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College Goal Sunday

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What:  College Goal Sunday Event to Help Families with Preparing the Free Application For Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

When:  Sunday, Nov. 5 – 2-4 p.m.

Where: Ivy Tech Carter Library

3501 N. First Avenue

Background: Financial Aid professions from area institutions of higher education will offer free assistance to individuals and families during the College Goal Sunday event at Ivy Tech Community College to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Completion of the FAFSA is important, because it is essential for individuals to be considered for federal and state grants, scholarships, and student loans. The state grant filing deadline for the 2018-19 school year is April 15, 2018. Students are encouraged to file their FAFSA early for more opportunities to be selected for aid.

Contact at the event: Casey Trela, director of financial aid, Ivy Tech Community Colleg

Complete News Release

Free FAFSA assistance for students at 16 Ivy Tech Community College locations for College Goal Sunday

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Financial aid professionals will be volunteering at 16 Ivy Tech Community College campus locations on November 5 at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (local time) for College Goal Sunday. This annual event provides free assistance for Hoosier families to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

College Goal Sunday events will be hosted at the following Ivy Tech locations: Anderson, Avon, Bloomington, Crawfordsville, East Chicago, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Franklin, Greencastle, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Logansport, Muncie, Terre Haute, Valparaiso and Warsaw.

“We hope all Hoosiers who have not filed already, take advantage of College Goal Sunday events across Indiana, file the FAFSA, and get one step closer to fulfilling their educational goals,” said Bill Wozniak, co-chair of College Goal Sunday.

Daylight Savings ends on the same day as College Goal Sunday, so students are encouraged to verify the correct time with the location they plan to attend.

Hoosier students who plan to attend college must file their FAFSA to be considered for federal and state grants, scholarships and student loans. The state grant filing deadline for the 2018-19 school year is April 15, 2018. Students are encouraged to file their FAFSA early for more opportunities to be selected for aid.

Volunteers at College Goal Sunday will walk through the application with students and answer questions. All sites offer FAFSA online capabilities and many will have Spanish interpreters. A complete list of sites can be found at CollegeGoalSunday.org.

What students should bring

Students should attend College Goal Sunday with their 2016 IRS tax returns and W-2 forms, as well as current investment and bank records. Parent(s) or guardian(s) will need to attend with high school students and bring their tax and investment information. In addition, students must bring their Federal Student Aid (FSA) identification number, which can be created at fsaid.ed.gov.

Attendees may win educational prizes

By attending College Goal Sunday and completing an evaluation form, students will be entered to win one of five $1,000 scholarships. Winners will be notified in December. Prizes will be sent directly to the higher education institution selected by the winning student.

21st Century Scholars benefit

21st Century Scholars are income-eligible students who sign a contract in the seventh or eighth grade promising they will graduate from high school, meet grade point requirements, fulfill a pledge of good citizenship and apply for college financial aid.

Upon high school graduation, eligible Scholars who have fulfilled the commitment will receive state funds to help cover their college tuition and fees for eight semesters at eligible Indiana colleges. To fulfill their pledge, scholars must submit a completed FAFSA form on time. College Goal Sunday can help.

Additional Information

College Goal Sunday originated in Indiana and has become a national model to help hundreds of thousands of students file the FAFSA. For more information about College Goal Sunday, visit CollegeGoalSunday.org.

About College Goal Sunday

College Goal Sunday is a cooperative, charitable effort of the Indiana Student Financial Aid Association (ISFAA). It is provided in cooperation with the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, and is funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc., NCAN and INvested.

VEX Robotics Competition

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What: Annual VEX Robotics Competition

When: November 4, 9 a.m.-Noon

Awards Ceremony at 11:30 a.m.

Where:  Room 147, Vectren Auditorium

Ivy Tech Community College, 3501 N. First Avenue

Enter through Entrance C, off Colonial Drive. (north side of building)

Background: Students in grades 4-12 interested in robotics are participating in the annual VEX Robotics competition at Ivy Tech Community College Evansville. The VEX Robotics Challenge begins at 9 a.m., and will last until the awards ceremony around 11:30 a.m. This year’s competition is titled “Math Whiz,” and is sponsored by Ivy Tech’s School of Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering and Applied Technology.

The focus of the contest is for the team members to be able to think on their feet. The teams will be supplied ahead of time with angles and elevations of turns. In a series of challenges, competitors will have to calculate times and distances to see how well they know their robot’s capabilities. Distances will not be disclosed until the race starts. The VEX Robotics Design System offers students an exciting platform for learning about areas rich with career opportunities spanning science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). These are just a few of the many fields students can explore by creating with VEX Robotics Technology. Beyond science and engineering principles, a VEX Robotics project encourages teamwork, leadership and problem solving among groups.

