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Weekly Health Screenings at the Deaconess Resource Center

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Date Mar 05, 2013 Mar 2013

Time 7:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Location Deaconess Hospital, Resource Center
Contact 812/450-6000 if questions
Cost/Fee see below
Description Screenings are offered every Tuesday, 7:30am to 10:30am. No appointment is necessary. Note- 4th Tuesday of each month is at Deaconess Gateway Hospital

Blood Sugar: $6, 2 hour fast required, water allowed.

HDL & Total Cholesterol: $17, no fasting required.

Lipid Profile (includes Total Cholesterol, HDL, LDL & Triglycerides): $27, 12-14 hour fast, water allowed.

BMI/Body Fat Analysis: $6, no fasting required.

Blood Pressure Screenings available, free of charge, anytime during Resource Center Hours, M-F, 8am-4pm

2013 Step Ahead Scholarship Awarded

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St. Mary’s is committed to the professional development of our associates who are pursuing a formal education in nursing. As part of our strategic goals, we strive to support those in pursuit of a nursing degree. This year, St. Mary’s is proud to award 2013 Step Ahead Scholarship recipient, DeMitra Jones.

St. Mary’s Medical Center recognized the opportunity to award scholarships to St. Mary’s associates who were interested in pursuing a degree in nursing. Through this scholarship, St. Mary’s is able to allow a full-time associate the opportunity to work part-time while pursuing a nursing degree. They will remain compensated as full-time associates and still receive full-time benefits. The selection committee met with many inspirational associates who truly have a passion for nursing as well as St. Mary’s Health.

DeMitra is a Patient Care Tech II on 5 South: Post-Surgical. She has been employed at St. Mary’s for over three years and in patient care for over five years. DeMitra is very involved in her department. She serves as a Mission Representative, a Lift Champion, a Slipper Sheet Super User, and a PCT Preceptor. She was also an integral member of the team that revitalized intentional patient rounding. DeMitra stated in her application that, “I want to become a nurse so that I can make a difference in so many lives.” DeMitra attends Ivy Tech Community College and plans to graduate in 2015.

Moad’s Fence Chips idea wins Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0

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A University of Southern Indiana employee led the team that won the top prize at Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0, held in the USI Business and Engineering Center February 22-24. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event in which developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.

Dr. Andrew Moad, USI-Crane partnership manager, won Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0 with an idea called Fence Chips.

Fence Chips are flat, vinyl tiles designed to fit into a chain link fence and replace Styrofoam cups that are often used to promote athletic teams, events, and businesses.

“Fence Chips are durable, colorful, and reusable,” Moad said. “Startup Weekend Evansville was my last effort to build momentum and energy behind this idea. It worked.”

Over the course of Startup Weekend, Moad’s idea attracted two business partners (Joshua Gass, a Best Buy employee, and Steven “Woz” Wozniak, a local entrepreneur) and investment offers.

“I think our win was a result of the people who volunteered as coaches for Startup Weekend, coupled with the hard work done by Joshua and Woz,” Moad said.

Before joining USI, Moad was a new product development chemist at Red Spot Paint and Varnish in Evansville. He also has experience as a research chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The second place winner of Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0 was Team StrapHolster, led by USI student Neil Kassinger (public relations/advertising and entrepreneurship) with Cecelia Gussman (marketing). The StrapHolster is new fashion technology which keeps your purses and bags from slipping from your shoulder.

Kassinger introduced the StrapHolster at least year’s event, and has since refined and perfected the idea. He filed a provisional patent during the event and is in the process of crowd-funding the idea online, an endeavor he launched live during his team’s presentation.

In third place was Team 3 Caps, two father-son pairs interested in manufacturing gourmet, high-end mushroom-growing kits.

According to Bryan Bourdeau, instructor in business and co-organizer of Startup Weekend Evansville, participation was up 19 percent from the inaugural event, with a total of 114 participants this year.

