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Page 1: July 2015 Issue of Hometown Living - Shelbyville

HOMETOWN LIVINGSHELBYVILLE JULY 2015

VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5

ABOUT ARTWhat You Don't Know

In Shelby CountyKRIS MELTZER'S

A View From My SchwinnCONTROL

YOUR EM OTIONSIn Volatile Markets

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HOMETOWN LIVINGJULY 2015

PUBLISH ERABE PURVIS

GUEST W RITERSKRIS M ELTZER

STEVE POLSTONBECKY CAM PBELL

SPECIAL TH ANK SDON CURRENT

BEN PURVISDAVID PH ARES

BETH CASERENNY ESSER

FOR ADVERTISING INFORM ATION

(317) 401 - 9297abe.hom etownl iving

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CONTENTSFEATURES

REGULARS

4 KRIS MELTZER

A View From My Schwinn

ABOUT ARTConversations About Art In Shelby County

EDWARD JONESControl Your Emotions In Volatile Markets

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7 UPCOMING EVENTS

9 PATRIOTIC TREATS

10 CROSSWORD AND WORD SEARCH PUZZLES

12 JULY WORLD HISTORY

20 SHELBYVILLE'S UP-TO-DATE CENSUS

24 BUSINESS DIRECTORY

26 NOTES FROM THE PUBLISHER

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Dear Readers,

July is an exci ting month. I?l l see you al l in Waldron to celebrate the Four th of July. I t is a Shelby County tr adi tion. I have been at the Waldron Parade as a par ticipant or a spectator ever y year since about 1960. Waldron has been a favor i te place to celebrate the Four th of July for many years.

Rumor has i t that Benjamin Franklin was in the f i r st Waldron parade. Of course, i t wasn?t the famous Ben, who along w ith John Adams proofread the Declaration of Independence. I t was the Ben Franklin who used to l ive near Mi lroy.

The annual Four th of July parade in Waldron began in 1951. The enter tainment committee that f i r st year was Paul and Mar y Stafford and Mark

Happy Birthday Americaor

See You In Waldron

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and Kather ine Rick. I t was such a big hi t that the parade and festivi ties have gotten bigger and better ever y year.

I?m in the process of putting the View From My Schw inn precision bicycle dr i l l team back together. We disbanded about 15 years ago, so i f you have seen the Schw innettes, Hope and Heather Nor r is, tel l them to pump up their ti r es. For those of you who have never seen us in parades, the precision par t of our r iding came from the necessi ty of avoiding road apples from r iding behind a horse uni t.

Speaking of hor ses, don?t miss the Indiana Derby on Saturday July 18th. With a mi l l ion dollar s in pur ses at stake, there w i l l be some great hor se r acing to see r ight here in Shelbyvi l le. Big money always br ings out the great hor ses and famous jockeys. I don?t know i f jockey, Victor Espinoza, who rode Amer ican Pharoah to victor y in the Tr iple Crow n this year, w i l l be here. However, he has r idden in the Indiana Derby in the past.

July Movie Tips: Ever y wonder what l i fe w i l l be l ike in 2026? Or, I guess, more accurately, what German expressionists thought i t would be l ike when looking for ward from 1926? You can f ind out Sunday July 19th at 8:00 P.M. on Turner Classic Movies. Tune in to see the famous science f iction f i lm Metropolis. This si lent f i lm set in an urban dystopian society is a Fr i tz Lang classic and should be r equir ed view ing for al l Sci Fi fans.

I f you didn?t get enough of Ri ta Haywor th in Gi lda last month, you can see her on TCM at 8:00 P.M. on Tuesday July 21 w ith Gene Kelly in Cover Gir l .

I f for some str ange r eason you would like to r ead mor e of my columns, check out http://www.satur dayshelby.com/.

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UPCOMING EVENTSWhat to do in Shelbyville through the month of July

July is a big month in tow n each year, for one ver y obvious r eason. I t has Fair Week! Ser iously, Fair Week is what Shelbyvi l le is al l about. I t has r ides, games, 4H, a derby, and music.

