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Mayor Thomas Broderick, Jr. City of Anderson 120 E. 8th Street

Anderson, IN 46016 (765) 648-6000

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A Message from the Mayor

Earlier this month, we recognized the creative efforts of 43 teachers in our community with awards from the Mayor’s Ball Grant Program. This year we were able to award over $50,000 to help support a wide range of creative pro-jects including: participation in national high school calculus competitions LEGO robotics kits support for theater and the arts electronics kits for middle school students, and classroom libraries. Over the past four years, more than $170,000 has been generated in our community to support this important event. Over 150 educators have been the recipients of grants ranging from $2,000 to $500. If you would like to help support this program, please reach out to my office at (765) 648-6000. The City of Anderson was proud to provide primary funding for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration at the Paramount Theater. The keynote speaker was Derick Grant, a former Harlem Globetrotter who is married to Anderson native Carly Clendenen. Derick works with players from elementary school to the NBA on basketball skill development and has ap-peared on numerous television shows and has delivered over 150 keynote speaking engagements. The City of Anderson was also proud to serve as a major sponsor of the 12th annual Dancing Like The Stars competition. More than 1,400 people attended the sold out event featuring local celebrities, professional dancers and a number of local employer dance teams. Finally, inside you’ll find additional information about several upcoming events including the summer concert series.

What’s Happening in February

2 Groundhog’s Day

8 Christian Center Annual “Walk A Mile In My Shoes” Event (AU Reardon Audito-rium)

13 Madison Co. Visitors & Convention Bureau Annual Luncheon (Hoosier Park)

14 Happy Valentine’s Day

15 Anderson Symphony Or-chestra Mozart’s Magnifi-cent Voyage (Paramount Theater)

17 Presidents Day (City Building Closed)

25 Registration Opens for Parks Department “Spring Break Camp for Kids”

28 AAMP Cohort 6 Gradua-

tion

Save The Date!

May 2 May 16

Arbor Day and Earth Day (Shadyside Park) Citywide Cleanup

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AndersonNow Summer Concert Series To

Return and Expand

Mayor Thomas Broderick has an-nounced the return and expansion of the summer concert series for 2020. Two additional concerts have been add-ed to this year’s line up and the series will run until October 2. The series proved to be one of the city’s most popular Parks Department events with several thousand people attending the concerts throughout the spring and summer months. The 2020 City of Anderson Summer concert series will again be held in the Dickmann Town Center and is free to everyone. Concerts will include some of the area’s most popular musical group. Award winning artists Cook & Belle will kick off the series with their powerful mix of country, soul, 60s, 70s and gos-pel. For more information, contact the City of Anderson Parks Department at (765) 648-6858.

AAMP Workforce Training Program Launches 6th Cohort Group

Mayor Thomas Broderick welcomed the 6th Cohort Group of the Anderson Advanced Manufacturing Program (AAMP) on Friday, January 31 in the City Council Chambers. The program provides training a wide array of advanced manufacturing skills as well as interviewing skills, teamwork skills, continuous improvement and lean manufacturing basics. AAMP has grown to include ten local logistics and manufacturing employers including NTN, Sirmax, NTK, Hy-Pro, Carter Express, Interstate Warehousing, ERTL Enterprises, Precision Strip, Barber Manufacturing and Owens-Illinois. Participants go through a rigorous 4-week training program and are paid $10.00 per hour for a 40 hour week. At the end of the program, local manufacturing employers interview the candidates for job openings in their respective loca-tions. If you are interested in working up to a better job or just want to find out more about the AAMP program, please contact Marc Slayton at mslayton@cityofanderson.com or at (765) 602-2582. AAMP Applications can be found at https://www.andersonecondev.com/…/AAMP-Work-Readiness-Initi… or the AAMP Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AAMP-Employment-Training-438951876672786/

Future AAMP Training Groups are scheduled for: March 6 April 10 May 25

2020 Summer Concert Series Schedule

Cook & Belle June 5 My Yellow Rickshaw August 7

Toy Factory June 12 Carl Storie August 21

Kandis & Friends June 26 Living Proof September 4

Seth Cook July 10 Lemon Wheel September 18

Magnolia Soul July 24 Mank & Sass October 2

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AndersonNow Mayor Awards $50,000 in Grants to

Local Educators Mayor Thomas Broderick, Jr. recently made the hopes and

wishes of 43 local educators become a reality by visiting them to

present checks for innovative classroom projects through the

Mayor’s Grants for Teachers Program. Now beginning its fifth

year, the funds are raised through private donations and the an-

nual Mayor’s Ball in order to provide materials, field trips and oth-

er educational opportunities to students within Anderson. Teach-

ers submit their ideas through the grant application process in

October and November. The program is open to any educator

who teaches in any school within the Anderson city limits. This

year’s awards ranged from $2,000 to $380.

A wide variety of projects were funded through this year’s

competition. Robotics, electronics, math and science, arts and

drama and reading development were popular among the appli-

cants.

Brandon Bailey, a science teacher at Highland Middle

School plans to use his funds to purchase 30 electronics kits and

supplies to have his student build a series and parallel circuit.

They will also build a lightbulb and the circuitry to operate a fan.

