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UE to Host 2024 Indiana Talent Forum; Indiana Economic Development Corporation Announces

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UE to Host 2024 Indiana Talent Forum; Indiana Economic Development Corporation Announces

JUNE 14, 2024

EVANSVILLE, IND. (06/13/2024) The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) has announced the 2024 Indiana Talent Forum for Southwest Indiana will take place at the University of Evansville (UE) on Wednesday, July 24. The event will be held in Eykamp Hall from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., bringing together a diverse group of business leaders, educational professionals, and strategic partners from the region.

The Indiana Talent Forum is designed to connect businesses with college and university career centers, fostering collaborations that enhance the recruitment, hiring, and retention of top-tier talent from Indiana’s higher education institutions. UE Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Mary Kessler will provide opening remarks at the event.

Participants will have the opportunity to network with professionals across various sectors, engage in insightful discussions on successful partnerships between higher education and employers, and contribute to strategic planning sessions focused on effective talent acquisition and retention. The forum will also highlight resources and programs that support hiring and retention efforts, showcasing how Indiana’s higher education institutions, including UE, are partnering with employers to create clear career pathways.

Registration is now open and can be accessed by clicking this link.

FOOTNOTE:  The University of Evansville is a private, comprehensive university located in the southwestern region of Indiana. Established in 1854, UE is recognized across the globe for its rich tradition of innovative, academic excellence and vibrant campus community of changemakers.

Home of the Purple Aces, UE offers over 75 majors, 17 Division I sports, and a unique study abroad experience at Harlaxton, the University’s very own Victorian manor located in the countryside of England. For more information, please visit evansville.edu.

 

Juneteenth Vendor Fair Planned for June 18 at Ivy Tech

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Juneteenth Vendor Fair Planned for June 18 at Ivy Tech

JUN@ 13, 2024

Evansville, IN – Ivy Tech Community College Evansville will celebrate Juneteenth on June 18 with an indoor vendor fair, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Koch Student Center on the Main Campus, 3501 North First Avenue, Evansville.

The event is free and open to the public.

The event will feature music, art, and multiple other vendors with items for sale and information to share. Food trucks will be available in the courtyard on the south side of the main campus during the event, including Trappin Chick’n, Tri-State Snack Shop, and the Loaded Fry Shack. The event is sponsored by Student and Employee Diversity and the Office of Student Life at Ivy Tech.

History of the Juneteenth Holiday according to the National Museum of African American History & Culture: While the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, and all enslaved people were declared legally free, not everyone in every Confederate territory was immediately free. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.

All Ivy Tech locations will be closed with no classes held on Wednesday, June 19, in honor of the holiday.

 

USI Engineers in Action to build largest footbridge to date in South Africa

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USI Engineers in Action to build the largest footbridge to date in South America

JUNE 13, 2024

This June, four University of Southern Indiana students from the USI Engineers in Action (EIA) chapter, led by Dr. Susan Ely, Assistant Professor of Engineering, will depart on a trip to Lubombo, Eswatini, in South Africa to develop a pedestrian bridge as a part of an EIA project to connect isolated communities to critical services such as shops, schools, clinics, co-ops, churches and more.

The bridge will be the largest pedestrian footbridge ever built by USI’s chapter, spanning 106.05 meters, and will take almost two months to build. Over 4,000 residents and more than 1,800 children will be impacted by the project. The current bridge is in a state of disrepair after seasonal flooding, and the new bridge will ensure year-round safe passage for members of the communities.

Among the students going are Miguel Pinto ’25, an electrical engineering major, Melanie Cedeno ’24, an electrical engineering major, and Josiah Hollis ’25, an electrical engineering major, who all participated in 2023’s EIA bridge project in eSwatini. New to the team this year is Jonas Hollis ’27, a manufacturing engineering major. Cultural education and immersion are also part of the trip as students stay with local host families, communicate with local government officials and participate in community events.

