Vanderburgh County Current Warrants

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Zoo Advisory Agenda

11/03/2017

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MESKER PARK ZOO & BOTANIC GARDEN ADVISORY BOARD

CALL TO ORDER
MEETING MEMORANDUM October 3, 2017
REPORT BY OPERATIONS CURATOR
NEW BUSINESS
1. Contract â€“ Electrical Projects â€“ Mel-Kay Electric
2. Contract â€“ Vet Door Replacement â€“ Happe & Sons
ADJOURN

2017 FanFest to feature Aces star Reed Jackson

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UE Hall of Famer and fan favorite Reed Jackson will speak at one of the most popular Aces events of the season.Â FanFest is back for the 7^thyear in a row and will take place prior to the University of Evansville menâ€™s basketball season opener against Arkansas State on Friday, November 10.

Festivities get underway at 4:30 p.m. and run through 6:30 p.m. at Freedom Plaza, which is located directly outside the main entrance of the Ford Center. Â The game will begin at 7:00 p.m., giving fans plenty of time to make it inside the arena to their seats. This is the first time FanFest is on a Friday night.

Live music, a photo booth, bounce house and several more great activities will be at the event, which has taken place each year since 2011.

There will also be activities for fans of all ages with vendors selling food also on hand.Â Those selling food include: Dapper Pig, Marx BBQ and Backstage.

Admission to FanFest is free to everyone.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

11/02/2017

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Â Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutorâ€™s Office today.

Eric Leon Stinson: Intimidation (Level 5 Felony), Intimidation (Level 6 Felony)

Holly E. Bolin: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony)

Mario Stephon Morris: Criminal mischief (Level 6 Felony)

Geraldine W. Merriweather: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Sidney Earl Mobley: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

Chris Lynn Carder II: Armed robbery (Level 3 Felony)

Zachary Edgar Rice: Burglary (Level 4 Felony), Stalking (Level 5 Felony), Invasion of privacy (Level 6 Felony)

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

11/02/2017

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

11/02/2017

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

CITY COUNTY OBSERVER PARTNERS WITH THE STATEHOUSEFILE OF FRANKLIN COLLEGE PULLIUM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

11/02/2017

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Its with extreme pride that we are able to announce today that the City County Observer Â signed an partnership agreement with The StatehouseFile published by Franklin College Pullium School of Journalism. We believe that this agreement will take the City County Observer to the nextÂ level of on line newspaper publishing. We want to thank our readers, advertisers, news contributors, and family members for helping us to achieve this important milestone.

The City County Observer will continue to be a complementary publication for rest of this year and the 2018 calendar year. We urge you to support our advertisers because they make it possible for readers to subscribe to our publication at no costs.

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.

“TheStatehouseFile.com started as an educational experiment designed to get journalism students out of the classroom so they could practice what they were learning in real-life situations,” said John Krull, publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com and director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism. Â “It grew into one of the largest news services in the state because editors, news directors and ordinary Hoosiers liked what the students reported and wanted more of it. The support our partner news organizations, such as The City-County Observer, not only allows our students to hone their skills, but, in some cases, helps them stay in school. We are grateful for that support, because, despite its remarkable growth, TheStatehouseFile.com remains at its heart a learning experience for the students who make its success possible.’

TheStatehouseFile.com has partnerships with more than 30 Indiana newspapers, radio stations, TV stations and news websites. These partners come from every part of the state.

New Dog Park Coming To Evansville

11/02/2017

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Channel 44 NEWS: New Dog Park Coming To Evansville

NOVEMBER 1ST, 2017Â Â BRITNEY TAYLORÂ EVANSVILLE,Â INDIANA

Volunteers will oversee the construction and maintenance of the new park. This park, which will be 100% privately funded, is expected to feature a secure entrance, restrooms, and even a spray park.

Woodmere Dog Park will have more than three acres of fenced â€œoff-leashâ€ lawns for both small and large dogs.

The dog park is projected to open sometime in the fall of 2018 or the spring of 2019.

For more information, visitÂ Woodmere Dog Park, or send an email to info@woodmeredogpark.com.

Record-Breaking Cornette Ball Benefits St. Vincent Center For Children

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Â Sister Theresa Peck, a Daughter of Charity For 61 years Of Service

A record number of guests – 640 – filled the atrium of the West Baden Springs Hotel for our 30th Annual Cornette Ball on Saturday, October 21. Thank you to all of our individual and corporate sponsors for your generous support.

Sister Theresa Peck, a Daughter of Charity for 61 years, was honored with the prestigious Steward of St. Vincent de Paul Award, the highest honor bestowed by St. Vincent Evansville.

