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Safety firstChester Grade School staff members Becky Gielow and Michelle Kelkhoff administer temperature checks to students before they entered the school building Tuesday. From left are students Luke Kennedy, 12, Jack Kennedy, 11, and Lincoln Schroeder, 13, who stood on little yellowjackets painted on the sidewalk to mark a six-foot distance.
St. Mark’s, Evansville delay start of school due to COVID
By Dan ZobelTwo area grade schools
have had to adjust their original back to school schedules because of posi-tive COVID-19 cases.The first day of school for
students who will attend St. Mark’s Lutheran in Steeleville is now August 25 due to four confirmed cases of the virus stem-ming from the school’s Au-gust 4 registration night. St. Mark’s was set to start
the school year August 17 with a full five-day sched-ule.The decision to postpone
the start of school was an-nounced the evening of August 13, citing that two of the coronavirus cases are staff members.School board President
Janet Wicker said she was in contact with the health department August 13, and registration night seemed to be the common denomi-nator for the cases.The board held a Zoom
meeting prior to the an-nouncement. In attendance included the president and vice president of the church congregation, Pas-tor Mark Harriss, Prin-cipal Tim Lochhead and Assistant Principal Dawn Uchtman.“August 25 is a soft date,”
Wicker said. “If we have to push it back after the 25th, we’ll have to meet again and see where we are. “We really want to go with
face-to-face learning but only if we can ensure the safety of everyone.”
Wicker noted that August 25 was chosen for a couple of reasons, the first being because it will be over two weeks removed from regis-tration night.If the new start date holds,
it will also allow the school to begin the year without having to restructure its attendance schedule.“One of the other possible
dates discussed was Sep-tember 1,” Wicker said. “If we have to do that, we will, but if we do, we’ll have to do some juggling with days throughout the year to get enough hours for the school year.”Wicker added that the
board did not want to po-tentially lose another week of school if it went with September 1, just to see the possibility arise to resume August 25.“We want to be able to get
the children into school. The teachers have been
working very hard to make that happen,” Wicker said. “There are so many things that have been done at this school to ensure a safe return. We don’t want to jeopardize anything.”Nobody is allowed inside
the school at this time, and the board elected to have it completely sanitized again.The school has also or-
dered a CDC-approved ma-chine that will allow jani-torial staff to efficiently sanitize the classrooms each day.“We’re erring on the side
of extreme caution,” Wick-er said. “If we delay the start of school then get off to a smooth start, we will have weathered this storm, while doing everything we can for safety.”Meanwhile, Evansville At-
tendance Center, a part of the Sparta School district, made it through its first week of in-person instruc-tion before deciding to go full remote through at least August 31.It was reported that two
staff members tested posi-tive from previous expo-sure prior to the start of school.The Randolph County
Health Department then performed contact tracing and tested anybody directly affected.A Facebook post from the
Sparta school district stated that the district wanted to be overly cautious because of the size of the school.
Vendor row at the shooting complex was empty this month, when this year’s Grand was moved to Missouri.
Grand moved, but state tells vendors to pay up anywayRequest for refund of rent payments denied
By Travis LottThe relationship between
the patrons of the World Shooting and Recreational Complex and the state of Illinois soured even more earlier this month.When the announcement
was made that the Grand American Trapshooting Championship would not be held in Sparta this year, shooting complex vendors, the people who rent the storefronts along vendor row at the complex, had asked the Illinois Depart-ment of Natural Resources
to reduce or eliminate the rent payments for this year.On years when the Grand
American takes place in Sparta, the vendor build-ings that house shops for small businesses and big names such as Remington and Winchester are packed with shooters. As many at-tendees of the Grand have said, the event is as much a shopping experience as a shooting experience.However, except for major
shoots like the Grand, those buildings remain mostly empty, as there are too few visitors to the complex to justify turning the lights on at the stores.
On August 4, an IDNR employee sent an email to the vendors to inform them that there would be no rent decrease.The email stated that if
the vendor had not already paid rent for 2020, to send a check as soon as possible.“It’s like me renting you
a house, not letting you move into it, but still charg-ing you rent,” said Rodney Stumbo, owner of Rod’s Custom Stocks of Shelby, Ohio.
Stumbo said he pays more than $2,500 a year to rent his storefront at the complex.
Positivity spikes,restrictions in place
Randolph County on the list The Metro East region
of Illinois, which contains Randolph County, was is-sued stricter COVID-19 pre-vention measures by the state as of last weekend.According to the Illi -
nois Department of Public Health, the region as a whole exceeded the depart-ment’s criterion, which triggers additional restric-tions by having a positivity rate greater than 8 percent for three consecutive days, from August 14-16.The region also includes
the counties of Bond, Clin-ton, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair and Washington.According to the new re-
strictions in these counties, gatherings of no more than 25 people, down from 50, are allowed, or 25 percent of the overall room capac-ity.The restrictions especially
apply to bars and restau-rants.In bars, all bar stools are to
be removed, as no ordering, seating or congregating at the bar is to be allowed. All patrons should be seated at tables inside or outside, and
six or fewer people should be seated at a table.The same rules apply to
restaurants, where tables must be six feet apart with groups of no more than six.Reservations are required
for all bars and restau-rants, and all must close by 11 p.m.All reception halls, like
those in VFWs and Amer-ican Legions, are to be closed.Party buses are also not
allowed.Gaming bars and casinos
are to close at 11 p.m. and must remain at 25 percent capacity.The Illinois Department
of Public Health stated that these restrictions will be in place until at least August 31, when the region will be re-evaluated. At that time, if numbers
have not yet improved, restrictions could be tight-ened even further.State Senator Paul Schimpf
responded to the increased restrictions, critical of Gov-ernor J.B. Pritzker and the
The Nissan Altima that was driven by Thomas Lyons following extrication
Two hurt near ChesterNon life-threatening inju-
ries were sustained by both drivers in a two-vehicle accident that occurred Au-gust 13 on Route 150 outside Chester.Thomas Lyons, 46, of
Chester was driving a black 2004 Nissan Altima south on Route 150 near Willy Gully Lane. Ciarra Huelsmann, 27, of
Royalton was driving her white 2000 International semi north on Route 150.According to the Illinois
State Police accident re-port, for an unknown rea-son, Lyons swerved into the northbound lane and
struck the driver’s side of the semi-trailer.Much of the damage in-
curred by Lyons’ Nissan Altima was on the driver’s side, specifically near the door.The Chester Fire Depart-
ment performed extrica-tion, taking off the roof of the car in the process, to remove Lyons, who was airlifted to an area hospi-tal.Huelsmann was trans-
ported by ambulance to an area hospital.Lyons has been charged
A 50-year-old in-mate at Menard Cor-rectional Center in Chester was pro-nounced dead Mon-day at the prison.
According to Ran-dolph County Coro-ner Carlos Barbour, the inmate was found dead just after 7 a.m.
Barbour said the death appeared to be
Burnt breakfast
The following cases have been terminated from Randolph County circuit court.
Tina Panell of Spar-ta, criminal damage to property, guilty, condi-tional discharge, fi ne.
Brittany Hurd of Sparta, criminal dam-age to property, with-hold judgment, court supervision, fi ne, res-titution.
Tommy Sheppard of Steeleville, battery, withhold judgment, court supervision, fi ne.
Nathan Hornbostel of Chester, unlawful
display of title, guilty, fi ne.
Austin McCormick of Chester, domestic bat-tery, guilty, fi ne.
Ricky Johnson of Corinth, Mississippi, DUI, withhold judg-ment, court super-vision, fi ne, alcohol treatment.
Kayla Burmester of Red Bud, DUI, with-hold judgment, court supervision, fi ne, alco-hol treatment.
Lauren Nally of Sparta, DUI, withhold judgment, court su-pervision, fi ne, alcohol treatment.
Employees at Dollar Tree were the first to report the smoke that was traced to Tequila Mexican Restaurant.
A three-car accident in Chester Sunday re-sulted in minor inju-ries for three individu-als.
According to Ches-ter police, at 3:19 p.m., 75-year-old Elanor Mill-er of Chester was turn-ing left off State Route 150 onto the ramp next to McDonald’s when she turned into the oncoming westbound lane, striking the ve-hicle of Shaun Sellers, 37, of Ellis Grove.
Sellers’ vehicle struck Miller’s car, pushing it into a vehicle driven by Loretta Langwith, 58, of Sparta, who was stopped at the intersec-tion.
Langwith and her two passengers, Mary Dunlop, 73, of Collins-ville and Rose Tutor, 59, of Corning, Arkan-sas, were taken by MedStar to Memorial Hospital in Chester for treatment of minor in-juries.
Prisoner deathself-inflicted, but it is being further investi-gated by the coroner’s office and the Illinois Department of Cor-rections.
Another prisoner death had been re-ported one week ago at the prison. There has yet to be an up-date on the identity or cause of that death.
The Chester fi re de-partment was called to an apartment building at 115 Young Avenue just after 4 a.m. Au-gust 16 for a report of smoke in an upstairs apartment.
When fi reman ar-rived, they discovered that a downstairs
resident had burned breakfast, causing the smoke to rise to the upper level.
Chester Fire Chief Marty Bert said the downstairs resident had the situation un-der control when fi re department personnel arrived.
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Harley D. Hilder-brand, 31, of Hercu-lanium, Missouri was arrested August 10 by the Randolph County Sheriff ’s Office on a Randolph County warrant for posses-sion of meth. He was released by order of a judge.
****Jami B. Witten-
brink, 29, of Steele-ville was arrested August 10 by the Ran-dolph County Sher-iff ’s Office for DUI and illegal transpor-tation of an alcoholic beverage. Witten-brink posted bond.
****Amy L. Williams,
38, of Perryville was arrested August 11 by Sparta police for domestic battery, criminal damage to property, driving without a valid driv-er’s license and on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a criminal damage to property charge. She was jailed.
****Samantha B. Ahrens,
27, of Valmeyer was arrested August 11 by the Randolph County Sheriff ’s Office on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a deceptive practice charge. She was re-leased on a recogni-zance bond.
****Karen M. Robert-
son, 41, of Willisville was arrested August 11 by Steeleville police on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on an unlawful possession of a controlled sub-stance charge. She posted bond.
****Shawn L. Knop,
40, of Percy was ar-rested August 11 by Steeleville police on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a retail theft charge. He posted bond.
****Kendra A.M. Wil-
liams, 26, of Sparta was arrested August 12 by Sparta police on a Randolph Coun-ty warrant for meth delivery. She posted bond.
****John A. Denninger,
35, of Chester was arrested August 14 by Chester police for driving on a suspend-ed license. He posted bond.
****
Brandon L. Jones, 31, of Sparta was ar-rested August 12 by Sparta police for do-mestic battery. He was jailed.
****Austin M. McCor-
mick, 26, of Chester was arrested August 13 by Chester police for unlawful display of registration, un-lawful possession of documents, driving an uninsured vehicle and driving without a valid driver’s license. He was given a notice to appear in court.
****Kenneth L. Greene,
32, of Chester was arrested August 13 by Chester police on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a possession of drug paraphernalia charge. He posted bond.
****Thomas D. Hendrix,
36, of East St. Louis was arrested August 16 by the Randolph County Sheriff ’s Of-fice on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a delivery of cannabis charge. He posted bond.
****Alphonso Travis,
55, of Alton was ar-rested August 14 by the Randolph Coun-ty Sheriff ’s Office on Randolph County warrants for delivery of meth and posses-sion of meth with in-tent to deliver. He was jailed.
****William A. Reese,
43, of Washington Park, Illinois was ar-rested August 14 by the Randolph County Sheriff ’s Office on a Randolph County warrant for burglary. He was jailed.
****Richard C. Jackson,
54, of Perryville was arrested August 14 by the Randolph County Sheriff ’s Office on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a possession of meth charge. He was jailed.
****Casey L. Vance, 33,
of Tilden was arrested August 14 by the Ran-dolph County Sher-iff ’s Office on a Ran-dolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a driving on a suspended li-cense charge. Vance was released on a re-cognizance bond.
****
Flinten D. Thomp-son, 24, Tilden was arrested August 14 by Tilden police for battery and on a Ran-dolph County warrant for battery. Thomp-son posted bond.
****Jill D. Jones, 39, of
Chester was arrested August 15 by Chester police on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a warrant for possession of meth. She was jailed.
****John W. Wiley, 35,
of Sparta was arrest-ed August 15 by Coul-terville police for ob-structing justice and on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a possession of meth charge. He was jailed.
****Jordin M. Yates 22,
of East St. Louis was arrested August 17 by Sparta police for ob-structing justice and on a St. Clair County warrant for fleeing and attempting to elude police. He was jailed.
****Cameron L. McAd-
ams, 29, Sparta was arrested August 14 by Sparta police on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a theft charge. He was jailed.
****Jonathan D. McCar-
ty, 36, of O’Fallon was arrested August 9 by Sparta police for driv-ing on a suspended license. He was given a notice to appear in court.
****Brett A. Mitchell,
54, of Campbell Hill was arrested August 9 by Sparta police for possession of meth and driving on a re-voked license. He was jailed.
****Thomas L. Rey-
nolds, 37, of Steele-ville was ticketed for driving an uninsured vehicle by the Perry
County Sheriff ’s Of-fice following an Au-gust 13 accident on the Pyatt-Cutler Road. He was not injured.
****Robert D. Frye, 23,
of Johnston City was arrested August 13 by the Perry County Sheriff ’s Office for aggravated battery and attempting to dis-arm a correctional institution employee. He was jailed with bond set at $40,000.
****Tracieann R. Orte-
ga, 45, of Du Quoin was arrested Au-gust 13 by the Perry County Sheriff ’s Of-fice for violating her probation. She was jailed with bond set at $40,000.
****Braden D. Stroud,
20, of Pinckneyville was arrested August 18 by the Perry Coun-ty Sheriff ’s Office for unlawful consump-tion of liquor. He was jailed.
****Raymond S. Heath-
erly, 22, of Pinckney-ville was arrested Au-gust 18 by the Perry County Sheriff ’s Of-fice on a warrant for violating his proba-tion. He was jailed.
****All persons are
considered innocent until proven guilty in court.
****
County Journal | august 20, 2020 Page 3
CutLER VILLagE BOaRD
Golf cart, UTV ordinance passed
Sparta police found what is believed to be heroin and fentanyl when a vehicle was stopped in the Buchheit parking lot August 13.
According to Sparta police officer Ralph Jones, he stopped the vehicle driven by Car-rie Grobb, 37, of Sparta last Thursday just be-fore 1 p.m. on a suspi-cion that she was driv-ing on a suspended li-cense.
Grobb was traveling north on Route 4, leav-ing town. She pulled into the Buchheit park-ing lot.
Jones suspected that Grobb was in posses-sion of illegal substanc-
es, so he searched the vehicle, finding what he believed to be cap-sules containing hero-in and fentanyl, so he arrested her.
Jones said the sub-stances were strewn all around the vehicle and in her purse.
While Jones said there were more than
250 capsules, Randolph County State’s Attorney Jeremy Walker said most of the capsules were empty.
Walker said the total amount of the heroin and fentanyl combined was less than 15 grams, meaning that Grobb was charged with the lesser felony of pos-session of a controlled substance.
Walker said the full scope of what Grobb al-legedly possessed will be unknown until the substances are tested at the state lab.
Grobb had one pas-senger, Mark French, who was released at the scene.
Sparta woman is arrested with large amount of drugs
Carrie Grobb
Two people were arrested when a car was stopped by police just across the Ches-ter bridge August 12.
According to Ran-dolph County State’s Attorney Jeremy Walker, police from Chester and the Ran-dolph County Sher-iff ’s Office arrested Jeremy Floyd, 38, of St. Mary, Missouri and Shiona Beck, 39, of Perryville.
Police found meth inside the vehicle.
Floyd was charged with meth traffick-
ing, which is an en-hanced charge from meth delivery, as the substance was brought across the Missouri-Illinois state line.
The trafficking charge carries a man-datory penalty of 8 to 30 years in prison, up from 4 to 15 for meth delivery.
Beck was released without charges be-ing filed.
Charged with meth trafficking
Jeremy Floyd
Cutler is the latest local municipality to pass an ordinance al-lowing golf carts and UTVs to be driven on city streets.
Just like many oth-er area towns have done in recent years, residents can drive the smaller vehicles on all city streets ex-cept State Route 150, which runs through the middle of town. UTV drivers may cross 150, but the ve-hicles must directly cross an intersection, not drive down the highway at all.
The vehicles must pass a safety inspec-
tion, be registered with the village and display a village sticker. The fee is $25 per year.
The board unani-mously approved the ordinance.
Village Clerk Tere-sa Schwebel said the village is in the pro-cess of acquiring the stickers.
The board also dis-cussed opening the community center’s gym, kitchen and din-ing room.
However, after some discussion, the board decided to keep it closed as a precaution against COVID-19.
Board members cited lack of funds for ex-tra cleaning and sani-tation that would be required.
The village hired a new animal control and code enforcement officer. Gale Laffoon will make minimum wage at $8.25 per hour, plus transporta-tion costs to take ani-mals to the pound in Pinckneyville.
Laffoon was also hired as a part-time summer maintenance worker.
Cutler has resumed utility disconnections and late fees effective August 1.
The Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health has launched its new coronavirus disease travel map to help inform residents of potential risks asso-ciated with traveling during the pandemic.
“Travel may in-crease the chance of becoming infected and spreading CO-VID-19,” said IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike. “To help inform residents where they might be at greater risk of being exposed to COVID-19 when they travel, IDPH has launched a map that clearly shows states and other countries where case rates are elevated.
“While staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others from CO-VID-19, we know that
it may not be possible to avoid all travel. We encourage people who are traveling, whether for work or otherwise, to check out the map before making plans.”
Locations that have an average daily rate of 15 or greater cases per 100,000 people are designated as higher risk on the map, which can be found at dph.illinois.gov/covid19/travel.
