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Master Dog Park Plan from Denver

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The City of Denver has six dog parks. The sizes range from an acre up to three acres. Minimally dog parks have a perimeter fence, some benches to sit on, a place to dispose of dog wastes, and a free run area.

Excluding the cost of the land private groups have installed dog parks at existing parks for a cost of between $25,000 and $100,000 per park. Dog owners in Denver and other locations have shown a willingness to pay a fee of about $50 per year for he use of dog parks. Most users of dog parks walk their dogs to the parks as opposed to driving so distance from dog owners residences are to be considered in choosing a location. Finally dog parks have restriction on proximity to play areas for protection of children from aggressive dogs.

Enjoy seeing what a real plan looks like. If realistic thinking prevails Evansville may just be able to put in some dog parks at appropriate locations for a reasonable ($25,000 per park) cost and generate fees from dog owners to cover the expense of maintenance.

Link to Denver Master Dog Park Plan
http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/626/documents/Off_Leash_Dog_Park_masterPlan_web_.pdf

The Voters that Stayed Home, by: Andrew McCarthy

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The CCO has been curious about the nearly 100 Million eligible voters who did not vote since that fact was disclosed. After all it seems as though 30% of eligible voters re-elected the President while 29% voted for Mitt Romney and another 0.7% went for Libertarian Gary Johnson. That means that just over 40% of eligible voters for some reason voted “none of the above”. Here are some excerpts and a link from a very telling article about who stayed home and why. Our warning is that this is not kind to either political party but is particularly harsh on Republicans.

Excerpts:

“But the story is not about who voted; it is about who didn’t vote. In truth, millions of Americans have decided that Republicans are not a viable alternative because they are already too much like Democrats. They are Washington. With no hope that a Romney administration or more Republicans in Congress would change this sad state of affairs, these voters shrugged their shoulders and became non-voters.”

“The country yawned. About 11 million fewer Americans voted for the two major-party candidates in 2012 — 119 million, down from 130 million in 2008. In fact, even though our population has steadily increased in the last eight years (adding 16 million to the 2004 estimate of 293 million Americans), about 2 million fewer Americans pulled the lever for Obama and Romney than for George W. Bush and John Kerry.”

“Obama lost an incredible 9 million voters from his 2008 haul. If told on Monday that fully 13 percent of the president’s support would vanish, the GOP establishment would have stocked up on champagne and confetti.”

“if there is any silver lining for conservatives here, it’s that Obama was hurt more by the decrease in his level of support from this demographic — down six points from the 66 percent he claimed in 2008 — than by the marginal drop in total youth participation. It seems to be dawning on at least some young adults that Obamaville is a bleak place to build a future.”

“The brute fact is: There are many people in the country who believe it makes no difference which party wins these elections. Obama Democrats are the hard Left, but Washington’s Republican establishment is progressive, not conservative. This has solidified statism as the bipartisan mainstream. Republicans may want to run Leviathan — many are actually perfectly happy in the minority — but they have no real interest in dismantling Leviathan. They are simply not about transferring power out of Washington, not in a material way.”

“Yes, Democrats are reckless in refusing to acknowledge the suicidal costs of their cradle-to-grave nanny state, but the Republican campaign called for enlarging a military our current spending on which dwarfs the combined defense budgets of the next several highest-spending nations. When was the last time you heard a Republican explain what departments and entitlements he’d slash to pay for that?”

“Our bipartisan ruling class is obtuse when it comes to the cliff we’re falling off — and I don’t mean January’s so-called “Taxmageddon,” which is a day at the beach compared to what’s coming.”

“What happens, moreover, when we have a truly egregious Washington scandal, like the terrorist murder of Americans in Benghazi? What do Republicans do? The party’s nominee decides the issue is not worth engaging on — cutting the legs out from under Americans who see Benghazi as a debacle worse than Watergate, as the logical end of the Beltway’s pro-Islamist delirium.”