He also plans to have his students build and test a timer, a siren

and a light sensor. He also hopes to have two electricians as

guest speakers to provide career awareness to his 7th graders at

HMS. Like Brandon, many teachers plan to share their materials

with other classrooms and teachers maximizing the impact of the

funds.

Jodi Thompson plans to use her award to expand the

hands-on STEM materials in her second grade classroom at Valley

Grove Elementary School. Her students will have access to STEM

learning centers, computer coding kits, LEGO robotics and other

supplies.

Sara Filler at East Side Intermediate School plans to order

new book sets for her 5th Grade Literature Discussion Groups to

be shared among 21 teachers at the school.

Karen Sipes, who splits her teaching time between High-

land Middle School and Anderson Intermediate School,

Brandon Bailey, Highland Middle School, $2,000 Richard Ziuchkovski, Anderson High School, $2,000 Treva Bostic, Department of Behavioral Ser-vices, $2,000 Amber Boyd, Anderson High School, $2,000 Joshua Dillard, Anderson High School, $2,000 Carle Lee, Tenth Street Elementary, $2,000 David Perrel, Anderson High School, $2,000 Karen Sipes, Anderson Intermediate, $2,000 Nicole Williams, Erskine Elementary, $2,000 Pamela Jackson, Anderson Elementary, $1,997 Pamela Hubble, Edgewood Elementary, $1,970 Colleen Murphy-Prange, Edgewood Elemen-tary, $1,910 Captain Neil May, Anderson High School, $1,800 Cierra Gooding, Anderson Elementary, $1,636 Sonia Caldwell, Anderson Elementary, $1,500 Sara Filler, Anderson Intermediate, $1,500 Stacia Partezana, Anderson High School, $1,500 Natalie Britton, Valley Grove Elementary, $1,380 Shalimar Foster, Erskine Elementary, $1,300 Dana Dickerson and Erica Gephardt, Ander-son Elementary, $1,200 Adam Roberson, Highland Middle School, $1,000 Heather Smith, Valley Grove Elementary, $1,000 Susan Taylor, Anderson Intermediate, $1,000 Kristy Sroufe, K-2 Alternative, $995 Judith Kimmer, Tenth Street Elementary, $865 Jessica Gray, Tenth Street Elementary, $856 Lisa Hartsook, Anderson Elementary, $850 Schneida Burgess, Edgewood Elementary, $830 (Continued on next page)

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AndersonNow Mayor Awards $50,000 in Grants to

Local Educators (continued)

will provide her students with a total immersion in theatrical experience. Students will write, direct, design sets and cos-tumes, and serve as actors in original one-act plays they de-velop and perform for the public. Her project was entitled Curtain Up! Building Character through Theater Arts as Play-wrights, Players and Producers. Last year was the fourth year for the event and the grant awards. Proceeds from the Mayor’s Ball are used to advance local educational opportunities for Anderson students. Since its beginning, more than $170,000 has been awarded to more than 150 educators in our community.

Milissa Crum, Anderson Intermediate, $800 Debra King, Anderson Elementary, $800 Ashley Loffer, Erskine Elementary, $750 Autumn Pratt, Erskine Elementary, $750 Jessica Wirsch, Southview Preschool Center, $750 Elizabeth Knost, Anderson High School, $650 Stephanie Surface and Pam Delaplane, Anderson Intermediate, $600 Kyle Douglas, COMPASS, $500 Julie Morse, COMPASS, $500 Jodi Thompson, Valley Grove Elementary, $500 Lauren Kirschner, Erskine Elementary, $475 Renee Bynum, Erskine Elementary, $450 Kathleen Plocinski, Holy Cross School, $400 Jennifer DeLillo, Holy Cross School, $350 Jennifer Myrick, Edgewood Elementary, $330

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City Sponsors Annual MLK, Jr. Community Celebration

The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Wide Celebration was held at the Paramount Theater on Monday, January 20. Once again, the City of An-derson served as the primary financial sponsor of the event which featured Derick Grant as the keynote speaker. Grant played basketball professionally for nine years, eight of them for the World Famous Har-lem Globetrotters. Grant played college basketball at the College of New Jersey where he finished with 1,542 career points and was an NABC All-American. Derick received his Bachelors Degree in

Business Leadership, graduating with a Magna cum Laude honors, and completed his Masters degree in Organizational Management. He is married to Ander-son native Carly Clendenen. Mayor Thomas Broderick Jr. said the annual event helps to bring people together from across our com-munity. “The civil rights movement put us on the path of equality for all,” he said. “As Dr. King dreamed we are now judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin.” The celebration began in Anderson in 1980. A re-ception was held after the event in the Paramount Ballroom.

Downtown Skating Rink Winds Up

Second Successful Season

More than 13,000 people have taken advantage of

the downtown skating rink in Dickmann Town Center

in just two short seasons. “We are thrilled with the

popularity of our downtown skating rink,” said Mayor

Thomas Broderick. “We are already looking forward

to next season and the Parks Department is hard at

work making plans to make it even more popular!”

The rink, along with the Santa House and the down-

town Christmas Festival are part of the city’s quality of

life initiative.