The Evansville Police Department will host its’ first Crime Free Multi-Housing Phase 1 training for rental property owners, property managers, and maintenance workers on Aril 23rd, 2013. The training is voluntary and free to attend. The training will be held at the Vectren Building at 211 NW Riverside Dr. from 8:00am-4:00pm. Lunch will be provided. You must pre-register to attend.
The benefits of this training for owners and managers include higher demand for units, increased occupancy rates, attracting better quality tenants, reduced maintenance and repair cost, and increased property value.
The benefits to the community include a safer environment, interested and involved management, increased knowledge about safety and security techniques, and a heightened sense of community.
The benefits to Law Enforcement include reduced calls for service, successful long-term problem solving, and enhanced patrol services by freeing up officers time for extra patrols and community policing.
To enroll in the training contact the EPD Crime Free Multi-Housing Coordinators at 812-435-6135 and ask for Officer Eric Krogman or Officer Kevin Corbin.
Crime Free Multi-Housing Training to be held on April 23rd
TSGS (Tri-State Genealogical Society) Meeting Notice
Finding school records: Locating, Accessing and Acquiring
When: Tuesday 12 March 2013 6:30 PM
Where: Willard Library – Bayard Room on the Second Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at the close of the meeting… you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by our program:
TSGS has announced that the program will feature Rena Glover Goss. She has degrees in Music Education from Muskingum University (Ohio) and Indiana University. She taught music for 27 years, 17 of those in Evansville and researched ancestors for over 50 years. Rena has written for musical and genealogical journals. She has lived in Evansville since 1975. She is a member of TSGS and the Association of Professional Genealogists. The title of her program is: Finding school records: Locating, Accessing and Acquiring. Many of us have School Spirit and would like to know more about our school and our classmates. We also wonder about our ancestors, what they did and what they accomplished in school. This promises to be a program that you do not want to miss.
You do not have to be a member to come and participate at the society’s monthly meetings (except, no meetings in July and August).
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel meetings… the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice. Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check our blog (http://tsgsblog.blogspot.com/) for cancellation notice or call Willard Library (812-425-4309).
Don Counts,
TSGS President
2013 Rivercity Masquerade Ball & Auction, Join The Bidding Fun And Help SWIRCA & More!
Live Event
Sat Mar 16, 2013
6PM – 9PM CDT
Casino Aztar Conference Center
421 NW Riverside Dr, Evansville, IN 47708
We are very excited to unveil the amazing transformation of our annual SWIRCA & More Auction! For the first time in our Auction’s history we are inviting the public to enjoy the Auction Experience with us.
In previous years, only those who attended the live event were able to bid on our vast array of fantastic items. This year, we are making those same Silent Auction items available here on Bidding For Good. Now you can join the fun beginning March 9, 2013. Online bidding will open at 8:00am. All bidding will close at 9:00pm on March 16th.
Know that every dollar raised from the Auction go towards providing services to the six counties of Southwestern Indiana, all aimed at helping those who are aged and/or disabled maintain their independence.
Thank you for your support and may the best bidder win!
Going…Going…Gone to the Dogs! Benefit Dinner & Auction
04/28/2012
Location: Evansville Airport Holiday Inn, Hwy 41 North
Contact: Sydney Long, (812) 426-2563 ext.211
s.long@vhslifesaver.org
The 17th annual Going…Going…Gone to the Dogs! Benefit Dinner & Auction will be Saturday, April 28th. This is the largest fundraiser for the VHS! Each year, hundreds of items are auctioned off to support the homeless animals of this community.
Tickets for this event will be sold at 2 different levels, and corporate tables will also be available. The auction will feature a preview cocktail party, dinner, and both silent and live auctions.
Weekly Health Screenings at the Deaconess Resource Center
Time 7:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Location Deaconess Hospital, Resource Center
Contact 812/450-6000 if questions
Cost/Fee see below
Description Screenings are offered every Tuesday, 7:30am to 10:30am. No appointment is necessary. Note- 4th Tuesday of each month is at Deaconess Gateway Hospital
Blood Sugar: $6, 2 hour fast required, water allowed.
HDL & Total Cholesterol: $17, no fasting required.
Lipid Profile (includes Total Cholesterol, HDL, LDL & Triglycerides): $27, 12-14 hour fast, water allowed.
BMI/Body Fat Analysis: $6, no fasting required.
Blood Pressure Screenings available, free of charge, anytime during Resource Center Hours, M-F, 8am-4pm
2013 Step Ahead Scholarship Awarded
St. Mary’s is committed to the professional development of our associates who are pursuing a formal education in nursing. As part of our strategic goals, we strive to support those in pursuit of a nursing degree. This year, St. Mary’s is proud to award 2013 Step Ahead Scholarship recipient, DeMitra Jones.
St. Mary’s Medical Center recognized the opportunity to award scholarships to St. Mary’s associates who were interested in pursuing a degree in nursing. Through this scholarship, St. Mary’s is able to allow a full-time associate the opportunity to work part-time while pursuing a nursing degree. They will remain compensated as full-time associates and still receive full-time benefits. The selection committee met with many inspirational associates who truly have a passion for nursing as well as St. Mary’s Health.
