Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) back issues from November 2008:
A LIGHTER LOAD BUS DRIVER LOOKS FORWARD TO END OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Nov 01, 2008; ... On Monday morning, Kenny Dietsch will do his normal routinebefore he starts his school bus routes to North High School andScott Elementary School. He'll arrive at the Marathon/Circle S gas station on U.S. 41about 5:30 a.m., eat a breakfast pizza with scrambled eggs, sausageand ...
CLERKS FIND ROLLS ARE FILLING VANDERBURGH VOTERS MOUNT UP
Nov 01, 2008; ... At first glance, the numbers don't seem right. How can Vanderburgh County, with an estimated population of174,425 residents, have almost 136,000 registered voters headinginto Tuesday's election? Census figures show that would beessentially every adult in the county. "People ...
SLOWER EQUALS SAFER WHEN DRIVING AT NIGHT
Nov 01, 2008; ... As area counties change from daylight saving time to standardtime Sunday, more people will? find themselves driving home in thedark after work. Sgt. Todd Ringle of the Indiana State Police saidwhen people drive in the night or evening hours, their drivingbehavior does ...
AROUND THE TRI-STATE
Nov 01, 2008 ... Fort Branch, Ind. Princeton man charged in robbery A 20-year-old Princeton man has been arrested and charged withthe armed robbery of a Subway restaurant in Fort Branch. Fort Branch Police Department Marshal Rick Sides said Brandon J.Whitehead was arrested at the home ...
COW DELIVERS ITSY BITSY, TEENY WEENY SURPRISE
Nov 01, 2008; ... A few Sundays ago, Todd Kelsey drove out to check on his hundredhead of cattle on the family farm north of Albion, Ill., and found asickly looking newborn calf lying in the pasture. "I've got a half pointer and half black lab dog, and that calfwas smaller than him," Kelsey said ....
WHAT MAKES A VOTER INCOMPETENT? ADVOCATES WANT MENTALLY ILL TO KNOW RIGHTS
Nov 01, 2008; ... RICHMOND, Va. - Clyde Hoy has missed only one election. It was2002, and the manic depression he had battled for nearly 20 yearshad taken hold again, landing him in a state psychiatric hospital. "I wanted to vote, but I felt that I didn't have any right atall," said Hoy. "I asked ...
CHEERS, JEERS & TEARS DON'T KEEP THE SIGNS UP.
Nov 01, 2008 ... Cheers for everyone - Republican, Democrat, Libertarian andIndependent - who has found a way to take an interest in thiselection, either by posting a sign or signs in their yards or byvolunteering to help with the campaigns or with the voting process. Cheers, as well, to those who ...
MCCAIN, ROMNEY TO MAKE INDIANA VISITS
Nov 01, 2008; ... With Indiana suddenly a battleground state, Republicanpresidential nominee Sen. John McCain will return to IndianapolisMonday afternoon, a campaign aide confirmed late Friday. The rally will take place at 3 p.m. EST at the IndianapolisInternational Airport's International Arrivals ...
ALL HEART RESURRECTION STUDENTS RAISE $4,000-PLUS FOR HEART ASSOCIATION
Nov 01, 2008; ... Resurrection School's student body was all heart on Friday. A little more than a year after Trevor Head, the 41-year-oldfather of three children at Resurrection, died unexpectedly of aheart attack, the school conducted a fundraising walk in his memory. A sea of red-shirted ...
BMV EXTENDS HOURS FOR IDS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles license branches are extendingtheir hours Monday and Tuesday to issue state identification cardsand driver's licenses needed for Tuesday's general election. Fullservice license branches, normally closed on Mondays, will be openfrom 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m ....
EARLY VOTING TAKES PATIENCE BUT LONG LINES DON'T DAMPEN SPIRITS
Nov 01, 2008; ... University of Southern Indiana students Matt Pearce and RachelElsner had what turned out to be a familiar story Friday as theywaited an hour or more in a long line of early voters outside theCivic Center's Election Office. The day before, they'd gone to two different libraries ...
