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Everyone knows that flowers can beautify a city or the entrance to a neighborhood. Hanging baskets and planters of brightlycolored flowers add charm to downtown Noblesville, as they do for surrounding communities. Going to a garden center and selecting annuals to plant is a rite of spring for many. Locals might be surprised to learn that Hood’s Gardens in Noblesville is the source for much of the floral beauty seen locally and beyond. Hood’s Gardens is a wholesale production warehouse owned by Steve and Tina Hood. It began with a small dream that grew into the large operation it is today. The Hoods currently own 28 acres of land and rent 12 more for the business. There are five acres of greenhouse space, and more than 10 acres for mums and other outdoor production. “Steve and I both went to Purdue University
and majored in horticulture,” Tina Hood explains. “After graduation we worked for Heartland Growers in Westfield. It was our dream to start a business of our own. In 1982 we began by renting a greenhouse in Westfield. Then we found land in Noblesville. We never thought the business would be surrounded by houses.” Hood says more than half of the professional landscapers in the Noblesville area currently purchase from her business. “The overall growth of central Indiana has increased beyond what we ever imagined,” she says. “We sell to retailers and independent garden centers. We are so grateful to those first customers such as Johnny’s Market in Broad Ripple and Gatewood Vegetable Farm on 206th Street who have been with us for more than 37 years.” Greenhouse plants from Hood’s can be found in many local retail locations and 8 / NOBLESVILLE MAGAZINE / MAY 2020 / atNoblesville.com
seen in many nearby communities. From spring through the winter holidays, Hood’s products can be found at independent garden centers such as Allisonville Nursery, Rosie’s Gardens, Habig Garden Shops and Sundown Gardens. The cities of Anderson, Fishers, Indianapolis, Noblesville and others purchase plants from the business. “All our annuals are top quality,” Hood says. “In the spring we sell hundreds of thousands of pansies plus Mother’s Day plants. Our
line of summer annuals includes hanging baskets, planters and flats of all varieties and sizes. For the fall we grow more pansies, plus ornamental kale and cabbage. We have started to produce holiday combination pots that the surrounding cities buy.” Hood’s Gardens supports many local fundraising drives. From Mother’s Day through Christmas, the business will work with nonprofits, sports teams and other local organizations to provide seasonal plants that can be sold to raise funds.
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Remember the days when the notion of shaking hands with a rock-n-roll star or rubbing elbows with an NBA player made your heart aflutter? Remember the way your children watched superhero movies with their eyes wide and their mouths agape as they sat, mesmerized, at the notion of being able to fly, deflect bullets and neutralize the bad guys? Remember the times you had a random encounter with an A-list Hollywood actress at an airport or a legendary musician while vacationing in an exotic location? We remember such encounters because we, as a society, have elevated Hollywood superstars, sports icons, music legends and fictitious comic book characters as heroes in our minds. It wasn’t until this spring when an insidious,
highly contagious disease swiftly and jarringly upended our routines, our lives, our families and our world that our definition of “hero” was sharply redefined. Suddenly we looked to doctors, nurses, hospital staff, first responders and emergency personnel with fresh eyes of gratitude and a renewed sense of awe as we recognized the grand and personal sacrifices they were making, daily, for the sake of their communities.
fact, many put in overtime, both physically and mentally, to ensure the safety of their fellow man.
This strange and surreal experience has brought many lessons, the greatest of which is that we have heroes living among us. And for that, we are all eternally grateful. Therefore, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank these beautiful people for their ceaseless sacrifice, We are grateful to our hometown heroes in a unwavering commitment to serve and way that perhaps we never have been in our boundless love of humankind. lifetime because we know the blood, sweat and tears that these men and women have Amid the pandemic, Noblesville Police Chief John Mann has witnessed the shed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept through our country, leaving community and city government bond together in ways he has not seen before. confusion, uncertainly, and blind fear in its wake. As schools, churches, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, movie theaters, shopping “I see people putting the needs of others malls and other businesses shut down, those before their own,” Mann says. “The needs on the frontlines never stopped working. In and concerns of the community have 12 / NOBLESVILLE MAGAZINE / MAY 2020 / atNoblesville.com
changed over the past three months so our police department has been changing to provide unprecedented service.” Trevor Hash, Division Chief-Logistics/ Public Relations of the Noblesville Fire Department, is grateful for Mayor Chris Jensen, Director Knecht, and the Noblesville Common Council who have provided the department with the equipment, training and backing needed to continue to provide elite service to the community. “The community has been very generous,” Hash says. “We have received anonymous donations of personal protective equipment, meals, coffee. We are blessed to be a part of such a caring and tight-knit community.” Jill McKinney, Director of Emergency Services, Critical Care Services, & School Nursing, has been touched by the response and respect frontline staff have received in recent weeks. They’ve gotten thank-you cards, flowers, meals and positive postings on social media.
