THIS WEEK on the WEB Greenwood RDC proposes design contract for next phase of Madison Avenue construction Page 2 BEECH GROVE • CENTER GROVE • GARFIELD PARK & FOUNTAIN SQUARE • GREENWOOD • SOUTHPORT • FRANKLIN & PERRY TOWNSHIPS FREE • Week of June 20-26, 2019 Serving the Southside Since 1928 ss-times.com MARION COUNTY FAIR 2019 Featured entertainment includes interactive dinosaurs, a new fishing tank game and hot air balloon rides PAGES 6-8 Let freedom Read Greenwood-based One Mission Society TIMESOGRAPHY hosts Freedom Park 5K Run, Southport continues benefiting literacy with its global tradition of flag Bridge to Reading ministry retirement ceremony PAGES 4-5 HAUNTS & JAUNTS FEATURE PET PAGE N&D MOVIE REVIEW Does Bigfoot Tornado causes significant Warning signs Men in Black: International; really exist? damage to Beech Grove of Leptospirosis funny, but without a purpose PAGE 9 Page 3 Page 13 Page 14 Page 17 Altenheim (Indianapolis/Beech Grove) Aspen Trace (Greenwood/Bargersville/Center Grove) Greenwood Health & Living University Heights Health & Living (Indianapolis/Greenwood) YOUR SEARCH IS OVER. www.CarDon.us CARDON - EXPERT SENIOR LIVING SOLUTIONS. 2 Week of June 20-26, 2019 • ss-times.com COMMUNITY The Southside Times Contact the Southside THIS Editor/Publisher on the Have any news tips? 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(RDC) has provided an initial review of a places first in art contest ❏ A. Rabies proposed design contract for the second phase ❏ B. Toxoplasmosis of reconfiguration for Madison Avenue at its Hope Wheatley, an eighth-grader at Franklin SERVING THE SOUTHSIDE SINCE 1928 ❏ C. Hepatitis E June 11 meeting. The next phase includes Township Middle School East, won first place ❏ D. Leptospirosis improvements at the intersection of Madison in TurfMutt’s national “The (Really) Great Avenue and Main Street, currently being Outdoors” contest. The annual contest is part A PRODUCT OF Gerald Sargent Consumption of what type designed and planned for construction in 2020. of the TurfMutt environmental stewardship and Publisher Emeritus 3 of pepper can reduce the education program, which teaches students Rick Myers Editor/Publisher risk of developing cataracts and ss-times.com/greenwood- in grades K-8 to care for living landscapes and macular degeneration, according appreciate their benefits. Contest entrants in Brian Kelly to Chef Wendell? proposes-design-contract- Chief Executive Officer grades 6-8 were asked to design, by writing ❏ A. Chipotle for-Madison-Avenue’s-next about and/or drawing, a nature space that Stephanie Dolan Director of Operations ❏ B. Jalapeno revitalization-phase works for their lifestyle and community. ❏ C. Poblano MEMBERS OF Nancy Price, Content Editor ❏ D. Serrano ss-times.com/franklin- Glenn Augustine township-student-places- Digital Sales Director Which hospital in the Asha Patel 4 Indianapolis area was first-in-art-contest Production/Art Mgr. Graphic Design named to the 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare for the fourth consecutive year? For more information on these articles and other timely news, visit ss-times.com. For more information, contact us at: ❏ A. Franciscan Health To join the conversation, visit our Facebook page or [email protected] ❏ B. Eskenazi Health follow us on Twitter @southsidetimes. 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