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St. Mary’s hires new Oncology Services Coordinator

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St. Mary’s Health is pleased to announce the new Oncology Services Coordinator is Mark Crummley BSN, RN.

Crummley is an experienced oncology nurse and was most recently at Wabash General Hospital where he served as the Director of Hematology and Oncology in Mount Carmel, Illinois. His nursing career has also included experience as a nursing supervisor, emergency room nurse and neuro/surgical ICU nurse.

Mark Crummley graduated from Murray State University with his baccalaureate degree in nursing. He also has an associate degree in nursing and fine arts degree from Wabash Valley College. Mark is married and has 2 children and lives in Mount Carmel, Illinois.

Commissioners Meeting Agenda 4/21/15

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AGENDA

Vanderburgh County

Board of Commissioners

April 21, 2015

5:00 pm, Room 301

  1. Call to Order
  2. Attendance
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Invocation
  5. Action Items
    • Road Race Request: St. Wendel Men’s Club Grillin’ and Chillin’ 5K
    • Carver Community Organization Senior Corp Volunteers National Service Day Proclamation
    • Heritage Federal 50th Anniversary Proclamation
    • Area Plan Commission: Purchase of 5 New Computers
    • Superior Court: Partnership with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff to run the work release portion of community corrections as a therapeutic venture
    • Contracts, Agreements and Leases
      1. County Treasurer: Renewal of Service Contract with Southern Business Machines, INC.
      2. Computer Services: United Leasing Agreements for Multifunction Devices for Vanderburgh County Health Department
      3. Commissioners:  Teamsters Local 215 Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office Confinement Officers and Civilian Support Staff
      4. County Health: Agreement and Business Associate Contract with Apptoto
      5. County Sheriff: Phone Service Contract with AT&T
  6. Department Head Reports
  7. New Business
  8. Old Business
  9. Public Comment
  10. Consent Items
    • Approval of prior meetings minutes: April 7th, 2015
    • Employment Changes
    • Soil Water Conservation District: March 31st, 2015 Regular Meeting Minutes
    • County Clerk: 2015 March Monthly Report
    • County Sheriff: Surplus of Vehicles
    • County Health Department: Request to Surplus Equipment
    • County Engineer: Department Head Report
  11. Road Hearing
  12. Adjournment

EVSC to Host Bus Driver Career Fair

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Are you looking for a career change?  Driving our future with part-time hours and full-time benefits is the message that the EVSC’s Office of Transportation wants people to know about school bus drivers. To help get that message out and to find new drivers, the EVSC is hosting a Bus Driver Career Fair on Monday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Enlow Field (beside Bosse High School) in Evansville.

The career fair will give interested individuals an opportunity to get behind the wheel of a school bus and talk with EVSC Bus Transportation management. EVSC trainers also will be available to answer any questions related to driving a school bus such as work schedule, licensing, school bus laws and more. In addition, the EVSC will be holding on-the-spot interviews for interested individuals.

To attend the event, individuals must have a current driver’s license. No CDL is required at this time. Once hired, the EVSC will train individuals and assist them in getting their CDL.

As a school bus driver, individuals work from approximately 6 to 8 a.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m. with additional hours available, if interested. Full-time benefits including medical insurance, holiday pay, personal and sick leave and more are available to EVSC drivers.

For more information, visit www.evscschools.com and see the link for Bus Driver Career Fair under Community at the top, or call 435-1BUS.

Four EVSC Schools Receive Funds through DonorsChoose and Horace Mann Insurance

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North High School, Thompkins Middle School, AIS – First Avenue and Delaware Elementary School were this month’s recipients of donations from DonorsChoose and Horace Mann Insurance. Programs that will receive monetary awards are:

  • Graphics Made Fun – North High School, teacher: Corey Simon
    Helps purchase graphing dry erase boards for freshman Algebra students that will help keep them motivated.
  • Student Engagement with QR Codes – Delaware Elementary School, teacher: Kayla Henderson
    Helps purchase tablets for each tech table group to help in third grade math
  • Achieving Success the Phoenix Way – AIS – First Ave., teacher: Jillian Thompson
    Helps purchase iPods with cameras, ID badge hole punch, lanyards and a bar code scanner that will be used to give badges in order to acknowledge students who follow expectations and policies.
  • Stop Motion, Augmented Reality and Coding…Oh My! – Thompkins Middle School, teacher: Ashley Hills
    Helps purchase iPad minis for creating stop motion animated movies, learning to write code and experimenting with augmented reality.

The projects are partially funded through DonorsChoose, an online charity that allows individuals to donate directly to classrooms in need. And, to help supplement funds raised on DonorsChoose, Horace Mann Insurance pledges $500 each month to EVSC projects on DonorsChoose.

North High School German Club to Host Spring Craft and Vendor Fair  

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Looking for something new this spring? Check out the North High School German Club’s annual Spring Craft and Vendor Fair on Saturday, April 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at North High School (15331 Highway 41 N.). The fair will include more than 70 vendors, a silent auction and concessions. Admission to the fair is free and open to the public.

 

City County Observer Posting Rules Guidelines As Of April 18, 2015

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ENJOY YOUR NEW “OFF TOPIC FORUM”.

For the last couple of month we have been watching our bloggers getting off topic. Sometime the posters got real personal and insulting. With much thought and planning we have decided to add a new section to the CCO so you can go off topic long as you want. The name of this new section is called “OFF TOPIC FORUM.” We placed this new section in the upper right hand corner. This site is ready for you to post your off messages on a daily basis.

Attached is the new CCO posting rules for your review and compliance.

