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THIS WEEK on the WEB Sarah Fisher announces new F4 program with local karting champion Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of February 27-March 4, 2020 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com TIMESOGRAPHY Southside athletes place in state wrestling championship PAGE 6 YOUR ONLY HOMETOWN PHARMACY ON THE SOUTHSIDE Exceptional Service • Accept All Insurance! FREE Celebrating 300 years of history Prescription Delivery! Three St. Paul Hermitage residents turn 100 in February PAGES 4-5 FEATURE FEATURE N&D: MOVIE REVIEW HAUNTS & JAUNTS Governor Holcomb Servant’s Heart of Indy Portrait of a 1635 E. 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Visit eCommunity.com/heart to learn more and take our free Health Risk Assessment. 4 Week of February 27-March 4, 2020 • ss-times.com COVER STORY The Southside Times Celebrating 300 years of history Three St. Paul Hermitage residents turn 100 in February By Nancy Price The year 1920 ushered in a decade of firsts for Americans. The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The first commercial radio station hit airwaves. And the rise of speakeasies, bathtub gin and bootleggers began through the start of prohibition. For three residents of St. Paul Hermitage in Beech Grove, it was also just the beginning ... it was the first year of their lives. Above, Beech Grove centenarians discuss early memories. (Photo by Neal Smith) Helen Flanary the farm. Flanary attended school “And I loved every bit of it. It was Violet Vermaulen through the eighth grade. “I didn’t something you did but at the same Helen Flanary was born Feb. 8, get to high school,” she said. “My dad time it was fun.” Flanary married and Violet Vermaulen was born Feb. 1920 in Floyds Knobs, Ind. She grew said girls in the country didn’t need a had a son. She has been a resident of 18, 1920 in Connersville, Ind., the up on an 80-acre farm with three sib- high school education. We had to do St. Paul Hermitage for about a year, youngest of seven children to im- lings and knew the meaning of hard work on the farm, so we weren’t able enjoys playing bingo and recently migrant parents who met in Grand work. “Back then they didn’t have to go anyplace.” At age 20, Flanary celebrated a “wonderful” birthday. Rapids, Mich. “My father was born the tractors they do now,” she said. moved to Indianapolis and “Everyone was just so astounded at in Holland right on the north sea. “Everything had to be done with our started a job with Indi- the big party we had,” she said. “They He was a machinist and a self-made hands.” She remembers settling up ana Bell as a telephone put everything together and we had to 200 baby chicks in their coop operator. “I was there a really good time.” Celebrating 300 continued on page 5. for the night as one of her jobs on for 33 years,” she said. Left, Helen Flanery grew up on an 80-acre farm in Floyds Knobs, Ind. | Center, Violet Vermaulen saw a movie for the first time in high school. | Right, Joe McDermott attended a one-room schoolhouse with eight grades and one teacher. (Photos by Neal Smith) The Southside Times COMMUNITY ss-times.com • Week of February 27-March 4, 2020 5 Celebrating 300 continued from page 4.