New Protocols To Help Students Stay Healthy, On Campus
by Wendy McNamara
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As college students begin classes at the University of Southern Indiana, the school is implementing these protocols to keep everyone safe and healthy:
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New Protocols To Help Students Stay Healthy, On Campus
Three Main Streets Awarded Grants To Preserve Women’s History
Three Main Streets Awarded Grants To
Preserve Women’s History
INDIANAPOLIS (August 26, 2020) – Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch, who serves as chair of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and the Indiana Main Street Council, today announced three Main Street communities are awarded Preserving Women’s Legacy Grants. This funding will aid in their efforts to highlight and preserve women’s history.
“The awarded projects capture how influential these strong Indiana women were to the suffrage movement,†Lt. Gov. Crouch said. “I’m excited to visit each of the cities to walk the new trails, appreciate the public art and see Hoosiers of all ages learn more about these extraordinary women.â€
Preserving Women’s Legacy Grants support historic preservation work, public art and other projects that commemorate Indiana women’s history and promote visits to Main Street communities. These projects will provide a lasting legacy in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote.
Keira Amstutz, president, and CEO of Indiana Humanities said “We are absolutely thrilled to support the telling of these lesser-known but incredibly impactful stories and the extraordinary trailblazers behind them. These rich pieces of history woven into the fabric of our state deserve to be widely known and celebrated. We look forward to partnering with the grantees in their efforts to connect these stories with Hoosiers in their local communities, across the state and beyond.â€
The grants are a project of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, presented by a partnership between the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs and Indiana Humanities. In addition to project funding, the partnership is providing capacity building and marketing training to ensure the project’s sustainability in all three cities.
Read more about the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial and the work of the Commission at IndianaSuffrage100.org.
Click here to watch the announcement video. Below is a summary of each project that will be completed over the coming year:
Rediscover Downtown Peru is awarded $35,000 to create the Miami County Woman’s Suffrage Trail. The trail will begin with a life-size bronze statue of Marie Stuart Edwards as a young teen standing by her bike on the grounds of the Peru Public Library. The statue, as well as displays and plaques around the county, will increase awareness of the role local women played in the fight for suffrage. This project is in partnership with Miami County Worth Remembering, AcesPLUS and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Downtown Angola Coalition is awarded $40,000 to commission a life-size sculpture of abolitionist Sojourner Truth. In 1861, Truth gave a speech on the Steuben County courthouse steps supporting civil rights and the Civil War. This sculpture will commemorate Truth’s connection to the city of Angola and serve as a reminder of the significant women and women of color had in the fight for equal rights and suffrage. With help from the public library system, the project will also include book studies and lesson plans about Truth. This project is in partnership with the Steuben County Commissioners, the City of Angola and the Steuben County Tourism Bureau.
Michigan City Mainstreet Association is awarded $40,000 to construct either a sculpture, mosaic or mural (based on community and artist input) in Charles R. Westcott Park to honor Naomi Bowman Talbert Anderson. Anderson was born in Michigan City in 1843 to free African American parents and became a significant suffragist, civil rights activist, orator, writer, and poet. The artwork will have a narrative format for all ages, and a companion to this will be the creation of an archived collection of biographical information about Anderson. This project is in partnership with the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, the NAACP LaPorte County Branch–Unit 3061 and the Unity Foundation of LaPorte County.
About the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs
Under the leadership of Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch, who also serves as the Secretary of Rural Development, the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs’ (OCRA) mission is to work with local, state and national partners to provide resources and technical assistance to assist communities in shaping and achieving their vision for the community and economic development. For more information, visit ocra.in.gov.
USI Newspaper To Suspend Publishing Printed Edition
USI Newspaper To Suspend Publishing Printed Edition
August 25, 2020
College campuses and college media changed in 2020. The Shield is no exception. We announced in March we would discontinue the print edition for the spring semester because of COVID-19. We are now informing the community we will permanently suspend the printing of the weekly print edition and move to themed monthly editions.
