Game Plan for Good Health registration opens regionally
Through Nov 16注册 for Coach Kill Cancer Fund four week program to boost activity and improve nutrition. Begins this Saturday with sites at St. Josephs Murphysboro Miners West Frankfort Herrin SIU Student Health Memorial Carbondale and Marion Carbondale The tailgate at SIUC Saturday 11 am to 1 pm offers on site signup. Contact Shana Wiley at 457-5200 ext 67837 or shana.wiley sih.net.
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St. Joseph's Memorial Hospital
Murphysboro
Miners Memorial Health Center
West Frankfort
Siuc
Shana Wiley
Shana.wiley
Sih.net
Free Dump Day and Haunted Cemetery Walk Weekend
Williamson County hosts a free dump day 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at two sites Marion and Colp City Hall parking lot for county residents only. Also Massac County Historical Society sponsors a cemetery walk A Walk in Time Sunday 4 to 6 p.m. IOOF Cemetery with courthouse pickup and bus transport from Superman Square. tickets $5 adults, $3 students, under 5 free. Information Catherine Busbee 524-6919.
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Williamson County Highway Dept
North Illinois 37
Marion
Colp City Hall
Williamson County
Southern IL Landfill
CWI
Midwest Waste
Burris Disposal
Massac
Catherine Busbee
Health director touts Illinois breast cancer screening expansion
Dr. Damon Arnold, head of Illinois Department of Public Health, announced the Take Charge Get Screened effort at a Franklin Williamson Bi County Health Department press conference. The program extends free screenings and treatment to uninsured women ages 35 to 64 for cervical and breast cancer, and 40 to 64 for breast exams, with broader eligibility for symptomatic or diagnosed cases. Vicki Vaughn said $650,000 remains for southern Illinois outreach through next June, as two attendees shared how the program aided them.
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Marion
Damon Arnold
Illinois Department of Public Health
Franklin- Williamson
Bi-County Health Department
Rod
Blagojevich
Illinois
Arnold
Misty Green
Carbondale
Amy Larson
Larson
Vaughn
Take Back the Night March in Carbondale
March and rally kick off at 7 p.m. at the Interfaith Center in Carbondale with speaker Jacque Hollander and live music as participants speak out against domestic and sexual violence. Shown are volunteers hanging T shirts for The Clothesline Project, part of Take Back the Night 2007. event info via Ami Lilley.
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Carbondale
Town Square Pavilion
Kathrine Harre
Martha Shum
Faner Hall
Interfaith Center
Jacque Hollander
Hollander
Ami Lilley
Geaton
Illinois University
CCHS District Considers Programs To Meet Federal Standards
Carbondale Community High School faces federal adequacy deadlines under No Child Left Behind. Board members heard proposals from a vice principal and a teacher including new freshman programs restructuring and mandatory targeted support classes to lift performance while overall ACT and Prairie State scores remain above state averages yet gaps persist.
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Carbondale
Carbondale Community High School
CCHS
Steve
Citizens speak out at ACLU meeting in Carbondale forum
The Carbondale ACLU held a forum titled A Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters in the Lesar Law School building as part of its biannual meeting. Lenny Gross was approved as incoming president and councilmember Chris Wissmann noted the topic followed a recent incident involving Daryl McNeil outside the Southern Illinois Nightclub.
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Carbondale
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Lesar Law School
ACLU
Lenny Gross
Chris Wissmann
Daryl McNeil
Southern Illinois
McNeil
Melodi Green
Black Law Students Association
Green
Mesa Airlines drops Marion to Chicago service
Mesa Airlines will discontinue the Marion to Chicago Midway flights from Williamson County Regional Airport starting November 10 due to insufficient passenger demand and revenue. Great Lakes Airlines will begin St Louis Lambert service on November 4 as Mesa exits, while state and local officials hope Chicago service returns through another carrier.
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Marion
Mesa Airlines
Chicago
Midway Airport
Williamson County
Doug Kimmel
Kimmel
Mesa
Quincy
Decatur
Thomas Bacon
Mesa Air Group
Bacon
Great Lakes Airlines
Lambert Airport
St. Louis
Great Lakes
Essential Air Service
Regions Air
Monica Taylor
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