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Mayor Winnecke Announces Partnership between City of Evansville and Earthcare Energy

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Lloyd Winnecke

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
LLOYD WINNECKE

March 2, 2012 Contact: Debbie Dewey
For Immediate Release 812- 401-4243
Earthcare Energy to Bring 120 Manufacturing Jobs to Evansville

(EVANSVILLE, IN) – Mayor Lloyd Winnecke announces Earthcare Energy, LLC (Earthcare), a new international renewable energy project developer and original equipment manufacturer, has chosen Evansville as the start-up location for manufacture of its unique Total Flow Gas Letdown Generator (TFG). The TFG extracts gas pressure energy from natural gas letdown stations and represents the lowest-cost power generation technology available in the market today. It is a renewable and clean energy source. A working prototype of the unit is in operation today, and immediate demand for the product is proven.

Over the next three years, Earthcare has committed to add more than 100 skilled manufacturing and manufacturing management jobs in Evansville. However, with more than 2 million natural gas letdown stations worldwide, the business growth potential is expected to yield many more orders and therefore has the potential to add many more jobs in Evansville. In addition to jobs at Earthcare, there will be opportunity for other local manufacturers to become component suppliers to Earthcare, adding the potential for even more local jobs.

Earthcare will start-up operations in the Park 41 industrial complex, becoming the newest tenant in this former Whirlpool manufacturing facility. The City of Evansville plans to provide a start-up loan and grant for Earthcare’s Evansville Headquarters. In addition to loan repayment with interest, Evansville will share in Earthcare’s success by receiving a share of profits from TFGs to be installed at a number of gas letdown stations. Vectren will partner with Earthcare Energy to help demonstrate the viability of the technology for other utilities.

This partnership between the City of Evansville, Earthcare Energy, and Vectren is unique and progressive. It brings manufacturing jobs; the opportunity to be the global center for this renewable, clean energy alternative; and a new revenue stream to fund future projects for the City of Evansville.

Inclimate Weather Closes The ZOO for Today

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Due to the severe weather and anticipated storms coming through the tri-state, Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden will be closed for the remainder of the day (3/2/2012).

Thank you,

Charlotte Roesner

Marketing Director

Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden

1545 Mesker Park Dr.

Evansville, IN 47720

Phone: (812) 435-6143 ext. 409

Clean Evansville Heros

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March 3rd Cleanup Locations – CLEAN EVANSVILLE

Team 1
Team Captains: Angela Patton/Casino Aztar
Team Volunteers: Casino Aztar (15)
Starting Point: Meet at Schnucks Grocery parking lot Washington Avenue & Hebron Avenue.
Litter Collection: Walk west to east along Washington Avenue to Burkhart Road, collect litter on both sides of Washington Avenue.

Team 2
Team Captains: Sandy Appler (Salvation Army)
Team Volunteers: Salvation Army (9)/Kathy Yearwood Shoe Carnival (2)/Stephanie Norrick (2)
Starting Point: Meet at Hebron Elementary School Bellemeade Avenue.
Litter Collection: Walking west to east along Bellemeade Avenue to 3-way stop at Cullen Avenue, collect litter on both sides of Bellemeade and then north to south on Cullen Avenue.

Team 3
Team Captains: Mayor Winnecke
Team Volunteers: YouthBuild (9)/Veolia (10)/SMG (4)
Starting Point: Meet at III South parking lot (Brinker’s) near intersections of Green River Rd & Lloyd Expressway overpass.
Litter Collection: Walking north to south along Green River Road, collect litter on both sides of Green River Road to Washington Avenue.

Team 4
Team Captains: Carol McClintock
Team Volunteers: Boys & Girls Club (4)/5th 3rd Bank (6)/Steve Scheller Family (4)
Starting Point: Eyekamp Boy Scouts Parking lot along Lloyd Expressway.
Litter Collection Adults: Walking west to east collect litter near Lloyd Expressway from Vann Avenue to Congress Avenue.
Litter Collection Children: Walk along the State Hospital Park trails collecting litter. Stay away from nearby roadways.

