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Indiana Lands 13 on CSCAA Scholar All-America Team
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving program had 13 athletes selected to the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) 2020-21 Scholar All-America teams, the publication announced on Tuesday.
The CSCAA named 789 swimmers and divers to its Scholar All-American Team for the 2020-21 season. The award recognizes students who achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or higher and were invited to compete at their respective national championship.
To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes must have earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher and participated in their national championship. Second-Team selections (also called Honorable Mention) must have also earned a 3.50 GPA or higher and achieved a “B” time standard for the national championship or participated at a diving zone qualification meet.
2020-21 Men’s CSCAA All-Americans
Mory Gould (HM) – Biology
Brandon Hamblin – Marketing
Gary Kostbade (HM) – Biology
Maxwell Reich (HM) – History
Thomas Vanderbrook (HM) – Media
2020-21 Women’s CSCAA All-Americans
Elizabeth Broshears – Biochemistry
Laurel Eiber – Exercise Science
Anne Fowler – Healthcare Policy & Management
Josie Grote – Exercise Science
Bailey Kovac – Human Biology
Mackenzie Looze – Speech & Hearing Sciences
Noelle Peplowski – Sport Management
Ella Ristic – Management
The 13 selections from the Hoosiers rank tied for fifth in the Big Ten Conference.
- Ohio State Buckeyes – 26 selections
- Michigan Wolverines – 18 selections
- Wisconsin – 16 selections
- Minnesota – 14 selections
t-5. Indiana Hoosiers – 13 selections
t-5. Northwestern – 13 selections
t-5. Penn State – 13 selections
Founded in 1922, the CSCAA, is the nation’s first organization of college coaches. The mission of the CSCAA is to advance the sport of swimming and diving with coaches at the epicenter of leadership, advocacy, and professional development.
Faas, Walsh named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans​​​​​​​
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men’s Soccer goalkeeper Justin Faas and defender Colten Walsh were named College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-Americans in a vote of the NCAA Division II sports information directors. The Academic All-America awards are the first for Faas and Walsh at USI.
The honors are the third and fourth CoSIDA Academic All-America awards in the history of USI Men’s Soccer and the first since 2012.
To be eligible for the CoSIDA Academic All-District, the student athlete must be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and at least a 3.3 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale). They must have reached a sophomore athletic and academic standing at the institution and must have completed at least one full academic year at the institution.
Due to the cancellation of the 2021 NCAA Division II championship season, nominations were based upon career athletic statistics.
Faas, a 2020 USI magna cum laude graduate with a degree in English and master’s degree candidate in sport management, has led the Screaming Eagles between the posts for the last four years. The four-time Academic All-GLVC goalkeeper has a 28-13-4 record in four seasons with 16 shutouts and a career 1.15 goals against average (GAA). He will enter the fall ranked third in shutouts and fourth in saves all-time at USI.
In the GLVC-only 2021 campaign, Faas had a 1.48 GAA with three shutouts and 50 saves in the 14 matches this spring.
Walsh, a junior finance major, has 27 career points in three seasons on 10 goals, including three game-winners, and seven assists. During the spring 2021 season, the junior defender ranked second on the team with 10 points on four goals, two game-winning scores, and two assists. The four goals tied a career-best and the two game-winnings were a career-high for Walsh.
As a team, the Eagles concluded their first spring regular season with a 7-6-1 overall record, 7-5-1 in the GLVC, and earned a trip to the GLVC Tournament, falling in the first round. USI, which has posted a program record six-straight winning seasons, is slated to resume a normal season schedule this fall
Shooting 2100 block S Weinbach
Around 2:30 p.m. on July 4th, Evansville Police Officers were dispatched to a parking lot inthe 2100 block of S Weinbach Ave. in reference to shots fired. Dispatch received multiple calls about a male shooting a firearm at another male in the parking lot.
Officers located the Victim near Kathleen and Weinbach Ave. The Victim had a gun shot wound to his lower back and was transported to the hospital. The Victim’s condition is unknown at this time, however, the injury did not appear to be life threatening.
