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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 2003
Page
9
The La Guiannee Society hosts a Twelfth Night Ball at the American Legion Hall in Prairie du Rocher at 8 p.m. King and court will be chosen, 18th century costumes encouraged, dances taught, admission 7.50 dollars.
Diabetes Management panel at St Marys Good Samaritan Mount Vernon campus at 7 p.m. Tuesday features the healthcare team and the Diabetes Education and Support Group led by Diane Terry. Auditions for Showboat at Rend Lake College Theatre on Tuesday 6 p.m. in the RLC chorus room Inn with 19 women and 14 men, show dates Feb 27 through March 2, prepare to dance, cold read, sing with sheet music, bring a photo. Tracey Webb and contact details provided. Luncheon program Jan Eastman demo rubber stamps with Sue Priest speaking, $10.75, reservations due Monday, Southern Illinois Womens Connection. Beginning and Intermediate Ballroom Dancing classes scheduled at SIUC Jan 22 to Feb 26. registration details and costs. Also Eagle Point Bay Association meeting at Goreville 10 a.m. at Association Building.
The Carbondale Park District lays off six employees for two months and cuts hours for five more for at least three months to save 35 000 to 40 000 dollars. Three laid off and two-hour cuts involve Hickory Ridge Golf Course. The district aims to avoid borrowing money while maintaining programs. The next park board meeting at Carbondale City Hall will cover Hickory Ridge issues and greens maintenance after USGA review.
Buddy Maupin, 44, longtime AFSCME organizer and regional director for Council 31, credits union solidarity for his successes. Born in Virginia, raised in Maryland, he lives with wife Debbie on a rural Creal Springs farm. He helped keep Vienna Correctional Center open amid budget battles by building cross-state coalitions.
A minor 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck about 25 miles east-northeast of Harrisburg in Saline County at 10 17 am on Friday. It was shallow and felt in Evansville and Mount Vernon with no damage reported. experts say risks from larger quakes remain.
Southern Illinois officials and farmers voice anxiety as 2002 rainfall figures mislead, springs were wet but summers dry, Marion lake levels sagged over five feet below spillway last fall, prompting talk of a new Sugar Creek Lake reservoir. Marion taps Herrin for water while Rend Lake supplies loom, stirring decades of debate on Rend Lake access.
Marion city water commissioner Robert Dog Connell reports a beneficial thaw with Monday and Tuesday rainfall and Christmas Eve snowmelt filling Marion Lake. He noted up to 1 percent inches of rain helped ease the water crisis by stopping the Herrin Lake pump and feeding from Marion’s own supply, with roughly 600000 gallons pumped.
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