Adopt A Pet
Evan is a 5-year-old male black Lab mix. He was pulled from Evansville Animal Care & Control when they were running out of kennel space. Taylor, also a black Lab, is his best buddy. Evan’s $100 adoption fee includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!
Kids Learn About Careers in Visual Communication – Through Pathfinders Project
Children ages 12-14 in Carver Community Organization’s Pathfinders Project to Come to Ivy Tech to Learn about Visual Communication
Saturday, March 4; 12:30-1:15 p.m. for best video/photo opportunities Ivy Tech Community College, Rooms 242, 263, 238, 267
3501 N. First Avenue, Evansville
Background: Students enrolled in Carver Community Organization’s Pathfinders Project, will come to Ivy Tech to learn about Print, Imaging and Graphic Design Production this weekend. Hands-on experiences in a variety of these areas will help students to both create products and discover how these relate to the economy, industry, and the relationship to differing aspects of culture.
The Pathfinders Project at Carver is designed to:
- Promote the types of self-determination skills that help enhance underrepresented minority student populations in interest and perseverance in Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math (STEM/STEAM) education.
- Build confidence in students and assist parents in developing the necessary skill sets to assist their child with overcoming and mastering challenges related to STEM/STEAM.
- Improve cross-cultural competency and social capital between families of underrepresented minority student populations and educational and industry professionals.
Carver created this program to combat these challenges. The Pathfinders Project utilizes a participatory action research approach as a means to empower members of traditionally disenfranchised populations to participate, along with service professionals in decision-making activities. Pathfinders features a series of three, six-week content sessions relating to a broad range of STEM topics.
There will be great b-roll and photo opportunities. Interviews will be available.
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Contacts at the Event:Â Joseph Hostetler, chair of the Visual Communications Program at Ivy Tech Community College; and David Wagner, executive director of the Carver Community Organization
Adopt A Pet
Boogie is a male Treeing Walker Coonhound. He is 5 years old and was transferred to VHS from Warrick County Animal Control. His best buddy is Cassidy, another Treeing Walker Coonhound at VHS. They enjoy running in the large dog yard together on nice sunny days! Boogie’s adoption fee is $100. He’s ready to go home today neutered, microchipped, and up-to-date on shots! Contact the Vanderburgh Humane Society at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!
Stein earns C.O.Y. honors as Eagles land four on All-GLVC teams
EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball Coach Rick Stein has been named the Chuck Mallander Great Lakes Valley Conference Coach of the Year in a vote by the league’s head coaches.
Additionally, senior guard Tanner Marcum (New Albany, Indiana) has been named first-team All-GLVC, while senior forward Hannah Wascher (Rantoul, Illinois) and junior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) were named second-team All-GLVC.
Junior forward Morgan Dahlstrom (Grayslake, Illinois) was named third-team All-GLVC, while junior guard Randa Harshbarger (Philo, Illinois) was USI’s nominee for the James P. Spalding Sportsmanship award.
Stein, who is earning GLVC Coach of the Year honors for the second time in his career and the first time since 2000-01, led the Screaming Eagles to the GLVC East Division title with a regular-season record of 24-4 overall and 16-2 in the GLVC. USI won the East Division by three games after being picked to finish fourth prior to the start of the season.
Earlier this year, Stein became the first basketball coach in USI history to earn his 300th career victory.
Marcum earns her second All-GLVC award and her first-career first-team honor after averaging 14.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 3.0 steals per game. The 16th player in program history to reach the 1,000-career point plateau, Marcum leads the GLVC in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2), steals per game and total steals (85).
Grooms is earning her first career All-GLVC award after averaging a career-high 15.5 points per game during the regular-season. Grooms, who has reached double-figures in the scoring column 25 times this year, recently became the 17th player in program history to reach the 1,000-career point plateau.
Wascher is earning second-team All-GLVC honors for the second consecutive year after averaging 12.5 points and a team-high 8.2 rebounds per game. Wascher is currently ranked third in the GLVC in rebounding after recording a team-high seven double-doubles during the regular-season.
