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LEADERSHIP EVANSVILLE’S CELEBRATION OF LEADERSHIP AWARDS MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH SPECIAL PROGRAM MARCH 12, 2015

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On Thursday, March 12, 2015, Leadership Evansville’s annual Celebration of Leadership Awards (COL) will celebrate a real milestone: its 20th year honoring the community’s most inspiring examples of servant leadership, whether by individuals, projects or organizations. COL is unique for its scope, diversity and ability to inspire others to get engaged in our community. Fifth Third Bank is serving as title sponsor, a first for the event.

Leadership Evansville’s 20th Annual Celebration of Leadership Awards – to be held at the Old National Events Plaza on Thursday, March 12, 2015 – should be a memorable evening for the more than 1,000 people expected to be on hand to take part in the celebration. This year’s program will feature special awards in recognition of COL’s 20-year contribution to the community.

Leadership Evansville Executive Director Lynn Miller-Pease shares her excitement about this year’s event: “Through 20 years of COL, we have identified and recognized thousands of diverse servant leaders and collaborative organizations who have collectively transformed our community. It’s been an honor for Leadership Evansville and our alumni and volunteers to identify and recognize so many incredible examples of regular people doing extraordinary things during that time.

“It’s been exciting to see the lasting impact COL has made by sharing so many amazing, positive stories for 20 years. The event’s influence can be seen and felt in the incredible culture developing in our community. I can’t wait to be part of this year’s COL positivity buzz. It’s simply contagious.”

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Event Details: 20th Annual Celebration of Leadership Awards

Title sponsored by Fifth Third Bank, Leadership Evansville’s 20th Annual Celebration of Leadership Awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at Old National Events Plaza in downtown Evansville. Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for students. Seating will begin at 4:30 p.m., and the program will begin promptly at 5:30 p.m. Immediately after the program concludes, a special reception for all will be held at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana at 318 Main St., Suite 101, in downtown Evansville. For more information, or to RSVP, contact Leadership Evansville: leadershipevansville.org/celebration-of- leadership-rsvp, julie@leadershipevansville.org, or (812) 425-3828. Tickets also can be purchased at the door the day of the event. Anyone unable to afford the price of admission is still welcome to attend.

20 Years of Celebration

Begun in 1994 by Leadership Evansville, the annual Celebration of Leadership Awards has received more than 2,500 nominations and celebrated countless nominees for their contributions to our community. More than 10,000 people have attended COL since its inception, and more than 1,000 are expected for this year’s 20th Anniversary event.

About The Celebration of Leadership Awards

The Celebration of Leadership awards is a remarkably diverse and inclusive annual event whereby Leadership Evansville publicly seeks out and honors individuals, projects or organizations who make significant, collaborative contributions that improve and transform our community. COL recognizes examples of outstanding community and public service in the following categories: Arts, Education, Environment, Government & Public Service, Health & Social Service and Neighborhood & Community.

About Leadership Evansville

Leadership Evansville was founded in 1976 by a group of future-thinking local leaders, whose original commitment to community-wide betterment remains unique and strong. Leadership Evansville brings together people with different talents, gifts and perspectives and transforms these individuals into leaders who embrace the concept of community trusteeship and the collaborative process. They help develop in them an understanding of how today’s leaders function and teaches them the skills to apply this knowledge in provided real life opportunities through practice and performance. These attitudes, skills and processes are taught to adults, youth, organizations, not-for-profits, businesses, educational institutions, neighborhood associations, churches and other leadership programs.

Social Media: Connect With Leadership Evansville

Twitter: #COL2015, @LeadershipEVV, @evansvillevoice Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leadershipevansville

March 9, 2015-CCO and WOODS AND WOOD TV SHOW HOSTED BY CHERYL MUSGRAVE AND MARK OWEN

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Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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Crescent Valley History Newsletter