USI students and staff will again take the lead on this year’s project, leading in design, construction, and quality control. Each student will take on a specific role such as lead construction manager, safety manager or media manager to ensure the project stays on schedule. Others involved will be EIA teams from Eastern Mennonite University and the University of Iowa in designing and building the Eswatini bridge, in addition to BridgeCorp and community volunteers.

“This EIA bridge team is full of experienced individuals who have participated in previous trips and will guide the other students from the supporting institutions,“ said Ely. “USI’s dedication to this humanitarian engineering experience demonstrates our desire to not only educate but develop global leaders and individuals who care about the world around them.”

USI’s EIA chapter is a part of the national EIA organization which improves the lives of thousands of people every year by building critical infrastructure in their communities including bridges and access to clean water. USI has sent student teams to Eswatini in South Africa in 2023Bolivia in 2022West Virginia in 2021 and Eswatini in South Africa in 2019.

Students of all majors are invited to participate in EIA and bridge project events. For more information about EIA, contact Ely at sely@usi.edu. For more information about USI’s accredited Engineering Department, visit USI.edu/engineering.

Is there any advantage to being right?

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Freedom, IndianaAuthor Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

It’s infuriatingly evident that the politicians, parties, and those that own them, have been wrong, and have lied, in ways that are unsustainably destructive, and deadly on the scale of millions.  It’s equally evident that their increasingly obscene campaign funding comes with strings attached…as most of us understand whenever we hear or utter the phrases, “follow the money,” and “the influence of money in politics.”

No part of our government works constitutionally.  No part is without massive corruption.  Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are collapsing.  Inflation is impoverishing all but the “investment class.”  And the unconstitutional, inherently divisive “Two Party System” our founders warned against, is a red-herring sock-puppet distraction that not only wastes hope, effort and people, but also keeps us from doing what needs to be done: to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for our future security.

Lindsey Graham said the quiet part out loud – that the costly proxy war in Ukraine isn’t about Ukrainians; it’s to deny Russia trillions of dollars’ worth of resources into which we (taxpayers, Blackrock, the Bidens, etc.) have invested our money, our political corruption, and countless Ukrainian lives.  The “military-industrial complex” that Eisenhower warned against, enriches few, and kills millions.  Since the east-west negotiated collapse of the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain, we’ve had innumerable opportunities to peacefully end NATO, and bring Russia and its former associated states into peace and commerce with the west – as desired by Russians, even including Putin until the 2008 Bucharest Summit.  It was our myopic military and monetary wars that have driven the expansion of BRICS, and their upcoming de-dollarization this October.  That will accelerate today’s stupid, self-destructive monetary system collapse.

All of this death and mayhem, and much more (I could go on at book length) is unconstitutional, immoral, and shortsighted, for even the powers that be.  This will end; either by decisive, immediate action on the part of USA voters, or in catastrophe.  We’ve never been closer to nuclear Armageddon, you know.

For twenty-eight years, I’ve publicly written, campaigned and protested against the corruption of our political, economic, information and military systems, as well as demonstrated that the problems are all in breach of our constitutions, state and federal.  Since 1996 I’ve offered the option to apply those constitutions as remedy, with me as a candidate on the ballot.  Since 1999, I’ve written, campaigned and protested against fraud in our elections, and my campaign team proved and documented significant fraud in 2004.

I’m certainly not the only one, or the first.  There have been plenty of us for generations.  We just don’t win elections.  The people we call “incumbent,” and “career politician,” are those who’ve proven again and again, to be wrong, to lie, and to do us harm.  Why?

Consider how are candidates judged.  What are the criteria for inclusion in debates, public forums, and more critically, the media?

It’s certainly not who’s been right and who’s been wrong.  It’s not truth versus lies.  It’s not solutions versus problems.  No, it’s all the worst stuff – Money, habits, tribalism, money, “odds,” corruption, “name ID,” money, fraud, and, of course, money.

Maybe we’re just not hurting enough yet.  Maybe we have to be impoverished and in the midst of world war, before we wake up to not only what we’ve lost, but our power to turn it all around.