CIVIL WAR FLAG CARRIED BY JASPER'S COMPANY K RESTORED TO PAST GLORY
Nov 01, 2008; ... JASPER, Ind. - A rare piece of history, an American flag thatsomehow survived the epic Civil War battles of Antietam,Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and the ensuing 147 years, will beunveiled at 2 p.m. EST on Nov. 9 at the Dubois County Museum. The flag was carried during the war ...
SOME LOCAL VOTERS COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING TURNED AWAY COUNTY CLERK SAYS IT'S 'NATURE OF THE BEAST'
Nov 01, 2008; ... Responding to complaints about early cutoff times at early votingsites at local libraries, Vanderburgh County Clerk Susan Kirk saidFriday they stemmed mostly from misunderstandings about how votinghours at the libraries were structured. Kirk said she had received numerous ...
RECORDS
Nov 01, 2008 ... Marriage licenses Hall, Derek Wayne, 28, and Tiffany Rae Clem, 27, both of 7622Miranda Drive, Oct. 21 Rollins, Travis L., 36, of Chandler, Ind., and Camille ErinMartin, 28, of 5233 Nottingham Drive, Oct. 21 Boyd, Tommy Lee Sr., 43, of 507 Bellemeade Ave., and ...
WILD HALLOWEEN BASH LEADS TO TICKETS, ARRESTS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Indiana State Police ticketed or arrested 77 people Thursdayafter receiving a 911 call about an underage drinking party at 2727Allen Lane. It was the third time officers had been to the residence forunderage drinking within the past year, according to a news release.All involved ...
CHIEF SWEARS IN EXTRA OFFICERS FOR HALLOWEEN, ELECTION
Nov 01, 2008; ... Big Story The big story 25 years ago this week (1983) involved controversyover the U.S. invasion of the island of Grenada. The House voted 403-23 to require President Reagan to withdraw American forces beforeChristmas. Reagan, like other presidents before and since, hadresisted ...
LOCAL MAN HELD IN CHICAGO SLAYING
Nov 01, 2008; ... An Evansville man has been charged with first-degree murder androbbery in the slaying of a Chicago restaurant manager. David Sidener, 50, was being held without bail late Friday in theCook County (Ill.) Jail. He is accused of killing Randall Hilderbrand at Lucca'sRestaurant ...
SHEPARD SAYS RESTRUCTURING ISSUES ON BALLOT
Nov 01, 2008; ... Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard said Friday thatrecommendations for restructuring local government in Indiana madelast year by the study commission he and former Gov. Joe Kernanheaded are aimed at achieving greater effectiveness andaccountability. Speaking to high school ...
SOUTH SIDE CREDIT UNION HELD UP
Nov 01, 2008; ... Evansville resident Paul Burton said he usually doesn't findhimself on the South Side of town, but Friday afternoon he stoppedin the area to do his banking. And while at Diamond Valley Federal Credit Union at 2521Washington Ave., Burton became the key witness in a 4:40 ...
OBITUARIES
Nov 01, 2008 ... Local Sister Elaine Catellier Sister Elaine Catellier, Daughter of Charity, age 84, died atSeton Residence in Evansville at 1 a.m. on October 31, 2008. Sister Elaine (Elizabeth Elaine) was one of two childrenborn to Bernard Joseph and Rose Cecelia Steigerwald Catellier ...
REP. AVERY TO THE RESCUE
Nov 01, 2008; ... George Quarles, 65, had luck on his side Friday morning at theCivic Center as he tried to cast his ballot for Tuesday's generalelection. He wound up standing in line more than an hour in front of stateRep. Dennis Avery, a Democrat who's been representing SouthwesternIndiana's ...
INTEGRA BOLSTERING FUND TO COVER BAD LOANS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Integra Bank is setting aside more money to protect itself fromlosses on loans. For that reason, the bank expects to report to report a loss of$2.9 million, or 14 cents a diluted share, in the third quarter of2008. In the same period last year, it had enjoyed profits of ...
