’t always the case. “John Price made us famous,” Bob said of the show’s longtime critic and FCC petition filer. “He didn’t understand the more you go after something, the more it attracts attention.”

“TICKET TO RIDE” [HELP!, 1965] As ratings continued to climb, Bob and Tom were offered opportunities to take the show to Los Angeles and other large markets. Three primary considerations kept them here: Bigger isn’t always better; they didn’t want to uproot their families; and “Tom and I had a policy that we wouldn’t break a contract,” Bob said. To grow meant syndicating the show, something they could easily do from Indy. Starting with morning slots in Evansville and Fort Wayne, they’re now heard nationwide.

“GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE” [REVOLVER, 1966] In 2005, Bob married Illinois native Becky Martin.

Becky performs with The Fun Girls musical trio and is a professional studio singer and voice talent. She and Bob love it when people say hello in restaurants or stores, but the couple doesn’t go out of its way to be noticed. In fact, Becky is happiest sharing time at the family compound (her sister lives in a house next door). Spend five minutes with Becky, and you begin to understand how she’s the yin to Bob’s yang (cue the George Harrison sitar music.) Example?

Becky coaxed Bob into removing his ever-present Dodgers baseball cap for their wedding.

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“A DAY IN THE LIFE” [SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, 1967] Off the air, Bob leads a relatively quiet life. He and Becky have an unwritten (and likely exaggerated) rule not to be away from home for more than three hours. “This is our place to be, our sanctuary,” he smiled contentedly. A self-proclaimed ‘cocoon guy,’ Bob spends his days reading news online, prepping for the next day’s show. Then it’s dinner, followed by TV time. Favorite shows include Mad Men, House of Cards and Downton Abbey.

“ALL MY LOVING” [WITH THE BEATLES, 1963] When asked about living in Lawrence, Bob declared that he and Becky “are lucky to be here.” They like the location, and Bob said it’s changed a great deal – for the better.

“Pendleton Pike has been cleaned up quite a bit. The Fort is beautiful. We know the business owners, the good folks around here. I’ve always liked this area. We found our little slice of heaven, and Lawrence happens to be it,” he smiled.

“WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR” [SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, 1967] Next year, Bob turns 64. He said his health is fine, though he feels an ache here and there. He still smokes but keeps trying to quit. And he doesn’t play as much golf anymore.

Still, for any would-be challengers, be advised: there was no talk of retirement. “The Taxman” (Revolver, 1966) is probably to blame.

Neal G. Moore has more than 40 years of media and communications experience, including TV news anchoring and reporting in Indianapolis.

For more information, visit NealMoore.com.

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LEADING THROUGH MENTORING

| Kathi Moore Alison Martin-Books likes to say, “Everyone has a story”; that telling moment in your life where you had a choice to overcome or give in, to be empowered to prove everyone wrong or admit everyone was right. Often that story colors who you are and what you become. It certainly did for Echo Pointe resident MartinBooks, President and CEO of Mentoring Women’s Network, nationally headquartered here in Indianapolis and her own company, EndorseIndy.

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In her book, Landing on My Feet: Learning to Lead Through Mentoring, Martin-Books sets out to explain why mentoring is so important in our lives and how to cultivate those relationships.

She, sparing no vulnerability, uses her own life as an example of why especially women would be better served if they concentrated more on supporting and developing one another.

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We’re seeing a shift in the business world, she commented, where more leadership development is available, yet women still earn just 77 percent of their male peers. There has been no female CEO of a national bank. Only 13 of America’s largest 500 companies are run by women, and women account for just 2 percent of top executive positions such as chairperson, president and CEO. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi once said, “The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.” That is exactly what MartinBooks had in mind when she founded the Mentoring Women’s Network three years ago with the mission being ‘a community of empowered women developing one another personally and professionally through mentoring relationships.’

Martin-Books has a passion for advancing female leaders. The book is a toolkit for cultivating your own mentoring relationships, and it seems to be working.

