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Swonder Ice Arena Hosts Clinic for US Figure Skating’s 12th Annual National Skating Month

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EVANSVILLE, IN – The Swonder Learn to Skate Program will host a special event as part of U.S. Figure Skating’s National Skating Month (NSM) in January at Swonder Ice Arena in Evansville. Free skating lessons will be offered from 12:30pm- 2:30pm on Saturday, January 19, 2013, for the residents of Evansville and surrounding communities. These lessons are geared towards first time skaters who have never taken lessons. Free skating lesson participants may stay and skate the 1:00pm- 3:30pm public session at no charge. The first 50 youth participants will receive a goody bag courtesy of US Figure Skating. All participants will be given a raffle ticket and have a chance to win a session of group skating lessons, a private skating lesson, public session passes, U.S. Figure Skating merchandise, an Evansville Icemen prize pack and more. The River City Ice Theatre team will do a short demonstration at 2:30pm. This is Swonder’s 6th year participating in National Skating Month and is sure to be fun for the whole family!

National Skating Month, now in its 12th year, allows U.S. Figure Skating member clubs and Basic Skills programs to reach out to new members in their communities by offering the fundamentals of ice skating from professionally trained instructors. The goal of National Skating Month is to increase awareness and participation in the U.S. Figure Skating Basic Skills Program.

In March 2002, U.S. Figure Skating unveiled National Skating Week with great success. Following the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, thousands of people took to the ice for National Skating Week. As part of the weeklong activities, more than 110 member clubs nationwide hosted “It’s Great to Skate” clinics, with clubs realizing membership increases ranging from 10-50 percent. U.S. Figure Skating expanded the fifth year of the program to National Skating Month. In 2012, more than 400 clubs hosted events to celebrate NSM.

Over the last 17 years, U.S. Figure Skating has enjoyed consistent growth through programs that provide opportunities for all ages. During the 2001-02 season, U.S. Figure Skating’s Basic Skills Program reached a milestone by registering more than 100,000 members for the first time in the program’s history. Since its inception in 1985, the program has taught more than 2 million people to skate.

U.S. Figure Skating is the national governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States as recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and the International Skating Union. U.S. Figure Skating is comprised of more than 700 member clubs, collegiate clubs and school-affiliated clubs, and more than 1,000 registered Basic Skills skating schools representing approximately 173,000 members. U.S. Figure Skating is charged with the development of the sport on all levels within the United States including athletes, officials, sanctioning of events and exhibitions, and establishing the rules and guidelines by which the sport is governed.

For more information, please contact Skating Director Christin Thompson at (812)436-5707 or Renee Felton, U.S. Figure Skating media relations, at 719.635.5200.

Attorney General’s statement on Federal Court ruling in Right to Work case

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INDIANAPOLIS – Today a federal court dismissed the plaintiffs’ constitutional challenge to Indiana’s Right to Work statute the Legislature passed in 2012. Chief Judge Philip Simon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana issued his decision in the lawsuit Sweeney v. Daniels, which challenged the constitutionality of last year’s House Enrolled Act 1001. The court granted the State defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ amended complaint and entered judgment in favor of the State and against the plaintiffs.

As state government’s lawyer, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office defends state statutes from legal challenges plaintiffs file. Zoeller today issued this statement:

“The federal court’s decision supports the legal authority and policy decisions of the people’s elected representatives in the Legislature, and we appreciate the court’s thorough analysis. My office will continue to defend the statute from legal challenge or appeal in any future court action,” Zoeller said.

Evansville water bill has a new look and new schedule

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Meter reading timeframe unchanged

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Over the next month, Evansville Water and Sewer Utility (EWSU) customers will notice their water bill has a new look. The bills are still white postcards, but are now printed with predominantly black and blue type. The Utility encourages customers to be aware of the slight format change.

Additionally, for some customers, starting in February, bills will arrive on a new billing schedule. Please note that although the bill is received at a different time, the meter reading timeframe will remain the same. This means, for some customers, January and February bills will be sent within a few days of each other. EWSU realizes this could be a financial strain for some customers and will make payment arrangements and postpone disconnect notices until April 2013 as needed. The new billing schedule will be in effect for all customers by Feb. 20.

