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THIS WEEK on the WEB Community Justice Campus breaks ground Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of July 19-25, 2018 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com NIGHT & DAY Free Amphitheater concerts entertain thousands PAGE 14 IT'S GOLDEN ... Independent Tell me a story living, health and entertainment A local doctor hopes to pass on a family tradition with the publication PAGES 4-5 of of his latest book PAGES 6-10 FEATURE NIGHT & DAY NUTRITION Christian Maslowski Hotel Transylvania 3: Fiber: A moving receives chamber award A swing and a miss experience Page 3 Page 15 Page 18 Come see • Maintenance-free living • Discounted meal prices at our Rose Garden Inn what’s new • Free membership to our fitness center at Rosegate! • Free month’s rent in Independent Living Lease signed by 7/31/18. ASCCare.com 2 Week of July 19-25, 2018 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times FEATURE THIS Contact the on the Editor/Publisher WEEK Have any news tips? Want WEB to submit a calendar event? Have a photograph to share? Call Rick Myers at 300-8782 or email him at [email protected]. Remember, our news deadlines are several days prior to print. Want to Advertise? Fundraising events and a GoFundMe account are The Southside Times collecting money to help Alex Kalscheur (right), an reaches a vast segment 18-year-old Greenwood resident who fractured his of our community. vertebrae during a hike in the French Alps a week ago. (Submitted photo) For information about reaching our readers, Franciscan PCAs finish call Brian Ruckle at 300-8782 or email him at new course Community raising [email protected]. Seven Franciscan Health employees have money for injured passed a six-week Patient Care Assistant 1 New justice campus (PCA 1) program at the southside hospital to Greenwood teen increase their basic clinical skills and health breaks ground care education. The program, launched By Nancy Price earlier this year, is designed to assist hospital Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, along with Marion County Sheriff John Layton, members SERVING THE SOUTHSIDE SINCE 1928 patients with tasks including bathing, feeding This summer, 18-year-old Greenwood and mobility. The PCAs spent two weeks in the of the City-County Council, Citizens Energy Group CEO Jeff Harrison and neighborhood resident Alex Kalscheur went to France on classroom for training and learned hands-on, A PRODUCT OF vacation. Gerald Sargent practical skills instruction and high-fidelity leaders broke ground on the site of the future Publisher Emeritus manikins in the simulation lab and spent four Community Justice Campus. Located on the A week ago, he fell 30 feet while hiking in supervised weeks on various nursing units. former Citizens Energy Coke Plan in the Twin the French Alps, fractured his vertebrae and is Rick Myers Aire neighborhood, the campus will house a jail, confined to a hospital in Grenoble, France, un- Editor/Publisher courthouse, sheriff’s office and an Assessment ss-times.com/Franciscan-pcas- til he has the funds to come back to the U.S. Brian Kelly and Intervention center. The center will connect Medical transportation costs between $80,000 finish-new-course those suffering from mental illness and addiction Chief Executive Officer - $150,000. with treatment and social services and keep Nancy Price Travel from Grenoble to Paris is a four- those who don’t belong in jail, out. MEMBERS OF Content Editor hour train ride and he is required to have a ss-times.com/new-justice- nurse fly with him from Paris. Asha Patel Production/Art Mgr. campus-breaks-ground The local community is assisting to pro- Graphic Design vide funds to help Alex and his mother re- turn home. Agape Performing Arts Compa- For more information, contact us at: ny is collecting donations and cards for Alex [email protected] during their current musical, Oliver! Go to Tel. 317.300.8782 • Fax. 317.300.8786 For more information on these articles and other timely news, visit ss-times.com. AgapeShows.org for more information. As well, Agape is hosting a Dine and Do- 7670 U.S. 31 S., Indianapolis, IN 46227 To join the conversation, visit our Facebook page or www.icontimes.com nate at Firehouse Subs on July 26. Twenty follow us on Twitter @southsidetimes. percent of sales will go toward Alex’s fund. Times-Leader Publications, LLC On July 21 & 22, a bake sale will be held af- ©2018. All Rights Reserved ter all Masses at Our Lady of the Greenwood Catholic Church. The views of the columnists in The Southside There will also be a dinner, dance and si- Times are their own and do not necessarily lent auction at Our Lady of the Greenwood reflect the positions