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COUNTRY LEGEND MARTY STUART COMING TO EVANSVILLE 

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Evansville, IN – Victory Theatre is excited to announce that the legendary Marty Stuart will be hitting the stage on Nov. 18. While he’s too gracious to admit it himself, the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and musician is living, breathing country-music history. He’s played alongside the masters, from Cash to Lester Flatt, who discovered him; been a worldwide ambassador for Nashville, Bakersfield and points in between; and safeguarded country’s most valuable traditions and physical artifacts. Including its literal shoes: Stuart counts the brogan of Carter Family patriarch A.P. Carter and an assortment of Cash’s black boots among his vast collection of memorabilia. 

When it comes to transforming country songs into tangible experience, Stuart has a secret weapon: the Fabulous Superlatives. Made up of guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and new member, bassist Chris Scruggs, the Superlatives are an extension of Stuart himself. 

“The Superlatives are missionaries, they’re fighting partners. They’re my Buckaroos, my Tennessee Three, my Strangers. They’re my legacy band and have been since Day One,” says Stuart. 

As Stuart himself will tell you, he often ventures off the reservation – in a way, his entire career has been “way out west.” While other artists chased popular trends in the name of radio play, he formed complete bodies of work, not unlike the greats he idolized. His 18th album, Way Out West, is just the latest embodiment of that creative mission. 

“I would play this record for Hank Williams, Merle Haggard or Ernest Hemingway and never bat an eye,” says Stuart. “There’s something in there that would entertain each of them.” 

But Stuart also made Way Out West for those who come after. As he sees it, there is no greater responsibility in music than to share what you’ve learned. 

“Lester Flatt saw something in me and gave me his wisdom, wit and music. Johnny Cash was my best friend. But all of that doesn’t come for free. The job is to pass it along,” says Stuart, stretching out his arms. “That’s the way it’s supposed to be in country music.” 

Tickets go on sale May 21 at 10 am at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets are $39, $59, $46, and $99. VIP opportunities available. 

 

HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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Order Processing Administrator
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Corporate Services Support
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Ability and confidence to develop original written correspondence to develop reports, proposals, and customer and field communications….
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Warehouse Associate
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Valid driver’s license. Good driving record. May need to be certified to operate a forklift. Ability to multitask and manage time well….
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Division Pricing Support Analyst
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The position must have a financial analysis background and be able to develop advanced spreadsheet models, charts, graphs, and develop key performance…
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Automation Engineer
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Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Technology or Electrical Engineering. Field Visits and Commissioning at customers’ sites….
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Warehouse Associate / Packaging
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On-Site CSR / Inventory Specialist
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INDOT Hosts Hiring Fair on Thursday, May 20; Starting Pay at $19 per Hour

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The Indiana Department of Transportation will host hiring fairs at ten locations across the state on Thursday, May 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (all times local).

INDOT has more than 100 open positions in a variety of careers, but the greatest need is for skilled trade positions. INDOT recently increased starting pay for highway technicians and several other positions to $19 per hour, with opportunities to move up to $20 per hour with a valid commercial driver’s license (CDL).

Recruiters will be available at all hiring fair locations to share information about starting a career at INDOT, answer questions, and help candidates to apply.

Hiring Fair Locations

  • Aurora – 8074 W. U.S. Highway 50, Aurora, IN 47001
  • Bluffton – 2800 W. State Road 124, Bluffton, IN 46714
  • Cloverdale - 10 High St, Cloverdale, IN 46120
  • Elkhart – 58905 County Road 9, Elkhart, IN 46517
  • Fort Wayne – 5333 Hatfield Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46808
  • Gary – 7601 Melton Road, Gary, IN 46401
  • Indianapolis – 7105 E. Brookville Road, Indianapolis, IN 46239
  • Seymour – 185 Agrico Lane, Seymour, IN 47274
  • Wabash – 1178 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, IN 46992
  • West Lafayette – 2319 U.S. Highway 231, West Lafayette, IN 47906

Ready to apply for a career at INDOT right now? Go to workforindiana.in.gov to find open positions.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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 Evansville, IN – Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.

