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ADA regulations force pool closure 

uILL. CHILD WELFARE 

AGENCY STARTS 

LAYOFFS, SEE PAGE 3. 

INSIDE 

THE RIVER COUNTRY 

QUILT SHOW 

On Friday and Saturday, 

this show will feature quilt 

appraisals, displays of 

antique and contemporary 

quilts, demonstrations, 

a raffle and more. 

Region, Page 3. 

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INDEX u Obituaries/P2 Region/P3 World & Nation/P5 Commentary/P6 Friends & Family/P9 Social/P10 Sports/P17 Crossword/P22 

VOLUME 181 / NO. 204 

24 PAGES + 

Connections + inserts 

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Hot and mostly sunny. Highs 

in the upper 90s. Southwest 

winds 5 to 10 mph. 

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A boat approaches the pirate-themed station Saturday during the West Central Illinois Leathernecks Marine Corps 

League Dice Run on Lake Jacksonville. The event drew approximately 400 people, the largest number of participants 

to date for the annual event. The fundraising event benefits several charitable programs the group supports. 

BY JAKE RUSSELL 


The Beardstown Park District 

already knew its bathhouse was 

antiquated and the 60-year-old pool 

needed repairs. 

But then new regulations came 

down under the Americans with 

Disabilities Act requiring handicapped 

accessibility by Jan. 31. 

It wasn’t cost-effective to make 

the necessary changes to meet 

the guidelines, so the pool closed, 

said Steve Megginson, director of 

Beardstown Park District. 

It’ll take between $2.5 million 

and $2.8 million to build new, he 

added. 

“We already have designs 

Bar owner honors nephew 

with drug-fi ght funds 



Joe Thomas does not want 

the name of his nephew, Brindan 

Freeman, to be forgotten. 

Saturday commemorated the 

birthday of Freeman, who died 

of a methadone overdose seven 

years ago. 

Thomas decided to donate 20 

Beardstown needs over $2 million for new one 

percent of the money made Saturday 

from his bar, Club 217, to 

Jacksonville Police Chief Tony 

Grootens to be used however 

Grootens sees fi t in the police department’s 

fi ght against drugs. 

“I think Tony Grootens has 

been a god to this town when it 

DRUG FIGHT, see Page 8 

and a grant written up,” he said. 

“We’re ready, but times are tough. 

In a small, rural town like Beardstown, 

raising $2.8 million is pretty 

tough.” 

The Beardstown Park District 

is working on getting the correct 

permits to demolish its existing 

PHOTO COURTESY BARBARA SUELTER 

pool, but has to remove lead fi rst, 

which should be fi nished later in 

the summer. 

The new compliance laws for 

swimming pools and spas will be 

a fi nancial blow to municipal and 

motel pools alike. 

King Park Pool at 100 E. Benson 

St. in Pittsfield was built in 

POOLS, see Page 8 

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Bluegrass 

festival 

rooted in 

tradition 

Crazy Horse Campground 

hosting annual gathering 



As the band Southern Raised 

played on the back-porch stage 

of Crazy Horse Campground, the 

Harmans prepared for their 2:10 

p.m. slot in the lodge. 

Southern Raised fi nished their 

set and, within minutes, the Harmans 

picked up the bluegrass 

tunes as part of the fi fth annual 

Crazy Horse Campground Bluegrass 

Festival in rural Ashland. 

The quick turnaround is because 

all the music is acoustic, a 

staple to one of the most American 

forms of music out there, campground 

owner Andy Egolf said. 

Lindsay, Sarah, Emma Grace 

and Matthew Reith, who make up 

the band Southern Raised, have 

played at the festival three years 

now. 

A band consisting of family 

members is not uncommon to 

bluegrass, as many of the themes 

in the music tackle respect for 

family, religion, people and the 

country, event coordinator Terry 

Lease said. 

BLUEGRASS, see Page 8 

In running 

for hottest 

summer 

on record 


This summer is in the running 

to be one of the top three hottest 

summers in the past 60 years, according 

to weather forecasters. 

uFARMERS DEALING WITH WORST 

DROUGHT IN 25 YEARS, SEE PAGE 9 

Steven A. Root, certified consulting 

meteorologist and president 

of WeatherBank, has been examining 

hourly and daily temperatures 

in 59 hub cities dating back 

to Jan. 1, 1950, for Accuweather. 

com to arrive at that conclusion. 

SUMMER HEAT, see Page 8

2 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Sunday, July 22, 2012 

Morgan County 

Sheriff 

ARRESTS, CITATIONS 

• Dennis Lee Cates, 37, of 115 E. Simmons St., Roodhouse, 

was arrested about 9:35 p.m. Friday on a charge of 

body attachment and on a warrant accusing him of failing to 

appear in court on a charge of assault. 

• A 14-year-old boy was booked into the Morgan County 

Jail about 2:35 p.m. Saturday on a charge of domestic battery. 

Jacksonville Police 


• Amber A. Deskovich, 24, of 818 S. Main St. was arrested 

about 11:55 p.m. Friday on an Adams County warrant accusing 

her of failing to appear in court on charges of uninsured 

motor vehicle and no valid registration. 

• Troy A. Stailey, 44, of 16 Walker Drive, Beardstown, 

was arrested about 1:40 a.m. Saturday on charges of possession 

of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia. 

• Michael A. Bergman, 18, of 803 W. College Ave. was 

arrested about 12:45 p.m. Saturday on a charge of theft. 

• Brian S. Arthur, 29, of 320 S. Front St., Virginia, was arrested 

about 3:40 p.m. Saturday on a Morgan County warrant 

accusing him of failing to appear in court on a charge of 

criminal damage to property and a Cass County warrant accusing 

him of failing to appear in court and pay fi nes on a 

charge of criminal damage to property. 

Gov. Quinn signs law to 

foster government openness 

WHEATON (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation 

to improve the public’s access to information about 

government meetings. 

The law requires public bodies holding an open meet- 

Thank you to my family and friends who remembered my 

birthday. I did so enjoy hearing from long time friends. 

Thank you also for phone calls and the beautiful flowers. 

God’s blessings to you all. 

Vermalee Carlton 

June 15th was just six months and three days after his wife 

of 62 years passed on. My father, Gene Delaney went home 

to be with the Lord, Joan, his wife, and all his family and 

friends who had gone one before to their Heavenly home. I 

would like to thank all those wonderful, giving people 

who made my father’s life more bearable in those last 

months through very trying times. His doctors who he 

knew and trusted for 35 years and their staff who had a 

smile and cherry hello each time he came for his 

appointments. For the “Hardy Bunch” that dad and Joan 

were charter members, who never failed to gather each day 

ad Hardee’s. Although dad as unable to join them the last 

few days of his life, after Joan’s passing, because of his 

deteriorating condition, his good friends were always on 

his mind and in his heart. Thank you to the rescue squad, 

police officers, fire department, paramedics that responded 

many times and especially the last time, thank you for your 

dedication, respect and gentleness you showed to my 

father. Dad knew most of you on a first name basis. To 

those staff members at Passavant Area Hospital who never 

left my side during my hour of need. The doctor and head 

nurse and many staff members too numerous to mention, I 

will always be indebted to you. To Rev. Leonard Pinney 

and Rev. Patsy Kelley, you’ll never know what your 

support and kindness meant to me. And to Brittany Eilers 

and the “Cody boys” at Cody Buchanan Funeral Home, 

again thank you. Dad will be sorely missed. 

RJ Henne (daughter), James Macrander (great, great 

nephew) Joni Walmsley of Decatur (niece) and the 

Walmsley/Delaney Family 

Thanks to all who made my 90th birthday so special. To 

family for planning this special occasion, all the many 

cards, my church family and so much more. 

Betty L. Ward 

We would like to thank all of those who touched her life in 

her last days. Those who sent cards, for prayers, made 

phone calls, and visits from family, Rev. Robin Lyons, 

church family and friends. We would like to give special 

thanks to her care givers Barbara Wernsman and Georgia 

Sweeten, and Memorial Hospice. (Amy Lonergan R.N. 

and Chaplain John Nelson.) We are so grateful for the 

outpouring of love displayed at the time of the loss our 

Mother. We are grateful for the cards, floral displays, food, 

and the memorials given in Mom’s name. Each act of 

kindness was very much appreciated, and helped comfort 

us with great peace. God’s blessings to each and everyone 

of you. 

The family of Virginia M . Wisdom 

The Family of Allan J. “Al” Tapscott would like to thank 

everyone for their prayers, cards, letters, emails, food and 

support during his recent passing. We would like to thank 

his “extended” family the Brahler’s Trucking Supply Co. 

where he worked for 38 years for all their help and 

support. We would like to thank David McCollum and 

Marcy Patterson, from the Morgan County Coroner’s 

office, Lt. Chad Moore and Sgt. Adam Mefford and their 

crew for their assistance and compassion. We could not 

have made it through their ordeal without the help and 

support of our dear friends, David A. Smith and Danny 

Davison who were always there for us when we needed 

them. 

Elsie Tapscott, David L. Tapscott, Joe and Sue Tapscott, 

Matt, Luke and Nick Tapscott 

I wish to thank the ambulance crew and neighbors who 

helped me get to the hospital recently, the emergency room 

personnel, doctors, and nurses in surgery. Many thanks for 

the caring attention in the Transitional Care Unit. I believe 

it was a wonderful place to be when I needed their care. 

Also thanks to my family, friends, and neighbors who 

thoughtfully sent food, cards, flowers, and kindness during 

this time. Thanks to the Physical Therapy Clinic for their 

care after my hospital stay. 

Delores Barber 

REGIONAL RECORD 

POLICE BEAT 

FROM OFFICIAL REPORTS OF PUBLIC RECORD 

IN BRIEF 

South Jacksonville Police 


• Summer L. James, 28, of 1248 McGlasson Road, 

Merrit, was arrested about 10:30 p.m. Friday on charges 

of driving with a suspended license, operation of an uninsured 

motor vehicle and driving with a suspended registration. 

• Offi cers arrested two men in the 1800 block of 

South Main Street about 12:40 a.m. Saturday evening. 

Lucas K. Orris, 27, of 2461 McCurley Ave., Franklin, 

was arrested on a charge of contributing to the delinquency 

of a minor and Michael J. Cooley, 19, of 5 Mayfi 

eld Drive was arrested on a charge of illegal consumption 

of alcohol by a minor. 

Sangamon County 

New Berlin Fire Department 

• A Mini Cooper being towed by a motor home 

caught fi re about 3:10 p.m. Saturday while going eastbound 

on Interstate 72. 

The fi re was fully involved when New Berlin fi refi ghters 

arrived to the scene. It caught some grass on fi re and 

scorched the back of the motor home but, for the most 

part, the fi re was contained to the Mini Cooper. 

Firefi ghters have not yet determined the cause of the 

fi re, New Berlin Fire Chief Tom Wilson said. 

Nobody was injured. 

ing to post information on the gathering and its agenda 

on the Internet 48 hours before the event. 

Quinn signed the bill Thursday at the DuPage County 

building in Wheaton. 

The governor says the law “gives the public greater 

access to information and activities that impact their 

lives.” 

Quinn says the intent is to foster government openness 

and accountability. The law takes effect Jan. 1. 

Senators announce U.S. attorney 

screening committee 

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ two U.S. senators have 

named members of a screening committee that will help 

find the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of 

Illinois. Patrick Fitzgerald left the office at the end of 

June. 

Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk announced Thursday 

the committee will be co-chaired by David Coar, a 

former federal judge, and Mark Filip, a former deputy attorney 

general in the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Other members are former federal prosecutor Zaldwaynaka 

“Z” Scott, former federal prosecutor Christina 

Egan, former federal defender program chief Terence 

MacCarthy and Boeing Company chief counsel Lawrence 

Oliver II. 

The committee will recommend candidates to Durbin 

and Kirk, who will submit names to the White House. It 

takes several months for confirmation once a president’s 

nomination goes to the Senate. 

New law lets jurors turn down pay 

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — People who serve on juries in 

Illinois are now required to accept small payments for their 

time, but that’s about to change. 

Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Friday that gives jurors 

the option of refusing the money if they don’t need it. 

The law takes effect in January. 

Current law requires counties to pay jurors from $4 a 

day to $17.20. They can also get money for mileage and 

child care. 

But the lawmaker behind the change, Democratic Sen. 

Susan Garrett, says some people don’t want to take the 

money, especially when local governments are struggling. 

Anyone with information about these or other crimes can 

call the appropriate Crimestoppers number. Callers can be 

anonymous; a reward of as much as $1,000 will be paid for 

information leading to an arrest. 

Crimestoppers of Morgan and Scott Counties 

Submit tips at www.morganscottcrimestoppers.webs. 

com, by calling (217) 243-7300 or by text messaging 

CRIMES (274637) with “payout” as the first word of the 

tip. 

• Crimestoppers is seeking information to assist the 

Jacksonville Police Department with its investigation of 

recent shooting. At 10:15 p.m. on July 13, someone fired 

four shots into a residence in the 400 block of South Mauvaisterre 

Street. Although people were inside the residence 

at the time, no one was injured. 

Schuyler County Crimestoppers 

Call (217) 322-3326. 

• Crimestoppers is seeking information to assist the 

Schuyler County Sheriff’s Department with its investigation 

of a burglary and theft at a cabin on Sayers Lane in 

Browning Township. 

The owner reported on June 15 that items had been stolen 

from his family’s hunting cabin next to Sugar Creek. 

On June 14 or early the next day someone ransacked 

the cabin and took signs, posters and hunting artifacts. An 

orange construction sign with “men working” printed on 

it was stolen from underneath the cabin. The sign was fastened 

to a post. 

Wanted on warrants 

The following are being sought on arrest warrants, according 

to the various sheriff’s departments. The address- 

HARBIN, VANCIL E. 

11 a.m. Monday, Trinity 

Lutheran Church in 

Arenzville. Trinity Cemetery. 

The family will meet 

friends from 5-7 p.m. today 

at Williamson Funeral 

Home in Jacksonville. 

CRIME SEEN 

T O D A Y ’ S 

obituaries 

GRACE MARIE SHEPHERD LITTLE, 95, of Patterson, 

died Friday July 20, 2012, at Passavant Area Hospital 

in Jacksonville. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. 

Wednesday at Mackey Daws Funeral Home in Winchester, 

with burial at Winchester City Cemetery. Visitation 

will be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home 

where the family will meet friends from 5-8 p.m. 

Grace Marie Shepherd Little 

1916 - 2012 

•PATTERSON• 

Grace Marie Shepherd Little, 95, of Patterson, the last 

to remain of the John and Tamsy (Evans) Shepherd family, 

peacefully passed away Friday July 20th, 

at the Passavant Area Hospital with her 

family at her side. 

She was born Sept. 8, 1916, in Scott 

County, near Winchester. Grace married 

Clarence Wilson Little on Nov. 

5, 1934, in Jacksonville. He preceded 

her in death after 75 years of marriage. 

Surviving four children, Jerry (wife, 

Carol) of Patterson, Lonnie (wife, Susan) 

of Glasgow, Sue (husband, Kevin) Cadwell 

and Rod (wife, Rogenia), all of Winchester; 15 grandchildren; 

29 great grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild. 

She was preceded in death by one son, Dan (surviving 

wife, Pauline of New Canton); and eight siblings, 

Mary Day, Mable Simmons, Mildred Hardy, Eileen Hardister, 

Clarence “Bud” Shepherd, Russell Shepherd, Anna- 

Belle Shepherd and Ray Shepherd. 

Grace was a member of Sandridge Baptist Church of 

rural Winchester for 82 years, where she was a Sunday 

school teacher for many years. She dearly loved the Lord 

and always read her Bible. Some of her most precious and 

fond memories were with her large family of 70. She loved 

cooking for her family and is most known for her famous 

homemade buns. She also enjoyed singing songs and telling 

stories. 

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at 

the Mackey Daws Funeral Home in Winchester, with interment 

at the Winchester City Cemetery. Visitation will 

be after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with family 

meeting friends from 5-8 p.m. Memorials are suggested 

to Sandridge Baptist Church. Condolences may be left online 

at www.mackeydaws.com. 

U P C O M I N G 

services 

THOMAS, LARRY OTIS 

10 a.m. Monday, Williamson 

Funeral Home 

in Jacksonville. Graveside 

services, noon Monday 

at Camp Butler National 

Cemetery in Springfi 

eld. The family will meet 

friends from 1-3 p.m. today 

at the funeral home. 

Visit www.myjournalcourier.com to leave 

condolences and sign the guestbook. 

COURT DOCKET 

Morgan County court notes 

The following took place Thursday before Associate Judge 

Jeffery E. Tobin: 

• A conviction was entered against RICHARD C. 

ROSS, 26, of rural Carrollton on his admission June 7 to 

allegations in a second petition to revoke his court supervision 

on a 2008 misdemeanor charge of driving under the 

infl uence of a drug. 

es listed are the last known addresses provided by the 

warrants and may be outdated. 

Morgan County 

Call (217) 243-7300 

• LORI A. COLLINS, 44, of 2943 Normandy Road, Apt. 

2, Springfield, is wanted on a Morgan County warrant 

accusing her of failing to appear in court on charges of 

speeding and permitting an unauthorized person to drive. 

She is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. She 

has brown hair and green eyes. 

• KAYLA M. SHIRKEY, 29, of 325 W. 

Michigan Ave. is wanted on a Morgan County 

warrant accusing her of failing to appear 

for re-sentencing for violating her probation 

on a 2009 felony charge of unlawful possession, 

transportation or delivery of anhydrous 

ammonia. 

She is a white female, 5 feet 5 inches tall 

and weighs 120 pounds. She has blonde 

Shirkey 

hair and blue eyes. 

• JEREMIAH J. BOWMAN, 23, of 119 

Locust St., Carrollton, is wanted on a Morgan 

County warrant accusing him of failing 

to appear in court on charges of driving 

under the influence of alcohol and driving 

while license revoked. 

He is a white male, 5 feet, 8 inches tall 

and weighs 145 pounds. He has red hair 

and brown eyes. 

Bowman 

Pike County 

Call (217) 285-1500. 

• JOSEPH E. TEEL, 38, of rural Barry is being sought 

for arrest on a Pike County felony warrant.

Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Sunday, July 22, 2012 3 

STATE&REGION 

Child welfare agency starts layoffs 

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Hurt by 

deep budget cuts, Illinois’ child welfare 

agency began a round of layoffs 

Friday that will cut hundreds of jobs 

and “greatly reduce” its efforts to 

prevent neglect and abuse. 

The Department of Children and 

Family Services must fi nd ways to 

absorb nearly $86 billion in budget 

cuts, a reduction of 6.8 percent. 

Spokesman Kendall Marlowe 

said the agency will do that partly 

by cutting 375 jobs. In addition, 

250 administrative positions are being 

cut so that the same number of 

front-line caseworkers can be add- 

Quilts to be 

shown at JHS 

BY GREG OLSON 


Pieced, paper pieced and applique. 

These three types of quilts will 

all be on display at the upcoming 

River Country Quilt Show at Jacksonville 

High School. 

The show will be held from 10 

a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 

p.m. Saturday. Weekend admission 

is $5. 

The show will feature quilt appraisals 

by Hallye Bone of St. Louis, 

author of “Caring for Your Quilts;” 

displays of antique quilts, individual 

challenge blocks and local quilts; 

demonstrations; door prizes; a quilt 

raffl e; vendor booths; and voting for 

favorite quilts. 

In addition, Woodhaven Hospice 

in Jacksonville will have a concession 

stand at the quilt show. 

The show’s marketing manager, 

Barbara Suelter of Jacksonville, said 

quilting is growing in popularity. 

“Women and some men enjoy 

the color of the fabrics used in quilts, 

which is usually cotton,” Suelter 

said. “I think another reason quilting 

is popular is because you take 

just some plain fabric, cut it up into 

pieces, sew it back together and you 

have a beautiful picture. Quilting 

has changed over the years from being 

mostly utilitarian to being more 

works of art.” 

One of the features of the quilt 

show will be appraisals by Hallye 

Bone. 

“Hallye is a very experienced appraiser 

of quilts,” Suelter said. “She 

will talk to a person who brings in 

a quilt about how to maintain the 

quilt, whether it be cleaning, repairing 

or displaying the quilt. From my 

perspective, I think she is very thorough.” 

Suelter said quilt owners get appraisals 

for a variety of reasons, including 

insurance coverage. Many 

insurance adjusters don’t know the 

value of quilts and will rely on appraisals 

by certifi ed appraisers to 

determine a quilt’s value, she said. 

Appraisals are also made when 

quilts are sold, donated, shipped and 

entered in contests, as well as when 

estates are settled and simply out of 

curiosity. 

Quilt values are determined by 

condition, construction techniques, 

amount of quilting and distribution 

of quilting stitches, hand or machine 

quilting, artistic concepts, an artist’s 

resume and provenance or history 

of the quilt. 

For a quilt appraisal appointment 

at the show, call (217) 245-5445. 

Another feature of the show will 

be bed turnings, which will be at 

11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 

Bed turnings are the display of 

antique quilts, which are those 50 

years old or older. 

“During the bed turnings, we lay 

multiple quilts on a bed and then 

each is held up and a story, provided 

by the owner, is told to the audience,” 

Suelter said. 

This quilt was pieced together 

in 2011-12 from individual 

challenge blocks made by 

Jacksonville area quilters. 

AP PHOTO/BARBARA SUELTER 

ed, he said. 

That will require slashing most 

of the agency’s work that isn’t required 

by law or court order — primarily 

prevention efforts and services 

to troubled families where safety 

concerns aren’t severe enough to 

warrant removing a child. 

“We’re having to greatly reduce 

the scope of those,” Marlowe told 

The (Springfi eld) State Journal-Register. 

Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed budget 

money for the operation of two state 

prisons, and wants legislators to 

shift it to DCFS in the fall veto ses- 

sion, although there has been no 

sign of support for that move. 

The American Federation of 

State, County and Municipal Employees 

criticized Quinn for planning 

layoffs that will be offi cial by 

Oct. 1 when legislators won’t have 

any chance to consider restoring 

money until November. 

“There is no sound reason for 

the governor to make these reckless 

cuts to child protection,” Henry 

Bayer, executive director of AFSC- 

ME Council 31, said in a statement. 

Bayer said the cuts mean DCFS 

will be “abandoning work that pre- 

Hydration is key 

A field of soybeans near Meredosia receives much needed hydration Saturday. 

Many South J’ville streets need to 

be cleared for road work Tuesday 

(J-C) — Several streets in South Jacksonville must 

be cleared of vehicles Tuesday to accommodate road 

maintenance. 

Vehicles parked on Coronado Street from Diamond 

to Orlando, the east end of Pendik, all streets in 

Greenwood Estates, Hamilton Drive, Clay Street between 

East Pennsylvania and East Greenwood, West 

Michigan Avenue from the south side of Diamond to 

Dixon Storage, and Lincoln Avenue from West Greenwood 

to the backside of Prairieland, must be moved 

off the street by 10 a.m. 

Vehicles that remain on the street will be towed at 

the owner’s expense. 

The road maintenance work is scheduled to be 

completed by 4 p.m. Tuesday. 

Cass County Council on Aging 

offi ce relocates to Second Street 

(J-C) — The Cass County Council on Aging has relocated 

its offi ce to 121 E. Second St. in Beardstown. 

The Council on Aging’s new location is in the same 

building as the Illinois River Valley Transit. By bringing 

the two offi ces into the same physical space, both 

agencies will be able to assure yearly grant money and 

IN BRIEF 

vents child abuse, keeps families together, 

saves taxpayers money and 

stops harm to kids before it starts.” 

Nearly 600 layoff notices are being 

sent out, although some of those 

people will end up with some of the 

250 caseworker jobs that are being 

added. 

Director Richard Calica said in a 

letter to DCFS staff that he understands 

the layoffs are a tremendous 

blow. 

“In a field where we strive to 

help others in need, we now find 

ourselves in need of understanding 

and support,” Calica said. 

continue to accommodate clients, offi cials said. 

The Council on Aging will continue to provide its 

clients with circuit breakers, Medicare enrollments, 

tax freeze applications and help with Medicare programs. 

For more information, call (217) 323-2929. 

Routt cheerleaders hosting camp 

(J-C) — The Routt Catholic cheerleaders will host 

a day camp next month aimed at young children wanting 

to follow in their footsteps. 

The camp from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 18. is open 

to any aspiring cheerleader in kindergarten through 

eighth grade. 

Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. for registration. At 3 

p.m., the parents will be invited to watch a review of 

the day’s work. 

The campers will be divided into three groups (K- 

2, 3-5, and 6-8) for the day’s activities. The day will consist 

of a variety of classes including dance, sidelines, 

cheers and stunts. 

All camp participants are invited to cheer with the 

Routt Catholic cheerleaders at halftime during the 

Aug. 31 home football game, which starts at 7 p.m. 

The cost of camp is $30 a person. Please make 

checks payable to Routt Catholic High School. This 

fee includes a T-shirt to wear during the performance 

at the football game, a drink at lunch time and a snack. 

For more information, contact Meri Jones at (217) 

871-5036 or Abby Radcliffe at (217) 320-1811. 

House session called to vote on Smith expulsion 

Chicago Democrat faces federal charges of bribery 

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — When 

the Illinois House convenes next 

month to consider expelling a 

member charged with bribery, legislators 

should also use the occasion 

to decide what to do about the 

state’s troubled pension systems, 

Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday. 

Speaker Michael Madigan notifi 

ed House members Friday that 

the chamber will convene Aug. 17. 

He told them to expect their work 

to be fi nished the same day. 

Madigan did not spell it out in 

his memo, but a spokesman for 

the Chicago Democrat confi rmed 

the purpose of the session will be 

deciding the fate of Rep. Derrick 

Smith, D-Chicago. Smith faces federal 

charges of accepting a bribe in 

exchange for agreeing to steer a 

state contract to a day care center. 

He pleaded not guilty. 

A special House committee rec- 

ommended Thursday that Smith 

be removed from office, a move 

that requires a two-thirds vote by 

the full House. If he is ousted, it 

would be the fi rst time in a century 

that a House member was expelled. 

Smith would remain on the fall 

ballot, however, and could end up 

being re-elected. 

Quinn has been hinting that 

he might call legislators back to 

Springfield to address pensions, 

an issue that has been on hold all 

summer. The governor said the 

Aug. 17 session offers a good opportunity. 

“I think that’s a good time to roll 

up our sleeves and get to work on 

the pension issue,” he said Friday 

at a public appearance. 

The retirement systems for 

state employees, university staff 

and teachers outside Chicago are 

JOURNAL-COURIER/ROBERT LEISTRA 

in woeful financial shape. Their 

long-term obligations exceed the 

money available by roughly $85 

billion. The cost of trying to keep 

that hole from growing larger is 

eating up most of the state’s new 

revenues, leaving little for other 

important services. 

There seems to be general support 

in the Legislature for cutting 

pension costs by reducing cost-ofliving 

increases for retirees. But 

Democratic leaders also want to 

make schools gradually take over 

the cost of providing pensions for 

teachers. 

Republicans have balked at that 

idea, and there has been no movement 

on the issue in weeks. 

Senate President John Cullerton, 

D-Chicago, doesn’t plan to 

call the Senate into session when 

the House meets, said spokesman 

Ronald Holmes. He suggests the 

House pass a version of the pension 

plan that the Senate has already 

approved. 

