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Adopt A Pet

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Ruby is a 3-year-old female medium-haired gray tabby. She can be a little shy. A home with older kids or no kids is preferred for Ruby. Her adoption fee is $30, and she’s already spayed, microchipped, vaccinated, and ready to go home TODAY! 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.

Chase Randall Hurt: Burglary (Level 5 Felony)

Melissa Marie Davis: Unlawful possession of syringe (Level 6 Felony), Possession of paraphernalia (Class C misdemeanor)

Adopt A Pet

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Ginger is a 9-month-old female Cattle Dog mix. She was surrendered with her 3 puppies, and now needs a home of her own. She is VERY sweet and loving! Ginger’s adoption fee is $100 and includes her spay, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.orgfor details.

Labor Day Closures

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The Civic Center will be closed Monday, September 4, 2017 for Labor Day. The Civic Center will resume regular business hours on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.

The Metropolitan Evansville Transit System will be closed Monday, September 4, and all METS buses will not operate that day. Regular bus service will resume on Tuesday, September 5.

Republic Services not operate on Monday, September 4, and there will be no residential trash or recycling collections. Trash and recycling collections will resume on Tuesday, September 5, on a one-day delayed schedule for the remainder of the week. Residential services will return to the regular schedule the week of September 11, 2017.

“READERS FORUM” SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

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WHATS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

We hope that todays “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?

Todays READERS POLL question is: Tell us ways that the Evansville City Council can balance the 2018 budget?

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.

If you would like to advertise in the CCO please contact us City-County Observer@live.com.

EDITOR’S FOOTNOTE:  Any comments posted in this column do not represent the views or opinions of the City County Observer or our advertisers.

Historic Southern Indiana To Sponsor Teacher Workshop October 10

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The University of Southern Indiana’s Historic Southern Indiana and Indiana’s Historic Pathways will sponsor a workshop for teachers, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST Tuesday, October 10 at the Dubois County Museum in Jasper. The workshop, “Getting from Here to There: The Story of the Buffalo Trace,” is aimed at third- and fourth-grade teachers, but is open to anyone who would like to attend.

Participants will discover innovative ways to tell the story of community, early settlement and westward migration using Indiana’s teaching standards. This year’s workshop focuses on the impact of the Buffalo Trace, a pathway formed in the early 1700’s as bison migrated to and from the Great Plains to the Falls of the Ohio.

Speakers include:

  • Dr. Cheryl Munson, Archaeologist and Assistant Scientist, Indiana University, to speak on Native American use of the Trace
  • Frank Doughman, Superintendent, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, to talk about the military use of the Trace and the Indiana Rangers
  • David Ruckman, Surveyor, Surveyors, Planners and Consultants, to speak about early surveyors and how surveyors have located much of the trace on the ground today
  • Charles Moman, Composer and Former Teacher, to highlight his original music
  • An operating partner from Red Frazier Bison Ranch
  • Teacher panel discussing innovative uses of the activities

Registration is $25 and includes lunch and educational materials. Elementary schools along the Buffalo Trace have already been given a box of items representing the history of the Trace to use in hands-on lessons with their students and participants will receive a new item to add to their school’s box.

Registration also can be completed online with course number HSI950 or by calling USI Outreach and Engagement at 812-464-1989. The deadline to register is September 30.

Historic Southern Indiana, a program within USI Outreach and Engagement, was created in 1986 to serve the southernmost 26 counties of Indiana. Its goals are to identify, preserve, protect, enhance and promote the historical, natural and recreational resources of the region. It seeks to implement those goals through programs in historic preservation, history education, heritage tourism, community development and scenic byways. For more information, contact Historic Southern Indiana at 800-489-4474, 812-465-7014 or hsi@usi.edu.

Cecil paces USI men to second place finish in opening meet

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University of Southern Indiana men’s cross country placed second in their opening meet of the season Friday at the Covered Bridge Open in Boone, North Carolina. The Screaming Eagles finished with 47 points, just four behind winner and NCAA Division I team Florida State.

Senior James Cecil (Owensboro, Kentucky) paced the Eagles, placing fourth in the 8k race with a time of 26 minutes, 13.94 seconds. Sophomore Austin Nolan (Evansville, Indiana) was only a second behind, coming in sixth with a time of 26:14.48.

The third Eagle to finish in the top-10 was junior Darin Lawrence (Indianapolis, Indiana), taking 10th in 26:26.91. Sophomore Nathan Hall (Springfield, Missouri) was 12th with a time of 26:27.83, identical to that of the 11th-place finisher. Rounding out the scoring for USI was senior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany), as he placed 20th in 26:48.05.

Edwin Kurgat of Tennessee-Martin won the event in 25:52.08. USI topped four other Division I schools in the event.

The Eagles return to action in two weeks when they host the Stegemoller Classic at Angel Mounds September 16.