I f that doesn't get you racing to the Fair Grounds next to Coulston Elementar y, I have two words for you. Pig w restl ing. That's r ight, pig w restl ing. Are the pigs w restl ing each other? Is someone w restl ing a pig? Are we pigs for watching i t? You'l l f ind out at the Fair Grounds on July 7! I t 'l l be a squealing good time. Sor r y, I couldn't r esist.

As you can guess, this issue of Upcoming Events is dedicated to the Shelby County Fair. Whi le there are too many things to do than the pages al low, here are some crowd favor i tes:

July 6 - Zipl ine (4 - 6 PM)

4H Frog Jumping Exhibi t (5 PM)

4H Beef Show

Demoli tion Derby (7 PM)

July 7 - Cheer leading Contest (5:30 PM)

Blood Mobi le (3 - 8 PM)

4H Robotics Competi tion (5 PM)

4H Fashion Venue (7 PM)

Pig Wrestl ing: Because 'Mer ica (7 PM)

July 8 - NTPA Truck and Tractor Pull (7 PM)

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July 8 - Shelby Royal (7 PM)

July 9 - 4H Awards Program (4:30 PM)

Talent Contest (6 PM)

Livestock Auction (6:30 PM)

Quad Drags (7 PM)

July 10 - TQ Midget Races (7 PM)

Fir eworks at Dusk

Llama show (9 AM)

July 11 -Youth Talent Contest (5 PM)

Truck Drags (7 PM)

Dair y Cattle Show (9 AM)

Along w ith al l of these awesome events, Fair Week is ful l of games and r ides to help spend the time. I t 's a great way for the people of Shelbyvi l le to get together and enjoy the r ural spir i t of the tow n.

So from Monday to Saturday, July 6 through July 11, head to the Fair Grounds and exper ience some of the most outr ageous bi ts of fun Shelbyvi l le has to offer ! And don't forget, Pig Wrestl ing star ts at 7.

The Upcom ing Events sect i on i s power ed by Shelbyvi l l e Today!

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PATRIOTIC FRUIT CAKEINGREDIENTS

1 package yel low cake mix

1 egg

1 8oz container frozen whipped topping

1 pint blueber r ies

2 pints fr esh str aw ber r ies

DIRECTIONS

1. Prepare the cake and egg according to dir ections on the box.

2. Place cake in a 9x13 inch pan.

3. Let the cooked cake cool completely.

4. Frost cake w ith whipped topping.

5. Place blueber r ies in a square in the corner.

6. Ar range str aw ber r ies as str ipes of the Amer ican f lag.

AMERICAN FLAG SHOTINGREDIENTS

1/2 oz grenadine

1/2 oz clear cocoa l iqueur

1/2 oz blue curacao

DIRECTIONS

1. Pour the grenadine into an empty shot glass, preferably a tal l , slender shooter.

2. Place a spoon upside dow n in the glass, making sure keep i t above the l iquid at al l times.

3. Block a major i ty of the cocoa l iqueur bottle opening, al low ing i t to only tr ickle out slow ly.

4. With this method, pour the l iqueur as slow as possible onto the spoon. i t w i l l not mix w ith the r ed grenadine.

5. Pour the blue curacao the same way. I t w i l l f loat on top of the clear l iqueur, making a str iped shot.

PATRIOTIC TREATSNow, let's not kid our selves here. July is a month for cooking out w ith great fr iends and family. But we al l know the major i ty of what's going to be on the menu. Hot dogs, burgers, chicken. Sides w i l l include beans and corn on the cob. I t 's a meal that would make the Founding Fathers proud! But in case you'r e wanting to spruce up some desser ts and dr inks in a more patr iotic way, here are a few tr eats that shine w ith r ed, white, and blue.

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AMERI CAN HI STORY CROSSWORD

To celebr ate our nat i on 's bi r thday, th i s i ssue of gam ing in Hom etown Liv ing i s al l about the h i stor y of the USA!

