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IMPRACTICAL JOKER JOE GATTO BRINGS ALL NEW “LET’S GET INTO IT TOUR” TO EVANSVILLE

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TICKETS GO ON SALE NATIONALLY ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, AT 10 AM 

 Evansville, IN – January 28, 2025 – Improv comedian and television personality Joe Gatto will perform his Let’s Get Into It Tour to Old National Events Plaza on Thursday, June 19, 2025. The show brings all new material to stage this summer and opens with special guest Mark “Jiggy” Jigarjian, who is hitting the Plaza stage for the first time. Fans can pick up tickets early during the venue presale, starting Thursday, January 30, by visiting the venue’s social media pages. 

 Gatto is best known from the hit TV shows “Impractical Jokers” and “The Misery Index.” Most recently, he toured for two years with his stand-up solo show “Joe Gatto’s Night of Comedy,” in sold out theaters across the United States, Canada and Australia. Prior to that, he toured with the Jokers to sold-out crowds across the world, including legendary arenas, such as Madison Square Garden in New York and the O2 Arena in London. 

 Joe also hosts the popular comedy podcast “Two Cool Moms” on the iHeart Radio Podcast Network where he and his co-host dispense sage motherly advice to fans who write in with their dilemmas. An accomplished author of two titles—a self-published book, “The Dogfather: My Love of Dogs, Desserts and Growing up Italian,” and a children’s picture book published by Penguin Random House, “Where’s Bearry?” Joe lives his life by a code of pastry and family, loving his wife, two adorable children, his pack of dogs and cannoli. 

 Mark Jigarjian is an Armenian stand-up comedian and writer based in New York City best known for his work touring with the hit television show, Impractical Jokers. Mark has been seen on TruTV, Roku Channel, TBS and Food Network and is releasing his debut stand up special “Larger Than Life,” in 2024. He’s been a guest Joker on Season 9 and 10 of “Impractical Jokers,” winner of Roku’s “Dishmantled,” and contestant on Food 

Network’s “Cooks vs Cons.” Mark is a proud member of the iconic New York Friars Club and producer of the “Two Cool Moms Podcast.” 

 Ticket Information:  

 

What:                  Joe Gatto: Let’s Ge Into It Tour Featuring Mark Jigarjian 

When:                 Thursday, June 19, 2025, at 7:00 PM  

Where:                Old National Events Plaza | 715 Locust Street | Evansville, IN 47708 

Tickets:               Tickets start at $35.75 plus applicable fees and tax 

 

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or the Old National Events Plaza Box Office. For more information about the Aiken Theatre, visit: www.oldnationaleventsplaza.com. 

 

Learn Guitar for FREE at WPL

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Event Details:

Date: Tuesdays, February 4 – March 18 (No lesson March 4)

Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM

Location: Bayard Room (second floor)

 

Experience the joy of learning guitar in a fun and welcoming environment! Beginning February 4, join Logan Dyer, owner of Music First in Evansville, for six weeks of free acoustic guitar lessons at Willard Public Library. Open to ages 15 and up, with guitars available at no cost for registered participants.

 

Register Here: 

https://www.willardlib.org/adult-events

 

Willard Public Library encourages patrons and visitors to donate graciously to ensure the continuation of events like this for years to come. The WPL’s Foundation is a non-profit organization registered as a 501(c)(3). >> https://www.willardlib.org/donate

Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibit coming to Vincennes University’s Shake Library in March

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VINCENNES, Ind., January 28, 2025 – The Vincennes University Shake Library is gearing up to host the traveling exhibit “Americans and the Holocaust,” accompanied by engaging events exploring this tragic historical period. Additionally, the library will showcase heartfelt butterfly displays created by the University Community and the public to honor the lives lost.

The exhibit will debut in the Shake Library, located in the Shake Learning Resource Center, on March 17 and run through April 28.

“Americans and the Holocaust” offers a thought-provoking look and explores the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. The Shake Library collaborated with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association (ALA) to bring the traveling exhibition to Vincennes.

