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See INSIDE ➤ Girlscout Memories FACE TO FACE Southside women remember when. page 9 ➤ Franklin Township Page MONTHLY FEATURE Franklin Twp. news and business. page 21 FREE • Week of March 6-12, 2014 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com page 3 ➤ Jerry Craney FEATURE Honoring his memory as the Catholic of the Year. page 4 ➤ Polk's Best HAUNTS & JAUNTS Rick Hinton tells of expansion between 1886-1923. Camp Directory on Pages 16-17 In Goerner's Corner Peter Goerner finishes his 18th season announcing pages 12-19 Greenwood High School volleyball and basketball games. page 5 ➤ Summer Camps 2014 SPECIAL Photo by Nicole Davis Get ready, get registered for Southside fun! The Southside Times COMMUNITY ss-times.com • Week of March 6-12, 2014 3 Contact the Editor Have any news tips? Catholic of the Year Want to submit a calendar event? The memory of Jerry Craney will be honored by the Southside Catholic Business Professionals Have a photograph Craney led The Holy Name Band, com- them. He would say your parents will love any- to share? Call Nicole FEATURE posed of students in grades 5-8, which gave a thing you do; we’re trying to achieve something Davis at 300-8782 spring concert every year. He directed the Holy even greater than what your parents would ex- or email her at By Nicole Davis Name Christmas Concert for 48 years. In 1994, pect. He demanded it and he got it. His per- ndavis@ss-times. James Jerome (Jerry) Craney was a man Craney announced his retirement from teach- formances amazed people because of the per- com. Remember, who taught children how to love music, a love ing music. formance he got out of the folks that were our news deadlines that continued through their careers and into “When you talk to people who went to Holy involved.” are several days prior to print. adulthood. Though Craney died on name in the 1970s they will say I re- When it comes to music, Schafer said the Jan. 17, 2013, his impact still shows member the Christmas concert,” passion that Craney infused is now being throughout the Southside, with Want to Schafer said. “The Holy Name was passed onto his children, who also attend Holy many of his students still actively us- Advertise? identified by the music program Name. The biggest lesson Craney taught that ing the skills they learned from him. and that music program was Jerry has carried with him all of these years, is the The Southside That’s why the Southside Catholic Craney.” importance of discipline. He said Craney in- Times reaches a Business Professionals has chosen Craney’s motto was said to be, “Ex- stilled in him a commitment level that has car- vast segment of Craney as Catholic of the Year. cellence is as difficult as it is rare.” ried on, not only through music but his career. our community. “He probably wouldn’t want us Andy Eagan, who is the director of “He didn’t rule the band with kindness,” Ea- For information to do it,” said Ben Brown, president Liturgical Music for St. Mark Cath- gan said. “He’d use a yardstick and slap a folder about reaching our of the Southside Catholic Business James Jerome Craney olic Church, had Craney as music, to keep everyone together. He’d have 70 instru- readers, call Brian Professionals. “As much as Jerry choir and band teacher during his ments in one room and all little kids. He was Ruckle at 300-8782 loved to sing and be in the public eye, I think he time at Holy Name Catholic School. He said old school and he very much had control.” or email him at was very humble. I don’t think he would have there were no limits for Craney – a “bar didn’t Craney will be honored at the Southside [email protected]. felt the praise was needed because it was just exist.” The music he gave to his students was Catholic Business Professionals' Inspirational what he felt he needed to Insights networking event do.” on March 13, 8:30 – 11:30 Craney, who earned a a.m. with registration begin- Bachelor and Master’s De- ning at 7:30 a.m. The event Gerald Sargent gree in Music from But- raises money for tuition as- Publisher Emeritus ler University, had a life- sistance for needs-based Rick Myers long career working for the Publisher catholic families. There will Archdiocese of Indianapo- Brian Kelly be three speakers; Lisa Jeff, lis. In 1959, he was hired as Chief Executive Officer CEO of L’Acquic Consulting the music director for Holy Nicole Davis Engineers; Dan Elsner, pres- Editor Name Catholic Church and ident of Marian University; Carey Germana School