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BY MARIA NAGLE
JOURNAL-COURIER
Virginia’s two-day celebration
of Christmas
is serving several purposes
this year.
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Partly sunny. Not as cool.
Highs in the mid-50s.
South winds 10 to 15 mph.
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JOURNAL-COURIER/JAKE RUSSELL
Students enjoy lunch at Lincoln Elementary School Thursday
afternoon. Through the Community Eligibility Option,
Jacksonville School District 117 is able to provide free
lunch and breakfast programs for every enrolled student
at Franklin and Lincoln elementary schools and its Early
Years pre-kindergarten program.
Census sheds light
on poverty in schools
BY JAKE RUSSELL
JOURNAL-COURIER
The newest U.S. Census Bureau
numbers looking at poverty
in school districts in 2010 show
an increase in some districts and a
decreased or homogenous rate in
others since 2009.
The estimates do not refl ect a
district’s enrollment, but the number
of 5- to 17-year-olds within
the boundaries of the school district,
said Wes Basel, U.S. Census
Bureau chief of small area esti-
mates match. This includes homeschooled
students and students in
private schools.
For example, Jacksonville
School District 117 has a population
of 3,499 on the Illinois Interactive
Report Card, but the U.S. Census
Bureau fi gures indicate 4,365
from 2010.
Because these are estimates,
they are subject to uncertainty,
though the gap between the decennial
figures is minute, Basel
said. The 2010 numbers were de-
termined July 1 and the decennial
fi gures in April.
Also, Illinois school districts
defi ne poverty rate by how many
students are on free and reduced
lunches, but the U.S. Census Bureau
defines it using the national
poverty level, which is a much
smaller threshold than free and reduced
lunches, Basel said.
In 2010, a family of five with
three children younger than 18
Event offers old-fashioned Christmas fun
“It’s kind of exciting this year
because we’re rolling our homecoming
celebration in with the
Christmas in Virginia program,”
said Grace Lutheran Church Pastor
Amanda Stamp as she was lining
up the 25 entries in the parade
kicking off the festivities Friday
night.
“We didn’t have a football team
this year, so we’re having this as
our homecoming celebration,”
Stamp explained. “The dance will
be (tonight).”
A Home Tour has been added
to this year’s celebration and
its proceeds will benefi t the Cass
County Food Pantry.
“It’s a way for the Christmas in
Virginia celebration to kind of give
back to the community at large,”
Stamp said.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased
at each of the houses on
the tour from 1-4 p.m. today.
The homeowners opening their
residences for the tours are: JOURNAL-COURIER/ROBERT LEISTRA
Roy French (center) greets customers as they enter The Caraway Seed antique store on the square during the Christmas
VIRGINIA, see Page 2
in Virginia event Friday.
Albino deer
spotted near
Jacksonville
BY JAKE RUSSELL
JOURNAL-COURIER
Dan Cole has seen plenty of
deer in the fi ve years he has been
living west of Marnico Village.
But not one like this ...
An almost all-white animal his
wife, Dee, fi rst spotted near their
house.
Albino white-tailed deer are
relatively rare, according to buck
manager.com, a deer hunting and
management site.
Albinism is not uncommon. It
is a recessive trait found in many
mammals, birds, reptiles, fish
and even plants. Animals with the
trait do not produce the enzyme
Dan Cole took this photo of
the albino deer he and his
wife spotted at their home
west of Marnico Village.
responsible for skin, hair and tissue
coloration. Their eyes are
pink because blood vessels show
through the unpigmented irises.
The Coles have both been in
ALBINO DEER, see Page 6
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Creative bookkeeping
prevents Illinois layoffs
BY CHRISTOPHER WILLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nearly 2,000 state employees,
seven communities across Illinois
and thousands of people dealing
with mental disabilities and illness
got some good news from
the state of Illinois, thanks to a little
creative bookkeeping.
Officials tinkered with the
state budget to come up with extra
money that Gov. Pat Quinn
can use to run seven state facilities
he had planned to begin closing
within days. They also shuffled
money around to come up
with more cash for substance
abuse services, community mental
health programs and even funerals
for indigent people.
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There are tradeoffs, however.
Some of the money for the facilities
is available because Quinn
used his veto powers earlier this
year to cut education spending,
particularly $89 million that
helped pay for school buses. Officials
also decided there was
surplus money in a special fund
that helps support government
pension systems; instead of giving
that extra $95 million to the
struggling pensions, they’re diverting
it for other uses.
Other cuts raise the question
of why some money was ever put
in the budget at all.
For instance, Illinois abolished
ILL. BUDGET, see Page 2
POVERTY, see Page 9
Thief scared off
during attack
BY CODY BOZARTH
JOURNAL-COURIER
The quick actions of a stranger
apparently thwarted a robbery Friday
in downtown Jacksonville.
A woman said she was walking
in the 200 block of West State
Street about 5:50 a.m. when someone
grabbed her from behind.
The woman told police the man
grabbed her by the throat and demanded
her money, according to
Jacksonville Police Deputy Chief
Tim Shea.
She shouted out and a man
who was in the area heard her and
shouted back. The would-be robber,
apparently worried because
there was someone else in the vicinity,
left without taking anything.