LAND AUCTION WILL HAVE SMALLER TRACTS KIMBALL PROPERTY GOING UP FOR SALE NEXT WEEK
Nov 01, 2008; ... The auction of more than 27,000 acres of Kimball Internationalland in Kentucky and Indiana, scheduled for next week, will be acontest for small investors as well as large investors wanting tobuy thousands of acres at a time. Tracts of 20 acres or fewer and 50 acres or fewer to 100 ...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Nov 01, 2008 ... evansville Seminar to address use of derivatives Carmen Palladino, director of Equity Structured Products forCitigroup Global Markets Inc. in New York, will address the publicon "The Use of Derivatives in Portfolio Protection and RecoveryStrategies" at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, in ...
CENTRAL CONCLUDES WARRIORS' SEASON
Nov 01, 2008; ... For the first 22 minutes of Friday night's Class 4A sectionalsemifinal at Central High School, Harrison's football team wasplaying well enough to win for the first time in two years. The Warriors had forced four first-half turnovers and looked likethey were going to take a 10-7 ...
GET READY FOR A RUMBLING AT ROBERTS UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE, USI SQUARE OFF TONIGHT IN BIENNIAL EXHIBITION
Nov 01, 2008; ... Are you ready to rumble? The answer to the question that has been reverberating througharenas across America for years is "yes" for both the University ofEvansville and the University of Southern Indiana men's basketballteams heading into tonight's 7:05 o'clock Rumble at Roberts ...
OVERTON MAKES CUT BY TWO
Nov 01, 2008; ... PALM COAST, Fla. - Jeff Overton gets to play at least one moreround of golf. The Evansville native, who has been recovering from anappendectomy, should make the cut by two strokes. Friday's secondround at the Gin sur Mer Classic was suspended by darkness. Overton fired a ...
REITZ DETHRONED BY JASPER
Nov 01, 2008; ... JASPER, Ind. - Normally, Jasper's Andrew Weidenbenner wouldn'thave been on the field. "I usually don't play special teams," Weidenbenner said. But on ahunch, Wildcats coach Tony Ahrens had inserted the senior linebackeron the kickoff team in the second quarter. And when ...
TAKING AIM AT HISTORY MEMORIAL BOYS, GIRLS AT STATE
Nov 01, 2008; ... Memorial High School has already made history by sending itsgirls' and boys' soccer programs to state in the same year for thethird time after also making it in 1994 and 2006 - no other schoolin Indiana has accomplished that feat more than once. Still, the Tigers (both teams, that ...
CASTLE VOLLEYBALL CHANGES ROUTINE, CHASES REGIONAL TITLE
Nov 01, 2008; ... Making its 10th consecutive trip to the Class 4A SeymourRegional, Castle High School's volleyball team has tried it bothways. The Knights have made the three-hour drive early in themorning and stayed in a hotel the night before - neither withsuccess. Castle coach Jana Reiter is ...
SMITH, VIKINGS ROLL PAST REBELS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Michael Smith threw three touchdown passes as North Posey avengeda regular-season loss to South Spencer by defeating the Rebels, 42-21, on Friday night in the Class 2A Sectional 32 semifinals. Smith finished 11-for-17 passing for 229 yards with nointerceptions. Tyler Ricker caught ...
RED DEVILS' WILLIAMS HAUNTS HENDERSON CO.
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Henderson County Colonels were ready for Owensboro's starrunning back Yorell Shemwell on Halloween on Friday night. They held him to 7 first-half yards. But it was the understudywho put them in a quick three-score deficit that they never fullyrecovered from in a 38-20 high ...
SAIKO'S TOUCHDOWNS PASSES GET CASTLE INTO TITLE CONTEST
Nov 01, 2008; ... PARADISE, Ind. - Graham Saiko tied a career high with fivetouchdown passes as Castle routed New Albany 56-14 in a Class 5ASectional 8 football semifinal on Friday night. Saiko also ran for two scores to set a career mark for scoringpasses and rushing touchdowns combined in one ...
