Tate is a 1 ½-yr-old male brown tabby cat! He spent several weeks in foster care learning to be more confident & less shy. Now, he lives in the Cageless Cat Lounge and he’s a whole new man! Make Tate part of your family for only $30. This includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 Tuesday-Saturday 12-6 for adoption details!
Adopt A Pet
Frannie is a 10-year-old female longhaired gray tabby. She’s such a beautiful girl! As kitten season approaches, she’ll likely get overlooked for all those younger felines. But she doesn’t deserve a home any less – she’s only halfway through her life! Her adoption fee is discounted to $15 right now! Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 for adoption details!
This Week at USI
Wednesday, May 10
Summer 2017 Sessions
Summer I 2017 will start on Wednesday, May 10 and run through Friday, June 9. Summer II 2017 will start on Monday, June 12 and run through Friday, July 14. Summer III 2017 will start on Monday, July 17 and run through Friday, August 11.
7:30 p.m. Friday, May 12
Free screening of “The Ghastly Love of Johnny Xâ€
The University of Southern Indiana Film Studies department will host a free, public screening of The Ghastly Love of Johnny X at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 12 in Forum I located in the Wright Adminstration Building on the USI campus. The film, directed by Paul Bunnell, is the last feature film show on 35mm film stock and will be shown on a theatrical projector.
Noon Saturday, May 20
BIZCOM semi-final presentations to feature 8 startup pitches
The semi-finals of the Eagle Innovation Business Model Competition (BIZCOM) will be held at noon Saturday, May 20 in the Griffin Center on the USI campus. BIZCOM is designed to solicit innovative business ideas from the greater USI community and connect those ideas to teams, mentors, and resources to develop the business model. 8 teams will present at the semi-final in the hopes to move on to the finals and a chance at up to $12,000 in funding for their idea. For more information, visit the BIZCOM website contact Jason Salstrom, technology commercialization manager, at jsalstrom@usi.edu.
Registration Open – June 5-9
USI, SWI-AHEC partner with EVSC for Public Health Camp
The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation’s Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center (SICTC), in collaboration with Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI-AHEC), is hosting a one-week summer public health camp, Go Viral: Be a Disease Detective. The camp is for students currently in the seventh and eighth grades in Gibson, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick counties who are interested in exploring epidemiology and careers in public health. Read More
Throughout the Summer:
Registration open for USI summer camps
Registration is now open for a variety of camps offered this summer through the University of Southern Indiana. The camps each have a different focus, and range from engineering and other STEM-related themes to sports and general enrichment. Here is a sampling of the offerings available for summer 2017. Visit USI.edu/summer for the full listing of camps. Read More
MercyMe At the Ford Center
MercyMe
With Special Guests Unspoken & Ryan Stevenson
FORD CENTER- OCTOBER 12
Tickets Go On Sale Friday, May 12 at 10 AM
Since their debut in 2001, GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award and Dove Award winners MercyMe
have sold more than 9 million units in CD, single and DVD sales, garnered more than 28 No. 1 multi-format Christian radio singles and four
consecutive mainstream radio hits with “I Can Only Imagine,†(No. 4 AC/Top 25 on Top 40/Hot AC), “Here With Me†(No. 4 AC), “Homesickâ€
(Top 10 AC) and “So Long Self.†Their radio success has continued with recent singles “Flawless” (No. 1 for 15 weeks) and “Greater” (No. 1
for 16 weeks), landing them the Top Christian Airplay Artist spot on Billboard’s 2015 Year End charts. MercyMe made history in 2014 as “I
Can Only Imagine†surpassed 2 million digital downloads, making it the first song in Christian music to go platinum and double-platinum in
the digital domain. In 2009, Billboard named MercyMe’s “Word Of God Speak” the No. 1 Song of The Decade and the group the No. 1 Artist
of the Decade in both the Christian Songs and Christian AC Songs categories, recognizing them as one of the industry’s most notable talents.
They have sold out venues throughout the US and Canada, including Radio City Music Hall, and have appeared on the Macy’s Thanksgiving
Day Parade, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, FOX New Channel’s FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC News and in
the pages of Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, USA Today and more. Their last project MercyMe, It’s Christmas! (2015) debuted
at No. 1 on Billboard’s Holiday Albums chart and became an instant Christmas classic. MercyMe’s eighth studio album, Welcome To The
New, garnered two GRAMMY® nods, four radio hits and continues to be a top selling title. LIFER, their latest chart-topping album, is
available now.
LST 325 History Program
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A STORYBOOK ENDING FOR ALWAYS DREAMING
America’s Best Racing (ABR), a multimedia fan development and awareness-building platform of The Jockey Club, today released a new feature video, “ABR Wired: A Storybook Ending for Always Dreaming.â€
What is it like being part of the ownership group of the favorite for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands? Even better, what is it like to win the run for the roses, America’s most celebrated horse race? Follow along with America’s Best Racing for a compelling behind-the-scenes look as Terry Finley, a minority owner of Always Dreaming and the president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds, experiences a scintillating 2017 Kentucky Derby at historic Churchill Downs.