 

University of Evansville Andiron Lecture Series Begins October 4

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The University of Evansville’s 2017-18 Andiron Lectures in Liberal Arts and Sciences series begins Wednesday, October 4. Atefeh Yazdanparast, UE assistant professor of marketing and Mead Johnson Endowed Chair in Business, will be discussing “Advertising and Pseudo-Culture: An Analysis of Changing Women’s Portrayal as Reflected in Magazine Advertisements.”

Andiron lectures are free and open to the public and begin at 4:00 p.m. in Eykamp Hall, Room 252, Ridgway University Center.

Yazdanparast earned a PhD in marketing from the University of North Texas, and has a Master of Science degree in marketing and a Bachelor of Science degree in food science and engineering. She is chair of the American Marketing Association’s Marketing for Higher Education Special Interest Group. She has received the University of Evansville Class of 1961 Faculty Fellowship Award and the Global Scholar Award. Yazdanparast has also received the Schroeder School of Business Dean’s Research Award twice.

Her research is focused on consumer decision making and value co-creation, and has been published in journals such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Behavior, and the Journal of Consumer Marketing.

Other lectures in this year’s Andiron series include:

Wednesday, November 1, 2017: Bill Hemminger, UE professor emeritus in the Department of English at UE, will discuss “Morality and the Distribution of Wealth.”

Wednesday, December 6, 2017: Mohammad K. Azarian, UE professor of mathematics, will discuss “Star Power: Medieval Muslim Polymath Jamshīd Kāshānī.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018: Kristalyn Marie Shefveland, associate professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana, will discuss “Settler Memory of Indigenous Florida.”

Wednesday, March 14, 2018: Kristina L. Hochwender, UE associate professor of English, will discuss “Child’s Play: Amusement and Reform in Annie Fellows Johnston’s Two Little Knights of Kentucky.”

Wednesday, April 4, 2018: Robert Shelby, UE assistant professor of sociology, will discuss “Modern American Megachurches – Kaiju Religion?”

For more information, call Annette Parks at 812-488-1070 or the William L. Ridgway College of Arts and Sciences at 812-488-2589.

Women’s cross country places third in opener behind Jones, Gryschka

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The University of Southern Indiana women’s cross country team brought home a third-place finish at the Covered Bridge Open Friday in Boone, North Carolina. The Screaming Eagles finished with 74 points, with NCAA Division I Florida State winning the event.

Junior Hope Jones (Cumberland, Indiana) was the top finisher for the Eagles, placing fourth with a time of 17 minutes, 56.68 seconds. Junior Melina Gryschka (Garbsen, Germany) was sixth in her USI debut in 18:02.49.

Also scoring in her USI debut was freshman Jennifer Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana), finishing 16th in 18:28.85.  Wrapping up the scoring for USI were seniors Bryce Cutler (Benzonia, Michigan) and Kate Duty(Owensboro, Kentucky).  Cutler placed 32nd in 19:01.91 while Duty was 35th in 19:09.28.

Militsa Mircheva of Florida State won the 5k event in 16:53.29. USI was the top scoring NCAA Division II team and also bested four Division I schools.

The Eagles return to action in two weeks when they host the Stegemoller Classic at Angel Mounds September 16.

Van Berg, McPeek Ellis-raced 2-year-olds tackle Ky Downs; Ten City, Sunny Skies on track for Breeders’ Cup preps; Bernhardt 7th The Truth Or Else running in Korea

