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EVSC Students to Receive Free Identification Cards

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May 17, 18
Culver Family Learning Center and Glenwood Leadership Academy

A missing child is one of the most terrifying things a parent can go through. To help reduce that risk, the EVSC is partnering with New York Life Insurance Company to provide free identification cards for preschool students at Culver Family Learning Center and kindergarten and first grade students at Glenwood Leadership Academy.

Officials with New York Life Insurance Company will be at Culver Family Learning Center Thursday, May 17, from 7:30 a.m. to noon taking pictures of students and providing free identification cards. On Friday, May 18, volunteers from New York Life will be at Glenwood Leadership Academy from 8 a.m. to noon getting pictures of kindergarten and first grade students in order to provide them with free identification cards.

According to EVSC’s Coordinator of Safety and Security Gerald Summers, more than 800,000 children are reported missing every year. A child ID is a vital part to protecting and locating missing children.

UE’s OPTIONS Summer Camps to Highlight Engineering, Computer Science Careers

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This summer, the University of Evansville’s College of Engineering and Computer Science will offer three camps to introduce the exciting career possibilities in engineering and computer science.

OPTIONS for High School Girls, a residential camp in its 20th year, runs June 10-15. Students will stay on UE’s campus in a residence hall, complete hands-on projects, take classes taught by UE professors, and meet local professional women in the engineering and computer science fields. The cost is $500, which includes all accommodations, food, transportation, and other fees.

$100 scholarships for the high school camp are available through TWICE (Tri-State Women in Computing and Engineering). For more information on TWICE scholarships, please e-mail Tina Newman (tn2@evansville.edu) in UE’s College of Engineering and Computer Science with “TWICE” in the subject line.

Additionally, any student who participates in the OPTIONS for High School Girls program will be eligible to receive a scholarship to attend the University of Evansville for any major selected. The scholarship’s total value is $5,000, which will be awarded in increments of $1,250 each year if conditions (such as attendance and a minimum GPA) are met.

OPTIONS for Middle School Girls is also a residential camp, running June 17-21. The cost is $250 all-inclusive, and two $200 scholarships are available from the Warrick County Women’s Fund for girls who live and attend school in Warrick County.

“We started OPTIONS for High School Girls in 1992 — and OPTIONS for Middle School Girls in 2004 — as residential summer programs to help young women learn about the careers available in engineering and computer science where women are underrepresented,” said Phil Gerhart, dean of UE’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. “Today, we’re extremely grateful to the Women’s Fund of Warrick County for their generosity, which will help allow deserving and interested young women from Warrick County to experience OPTIONS.”

This year, the OPTIONS for Middle School Boys camp will be a day program, running 8 a.m.-4 p.m. June 25-29. The cost is $200 all-inclusive.

For more information on this year’s camps and to find printable applications, please visit options.evansville.edu or contact the College of Engineering and Computer Science at 812-488-2651. Registration will be accepted until all camps are full.

Plant Conservation Day

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Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden has teamed up with local conservation partners to present Plant Conservation Day on Saturday, May 19. This event is being held in recognition of National Plant Conservation Day and will showcase many positive and crucial roles plants play in the environment. A kudzu pull by several volunteer groups at 8:30 a.m. in the Mesker Mall will kick off the event. One of the day’s highlights is a “Sky Art” photo opportunity in the kudzu patch in the Mesker Mall. The public is welcome to take part in this unique photo opportunity. Interested parties can sign up to be in the photo between 9-11 a.m. the day of the event in the Mesker Mall shelter house and the photo will be taken at 11:00 a.m. All photo participants are asked to wear a red shirt, or they may purchase a red “Plant Geek” shirt during the event. Other event highlights include demonstrations and plant interpretation by the Zoo’s Botanical Docents in the Family Garden, Rain Garden, and AMAZONIA exhibit in the Zoo. A tree planting will also take place in the Zoo at 1:30 p.m. Special thanks to the Evansville Department of Sustainability, Energy & Environmental Quality, the Vanderburgh County Soil & Water Conservation District, and the Evansville Department of Urban Forestry & Evansville Stormwater Coordinator.