The woman was not injured in
the incident.
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2 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, IL, Saturday, December 3, 2011
Morgan County
Sheriff
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
• Kenneth E. Miller, 25, of 315 Franklin St. was booked
into the Morgan County jail about 9 p.m. Thursday on a
charge of disorderly conduct.
Jacksonville Police
ARRESTS, CITATIONS
• Zachary W. Sigler, 24, of 815 W. College Ave., Apt. 2,
was arrested about 9:10 p.m. Thursday on charges of disorderly
conduct, possession of cannabis and possession of
drug paraphernalia.
• A 17-year-old girl was arrested about 9:45 p.m.
Thursday on a charge of resisting or obstructing a peace
offi cer.
• Jana M. Metzger, 46, of 1018 Greary Road, Cantrall,
was cited about 11:30 p.m. Thursday on a charge of illegal
transportation of alcohol.
• Artavius L. McGee, 22, of 204 Franklin St. was arrested
about 11:55 p.m. Thursday on a charge of possession
of cannabis.
ACCIDENTS
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.
Schuyler County Crimestoppers
Call (217) 322-3326.
• Crimestoppers is seeking information to assist the
Schuyler County Sheriff’s Department with its investigation
of a theft of deer hunting stands and ladders in
Browning Township.
A hunting guide reported Oct. 29 that the items were
taken from property on Geiman Road about 1.5 miles
south of Bader Road. Estimated value of the items was
$250.
Wanted on warrants
MORGAN COUNTY
The following are being sought on arrest warrants, according
to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department. The
addresses listed are the last known addresses provided by
REGIONAL RECORD
POLICE BEAT
FROM OFFICIAL REPORTS OF PUBLIC RECORD
CRIME SEEN
• Jacob L. Knight, 22, of 314 W. Douglas Ave. was cited
on charges of failure to yield and no insurance following
a two-vehicle accident about 9:35 a.m. Friday near South
East Street and Morton Avenue.
Knight and the other driver, Tad J. Finch, 35, of 1657 S.
Finch Road were not injured.
• Rodney P. Coats, 60, of 1228 Center St. was cited on
a charge of following too closely after a three-vehicle accident
about 10:40 a.m. Friday at Westgate and Morton avenues.
Police said Coats and the other drivers — Donald D.
Collison, 77, of Bluff Springs and Glenn J. Hopper, 74, of
Chapin — were not injured.
• Carrell Keith Stucker III, 22, of 2231 E. Morton Ave.
was cited about 3:20 p.m. Friday on charges of operating
an uninsured motor vehicle and following too closely. No
one was injured when Stucker’s vehicle and a vehicle driven
by Trina M. Becker, of Bluffs collided at West Morton
Avenue and Fayette Street.
Becker was cited on a charge of operating a vehicle
with expired registration.
VANDALISM
• A resident in the 800 block of West College Avenue
reported about 12:50 p.m. Friday that someone slashed a
tire on her vehicle with an unknown object.
the warrants and may be outdated.
Submit tips at www.morganscottcrimestoppers.webs.
com, by calling (217) 243-7300 or by text messaging
CRIMES (274637) with “payout” as the fi rst word of the
tip.
• DAWN F. WOOLFOLK, 45, of 5895
Clarity St., Centreville, is wanted on a Morgan
County warrant accusing her of failing
to appear in court on charges of possession
of cannabis and driving while license
revoked.
She is a black female, 5 feet 6 inches
tall and weighs 151 pounds. She has black
Woolfolk
hair and brown eyes.
• TERRI L. MAYBERRY, also known
as Terri L. Maberry, 36, of 1005 E. Lincoln
St., Apt. 13, Riverton, is wanted on a Morgan
County warrant accusing her of violating
probation on a charge of unlawful use of
a debit or credit card.
She is a white female, 5 feet 4 inches
tall and weighs 130 pounds, She has
Mayberry
brown hair and blue eyes.
ILL. BUDGET: Plan tinkers to bring in more money
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the death penalty in January, but the budget that was signed
in June still included money to pay the legal costs of capital
cases. Now offi cials have decided they can reallocate $6.1
million by cutting that.
The bottom line is that Quinn and the Legislature found
a way to avert the shutdown of seven state facilities: a prison
in Lincoln, a juvenile detention center in Murphysboro,
mental institutions in Tinley Park, Rockford and Chester,
and developmental centers in Jacksonville and Dixon.
They’re earmarking $202 million to avert the closures
and beef up other areas that Quinn said did not have enough
money to operate for a full year.
Rep. Frank Mautino, a Democratic specialist on budget
issues, said Quinn was right about not having enough money.
Mental institutions and developmental centers would
have been forced to stop paying employees around February
under the original budget, he said.
By announcing plans to close the facilities, instead of
waiting and asking for more money in the spring, Quinn
pointed a bright spotlight at the situation.
“Politically, it got a lot of people paying attention to it and
created a lot of stress in communities throughout Illinois,”
said Mautino, of Spring Valley.
Overall, the plan worked out by Quinn and the Legislature
does not increase state spending. Instead, it cuts in
some places and grabs unused money in others, then shifts
that spending to services deemed more critical.
