THIS WEEK on the WEB Tribute to late Lutheran High School teacher. Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of July 6-12, 2017 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com PAGES 10-13 FEATURE GROW, GIVE, Commitment to Connect ENGAGE PAGE 10 TIMESOGRAPHY Fletcher Garden Project Manager Going out Ted Letherer volunteers to build with a bang a community around agriculture PAGE 4 PAGE 6 FEATURE FRANKLIN MARKETPLACE WEEKLY MOVIE REVIEW Trooper Bartram Memorial Foundation What's happening in Spider-Man: hosts annual Memorial Ride. Southeast Indy! Homecoming Page 5 Page 7 Page 15 BetterHarvest Futures the Rewards ofLive a Lifetime Here. at Rosegate Garden Homes & Assisted Living ASCSeniorCare.com 2 Week of July 6-12, 2017 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times BUSINESS Contact the Editor THIS Have any news tips? Want to submit a calendar event? on the Have a photograph to WEEK share? Call Nicole Davis at WEB 300-8782 or email her at ndavis@southsidetimes. com. Remember, our news Tribute to Lutheran deadlines are several days High School’s prior to print. Teacher of the Year Greenwood Park Mall Want to Advertise? Each year, Lutheran High School honors one to open new retailer, The Southside Times of its amazing teachers to show appreciation, reaches a vast segment of respect, and praise of a teacher who has gone remodel two our community. above and beyond for his/her students by For information about naming them “Teacher of the Year.” The 2016-17 Additions – Greenwood Park Mall, a Simon reaching our readers, Teacher of the Year for Lutheran High School mall, will add one new retailer and renovate call Brian Ruckle at is Miss Monica Wagner. Miss Wagner began two existing retailer storefronts. MAC Cos- 300-8782 or email him at teaching at LHS in 1999. Her last full semester metics will open this summer while Tor- [email protected]. of teaching was in the Fall of 2016, after which, she fell ill to neuroendocrine cancer. She lost her rid and Finish Line undergo a facelift. The battle in March 2017. Greenwood Park Mall store will unveil its MAC Cosmetics store in the space next to ss-times.com/tribute- Francesca’s. Torrid will temporarily move lutheran-wagner to the old Vanity space while the storefront undergoes a complete overhaul, and Finish Line will begin work on a new front façade A product of Gerald Sargent later this summer. For more information, Publisher Emeritus IndyPL’s Summer visit shopgreenwoodparkmall.com. Rick Myers, Publisher Brian Kelly Reading Program Chief Executive Officer AROUND TOWN Sharon Hostetler continues Director of Operations The Indianapolis Public Library’s 2017 Summer Cox endorses Burgess for Nicole Davis, Editor Reading Program, “Read It & Eat” continues at Members of Asha Patel Southside branch locations through July 29. Johnson County Sheriff Production/Art Mgr. This year’s reading incentive program offers Graphic Design Politics – young readers the opportunity to nourish Johnson County Sheriff Doug Cox Grant Gaynor, their minds through the world of books and a has formally endorsed Duane Burgess to be Graphic Design Intern variety of fun and educational activities while his successor in the 2018 election. Burgess taking part in a philanthropic cause. holds the rank of Major in the Sheriff’s Of- Serving the Southside fice and is the Commander of the Jail Divi- ss-times.com/indy-summer- sion, supervising 50 officers. 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"This month is National Page 2 Breast Cancer Awareness Month – how has this illness impacted your life?" B E E CH G R OV E • C E N T E R G R OV E • G A R F I E L D PA RK & F OU N TA I N S Q UA R E • G R E E N WO O D • S O U T H P O R T • F R A N K L I N & P E R RY TOW N S H I P S Page 3 ss-times.com BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of October 20-26, 2016 Serving the Southside Since 1928 Serving the Southside Since 1928 DID YOU KNOW... FREE • Week of December 22-28, 2016 ss-times.com more than 30 years. In the late 1980s and ear- TIMESOGRAPHY Westwood GOVERNMENT UNCOVERING Elementary WATCHDOG The views of the columnists in The Southside students craft blankets, scarves Southport City Council for the adopts 2017 budget. homeless. Greenwood to construct LOVE new roundabout. PAGE 5 Page 18 ly 1990s, he worked as a Corrections Officer THROUGH LOSS Times are their own and do not necessarily IT'S GOLDEN Franklin Township’s Zoeller Reminiscing, healthcare family experiences kindness and a winter checklist from the community after their Page 10-14 horse barn is destroyed in a fire. FEATURE PAGES 6-7 reflect the positions of this newspaper. Laura VanArendonk Baugh PET PAGES for the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, to present her book The importance of So to Honor Him vaccinations. at the Franklin Road library. face to face Page 20-21 Southsiders answer theJulie question, Dolen Eerily"Do you have a memory ofdecorates New Years her NUTRITION PAGE 8 Eve or New Year’s Day thatGarfield stands out Park home from the others? What did you do, PUMPKIN POWER what happened and whyto does ensure this every child has engagingcome to mind?" Pagea spooky, 2 fun time by Chef Wendell Fowler provided security for the Johnson County MOVIE REVIEW on Halloween ....... 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