Adopt A Pet

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Female Lab/”Sato” (mixed-breed.) Sato is a word used in Puerto Rico for mixed-breed. She and 10 of her friends were rescued from Puerto Rico disaster relief! They were flown from PR to Indianapolis, where a VHS team picked them up. Playa and Yui are the only 2 dogs that remain from that group. Yui is very shy, but eventually warms up to kindness and she is a very laid-back girl. She will do well in just about any home that’s not too boisterous. Yui’s $100 adoption fee includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and heartworm test. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for details!

 

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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

Aaron G. Meriwether: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Criminal mischief (Class B misdemeanor)

Daunte Lukan Garner: Battery resulting in serious bodily injury (Level 5 Felony), Battery by means of a deadly weapon (Level 5 Felony)

Danny Lee Ward: Theft (Level 6 Felony), Theft of a firearm (Level 6 Felony)

Darrell Gerome Williams: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Strangulation (Level 6 Felony)

Devon Allen Ranes: Theft of a firearm (Level 6 Felony), Carrying a handgun without a license (Class A misdemeanor)

Allante Daion Marquise Pettit: Resisting law enforcement (Level 6 Felony), Disorderly conduct (Class B misdemeanor)

Rashawn Lamour Cartwright: Criminal trespass (Level 6 Felony), Attempt Residential entry (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor), Public intoxication (Class B misdemeanor)

Frederick Tyrone Nelson: Burglary (Level 4 Felony)

Steven W. Wilcox: Operating a vehicle with an ACE of 0.08 or more (Level 6 Felony)

Amanda Dawn Breeze: Aggravated battery (Level 3 Felony)

Tyrone Kevin Brevard Jr.: Conspiracy Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Dealing in cocaine (Level 3 Felony), Dealing in marijuana (Level 6 Felony), Carrying a handgun without a license (Class A misdemeanor)

Jamal Christopher: Conspiracy Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Dealing in a schedule I controlled substance (Level 2 Felony), Dealing in cocaine (Level 3 Felony), Dealing in marijuana (Level 6 Felony), Carrying a handgun without a license (Class A misdemeanor)

Ricky L. Lockridge: Intimidation (Level 5 Felony), Strangulation (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

David Donald Moore: Domestic battery (Level 5 Felony)

Keenan James McDaniel: Theft of a firearm (Level 6 Felony), Carrying a handgun without a license (Class A misdemeanor)

Niki Reanae Fallowfield: Theft (Level 6 Felony)

Aaron Michael Conway: Domestic battery (Level 5 Felony), Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony)

Jaylen Alexander Curlee: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Michael Paul Brown: Rape (Level 3 Felony), Criminal confinement (Level 5 Felony), Domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury (Level 6 Felony), Strangulation (Level 6 Felony)

Skyler R. Wright: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony)

Michael Anthony Kinser: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

KINDA LIKE A FAKE PRESIDENT

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Homecoming for the Peters/Margedant House

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Willard Library

FIX THE PARKS, NOT THE FEES

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By Peter Funt

Three years ago this month, returning to my hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizona, I wrote:

At least once in a lifetime every American should lay eyes on the Grand Canyon, whose brilliant colors and dazzling erosional landscape inspire a kind of planetary patriotism. Stretching 277 miles long and a mile deep, it is perhaps our nation’s greatest natural treasure.

I went on to express sadness over a decision by the National Parks Service to raise admission from $25 per car to $30 – a five dollar hike! Our parks should be free, I argued, and Congress was being stingy by failing to pony up the relatively small sum needed to make that possible.

Which brings us to the recent announcement by the Interior Department that peak-season fees at our 17 most popular parks will jump to $70 per car, if the Trump Administration has its way. The cost to hike into one of the parks on foot would double to $30.

The new fees would raise about $70 million a year, according to government estimates. To help put that into perspective: Congress has allocated $120 million per year to provide security for Donald Trump’s family.

Under a formula established by Congress, each national park retains 80 percent of its admission fees, and shares the balance with other parks that do not charge fees. But according to the National Parks Service, the sole reason for charging fees in the first place is that Congress won’t allocate funds needed to maintain roads and essential infrastructure at the largest national parks.

In announcing the new visitor fees, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the additional money is needed for repairs to “help ensure that [parks] are protected and preserved in perpetuity.” Zinke’s misguided plan is to foist the higher fees on visitors during “peak season” – which is to say, when kids are out of school, their parents are able to vacation, and weather at the parks is at its best.

Under the proposal, new peak season entrance fees would be established at 17 locations. The NPS has the audacity to add, via its website, that the hikes are “part of its commitment to improve the visitor experience.”

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration has quietly proposed big cuts to the National Park Service budget.

What can you do? This is a rare case when public outcry might actually help. You can visit the NPS website at www.parkplanning.nps.gov and register a complaint. The window for comments closes Nov. 23.

“We should not increase fees to such a degree as to make these places, protected for all Americans to experience, unaffordable for some families,” said Theresa Pierno, head of the National Parks Conservation Association.

