Reading program and local events schedule
Today features Getting Excited About Science with Steve Beeliveau at West Frankfort Public Library for kids making Flubber with a chance to win a Flubber video. A benefit dinner helps Marion high school junior Alex Doughty at Cherry Street Banquet Center in Harrisburg. Wall climbing at Carbondale Recreation Center teaches safe techniques. Driving review at Murphysboro Senior Center. Health tests offered at Kroger stores in Marion and Mount Vernon with quick results and a small fee.
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Steve Beeliveau
West Frankfort Public Library
E. Poplar St
Alex Doughty
Marion High School
Cherry Street
Harrisburg
Kroger
Marion
Mount Vernon
Village and library boards set evening meetings
Government notices list the Bush Village Board meeting at 7 p.m. in village hall and C. E. Brehm Memorial Library Board at 7 p.m. at 101 S. Seventh St in Mount Vernon. Cairo school board schedules 5 p.m. meeting at the administrative office.
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C.E. Brehm Memorial Library Board
S. Seventh St
Mount Vernon
Cairo
Local government meetings scheduled across counties
Carbondale Liquor Advisory Board gathers at 5 30 p m at 200 S Illinois Ave Carbondale Township Board meets at 4 p m 217 E Main St Elk Township Board 7 p m at Elkville community building Galatia school board 7 p m in home economics room Jackson County Mental Health Board 7 30 p m Adolescent Health Center 101 S Wall St Carbondale Murphysboro Township Board 1 p m board room 1410 Walnut St New Simpson Hill school board 7 p m Tunnel Hill Red Bud Library Board 7 30 p m 112 Bloom St Sallie Logan Library Board 7 p m 1808 Walnut St Williamson County 911 Board 9 a m 3232 S Park Ave Herrin www thesouthern com.
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Jackson County Mental Health
Adolescent Health Center
S. Wall St
Carbondale
Family aided after Carbondale fire disaster
Claude and Shirley Parnell and their five children lost their East Sycamore Street home to a June 30 blaze. With no local relatives, they shelter at the Sun Hotel on an American Red Cross voucher good through Friday, plus food vouchers. Local aid networks, led by Elkville Baptist Church Pastor Darryl Williams, coordinate shelter, clothing and referrals to assistance.
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Carbondale
Claude
Shirley Parnell
East Sycamore Street
Chicago
Parnell
Claude Parnell
Parnells
Sun Hotel
Knights Inn
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Shirley
General Henry Biscuit Co
du Quoin
Illinois
Darryl Williams
Elkville Baptist Church
Williams
Elkville
Cobden man keeps unusual menagerie in backyard
Caleb Hale Cobden reports 72 year old Paul Doc DuBois loves his animal clan in Cobden home. Lola the llama in a car back seat, four turkeys ducks peacocks and a pet crow. Itty bitty the talking goat behaves like a dog and opens the back door. City officials sent a letter to DuBois' Cobden home via attorney Charles Caveness in June.
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Uauck
Paul ‘Doc’ DuBois
Cobden
Lola
Paul
Doc
DuBois
Itty-bitty
Charles Caveness
Marion clock on Tower Square fixed after six month wait
Marion's Tower Square clock is restored after a lengthy repair, with city clerk Liz Strobel noting clock repair firms are scarce and the system is now digitized. The city spent about 13 000 dollars and can reset the time remotely from ground level, pleasing residents who value the historic timepiece.
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Marion
Tower
Liz Strobel
Strobel
Williamson County
Train van crash kills five in Jefferson County
Five people die after a van driven by Connie Lorance of Opdyke was struck by a westbound Norfolk Southern train while crossing tracks on North Stanford Road near Marlow. Four others and Lorance’s husband Robert were hospitalized or injured as authorities investigated the collision.
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Jefferson County
Sheriff's Department
Connie Lorance
Opdyke
Norfolk Southern
North Stanford Road
Marlow
Lorance
Illinois
Adam Lorance
Alyssa Lorance
Blake Trout
Julie Trout
Bluford
Robert
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center
Mount Vernon
Memoir traces long affair with Southern Illinois University
BEN GELMAN recounts A B Mifflin memoir detailing a 1944 enrollment at Southern Illinois Normal University and a half century of service at SIU. The work covers presidents and chancellors, Mifflin’s roles in Central Publications and University Graphics, and joining the faculty in 1957 after tenure agreement.
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A.B. Mifflin
Siu
Southern Ilinois Normal University
Bruce Merwin
Roscoe Pulliam
Merwin
Mifflin
Southern Illinois University
Central Publications
John W. Allen
Southern Illinois
Robert J. Hastings
Sand Ridge
Belleville
Shryock Auditorium
Delyte W. Morris
Chester Lay
Morris
University Press
SIU Press
Vernon Sternberg
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Recreation Center
Grand Avenue
Murphysboro Senior Center
N. 14Th St
Carbondale Liquor Advisory Board
S. Illinois Ave
Carbondale Township Board
E. Main St
Elk Township Board
Galatia School Board
Murphysboro
Walnut St
Zoning Board of Appeals
N. 12Th St
New
Simpson Hill
Tunnel Hill
Red Bud
Bloom St
Sallie Logan Library Board
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
School of Medicine
Springfield
Williamson County 911 Board
S. Park Ave
Herrin
Www
Thesouthern.com
Caleb Hale
Ben Gelman
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