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House-Senate Conference Report on Combating Opioids Passes House

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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The final text of comprehensive legislation to curb opioid and heroin abuse passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday and included a provision authored by Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D.
Bucshon served on the special conference committee comprised of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate that negotiated legislative differences between both chambers. The group met on Wednesday to agree on the final legislative text of S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act sending the bill to the House floor for a vote where it passed today by a vote of 407 to 5.

“Drug overdoses in Indiana have increased five-fold in the past decade. The effect of this rapid growth has been devastating to our families and our communities,” said Bucshon. “The comprehensive legislation we sent to the Senate today will help states like Indiana combat the growing opioid abuse epidemic. It will give hope to families and it will save lives.”  

Bucshon’s legislation, H.R. 4981, the Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Expansion and Modernization Act, was an integral part of the final package approved by the House. H.R. 4981 helps expand access to medication-assisted opioid addiction treatment, ensures patients have access to a wider range of comprehensive, evidence-based treatment options, and minimizes the potential for drug diversion

The package heads to the Senate for approval where it will then be sent to the President.

 

Discount Day at the Indiana State Fair

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Hoosiers travel from all over the state to celebrate the annual tradition that is the Indiana State Fair. Whether it’s enjoying the incredible variety of fair food, riding rides on the midway or hoping to win that prize at the ring toss game, we all have our favorite memories of time spent at the fair. And this year, the BMV has a lot happening!

We are once again excited to offer Hoosiers half-priced admission on myBMV.com Discount Day. On Thursday, August 11, you and your friends and family can be admitted to the fair for $6 each. That’s a savings you won’t want to miss!

All you have to do is visit myBMV.com, print the myBMV.com Discount Day coupon and present it at the fair. And don’t forget to share this great deal with your family and friends.

While at the fair, be sure to visit our booth inside the Expo Hall where you can complete BMV transactions – such as renewing your vehicle registration or driver’s license. Our staff can answer all of your BMV-related questions and those 15 years and older can learn about vehicle and motorcycle safety by taking a ride on our safety simulators.

It’s time for Indiana to get a new license plate and we are asking you to help us decide what it looks like by voting for your favorite design. Be sure to stop by our booth to view the designs and to cast your vote on the new 2017 Indiana license plate. You can also look for more information and voting to be available on myBMV.com in August.

New this year is Ride Safe Indiana’s Motorcycle Safety Day on Saturday, August 6. Motorcyclists can drive up and get VIP parking on Main Street. Look for our RSI tent on Main Street and learn more about our new authorized motorcycle safety program. RSI is also sponsoring the Freestyle Moto X show on Sunday, August 7 and Monday, August 8 at the Grandstand.

We look forward to seeing you at the Indiana State Fair

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Clawson, 19, Gets Third Career Win

