Lunch waste mirrors home cooking in Southern Illinois schools
Sherrie Good reports area officials say school lunches resemble home cooking yet students waste 25 percent or more on bad days and eat more when meals appeal. Pizza and chili top favorites, while vegetables are avoided. Murphysboro High School notes meatloaf as a school favorite.
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Sherrie Good
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
Illinois
Murphysboro High School
Timothy Bowers
Marion district fights lunch waste with menu changes
In Marion area schools students favor hamburgers and bread between meals while disliking items like macaroni and cheese. Officials note about 8 percent of food is wasted, costing roughly $11,000 annually out of a $140,000 budget. Meant to cut waste, schools offer alternates and test items in garbage checks.
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Marion
Nita Joyner
Food Service
Marion Community Unit 2
Hurst-Bush
Murphysboro
Carbondale Community High School
Stella Benz
Terry Hughes
CCHS
Benz
Edna Roussin
Bowers
Massac indicts three more miners in demo case
Massac County grand jury indicted James Poe Larry Kosma and Roy Osborne on mob violence conspiracy and criminal destruction to property in connection with the December demonstration at the Cook Coal Terminal that shut the non union facility for three weeks. They will be arraigned June 20 in Metropolis before Judge Robert Landsen. The eight other miners will face trial June 26 in Massac County Circuit Court. Indictments followed photos used for identification and immunity granted to two defendants.
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Barbara Schechter
Southern Illinoisan
Southern
Southern Illinois
Massac County
Cook
United Mine Workers of America
Metropolis
Charles Geittmann
David Crain
du Quoin
Greg Childers
Carterville
Geittmann
David Johnson
Vernon Morris III
Steve Thornhill
Charles Mohring
Larry Neibel
West Frankfort
Mike Dillard
Energy
Ken Taylor
Lesser
James Thomas
Herrin
Union officials face contempt charges at East St. Louis court
United Mine Workers Local 2117 officials Peter Gordy Norman Beatty and Francis Hill face civil and criminal contempt charges in U S District Court East St. Louis for allegedly violating a temporary restraining order. The order barred interference with construction work at two Morris Coal Co mines east of Marion. American Mine Installations Inc requested the restraining order and contempt hearing, set for 9 30 a m before Judge James Foreman.
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Barbara Schechter
Southern Illinois
U.S. District Court
East St. Louis
James Foreman
United Mine Workers of America Local 2117
Foreman
Morris Coal Co
Marion
American Mine Installations, Inc
Local 2117
Peter Gordy
UMW Construction
Norman Beatty
West Frankfort
Illinois
UMW District 12
SIUC catering worker Mary Baccus says she was terminated after 14 years
Mary Baccus, long-time banquet and catering manager at SIUC Student Center, alleges she was unjustly terminated after 14 years. The case involves Interstate United Food Service and university officials, with May 10 meetings in St. Louis and statements from SIUC director John Corker and I U Service vice president Harvey Kinnard.
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S.1i.u
Interstate United Management Service Corp
SIUC
Baccus
University
Interstate United
Slater Food Service Organization
Corker
Mrs Baccus Termination Sparks Public Contract Question
The report details Mary Baccus claiming termination over a personality clash with Corker, while Corker and Kinnard imply changes in food service required different employee approaches. Lipovsky and replacement Ed Gray declined comment, and observers note legal questions about contracts between private organizations and public institutions.
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Corker
Kinnard
Food Service
Mrs. Baccus
Mary Baccus
Slater
Marion church group protests nixing revival
Members of the Marion Deliverance Tabernacle marched downtown to protest the Williamson County Fair Board's denial of their request to hold a July tent revival at the fairgrounds. Pastor Darrell Stafford cited past incidents and noise concerns but offered to meet decibel standards and permit limits. the church would cancel if not at the fairgrounds.
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Marion
Williamson County Fair Board
Marion Deliverance Tabernacle
Fairgrounds
Stafford
Sam Jones
Jones
Danny Adams
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Williamson County Fairgrounds
West Cherry Street
Water district tug of war with Carbondale over customers
The Murdale Water District faces losing roughly half its customers as Carbondale plans to extend city water to Parrish Acres and beyond. City officials cite firefighting needs and revenue reasons while negotiators clash over 30 year territorial boundaries and potential annexation, with projects to replace Murdale lines underway.
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Carbondale
Murdale Water District
Merrill Perlman
Southern Illinoisan
Richard Crowell
Crowell
Water District
Parrish Acres
Murdale
Range
Mardale Water District
Kinkaid Lake
Bill Boyd
Carbondale Public Works
Carroll Fry
Fry
Water District Board
Tower Road
Mardale
Boyd
Tover Road
Lake June
Hautauqua Road
Kinkaid-Reed’s Creek
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