Martin Luther King Jr community celebration and events list
Third annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Carbondale Civic Center 4 p.m. with community choir. co sponsored by Rock Hill Baptist Church and Unitarian Fellowship. Harlem Globetrotters show at Show Me Center Arena Cape Girardeau Mo 3 p.m. tickets 12.75 to 35.75. Makandafest Kick Off fundraiser 8:30 p.m. Hangar 9 Carbondale with art auction music by Carter Connelley St Stephens acoustic and Sufis from Hell five dollar door. Civil War program Vienna Public Library 2:30 p.m. Johnson County Genealogical Society 995-2068.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Carbondale Civic Center
Rock Hill Baptist Church
The
Unitarian Fellowship
Harlem Globetrotters
Cape Girardeau
Hangar
Carbondale
Carter & Connelley
St. Stephens
Hell
Vienna Public
Johnson County
Johnson County Genealogical and Historical Society
Wyat's Coming Bus to Grand Ole Opry
Bus trip to see Deanna Freeman of Zeigler at 8 a.m. Thursday from Six Mile Township building on the circle Zeigler. Cost 25 dollars. Freeman has won local state and regional contests in True Value Country Showdown. Also openhouse for SIU Children’s Choir auditions and rehearsals with contact numbers. Theater trip to Swing at Fox Theatre St. Louis 90 dollars with lunch and transport. Edward Jones coffee club meeting in Carbondale. MLK Day gathering at Carbondale Public Library with Jan Spivey Gilchrist. SIUC Jr breakfast at Grinnell Hall 7 a.m. Tickets at door.
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Grand Ole Opry
Deanna Freeman
Zeigler
Six Mile Township
Circle Zeigler
Freeman
Southern Illinois Children’s Choir
Altgeld
SIUC
Fox Theatre
St. Louis
Bevo Mill
Rend Lake College Foundation
Learning In Retirement
Carbondale Public Library
W. Main St
Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Black ice and fog raise hazard in southern Illinois roads
Forecasters warn lingering black ice and dense fog may keep driving dangerous in the morning after a snowy spell. WPSD TV reports temperatures in the high teens, with more than 20 winter weather related accidents in Williamson County and multiple incidents along Illinois 13 between Harrisburg and Marion as state police report few weather related crashes.
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Southern Illinois
Pam Spencer
Wpsd-Tv News Channel 6
Paducah
Spencer
Illinois 13
Harrisburg
Marion
Williamson County
Sheriff's Office
Jackson County
Twins Celebrate 80th Birthday In Carbondale Open House
In Carbondale on a snowy January day in 1922 Mary Holder gave birth to twins Paul and Pauline after a trek for a doctor. Saturday’s open house at Walnut Street Baptist Church drew old friends and family to honor the siblings with a limousine ride to the event.
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Arry McKenzie
THE
Paul Holder
Pauline Holder-Baggett
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Carbondale
Pauline Holder Baggett
Mary Holder
Bill
Siuc Sheep and Swine Center
Union Hill Church
Paul Sai
Paul
Pauline
Holder
Marilyn Heine
Benton City police shortage widens after two resignations
Benton officials face a growing shortage as Tyson Melvin and Lee Mumbower leave for Illinois State Police, leaving four full time officers on duty to cover 21 weekly shifts. The department also lists former chief Melvin Dixon and officer Kevin Elko as departed, with the Kenny Cochrum vacancy unresolved. The merit board hopes to assemble a candidate list by Feb. 1, but officials doubt the target can be met.
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Benton
Benton City
Illinois State Police
Tyson Melvin
Lee Mumbower
Melvin Dixon
Kevin Elko
Kenny Cochrum
Phil Werkmeister
Werkmeister
John D. Aiken
Police and Fire Merit Board
Steve Mumbower
West City
Aiken
Mumbower
Moore
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Schnucks & Disc Jockey Records
Wyat
Edward Jones Coffee Club
Brooks Venable
Edward Jones
E. Main St
Grinnell Hall
Travis Deneal
Illinois State Police District 22
Ullin
Schnucks
Asince
Christi Mathis
He Was
the Doctor
Cutler
Castle Inn
South Illinois Avenue
North Illinois Avenue
New Era
Paul Hower
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