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dren will be invested mainly in stocks or
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and/or equity~incometype'mutual funds.
The reward for having planned for higher
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child graduates from college 'without the
burden of excessive student loans. 'There
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give to your child. With a plan. and disci~
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plan as soon as'possible. . .
'Hall and Whitacre ',are CPAs with
Whitacre & Hall Wealth Management, LLC.
They live in Zionsville. .
"D~NCEIIS WILL
PERFORM IN
. INDIANAPOLIS
Dancers from the Village Dance
Studio will perform Dec. I 0 and Dec. II
at St. Lukes Methodist Church in
Indi~napolis...... .'
.<tFilbulfy"will perfo'rm'lit the Chtistmas
":Cde~ration'lat ' the' chgrch at 7 p.m.
Saturqay, Dec. 10. Jaclyn Virgin, Betsy
Edmondson and Megan' Mills will dance
to "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and
Virgin wilfbe the soloist in "Silent
Night."
The Village Dance.Ensemble will per-
form in the live nativity at the church at
5 p:m. and 6 p:m. Stmda~, Dec. I 1. They
will be angels andgift.dancers. Featured
seniors willl:>e Juliane' VanKleyand
Emily Bookwater. The angel dance was
choreographed by Ann' Boodt; .the 'gift
dance ,was choreographed by Fred
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mee. WZ,II.S
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. N ew ga.ll~rysp~cializes
in paintirlgs,'sculptures
, Stflff report
Zionsville for her gallery. ':1 :
love the place,. it' s ~~. peaceful." :
" s~e said. "the art galleries and:
the people, they are so relaxed." . '
Thec'oupleshirre a loveof.
mediciJ}e' as well. as a love, of
art. Soori is an anesthetist and
Hamid is a vascular surgeon.
She said they both enjoy help- :
irig people feel,
better.
They have col-:
lected art for the .
last 36 years. The:
couple have lived:
ill Indiana 'since:
1968. Soori. is .
originally frbm.
Tehran, Iran, anq Hamid. is
originally.,.. from.,I<:orde,~t~~,
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, The gallery will stock works:
fro'm artists including Micha~l
Wilkinson, Frederick lIart,
Jerry Joslin, Erte, Angelo.
Basso, Bev and Dolittle,M)~.,
Farshchian. ," ~',~. .
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A love of the arts has blos-
somed into a career for Soori
. and Hl;lmid Ardalan, the owners I
of the newly openedSoori
Gallery, 20N. Main St.
The gallery opened III
October and specializes in
paintings! and
bronze and
acrylic sculp-
tures by
. American and
international
artists. Soori
Ardalan said the
gallery's offer-
ings are things normally seen in
mucp-, biggercit!es., ,
^,"{We 'are)' 'presehting"art:
. w~~k~fll"which '~eusu~ily' pre~'
sented at bigger metropolitan
areas like, Chicago, San
Francisco and LA," she said.
She said she had tried for
many years to find a location in
'. Soori Gallery
20 N. Main St.
873-8700
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.V,V,:, JlaVt;; lW,U UU{l;lUt:JU\lgt:S ,commgm, SIlt: sam.' :' Iney all
have a background in music_" .'
" Bands had to pay a $25' entry feetq compete, an amount
that 'will be reimbursed to those that sell 25 tickets to attend
the battle. , ", ' ,
~We'veonly got one band that hasn't acJ::tieved'that goal yet,"
Brunty said. . , 1
, Tickets are $3 for Western Boone stUdents and $5 for adults
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Soori soothes sculpture enthusiasts
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S0,01,~0"ety ho~ (pund a home at.lON. Main
St.Zionsville. : (i)". .
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:iJ$r/~~~tector opens
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MATT HENDRIX
'mhe~drix@daiiysun.org ,
i ZIONSVILLE ~Soori ArdaIanhas
~a~t~d :alino~t .seyen years for this 'op';'
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portmuty. The charming anesthesio19gist,
who simplygocs by "Sue," finally has her
Zionsville' gallery. ,',
SooriGallery,20 N. Main St., opened
on Oct. 1, in a storef~ont previously home
to,:MyMother's' DollShop.~ '
Already, ArdaIan has. drawn
. shoppers and art enthusiasts
frorn across the coun.tryto her
gallery, but it's the journey that
brought her there that is per"- '
haps more interesting.
,"1 have been looking fora
'spot in Zionsville forsii or
seven years," said'the resident" . ARDALAN
ofIndianapolis'GeistReservoir .
area. "(Zionsville Chamber of Commerce
Director}Debbie Cranfill has been helping
me the whole time.Sheis such a wonderful,
beautiful lady 7'- but every time she would
find something, somebody else w~uld
~n~tch it up."
"Ardalan has collected art for 32 years and
dabbled in art dealing out of her home for.
about20 years, even whilein themtdstof a ,
by.~ career in the medical industry.
"1 jl.lstenjoy art alJdmusic ~ period,"
she explained. "Sinc~ 1 startedcollecting)I
d~cided 1 like sharing art with people. Those
who sa"" my collection always said! sh()uld
all" '
. open a g ery.. .
Soori Gallery offers paintings - origi-
nalsand prints from the likes of
Bev Doolitde, a master of cOIYlplex .'
nature scene~;and M. Farshchian, ,
an Iranian painter whose originals
mosdyhang in museums and fetch
$50,000 orrh?~e each. Ardalan sells
limited editi<?n Farshchian prints,
which are much. more 'affordable
. for collectors. She aJ.\,0 sells Boehm
porcelain birds, a variety of sq'lall
Asian statues and antique bronze
statues from the 1800s and early 1900s.
But Ardalan's pride andjoy are the rri~s-
ter~, whose signed limited editfon sculpture~
she carries '-:-', sculptors Michael Wilkinson,
Angelo Basso, Misha Frid and t~e lilt.e
Frederick Hart.B~sso works in both bronze
and acrylic and h~sm~stered,the shape of
human' anatomy ashispredecessor, the late
Frederick Hart, did.s'obefore him. .
"Usually; .you have to go all the w:iyto ' b.....~ '1' "l ' Ii;- ....". ., ';d' ';A ' '8
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'is timon~, the pieces of art for sale in 50.ori Gallery. . ,
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