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All but 10 residents

tested positive

Damage from storm widespread

This utility pole in downtown Marissa was knocked down. Damage to the Doug White Lumber building can be seen in the background.

This garage at the Cole Phoenix home in Ava was destroyed.

High winds Monday raked area from Marissa to Ava

A severe thunderstorm that blew through the lo-cal area Monday evening, August 10 caused wide-spread damage to trees, but also resulted in some damage to structures.It appears the hardest hit

areas were the Marissa, Eden, Cutler and Ava ar-eas.Packing wind gusts es-

timated at more than 60 miles an hour, the storm peeled metal siding off a lumber storage shed at Doug White Lumber and knocked down numerous power poles in Marissa.Ameren Illinois spokes-

man Brian Bretsch said reports of power outages began coming in from the Marissa area around 7 p.m. and continued for a couple of hours.Power was also out in

parts of Percy and Cutler and was not restored until around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.Bretsch there were out-

ages throughout the Ame-ren service area and at one point effected more than 60,000 customers on a line stretching from La-Salle in the north central part of the state to Anna.He said crews were called

on from as far as Wiscon-sin to repair the damage.The winds buffeted Cut-

ler taking down tree limbs and large trees causing damage to several struc-tures. One tree landed on a metal shed, which dam-aged the contents inside.Another fell on a vacant

house which was once the

home of the Jack Caby family.The line of storms contin-

ued to push to the south-east and walloped the Ava area around 7:30. There, winds demolished a ga-rage at the Cole Phoenix residence. No one was home at the time.Phoenix said he had fin-

ished construction on the garage July 4 of this year.A large plate glass win-

dow at the Brick Wall Boutique in Ava’s down-town business district was broke. Owner Amy Boland said it appears a small decorative solar light was blown through the glass.Ava firefighters reported

seeing what was thought to be two funnel clouds dipping out of the clouds at the height of the storm.Just outside of Ava a pro-

duce stand owned by the Ruben Mast family was demolished. The business remained open by using an alternative building.A tree was blown onto

Route 153 north of Coul-terville and was struck by a vehicle, but no one was reported injured.A large advertising bill-

board was also toppled in Eden.A spokesman with the

National Weather Ser-vice in St. Louis said the storms developed with a cold front and low pres-sure system in Nebraska and Iowa. He said as the afternoon progressed the

Sale of county-owned house becomes issue in Perry County

This house, nicknamed the white house and located in Pinckneyville, is owned by Perry County and is primarily used by the sheriff’s office.

By Travis LottThe potential sale of a

county-owned property is a major point of contention in Perry County.The topic was brought

up for discussion during the August 6 meeting of the Perry County Board of Commissioners.The property in ques-

tion, nicknamed the white house, sits at the corner of East Mulberry and South Locust streets behind the Perry County Jail.When Perry County

sought advice from con-sulting firm Bellwether of Bloomington during last

year’s financial crisis, one of the recommendations was to sell off excess coun-ty property.However, Sheriff Steve

Bareis contends that the white house is not excess property, and has a multi-tude of uses for the Perry County Sheriff’s Office.The property was origi-

nally purchased by the county’s building commis-sion and transferred to county ownership about 15 years ago.Bareis said the house is,

among other things, the primary storage facility for the county’s evidence

from criminal investiga-tions. He said he is re-quired by law to keep the evidence, much of which is in digital format, in a temperature controlled environment. He said there are about 80 boxes of evi-dence being housed at that location.“For an investigator to

walk there, it’s 75 feet away,” Bareis said. “To sell the white house would im-pair the operations of the sheriff’s office.”If the property is sold,

commissioners suggested

Virus outbreak worsens in P’ville nursing facility

By Travis LottThe outbreak at a nursing

home in Pinckneyville has taken a disastrous turn in the past week, and all but 10 of the residents have now tested positive for the coronavirus.Last week, it was reported

that 17 residents and five employees had tested posi-tive for COVID-19. The out-break began when two em-ployees had contracted the virus outside the facility and unwittingly brought it into the facility before experiencing symptoms.After another mass test-

ing last Friday, 20 more residents and five more staff were confirmed to have the virus, meaning a total of 37 residents out of the total 47 residents at the facility had the virus. Some of the original group have begun to recover and be released from isolation.Tragically, over the past

week, two of those resi-dents died.Merle Taylor, operations

manager for WLC Manage-ment, the firm that owns and operates the facility, could only describe the situation as devastating.“Never in our lives have

we seen anything like this,” Taylor said.Taylor said it has been

a shock for everyone, as the facility had done so well throughout the past five months through this

pandemic, until it finally hit the facility and spread like wildfire.Taylor said the nursing

home is still taking every precaution possible. Now, as residents recover, the residents are split up into three groups: those who have the virus, those who have had it and recovered, and those who have not contracted it. Each group is segregated to its own section of the facility, Tay-lor said.Staff—who were already

required to wear masks—have added face shields, gowns and shoe coverings to their uniforms.While the nursing home

continued to be the largest outbreak in Perry County, there were still many more

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Erin N. Thompson, 32, of Red Bud was arrested August 3 by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce on a Randolph County war-rant for possession of meth. Thompson post-ed bond.

****Christiana C. Har-

mon, 24, of Sparta was arrested August 3 by Sparta police for domestic battery. She was jailed.

****Brandon L. Jones, 31,

of Sparta was arrested August 3 by Sparta po-lice for domestic bat-tery. He was jailed.

****Austin N. Reiman,

21, of Steeleville was arrested August 3 by Steeleville police for domestic battery. He posted bond.

****Austin M. McCor-

mick, 26, of Chester was arrested August 4 by Chester police for domestic battery. He pleaded guilty and was released.

**** Ashley E. Schona-

gel, 30, of Chester was arrested August 4 by Chester police on a Cooper County, Mis-souri warrant for as-sault. She was jailed.

****Jeffrey C. Moore, 22,

of Sparta was arrested August 6 by the Ran-dolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce for possession of meth. He was released by order of a judge.

**** Terry A. Jeter, 25,

of New Baden was ar-rested August 6 by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce for pos-session of meth. Jeter was released by order of a judge.

**** Tomiya S. Lawless,

39, of Lenzburg was arrested August 6 by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce for meth delivery, posses-sion of a controlled substance, driving on a suspended license and improper use of registration. She was jailed.

****Janet S. Phillips, 49,

of Sparta was arrest-ed August 7 by Sparta police on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a driving on a suspended license charge and on a Wash-ington County warrant for failure to appear in court on a battery charge. She was jailed.

**** Shelby R. McPher-

son, 25, of Chester was arrested August 7 by the Randolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce on a Randolph County war-rant for theft. McPher-son posted bond.

****Jeffrey D. Avery, 63,

homeless, was arrest-ed August 8 by the Ran-dolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in

court on a driving on a revoked license charge and Cape Girardeau warrants for crimi-nal damage to prop-erty and possession of meth. He was jailed.

****Steven K. May, 41, of

Red Bud was arrested August 8 by Red Bud police for domestic bat-tery. He posted bond.

****Lacey G. Murray, 23,

of Sparta was arrested August 8 by the Ran-dolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a theft com-plaint. Murray posted bond.

****Jodie F. Tanner, 36,

of Steeleville was ar-rested August 9 by Sparta police on a La-Salle County warrant for failure to appear in court on a driving on a suspended or revoked license charge. Tan-ner posted bond.

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All persons are con-sidered innocent un-til proven guilty in court.

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By Travis LottIn an effort to give lo-

cal health offi cials an-other weapon to fi ght businesses that openly disregard masking and capacity guide-lines, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Friday that he would fi le a new executive rule to allow health of-fi cials to directly levy fi nes against those businesses.

The rules gave lo-cal health offi cials guidance on how to educate businesses about the health guidelines and how to issue warnings prior to any legal ac-tion taken.

If enough warn-ings are not heeded, the local health de-partment can levy a Class A misdemean-or charge and a fi ne of $75 to $2,500.

Pritzker said all establishments must admit no more than 50 people or 50 per-cent of a building’s maximum occupan-cy, and schools must set a limit of 50 or fewer in any given area, for example, the cafeteria.

These fi nes to not apply to individuals,

focusing instead on businesses, schools and child care facili-ties.

“These rules are a common sense way to enforce mask re-quirements without jumping immediate-ly to the extremely tough consequenc-es that exist on the books today,” Pritz-ker said. “They’ll give local authorities a step-by-step guide on how to enforce masks and distanc-ing, and an opportu-nity to help business-es act in good faith.”

Pritzker said that, under the current law, business licens-es could be revoked, which he said is much more costly than a fi ne. He said these fi nes will allow businesses to keep their licenses while remaining subject to penalty if the guide-lines are not met.

Randolph County Health Department Administrator Ange-la Oathout said Fri-day that she did not necessarily foresee a need to use such measures.

She said that, once she receives a com-

plaint about a non-compliant business, she calls the busi-ness owner to dis-cuss guidelines. If further issues occur, she sends a certifi ed letter that states that the issue would be turned over to the state’s attorney if the issue is not resolved.

“So far, I haven’t had to take any more drastic measures,” Oathout said.

She said she had sent seven certifi ed letters to businesses as of Friday.

State Senator Paul Schimpf released a statement, question-ing not the rule itself but with how Pritz-ker issued it.

“If Governor Pritz-ker truly believes that our situation is dire enough to war-rant new penalties for COVID-19 noncom-pliance, he should be calling a special ses-sion of the Illinois General Assembly,” Schimpf said. “Cir-cumventing the leg-islative process won’t make more people wear masks. Instead, it will only further diminish trust in our state government.”

Health offi cials can fi ne non-compliant businesses

A 54-year-old in-mate of Menard Cor-rectional Center was pronounced dead at 5:20 a.m. August 5 at Memorial Hospital in Chester.

According to the Ran-dolph County Coroner’s

Offi ce, the inmate re-quired medical assis-tance and was trans-ferred to the hospital.

The press release notes that security at the prison was not compromised, and no staff was involved. No

foul play is suspected.The name of the in-

mate was not released.The cause of death

has not been deter-mined and is awaiting toxicology and autop-sy results.

Inmate death at Menard

The following cases have been terminated from Randolph County circuit court.

Thea Snider of Steele-

ville, battery, guilty, fi ne.Laura Kempfer of

Evansville, posses-sion of a hypodermic needle, withhold judg-

ment, court supervi-sion, fi ne.

Curtis Evon of Spar-ta, criminal trespass to vehicles, guilty, fi ne.

No one was injured when two cars collided on Route 4 at Pyatt-Cutler Road near Scut-tle Inn August 5. State police said the acci-dent occurred when a car driven by Virginia

C. Adams, 68, of West Frankfort was trav-eling south on Route 4 and attempted to turn onto Pyatt-Cutler Road into the path of a northbound car driven by Elizabeth L. Klaus-

ing, 26, of Sparta. Jus-tin M. Beattie, 39, of Sparta was a passen-ger in Klausing’s car and also escaped in-jury. Adams was tick-eted.

Two-vehicle accidentAbove is the car driven by Elizabeth Klausing

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sPaRta CItY COuNCIL

Fourth and Dickey streets to be asphalted

By Dan ZobelFourth and Dickey

streets in Sparta will be asphalted over next year.

The city council ap-proved the $248,408 project during its Au-gust 10 meeting. The work will cover 3,720 feet on Fourth and 920 feet on Dickey.

Another considera-tion was oiling and chipping the area, which could be done at half the cost but would only last three to four years. By as-phalting the entire area, the roads will be in good shape for 20 to 30 years.

"Fourth Street is very highly traveled," said Commission-er Bobby Klausing. "Right now, it's beat up bad, but it already has a good base."

Wayne Robert asked the council if the rail-road tracks near the project would be ad-dressed.

Klausing said the city can only get so close to the railroad, because the railroad itself handles rail work.

"They're difficult to work with," said May-or Jason Schlimme. "They tend to make their own rules."

Commissioner Mi-chael Kelley noted that in the past, he has spokenabout the railroads in Sparta with Congressman Mike Bost, who is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Com-mittee.

Schlimme added that the city can con-tact him again, as well as the Illinois Department of Trans-portation.

In other news, the council approved a payment of $53,000 to Korte Luitjohan Contractors of High-land in regards to the wastewater treatment plant project.

City manager Corey Rheinecker said this should be the third to last pay request for the project.

A resolution was approved showing Sparta's support in the establishment of a National Park in the French Historic District of Randolph County.

The council ap-proved bids for the city's 14 surplus vehi-cles, bringing a total of $22,512 to the city. Minimum bids were not met on four of them, but the council agreed to waive the

minimum bid require-ment on those.

Winning bids and items were the 1979 GMC Sierra 6000 util-ity bed truck with generator, Bruce Schuetz, $2,200; white tractor model 2135 with 12-foot 2-row disc, James Lambert, $5,751; old Army 2.5 ton truck, Mark Schil-ling, $1,889; 2008 Ford Crown Victoria police car, Nadine Walker, $1,500; Homelite trash pump, Lambert, $225; Woods rotary mower PTO with 3-point hitch and 72-inch deck, Dan Stephens, $850; 4-foot box trailer, Lambert, $225; 1989 Chevro-let R2500 Cheyenne with dump bed, Todd Swizer, $1,850; 1990 Ford 250 extended cab, Kevin Loos, $626; John Deere tractor open cab with side-mount mower and bucket attachment, Lambert, $2,675; Ford Tug F350 truck with generator and single cab with no bed, Wil-liam Benefiel, $351; light trailer with Coleman generator, Art Dickerson, $365; trenching and boring machine with trailer, Eric Mathews, $2,855; and 2008 Crown Vic-toria, Tim Copple, $1,150.

Tim Page addressed the council about the city not having a po-lice dog.

While Page said he is opposed to in-creased drug traffic in Sparta, he won-dered if the money that goes toward a police dog and its care should be spent elsewhere in the com-munity. He asked how many major narcotic busts Sparta has had with the help of a dog.

"You can put a dol-lar amount on a lot of things, but we have had dogs find children in the past," Schlimme said. "You can't put a price on that. It absolutely cov-ers the expense."

Police Chief Sean Lukes added that you cannot put a dollar amount on the deter-rent having a canine officer brings. He said that when peo-ple with illegal drugs see that canine car, it drives them away.

Page said he would further talk to Lukes outside the meeting in regards to what goes into having a po-lice canine.

Commissioner Alan Young, who was once a canine officer, re-iterated how big of a

deterrent these dogs can be. They are also often used in schools.

Michael Nance asked the council if any progress has been made toward live streaming meet-ings.

Schlimme said the current focus is on updating the city's website, including posting meeting min-utes.

Nance noted that live streaming meet-ings is separate from the website and can be done through the city's Facebook page.

"I get it, but a lot of things are going on right now," Schlimme said. "We're taking one step at a time."

Rosette Clay asked how many commis-sioners have gone to the Grand American in Missouri this year. While none of them have, Schlimme said he chose to attend this council meeting rather than go to the opening ceremonies.

He added that the city sponsored part of the ceremonies, and he looks forward to the shooters return-ing to Sparta next year.

Commissioner Nath-aniel Ward updated some animal control aspects after some potential issues were brought up at the pre-vious meeting.