ACROSS

1. Fir st President of the United States

5. Ser ved two Presidental terms non-consecutively

6. Benjamin Franklin wanted this bir d to be our nation's symbol

7. Fir st state to join after the or iginal 13 colonies

9. This Roosevelt ser ved more days in off ice than any other President

11. Fir st father -son Presidential combo

14. Resigned as President after the Watergate scandal

18. Ar ticles of _____, before Consti tution.

19. Bi l l of Rights are the f i r st ten of these.

DOWN

2. State purchased for two cents per acre

3. Succeeded Wil l iam Henr y Har r ison after he died in off ice.

4. White House is located on 1600, this Avenue.

6. Number of colonies that fought for independence.

8. Famously signed Declaration of Independence in large w r i ting

10. Each state has 2 of these, elected ever y 6 years.

12. State which held the f i r st gunshots of Revolutionar y War

13. Famously said "do not shoot unti l you see the whites of their eyes."

15. 50th state to join USA

16. Wrote the f i r st draft of the Declaration of Independence.

17. Br i tish King, the thir d, dur ing the Revolutionar y War.

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SINGLE AXLE DUMP TRUCK

AMERI CAN HI STORY WORD SEARCH

The 20 wor ds to l ook for i n th i s puzzle ar e the answer s to the Cr osswor d on the pr evious page!

Answer s for both can be found on page 26.

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JULY world history

July 1 - 1893. President Grover Cleveland undergoes a secret cancer surger y aboard a yacht ow ned by his fr iend, Commodore E.C. Benedict.

July 2 - 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civi l Rights Act of 1964, prohibi ting r acial discr imination on any public proper ty.

July 3 - 1775. George Washington off icial ly takes command of the Continental Army.

July 4 - 1776. The Declaration of Independence is signed. But you probably alr eady knew that.

July 5 - 1810. Bir thday of Civi l War Admiral David Far ragut. He is famously r emembered as saying "Damn the torpedoes, ful l speed ahead!" dur ing an attack.

July 6 - 1885. Louis Pasteur gives the f i r st anti -r abies inoculation to a boy bi tten by a dog.

July 7 - 1989. President Wil l iam McKinley signs a r esolution annexing Hawai i .

July 8 - 1776. The f i r st public r eading of the Declaration of Independence, by John Nixon, told the general audience the histor ic events taking place around them.

July 9 - 1868. The 14th Amendment, detai l ing the r elationship between state and federal r ights, was rati f ied.

July 10 - 1973. The Bahamas gained their independence after 250 years as a Br i tish Crow n Colony.

July 11 - 1767. John Quincy Adams, 6th President and son of 2nd President John Adams, is born.

July 12 - 1994. The German government ended a near f i f ty year ban on sending troops outside their countr y. The ban was dir ectly r esponsible for Germany being al lowed to join the United Nations.

July 13 - 1787. Congress enacted the Nor thwest Ordinance, which established formal procedures for turning ter r i tor ies into states.

July 14 - 1789. The fal l of the Basti l le occurs at the beginning of the French Revolution.

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July 23 - 1952. Egyptian army off icer s launched a r evolution, changing Egypt from a monarchy to a r epublic.

July 24 - 1945. Winston Churchi l l and Har r y Truman issued a demand that Japan sur render from Wor ld War 2. They declined.

July 25 - 1898. Dur ing the Spanish-Amer ican War, the US invaded Puer to Rico.

July 26 - 1944. The United States Army began desegregating i ts tr aining camp faci l i t ies.

July 27 - 1953. The Korean War ends w ith an armistice signed by the US and Nor th Korea.

July 28 - 1929. Jackie Kennedy is born in Southampton, New York.

July 29 - 1883. I tal ian dictator Benito Mussolini is born.

July 30 - 1863. Automotive pioneer Henr y Ford is born in Dearborn, Michigan.

July 31 - 1790. The US Patent Off ice is opened, patents signed by Washington and Jeffer son.

July 15 - 1850. The f i r st Amer ican saint, Frances Xavier Cabr ini , is born.

July 16 - 1969. The Apollo 11 Lunar landing mission l i f ted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:37 AM.

July 17 - 1996. A Boeing 747, one of the largest air planes at the time, exploded above the Atlantic Ocean.

July 18 - 1947. President Har r y Truman signed an executive order, detai l ing the l ine of succession i f the President dies in off ice.

July 19 - 1848. A convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY, marking the beginning of the women's r ights movement.