That saves the jobs of about 1,900 state employees Quinn
was going to lay off, despite his agreement last year not to cut
jobs or close facilities in exchange for union concessions.
A key union — the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees — applauded the cancellation of
the layoffs but noted another problem remains unresolved.
The budget deal doesn’t provide money for raises required
under the employees’ union contract.
Henry Bayer, executive director of AFSCME Council 31,
said it’s wrong of the state not to honor agreements after
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Matt and Stephanie Werner, of 282 S. Cass St.; Paul and Amy
Reynolds, of 292 S. Cass St.; Tom and Ann Prather, of 401 S.
Stowe St.; Wayne and Judy Briggs, of 341 S. Cass St.; Roger
and Carolyn Sweatman, of 340 E. Illini St.; and historic Coleman
Place (the home of Roy and Barbara French), 140 N.
Main St., where refreshments will be served. The tour also
includes the Dogtrot and Rexroat log cabins at the Jenny
Marr Dunaway Memorial Park on Highway 78.
“It’s family-oriented and it’s a lot of fun,” said Kendra Callihan,
who brought her 4-year-old son to the square to see
Santa arrive in the parade. “I just like to see the kids be happy.”
Jerri Hall of Virginia and her sister, Darlene Willhite, of
Springfi eld were among vendors from the area selling an assortment
of decorations and other novelties from businesses
around the square.
Sales have been off this year for Hall, who sells wind
chimes made of recycled items, including old hubcaps and
kitchen and garden utensils. She also peddles chalkboards,
silhouette pictures, picture frames and embroidered towels.
“With the economy the way it is, people just don’t come
and spend their money,” she said. “I think they like to come
employees made concessions to trim government spending.
“At the end of the day, we believe they have a legal and moral
obligation to pay the raises,” Bayer said.
The new spending plan is also good news for many residents
of state mental institutions and developmental-disability
centers.
If those facilities had closed suddenly, some residents
would have been squeezed into remaining institutions.
Even more would have been released into the community
with limited help to fi nd homes, arrange medical care, fi nd
work and all the other tasks of building a life.
Public hearings on the potential closings produced a litany
of gloomy predictions about what would happen if residents
were forced out without proper community services.
The reprieve is only temporary, however. The Quinn administration
and many lawmakers want to proceed with a
slower, better-planned shift away from big institutions over
the next few years. The same institutions are likely to be on
the chopping block again in the near future.
“Over the next three years we’re going to be moving
more and more to community care. This is something that I
think is in the best interest of the men and women who are
in the facilities now,” Quinn said Thursday.
Mautino noted that the facilities being saved from closure
are primarily downstate and that much of the money
to save them comes from programs that primarily benefi
t downstate communities. When he signed the budget
over the summer, Quinn cut $11 million to pay regional superintendents
around the state and the $89 million to help
schools pay for busing students.
Rep. Roger Eddy, R-Hutsonville, complained that state
government is basically breaking its word to schools.
“I’m just holding out some hope that we’ll fulfi ll the promise
we made to school districts when we mandate that they
do certain things and transport students,” he said when the
House debated the proposal Tuesday. “That doesn’t seem
to be a priority of the administration or the General Assembly
at this point.”
and look and see different things.”
Virginia residents Jim Marr, 73, and Don Clark, 78, said
they were content to sit on a bench outside a business on
Beardstown Street and leave the shopping to the ladies.
“I think it’s pretty nice to have a parade like this every
year to start off the Christmas season,” Clark said.
“I’m just glad to see this many people on the square
again,” Marr said.
The celebration features a number of old-fashioned
COUGHLIN, JOHN
PATRICK ‘PAT’
Memorial services,
2 p.m. today at Lintner-
Hurley Funeral Home in
Chandlerville.
ELLIOTT, WILLIAM D.
Memorial gathering,
12-2 p.m. today at New
Life Church in White Hall.
Williamson Funeral Home
in Jacksonville is in charge
of arrangements.
HEATON, ALICE R.
Memorial services, 10
a.m. today at Buchanan
& Cody Funeral Home in
Jacksonville.
LIEHR, JERRY D.
Memorial services, 1
p.m. today at Niebur Funeral
Home in Pittsfi eld.
Visitation will be from
noon until time of services
today at the funeral home.
T O D A Y ’ S
obituaries
KAREN HILGER, 69, of Noble, Okla., died Friday, Dec.
2, 2011. Memorial services will be held at a later date at
University Lutheran Church in Norman, Okla. Primrose
Funeral Service in Norman, Okla., is in charge of arrangements.
JUANETTA MAE OLIPHANT POWERS, 57, of Jerseyville,
died early Friday morning, Dec. 2, 2011, at Jersey
Community Hospital in Jerseyville. Funeral services
will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday at Crawford Funeral Home in
Jerseyville. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Monday at the
funeral home.
pending
CLAUDE BONHAM, 79, of Exeter, died Friday morning,
Dec. 2, 2011, at his residence. Arrangements are
pending at Coonrod Funeral Home in Winchester.
