Mount Carmel honors veterans at Veterans Day celebration
Larry Kaiser commands the Honor Guard as brass polices after the Veterans Day event at Veterans Park on a November morning. Gerald Brooks, Coast Guard veteran 1975 to 1995, receives recognition for his service during the ceremony. Ed Grewe, Army veteran 1952 to 1955, moves through the VFW buffet after the celebration.
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Larry Kaiser
Polices Brass
Veterans Park
Gerald Brooks
Coast Guard
Ed Grewe
VFW
Budget impasse boosts local community college enrollment at Wabash Valley
Mount Carmel reports Matt Fowler president of Wabash Valley College says state budget stalemate drives more students to community colleges while universities raise tuition. He notes colleges learn to cope with shrinking state support since 2007, stressing commitment to keeping classes open and prioritizing student access to degrees. Fowler contrasts state funding with University of Illinois, Urbana, which he says has large cash reserves. He asserts the college remains financially solid and focused on its mission despite funding challenges.
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Mount Carmel
Matt Fowler
Wabash Valley College
Fowler
Board of Trustees
University of Illinois, Urbana
University of Ilinois
WVC
Mount Carmel Wabash School Board Meeting on Nov 16
The Mount Carmel Wabash Community Unit School Board will meet at 7 p.m. in the North Intermediate Center library to approve minutes bills and reports and review the school report card and improvement plan for Mount Carmel Middle and High Schools. Unfinished business includes the board self evaluation and the superintendent evaluation and a 2015 tax levy payable in 2016 is on the agenda.
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Mount Carmel Wabash Community Unit
North Intermediate Center of Education
Mount Carmel Middle School
Mount Carmel High School
Kirk pushes veterans funding and whistleblower protections
U S Senator Mark Kirk chairing the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs pushed a MilCon VA funding bill breaking partisan deadlock. The measure funds veterans care at record levels, adding 1.1 billion above the White House request and extends whistleblower protections to VA doctors and nurses who raise concerns. The Frontlines to Lifelines program will hire combat medics technicians and corpsmen.
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Chicago
U.S
Mark Kirk
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Appropriations
MilCon
Veterans Day Moment of Silence Act aims to shield whistleblowers
The act mandates a nationwide two minute Veterans Day silence. It follows a November field hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago where Illinois whistleblowers Germaine Clarno and Dr Lisa Nee testified about retaliation and mistreatment at the Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital. They described patient abuse and scheduling manipulation by VA officials, urging protection for whistleblowers to safeguard veterans. Senator Kirk, collaborating since May 2014 with Clarno and Nee, emphasizes shielding those who care for veterans.
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Hines
Lisa Nee
Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal
Chicago
Germaine Clarno
Nee
Kirk
Germaine Carno
Dr. Nee
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