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“Patients we are seeing in the ER and ICU express their gratitude for the work we are doing every day,” says McKinney, noting that from a nurse’s perspective, they feel duty-bound to heed their calling. “This is what we do,” McKinney says. “We have lived through pandemics — none that have affected the country like this, obviously, [but] it’s not uncommon for new diseases to present themselves in health care. We saw it with H1N1, Ebola and HIV. We are trained to care for everyone in any situation. We protect ourselves and our families to the best of our ability while providing compassionate care to our patients and their families.” According to McKinney, Riverview Health engaged in an impressive organizationwide effort to come together and prepare for this pandemic. They did so by planning for needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for surges and the loss of staff due to quarantining procedures. In addition, the support from all department leaders and staff has been unprecedented. atNoblesville.com / MAY 2020 / NOBLESVILLE MAGAZINE / 13
“It’s like nothing I’ve ever witnessed,” McKinney says. “Every department has been impacted by the needs and changes that occur daily, and each and every department has stepped up to the plate. We have surgery nurses working in ICU, ER nurses working in the ICU. We opened up extra ICU beds. It really has been phenomenal how everyone has risen to the occasion.” Donetta Gee-Weiler, RN, MBA-MSN, Hospital Administrator and Chief Nursing Officer for Community Heart and Vascular Hospital, has worked for Community Health Network for 25 years and says she’s always known it was a special place. The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that point as teamwork has taken on a new meaning. “Caregivers are moving from areas that are no longer open to help support areas of greater need. This means learning new roles, moving to a new site of care and even changing shifts,” Gee-Weiler says. “During such a time of uncertainty, our team is adjusting to make
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Nevertheless, this is the field these men and women have chosen, and they feel driven to step up and care for humanity just as they always have.
“We are part of the family’s story as these memories are some they carry with them for the remainder of their life,” Gee-Weiler says. “Now I think the community is finally seeing just how much these moments also mean to us. We are showing that health care is truly a career of passion to help others, regardless of the need.”
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care specialist and medical director of the ICU at IU Health North Hospital, has been practicing critical care medicine for two decades. As medical director of the ICU, he provides calm reassurance to the nursing staff and communicates with administration to ask for and receive the necessary resources to treat patients. “Although there is more stress and longer hours than usual, I feel very blessed that I have been trained to do this job and that I have an opportunity to help the citizens of Hamilton County,” says Harvey, who is thankful to the Hamilton County residents for their sacrifices. “We will get through this time. It will not last forever. Fortunately, at IU Health we have the resources, the manpower and the will to respond to this crisis and ultimately defeat the virus.” When the pandemic passes, we hope that the kindness and compassion in the community will continue. “Whether you worked on the front lines in health care or public safety, supplied the necessary equipment, provided food or shelter to those in need or stayed at home to help curb the spread, we will have all done our part to combat suffering,” Hash adds. “We will have come together as a community, and we will have prevailed.” When every day brings a new series of harrowing headlines, it can be easy to slip into sadness or flounder in fear. But I assure you, there is a light at the end of the tunnel thanks to this army of men and women as they are the heartbeat of hope that now, always has, and always will work tirelessly to relieve pain, save lives and restore health. These individuals dedicate their lives to helping us, as a society, live our best lives. Because as the saying goes, “When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters.”
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Noblesville-based EMPire Outdoor Solutions, founded in October of 2019 by 19-year-old Michael Podzielinski, offers residential and commercial lawn care treatments including fertilization, weed control and irrigation maintenance, as well as holiday lighting during the winter months.
Series (UTS) through his middle school and high school years. The business ran youth baseball tournaments in Cicero, Indiana, and Podzielinski was in charge of maintaining each of the baseball fields.
He started working for UTS in eighth grade as an umpire, and through high school he helped to run tournaments and maintain fields. Outside of this job, he also gained lawn care experience by mowing 35 lawns “Growing up, my dad always said you can do every week as a side business. whatever you want, but whatever you do, be the best at what you do,” Podzielinski says. After graduating from high school,
Podzielinski decided to quit UTS and start a lawn care business with his father. When he approached his employer about quitting, his employer asked him to join UTS as a partner.
