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face to face Southsiders answer the question, "How has Halloween changed today from when you were a child?" Page 3 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of October 22-28, 2015 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com HALLOWEEN 2015 Pages 6-10 Lawsuit against Beech Grove clerk-treasurer Dan McMillan goes to federal courts. Page 12 GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG Greenwood discusses effects of tif district for multi-family dwellings along State Road 135. Southport approves 2016 budget. Page 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 WORK30 31 32 33 34 SOUTHSIDE35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 PUZZLES43 44 45 46 Page47 21 48 49 50 WHO YA GONNA CALL? 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 Three Southside paranormal investigators share their experiences 59 60 61 62 63 and beliefs on things that cannot be explained. 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For information where you don't know whether a third party might be responsible, it makes sense about reaching our readers, to get some advice on how to proceed. call Brian Ruckle at 300-8782 ss-times.com/personal-injury-accidents or email him at bruckle@ ss-times.com. Follow the footsteps Pick Me Pets celebrates one Southside resident Gino Mina owns Hakky Shoe Repair & Comfort Foot- year in Beech wear in the Castleton Square Mall Grove A product of at 6020 E. 82nd Street, Suite 798, Gerald Sargent repairing a variety of footwear for Pick Me Pets, 4850 S. Emerson Publisher Emeritus customers around central Indiana. Ave., in Indianapolis, celebrated Rick Myers, Publisher Read more about his Southside its one-year anniversary on Oct. background and business history Brian Kelly 19. Pick Me Pets is independent- online. Chief Executive Officer ly owned and offers a wide se- lection of puppies, kittens, fish, birds, and exotic pets. Nicole Davis, Editor ss-times.com/ follow-the-footsteps Carey Germana ss-times.com/pick-me-pets-anniversary Members of Production/Art Mgr. Graphic Design Jeen Endris, Derek Clay Graphic Design For more information on these articles and other timely news, visit ss-times.com. To join the conversation, visit our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter @southsidetimes. Serving the Southside Since 1928 Visit us online at: For more information, contact us at: face to face facebook.com/TheSouthsideTimes [email protected] Tel. 317.300.8782, Fax. 317.300.8786 Q: How has Halloween changed today from when you were a child? 7670 US 31 S Indianapolis, IN 46227 "The only thing I can think of is kids these days don’t "The costumes for one thing. We used our own www.ss-times.com tip over outhouses like we used to do." clothes, bought used clothes or borrowed clothes. The trick-o-treating is also different. Children today Times-Leader Publications, LLC don’t go door-to-door as much with more of them ©2015. All Rights Reserved going to parties at their church or school. Our church has a truck or treat and that seems to work out better. The views of the columnists in The Southside I understand it is for safety and I think that is a good Times are their own and do not necessarily JB Baker of Perry Township thing." reflect the positions of this newspaper. Helen Hicks of Greenwood "When we were children we didn’t have the money to The Southside Times is published by Times-Leader buy costumes. If we were fortunate enough our par- "It is much more commercialized now. It isn’t a kid- Publications, LLC. Content published alongside this ents would give us a quarter and we would go down friendly activity. It is more organized with parties and icon is sponsored by one of our valued advertisers. to the local drug store and pick out a mask that was church groups." Sponsored content is produced or commissioned attached to your face by an elastic type string. I used by advertisers working in tandem with Times-Leader’s sales to wear my father’s old clothes on Halloween and I representatives. Sponsored content may not reflect the views would go around wearing that mask. I dressed up like of The Southside Times publisher, editorial staff or graphic de- a tramp, because it didn’t cost anything. I was just wearing my dad’s sign team. The Southside Times is devoted to clearly differen- old clothes." tiating between sponsored content and editorial content. Po- Joe Seiter of Perry Township Kenny Winslow of Southport tential advertisers interested in sponsored contact should call: (317) 300-8782 or email: [email protected]. 4 Week of October 22-28, 2015 • ss-times.com VIEWS The Southside Times READERS' WRITES Southport is fortunate Langreck for any work until further notice. Advertise While in my office, in front of three other to have experienced people, he stated Langreck had commit- ted fraud because his architect license had your service building commissioner expired. He said that all of the work Lan- greck had done (inspections) was not legal. in three At last week’s Board of Public Works & He also referenced “all the money” Langreck Safety meeting Mayor Jesse Testruth “apol- had made from performing these inspec- Southside ogized” to Duane Langreck for attempting tions. Langreck is not paid a salary or hourly to have him resign as Southport’s Build- rate by the city. Rather he is paid a percent- ing Commissioner. Testruth defended his age of each building permit issued once the publications! actions by stating that when something is inspection has been completed and all nec- brought to him, his job is to “protect” the essary paperwork is submitted to my office. city. His research into the supposed concern The Common Council then approves the was off base. Had he bothered to check our payment. Promote your service to individuals, Building Standards ordinance, he would have Our city is fortunate to have a Building homes and businesses. known that the alleged allegations brought Commissioner with education, experience to him were unfounded. Our ordinance was and integrity. For someone to try to ruin a approved by the Fire Prevention and Build- person because of a personal vendetta is un- The Southside Times: Center Grove Icon: Southside Business ing Safety Commission and endorsed by conscionable. It seems some things never Leader: their Chairman on July 2, 2013. Testruth re- change. And that is very sad, indeed. Publishes weekly in Mailed directly to ceived a copy of that letter of approval. The Beech Grove, Center homes monthly in Mailed directly to contract the city has with Langreck does not Diana Bossingham Grove, Garfield Park, Johnson County’s businesses in require any credentials. Our ordinance does Clerk-Treasurer, City of Southport Fountain Square, White River Marion County & not require the Building Commissioner to Greenwood, Township Johnson County have any education or experience to perform Southport, Franklin & the duties. Environmental work to Perry Townships Testruth’s actions didn’t stop there. Prior begin in Beech Grove to talking with Langreck, the mayor came Call us today for more information: 317-300-8782 into my office to deliver a notice to cease as- signing permits and to refrain from paying The Indiana Department of Environmen- tal Management has recently issued a per- mit for the City of Beech Grove to remove two underground storage tanks on munici- pal properties. After Oct. 26, the City can Beech proceed to remove the underground tank located at the Department of Public Works Grove and the tank that is located behind the po- lice station on Churchman Avenue.