WNIN 3rd Annual Hidden Treasures Rummage Sale and Appraising Fair

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Well, join WNIN for the 3rd Annual Hidden Treasures Rummage Sale and Appraising Fair. Come down to the WNIN Studios on June 9th from 8am-Noon to find deals from your neighbors, local businesses and items from the Action Auction. Just finished up your Spring cleaning or just starting, bring your items down and share!! Stop by our Appraising Area and have your treasures appraised. To get an item appraised will cost $5. See what treasures you have at the WNIN Hidden Treasures Rummage Sale and Appraising Fair.

Hidden Treasures Booth Form

Six Enemies of Greatness

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Excerpts:

1) Availability

We often settle for what’s available, and what’s available isn’t always great. “Because it was there,” is an okay reason to climb a mountain, but not a very good reason to take a job or a free sample at the supermarket.

2) Ignorance

If we don’t know how to make something great, we simply won’t. If we don’t know that greatness is possible, we won’t bother attempting it. All too often, we literally do not know any better than good enough.

3) Committees

Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus. The lowest common denominator is never a high standard.

4) Comfort

Why pursue greatness when you’ve already got 324 channels and a recliner? Pass the dip and forget about your grand designs.

5) Momentum

If you’ve been doing what you’re doing for years and it’s not-so-great, you are in a rut. Many people refer to these ruts as careers.

6) Passivity

There’s a difference between being agreeable and agreeing to everything. Trust the little internal voice that tells you, “this is a bad idea.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/02/28/the-six-enemies-of-greatness-and-happiness/

Historic Newburgh Wine, Art, and Jazz Festival

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Update: Friday (5/18/2012) evening at the Grapes on the Grass

7:00-9:00 Second Street Band from Owensboro returns to the same lead-off slot as last year. This big band lays-down the hits of Glen Miller, Duke Ellington, and more contemporary bands. The Eville Swing Cats will perform in front of the stage and teach a few swing dance tricks to brave members of the audience.
Saturday all day
12:00-3:00 pm Jon Patton Quartet is a Newburgh based band. You will recognize its members by sight and sound. Jon Patton’s playlist ranges from light jazz, to hits from the 50’s and 60’s, to contemporary music. They are a hometown favorite.
3:00-5:00 Barbara Santora & Jazzin is a real crowd pleaser with appearances in top venues including Las Vegas. Barbara is known to “work the crowd” and even make members of the audience “instant stars.”
5:00-7:00 After Hours Jazz with Cary and Michael Gray is a mainstay on the local jazz scene. They’ve played all the top clubs. Cary is also known for her renditions of standards and show tunes. After Hours Jazz is back by popular demand.
7:00-9:00 Hoosier Daddy is new to our stage this year, but hugely popular at local and regional venues. Hoosier Daddy crosses generations with their musical mix. They’ve expanded with the arrival of Megan Dukes, who can sound like Katy Perry and other contemporary artists.

USI’s Eaglenomics Speaks to National Issue

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As college debt becomes an issue in the 2012 presidential election, a financial literacy program developed by the University of Southern Indiana’s Office of Student Financial Assistance is making national headlines.

The main objective of Eaglenomics, USI’s financial literacy program, is to educate students and provide them with the tools necessary for successful money management. Financial literacy benefits students, the University, and society-at-large, according to Mary Jo Harper, director of Student Financial Assistance. “It’s now a must for higher education institutions to facilitate the efforts to promote financial literacy,” she said.

“When students incur high levels of debt, the risk of dropping out of school often becomes a reality,” Harper continued. “Money issues for students become retention issues for institutions. The financial aid office can play an important role in student retention by educating students on financial management matters.”

Defaulted federal student loans cost taxpayers money. Schools with low default rates can benefit, while sanctions can prevent a school with a high percentage of defaulters from continuing to participate in federal loan and Pell Grant programs.

USI benefits from student financial literacy through lower default rates, reduction in student’s monetary issues, fewer crisis visits to the financial aid office, and increased retention.

Students benefit through reduced financial, emotional, and physical stress, better academic performance, and a sense of empowerment in money matters.

Harper was recently interviewed by Fox Business about Eaglenomics.