STUCKEY'S INTERCEPTIONS SPARK MEMORIAL WIN
Nov 01, 2008; ... Trying to set the early tone when its offense wasn't enough,Memorial's football team had to do something else to put awayVincennes Lincoln on Friday night. The Tigers were able to claw the Alices 35-7 in the Class 3ASectional 24 semifinals at Enlow Field because of a huge night ...
SPORTS BRIEFS
Nov 01, 2008 ... basketball USI transfer guard won't play today Ellen Young, the sophomore guard who transferred to theUniversity of Southern Indiana from NCAA Division I SouthernIllinois University, will not play in the women's basketball team'sexhibition game today at Indiana University ....
BOOKSHELF
Nov 01, 2008; ... "Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of ChristianFaith," by Suzanne Strempek Shea (nonfiction, Beacon Press, 2008,hardback, $24.95) Raised as a Catholic, Suzanne Strempek Shea writes, "I had neverhad to choose, or thought to choose, or been interested in ...
CAMPUS MINISTRY PROGRAMS EASE LEARNING CURVE OF DIFFERING BELIEFS
Nov 01, 2008; ... Growing up in Santa Claus, Ind., Brett Luker was a regularchurchgoer - and so were most of the people he knew. So when he enrolled at the University of Southern Indiana, Lukerwas surprised to learn that many people didn't share his beliefs. Especially when he wore a T-shirt ...
SMALL STONES FOUND HOME IN BIG PICTURE
Nov 01, 2008; ... At the top of Joshua Hill Road, at its terminus on Tuttle Road,in Woodbury, Conn., there is a stone wall. It is about 3, maybe 4 feet high, nearly as broad and no morethan about 30 yards long. Ordinarily, this would be a lousy way to start an essay. TheConnecticut landscape ...
REV. TODD LINN GOD'S PLAN IS DIRECTING THE PATH OF MIGHTY CREATION
Nov 01, 2008 ... Last month's vice presidential debate addressed concerns believedto be of interest to American voters. One question had to do withthe candidates' views on climate change. When asked by the moderatorto address what is true and what is false about the causes ofclimate change, one candidate ...
BIDEN WOWS CROWD CROWD PACKS MAIN STREET TO CATCH SOME OF JOE BIDEN'S EXCITEMENT
Nov 02, 2008; ... Three days before America votes, Democratic vice presidentialcandidate Sen. Joe Biden told an estimated 2,000 people at anoutdoor rally in Evansville on Saturday that a new day is dawning. Speaking on a stage at the intersection of Main and Sixth streetsand looking out into a sea ...
SOLDIERS' FAMILIES SPLIT ON BALLOT COUPLE CITE TERROR, IRAQ IN SUPPORT FOR MCCAIN
Nov 02, 2008; ... Harold Greenwell feels as if he is shouting and no one can hearhim. "People are so easy to forget Sept. 11, 2001," Greenwell said,frustration creeping into his voice. "The media doesn't show thepictures anymore because they're afraid it will stir anger. Nobodyeven mentions it ...
LAW MAY TEST CAMPUS VOTERS ADDRESS MUST BE 'PERMANENT'
Nov 02, 2008; ... An Indiana college student can use his residence hall or on-campus apartment address when he registers to vote - as long as hecalls it his permanent home address. Indiana Code 3-5-5-7 states, "A person does not gain residency ina precinct into which the person moves for: (1) ...
SOLDIERS' FAMILIES SPLIT ON BALLOT MOM'S SUPPORT FOR OBAMA HINGES ON SON'S DUTY
Nov 02, 2008; ... Rosemary Morse remembers what it felt like when her son had avery dangerous job - gunner on a Humvee in Iraq. "It was extremely scary, extremely stressful," Morse, anEvansville resident, said of her son Ernie Griffin's yearlong firsttour in Iraq in 2006 as a member of the Indiana ...
THE INFAMOUS PINE CONE CAPER
Nov 02, 2008; ... Joe Aaron MORNING ASSIGNMENT Editor's note: For 30 years Joe Aaron banged out more than 7,000of his "Morning assignment" columns, touching readers with hishumor. Because you asked, we are reprinting his columns on Sundays.Enjoy. She called me on one of those mornings ...
