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LGBTQ Pride Day Held Today In Newburgh
 LGBTQ Pride Day Held Today In Newburgh
The Tri-State Alliance is hosting Newburgh LGBTQ Pride Day, in honor of Newburgh resident/artist Ken Oliver. Earlier this month flyers were put up around Ken Oliver’s business to harass him for celebrating LGBTQ Pride and having a pride display
Individuals are encouraged to gather on Saturday from 11 am – 2pm at Ohio Valley Solar, 7765 Park Place Drive in Newburgh (near the Newburgh Starbucks). This is the busiest intersection in Newburgh, and supporters are asked to stand near the highway waving their Pride flags. The event will be held rain or shine.
The information table at Ohio Valley Solar will have pride flags available and hand sanitizer. Those attending are encouraged to social distance and to wear masks. Individuals are also being encouraged to ‘like’ Ken Oliver Crafts on Facebook to show their support.
For more information about this event, text 812-480-0204, email 3statealliance@gmail.com or visit the Tri-State Alliance on social media (Facebook, Instagram
AG Curtis Hill: How Grieving Hoosiers Can Handle Deceased Loved Ones
Attorney General Curtis Hill today offered guidance for Hoosiers who would like to close or memorialize the social media accounts of loved ones who have recently passed away.
“For many, closing or memorializing a deceased loved one’s social media is an important step in the grieving process,†Attorney General Hill said. “My hope is that these tips help any Hoosiers who are coping with a recent loss to remember their loved ones in the ways they find most appropriate.â€
On Facebook and Instagram, you may request to remove or memorialize a loved one’s account. Memorialized accounts serve as a place for friends and family to remember that person’s life. The word “Remembering†appears next to the name on the profile. Â
On Twitter, you may request that the deceased person’s account be deactivated. Whatever action you wish to take with your deceased loved one’s social media, you may need important documents and information to proceed. This may include:
- Your loved one’s death certificate;
- Your loved one’s obituary;
- Your loved one’s birth certificate;
- Your loved one’s last will and testament;
- Your ID;
- Power of attorney;
- A memorial card, and;
- An executor order.
If you wish to remove or memorialize a deceased loved one’s social media, you should visit the help centers for Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for additional information. A graphic that explains how to remove deceased loved one’s accounts on additional social media platforms is attached.
IDEM issues Air Quality Action Day This Weekend For Two Indiana Regions
IDEM Issues Air Quality Action Day This Weekend For Two Indiana Regions
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) has issued an Air Quality Action Day (AQAD) and is forecasting high levels of fine particles (PM2.5) in the air for Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 in the following areas:
- Southeast Indiana – Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Scott and Washington
- Southwest Indiana – Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and WarrickÂ
IDEM encourages everyone to help reduce PM2.5 while remaining safe during the COVID-19 health crisis by making changes to daily habits. You can:
- Avoid burning wood in fireplaces or wood-fired boilers
- Reduce activity time outdoors to reduce unhealthy exposure to PM2.5 and avoid exercising near busy roads
- Combine errands into one trip
- Avoid using gasoline-powered lawn equipment or gas-powered recreational vehicles
- Turn off your engine when idling for more than 10 seconds (e.g., at a bank or restaurant drive-thru)
- Conserve energy by turning off lights or setting the air conditioner to 75 degrees or above
A dust cloud blowing across the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert in Africa has been impacting air quality in the southeastern U.S. and it is expected to reach Indiana this weekend. Sensitive groups, including children, the elderly, and anyone with cardiac (heart) or pulmonary (lung) problems should reduce or avoid exertion and heavy work outdoors while the PM2.5 AQAD is in effect. If breathing becomes difficult, go indoors and contact your health care provider.
PM 2.5Â is composed of microscopic dust, soot, liquid droplets and smoke particles that are 2.5 microns or smaller. The human hair is 75 microns wide. PM2.5Â deposits itself deep into lungs and cannot be easily exhaled. Those at risk are particularly vulnerable after several days of high PM2.5Â exposure.
IDEM examines weather patterns and and PM2.5 readings to make daily air quality forecasts. To learn more about PM2.5 or sign up for air quality forecasts, visit www.SmogWatch.IN.gov.