Ward said donations to animal control can be made by contacting city hall, while dona-tions to the feral cat program, which is not a city program, can be made by contact-ing Shirley Blaine.

Ward added that the city is licensed to han-dle only domestic ani-mals, but it is looking into what it can do when it comes to non-domestic.

"We'll continue to do our best," Ward said. "Right now, we only really have one guy on call."

While the hiring of an animal control officer was an item on the agenda for the second consecu-tive meeting, and the council went into ex-ecutive session to dis-cuss the item, no ac-tion was taken.

Work continues on Hillcrest Drive. Only local traffic is al-lowed on the road at this time, and Kel-ley urged residents to keep it that way so the work can be com-pleted as efficiently as possible.

Provide lunchQuality Handyman of Chester provided lunch August 6 for Chester first responders and Randolph County officers at the Chester Police Department. Quality Handyman owner Mike Cole started the business around five years ago. "We wanted to do something special," Cole said. "(The first responders) deserve this." Above, Chester dispatcher Michelle Nelan and Chief Deputy Jarrod Peters dish up their food. At right, Brandon Cole of Quality Handyman prepares burgers on the grill.

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Don’t take power for grantedThe headline of

this week’s edito-rial does not refer to politics. Instead, it re-fers to electric power, or a lack of it.Monday night’s storm

knocked a tree branch into the main line that feeds our office and several residences on the east side of Percy, causing us to lose our electricity.We’ve lost power be-

fore but only for rela-tively short periods of time.This episode is dif-

ferent.Tuesday is the day

when things kick into high gear at our of-fice as we prepare the bulk of the paper for printing. It’s long been known as our late day as news is gathered, ads are sold and fin-

ished and the laying out of pages begins.When our employ-

ees began to arrive around 8 o’clock Tues-day morning power was still out. We began getting word that it would be out longer. Damage to the elec-tric system was wide-spread and repair crews were stretched thin.So they took their

computers home and worked from there, as they had done just a few weeks ago when

the coronavirus out-break was beginning to get worse locally.Fortunately, power

was not out where any of our employees live.As of 8:30 Tuesday

night, power to our office had not been re-stored, and there was a rumor going around that it might not be for several days.In the days before

fancy computers and high-tech software, being without electric-ity for that long would have been disastrous

for a newspaper and likely would have de-layed its printing and delivery.But Tuesday we

turned our kitchens into composing rooms and our snack bars into news rooms, thanks to the help of portable computers, the internet and cell phones.Our power was re-

stored around 9 p.m., and things somewhat got back to normal.We can’t imagine

what victims of hurri-canes and other disas-ters go through when they don’t have power for weeks at a time.One thing is for

sure: It makes you appreciate having the lights come on when you flick that little switch.

Working fromhome...again

A day out with grandmaA while back, I took

the grandkids on a shopping/dining out trip. Kate, who is now

8, seems to be a pro. Johnie, almost 4, just enjoys it because he still gets to ride in a cart. Isn’t it a wonder what kids can find interesting even in the most boring places? They understood that

I couldn’t buy them something at every place we went, but that didn’t stop them from looking. At hard-ware stores, they found flashlights and yard-stick swords. At Bed, Bath and Beyond they wanted gourmet coffee and coasters. Thank-fully, the Dollar Tree awaited us. Shopping with kids

is exhausting. Just get-ting in and out of the car, unlatching them from car seats, mak-ing sure everyone is accounted for, holding hands and crossing the street is enough to cause most grandpar-ents to stay home. But seeing the delight

in their faces and hear-

ing Kate say, “I love to shop, Maw Maw” is enough evidence that it’s worth it. Of course, no shop-

ping trip would be com-plete without finding a good place to eat. Letting the kids pick the place is usually the best bet. In years’ past, it goes without saying that McDonald’s was al-ways their first choice. Two happy meals and an hour in Playland and we were good to go. Somehow, that tradi-

tion has fallen by the wayside. Their tastes have changed, and Playland has lost its luster. As we finished our

shopping, I asked the kids where they would like to go for lunch. Kate immediately

spoke up and said, “Let’s go to Pajamas!” This was a new one

on me, but I was will-ing to give it a go. Could this be a themed joint where you could get breakfast anytime and show up clad in your PJs? A place like that could go over big

in Carbondale. “Where is it located?”

I asked her. She looked around but

wasn’t sure. Thinking possibly that

she was mispronounc-ing the name, I said, “Do you mean Panera’s?” She shook her head. “Bandana’s?” I asked.“No, Paaaajaamaas!”

she said with tears in her eyes.“What type of food

do you order there?” I asked sympathetically.“They have really good

soup and rice and chick-en,” she answered.At least we had it nar-

rowed down to Asian food. “Panda Express!” I

shouted. She thought that

sounded right, so we headed that way. When we got out of the car, un-fastened car seats, held hands and proceeded to go inside, Kate sud-denly realized it was not the right place. “This isn’t Pajamas,”

she said. You probably have

guessed, I’m a patient person and genuinely wanted to find this mys-

terious restaurant.“I have and idea,”

I told the kids as we loaded into the car for the seventeenth time that day. I got out my phone, activated my Google voice app and said, “Paajaaaamaas restaurant in Carbon-dale” in a very sloppy Asian accent. Wouldn’t you know, Fujiyama’s came right up on the screen? “Kate, is it Fujiyama’s?”

I asked. “Yes!” she exclaimed

in relief. Now we were cooking

with gas. Speaking of cooking, Johnie was insistent that we avoid the hibachi seating. “Fire scares me,” he

said. At my age with hot

flashes, I’ll admit, it scares me, too.As I pondered the

menu, I smiled and thought that we have surely come a long way from McNuggets and fries. Not only have these

kids learned how to shop, they also have learned how to eat.

Sad situationEditor, County Journal:After watching the

news this past week and spending 32 years as postmaster, it abso-lutely made me sick to see how the Trump Administration is us-ing the U.S. postal sys-tem not to do the job of delivering the mail on time as the mail carri-ers have always done,

and have taken great pride in doing so.They have worked

overt ime through snow, floods and other disasters without even being paid overtime, but they got the mail out on time.They never left mail

lying around to accu-mulate. They were too proud to be doing the job they always had

done for those they served, and I’m sure that being required by a postmaster general that had never seen the inside of a postal work room until his friend Donald Trump put him in that posi-tion, to disrupt the flow of mail-in ballots in the upcoming elec-tion, which Trump believes might help

win the election.It is a sad situation

when the president asks honorable and proud workers to sac-rifice the pride in the job some of them have been doing for many years in serving the people of this country.If Trump wants to be

re-elected, he should take a different course than to insist on post-al workers having to lower their values and pride to do something that is not legal. All mail should be deliv-ered, and on time if possible, and not sit-ting stacked up on a postal work room floor.

Virginia ManskerRetired postmaster

Rockwood

My friend asks, “If money doesn’t

grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?”This is such a good

question, I consulted two experts: a friend who owes his bank money, and another guy whose desk fac-es an ATM machine. Here’s what they told me.Before there were

banks, somebody had to invent money. But

The history of moneybefore there was mon-ey, there was a barter system.Let’s say we live on

farms, and my neigh-bor wants to trade sev-eral chickens for my two excellent goats. We meet somewhere and swap animals.But let’s say he wants

to buy my house. He of-fers me several chick-ens for it, but I decline because chickens don’t have garages, they’re not air conditioned,

and they’re dumber than eggplants. Then he offers me

cash money. It doesn’t look like much, but it represents something of great value, like 20,000 chickens.In ancient times clay

tokens substituted for actual merchandise. That was probably the first money. But rich people got hernias from carrying heavy clay in their pockets.Branch banking made

banks more convenient for customers. At many branch banks, you can make deposits and with-drawals, rent deposit boxes, and receive fi-nancial advice.No, money still doesn’t

grow on trees, but branch banks can help you deposit the fruit of your labors, and help your savings ripen with great interest.But if someone brings

his chickens to a branch bank, they might ask him to leaf.

Crucial choiceto make in 2020

Full disclosure: I utterly reject the Democrat Party as it exists today and

all its works and all its ways, politically, socially and culturally, but this does not apply to Democrats individually. I have friends and relatives amongst them and pray without ceasing they will see the er-ror of their ways and repent in sackcloth and ashes.I believe the Democrats have three seri-

ous obstacles in their drive to capture the White House this fall – Joe Biden, their radical agenda and Donald Trump. I have faith that if the American voters clearly see the contrasts between the parties and their candidates, they will choose Presi-dent Trump and the Republicans, despite their many shortcomings.If not, to paraphrase “Fighting” Joe

Hooker when President Lincoln appointed him commander of the Army of The Po-tomac during the War of 1861, “May God have mercy on the USA, for the leftists will have none.” Between now and Tuesday, November 3,

I’ll try to tell my multiplied millions upon millions of loyal readers exactly what the Democrats want to do, using their own words. I’ll start with a brief look at some of the issues dear to my heart.

A critical election“They (conservatives) fear Trump is all

that stands between them and the left unleashing a civilizational reordering on America,” says Eric Erikson on townhall.com.Erikson believes the left will be unable

to permanently reshape the American landscape. I’m not so confident. I believe Democrats have plans, if they control the presidency and the congress, including, but not limited to: Replacing the Electoral College with the

presidential popular vote; making the Senate, like the House of Representatives, proportional to each state’s population; opening the southern border to unlimited numbers of immigrants, who they believe will vote for Democrats, and offering them incentives such as free education and medical care to make sure they do; and making voting by mail, which is very susceptible to fraud, the law of the land.

Abortion “The Biden Plan will reverse the Trump

Administration and states’ all-out assault on women’s right to choose. As president, Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade...“As president, Biden will reissue guid-

ance specifying that states cannot refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parent-hood and other providers that refer for abortions or provide related information.” (joebiden.com)

GunsAs Biden has risen in the polls, so have

gun sales — to a record 1.79 million in this past month alone“The truth is that gun owners have good

reason to be concerned. Despite Biden’s declarations, his campaign’s so-called ‘Plan to End Gun Violence’ (read at joe-biden.com) contains several provisions that should give gun owners serious pause about casting their vote for the Democrat.” (Josh Pinho, townhall.com)Biden’s plan would expand the 1934 Na-

tional Firearm Act to include semi-auto-matic rifles and ‘high capacity’ handguns, which would make the possession of these common and popular firearms a felony, says Pinho.“This radical proposal, if passed into law,

would create millions of felons out of law-abiding Americans overnight,” he adds.For more by John Meacham, visit laugh-

withjohn.wordpress.com.

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Sale of county-owned house is an issue...from Page 1

storms became more organized with the heating of the atmos-phere, eventually turn-ing severe.

The spokesman said the gust front ahead of

the storm caused when warm moist air cools and is quickly pushed out of a thunderstorm was not as destructive as the main line of storms.

The area was under a severe thunderstorm watch and warnings were issued as the line of storms moved across the area.

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the storm a derecho, which is a long dura-tion wind event.

The last time the lo-cal area saw a destruc-tive derecho was in 2008.

that the evidence could be moved into the now-vacated rooms in the basement of the Perry County Government Building, also known as the south annex, where the 4-H club was once headquar-tered.

Bareis said it is also a place where coun-ty investigators can meet with confiden-tial informants. He added that the loca-tion was prepped to house county employ-ees who tested positive for COVID-19 but didn’t want to take the virus home to their families.

Commissioner Su-san Hepp argued that po int , not ing that there was never a plan to house county em-ployees there.

During the meeting, Hepp called Emergen-cy Management Coor-dinator Chuck Genesio regarding the county’s plan for housing em-ployees who needed to be isolated.

Genesio said a plan had not been fi nalized but could be done in an emergency situation. One of the locations the county had looked into was a new facility near the Pinckneyville hospital.

Treasurer Mary Jane

Craft said there has been controversy re-garding county em-ployees spending the night in the house.

Bareis said there was a sheriff ’s deputy hired in April who lived about an hour and a half away in Fay-ette County. He said the deputy worked three 12-hour shifts a week on consecu-tive days and would sleep in the house in between those shifts.

Hepp said employees should not be sleeping on county property due to insurance li-ability issues. How-ever, Bareis said he sometimes sleeps on a cot in his offi ce, which is also a government building, especially on days when he works more than 24 hours at a time.

He said the reason he has to do this is because of the cuts that have already been made to the sheriff ’s offi ce, leaving him be-ing the lone offi cer on duty often.

Bareis said in an in-terview after the meet-ing that he doesn’t feel comfortable storing evidence in the gov-ernment building.

“They’ll bring the insurance thing, but

that’s just a smoke screen,” Bareis said.

Aside from being an inconvenience for in-vestigators to drive to the location where evi-dence is stored, Bareis said the materials will not be secure in the government building.

“I can’t have the gen-eral public having ac-cess to that,” Bareis said. “Only three of us have keys to the white house.

“There’s no way I can move it to the south annex without com-pletely securing part of that hallway (in the government build-ing).”

Bareis also suggested that evidence could fall into the wrong hands, even within the county government.

“There are people who have worked at the south annex who have been under inves-tigation by my depart-ment,” Bareis said.

Bareis also said he can’t conduct inter-views with informants safely at the govern-ment building.

“There are too many ears out there,” Bareis said.

Bareis said he feels under attack by the county board.

“I just feel there is an

adversarial relation-ship between myself and the board,” Bareis said.

Bareis also questioned the board’s committ-ment to public safety.

“If they really cared about the operations of the sheriff’s depart-ment, they would have come to me (about the white house sale),” Ba-reis said.

In other Perry County news, Clerk Beth Lipe said she has received several questions from residents who were concerned about the money the county is spending to send mail-in ballots to residents, due to concerns about COVID-19.

Lipe said another group, Vote Illinois, has also been send-ing out information on mail-in ballots, mean-ing people will get two ballots—one from the county and one from this group. She said many are concerned that the county is pay-ing for both.

Lipe said that the county has no affi lia-tion with Vote Illinois, nor is the county on the hook for the mail-in ballot initiative, as the State Board of Elec-tions will reimburse any costs incurred.

cases in the commu-nity. Perry County Health Department reported Tuesday that the county was moni-toring 87 total active cases, including two new cases reported that day.

Jackson County was

monitoring 98 active cases as of Tuesday, including 10 new cases Tuesday. 13 individu-als were released from isolation Tuesday.

In Randolph County, things were beginning to look a little better after several rounds of

outbreaks. The county was monitoring 43 ac-tive cases as of Tuesday, including three new cases.

One of the infected individuals in Randolph County was hospital-ized, while the rest were recovering at home.

Randolph County was taken off the Illinois Department of Pub-lic Health’s warning level list last week, as its positivity rate and caseload dropped below the threshold. Jackson and Perry counties re-mained on that list.

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Sheriff s, state still at odds over prisoner transfers

By Jerry NowickiCapitol News IllinoisAfter a Logan Coun-

ty judge ruled Mon-day that the Illinois Department of Cor-rections must accept transfers from county jails, the state filed court documents aim-ing to reverse the tem-porary order.

Whi le the Logan County court is sched-uled to consider a mo-tion temporarily stay-ing the order Friday, the state also fi led an appeal to 4th District Court of Appeals ask-ing for a stay from the higher court. The request had not been granted as of Thurs-day afternoon.

