Franklin Grove Harvest Festival Opens Friday for Three Day Run
The 10th annual Franklin Grove Summer Harvest Festival begins Friday at 8 30 p m with an outdoor old time movie. Highlights include a moved 1870s home dedication, blacksmith demonstrations, threshing, rope making and corn shelling, plus arts and crafts shows and a new apple cooking contest. The festival honors Clair and Grace Pfoutz with a parade Saturday night and a Sunday concert at At Last A Park.
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Lori Fagan
Franklin Grove
Marie Phillips
Historical Society
Lois Calhoun
Rockford
At- Last-A
China Township
Kathy Clark
Franklin Grove Town Hall
Pro Iran linked cleric threats escalating U S attacks in Lebanon
In Beirut a pro Iranian cleric tied to Hezbollah warned U S retaliation over Marine Lt. Col. Higgins death will be met by attacks on U S posts. U N official Mark Goulding arrived to verify Higgins fate as maternal pleas from Cicippio’s wife moved captors to delay his execution for 48 hours amid Israel's refusal to free Obeid.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Hezbollah
U.S
William Higgins
Ahmed Taleb
Jibsheet
Abdul Karim Obeid
Obeid
Mark Goulding
U.N
Naquara
Israel
Higgins
Goulding
Joseph Cicippio
Taleb
Organization of the Oppressed On Earth
Terry Waite
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Cicippio
Al-Nahar
East Beirut
Elham
Bush orders diplomacy and naval posture over hostage crisis
President Bush convened top advisers at the White House to press for a solution to the hostage crisis while simultaneously positioning the military. A flotilla of U S warships moved toward Lebanon and Iran as the 6th Fleet flagship USS Belknap turned back from a Soviet port visit, aimed at broadening options without immediate action.
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Washington
UPI
Bush
White House
U.S
Middle East
Lebanon
Iran
Pentagon
Navy
6Th Fleet
Belknap
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
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White Pines Road
White Pines State Park
Lowell Park Road
Ogle County
Jerry Hinrichs
Hinrichs
Lion's Club
Eloise van Hise
Clair
Grace Pfoutz
Pfoutz Electric Service
van Hise
Pfoutzes
American Legion Hall
Presbyterian Church
America
Marines
Elham Cicippio
Pope John Paul II
Oak Ridge Boys
Marlin Fitzwater
Brent Scowcroft
DCC
By Clark Kelly
Telegraph
Dixon Correctional Center
Illinois
John Latona
Chicago
Lee County
Ilinois
Danny Shamoon
Latona
Martin Hill
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