EMPire was founded by Podzielinski in honor of his father, Eric Podzielinski, who passed away last May. Before he launched EMPire, Podzielinski worked at a youth sports business called Ultimate Tournament “I passed up the opportunity to start a
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business with [my father],” Podzielinski says. “I was a [UTS] partner for about a year, and then of course my dad passed away, and that partnership just didn't work out.” After leaving UTS, Podzielinski decided to pursue his love for landscaping and open a business to honor his father. In October of 2019, he started EMPire Outdoor Solutions. According to Podzielinski, the “EMP” in the company name is a nod to his father Eric, himself, and Podge, the family nickname. Podzielinski started by looking for potential clients on Facebook and creating social media ads. He began to gain clients via Facebook ads and word of mouth. The approaching winter season made landscape work difficult, and Podzielinski decided to offer holiday lighting as one of his services.
He kicked off the winter season with a huge workload of 65 clients with holiday lighting needs. According to Podzielinski, a key selling point of his holiday lighting service is the fact that he is able to show clients a specific home design prior to any actual light installation. First he captures images of the front of a client’s house, in any areas where lights are requested. Then he enters the images in a Photoshop software program, and designs a virtual lighting scenario for clients to review. “For some people, they just don't know what they're going to get, and they're nervous,” Podzielinski says. “But once I was able to get out pictures of what it looks like, I just started getting calls immediately, and the look on people's faces following a job - they were excited with how well [the lights] looked.”
sure each and every client knows their yard and can take care of it, even after EMPire is finished with their applications.
Podzielinski’s business is also unique because he uses safe, high-caliber products, while not charging top-tier fees. He only applies a few fertilizing treatments throughout his five lawn care During the warmer months, EMPire focuses applications, while competitors might apply five fertilizing treatments using five on lawn care treatments. Podzielinski’s applications. According to Podzielinski, business serves more than 75 residential this approach tends to yield slower, more and commercial clients around Hamilton controlled growth over time, and is much County. Podzielinski uses a software better for the environment and for lawns program in which he enters all lawn care than many conventional approaches. applications and customer information. When Podzielinski meets potential clients for an estimate, he enjoys educating each one in any way possible. He strives to make
“My favorite thing is getting to see the customer's reaction when the results are delivered,” Podzielinski says.
While tending to his various lawn care jobs, Podzielinski makes sure to correspond with all clients and future clients in a timely fashion. He also works to meet with as many clients or potential clients as he can. His office is located at his family’s Noblesville home in his father’s former workshop. According to Podzielinski, he could not have started his business without his many past mentors, his aunt, his mother and his many clients. EMPire Outdoor Solutions is located at at 414 Oxford Drive in Noblesville. To learn more, visit empireoutdoorsolutions.com or call 317-697-5071.
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When Derrick Turner assumed ownership of Noblesville-based firearm business Bare Arms LLC in late 2018, he immediately began to transform the shop’s culture and customer experiences.
“Both my grandfathers were in the military, and I had one uncle in the Marine Corps and another uncle in the Navy,” Turner says. “I wasn’t too into the college thing, so after high school I decided it would be best for me to join.” Turner was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and Camp Pendleton in southern California for much of his time in the military and finished his service in Quantico, Virginia. After finishing active duty Turner served as a police officer in Virginia for six years, four of which he spent on a full-time SWAT team as leader of the team’s sniper unit.
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“I was in the right place at the right time, with a lot of great older guys that were willing to teach me,” Turner says. “Having a wife that was willing to play along so that I could go and do all the training, and be away from home, was important.” After resigning from the police force in 2017 and beginning contract work for the Department of State overseas as a sniper, Turner and his wife Melissa, also a Pendleton native and Pendleton Heights High School grad, decided to relocate back home to Indiana to be closer to family.
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“The original plan was to move back home, continue contract work for two years and then join the Indiana State Police working for one of their SWAT teams,” Turner says. “While I was overseas, the opportunity to buy Bare Arms came up, and my wife was a little tired of being a single parent for four kids and we jumped at the opportunity. The previous owner and I had a mutual acquaintance, and they knew I was looking for something to get me out of contract work.”
00 PLEASANT STREET | NOBLESVILLE, IN 46060 “We’ve tried to help customers by really listening to them, instead of telling them what direction they should go without any information,” Turner says. Originally from Pendleton, Turner joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2006 after
During his time with the police force, Turner completed five law enforcement sniper courses in Virginia and Maryland. He’s quick to give credit for his knowledge of firearms and proper firearm techniques to his superiors in the military and police force, as well as his instructors at the various sniper schools he attended. 18 / NOBLESVILLE MAGAZINE / MAY 2020 / atNoblesville.com
Turner officially took over as owner of the
business in November of 2018, and as he was overseas for the first four weeks of ownership, he turned to Melissa and her father to handle the initial stages of the transition.