Karen Louise Dotzert Hilger
1942 - 2011
•NOBLE, OKLA.•
Karen Hilger, 69, of Noble, Okla., died after a lengthy
battle with cancer Friday, Dec. 2, 2011.
Karen was born June 20, 1942, in Beardstown, to Julius
“Jake” Dotzert and Bernice Sweatman Dotzert.
Karen graduated from Carthage College with a BA in
sociology. On Dec. 27, 1964, she married the Reverend
Thomas Eugene Hilger. Being the wife of a pastor, she enjoyed
her life of serving the Lord. She loved teaching and
making music and spent countless hours as a piano teacher,
handbell choir director, child care worker and choir director.
Her most cherished roles were that of a wife, mother,
grandmother and servant of the Lord.
She is survived by her husband, Thomas Hilger;
daughter, Debbie Hilger Blanco and husband Julio of Louisville,
Colo.; son, Steve Hilger and wife Sherry of Lee’s
Summit, Mo.; son, Michael Hilger and wife Crystal of
Stewartville, Minn.; and son, David Hilger and wife Robyn
of Norman, Okla.; 10 grandchildren, Gabe Hilger, Brooke
Hilger, Kathryn Hilger, Anna Blanco, KyAnne Hilger, Max
Blanco, Jake Hilger, Shannon Blanco, Nathanael Hilger,
Matthew Hilger; two brothers, John Dotzert and wife Lois
of Virginia and Steve Dotzert and wife Cindy of Virginia;
two nephews; and one niece.
A memorial service will be held at a later date at University
Lutheran Church in Norman, Okla. Memorial gifts
may be made to University Lutheran Church, 914 Elm Avenue,
Norman, OK 73072, where she was a member, or
to St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bluff Springs, her home
church from childhood.
U P C O M I N G
services
VIRGINIA: Community spirits uplifted by start of Christmas season
8-10 a.m. Sophomore class biscuit-and-gravy breakfast
at St. Luke’s Hall.
8-11:30 a.m. Christmas trees and silent auction at the
Virginia Inn.
8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Cookie walk at the First Presbyterian
Church.
9 a.m. - Noon Vendors open at businesses on the Virginia
Square.
9-10:30 a.m. Santa Claus at the Virginia Inn
Saturday events at Christmas in Virginia
PALUSKA, MEDILL
11 a.m. today, First
Baptist Church of Waverly.
Waverly East Cemetery.
Visitation will be one hour
prior to services today at
the church. Neece-Airsman-Hires
Funeral Home
in Waverly is in charge of
arrangements.
RIDINGS, DARLENE
Memorial services, 4
p.m. today at Carrollton
United Methodist Church.
Visitation will be two
hours prior to services at
the church. Airsman-Hires
Funeral Home in Carrollton
is in charge of arrangements.
WHITE, JAMES I.
Graveside services, 11
a.m. today at Carrollton
City Cemetery. Airsman-
Hires Funeral Home in
Carrollton is in charge of
arrangements.
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9 a.m.-Noon Ornament making and crafts at the Virginia
Library.
9:30 a.m. Gospel Gals at Dr. Ugs.
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Clear Creek Mercantile at 131 N. Pitt St.
10:30 a.m. COG group at Dr. Ugs.
11:45 a.m. Silent auction winners announced and bicycle
giveaway at the Virginia Inn.
1-4 p.m. Home tour. Tickets $10 each and on sale at
any of the seven homes.
Christmas activities including making ornaments and gingerbread
houses, crafts, a cookie walk, and, of course, Santa
visiting with children at the Virginia Inn.
John Tego, who with his wife, Carole, moved to Virginia
10 years ago, said the celebration is a way of pulling the community
together.
“It kind of uplifts the community,” Tego said. “It gets people’s
spirits up at a time when maybe a lot of people don’t
have jobs.”

Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Saturday, December 3, 2011 3
STATE&REGION
B L A G O J E V I C H T R I A L
Judge: Sentencing to take 2 days
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal
judge said Friday that it would likely
take two days to sentence ousted
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on
corruption charges.
Judge James Zagel said he expected
the sentencing hearing for
Blagojevich, who was convicted of
18 counts, to last all of Tuesday and
into Wednesday. He said he would
not issue a sentence Tuesday.
Spreading the testimony over
two days would give federal prosecutors
and Blagojevich’s attorneys
time to make their arguments without
the need to “cram everything
in” one day, he said, according to
Inmate
escapes
on his
way back
to prison
JOLIET (AP) — An inmate who
escaped Friday from a van transporting
him from a suburban Chicago
court to a prison in northern Illinois
was recaptured about six hours
later.
Authorities say Cesar Sanchez
kicked open a door and leaped from
the moving vehicle in Lockport.
Cook County Sheriff’s spokesman
Frank Bilecki said the 37-year-old
was found hiding in a portable toilet
in a storage yard in Rockdale.
Bilecki said a Cook County sheriff’s
K-9 named Melanie tracked Sanchez
to the waste yard area. An initial
search failed to turn up Sanchez,
even though a second dog detected
his scent.
A heat bloom detected by a tracking
device in a helicopter overhead
prompted another search which
turned up Sanchez in the portable
toilet, according to Bilecki.