DAILY 

UPDATE 

SUNDAY 

u SUNDAY SACK 

LUNCH, 12:30 p.m. at 

Congregational United 

Church of Christ, 520 W. 

College Ave. For those in 

need. 

u WOODLAWN FARM 

TOURS, 1-4 p.m. at Woodlawn 

Farm, 1463 Gierke 

Lane. $4. Sponsored by 

the Underground Railroad 

Committee. 

u JACKSONVILLE ROTA- 

RY CLUB FERRIS WHEEL 

OPEN, 4-6 p.m. at Jacksonville 

Community Park, 

S. Main St. and W. Morton 

Ave. 

u BINGO, 4:45 p.m. at 

Jacksonville American Legion, 

903 W. Superior Ave. 

u LAND OF LINCOLN 

CHORUS, 6 p.m. at Jacksonville 

Community Park, 

S. Main St. and W. Morton 

Ave. Live music. Part 

of the Jacksonville Pilot 

Club’s “Concerts in the 

Park” series. 

u ASHLAND: BLUE- 

GRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL, 

10 a.m. at Crazy Horse 

Campground, Crazy 

Horse Road. Sunday only, 

$5. Musicians include 

Mississippi Sawyers, The 

Harmans, the New Town 

Band, Chris Talley Trio. 

(217) 886-2089. 

u CHAMBERSBURG: VA- 

CATION BIBLE SCHOOL 

— ADVENTURES ON 

PROMISE ISLAND, 6- 

8 p.m. at Chambersburg 

Christian Church, 102 S. 

Main St. Free. For age 3 

through 8th grade. (217) 

327-4373. 

u MOUNT STERLING: 

SWEET CORN FESTIVAL, 

2 p.m. at Ridge View Winery, 

Co. Road 200N. $7. 

Barrington Wildfi re, 2- 

5 p.m. Sunday. (217) 289- 

3300. 

u RUSHVILLE: RUSH- 

VILLE COMMUNITY 

BAND, 7 p.m. at Rushville 

Central Park. Bring your 

own lawn chair. (217) 322- 

2066. 

u VIRGINIA: FARMERS’ 

MARKET, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 

at Virginia Sunday Market, 

142 E. Beardstown St. 

(217) 370-2070. 

u WINCHESTER: 

“BLESSING OF THE ANI- 

MALS” SERVICE, 3 p.m. 

at Winchester United 

Methodist Church, 20 N. 

Walnut St. The Rev. Robin 

Lyons will say a blessing 

over each animal brought 

to the service. (217) 742- 

3610. 

STATE LOTTERY 

Pick Three-Midday 

4-8-7 

Pick Three-Evening 

5-4-4 

Pick Four-Midday 

8-4-0-8 

Pick Four-Evening 

1-6-9-7 

Lucky Day Lotto 

3-10-13-31-36 

Estimated Lucky Day 

Lotto Jackpot 

$150,000 

Lotto 

11-14-18-20-25-49 

Estimated Lotto 

Jackpot 

$3,000,000 

Powerball 

9-31-38-54-56 [20] 

Estimated Powerball 

Jackpot 

$110,000,000 

Estimated Mega 

Millions Jackpot 

$45,000,000


MONDAY 

• “Starting Your Business in Illinois,” 

9-11 a.m. at Jacksonville Chamber of 

Commerce, 155 W. Morton Ave. Pre-registration 

required, 245-2174. 

• Salvation Army lunch, 11:45 a.m.- 

12:30 p.m. at Salvation Army, 331 W. Douglas 

Ave. For those in need. 

• Soup kitchen open, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 

at Spirit of Faith Soup Kitchen, N. Main St. Polly, 

371-6363. 

• Habitat for Humanity home building, 

5-8 p.m. at North Diamond and Freedman 

streets. Volunteers welcome. (217) 204-1245. 

• Jacksonville NAACP open meeting, 

7 p.m. at Municipal Building, 200 W. 

Douglas Ave. 

• Yoga, 7 p.m. at Passavant Area Hospital, 

1600 W. Walnut St. 

• ASHLAND: Gardening lesson for 

children, 10 a.m. at Prairie Skies Public Library 

District — Ashland, 125 W. Editor St. The 

program also will be at 1 p.m. at the Pleasant 

Plains branch. (217) 626-1553. 

• CARROLLTON: Lead screening 

for children, 9 a.m. at Greene County 

Health Department, 310 Fifth St. For children 

6 months to 6 years old. By appointment, 

(217) 942-6961. 

TUESDAY 

• Farmers’ market, 7 a.m. at Lincoln 

Square Shopping Center, 901 W. Morton Ave. 






371-6363. 

• Bingo, 5 p.m. at Moose Lodge, 901 W. Superior 

Ave. 6:30. Doors open at 5. 

• CPR: BLS healthcare provider 

class, 5:30 p.m. at Passavant meeting room 4, 

1600 W. Walnut St. (217) 245-9541, ext. 3296. 

• Pajama story time, 7 p.m. at Our 

Town Books, 64 E. Central Park. Topic: Sports 

and Olympics stories. 

DATEBOOK 

MEETINGS CALENDAR FOR CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS 

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 

Meetings are nonsmoking. The only requirement 

is a desire to stop drinking. 

“Open” meetings are open to anyone. 371- 

0638 or www.jacksonvilleaa.org. 

JACKSONVILLE LOCATIONS: 

n FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 1701 

Mound Ave. Wheelchair-accessible. 

n CLUB HOWS, 638 S. Church St. 

n WELLS CENTER, 1300 Lincoln Ave. 

Wheelchair-accessible. 

Sunday 

n CLOSED 12 & 12 DISCUSSION, 8 

p.m. at Club Hows. “12&12 Group.” 

n BEARDSTOWN: CLOSED DISCUS- 

SION, 10:30 a.m. at Merritt Hall, 1301 

Monroe St. 

n SPRINGFIELD: ALCOHOLICS ANON- 

YMOUS FOR WOMEN, 10 a.m. at Discovery 

Club, 313 W. Cook St. Open to all 

women who want to be alcohol-free and 

drug-free. 

Monday 

n CLOSED DISCUSSION, noon at Club 

Hows. 

n CLOSED DISCUSSION, 8 p.m. at First 

Baptist Church. “Bowen Group.” 

n CLOSED DISCUSSION, 8 p.m. at Club 

Hows. 

n BEARDSTOWN: CLOSED DISCUS- 

SION, 8 p.m. at Merritt Hall, 1301 Monroe 

St. 

• WHITE HALL: Children’s reading 

program, 2:30-3:30 p.m. at White Hall Township 

Public Library, 119 E. Sherman St. 

WEDNESDAY 

• Jacksonville Christian Women’s 

Connection brunch and program, 9- 

11 a.m. at Hamilton’s 110 NE, 110 N. East St. 

$10. Speaker: Donna Sembar on “How to Have 

Peace of Mind in Diffi cult Times”; she also will 

demonstrate the art of wall decor and murals. 

Pre-registration is required. (217) 673-4491. 




• Salvation Army Food Pantry 

weekly commodity distribution, 1:15- 


Ave. Proof of residency required. 245-7124. 



371-6363. 

• Woodlawn Farm tours, 1-4 p.m. at 

Woodlawn Farm, 1463 Gierke Lane. $4. Sponsored 

by the Underground Railroad Committee. 

• Governor Duncan mansion tours, 

1-4 p.m. at Governor Duncan Mansion, 4 Duncan 

Place. Sponsored by the Rev. James Caldwell 

Chapter NSDAR. Learn about Duncan and the 

War of 1812. 

• Farmers’ Market on the Square, 4 

p.m. at Downtown Jacksonville, E. State St. and 

S. Mauvaisterre St. Sponsored by Jacksonville 

Main Street. 

• Habitat for Humanity home building, 

5-8 p.m. at North Diamond and Freedman 

streets. Volunteers welcome. (217) 204-1245. 

• Bingo, 6:30 p.m. at Jacksonville American 

Legion, 903 W. Superior Ave. 

• “Wings,” 7 p.m. at Jacksonville Public Library, 

201 W. College Ave. Silent fi lm. 

• Karaoke, 8 p.m. at Club 217, 224 E. State. 

(217) 271-1022. 

• Open mic, 8 p.m. at The Pulse Nightclub, 

1699 W. Morton Ave. 

• PITTSFIELD: Bible study for senior 

citizens, 9-10 a.m. at McDonald’s, 

524 W. Washington St. The life of David as de- 

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS 

All meetings are nonsmoking and open to 

anyone. 

Monday 

n NEW HOPE GROUP, “NEVER ALONE! 

NEVER AGAIN!” 7 p.m. at 510 W. Vandalia 

Road. Open discussion. 652-4988. 

OTHER MEETINGS 

Monday 

n ADDICTS VICTORIOUS, 7-8 p.m. at 

Faith Tabernacle, 571 Sandusky. Use side 

entrance to church hall. 

n CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST COALITION, 8 

p.m. at Jacksonville Public Library, 201 W. 

College Ave. 245-6153. 

n GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP, 

1-3 p.m. at Jacksonville Public Library, 201 

W. College Ave. 

n WEIGHT WATCHERS, 5:30 p.m. at Fitness 

World Health Club, 1521 W. Walnut. 

Weigh-in 30 minutes before meeting. 

(800) 651-6000. 

n BEARDSTOWN: BARIATRIC SUP- 

PORT GROUP, 7-8:30 p.m. at First Christian 

Church, 1421 Beard St. Bariatrics is 

the branch of medicine that deals with the 

causes, prevention and treatment of obesity. 

Ramona, 323-2762. 

n PITTSFIELD: ADDICTS VICTORIOUS, 

7-8 p.m. in the basement of Subway in 

Pittsfield. 1-800-323-1388. 

Court tells Disneyland to study Segway use 

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California 

appeals court told Disneyland it must 

consider allowing use of two-wheel Segways 

by disabled people. 

in Jacksonville 

in central Illinois 

Serving working people since 1935. 

Open membership available to all residents of Illinois. 

Unit 9 

1111 West Morton, Jacksonville 

245-4444 

THE WEEK AHEAD 

COMMUNITY CALENDAR 

Disneyland currently allows disabled 

visitors to use wheelchairs and scooters 

at the Anaheim theme park, but the justices 

of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 

in San Francisco said 

it’s time for “The Happiest 

Place on Earth” to study 

the idea of adding Segways. 

“We have every confi - 

dence that the organization 

that, half a century 

ago, brought us the Carousel 

of Progress and Great 

Moments with Mr. Lincoln 

can lead the way in using 

new technology to make 

its parks more welcoming 

to disabled guests,” Chief 

Judge Alex Kozinski wrote 

for the court. 

The case now returns 

to federal court in Santa 

Ana. 

picted in I and II Samuel will be explored. (217) 

285-6117. 

• ROODHOUSE: Bible study, 7 p.m. at 

House of Restoration, 208 E. Franklin St. 

THURSDAY 



• Gardening club for kids, 9 a.m. at 

Jacksonville Public Library, 201 W. College Ave. 

• Pathway Services Unlimited job 

fair, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 3-5 p.m. at Sophie Leschin 

Theatre, 1201 S. Main St. Positions include: 

Aide positions, QIDPS, supervisors, 

managers, residential program, retail shop. 

(217) 479-2300. 






371-6363. 

• Bingo, 6:45 p.m. at AMVETS, 210 E. 

Court St. 

• Country line dance class, 7:30 p.m. 

at Moose Lodge, 901 W. Superior Ave. Intermediate, 

6:30 p.m. Club meeting following regular 

class. 

• “Misfi ts: The Musical,” 7:30 p.m. 

at Sophie Leschin Theatre, 1201 S. Main St. 

Adults, $13; children under 12, $8. A group of 

pet shop animals faces demise at the hands of a 

greedy businesswoman. (217) 245-1402. 

• Gabe Marshall, 8 p.m. at Club 217, 224 

E. State. Live music. (217) 271-1022. 

• CARROLLTON: Driver’s license renewal 

mobile unit, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Carrollton 

City Hall, 621 S. Main St. Applicants 

must present two forms of identifi cation. (217) 

782-7044. 

• WINCHESTER: Rules of the Road 

review course, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Nimrod 

Funk Building, 401 N. Walnut St. 

FRIDAY 

• River Country quilt show, 10 a.m.- 

5 p.m. at Jacksonville High School, 1211 N. Di- 

A D V I C E 

Wife dresses sexy for work 

but not for wounded husband 

I have told her it bothers 

me, but she says I’m being silly 

and she just wants to look 

good for her management job. 

She’s constantly buying new 

outfi ts for work. This morning 

she left wearing a sexy short 

miniskirt and boots. 

She is an independent 

woman who does what she 

wants. I don’t spend my time 

trying to control her by any 

means. I trust her and seriously 

doubt there’s another man. But I 

feel this is a matter of her not respecting 

my feelings as her husband. Am I wrong? 

Is there something else going on here? I 

need your help. — LIKES HER SEXY IN 

CONNECTICUT 

DEAR LIKES HER SEXY: There’s 

something sad about the fact that your 

wife doesn’t want to put the same amount 

of effort into looking as good when she 

goes out with you as she does when she 

leaves for work. Rather than turning this 

into a power struggle, the next time you 

want to take her out looking sexy, ask her 

to just “throw on something she would 

wear to the offi ce” and see if you have better 

luck. 

DEAR ABBY: I am 18 and will be graduating 

in May of next year. Because I have 

always done well in school, my family expects 

me to go right off to a big-league 

college. 

Abby, I want to go to college, but not 

right away. (I am also not too fond of staying 

in dorms.) I want to be a zoologist, 

and plan on going to school for it, but I 

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• Karaoke, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. at E.T.’s Zodiac & 

Co., 1857 S. Main St. 243-6200. 






• RUSHVILLE: Gospel music concert, 

7 p.m. at Church of the Nazarene, 621 E. 

Washington St. Potluck, 6 p.m. (217) 491-5095. 

SATURDAY 



• Habitat for Humanity home 

building, 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. at North Diamond and 

Freedman streets. Volunteers welcome. (217) 

204-1245. 

• “Elementary Expo” and “Just 

Plain Dog Show,” 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Lincoln 


Activities, entertainment and prizes for gradeschoolers; 

dog contest for kids. 245-6121. 

• Pathway Services Unlimited job 

fair, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Sophie Leschin Theatre, 

1201 S. Main St. Positions include: Aide positions, 

QIDPS, supervisors, managers, residential 

program, retail shop. (217) 479-2300. 

• River Country quilt show, 10 a.m.- 

5 p.m. at Jacksonville High School, 1211 N. Diamond 

St. Quilt appraisal services available. 

(217) 602-0426. 

• 18M&M Foundation Charity Poker 

Run, 11 a.m. at Club 217, 224 E. State. $10. 

(217) 473-5563. 

• Saturday sack lunch, 12:15-1 p.m. at 

Congregational United Church of Christ, 520 W. 

College Ave. For those in need. 

• Pool tournament, 1 p.m. at Club 217, 

224 E. State. $10. (217) 271-1022. 

• Governor Duncan mansion tours, 

1-4 p.m. at Governor Duncan Mansion, 4 Duncan 

Place. Sponsored by the Rev. James Caldwell 

DEAR ABBY: 

I’m married to the love of my life. My wife is a beautiful woman, 50 years old, 

in great shape and she looks 35. My problem is whenever we go out, if I ask 

her to wear something sexy for me, she always says, “I’m too old to dress 

like that” and refuses. However, when she dresses for work, she spends hours on 

her appearance and dresses very sexy. 

DEAR ABBY 

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• Country line dance, 7-10 p.m. at 

Moose Lodge, 901 W. Superior Ave. 






• Karaoke, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. at E.T.’s Zodiac & 

Co., 1857 S. Main St. 243-6200. 

SUNDAY, JULY 29 

• Scott County Fair, 9 a.m. at Scott 

County Fairgrounds, Winchester. Livestock 

shows, carnival rides, live entertainment, vendor 

and concession stands. 

• Sunday sack lunch, 12:30 p.m. at 

Congregational United Church of Christ, 520 W. 

College Ave. For those in need. 




• “Misfi ts: The Musical,” 2 p.m. at Sophie 

Leschin Theatre, 1201 S. Main St. Adults, 

$13; children under 12, $8. A group of pet shop 

animals faces demise at the hands of a greedy 

businesswoman. (217) 245-1402. 

• Jacksonville Rotary Club Ferris 

wheel open, 4-6 p.m. at Jacksonville Community 

Park. 

• Bingo, 4:45 p.m. at Jacksonville American 

Legion, 903 W. Superior Ave. 

• Saved By Grace, 7 p.m. at Jacksonville 

Community Park. Part of the Jacksonville Pilot 

Club’s “Concerts in the Park” series. 

• Open mic with Stan, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. at 

Irish Toad, 304 S. Main St. 

• BEARDSTOWN: Immigration and 

citizenship workshop, 3-5:30 p.m. 

at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 W. 

Fourth St. (217) 323-4204. 

• VIRGINIA: Farmers’ Market, 11 

a.m.-2 p.m. at Virginia Sunday Market, 142 E. 

Beardstown St. (217) 370-2070. 

feel that my family is rushing 

me into college because they 

expect it of me. When I tell 

them my other interest is hairstyling, 

and I may want to take 

a year off to do that to save up 

money, they put me down and 

compare me to my successful 

college cousins. 

I want my family to be 

proud of me because I have 

worked hard in school. I only 

wish they would be just as 

proud of me if I maintained a nice job for a 

few years and then went to college. (I have 

been told if I choose that path, I will never 

go to college and I’ll never make good 

money.) 

They also blame my not wanting to 

go to college right away on my boyfriend 

of two years. I assure you, that is not the 

reason. I want to attend an in-state college, 

and I would still be able to see him. 

Do you have any advice? — SCHOOLED- 

OUT IN COLORADO 

DEAR SCHOOLED-OUT: The longer 

you delay college, the more distractions 

there will be and the harder it will be for 

you to go back. Yes, people do it. But juggling 

a job and going to school is more 

diffi cult than going to school full-time, and 

it takes longer to get the degree. I urge 

you to listen to your parents. They have 

your best interests at heart. 

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Police: Colo. suspect 

planned theater shooting 

for months, rigged 

apartment with bombs 

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado 

shooting suspect planned the rampage 

that killed 12 midnight moviegoers with 

“calculation and deliberation,” police said 

Saturday, receiving deliveries for months 

which authorities believe armed him for 

battle and were used to rig his apartment 

with dozens of bombs. 

Authorities on Saturday were still working 

to clear dangerous explosive materials 

from inside James Holmes’ suburban 

Denver apartment a day after police said 

he opened fire and set off gas canisters 

in a suburban theater minutes into the 

premiere of the Batman film “The Dark 

Knight Rises.” The attack left 12 dead and 

58 injured. 

His apartment was rigged with jars 

of liquids, explosives and chemicals that 

were booby trapped to kill “whoever entered 

it,” Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates 

said, noting it would have likely been one 

of his officers. 

“You think we’re angry? We sure as hell 

are angry,” Oates said. 

Authorities wouldn’t discuss a motive 

for one of the deadliest mass shootings in 

recent U.S. history, as makeshift memorials 

for the victims sprang up and relatives 

began to publicly mourn their loved ones. 

Holmes had recently withdrawn from a 

competitive graduate program in neuroscience; 

neighbors and former classmates in 

California have said he was a smart loner 

who said little. 

More on the Colorado shooting on Page 

20. 

Despite a string of 

high-profi le shootings, 

calls for gun control stir 

little support 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun control 

advocates sputter at their own impotence. 

The National Rifle Association is politically 

ascendant. And Barack Obama’s White 

House pledges to safeguard the Second 

Amendment in its first official response to 

the deaths of at least 12 people in a mass 

shooting at a new Batman movie screening 

in suburban Denver. 

Once, every highly publicized outbreak 

of gun violence produced strong calls 

PBS chief decries efforts 

to cut federal funding 

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — PBS President Paula 

Kerger said Saturday she’s disappointed public TV’s federal 

funding again is under attack by lawmakers. 

The move is ironic, she said, given the impressive number 

of Emmy Award nominations earned last week by PBS 

programs, including the popular drama “Downton Abbey.” 

PBS received 58 nods, second only to HBO and CBS. 

Public television gets 15 percent of its money from the 

federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with 

the rest largely contributed by viewers, Kerger told a meeting 

of the Television Critics Association. 

But some stations would lose more than half their money 

if funds are cut, and a number of them will be forced to 

“go dark,” she said. 

A loss of federal dollars “would eliminate public broadcasting 

in areas I know it’s tremendously used,” Kerger 

said. She cited a small Cookeville, Tenn., station that has 

done “an extraordinary job at being an archive for the culture 

in that community.” 

U.S. House Republicans have unveiled legislation aimed 

at cutting off federal funding for public TV television and 

National Public Radio. 

Air Force instructor convicted 

in sweeping Texas base 

sex scandal gets 20 years in prison 

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The women assaulted by their 

Air Force training instructor don’t sleep much these days 

and when they do, he sometimes haunts their dreams. 

They testified Saturday about being suddenly unable 

to relate to husbands, boyfriends and even fathers and 

brothers after they were sexually assaulted. One said her 

fear during a tour of duty in Afghanistan was heightened 

by soldiers who reminded her of her instructor, and she 

warned her younger sister not to enlist in the Air Force. 

Another said she’s now afraid to be behind closed doors 

with any man. 

Staff Sgt. Luis Walker was sentenced to 20 years in 

prison Saturday for crimes that included rape and sexual 

assault. He is among 12 instructors investigated for sexual 

misconduct toward at least 31 female trainees at one of the 

nation’s busiest military training centers. Six have been 

charged with crimes, and the counts against Walker were 

the most severe. He could have faced life in prison. 

Prosecutors say he used his position as a military trainer 

at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio to gain female 

recruits’ trust, and then he made illicit sexual advances. 

Walker’s court-martial included testimony from 10 women, 

one of whom wept as she described him luring her into his 

base office and sexually assaulting her on a bed, ignoring 

her pleas to stop. 

Walker showed little emotion as the sentence was 

read, but he appeared to have tears on his face later as 

he gazed at his wife, Yeimi. Both had cried earlier, while 

asking the military jury for leniency and a shorter sentence 

so that he would be able to spend time with his two 

sons, ages 7 and 4. 


WORLD&NATION 

AP, THE DENVER POST/HYOUNG CHANG 

A mother and her children bring flowers to the memorial for the shooting 

victims Saturday in Aurora, Colo. Twelve people were killed and dozens 

were injured in the attack early Friday at the packed theater during 

a showing of the movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.” in Aurora, Colo. Police 

have identified the suspected shooter as James Holmes, 24. 

from Democrats and a few Republicans for 

tougher controls on firearms. 

Now those pleas are muted, a political 

paradox that’s grown more pronounced 

in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia 

Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman 

and now the shooting in a suburban movie 

theater where carnage is expected onscreen 

only. 

“We don’t want sympathy. We want action,” 

Dan Gross, president of the Brady 

campaign said Friday as President Barack 

Obama and Republican challenger Mitt 

Romney mourned the dead. 

Ed Rendell, the former Democratic 

governor of Pennsylvania, was more emphatic 

than many in the early hours after 

the shooting. “Everyone is scared of the 

NRA,” he said on MSNBC. “Number one, 

there are some things worth losing for in 

politics and to be able to prevent carnage 

like this is worth losing for.” 

Syrian uprising reaches 

Aleppo as rebels target 

pillars of regime power 

BEIRUT (AP) — Riding a wave of 

momentum, Syrian rebels made a run 

on Aleppo Saturday in some of the fiercest 

fighting seen in the country’s largest 

city, which has been a key bastion of support 

for President Bashar Assad over the 

course of the 17-month-old uprising. 

The rebels also took over a third border 

crossing — and the second one along 

Syria’s frontier with Iraq — another sign 

the regime’s tight grip on the country is 

wobbling. 

The fighting in Aleppo comes on the 

heels of intense clashes in the capital, Damascus, 

as rebel forces target the pillars of 

regime power in their attempts to usher in 

what they hope will be the end of Assad’s 

rule. 

“There were huge explosions and the 

gunfire didn’t stop for several hours,” 

Aleppo-based activist Mohammad Saeed 

told The Associated Press via Skype. “The 

uprising has finally reached Aleppo.” 

The city has remained largely loyal to 

Assad and been spared the kind of daily 

bloodshed that has plagued other areas. 

Spokeswoman: Murdoch 

resigns from multiple 

News Corp. boards 

LONDON (AP) — Media mogul Rupert 

Murdoch has resigned as a director of a 

number of News Corp. boards overseeing 

his Britain newspapers, a spokeswoman 

confirmed Saturday. He also quit from some 

of the media company’s subsidiary boards 

in the United States. 

Murdoch stepped down this past week 

as a director of NI Group, Times Newspaper 

Holdings and News Corp. Investments 

in the U.K., said Daisy Dunlop, spokeswoman 

for News Corp.’s British arm, News 

International. The companies oversee The 

Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times. 

It was not immediately clear which of 

News Corp.’s U.S. boards Murdoch had left. 

Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, which first 

reported the news late Saturday, said those 

details had not yet been disclosed by the US 

Securities and Exchange Commission. 

News International sought to play down 

the significance of the resignations, saying 

in a statement that “this is nothing more 

than a corporate housecleaning exercise 

prior to the company split.” 

That was a reference to News Corp.’s 

announcement June 28 that it would separate 

its publishing business, which includes 

The Wall Street Journal, from its much 

more profitable media and entertainment 

business — forming two distinct, publicly 

traded companies. Under those proposed 

changes, Murdoch, 81, will chair both of the 

companies, although he would continue as 

chief executive of the media and entertainment 

company only. 

Gay pride parade 

features troops marching 

for fi rst time in uniform 

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Some of the loudest 

cheers Saturday at San Diego’s gay 

pride parade were for active-duty troops 

marching in military dress, the first time 

that U.S. service members participated in 

such an event while in full uniform. 

Dozens of soldiers, sailors, and Marines 

marched alongside an old Army 

truck decorated with a “Freedom to 

Serve” banner and a rainbow flag. They 

were joined by dozens more military personnel 

in civilian clothes, but the uniforms 

stood out among the flower-bedecked 

floats and scantily clad revelers. 

Spectators waved signs reading, 

“Thank you for your service.” A woman 

held a placard that said: “My gay son is a 

Naval officer.” 

“Today is so important,” said Navy Lt. 

Brian McKinney, who marched with his 

civilian partner, Hunter Hammonds. “It’s 

about putting on my uniform and taking 

pride in my service, my fellow servicemembers, 

my family and myself. It’s something 

I’m incredibly thankful for.” 

In a memorandum sent to all its branches 

this year, the Defense Department said 

it was making the allowance for the San 

Diego event even though its policy generally 

bars troops from marching in uniform 

in parades.


Scholarship 

death shows 

change tough, 

but possible 

WOLF FUHRIG 

economic and political problems. 

Today, 14 years later, Yemen has 

a population of roughly 25 million, of 

whom 43 percent are below age 14, 

but only 2.6 percent older than 65. 

Life expectancy at birth has remained 

low compared to other developing 

countries: 60.6 years for males and 

64.5 years for females, or 62.5 years 

overall. The fertility rate is almost 6.5 

children per woman. 

Similar to developments in Tunisia 

and Egypt, mass protests in Yemen 

began in early 2011 and continued 

into May, mostly against unemployment, 

poverty, corruption and the 

33 years of dictatorial rule by the 

President Saleh. There were mass 

defections from the military and the 

government. 

