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SMG Announces New “Movies on Main Street”!

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Evansville, IN— Join us this summer downtown at the Victory Theatre for the new “Movies on
Main Street “! The same great free family-friendly films and food specials you enjoyed at Mesker
Amphitheatre in the air conditioned comfort of the beautiful Victory Theatre. We are all set for opening
night on June 15-16, 2012 with “Big Miracle” on Friday night and “Dr. Suess: The Lorax” on Saturday.
Doors will open at 6:30pm with the show starting at 7:30pm.

Each night will have a newly released family film and full concessions available with food specials
including hot off the grill $1 hot dogs and hamburgers. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the movie will
begin at 7:30 p.m.

To join the fun, pick up a FREE Admission Pass at the following sponsor locations: Wesselman’s
Groceries, News4U Magazine, The Centre, WABX, Hot 96, WIKY, 93.5 The Wolf, JackFM, WEVV-CBS44,
FOX44, Bunny Bread, Garrett Printing and Graphics and Pepsi Cola Offices.

We look forward to seeing you this summer and once again, this event is family friendly, FREE and fun
for all ages! For more information, call 812-435-5770.

USI Alumni Picnic is Sunday

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The University of Southern Indiana’s Alumni Association invites USI alumni, friends, and family to the annual USI Alumni Picnic from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday. There will be clowns, a magician, a petting zoo, and an obstacle course on the Quad, and a picnic dinner in University Center East with barbecued chicken, Italian sausages, hot dogs, salads, and ice cream sundaes for dessert. Admission is $6 per person; children 12 and under are free.

IS IT TRUE May 29, 2012

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IS IT TRUE May 29, 2012

IS IT TRUE much to many people’s surprise the latest CCO reader’s poll regarding our reader’s intention on supporting or rejecting VandiGov 2012 resulted in a narrow victory for the supporters of consolidation?…the voting patterns do seem to indicate that there may have been some robo votes or monkey business at certain times on both sides of the issue?…most of us would have bet some good money on this poll reaching a NO victory but that is not the way it happened?…the forces on both sides of this issue are mobilizing and that we expect that between this and the election for President of the United States that Vanderburgh County may be in for a record turnout this year?

IS IT TRUE Mole #11 has advised us that two well known locals will be throwing their names into the ring for the democrat candidates running for the Vanderburgh County Council?…we have been told that Tim Schaffer (don’t know if this is a relative of Steve Schaeffer, Mayor Winnecke’s Chief of Staff) and that crusty dude Clark R. Exmeyer who is believed to be a regular caller to Les Shively’s radio show on WGBF?…Mr. Shively always seemed to enjoy sparring with Run DNC who surely had the sound of Clark?…that we here these two gentlemen will be well funded and give the incumbents a run for their money this fall?

IS IT TRUE of all 50 of the United States only four have employment levels that are at or above their peak employment levels?…the names of these states are Texas, Alaska, North Dakota, and Louisiana?…that eight states are not projected to reach the previous employment highs until the presidential election of 2016 or later?…the names of these lagging economic states are Nevada, Florida, Michigan, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ohio, Alabama, and Arizona?…that this statistic does not get the unemployment rate back to its previous lows because it does not account for population growth?…that a little realized fact about lowering the unemployment rate in a city or state is that when people move away for a job elsewhere the place they left can claim a lower unemployment rate while the place they move to sees little change at all?…that is counter intuitive but true none the less?

IS IT TRUE it works like this?…that if City A and City B both have 10 people wanting jobs and 90 who have jobs they both have an unemployment rate of 10%?…that if one of the unemployed people from City A moves to City B for a newly created job that City A now has 99 people who want jobs and still has 90 who are employed lowering the unemployment rate from 10% to 9.1% (9/99)?…that City B still has 10 who need a job but now has a population of 101 so they only see the rate drop to 9.9% (10/101)from the previous 10%?…that statistics do not always tell the real story and the statistical fact that a city with a shrinking population has an inherent advantage in the statistical calculation of unemployment over a growing city?

IS IT TRUE that given that mathematical truth that the best way for an unemployment obsessed politician to improve his numbers is to find a way to get the unemployed to pack up and leave town?…that running one unemployed person off has the same statistical effect as attracting 10 employed people to town?

Evansville’s Evening on the River

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A stroll on the riverfront, a breathtaking sunset over the Ohio River, music, food, desserts and libations… Come experience “Evening on the River.”

This fundraising event benefiting the Evansville Parks Foundation and Keep Evansville Beautiful will include stage and street performances, horse-drawn carriage rides, a silent auction and a “movable feast” of food, desserts and drinks from area restaurants, wine shops, caterers and grocers, presented at locations along Riverside Drive between Casino Aztar and the Four Freedoms Monument. All proceeds benefit Evansville parks facilities and programs.

Click here to visit eveningontheriver.com

Business and Engineering Students Develop Products for Escalade Sports

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After spending two weeks in an intensive summer course, six University of Evansville students have designed new products that may go to market as part of local sporting goods company Escalade Sports’ portfolio.

UE students Derrick Dietz, Phoebe Hodina, Clint Hoskins, Monika Kirkiewicz, Shawn Mayo, and Sam Mires are enrolled in Business 380 (Applied Product Development), an interdisciplinary two-week course conducted as a collaboration between the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration and the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Students split into two competitive teams that worked from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. each weekday — with additional hours outside of class — to develop a superior product and a business plan for Escalade Sports.

This morning, they made their final presentations to company executives, who will select the winning project and award that team $1,000 — along with the possibility of seeing their work become a commercial product.