of this newspaper. Parish from 6 – 11 p.m. on July 28. All at- tending the event are asked to register online The Southside Times is published by Times-Leader at bit.ly/2NRjxAZ (case sensitive). Separate Publications, LLC. Content published alongside this registrations are available for those purchas- icon is sponsored by one of our valued advertisers. ing dinner and those who are not. For more Sponsored content is produced or commissioned information or to donate items for the silent by advertisers working in tandem with Times-Leader’s sales auction, contact Marcy Renken at (317) 489- representatives. Sponsored content may not reflect the views of The Southside Times publisher, editorial staff or graphic design Steve and Sharon Coffman 1557 or [email protected]. team. The Southside Times is devoted to clearly differentiating A GoFundMe account is available at go- between sponsored content and editorial content. Potential Celebrating 50 years of marriage on July 20th fundme.com/982pa-bring-alex-home. advertisers interested in sponsored content should call: (317) 300-8782 or email: [email protected]. 50 years, 10 children, 26 grandchildren and counting! Information for this article was collected from Natalie Hoefer, Linda Kile and Tracey Rollison. ss-times.com • Week of July 19-25, 2018 3 The Southside Times COMMUNITY FEATURE President and CEO of the Greater Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, Christian Maslowski (right), won the Indiana Chamber Executive of the Year award at the Indiana Chamber Executives Association’s (ICEA) annual conference held recently in Indianapolis. (Photos by Donna Rice Photography) Maslowski named Indiana Chamber Executive of Year By Nancy Price Left, the back bedroom with noisy dressers.. | Bottom right, family portrait. My father and mother, along with my brother, Kerry and myself. Who could suspect what would come just a few years later. (Photos by Rick Hinton) | Top right, winter landscape with steps to the back porch of the sun room. It remains a mystery. The Indiana Chamber Executives Associ- (Photo by Lynn Hinton) ation (ICEA) has named Christian Maslows- ki, president and CEO of the Greater Green- wood Chamber of Commerce, the 2018 Last conversations with my mom Executive of the Year. Maslowski, no stranger in the cham- ber community, has been with the Greater HAUNTS & JAUNTS She constantly heard footsteps outside say, “OK... I can do this!” I realize now Greenwood Chamber for 11 years. her bedroom at night (being my moth- that I really couldn't. “Christian serves as the ideal candidate er's bedroom); her feet were touched Our friend, Jennifer, is currently care- for this recognition,” said Shelli Williams, By Rick Hinton in bed on occasion; she had a monitor taking the house. She had a rough start IOM, ICEA president. “He goes above-and- on the nightstand beside her bed. Many (covered in past Southside Times arti- beyond with a willingness to help peers suc- When I pulled my mother out of the nights she heard my mom in conversa- cles), yet now all is quiet and whatever's nursing home, bringing her back to her ceed. Peers across Indiana have great respect tion, yet, speaking fluently and in a voice still there... they co-exist. My wife, Laura, for what Christian brings to the profession.” own house, I expected it to be of short du- that seemed to be from her youth; mom has her own impressions: the location is ration. My sister-in-law, Lynn, expected Maslowski, who said he was “beyond flat- would often stare at a chair in the corner a portal of sorts, a vortex, a train station tered and surprised”, did not even know he the same, having uprooted from Florida of her room, stating a “man” was sitting with spirits passing through. Personally, and giving up her own life to care for her. was up for the award until attending a re- there. She never said who it was; Lynn and I believe my mother moved on when she cent ICEA conference held in Indianapolis. Mom lived almost two additional years. a part-time caregiver, Theresa, watched a died. She's not there! And, with not only the physical challenges “I give gratitude to my board of directors and glass slide across the kitchen island; a win- Hospice called that July in 2015. “You staff team.” of dealing with my mother, there was also ter experience of footsteps in the snow need to get here!” The house felt heavi- the house's reactions to it all. It took on a As president and CEO, Maslowski focuses leading from the backyard to the door of er than normal. I knew it was time. Her on community relationships and public policy persona of its own, carrying over to today. my mom's sunroom. There were no de- breathing was labored and loud. I talked Just a few examples of many: efforts.