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Hoosier Taxpayers Taking Advantage of the Automatic Taxpayer Refund Credit

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INDIANAPOLIS (March 11, 2013) – More than 1.5 million taxpayers already have taken advantage of Indiana’s Automatic Taxpayer Refund (ATR) credit as of March 10. About 76 percent of all taxpayers filing as of March 10 have qualified for the credit.

More than $171 million has been awarded to Hoosier taxpayers so far this season. At this point, the state is on target in projecting the amount of money to be distributed. By the closing of the tax season, the department expects to award approximately $361 million in ATR credits to Hoosier taxpayers – funded entirely out of excess reserves at the close of fiscal year 2012.

In 2011, the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation providing for an Automatic Taxpayer Refund credit for eligible Indiana taxpayers when the state budget surplus exceeds 10 percent of the state’s appropriations. While tax year 2012 is the first year the credit is available, going forward it may be available every budget year (odd year) if a state budget surplus over a certain amount exists.

The refundable credit authorized for the 2012 tax year is $111 per eligible taxpayer ($222 for an eligible married couple filing a joint return). Dependents are not eligible to claim the ATR credit unless filing their own state tax return.

For more information on the ATR credit, please visit www.in.gov/dor/4761.htm, or if you have any questions specific to your return, please contact the department at (317) 232-2240 or contact us online at www.in.gov/dor/3392.htm.

North, Reitz Yearbook, Newspaper Receive Accolades

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North and Reitz high schools’ yearbooks and newspapers received accolades recently from two distinguished organizations. Both schools received awards from the University of Southern Indiana’s High School Media Day and from the Southern Illinois School Press Association (SISPA).

USI’s High School Media Day is sponsored by USI and the Scripps Howard Center for Media Studies and includes workshops and contests on the USI campus.

At the competition, North High School’s yearbook received a second place award for best coverage and a third place award for best student life section.

In addition, Reitz High School’s yearbook, Reflections, received the following awards:
•1st place – Best advertising section
•3rd place – Best yearbook coverage
•3rd place – Best community section
•3rd place – Best page design

The Mirror, Reitz’s school newspaper, also received honors from USI. The Mirror received a third place in Best of Show. Individual awards were submitted separately for judging in 12 different categories.

Works from the 2012-2013 Mirror that were entered into individual contests and received awards were:
•1st place Best feature Story – Caitlin Cannon
•1st place Best Sports photo – Baylee Miller
•1st place- Best editorial – Zoe Grabow
•2nd place Best feature story – Maddie Bogan
•2nd place Best News Photo – Lindsey Williams
•3rd place Best Sports photo – Maddy Harmon
•3rd place Best Overall Newspaper

Southern Illinois School Press Association Conference Awards

Both schools also competed in the Southern Illinois School Press Association Conference Awards. North’s yearbook received a second place in photography at the conference and Reitz’s newspaper, The Mirror, was awarded a Blue Banner which denotes overall excellence and is based on a judging of the entire newspaper. This is the fourth straight Blue Banner award for the newspaper and the fifth out of eight years. It also is the 10th award for John Wells, advisor at Reitz High School.

Works from the 2012-2013 Mirror that were entered into individual contests and received awards were:

· 2nd Place – Lauren Schellenberg for Sports Story – “Utilizing teamwork and fresh faces”

· 2nd Place – Josselinne Torres for Computer-Produced Graphics – “Don’t Text and Drive”

· 3rd Place – Haley Ruckman for Sports Story – “Wrestlers prepared to hit mats with tough pre-season schedule”

· 3rd Place – Baylee Miller for Photography w/ Caption – “Wrestling”

· Honorable Mention – Taylor Bogard for Sports Column – “The importance of ritual and superstitions”

· Honorable Mention – Maddie Bogan for Humorous Column – “Senioritis”

· Honorable Mention – Maddie Bogan for News Story – “Students pursue early graduation”

· Honorable Mention – Jessica Lynch for News Story – “PTA clothing band gets a surprise gift”

· Honorable Mention – Chloe Hollen for Feature Story – “Animals in the science department”

· Honorable Mention – Katie Healy for Sports Story – “Football team makes it to regionals”

In addition, the 2012 Reflections yearbook received a Golden Dozen award. This marks the seventh Golden Dozen award given to Reitz’s yearbook in the past eight years and the sixth in a row. Entries for the Golden Dozen award were sent from schools from Evansville to St. Louis and Paducah, Ky., to Springfield, Ill.

