Community events lineup for Carbondale area weekend
Pancake breakfast at Emma C Hayes Center 8 to 11 a.m. $3 with $1 extra meat. Yard sale at 214 E Jackson St 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. supporting Dayemi School House. HIV testing day 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St Marys Park Cairo with free food. Amateur radio field day 9 a.m. West Frankfort City Park. Ava Homecoming events begin at noon with Wiffleball and games, concert by Southern Illinois Band. Rend Lake events include Gordons performance and visitor center contact. Sparta hosts car show and craft fair with multiple activities. Deliberative forum in Carbondale. March to Kaskaskia encampment at Fort Kaskaskia through Sunday.
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Wyatt's Comline Caregiver Support Group Schedule
Wyat's Comine Caregiver Support Group meets at 1 30 p m Tuesday via Senior Adult Services at 409 N Springer St Carbondale. Contact numbers include 618 687 1727 and 618 457 4151. Diabetes education and support group meets Tuesday afternoon in St Mary's Good Samaritan cafeteria Mount Vernon. Diane Terry 618 241 2055. More on page 2B thesouthern.com.
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Carbondale
St. Mary's
Re-enactors mark 225th George Rogers Clark march at Fort Massac
The Southern Metropolis reports Fort Massac State Park hosts a Sunday encampment and talks by Capt. Joseph Bowman’s Virginia-Illinois Regiment marking Clark’s 1778 march from Massac Creek to Kaskaskia and Cahokia. Participants describe roles in the expedition and field questions.
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George Rogers Clark
Fort Cahokia
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Ind
Fort Massac State Park
Joseph Bowman
Virginia- Illinois Regiment
Clark
Northwest Territory
Massac Creek
Fort Massac
Ava Homecoming Ends Tonight At 83rd Event
Photographs and story by Pamela Kay Schmalenberger capture Ava residents including Travis Carlock Virgil Smith II and Zack Anderson enjoying rides at the 83rd Ava Homecoming. Organizers expected about 4000 attendees with proceeds benefiting the Ava Volunteer Fire Department and the Ava Park Board.
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Virgil Smith II
Zack Anderson
Ava
Wayne Minter
Ava Volunteer Fire Department
Volunteer Fire Department
Ava Park Board
Fire Department
Carter
Ryan Naile
Illinois to host coal roundtable on FutureGen project
State and federal leaders will gather at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for a 2 p.m. roundtable to push Illinois for the FutureGen coal powered plant. Gov Blagojevich Rep Costello and Shimkus will attend along with senators Durbin and Fitzgerald aides and local officials.
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Illinois
FutureGen
George W. Bush
U.S
Jerry Costello
Dbelleville
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Rod , Blagojevich
Shimkus
Costello
Dick Durbin
Peter Fitzgerald
C. Lowell Miller
Office of Coal Fuels and Industrial Systems
Dept. of Energy
Energy Industry
State of
Judge orders sexual assault trial for Creal Springs man
Williamson County Circuit Court judge ruled there is enough evidence to hold Leonard Little, 51, for trial on charges of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child under 13 and aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child. Bail set at 100000 as preliminary hearing details emerged from the boy’s father and Detective Frattini. The case stems from an incident at a Creal Springs home for the elderly where the boy was aide to a task and was found missing from a bathroom.
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Williamson County
Creal Springs
Leonard Little
Little
Marion man sent to boot camp prison after drug charge
Demetrius Duncan of Marion faces eight years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty in Williamson County Circuit Court to unlawful use of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Duncan, 25, admitted possessing cocaine.
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Demetrius Duncan
Illinois Department of Corrections
Duncan
Williamson County
Phillip Palmer
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