During mortar shelling of the 

presidential palace by revolutionaries 

on June 3, 2011, the president was 

injured and at least fi ve people killed. 

The next day, Vice President Abd 

al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi took over as 

acting president while Saleh fl ew to 

Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. 

It took until Nov. 23 before Saleh 

signed an agreement, brokered by 

the Gulf Cooperation Council in 

Riyadh, under which he transferred 

his power to his vice president within 

30 days and would leave his post 

as president by February 2012, in 

exchange for immunity from prosecution. 

A subsequent nationwide election 

confi rmed al-Hadi as president. 

Fair-sided reporting 

on health-care law 

appreciated 

To the editor: 

Thank you for the July 16 lead article 

on the new health-care law. I hope 

it is just the beginning of fair-sided 

reporting on this complicated piece of 

legislation. 

Both Senator Durbin and Treasurer 

Judy Baar Topinka talk in politicalese. 

Mr. Durbin states “the government” 

will pay 100 percent of the cost. By 

2020, our state government will pay 10 

COMMENTARY 

The long-maligned 

legislative scholarship 

program is dead 

— brought to an end last week 

after Gov. Pat Quinn signed 

the bill that fi nally passed both 

houses of the General Assembly. 

There have been generations of 

reporters who have reported abuses 

of the scholarship program and 

many editorial pages, including the 

one you are reading, that have railed 

about how it is/was an unnecessary 

and often-abused legislative perk. 

The practice has been in existence 

for more than 100 years. 

When I spent several weeks in Yemen in 1998, it was a country of 16 million 

Arabs made up of more than a dozen fi ercely independent tribes, Sunni and 

Shiite sects, diverse political ideologies — from anti-Western socialists to 

pro-Western capitalists ruled by a dictator, General Ali Abdullah Saleh. 

In 1998, Yemen appeared chaotic and diffi cult to govern due to its endemic social, 

On Jan. 14, 2010, Yemen’s government 

declared an open war on 

al-Qaida while it was also battling 

a Shiite insurgency in the north 

and separatists in the south. Since 

January, 21 attacks by U.S. drones, 

remotely piloted unmanned aerial 

vehicles, have targeted al-Qaida suspects 

in Yemen and killed dozens of 

innocent bystanders, a sharp escalation 

in a secret war carried out by the 

Central Intelligence Agency. 

Christof Heyns, the UN special 

rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, 

stressed that a marked radicalization 

of the local population has become an 

unintended consequence of the drone 

attacks. 

According to the Washington Post, 

the evidence of this radicalization 

emerged in more than 20 interviews 

with tribal leaders, victims’ relatives, 

human rights activists, and offi cials 

FROM OUR READERS 

percent of the federal costs plus its 50 

percent share. 

My only question to the both of 

them is where does this government 

money come from? It comes from us 

— average Joe Citizen, in the form of 

increased taxes, penalties, and fees we 

all pay and will pay more of because of 

this health-care law. In my lifetime, I 

have yet to see a federal or state entitlement 

program cost less than what our 

elected offi cials indicated. 

Until we the people stop our 

ridiculous legislature and Washington 

bureaucrats from spending our money 

and borrowing from our future generations, 

we have no one to blame but 

ourselves. 

We could bemoan that despite 

these apparent issues, the General 

Assembly dithered for years before 

fi nally succumbing to public pressure 

and putting an end to it. But 

this is a time for celebrating the end 

of a much-abused perk. 

Quinn deserves credit for insisting 

the General Assembly pass the 

legislation. Two years ago, Quinn 

vetoed a phony reform bill, saying it 

wasn’t good enough. 

Credit also goes to Senate Minority 

Leader Christine Radogno, 

R-Lemont, for forcing Senate President 

John Cullerton to move the bill 

out of committee. 

For years Cullerton and House 

Speaker Michael Madigan had managed 

to keep a bill ending the scholarship 

program from getting passed 

Troubling changes in Yemen 

from four provinces in southern Yemen. 

They described a strong shift 

in favor of the militants affi liated with 

the transnational network’s most 

active wing, al-Qaida in the Arabian 

Peninsula. 

“The drone strikes have not 

helped either the United States or 

Yemen,” said sultan al-Barakani, who 

was a top adviser to Saleh. “Yemen is 

paying a heavy price, losing its sons. 

But the Americans are not paying the 

same price.” 

Worse yet, “hundreds of tribesmen 

have joined al-Qaida in the Arabian 

Peninsula in the fi ght against the 

U.S.-backed Yemeni government.” 

Christof Heyns told the British 

Guardian that the U.S. policy of using 

drones to carry out targeted killings 

presents a major challenge to the 

system of international law that has 

endured since the Second World War. 

The CIA’s attacks in Pakistan, Yemen 

and elsewhere would also encourage 

other states to fl out long-established 

standards of human rights. 

In his strongest critique yet of 

the American drone strikes, Heyns 

suggested that some of these sneak 

attacks may even constitute “war 

crimes.” 

Wolf D. Fuhrig, a professor emeritus 

of political science and criminal 

justice, has been a columnist since 

1983. This and other articles by him 

can be found online at www.independentcritic.com. 

Our lack of interest and participation 

in our political process gives politicians 

“play money” and a “Get Out of 

Jail Free” card every time. 

D. Michael Watkins 

Jacksonville 

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by both chambers. Legislators were 

allowed at different times to vote 

against the perk and then kept using 

it because the “other chamber” had 

failed to approve the bill. 

But the day fi nally came when 

the problem could be ignored no 

longer. 

Even on the day before the 

bill signing, it was reported that 

federal prosecutors had subpoenaed 

records about scholarships 

awarded by Sen. Annazette Collins, 

D-Chicago. There are ongoing 

investigations into other legislators 

who awarded scholarships to people 

outside of their districts. When the 

group ChicagoTalks.org examined 

six years of scholarship records, 

it found that as many as 61 were 

awarded to folks living outside of 

World starting 

to wear out all 

around me 

JILL PERTLER 

used to be. 

The wearing out I’m talking about isn’t in reference to 

body parts. It’s regarding replacement parts — of the mechanical 

variety. Like refrigerators. Clothes dryers. Microwave 

ovens. Computers. Cell phones. 

Our fridge is sputtering and puttering on its last drops of 

Freonic energy. The clothes dryer screams bloody murder 

every time I hit the power button. The microwave has been 

zapped of its zap. The computer does not compute and my 

cell phone possesses far too few Gs to attain a speedy connection. 

They are conking out. We need replacements. Already. 

It doesn’t seem so long ago they were new — because it 

wasn’t. 

My parents had the same appliances for decades, and the 

same corded phone for even longer. Families of the Brady 

Bunch generation made a lasting commitment to avocado 

green or harvest gold because once you bought the fridge 

the color scheme defi ned your kitchen for a long, long time. 

Imagine Carol Brady waking up one morning, going 

downstairs and suddenly realizing avocado green is almost 

exactly the same hue as vomit green, booger green or mold 

green. How appetizing would the palette prove to Mrs. 

Brady’s palate? What would practical Mike say when Carol 

requested a complete remodel? 

“Well dear, I suppose a new fridge is better than a new 

husband.” 

Certainly he wouldn’t condone throwing out perfectly 

good appliances because they made Carol sick to her stomach? 

“I told you we should have gone with the harvest gold, 

honey. It would’ve coordinated nicely with Marcia’s hair.” 

Picking your appliances used to involve commitment, 

loyalty and a guarantee the working parts would last longer 

than your marriage (or at least longer than Alice’s courtship 

with Sam the butcher). 

Now, the relationship is a quasi one. Fly-by-night. As brief 

and fl eeting as a peck on the cheek from your teenager on 

the fi rst day of school. Our expectations have changed. We 

anticipate the need to replace the fridge after 10 or 15 years. 

A computer lasting half that long is considered ancient. 

A cell phone older than 24 months becomes an outdated 

dinosaur. 

We’re moving faster than ever before and our machines 

are working harder to keep up. No wonder they wear out 

just in time for us to get the newer, brighter and much-improved 

version (with remote control and voice-activated 27G, 

no make that 28G technology!). 

It’s exciting to get new things. Out with the old; in with 

the new. Gimme, gimme, gimme! 

I see one problem with our current acceleration. We are 

moving faster than ever. Mother Earth is not. She spins on 

her axis, the same as always. Dependable. Steadfast. With 

the space available to store only a fi nite number of dead 

refrigerators. Or washers. Or microwaves. 

There is a possible solution, and it may surprise you. 

Green is the new beige and I’ve decided to embrace it — in 

an avocado hue. I bet I can fi nd some old appliances on eBay 

or Craigslist. Those things last forever; I’ll be set for life 

— or at least the next 20 years. 

On second thought, maybe harvest gold would be a more 

prudent choice. It might coordinate better with my hair. 

I sure wish I knew what Mike Brady would do. 



Serving the heart of Lincoln-Douglas 

country since April 24, 1830 

Kent A. Kilpatrick 

Publisher 

their legislative districts. That was 

the only requirement in an incredibly 

loose process, and our legislators 

couldn’t be trusted to follow 

that one. 

The perk allowed legislators 

to award what amounted to two 

full-ride scholarships a year to the 

families of political supporters, staff 

members and others. Some legislators, 

to their credit, had committees 

that awarded the scholarships based 

on merit. But there were enough 

bad apples to spoil this barrel. 

The signing of this bill should 

give encouragement to all that with 

enough scrutiny and public pressure, 

our elected offi cials will act. 

It can be a long process and the 

pressure has to be unrelenting, but 

it can be done. 

My husband and I are 

at the age where 

things are starting 

to wear out, and I’m not 

referring to our knees, hips, 

hearing or eyesight — although 

my ability to read the 

fi ne print isn’t as fi ne as it 

David C.L. Bauer 

Editor 

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editorial leader in West Central Illinois. It will always speak intelligently 

and independently for what is in the best interest of the city, 

the region and the nation. It will recount the significant events in the 

lives of its readers. It will identify the elements necessary to move the 

community forward, and it will work aggressively to advance and promote 

those elements. It will embody the highest principles and will 

symbolize fairness, dignity and compassion. 

— Editorial mission

Community placement not right 

for all developmentally disabled 


Tony Paulauski is repeatedly in the news telling everyone 

why all the disabled should live in community homes. 

There are two sides to this story. Here is a letter I sent him: 

“... ARC has a reputation of doing many good things for 

the developmentally disabled, but I have a hard time believing 

that you, as their leader, really want the best possible 

care for all developmentally disabled people. If you really 

believed in the rights of the disabled, you would believe in 

their right to live in the least restrictive environment ... The 

state and you are very quick to tout the wonders of community 

placement. (But) for every success story you tell, the 

parents at Murray Center (in Centralia) have horror stories 

of recent failed placements in the community. If Gov. Quinn 

and the state of Illinois really cared about our loved ones 

they — and you— would realize the first caveat of caring for 

the developmentally disabled: One size does not fit all. Each 

person’s needs have to be taken into consideration when 

looking at the least restrictive environment. ... There are 

good SODCs, good community placements, as well as bad 

SODCs, and bad community placements. Common sense 

would tell us that we need to work to make both of these 

types of facilities excellent facilities. Until the state puts 

(its) money where (its) mouth is, as a parent, I could never 

agree to move my son from Murray Center. It would be 

immoral and a sin ... Remember, big is not always bad, and 

small is not always good. ... Community placement is not 

for everyone, just as an SODC is not for everyone, but each 

person deserves the best in care. It is our moral duty as a 

society to provide this.” 

Rita Winkeler 

Bartelso 

Hot summer is sign from God; 

President Obama to blame 


President Obama’s same sex marriage endorsement and 

Obamacare has brought a curse upon the dry and thirsty 

land of Egypt in southern Illinois. 

Pharaoh Obama, let my people go free from your disobedience 

of the God of Israel. 

Seven straight days of 100 degrees-plus, ungodly temperatures 

is a natural dust bowl hot oven. It’s a sign from God. 

The corn belt is dying from the blast of hell’s hot dry jet 

stream blast. There is a famine in the land like in Joseph’s 

time in the Holy Bible. Southern Illinois’ Bible belt is walking 

through the valley in the shadow of death spiritual dust 

bowl famine! 

This is God’s judgment over the land for President 

Obama is changing the times, seasons and laws. 

Twelve inches short of rain in southern Illinois is like 

the 12 tribes of Israel wandering in the desert. It’s going to 

be a long, hot summer and the showers of blessings won’t 

be here for awhile. 

Water is the blessed buzz word to make mankind survive; 

without water, men, plants and beasts thirst for the 

word of God. 

Jesus will hold your hand in the holy blessed promise 

land of southern Illinois to lead you to the spiritual oasis to 

overfl ow your soul with a good overdose of the Holy Ghost. 

Pray and cry, Christians, from your brains and hearts to 

Jesus, then you will get your miracle of rain. Jesus is the water 

of your life because a rain dance won’t fulfi ll your being. 

Keep your eyes on Jesus for the mirage will stop your 

journey! Don’t let extreme drought take you out, because 

Jesus will help! 

George Culley 

Pinckneyville 

Lions thank all for supporting 

Fourth of July celebration 


Once again, the Franklin Lions Club has sponsored a tremendously 

successful Independence Day celebration. We 

sold out of our world’s best burgoo, had great crowds considering 

the extreme heat, the food choices were plentiful 

and tasty, the 3-on-3 tournament was, once again, a success, 

with 59 teams participating, the entertainment, parade, and 

other activities gave everyone plenty to do, there were plenty 

of people to visit with, and it all culminated in a fabulous 

fi reworks display. 

We could not have put on this event without the help of 

a lot of volunteers from the community and surrounding area. 

We had a lot of help this year and this will help keep the 

celebration alive. We appreciate the help of all who volunteered, 

whether it was cleaning kettles, peeling vegetables, 

stirring burgoo, helping unfurl the fl ag, helping with the 3on-3, 

the parade, the entertainment or any of the other activities. 

We especially appreciate Aleece Ford and the Fourth 

of July Community Committee, who worked so hard on the 

entertainment and parade. We also appreciate all of those 

who supported the event with their attendance. 

We would also like to express our appreciation to the 

Jacksonville Journal-Courier for their coverage before and 

after the event. We also would like to thank Alaina Mann 

for her excellent column on her grandfather Fred and the 

Franklin burgoo. Fred was the person who fi rst came up 

with the idea of providing drive-up service. Previously, burgoo 

was only sold by the bowl. This obviously allowed our 

club to make and sell a lot more burgoo, which also allowed 

us to provide more services for the blind, the deaf and the 

community. 

Ross Myers 

Franklin 

Kentucky teen faces charge 

for naming attackers 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 17-year-old Kentucky girl 

who was upset by the plea deal reached by a pair of teenagers 

who sexually assaulted her is facing a contempt charge 

for tweeting their names in violation of a court order. 

Savannah Dietrich of Louisville told The Courier-Journal 

she is frustrated by what she feels is a lenient deal for 

her attackers. After posting the names on Twitter, Dietrich 

wrote, “I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living 

Hell.” 

The boys’ attorneys have asked a judge to hold Dietrich 

in contempt for violating the confidentiality of a juvenile 

hearing and the judge’s order not to speak about it. 

Dietrich told the paper she was assaulted in August 2011 

by two boys she knew when she passed out after drinking 

at a gathering. She learned months later that pictures of 

the assault were taken and shared with others. 

“For months, I cried myself to sleep. I couldn’t go out in 

public places,” she told the newspaper. 

FROM OUR READERS 

180 participate in 5K; 

20 youths join fun run 


The Premier Bank Fourth of July 5K Run was held on 

July 4 at Nichols Park in Jacksonville. The event included 

a 1 

⁄2-mile charity walk and a 1 

⁄2-mile kids fun run in addition 

to the 5K run. We had 211 total participants come 

out and endure the extremely hot weather. We greatly appreciate 

everyone that came out in spite of the weather. 

There were 180 total participants in the 5K run. In addition, 

about 20 young people participated in the kids’ fun 

run. Each year the proceeds from the race go to benefi t a 

local charity. This year’s recipient was the Tri-County Relay 

for Life. 

A big thank you goes out to our sponsors who went a 

long way in making the race a success yet again. Each of 

these businesses donated time, products, or money in order 

to make the event possible: Premier Bank, A. Gaudio 

& Sons, Springfi eld Road Runners Club, Prairie Winds 

Engraving, Spradlin Home Sales, Leo’s Pizza, Screen Tek, 

Denney Jewelers, Reynolds Packaging Solutions, WLDS ⁄ 

WEAI Radio, the Springfi eld Running Center, Production 

XPress, Passavant Hospital’s Team Rehab, Quick Lane 

Car Wash, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Green Chevrolet, 

Nestle, Airsman-Hires Funeral Homes, The Donut 

Place and Bakery, Chiropractic Health Care, Dairy 

Queen, Road ID, the Rotary Club, the U of I Extension Offi 

ce, the Morgan County Fair Board and Leroy Moss Auctioneers. 

We thank each of these sponsors and each participant. 

We hope to see you again next year! 

Dan Moy 

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Obama trails behind Reagan 

in fi rst-term spending 


One of the many myths that persist about President 

Barack Obama among his most overwrought detractors 

is that he spends government money “like a drunken sailor.” 

But a new analysis by the reputable fi nancial website 

MarketWatch would dare to suggest otherwise. 

I’ll let the June 8 issue of The Week fi nish off the conclusions 

reached by that analysis. “Set aside the fi rst part 

of the 2009 fi scal year — which began four months before 

Obama took offi ce, with a budget largely set by the 

previous Congress — and federal spending has only increased 

by 1.4 percent during Obama’s tenure. That’s the 

lowest spending increase of any president since Dwight 

Eisenhower. The 2009 budget that George W. Bush handed 

Obama spent $3.52 trillion; under Obama in 2010, federal 

spending fell to $3.46 trillion. Obama’s projected 

2013 budget calls for $3.58 trillion, very close to Bush’s 

7.3% increase in spending during his fi rst term, or Ronald 

Reagan’s 8.7 percent increase in his fi rst term.” 

Of course, reasonable people may legitimately argue 

about the relative successes or failures of the Obama 

presidency. But the Tampa Bay Times contends that 

once you adjust for infl ation, it may be that “big spender” 

Obama has actually presided over a slight decrease in 

spending. 

There are other reasons why the country has had to 

spend so much of our GDP. You can start with the 2007- 

2008 fi nancial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression. 

Like it or not, we need to remember that crisis did 

not happen on Obama’s watch. 

Richard Nelson 


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21 suffer burns after 

walking on hot coals 

during Tony Robbins 

event in San Jose 

Sun comes out as Olympic torch tours London 

LONDON (AP) — The Olympic 

torch has begun its tour of London — 

and the weather is cooperating. 

After weeks of chill and rain, the sun 

came out Saturday as thousands of people 

turned out to watch the flame begin 

its tour of the Olympic host city. 

The torch started at the Royal Ob- 

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Southern Raised is no exception. 

Each year, they tour the nation, 

playing at churches and festivals to 

share their message in music that Jesus 

Christ is their savior, said Lindsay 

Reith, who plays upright bass. 

“That’s something we don’t take 

lightly, so we’re very grateful to do it,” 

Lindsay Reith said. 

Banjo player Sarah Reith enjoys 

bluegrass because of how the individual 

contributions of different instruments 

blend into a full sound. 

The skill level and involvement required 

makes for an entertaining show, 

Lease said. 

Samson and Orion Decker, ages 5 

and 6 respectively, would agree. 

The two danced as the Templeton 

Family band played Saturday afternoon. 

The children’s parents, Brad and 


“The summer of 2012 is on pace 

to fi nish third hottest on the list of 62 

summers since 1950, but is still in the 

running for number two or one on the 

list,” Root said. 

Root computes cooling degree days 

for each city each day of the year. Cooling 

degree days are the number of degrees 

that a day’s average temperature 

is above 65 degrees. 

The hottest summer on Root’s records 

was 2011 with 60,402 cooling 

degree days. The second hottest was 

1951 with 60,078 cooling degree days. 

The average for a summer is 51,923 

cooling degree days, according to 

Root. In the past 10 years, the average 

(AP) — Fire officials said 21 people 

at an event hosted by motivational 

speaker Tony Robbins suffered burns 

while walking across hot coals and 

three were treated at hospitals. 

The injuries took place during the 

first day Thursday of a four-day event 

at the San Jose Convention Center 

hosted by Robbins called “Unleash the 

servatory in Greenwich, the home of 

Greenwich Mean Time. It was then carried 

to the Cutty Sark, a newly restored 

140-year-old ship docked in the River 

Thames. 

Saturday’s torch relay included 

stints from London’s youngest and oldest 

torchbearers: 12-year-old Ches- 

Kathy Decker, watched from a blanket 

on the ground. 

The family traveled from Champaign 

after camping at Crazy Horse 

Campground last year, Brad Decker 

said. 

Brad Decker enjoys bluegrass music 

and used to play it. He saw the festival 

as an inexpensive way — $22 for a 

weekend pass — for his children to become 

acclimated to the music, he said. 

“I like this place,” Samson Decker 

said. “[The music] is really good. The 

banjo and guitar are my two favorite instruments.” 

People mostly come from the Midwest 

region, though Gary and Shannon 

Workman traveled 2,800 miles, all 

the way from Idaho. 

Workman’s sister and her husband, 

Ruby and Edward Reese of Taylorville, 

told them about the festival. The Work- 

has been 56,134. 

Seven of the past 10 summers have 

been hotter than the 62-year average, 

compared to the 1960s and 1970s, 

when seven out of 10 summers were 

cooler than average. 

“This tells you that the summers are 

trending hotter in the most recent decades 

and years for the U.S. and southern 

Canada as a whole,” Root said. 

This summer is expected to come 

in at 59,484 cooling degree days based 

on what has happened thus far and 

what is projected. 

A broad surge of extreme heat 

could push that number higher, however. 

According to AccuWeather.com’s 

Power Within.” Most of those hurt had 

second and third degree burns, said 

San Jose Fire Department Capt. Reggie 

Williams. 

Walking across hot coals provides 

attendees an opportunity to “understand 

that there is absolutely nothing 

you can’t overcome,” according to the 

motivational speaker’s website. 

ter Chambers, and 101-year-old Fauja 

Singh. 

Like most other torchbearers, they 

were nominated by their communities. 

The torch will continue to tour London 

until it ends its journey at the Olympic 

Stadium for the opening ceremony 

Friday. 

AP/CHARLIE RIEDEL 

The sun sets Saturday behind the Tower Bridge in London with a display of Olympic rings. The 2012 

London Olympics opens Friday. 

BLUEGRASS: Festival is rooted in tradition 

mans go to about 10 bluegrass festivals 

a year and wanted to try this one 

out, as they’d never been and wanted 

to check out new bands. 

Egolf decided to hold the festival 

fi ve years ago after several people told 

him about a similar festival in the late 

1960s or early 1970s and asked him to 

bring it back. 

Through the years, it’s expanded 

to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a 

gospel show from the Templeton Family 

scheduled at 10 a.m. today. 

“It’s one of my favorite weekends,” 

Egolf said. “It’s a different atmosphere 

and a fun group. They tend to be very 

happy people, pleasant to be around 

and very respectful.” 

Crazy Horse Campground is at 2113 

Crazy Horse Road, Ashland. 

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SUMMER HEAT: Trending hotter in recent decades 

long-range forecasting department, 

headed by veteran meteorologist Paul 

Pastelok, such surges could push from 

the Plains into the east in the coming 

weeks. 

“While cooler and potentially wetter 

conditions are projected to expand 

in the West, the most extreme warmth, 

relative to normal, could be forced out 

of the Plains and take root in the Great 

Lakes and Northeast during September 

and October,” Pastelok said. 

Root and Pastelok agreed that dry 

soil conditions and existing extreme 

warmth could continue to skew averages 

through the remainder of the 

summer over much of the country and 

into the fall. 

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1938 with renovations to one side in 1997, said Darlene Corgiat, 

vice president of the Pittsfi eld Park Board. A chair-lift 

would cost up to $10,000, factoring in permits and engineer 

approval to drill into the side of the pool and anchor it. 

“Our goal is to meet the guidelines,” she said. “Yes, it is 

diffi cult. It defi nitely puts a strain on our budget. It’s a lot of 

money for a small community and a big deal for a pool our 

size.” 

Because the pool is more than 300 linear square feet, two 

handicapped-accessible points of entry are required, Corgiat 

said. 

The same goes for Nichols Park Pool. The Jacksonville 

Parks and Lakes Department intends to install a zero-point 

entry — an aluminum ramp for a wheelchair to roll into the 

water — which will probably cost about $10,000, Superintendent 

Bruce Surratt said. 

The zero-depth entry will have to come out of the city 

budget and will likely impede work on a different improvement 

for another year, Surratt said. 

“It’s another one of those things — an unfunded mandate 

by our ‘friends’ who are ‘all-knowing’ in Springfi eld,” Surratt 

said. 

The Jacksonville Parks and Lakes Department purchased 

a hydraulic lift about 10 years ago that can be wheeled to the 

pool. They’ve probably used it about fi ve times, Surratt said. 

“We’ll do anything for the handicapped community, but is 

it really necessary to have two instead of one?” he said. 

Corgiat also felt uncertain that people would use a lift at 

King Park Pool. 

Several people have requested steps, though, so that will 

be the park board’s fi rst priority — an expense that will cost 

around $3,600, Corgiat said. Steps should be installed before 

the summer ends. 

Fifty-six percent of King Park Pool’s budget comes from 

taxes and the rest is what the pool makes in a year, Corgiat 

said. These fi gures vary depending on weather, but the park 

board makes a conscious effort to not raise prices, offering 

discounts on particularly hot days to make it more affordable. 

Nichols Park Pool is lucky to break even, Surratt said. The 

pool is only open about 100 days a year with usually about a 

week lost to rainy days. The income from the pool generally 

covers labor and a portion of the necessary chemicals; the 

rest comes from the city budget. 

No managers from Comfort Inn or Hampton Inn returned 

phone calls, though employees acknowledged the compliance 

work. 

A pool is important because it serves the entire community, 

Corgiat said. King Park Pool serves the Pike County swim 

team, which consists of 108 children, as well as adult swims 

from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. 

“I think it’s a place for people to exercise,” she said. “My 

children are involved actively; they’re strong swimmers and 

the pool provided a place from them to learn.” 

Children need stimulation and a pool is an inexpensive 

way to provide a safe and monitored environment, Surratt 

said. 

Families also can spend time together, especially on weekends. 

“A swimming pool really tells something about the community,” 

Surratt said. “We’re going to spend some of your 

hard-earned money to have a place for families to come. We 

love our pool. We just get beat up with all these things the 

state says. We’ve really taken some hits on things we’ve had 

to spend money on.” 

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comes to fi ghting drugs,” said Thomas, who has personally 

spoken to the police chief and sent him email messages. 

“The whole police department has come together and is doing 

more hands-on combat. I don’t think the police offi ce before 

was as proactive fi ghting the drugs as they are now.” 

The problem with drugs as Thomas sees it — and he added 

that he’s gone to prison for drugs and knows how the 

streets work — is that people fi nd drugs if they want them 

and make their own drugs if they can’t fi nd them. 

“There’s really no way ever that you’ll stop drugs,” Thomas 

said. “If the money’s out there, somebody will put drugs in 

somebody’s hands, if they have the cash to pay for it.” 

Grootens’ efforts have scared many people in town and 

put a big dent in the Jacksonville drug trade, Thomas said. 

