Lt. Governor Ellspermann Announces “My Community, My Vision” Initiative
Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann today announced a new initiative to engage high school students in planning for the future of their local rural communities.
The “My Community, My Vision” program invites high school students to submit essays outlining ideas for enhancing the development and quality of life in their home communities through their own research and in consultation with local officials and civic leaders.
Based on the initial essays, five applicants will be selected to develop more formal and detailed plans with assistance of graduate students from the Ball State University School of Urban Planning and the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority. The five finalists will each receive a $500 award for their sponsoring organization.
The Office of the Lt. Governor is sponsoring the program which is being administered by the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs and the State Department of Agriculture.
Expressing her support for the initiative, Lt. Governor Ellspermann commented, “Maintaining strong and viable rural communities is important to the future of Indiana, and we need future leaders to begin thinking about their own vision for their city or town. ‘My Community, My Vision’ invites these future decision makers to share their ideas and plans with local officials. By their involvement, student leaders will learn about the planning process and the collaborative efforts required to create an even more vibrant community.”
Organizational support for “My Community, My Vision” is being provided by local high school chapters of the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) and the Indiana FFA. Application essays are currently being accepted through the My Community, My Vision webpage where additional information is also available. The deadline for the initial essays is 5:00 p.m. on September 12, 2014.
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Excise Officers Arrest 25 at Drake vs. Lil’ Wayne Concert
Indiana State Excise Police officers arrested 25 people on 31 charges at this weekend’s Drake vs. Lil’ Wayne concert at Klipsch Music Center in Noblesville.
Excise officers arrested 20 people for illegal consumption or possession of alcohol and one person was ticketed for possession of false ID. One person was also charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor.
Seven people were arrested on drug charges, including possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
Kenneth S. Williams, 27, of Indianapolis, was jailed on preliminary charges of possession of a controlled substance (Schedule I) and possession of marijuana after officers observed him smoking marijuana in a Chevrolet Trailblazer in the parking lot.
Joshua J. Christy, 19, of Fishers, was jailed on a preliminary charge of possession of marijuana after he was observed smoking a hand-rolled cigar with marijuana. Christy provided a false name to police during their investigation.
Indiana State Excise Police officers will continue to work closely with Klipsch Music Center safety officials to promote public safety at Klipsch concerts.
As the enforcement division of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, the primary mission of the Indiana State Excise Police is to promote public safety by enforcing Indiana’s Alcoholic Beverage Code. While excise officers have the authority to enforce any state law, they focus primarily on alcohol, tobacco and related laws.
McCoach Night’s 5th annual broadcast this Wednesday at McDonald’s
WSLM Radio will host its fifth annual McCoach Night at the Salem McDonald’s on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m.
The program will feature interviews from coaches and players from Salem, Eastern and West Washington high school football teams.
The public is invited to come out and support their teams, meet the coach’s and visit with players and cheerleaders.
WSLM will be on hand to sign up football fans to win a pair of Indiana University football tickets.
WSLM will air the program on WSLM 97.9 FM and WSLM 1220 AM and be streaming the program live from wslmradio.com.
Coach’s Corner will be broadcast live from McDonald’s each Wednesday night at 7 p.m. on both WSLM stations during football season and will talkl with coach’s and players to analyze the previous week’s contest and look ahead at the next game on each team’s roster.
Mark Abbott, WSLM sports director, will be the host of the program.
Fans of all three county teams are encouraged to come out to each broadcast.
WSLM Station owner Rebecca White said she was excited about the line-up of sports on her stations this season.
“We are back for our second year as the Louisville affiliate for the Indianapolis Colts and have signed a multi-year contract to be the exclusive Kentuckiana IU Sports station,” she said. “We will also continue to bring Purdue Sports. We are in our second season of reporting on the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship, the largest live draft outside of Las Vegas.”
White noted she has added additional programming for sports fans — a nightly broadcast of BIG TEN LIVE from Fox Sports, the weekly BIG TEN FOOTBALL report as well as NFL LIVE.
“And we have Indiana Sports Talk that will air on Friday and Saturday’s from 9:30p to Midnight,” White said. “And we still have plenty of NASCAR and Reds baseball left to round out the fall season of sports here on WSLM.”
