CHEERS
... to festival season. We’ve already had JEFF Fest, Borden’s Valley Day Festival, the inaugural Smokin’ on the River barbecue cookoff and other viable excuses to enjoy fun in the sun.
Charlestown’s ninth-annual Founders Day festival wraps up today with fireworks at 10 p.m., and last Thursday’s 4-H Bicycle Rodeo lets us know that THE festival of the summer — The Clark County 4-H Fair — is just a couple of weeks away.
Get out and enjoy the season ... we’re halfway to winter, after all.
— Editor Shea Van Hoy
... to July 1. That’s when an overdue change to Indiana Code will take hold. On that day and beyond, it’s a felony to intentionally injure or abuse a domestic animal.
In the past, the offense was a misdemeanor, no matter the crime against an animal.
As a pet owner, I can’t imagine harming an animal. Maybe the tougher penalties will dissuade someone from doing just that.
— Editor Shea Van Hoy
... to Clarksville Police Department’s Operation Vacation program. Residents there can call up CPD and officers will drive by a home left vacant by vacation a couple of times a day. It’s a bit of peace of mind when Clarksville residents leave town.
Call 812-288-7151 for more information.
— Editor Shea Van Hoy
JEERS
... to the hateful person who ripped an entire row of flowers out of the flower box in front of The Evening News earlier this week. How mean!
My husband, staff photographer C.E. Branham, and I have an expression, “Can’t have nothin’,” that we use in these situations — meaning “You can’t have nothin’ decent because somebody’s going to come along and ruin it.”
And that’s precisely what someone did. Ruined my flower bed and ruined my day.
To add insult, the renegade flower tearer-upper just threw all the plants down along the sidewalk in front of the building. The least you could have done was just take them away. Then I could have held onto a little hope that maybe someone thought they were so pretty they just took them home to plant them in their own flower boxes.
Look, it may not have been a professional landscaping job, but I planted those flowers so there’d be something prettier to look at than the beer bottles and cigarette butts people discard there.
Shame on you, mean person. Shame on you.
— Amy Huffman-Branham, presentation editor just trying to make the world prettier one petunia plant at a time
READER CHEERS
... to the Jeffersonville Fire Department along 10th Street for helping me Tuesday morning. I thought I could take my mother to the hospital, but her breathing got worse. I saw the firefighters washing their trucks and I stopped by for help.
They were quick to our aid and placed my mother on oxygen and called the ambulance for me. You will never know how much I appreciate your help. Thank you so much.
— Candy Wilson, Jeffersonville
... to New Hope Services Inc. for stepping up to the plate and hitting a home run for children with autism — with the opening of its new Park Place Children’s Home.
— Deborah Mann, Jeffersonville
Do you have someone or something to cheer or jeer? Submissions should be sent to Editor Shea Van Hoy at shea.vanhoy@newsandtribune.com or by mail at 221 Spring St., Jeffersonville, IN 47130.
Columns
EVENING NEWS CHEERS & JEERS: June 28, 2009
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CLERE: Walkout is absurd
The walkout by Indiana House Democrats entered its third week yesterday as tensions continued to rise and misinformation proliferated.
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LADD: New Albany has new energy
New Albany is evolving. Public art has become more prevalent in the downtown, drawing more locals and outside visitors to our community; bringing more publicity.
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STAWAR: The souvenir state of America
Recently, my wife Diane and I spent the day aboard the Belle of Cincinnati with our daughter’s family. We all had a good time, even though the diesel-powered Cincinnati attraction isn’t a real steamboat, like our own Belle of Louisville, and despite the fact that it poured down rain the whole time.
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NASH: Making a Memorial vacation
Memorial Day weekend is upon us which brings us to the start of the summer travel season. With the mild winter we had around here most schools didn’t have much in terms of snow make-up days so many kids have already finished up their semesters and are ready to get on with their holiday. Not to worry parents it will only be a couple of weeks before the back-to-school sales kick in and in no time at all it will be time for those youngsters to go back.
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HARBESON: A handy little idea
After having worked hard the past few months, I now have something new to add to my resume — “I was Lead Project Manager for a major construction venture, supervising every aspect in the creation of a privately funded community building.”
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MORRIS: Nancy Hogan was more than just an employee
Pulling into The Tribune parking lot each morning was pretty uneventful in the old days. Nothing good happens between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Nothing at all.
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HAMILTON: Is this really the best we can do?
As you know if you pay attention to national affairs, the United States faces a perfect fiscal storm at the end of this year. A confluence of deadlines and policy triggers unlike anything I can remember in a half-century of public life will produce massive budget cuts and serious tax increases amounting to a 3.5 percent hit on the nation’s Gross Domestic Product.
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BEAM: Lost memories found
As time elapses, so do our memories. I forget things now. I can’t remember his height. How did he curl his lips into that sardonic, wholehearted smile? I only recall flashes of a moment. Wearing his jacket at prom. His golf clubs in the back of his old, golden car. Notes passed in the hallway. Listening to Boys to Men in his basement.
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STANCZYKIEWICZ: A gift for mom and dad
Two strategies for parents are important. First, parents need to model for children how to disagree. “When you’re talking with your spouse and you’re whining and complaining and nagging, you shouldn’t be too surprised when your young person does the same thing,” Allen said. “We need to be good role models.”
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HOWEY: Brooks, Walorski take aim at GOP glass ceiling
Susan Brooks’ 5th District campaign conducted internal polling in mid-April and the news was disheartening. She trailed the frontrunner — former congressman David McIntosh — by 20 points. Twenty points?
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