Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) back issues from February 2004:
CARDIAC CARE JUST A HEARTBEAT AWAY Series: First in a two-part series Improvements help hospitals keep pace with patient needs in Tri-State
Feb 01, 2004; ... New facilities and new technologies are changing the way cardiacpatients are cared for at Evansville's two hospitals. The improvements will help St. Mary's Medical Center and DeaconessHospital keep pace with the growing health-care needs of an aging Tri-State ...
IF THE FIRST 13 TIMES YOU DON'T SUCCEED... TRY, TRY AGAIN
Feb 01, 2004; ... Here's a summary of my last 13 Super Bowl winner picks: Buffalo,Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, San Diego, Pittsburgh, New England, GreenBay, Atlanta, Tennessee, New York Giants, St. Louis and Oakland. Catch the theme there? All of them were wrong. Every ... single ... ...
PLACING BETS ON THE FUTURE SENATOR FEARS INDIANA IS TOO DEPENDENT ON GAMBLING REVENUE
Feb 01, 2004; ... Has legalized gambling reached a point of diminishing returns inIndiana? As the General Assembly considers increasing the state's relianceon gambling revenues with electronic pull tabs at horse tracks andbetting parlors, it's a question well worth considering. State Sen. Luke ...
CATCHING A FLIGHT OUT CITY OFFICIALS TAKE AIM AT UNWANTED DOWNTOWN VISITORS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Downtown supporters should be happy with hundreds, if notthousands, more visitors than before to the Downtown area in the pastfive years. Most eat and stay overnight Downtown (many much longer thanovernight) and spend a lot of time around Main Street and in everycorner of the ...
EDITORIALS
Feb 01, 2004 ... A world apart The Issue: Glenwood auditorium without heat for at least fiveyears. Our View: Now we can better understand suspicions aboutneighborhood school plan. A lot of white folks have been having difficulty understanding whyAfrican-Americans are so upset that the ...
TECHNOLOGY HELPS PATIENTS LIVE LONGER
Feb 01, 2004; ... Gerald Oakley was watching television at his Chandler, Ind., homewhen he started having chest pains. Oakley, 61, suspected it could bea heart attack and drove himself to St. Mary's Warrick Hospital inBoonville, Ind. He was given aspirin, which helped ease the pain, and ...
TEENS' ESCAPE LEADS TO CHANGES
Feb 01, 2004; ... Two teen-age Mount Carmel boys who escaped from the Wabash CountyJail in Mount Carmel last Monday weren't even supposed to be in townthat day. Wabash County Sheriff D. Ray Etzkorn said a juvenile detentiontransport detail from Franklin County inadvertently delivered theboys, aged ...
BOARD SETS SIGHTS ON NEW SCHOOL
Feb 01, 2004; ... Lawrenceville High School, constructed in 1915, may soon be in adifferent location with a completely new building. The high school, originally named Lawrence Township High School,has fallen into serious disrepair. Although the exterior of thebuilding is sound and beautiful, the ...
POLICE NOT PICKING ON TRAFFIC VIOLATORS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Traffic enforcement officers are faced with a strange dilemma. On one hand, the most common complaint received by police agenciesis about erratic and reckless driving, says Lt. Dave Wedding of theVanderburgh County Sheriff's Department. Yet, people who see those dreaded red and ...
DEXTER KIDS LEARNING HEALTHY WAY
Feb 01, 2004; ... Dachenae Streets now eats lots of fruits and vegetables, because"it's healthy." Tanner Wright walks and runs at least twice a week "so I can getstronger." Vicki Duncan doesn't reward students with candy like she used to.Instead, they get a pencil or pretzels, animal crackers ...
REALLY BIG SHOW PEGGY MITCHELL HEADLINES ACTS FOR ARC BENEFIT
Feb 01, 2004; ... Ezmarelda might be a little nervous before her performance atEvansville ARC's Really Big Show this month, but Peggy Mitchell isn'ttoo concerned. Mitchell, who hosted "The Peggy Mitchell Show" on WEHT-News25 for25 years, will bring her puppet friends -- including Ezmarelda --back ...
COURIER PHOTOGRAPHER PUGLIESE NAMED REGION'S BEST FOR 2003
Feb 01, 2004; ... Competing against news photographers from four states, a member ofthe Evansville Courier & Press staff has won a regional Photographerof the Year award for the second consecutive year. Vincent Pugliese finished first in the 2003 National PressPhotographers Region 4 Photographer of ...