Like Grooms, Dahlstrom is earning her first-career All-GLVC honor after averaging a career-high 10.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game during the regular-season. Dahlstrom racked up four double-doubles this year and had a team-high 17 rebounds in USI’s win at Wayne State University.
Harshbarger has been nominated for the James P. Spalding Sportsmanship award after leading USI with 3.7 assists per contest.
USI begins the GLVC Tournament Friday at 6 p.m. when it takes on the University of Indianapolis in the quarterfinals at the Ford Center.
2016-17 Women’s Basketball All-GLVC Teams & Post-Season Honors
Player of the Year
Jessica Kelliher, So., F, LEWIS
Defensive Player of the Year
Kalea Parks, R-Sr., F, SJC
Freshman of the Year
Hailey Diestelkamp, Fr., F, DU
Coach of the Year
Rick Stein, USI
First Team
Sarah Galvin, Sr., F/G, BU
Heather Harman, Jr., G, DU
Martha Burse, Jr., G, UINDY
Jamie Johnson, R-Sr., G, LEWIS
Jessica Kelliher, So., F, LEWIS
Mary Dineen, Sr., G, RU #
Kalea Parks, Sr., F, SJC
Cassidy Clark, Sr., C, TSU
Tanner Marcum, Sr., G, USI
Maddie Nelson, Sr., G, WJC
# unanimous selection
Second Team
Raven Merriweather, Jr., G, BU
Hailey Diestelkamp, Fr., F, DU
Paige Wilson, Sr., G, DU
Nicole Anderson, Sr., F, UINDY
Sydney Brackemyre, Jr., G/F, UINDY
Ali Ringering, Jr., G, MU
Jordan Fletcher, R-Jr., C, UMSL
Kaydie Grooms, Jr., G/F, USI
Hannah Wascher, Sr., F, USI
Rachel Edmundson, So., G, TSU
Third Team
Daejah Bernard, Fr., PG, DU
Briana Jones, Sr., F, DU
Syerra Cunningham, Sr., C, UIS
Destiny Ramsey, Jr., F, UIS
Stephanie Sherwood, So., F, MU
Laura Szorenyi, So., G, UMSL
Marisa Lowe, So., F, RU
Jillian Myers, Jr., G, RU
Hannah Albrecht, Fr., G, SJC
Morgan Dahlstrom, Jr., F, USI
Brittney Fair, Sr., G, UWP
Taylor named GLVC Player of the Year
University of Southern Indiana senior guard/forward Jeril Taylor
(Louisville, Kentucky) was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Year in a vote of the conference’s head coaches. Taylor’s GLVC Player of the Year award marks the 10th time in the history of the program that a Screaming Eagle has been named the league’s top player.
Former USI winners are John Hollinden (1981); Stephen Jackson (1984, 1985); Chris Bowles (1994); Chad Gilbert (1996); Derrick Lyons (2001); Chris Thompson (2006); Jamar Smith (2010); and Aaron Nelson (2014).
Taylor, who also was named first-team All-GLVC, has shined for the Eagles in 2016-17. He has led the team for the second-straight season in scoring and rebounding, averaging 20.3 points and 8.3 rebounds per contest. The senior also set a USI single game record for scoring with 50 points in the road win at Truman State University and became the 19th USI player to reach 1,000 career points.
In addition to the post-season conference awards, Taylor was named the Division II Bulletin Player of the Month (January), the GLVC Player of the Week four times, and the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic Most Valuable Player.
Joining Taylor on the All-GLVC first team was sophomore guard Alex Stein (Evansville, Indiana). Stein, who is receiving his first All-GLVC honor, was second on the team in scoring with 17.7 points per game and led the team with 4.0 assists per game. He also averaged 3.4 rebounds per contest.
Along with this post-season honor, Stein was named the GLVC Player of the Week once and to the SCB Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament team.
USI senior guard Cortez Macklin (Louisville, Kentucky) became the fourth Eagle to be named to the GLVC All-Defensive team. The award is the first for Macklin, who joins former USI Eagles Kenyon Smith (2012, 2013), Keith DeWitt (2013), and Gavin Schumann (2014) in being named to the league’s defensive squad.
