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Evansville’s Hyrdofest Free in 2019; More Events Added

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Evansville’s Hyrdofest Free in 2019; More Events Added

MARCH 11TH, 2019 AMANDA PORTER INDIANA

Not only will new events be added this year to Evansville’s Hyrdofest in its third year, but the fest will also be free!

Hydrofest will be two weeks earlier this year and will be more like a real festival.

Hydro-plane racing will take place on Saturday and Sunday, but the entire family will have several options when it comes to activities.

The festival will have a live concert this year also food trucks, an international barbecue competition, and a vintage motorcycle and car show.

“We want to make this available for everyone and we want to remove any hindrance because of admission so it’ll be a free event except for your concert, and except for the barbecue competition on Saturday,” says Hydrofest director Randy Lientz.

Hyrdrofest will kick off on the Ohio River the weekend of August 16th. Officials with Hyrdofest are always looking for sponsors to keep the event affordable for the community.

‘YACHT ROCK’ COMING TO 421 LOUNGE!

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‘Yacht Rock’ is set to cruise into Tropicana Evansville’s 421 Lounge this weekend!  The six-piece band from Nashville, Monsters of Yacht, delivers a smooth set of ‘70s soft rock favorites!

Associated with the leisure activity of sailing, the ‘Yacht Rock’ genre of music focuses on clean vocals with catchy melodies and high-quality production.  Monsters of Yacht performs songs like Seals & Crofts’ ‘Summer Breeze,’ America’s “Sister Golden Hair,” Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ In The Years,” Jackson Browne’s “Somebody’s Baby” and Climax Blues Band’s “Couldn’t Get It Right.”

Enjoy ‘70s light rock with Monsters of Yacht at 421 Casino Lounge on Friday and Saturday, March 15 & 16 from 8PM – 1AM!  Must be 21 years of age or older.  No admission fee, just a two-drink minimum for a night of fun!

For more information, contact Bobbi Warren, Bobbi Warren Productions, at 812-401-0094 or bobbi.warren@att.net.

 

USI’s Johnson earns GLVC weekly award

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University of Southern Indiana senior second baseman Claire Johnson (Pittsboro, Indiana) has been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Week for Softball in an announcement by the league office Monday afternoon.

Johnson hit .538 (14-26) with three doubles, three triples, a home run, eight runs scored and eight RBIs to lead the Screaming Eagles to a 5-3 record at The Spring Games last week.

A kinesiology major at USI, Johnson posted a .613 on-base percentage and a 1.000 slugging percentage. She also passed former USI All-American and current Assistant Coach MacKenzi Dorsm for first on USI’s all-time walks list when she drew her 83rd career base-on-balls in USI’s 2-1 win over No. 12 Saint Anselm College.

On the week, Johnson collected five free passes, while striking out just two times, and moved her career triples mark to 16, which ranks second all-time at USI.

Johnson is the first USI Softball player to earn GLVC Player of the Week honors since Haley Hodges collected the award April 3, 2017. This is the second time Johnson has been honored with the GLVC Player of the Week accolade after earned the award February 27, 2017.

USI (12-10) begins GLVC play Saturday at noon when it opens its 2019 home schedule with a doubleheader against McKendree University. The Eagles also play the University of Illinois Springfield in a rematch of last year’s NCAA II Super Regional.

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St. Vincent Evansville Birth Announcements for March 11, 2019

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Kristina and Jacob Hale, Evansville, IN, Son, Jacob Allan Jr., March 2

Melissa and Lance Wise, Allendale, IL, Son, Ryan Wayne, March 2

Sierra Keller and Joseph Myers, Washington, IN, Son, Flavian Alan, March 2

Brooke and Jordan French, Evansville, IN, Daughter, Sylvie Kristine, March 3

Elysse and Adam Ruggles, Haubstadt, IN, Daughter, Gwen Elizabeth, March 4

Abby and Chris Lindauer, New Harmony, IN, Son, Drake Lee, March 4

Haley Phipps and Doug McQuilling, Evansville, IN, Daughter, Ridley Mary, March 4

Shawna Jones and Kyle Smith, Evansville, IN, Daughter, Kynzleigh Jordan, March 5

Karen Null, Evansville, IN, Son, Logan Miles, March 6

Heidi and Charles Kennard, Princeton, IN, Daughter, Scarlett Diane, Mar

ADOPT A PET

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Ninja is a male black cat with just a hint of white on the chest. He’s a pretty solid big-boned guy and would make a great lap warmer. He’s currently adoptable at River Kitty Cat Café downtown and is getting along just fine with the cats there. His adoption fee is $40 and includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!

January Indiana Employment Report

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INDIANAPOLIS (March 11, 2019) – Indiana’s unemployment rate stands at 3.5 percent for January and remains lower than the national rate of 4.0 percent. With the exception of one month when it was equal (October 2014), Indiana’s unemployment rate now has been below the U.S. rate for more than five years. 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 increase of 7,613 over the previous month. This was a result of an increase of 1,556 unemployed residents and an increase of 6,057 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 65.1 percent labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of 63.2 percent.

