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DISNEY ON ICE EVANSVILLE SHOW DATES CHANGED TO APRIL 21-24, 2016

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**EVENT DATE CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT**

DISNEY ON ICE EVANSVILLE SHOW DATES CHANGED TO APRIL 21-24, 2016 All Tickets Purchased Will Be Honored For New Show Dates

[Evansville, IN—November 16, 2015]—Feld Entertainment, Inc. has announced tour date changes for the upcoming Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! Presented by Stonyfield YoKids Organic Yogurt shows coming to the Evansville Ford Center; the new tour dates will be Thursday April 21-24, 2016.

All tickets purchased in advance will be honored for the same day of week/performance time for the new schedule (the show schedule has not changed but moved up three weeks; for example Saturday May 14, 11:00 a.m. tickets will be honored for the Saturday April 23, 11:00 a.m. performance) – no action is necessary by ticketholders to exchange tickets. For those unable to attend the automatic rescheduled performance, customers have several options to exchange tickets.

IMPORTANT TICKET EXCHANGE INFORMATION:

  • ï‚·  Advance purchase tickets will not be re-issued for the new dates – current tickets will be valid for the same day/time performance for the week of April 21.
  • ï‚·  Unable to attend rescheduled day/time performance? Several option for ticket exchanges for any of the Evansville performances:

o Thursday, April 21 – 7:00 p.m.
o Friday, April 22 – 7:00 p.m.
o Saturday, April 23 – 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. o Sunday, April 24 – 1:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m.

  • ï‚·  Kids’ prices are only valid on: Friday 7 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. & 7 p.m.; and Sunday 5 p.m.
  • ï‚·  If exchanging tickets, must exchange through original point of purchase.
  • ï‚·  Tickets will be exchanged based on availability; original seating locations may not be available for exchanged

    performance but best effort will be made to seat guests in a comparable seating location.

  • ï‚·  Refunds will be made to any customer who does not wish to use the ticket exchange option; refunds can only

    be issued through original point of purchase.

  • ï‚·  All refunds and exchanges must be completed by Sunday, April 24, 7 p.m.
  • ï‚·  Customers who purchased online will be receiving an email directly from Ticketmaster with the updated

    changes and options for exchanges/refunds.

    Questions can be directed to Ticketmaster.com or 800-653-8000; Ford Center Ticket Office 812-422-1515 or Feld Entertainment Customer Service at 800-844-3545.

    Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! Presented by Stonyfield YoKids Organic Yogurt is bringing a colossal party on ice to your hometown! This all-new show visits Evansville from April 21-24, 2016 for seven performances at the Ford Center. Tickets are on sale now.

    Audiences are invited to make an ordinary day extraordinary and enjoy some of the world’s most popular festivities, including a winter wonderland with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, a Halloween haunt with the Disney Villains, a Hawaiian luau with Lilo and Stitch, a Royal Ball with the Disney Princesses, a Very Merry Unbirthday Party and more in one action-packed and positively unforgettable celebration!

    Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! Presented by Yokids features more than 50 characters from 16 Disney stories live on ice, including Tiana from Walt Disney Pictures’ The Princess and the Frog.

     

Tickets for Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! Presented by YoKids start at $12 for Opening Night and are on sale now and available through www.disneyonice.com, by phone at Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000, or in person at the Ford Center box office. Tickets are affordably priced, starting at $12 for Opening Night and $20 and $15 for all other performances. There is a limited number of $32 VIP and $52 Front Row tickets available. Seven great performances to choose from: Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m., Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 23 at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 24 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Sobriety Checkpoint Planned for this Weekend

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The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership will conduct a sobriety checkpoint this Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 11:30 pm until 3:00 am. Law enforcement officers from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, the Evansville Police Department and the Indiana State Police will join together to conduct this checkpoint.

The location for Saturday’s checkpoint was chosen based on local traffic collision data. Analysis of data captured in November of 2014 indicated that several geographical areas within Vanderburgh County accounted for a disproportionately high number of reported hit and run crashes. The upcoming checkpoint will be located within one of those areas. Hit and run crashes are often the result of impaired drivers who try to avoid arrest by fleeing the scene.

The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership conducts sobriety checkpoints in an effort to detect and deter impaired drivers (thereby reducing the occurrence of alcohol and drug related traffic crashes).

Funding for local sobriety checkpoint operations is provided by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) through a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration(NHTSA).