AMERICA'S LEFT GUIDED US TO CIVIL LIGHTS IN RACIST 1960S
Feb 01, 2004; ... Because I grew up with Jim Crow, I've always been keenlyinterested in the civil rights movement. I've visited museums and memorials in Birmingham, Montgomery andMemphis. And I've interviewed brave folks who fought the dangerous fight toregister black voters in the racist ...
NEIGHBORS
Feb 01, 2004 ... A PERSONAL LOOK AT ... ROGER HOBBS Retired schoolteacher, sports announcer and interim pastor Roger Hobbs is a retired school teacher who lives in Norris City,Ill. He broadcasts Carmi-White County High School basketball for WRUL-FM 97.3 and does public-address announcing ...
LIGHTING SOUGHT FOR NEW TRACK
Feb 01, 2004; ... Mount Carmel High School's plan for a new all-weather track couldbecome reality by the start of next school year if the local schoolboard finds a way to fund the lighting phase of the project. Members of the Mount Carmel Sports Boosters asked the school boardto fund the purchase of ...
LAWMAKER FORMS GUN OWNERS ADVISORY GROUP
Feb 01, 2004; ... State Rep. Bill Grunloh, D-Effingham, is forming a Gun Owners andHunters Advisory Committee. Grunloh said the committee of local citizens will look atlegislative measures to see how the bills affect the Second Amendmentrights of Illinois gun owners and hunters. To become a ...
LEGISLATORS NIX EXPANDED GAMBLING
Feb 01, 2004; ... Forget about pull-tabs in Indiana -- the state has gone far enoughwith gambling devices, according to three area legislators. The thumbs-down on pull-tabs and other additional forms ofgambling came from state Reps. Republican Vaneta Becker and DemocratsDennis Avery and Brian Hasler ...
VOLUNTEERS TUNE IN TO CROONING CROAKERS
Feb 01, 2004; ... A soft steady snore isn't necessarily your spouse -- it could be aPickerel Frog. Then there are the sounds of the shaking a spray can (which couldbe a Cricket Frog), jingle of sleigh bells (Spring Peeper), duck-like quacks (Wood Frog), or a high-pitched musical trill ...
SOFT DRINK DIPLOMACY OPENS NEW DOOR TO AGRICULTURAL TRADE WITH CUBA
Feb 01, 2004; ... Cardinal Beverage in Elizabethtown, Ky., shipped 30,000 cans ofSki to Cuba on Jan. 23. Two more shipments of 1,600 cases each willsoon be en route from Elizabethtown to Havana. Cuba's purchase of Ski and Diet Ski is part of a trade agreementwith the Kentucky Department of ...
BRIEFS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Daviess County, Ky. Man fatally stabbed while riding in vehicle A man riding in a vehicle Saturday morning in Daviess County wasfatally stabbed by another passenger, Kentucky State Police said. Bobby R. Neal, age unavailable, of Muhlenberg County, Ky., waspronounced ...
INFO LINE
Feb 01, 2004 ... If you have a brief question about the news, use a Touch-Tonephone to call: (812) 464-7466 What are the state quarters for 2004 and when will they bereleased? The U.S. Mint doesn't announce the ...
BIRTH RECORDS
Feb 01, 2004 ... THE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL Matthew Thomas and Nicole Goodwin, Evansville, son, DevontaMatthew, Dec. 19. Thomas and Heather Mclanahan, Evansville, son, Jeshua Paul, Dec.19. Brian and Julie Ashby, Evansville, son, Cooper Allen, Dec. 19. Jonathan and Tonya Buck, ...
RASCAL FLATTS TURNS UP HEAT, `MELTS' STADIUM CROWD
Feb 01, 2004; ... It couldn't have been more perfect. The temperature sign atWeinbach Center said 1 degree. One lousy degree. But in the midst of all the ice and snow and freezingtemperatures, Roberts Stadium was hotter than hot because RascalFlatts had brought its "Melt" tour to ...
OBITUARIES
Feb 01, 2004 ... Local Obituaries Shirley Ann Gilliland Shirley Ann (Koressel) Gilliland, age 71, of Evansville, diedSaturday, January 31, 2004 in Evansville. She worked for Kerry Ingredients for 18 years and later for Wal-Mart. She was a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church, ...
IT'S SNOW WONDER
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UE SUPPORTERS PLAN FIRESIDE CHAT
Feb 01, 2004 ... The University of Evansville will remember "way back when" whenformer administrators, professors and alumni gather for a FiresideChat on Tuesday. The free public event will be 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Bower-Suhrheinrich Room in the school's student union. Among the panelists are ...
BREAK IN WATER MAIN SLOWS TRAFFIC
Feb 01, 2004 ... A break in a 12-inch water main Saturday night snarled traffic atthe Lloyd Expressway and St. Joseph Avenue. The break caused no disruptions in water service on the West Side,said Duane Gilles, water distribution ...
