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IS IT TRUE January 15, 1015

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IS IT TRUE we are starting off today with an opportunity to advise our readers of a grass roots effort to save the Owen-Block House that is being spearheaded by some Evansville people who are putting their money where their mouth is in an effort to raise enough money to start the refurbishment process?…while we are sticking by our analysis that this project does not pencil out for a profit driven investor, this group is not really in this for the money?…they are in it for the historical value and the beauty of this classic mansard roof structure?…they put up a Facebook page that already has nearly 1,800 likes and has attracted some donors including this writer who donated some California bucks to the effort?…their Facebook site speaks for itself very well and we submit the following words that can guide an reader who is predisposed to do so on how to support this cause?

Here’s your chance: put your money where your mouse is! Yesterday, 3 major donors stepped up with significant funds for preservation – great news! – but now Indiana Landmarks needs us. Can our community of ‪#‎blockheads‬ raise $220,000 – and quickly? We can, and here’s how:

– Head to the Indiana Landmarks site and click on ‘Donate Now.’ http://bit.ly/SaveOwenBlock. Fill in all info. THEN, be sure, on the next screen, to enter Owen Block in the comments section to earmark your contribution to this effort!

– Prefer to send a check by mail? Make it to Indiana Landmarks and mail to Development, Indiana Landmarks, 1201 Central Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Be sure to write Owen Block in the memo!

– Pledge by phone! Call Indiana Landmarks at 800-450-4534 and ask for Amy Lain. Tell Amy you’re in for a donation to the Owen Block and give her your credit or debit card number. Make Amy Lain’s day!

Here are your reassurances and promises: The Indiana Landmarks site is safe and secure. ALL donations are tax-deductible and will go directly toward Owen Block’s preservation. IF the project does not go forward (which is crazy talk), each donor will have a choice to have their donation refunded OR redirected to another preservation project in Evansville. Boots on the ground, let’s save this building together, with the power of our community and our contributions! Can we do it? We can. And we hope you agree and donate!

Many thanks to any and all who choose to give, whether a very little or quite a lot. Every dollar matters for a preservation effort such as this.

IS IT TRUE this is how support for a downtown convention hotel should have and could still be raised?…when first learning of the effort to save the Owen Block Building, this writer’s first advice was to find 3,000 people who were willing to contribute $1,000 each to support the refurbishment?…the same thing could be done for a downtown convention hotel except the gap of $6.5 Million would need 6,500 people to each donate $1,000 to close the gap?…we already know by the failure of Old National Bank to seek investors with a profit motive and the CCO analysis that the investment route is not one that will ever lead to success?…that does not mean that the donation route will not work?…desperate times call for desperate measures and the CCO wishes the Owen Block Preservation people good fortune in becoming an example for both government and their fellow citizens?…we say hats off to all who are involved?

IS IT TRUE that the days of Evansville waiting around for a handout or a bailout from the rest of the country are over and the time is now for Evansville to get really busy about saving itself from the wrecking ball?…it is engaged citizens that create atmosphere’s of achievement and a sense of civic pride?…if these people can pull this off, they will have put a stake in the ground as a successful intervention group that implements positive change?

IS IT TRUE don’t be surprised to learn that sometime in early 2015 that the City County Observer shall be launching a free in-print newspaper community newspaper that shall be distributed in area retail establishments. …the only question that needs to be resolved is will this free in print community newspaper be a weekly, bi-monthly or monthly publication? …that we shall also continue to publish the CCO on-line daily?

Please take time and vote in todays “Readers Poll”.

Copyright 2015 City County Observer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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 Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Kimberly Embry               Theft-Level 6 Felony

Criminal Trespass-Class A Misdemeanor

Daniel Fuhs                        Resisting Law Enforcement-Level 6 Felony

Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor

Leaving the Scene of an Accident-Class B Misdemeanor

Meko Levels Jr                  Dealing in Synthetic Drug or Synthetic Drug Lookalike Substance-

Level 6 Felony

Visiting a Common Nuisance-Class B Misdemeanor

Diana Pollard                     Legend Drug Deception-Level 6 Felony

Driving While Suspended-Level 6 Felony

Freddie Wiggins              Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Serious Violent Felon-

Level 4 Felony

Dealing in a Sawed-Off Shotgun-Level 6 Felony

Joshua Brown                    Dealing in Synthetic Drug or Synthetic Drug Lookalike Substance-

Level 6 Felony

Maintaining  a Common Nuisance-Level 6 Felony

Jarvis Handy                      Burglary-Level 4 Felony

Theft-Level 6 Felony

Michelle McCoin             Carrying a Handgun without a License-Level 5 Felony

Assisting a Criminal –Level 5 Felony

Possession of a Narcotic Drug-Level 6 Felony

Maintaining a Common Nuisance-Level 6 Felony

Obstruction of Justice-Level 6 Felony

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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EPD Activity Report January 14, 2015

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University of Evansville to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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    The University of Evansville will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 19 with several events, including a re-enactment of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., and the William G. and the Rose M. Mays Martin Luther King Jr. Lectureship. On Jan 20, the film Dear White People, will be shown.