July 20 - 1969. The wor ld watched as the Apollo 11 astronauts walked on the moon.

July 21 - 1898. Guam was ceded to the United States by Spain.

July 22 - 1934. Bank robber John Di l l inger was shot and ki l led by FBI agent Melvin Pur vis.

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We weren't tr ying to be popular. We weren't tr ying to get visi tor s. We were just interested in enjoying and per fecting our craft, and developing standards that would offer a r eason for us to both keep our ar t in Shelbyvi l le, and al low us to work as ar tists.

Nashvi l le became the place that ever yone loves to visi t because the Brow n County ar t colony aspir ed to a higher level. They didn't r each that level by having a col lective view of being normal, or by making i t their goal to have thousands of people visi ting ever y autumn.

The conversation noted above star ted me thinking about how this atti tude towards grow th and the

Yes, Shelbyvi l le is drow ning in ar t, but i t is not our ow n.

This ar ticle was inspir ed by conversations that took place r ecently in Shelby County. There was a belief among some of my cohor ts that Shelbyvi l le would never give anyone in other communities a r eason to visi t us because of our ar t. This bel ief was astonishing to many of us, as we knew that ar t communities l ike Nashvi l le, Indiana, or Santa Fe, New Mexico, were not born in one day. We were also surpr ised to hear that statement because we were not interested in becoming Nashvi l le, Santa Fe, Broad Ripple, or any other tow n that has become a destination for f ine ar t.

What you don' t know. .

A BOUT A RT . . i n Shel by Count y

Conversations about Art in Shelby County

by Becky Campbell

SHELBYVILLE IS DROWNING IN ART

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the house. (We would prefer that you buy an or iginal.)

I went to a few businesses in tow n to make a count of the i tems that r equir ed ar tistic design. I t may shock you to know that in the w ine aisle at Kroger alone, there are over 200 bottles and labels that r equir ed the work of an ar tist. Yes, even the glass w ine bottles r equir e ar tistic design. Visi t the salad dressing, book, and vi tamin aisles! You'l l see over hundreds of examples of the same ar tist r ender ings. This is just Kroger ! Wal-Mar t has over dozens of sheet designs, hundreds of designs for fabr ic.

Three Sister s Bookstore has (I 'm not counting them!) scads of ar tistic i l lustr ation in the youth book section alone. We have several locations in the county to pur chase movies, music, and books ? al l of which r equir ed ar tistic development of packaging. Yet, the professional development of ar t is discouraged in some cir cles because of the belief that professional ar tistr y has no future in this tow n ? or on the other end of the spectr um, professional ar tistr y is not emotionally fulf i l l ing, and how can you earn a l iving making ar t? Worse yet, you may be shamed for actually desir ing to set your sole source of income as an

w i l l ingness to be r edundant had developed, and how i t could be overcome. To me, there was no point in being disappointed about negative atti tudes. However, there is a point in learning that there is a di f ferent way to think about our tow n, our selves, and that there are three things to r eal ize about ar t in Shelbyvi l le, or any tow n that lacks confidence in creating ar t, for that matter.

The f i r st thing is that we are actually drow ning in ar t. Our community has talent that has been developed in high school, col lege and by self education. Our ar tists learned as much as they could in col lege and their r espected f ields, and then sent that talent back here in the form of the thousands of products that you buy ever y day in stores across Shelby county. (We w i l l learn more about one of those special ar tists in another column.)

There are ar chi tects, landscape and inter ior designers that you could also add to the mix. Ar tists in other states per fect their craft and sel l products that end up on the shelves in our stores, r egular ly consumed by eager Shelby County shoppers. Paintings made al l over the wor ld are pr inted in mass by China and shipped to good old Shelby County to be purchased and hung in ever y room of

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These learned behavior s are contagious. They also develop catch phrases l ike, ?This is just Shelbyvi l le.?, ?I don't think that w i l l go over well in this tow n.? , or, ?You can't make a l iving at ar t!?.