“Too many drug people focus on just cocaine, but then 

you have meth,” Thomas said. “Tony’s not slacking on anything. 

He’s attacking it all.” 

July 21, as well as Oct. 31 — the day of Freeman’s passing, 

are two of the worst days of the year for Thomas. 

“I made a promise to Brindan when we buried him that I 

would not let his name go untold and be forgotten,” Thomas 

said. “Every year, I try to do something to let Brindan’s voice 

be heard. This is just another way of doing it.” 

Thomas plans to contact Grootens on Monday, once he’s 

fi gured how much the bar made Saturday. 

“I’ve been blessed with a great girlfriend and a great career 

and everything I’ve done wrong in life is now being rewarded 

to me because I try to reach out and help people,” 

Thomas said. “This is a way of saying I’ll give back once 

again for my life being so blessed.” 


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Pages 10-11 

SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 JOURNAL-COURIER • PAGE 9 

Tips 

for heat 

stressed 

yards 

BY MELINDA MYERS 

SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL-COURIER 

Hot, dry weather continues 

to plague much of 

the country, including 

right here in westcentral 

Illinois. Keeping lawns 

and landscapes alive and well 

has been a struggle for many 

gardeners. 

Here are a few ways to help 

your landscape through this challenging 

season: 

u Prioritize watering. 

New plantings, moisture lovers, 

and stressed plants should 

be the fi rst to receive a good long 

drink. 

u Give mature trees a 

hand. 

Even these landscape giants 

need water during drought. 

Soak the area under the dripline 

providing 10 gallons of water per 

inch diameter of tree trunk. 

u Mulch the soil. 

Spread a 2- to 3-inch layer 

of woodchips, bark, shredded 

leaves, evergreen needles or 

other organic matter over the 

soil surface surrounding plants. 

It conserves water, keeps roots 

cooler, suppresses weeds, and 

improves the soil as it decomposes. 

Dormant lawns should remain 

dormant. Taking your lawn 

in and out of dormancy with 

inconsistent watering is harder 

on the lawns than dormancy. 

Providing 1 

⁄4 inch of water once a 

month will help keep the crown 

of the grass alive without breaking 

dormancy. 

Minimize foot and equipment 

traffi c on dormant lawns and do 

not treat with pesticides or fastrelease 

high nitrogen fertilizers 

that can damage a dormant lawn. 

Check container gardens at 

least once a day and more often 

STRESSED, see Page 16 

Hostas showing stress. 

KATIE HACKETT 


FACES & PLACES 

See Page 13 

BRIEF CASE 

See Page 13 

MEDICAL RECORDS 

See Page 13 

AP/SETH PERLMAN 

High & dry 

Farmers 

C 

K 

M 

Y 

Central Illinois 

cattle stand in 

a pasture struggling 

from lack 

of rain and a 

heat wave covering 

most of the 

country Friday 

in Farmingdale. 

The nation’s 

widest drought 

in decades is 

spreading. More 

than half of the 

continental U.S. 

is now in some 

stage of drought, 

and most of the 

rest is abnormally 

dry. 

AP/ROBERT RAY 

A farmer peels back the husk from an ear of corn damaged by weeks of extreme temperatures on July 16 in Geff. In southern 

Illinois many farmers are fi ling a total loss for 2012 and hoping they survive until the next growing season. 



FAR LEFT: 

Corn stalks struggling 

from lack of 

rain and a heat 

wave covering 

most of the country 

are seen Friday in 

Farmingdale. 

LEFT: 

Steve Niedbalski 

is seen chopping 

down his drought 

and heat stricken 

corn for feed July 

11 in Nashville, Ill. 

You can’t replace your fi rst exchange student 

If you have read my previous 

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that my family hosted a 

Norwegian foreign exchange 

student, May-Linn, for the 2011-12 

school year. We had a very fun 

and rewarding experience with 

her. 

In the exchange program that 

May-Linn traveled with, it is required 

that the student and their 

host family attend orientations at 

the beginning and end of the year. 

At the end of the year meeting, 

my parents and I refl ected on 

the previous 10 months and how 

much we enjoyed it. We learned 

a lot about a foreign country and 

we had the rewarding feeling of 

knowing we offered a once-in-alifetime 

opportunity for someone 

else. We were very lucky and 

thankful for our good experience 

with May-Linn. 

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STORY ON PAGE 11 

That is why we decided to be a 

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It only took about two days of 

family discussions to make the 

decision to do it again. 

We went through the same 

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Buckley 95th 

Mary Elizabeth Buckley of Jacksonville 

will observe her 95th birthday 

this Monday. 

She was born July 23, 1917, in 

Jacksonville, the daughter of O.H. 

and Elizabeth White Spaulding. She 

has two brothers, Fred Edward and 

Frank Perry, both deceased. 

She was married to James Francis 

Buckley for 44 years prior to his 

death in 2003. They were the parents 

of one daughter, Julie Ann, deceased. 

Mrs. Buckley worked for the State of Illinois Veterans 

Service for 30 years and the Jacksonville Developmental 

Center prior to her retirement in 1984. 

Her family, Frank Edward and Phronsie Spaulding and 

children, are hosting a dinner party in honor of her birthday. 

Floyd 60th 

Barbara Floyd of 805 Hackett Ave. will observe her 

60th birthday Thursday. Cards would be welcome. 

She was born July 26, 1952. Her parents are the late 

Kathryn Butcher of Jacksonville and the late Carl Butcher 

of Lyles, Tenn. She has one brother, Charles Butcher 

of Jacksonville. 

Anniversary 

Schlueter 50th 

BEARDSTOWN — Bill 

and Janice Schlueter of 

Beardstown will observe 

their 50th wedding anniversary 

on Saturday. 

Bill Schlueter and Janice 

Butcher were married July 

28, 1962, at the Little Brown 

Church in the Vale in Nashua, 

Iowa. 

Mr. Schlueter is the son of 

Margaret Schlueter of Beardstown 

and the late Fred 

Schlueter. Mrs. Schlueter is 

the daughter of the late Lennie and Juanita Rigg Butcher 

of Macomb. 

The Schlueters are the parents of two daughters, Pam 

Schlueter (friend, Mark Anderson) and Cathy Gibson 

(Stacey) of Beardstown, and three sons, Tom (Tommi Jo) 

of Beardstown, Mike (Kelly) of Mahomet and Matt (Pam) 

of Fishers, Ind. They have 14 grandchildren and fi ve 

great-grandchildren. 

Mr. Schlueter retired after 35 years at the power plant 

at the Jacksonville Developmental Center in Jacksonville. 

Mrs. Schlueter is retired after having worked for the City 

of Beardstown and the DeSollar Agency in Beardstown. 

A family vacation is planned to the Little Brown Church 

in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa, then on to Minnesota. 

The Schlueters’ children will host an open house on 

Saturday, Aug. 4, at the Round House, 905 Bay St. in 

Beardstown from 4 p.m. to ? for friends and family. They 

request no gifts. 

All about anniversaries 

The Journal-Courier publishes wedding anniversary 

announcements free of charge, with the earliest being 

the 20-year anniversary. Anniversaries may be mailed or 

dropped off at 235 W. State St., Jacksonville, IL 62650, submitted 

online at myjournalcourier.com or e-mailed to 

social@myjournalcourier.com 

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Senior Birthdays 

6th Annual Elementary Expo 

and Just Plain Dog Show 

Saturday, July 28th, 9am-1pm 

At Lincoln Square Shopping Center between Famous Footwear and JC Penney 

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The Elementary Expo 2012 is sponsored by Lincoln Square Shopping Center and 

Watt 90th 

Former Scott County resident 

Lorraine O’Donnell Watt observed 

her 90th birthday Saturday. 

She was born July 21, 1922. 

She graduated from Winchester 

High School and worked at the 

county courthouse in the war rationing 

offi ce before her marriage 

to William T. Watt in January 

1945. 

Mrs. Watt will celebrate her birthday with her family 

of seven children, 18 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, 

nine siblings and many nieces and nephews. 

Mrs. Watt lives at Knollwood Retirement Village in 

Jacksonville and would appreciate cards and/or letters only. 

Reunions 

Russwinkel 

The 74th annual reunion of the descendants of Mr. and 

Mrs. John Henry Russwinkel, nee Brockhouse, who came 

from Osnabruck, Germany, in 1843, was held Sunday, 

June 10, in the Salem Lutheran Church fellowship hall in 

Jacksonville with 14 family members attending and sharing 

a carry-in basket dinner. 

Oren J. Russwinkel fi lled in as president and secretary 

due to the absence of President Danny Magelitz and Secretary 

Harlan Fuelling. He read the minutes from the previous 

year, which were approved as read. 

Historian Janell Hammond reported no marriages; one 

birth, Grace Rose Marie, on Oct. 20, 2011, to Anthony and 

Holly Vanderpool Gutierrez; and four deaths, Will Gibson, 

Aug. 14, 2011, Maxine Magelitz, March 10, 2012, Laverne 

Wardle, Sept. 10, 2011, and Melvin Knack, Oct. 24, 2011. 

A donation was taken for Treasurer Janell Hammond 

to pay the rent for the Salem fellowship hall. 

The group voted to keep the same offi cers for the following 

year: President Danny Magelitz, Secretary Harlan 

Fuelling and Treasurer/Historian Janell Hammond. 

Those attending were Janell and Toni Hammond, Bill 

and Mary Hibbert and Michael Northrop of Jacksonville, 

Louella Crim of Springfi eld, Marvin Russwinkel of 

Auburn, Darlene Spurrier of Quincy, Wayne and Crystal 

Russwinkel and Oren J. Russwinkel of Meredosia, Don 

Fuelling of Champaign and Ellis and Rosalie Vanderpool 

of Arenzville. 

The next Russwinkel reunion will be held Sunday, June 

9, 2013, in the Salem Lutheran Church fellowship hall in 

Jacksonville. 

The 79th annual Unland reunion was held Saturday, 

June 23, at the home of Terry and Dorothy Gholson of 

Beardstown. 

Thirteen family members attended, including Terry 

and Dottie Gholson, Denise, Hayden and Hayley 

Sloan and Michelle Unland, all of Beardstown; Sarah and 

Carys Lacy of Springfi eld; Bob and Ruth Ann Unland of 

St. Charles, Mo.; and Kristi, Morgan and Bethany Mahurin 

of Fort Benning, Ga. 

The family enjoyed a potluck dinner, with the main 

course being fried chicken catered by Café from Yesterday. 

President Bob Unland called the business meeting to 

order. Minutes from the previous meeting were read and 

approved. The oldest member present was Bob Unland, 

and the youngest was Carys Lacy. Those traveling the 

farthest were Kristi, Morgan and Bethany Mahurin. 

One birth was reported: Kaden Michael Unland, son 

of Kevin Unland and Mara Dobonye of Beardstown, who 

was born Oct. 4, 2011. 

The amount of correspondence from extended family 

members has been outstanding, 

thanks for social 

media sites such as 

Facebook. Updates for 

the family tree came in 

faster than anticipated, 

causing the new family 

tree book to be a bit bigger 

than expected. The 

books have been printed 

and are available through 

Dottie Gholson. 

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The engagement of 

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Nancy Mall, both of Peoria. 

She graduated from Richwoods 

High School in 2005 

and from Stoney Brook University 

in 2008. She is employed 

by Bradley University 

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The future groom is the 

son of Patti Brawner of Jacksonville 

and the late Neal Brawner. He graduated from 

Jacksonville High School in 1995 and from Missouri Baptist 

University. He is employed by Faith Church in Washington, 

Ill. 

They are planning a Sept. 22, 2012, wedding in Washington, 

Ill. 

Carroll-White 


Chancey White and Joel 

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is being announced. 


daughter of Jeff White 

and Carri Kesterson of 

Franklin. She graduated from Franklin Junior-Senior High 

School in 2005 and MacMurray College in 2009. 

The future groom is the son of Bobby Carroll and Kate 

Carroll, both of Franklin. He graduated from Franklin 

Junior-Senior High School in 2003. 

They are planning an Aug. 25, 2012, wedding at the 

Sangamon County Fairgrounds in New Berlin. 

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Sarah Marie Kemp and 

Adam Timothy Pope, both 

of Kansas City, Mo., is being 

announced. 


daughter of William Kemp 

of Exeter and Shirley and 

Rex English of Lee’s Summit, 

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Missouri-Kansas City with a master’s degree. She is a senior 

writer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. 

The future groom is the son of Timothy and Susan 

Pope of Spartanburg, S.C. He graduated from Clemson 

University with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree. He 

is an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of 

Kansas City. 

They are planning an Aug. 25, 2012, wedding at the 

Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Mo. 

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Mierzwa of Jacksonville. She 

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She is a merchandising 

manager at Banana Republic in Chesterfi eld, Mo. 

The future groom is the son of Rick Skibinski and 

Angela Knolhoff of Centralia. He graduated from Centralia 

High School and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. 

He is a process engineer at Beltservice Corp. in 

Earth City, Mo., and prospective president of CATS, Inc. 

They are planning a Sept. 14, 2012, wedding at Wine 

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WALTONVILLE — The nation’s widest 

drought in decades is spreading, with more 

than half of the continental United States now 

in some stage of drought and most of the rest 

enduring abnormally dry conditions. 

Only in the 1930s and the 1950s has a 

drought covered more land, according to federal 

figures released Monday. So far, there’s 

little risk of a Dust Bowl-type catastrophe, 

but crop losses could mount if rain doesn’t 

come soon. 

In its monthly drought report, the National 

Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., announced 

that 55 percent of the country was 

in a moderate to extreme drought at the end 

of June. The parched conditions expanded 

last month in the West, the Great Plains and 

the Midwest, fueled by the 14th warmest and 

10th driest June on record, the report said. 

Topsoil has turned dry while “crops, pastures 

and rangeland have deteriorated at a 

rate rarely seen in the last 18 years,” the report 

said. 

The percentage of affected land is the 

largest since December 1956, when 58 percent 

of the country was covered by drought, 

and it rivals even some years in the Dust 

Bowl era of the 1930s, though experts point 

out that this year’s weather has been milder 

than that period, and farming practices have 

been vastly improved since then. 

In southern Illinois, Kenny Brummer has 

lost 800 acres of corn that he grows to feed 

his 400 head of cattle and 30,000 hogs. Now 

he’s scrambling to find hundreds of thousands 

of bushels of replacement feed. 

“Where am I going to get that from? You 

have concerns about it every morning when 

you wake up,” said Brummer, who farms 

near Waltonville. “The drought is bad, but 

that’s just half of the problem on this farm.” 

Around a third of the nation’s corn crop 

has been hurt, with some of it so badly damaged 

that farmers have already cut down 

their withered plants to feed to cattle. As of 

Sunday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

said, 38 percent of the corn crop was in poor 

or very poor condition, compared with 30 

Sunrise Rotary 

The Jacksonville Sunrise 

Rotary Club met at the 

Comfort Inn in South Jacksonville 

on July 17. President 

Don Pigg called the 

meeting to order at 7 a.m. 

Barb Baker led the Pledge 

of Allegiance, Gordon Jumper 

led the four-way test, and 

Sonie Smith gave the invocation. 

Sarah Edmiston gave 

recognitions. 

Dick Samples was a 

guest of Gordon Jumper. 

Club members brought 

items to be donated to the 

personal needs pantry located 

at First Baptist Church, 

which is working in cooperation 

with The Salvation Army 

to supply non-food items 

for families in need. The 

club also authorized a monetary 

donation to the personal 

needs pantry 

The club discussed future 

improvements to the 

Godfrey Park project in 

South Jacksonville. Don 

Snider raised the possibility 

of establishing a Sunrise Rotary 

Club Foundation. 

The meeting was adjourned 

by President Pigg. 

Kiwanis Club 

The annual luncheon at 

the Morgan County Fair 

brought out a number of 

members of Jacksonville Kiwanis 

Club on July 12, despite 

the hot weather. President 

Tom Glossop called the 

meeting to order. Bob Large 

gave the invocation. 

Special recognition was 

given to the newly crowned 

Morgan County Fair Queen 

Lauren Ashley Martin, who 

stopped by to greet the Kiwanis. 

And a big thanks 

was given to “grill master 

of pork chops” Marty Cockerill 

and the Morgan County 

Fair volunteers for serving 

up a tasty lunch. Guests 

included H.P. Sablotny with 

Bob Large; Ray Bass, fatherin-law 

of Reg Benton; and 

Lydia, the daughter of Paul 

Reither. 

Roger Deem introduced 

the 10th annual William C. 

Deem Science Scholarship 

winner, Haley Chelsvig, and 

Jacksonville High School 

science department chairman 

Jim Herget. Haley will 

attend Drake University as a 

biology major this fall. 

Kurt Heller reminded 

everyone of the McEvers 

Youth Golf Tournament 

to be held in two weeks. Kiwanians 

are still needed to 

help on the course and at 

the food/drink stand. Contact 

Keith Bradbury to help 

out. 

Jim Carleton thanked 

those who signed up to 

work the fair gates. 

Vice President Forrest 

Keaton announced birthdays 

being celebrated by 

Susan Zappa, Lori Wankel, 

Bob Large and Marcy Patterson. 

Konnie Trace led the 

singing of one verse of “Old 

McDonald Had a Farm.” 

Good News was led by 

Steve Warmowski with Alison 

Yording collecting from 

Bob Large, Susan Weller, 

John Heinzman, Gary Scott 

and Charlie Rice. 

Jim Carleton introduced 

the guest speaker, Duane 

Friend, a University of Illinois 

Extension educator. He 

talked about the history and 

services provided by the Extension 

Service. 

The president recognized 

Jim Carleton for his 

coordination of the Kiwanis’ 

support of various Morgan 

County Fair events over the 

past years. Carleton passed 

on thanks to his committee 

members. 

The meeting was closed 

with the Pledge of Allegiance. 


Lions 

The Jacksonville Lions 

Club meet at the Kottage 

Kafe on July 17 with President 

Jim Barber presiding. 

Betty House led the 

Pledge of Allegiance, Nick 

Farrar led singing and Aaron 

Singleton said the prayer. 

Gary Reif, the tail twister, 

asked the question, “What 

was the name of the international 

president who came 

to the Jacksonville Lions’ 

80th anniversary meeting?” 

The answer was, “Judge Patterson 

from Biloxi, Miss.” 

No treasurer’s report 

Clubs/Organizations 

was given. Wilma Detrick, 

the secretary, read the minutes 

from the meeting on 

June 26. 

President Barber read a 

thank-you note from the volunteer 

health clinic. 

Clinic school supplies 

sign-up sheets were passed 

out for Aug. 3-4 and Aug. 

10-11. 

Wilma Detrick gave out 

Years of Service Awards 

to: Gene Nevin, 50 years; 

Floyd Anderson, 30 years; 

Ken Acree, 25 years; Daniel 

Scholfi eld, 25 years; and Jim 

Barber, 15 years. 

The 50/50 drawing 

was won by Bob Schisler. 

The free meal was won by 

Charles House. 

The meeting was adjourned 

at 7 p.m. 

Noon Rotary 

President Tony Williams 

called the July 13 meeting of 

the Jacksonville Rotary Club 

to order at noon at Hamilton’s. 

Greeters were Fred 

Osburn, Kevin Heitz and 

Christina Lomelino. Mike 

Schneider took notes. 

The Pledge of Allegiance 

was recited, followed by 

the singing of “America the 

Beautiful.” The invocation 

was given by Rhonda Dolan. 

Fred Clinton was the song 

leader. 

The Jacksonville Rotary 

Club Foundation annual 

meeting was conducted by 

Foundation President Mike 

Schneider. 

President Williams led 

announcements of upcoming 

events. 

Guests were visiting Rotarian 

and District Gov. Suzanne 

Ellerbrock and, from 

the Sunrise Club, Past District 

Gov. Gordon Jumper, 

Jay Jamison, Don Pigg, Linda 

Meece and Sara. Other 

guests included the granddaughters 

of Gordon and 

Jean Jumper. 

The Rotary minute was 

presented by Chuck Sheaff 

and focused on Rotary International’s 

Global Partnership 

Grants. 

Rotations were made 

by Bob Linde, Phyllis Lape, 

Gordon Jumper, Jay 

Jamison, Jean Hembrough, 

Allen Stare, Glen Olinger, 

Ryan Byers, Tony Williams 

and Helen Downey. 

Assistant District Gov. 

Helen Downey introduced 

new District Gov. Ellerbrock, 

who was here for 

her offi cial visit. She spoke 

about her introduction to 

Rotary. She also described 

the new theme, Peace 

Through Service, and she 

spoke of her defi ning values. 

The draw for the 50/50 

was unsuccessful by Chuck 

Sheaff. The meeting was 

closed with the four-way 

test. 

Tri-County 

Woodworkers 

The Tri-County Woodworkers 

recently met. President 

Ewell Andrews called 

the meeting to order. 

Minutes were read, and 

Bob Pahlmann reported 

the treasurer’s balance of 

$932.02. Both reports were 

approved. 

The president brought 

three videos: laser sight for 

a drill press, aspects of router 

bits, and ebonizing wood. 

The president brought 

some very old knives to display 

the handle, and Pahlmann 

brought a Queen 

Anne leg for a jewelry cabinet 

that he is making for his 

granddaughter. 

The next meeting will be 

Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Jacksonville 

Public Library. 

Franklin Lions 

Club 

The Franklin Lions Club 

met on July 9 with 16 members 

in attendance. President 

Daniel Watson presided 

over the meeting. Tail 

Twister Steve Scott levied 

fi nes on various Lions. 

Treasurer Bob Bassi 

gave the fi nancial report. 

The fi nal fi gures had 

not been computed for the 

Fourth of July celebration. 

He did report that the income 

this year was down, 

probably due to the cut in 

the number of kettles of burgoo 

that were made and the 

oppressive heat. 

Secretary Ross Myers 

gave his report. He passed 

around a Lions International 

Newswire, a message from 

the international president 

and a fl yer for a walk/run 

fundraiser for diabetes. He 

also reminded the members 

of the offi cers’ training and 

the Candy Day Jamboree. 

Dues of $55 are due; some 

members still owe dues for 

last year. 

The club discussed 

where to have the fi reworks 

display next year. No decision 

was reached. Members 

also discussed burgoo 

and voted to make 22 kettles 

next year (same as this 

year). 

The club expressed appreciation 

for all of the work 

Rick Smith does every year 

in organizing the 3-on-3 basketball 

tournament. This 

year there were 59 teams 

participating in various age 

groups. 

Steve Scott said the club 

needs to get a new fi reman 

for next year. 

The free meal was won 

by Steve Scott. 

The District 1-G Candy 

Day Jamboree will be 

held on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 

ISD. It will start at 4 p.m. It 

is a potluck meal with meat, 

drinks and table settings 

provided. Reservations are 

needed by Aug. 15. Franklin 

Lions who plan to attend 

should notify the secretary. 

Willie Rees is this year’s 

Candy Day chairman. 

Daniel Watson, Ralph 

Johnson and Ross Myers attended 

the District 1-G organizational 

meeting/offi - 

cers’ training at the Den. 

There were 32 people in attendance. 

The club will meet next 

at 7 p.m. July 23 in the 

Franklin Lions Den. Hamilton’s 

Catering will provide 

the meal at $7 per person. 

Members are encouraged 

to invite guests/prospective 

members. 

Rushville Rotary 

Rob Kirkham took over 

as the new president of the 

Rushville Rotary at its recent 

meeting. The club gave 

Past President Brent Wood 

a plaque. 

Deb & Di’s Restaurant 


Farmers dealing with worst drought in 25 years 


Corn stalks struggling from lack 

of rain and a heat wave covering 

most of the country are seen as 

the sun rises Friday in Loami. The 

nation’s widest drought in decades 

is spreading. More than half of the 

continental U.S. is now in some 

stage of drought, and most of the 

rest is abnormally dry. 

percent a week earlier. 

“This is definitely the epicenter — right in 

the heart of the Midwest,” said climatologist 

Mark Svoboda with the Nebraska-based National 

Drought Mitigation Center. 

It’s all a huge comedown for farmers who 

had expected a record year when they sowed 

96.4 million acres in corn, the most since 

1937. The Department of Agriculture initially 

predicted national average corn yields of 166 

bushels per acre this year. 

The agency has revised that projection 

down to 146, and more reductions are possible 

if conditions don’t improve. 

H I G H & D R Y 

The lower projection is still an improvement 

over the average yields of around 129 

bushels a decade ago. But already tight supplies 

and fears that the drought will get worse 

before it gets better have been pushing up 

grain prices, which are likely to translate into 

higher food prices for consumers, particularly 

for meat and poultry. 

Monday’s report was based on data going 

back to 1895 called the Palmer Drought 

Index. It feeds into the widely watched and 

more detailed U.S. Drought Monitor, which 

reported last week that 61 percent of the continental 

U.S. was in a moderate to exceptional 

drought. However, the weekly Drought 

Monitor goes back only 12 years, so climatologists 

use the Palmer Drought Index for 

comparing droughts before 2000. 

Climatologists have labeled this year’s 

dry spell a “flash drought” because it developed 

in a matter of months, not over multiple 

seasons or years. 

The current drought is similar to the 

droughts of the 1950s, which weren’t as intense 

as those of the 1930s, said Jake Crouch, 

a climatologist with the National Climatic 

Data Center. And farming has changed a lot 

since the Dust Bowl era. Better soil conservation 

has reduced erosion, and modern hybrids 

are much more resistant to drought. 

But Crouch said it’s important to understand 

that this drought is still unfolding. 

“We can’t say with certainty how long 

this might last now. Now that we’re going up 

against the two largest droughts in history, 

that’s something to be wary of,” Crouch said. 

“The coming months are really going to be 

the determining factor of how big a drought 

it ends up being.” 

In northwest Kansas, Brian Baalman’s 

cattle pastures have dried up, along with 

probably half of his corn crop. He desperately 

needs some rain to save the rest of it, and 

he’s worried what will happen if the drought 

lingers into next year. 

“I have never seen this type of weather before 

like this. A lot of old timers haven’t either,” 

Baalman said. “I just think we are seeing 

history in the making.” 

The federal government is already moving 

to help farmers and ranchers. 

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last 

week announced plans for streamlining the 

aid process. A major goal is to cut the time it 

takes to declare an agricultural disaster area. 

He also reduced interest rates for emergency 

loans and made it cheaper for farmers to 

graze livestock or cut hay on lands otherwise 

locked up in a conservation program. 

Some state governments are stepping 

in, too. In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declared 

a state of emergency in 42 counties 

last week to speed up the issuance of permits 

for temporarily using stream or lake water 

for irrigation. 

During a visit Monday to a southern Illinois 

corn and soybean farm, Illinois Gov. 

Pat Quinn announced that drought-affected 

farmers would be eligible for state debt restructuring 

and loan programs in addition to 

the aid the USDA announced last week. 

Quinn ventured into a corn field where he 

spent some time looking for an actual ear of 

corn. When he found one and peeled off the 

husk, there were no kernels. 

Two-thirds of Illinois is in what’s classified 

as a severe drought or worse. Neighboring 

Indiana is even worse, with 70 percent in at 

least a severe drought. 

Brummer could normally count on corn 

yields of 170 bushels per acre. He expects to 

get just 10 bushels this year, if he gets anything 

at all. 

The top of the cornstalks are an unhealthy 

pale green, he said. Many of them have no 

ears, and “if there are there are a few kernels, 

they don’t seem to know if they should die or 

make a grain.” 

