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IS IT TRUE MAY 4, 2018

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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?

IS IT TRUE that the Indiana University Hoosiers got a big shot in the arm yesterday when Romeo Langford made his college choice to play basketball for the Hoosiers?…Langford is a home grown player who would have been more suited for a Rick Pitino led Louisville Cardinals team until Slick Rick got fired for breaking every rule in the book?…Romeo may also have chosen to attend the one and done capital of the NBA training league known as the Kentucky Wildcats until the whole one and done way of managing a team fell from grace?…he may have even been a Kansas Jayhawk until the Jayhawks were mentioned as a potential target of the NCAA reign of terror on Adidas sponsored teams headed for probation?…we are pleased to see Romeo headed to Bloomington and would appreciate it if he stays for more than one year?…we do not advise holding ones breath as Langford is one of the few who will be ready for the NBA after 26 weeks in college?

IS IT TRUE that the annual version of the media celebration called the White House Correspondents Dinner went on an Oscar’s imitation the other night when a female comedian named Wolf picked on the appearance of a member of the White House staff in a most distasteful way?…for one woman to make a joke about a tree falling in the forest and to think it is funny to wish that tree fell on a member of President Trump’s staff is just horrible?…to tell what she thought was a joke about how another staffer who could stand to lose a pound or two burns her fat into ash and then uses the ash to get a smoky look around her eyes is plain callous?…it is time for some level of civility to come back to the USA?…if those who do not like President Trump who didn’t even attend think this is how to take back the congress or the White House, they are dangerously mistaken?…even people who do not particularly like the Trump Administration know a catty rant when they hear it and will harden their support of anything that is not a left wing rude person?

IS IT TRUE we are told that several party loyalists are sick and tired of GOP Chairman Wayne Parke bullying tactics of sending demeaning and insulting e-mails to elected and appointed officials when he disagrees with something they say or do?

IS IT TRUE we are told that several politically connected individuals are talking about launching a campaign to oust GOP County Party Chairman Wayne Parke right after the Republican primary elections? …we are told if the Mayor supports Mr. Parke to continue as party Chairman it will cause a major split in the Vanderburgh County Republican party?

IS IT TRUE that the wife of the Mayor sent out an e-mail to several City Council members encouraging them to vote for proposed “Noise Ordinance” that currently being considered by the Evansville City Council?  ..we are told that her e-mail offended many of the people who oppose this proposed ordinance? …we are also told that this e-mail has caused the Mayor to lose future support from individuals who voted for him and donated money to his campaign in the past?

IS IT TRUE we are told that City Council members Jonathon Weaver and Missy Mosby have styled a proposed city ordinance that will force the City Controller to be more accountable in reporting the balances of money spent on public safety to Council? …we always support any decision that encourages “good public policy”?  …we give five cheers to Weaver and Mosby for creating this long overdue city ordinance?

IS IT TRUE we are told that the last two(2) political fundraising event held for Vanderburgh County Councilman Jim Raben were extremely well attended?  …we were told that many prominent Democrats attended the “Re-elect Jim Raben To County Council”  fundraising events?

IS IT TRUE that it is painful to read the crime stats in the City of Evansville when it comes to violence and homicide?…2018 is slightly kinder than 2017 was but it is still concerning to be in one of the top 25 violent crime capitals of the United States?…it is just heat stopping to learn that one person has been charged with 9 counts of child molestation?…there are still roughly 800 convicted child molesters on record in Evansville so be vigilant and keep your children safe?

Today’s “Readers Poll” question is: Are you planing to vote in the upcoming Republican primary?
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Commentary: Trump Takes Charge By Letting Go

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By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com 

INDIANAPOLIS – President Donald Trump did something smart, something good – something right – with North Korea.

He stepped back.

 

Now, the long-troubled Korean peninsula and people have a chance for peace. The odds that they will get peace still are long, but the chances look a lot better than they did a few weeks ago.

