Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) back issues from April 2005:
NURSE PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG THEFT [Corrected 04/05/05]
Apr 01, 2005; ... A nurse has pleaded guilty to stealing a powerful prescriptionpainkiller from a patient she was treating at a kidney-dialysisclinic. The dialysis patient experienced pain but apparently wasunaware her painkiller had been stolen. Amanda Jane Key, 32, of Newburgh admitted to the ...
MAKE NEW FRIENDS WITH EBJ
Apr 01, 2005; ... Ryan Mitchell, Leigh Ann Cooper, Paco Underhill, James and LindaBaird, Ed Morrison, Gene and Marlene Hochesgang, Col. William H.McCurdy. Until this past month, I'd never heard of most of thesepeople, and I'll bet most of you haven't heard much about themeither. But that'll ...
SHOP TALK
Apr 01, 2005 ... "As mayor, my board of directors is rather large ...more than120,000 citizens." -Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel, during his annual State ofthe City address. "I never thought about being a female dealer. I just alwaysthought about being a dealer and doing the best job we ...
UP & COMER
Apr 01, 2005; ... Ryan Mitchell Not many people break into the real estate business by age 16. ButRyan Mitchell did -- as an office assistant with ERA First AdvantageReal Estate while he still was attending Central High School. Up until then he was going in an altogether different ...
LITTLE KENTUCKY SMOKEHOUSE IN HOG HEAVEN: DREAM TURNS INTO REALITY FOR KENTUCKY MEAT-PROCESSOR
Apr 01, 2005 ... Two years ago, Little Kentucky Smokehouse was still mostly adream. The only tangible evidence of what was to come was the 30,000-square-foot, $4.5 million manufacturing plant under construction onthe site of what had been a hog parlor. The dream was to develop Little Kentucky ...
INVENTION KEEPS FLOWERS FRESH
Apr 01, 2005; ... In her 18 years in the floral industry, Leigh Ann Cooper had seentoo many wilting flowers. She had seen them particularly at sprays on caskets in funeralhomes, even though the flowers were relatively fresh and supposedlywatered. She thought there must be a better way to preserve ...
CMC ALLOWING CARD COMPANIES TO COMPETE EFFECTIVELY
Apr 01, 2005; ... Big companies have an advantage when it comes to the credit-cardand debit-card business. The efficiencies of scale they can achievecan make it hard for small businesses to compete. That's the reason that CMC of Evansville was founded. "We really enable businesses to compete ...
NEW SPACE, COLLABORATIVE PLACE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Oh what a difference a new building makes. From a window in her former seventh-floor office in Old NationalBank's former building at Fifth and Main streets in DowntownEvansville, Christine Keck could look out on to the rooftops ofneighboring Lic's Deli and Ice Cream and Milano ...
CONNECTED THE DIGITAL RACE TO GET FASTER
Apr 01, 2005; ... Just a few years ago, it was considered "high tech" to lug aportable phone around in a bag the size of a lunch box. At home, people called their cable television service "state-ofthe-art" because they could choose from 40 different channels. Some offices even had a single ...
HIGH-TECH HUB: AN OPPORTUNITY EVANSVILLE CAN'T AFFORD TO PASS UP
Apr 01, 2005; ... With a laptop under her arm, a Web page designer heads to thecoffee shop and logs on to downtown Evansville's wireless network tofinish up her work. Nearby, a tourist taking a walking tour of downtown landmarksreads a text message on his cell phone that describes the history ofa ...
SBC DOMINATE FORCE IN STATE'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKET
Apr 01, 2005; ... SBC Communication's competitors say the Baby Bell's position asone of Indiana's incumbent providers gives it a "built-in"competitive advantage. But the head of SBC's Indiana operations argues that the stateregulations targeting incumbent phone companies could be slowingIndiana's ...
INSIGHT COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT GETS UPGRADE
Apr 01, 2005; ... One of the most noticeable changes at Insight Communications isthe scale of equipment housed at the broadband, phone and cableprovider's headquarters. Until recently, the machines responsible for some of Insight'sdigital cable services took up nearly half the available space in ...
CINERGY: A TRI-STATE PORTAL TO THE INTERNET AND BEYOND
Apr 01, 2005; ... Many in Evansville know Cinergy Communications as the companybehind Evansville Online, one of the area's first Internet portals. And while the Internet service provider is one of Cinergy's mostvisible operations, it accounts for "probably a fraction of a percentof our business," ...
