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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 2004
Page
9
Today's events include a 7 p.m. lecture Beauty and the Beast The Effect of Segregation on African American Children at Carbondale Civic Center. Free admission phone 312 422 5580 or ihc prairie.org.
Garden tour Saturday 1 to 4 pm at Golconda tickets $5 at Historical Society Museum Main and Columbus. Health fair Saturday 8 am to 2 pm Burma C Hayes Center 441 E Willow Carbondale. Blood drive Monday noon to 6 pm United Methodist Church Vienna. Blood drive contact Angie Bailey and Amy Eggemeyer. Horse show Saturday 9 am Sunday 8 am Du Quoin State Fairgrounds Horse Pavilion. Opening day Grassroots Baseball at 7:30 pm Saturday and 1:30 pm Sunday U S 51 North Elkville. Meeting Republican Women's Auxiliary 7 pm Monday Stinson Memorial Library Anna. Perry County Board 9 am Pinckneyville government building. Williamson County Special Education District Board 9:30 am 411 S Court Marion. Drawing for tickets to Nashville Superspeedway. Contact numbers listed.
Kenneth E. Sims, 39, of Marion, was arrested after allegedly shooting John W. Adams at 3:25 a.m. at Adams residence on West Cherry Street. Adams was treated for a leg wound at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. Sims faces charges including aggravated discharge of a firearm and impersonation of a peace officer. he wore a police uniform during the incident. He is jailed in Williamson County.
Kenneth E. Sims, 39, of Marion, was arrested for allegedly shooting John W. Adams Wednesday morning. An argument preceded the incident. Sims faces charges of aggravated discharge of a firearm aggravated battery with a firearm aggravated unlawful use of a firearm and false impersonation of a peace officer.
Benton library director Molly Scanlan announced a two stage build to replace the 5,000 square foot facility with a 10,000 square foot state of the art library at the same South Main Street site. Groundbreaking is set for May 27 with completion targeted for mid 2005. The project preserves library operations during construction and adds a community meeting room children’s activity area young adult room tutoring spaces and expanded seating. A donor gift of 1000 from Ronald Stockton was noted as part of community support.
Three weekend events in Carbondale spotlight Brown v. Board of Education. Today 7 p.m. at the Carbondale Civic Center students from local middle and high schools perform a hip hop literary rendition by Hip Hop Griots. The event, sponsored by Illinois Humanities Council and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, will discuss the doll study and its role in desegregation. Winners of an area essay and video contest will be announced that night.
In Collinsville the Illinois GOP meets for a state convention to pick National Committee members and set a platform. Karl Rove speaks today and Dennis Hastert appears Saturday as Republicans claim post 2002 losses spurred a leadership overhaul and fresh energy.
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