If they do achieve peace, it also will mean greater peace for a troubled world.

This is a good thing.

North Korea is the most militarized part of the world. Its leader, Kim Jong-un, is both unstable and amoral, a dangerous combination. He’s killed members of his own family and threatened the United States and other countries with North Korea’s expanding nuclear arsenal.

For a time, it seemed that President Trump was determined to match or perhaps top Kim’s pugnacity and irrationality. The two leaders traded threats, keeping the world balanced on a knife edge between anxiety and terror in the process.

As Trump and Kim taunted each other, the world often seemed at the edge of war, held hostage by two men with impulse-control issues and vast numbers of nuclear weapons at their disposal.

It was in that space that South Korean President Moon Jae-in saw an opportunity.

The Seoul Olympic Games gave South Korea a chance to extend an olive branch to their neighbors and onetime fellow countrymen.

South Korea invited North Korea not just to participate in the games, but to have the two countries that once were one form teams together.

The thaw began, and it continues now.

President Trump’s supporters argue that he should be honored for this development. Quite a few of them – including U.S. Rep. Luke Messer, R-Indiana, whose Senate primary campaign is chasing Trump voters with the ardor of a hungry dog chasing a thrown bone – even have urged that the president be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump may not merit a Nobel, but he does deserve credit, just not for the reason his most devoted followers think.

His inflammatory saber-rattling and adolescent boasting don’t merit lauding.

But his willingness to cede the central position in the discussions regarding North Korea does.

Too many U.S. presidents have fallen victim to the fantasy that U.S. power equals U.S. omnipotence. Too often, they have acted as if we could remake the world as we wished, wiping away centuries of history and uprooting millions of lives along the way.

But America’s power, great as it is, is not limitless.

We, like every other nation and every other person on the planet, are bound by reality.

And the reality is that any lasting peace on the Korean peninsula would have to be created and implemented by the peoples of North Korea and South Korea. Any “peace” foisted on the two nations by outsiders would have been an ongoing source of resentment and fuel for future conflagrations.

The only way to peace is the way now being pursued – that of allowing the Korean people to talk and work through their differences. If they can put an end to nearly 70 years of warfare, distrust and tension, their lives will be better,

and every human being will be able to sleep more soundly.

This is as it should be.

Too many leaders – not just in the United States, but everywhere – think it is their duty to solve every problem. They forget, at times, that the important thing is the solution, not the person who arrives at it.

Sometimes, the best – the wisest – thing a leader can do is get out of the way.

Part of the reason there is a shot at peace along the Korean peninsula is that President Trump did just that.

Donald Trump sees himself – and his followers see him – as a take-charge guy, one who commands attention.

It goes against his nature to let go, to surrender the stage to someone else.

That’s what he did here.

That’s why things are better.

He deserves credit for that.

FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

This article was posted by the City County Observer  without opinion, bias or editing. without opinion, bias or editing.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: I WOULD BE HONORED BY YOUR VOTE IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

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I WOULD BE HONORED BY YOUR VOTE IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
This upcoming Tuesday, all of Indiana will go to the polls and select those who best represent their Party as a General Election Candidate. As one of those candidates I can say it has been an honor to be broadly supported by all the citizens I’ve met from the hundreds of community events I’ve attended.
I love our corner of Indiana! I’ve never run for public office before; never held a government job.  I have an entrepreneurial spirit that has led to private sector investment and job creation.  It is that spirit I now wish to apply to the work of County Commissioner.
I believe that my experiences, my work ethic, my dedication to conservative values will aid me as a County Commissioner.  I know how to create jobs and balance tight budgets.  I posses the grit and determination it takes to fight for our local economy on a regional or national scale.  Most of all, I can apply sound conservative business practices into our County’s government.
I ask for your support and I hope to earn your vote.  It is you the voter, the taxpayer, the property owner, the families of this community that make it a great place to live and work.  Send me to work for you and together we can continue to improve Vanderburgh County.

