Monroe County Primary Election
Election volunteer Charity Seaborn delivers the ballots from precinct Perry 15 Tuesday to the Curry Building.
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Election volunteer Charity Seaborn delivers the ballots from precinct Perry 15 Tuesday to the Curry Building.
Monroe County Democratic Party Chairman Rick Dietz records primary election results Tuesday at the Monroe County Democratic Headquarters.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Bill Boyd owns a family farm that belonged to his wife’s grandparents, who purchased the property in 1919 and lived on it their entire lives. Boyd was one community member in attendance at an Anti-I-69 Community Picnic on Sunday at the Reverend Ernest D. Butler Park.Boyd said he challenges anyone to find another piece of property just like his, with history and emotional attachment connected to it.Boyd’s farm would be acquired and developed by the Indiana Department of Transportation’s “I-69 Evansville to Indianapolis” plan to extend the interstate highway through Monroe County. The proposed plan could, according to a study conducted by the Federal Highway Administration and the INDOT, “increase accessibility for southwest Indiana businesses to labor, suppliers and consumer markets.”“To see what they are doing to the family farm, not just us, but all the farms in Daviess County, Gibson County, Pike County, is just a tragedy,” Boyd said. “We are finding out that a landowner, a citizen of this country of ours, does not have any rights to protect their property. You think you do, but when it comes down to it, if the state wants to put a highway through it, you’re just out of luck.” Boyd said he and his family have been fighting, along with Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads, for about 15 years against a proposal to build a new interstate. He said he has submitted about 100 Freedom of Information Act requests to INDOT, but the department has responded about half of the time with the requested information. “They hide the things they don’t want the public to know,” Boyd said. Other attendees of the Anti-I-69 Community Picnic brought up environmental concerns regarding the development of the road, including possible damage to farmland, forest and wetland, as well as potential damage to caves, quality of groundwater and wildlife habitats. “I know (the highway’s development) would affect the areas where the Indiana bat lives,” resident Corinne Sereni said. Sereni said she hopes community discussions like Sunday’s picnic will form an infrastructure for more support to fight against projects she views as detrimental to the community. She said most supporters of the project have been promised safer highways and more jobs, but similar projects elsewhere have not always had these results.“I think these are things that need to be explored more as far as what has happened in other communities where it’s actually been the opposite,” Sereni said. “The promises of development ... have actually done the opposite, taking money out of the community and bringing in big corporations, and that money doesn’t go back into the local economy.”
A banner hangs at the Anti-I-69 Community Picnic at Reverend Ernest D. Butler Park on Sunday.
Bill Boyd discusses his sentiments about the proposed I-69 development through Monroe County at the Anti-I-69 Community Picnic at Reverend Ernest D. Butler Park on Sunday. Behind the community members hung a banner with an illustration of how much the development is projected to cost.
Patrons paint during a class at Wine and Canvas on Saturday.
Abbi Cord gives advice to students at a class at Wine and Canvas on Saturday. Cord is an IU alumna who graduated last year with a degree in Art Education.
Sophomore Sarah Howell paints during a class at Wine and Canvas on Saturday.
A painting by Dawn Adams hangs by the window Thursday at The Venue Fine Art and Gifts.
Paintings by Dawn Adams hang Thursday at The Venue Fine Art and Gifts.
Postcards featuring paintings by Dawn Adams sit on display Thursday at The Venue Fine Art and Gifts.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Susan Wambugu stood beside a potted pear tree and scattered shovels. “You can tell how many seeds are in an apple, but you can’t tell how many apples are in a seed,” Wambugu said.She compared the fruit-bearing trees to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Wangari Maathai. The African Students Association planted three trees Friday at Hilltop Garden and Nature Center, just past Eigenmann Hall, in her memory and that of two other African women who were awarded the Prize in 2011.Maathai died Sept. 25, 2011, but the Kenyan political and environmental activist left a legacy as the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree and for founding the Green Belt Movement, a non-government organization focused on environmental conservation and women’s rights. She was named the laureate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.Sophomore Rasheed Ojerinde, president of the ASA, said it is significant that the group planted three trees, and that they will produce fruit for years to come. Each tree represents a strong woman who has positively affected the lives of Africans, Ojerinde said.The first pear tree, planted in honor of Maathai, is a Bartlett Pear Tree and will germinate the other two for years to come.Another tree was planted in honor of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was the first woman elected president in Africa, and the third and final pear tree was planted in honor of activist Leymah Gbowee,“Just as these trees will yield fruit, the citizens of Kenya are reaping the benefits of Maathai’s work,” Ojerinde said.
Graduate student Susan Wambugu speaks to volunteers before a tree planting in honor of African political and environmental activists Friday at Hilltop Garden and Nature Center.
Sophomores Carlye Peterson and Sarah Isaacson play with Carmen, a Bloomington Animal Shelter puppy, Thursday in Dunn Meadow.
Petunia, a Bloomington Animal Shelter puppy, plays in Dunn Meadow.
Sophomores Carlye Peterson and Sarah Isaacson play with Carmen, a Bloomington Animal Shelter puppy, Thursday in Dunn Meadow.
A representative of the Teter Quad accepts a first place award Thursday at the Sample Gates in the Spring 2012 IUB Campus Energy Challenge. The Teter Quad won the award for water conservation in a residence hall.
Senior Rob Waller holds the award that the Ashton Center won Thursday at the Sample Gates in the Spring 2012 IUB Campus Energy Challenge competition. The Ashton Center took the award for conserving the most electricity in a residence hall.
Bloomington Animal Shelter puppy, Charlie, is carried at Rent-a-Puppy Thursday in Dunn Meadow.
Senior Alex Doak plays with Howie, a Bloomington Animal Shelter puppy, Thursday in Dunn Meadow.