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Deer Hunters Donated More Than 65,000 Pounds Of Venison In 2016-17 To Feed Indiana’s Hungry

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Deer hunters donated more than 65,000 pounds of venison in 2016-17 to feed Indiana’s hungry through the Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund, according to the DNR Law Enforcement division.

The Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund administered by DNR Law Enforcement provides grants to Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry, Hunters and Farmers Feeding the Hungry, and the Dubois County Sportsmen Club to pay for processing fees when hunters donate legally harvested deer.

The participating organizations notify food banks throughout Indiana when venison is ready to be collected from certified Sportsmen Benevolence Fund butchers. The food banks distribute venison to soup kitchens and food pantries to feed hungry citizens. The average cost per meal is 35 cents.

In the 2016-17 hunting season, hunters donated 1,307 deer that were processed into 65,443 pounds of venison, which equates to 261,772 meals.

“Once again, the Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund has met its objectives” DNR Director Cameron F. Clark. “With the Fund’s support and the generosity of Indiana deer hunters, citizens in need will be able to prepare healthy meals with low-fat, high-protein venison.”

The totals are comparable to the 2105-16 donations of 1,333 deer and 67,356 pounds of venison.

“It’s evident that the desire to donate to this program by our deer hunters continues to be strong,” said Col. Danny L. East, director of DNR Law Enforcement. “Our Indiana deer hunters continue to be valuable partners in carrying out our mission and our programs.”

State Sen. Michael Crider, who developed the Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund when he was director of DNR Law Enforcement, said, “This program provides an opportunity for Indiana hunters to enjoy the outdoors and provide for fellow citizens in need.”

THE BEST BABYSITTER IS A SAFE SITTER

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The next round of SAFE SITTER classes is coming up in June at St. Vincent Evansville.  SAFE SITTER is a medically accurate, hands-on class that teaches boys and girls ages 11 to 13 how to handle emergencies when caring for children. Young children cannot always communicate their needs or protect themselves. The babysitter must be able to handle whatever situation arises. SAFE SITTERS learn: what to do when a child chokes, CPR, how to call for emergency help, entertaining children and keeping them safe, babysitting business skills, and basic childcare skills like diapering and feeding.

Class dates are:

Wednesday, June 7

Thursday, June 8

Tuesday, June 13

Wednesday, June 14

Monday, June 26

Safe Sitter classes are available through St. Vincent Outreach Services. A fee of $60 covers the one-day program, student manual, messenger bag and supplies. The program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a short ceremony for students and parents starting at 3:15 p.m. Students need to bring a sack lunch.

Class size is limited. Registration is required and may be done through St. Vincent Outreach Services at 812.485.5607

A DIRTY LATE-NIGHT JOKE

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Making Sense by Michael Reagan

Remember when late-night TV used to be entertaining – and actually funny?

You used to be able to turn off the tube and go to bed with a smile on your face.

Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Joan Rivers, Jay Leno & early David Letterman, Arsenio … they were entertainers, first and foremost.

Their main shtick was topical jokes, quips and silly sketches. Their material was PG with an innocent hint or wink of R now and then.

In their monologues the founding fathers of late-night were gentle, equal-opportunity mockers. They knew how far to go when they made fun of their fellow Americans, movie stars or presidents.

You didn’t really know if they loved or hated Richard Nixon, my father or Bill Clinton, or whether they were conservatives or liberals or Republicans or Democrats.

It didn’t really matter what their politics were anyway. They weren’t hosting cable TV opinion shows, pushing their own opinions or trying to rile us up.

They and their writers and guests were trying their best to entertain and please us at the end of our day, not tick us off.

And now in 2017 we have the irrepressibly obnoxious Stephen Colbert.

Not only is Colbert not nearly as funny as he, his fans and the rest of the liberal media think he is.

But he’s also a proud, in-your-face liberal who’s decided it’s his partisan duty to pander to his political base every night by bashing President Trump in childish, vulgar and offensive ways.

Colbert’s crude homophobic joke about Mr. Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin on Monday didn’t get him fired from CBS the next morning.

It didn’t spark a national campaign calling for advertisers to abandon “Late Night With Stephen Colbert,” either, but it did start a twitter storm in the media.