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

January 2019 Employment Charts

Employment by Sector

Private sector employment has grown by 35,200 over the year and 7,200 over the previous month. The monthly increase is primarily due to gains in the Private Educational and Health Services (3,100) and the Trade, Transportation and Utilities (3,000) sectors. Gains were partially offset by a loss in the Professional and Business Services (-1,700) sector. Total private employment reached a preliminary record highpoint of 2,739,300, which is 7,200 above the new December 2018 peak. The January 2019 peak, like all data within this report, is subject to monthly revisions and annual benchmarking.

Midwest Unemployment Rates

Note: The December 2018 unemployment rates were revised during the annual benchmarking process.

January 2019 Midwest Unemployment Rates

  

EDITOR’S NOTES:

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

January employment data for Indiana Counties, Cities and MSAs will be available Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at noon (Eastern) pending U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics validation.

Eagles receive at-large bid to NCAA II regional

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EPA Applauds Presidential Signature of Key Pesticide Fees and Worker Protection Law

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) Assistant Administrator Alexandra Dapolito Dunn issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump signing into law S. 483, the “Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2018,” also known as PRIA 4:

“Since 2004, PRIA has been a key statute to ensuring timely review by EPA of pesticide registrations. PRIA 4 is supported by farmers and ranchers, environmental justice and worker protection organizations, and a broad array of manufacturers. EPA looks forward to implementing the new law to further the agency’s mission of protecting human health and the environment.”

PRIA 4 reauthorizes and update s the fee collection provisions and authorities available under the “Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act” and addresses worker protection matters. Key elements of PRIA 4 include the following:

  • Registration fees and maintenance fees that supplement appropriations to provide resources necessary for the timely review of new pesticide tools and reevaluation of currently registered pesticides
  • Elimination of the appropriations constraint on spending maintenance fees (“1-to-1” provision), which has resulted in an inability of the EPA to fully spend maintenance fees collected from industry to support critical activities.
  • Expedited review time frames and additional financial incentives for the development and submission of reduced risk pesticides.
  • Registration service fee set-asides of $2 million dollars for worker protection activities, partnership grants, and pesticide safety education programs.

Establishment of new maintenance fee set-asides, including:

  • $500K annually for develop and finalize rulemaking and guidance for product performance data requirements for certain invertebrate pests of significant public importance. The guidelines will benefit companies developing new public health and consumer pest control products by giving them clear guidance on how to conduct efficacy testing to satisfy registration requirements; and
  • $500K annually to support Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) audits of laboratories that conduct studies in support of pesticide product registrations.
  • Reporting requirements on the effectiveness of worker protection and pesticide safety education activities, the number of GLP inspections conducted, and progress in priority review and approval of new pesticides to control public health pests that may transmit vector-borne disease, among other reporting requirements.

 

Lt. Governor Crouch: Public schedule March 12 – 13

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Below is Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch’s public schedule for March 12 – 13, 2019.

Tuesday, March 12
What: Crouch speaks at INseperable: We’re all IN this together
Host: Indiana Humanities
When: 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., ET, with Crouch remarks at 10:10 a.m., ET
Where: Indiana Statehouse, 4th Floor North Atrium, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204
*Media are welcome

Tuesday, March 12
What: Crouch speaks at Chamber Day Dinner
Host: Indiana Chamber of Commerce
When: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., ET, with Crouch remarks at 7:00 p.m., ET
Where: Indiana Roof Ballroom, 130 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204

Wednesday, March 13
What: Crouch speaks at INARF Conference
Host: INARF
When: Noon – 1:30 p.m., ET, with Crouch remarks at 12:05 p.m., ET
Where: Embassy Suites, 13700 Conference Center Drive South, Noblesville, IN 46060
*Media are welcome

Stephen Crowley to Speak at UE’s Crick Lecture on March 20

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Stephen Crowley, associate professor of philosophy at Boise State University, will be the guest speaker for the University of Evansville’s annual Crick Lecture in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences. The lecture is Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00 p.m. in the Vectren Lecture Hall, Room 100, in the Koch Center for Engineering and Science. This event is free and open to the public.

The topic of Crowley’s lecture will be “Is There a Virtue in Honesty? Personality Psychology Meets Virtue Ethics.”

Crowley’s areas of academic interest include epistemology, philosophy of science, history and sociology of science, philosophy of mind/psychology, philosophy of logic, early modern philosophy.

Crowley earned his PhD in Philosophy from Indiana University. He grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and graduated from the University of Adelaide where he focused on the study of logic. He moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies. His areas of academic interest and study include epistemology, philosophy of science, history and sociology of science, philosophy of mind/psychology, philosophy of logic, early modern philosophy.

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