About IDEM
IDEM (www.idem.IN.gov) implements federal and state regulations regarding the environment. Through compliance assistance, incentive programs and educational outreach, the agency encourages and aids businesses and citizens in protecting Hoosiers and our environment.
Divided COA Panel Finds For Woman Wrongly Told Hepatitis Test Was Negative
Divided COA Panel Finds For Woman Wrongly Told Hepatitis Test Was Negative
A woman who learned years after she had been told that a hepatitis test was negative that in fact the test had come back positive had her case reinstated Friday by the majority of an Indiana Court of Appeals panel. Two of three judges found a clinic fraudulently concealed the woman’s positive test result.
The appellate court ruling reinstates the medical malpractice action Teresa Blackford v. Welborn Clinic, 19A-CT-2054.
Teresa Blackford sought treatment at Welborn Clinic in Evansville in 2003 for lichens plans, an inflammatory skin condition in which hepatitis can be an underlying cause. She was tested and told the result was negative. When her condition significantly worsened in 2014, another test revealed she had hepatitis C, and a review of the records from the 2003 test at Welborn found she had been “highly reactive†and positive for hepatitis.
After Blackford says a medical review panel determined Welborn committed medical malpractice, she sued, but Vanderburgh Circuit Judge David Kiely granted Welborn’s motion for summary judgment. The trial court found Blackford’s claim was time-barred under the Indiana Business Trust Act.
A majority of a COA panel reversed Friday, granting partial summary judgment to Welborn and remanding to the trial court for proceedings.
“The doctrine of fraudulent concealment is an equitable remedy that bars a defendant from asserting the statute of limitations as a defense if the defendant ‘prevented a plaintiff from discovering an otherwise valid claim, by a violation of duty or deception,’†now Senior Judge John Baker wrote for the majority in a case of first impression joined by Judge Melissa May.
“(T)he evidence is undisputed that Welborn failed to disclose to Blackford that her hepatitis test was positive and, in fact, told her precisely the opposite,†the majority wrote. “Based on this record, we hold as a matter of law that Welborn fraudulently concealed — at the least, passively; at the worst, actively — material medical information from Blackford.â€
“… As such, we find that Blackford successfully demonstrated that (1) because an equitable exception for fraudulent concealment applies to the IBTA’s nonclaim statute, it was erroneous for the trial court to grant Welborn’s motion for summary judgment on this basis; and (2) the undisputed evidence in the record establishes as a matter of law that Welborn committed passive fraudulent concealment, which does, in fact, prevent the application of the five-year limit under the IBTA, rendering denial of Blackford’s motion for partial summary judgment inappropriate. Therefore, we reverse the trial court’s order and remand with instructions to enter partial summary judgment in Blackford’s favor on this issue.â€
Judge Elaine Brown dissented, arguing the trial court’s finding for Welborn should be affirmed.
“The majority notes that the record does not reveal when, precisely, the patient-physician relationship between Blackford and Welborn ended, and assumes that, at the latest, it ended the day Welborn surrendered its authority to transact business on June 30, 2009. Blackford concedes that she did not file her claim against Welborn within the five-year period imposed by the IBTA,†she wrote.
The Week in Indiana History
June 28 -Â July 4The Week in Indiana History |
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   Seven Indiana State Parks offer inns which provide comfortable overnight accommodations. Name the state park which is home to each of the following. A. Abe Martin Lodge B. Clifty Inn C. Canyon Inn D. Potawatomi Inn
“My father loved flowers, their forms and their colors, and he tended his garden as a painter might work a canvas.” – – - Victor Higgins (1884 – 1949) DID YOU KNOW?   The Indiana State Park System is a wonderful legacy of the state centennial celebration in 1916. Starting with McCormick’s Creek State Park, some of the state’s most beautiful natural resources have been set aside to be enjoyed by Hoosiers young and old. The 2020 Recreation Guide, published by the Department of Natural Resources, lists 24 state parks, 8 lakes, 15 state forests, 7 state park inns, 24 fish and wildlife areas, and 21 nature preserves. The Guide is a wonderful tool for those who wish to take advantage of Indiana’s rich natural heritage and to learn about special events through the year. Follow this link to view the 2020 Recreation Guide Take an “Armchair Tour” of the Indiana Statehouse
ANSWERS: 1. Brown County State Park 2. Clifty Falls State Park     3. McCormick’s Creek State Park 4. Pokagon State Park |
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1800   Under the terms of a bill signed by President John Adams, the Indiana Territory was created out of a section of the Northwest Territory. The large area included most of what is now Indiana and Illinois and parts of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. William Henry Harrison was appointed Governor of the new territory.
