Half Century Award

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I’ve been remiss on following up on my previous post regarding receiving the Half Century Award from Governor Holcomb. Dr. Berger had too many patients scheduled to take time off for this, so my niece, Nikole Garthwaite, graciously filled in as my plus 1 and personal photographer.

The event was held in the Rotunda of the State House and was put on by IEDC (Indiana Economic Development Corporation) with Governor Holcomb handing out the awards. Elaine Bedel, head of IDEC, served as master of ceremonies. An auspicious location to say the least.

There were a large group of recipients, both in the Century and Half Century category. It was a very congenial event. The State staff made it clear that receiving the award was an acknowledgment of a significant achievement worth honoring. It was humbling being in the group… More so being in the smaller subset of family businesses that achieved the milestone. There were only few there that had stayed family businesses past the 3rd generation.

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Damore Amphitheater – Boulders Arrive

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Some of the boulders arrived on site last week. Here are a few of them staged and ready to place. Unfortunately there are four truckloads waiting for trucks to deliver them. The quarry is struggling to find transportation to make their deliveries. Our supplier is chasing options and we hope to have the rest of the materials on site soon. FH Deck has already completed most of the demolition on site. We have completed the electrical demolition in the Beach Lodge in preparation for connections to the new pavilion too. We should be ready to rock and roll (pun intended) once the rest of the stone arrives.

Young Amphitheatre

This isn’t the only outdoor amphitheater project Easterday Construction has built in Marshall County. In 1995 we built the Plymouth Performing Arts Center which later became the William and Mary Young Amphitheater on Randolph Street in Plymouth’s Centennial Park. That facility has become instrumental in bringing live entertainment to Plymouth and has been an enhancement to the Blueberry Festival. No doubt the new Damore Amphitheater will have a similar effect on Culver’s summer performing arts offerings and should be an enhancement to Lake Fest each year.

Suburban Sprawl in Culver?

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Wikipedia defines Suburban Sprawl thus: “Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.” While Culver isn’t exactly racing down the road to strip malls, it’s worth looking at the changes occuring in recent and proposed developments in Culver.

Culver’s early development was very traditional. Despite dealing with the curvature of Lake Maxinkuckee, a traditional grid system was used for both the commercial and residential areas with the section of Lake Shore Drive along the Park being one of the few deviations with some curvature to reflect the lake shore. Since that time, the newer subdivisions have not followed the grid. The Riggings, Maple Ridge and Edgewood Estates are all dead end or loop streets with no plans to tie into the grid. It’s a little cheesy, but Adam Conover of “Adam Explains Everything” does a quick run down of some of the issues here:

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