Jamie Lee Pate

Count 1 – Intimidation : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Resisting Law Enforcement : AM : Pending
  Count 3 – Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury : AM : Pending

Kelvin Simmons

  Count 1 – Carrying a Handgun Without a License : 5F : Pending

Laquisha Laverne Weatherall
  Count 1 – Battery Against a Public Safety Official : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Intimidation : 6F : Pending
  Count 3 – Resisting Law Enforcement : AM : Pending
  Count 4 – Resisting Law Enforcement : AM : Pending
  Count 5 – Criminal Mischief : BM : Pending

Dustin Dywayne Hargrove

Count 1 – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Auto Theft : 6F : Pending
  Count 3 – Leaving the Scene of an Accident : BM : Pending

George James Robertson

Count 1 – Criminal Recklessness : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Carrying a Handgun Without a License : AM : Pending

Victor Carl Wells

Count 1 – Battery Against a Public Safety Official : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Resisting Law Enforcement : 6F : Pending
  Count 3 – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Endangering a Person : AM : Pending
  Count 4 – Criminal Mischief : BM : Pending
  Count 5 – Reckless Driving : CM : Pending

Marcellus Darnell Washington

Count 1 – HC – Possession of Methamphetamine : 3F : Pending

Sonya Louise Gold

Count 1 – HC – Possession of Methamphetamine : 3F : Pending

Cameron Kyle Davis

   Count 1 – Domestic Battery : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Domestic Battery : 6F : Pending

Casey Shaun Clark

Count 1 – HC – Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator : 6F : Pending

Dennis Johnson

Count 1 – Battery Against a Public Safety Official : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Intimidation : 6F : Pending

Jamie Orian Massie

   Count 1 – Theft : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Criminal Trespass : AM : Pending

Victoria Paige Hodge

Count 1 – Possession of Methamphetamine : 6F : Pending

Claudia Johanna Wimber

   Count 1 – Possession of Methamphetamine : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Possession of a Controlled Substance : AM : Pending

Sara Catherine Winsel

   Count 1 – Possession of Methamphetamine : 6F : Pending

Aron Joseph Jochim

Count 1 – Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator : 6F : Pending

Christine Marie Welborn

Count 1 – Domestic Battery : 6F : Pending

Amanda R. Messex

Count 1 – Domestic Battery : 6F : Pending

Jesse Lee Adams

Count 1 – Criminal Confinement : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Domestic Battery : 6F : Pending
  Count 3 – Possession of Marijuana : BM : Pending

Dennis Ray Stroud

Count 1 – Domestic Battery : 5F : Pending

Joseph Shane Drury

Count 1 – Auto Theft : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Resisting Law Enforcement : 6F : Pending
  Count 3 – Operating a Motor Vehicle Without Ever Receiving a License : CM : Pending

Joseph Allen Brown
  Count 1 – Residential Entry : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Criminal Trespass : AM : Pending
  Count 3 – Criminal Mischief : BM : Pending

Paul Joseph Wininger

Count 1 – Criminal Confinement : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Domestic Battery : AM : Pending

Jamielee M. Scott

Count 1 – Possession of Methamphetamine : 6F : Pending
  Count 2 – Possession of a Controlled Substance : AM : Pending

Jacob Jose Rivera

Count 1 – Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon : 5F : Pending
  Count 2 – Possession of Altered Firearm : 5F : Pending
  Count 3 – Carrying a Handgun Without a License : AM : Pending
  Count 4 – Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury : AM : Pending
  Count 5 – Possession of a Controlled Substance : AM : Pending

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact 812-435-5150.

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES STATEWIDE COVID-19 CASE COUNTS

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Letter To The Editor: Teenage Opportunities To Save Our Businesses

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Teenage Opportunities To Save Our Businesses

by Joe Jack Wallace

It has been nearly 50 years since I was hired into my first real job with a paycheck.  It was the summer of 1973 and the job was at Jimmy’s Drive Inn in Sturgis, Kentucky where I earned a whopping 75 cents per hour and all I wanted to eat.

I learned many valuable life lessons there including showing up on time, being groomed appropriately to work with the public and budgeting my earnings for important things like gas, records and an occasional trip to the Broadview drive-in theater. The experience helped me learn the soft skills needed as a platform for life and work.

