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There is no one-size-fits-all approach to addressing Indiana’s health challenges. Chronic problems like obesity and smoking often vary from county to county. Local providers recently received a funding boost to improve health outcomes across Hoosier communities thanks to a new state grant program.
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Indiana awarded $35 million through the Health Issues and Challenges Grant, which is made possible through legislation I supported, to help communities large and small tackle health problems. Click here to learn about funding coming to our area. Service providers will use these dollars to help address tobacco use, food insecurity/obesity, lead exposure, hepatitis C, chronic disease, and disease prevention programs, including community paramedicine and community health workers. Local organizations like county health departments, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations are eligible for the second round of funding and are encouraged to apply for the Indiana Health Issues and Challenges Grant. |
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Improving public health continues to be a top priority, and it’s great to see Indiana step up to help local communities tackle issues to improve Hoosiers’ health and quality of life.
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New Grant Program Helps Tackle Chronic Health Issues
ECVB MEETING
Meetings of the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Convention & Visitors Commission; Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc.; Evansville Visitors Center, Inc.; Evansville Events, Inc.; Evansville-Vanderburgh County Convention & Visitors Commission Building Corporation; and Evansville Vanderburgh County Convention & Visitors Commission Sports Complex Operations Corporation, Inc. (Collectively “Commission”) will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday, July 30th at 330 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Civic Center, 1 NW Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Rm 301, Evansville, IN.
 At the beginning of the meeting the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Convention & Visitors Commission will meet in Executive Session regarding Real Estate and Financial issues pursuant to I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1. Any actionable items resulting from the Executive Session will be discussed and voted on when the meeting is reopened.  Â
IUSD Finishes Up at 2022 FINA World Championships
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Senior Kristen Hayden’s seventh-place finish in women’s synchronized 3-meter diving on Sunday (July 3) concluded Indiana swimming and diving’s performances at the 2022 FINA World Championships in Budapest.
In all, 13 athletes and two coaches with ties to the Indiana swimming and diving program totaled four medals, three of them gold. The athletes also put together 25 top-15 finishes between diving, open water swimming and pool swimming.
Former IU swimmer Lilly King won three gold medals during the competition. With a victory in the 200-meter breaststroke race, King became the first American swimmer to win a career of gold medals in the 50, 100 and 200-meter events of one stroke at the long course world championships.
On Friday, coming out of his freshman season, Carson Tyler nabbed a bronze medal in mixed synchronized platform diving with USA Diving teammate Delaney Schnell. It was a great final weekend for IU divers, as Kristen Hayden capped the meet with an 13th-place showing Friday in women’s 3-meter diving before her seventh-place performance on Sunday. Hayden also finished eighth in mixed synchronized 3-meter diving last week with IU teammate Quinn Henninger.
The meet opened strong for the Hoosiers as freshman Ching Hwee Gan and former IU swimmer Mohamed Samy each broke national records on the first day of pool swimming competition. Gan’s 16:32.43 set Singapore’s standard in the 1500-meter freestyle and placed 14th in the competition, while Samy went 54.67 in the 100-meter backstroke to set the new mark for Egypt and finish 20th.
Freshman Mariah Denigan represented the Hoosiers in open water swimming. Denigan helped Team USA to a seventh-place finish in the mixed 4×1500-meter swim, then, later in the week, earned an individual 15th-place finish in the women’s 10-kilometer race.
INDIANA SWIMMING DIVING RESULTS
2022 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Mariah Denigan
Mixed 4x1500m – 1:05:50.50 (7)
10km – 2:02:54.10 (15)
Marwan Elkamash
1500m Freestyle – 15:10.80 (15)
800m Freestyle – 7:52.08 (13)
200m Freestyle – 1:48.48 (28)
400m Freestyle – 3:47.21 (13)
4×100 Freestyle Relay – 3:19.46 (15)
Youssef Elkamash
50m Breaststroke – 27.92 (23)
100m Breaststroke – 1:02.04 (31)
Tomer Frankel
Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay – 3:30.24 (12)
100m Butterfly – 51.83 (16)
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – 3:48.39 (10)
100m Freestyle Relay – 49.34 (30)
4x100m Freestyle Relay – 3:15.35 (9)
Ching Hwee Gan
1500m Freestyle – 16:32.43 (14)
400m Freestyle – 4:15.19 (23)
Kristen Hayden
3m Synchronized – 273.90 (7)
3m – 270.30 (13)
Mixed 3m Synchronized – 271.86 (8)
Quinn Henninger
3m Synchronized – 299.43 (15)
Mixed 3m Synchronized – 271.86 (8)
Lilly King
4x100m Medley Relay – 3:53.78 (1)
50m Breaststroke – 30.40 (7)
200m Breaststroke – 2:22.41 (1)
Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay – 3:43.16 (1)
100m Breaststroke – 1:06.07 (4)
Vini Lanza
100m Butterfly – 52.78 (25)
200m IM – 2:01.84 (23)
50m Butterfly – 24.26 (41)
Annie Lazor
50m Breaststroke – 30.89 (13)
100m Breaststroke – DQ
Rafael Miroslaw
4×100 Medley Relay – 3:32.63 (6)
100m Freestyle – 48.65 (19)
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay – 3:46.64 (8)
200m Freestyle – 1:48.28 (26)
Mohamed Samy
100m Backstroke – 54.67 (20)
4x100m Freestyle – 3:19.46 (15)
Carson Tyler
3m – 346.75 (31)
Mixed 10m Synchronized – 315.90 (3)
Watland goes the distance in Otters win
SAUGET, Ill. -Â Justin Watland pitched his second complete game of the season Sunday, as the Evansville Otters defeated the Gateway Grizzlies 6-2.