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Clawson, 19, Gets Third Career Win
Richard starts meet 3-for-7
HENDERSON, Ky. (July 10 2016) —Katie Clawson, who began her career as a jockey toward the end of Churchill Downs meet, gained her third victory, guiding Ronald Gasaway’s Total Immersion to victory in Sunday’s second race for $4,000 claimers. Total Immersion also gave Kellyn Gorder his 400th win as a trainer.
“He was game. He did everything,” Clawson told Gorder by phone. “He went right through that hole, and there wasn’t even a hole there and he went in there. He was fantastic.”
It was Clawson’s fourth mount of the meet. She also had two wins and two seconds in only four mounts at Churchill Downs. “The key really has just been that I have someone behind me,” said Clawson, who also works as an exercise rider for Gorder at Keeneland in Lexington.
Afterward Total Immersion’s victory, the 19-year-old Clawson was besieged with young kids wanting her goggles – she ran out of sets — and adults wanting her autograph. Goggles aren’t cheap, running $8 or more a pair.
“That’s all right, it’s worth it,” she said, adding of Ellis, “It’s really neat. This is like the real true horse-racing fans. I love the family aspect here. The horses are good, and it’s Kentucky people: down-home.”
Lawson’s fast start is notable for another reason: She broke her neck in a training mishap at Churchill last July 21st, careening into the outside fence on a wayward horse.
“I broke my neck. The vertebrae was almost completely through the middle of it,” she said. “There are two pieces that form sort of a triangle, the vertebrae does. I had like three fractures in the fifth vertebrae. They took the fragments out, put new bone in there, and fused the fourth, fifth and sixth vertebrae. And I fractured a rib.”
As she recuperated, it never occurred to Clawson to find something else to do.
“I knew what could happen,” she said. “If I was going to ride scared, I wasn’t going to ride. Because that’s more dangerous. I haven’t been scared on a horse since then. I have those moments when a horse is ‘getting out’ or something, and I think, ‘No, not again.’ But I think that’s normal.
“If I had been thinking about getting hurt on that mount,” she continued, referencing Total Immersion, “there was no room there. He pushed his way through. If I was thinking about that, you just can’t ride that way (fearful) and get your horse there.”
Clawson had taken a slow approach to her career. That’s because the clock starts running on a new jockey’s apprentice weight allowances once they’ve won five races. Lawson’s mounts currently can carry 10 pounds fewer than the horse otherwise would under a race’s conditions, an amount that drops to seven after a fifth win and then ultimately to five pounds.
“I’m going on a trip at the end of July and will be gone about 10 days,” she said. “In August, I’ll have my agent and (start going all out) in September. There’s no sense in kind of ruining the momentum for the sake of a few months. So in September, I’ll be riding full time and go wherever I need to go and (working horses) for whomever I can.”
Richard off to fast start, winning 3 of first 7 starts
Chris Richard had only raced the occasion horse before at Ellis Park. But his first summer in Kentucky, he became the leading trainer after four days.
Richard, who previously spent the spring and summer at Prairie Meadows in Iowa, won with three of his first seven starts and also had two seconds.
“We’ve got them in the right spot,” Richard said. “Some of the races weren’t able to go during the Churchill meet. So a lot of these horses were ready to go; they were fresh. We’ve been very fortunate that the races we were pointing to went,” getting enough entries to be used. “We were in really good spots, and that’s just being fortunate that your horses are doing well and then the races you intended to run them in went. They’ve had good racing luck and gotten good rides.”
Often the first excuse if a horse gets outrun is that it didn’t like the surface. Richard said Ellis seems to be a pretty fair-playing track. 
“I don’t really know,” he said. “This is the first meet I’ve really run at Ellis. I’ve never been here for the spring meet at Churchill. I usually went to Iowa. This is the first year I’m transitioning to Kentucky full-time. So I was at the spring meet at Churchill. Other than running the odd horse at Ellis Park the last five, six years, it will be the first time I’ve been here for the whole meet.
“At this point, with the rain and everything, it seemed like it might have been little favorable to speed. That doesn’t mean you can’t come from out of it. It just seems like the last couple of days speed has been good. But a lot of times when you get rain and have to seal the track, it gets tighter. I think as the meet goes on, it will be a pretty fair racetrack, talking with other trainers…. Overall, I think the horses ran as well as they could.”
Richard, who only based in Kentucky during the fall for the past three years, said he doesn’t expect his lead in the standings to last.
“I’m not going to be the leading trainer, because I don’t have the numbers,” he said. “I’ve got about 30 horses, but we have some 2-year-olds who aren’t quite ready to run. You’ve got plenty of trainers with twice that amount who are ready to run. … I don’t think I’ll be running two or three a day, but I’ll still be active.”
Richard (pronounced Ri-SHARD) said he was planning to make the circuit adjustment to Kentucky anyway, but that Ellis Park’s enhanced purses this meet “were definitely a bonus.”
“Maggi (Moss) and a couple of my other owners had discussed it, making a change in the Midwest,” he said. “I wanted to come here to really start focusing on the younger horses.”
Speaking of which, he said he plans to race some 2-year-olds, which is expected to be one of the hallmarks of this Ellis meet.
“It will be next month,” Richard said. “They’re about 30 days from being ready. We’re not in any hurry with our 2-year-olds. The ones that are precocious enough, that handle training well, we try to have them ready to go in August. I like doing that, and that’s kind of the mindset of the owners.
“I understand if you have a really precocious horse and want to go to Keeneland and Churchill. But the owners I have are more about taking their time with them, have some horses that are a little bit later-developing with their pedigrees. You’ll see my 2-year-olds probably hit the entry box next month.”
Sprinting out
Robby Albarado, riding regularly at Ellis for the second year, had a very productive day Sunday at Arlington Park, his three wins including the Grade III Arlington Handicap on Kasaqui and the Grade III American Derby aboard One Mean Man, along with a third in the Grade III Modesty on Secret Someone. He finished fourth in the Grade III Stars and Stripes on favored The Pizza Man, who rallied to come up just short in a four-horse photo…. Jon Court, the six-time Ellis Park riding champion, will resume riding Friday after being sidelined three ribs. The ageless jockey sustained three cracked ribs in a tubing mishap on a lake…. 
Racing resumes Friday at 12:50 p.m. Central. Saturday’s feature is the $50,000 Don Bernhardt Memorial, with the field of eight headed by Barbados, winner of last year’s Grade III Hutcheson at Gulfstream Park.
For more information, contact Jennie Rees, Ellis Park publicity, at tracksidejennie@gmail.com.
 

