Southern Illinois healthcare staff donate school materials
Column reports SIH employees contribute supplies to local schools across the region. Separate notes mention Lynyrd Skynyrd canceling a fall concert in Du Quoin with REO Speedwagon slated to perform instead, and Benton teachers without a contract. West Frankfort teachers seek federal mediation amid ongoing negotiations. State news notes a prison commissary bill block by the governor.
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Southern Illinois Healthcare
du Quoin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
REO Speedwagon
Weather forecast for Carbondale area shows showers risk
Partly cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms and a high in the mid 80s. Tonight mostly cloudy with a 30 percent thunderstorm risk and a mid 60s low. Wednesday partly cloudy again with a 30 percent shower chance and near 85.
Deadly road crash claims two teens near Anna
In Union County on Lick Creek Road two teenage boys died in a two vehicle wreck Sunday evening. Vanausdoll Zachary Vanausdoll 17 of Goreville and Aaron Pearson 15 of Cobden died at the scene. Beth Schlenker and Joshua Schlenker were flown to a regional hospital and later released.
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Union County
Anna
Lick Creek Road
Zachary Vanausdoll
Goreville
Aaron Pearson
Cobden
Union County Sheriff's
Jim Nash
Vanausdell
Beth Schlenker
Buncombe
Schlenker
Joshua Schlenker
Southeast Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Nash
Debbie Vanausdoll
Vanausdoll
Pearson
Ican Krieners
Dangers on Lick Creek Road Highlight Teen Tragedy
Union County Sheriff reports 38 wrecks in 19 months on 10 mile Lick Creek Road from Anna to I 57 including 16 one vehicle, 18 vehicle deer collisions and four two car crashes. Parents grieve a 17 year old killed as troopers warn drivers to slow. Local officials cite narrow winding farmland with heavy farm traffic and cresting hills as factors.
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Lick Creek Road
Union County Sheriff's Department
Anna
Vanausdoll
Nash
Lick Creek
Michelle Pearson
Aaron
Warren Oil to Open Marion Plant Adding 50 Jobs
Warren Oil Co. of Dunn, North Carolina will open a 70,000 square foot Marion facility along the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad at 201 N Fourth St. The plant will produce and package lubricants for industry and consumer products and is expected to be fully operational in 2005. Dennis Dutch Doelitzsch, chair of the Regional Economic Development Corp., cites regional cooperation as a driver of growth.
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Dennis “Dutch” Doelitzsch
Regional Economic Development Corp
Williamson County
Doelitzsch
Warren Oil Co
Pennzoil
Crab Orchard
Fourth St
Marion
Warren Oil
Warren Oil to Open Marion Plant Adds 50 Jobs
Warren Oil Co of Dunn North Carolina will open a Marion plant to package Warren Lubriguard Autoguard Itasca Quality Supreme and Gold Bank lubricants. The plant will also manufacture its own packaging materials and create 50 new jobs in Williamson County.
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Warren Oil Co
Dunn, N.C
Marion
Williamson County
Warren
Autoguard
Itasca
Quality Supreme
Gold Bank
Warren Oil
Fitzgerald Joins Shawnee Forest Horse Issue at Park Meeting
Senator Peter Fitzgerald of Inverness visits Giant City State Park for a mini vacation and attends the Illinois Trail Riders meeting at Giant City Lodge to discuss the Shawnee National Forest trails controversy. He aims to narrow the legal issue and hear concerns from riders.
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Fitzgerald
Shawnee Forest Horse Issue
Giant City
Uss
Peter Fitzgerald
Inverness
Giant City State Park
Illinois Trail Riders
Giant City Lodge
Shawnee National Forest
New Novara
Itt Southern
U.S
Blagojevich declines Nugent debate at state fair
Governor Rod Blagojevich turned down a chance to debate Illinois gun laws with rock star Ted Nugent before Nugent’s grandstand show at the Illinois State Fair. Blagojevich cited other priorities and thanked Nugent for the interest while Nugent warned his remarks were misquoted and said he often meets officials backstage to discuss issues.
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Springfield
Rod Blagojevich
Illinois
Ted Nugent
Nugent
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