MUSIC STUDENTS HONORED AT COMPETITION
Feb 01, 2004 ... The following students earned a Division I rating in Group I, thehighest level of competition, in the annual vocal and piano solo andensmble contest sponsored by the Indiana State School MusicAssociation. The competition was Saturday at the University ofEvansville. The students ...
KERNAN HOPES GOP WILL WARM TO KINDERGARTEN PLAN
Feb 01, 2004; ... Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan expressed hope Friday that theRepublican-controlled Senate would take a closer look at his toppriority and help expand state-funded, full-day kindergarten. Senate GOP leaders have blasted the proposal, in large partbecause they say a state in serious ...
DEATH RECORDS
Feb 01, 2004 ... Adams, Charles F., 77, Evansville, died 1/21; pneumonia. Ankenbrand, Fred M., 96, Evansville, died 1/23, Dementia. Barton, Herschel L., 85, Evansville, died 1/19, cerebrovascularaccident, chronic renal failure, diabetes millitus. Beckner, Margaret E., 82, Evansville, died ...
JAZZ CLINIC TO FEATURE MARK COLBY
Feb 01, 2004; ... Saxophonist Mark Colby will be the clinician for the eighth annualOlney Central College Cavalier Jazz Clinic on April 2. Colby, a first-call studio musician, has played on more than 2,000commercials in the competitive Chicago market. He has performed onstage with such performance ...
LOST TORNADO HISTORY FOUND MATERIALS RECOVERED AT LIBRARY RECOUNT 1925 TRAGEDY
Feb 01, 2004; ... Hundreds of letters and telegrams poured into Murphysboro in theaftermath of the Tri-State Tornado that devastated parts of SouthernIllinois in 1925. Some writers were asking about the well-being of family members.Others were offering support and assistance. There were ...
TEACHERS, BOARD AGREE TO CONTRACT ROLLOVER
Feb 01, 2004; ... The Wabash County Teachers Association and the District 348 schoolboard have agreed to a one-year rollover of the teachers' current two-year contract that was set to expire at the end of the current schoolyear. Thus. there will be no base pay increase for the rollover, whichwill ...
EDWARDS COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY
Feb 01, 2004; ... Edwards County State's Attorney Brian Shinkle turns 40 years oldtoday. Instead of celebrating the day with his wife and daughter, Shinklewill be reporting for active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps' ThirdBattalion at the 24th Marine Post in Bridgeton, Mo. Shinkle, who is in ...
WINTER WEATHER PHENOMENON CREATES QUITE A CONUNDRUM
Feb 01, 2004; ... If Albert Bernhard Nobel were alive today, I believe he wouldoffer a special prize to the individual who could explain themysterious human behavior triggered by cold weather. I call it the"Winter Weather Milk and Bread Phenomenon." Somewhere in physics, there must exist a formula ...
HISTORY LESSONS STAFF OF SELMA MUSEUM HAS FRONT-DOOR VIEW OF VOTING RIGHTS STRUGGLE
Feb 01, 2004; ... Joanne Bland was 11 in 1965 when the Selma-to-Montgomery march forvoting rights became an emotional peak for the modern civil rightsmovement. She was there on "Bloody Sunday," March 7, with 600 others headedeast out of Selma, Ala. They got as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridgewhen ...
HISTORY LESSONS REGION'S CITIES WILL CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY WITH MUSIC, DRAMA, EXHIBITS - AND STATUES OF YORK
Feb 01, 2004; ... Jackie Robinson the play, York the slave, the Dance Theatre ofHarlem, Scott Joplin, Wynton Marsalis, Madam Walker, the BuffaloSoldiers, the Harlem Renaissance, the Hoosier Renaissance, a speciallunch counter in Nashville, Tenn. Everywhere you turn, African-Americans will be in the ...
THERON CREATES `MONSTER' FRANKENSTEIN WOULD ENVY
Feb 01, 2004; ... I have seen nothing in Char-lize Theron's work that suggestedthis. The actress made her name in 1997's "The Devil's Advocate" and haslong since been stuck in the "pretty girlfriend/sidekick" mold. Nothing from "The Cider House Rules," "Reindeer Games" or "TheItalian Job" ...
ETC.
Feb 01, 2004 ... La Leche League will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Red Bank BranchLibrary, 120 S. Red Bank Road. All nursing and pregnant women arewelcome. Information about breastfeeding and parenting will bediscussed. Refreshments will be served. * * * PRO Parents will meet from 9:15 to 11 ...