Airports, bus sta-tions, train stations and rest stops are all places travelers can be exposed to the vi-rus in the air and on surfaces. The more people you come into contact with, for lon-ger periods of time, the greater your risk of COVID-19 exposure or infection.
Do not travel if
you are sick or with someone who is sick. When traveling, it is especially important to wear your mask, maintain social dis-tancing and frequent-ly wash your hands and use hand sani-tizer.
It is important to think about the des-tination and needed precautions for mov-ing through bus, train or airport ter-minals, check-in and security lines, as well as the actual ride.
Remember to take precautions when stopping for gas, food and bathroom breaks when traveling by car or RV and as you interact with others.
For health ques-tions about COVID-19, call the hotline at 800-889-3931.
COVID-19 travel risk map
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Letters to the editor
Where will the garbage end up?As the saying goes,
no good deed goes unpunished. That goes for some
services that some towns provide for its residents.Take the recycling
trailers, for example. They were brought into towns like Steele-ville and Percy as a way for village resi-dents to conveniently dispose of paper, most plastic bottles, glass and cans while doing their part to cut back on the use of landfills.This is a noble idea
for sure, until it gets abused.That’s exactly what
happened in Steele-ville months ago and in Percy just last week.It’s not that the recy-
cling trailers weren’t being used, it’s the fact
that some people were using them as trash bins. The description of some of the garbage that has been thrown into those bins is abso-lutely disgusting.Used disposable dia-
pers were found in the Steeleville trailer. Rot-ting food items, which drew flies that laid eggs, hatching into maggots, were found recently in Percy’s re-cycling receptacle.Those are just two
of the nauseating ex-amples.At one time, when
the trailers were filled with good recyclable materials, they were hauled to the Menard Correctional Center’s recycling compound, where the contents were sorted and sent on to larger recycling centers.However, once trash,
garbage and other nonrecyclable items began showing up more and more often, those running the Me-nard program put a hold on it.In addition, we are
told that nonresidents
were also coming to the towns and throw-ing trash into the bins.Both towns have now
removed their trail-ers. This penalizes those of us who prop-erly use these bins and has a negative impact on the good that recy-cling does.So, the few people
who abused this free service have caused everyone to lose it.Shame on you.Those who are super
serious about recy-cling will probably drive the extra miles to find another place to take their items, but where will the garbage that has been consistently thrown in the trailers end up?We shudder at the
thought of those pos-sibilities.
Used diapers, rotting food among reasons
recycling bins are gone
Liberal hypocrisyEditor, County Journal:
This is in rebuttal to a letter from Virginia Mansker in the August 13 edition of the Coun-ty Journal.
We have seen that for the past four years, left-wing liberals have produced one “crisis” after another in their desperate attempt to unseat our duly elect-ed president, Donald Trump.
It doesn’t take a PhD in rocket science to see what is going on in our country. Instead of governing and protect-ing the American peo-ple, liberal politicians have shown that their “love” for America is greatly overshadowed by their hatred of Pres-ident Trump.
Now, we are being presented with the op-tion of voting by mail to help contain the spread of disease.
The streets of our once great cities are full of violence and an-archy. Why doesn’t ri-oting and looting en masse seem to concern our politicians? After all, protests are large gatherings of people. This is nothing more than liberal hypocrisy.
There is no doubt in my mind that US postal employees are among the finest in the world and perform their jobs well.
I believe the problem lies in: “…while watch-ing the news…” Spend-ing time in front of the TV set will fill your mind with nothing but left-wing liberal gar-bage, half-truths and lies.
Do we really want “One Nation under God” to be governed by radical left-wing so-cialists?
Christopher D. Griffiths
Coulterville
Don’t punishbusinessesEditor, County Journal:
Doing business in Il-linois during this un-precedented time of conflict and challenge is now even harder.
A panel of legislators known as JCAR could not find enough votes to block a misguided rule from Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Administra-tion requiring masks in stores and public places and fining busi-ness owners for viola-tions. We will be con-sidering other options, but for now, this policy will move ahead.
We do not oppose a strong public push for wearing masks and taking other protective measures in the fight against COVID-19. Our stores have detailed policies in place to keep customers protected, for themselves and from others, through
masks, social distanc-ing and more. These steps are saving lives.
But requiring masks and punishing busi-ness owners, not cus-tomers, for people not using them just doesn’t make sense.
Businesses are strug-gling to open and stay open.
We are not the prob-lem, and yet again we are being treated as criminals. It’s not right, and it will not work.
We urge the Pritzker Administration to re-think this misguided policy that will make life harder for our small businesses, and instead partner with and support us to end this pandemic as quick-ly as possible and get our state back on the right track. Every mo-ment counts.
Josh SharpCEO, Illinois Fuel
and Retail Association
The Year of the HawkAccording to the
Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat. I beg to differ. From my observa-
tions, which have in-cluded very few rats, I think it should be renamed the Year of the Hawk. I have seen huge red-tailed hawks roosting everywhere in southern Illinois, and I hear that these birds can fly away with rats, as well as mice, rabbits and may-be even cats and small dogs. They tend to be ter-
ritorial, too, as I swear the same hawk eyes me every day from his perch on the power line near my house.Hawks would make
great detectives. They appear patient, quietly calculating and have that all-knowing look. I recognize that look
because my daughter Allison was born with it. I knew instantly that she would teach me much more than I could ever teach her.Hawks must have
great vision. I have seen them swoop down from flying hun-dreds of feet in the air to catch a small rodent on the ground.
They also like to play sentry on hay bales, waiting for mice to burrow in the hay field. I even Googled this
hawk question: Do hawks have any pred-ators? and was sur-prised at the response: No, just humans. Humans with guns
that is—and by the way, they are a pro-tected species. We are no match for
such birds who can fly high, have hawk-eye vision and do not seem to be afraid of anything. There are times they seem to be looking at us with pity.The hawk symbolizes
the ability to use intui-tion and higher vision to complete tasks or make important deci-sions. Hawks, in some cultures represent the messenger of the spirit world. Seeing a hawk might mean that the universe wants you to learn a power-
ful lesson or expand your knowledge and wisdom. As far as I’m con-
cerned, who needs a hawk for that? My dad wanted me to do the same thing. I mean, that’s the reason par-ents send their kids to college, right? Hawks make good
birds for falconry. This is a sport for hu-mans and a job for unemployed hawks. I can just see the
ad in the newspaper: Wanted: smart, reli-able hawk with good vision and homing sense.Even though hawks
intimidate me, I do have an apprecia-tion for the name. My Great Uncle Clarence Culp had the nick-name Hawkshaw. We never knew him as anything else. In fact, it was quite a shock to hear that his name was Clarence. Hawk-shaw was way cooler.
The term hawkshaw means detective. It was used as the name for a character in a comic strip by Ameri-can cartoonist Gus Mager. T h e s t r i p w a s
launched for the first time from 1913-1922, then again for a sec-ond run from 1931-1952. Apparently, my uncle
was a devoted fan, thus the nickname. Possibly, he secretly wanted to be a detec-tive. He was a house
painter, and I am told he judged his work, not by how the house looked, but by how many cans of paint he used.In Chinese culture,
there is no year of the hawk. The only bird listed in the 12 animal signs of the Chinese zodiac is a rooster. I was born in the Year of the Rooster, 1957. According to my re-
search, 2020 is not supposed to be a good year for roosters. It seems that’s a no
brainer. Has it been a good year for any-body? Who knows, maybe the rats are doing well.
And homage to my Great Uncle Hawshaw
The choiceI had some time on my hands a couple weeks
ago and managed to use it semi-profitably by reading “The Thirteen American Argu-ments” by Howard Fineman. Fineman was, at the time the book was published in 2009, senior Washington correspondent and columnist for Newsweek.The first thing I noticed was how much things
have changed in those 11 years. Fineman sub-titled his book “Enduring Debates That Define And Inspire Our Country” and concluded that as deep as these divisions are, Americans will be fine as long as they settle their differences by talking rather than fighting.Of course, that notion is long gone, canceled
in recent years by the “cancel culture,” which uses social media, the news media, lawsuits and “peaceful protests” to destroy individuals brave or foolish enough to depart from the so-called politically correct – that is, leftist – position.In Chapter 1, Fineman says the first American
argument is, “Who is a person?” This question, he says, led to the deadliest, most profound argument in American history: “Is everyone, including a black man, a person?”The next argument, Fineman says, was wheth-
er and to what extent women are persons. In 1973, when the United States Supreme Court upheld a woman’s right to have an abortion, “a new culture war arose, this one between abortion rights supporters and the foes of the medical procedure, who insisted that life (and personhood) began at conception and abortion was a form of murder.”As on every other issue that I’m aware of, there
is a vast difference between the positions of President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the Republicans and Democratic candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and their party. On this and all other issues, count me with President Trump.Conservapedia.com calls Donald Trump the
most pro-life President in history.“Under the Trump administration, the unborn
have the ultimate advocate. From appointing pro-life judges, to stopping the flow of taxpayer-funds to abortion providers, and defending the unborn abroad -- the case is clear for a second term for President Trump,” the website says.Biden, Harris and the Democrats, on the other
hand, state in the party’s platform expected to be adopted at their national convention this week, “Democrats believe that every woman should be able to access high-quality reproduc-tive health care services, including safe and legal abortion.” The party promises to restore federal funding
for Planned Parenthood. “Democrats oppose and will fight to overturn
federal and state laws that create barriers to women’s reproductive health and rights,” the draft platform says.The 2020 Democratic draft platform calls for
the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade to be codified in federal law, reflecting an earlier pledge by Biden to make this a key policy of his presidency. (catholicnewsagency.com)Biden has pledged to help overturn the Hyde
Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion. That’s a change in the position he held for 40 years.Fox News reports that the Democrats are try-
ing to win more votes from evangelical Chris-tians this year and notes that Trump received 81 percent of those votes in 2016.The Democrats’ position on abortion rights
will be the major stumbling block to their goal, according to Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas.“To put it in religious terms, Joe Biden doesn’t
have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning any significant number of evangelical voters, especially as long as he and his running-mate Kamala Harris run on the most pro-abortion platform in history, advocating abortion up until the moment the baby is in the birth canal of the mother,” Pastor Jeffress said in a Fox interview. “Most faith voters think that’s not only offensive, they see it as barbaric.”The Catholic News Agency reports that Catho-
lics are divided by race and party in the 2020 election.
“In 2016, Trump won the overall Catholic vote, marking the first time since 2004 that a Republi-can candidate won Catholics,” CNA says. “Trump received 52% of the Catholic vote, and Hillary Clinton won 45% of the Catholic vote, a drop of 5 points compared to the 2012 election.”
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response to the pan-demic.
“Governor Pritzker’s arbitrary and misguid-ed sanctions on Mon-roe, Madison, St. Clair, Randolph, Washington, Bond and Clinton coun-ties come at the worst
possible time as com-munities are attempt-ing to resume school and rebuild their busi-nesses,” Schimpf said. “COVID-19 hospitali-zation rates in these counties remain low with no threat of ex-
ceeding medical ca-pacity.
“Nevertheless, the governor has decided that bar stools, recep-tion halls and groups of 26 or more people are not allowed for the next 14 days. These
new restrictions repre-sent an absurd attempt to show that he is ‘do-ing something,’ but in reality will do little more than to wreak further economic hav-oc on the families of this region.”
St. Mark’s, Evansville delay school start...from Page 1“We could’ve closed
individual grade lev-els or quarantined a certain number of peo-ple, but we erred on the side of caution,” stated the post.
The post also noted that the two who test-
ed positive were never in contact with staff or students from Lincoln or the high school, and buses were not impacted.
“Evansville, because it was already in ses-sion, its administra-
tion felt best to close the school and go remote,” said health department Adminis-trator Angie Oathout. “Then, they’ll evalu-ate things after two weeks.”
Oathout confirmed
that both schools made their decisions volun-tarily, and no students have tested positive.
“They are looking out for the safety of their students, staff and families,” Oathout said.
State tells Grand vendors to pay up...from Page 1___Stumbo said he has
already paid his rent for the year but knows of a few vendors who haven’t.
“A lot of people are just holding off,” he said last week.
While Stumbo said he would return next year to a Grand Ameri-can held in Sparta, he said he knows of sev-eral vendors who said they won’t return if forced to pay rent this year, something that had been rumored in the initial talks about this abatement.
None of the vendors who spoke to the Coun-ty Journal said they wouldn’t return.
Tom Morgan of Mor-gan Optical of western New York paid $3,000 rent this year for his building at the com-plex. When he paid, he said he expected it would later be re-turned when the state agreed to abate.
“I’m speechless,” Mor-gan said of the news.
Morgan said he’s un-
sure if this will cause any vendors to leave Sparta.
“I wonder how many people would just get a tent spot,” Morgan said. “It’s too early to tell what people will really do.”
Morgan said he plans to return to Illinois when the Grand re-turns, but he’s not hap-py about the treatment from the state.
“That facility is the best anywhere,” Mor-gan said. “But the politics in Illinois—I thought we had it bad in New York.”
Morgan was one of the vendors who made the trip to Linn Creek, Missouri for this year’s Grand, but he said attendance and sales were down by about 50 percent.
While most of the vendors were upset by the state’s recent email, not all were surprised by it.
“I read the lease be-fore I signed it,” said Bob Schultz of Schultz
Target Shotguns of Hendersonville, North Carolina. “There was no provision in the lease for a pandemic. I really expected to pay my rent and keep pay-ing it.”
Schultz, who has at-tended the Grand faith-fully since 1969, said he does not take issue with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources or Sparta.
“I love Sparta. I love Randolph County,” he said.
Schultz said he was saddened by this year’s move from Illinois to Missouri and that his Grand revenues are also down by about 50 percent.
“It’s got to be terrible for the people of Ran-dolph County,” Schultz said, “But I ’m here shooting and having a good time, and God willing, I’ll be shooting in Sparta next year.”
Lynn Gipson, exec-utive director of the Amateur Trapshooting Association, said he
sympathizes with the vendors who haven’t been able to make a profit at the building they paid for in Sparta.
“It seems like the rev-enue from the vend-ing contracts is really nothing to the state of Illinois,” Gipson said. “To frustrate those ven-dors and leave it with a possibility that they won’t come back hurts the area.
“Pandemic or not, if the Grand’s not there (in Sparta), there’s not much reason for ven-dors to be there.”
Gipson said it seemed like bad business on the state’s part.
“There’s a difference between what you can do and what you do,” Gipson said, referring to the lease agree-ments. “The state can hold their feet to the fire and make them pay, but that’s not good customer service.”
The Illinois Depart-ment of Natural Re-sources did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.
Coronavirus not going away hereBy Travis Lott
The nursing home in Pinckneyville that has been ravaged by a coronavirus outbreak has seen even more cases and one death in the past week.
Now, all except four residents at Pinck-neyville Nursing and Rehabilitation have tested positive for the virus, as well as two more employees.
Merle Taylor, oper-ations manager for WLC Management, the company that oversees the facility, said the fa-cility continues to con-duct weekly tests of all staff and employees who had previously tested negative.
Eight of the residents were symptomatic as of Tuesday afternoon. One died August 16.
Taylor said the man who died had other conditions in addition to COVID-19, so she could not definitively
say if the virus was the direct cause of his death.
The original 15 resi-dents who had tested positive for the virus have recovered, and another 18, who are still in another isola-tion area, are asymp-tomatic.
The four residents who have managed to avoid infection are being kept at one end of the front hallway, separated from the rest of the facility by a sealed plastic wall with a zipper. Those who have recovered are also isolated from the active cases.
Taylor said many of the staff who origi-nally tested positive have recovered and returned to work.
While many staff have become infect-ed, Taylor said other employees within the managing company have stepped up to fill
those shifts.“If our facilities need
something, we’re going to be there with our people helping them,” Taylor said.
Taylor said the com-munity has been sup-portive of the facility, bringing in supplies and snacks for eve-ryone. She also com-mended the work of the staff members who have dealt with this trying time.
“Every day it’s a physi-cally and emotionally difficult job,” Taylor said.
The virus continued to spread throughout Perry County over the past week, with 20 new cases reported Tues-day.
There are now 109 active cases in Perry County.
In Randolph County, a major uptick occurred this week, as well, with 18 new cases reported Tuesday and a total of
88 active cases.Three of those indi-
viduals are hospital-ized, and the other 85 are in home isolation.
In Jackson County, 14 new cases were re-ported Tuesday, bring-ing that county’s total to 108 active cases.
The Randolph County Health Department reported Tuesday that, while there has been a steady rise throughout the county in recent days, it expects there to be additional cases because most schools resumed classes in the past week.
Time will tell what the impact of the vi-rus will be, as there is an incubation pe-riod that lasts up to 14 days after a person is infected.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been four deaths in Perry County, seven in Randolph and 20 in Jackson.
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Ready to startFrom left are Percy Head Start teaching staff Jami Hawkins, Amy Smith, Nyla Rednour and Katina Glasco. They are geared up and ready for children and the new school year.
The Christian Home Educators for Spir-itual Training home-school support group will begin the school year with an informa-tional meeting Friday, August 28 at the Ran-dolph County Conser-vation Area, Shelter No. 1.
Everyone in Ran-dolph and surround-ing counties, who are homeschooling or are interested in learning about educating their children at home, are invited to attend any time between 6 and 8 p.m.
This will be an oppor-
tunity to ask questions and meet families that are homeschooling.
Other informa-tion available will be CHEST support group membership and fu-ture group activities.
For more informa-tion, call Phil or Linda Daniels at 443-9621.
MONDAY: Chicken patty, corn, mandarin oranges.TUESDAY: Hamburger/potato casserole, green bans, pears.WEDNESDAY: Cheese-burger, waffl e fries, cherry dessert.THURSDAY: Spaghetti, garlic bread, peas, peaches.FRIDAY: Pigs in a blan-ket, baked beans, sliced apples.
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His paternal grand-parents are Lucille Long of Cambria and the late Clarence Long. Maternal grand-parents are Dejah Herrmany of Pinck-neyville and the late Woodrow Herrmany.
