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future.<br />
“It never really hit me,”<br />
Brashier said.<br />
But, when the crisis mani-<br />
mokenamessenger.com news<br />
the Mokena Messenger | January 17, 2019 | 7<br />
Restaurant helps those affected by shutdown<br />
T.J. Kremer III, Editor<br />
While some might view<br />
the most recent government<br />
shutdown as simply<br />
dysfunctional politics as<br />
usual, the reality of the situation<br />
hit home for some<br />
800,000 federal employees<br />
who did not receive<br />
their paychecks Friday,<br />
Jan. 11.<br />
Owner of Doc’s Smokehouse,<br />
Brent Brashier —<br />
which has locations in Mokena;<br />
Dyer, Indiana; and<br />
Milwaukee, Wisconsin —<br />
was one of those who wasn’t<br />
really paying too much attention<br />
to the details behind<br />
the political bickering that<br />
has led to the longest federal<br />
government shutdown<br />
in history. That is, until one<br />
of his regular customers in<br />
Any federal employee can receive this lunch special — a<br />
pork sandwich, chips and a soft drink or iced tea — free<br />
of charge for as long as the federal government shutdown<br />
lasts. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media<br />
the restaurant’s Dyer location<br />
revealed himself to be<br />
one of those 800,000 federal<br />
employees now going<br />
without pay for what many<br />
think will be the foreseeable<br />
Please see docs, 13<br />
Winter<br />
giddy-up<br />
Nova Quarter<br />
Horse’s annual<br />
Winter Horse Camp<br />
participants show<br />
off new skills<br />
Mia Beallis, 8, from Manhattan looks on near the trophies<br />
as riders at Nova Quarter Horse’s Winter Horse Camp<br />
compete Jan. 4. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media<br />
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