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World Championship Ice Racing And More This Saturday

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WHAT: 40th Annual World Championship ICE Racing Series – Midwest Championship WHERE: Ford Center – Evansville, Indiana

WHEN: Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 7PM
WHO: World’s Top Professional Motorcycle & Outlaw Quad Ice Racers & much, much more!

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ICE RACING IN EVANSVILLE’S FORD CENTER SATURDAY NIGHT – AND MUCH MORE!!!

The biggest names in Professional Motorcycle & Unlimited Outlaw Quad racing will be featured in the main events this Saturday night when BUD’S HARLEY-DAVIDSON presents the 40th ANNUAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ICE RACING SERIES. But there’s much more to thrill Evansville motorsports fans causing the anticipation to reach new all-time heights at the Ford Center! Pun intended!

Over 20 lightning fast, action packed pro races will be run in just over two hours to crown the MIDWEST CHAMPIONS in both Professional Racing Divisions right here in the heart of downtown Evansville. This prestigious FIRE ON ICE

Ford Center . 1 S.E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd . Evansville, IN 47708

winter racing event gets underway at 7PM. Most of the races will take place on the specially prepared solid ice oval track but there is also racing planned on a TT course with a jump to make things even more interesting and challenging for the riders.

If wild and crazy guys rocketing around the arena’s solid ice track at insane speeds weren’t enough the promoters went over the top and booked SICK AIR FMX SUPERSTAR SCOTT MURRAY to perform off the chart FREESTYLE STUNTS! MURRAY will perform a wide array of acrobatic freestyle daredevil stunts such as KISS OF DEATH, SWITCH BLADES & CLIFFHANGERS to name some. But the big “frozen banana” will come when he attempts the FIRST EVER BACK FLIP ON ICE!!! This spectacular and dangerous stunt will be performed 30’ above the solid sheet of ice! SCOTT MURRAY’S SICK AIR SHOW will no doubt leave all fans in attendance breathless!

WORLD CHAMPIONS JAKE “THE SNAKE” MATAYA in the World Cup Motorcycle Division and 3-time World Champ DUSTY “KANSAS TIME BOMB” CROUCH on an Outlaw Quad will head up the Pro Racer fields of competition. Strong fields of riders in Evansville are expected to give the World Champions their biggest challenge of this season. All pro machines are equipped with razor sharp steel studded tires allowing the best racers to go 0-60MPH IN LESS THAN 3 SECONDS! When you watch the ICE lightning quick 2-wheel rocket ships and the no holds barred anything goes bump and grind ICE Outlaw Quads (the race cars you sit on – not in!) at full speed you will understand why they call WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ICE RACING THE GREATEST SPECTACLE ON ICE!TM

Add an AMATEUR ICE BREAKER QUAD CLASS – STUDDED & UNSTUDDED quads to the mix and hold on to your seats! This class is offered to local racers brave enough to give it a go in front of their hometown fans. They just need to show up at least two hours before race time, pay a nominal entry fee that includes their Pit Pass and GO FOR IT! Contestants race for a trophy to win and hometown bragging rights for a year. Additional classes offered for locals to take part are AMATEUR PIT BIKES, MOTOR SCOOTER MADNESS and NITRO X-KARTS. For additional information about racing simply visit www.icespeedway.com or call ICE Headquarters at (843) 750-0741 or (843) 267-2206.

Kids’ tickets start at just $10.50 advance. VIP TICKETS with PIT PARTY PASS are just $30 and kids 12 and under will receive a FREE CHECKERED FLAG FOR AUTOGRAPHS! Thrilling racing and special events the whole family will talk about forever! Mama we’re going to have us a big time come Saturday night!!

ICE Event Media Contact: Brent Densford, ICE/International Championship Events. LLC Email: brent@icespeedway.com, Telephone: (843) 750-0741, (843) 267-2206

Winners of UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge to Receive Full Scholarships to UE

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Next month, the Institute for Global Enterprise at the University of Evansville will host UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge, a competition for students from participating Vanderburgh and Warrick County high schools. The event is set for Thursday, March 17, 9:00 a.m., in Eykamp Hall, Ridgway University Center. Admission is free and open to the public.

UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge is designed to motivate young people to take a leading role in solving challenges in the world around them through innovation and creativity.   During the contest, one team of up to three students from each competing school will vie to solve local, national or global challenges through innovative ideas for change.

“A changemaker is someone who sees a problem, offers an innovative solution, and has the passion and drive to make it happen,” says Jill Griffin, executive director of the Institute for Global Enterprise.

The stakes are high for the competition, as any winning team member who chooses UE as a college destination will receive a full-tuition scholarship annually for four years, as long he or she remains consecutively enrolled each semester as a full-time student, maintain satisfactory academic progress toward their degree, and fulfill the two-year residency requirement in campus housing. UE admission requirements also apply.

UE president Thomas A. Kazee notes that “we want to have more of these changemakers at our university and in the community.  Preparing students to be global citizens and make an impact in the world is central to our mission at the University of Evansville.”

High schools currently planning on participating include: Castle, Tecumseh, Boonville, Central, New Tech, Bosse, Reitz, North, Mater Dei, and Evansville Day School.

The geographical range of the high schools invited to compete will likely expand for future UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge events.

“Since this is the inaugural year for this competition,” explains Griffin, “we are starting modestly. But in the future, we’d like to open this up to the entire Tri-state and possibly even bigger.”

Each team’s presentation, which can be up to seven minutes in length, will be judged by community leaders from Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties. The criteria for selecting the winner will include: identification of a need, how innovative the solution is, the feasibility and potential impact of the solution, how self-sustaining the solution is, and the effectiveness of the presentation.

There will be two informational sessions at UE for participating teams before the competition – one to address what social innovation is and what it means to be self-sustaining, and the other to provide instructions and tips on how to make a pitch.

For more information on UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge, visit www.evansville.edu/cc-hs, email globalindiana@evansville.edu, or call 812-488-2455.

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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OBAMA AND IRAN: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

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OBAMA AND IRAN: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

By Susan Stamper Brown

We should be thankful the Obama administration is nearing its end. This year is bound to have its share of surprises and grandstanding from a president who seems more enamored by regimes like Iran than America. The administration relentlessly insists the Iranian regime can be trusted to keep its word and honor treaties, even after the recent hostage-taking of U.S. Navy sailors who weren’t released until we apologized.

In short order, the Obama administration did its best to communicate the swift return of the sailors was due to their diplomatic outreach to Tehran. The release was about as connected to diplomacy as a homemade video was connected to Benghazi.

As the saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words — and what a picture was painted when a humiliating video surfaced showing the boat’s captain apologizing to Iran. NCIS’s Leroy Gibbs would be appalled, given his rule #6: “Never apologize — it’s a sign of weakness.” Despicable videos followed of sailors on their own boat, apparently kneeling in submission at gunpoint, displaying the picture of weakness this administration exhibits and America’s enemies exploit at every opportunity.

And elsewhere in some alternate universe to which the Obama administration dwells, Secretary of State Kerry thanked Iran for its “diplomacy” in their handling of the matter.

As I write, news breaks about the release of four additional hostages from Iran, which at first blush seems to contradict my opinion about the administration’s new BFF, but as I read further, the hostages came with a hefty price tag. In addition to the pending $150 billion from Obama’s nuclear deal, apparently seven Iranians were released from U.S. custody, and charges were dropped for an additional 14. With details still unclear, and given the Bergdahl debacle, one can’t help but be suspicious of any deals this administration cuts.

Surely, we would’ve had those hostages back straightaway, if, like Ronald Reagan, America stood up to evil regimes rather than constantly capitulating. Admittedly, words sometimes work, as Reagan’s presidency taught. History shows us Reagan’s tact also allowed him to tell the enemy to go to hell in such a genteel way, our enemies appeared to gladly anticipate the trip. “We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression,” Reagan said.  Of course, sometimes a good punch in the face communicates much better than words.

What business does the Obama administration have doing deals with Iran anyhow? Throughout the whole nuclear deal negotiation process, it’s been documented that Iranian leadership continued to chant “Death to America” and say the U.S. remains “the great Satan and their “number-one enemy.” Were I in charge, I would take that personally. As Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said, “When someone chants… death to America, we should take him at his word, and we shouldn’t put him on the path to a nuclear bomb.”