At the center of the lawsuit fi led by Illinois sheriffs is whether the governor and the state have statutory author-ity to delay transfers into IDOC facilities. In March, Gov. JB Pritz-ker signed an execu-tive order citing the COVID-19 pandemic as reason to delay trans-fers into state facili-ties.

On July 27 — one day before a scheduled Logan County court appearance — Pritzker filed another execu-tive order resuming admissions to IDOC facilities at the discre-tion of the IDOC direc-tor as long as certain safety measures relat-ing to the pandemic are followed.

Those include quar-antine, social distanc-ing, masking and test-ing requirements.

On Monday, Aug. 3, however, Logan Coun-ty Judge Jonathan Wright issued a tem-porary injunction re-quiring the state to accept transfers at the IDOC facilities. In

the decision, he wrote, “IDOC does not have authority under the Illinois Uniform Code of Corrections to deny acceptance of a person committed to IDOC by the courts of this State.”

“This Court hereby enters a preliminary injunction in favor of Plaintiffs ordering that the Illinois De-partment of Correc-tions, by and through i t s agents , accept transfer from any Sheriff of all offenders for whom the IDOC is statutorily required to accept,” he wrote.

J im Kaitschuk, a spokesperson for the Illinois Sheriffs Asso-ciation, said sheriffs have been able to de-liver “some inmates” to state facilities in the two days following the order, although the state said at least two intake facilities reached capacity.

That’s because in-mates transferred in are held in isolation for 14 days in single cells as a quarantine measure aimed at miti-gating spread of the novel coronavirus and there is limited capac-ity for such holdings.

While the ISA spokes-person said the state has been difficult to work with, a spokes-person for Pritzker said sheriffs have “dis-regarded” COVID-19 precautions put in place to ensure safe transfers.

“Since the begin-ning of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Pritz-ker administration has prioritized pro-tect ing the health of inmates, the staff who work with them, and the surrounding community,” Jordan

Abudayyeh, Pritzker’s press secretary, said in an email. “IDOC worked closely with (the Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health) and other health ex-perts to develop proto-cols that would allow local sheriffs to safely transfer inmates from their jails to IDOC fa-cilities.

“Those guidelines have been disregard-ed and despite IDOC’s willingness to provide county sheriffs with monetary and opera-tional support during the pandemic, that aid has been rebuffed. By refusing assistance and ignoring COVID-19 heal th guidel ines , sheriffs are jeopard-izing the surrounding communities as well as lives of the men and women trusted to their care.”

Wright , however, wrote that county sheriffs have a greater hardship in housing inmates than the state during the COVID-19 pandemic, as IDOC has options such as releasing an inmate on parole, offering diversion programs or providing a system of supervision and guid-ance for committed persons in the com-munity.

Sheriffs in the state, the judge wrote, “have no option but to house a person committed to IDOC until the trans-port of said person to IDOC can be achieved.”

In a statement, IDOC spokesperson Lindsey Hess said the depart-ment has been “closely monitoring other state prison systems where there have been major COVID-19 outbreaks due to offender trans-fers.”

“The Depar tment learned from their experiences and de-veloped strict guide-lines to prepare for the resumption of in-tra-agency transports and new admissions. Monday’s ruling will make it significant-ly more difficult for IDOC to follow these guidelines going for-ward,” Hess said in an emailed statement. “As of Tuesday, despite this ruling, IDOC is making every effort to follow the guidelines as closely as possible to ensure the health and safety of staff, the incarcerated popula-tion and the surround-ing community.”

She said IDOC, with the assistance of the IDPH, is “testing all new admissions and appropriately quar-antining them upon arrival.”

Kaitschuk, however, argued last week that some of the safety re-quirements are dif-fi cult for county jails to meet, because COV-ID-19 test results must have been received within three days be-fore the transfer, and tests results often take longer than that. If an inmate has to leave a facility for a test, that restarts the re-quirement of 14 days of quarantine as well.

“Based on the sher-iffs that I have talked to across the state, the average time is be-tween fi ve and seven days (for a test result) unless it’s an instant test that they have access to. And no one does…” he said in an interview last week. “They’ve set this up in such a way that it’s a virtual impossibility to meet.”

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John A. Logan Col-lege in Carterville will offer four modalities to deliver courses to stu-dents this fall, including online anytime, online scheduled, hybrid and face to face.

The course site is De-sire2Learn.

Online Anytime is a traditional online course, providing a con-venient, fl exible and student-centered way of learning. Students log in to the college’s online learning platform and complete course assign-ments without coming to campus.

Online Scheduled is an online class at a scheduled time. Stu-dents log in to their class at the specifi c times and participate in live video classes broadcast by in-structors from the JALC campus. This format is the most comparable to the face-to-face on-cam-pus experience.

Similar to a face-to-face class, real-time attendance will be re-quired in an online scheduled course. Through this format, instructors will teach courses from specifi ed, predetermined distance learning classrooms, which will be set up with high-quality video conferencing cameras and sound equipment to establish a professional, educational atmosphere for at-home learners.

Hybrid courses will include a combination of online content and on-campus attendance. Instructors will place students into groups and create a schedule for the required on-cam-pus attendance.

The on-campus ex-perience information regarding established groups and attendance days will be sent to the student’s email account and on the course site.

Most on-campus class-

es, except for labs or clinicals that cannot be done online, will move to online learning be-ginning November 30 through December 11.

All inbound campus traffi c will be required to enter from the west via Greenbriar Road. Outbound traffi c will exit school to the east along the frontage road adjacent to Kamper’s Supply.

Before entering any building, students, fac-ulty and staff and the general public will have to adhere to ocial distancing, specifi c en-try and exit points and face masks, as well as a drive-thru health screening upon arrival at the campus.

The operational hours of the screening tent will be 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 6:30 to 4 Friday.

Those arriving on campus outside these hours are asked to fol-low the same restric-tions for entry as oth-ers, but on a self-check basis.

Logan Fitness patrons arriving outside those hours will be screened at Logan Fitness.

Vice President for Business Services and College Facilities Brad McCormick outlined the process that individuals driving to campus will need to follow.

“The college is imple-menting a single, drive-thru health screening process beginning Mon-day, August 10,” said McCormick. “Southern Illinois Healthcare is providing training, PPE, thermal temperature scanning equipment and supplies, including face masks for those that do not display them upon entry to the health screening tent.”

Persons failing the screening will be pro-

vided appropriate direc-tion as to their respon-sibilities but will not be permitted to enter the campus.

Once successfully screened, a dated stick-er will be provided and must be displayed on the person’s clothing. Those not displaying the stick-er will be required to leave the campus.

Face masks will be required in all public spaces but not in private offi ces when able to so-cial distance.

Administrators are encouraging all stu-dents to monitor their email accounts, includ-ing for information from their instructors, the college’s website and offi cial social media ac-counts for all updates and allow adequate time to be screened before their scheduled classes.

“Due to the health screenings and single entry point on campus, it will take longer for students to get to their classes, so they need to allow for enough time when traveling to cam-pus,” said Vice Presi-dent for Instructional Services Dr. Melanie Pecord. “Students in hy-brid classes in particu-lar need to watch their email as the semester begins so that they know exactly what days they will be on campus, especially during the fi rst days of the semes-ter so that we can avoid unnecessary conges-tion.”

Classes have begun, but registration ends August 18. Students who are unable to enroll in courses at the begin-ning of the semester will have an opportunity to enroll in second-half block schedule classes October 8.

Questions regard-ing registration should be emailed to registra-tion@jalc.edu.

JALC announces fall plan

Sophie Martin Memorial scholarshipsThe annual Sophie Martin Memorial Golf Tournament fundraiser had to be canceled because of COVID-19. However, there was still money available to give away four $500 and four $100 scholarships. From left are scholarship recipients Emily Loesing of Sparta, Mallory Buckner of Sparta, Adrienne Carril of Ellis Grove, Sydney Taylor of Ava, Haley Shrum of Steeleville and Isaac Sinn of Sparta. Not pictured are Riley Taylor of Campbell Hill and Rylie Manker of Sparta. Orders are being taken for Sophie Martin shirts. Find more information on the foundation's Facebook page.

St. John Lutheran Church in Chester re-cently held a virtual Vacation Bible School.

Over 50 student packets were assem-bled and distributed for the virtual lessons and demonstrations on the theme Splash Canyon.

The packets in-cluded Bible stories and memory verses, snack and craft sup-plies, game instruc-tions, song lyrics, bubbles and other gifts.

Thrivant Financial provided an Action Team card to help

purchase the supplies.Each lesson includ-

ed a video with an introduction by Rev. Tim Sims presenting a Bible story and mes-sage.

Fourteen adult vol-unteers helped make the free virtual VBS a success.

Rev. Tim Sims of St. John Lutheran in Chester presents a Bible story to VBS students in an online video.

St. John virtual VBS

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By Travis LottCOVID-19 was again

the main topic of dis-cussion during the August 7 meeting of the Randolph County Board of Commission-ers.

Randolph County Health Department Administrator Angela Oathout attended the meeting and reported the current status of Randolph County.

While the state had deemed Randolph County as a warning-level county for two straight weeks prior to the meeting, the state later announced that Randolph Coun-ty was fi nally off the warning list.

The warning level was due to a major outbreak at Chester Mental Health Center, where more than 40 employees contracted the virus.

Those cases have been mostly resolved, and no new deaths oc-curred as a result.

Oathout said her of-fi ce is now bracing for the upcoming start of the school year, where schools throughout the county have var-ied reopening plans. Sparta, Steeleville and Coulterville will reopen with a fi ve-day-a-week schedule, to Chester, which will open mostly remote for the fi rst month.

Oathout said she met with local school administrators to answer their ques-tions and provided a document detailing protocols the schools should follow in cir-cumstances such as a student who has symptoms or has been exposed, how to iso-late and request test-ing for such a student and how to work with the health depart-ment if an outbreak occurs.

Oathout said the state had already re-leased similar guide-lines, but she wanted to give the schools a more brief, concise

document that was more accessible in the event of an emergen-cy.

In any event, Oath-out said the return to school will be a risk to the county.

“We anticipate some spike in cases with school starting,” Oath-out said.

Commissioner Marc Kiehna, who once served as regional superintendent of schools, said he had concerns about bus-ing and whether or not drivers would be equipped with ther-mometers to check students. Oathout said they would. She also said she hopes parents will be dili-gent in monitoring their children and not send them to school or on the bus if they have symptoms.

Kiehna said that buses will obvious-ly not be able to al-low a full 71-student busload but asked if there would be room for empty seats be-tween students.

“That is our recom-mendation,” Oathout said. “We recognize that it is going to be a challenge.”

Oathout reiterated statements she pre-viously made to the Chester school board, when she said she recommended schools at least start with a remote learning plan instead of delaying the start of school.

“Make sure you have a good backup plan if you have to go remote,” Oathout said.

Oathout said the county has not yet identifi ed a threshold for how many cases in a school would trig-ger a district-wide shutdown. She said she is awaiting guid-ance on that from the governor’s offi ce.

“Normally, we’d con-sider it an outbreak if you have two cases,” Oathout said.

In other news, Spar-ta resident Timothy Page spoke during public comment about issues that he sees in rental properties within the county.

Page decried what he described as a seg-ment of the popula-tion that is a parasitic economy.

“These people buy a building, which quali-fi es as a residential home, and use it as a commercial business, deplete the resources to where it not only burdens the people living in it, it burdens the whole communi-ty,” Page said. “A run-down house attracts a lower eschelon of inhabitants. Lower eschelon inhabitants bring crime.”

Page said almost half of the properties in Sparta are rental properties. He said that, when a $100,000 home is located near rundown property

like this, it depreci-ates, which ultimate-ly costs the county in its tax assessment and loses property tax revenue.

Page’s proposed a solution to the prob-lem: to identify these properties not as resi-dential homes but as commercial business-es.

“As a commercial business you now qualify, or must qual-ify under a higher standard of occupan-cy,” Page said.

Page said there is an apartment com-plex near his home where there are 16 units, each priced at $500 per month.

“That’s $8,000 a month, $96,000 a year goes into that man’s pocket,” Page said, “and he does not pay sales tax.

“I’m not looking to get these hundreds of thousands of dol-lars out of that man’s pocket. That’s up to you all. What I’m look-ing at is that his busi-ness be identifi ed as a commercial business, and that his standard be raised to that level, as it would any other commercial business. Thereby, raising the standard of living of the occupants, and the occupants are not going to maintain that lower tier of, I would say social life, to where criminality is invited.”

Kiehna asked Page what would happen if the landlords sim-ply pass on any ex-tra costs incurred by that change to the occupants. Page said it couldn’t be done, because he believes the landlords were already charging the maximum amount they could get for the properties.

Page said a 5 per-cent tax increase on that $500-per-month property would amount to $25.

“That isn’t a burden that’s going to bury that property owner,” Page said. “And he won’t be able to raise the cost on the occu-pant because it’s al-ready, for no better word, a s***hole.”

“So what you are saying is that if he raises the rent, he would have less oc-cupation?” Kiehna asked.

“That’s correct,” Page said.

Emily Lyons, a mem-ber of the Liberty Bell of the West Chapter of the National Soci-ety Daughters of the American Revolution, said the national or-ganization is look-ing toward ways to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026.

Lyons said the Na-tional Park Service is creating a map for tourists to see local, out-of-the-ordinary

travel experiences. She encourages coun-ty residents to nomi-nate local destina-tions and businesses to the list. To nomi-nate a location, visit nps.gov/lecl/geotour-ism-toolkit.htm.

Commissioner Ron-nie White said the county is looking into adding a link on its website to a listing of craft breweries and wineries in the coun-ty.

In other news, Emergency Manage-ment Agency Coordi-nator Mike Hoelscher said Gilster-Mary Lee donated the use of a section of one of its warehouses in Sparta to be used for stor-ing surplus COVID-19 personal protective equipment.

Hoelscher said Gil-ster employee Ron Wagner was instru-mental in organizing the effort.

Two semi-truck loads of PPE were transported to the warehouse, and Gil-ster donated the use of its equipment to unload the trucks.

Hoelscher also com-mended Oathout for her ongoing efforts battling the coronavi-rus.

“I can’t even im-agine the pressure she’s under,” Hoels-cher said. “You’ve got a good leader there.”

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Monday evening storm damage

A large billboard was blown down in Eden

A produce stand owned by the Mast family along Route 4 near Ava was destroyed by the high winds, but the business remained open by moving to an alternate building.

Cutler also saw extensive damage from the storm. Above, a tree fell on the roof of a shed crushing some of its contents.

Downed power lines were a common sight in Marissa. These were by the Dollar General.

Kelli Cole of Marissa sits on a broken tree limb while she waits for her dad to come help her clean up her yard.

Marissa appeared to be one of the hardest hit by the storm. Above a tree and power lines lay over a truck.

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Section Two

EVANSVILLE VILLAGE BOARD

Golf cart ordinance change could allow for 16-year-olds

By Travis LottAn especially con-

tentious meeting of the Evansville village board Monday night led to the fi rst draft of a change in the golf cart ordinance and a major rift within the fi re department.