VU Director of Library Services Charla Gilbert said, “The “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibit holds deep significance as it examines a pivotal and sobering chapter in history, reminding us of the importance of understanding our past to shape a more compassionate future. The Shake Library is honored to host this exhibit at VU, offering community members, VU students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to engage with its powerful message through tours and accompanying events. Together, we hope to foster important dialogue, deepen understanding, and honor the memory of those impacted by this tragic period in history.”

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Shake Library has created a Butterfly Project that offers the University Community and broader community a unique opportunity to engage with the exhibit and honor Holocaust victims. The library is asking VU students, faculty, staff, and community members to create butterflies in various forms of media, including paper, ceramics, photography, digital art, and more. Those butterflies will be on display throughout VU. The library encourages people to take a look at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s database of over 600 ID cards to get inspiration from those who experienced the Holocaust.

For additional information, to submit photos or digital files of your butterflies, or to schedule a time to drop them off at the Shake Library, contact Tiarra Basham at tiarra.basham@vinu.edu.

The Shake Library’s butterfly display is inspired by the Butterfly Project initiated by the Holocaust Museum in Houston to honor the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust. The museum’s inspiration is Pavel Friedmann, a Jewish Czechoslovak poet who wrote the poem “The Butterfly” while in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. In 1944, Friedmann was transferred to Auschwitz, where he was killed. His poem was later published in a book, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944.”

The exhibit is open any time the Shake Library is open, and operating hours are available at vinu.libguides.com/shakelibrary. 25-minute guided tours are available, but signing up in advance is required at vinu.libcal.com/space/168652. Large groups are also asked to sign up. 

The Shake Library is located at 130 E. College Ave. inside the Shake Learning Resource Center on the Vincennes Campus. For more information, visit vinu.libguides.com/USHolocaustExhibit

The Shake Library’s “Americans and the Holocaust” Events include:

  • “The U.S. and the Holocaust” Documentary Showing

Thursday, Feb. 20, 6-8 p.m. (ET), CANDLES Museum, Terre Haute

The CANDLES Museum will present selected clips from “The U.S. and the Holocaust”, A film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein.

  • Opening Reception

Tuesday, March 25, 6-8 p.m. (ET), Shake Learning Resource Center Café

The Shake Library will celebrate the “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition. The reception is free to attend but the library requests that you register for the event.

  • Keynote Speaker: Trent Andrews, “Echoes from Auschwitz: The Story of Eva Kor”

March 27, 11 a.m.-Noon and 1-2 p.m. (ET), Red Skelton Performing Arts Center and Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting

https://vinu-edu.zoom.us/j/95113409583

Meeting ID: 951 1340 9583

Trent Andrews serves at the Operations Director of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum in Terre Haute. He possesses more than decade of experience in Holocaust education. He has met many survivors and visited numerous Holocaust sites. Andrews will share the compelling story of Eva Mozes Kor, a twin survivor of the Holocaust and the horrific medical experiments at Auschwitz, who established Indiana’s only Holocaust museum.

  • Panel Discussion: “Effects of World War II on Vincennes and Surrounding Areas”

Tuesday, April 1, 6-8 p.m. (ET), Shake Learning Resource Center, Innovation Room 112 and Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting

https://vinu-edu.zoom.us/j/9180738980?omn=98156164438

Meeting ID: 918 073 8980

The discussion will feature local and state historians including: Christopher Fischer (Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana State University), Jill Weiss Simins (Archive Advocate for the Indiana Archives and Records Administration), Cynthia Killion Frederick (Knox County Public Library Staffer and Knox County Historian), and Gazella Summitt (Expert on the Jewish Community of Knox County).

  • “Recitations & Reflections” featuring Vincennes University Theatre Students

Thursday, April 3, 11 a.m.-Noon (ET), Shake Learning Resource Center Café

VU students will perform readings and monologues reflecting on the people who lived during the Holocaust.

