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: I’m not exaggerating, I’m aspiring
Exaggeration is a commonplace phenomenon. For one thing, it lies at the heart of the advertising industry.
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NASH: Holding officials to higher standards
A few weeks ago in my weekly column, I discussed a growing trend of people, mostly elected officials, who believed that they are above the law.
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HARBESON: It’s super living in Indiana
My husband and I attend an annual Super Bowl party, which is normally a small gathering of friends, but this year our host’s home was bursting with guests.
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GESENHUES: The Susan G. Komen precedent
My mom is a breast cancer survivor.
I have walked many a mile in support of the cause and raised a sizable number of dollars for breast cancer research. The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure initiatives are not lost on me. -
BEAM: Just smile
Whispers will soon abound outside of school as the corporation enters negotiations this summer with the teacher’s union over a new contract. Aides are not covered under the union.
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HOWEY: Keeping Peyton in the Hoosier pantheon
The critics of keeping Manning suggest he would return to a team struggling to contend. I’m not buying that. The Colts were decimated for a second consecutive year with injuries, particularly on defense. With the top choice in each round, they can quickly reset, as San Francisco and Cincinnati did this year.
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CUMMINS: How to live a stable life
Then I heard Newt Gingrich say that he will establish a colony on the moon by the end of his second term. I’d vote for him if he would go.
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VAN HOY: What’s the point, anyway?
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