The board discussed the golf cart ordinance after resident Dawn Johnson brought an issue before the board during last month’s meeting.

Johnson felt that 16-year-olds should be allowed to drive golf carts in town just as anyone else. She said that if they could le-gally drive a car, then they should be able to drive golf carts in town. The current minimum age is 18.

Board members looked into the matter over the past month, and village President Red Becker said Mon-day that the Illinois Municipal League and Illinois Department of Transportation both allow for 16-year-olds to drive carts.

However, the secre-tary of state’s offi ce noted some stipula-tions for 16-year-olds on those vehicles.

According to the sec-retary of state, 16-year-olds must be accom-panied by someone at least 20 years old, and if someone that young is driving, everyone on

the cart must wear a seat belt.

The issue caused some confusion among the board members, as some wondered wheth-er or not this change in the ordinance would then require every-one to have seatbelts installed on their golf carts, as many village-approved carts were without belts.

Trustee Pam Brueg-gemann eventually made a motion to change the ordinance per the secretary of state’s rules, requiring only those carts driven by 16-year-olds to have seatbelts and requiring they be accompanied by someone at least 20.

This will apply only to golf carts, and 16-year-olds will not be allowed to drive UTVs, which are much faster than golf carts.

Trustees Justen and Kenneth Kempfer both objected to the change.

Furthermore, Zon-ing Administrator Mark McConachie said the change was point-less, as people younger than 16 already drive the golf carts, as well as other unapproved vehicles such as four wheelers, around town.

“You’re wasting your time because we don’t enforce the rules we have now,” McConachie said.

The change is not

yet in effect. The ordi-nance must be drafted and put on display for 10 days prior to the board taking a fi nal vote next month.

Just before the end of the meeting, a tense exchange occurred be-tween members of the fi re department.

Fireman Mark Ot-ten, who serves as the department’s safety of-fi cer, spoke during the public comment sec-tion about one of the village’s fi re trucks that he said does not meet safety standards.

Otten said the de-partment’s 1983 Ford fi re truck is still in service, despite being non-compliant with both the state fi re mar-shall and National Fire Protection Association standards.

Otten said the truck was allowed to be used for only 25 years and isn’t supposed to be used due to having an open canopy.

“It’s been out of com-pliance for 12 years. It cannot continue to be grandfathered in,” Ot-ten said.

Darren Kempfer, who serves as assistant fi re chief and was the fi re chief before being elect-ed to the board, aggres-sively disagreed with Otten.

Kempfer said the truck was purchased sometime around 2008 and was approved by

the former fi re chief as an in-town truck only, and that chief ap-proved it through the state fi re marshall.

He reiterated several times that the truck does not leave town.

Kempfer also said it is not a fully open can-opy, and it has metal bars that drop down for safety.

Becker told Otten that the issue should have been resolved within the fi re depart-ment and not brought before the village board in the higher-profi le setting.

Otten said he has brought the issue up at fi re department meetings every other month, but he’s regu-larly told to be quiet about it.

Kempfer suggested that Otten has ulterior motives in wanting to get a newer truck.

“Now it’s going to be in the newspaper,” Kempfer added. “I don’t like how this was done in public.”

Kempfer said that if the truck was taken out of service, residents’ homeowners insurance rates would go up.

“If we took that truck out of service, things are going to change, and it’s all thanks to...” Kempfer said before trailing off and mo-tioning toward Otten.

Kempfer said he would like to call an

ex-ecutive session next month about the issue, suggesting that Ot-ten could be removed from the department.

In other news, the fi re department sold three vehicles via sealed bids, which were opened during the meeting.

By far the most pop-ular vehicle was a 1985 Chevrolet square-body pickup truck, which received 15 bids. The winning bid was Mike Schmierbach, who of-fered $2,850.

The other two ve-hicles, a 1985 Ford box van went to Richard Heinen for $1,400 and a 1988 ambulance to Isaac Luthy for $567.

The village had sought bids for the re-placement and repair of guttering on village hall, but no bids were received.

Police Chief Todd Ehlers, whose 90-day probationary period ended August 1, was given his $1-per-hour raise retroactive to the beginning of the

month.Jim Braun,

who works on an as-needed basis, was given a cost of living increase of $1.42 per hour.

Treasurer Lisa Ohms-Schoenenberg-er tendered her res-ignation. The board agreed to send her a certifi cate of apprecia-tion for her six years of service.

McConachie report-ed that he will be issu-ing inoperable vehicle citations, and those who are issued tickets will have seven days to remove the vehicles.

“They’ve had plenty of time,” McConachie said.

Fire Chief Mike Han-nah said the fi re de-partment has all but fi nalized plans to can-cel this year’s Haunted Woods due to COV-ID-19.

Darren Kempfer noted that the depart-ment would feel the crunch from missing out on its premier fun-draising effort.

“It’s going to be a big kick in the belly to us,” he said.

month.Jim Braun,

By: Dan ZobelSPORTSCounty Journal | August 13, 2020Page 10

By Dan ZobelWhen it comes to re-

placing a successful coach with another one, Pinckneyville High School could not have done much better when it chose Mike Layne to lead the vol-leyball program.

Layne, 51, of Mur-physboro was recent-ly hired to coach the program, which had turned into one of the best in southern Illi-nois over the last five years under the direc-tion of Cathy Kohnen.

Kohnen stepped down from the position to take a teaching job at Breese Central, where she will not coach.

Pinckneyville is com-ing off a 30-9 season in which it fell to Breese Mater Dei in a Class 2A sectional title game.

Under Kohnen, the Lady Panthers won two regional titles, earned at least a share of the SIRR Mississippi title the last three seasons and compiled a 133-51 record, including a 34-4 mark in 2017.

“Cathy built a great culture there, and I want to help continue that,” Layne said. “I know they are really good and have a lot coming back. I hated that they didn’t poten-tially have anybody (to coach).”

Layne spent last year with SIU Carbondale as a volunteer assis-tant volleyball coach.

Prior to that, he was the Murphysboro High School volleyball coach for a combined 20 years over two stints from 1998-2009 and 2011-2018. In that span, Murphysboro held a 519-192 record, at least a share of the SIRR Ohio crown 13 times and won 11 region-al championships. In 2009, Murphysboro finished 34-4 with a sectional title.

Layne also coached at

By Dan ZobelBrad Norman is well

known as the boys bas-ketball coach at Ches-ter High School.

When he is not draw-ing up plays and spend-ing his days in Colbert Gymnasium, however, one of his favorite past times takes him to the race track.

Norman, 36, competes at Southern Illinois Raceway in Marion in the mod-lites class.

On August 8, in just his fourth race in the class, Norman earned second in a feature race out of 14 cars, the highest finish of his career.

“It’s pretty fun,” Nor-man said. “In the end, it’s not about where you finish, it’s just about finishing. There are so many things

Back at it againAnticipation is high for high school fall sports seasons. The Trico High School boys and girls golf teams held their first practices this week. Above from left at an August 11 practice are Kassidy Bunselmeyer, Kylie Bunselmeyer and Saylor Griffiths. At right, coach Tyler Co leman watches as Tyler Compton works on his putting technique. Below, Zach Thies and Daniel Vogt get work in on the putting green.

Layne selected as new Panther volleyball coach

Successful veteranthe now defunct Shel-don High School from 1994-96, winning 57 games over those three seasons.

“I’ve had great coach-es in my history,” Layne said. “Mike Hebert helped teach me the game of volleyball. He was kind of the god-father of volleyball in Division I at the Uni-versity of Illinois. He taught me a lot about organization, develop-ment and the process of building relation-ships with kids. That has stuck with me and hasn’t changed.”

For Layne, the chain of order is God, family, students, then athletics. It is all about creating a family.

“Nobody will work as hard as I do,” Layne said. “I just want us to join as one in a group, work for a common goal and trust the pro-cess.”

That process starts in the classroom, as being a well-rounded individ-ual is key to Layne. He sees that there is more than just volleyball go-ing on in the life of an athlete.

“Over my 25 years of coaching, I take pride in that I haven’t had a kid become ineligible,” Layne said. “I put a big focus on academ-ics. You have to do it right in the classroom if you’re going to do things right on the court. Developing trust and relationships is huge in coaching, in my opinion.”

Layne will have plenty of great kids to work with in this Pinckney-ville group.

The Lady Panthers possess a lengthy and high-flying front line.

The main area that needs replaced, how-ever, could be the most important, as Pinck-neyville will begin with

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Chester coach achieves his best car racing finishBrad Norman competes in the mod-lites class at SI Raceway

that could wrong. The fact that you’re putting something together with your hands and it stays together through-out the race, it’s pretty cool.”

It is more than just an individual effort for Norman.

His passion for the sport was established at an early age by his mother Robin. The Au-gust 8 race was also the first in the class for Norman’s brother Jus-tin Lassiter. Lassiter, 37, placed eighth.

“Racing has always been part of my life,” Norman said. “Our mother took us to Sprint car races and we always wanted to race cars. We got older and into college, my brother started work-ing full time and we

could afford to get into go-karts.”

When Norman started coaching basketball at Dongola High School, his assistant coach helped get him into rac-ing go-karts at a track in Anna.

Norman got into that before diving into the beginners class at Southern Illinois Race-way several years ago.

“My brother and I are grown and our mom still has an interest in racing,” Norman said. “So, we decided to get a car. My mom actually bought the first car last year. Then we kind of upgraded a little bit and got one a little faster. My brother has been a huge race fan and he purchased his car two weeks ago.”

That interest has

spread to Norman’s two sons Kazden, 6, and Myles, 3. Norman said he does everything he can to allow them to help out with the cars.

“We’re a family that loves racing,” Norman said. “What better way to bond and have fam-ily time then at a race track. My kids love it too. Kaz is a gear head and Myles is constantly talking to Uncle J about how he spun out or who he passed. It’s been a great summer venture.”

While many racers seek out sponsors to help with costs of the car and upkeep, the Norman family covers everything on their own, even if it means other cars have thou-sands of more dollars put into them.

At the August 8 race,

especially, Norman said there were a number of racers from Kentucky and Tennessee that came up because their tracks were occupied.

“Most of the local guys aren’t spending a butt load of money,” Nor-man said. “We’re just having fun and being independent. That’s what most of our driv-ers are doing.”

During the race, Nor-man actually held the top spot for most of the duration.

However, as Norman kept to the inside of the oval track, Matthew Filkins of West Frank-fort passed him on the final turn of the race, despite riding on three wheels, having broke one earlier in the race.

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Brad Norman during a stretch of the August 8 race in front of Keith Fain of Clarksville, Tennessee, and another competitor. Photo by Trinh Photography & Design

different levels of rac-ing,” Norman said. “I’m sitting as a beginner just trying to hold my line. It made for a good story and it was fun.

“Another cool thing was that I could roll my car onto my trailer without it being all banged up or having to fix a bunch of things. (Filkins) was in a cou-ple of different wrecks during the race that caused some damage he’ll have to pay for.”

Norman described the class of cars he is in as having some speed, but also carrying a little bit bigger frame than the class above. It comes with full containment and fire systems in the car, where if a crash does happen, the most

County Journal | August 13, 2020 Page 11

The AIM Grand Na-tional Youth Trapshoot-ing Championships concluded August 4 at the Missouri Trapshoot-ers Association in Linn Creek, Missouri, as a precursor to the Grand American.

Ethan Cheek of Pinck-

The Chester High School girls basketball team held its awards night August 5 for the 2019-20 season.

Chester set the pro-gram’s single season record for wins and fin-ished 26-6 after falling to Freeburg in the Class 2A Columbia Regional title game.

In the spring, how-ever, the program lost both head coach Pat Knowles and assistant coach Jennifer King to cancer.

The awards night was

From left are Reese Chandler, Kendall Williams, Josie Kattenbraker, Camryn Howie, Alyssa Seymour and Destiny Williams. Photo by Jim Beers

By Dan ZobelThe Il l inois High

School Association re-cently released sport-specific guidelines for the fall boys and girls golf and cross country, girls tennis and swim-ming/diving.

Each of those seasons began with practice August 10 and are set to conclude October 24.

Golf is allowed to start competitive matches August 13 with cross country allowed its first contest August 24.

The Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health has still yet to official-ly approve the IHSA’s plan, but IHSA Assis-tant Executive Direc-tor Matt Troha told the County Journal that based off previ-ous guidance received from the IDPH, the IHSA will not require schools to wait for that approval to begin fall practices or contests.

“If local school dis-tricts choose to wait for IDPH approval, we respect that,” Troha stated. “We will no-tify everyone when the plan is approved.”

At this time, per the IDPH, competition is still limited to intra-conference and intra-COVID-19 region.

Spectators will be per-mitted as long as they maintain social dis-tancing, and they are required to wear face coverings.

Concession stands will also be allowed, as long as they follow IDPH guidelines.

GolfParticipants, coaches

and officials are re-stricted to a combined total of 50 per wave. A wave is an individ-ual group of 50, and they should be clear-ly spaced so several groups are not congre-gating while waiting for their tee times.

Match hosts can have more than one wave during an event as long as they are spaced out so they do not intermin-gle or wait in queue in common areas.

During play, all par-ticipants must main-tain social distancing, regardless of a player’s position on the golf course. They also must refrain from touch-ing other participants in any way, including shaking hands prior to and following rounds.

Masks will be encour-aged to be worn by players not actively playing and while walking the course.

With competi t ion limited to conference and COVID-19 region opponents, it means teams like Trico and Steeleville will not be allowed to face each other at this time, even though they share a golf course at Pyramid Oaks.

“We had to take off some matches against teams not in our re-gion,” said Trico golf coach Tyler Coleman. “Even though we share a course with Steel-eville, we’re not in the same region. We can still go against confer-ence teams, though, like Chester and Gor-eville and can play Du

Chester girls basketball awardsheld at the Knowles home, with Pat’s wife Janelle participating in the ceremony.

The most valuable player award was giv-en to the entire team, which was made up of Destiny Williams, Audrey Hopper, Cam-ryn Howie, Kendall Williams, Ally Rowold, Alyssa Seymour, Ka-tie Shinabarger, Reese Chandler, Peyton Clend-enin, Ashlyn Colvis, Torre Berger, Kailyn Absher, Trinity Brown, Josie Kattenbraker,

Sydney Collins, Aubrie Medford and Maleia Absher.

Individual award win-ners were Kattenbraker, sixth man; Howie, most improved, and Kendall Williams, hustle.

Destiny Williams was named captain of the Black Diamond Con-ference West Division, and Chandler was an all-conference selection.

Other team records set during the season were most points in a season, 1,798; most rebounds, 896, and most 3-pointers

made, 182.Individual records

set included most re-bounds, Seymour, 192, and most assists, Des-tiny Williams, 119.

Destiny Williams set the single game record for most free-throws made with 16. She also graduated as the career leader in seven catego-ries: points, 1,816; field goals made, 685; free throws attempted, 428; free throws made, 326; free throw percentage, 76.2; assists, 406, and steals, 289.

IHSA fall sports guidelines

Quoin because they are in our region.

“So, there is some change, but I’m just glad to give some op-portunities to these kids, especially the seniors, because who knows what will hap-pen the rest of the year.”

Cross CountryCross country will

follow much of the same guidelines as golf.

