Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Tour Coming to The Centre

Sunday, Dec. 2 @ 7:00pm

Evansville, IN ~ Start planning your Christmas Holiday! Mannheim Steamroller will be coming to The Centre on Sunday, December 2nd at 7:00pm. Tickets go on sale August 24th at 10am!
The tour, now in its 27th year, is still met by sold-out audiences and was one of the top 20 concert tours in the nation last year. This year Mannheim Steamroller’s will hold over 90 performances throughout the United States.
Grammy Award® winner Chip Davis will direct and co-produce the shows will featuring the favorite Christmas music of Mannheim Steamroller along with state-of-the-art multimedia effects in an intimate setting at The Centre’s Aiken Theatre.
In 1984, Mannheim Steamroller released Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, an album that changed the sounds of Christmas. Already a multi-platinum recording artist through its Fresh Aire Series, Davis decided to record an album of Christmas music combining the group’s signature mix of Renaissance instruments with rock & roll beats.
The resulting album was a runaway hit and Mannheim Steamroller went on to become the biggest selling Christmas music artist in history. The group’s Christmas tour has become an annual holiday tradition right along with decorating the tree, exchanging presents and creating unforgettable moments with friends and family.
Tickets are $65, $55, $35 and $25 and can be purchased at The Centre Box Office Monday through Friday from 10am – 5pm, www.ticketmaster.com or charge-by-phone at 800-745-3000.
For more information on the tour please go to www.chondra.org

First I went to the McCurdy and talked to guy working on the McCurdy. He was joking saying he was the first person to begin the renovations. He was just working on the awnings but said that in about 2 weeks there are going to be about 20 people arriving on the site to begin renovations. He said his grandfather worked on the building back in 1917 when it was first built. He said
they are going to put condos/lofts in there with a grand ballroom at the bottom.

Pictures of Work Getting Done

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday, August 15, 2012.

Ryan Hardin Criminal Trespass – Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)

George Smith Domestic Battery – Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)
Interference with the Reporting of a Crime – Class A Misdemeanor

Teresa Oldham Theft – Class D Felony

Evans West Theft – Class D Felony

Larry Wilson Operating a Motor Vehicle After Forfeiture of License for Life – Class C Felony

Scott Wilson Theft – Class D Felony (Habitual Offender Enhancement)

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Carly Settles at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at csettles@vanderburghgov.org.

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
SENTENCE CHART

Class Range
Murder 45-65 Years
Class A Felony 20-50 Years
Class B Felony 6-20 Years
Class C Felony 2-8 Years
Class D Felony ½ – 3 Years
Class A Misdemeanor 0-1 Year

IS IT TRUE August 16, 2012 Part 2

IS IT TRUE that Mayor Winnecke has submitted a budget to the City Council that has the salary increases for the “Golden 10” included?…the budget also includes a 3% across the board raise for City of Evansville employees in 2013?…this caused a bit of an uproar at the Council meeting last night as a motion by Dr. Dan Adams to limit increases to 3% for all ended in a tie with John Friend, Dan McGinn, Jonathan Weaver, and Council President Connie Robinson?…the vote was 4 – 4 as Conor O’Daniel was absent?…this is an interesting quagmire for the City Council to deal with as across the board increases almost always result in the best employees leaving and the worst staying forever?…that all people may be created equal but they surely do not perform equally?…to appease the bad at the expense of the good guarantees long term mediocrity or worse?…Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of General Electric to it the other direction by firing the bottom 10% of performers every year?…while Jack ran GE it became the most valuable company on earth?…since his departure GE has softened up and fallen in value by over 60%?…that maybe the City Council should consider capping the cumulative raise pool at 3% to reflect the City’s ability to absorb higher salaries but leave the distribution of these raises up to department heads?…this does not necessarily mean that the “Golden 10” are really golden or even top performers but it does create the freedom for city management to identify and incentivize top performers even if there are more than 10 of them?…it also give the City the ability to send a strong message of NO RAISE to marginal and poor performers?

IS IT TRUE that maybe the reality of the situation is that the City of Evansville can’t afford any raises at all at this time?…that a true leader would transmit that information in a way that most top performers would stay and in a way that the poor performers would be forced out?

IS IT TRUE that Mayor Winnecke has also decided to move forward with a so called jobs plan that includes much of the Johnson Controls Contract that he is rebranding as a Smart City Initiative?…the Mayor claims that his Smart City Initiative will create 170 jobs and that it is an evolution in progress from the Weinzapfel Administration?…that it is an accepted fact that every job created by government requires the taxes from 7 private sector jobs to support it?…using this math that the 170 jobs that will supposedly be created by the Mayor’s Smart City plan will require 1,200 new private sector jobs of the type that actually pays taxes to support this spending?…we must ask the question, where are those 1,200 jobs coming from when things like the Champion Labs move their headquarters out of Evansville and their manufacturing out of the Tri-State altogether?…that an expansion of government in a contracting economy is a formula followed by Greece, Spain, France, and Ireland?…that Mayor Winnecke and former Mayor Weinzapfel must have attended the Barack Obama School of Economics when it comes to having any concept of reality when it comes to balancing government and private spending?

IS IT TRUE that it has come to our attention that the McCurdy Hotel is becoming a target for graffiti and is rapidly deteriorating without being secured?…the Vanderburgh County Assessor’s website still reports that City Centre Properties LLC of Carmel, IN owns the McCurdy and that the taxes are more than a year into delinquency?…that it seems as though the age old practice of DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT is being utilized on the McCurdy?…there is local precedent and expertise in the practice of getting something on the list for the wrecking ball by neglecting to maintain?…the old Skora Building and Roberts Stadium are two recent examples of DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT?…in the case of Roberts that this practice was orchestrated by the government of the City of Evansville but in the case of the McCurdy it just seems to be happening on its own?…that the historical society should be looking into why the McCurdy is being DEMOLISHED BY NEGLECT and do everything in their power to reverse this travesty?