Evansville’s Christmas on North Main Parade

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The 2015 Evansville Christmas on North Main Parade will be held on Sunday, November 22nd beginning at 2:30 pm. The parade will begin in the Civic Center parking lot. Visitors will also enjoy a “preview” of Ritzy’s Fantasy of Lights at the end of the parade.

Pre-Parade activities will again include Santa’s Workshop held at SWIRCA, 16 W. Virginia Street. Festivities start at noon and continue until the start of the Parade. Activities include a petting zoo, arts & crafts by CMOEs Children Museum and of course clowns. There will be free hot chocolate, cookies and pictures with Santa for the first 1000 children. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

The annual Christmas on North Main Parade is an event sponsored by the Jacobsville Area Community Corporation. This year, we’re proud to announce our Grand Marshall – 2015 Miss Indiana USA, Gretchen Reece whose hometown is North Vernon, IN.

The Christmas on North Main Parade also includes local bands from area high schools as well as floats, clowns, cars, dignitaries, other marching and performing groups, a couple of surprises, and of course the main attraction…Santa!

Daily Off Topic Forum November 22, 2015

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Ex-Jewelry Store Operators Lose Tax Appeal

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Jennifer Nelson for www.theindianalawyer.com

The operators of a former jewelry store in central Indiana were unable to convince the Indiana Tax Court they are entitled to more than $160,000 in sales tax refunds.

J.S. Marten Inc., Janice S. Marten and Christopher M. Marten appealed the Indiana Department of State Revenue’s denial of their claim for refund of sales tax remitted for 2004, 2005 and 2006 tax years. They paid $162,529.11 in sales tax for those years in 2008; four years later, the Martens sought a refund of all but $132.77 that they remitted. The DOR denied the refund in October 2012 and the Martens initiated their tax appeal in January 2013.

The DOR argued that the tax court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over this appeal because the Martens didn’t timely file a claim for a refund of sales tax. But that does not doom the Tax Court from hearing the matter, as it has exclusive subject matter over all original tax appeals, Senior Judge Thomas Fisher pointed out. Subject matter jurisdiction does not depend on the sufficiency or correctness of the averments in the petition.

But the Martens’ failure to timely state a claim upon which relief can be granted does doom their appeal. They paid the sales taxes in question in 2008 but did not seek a refund until 2012. Statute requires a person to file a refund claim within three years of the due date of the return or the date of payment.

“The facts alleged in the Martens’ petition do not rebut the fact that their refund claim was not timely filed nor do they raise an alternative basis for relief,” Fisher wrote. “Accordingly, the Department’s Motion to Dismiss on the basis that the Martens failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is hereby GRANTED.”

The matter is J.S. Marten, Inc., Janice S. Marten, and Christopher M. Marten v. Indiana Department of State Revenue, 49T10-1301-TA-8.

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DAYLIGHT LOSING TIME by Jim Redwine

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Gavel Gamut

By Jim Redwine

(Week of 23 November 2015)

DAYLIGHT LOSING TIME

Peg came into my study and said, “What are you doing with that legal pad you are holding up to the east window?” I tried to stop her but she grabbed it out of my hand and read my “Injunction to the Sun”.

Realizing I was busted, I tried to explain my plan to combat the ever-encroaching and ever-earlier darkness. As with any good judicial decision I cited precedent:

The Egyptian god Ra was responsible for the bounty of the sun. I saw no harm in soliciting his help;

Phoebus Apollo’s job for both the Greeks and Romans was to pull the sun across the sky with his chariot. Who knows? It couldn’t hurt; and

I even called upon those contemporary gods, The Beatles, and set forth the lyrics to “Here Comes the Sun”.

Not wishing to give Peg even more ammunition for a commitment hearing or, at least, to demand I straighten up the study, I told her I was aware of the Anglo-Saxon King Canute’s futile command to stop the tides; he got wet.

However, I was desperate for relief from the idiocy of whoever is responsible for my bedtime slowly inching ever closer to 8 o’clock postmeridian. For goodness sake, I barely get home from work before the “Dark Pall of Oblivion” turns a daytime opportunity into Orpheus Descending.

“Be all that as it may be, why on earth are you railing against the sun? Don’t you think you’re a little beyond your jurisdiction? This reminds me of this past spring when you were standing out in the yard cursing and threatening the dandelions. As I recall, they multiplied like, well, dandelions, thereafter. That attempt at stopping Mother Nature was also a spectacular failure. In fact, people were stopping to take photographs of the exceptional crop you incited with your extreme volume of carbon dioxide.”