Followers that hear the phrases above resign themselves to perpetuate the myth, not r eal izing that they are buying ar t on w ine bottles and popping vi tamins from bottles decorated w ith ar tistic r ender ings of car rots and oranges by some ar tist that didn't think l ike them. The fol lowers don't see that their decision to r eject standards has kept them from seeing their ar t on a movie screen, or concer t hal l , or ar t gal ler y, or even in their ow n home! They begrudgingly work at a job that they hate for many years ? occasionally making jokes about how i t would be nice to actually work as an ar tist.

The second thing we, or more impor tantly, you must do is to grow independently as an ar tist. Examine your gi f t, w r i te dow n your deepest desir e to excel as an ar tist, w r i te dow n how you can achieve that level, r esearch how your most admired ar tists achieved their goals and and star t working on achieving the same for yourself .

ar tist. Somehow, the desir e to earn a l iving as a carpenter, w r i ter, designer, actor, or singer is not questioned, but the desir e to earn a l iving as an ar tist is greedy. Don't misunderstand me, I know there are many here that bel ieve the opposi te ? but this ar ticle is not for them.

So, I ask, ?Why not YOU? Why don't you make the ar t that adorns w ine bottles, pr inted in mass production on a dishtowel, or hangs in homes and businesses al l across the wor ld? Why does i t have to be someone else from another county, or countr y??

Where does this phi losophy come from? Where did i t begin? I contend that is star ted w ith one fai lure to succeed, or one cr i tic's comment, or a fear of success. I t is fair ly easy to see how a fai lure and a cr i tical comment can lead to discouraging others to succeed, but I prefer to use the oft quoted l ine from a w ise babe, ?Put your big gir l /boy panties on!? That's r ight. Stand up and face your fear s and cr i tics w ith a big, fat smi le on your face. That other bogeyman - fear of success - guarantees a fair ly miserable l i fe. I t holds one back from the lessons of fai lure, for fai lure is inevi table in the r eal ization of success.

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Share your love of ar t and the f inished product in any way that w i l l be accepted in the many di f ferent cultures of your community. Examine the highest standards of ar t in al l societies and ask yourself , ?Can I al low myself to aspir e to a even higher standard of lovely??

The thir d thing is r eal izing that successful ly overcoming the f i r st two obstacles w i l l cause an ar tistic f lower to bloom in this community. Your God-given creativi ty w i l l blossom as you release yourself from ingrained atti tudes. You'l l say, ?Why not me??, as you see the need for creating a book cover, or imagine a new design for a pur se, or envision a painting of the Big Blue River. Your obser vation of the enormous amount of ar t that is shipped into this county w i l l give you a new outlook on the value of ar t.

Other ar tists w i l l begin to gather around and you w i l l learn from each other, enjoying each others company and making new fr iends that share your love of ar t. Whether or not people from other communities tr avel to view your work w i l l not matter to you at this point. But, they will tr avel, whether by car or internet, to enjoy and purchase your work as a natural r esult of becoming entrenched in creativi ty, and excellence. (The public may even star t seeing the value in or iginal ar t and the value i t has in ever yday objects that we use in our homes and businesses. That's another stor y.)

We have so many talented people in our communities, people that enjoy beauty in ever yday l iving, people that want to l ive another l i fe that includes using their creative talent. Let's not settle. I say, i f Shelbyvi l le is going to continue to drow n in ar t ? let i t be ours!

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Total population of the ci ty is 27,816 (50.7 percent female; 49.3 male), w i th 3.9 per cent of the male population aged 50 to 54 and 3.8 percent of females aged 45 to 49 (and the same percentage for women aged 50 to 54). Sl ightly less than 1 percent (.09) of men are 75 to 79 years old and 1.6 percent of women are aged 75 to 79 years old. Our ci ty is not a young ci ty, but nei ther is i t old. The median age is 39.9 years; only 9.7 per cent of the people here are aged 62 years or older.

The racial makeup is that 93.7 percent of people l iving here are white and of a single r ace, and 1.5 percent are Black or Afr ican Amer ican; 1.4 per cent of the people are of two or more r aces. Asian people are .8 per cent of the total, and .2 per cent are Amer ican Indian or Alaskan Native. Hispanic or Latino people compr ise 5.2 percent of the people here, w ith 2.4 per cent being White alone.

