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Evansville Celebrates 5th Year Anniversary Of Ford Center With Carrie Underwood Concert

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EVANSVILLE CELEBRATES FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF FORD CENTER WITH CARRIE UNDERWOOD CONCERT

Evansville, IN – This November will mark the five year anniversary of Ford Center in downtown Evansville. “This is a grand slam way to celebrate this momentous occasion,” stated Ford Center Executive Director Scott Schoenike. VenuWorks has been working with AEG Live for some time to attract such a prestigious country entertainer as Carrie Underwood for this celebration.

Seven-time Grammy winner and ACM Female Vocalist of the Year nominee Carrie Underwood has just announced The Storyteller Tour- Stories in the Round will extend through the fall including a stop in Evansville, IN. The in-the round arena tour launched to rave reviews in January and has already played sold out shows across the U.S., including a crowd of over 17,000 at Boston’s TD Garden. Carrie recently returned from Europe where she played five shows in five countries, each part of Country to Country Festival (C2C).

“I always love being on the road performing for my fans,” shares Underwood, “but something about this tour feels more magnetic than ever. Having a 360-degree view of the audience gives me the opportunity to connect with more fans and feed off their energy. I can’t wait to continue this tour into the fall!”

Concert review critics have applauded Underwood’s confidence and command over the massive stage that spans the entire length of the arena floor. The Washington Post claimed she’s “at the top of her game,” and the Hampton Daily Press said the show’s presentation is overwhelming, from start to finish- a spectacular sensory overload that had the crowd roaring all night long.” Rollingstonecountry.com praised “the in-the-round setting provides each concertgoer with the best experience possible. Simpler still is the storytelling aspect of the show and country music’s reliance on conveying memorable stories in song.” The Boston Globe stated, Underwood “demonstrated that she now truly can stare unflinchingly into those lights and dominate a stage, with confidence, defiance, and a sense of ownership that have been a treat to watch come to fruition. A rock-solid, deftly sequenced hour-and-45-minute long set, which moved from playful to solemn, smooth to twangy, and from cinematic scope to smaller, intimate moments. The most stunning part of the production however, remains Underwood’s voice, strong and nuanced.”

The North American tour, promoted by AEG Live, will include special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers. Tickets will be available for The Storyteller Tour beginning Friday, April 8 at 10 a.m. local time at www.aeglive.com American Express Card Members can purchase tickets for the U.S. shows before the general public beginning Monday, April 4th at noon local time through Thursday, April 7th at 10 p.m. local time. For information on fan club and D2C pre-sale opportunities and VIP packages go to www.carrieunderwood.fm.

Carrie will continue a donation of $1 from each ticket sold at the U.S. dates of The Storyteller Tour to be contributed to the C.A.T.S. Foundation to help aid its causes including Checotah, Oklahoma’s education and literacy programs. Established in 2009, the C.A.T.S. (Checotah Animal, Town and School) Foundation helps with general causes, needs and services in the area of Checotah, Oklahoma, Carrie’s hometown, to directly impact the community.

Tickets can be purchased at Ford Center Ticket Office, Ticketmaster.com or by phone 800.745.3000

Represent The People Not The Power

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Represent The People Not The Power
End Un-Funded Mandates By Big State Government On Counties

By Ann Ennis

In 2014, HB 1006 created a wave of change in Indiana’s criminal code.  One change expanded the levels of felony crimes from four to six.  The intent was to reduce state prison population and costs, and to prevent recidivism by putting non-violent, first-time and less career-criminal offenders into community-based treatment programs – the new levels allowed for different sentencing.  Shorter sentences are now served in the home county of the crime.

That is a good idea in principle but suffers much due to poor research by state representatives before Indy passed the law.  My research shows that, per county officials in Gibson and Vanderburgh counties, no funding from the state followed the increase in community corrections and county jail population.

As per an article in The Indiana Economic Digest, 12-27-2014 by Mark Wilson (of Evansville Courier & Press), Judge Wayne Trockman of Vanderburgh County, noted that the intent was to allow nonviolent offenders to stay in local jail, treatment and training programs and not send them into the mega-system of the state prisons. 

Wilson writes,  “Although legislators may have intended for the changes to direct more offenders away from state prisons and into the care of local jails and programs, additional resources will be needed to make that work.”

According to the elected officials whom I spoke with, the “additional resources” did not come.

Food, beds, and treatment for offenders are now being paid by the counties across the state, including all counties in District 64.  Staff safety may be compromised because of more community-housed offenders with no more staff or funds to care for and supervise them.  And all the while, the state officials can say they are saving the Indiana Department of Corrections money.

On our backs.

