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THIS WEEK on the WEB Indianapolis firefighter recruit dies in auto accident. Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of April 25-May 1, 2019 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com TIMESOGRAPHY Mount Pleasant hosts fifth annual An answered prayer meal-packing event Greenwood couple meets and marries at senior living community PAGES 4-5 PAGE 6 FEATURE Plans progress for new West Perry Township Library HAUNTS & JAUNTS FEATURE FEATURE MATTERS OF HEALTH Haunting memories Fifty Southside suspected Mrs. Curls reopens after Preventing chronic mental of the ‘blue lady’ drug dealers arrested child pornography charge & physical conditions PAGE 9 Page 3 Page 7 Page 8 Page 15 REHABILITATION LONG TERM CARE YOUR SEARCH IS OVER. MEMORY SUPPORT CARDON - EXPERT SENIOR LIVING SOLUTIONS. www.University-Heights.us 2 Week of April 25-May 1, 2019 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times Contact the Southside THIS Editor/Publisher on the Have any news tips? Want News Quiz WEEK to submit a calendar event? WEB Have a photograph to share? Call Rick Myers at How well do you know your 300-8782 or email him at Southside community? [email protected]. Remember, our news Test your current event deadlines are several days knowledge each week prior to print. with a little Q&A! Want to Advertise? The Southside Times reaches a vast segment of our community. Newlyweds Betty Howell 1 and Dan Fitzpatrick met at For information about Greenwood Meadows Senior reaching our readers, Community. What were they call Brian Ruckle at doing at the time they met? 300-8782 or email him at [email protected]. ❏ A. Eating a snack in the kitchen ❏ B. Watching TV ❏ C. Playing a game in the community activities room Komen Central ❏ D. Attending a yoga class Indiana invests in Indianapolis recruit Who is the “blue lady” Eskenazi Health program SERVING THE SOUTHSIDE SINCE 1928 2 believed to be haunting firefighter killed in Story Inn? Susan G. Komen® Central Indiana is supporting vehicle accident A PRODUCT OF Gerald Sargent ❏ A. A former owner’s sister, Eskenazi Health’s EMBRACE Patient Navigation Publisher Emeritus who was visiting and died program with $128,284 in grant money. The A recruit firefighter with the Indianapolis Rick Myers of pneumonia in the early grant provides wraparound and interpretation Fire Department was killed in a vehicle accident Editor/Publisher 30s services to patients seeking prevention and early April 19. David R. Short II, 26, and his girlfriend Brian Kelly ❏ B. George Story’s wife ❏ detection of breast cancer and those fighting were traveling northbound on Mt. Comfort Chief Executive Officer C. A waitress who had a breast cancer. 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PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY THE FRIENDS OF TOM VAUGHN COMMITTEE ss-times.com • Week of April 25-May 1, 2019 3 The Southside Times COMMUNITY ENDORSED BY THE MARION COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY YOUR REPUBLICAN CITY COUNTY COUNCIL TEAM The Story Inn. Come for a gourmet Indiana cuisine meal, a visit to the famous Still Tavern, or perhaps, an overnight stay in the Blue Lady Room. (Photo by Rick Hinton) PAUL ANNEE • DISTRICT 23 LAURA GIFFEL • DISTRICT 16 Buying a small Indiana town with ghostly benefits: part II above the Inn's restaurant. It has been renamed HAUNTS & JAUNTS JASON HOLLIDAY • DISTRICT 20 DOUG WOOD • DISTRICT 24 as such. She is thought to be Dr. George Story's wife. It is believed that if a blue light is turned PAID FOR BY THE PERRY GOP PAC AND AUTHORIZED BY PAUL ANNEE, LAURA GIFFEL, JASON HOLIDAY, AND DOUG WOOD. By Rick Hinton on, it summons her. Past encounters seem to revolve around the color blue: her hypnotic When Rick Hofstetter took over the Sto- blue eyes and leaving trinkets of blue behind, ry Inn, and consequently the entire town of such as ribbons. Sometimes, as she moves Story in 1999, he had heard the stories, yet about in flowing white robes, she'll acknowl- remained a skeptic concerning ghosts and edge you. Sometimes she goes about her busi- such. He is no longer. ness as if you're not there. Some feel she must Hofstetter, an attorney and law professor, is have been a smoker in life because of the oc- also a well-known preservationist, instrumen- casional smell of cherry tobacco upstairs. Inn NOW ENROLLING tal in calling attention to several distinguish- employees have had their own encounters. ing Indiana landmarks. He served as the first While the Blue Lady's reputation lies within president of the Athenaeum Foundation, Inc. the Inn, many feel the entire town is haunted. endeavor, which essentially saved the gothic “My role is over,” Hofstetter told Kev- Children 7 & under with autism German building in downtown Indianapolis. in Rader of Eyewitness News. “I've had 20 Buying the 17-acre village some 20 years years. I put my stamp on it. It's not every day at I-65 and Stop 11 Road ago at a sheriff's tax sale became another someone gets to buy a town. I've had that ex- preservation effort. The present town of three perience. Now I want to live long enough to residents – Hofstetter, Jacob and Kate Ebel, sell a town.” However, while the town is for Our Early Childhood Center - and a few dogs – still remains locked in the sale, the Story Inn is not. Hofstetter wants past. There's been no new construction since South is open to children to separate the restaurant/bed & breakfast the depression. The 1937 Standard Oil Crown business from the town. He wants the spir- with autism ages 7 and gas pumps still stand in front of the building it of Story to stay intact. “The business will as the cycle of southern Indiana seasons con- under, oering specialized, have the same relationship with the town as tinue their trek forward. What has been de- Macy's does with the mall, “he explained. “It research-based, early scribed as “perhaps the best surviving exam- will be a tenant and we offer lease payments. intervention programming. ple of a 19th-century pioneer logging/farming Whoever buys this [Story] will take it with community in the American Midwest” is up restrictions, but there will be cash flow.” To start your enrollment for sale, and it comes with a few ghosts! In March, Story, Indiana was listed on the After acquiring the inn, Hofstetter found process, call 317-849-5437 National Register of Historic Places. Maybe guest books, left by the former owners, 5545 E. Stop 11 Road, Indianapolis it's time for a weekend sojourn south. in each room. He read them. They were in place so guests could document their ghost- ly encounters. Once the journals were filled, Rick Hinton, a Southport resident, they were placed in the attic. From the num- loves researching things that go bump ber of books found, apparently these sight- in the night.