CITY COUNTY OBSERVER New Posting Rules And Guidelines As Of April, 18 2015

We reserve the right to remove any post that we feel is obscene, profane, vulgar, racist, sexually explicit, threatening, abusive, or hateful. Comments should further the discussion on a given subject or article and not veer off topic unless your posting on the “OFF TOPIC FORUM.” We reserve the right to remove comments posted for sock puppeting purposes, where a user creates another persona to comment on their own previous comment.

You are legally responsible for what you post. Your anonymity is not guaranteed on this site. City County Observer will not share your private information with anyone unless you expressly instruct us to do so or we are required by law to do so. We do not sell, rent, or give your information to any other company.

No solicitations are allowed. Links to other informational websites may be deleted if they are off topic or violate the substantive provisions of this policy.

City County Observer has created this privacy statement in order to better allow for the exchange and dialogue of ideas in promoting better public policy.  At the same time, we have a strong commitment to privacy.

PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ OUR READERS POLL QUESTION AND CAST YOUR VOTE ACCORDINGLY. ALSO PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ TODAYS FEATURE ARTICLE POSTED ON THE UPPER LEFT HAND PAGE.

Steve Davis is Supporting Gail Riecken for Mayor

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steve DavisCity Council Candidate for Evansville’s 2nd Ward, Steve Davis, released a statement today  to the CCO announcing his support for Democratic Mayoral candidate Gail Riecken.  We welcome any other candidate to send us a letter of endorsement to either Mayoral candidate.  We shall post it without opinion or editing.

When asked what prompted the endorsement of Mrs. Riecken for Mayor, Davis replied, “I’m a Democrat, and I believe in the principles of the Democratic Party. One wouldn’t think it necessary for a Democrat to specify their preference for Mayor, but in my race it is necessary and distinguishes me from my opponent. It is not a secret who my opponent supported in 2011 and who she has blindly followed for over three years.”

Democrat Gail Riecken threw her hat in the ring in January of this year for the Mayor’s race, and is a three-term State Representative and former City Council member. In describing his passion to see Riecken elected, Davis stated, “Riecken is an impressive candidate with the proven track record to lead this community out of debt and into economic prosperity. I fully stand behind her, and as I walk the 2nd Ward I talk about her to voters. I support her now and will continue to work for her election after the primary, win or lose. I’m committed to new ideas and seeing a change in leadership on City Council and for this Community.”

Rep. Gail Riecken continuing to advocate for Evansville medical training project

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      INDIANAPOLIS - State Rep. Gail Riecken is continuing to advocate for the Evansville Health Sciences Complex that will enhance opportunities for physicians and students while providing exceptional training for those in supporting professions.

Riecken has sent the following letter to the legislative leadership of both the Indiana Senate and the Indiana House of Representatives.

 

FROM 1215 TO 2015 by Jim Redwine

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Gavel Gamut

By Jim Redwine

(Week of 20 April 2015)

FROM 1215 TO 2015

The Supreme Allied Commander of World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower, as President issued the following proclamation:

“I … designate May 1, 1958 (and each May 1 thereafter) as Law Day U.S.A. I urge the people of the United States to observe the designated day with appropriate ceremonies and activities; I especially urge the legal profession, the press and the radio, television and motion picture industries to promote and to participate in the observance of that day.”

 

Eisenhower grew up in Kansas and graduated from West Point in 1915. After serving during three wars, WWI, WWII and Korea, he knew the evil of might over right better than most. He also knew law was the best weapon against tyranny.

English noblemen set the standard for the rule of law in 1215 on the plain at Runnymeade when they forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, which is this year’s national Law Day theme. America’s law-givers looked first to the Magna Carta for guidance in opposing King George III.

When President Eisenhower proclaimed May 1 as Law Day he intended to contrast the May Day military celebration of the Soviet Union to America’s celebration of law. In Posey County for over thirty years the Bar Association has joined in the national commemoration by sponsoring mock trials involving our county schools.

This year the high school Mock Trial will take place on April 24, 2015 in the courtroom of the Posey Circuit Court in Mt. Vernon and involves a competition between students from North Posey High School and Mt. Vernon High School trying to persuade a jury composed of real Posey County Attorneys to agree with their interpretation of a hypothetical case. The trial will begin at 9:00 am and is open to the public.

The fictional case is fashioned on a matter currently working its way through the courts of Utah. A plaintiff in that case is seeking the right to sue herself, her real object is her insurance company, for her own negligence that caused her husband’s death.

North Posey government teacher, Mike Kuhn, who has participated in every one of the mock trials, and North Posey student advisor, Michelle Parrish, are preparing their students to present the Plaintiffs’ position.

Student attorneys, Gabe Mayer and Madison Feldhake, will call plaintiffs Hagar Handley (Maddie Koester) and Harley Handley (Hunter Lehman), treating physician Milburn Stone (Holt Will), psychiatrist Hydra Janis (Jessica Wilkins), economic specialist Dagwood Bumstead (Alex McAlister) and automotive expert Mona Lisa Vito (Kendall Wilson). Eli Schapker will be an alternate and the student reporter is Bri Owens.

Mt. Vernon teachers Lucy Steinhart, Tim Alcorn and maybe even long-time advisor Rick Johnson, are working with the defendants.

Attorneys Logan Reeves and Hunter Wilson have the following witnesses: insurance executive Bernard Rothchild (Justin Trevino), sheriff’s deputy Cagney Lacey (Katie Tucker), Emergency Medical Technician Digger O’Dell (Austin Stallings), psychologist Hope Weller (Caitlin Gross), political scientist Mickey Disney (Tyler Sellers) and a friend of plaintiffs, Rosie McDonnell (Erin Garman).

Superior Court Judge, Brent Almon, will preside and Posey County Bar President, William Bender, will be the Jury Foreperson.

Please join the Bar, the schools and the hardworking staff of the Posey Circuit Court in celebrating right over might.

 

Open Forum April 18-19 ,2015

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