Team 5
Team Captains: Patricia Jackson (Vectren)
Team Volunteers: Vectren (21)
Starting Point: Meet at Bethel Temple parking lot on Lincoln Avenue.
Litter Collection: Walking west to east along Lincoln Avenue, collect litter on both sides of Lincoln Avenue to Burkhart Rd. (sidewalks end on Lincoln after business district on the east side of Lincoln Ave).

Team 6
Team Captains: Timothy Weir (Accuride)
Team Volunteers: Accuride (10-15)
Starting Point: Meet at Harrison High School parking lot on Fielding Avenue.
Litter Collection: Split into two teams, team 1 working Fielding Avenue/Lloyd Expressway bounded by Lincoln Avenue, and team 2 working Cullen Avenue/Lloyd Expressway bounded by Lincoln Avenue. Walk north to south to Lincoln Avenue collecting litter.

IS IT TRUE: March 2, 2012

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE: March 2, 2012

IS IT TRUE that a short 16 years ago that Senator Richard Lugar was all up in arms about negative campaigning and even ran an ad to encourage his then fellow Hoosiers to join him in taking a stand against negative campaigns?…that was then and this is now?…that the ghost of elections past should visit Senator Lugar’s Washington home and remind him of how he advocated for clean and honest campaigns back before he had become a Washingtonian?…that Senator Lugar’s latest round of commercials against his primary challenger Evansville’s favorite son Richard Mourdock are anything but positive?…that the City County Observer would like to encourage each and every person planning to vote in the Republican primary to give strong and thoughtful consideration to each of these men and to cast a ballot for the one that truly has the best interest of SW Indiana in his heart and mind?

IS IT TRUE that one of our beloved comment writers jumped on us yesterday for repeating a passage about the failure to fund and start an audit of the IT Department?…that this person should remember that one of our trademarks is to bring things up on a recurring basis and that our repeated reminders of the McCurdy Fiasco and the Executive Inn Dilemma lead to action on the part of the former Mayor’s Evansville Redevelopment Commission?…that maybe we should rephrase our repetition to something like “IS IT TRUE that it has now been 61 days since the 2012 editions of city and county government were installed and still there is no appropriation of the funds to begin the audit of the IT Department”?…that we could even name names and remind people that a new long term contract was handed out by County Commission during the waning days of the Weinzapfel Administration?…that we could also state that City Councilman and Chairman of the Finance Committee John Friend, CPA was all over this oversight in 2011 and may just be simmering to get on it again?…that there will be some reminder on a recurring basis until this necessary action is funded and done?

IS IT TRUE that the open seat in Indiana House of Representatives District 64 has a strong contender throwing his hat into the ring?…that sources tell the CCO that Tom Washburne who makes his home near Darmstadt will be making a strong push for this seat?…that Mr. Washburne brings with him the practical analytical skills of a Purdue engineering degree along with an understanding and interest in government from a career in law and banking?…that this guy worked his way up the old fashioned was as a kid from Princeton who bagged groceries and made his spending money in local retail?…that it will be interesting to see who the Democrat party will slate against Mr. Washburne in this newly bordered district that has long been receptive to practical people with conservative leanings?

IS IT TRUE that the CCO is wondering just what the fruits of the “all hands on deck” bus trip to the Crane NAVSEA Center will be?…that true to his expression during the 2011 election that Mayor Winnecke seems to be trying to muster some local interest in reviving the Partnership Intermediary Agreement between GAGE and Crane that seemed to have gone into hibernation after the 2009 Freedom Festival?…that between the renewed interest in the Crane deal, the realization that the Federal Lab Consortium is the real source of intellectual property, and the Kauffman Foundation running a seminar at USI that GAGE had scheduled for 2009 that GAGE seems to be encouraged to go back to its original mission during the early days of the Winnecke Administration?