Illinois Department of Corrections
spokeswoman Sharyn Elman
said Sanchez escaped as he was
being taken from the Cook County
Court in Bridgeview to Stateville
Correctional Center in Joliet.
Elman said Sanchez was wearing
a yellow jumpsuit and handcuffs
when he escaped. She said two prison
guards were in the van when Sanchez
leaped from the vehicle.
Sanchez was able to get into the
back of delivery truck after escaping,
said Will County Sheriff Deputy
Chief Ken Kaupas. The truck was
tracked to a business near Rockdale.
Prison records show Sanchez is
serving a seven-year sentence that
began in 2006 for burglaries in Cook
and Kane counties. The records also
indicate Sanchez was previously
convicted of burglary, shoplifting,
robbery, aggravated battery, motor
vehicle theft and unlawful use of a
credit card.
Bilecki said the search for Sanchez
would not have ended so quickly
without the joint efforts of Illinois
State Police, the Department of Corrections,
Cook and Will county sheriff’s
deputies and local police.
the Chicago Sun-Times.
Blagojevich also plans to speak
before he is sentenced, attorney
Sheldon Sorosky told the Chicago
Tribune after the hearing.
Even if both sides fi nish Tuesday,
Zagel said he would have
questions for both sides before he
makes a decision.
Blagojevich, 54, was convicted
at a second trial earlier this year
of charges that he tried to sell or
trade the U.S. Senate seat vacated
by President Barack Obama. He
was also accused of shaking down
the CEO of a children’s hospital
and racetrack executives for cam-
Four dancers from the Jacksonville area will be performing
with the Springfield Ballet Company in the holiday classic
“The Nutcracker” on Dec. 10-11 at Sangamon Auditorium.
Dancers include Olivia Lee (from left), Jocelyn Fuhr and Kourtnee
Schippel. Dalton Schippel will also be taking part.
paign contributions. Jurors at his
fi rst trial convicted Blagojevich of
lying to the FBI but deadlocked on
other charges.
Prosecutors have asked Zagel
to give Blagojevich 15 to 20 years
in prison — a sentence that would
be among the stiffest in Illinois’ sordid
political history. Former Gov.
George Ryan, convicted of racketeering
and fraud, is serving a 6 1 ⁄2
year sentence. And former Blagojevich
fundraiser Tony Rezko, convicted
of trying to squeeze kickbacks
from companies that sought state
business, was sentenced last month
to 10 1 ⁄2 years, minus time served.
Holiday honor
Blagojevich’s attorneys argue
that federal sentencing guidelines,
in their calculation, call for a sentence
of 41 to 51 months — about
3 1 ⁄2 years to more than 4 years. They
also offer reasons for Zagel to impose
a lighter sentence, and argue
that prosecutors’ comparisons to
Ryan and Rezko are misguided.
Zagel is not bound by sentencing
guidelines or the recommendations
of either side.
He’s denied several last-minute
motions by Blagojevich, including
one request to play unheard sections
of federal wiretap tapes at
next week’s sentencing.
Margaret Hopkins of Alton carries armloads of wreaths into the mausoleum at Alton City
Cemetery for safekeeping Friday. Volunteers were unloading the 540 wreaths that will be
placed on the graves of veterans in the adjacent Alton National Cemetery at Pearl Street
and Joesting Avenue as part of the fifth annual Alton Wreaths Across America. A brief ceremony
will be held to place the wreaths on Dec. 10, which will include several speakers and
the singing of the national anthem by local fifth grade students.
Performers offer holiday tunes
JOURNAL-COURIER
The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
and Chorale will be joined
by the Jacksonville Children’s
Choir and the Jacksonville High
School Concert Choir for a holiday
concert at 3 p.m. today at Rammelkamp
Chapel on the Illinois
College campus.
The first half of “A Christmas
Celebration” program features holiday
favorites and recalls themes
SUBMITTED
from favorite Christmas movies
such as “The Polar Express,” “How
the Grinch Stole Christmas” and
“The Miracle on 34th Street.” The
Jacksonville Children’s Choir will
perform “Mr. Santa,” and the JHS
Concert Choir presents “Merry
Christmas Darling.”
Other holiday offerings from
Mannheim Steamroller, the Canadian
Brass and classics such as
“White Christmas” round out the
JOURNAL-COURIER
Four Jacksonville-area dancers
will take part in this year’s performance
of “The Nutcracker” by
the Springfi eld Ballet Company.
Olivia Lee, Jocelyn Fuhr,
Kourtnee Schippel and Dalton
Schippel will help with the performance
of the Tchaikovsky-scored
ballet. It is the 37th year the ballet
company has performed the production.
Performances will be at Sangamon
Auditorium at 2 p.m. and
8 p.m. Dec. 10 and 2 p.m. Dec. 11.
Tickets are $26 for adults, $24 for
seniors and $16 for students and
AP PHOTO/JOHN BADMAN
fi rst half.
Following the intermission, all
the choirs combine with the symphony
to present Vivaldi’s “Gloria”
and then the majestic “Hallelujah
Chorus” from Handel’s “Messiah”
sung by the mass choir.