Today’s teenagers have an opportunity for summer jobs that will teach them the same skills plus, with the much-discussed worker shortage, the teenagers who answer this call can literally help local small businesses get through the temporary worker shortage.  Many things contribute to the worker shortage like enhanced unemployment benefits, slow processing of unemployment claims, insufficient daycare options and school closings.  These problems will eventually stabilize and life will get back to pre-pandemic days but this combination of disruptive things has created a golden opportunity for enterprising teenagers.

Teenagers have always wanted to “change the world”.  This year’s high school graduates have an opportunity to positively change the economies of the places they live by stepping up to take the jobs that adults are unwilling or unable to fill at this time.

So, come on young people, rise to the occasion as young people often do by taking the jobs that desperately need to be filled. You will be better off in life for doing so and you will make your hometowns better too.

Local Health Orders Lift As New Law Takes Effect

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Local Health Orders Lift As New Law Takes Effect

May 17, 2021   
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By Taylor Dixon

TheStatehouseFile.com

Across the state, local health orders are being lifted after the General Assembly met earlier this week to override Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of Senate Enrolled Act 5.

SEA 5 takes power from local health departments and says that they should make decisions in collaboration with county councils or other county officials. Almost immediately after the law passed, the Indianapolis city council voted to keep all existing health orders, such as keeping indoor restaurants at 75% capacity and keeping a mask mandate.

Mindy Waldron, Allen County Health Department director, said SEA 5 will slow down the process of health departments making emergency health orders. Photo provided.

Other counties, like Tippecanoe and Elkhart, had their health orders undone by the override.

Dr. Virginia Caine, director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department, said that the department has been working closely with both health and local state officials to find the safest ways to protect public health.

“The ability to make quick decisions at a local level is critical to protecting Hoosiers during a public health crisis,” Caine said in a statement.

Mindy Waldron, Allen County Department of Health administrator, agreed, saying that most counties work with local officials when making these decisions, but SEA 5 will slow down the process.

“In public health, we utilize a lot of information to make sound decisions, and we usually base that on science-based and fact-based information when we issue these emergency orders. We’re experts in this area and it’s what we do each day, and so to rely on others who do not have that knowledge base concerns us as public health officials,” Waldron said.

Allen County was not directly affected by SEA 5 because health officials there dropped their mask mandate to an advisory when Holcomb announced the advisory in April.

However, some Republicans argued that SEA 5 allows for a more balanced system, comparing community leadership to the state level.

“SEA 5 brings important balance with regard to personal freedoms and public health. Since the onset of the pandemic, Gov. Holcomb has relied on his advisors—including his state-level public health officer—to provide him with the information he needs in order to make decisions on how to lead our state,” Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, said in a statement.

“SEA 5 creates the same setup at the local level and allows action to be taken quickly if needed. We fully expect our local leaders to heed the advice of those with expertise around them, including local health officers. However, our local elected officials were elected to lead their communities, just like the governor leads the state, and those local officials are ultimately accountable to the voters.”

FOOTNOTE:  Taylor Dixon is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Braun & Grassley Call For Oversight On FEMA COVID Funeral Assistance Program

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WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Braun & Senator Chuck Grassley have sent a letter to Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, calling for oversight of FEMA’s Funeral Assistance Program.

The Senators wrote in the letter that they are “concerned that the lack of congressional direction under this program, the high payment amounts of up to $35,500 per applicant, and the resulting guidance issued by FEMA will result in the Program being one rampant with fraud.”

Reasons for concern cited in the letter include:

  • The Frequently-Asked-Questions section of the FEMA website provides guidance on how to amend a death certificate if “[t]he death certificate doesn’t attribute the death to COVID-19.”
  • FEMA’s Funeral Assistance Program eligibility criteria issued on April 14 stated there is no requirement for the decedent to have been a U.S. citizen.
  • On the first day, FEMA’s call center received over one million calls. While a high demonstration of interest is not a problem in of itself, compared to the number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 the level of interest in this program – when paired with the broad eligibility criteria and high payment amounts – is an indication the Program may be ripe for fraud.

