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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 2004
Page
7
Joyce hosts Today s Events featuring a flea market crafts and farmer s market at Sesser City Park starting at 6 a m with events listed for Rend Lake Days and related activities. Contact 618 625 3611 for details and schedules of highlights.
Community groups and municipal bodies announce meetings in Southern Illinois towns. Volunteering for Wish-granting events in Marion and a Parents without Partners gathering in Jackson address time locations and contact numbers. Additional listings cover school boards, city councils, and district committees across Anna Benton Franklin Harrisburg Murphysboro Mount Vernon and surrounding areas with dates and meeting venues.
Union County 911 dispatch board may aid the sheriff’s department through year end as the board of commissioners prepares to cut 10 percent from each county office. Board member and Commissioner Bill Jackson said no official action has been taken but a verbal agreement exists to help ensure 24 hour dispatch coverage for about 17 000 residents. Jackson notes the board cannot loan funds and would hire staff on an as needed basis with eventual reimbursement by the sheriff. Sheriff Jim Nash fears conditions will worsen before improving despite anticipated public safety tax funds and a renegotiated dispatch contract.
Tom Martin, 42, works at Southern Recycling Center in Carbondale after a 68-foot fall in 1989 left him with a severe head injury and brain trauma. He cannot read well but can drive with glasses and relies on cabs. his fighting spirit keeps him independent despite reduced wages and injuries. Accident details from 1989 are noted. see continuation on page 4B.
In Carbondale Tom Martin explains he joined Southern Recycling to stay active, swapping soap operas for work. He notes Tas Karayiannis, owner, gave him a job and keeps the center running as a community hub.
Rend Lake Conservancy District manager Gary May has booked Seasons Restaurant banquet room for a potential June 28 meeting, a precaution amid a large expected turnout. The board may move the venue. May’s contract renewal was not renewed by a 5-2 vote, with a replacement process not disclosed. A petition campaign to reinstate May is growing, led by George Morris and Sandy Davis.
Anna-Jonesboro high school board plans to name Brett Detering as assistant principal at about sixty thousand dollars a year. He will handle student truancy and other duties, freeing Principal Jim Woodward for administrative work. The district says the move costs nothing extra and replaces a former dean of students role.
A 4 p.m. Thursday meeting at St. Francis Xavier Church will review Carbondale’s pool feasibility study and possible locations and funding. Monica Tichenor says newcomers will be invited to share ideas as committees form to handle project aspects. Public welcome. for more, contact Sarah Heyer from Carbondale Conversations.
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