• Clark County
Disaster outreach centers open Friday
An outreach center will open at 8 a.m. Friday for Clark County residents and business owners interested in U.S. Small Business Administration loans to cover disaster repairs resulting from severe weather Aug. 4-9.
SBA offers low-interest loans up to $200,000 to qualified homeowners to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate. Homeowners and renters are eligible to apply for loans up to $40,000 to repair or replace damaged or destroyed personal property, a press release says.
For small businesses and most private nonprofit organizations, the SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. That assistance is available regardless of whether the business suffered any physical property damage.
The Clark County location is at Clarksville Town Hall, 2000 Broadway, in the second-floor conference room. The Floyd county location is at the emergency management building, 1613 E. Spring St., Suite No. 4, New Albany. The locations will remain open until 4:30 p.m. each day through Thursday, and Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to noon.
Individuals and businesses may obtain information and loan applications by calling the SBA’s Customer Service Center at 800-659-2955 — 800-877-8339 for the hearing impaired — Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., or by sending an e-mail to disastercustomerservice@sba.gov.
Business loan applications also can be downloaded from the SBA Web site at www.sba.gov/services/
disasterassistance
Victims may apply for disaster loans at
https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/.
The filing deadline to return applications for physical property damage is Jan 5. The deadline to return economic injury applications is Aug. 6.
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• Sellersburg
Silver Creek play starts Friday
Silver Creek High School is performing Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and again Nov. 20-22. Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30 and the Sunday performances will be at 2 p.m.
The shows will be performed in the high school auditorium at 557 Renz Ave. in Sellersburg.
The show is directed by Silver Creek High School Drama Director Nathan Shewell. Music direction is by Cathy Ryan. The cast includes more than 70 students from all three Silver Creek schools.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens — 55 an older — and students, and $6 for card carrying thespian members. Children over the age of 2 must have a ticket. All ticket levels can upgrade to the VIP seating for an additional $5. This upgrade includes prime seating and a buffet at intermission. Call 812-246-7440 for tickets and reservations.
A new activity added to this show is the option to purchase a guest artist role in the show. Patrons will have the opportunity to win an auction for the role in the second act.
The barbershop quartet featured in this show is cast from two father son combinations.
This is a family-friendly show, telling the story of a traveling salesman who sells kids bands in the early 1900s. What Professor Harold Hill doesn’t plan on is falling in love with the music teacher in River City, Iowa.
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• Jeffersonville
White Pine League to perform
The White Pine League will perform their original progressive folk music at 7 p.m. Saturday at Perkfection Cafe, 359 Spring St., Jeffersonville.
The public is welcome. Visit cdbaby.com/
whitepineleague for more information on the band.
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• Indiana
17 parks to close for deer reductions
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced that select state parks will be closed temporarily for controlled deer reductions in the coming weeks.
Two reduction efforts will take place — Monday and Tuesday — and again Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
Participating parks — including Charlestown State Park — will close to the general public the evening before each of the two efforts and will reopen the morning after each two-day reduction ends. Indiana DNR biologists evaluate which parks require a reduction each year based on vegetative recovery and previous hunter success at each park.
State parks are home to more than 32 state-endangered plants, and the reductions help maintain browsing by deer to a level that helps ecosystems and associated vegetation recover throughout the state parks. Although the parks have had much success since the first reduction in 1993, a high no-show rate of those drawn and over-selective hunting remain a challenge for the program. State parks participating with a reduction using firearms include Chain O’Lakes, Charlestown, Harmonie, Lincoln, Ouabache, Pokagon, Potato Creek, Prophetstown, Shades, Shakamak, Spring Mill, Tippecanoe River, Turkey Run, Versailles and Whitewater Memorial.
State parks using archery for reduction include Fort Harrison and Clifty Falls.
Participation is limited to individuals on applications that were drawn last September. No standby drawings will be conducted, nor will substitutes or additions be permitted.
Participants must show photo ID upon check-in. No information packets were mailed to drawn participants this year, but are instead available online at IN.gov/dnr/parklake/5655.htm, where applicants can check or review their draw status, permitted buddies, and details about the hunts. Information regarding 2010 state park deer reductions will be available in the 2010-11 Indiana Hunting and Trapping Guide next summer.
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Clark County
November 11, 2009
Evening News Briefs Nov. 12
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Search under way for missing Underwood man
Kenneth Roger Clampitt, 41, of the 1300 block of Lindenmayer Road, has been missing from his residence since Thursday at approximately 4:30 p.m.
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River Ridge moves forward with development plans
No sale has been finalized on either piece of land, as River Ridge owns the 16-acre parcel, and the adjacent 54-acre tract is owned by Crossdock Development, a Louisville-based company that specializes in developing properties on the order of millions of square feet.
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Town has no cure for ailing medical center
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Dancing
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In the doghouse
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Forum helps Hispanic parents stay involved with education
Angelica Perez, family services adviser for Head Start, said it is important for children to learn English at a young age. She has seen the Hispanic population in Clark County grow and said there is an increased need for English Second Language programs.
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Indiana granted No Child Left Behind waiver
As the deadline approaches, more schools are failing to meet requirements under the law, with nearly half not doing so last year, according to the Center on Education Policy.
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Democrats downsize: Clark County Democrats want to remove five precinct committee people for supporting candidates outside party
DeArk also said he never received a letter that said he may be removed as a precinct committeeman.
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Paying their fair share?
John Gilkey, president of the town council, said when Knott initially shared the information with him a few weeks ago, he was surprised to learn some residents weren’t paying any taxes.
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