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In partnership with the Vanderburgh Co. Historical Society
Evansville’s Reaction to the Lincoln Assasination
On Tuesday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m. on the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, noted Lincoln historian William E. Bartelt will present the lecture “From Glorious Rejoicing to Appalling Grief: April 1865 in Evansville.” This presentation will examine Evansville’s reaction to the national news from late April 9, 1865, when word of Robert E. Lee’s surrender was received, to Saturday April 15 when the citizens learned of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Evansville’s normal activity ceased as residents covered their homes and businesses in mourning draping’s and attended funeral ceremonies. This lecture is presented by the Vanderburgh County Historical Society and the Evansville Museum. For complimentary reservations, please telephone the Evansville Museum at 812-425-2406.
Talk to Commemorate V-E Day on 70th Anniversary
On Thursday, May 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Evansville Museum on the eve of the 70th anniversary of V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, history writer and researcher Harold Morgan will present a talk recalling this momentous period near the end of World War II. Morgan will look at the more immediate events leading to up to V-E Day, including the D-Day invasion on the shores of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He will highlight the role of Evansville-built P-47 fighter planes and Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs); the LST-325; the Evansville and Sturgis, Kentucky, based 101st Airborne paratroopers; and General George S. Patton’s link to Fort Knox, Kentucky. This lecture is presented by the Vanderburgh County Historical Society and the Evansville Museum. For complimentary reservations, please telephone the Evansville Museum at 812-425-2406.
Renew Your Membership
The Vanderburgh County Historical Society invites and reminds you to renew your membership for 2015. Our society meets on an annual basis, sponsors public programs and events throughout the year, and is very active in consulting with public officials and private citizens about the need to preserve Vanderburgh County’s history. Promoting and protecting our county’s history is a big job and can only be accomplished with the support of people like yourself who care about the past, who know that our history defines our future as a community, and who believe that Vanderburgh County has a rich and colorful history that should never be lost, forgotten or even temporarily misplaced. Individual memberships begin at $20. You may join via PayPal by visiting our website at www.vchshistory.org.
Lincoln’s Almanac Trial
March 19th’s meeting of the Southern Indiana Civil War Roundtable will feature a presentation on Abraham Lincoln’s Almanac Trial. Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer but an incredibly astute and successful one. His most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended a man charged for murder. The principle evidence in the case was an eyewitness who allegedly saw the crime by the light of the moon, but was later contradicted by Lincoln’s quick-witted use of an Almanac. This presentation will examine how the myths of this dramatic case evolved and how Lincoln actually won the case. The meeting will be held on Thursday, March 19 at the Evansville F.O.P at 7:00 p.m. For more information please visit www.SICWRT.org.

WINE TALK

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BY ROBERT WHITLEY

Gaja, the Next Generation

Coming out of World War II, the vineyards of Italy and the families that tended the vines were devastated. Virtually everyone was poor at the time, so grape growers and winemakers tended to emphasize quantity over quality because wine was their currency.
The hangover from the war kept Italian wine on the skids for the better part of two decades, until a younger generation came along with the crazy idea that there was a different way of doing things.
“When I think of an artisan winemaker, I think of someone who has a crazy idea to do something that no one could ever imagine,” said Gaia Gaja of the Gaja wine family from Barbaresco, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. “Take Bolgheri, for example. At one time it was a swamp. You would never think to make great wine there. Then Sassicaia came along and proved it could be done. Now there are 50 wineries there.”
She was also talking about her father, Angelo, who took over the family winery in 1961, at the age of 21, and turned Gaja into one of the most important names in Italian wine over the next 50 years. The renaissance in Italian wine began with Angelo Gaja in Piedmont and Piero Antinori in Tuscany and continues to this day as Italy stands at the forefront of innovative winemakers with a passion for quality.
Gaia, with a degree in business, oversees that end of the Gaja operation these days though her father, nearing 75, is still active in winery operations on a day-to-day basis.
“I always knew I would go into the family business,” she told me on a recent trip to the United States to visit distributors and key clients. “I loved my grandfather and father, and I always wanted to share in what they had created, to work with them; not to finish but to continue what they started.”
And Gaia acknowledges that it was a crazy idea ever to think a small winery from Barbaresco could become the most famous producer of nebbiolo in the Piedmont.
“Barbaresco was always No. 2,” she said. “The most famous producers of nebbiolo had always been from Barolo. If you were making wine in Barbaresco, you were always trying to be Barolo.
“I am proud that my family could impose itself (in the market and world consciousness) with nebbiolo from Barbaresco. I am proud my father had the vision, that crazy idea that no one could have imagined. I am proud that he was such an innovator and crazy pioneer.”
Gaja, for example, was the first winery in the region to use barriques. Angelo’s work in the cellar was meticulous, and his respect for the work in the vineyards legendary.
Over time, he added two small wineries in Tuscany — Ca’ Marcanda in the Bolgheri district, making Bordeaux-style blends from cabernet sauvignon and merlot, and Pieve Santa Restituta in Montalcino, producing Brunello di Montalcino — to the Gaja stable and both benefit from the attention to detail that is the Gaja touch.
Angelo personally commutes to Tuscany from Barbaresco, sometimes a couple of times a week, to monitor the operations in Tuscany.
“He will be 75 soon, but he runs himself hard,” said Gaia. “This is his life. It is what he feels he has to do. Finally we got him to accept having a driver for the trips to Toscana. It helps him, because otherwise he was up at 4 o’clock in the morning to get ready for the drive to the wineries.”
Even with all of its success, Gaja continues to innovate.
The most obvious example is its decision to eschew a riserva designation for its Brunello, which would require an additional year in barrel.
“In the old days that might have been necessary,” Gaia explains. “The grapes did not get as ripe, and the extra time in the barrel was needed to soften the tannins and smooth the rough edges to make a riserva.
“But today we get that from the sun. The grapes are perfectly ripe when we make the wine. There is no need to leave the wine in the barrel longer. That would ruin it!”
Instead, Pieve Santa Restituta produces two “normale” Brunellos that are vineyard-specific. Of course, vineyard-designate wines are almost unheard of in Montalcino. So Gaja is breaking new ground. So what else is new?
Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru. To find out more about Robert Whitley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Classic Ann Landers

