In celebration of this milestone, the city is inviting everyone for its Bicentennial Celebration in October. There will be food and craft vendors, live music,  musical performances, a volleyball tournament and so much more.

The event will run Friday, October 12th through Sunday, October 14th.

Below is the list of scheduled events:

Friday, October 12th

• 9 a.m.: Until 4:30 p.m. Bicentennial Postmark

Available the Albion Post Office

• 4 p.m.: Albanian String band at the Pagoda
• 4:30 p.m.: Opening ceremonies at the Memorial Arch.
• 5 p.m.: Historical buildings and Courthouse open
  • Cake Walk
• 6 p.m.: The Honey Vines perform on stage
• 8 p.m.: Jerome Thomas on stage
• 9 p.m.: Jason Bishop and James Obermeyer on stage until 11 p.m.

Saturday, October 13th

• 8 a.m.: ECHS Invitational volleyball tournament at the Linda Oxby gymnasium
• 9 a.m.: English Prairie Quilters quilt show at the House of Prayer
  • Historical buildings and Courthouse will be open until 5 p.m.
  • Caroline Kisiel, a George Flower & Morris Birbeck historian will be in town at various historical buildings throughout the day to give insight into the founding of Albion

• 11 a.m. Chowder will be served on the square. Sales will be bulk or carry-out only.
  • Albanian String band on stage
• 1 p.m.: Cornhole tournament
• 1 p.m.: Tony Booth and Dennis Stroughmatt perform on stage
• 3 p.m.: Community band and choir as well as the ECHS band and Choir on stage
• 6 p.m.: Lance Miller performs on stage
• 7:30 p.m.: Lick Creek Band, stage to close out the festivities at 11

Sunday, October 14th

• 10 a.m.: Opening Ceremonies at the Memorial Arch
• 10:15 a.m.: West Village Christian church will provide the community church service on the main stage after opening ceremonies.
  • Salt Creek String band will perform after the church service.
• 12 p.m.: Food and craft vendors open
  • Lunch on the Bricks, 5th street
• 2 p.m.: Cupcakes

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GAVEL GAMUT By Jim Redwine

THE COLISEUM REVISITED

If CNN, MSNBC and FOX News were covering the entertainments in the Roman Coliseum in the First Century they would have been exhorting the lions. Of course, the reason for this is the ratings would suffer if they sided with the humans. The public demands spectacle, not fairness.

Or as Mark Twain opined: “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives”.  Pudd’nhead Wilson, Chapter VII.

In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Act 3, scene 3, Iago complains: “Who steals my purse steals trash …[But] who filches from me my good name robs me of that which (does not) enrich him [but] makes me poor indeed”.

Our current spectacle steals from both accused and accuser equally. When it comes time to clear the floor of the Congressional Coliseum no one will remain unscathed and we will all be poorer. Rome today is a decaying tourist amusement. The days of roads, aqueducts, legal systems, and Pax Romana declined with the declining investment of the citizenry in self-government. Today we would have to include the national media in this equation.

It is not that we do not know how to reasonably go about choosing our leaders such as presidents, legislators and supreme court justices, it is that it is a lot more fun to watch others being ripped apart than to engage in rational debate. Bring on the lions, we are bored with this democracy thing!

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Yesterday, County Clerks and Election Administrators in Indiana received an email from the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office, informing us of some invalid absentee ballot applications which were being circulated.  It is attached and reads as follows:

Dear County Clerks and Election Administrators,

It has come to our attention that invalid absentee ballot applications are circulating. These applications have the instructions removed, voiding the application. If you receive one of these applications, please contact the voter and ask them to fill out a valid application immediately so there is time to remedy the situation.

It is the responsibility of organizations conducting absentee and voter registration campaigns to be familiar with Indiana law. We know there are absentee and voter registration efforts of organized groups not familiar with Indiana rules. This may cause you to get a batch of applications with problems. If you know who the group is, please notify my office so we can get in contact with them and try to correct the issue going forward.

As always, if I can be of assistance in any way, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Connie Lawson

Indiana Secretary of State

FOOTNOTE: At the time of the email, the source of the applications was not known.  Later in the day, I learned that one of my employees had actually received one of the applications in the mail and I forwarded a copy to the Secretary of State’s Office.  I have attached the mailing my employee received.  Her name and address have been redacted to protect her identity.  I have also attached a valid application (ABS-MAIL)

So far, the Vanderburgh County Election Office has received 18 of these invalid applications.  We are contacting these voters to let them know there is an issue and mailing a valid application to them.  If a voter has concerns as to whether or not the application they submitted is valid, they may contact the Election Office.  If they have already received a ballot in the mail, then they may assume there was no issue.