Census data r epor ts for Shelbyvi l le (generated by the zip code 46176) r eveal much about our hometow n, and contain a few surpr ises for people who know (or think they know ) our community.

Al l data is from repor ts by the federal government, and some data sets are histor ical; al l the data is based on census sur veys. Let's take a look at the speci f ic stats of our fare tow n.

SHELBYVILLE'S UP-TO-DA TE

CENSUS

w r itten by Steve Polston

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Only 14.1 percent of the ci tizens achieved a bachelor?s degree or greater, and in the population of people over 25 years, 7.5 per cent achieved an associate?s degree. Whi le the median earnings for people over 25 who earned anything in the past 12 months is $32,296, the earnings for people w ith a high school degree was $28,893; people w ith bachelor?s degrees earned $51,589 and people w ith graduate and professional degrees earned $56,810.

Where we l ive is dispersed across many types and quali ty of housing. Twenty-six per cent of the houses here were bui l t before 1939. 13.5 percent were bui l t from 1970 to 1979; 12.5 percent were bui l t from 1990 to 1999. A major i ty of the housing contains f ive rooms (24.2 percent) and most contain three bedrooms (43.2 percent).

Most homeow ners moved into their housing from 2000 to 2009 (47.7 percent) and the least (5.6 per cent and 5.7 percent) moved into their housing from 1970 to 1979 and before 1969.

Shelbyvi l le households (11,001 total) are 67.3 percent composed of fami l ies, and 29.8 percent contain chi ldren less than 18 years. 49.7 percent of the households are made of a husband and w ife fami ly; 6.1 per cent are of a male householder w ith no w ife present; the r ate for women as the householder w ith no male present is 11.5 percent. Non-family households compr ise 32.7 percent, and are defined as a woman alone or a man alone.

Shelbyvi l le has 12,240 housing uni ts, w i th an occupancy r ate of 89.9 percent. Four per cent are for r ent, 2.1 per cent are for sale only. 64.4 percent of the housing is ow ner -occupied and 35.6 percent is r enter -occupied.

Whi le the percentage of people w ith high school educations is 84.3 percent, the r ate of the population w ith associate, bachelor, master and doctorate degrees fal ls off sharply, despite the presence of state-suppor ted and pr ivate academies in the area.

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pr imar i ly caused by shor t-term events, such as plunging oi l pr ices, i t?s impor tant to look beyond the headlines to these less glamorous, but probably more impor tant, fundamentals of good investing. By doing so, you can help avoid making fear -dr iven investment choices.

What else can you do to help ensure that you don?t let feel ings of anxiety inf luence your investment moves? For one thing, evaluate your investment mix. I f you ow n too many stocks and stock-based vehicles, you could take a big hi t i f stock pr ices fal l sharply dur ing per iods of volati l i ty.

Histor ical ly, however, bond pr ices have typical ly increased when stock pr ices fel l ? although, of course, there are no guarantees. So, i f your por tfol io consists of stocks and

FBut thus far in 2015, we've alr eady seen per iods of volati l i ty - enough, in fact, to make some investor s j i tter y. Ner vous investor s may be more prone to make decisions based on shor t-term market movements - so how can you stay calm?

Fir st of al l , when evaluating your investment decisions, stay focused on those factor s that have histor ical ly dr iven stock pr ices. The U.S. economy is grow ing at a r easonably good pace, and corporate earnings r emain fair ly strong. Plus, stocks may not be as under valued as they were a few years ago ? as measured by the pr ice-to-earnings r atio (P/E) ? but they sti l l aren?t over ly expensive, ei ther.

Things can change, of course, but when market volati l i ty seems to be

or the past f iew years, the stock market has moved up fair ly steadi ly, w i th no major "cor rections."

CONTROL YOUR EM OTIONS IN VOLATILE M ARKETS

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To fur ther prepare yourself for dow nturns, you may also want to diver si fy your f ixed-income holdings to include investments such as U.S. Treasur y bi l ls, cer ti f icates of deposi t (CDs) and municipal bonds. The percentages of each type of investment w ithin your por tfol io should be based on your goals, r isk tolerance and time hor izon.