Race capacity will include student par-ticipants, coaches, tim-ers and meet officials being restricted to a combined total of 50 per race.

If schools have large meets, such as invi-tationals or anything larger than a triangu-lar, hosts must ensure that all attendees are held to the capacity guidelines.

If multiple races oc-cur at a site, those participating in the race can only be in the vicinity of the course during their scheduled time. Once that time expires, participants must vacate the course area to allow the next to compete.

Vacating means that participants have ei-ther left the premises or are in a location completely removed from the event.

If a single race start is possible for an event, participants must be lined up in a way that allows them to be six feet apart. If a race cannot maintain social distancing in a single start, hosts can use staggered, wave or in-terval starts to ensure social distancing.

Pinckneyville High School cross country coach Ryan Bruns told the County Journal that the Southern Il-linois River to River Conference has de-cided to attempt not to allow any spectators.

“We will try to do that,” Bruns said. “However, with some meets being held at public places, we won’t try to fight that.”

In terms of race and schedule details, Bruns said the conference has decided to only compete against other conference teams.

“No other teams will come in and we won’t go outside of the con-ference,” Bruns said. “We’re kind of treating the River to River like a family.”

In order to help every-body get in at least one meet each week, Bruns said some schools that have not normally held meets have stepped up to host some.

Each SIRR meet will also be limited to six teams. Bruns said this will allow them to stay at or under the 50 person maximum, with each team having seven runners and one coach plus one indi-vidual to start the race.

“With cross country being outside, people should be able to keep their distance as best they can and hopefully we’ll be able to get through this,” Bruns said. “I don’t think it will be an issue.”

likely end result is fall-ing on the cars side or rolling over once, as the way the car is built limits the danger that could be incurred.

“You still get around the track pretty quick,” Norman said. “It feels even faster in the car. It’s definitely an adren-aline rush.”

Norman drives an all black car with a green No. 8. He said they have decals ordered to add some Chester orange to the car.

“Kaz chose number eight because it was Kobe Bryant’s num-ber,” Norman said. “He is a big Kobe fan. It’s pretty cool. If it wasn’t for the boys loving this so much and (my wife) Sarah giving the OK, I probably wouldn’t be out there.”

The racing season is scheduled to go into the second week of October. Norman said the facility has been following COVID-19 guidelines as well as it can, as well as spec-

Shoot cancellations at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta have extend-ed passed the Grand American.

The Illinois Depart-ment of Transportation announced August 11 that shooting and field trial events scheduled for September and Octo-ber have been canceled due to the COVID-19 situ-ation.

“Projected attendance

IDNR cancels more events at WSRCThere will be no U.S. Open in September

for some of our upcom-ing events could violate social distancing and crowd size requirements included in Governor Pritzker’s Restore Il-linois plan,” stated Col-leen Callahan, IDNR director. “While cancel-ling these events was an extremely difficult and painful decision, as the pandemic continues and cases increase in southern Illinois, we know it was the right

decision and the best way to protect the health and safety of attendees, volunteers and staff. We look forward to working with the hosting organi-zations to accommodate these events when we move to the other side of the crisis.”

Events scheduled to take place at the com-plex that have been canceled are the U.S. Open, September 9-13; Illinois State Interna-

tional Defensive Pistol Association Champion-ship, September 17-19; Retrievers Unlimited Field Trial, September 26 and 27; Spartan 3000, October 16-18, and As-sociation of College Un-ions International, Octo-ber 23-25.

Events that will not exceed 50 participants and staff and follow other public health di-rectives will continue as planned.

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Brad Norman speeds through the Southern Illinois Raceway during his August 8 race. Photo by Trinh Photography & Design

Pictured from left standing with a go-kart are Brad Norman his brother Justin Lassiter and mother Robin Norman. On top of the car is Brad’s son Myles.

tators practicing social distancing.

“None of us are trying to become the next Nas-car driver, but we all have our own pride in racing,” Norman said.

“All of the men and women we have gotten to meet have all been super helpful. It’s awe-some to go, enjoy the time and have some laughs. My brother and

are I new to it and we try to be as respectful as we can, and they see that.

“I can’t stress enough about how it’s been like a family.”

Cheek earns high overall runner-up at AIM event

neyville earned a high overall accolade. Cheek finished as the Junior Class A runner-up with a score of 381.

He was just three be-hind Levi Weak of Po-cahontas, Illinois, who was the Junior Class A high overall champion.

Junior Class A

Golf, cross country receive direction

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The following are some previous sports highlights from the second week of August in the last seven years.

August 8, 2013• Former Steeleville

High School standout and Southeast Mis-souri State pitcher Ja-cob Wente returned to SEMO as an assistant coach.

His duties were to include being the fi rst base and outfi eld coach, while spending a lot of time at high school prospect camps.

The former pitcher would also help with some aspects of pitch-ing.

He was previously a graduate assistant at the University of Ar-kansas at Monticello.

• The Trico varsity trapshooting team was recognized for having the top score in the ATA's AIM National Championships for teams affi liated with FFA.

Team members in-cluded Hank Garver, Grant Doerner, Clint Reiman, Chase Car-ruthers and Gannon Richelman.

• Two fastpitch soft-ball teams completed successful seasons.

The Southern Heat 14U team fi nished 30-9 in its fi rst season. The Heat won one tourna-

This week in County Journal sports history

Ethan Carruthers

Seth Hawkins

Matt Uchtman

Jacob Wente

Kyle Landon receives a plaque from Chester Mayor Tom Page for his high school track achievements.

ment and place second three times.

The team, coached by Aaron Hood, Dan King and Eric Raby, was made up of Julia Niep-ert, Josie Raby, Jaelin King, Lexi Smith, Katie Myers, Lexi Midden-dorf, Mackenzie Pim, Sydney Hood, Carlee Weir and Hailey Nagel.

The Southern Storm 12U team f inished fi rst in the Belleville League with an 11-1 re-cord. The Storm were 14-4-1 overall.

Highlights included two no-hitters from Jade Kranawetter and one by MacKenzie Mc-Ferron. The Storm also turned a triple play.

Team members were Callie Todaro, Sky-lar Bury, Jenna Mc-Clintock, Nicole Al-len, Brooke Bartling, Bailey Montroy, Lexi C h a mb e r s , K a r ly

Stanowski, Rachel Kell, Kranawetter and McFerron. Coaches were Chad Todaro, Gary Chambers and John Kranawetter.

• Kyle Landon was recognized by the City of Chester for winning the Class 1A state title in the high jump and long jump.

Landon then contin-ued his track career at SIU Carbondale.

August 14, 2014• Seth Hawkins, the

son of Jane and Wayne Hawkins, formerly of Chester, grandson of Judy Richey and nephew of Joni Sear-les, both of Chester, was part of the AIM shooting team from Papillion and La Vista in Nebraska that was the runner-up in the Junior Class A singles competition.

Hawkins held a score of 195 as the squad fi n-ished with a 978 out of 1,000.

• Participation at the AIM Grand Champion-ships that precede in the Grand American at the World Shooting and Recreational Com-plex in Sparta was up by 24 percent.

The handicap event was up 30.1 percent, doubles 53.2 percent and singles 12.3 per-cent.

August 13, 2015

• Three big names were inducted into the Trapshooting Hall of Fame at the World Shooting and Rec-reational Complex in Sparta.

They were Jim Brad-ford Jr., Richard Mar-shall Jr. and Jacque Snellenberger.

• Chris Deterding of Prairie du Rocher and Brian Reid of Coul-terville each earned Class B titles during the fi rst week of the Grand American trap-shooting competition at the World Shooting and Recreational Com-plex in Sparta.

Deterding hit 99 of 100 targets in the Hog-don Powder Singles.

Reid nailed 99 targets in the MEC Shooting Sports Singles.

Clay Curten of Ev-ansville was the Class D runner-up in the Winchester AA Class Singles with 193 tar-gets out of 200.

August 11, 2016• Ethan Carruthers

of Campbell Hill won the singles Junior Class A event at the AIM Grand National Championships at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta by breaking 199 of 200 targets.

Included in the feat was him breaking 175 straight targets, in-cluding 25 in a shoot-off.

• The Trico sub-junior trapshooting squad placed third in Class D at the AIM Grand Na-tional Championships.

The squad consisted of Damien Williams, Keegan Brooks, Jack-son Doerner, Rhett Jones and Kolten Mc-Bride.

Combined, they hit 763 of 1,000 targets.

• Steeleville native Matt Uchtman was to work with the USA

wrestling team at the Rio Olympic games.

Uchtman was a chi-ropractor at Elevation Health Care in Cape

Girardeau.He was one of 40 chi-

ropracters in the Max-imize Living Sports Performance Council.

a hole at setter, as Elaine Shaneyfelt has graduated and joined John A. Logan College on an athletic scholar-ship.

“It’s kind of like we have a bunch of thor-oughbreds in the stall, but no truck to get them to the race,” Layne said. “I don’t think anybody has any so-called var-sity setting experience right now. It will be a high priority to find someone who can learn my offense and do what is needed. It’s like a team without a quar-terback, but with all stars at other spots. I hope to get that fi gured out during contact days starting September 7.”

With COVID-19 caus-

Mike Layne celebrates after a big moment during his coaching days at Murphysboro High School. Photo provided

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ing some athletic sea-sons to take on new shapes, volleyball was switched to the spring this year in hopes that the conditions will be right to safely play.

Layne said all they can do is prepare to iron things out in a quicker and more ef-fi cient fashion.

“The season will be kind of chopped down to 18 matches,” Layne

said. “We have to get things tidied up if possi-ble before we head into the conference run. No longer will we get 10 or so games before that conference stretch. We’ll still divide the season into thirds, but it will just be smaller.

“This is just a great opportunity. I look for-ward to meeting the girls and getting to know them.”

Layne faces challenge of fi nding a replacement for former setter Shaneyfelt

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This undated photograph is an early picture of the fi rst Illinois Central Railroad depot on Spring Street in New Athens.

Another early photo shows the railroad section crew, from left, foreman Alvin Weidemann, Fred Schenke, (unknown) Schenke, George Scharschmidt, George Welzbacher, Gene Peters, Murray Patton, Max Weiss, Walter Teter, Arthur Stehl, Ralph Thompson, Fred Weiss, Robert Bretsch and Bill Germer.

A journey on a train brings back memories of another age.

It was a time when slow travel was the only travel, an era when get-ting from here to there was its own adventure.

In early 1869, the Southern Illinois Rail-road Company com-pleted a railroad line to New Athens and con-nected it to Marissa in October of that year. It was the fi rst leg of a line to be built be-tween Belleville and Du Quoin.

The fi rst New Ath-ens depot was built in the 1870s on Spring Street. That depot was replaced in 1911 by one located on North Ben-ton Street.

In 1918, new timbers were placed under the Illinois Central water tank. A young man named Joshua Lively kept the railroad wa-ter tanks full. His wife Nancy made lunches for the railroad work-ers.

In 1925, the old depot was demolished, and a larger train station was built. It became the Illi-nois Central Depot and included a park.

In 1925, when there were two railroad tracks, four north-bound and four south-bound trains made stops in New Athens.

Before New Ath-ens had a four-year high school, some stu-dents took the train to Belleville to attend the last two years of high school, and students

from Lenzburg often used the train to attend high school in New Ath-ens.

The boarding of pas-sengers from the depot ended in the late 1950s.

On April 9, 1970 a

train derailment and large fi re totally de-stroyed the depot, and it was never rebuilt.

New Athens train depot history

A number of pro-grams will take place in Ste. Genevieve this weekend as part of the fi rst Summer Showcase.

According to the Ste. Genevieve Tourism Board, the showcase is an opportunity for visi-tors to enjoy activities in the downtown area and community center campus. However, all are urged to practice so-cial distancing and take safeguards to prevent the spread of the coro-navirus.

The downtown walk-ing tour series that be-gan in early June will resume and include two evening tours. Tours are Friday and Saturday

at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Sunday 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.

The tours are offered by the National Park Service, Missouri State Parks, Foundation for Restoration and French Colonial America. Each tour covers about a half mile of the downtown area and takes about 30-45 minutes.

The Guibourd-Valle House at 1 North Fourth Street will have an open house from 4 to 6 on Fri-day evening. There will be tea and lemonade served in the garden Saturday.

Ste. Genevieve’s Ger-man Band will perform from 11-1 Saturday on

the corner of Main and Merchant streets.

The Ste. Genevieve County Library will show The Wizard Of Oz outdoors near the Chal-lenger Baseball Field Friday at 8:45 p.m. At-tendees should bring lawn chairs or blankets.

The National Park Service and Missouri State Parks will host a luau in the yard of the Jean-Baptist Valle House at 99 S. Main Street Saturday from 2 to 6. The event will include basket-weaving demon-strations, craft stations, games, hula dancing and limbo lessons.

French Colonial Amer-ica will have a toma-

hawk-throwing competi-tion Saturday from 11 to 3 at the Linden Hands-On History House at 125 South Main Street. The cost is $2 to enter.

French Colonial Amer-ica also will have a free croquet course and yard games at the Bolduc House and a free exhibit and bread-making dem-onstration at the Centre for French Colonial Life.

The River Rapids Wa-terpark will host a nigh-time swimming event Saturday until 9, with special rates starting at 4.

A full schedule of events can be found in the advertisment else-where in this edition.

Weekend events in Ste. Genevieve

The American Red Cross will test for COVID-19 antibodies at its upcoming Chester blood drive Wednes-day, August 19 from 12:45 to 5:45 p.m. at the American Legion.

This test is being of-fered as an additional service on all complet-ed blood donations.

The antibody test in-dicates if the immune system has produced antibodies to the coro-navirus, regardless of whether or not symp-toms were present.

This test is not to di-agnose current symp-toms. If a patron feels unwell, they are en-couraged to postpone donating.

Results of the anti-body test will be avail-able about one week after the donation in the patron's blood do-nor app, or in their donor profi le at Red-CrossBlood.org.

Appointments can be made online, and to decrease wait time by around 15 minutes, donors can use Rapid-Pass, which allows them to complete their prereading and dona-tion questions ahead of time, reducing the time spent at the drive-through screening.

To donate, bring a form of identifi cation, such as a donor card or driver's license.

Blood drive includes COVID antibody test

The next Ellis Grove village board meeting is Tuesday, September 8 at 7 p.m. at village hall.

The previously scheduled meeting was changed because September 7 is Labor Day.

Ellis Grove September meeting date change

The Caring and Sharing Thrift Shop on South Main Street in Pinckneyville will not accept donations from Monday, August 10 through Labor Day, September 7 in order to prepare for transi-tion into fall.

Donors are also asked to refrain from leaving any unattend-ed items at the shop.

Donations will re-sume September 8 for Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

August customer hours will continue at 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thurs-days, Fridays and Sat-urdays.

The shop will be closed Saturday, Au-gust 29 in observance of Labor Day.