 

Sincerely,

Steven W. Hammer

Vanderburgh County Commissioner-Candidate
Footnote: This letter was posted by the City County Observer without opinion, bias or editing.

Evansville-Native Fired Up Fans For The Indy 500

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As the calendar flips to May, race fans gear up for a Memorial Day tradition – The Indianapolis 500. But did you know, one unlikely Evansville-native spent many of her later years firing up fans, and drivers each race day?

This is the latest installment of Tri-State Treasures.

“Lady and Gentlemen start your engines.”

With those famous words, the starting grid at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway comes alive. In 1978, Mary Fendrich Hulman took over a tradition her late husband, Tony Hulman, started decades earlier.

Born in Evansville in 1905, Mary was the daughter of Cigar Company President John H. Fendrich.

Remnants of the family forturne are still present with the Fendrich Cigar Company building, still standing, behind Willard Library, in what now houses Berry Global.

Vanderburgh County Historian Stan Schmitt says Mary was also born into another famous local family.

“Mary’s great grandfather on the other side of the family was John Augusta Reitz. Who was the big lumber king here. The Reitz Home was his home. So Mary grew up knowing the Reitz Home when it was still a house,” Schmitt said.

Mary’s knowledge of the home and the decorations inside, would later aid historians after the property was converted into a museum in 1974.

“She remembered where everything was in the house. She had items and paintings from the home. So she came in there, and could tell them oh this room had this type of material. So she supplied them with things and original items for it,” said Schmitt.

Just a few blocks away at 827 S.E. First Street stands the Fendrich home where Mary grew up. In 1926, Mary would meet a wealthy Terre Haute businessman named Tony Hulman.

Hulman’s properties extended from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, with several more in downtown Evansville.

Schmitt says the couple’s marriage at Assumption Church in Evansville was described at the time as “the” wedding of the century.

“This is one where cars were parked for blocks. You had hundreds of people showing up. You had special police out. The Fendrick home on first street to guard all the gifts.”

In 1945, the Hulman’s paid $750,000 for a dilapidated property on the westside of Indianapolis that we know today as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Mary and other family members questioned the potential of the property, but apparently “father knows best”.

After 30 years of rebuilding the world’s greatest race course Tony Hulman died in 1977.

Although her husband coined the phrase for drivers to start their engines – it was Mary who would continue the tradition.

“Lady and Gentlemen start your engine.”

But Mary’s first attempt at the command wasn’t without controversy.

“She said ‘Lady and Gentlemen Start Your Engines’ but their was a problem with the microphone at the time, and what most people heard was just Gentlemen Start your engines. She didn’t realize it had happened until after the race. And Janet Guthrie only heard what other people heard, and she was outraged. That it had gone backwards that she had been thrown in with the guys again.”

The mishap angered Guthrie, but the two would make up at the victory banquet. Mary continued her duties with the speedway until her death in 1996.

Even though the couple who saved the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are gone, what they started in Indianapolis still gives fans an extra thrill Memorial Day weekend, and their name and legacy lives on through several structures in Evansville.

Tommy Mason

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HOT JOB IN EVANSVILLE

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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.

Bradley A. Higdon: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Ralph Anthony Padilla: Operating a vehicle as an habitual traffic violator (Level 6 Felony)

Justin Michael Hall: Resisting law enforcement (Level 6 Felony), Possession of a synthetic drug or synthetic drug lookalike substance (Class A misdemeanor), Operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license (Class C misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Cody Methanial Sargent: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class B misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

John Everett Hanmore: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class B misdemeanor), Operating a vehicle with an ACE of 0.08 or more (Class C misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Amanda Rae Embry: Unlawful possession or use of a legend drug (Level 6 Felony), Theft (Class A misdemeanor)

Steve John Zabrosky: Operating a vehicle while intoxicated (Level 6 Felony)

Devin Kenneth Clements: Battery against a public safety official (Level 6 Felony), Battery against a public safety official (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony), Battery by bodily waste (Level 6 Felony)