Tickets are $15 for adults and
can be purchased at the door or at
County Market in Jacksonville. All
children and college students with
a student ID are admitted free.
S P R I N G F I E L D
Dancers in production of ‘The Nutcracker’
children. Tickets are available
by calling the Sangamon Auditorium
ticket offi ce at (217) 206-
6160 or online at www.uis.edu/
sangamonauditorium/tickets.
“The Nutcracker” follows Clara
and her Nutcracker from a lavish
Christmas party to a fierce battle
with the evil Mouse king, then
to a magical journey through the
Land of Snow and the Kingdom of
Sweets. The production features
a cast of 130.
“Our production of ‘Nutcracker’
has become more beautiful
and enchanting every year,” artistic
director Julie Ratz said.
DAILY
UPDATE
SATURDAY
u EAGLE WATCHING, 8
a.m. at First Presbyterian
Church, 870 W. College
Ave. Sponsor: Morgan
County Audubon Society.
Leave from First Presbyterian
Church and go to Illinois
River.
u DOG ADOPTIONS, 9
a.m.-1 p.m. at Pet Supplies
Plus, 1805 W. Morton Ave.
Sponsor: PAWS.
u CANNED FOOD DRIVE,
9 a.m.-2 p.m. at House of
Worship Church of God
in Christ, 424 W. Court
St. Sponsor: Men’s Ministry
of House of Worship
COGIC.
u MAKE AND TAKE: WIN-
TER, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Jacksonville
Public Library,
201 W. College Ave. 243-
5435.
u SNOWBUNNY SHUF-
FLE RUN/WALK, 9:30
a.m. at Big Brothers Big
Sisters, 220 E. Morgan St.
$10. Fundraiser for Big
Brothers Big Sisters. Register
at 9:30 a.m. on the
square, corner of East
Morgan Street and South
Mauvaisterre. Start time,
10 a.m. 243-3821.
u CHRISTMAS OPEN
HOUSE, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at
Residence, 81 Alice Drive.
u CHRISTMAS LUN-
CHEON, BOOK AND
BAKE SALE, BAZAAR,
10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Trinity
Episcopal Church, 359 W.
State St.
u HOLIDAY SHOP FOR A
CAUSE, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
at Reichert’s Banquet, Bar
and Grill, 1852 S. Main St.
Over 20 vendors, raffl e,
gift-wrap table.Proceeds to
benefi t the American Cancer
Society by Relay for
Life Team CGMS. Bring
a nonperishable food item
for area food bank. (217)
473-7481.
u TOYS FOR TOTS RUN,
12 p.m. at Sport City of
Jacksonville, 1010 N. Main
St. Sponsor: Christian Motorcyclists
Association.
From Sport City to Skilled
Nursing Rehab facility.
u FREE BROWN BAG
LUNCH, 12-12:30 p.m. at
Market Square, 214 S.
Main St. For volunteers or
donations, (217) 408-0009.
u FREE BROWN BAG
LUNCH, 12:30-1 p.m. at
Congregational United
Church of Christ, 520 W.
College Ave. To volunteer,
call 408-0009.
DAILY UPDATE, see Page 4
STATE LOTTERY
Pick Three-Midday
2-5-4
Pick Three-Evening
6-5-7
Pick Four-Midday
9-1-1-4
Pick Four-Evening
1-9-9-6
Little Lotto
1-5-11-13-35
Estimated Little Lotto
Jackpot
$175,000
Estimated Lotto
Jackpot
$9,500,000
Estimated Powerball
Jackpot
$40,000,000
Mega Millions
24-30-48-51-56
Mega Ball
45
Estimated Mega
Millions Jackpot
$75,000,000

4 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, IL, Saturday, December 3, 2011
A D V I C E
Hard-working girl disappointed
by mother’s lack of gratitude
DEAR NEVER THANKED:
No, you’re not wrong. I don’t
know anyone of any age who
doesn’t crave positive reinforcement.
Have you mentioned
to your mother how
this makes you feel? Because
if you haven’t, you’re expressing
your disappointment to the
wrong person.
DEAR ABBY: I’m 15 and
my parents have decided they
want to have another kid. Shouldn’t parents
talk to their other children about this?
None of us were asked for our opinion —
we were just informed.
Mom has had health problems almost
my entire life, so I had to grow up extremely
fast. I watched her have a seizure
while we were out shopping, and she was
often in the hospital. I don’t want another
child to go through this, too.
When I say something I’m told I’m being
selfi sh and rude. This new baby is already
loved more because my dad hopes
she will be better than me. Am I wrong to
feel this is unfair? — UNHAPPY TEEN IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DEAR UNHAPPY TEEN: Fairness may
not enter into it at all. The reason you and
your siblings were not asked for input
about your mother having another child
may be that the baby was as much a surprise
to your parents as it is to all of you.
Your complaining won’t improve the situation,
which may be why you’ve been told
you need an attitude adjustment.
You say you grew up extremely fast.