“Over the next few weeks, please take extra care to identify the new bill in your mailbox. If you have questions about your bill, please contact the Utility at 812-436-7846,” stated Allen Mounts, director of the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, January 16, 2013.

Audrey Ealum Robbery-Class C Felony (Two Counts)
Possession of a Controlled Substance-Class D Felony (Two Counts)
Unlawful Possession or Use of a Legend Drug-Class D Felony (Two Counts)
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury-Class A Misdemeanor (Two Counts)
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor

Stephan Wilson Theft-Class D Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor
Possession of Marijuana-Class A Misdemeanor

Anthony Burris Theft-Class D Felony

Leonard Lemon Sr Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon-Class C Felony

Gary Snelling Robbery-Class C Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class D Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor
Reckless Driving-Class B Misdemeanor

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Regene Newman at 812.435.5156 or via e-mail at rinewman@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
SENTENCE CHART

Class Range
Murder 45-65 Years
Class A Felony 20-50 Years
Class B Felony 6-20 Years
Class C Felony 2-8 Years
Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years
Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year
Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days
Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days

Congressman Bucshon Comments on President’s Gun Proposal

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(Washington, DC) – Congressman Larry Bucshon (IN-08) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s proposal on gun control.

Congressman Bucshon (IN-08) stated:

“President Obama offered broad recommendations today that lack specifics or real evidence that the actions he proposed will significantly reduce violence. I believe we need to have a broader conversation about the causes and cures of violence in our society. More emphasis should be placed on addressing mental health issues and how to get proper treatment for those who suffer from mental illness. We should be addressing the poor economic situation some of our citizens are in as well as the illegal drugs epidemic we are facing, instead of playing politics. Creating new laws while we can’t enforce the current laws is simply expanding Government for no reason.

“The founding fathers intended that legislation be passed through Congress with meaningful consideration and debate, not by the stroke of a single pen. I do not support the use of executive order in an attempt to bypass Congress on this issue or any other issue. As a member of Congress, I have an obligation to protect the rights of my constituents, and I intend to keep that obligation.”

The Road to Detroit, By: John Sitkiewicz

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Forget about a fast ride to Greece. Never mind France. The actual road that President Obama’s taking the country down at breakneck speed is closer to home. It’s a road straight to a city on the brink of insolvency. It’s a road right to a city collapsing under unsustainable debt. It’s a one way road to a place completely averse to growth and job creation.

Over the fiscal cliff or not, for America the destination’s Detroit – population 700,000 and shrinking – the city that has faithfully practiced the very same high taxing and big bureaucratic policies that the president is on the verge of bringing national without fail for over half a century. And let there be no mistake about it, from its crumbling financial house on down to its stunning refusal to reverse course, Detroit is Obama’s America all inside of 139 square miles. It’s also the ultimate coming attraction as to just exactly where the country’s careening to with Obama firmly at the wheel for another term as your president.

Under the thumb of Democratic Party rule for over 50 years, Detroit – once revered worldwide for its industrial prowess and abundant middle class – is the scene of one of the progressive agenda’s greatest crimes. Plagued for decades by epidemic poverty, joblessness, pervasive blight, and political dysfunction, Detroit’s cataclysmic fall from being a major urban American city once home to nearly two million and positioned to rival Chicago into one whose political ruling class cannot manage to budget for functioning street lights to keep those who’ve yet to flee out of the dark when night falls is in its cold hard numbers.

Broke and facing the real prospect of having to enter into Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Detroit’s painful decent into the abyss goes well beyond a potential over $50 million budgetary shortfall come June 1st. Strangled by public sector unions and what its beleaguered mayor Dave Bing just a few short weeks ago called a “sense of entitlement,” Detroit’s long term debt is assessed by some analysts to be approaching $15 billion and rising. To make matters worse, municipal bonds – the sole vehicle keeping Detroit afloat – were recently downgraded below junk status.

