Carbondale budget hearings push to fund outside agencies
Carbondale council will continue the 1981 82 budget hearing at 7 p m to decide on funding for four outside agencies despite City Manager Carroll Fry backing cuts. The $25 3 million plan anticipates a general fund shortfall shrinking from 656 000 to 401 833 and includes restoring several positions while keeping energy and forestry divisions eliminated.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Carroll Fry
Fry
Paul Sorgen
Council
Charles Watkins
Susan Mitchell
Archie Jones
Senior Citizens
Attucks Community Services Road
Youth Services Bureau
Women’s Center
Watkins
Hans Fischer
Helen Westberg
Cleveland Matthews
Saline County Declared Disaster Over Extreme Drought
Gov. James R. Thompson declared Saline County a disaster area due to extreme drought threatening Eldorado and other central and southern Illinois communities. Eldorado faces less than two weeks of water, with state aid possible. EMSDA can supply pumps pipes and transport. Some towns already face shortages but corrective steps reduce emergency need.
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Springfield
State Emergency Services and Disaster Agency
Harrisburg
Raleigh
Saline County
Thompson
Pinckneyville Adopts New Budget System With $810,501 Plan
Brad Betker reports Pinckneyville will switch from appropriation ordinances to a formal budget system for the fiscal year starting May 1. The $810,501 budget aims to improve spending plans, accountability, and long term financial planning under city clerk Dorothy Samuel, with guidance from local accountant Charles Will.
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Brad Betker
Southern Illinoisan
Pinckneyville
Charles F. Will
Kemper-Fischer-Faust-Lawrence and Co
Carbondale
John Boyd
Will
Easter Parade Hats Brighten University Mall Contest
The Easter bonnet parade at University Mall featured Nina Fears of Carbondale with a red rose decorated hat winning third in prettiest, Dorothy Potts of West Frankfort earning first in most original with a snowy yellow pink creation, and Arline and Bob Lindsey of Fairview Heights taking best overall and funniest prizes for tissue paper lace and blown eggs. Cara Winters and sister Carisa Elkville placed second and third in most original with huge Easter scenes and Tweety Bird. their brother Carson sat out. Other winners included Kirsten, Gretchen, and Amy in prettiest, and April Perkins and Stella Brazanski placing in funniest. Residents from Southern Manor also joined in with bright yellow hats and bunny tails.
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Cathy A. Monroe
Judy Garland
Avenue
Fifth Avenue
University Mall
Nina Fears
Carbondale
Am 91
Irving Berlin
Dorothy Potts
West Frankfort
Arline
Bob Lindsey
Fairview Heights
Lindseys
Carisa
Cara
Carson
Carl
Carlanne
Kirsten
Gretchen Bogen
Amy Burns
Carterville
Southern Manor
Carly Will
April Perkins
Lee
Debra Perkins
Stella Brazanski
Playwright Residency Highlights Tough Road To Broadway
Southern Illinois University Carbondale hosted Tom Sharkey of Maywood and John W Kirk of Normal for a three day residency funded by the Illinois Arts Council. Sharkey, who writes industrial shows for Las Vegas events and dramatises business needs with stars like Burns and Hope, discussed his plays Dreams and Adjoining Rooms while Kirk, a theater professor at Illinois State University, shared The Third Richard and ongoing work Sarah and an alternate universe plot about George Washington on trial for treason with audience jury involvement titled The Crown and Col. Washington. Both writers noted Broadway opportunities remain elusive but hopeful, with Kirk also publishing directing texts and Sharkey balancing writing with industrial production duties.
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Ben Gelman
The
Southern Illinois
Neil Simon
Illinois Arts Council
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Theater Department
Illinois
SIUC
Christian H. Moe
Tom Sharkey
Maywood
John W. Kirk
Hudson
Illinois State University At Normal
Sharkey
Kirk
Richard
Richard III
England
Chicago
New York
New Vic Theater
Second Avenue
Joshua
Martin Luther
Wisconsin
Las Vegas
George Burns
Bob Hope
Burns
Hope
Sharkey Uocu
Rotary Clubs
Body Politic
George Washington
Washington
the Crown
Col. Washington
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International Association of Fire Fighters
Carbondale Police Officers Association
Salem
Centralia
Flora
Fairfield
Marion
Charleston
Georgetown
Lindsey
Jerry Lower
Bob and
Arline Lindsey
Paul Eaton
Ater
Sarah
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