“Republicans talk about limited central government, but they do not believe in it — or, if they do, they lack confidence that they can explain its benefits compellingly. They’ve bought the Democrats’ core conceit that the modern world is just too complicated for ordinary people to make their way without bureaucratic instruction. They look at a money-hemorrhaging disaster like Medicare, whose unsustainability is precisely caused by the intrusion of government, and they say, “Let’s preserve it — in fact, let’s make its preservation the centerpiece of our campaign.”

“Republicans lack the courage to argue from conviction that health care would work better without federal mandates and control — that safety nets are best designed by the states, the people, and local conditions, not Washington diktat. In their paralysis, we are left with a system that will soon implode, a system that will not provide care for the people being coerced to pay in.”

“Truth be told, most of today’s GOP does not believe Washington makes things worse. Republicans think the federal government — by confiscating, borrowing, and printing money — is the answer to every problem, rather than the source of most. That is why those running the party today, when they ran Washington during the Bush years, orchestrated an expansion of government size, scope, and spending that would still boggle the mind had Obama not come along.”

“That is not materially different from what the Democrats believe. It’s certainly not an alternative. For Americans who think elections can make a real difference, Tuesday pitted proud progressives against reticent progressives; slightly more preferred the true-believers. For Americans who don’t see much daylight between the two parties — one led by the president who keeps spending money we don’t have and the other by congressional Republicans who keep writing the checks and extending the credit line — voting wasn’t worth the effort.

Those millions of Americans need a new choice. We all do.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333135/voters-who-stayed-home-andrew-c-mccarthy?pg=1

Obama Voters: by Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley

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3rd Ward City Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley

Obama Voters

After President Obama won re-election, Ted Nugent tweeted that his supporters were “pimps, whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters.” He went on to ask “what subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives.” Bill O’Reilly called them the people who “want stuff,” while Ann Coulter referred to them as the “takers” of our society. Peter Morrison, the Republican Party Treasurer in Hardin County, Texas, achieved national headlines with his Facebook rant that supporters of President Obama were “maggots” and “baby-murdering, tax raising socialists.” Across the conservative blogosphere and via social media outlets, the President’s supporters have been accused of everything from stupidity to solely voting along ethnic lines.

So who are these people really? Are President Obama’s supporters made up of welfare recipients, people lacking a religious affiliation and those without a formal education- essentially the great unwashed masses? The answer is a resounding no.

Let’s look at welfare recipients first. There is a common belief among conservatives that President Obama owes his second term to entitlement programs and those who benefit from them. This is not true. People living in poverty ($15,000 a year or less) don’t make up any greater portion of the electorate than those with an income of over $200,000 a year. Both groups equate to about 6% of voters. Although there are certainly more poor people than those making over $200,000 a year, the groups vote at very different rates. It’s simply a misconception that poor people vote. Most do not. Although the poor tend to vote Democrat when they do vote, so do people making over $200,000 per year. President Obama also received 73% of the Asian American vote, and this group earns more per capita than anyone else. As to those receiving Medicare and Social Security (over 65), 56% voted for Mitt Romney.

There is also a belief among conservatives that those without a religious affiliation (i.e. the soulless baby-murderers) are to thank for President Obama’s victory. This is also not true. African Americans voted for President Obama at the rate of 93%, and Latinos at the rate of 71%. Both groups report a higher church attendance than any others. Catholics voted at a rate of 50% to 48% for President Obama, while Jewish people went with President Obama to the tune of 69%. Those voters who did not list a religious affiliation voted overwhelming for President Obama (70%) but make up less than 20% of the electorate.

The final myth is that President Obama’s supporters lack an education. The exact opposite is actually true. A majority of those with a post graduate degree voted for President Obama. Republicans and Democrats are fairly even with those having only a high school education trending Republican. As voters gain formal education they tend to vote Democrat. This is a phenomenon that has been occurring since the 1980s when those with a college degree used to vote overwhelmingly for Republicans.

Other groups who supported President Obama are young people and women. Voters from 18 to 29 voted 60% for him and voters from 30-39 voted 55% for him. Women, who make up 53% of the electorate, went with President Obama 55% of the time. Single women, who account for 23% of all voters, supported him overwhelmingly at 67%. The only groups won by Mitt Romney were white voters, who make up 72% of the electorate, but continue to shrink in numbers, and Protestants.

