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Governor Pence Announces 2015 Mr. and Miss Indiana Math and Science Awards

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Indianapolis – Governor Mike Pence today announced the winners of the 2015 Mr. and Miss Math and Science awards. The Mr. and Miss Math and Science awards aim to recognize students who have exemplary performance in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classes and extracurricular activities. The winners receive a $1,000 college scholarship through Indiana’s CollegeChoice 529 Direct Savings Plan.

 

“I’m proud today to recognize these stellar, outstanding individuals and the achievements they have accomplished while in high school,” said Governor Pence. “These Mr. and Miss Math and Science award winners represent the bright future of this state, and I look forward to their continued accomplishments in their collegiate careers and beyond.”

 

Evansville’s Adam Lonnberg and Indianapolis’ Margaret Christy are named 2015 Mr. and Miss Math, and Carmel’s Adit Chandra and Helena Ma are named 2015 Mr. and Miss Science.

 

Adam Lonnberg, 2015 Mr. Math, recently graduated from Signature High School in Evansville, where he was named a National Merit Semifinalist, an AP Scholar with Distinction, and a member of the National Honor Society. There, Lonnberg served as a tutor in mathematics and chemistry, Chairman of Education of Signature High School’s Math Club, and Co-President of Model United Nations. He received the “Outstanding Achievement Award for Excellence in Mathematics” from the University of Evansville and the “Local Site Scholar Award” in the Indiana State Mathematics Contest. Lonnberg volunteers during summer breaks at St. Mary’s Medical Center. He plans to attend University of Evansville in the fall.

 

Margaret “Maggie” Christy, 2015 Miss Math, recently graduated from Franklin Central High School in Indianapolis, where she was named an AP Scholar, Co-President of the Student Council and National Honor Society member. She received the National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspirations in Computing Award and the Top 10 Award for finishing in the top ten of her class all four years of high school. She helped found and subsequently coached the Auto Flashes, the school’s robotics team, and represented the city of Indianapolis and state of Indiana as a VEX Robotics student ambassador at the VEX World Championship. Christy volunteers as a “buddy” with children who have special needs during Parent Night Out events at Indian Creek Christian Church Access Ministry. She plans to study actuarial science and applied statistics at Purdue University in the fall.

 

Adit Chandra, 2015 Mr. Science, recently graduated from Carmel High School in Carmel, where he was named an AP Scholar, Indiana Academic All-Star, US National Chemistry Olympiad National Finalist, and Intel ISEF International Finalist. Chandra was selected to the Carmel Education Foundation Board, served as the President of the Science Olympiad, and co-founded and captained the Science Bowl club at Carmel High School. He won a state championship in cross country and played saxophone for the junior all-state band. He also conducted research with professors at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Chandra plans to attend Harvard University in the fall.

 

Helena Ma, 2015 Miss Science, recently graduated from Carmel High School in Carmel, where she was a National AP Scholar, National Merit Scholarship Finalist, and Presidential Scholar Semifinalist. There, she participated in the Science Bowl, Math Club, Physics Bowl, Chemistry Olympiad, and Science Olympiad. Ma was also a member of the National Honor Society, Student Government House of Representatives, Principal’s Advisory Council, and served as editor-in-chief of her school’s newspaper. She also conducted research with a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and volunteered regularly at St. Vincent’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She plans to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall.

 

Indiana’s top math and science students were nominated earlier this year, and a panel of STEM professionals, teachers, and university selected the winners based on academic performance, work in research, leadership, community service, and extracurricular involvement. Nominations for the 2016 Mr. and Miss Math and Science awards will open next s

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, July 20, 2015.

Jordan Anthony Payne Escape, Level 5 felony

Cameron Chirell Dunbar Possession of altered handgun, Level 5 felony

Carrying a handgun without a license, Class A misdeamnor

Michael Dewayne Charles Armed robbery, Level 3 felony

Robbery resulting in bodily injury, Level 3 felony

Criminal recklessness, Level 6 felony

Domestic battery, Level 6 felony

Battery on a person less than 14 years old, Level 6 felony

Auto theft, Level 6 felony

Resisting law enforcement, Level 6 felony

Possession of a synthetic drug or synthetic drug lookalike substance, Level 6 felony

Resisting law enforcement, A misdemeanor

Criminal mischief, A misdemeanor

Leaving the scene of an accident, B misdemeanor

 

Blake Wayne Ramsey Residential entry, Level 6 felony

Governor Pence Declares Period of Mourning, Directs Flags Be Flown at Halfstaff

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Indianapolis, IN – Governor Mike Pence has declared a period of mourning in the wake of last week’s shooting in Tennessee which took the lives of four U.S. Marines and one Navy Sailor and is directing flags at state facilities statewide to be flown at half-staff beginning today, July 21. Flags should be flown at half-staff until sunset on Tuesday, July 28.