Well, it’s time to accelerate the process
DEAR ABBY:
I’m a 12-year-old girl who has a problem with my mom. Once a week we
clean the house, which is fairly large. Even when I do a good job on every
room my mom never says, “Nice job,” “Good work,” or even a simple
“Thanks.” It hurts my feelings because I thank her for all the things she
does for me. Am I wrong to want or expect compliments in return? — NEVER
THANKED IN OREGON
DEAR ABBY
even more. This isn’t a competition
for your parents’
love. I’m sure they love all of
you and they’d show it if you
stopped being self-centered.
Please give it some thought.
DEAR ABBY: Every year
we send a holiday letter along
with our greeting cards. The
letter usually highlights events
of immediate family members
from the past year. This year
there is a problem.
Our 22-year-old son, “Dexter,” is in jail on
burglary charges related to a drug problem.
Many of our friends and relatives already
know about this, but others are not aware.
Our son’s siblings are doing well and
we like to report on their activities. However,
we are confused concerning Dexter.
We really cannot send the holiday letter
and leave him out, but neither can we fabricate
a story concerning his status. Telling
the truth would be informational but
also awkward. We would appreciate your
advice. — HOLIDAY LETTER WRITER
DEAR LETTER WRITER: Write the letter
as you usually would, and when you
get to your incarcerated son, say: “Dexter
has taken some time to rethink his future.
He sends you all his love.” You do not
have to go into any more detail or belabor
the point.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Study confi rms many of us
go online for no reason
BY BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER
NEW YORK — For anyone who needed
offi cial word, a new study confi rms that
many of us — and the majority of young
adults — go online for no good reason at
all.
The report from the Pew Research
Center’s Internet & American Life Project
found that on any given day, 53 percent
of 18 to 29 year-olds go online just to have
fun or pass time.
That should explain all those kitten videos.
The report fi nds that the amount of
time people spend tooling around on the
Web doing nothing corresponds with age.
Only 12 percent of people over 65 say they
went online the previous day for no particular
reason. Of those aged 50 to 64, the
study found 27 percent answered yes to
the same question.
In all, 58 percent of all adults said that
u Continued from Page 3
u A CHRISTMAS CELE-
BRATION, 3 p.m. at Rammelkamp
Chapel, Park St.
$15. Featuring: Jacksonville
Symphony Orchestra.
245-1181.
u SCULPTURE BY
SHERRI JAUDÉS AND
ADAM LONG EXHIBIT
OPENING RECEPTION,
6-8 p.m. at David Strawn
Art Gallery, 331 W. College
Ave. Gallery talk, 6:30 p.m.
Exhibit continues through
Dec. 22.
u PILOT CLUB HOME
TOUR, 7-9 p.m. Saturday,
three homes, gourmet dessert.
Sunday, four homes,
tea. Tickets: Pilot Club
members, Family Gardens,
County Market, Chamber
of Commerce. 243-8179,
478-2015.
u MEREDOSIA: FROM
OUR FAMILY TO YOURS,
9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Meredosia
Main Street, 950 Illinois
Highway 104. Holiday
crafts and antiques.
u MEREDOSIA: SOUP,
SANDWICH AND DES-
SERT LUNCHEON, 11
a.m.-4 p.m. at Meredosia/Chambersburg
Grade
School, 623 Main St. Santa,
1-3:30 p.m.
u MEREDOSIA: CHRIST-
MAS SHOW, 12 -5 p.m. at
Blacksmith Shop, Il 104.
DAILY
UPDATE
584-1219, 245-8643.
u MURRAYVILLE: SAT-
URDAY NIGHT GOSPEL
SING, 6:30 p.m. at Youngblood
Baptist Church, Nortonville
Road. Featuring
Four Fold.
u MURRAYVILLE: BABY-
SITTING BY GIRL SCOUT
TROOP 5474, 8:30 a.m.-3
p.m. at Murrayville Woodson
EAS, 1930 Murrayville
Road. Proceeds to help
fund trip to Savannah, Ga.
u PITTSFIELD: BLUE-
GRASS SHOW, 6-9 p.m.
at Pike County Senior Citizens
Center, 220 W. Adams
St. 285-4969, 285-2729.
u VIRGINIA: CHRIST-
MAS IN VIRGINIA, 8 a.m.-
4 p.m. at S. Main St.
u VIRGINIA: COOK-
IE WALK, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at
First Presbyterian Church,
281 E. Hardin St.
u WINCHESTER: HOL-
IDAY BAZAAR, 8 a.m.-1
p.m. at Outreach Community
Center, 31 S. Main. 10
vendors.
u WINCHESTER: COOK-
IE WALK, 9-11 a.m. at First
Christian Church, 20 N.
The report ... found that on any
given day, 53 percent of 18 to
29 year-olds go online just to
have fun or pass time.
they use the Internet to pass time or have
fun at least occasionally. Of adults who use
the Internet, nearly three-quarters surf
the Web for no reason.
The survey didn’t defi ne “fun,” so people
could interpret it broadly. For some
people, gossip blogs might be fun, for others,
they’re serious research.
Pew is releasing the study on Friday.
The phone survey was conducted from July
25 to Aug. 26 among 2,260 American adults.
Main St.
SUNDAY
u PILOT CLUB HOME
TOUR, 1-5 p.m. at Jacksonville,
Jacksonville. Sunday,
four homes, tea. Tickets:
Pilot Club members,
Family Gardens, County
Market, Chamber of Commerce.