Crop insurance will cover up to 150 bushels 

per acre. But no coverage is available for 

Brummer’s livestock, so he figures he’ll lose 

$350,000 to $400,000 on that side of the operation. 

Not long ago, Brummer rejoiced along 

with countless other Midwest growers about 

getting their crops in the ground early. 

“It looked really good until about a month 

ago,” he said. “Then the concerns started, 

and it’s been downhill ever since.” 

Karnowski reported from Minneapolis. 

Associated Press Writer Roxana Hegeman 

contributed to this story from Wichita, Kan. 

“This is defi nitely the epicenter — right in the heart of the Midwest.” 

— climatologist Mark Svoboda, Nebraska-based National Drought Mitigation Center 

served up a new year meal . 

Donna Martin led the 

club in singing a couple 

of old songs. Tom Desulis 

brought a chocolate cake 

in celebration of his birthday. 

Russell Dohner led the 

club in singing the birthday 

blues to him. Bill Bartlow 

won the cake. 

President Kirkham supervised 

the polio trivia exam. 

It costs $1 to play and 

all of those dollars go to the 

eradication of polio worldwide. 

The girls like to sit 

off by themselves, and they 

do a lot of whispering. This 

time they got all the trivia 

questions right, as did several 

of the guys, so the winner 

had to be chosen by a 

draw from the hat. The fi rst 

draw picked Donna Martin, 

who declined. The second 

draw picked Sarah Rust, 

who turned it down as well. 

The third draw chose one of 

the guys, but it was the guy 

who was seated closest to 

the girls. He demurred, saying, 

“My regrets, Mr. President. 

I cannot accept the 

prize, and, being a gentleman, 

I cannot reveal my reason.” 

The president chose 

another ballot, which named 

Nancy Desulis as the winner. 

She donated the prize 

to the Rotary Foundation. 

Gregg Roegge announced 

that the Rotary 

golf tournament will be 

Sept. 15. A team of four can 

enjoy a classic scramble at 

Scripps Park Golf Course 

for $140. For more information, 

contact any Rushville 

Rotarian or just sign up at 

the pro shop. 

Sen. John Sullivan was 

the guest speaker. He talked 

about the most signifi cant 

issues addressed by the session 

that ended on May 31. 

Sullivan also reported on 

his trip to view the Illinois 

River bridge at Florence, 

an old bridge with a structural 

issue. Sullivan said he 

wanted to inspect the problem. 

The engineers showed 

him the ladder and pointed 

upward. Sullivan climbed 

to the top and showed the 

picture to prove it. Unfortunately 

he could not fi x the 

bridge. An engineering fi rm 

is working on a solution.

12 Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Sunday, July 22, 2012 

Benjamin Timothy 

Cully will celebrate his 

1st birthday July 23. He 

is the son of Adam and 

Andrea Cully. He has 

three siblings, Garrett, 

Wyatt and Adisyn. His 

grandparents are Tim 

Cully of Murrayville, 

Cindy Cully of Belleville 

and Craig and Gena 

Gorman of Indianapolis. 

His great-grandparents 

are Rosemary Rives of 

Lead Hill, Ark., John 

and Shirley Coop of 

Murrayville and Jacksonville. 

Connor James 

Bettis celebrated his 

1st birthday July 16. 

He is the son of Jame 

and Lindsey Bettis. His 

grandparents are Steve 

and Marian Russell and 

Kenny and Rosy Bettis, 

all of Waverly. 

Sarah Kathryn 

Racey is celebrating her 

9th birthday July 22. She 

is the daughter of Brad 

and Jody Racey of Jacksonville. 

She has three 

siblings, Jack, Lauren 

and Claire. Her grandparents 

are Randy and 

Tacy McClure and Dave 

and Nancy Rochester, 

all of Virginia, and Paul 

and Barb Baker and Joe 

Racey and Mary Henry, 

all of Jacksonville. Her 

great-grandparents 

are Jean Devlin, Edna 

Rochester and Betty 

McClure, all of Virginia, 

and Catherine DeFrates 

of Jacksonville. 

Aidan Tomas 

Norbut celebrated 

his 6th birthday June 

21. He is the son of 

Tom and Jeana Norbut 

of Schaumburg. His 

grandmother is Wilma 

Pierson of Jacksonville. 

Cullen Michael 

Newport celebrated 

his 2nd birthday July 


Mike and Amanda Newport 

of Jacksonville. His 

grandparents are Steve 

and Mitzie Pikert and 

Chuck and Linda Newport, 

all of Jacksonville. 

His great-grandmothers 

are Frances Blesse and 

Betty Cunningham, 

both of Jacksonville. 

Brandon Lee 

Everhart celebrated 

his 12th birthday July 


Philip Kirkbride of 

Naples and Alisha and 

Kenny Boatman of Jacksonville. 

He has three 

siblings, Philip Jr., Ashton 

and Lawrence. His 

grandparents are Mr. 

and Mrs. Gene Burnett 

of Naples and Mr. and 

Mrs. Rodney Plackett of 

White Hall. 

Pup to play Sandy in ‘Annie’ 

on Broadway revealed 

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway’s newest 

Little Orphan Annie has found her Sandy. 

The award-winning animal trainer 

William Berloni on Thursday unveiled the 

pooch who is slated to star in the Broadway 

revival of the Tony Award-winning musical 

“Annie” — Sunny, a 2-year-old female terrier 

mix rescued from a city pound in Houston. 

“The most talented animals are right 

there under your nose,” said Berloni, who 

makes it a point of using shelter dogs in all 

his projects. “The message is: Animals in 

shelters are not damaged, just unfortunate.” 

Sunny was only 24 hours away from 

being euthanized four months ago when 

Berloni spotted her photo online while 

conducting a nationwide search for Sandy. 

She had been mislabeled as male and given 

the name Bruno. Touched, he forwarded 

her photo to one of the show’s producers, 

Arielle Tepper Madover, who wrote back, 

“Save her. I don’t care what it costs.” 

“So I adopted her sight-unseen,” said 

Berloni. “I didn’t think she was a candidate 

for Sandy. Her description was so sweet 

and she looked very much like the original 

Sandy that we were just saving her to fi nd 

her a home.” 

Sunny was shipped to New York and 

came muzzle-to-face with Berloni. “I met her 

and went, ‘Wow, she could really be a candidate,”’ 

he said. “She’s going to be fantastic.” 

“Annie,” starring 11-year-old Lilla Crawford 

in the title role and Katie Finneran as 

Miss Hannigan, will begin previews on Oct. 

3 at the Palace Theatre and will open on 

Nov. 8. 

Berloni, whose extensive Broadway 

credits include training animals for “Legally 

Blonde,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and 

“The Wizard of Oz,” began working as an 

animal trainer when he plucked the original 

Sandy in “Annie” from a shelter in 1976 for 

$7 the day before it was to be euthanized. 

He chuckles that his career has come 

full circle with the new “Annie” revival. “You 

hear of people ... being remembered for 

having a signature song?” he asks. “Well, I 

think I’m the only guy who has a signature 

dog.” 

The original Sandy, also a terrier mix, 

went on to play almost all 2,377 performances 

of “Annie” and Berloni supplied 

shelter dogs for all four national tours of 

the show, as well as the 10th, 20th and 30th 

anniversary productions. Sunny’s understudy, 

Casey, was rescued from a shelter in 

Nashville, Tenn. 

The revival of the musical, which 

features music by Charles Strouse, lyrics 

by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas 

Meehan, will be directed by three-time 

Tony winner James Lapine and choreographed 

by Andy Blankenbuehler. Its hit 

songs include “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” 

and “Tomorrow.” 

Lapine has yet to plan out exactly what 

he wants Sunny to do, other than not what 

any other Sandys have done in the past. 

Berloni is preparing a list of tricks, and has 

been told that creators may want the dog to 

dance. “I have to say, it’s the fi rst time I’ve 

ever put a dog in a dance number,” he said. 

“That’s going to be new and interesting.” 

This photo provided by Boneau/ 

Bryan-Brown shows Lilla Crawford, 

who will play the role of Annie, and 

Sunny who will play the role of Sandy, 

in the new Broadway production 

of Annie. 

The dog food company Pedigree has 

make the unprecedented step of partnering 

with the new Broadway production and will 

donate $2 for every ticket sold through Dec. 

31, 2013 — up to $1 million — to a nonprofi t 

dedicated to helping dogs fi nd homes. All 

proceeds from co-branded merchandise will 

go to the effort. 

Pedigree Senior Brand Manager Lisa 

Campbell hopes the initiative will put a 

spotlight on the plight of homeless dogs. 

“Shelter dogs aren’t broken — they just 

haven’t been given the chance,” she said. 

“What a great vehicle to show people that 

you can fi nd a star in a shelter. A dog that is 

now a Broadway star very easily could have 

been euthanized.” 

The journeys of Sunny and Casey from 

life in shelters to the bright lights of Times 

Square will be documented in a 30-minute 

TV special, “Annie’s Search for Sandy,” set 

to air on NBC in October. 

Though Berloni concentrates mostly 

on dogs, he’s also trained cats, birds and 

rodents. He coached a cat in “The Lieutenant 

of Inishmore,” a rat in “The Woman in 

White” and 23 lambs for Bernadette Peters’ 

run in “Gypsy.” 

He won a special 2011 Tony Award 

for his contribution to the theater and is a 

behavior consultant to the Humane Society 

of New York. After Berloni’s animals retire, 

they often spend their fi nal years at his Connecticut 

farm. 

“I always say anybody could have gone 

into a shelter and adopted any one of the 

animals that I’ve turned into Broadway stars 

the day before I did,” he said. “And they 

would have been great dogs in someone’s 

home. I just get the opportunity to show 

that they’re great dogs onstage.” 

To get Sunny used to Broadway, her diet 

will be carefully monitored, her routine formalized 

and she’ll get used to all the actors 

in the “Annie” revival to ensure everyone is 

comfortable. She’ll also be brought to current 

Broadway shows to get familiar with 

the roar of the crowd. 

“The hardest thing for her is to get used 

to the audience’s response. We can mimic 

every other aspect of it — sets, movements, 

people, lights and sounds. But there aren’t 

many opportunities for me to bring her to a 

show and have her hear applause.” 

BIRTHDAY PARADE 

Age limit is 12 

years. Only the child 

celebrating the birthday 

will be pictured. 

Birthday must 

occur within one 

month before or 

one month after 

the Sunday they 

are to appear in 

the paper. Photos 

will be returned if 

a self-addressed, 

stamped envelope 

is included; otherwise 

they may be 

picked up in the 

newsroom after they 

appear in the paper. 

Every effort will 

be made to get 

birthdays provided 

by noon 

Thursday into the 

Sunday paper. 

However, information 

must be verified 

with a parent 

and that can 

sometimes delay 

publication. 

Gabrielle Clare and Genevieve Hilary 

Thomas celebrated their 2nd birthday July 14. They 

are the twin daughters of Grant and Traci Thomas of 

Champaign. Their grandparents are Daryl and Patti 

Quigg of Jacksonville and Mike and Joyce Thomas 

of Champaign. Their great-grandparents are Henry 

Quigg of Jacksonville, Ill., Gerald and Wanda Hester 

of Winchester, Ralph and Mary Council of Champaign, 

Alex and Fran Busby of Jacksonville, Fla., and 

Jeanne Thomas of Beaver, Penn. 

Ava Mackenzie and Mason James Youngs 

celebrated their 7th birthday July 13. They are the 

twin children of Pat and Kristin Youngs of Glen Ellyn. 

Their grandparents are Andy and Julie Applebee 

of Jacksonville, Sandy Applebee and Jim and Sue 

Youngs, all of Addison, and Barb Youngs of Glen Ellyn. 

Their great-grandparents are Elizabeth Applebee 

of Naples, Fla., and Attilio and Mavis DiBattista 

of Medinah. 

Nolan J. Groves 

celebrated his 7th birthday 

July 5. He is the 

son of Jeff and Llaina 

Groves of Jacksonville. 

His grandparents are 

Jerry and Ruth Bose 

and Bev Steele, all of 

Jacksonville, and Jess 

and Marla Groves of 

Roodhouse. 

Kenley Rae Coats 

celebrated her 6th birthday 

July 14. She is the 

daughter of Clay and 

Becky Coats of Bluffs. 

She has one sibling, 

Camree. Her grandparents 

are David and Kim 

Neff of rural Winchester, 

Joe and Mary 

McElfresh of Bluffs and 

the late Steve Dawson 

and Cleatus Coats. Her 

great-grandparents are 

Betty Hart of Bluffs and 

Ray and Leona Swartz 

of rural Pittsfi eld. 

Cayl Thomas Allen 

Hembrough celebrated 

his 1st birthday July 


Theodore and Ashley 

Hembrough. He has 

one sibling, Case, 5. His 

grandparents are Allen 

and Cindy Prewitt and 

RobRoy Hembrough, 

all of Jacksonville, 

and Terri Stovall of 

Nokomis. Fla. His 


Bob and Ann Coates, 

Dee Prewitt and Bob 

and Jean Hembrough, 

all of Jacksonville, and 

Tom and Vera Stovall of 

Sarasota, Fla. 

Jera Emery 

Wardell celebrated 

her 3rd birthday July 

12. She is the daughter 

of Jason and Audrey 

Wardell of Murrayville. 

Her grandparents are 

Allen and Cindy Prewitt 

of Jacksonville and 

Jack and Mary Wardell 

of Murrayville. Her 


Bob and Ann Coates 

and Dee Prewitt, all of 

Jacksonville. 

Jack David Tweedy 

will celebrate his 10th 

birthday July 31. He is 

the son of Lisa Tweedy 

of Modesto. He has one 

sister, Jenna, 14. His 

grandparents are Chuck 

and Melody Camerer of 

Scottville. 

Dalton Leavell 

Bartz is celebrating 

his 12th birthday July 


Angela Leavell-Bartz of 

Jacksonville and Todd 

Bartz of Murrayville. 

He has two siblings, 

Brice McDannald, 22, 

and Skylar Bartz, 9. His 

grandparents are Caroline 

Bartz of Murrayville, 

Diana Fitzpatrick, 

Pat Fitzpatrick, Dan and 

Joan Willard, and Gary 

and Linda Bartz, all of 

Jacksonville. His greatgrandparents 

are Ann 

Armstrong of Jacksonville 

and Marjorie Bartz 

of Murrayville.

Sara’s Studio of Dance in Jacksonville held its annual dance recital May 11-12. 

The dance company members who performed were, front row, Ava Lahey, Amelia Symmons, 

Madelynn Ganz, Katie White, Chloe Burrus, Faith English, Abby Lewis, Rachel Prewitt, 

Hannah Werries, Regan Davis, Anna Burrus, Gracie Jackson, Mackenzie Oswald and 

Olivia Pine; second row, Olivia Fromme, Nora Homolka, Dani Dillard, Eden West, Gabbi 

Meehan, Jayden Hunt, Jordan Brockhouse, Allyson Clay, Suzannah Spears, Sara Wilson, 

Maza Eilers, Taylor Force, Kaleigh Dirden, Chloe Wooldridge, Cheney Brewer, Madie Tomhave 

and Hailey Meyer; third row, Maili Kemper, Meghan Hadden, Claire Van Aken, Ashley 

Wade, Ella Piehler, GiGi Wooldridge, Amelia Pine, Delani Dillard, Addison Cantrell, Bailey 

McClellan and Jillian Claussen; fourth row, Rachel Anderson, Grace Wooldridge, Abby 

Personett, Victoria Covell, Sabre Strubbe, Zoe Wood, Anna Bezler, Sarah May, Olivia Lee, 

Kassidy Neeley, Paige Hamilton, Sydney Hembrough, Emilie Bezler, Camri Middleton and 

Camri Anderson; and back row, Madison Moore, Allison Behrends, Lauren Bezler, Brianna 

Klein, Lexi Middleton, Lily Dahman, Sydne Peck, Mary Kesinger, Meg Gibbons, Kristina 

Gregory, Taylor Walter, Hannah Meyer, Kable Crow, Samantha Thing and Meghan Karr. 

Missing from the photo are Kourtnee Schippel and Sophie Roth. 

Four generations 

came together for a visit in 

Jacksonville recently. They 

are Luann Davidsmeyer- 

Martin of Bradenton, Fla., 

Virginia Davidsmeyer of 

Jacksonville and Jennifer 

Rowe Sides and her daughter, 

Brinley Mae, of Madison, 

Ga. 

The Greenfield second-grade baseball team sponsored by Lewis Hybrids took 

first place in the Atom Division of the Greene County Youth League on June 21. The 

team was also undefeated for the season. Members were, front row, Tyson Goode, Sam 

Walker, Tanner Goode, Carson Knittel, Jim Stewart and Bryce Stuart; middle row, Drake 

Stuart, Drew Hallock, Brady Pembrook, Hagen Mann, Clayton Eller, Cecil Hunt and Colton 

Sexton; and back, coaches Chris Goode, Joe Hallock, Gary Stuart, Joe Pembrook, Cory 

Walker and Rodney Knittel. 

The Sunday Dart 

League at the Jacksonville 

Bowl Inn and employees of 

the Bowl Inn recently raised 

$1,031 for Camp Courage. In 

front are Kelly Hunter (from 

left), Cristy Spillers and Camp 

Courage board member Vicky 

Dover. In back are Camp 

Courage board member John 

Hunter (from left); Roger 

Baker; Marc Stone, who presented 

the check to Camp 

Courage; and David White. 

These girls from the Murrayville-Woodson 

area won 

first place in the youth division of 

the talent contest at the Murrayville 

Community Picnic on June 23. They 

are Logan Savage (from left), daughter 

of Troy and Gina Savage; Abby 

Lewis, daughter of Jay and Angela 

Lewis; and Miranda Eldridge, daughter 

of Patti Eldridge. They are students 

at Sara’s Studio of Dance in 

Jacksonville, and they choreographed 

their own aero-jazz routine, 

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Kristen Jenkins (second from right) is the 2012 winner 

of the Jacksonville Kiwanis Club’s A. Wadsworth Applebee 

Community Service Award. She has worked on many community 

projects including Main Street, Prom Expo, Downtown 

Turnaround celebration, golf benefit for Relay for Life, an Illinois 

College literary society and Chamber of Commerce golf 

outings. The award was presented by Andy Applebee (second 

from left) with his wife, Julie (left). Jenkins was accompanied 

by her husband, John (right). 

The Junior Cougars girls’ 13u team from Winchester 

survived the sweltering heat to take the title in the 14u division 

at the Franklin Fourth of July celebration 3 on 3 tournament. 

They went 4 and 0. Junior Cougar members were Danielle 

Starks (from left), Isabella Cox, Mazi Walker and Maddie 

Lashmett. 

Graduates of this year’s Rotary Youth Leader- 

ship Awards came to a recent Rushville Rotary Club meeting 

to report on their experience. Kelli Edwards (left) and Madison 

Kessler are shown with Rushville Rotarian Dan Adams. Rotary 

Youth Leadership Awards is a weekend leadership retreat in 

Carlinville for high school sophomores. Also attending from 

Rushville was Kortney Higgins. 

The residents at Heritage Health Therapy and 

Senior Care in Jacksonville were treated to a Fourth of July 

party. Tom Butler entertained the group with his singing. 

Fishing buddies Christopher Murphy and Dawson Knox, 

both of Murrayville, filled their basket during a recent fishing 

trip to a farm pond in Scott County.


Fender opts out of taking public stage 

BY BREE FOWLER 


NEW YORK — A famous 

piece of rock ’n’ roll history has 

changed its tune about going 

public. 

Fender Musical Instruments, 

which produced guitars 

strummed by the likes of Buddy 

Holly and Eric Clapton and famously 

set on fi re by Jimi Hendrix, 

said it dropped its plans for 

an initial public stock offering. 

The news came amid a handful 

of successful IPOs, prompting 

speculation about the reasoning 

behind Fender’s decision. 

Fender CEO Larry Thomas 

said current market conditions 

and Europe’s ongoing economic 

woes wouldn’t support an IPO 

that values the company appropriately. 

Industry observers said Fender’s 

slower growth prospects than 

the tech companies that have recently 

gone public also may have 

factored in its decision against 

moving forward. 

The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based 

company, which sells its guitars 

in 85 countries, originally filed 

papers for its offering in March 

These are the fi ndings of the most recent restaurant inspections by 

the Morgan County Health Department. Each violation found reduces 

points of a restaurant’s score. The score ranges from a perfect 100 to a 

zero. Anything below 70 is considered failing. 

Critical violations that could lead to food-borne illnesses result in 

four, eight or nine points being taken off. Minor violations take away 

one or three points. 

All violations must be corrected by the next inspection unless otherwise 

noted. If a critical violation is corrected on site, the restaurant’s 

score will be adjusted. 

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS 

397 Minor Drive, South Jacksonville 

SCORE: 100 

No violations. 

CHARLIE’S CONCESSIONS 

110 N. Westgate Ave., Jacksonville 

SCORE: 97 

Violations: 

3 points — Must provide and wear hair restraints at all times. 

LAKE JACKSONVILLE CONCESSIONS 

New Lake Road, Jacksonville 

SCORE: 96 

Violations: 

pet rescue 

Wm. J. Hudson, D.V.M. 

Large & Small Animal 

Medicine 

Surgery 

Boarding 

1108 E. Morton Ave., 


What excites IPO 

investors is the prospect 

of growing at least 20 

to 25 percent ... and 

Fender doesn’t have 

those prospects ... 

— Tim Keating 

and later set a price range of $13 

to $15 a share. At the time of its 

original fi ling, the overall market 

was trending up. 

Tim Keating, CEO of the investment 

firm Keating Capital, 

said IPOs screeched to a halt after 

Facebook’s bumpy debut in 

May. But he said 2012 still has 

been a very good year for IPOs 

so far, with a handful of companies 

launching successful offerings 

in just the past few weeks. 

On Friday alone, Kayak Soft- 

Small animals • Horses • Large animals 

Medicine • Surgery • Dentistry • Diagnostic ultrasound 

“Across the street from JCPenney” 

1150 Tendick Jacksonville, IL 

ware, a travel website, and Palo 

Alto Networks, which makes security 

software, both went public 

and posted gains of more than 30 

percent. 

But Keating, whose firm invests 

in companies looking to go 

public, noted that both of those 

companies are focused on technology 

and have potential for signifi 

cant growth. 

“When you look at the growth 

prospects, what excites IPO investors 

is the prospect of growing 

at least 20 to 25 percent over 

the next few years and Fender 

doesn’t have those prospects as 

a more mature company,” Keating 

said. 

He added that when private 

equity or venture capital firms 

own companies such as Fender, 

they look at IPOs as a way to return 

value to their partners and 

investors and will only go forward 

if they think it’s worth it. 

Fender, which was founded 

in 1946 by Leo Fender, has gone 

through several owners over the 

years. In 1965, Leo Fender sold 

the company to broadcaster CBS, 

which sold it to an investor group 

20 years later. Private equity fi rm 

RESTAURANT CHECK 

3 points — Need to clean and sanitize employee restroom and 

shower rooms. 

1 point — Need to clean and sanitize soda cooler. 

COMFORT INN 

200 Comfort Drive, Jacksonville 

ADJUSTED SCORE: 100 

No violations upon reinspection. 

HARDEE’S 

842 W. Morton Ave., Jacksonville 

SCORE: 93 

Violations: 

3 points — Must use effective fl y control. 

3 points — Need to clean fl oor in the entire facility, under all equipment. 

1 point — Clean all equipment free from grease; need to replace 

walk-in cooler door. 

NORTH CHURCH REHAB 

1021 N. Church St., Jacksonville 

SCORE: 96 

Violations: 

3 points — Must use effective roach/rodent control. 

1 point — Need to clean refrigerator in general store. 

Is something 

Please Support the 

MORGAN COUNTY 

ANIMAL SHELTER 

missing in your life? 

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Pet Today! 

Thank You 

To Our Sponsors! 

Lincoln Land Animal Clinic 245-9508 

Animal Protective League 544-7387 

John Ebrey, DVM 243-4443 

R.L. Zeller, DVM 243-3381 

Brennan Heating & Air Conditioning 

245-7181 

Dog P.E.N. Rescue 589-4269 

Barfi eld Carpets 243-2655 

Bourn Vet. Service 673-4870 

Country Club Boarding Kennel 675-2740 

KP Evans Construction 370-2427 

Doggie Daycare - Maureen Fox 245-4371 

Contain-A-Pet 741-2202 

The Pet Nanny 479-0892 

Hudson Veterinary Clinic 245-2843 

Pet Supplies Plus 245-2694 

Canine Camp 245-6857 

Joette Kennel 435-9576 

Thurman Repair 584-1043 

Weston Presidio now owns 43 

percent of Fender. The company’s 

distributor in Japan, Yamano 

Music, holds the No. 2 stake with 

14 percent of the company. 

Thomas J. Murphy, head of 

the securities and capital markets 

for the law fi rm McDermott Will 

& Emery, said companies such 

as Kayak and Palo Alto need the 

cash generated by their IPOs to 

fund their growth plans, while 

Fender probably does not. 

Weak consumer spending also 

hurts companies such as Fender, 

whose guitars range from a couple 

hundred dollars for a basic 

model to several thousand dollars 

for high-end and custom versions, 

he said. 

“It could be that once they 

got out and became more familiar 

with the market, and saw what 

things were like, they realized it 

wasn’t the right move for them,” 

Murphy said. 

Fender touts itself as the country’s 

biggest seller of electric, 

acoustic and bass guitars. Its classic 

Strat and Telecaster guitar 

models, fi rst created in the 1950s, 

still are made today. It also sells 

instruments under other brands. 

BRIEF 

CASE 

LOCAL FARM 

& BUSINESS NOTES 

In brief 

CGB DIVERSIFIED SERVIC- 

ES’ partnership with GUIDEONE 

MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. has 

been approved by the Risk Management 

Agency for the 2013 reinsurance 

year. 

CGB Diversifi ed Services will 

serve as the managing general 

agency for GuideOne in regard 

to the federal crop insurance program, 

which is administered by 

Risk Management Agency. 

GuideOne of Iowa has been a 

provider for niche markets, specifi 

cally churches and retirement 

and nursing homes, for more 

than 60 years. 

Diversifi ed Crop Insurance 

Services is a part of CGB Diversifi 

ed Services and is headquartered 

in Jacksonville. The company 

is a part of the federal crop insurance 

system and services policies 

in 28 states. 

MORGAN AND GREENE 

COUNTIES were both recently 

approved for emergency Conservation 

Reserve Program haying 

and grazing because of the 

drought. 

The haying authorization and 

the grazing authorization from 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

will be in effect Aug. 2-31. 

Before haying or grazing, 

CRP participants must request 

approval at their county Farm 

Service Agency offi ce. 

Producers also should obtain 

from the Natural Resources Conservation 

Service a modifi ed conservation 

plan that includes haying 

or grazing requirements. 

For more details, producers 

in Morgan County can call (217) 

243-1535. Producers in Greene 

County can call (217) 942-5402. 

Calendar 

A 90-minute seminar on new 

and pending TRUCKING RULES 

AND REGULATIONS FOR 

FARMERS will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 

2 at the Morgan County Extension 

Building, 104 N. Westgate 

Ave. in Jacksonville. 

Registration is required for the 

“On The Road” seminar. To register 

or for more information, call 

(217) 245-6833 before Monday. 

Please adopt a homeless animal. You can save a life. 

Do you need help getting your pet fixed? 

