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Altrusa International of Evansville Prepares Books for Multicultural Library
Altrusa International of Evansville Prepares Books for Multicultural Library  
Today, April 2 – 12:30 p.m.
Lodge Community School Media Center
Altrusa International of Evansville last year donated funding for books at Caze Elementary for a Multicultural Library and now, they have done the same for Lodge Community School. Today, students and Altrusa members will be stamping the books donated in the Media Center at Lodge and getting them ready so that they may be used by students.
Contact at the Event or for more information: Â Donna Feagley, Altrusa Member or Principal Robert Eberhart
ECHO Housing Corporation’s Jacobsville Join In Awards $5,000 in Early Action Grants to Jacobsville Neighborhood
ECHO Housing Corporation’s initiative Jacobsville Join In awards funds totaling $5,000 to implement early action projects in the Jacobsville neighborhood. Early actions are opportunities for small improvements to build neighborhood spirit by demonstrating progress to improve the neighborhood. Ten groups were awarded $250 up to $1,000 per project.
Project proposals were asked to incorporate four goals to benefit the neighborhood which comprise of, having an immediate impact on the quality of life in the neighborhood; involving a diverse representation of residents and stakeholders; building collaboration among neighborhood organizations and businesses; and building a foundation for future impact through the Jacobsville Join In process. The funded projects include:
• Jacobsville Area Community Corporation’s Christmas on North Main Parade banners
• Throw Your Worries Away and Engage “Flower Power†neighborhood event
• Jacobsville Neighborhood Improvement Association engagement activities to foster neighborhood relationships
• Jacobsville Join In Infrastructure & Parks Committee healthy living summer program
• Lucas Place Shining Stars Artz in the Park
• DiLegge’s Restaurant beautification and neighborhood clock dedication project
• Media Ministries Inc., Dream Center youth basketball program
• Delaware PTA Trixx Stix program
• Lucas Place II community garden
In 2013, ECHO Housing Corporation’s Jacobsville Join In awarded eight organizations funds totaling $5,071 to implement early action projects in the Jacobsville neighborhood. “We are excited to see the awesome ideas generated this year by neighborhood groups. Jacobsville residents and stakeholders have really taken ownership for small improvements to build neighborhood pride and spirit, while the neighborhood works on the large-scale planning project,†said Jennifer Mason, ECHO Housing Corporation’s JJI Community Mobilizer.
Over the last 12 months, residents and stakeholders have been working to develop goals for the neighborhood and create a plan to improve the quality of life in Jacobsville that can be used to leverage resources to implement the vision for the neighborhood. This planning process is based on a model that is being used successfully in other Indiana communities, but tailored to Jacobsville.
“The neighborhood is moving closer to finalizing the Jacobsville Quality of Life Plan, and should expect an announcement this spring,†said Mason.
Winnecke, “Hotel to be delayed up to 90 days”
The CCO has learned that there will be a delay in construction of the downtown convention hotel in Evansville.
Although administration sources claim that work has already begun on Evansville’s downtown convention hotel,the CCO has confirmed that Dunn Hospitality Group, that also operates a Hilton Hotel on the city’s east side, filed that protest with Hilton.
Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke said today that the downtown hotel project could be delayed for 60 to 90 days while Hilton conducts a market analysis.
Hilton could still pull the franchise, but according to the Mayor HCW Development, is confident that won’t happen.
This is a developing story.
Eykamp Quartet For The Arts Council
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Who:Â Eykamp Quartet
What:Â Free Evening Performance
When:Â April 2nd, 7pm
Where:Â Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, 318 Main St. Evansville, IN
This event is open to the public. The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana is wheelchair accessible. Any questions can be directed to (812) 422-2111 or info@artswin.org.
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For more information about the Eykamp String Quartet, visit www.evansvillephilharmonic.org.
For more information about the Arts Council and to see upcoming events visit, www.artswin.org.
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New coalition announces results of public opinion poll on smokefree air
EVANSVILLE ENJOYED AND NOW EXPECTS SMOKEFREE AIR
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Smokefree Evansville, a new coalition of concerned health advocates, has called on local elected officials to bring back a smokefree air ordinance for the city of Evansville. The group released the results of a recently conducted public opinion survey, commissioned by the Survey Research Center at Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) on what would have been the two year anniversary of the city’s smokefree air ordinance.  Anne Mitchell, Interim Director at the Survey Research Center IUPUI, was on hand at a news conference held by Smokefree Evansville to release key findings of the survey. Key findings include:
   There was widespread support for the law:  Seventy-five percent of Evansville adults indicated support for the law which was in place from April 1, 2012 up until February 11, 2014, and made most public places in Evansville, including workplaces, restaurants, bars, and private clubs smokefree.
People want a stronger law:Â Sixty nine percent of residents favored amending the smokefree air ordinance to include the casino. Eighty-six percent of Evansville adults and 65 percent of smokers feel that all Evansville workers, including casino workers, should be protected from exposure to secondhand smoke in their workplaces.
People continued to support business:Â A majority of residents (84 percent) went out as often as before or more frequently.