Current Representatives too often vote for bills like 2014’s House Bill 1006 and for other big state-mandates, such as ISTEP, IREAD, and centralized expensive corporate test grading.  Why?  Because they rarely meet with their district’s other elected leaders to get advice.

I have been told that, “if state representatives would meet with their county government officials before voting on these type of laws, so they can get advice from the county finance managers, unfunded mandates would end.”

Isn’t a representative supposed to represent the district and its voters?

Why do representatives represent the Indianapolis power machine instead?

I support helping non-violent, non-career offenders to change and grow, but not by saving the state money while making our counties pay. Stop un-funded mandates by Indy on our counties.

Link To Food Inspection Reports 3-31-16

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Food Inspection Reports 3-31-16

Aces set to welcome Florida Gulf Coast this weekend

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After racking up 28 runs over the last 14 innings on the field, the University of Evansville baseball team will be looking to keep its high-scoring offense rolling on Friday as the team is set to play host to Florida Gulf Coast for a three-game set at Charles H. Braun Stadium.

The Aces (12-11) are only able to officially count 13 of those 28 runs for record purposes after an unfortunate rainout on Wednesday evening wiped out a 15-0 scoreline against Indiana in Bloomington. Despite this, the Aces still boast of one of the most dangerous offenses in the Missouri Valley, and the team enters Friday’s contest posting better than seven runs per game with a .283 team batting average.

Overall, 11 UE hitters have slugged a home run this season, and the team ranks second in the Valley with 24 on the season, which already stands as the most homers by an Aces squad since the 2011 campaign.

It’s been more than just offensive excellence that has helped UE this season, beginning with senior hurler Connor Strain, who has not allowed a single score in 18 of the 19 innings that he’s pitched this season. The Shelburn, Ind., native will enter Friday with a scoreless streak in excess of 16 innings, and he’s coming off a career-best eight strikeouts in over six frames at Eastern Kentucky a week ago.

Patrick Schnieders, who will be making his sixth start of the season on Saturday, has also been impressive, and he currently boasts of a 1.80 earned run average over a team-best 30.2 innings of work. Freshman southpaw Alex Weigand will get the nod in the series finale after spending the bulk of the season to this point as a midweek starter.

Meanwhile, FGCU will enter the weekend after taking home five consecutive weekend series. Overall, the team has won four of its last five games, with the lone loss coming last Friday in 14-9 fashion at FAMU.

First pitch on Friday is slated for 6 p.m., and Saturday’s doubleheader will get started at noon.

NOTES: This weekend will mark the first-ever series between Florida Gulf Coast and Evansville … More Aces players have hit home runs this season than in any season since 2001, when 13 players left the park … The 15 runs on Wednesday at Indiana would’ve represented the most runs ever scored by the Aces against Indiana and the third-most for UE against a Big Ten opponent … Since 1978, UE is 9-30 against teams that hail from the Sunshine State.

LOW-INFORMATION ECONOMICS

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LOW-INFORMATION ECONOMICS Making Sense by Michael Reagan

I just came back from a cruise in Asia.

I met lots of nice people and saw a bunch of beautiful places. I didn’t always understand what I was looking at or what was going on in their crazy economies.

But I can tell you one thing for sure — the people of Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong are keeping busy making things for American consumers.

They’re probably just as busy as the people of Mexico, China and wherever else American companies are having their smart phones, TVs and T-shirts made.

What I saw in Asia — jobs that used to be done by Americans — reminded me of what’s happened in California.

My home state’s criminally high taxes and its punitive regulations have been driving away businesses and companies that make things for decades.

We’re not talking about mom and pop outfits that make organic earrings or high-end backpacks.

We’re talking real companies that hire thousands of people for their offices or factories — Toyota, Nissan, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, eBay, Occidental Petroleum and RifleGear, the firearms retailer.

Throw in Charles Schwab, which fled pricy San Francisco, and Farmers Coffee, too. A large percentage of these runaway companies went to Texas, where business people are not automatically greeted like captured enemy combatants.

A lot of California’s human beings left for lower-taxed states, too, especially older people.

Several millionaires that I know are selling their big homes and moving to Nevada or Puerto Rico to escape California’s cruel taxes. I’d do the same if I didn’t have kids and grand kids in L.A.

No one knows how many companies have split from California in the last decade. A recent study that counted what it called “California divestment events” came up with the estimate of 9,000 events.

A “divestment event” is when a business leaves the state entirely, expands in other states instead of California or planned to expand in the Golden State but ran the numbers and chickened out.

California is a mini version of present-day America — and maybe our country’s future.

The liberals who’ve permanently taken over Sacramento have mastered the art of punishing business and abusing the wealthy.

The state is bleeding good working-class jobs, scaring away corporations and watching its economy poke along for the same dumb reasons the rest of the U.S. is: high taxes and too many regulations.