So, to answer the question succinctly as to who are the supporters of President Obama- it’s everybody else. And there is no relief in sight for the primarily white Republican Party. 50,000 Latinos will turn 18 every month for the next 2 decades, while women, young people and African Americans continue to turn out in record numbers.

With President Obama being so vulnerable this time, it begs the question of whether he actually won or if the policies of the Republican Party were rejected. Exit polls revealed that voters found Democrat policies more favorable to the middle class, Latinos, women and youth, and also that President Obama cared more about people like themselves. Most voters also blamed Republican policies for the current economic condition.

While Republican soul-search this week, they should look at not just the lack of inclusiveness of the party itself, but also of its policies. The United States isn’t just changing, it’s changed. Good Republican ideas have been squelched by concepts like “self-deportation” and “legitimate rape.” Responsible fiscal conservatism is just what this country needs, but the social agenda baggage needs to be checked at the door. It’s time to say good-bye to the Tea Party and hello to demographics and math.

Sources Include:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/ted-nugent-on-obama-election-twitter-rant-economic-spiritual-suicide_n_2094490.html
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-white-establishment-is-now-the-minority-people-support-obama-because-they-want-things/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/demoralized-ann-coulter-laura-ingraham-over-hope_n_2089678.html
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/texas_gop_official_maggots_re_elected_obama/singleton/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/17/rush-limbaugh-says-welfare-recipients-turn-out-to-vote-in-force-they-really-dont/
http://www.asian-nation.org/model-minority.shtml
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-election-20121111,0,2275455.story
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-exit-poll
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125999/mississippians-go-church-most-vermonters-least.aspx
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/75.5.pdf
http://www.governing.com/blogs/politics/gov-political-demographic-trends-brighter-for-democrats.html

Election Triggers Layoffs

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Do elections have consequences? If you have been paying attention to the financial markets, you might think so. Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term.

However, stock prices are not the only thing taking a hit. It appears that the job market is also suffering. In the last 48 hours, the following major corporations have announced layoffs in America (links take you to news stories about the layoffs – with details from the companies):

• Energizer –

The St. Louis-based company said Thursday that it expects to shed about 1,500 employees. When finished, the restructuring should lead to $200 million in pretax yearly savings, Energizer said. It aims to have most of its restructuring steps finished by the end of September 2014.

• Exide Technologies –

Exide Technologies announced Thursday that it will be idling its lead-recycling operations in Laureldale and laying off 150 workers, effective no later than March 31.

• Westinghouse –

Westinghouse Anniston, the contractor responsible for shutting down Anniston’s chemical weapons incinerator, has reduced its workforce by another 50 employees.

• Research in Motion Limited –

Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, laid off about 200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday, according to a source close to the company who did not want to be named.

• Lightyear Network Solutions –

More than one dozen employees at a Pikeville company lost their jobs this week. Officials with Lightyear Network Solutions said they are consolidating offices in Louisville and Pikeville to save money.

• Providence Journal –

The Providence Journal Co. laid off 23 full-time workers Wednesday as part of a cost-cutting effort, including 16 members of the Providence Newspaper Guild and 7 non-union employees.

• Hawker Beechcraft –

The company says 240 employees will lose their jobs with the closing of Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark.; Mesa, Ariz.; and San Antonio, Texas.

• Boeing (30% of their management staff) –

Boeing Co. said Wednesday it plans to employ 30% fewer executives at its Boeing Defense, Space & Security unit by the end of 2012 compared to 2010 levels.

• CVPH Medical Center –

CVPH Medical Center has handed pink slips to 17 employees. The layoffs — nine in management and eight hourly staffers — are part of an effort to “help bolster the hospital’s financial position in 2013 and beyond,” a press release said.

• US Cellular –

The move will result in 980 job cuts at U.S. Cellular, with 640 in the Chicago area, according to a spokeswoman. The cuts are slightly under 12 percent of the approximately 8,400 total employees U.S. Cellular had at the end of the third quarter.

