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face to face Southsiders answer the question, "What do you do to improve your mood when you’re having a bad day?" Page 3 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of May 19-25, 2016 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com Second Chance – The Crossing in Beech Grove Restoring furnishes students with the opportunity for a second chance at high school Visions graduation. Page 8 GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG Southport recognizes Southport Elementary for earning the Tap Founders Award. Greenwood Council updates sewer ordinance. Page 10 PET PAGE Page 15 "Prevent heartworm infections" RACE IN & TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR MOVE-IN SPECIALS! Rosegate’s Garden Homes offer our residents worry-free living with services and amenities designed to make life easy! Bring in this ad and tour by June 1st and pick up a FREE gift. “Where caring people ASCSeniorCare.com make the difference!” 2 Week of May 19-25, 2016 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times Southside News Quiz On death and dying How well do you know your Southside community? spent Memorial Day weekend cleaning out Test your current event knowledge each week with a little Q&A! HAUNTS & JAUNTS his apartment. We all became his support National Lemonade Day is May 21! At Garfield Park Arts Center will be By Rick Hinton group. It was my job to run a gauntlet of 1 which Southside business will Daisy 4 host to a _____ Art Festival and scheduling nurse care, rehab visits, hospice Troop 867 set up their booth, The Lemon Competition on May 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Faithful reader of The Southside Times ❏ and visits from the family priest. The last Drop Hut? A. Chalk and freelance writer, Tess Baker, retired from professional visit was the hos- ❏ B. Watercolor IUPUI in 2010, has thoughts ❏ A. Shoe Carnival ❏ C. Calligraphy pice doctor, giving instructions ❏ ❏ on finality when we move on to on pain medication helping my B. Walmart on U.S. 31 D. Graffiti another existence: ❏ C. The Southside Times brother through his ordeal.” ❏ D. Burlington Coat Factory McDonalds on Emerson Ave. in Beech “New spring blooms are ev- “I held his hand one hot 5 Grove will soon close, temporarily, erywhere. I am thinking about summer night and folded one of Students help open and operate Second for what? death and dying. We all do it. my mothers’ earrings inside his 2 Chance – The Crossing in Beech Grove, We all know that when we are palm. I told him that mom was selling what? ❏ A. Staff training born, no one leaves this earth ❏ waiting for him and she would B. To host a summer camp in human form—our bodies be there to greet him. He needn’t ❏ A. T-shirts ❏ C. To revamp the menu left behind, discarded by our fear death. Yet, the person I ❏ B. Furniture ❏ D. Remodeling spirit that goes on somewhere. ❏ Submitted Photos thought most likely to be calm C. Candy Every culture has this knowl- ❏ D. Baked goods Tess and Steve Baker in death was terrified and fought edge and belief, however primi- for days, clinging to what was Greenwood recognized what national tive, and rituals to make it more left of life. I assured Steve that 3 week during its May 16 Common bearable. But we still don’t re- mother was there. I was so sure Council meeting? ally know what happens after of it. Our mother went home to ❏ A. National Lemonade Week death.” ❏ heaven in 1984, yet I was posi- B. National Police Week “This terrible fear of dying, tive that if one person was ever ❏ C. National Business Week part of it instinctive, keeps us ❏ D. National Veterans Week sitting at the throne of Jesus, it from doing stupid things that would be her. That night, Steve Answers on Page 16 hasten our death. Faith is sup- went home, free of pain forever.” posed to keep the fear of dy- Steve Baker “I am not afraid of death any- ing at bay. My brother Steve, more,” Tess states. a faithful Catholic, went to “I think there is a point in old age when church every Sunday and bible study during death becomes more welcome. Relatives the week. His social life was his church. The and friends that went before you are go- Bring this ad in get 15% OFF. two standards in his life were job and faith. I ing to come for you and bring you home. never saw him without either one.” I'm still living life, loving my back yard, ex- “He went to the dentist one day in May ercise classes, shopping, and short trips— 2012. Blood in his mouth was coming from the world I have come to love still means so somewhere and his dentist dismissed him, much to me. But there is something else out ✃ telling him to go to the nearest emergency there and it's wonderful beyond everything room. Admitted into the hospital for further imaginable. My mother told me so.” tests, Steve went from daily routine to giving his life and soul to a cancer growing in his Rick Hinton, a Southport resident, loves researching things that go bump head which had metastasized to his kidneys: in the night. His articles can be read the last 4 months of his life.” on Facebook: Rick Hinton, Southport “When released from the hospital and Paranormal Examiner. Hinton conducts st paranormal investigations with his told he needed constant supervision, we (my team, South Central Paranormal. May 21 – 2 Year Anniversary other brother, his wife, my daughter and I) Party & Cloud Contest Tons of Giveaways • Starting at 11AM Food will be provided. In Loving Memory Arts and Crafts Fair Electronic Cigarettes, Kits, Hours: Saturday June 4th Mon.-Fri. 10a.m.-8p.m. “In memory of Parts, E-juices, Mods & Sat. 11a.m.-8p.m. our beloved Ryan 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Accessories Sun. Noon-4p.m. Douglas Hannan. 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I love Indianapolis, IN 46227 dously. I have eight great and to sing but I don’t think I am a www.ss-times.com another one due soon." good singer." SONGS FROM THE Times-Leader Publications, LLC ©2016. All Rights Reserved 60’s to 80’s Eileen Dunn of Beech Grove Mattie Williams of Beech Grove “Tim Nolan”- Public Invited! The views of the columnists in The Southside Starts at 6:30pm Times are their own and do not necessarily reflect the positions of this newspaper. "I go visit with my kids. "For me personally, I like to They usually put me in a take some time and think VISITORS good mood.