The Victim told Officers that he did not know the suspect and did not know why the suspect shot at him. Officers were able to pull up surveillance video of the incident. The suspect
arrived in the parking lot in a vehicle. The suspect walked into the store and was inside for a few minutes. The video shows the suspect exit the store and have a verbal exchange with someone in the parking lot. He brandishes a firearm and begins to shoot toward the Victim in the parking lot. The video shows the suspect chasing the Victim through the parking lot. The suspect then got into the vehicle that he arrived in and fled the scene.
Investigators were able to identify the suspect. He was identified as 27-year-old DevinShavar Hobby from Evansville. Hobby was located by Evansville Police Officers on July 5thand taken to EPD Headquarters. Investigators spoke with Hobby about the incident and he admitted he was the shooter. Hobby was taken to the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center and charged with Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon.
Commentary: If We Can Keep It
Commentary: If We Can Keep It
By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com
One July 4, a group of white men in South Carolina decided to mark the holiday in a peculiar and tragic fashion.
On Independence Day, 1876—America’s centennial—two white planters traveled to Hamburg, South Carolina. Hamburg was a town run and primarily populated by Black Americans, many of whom once had been slaves. The planters provoked a confrontation by claiming that members of the Hamburg Company, a state militia unit, had blocked their path.
The Red Shirts went to court. Their lawyer was a former Confederate general who, without any authority to do so, demanded that the Hamburg Company disband and surrender to him personally.
More Red Shirts—more than 100 white supremacists, all armed—descended on the town. The Hamburg Company took refuge in their armory. The Red Shirts surrounded the armory and opened fire.
The Hamburg Company returned fire. A white man was killed.
The Red Shirts made plans to bring in a cannon. The members of the Hamburg Company chose to slip away in the night.
Enraged, the white supremacists started gathering Black citizens of Hamburg, some of them militia members, some of them not.
The white supremacists formed a circle around their captives and debated what to do. While the Black citizens listened, they decided to kill some just to send a message to others about who really should be running things.
That’s what they did.
The white supremacists shot four Black men dead, then, for good measure, went on to kill a Black state legislator.
Still others were wounded and at least one Black man died in panicked firing that came after the slaughter.
That was Independence Day, 1876—100 years after we Americans established ourselves as a nation by declaring:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
We are marking another Independence Day now.
Most of us likely will see the holiday as a moment of celebration, one filled with cookouts, hot dogs and fireworks. We will wave the flag and celebrate all that is good about America.
And there is much that is good about our country.
Not the least of those good things is our declared dedication to principles—liberty and equality among them—that are aspirational in nature. We say that it is our devotion to these principles that defines us as a nation.
But, because we are human, because we are fallible, we often fall short of doing so.
As we did on the centennial of this nation’s birth in Hamburg, South Carolina.
That is why our national holiday always should be something other—something more—than an exercise in jingoistic self-congratulations.
It also should be a time of reconsecration—of dedicating ourselves once again to the ideals upon which this nation was founded and is supposed always to aspire to achieve.
The founders of this nation were not perfect human beings, and they knew they were not. They knew that establishing a nation in which human beings would govern themselves would not be easy and that the ideals to which they proclaimed devotion always would be threatened, always would be imperiled.
That is why, when someone asked him following the Constitutional Convention what sort of government the delegates had formed, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.â€
This Independence Day weekend, we Americans again find ourselves in a time when our beliefs once again often are tested, often are threatened, often are imperiled.
Thus it always has been.
Thus it always will be.
That’s because the American Revolution never really ends. We must strive constantly to achieve ideals that call for perfection and, because we are human beings, we are not perfect.
But strive we must and strive we shall.
Because we live in a republic.
If we can keep it.
FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
The City-County Observer posted this article without bias or editing.
