“Centre’d on Kids” Free Community Event!

Evansville, IN – The Victory Theatre and the Main Street Walkway will be the host of the 12th Annual Main Street Trick or Treat on Sunday, October 30! SMG with KISS, 103GBF, WKDQ, Superhits 105.3, WBKR, WOMI, CBS44 and Fox44 will provide a fun and safe environment for trick-or-treaters from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Second Street. Bring your little ghosts and goblins downtown from noon – 3pm for an afternoon of trick or treating. The kids can play games and win prizes, pick up free treats, have their faces painted and receive a Kids I-D packet.

Come in your scariest, most creative or patriotic costume so they can enter the costume contest at 1:00pm at the stage located at 6th & Main in front of the Victory Theatre. Winners for all 0-12 age groups! Participating sponsors will provide treats for all the ghosts and goblins.

Coloring Contest Sheets are also available at The Centre, Victory Theatre, Townsquare Media and CBS WEVV44 offices. Entries must be returned to point of pick-up by October 28th. Winners will be announced from the stage at 6th & Main on October 30th at 2pm. They will also be delivered to all schools in the area.

Main Street Trick or Treat was created by SMG in 1999 as a safe alternative to door to door trick or treating. Everything is free to the community. With attendance well over 11,000, MSTT is the largest event downtown “Centre’d” on Kids! Our 100+ volunteers and the generosity of our sponsors make this day possible.

Join us on Main Street Sunday, October 30th from noon – 3……rain or shine! This event is sponsored by SMG, CBS-44WEVV and FOX44, Townsquare Media stations WKDQ, 103GBF, WJLT, KISSFM, WBKR, WOMI.

(Evansville, IN)- You’ve seen it from the outside. Now see what the Ford Center looks like from the inside. A free open house will be held on Saturday, October 22, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Everyone is invited!

Visitors will be able to see the Ford Center’s public areas and areas that aren’t normally open to the public like the Aces and IceMen locker rooms. Come check out the view from the seating bowl, try out the wider, padded seats, and experience all of the great amenities the Ford Center has to offer. Also at the Community Preview Party:

ï‚· Face painting and balloon art by the Hadi Shrine Funsters
ï‚· Ace Purple & Blizzard (mascots for the Aces and the IceMen)
ï‚· $1 hot dogs, soft drinks and popcorn
ï‚· Music by Monte Skelton
ï‚· A free commemorative item to take home

Visitors to the Ford Center are encouraged to stick around after they tour the facility and enjoy downtown Evansville. Several businesses and restaurants along Main Street will be open during the community preview party from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. In addition, art students from Signature School, Central High School and F.J. Reitz High School will showcase their vision for downtown businesses in several storefronts along Main Street. The Growth Alliance for Greater Evansville (GAGE) will have walking maps and flyers available at the Ford Center.

Time 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Subject PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
Location 307
Reminder 15 minutes
SARAH @ 5791
Categories ROOM 307

Time 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Subject GIS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Location 318
Recurrence Occurs the third Wednesday of every 1 month effective 10/19/2011 until 10/19/2011 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Reminder 15 minutes
Laura Howell @ 5071
Categories ROOM 318

Time 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Subject BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING/FREE
Location MAIN HALL 1ST FLOOR
Recurrence Occurs the third Wednesday of every 1 month effective 10/19/2011 until 10/19/2011 from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Reminder 15 minutes
435-5015 HEALTH DEPT
Categories Phone Call, EVENTS

Time 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Subject IBTR
Location 307
Reminder 15 minutes
TIFFANY @ 5269
Categories ROOM 307

Time 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Subject CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING
Location 318
Recurrence Occurs the third Wednesday of every 3 months effective 10/19/2011 until 10/19/2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Reminder 15 minutes
SHERYL @ 421-6296
Categories Must Attend, ROOM 318

Time 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Subject PARKS BOARD
Location 301
Recurrence Occurs the third Wednesday of every 1 month effective 10/19/2011 until 10/19/2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Reminder 15 minutes
GLENN BOBERG @ 6141
Categories ROOM 301

Time 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Subject DEFERRED COMP
Location 318
Recurrence Occurs the third Wednesday of every 1 month effective 10/19/2011 until 10/19/2011 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Reminder 15 minutes
DIANNA WEBB
WEBBD@NATIONWIDE.COM
Categories Must Attend, ROOM 318

The “Rodney Watson on Basketball” radio show starts October 31 and will be broadcast live from Turoni’s Pizzery and Brewery on Main Street. The live show will air at 7 p.m. on ESPN 106.7FM for 20 weeks.

Three of the 20 shows will air on Tuesday night (November 15, January 3, and January 17) due to scheduling conflicts. The show will not air the week of December 26 due to the Christmas holiday.

The radio talk show features USI men’s basketball Head Coach Rodney Watson and Dan Egierski, who will discuss the Screaming Eagles and college basketball. The pair also takes questions from the audience at Turoni’s.