As retired U.S. Army lieutenant general Michael Barbero wrote in an article for the Weekly Standard last August, the Obama administration’s nuclear deal also lifts sanctions on the man responsible “for sowing sectarian conflict in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Suleimani is also responsible for the deaths and injuries of thousands of American soldiers fighting in Iraq — yet we’re about to pour in his pockets “a large infusion of cash to wreak more havoc and terror,” Mr. Barbero wrote.

One can’t help but wonder what sort of terror might be visited upon the planet once the sanctions are removed and the billions begin to flow. After all, there is a reason why, up until this administration, America didn’t negotiate with terrorists.

IS IT TRUE JANUARY 19, 2016

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IS IT TRUE we are waiting for the 2015 City Audit conducted by the State Board of Accounts to be made public any day now?  …this audit shall prove if past City Councilmen and Finance Chairmen John Friend, CPA was correct about the City having a $6 million dollar deficit in 2015?

IS IT TRUE in case you haven’t been paying attention we would like to point out that Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding is doing one heck of a job?  …Sheriff Wedding is considered to be a blue collar and hands on Sheriff?  …he is extremely well thought of by the rank and file of the Sheriffs Office?  …we also are very pleased with the professional way the men and women of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff Office conduct themselves?

IS IT TRUE the city razed a house in the 1200 block of South Bedford?  …that several of the neighboring residents made a special effort to thank “Let’s Fix That” proprietor George Lumley in his arm-twisting effort to get this house taken out?  … Mr. Lumley attributed the success to the Evansville Citizen Concern mobile app?  … by generating multiple concerns on the app to the mayor’s office has proven to be an effective Blight Fighting tool?

IS IT TRUE it was suggested that Mr. Lumley thank the city for taking this house out?  …that he should apologize for giving the city a hard time about the methods they use to address blight?  ..  Mr. Lumley responded that he thought an apology was indeed in order?  …that every city official should apologize to each and every resident living in a neighborhood containing one of these Zombie Houses that has not yet been taken out or otherwise remediated?

IS IT TRUE that Michelle Peterlin has been painting at her Kasson Studio with Acrylic on Canvas and using local models?  …her printings are titled “Spirit Within Conflict”?  …today we had the honor to get a sneak preview of her masterful work?  …its with pleasure that we proudly announce that Michelle Peterlin has agreed to share her paintings with the CCO readers in the near future?  …we guarantee that you shall be extremely impressed with her outstandings paintings once you view them?

IS IT TRUE that today “READERS POLL” ask; Do you feel that John Friend CPA statement that the 2015 City Budget had a $6 million deficit is accurate?

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JOE KIEFER TO RUN FOR AT LARGE COUNTY COUNCIL SEAT

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JOE KIEFER TO RUN FOR AT LARGE COUNTY COUNCIL SEAT

January 18, 2016

When I announced that I was not going to seek re-election for the County Commissioner’s seat, I stated that in the coming months I would be looking for other ways to serve our community.  I would like to announce that I plan to seek the office of the County Council as an At-Large member.  I feel my time on the Board of County Commissioners has served me well in understanding our needs in Vanderburgh County.  My broad experience having served as both a council member and a commissioner, I believe, will help me do a better job finding solutions to those needs. I plan on filing for this office Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 3pm at the County Election Office.
I am 53 years old and the Managing Broker at Hahn Kiefer Real Estate Services.  I have a Bachelor Degree in Construction Management and two Master’s degrees, including a Master of Public Administration.  I have previously served as a member of the City Council and County Council and I am currently a member of the Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners.

Rotary/PEF/Love Foundation classroom grants

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Now through February 11, 2016, applications are available for Rotary/PEF/Love Foundation classroom grants.  Any public school teacher at a Vanderburgh County school may apply. Grant amounts are up to $2,500.

The grants are given to original programs/projects created by teachers. Projects should demonstrate long-term educational benefits as well as promote important values to students. Last year, Rotary/PEF/Love Foundation gave 26 grants. Teachers used the funds for activities/programs ranging from poetry slams to 3D-Printer Packages to benefit tech-skills and problem solving.

PEF and the Rotary Club began a partnership in 1987 with the help of Rotarian and PEF Board member Calvin Dentino. In 2004, the Love Foundation joined the partnership and the trio has given more than $605,800 to 843 classroom grants since 1987.