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERSÂ REGULAR MEETING ATB THEÂ KEVIN WINTERNHEIMER CHAMBERSÂ IN ROOM 301, CIVIC CENTER COMPLEXÂ ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2021Â AT 12:00 NOON
                                AGENDA
1. Â Â Â CALL TO ORDER
2. Â Â Â MEETING MEMORANDUM Â June 16, 2021
3. Â Â Â CONSENT AGENDA Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
     a. Request Re: Approve and Execute Park Property Use Permit with Montessori Academy ofÂ
       Evansville, Indiana for use of West Branch Library for a public Day of the Dead Celebration
       Saturday November 6, 2021. -Ridenour Â
     b. Request Re: Approve and Execute Park Property Use Permit with Greater Evansville Media, LLC
       for use of Roberts Park for Evansville BBQ Festival.- Notter  Â
     c. Request Re: Approve and Execute Park Property Use Permit with Easterseals for the use ofÂ
       Garvin Park for Fantasy of Lights.- Holtz                  Â
4.   OLD BUSINESSÂ
      N/A
5. Â Â Â NEW BUSINESS Â
     a. Request Re: Settlement and Release of Partial Assignment of lease for Pagoda with theÂ
        Evansville Museum and the Convention Visitors Bureau.- Holtz
     b. Request Re: Any Other Business the Board Wishes to Consider and Public Comments.    Â
6. Â Â Â REPORTS
     Brian Holtz- Executive Director        Â
7. Â Â Â ACCEPTANCE OF PAYROLL AND VENDOR CLAIMS
8. Â Â Â ADJOURN
VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
 Evansville, IN – Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office:
Alex Monroe Seets
| Count 1 – HC – Theft : 6F : Pending |
Domonic Lashean Smith
|  | Count 1 – CG – Burglary : 5F : Pending | |||
|  | Count 2 – Theft : AM : Pending | |||
Charles Ray Woodard
|  | Count 1 – CG – Burglary : 5F : Pending | |||
|  | Count 2 – Theft : AM : Pending | |||
Samantha Jo Mosley
|  | Count 1 – Possession of Methamphetamine : 6F : Pending | |||
|  | Count 2 – Possession of a Narcotic Drug : 6F : Pending | |||
Avondre Kavaun Luster
| Count 1 – CG – Burglary : 5F : Pending | |||
|  | Count 2 – Theft : AM : Pending | ||
Bernard Michael Nelson
|  | Count 1 – CG – Burglary : 5F : Pending | |||
|  | Count 2 – Theft : AM : Pending | |||
Terrance Dujuan Rogers
|  | Count 1 – CG – Burglary : 5F : Pending | ||
| Count 2 – Theft : AM : Pending | |||
Devin Terrell Arna Dowdy
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| Count 2 – Theft : AM : Pending
Alex Monroe Seets
Domonic Lashean Smith
Charles Ray Woodard
Samantha Jo Mosley
Avondre Kavaun Luster
Bernard Michael Nelson
Terrance Dujuan Rogers
Devin Terrell Arna Dowdy
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Ark Crisis Child Care Celebrating Their 40th Birthday
Ark Crisis Child Care is celebrating their 40th birthday this year which Bryan Ruder is currently serving as the President of the Board.
In 1981, Ark Crisis was founded by Junior League of Evansville as a signature project.  The mission still is to keep children safe and strengthens families in times of stress.
Ark gives 1,400 children a safe haven each year when they need it the most. This includes working parents who have no access to safe, affordable care for their children.
With the continual community support, Ark provides free child care for children and a resource for parents and caregivers to help them reduce the stress in their lives. When family stress is reduced, children are less likely to be abused or neglected.
Families do not have to be low-income or residents of Vanderburgh County to receive assistance at Ark. In the classrooms, early childhood professionals provide a collection of age-appropriate materials such as educational toys, art, and games as well as projects to enhance each child’s self-worth and socialization skills.
Wishing Ark Crisis Children Center a Happy 40th Birthday and another successful Keep the Ark Afloat Auction is the Stifel’s Evansville office.  Pictured: Seated: Thomas Ruder.   Second Row left to right: Robert Kozsan, Bryan Ruder, Sharon Ruder and Andre Hicks.
Ark Crisis makes a better place for children.  Happy 40th Birthday!
If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call at 812-475-9353.