WATCH “ABR Wired: A Storybook Ending for Always Dreamingâ€: https://www.americasbestracing.net/videos/2017-abr-wired-storybook-ending-always-dreaming
The owners of Always Dreaming are MeB Racing Stables, Brooklyn Boyz Stables, Teresa Viola Racing Stables, St. Elias Stable, Siena Farm and West Point Thoroughbreds. MeB Stables and Brooklyn Boyz Stable are the racing names for MaryEllen and Anthony Bonomo, respectively, of New York. St. Elias Stable and Teresa Viola Racing Stables are the racing operations of Vincent Viola and his wife, Teresa. Vincent, also a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, is the owner of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers. Anthony R. Manganaro, Nacho Patino and David Pope founded Siena Farm on 225 acres in Paris, Ky., and West Point Thoroughbreds is the racing partnership founded by West Point Academy graduate Terry Finley. West Point finished second in the 2014 Kentucky Derby with Commanding Curve.
Finley, a former Army captain and airborne ranger, presides over West Point Thoroughbreds Inc., a horse racing partnership management company he founded in 1991. West Point Thoroughbreds currently manages equine portfolios for over 500 partners and a stable of over 70 horses. Their horses have earned over $40 million in purses and won over 700 races. They have campaigned nine Grade 1 winners and their partners have 41 graded stakes wins over the years.
Making cameo appearances in this original ABR Wired feature are celebrity chef and Thoroughbred owner, Bobby Flay, along with Finley’s wife, Debbie, and son, Ryan.
IS IT TRUE MAY 9, 2017
IS IT TRUE that a  well known local pastor and 2nd Ward resident Steve Ary asked members of the Evansville City Council a couple financial questions during last night’s council meeting?  … City Council President Missy Mosby refused to answer pastor Ary’s pointed questions concerning the utilities costs and payments issues at the Ford Center?  …Missy Mosby announced that he will receive an answer to his questions vie mail from legal counsel in the near future?
IS IT TRUE that pastor Ary is also the editor/publisher of the monthly Vanderburgh Independent Press (The VIP)? …this monthly publication has a strong conservative and religious bent?  … that At-Large City Councilwoman Michelle Mercer (R) stated that his being the editor of a monthly newspapers is the reason why City Council should refused to be transparent in answering his questions concerning utilities costs and payments of the Ford Center?
IS IT TRUE we are surprised to learn that a citizen of Evansville 2nd ward and the editor/publisher of a monthly conservative and religious bent publications seemly have no rights when it came to his receiveing answers from City Council to questions regarding city business? …we strongly believe that Council members Missy Mosby (D) and Michelle Mercer (R) has a responsibility to be totally transparent concerning the finances of this city regardless of who is asking the questions or how they feel about person asking them? …just in case you need to know that the other 6 remaining Council members just in silence watching all this go down?
IS IT TRUE its important to point out that pastor and newspaper publisher Steve Ary has been a tax-paying resident of Evansville nearly his entire life? … that he and his family lives in Missy Mosby’s 2nd Ward? …that Pastor Ary inquiry on how our city tax dollars are spent on the Ford Center could had been handled by either by City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr, Council Finance Chairman Dan McGinn (R), accounting expert Councilwoman Anne Harris-CPA (R), DMD Executive Director-Kelley Cources because they were at the meeting?
IS IT TRUE we are amazed that pastor Ary was singled-out by select members of the Evansville City Council because he is an editor and publisher of a local monthly newspaper? .. Its obvious that pastor and editor/publisher Steve Ary was being discriminated against by two (2) members of the Evansville City Council because of his employment?  …that someone should tell Council members Missy Mosby and Michelle Mercer that there are Federal and State laws that protect people from being discriminated because of their line of work?
IS IT TRUE its been alleged by Pastor Ary that City Council attorney,  Josh Claybourne, advised  him if he does not “announce himself as being with the media†when he at the podium, that he can ask question the Council as a constituent of the 2nd Ward, and therefore he can receive the answers to his questions? …that after taking Claybourne’s advise, pastor Steve did not announced himself as a member of  the media, but rather, as pastor and citizen of  the 2nd Ward?  …that Councilwoman Mosby still refused to answer his questions about governmental issues?  …we wonder who came up with the policy that members of the media can’t ask any questions concerning city business at any official city council meeting?
 IS IT TRUE that we were given the actual questions pastor Steve Ary asked City Council during last nights meeting? …that you can read those questions below?
 1. How much are the annual utility bills for gas, electric, and water at the Ford Center?
 2. Who pays for the Ford Center utility bills? Is it the City, VenuWorks, or is it both?  If it is both, what is that cost ratio?
3. Did the Evansville Redevelopment Commission write any checks to cover either full or part of the Ford Center utilities bills?
3. Did the Evansville Redevelopment Commission write any checks to cover either full or part of the Ford Center utilities bills?
4) Recently the ERC approved a contract between VenuWorks and the ERC. Â Does this contract make the city taxpayers responsible for all the debts incurred by the Evansville Thunderbolts Hockey team during the 2016-17 season?
IS IT TRUE that the people of this city deserve answers to paster Steve Ary’s questions,?  … we feel that any members of the local media should be treated with equality, and not as a second class citizen?  …we hope that pastor Ary and newspapers editor /publisher sues members of city council because they discriminated against because of his line of work?
TODAYS “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that any member of the media should be allowed to ask any questions concerning city business during any official city council meeting