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By Travis LottDuring the August 13
meeting of the Sparta school board, princi-pals of the district’s three school buildings reported glowing re-views of how the fi rst week of school has gone despite the ongo-ing coronavirus pan-demic.
Sparta, which re-sumed operation Au-gust 10, is one of the few districts in the area that has chosen a full fi ve-day school schedule, while many others have opted to at-tend remotely or with a hybrid model of stu-dents attending just a couple of days a week.
Students in Sparta are required to certify that they are without symptoms and submit to a temperature check prior to entering the building and are re-quired to wear masks while in the school buildings.
Attendees of the board meeting were re-quired to submit to a la-ser thermometer read-ing Thursday night prior to the start of the meeting. They were also required to fi ll out a questionare that asked about travel, ex-posure and symptoms.
“I have an amazing staff,” said Lincoln Principal Amy Price.
Price said custodi-ans at Lincoln have increased sanitation efforts throughout the school in a big way.
“I can’t say enough about everyone who works at Sparta Lin-coln,” Price said. “It was absolutely great to see kids walk back through the doors.”
Chris Meisner, prin-cipal at Evansville At-tendance Center, said the changes have been odd, but students and staff have stepped up to the challenge.
“It’s different, but the teachers and kids have been excited,” Meisner said.
However, it was an-nounced two days af-ter the board meeting that an outbreak of CO-VID-19 had forced the closure of Evansville for two weeks, and students would go full remote.
High school Prin-cipal Scott Beckley said things have been smooth in his building.
“To make things happen the way they did, we couldn’t have planned better,” Beck-ley said.
Superintendent Gabe Schwemmer said there are 220 of the dis-trict’s 1,200 students who opted to begin school remotely. That breaks down to 16 at Evansville, 157 at Lin-
coln and 47 at the high school.
Schwemmer said she visited many of the dis-trict’s classrooms over the past week, and stu-dents and staff were complying with mask requirements.
During the meeting, the district approved the tentative 2021 bud-get, which will remain on display in the dis-trict offi ce for 30 days.
One item of discus-sion regarded the school’s contract with Zweigart Bus Service of Sparta, which pro-vides bus transporta-tion for the district.
The contract did not change from the pre-vious year, but some board members were concerned that the federal government’s transportation fund-ing would not come through this year.
Furthermore, board members felt the con-tract should include language that identi-fi es procedures if the district was forced to go full remote. They are concerned that the dis-trict would be respon-sible for paying for un-used busing services.
“If we don’t get the (federal) pass-through dollars, it would have to come from our bud-get,” said Trustee Kev-in Holliday. “This is our second biggest line item after personnel.”
Schwemmer said the buses could be used for other purposes in the event of a shutdown, such as meal delivery to students in need.
The board opted to table the contract until it could clarify these issues with Zweigart.
In other news, Trust-ee Kenneth Kempfer said he had received questions from parents who wanted a refund for athletic fees from sports that did not oc-cur in the spring.
District bookkeeper Tina Witherby said those parents should contact the school dis-trict about receiving a refund.
In other news, the board approved Fick, Eggemeyer and Wil-liamson CPAs to con-tinue to perform the district’s audits.
The following per-sonnel items were ap-proved: Alica Allard and Casey Fruits re-signed as paraprofes-sionals at the high school, replaced by Valerie Foster and Charles Merker. Rox-anne Mines was em-ployed as a paraprofes-sional at Evansville. Becky Weber, Heather Wilson, Brandy Muel-ler and John Watts were hired as parapro-fessionals at Lincoln. Michelle Eldiwitw re-signed as the Lincoln crossing guard and was approved as head cook. Rhonda Shelton took over as crossing guard. Jamie Smith was approved as a cook. Cathy Presswood’s em-ployment was termi-nated. Amanda Braun resigned as cospon-sor of the Evansville Science Club. Stevie Walker resigned as supervisor at Lincoln. Traci Pfl asterer was hired as confi dential secretary at Lincoln. Georgette Smith was hired as a custodian and crossing guard at Evansville.
In other personnel news, Jonathan Nor-ton’s contract as as-sistant principal at Lincoln was approved at $56,000 for the year, with a stipend of $5,000 to serve as ath-letic director.
Tracy Smith agreed to a contract for $50,104 to be building and grounds supervi-sor for the district.
Linda McMaster was approved for a $35,000 contract to serve as food service director.
Coaches approved were Conner McCall, volunteer wrestling; Abbey Miles, high school cross country; Eric Bayless, volunteer cross country; Tim Lochhead, volunteer assistant baseball at Evansville.
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Jennifer Bar-bour, director of relations at Sparta Community Hospi-tal, presented the Stay Healthy pro-gram August 18 to kindergarten students at Sparta Lincoln.
The program in-cludes teaching students the im-portance and in-structions on hand washing, the cor-rect way to wear and care for a face mask and how to social distance.
Barbour also spoke about COV-ID-19 and how the
students can help scientists and med-ical professionals by keeping them-selves and others healthy by follow-ing the program guidelines.
She presented Lincoln Principal Amy Price with a donation of $190, which represent-ed proceeds from the recent Quality Healthcare Clinics sports physicals.
Items from a back to school drive, held by Spar-ta hospital staff, were also present-ed to Price. From left are Jennifer Barbour and Amy Price.
Kindergarten Stay Healthy program
Celebrates 90thJoanne Moody Paul celebrated her 90th birth-day August 10 with a drive-by card event and having all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchild at a party. Paul is seen here with her great-granddaughter Kamden Paul. Joanne is a former Tilden grade school teacher, author of the book “Once Upon A Tilden Time,” an artist, fi ber arts craftsman, acclaimed cook, involved church member of Tilden Presbyterian Church, Marissa library board member and friend to hundreds. Submitted by Carol Mercer
TRICO SCHOOL BOARD
Principals cautiously ready for yearBy Travis Lott
During Monday night’s school board meeting, principals from Trico schools said teachers and admin-istration cautiously await the beginning of the school year, which is set to start with its fi rst group of the split A-B schedule attending school Thursday.
Principals said this year will be a chal-lenge, with teachers blending remote and in-person learning, as well as taking precau-tions against the coro-navirus.
“The teachers—they’re nervous about stepping into the un-known,” said junior high Principal Ron Coleman. “I’m scared with them. But I think we’re ready.”
High school Princi-pal Mark Riley said this year will be a test of the school’s ability to adapt.
“I think we’re ready until we see how it plays out, and then we’ll adjust,” said Ri-ley.
Around 100 of the district’s 810 students have opted to remain full remote for the fi rst part of the year.
In other news, the tentative budget for Trico’s 2020-21 school year is on display, and Superintendent Larry
Lovel said this will be a fi nancially stagnant year for the district.
Lovel said general state aid has remained the same as last year. However, projected revenue from personal property replacement tax plummeted by 17 percent of what was re-ceived last year, a loss of between $250,000 and $300,000.
The personal prop-erty replacement tax is paid by corpora-tions, partnerships and trusts based on a percentage of net in-come in Illinois, and public utilities on a percentage of invested capital. The tax was implemented in 1979 to replace the tax on per-sonal property.
Lovel said the Illinois Department of Rev-enue projects this loss in tax revenue based on the companies’ lost revenues due to COV-ID-19 shutdowns.
Lovel said other fac-tors may have contrib-uted to the loss of rev-enue, such as the state legislature potentially utilizing some of the money from the per-sonal property replace-ment fund to fi ll holes in the general fund.
“There’s a laun-dry list of things that come out of the PPRT (fund),” Lovel said.
The board approved
the budget, which will remain on display in the district offi ce for 30 days and be consid-ered for fi nal approv-al at the next school board meeting.
The board also held a discussion regarding pay for coaches.
Lovel said that, in the fi rst week of a sport’s season, the coaches are paid their full stipend.
Lovel said residents in the district have questioned these pay-ments in the event that a sports season is cut short, and some have raised concerns about the coaches being paid for work that they ulti-mately do not do.
Lovel asked the board to consider what approach the school should take to this sit-uation.
Trustee Dan Carson said the coaches put in more work than just the games played, and even in the event of a shutdown midseason, those coaches remain on call in the event the season could resume.
Jaime Lodge sug-gested one option is to pay them 50 percent of the stipend for any-thing less than half the season played and 100 percent for any-thing over 50 percent.
Lovel said it would be diffi cult to deter-
mine what exactly 50 percent of the job would entail. He said Pinckneyville and Du Quoin school districts have already gone on record that the coaches will be paid regardless of whether or not the season is completed.
“This is not the time to pick a fi ght with them,” Lovel said. “Coaches aren’t easy to fi nd.”
Trustee Michael Baker said the money for the stipends is not enough to start a fi ght over.
The board unani-mously voted in favor of paying the coaches the full stipend.
The district will also conduct a feasibility study for adding the sport of cross-country in a future school year.
In personnel news, Julie Rathert was hired as an assistant softball coach; Lind-sey Closson, third grade teacher; Cathy Lindner, junior high aide; Samantha Hol-comb, member of the improvement team at the high school; Jes-sica Gentry, English language specialist for 2020-21; Brooklyn Ellis, nurse aide for 2020-21; and Brenda Perez and Maura Mu-rillo, Spanish-speak-ing non-instructional aides.
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The Centers for Medi-care and Medicaid Ser-vices has rated Memo-rial Hospital of Chester a fi ve-star hospital.
There were 266 hos-pitals throughout the country listed July 31 as fi ve-star. These rank-ings were assigned based on patient ex-periences survey data collected during 2019 by the Hospital Con-sumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems.
A total of 3,478 hospitals
were given star rank-ings, but only 8 percent received five stars; 32 percent four stars, 43 percent three stars, 15 percent two stars and 2 percent one star.
The survey asks pa-tients to rate commu-nication, discharge and care transition, their environment and an overall ranking.
MHC scored above average in communi-cation, staff assistance and attentiveness, dis-charge information
and overall ratings.“Our mission at Me-
morial Hospital is a commitment to profes-sional excellence in providing safe, quality healthcare, compassion and service to patients, the community and each other,” stated CEO Brett Bollmann. “Being a fi ve-star rated hospi-tal is a group effort.
“Our team works hard to provide the best qual-ity care possible for every patient, every day, and it shows.”
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EVANSVILLE VILLAGE BOARD
Schilling vacates seat, is appointed treasurer
Pictured are new board Trustee Ron Heinen and Nancy Schilling, who stepped down as trustee to take the village treasurer position.
By Dan ZobelNancy Schilling will
fi ll a new government seat in Evansville.
Schilling’s resigna-tion as trustee was ac-cepted during a special August 17 village board meeting.
The resignation was necessary, as she was then appointed and ap-
proved as the new vil-lage treasurer.
Treasurer Lisa Ohms-Schoenenberger re-signed August 10 after six years in the position.
Schilling had served as a trustee since April 2013. Prior to that, she was the village clerk for 20 years from 1985 through 2005.
Ron Heinen was ap-pointed to fill Schil-ling’s trustee position on the board. That seat carries a term that ex-pires in April 2021.
Trustee Darren Kemp-fer was appointed mayor pro tem, which is a responsibility that was also vacated by Schilling.
Chester’s Christmas on the River celebra-tion, scheduled for De-cember 4-6, is seeking sponsors for events.
In a letter to local or-ganizations, Chester Recreation Director Patti Carter noted that this year will be differ-ent due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“We know this year has presented everyone with a few challenges,” Carter wrote. “Because the success of the week-end is, in part, due to the monetary support of our sponsors, we are scaling back and focus-ing on our community and the children.”
Carter said the event would feature an in-fl atable snowglobe and trackless train ad-venture for children, which will cost approx-imately $2,200.
No one is asked to be a sole sponsor but in-stead contribute based on a four-tiered spon-sorship of $250, $150, $100 and $50 donations.
Sponsors will be list-ed online and in the newspaper.
This will also be the third year for the Mer-ry Merchant stamp card program, where residents can win gift certifi cates for com-pleting a stamp card by patronizing businesses
listed on it.Participants receive
a stamp for a $10 pur-chase at each busi-ness, and each stamp is worth an entry to the contest.
Businesses that would like to partici-pate must return a form to Chester City Hall by November 13.
For more informa-tion, call Carter at 826-1430 or email chester [email protected].
Christmas event sponsors needed
Bobby SoxBobby Sox is a 1-year-old tuxedo kitty, who is a little bit shy. If you are interested in adopting Bobby Sox, call the Perry County Humane Society at 542-3647 or email pchs [email protected].
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Tractors-XUV-Implements-Chicken House (Tractors And Equip. To Be Sold At Noon): Kioti LK3054 Four-Wheel-Drive Tractor, Diesel Engine, 3-Point, With Shuttle Drive, 1086 Hrs., Ser. #26500063. Cub Cadet 7265 Four-Wheel-Drive Tractor, Diesel Engine, Hydrostatic Drive, 1181 Hrs. w/ Bushhog 2246 QT Loader And 60-In. Bucket, Ser. #M7265-22247(54A-445-100). 2012 John Deere XUV 550 Side-By-Side, 1405 Hrs., Agri-Fab Yard Cart, King Kut-ter 6ft. 3pt. Rock Rake, Bifco 4ft. 3pt. Tiller, Bush Hog SQ 60 Squealer 3pt. Spinner Mower, 8ft. x16ft. Chicken House.
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Household-Misc: Assortment Of Skillets, Pots And Pans, Jars, Hide Stretchers, Assorted Steel Traps, Bee Boxes, Bee Smoker, Bee Hat, Bee Box Parts.
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Cole Park cleanup
Directly behind the right fi eld fence at the ball diamond in Cole Park, the ground begins a steep decline, where the soil is eroding.
By Dan ZobelChester is turning its
attention toward clean-ing up portions of Cole Park.
Mayor Tom Page re-ported during the coun-cil’s August 17 meeting that he recently had a meeting with the city superintendents at Cole about what can be done to improve the appear-ance of the park, spe-cifically keeping the grass and weeds under control.
The other main item of discussion, which was brought up at the coun-cil’s March 2 meeting, was the fence around the ball diamond. The right fi eld portion con-tinues to collapse, and the soil there is sliding the embankment. The soil movement began after a large amount of rain fell in the spring of 2019.
Page suggested re-mov ing the fence around the diamond.
Alderman Ray Allison interjected, saying he does not agree with taking down the entire
fence.“I didn’t think you
would (agree),” Page said, “but that’s your right.”
Allison suggested that if somebody wanted to tear down the fence and haul it from the property, he would be for that. However, he did not like the pros-pect of the city doing it, because of the labor, time and storage of the fence once it is re-moved.
Page addressed the fact that the city has received an estimate in the past of what it would cost to move the fence closer to the ball diamond. That estimate was around $12,000, which Page feels is not worth it.
Another aspect of the right field area is a power pole that is lean-ing. Page said the city will contact Ameren about relocating the pole.
“I believe the park could use some effort,” said Alderman Dan Ohlau. “Whatever we
can do would be tre-mendous.”
A lderman James Maes, who is the head of the park and recrea-tion committee, was not present at the meeting.
In other news, Alder-man Michael Blechle reported that 190 feet of drainage pipe had to be reconstructed in the area across from 1st Class Auto on State Street.
“This was quite a project, but we had the manpower and the equipment to get it done,” Blechle said.
“Everybody did a good job,” Page added. “I would have thought we would have had to go out-side for help with this.”
Jarod Meyers and Lake Fogerson were approved to become regular firefighters. They previously served as auxiliary firemen and have been part of the city’s Explorer pro-gram.
Fire Chief Marty Bert told the council he ex-pects the new fi re truck to arrive any day.
IMPACK, Interested Motivated People As-sisting Community Kids, in Sparta has al-tered its guidelines to provide safety meas-ures to help protect the kids from the cor-onavirus, according to Geanette Wilson, the program’s direc-tor.
The center is closed to the public, but vol-unteers are inside from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to receive donations and pack lunch bags for kids.
The number of chil-dren served range from 80 to 93 a day. The Randolph County Health Department has provided masks, thermometers and hand sanitizer to help protect everyone.
Shandra Adams of Chester organized
and fi lled backpacks with school supplies, which were donated by Dr. Angela Barber. The Sparta Leo Club members assisted.
Right now, the cent-er cannot provide monthly birthday par-ties for children. To continue remember-ing the kids on their special day, the center provides balloons and birthday cards.
Jennifer Hamilton of Terri Jean’s Florist fi lls the balloons, and Scott Rust of Sparta Dairy Queen provides a meal, both free of charge.
The center also con-tinues the Remember Me activity for Ran-dolph County Care Center residents and provides the same for their birthdays.
The pandemic af-
fected the quantity of food and supplies donated to the center, which caused an in-crease in the use of donated funds to pur-chase food and other items.
IMPACK has been a pilot program in dem-onstrating the power of people working to-gether, Wilson said, noting that the pro-gram has never re-ceived federal or state funds to operate. It is a nonprofi t organiza-tion, so donors can claim a tax deduction for fi nancial dona-tions.
For more informa-tion or to donate, call Wilson at 443-8541 or visit the center at 612 E. Harrison Street Monday through Fri-day from 11 to 2.
Diane Tart-Ward and Lavonna Nance of Sparta and Shandra Adams of Chester deliver lunches, backpacks and school supplies to 93 kids.