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‘You might look back a year from now and those might be some serious horses who ran at Ellis. It’s a testament to the program getting stronger ‘
Fixes mix-up of Van Berg owners: Jerry Caroom owns Northern Trail; Kay Stillman owns Make Noise. Apologies for those of you who get this both with the Ellis and Ky Downs notes.
HENDERSON, Ky. (Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017) — Ellis Park’s meet ends Monday. But horses who ran at the track will be prominent at Kentucky next race meet: Kentucky Downs. And beyond.
Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg can add onto his best season in years in Kentucky Downs’ $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Turf Showcase Juvenile, in which he’s running Jerry Caroom’s Northern Trail and Kay Stillman’s Make Noise.
The Fasig-Tipton Juvenile, along with three other stakes, is part of Kentucky Downs’ opening card that was rescheduled from Saturday to Wednesday after six inches of rain poured down on the region. As always, Ellis Park will be open for simulcasting wagering on Kentucky Downs and other tracks around the country.
Northern Trail, with Channing Hill up, nearly pulled off the upset at 81-1 in the $75,000 Ellis Park Juvenile before being passed by the highly regarded Dak Attack. Make Noise finished fifth after setting a stern pace and will be back in the Fasig-Tipton’s field of 12 running seven-eighths of a mile.
Van Berg — best known for training 1987 Kentucky Derby winner and ’88 Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Alysheba, as well as 1984 Preakness winner Gate Dancer — has busted past the $1 million mark in purse earnings for the first time since 2000. His 36 victories are the most since 1998. But throughout the 1960 and well into the 1980s, anything under 200 wins was a slow year, with Van Berg setting the record, since eclipsed, with 495 victories in 1976 before downsizing and pursuing quality.
Now he’s trying to earn his first stakes victory in a decade.
“Now Jack has more horses, and he has more chances,” said long-time assistant Sammy Almaraz, who began with Van Berg in 1978 and was Gate Dancer’s groom. “Before, the guys were saying, ‘Oh, Jack is done.’ I said, ‘He doesn’t have any horses.’ If you have no horses, you have no chance for winners. You see now that he’s got winners. He always says when you’ve got young horses, you have more chances. You have fresh blood.
“This is a good time. When he came back from California, he didn’t have many horses. It’s good now.”
With a blend of talented 2-year-olds as well as very well-placed claiming horses, Van Berg has had a superb Ellis Park meet. With several more horses to run Sunday and Monday at Ellis, he’s captured 12 of 33 starts to be a strong third in the trainer standings, behind only Brad Cox’s 17 wins (out of 46 starts) and Steve Asmussen’s 16 (out of 98).
Northern Trail is the 4-1 second choice in the Juvenile behind the Steve Asmussen-trained Saratoga turf maiden winner Snapper Sinclair. Make Noise runs for the first time on grass, but his dam (Three Degrees Mon) has produced a turf winner.
Van Berg doesn’t blame bettors for sending Northern Trail off at 81-1. After all, in his prior two dirt starts, he was a well-beaten fourth in a $50,000 maiden-claiming race and then a well-beaten seventh in a maiden special weight before winning at Ellis on the grass, leading all the way. But he does say there were explanations in his prior dirt performances.
“He got tired the first time, and the second time he shin-bucked,” Van Berg said, referring to a common 2-year-old ailment of tender shins. “Plus I ran him back to quick from his first start. It was my fault. By his past performances on the dirt and winning on the grass and then coming back on the dirt, I can see why people would shy away from him. I don’t think he handles both surfaces. Now I know he does.
“And I think he would have won the race if he had sat back and waited and let the other horse (Make Noise) stay up there.”
Hill, who won the maiden race on the colt, is back aboard Northern Trail, with Jon Court back on Make Noise,
Almaraz has seen the boss at the height of his career as well as the years of struggling with bad horses and financially-unfortunate forays into breeding and training-center operations. Now loyal clients such Stillman and Caroom have stepped up to the buying young horses at the sale, where Van Berg’s eye remains sharp for a bargain.
Northern Trail was purchased for $16,000 and Make Noise $22,000 at Keeneland’s 2016 yearling sale. The winner’s purse Wednesday could be in the range of 10 times, or more what the owners paid. But those were pricey acquisitions compared with the Van Berg-trained My Peeps, who needs a scratch to run in the $350,000 Exacta Systems Juvenile Fillies. Owned by Almaraz, she cost $1,500 — scarcely a bar tab for some at Keeneland’s sales.
Van Berg hasn’t had a Kentucky Derby starter since finishing third in 1994 with Blumin Affair. Could Jack be back in the 2018 Kentucky Derby?
“Well, Jack is always dreaming when he gets a baby in,” Almaraz said.
McPeek’s Ellis juveniles well-versed in going up, down, left, right
Trainer Kenny McPeek often runs his young 2-year-olds in the mile grass races offered at Ellis Park, not so much because he thinks they are turf horses but because he believes they are distance horses.
That now works in his favor as he runs Sky Promise in the $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Turf Showcase Juvenile at Kentucky Downs. Sky Promise was third and second in a pair of dirt sprints this spring, then third on the Arlington grass before winning on turf at a mile at Ellis Park. Jack Gilligan retains the mount in the seven-furlong Juvenile.
The McPeek-trained John Tippmann looked very good winning a 6 1/2-furlong dirt maiden race in his second start at Ellis. He’s never run on grass but has been training over the turf gallops on McPeek’s Magdalena Farm and training center in Lexington with the Kentucky Downs’ undulating course in mind.