FUNNY FRIDAY: “Coke Prank”

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USI India internships available for summer 2012

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This summer, the University of Southern Indiana is offering another opportunity for students to travel and conduct research in India through the University’s Global Engagement Initiative. Up to six USI undergraduates will spend four weeks (approximately May 27 to June 27, 2012) in India and earn three hours of course credit.

The Society for Development Studies (SDS) will first train the students in New Delhi in a United Nations award-winning community-empowerment model. The students will then visit and engage with a community in Alwar to experience how the model was implemented and, under the guidance of SDS faculty, will help design approaches to enhance the community’s empowerment. Visits to Agra and Jaipur also have been planned.

The trip will cost $1,000 including course credit, travel, room and board, airfare and local transportation, and some meals. The application deadline is Wednesday, March 14, 2012.

The Society for Development Studies is a non-government organization based in New Delhi, but is part of an international United Nations network. SDS faculty members have worked with students from many universities including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and USI on applications of its community-empowerment model.

In summer 2011, three USI students – Amy Brown, Chanse Ford, and Daniel “D.J.” Horstman – spent two weeks in India working with SDS’s community-empowerment model through interviews and interactions with families in Alwar. One highlight of their trip was a visit to the village of Andhwari, where the USI group was welcomed with flowers, singing, and dancing. “It is amazing the progress these people have made since the implementation of Dr. Lall’s program,” Ford wrote in his blog about the trip. “It was an indescribable feeling to be there and have these people open up to us and share so much of their lives with us when they had only met us that day.”

Plans for the second trip were initiated when Dr. Vinay D. Lall, director general of the SDS, visited USI in January.

In October 2010, Dr. Ronald S. Rochon, provost, led a team of USI faculty including Dr. Sudesh N. Mujumdar, Dr. Nadine Coudret, and Dr. Ann White to India for an initial exploration of partnerships. In addition to SDS, they met with representatives of organizations such as the University of Mumbai and the Reserve Bank of India. A follow-up visit by Mujumdar, Dr. Niharika Banerjea, Dr. Scott Gordon, and Dr. Mohammed Khayum took place in March 2011 to further opportunities for joint work across disciplines. Last summer’s student trip resulted from their efforts.

Source: USI.edu

UE Students Win Awards in Creative Writing Contest

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Three creative writing students at the University of Evansville have received awards in the 2012 Southern Literary Festival Student Writing Contest.

Miranda Stinson of Bloomington, Indiana, won first place in the poetry category for her poem “Renovation,” and “The Fire Dancers” by Danielle Weeks of Connersville, Indiana, won an honorable mention in the same category. Lacey Conley of Kendallville, Indiana, won first place in the creative nonfiction category for her essay “The Way the Catwalks.”

These students will participate in a public reading at the festival with other Student Writing Contest winners. The Southern Literary Festival runs from March 29-31 at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Source: Evansville.edu

Winnecke to Announce New Headquarters Tomorrow

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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
LLOYD WINNECKE

March 1, 2012 Contact: Ella Johnson-Watson
For Immediate Release 812-436-4965

News Advisory
Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will hold a news conference tomorrow, March 2, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. at Park 41 (the former Whirlpool building) on U.S. 41 to announce that Evansville will become the U.S. manufacturing headquarters for a new venture.

Mayor Winnecke to Announce Job Opportuities at 2

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Lloyd Winnecke
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
LLOYD WINNECKE

March 1, 2012 Contact: Stephanie Moore
For Immediate Release 812-548-6EPA

News AdvisoryMayor Lloyd Winnecke will join representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency at a news conference today, March 1, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church, 300 Mary St., to provide information on job opportunities for local residents that will result in a cleaner, safer environment.

Good Bye Davy Jones: The Voice that Gave us Daydream Believer

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