Now California’s Democrats have voted to hike the state’s minimum hourly wage to $15 by 2022.

It’s a stupid Bernie Sanders idea that is the leftwing equivalent of Donald Trump’s dumb idea to slap a 35 percent tariff on stuff imported from Mexico.

Both Sanders and Trump are appealing to low-information voters who don’t understand a thing about economics.

Who pays in the end when you tell businesses they have to start paying a person with a broom $15 an hour or have to pay heavy import taxes?

It’s the consumer, stupid.

The consumer always pays in the end, whether Jerry Brown or Donald Trump know it or not, because businesses always pass the cost of their labor and taxes on to their customers.

If their customers don’t want to pay higher prices, companies eventually have to close up or move to a more business-friendly place like Texas or Mexico.

Corporations are in the business of making money, not losing it like government.

The executives who run them are not as stupid as low-info candidates like Trump or Sanders or the people who vote for them.

A business exec can tell when it’s time to build a new Boeing plant in South Carolina or move his brokerage offices to Austin.

States like Texas and even New York know it’s good for their economies, their people and their taxpayers to lure businesses with low taxes, fewer regulations and a friendly attitude.

California will never learn.

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Egidijus Mockevicius set for All-Star game in Houston

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University of Evansville senior Egidijus Mockevicius is set to play in the 2016 Reese’s Division I College All-Star game, which will be held at the Final Four in Houston this weekend

The game will be played on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. CT at NGR Stadium in Houston.  The game will not be carried live, but it will be televised Saturday at noon CT on the CBS Sports Network.

Mockevicius is one of 20 student-athletes set to play in the contest.  Teams are divided into east and west with Mockevicius representing the west.  He is one of three Missouri Valley Conference players set to participate, joining Wichita State’s Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet.

The game will feature a pair of outstanding coaches with Doug Collins, a former Illinois State All-America player and NBA star, who coached four different NBA teams, coaching the East.  Former Maryland All-America John Lucas, a 14-year veteran who also coached with three different NBA teams, will coach the West.

Here are the rosters for the 2016 Reese’s Division I College All-Star game:

2016 Reese’s NABC Division I All-Stars – East

No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. College/Hometown

2 D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera G 6-3 215 Georgetown/Indianapolis, Ind.

4 Trey Lewis G 6-2 185 Louisville/Garfield Heights, Ohio

10 James Robinson G 6-3 198 Pittsburgh/Mitchellville, Md.

12 Kellen Dunham G 6-6 200 Butler/Pendleton, Ind.

14 David Walker G 6-6 196 Northeastern/Stow, Ohio

20 Damion Lee G 6-6 210 Louisville/Baltimore, Md.

22 Justin Sears F 6-8 205 Yale/Plainfield, N.J.

24 Anthony Gill F 6-8 230 Virginia/High Point, N.C.

32 Shevon Thompson C 6-11 243 George Mason/Clarendon, Jamaica

34 Nathan Boothe C 6-9 250 Toledo/Gurnee, Ill.

Head Coach: Doug Collins (Illinois State)

2016 Reese’s NABC Division I All-Stars – West

No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. College/Hometown

1 Fred VanVleet G 6-0 186 Wichita State/Rockford, Ill.

3 Trey Freeman G 6-2 180 Old Dominion/Virginia Beach, Va.

5 Jaysean Paige G 6-2 210 West Virginia/Jamestown, N.Y.

11 Danuel House G 6-7 212 Texas A&M/Fresno, Tex.

13 Jalen Jones G/F 6-7 220 Texas A&M/Dallas, Tex.

15 Ron Baker G 6-4 210 Wichita State/Scott City, Kan.

21 Thomas Walkup G 6-4 195 Stephen F. Austin/Pasadena, Tex.

23 Joel Bolomboy F/C 6-9 235 Weber State/Fort Worth, Tex.

31 Matt Costello F 6-9 245 Michigan State/Linwood, Mich.

33 Egidijus Mockevicius C 6-10 225 Evansville/Vilnius, Lithuania

Head Coach: John Lucas (Maryland)

 

USI BB hosts Illinois Springfield this weekend

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 The University of Southern Indiana baseball team continues Great Lakes Valley Conference action when it hosts the University of Illinois Springfield for a four-game series Saturday and Sunday at the USI Baseball Field. The Screaming Eagles and the Prairie Stars are slated to play a 2 p.m. doubleheader Saturday and a noon twin bill on Sunday. Live coverage four-game series versus Illinois Springfield can be found at GoUSIEagles.com.

The USI-University of Missouri-St. Louis game, originally scheduled for March 30, was postponed to April 6 at 2 p.m. in St. Louis, Missouri.