Stories about the new program have also appeared in these media outlets:

http://tristatehomepage.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=498802

http://www.fox19.com/story/15893852/program-at-usi-teaches-students-about-debt?clienttype=printable

http://westside.14news.com/news/news/50932-program-usi-teaches-students-about-debt

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/college-finance/4-ways-minimize-student-loans.aspx

You can view the Eaglenomics slideshow on the USI website at http://www.usi.edu/finaid/literacy.asp.

The Office of Financial Assistance recently trademarked the name of the program.

Pushups for Charity 2012 Kicks-Off Fitness in the Park

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EVANSVILLE, IN – About a year ago, a national survey showed that Evansville was the most
obese city in the country. Surveys since then have placed us different places on that list, and
whether or not you take that survey as “exact science”, we know that at the very least, we can
do better when it comes to the health and fitness level of our community.

When Mayor Lloyd Winnecke took office, one of his priorities was to be proactive in addressing
this issue. Mayor Winnecke invited a group of local health and fitness professionals and
concerned citizens to a meeting to discuss an action plan. From this meeting, an initiative
called Energize Evansville was formed with the mission of organizing local events to help get
Evansville residents more active.

Energize Evansville is launching this campaign with Fitness In The Park, Saturday, May 19th
at 9am at the State Hospital grounds, located at the intersection of Lincoln Ave and Vann Ave.
This event will kick off with the 3rd annual Pushups for Charity Challenge, hosted by Custom
Fit Personal Training. Pushups for Charity is a fun way to get fit and make a difference by
supporting the Boot Campaign, an non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and men
and women of the U.S. Armed Services who have come back home and could use a hand.

Complete information is available at www.PushupsForCharityEvansville.com for those who want
to participate, donate or just come out and watch everyone compete to see who can do the
most pushups in 90 seconds.

After the Pushups for Charity Challenge, there will be yoga, zumba, piloxing and boot camp
style classes for attendees to try.

“Our goal is two-fold,” explains Tony Maslan, owner of Custom Fit and the chairman of the
Energize Evansville committee, “we want to show our support for our veterans who have
sacrificed so much for our freedom and security, and we want to engage our local community in
a fun way to get fit and enjoy one of our many beautiful city parks.”

“The community is really rising to the challenge – there is a lot of interest in Pushups for Charity.
I think that says a lot about our community’s interest in supporting wounded warriors, and is a
reflection of how much people appreciate the importance of being healthy,” says Maslan.

Registration will begin at 8am. The Pushups Challenge will begin at 9am. Yoga with Yoga 101,
Zumba with Tracy Wilson, and Boot Camp with Bob’s Gym will begin at 9:45am. At 10:45am
there will be Zumba with Heidi Garza and Piloxing with Alissa Fricke.

Representatives from The Diet Doc, Flex 151, Complete Nutrition, The Vitamin Shoppe, the
United States Marine Corps, the United States Army and more will also be there to provide
information on health and fitness.

IS IT TRUE May 15, 2012

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE May 15, 2012

IS IT TRUE at last night’s meeting of the Evansville City Council line number 9 on the agenda was published without any description whatsoever other than Ordinance G-2012-9 to repeal Ordinance F-2012-1?…for those of you who do not recall what F-2012-1 is it is the ordinance that was passed to approve a $4.8 Million loan to Earthcare Energy?…every other item on the agenda of last night’s City Council meeting has some verbal description about what the particular ordinance was pertaining to?…this is just one more big middle finger of sneakiness in the face of the people of Evansville?…this Ordinance should have had a verbal description of what it was like every other Ordinance that has been brought before council this year?…if this is anyone’s idea of transparency that has anything to do with making the agendas then they all need a lesson in the definition of the word?

IS IT TRUE it was overheard at last night’s meeting of the Evansville City Council when all of the cameras were off and the microphones silenced that City Council President Connie Robinson apologized to Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff Riley for the way the Earthcare Energy deal was handled?…that Council President Robinson actually told Councilwoman Riley that she was right about Earthcare?…that at that moment some would say that an angel got its wings because this sort of behavior is not characteristic of President Robinson who as recently as yesterday was digging her heels in on Earthcare?…that it took a good long time (like 10 weeks) but President Robinson along with Mayor Winnecke finally seem to have had a Eureka moment that most of the town had long ago?…that at least they had their Eureka moments and this can be put behind us from a loan approval perspective?