in Beech Grove, and Josh Bliell, community Production & Design where he retired. He taught spokesperson for the India- classroom music to grades napolis Colts. A product of 1-8 and organized boys’ Submitted Photos “For us, I think Jerry his and girls’ youth and adult James Craney (center) stands with his choir at Holy Name Catholic Church in earlier years. dedication to teaching, in choirs. particular music, he had “He was extraordinary above and beyond the level that was expected a huge impact on music on the Southside,” and his impact was far outside his time in Holy for their age group, but there was never an “I Brown said. “I went to St. Jude in the early 70s Name,” said Tony Schafer, who had Craney as a c a n’t .” and I knew who Jerry Craney was. Every par- teacher beginning in 1976 and currently runs “He demanded excellence,” Schafer said. “He ish, on the Southside in particular, was touched an IT company and still plays music on side. took people to levels they never thought they by Jerry.” “He impacted thousands and thousands of lives For more information, contact us at: could achieve because he demanded more of For more information, visit indyscbp.com. [email protected] over the course of his career.” Tel. 317.300.8782 Fax. 317.300.8786 HUMOR Top ten observations I've made about people 7670 US 31 S By Porkrinds Stiles 8. Since Torry's heart attack 4. Never assume an animal is stupid. Timing Indianapolis, IN 46227 (Dear readers - My pet pig there haven't been a lot of is almost everything and knowing how to Porkrinds has been pestering French fries around here. I'm blame it on the dogs is everything else. www.ss-times.com me to allow her to pen another getting worried. Did they stop 3. People worry too much about what's next column. Please bear with me making them? instead of appreciating what's now. I ain't just Serving the Greater as this helps keep the peace at 7. People ask their dogs to lick napping, I'm appreciating. South Side since 1928 home. - Torry Stiles) them. The dogs eat out of the 2. The dogs go crazy whenever they hear a car 10. Belly rubs aren't just for kitty litter box. Who's the dumb in the driveway. I save my energy for when I Times-Leader Publications, LLC pigs. ... But I'll take all you can animal here? hear food hit the dish. ©2014. All Rights Reserved spare. 6. If they ever make a couch 1. When a pig sticks her nose in it's usually to 9. My belly is about an inch off that's only four inches high I'd root around the dirt for some tasty tidbits. The views of the columnists in The Southside Times the ground. I ain't goin' out in learn to work a TV remote. People stick their noses where they don't are their own and do not necessarily reflect the positions of this newspaper. that snow for nothin'. They better be getting 5. Nobody fills up a dish that already has food belong whether it's tasteful or not. the Sunday paper and another mop. in it. 4 Week of March 6-12, 2014 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times The Polk distribution facility was actually located in Indianapolis. The "grunt" work went on in Greenwood. Here's a before & after photo. Submitted Photos Expansion and Polk's Best going so well. He purchased 100 Jersey cows HAUNTS & JAUNTS and began milk production as a subcontractor for Tangle Wood Dairy in nearby Indianapo- n 1886 demand for the Polk product required lis. The dairy had financial issues...one thing a larger facility: a new four story brick factory led to another…and Polk eventually took over was built and more employees complete control in 1893. The Polk hired. 1887 witnessed a boarding I Dairy Company soon sailed, also house constructed that attached sharing the familiar monogram— to the factory; Polk encouraged his Polk’s Best. In the early 1900s the female employees to reside in this operation was officially titled as the dormitory. And they did…. Polk Sanitary Milk Company. By 1887 Polk had expanded far The Greenwood dairy was locat- beyond just tomatoes and had over ed at the top of the slight rise east of 150 Indiana farmers under contract the canning operation. One of the to provide fruits and vegetables first the first customers of Polk's for the Greenwood canning facil- Rick Hinton Paranormal Examiner Best milk was former president, ity. Well over 500 employees were General Benjamin Harrison—ser- alerted to report and depart their viced daily, as were hundreds of shift daily by the cannery steam whistle heard other customers, by a fleet of Polk delivery throughout the Greenwood area.