• Momentive Performance Materials –

About 150 workers at Sistersville’s Momentive Performance Materials plant will be temporarily laid off later this month, officials said this week.

• Rocketdyne –

About 100 employees at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, most of whom work in the San Fernando Valley, were laid off Wednesday in response to dwindling government spending on space exploration, the company said. The layoffs were effective immediately, and 75 percent of them came at the facilities on Canoga and De Soto avenues, which employ about 1,100 people. The company has six sites across the Valley.

• Brake Parts –

The leader of an automotive parts plant in Lincoln County has told state officials that there are plans to lay off 75 workers starting in late December…The layoffs are expected to start Dec. 28 and continue in the first quarter of 2013

• Vestas Wind Systems –
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) is seeking to sell a stake of as much as 20 percent and said it’s reducing headcount by 3,000 to raise the staff cuts by the biggest wind turbine maker to almost a third over two years.

• Husqvarna –

Husqvarna AB (HUSQB), the world’s biggest maker of powered garden tools, plans to cut about 600 jobs in a move that will save 220 million kronor ($33 million) a year by 2014.

• Center for Hospice New York –

The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care plans to temporarily lay off as many as 40 employees next year as it embarks on a major renovation of the inpatient unit at its Cheektowaga campus.

• Bristol-Meyers –

Bristol-Myers Squibb is following up its lackluster third-quarter results with almost 480 layoffs. As Pharmalot reports, the company notified the New Jersey government that it would scale back in Plainsboro, which means the cuts will hit its sales operations.

• OCE North America –

Trumbull printer- and scanning-equipment provider Oce North America, Inc. will lay off 135 workers in three Connecticut communities, including East Hartford, according to its notice with the state Labor Department.

• Darden Restaurants –

The company, which was among those who had received an Obamacare waiver in the past, is looking to limit workers to 28 hours per week. A full time employee that is required to have health insurance (lest the employer pay a fine) works 30 hours per week, as defined by the Obamacare law.

• West Ridge Mine –

In its statement, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down “204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014″ and for drastically reducing the market for coal.

• United Blood Services Gulf –

United Blood Services Gulf South region, the non-profit blood service provider for much of south Louisiana and Mississippi, will lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce. It was a hard decision to make according to Susan Begnaud, Regional Center Director for the Gulf South region.
A layoff is tough enough for employees to deal with, imagine hearing the crushing news that your office is shutting down just before Thanksgiving and Christmas… Here are some of the business closings that were announced in just the past two days:

Caterpillar Inc. will close its plant in Owatonna Minn.
Mount Pleasant’s Albrecht Sentry Foods
The Target store at Manassas Mall Va.
Millennium Academy in Wake Forest NC
Target Closing Kissimmee FL Location
The Andover Gift Shop in Andover MA
Grand Union Family Markets Closing Storrs Location CT
Movie Scene Milford Location NH
Update: TE Connectivity Closing Greensboro Plant – 620 Layoffs Expected
Gomer’s Fried Chicken in South Kansas City
Kmart in Homer Glen
Fresh Market on Pine Street in Burlington
AGC Glass North America to permanently close its Blue Ridge Plant in Kingsport Tenn.
The Target store at Platte and Academy in Colorado Springs
The Roses store on Reynold Road in Winston-Salem NC
Bost Harley-Davidson at 46th Avenue North and Delaware Ave. in West Nashville TN
Townsend Booksellers in Oakland
The Kmart store in Parkway Plaza off University Drive in Durham NC – 79 Jobs Lost

To see even more companies that announced layoffs since the election, visit the Daily Job Cuts page.

Source: The Blaze

Letter to the Editor: Robin Edwards

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We started our business 30+ years ago in our home and it grew beyond our wildest dreams, mostly through my husband’s incredibly hard work! Since the last quarter of 2008 our business has decreased every week to it’s present level of 80% of that last ’08 quarter. We have a niche business that’s manufacturers or provides customized products for other businesses. Many of our customers – businesses – have gone bankrupt, many owing us money, so not only have we lost the owed money, we have lost the income from those business. We have steadily cut back. We “carried” all our employees at personal sacrifice as long as possible, but were forced to lay them off, cutting our employees to 4!