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tember 21, 1947 in Du Quoin, the second son of Milton and Frances Stanhouse Hawkins.Greg was raised and

attended schools in Sparta, graduating in the Class of 1965. He studied at SIU Carbondale until enlisting with the U.S. Army in 1966. He served in Vietnam February 1968 to February 1969 with the 5th of the 60th mechanized unit until that unit was transferred to the 16th Infantry, 1st Division. He was honorably discharged in 1972 with six medal citations.Greg spent his career primarily in sales in

the fi nancial industry, working from New York to Ohio to Florida to Georgia. He retired as a mortgage broker in Georgia several years ago, then returned to his native southern Illinois in 2011. He was particularly interested in all things about history and aviation. He never met a stranger and specifi cally loved telling stories. Greg was a member of First United Methodist Church of Sparta, Sparta Eagles, VFW Post 2698 and American Legion Post 396.He is survived by his son Evan Taylor Hawkins

of Brooklyn, New York; mother of Sparta; sib-lings Roger (Wanda) Hawkins of Chester, Cindy (Constance) Hawkins of Dallas, Texas, Scott (Holly) Hawkins of Blair and Christy (Paul) Gentry of Sparta; nephews Jeff, Chuck, Travis, Clinton, Collin and Jeremiah and niece Sara.He was preceded in death by his father in

2009. Graveside services were held Monday, August

10, 2020 at 11 a.m. at Caledonia Cemetery in Sparta, with Rev. Randy McGeehon offi ciating.Wilson’s Funeral Home in Steeleville assisted

the family with arrangements. Memorials may be made to USO or First United

Methodist Church in Sparta. Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.

net.

ROMANA D. YOUNGRomana D. Young,

86, of Chester, died at 12:22 a.m. Satur-day, August 8, 2020 at Memorial Hospital in Chester.She was born Febru-

ary 2, 1934 in Chester to Roman and Dorothy Milligan Klein.Romana married

Roger Young October 21, 1953 in Chester. He preceded her in death June 25, 2019.She and Roger had owned several businesses

in Chester and Sparta. Romana was of the Catholic faith.She is survived by sons Alan (Sharon) Young

of Sparta and John (Irene) Young of Iowa City, Iowa; daughter Mary Sue (Robin) Monforton of Dayton, Ohio; sisters Mary Ann Wilson of DeSoto, Missouri and Nancy White of Spring-field, Illinois; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.She was also preceded in death by her parents,

son Paul Thomas Young, brothers Delbert and Thomas Klein, brother-in-law George Marvin White and sister-in-law Betty Klein.It was Romana’s wish to be cremated. A cel-

ebration of life will be held at a later date.Pechacek Funeral Home in Chester assisted

the family with arrangements.Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s

Research Hospital.Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.

VIRGINIA FAYE LUETH Virginia Faye Lueth,

88, of Steeleville, died at her home surround-ed by her children at 11:27 a.m. Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Faye was born in

Biggers, Arkansas December 22, 1931 to G. Eileen and Wesley Patterson.She was our mother.

The dictionary defi ni-tion of mother is:One person who does the work of 20, for free.Faye was a gourmet and short order cook for

her family of 11. She was a personal shopper in charge of purchasing formal and casual wear. She was a nurse, which included being a scrape healer and boo-boo fi xer. She was a teacher of how to live a moral life, which included home-work helper. She was a life coach that came with being a good listener with an open heart and giving sound advice. One of Faye’s most famous answers to all of our dilemmas was, “100 years from now, no one is going to care.” Faye was a referee and rule enforcer. She was a judge and jury in that she maintained order and peace by using her special forces skill of kindness and respect. She was a human ency-clopedia and knew all of the answers to the continuous question of “Why?” She also knew the who, what, when and where are my shoes. She was a hair stylist, a professional tangle remover and updo artist. Faye was fast, furious and strong. She actually jumped a six-foot fence while eight months pregnant to save her daugh-ter from a fallen beehive—true story. She was underpaid for all these professions in cash but highly paid in pure love from us, her children. None of us was perfect by any means, but she always said she had the best kids in the whole world. The truth is, we had the best mother in the whole universe. We will miss her until we join her on the other side. We love you Mom. Faye is survived by children Mary (Stan) Web-

ster of Chester, Larry (Charilla) Wagoner of Fort Townson, Oklahoma, Dennis Wagoner of Tillamook, Oregon, Steve Wagoner of Steele-ville, Micky Clark of Carbondale, Roy Wagoner of Steeleville, Tammy Wagoner of Green River, Wyoming, Dan (Joyce) Wagoner of Steeleville and Beth (Dennis) Hartenberger of Chester, 25 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren with two more on the way and four great-great-grandchildren.Faye was preceded in death by her husband

Robert Lueth, parents, grandson Adam Crea-son, granddaughters Paulette Webster and An-gela Wagoner, sister Marilou Clark and brother Sonny Patterson.Private memorial services were held.Wilson’s Funeral Home in Steeleville assisted

the family with arrangements.Memorials may be made to Maple Creek Hos-

pice.Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.

net.

JAMES MORGAN

James “Keith” Mor-gan, 68, of Taylorville, Illinois, died at his residence at 8:05 a.m. Tuesday, August 4, 2020.He was born Febru-

ary 5, 1952 in Vanda-lia to Charles Herbert and Betty Maes Lock-art Morgan.He married Diane

Crowder December 5, 1971 in Taylorville. She survives.Keith proudly served in the U.S. Army dur-

ing the Vietman War. After his honorable discharge, he worked for Zeigler Coal Com-pany until his retirement. He then worked for Capital Redi-Mix for an additional 20 years. Keith was a hard worker, and he took pride in everything he did. He was a true outdoorsman, enjoying hunt-

ing, fi shing, 4-wheeling and any other outdoor activities that involved being around the family. Keith was an avid St. Louis Cardinal baseball and Fighting Illini football and basketball fan.He is also survived by sons Jim (Shannon)

Morgan of Taylorville and Kevin (Caryn) Mor-gan of West Lafayette, Indiana; daughter Bob-bie (Bob) Fenno of Coulterville; grandchidren A.J., Mercedez, Hunter, Ryan, Greg and Drew; siblings Sharon Scott, Charlie, Ivan, Mike and Lenna Morgan, nieces and nephews.He was prededed in death by his parents and

infant brother Charles Morgan Jr.Private family ceremonies were held Monday,

August 10, 2020 at Shafer-Perfetti & Assalley Funeral Home in Taylorville, with Chaplain AbrahamMogeman offi ciating .Memorials may be made to Kindred Hospice

in Springfi eld or Cancer Care Specialists of Illinois in Decatur.Sign the guest book at assalleyfuneralhomes.

com.

LAWRENCE JOHN BLUSLawrence “Larry”

John Blus, 86, of Port-land, Oregon, died Thursday, July 2, 2020 in Portland. Larry was born De-

cember 23, 1933 in Tilden to Frank and Anna Lenktis Blus.He was one of eight

children: siblings Anne (Pete) Novack, Mary (Louis) Luke-tich, Frank Jr. (Willa) Blus, Joe (Jane) Blus, Bill (Dorothy) Blus, Ray (Betty) Blus and Barbara Jean (Mer-vil) Franklin.Larry was preceded in death by his parents

and all of his siblings and their spouses except for his sister Barbara Jean Franklin of Fair-view Heights.Nieces and nephews (deceased): Gloria Jean

Novack, Jamie Luketich Jr., Andrew Blus and Lucille Luketich. Nieces and nephews (sur-viving) Cindy (Steve) Meyer, Debi Jo (Roger) Urbani, Joyce (Kenny) Clare, Jill (Jim) Webb, Joni Blus, Paul (Ann) Luketich, Louie Luketich, Dr. James (Christine) Luketich, Dennis (Julia) Franklin, Evelyn Franklin, and many great and great-great-nieces and nephews. Larry married Donna Darlene Weil April 25,

1964 in North Platte, Nebraska. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2014 by renewing their vows. They were married 56 years.Larry and Donna have three children Denise

(Kevin) Cossa of Tigard, Oregon, Emily (Ken-neth) Tantare of Portland, Oregon and Daniel Blus of Salem, Oregon. Larry is survived by grandchildren Sarah Tantare of Seattle, Wash-ington, Julia Tantare of Portland, Oregon and Caitlin Cossa of Tigard, Oregon.Larry attended Tilden Il Elementary and

graduated with the Marissa Township High School Class of 1951. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953-1955,

earning the rank of corporal. .Larry joined the Army during the Korean War

and used the GI bill to enroll at SIU Carbondale, where he became the fi rst person in the Blus family to get a college education. He earned a bachelor of science degree from SIU in 1959. Immediately after he obtained his bachelor’s degree, he studied and got his master’s degree in 1963. He used these degrees in zoology and botany to study birds, working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a leading biologist researching how DDE and DDT affected the eggshells of brown pelicans. He was published in countless books and papers and testifi ed before Congress against the use of certain toxic pesticides that eventually contributed to restrictions on the use of DDT. He published nearly 100 papers in scientifi c journals and chapters in scientifi c books.Larry began his professional work experience

as a research biologist for the Nebraska Fish & Game Commission 1963-1966. He worked as a wildlife research biologist 31 years for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from 1966-1997. Larry was part of a large number of civic

and religious organizations. Toastmasters 1975-1977; Branch President Thrivent Financial 1988-1998; Western Hills Kiwanis 1998-2004; Board of Directors OSU Music Association 1998-2004; Benton County Democratic Party, Precinct Committee Vice Chair 1999-2001; Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Laurel, Maryland 1966-1977; Grace Lutheran Church in Corvallis, Oregon 1977-2004; and St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Portland 2004-2020.He worked as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels

in Corvallis 1998-2004; Raleigh Hills K-8 School in Portland 2005-2010; Habitat for Human-ity; OSU Crossroads 1984-2004 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Retirees Association in Portland 2004-2020 and Alberta Rider Elementary School in Tigard, Oregon.Larry was highly respected by his peers at

Patuxent and worldwide; he was a pioneer. He was well-loved and revered by his colleagues, friends, wife, children and relatives, and he was adored by his grandchildren.He was an avid philanthropist, contributing

to Trumpeter Swan Society, Audubon Society, World Wildlife Federation, Amnesty Interna-tional, Doernbecher, Doctors without Borders, Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, Lutheran World Relief, Medical Teams Inter-national, National Wildlife Federation, Oregon Wildlife, Special Olympics, St. Joseph Indian School, St. Labre Indian School, Southern Il-linois University Foundation and many more.Larry’s favorite hobbies were spending time

with family, watching birds, reading, playing games, singing, attending church, listening to his wife sing in the church choir, watching his children and grandchildren play sports and perform. Larry never let a person pass without reaching out for a handshake or hand hold. He was welcomed into heaven, with angels sing-ing, “Well done.”A memorial service will be held at a date to be

determined. His remains are interred at Oak Lawn Memorial Park in Corvallis, Oregon. In lieu of fl owers, please consider a gift of remem-brance of Larry to the National Wildlife Fed-eration, the Macular Degeneration Association in Sarasota, Florida or St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Beaverton, Oregon. Please leave condolence messages at mchen-

ryfuneralhome.com.

KAY FRANCES ROBERTSONKay Frances Robertson, 70, of Perryville died

at 6:39 p.m. Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville.Visitation is Saturday, August 15, 2020 from 9

to 11 a.m. at Pechacek Funeral Home in Ches-ter. Services will follow. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Chester.Memorials may be made to American Cancer

Society, Shriners Hospitals for Children or American Heart Association.Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.

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ANNA M. HILLYARD Anna M. Hillyard, 96,

of Coulterville, died Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:40 a.m. at Coulterville Reha-bilitation and Health Care.

She was born Febru-ary 8, 1924 in Swan-wick to Charles and Alta Guy Wylie.

On February 17, 1947, she married Kenneth Norman Hillyard Sr. in Pinckneyville. He preceded her in death Novem-ber 5, 2005 after 58 years of marriage.

Anna was a member of Eastern Star. She enjoyed doing crossword puzzles, quilting and embroider-ing for church raffl es. She loved her family and was known for her sugar cookies.

She is survived by son Kenneth Norman Hillyard Jr. of Coulterville; daughter Beverly (Mark) Op-erle of St. Louis; grandchildren Kenneth Hillyard III and Chad Hillyard of Texas and Samuel (Mi-randa) Operle of St. Louis; great-grandchildren Liam, Loretta and Macklin; sisters Clara Birchler of Morton, Illinois, Ruby Grubb of Dekalb, Illinois and Mildred Harstick of Coulterville; brother Donald (Shirley) Wylie of Washington, Illinois, nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, sons Stephan and Michael Hillyard, sisters Mar-garet, Marilyn and Sandra and brother John Wylie.

Graveside services were held Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 11 a.m. at Swanwick Bethel Cemetery, with Rev. Jim Stark offi ciating.

Pyatt Funeral Home in Coulterville assisted the family with arrangements.

Sign the guest book at pyattfuneralhome.com.

RICHARD LEO DAMMERMANN

Richard Leo Dammer-mann, 66, of Willisville, died at 10:41 a.m, Tues-day, August 4, 2020 at Missouri-Baptist Medi-cal Center in St. Louis.

He was born May 29, 1954 in Belleville to Beda (Kreher) and Her-man Dammermann.

He married Judy K. Gendron January 16, 1981 in Murphysboro. She preceded him in death No-vember 3, 2011.

Richard was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Willisville. He retired as a coal miner from Old Ben 13 Zeigler Mine in Coulterville and was a member of UMWA Local 318.

He is survived by children Chrissy (Dan) Smith, Chanda Fedderke and Heather Bilderback; nine grandchildren; father; brothers William (Sheila) and Karl (Lori) Dammermann and sisters Donna Crain, Cynthia Dammermann, Debra (Michael) Rathert and Terri (Tom) Wilhite.

Richard was also preceded in death by his mothers Beda and Ann, brothers Ronald Lee and Kenneth Raymond Dammermann and one infant sister.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thurs-day, August 13, 2020 in Ava Evergreen Cemetery, with Father Larry Lemay offi ciating.

Wilson’s Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.

Memorials may be made to Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.net.

JOE FLOYDHOLDER JR.

Joe Floyd Holder Jr., 65, of Ava, died at home Saturday, August 8, 2020.

Graveside services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at Ava Evergreen Cemetery.

Wilson’s Funeral Home in Ava assisted the family with arrangements.

Memorials may be made to the family.Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.net.

CHARLENE JEAN NOLD LACHLER YEARIAN

Charlene Jean Nold Lachler Yearian moth-er, grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, 69, died Thursday, May 28, 2020 from smoke inhalation during her apartment fi re in House Springs, Missouri.

She was born April 17, 1951 in Sparta to Delmar Dean and Margaret Elizabeth Mines Yearian.

Charlene was an artist, designed and made her own clothes, and enjoyed being the mascot at Sparta High School with many friends. She pursued various careers by following her pas-sions. She began as a beautician, bartended and waitressed at various prestigious places such as TJs in Sparta, Playboy Club in St. Louis and Gilly’s in Texas.

Charlene enjoyed retail at Moody’s and the Week-ender in Sparta, along with modeling at places like Duvardo’s. She then went on to become a real-tor, fl orist, party planner, cook (even featured as Cook of the Week in the Monroe Country Journal) and homemaker. She had a big heart and cared deeply for others.

She is survived and missed by her daughter Amy (Gerry) Page and grandson Garrett in Missouri; her sister Carol (William) Valleroy of Sparta; sister-in-Law Judy Yearian of California and brother Gary Yearian. She was also very much loved by her friends; nieces and nephews.