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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 Judgment 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 Office, Randolph County Courthouse (door of Courtroom 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 certified 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 confirmation 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 file 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: [email protected]
RANDOLPH COUNTYMelanie Johnson
County Clerk & Recorder
WARRANTY DEEDSSara E. Thomas to
Jodi A. Baker, Consid-eration $145,000
Jodi A. Baker to Jen-nifer R. Knott & James Knott SE Sec 30; NW SW Sec 29 6-7
Kendra Valleroy to NLM Holdings LLC
US Bank Trust NA, Master Participation Trust & Hudson Homes Management LLC to Leslie Fish & Loretta Fish
David Bolletto to The People Of The State Of Illinois Department of Natural Resources NE NW Sec 16 4-7
Suzanne M. Jones to Matthew P. Zeiger
Joshua A. Eckart & Lindsay A. Eckart to Suzanne M. Despain & Michael W. McCarty Lts 112 & 113 CTYVill Addn, Consideration $349,000
Dale L. Krack & Ali-son A. Krack to Eliz-abeth K. Ohlau Lt 8 Busse Addn
Suzanne M. Despain & Michael W. McCarty to Lesley D. Fruth Lt 10 Hidden Addn, Consid-eration $230,000
Christopher P. Meh-ring & Erica C. Mehr to Adam D. Vogt NW SE Sec 18 4-7 Consider-ation $145,000
Secretary of Hous-ing And Urban Devel-
opment to Dennis L. Stevenson SE NW Sec 20 6-6 Consideration $50,150
Bradley K. Curtis & Debra S. Curtis to Jar-ed M. Potts & Madison P. Baum Consideration $91,000
Charles R. Heuman to Gary R. Kloth & Gail S. Kloth NW SW Sec 14 5-7 Consideration $6,250
Dennis Wayne Cooper to Center Ice Properties Lts 5 & 8 Blk H BERG-PAR Addn
Michael Roberts & Candice Roberts to Nicholas Gearhart & Angelique Davis NE SW Sec 17 7-5
Pennymac Loan Ser-vices, LLC to Jordan Taylor McLaughlin Lts 3 & 4 Blk 16 Dickey 3rd Addn Consideration $77,500QUITCLAIM DEEDSHaro ld O ’Rear &
Brenda S. O’Rear to Stephanie Knope & James B. O’Rear NE SW Sec 13 4-5
KNL Property LLC-RBIB Land Series to Kyle Joseph Liefer Gift Trust NE SW Sec 3 4-8
Nick Androvandi & Judith Lynn Koonce to Michael Scott Brown
& Matthew Aaron An-drovandi Lts 1 & 2 Blk 3 Thomas McDil Addn
Charles E. Kingsley & Kerri A. Kingsley to Kerri A. Kingsley & Charles E. Kingsley Lt 137 Prairie du Rocher Commons
Brenda L. Barber to Gloria L. Young Lt 1 Blk 1 Foster 2nd Addn
Lucas T. Maue & Nik-ki M. Maue to Nikki M. Maue
PERRY COUNTYBeth Lipe
County Clerk & Recorder
WARRANTY DEEDSCheryl L. Carlson &
Jim R. Carlson to Gina M. Cushman & Murry Joe Cushman NW NW Sec 36 5-1 Consider-ation $280,000
Charles W. Davis & Sandra K. Davis to Na-nette C. Newell NW NW Sec 17 4-2, Consider-ation $115,000
Amanda L. Hornbostel & Joshua L. Hornbostel to Randall Fredrick Willig NE Sec 24 5-3, Consideration $59,900
Carroll Gordon Heape & Karen S. Heape to Bradley K. Morgen-stern & Kathryn Ann Morgenstern NE NE Sec 19 5-1 Consider-ation $40,000
Lisa L. Bathon & Mel-vin W. Bathon to Mary Nippe Heck & Mary Nippe SE NW Sec 9 4-2, Consideration $20,000
Kenneth C. McKinnies & Merla J. McKinnies to John P. Elswick & Tamara Elswick Lts 12,
14 & 13 SB Eaton Addn Consideration $29,633
Jerry P. Kelly & Patri-cia A. Kelly to Lap Ho & Kimanh Nguyen Lt 5 Blk 1 Damon Things Keyes & Metcalf; Lts 2 & 1 Blk 29 Keyes Met-calfs 1st Addn Consid-eration $54,500
Deborah J. Martin to Kristin S. Duncan & Brendan McGarity Lt 1 Blk 3 Horns Addn; Lts 13 & 14 Blk 38 Keyes Metcalfs 2nd Addn, Consideration $125,000
QUITCLAIM DEEDSJ o s hu a L ey b a &
Deziree Williams to Tina Leyba SE Sec 23 5-3; Lt 15 Sunset Ter-race Addn
Nicole M. Akins to Richard Lee Akins Jr. Lts 9 & 10 Blk 18 Keyes Metcalfs 1st Addn
Nicole M. Akins to Richard Lee Akins Jr. Lt 6 Blk 1 Halliday For-ester Addn
DEEDSPrairie State Solar
LLC to Desri Illinois Real Estate Holdings LLC SW Sec 8 4-4
Prairie State Solar LLC to Desri Illinois Real Estate Holdings LLC NW SE Sec 16 4-4
Michael J. Leyba, de-ceased & Tina Leyba Administrator to Josh-ua Leyba, Tina Leyba & Deziree Williams SE Sec 23 5-3
Klif B. Kline & Mel-ba June Kline to Klif & Melba June Kline Trust, Klif B. Kline, Co-trustee & Melba June Kline, Co-trustee NW Sec 17 4-4
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Section TwoAUGUST 20, 2020
Section Two
PERCY VILLAGE BOARD
Abuse it and lose it: recycling bins removedBy Travis Lott
Percy residents are no longer able to take recycling to the vil-lage hall parking lot.
After months of pleading with resi-dents to not dispose of trash in the recycling bins, the village board voted during the Au-gust 13 meeting to remove the recycling trailers.
Mayor Mark Prange said the village has had issues with people from outside town dis-posing of items in the bin, as well, despite signage that states it is for residents only.
More than three weeks ago, the County Journal shared pho-tos of the recycling bins on Facebook, not-ing that the bins were fi lled with garbage. In the bins were rotting fruit and eggs, pizza boxes and bags fi lled with miscellaneous trash.
During the meet-ing, Prange said the last time he looked, he found watermelon rinds and maggots in the bins.
“It’s time to get rid of it,” said Trustee Dave Deppe.
The board agreed, and the bins were set to be removed.
The neighboring town of Steeleville quit its open recycling more than a year ago for the same reason.
Menard Correctional Center, which process-es the recycling, forced the closure when it stopped accepting the bins from Steeleville.
In other news, Rob-ert Risley, who is con-tracted to monitor the lagoon, said it is 53 percent full of sludge.
Risley recommended placing seven aeration units in the lagoon to deal with the issue.
The village will seek grants for the project, which would cost an estimated $68,000.
Police Chief Jim Zeidler reported that the two police offi cers Steeleville hired to help provide 24-hour coverage in Percy graduated from the police academy in mid-July and are patrol-ling the streets.
The two offi cers, Steven Uchtman and Chase Usher, were hired by Steeleville in January in antici-pation of the police contract with Percy, which went into effect in March.
Zeidler also reported that, of the 184 calls the department received over the past month, 69 were to Percy.
Resident Ron Cole-man attended the meeting to speak about the ongoing issue of semi trucks parking on Minton Drive.
Coleman said one truck had turned
around in his yard, causing ruts.
Last month, resident Larry Lovel also com-plained about trucks using the 60-foot wide street for overnight parking.
It was suggested that the town sell per-mits to truckers who wish to use the road for parking. The dis-cussed price was $200 per year, and a $125 fi ne for parking with-out a permit.
The Percy Fire De-partment previously requested that the vil-lage pay for protective gear for two fi remen. Grant money received last month covered all but those two sets.
However, Trustee Mark Hanks said the fi remen should hold a fundraiser like other departments do, sug-gesting a raffl e or sell-ing barbecue at Steele-ville Marketplace.
A discussion was held at the end of the meeting regarding a change in the pay for maintenance supervi-sor Mark Hartmann.
Hartmann plans to retire in two or three years, and the vil-lage board discussed changing the way it pays for his health in-surance in order to increase his benefi ts from the Illinois Mu-nicipal Retirement Fund.
The village cur-
rently pays his insur-ance directly. If the village changed his pay to include the in-surance payment in his paycheck, it would increase his reported wages and thus in-crease his retirement benefi ts.
Attorney Don Big-ham said he would look into the change and report back to the board during next month’s meeting.
Recycling bins will no longer be available
Steven Uchtman, Jim Zeidler and Chase Usher
By: Dan ZobelSPORTSCounty Journal | August 20, 2020Page 14
By Dan ZobelTentative plans have
been put in place for the 2021 American Le-gion baseball seasons.
Like most organized sports, Legion ball was canceled this summer.
The plan for next year will allow for a com-plete Legion season while working around the revamped Illinois High School Associa-tion baseball season.
Und e r t h e p l a n , which Legion base-ball state Chairman Don Wallis said was cleared by the national Legion organization, the insurance company and the IHSA, Ameri-can Legion baseball will be played March 16 through April 30. It will then stop play while the high school season is completed, which is tentatively scheduled for May 3 through June 16.
The American Legion baseball season would then resume June 28.
Postseason for senior teams would begin the week of July 12 while the postseason for jun-ior teams would start the week of July 19 or 26.
“Junior Legion teams
Plans set for 2021 Legion baseballSeasons to be broken into two segments
could actually be better off even if they can’t play in the spring be-cause they’ll basically have an entire month in July to play,” Wallis said.
Wallis noted that there could be changes made to the postseason for-mat in order not draw it out. Senior Legion 25th District and Jun-ior Legion chairman Butch Ogle previously told the County Jour-nal he is advocating to make the tournaments single elimination, as opposed to the normal double elimination.
The senior state tour-nament is slated for the last week of July, while the junior state tourna-ment would be the first week of August.
Wallis added that when postseason tour-naments roll around, Legion will have to get clearance from the tournament host health department.
“We received that in-formation from some of the other states that ac-
tually did play baseball this summer,” Wallis said. “Montana had to move its state tourna-ment site to a different city.”
Ogle addressed an issue that could take place with the Legion season beginning in March and April.
The high school foot-ball season is scheduled to take place from Feb-ruary 15 through May 1. Ogle said he is call-ing each area Legion baseball team to see if they will have enough players who do not play football.
If a team says it will not have enough play-ers to field a team with-out those students, one of Ogle’s suggestions is encouraging the ones who still want to play baseball to join another team in March and April then see if they could get released to play for their normal team in late June.
The same suggestion was made for teams who will lack enough
players to field a team without kids who are off at college.
“It’ll be interesting,” Wallis said. “Overall, I’ve heard positive feed-back from throughout the state. The only nega-tive thing I’ve heard is people worried about football players not be-ing able to play right away.”
For Legion teams who do not have enough players in March and April, Ogle said they could still start up in late June, as long as each player is on the roster and the team is registered.
“We would like to see everybody work togeth-er so that every kid who wants to play baseball is able to play,” Ogle said. “That’s the key to this entire program. We want to provide a place for kids to play.”
Another thing to watch in the early portion of the Legion baseball sea-son is the fact that high school coaches will not be able to coach Legion teams in March and April.
“There’s a lot of un-knowns,” Wallis said, “but I think doing noth-ing is not a good idea.”
Taylor Dagner celebrates after a big moment in her August 1 MMA fight.
Who’s next?Taylor Dagner wins first career MMA fight
High school boys golf roundup
By Dan ZobelTaylor Dagner went
from 2018 Steeleville High School graduate to mixed martial arts competitor in just over two years.
Dagner, 20, moved to Senatobia, Mississippi the day of her high school graduation.
Just over two years later, August 1 of this year, she competed in her first MMA fight. She won by technical knockout in the first round.
“My main goal is to hurt them before they hurt me. That’s their goal, too. I’m constantly looking for that oppor-tunity,” Dagner said. “That first fight went really well. I definitely surprised myself.”
In high school, Dag-ner ran cross country and played volleyball and basketball, but she admitted the latter two were never really her forte.
She started watch-ing Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts while she was in high school and found wom-en fighters like Amanda Nuñez and Valentina Shevchenko inspiring.
Still, it was not until she moved to Missis-sippi and started dating her now fiancé Zach-ary Bishop that she got an opportunity to fight herself.
“When I realized it was a sport that I’m good at it and I could compete and possible do some-thing with it, I went for it,” Dagner said.
Bishop has been train-ing since 2015. Dagner started her MMA train-ing at The Brawlers Den in Senatobia last September.
“(Bishop) kind of took me under his wing at his gym,” Dagner said. “I was kind of always watching him train then one day I started to try it out. He helps
me out, and we train together. He’s definitely my number one sup-porter.”
Dagner had her first jiujitsu tournament ear-lier this summer, and the August 1 MMA bout came in the Summit Fighting Champion-ships organization.
“That first moment was indescribable,” Dagner said. “Just the feeling of knowing that everyone you’ve worked with is watching is something else. There’s a lot of pressure, but once the doors shut, it was game time.”
Bishop was on the same fight card as Dag-ner that night, and she said a UFC fighter was commentating his fight.
“It was a big deal for us,” Dagner said. “Even the UFC fighter said (Bishop) got robbed. It was quite an experi-ence.”
Dagner’s two coaches are Jeff Denton and
Ricky Pike. She credits a lot of her early success to the work put in and support gained from The Brawlers Den.
“The gym I train at really pushes you with cardio,” Dagner said. “Being the only female in the gym for a while helps with that, too. At first, it was a little awk-ward (being the only female) because some of them were afraid to hit a girl, but my coaches just said hit as hard as you can, and they’ll get to where they do, too. I’m tougher than I look.”
She also feels the sup-port from her family, including parents Ce Ce and Scott Dagner, and friends in southern Illi-nois, who she said keep rooting her on.
“They were gung-ho about me doing this,” Dagner said. “They kind of knew the personality I had before I started
Play to begin in March
Chester’s Jarrett James starts strong
Jarrett James nailed this putt August 18 on hole No. 9 at the Chester Country Club.
AUGUST 18Gibault 152Chester 162
Steeleville 171Chester’s Jarrett James was solid at the Ches-
ter Country Club, firing a 35, and helping the Yellow Jackets top Steeleville.
Following James for Chester were Jaden Mott (37), Kaden Freytag (44) and Luke Miller (46).
Steeleville was led by Avery Hamilton and Jack Knop, who each carded a 39. The next two Warriors were Reid Harriss (46) and Luke Bartens (47).
Trico 172Zeigler-Royalton 205
Logan Cleland separated himself from the Trico pack, carding a 41, and helping the Pioneers take down Zeigler-Royalton at Franklin County Country Club in West Frankfort.
The next three Pioneer scores came from Peyton Lovel (43), Zach Thies (44), Ross Coleman (44) and Tyler Compton (44).
Carter Maloney of Z-R was the medalist at 40.Okawville 176
Sparta 193Carson Wiese of Okawville earned medalist
at Roland Barkau Memorial Golf Course in Okawville by carding a 41.
Sparta’s top golfer was Mason Ethington at 43. The next three Bulldogs were Jaydyn Ethington (46), Eric Renner (51) and Jack Loesing (53).
Marissa-Coulterville 179New Athens 205
Caleb Trieb fired a 43 to gain medalist honors and help lead Marissa-Coulterville over New Athens.
The next three Meteors were Alex Dagner (44), Josh Stephens (46) and Chase Hurst (46).
The top golfer for New Athens was Mason Page at 45.
AUGUST 17Chester 182
Steeleville 186Jarrett James of Chester finished one over par
at Pyramid Oaks Golf Course in Percy, carding a 38, which was good enough for medalist.
The next three Chester golfers were Jaden Mott (45), Kaden Freytag (46) and Luke Miller (53).
Steeleville’s Jack Knop tallied a 39, just one stroke off of James. Rounding out the Warriors were Avery Hamilton (43), Reid Harriss (51) and Luke Bartens (53).
Trico 176Du Quoin 215
AUGUST 18Zeigler-Royalton 190
Trico 208Trico’s Kylie Bunselmeyer opened her season
with a medalist finish at Franklin County Coun-try Club in West Frankfort. Bunselmeyer scored a 45.
The next three Pioneers were Megan Wettig (51), Kassidy Bunselmeyer (53) and Kayla Knott (59).
AUGUST 17Carterville 235
Hamilton County 235Sparta NTS
Kylee Vaughan of Hamilton County shot a 39
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Marissa players with their trophy
From left in the front row are Nick Hamilton, Jarrett James, Zach Mevert, Jackson Krana-wetter and Ashton McGranahan. Middle row: Reid Keene, Noah Carter, Dre Scott, Tre Scott, Jaden Mott, Daniel Vogt and Will Bramlett. Back row: coaches McGranahan, Mott, Vogt and Bramlett.
The following are some previous sports highlights from the third week of August.
August 18, 2011• The inagural JAKES
Day, put on by the Ran-dolph County Cutters and Strutters of the National Wild Tur-key Federation, took place July 23 at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta.
Attending were 68 youth and 53 adults.
• The Southwest Illi-nois Pony Pinto all-star team placed fourth at the Pony World Series in Carterville.
Pool play victories were over Carbondale (20-17), West Frankfort (15-6) and Herrin (13-3), with a loss to Carter-ville (17-11).
In bracket action, the team lost to Lexington, Kentucky, (20-10) and again to Carterville (17-7).
Team members were
This week in County Journal sports historyNick Hamilton, Jar-rett James and Jaden Mott of Chester, Zach Mevert of Steeleville, Jackson Kranawet-ter, Daniel Vogt and Will Bramlett of Trico, Ashton McGranahan of Marissa and Reid Keene, Noah Carter, Dre Scott and Tre Scott of Pinckneyville.
August 16, 2001• The Illinois High
School Association recently switched to an eight-class format in football, meaning that around half of the 543 teams in the state would qualify for the postseason.
Chester, in the SIRR Mississippi, had played in 2A but was bumped up to 3A in the class expansion. Chester's football enrollment was 413, while the 2A/3A cutoff was 403.
Elverado-Trico fell into 3A, as did most of the Black Diamond Conference.
• Volleyball coach Patti Berry of Coulter-ville traveled to New Zealand and Australia during the summer to coach, representing the United States as a People to People Sports Ambassador.
Team building ac-tivities included rock climbing, sea kayaking and canoeing.
A skills camp was held to divide teams into approximate abil-ity levels.
Berry coached a 16U team that went 3-1 in New Zealand and 3-1-1 in its pool in Australia.