Senators Braun and Grassley are calling for an audit or investigation into the FEMA Funeral Assistance Program. Specifically, asking that the relevant report include:

  1. Statistical and biographical information of approved and applied decedents, including the number of applications received from each state, race, age, gender, income level and region.
  2. As an attachment, all FEMA documents guidance, and communications that are cited in the report.
  3. The actions FEMA took to deter fraud within the program.
  4. The average amount of benefit provided.
  5. The number of applicants that utilized amended death certificates and the states and localities they were from.
  6. The number of decedents that did not have legal immigration status.

Read the full letter:

Grote, Kostbade Earn NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana senior swimmers Josie Grote and Gary Kostbade have both been awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, the organization announced. Grote was also a recipient of the NCAA Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Award.

“We are so proud of both Gary and Josie for this fantastic accomplishment,” Indiana head swimming coach Ray Looze said. “This achievement embodies the core goals of our program. To win an NCAA postgraduate scholarship takes elite level academics and athletics over a sustained period of time. It’s one of the most prestigious awards a collegiate athlete could be honored to win.”

 NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

The NCAA awards up to 126 postgraduate scholarships annually. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are at least in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.

The one-time non-renewable scholarships of $10,000 are awarded three times a year corresponding to each sport season (fall, winter and spring). Each sports season there are 21 scholarships available for men and 21 scholarships available for women for use in an accredited graduate program.

All former student-athletes who earned an undergraduate degree from an NCAA member school are eligible to be nominated by that school for an NCAA graduate degree scholarship, regardless of when they received their undergraduate degree.

Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Graduate Scholarship

The Ethnic Minority and Women’s Enhancement Graduate Scholarship were developed by the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics and the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee.

The goal of the enhancement programs is to increase the pool of and opportunities for qualified minority and female candidates in intercollegiate athletics through graduate scholarships.

The NCAA awards $10,000 to 13 ethnic minorities and 13 female college graduates who will be entering their initial year of graduate studies. The applicant must be seeking admission or have been accepted into a sports administration or program that will help the applicant obtain a career in intercollegiate athletics, such as athletics administrator, coach, athletic trainer or a career that provides a direct service to intercollegiate athletics.

All former student-athletes who earned an undergraduate degree from an NCAA member school are eligible to be nominated by that school for an NCAA graduate degree scholarship, regardless of when they received their undergraduate degree.

JOSIE GROTE

Grote, a two-time All-American from Madison, competed in the Big Ten Championships in all four of her collegiate seasons. She earned All-Big Ten second team accolades in 2021 as a member of the silver medal 800 Freestyle Relay team. She also earned an individual bronze in the 400 IM at the conference meet before securing a fourth-place finish in the event at the NCAA level, the highest placing by a Hoosier female in the history of the event. Grote nabbed six top-10 individual finishes in her career at the Big Ten Championships.

She earned both Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors in 2019.

Grote graduated in the spring of 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science with minors of medical science and psychology. She plans to attend physician’s assistant school with the hopes of working in orthopedics with other athletes.

GARY KOSTBADE

Kostbade, a graduating senior from Chesterton, was a three-year scorer at the Big Ten Championships Meet. He placed eighth out of the Championship Final in both the 100 and 200 Breaststroke events during his sophomore campaign (2019) at the conference meet and competed in the Consolation Final in the 200 Breaststroke as a junior (2020) and a senior (2021).

He earned Academic All-Big Ten in 2019 and was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in the same season.

Kostbade graduated in the spring of 2021 with a bachelor’s of science in biology and a minor in business. He will begin dental school in the fall at the Colorado School of Dental Medicine. He intends to open his own dental practice in the future with a focus in either pediatric or family dentistry.

Since the start of the 2015 academic year, Indiana has produced four recipients of the award. Three of the four have come from the swimming program: Anze Tavcar (Winter, 2017-18), Josie Grote (Winter, 2020-21) and Gary Kostbade (Winter, 2020-21). Olivia Hippensteel (Spring, 2016-17) also earned the distinction from the women’s track team.

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CARTOON OF THE WEEK

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This week’s Cartoon was created by Jeff Koterba.  Jeff Koterba’s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

This cartoon is published bY the CITY-COUNTY OBSERVER with permission of DARYL CAGLE SYNDICATE CARTOONS, INC

Daryl is America’s most widely syndicated editorial cartoonist (along with the other CagleCartoonists).

Daryl is a past president of the National Cartoonists Society and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation.

 

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