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Remembrance of 9/11‏

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EVSC

North High School 

Social Studies High School Students

Times: 9:12-10:42 a.m.
10:49 a.m.-12:19 p.m.
1:15-2:45 p.m.
15331 Highway 41 N

 

Teacher Aubrey Clarke will show a video of the day as it was happening. He will then have 30 minutes of discussion around these topics: I was 39 and some of you were 4, 5, 6 years old.. I was on my way to class at OCU. What were you doing? Still in bed at home? At play? Day care, pre-school K or 1st grade?” What were you told? Did know what was going on? Or were not you told? Why/why not?  – What do we now understand about the event? / What?/who  are the “us” / “them” today?

General view of the news as it was coming out; what happened and what we did that day, does it have meaning to our culture? What was being said as it came out? And to whom, what & why? – Have the class talk as much as we can about the facts as they understand them. What does this day mean to you? What will it mean to your children?

Other items as they come up.

 

Clarke says: “As the years have gone by I find that less of our kids have a ‘feel’ for the day. At best they have views that are not theirs. How old do we need to be for it to be something that we saw and that we feel? When does an event become history? My mother knew people who were killed on Dec 7, 1941. Her older brothers were in WWII. To me WWII was a lesson in my US History class, an event to study, to know the date. To understand that this was the reason the US went to war.”

 

“Should be eye opening…for me & for them.”

 

Aubrey Clarke

Social Studies Dept.

North High School (EVSC)

 

 

An Open Letter to the City Council Regarding the Hotel Funding Decision

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Fort Wayne Covention Hotel

Open Letter to City Council on the Decision to Vet Hotel

Evansville, September 10, 2013:

The following is an open letter to the City Council from an Administrator of the Facebook protest page, Citizens of Evansville against a Taxpayer Funded Hotel.

Dear Esteemed City Council Members,

We are aware you just voted Monday to extend the vetting process and require more information of developer HCW. We are also aware that an Indiana company Crowe-Horwath was selected by an 8-1 margin to perform the additional vetting and produce a report.

While we applaud the efforts of Councilman John Friend in requesting this additional information, and while we appreciate the deliberative efforts of the eight City Council members who voted for the vetting to continue, we feel there is already plenty of information contained within the Hunden Report and within the proposal itself to warrant a vote of “no”.

It is our belief that even if all requested paperwork is in perfect order and it turns out HCW’s history is spotless, the council will still ultimately be faced with the same decision with which they started – whether or not to GIFT $37.5 million to a private, out-of-state developer to build a hotel that is twice the size the market will bear.

Placing too much emphasis on additional vetting, we feel, is a red herring that distracts from existing facts. If the ethics of this deal alone aren’t enough upon which to base a decision, then surely the findings of the $105,000 Hunden Study are enough. It is our hope when all this vetting is complete that the Council will return a vote of “no”, regardless of the Crowe-Horwath findings.

Sincerely,
Brad Linzy
https://www.facebook.com/EvansvilleSaysNo

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT 9-9-2013

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EPD PATCH 2012

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT 9-9-2013

Groundbreaking Ceremony Planned for Perry Heights Middle School Gymnasium

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EVSC

Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1 p.m.

Immediately south of Perry Heights, 5800 Hogue Road

Great b-roll will be available.  Student participation, individual interviews with school leaders, board members, etc…

 

Plaza Park to Host Family Literacy Night

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EVSC

Tuesday, September 10

6 – 7:30 p.m.

Plaza Park International Prep Academy, 7301 Lincoln Ave.

 

Plaza Park International Prep Academy has been working to promote literacy to students and their families and tomorrow, the school will host a Family Literacy Night. As part of the event, each student will showcase projects they have created surrounding reading. Some students made displays, home-made bookmarks, or other crafts that promote literacy and their favorite books while other students will present book talks or a readers’ theatre to engage visitors. In addition, the middle school students also will be reading picture books to younger children in the school’s library.

 

The event will be arranged like a gallery walk or an open house. Booths will be set up with crafts and snacks in the hallway and presentations will be set up in designated areas.

 

Evansville Water & Sewer Utility to host interactive, televised public meeting Sept. 16

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cityofevansvilleUtility to discuss proposed rate increases, answer questions live on WNIN, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.

The Evansville Water & Sewer Utility is hosting an interactive, televised public meeting about the proposed sewer rate increase and the capital projects driving the need for additional funding.

What: Investing in Evansville’s Sewer System: A Community Conversation

When: 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 16, 2013

Where: WNIN (PBS, channel 9)

Audience Value: Viewers will have an opportunity to submit questions by phone, email, Facebook and Twitter. To join the discussion on Facebook or Twitter, use the hashtag #AskEWSU. Submit questions through email: RenewEvansville@ewsu.com. The call‐in number is (812) 426‐7400.

The rate increase would affect all EWSU customers residential, commercial and industrial. For more information on the proposed rate increases, including a fact sheet and the Utility’s presentation to City Council, visit http://www.ewsu.com/index.aspx?page=3056. A copy of the WNIN broadcast will be posted online in the days following the event.

