face to face Southsiders answer the question, "The Fourth of July is next Tuesday. What does your family do to celebrate this patriotic holiday?" Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of June 29-July 5, 2017 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com TIMESOGRAPHY Greenwood Our Annual Salute to our Veterans Freedom Festival FACES OF FREEDOM PAGE 4 READERS' WRITES T. Wood T. Pollard K. McAndrews J. Rankel J. Bennett An update on Beech Grove Marsh. Southside military men and women from each military branch tell their PAGE 6 stories of service to their nation PAGES 11-14 HAUNTS & JAUNTS BEECH GROVE MARKETPLACE LIFESTYLE The Amityville Horror; What’s coming up Fertilizer Fact or fiction? in July? yourself lately? Page 3 Page 9 Page 15 BetterHarvest Futures the Rewards ofLive a Lifetime Here. at Rosegate Garden Homes & Assisted Living ASCSeniorCare.com 2 Week of June 29-July 5, 2017 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times 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 deadlines are several days prior to print. Fountain Square: face to Hero Jr. - Unplugged Want to Advertise? Vinyl Release Show face The Southside Times reaches a vast segment of HERO JR. has a reputation for playing different Q: The Fourth of July our community. shows each night, often stretching their well- is next Tuesday. For information about crafted rock tunes into epic jams. They will play reaching our readers, a live unplugged vinyl release show in Fountain What does your family call Brian Ruckle at Square, at Square Cat Vinyl, 1054 Virginia Ave. 300-8782 or email him at on July 7 at 8 p.m. do to celebrate this [email protected]. patriotic holiday? ss-times.com/hero-jr-release Photo by Kurt Anno: Hero Jr. "For the past three years my family and I have gone camping up in Michigan along Lake Michigan. I have some cousins up A product of there and so we usually Gerald Sargent go camping with them Publisher Emeritus Don’t risk fireworks and make it a big family Rick Myers, Publisher thing. There are some cousins who come and grilling injuries up from Kentucky as well." Brian Kelly Chief Executive Officer Julia Kurz of Franklin Township this Fourth of July Sharon Hostetler Director of Operations Two of America’s favorite pastimes during "We usually gather at one Nicole Davis, Editor traditional Fourth of July holiday celebrations of the homes of a relative are fireworks and grilling. As the most or one of my sons and we Members of Asha Patel American of holidays draws near, it’s wise to like to eat watermelon Production/Art Mgr. be aware of the potential dangers associated and just have a cookout. Graphic Design with those activities. Take advice from Eskenazi We also like to take a Grant Gaynor, Health professionals: hike. Maybe down on the Graphic Design Intern canal where some of the ss-times.com/fireworks-tips- monuments are, like the USS Indianapolis." Lee Braun, lives near Beech Grove Serving the Southside from-eskenazi Since 1928 "My husband serves in For more information, contact us at: the military and continues [email protected] to serve in the military. Tel. 317.300.8782 • Fax. 317.300.8786 For more information on these articles and other timely news, visit ss-times.com. For our country, we think about our friends who 7670 U.S. 31 S. To join the conversation, visit our Facebook page or my husband served Indianapolis, IN 46227 with, especially the ones follow us on Twitter @southsidetimes. who served with him in www.icontimes.com Afghanistan who passed away. We contact Times-Leader Publications, LLC their relatives and celebrate together as a ©2017. All Rights Reserved FOR THE RECORD family. We get together with them if we can." face to face Southsiders answer the question, "Who is your favorite comic book Jessica Holmes, works in Beech Grove superhero or what is your favorite superhero movie? Why?" 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HAUNTS & JAUNTS The house remained empty for 13 months after the murders. In December of 1975 George and Kathleen Lutz, with By Rick Hinton three children from Kathleen's previ- ous marriage, purchased the home for a Some stigmatized houses are more fa- bargain price of $80,000 (considering the mous than others. Some become a fab- area) and moved in. They were not with- ric of folklore and speculation. The Am- out information about the house. During ityville House is one such... a story of the first inspection, the real estate agent brick,wood and mortar, and a family ex- revealed about the Defeo murders. It was periencing literal hell on earth during no problem for the Lutzs. They loved the their short tenure within its walls. Fact or house! However, it soon became one. A fiction? That's your discretion. However, few of the experiences of the Lutz family: this WAS one stigmatized house. 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