1835   The Wabash and Erie Canal was completed between Fort Wayne and Huntington.  Before railroads, the canal was the primary means of transportation for people and cargo. Extended to Evansville by 1853, the Wabash and Erie was the nation’s longest canal (460 miles.)
1884   Victor Higgins was born on a farm in Shelbyville. His artistic talent took him to Chicago where he studied at the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. After four years of further training in Paris and Munich, he moved to New Mexico where he joined the famed Taos Society of Artists. In his wide range of work, he is known for his sensitivity to brilliant colors and the ability to capture the transitory aspects of nature.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Gavel Gamut By Jim Redwine
The Fourth of July is called Independence Day with good reason. Our Founders were willing to die for the right to control their own lives. They were not seeking war with the most powerful nation on Earth in 1776. They were not attempting to dictate to King George III how the English should behave. They sought only free will for America to determine its own course. In these troubled times, we are now navigating, perhaps a look back to America’s early struggles might be helpful.
We may wish we could ask George Washington or James Madison for advice. But the best we can do is read about past heroes’ courage and sacrifice and try to learn lessons that will help us during our own battles.
For example, one of my heroines is Frances (Mad Fanny) Wright, that fighter for women’s rights, Black rights and freedom from religion who spoke in New Harmony, Indiana on July 04, 1828. Oh, how much we could learn if we could speak with her now. However, we do know she dedicated her life and fortune to eliminating slavery. Had she lived only nine more years she would have experienced the start of the Great Struggle that ended a whole race of Americans’ loss of control over their lives?Â
Control, isn’t that what matters most to all of us? The visceral need for the freedom to make our own choices is why on that day we now call Patriots Day, April 19, 1775, at Lexington and Concord those suppressed colonists “Fired the shots heard ’round the worldâ€. And in our current political climate when Americans get embroiled in political discussions it sometimes feels as if both sides have muskets at the ready.
When I find myself surrounded by the competing political mini balls, I try to remember this is nothing new. Over the two or three hundred thousand years we Homo sapiens have been around, after air, water, food, shelter and procreation we seem to have two more basic needs: the control of our own lives; and the strong desire to control the thoughts and behavior of others. These two related but directly oppositional impulses apply to groups of people and nations as well. You know, we will each defend to the death the right of our political adversaries to agree with us. But conversations can rapidly turn to confrontation if someone comes down on what we believe is the wrong side of such issues as religion, race, global warming, immigration, war and peace, who should or should not be President of the United States and a thousand other subjects.
The right to control our own lives makes us smile. The desire to control other peoples’ lives can lead to such things as vitriolic statements and sometimes even vicious interchanges in our public and interpersonal interactions. Sometimes today’s discussions about control may center on sexual assault and the “Me Too Movement†or hate crimes and “Black Lives Matterâ€.Â
Rape is a terrible crime not because of forced sexual contact, billions of humans have had sexual relations. No, rape is a terrible crime because of the victims’ loss of their right to decide for themselves whether and with whom to have sex. The fear, terror, anger and humiliation caused by losing total control of one’s body is incalculable. It is in itself a life sentence that can lead to permanent bitterness toward and distrust of our legal system much as lynchings can result in an entire race of people living with constant concern about their freedom.Â
Lynchings, such as those that were committed on the Posey County, Indiana courthouse lawn on October 12, 1878, are a collective denial of another’s right to control their own destiny. And it is not just the victims who lose, but even those who deny justice to others may reap the whirlwinds of retaliation and political correctness.