The net proceeds will benefit St. Vincent Center for Children. The center offers comprehensive pediatric outpatient services for children throughout our region, including: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Weight Management & Eating Disorders, Feeding Disorders in our Pediatric Feeding Clinic, Behavior Issues and G.I. Disorders. A special thank you to our Cornette Ball chairs, Jennifer and Tom Bailey, for your leadership of this year’s ball.

Erika and Ken Haynie will chair our 31st Annual Cornette Ball on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at West Baden Springs Hotel. We hope you will join us for another wonderful celebration!

Harrison Grad Tim Glyshaw Makes Big Time With Pair Running In Breeders’ Cup

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Tim Glyshaw Makes Gig Time With Pair Running In Breeders’ Cup

DEL MAR, Calif. (Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017) â€” Louisville-based trainer Tim Glyshaw knows his horses are up against it when he saddles his first starters in the Breedersâ€™ Cup Saturday: Bucchero in the $1 million Turf Sprint and Bullards Alley in the $4 million Turf at Del Mar.

With 20 years in horse racing, Glyshaw knows his chosen sport is a numbers game: the largest stables with the biggest bankrolls fill most of the starting gate for races such as the Triple Crown and Breedersâ€™ Cup.

But Glyshaw also knows that the foundation of the sport is eternal optimism, bolstered by the legendary exploits of bargain-basement horses such as Seattle Slew, John Henry and Stymie. And Bucchero and Bullards Alley already have bucked their odds.

Bucchero, a standout when competing against his fellow horses that were born in Indiana, gave Glyshaw the biggest victory of his career in capturing Keenelandâ€™s Grade 2 Woodford Stakes at odds of 26-1 on Oct. 7. Eight days later,Â Bullards Alley, coming out of a sixth-place finish in Kentucky Downsâ€™ Grade 3 Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup, gave Glyshaw a new biggest victory by dominating Woodbineâ€™s Grade 1 Pattison Canadian International at 42-1 â€” his 10 3/4-length margin a record for the race in which Secretariat made his career finale in 1973.

â€œIt was just an amazing experience,â€ Glyshaw said. â€œWe thought theyâ€™d both run well. We never expected Bucchero to win fairly easy, like he did by a length and three-quarters under wraps. And what Bullard did up there, heâ€™s never done in his life. Hopefully thatâ€™s not a one-time deal. But if it is, he sure chose the perfect race.â€

Glyshaw again will be up against stables that can choose from 100, 200 or even 300 horses. Owner Harlan Malter paid $43,000 for Bucchero for his Ironhorse Racing Stable partnership, while Wayne Spalding got Bullards Alley for $11,000 at Eugene Melnykâ€™s dispersal sale, selling part-interest into his long-time friend Faron McCubbins, both from Mt. Washington, Ky., just outside of Louisville.

â€œTheyâ€™re definitely workman-like horses that not a lot of money was paid for them,â€ Glyshaw said. â€œThese are not horses that people paid $300,000, $400,000 to get. Those are the horses that usually win those races at Keeneland.

â€œIt gives people who pay smaller prices for horses hope. The only thing youâ€™ve got to watch out for is that people donâ€™t start to expect that when you buy a horse for $11,000 or $43,000 that theyâ€™ll wind up being a Breedersâ€™ Cup horse. But thatâ€™s always a possibility. Weâ€™ve shown that with these two horses.â€

Glyshaw grew up in Evansville, graduating from Harrison High and Indiana University. He became enamored with horse racing watching the dramatic Triple Crown and Breedersâ€™ Cup showdowns between Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, with Glyshaw becoming a regular at Ellis Park while home from colleges in the summer.

After teaching 2 1/2 years, Glyshaw gave in to the lure of the track. After serving as an assistant to well-known trainers Cole Norman and Bob Holthus, he opened his own stable in 2004 with four cheap horses that he and wife Natalie claimed for themselves.

Glyshaw carries about 25 or 27 horses, with divisions based at Churchill Downs and Indiana Grand, while wintering at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. His horses have earned purses that surpassed $1 million each of the past six years. But in this era where the so-called â€œmega-stablesâ€ dominate, Glyshaw is considered a medium-sized stable, one of the blue-collar guys filling race cards across America while the big boys grab most of the spotlight.