We really are in charge, whether we admit it or not.  The tiny number of authoritarian Malthusian eugenicist puppeteers pulling the strings, depend upon our willing obedience.  We could nullify their unconstitutional rules, their corruption and violence.  But we’d have to wake up and take action.  A good start would be to vote the way our founders intended – as an act of peaceful revolution.

One last time, I’m putting that option on the ballot.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

Secured School Safety Grant

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Secured School Safety Grant

JUNE 13, 2024

The application period is open through July 1, 2024

IDHS is accepting applications for the Fiscal Year 2025 Secured School Safety Grant (FY24 SSSG). The application period will close July 1, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. EDT. No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity for FY25 SSSG includes all the information necessary for a successful grant application for the SSSG program. Before submitting your application:

  1. Be registered in IntelliGrants.
  2. Have an active bidder number with the state of Indiana.
  3. Have an active supplier number with the state of Indiana.
  4. Sign up for Grant updates.

The period of performance for the FY25 SSSG will be Sept. 1, 2024, through Aug. 31, 2025.

Since 2014, Indiana has awarded more than $163 million in SSSG grants to support school security. Last year, 474 schools received more than $29.8 million in awards.

Click here for complete information on the SSSG program and the history of awards distributed.


What is an allowable expense for the FY25 SSSG?

The program supports a dedicated state grant fund that provides matching grants to school corporations, accredited non-public schools, charter schools or a coalition of school corporations and/or charter schools applying jointly to:

  1. Employ a school resource officer (SRO) or law enforcement officer (LEO).
  2. Conduct a site vulnerability assessment and/or critical incident digital mapping.
  3. Purchase equipment, hardware, materials and technology to:
    1. Restrict access to school property and classrooms; or
    2. Assist with visitor management on school property; or
    3. Expedite notification of first responders; or
    4. Expedite access to school property for first responders; or
    5. Provide school staff with information about the open or closed status of interior and exterior doors; or
    6. Detect fire, chemical, visual or audible threats; or
    7. Enhance emergency communications inside the building; or
    8. Assist with emergency medical response on school property; or
  4. Implement a student and parent support services plan.
  5. Purchase or provide training for a canine trained to detect drugs and illegal substances, explosives, or firearms or to otherwise provide protection for students and school employees.
  6. Provide funding for school employees to receive training, including expenses for per diem, travel and lodging related to eligible training.
  7. Provide funding for school resource officer or law enforcement officer to receive training, including expenses for per diem, travel and lodging, related to handing a trained canine.
  8. Design and construct additions or renovations on school property if the primary purpose is to enhance the physical security of the school building.
  9. Implement a bullying prevention program.
  10. Purchase a one-time non-matching grant to enable school corporations to work with their sheriff to provide the initial set up costs for an active event warning system.
  11. Provide a response to a threat in a manner that the school corporation or charter school sees fit, including firearms training (curriculum now defined) or other self-defense training or securing funds for counseling in the event of a school shooting.
  12. Purchase student management technology.

Movie Night in the Park Starting This Week

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The Evansville Police Department, in partnership with the Department of Parks & Recreation, will kick off the new, summer Movie Night in the Park series this Friday night. Members of the public can watch “Sing
2” on Friday, June 14, at 8:15 p.m. at Stockwell Park. The event is free, with attendees encouraged to bring their chairs and refreshments. Food trucks will also be on-site to purchase food. Our friends with the Evansville Fire Department will also be present; attendees are encouraged to meet our city’s first responders at the
park.

“We’re excited to be able to partner with the Department of Parks & RecreatiMovie Night in the Park Starting This Week

The Evansville Police Department, in partnership with the Department of Parks & Recreation, will kick off the new, summer Movie Night in the Park series this Friday night. Members of the public can watch “Sing
2” on Friday, June 14, at 8:15 p.m. at Stockwell Park. The event is free, with attendees encouraged to bring their chairs and refreshments. Food trucks will also be on-site to purchase food. Our friends with the Evansville Fire Department will also be present; attendees are encouraged to meet our city’s first responders while at the
park.
“We’re excited to be able to partner with the Department of Parks & Recreation and the City of Evansville to provide this free, safe program to residents of our community this summer,” said Chief Philip
Smith. “Five times this summer, we’ll show a different, family-friendly movie in a different park, all as part of Mayor Terry’s Safe Evansville program.”

