Blood consignment crash near Carbondale hospital
A blood shipment from Carbon dale Clinic to Memorial Hospital in Carbondale was involved in a crash Friday afternoon. Victor Turner of Carbondale was ticketed for allegedly running a red light at Illinois 13 and New Era Road. The truck, struck by Earl Bragg of Carbondale, hit a stoplight, flipped, but no serious injuries were reported.
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Carbondale Clinic
Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Victor Urner
New Illinois 13
New Era Road
Earl Bragg
Marion CUSD 2 ends nine teachers amid funding doubt
Citing funding uncertainties, Marion Community Unit School District 2 did not rehire one first year, four second year and four part time teachers. Eleven second year teachers were rehired, while four first year special education teachers were not. The district, with about 190 teachers, expects enrollment shifts and unknown local tax values as it holds positions open awaiting federal funding.
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Ann Schottman Enot
Southern Illinoisan
Marion Community Unit
A. C. Storme
Storme
Marion
Herrin
Carterville
Johnston City
Crab Orchard
Special Education Executive Board
Southern Illinois Airport tower labeled unsafe in 1979 report
The Southern Illinois Airport tower drew warnings in a 1979 FAA budget note that it was unsafe and substandard with limited cabin space and obstructed field of view. Despite improvements and claims of safety, PATCO workers and OSHA inspections fault ongoing crowded conditions and a portable Port Avon structure, with a new tower repeatedly requested but unfunded.
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Jim Santori
The
Southern Illinoisan
Federal Aviation Administration
Southern Illinois Airport
FAA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
PATCO
Warren Holtsberg
Great Lakes
Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale Air Institute
Air Illinois Airlines
Carbondale
Marion
Cape Girardeau
Paducah
Neal Callahan
Callahan
OSHA
Port Avon
Congress
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Holtsberg
Aviation plans shift at Southern Illinois Airport FBOs
Southern Illinois Aviation a unit of Air Illinois will operate only maintenance as a fixed based operator at Southern Illinois Airport. The move follows a March 5 decision approving two FBOs to replace Woodruff Aviation. West Hale Aviation remains set to begin April 1. Street expects operations to start in six months focusing on maintenance with potential space expansion.
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Southern Illinois Aviation
Air Illinois
Southern Illinois
Fbos
Airport Authority Board
Woodruff Aviation
West Hale Aviation
FBO
Gene Seibert
Authority
Seibert
Roger Street
Street
Work release center earns national accreditation in Carbondale
The Southern Illinois Community Correctional Center in Carbondale and three other facilities received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. The Carbondale work release center at 805 W. Freeman St. earned the stamp after a November review verifying 172 standards for facility operations.
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Southern Illinois Community Correctional Center
Carbondale
W. Freeman St
Commission On Accreditation For Corrections
State Department of Corrections
Commission
Carbondale Center
Gustafson goes to Washington for senior funds talks
Cambria resident Robert Gustafson a National Council of Senior Citizens board member will travel to Washington DC this week to press legislators and Reagan staff on proposed cuts to Social Security home care funding and Medicare and Medicaid payments. He will meet with David Stockman and Rep Claude Pepper during the two day visit. A report on the trip will run in next Sunday's Golden Years page.
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Robert Gustafson
Cambria
National Council of Senior Citizens
Washington, D.C
Reagan
David Stockman
Claude Pepper
House
Select Committee On
Gustafson
Carbondale Energy Plan Aims to Boost City Efficiency
The Comprehensive Energy Plan drafted by a 22 member Energy Futures Task Force proposes educational programs incentives and mandated measures to cut non renewables. It covers transportation residential industrial commercial and institutional sectors and urges city leadership to model energy efficiency and support recycling and in filling land use.
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Tom Woolf
Carbondale
Richard Archer
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Archer
U.S
Philip Kaplan named Friend of Morris Library
The Friends of Morris Library will honor New York book collector and artist Philip Kaplan as a Friend at the April 11 program at SIU Carbondale. Kaplan helped Morris Library build its renowned manuscripts and first editions collection used by researchers worldwide. Charles Lerner will present the award and Delta Awards to three writers. The event includes a dinner at Morris Library Hall of Presidents, with reservations last minute via E Jane Lockrem.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinois
Friends of Morris Library
New York
Philip Kaplan
Friends
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Kaplan
Morris Library
SIUC
Charles Lerner
Carbondale
The
University House
Lerner
Delta
Delta Awards
Illinois
Wheeler Hall
University
E.J. Helleny
Herrin
Tirzah Chapman
Mary Roe
Pinckneyville
Mary Haines
du Quoin
Jo Ellen Leavitt
Dorothy Morris
Bunny Sudman
Murphysboro
E. Jane Lockrem
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
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Marion Unit
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Washington
Carbondale Energy Plan
Ment
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Mischief Maker
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ABC
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Suzanne Somers
Miss Somers
Crissy Snow
Crissy
Miss Harrison
Cindy
Leon Harrison
Carrier Mills
Harrisons
California
G.L
Jerry’”’ Reynolds
Reynolds
Reynolds Yard
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B.G
G.L. Reynolds
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