What’s Detroit’s – particularly its nine member elected city council members – preferred antidote to its perpetual negative cash flow and crushing high debt choking off any chance at lifting itself out from under? Astonishingly, nothing short of unabashedly continuing on with the same big government prescription that President Obama is about to dispense onto the entire country. The Detroit City Council model – the one about to be emulated nationally – of big taxes, big fees, big spending, big bureaucratic red tape, and big plans of a turnaround not rooted in reality that Obama is hell bent on unleashing onto America has never failed to yield tangible results.

Shamefully, tangible results in Detroit have come in the form of unrelenting human suffering courtesy of chronically high unemployment that Bing has himself estimated at 50 percent in certain swaths of the city and a poverty rate that that continues to ravage no less than 35 percent of Detroit’s remaining inhabitants.

But above all else, Detroit’s most damning statistic is undoubtedly its most tragic. Nearly 58 percent of Detroit’s children live in poverty with hardly any chance at moving – as Obama would say – “forward.”

Elections always come with consequences. Elections always bring about changes.

It goes without saying that millions of voters may have truly wanted to get on with fundamentally changing America by re-electing President Obama. Unbeknownst to them, all they’re really going to be getting during the next four years is a whole lot of Detroit. Do enjoy the ride.

IS IT TRUE January 17, 2013

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE the skateboard park at the Swonder Ice Rink is being closed and that Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke thinks it should be?…the reasons for closing the skateboard park are the facts that it sees minimal use from anyone at all AND that it is thought to be dangerous?…this sounds like code for neglect, disinterest, and lack of maintenance which seems to be the destroyer of all that was once decent and beautiful in the City of Evansville?…the closing of one skateboard park so another one can be built (and yes Mayor Winnecke still thinks a new skateboard park at Roberts is a good idea) is a play straight out of the playbook that was used to destroy Roberts Stadium and spend $127 Million on Ford Center?…this is the same one trick pony routine that lead to demolishing the Executive Inn before a new hotel was secured or even studied?…the skateboard park on the beach in Venice, CA typically has a dozen or so skateboarders using it on weekends with a couple of hundred people watching them?…at times when the crowd is not watching even this sterling example of a skateboard park in a beautiful beach setting is empty?…skateboarders like an audience and if there is no audience there will be no skateboarders at any skateboard park for long?…the other things that are at Venice Beach to bring the audience in are hundreds of unique retail outlets, every kind of restaurant imaginable, and even a couple of dozen medical marijuana dispensaries?…if Evansville is willing to reproduce Venice Beach minus the Pacific Ocean and marijuana dispensaries there may, and we must say may be enough of an audience to interest skateboarders in doing their thing where Roberts Stadium once stood?…that is a very long shot with a high entry fee?

IS IT TRUE the one-on-one meetings with the Mayor for his singular explanations of just what he has decided on for a downtown hotel continue on a daily basis?…our Civic Center Moles tell us that there is a team of 4 or 5 proponents of the Mayor’s desires who are there to reinforce its benefits on the outgunned and outmanned members of the City Council who dare enter the chamber?…it takes a very strong person with knowledge to stand up to a gang of experts?…the City Council members were deprived of that knowledge by not having seen the presentations beforehand so what is needed in each is the strength to resist the sales pitch and the resolve to go home and think for a good long time?…this is nearly as bad as the Earthcare Energy deal except that time the Mayor didn’t tell the City Council at all?…there were then as there are now two members of the council who were enlisted early yet sworn to secrecy?…that even when the Mayor’s staff was demanding the $200,000 check be written to Earthcare Energy there were two City Council members who knew?…the rest were in the dark until it came time to vote on another loan of over $4 Million?…this is the same play from the same playbook that brought us the Earthcare secret?…secrets in government do not stay secret so the best course of action is continuous transparency?…candidate Winnecke seemed to have known that?