The full schedule of Movie Night in the Park events:

• June 14, Stockwell Park, 8:15 p.m.
• June 28, Vann/Pollack Park, 8:15 p.m.
• July 12, Wesselman Park, 8:15 p.m.
• July 19, Sunset Park (east), 8:15 p.m. and the City of
Evansville to provide this free, safe program to residents of our community this summer,” said Chief Philip
Smith. “Five times this summer, we’ll show a different, family-friendly movie in a different park, all as part of
Mayor Terry’s Safe Evansville program.”

The full schedule of Movie Night in the Park events:
• June 14, Stockwell Park, 8:15 p.m.
• June 28, Vann/Pollack Park, 8:15 p.m.
• July 12, Wesselman Park, 8:15 p.m.
• July 19, Sunset Park (east), 8:15 p.m.

Harvin, Parks lead Otters to matinee win

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TROY, N.Y. – The Evansville Otters evened the series on Wednesday afternoon against the Tri-City ValleyCats with a 6-1 win at Joseph L. Bruno stadium.

The Otters (10-19) had a terrific performance from the pitching staff on a bullpen day to limit the ValleyCats’ (15-14) offense.

Tristan Harvin (1-1) took the win after tossing five and one-third innings. He dominated on the rubber, creating weak contact while giving up five hits and striking out three.

Leaving the game in the sixth frame after allowing a run, the starter had the bases loaded with one out but got help from Jon Beymer and the bullpen. Beymer struck out the first two men he faced to get out of the jam, buckling down in a huge spot to preserve Evansville’s one-run lead at the time.

Pavin Parks and Michael McAvene also threw scoreless innings.

In the fourth inning, Evansville drew first blood. After a one-out walk from Randy Bednar, Parks launched a two-run shot over the right field fence to put the Otters up 2-0.

Later in the ninth, the bats exploded for four runs on as many hits. Parks notched a one-out single to left before David Mendham crushed a two-run missile over the right field wall.

Jomar Reyes followed up with a walk and Justin Felix also roped a double down the left field line with two outs. The next batter, Glenn Miller, pieced a two-run single into right field, finalizing the scoring and solidifying the lead for Evansville.

Parks led the offense with three hits. He and Mendham each registered two RBI, with the Otters’ first basemen also garnering two hits.

The Otters have forced a rubber match, which will take place tomorrow against the ValleyCats. Evansville has an opportunity to win their first road series of the year, with a 5:30 p.m. CT first pitch. Coverage is available on the Otters Digital Network and FloBaseball.

Retail Food Establishment Inspection Report

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Retail Food Establishment Inspection Report

EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

 

FOOTNOTE: EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT information was provided by the EPD and posted by the City-County-County Observer without opinion, bias, or editing.

Vincennes University Science of Reading Symposium

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For Immediate Release

MEDIA ADVISORY: Vincennes University Science of Reading Symposium

WHAT:

The Vincennes University Education Department is hosting a Science of Reading Symposium which will provide crucial training in the Science of Reading for surrounding community school corporations.

 

The Science of Reading is a body of research and data that shows how the brain works as it learns to read. The Indiana Department of Education has mandated that all K-12 schools and teacher preparation programs must include some type of Science of Reading Curriculum within their programs.

 

VU Education Department Chair Ann Herman is available for media interviews from 10:15-10:30 a.m. (ET) outside of Updike Hall, Room 140. Media is also invited to capture video during the Science of Reading 101 session presented by VU Associate Professor Lisa Miller from 10:15-11 a.m. (ET) in Updike Hall, Room 140.

WHO:

Symposium attendees include classroom teachers, speech therapists, counselors and VU faculty.

WHEN:

Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 10:15 – 11 a.m. (ET)

 

WHERE:

Vincennes University

Updike Hall – College of Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Room 140.

1251 N. Chestnut St.