TEENS HOST `SECOND CHRISTMAS' FOR LOCAL SENIORS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Although the Junior Mental Health Association in Indiana is knownas an organization of "teens helping teens," JMHA members go out oftheir way also to help seniors who, very often, are unable to helpthemselves. That was the story Wednesday afternoon at Little Sisters of thePoor ...
COLLECTIBLES ARE NICE THANK-YOU GIFTS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Q: I like to give thank-you gifts that are a little different. Doyou have any suggestions? A: One trend in business gift-giving today is collectibles. Collectibles provide you with a wide range of gift ideas andsomething that you can add to for the ...
MACARONI AND CHEESE: YOU'LL SAY `MORE PLEASE!'
Feb 01, 2004; ... Macaroni and cheese is my quintessential comfort food. It alwayshas been, from the time my mother made it when I was child until now,when I make my very basic Velveeta cheese/ roux/elbow-macaronimixture topped with buttered chunks of bread. My colleague, Becky Coudret, told me The ...
QUEEN GRACES CANADIAN ISSUE
Feb 01, 2004; ... Canada has new postal rates this year and a new Queen Elizabeth IIstamp that looks a little different. In addition to the stamp for the queen, a bunch of new definitivestamps show traditional Canadian symbols. The stamps were issued Dec.19, 2003. The picture on the 49-cent ...
BIG COUNT BUILDS NEST EGG OF DATA FOR FEATHERED FRIENDS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Want to learn to identify the birds in your yard? You probablyknow cardinals, mourning doves and blue jays, but what about theother the little guys -- the little brown birds with stripes, thelittle brown birds with white throats and the little brown birds withno stripes? To get a ...
FROM MADRID TO MOROCCO, USI TOUR IS ARTWARD BOUND
Feb 01, 2004; ... The art, architecture, music and food of Spain and Morocco are onthe syllabus for the University of Southern Indiana art department'sspring tour. The two-week trip will run May 20 to June 3, taking participantsto Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Cordoba, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, ...
IF ICE STORM DAMAGED YOUR TREES, HERE'S WHAT TO DO
Feb 01, 2004; ... The severity of this past week's ice storm varied across the Tri-State. Some areas received little or no damage, while others weremoderately to heavily affected. Downed tree limbs caused scatteredpower outages. The types of trees that are most affected by ice storms are ...
HOME BUYERS WANT ROOF'S VALLEYS REPAIRED, CHIMNEY CLEANED
Feb 01, 2004; ... Q: I received a request from the buyers of my house to repair thevalleys and to have the chimney cleaned and reinspected. I did notget a copy of the home inspection report, and the inspector isunwilling to talk with me about the repairs. What is a valley, and how do I fix it? Is ...
ON THE GO
Feb 01, 2004; ... MOONBOW One of the most unusual natural phenomena anywhere, a moonbow,could occur Friday and Saturday at Kentucky's Cumberland Falls StateResort. We say "could" because a combination of clear skies, a fullmoon and rising mists from Cumberland Falls are needed to produce afaint ...
USI'S SHOOTING TOUCH AS FRIGID AS THE WEATHER IN LOSS AT SAINT JOSEPH'S
Feb 01, 2004; ... Ice cold did more than describe the weather at Saint Joseph'sCollege Saturday afternoon. It was also how the Univeristy of Southern Indiana shot the ballagainst the Pumas on their way to an 83-80 road loss in Great LakesValley Conference action. "The weather wasn't the only ...
`MYSTERY BALL' ONE OF MANY ITEMS GOING UP FOR BID
Feb 01, 2004; ... Several dozen autographed baseballs are among the items that willbe up for bid on Friday at the Tri-State Hot Stove League's Night ofMemories. Club member Yvonne Pund, a former secretary for the University ofEvansville base-ball program, donated two balls that she bought at ...
SPORTS BRIEFS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Bowling Mercer named EBA bowler of the week Jim Mercer, who averages 140 and rolled 196 in the Saturday NightFun League at Lincoln Lanes, is the Evansville Bowling Association'sbowler of the week. Other finalists were Bunny Flaherty, Bob House,Bill Ohning, Brian Weber, John ...
FOR THE LATE HARRY DEES, A DAY AT THE RACES WAS A DAY WELL SPENT
Feb 01, 2004; ... When attorney Harry Dees died on Tuesday at age 91, the obituarynoted that he once had argued and won a case before the United StatesSupreme Court and that he had attended 73 of the last 75 KentuckyDerbys, which may be a record. That didn't tell the half of it. Dees didn't ...