Schedule an appointment at our spay/neuter clinic 

Dogs - $55.00 

Female Cats - $45.00 — Male Cats $35.00 

1001 Taintor Rd., 217-544-7387 Springfield


Lincoln Land 

Auto Sales 

466 S. Main, Jacksonville 

Retirement Sale 

After 46 years of business, I have decided to retire. Before I can retire, I must liquidate all of the cars ad motorcycles. 

So if you are looking for a car, truck, scooter or motorcycle, this is the time. The state will not let 

us close until all merchandise is sold. So some will be sold below cost. 

2001 Dodge 4x4 

Ext. Cab, 4 doors, good tires, bedliner. 

Regular $7499. Closing out price: 

$ 5,699 

1993 Corvette 

Original with high dollar wheels, has hard & 

glass top, co-air Lumbar leather seats. 

Was $8999, Now: 

$ 6,499 

1996 Chevy 

Local trade. has some body damage. Runs 

good. Was $2,999 

$ 1,599 

Toy BMW 

12 Volt with charger, new 2-speed forward, 

1 reserve, holds 2 people, new. Sells $399. 

4 only. Closing price: 

$ 179 

2008 Harley Sportster 

Custom, extra chrome, only 102 miles, 

owner bought new, didn’t ride. Was $8,999. 

Closing price 

$ 5,999 

Elec. Scooter 

4800 watts. This bike runs around 65 or 

more with 2 people. Never buy gas again. 

Was $7,999 Now: 

$ 2,999 

Kandi 

Auto with reverse gets over 60 mpg. Runs 

around 75 mph. Was $7,999. 1 only at: 

$ 4,499 

1988 Ford 4x4 

Good tires, local trade, runs good. Was 

$3,999 Closing price: 

$ 1,899 

New Truck 

4 cyl. Gets around 70 mpg. Runs around 

75 mph, license only $34 a year, side fold 

down in car & driver at $7,999. 3 left at: 

$ 4,999 

1998 Mazda 

All sport 4x4, leather, top of line, local 

businessman trade. Was $3,999. 

$ 2,299 

Dirt Bike - New 

4 cycle motorcycle 3/9. Reg. $1,199. 2 

only. Closing price: 

$ 599 

New 250 Water Cooled 

Has factory radio, lots of extras, minor 

scratches. Was $5,999. 1 only. Closing: 

$ 2,699 

4 Wheelers 

Motorcycle engine, auto, only 3 left. Reg. 

$1,499. 

$ 549 

New V Twin Full Size 

Motorcycle 

Lots of extras, wire wheels, 1 only. Was 

$7999. Closing out price: 

$ 2,499 

2007 BMW 

Leather, sunroof, loaded, good gas mileage, 

was $6,999. Closing out price: 

$ 3,999 

2004 Stratus 

Runs like new, cold air. Was $6,999. Now: 

$ 4,499 

2004 Chev. Malibu 

Local car looks and drives as new. Was 

$6,999 

$ 4,499 

Elec. Bike 

Foldup electric for camping or travel or 

everyday use. Reg. $699. 2 only Closing price: 

$ 299 

New 150 CC Scooter 

This scooter has remote alarm and remote 

start. Was $4,999. 1 only. Closing price: 

$ 1,199 

Moped Scooter 

142 miles, elec. start. Was $1,499. 1 only. 

Closing price: 

$ 699 

New Motorcycle 

Vertical twin, 1 only. Was $5,999. 

Closing price: 

$ 1,899 

I must close out all of this and I will not refuse a reasonable offer. 

We have bank fi nancing, take cash, credit cards, checks. 

BMW Convertible 

Leather, a good running car at a low price. 

Was $4999. Closing out price: 

$ 1,999 

1999 Cougar 

Leather, V6 engine, top of line. Was $3,999 

$ 2,399 

2001 Lincoln LS 

New car trade, leather & loaded. Was 

$6,999. Now: 

$ 4,699 

Kids Dirt Bike 

49cc. New. Regular $599. 1 only. 

$ 349 

250 CC Scooter - New 

Has lots of extras. This scooter will run 

around 65 mph or more and gets around 

70 mpg. Was $5,999. 1 only. 

$ 1,999 

150 CC New Scooter 

ABS brake, 1 only. Was $2,999. Now: 

$ 999 

Factory Chopper New 

Was $6,999. 1 only . 

$ 3,499


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fi rst and second Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 

6 p.m. Blood is drawn in Meeting Room 4, just off the 

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More information about the Central Illinois Community 

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during the Blood Center visits to Passavant. 

• New donors for July were: Dawn Akers, Karen Baker, 

Susan Gaudio, Jeanette Hartwick, Sheila Killebrew, 

Mary Anne Lawson, Robert Thomas, Alexis Vincent and 

Derrick Wolf-Lakin. 

• Platelet donors for July were: Herschel Carriger, Patricia 

Cochran, David Deweese, Jack Hershfelt, Sheila 

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Ann Ash, Charles Ater, Thomas Atkins, Tiffany 

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HACKETT: A new, different 

exchange student experience 


process as we did exactly one year ago. May-Linn even 

helped us pick our new student. 

We had to get reapproved so we could have access to 

the website that had hundreds of profi les of different students, 

with different interests and personal traits, from 

many different countries. 

After a few days of examining profi les and trying to 

narrow down which girls would be the most compatible 

with my family and me, we fi nally picked out our new 

family member. 

Her name is Jacinta and she is a 16-year-old Chilean 

girl. 

As we started to tell our friends and family about our 

decision to host another exchange student, everyone 

was excited. But many people made the same comment: 

You can’t replace May-Linn. 

We are not trying to replace May-Linn. We are simply 

giving another student the same opportunity. 

We could not replace May-Linn with Jacinta even if we 

tried. They couldn’t be any more different. Not only are 

they from opposite sides of the Earth, but they have very 

different personalities. 

One similarity between the two girls is that they are 

both very brave for spending a signifi cant amount of 

time in a foreign country and not knowing anyone. Each 

of them are happy girls with good, positive attitudes. 

Another similarity is the preparation for their arrival. 

Jacinta will be here in just a little under a month. We are 

busy getting her room ready, preparing a welcome gift 

and a getting a few fun activities planned. We are doing 

everything we can to make Jacinta feel at home. 

We are also constantly talking on Facebook and planning 

times to Skype with both girls. 

I do have not have any expectations for our upcoming 

experience with Jacinta. I am not expecting it to be better 

or worse than the experience we had with May-Linn. 

The only thing I know is that it will be different. 

And I couldn’t be more excited. 

Katie Hackett is a senior at Jacksonville High School.

INSIDE 

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 

Cardinals clobber Cubs 

SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 

Especially in just her freshman 

and sophomore seasons. 

But Calhoun pitch-slinger 

Maddie Baalman proved in 

2012 that excellent players don’t 

rest at the top; they make the 

necessary adjustments to stay 

there. The 2011 Journal-Courier 

Softball Player of the Year 

knew that opponents would dig 

in even harder against her this 

time around, so she put in the 

work necessary to remain a step 

ahead. 

The 2012 softball season came 

and went. And after all the dugouts 

had cleared, after all the 

unis were washed and turned in, 

SPORTS JOURNAL-COURIER 

& RECREATION 

Calhoun’s Maddie Baalman prepares to deliver a pitch in a super-sectional game earlier this year. Baalman is the 2012 

Journal-Courier Softball Player of the Year. 

Attaining perfection 

Calhoun’s Baalman adds to arsenal in sophomore year 

BY BRIAN WEBSTER 


With the wealth of softball talent the area’s seen these 

past few years, it should be hard for one player to be 

so dominant. 

�� 

Maddie 

Baalman 

P, Calhoun 

Record: 23-6; Innings: 

188; Hits 

allowed: 85; Runs 

allowed: 41; Earned 

runs allowed: 29; 

Walks allowed: 55; 

Strikeouts: 296; 

ERA: 1.08 

McKenzie 

Ruyle 

2B, Carrollton 

Batting average: 

.400; Hits/at 

bats: 40-for-100; 

Triples: 1; Doubles: 

9; RBIs: 32; Runs 

scored: 39; Walks: 

6; Stolen bases: 21 

Katie 

Clayton 

OF, Triopia 


.387; Hits/at bats: 

29-for-75; Home 

runs: 3; Triples: 1; 

Doubles: 9; RBIs: 

22; Runs scored: 

32; Walks: 13; Stolen 

bases: 18 

journalcourier 

VARSITY 

myjournalcouriervarsity.com 

ALL-AREA SOFTBALL 

JC PLAYER OF THE YEAR 

and all the stats tallied and the 

springtime scorebooks put away, 

well, there Baalman was again, at 

the top of the heap. 

She is still the Journal-Courier 

Player of the Year, and now also a 

Class 1A All-State fi rst teamer. 

On paper, Baalman didn’t 

equal her pitching numbers of 

2011, when she won 28 games, 

posted a 0.81 ERA and struck 

out a staggering 371 batters. She 

came close, going 23-6 with a 

1.08 ERA and 296 Ks in 188 innings 

pitched — against hitters 

who’d been coached on how to 

hit her. 

“One reason my strikeouts 

were down this year is that most 

JOURNAL-COURIER ALL-AREA FIRST TEAM 

Kimmie 

Carlin 

C, Triopia 








bases: 6 

Madison 

Mountain 

3B, Carrollton 








bases: 21 

Bella 

Parnell 

OF, New Berlin 




runs: 7; Doubles: 

11; RBIs: 42; Runs 

scored: 37; Walks: 

12; Stolen bases: 

12 

teams caught on that I like to get 

ahead in the count,” said Baalman. 

“So a lot of them were 

swinging at the fi rst pitch.” 

Baalman didn’t mind. She 

believed that anytime a batter 

swung at her fi rst offering, 

they were hitting her pitch, not 

the one they’d want. It made for 

some quick innings. When hitters 

did manage to work the 

count against her, Baalman had 

a secret weapon ready for them, 

a pitch she’d worked on for most 

of her freshman year, but rarely 

used in games. 

The screwball. 

BAALMAN, see Page 19 ➤ 

Jocie 

Klocke 

1B, Calhoun 








bases: 26 

Katie 

Nichols 

SS, New Berlin 








bases: 38 

Kennedi 

Lindley 

OF, Beardstown 







24; Walks: 12 

INSIDE 

ALL-AREA SOFTBALL 

2nd, 3rd Teams 

• PAGE 17 

Getting 

serious 

Brooks turns discus 

into full-time job 

PAT GRAHAM 


BIRMINGHAM, England 

— Before heading over for the 

Olympics, discus thrower Lance 

Brooks refinished a driveway 

in the searing sun to earn extra 

cash. 

Maybe not the best way to 

train, but it pays the bills. 

For every athlete out there 

well-supported by sponsors, 

there are those like Brooks, who 

once held seven different jobs 

just to make ends meet. 

His busy schedule didn’t leave 

much time for training. 

Only recently did he scrap all 

but two of his jobs to concentrate 

on the discus — on coach’s orders. 

Actually, he met his coach, 

Steve DeAutremont, while working 

at a bar. 

It’s been an interesting journey 

to the London Games for the 

New Berlin graduate, who played 

basketball at Millikin University 

before returning to the discus. 

“Maybe after I get done with 

the Olympics, I can go and fi nd 

a real job,” said the 28-year-old 

Brooks, who has a degree in environmental 

science along with a 

minor in business management 

and art. “I want to get on with a 

company where I can make a career 

out of it.” 

When Brooks relocated to 

Denver fi ve years ago, he worked 

as a bouncer, bartender and a 

barbacker (taking out the trash, 

restocking the cooler). He also 

worked Colorado Rockies baseball 

games, coached at a local 

high school, punched in at an oilchange 

service and did construction. 

If he was exhausted after a 

long day, he wouldn’t train. 

Or sometimes he would just 

throw with the high school kids, 

which was problematic because 

he kept tossing the discus over 

the retaining fence and into the 

parking lot. 

“I was almost hitting cars,” 

said Brooks, who at 6-foot-6 and 

252 pounds is built like a tight 

end, but never played football. 

Early in his career, Brooks 

was primarily getting by on athleticism. 

He threw the discus in 

high school and again in college 

— once basketball season ended 

— but never really dedicated 

himself to the event. 

One day, while Brooks was 

working behind the bar, in walked 

DeAutremont, a former thrower 

himself. They struck up a conversation, 

exchanged information 

and later got in touch. DeAutremont 

watched Brooks throw a couple 

of times and agreed to work 

with him. 

“We worked here and there,” 

Brooks explained. “Maybe once a 

week, once every other week.” 

Brooks steadily improved, 

earning a spot on the world team 

last summer with a third-place 

fi nish at nationals. 

Shortly after his return from 

South Korea, his coach gave him 

an ultimatum — concentrate on 

the discus or DeAutremont was 

going elsewhere. 

“It wasn’t necessarily me quitting 

all my jobs, but I had to 

fi nd time to work out three days 

a week and throw four days a 

week,” said Brooks, who dumped 

everything but construction and 

bartending. “I was like, ‘That’s a 

lot.’ I’ve never done that before. 

I’ve been so busy that I haven’t 

been able to.” 

He found the time, fi ne-tuned 

his form and was all set for the 

U.S. trials last month. 

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BASEBALL 

Major League 

NATIONAL LEAGUE 

East Division 

W L Pct GB 

Washington 54 39 .581 — 

Atlanta 52 42 .553 2½ 

New York 47 47 .500 7½ 

Miami 44 50 .468 10½ 

Philadelphia 41 54 .432 14 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Cincinnati 54 40 .574 — 

Pittsburgh 53 40 .570 ½ 

St. Louis 49 45 .521 5 

Milwaukee 44 49 .473 9½ 

Chicago 38 55 .409 15½ 

Houston 34 61 .358 20½ 

West Division 

W L Pct GB 

San Francisco 53 41 .564 — 

Los Angeles 51 44 .537 2½ 

Arizona 46 48 .489 7 

San Diego 40 55 .421 13½ 

Colorado 35 57 .380 17 

Saturday’s Games 

Atlanta 4, Washington 0, 1st game 

L.A. Dodgers 8, N.Y. Mets 5 

San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 

innings 

Washington 5, Atlanta 2, 2nd game 

Pittsburgh 5, Miami 1 

Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 2 

St. Louis 12, Chicago Cubs 0 

Arizona 12, Houston 3 

Colorado at San Diego (n) 

Sunday’s Games 

L.A. Dodgers (Eovaldi 1-6) at N.Y. Mets 

(Niese 7-4), 12:10 p.m. 

Milwaukee (Fiers 3-3) at Cincinnati 

(Cueto 11-5), 12:10 p.m. 

Atlanta (Jurrjens 3-3) at Washington 

(Detwiler 4-3), 12:35 p.m. 

Miami (A.Sanchez 5-6) at Pittsburgh 

(Karstens 2-2), 12:35 p.m. 

San Francisco (Zito 8-6) at Philadelphia 

(Blanton 8-8), 12:35 p.m. 

Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 4-4) at St. Louis 

(Lynn 11-4), 1:15 p.m. 

Colorado (Friedrich 5-7) at San Diego 

(Ohlendorf 3-0), 3:05 p.m. 

Houston (Lyles 2-6) at Arizona (Collmenter 

1-2), 3:10 p.m. 

AMERICAN LEAGUE 

East Division 

W L Pct GB 

New York 57 37 .606 — 

Baltimore 50 44 .532 7 

Tampa Bay 49 46 .516 8½ 

Boston 48 47 .505 9½ 

Toronto 47 47 .500 10 

Central Division 

W L Pct GB 

Detroit 51 44 .537 — 

Chicago 50 44 .532 ½ 

Cleveland 47 47 .500 3½ 

Kansas City 40 53 .430 10 

Minnesota 39 55 .415 11½ 

West Division 

W L Pct GB 

Texas 56 37 .602 — 

Los Angeles 51 44 .537 6 

Oakland 50 44 .532 6½ 

Seattle 41 55 .427 16½ 

Saturday’s Games 

Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 1 

Texas 9, L.A. Angels 2 

Baltimore 3, Cleveland 1 

Kansas City 7, Minnesota 3 

Seattle 2, Tampa Bay 1 

Toronto 7, Boston 3 

Oakland 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 

Sunday’s Games 

Chicago White Sox (Humber 4-4) at 

SCOREBOARD 

Detroit (Ja.Turner 0-1), 12:05 p.m. 

Toronto (H.Alvarez 5-7) at Boston 

(Lester 5-7), 12:35 p.m. 

Seattle (Beavan 4-6) at Tampa Bay (M. 

Moore 6-6), 12:40 p.m. 

Minnesota (Deduno 0-0) at Kansas City 

(Guthrie 0-0), 1:10 p.m. 

Baltimore (Britton 0-0) at Cleveland 

(Tomlin 5-6), 2:05 p.m. 

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 10-3) at Oakland 

(B.Colon 6-8), 3:05 p.m. 

Texas (M.Harrison 12-4) at L.A. Angels 

(Haren 6-8), 7:05 p.m. 

Box Score 

CARDINALS 12, CUBS 0 

Chicago St. Louis 

ab r h bi ab r h bi 

DeJess cf 3 0 1 0 Furcal ss 4 2 2 1 

Campn ph-cf 0 0 0 0 Descals ss 0 0 0 0 

SCastro ss 4 0 1 0 Schmkr 2b-rf 4 2 2 3 

Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 0 Hollidy lf 3 1 1 2 

ASorin lf 3 0 0 0 Brwnng p 0 0 0 0 

Clevngr ph 1 0 0 0 VMarte p 0 0 0 0 

LaHair rf 3 0 1 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0 

Soto c 4 0 0 0 Beltran rf 5 1 2 1 

Barney 2b 3 0 0 0 Greene pr-2b 0 0 0 0 

Dolis p 0 0 0 0 YMolin c 3 1 0 0 

Valuen 3b-2b 1 0 0 0 T.Cruz ph-c 1 0 0 0 

JeBakr ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Brkmn 1b 5 0 2 0 

Garza p 1 0 0 0 Freese 3b 5 2 3 2 

Germn p 0 0 0 0 Jay cf 4 1 1 2 

Russell p 0 0 0 0 Westrk p 2 0 1 0 

Corpas p 0 0 0 0 Craig ph 2 2 2 1 

Mather 3b 1 0 0 0 MCrpnt lf 1 0 0 0 

Totals 29 0 4 0 Totals 39 12 16 12 

Chicago 000 000 000— 0 

St. Louis 000 000 (12)0x—12 

E—S.Castro (14). DP—Chicago 2, St. 

Louis 1. LOB—Chicago 6, St. Louis 9. 

2B—Schumaker (11), Holliday (23), Beltran 

(13), Berkman (7), Freese 2 (17), Jay 

(7), Craig 2 (16). 3B—Schumaker (3). 

SB—Berkman (2). S—Germano, Schu- 

SPORTS 

maker. 

IP H R ER BB SO 

Chicago 

Garza 3 2 0 0 2 3 

Germano L,0-1 3 4 1 1 0 1 

Russell 2-3 4 6 6 2 0 

Corpas 0 3 4 4 1 0 

Dolis 1 1-3 3 1 1 0 2 

St. Louis 

Westbrook W,8-8 7 3 0 0 2 5 

Browning 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 

V.Marte 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 

Rosenthal 1 1 0 0 0 0 

Germano pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. 

Corpas pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. 

WP—Dolis. 

TRANSACTIONS 

BASEBALL 

Major League Baseball 

MLB—Suspended Cleveland RHP 

Roberto Hernandez three weeks for 

engaging in age and identity fraud. 

American League 

BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Added INF 

Omar Quintanilla to the roster. Designated 

OF Steve Pearce for assignment. 

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Acquired RHP 

Brett Myers and cash considerations 

from Houston for RHP Matt Heidenreich 

and LHP Blair Walters and a player to be 

named. Optioned RHP Brian Omogrosso 

and RHP Dylan Axelrod to Charlotte (IL). 

Reinstated RHP Jesse Crain from the 15day 

DL. 

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Signed LHP 

JC Romero to a minor league contract 

and assigned him to Columbus (IL). 

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Optioned 

LHP Francisley Bueno to Omaha (PCL). 

MINNESOTA TWINS—Placed 1B Justin 

Morneau on the paternity list. Recalled 

1B Chris Parmelee from Rochester (IL). 

B R I T I S H O P E N 

Scott takes 4-shot lead 

BY DOUG FERGUSON 


LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — The ball tumbled 

over the edge of a pot bunker and appeared to put Adam 

Scott in the worst spot he had been all day at the British 

Open. 

All he saw was opportunity. 

From the wet sand right of the 17th green, Scott had to 

clear two more pot bunkers to reach the green, with the 

flag only five paces from the edge. Scott was thinking 

about birdie, not trying to save par, so he confi dently told 

caddie Steve Williams, “I can handle this.” The shot came 

out pure, trickled by the cup and settled a foot away. 

The more relevant questions are one round away. 

Can he handle a four-shot lead, knowing this is a year 

when no lead appears safe? Can he handle a leaderboard 

with four major champions among the top six names, 

including Tiger Woods? Can he handle the wind that is 

expected to fi nally arrive at Royal Lytham & St. Annes? 

“I’m just happy to be in this position,” Scott said. “To 

be honest, I’m really excited about tomorrow.” 

Scott has never had a better chance to end his long 

wait for a major — and he owes much of that to his long 

putter. He stayed in the game early with two key par 

saves, pulled away with three birdies around the turn and 

was solid at the end Saturday for a 2-under 68 and a fourshot 

lead over Graeme McDowell and Brandt Snedeker. 

It’s the fourth time in the last nine majors that a player 

had a four-shot lead with one round to go. Rory McIlroy 

at the 2011 Masters is the only player who didn’t win. 

Scott has been so steady all week that he has put himself 

in position to become only the fourth Open champion 

with all rounds in the 60s. 

“It was all pretty solid stuff, considering the circumstances 

and how much trouble there is on this golf 

course,” Scott said. 

Scott narrowly missed a 20-foot birdie putt on the fi nal 

hole that would have given him a share of the 54-hole 

Open scoring record. He settled for 11-under 199 and will 

play in the fi nal group with McDowell, who had a 67 to 

get into the fi nal group for the second straight time at a 

major. 

Snedeker, who went from a one-shot lead to a six-shot 

defi cit in seven holes, birdied two of his last three holes 

to salvage a 73. 

Right behind them were three major champions, starting 

with the guy who has won 14 of them. Woods recovered 

from a sloppy start and was within three shots of the 

lead on the front nine until Scott pulled away. Woods 

missed a short par putt on the 15th and didn’t give himself 

many good looks at birdie on the back nine for a 70, 

leaving him fi ve shots behind. Woods has never won a 

major when trailing going into the last round. 

Three-time major champion Ernie Els was solid in his 

round of 68 and was six back, along with former Masters 

champion Zach Johnson, who had a 66. 

District 17 to play for state title 

BY JASON FARMER 


One week after coaching the Tri County Thunder to an 

ASA state title, District 17 All-Star coach Tom Orr has his 

team one win away from winning an Illinois Little League 

state title in the Senior League division. 

Of the 12 players on District 17’s roster, eight of them 

(Megan Winston, Aileana Rawlins, Jenna Kelso, Claire 

Hardwick, Jill Harris, Katie Wilson, Allison Dewald and 

Kennedi Lindley) also played for Orr on the 

Thunder. 

“I defi nitely think (last weekend’s competition) 

is a big part of how we are doing,” Orr 

said. “Not to take anything away from the people 

we are playing this weekend in Moline, but 

the competition was defi nitely a little stiffer last 

weekend at the ASA level in the state tournament.” 

The District 17 All-Stars, playing out of 

Beardstown, beat South Cicero 10-0 in six 

innings to advance to today’s championship 

game. Whomever the All-Stars face, it will be a 

team they have already played. 

After District 17 beat Mendota on Friday, 

Mendota won its loser’s bracket game and will 

face South Cicero today at noon. The winner 

will play District 17 at 2 p.m. for the title 

“I don’t want the girls to get overconfi dent and think 

these are pushover teams and that we should be able to 

beat them with no problem,” Orr said. “I want them to go 

out focused and make sure that they know that these 

teams can jump up and bite you if you don’t take care of 

business.” 

On Saturday, District 17 scored single runs in the fi rst 

and second innings to take the early lead. Then in the 

fourth inning, the All-Stars opened with three straight hits 

— a double (Shelby Koehler), a single (Shelby Ward) and 

a triple (Hardwick) — as they increased their lead to 7-0. 

“We had three hits right in a row,” Orr said. “We ended 

up scoring fi ve runs on fi ve hits.” 

“I want them to go 

out focused and make 

sure that they know 

that these teams 

can jump up and bite 

you if you don’t take 

care of business.” 

— Tom Orr 

Adam Scott plays a shot out of the bunker on 

the 17th hole at Royal Lytham & St. Annes golf 

club during the third round of the British Open 

Golf Championship, Lytham St. Annes, England 

Saturday. 

After a scoreless fi fth inning, the District 17 All-Stars 

scored three more runs in the bottom of the sixth to fi nish 

off the game. 

“All of the runs were scored with two outs,” Orr said. 

After a fl y out and a pop out, Lindley reached on a twobase 

error. Winston followed with a single to put runners 

on the corners before Rawlins cleared the bases with a 

two-run triple. Rawlins scored the fi nal run on a single by 

Kelso to end the game. 

“We have 12 quality ball players,” Orr said. 

“Everybody can play at least two positions and 

some can play more, so I don’t have any depth 

problems.” 

Winston fi nished the day 2-for-2 while Rawlins 

was 2-for-4. Both recorded a triple and 

scored two runs. Ward was 2-for-3 and also 

scored twice. Hardwick and Rawlins were the 

only batters to have multiple RBIs for District 

17. Hardwick plated two runs in the fourth 

inning while Rawlins’ RBIs came in the sixth. 

“Our offense is doing a good job,” Orr said. 

“I think it was just like (Friday’s) game, where 

we got eight runs in the fi rst two innings and 

then the girls went into ‘coast mode’ for an 

inning or two. I told them you have to keep 

your foot on the throttle because you don’t 

want to give a team a chance to get back into 

the game, especially when you are playing in a doubleelimination 

tournament.” 

Rachel Motley struck out nine and allowed just one hit 

over the fi rst four innings. Koehler struck out three while 

pitching two perfect innings for District 17. 

“They both combined for a one-hitter today,” Orr said. 

With a win today, the District 17 All Stars will qualify for 

the regional tournament in South Bend, Ind. 

“The next step after the state tournament is South 

Bend, Indiana,” Orr said. “We would play against six other 

states plus the host team, and that is usually a pretty good 

tournament, like the ASA tournament. You get some good 

competition there.” 

AP/PETER MORRISON 

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Rose Wilson golf tournament July 28 

The Third Annual “Lucky Hole Seven” Rose Wilson 

Memorial Golf Tournament will be July 28 at 8 a.m. at 

Plum Creek Golf Course in Winchester. It will be a fourperson 

best-ball tournament with prizes, games and 

food. Cost is $200 per team. All proceeds go to carcinoid 

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Sox fall out of 1st 

BY NOAH TRISTER 


DETROIT — The Chicago White Sox fell back to second 

place for the fi rst time in nearly a month. 

It had been even longer since Chris Sale left the ballpark 

with a loss. 

Sale allowed fi ve runs in seven innings, and the Detroit 

Tigers took over fi rst place in the AL Central on Saturday 

with a 7-1 victory over the Chicago. The White Sox had 

occupied the top spot since a June 24 win over Milwaukee 

put them a half-game ahead of Cleveland. 

