VHS Pet of the Week: “Axle”
Hello from Axle! Axle is a 1-year-old neutered Chocolate Lab Mix. Axle will do well in most homes but due to his energy and occasional shyness, a home with older children would be a much better match. Axle loves to go for long walks and will occasionally play fetch. Axle enjoys the company of other dogs but asks that he gets a chance to interview any potential K9 roommates prior to going home. For more information on Axle and how to make this happy boy a part of your family, visit www.vhslifesaver.org or call (812) 426-2563.
Park Board Agenda – 3/21/2012
REGULAR MEETING
KEVIN WINTERNHEIMER CHAMBERS
ROOM 301, CIVIC CENTER COMPLEX
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
12:00 NOON
REVISED AGENDA
1.CALL TO ORDER
2.MINUTES
3.CONSENT AGENDA
a. Request Re: Approve and Execute Advertising Agreement with Toyota for Goebel Soccer
Complex. – Keck
b. Request Re: Approve and Execute Agreement with Warner Brothers for Mesker Movies. –
Nick Wallace
c. Request Re: Approve and Execute Agreement with the YMCA for Usage of Swonder Ice
Arena. – Nadeau
d. Request Re: Execute Agreement with Arc Construction Co. for Anthony Oates Pool Tank
Coating and Trunk Line Replacement. – Boberg
e. Request Re: Approve and Execute Land Use Permit for Golfmoor Youth Baseball. –
Johnson
f. Request Re: Approve and Execute Contract with Maximum Solutions for Department
Point of Sale Project. – Nadeau
g. Request Re: Approve and Execute Agreement with Fosse & Associates for Design
Improvements to the Kley Building & Discovery Center at Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic
Garden. – Morris*
*Recommendation from Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden Advisory Board.
4.OLD BUSINESS
a. Request Re: Open Quotes for Pool Chemicals. – Schall
b. Request Re: Award RFP for Cleaning Services for Park Shelters & Restrooms. – Schall
c. Request Re: Award Quote for Restroom Renovations at Lamasco & Igleheart Parks. – Boberg
5.NEW BUSINESS
a. Request Re: Consideration of Saturday Public Session Time Change at Swonder Ice Arena. –
Nadeau
b. Request Re: Consideration of Trade with Evansville Rage for Turf Usage for Camp Swonder.
– Nadeau
c. Request Re: Consideration of Family Fitness Rate for Swonder Fitness Center. – Nadeau
d. Request Re: Consideration of Evansville Fire Family Proposal. – Chris Albert
e. Request Re: Presentation on Score Rewards Scoreboards. – Ron Watson/Rehn
f. Request Re: Approve Budget Transfers and CIP Reprioritizations. – Boberg
g. Request Re: Any Other Business the Board Wishes to Consider and Public Comments.
6.REPORTS
a. Denise Johnson, Executive Director
7.ACCEPTANCE OF PAYROLL AND VENDOR CLAIMS
8.ADJOURN
Broadway at The Centre: Damn Yankees The Home-Run Broadway Musical – 3/21/2012
Faust, fly balls, and devilishly good fun all meet at the home plate of the 7 Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Damn Yankees. This is the story of a 1950s middle-aged baseball fanatic who trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team in the pennant race against The New York Yankees only to realize the true worth of the life (and wife) he’s left behind. Filled with hit songs like “Whatever Lola Wants†and “You Gotta Have Heartâ€, this show is a musical comedy home run!
Classical Guitar Society Guest Artist Series to Feature Jordan Mandela Knudson
The Classical Guitar Society of Evansville and the University of Evansville will co-sponsor a guest performance by Chicago-area classical guitarist Jordan Mandela Knudson.
The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 in UE’s Wheeler Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $5 for any student, and free for UE students.
Knudson will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata in G Minor, Nicholas Maw’s Music of Memory, and Sergio Assad’s Aquarelle.
Knudson began his musical studies at the age of four on the violin. Shortly thereafter, he embarked on what would be a long search to find an instrument that spoke to him as both a listener and a player. Finally, eight years and nearly as many different instruments later, he picked up a guitar and has not looked back since.