2008 ELECTION BALLOTS
Nov 02, 2008 ... INDIANA Vanderburgh President/Vice President Obama/Biden (D) McCain/Palin (R) Barr/Root (L) Governor/Lt. Governor Long Thompson/Oxley (D) Daniels/Skillman (R) Horning/Kelly (L) Attorney General Linda Pence ...
STATE SCHOOL CHIEF THE ISSUE: SUELLEN REED'S SUCCESSOR WILL BE PICKED. OUR VIEW: CHOICE SHOULD BE FROM SAME PARTY AS GOVERNOR.
Nov 02, 2008 ... Long-time readers of this page may recognize the approach we takeon the endorsement of a state superintendent of public instruction,an office on the Tuesday ballot in Indiana. Our recommendation, oft repeated over the years, is this: Votefor the candidate from the same party as ...
THE ELECTION THE ISSUE: EXCITEMENT (AND WEARINESS) BUILDS AS TUESDAY NEARS. OUR VIEW: CANDIDATES AND ISSUES MAKE IT A SPECIAL EVENT.
Nov 02, 2008 ... On several evenings last week, just as the sun was setting, wesaw a remarkable sight on Evansville's East Side. The early darkness allowed passing motorists to see clearlyinside McCullough Library on Washington Avenue, and there was ascene right out of Americana today, a suitable ...
VOTER BEHAVIOR EARLY BALLOTS, POLLS AND MEDIA SPUR BIG CHANGES IN ELECTION
Nov 02, 2008; ... Election Day is Tuesday - and I'll be relieved when all theresults are in. Call me crazy, but that may not be on Wednesday. The 2000 Florida recount taught me that there is no winner untilthe last ballot is counted and the last challenge is heard. Indeed,we didn't have a ...
THE SCHOOL REFERENDUM EMBRACE CHILDREN, FUTURE
Nov 02, 2008; ... Educating youth is our greatest responsibility. The school referendum to be decided Tuesday represents a boldplan, but, more important, a promise. It is an investment in ourchildren and the economic future of our community. It is acommitment to all children that their unfulfilled ...
THE SCHOOL REFERENDUM THE ISSUE
Nov 02, 2008 ... Evansville and Vanderburgh County voters will decide in Tuesday'selection whether to allow the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. tospend $149 million on a new high school and middle school and onother improvements to the public schools. On this page today, we offer commentary ...
THE SCHOOL REFERENDUM WORST TIME FOR MORE DEBT
Nov 02, 2008; ... Economic conditions are changing drastically, even in VanderburghCounty. It is not reasonable to maintain debt when economists aretelling us to live within our means by reducing debt. Shouldn't theEvansville Vanderburgh School Corp. heed those warnings? What the Vanderburgh County ...
ROMNEY VISITS TODAY; MCCAIN IN INDY ON MONDAY
Nov 02, 2008; ... Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who vied for theRepublican presidential nomination but lost to John McCain, willcampaign for him in Evansville today. Romney will speak at a rally at 4 p.m. at Vanderburgh CountyRepublican headquarters, 815 John St. Doors open at 3:30 ...
ATTORNEY CHARGED IN FORGERY
Nov 02, 2008; ... An Evansville attorney whose license was suspended in 2002 amidcharges of forgery, fraud and theft, is again accused of similarcrimes. Allan G. Loosemore Jr., 53, is wanted on a felony warrant forforgery stemming from accusations he bilked his employer out of morethan $30,000, ...
BATTLE OF MARCHING BANDS AREA HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE STRONG SHOWINGS AT STATE FINALS
Nov 02, 2008; ... INDIANAPOLIS - Nothing at her high school in her native Germanyprepared Annika Marschall for the cymbal-crashing excitement ofperforming with her new classmates from Jasper High School inSaturday's Indiana State School Music Association's state marchingband finals at ...