August 15, 1991• Jeannie Smith of Du
Quoin hit a hole in one at the Perry County Country Club.
Smith achieved the feat on the 100-yard hole No.3 with a 7 iron.
• The Sparta fi re and
police departments were to play the KSHE 95 Busch Light All-Stars August 18 in the second annual charity softball game.
Some players expect-ed for Sparta were Gary and Trecia Han-na, Tom Weber, Mike Cunningham, Greg Valleroy, Joe and Gina Deutschman, Brian and Cheryl Adams, Jeff Blind, Tim Rucks, Larry Vancil, David Washington, Larry and Marcia Long-Croteau, Bob Misselhorn, John Holt, Ed Richardson, Randy Harris and Ken-ny Kempfer.
Some of the mem-bers who played on the KSHE team at the pre-vious year's game were Vince Richards, "Ra-dio Rich" Dalton, Drew Johnson, Sue Daniels and Al Hoffer.
August 20, 1981• The Marissa Ameri-
can Legion Robert F. Arnold Post 172 Senior Legion baseball team became the 54th Illinois state Legion champion.
Marissa won the title with a 7-1 victory over Lombard at Waukegan.
Marissa also beat Lombard 11-9 in its fi rst game of the tourna-ment and picked up a 4-1 victory over Wat-seka.
Marissa, which im-proved to 35-9, would next play in the Great Lakes Regional held at Morehead, Kentucky.
At state, Marissa High School senior Mark Schulte was named tournament most valu-able player. He was also the MVP of the division tournament.
Schulte was the win-ning pitcher in the
state title game, strik-ing out 10 batters. He also hit a home run, his 15th of the season, in the eighth inning as one of his two hits.
Other tournament highlights included pitcher Kevin Pour im-proving to 12-0 in the opener and Rich Har-gis upping his pitch-ing record to 6-3 with the win over Watseka. Hargis struck out eight batters. Schulte pro-vided a three-run home run.
Marissa was coached by Kent Vollert.
• The Pinckneyville Celtics fastpitch soft-ball team earned the Class A state title.
The Celtics won the championship game 11-2 over Pana.
Pinckneyville south-paw Bob Keith was named tournament MVP.
Keith collected five pitching wins in the tournament. He fin-ished with 36 innings pitched, 42 strikeouts and just four runs al-lowed.
Other Pinckneyville players named all-state were Lew Schweizer, Mike Emling and Kevin Hicks.
Hicks, Kirk Provart and Tom Gendron hit home runs in the title game.
Other tournament wins were against Robinson (7-0), Spring-field (2-1), Tremont (3-2, 10 innings) and Woodlawn (3-0).
The next stop for the Celtics, who improved to 65-16 overall, would be the Midwest Region-al in Bloomington.
doing this told me I needed something to get everything out.”
Dagner said she hopes to have another fi ght in the next few months.
From left are Shun Mitchell, Zachary Bishop, Ricky Pike, Taylor Dagner and Jeff Denton.
Who’s next?...From Page 14____________________In the meantime, she
trains hard in a sport she hopes to continue to compete in deep into her future.
“I’m going to do this
as long as I can,” Dag-ner said. “As long as my body allows me, I hope to continue on and move up in promo-tions.”
Steeleville’s Reid Harriss pops in a putt as teammate Logan Bartens watches during the August 18 match at Chester Country Club.
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Lincoln baseball falls to MurphysboroThe Sparta Lincoln baseball team was back in action August 18 at home against Murphysboro. Murphysboro won the game 20-2. With the loss, Lincoln dropped to 0-3 on the season. Pictured is pitcher Camden Allard about to fi re a pitch home as third baseman Tristan Coonrod gets in position in the background.
Trico had four golfers fi nish with a 44, and the Pioneers defeated Du Quoin at Pyramid Oaks Golf Course in Percy.
Those four Pioneer golfers with identical scores were Zach Thies, Ross Coleman, Daniel Vogt and Tyler Comp-ton.
Du Quoin was paced by Hunter Ridgeway’s 49. The next three Indians were Caden Hutchens (50), Garrick Blevins (56) and Aiden Fields (60).
Red Bud 188Sparta 190
Red Bud’s Owen Stall-ings paced the field at the Sparta Country Club with a 45 to help the Musketeers edge Sparta.
The next three Red Bud golfers were Austin Grohmann (46), Ethan Fritsche (47) and Cam-den Langrehr (50).
Sparta’s top four golf-ers, each with a 47, were Eric Renner, Mason Ethington and Patrick Kloos, followed closely by Eli Coop (49).
Pinckneyville 178Waltonville 214Woodlawn NTS
Nile Adcock was the top golfer at Red Hawk Golf Course in Tamaroa, lifting Pinckneyville to a season-opening win. Adcock carded a 43 for medalist.
He was followed closely
by Panther teammates Jeremiah Kelly (44), Jacob Anderson (45) and Jonah Tanner (46).
Waltonville’s top golfer was Tyler Hacker at 50. Woodlawn did not have enough golfers for a team score, but was led by Joel Hayse at 48.
Freeburg 183Marissa-C’ville 185
Okawville 188This competition was
held at the Roland Barkau Memorial Golf Course in Okawville.
County Journal | August 20, 2020Page 16
By Dan ZobelDespite the oddities
that the COVID-19 situ-ation will add to high school athletic seasons, golf teed off with com-petitions August 17.
In this area, that means the return of Jarrett James of Ches-ter High School, who is looking for his third consecutive trip to the state tournament, and a senior-laden Trico team that is looking for another regional title after winning two over the past three seasons.
Chester a lso ad -vanced to sectionals as a team last year, and that Black Diamond Conference rivalry will be on full display again this year.
Marissa-Coulterville also advanced to sec-tionals as a team last year, and lost just two key seniors from that squad.
Individual sectional qualifiers back from last year that return include Steeleville's Austin Park, Red Bud's Austin Grohmann and Du Quoin's Garrick Blevins.
CHESTERHe might be soft spo-
ken, but it is no secret that one of the best golfers in southern Illinois, if not the en-tire state, makes his living on the greens in Chester.
Yellow Jacket Jar-rett James enters the final year of his prep career, finishing tied for 11th place at the state tournament in 2019, just one shot off of making the all-state team. It was his sec-ond consecutive state appearance.
In each of his three years of high school, he was named to the SICA all-south and Black Diamond all-conference teams. He was also the individ-ual champion of the BDC and Chester In-vitational last season.
Other Chester golf-ers bringing back varsity experience are all -conference and Chester Invita-tional all-tournament member senior Jaden Mott, as well as jun-iors Kaden Freytag and Luke Miller and sophomore Chance Mott.
Coach Chris Toledo sees a battle taking place for his team's top seven after it held a qualifying round.
"Jarrett, Jaden and Kaden are as good as
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Jaden Mott of Chester chips a ball toward the green August 18 at the Chester Country Club.
Steeleville’s Jack Knop sends a shot toward the green from the fairway August 18 at the Chester Country Club.
anyone in the area," Toledo said. "We expect Chance, (sophomore)C lay ton Andrews , Luke and (junior) Reed Welborn, as well as a few others, to do bat-tle for those last three spots."
As a team last season, Chester ended second in regionals, finishing only behind BDC foe Trico, second in the BDC tournament and picked up an eighth-place finish at section-als.
"They have the po-tential to accomplish a lot with the talent we have returning," To-ledo said. "They want to win a conference, as well as a regional championship, but in order to do that, the top three need to perform up to their standards; and we need a consist-ent fourth score by one of the other guys to get our team score where it needs to be."
Chester has 17 golfers on its roster this sea-son, the most Toledo can ever remember having. He said despite all of the COVID-19 re-strictions, the group has been nothing but positive.
"They just come out and put in the work to become better golfers," Toledo said. "These kids are just happy to be out spending time with friends.
"It has been a difficult summer for them, and they are just ready to get on with their eve-ryday lives. I'm glad that golf has been able to play a part."
RosterSeniors: Hayden Gen-
dron, Nate Heffernan, Jarrett James, Matt Korando, Jaden Mott
J u n i o r s : K a d e n Freytag, Jared Lan-deros, Luke Miller, Brock Vasquez, Reed Welborn
Freshmen: Isaiah Fer-rell, Matt Mifflin, Lucas Thompson
DU QUOINDu Quoin returns a
pair of golfers with varsity experience.
Leading the way is senior Garrick Blevins, who was an SIRR Mis-sissippi all-conference performer as a jun-ior and advanced to sectionals. Sophomore Caden Hutchens also played a big role last season.
After that duo, it will
be a battle to fill the other spots for the In-dians. Coach Bryson Potts noted that the team picked up four boys who would nor-mally be playing foot-ball if the season had not been switched to the spring.
"With this year hav-ing so many new play-ers, they are all bat-tling for a spot in the top six," Potts said. "There are many open spots."
The others vying for positions will be sen-ior Noah Gates, sopho-mores Aiden Fields, Jace Shupe, Owen Corrnett and Aiden Bradley and freshmen Hunter Ridgeway and Sam Vancil.
Last season, Du Quoin finished third in the conference and sev-enth in regional action.
"I think the boys have a chance to again be in the top two or three of the conference," Potts said. "We are a team that is progressing at a rapid rate. These kids work extremely hard, and I am excited to see the progress we are continuing to make."
Gone is Marissa-Coul-terville standout Logan Jones, but the Meteors do return four of their top six golfers from a sectional qualifying team a year ago.
Leading that charge are seniors Alex Dag-ner, who has made it to sectionals the previous two seasons, and Josh Stephens, a Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division all-conference performer last year.
Juniors Caleb Trieb and Austin Hill return with experience, and coach Jason Smith not-ed that his entire group of juniors, which also includes Bradin Harri-man, David Schneide-wind, Jason Shelton, Chase Weis and Jeff Wiley, will be looking to move up to the varsity ranks.
Other expected con-tributors include sen-iors Collin Pilbean and Caden Finks, sopho-more Chase Hurst and freshman Carter Trieb.
As a team, the Mete-ors won a conference title in 2018 and earned third last season. They were also third at re-gionals.
"Our goal every year is to win the conference title and qualify, as a team, for sectionals," Smith said. "We have the roster to do that, but we'll have to keep improving as the year progresses."
While practice was allowed to start August 10, Marissa-Coulterville golfers were unable to get on the links as of-ten as normal because of the storm that rav-aged a good portion of Marissa, including the golf course.
"We didn't really get a first week of practice due to the storm," Smith said. "Most of the team helped with cleanup instead of playing golf that week."
RosterSeniors: Alex Dagner,
Josh Stephens, Collin Pilbean, Caden Finks
Juniors: Caleb Trieb, Austin Hill, Bradin Har-riman, David Schneide-wind, Jason Shelton, Chase Weis, Jeff Wiley
Freshmen: Carter Trieb, Mason Harri-man, Nick Weymouth
PINCKNEYVILLEExperience is the
name of the game in Pinckneyville.
Coach Nolan Keller-man returns his top five golfers, all of which have been active in competitions over
the last two seasons.Those golfers are jun-
iors Nile Adcock, Jim-mie Reiman, Hayden Hepburn and Jeremiah Kelly and sophomore Jacob Anderson.
Reiman is coming off of an SIRR Missis-sippi all-conference performance last sea-son, when he earned sixth at the conference match.
"I have higher expecta-tions this year because we bring back a lot of experience," Kellerman said. "The four juniors have been playing var-sity competitions since their freshman year. I really expect those juniors to lead the team this year. I am really expecting Adcock and Reiman to make bigger strides this year."
In addition to that core five, Kellerman expects senior Hudson Kreger and freshman Jonah Tanner to com-pete for consistent ac-tion on the golf course.
Pinckneyville was fourth in the confer-ence last year and placed ninth at region-als.
Adcock finished one stroke from advanc-ing from regionals to sectionals as an indi-vidual.
“I’m excited to see what’s in store for this year because we do have potential, and it’s just a matter of putting it together during the golf matches,” Keller-man said. “They are happy we are having a season. I see more confidence in their golf game.”
RosterS e n i o r : H u d s o n
KregerJuniors: Nile Adcock,
Hayden Hepburn, Jim-mie Reiman, Jeremiah Kelly
Sophomores: Jacob Anderson, Layne Jones, Dustin Palmer
Freshmen: Jonah Tanner, Jonah Winter, Jacob Lynch, Deuce Wright
RED BUDRed Bud enters the
season with a senior class of seven golfers and a combined 11 jun-iors and seniors.
Senior Austin Groh-mann returns as the leader of the pack, hav-ing achieved all-confer-ence honors within the Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division and advancing out of re-gionals into sectionals as a junior.
Including Grohmann, the Musketeers have six golfers who come back with some varsity experience
Coach Terry Meyer is looking at seniors Kendall Doiron, Ethan Fr i t sche, Brendan Harms and B lake
Maes, juniors Camden Langrehr and Logan Cathell and sopho-mores Owen Stallings and Canon Hartmann to begin the season bat-tling for position.
Red Bud placed fourth in the conference last season and seventh at regionals, although the Musketeers quali-fied two individuals to sectionals.
“We have work to do to have good scores on a regular basis,” Meyer said. “We have golfers who shoot well one day and the next not so good.
“Our expectations, though, are to win con-ference and do well in regionals, perhaps getting two or three golfers to move into sectionals.”
RosterS e n i o r s : Au s t i n
Grohmann, E than Fritsche, Kendall Doi-ron, Dylan Roscow, Brendan Harms, Blake Maes, Reece Candler
Freshmen: Mason Cowell, Sam Wright, Ryker Papenberg, Cash Langrehr, Grant Maes
SPARTAThere will be a lot of
open competition in the Sparta golf team.
Senior Eric Renner and junior Kerry Kloos bring back the most ex-perience, but in terms of a top six, coach Bob Bohnert is still looking for some clarity.
“At the moment, Eric, (senior) Jaydyn Ething-ton and (freshman) Mason Ethington will probably get regular play,” Bohnert said. “It is honestly up for grabs after that. How-ever, we have many people who are work-ing hard and eager to take spots away from those three. This is the deepest team we have had in several years.”
While Bohnert is still working on filling out his lineup card, he has high expectations for this group. He said there is a lot of player excitement, passion and work ethic.
“I feel like they will push each other to get better,” Bohnert said. “The excitement is contagious from these boys.”
Bohnert especially likes the promise of his underclassmen, highlighting the fresh-man class of Mason Ethington, James Pill-ers, Jack Loesing and
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County Journal | August 20, 2020 Page 17
By Dan ZobelWith the golf season
able to start up Au-gust 10, it allowed an opportunity for Kylie Bunselmeyer of Trico High School to make a return trip to state.
Last season, she was unable to make it to the final day of state, but that has firmly be-come one of her goals for this season.
Led by Bunselmey-er, Trico advanced to sectionals as a team last season and did not lose a senior from that group.
Other individual golf-ers back this year who qualified for section-als last season include Breyona Schandl of Pinckneyville, Olivia Quigley of Marissa-Coulterville and Sa-mantha Eggemeyer of Chester.
Marissa-Coulterville came close to a sec-tional berth as a team, placing fifth in its re-gionals, and the Lady Meteors have geared up this year to improve on that standing.
Also of note, thanks to the influx of players joining golf with vol-leyball being moved to the spring this school year, Steeleville High School was able to res-urrect its girls golf program, sporting a complete team for the first time since the 2016 season.
CHESTERWith volleyball moved
to the spring this year, the Chester girls golf program has seen an increase in interest.
Coach Chris Toledo said the nine girls par-ticipating are the most in recent memory.
Senior Sam Eggemey-er returns as the team's most seasoned golfer, but it is a freshman who Toledo expects to land in the spotlight.
"We have a young team, but this could be one of the better girls teams we've had," Toledo said. "Camryn (Luthy) shot a 42 in our qualifying round and should lead the way for the Lady Jackets."
Others expected in the team's initial top six are Eggemeyer, senior Lauren Soell-ner, sophomores Aub-rie Medford and Paige Vasquez and freshman Jazzi Meredith.
"We are very excited for these girls," Toledo said. "I honestly don't think they realize how good they are and how good they could be. With them being so young, they are only going to get better. It wouldn't surprise us if these girls are battling for a conference or regional title, but they are going to have to continue to get better every day."
Chester has never
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Steeleville’s Shealyn Conway fires a putt toward the green August 18 at the Chester Country Club.
Paige Vasquez of Chester High School adjusts her face mask during an August 18 match at Chester Country Club.
Trico’s Kylie Bunselmeyer fires off a drive during an August 11 practice at Pyramid Oaks Golf Course in Percy.
won a conference ti-tle in the Black Dia-mond. Last year, the team placed sixth in the conference match, with Eggemeyer finishing 10 strokes off of an all-conference spot.
"(These players) all come to practice every day to get better," To-ledo said. "They don't complain about what we ask them to do, they trust us coaches and that makes our job so much easier. They haven't complained one time about all the re-strictions and guide-lines that have come out due to COVID-19. They just show up and go about their busi-ness."
Senior Aubrey Bar-wick, junior Ryleigh Ridgeway and sopho-more Abby Burris, re-turn with some varsity experience, but after that, the remaining spots are open for com-petition.
The Lady Indians' ros-ter increased to eight girls, thanks to three players joining who would normally be playing volleyball at
this time."With having so many
new players this year, they are all battling for a spot in the top six," said Du Quoin coach Bryson Potts. "They are a hard-working group that is always looking to get better."
Du Quoin is coming off of a season that saw it place sixth in the SIRR Mississippi and 11th in regionals.
At the conference meet, Barwick was the team's top golfer, but she finished 17 strokes off of an all-conference position.
"We are a team that is progressing at a rapid rate," Potts said. "These kids work extremely hard, and I am excit-ed to see the progress we are continuing to make."
RosterSenior: Aubrey Bar-
wickJuniors: Grace Alongi,
Olivia Phillips, Ryleigh Ridgeway
Sophomores: Abby Burris, Jalynn Wood
Freshmen: Brooklun Willis, Claire Rose
MARISSA-COULTERVILLE
Marissa-Coulterville might have only four golfers, but the one sen-ior the team does have has been a good one.