To which I’d add: If Donald Trump prefers a country-club nation of haves and have-nots, this new gambit fits right in.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and environmentalist Wallace Stegner called our national parks “the best idea we ever had.” Doubling the price of visiting them is clearly one of the worst.

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/recent-booking-records.aspx

IS IT TRUE NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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We hope that todays “IS IT TRUE” 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 something that the City County Observer advocated for many years ago has finally come to be?…Evansville is going to get a new state of the art dog park and not one dime of public money is going to the dogs?…the new dog park fully paid for by the dog owners living in this area who choose to spend their own money will be adjacent to the soccer fields in the park on Vann Avenue that is between the Lloyd Expressway and Lincoln Avenue will be the site of the new pooch palace?…in the spirit of affection between man’s best friend and the Mayor’s office, the City of Evansville will be roughly $3 Million richer and the dog lovers will have the honor of paying their own way as opposed to having the taxpayer subsidize bowser’s recreational opportunities?

IS IT TRUE that a dog park paid by the users is how things are supposed to happen in a functioning society? …we hope this does not give Mayor Winnecke and the Evansville City Council the delusion that they have $3 Million to waste on some other nonsensical project?…we also hope that our elected officials  realize that good public policy practice by everyday day citizens has once again  saved them from themselves?

IS IT TRUE that the CCO also openly stated that a downtown hotel would happen without a subsidy when and if a medical school was becoming a reality?…as with the dog park, two hotels without the need for a handout have followed the medical school into downtown Evansville?…that is another $20 Million that the taxpayers of Evansville would have saved if we had a Mayor and Council with a shred of patience when it came to greasing an aspiring hotelier?…alas in the case of the Doubletree, the taxpayers saw that $20 Million plus go to waste unnecessarily?…we wonder who let those dogs out?…it must have been former Mayor Weinzapfel who boasted about how a Marriot would come to downtown Evansville without a subsidy if and only if a hockey arena was built?…that is turning out to be the gift that keeps on taking?…it takes about $9 Million per year that could have been used for some other useful purpose like sewers, water pipes, or road repairs?

IS IT TRUE that while we are on the subject of the City of Evansville borrowing money to build a downtown hockey rink, we noticed that buried in the fine print of President Trump’s proposed tax reform plan is a provision that will eliminate the tax free status of interest paid on municipal bonds issued for sports stadiums?…this is one provision of the proposed tax reform plan that the CCO heartily endorses as stadiums never perform up to expectations and allowing tax exempt debt to be utilized to fleece the taxpayers into building temples to sport was just wrong in the first place?…we wonder if this is going to apply to bonds that have already been issued?

IS IT TRUE that Henderson is about to see the K-Mart that has been there forever close as it was on a list of upcoming closures issued by the parent organization aka Sears and Roebucks?…the brick and mortar retail stores continue to get Amazoned on a regular basis?…some but not very many brick and mortar stores are finding new ways like making deals with towing companies to make up for the lost revenue?

IS IT TRUE that last night our first responders worked a scene of two shootings?  …its was reported that a suspect was reported to be fleeing the scene of the shootings? …it was also members of the EPD were holding another possible suspect at gunpoint?  …we are proud of our man and women in blue for help keeping our community safe from bad people?…the next time you see our first responders please give them a “thumbs up” for doing a great job in protecting us?

As of 9:40 p.m. AMR, police and fire units were still on scene.

At about 10:10 p.m., according to scanner traffic, the suspect vehicle was seen near Taylor Avenue turning onto Garvin Street. Police were working to locate the vehicle over the next two hours.

We will update as more details become available.

IS IT TRUE starting next week you will be able to read articles posted in the CCO articles written by Franklin College School of Journalism students about the current happenings at the State Capital? … articles that we will be publishing from the StatehouseFiles are; Courts and Crime, Drug Epidemic, Education, Environment, Health, immigration, Jobs-Economy and Labor, Local Government, Poverty, Roads and Construction, Social Issues, Taxes and Budgets, Technology, Commentary, Videos, Elections and News from Across Indiana? …we would like to thank long time supporter and friend Joe Wallace for stating that “this is a big win for the CCO. Congratulations on making this deal. This is a game changer”?  …it look like Mr. Wallace understands that The StatehouseFile and the City COUNTY OBSERVER partnership agreement really is a big deal?

Todays READERS POLL question is: Do you feel that the partnership agreement between the STATEHOUSEFILE and the City COUNTY OBSERVER is really a big deal?
Please take time and read our newest feature articles entitled “LAW ENFORCEMENT, READERS POLL, BIRTHDAYS, HOT JOBS” and “LOCAL SPORTS” posted in our sections.  You now are able to subscribe to get the CCO daily.
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EDITOR’S FOOTNOTE:  Any comments posted in this column do not represent the views or opinions of the City County Observer or our advertisers

 

 

 

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