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Dear Ann Landers: I am planning to marry the love of my life in June. “Phillip” is a terrific guy, except when it comes to my 12-year-old daughter, “Beth,” who is very sweet but has attention-deficit disorder. Phillip does not understand that she needs to be reminded of things over and over. When he asks her to do a chore, he expects her to jump to it immediately. He doesn’t realize that Beth is distracted easily and forgets. She isn’t being deliberately disobedient.
I think Phillip is being too hard on Beth when he says she needs more discipline. I agree that Beth may resent Phillip’s presence in my life, but it doesn’t help when he yells at her all the time. I love him dearly, but I’m having second thoughts about what marrying him might do to my daughter. Help me make the right choice. — Unsure in Baltimore
Dear Unsure: Put Phillip in touch with the authority who diagnosed Beth’s problem. When he understands it better, he will be a lot less judgmental. Work at smoothing the way between him and Beth. And don’t let Phillip get away. In a few years, Beth will be gone, and you could be very much alone.
Dear Ann Landers: I lost my wife of 38 years, the love of my life, to cancer, and now I feel that her death was my fault. Years ago, she had a bruise on her breast that would not go away, but she refused to see a doctor. After a while, the skin on her breast took on a thick orange-peel appearance. Despite my pleading, she would not see her doctor about it. More time passed.
She started leaning against walls in order to navigate and thought it was probably an inner-ear infection.
She agreed to see the doctor for an antibiotic. After many tests, the doctor determined she had multiple brain tumors that had metastasized from breast cancer.
I’m convinced that if I had dragged my wife to a doctor when I found out the bruise wouldn’t go away, the cancer might have been controllable. Because of neglect, my wife went through two years of radiation and chemotherapy — all the while wondering when the inevitable would occur. We spent that time traveling and doing things we always had wanted to do together.
When we returned from Hawaii last August, my wife began to deteriorate. Caring for her those last few weeks and watching her slip away was a nightmare. I beg your readers to see a doctor immediately if they detect a bruise that won’t go away or if they find a lump or a mole anywhere. Because we waited too long, I lost my lover, my wife and my pal. — A.V.
Dear A.V.: I hope it will be a comfort to you in your time of grief to know that because you wrote to me, the lives of countless other women will be saved. Your description of the symptoms was wonderfully explicit. Thirty-eight years with the love of your life isn’t a bad run. Thank you, good friend. You’ve performed a marvelous service today.
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Marsha Abell Named Chairman Finance/Fundraising Committee

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Wayne Parke, Chairman VCRP, is pleased to announced that Marsha Abell has accepted the position of Chairman of the Finance/Fundraising Committee with the Vanderburgh County Republican Party. She will also serve as a member of the Central Committee. This position is critical to ensure the VCRP has the financial means to help support our candidates, officeholders and office operations in such a manner that Vanderburgh County voters  are represented by high quality servants who will look after the best interest of Evansville/Vanderburgh County.

 

Marsha brings with her a wealth of political and business experience that will serve the GOP Party and our community very well. Marsha can be reach at; Email: marshaabellbarnhart@gmail.com

 

Local Pastor Attends 15th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage

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THE FAITH & POLITICS INSTITUTE

Local pastor, Rev. Adrian M. Brooks, Sr. attends 15th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage during a time as we commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”.

Selma Alabama, March 6, 2015:  The Faith & Politics Institute is hosting its 15th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to the historic sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.

  • Rev. Brooks was asked to join Senator Joe Donnelly’s congressional group to attend the historic event.
  • The pilgrimage is from Friday March 6 – Sunday March 8, 2015.
  • The purpose of the pilgrimage is to visit various sites within the Alabama area important to the Civil Rights Movement as well as a time for reflection and conversation.  It is the intent that the pilgrimage will help those in attendance to retrieve something from the past that holds meaning and relevance to the present.
  • Since his arrival Friday, March 6, 2015 at 10 am, Rev. Brooks has already met with and spoken with various national and international people including, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, and John Lewis just to name a few.image001
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20-year sentence for $60 drug deal reduced as excessive

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Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com

The 20-year executed sentence a Kokomo man received after pleading guilty to selling an undercover police officer 10 hydrocodone pills for $6 each was excessive, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

The court remanded the case with instructions to enter a 12-year sentence with eight years executed at the Department of Correction in John Norris v. State of Indiana, 34A04-1410-CR-499.

While the panel noted Norris had several previous convictions for drug offenses and a few minor crimes, he hadn’t spent a lot of time at DOC and also had physical and mental health issues.

“But what convinces us that Norris’s sentence is inappropriate and excessive is the relatively innocuous nature of this offense,” Chief Judge Nancy Vaidik wrote for the panel. “That is, Norris sold ten hydrocodone tablets for $60 to a confidential informant during a controlled buy that was closely monitored by the police. Given the small amount of drugs, we find that the maximum twenty-year executed sentence is inappropriate.”

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