Rescue Mission Holds Sixth Annual Drumstick Dash to Benefit its 95th Annual Gobbler Gathering
The Evansville Rescue Mission’s sixth annual Drumstick Dash presented by TWO MEN AND A TRUCK will kick off Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 8 a.m. It will consist of either an 8K, 5K mile run/walk, or a short course of just 1 mile.Â
The Evansville Rescue Mission is tremendously excited to have its sixth annual Drumstick Dash to start and finish at the C.K. Newsome Community Center (100 East Walnut Street, Evansville, IN 47713). Runners and walkers will have the opportunity to go through historic Bosse Field, Garvin Park for the Drumstick Dash’s 8K and 5K routes, with 8K participants being able to briefly run or walk on Evansville’s Pigeon Creek Greenway.
 The Rescue Mission is expecting to field nearly 1,000 runners and walkers for the sixth annual Drumstick Dash where participants will have a chance to win a free frozen turkey and a commemorative Drumstick Dash medal and to choose from a variety of food court options.
 Proceeds of the Drumstick Dash will offset the Rescue Mission’s annual Gobbler Gathering, which will be held ten days later on Tuesday, November 21 at the Old National Events Plaza (715 E. Locust St., Evansville, IN 47708) where more than 2,202 Tri-State families will be able to receive a Thanksgiving food basket filled with enough food to last through Thanksgiving.
 The Drumstick Dash is extremely grateful for the following sponsors who have entrusted the Evansville Rescue Mission to feed literally thousands of Tri-State families through the Gobbler Gathering: TWO MEN AND A TRUCK, Old National Events Plaza, A+ Derr Heating and Cooling, Amana, Atlas World Group, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Indiana,  Packaging Corporation of America, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Product Acceptance and Research, Midwest Communications, Berry Global, Deaconess Hospital, F.C. Tucker Emge Realtors, Head’s Construction, Old National Bank, Shoe Carnival, Saint Vincent Evansville, and Nomad Technology Group.
For additional information on the Evansville Rescue Mission’s sixth annual Drumstick Dash, please contact Chris-Michael G. Morrison at 812.219.2939 or at chris.morrison@ermstaff.org.
THANK YOU VETERANSÂ BY MARK HURT
THANK YOU VETERANSÂ
BY MARK HURT
On November 11, we take time to honor the brave men and women who serve our county to defend our freedoms and protect our families.
Remember military families today for the sacrifices they make.  Please consider hosting a veteran for lunch in their honor and to learn about your veteran’s military experiences. I encourage businesses to highlight the experiences of veteran employees, respectfully and with sensitivity. Today, and every day, please recognize the families of veterans who served behind the scenes. Also, think about volunteering for veteran service organizations who do things like build houses, provide PTSD and suicide prevention counseling, on-site coaching at workforce centers and purchasing and providing supplies for veteran homeless shelters.
If you do nothing else on this special day, take 4 minutes and 16 seconds and listen to Trace Adkins’ “Arlington†at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJO7IJIxG10. Paste this in your browser and remember those who served and continue to serve both at Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
Let’s bring light on and raise appreciation for the service of veterans. Let’s provide support and not forget the nearly 49,000 homeless veterans and lets renew our belief and firm resolve to have the necessary funds not only to wage war when necessary but even more importantly, to preserve the peace. May God continue to bless the men and women who serve our nation and wear the military uniforms of the United States of America.
- Mark Hurt is an attorney who is a Republican candidate for Indiana’s U.S. Senate in 2018.
JUDGE NOT By Jim Redwine
JUDGE NOT
Gavel Gamut By Jim Redwine
Matthew may have had a bad experience in either the Roman courts or the Jewish courts in Jerusalem. He does not refer to any such case but his emphasis on “measure for measure†suggests to me he had run into a bad judge. See Matthew, Chapter 7, verses 1-5.
He apparently thought his judge was tainted:
“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam in your own eye then (perhaps) you can see to cast out the mote in the eye of the one (Matthew?) you are judging.â€
Of course, I do not know if Matthew had a run-in with a corrupt or ignorant or lazy judge; the Bible is silent on that point. However, after having numerous experiences with judges myself, I sense an undertow of bad judging in Matthew’s lament.
Gentle Reader, you might surmise that for years I have been contemplating what makes for a good judge and especially what makes a bad one. I have been judging, observing others judging and teaching the mysteries of judging for some time. My general conclusion is that Matthew hit the head of the nail. One should first demand a person be of good character then build a judge on that foundation.
Sure, it is helpful if your judges are of, at least, average intelligence and do not consider “work†a four letter word. However, as with any job requiring specialized knowledge there is no substitute for experience. We all learn best by doing and if we have not done it ourselves the next best teacher is someone who has done it. Naturally, we should not countenance experience being first gained on litigants in court any more than we should allow new surgeons to learn on patients.
