Carbondale students sing holiday column in Sunday page
Column summarizes a Carbondale kindergarten holiday performance with Summer Pratt and Drake Bryant among the students. Mentions related items across pages including Illinois Treasurer Topinka stance, stock market dip, pilots with guns, Creal Springs school approval, Vienna mayor death, Pinckneyville opera house, and court reports. Weather forecast notes mostly cloudy conditions and weekend temperatures. The Southern Illinoisan is cited as 2002 Illinois press award winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summer Pratt
Drake Bryant
Carbondale
Planned Marion TIF Could Add 200 Jobs
Marion Heights plans a 100 acre development north of Illinois 13 west of I 57 tied to a new TIF district. The project aims for 200 jobs, with a motel, restaurants, retail and offices across 10 phases starting after the Jan 13 2003 public hearing.
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Marion
Bloomington
Bob Howard
Bloomington Based
Community Economic Development Corporation
Marion City
Illinois 13
Howard
Marion Heights
Bob Butler
Butler
Douglas Bradley
I Will Survive by John D. Homan and the Carbondale tragedy
The account recalls Mark Beams of Carbondale, a 23 year old residential developer before a 1986 Phillips Maine crash. His friend died, he was critically injured, lost a leg, and endured long rehab. Now 39, Beams works at a Kroger in Herrin with help from the Southern Illinois Center for Independent Living.
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Carbondale
Mark Beams
Phillips
Maine
Beams
Southern Illinois Center For Independent Living
Kroger
Herrin
the Kroger
Joshua Creek
U.N. teams gear up for first Iraqi inspections
U.N. arms inspectors prepare to deploy across Iraq using new detection gear in search of mobile labs underground facilities and other signs of weapons programs. The initial field missions begin Wednesday with aims to verify Iraq has dismantled weapons programs and to test cooperation under a renewed U.N. mandate.
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Baghdad
Iraq
U.N
Middle East
United States
Washington
White House
Ari Fleischer
Bush
Fleischer
Saddam Hussein
U.N. Security Council
Kuwait
State wetlands grants target Cache River and Kinkaid Lake
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced Conservation 2000 grants totaling 3.8 million statewide. Southern Illinois will receive funds to install rock steps in the Cache River to slow erosion and sediment build up, and to create a 1,600 foot transitional wetland at Kinkaid Lake. The Friends of Cache River will get 320,000 to place large rocks about 300 yards apart in the river with landowner permission. The Greater Egypt RECD will administer 83,000 for the Kinkaid Lake project. Gov. Ryan credited local participation for the program’s success.
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Springfield
Southern Illinois
Cache River
Kinkaid Lake
Friends of Cache River
Don Hankln
Anna
Hankla
Greater Egypt
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Illinois
Judy Baar Topinka
Creal Springs
Vienna
Paul Gage
Pinckneyville
Franklin
Perry
Jackson
Union
Williamson
Jim Hendrix
Seattle
Abby
Thesouthern.com
the Southern Illinoisan
The
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois Press Association
Marion Tif
Tim Petrowich
John D. Homan
Hans Blix
U.S
BY Richard Goldstein
Springfield Bureau
Friends of
State
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