Traders Point Gateway Project Site

Planting Day Only a Month Away!
Have you got September 22 circled on your calendar? That's great, because we're counting on you, and planning to make your day instructive and fun.

This week you'll begin to see changes in the greenspace surrounding the INDOT Salt Barn. We've marked the positions of trees and drawn bedlines. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful has ordered plants and mulch. Next week you'll begin to see the shapes of the beds emerging on the slopes. With your help, before long the slopes will be populated with a new landscape of native trees, shrubs, and grasses.

Planting and mulching is not all you can look forward to on September 22. You'll meet enthusiastic Traders Point neighbors, plus a large contingent of Master Gardeners and KIB Volunteers. To cap off the morning, our neighbors at Mill Pond are hosting a barbecue to reward your hard work, supported by in-kind and financial donations from businesses in the vicinity. Mayor Peterson may also pay us a visit.

It's time now to firm up your plans to participate in planting day, and to recruit any other strong backs you can press into service. We could use a few more to lighten the load for everyone. Please be certain to register all recruits by sending me their email address at wwford@comcast.net. We'll need this to be able to provide them information and to know how many volunteers to expect.

In the coming month, you'll be hearing from Keep Indianapolis Beautiful about details of planting day. KIB is also accepting your tax-deductible contributions to defray the cost of keeping the new landscape watered.*

Thank you for participating in this important beautification project. We look forward to seeing you September 22.

--Wendy Ford, Traders Point Gateway Committee

*You may send a check, earmarked for the Traders Point Gateway Project, to Phil Schaefer, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc., 445 N. Pennsylvania St., Suite 910, Indianapolis, IN 46204.

Press Release
ZIONSVILLE, Ind.--Traders Point Creamery http://www.traderspointcreamery.com/, a family-owned, organic artisan dairy, announced today that its European-style, award-winning yogurts, in classic 32 oz. glass bottles, are now available in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Traders Point whole milk plain yogurt won the American Cheese Society’s prestigious First Place Awards in both 2005 and 2006, and the Second Place Award in 2007. With the addition of pure, organic fruit purees, it is also available in a variety of flavors.
Traders Point Creamery all natural, certified organic yogurts are made from grass-fed milk, contain no artificial ingredients, coloring, flavors, preservatives or stabilizers, and are made with live, active yogurt cultures which offer probiotic health benefits. Since Traders Point cows are raised exclusively on pasture and eat the rich, carefully cultivated greens, their milk acquires more nutrients, including omega-3 fatty acids, conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs), beta-carotene and vitamins A and E, than organic milk produced using standard feeds.
“People are starting to really look at where their food comes from, and how it was raised,” said Jane Elder Kunz, who owns the family farm and Creamery with her husband, Dr. Peter Kunz. “Grass-fed milk is rare these days, but it’s worth the extra effort because we’re passionate about producing truly healthful food. And now we use this milk to make a whole new style of delicious dairy products, based on centuries-old traditional Dutch recipes.”
The Creamery is managed by an artisan cheese maker who hails from the dairy region of Holland. His European training and tastes are reflected in the products, which have a distinctly unique fresh taste and silky texture. These pourable yogurts provide a healthy, delicious snack, and make an elegant dessert served with fresh fruit and a sprig of mint. They also add flavor and body poured on breakfast cereals and granola, or can be frozen into yogurt pops!
In addition to plain yogurt, the company also offers a low-fat vanilla yogurt, and organic fresh fruit purees are added to make flavors such as Wildberry (a combination of raspberry, blackberry & acai berry); Orchard Trio (made of pear, peach, and acerola cherry), Banana-Mango, and other seasonal favorites. Traders Point Creamery yogurts are sold through select supermarkets, gourmet shops, and natural and organic food markets at a suggested retail price of $6.49 per 32 oz. glass bottle.
Traders Point organic, grass-fed, unhomogenized chocolate milk is also available from select East Coast retailers, as is Fleur de la Terre, the company’s natural-rind, aged cheese which was awarded First Place for Farmstead Aged Cheeses at the American Cheese Society’s 24th Annual conference earlier this month.
About Traders Point Creamery
Traders Point Creamery is a family owned artisan dairy located in Zionsville, Indiana. The company produces pure, fresh, unhomogenized whole milk, chocolate milk, plain, vanilla and fruit yogurts, and ice cream. Handcrafted cheeses include Fromage Blanc, Fromage Blanc spicy, Fromage Blanc garden herb, old-style cottage cheese, and “Fleur de la Terre,” a natural-rind, aged cheese which won the American Cheese Society’s 2007 First Place award for Best Farmstead Cheese.
Established in 2003, the Creamery is housed in a restored 19th-century hand-hewn barn, on a family farm which is certified organic by the USDA. The Traders Point herd of Brown Swiss cows spends all of its time roaming free on pastures, and never receives antibiotics or synthetic growth hormones. Traders Point Creamery is very unique in that its dairy products are made from grass-fed organic milk, which provides a rich, natural source of omega-3 fatty acids and CLAs (conjugated linoleic acids). Synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides are never used on the land.
The company founders believe in “nourishing the land that nourishes us all.” This means preserving the family farm and continuing their grandparents’ legacy of sensible, sustainable, low-input agriculture. Their mission is to farm in harmony with the land and animals; produce the most nutritious and healthful products possible; and encourage education of sustainable farming and nutrition.
For more information about Traders Point Creamery and its products, visit http://www.traderspointcreamery.com or call (317) 733-1700.
Source: Traders Point Creamery

TPAN MEETING Thursday August 23 @ 7 p.m. @ Creamery

Hi All,
Karen Terrell has confirmed that the Mayor's Office will send Katy Brett to our TPAN meeting this Thursday to speak on the subject of property and local income taxes. In addition, our state rep, Phil Hinkle will attend along with Ike Randolph. We also have Steve Parnell from the IMPD NW district to give a presentation on graffiti in Marion County and ways to reduce this type of activity, as well as Donna Forbes on how to organize a "Neighborhood Crime Watch" program.
I think we have a pretty good agenda and I'd hate to have a poor turnout! Mary Ann will send out additional e-mail reminders but also please try to talk this up to your neighbors or forward this e-mail on to them. This is a chance to tell our elected officials and their representatives what we think of taxes in Marion County. We need a good turnout this Thursday -- a poor turnout might suggest that we're fine with the property tax and LOIT increases.
Remember: the meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the TP Creamery loft.
Steve
Steven L. Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance
& FIND Enterprise Director
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
801 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5151
Phone:(317) 278-7771 Fax:(317) 274-3312
SLJones@IU.edu

Eagle Creek Storm Damage August 19, 2007

If you agree that Traders Point extends through the Eagle Creek Valley, the following photos of sailboats strewn about Hobie Beach (4800 N. Dandy Trail), from winds on August 19, may be interesting.