“Our entrepreneurial ecosystem is slowly but surely growing and I’m confident is it becoming more sustainable because of events like Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0,” Bourdeau said. “The response from our generous sponsors and the growth in participation attendance at this event is extremely encouraging for our community and region.”

Since its inception, Startup Weekend Evansville has been the best-attended Startup Weekend event in the state of Indiana, according to data collected by the national organization.

UE English Professor Publishes New Book of Poems

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Arthur Brown, professor of English at the University of Evansville, has published a new book of poems, Duration and the Second Hand, from David Robert Books.

Reviewer Kim Bridgford writes: “Arthur Brown’s book Duration and the Second Hand focuses on the moments outside regular time, and how, in memory, they take on the beauty and singularity of art. Reminiscent of Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse seeing Mrs. Ramsay as ‘a triangular purple shape,’ Brown looks at a range of scenes through line, shape, and color — beach scenes, father and son moments — and, in doing so, makes us see the world with some aesthetic distance and clarity. No one can make a sonnet sound quite the way Arthur Brown can, with a liquid elegance over the form. His long sentences dazzle.”

Brown’s first book of poems, The Mackerel at St. Ives, was published by David Robert Books in 2008. He has published poems in AGNI, American Arts Quarterly, American Literary Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Dogwood, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Malahat Review, The Raintown Review, Poetry, Southwest Review, and other journals.

Brown’s poems have won the Morton Marr Poetry Prize, the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Anne Dittrick Sonnet-Writing Contest, and the American Literary Review Poetry Prize. His one-act play “Augustina” was selected by Horton Foote as the winner of the Arts & Letters Drama Prize. He has published literary essays on Poe, Henry James, Faulkner, and Shakespeare.

Duration and the Second Hand is available for online order from Barnes & Noble or Powell’s Books. Signed copies are available in the University of Evansville Bookstore.

Evansville Police arrested 3 men on drug charges

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GetAttachment2GetAttachmentGetAttachment 1Evansville Police arrested 3 men on drug charges during a follow up on neighborhood complaints in the 7600 block of Washington Ave.

Officer were giving the area extra patrol due to complaints of loud music, a lot of vehicle traffic late at night, and multiple reports of cars driving off the roadway in recent nights. The officers saw a car parked facing the wrong way on Washington. There was also loud music coming from inside the car.

When the officer approached the car, he smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the passenger compartment. The 3 occupants were removed from the car. During a search of the car, 43 grams of marijuana and a digital scale were found. All 3 denied ownership of the marijuana and the scale.

All 3 were arrested and charged with dealing marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

Arrested were:

Dariane Burrows 22

George Kelly 19

Gabriel Appel 18

Rain Barrel News Conference‏

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lloyd winneckeMayor Lloyd Winnecke will hold a news conference on Monday, March 4, at 11:45 a.m. at Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden to announce this year’s Rain Barrel program. This year’s theme is “Dasani – Every Drop Counts”. The Rain Barrel project is a unique partnership with Coca Cola Company which will beautify our city, improve water quality and conserve resources.
Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden is located at 1545 Mesker Park Drive.

Mayor Lloyd Winnecke’s Weekend Schedule

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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Mayor Lloyd Winnecke and approximately 200 Clean Evansville volunteers will pick-up litter from 9 to 11 a.m. along South Green River Road from the Lloyd Expressway to Monroe Avenue. The wrap-up ceremony will take place on the Washington Square Mall parking lot at the corner of Green River Road and Washington Avenue.
Mayor Winnecke will be at the Ford Center as the University of Evansville Aces take on Indiana State during Senior Night. Tip-off is at 4 p.m.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Mayor Winnecke and his wife, Carol McClintock, will stop by the annual Maple Sugarbush Festival & Pancake Breakfast at Wesselman Park. The exact time has not been determined. The event is a fundraiser for Wesselman Nature Preserve.
Mayor Winnecke will be back at the Ford Center at 5 p.m. to see the Evansville IceMen play against the Cincinnati Cyclones. Game time is at 7:15 p.m.

40th Annual WNIN Action Auction!

