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CHARLES FORD RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES OF NEW HARMONY TO PROVIDE HOSPICE CARE

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CHARLES FORD RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES OF NEW HARMONY TO PROVIDE HOSPICE CARE IN AN INDIANA, ILLINOIS REGION

New Harmony, Ind. –March 5, 2023 – The Charles Ford Retirement Communities of New Harmony board of directors is announcing its intent to expand services to include hospice care throughout the service area, specifically a designated radius in Indiana and Illinois. Currently, Charles Ford is an independent, not-for-profit, assisted living retirement community, located on Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana.

The hospice care exploratory study advanced to a 12-month accreditation phase with a unanimous decision made by the Charles Ford board of directors at its February meeting. During the six-month market study and hospice planning process, the board’s Alternative Services Committee sought the services provided by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and Community Health Accreditation Partners (CHAP), along with the expertise of Hope Realized Coaching, LLC, in partnership with Staci Krueger, RN CHPN. According to the Charles Ford board president, Nathan Maudlin, “Each firm we consulted provided us with specific expertise in the exploration and development of a state-of-the-art hospice care program.”

Amy Koch, the long-time executive director of Charles Ford Retirement Communities explained: “By extending our services of assisted living and adding the new service of hospice care, we will answer a specific need for more personalized, intimate, compassionate care in the market radius we’ve defined.

“In recent years,” Koch continued, “hospice care delivery has become nearly robotic as large corporations and insurance companies have acquired local and regional organizations to gain synergies toward the bottom line. Through our new endeavor, Charles Ford will continue its tradition of delivering more personalized, elevated services as we expand those characteristics and deliver end-of-life palliative care that’s focused on the comfort that can be depended upon when it’s provided by compassionate, highly qualified health care professionals.”

“Above all,” Koch said, “Charles Ford is known for a unique culture that reflects its ongoing mission to preserve and enhance an individual’s personal dignity and respect while delivering exceptional care. These qualities will continue within our assisted living facility and be extended throughout the region in our hospice care program.”

The Charles Ford Retirement Communities of New Harmony is committed to providing quality residential living services in residential surroundings, for individuals who need supportive care. To preserve and enhance a resident’s personal dignity and individuality, to promote and encourage independence, and to provide quality of life, while receiving professional assistance with personal and health care needs.

GH Foods NW, LLC, Recalling Ready To Eat Salad

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GH Foods NW, LLC, a Clackamas, Ore. establishment, is recalling approximately 106 pounds of ready-to-eat salad with chicken products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens.

GH Foods NW, LLC Recalls Ready-to-Eat Salad with Chicken Products Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens

FOOTNOTE: This recall was generated by the USDA.

In Selma, Biden stresses voting rights in face of divided Congress

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SELMA, Ala. — President Biden came to this seminal site of the civil rights movement — one that led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 — to try to inject urgency into changing the country’s voting rights laws once more.

Standing near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where on March 7, 1965, marchers advocating for voting rights were attacked by police in a day that has become known as “Bloody Sunday,” Biden said that the right to vote “was under assault” by a conservative Supreme Court, a host of state legislatures and those who continue to deny the 2020 presidential election results.

“As I come here in commemoration, not for show, Selma is a reckoning,” Biden said. “The right to vote and to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything’s possible. Without it, without that right, nothing is possible. And this fundamental right remains under assault.”

Biden is attempting to elevate an issue that he unsuccessfully fought for since the start of his presidency, channeling evocative images to urge Congress to pass voting rights changes despite hardened political divisions on Capitol Hill.

He invoked the legacy of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights icon who was beaten on the bridge that Biden came to walk across 58 years later. The president and other leaders have pushed for legislation named after Lewis that would reauthorize parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013. The House passed a bill in 2021, but the measure failed to get a vote in the Senate. Prospects for the legislation this year appear grim after the GOP gained control of the House in the 2022 midterms.

After the speech, Biden walked with several dozen Black leaders, lawmakers, and others across the bridge, linking arms as an act of solidarity in a place once symbolizing strife. One member of the group led spiritual songs as they crossed and, once they crossed to the other side, the Rev. Mark Thompson offered a prayer to “make this the day we never leave Selma behind.”

t was here in 1965 where demonstrators, Lewis among the leaders, gathered several weeks after an Alabama trooper shot a young Black man named Jimmie Lee Jackson. As a 25-year-old Lewis and 600 others walked across the bridge, they were beaten with whips and billy clubs by Alabama state troopers at the start of what was supposed to be a 54-mile walk to the state capital in Montgomery.

The images of police brutality galvanized the nation. Shortly after, President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It has been a place where others — including Biden himself — have come and called for a renewed fight for voting rights, pushing for more early voting or combating voter ID laws and other barriers that have been introduced since the 2020 election, particularly in states with GOP-controlled legislatures.