“I didnâ€™t grow up around horses,â€ Glyshaw said. â€œI didnâ€™t have a network of daddy and grandpa working in this industry and I got 30 horses given to me when I decided I wanted to start training. Thatâ€™s a lot of what goes on over here. Iâ€™m not badmouthing those people; a lot of those guys are very good trainers. But I didnâ€™t come up like that. So itâ€™s very, very pleasing to know weâ€™ve gotten to this level with these horses.â€

At Del Mar, Glyshaw serves as groom for both horses, with assistance from Doug Morley, Buccheroâ€™s exercise rider the past two seasons who also is getting on Bullards Alley with the geldingâ€™s regular exercise rider, Jose Quevedo, neededÂ at Churchill Downs.

Bullards Alley and Bucchero victories Saturday would be upsets, but theyâ€™re clearly getting some respect, given that the field sizes and quality of horses drive up odds in all Breedersâ€™ Cup races. Bucchero is 12-1 in the Turf Sprint, the same odds as Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint winner and Woodford runner-up Hogy, with Lady Aurelia the 5-2 favorite. Bullards Alley is 15-1 in the Turf, with British-based Ulysses 7-2, Arlington Million winner Beach Patrol 4-1 and 2016 winner Highland Reel 5-1.

â€œBullard doesnâ€™t know who heâ€™s running against,â€ Glyshaw said. â€œHe goes out and tries every time, and so does Bucchero.â€

“It was a hard decision, but it might never happen again for us,â€ Spalding said of running in the Breedersâ€™ Cup. â€œItâ€™s a once in a life-time thing, so we had to do it.â€

Malter, after flying several times a year to Indiana to watch Bucchero run, now gets to watch his stable star compete a short drive from the ownerâ€™s Orange County home.

â€œIâ€™ve always had a ton of confidence, and the whole team has had a ton of confidence, in Bucchero and we felt like he could show it,â€ he said of the Keeneland victory. â€œI was just super happy for the horse and all the guys involved with the horse.

â€œWe also breed. And we know just to get a horse to a 2-year-old sale, youâ€™re probably into a horse for $40,000, $45,000.â€

Malter had come to know Ocala, Fla., horsemen Karen and Greg Dodd, who bred Buccharo and suggested their friend should buy him. The Dodds hadÂ Buccharoâ€™s mom before and sold the broodmare at auction. Much later, the mare was one of about 30 found starving in a field. The animal welfare group that rescued the mares contacted Karen, who before even knowing the details â€” which included that the mare might not survive â€” said, â€œIâ€™ll take her. Where do I come get her?â€

Nurtured back to health by Karen, Meetmeontime ultimately foaled Bucchero, who was offered at a 2-year-old sale in Ocala three years ago.

â€œGreg said, â€˜Look, Iâ€™ve had this horse his whole life, heâ€™s trained fantastic. He came up with just a little spot (physical blemish) that the vets picked up at the 2-year-old sale.â€™ I think thatâ€™s the way the game is now, when that happens, the horse falls off the radar. Gregâ€™s word to me was all I needed. Obviously heâ€™s exceeded anything weâ€™ve expected.

â€œI look at Bucchero sometimes and think he got his momâ€™s grit.â€

Bucchero is a son of the Steve Asmussen-trained Kantharos, whose 3-for-3 record included Churchill Downsâ€™ Bashford Manor and the Saratoga Special. Now at Lexingtonâ€™s Hill â€™nâ€™ Dale Farms, Kantharos was standing in Florida when Bucchero was conceived, with Meetmeontime sent to foal in Indiana to take advantage of its state-bred program.

Because the Dodds liked Bucchero so much as a youngster, Malter sought out a good name. He says heâ€™d never heard of Kantharos, but Googled the word and learned it is a type of ancient Greek pottery.

â€œI found out that a bucchero is a vase of that lineage of pottery,â€ he said.

Malter liked Bucchero so much that he purchased his half-sister and yearling full sister.

â€œOur motto is â€˜Horse partnerships for the other 99 percent. No sheikhs or billionaires apply,â€™â€ he said. â€œThe game has so stratified between extremely expensive horses with a limited amount of trainers and then everybody else. Look, not saying the people involved in our horses donâ€™t make a nice living. But weâ€™re not in position to buy $250,000 yearlings. By putting some people together and doing the right thing with the money, hopefully we can get some horses that are competitive.

â€œTo me, there are a lot of good horse people out there. Iâ€™ll give all the credit to Karen and Greg Dodd. I think a lot of things knock out horses from being more expensive nowadays â€” a little issue here on an X-ray or a little bit there and maybe they get thrown by the wayside and not put through the same regimen of trying to be a top-level (sales) horse. I do feel like the way weâ€™ve campaigned Bucchero â€” he had an injury after his 2-year-old year, and we gave him the time he needed â€” you can maybe develop these horses.â€