A committee composed of Rotary/PEF/Love Foundation representatives will name grantees by April 15, 2016. Funds will be distributed in September 2016. Application forms may be downloaded from the Public Education Foundation website (www.pefevansville.org) or www.evansvillerotary.com.

YESTERYEAR-Evansville Chrysler Plant

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The high productivity of Evansville factory workers in World War II continued for years after the war’s end. On March 25, 1953, the city’s Chrysler plant rolled out the millionth Plymouth automobile made in Evansville, with the plant manufacturing an average of 100,000 cars per year in the three years prior to that. The president of the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit joined local officials that evening at an open house celebrating the noteworthy milestone, an event attended by an enthusiastic crowd estimated at 30,000.

FOOTNOTE: We want to thank Patricia Sides, Archivist of Willard Library for contributing this picture that shall increase people’s awareness and appreciation of Evansville’s rich history. If you have any historical pictures of Vanderburgh County or Evansville please contact please contact Patricia Sides, Archivist Willard Library at 812) 425-4309, ext. 114 or e-mail her at www.willard.lib.in.us.

Indiana Justice Applications Due Next Monday

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Indiana Justice Applications Due Next Monday

Those interested in becoming Indiana’s next Supreme Court justice have until noon on Jan. 25 to submit their applications. Justice Brent Dickson is retiring from the court April 29.

Qualified applicants will be interviewed by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission Feb. 17-19, with a likely second round of interviews taking place March 3-4. All interviews will take place in Room 319 at the Statehouse and will be open to the public. The seven-member nominating commission will then select three finalists, with Gov. Mike Pence choosing the next justice within 60 days of receiving the finalists’ names.

This will be Pence’s first appointment to the Indiana Supreme Court.

Applications are available on the court’s website. Questions may be directed to commission counsel Adrienne Meiring at 317-232-4706 or Adrienne.meiring@courts.in.gov.

St. Mary’s Hospital for Women & Children Birth Records

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Erin and Bruce Clemons, Newburgh, Ind., daughter, Abigail Paige, Jan. 10

Kimberly and Adam Morrow, Evansville, daughter, Quinn Marie, Jan. 11

Natalie and Caleb White, Owensville, Ind., daughter, Kelsey Dawn, Jan. 11

Amber and David Dishman, Mount Carmel, Ill., daughter, Lillian June, Jan. 11

Stacey and Jeff Moore, Evansville, son, Hunter James, Jan. 11

Ellee and John Mullins, Boonville, Ind., son, Lane Thomas, Jan. 11

Kady and Aaron Klingaman, Evansville, son, Braven Kole, Jan. 11

Jessica and Shane Kneer, Evansville, son, Logan Shane, Jan. 12

Tara and Jordan Fewkes, Albion, Ill., daughter, Blair Bradley, Jan. 12

Doneva and Chris Perkins, Princeton, Ind., son, Beau Landry, Jan. 12

Kylie Dossett and Kyle Julian, Evansville, daughter, Leotta Rose, Jan. 12

Janett and Brandon Neber, Princeton, Ind., son, Mason Robert, Jan. 14

Lauren and Aaron Sisk, Evansville, daughter, Josslee Mae, Jan. 14

Kathryn and Craig Love, Evansville, son, Camren Davis, Jan. 14

Elizabeth Brewer and Stanley Sobey, Princeton, Ind., daughter, Annabelle Grace, Jan. 14

Stacy and Chad Beckham, Evansville, son, Joel Michael, Jan. 15

Perla Guzman and Ernesto Velazquez, Evansville, daughter, Adeline Sarai, Jan. 15

Lindsey and Brandon Hirsch, Boonville, Ind., daughter, Riley Rae Margo, Jan. 15

Ashlee and Brandon Jones, Henderson, Ky., son, Beckett Allen, Jan. 15

Virginia Perry and Allen Byrns, Oakland City, Ind., daughter, Courtney Lee, Jan. 15

Kierra Cartwright, Evansville, daughter, Zacoriah Ra’yonna, Jan. 16

Lindsey and Kyle Suver, Evansville, daughter, Magnolia Everly, Jan. 16

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