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ASCCare.com 2 Week of October 11-17, 2018 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times FEATURE THIS Contact the Franklin Township on the Editor/Publisher neighborhood WEEK Have any news tips? Want WEB to submit a calendar event? Have a photograph to turns tragedy into share? Call Rick Myers at 300-8782 or email him at inspiration [email protected]. Remember, our news By Nancy Price deadlines are several days prior to print. A Franklin Township neighborhood has rallied together after someone set fire to a Little Free Library created by one of the Want to Advertise? residents. The Southside Times On Saturday night, fire was set to about reaches a vast segment nine mailboxes and the library in a subdi- of our community. vision located near Stop 11 and Emerson For information about Avenue. Tom and Michelle Wagner woke reaching our readers, up to find their library outside of their call Brian Ruckle at home destroyed. 300-8782 or email him at [email protected]. The Wagners had built the library, made from wood from a century-old home for neighborhood adults and children. The couple had just recently put some finish- ing touches on the library, which held up IMPD event to raise to 50 books at a time, before it was dam- TCU gives back to central money for cancer SERVING THE SOUTHSIDE SINCE 1928 aged beyond repair. Indiana charities Tom and Michelle posted a photo of The Indianapolis Metro Police Department the burnt library and its contents to the Earlier this week, employees of Teachers A PRODUCT OF is taking National Coffee with a Cop Day one Gerald Sargent Franklin Township Crime Page, where Lil- Credit Union spent the day volunteering step further – to raise money and awareness Publisher Emeritus lie Beasley noticed the post. in communities across the state and into for cancers that affect both men and women. “The post hit my page and then I shared southwestern Michigan on the first TCU Coffee with a Cop is a designated day to Rick Myers it seeking donations (for another library),” Day of Giving. One of the projects took celebrate relationships between officers and the Editor/Publisher Beasley said. “The number of response I place at Greenwood Northeast Elementary communities they serve. IMPD has announced a Brian Kelly got was just crazy.” School. Other central Indiana-area charitable fall fundraising campaign called “We are Tougher Chief Executive Officer organizations that TCU served included Beasley contacted Ken “KJ” Carter of than Cancer”. The campaign will run this month Gleaners Food Bank, Million Meal Movement, through the end of November. Last year’s Nancy Price MEMBERS OF Content Editor Advanced Limousine, who offered to ac- Noble Indiana, Playworks Indiana, St. Vincent first campaign, called “No-Shave November”, cept donations. Then she called her uncle, De Paul Food Pantry, Teachers Treasures and raised more than $27,000. Asha Patel Tim Logue, who owns USA Insulations, Youth Services Bureau of Montgomery County. Production/Art Mgr. and asked him if he might be interested in ss-times.com/impd-event-to- Graphic Design building 10 Little Free Libraries, one for ss-times.com/tcu-gives-back-to- raise-money-for-cancer each part of the edition. central-indiana-charities For more information, contact us at: “He said, ‘I can’t build 10. But I can build [email protected] 100 if you’d like,’” she recalled. Tel. 317.300.8782 • Fax. 317.300.8786 Plans are now underway to build as For more information on these articles and other timely news, visit ss-times.com. 7670 U.S. 31 S., Indianapolis, IN 46227 many Little Free Libraries in as many com- To join the conversation, visit our Facebook page or www.icontimes.com munities as possible. Books and other ma- follow us on Twitter @southsidetimes. terials will be accepted at Advanced Lim- Times-Leader Publications, LLC ©2018. All Rights Reserved ousine at 8614 Southeastern Ave., as well as Arby’s at 2130 E. 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Often, we recognize when opened on a Wednesday,” co-owner Farris began seriously making plans we have affected someone in even Dave Farris said. “We also really wanted for the business in 2013. a cold one some small way. But sometimes we to be open for the festival.” “Eventually I got to the point where I re- don’t. Sometimes we move through our Farris continued on to say that busi- alized you can read all the books you want days completely unaware of how we’ve ness at the brewery is going very well. but eventually you just have to set up a Beech Bank Brewing touched someone else’s life. “Already, about 40 to 50 percent of white board and start making lists,” he said. Pioneer poet, Sarah T. Bolton (1814- our business is repeat customers,” he The former home of The Southside Times opens in Beech Grove 1893) – for example – could always said. “I was thinking Beech Grove for newspaper, the 3,200-square-foot space is hope as a writer that she would contin- this from the beginning. I was born and home to an eight-barrel brew house. ue to affect readers long after she was raised here. I always wanted to see this “On any given day we could make up By Stephanie Dolan gone but she could never have guessed place do well and for me it was always to 16 barrels, which is a little over 550 that she would be the partial inspiration a no-brainer.” gallons of beer,” Farris said. “Right now behind one of the newest businesses in This bodes well for a business hoping we’re brewing eight barrels at a time.” Beech Grove today. to become a community staple, both for “Our max volume would probably be More than 100 years ago, Bolton – a locals as well as those traveling in from brewing 16 barrels three times a week,” diplomat’s wife and early women’s rights other areas of the city. Wilder said. activist – settled on the land at 1300 The dream that became Beech Bank The brew house is state-of-the-art, Churchman Ave.