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April 22-28th, 2013

The WNIN Action Auction is a 40 year tradition in the Tri-State, and is broadcast live on WNIN for one week, from 6:00-10:00 p.m. each night. It takes 800 businesses donating over 1,000 items and 500 community volunteers to make the WNIN Action Auction possible each year!

Please consider donating items or your time to make this auction the most successful one yet! For more information contact Denise Rodgers at 812.423.2973 ext. 136 or drodgers@wnin.org.

EVSC Schools Get Students Pumped for ISTEP

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EVSCSchools across the state are getting students ready for this year’s Spring ISTEP + testing which will begin in EVSC schools Monday, March 4. To get students pumped about doing their best on the test, many EVSC schools are hosting school-wide assemblies with fun activities for students.

Cynthia Heights Elementary School: Friday, March 1, 1:15 p.m. The school will host a pep assembly on Friday with motivational speaker Bryon Garland. In addition, the assembly will include five celebrity appearances (five student teachers) who will promote positive ISTEP preparation suggestions aimed to motivate students to “Rock the Test.” In addition, the assembly will include Gangnam-style dancing by fourth and fifth grade students.

Lodge Community School: Friday, March 1, 1:15 p.m. Members of the University of Evansville’s Men’s Basketball team are coming to Lodge Elementary School tomorrow to speak with students about having a positive mental attitude, and giving 100% effort and “shooting” for your goals. The school also will celebrate its own ISTEP version of the Harlem Shake.

Vogel Elementary School: Friday, March 1, 1:30 p.m. To get students at Vogel excited, the school will host a school assembly that will include Vogel cheerleaders and a special choreographed song for students that Vogel staff will perform.

Cedar Hall Community School: Monday, March 4, 8:45 a.m. On Monday, the school will introduce students to this year’s ISTEP theme which is borrowed from Survivor – Outsmart, Outscore, Outlast. The assembly will include a special skit and someone will be voted off “ISTEP island.”

Fairlawn Elementary School: Monday, March 4. Lower grade teachers have organized a surprise breakfast for teachers in grades 3 – 5 (only students in grades 3-8 take ISTEP). The upper grade teachers will be called in to a last minute meeting on Monday and they will be welcomed instead with a surprise breakfast. (Media Advisory: If you would like to attend this event, please let me know and I will get an exact time.)

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS TO APPEAR AT THE FORD CENTER

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Jam Productions is proud to announce that Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers will headline the Ford Center on Thursday, May 16.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 16 at 10:00 AM. Full ticketing details are below.
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers belong to a special class of artists. A class comprised of those few acts that have sustained decades-long careers despite the restlessness of popular music’s audience.
They have scored hits in five different decades such as “American Girl,” “Refugee,” “The Waiting,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “Free Fallin’,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” and “You Don’t Know How It Feels.” And they have sold tens of millions of records along the way. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during their first year of eligibility and have garnered accolades and awards too many to mention. Through it all their uncompromising integrity has never wavered while their concert tours have become things of legend.
Tom Petty has said the Heartbreakers are first a live band. Critics have said they are one of the few great live rock ‘n roll bands still playing today. The audience spoke loudest of all in 2010 when Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ last major North American tour was their most successful, attended by more people than ever before.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 16 date at 10:00 AM.
Reserved seat tickets ($117.00 / $74.50 / $52.50 / $29.50) will be available for purchase at the Ford Center ticket office, all Ticketmaster locations, Charge by phone at 800-745-3000 and online at Ticketmaster.com.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Highway Companions Club ticket pre-sales will begin on Wednesday, March 13 at 10:00 AM. To learn more about the Highway Companions Club, please visit HighwayCompanions.com.
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Premium Ticket Packages, which include premium seating and exclusive band merchandise, will also be available for this show via Ticketmaster.com. Full details can be found at TomPetty.com.
For Show Information Contact:
Mike Lynskey, Jam Productions, 312-440-9191, mike.lynskey@jamusa.com

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