LaNeeça R. Williams, UE diversity and equity officer, notes that each Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the University “strives to encourage solidarity on issues of justice, fairness and equality in order that our students enter the world with a global perspective that they can make a change simply by being a part of as well as appreciating the teaching and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

“This year,” she adds, “is pivotal in reinforcing that in everything that we see across the world from Ferguson to what has recently occurred in Paris.  Now is the time for peace and reflection even more on what Dr. King stood for and fought diligently to overcome.”

The schedule of events is as follows. All events are free and open to the public.

January 19

Noon: UE’s reenactment of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, leaves from the Bernhardt Atrium, Schroeder School of Business Building. Hot drinks will be served before the March, while a video titled “Why I March” plays.

2:00-5:00 p.m.: The March returns to the Schroeder School of Business Building, for Rosa Parks Bus Reenactment tours. A 20-minute tour takes place every half hour. Dimes will be collected to represent the cost of a bus fare in 1955. (The dimes and other money collected will be donated for bus tokens for the homeless.)

4:00 p.m.: Harlaxton Woodwind Quintet Recital featuring the work of black composers, Wheeler Concert Hall, Krannert Hall of Fine Arts.

7:00 p.m.: William G. and Rose M. Mays Martin Luther King Jr. Lectureship, Eykamp Hall (Room 251), Ridgway University Center. The generosity of William G. and Rose M. Mays funds the keynote speaker during UE’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.

This year’s speaker is essayist, professor and poet Ramona L. Hyman, who served as speaker for the Alabama Humanities Foundation and poet-in-residence for the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Huntsville Arts Council. She has a B.A. from Temple University, an M.A. from Andrews University and a PhD from the University of Alabama.

Her topic will be “Let Me Tell You Something About Rosa Parks.” Hyman will discuss the day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, igniting a chain of events that would lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Immediately preceding the lecture, The Mays Legacy Award will be presented to Sondra L. Matthews, a UE graduate. Matthews is editor and publisher of Our Times Newspaper.

January 20

7:00 p.m.: The movie Dear White People will be shown in Eykamp Hall (Room 251), Ridgway University Center. This 2014 American satirical film was written and directed by Justin Simien. It focuses on black students attending an American Ivy League college.

For more information on these events, please call 812-488-2413.

First Lady Karen Pence to Offer Remarks at Labor of Love Announcement Tomorrow

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Indianapolis – Tomorrow, First Lady Karen Pence will join the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) for an announcement regarding the agency’s new infant mortality awareness and education campaign, Labor of Love. The First Lady will offer remarks, as will Dr. Jeff Sperring, Riley Hospital for Children’s President and CEO. Details below.

Wednesday, January 14:

10:00 a.m. EST – First Lady Karen Pence to offer remarks at Labor of Love announcement

*Media are welcome to attend. Parking is available in the Simon Family Tower Garage located at 805 Riley Hospital Drive just south of 10th Street.

Riley Hospital for Children, Simon Family Tower Lobby, 705 Riley Hospital Drive, Indianapolis

 

Appeals court remands grandparents’ visitation order

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Dave Stafford for www.theindianalawyer.com

Grandparents rightly were awarded visitation with their granddaughter after their daughter died, but the Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday a trial court abused its discretion in establishing the amount of time grandparents could spend with the child.

The grandparents of L.W. sought and received a visitation order after their daughter died following a long battle with cancer. She had primary custody of L.W. after divorcing the girl’s father, R.W., a short time earlier.

Judge Rudolph R. Pyle III wrote for the panel that the court didn’t err in granting grandparents visitation over father’s objection. The court gave father’s decisions regarding visitation special weight, didn’t misrepresent the amount of visitation he had allowed grandparents, and properly found grandparents had rebutted the presumption in favor of a fit parent’s decisions regarding grandparent visitation.

“However, we agree that the trial court abused its discretion in the amount of visitation it awarded Grandparents, and we remand to the trial court to amend the amount of visitation awarded,” Pyle wrote for the panel.