We made this decision for the safety of our staff and to be able to follow social distancing guidelines as much as possible. We also made this decision because our printer, the Henderson Gleaner, closed in May.
These monthly editions will be on our newsstands every month and contain special content. We will have a weekly e-newsletter sent right to your email and continue to post stories daily on usishield.com.
In order to give you the best content possible, we have also restructured how The Shield will work. The new leadership team consists of people and positions designed for this new time to ensure our new platform is the best it can be. The most noticeable change is the features, opinions and review sections will be combined into one section titled lifestyle.
The Shield has been around for over 50 years and has never experienced anything like COVID-19 and the impact it has had on our campus and community. This is the first time in The Shield’s history we’ve had to make decisions like this. There will be many other “firsts†for us in the time of COVID-19. We will do our best to navigate through it and provide the community with the information they need.
Our mission is to give the USI community information about what is happening on campus and providing you with what you need to know. We will continue to be a voice for those on our campus and work our best to make sure these voices are heard. Any news tips or comments can be sent to editor@shield.com
We understand this is a new and scary time for everyone. We’ve heard others’ fear the university will close within a moment’s notice. We’ve heard people are excited to be back on campus and others are scared because of this virus. We share these emotions with the community. Every day, we work to become more flexible in response to the virus and we will continue to work for you.
To sign up for our new newsletter, go to usishield.com, enter your email address and click subscribe.
Vanderburgh Humane Society Highlights Pet Care In Push For Renter Protection
Vanderburgh Humane Society Highlights Pet Care In Push For Renter Protections, Rental Assistance, And Affordable Housing In Evansville
 Evansville, IN (August 25, 2020)—The COVID-19 pandemic is putting millions of pets in Indiana and across the country at risk of being surrendered to animal shelters by the families who love them, but maybe forced to choose between finding a place to live and keeping their pets.
The ability of people in the Tri-State and other communities across the country to cover the costs of pet care and related expenses has been drastically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the pandemic has exacerbated affordable housing shortages that already existed for renters across the country, including in Evansville, low-income especially households have often had to choose between paying rent and buying groceries, medicine and other necessities—including pet-related expenses.
As such, the Vanderburgh Humane Society supports increased rental assistance and a moratorium on evictions for low-income renters in the Tri-State experiencing increased housing insecurity because of the pandemic and urges landlords to remove restrictions of pets in rental units and asks community members who are in a position to help to consider longterm fostering to help families in crisis find a temporary caregiver for their pets rather than being forced to surrender them.
The poverty and structural inequality that puts low-income, Black, and Latinx community-members at a greater risk of being affected by COVID-19 also creates barriers to finding safe, affordable, and pet-friendly housing. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, in Indiana in 2018, there were only 38 units of affordable housing available for every 100 extremely low-income households in our state. Meanwhile, only 9% of rental housing across the country allowed companion animals without any significant limitations on size or type. Most tenants (82%) with animals reported having trouble finding a rental unit that would accept their pets.
Each year millions of pets enter animal shelters, and one of the most frequently cited reasons for relinquishment is housing, moving or landlord issue. To keep pets in their homes, animal welfare organizations assert on one crucial point: When families are ripped apart, both humans and pets experience detrimental effects on their physical and emotional wellbeing.
“Pets are often excluded from the holistic view of human and family services,†says Amanda Coburn, VHS Chief Development Officer. “According to the Humane Society of the United States, 50-70% of renters have a pet. That means that for 50-70% of any of the families utilizing services, ensuring that pets & people can stay together simply must be considered a secondary need. Pets are family too and it can severely affect quality of life, particularly for young children, if pets must be surrendered due to hardship that is often temporary. We have a long way to go in terms of pet-friendly housing, particularly with large dogs.â€
The Courier & Press recently reported that Vanderburgh County has seen the fifth-most applicants for renters’ assistance in the state of Indiana.
Landlords can minimize such risk by removing barriers such as outdated, ineffective breed and size restrictions in the case of renters with pets and by reducing fees in order to give renters with pets more opportunities to find safe housing. Now, more than ever, renters would benefit from increased support and fewer limitations.