Macklin, who also posted 6.7 points per game, is tied for second on the Eagles with 4.6 rebounds per contest, including 129 defensive rebounds. The senior guard also averaged 1.0 steals per outing.
USI (25-3) enters the GLVC Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday at 6 p.m. when it plays Truman State University (21-8) at the Ford Center.
IS IT TRUE MARCH 2, 2017
IS IT TRUE that Mulzer Crushed Stone which has been a riverfront institution for many years may be changing hands?…Mulzer or the “litter box by the Ohio” as some have called it is rumored to be in the final stages of selling out to a foreign company Oldcastle Materials?…this means that the profits from the Mulzer operation will be heading off to Ireland when the deal is done?…we hope that the new owners will be just a good as corporate citizens as Jeff Mulzer and his team have been for many years?
IS IT TRUE that the brick and mortar retail business world keeps getting hammered by online shopping?…retail outlets with troubles usually manage to make it through the Christmas season to offload as much inventory as possible before folding their tents soon after the new year?…the age old department chain named after JC Penney that has been a fixture at the south end of the Eastland Mall has announced that they will be closing between 150 and 160 stores across the country?…the specific locations slated to close have not been released to the public yet?…of all the large store formats in the Eastland Mall, JC Penny is the only one that has not changed brands at least once since Eastland was opened in the late 1970s?…we could hope that the Eastland Store is not on the list but the reality is that it eventually will be so we had best be prepared when the axe comes down?…the entire Family Christian chain has announced that all stores will be closed?…this brand has spent many years across Green River Road from Eastland and it looks like that location is going to be “available” soon?…Target is an endangered species too with their latest corporate rescue plan of “margin compression”?…that is business speak for price cutting, fire selling, or whatever else such things are called these days?…it looks like there is going to be a glut of commercial property in the near future?
IS IT TRUE that DMD purchased the Knotty Pine Restaurant site on North main street and demolished it for a public parking lot? …the Integra Bank building located on North main street now houses the newly reorganized Evansville Land Bank Corp thanks to a sweetheart deal given to them by DMD?
IS IT TRUE that Turonis Restaurant owners purchased the vacant Integra Bank building on North Main from DMD for $235,000 plus dollars to be used for a parking lot for their customers? …a short while later DMD re-purchased the vacant Integra Bank building from Turonis Restaurant owners for over $260,000? …DMD then cut a sweetheart deal to lease the Integra Bank building to the Evansville Land Bank Corp? Â …the Evansville Land Bank Corp are now allowing Turonis Restaurant customers to park at the old Integra Bank parking lot when their main lot is full?
IS IT TRUE we wonder if Executive Director of DMD and ERC Board of Directors spend their personal money the same way the spend our tax dollars? Â …we bet you know the answer to this question?
FOOTNOTE: Todays ‘Readers Polls” question is: Do you feel that it’s time for the State and Federal authorities do an comprehensive audit of the financial activities of the Evansville DMD?
Eagles Send Four to NCAA Championships
EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The No. 23 University of Southern Indiana men’s track & field team will send four student-athletes to the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships March 9-11 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Senior Chase Broughton (Marengo, Indiana) and junior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) each qualified in three. The duo earned berths in the mile and 3,000-meters, while also being a part of Screaming Eagles’ distance medley relay team that qualified for the event.
The other half of the distance medley relay team is made up of sophomore Tyler Kruse (Indianapolis, Indiana), and freshman Javan Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee).
With the fourth best time in NCAA II this season, the relay team is seeded two seconds behind the nation’s top time in 2017. Individually, Broughton ranks sixth and eighth in the mile and 3,000-meters, while Grau is ninth and 12.
Preliminaries for the mile will take place Thursday, March 9 with finals on Saturday, March 11. The 3,000-meter run will take place near the end of the day on Saturday, while the distance medley relay is the final event on Friday, March 10.
Live results and live video for the NCAA II Indoor Championships will be available at GoUSIEagles.com.