The Reflections received the following awards from the 2012 yearbook:

· 1st Place – Copywriting

· 1st Place – Advertising Section

· 1st Place – Overall Layout

· 2nd Place – Overall Coverage

· 3rd Place – Overall Graphics

· Honorable Mention – Cover Design

Work from Reitz’s 2013 yearbook, currently in production, was singled out for the following awards:

· 1st Place – Angela Merritt for Yearbook Sports Photography

· 2nd Place – Sarah TenBarge for Yearbook Feature Photography

· 3rd Place – Sports Layouts

The Southern Illinois School Press Association is sponsored by Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. Each year, for the past 63 years, the two organizations host the winter conference, offering yearbook and newspaper contests, workshops, and on-site competitions.

EVSC DECA Students to Compete at International Competition

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Two students from Central High School will represent the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation at this year’s DECA International Career Development Conference April 23 – 28 in Anaheim, Calif. Kimber Dugger and Jodi Ganapathy competed in the financial literacy promotion project at the state competition last week and earned first place and the opportunity to advance. The team will compete against other students from the United States, Guam Puerto Rico and Canada at the international competition.

Students qualify by advancing through a series of competitions at the district and state levels. At each level of competition, students were required to take a 100-question test covering basic business, marketing, economics, and specialized area concepts. In addition, they participated in role playing and case study situations in front of judges.

The International Career Development Conference is attended by approximately 14,000 members, advisors, business people and alumni every year. Top competitors in each event category are recognized for their outstanding achievements and earn scholarship money as well as cash prizes.

Other students who received awards at the state level, but will not attend the international conference include:

· Ashleigh Carroll, Courtney Frank and Gretl Schuerger, all from Central, who earned an honorable mention in Community Service Project

· Taylor Cravens, Kendra Gerst and Alex Harger, all from North, who placed as finalists in the Entrepreneurship Written Project

· Evonna Tramill, from Bosse, who placed third in Marketing Management

· Brandon Medcalf and Brandon Schu, from Central, who placed 4th overall in Sports & Entertainment Promotion Plan

DECA, An Association of Marketing Students, is a 60 year-old co-curricular club that assists students in preparing for future careers in marketing, management and entrepreneurship.

Burglaries continue on East Side

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Evansville Police continue to get reports of residential burglaries on the east side despite several arrests during their on-going investigations.
Police are asking the public to help watch their own neighborhoods and to call 911 to report any suspicious activity. There have been several reports from homeowners about people knocking on their doors in the evening and offering home improvement services. The homeowners thought it was suspicious because there were no work trucks and the person did not have any tools or items that identified them as a worker for any company. Police believe these people might be targeting the home and will break in of nobody answers. Police are asking anyone who gets one of these visits to remember as much info as possible about the person or type of vehicle.
Police warn against agreeing to any unsolicited work in or around your home. They also suggest you document the serial numbers for all of your property. Any items that do not have serial numbers, like jewelry, should be photographed. Doing those things can help during the investigation and will help you when you file an insurance claim.

Injured Officer vying for mobility van

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Evansville Police Department’s Crime Analyst Curt Todd is in a competition to win a new mobility van. For those not familiar with Curt, he was hired on to EPD in 1992 and became disabled from a serious spinal cord injury incurred on duty in 1995 assisting EFD on a run aiding an elderly female in need of extrication. He is entered in the contest as an Evansville Local Hero. There is an excellent 2 minute video on the voting link summarizing why we feel he is a deserving Local Hero. Entrants may receive votes from same person each day it is not a one vote per person contest.
If you click the link and it says “You’ve already voted today” that only means someone already voted from that internet account that day, try another one such as your smart phone or home computer! If you get the Already Voted notice you can still play the brief video, it’s quite good.Voting ends midnight May 10th.
Make it part of your daily internet routine on your home computer and on your smart phone! Feel free to use the social media icons at the bottom of the voting page to share the link to your social media pages!
http://www.mobilityawarenessmonth.com/entrant/curt-todd-evansville-indiana

1st EPD Virtual Ride-Along set for March 14th

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The Evansville Police Department will do their first Virtual Ride- Along program this Thursday, March 14th. The ride-along will be from 3pm-7pm. This program will give you real-time tweets as you follow Officer Steve Hicks while he patrols the west side. To get the Virtual Ride-Along tweets, you must sign up to follow us on Twitter at VirtualEPD. This is a separate account from the regular EPD twitter feed.
We hope to interact with twitter followers as the situation allows us to. This program has been used in a few other communities, but is new to our area. We hope it is something that the public finds worthwhile. We will see how it works out and go from there.

