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Eagles move up in rankings, prep for St. Louis trip

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EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball has cracked the WBCA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll for the first time since January 22, 2013 and is ranked in the Top 25 of both the WBCA and Division II Media Polls for the first time in program history as it makes its final preparations for its two-game trip to St. Louis.

USI, which is No. 15 in the Media Poll and No. 20 in the Coaches’ Poll, visits the University of Missouri-St. Louis Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and Maryville University Saturday at 1 p.m.

Both games will be aired on WSWI 95.7 FM, while live stats, audio and GLVC Sports Network coverage can be accessed at GoUSIEagles.com. The GLVC Sports Network also is available on Apple TV (4th generation), Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, and Roku.

USI (20-3, 12-1 GLVC) takes a six-game winning streak into its game against Missouri-St. Louis after earning an 84-78 victory over No. 9 Drury University in a battle between Great Lakes Valley Conference division leaders.

Senior guard Tanner Marcum (New Albany, Indiana) had 24 points and four assists to lead the Eagles, while senior forward Hannah Wascher(Rantoul, Illinois) chipped in 20 points and six rebounds.

Junior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms (Marshall, Illinois) is one of four Eagles averaging in double-figures in the scoring column as she is contributing a team-best 15.8 points per game. Marcum is averaging 14.2 points and 3.3 assists per outing, while Wascher is chipping in 12.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per contest.

USI also is getting 10.1 points and a team-high 8.0 rebounds per game from junior forward Morgan Dahlstrom (Grayslake, Illinois), while junior guard Randa Harshbarger (Philo, Illinois) is averaging 5.6 points and a team-high 3.8 assists per appearance.

Missouri-St. Louis (11-10, 6-7 GLVC) is led by sophomore forward Laura Szorenyi and junior forward/center Jordan Fletcher, who are averaging 15.5 and 14.0 points per game, respectively. The Tritons have won two straight games and four of the last six.

Maryville (11-9, 7-6 GLVC), which hosts No. 17 Bellarmine Thursday, has won five straight games and seven of the last eight. Sophomore guard Stephanie Sherwood’s 12.0 points per game leads the Saints, who have three players averaging in double-figures in the scoring column.

USI Women’s Basketball Notes

  • Eagles snap Drury’s 12-game win streak in Top 25 showdown.USI Women’s Basketball snapped Drury’s 12-game winning streak with its 84-78 win over the Panthers Saturday. Drury had won its previous 25 GLVC regular-season games. Senior guard Tanner Marcumhad 24 points and four assists to lead the Eagles, while senior forward Hannah Wascher added 20 points.
  • Last week’s leaders.Senior guard Tanner Marcumaveraged a team-high 21.5 points in USI’s wins over Missouri S&T and Drury last week. Junior guard Kaydie Grooms chipped in 18.0 points, while senior forward Hannah Wascher contributed 17.0 points and 6.5 rebounds. Junior forward Morgan Dahlstrom rounded out USI’s double-figure scorers with 12.0 points and 10.0 rebounds.
  • USI inching toward GLVC Tourney first-round bye.USI is closing in on a first-round bye in the GLVC Tournament. The Eagles, who have secured no worse than a first-round home game, can clinch a first-round bye with a pair of wins or a win and a Rockhurst loss in the final five games.
  • Eagles looking to keep road, Thursday-Saturday record intact. USI is looking to remain unbeaten away from the PAC and keep its perfect record on Thursdays and Saturdays in tact when it travels to St. Louis this weekend. The Eagles are 8-0 on the road and 9-0 away from the PAC in 2016-17; and have not lost a game on Thursday or Saturday this year.
  • USI notches 20th-win.The Eagles reached the 20-win plateau for the 10th time in program history with their win over Drury. Each of the previous nine times USI has won 20 or more games, the Eagles have advanced to the NCAA II Tournament.
  • 80-point plateau.USI is averaging a GLVC-best 80.5 points per game in 2016-17. The Eagles have not finished a season averaging more than 80.0 points per game since they averaged 82.3 points per outing in 2001-02.
  • USI moves up in Top 25.The Eagles are ranked in the Top 25 in both the WBCA Coaches’ Poll and Division II Media Poll for the first time in program history. USI is ranked No. 15 in the Media Poll and No. 20 in the Coaches’ Poll. The last time USI was ranked in the Coaches’ Poll was January 22, 2013. USI also is No. 14 in the latest Herosports.comDivision II rankings.
  • Eagles push win streak to season-best six games. The Eagles pushed their winning streak to a season-best six games with their victory over Drury. USI’s previous best was five in a row. USI has followed each of its three losses this year with winning streaks of at least four games.
  • Marcum reaches 1,000-point plateau, Grooms next?Senior guard Tanner Marcumbecame the 16th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point plateau in USI’s win over Indianapolis. Junior guard/forward Kaydie Grooms is the next closest USI player to 1,000 points as she needs just 69 to become the 17th player in program history to eclipse the mark.
  • Wascher puts up big numbers.Senior forward Hannah Wascherhas put up big numbers in her collegiate career. Including two seasons at Parkland, Wascher has racked up 1,827 career points and 1,086 career rebounds.
  • Upcoming events.USI will wear pink uniforms for its Play4Kay game against Illinois Springfield February 16. Senior Day is February 18 against McKendree.
  • Scouting the opposition (UMSL).Sophomore forward Laura Szorenyi and junior forward/center Jordan Fletcher average 15.5 and 14.0 points per game, respectively, to lead the Tritons, who have won two straight and four of the last six games.
  • Last year against UMSL.USI shot 51.0 percent from the field and used a 13-4 fourth-quarter run to secure a 76-69 win over the Tritons. Randa Harshbargerand Kaydie Grooms each had 14 points to lead the Eagles, while Jordan Fletcher had 16 points to pace the Tritons.
  • Scouting the opposition (Maryville).Led by sophomore guard Stephanie Sherwood’s 12.0 points per game, the Saints have three players averaging in double-figures on the year. Maryville has won five straight games and seven of the last eight.
  • Last year against Maryville.Kaydie Groomsand Tanner Marcum combined for 48 points as USI snapped a 10-game losing streak with its 74-61 win over Maryville. Grooms had 27 points, while Marcum added 21 for the Eagles, who used a 13-2 first-quarter run to open a double-digit lead.