When Obamacare passed our insurance premium skyrocketed. All of our employees immediately quit the insurance and became uninsured. Each employee that dropped raised our premium.Our premium with a $3000 deductible – no coverage of many medications such as acne, allergy, BIRTH CONTROL, Restasis, etc – went to $1,759/month AND we were told it would be raised again! If I told you what they said our premiums were going to be you would think I was lying so I won’t bother. We were forced to drop our insurance, but fortunately we were able to find some insurance with a $10,000 deductible per family member ( hubby, myself, 2 daughters) and added another “accident policy” – so we are covered for a major illness or accident, however, after the Supreme Court idiocy our rates were raised about $70. This despite we are all in excellent health and very rarely used our previous or current insurance – which was not cheap to start with!

We decided if Romney won we would hold to see if businesses felt confident and began growing, therefore, growing our business again. We agreed and told our employees that if Obama won we were shutting down. Today is our last 4 employees last day. FYI, we pay approximately 20% in government taxes & fees per each employee and if they opt for insurance we have that added expense – all on top of their salaries!

Americans have been brainwashed into thinking businesses hate their employees and use them then discard them. Nothing could be further from the truth! We care about our employees financial and personal lives. If our employees are not doing well, neither is our business. Beyond that we care about our employees as people we’ve gotten to know.

Hard times are coming for all Americans. All our former employees are now taking from the “system” rather than contributing to it.

Basically we have been working to pay our employees, taxes, and business expenses. We are no longer going to work for less than free! In reality we have been working to support our fellow Americans who are taking a free ride. That’s over.

My husband and daughters laughingly refer to me as the “Perpetual Optimist”, after an incident when a gloomy, doomy, pessimistic acquaintance screamed at me ,”You are the Perpetual Optimist!” I’m not feeling particularly optimistic today. Hard times are coming.

Papa Johns & Applebee’s cutting hours and laying off employees to deal with Obamacare Costs

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In the wake of President Obama’s reelection, one CEO is taking actions after his criticisms of Obamacare.

Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on passing the costs of health care reform to his business onto his employees. According to the Naples News, Schnatter said he is considering reducing workers’ hours, as a result of President Obama’s reelection. Schnatter made headlines over the summer when he told shareholders that the cost of a Papa John’s pizza will increase by between 11 and 14 cents due to Obamacare.

“I got in a bunch of trouble for this,” he said, referring to the comments he made in August, according to Naples News. “That’s what you do, is you pass on costs. Unfortunately, I don’t think people know what they’re going to pay for this.”

Schnatter went on to say he’s neither in support of, nor against the Affordable Care Act, even admitting that “the good news is 100 percent of the population is going to have health insurance.” But he’s not the only one in the chain restaurant industry to admit that workers hours may be reduced, since Obamacare mandates that only employees that work more than 30 hours per week are covered under their employers health insurance plan. For example, Darden restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, has already experimented with reducing workers hours in anticipation of the legislation.

Others have responded to the added costs of Obamacare more harshly, including Applebee’s which has said it won’t hire new workers because of the law. Just this week, a Georgia business owner also claimed he cut employees due to Obamacare and in fact had specifically laid off those who he thought had voted for President Obama.

IS IT TRUE November 9, 2012

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE November 9, 2012

IS IT TRUE that a group of independent non-partisans are talking about approaching 5th Ward City Councilman John Friend about starting an exploratory committee to see if he should consider running for Mayor of Evansville? … that there is a grass roots movement to oust the Vanderburgh County Democratic Party Chairman because it is widely consider that he has failed to lead the party? …many others have concluded that the Republican Party has won several local elections including the one for Mayor of Evansville only due to the efforts of the present and previous Democrat Party Chairmen? …the Democrat Party in Vanderburgh County may have lots of members but the leadership is ineffective and the membership is fractured?

