Editorial Take your choice in polls
Public opinion samplers gauge the body politic like doctors diagnosing a patient. Polls vary in method and outcome, yet they reveal conflicting trends: shifts away from conservatism, rising liberal views, and a mix of optimism about personal futures with anxiety about the nation’s direction.
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America
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Stanley C. Plog
Behavior Science Corp
Basico
Plog
Don Oakley
Luminarias planned in McCulley subdivision Sunday night
Residents east of Pontiac on Route 116 plan a weather permitting luminarias display Sunday. Mrs. Frank Petrits leads the effort with past displays by East Water St. residents cited. motorists are invited to view the visual treat.
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McCulley
Pontiac
Route 116
East Water St
Frank Petrits
McCulley Subdivision
A . Pontiac
Street Department
Candlelight Service at Flanagan St John’s Lutheran Church
Flanagan St John’s Lutheran Church hosts its annual Candlelight service on Sunday evening December 17 featuring the Junior Choir cantata O Come Let Us Adore Him and a Christmas pageant by confirmation students. The Junior and Senior Choirs lead carols with anthem arrangements under Mrs. Robert Spenn. organist Mrs. Wesley Black. flautists Laura Schwerin Lynn Brandt. trumpeter Randy Brandt. soloist David Sumdahl. pageant director Mrs. Peter Franzen. costumes by Mrs. Wallace Brandt. narrator Rev. Robert Spenn. The public is invited.
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Flanagan
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Robert Spenn
Wesley Black
Laura Schwerin
Lynn Brandt
Randy Brandt
David Sumdahl
Peter Franzen
Wallace Brandt
State guides aim to lift Livingston County districts back to full recognition
OSPI issued guidelines to four small Livingston County districts Owego Rooks Creek Sunbury and Pontiac Esmen. They must offer an acceptable alternative program to the one teacher per grade goal by year end or face probation. A combined class with six specified components may satisfy the standard provided teacher pupil ratios do not exceed 1 to 25.
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Rick Jones
Livingston County
Superintendent of Public Instruction
OSPI
Phillip Imig
Owego
Rooks Creek
Sunbury
Pontiac- Esmen
Wayne H. Blunter
Livingston
Blunier
Death of Dwight resident Fred L. Gantzert at 87
Fred L. Gantzert, 87, of Dwight, died Friday at Continental Manor Nursing Home. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Baker Funeral Home. burial in Goodfarm Cemetery. Born Oct 22, 1885 in Goodfarm Township, he married Julia Schrotberger in 1911. she died in 1964. Survived by a daughter Dorothy Rieke, Gardner. two sons Ralph and Donald. six grandchildren. 12 great grandchildren. a brother Elmer Gantzert. He lived in Dwight since 1942 and was a United Methodist Church member.
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Dwight
Fred L. Gantzert
Continental Manor Nursing Home
Baker Funeral Home
Walter G. Batty
Goodfarm
Goodfarm Township
Henry and
Mary (Pfeifer
Livingston County’s Widest Read Pontiac Paper Rates Notice
Subscriptions and delivery rates for Pontiac Illinois and surrounding towns are listed. Carrier rates 50 cents per week in Pontiac. mail yearly Livingston County at 14 dollars. outside county 21 dollars yearly. Single copy 10 cents. Postage and service details for Armed Forces members also noted.
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Pontiac Leader Publishing CO
N. Main St
Pontiac
Illinois
Livingston County
Jerome Pearce
John Fiesko
Elizabeth Harris
Jim Caviezel
John Renne
Weldon Greeneberg
Ken Bond
Wayne Jensen
Ronald Jobst
Merlyn Shanebrook
Pontiac Soc
Chatsworth
Chenoa
Cornell
Cullom
Fairbury
Flanagan
Forrest
Odell
Launemin
Dwight
Gridley
Minois
Pontac Illinois
Melvin-Sibley students publish historic Illinois pieces
Three articles by Melvin-Sibley students appear in Illinois History magazines. Mary Deffley writes A Civil War Training Camp about Camp Butler near Springfield, and Mike Kendrick recounts Chicago's Prison Camp Camp Douglas. Chris Huppert covers Ford County in Illinois Panhandle for December.
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Illinois History
Melvin-Sibley
Olive S. Foster
Illinois State Historical Society
Mary S. Deffley
Mike Kendrick
Melvin-Sibley High School
Illinois
Miss Deffley
Camp
Butler
Springfield
Kendrick
Chicago
Douglas
Ilinois
Chris Huppert
Melvin-Sibley Junior High School
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