Melody Hill est une census-designated place située dans le comté de Vanderburgh, dans l’État de l'Indiana, aux États-Unis. Lors du recensement de 2020, elle compte 3 689 habitants.
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Melody Hill is a census-designated place in Center Township, Vanderburgh County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 census, Melody Hill had a population of 3,689.
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The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, lost control and crashed shortly after takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the rear, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to control the overweight aircraft.
Head coach Bobby Watson was the only coach on board the flight as his assistant coaches were on scouting assignments at the time. Athletic director Jim Byers had planned to board the plane but stayed behind to interview a candidate for the baseball program. Four of the passengers were still breathing when found by rescuers, with three dying on the scene and one dying hours after the accident. The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was 18-year-old freshman David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. Two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead. After consideration, the rest of the season was cancelled.
A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the players who were killed, including Furr. Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president Wallace Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise." A memorial is also at the Ford Center, where the Purple Aces currently play their home games.
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Hooker-Ensle-Pierce House is a historic home located in Center Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The original log cabin was built in 1839, and subsequently expanded with a second log cabin connected by a breezeway. The breezeway was enclosed and the house expanded in the 1880s, and the housed remodeled in 1917 and 1937. The two-story dwelling has a side-gable roof and full-width, one-story front porch.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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WCFY-LP is a radio station broadcasting a Christian contemporary radio format. Licensed to Evansville, Indiana, United States, the station serves the Evansville area. The station is currently owned by Christian Fellowship Church Inc.
The station originally broadcast on 102.7 FM, but was allowed to change frequencies in early 2009 due to interference from nearby low-power stations broadcasting on 102.7 FM. The license for this frequency change was not issued by the FCC until October 14, 2014.
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The Southern Indiana Career & Technical Center is a high school-level institution that provides advanced education to meet the demand in the areas of agriculture, business and marketing, family and consumer sciences, health careers, and trade and industry arts to the students in Indiana's Area Career & Technical District #46 consisting of nine school district and corporations in Gibson, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties in Southwestern Indiana. 90.7 FM WPSR, which used to broadcast from Central High School, now broadcasts from the center.
To provide easier access to these services to the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation along with the other eight districts the facility was constructed outside the city of Evansville. In terms of enrollment, the EVSC has one of the largest CTE programs in the State of Indiana. Other than the EVSC the Southern Indiana Career and Technical Center draws Students from the following School Districts in Southwestern Indiana.
Gibson County
East Gibson
North Gibson
South Gibson
Posey County
MSD of Mt. Vernon
MSD of North Posey
Spencer County
South Spencer
Warrick County
Warrick County
The new facility is located on Lynch Road just east of U.S. 41. The Southern Indiana Career & Technical Center also draws students from schools such as Mater Dei High School, Reitz Memorial High School, Evansville Christian High School, and many more.
The Southern Indiana Career & Technical Center offers classes within 6 career pathways: Communications, Construction, Transportation, Manufacturing, Public Service, and Architecture, Engineering & Computer Technology.
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