IS IT TRUE the issue of the threat to bring a lawsuit against the City of Evansville still needs to be mitigated?…Earthcare Energy may not go as quietly as some would hope they would?…these guys came into the chambers of the Evansville City Council with claims of Billion dollar deals in New York and claiming to have been hailed as the next Google?…that Evansville may just be facing legal actions of a Google magnitude in any forthcoming complaint and that legal hoops will have to be jumped through to avoid a large settlement?…that as we all know by now, this could have been avoided with transparency and just a little bit of VETTING?…that we do surely hope that the Evansville City Council puts some VETTING process into place and includes the funds to do it in the budget so we are never again faced with a VETTING fiasco like the three in recent history?

IS IT TRUE the County Commissioners will be meeting tomorrow afternoon starting at 1:00?…that several Moles are telling us that some of the meeting will be taken up with questions regarding the Earthcare Energy deal and the role of Vanderburgh County in financing the insufficient VETTING that led down this primrose path of problems?…that we understand that some members of the Vanderburgh County Commissioners are not at all pleased with the whole timeline of this developing fiasco?…that we encourage our readers to tune in and watch?

IS IT TRUE May 14, 2012 Part 2

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SNEGAL: "Sneaky but Legal"

IS IT TRUE May 14, 2012 Part 2

IS IT TRUE the Evansville Redevelopment Commission will be meeting tomorrow and contrary to what was on the official agenda that was distributed this morning it seems as though the “powers that be” have leaked information to some of their preferred media sources that the new Hunden Study will be presented?…this is the study where we are supposed to learn just what the details should be with respect to the downtown Convention Hotel that has been on a stop-start cycle since the summer of 2008 when then Mayor Weinzapfel proudly announced that Browning would be putting up a 4-Star hotel with no public assistance?…that three deals and a rock pile fiasco later, the bridge to nowhere is still in place and connected to the Centre that continues to hemorrhage cash?

IS IT TRUE several well respected members of the MOLE NATION tell the CCO that the numbers in the NEW Hunden Study will call for a 250 room hotel where the old Executive Inn was demolished after John Kish’s epiphany that followed the Haitian Earthquake?… the MOLE NATION furthermore tells us that the study will support an additional 150 rooms in downtown Evansville to accommodate the runaway successes of the Ford Center and the much anticipated resurrection of the Convention Business in Evansville?… if there are 150 new rooms needed that the McCurdy Hotel should be given strong consideration as a candidate for as many of those rooms as possible?…Evansville is one of the only Midwestern cities of over 100,000 people that does not have a restored vintage hotel?…the McCurdy would be truly unique as a restored historic hotel but that as apartments it would not be unique in character?…the NEW Hunden Study may just change the direction of downtown development from anything goes and everything gets a handout to the right things go and handouts are strategic and focused?

IS IT TRUE we have learned through separate sources some of the details regarding the meeting where the Economic Development Loan Committee met to make a $200,000 advance on a not-yet-approved loan to Earthcare Energy?…we now know that at least two members of the voting members of that committee were appointed by Mayor Winnecke on February 28th just before the vote on March 1st?…we have also been told that a 2 inch thick packet was handed out 10 minutes before the vote was taken?… we also have been told that during that 10 minutes the voting members in attendance were told that two more approvals including the approval of the City Council would be required before a check was issued?… we also have been told that all of the voting members who were named last Friday were not in attendance?…we have also been told that Mayor Winnecke’s Chief of Staff Steve Schaefer, attorney Ted Ziemer, GAGE president Debbie Dewey, and City Council president Connie Robinson were lobbying for yes votes?…Dewey and Robinson were doing this prior to casting YES votes themselves?…this sort of thing is enough to make SNEGAL blush?

IS IT TRUE the City of Evansville website keeps an archive of videos of meetings of the Evansville City Council meetings so the public can view them after the fact?…the meeting where Earthcare executives made their pitches and the council voted loan approval is the only one in recent meetings that is not available?…every meeting under the Winnecke Adminsitration except the March 26th meeting is readily available?…we would love to knwo why this information is being suppressed?