Boil Water Advisory for EW Rural Water
East Washington Rural Water has issued a boil water advisory until further notice.
According to Superintendent Nathan Risen, an eight-inch main break occurred in the Canton area on Saturday.
Those affected are between US 150 and State Road 56.
WSLM will keep our listeners and followers informed as we receive new information.
IU Names Seymour Native Teri Moren Head Women’s Basketball Coach
Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass announced the hiring of Seymour, Ind., native Teri Moren as head coach of the IU women’s basketball program.
He called this afternoon to offer her the position and she accepted immediately.
Moren still holds records at Seymour High School, was an Indiana All Star, a four-year letterwinner and two-year starter at Purdue under women’s basketball hall of famer Lin Dunn and is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
After holding assistant coaching positions at Butler and Northwestern, Moren served as head coach at the University of Indianapolis and as the associate head coach at Georgia Tech. She spent the last five seasons as head coach at Indiana State University where she led the Sycamores to their first 20-win season in eight years in 2013-14.
“We are thrilled that Teri Moren will be leading Indiana women’s basketball,” Glass said. “Not unlike our recent head baseball coaching search, we were very pleased with the extremely high caliber of coaches who expressed interest in this position.
Teri emerged early in the process as a lead candidate and I am confident with her at the helm, the future of Indiana women’s basketball is very bright.”
An avid IU fan growing up in Seymour, Moren was selected as head coach after a comprehensive national search led by Glass who worked in consultation with the Search Advisory Committee, consisting of key administrators, support staff and junior guard Nicole Bell, who served as the student-athlete representative to the committee.
Glass and the committee reviewed dozens of potential candidates, performed extensive research and reference checks on a handful or so, and had three sitting head coaches, including Teri, on campus to interview with Glass and the committee.
“This is an unbelievable day for me and my family,” Moren said. “It is a dream come true. I’m an Indiana kid who dreamed of having an opportunity like this and today it is happening for me. I’m very grateful and blessed to become a part of the IU family.”
In her four years at Indiana State, Moren guided the Sycamores from a middle of the pack Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) team in her first year, to a conference championship program in 2013-14, including a postseason tournament appearance in the WNIT.
Last year, point guard Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir earned MVC Newcomer of the Year recognition as senior Anna Munn was named MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Twice in her four years, Moren led the Sycamores to a WNIT berth while six players have earned All-MVC honors during her time at ISU.
ISU finished with a 20-12 record in 2013-14, the program’s first 20-win season in eight years and just the fifth 20-win campaign in school history. With a 14-4 record in conference games, Moren’s Sycamores won a share of the regular season MVC title and earned the No. 1 overall seed in the MVC Tournament.
Moren led Indiana State to six-straight victories and seven wins in eight games to end the regular season last year to secure a share of the MVC crown. It was only the third time in program history that ISU won a regular season conference championship and first since 2006.
In 2012-13, Moren’s Sycamores finished with an 18-13 record, the program’s most wins in six years at the time. ISU went 10-8 in conference play, its most MVC victories in four seasons, to finish fourth in the MVC standings.
The Sycamores would go on to play in the WNIT for the first time since 2006. Moren’s 2012-13 team set a program record for fewest points allowed per game (55.5 ppg) while holding 10 opponents to less than 50 points.
In her second year at ISU in 2011-12, Moren led the Sycamores to a fifth place finish in the MVC. During her first year at the helm in 2010-11, Moren won the most games by a first year coach in ISU history as the Sycamores played into the semifinals of the 2011 MVC Tournament.
Prior to ISU, Moren was associate head coach at Georgia Tech. In each of her three years there, the Yellow Jackets made an NCAA Tournament appearance and won 22 or more games each season.
Moren began her head coaching career just up the road at the University of Indianapolis. She spent seven seasons at UIndy beginning in 2000-01. The 2003 WBCA Region 4 Coach of the Year in NCAA Division II, her teams went to three consecutive NCAA Division II Tournaments and earned Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles in 2002-03. That squad finished with a 29-3 record overall and an 18-2 mark in conference play.