SIGECOM'S GROWTH FUELED BY BUSINESS COMMUNITY
Apr 01, 2005; ... Bits mean business at Sigecom. Moving information from one place to another as fast as possibleis the focus at the Evansville company, where Bruce Jones ispresident and general manager. "That isn't the gee-whiz side of the industry, but ultimately,it's all bits," Jones said ....
SMALLER COMPANIES ESTABLISH PRESENCE IN COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY
Apr 01, 2005; ... The competitive nature of the telecom industry has opened thefield to dozens of small and medium-sized businesses in Evansville. While a few big players dominate the industry, these smallercompanies have established a local presence by supplying businesseswith consultations, ...
BUY, BARTER AND BLING BLING: SHOPPING AROUND THE WORLD
Apr 01, 2005; ... Paco Underhill wrote the book on shopping--two of them: Why We Buyand The Call of the Mall. He is one of the most sought-after retailconsultants in the world and he is going to reveal some of hisshopping discoveries at The Centre in Evansville on April 14 at 7p.m. I am ...
DETERMINING CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINING NEEDS: A 12-STEP APPROACH, PART 2
Apr 01, 2005; ... You may recall that last month we explored the first four steps ofdetermining customer service training needs. These four steps arerelated to establishing goals and objectives of the survey process.This month we will look at the remaining eight steps - the steps thatwill enable you to ...
SMALL-BUSINESS OWNERS PONDER LEASE VS. BUY DECISION
Apr 01, 2005; ... Commercial real estate value is not rapidly appreciating in theEvansville commercial office space market due to a number of factors:Oversupply of commercial office space, the number of propertiescurrently available for sale, and the age and condition of many ofthe available ...
COUNCIL APPROVES MONEY FOR LST
Apr 01, 2005; ... The Vanderburgh County Council approved on Wednesday $1.2 millionin Convention and Visitors Bureau money toward a municipal dock whereLST 325 will be moored and where pleasure cruise stops areanticipated. And because of that vote, money from the innkeepers tax willcontinue to ...
AUTOMOTIVE PARTS COMPANY SEEKS TAX BREAK TO LOCATE HERE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Vision-e Executive Director Ken Robinson said Vanderburgh Countyhas been trying to lure an automotive parts manufacturer with ties toToyota. Now, the county may have one. Tenneco Automotive is eyeing an empty building in the VanderburghIndustrial Park and asking the County ...
THERE IS GOOD NEWS HAPPENING ALL AROUND US
Apr 01, 2005; ... Most people I meet are fascinated by my line of work. "The newsbusiness, eh? Must be exciting." Sometimes, yes. But here's another line I often hear when I tell them I work at anewspaper. "Why does everything have to be so negative?" From there, I have to go ...
LOCAL CASINOEVENUES AT RISK
Apr 01, 2005; ... The full House will now take up a plan that would take away justunder half of the more than $12 million that Evansville andVanderburgh County get annually from casino riverboat taxes. In a somewhat unexpected move, the House Ways and Means Committeevoted on the measure Thursday, ...
`COLOR-CODED' QUADS AT HOME
Apr 01, 2005; ... How do you tell four tiny quadruplet boys apart, especially whentwo are identical twins? With toenail polish of course. "Each baby has a color assigned to him. Their father wasn't toohappy about it at first but I think he is starting to change hismind," said mother Kathy ...
CAPE PLANS APARTMENT CONVERSIONS
Apr 01, 2005; ... The Community Action Program of Evansville and AmeriCare ofIndianapolis are planning to convert a 100-bed nursing home atWashington and Burdette avenues into 35 affordable apartments forelder citizens. If the $3.9 million proposed project, whose proposed name isEvansville ...
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THERE'S CONCERN
Apr 01, 2005; ... The rumor has been flying around the Civic Center -- thatEvansville City Council President Steve Bagbey is trying to closedown an employee smoking room. "This is absolutely false!" Bagbey wrote in the communicationaddressed to elected officials and department heads. Nor, he ...
HISTORIC CALENDAR SWITCH IS BEHIND ALL THE APRIL FOOL FOLDEROL
Apr 01, 2005; ... Neither Mr. Wolf nor Miss Elly Phant are at Mesker Park Zoo &Botanic Garden today. Your shoe laces probably aren't untied, anddon't let anyone with a piece of paper pat you on the back. If anyone yells "April Fool!" at you, respond, "Happy New Year!" You'll gain a reputation ...