Conservatives and gay groups called for CBS to do to Colbert what Fox News did to Bill O’Reilly – send him on a long vacation and never let him back in the building.

It’ll never happen. Colbert is a liberal. Liberals don’t get fired by TV networks or get hounded out of their jobs by their liberal lapdogs in the media.

Colbert has said he doesn’t intend to apologize for what he said. He doesn’t have to.

Since he’s a liberal, and liberals are hypocrites, anything Colbert says or does that is politically incorrect or insulting or slimy is quickly forgiven.

Plus, thanks largely to the victory of his nightly punching-bag-in-chief, President Trump,Colbert has vaulted to the top in the late-night ratings race.

Colbert is a big money-maker. CBS is never going to slaughter its prized cash cow, whose ratings are sure to spike for a while because of the flap over his tasteless comment.

He’ll have to be careful and censor himself from now on so he doesn’t offend his gay viewership.

Since few Republicans, Flyover People or Trump voters watched Colbert’s show anyway, his vulgarity won’t cost him many ratings points with those demographic groups.

From now on, he can continue beating up President Trump like he’s on MSNBC, not CBS. And he can continue delivering his learned spin on tax reform and climate change to his fans.

Colbert will have his fun for a while, anyway. But I can hear the greats of late night — Steve, Johnny and Merv – spinning in their graves. And they’re not laughing.

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Copyright ©2017 Michael Reagan.

REPUBLICANS CRAFT A REPLACEMENT FOR OBAMACARE

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Rucker Farewell Celebration Monday

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Rucker Farewell Celebration Monday

Il for www.theindianalawyer.com

A retirement celebration for Justice Robert D. Rucker, who will step down from the Indiana Supreme Court May 12, will take place at 12:30 p.m. Monday in the Supreme Court Courtroom.

Rucker, who was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals in 1991 and the Supreme Court in 1999, authored more than 1,200 opinions and served with 31 appellate judges during his 26 years on the appellate bench. His retirement celebration will be webcast on the state judiciary’s website.

Gov. Eric Holcomb will appoint one of three trial court judges to replace Rucker. Last month, the Judicial Nomination Commission interviewed semifinalists and sent Holcomb the names for three finalists: Clark Circuit Judge Vicki Carmichael, Wabash Superior Judge Christopher Goff, and Boone Superior Judge Matthew Kincaid.

Rucker plans on serving as a senior judge after he leaves the high court.

COA rejects self-defense claim against battery charge

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IL for www.theindianalawyer.com

A man who punched a racer at a southern Indiana racing track cannot claim self-defense to rebut his battery charge because the facts show that the man was the initial aggressor against the racer, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Friday.

In May 2013, Melvin Wolf was at the Charlestown Speedway to watch his adult son, Patrick, compete in a midget car race. During the race, another driver, Kevin Blue, collided with Patrick, and Blue ultimately won the race.

After the race, Wolf went to the racing pits to see his son, but first encountered Blue and began calling him profane names. Wolf then punched Blue, and a scuffle ensued. Racing officials told Wolf he was suspended for three races, and another racer, Logan Arnold, followed Wolf to his vehicle, wrote down his license plate number and called the police.

A responding officer arrived at the track and saw injuries to Blue’s nose and back. Blue told the office that Wolf “got on top of him and continued to punch him until the other people standing around pulled the suspect off.” Wolf was subsequently charged with Class A misdemeanor battery.

During the ensuing bench trial, Blue again testified that Wolf had punched him in the nose, but contradicted his earlier account to police in which he said he had fallen flat on his back. For his part, Wolf asserted self-defense, claiming that he only hit Blue after he grabbed his shirt.

The Clark Circuit Court rejected Wolf’s self-defense claim and found him guilty as charged and sentenced him to six months suspended to unsupervised probation. On appeal in Melvin Wolf v. State of Indiana, 10A01-1607-CR-1560, Wolf argued that the trial court had erred in finding that his act of calling Blue names constituted provocation and that Blue’s testimony was incredibly dubious.

But the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Wolf’s conviction in a Friday opinion, with Judge Melissa May writing for the unanimous panel that Blue’s testimony was not incredibly dubious because it was not inherently contradictory. Specifically, May said while Blue’s trial testimony varied slightly from his original statements to police, it did not change materially because Blue always maintained that Wolf approached him from behind, yelled at him, then punched him. Additionally, the judge said there was circumstantial evidence to back up Blue’s testimony.

