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Today's Bible Verse If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God have heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Psalms 66: 18-19 Snnrtc Weather mmm fflBT VU aolfer Blake There is a 40 nerrent rhanre young group at Vincennes OpenBI of thunderstorms today, with a high of85A8 Vincennes Indiana's First Newspaper-Since 1 804 Commercial bun 'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is II Cor. 3:17 Friday, July 29, 2016 $1.00 jl r.jjV mm Work visible proof River Walk a reality Mayor: Progress has gotten a lot of positive comments don't think the weather has slowed them down much at all. Culbertson Boulevard has been closed to motorists and pedestrians since work began in May, and Sprague said residents have been good about keeping their distance. Right now, he said masonry crews are on site placing some colored concrete at Culbertson's intersection with Hart Street as well as putting up the stone facade at the other end for the new lookout area over the Wabash River.

SEE REALITYPAGE A2 ress thaf being made. "And I've gotten a lot of positive comments, too. There's a lot of people excited to see that project is finally going to be done." Yochum said he is planning a big public celebration for when the project is wrapped up early this fall. City engineer John Sprague said crews with Newburgh's Ragle Inc. have been able to stay on schedule despite some recent wet and very hot weather.

Because there isn't much dirt work involved in the project, which is basically a pedestrian-friendly sprucing up of Culbertson Boulevard, Sprague said the process hasn't been slowed much by the weather. "The weather plays a big part when there is a lot of soil exposed, but there isn't with this project," he said. "They're basically just removing and replacing concrete there's not a lot of mud to contend with, so they've been able to keep going." "They have a good pace going right now," Sprague said of the Ragle crews. "I Crews are building a stone platform at Main Street and Culbertson Boulevard, work that offers a measure of hope and relief that the long-awaited River Walk is at long last becoming a reality. And after years of waiting, Mayor Joe Yochum has never been more grateful to see a few stones put into place.

"It's so exciting," he said. "I really like looking down that way and seeing the prog VINCENNES POLICE Luking hoping to fill gap in manpower If conditional offers succeed, four new officers may join force by this fall Sun-Commercial photo by Jess Cohen Indiana Military Museum volunteers Jake Jacoby and Chip Shanklin examine the insignia on a World War ll-era Soviet tank while museum curator Jim Osborne takes a break from shooting photos of the weapon's arrival on Thursday afternoon. The tank was delivered to the museum, 71 5 S. Sixth after a 750-mile trip from the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. The city police department is still short three officers, and with another set to retire after the first of the year, chief Dusty Luking is anxious about closing the manpower gap in his department.

"Before this, we were fortunate for a long time almost four years to be at full staff. Then we had a couple leave, then a couple more," he said. "It always comes around sooner or 'The coup de grace1 WWII-era Soviet tank added to IMM collection 'Things have tightened up. We're not able to let officers take time off. It makes everything more difficult, for sure." later.

We know that." The Vincennes Police Department has been down three officers for months, and recent attempts to hire two trained Chief Dusty Luking Vincennes Police Department Sun-Commercial photo by Jess Cohen Indiana Military Museum curator Jim Osborne, left, explains to Don Jones Jr. the process volunteers will take in restoring the World War ll-era Soviet tank the museum has received from the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. Jones, the president of Pioneer Oil 400 Main provided the transportation to bring the tank to Vincennes. WWII, was the culmination of a long journey up from Triangle, Virginia, home to the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Osborne said the IMM has collaborated with that museum in the past and he's been working for awhile to try to Outside the Indiana Military Museum, 715 S.

Sixth on Thursday afternoon, museum volunteers and military history buffs were abuzz with anticipation as they waited for the arrival of get this newest yet another unique addition to the facility's collection. Finally, a day after it was 'Tor us to have something like this here in Vincennes is truly a blessing. Don Jones Jr. president, Pioneer Oil handful of equipment up to Vincennes. The tank, Osborne said, is "the coup de grace." "The whole process has taken about said.

'There police officers from other departments fell through, the chief said. So administrators had to go back to the drawing board, and in the meantime, Luking announced that long-time officer Dustin Holt would retire after the first of the year. "Things have tightened up," Luking said. 'We're not able to let officers take time off. "It makes everything more difficult, for sure." The police department's Merit Commission is charged with putting together an applicant pool from which Luking can draw for qualified candidates.

That process is a long, tedious one, with applicants put through a whole gamut of evaluations, from an agility test to a polygraph and much in between. Once an applicant gets through local testing, they are sent for even further state testing, specifically medical and psychological evaluations. SEE GAPPAGE A2 supposed to arrive, they caught their two years," he first glimpse of the massive, World War II-era Soviet tank as the flat-bed semi hauling it to its new home base turned onto Sixth from Willow Street. "I can see it!" museum curator Jim Osborne said with a wide smile and a delighted chuckle, camera at the ready. "Here it comes!" The arrival of the tank, in addition to other pieces of artillery from the Spanish-American War, WWI and was a lot of paperwork, permit after permit after permit.

The tank is the culmination of all of that." After the war, the tank eventually wound up in the Korean Peninsula and it ultimately was brought back from that part of the world after the Korean War in the early 1950s. SEE GRACEPAGE A2 Sun-Commercial photo by Jess Cohen Indiana Military Museum curator Jim Osborne points out to Don Jones Jr. some of the unique features of the World War ll-era Soviet tank the museum has received from the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. Jones is the president of Pioneer Oil 400 Main St. The Indiana Military Museum is open daily from 10 a.m.

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