Articles by Mike Rhodes

Business, Health June 23, 2015

Medical Education Program Receives 100 Percent Match for Sixth Consecutive Year

Medical Education recruitment season can be a stressful time for residency programs as well as applicants trying to find the perfect match. Thousands of applicants apply for only a select number of available positions. For the sixth consecutive year, the Medical Education Residency program at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital completed a 100 percent match by filling all 28 positions out of 3,260 applicants. This is the largest number of applicants in the history of the IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital Medical Education programs. IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital Medical Education Residents, 2015-16 Academic Year: First Year Family Medicine …

Business June 22, 2015

Ontario Systems Announces Revenue Growth, 12% Workforce Expansion, Predicts Further Gains

Ontario Systems, a leading accounts receivable technology and services provider, today announced it expanded its workforce by more than 12 percent in 2014, taking advantage of a bullish market position that has contributed to the company’s growth after a number of successes on the part of its customers. The company shored up stability with 80 percent of its 2014 revenue earned through recurring sources and enjoyed a breakout year in the healthcare market with a 30 percent revenue gain in that sector. “After a year of exciting and profitable growth in 2014, we are perhaps even more pleased with the…

Education, Misc June 21, 2015

Inaugural Morry Mannies Radio Scholarships Announced

Two local high school students are the inaugural recipients of the Morry Mannies Woof Boom Radio Scholarship. Each nominee was very deserving for their achievements athletically and in the classroom. It was a thrill to watch these student athletes compete with emotion, sportsmanship, and character all year long. This year’s winners are: Riley Miller (Yorktown High School) has been awarded this year’s Morry Mannies Woof Boom Radio Scholarship. Riley was a part of two extremely successful teams on the field/court. He set a school record for receiving yards in a season for the sectional champion football team. Riley was also an integral…

Business, Non-Profit June 19, 2015

Cintas Building Purchased for Community Collaboration

By Terry Whitt Bailey The Cintas building has a new owner. The building which sits adjacent to Muncie’s core downtown district is now owned and operated by Sustainable Muncie Corporation, a non-profit entity organized to focus on the economic development of Muncie. This Cintas program is focused to attract and support makers of all kinds in a destination facility that promotes and enhances innovation, creativity, learning, development, and selling in order to stimulate and expand economic vitality. The building, which still bears the Cintas name, would allow the community development corporation to foster an environment of collaboration and create conditions…

Entertainment June 18, 2015

Free “Moonlight Movies” Return to DWNTWN

Free family movies return to DWNTWN! Bring your family and friends to Canan Commons for four fabulous movies and family pre-show jubilees! Themed family activities will be provided before the movies each month. Canan Commons is located in the 500 block of south Walnut Street near the roundabout. Guests are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chairs and bug spray. Vendors will be on-site with light snacks. Visit www.downtownmuncie.org/moonlight-movies for all the details and save the date for the whole series: June 27 – Muppets Most Wanted July 11 – The Wizard of Oz August 29 – Cars September 26 – Guardians…

Business June 16, 2015

Heartland Business Center Means Big Business

The Heartland Business Center just off I-69 near Daleville has had a most interesting economic development metamorphosis. The massive 220,000 square-foot building was the former home of an outlet mall. Two decades later, more than 700 people drive there every day, not to shop, but to work at cutting-edge businesses like Concentrix (formerly IBM), Element, First Merchant’s Data Center, Indiana Finance Company, Boyce Forms/Systems, Keystone Software and Komputrol Software. Through the work of Muncie-Delaware County Economic Development Alliance, the structure is approximately 85 percent occupied and exceeding even the grandest hopes of the shopping mecca that was originally intended. Even more…

Business June 12, 2015

Indiana Retains A-Level Performance in Advanced Manufacturing

Indiana is among the nation’s elite in manufacturing, logistics, tax climate and global reach, says a new report from Ball State University and Conexus Indiana. The 2015 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card, issued by Conexus Indiana, the state’s advanced manufacturing and logistics initiative, and Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER), found that Indiana has been leading the nation in these key industrial sectors for the last seven years. “Indiana successfully withstood the Great Recession and is making amazing strides in expanding its manufacturing and logistics sectors,” said Michael Hicks, director of CBER and the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics at…

Education, Non-Profit June 12, 2015

Creviston Scholarships Awarded to Cowan High School Students

The Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County, Inc., has announced that Bryan P. Ellis, Kelsey Harrington and Gentry Logan Stayton are recipients of the Max V. and Nellie C. Creviston Scholarships. These four-year renewable scholarships are awarded to graduates of Cowan High School who wish to attend a post-high school institution. Preference is given to students entering the field of engineering. These scholarships honor Max V. Creviston and Nellie Cathrine Creviston. Eight of the Creviston’s nine children and many of their grandchildren graduated from Cowan High School. Ellis, the son of Phillip and Melissa Ellis, plans to attend Anderson…

Education, Non-Profit June 11, 2015

“Music For All” Summer Symposium Held in Muncie

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, Music for All, one of the most respected non-profit organizations in support of music education, recently hosted one of the nation’s largest summer music camps for students and teachers. The Music for All Summer Symposium, took place at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in late June and gave students and educators the opportunity to expand on their musicality, build on their leadership skills, and make connections to last a lifetime. Presented by Yamaha Corporation of America, over 1,000 high school band students, orchestra students, and high school, middle school and future band directors from across the…

Education, Positivity June 7, 2015

Our Economic Future Depends Upon Early Childhood Education

By: Jay Julian In the business of economic development, you hear a lot about shell buildings, TIF arrangements, and state incentives. In fact, these are some of the fundamentals of a good economic development strategy. But how often do you hear the economic development community talking about toddlers or the level of pre-school education? Not often. And that’s just one more fact that differentiates Muncie and Delaware County from the rest of the state and even the nation. Consider this: By age 5, a child’s educational blueprint has been cast. Some say it happens by age 3. That means there…

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