Further, the appellate court found that because Blue’s testimony is not incredibly dubious, then Wolf’s self-defense claim cannot stand because the facts most favorable to the court’s judgment show that Blue did not touch Wolf until Wolf punched him. Thus, “Wolf’s argument that his name-calling did not constitute provocation for Blue to grab Wolf becomes moot because, seeing the facts as we must, Blue did not grab Wolf.”

HOT JOBS IN EVANSVILLE

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Event Receptionist
SMG Evansville – Evansville, IN
Answers incoming telephone calls, determines purpose of callers, and forwards calls to appropriate personnel or department….
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May 3
Receptionist/Administrative Assistant
Advantage Print Solutions – Evansville, IN
$12 an hour
This job also consists of answering, taking, and processing phone orders, filing, and other basic office duties….
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May 3
Front Desk Associate
Courtyard – Evansville East – Evansville, IN
Front Desk staff have the opportunity to learn the operations of most aspects of the hotel business. We are looking for full or part-time staff that want to be…
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May 3
EVSC Bus Driver
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation 12 reviews – Evansville, IN
$50 a day
Valid CDL Driver’s License. Obtain CDL Physical & CDL Permit. CDL Testing Reimbursed. Full-Time, Part-Time and Substitute Driver Positions Available….
May 3
Accounting Clerk
A+Derr Heating and Cooling – Newburgh, IN
Answer incoming calls from customers related to service, billing, and other departments. Make outbound calls to schedule, confirm, and survey upcoming or…
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May 3
Yard Help (Equipment Maintenance)
Career Associates – Evansville, IN
$30,000 – $35,000 a year
CDL to operate 1 ton truck and trailer for local deliveries.*. Able to do some light welding and cutting.*. My client is looking for someone to run operations…
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May 3
Cashier
Dick’s Sporting Goods 2,720 reviews – Evansville, IN
Cash register ringing & general cash handling. Promote company programs including warranty sales, Scorecard (loyalty program), private-label credit cards, and…
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Parts/Delivery/Janitorial
Elpers Truck Equipment – Evansville, IN
Janitorial duties, delivering or picking up parts, delivering truck beds, stocking shelves, and various other duties as needed….
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Housekeeper
Holiday Healthcare – Evansville, IN
The Heritage Center is seeking a housekeeper/custodian. This is a day shift position 7:45am-3:45pm or 5:00am-1:00pm. This is a great job opportunity with
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May 3
Campus Security Officer – Full Time – Evansville
Allied Universal 2,069 reviews – Evansville, IN
Answer phones or greet guests / employees in a professional, welcoming manner. Must be able to obtain a valid Guard License as required in the state for which…
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Business Manager
Regency Properties – Evansville, IN
Has a valid driver’s license and reliable personal transportation means available. Remains available for emergency phone calls after normal business hours….
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BDC Representative
DPatrick – Evansville, IN
Required license or certification:. Making inbound and outbound calls. Driving traffic for the sales department by setting appointments for prospective…
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Accounting Specialist
Regency Properties – Evansville, IN
Has a valid driver’s license and reliable personal transportation means available. Prepare information for delivery to outside contractors for annual tenant…
May 3
Distribution, Warehous, Fork truck Openings
StaffQuick 4 reviews – Evansville, IN
$9.50 an hour
_*StaffQuick is hiring for a Distribution, Warehouse, and Fork truck positions, for a local client in Evansville, IN!*_. Must have High School Diploma or GED;…
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May 3
Retail Sales Consultant – Part Time
Sprint 6,343 reviews – Evansville, IN
$40,000 a year