Ah, Gentle Reader, need I point out the inequity of such treatment? Anyway, the Winter Solstice is only a couple of lifetimes away. I’ll just have to avoid straight razors and hemlock until then.

St. Mary’s HEALTH recognized with Gold-Plus Award for heart failure care

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St. Mary’s has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation’s secondary prevention guidelines for patients with heart failure. St. Mary’s has been recognized with different levels of the GWTG Quality Achievement Awards since 2006.

Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure is a quality improvement program that helps hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure patients. Launched in 2005, numerous published studies have demonstrated the program’s success in achieving patient outcome improvements, including reductions in 30-day readmissions.

St. Mary’s earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the patient, proper use of medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies.  These would include ACE inhibitors/ARBs, beta-blockers, diuretics, anticoagulants, and other appropriate therapies. Before patients are discharged, they also receive education on managing their heart failure and overall health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.

“St. Mary’s is dedicated to improving the quality of care for our heart failure patients, and implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure program helps us to accomplish this goal by tracking and measuring our success in meeting internationally-respected guidelines,” said Dr. Javier Jurado, Cardiologist at St. Mary’s Medical Group Cardiology.

“We are pleased to recognize St. Mary’s for their commitment to heart failure care,” said Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., national chairman of the Get With The Guidelines steering committee and Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Studies have shown that hospitals that consistently follow Get With The Guidelines quality improvement measures can reduce patients’ length of stays and 30-day readmission rates and also reduce disparity gaps in care.”

According to the American Heart Association, about 5.7 million adults in the United States suffer from heart failure, with the number expected to rise to eight million by 2030. Statistics show that each year about 870,000 new cases are diagnosed and about 50 percent of those diagnosed will die within five years. However, many heart failure patients can lead a full, enjoyable life when their condition is managed with proper medications or devices and with healthy lifestyle changes.

 Indiana State Trooper Receives the Missouri Valley Football Conference’s Silver Anniversary Team Award

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user28471-1447981107-media4_2f2816_135_240_PrsMe_Indiana State Police Officer Kyle Mitchell was recently honored (November 14th) with the Missouri Valley Football Conference’s Silver Anniversary Team Award, presented to him on the playing field of Indiana State University’s (ISU) Memorial Stadium.

Mitchell was originally inducted in 2009, but no one knew where to find him.  After graduating from ISU, he moved to Canada to pursue a professional football career in the Canadian Football League (CFL) where he played from 2006-2009.  While in the CFL Mitchell played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and briefly with the British Columbia Lions (B.C. Lions).  While a member of the Roughriders, the team won the Grey Cup Championship in 2007.  For those not aware, this is the Canadian equivalent to the NFL Super Bowl.

The Silver Anniversary Awards are presented each year by the American National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to recognize six distinguished former student-athletes on their 25th anniversary of the end of their intercollegiate athletics eligibility.   Nominees must have received a varsity letter at an NCAA member institution and achieved personal distinction since his or her graduation.  Selection criteria are weighted, 40 percent to the nominee’s status as a prominent collegiate athlete and 60 percent to the nominee’s career achievement.   The award is considered one of the most prestigious in the world of collegiate sports.

Tpr. Kyle Mitchell now shares  the honor of being a Silver Anniversary Award winner with other notable recipients such as:  Bo Jackson (Auburn University), Troy Aikman (UCLA-Football), Doug Flutie (Boston College – Football), Sean Payton (Eastern Illinois – Current New Orleans Saints Head Coach), Warren Moon (University of Washington), Steve Young (Brigham Young –Football), Mike Singletary (Baylor University), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA-Basketball), Dick Butkus (University of Illinois), Rodney Harrison (Western Illinois), Bob Griese (Purdue Anniversary), and Kurt Warner (University of Northern Iowa).

Kyle Mitchell is the Fourth Indiana State Sycamore to receive this award in the history of the ISU Football program.  While in College, his position Coach and Mentor Coach Shannon Jackson was also a recipient of the Silver Anniversary Award in 1999.   Kyle Mitchell broke Shannon Jackson’s All-Time Career Sack Record and Tackle For Loss (TFL) record during his tenure at ISU.

While at ISU, Mitchell also had other notable achievements:

·         “All-Newcomer” Team recipient for the Gateway Football Conference

·         “All New-Comer of the year runner-up

·         Three-Time First Team All-Conference Award

·         Pre-Season All-American

·         Three-Time Most Valuable Player Award on ISU

·         Four-Time Verizon Scholar Athlete

·         Voted Four-Time Team Captain on ISU

·         Three-Time National Dean’s List for Academics

·         Three-Time All-Academic Team

·         All-Academic Representative for ISU Football Program.