  • Recital: Kyle Forehand, “Butterflies: Confronting Our Past, Ensuring Our Future”

Tuesday, April 8, 6:30-8 p.m. (ET), Shircliff Humanities Center Auditorium and Vincennes PBS recording

A search for reconciliation and justice through the music of the Holocaust, by song and lecture, told through the voice of a Nazi’s great-grandson. Arkansas native Kyle Forehand, a baritone, is currently a graduate student in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

  • Book Talk: Jason Lantzer, “Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust: A History”

Thursday, April 10, 11 a.m.-Noon (ET), Shake Learning Resource Center, Innovation Room 112 and Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting

https://vinu-edu.zoom.us/j/9180738980?omn=95407402664

Meeting ID: 918 073 8980

Jason S. Lantzer is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including most recently his book about Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust. The research and writing of Hoosier native and Indiana University graduate centers on the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American History in addition to the impact of the Walt Disney Company on American culture. Lantzer is currently the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program.

  • Humanities Film and Lecture Series Screening and Discussion: “Home of the Brave: When Southbury Said NO to the Nazis”

Tuesday, April 15, 6-8 p.m. (ET), Shircliff Humanities Center Auditorium

The 36-minute film explores “how one small American town in 1937 recognized hate and evil and said no to a regime well before it would become responsible for genocide.” Following the screening, local historian and author of “Vincennes: A Pictorial History” Richard Day will lead a discussion exploring the ways Knox County and Southern Indiana responded to “Nazism, war and genocide in Europe” between 1933 and 1945.

  • Indiana Jewish Historical Society Director Michael Brown, “After Survival, The Story of Joe Levine in Post-War Bavaria”

Tuesday, April 22, 11 a.m.-Noon, Zoom Only with Discussion in Shake Learning Resource Center Innovation Room 112

Join Zoom Meeting

https://vinu-edu.zoom.us/j/95233560423

Meeting ID: 952 3356 0423

Brown is Executive Director of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society, a historian, and hosts the podcast, “IN-Jewish History.” and will present the story Joe Levine, the first Executive Director of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society. Levine was one of the first social workers to arrive in Europe right after the end of World War II. He took a leave of absence from his job as executive director of Fort Wayne Jewish Federation to look after the welfare of thousands of Jewish displaced refugees who were still reeling from the unfathomable scope of tragedy and horror that was the Holocaust.

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USI welcomes Dr. Vesna Dimitrieska as Distinguished Scholar Presenter

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Every Spring, the University of Southern Indiana College of Liberal Arts engages a speaker for the Distinguished Scholars presentation aimed at drawing attention to one or more of the disciplines within the liberal arts. This year, the College will welcome Dr. Vesna Dimitrieska, Director of Global Education Initiatives at Indiana University, from 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, February 12 in Kleymeyer Hall, located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center, to present The Perils and Prospects of Bilingualism in the U.S. This event is open to the public at no charge, but registration is required.

Dimitrieska’s work focuses on expanding the world language programs in K through 12 education across Indiana and internationalizing P-16 education. Her research interests include language teacher cognition, language teacher identity, reflective practices of teacher educators, as well as instructional practices and professional development of language teachers in foreign/second language contexts and dual language immersion programs.

For more information about this event, visit the College of Liberal Arts’ website, or contact Dr. David Hitchcock, Chair of the World Languages and Cultures Department, at dhitchcoc@usi.edu.   

EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

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Two Deceased After Not Complying with Traffic Stop and Fleeing

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At 2:58 p.m. on 1/28/2025 officers with the Evansville Police Department initiated a traffic stop at the Circle K gas station at 4101 US HWY 41. After the initial stop, the driver of the vehicle fled north on US HWY 41 at 3:01 p.m. Officers then terminated the stop, disengaging their lights and sirens. The lead officer proceeded north on US HWY 41 to attempt to monitor the fleeing driver’s actions. The fleeing vehicle continued north until being involved in a crash at the intersection of US HWY 41 and St. George. Officers immediately attempted to render aid to the occupants of the fleeing vehicle when the accident was discovered. Both occupants of the fleeing vehicle were deceased.

The investigation determined that the accident occurred when the fleeing vehicle collided with a semi- trailer that was turning east onto St. George from southbound US HWY 41. The driver of the semi-trailer did not report any injuries. While the scene was still under investigation, a witness contacted officers notifying them that a firearm was located in the area of the incident. This firearm was seized as evidence pending further investigation.