 

Governor Pence also asks businesses and residents to lower their flags to half-staff to pay tribute to these brave individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice in defending our nation and our freedom.

Road Rage Involving a Handgun Results in Arrest

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On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 3:49pm the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of Pearl Drive in reference to a report of suspicious circumstance involving a person possibly armed with a gun.

Upon arrival sheriff’s deputies met with the 911 caller, Mr. Stephen John Poag, 60, of Mount Vernon, IN.  Mr. Poag advised he had been involved in a confrontation with another motorist. Mr. Poag explained that he had been “cut off” by the other motorist on the Lloyd Expressway and then followed the other motorist to a parking lot off of Pearl Drive.  Mr. Poag admitted to challenging the other motorist to get out of his vehicle in order to discuss the matter.  Mr. Poag claimed the other motorist pointed something metallic at him, which he believed to be a handgun.  Mr. Poag then left the area and called 911, providing a description of the motorist and his vehicle.

A description of the motorist was broadcast to all Sheriff’s Office and Evansville Police Department units.   A police officer then located a vehicle matching the description provided by Mr. Poag.  The driver, Mr. James Nathan Ipock, was stopped on Riverside Drive near Sycamore St.  A Ruger .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun was found inside the vehicle.

Mr. Ipock denied pointing the weapon at Mr. Poag, but did admit to holding the handgun up when Mr. Poag confronted him in the parking lot.  Mr. Ipock explained that Mr. Poag had followed him into the parking lot and challenged him to get out of his vehicle.  Mr. Ipock indicated that Mr. Poag was the aggressor and had in fact attempted to block his vehicle while in the parking lot.

Mr. Ipock was found to have an expired Kentucky concealed handgun permit and was subsequently arrested for Carrying a Handgun without a Permit as a Class A Misdemeanor.

The incident remains under investigation.

ARRESTED:

James Nathan Ipock (pictured above), 37, of Henderson, KY. Carrying a Handgun without a Permit as a Class A Misdemeanor.

 

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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EDITORIAL: WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR ISN’T GOOD FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR

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Over the last several years we have been watching with interest how many bad imagesdecisions are made by local governmental entities without any recourse from the public sector. The lack of proper planning or follow through in building the Deaconess Sports Park is almost laughable. First of all, the CVB spokes person announces the hiring of a new person to manage the overall operations, including the planning and scheduling all events associated with this multi million dollar facility. Thereafter Mr. “Everything is Wonderful” CVB Executive Bob Warren announces that the newly appointed Sports Park manager has decided to to head South. A new manager is appointed and Mr. “Everything is Wonderful” Warren then announces that the baseline measurements are off and shall cause a problem with scheduling teams that have 13 years and older players. Then he announces that the costs are to prohibitive to correct the base line problems.
The Grand Daddy of all mistakes is that Mr. “Ever thing is Wonderful” Bob Warren announces that the scoreboards at the new sports park don’t have any “Balls and Strikes” displayed on them.
Bottom line, If Bob Warren worked for the private sector and made these mistakes he would have been fired!
Next we have the newly self proclaimed land and building acquisition expert DMD Director Kelley Coures running all over town buying up property like there is no tomorrow.
Recently Mr. Coure’s land and building acquisition ventures took him to the blighted North Main street area of Evansville. Mr. Coures looked into his crystal ball and decided to use our hard earned tax dollars to pay $535,000 to purchase the vacant and dilapidated CVS building located on North Main and Columbia street. Today the only future planned use for this building is displaying a “FOR LEASE” sign on the front door. However, now we just might have a great use for the CVS building. Coures feels we can raze the building to provide parking to help with the over flow parking issues at Bosse Field. Let’s see, Coures tells the City Council he now wants to use the land as parking for a facility located about 9 or 10 blocks away. Wonder if Mr. Coures realizes that no-one would want to walk 9 or 10 blocks with his family to a sporting event in that “crime ridden seedy part of town?”
We don’t even have to go into the merits of Coure’s decision to purchase the vacant Integrity Bank building on North main because its much of the same “Pie in the Sky” public sector economics.
If DMD Director Kelley Coures made these kind of business decisions in the private sector he would had been fired!
STAY TUNED BECAUSE OUR  NEXT EDITORIAL WILL BE ABOUT THE “BAIT AND SWITCH“ DOWNTOWN ROADSIDE LOOKING CONVENTION MOTEL.