The trial court ordered that Grandparents receive structured and unsupervised visitation: one overnight on one weekend during even-numbered months; two overnights on one weekend during odd-numbered months; every Tuesday during the school year until 7 p.m. and during the summer from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; eight hours on Mother’s birthday;  four hours on Grandparents’ birthdays; one overnight during the week of L.W.’s birthday; and five consecutive days during the summer.

“This amount totals approximately seventy-nine days per year, which is higher than the amount we found was an abuse of discretion” in Swartz v. Swartz, 720 N.E.2d 1219, 1221 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999), Pyle wrote. “It is also very similar to the parenting time schedule a non-custodial parent would have.”

The panel remanded to the trial court to establish a visitation schedule that allows grandparents “occasional, temporary visitation that does not substantially infringe on” father’s right to control L.W.’s “upbringing, education, and religious training,” citing the language of Visitation of M.L.B., 983 N.E.2d 583, 587 (Ind. 2013).

The case is In Re the Visitation of L-A.D.W; R.W. v. M.D. and W.D., 82A01-1402-DR-82.

Special Civil War Roundtable

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The Southern Indiana Civil War Roundtable will meet this Thursday, January 15th at 7:00 p.m. at the Fraternal Order of Police lodge at 801 Court Street in downtown Evansville. The meeting will feature musician Mark LaPointe. Through songs he will tell the story of Irish immigrants and their proud service in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mark performs in the uniform of the Union soldier and uses period instrumentation.

Beginning with famine ravaged Ireland, Mark takes you on the immigrant’s journey across the sea to America and through their gloried Civil War service within the ranks of the Irish Brigade. Mark’s music is backed by a haunting slide show of Civil War photos which show the faces of the men who fought and died under their beloved flags of green.

Mark LaPointe is a singer/songwriter who has performed in venues throughout New England, Tennessee, and the Indianapolis area, which he now calls home. He continues to be an invited performer at the world renowned Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and his style has been compared to James Taylor, David Wilcox and Skip Ewing.

The Southern Indiana Civil War Roundtable is open to anyone interested in learning more about the U.S. Civil War. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month at the Evansville F.O.P at 7:00 p.m. For more information please visit www.SICWRT.org or contact Joshua Claybourn at jclaybourn@gmail.com.

PEF/EVSC Official announcement of Summer Musical

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

3:30 p.m.

Reitz Home Museum

The 2015 Public Education Foundation/Evansville  Vanderburgh School Corporation Summer Musical,  will introduce the directing team, and give information regarding auditions.

Cory Kuhlenschmidt, President of the PEF Board of Directors, Dr. Velinda Stubbs, Chief Academic Officer of the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, Amy Walker, Executive Director of PEF, and Tiffany Ball, Manager of Special Projects and Student Programs for the EVSC, will speak briefly and answer questions.

Contact at the event: Amy Walker, PEF Executive Director, 812-480-7406

 

The mission of the Public Education of Evansville, Inc. (PEF) is inspiring and rewarding student-centered innovation in public education.  PEF board, supporters and staff believe that high quality public education is fundamental to the economic, cultural and civic health of our society; and that all students deserve the best possible public education in order to realize their full potential.

Follow PEF on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Public-Education-Foundation-of-Evansville-Inc/), Twitter (PEFEVV), and at www.pefevansville.org

For More Information Contact:  Amy Walker, Executive Director, 812 422-1699 (office) or 812-480-7406 (cell).

State Sen. Vaneta Becker Accepting Student Page Requests

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Local students in grades six through 12 can submit requests to serve as a page with State Sen. Vaneta Becker’s (R-Evansville) office at the Statehouse during the Indiana General Assembly’s 2015 legislative session.

“The Senate Page program is a wonderful opportunity for local students to learn about state government and visit the Statehouse,” Becker said. “From my experience, pages really enjoy their day in Indianapolis where they tour the capitol building, meet with state officials and watch debates on legislation.”

Serving as a page is considered an excused absence from school. The day begins with orientation at 8:30 a.m., and pages are dismissed at 3:30 p.m. Students break for lunch prior to the Senate session.

The program runs from January through April. Students may serve as pages on Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays. Groups serve together on Wednesdays. Due to limited space, applicants need to submit materials as soon as possible.

Students can apply online at www.IndianaSenateRepublicans.com/page-program or send a letter to State Sen. Vaneta Becker, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204.

Applications need to include the student’s name, address, home telephone number, age and school affiliation or home-school status.

After applications are processed, students receive confirmation of his or her scheduled date to serve.

For more information, call 800-382-9467.

 

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