Olivia Quigley has been a Cahokia Con-ference Kaskaskia Di-vision all-conference performer in each of her three years in high school. She has also advanced to sectionals the past two seasons and has numerous top tournament and match medalist finishes to her name.
"Olivia making the state tournament would be the primary goal," said Marissa-Coulter-ville coach Justin May-nard. "She would need to stay healthy and mentally tough. She has put in her time on the course, that's for sure."The team's only other
returning golfer is junior Ellie Parker. Filling out the Lady Meteor card are fresh-men Josie Stephens and Olivia Parker.
"I would like to de-velop my rookies so they can come back stronger next season," Maynard said. "I will not be focused on wins and losses this year. We are young and few in numbers."
Marissa-Coulterville was fourth at the con-ference tournament last season and fifth in regionals. Quigley tied for third individually in conference.
RosterSenior: Olivia QuigleyJunior: Ellie Parker
Freshmen: Ol iv ia Parker, Josie Stephens
PINCKNEYVILLEPinckneyville is just
two years removed from a third-place finish at the state tournament. That same year, the Lady Panthers won a sectional title.
Last season, Pinck-neyville finished fifth at regionals and sent two individuals to sectionals.
One of those individu-als is junior Breyona Schandl, who was also an SIRR Mississippi all-conference performer, helping Pinckneyville to a fourth-place finish in the conference tour-nament.
Pinckneyville will not be very deep this year, having only six players. Five of those are juniors, with the other being a sophomore.
That sophomore is Maddy Lynch, who coach Dan Breslin ex-pects to make an impact.
"(Lynch) will be out-standing," Breslin said. "She works really hard."
The rest of the team rounds out with Zoey Brammeier, Aubrey Lemmon, Kylie Harvey
and Abbie Dascotte."We should be pretty
solid," Breslin said. "We won't be like we were the last several years, but we should be pretty good. I don't see anybody really leading the pack yet for us. We will have to wait and see how it goes."
Breslin envisions a team with a winning record that competes match in and match out. He hopes the girls will learn that hard work is what the game requires to become consistently successful.
"They all have expe-rience at regionals, sectionals and state," Breslin said. "They just have to be able to break through. It's an all-year job. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens."
Coach Emily Brewer will look to sophomore Brenn Wilson as the team's captain.
"She is dedicated to the sport and continues to make improvements to her game," Brewer said.
Around Wilson will be the freshman trio of Melayna Crafton, Haven Grau and Abby Vallet.
"I am anxious to watch them grow this year and find their passion for playing golf," Brew-er said.
Red Bud placed sixth last year in the Ca-hokia Conference tour-nament. Wilson had the team's highest score, and was just four spots from an all-conference finish.
At regionals, Red Bud placed 11th, finishing ahead of Chester.
"They have shown a lot of dedication in in-dividually working on their game to benefit our team as a whole," Brewer said.
RosterSophomore: Brenn
WilsonFreshmen: Melayna
Crafton, Haven Grau, Abby Vallet
SPARTASparta will return
three varsity members from last year's team, led by senior Claire Baue.
"We lost a lot of experi-ence and scoring from our seniors graduat-ing," said Sparta coach Bob Bohnert. "Claire will step up nicely into that role this year to lead this team. She has been putting it together the last several years, and I believe she has the game to advance in the postseason.”
Other experience will come from senior Alyssa Williams and Makayla McCready. Sophomore Sydney Rheinecker and fresh-men Emma Carpenter and Abbey Zweigart fill out the roster.
“As a team, we will be doing some learning and gaining experi-ence,” Bohnert said. “Alyssa is joining us again this year to give us experience, and Ma-kayla has one year un-der her belt and has
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been working hard this summer and improv-ing.
“Sydney is new but has been working hard this summer and will contribute nicely for us.”
Sparta finished fifth in the SIRR Mississippi tournament last year. Baue was 15 strokes off of being named all-conference. At region-als, Sparta placed 11th.
“They are just ready to get to competition,” Bohnert said. “They practiced this summer and are wanting to put it to the test against others.”
RosterSeniors: Claire Baue,
Alyssa WilliamsJunior: Makayla Mc-
Jadyn Fitch.“I can see all four
working their way into the lineup,” Bohnert said. “If nothing else, they will give us a solid core for the next four years as they continue to learn and get experi-ence. We have a good blend of age levels on this team.”
Sparta will be look-ing to improve on some team finishes from a year ago. The Bulldogs were sixth at the SIRR Mississippi match and managed ninth in re-gionals.
“We are just happy to be on the course and have a season this year,” Bohnert said. “It is hard not to ignore the thought in the back of your mind on whether we will be able to finish the season. We will have to ignore that distrac-tion and get to work on the course and control what we can control and deal with situations as they arrive.
“This has the potential to be a good year. We would like to see it all the way through.”
Roster
High school boys golf preview...From Page 16________________________________________________Seniors: Eric Renner,
Jaydyn EthingtonJuniors: Eli Coop,
Braxton Parker, Kerry Kloos, Patrick Kloos
Sophomores: Tyler Schulein, Braden Haury
Freshmen: James Pill-ers, Jadyn Fitch, Jack Loesing, Mason Ething-ton
STEELEVILLEAustin Park will lead
a Steeleville group that begins the season with youth and promise.
Park, a senior, returns as a sectional qualifier and a Cahokia Confer-ence Kaskaskia Division all-conference perform-er. He placed third in the conference match as a junior.
Two other golfers com-ing back with experi-ence are sophomore Jack Knop, who was all-conference a year ago, and sophomore Avery Hamilton.
“Jack has made tre-mendous strides from last year,” Jeffers said. “Austin had a great end of the season last year, and I look for him to pick up right where he left off.”
The Steeleville ros-ter includes five sopho-mores and three fresh-men. The sophomore class especially is ex-pected to make a splash.
“Our team is young,” said Steeleville coach Justin Jeffers. “I an-ticipate starting four sophomores this year. Our team will lean on leadership from Austin, with Avery, Jack and (sophomore) Reid Har-riss as key contributing players.”
Steeleville nearly had a conference title a year ago. The Warriors fin-ished the meet with a score of 364, just two off of champion New Athens.
“Last year, we missed winning the conference championship by two strokes, and that is a major goal for this sea-son,” Jeffers said. “Our team is learning how to manage the golf ball around the course and limit big numbers.”
Helping toward that goal is the fact that Jeffers expects a good showing on an individu-al level. Three Warriors earned all-conference
last year.At regionals, Steel-
eville placed sixth as a team and qualified two players for sectionals.
“I am looking forward to the season,” Jeffers said. “If we are able to reach our potential, I think we will surprise a lot of people.”
Freshmen: Mikkah Jacobus, Michael Alex-ander, Malachi Melvin
TRICOTrico is coming off of
its second regional title in three years. While the Pioneers lost top golfer Eddie Brees from last year’s team, it returns the rest of its top play-ers, including seven with varsity experience.
That group is made up of seniors Ross Cole-man, Tyler Compton, Peyton Lovel, Zach
Thies, Daniel Vogt and Grant Welten and junior Logan Cleland.
“All seven of these boys will be competing for the top six all year, in-cluding some of the un-derclassmen who have shot some low rounds during qualifying,” said Trico coach Tyler Cole-man.
Coleman, Cleland, Lov-el, Thies and Compton made up Trico’s top five after Brees on the re-gional championship team.
Trico will field eight seniors and a total of 18 golfers across the board, both numbers marking one of the larg-est groups the Pioneers have had, according to Coleman.
“We have some big shoes to fill, losing Eddie Brees, but if we have a few of our boys step up to make up those strokes, we could have the same success this season,” Coleman said. “Through the first week of practice, I have noticed the deter-mination of our boys to improve their scores over the summer.
“Even though we haven’t been able to hold any official practices, many of our golfers have been putting a lot of time in over the sum-mer. It has shown this first week.”
Trico went on to place seventh at sectionals. The Pioneers were third in the Black Diamond Conference match, finishing behind rival Chester and conference champion Carmi-White County.
“The goal this season is to compete for anoth-er regional title,” Cole-man said. “We have the experience and poten-tial to get the job done.”
RosterSeniors: Joel Beck-
man, Ross Coleman, Andrew Froemling, Tyler Compton, Peyton Lovel, Zach Thies, Dan-iel Vogt, Grant Welten
Jun iors : Keegan Brooks, Logan Cleland, Jackson Kranawetter
High school girls golf preview...From Page 17________________________________________________Cready
Sophomore: Sydney Rheinecker
Freshmen: Emma Car-penter, Abbey Zweigart
STEELEVILLEWith volleyball being
moved to the spring, Steeleville was able to have enough girls to bring back the golf team.
While the Lady War-riors will have just four players, two are seniors Lexi Renner and Shealyn Conway, with junior Jaden Hin-nerichs and freshman Shelby Barker.
“I look for Lexi and Shealyn to be the lead-ers,” said Steeleville coach Justin Jeffers. “Jaden and Shelby are
getting better every practice.”
The big thing for Jef-fers is seeing the poten-tial improvement from these four players from the start of the season to the end.
“The girls are very athletic and will be much better in a month or so,” Jeffers said. “Our team is putting in lots of time every day, and the effort is showing.
“Our players are com-mitted and always working hard to get better. The work ethic of Warrior golf is some-thing I am very proud of.”
RosterSeniors: Lexi Renner,
Shealyn ConwayJunior: Jaden Hin-
nerichsFreshman: Shelby
Barker
TRICOSenior Kylie Bun-
selmeyer has her mind set on returning to the state tournament.
Bunselmeyer was the leader on a Trico team that placed third in re-gionals and advanced to sectionals without a sin-gle senior. Bunselmeyer then advanced to state but was unable to make it to the final day.
“Her goal this year is to make it back to state and qualify for the final round of play,” said Trico coach Tyler Coleman.
The Pioneers as a team are looking to
make it back out of re-gionals.
Trico returns eight girls with varsity ex-perience. In addition to Bunselmeyer, they are senior Megan Wettig, juniors Kassidy Bun-selmeyer and Julia Rei-man and sophomores Ella Bernaix, Ellyce Blazier, Saylor Griffiths and Kayla Knott.
“Last season, half of our girls picked up clubs for the first time, and we ended up ad-vancing out of region-als,” Coleman said. “I have pretty high expec-tations for this season, given we have more experience.
“The girls have all put in a lot of work this summer to improve, so
I am excited to see how we compete against some of the top teams in our area.”
Trico last won a con-ference title in 2017. The previous two sea-sons, Hamilton County has won it.
Trico was fifth as a team last season, with Kylie Bunselmeyer earning second as an individual.
RosterSeniors: Megan Wet-
tig, Kylie BunselmeyerJuniors: Julia Rei-
man, Kassidy Bun-selmeyer
Sophomores: Kayla Knott, Ella Bernaix, Ellyce Blazier, Saylor Griffiths
Freshmen: Mia Jime-nez, Autumn Kennedy
and was the medalist at Crab Orchard Golf Course in Carterville.
Carterville, however, won the match with a fifth golfer score.
The top golfer for Spar-ta was Claire Baue with a 54. The two other Lady Bulldogs were Alyssa
High school girls golf...From Page 14_______Williams (58) and Syd-ney Rheinecker (59).
Waltonville 188Pinckneyville 213
Woodlawn 235Maddie Burgess of
Waltonville came away with the medalist posi-tion at Red Hawk Golf Course in Tamaroa.
Pinckneyville was led by Maddy Lynch with a 48. The next three Lady Panthers were Breyona Schandl (51), Kylie Har-vey (57) and Aubrey Lemmon (58).
Woodlawn’s best golfer was Macy Williams at 52.
Steeleville/St. Mark’s defeats Prairie du RocherThe Steeleville/St. Mark’s junior high baseball team hosted Prairie du Rocher August 18 at Steeleville Grade School. Steeleville came away with a 12-2 victory in six innings. Above, Steeleville’s Tyler Ingles prepares to catch a pickoff throw from pitcher Canon Ruby as PDR runner Dalton Mudd slides back into the first base bag. Below, Ruby winds and readys to fire a pitch to an opponent.
Steeleville/St. Mark’s and PDR clash in softballThe Steeleville/St. Mark’s junior high softball team emerged victorious over Prairie du Rocher August 18 in a home game at Steeleville Grade School. The final score was 23-3. Above, PDR first baseman Sage Pensoneau watches the ball as it hits her glove, as a Steeleville runner makes it up the first base line. Below, Steeleville’s Reagan Moore connects on a pitch as PDR catcher Alison Mudd stretches her glove hand toward the ball.
Chester golf match COVID-19 policyChester High School
has put together a pol-icy for those attending Yellow Jacket home golf matches at the Chester Country Club.
The policy includes that spectators must
wear face coverings at all times, social dis-tancing between in-dividuals of at least six feet must be main-tained and, per the Illinois High School As-sociation, no spectator
carts will be permitted.Any media attending
should follow these guidelines, as well.
Everybody is encour-aged to bring their own water bottle or drink.
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School has begun. For many students, this means getting up early, gobbling a quick break-fast and rushing out the door. For others, it is almost the same as it has been since March.
Whether you decide on attending classes, virtual learning or homeschooling, these are trying times for students, parents and teachers. Please do not judge any parent for their decision on what to do this school year.
Should you send your children to school and take the chance of them contracting the corona-virus?
How wi l l v ir tual learning work? If we do virtual learning, will my child be behind his peers? Definitely my child will miss out
on the socialization of playing with other children.
How will a little one keep a mask on all day? What happens when my child sneezes and coughs into the mask? Will he get a new one? How will the school dispose of the masks? Since you cannot eat with a mask on, where do you lay it while you eat?
How can you social distance 20 kids in a classroom?
What if one child spreads the virus to teachers? Are there enough subs to call? What about the other school personnel? A custodian can’t sanitize everything every min-ute of the day.
Schenk’s Market will not be open next Mon-day, August 24.
Happy birthday to Scott Koester, Brad Kueker, Kevin Long, Doug Ramey, Owen Kueker, Parker Hasken-hoff, Marianne Pruitt, Jamie Heinen, Jenna Schilling, Ryan Riecke, Brody Mines, Emma
DeRousse and Mark McConachie.
Congratulations to Glenn and Ruth Gue-bert on the birth of their grandson Arlo Wilbert Koester, who was born Monday, Au-gust 10. Arlo weighed in at 8 pounds 15 ounces and was 21 inches long. His parents are Scott and Sarah Koester.
The EAC coaches are trying to organize the fall sport teams.
Evansville EnterpriseAugust 15, 1941
Valeda Koester be-came the bride of Alvin F. Wolter. Attendants were Nelda Koester, Anita Laufer, Melba Wolter, Elmer Liefer, Norman Nagel and Henry Liefer.
Norbert Meyer acci-dently shot himself in the right side of his head while squirrel hunting. He was in seri-ous condition,
Area schools were scheduled to open after Labor Day.
A stillborn son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Pautler.
Condolences to Lenna Morgan and her family on the passing of her brother Keith Morgan.
The former Franklin sisters had a big week-end when three out of the four celebrated birthdays.
Brenda Ford turned 50 August 13. She had dinner at Tequila’s with her kids Emily and Wyatt and Wyatt’s girlfriend Kristina.
Lisa Reitz and her husband Steve had din-ner at Applebee’s. Lisa had lunch Sunday at the Olive Garden with her daughter Megan Rector and grand-daughters Isabella and Aspen.
Laura Schaffer and her husband Dan had
dinner Monday at Chevy’s.
Lisa and Laura are twins and were born August 16. Brenda was brought home from the hospital on their fourth birthday.
Thursday all four Franklin sisters, Lisa, Laura, Brenda and Paula, are going to the Ameristar Casino in St. Charles, Missouri.
Brian Reid, son of Brian and Angie Reid, turned 21 August 16. The family celebrated with a fi sh fry at the Reid home.
The weekend of Au-gust 7, Judy Rainey, Brandy Gardner, Bailey Rainey and Jesi Wal-drup went to Georgia to attend the wedding of Liz Bartnicki. Bailey, who was a bridesmaid, is a friend of Liz’s.
Elodie and Daxton spent Saturday night with David and me. I made a spaghetti din-ner, and the kids en-joyed playing on their
tablets. We took a short trip to Sparta Walmart after supper. Elodie and Daxton told us all about their trip to Florida.
I attended a Little Black Dress party Fri-day at the home of Heather McKinney in Belleville. Also attend-ing from this area were Nona Shaw and Kim Naeger. It was to honor those who have made signifi cant Mary Kay sales this year. Nona won several.
The Coulterville Unit-ed Methodist Church Men’s Group meets Au-gust 30 at 6:30 a.m. in the church basement.
The Coulterville VFW Auxiliary held a meet-ing August 10 at the post home. Hopefully, we will meet again in September.
A baby shower was given in honor of Tori Klamm and her soon to be born son Carter. It was held at the home of her grandmother Debi Smith of Coulterville.
MenuAugust 24-28
MONDAY: Pork loin, gravy, mashed pota-toes, Italian blend, fruit crisp.TUESDAY: Chicken Al-fredo, broccoli, pie.WEDNESDAY: Sloppy joe, scalloped potatoes, corn casserole, pud-ding.THURSDAY: Chi l i , cheese stick, fruit.FRIDAY: Chicken noo-dle soup, turkey sand-wich, jello/fruit.
H o u r s : M o nd ay -Thursday 8-3, Friday 8-2.
Prices: Curbside & carry-outs $5, home-delivered $5.25, all oth-ers $6.50.
Please call 443-4020 by 11 a.m. to order a meal.
Curb service pick-up time: 11:30 to noon. Drive under the aw-ning.
Clothing store hours: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Quilt raffle tickets available.
MenuAugust 24-28
M O N DAY : S w i s s steak, mashed pota-toes, 3-bean salad, mandarin oranges.TUESDAY: Chicken/dumplings, black-eyed peas, pears, cherry pie.WEDNESDAY: Italian beef sandwich, fries, broccoli casserole, pineapple.