Much like Saturday night’s contest, the game started with a pair of scoreless innings, starting pitchers Watland and Carson LaRue carved through the innings efficiently.
The scoreless tie was broken by Evansville in the third, as Anthony Torreullas hit his second home run of the season. Three batters later, Elijah MacNamee answered with a solo home run of his own, expanding the Otters’ lead to 2-0.
Evansville’s lead was doubled in the sixth, kicked off with MacNamee’s second solo home run of the day. Later in the inning, J.R. Davis hit an RBI single to add to the lead.
The lead hit 5-0 in the seventh when Andy Armstrong hit his first home run of the season.
Finally, Gateway found offense in the seventh as Trevor Achenbach hit his league-leading 15th home run of 2022, a solo shot.
The Otters backed up Watland in the eighth, giving him another run of insurance, this time on a sacrifice fly RBI from Torreullas.
Gateway managed one more run off Watland in the ninth, a solo home run from Isaac Benard, but would stay four runs down.
The 6-2 advantage gave Evansville their sixth win in a row and claimed the series win at Gateway.
Watland pitched all nine innings to the win, giving up two runs on for hits, and recording a personal season-high 10 strikeouts. Carson LaRue received the loss, allowing five runs on eight hits in 6.2 innings.
MacNamee and Davis each recorded multi-hit days with MacNamee and Torreullas clocking multi-RBI games.
The holiday weekend four-game set concludes Monday night as the Grizzlies and Otters play at GCS Credit Union Ballpark at 6:45 p.m. Coverage begins on the Evansville Otters YouTube page at 6:35 p.m.
Rain delay doesn’t stop Otters from winning fifth straight
SAUGET, Ill. -Â Following strong pitching through the first eight innings Saturday, Logan Sawyer closed out a 3-1 win for the Evansville Otters against the Gateway Grizzlies after a brief rain delay going to the bottom of the ninth inning.
The game started in a scoreless tie through the first two innings, but the Otters crossed home plate first in the third inning.
Elijah MacNamee put the Otters ahead 1-0 on an RBI single that extended his on-base streak to 35 games.
In the bottom half of the third, Gateway evened things up at 1-1, capitalizing on a two-out error by George Callil. Two batters after the error, an RBI single from Cesar Trejo did the trick.
Evansville quickly retook the lead, as Jeffrey Baez hit a solo home run to dead center field in the fourth inning, lifting the Otters to a 2-1 lead.
After a scoreless fifth inning, Evansville grabbed a 3-1 lead on an RBI double off the top of the wall from Andy Armstrong.
Starting pitcher Austin Gossmann delivered five strong innings on the mound before handing the ball to Jacob Bowles for two scoreless innings and another scoreless frame by Augie Gallardo in the eighth.
Midway through the ninth, a 10-minute rain delay halted things on the field as Logan Sawyer took the mound.
Once the delay concluded, Sawyer returned to the mound, dispatching the Grizzlies in 1-2-3 fashion to earn his league-leading 13th save of the season and seal the Otters’ fifth straight victory.
Austin Gossmann grabbed the win in his first start since coming off the injured list, allowing just one unearned run on seven hits in five complete innings. Justin Ferrell dropped to 1-1, allowing two runs on five Evansville hits in his five innings.
Armstrong recorded two hits for a second straight game, alongside Steven Sensley and MacNamee.
The series continues Sunday night from GCS Credit Union Ballpark at 6:45 p.m., coverage on the Evansville Otters YouTube page begins at 6:35 p.m.
Todd Rokita Wins Favorable Supreme Court Ruling On Indiana Law Requiring Parental Notification When Minors Get Abortions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lower court’s judgment against an Indiana law requiring parental notification in instances when a court allows a minor to get an abortion without parental consent.
“Following the landmark Dobbs decision, we eagerly anticipate clearer paths for Indiana’s commonsense laws protecting unborn children and their mothers,†Attorney General Todd Rokita said. “We are grateful for the new day that has dawned, and we will remain steadfast in our fight for life.â€
This issue — part of Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al., v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc. — now has been remanded back to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for reconsideration following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Attorney General Rokita and his team already have sought relief from the injunction directly from the U.S. district court, which has expedited briefing at our request.
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Indiana DCS Receives Federal Approval For Prevention Funding
INDIANAPOLIS  – The Indiana Department of Child Services received approval from the Administration for Children and Families of its Title IV-E Prevention Program Five-Year plan, which allows the state to use federal funding for the first time to deliver prevention services to families with the goal of keeping children safely with their families and out of foster care.
The prevention plan is a requirement of the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), a federal law that was adopted in 2018 and focuses on keeping families together as well as ensuring that children who do have to be removed are placed in family settings whenever possible and not in congregate-care placements. It outlines how the department will utilize the funding on evidence-based practices to try to safely preserve more families, which, whenever possible, is better for kids and their families.
“The Family First Act opened the door for child welfare agencies to use federal funds in a very different way,†Indiana DCS Director Terry Stigdon said. “We are eager for the opportunities this will present to support the children and families we serve.â€
DCS implemented the congregate-care requirements of FFPSA in the fall of 2021. States may claim Title IV-E prevention services funding dating back to the quarter they first submitted an approvable plan. That makes Indiana eligible to claim for services going back to Jan. 1, 2021.