Final ly, you can help yourself maintain an even-keeled approach to investing by always looking for quali ty. Typical ly, higher quali ty investments fare better dur ing market decl ines and recover more quickly when the markets r ebound. How can you judge whether a par ticular investment is of good ?quali ty?? A long-term tr ack r ecord is useful to study. I t?s cer tainly tr ue that, as you have no doubt heard, ?past per formance is no

guarantee of future r esults,? but i t?s nonetheless valuable to know how a par ticular stock, for example, has per formed in var ious economic environments. I f i t seems to have done well r elative to other s in i ts industr y and over long per iods of time, that may give you a good idea of i ts quali ty.

I t?s never easy to take al l the emotions out of investing, especial ly dur ing per iods of market volati l i ty. After al l , you count on your investments to help provide you w ith the type of future you?ve envisioned. But by focusing on the fundamentals, putting together an appropr iate investment mix and constantly looking for quali ty, you can help ?de-str ess? yourself ? and, as the Amer ican poet, novelist and histor ian J.G. Holland once said, ?Calmness is the cradle of power.?

This article is provided by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisors: Renny Esser, Ben Purvis, Beth Case, and David Phares.

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BUSINESS DIRECTORYJULY

Bui lder s Lum ber and Har dwar e

Buck Cr eek Bookkeeping

Just i n Polston - Kent Pr oper ty Gr oup

Shelby Medical

The Cancer Associat i on of Shelby County

18 On The Squar e

Duf f y-War ble Insur ance

Tina Cher r y - Cher r y Br os. Designs

Ruper t 's Kids Foundat ion

L.E.T.S.

Mar k Polston

Shelby Paint and Wal lpaper

Mike Kol l s

Ar ch i tectur al Concepts by Gr eg Cher r y

Blue River Pr int i ng

Mainsour ce Bank - Steve Alver son

Edwar d Jones Investm ents

Math ies Landscaping

Mar k Concr ete

Acr a Autom ot ive

Advanced Pest Managem ent

We at Hometow n Living Magazine would l ike to take a moment to thank al l of the companies and business ow ners you w i l l f ind w ithin our pages this month. You can f ind information on these amazing companies, as well as l inks to their websi tes, on our social media pages!

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NOTES FROM THE PUBLISHERA few weeks ago, I found myself walking on Washington Street in the middle of a w ine walk. I

wasn't a par ticipant, but I knew the event was coming. Fr iends and family happi ly took my place, and a meet-up dinner plan was devised just before the walk star ted. So when i t came time to join the group at one of our favor i te local r estaurants, I noticed something. There are a lot of people in this tow n that l ike w ine!

Crowds f i l led the sidewalks on each side of the roads sur rounding the cir cle. Ever yone was happy, glass in hand, whether they new a major i ty of the people around them or not. And whi le the w ine walk was a well planned and organized venture, i t did spark an idea. We need to get more people outside in our community!

Those that were a par t of the w ine walk, how many times have you seen that many people out and about? It was amazing. Now I 'm not saying we need to f lood the str eets ever y weekend, but what's w rong w ith a culture of active consumers? Several great businesses, r estaurants, and such are located r ight at the hear t of tow n, just waiting to have people come exper ience what there is to offer. Take a night out to explore the great things Shelbyvi l le has at i t 's hear t!

Far beyond spending money, there are plenty of aspects to our tow n you can do outside of the house. Sunset Park, Kenny Park, the Fair Grounds; Shelbyvi l le has so many places to spend a day outdoors this summer. Pick up a spor t w i th your fr iends or fami ly, or a leisure activi ty such as walking or bike r iding. Check out the public pool for another way to soak in the sun's r ays.

As you found in the census ar ticle w r i tten in this issue, Shelbyvi l le has a higher population count than you probably expected. Let's get people outdoors, so our great l i tt le tow n can get active and thr ive together !

ACROSS

1. Washington

5. Cleveland

6. Turkey

7. Vermont

9. Franklin

11. Adams

14. Nixon

18. Confederation

19. Amendments

DOWN

2. Alaska

3. Tyler

4. Pennsylvania

8. Hancock

10. Senator s

12. Massachusetts

13. Prescott

15. Hawai i

16. Jeffer son

17. George

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