When asked what he attributed his success to, Mitchell said, “My Father is a retired Marine and my Mother passed away of breast cancer before I picked up a football.  The discipline that they instilled in me as a youth, has assisted me throughout my life.  Competing heavily in collegiate sports, coupled with a strong academic background was transferable to my career with the Indiana State Police.”  Mitchell concluded, “The discipline, self-drive, and work ethic instilled by parents, coaches, and support of my teammates, helped me continue to strive for greatness.”

The Indiana State Police is fortunate to have people the caliber of Tpr. Kyle Mitchell wearing the uniform of the Indiana State Police, where he presently serves as a recruiter for the department.

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PHOTO Legend:

1.       Trooper Kyle Mitchell

2.       Kyle Mitchell (R) with award accompanied by ISU Director of Athletics Ron Pettyman (L)

3.       Kyle Mitchell (ISU #92) in Hot Pursuituser28471-1447981106-media3_fefffd_240_155_PrsMe_

4.       The Awarduser28471-1447981107-media4_2f2816_135_240_PrsMe_

First Security Inc. Announces Record Third Quarter and Year to date 2015 Results

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First Security Inc., the bank holding company for First Security Bank, Inc., announced another record performance for the third quarter and first nine months of 2015.

“We are excited to report a record third quarter net income, the largest quarterly earnings recorded in our Company’s history. Our investment in growth continues to fuel the significant increase in earnings during 2015,” stated M. Lynn Cooper, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Highlights of the quarter include:

  • ï‚·  Earnings – Third quarter earnings were $1.2 million, up $189,000 or 19% as compared to the third quarter of 2014. Year to date earnings for 2015 were $3.0 million, up $1 million or 50% as compared to the same period in 2014.
  • ï‚·  Credit Quality – The Bank’s credit quality continues to be better than many of its peers. With Non Performing Assets at 0.57%, the lowest level in over 4 years, the Company’s significant loan growth has occurred without compromising credit quality.
  • ï‚·  Business of the Year Award – On behalf of First Security, Steve Witting, President of the Evansville Region, accepted the Southwest Indiana Chamber of Commerce 2015 Small Business of the Year Award.
  • ï‚·  Cash Dividend – A dividend was declared of $.17 per share payable to shareholders of record November 15, 2015, our 49th consecutive dividend.

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“Our third quarter earnings of $1.2 million provided a new record, reflecting the highest net income ever posted during any quarter of any year during the Company’s history. With net income of $3.0 million during the first nine months of 2015, the Company has almost surpassed the total net income of $3.1 million reported for all of 2014,” further commented Mr. Cooper.

The third quarter 2015 financial report of First Security is enclosed. Financial highlights for the third quarter as compared to the prior years third quarter follow.

  • ï‚·  Assets at quarter end total $580 million, representing an increase of 9%
  • ï‚·  Loans and Deposits – Loans increased 13%, while deposits increased 10%
  • ï‚·  Tangible Book Value increased $1.55 or 7%
  • ï‚·  Net Income increased $189,000 or 19%
  • ï‚·  Provision for Loan Losses increased $15,000 or 4%
  • ï‚·  Net Interest Income increased $684,000 or 16%
  • ï‚·  Net interest margin increased from 3.50% to 3.68%, an increase of 18 points
  • ï‚·  Non-Interest Income declined $72,000 or 6%
  • ï‚·  Non-Interest Expense increased $297,000 or 8%
  • ï‚·  Efficiency ratio declined to 65.6% as compared to 67.4%. This ratio indicates how much

    in expense occurred during the period for every $1 of revenue produced by the

    Company.

  • ï‚·  Non-Performing Assets to total assets were 0.57% at the end of September 2015, an

    improvement of 0.27% from the prior year’s ratio of 0.84%.

  • ï‚·  Return on Assets improved from 0.75% to 0.81%
  • ï‚·  Basic Earnings-Per-Share was $0.49 per share as compared to $0.44 per share, up 11%.

    “With strong capital and good earnings, we believe we are building a franchise that positions us well for many years to come. Ensuring that we utilize our capital well is very critical and important. We are keenly focused on balancing our investments while still providing solid, long- term returns for our shareholders,” stated Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Michael F. Beckwith.

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