Governor Pence to Offer Remarks at Cops Cycling for Survivors Event

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Governor and First Lady to participate in first leg of the bike ride

Indianapolis – Tomorrow, Governor Mike Pence will offer remarks at the opening ceremony of the Cops Cycling for Survivors event. The Governor and First Lady Karen Pence will then participate in the first leg of the bike ride. Details below.

Monday, July 11:

8:30 a.m. EDT – Governor Pence to offer remarks, participate in the Cops Cycling for Survivors event

*Media are welcome to attend.

Indiana State Museum – 650 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN

SWIRCA 13th Annual BrewFest

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SWIRCA 13th Annual BrewFest  
Voted Best Brew Festival by Evansville Living Magazine, 
the 13th annual SWIRCA BrewFest is an event you do not want to miss!  
On Saturday, July 23rd, over 4,000 people will come to America’s third oldest ballpark, Historic Bosse Field, for a night of brews, music and food. Over 300 craft beers will be available all throughout the ballpark to taste. If wine is more your pace, you will enjoy the concourse where you can taste from 50 wines while listening to acoustic music. The BrewFest is also the only beer festival in Indiana with hard liquor tastings so make sure you venture beyond the home run wall to the Spirits Zone. The festival will be from 6-9 pm with a VIP hour beginning at 5 pm.
A live performance by Skelton’s Montourage with a special opening act by Shelly and Monte Skelton will take place on the Main Stage located on Second Base. Free cab rides home will be provided by Unity Taxi.
Free food samples will be available from over 40 restaurants along with concessions for purchase.
The BrewFest serves as a fundraiser to benefit SWIRCA & More. All guests must be 21 years or older.

General Admission: $35 Pre-Event / $40 at The Door
VIP tickets – $70
Designate Driver Tickets – $15 (Only Available at the Door)
To buy tickets to either event, visit www.swirca.org.
Thank you our title sponsor- Tin Man Brewing Co.
BrewMile
In preparation for the BrewFest, SWIRCA will organize its first BrewMile
to be held the day before (Friday, July 22nd) at Historic Bosse Field parking lot. Run categories include a competitive race, a fun run, or a 4 x 4 relay. All runners must have a designated driver. Four beers, four laps, one great time! There will also be food vendors, a beer garden and other activities.
You must be 21 years or older to run or be in the beer garden. Any age can come to watch.
To register for the BrewMile, visit www.swirca.org/brewmile.
Volunteers are still needed for the entire weekend.

Adopt A Pet

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Hopscotch is a stray female Chihuahua/Pomeranian mix! Not much is known about her background since she was found by a stranger. Her adoption fee is $120 and includes her spay, vaccines, microchip, and more! Call (812) 426-2563 or visit www.vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!

 

OTTERS TAKE THE DOUBLEHEADER, SWEEP GRIZZLIES

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 The Evansville Otters finished a series sweep of the Gateway Grizzlies by winning a pair of games on a Saturday doubleheader at Bosse Field. Evansville won the first game by a score of 6-4 and the second 4-3.
Nik Balog helped the Otters take a commanding 3-0 lead in the first inning of the initial contest following a massive homerun to right, with two men on base. A strange, yet critical, play would unfold in the fourth inning when two Grizzly runners found themselves racing toward home at almost the exact same time after a double was hit off the right field fence. The lead runner would be gunned down at the plate, and the trailing runner was tagged out in a rundown, which preserved a 3-0 lead at the time. Gateway would throw on two runs in the fifth behind a two-run homerun to right-center. After the Otters tacked on two runs in the fifth, the Grizzlies would pull within a run after an additional two-run homerun in the sixth. Evansville would go on to preserve the lead and seal a victory.

The scoring of the second opened in the third inning, when an Otter infielder slipped which allowed a ground ball to squirt into left field and plate a run for Gateway. The Grizzlies would add on another run in the same inning via a sacrifice fly. Evansville starting pitcher, Preston Olson, would flirt with a no-hitter throughout the game. Ultimately, not surrendering a hit until there were two outs recorded in the sixth. However, recently acquired Evansville outfielder, Denzel Richardson, would absolutely annihilate a 3-run homerun to dead center that gave the Otters a monumental 3-2 lead. Evansville would add on a run in the sixth thanks to an RBI single from Chris Sweeney. The Grizzlies were able to score a run and even put the potential go-ahead runs on second and third base. However, the Otters would finish strong and clinch their third straight victory in the decisive last frame. Evansville will now begin the all-star break, and will not resume play again until a road trip starts on July 15th.

Vanderburgh County Recent booking Records

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