Roche Diagnostics recently ordered 300 copies for their new mentoring program. (available on Amazon.com and landingonmyfeet.org)

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Lawrence Trash Pickup Services Privatized

benefits level. “Whether public or private, taxpayers just want [the job] done, particularly in an era when property taxes have been capped and revenues limited,” Joyce said in explaining why the decision was made to privatize trash collection.

| Neal G. Moore Lawrence has signed an agreement to privatize trash and recycling collection – a move expected to save the city hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. However, ratepayers won’t see a cost reduction because the city wants to use the extra money to pay other municipal bills.

Last month, Mayor Dean Jessup signed a $17 million agreement with Republic Services to provide weekly trash and recycling services. Lawrence Economic Development Director Tim Joyce defended the move as necessary because of the city’s budget deficit. “We were asked to consider [the cost of] trash pickup on our own or by a vendor and perhaps find a way to provide

revenue,” Joyce explained. He added that the deal essentially “locks in” current sanitation rates paid by residents for the next decade.

Lawrence currently collects $2.1 million annually from ratepayers. The Republic contract will cost $1.7 – $2.1 million, creating potential savings of about $500,000 each year. Why no reduction in cost to ratepayers? “Because of our budget crisis,” explained Keith Johnson, Mayor Jessup’s deputy chief of staff.

At the time of the agreement, Lawrence employed nine sanitation workers, all of whom, the city said, were offered jobs with Republic at the same pay and

Lawrence residents will see a few changes in service, notably the addition of a 96-gallon wheeled toter to be used for recycling. The recycling toters are being delivered to homes this month, and it’s anticipated that recycling participation will increase. Sanitation pickup route schedules will remain the same, but holiday pickups will be pushed back by one day (holiday on Friday, pickup on Saturday). Bulky items will still be handled once a month.

In a company statement, Republic promised quality service. "Our employees are proud to live and work in this community, and we are excited to provide Lawrence residents with the very best service and value possible,” said Mike Calleja, general manager, Republic Services. The deal also brings with it an environmental improvement. All of Republic’s trucks use natural gas, a cleaner alternative fuel.

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GOOD PEOPLE, GOOD CAUSES The Sharing Place Food Pantry

| Kathi Moore The publishers of this magazine believe in sharing with others, so each month, we will highlight a Lawrence 501(c)(3) charity and make a donation to help further their mission.

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One of every six Americans suffers from hunger or food insecurity. In Lawrence, that equates to nearly 8,000 residents.

Forty-two percent of these people are not income-eligible for federal nutrition programs, so they must rely on private or charitable sources for food assistance (indyhunger.org).

That’s where The Sharing Place comes in. Originally located in a church on 42nd Street, The Sharing Place Food Pantry moved in March 2013 to what was formerly Craig Middle School on Sunnyside Road. They have since grown from serving 350 families a month to 850 families (3,500 people) in November.

This program, a part of the Lawrence Hunger Coalition, is run by Lutheran Child and Family Services and covers 9 Lawrence-area zip codes: 46216, 46218, 46219, 46220, 46226, 46235, 46236, 46250 and 46256.

The pantry offers food as well as baby items, hygiene products and clothing. Families may visit once a month and can choose from 12-20 items, depending on the number in their family.

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People don’t plan to be in this circumstance, pantry manager Marion Loyda reminds, and are very appreciative of the assistance. In fact, new volunteers are usually surprised at the cheerfulness of the clientele.

Your help is always needed, both for donations and volunteer time. Food comes from Gleaners and Midwest Food Banks, is purchased and is donated through school, church and scout food drives. With more people seeking assistance every month, hunger has no season.

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Kathi Moore, a career marketer and public relations director, has a natural curiosity that leads her in many different directions and helps to provide ideas for her writing. She and her husband have 3 children, 3 dogs and 3 cats.

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