Animal advocates and other members of the public can help by engaging groups like the Reopen Evansville Task Force to advocate for rental assistance and ensure that low-income renters—and their pets—have safe and affordable housing in rental homes with pet-friendly policies. Learn more about national-level actions through groups like Opportunity Starts at Home, National Housing Law Project, Eviction Lab and Just Shelter.
To arrange an interview or coverage opportunity (particularly on Wednesday, August 26 which is National Dog Day) contact Amanda at the information below.
Three Main Streets Awarded Grants To Preserve Women’s History
Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch, who serves as chair of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and the Indiana Main Street Council, today announced three Main Street communities are awarded Preserving Women’s Legacy Grants. This funding will aid in their efforts to highlight and preserve women’s history.
“The awarded projects capture how influential these strong Indiana women were to the suffrage movement,†Lt. Gov. Crouch said. “I’m excited to visit each of the cities to walk the new trails, appreciate the public art and see Hoosiers of all ages learn more about these extraordinary women.â€
Preserving Women’s Legacy Grants support historic preservation work, public art and other projects that commemorate Indiana women’s history and promote visits to Main Street communities. These projects will provide a lasting legacy in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote.
Keira Amstutz, president and CEO of Indiana Humanities, said “We are absolutely thrilled to support the telling of these lesser known but incredibly impactful stories and the extraordinary trailblazers behind them. These rich pieces of history woven into the fabric of our state deserve to be widely known and celebrated. We look forward to partnering with the grantees in their efforts to connect these stories with Hoosiers in their local communities, across the state and beyond.â€
The grants are a project of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, presented by a partnership between the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs and Indiana Humanities. In addition to project funding, the partnership is providing capacity building and marketing training to ensure the project’s sustainability in all three cities.
YESTERYEAR: The First Public Kindergarten In The United States
The First Public Kindergarten In The United States
submitted to the CCO by Ron Riecken. Evansville
On this date in 1873, St. Louis, Missouri, the school board authorized. The driving force behind the kindergarten was Susan Blow. She was a highly intelligent but mostly self-educated woman who had grown up in a wealthy St. Louis family. When she took a trip to Germany after the American Civil War, she was impressed by the work of Friedrich Froebel. Froebel had developed what he dubbed a “kindergarten” — a garden of children, with teachers as the “gardeners.”
Blow saw that in Froebel’s kindergartens, young children were learning a language, math, and science concepts through play. She began studying everything she could get her hands on, intending to bring the kindergarten concept to the United States. “If we can make children love the intellectual effort,” she wrote, “we shall prolong habits of study beyond school years.”
Blow’s father approached Dr. William Torrey Harris, the St. Louis school superintendent, about opening an experimental kindergarten. He agreed and sent Susan Blow to New York to study for a year. She offered to direct the kindergarten for free if the school board would provide her with a classroom and a teacher. She set up a bright, colorful classroom with kid-sized tables and benches.
The kindergarten was a rousing success. Blow directed the kindergarten for 11 years, at her own expense, and at the cost of her health; when she retired, the St. Louis schools were serving 9,000 kindergarteners. And by the time she died in 1916, more than 400 cities offered public kindergarten in their schools.
Right Jab And Middle Jab And Left Jab†August 27, 2020
Right Jab And Middle Jab And Left Jab†August 27, 2020
The majority of our “IS IT TRUE†columns are about local or state issues, so we have decided to give our more opinionated readers exclusive access to our newly created “LEFT JAB and Middle Jab and RIGHT JAB† column. They now have this post to exclusively discuss national or world issues that they feel passionate about.
We shall be posting the “LEFT JAB†AND “MIDDLE JAB†AND “RIGHT JABâ€Â several times a week.  Oh, “LEFT JAB†is a liberal view, “MIDDLE JAB†is the libertarian view and the “RIGHT JAB is representative of the more conservative views. Also, any reader who would like to react to the written comments in this column is free to do so.
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