Wars of aggression, not constitutionally authorized wars for national defense, are our country’s intentional denial of another country’s or people’s right to independently determine their own destiny. One of the main causes of our country’s post-WWII denials of the right of other countries to control their own lives is wars instigated by independent executive action without congressional authorization.Â
We can each quickly cite evidence of such wars based on false premises and rash executive action. President Lyndon Johnson used the shaky premise of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution to get us hopelessly embroiled in Vietnam. President George W. Bush relied on false intelligence reports that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in 9/11. President Bush then precipitously led us into what appears to be an endless and pointless war in the Middle East. As Pete Seeger’s song “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?†asks us, “When will we ever learn?, when will we ever learn?â€Â
Our Founders’ wisdom of placing the authority to wage war in congress is that such a procedure keeps all of our citizens more closely involved in these grave decisions. And, it requires much more careful deliberation when congress is involved. Also, when we eliminated the military draft, we turned from a citizen minute man type military to a professional and less ecumenical type force. To make the tragic choice to go to war all Americans should feel the direct cost. It is too easy to hire others to impose our will on the powerless. With a professional standing military, our armed forces never stand down. And the temptation for any of our presidents to play with these awesome powers as if they were toy soldiers is too intoxicating for most to resist. Of course, the draft is one of the ultimate impositions of loss of control. Our country should only use it when our national survival is truly at issue. And then it should include all able-bodied adult citizens. Not everyone needs to serve on the front lines but everyone can serve somehow.
One of the good things we received from one of our British cousins was John Locke’s Enlightenment philosophies as highlighted by the doctrine of separation of governmental powers. Our independence as a nation has survived great trauma due in large part to our three separate and equal political powers: Executive; Legislative; and, Judicial. We forget this at our peril. Control of our lives is an inherent need for individuals and nations and, if lost, can lead to long-term bad effects for both the invaders and the invaded. Freedom of choice is essential to our personal and national well-being. Our Founders enshrined that opportunity for us in our Constitution and that is what we celebrate on Independence Day as we struggle to afford that right to all of our citizens.
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Virtual Graduation Open House Honors Teens In Foster Care
22 High School Seniors Attend Event In Partnership With Indianapolis Colts
 Twenty-two high school seniors in foster care celebrated their high school graduation with a special virtual open house this week.
Project Open House honors teens in foster care as they accomplish this life milestone despite challenges placed in front of them. The central Indiana graduates applied to participate in the program hosted jointly by the Department of Child Services, the Indianapolis Colts and Cargo Services Inc.
This year’s celebration brought the graduates and their supporters together via Zoom, where guest speakers congratulated them on their achievements and arranged for them to receive pizza and gifts at their homes. The graduates received well-wishes from Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb, program sponsors and Blue, the Colts mascot, who came bearing signs: “We can’t wait to watch you change the world!â€
“I feel a great sense of pride for all of you tonight. This is a great achievement,†DCS Director Terry Stigdon said. “It takes a lot of heart and a lot of determination to face adversity and come out victorious.â€
When the program launched in 2016, it had just five graduates, Cargo Services Inc. CFO Steve Fugate told the graduates. The program has grown and changed each year since, but gathering online was a first no one expected, he added.
“In 15 to 20 years, when we look back over the last 20 to 25 graduations that we’ve had, this will be the one – you guys will be the ones – that we remember because it is so unique,†he said.
Colts GM Chris Ballard commended the graduates on all they overcame to reach graduation day. The Ballards fostered two children and ended up adopting both; the cause has remained close to their hearts ever since. He encouraged the graduates to draw on the experiences they’ve had so far as a source of strength.
“Every time that you think that it is getting hard, and you think that you’re not going to push through … you’ve done it before,†he said. “As hard as it’s been, you should be very proud of the accomplishments and what you’re going to do going forward.â€
Each of the 22 graduates received gift boxes filled with cards and gifts they opened together at the end of the call. In the fall, most of the graduates plan to attend college to continue their education. Others will enter workforce or head to the military.
DCS’ support of older youth doesn’t end at graduation, Stigdon said. Teens aging out of foster care are eligible for older youth services, including financial assistance, resources and mentoring, to ease their transition to adulthood.