BishopAccountability.org
	Cheers, Jeers and Tears: Have Have a Nice Holiday Courier & Press September 1, 2007 http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/sep/01/cheers-jeers-and-tears-have-have-a-nice-holiday/ Cheers for this three-day Labor Day weekend, to be enjoyed by union and nonunion Tri-Staters alike. We do offer a special cheers for those in labor who continue to keep alive a tradition dating to 1886, when the first Labor Day celebration in Indiana was held in Princeton. It moves around from year to year, and it being held this year in Princeton and Gibson County. ••• If it is true, then jeers to those who would attempt to phony- up public comments so as to influence the federal Department of Transportation's decision on whether five Southern Indiana counties will remain in the Central time zone or return to the Eastern time zone. The Associated Press reported in a story this past week that two letters against changing back to Eastern time listed hundreds of apparent forged names. One of them was on a letterhead of the St. Raphael Catholic Church in Dubois County and appeared to include a typewritten list of parishioners names. A priest at the church said the letter was not authorized. ••• Tears fall for the many alleged victims of the late Monsignor Othmar Schroeder, founding pastor of Holy Family Parish in Jasper, Ind. Bishop Gerald Gettelfinder of the Evansville Catholic Diocese said this past week that reports continue to come in of alleged sexual abuse by the priest, who died 19 years ago. If the allegations are true, then what a horrible thing for an individual entrusted with the moral leadership of a church to have done. ••• Cheers to the city of Jasper for doing it right when it comes to the arts. In a remarkable accomplishment, Jasper has won the Governor's Arts Award for Community Arts Support for the second time. Jasper is the only city in Indiana and one of the few in the nation to make the local arts commission a full governmental department. ••• Cheers for the news that Evansville will soon again have direct air service with Indianapolis. The Evansville-Vanderburgh Airport Authority has approved a deal with Massachusetts-based Cape Air for the service. Some of the details, such as fares, have to be worked out, but the service would be provided in nine-passenger, twin-engine Cessna 420s. We have long complained about the lack of a direct modern highway between Indianapolis and the state's largest city, Evansville. Ditto for air service. This is good news.
Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.