 

February Police Pension Board Meeting

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The Evansville Police Department Police Pension Board will hold an Executive Session on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 8:15 a.m.  The Meeting will be held in the Room 307 of the Civic Center Plaza.

The Executive Session is to be closed as provided by:

I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(7) For discussion of records classified as confidential by state or federal statute.

Immediately following the Executive Session, a regular Open Session will be held in Room 307

of the Civic Center Plaza.

label reading event for calendars

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February is Heart Month, and St. Mary’s is planning a unique event to provide education and awareness. Join a St. Mary’s Registered Dietician and Cardiac Nurse for a grocery store label reading tour at a local Schnucks.  Participants will  learn how to read nutrition information on labels to encourage healthy eating choices. To register, call 812.485.5230. Spots are free, but limited.

Label Reading & Grocery Shopping

Schnucks at 600 E Boonville-New Harmony Road, Evansville, IN 47725

Thursday February 9, at 2:00 p.m.

 

Label Reading & Grocery Shopping

Schnucks at 4500 W Lloyd Expy, Evansville, IN 47712

Thursday February 16, at 2:00 p.m.

 

Label Reading & Grocery Shopping

Schnucks at 3700 N First Ave, Evansville, IN 47710

Thursday February 23, at 2:00 p.m.

Police and medical crews see multiple overdoses involving synthetic marijuana for second time in two weeks

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On Monday February 6th, police and medical crews responded to as many as seven incidents where officials believe people overdosed on synthetic marijuana. This is the second time in as many weeks that crews provided medical attention to numerous people who appeared to have been given a very potent, and dangerous batch of the illegal substance.
Synthetic marijuana has many street names, including K-2. The chemicals used in K-2 attach to the same receptors in the brain as THC. It causes the same reaction in the brain and causes a “high” in the user. While the exact chemicals and the amount used in the production of K-2 will vary from one batch to the next, it has been estimated K-2 can be up to 100 times more potent than the THC found in cannabis.
Unlike THC, the chemicals in K-2 also attach to other receptors in the brain. When this happens, the user experiences reactions not associated with THC. There are many documented side effects to K-2. They include:
•psychotic episodes
•paranoia, increased anxiety and hallucinations – typically much more severe than after smoking marijuana
•increased heart rate
•agitation
•vomiting
•seizures
•uncontrollable body movements

These side effects can cause medical distress for the user. People experiencing these side effects behave in a manner that often leads to interaction with a police officer. Due to their inability to make rational decisions, it can be difficult for police or medical crews to help people who experiencing a K-2 overdose.
Police are investigating these cases to determine where these batches of K-2 were distributed. Anyone with information on this investigation is asked to call the Joint Narcotics Task Force at 1-812-436-7917 or WeTip at 1-800-78-CRIME.