EPD Activity Report

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EDITORIAL: PRIVATE SECTOR IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE BUT PUBLIC SECTOR ISN’T

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Over the last several years we have been watching with interest how many bad business decisions are made by local governmental enities with out any recourse from the private sector.

The lack of proper planning or follow through in the building of the Multi- Million Dollar Deaconess Sports Park is almost laughable.  First off, CVB spokes person announces the Sports Park has hired a new person to manage the overall operations and including the planning and scheduling all events associated with this multi million dollar Sports facility.  Thereafter CVB Executive Director Bob Warren announces that the newly appointed Sports Park manager has decided to to head South.  Warren  announces a new Sports Park manager has been appointed. Bob Warren then announces that the baseline measurements are off and shall cause a problem with scheduling teams  that have older players..  He announces that the costs are to prohibited to correct the base line problems. The “Grand Daddy”  of all mistakes is when CVB Bob Warren announces the scoreboards at the new sports park didn’t have any “Balls and Strikes” displayed on them.   All we can say about this is “WOW”.   Bottom line, If CVB Executive Director Bob Warren worked for the private sector and made these business mistakes he would had been fired!

Next we have the self proclaimed land and building acquisition expert DMD Director Kelley Coures running all over town buying up property like there is no tomorrow.  Recently Mr. Coures land and building acquisitions ventures took him to the blighted North Main street area of Evansville.  Mr. Coures looked into his crystal ball and decided to use our hard earned tax dollars to pay $535,000 to purchase the vacant and dilapidated CVS building located on North Main and Columbia street.  Today the only activity on the future use for this building is displaying a “FOR LEASE” sign on the front door.  However, we hear we might have great news for CVS building.  Coures now feels we can raze the building to provide parking to help with the over flow parking issues with Bosse Field.  Let’s see, he now wants to use land for over flow parking for a  park and baseball facility located about 9 or 10 blocks away.  We wonder if Mr. Coures realizes who in the world would want to walk 9 or 10 blocks with his family to a sporting event in a crime “riddened seedy part of town”?  We don’t even have to go into the merits of Coures decision to purchase the vacant Integrity Bank building on North main because its much of the same “Pie in the Sky” public sector economics.  Bottom line, If DMD Director Kelley Coures made these kind of bad business decisions in the private sector he would had been fired!

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Pets of the Week

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This goofy, silly boy has the Midas touch! Midas the pitbull mix is turning one very soon, and is seeking a home to spend his birthday in. He does wonderfully with cats and kids. He’s lived with a dog before, but needs to meet any potential roommates and can be somewhat food-protective with them. This can be managed! Midas loves toys, snuggling, and car rides. His $100 adoption fee includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, & more! Visit www.vhslifesaver.org or call (812) 426-2563!

St. Mary’s Health Receives American College of Cardiology Award for Cardiac Care

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NCDR ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum award recognizes high standards

(Evansville, IN)  St. Mary’s Health has received the ACTION Registry– Get with the Guidelines Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2015. This achievement was awarded by The American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry. St. Mary’s Health, part of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health system is one of only 319 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. The award recognizes St. Mary’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that St. Mary’s has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

To receive the ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award, St. Mary’s consistently followed the treatment guidelines in the ACTION Registry–GWTG Premier for eight consecutive quarters and met a performance standard of 90 percent for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.

“This award is a proud achievement for St. Mary’s. It reflects the hard work and dedication of the staff who care for some of our most seriously ill patients and their families,” said Jan Ernest, St. Mary’s Vice president of Cardiovascular and System Support Services. “The implementation of these guidelines requires successful coordination of the cardiovascular team and emergency personnel and is a critical step in saving the lives and improving outcomes of heart attack patients.”

ACTION Registry–GWTG is a partnership between the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association with partnering support from the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. ACTION Registry-GWTG empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.

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