Best of all, when you’re doing what you do best (being awesome), you’re nailing Sprint’s customer satisfaction and growth goals and having fun while doing it….
May 3
Crew Member
Stocker’s Landscaping – Evansville, IN
$10 an hour
Required license or certification:. Landscape Tear Out & Install:. Reliable Transportation is required, crew member is expected to be at the shop and ready for…
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May 3
Male Care Giver
Home Instead Senior Care 1,949 reviews – Evansville, IN
Possess a valid driver’s license and valid auto insurance (required if driving clients). Home Instead Senior Care provides a variety of non-medical services…
May 3
Plumbers Apprentice
Hydromax Plumbing – Chandler, IN
Please apply in person – NO PHONE CALLS. Seeking Plumbers and/or Plumbers Apprentice for local plumbing company. Experience preferred but not required….
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May 3
Summer Learning Program Volunteer – McCollough Branch
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library – Evansville, IN
Greet children, sign them up for the program, encourage them in reading and completing the program, collect contest entries….
May 3
Summer Learning Program Volunteer – Red Bank Branch
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library – Evansville, IN
Greet children, sign them up for the program, encourage them in reading and completing the program, collect contest entries….
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Delivery Technician
Rent One Team, Inc – Henderson, KY
$9.50 an hour
Valid drivers license and safe driving record. Required license or certification:. A Delivery Technician (DT) is directly responsible to the Store Manager for…
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May 3
Cashier – Manager Trainee
McDonalds 76,722 reviews – Evansville, IN
McDonald’s® company-owned and independent Owner-Operator restaurants are staffed by great people, and right now we’re looking for more of them….
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May 3
Newspaper Carrier- Independent Contractor
EVANSVILLE COURIER & PRESS 10 reviews – Henderson, KY
$1,000 a month
Earn extra money in the morning as an independent contractor delivering the Henderson Gleaner & Evansville Courier….
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May 3
Customer Care Representative
SITEX 14 reviews – Henderson, KY
Assume front desk receptionist duties as needed. Take incoming customer service calls, respond to and/or resolve customer inquiries / complaints / requests,…
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Special Education – Coordinator of Exceptional Learners
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation 12 reviews – Evansville, IN
As a contract teacher, this position will automatically be enrolled in the Teacher Retirement Fund (TRF) through the state of Indiana, which includes a defined…
May 3
Cleaning Technician
VanBeck Services, Inc. – Evansville, IN
We are looking for a dependable, trustworthy, and personable individual to join our cleaning team. Long-term, stable employment opportunity, with competitive
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Driver / Maintenance Technician – Part Time
Enlivant 113 reviews – Newburgh, IN
Ensure that fire alarm, fire suppression and other emergency equipment are maintained and tested per the guidelines of the National Fire Protection Agency and…
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Construction Worker
JPM Resources – Evansville, IN
Required license or certification:. Applicant must have a drivers licence and at least high school diploma or equivalent….
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Customer Service Representative
Rent-A-Center 2,335 reviews – Evansville, IN
Complete customer service calls in a timely manner as assigned. Network with partnership store personnel to gain referrals and educate partnership store staff…
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Sales Representative
Total Quality Logistics (TQL) 628 reviews – Evansville, IN
$35,000 a year
Grow your own book of business, head up a sales team, or run your own office. If you have an unbelievable work ethic (we’re talking the top 10% of anyone you…
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Dr. Bucshon’s Statement on Government Funding Bill