It was the first time Biden visited the site as president, and even in his long political career, he has only come here a handful of times. While civil rights had often been a point of pride for Biden in his early years in politics, it has also been a source of regret.

In 2013, when he delivered remarks as vice president to the nation’s first Black president, he made some unscripted remarks before joining the crowd in walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

“I regret — and although it’s not a part of what I’m supposed to say — I apologize it took me 48 years to get here,” Biden said. “I should have been here. It’s one of the regrets that I have and many in my generation have.”

EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

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BASEBALL ACES SWEEP SATURDAY DOUBLEHEADER FROM BOWLING GREEN 

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville baseball exploded for 20 total runs in two games on Saturday, and combined it with strong pitching to sweep a doubleheader from the visiting Bowling Green State Falcons at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium in Evansville.  UE won the opener 9-3 before cruising to an 11-0 run-rule victory in game two.

“What a great day for us at the yard today against a good team,” said UE head coach Wes Carroll.  “Our offense had a great approach and was able to put up some runs against two really good starters, and both Nick Smith and Tyler Denu set the tone on the mound for us with quality starts.

“We were able to stack a lot of quality at-bats together today and put up some crooked numbers, which was great to see.  We have a quick turnaround though, as we play an early doubleheader tomorrow, so we need to be ready to go.”

After erupting for 14 runs on Wednesday in a mid-week victory at Southeast Missouri State, the Purple Aces continued the offensive momentum early on Saturday.  UE plated the first run of the game just three pitches into Saturday’s opener, as junior Kip Fougerousse led off with a double off the wall in right-center field and scored on an RBI single by fifth-year first baseman Chase Hug.  Four batters later, senior third baseman Brent Widder would come through with a two-out, two-run triple off of the glove of a lunging left-fielder to give UE an early 3-0 lead.

UE would add two more runs in the third inning and would take a 5-2 lead to the bottom of the fifth inning, before fifth-year outfielder Danny Borgstrom tripled off the literal top of the outfield fence in right field to score a run to push the lead to 6-2.  He would then score on a sacrifice fly by sophomore DH Ben Stuart to move the cushion to 7-2.

Evansville would tack on two more runs in the sixth inning, and that would be more than enough for UE’s game-one starter Nick Smith (1-2), who tossed a seven-inning complete-game victory while striking out a career-best 12.  Offensively, Hug, junior shortstop Simon Scherry and junior catcher Brendan Hord all had two-hit games, with Hug, Widder, Borgstrom and Stuart all driving in two runs each.

In the nightcap, UE starter Tyler Denu (1-0) struck out the side in the first inning to set the tone on the mound, and Fougerousse crushed the second pitch he saw as UE’s lead-off batter over 414 feet to right-center field to give Evansville a lead it would never lose.  Fougerousse finished the second game going 3-for-5 with three runs scored and an RBI.

After Fougerousse’s fourth home run of the year gave UE a 1-0 lead in the first inning, the Purple Aces would push the lead to 2-0 in the fourth inning on an RBI double by sophomore DH Evan Waggoner.  Evansville would then break things open in the fifth inning with four runs on back-to-back RBI singles by fifth-year outfielder Eric Roberts and Widder, who would both then come into score on a Bowling Green error.  UE then added five runs in the sixth inning to enact the mercy rule, and reliever Shane Harris worked a perfect seventh inning to close out the contest.

Denu earned the victory in game two for UE by tossing 5.0 scoreless innings of three-hit baseball, while striking out four.  Harris allowed just one base runner in two scoreless innings of relief work to close things out.

With the two victories on Saturday, Evansville (5-5) extended its winning streak to five-straight games.  Bowling Green, meanwhile, saw its overall record to 2-6.  The two teams will conclude the four-game series on Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m. at GAB Field.  Junior LHP Donovan Schultz (0-1, 8.00 ERA) and graduate RHP Jarrett Blunt (0-0, 2.45 ERA) are expected to start the two games for UE.

THUNDERBOLTS SHUT OUT 3-0 IN BLOOMINGTON 

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Bloomington, Ill.:  Despite a strong first two periods, the Thunderbolts ran into a hot goaltender in Eric Levine and were unable to score, losing 3-0 to the Rivermen in Bloomington on Saturday night.  The Thunderbolts’ next home game will be on Sunday, March 5th  against the Peoria Rivermen at 3:00pm CT.  For tickets, call (812)422-BOLT (2658), go to EvansvilleThunderbolts.com, or visit the Ford Center Ticket Office.