America’s systems, there are several, of selecting our judges could all benefit from emulating countries where judges are chosen from a pool of persons who have concentrated on the profession of judging during law school then have served a lengthy apprenticeship under experienced judges. Unfortunately, in America our law schools have no option of a major in “Judging†and there are no requirements in most states to be a judge other than a law degree.
If we turned new doctors loose on patients after four years of classroom only education, Hippocrates (460 B.C. – 370 B.C.) would arise from his grave in anguish. But we do not hesitate to entrust decisions from child custody to the death penalty to people who may have never seen a court case other than on television.
The solution is not complicated. I suggest we copy the medical model and require a strong foundation of specialized law school training followed by several years of mentoring by experienced judges. Of course, none of this matters if the future judge has poor judgment, a defective character or is like the hypocrite in Matthew.
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Thanking Those Who Answered The Call Of Duty by Wendy McNamara
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BERGDAHL AND MILITARY SWAMP HOLDOVERS
By Susan Stamper Brown
“I am a soldier. I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.â€â€“ Gen. George S. Patton.
Americans are outraged over the Bowe Bergdahl sentencing on November 3 that should have led to serious prison time, or worse. But, face it, we now live in a country where deserters who cause fellow soldiers to be maimed or killed are treated as heroes if weak leftists are in charge.
He should be in prison. The only difference between Bergdahl and the guy who used a Home Depot truck to mow down and kill people in New York recently is that Bergdahl displayed his allegiance to the enemy on foreign soil.
Bergdahl walked because the military swamp remains filled with senior leaders who climbed the ranks curtseying to former President Obama’s social experimentation and his upside-down value system whereby one treasonous deserter is worth five senior Taliban terrorists.
Obama exchanged five of Gitmo’s finest for Bergdahl, then hosted a sickening spectacle at the White House Rose Garden where a touchy-feely Obama spoke to Bergdahl’s parents “courage.†Meanwhile, Obama’s favorite fact-twister, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, made her rounds, propagandizing that Bergdahl served with “honor and distinction.â€
Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers had a different story to tell on the Fort Richardson, Alaska Facebook page.
Time.com recorded comments which included: “I say we welcome him home with a firing squad,†and “He’s a piece of trash and everyone from [Fort Richardson] knows it ‒ the only person less American than that man is the president for giving up 5 hvt’s [High-Value Targets].â€
Another said: “Maybe if you knew the truth and the sacrifices made from people in our units in Alaska to find this douche… I feel worse for the kids who have to grow up fatherless cause their daddies died looking for this punk.â€
Now, “this punk†walks, thanks to, in part, the judge in charge, Col. Jeffrey R. Nance, who once said at a Fort Bragg hearing: “I will consider the president’s [Trump’s] comments [regarding Bergdahl] as mitigation evidence as I arrive at an appropriate sentence.†Nance was referring to Trump’s less-than- complementary comments about Bergdahl.
Obviously, Col. Nance did just that, essentially presenting Bergdahl a snowflake award, punishing him with the equivalent of a hand slap, despite six soldiers killed and others permanently maimed.
In my opinion as a retired military officer’s wife, Bergdahl’s dishonorable discharge devalued my husband’s honorable one.
I also believe Obama’s and Rice’s comments about Bergdahl helped to tip the scales of justice in the wrong direction, not Trump’s.
Furthermore, as a military wife during wartime, I attended way too many funerals for those who gave their all for something that had meaning and purpose. Not searching for a selfish son of a gun who thought only of himself, not the lives and families his actions might destroy.
At times and when politics aren’t in play, military justice can be swift, painful and fair. Not this time, and especially not for the brave warriors maimed and killed while searching for Bergdahl.
Col. Nance rewarded a traitor and Obama freed dangerous enemies most likely to face us once more in some future battle, plain and simple. It’s fair to say the Taliban interprets Obama’s prisoner exchange and Nance’s decision to let Bergdahl walk as weakness to be exploited.
Even this blonde columnist understands Americans are safest when our enemies see strength. Let them hate us, but they darn sure must respect us.
On a side note, given his rank, odds are, Nance is close to retirement, especially after trashing the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as many in the military community suggest. One can only pray.
Anyhow, it’s a sad day in America when a traitor is freed from a life sentence while fellow soldiers received theirs searching for him. What an insult to every veteran who served honorably.
Aleks Novakovich signs with UE men’s basketball
Novakovich is an Indiana native
 University of Evansville head men’s basketball coach Marty Simmons has announced that Aleks Novakovich has signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Purple Aces next season.
Novakovich is a native of Hobart, Ind. where he graduated from Hobart High School in 2017. The forward checks in at 6-foot, 10-inches.
“Aleks is a great kid who will really fit in well with our program and system,†Simmons said. “He is a skilled player for his size that can pass, dribble, and shoot. Aleks is one of those guys who continues to get better all the time.â€
In his last season at Hobart, Novakovich averaged 11.1 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. He is playing at Crown Point’s Don Bosco Prep this season.
Simmons and the Purple Aces begin the 2017-18 season tonight against Arkansas State at the Ford Center.