 

Governor Holcomb Statement on Stan Jones

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Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb offered the following statement on the passing of former State Representative and Commissioner for Higher for Education Stan Jones:

 

Stan Jones was a leader in every sense, continuously striving to enhance the lives of Hoosiers and bettering the institutions that serve them.  He transformed the state of Higher Education in Indiana and helped countless students here and across the nation complete their dream of going to college. He will be sorely missed.

EPD Activity Report

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EPD Report

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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http://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/recent-booking-records.aspx

IS IT TRUE FEBRURY 7, 2017

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IS IT TRUE the City’s acquisition of the dilapidated and vacant CVS property located at the corner of Columbia and North Main street was purchased by the City DMD Department over 2 years ago for $525,000? …that the Director of the Evansville DMD Kelly Coures told City Council that this property would be able to rent for $18,000 per year? …if this property was rented for $18,000 a year the real value would be $180,000 not $525.000? …the value of this building should be lower because of the bad condition and the location of the building?

IS IT TRUE dilapidated and vacant CVS property located at the corner of Columbia and North Main street allegedly had many individuals that were going to lease their property from the City of Evansville DMD Department but all failed through? …the Director of the Evansville DMD now claims that Deaconess Hospital is interested in acquiring this property for a testing lab? …we hope that this property won’t be taking from the tax roll because of Deaconess Hospital not-for-profit status? …we hope that they pay at least $525,000 to acquire this property?

IS IT TRUE just right across the street from the vacant CVS Building 6 houses are now vacant and surrounded by a security fence for possible demolition to make way for another City of Evansville DMD or Evansville Land Bank project? …the properties addresses begin at 16 to 32 West Columbia Street just right off North Main Street? …we wonder who owned these properties and who bought them to demolish for how much per home? …we also wonder if people renting the above houses were abruptly forced to move elsewhere?

IS IT TRUE the Regents of the University of California need to take notice though, since when the faculty and student at the University of Missouri threw a free speech oppression tantrum a few years ago, the financial penalties came fast and hard?…the incoming freshman class at Missouri was so much smaller that two dorms had to be closed and the alumni giving declined by $30 Million?…President Trump’s threat to withhold federal dollars from UC Berkeley is much less of a threat to their coffers than the massive alumni base cutting off donations and sending their offspring elsewhere for an education?…several UC Berkeley alums including the creator of Dilbert have already stated their intention to cease their generosity?…this should be a theme going forward for universities who allow oppression of freedom of speech by cowering to the mob in the street?…if the faculties and administrations will no,correct this cowardly refusal to provide a place where freedom of speech is practiced, it is time for their generous alumni to take the bull by the horns and starve them into returning to places of knowledge, tolerance, and freedom?

FOOTNOTE:  Do you feel that the Evansville City Council should give a developer of an existing Eastside Shopping Mall a $80,000 tax credit phase-in so he can renovate it?

 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: SLOW DEATH OF MALLS AND BIG BOX RETAILERS

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SLOW DEATH OF MALLS AND BIG BOX RETAILERS 

by Joe Wallace, CEO & Chief Innovation Officer
Coachella Valley Economic Partnership

Malls and big box stores have a serious problem. The comfort and price advantage of online shopping has taken market share from both big boxes and malls that are not dealing in unique products.  Some shopping is done out of need and other shopping is more about the experience of being catered to and finding unique items.

The big box stores that offer basic necessities or home improvement items for the most part have little differentiation at the product level.  They seldom offer a unique shopping experience or offer products that can’t be purchased online or elsewhere.  Often these days their online division competes directly with their big box stores.



Consumers who are internet savvy or who are pressed for time are migrating to online shopping for basics.  Just this week at the CVEP offices we received a shipment of everyday items such as toiletries, paper towels, and other non-perishable items.  The delivery took less than 24 hours and costed less than it was priced at the big box store 2 miles from our office.  It saved CVEP at least an hour of a productive employee’s time and we saved money by shopping online.  Households are no different, so I would submit to you that the long term trend will be toward an ever increasing percentage of purchases of non-perishable goods toward online shopping.  This is as natural in the progression of business models as the displacement of small mom and pop shops with big boxes was 30 years ago.

This migration to online shopping has more to do with innovations that provide better pricing and convenience than it does with the general state of the economy.

It is commonly asserted that there was overbuilding of big box stores in the years leading up to the Great Recession.  That is unlikely.  Large retail outlets use demographic analysis based on current conditions and future projections to select new locations.  The conditions in 2007 obviously fit the criteria for such decisions at that time.  What happened is that the business conditions changed making their decision process obsolete.  Their crystal ball was clouded by an economy that destabilized in the wake of the housing crisis.