THURSDAY: Tur -key, dressing, green beans, cranberries, hot rolls, pumpkin pie.FRIDAY: Spaghetti w/meatballs, spinach salad, garlic bread, fruit cocktail, cherry delight.
Hours: Monday-Fri-day 8:30-4.
To order curbside meals, call 965-3134
Jason Matthew Fer-rell, Perryville, Robyn Kelly Mines, Chester
Travis James Kawalec, Natalie Jean Koehler, both of Waterloo
J a c o b S . C o mb s , Heather N. Miner, both of Troy, Illinois
Eric P. James, Mi-chelle A. Duncan, both
of Ellis GroveStephen Michael
Speakman, Ashley D. Wilson, both of Sparta
Alfred Norman Auke-ma II, Amanda M. Val-leroy, both of SpartaJacob Wilson Hall-
man, Selena Noelle Lalis, both of Red Bud
Randolph divorcesJennifer Jones, peti-
tioner, Michael Jones. Dissolution of mar-riage was granted to the petitioner August 3, 2020.
Bruce A. Schoenbeck, petitioner, Whitney E. Schoenbeck. Dissolu-tion of marriage was granted to the peti-tioner August 3, 2020.
Temps before worshipMarissa’s Friedens United Church of Christ member Neal Galle has his temperature checked by Leslie Lehman. Several churches are open for services in Marissa, and all are following safety precautions. At Friedens, temperatures are checked in the foyer, and attendees are masked. Once they are seated using social distancing, people may remove masks, but they must put them back on if a person is moving out of a pew or leaving church. During the pandemic, worshipping with others brings comfort and a sense of optimism. Photo by Carol Mercer
Pitching inMarissa District 40 teachers took time out from their teaching preparations August 11 to go out into the community and help clean up after the powerful storm that hit the town August 10. One group cleaned the yard of a retired math teacher. Yards throughout Marissa that had a signifi cant number of trees down that morning looked much different by the evening.
David L. Stine Sr., 71, of Sparta, died at his home at 6:26 a.m. Sunday, August 16, 2020. He was born March
19, 1949 in St. Elmo, Illinois to Conrad and Bertha Morgan Stine. He married Janice Davis on September 11, 1999
in Sparta. She survives.David was a U.S. Marine veteran, having
served during the Vietnam Confl ict. He was a retired police offi cer for the city of
Sparta. He was of the Protestant faith and a member of VFW Post 2698, Hope Lodge 162 AF & AM, both of Sparta, BBK American Legion Post 480 of Steeleville and the DAV. David is also survived by children David L.
Stine Jr. and Roger E. Stine, both of Sparta, stepson Marcus E. Davis of Ellis Grove; step-daughter Amanda N. Sinnett of Evansville; 11 grandchildren; brothers, Jerry (Connie) Stine of Vandalia, Illinois and Art Stine of Okawville and sisters Glenna (Richard) Hagler of Altamont, Illinois and Juanita Workman of Vandalia, Illinois. Private services will be held Friday, August 21,
2020 at Wilson’s Funeral Home in Steeleville, with Tom Ashley offi ciating. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice
or Hope Lodge (Siteman Cancer Center). Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.
net.
GLENN P. SAUERWEIN SR.Glenn P. Sauerwein
Sr., 86, of Walsh, died at his residence at 6:08 a.m. Monday, Au-gust 17, 2020.He was born Septem-
ber 6, 1933 in Belle-ville to Joseph and Alma Winkler Sauer-wein.Glenn married Es-
telle Krupp Seboldt January 10, 2003 in Renualt, Illinois. She sur-vives. He had worked as a security therapy aide at
Chester Mental Health Center for 20 years. Glenn was also a farmer. He was a member of St. Mary’s Church of Divine Maternity in Ellis Grove.Glenn was a Korean War Air Force veteran. He is also survived by sons Rodney Sauerwein
Sr. of New Athens and Glenn Sauerwein Jr. of Walsh; daughters Debra (Rick) Volner of New Athens and Tamela (Charles) Hubert of Collins-ville; sister Barbara Wood of Moline; brother Roger Sauerwein of San Antonio, Texas; brothers-in-law Loren (Val) Close of Collinsville and Darrell (Nancy) Close of Foley, Alabama, 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.He was preceded in death by his parents, fi rst
wife Lorene Close Sauerwein, second wife Doro-thy Wicoff Sauerwein, sons Daniel and Robert Sauerwein, grandson Rodney Sauerwein Jr., brothers Orville, John and Richard Sauerwein, sister Joan (Floyd) Hartleb, sisters-in-law Joyce and Velma Sauerwein and brother-in-law Fred Wood.Visitation is from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, August 21,
2020 at Pechacek Funeral Home in Evansville. Services will follow, with Father Larry Lemay offi ciating. Everyone should wear a mask and practice social distancing.Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital or Cardinal Glennon Chil-dren’s Hospital.Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.
DOUGLAS KENTRUSHING
Douglas Kent Rush-ing, 63, of Marissa, died Saturday, August 15, 2020 at Mercy Hos-pital in St. Louis.He was born Decem-
ber 21, 1956 in Red Bud to James Kent and Doris Ann Marler Rushing.Doug married Trish Rushing October 31, 1990
in Belleville. She survives.He was a proud coal miner and also worked
for the city of Marissa.He was a member of Ma-rissa Methodist Church. Doug loved listening to rock ‘n’ roll, and he didn’t listen to any radio station except KSHE 95. He enjoyed woodwork-ing and spending time with his family. He was also a Marissa volunteer fi refi ghter. Doug was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle.He is also survived by children Ryan (Angela)
Rushing of Fairbanks, Alaska, January Rush-ing of Taos, Missouri, Shawn (JeanAnn) Rush-ing of Lebanon, Missouri, Ronald Seering Jr. of Marissa and Jeremy (Liza) Seering of Yelm, Washington; grandchildren Dustin, Houston, Kent, Daralyn, Brian, Vincent, David, Christo-pher, Sarah, Bethany, Cole, Ember, Courtney, Samantha and Austin; sister Dawn (Rick) Wil-fon of Smithton and nephew Cory Womack. Doug was preceded in death by his parents,
paternal grandparents Frank and Vernona Rushing and maternal grandparents Bron and Ora Marler. Visitation is Sunday, August 23, 2020 from 3
to 5 p.m. at Heil-Schuessler Funeral Home in Marissa. Services will follow, with Pastor Jim Jenkel offi ciating.Memorials may be made to Siteman Cancer
Center.Sign the guest book at heilschuessler.com.
ANGELA LYNN JEWELL HEMMINGER
Angela Lynn Jewell Hemminger, 52, of Pinckneyville, for-merly of Richlands, Virginia, died sud-denlyAugust 11, 2020 at Pinckneyville Com-munity Hospital.She was born August
27, 1967 in Lynchburg, Virginia to Connie Lee Howington Da-vis and Roger Gene Jewell. Angela married Johnathan Hemminger Feb-
ruary 3, 2009 in Bristol, Virginia. He survives after 11 years of marriage.She is also survived by son Eli (Ashley) Davis
of Lebanon, Virginia; daughter Niesha Davis of Cedar Bluff, Virginia; grandson Tucker Davis of Cedar Bluff; sister Tami (Joey) Wooby and niece Bella of Bristol, Tennessee; brother J. Brian (Katina) Jewell and niece Sophia Leann Jewell of Sparta. She is also survived by Con-nie (Bobby) Davis of Cedar Bluff, Roger Gene Jewell; stepmother Nikki of Pinckneyville, step-mother Teresa Ann Jewell and special friend Russell Scales Sr. of Sparta.She was preceded in death by her maternal
grandparents Gaye and Aubrey Howington and paternal grandparents Alfred M. and Lucy M. Jewell.Angela will be deeply missed by her family
and friends along with her devoted cat Baset.
DR. MICHAEL E. BERNAIX
Dr. Michael E. Ber-naix, 77, of Pinck-neyville, formerly of Percy, went to be with the Lord Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 5:55 a.m. in his home. He was born March
23, 1943 in Granite City to Harry Eu-gene and Helen Irene Campbell Bernaix. On June 1, 1963, he
married Joyce Jones at Beaucoup Baptist Church in Pinckneyville. She survives. They shared 57 years of mar-riage.Michael’s profession as a chiropractor lasted
50 years. He was a member of Landmark Ap-ostolic Church in Sparta, where he was a song leader and Sunday school teacher. Michael was a member of the American Chiropractic Asso-ciation. He loved being a servant at the church and being a help wherever he was needed. He is also survived by children Sherri (James)
Killion of Marble Hill, Missouri, Rodney Ber-naix (Gregory Hunt) of Tamaroa and Matthew (Tasha) Bernaix of Percy; grandchildren Clay-ton (Cheyanne), Lorrie and Harrison Killion, Collier, Ella, Kadyn and Analyn Bernaix; step-grandchildren Rielyn and Rhett Shemoney; sister Janet Robinson of Carterville, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, August
17, 2020 at Landmark Apostolic Church in Spar-ta, with Pastor Doug Rice offi ciating. Burial was in Mueller Hill Cemetery in Pinckneyville.Pyatt Funeral Home in Pinckneyville assisted
the family with arrangements.Sign the guest book at pyattfuneralhome.com.
RAYMOND L. DAVIS
Raymond L. “Butch” Davis, 70, of Marissa, died Friday, August 14, 2020 at Memorial Hospital in Belleville. He was born May 17,
1950 in East St. Louis to Louis Andrew and Mary E. Skidmore Davis.R a y m o n d h a d
worked as a coal min-er and later retired from Golden Dipt in Millstadt. He was a mem-ber of Victory Family Church in Belleville. He loved weaponry and was a member of the NRA, Maryville Gun Club, Town & Country Gun Club and VFW. Raymond was a U.S. Army veteran.He is survived by daughter Claudette (Brad
Moss) Davis of Baldwin; grandchildren Dustin Taylor and Kelsey Mae Davis, Sophia C. and Saige M. Coleman; sister Kathy (Danny) Egge-meyer of Sparta; brothers William Thomas (Marilyn) Davis and Michael Andrew (JoAnne) Davis of Waterloo; nieces and nephews Angela (Robert) Flake, Brittany Dockins, Aaron Wil-liams, Andrew and Joshua Eggemeyer, William Thomas Jr. (Sundi) and Robert (Cassidy) Davis. He was preceded in death by his parents,
daughter Stephanie Rae Coleman and son Kevin Andrew Davis. Services were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, August
18, 2020 at Leesman Funeral Home in Mill-stadt, with Pastor David Harbison and Andrew Eggemeyer offi ciating. Burial was in Valhalla Gardens Of Memory in Belleville.Memorials may be made to Teen Challenge
Adventure Ranch or Victory Family Church. Sign the guest book at leesmanfuneralhome.
com.
LARRY S. HEOBLarry S. Heob, 78, of
Modoc, died at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at Ste. Gen-evieve County Memo-rial Hospital.He was born June 21,
1942 on Kaskaskia Is-land, Illinois to Sylves-ter and Eunice Keeble Heob.Larry had worked
as a heavy equipment operator for Local Op-erators 520 for over 30 years.He is survived by sister Junelee Miller of
Chester; nieces Darla Bryan, Teresa Magnan, Laura Emmenegger, Sherry Lindner, Jeana Kothe and Terri Loa; nephew Eric DeRousse, six great-nephews and nine great-nieces.He was preceded in death by his parents, sis-
ter Donalee Winder and brother-in-law Udell Miller.Visitation is Saturday, August 22, 2020 from 1
to 3 p.m. at Pechacek Funeral Home in Chester. Services will follow, with Rev. Phillip Keeton offi ciating. The facility is limited to 50 people at a time.
Everyone is asked to wear a mask and practice social distancing.Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.
BARBARA L. MEHRERBarbara L. Mehrer, 79, of Chester, died at
12:05 p.m. Thursday, August 13, 2020 at Three Springs Lodge Nursing Home in Chester. She was born May 2, 1941 in Pomona, Illinois
to Garrett and Marie Etherton Grammer. Barbara married Eugene E. Mehrer February
12, 1988 in Osceola, Arkansas. He survives. She worked as a correctional clerk for Menard
Correctional Center in Chester for 15 years. Barbara enjoyed camping and traveling with her husband.She is also survived by daughters Cheryl and
Cathy Steffens of Chester; stepsons Allen (Doris) Mehrer of Monroe City, Missouri and Addam (Jennifer) Mehrer of Chester; grandchildren Adrian, Nathan, Aaden and Carsen and neph-ews Steven, Scott and Brad Grammer.She was preceded in death by her parents and
brother Gary Grammer.It was Barbara’s wish to be cremated. There
will be a private burial at Evergreen Cemetery in Chester.Pechacek Funeral Home in Chester assisted
the family with arrangements.Memorials may be made to Randolph County
Humane Society.Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.
COUNTY JOURNAL | AUGUST 20, 2020 PAGE 21
SUSAN KAY JONESSusan Kay Jones, 56,
of Ava, died of liver cancer Tuesday, Au-gust 11, 2020 at Memo-rial Hospital in Car-bondale, with her fam-ily by her side.
She was born April 25, 1964 in Tuscola to Charles Hardy and Lorraine Haynes.
Susan married Bart Jones. He survives.
She is also survived by daughters Chris-tina Jones (Scott Hood) of Murphysboro, Amber Jones (Derek Ellenberg) of Ava and Karaline Jones (Travis Koeppen) of Rochelle, Illinois; grandsons Evin and Davin Ellenberg; sisters Linda (Paul) Poninski and Nancy Brinkley and brother Chuck (Nicole) Hardy.
Susan was preceded in death by her parents, niece Taundra Chappell; best friend Winnie El-brecht and three brothers-in-law.
A memorial service/dinner will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, August 23, 2020 at the Ava Commu-nity Center in Bower Park.
Memorials may be made to Siteman Cancer Center or St. Francis Animal Rescue.
THOMAS L. WOOLSEYThomas L. Woosley,
76, of Swansea, died peacefully at his home Tuesday, August 11, 2020, with his loving wife Joyce at his bed-side.
He was born Novem-ber 21, 1943 in Sparta to Jesse “Leon” and Marce l la Harmon Woolsey.
He married Joyce Kempf June 9, 2006. She survives.
Tom attended Sparta High School. Soon after, he began working at Spartan International Printing Company in Sparta. He was employed as a bindery machine operator for over 30 years until the plant closed. He fi nished his working career at Plus Communications in St. Louis until his retirement in 2006.
Tom was a loyal, dedicated, hard-working man whose sense of accomplishment came from build-ing and repairing for those around him. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed his days spent hunting, fi shing and camping. He was a member of the Randolph County Gun Club. Tom respected all people and animals and was especially fond of his pets. Later in life, he enjoyed watching Gun-smoke, Wagon Train and Cardinal baseball.
He is also survived by son William (Gwen) Wool-sey of Chester; stepsons Timothy and Jeffrey (Carrie) Kempf; grandchildren William, Elizabeth and Jack; step-grandchildren Dylan, Jackson and Brooklyn Kempf; step-great-grandchildren Blake and Ian Kempf; nephews Ryan (Jennifer) Woolsey and Jeremy (Deena) Woolsey and niece Becky Woolsey Hogan.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers Harry and Richard Woolsey.
Services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, August 17, 2020 at George Renner & Sons Funeral Home in Belleville, with Rev. Larry Patton offi ciating. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery in Collinsville.
Memorials may be made to the family and will be accepted at the funeral home.
Sign the guest book at rennerfh.com.
GORDON L. STRONGGordon L. Strong, 81,
of Ellis Grove, died at 5:52 a.m. Thursday, August 13, 2020 at Me-morial Hospital in Bel-leville.
He was born Septem-ber 5, 1938 in East St. Louis to George and Mary Edward Strong.
Gordon married Dor-ris Davitz July 3, 1958 in Ellis Grove. She sur-vives.
He worked as a laborer for Local 100 for 64 years and was also a farmer. Gordon loved living each day, and his family meant the world to him.
He is also survived by sons Michael Strong and Terry (Alice) Strong of Ellis Grove; grandchildren Chase, Cody and Cailee Strong; brother Kenneth (Arlene) Strong of Swansea; sister Carole Calla-han of Collinsville; brother-in-law Dale Davitz of Ellis Grove, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.Private graveside services were held at Ellis
Grove City Cemetery, with Dr. Mike Fogerson offi ciating.
Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society or Shriners Hospitals for Children and are being accepted at Pechacek Funeral Home in Chester.
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Memorial Hospital in Chester was recently recertifi ed as an acute stroke-ready hospital by the Illinois Depart-ment of Public Health.
This means that the hospital is able to pro-vide clot-busting medi-cations prior to trans-porting stroke pa-tients, which can buy them time while being transported to a major hospital.
Every year, more
than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke, and about 140,000 of those pa-tients die as a result.
Most U.S. citizens know family, friends or community mem-bers who have been af-fected by a stroke.
The major risk fac-tors include lifestyle choices, high blood pressure, elevated cho-lesterol, smoking and inactivity.
In 2009, Illinois de-veloped and passed legislation identify-ing major hospitals that certify as pri-mary stroke centers. Then in 2014, the state identifi ed rural hospi-tals that can qualify as acute stroke-ready hospitals.
Memorial Hospital employees stated that the best action is fast action to increase sur-vival from a stroke.
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An increased reliance on virtual home instruc-tion has many students rethinking their organi-zational strategies and daily school schedules. Learning at home is different from being in a traditional classroom environment, but with some effective strate-gies, students can per-severe without missing a beat.
Stick to a scheduleMany students are suc-
cessful because they follow a schedule. The Center for Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning says that routines and sched-ules are important be-cause they infl uence a child’s emotional and cognitive development. Children feel secure with schedules, which may help them recog-nize what’s expected of them.
When learning at home, students should strive to maintain as consistent a schedule as possible, including bedtimes, wake times, hours devoted to learn-ing, and time to get out-side or engage in down-time activities.