People were healthier: Eighty-nine percent agreed that restaurants and bars were healthier for customers and employees when they were smokefree. During the law, 26 percent of current smokers stated that they were smoking fewer cigarettes and 34 percent had thought about quitting smoking.
Smokefree Evansville is calling on Evansville’s elected officials to take note of the results of this survey,†said Cathy Engel, member of Smokefree Evansville, “and stand on the side of good public health policy for the future of our community by enacting a new smokefree air ordinance.â€
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Smokefree Evansville is a coalition of concerned citizens that are fighting to protect the health and well-being of those who are affected by secondhand smoke in their workplace.
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As a result, Smokefree Evansville’s coalition is encouraging city leaders to bring back a stronger smokefree indoor air ordinance than the one they passed in 2012, one that includes protection for every worker in Evansville. Â
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Smokefree Evansville strongly believes that no one, no matter where they work, should have to choose between their health and their paycheck.
Attitudes toward Smoking in Public Places – Evansville, Indiana
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Author: Survey Research Center at IUPUI, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis
Survey Introduction
Smoke Free Communities commissioned a public opinion survey from the Survey Research Center at IUPUI. The public opinion survey was conducted in Evansville, Indiana for the purpose of assessing public opinion about smoking and secondhand smoke and gauging the public’s support for a recently enacted law requiring smoke free public places.
Sample Description: N = 601, representative of adults in Evansville with a margin of error no greater than +/- 3.9% (87% white, 38% had a college degree or higher, 20% were current smokers)
Public Support for Smoke Free Workplaces
Nearly three-quarters of adults in Evansville favored the smoke free air law which includes workplaces, restaurants, bars and clubs.
58% of Evansville adults said they continue to go out as often as before the smoke free air law was implemented; 26% said they go out more often; and just 15% said they go out less often.
Public HealthÂ
89% of Evansville adults agreed that restaurants, bars and other workplaces are healthier for customers and employees after the implementation of the smoke free air law.
Right to Breathe Smoke Free Air
When asked about restaurants, bars, casinos and other public places, 89% of adults in Evansville felt that the rights of those who wish to breathe smoke free air take precedence over those who wish to smoke indoors.
66% of respondents felt that exposure to secondhand smoke is a serious health hazard.
The vast majority of Evansville adults (86% overall), including current smokers (66%), felt that all Evansville workers, including casino workers, should be protected from exposure to secondhand smoke in their workplaces.
Public Support for Strengthening the Law
The majority of adults in Evansville favored amending the smoke free air law to include casinos.
Nearly 50% of Evansville adults favored amending the smoke free air law to include electronic cigarettes. 9% of respondents felt they didn’t know enough about e-cigarettes.
Conclusion
As in other similar surveys throughout Indiana, there is a strong recognition by the public in Evansville, IN of the hazards of secondhand smoke. The majority of adults in Evansville favor the smoke free air law which was enacted on April 1, 2012. The vast majority report that their patronage at bars and restaurants has either stayed the same or increased since the law took effect. Data are unclear about whether Evansville adults would support strengthening the ordinance to include electronic cigarettes. However, data do indicate that Evansville residents would favor strengthening the ordinance to include casinos.
Guest column: Government should get out of the business of marriage
By Mike Delph
State senator
With the flurry of federal litigation regarding Indiana’s marriage statute, a law that has been on the books since 1986, it appears that our Hoosier society is on the verge of walking through a door never negotiated. Homosexuality is probably the most discussed sin in a sea of hundreds. This Christian certainly stands in the front of the line of those in need of mercy and grace. But what the litigation suggests is indeed profound in terms of how our society orients itself and more importantly governs itself.
State Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel
You see principles of self-government were always predicated on a strong moral foundation usually anchored by our value system based in large part on the Bible. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.†Back then, it’s hard to imagine these rights included gay marriage or civil unions. Especially when the Creator referenced is the same Creator from the Bible, the same Bible that references homosexuality as “an abomination in the sight of God.â€
Rights come from God and are inalienable, meaning they cannot be taken away by man, or more importantly, by government. Governments are instituted among men to protect those rights. Not even courts have the power to create or remove rights. So how can a right exist that does not come from our Creator and what modern rights do we honestly believe are divinely inspired as opposed to invented and imposed by a left-wing orthodoxy?
Probably the biggest mess of all was when the government started involving itself in marriage. Tax benefits, estate planning benefits, societal legitimacy are all things traditional marriage brings participants. Even so the stability of society from traditional two parent families has served our state and nation well for years. This is what we are walking away from in our unquenchable thirst for political correctness and false tolerance.
Now there is evidence that not only will businesses be sued for operating according to their own faith traditions, but churches themselves can be sued if they refuse to ordain a union their God rejects. Social order has been inverted and no one knows the impact, not even the staunchest advocates for this hard turn to the left. I recall a lecture down in Bloomington when I was in college by William F. Buckley. He was answering a question regarding the legalization of marijuana, something to which he seemed sympathetic. He said that until societies truly understand the social costs and benefits of public policy and know that the benefit outweighs the cost, they should tread carefully. No one knows the end of the path we now walk.
