EVENING NEWS CHEERS AND JEERS: Aug. 28, 2010

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August 28, 2010

Anonymous newsroom@newsandtribune.com The News and Tribune Sat Aug 28, 2010, 01:48 AM EDT

> SOUTHERN INDIANA — CHEERS

... to another record-setting enrollment figure for Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana’s Sellersburg campus. More than 5,000 students now attend the school off Interstate 65.

I’ve written in this space more than once about what a great value I think Ivy Tech is and what a remarkable transformation the college has undertaken in the past decade or more as far as programs and credit transfers.

It’s showing up big time in the numbers.

— Editor Shea Van Hoy

CHEERS

... to the 21st year of Sellersburg Celebrates! as well as Art in Speed Park.

As I hurriedly type this, I’m getting ready to head to Sellersburg to work The Evening News booth at Sellersburg Celebrates! It will be open today as well, so stop by for a chance to win a T-shirt.

— Editor Shea Van Hoy

CHEERS

... to the service given to all of us by Christopher Shane Wright, who died much too early at age 23 serving the United States in Afghanistan.

Wright — who attended Sacred Heart and New Washington High School before moving to Kentucky prior to joining the service — was described as a selfless soldier by friends and family at a Thursday memorial service.

Also, a thank you to Wright’s family for allowing our reporter and photographer to tell their story — and Christopher’s — in this newspaper.

— Editor Shea Van Hoy

JEERS

... to getting only half the story.

The Evening News on Friday brought readers details of personal spending by Clerk-Treasurer Peggy Wilder on a credit card issued by Fifth Third Bank to the city of Jeffersonville.

However, we’re still waiting on requested statements for a Republic Bank credit card that, according to a State Board of Accounts audit, was used in a similar manner by Wilder.

— Editor Shea Van Hoy

READER CHEERS

... to Mr. Ted Throckmorton, voice of Jeffersonville High School sports, on his coming induction into the Hall of Fame of the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association in April 2011.

You are Mr. Jeffersonville High School!

— Jay Potter, Jeffersonville

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