Knudson’s confident technique, creative musicality, and enthusiasm for his craft have won him praise from audiences, as well as in master classes by David Russell, Pavel Steidl, Marcin Dylla, Berta Rojas, and numerous others. He has twice won second prize in the Society of American Musicians competition, in 2009 and 2010.
In summer 2011, Knudson was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with Sharon Isbin.
In addition to solo recitals, Knudson regularly performs in chamber music concerts. He has also played as a soloist with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony and the Signature Youth Orchestra.
Knudson is currently finishing his master’s degree at Roosevelt University in Chicago under renowned guitarist Denis Azabagic.
IS IT TRUE: March 20, 2012
IS IT TRUE: March 20, 2012
IS IT TRUE
that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Wall Street firms are now lining up to become landlords by bidding on pools of foreclosed properties that are being sold in packages by Fannie Mae?…that while it is certain that getting distressed properties off of the market is something that will serve to form a bottom for housing prices there is something about this that stinks?…that there is a rule called the “prevention clause†in some transactions that makes it illegal for a person or business that causes a hardship to benefit from the hardship that it created?…that to see Wall Street firms now picking up residential housing for something like 20 cents on the dollar when it was the practices of Wall Street firms and banks that precipitated many of the conditions that caused both the housing bubble and the housing bust in the first place?…that we are sure that SNEGAL(sneaky but legal) is involved here but it really does not sound well for the firms who created the destruction of wealth to now be buying the basis of the wealth that was destroyed for pennies on the dollar and renting the houses back to the people that were foreclosed upon?
IS IT TRUE that gasoline prices have the whole country by the throat again and this time even people of means are having their lives impacted?…that people with trucks and gas guzzlers are reporting costs of over $100 to fill up their vehicles when only a few short years ago the price to do so was under $50?…that most people seem to have lives that involve one fill up per week?…that no matter how you run the numbers the whole “buy a new $40,000 car that gets better mileage†argument just does not translate into good financial sense?…that when buying a new car there will be a 7% sales tax charged, the insurance will increase, and the annual license fee to the BMV will increase dramatically so getting rid of a reliable clunker will never make financial sense unless of course gas prices go up by another 100%?…that the other hidden costs are added to everything that has to travel to market like FOOD, CLOTHING, CAR PARTS, SERVICES, ETC. ETC. ETC.?…that energy prices are truly the Achilles heel of modern society?…that when calculating the COST OF LIVING increase the federal government intentionally leaves out the costs of ENERGY and FOOD in hopes that the huddled masses will not have the good sense to realize the reality of just how much energy prices affect our day to day life?
IS IT TRUE that if the gas prices continue to climb or even stay where they are now that there is a CAR BUBBLE on the economic horizon?…that first there was a STOCK BUBBLE, followed by a HOUSING BUBBLE that poor public policy and speculators drove that is about to repeat itself with AUTOMOBILES?…that you ask how such a thing could happen?…that suppose for a moment that you are the owner of a GAS GUZZLER that you bought in 2009 for say $35,000 that you still owe $22,000 on?…that in normal circumstances you may have some equity in your vehicle by now?…that lets further suppose that you want to sell your GAS GUZZLER and NO ONE WANTS IT?…that in such a case you are as stuck with that GAS GUZZLER and a homeowner in an “underwater” house is stuck with the house?…that the current gas prices have already started negatively effecting the used car market for gas guzzlers and that this negative effect will start to accelerate rapidly in a couple of months during the travelling season?…that if no one wants your GAS GUZZLER that the value will plummet to a small fraction of what you owe on it?…that is exactly what happened to stocks and housing and the result was massive defaults and the destruction of wealth?…that in times like these WHEN ENERGY PRICES INCREASE THE VALUE OF NEARLY EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS TANGIBLE WILL DECREASE?…that we at the CCO do not pretend to have the answers but we do acknowledge the magnitude of the problem?
IS IT TRUE that speaking of energy companies the Mole Nation reports that Vectren Corporation seems to have a new employee?…that former Indiana State Senator and Director of the Metropolitan Evansville Transit Authority was reported to be working in the booth at last weekend’s HOME SHOW handing out brochures?…that people are beginning to wonder if Vectren is the last resting place for politicians who have reached the end of their time as an elected official?…that we wish Bob well in his new career at Vectren?
