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HAIRY PAWTER AND THE MAGICAL CREATURES” EVENT TO BE HELD SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2019

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On Saturday, July 27, 2019 the Vanderburgh Humane Society will be transformed into Pawgwarts for a themed adoption event from 12:00-4:00!

Enjoy “10 Galleons” ($10) off all adoptions, plus spin the wheel for a chance to win additional money off! Over 400 animals available for adoption. Many of them will be Sorted into Hogwarts Houses based on their personalities to help you find the perfect match!

Enjoy themed vendors such as:

  • Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library activity (free!)
  • Live owls & education at the “Owlery” with Talon Trust (free!)
  • Live snakes & education at “Slitherin’ House” by Wesselman Woods (free!)
  • Vegan food offerings by Flourish Plant-Based Eatery ($)
  • Anna Banana Slime Company selling HP-themed slimes ($)
  • Themed refreshments including cold butterbeer and treats from the Hogwarts Express trolley ($)
  • Smarty Pints Trivia – answer HP trivia questions for your chance to win prize packages (free!)
  • Care of Magical Creatures with Pet Supplies Plus – enter to win a $50 PSP gift card (free!)

Kids’ Activities:

  • Adopt Your Plush Hogwarts Pet station – cat, owl, or toad ($10 cash to participate)
  • “Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them” Scavenger Hunt ($5 cash to participate)

Admission is FREE but families are encouraged to bring cash for food, activities, and/or merchandise. Kids, dogs, and costumes are welcome.

Purchase a $10 tennis ball for the Fluffy 2K Fetch, sponsored by NFP Clippinger, for your chance to win $500! One of our “three-headed” shelter dogs will fetch the winning ball. You do NOT have to be present to win, and can purchase as many as you like! Call (812) 426-2563 extension 218 to purchase yours in advance!

Multiple ways to make a monetary donation to benefit the animals:

-          Throw some cash in your House’s vase to help win the House Cup! Can’t attend? Donate to the House Cup Facebook fundraiser in advance here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/713980745725743/10157388318999334/.

-          Grab a Hogwarts letter out of the Dursleys’ fireplace, containing a donation amount between $5 and $20. Whatever amount is in your envelope, you get to donate!

Crossover VHS-HP T-shirts will be available for purchase!

Shop “Diagon Alley” at the Happy Tails Resale Shop!

VHS is also a Greenhouse location in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite! Return Foundables and stock up on much-needed seeds & ingredients!

Get additional information at www.vhslifesaver.org!

 

June Indiana Employment Report

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Private Sector Employment Reaches Preliminary Record Peak

INDIANAPOLIS (July 19, 2019) – Indiana’s unemployment rate drops to 3.5 percent for June and remains lower than the national rate of 3.7 percent. The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the prior four weeks as a percentage of the labor force.

Indiana’s labor force had a net decrease of 10,126 over the previous month. This was a result of a decrease of 3,123 unemployed residents and a decrease of 7,003 employed residents. Indiana’s total labor force, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment, stands at 3.39 million, and the state’s 64.8 percent labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of 62.9 percent.

In addition, regular unemployment insurance claims in the reference week (12th of the month) continue to decline in 2019.

Learn more about how unemployment rates are calculated here: http://www.hoosierdata.in.gov/infographics/employment-status.asp.

June 2019 Employment Charts

Employment by Sector

Private sector employment has grown by 37,000 over the year and 6,800 over the previous month. The monthly increase is primarily due to gains in the Private Educational and Health Services (5,000) and the Professional and Business Services (1,100) sectors. Gains were partially offset by losses in the Manufacturing (-700) and the Construction (-500) sectors. Total private employment reached a preliminary record highpoint of 2,750,700, which is 18,600 above the December 2018 peak. The June 2019 peak, like all data within this report, is subject to monthly revisions and annual benchmarking.

Midwest Unemployment Rates

June 2019 Midwest Unemployment Rates

  

EDITOR’S NOTES:

Data are sourced from June Current Employment Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

June employment data for Indiana Counties, Cities and MSAs will be available Monday, July 22, 2019, at noon (Eastern) pending U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics validation.

ASG MEETING TUESDAY 23TH

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Tuesday evening at Bernina Sewing Center we are  sewing

Cancer caps.  Kay is going to demo the hat and how to sew it

Together with all seams enclosed.  Also, she is demoing the

Wheel chair caddies.    Kay made some samples and showed

Them to Heritage center.  They loved them.

Each one of you please bring some knit fabric to cut out

And sew.  Kay and Donna have cut out chemo caps

To get us started.   Also Donna has cut out wheel chair

Caddy kits for us to make.

Bring you machines and sewing notions and be ready

To sew.  You can cut out fabric if you cant bring a

Machine.

 

See you Tuesday -  Bring a friend.