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Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. released the following statement after the House passed legislation to fund the government:

“As President Trump said, this bill is a clear win for the American people. It turns the tide of the past eight years by investing heavily in our national defense to support our operations abroad and military installations here at home like Crane. It includes the largest increase in border security technology and infrastructure in a decade, gives our troops the largest pay raise in six years, and fully funds the health benefits for retired miners that are set to expire,” said Bucshon.  “While this legislation is far from ideal, it nonetheless makes progress getting our priorities in order after eight years of the failed policies of the previous administration.  I wish we could have done more in this bill, but the arcane rules of the Senate allow Senate Democrats to block our efforts to make further progress. I agree with President Trump that for us to secure major legislative accomplishments moving forward, Senate Republicans should end the legislative filibuster.”

 BACKGROUND

 H.R. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act fully funds the operations of the federal government, makes significant investments to support our military, secure the border, fight the opioid epidemic, and provide certainty for retired coal miners. The bill does not include any new funds for Obamacare, nor does it provide line item funding for Planned Parenthood.

Specifically, the bill:

Supports our military operations by adding $20 billion in additional funding for our national defense, including bases like Crane.

  • Supports our troops by including the largest military pay raise in six years, a 2.1% increase.
  • Provides certainty for retired coal miners by permanently funding their health benefits, which were set to expire.
  • Strengthens our borders by providing Customs and Border Protection $12.2 billion for more border agents and improving border infrastructure. This is the biggest increase in border security funding in a decade.
  • Includes no new money for Obamacare, eliminating funding for IPAB and preventing a taxpayer-funded bailout of insurance companies.
  • Maintains critical pro-life protections and includes no line item funding for Planned Parenthood.
  • Cuts back the EPA by $81 million, taking the agency back to pre-Obama Administration spending levels and cut staffing levels back to that seen at the end of the Reagan Administration.
  • Invests in medical research by providing the National Institutes of Health an additional $2 billion.
  • Provides $156 million in new funding for rural health programs.
  • Eliminates funding for radical climate change initiatives like the Green Climate Fund, the U.N. Climate Change panel, and Paris Climate Change institutions
  • Provides $650 million to combat the opioid epidemic.
  • Expands the school choice program.
  • Supports an all of the above energy strategy with specific focus on coal, oil, natural gas, and increasing our nuclear capabilities.

 

Police Merit Commission Meeting Agenda.

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EVANSVILLE POLICE MERIT COMMISSION

MEETING AGENDA

Monday, May 8, 2017

2:00 p.m.  Room 307, Civic Center Complex

  1. EXECUTIVE SESSION:
  1. An executive session and a closed hearing will be held prior to the open session.
  1. The executive session and hearing are closed as provided by:
  1. I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(5): To receive information about and interview prospective employees.
  2. I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(6)(A): With respect to any individual over whom the governing body has jurisdiction to receive information concerning the individual’s alleged misconduct.
  3. I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(9): To discuss a job performance evaluation of individual employees.  This subdivision does not apply to a discussion of the salary, compensation, or benefits of employees during a budget process.
  1. OPEN SESSION:
  1. CALL TO ORDER
  1. ACKNOWLEDGE GUESTS
  1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
    1. April 24, 2017 (Hegeman, Cook, and Scott)
  1. APPROVAL OF CLAIMS:
  1. PROBATIONARY OFFICER UPDATE:
    1. Sergeant Steve Kleeman – 4 officers in field training
    2. Sergeant Brian Talsma – 5 officers in SWILEA
  1. APPLICANT REVIEW:
    1. 16-084
  1. NEW DISCIPLINARY MATTER:  Personnel Order 17-PO-06:  Officer Jeff Breivogel, Badge Number 1141 – 3 day suspension – no appeal filed.
  1. PENDING DISCIPLINARY MATTERS: Personnel Order 16-PO-27:  Officer Marcus Craig, Badge Number 1250 – 21 day suspension, with a further recommendation that the Merit Commission consider termination.  Appeal hearing to be set at later date pending disability hearing per motion at February 21st meeting.
  1. REMINDERS:  The next meeting will by Monday, May 22, 2017 with the Executive Session beginning at 2:00pm.

 

  1. ADJOURNMENT

Funding Our Priorities

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This session, we passed an honestly balanced budget, which funds state operations including education, public safety, veteran’s programs, substance abuse prevention and workforce development.

With over half of the state’s $32 billion biennial budget dedicated to education, legislators supported substantial increases to the base funding for each K-12 student and modest increases for higher education. We also increased state funding for Indiana’s high-quality pre-K pilot program, which helps low-income children and rural communities.

To strengthen our support for public safety, Indiana’s hard-working state law enforcement officers will receive a 24-percent pay increase. The budget also provides increased funding to support veteran service organizations and homeless veterans. In addition, we established a hyperbaric treatment pilot program to help those struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. The state income tax deduction for military pensions was also increased to help those who have selflessly defended our nation.

In order to address the state’s opioid and heroin epidemic, legislators supported expanding and investing in statewide addiction treatment options.

Indiana has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, with nearly 30,000 job positions still unfilled. To help close the skills gap, Workforce Ready Grants will be made available to help cover any remaining tuition and fees for working-age adults seeking certifications in high-wage fields after they receive any state and federal assistance. We also passed legislation aligning career and technical education programs with current and future employer needs.

The U.S. News and World Report recently ranked Indiana as the best-run state in the nation based in large part on our proven dedication to fiscal responsibility. Unlike Washington, D.C., Indiana doesn’t spend more than it takes in and we work together to ensure critical government services and priorities are funded without passing on debt to future generations.

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