City Budget Sees Surplus and Park Upgrades Plan
The council projects a surplus on budget 1B and may add three benches at 344 each while seeking more help. A resident praised the new walking track and park improvements. Condemnation hearings were approved for the Heartland Packaging building at the west edge after a December fire. Ameren donated materials including concrete blocks plastic sheeting wood shelving fire hydrants and gas pipeline.
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Mike Plumlee
Heartland Packaging
Ameren
Father recalls Marine son in Iraq war
In Southern Illinois Cox discusses his son Sean serving with the U S Marine Corps in Iraq. He praises the mission as pure while detailing the hardships of war and the fear of a parent awaiting each update. Cox shares how he follows photos on Marineparents com and hopes for a homecoming photo.
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Cox
Anna
Iraq
Sean
Saddam Hussein
Illinois
Hinckley Earns Pacesetter Award Sharing Honor With Former Students
Nelda Hinckley of John A. Logan College receives the Pacesetter Award while noting two of her former students, Jon Williams and Dr. Reach, are honored the same night. Williams, a regional nurse educator for Air Evac Lifeteam, graduated from Logan in 2000 after twelve years in a Franklin County coal mine.
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Hinckley
Dr. Reach
Jon Williams
Air Evac Lifeteam
Franklin County
Hinckley’s
Williams
John A. Logan College
Gayle Pesavento
Caribbean
Jerry Bechtel
Bechtel
Bikes Blessing Draws Riders to Bald Knob Cross
Brian Johnson of Carbondale and his wife Michelle joined riders at Bald Knob for the Blessing of the Bikes. Johnson praised meeting fellow Christians and enjoying the southern Illinois site, while Brian Rogers of Vergennes noted 13 years of participation with the Christian Motorcyclists Association and the sense of serving the Lord despite gray skies and variable weather.
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Ken Seeber
Bald Knob
Bald Knob Cross
Brian Johnson
Carbondale
Michelle
Johnson
Southern Illinois
Brian Rogers
Vergennes
Christian Motorcyclists Association
Rogers
Elkville man drowns after fishing boat capsizes on pond
Andrew J. Barnes 71 disappeared near Elkville around 11 30 am Sunday when his boat overturned while he fished. Deputies found his body in the pond and he died at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. Police investigate possible cause.
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Elkville
Andrew J. Barnes
Barnes
Jackson County
Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Jackson County Sheriff's Deputies
Dowell Road
Bath Road
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