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Channel 44 News: John Hayden Files For Vacant Seat On Evansville City Council

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John Hayden Files For Vacant Seat On Evansville City Council

AUGUST 2ND, 2017  BRITNEY TAYLOR EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

  

An Evansville-native is filing to run for the vacant seat on Evansville City Council. John Hayden is the first person to file for the vacant seat since Councilwoman Anna Hargis announced her resignation last week.

Hayden is a Bosse High School and University of Southern Indiana graduate. He currently works as a tax manager for Shoe Carnival in Evansville.

Hayden is also involved at Crossroads Christian Church and a volunteer for Junior Achievement.

Hargis resigned from City Council to work as a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch in Evansville, which does not allow her to serve in public office.

The caucus to pick a candidate for this vacancy is set for Saturday, August 12th.

Anyone else who is interested, must submit Form CEB-5 to Chairman Wayne Parke no later than Wednesday, August 9th at 10 a.m.

Chamber Leader Selected For Educational Fellowship 

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Gillenwater One Of 21 Nationwide Selected To Participate to Study Education Attainment And Workforce Development 

Christy Gillenwater, President and CEO of Southwest Indiana Chamber, has been selected by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) to study education attainment and workforce development along with 20 other chamber of commerce professionals from communities throughout the United States.

The Fellowship for Education Attainment is an immersive executive development program that provides chamber of commerce professionals with education and tools to improve the cradle-to-career education pipeline in the communities they serve.

“This is an opportunity for us to have access to national experts and other chamber leaders who are implementing and leading workforce initiatives in their respective communities, and we are pleased to have a seat at the table,” stated Gillenwater.

Throughout the year-long Fellowship for Education Attainment, participants are required to develop a regional action plan that focuses on addressing specific education attainment or workforce development issues in their communities.

ACCE President Mick Fleming says his organization assists its members through various learning opportunities and best practice sharing. “This latest step in our strategy to engage business leaders and advocates in education attainment maximizes the linkage between qualified talent and economic development goals.”

Leaders selected to participate in the 2017 Fellowship represent communities including Albany, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Vail, Colorado; Brockton, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Corpus Christi, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Evansville, Indiana; Frankfort, Kentucky; Fullerton, California; Greenwood, South Carolina; Helena, Montana; Irving, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Mason, Ohio; Raleigh, North Carolina; Salina, Kansas; Topeka, Kansas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

About Southwest Indiana Chamber

Since 1915, the Southwest Indiana Chamber has been a trusted ally of the regional business community. Today we are one of the state’s largest, strongest, and most impactful nonprofit business organizations, representing a total membership of more than 1,800 businesses, organizations, and agencies. About one-third of members have invested in our organization for 10 or more years. While nearly all major employers in our region invest in the Southwest Indiana Chamber, 71% of our member businesses have 25 or fewer employees.

Learn more about the Chamber, our members, and the Southwest Indiana regional business community at www.swinchamber.com.

Gov. Holcomb Makes Appointments to Various Boards and Commissions

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INDIANAPOLIS—Governor Eric J. Holcomb today announced several new appointments and reappointments to various state boards and commissions.

Civil Rights Commission

(The governor made two reappointments to the Civil Rights Commission)

  • Alpha Blackburn (Indianapolis), president and CEO of Blackburn Architects, will continue to serve on the commission. Her term expires July 31, 2021.
  • Steve Ramos (McCordsville), senior corporate executive, will continue to serve on the commission. His term expires July 31, 2021.

(Additionally, the governor made two new appointments to the commission)

  • Weilin Long (Carmel), managing director of WLong Consulting, Inc., will join the commission. Her term expires December 31, 2018.
  • Adrienne L. Slash (Indianapolis), diversity and inclusion consultant with Community Health Network, will join the commission. Her term expires December 31, 2018.

Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Board of Trustees

(The governor made three reappointments to the ICJI Board of Trustees)

  • The Honorable Todd J. Meyer (Lebanon), Boone County Prosecutor, will continue to serve on the board. His term expires July 31, 2021.
  • Mark D. Stuaan (Fishers), partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, will continue to serve on the board. His term expires July 31, 2021.
  • The Honorable Amy Marie Travis (Brownstown), Jackson County Prosecutor, will continue to serve on the board. Her term expires July 31, 2021.

(Additionally, the governor made one new appointment to the board)

  • James L. Kennedy (Bloomington), former Monroe County Sheriff and U.S. Marshall, will join the board. His term expires July 31, 2021.

Indiana Public Retirement System Board of Trustees

(The governor made one reappointment to the Indiana Public Retirement System Board of Trustees)

  • Bret T. Swanson (Zionsville), president of Entropy Economics LLC, will continue to serve on the board. His term expires June 30, 2021.

