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Mamma Mia!

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Dec. 13 @ 7:30pm
Seats are $62, $47 and $32!
Pre-sale is Monday, Oct. 28 at 10:00am through Thursday, Oct. 31 till 10:00pm.
PASSWORD: DANCING
Tickets go on-sale to general public Friday, Nov. 1 at 10:00am.
This is a perfect opportunity for a Dinner and Show, take your company, family, friends or organization!  Gather your group of 15 or more and Relax, Eat and Enjoy! For details contact Megan at 435-5770 ext. 302
Merle Haggard – Oct. 29 @ 7:30pmCMT On Tour: Hunter Hayes Let’s Be Crazy Tour – Nov. 8 @ 7:00pm
Cesar Millan Live! – Nov. 23 @ 8:00pm
Bill Cosby – Dec. 7 @ 8:00pm
Magic Cares 2013 – Dec. 22 @ 2:00pm
Shen Yun 2014 – Reviving 5,000 Years of Civilization – Jan. 28-29 @ 7:00pm
RAIN-A Tribute to the Beatles – Apr. 1 @ 7:30pm
Celtic Woman “The Emerald Tour” – May 6 @ 7:00pm

Junie B. Jones – Feb. 5 @ 9:00am & 12:00pmThe Monster Who Ate My Peas – March 17 @ 9:00am & 12:00pm Are You My Mother? – Apr. 22 @ 9:00am & 12:00pm 

 

BROADWAY AT THE CENTRE 2013-2014  

 Mamma Mia! – December 13 @ 7:30pm
  Straight No Chaser – December 20 @ 7:30pm
 Elvis Lives! – January 8  @ 7:30pm
 Hello Dolly! starring Sally Struthers – January 12 @ 7:00pm
 Bring It On: The Musical – February 9 @ 7:00pm
 Hair – March 10 @ 7:30pm
 Million Dollar Quartet – March 26 @ 7:30pm
   Visit www.smgevansville.com for more information.

Bucshon to Hold Evansville Town Hall

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Representative Larry Bucshon will hold an open town hall event in Evansville on Thursday, October 31 at 6:30pm CDT.  The town hall event will be open to any constituents of Indiana’s 8th Congressional District and is a great opportunity for area residents to present questions to Rep. Bucshon.

Who: Rep. Larry Bucshon

What: Evansville Town Hall

When: Thursday, October 31, 2013 – 6:30PM to 7:30PM CDT

Where: Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center – 1901 Lynch Road Evansville, Indiana 47711

For more information about the event, constituents can contact Erin Pugh at 812-232-0523.

Indiana’s 8th District includes all or parts of Clay, Daviess, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Parke, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Warrick, Crawford, Dubois, Perry, and Spencer counties. 

Glenwood Leadership Academy has been placed in a PRECAUTIONARY Secure Mode

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Glenwood Leadership Academy has been placed in a PRECAUTIONARY Secure Mode, due to an on-going incident in the city, which may be continuing in the vicinity of GLA.  During Secure Mode – no one is allowed in or out of the building. You will receive an all-clear call when the Secure Mode is lifted.

Some of you have asked about the difference between Secure Mode and Lockdown.  Lockdown would imply that there is a possible immediate threat to the building; Secure Mode is a precaution, generally something happening in the neighborhood…  There are different procedures that take place inside the building on each of these forms of securing a building – but we do not release what these things are in order to continue to keep students safe.

Christine Sneed to present RopeWalk Reading October 29

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The fall 2013 RopeWalk Reading Series will continue with a reading by Christine Sneed at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 in USI’s Traditions Lounge in University Center East. A reception and book signing will follow.

Sneed’s story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize in short fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in the first-fiction category, awarded Ploughshares’ 2011 John C. Zacharis Prize for a first book, and was the Chicago Writers Association’s book of the year in the traditionally published fiction category. Her second book, a novel titled Little Known Facts, was recently named Chicago Magazine’s best new book by a local author.

Short stories by Sneed have appeared in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshares, Southern Review, New England Review, Glimmer Train, and other journals. She also was chosen for the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 2013 Twenty-First Century Award, honoring significant recent achievement by a Chicago-area writer.

Sneed holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Indiana University. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Northwestern University and for Pacific University’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts program.

Publications by Sneed are available for purchase at the USI Campus Store and Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Presented by USI’s College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series is made possible through the support of Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts and Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and the USI Student Writers Union.

For more information, contact Nicole Louise Reid, director of the RopeWalk Reading Series, at 812/464-1916.

RIECKEN RESCHEDULES TOWN HALL FOR NOVEMBER 16

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State Rep. Gail Riecken (D-Evansville) announced today that a community town hall originally scheduled for earlier this month now will take place November 16 at the First Presbyterian Church in Evansville.

The town hall will begin at 10 a.m. on November 16 at the church, located at 609 E. Second Street.

“This town hall will give area residents a chance to tell me their priorities for the upcoming 2014 session of the Indiana General Assembly,” Riecken said. “As hard as it might seem to believe, Organization Day to prepare for the 2014 session is Tuesday, November 19. I want to give everyone the chance to tell me what the Legislature needs to do in areas like job creation, education reform, and improving access to health care.

“I also want to use this event to get local input on the actions being taken by the state’s Commission on Improving the Status of Children, a group that I serve on that is looking to improve the delivery  of services to neglected and abused children across Indiana,” she continued. “I believe the best way to achieve that mission is to gain the views of individuals and groups from our area who can bring a local perspective to identifying problems and finding solutions.”