Source: USI.edu

EPD Activity Report October 18, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Gail Riecken (812)568-9505
October 19, 2011 John Friend: (812) 499-3620

Indiana District 77 State Representative Gail Riecken Praises Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission Decision to hold fee increase hearings in Evansville. Evansville City Councilman John Friend’s Petition to IURC to Stop Job Killing Rate and Fee Increases by Vectren passes 10,000 Signatures.

Evansville, IN– State Representative Gail Riecken announced today that she is pleased that the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission has agreed to hold a hearing in Evansville to give the people of Evansville the opportunity to air their grievances and become educated with respect Vectren’s dense pack proposal that recently attracted attention for yet another fee increase for a capital expenditure.

Evansville City Councilman John Friend joins Representative Riecken in welcoming this opportunity for the people of Evansville and the elected officials from all of Vectren’s electricity service area to participate in a public meeting in Evansville where Vectren is the topic of discussion with the State of Indiana’s highest utility regulatory body. Councilman Friend who spent the early part of his career in the utility industry has recently been recognized for his initiative to launch a petition drive to admonish the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission to refuse to consider all electricity rate increases by the Vectren Corporation until the average electricity rate in the State of Indiana have caught up to the SW Indiana areas served by Vectren are paying. Councilman Friend and Representative Riecken also are asking that all hearings brought before the IURC by Vectren for the purpose of seeking a rate or fee increase be held in SW Indiana where the requested rates would go into effect.

Both Representative Riecken and Councilman Friend have expressed pleasure at seeing their efforts recognized by the IURC with their agreement to hold this hearing in Evansville. Both Friend and Riecken along with 10,000 other ratepayers have affixed their signatures to Councilman Friend’s petition in only two weeks.

Representative Riecken and Councilman Friend are holding a press conference at the Civic Center in Room 301 today at 2:00.

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In a surprising but welcome move today the Indiana Utilities and Regulatory Commission announced that they well be holding a field hearing regarding the Vectren request for a fee increase in Evansville. The meeting will be held on November 28, 2011 in the Locust Room at the Centre at 6 PM and will be open to the public.

This announcement comes after repeated requests by Indiana House of Representatives District 77 representative Gail Riecken to move hearings involving Evansville to be in Evansville. Just today Representative Riecken released a statement chiding the IURC for failing to fulfill the commitment to do so.

Local officials have also made this request with Evansville City Councilman John Friend having collected over 10,000 signatures from Vectren ratepayers requesting not only that IURC hearings be held here but that a moratorium be put on rate increases until other utilities catch up with Vectren’s rates that are double the average for the State of Indiana and triple what ratepayers in Henderson, KY pay.

E. Lon Walters, the republican candidate for the 2nd Ward seat of the Evansville City Council has also been circulating a petition online and in person.

Vanderburgh County Commissioner Stephen Melcher has been advocating for the total membership of the IURC to be elected as opposed to being appointees of the Governor of Indiana so that they are accountable to the people of Indiana.

Vectren was recently marched on by the Occupy Evansville group when they gathered at the Four Freedoms Monument on Saturday.

The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor made the request to the IURC for an Evansville field hearing on the dense pack project. Vectren officials have expressed support for the Evansville based hearing for an opportunity to educate the public about the proposed dense pack project.

In previous legislative sessions I have attempted to impress the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) that many regulatory decisions are causing working Hoosiers great hardship.

My efforts in the Statehouse to bring transparency to the IURC were dismissed and seen as an attempt at political gain. Evidenced by citizens’ comments I have heard, especially at three neighborhood associations recently, the issues are real and ratepayers are struggling to pay their Vectren bills.

This summer I felt there was hope the IURC would listen to citizens. On August 30, along with Kerwin Olson, Interim Executive Director of the Citizens Action Coalition, I met with IURC Chairman Jim Atterholt. Chairman Atterholt pledged to hold a town hall style hearing in Evansville and to allow Vectren ratepayers to testify.

On September 6, I wrote a letter thanking the Chairman and asked for a confirmation of his agreement and a date the hearing would be held. I received neither.

The IURC needs to understand how people feel; they need to come to Evansville.

The IURC must experience firsthand how citizens feel about the recently announced increase in monthly fee. Not only is Vectren asking for additional profit to add to rates that already border on confiscatory, they are requesting a new “tracker” — the most damaging fee structure to our electric ratepayers.

The IURC must learn why, thanks to Councilman John Friend and others, there are over 10,000 petitions that have been signed complaining about the rate increases.

If there was ever a time that Vectren and the IURC could restore confidence in the public, it is now.

Vectren should present before City Council now and prove those wrong who say it is Vectren that is playing politics for not agreeing to a hearing before the local elections.

IURC Chairman Atterholt should schedule the town hall meeting he agreed to. He should prove the Commission can do its job, a job that obligates the Commission to protect the public from the negatives that can go with a system built on a monopoly, the job of protecting the public from rates that are hurting business and industry and rates that the citizens of Evansville can no longer afford.

Gail Riecken
State Representative, District 77