SCREAMING EAGLES BASEBALL NOTES:

500 wins for Archuleta. USI Head Coach Tracy Archuleta reached 500 all-time victories after the Eagles took game one of the series with Bellarmine University. After taking three of four games from the Knights last weekend, he has 502 combined wins between his seasons at USI and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Archuleta has a USI record of 354-179 (.664) in eight-plus seasons and is 502-303 (.624) in 13-plus seasons as the head coach. He has been named the ABCA Division II Coach of the Year twice (2010 and 2014) after leading the Screaming Eagles to a pair of national championships. He also has earned a pair of GLVC Coach of the Year awards (2011 and 2014) at USI.

USI in the national polls. USI moved back into the ABCA/Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Top 30 poll at number 30 after receiving votes last week. The Eagles also are ranked 14th in the unofficial HeroSports.com Top 25.

Eagles opened GLVC action with a 3-1 mark. USI won the first weekend of GLVC action by taking three of four from Bellarmine at the USI Baseball Field. The Eagles swept the first doubleheader, 12-1 and 4-0, before splitting the second twin bill, losing 6-3 and winning 10-6.

Leaders last week. Senior shortstop Kyle Niemeier (Evansville, Indiana) led the way versus Bellarmine by hitting .500 (7-14) with a team-high six RBIs. Senior centerfielder Hamilton Carr (Evansville, Indiana) and sophomore centerfielder Buddy Johnson (Shelbyville, Kentucky) followed with four RBIs each. Junior right-handers Colin Nowak (Carol Stream, Illinois) and Lucas Barnett (Sellersburg, Indiana) posted victories with eight and seven shutout inning, respectively.

Barnett posting shutouts. Junior right-hander Lucas Barnett has two complete game, shutouts this season and has a team-best four victories this year.

Leading the GLVC. Senior catcher/designated hitter Ryan Bertram (Zionsville, Indiana) is tied for 8th in the GLVC in RBIs (21), senior rightfielder Kyle Kempf (Evansville, Indiana) is sixth in hits (32) and senior third baseman Trent Gunn (Tell City, Indiana) is tied for second in doubles (9).  Junior right-hander Devin Williams (Evansville, Indiana) is seventh in the conference in ERA (2.31), while junior right-hander Lucas Barnett (Sellersburg, Indiana) is third in strikeouts (36) and tied for second in wins (4).

USI leaders at the plate. Sophomore utility player Drake McNamara (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) leads the Eagle regulars with a .388 batting average, while senior catcher/designated hitter Ryan Bertram has a team-high 21 RBIs and sophomore second baseman Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana) has three home runs.

On the bump. Junior right-hander Lucas Barnett has a team-best four victories (4-1 overall), while junior right-hander Devin Williams (Evansville, Indiana) has a team-low 2.31 ERA amongst the starting pitchers. Senior right-hander T.J. Decker (Brazil, Indiana) has a team-low 1.64 ERA in eight appearances out of the bullpen.

USI vs. Illinois Springfield. USI leads the all-time series with Illinois Springfield, 15-0, after taking all four regular season games last year. The Eagles won 7-1, 7-1, 4-1, and 12-3 on the road to earn a spot in the 2015 GLVC Tournament.

Illinois Springfield in 2016. Illinois Springfield is 9-10 in 2016, winning three of its last five games.

 

 

West Terrace Elementary School to Host Color Run and Family Fun Day

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West Terrace Elementary School is hosting a Color Run and Family Fun Day Saturday, April 2, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Family fun activities such as inflatables, games, photo booths and more will be available from 2 to 4 p.m. The 4K race will begin at 4 p.m. and runners are asked to dress as their favorite superhero. Along the route there will be five color stations. Anyone is invited to attend.
Individual registration is $15 or $50 for a family pack for up to five family members. The fee includes a t-shirt, color run, color bomb, snacks, drinks and the family activities. Money will go to gym renovations at West Terrace.
Check in and registration will be Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m.

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MEDICARE SEMINAR  SET FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 14th  

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St. Mary’s Senior Connection will hold a Welcome to Medicare seminar Thursday, April 14th, at 4:00 p.m. at 951 S. Hebron Ave., Suite C (between Bellemeade and Washington Ave.) adjacent to the Senior Connection Office.

When individuals and their families are new to the federal Medicare program, it can be confusing and frustrating at first glance. This program will help you better understand the many different parts of Medicare and what your options are when you enroll.

This is an informational program only. No specific plans or companies will be discussed. The seminar will be presented by Gina Downs, Director of St. Mary’s Senior Connection. It is free but registration is required. Call St. Mary’s Senior Connection at 812-473-7271 or toll free at 800-258-7610 for reservations and directions.

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