Tyler Glen Whitson: Unlawful possession of syringe (Level 6 Felony)

Eyvette Christine Tarr: Unlawful possession of syringe (Level 6 Felony)

George Robert Payne: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony)

Jacob Alan Robertson: Theft (Level 6 Felony)

Zachery Allen Gibson: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class A misdemeanor), Possession of paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor)

Mark Lamont Jones: Stalking (Level 5 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 5 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor)

Anthony Ramon Quarels: Strangulation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class B misdemeanor)

Michael Anthony Jews: Domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury (Level 5 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class A misdemeanor), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor)

Jadavione Dequan Danzey: Armed robbery (Level 3 Felony)

Johnnie James Williams: Domestic battery (Level 5 Felony)

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Jess Powers via email at jpowers@vanderburghgov.org

Evansville 9, Belmont 1 Baseball Recap

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville baseball team put it all together on the mound, at the plate and in the field as the Purple Aces blasted Belmont, 9-1, at Charles H. Braun Stadium Tuesday night.

“It’s tough to win at this level, obviously we’ve shown that this year, and for us to get a win feels good”, said Head Coach Wes Carroll. “We’re just trying to build some momentum off this. Finals are over with. Our guys can hopefully come to the yard and enjoy being around each other and play the game the right way. I think that was our most complete game of the season.”

It began with senior relief pitcher Ryan Brady, making the first start of his collegiate career, and he was sharp. The right hander tossed two innings of shutout work, striking out three, while allowing just one hit. Brady would be lifted after the second for fellow senior reliever Hunter Porterfield, who would come in and strike out a pair, while pitching a perfect third.

“It started on the mound with our pitchers, said Carroll. “I feel like they were winning a lot of even counts and putting a lot of goose eggs up on the board.”

The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the frame, when the Aces bats came to life. Sophomore outfielder Troy Beilsmith opened the inning by sending hot shot past third base and down the third baseline, resulting in a leadoff double. Freshman first baseman Tanner Craig followed that up with a single up the middle, and a hustling Beilsmith raced around from first to score the icebreaker. Sophomore outfielder Kenton Crews would move Craig to second, legging out a bunt single in the process. Two batters later, sophomore shortstop Craig Shepherd ripped a single to right, tallying Craig and moving Crews over to third. The very next batter, senior catcher Travis Tokarek, making just his second start of the season behind the plate, grooved a shot to center, which got past a diving outfielder. Crews and Shepherd came around to score to make it 4-0 Evansville. Tokarek came around third, going for the rare inside the park home run, but got thrown out at the plate.

However, it wouldn’t matter. In the fourth inning, on the strength of five steals, the Aces kept scoring. RBI singles from Troy Beilsmith, senior outfielder Dalton Horstmeier and Kenton Crews pushed the UE lead to 7-0.

“We got a lot of leadoff batters on base and applied some pressure with our speed on their battery,” said Carroll.

Meanwhile, Porterfield (1-1) kept rolling along, tossing a scoreless fourth and fifth inning, striking out three, on his way to picking up his first win of the season. Junior left hander Alex Weigand would replace on the hill in the sixth, and got greeted with a solo home run off the bat Kyle Conger. However, that would be his only misstep in a solid 1 2/3 innings of work.

The Aces would tack on two more in the seventh inning, which Crews led off by lacing a triple to center. He would later score on a sacrifice fly from freshman designated hitter Pete Vaccaro. Craig Shepherd would score later in the frame on a wild pitch, making the score 9-1.

Junior reliever Austin Allinger and sophomore reliever Nathan Croner with combine to toss 2 1/3 innings of shutout pitching to close out the game.

The win improves Evansville’s record to 8-30 on the season, while the loss drops Belmont to 16-28.

The Aces now head down to the Lone Star State for a big weekend showdown with Missouri Valley Conference rival Dallas Baptist, beginning Friday night.

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