IS IT TRUE that another member of the Evansville City Council has also had her name bantered about as a very good future Mayor? …3rd Ward City Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley is beginning to be seen as a smart and tough as nails alternative that actually does not mind working hard for the people she was elected to serve? …that Brinkerhoff-Riley is known to have some very good ideas to add some sanity to the public investment in attracting companies to come to Evansville bringing jobs with them?…one good idea that has been floated about is to establish some pool of money in the neighborhood of $5 Million for that purpose and to couple that money with an equal amount from local Angel Investors? …that would make a $10 Million attraction/investment fund available? …the third leg of that stool would be to hire outside advisors from the investment world to manage this entire fund as though it were a job seeking and return on investment seeking mutual fund with local concentration? …prior to 2009 GAGE was on a path to do exactly this and had the public part of the money committed?…then Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel and Tom Barnett took all of that money to build the Front Door Pride houses many of which still sit there unsold at prices that are half of what they cost to build?…Councilwoman Riley understands the value of mixing public and private money in the same investments and even supports investing to attract when the investment passes a sanity test?

IS IT TRUE that the CCO supports this idea but expects that in the halls of Evansville politics that anything that makes sense and removes control of the purse strings from career politicians will not be seriously considered? …that an old Israeli boss once told this writer “there are two kinds of people when it comes to money. The first turns crap into money and the second turns money into crap”? …that seems to be true and in a world of $700 hammers, $2 Million ball fields, $8 Million dog parks, and a looming fiscal cliff we can safely put Mayors and Presidents in the category of those who turn money into crap?

IS IT TRUE that Vanderburgh County Sheriff Eric Williams played a key role in helping to defeat Rick Davis re-election bid for Treasurer? …that because of this and similar political activities, Mr. Williams future political star is now very dim?…many political careers have seen their stock drop worse than the Dow Jones and the Dollar have due to their support of the overwhelmingly rejected “reorganization” referendum? …Mayor Lloyd Winnecke who laid it all on the line to try to pass former Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s half baked consolidation plan along with Marsha Abell, Joe Kiefer, and a host of others will have to answer for this every time they stick their toes into the future political Burgoo? …if this election cycle had been an Olympic event it would have been the backstroke or the dog paddle and gold medals would be hanging like albatrosses around the necks of the cast of clowns that have been running the City of Evansville in the last decade or so?

IS IT TRUE on the federal level that the so called “fiscal cliff” is looking our lame duck congress and our 50.3% of the vote President elect straight in the eye? …one of the items set to change from a tax perspective is that tax on dividends? …they really need to take this off of the table or even revamp this taxation to be more investor
friendly? …for those who ask why the answer is INFRASTRUCTURE? …dividend paying stocks like utilities, energy companies, and big conglomerates are the creators of INFRASTRUCTURE and that creation depends on access to capital? …raising the tax on dividends will lower the price of existing stocks and force these companies to raise their dividends to attract future capital? …in the long run this will raise the price of energy which will hit everyday citizens at the gas pump, the grocery store, the monthly utility bill, and in everything we buy or sell? …the real travesty is if our government fails we may see no new INFRASTRUCTURE projects at all?…the federal government proved with the stimulus that they cannot make infrastructure happen so this one has to come from the private world?

IS IT TRUE the war on fossil fuels also needs to stop? …the people on the east coast have not been lining up and fighting over a can of solar or wind power? …the immediate needs of these people can only be met with gasoline, fuel oil, or coal and that these are our only feasible bridge to the future when it comes to energy? …if we have not learned this by now, the 94 Million people who did not vote at all may have been the only ones who cast an intelligent vote for “none of the above”?

Reitz Journalism Department Receives Honors

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Reitz High School’s journalism department has reason to celebrate this week. The department, which publishes the school’s newspaper and yearbook, took home nine awards, including two first place awards, at the Indiana High School Press Association (IHSPA) Harvey Awards for scholastic press organizations.