Now the Tigers lead by a half-game over Chicago. Sale 

(11-3) lost for the fi rst time since May 12. 

Detroit will go for a three-game sweep Sunday, sending 

rookie Jacob Turner (0-1) to the mound against Philip 

Humber (4-4). “You just keep coming out and playing,” 

White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “Nobody said it 

would be easy.” 

Before the game, Chicago acquired Houston reliever 

Brett Myers and cash considerations for two relievers and 

a player to be named. 

Rick Porcello pitched brilliantly into the ninth for 

Detroit, Brennan Boesch hit a three-run homer and Austin 

Jackson drove in the other four runs for the Tigers. 

Pike County’s rally 

falls short at state 

BY JASON FARMER 


Having already completed one comeback to tie the 

game, a second come-from-behind rally was not in the 

cards for the Pike County Little League team. Pike County 

lost 6-5 to East Side in the Little League Junior Division of 

the Illinois State Tournament in Hillside Saturday. 

“We got guys on at second and third in the bottom of 

the seventh,” Pike County coach Mike Davis said. “But we 

failed to execute a squeeze bunt, and the guy got thrown 

out at the plate. Then the next guy flied out and that was 

the game.” 

Davis said his team was “without a doubt” nervous as 

they played in the first game of the state tournament. 

“After the second inning we held them scoreless until 

the top of the seventh inning,” Davis said. 

Pike County gave up five runs in the first two innings 

but tied the game at 5-all with a five-run fifth inning. 

Pike County opened the fifth with a leadoff walk. The 

next batter was hit by a pitch. That brought Nick Davis to 

the plate, and he came through with a ground-rule double 

to drive in a run. 

The next batter followed with a two-run double as Pike 

County cut the deficit to 5-3. An error then put runners on 

the corners. After a stolen base, Pike County had runners 

on second and third. 

The next batter hit a ground ball to the shortstop, who 

made an error on the throw to first, allowing the runners 

to advance. Pike County scored its final run on an RBI single 

to tie the score. 

Mason McTucker threw 95 pitches as he took the loss 

for Pike County. 

“The first couple of innings it wasn’t his fault,” Davis 

said. “The defense really let us down. Mason then settled 

down and kept the ball down, throwing a lot of first-pitch 

strikes. The defense tightened up behind him and started 

a couple of double plays.” 

Pike County plays Clear Ridge this afternoon at 1 p.m. 

in the loser’s bracket. If Pike County wins, it will play again 

on Monday. 

LAGRANGE 18, RUSHVILLE 2 

In the Junior League Division of the Illinois Little 

League Softball state tournament, Rushville lost to 

LaGrange 18-2 in the first game in Morrison. 

Rushville drops to the loser’s bracket and will have to 

battle back like it did in the District 17 Tournament to have 

a chance to move on. Rushville plays this afternoon at 2 

p.m.

SECOND TEAM 

Pitcher: Elisabeth Werries 

(Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia); 

Catcher: Kelsey Sargent 

(Griggsville-Perry); 1B: Jill 

Harris (Beardstown); 2B: 

Emalie Shoemaker (Triopia- 

Meredosia-Virginia); 3B: Morgan 

Smith (Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia); 

SS: Nadia Berry 

(Carrollton); OF: Amie Simms 

(New Berlin); OF: Aileana 

Rawlins (Beardstown); OF: 

Jill Brackett (Calhoun) 

THIRD TEAM 

Pitcher: Adele Cook (Carrollton); 

Catcher: Kortni Dunlap 

(West Central); 1B: Ashlyn 

Myers (Jacksonville); 2B: Ali 

Hurley (Calhoun); 3B: Lauren 

Killion (New Berlin); SS: 

Aimee Kerley (Brown 

County); OF: Shelby Pruett 

(Pleasant Hill); OF: Megan 

Winston (Brown County); OF: 

Abby Rose (Calhoun) 

Note: Selections based on statistics, 

coaches votes and observations by reporters. 

SPORTS 

Continued from Page 17 

Baalman added that to an arsenal 

that already included a 

good, low fastball and a wicked 

riser. Anytime Baalman needed 

an infi eld pop-up with an opposing 

runner in scoring position, 

the screwball made it happen. 

“My dad taught me the screwball 

last year but I didn’t use it 

much,” Baalman said. “All this 

year, I used it as my out pitch.” 

While remaining 

dominant on 

the mound, Baalman 

made her most 

alarming strides at 

the plate. She’d hit 

only .216 as a freshman, 

but vowed to 

work on being a better 

hitter in 2012. She 

improved so much 

that she made herself 

one of the area’s best 

bats, hitting nearly 

200 points higher 

at .406 (39-of-96) with one home 

run, 23 RBIs and 31 runs scored 

while leading the area with 15 

doubles. Baalman said she owed 

the improvement to a simple adjustment 

and a lot of practice at 

making it a habit. 

“Last season, I popped everything 

up instead of hitting 

line drives like I wanted to,” said 

Baalman. “So I focused more on 

trying to hit the top of the ball 

this year.” 

She didn’t worry that swinging 

at the top of pitches would 

lead to more ground balls, not 

if it also meant hitting more line 

drives. Besides … 

“I’d rather make the (opposing) 

defense play ground balls 

than pop-ups,” Baalman said. 

Still, Baalman was a pitcher 

fi rst, and her 2012 season highlights 

refl ected that. One of them 

came about a month into the season, 

in an April 20 showdown 

with Payson Seymour. That afternoon, 

Baalman pitched all 15 innings 

and struck out 33 hitters as 

Calhoun edged the Indians 3-2. 

The two teams would meet again 

six weeks later, in the Class 1A 

super-sectionals. 

Before then, the only rough 

patch Baalman experienced 

came at the end of April after 

she took a hard line drive to her 

shoulder and had to miss three 

games. But when she got back, 

she was stronger than ever, recording 

three of her most impressive 

wins in fairly rapid succession: 

a three-hit shutout victory 

over West Central on May 

3; an 11-0 no-hit victory against 

Carlinville on May 8; and then on 

May 16, she struck out 14 of 15 

batters in another 11-0 win, a perfect 

game against North Greene 

in the Brussels Regional. 

“That North 

Greene game was my 

fi rst perfect game as 

a high school pitcher,” 

Baalman said. 

“So that made it kind 

of special.” 

Baalman struck 

out eight in a tough, 

5-3 victory over 

archrival Carrollton 

to help the Lady Warriors 

win another regional 

title. Then it 

was back home to 

Hardin to host sectionals, where 

Baalman pitched back-to-back 1- 

0 shutout victories over Lebanon 

and Triopia-Meredosia to bring 

her team back to the precipice of 

a return trip to the Class 1A Final 

Four. 

But it wasn’t to be. Payson 

Seymour was waiting for Calhoun 

at super-sectionals. The 

Warriors took a 2-0 lead into the 

bottom of the sixth, but then the 


Cardinals clobber Cubs, 12-0 

R.B. FALLSTROM 


ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis 

Cardinals totaled 15 runs in their 

six-game trip to open the second 

half. They threatened that total in 

a single inning against the Chicago 

Cubs. 

Jake Westbrook worked seven 

innings of three-hit ball and 

the Cardinals fi nally backed him 

— and then some — by tying a 

76-year-old major league record 

with seven doubles in seventh inning 

of a 12-0 victory on Saturday 

night. 

“I knew my spot was coming 

up hitting so I knew I was probably 

done,” Westbrook said. “I 

just wanted to hopefully get some 

runs there, and we did. It was a 

fun inning.” 

Rafael Furcal’s go-ahead sin- 

gle in the seventh turned out to 

be a mere appetizer as the Cardinals 

also matched an 86-year-old 

franchise record for runs in an inning. 

St. Louis totaled 10 hits with 

multiple hits by three players including 

pinch-hitter Allen Craig, 

who doubled twice with an RBI. 

“It was crazy. I don’t think I’ve 

seen anything like that in the big 

leagues,” Craig said. “I came into 

the game in a big spot and I was 

glad I could make something happen, 

and the rest of the guys took 

it from there.” 

The Cardinals managed five 

hits the first six innings before 

jumping on Justin Germano (0-1) 

and three other relievers. They 

tied the major record for doubles 

in an inning by the Boston Bees 

at St. Louis in the fi rst inning of 

Game 1 of a doubleheader on 

Calhoun’s Maddie Baalman prepares to deliver a pitch 

against Carrollton in the Brussels Regional title game. 

JOURNAL-COURIER FILE/JASON FARMER 

Aug. 25, 1936. 

They tied the franchise record 

for runs in an inning set Sept. 16, 

1926, against the Phillies, in the 

third inning of the opener of a 

doubleheader in Philadelphia. 

“We’ve had some against us 

that felt like 12,” manager Mike 

Matheny said. “You look at this 

offense and they can come in 

bundles. 

“It’s nice to see the guys, too, 

just keep putting good at-bats 

together no matter how many 

runs we’ve had or how many hits 

they’ve had already.” 

The Cardinals totaled nine 

doubles for the fi rst time in franchise 

history since setting a modern 

major league record with 13 

doubles on July 12, 1931, against 

the Cubs. 

Cubs starter Matt Garza was 

Wiggins all but clinches Tour win 

BY JAMEY KEATEN 


CHARTRES, France — For 

Bradley Wiggins, the champagne 

on the Champs-Elysees is about 

to fl ow. 

He all but locked up the Tour 

de France title with a tour-deforce 

performance to win the fi - 

nal time trial — putting him on 

the cusp of becoming the first 

Briton to win cycling’s showpiece 

race. 

Wiggins blew away the fi eld in 

Saturday’s race against the clock 

in Stage 19, his second Tour victory 

this year in a time trial, his specialty. 

“I really wanted to go out 

there and fi nish with a bang, and 

fortunately I was able to do that,” 

said Wiggins, noting he realized 

the breadth of emotion when he 

spotted his mechanic in tears. 

Even before the Tour started, 

Wiggins was the favorite. The 32year-old 

rider took the yellow jer- 

sey in Stage 7. Then came questions 

about the unity of his Sky 

Team, pre-race preparations and 

his ability to get up mountains — 

all of which he put to rest. 

There was also the absence of 

two-time Tour champion and cycling 

superstar Alberto Contador, 

who is serving a doping ban. 

That led many to wonder whether 

Wiggins was really the sport’s 

best. 

Wiggins has been vocal in his 

criticism of doping in cycling and 

said the sport may be changing 

after the sport’s governing body 

put tough controls in place. “I 

think the Tour is a lot more human 

now with everything the UCI 

is doing,” he said, suggesting that 

dopers — and their intermittently 

astonishing performances — are 

being driven from the sport. 

Wiggins is a three-time Olympic 

track champion who made the 

diffi cult transition to road racing. 

M A J O R L E A G U E B A S E B A L L 

He crashed out the Tour a year 

ago with a broken collarbone. 

He envied Australia’s Cadel Evans, 

who had the elation of winning 

the yellow jersey. “That was 

my motivation: I want to feel what 

he’s feeling,” Wiggins said. 

The Team Sky leader obliterated 

the pack in the 33-mile ride 

from Bonneval to Chartres and 

punched the air and shouted as 

he crossed the fi nish line. 

Sunday’s ride to the fi nish on 

Paris’ Champs-Elysees will be 

largely ceremonial — Wiggins is 

too far ahead for any competitor 

to erase his lead over the 75-mile 

ride from Rambouillet. 

After Saturday’s stage, with 

victory secure, Wiggins sighed 

and looked skyward as he hoisted 

the winner’s bouquet. 

“I have a lot of emotion right 

now,” he said. “It’s the stuff of 

dreams to win the fi nal time trial 

and seal the Tour.” 

BAALMAN: Perfect game was ‘kind of special’ 

“My dad taught me the 

screwball last year but 

I didn’t use it much. All 

this year, I used it as 

my out pitch.” 

— Maddie Baalman 

taken out after three scoreless innings 

with cramping in his right 

triceps, an injury that wasn’t obvious 

and prompted speculation 

that he had been traded. The 

Cubs added a bit of intrigue, waiting 

until the bottom of the sixth 

to announce the injury and the 

fact X-rays — as a precaution for 

possible elbow issues — were 

negative. “The trade thing, I’m 

not so concerned about that,” 

Garza said. “I’d rather go out 

there and throw eight or nine (innings) 

than come in here and say, 

“I can’t throw the ball.’” 

Germano got unlimited 

warmups in the fourth, an indication 

he was entering because 

of an injury or ejection, although 

the rule book also allows for an 

unspecified sudden emergency. 

Germano allowed a run in three- 

Continued from Page 17 

Ore., he threw the discus 211 

feet, 5 inches on his third attempt. 

He was the leader in the 

clubhouse and on his way to winning 

the event. 

However, he had yet to hit the 

Olympic “A” standard of 213-3 to 

qualify for London, making only 

the “B” mark. He didn’t realize at 

the time he needed to hit the “A” 

standard to go. 

On his last attempt, he threw 

it a personal best 213-9 to earn 

his spot. 

“I would’ve won trials and 

wouldn’t have gone,” he said. 

“But maybe not knowing helped 

me. That would’ve been a lot 

more pressure.” 

Another job awaited when 

he returned home. Nothing too 

strenuous, just mixing some materials 

in a bucket, pouring it on 

a driveway and using a squeegee 

to apply it. 

Allyson Bingham (Griggsville-Perry) • Samantha 

Black (Pleasant Hill) • Jordan Bossert 

(NBWF) • Marlee Jo Bradshaw (Griggsville-Perry) 

• Kaytlyn Brierton (Brown County) • Emily 

Carls (Triopia) • McKenzie Carsey (Pleasant 

Hill) • Laura Chamberlain (Pittsfi eld) • Morgan 

Davidsmeier (Beardstown) • Daeriel DeGroot 

(PORTA) • Hannah Dewitt (Griggsville-Perry) 

• Katelyn Dunlap (Carrollton) • Tasha Eckstam 

(Routt) • Mallory Edwards (Jacksonville) • Emily 

Elliott (North Greene) • Destiny Embree (Griggsville-Perry) 

• Brisco Esquivel (Jacksonville) • 

Jessie Finke (NBWF) • Morgan Floyd (Triopia) 

• Madyson Fox (Beardstown) • Samantha Gerson 

(Calhoun) • Elaini Godar (Calhoun) • Emily 

Graham (Jacksonville) • Natalie Halpin (Routt) 

• Kate Hance (Beardstown) • Claire Hardwick 

(Beardstown) • Maddie Henry (NBWF) • 

Abbie Hoesman (North Greene) • Arika Hull 

(North Greene) • Megan Icenogle (Beardstown) 

• Mackenzie James (Pittsfi eld) • Bekah Kean 

(Pittsfi eld) • Kyra Kessinger (Griggsville-Perry) 

• Julie Kinne (Pleasant Hill) • Peyton Kirkpatrick 

(NBWF) • Emily Kitchell (Brown County) • 

plus innings before the roof caved 

in on the Cubs, who allowed 12 

runs in an inning for the fi rst time 

since July 30, 2010, at Colorado. 

James Russell gave up a career-high 

six runs on four hits 

in two-thirds of an inning. Manuel 

Corpas gave up four runs without 

getting an out, surrendering 

three doubles and a walk. 

“Russell’s our setup guy,” manager 

Dale Sveum said. “He’s got a 

long four months basically without 

a hiccup like that, and those 

things will happen. 

“Unfortunately, it was a nothing-nothing 

game.” 

Previously, the Cubs hadn’t allowed 

more than six runs in a single 

inning. The Cardinals topped 

their previous season best of 

eight runs April 27 against the 

Brewers. 

BROOKS: Wants to find career 

“It’s not super hard work,” he 

said. 

He’s actually become a selling 

point for his company; want an 

Olympian working on your next 

project? 

“If we’re on the edge of a job, 

it’s easy to get a conversation going,” 

Brooks said. “We met with 

a general contractor and my boss 

is like, ‘Hey, we need to fi gure out 

a timeline because he’s going to 

the Olympics.’ The general contractor 

is like, ‘Oh, that’s cool. My 

neighbor is going.’ My boss was 

like, ‘No, he’s participating in the 

Olympics.’ 

“My ultimate goal when I 

get back from London is to take 

time off and fi nd a career. I have 

a degree. There’s no reason 

why I shouldn’t have a good job. 

Throwing has been great for me. 

But when it comes down to it, I 

want to fi nd something I can retire 

on.” 

Indians rallied for three runs and 

held on to win. 

Baalman walked the leadoff 

hitter in Payson Seymour’s 

three-run sixth, and has vowed to 

make decreasing the number of 

walks she allows a top priority for 

2013. Heck, she only walked 55 

in 188 innings in 2012. “That day, 

that walk really bothered me,” 

Baalman said. “But I shook it off 

after that. I realized I still had 

a hundred more games to play 

through the summer.” 

When the softball season 

comes back around at Calhoun 

in 2013, Baalman and her teammates 

will try to make another 

run at the Final Four. She acknowledged 

that since placing 

fourth in 2011, the team has had 

much higher expectations placed 

on it. Winning isn’t the treat it 

used to be; it’s expected. 

“Last year, we won regionals 

and I remember after that, everyone 

said, ‘Great job! You won regionals!’” 

Baalman said. “When 

we won regionals again this year, 

people were like, ‘OK, you won 

regionals. Now keep going and 

get back to state.’” 

Calhoun missed it by an inning 

this year. 

“There was defi nitely a lot 

of expectations on us this year,” 

Baalman said. “But I think we 

held up our end of the deal pretty 

well.” 

H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N 

Abby Klunk (Calhoun) • Addi Lagemann (Pittsfi 

eld)• Kim Lake (Carrollton) • Breanna Leerhoff 

(Brown County) • Hannah Lesemann (Carrollton) 

• Kayla Lovel (Carrollton) • Vanessa 

Markert (Brown County) • Kendra McEvers (GF- 

NW) • Payton McKinnon (Brown County) • Kinsey 

McMillen (North Greene) • Catherine Mc- 

Quillan (North Greene) • Rachel Moore (West 

Central) • Gena Nash (West Central) • Lorren 

Newingham (Pittsfi eld) • Kearsta Ornellas (GF- 

NW) • Becca Oswald (Calhoun) • Cassidy Palan 

(Carrollton) • Olivia Pate (Beardstown) • 

Courtney Pennock (Pittsfi eld) • Jesseca Pirkle 

(Routt) • Allison Roberts (West Central) • Leah 

Rohrer (Brown County) • Annie Rose (Calhoun) 

• Hannah Salrin (Rushville-Industry) • Carlie 

Sides (Triopia) • Madeline Smith (GFNW) • Rachel 

Smith (Griggsville-Perry) • Madison Struble 

(Carrollton) • Michala Swanger (Rusville-Industry) 

• McKinsey Vinyard (Griggsville-Perry) 

• McKenzie Vose (Griggsville-Perry) • Jenny 

Ward (North Greene) • Becca Wegs (Brown 

County) • Brandy Wise (Rushville-Industry) • 

Leah Wynn (NBWF)


Victims’ names emerge in theater rampage 

1 was celebrating birthday; 

1 survived Canada shooting 

BY GILLIAN FLACCUS 

AND KRISTEN WYATT 


AURORA, Colo. — Ashley Moser drifted 

in and out of consciousness in the ICU, 

a bullet lodged in her throat and a gunshot 

wound to her abdomen. In her waking moments, 

she called for her 6-year-old daughter, 

Veronica. 

Nobody had the heart to tell the 25year-old 

mother that Veronica was already 

dead, the youngest victim killed at a Colorado 

movie theater in one of the worst 

mass shootings in U.S. history. 

“All she’s asking about, of course, is her 

daughter,” said Annie Dalton, Ashley Moser’s 

aunt. 

Dalton said Veronica was “a vibrant 

6-year-old. She was excited, she’d just 

learned how to swim. She was a great little 

girl, excited about life — she should be 

at 6 years old.” 

The little girl was among those who 

died when a gunman barged into a crowded 

theater in a Denver suburb, set off gas 

canisters and opened fi re, killing 12 people 

and wounding 58 others. 

Colorado authorities released on Saturday 

the names of the victims killed in the 

rampage. There were eight men, three 

women and Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the 

youngest slain. Gordon Cowden was the 

oldest at 51. All died of gunshot wounds, 

according to the Arapahoe County coroner’s 

offi ce. 

One of the 12, Matthew McQuinn has 

been tentatively identifi ed and is awaiting 

fi nal identifi cation, though his family’s attorney 

confi rmed to The Associated Press 

that McQuinn was among those killed. 

Rob Scott of Dayton, Ohio, said Mc- 

Quinn died after diving in front of his girlfriend 

and her older brother to shield them 

from the gunfi re. 

His girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, was in 

fair condition after being shot in the knee. 

Her brother, Nick Yowler, was not injured. 

The couple had moved to Colorado 

from Ohio this past fall, Scott said. 

For Alex Sullivan, it was to be a weekend 

of fun: He planned to ring in his 27th 

birthday with friends at the special midnight 

showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” 

and then celebrate his fi rst wedding anniversary 

Sunday. 

Late Friday, Sullivan’s family confi rmed 

that police told them he was among those 

killed. 

“He was a very, very good young man,” 

said Sullivan’s uncle, Joe Loewenguth. “He 

always had a smile, always made you laugh. 

He had a little bit of comic in him. Witty, 

smart. He was loving, had a big heart.” 

Micayla Medek, 23, also was killed. 

Her father’s cousin, Anita Busch, said 

the news, while heartbreaking, was a relief 

for the family after an agonizing day. 

“You can’t go that long without knowing,” 

she said. 

Navy cryptologist John Larimer went to 

the theater with three other sailors from 

nearby Buckley Air Force Base, Navy 

Cmdr. Jeffrey Jakuboski said. Larimer was 

shot and killed, and Jakuboski said losing 

Larimer felt like losing “one of my sons.” 

“Losing a sailor, whether it’s in combat 

or whether it’s in a horrifi c domestic situation 

like this, it’s hard. It’s tough,” he said. 

Larimer’s family said his brother is 

working with the Navy to take his body 

home to Crystal Lake, Ill. 

An Air Force reservist who worked at 

Buckley also was killed in the rampage. 

Sgt. Jesse Childress, 29, was a cyber-sys- 

Passavant Area 

Hospital volunteers 

DOORBELL DINNERS Wesley Chapel 

LIFELINE: Shirley Dufelmeier, Judi 

Flynn, Winnie Winnie Locher, Marie Paul, 

Connie Walker Bev Wilson, Roxie Werries 

GIFT SHOP CHAIR: Mary McCloskey 

and Lisa Feller 

GIFT SHOP CO-CHAIRS: Barb Hansmeier 

and Debbie Richards 

SENIOR’S REPRESENTATIVE: Sonnie 

Heyer 

LAUNDRY: Kara Erickson, Tim Holt 

TODAY 

GIFT SHOP: Elaine Hynes, Carlene 

Birdsell 

INFORMATION CENTER: Jo Westberg, 

Linda Hutton, Kathryn Knack 

MONDAY 

GIFT SHOP: Maria Panella, Peggy Flynn, 

Sharon O’Brien 

INFORMATION CENTER: Marian 

Wells, Winnie Locher, Kathryn Knack 

SURGERY WAITING ROOM: Jo Westberg, 

Dixie Little 

HOSPITAL MESSENGER: Briana 

Peper, Jeanne Byers 

PATIENT REGISTRATION: Tom Anthony 

IMAGING: Judy Farmer 

EAST WING INFORMATION: Mary 

Ann Melton, Marge Corder 

MAIL: Michele Underbrink 

AMBULATORY SURGERY: Judi Flynn, 

Mike Miller 

CHAPLAIN’S OFFICE: Lynda Nolan 

ASSOCIATED PRESS/TED S. WARREN 

Isaac Pacheo, who said he was a good friend of theater shooting victim Alex 

Sullivan, is comforted Saturday as he visits a memorial near the movie 

theater in Aurora, Colo. Twelve people were killed and dozens were injured 

in the attack early Friday at the packed theater during a showing of 

the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises.” Police have identified the suspected 

shooter as James Holmes, 24. 

The victims ... 

Twelve people who died in the Colorado movie 

shooting have been identifi ed by the Arapahoe 

County coroner: 

• Jessica Ghawi, 24, of Denver; aspiring 

sports journalist 

• Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6, whose mother 

is critically injured 

• Matt McQuinn, 27, of Denver; technical 

support provider 

• Alex Sullivan, 27, of Aurora; worked at Red 

Robin restaurant 

• Micayla Medek, 23, of Westminster, Colo.; 

student at Aurora Community College 

• John Larimer, 27, of Buckley Air Force 

Base, Colo.; Navy cryptologist 

• Jesse Childress, 29, of Thornton, Colo.; Air 

Force cyber-systems operator 

• Gordon W. Cowden, 51, of Aurora; smallbusiness 

owner and father of two teens 

• Jonathan T. Blunk, 26, of Aurora; worked at 

a hardware store, U.S. Navy veteran 

• Rebecca Ann Wingo, 32, of Aurora; customer 

relations representative at a mobile medical 

imaging company 

• Alexander C. Teves, 24, of Phoenix; earned 

a master’s degree in counseling psychology in 

June from University of Denver 

• Alexander J. Boik, 18; incoming fi rst-year 

student at Rocky Mountain College of Art and 

Design; planned to become an art teacher 

tems operator from Thornton, Colo., Air 

Force Capt. Andrew Williams said. 

A vigil was to be held Saturday night for 

Alexander J. Boik of Aurora. His family issued 

a statement saying he was loved by 

all that knew him and was dating “a beautiful 

young lady” who was with him at the 

theater and survived. 

MEDICAL RECORDS 

PATIENT FINANCIAL SERVICE: Bev 

Wilson, Carolyn Holland 

PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE: Connie 

Walker 

PRAIRIE HEART: Suzanne Stucker 

REHABILITATION: Harvey Jarvis, 

Roy Smith 

TUESDAY 

GIFT SHOP: Joy Schnitker, Donna Mason 

and Annie Craig, Debbie Richards 

and Barb Hansmeier 

INFORMATION CENTER: Gracie 

Fearneyhough, Nancy Wynn, Rosella 

Spreen 


Doris Williams 

HOSPITAL MESSENGER: Jeanne 

Byers, Joyce Dufelmeier 


IMAGING: Judy Farmer 

EAST WING INFORMATION: Rosemary 

Miller, Winnie Locher 

MAIL: Michele Underbrink 

AMBULATORY SURGERY: Harold 

Wilson, LeighAnn Baker 

CHAPLAIN’S OFFICE: Linda Schutz 

ENT CLINIC: Michele Underbrink 

PATIENT FINANCIAL SERVICE: Teresa 

Nash 

ONCOLOGY: Sonnie Heyer, Connie 

Walker 

PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE: Karen 

Overbey 

REHABILITATION: Harvey Jarvis, 

Matt Newton 

WEDNESDAY 

GIFT SHOP: Jo Westberg, Aileen Medlock, 

Connie Walker 

INFORMATION CENTER: Rosemary 

NOTES ON HEALTH 

“We want to try and focus on the beautiful 

lives that were ended and not the evil 

that is responsible,” the family said. 

Cowden’s family declined to speak to 

the media Saturday. 

After graduating from high school in 

Reno, Nev., victim Jonathan Blunk, 26, of 

Aurora, Colo., served in the Navy between 

2004 and 2009, according to close friend 

James Gill of Brighton, Colo. 