All of the students signed non-disclosure agreements to protect Escalade Sports and the intellectual property that is the final product of their work. If the company takes either product to market in the future, the UE students will be named as inventors on any patents applied for.

“The University of Evansville shows great leadership within our community by providing this unique course, and we look forward to continuing the partnership in future years,” said Dave Fetherman, president of Escalade Sports. “Our company has benefited from the new product ideas and the increase in our ‘innovation bandwidth,’ and at the same time, we’re pleased to provide UE students with real-world experience that helps prepare them for professional success.”

Rick Deer, a local entrepreneur and graduate of UE’s College of Engineering and Computer Science and its Executive Master of Business Administration program, co-taught the course with John Layer, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

“UE and Escalade Sports began this partnership last summer and found it to be a tremendous success — truly a win-win for all parties involved,” said Deer. “While details about last year’s winning project are still under wraps, it is in serious consideration to become part of Escalade Sports’ product lineup in the future. That’s the most exciting part of this course — students not only learn product design and marketing strategies, but have the chance to see their hard work become reality in the form of a viable commercial product.”

“This course provides a great introduction to the intense nature of product development, from working long hours into the night to fielding questions from corporate executives during the final pitch,” Layer added. “Once again this year, our students rose to the challenge, and we’re very proud of the tireless energy, enthusiasm, and professionalism they’ve shown throughout this process.”

“I feel that I’ve learned a great deal about how real design teams develop ideas and put together detailed product concepts in just a few weeks,” said Sam Mires, a mechanical engineering major enrolled in the course. “Being able to work with a company like Escalade Sports has been an incredible experience, and this course is a great asset for the University of Evansville. I’ll definitely use my experiences from this course in my professional career.”

Additional funding for the project was provided by the Lilly Endowment Inc. and the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana.

USI’s Archaeology Field School uncovering Harmonist history

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The University of Southern Indiana is conducting an Archaeology Field School through June 8 in New Harmony, Indiana, site of two of America’s early utopian communities.

Dr. Michael Strezewski, assistant professor of anthropology, and about a dozen students are continuing the excavation of the Harmonist kiln site that began in 2009.

At the corner of North and West streets, Harmonist potter Christoph Weber manufactured redware pottery for the Harmonists and for sale to the public through the Harmonist store. The kiln was in operation from 1815 to 1824.

Based on his research and findings at the site, Strezewski said the Harmonists fired about 5,000 pieces of redware at a time in the kiln. It was last fired December 31, 1824, and likely never used by the Owenites, the second communal experiment at New Harmony.

“This pottery is one of the few things you can pick up out of the ground and say, ‘This was made by the Harmonists,'” Strezewski said.

The kiln was uncovered in 2010. More information about the dig is on Strezewski’s web page, linked above.

The site is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except on Memorial Day, and while in operation is a stop on the Historic New Harmony tours.

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IS IT TRUE May 28, 2012

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IS IT TRUE May 28, 2012

IS IT TRUE there is much wailing and whining about the recently announced increases in the water rates in the City of Evansville?…even the guy who is in charge of the utility has gotten into the act of marketing the coming increases saying they are “needed”?…”needed” is the understatement of the decade when it comes to the services provided by the City of Evansville when it comes to sewer and water?…that those who read between the lines on the recent press release regarding looming increased noticed that 600 miles of cast iron pipes are in need of replacement and that a well run water provider in a city the size of Evansville “should” have been replacing 10 miles of the old pipes per year at a cost in today’s dollars of $750,000 per mile or a budget of $7.5 Million per year?…the total immediate needs seem to be 60 years of deferred maintenance that will cost an estimated $450 Million in 2012 dollars?…that this is not something that can be blamed on Mayor Winnecke, Mayor Weinzapfel, even Mayor Russ Lloyd Jr.?…this is a collective failure of all of the people who have worn the hat of Mayor of Evansville and all of the people who have been citizens of Evansville since the 1950’s?…the condition of the infrastructure of Evansville and some other cities is absolutely appalling and the chickens are coming home to roost?…that this is just the tip of the iceberg?

IS IT TRUE that City of Evansville is under order of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do improvements required to stop dumping raw sewage into the Ohio River and the yards of the citizens of some Southside neighborhoods every time it rains more than an inch an hour?…that this cost has been estimated to be between $500 Million and $700 Million in 2008 dollars?…that the mounting cost to do two simple things that will enable the City of Evansville to deliver good potable water to its citizens and avoid fines from the EPA over Calcutta type conditions in the sewer system is now well over $1 Billion?…that rather than do the things that we need our City government has invested $127 Million in a temple to sport and is planning to dump another $80 Million so that they can read the water meters through the internet?…facility after facility from Roberts Stadium, to the parks, to the recently disclosed failure to spend a paltry $100,000 to paint and bleach Mesker Amphitheatre has fallen into disrepair as the sewers and water pipes have?… the state of the infrastructure in the City of Evansville has the appearance of willful and intentional neglect?

IS IT TRUE if Evansville is to even purport to be a city at all well over $1 Billion in deferred or neglected maintenance will have to be done in the relatively near future?…the EPA has roughly a 20 year window in which this can be done to avoid fines?…a fixed rate bond over 30 years for $1 Billion will add roughly $150 per month to the water and sewer burden of every house in the City of Evansville?…as much as the CCO feels for the household budgets and business budgets of Evansville this must be done and the people who choose to live here will have to pay for it?…the only real way to reduce the monthly burden is to increase the number of households substantially to spread the cost over more housing units?…that unless there is a commitment to get this done, jobs will not be prone to come here, educated professionals will not choose to live here, and the decline of the last 60 years shall continue?…it is crunch time when it comes to Evansville infrastructure?