IS IT TRUE that there are some commercial businesses that President Barack Obama really likes and has a history of showering with public money?…among these are solar power, windmills, and General Motors cars?…these particular businesses were handed out stimulus money as if it were Halloween and they were children screaming “trick or treat”?…that handguns and automatic weapons were not showered with taxpayer dollars and these businesses seem to be out of favor with the President?…gun company stocks are soaring and their products are on backorder across the country?…even in the deep blue City of Los Angeles that lines several blocks long form everyday to purchase any guns and ammo that are delivered to the merchants?…it is curious that the very businesses that the President does not favor have thrived under his administration yet the businesses that have been showered with tax dollars have performed poorly to the point of multiple bankruptcies?…what President Obama needs to do if he really wants to see solar on every roof, a windmill in every backyard and a GM product is every driveway is clear?…Mr. President the best thing you could possibly do for solar, wind, and GM is threaten to ban them from existence by executive order?

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday, January 15, 2013.

David Arndell Theft – Class D Felony

Jeremy Bergwitz Theft – Class D Felony (Two Counts)

Pierre Edwards Strangulation – Class D Felony
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury – Class A Misdemeanor

Chantel Elzer Dealing in Marijuana – Class D Felony
Possession of Marijuana – Class D Felony
Neglect of a Dependent – Class D Felony (Two Counts)
Driving While Suspended – Class A Misdemeanor

Joseph Gardner III Dealing in Schedule II Controlled Substance – Class B Felony

Libby Goedde Operating a Vehicle with an ACE of .15 or More with a Passenger less than
18 Years of Age – Class D Felony
Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Endangering a Person with a Passenger
Less than 18 Years of Age – Class D Felony
Neglect of a Dependent – Class D Felony (Two Counts)

Robert Greene Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated – Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony)
Driving While Suspended – Class A Misdemeanor

Damian Hall Operating a Vehicle with an ACE of .15 or More – Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a D Felony)
Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated – Class C Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony)
Failure to Stop after Accident Resulting in Non-Vehicle Damage – Class B
Misdemeanor

Jason Peak Dealing in Methamphetamine – Class A Felony
False Informing – Class B Misdemeanor

Justa Rider Attempted Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon – Class C Felony
Resisting Law Enforcement – Class A Misdemeanor
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury – Class A Misdemeanor
Public Intoxication – Class B Misdemeanor

Patrick Spradley Residential Entry – Class D Felony
Criminal Mischief – Class D Felony
Intimidation – Class D Felony
Harassment – Class B Misdemeanor
Disorderly Conduct – Class B Misdemeanor

Elliott Tokarski Dealing in Methamphetamine – Class A Felony

Trent Thompson Attempted Burglary – Class B Felony (Two Counts)

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Regene Newman at 812.435.5156 or via e-mail at rinewman@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
SENTENCE CHART

Class Range
Murder 45-65 Years
Class A Felony 20-50 Years
Class B Felony 6-20 Years
Class C Felony 2-8 Years
Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years
Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year
Class B Misdemeanor 0-180 Days
Class C Misdemeanor 0-60 Days

AG files complaint against New England Compounding Center

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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office filed a licensing complaint today against the Massachusetts-based pharmacy linked to the meningitis outbreak.

In November, the Indiana Board of Pharmacy voted to indefinitely suspend NECC’s non-resident pharmacy license. Zoeller said the board will consider the formal complaint at its next meeting on Feb. 11.

“This pharmacy failed to ensure its epidural steroid injections were safe for patients which led to devastating harm,” Zoeller said. “This formal licensing complaint against the New England Compounding Center will soon be considered by the Indiana Board of Pharmacy which has the authority to determine the appropriate discipline.”

As of Dec. 12, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identified six deaths and 63 total cases of fungal meningitis in Indiana stemming from epidural steroid injections produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). According to the complaint, nationwide there were a total of 568 cases and 37 deaths across 19 states.

In September, the CDC in coordination with the Food and Drug Administration identified the NECC as the compounding pharmacy that produced the epidural steroid injections that caused the onset of meningitis in certain patients. Shortly after, NECC ceased production and initiated a recall of the drugs.

As a licensed non-resident pharmacy whose products were distributed and sold in Indiana, NECC is legally responsible for the “proper and safe storage and distribution of drugs and devices.”

Public libraries closed Monday

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All eight Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library locations will be closed Monday, January 21 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Customers can access EVPL information and download materials anytime at evpl.org.

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