During the Great Recession, households adapted to job losses and stagnant wages by spending less money.  As the economy improved, wages never recovered and online options became more attractive.  This was and continues to be a perfect storm to squeeze the top line and bottom line of big box retailers.  It is not widely known than the profit margins at big box retailers are only in the 3% range.  The fixed costs of operating do not decrease when the spending decreases making once successful stores cross the line into losing operations with small reductions in revenue.



Empty storefronts in areas that were formerly thriving is an even bigger problem.  The difficulties associated with starting a store are and have always been entrepreneur confidence and access to capital.  Before the Great Recession startup funding often came from the equity in entrepreneurs residences.  In my neighborhood, today’s prices are still 15% – 20% below the levels of 2008.  What this means to the capital formation process is that home equity loans as a source of startup funds are much more problematic than they were 10 years ago.

As any banker will tell you, without equity one is not eligible for an equity based loan, no matter how confident an entrepreneur may be.

As for downtowns, there needs to be a critical mass on which to build from.  In 2009 I attended a seminar on some steps that are necessary to revitalize struggling downtowns, art’s districts, and etcetera. The formula was very simple.  The minimum needs are ten different types of restaurants, ten retail stores that offer unique items with broad appeal and ten establishments that are open after dark.  Some cities have crossed this hurdle while others have not.  It is not as easy as it sounds to inspire and enable 30 entrepreneurs to fly in formation.

On the brighter side, CVEP held a reception this Thursday night for the members of the Palm Springs iHub and their enthusiasm has never been higher.  Three of our companies already have more bookings than they delivered in all of 2016 while another two have combined to raise over a million dollars in equity investment just in the past month.  Another one of our companies that is in the industrial solar space has large installations scheduled worldwide for 2017 and has been in hiring mode.  Of course these are not big box retailers, but they are customers so more profits for them will mean more revenue at the retail level.  Most of them do their shopping online.

If big boxes continue down the path toward obsolescence, these buildings with either have to be turned into small unique retail spaces, industrialized, or maybe even demolished to make the land available for more productive assets.  The best local adaptive reuse project in the works is to turn the former Palm Springs Mall on Tahquitz Canyon Way into the West Valley Campus of the College of the Desert.  That is making lemonade from lemons.  Similarly the Palm Springs Accelerator Campus utilized local funding to adapt a collection of seven vacated buildings into what is recognized as one of the most impactful manufacturing business incubators in California.

Innovation coupled with ambition and capital has always been the basis for prosperous adaptation.  The cities and towns of America that are successful in sowing the seeds of innovation will reap the harvests of the future.  Big box retailers will not be a long term problem for innovators.  That is why the big box retailers are all following their customers into the convenient world of online shopping as we speak.

FOOTNOTE: Written by 


Joe Wallace, CEO & Chief Innovation Officer
Coachella Valley Economic Partnership

Vanderburgh County Democratic Party Calendar of Events 2/6/2017

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Tuesday,
February 7th		 Forum 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Chair Chat Forum with State Chairman John Zody

  • Location: Central Labor Council – 310 SE 8th. Street – Evansville, IN
  • Come to talk about the future of the Indiana Democratic Party! Thankful to our friends in organized labor for opening up their place for this forum. Indiana Democrats and their ideas are welcome!
Saturday,
February 18th		 Community Event 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Hasenpfeffer

  • Location: Germania Maennechor – 916 N Fulton – Evansville, IN
  • Cost: $20 per person
Wednesday, February 22nd Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Tuesday,
February 28th		 Fundraiser 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Jonathan Weaver’s Annual Mardi-Gras Event

  • Location: KC’s Timeout Lounge – 1121 Washington Square – Evansville, IN
  • Cost: $35 per person.  $250 – Bead Sponsor.  $500 – Hurricane Sponsor
Wednesday,
March 1st		 Fundraiser 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM 4th Annual Kathryn Martin for Knight Township Trustee Chili Dinner Fundraiser

  • Location: Marigold Bar – 2112 S Weinbach Ave – Evansville, IN
  • Cost: $10 per person
  • Sponsorships Available
Saturday,
March 4th		 Caucus TBD Vanderburgh County Democratic Party Central Committee Caucus

  • Location: TBD
Thursday,
March 9th		 Fundraiser TBD Laura Brown Windhorst for City Clerk Fundraiser

  • Location: TBD
Wednesday, March 29th Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
April 26th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday, May 31st Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
June 28th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
July 26th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
August 30th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
September 27th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
October 25th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
November 29th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
Wednesday,
December 27th		 Meeting 6:00 PM Vanderburgh County Democrat Club Meeting

  • Location: FOP – 801 Court Street – Evansville, IN
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