FINANCE FLOUNDER ROOTED IN FAITH
Nov 02, 2008 ... The federal government's plan to thaw out frozen credit marketsreached the Tri-State this week as Old National Bancorp and FifthThird Bancorp were approved to receive part of $250 billion beingset aside to encourage commercial banks to lend more money. Paul Solman, the business and ...
MELCHER WIN WOULD OPEN COUNCIL SEAT
Nov 02, 2008; ... If Steve Melcher is elected to the Vanderburgh County Commission,interest in his seat on the City Council is expected to be high. "I expect there to be a fair amount of interest," VanderburghCounty Democratic Party Chairman Mark Owen said. Melcher has occupied the 3rd Ward seat ...
BRIEFS
Nov 02, 2008 ... Carmi, Ill. Sheriff offers reward for information on fires White County Sheriff Doug Maier is offering a $500 Crime Stoppersreward for information leading to the arrest of vandals who setthree fires Friday morning that heavily damaged a hunting cabin, abarn and ...
JURY FINDS DRUG STORE BURGLARS LIABLE IN DEATHS
Nov 02, 2008; ... Two West Virginia brothers face possible life sentences for theirinvolvement in a string of burglaries of Southern Illinoispharmacies. Jurors who convicted Everly K. Hatfield, 48, and Rex I. Hatfield,52, of Oceana, W.Va., returned a special verdict finding that fourdeaths ...
EVSC FOUNDATION NAMES ITS FIRST BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nov 02, 2008; ... The EVSC Foundation has named its first board of directors, andan honorary board. The foundation boards are made up of area community and businessleaders, as well as several noted alumni, according to a newsrelease from the school corporation. The board of directors will ...
TWO SEATS IN CONTENTION FOR SCHOOL BOARD S. GIBSON INCUMBENTS POINT TO EXPERIENCE, WHILE CHALLENGERS FOCUS ON SPURRING CHANGE
Nov 02, 2008; ... Two members of the South Gibson School Board will meetchallengers in Tuesday's election. District 2 incumbent Duane Michel will face David Lewis, while inDistrict 3, incumbent Bobby Joe Douglas Sr. is challenged by JanetMcBee. Tim Nurrenbern, who represents District 1, is ...
OBITUARIES
Nov 02, 2008 ... Local Addison Alvey Addison Alvey, 97, of Evansville, passed away Saturday, November1, 2008, at Pine Haven Health & Rehabilitation. He was born December 29, 1910, in Perry County, Ind. Addison retired from Arkansas School System. He loved to woodworkand spend ...
DEATH RECORDS
Nov 02, 2008 ... Albin, Ronnie L.; 50, Evansville, died Oct. 15, respiratoryfailure, liver failure, cirrhosis Brickner, Patrick J.; 48, Evansville, died Oct. 18,oligoastrocytoma Churchwell, Golda Mae; 95, New Harmony, Ind., Sept. 22,pneumonia, congestive heart failure, fractured ...
BIRTH RECORDS
Nov 02, 2008 ... Deaconess Women's Hospital Theresa and Jeff Ebert, Ferdinand, Ind., daughter, ClaudiaElizabeth, Oct. 20 April and Jason Benham, Carmi, Ill., sons, Andrew Scott andConnor Jackson, Oct. 20 Mindy McGuire and Joseph Jackson, Mount Vernon, Ind., daughter,Emma Nicole, Oct ....
MCCONNELL DEFENDS ROLE AS LEADER AMID LUNSFORD ASSAULT
Nov 02, 2008; ... HARLAN, Ky. - Democrat Bruce Lunsford tried to deflate RepublicanSen. Mitch McConnell's Senate leadership status Friday, tellingsupporters that the country is suffering from a leadership droughtthat led to its worst economic crisis in decades. McConnell, meanwhile, spent the day ...
LONG EARLY VOTING LINES SPUR REQUESTS FOR EXTENDED HOURS
Nov 02, 2008; ... Early voting at the Vanderburgh County Election Office was sofrenetic Saturday that a candidate for governor asked localelections officials to open up today, too. County Clerk Susan Kirk refused the request, saying abundantopportunities have been available for 30 days and will be ...