Blunk had plans to re-enlist with a goal 

of becoming a Navy SEAL, Gill said, describing 

his friend as an avid outdoorsman 

and gun rights advocate. 

“Pretty much every weapon the guy in 

the theater used he owned,” Gill said. “If 

you asked if he was still alive, he would 

have said his only regret is he didn’t have 

his sidearm with him and he couldn’t do 

anything to stop him.” 

An aspiring sports reporter who recently 

wrote a blog post about surviving a Toronto 

shooting was killed, the woman’s 

brother said. 

The death of Jessica Ghawi, who was also 

known as Jessica Redfi eld, was a “complete 

and utter shock,” said her brother, 

Jordan Ghawi. 

Jessica Ghawi, 24, moved to Denver 

from Texas about a year ago. 

Ghawi blogged at length about surviving 

the Eaton Centre mall shooting in Toronto 

that killed two people and sent several 

others to the hospital. 

She wrote of the Toronto shooting: “I 

was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. 

... I was reminded that we don’t know 

when or where our time on Earth will end. 

When or where we will breathe our last 

breath.” 

Jarvis, Rosemary Miller, Lynn Stremming 

SURGERY WAITING ROOM: Dixie 

Little, Doris Williams 

HOSPITAL MESSENGER: Susie 

Mitchell, Jeanne Byers 


IMAGING: John Mattes 

EAST WING INFORMATION: Kathryn 

Knack, Marie Paul 

MAIL: Mildred Musch 

ACCOUNTING: Pat Pennell 

AMBULATORY SURGERY: Judy 

Farmer, Roy Smith 

CHAPLAIN’S OFFICE: Barbara Sipes 

PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE: Mildred 

Musch 

REHABILITATION SERVICES: Terry 

Smith, Marie Langdon 

THURSDAY 

GIFT SHOP: Adah Mitchell, Marian 

Hinderliter, Mary McCloskey 

INFORMATION CENTER: Betty 

Bruce, Mary Hathaway, Hannah Hamilton 


Daneita Kording 

HOSPITAL MESSENGER: Jere Scott, 

Tracy Cody 

PATIENT REGISTRATION: Buck 

McAlister, Tom Anthony 

IMAGING: Floyd Anderson 

EAST WING INFORMATION: Mary 

English, Winnie Locher 

AMBULATORY SURGERY: Sandy 

Cors, Sharon Grams 

CHAPLAIN: Sandy Moore 

PATIENT FINANCIAL SERVICE: Linda 

Schutz 

MORGAN COUNTY GARDEN: Judi 

Police: Suspect’s guns, 

ammunition buys 

were not illegal 

BY IVAN MORENO 


AURORA, Colo. — James Holmes is 

accused of carrying out one of the worst 

mass shootings in recent U.S. history, but 

police say there was nothing illegal about 

the guns and ammunition he is suspected 

of using during a Colorado movie theater 

attack. 

“All the weapons that he possessed, he 

possessed legally,” Aurora Police Chief 

Dan Oates said. “And all the clips that he 

possessed, he possessed legally. And all 

the ammunition that he possessed, he possessed 

legally.” 

The four weapons recovered following a 

shooting spree that killed 12 and left nearly 

60 people injured at a suburban Denver 

theater were purchased by the suspect 

from retail gun stores in Colorado in the 

past two months, authorities said. 

A federal law enforcement offi cer said 

Holmes bought one of the four guns — the 

fi rst of two Glock pistols — on May 22 at 

Gander Mountain in Aurora, Colo. The offi 

cial spoke on condition of anonymity because 

the probe into the shootings is ongoing. 

Larry Whiteley, a Bass Pro Shops 

spokesman, said records show its Denver 

store followed federal rules in selling a 

shotgun and a Glock pistol to Holmes. 

“Background checks, as required by 

federal law, were properly conducted, and 

(Holmes) was approved,” Whiteley said. 

Gander Mountain, which sold an AR- 

15 assault rifl e believed to be used in the 

shootings at a movie theater, said the company 

was in compliance with state and federal 

laws and that it was “fully cooperating 

with this ongoing investigation.” 

A second federal law enforcement offi - 

cial said the assault rifl e had a high-capacity 

ammunition magazine. Oates said a 100round 

drum magazine was recovered at 

the scene. 

The type of ammunition magazine Holmes 

is accused of using was banned for 

new production under the old federal assault 

weapon ban, said Daniel Vice, senior 

attorney for the Brady Center to Prevent 

Gun Violence. 

When the ban expired in 2004, gun 

manufacturers fl ooded the market with the 

type of high-capacity magazines used Friday, 

Vice said. 

Oates did not specify the type of rifl e 

but said experts told him “with that drum 

magazine, he could have gotten off 50 to 60 

rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within 

one minute. And as far as we know, it 

was a pretty rapid pace of fi re in that theater.” 

Oates said Holmes purchased ammunition 

over the Internet, including thousands 

of rounds and multiple magazines for the 

assault rifl e. 

Authorities have said Holmes wore an 

all-black ensemble of protective gear at the 

time of the shooting. 

An online seller of tactical police gear 

told the St. Louis Dispatch that it sold more 

than $300 of equipment, such as an assault 

vest, magazine pouches and a knife, to Holmes 

on July 2. 

Chad Weinman, CEO of Missouri-based 

TacticalGear.com, said Holmes had paid 

for two-day shipping for the items. Holmes 

is believed to have hurled two gas canisters 

into the theater before opening fi re. 

Flynn 

ONCOLOGY: Mary Jane Steelman, 

Tom O’Brien 

PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE: Connie 

Walker 

PRAIRIE HEART: Suzanne Stucker 

REHABILITATION SERVICES: Roy 

Smith, Harvey Jarvis 

WOUND CENTER: Pat Rawlings 

FRIDAY 

GIFT SHOP: Francis Brown, Lynn 

Stremming, Sharon Beniach 

INFORMATION CENTER: Winnie Locher, 

Susie Mitchell, Jo Westberg 

SURGERY WAITING ROOM: Mary 

Ann Melton, Marian Hinderliter 

HOSPITAL RUNNER/FLOWERS: Teresa 

Nash, Tom Goldsbrough 

PATIENT REGISTRATION: Buck 

McAlister, Larry Strubbe 

IMAGING: Elias “Bubba” Trace 

EAST WING INFORMATION: Marian 

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MAIL: Michelle Underbrink 

AMBULATORY SURGERY: Roy 

Smith, Matt Newton 

CHAPLAIN: Sandy Moore 

PATIENT FINANCIAL SERVICE: Bev 

Wilson 

UROLOGIST OFFICE: Susanna Sherrill 

PATIENT REPRESENTATIVE: Lynn 

Stremming 

REHABILITATION SERVICE: Terry 

Smith, Harvey Jarvis 

SATURDAY 

GIFT SHOP: Hannah Hamilton, Lynn 

Stremming, Darlene Groth 

INFORMATION CENTER: Jo Westberg, 

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Bigar’s Stars is based on the degree of 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for 

Sunday, July 22, 2012: 

Your ability to understand others is 

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right direction. You will have the ability to 

enhance your stability and build a stronger 

financial and emotional base. If you are 

single, your appeal attracts many suitors. You 

have a lot of choices. If you are attached, the 

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from being concerned with your immediate 

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romp the day away. Wherever you are, much 

fun occurs. Tonight: Let the good times roll. 

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You might 

really need some time to clear up paperwork, 

return calls and enjoy some R and R. You 

must give yourself this time in order to stay 

fully functional. Be sure to touch base with an 

older relative during the day. Tonight: Happy 

at home. 

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Make phone calls 

to friends you have not stayed in contact with 

but who you think of often. Making plans 

together in the near future might feel very 

good. Visit a friend for a late movie and 

munchies later. Tonight: Hang out. 

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might want 

to indulge someone, but there are limits to 

what you can do. Also, be aware that you do 

not need to spend money to let this person 

know how much you care. Use your 

imagination, and both of you could be 

delighted. Tonight: Don’t forget to treat 

yourself. 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You feel great and 

decide to approach others. You quickly could 

discover that others are unusually responsive. 

Seize the moment. A child or loved one 

delights in your company. Tonight: Whatever 

you want. 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) If you want to, 

take a lazy day. Feeding your mind and 

catching up on some R and R could be 

healthy, as you typically push yourself very 

hard. A conversation with a loved one is 

positive. Both of you will want to celebrate. 

Why not? Tonight: Play it low-key. 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Join friends, 

especially if they are involved in some group 

sport or activity. Playing a game of softball or 

just sunbathing could be fun. You have an 

important conversation with a loved one that 

allows you to understand him or her better. 

Tonight: Where the action is. 

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Return calls and 

get together with family. Someone in this 

group seems to need all the attention. Let this 

person have it, and don’t make a big deal of it. 

Let a loved one know how much you think of 

him or her. Tonight: Forget tomorrow. Live 

now. 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) A day trip 

couldprovideyouwithalotofRandRand 

help you gain perspective on a situation. If 

you choose to go with someone, this escape 

also will help your bond. You might be 

amazed at how different someone is out of his 

or her normal setting. Tonight: Hang out as 

long as you can. 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) A partner 

makes a request that you might not want to 

say “no” to. Adjust your day accordingly. The 

two of you bond and have a great time 

together. A conversation between you makes a 

big difference in how you relate. Tonight: Let 

relaxing happen. 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Others come 

forward with great ideas; some have to do 

with plans, others about a situation in your 

life. You always value your friends, but 

especially at the present moment. Tonight: 

You pick the “how, where and when.” 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Complete a 

project rather than begin a new one. You could 

be overwhelmed by everything that is 

happening, but maintain your focus. You have 

a way about you that helps a partner open up. 

This person senses your caring. Tonight: Do 

for you. 

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PATHWAY 

SERVICES 

UNLIMITED 

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IL 62650. 

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*Lost & Found 

MORGAN COUNTY 

FOUND: Urgent 

Rescue Needed! 

The following pets 

will be euthanized 

July 24, unless they 

are claimed or 

adopted: Fox 

Hound. To claim or 

adopt. 

(217)589-4269. 

Wanted 

10-30 ACRES mostly 

pasture, Morgan 

County. Leave message. 

(217)473-8669 

WANTED: BUYING 

standing timber, walnut, 

oak, etc. No 

yard trees. 

(217)242-5401. 

Miscellaneous 

$ Cash $ 

For Junk 

Automobiles! 

Also buying large 

equipment. Pay 

cash 

pickup. 

and free 

217-491-2026. 

CASH MONEY 

All junk cars, trucks, 

2 ton trucks, tractors, 

combines, 

grain bins. 

217-370-2927. 

Agriculture 

Construction 

EDLIN CONSTRUC- 

TION. New pond 

construction & cleaning, 

brush clearing. 

(217)491-1556, 

(309)635-4338. 

Home Improvement 

CHIP’S HANDYMAN 

SERVICE. Decks, 

doors, windows, siding, 

garages & all 

other home improvements. 

(217)245-2849 

Miscellaneous 

BRAND NEW 

warehouse 

overstocks. 

30-60% off retail 

Living room, 

Bedroom, and 

Mattress sets. 

Limited Quantities, 

can deliver 

217-361-1357. 

NEED A HAND: Haul 

away unwanted furniture, 

appliances, 

junk items, TVs, 

computers, old paint 

cans from garages, 

basements & storages. 

Also hall 

brush & yard debris 

and trim shrubs. 

Surrounding towns 

also. Call Dennis, 

(217)243-3244. 

RECORDS 

WANTED, paying 

$1 each for old 45’s, 

LP’s & 78’s. Large 

Collections Only 

Please. 

501-286-5683. 

VINTAGE LOG 

cabin, 14”x16”, (217) 

430-4703 

Lawn & Garden 

CUB CADET 6x4 utility 

vehicle, runs 

good, Honda engine, 

recently serviced. 

$3900. 

(217)370-8888. 

Pets 

ADORABLE AKC 

registered English 

Bulldog puppies, vet 

checked, more pic 

available. $900.00 

217-370-3735 

CATS, KITTENS and 

free barn cats, fixed. 

(217)589-4269, 

(217)414-6112, 

(217) 491-0031. 

FOR SALE: Boxer 

puppies, 3 females, 

black w/white markings, 

$450. 

(217)899-9061. 

FREE TO good home 

beautiful boxer 

hound mix. Spayed, 

up-to-date on shots, 

good with kids. 

(217)204-3565. 

YORKSHIRE TER- 

RIER pups, pure 

breed, home raised, 

first shots and 

wormed. $300. 

(217)589-4250 or 

(217)791-7511. 

*Automotive 

Lincoln 

LOW MILES 

1997 TOWN Car, 

nice, local car with 

low miles. $6250. 

(217)620-2658. 

Miscellaneous 

WATER BOY Lawn 

Care. We do a lot 

more than mowing. 

(217)371-1628. 

Roofing 

243-0694 

www.deederconstruction.com 

MAHAN’S ROOFING 

& Siding. Insured & 

Bonded. Free est. 

675-2231/473-2748. 

Tree Trimming & Removal 

JNT TREE and Lawn 

Fully insured 

For bids call Jason 

(217)491-8368 

THE TREE GUY 

Removals, Trimming 

& Lot Clearing. 

Fully insured 

Call Chris 473-5386 

*Automotive 

Cadillac 

17-28 MPG 

2000 DEVILLE, 4 

door, V8, white, 

memory seats, lumbar 

seats, loaded, 

loaded, very nice 

car, new tires, two 

owner car. 113k 

miles. $4950. 

(217)248-4145. 

Chevrolet 

WOW! 

2005 2500 Series, 

heavy duty, 4x4, 

crew cab, duramax, 

LT package. 86k 

miles. $25,750. 

(217)741-8673. 

Sport Utility Vehicles 

Chevrolet 

GOOD 

CONDITION 

2000 S10 Blazer, 

4x4, new front end. 

177k miles. $3400 

or best offer. 

(217)473-7702. 

Jeep 

LOOK HERE 

2007 GRAND CherokeeLaredo, 

maroon, 

4x4, 55,000 miles. 

$14,500 or best offer. 

(217)883-2100 

*Vans 

Ford 

HANDICAP 

ACCESSIBLE 

1994 15 passenger 

cutaway van with 

chair lift, 7.2 diesel, 

automatic. 171k 

miles. $2500. 

(217)323-5626. 

*Motorcycles 

Harley Davidson 

EXCELLENT 

CONDITION 

1998 ROAD King, 

red, excellent condition, 

approximately 

18k miles. Can be 

seen at Auto Mart. 

Asking $9,500 

(217)473-9558. 

*Motorcycles 

Honda 

LOOK HERE! 

2000 GOLDWING 

(ASP), red, 9,000 

miles, garaged, 

$7,200. 

(217)322-4608. 

Yahama 

LOW MILES 

2009 VSTAR 250, 

670 miles, great 

condition, advertised 

79MPG, windshield, 

great for training or 

local rides. $3,000. 

(217)248-0260. 

Boats & Campers 

Bass 

LOOK HERE! 

TRACKER BOAT 

and trailer-25HP 

merc, 4 stroke, number 

45 motor guide 

trolling motor. 

(217)602-0228 

Evinerude 

MUST SEE 

1967 BOAT, tri-hull, 

in board/out board 

drive, 200 HP V-8 

engine, tandem axle 

trailer. $3,000. 

(217)457-2503. 

Real Estate 

1103 CORONADO 

West, 2 bedroom, 

1.5 bath, new paint, 

carpeting, updated 

baths. Fenced back 

yard, two car garage. 

$78,500. 

(217)997-5994. 

THREE BEDROOM, 

3 bath, living room, 

kitchen, dining room, 

laundry, office, finished 

basement. 2 

Nettle Dr., Winchester. 

(217)742-3560. 

Real Estate 

1457 S. West, 3 bedroom, 

3 bath. NEW 

roof, kitchen, bathrooms, 

flooring, 

electrical, plumbing, 

high efficient furnace/air 

conditioner. 

Serious inquiries 

only. $114,500. 

Barber Construction, 

(217)248-2154. 

*PUBLISHER’S 

NOTICE* 

ALL REAL estate advertising 

in this 

newspaper is subject 

to the Fair 

Housing Act which 

makes it illegal to 

advertise “any preference, 

limitation or 

discrimination based 

on race, color, religion, 

sex, handicap, 

familial status or national 

origin, or an 

intention, to make 

any such preference, 

limitation or 

discrimination.” Familial 

status includes 

children under 18 

living with parents or 

legal custodians, 

pregnant women 

and people securing 

custody of children 

under 18. 

This newspaper will 

not knowingly accept 

any advertising 

for real estate which 

is in violation of the 

law. Our readers are 

hereby informed that 

all dwellings advertised 

in this newspaper 

are available on 

an equal opportunity 

basis. 

Real Estate 

TURN KEY, Leland 

Lake, 3000 sq. ft., 3 

car garage, 6 bedroom, 

full unfinished 

basement, tile bathrooms, 

plush carpet, 

wood floors. 

(217)473-7030. 

Rental/Apartments 

**KING RENTALS** 

One and two bedroom, 

$365 & up. 

No pets. $20 application 

fee. 

(217)416-9288. 

ONE BEDROOM, 

heat, water and 

trash paid, no pets. 

$365. 243-6901. 

RETIREMENT APTS. 

1 bedroom, no 

smoking or pets. 

Most utilities paid. 

(217)245-5159 

(217)473-9587. 

Rental/Houses 

0 LEASE to own, 

nice 3 bedroom, 2 

bath, country home, 

10 miles from Jacksonville, 

40x80 steel 

building with insulated 

shop. $1000 

down, $995 month. 

2005 E. Strawn’s 

Crossing Rd. 

(217)691-9597. 

WEST SIDE, 15 

Crestwood, 3 bedroom, 

2 bath, 1800 

sq. ft. 

(217)204-2027. 

Rental/Commercial 

1500 & 2040 SQ. ft 

prime office/retail 

spaces. 1050 W. 

Morton. 

(217)243-8000. 

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Summer flutter 

BACK PAGE 

With colorful nandinas in the background a butterfl y lands on summer fl owers to feed in a fl ower 

bed in Sneads Ferry, N.C., this week. 

MR. KNOW IT ALL 

Kathryn Grayson was 

a beautiful lady and an 

incredible singer. In one 

of her fi lms she sang 

a song called “Make 

Believe.” I think Howard 

Keel was in the fi lm too. 

What was it? What happened 

to Miss Grayson? 

— E.A., Elkton, Ore. 

Kathryn Grayson was 

born in Winston-Salem, 

N.C., on Feb. 9, 1922; her 

birth name was Zelma 

Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick. 

Grayson’s stage name came 

from her middle name 

and her mother’s maiden 

name. She sang “Make 

Believe” in the 1951 movie 

“Show Boat.” Her co-stars 

were Howard Keel and Ava 

Gardner. 

Grayson was trained in 

opera at an early age. She 

acted and sang in movies, 

in plays and in operas; she 

performed on radio, TV 

and in nightclubs. She was 

married twice, but both 

marriages ended in divorce. 

She had one daughter. In 

her later years, she gave 

voice lessons. Grayson 

passed away Feb. 17, 2010, 

at her Los Angeles home; 

she was 88 years old. 

SUPER TRIVIA: Kathryn 

Grayson was once engaged 

to Howard Hughes. 

••• 

Some time ago there 

was a movie called “Viva 

Zapata!” starring Marlon 

Brando and Anthony 

Quinn. Is it available 

on DVD or VHS? — J.P., 

Seane, Pa. 

Elia Kazan directed the 

1952 movie “Viva Zapata!” 

with a screenplay by John 

Steinbeck — his only credited 

screenplay. The fi lm 

is available on both DVD 

and VHS. I only checked 

Amazon.com, but you 

might want to check other 

retailers. 

AskMrKIA@gmail.com 

BACKPAGE 

READERS 

Lonzerotti’s • 243-7151 

Now open Mondays 

11-2 lunch, 5-8:30 dinner 

Mr. John’s School of 

Cosmetology • 243-1744 

Bring in $5 worth of school supplies, 

get a FREE haircut. All donations go 

to the Salvation Army. 

SAVE THE DATE! 

Aug. 8, CDA Salad Luncheon 

Tickets at All Occassions. 

10 YEARS AGO 

Mount Emory Baptist 

Church in Jacksonville 

was celebrating its 165th 

anniversary. 

20 YEARS AGO 

MICHELLE PROUGH 

of Carrollton was crowned 

Miss Greene County. 

LOOKING BACK 

50 YEARS AGO 

Socony Mobil Oil Co. 

purchased a major part of 

the assets of Kordite Corp., 

including the Jacksonville 

plant. 

75 YEARS AGO 

MAE MCCURLEY 

was named manager of 

the Woodson telephone 

exchange. 

C 

K 

M 

Y 

100 YEARS AGO 

A band concert was 

held in Jacksonville’s Central 

Park. 

150 YEARS AGO 

The work of volunteering 

for service in the 

Union Army was going on 

briskly in Jacksonville. 

MAKING HISTORY 

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 

IN HISTORY: 

On July 22, 1862, 

President Abraham Lincoln 

presented to his Cabinet 

a preliminary draft of the 

Emancipation Proclamation. 

On this date: 

In 1587, an English 

colony fated to vanish 

under mysterious circumstances 

was established on 

Roanoke Island off North 

Carolina. 

In 1796, Cleveland, 

Ohio, was founded by General 

Moses Cleaveland. 

In 1812, English-led 

troops defeated the French 

at the Battle of Salamanca 

in Spain during the Peninsular 

War. 

In 1893, Wellesley 

College professor Katharine 

Lee Bates visited the 

summit of Pikes Peak, 

where she was inspired to 

write the original version 

of her poem “America the 

Beautiful.” 

In 1916, a bomb went 

off during a Preparedness 

Day parade in San Francisco, 

killing 10 people. 

In 1934, bank robber 

John Dillinger was shot 

to death by federal agents 

outside Chicago’s Biograph 

Theater, where he had just 

seen the Clark Gable movie 

“Manhattan Melodrama.” 

In 1937, the Senate 

rejected President Franklin 

D. Roosevelt’s proposal to 

add more justices to the 

Supreme Court. 

In 1942, the Nazis began 

transporting Jews from 

the Warsaw Ghetto to the 

Treblinka concentration 

camp. Gasoline rationing involving 

the use of coupons 

began along the Atlantic 

seaboard. 

In 1946, Jewish extremists 

blew up a wing of the 

King David Hotel in Jerusalem, 

killing 90 people. 

In 1962, Mariner 1, 

NASA’s fi rst attempt at 

sending a spacecraft to Venus, 

was destroyed shortly 

after launch because of 

faulty steering. 

In 1975, the House of 

Representatives joined the 

Senate in voting to restore 

the American citizenship of 

Confederate Gen. Robert 

E. Lee. 

In 1992, Colombian 

drug lord Pablo Escobar 

escaped from his luxury 

prison near Medellin. (He 

was slain by security forces 

in December 1993.) 

Ten years ago: Factory 

worker Alejandro Avila was 

charged with murder and 

kidnapping in the abduction 

and slaying of 5-yearold 

Samantha Runnion 

of Stanton, Calif. (Avila 

was later convicted and sentenced 

to death.) 

Five years ago: A bus 

carrying Polish Catholic 

pilgrims from a holy site in 

the French Alps plunged 

off a steep mountain road, 

killing 26 people. Padraig 

— compiled by Greg Olson 

Harrington survived a 

calamitous fi nish in regulation 

and a tense putt for 

bogey on the fi nal hole of 

a playoff to win the British 

Open. Cinematographer 

Laszlo Kovacs died in Beverly 

Hills, Calif., at age 74. 

One year ago: Anders 

Breivik, a right-wing extremist, 

massacred 69 people 

at a Norwegian island 

youth retreat after detonating 

a bomb in nearby Oslo 

that killed eight others in 

the nation’s worst violence 

since World War II. A jury 

in Cleveland convicted 

Anthony Sowell of killing 11 

poor, drug-addicted women 

whose remains were found 

in his home and backyard; 

Sowell was later sentenced 

to death. President Barack 

Obama formally signed 

off on ending the ban on 

gays serving openly in the 

military. 

Today’s Birthdays: 

Former Senate Majority 

Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., 

is 89. Actor-comedian 

Orson Bean is 84. Actress 

Louise Fletcher is 78. Actor 

Terence Stamp is 74. Game 

show host Alex Trebek is 

72. Singer George Clinton 

is 71. Movie writer-director 

Paul Schrader is 66. Actor 

Danny Glover is 66. Actorcomedian-director 

Albert 

Brooks is 65. Rock singer 

Don Henley is 65. Actor 

Willem Dafoe is 57. Actor 

Rhys Ifans is 45. Singer 

Rufus Wainwright is 39. 

T H O U G H T F O R T O D A Y 

“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination 

and bottling the common sense.” 

— Helen Rowland, American writer and humorist (1875-1950). 

AP PHOTO/DON BRYAN 

WEATHER 

National forecast 

Forecast highs for Sunday, July 22 

Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy 

Fronts Pressure 

Cold Warm Stationary Low High 

-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s 

Showers 

Rain 

T-storms 

Flurries 

Snow Ice 

Weather Underground/AP 

TODAY: Hot. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest 

winds 5 to 10 mph. 

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-70s. South winds 5 to 10 

mph. 

TOMORROW: Mostly sunny. Highs around 101. Southwest winds 

10 to 15 mph. Highest heat index readings around 110 in the 

afternoon. 

TOMORROW NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. 

EXTENDED FORECAST: Tuesday: Partly cloudy. Highs around 

100. Heat index readings 108 to 112. Tuesday night: Partly 

cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. 

Kassidy Upchurch, North Elementary 

Gaby Cervantes, Gard Elementary, Beardstown 

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TEMPERATURES 

High Saturday ...... 89° at 1:15 p.m. 

Overnight low ......................61° 

Record high ............111° in 1934 

Record low ............. 46° in 1944 

Year ago high ......................96° 

Year ago low .......................76° 

PRECIPITATION 

To 4 p.m. Saturday ............0.00” 

So far this year ..............14.25” 

Last year by this date .....29.30” 

Normal year to date .......21.22” 

So far this month ..............0.52” 

Normal month to date ......2.45” 

Weather statistics provided by WLDS/WEAI 

IN THE SKIES 

Twilight begins ......... 5:20 a.m. 

Sunrise ................... 5:52 a.m. 

Sunset .................... 8:23 p.m. 

Twilight ends ............ 8:54 p.m. 

Moonrise ................. 9:36 a.m. 

Moonset ................ 10:06 p.m. 

Mercury rises ........... 6:57 a.m. 

Mercury sets ........... 8:29 p.m. 

Venus rises .............. 2:58 a.m. 

Venus sets .............. 5:11 p.m. 

Mars rises ............. 11:47 a.m. 

Mars sets .............. 11:24 p.m. 

Jupiter rises ............. 2:09 a.m. 

Jupiter sets .............. 4:43 p.m. 

In tonight’s evening twilight Mars 

is in the WSW and Saturn in 

the SW. In tomorrow’s morning 

twilight Venus and Jupiter are in 

the east. 

RIVER STAGES 

Peoria ..............12.1 ........-0.1 

Beardstown ........9.8 ........-0.1 

Meredosia ..........2.8 ...... +0.9 

Oakford ..............2.8 ........-0.1 

Hannibal ...........10.6 ...... +0.1 

Louisiana..........12.0 ...... +0.1 

M = Missing information 

First Quarter 

July 26 

MOON PHASES 

Full Moon 

Aug. 2 

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Last Quarter 

Aug. 9

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