Cale List opened the scoring 3:47 into the first period, and it remained that way for most of the game, with only a couple of power plays for either side that went unconverted through the next 50 minutes or so.  Evansville outshot the Rivermen in the first and second periods, but could not find the equalizer. The third period was heavily in Peoria’s favor, and the Thunderbolts were outshot 17-4 in the final frame.  Evansville paid for the drop in play, as JM Piotrowski scored a power play goal with 4:16 remaining to make it a 2-0 Rivermen lead before scoring again into an empty net goal with 57 seconds remaining to officially put the game away, 3-0 Rivermen.  In net, Trevor Gorsuch kept Evansville in the game the whole way, finishing with 31 saves on 33 shots.  The Thunderbolts and Rivermen meet once again on Sunday, March 5th at Ford Center.

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Albion Fellows Bacon Center Receives Community Awareness Project Funding  for 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week 

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 Evansville, IN – Albion Fellows Bacon Center has received funding from the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to promote community awareness of crime victims’ rights and services during the 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
 The awarded funding will be used to host victim services tables at local courthouses and a Victims’ Rights outreach fair at Eastland Mall as part of a Community Awareness Project in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey, and Gibson Counties. The Project is part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, an annual observance that takes place April 23-29, 2023.
 “The support from NAVAA and OVC for our 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities will help us help crime victims,” said Ashley McReynolds, Director of Engagement and Resource Development.  “Members of our community are encouraged to help promote justice through service to crime victims by joining our 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities and supporting victim assistance programs on a daily basis.”
First designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week increases general public awareness of, and knowledge about the wide range of rights and services available to people who have been victimized by crime.  The theme for 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is “Survivor Voices:  Elevate, Engage, Effect Change”.
Since 2004, the NCVRW Community Awareness Project has provided financial and technical assistance to more than 1500 community projects that promote victim and public awareness activities, and innovative approaches to victim outreach and public education about victims’ rights and services during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Albion Fellows Bacon Center (with collaboration from partners such as Holly’s House, Willow Tree, Parenting Time Center, Lampion Center, YWCA, Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, Vanderburgh and Posey Prosecutor’s Offices) was one of the 89 recommended by NAVAA and selected for funding by OVC for 2023 from the 151 applications that were submitted nationwide.

Eagles earn split on first day at The Spring Games

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MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. – University of Southern Indiana Softball (4-6) earned a split on the first day of games for the Screaming Eagles at The Spring Games in Madeira Beach, Florida, recording a 2-0 win against Holy Cross before getting edged by Yale University, 3-2, in the night cap.
 
In the first game of the day against Holy Cross, the offenses were rather limited by the starting pitchers. Sophomore pitcher Josie Newman (Indianapolis, Indiana) pitched her second shutout of the season on Saturday for USI. Newman struck out 12 in seven innings, giving up only three hits, to improve her season record to 3-3. Her opposition in the circle from Holy Cross, sophomore pitcher Sophia Roncone, was also strong. Roncone went seven innings, surrendering two runs – one earned – with three strikeouts, as her record dropped to 1-3.
 
USI had a chance in the top of the third with the bases loaded but were unable to score. In the top of the fourth inning, the Screaming Eagles found a little momentum the second time through the lineup in the middle of the batting order. Following a stolen base by sophomore outfielder Olivia Howard (Fishers, Indiana), who came in as a pinch runner, junior first baseman Lexi Fair (Greenwood, Indiana) found the left-center gap for an RBI double to drive in Howard and give USI a 1-0 lead after four innings.
 
Meanwhile, Newman had struck out eight through four innings, including striking out the side in order in the bottom of the fourth.
 
In the top of the seventh, USI scored an insurance run, as junior catcher Sammie Kihega (Greenfield, Indiana) doubled in a run with two outs to put USI ahead, 2-0, which allowed Newman to finish the game with ease.
 
In USI’s second game of the day against Yale, once again, both starting pitchers put up zeroes through the first three innings, working around a few baserunners along the way.
 
For USI, senior pitcher Allie Goodin (Evansville, Indiana) made the start in the circle. In the top of the fourth, Goodin pitched with the bases loaded. A double by Yale scored two unearned runs after an error earlier in the inning. USI answered right away in the bottom half of the inning with two runs to knot the game, 2-2. Goodin helped her own cause with an RBI single that scored junior outfielder Mackenzie Bedrick (Brownsburg, Indiana), and later in the inning, Fair singled in the tying run.
 
Yale recaptured the lead, 3-2, in the top of the fifth on a solo home run by sophomore infielder Lauren Perren. Yale held on the rest of the way.
 
Goodin was charged a tough loss, going six innings with five strikeouts. The senior allowed three runs – one earned. Her record dropped to 0-3.
 
Yale freshman pitcher Emma Taylor picked up the win after a complete game with three strikeouts and two runs allowed. Her record moved to 2-2.
 
Offensively, on the day, Bedrick recorded a pair of hits against Holy Cross, and Kihega had a two-hit game against Yale.

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