USI Professor to Demonstrate Science Experiments

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Tuesday, October 29
1 – 2 p.m.

Helfrich Park STEM Academy

 

Students don’t normally get to do science experiments where things explode, but thanks to a visit from USI professor Jeffrey Seyler, students at Helfrich Park STEM Academy will get that chance. Seyler will visit the school tomorrow to perform a series of science demonstrations, including the infamous “exploding trashcan,” which demonstrates liquid nitrogen and the physical state changes. Students also will see what happens when hydrogen is used as a fuel source in exploding balloons.

IS IT TRUE October 29, 2013

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IS IT TRUE that Bruce Ungenthiem spoke before the Evansville City Council regarding the 35% premium that people in the unincorporated areas of Vanderburgh County pay for city sewer services?…this unfair practice was started in 2002 on the premise that a new sewage treatment facility would be built on the property that ultimately became a county jail?…Mr. Ungenthiem is accurate in his assertions that there has never been a study done to justify the 35% premium, that all of the construction projects have been in the city, and that none of the over half a billion dollars planned to comply with the EPA mandate are planned for any place outside of the City limits?…he pointed out the burden to prove a disproportional rate is on the municipality?…Mr. Ungenthiem also found nearly a million dollar line item in the budget of the City Sewer and Water Department that covers street sweeping in the City?…no homeowner in the County can possibly benefit from this street sweeping but yet are being charged for this service that they can’t use?

IS IT TRUE Mr. Ungenthiem referred to a calculation based on the assumption that 90% of the users were in the City and 10% are in the county on the cost to equalize the rates?…he stated that the increase to the city required to equalize the rates would be 3%?…the CCO developed an equation to check and came up to 3.5% based on Ungenthiem’s assumptions?…that makes it obvious to us that Mr. Ungenthiem truly does understand his math?…afterward a representative of the City of Evansville stated that the real user ratio was 75% city and 25% county and that this would make an 18.5% increase in the city dweller’s rates to equalize the rates?…the CCO ran the calculations again with the 75/25 assumption and the answer is 8.75% for a city increase to equalize the rates with the county?…the City’s rep either didn’t do the math right or fudged it a bit?…to be fair and to equalize the rates the city dwellers should be assessed an 8.75% increase and county dwellers should be given a 19.5% rate decrease?…going forward any and all increases should be equally assessed to all customers?

IS IT TRUE that certain parts of the ramshackle condition of the City of Evansville cemeteries was once again brought up by political  activist Jordan Baer complete with a compelling video on the dilapidated state of our city owned  graveyards? …Councilwoman Stephanie Riley opined on the disrespectful nature of having many headstones of babies leaned up against a chain link fence located at Locust Hill Cemetery?  … cemetery manager Chris Cooke  stunned those in attendance when he admitted to Councilwoman Stephanie Riley that babies coffins also were buried under the paved road at Locust Hill Cemetery? …that this situation happened before Mr. Cooke took over as cemetery manager?  …it was pointed out that the company that mows the cemetery was letting his dog run free in the cemetery?…Evansville’s cemetery manager Chris Cooke stated in response that he would put Evansville’s public cemeteries up against any others in Indiana?…he probably was correct that getting the cemeteries in good order like the private cemeteries would take many millions of dollars?…Mr. Cooke’s words and body language was quite defensive and in all fairness he may have been mugged without warning?…the truth is Evansville’s cemeteries are in deplorable condition and the funds to keep them in order is non-existent?…this is a rotten situation that is one more piece of a legacy of neglect when it comes to public properties whether it is parks or cemeteries?  …we would like to thank Jordan Baer and Councilwoman Stephanie Riley for taking a strong public stand concerning the dilapidated condition of our city owned and ruined cemeteries?

IS IT TRUE President Obama, who had promised in 2009, “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,” was still saying in 2012, “If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance?”… the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them three years ago and still stood by empty promises that were not true?… “This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” said Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms?…Laszewski estimates that 80 percent of those in the individual market will not be able to keep their current policies and will have to buy insurance that meets requirements of the new law?…it looks as though the website is perhaps the least of the problems associated with the intricacies of Obamacare?

City Council Votes to Defund Roberts Park in 2014 Budget

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The Finance Committee of the Evansville City Council has just made a recommendation to pass a City budget that will eliminate $1.5 Million earmarked for Roberts Park infrastructure from the 2014 budget submitted by the Winnecke Administration. The budget passed by a vote of 7 – 2 with Council members Weaver and Mosby voting no.

Other cuts were also made to the budget in small amounts.

This is a developing story.

Supect in afternoon shots fired investigation to face several charges, including attempted murder

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The suspect in an early afternoon domestic dispute will face several charges.
Police believe 29 year old Ronald W Fenwick fired a shot at his former girlfriend during an argument. She was not injured and was able to get to safety. An Animal Control Officer was on an unrelated complaint about 50 feet away from Fenwick when he fired the gun. He was able to call for police assistance.

Fenwick fled the scene in a car driven by his mother before officers arrived. She was located at another house, but Fenwick was no longer with her. Officers were able to get information that Fenwick was in the south side and checked several addresses.

Fenwick was found at 404 Covert. Members of the EPD SWAT Team were able to surround the house, while uniformed officers helped neighbors get out of harm’s way.

Fenwick was arrested without incident after being talked out of the house by members of the EPD Crisis Negotiation Team.

There were no reported injures during the incident.
Fenwick is facing the following charges:
Attempted Murder
Felon in Possession of a Firearm
Criminal Recklessness
Criminal Confinement