“We’ve been training him over the uphill, downhill gallops,” he said. “I don’t think he’ll have any trouble with the grass. I like the seven-eighths distance for him.”
McPeek also is sending out Fern Circle Stables’ Classy Music, winner of an off-the-turf mile maiden race by 4 3/4 lengths at Ellis, in the Exacta Systems Juvenile Fillies.
“They were all broken as yearlings over those gallops, so that’s not really any big deal,” he said of his young horses at his farm. “They’ve all spent time out there. They went left-handed and right-handed, uphill and downhill. I don’t suspect it’s going to be any big deal. Sky Promise has a bit of experience, too, he’s been around. He’s drawn checks everywhere at whatever distance he ran. He’s a pretty quick study. He’ll figure it out either way.”
McPeek also will run Kentucky Oaks runner-up Daddy’s Lil Darling — another of his 2-year-olds last summer coming out of an off-turf mile maiden race at Ellis — in the $200,000 Dueling Grounds Oaks at 1 5/16 miles on Sept. 10. She’s had quite the adventurous year, finishing a very close second in Keeneland’s Grade 1 Ashland before again rallying from far back to be runner-up to Abel Tasman in the Kentucky Oaks in the slop.
Sent to England for the Epsom Oaks, Daddy’s Lil Darling — who following European practice did not have a pony going to the post — shied from a thunderbolt and started to run off with jockey Oliver Peslier, who came off after being unable to pull her up, resulting in her ultimate scratch. Back in the States, Daddys Lil Darling was a good fourth in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks on turf, then fifth back on dirt in Saratoga’s Coaching Club American Oaks.
“I think she’s very versatile,” McPeek said. “The Scat Daddys will run on anything. I’m not concerned about switching surfaces. She needs to get back in the winner’s circle. If she wins this, she comes back in Keeneland’s Grade I Queen Elizabeth. If she doesn’t, there’s the (Grade 2) Mrs. Revere at Churchill.”
Ten City, Sunny Skies stay on track for Breeders’ Cup prep races
McPeek had the big program favorites for the Aug. 20 Ellis Park Juvenile in Ten City and Ellis Park Debutante with Sunny Skies. Both finished third but McPeek has plenty of confidence in the 2-year-olds heading into Churchill Downs’ Sept. 16 Iroquois (Ten City) and Pocahontas (Sunny Skies). The winners of those races earn automatic berths in and travel stipends for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies, respectively.
The trainer said Ten City lost a shoe when stumbling leaving the gate.
“Legitimate excuse, though I thought Dale’s horse was impressive,” McPeek said of the Dale Romans-trained Ellis Park Juvenile winner Dak Attack. “I don’t think there was any shame in being third in either race. It was another good next step for both of them. They are obviously solid and overcame some adversity to continue to be third. Both horses in both races broke bad. Anytime that happens in a sprint race, your chances are compromised.
“But you might look back a year from now and those horses might be some serious horses who ran at Ellis. It’s still a testament to the program getting stronger down there. I think both of our horses needed the work. They were a month and a half (since racing) and we backed off both a little bit.both acted like they needed the race, drank a lot of water. It was just one step of many. So we got the race under their belt and we roll forward.”
The Truth Or Else racing in Korea
On an international note: McPeek has sent The Truth Or Else to Korea for the $610,000 Keeneland Sprint on dirt Sept. 10 at the track near Soul, South Korea. Dylan Davis will go over to ride.
The 5-year-old horse finished seventh in Ellis Park’s Don Bernhardt Memorial in his last start. For his career, he’s 6-4-7 in 32 starts, earning $603,642 for owners Harold Lerner and Magdalena Racing.
McPeek said he got a call from a representative of the Korean Racing Authority.
“Initially I was like, ‘eh, give me the details,’” he said from Saratoga. “And the details are pretty simple: They pretty much pay for everything, and the race is listed as a 105 on Time Form, which is like a listed stakes or Grade 3. And that is about his speed. He’s a good solid horse. It’s same circumference as (some) American racetracks, a mile and an eighth (including Ellis), and the track plays heavy. We like that for him. He’s a horse that closes and needs the speed to be softened a little bit. Maybe a heavier racetrack helps with that.”
Asked about his desire to try new things, McPeek said, “I’m going to try new things as long as they’re paying for me to try them. They fly the owner, trainer, jockey over and back, (pick up) accommodations. It’s a great experience, and they pay down to fifth. This is a horse that’s very difficult to place anyway, because he’s not a Grade 1 horse but he’s out of allowance conditions. Let’s see. And we’re also looking at the possibility of selling him as a stallion to the Koreans, so that’s another motivation.”
Handicapping seminar Monday
Inside Track with Joey K and Jimmy Mac, the popularly free handicapping seminar normally on Saturdays, will have a special edition Monday, with analyst Joe Kristufek and announcer Jimmy McNerney handicapping the closing-day card. As usual, the seminar starts at 10:30 a.m. Central in the clubhouse’s second-floor Gardenia Room and will be shown on live on Ellis Park’s Facebook page (EllisParkRacing).
Sunday is Kids’ Day with pony rides, petting zoos and inflatables. Monday is Fan Appreciation Day, where fans can get souvenir Groupie Doll glasses and Ellis posters.
Photos below of horses winning maiden races at Ellis Park: Top left: Make Noise (#5). Top right: Northern Trail (#1). Middle left: John Tippmann (#4). Middle right: Sky Promise (#9). Bottom: Classy Music (#3) Credit: Coady Photography
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