Her wish was to be cremated and her ashes were spread over the ocean, which she loved.

ROBERT VICTOR SHUBERT

Robert Victor Shubert, 80, of Lively Grove, died at home with his fam-ily by his side Monday, August 10, 2020 at 1:41 p.m.

He was born March 22, 1940, on the farm where he lived his en-tire life, to Bruno Wil-liam “Bill” and Esther Margaretha Sinn Shu-bert.

Robert was a proud veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in the artillery division during the Vietnam War.

On June 25, 1966, he married Phyllis Ann Jack at Grace United Methodist Church in Nashville, Illinois, and they shared 54 years together. She survives.

Robert always loved his farm and working as a farmer. As a young man, he was a member of Rural Youth, where he met Phyllis. He was a member of Washington County Farm Bureau and a lifelong member of the NRA. Robert enjoyed trapshooting and guns. He loved watching his grandsons shoot on their trapshooting teams and spending time with his family, who were his pride and joy.

Also surviving are daughters Susan (Dave) Gut-jahr of Coulterville, Debbie (Chris) Scott of Peoria, Amy (Steve) Fanelli of Leroy and Mary Shubert of Lively Grove; grandchildren Peter, Hannah and Grace Gutjahr, Aniya and Ariel Scott, Omar Cle-ments, Frankie Fanelli (fi ancée Saori Kusaka), Joey and Tony Fanelli, A.J., Ashley and Abby Brennfleck; brother Lester (Marilyn) Shubert of Coulterville; sister Caroline Galle of Sparta; brothers-in-law Ron (Marcile) Jack of Farmington, Missouri, Sam (Martie) Jack of Ashley, Illinois and Bob (Phyllis) Jack of Nashville, Illinois; sister-in-law Hilda Shubert of Nashville, nieces, nephews and friends.

Robert was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents Ganeus and Clementine Shubert, maternal grandparents Jacob and Carrie Sinn, parents, parents-in-law Phil and Betty Jack, broth-er Walter Shubert, brother-in-law Albert Galle and many dear aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Visitation is at Pyatt Funeral Home in Coulterville Thursday, August 14 from 5 to 8 p.m. and Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

A public graveside service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Coulterville City Cemetery, with Pastor Nancy Shubert offi ciating.

The family requests that all attendees wear face masks at visitation and the gravesite.

Memorials may be made to St. Peters United Church of Christ in Stone Church, Coulterville Cemetery or Juvenile Diabetes Research Founda-tion.

Sign the guest book at pyattfuneralhome.com.

MILDRED “MILLIE” L. LAYTON

Mildred L. Layton, 91, of Chester, Illinois, died at her residence at 4:15 pm, Monday, August 10, 2020.

She was born July 4, 1929 in Chester to Otto J. and Irene Bueckman Welge.

Millie married Lester Tindall August 13, 1949 at Mary Help of Chris-tians Catholic Church in Chester. He preceded her in death December 31, 1978. She then married Huebert Layton No-vember 12, 1982. He preceded her in death De-cember 1, 1991.

She had worked as a loan offi cer for First Na-tional Bank in Chester for 40 years then moved to Buena Vista National Bank until her retire-ment in 1994.

Millie was a member of Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Chester, where she was in the Ladies Altar Sodality, and American Legion Auxiliary.

Surviving are children Joan Barnes and Joel (Dianne) Tindall both of Chester; stepchil-dren Gary (Sharon) Layton and Joyce (Wayne) Hennemann, Diane (Ken) Schumer, Vicki (Kent) Wingerter, all of Perryville, Linda (Larry) Hoff-man of Maryland Heights, Missouri, Ronald (Jean) Layton of Marble Hill, Missouri; grand-children Tiffany (Tony) Owens, Jeffrey Draves (Krisann), John Draves (Cheryl), Kayla Barnes, Jessica McCarty (John), Joe (Crystal) Tindall and Jennifer Surman (Josh); step-grandchildren Scott (Kim), Chad (Sarah), Darren (Brooke), Joe (Johanna) and Michael Layton, Amy (Greg) Kapp, Jim (Sara) and Brad (Jessica) Hennemann, Beth (Scott) Carlton, Valerie (Scott) Pierson, Rebecca (Rob) Tesson, Craig (Alicia) Schumer, Amber (Jason) Cox, Kayla (Cody) Lauder and Jordin Wingerter; 20 great-grandchildren, 37 step-great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild and one step-great-great-grandchild.

Also preceding Mildred in death were her parents, brother-in-law John Allen Tindall, step-grandchild Marcia Hoffman and nephews Pat Tindall and Jeff Tindall.

Visitation is from 9 to 11 a.m., Friday, August 14, 2020 at Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Chester, with Very Rev. Eugene H. Wojcik of-fi ciating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

A private funeral Mass, for family only, will be at Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Chester.

Memorials may be made to family choice. Sign the guest book atwpfh.net.

OPAL FERN ROCHEOpal Fern Roche, 90,

of Chester, died at 7:25 p.m. Thursday, Au-gust 6, 2020 at Three Springs Lodge Nuring Home in Chester.

She was born Novem-ber 2, 1929 to Fifer and Nellie B. Weaver Chap-pell in Tilden.

Opal married Robert Roche August 9, 1947 in Chester.He preceded her in death Septem-ber 2, 1993.

She was a homemaker. Opal was a member of First Baptist Church in Steeleville. She enjoyed playing bingo and daning.

She is survived by children Carol (Dennis) Po-enitske of Ocala, Florida and Paula (Jim) Hall of Chester; grandchildren Dawn (Dan) LaFata, Kim (Melvin) Arcelona, Alyssa and Alaina Presswood and Johnny Ray Roche; eight great-grandchil-dren; four great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, sons John R. and Robert Roche, sisters Faye Rhody and Virginia Yearman and brother Floyd Chappell.

It was her wish to be cremated. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

Pechacek Funeral Home in Chester is assisting the family with arangments.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church in Steeleville.

Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.

MARGARET “PEGGY” MCLAUGHLINMargaret “Peggy” McLaughlin, 88, of Murphys-

boro, passed away at 6:40 a.m. Sunday, August 9, 2020 at Manor Court in Carbondale.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Satur-day, August 15, 2020 at Ava Evergreen Cemetery with Rev. James Easton and Rev. Bob Spangler offi ciating. Burial will follow.

Wilson’s Funeral Home in Ava assisted the family with arrangements.

Memorials may be made to the Pate Chapel Baptist Church. Sign the guest book at wilsons-funeralhome.net.

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August has arrived and with it a little cooler weather. Schools are trying to open up, and churches are try-ing limited seating. Masks are required in most places. Many town picnics, concerts, celebrations have been

canceled, and major league baseball and other sports are taking a big hit.

Happy birthday to Joyce Buch, Barb Hall, Barb King, Shelly As-selmeier, Kayla Braun, Cori Cissell, Nikki Pela-te, Tom Zweigart, Char-lie Lehman, Glenn Paut-ler, Ron Heinen, Lisa Koester and Joe Orella.

Happy anniversary to David and Sharon Mc-Clellan, Nubs and Pam Meyer, Dave and Judy Renner, Tim and Cindy Copple, Mark and Mar-garet Heinen.

Sparta schools will begin the year August 12. Breakfast and lunch will be offered, with dismissal at 2 p.m.

Each Wednesday will be online school for all students.

It�s time once again for the Central School reunion. This year it is September 12 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the home of Ken and Sue Krantz. Please bring a covered dish, chairs and drinks.Evansville Enterprise

August 8, 1941Apparently falling

asleep at the wheel, a

driver of a soda truck crossed over the line and crashed into the tail of a truck driven by Al Coop on Route 3 near Dew Drop Inn.

Tragedy occurred when two young boys drowned while wading in the Kaskaskia River near roots. The victims were Laverne VanPelt, 16, and Virgil Roth, 14.

Clem Veath had his left hand badly injured when he and his broth-er Fred, were carrying a range. Clem tripped and fell, and the stove landed on his hand.

Tori Klamm was the guest of honor at a baby shower August 2. Tori is the daughter of Christy Smith and Wesley Klamm.

Congratulations to Brian and Macailah Fulton on the birth of McKenna Mavis, born Tuesday, August 4. She joins sisters Aubrey and Emilie.

Lee Ann Talbert and grandson Dylan Tal-bert traveled to Smyr-na, Delaware to visit Dylan�s sister Mack-enzie.Mackenzie is stationed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. While there, they visit-

ed the beach a few days and did lots of shop-ping. The group had a nice long visit and are already planning their trip for next year.

Elodie and Daxton spent the Wednesday night with David and me. Their dad picked them up Thursday. We met Elodie and Daxton and Parker Clements Thursday with Nana Terie Brewer and had lunch at The Goat. The kids left for Florida Friday night.

Over the week, David and I visited with his brother Earl and our oldest son Carlo.

Sunday, David and I went to Oakdale Country Kitchen for supper and visited with Howard and Rosemary Westerman.

Condolences to the family of Anna Hill-yard, who passed away last week.

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MONDAY: Polish sau-sage, sauerkraut or corn, mashed potatoes, fruit.TUESDAY: Beef stro-ganoff, carrots, apple-sauce, biscuit.WEDNESDAY: Chick-en/dumplings, green beans, cole slaw, fruit crisp.THURSDAY: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, corn, pudding.FRIDAY: Chicken salad, pasta salad, pudding.

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90 for NorbNorbert Huether of Sparta recently celebrated his 90th birthday with a party hosted by his children. The highlight of the event was the showing of a video composed by his grandchildren that featured a personal message from St. Louis Cardinal legendary shortstop Ozzie Smith. Huether was also surprised by a parade at his home led by a Sparta fi re truck followed by many friends in cars. Huether was a long-time employee and manager of the Kroger store. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving as a medic aboard the USS Constellation during the Korean War. He and his late wife Mary Ann had nine children.

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Lindsay Eckart, peti-tioner, Joshua Eckart. Dissolution of marriage was granted to the pe-titioner July 31, 2020.

Tanya L. Cowan, peti-tioner, John D. Cowan. Dissolution of marriage was granted to the peti-tioner Juy 30, 2020.

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August 6 was the date when the 85th an-nual Swanwick Picnic was to be held, but due to the COVID-19, it was postponed to August 5 of next year.

The cemetery/pic-nic committee did opt to hold a 50/50 draw-ing and quilt raffl e. A group of 18 people consisting of ceme-tery trustees, commu-nity members and oth-ers with interest in the cemetery met at the picnic grounds to draw the winners of the raf-fl es.

The winners of the 50/50 raffl e were: fi rst prize, Tyler Klein-schmidt of Columbia; second, Steve Risley of Coulterville; third, Joe Rahn of Colum-bia; fourth, Jessie Pu-zon of Columbia; and fi fth, David Leming of Sparta.

First prize, a hand-quilted quilt, donated by the Swanwick Sew-ing Club, was won by Judy Stahlheber of Sparta; second, cross-stitch picture, Can-dance Shadowens of Goreville; third, hand-quilted quilt donated by the Swanwick Sew-ing Club, Bob Thom-as of O’Fallon; fourth, cross-stitch picture, Hunter Smith of Pinck-neyville; $100 cash, Ja-net Horner of Coulter-ville; and cross-stitch picture, Gail Barber Whaley of Toledo, Ohio

All of the framed cross-stich pictures were made and donat-ed by Bill Stewart.

A hand-knitted quilt donated the Duane Kinney family was won by RoJean Zielin-ski from Winfi eld, Mis-souri. Pyatt Funeral Home donated a phone charger, and it was won by Anne Tabing of Cutler. Jim and Car-olyn Bathon contrib-uted a Walmart gift card won by Darlene Mitchell of Coulter-ville. Shelly Schneider of Pinckneyville won a pair of pillowcas-es done with chicken-scratch stitch donated by Lavone Morris.

Winning pillowcas-es donated by vari-ous people and kitch-en towel sets donated by the Duane Kinney family were Donna O’Rear of Coulterville, Naomi Harris of Tam-aroa, Alice Foertsch of Marissa, Virginia Sey-mour of DeKalb, Shell-ie Barr, Joel McIntyre and Margaret Urbanek of Pinckneyville, Tif-fany Diercks of Ken-tucky, Fallon Moore of Wentzville, Missouri, and Leota Rokiski of Cinncinnati, Ohio.

The response to the raffl es was over-whelming and appre-ciated by the cemetery/picnic committee. All proceeds from the raf-fl es go for the upkeep of the cemetery and surrounding grounds.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

RANDOLPH COUNTY - CHESTER ILLINOIS

Citibank, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2018-2Plaintiff,vs.Paul E. Dean, AKA Paul Dean; Patricia L. Dean, AKA Patricia DeanDefendants.

Case No. 2020CH11

745 Valley Street, Chester, IL 62233Judge Richard Brown

NOTICE OF SALEPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judg-ment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on June 5, 2020, Shannon L. Wolff will, on September 16, 2020, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Randolph County Sheriff’s Offi ce, Randolph County Courthouse (door of Court-room 2), #1 Taylor Street, Chester, Illinois 62233, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate:

Commonly known as 745 Valley Street, Chester, IL 62233

Parcel Number(s): 18-082-015-00

The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier’s or certifi ed check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confi rmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

For information call Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney fi le number: 19-031704.

Edward R. PeterkaMANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLCAttorneys for PlaintiffOne East Wacker, Suite 1250Chicago, IL 60601Telephone: 312-651-6700Fax: 614-220-5613Attorney No: 6220416Email: StateEFiling@manleydeas.com

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of Ava to David Gen-dron Lt 9 Blk 3 River-view Addn Consider-ation $10,500

Debbie Hornberger & Debra Hornberger to Jacki D. Conway & Rex E. Conway Jr. Consideration $89,000

Shirley J. Aaron to Nathan P. Koester & Jodi M. Koester Lts 23 & 24 TJ Booker Addn

Consideration $20,000Lois Ann Heggemeier

to Kathleen A. Cox & Michael W. Cox Lt 7 Book 3rd Addn Consid-eration $6,500

Bret Allen Rosendohl to Dennis L. Stevenson SW NW Sec 9 5-5

David G. Herring & Marilyn B. Herring to Joseph A. Mattingly & Beth M. Heiple NE NW Sec 12 5-6 Consid-eration $135,000

Joan F. Gentry, Deb-orah J. Klausing & Joan F. Gentry Irre-vocable Trust to The City Of Sparta Lt 7 Blk 5Matthew 2nd Addn

Gateway FS to LEM, LLC Lts 12, 1, 2, 10, 13, 14 Blk 7 Tilden Consid-eration $40,000

Laura Ann Howie to Kenneth W. Gru-enewald & Kendra R. Gruenewald Blks 40 & 48 Swanwick Addn

Randy Hines to David Burns SE NE Sec 25 6-5

Steven R. Cook to Helen L. Harstick SW SW Sec 13 4-5

QUITCLAIM DEEDSllini Real Estate Hold-

ings to Danny Boyet Lt 101 Armour Addn

Janet R. Siebert & Joseph A. Siebert Jr. to Joseph A. Siebert Jr.

