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face to face Southsiders answer the question, "March is the month of the big NCAA Basketball Tournament. Which team do you root for and which tournament moment of the past do you most fondly remember? Why?" Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of March 23-29, 2017 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com TIMESOGRAPHY Greenwood celebrates St. Patrick’s Day Block Party. ERADICATING PAGE 6 EXPLOITATION As Purchased founder Jessica Evans prepares for 6th Annual Illuminate fundraiser, she celebrates a 10-year journey into helping human trafficking victims FEATURE Center Grove junior organizes JasperStrong Shootout for Cancer. PAGE 4 PAGE 8 GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG LIVING SPACES SOUTHSIDE MARKETPLACE Southport addresses spending. Refresh this What’s happening Greenwood looks to build Iceplex. Spring season. on the Southside? 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Sponsored content may not reflect the views of dining room Duke and (Gordon) Hayward's buzzer was when Bobby Knight threw The Southside Times publisher, editorial staff or graphic design $109 & hall PLUS team. The Southside Times is devoted to clearly differentiating beater just missed it." that chair across the gym." deodorizer for between sponsored content and editorial content. Potential Mike Wheeler, works in Perry Township Dave Litteral of Greenwood (317) 786-8378 one low price! advertisers interested in sponsored content should call: Offer good through 3/30/17 Wilson Carpet Care (317) 300-8782 or email: [email protected]. The Southside Times COMMUNITY ss-times.com • Week of March 23-29, 2017 3 GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG SOUTHPORT Greenwood looks to build CITY COUNCIL an Iceplex at Freedom Park Meeting, March 20 By Beth Wade What happened: Resolution 17-04 brought many residents to the Common Council Meeting on Resolution 2017-7 was approved. March 20. This resolution seeks to create What it means: an Economic Redevelopment Area within Resolution 2017-7 was vetoed as an Freedom Park in order to build two ice rinks ordinance at last month’s meeting. The and two turf fields within the park. These resolution was brought back to the council facilities will be a for-profit business and by Councilor Joe Haley. This resolution seeks to bring ice hockey to the Southside. increases the dollar amount the chief of “The first and best location we thought for this project was in Freedom Park,” says police, the mayor and the board of public Mayor Mark Myers. “We prepared Freedom Photo by Rick Hinton works can spend for a single item/contract Park for a secondary structure. Sports are very without additional council approval. important to our community and the youth Compiled by Nicole Davis is very important to this community and with the hockey complex coming in it will fit perfectly within the Freedom Park area.” The The gift of discernment mayor’s office believes that the addition of this complex will help boost the city’s economy. ments and speech). GREENWOOD Many against the complex are not against HAUNTS & JAUNTS the ice rink itself, but rather the location of • Disassociation (normal routines COMMON COUNCIL the rink. “I have lived in Brighton Estates for By Rick Hinton turn strange: “zoning” out while Meeting, March 20 three weeks now, said new resident Vince driving a car, consistently in a haze Matthews. “We moved here to be next to Freedom Park, and were surprised to hear Discernment: The quality of being able or feeling that you are located out- What happened: that a big ice complex would potential trek in to grasp and comprehend what is obscure; side the physical body). Ordinance 17-16 was brought before the hundreds of thousands of people. We aren’t a power to see what is not evident to the council as a Notice of Intent to consider. sure that Freedom Park is the best location for average mind. (Merriam Webster's Colle- Discernment is also important for para- What it means: this facility. I would respectfully ask the council giate Dictionary). normal investigators during the begin- Ordinance 17-16 aims to rezoning of to reconsider the proposed location for the ning phase of a private investigation, also approximately 1.19 acres located at 1 East Iceplex to a more appropriate area.” Those for the Iceplex see it as an added starting with an interview. The interview Main Street, 21 East Main Street, and 259 Catholic priests have a big job ahead of addition to the community. “I certainly them when finding themselves in the dark is crucial in determining whether you will S. Meridian Street from the current zoning respect the concerns of traffic,” said resident Netherlands of determining if a person is say goodnight or return with a car full of of R-2-Residential-Single Family use to C-2- Jeff Banner. “My home does not come up Commercial-Tourist in order to provide for truly possessed, and at a point where an teammates and equipment. If you go in to- against where this rink will be, but my tally buying a story, then you are already the construction of an indoor Mrs. Curl’s. house is up against the soccer complex, the exorcism is warranted. People can eas- The Greenwood Advisory Plan Commission predisposed as to the conclusions you will football complex, and the middle school ily be deceived by their own imagination.