Bare Arms typically houses a wide variety of handguns, rifles, ammunition, cases, knives, archery products and cleaning supplies, as well as protective eye and ear equipment.
“They really got the ball rolling until I got back, which was so important because there’s so much involved with buying and selling a gun legally,” Turner says. “And as a first-time small business owner, there’s a whole lot you don’t know that you don’t know, so to speak.”
“It’s all customer-driven here,” Turner says. “You tell me what you’re looking for and what you’re trying to do with the gun, and I’ll try to “The owner of Fox Prairie Gun Range, Jeff find the gun that best fits your needs. I’m not Kruse, passed away in January, and his family going to try to tell you what I think you need.” reached out to us about it,” Turner says, adding that the range is slated to reopen this Turner says his wife Melissa has been spring. “It will be the only 100-yard outdoor instrumental in the shop’s success since 2018. range in Hamilton County open to the public, and when you reserve your time, it’s “The work and effort she’s put into it has been just you out there with whoever you want invaluable,” he says. “She’s done a lot of the to have with you - you don’t share the range accounting, the tax paperwork and a lot of with anybody. It’s a really great venue.” the things that aren’t fun that make a business work. She nails it and does a great job.” Bare Arms LLC is located at 2370 Conner Street in Noblesville. For additional Turner is in the process of reopening an information, including product details, outdoor, 100-yard gun range on the East customer testimonials, an online shop and 206th Street property formerly occupied more, visit barearmsllc.net. or call by Fox Prairie Gun Range. 317-770-6626.
Turner says he’s completely overhauled the business and that the only aspect of the store that has stayed the same since he took over as owner is its name. “The entire culture here is completely different now,” he says. “There are some guns I know a lot about and some I have no idea about. Folks appreciate that I’m honest with them and answer their questions directly and point them in the right direction if I don’t know something.”
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1 1 WAYS YO U C A N S U P P O R T N O B L E SV I L L E B U S I N E S S E S R I G H T N OW All of our lives have changed in various ways over the past few months. Whether your day-to-day life is confined to your home or your job has changed significantly, we’re all in this together. As an integral part of the Noblesville community, our small businesses continue to depend on our support right now. Here are some practical ways you can continue to ensure their success and our community’s vibrancy. 1. SHOP LOCAL, FIRST - As you probably know, many restaurants are offering delivery and curbside options right now. There are also other businesses offering these same services — clothing stores, game shops, and even flower shops. Check out ww.noblesvillechamber.com
friends with businesses or even better — lend your skills: graphic design, website and social media help, or even good old fashioned word-of-mouth recommendations. 7. KEEP THE CHANGE - Was a class or workshop you had recently paid for canceled? Consider telling the business to keep the registration fee as a donation.
2. GO SOCIAL – Social media plays a big role in supporting local businesses. Take five minutes each day to share a post 8. USE WHAT YOU NEED, SHARE WHAT YOU about one your favorite small businesses. Don’t forget to tag #LOVEHC & #Noblesville and follow the Chamber on Facebook CAN - If you have purchased extra toilet paper or hand sanitizer, consider giving some to one of the businesses you think might need it. & Twitter 3. GRAB A GIFT - Purchase gift cards now from your favorite 9. STAY CONNECTED - Continue to pay for memberships, subscriptions, or other services that aren’t able to function stores and use them later. traditionally. 4. ENGAGE IN NEW WAYS - Many businesses have 10. KEEP IT CLEAN - Use credit cards instead of cash. That shifted in-person services to online services, including yoga twenty-dollar bill in your wallet has passed through dozens of hands. studios, therapists, tutors, and financial planners. You can still Instead, use your debit or credit card to minimize germ exposure. take advantage of these businesses’ services via virtual meeting software like Zoom, Skype, or Facetime. 11. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF - If you’re feeling sick, 5. TIP BIG - If you have the means, make sure to give generous stay home. Don’t risk potentially infecting others. Call on some friends or family members to bring you food or groceries instead. tips to service workers. Noblesville is a strong community. By doing your part to stay safe and healthy, you are helping your neighbors and family members 6. SHARE YOUR TALENTS - Do you have ideas for local to stay healthy as well. businesses? Consider lending some creative brainstorming to
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