Darren T. Whitley to Jennifer A. Whitley Lts 28 & 29 Fair Addn

Ray Charles Wilson to Ray Charles Wilson & Paula Jo Wilson NE Sec 6 4-5

John W. Loesing to

Scott A. Rowell Lt 6 Blk 3 WH McMillin 1st Addn Consideration $100

Dennis Stevenson Declaration of Trust & Dennis L. Stevenson to Dennis L. Stevenson & Dennis L. Stevenson Declaration of Trust NW; SW NW Sec 9 5-5

Kevin G. Diskey & Patricia E. Diskey to Keith A. Diskey & Kelsey A. Diskey SE Sec 31 5-6

Susan L. Kohring & Frederick William Kohring Jr. to Sharie M. Cadduck NW SE Sec 27 4-5

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PUBLIC NOTICEPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the ten-tative Budget and Appropriation Ordinance of the Sparta Community Airport Authority is on public display and is available for public inspection. The tentative budget and ap-propriation ordinance may be viewed at the Airport Manager’s Offi ce located at 1800 North Market Street, Sparta, Illinois, on Mon-day through Friday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.A public hearing on such Budget and Appro-priation Ordinance will be held on September 14, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. at the Airport located at 1800 North Market Street, Sparta, Illinois, and the public is invited to attend this meeting............................................................0 - 8 - 1 3

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICEPublic notice is hereby given that on July 14, 2020 a Certifi cate of Assumed Name was fi led in the Offi ce of Beth Lipe, County Clerk of Perry County, Illinois setting forth the names and post offi ce addresses of all the persons owning, conducting, and transact-ing a business known as Giacomo’s Custom Woodworking located at 1354 Pixie Road, Coulterville, IL 62237.Dated: July 14, 2020

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

RANDOLPH COUNTY - CHESTER ILLINOIS

Citibank, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for New Residen-tial Mortgage Loan Trust 2018-2 Plaintiff , vs. Paul E. Dean, AKA Paul Dean; Patricia L. Dean, AKA Patricia Dean Defendants. Case No. 2020CH11 745 Valley Street, Chester, IL 62233 Judge Richard Brown

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursu-ant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on June 5, 2020, Shannon L. Wolff will on Septem-ber 16, 2020, at the hour of 10:00AM at the Randolph County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, Randolph County Courthouse (door of Courtroom 2), 1 Taylor Street, Chester, Illinois 62233, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following de-scribed mortgaged real estate: Lots 4, 5, 6 and the South One-Half of Lot 3, all in Block 26 of Servant’s Addition to the City of Chester, Randolph County, Illinois, as shown by plat recorded May 23, 1872 in Plat Book “C” at Page 94, Recorder’s Offi ce, Ran-dolph County, Illinois. Commonly known as 745 Valley Street, Ches-ter, IL 62233 Parcel Number(s): 18-082-015-00 The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier’s or certifi ed check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The subject property is off ered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition.

The sale is further subject to confi rmation by the Court. The property will NOT be open for inspection. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than the mortgagee shall pay the as-sessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). For information call Plaintiff ’s Attorney, Man-ley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wacker, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone num-ber: 312-651-6700. Attorney fi le number: 19-031704.

Edward R. Peterka

MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff

One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601

Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613

Attorney. No.: 6220416

Email: StateEFiling@manleydeas.com ............................................................. 1-8-20

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS

In the Matter of the Estate of BARBARA J. WEBER, Deceased

No. 2020P50

CLAIM NOTICE

Notice is given of the death of Barbara J. Weber of 301 C Avenue, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, 62277. Letters of Offi ce were issued on July 31, 2020, to James D. Weber of 102 St. Louis Street, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, 62277, as Administrator and whose attorney of record is R. Jeff rey Kerkhover of Fisher, Kerkhover, Coff ey & Gremmels Law Offi ce, 600 State Street, Chester, Illinois, 62233.

Claims against the estate may be fi led in the offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the Randolph County Courthouse, #1 Taylor Street, Chester, Illinois, 62233, or with the representatives, or both, on or before Febru-ary 15, 2021, or three months from the date of mailing or delivery of this Notice to creditors, whichever is later, and any claim not fi led on or before that date is barred.

Within ten days after fi ling of the Claim with the Clerk, the claimant shall cause a copy of the Claim to be mailed or delivered to the representatives of the estate and to the rep-resentatives’ attorney of record.

Dated: July 31, 2020James D. Weber

Administrator of the Estate ofBarbara J. Weber

R. Jeff rey Kerkhover - Attorney

R. Jeff rey Kerkhover - #03127288FISHER, KERKHOVER, COFFEY &GREMMELS LAW OFFICEAttorney for Estate600 State StreetChester, IL 62233Telephone: (618) 826-5021Fax: (618) 826-5024Email: fkcglaw@gmail.com ........................................................0-8-20

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS

In the Matter of the Estate of MARVIN V. STEWART, Deceased

No. 2020P49

CLAIM NOTICE

Notice is given of the death of Marvin V. Stewart of 501 Hillandale, Steeleville, Il-linois, 62288. Letters of Offi ce were issued on July 29, 2020, to Cynthia A. Falkenhein of 505 South James Street, Steeleville, Illinois, 62288, and Terry L. Stewart of 403 South James Street, Steeleville, Illinois, 62288, as Co-Executors and whose attorney of record is R. Jeff rey Kerkhover of Fisher, Kerkhover, Coff ey & Gremmels Law Offi ce, 600 State

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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF LOCATION OF AUGUST 18, 2020 MEETING OFTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF

THE SPARTA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Sparta Community Hos-pital District, Sparta, Illinois has changed the location of the August 18, 2020 meeting to the Broadway Plaza, 203 South Vine Street, Suite 3, Sparta, Illinois 62286. The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm.

Dated this 4th day of August, 2020. ........................................................0-8-13

Street, Chester, Illinois, 62233.Claims against the estate may be fi led in

the offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the Randolph County Courthouse, #1 Taylor Street, Chester, Illinois, 62233, or with the representatives, or both, on or before Febru-ary 8, 2021, or three months from the date of mailing or delivery of this Notice to creditors, whichever is later, and any claim not fi led on or before that date is barred.

Within ten days after fi ling of the Claim with the Clerk, the claimant shall cause a copy of the Claim to be mailed or delivered to the representative of the estate and to the repre-sentative’s attorney of record.

Dated: July 29, 2020Cynthia A. Falkenhein and Terry L. Stewart

Co-Executors of the Estate ofMarvin V. Stewart

R. Jeff rey Kerkhover - Attorney R. Jeff rey Kerkhover - #03127288FISHER, KERKHOVER, COFFEY &GREMMELS LAW OFFICEAttorney for Estate 600 State StreetChester, IL 62233Telephone: (618) 826-5021Fax: (618) 826-5024Email: fkcglaw@gmail.com ........................................................0-8-20

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Hosts Grand Lodge offi cersChester Masonic Lodge 72 hosted several Illinois Grand Lodge offi cers at its August 6 meeting. From left are 8th Southern District Deputy Grand Master Orvel Cox, Illinois Most Worshipful Grand Master Stephen Oakley, Chester Worshipful Master Craig Rayburn and 8th Southern District Education Offi cer Stephen Hodges.

A m b e r Kellerman, board cer-tifi ed fam-ily nurse p r a c t i -tioner, has joined the m e d i c a l staff of the Pinckney-ville Com-m u n i t y H o s p i t a l Family Medical Cent-er.

"I fell in love with nursing right from the start," Kellerman said. "I knew I wanted to become a provider and am excited that I get to start my career as an FNP in the com-munity that I love.

"I believe that small towns deserve to have quality healthcare ac-cessible to them that is close to home. It is my hope that I am able to deliver caring and compassionate care to those who need it.

"I want to work at building a practice that is built on strong and meaningful pa-tient and provider relationships. I am thankful for this op-portunity to work at a facility that has a strong mission to de-liver quality care to the community."

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"I am passion-ate about h e l p i ng a d u l t s and old-er adults to man-age new d i s e a s e process -es or con-tinue to m a n a g e

current medical con-ditions," Kellerman said. "I enjoy working with the patient to address and manage any of their medical concerns."

Kellerman com-pleted her master's in nursing at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illi-nois and is certifi ed through the Ameri-can Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Kellerman has over 11 years of nursing ex-perience in inpatient, emergency room, sur-gery and oncology, as well as community and home health set-tings.

"We are glad to have Amber as a health-care provider in (the) Family Medical Cent-er," said Randall Dau-by, hospital CEO. "She will be a great addi-tion to our other fan-tastic medical staff."

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There will be a Ran-dolph County electron-ic recycling event Sat-urday, August 22 from 9 to noon at Sparta High School.

In regards to COV-ID-19, residents must follow steps to mini-mize contact with site staff. Staff will wear masks and gloves and will regularly sanitize their hands and items used in the transac-tions.Required guidelines:

• Materials to be re-cycled must be in the hatchback area or trunk of the vehicle. Items in passenger or back seats will not be accepted.

• You must remain in your vehice with the windows up and unlock the trunk from the inside the vehicle to allow workers to unload.

• If you have to com-municate with work-ers or make a pay-ment, you must wear a mask.

• All small loose elec-tronics, cables, cords and remotes must be bagged and tied closed.

• Please be patient with event staff and volunteers, as the line will move a bit slower

than normal to assure that there is appropri-ate spacing between workers.

• If you are not com-fortable allowing the workers to unload ma-terials from your ve-hicle, you should not attend.

• People under quar-antine or isolation pro-tocol are not allowed at the event. If you have had COVID-19 in your household, you must be symptom free for at least two weeks before delivering elec-tronics to the event.

• You should not at-tend the event if you are experiencing fe-ver, cough, shortness of breath, diffi culty breathing, sore throat, headache, rigors, my-algia, loss of taste or smell.Accepted items:

• Computers, print-ers, cables, keyboards and mice

• Fax machines, scanners, digital con-verter boxes, cable and satellite receivers

• Networking equip-ment, server, telecom-

munications, phones, cell phones

• Home electronics, air conditioners, hu-midifi ers, blenders, toasters, irons

• Home appliances, refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, ov-ens

• Video game con-soles, DVD players/re-corders, portable digi-tal music players

• Nonferrous metals, metal offi ce furniture, such as metal desks and fi le cabinets

• Car batteries, lead items

• Li-ion laptop and cell batteries

• Motors, nonPCB-type ballasts, trans-formers and other elec-trical equipment

• Medical equipment, all types of diagnostic equipment

• Industrial machin-ery and equipment, in-cluding power and gas equipment

• Electrical, cabling, communication ma-chinery and equipment

• VCRs, stereos, audio and video equipment, including cable and

satelliteAccepted but with a fee:

• CRT, projection, plasma, fl at screen and console televisions

• CRT monitors, fl at screen monitors with-out tower

• Alkaline and re-chargeable batteries, including NiCd, NiMH, Li-Ion mixed, LithiumNot accepted:

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cassette tapes• Radioactive and

fl ammable materials• Household smoke

detectors• Nonelectronics• Explosives, includ-

ing fi rearms and am-munition

• Prescription, over the counter or illegal drugs

• Devices containing mercury, asbestos, ra-dioactive components, infectious or pathology waste

• Hazardous mate-rials such as oil, an-tifreeze, paint, pesti-cides, oil fi lters, air bags, lead and mercu-ry switches

Electronic recycling in Sparta

The Chester Cham-ber of Commerce has joined the Lewis and Clark National His-toric Trail Geotour-ism program as a community partner.

The program, which is supported by the National Park Service, is designed to develop new part-nerships along the trail by engaging governments, tour-ism organizations, local residents, busi-nesses and visitors to promote stewardship through education, interpretation, re-source protection and recreation.

Chester business owners who believe their businesses could benefi t by being on the lewisandclark.travel website—as a place visitors and tourists would want to check out—those businesses can nomi-

nate themselves or call the chamber at 826-2721.

There is no cost to join.

Chester Chamber joins Lewis and Clark program

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Marissa TWIGSThe Marissa library is hosting TWIGS, the free lunch program for those 18 and younger. Food will be distributed until August 17 from 11 to noon in the foyer between the library and the genealogical society. Each sacked meal will have an Eckrich Lunch Maker, yogurt and a snack. At times, fresh produce will also be available. Pictured from left are Fred and Jate Klingeman being served by volunteers Pam Welshans and Judy Milford. Photo by Carol Mercer

The Western Egyp-tian Economic Op-portunity Council announced an assis-tance program for those struggling to pay their rent due to COVID-19.

The Illinois Housing Development Author-ity has $150 million available to provide a flat amount of $5,000 per household regard-less of the amount of rent owed.

To be eligible, appli-cants must be at less than 80 percent of area median income; have lost income due to reduction in hours; have unpaid rent af-ter March 1; and have a landlord who par-ticipates in the appli-cation process.

Those in Section 8 housing programs are ineligible, nor may an applicant already be receiving assistance

through another pro-gram.

The application deadline is August 21, but the Housing De-velopment Authority expects a high num-ber of applications, which could cause the program to close sooner.

Apply at era.ihda.org, or for more in-formation, call Rob-ert Schroeder at 965-3458.

Rent assistance for those affected by COVID-19 crisis

Justin Prost of Bald-win was named to the dean’s list at the Uni-versity of North Geor-gia in Dahlonega for the summer 2020 se-mester.

To make the list, a student must carry a grade point average of 3.5 and have no grade lower than a B.

Meet RubyRuby is an older Pug mix who is just as sweet as pie. Ruby is a senior girl, so she needs someone who will be willing to love an old soul. If you are interested in adopting her, call the Perry County Humane Society at 542-3647 or email the pchsinfo@yahoo.com.

Dean’s list

STEELEVILLEAugust 17-21Breakfast

MONDAY: Cereal.TUESDAY: Sausage

biscuit.WEDNESDAY: French

toast sticks.THURSDAY: Cinna-

mon roll.FRIDAY: Pancakes.Lunch MONDAY: Cheese piz-

za, broccoli w/dip, fruit.TUESDAY: Nacho w/

beef, green beans.WEDNESDAY: Meat

loaf, mashed potatoes, gravy.

THURSDAY: Chicken/noodles, carrots.

FRIDAY: Fish patty, baked beans.

EVANSVILLEAugust 17-21Breakfast

MONDAY: Pancake/sausage.

TUESDAY: Breakfast bread.

WEDNESDAY: Biscuits and gravy.

THURSDAY: Long john donut.

FRIDAY: Yogurt/choco-late chip grahams.

LunchMONDAY: Hamburger,

potato smiles, carrots, peaches.

TUESDAY: Taco Su-preme, salsa, cheese, corn, pineapple.

WEDNESDAY: Ham and cheese, P into beans, banana.

THURSDAY: Spaghetti w/ meat sauce, bread stick, green beans, ap-plesauce.

FRIDAY: Pizza crunch-ers w/ marinara, ro-maine salad, w/ ranch, mixed fruit.

ST. MARK’SAugust 17-21

MONDAY: BBQ rib, corn, pineapple.

TUESDAY: Taco on soft shell, salad, pears.

WEDNESDAY: Toasted ravioli, green beans, applesauce.

THURSDAY: Corn dogs, fries, peaches.

FRIDAY: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, mixed fruit.

School breakfast, lunch menus