CONVICTED DRUG DEALER APOLOGIZES FOR LATEST WRONGS
Apr 01, 2005; ... After he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug dealing,Toshio Roach did something unusual: He apologized to a judge,prosecutor and defense attorney for letting them down when theyreleased him from his earlier prison sentence in 2001. "I also want to apologize to them for not ...
SENATE GOP BUDGET OUTSPENDS HOUSE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Senate Republicans unveiled a budget proposal Thursday that wouldspend more money than the House or governor proposed. They would payfor the spending hikes with cigarette and beer taxes, an internalmoney shift and by taking back money from riverboat host communities. The proposal ...
BRIEFS
Apr 01, 2005; ... EVANSVILLE Three people injured in three-vehicle crash Three people were injured Thursday morning in a three-vehiclewreck at Millersburg and Green River roads. Shawna Campbell, 19, of Boonville, Ind., was eastbound onMillersburg Road at 6:05 a.m. when she ran a stop ...
STUDENTS ENCOURAGED TO `LIVE RESPONSIBLY'
Apr 01, 2005; ... Brandon Patton-Jackson believes one person can make a difference. And he hopes that means more students at the University ofEvansville will think before they drink. Patton-Jackson is one of more than 40 UE students taking part in acampaign called "Live Responsibly," which ...
INFO LINE
Apr 01, 2005 ... If you have a brief question about the news, use a Touch-Tonephone to call: (812) 464-7466 Who are the justices on the Indiana Supreme Court? The Indiana ...
QUESTION OF THE DAY THURSDAY'S ONLINE QUESTION
Apr 01, 2005 ... How long is your commute to work? Responses showed commute times across the Tri-State were prettyevenly divided among the choices, which were: less than 10 minutes,10-20 minutes; 20-30 minutes; 30-40 minutes; more than 40 minutes.Here are some responses: * "I drive 14 miles ...
CITY TO BUY HYBRID BUSES
Apr 01, 2005; ... Evansville likely will have hybrid buses for MetropolitanEvansville Transit System routes within a year. On Thursday, the Works Board authorized seeking bids on five 29-foot buses with a powering system that METS Director Kent Cutchinsaid is touted to reduce emissions by up to 90 ...
INJURED ANIMAL FUNDS DOWN
Apr 01, 2005; ... Evansville Animal Care and Control officers are dispatched torescue an injured animal about twice a week. Most often, they have the grim task of trying to save a dog or catthat has been hit by a car. But they also rescue animals that havebeen abused by their owners. Tom ...
EDITORIALS
Apr 01, 2005 ... Peace at Last The Issue: Terri Schiavo's earthly journey ends. Our View: System worked for both her and all Americans. Reasonable people may disagree about the outcome, but the fact isthe system worked for Terri Schiavo. Since the first litigation overher case in 1993, ...
ANTICIPATION NEW PLANTS ARE PART EXCITEMENT, PART TREPIDATION
Apr 01, 2005; ... They're up. They've survived the 24 inches of snow and the dullgray winter. And so far they've survived the family of rabbits that are leavingcalling cards throughout my lawn. Thankfully, their roots apparentlydon't appeal to the voles that have created holes at the edge of ...
ART SPRINGS FORTH IN VARIETY OF SHOWS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Art is busting out all over this spring, with new shows at theEvansville Museum and in New Harmony, Ind., at the New HarmonyGallery of Contemporary Art and the Women's Institute & Gallery. * * * "Man's Best Friend" is the theme for an exhibition of canineimagery opening ...
CD REVIEWS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Spike Priggen Stars After Stars After Stars (Volare Label) Intelligent, well-crafted pop rock is vastly underrepresented intoday's music scene. There seems to be a a consensus that it has tobe disguised as "punk" (of the most lightweight variety), and eventhen it's ...
`BEAUTY SHOP': HUMOR HIGHLIGHTS A THIN PLOT
Apr 01, 2005; ... `Beauty Shop' Phil's rating * * * Queen Latifah again dominates the silver screen, this time in"Beauty Shop," a hard-work-pays-off tale that is as frayed as some ofthe clients' coifs. Widowed hairdresser Gina Norris (Queen Latifah) relocates toAtlanta so she and her ...