Libertarian Andrew Horning to run for IN 8th CD, calls for series of public town hall debates –

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Andrew Horning

Janitors play an important role. You’d never think of hiring one without interviewing the applicants face-to-face. At the very least you would do your best to determine who’d be most likely to be an asset instead of a liability; who would show up on time, and not be an embarrassment to your firm. If you’re smart, you’ll interview as many janitorial candidates as possible, and gather as much information as possible before making your choice. Should hiring a congressman be so much less rigorous than our process for hiring janitors, or cashiers, or…anything else? This is no joke. We The People are in terrible trouble in no small part because we make life and death choices with terrible, shallow, irrelevant and even false information. We hire by labels, slogans, words written by people who aren’t even applying for the job, with money from you-know-very-well-where. I am applying for the job of Indiana’s 8th US Congressional district Representative. This job is important enough that there should be serious, in-depth and in-person job interviews with tough questions and non-scripted answers. Voters should see what their options really are; not just the crafted “message” and marketing that tainted money buys. I propose at least one public forum in each of CD 8’s 18+ counties; and I propose the format of the forums be designed to discourage canned speeches and maximize public interaction. And of course I propose that these forums include all candidates who will be on the ballot in 2014. I applaud the League of Women Voters for the televised debates they’ve sponsored for this district, and of course hope for another televised debate. But voters need all the information they can get; and they should have no excuses for not getting it. It is important; now more than ever.

EFD Assigns New Positions

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EFD

 

With the temporary assignment of Battalion Chief Cliff Weaver to EMA Interim Director, Fire Chief Mike Connelly needed to fill the Chief Fire Marshal’s position within his Fire Prevention Division. Recently Chief Connelly promoted District Chief Dan Grimm to the temporary rank of Battalion Chief to assume those duties. Grimm, the longtime spokesperson for EFD, says he looks forward to the challenge but admitted he’ll miss his PIO role. “I’ve made a lot of friends in the media over the past 12 years” Grimm stated, “and I hope to run into them from time to time around town”.

 

District Chief Bruce Woodward assumes the Department’s PIO role today. You can reach District Chief Woodward at 436-4464 or by email; bwoodward@evansvillefiredepartment.com

Publishers Clearinghouse Scam

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ISP

 

Another scam has recently begun to surface in southeastern Indiana and could very well be occurring statewide. Though not a new scam, it has been successful for the scammers in other areas of the United States. The scam works like this; a person will receive a phone call advising them they have placed second or third in the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and have won hundreds of thousands of dollars and they are asked to wire money via Western Union cover taxes and processing fees. DON’T FALL FOR THIS SCAM!

If you receive a call such as this, ask yourself this question, “Did I enter the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes?” If you didn’t enter or send anything in, how could you be a winner? If you did enter, check the phone number from which you received the call, particularly the area code. Visit http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html to get a listing of area codes. The most recent calls in southeastern Indiana originated from area code “876,” a Jamaican area code. If the area code is from outside the U.S., BEWARE!

The actual Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes winners are never contacted by phone and they do not have to pay any money up front to receive their cash prize. It is important to remember, if you fall for one of these scams and send money to some location within the U.S, it’s nearly impossible for U.S. law enforcement to recover the money and locate the scammers. If the money is sent outside the United States, there is absolutely nothing U.S. law enforcement can do to help you recover your loss. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. DON’T BE A VICTIM!!

IS IT TRUE September 10, 2013

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Mole #3 Nostradamus of Local Politics
Mole #3 Nostradamus of Local Politics

IS IT TRUE that the article written by Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Christy Gillenwater that referred to downtown Evansville as a “ghost town” and stating that “we need a plan, we need a time line, and we need a leader” was published by the Evansville Courier and Press on September 3, 2013?…her backtrack article where she referred to Mayor Winnecke as a “visionary” was published on Sunday September 8, 2013?…in a search of the CP under the name Gillenwater the tag line for the first article is still on record but when you click on the article a Code 404 error comes up?…that means that the CP has sanitized their own website and removed the “ghost town” article?…it seems as though there is a concerted effort to going on to keep the “ghost town” article from ever being read again?…negative feedback that is presented in a constructive manner describes the “ghost town” article very well and it is counterproductive to try and propagandize that article out of circulation?

IS IT TRUE that another of the SNEGAL (sneaky but legal) acts of the Weinzapfel Administration that has been carried forth by the Winnecke Administration has been presented to the City Council and is about to result in the right thing being done?…Klenck Construction who cleared the lot where someday we all hope a hotel will be and got stiffed by Woodruff Hospitality LLC for work done on the City of Evansville owned lot?…Councilman John Friend has been pushing for Klenck Construction to be paid the $355,000 that they earned prevailed last night when the Evansville City Council voted 9 – 0 to pay Klenck for their work on the lot?…it was good to see justice done and to see SNEGAL’s ugly work overturned?

IS IT TRUE in another big oversight of the Weinzapfel Administration part of the $37.5 Million that the City of Evansville is now expected to spend to get a hotel is to provide storage that should have been part of the Ford Center design and construction?…this building is going to cost the people of Evansville over $5 Million and it should have been part of the $127 Million spent on the Ford Center?…the CCO thinks that all of the funds that are coming back due to overbilling and all political contributions that were paid to the Weinzapfel for Mayor campaign should be used to pay for this storage space?…any dollars that the Ford Center was under budget should be applied to this gross oversight?…whoever designed a building that has insufficient storage and called it a modern arena needs to have their head examined?

IS IT TRUE a portion of the funds that the City of Evansville gets annually from Tropicana and affectionately called “Riverboat Money” is planned to be used for payments on the debt incurred to pay HCW to build a hotel in downtown Evansville?…this is a direct taking of taxes from the hands of a taxpaying business that employs more than 1,000 people in Evansville and giving it to a direct competitor in the same area?…Dunn Hospitality as we know has heartburn over this issue but what is being done to Tropicana really is a direct act of taxing McDonalds to give money to Burger King?…this sends a very rotten message to businesses everywhere that may have an interest in Evansville as a place to establish a branch plant?

IS IT TRUE we hope that the 2012 audit is completed and that it is fully established that the City of Evansville can balance their books before any vote on a hotel giveaway is held?…this is the only responsible thing to do?…we also hope that the eventual location of the IU Medical School is known before a vote is held because if the IU Medical School goes to the medical campus in Warrick County as is strongly rumored the size and nature of the hotel needed may be dramatically impacted?

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