Linda E. Wedel

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Linda E. Wedel passed away at age 74 on July 18, 2019. Linda was born on January 17, 1945 in Evansville, Indiana to the late William and Mary (Luigs) Effinger. Linda attended St. John’s Grade School and graduated from Rex Mundi High School.
She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Larry R. Titzer; daughter, Renee Wedel (Steve Carneal); son, R.B. Wedel (Rebecca); bonus children, Kimberly Paurazas (Allen), Brent Titzer (Kathy), and Ben Titzer (Jennifer); twelve grandchildren, Madison, Megan and Gavin Wedel; Allison, Alex and Charley Paurazas, Hadley, Daisy and Miley Titzer, Carly and Allie Jo Titzer and Katelan Carneal.
Linda lived her early life surrounded by horses. She was co-owner of Lin-Mar Stables where she showed, bred, and trained horses, as well as provided riding lessons. She sponsored many horse shows and events and was an early member of the English Horseman Society and was an active board member.
Linda was also a travel agent for over two decades. While Vice President (VP) at Holiday Travel and VP at Haynie Travel, she traveled the world and helped clients turn their dreams into reality.
Linda also served on the Warrick County Extension Board, Fair Board and Centerboard in various capacities on many committees that helped shape the 4-H program and fairgrounds.
Funeral Services will be Monday, July 22, 2019 at 11:00 A.M. at Koehler Funeral Home Perigo Chapel in Chandler, IN. Final resting place will be at St. John’s Cemetery in Elberfeld, IN.
Visitation will be 2:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Sunday, July 21, 2019 at Koehler Funeral Home Perigo Chapel in Chandler, IN and 10:00 A.M. and again on Monday, July 22, 2019 until time of service.
Donations are respectfully requested to be sent to ‘Warrick County 4-H in c/o Linda Wedel Memorial Fund’ at 107 W. Locust St. #111, Boonville, IN 47601.
Koehler Funeral Home is entrusted with care.

To send flowers to the family of Linda E. Wedel, please visit Tribute Store.

EPD REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Otters complete three-game sweep of Slammers

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For the second time this year, the Evansville Otters completed a three-game sweep at Bosse Field, defeating the Joliet Slammers 8-2 on Thursday.

With the win on Thursday, the Otters moved to eight games about .500.

Joliet threw the first punch Thursday in the top of the first inning when Dash Winningham hit a solo home run to give Joliet the early 1-0 lead.

The Otters would respond in the bottom of the third inning.

Keith Grieshaber would extend his hit streak to 13 games when he knocked a two-run double to score Hunter Cullen and J.J. Gould, giving the Otters a 2-1 lead.

Just as Evansville starter Jake Welch settled into the game, the Otters’ offense picked up steam.

Ryan Long hit his 10th home run of the season to begin the top of the fourth inning, a solo shot to increase the Otters lead to two.

Welch and Joliet’s Tyler Jandron would throw scoreless fifth and sixth innings.

Jandron threw six complete innings, surrendering three runs on three hits while recording 10 strikeouts.

Long smacked an RBI single to score Gould to give the Otters a 4-1 lead.

Dakota Phillips, who came up clutch in game two last night, hit a sac fly to score Cronin to give the Otters’ their fifth run.

When Rob Calabrese worked a walk later in the inning, a wild pitch from Slammers’ reliever Tyler Jones allowed Long to touch home to make the score 6-1.

The Otters would add two more runs in the eighth on an RBI double from Grieshaber and a sac fly from Long to give the Otters an 8-1 advantage.

Welch went out to the mound for the ninth and recorded two of the three outs of the inning, including a sac fly to Peyton Isaacson to make the score 8-2. After allowing a single to Oliver Nunez he was pulled, tossing 8.2 innings and ringing up nine Slammers. He would earn the win to improve his record to 5-3.

Michael Gizzi came in to record the final out of the ninth on a ground ball to Long.

Jandron was credited with the loss, dropping his record to 4-4.

The Otters will begin a six-game road trip, starting with a three-game set with the Florence Freedom during the weekend.

 

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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https://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/jail-recent-booking-records.aspx

“READERS FORUM” JULY 19, 2019

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We hope that today’s “READERS FORUM” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way.

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

Todays “Readers Poll’ question is: Should the Presidents of the City Council, Vanderburgh County Commission and County Council been invited to welcome the participants of the Fastpitch Softball tournament to Vanderburgh County?

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We understand that sometimes people don’t always agree and discussions may become a little heated.  The use of offensive language and insults against commenters shall not be tolerated and will be removed from our site.
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CCO “Living Outside The Box” July 25, 2019 Event Is Booked To Capacity

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Mike O’Daniel Is July 25th “Living Outside The Box” Speaker

(Tucker Publishing Joins The City-County Observer As A Co-Sponsor Of This Event)

Steve Hammer the Chairman of the “Living Outside The Box” speaker series announced the co-sponsors of this event will be the City-County Observer and Tucker Publishing. This event will be held on Thursday, July 25th in the private banquet room at Biaggi restaurant starting at noon and is booked to capacity.