OBITUARIES
Apr 01, 2005 ... Local Obituaries Edna Wingerter Boerner Edna Wingerter Boerner, age 98, of Evansville, passed awayWednesday, March 30, 2005, after a brief illness. A lifelong resident of Evansville, as a young girl worked at anEvansville cigar factory and during World War II, she was ...
RELIEVED TO BE A TEAMMATE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Lisa Anderson used to look at Sunny Oelling in the batter's boxand be fearful. The two were players on rival Indiana high school softball teamsand Anderson was aware of Oelling's reputation as a superb hitter forValparaiso. "I was scared when she got on first base," ...
UE HAS THE CHANCE TO PUT ITSELF ON THE MAP
Apr 01, 2005; ... Opportunity doesn't always knock. This weekend the University ofEvansville baseball team must travel all the way to Wichita, Kan., toseek it. There the Aces, of to their best start in history, will face 21st-ranked Wichita State in a three-game series that begins at 7 ...
LOCAL SOFTBALL TEAMS GET TEST AGAINST STATE'S BEST
Apr 01, 2005; ... It's like starting the Indiana high school fast-pitch softballseason the way a team would like to end the season. Playing the best in the state. That's what will take place tonight and Saturday in a tournamentbeing hosted by Castle and Harrison. Castle, Harrison, ...
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAMES
Apr 01, 2005 ... Caption ...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Apr 01, 2005; ... EVANSVILLE VNA promotion Angie Fetscher has been named director of human resources for theVisiting Nurse Association. She previously was a supervisor in the agency's human resourcesdepartment. Ford dealership hires Jarod Byers is a new sales associate at ...
OLD NATIONAL HIRES `PHISHING' INVESTIGATORS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Old National Bancorp has hired a computer-security company to helpit investigate the theft of confidential client information from itsWeb site last week. Cybertrust of Herndon, Va., is working with Old National officialsto do "a full forensic investigation" into the theft and ...
TRAINING COURSE WILL TARGET SMALL FIRMS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Budding entrepreneurs who would like to learn more about startingand growing their own business will get a chance starting April 20. The Neighborhood Economic Development Center of Evansville is setto offer its 14-week Small Business Training Course. The course teaches people ...
WAL-MART ROLLS BACK VETERAN EXECUTIVES
Apr 01, 2005; ... Perhaps it was inevitable. After the decades of expansion thatturned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. into the world's largest retailer, thediscounter's sales growth is no longer phenomenal, and the culture offounder Sam Walton has started to change. The resignation last Friday of a Wal-Mart ...
INSIGHT DEAL TO HAVE `NO IMPACT'
Apr 01, 2005; ... A proposal by the founders of Insight Communications to take thecable-television company private shouldn't affect Evansvilleoperations, the company said. Sidney Knafel and Michael Willner, the co-founders of the New YorkCity company, and an investment firm called the Carlyle ...
READERS RECOMMEND LASIK SURGERY
Apr 01, 2005; ... So, are you gonna go through with it? Are you really gonna getit done? I've heard these questions just about everywhere I've ventured inWarrick County over the past two weeks in response to my "should I orshouldn't I" LASIK column. The consensus, by and large, is that yours ...
NEW HISTORIC NEWBURGH LEADER HAS DEEP TIES TO RIVER
Apr 01, 2005; ... There is a familiar thread in Nancy Lybarger's life. It winds fromsomewhere up around Pittsburgh all the way down to where Illinois,Kentucky and Missouri meet. That thread is the Ohio River and it meanders past small butvibrant Newburgh, less than a block from her back yard. It ...
DEACONESS GATEWAY'S BABY BOOM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL SERVED AS LAUNCH PAD FOR ENTIRELY NEW FACILITY
Apr 01, 2005; ... At seven stories tall, Deaconess Gateway Hospital isn't exactly askyscraper, but it will be the tallest building in Warrick Countywhen it is finished in December. With its $80 million construction price tag, the hospital is alsoa substantial investment for Deaconess ...
LEBISTRO BENEFIT DINNER, AUCTION SET FOR TONIGHT
Apr 01, 2005 ... LeBistro -- the annual Historic Newburgh Inc., dinner and auction -- is tonight. LeBistro will be held at St. John's Community Center. Don't be anApril "Fool" by missing it! LeBistro will feature food from Fritz'scatering in Newburgh -- a chicken cordon bleu dinner with all ...