DeMitra is a Patient Care Tech II on 5 South: Post-Surgical. She has been employed at St. Mary’s for over three years and in patient care for over five years. DeMitra is very involved in her department. She serves as a Mission Representative, a Lift Champion, a Slipper Sheet Super User, and a PCT Preceptor. She was also an integral member of the team that revitalized intentional patient rounding. DeMitra stated in her application that, “I want to become a nurse so that I can make a difference in so many lives.†DeMitra attends Ivy Tech Community College and plans to graduate in 2015.
Moad’s Fence Chips idea wins Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0
A University of Southern Indiana employee led the team that won the top prize at Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0, held in the USI Business and Engineering Center February 22-24. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event in which developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups.
Dr. Andrew Moad, USI-Crane partnership manager, won Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0 with an idea called Fence Chips.
Fence Chips are flat, vinyl tiles designed to fit into a chain link fence and replace Styrofoam cups that are often used to promote athletic teams, events, and businesses.
“Fence Chips are durable, colorful, and reusable,†Moad said. “Startup Weekend Evansville was my last effort to build momentum and energy behind this idea. It worked.â€
Over the course of Startup Weekend, Moad’s idea attracted two business partners (Joshua Gass, a Best Buy employee, and Steven “Woz†Wozniak, a local entrepreneur) and investment offers.
“I think our win was a result of the people who volunteered as coaches for Startup Weekend, coupled with the hard work done by Joshua and Woz,†Moad said.
Before joining USI, Moad was a new product development chemist at Red Spot Paint and Varnish in Evansville. He also has experience as a research chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The second place winner of Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0 was Team StrapHolster, led by USI student Neil Kassinger (public relations/advertising and entrepreneurship) with Cecelia Gussman (marketing). The StrapHolster is new fashion technology which keeps your purses and bags from slipping from your shoulder.
Kassinger introduced the StrapHolster at least year’s event, and has since refined and perfected the idea. He filed a provisional patent during the event and is in the process of crowd-funding the idea online, an endeavor he launched live during his team’s presentation.
In third place was Team 3 Caps, two father-son pairs interested in manufacturing gourmet, high-end mushroom-growing kits.
According to Bryan Bourdeau, instructor in business and co-organizer of Startup Weekend Evansville, participation was up 19 percent from the inaugural event, with a total of 114 participants this year.
“Our entrepreneurial ecosystem is slowly but surely growing and I’m confident is it becoming more sustainable because of events like Startup Weekend Evansville 2.0,†Bourdeau said. “The response from our generous sponsors and the growth in participation attendance at this event is extremely encouraging for our community and region.â€
Since its inception, Startup Weekend Evansville has been the best-attended Startup Weekend event in the state of Indiana, according to data collected by the national organization.
UE English Professor Publishes New Book of Poems
Arthur Brown, professor of English at the University of Evansville, has published a new book of poems, Duration and the Second Hand, from David Robert Books.
Reviewer Kim Bridgford writes: “Arthur Brown’s book Duration and the Second Hand focuses on the moments outside regular time, and how, in memory, they take on the beauty and singularity of art. Reminiscent of Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse seeing Mrs. Ramsay as ‘a triangular purple shape,’ Brown looks at a range of scenes through line, shape, and color — beach scenes, father and son moments — and, in doing so, makes us see the world with some aesthetic distance and clarity. No one can make a sonnet sound quite the way Arthur Brown can, with a liquid elegance over the form. His long sentences dazzle.â€
Brown’s first book of poems, The Mackerel at St. Ives, was published by David Robert Books in 2008. He has published poems in AGNI, American Arts Quarterly, American Literary Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Dogwood, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Malahat Review, The Raintown Review, Poetry, Southwest Review, and other journals.
Brown’s poems have won the Morton Marr Poetry Prize, the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Anne Dittrick Sonnet-Writing Contest, and the American Literary Review Poetry Prize. His one-act play “Augustina†was selected by Horton Foote as the winner of the Arts & Letters Drama Prize. He has published literary essays on Poe, Henry James, Faulkner, and Shakespeare.
Duration and the Second Hand is available for online order from Barnes & Noble or Powell’s Books. Signed copies are available in the University of Evansville Bookstore.
Evansville Police arrested 3 men on drug charges


Evansville Police arrested 3 men on drug charges during a follow up on neighborhood complaints in the 7600 block of Washington Ave.
Officer were giving the area extra patrol due to complaints of loud music, a lot of vehicle traffic late at night, and multiple reports of cars driving off the roadway in recent nights. The officers saw a car parked facing the wrong way on Washington. There was also loud music coming from inside the car.
When the officer approached the car, he smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the passenger compartment. The 3 occupants were removed from the car. During a search of the car, 43 grams of marijuana and a digital scale were found. All 3 denied ownership of the marijuana and the scale.
All 3 were arrested and charged with dealing marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.
Arrested were:
Dariane Burrows 22
George Kelly 19
Gabriel Appel 18
Rain Barrel News Conferenceâ€
Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will hold a news conference on Monday, March 4, at 11:45 a.m. at Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden to announce this year’s Rain Barrel program. This year’s theme is “Dasani – Every Drop Countsâ€. The Rain Barrel project is a unique partnership with Coca Cola Company which will beautify our city, improve water quality and conserve resources.
Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden is located at 1545 Mesker Park Drive.