(Additionally, the governor made two new appointments to the board)

  • David R. Frick (Indianapolis), retired executive vice president and chief legal and administrative officer of Anthem, Inc., will join the board. His term expires June 30, 2021.
  • Connie L. Plankenhorn (Indianapolis), retired educator, will join the board as Sen. Long’s nominee. Her term expires June 30, 2021.

Indiana State Board of Nursing

(The governor made two new appointments to fill vacancies on the Indiana State Board of Nursing)

  • Sandra K. Bushman, FNP-C (Camden), nurse practitioner with the Family Health Clinic in Delphi, will join the board. Her term expires July 31, 2019.
  • Karen Z. Medernach (Carmel), retired FBI Special Agent, will join the board. Her term expires June 30, 2019.

Medical Licensing Board

(The governor made one new appointment to fill a vacancy on the Medical Licensing Board)

  • Dr. Michael F. Busk (Indianapolis), system executive and medical director of the St. Vincent Health, Wellness, and Preventative Care Institute, will join the board. His term begins September 1, 2017 and expires November 15, 2019.

State Board of Massage Therapy

(The governor made two new appointments to the State Board of Massage Therapy)

  • Laurie H. Hardin (Noblesville), massage therapist, will join the board. Her term expires May 31, 2019.
  • Charles W. Peebles (Terre Haute), massage therapist, will join the board. His term expires August 1, 2020.

State Board of Pharmacy

(The governor made one reappointment to the State Board of Pharmacy)

  • Mark T. Smosna (McCordsville), area healthcare supervisor for Walgreens and licensed pharmacist, will continue to serve on the board. His term expires August 1, 2021.

(Additionally, the governor made one new appointment to the board)

  • Matthew D. Balla (Bloomington), president of St. Vincent Dunn Hospital and licensed pharmacist, will join the board. His term expires March 31, 2019.

Worker’s Compensation Board of Indiana

(The governor made one new appointment to the Worker’s Compensation Board of Indiana)

  • Douglas W. Meagher (Indianapolis), of counsel with Hill Fulwider, will join the board. His term begins August 14, 2017 and expires August 14, 2021.

Overall Employment Rate For Recent Law School Graduates Improved

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Overall Employment Rate For Recent Law School Graduates Improved

IL for www.theindianalawyer.com

The overall employment rate for recent law school graduates improved slightly in 2016 despite a drop in the number of jobs available and overall class size, according to a new report.

In its “Employment for the Class of 2016 – Selected Findings” report released Wednesday, the National Association for Law Placement found that 87.5 percent of Class of 2016 law school graduates were employed 10 months after graduation. That’s a slight improvement over the Class of 2015, which had an 86.7 percent employment rate at the same time last year.

However, only 31,354 Class of 2016 graduates found jobs in their first 10 months out of law school, down roughly 2,000 jobs from the previous year. The number of jobs secured decreased in every sector except for the largest law firms with more than 500 lawyers, which claimed roughly a quarter of all law firm jobs in 2016.

“The employment rate has risen because the falloff in the size of the graduating class has been larger than the falloff in the number of jobs secured,” NALP Executive Director James G. Leipold said in a statement. “While the percentage of law school graduates who are unemployed and still seeking work ten months after graduation has come down by two and a half percentage points to 8.7 percent over the last three years, it continues to be more than twice as high as the unemployment rate measured nine months after graduation in the period prior to the recession, and this, more than anything remains an important marker of the current job market for law school graduates.”

Jobs in private practice continue to be the largest source of jobs for recent graduates, employing 52.9 percent of the Class of 2016. The national median salary of $65,000 was essentially unchanged from the Class of 2015, a fact likely caused by a starting salary increase to $180,000, which shifted the distribution of salaries in the upper half of the salary range.

The national mean salary, however increased from roughly $84,000 to roughly $90,300, while the mean law firm salary of $113,571 approached the mean of $115,000 for the Class of 2009. The report attributed the increase to the fact that there are fewer of the highest paying law firm jobs today than before the recession, but many of those jobs carry a higher starting salary.

Other highlights from the report, which proceeds the annual “Jobs and JDs: Employment and Salaries of New Law School Graduates – Class of 2016” report that will be released this fall, include:
•    Full-time, long-term bar passage required jobs continue to be on the rise, yet have not reached pre-recession levels.
•    Government work continues to offer a steady source of jobs for law school graduates before, during and after the recession.
•    Jobs in education and solo practice have dropped back down to pre-recession levels.