BRINGING UP BABY -- AND BABIES
Apr 01, 2005; ... They named her Baby. But little did they dream that soon, the new addition to theirfamily would have babies of her own -- right underneath their bed! It all started last fall, when Yankeetown residents Carl and BuffyHorstman frequently saw two stray dogs roaming their ...
LST DOCK LOCATION DECISION EXPLAINED
Apr 02, 2005; ... A city delegation went to Louisville, Ky., in 2002, seeking atemporary docking permit for LST 325's 10-day visit that year. Thewater level of the Ohio River in midsummer, when the World War IIship would come to Evansville, was likely to be low, minimizingnavigational dangers. The ...
GOVERNOR DEFENDS TIME STANCE [Corrected 04/05/05]
Apr 02, 2005; ... Gov. Mitch Daniels defended himself Friday against criticism fromDemocrats who feel he was not upfront when he campaigned on hispreference to move most of the state to Central time, but then said amove to Central time isn't a priority. "I couldn't have said it any more plainly that ...
PRAYERS FOR JOHN PAUL II EMANATE FROM ALL FAITHS
Apr 02, 2005; ... From workers in Poland to monks in Norway and parishioners in thePhilippines, Roman Catholics around the world prayed Friday for PopeJohn Paul II. In Wadowice, the southern Polish town where the young KarolWojtyla grew up, people abandoned school and work to pray after thehealth ...
TOLLING OF THE BELLS WILL LAUNCH MOURNING PERIOD
Apr 02, 2005 ... Official plans for the Diocese of Evansville have not included public mourning. Instead, according to the plan, the parish priests will wait forBishop Gerald Gettelfinger to declare such a period of mourningthrough a statement. After that release, the church bells throughoutthe ...
JUDGE LEAVING THEATER LAWSUIT KNIGHT CLAIMS HE HAS CONFLICT
Apr 02, 2005; ... A judge planned to rule Friday in a long-running legal disputethat pits the current owners of the Alhambra Theater against aconstruction company suing them for $118,000 in unpaid bills. Instead, Vanderburgh Superior Court Judge J. Douglas Knight tookhimself off the case because he ...
APRIL FOOLERY SEEMS ON DECLINE IN SERIOUS WORLD
Apr 02, 2005; ... I don't know what happened. Not one e-mail Friday letting me knowthe University of Evansville had landed a 7-foot basketball playerfrom Finland. Not one word about gas hitting $3 a gallon, Brad Pitt marryingAngelina Jolie or the LST quietly slipping into town months ahead ...
EVANSVILLE STUDENT WINS GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION
Apr 02, 2005; ... This time, he didn't miss a question. William Weitzel had finished second in the last two Indiana StateGeography Bees. To prepare for the 2005 competition in Indianapolis,the 12-year-old Weitzel spent afternoons and nights alone hunkeredover atlases and newspapers. On Friday, ...
`IT'S BEEN A LONG ROAD' CHILDREN'S ILLNESSES CHALLENGE PARENTS' STRENGTH
Apr 02, 2005; ... Jennifer Bennett tenderly watches as her boys clamor overfurniture, each other and guests at the family's Evansville home. Dalton, 5, fearlessly bear walks around on legs encased in arainbow-colored brace while Devin snuggles comfortably in aconvenient lap. Later, Bennett ...
`CHEATING HUSBAND SALE' AD TURNS OUT TO BE A JOKE
Apr 02, 2005; ... A classified advertisement in Friday's Evansville Courier & Presspublished with the label "Cheating Husband Sale" was an April Fools'Day joke, but it was no laughing matter for readers who followed upon it. Beneath the label, the advertisement read, "Everything of his mustgo ....
SIBLING RIVALRY BROTHERS SUPPORT ALMA MATERS AS TEAMS HEAD INTO THE FINAL FOUR
Apr 02, 2005; ... When Michigan State and Illinois met in the Big Ten Tournamentchampionship game in 1999, brothers Doug and Bruce Dickey made themistake of sitting together. Doug Dickey, 42, a 1985 graduate of Michigan State University, and38-year-old Bruce Dickey, a 1988 University of Illinois ...
NEWCOMER BECOMES BIGGEST MAN IN TOWN
Apr 01, 2005 ... Editor's Note: The late Ed Klingler, longtime business editor ofThe Evansville Press, wrote a book about Evansville's businesshistory in the late 1970s. He called it "How A City Founded to MakeMoney Made It." It was published by the University of Evansville. The Evansville Business ...