Thompsonville EMTs Strike Reaches Fifth Week
Thompsonville emergency medical technicians enter week five of a strike with 10 of 17 members demanding the right to name their unit coordinator. The dispute centers on control of the Thompsonville unit, with the Franklin County Ambulance Service operating stations in Lesser Zeigler Christopher and Benton. Officials say service remains adequate though response times have stretched, as Benton and Zeigler units cover Thompsonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Woolf
Southern Illinois
Thompsonville
Nick Sero
EMT
Christopher Greater Area Rural Health Planning Corp
Franklin County Ambulance Service
Lesser
Zeigler
Christopher
Benton
Sero
West Frankfort
Bailey Williams
Health Planning Copporation
Emts
Emergency Medical Services
Springfield
Corporation
Charles Boner
Boner
Williams
Charles Dunford
Dunford
Brushy Creek
Doctor’s Hospital
Harrisburg
Health Planning Corporation
Non-engineering student wins egg drop contest at SIU Carbondale
Bonnie Marx reports the second annual Engineering Pentathlon at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where a speech pathology major, Carol Eisner, won the egg drop event with a balloon filled capsule. Faculty winner was Bill Brower. About 300 participants competed across five events including aircraft design and a computer-based economics game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Marx
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
College of Engineering and Technology
Carol Eisner
Bill Brower
Brower
Kenneth Lee
Lee Rogers
Jim Higginbotham
Gary Collier
Roger Missavage
Nashville high school teachers authorize strike vote
Nashville District 99 teachers have approved a strike vote if no contract is reached by Wednesday. The district offered a two year raise totaling 19 percent, while teachers seek 30 percent, with talks centering on contract language and economics and a mediation session set for 7 p.m. at the high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Santori
Southern Illinoisan
Nashville
Ron Brown
Nashville Education Association
Brown
Nashville District 99
David McClintock
David Sneddon
Illinois Education Association
Edward Keenig
Sneddon
Carroll Fry to return home from Rochester hospital
Carroll Fry, Carbondale City Manager, has been hospitalized in Rochester Minnesota since January 14 after a gas toxic infection and multiple surgeries. He expects to home today with bed rest for a couple of weeks and follow up with a local physician before a six week final check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Carroll Fry
Rochester
Minn
Mid-America Bank and Trust
John Wertzel
Dick Hunter
Fry
Methodist Hospital
Sad opera La Boheme staged by SIU C students faces cut back
Ben Gelman reviews the SIUC Shryock Auditorium production of Puccini's La Boheme directed by Teresa Stich Randall. He notes a reduced number of performances, limited publicity, and tensions about the future of opera at the university while praising Mimi Mary Jane Robbins and Rodolfo De Oliveira for strong performances and recounting dress rehearsal reception by children and seniors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Gelman
Southern Illinois
Marjorie Lawrence
Teresa Stich-Randall
Vienna State Opera
Siu-C Opera Theater
SIU
Mme. Stich-Randall
Mary Jane Robbins
Mimi
de Oliveira
Rodolfo
Carla Coppi
Musetta
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Thompsonville Emts
Andrew Wilson Jr
County Ambulance Service
Wilson
Judy Engelson
Jeff Lindsey
Echel Cook
Cook
Jerry Lower
Siuc Technology
Byline
B.G
France
SIUC
Parpignol
Mazias de Oliveira
Marcello
David Williams
Michael Hanes
SIU Symphony Orchestra
John Wharton
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