Connect live if pos-sible
There are many free
too ls and resources ava i l a b l e that enable teachers to provide live video les-sons or to re-cord them so students can watch them later. Simi-larly, social n e t w o r k -i n g a p p s and virtual m e e t i n g programs enable stu-dents to connect digi-tally. This can be helpful for collaborative learn-ing assignments or just to see a familiar face.
Stick to tools that work
Once students find apps or systems that work, they should stick with them, offers Khan Academy, an education-al tutoring resource. There are many factors outside of one’s control during virtual instruc-tion, but maintaining consistency with tools and schedules is one way to feel more confi -dent and secure.
Check student ac-counts frequently
Just like students, teachers may be learn-
ing as they go in regard to remote learning strat-egies. Students should be sure to check school email accounts or other places where teachers post assignments a few times per day so that they stay on top of all assignments and are aware of due dates.
Reach out to instruc-tors
Allegheny College sug-gests students contact their teachers if they are unsure of how to participate in remote learning environments. Ask questions about as-signments, get clarifi ca-tion on key topics and be sure to tune into any remote chats or virtual “offi ce hours.”
Stay in touch with guidance, if needed
Remote learning is a new experience for many students, and there may be certain struggles or road blocks. It can be easy to grow frustrated with equip-ment failures or lack of in-person interaction. Schools employ quali-fi ed therapists and guid-ance counselors who are just a click, call or email away if issues need to be talked through. Stu-dents should utilize all resources made avail-able to them.
Virtual home instruc-tion can be made even easier with some extra assistance and guid-ance.
Tips for eff ective remote learning
The need for reliable technology has never been more apparent. When the world hit the proverbial pause button in the wake of the COV-ID-19 outbreak, technol-ogy was crucial to keep-ing people connected to the world around them, helping people maintain some semblance of nor-malcy as it pertained to work and education.
Students and families who have invested in various electronics to help keep their house-hold running should understand that main-tenance is required to keep these devices run-ning effectively. These tips can help keep gadg-ets in tip-top shape.
• Protect devices from
extreme temperatures. Most devices are fine between temperatures of 32 F and 90 F.
• Invest in a surge pro-tector. These devices will cut off power to plugged-in electronics if there is a power surge, helping to prevent dam-age.
• Don’t overcharge. It’s essential to have gadg-ets charged and ready to go, but overcharging can reduce battery life. Do not leave devices charging overnight. Nickel- and lithium-based batteries should be stored with a 40 per-cent state-of-charge. This level minimizes age-related capacity loss and keeps the battery in good condition.
• Use protective cas-es. Cases can prevent damage if devices are dropped and also may safeguard against scratched screens.
• Keep software up-to-date. Security issues may arise when soft-ware is not updated, and programs may not run effectively or be compat-
ible with others. Along the same vein, routinely clean out unused fi les to free up space, and clear cookies and browser his-tories to maintain speed and effi ciency.
Routine maintenance can keep electron-ics working properly when they’re needed the most.
Keep devices in top shape and running well
COULTERVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1
FY 2021 BUDGET PUBLIC HEARING
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 School Board Room
6:00 PM
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the School Board of Coulterville CUSD 1, in the County of Randolph, State of Illinois, that the tenta-tive budget for said School District for the fi scal year beginning July 1, 2020, will be on fi le and conveniently available for public in-spection at the Board of Education meeting room, Coulterville CUSD 1, at 101 West Grant Street, Coulterville, Illinois from and after 8:00 am to 3:00 pm, on the 18th day of August, 2020, until the hearing date.
Notice is further hereby given that a public hearing on said budget will be held at 6:00 pm, on the 22nd day of September, 2020, at the Board of Education meeting room in Coulterville CUSD 1. After the presentation, the public will have an opportunity to com-ment.
The Regular Monthly Board of Education Meeting will follow...........................................................0 - 8 - 2 0
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given by the Board of Edu-cation of Steeleville School District No. 138, in the County of Randolph, State of Illinois, that a tentative budget for said school district for the fi scal year beginning July 1, 2020, will be on fi le and conveniently available for pub-lic inspection at the Unit Offi ce, 609 South Sparta Street, Steeleville, IL in this school district from and after 8:00 a.m. on the eight-eenth day of August, 2020. Notice is further given that a public hearing on said budget will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday the twenty-fi rst day of September, 2020, in the cafeteria at Steeleville High School, 701 South Sparta Street, Steeleville, IL.
Dated this seventeenth day of August, 2020, Board of Education of School District No. 138, in the County of Randolph, State of Illinois.
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LEGAL NOTICES
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 2018-2 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, 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 sub-ject 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, Manley Deas Kochalski LLC, One East Wack-er, Suite 1250, Chicago, IL 60601. Phone number: 312-651-6700. Attorney fi le number: 19-031704.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS
In the Matter of the Estate of BARBARA J. WEBER, DeceasedNo. 2020P50
CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of Barbara J. Weber of 301 C Avenue, Prairie du Rocher, Il-linois 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 re-cord is R. Jeff rey Kerkhover of Fisher, Kerk-hover, 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 rep-resentatives, or both, on or before February 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-resentative’s 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 - 2 0
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS
In the Matter of the Estate of MARVIN V. STEWART, DeceasedNo. 2020P49
CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of Marvin V. Stewart of 501 Hillandale, Steeleville, Illi-nois, 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 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-sentatives’ 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
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS
In the Matter of the Estate of KENNETH E. COLVIS, DeceasedNo. 2020P53
CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of Kenneth E. Colvis of 3810 State Route 3, Chester, Illi-nois, 62233. Letters of Offi ce were issued on August 11, 2020, to Beth A. Runge of 8973 Shawneetown Trail, Walsh, Illinois, 62297, as Executor and whose attorney of record is R. Jeff rey Kerkhover of Fisher, Kerkhover, Cof-fey & 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 representative, or both, on or before February 22, 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: August 11, 2020Beth A. Runge
Executor of the Estate ofKenneth E. Colvis
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 - 9 - 3
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THETWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS
In the Matter of the Estate ofROMANA K. YOUNG, deceasedNo. 2020-P-52
CLAIM NOTICENotice is given of the death of Romana K.
Young. Letters of Offi ce were issued on Au-gust 11, 2020 to Mary Sue Monforton, 2804 Shakertown Road, Bevercreek, OH 45434, as Executor, and whose attorney of record is Ar-beiter Law Offi ce, 1019 State Street, PO Box 367, Chester, Illinois 62233.
Claims against the estate may be fi led in the Offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Ran-dolph County Courthouse, #1 Taylor Street, Chester, Illinois 62233 or with the representa-tive, or both on or before February 20, 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 said date is void.
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-resentative’s attorney of record.
Dated: August 11, 2020Mary Sue Monforton, Representative
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUITRANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS
ESTATE OF COLLEEN S. BENNETT, DECEASED.No. 2020-P-17
CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of Colleen S. Bennett. Letters of Offi ce were issued on July 10, 2020, to Ben W. Bennett, whose attorney is Lorraine K. Cavataio, Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C., 475 Regency Park, Suite 175, O’Fallon, Illinois 62269.
Claims against the Estate may be fi led in
the offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Randolph County Courthouse, 1 West Tay-lor Street, Chester, Illinois 62233, or with the representative, or both, by February 20, 2021, which is six (6) months from the fi rst date of publication of this Notice or, as to a creditor of Decedent whose name and post offi ce address are known to or are reasonably ascertainable by the representative, the later of February 20, 2021 or three (3) months after the date of mailing or delivery of this Notice to such known claimant, and any claim not fi led on or before said date is barred. Copies of a claim fi led with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been fi led.
The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under 755 ILCS §5/28-4 of the Probate Act any interested person terminates independent administra-tion at any time by mailing or delivering a pe-tition to terminate to the clerk.
This notice is published pursuant to 755 ILCS §5/18-3.
BEN W. BENNETTINDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR
THIS DOCUMENT PREPARED BY:Lorraine K. Cavataio, #6228987Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C.475 Regency Park, Suite 175O’Fallon, IL 62269(618) 397-2721Fax: (618) 624-3326.............................................................0 - 9 - 3
PUBLIC NOTICE OF ORDINANCE NO. 2020-0806
An Ordinance to levy and assess a tax for Marissa Area Public Library District of the Counties of St. Clair and Washington, State of Illinois for the fi scal year beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2021
BE IT ORDAINED, that the Marissa Area Pub-lic Library District of the Counties of St. Clair and Washington, State of Illinois shall levy a tax of .02% of the value of all taxable proper-ty within said District, for building and main-tenance purposes, subject to the right of the electors in said District to petition and require an election concerning the imposition of such tax, pursuant to 75 ILCS 16/35-5.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that within fi f-teen (15) days from the date of adoption of the ordinance, it shall be published in a news-paper of general circulation in the Marissa Area Public Library District and it is eff ective immediately upon adoption.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunder set our hands in Marissa, Illinois this 11th day of August, 2020.
1. The specifi c number of voters required to sign a petition requesting that the question of adoption of the ordinance be submitted to the electors of the District is 180.2. The petition must be fi led on or before Sep-tember 28, 2020.3. The referendum would be held April 6, 2021.
Natalie KrauseSecretary of the Board of Trustees
Marissa Area Public Library District
c/o Marissa Area Public Library District 212 North Main Street
Marissa Area Public Library DistrictMarissa, IL 62257
Statements of Receipts and RevenuesDisbursements/Expenditures/Summary
Statement Of Operations for all Funds and Account Groups For the Fiscal Year Ended
June 2020Receipts/Revenues of $126,576.73: Property Taxes $103,183.40, E-Rate $7,650.00, Dona-tions $4,446.24, Per Capita $4,203.75, Alber-ta Hamilton Grant $3,000.00, Library Fines/Fees/Misc. $2,486.39, Personal Property Re-placement Tax $1,606.95.
Total Disbursements of $144,833.41: Disbursements $2,500.00 or greater: Ame-ren $5,231.82, Clearwave Communications $4,736.86, Amazon $4,403.32, Illinois Heart-land Library System $4,260.56, State Farm Insurance $3,800.34, David Lea $2,867.56.
Disbursements under $2,500.00: $26,311.61.
Payroll $93,221.34.(Part-Time under $25,000: Robin Geralds, Kay Miller, Brandi Meyer, Linda Henson).IRS $16,421.91, IMRF $11,209.58, Illinois Department of Revenue $4,070.02, IDES $306.84.
Submitted August 6, 2020
Warren TrotterTreasurer
Marissa Area Public Library District...........................................................0 - 8 - 2 0
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
The Village of Coulterville will hold a public hearing on September 8th, 2020 at 6:30 P.M. in Village Hall to provide interested parties an opportunity to express their views on the proposed federal funded Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project. Persons with disabilities or non-English speaking persons who wish to attend the public hearing and need assistance should contact Connor Endres at 9360 Holy Cross Lane, Breese, IL 62230 or by phone at 618-526-9611 no later than September 4th, 2020. Every eff ort will be made to make reasonable accommodations for these persons.
On or about September 30, 2020, the Village of Coulterville intends to apply to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant from the State CDBG program. This program is funded by Title 1 of the federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. These funds are to be used for a community development project that will include the following activities: Installation of approximately 23,000 linear feet of 8” PVC transmission watermain connecting the Coulterville water distribution system to the Sparta water distribution system. The installation will also include a new booster pump station. The total amount of CDBG funds to be requested is $550,000 The amount of CDBG funds proposed to be used for activities that will benefi t low-to-moderate income persons is $299,420 The Village of Coulterville has applied for a loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Public Water Supply Loan Program to pay for the non-CDBG funded part of the project. The total estimated project construction cost is $1,127,226.
Information related to this project will be available for review prior to the public hearing as of August 21st, 2020 at City Hall between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Interested citizens are invited to provide comments regarding these issues either at the public hearing or by prior written statement. Written comments should be submitted to Coulterville Village Hall at 114 North Fourth Street, P.O. Box 489, Coulterville, IL 62237 no later than September 8th, 2020 in order to ensure placement of such comments in the offi cial record of the public hearing proceedings. A plan to minimize displacement and provide assistance to those displaced has been prepared by the Village of Coulterville and is also available to the public. This project will result in no displacement of any persons or businesses. For additional information concerning the proposed project, please contact Connor Endres at 618-526-9611 or write to Connor Endres at 9360 Holy Cross Lane, Breese, IL 62230........................................................ 0 - 8 - 2 0
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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the tentative Budget and Appropriation Ordinance of the Sparta Community Airport Authority is on public display and is available for public inspection. The tentative budget and appropriation ordinance may be viewed at the Airport Manager’s Offi ce located at 1800 North Market Street, Sparta, Illinois on Monday through Friday, 9:00am until 5:00pm, and Saturdays 9:00am until 12:00pm.
A public hearing on such Budget and Appropriation Ordinance will be held on August 24, 2020 at 6:00pm at the Airport located at 1800 North Market, Sparta, Illinois, and the public is invited to attend this meeting........................................................ 0 - 8 - 2 0
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
Village of Marissa
August 31, 2020 at 7 p.m. 111 N. Main Street, Marissa, IL 62257
A public meeting will take place on August 31, 2020 at 7 p.m. at the Village Hall, 111 N. Main Street, Marissa, IL 62257 for the purpose of providing general information to the public regarding the submittal of an application to the USDA for a grant to defray a portion of the cost to purchase a new trash truck.
The public is invited to attend and comment on such issues as economic and environmental impacts, service area, alternatives to the project or any other pertinent issues.
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Back at workMarissa Elementary School teachers, the principal and volunteers were busy August 17, as they organized handing out Chromebooks, getting student photos taken, working on the school lunch program and giving parents information. From left are Christi Daghery and Principal Lacey Schmersahl, who were part of a group working on the lunch program, and Stephanie Sabo, who was waiting to give out information. Photo by Carol Mercer
COULTERVILLE TOWN BOARD
Sidewalk workSidewalk repairs
could be on the hori-zon in the Coulterville village park.
It was reported during the board’s August 17 meeting that the Depart-ment of Commerce and Economic Opportunity grant has been reinstated.
The grant was award-ed in 2013 but suspend-ed in 2014 due to lack of state appropriations.
T h e r e m a i n i n g
amount of $18,608 is to be used for sidewalks.
The village board and Mayor Steve Marlow will look at the park to see where concrete is needed and where repairs are necessary. The park committee will submit a drawing with measurements.
In other news, oiling and chipping of streets was postponed because of rain.
The Sparta library has received a $9,000 Project Next Genera-tion grant from the Illinois Secretary of State’s offi ce.
PNG is a mentoring program adminis-tered through Illinois libraries.
Project mentors work with middle and high school students to develop skills to use various technolo-gies, achieve success through project-based learning and gain life
skills such as effec-tive communication, goal-setting and con-fl ict resolution.
The money comes from the Illinois State Library using federal Library Services and Technology Act funds provided by the Insti-tute of Museum and Library Services.
Grants are award-ed to public libraries serving culturally diverse, low-income and underserved pop-ulations.
Sparta library gets $9,000 grant
By Rebecca AnzelCapitol News Illinois
Reformers say it’s time for Illinoisans to advocate for them-selves when lawmak-ers redraw the state’s political boundaries in a few months.
That’s the message the Coalition for Hon-est and New Govern-ment Ethics, a group that has long advocat-ed for changes to the redistricting process, intends to deliver through an online ap-plication it has helped develop.
Using the online application through Representable.org , residents can input information about their communities, including geographic borders, historical information, cultural and ethnic members and economic factors, to draw more action-able maps for use by lawmakers during re-districting, said com-pany cofounder Preet Iyer.
This latest attempt by CHANGE at re-form comes after the failure of a proposed constitutional amend-ment that would have created an indepen-dent redistricting
commission. The amendment did
not get the requisite legislative support it needed before a May 3 deadline, after the Il-linois General Assem-bly halted its session in March in response to the coronavirus.
The state’s consti-tution specifi es that lawmakers have until June 30, 2021, to cre-ate an agreed-upon redistricting plan. If they are unsuccessful, a bipartisan commis-sion will be convened to fi nish the job.
Ryan Tolley, policy director for CHANGE Illinois, said both the House and Senate held at least 15 hear-ings in 2011, the last year legislators were tasked with drawing new maps, to hear from communities about their represen-tation needs.
The group’s part-nership with Repre-sentable is meant to encourage residents to attend any hear-ings with tangible proposals.
“Even though we weren’t able to change the process, we can’t just let the remap go forward without mak-ing a concerted effort
to ensure our commu-nities are playing an active role in advocat-ing for themselves,” Tolley said. “It’s so vitally important for these communities to be at the table, be-cause everyone’s abil-ity to advocate for themselves over the next decade is going to, in part, be dictated by this.”
Complicating the General Assembly’s timetable this year is uncertainty that the U.S. Census Bureau will get the data it is tasked with obtaining and analyzing in time to present it to states, President Donald Trump and Congress.
Due to COVID-19, census workers were delayed by three or four months in con-tacting and counting efforts this year, said Jay Young, executive director of Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watch-dog group.
The census bureau asked for an exten-sion to report infor-mation to the federal and state govern-ments but later re-tracted that request.
“Whatever is going to happen, it is not
clear when data will ultimately get fi rst to the president and then to the states to allow them to do their remap,” Young said. “There are lots of things that feel bro-ken right now, and even if you set aside all the things already going on in the Gen-eral Assembly that makes things compli-cated and confusing and hard to predict, this is the sort of task that is going to be es-pecially complicated.”
Young added that the situation in Illi-nois will be particu-larly messy in under-served communities that are traditionally classifi ed as hard to count.
In a news release announcing Repre-sentable, CHANGE Il-linois wrote, “...in too many previous redis-tricting cycles, politi-cians draw districts that splinter and split up neighborhoods and communities of people with common bonds… Splitting up neighborhoods or nat-ural communities di-lutes people’s political power and advocacy strength.”
Redistricting reformers seek to change to mapping process
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