WILDCAT MACHINE KEEPS ON PURRING MATER DEI WRESTLERS USE THEIR DEPTH TO WIN 28TH SECTIONAL TITLE IN A ROW
Feb 01, 2004; ... Mater Dei didn't need senior Andy Barchet to win to capture its28th consecutive Indiana wrestling sectional title on Saturday atCentral. But its the dozens of young men that have come through the programlike Barchet, a first-year regular for the top-ranked and nine-timedefending ...
HOCKEY IS MAKING A NAME FOR ITSELF
Feb 01, 2004; ... If you're a good high school football or basketball player, yourname probably is known by your fellow students, around town, maybeeven throughout the state. But until their prep league started last year, prep hockey playerswere virtual unknowns to their peers. That's changing, ...
IT TAKES TIME, BUT ALICES PASS DEFENSIVE CHALLENGE
Feb 01, 2004; ... Ranked No. 1 in Indiana's Class 3A, Vincennes Lincoln's boysbasketball team proved again during Saturday's 70-56 victory overHarrison that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Locked in a tencacious struggle through three quarters thatincluded eight ties and nine lead ...
TIGERS REFUSE TO GIVE UP, RALLY FROM 18-POINT HOLE
Feb 01, 2004; ... Instead of taking a bow, the players shook their fists andscreamed. Such was the curtain call for Memorial High School's boysbasketball team on Saturday night after one of the greatest comebacksin school history. It was a second-half story that began with the Tigers down ...
PIONEERS BOOST WIN STREAK TO 7
Feb 01, 2004; ... Boonville won its seventh consecutive boys basketball game onSaturday night on the Hilltop while handin g Reitz its sixth loss ina row. Bart Schnur made a pair of free throws with 16 seconds to play,and then John Wildt stole the ball and hit a layup with two secondsto play as the ...
BOSSE BOYS, CASTLE GIRLS WIN SIAC FROSH TITLES
Feb 01, 2004 ... With Trevor Wagner scoring 14 points, Bosse defeated Mater Dei, 44-43, in the finals of the Southern Indian Athletic Conference boysfreshman basketball tournament on Saturday at Reitz gym. The title capped a 16-2 season for the Bulldogs, who were coachedby Waylan Schenk. Team ...
BULLDOGS CARMI-WHITE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
Feb 01, 2004 ... When Carmi-White County High School boys basketball coach WadeThomas looks at the three sophomore starters on his team, histhoughts immediately turn to senior forward Ryan Jones, the Bulldogs'leading scorer. "I see these kids and how skinny they are and I think about whatRyan ...
GALLATIN GETS DEFENSIVE ACT TOGETHER
Feb 01, 2004; ... Trent Wargel's bailiwick has been scoring. A member of Gallatin County High School's 1,000-point club, thesenior guard has long been known as someone who can consistently hitthe tough shot, handle the ball well, and lead a team on the floor. But defense? You can add ...
UNSELFISH SENIOR GIVES BRAVES A BOOST
Feb 01, 2004; ... One of the major factors in Tecumseh's surge to one of the topspots in the Indiana Class A boys basketball rankings is its depth.And when you discuss the Braves' bench, you start with senior JaredRobling. Third-ranked Tecumseh (15-1) won twice this weeken, beating NorthPosey ...
TRIP ALONG BUNNY TRAIL JUST TOO HARD TO RESIST
Feb 01, 2004; ... Most of us don't have much in the way of tracking skills. You know what I'm talking about: the ability to follow an animalthrough the bush by the tell-tale signs its passing leaves behind. We've all seen it done in the movies by a trusty Indian guide inold westerns, or in films ...
HUEBNER'S HOT HAND CARRIES NORTH ON ROAD
Feb 01, 2004; ... Josh Huebner nailed five 3-pointers in scoring 19 points as Northrolled past host Bedford North Lawrence, 65-46, on Saturday night.The game was postponed from Friday because of inclement weather. Tristan Carothers contributed 15 points to the Huskies' attack. Tied at 18 at the ...
CASTLE ADVANCES AS CHAMPION
Feb 01, 2004; ... Castle had just enough depth on Saturday to hold off Princeton andBoonville and win its second consecutive IHSAA wrestling sectionalchampionship. The final team scores were Castle 230 points, Princeton 223 1/2,Boonville 217 1/2, Heritage Hills 168, Gibson Southern 147, Tell ...
SNOW GEESE HUNTERS SHOULD LOVE ILLINOIS
Feb 01, 2004; ... Are you one of the many waterfowlers wishing the season wouldnever end or do you wish for a new beginning? If your answer is "yes" to either question, book a southernIllinois "snow job." With a plethora of habitat degrading snow geese, the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service wants ...