Jeffersonville Local Briefs

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September 3, 2009

Anonymous The News and Tribune Thu Sep 03, 2009, 09:55 PM EDT

• JEFFERSONVILLE

Clark Memorial Bridge to close

The Clark Memorial Bridge will be closed from about 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. Monday for the Louisville Hike and Bike.

No streets in Jeffersonville will be affected, according to a press release from the Jeffersonville Police Department.

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Library to host job skills workshop

The Jeffersonville Township Public Library will offer a free job skills workshop with three segments, beginning at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the library, 211 E. Court Ave., Jeffersonville.

The first segment will be called Marketing the Job Fair, with Lynn Prinz, assistant director of Career Services at Indiana University Southeast, who will discuss preparation for a job fair. IU Southeast will be holding its last job fair of 2009 on Oct. 8, and Prinz’s presentation will assist those who are planning on attending that particular job fair or others like it in the future.

The second segment will be called Basic Resume/Cover Letter Writing at 2 p.m. with Greg Virgin, product development manager at Work One New Albany. He will cover the basics in writing a resume and a cover letter, including the various sections of a resume.

The final segment will be Basic Interviewing Skill at 3 p.m., led by Virgin. It will cover what you need to know before going to a job interview, including how to present yourself, researching the employer and typical interview questions.

No registration is necessary. Call 812-285-5630 ext. 139 for more information.

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Curves invites women to open house

Curves, 1725 E. 10th St., Jeffersonville, will sponsor an open house from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 12.

A free fitness and weight management class will be at 10 a.m. Women of all ages are welcome.

For more information, call 812-284-6712.

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• CLARK COUNTY

$5M in unclaimed property available

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller visited with students at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg on Thursday to announce Clark County residents have $5.66 million worth of unclaimed property – and how to find it.

In 2008, more than 4,000 new assets valued at more than a half million dollars were reported to the state as unclaimed. These properties belong to residents or former residents of Clark County or their heirs, a news release from the attorney general’s office says.

Zoeller encouraged Hoosiers to visit www.IndianaUnclaimed.com to search for unclaimed property belonging to themselves, friends, relatives or neighbors. Unclaimed property takes many forms including forgotten safe-deposit box contents, undelivered stock dividends and refunds on utilities deposits to name a few.

Financial institutions and other holders are required annually to turn over the assets of accounts in which there has been no activity for five or seven years, depending on the type of account. Unclaimed property includes investment earnings, insurance proceeds and benefits, wages, and money from savings and checking accounts.

Every year, the attorney general is required to advertise the list of unclaimed property turned over to the state during the previous year. The announcements run twice in a two week period in the newspaper closest to the last known address of the property owner.

The list is scheduled to publish Sunday in The Evening News, according to the release.

In total, the state’s unclaimed property database holds more than $383 million in assets. Last year, $172,779 was returned to 368 Hoosiers with last known addresses in Clark County.

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