Perhaps we should consider this in the case of opening the floodgates to traditional marriage. No one with a soul wants someone harmed or discriminated against for being gay. But they also don’t want 200 plus years of social norms flushed down the drain without knowing the impact on the world. This is our dilemma. We are becoming a society and world without boundaries. Anything goes if it has a market.
The liberal indoctrination is endless as we watch cultural elitists attack traditional values and bedrock American social norms. Mickey Maurer, owner of the IBJ, and John Krull, journalism director at Franklin College and publisher of The Statehouse File (and former head of the ICLU), have both used their positions and media outlets to promote intolerance of traditional social norms, including long held Judeo-Christian views. Political reporters Brian Howey and Jim Shella reinvent the chic diet of false entitlement, false rights, and false fairness while attacking proponents of traditional values suggesting a seemliness and dirtiness for those that cling to their guns and Bibles. And they are all supposed to be friends of the American experience, friends of freedom when it agrees with their perverted worldview.
It’s past time that we consider removing marriage completely from the confines of government, and let the church and other faith-based institutions marry according to their own belief systems and traditions. If I have learned anything over the last months in the HJR3 debate, opponents of traditional Judeo-Christian values don’t fight fair or with honor. They fight to win, and to date have been very successful. I have to give the devil his due. But the issue is still unresolved and thinking members of faith still have time to engage. There is hope for an outcome where we all can win. By then we may have a better understanding of the net social cost or benefit from the path we march down.
Mike Delph is a Republican state senator from Carmel representing Senate District 29.Â
Social media push boosts calls to Evansville’s legal advice service
The Evansville legal community, worried that its monthly talk-to-a-lawyer program was losing popularity, turned to the place where it seems everyone gathers – cyberspace.
Calls coming to talk-to-a-lawyer had dropped to an average of 35 to 50 per month, according to Scott Wylie, president of the Evansville Bar Association. Also, the questions many of the callers asked had been shifting from the family law and landlord-tenant issues to estate planning and probate. Many attorneys wondered what was happening when they realized the program’s advertising was limited largely to newspapers which often attract an older demographic.
To engage younger people, the legal community began touting the free advice program on Facebook. The Evansville Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee wrote a blurb, giving the time and phone number of the talk-to-a-lawyer event and invited callers. Then members of the bar association, the Evansville Bar Foundation and the Pro Bono District posted the blurb on their Facebook pages.
In addition, the access committee also created a Facebook page, “Free Legal Advice Evansville.â€
So far, the social media push has been successful. March 6 at the EBA offices in Evansville, the phones rang almost non-stop and call volume increased to almost 70 during the two-and-a-half-hour event. Wylie believes the message on Facebook not only alerted the public to the call-in program but also enabled attorneys to direct people, who they could not assist, to legal help.
The boost that appears to have come through social media, said Wylie, “has allowed us to remember that it’s important for us to reach all members of the general public. It’s more about being thoughtful and making sure legal help is available to everyone.â€
INDIANA STATE POLICE TO PARTICIPATE IN SPECIAL OLYMPICS INDIANA’S TEXAS ROADHOUSE TIP-A-COP WEEK
SPONSORED BY DEFENSE ATTORNEY IVAN ARNAEZ.
 DON’T GO TO COURT ALONE. CALL IVAN ARNAEZ @ 812-424-6671.
Indiana State Police along with county and local law enforcement officers and Special Olympics Indiana team up with six Texas Roadhouse restaurants for the very first time to benefit over 11,000 Hoosier athletes with intellectual disabilities. Tip-A-Cop will take place between 4p.m. and 10p.m., from April 7 to 10, 2014. The event, part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run® (LETR), will start at the Richmond and Columbus Texas Roadhouse branches, before visiting Greenwood, Bloomington and Terre Haute, culminating in a final evening at Southport (Indianapolis).
Law enforcement officers will trade badges for aprons as they collect tips from Texas Roadhouse customers; all money donated goes directly to Special Olympics Indiana. The head of the state police, Superintendent Doug Carter, said, “The Indiana State Police, and law enforcement in general, have a bond with Special Olympics and are pleased to be part of the tip-a-cop fundraising event.†This year continues to build the strong law enforcement Tip-A-Cop tradition benefitting Special Olympics Indiana.
As an LETR signature fundraising event, Tip-A-Cop invites Hoosier residents to attend one of the selected Texas Roadhouse locations, without the need of a promotional flyer, and chose from the full menu. Customers are encouraged to donate gratuities, a “Special tipâ€, to law enforcement “celebrity waitersâ€; in doing so they will help to raise funds and awareness for adults and children with intellectual disabilities. Throughout its history, the Tip-A-Cop fundraising event, with various restaurant partners, has generated over $2.5 million for Special Olympics.
Tip-A-Cop will take place from 4p.m.-10p.m. at the following Texas Roadhouse branch locations:
Monday, April 7-Columbus and Richmond
Tuesday, April 8-Greenwood
Wednesday, April 9-Terre Haute and Bloomington
Thursday, April 10-Southport (Indianapolis)
More information about Tip-A-Cop can be accessed at:Â www.soindiana.org