B.B. KING PERFORMING AT VICTORY THEATRE

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Date: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013 AT 8:00PM
Location: VICTORY THEATRE
On-Sale: FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 AT 10:00AM
Sales Locations: FORD CENTER TICKET OFFICE, ALL TICKETMASTER LOCATIONS, TICKETMASTER.COM, CHARGE BY PHONE: 800-745-3000
Artist Website: BBKING.COM
Produced by Outback Concerts. Media contact: Stefanie Porolniczak at stefanie@outbackconcerts.com.

SILVER ALERT-CANCELLATION

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Indiana Regional Silver Alert on Donald Eugene Hickman Sr. has been cancelled as of 9:10 a.m. EST today. Mr. Hickman has been located. This cancellation was requested by the Carroll County Sheriff, and additional information may be obtained by contacting that office at 765-564-2413.

IS IT TRUE March 11, 2013

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IS IT TRUE March 11, 2013

IS IT TRUE it has been pointed out to the City County Observer that the Courier Press recently reported on the Bond rating of the City of Evansville relative to the Ford Center?…this person just wanted to keep the people of Evansville informed that the Courier was comparing apple to oranges?… the Evansville Redevelopment Authority (ERA), which is totally separate from the City of Evansville, owns the Ford Center and issued the bonds that paid for the Ford Center?…the ERA then leases the Ford Center to the City?…during the audit process, the SBOA (State Board of Accountancy), will NOT be performing audit procedures concerning the ERA?… as such, should the City of Evansville encounter an adverse opinion due to the condition of the City’s records, the bond rating of the Arena will NOT be effected at all?… it was misleading to report, or insinuate that the Citizens of City have nothing to be concerned about regarding their bond ratings should we unfortunately receive less than a favorable audit opinion?

IS IT TRUE the Blue Angels that have been scheduled to perform at the Evansville Shriner’s Fest this summer have been cancelling shows across the country due to the budget cuts known as SEQUESTER?…we should know in a very short time if the Blue Angels will be coming to Evansville or not?…military shows like the Blue Angels always add to the crowd size in towns across the country and are seen as a welcome shot in the arm bringing tourist dollars to the towns they choose to perform in?…if these cities and towns had to foot the full cost to the American taxpayers for the performance they may be singing a different song?…it was reported yesterday that one Blue Angels performance uses about $100,000 just in jet fuel?…there are other costs associated with performing military planes too?…in terms of government spending that $100,000 is really the equivalent of 143 hammers that could be purchased at any hardware store for $3,500?…if SEQESTER starts our government on the path of sane spending it is worth it to miss things like the Blue Angels which while enjoyable are definitely not necessary to run the country and may well have been a wasteful indulgence for many years now?

IS IT TRUE speaking of the SEQUESTER the claims of jobs being lost because of reductions in planned spending are all over the map and in some cases designed to frighten the American people?…in truth there are some jobs supported entirely by government largesse that probably need to be eliminated?…let’s use the example of whomever is employed to make those $700 hammers and $500 toilet seats?…these jobs need to go away and the people doing these jobs need to be reassigned to something that serves the private sector or the government sector where pricing is not utterly insane?…it was President Obama’s right hand man Rahm Emmanuel who once said “never let a crisis go to waste”?…the SEQUESTER crisis if it really is one should be used to hit the reset button on government pricing?…it would serve our medical system that routinely has the nerve to bill patients and insurance companies up to $3 for a cotton ball to examine their pricing schemes as well?…if Obamacare is to work it will be fully dependent on sane pricing?…that government and medical services are the two most guilty industries in the United States when it comes to insanity of pricing?…the REAL WORLD of competitive enterprise would never ever tolerate such pricing?…that whatever the government does or regulates seldom works out well in the long run?

IS IT TRUE the CCO wishes to congratulate and celebrate the Indiana Hoosiers first outright Big Ten basketball championship in 20 years?…as this week’s conference tournaments play out Indiana is in a good spot to get a number one seed in March Madness along with Duke, Louisville, and #1 ranked Gonzaga?

Mayor to Announce 2013 Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series Speakers

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Please join Mayor Lloyd Winnecke on Monday, March 11, at The Centre at 3 p.m. for a news conference to announce the 2013 Evansville Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series speakers. The Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series is a community collaboration committed to the support of diversity in the community. The lectures will take place in April and September. Press packets will be distributed at the news conference.

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