The school’s newspaper, The Mirror, brought home a total of seven awards for 2012 publications. The 2012 Reflections Yearbook was edited by Samantha Trinkle, then a junior, who has come back to edit the 2013 book. Awards received for The Mirror, include:

Zoe Grabow, Class of 2012, first place in Newspaper Editorial Writing
Nolan Spinks, Class of 2012, first place in Communication (Newspaper) Graphics
Chloe Hollen, Class of 2013, second place in Newspaper Civic Journalism
Josselinne Torres, Class of 2013, third place in Newspaper Sports Writing
Melody Hart, Class of 2012, third place in Newspaper Spot News Photo and Newspaper Photojournalism Portfolio
Daryl Smith, Class of 2012, honorable mention in Newspaper News Writing

The school’s yearbook, Reflections, also took home two awards at the event for its 2012 publication. The 2012 Mirror Newspaper was edited by Zoe Grabow, now a freshman journalism and music student at DePauw University. The editor in chief of the 2013 Mirror Newspaper is Josselinne Torres. Awards for the yearbook include:

Bethany Barber, Class of 2013, second place in Yearbook Feature Photo
Samantha Trinkle, Class of 2013, third place in Yearbook Student Life Spread Design

Reitz’s journalism department has a history of receiving accolades for its publications. Reitz’s 2011 Reflections Yearbook was named a Hoosier Star finalist for three years in a row and Reitz’s newspaper continues to receive awards throughout the state.

Based at Franklin College, the IHSPA is one of the leading statewide press organizations for high school journalism programs. The ISHPA sponsors conferences and workshops, provides resources and training to students and teachers, and is an advocate for scholastic press programs in Indiana.

USI’s 2012 Senior Seminar on display

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USI
The University of Southern Indiana’s 2012 Senior Seminar Exhibition, featuring the artwork of 47 senior art majors, is now on display in the Kenneth P. McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries, located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center.

The students have concentrated upon different areas of emphasis within the art major: graphic design, interactive media, illustration, and studio art. The senior art and design seminars are the capstone courses for graduating art majors and the exhibition is the culmination of those courses. “The artworks shown represent the best fine art and design work of these senior students,” said Dr. Kathryn Waters, professor of art.

The exhibiting seniors are Jack Ashley, Christina Baxter, Kristen Bickwermert, Reva Bourgasser, Krista Breitwieser, Andrew Brown, MaCabe Brown, Roxie Burton, Christina Butler, Tara Byers, Kellie Canif, Jazmyn Gideon, Jean Grace, Tara Hasenour, Cherise Hawkins, We Xin He, Jordan Head, Raquel Heisner, Amanda Hilger, Kristin Kelley, Cameron Kerstiens, Russell Kirk, Cory Lawrence, Megan Lollar, Dakota Lykins, Erin Manson, Justine Mayer, Sarah Melton, Erin Mooney, Melanie Mundy, Mackenzie Nieten, Ryan Pflug, Taylor Price, Sara Rasnick, Stephanie Reininga, Jamie Robertson, Shayna Roos, Devon Rose, Leyna Seaton, Veronica Shelton, Kandice Spurlock, Adam Tesh, Tristan Thompson, Dustin Vowels, Katie Vandiver, Amber Waninger, Danielle Waninger, Christopher Wilke, and Nicole Wiscaver.

There will be a reception for the student artists from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, November 11, in the art center. Refreshments will be served and the public is welcome to attend.

The Senior Seminar Exhibition will be on display through December 2.

Greenway Advisory Board – November 12 Agenda

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November 12, 2012
4:00 p.m.
C. K. Newsome Community Center
100 E. Walnut Street
Evansville, IN 47713

ROOM 118 A & B

Agenda

I. Call to Order

II. Minutes – October 8, 2012

III. Old Business – Greenway Update
a) Industrial Corridor – Phase 4 Update
b) Report on Street Signs Along Trail.
c) Update on New Greenway Trails.

IV. ETC Report – Roberta Heiman

V. New Business
a) Additional Amenities along the Greenway Passage.
b) Any Other Business the Advisory Board Wishes to Discuss

VI. Adjourn

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