“There is some hope that we might be approaching homeostasis with supply and demand, that is, with law school enrollment ‘right-sizing’ itself we might be entering a period of time when the number of law school graduates more closely matches the number of jobs available,” Leipold said in the statement. “But, we also know that most jobs are not in fact earmarked for new law school graduates, and in many instances other than certain clerkship opportunities and many large law firm opportunities, graduates will continue to compete with other junior lawyers for most jobs, and it is still a scrappy and entrepreneurial job market where graduates often create their own job opportunities rather than being hired for a position that is vacant.”

Governor Holcomb’s Schedule for August 3 – 4

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INDIANAPOLIS – Below find Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb’s public schedule for August 3 – 4, 2017.

Thursday, August 3, 2017

What:   Indiana Ag Leadership Luncheon

Who:   Gov. Holcomb

When:  12:00 p.m. ET with Gov. Holcomb remarks at 12:30 p.m.

Where: Biltwell Event Center

950 S White River Parkway W. Drive

Indianapolis, IN 46221

Friday, August 4, 2017

What:   Indiana Pork Producers Annual Ham Breakfast

Who:   Gov. Holcomb

First Lady Janet Holcomb

Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch

When:  6:30 a.m. ET

Where: Indiana State Fairgrounds – Farm Bureau building (north side of the fairgrounds)

1202 E 38th St.

Indianapolis, IN 46205

Friday, August 4, 2017

What:   State Fair Opening Ceremonies

Who:   Gov. Holcomb

First Lady Janet Holcomb

Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch

When:  8:30 a.m. ET with Gov. Holcomb remarks at 8:45 a.m.

Where: Indiana State Fairgrounds – west end of Main St.

1202 E 38th St.

Indianapolis, IN 46205

Amber Herron Homicide

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The autopsy has been completed on Amber Herron. As a result it was determined that she died from a single gunshot wound to the head. The death has been ruled a homicide. The Evansville Police has an ongoing investigation and can provide updated details.

Allen’s home run pushes Otters to victory

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NORMAL, Ill.- Josh Allen’s solo home run in the top of the 10th inning helped push the Evansville Otters past the Normal Cornbelters 7-6 on Tuesday night.

Evansville (38-29) was leading entering the ninth inning before the Cornbelters tied it up on an RBI single from Justin Fletcher.

Normal (31-36) had a runner on third base with nobody out in the bottom of the 10th, but was unable to score the tying run for a second time.

Evansville jumped out to an early lead in the first three innings.

In the first inning, Cornbelters starter Sixto Torres walked three batters, including Jeff Gardner and John Schultz each with the bases loaded, to make it 2-0.

Then in the third inning, a two RBI single from Gardner brought home Josh Allen and Dane Phillips.

Brandon Soat added on an RBI double to score Gardner, and a Kolten Yamaguchi RBI score Luke Lowery to make it 6-0.

The Cornbelters answered back.

In the fourth inning, a sacrifice fly from Jesus Solarzano scored Aaron Dudley.

Then Diego Cedeno hit an RBI triple to bring home Nolan Meadows to make it 6-2.

In the sixth inning, the margin would narrow further.

An RBI double from Solarzano scored Dudley for a second time.

Miguel Torres hit a sacrifice fly to score Meadows, and an RBI single from Cedeno to score Solarzano made it 6-5 in favor of the Otters.

In the bottom of the ninth, Otters closer Randy McCurry walked the leadoff man Cedeno to put the tying run on base.

A stolen base and a a throwing error from Yamaguchi put Cedeno on third and Flethcer was able to hit an RBI single to tie it up.

Josh Allen’s heroics in the top of the 10th inning proved to be enough.

Randy McCurry recorded the win for the Otters.

It was McCurry’s third win in his last four appearances.

Francisco Carillo took the loss for the Cornbelters.

Otters starter Shane Weedman went five innings in his first start since June 10.

Weedman struck out two, walked two, and gave up five earned runs on six hits.

The Otters and the Cornbelters will resume the series tomorrow at 6:35 p.m.

Fans can listen on 91.5 WUEV with Lucas Corley providing play-by-play coverage.

Evansville returns home to Bosse Field on Aug. 8 to open a series against the Florence Freedom, the first game of a six-game homestand.

Tickets for August home games are still available by going to evansvilleotters.com or calling 812-435-8686.

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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Adopt A Pet

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Chadwick is a 2-year-old male mixed-breed. He’s on the small side, weighing only 28 lbs. He has tried unsuccessfully to live in Illinois twice. He was originally an owner-surrender from there, then got adopted there but then returned. So maybe he wants to live in Illinois – or does he? Anyway, it doesn’t matter where you live – Chadwick would love to go home with you. His $100 adoption fee includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for details!

 

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