Area plans road repair work across Southern Illinois
Tony Stevens reports that IDOT District 9 and area counties will spend about 4.49 million dollars to patch 3768 miles of roads damaged by the 1981 82 winter. The program focuses on rock base, oil sealing and bituminous patching with no major new construction.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois Department of Transportation
Carbondale
Illinois
Idot District 9
Franklin
Jackson
Johnson
Perry
Randolph
Union
Williamson
District 9
James Newton
Franklin County
Jack Licata
Licata
Jackson County
William Munson
Munson
Johnson County
Jesse Johns
Johns
Perry County
Roy Smith
Smith
Williamson County
Duane Wittenborn
OSHA Fines Benton Firm Five Thousand One Hundred Dollars
The Jerry Wiggs Excavating Co of Benton faces a 5100 penalty from OSHA after the December Carterville trench collapse that killed 28 year old Stanley Dean Irvin. The citation cites trench depth violations, lack of shoring, training gaps, helmet use failure, and delayed accident reporting.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Jerry Wiggs
OSHA
Lunium Wonders Debuts as Carbondale Arts Magazine
Lunium Wonders launches in Carbondale as a quarterly arts magazine from local artists and writers, with SIU ties and free distribution via Hinterlands Press. The first issue features poetry by Bob Randolph Floyd Olive Rosemary Finnegan fiction by Dan Sellers and Falcone music by Kuan and Joe Liberto.
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Lunium Wonders
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Steve Falcone
Bob Randolph
Floyd Olive
Rosemary Finnegan
Dan Sellers
Falcone
Kuan
Joe Liberto
Hinterlands Press
W. Elm
Balder
Southern Illinois
Menard union leader blasts wage cut proposal
Charles Bedinger afscme local 1175 president at Menard Correctional Center in Chester says a Illinois Senate plan to cut state employee raises by 145 million next year would erase negotiated gains. He notes 660 workers funded an 8 percent raise for 1982 83 and warns of waste in prisoner transportation and pay. He cites stress and health risks for prison staff and says the union will present a list of savings to the legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evan M. Davis
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois Senate Appropriations Committee
Southern Illinois
Charles Bedinger
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Afscme
Menard Correctional Center
Chester
Howard Carroll
Chicago
Bedinger
Department of Corrections
Ernest Lewis named associate VP at SIUC
Ernest Lewis, chair of the department of guidance and educational psychology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is named associate vice president for academic affairs and research by President Albert Somit. He will report to John Guyon and succeeds James Tweedy, who returns to teaching in the School of Agriculture July 1. Marcia Anderson is appointed chairperson of the department of vocational education studies, succeeding William Gooch, with the new role starting August 16. Lewis duties include faculty appointments, tenure, promotions, budget oversight, and minority recruitment efforts. Anderson holds a PhD from SIU C and has served as associate professor since 1970. Lewis’s appointment awaits ratification by the SIU Board of Trustees.
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Ernest Lewis
Department of Guidance and
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Lewis
Albert Somit
John Guyon
James Tweedy
School of Agriculture
Somit
Marcia Anderson
SIU Department of Vocational Education Studies
College of Education
William Gooch
Siu-C
Green Earth offers free nature programs to area groups
Green Earth Inc a not for profit near Carbondale offers free educational programs to schools scout groups Headstart and others at Green Earth I a woodland and field area east of Carbondale. Saturday the Carbonale Senior Girl Scouts will help transplant wildflowers donated by Carbondale garden club members. May 27 visits by convent school first and second grade students are planned. Activities include interpretive hikes investigative studies ecological games and conservation projects with pre trip planning available. Nancy Peterson directs the program with SIU Carbondale volunteers helping maintain trails. Contact 457 4780. In a separate note Mark William Muhlenbrock of Carbondale will start a graduate assistantship at Arizona State University in Tempe in August to study botany and work with the Arizona flora. He has won cactus awards and illustrated a cactus cover for the Journal of the Mammillaria Society. He is SIU C and Mammillaria Society representative. son of Robert H. Mohlenbrock.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Green Earth, Inc
Carbondale
Green Earth I
Carbonale
Carbondale Garden Club
Convent
Judy Faulkner
Green Earth
Faulkner Nancy Peterson
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Mark William Muhlenbrock
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Arizona State University
Tempe
Arizona
Illinois Junior Academy of Science
Navy
Mohlenbrock
The
Mammillaria Society
Mammillaria Society of England
Illinois
SIU Press
Siu-C
Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Robert Mohlenbrock
SIUC
Southern Illinois
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IDOT
Newton
Randolph County
Les Holcomb
Holcomb
Union County
Tom Gilchrist
Gilchrist
Joe Jines
Crab Orchard Lake
Benton
Workman
New Literary
Texas
Shane Bishop
John A. Logan College
Carterville
Bishop
Mark Baylor
Menard
Ms. Anderson
Midland Lutheran College
Fremont
Neb
University of Nebraska
SIU Board of Trustees
Nancy Peterson
Byline
B.G
Mark W. Mohlenbrock
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