This lunch started out as an invitation only event. But it got out of control when we started to receive many requests from interested people that wanted to attend this worthy community function. We originally planned to invite 40 guests `to this event but it quickly multiply to 60 plus guests.  Even more amazing is we now have a waiting list around 27 people who want to attend the next “Living Outside The Box” speakers series event scheduled for August, 2019.

This month “Living Outside The Box” speaker is the well respected Mike O’Daniel who’s business career spans over several decades as an Executive with an iconic Evansville automobile conglomerate.  Mr. O’Daniels is the Co-President D-Patrick Inc. and President D-Patrick Ford/Lincoln, D-Patrick Boonville Ford, and D-Patrick Honda.

Michael O’Daniel is a 1983 Graduated from Culver Military Academy located in Culver IN.  In 1987 he graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BS Accounting.  In 1988 he graduated from NADA Dealer Candidate Academy in McLean VA.

From 1988-1995 he served in multiple management positions at D-Patrick Inc. in Evansville IN. and Cross Roads Lincoln Mercury in Cleveland OH.

From 1995-1997 he served as General Manager of both D-Patrick Oldsmobile/Hyundai and D-Patrick Ford in Evansville, In.

In 1997 Purchased D-Patrick Inc. as a 50/50 partner with brother in law Ray Farabaugh and assumed the role of Co-President of D-Patrick Inc.and President of D-Patrick Ford and D-Patrick Oldsmobile/Hyundai. He is currently Co-President D-Patrick Inc. and President D-Patrick Ford/Lincoln, D-Patrick Boonville Ford, and D-Patrick Honda.

He is married to Missy O’Daniel. They have three adult children. Peter O’Daniel who is engaged to be married in January to Ali Schreiber. Peter serves as Parts and Service Director for D-Patrick Ford and D-Patrick Boonville Ford. Margot Roehrborn who is mother to Finn and is expecting a son Owen in September. Margot is married to Wolfi who is in charge of the Northside D-Patrick Collision Center.  Molly O’Daniel who lives in Denver who previously worked for CBRE but has left to further her business education.

When Mr. O’Daniel isn’t working he enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling,  flying his 1978 Cessna 172 airplane, playing tennis, golf, fishing, water skiing, snow skiing, and Scuba diving.

Event Chairman Steve Hammer stated “that our monthly speaker series will focus on home grown businesses successes and challenges. Mr. Hammer says; “Living Outside The Box” speakers series will feature unique and insightful stories of success and perseverance from prominent business leaders that tend to fly under the public radar.”

City-County Observer Publisher, Ron Cosby also added; “We understand that there are a lot of successful entrepreneurs who, because of economic, technological, or political challenges, have experienced a negative impact on their businesses.”   “We are going to actively search for local business people who went through economic adversity due to bureaucratic restrictions, governmental intervention, or increased competition, but had the good business sense to “Living Outside The Box” to allow their products or services to continue to thrive. We also hope that this will turn out to be a great resource for locally owned and developing businesses.”

For additional information concerning our next ‘Living Outside The Box” speaker event please contract Steve Hammer by calling him at 812-589-3802.

FOOTNOTE: Get your own copy of “Living Outside the Box” by Joe Jack Wallace please click the link below.

https://www.amazon.com/Living-Outside-Box-outside-courage/dp/1092964894/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

 

 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: WHITEWALL TIRES OF SOCIALISM

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WHITEWALL TIRES OF SOCIALISM
BY BILL HAZELIP
VANDERBURGH COUNTY
Smitty remembers the good ole days.  When the houses were different, people dressed differently, even the mail boxes were different.  Then came this political “cure all” called Socialism.  All of the people were suppose to look alike,  think a like, and have the same income.  We were suppose to be “middle class”  my late grand-daddy would have called us poor, but since we all had the same style of living, how could we be poor!  But I remembered, ole Grand-daddy gave me a set of white wall tires.  I remember him saying, “nothing dresses up your old Plymouth more than white wall tires.”
It was Sunday afternoon, I decided to put the Plymouth in the garage and get the old white walls out of the attic.  I put the white walls on the Plymouth, wow did they look sharp!  Monday morning I slowly drove down the street to work.  I was hoping people would see my white wall tires.  Sure enough, people seen the white walls.  It was about five O’clock, I had just got home and there was this knock on the door.  Two people a male and a female said, “we understand you have white wall tires on your car, we are from the Government and you cannot have white wall tires on your car, when all of the neighbors have black ones!”  The Government man said “we must have equality!”  So, I said, “what if I took the white walls off of the passenger side?”
The Government people look at each other and said, “that will probably work.”
The next morning, I chose a different route to work, I even went into a even more poor neighborhood.  I got home around five 0’clock and there was a knock on the door, and sure enough there were these two Government workers with the same complaint!  So I said, “well I might as well use the old tires, I will just put the tires with the white wall inside, that way no one will see the whitewalls”  Several days passed with no complaints. Since it had been sometime since I had the oil and grease job on the old Plymouth changed,  I decided to have the car serviced.  It was about five 0’clock in the evening, and here was this knock on the door!  This time there were three people, the two Government employees and the auto serviceman!
And that’s Socialism!
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