We would like to thank the Indiana State Police and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department for their assistance with traffic control while this major intersection was shut down.

Vanderburgh County Arrest Warrants

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Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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D. Patrick’s Raymond Farabaugh Named TIME Dealer of the Year

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Raymond L. Farabaugh of D. Patrick was named the TIME Dealer of the Year at the annual National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The TIME Dealer of the Year award is one of the automobile industry’s most prestigious and highly coveted honors. The award recognizes the nation’s most successful auto dealers who also demonstrate a long-standing commitment to community service. Farabaugh was chosen to represent the Automobile Dealers Association of Indiana in the national competition.

“The most rewarding aspect of my automotive career has been witnessing the growth and success of my employees,” nominee Farabaugh said. “By empowering individuals and providing them with the tools they need to succeed, I’ve created a high-performing team that is committed to delivering exceptional customer service and to driving the company forward.”

Farabaugh earned a B.S. in psychology at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, in 1979. After college, he started his career at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas, Texas, where he was director of internal systems.

Ten years later, Farabaugh had the opportunity to join his father-in-law, D. Patrick (Pat) O’Daniel, at the family’s auto group and work in the Honda dealership. He was named finance manager, then attended the NADA Academy to prepare for a broader leadership role. He moved to different dealerships within the group and rose from sales manager to general manager.

“Pat was an excellent mentor and spent countless hours with me,” he said. “I’ve been blessed to learn from many colleagues in the automotive industry, and I’ve capitalized on the opportunities afforded to me.”

In 1999, Farabaugh and his brother-in-law, Michael O’Daniel, purchased the dealership from Pat. Today, they share ownership and split responsibilities for overseeing specific franchises in the D-Patrick group.

“Since acquiring the company, my focus has been on growth, profitability, facility improvements, and employee development, both professionally and personally,” he said. “I take special pride in the fact that virtually all my employee leaders have started from entry-level positions. Looking ahead, my goals include continuing to elevate professionalism in the automotive industry and mentoring employees to reach their full potential.”

Farabaugh is equally committed to giving back to his community and encourages the leaders in his company to take an active role in local organizations. His controller volunteered to be campaign chair for the capital campaign benefiting the Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville (CMOE). Farabaugh also provided the necessary time off for his employee to fulfill his mission.

“So far, the ‘Play It Forward’ capital campaign for CMOE has raised $5.1 million of the $6.5 million goal” he said. “In addition to providing an important public service, my controller gains more confidence in his abilities, enhances his leadership skills, and expands community connections, which also benefit our company.”

According to Farabaugh, D-Patrick has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in direct contributions and sponsorships, supporting an array of local organizations. Some examples include Ark Crisis Children’s Center, Boone County Cancer Society, Boys & Girls Club of Evansville, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Ohio Valley, Special Olympics Indiana, Tri-State Food Bank, Walk to End Alzheimer’s Southwest Indiana, and many more.

“We also empower our employees to participate in community activities during working hours, fostering a culture of giving back,” he said. “This commitment is deeply rooted in our company’s values and reflects our belief in the power of corporate citizenship.”

IS IT TRUE? Wednesday January 28, 2025

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IS IT TRUE that Evansville Mayor Stephanie Terry and other community representatives are in Indianapolis today to testify before the Ways and Means Committee? …that they are there to support a bill authored by Tim O’Brien that will significantly increase the amount of money captured in the Evansville Professional Sports and Convention Development Area (PSCDA)? …that last year, with a cap of $10 per resident, the PSCDA captured $680,000? …that HB 1451 would raise that cap to a flat $5 million? …that the bill increases the captured amount by 750%?

IS IT TRUE that the mayor and E-REP may have unannounced plans for spending a $5 million a year gift from the state? …that the funds could be used to secure a bond that could pay for fun and games projects like a baseball stadium, a really rad skate board park, or maybe fund a professional bocce ball league?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville is home to one of the best car dealerships in America? …that D. Patrick’s Raymond Farabaugh was just named the TIME Dealer of the Year at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show? …that the D. Patrick car dealerships have supported numerous great causes in the community?

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