Bloom Benefit Raises $7,120 For Two Very Worthy Causes
It was billed as “An Evening with Krista Detor” at the new FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, and what a night it was!
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Issue: June/July 2018
Efrat Feferman United Way of Monroe County Executive Director
The United Way logo—a human figure standing in a cupped hand, encircled by the arch of a rainbow—may be one of the country’s most recognizable branding images. But the local reach of its fundraising—how the money is actually used—doesn’t carry the same high profile.
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Quilter’s Comfort: Unusual Teas Made Locally
In the spring, local artist and business owner Patricia Coleman likes to sit down with a cup of her Sagewell tea blend, a combination of Gingko biloba, yerba maté, red clover, elderberry, and (of course) sage. “We all want to enter this awakening time ready to embrace new beginnings,” Coleman, says.
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Jose Mario Arango Violinist, Lawyer, Chef
Figuring out one’s life as a college freshman sometimes means there will be a few twists and turns along the way. But that doesn’t mean things won’t all turn out better for it. So says Jose Mario Arango.
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Bret Raper, Local Court Commissioner, Wins Western Swing Album of Year
How does a court commissioner from southern Indiana become a western swing music sensation and win the Academy of Western Artists’ Western Swing Album of the Year? Ask fiddler, Bret Raper, 57, whose first album, Somewhere Near Austin, earned him the coveted award in March.
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