243-8179, 478-2015
u CHRISTMAS OPEN
HOUSE, 1-4 p.m. at Residence,
81 Alice Drive.
u BINGO, 4:45 p.m. at
Jacksonville American Legion,
903 W. Superior Ave.
u CHRISTMAS SERVICE,
5 p.m. at Liberty Church,
Prairieland Heritage Museum.
Program by Barbara
Wooldridge and David
Little.
u GRIGGSVILLE:
“CHRISTMAS JOY” CON-
CERT, 6 p.m. at Lighthouse
Church, 205 S. Stanford St.
Featuring Allen Hatch of
Abilene, Texas. 577-1100.
u MEREDOSIA: FROM
OUR FAMILY TO YOURS,
12-5 p.m. at Meredosia
Main Street, 950 Illinois
Highway 104. Holiday
crafts and antiques.
u MEREDOSIA: CHRIST-
MAS SHOW, 12 -5 p.m. at
Blacksmith Shop, Il 104.
584-1219, 245-8643.
Verifi cation of paternity must be provided
prior to publication of a birth announcement.
Passavant Area Hospital will provide
this information to the paper for those
families completing the hospital’s Newborn
Newspaper/Radio Release Form and submitting
it through the hospital. The family
must provide verifi cation for births at all
other hospitals. A copy of the hospital-issued
birth record is acceptable.
TRAVIS and ELIZABETH SIEVERS
of Winchester became the parents of a
daughter, Mia Brianne, at 2:34 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 14, 2011, at the Carol Jo Vecchie
Women and Children’s Center at St. John’s
Hospital in Springfi eld. She weighed 8
pounds, 2.2 ounces. She has two siblings,
Gabrielle, 6, and Cameron, 4. Her grandparents
are Stephen and Sabrina Schnake
of Winchester, Susan Sievers of Carrollton
and David and Elizabeth Sievers of Godfrey.
Her great-grandparents are Jim and
Barbara Moore of Winchester and Elizabeth
Scott of Carrollton.
CURTIS and CLAIRE KUHN of Jacksonville
became the parents of triplet
daughters Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, at St.
John’s Hospital in Springfi eld. Celine Virginia
was born at 7:05 p.m. and weighed 3
pounds, 6.3 ounces. Covina Georgia was
born at 7:06 p.m. and weighed 3 pounds,
5.4 ounces. Clodia Rawlings was born at
7:07 p.m. and weighed 3 pounds, 7.9 ounces.
They have one sibling, Corbin, 4. Their
grandparents are George and Claire Rawlings
of Atlanta, Ga., and Gene and Joan
Kuhn of Ursa.
DARIN MORRELL and CHRISTIAN
GATES of Greenfi eld became the parents
of a daughter, Kaydince Alizybeth
Ann Morrell, at 2:23 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25,
2011, at Jersey Community Hospital in Jerseyville.
She weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces.
She has one sibling, Gavin, 2. Her
grandparents are Kevin and Lori Guthrie
of White Hall. Her great-grandmother is
Maxine Alexander of White Hall.
GREGORY BELVILLE and ALEXIS
BENNETT of Beardstown became the parents
of a son, Jazen Perry Belville, at 4:21
a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, at Passavant
Area Hospital in Jacksonville. He weighed
8 pounds, 2 ounces. He has one sibling,
Kaden. His grandparents are Greg and
Melissa Belville and Tim and Terri Bennett,
all of Beardstown.
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.
Saturday
n OPEN DISCUSSION, 10 a.m. at the
Wells Center. Wheelchair-accessible, use
back entrance at northeast corner.
n OPEN SPEAKER, 8 p.m. at Club Hows.
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. on the sec-
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BABY TALK
KATHRINE CRAWFORD of Winchester
became the mother of a daughter,
JeNelle Rainea Crawford, at 1:23 a.m. Monday,
Nov. 21, 2011, at Passavant Area Hospital
in Jacksonville. She weighed 7 pounds,
4 ounces. Her grandparents are Chas and
Terry Ackerman of Brighton and the late
Gene Crawford. Her great-grandmother is
Shirley Crawford of Winchester.
ROGER DEJAYNES JR. and CYNTHIA
SHAW of Roodhouse became the parents
of a son, Bryson Jace David DeJaynes, at
10:29 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at Jersey
Community Hospital in Jerseyville. He
weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces. He has two
siblings, Isaac, 4, and Logan, 1. His grandparents
are Roger and Janie DeJaynes of
Winchester and Jeff Shaw of Carrollton.
His great-grandparents are Jesse and Alma
Shaw of Carrollton.
ADAN CRUZ and ASHLEY EVANS
of Beardstown became the parents of a
son, Adan Yahir Cruz-Vara, at 9:48 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, at Passavant Area
Hospital in Jacksonville. He weighed
7 pounds, 8 ounces. He has four siblings,
Alejandro, Gabriela, Miguel and Juliano.
His grandparents are Fortunata Vara
and Geronime Cruz, both of Mexico, and
Rosie Evans and Randie Evans, both of
Beardstown.
RYAN SHAW and JOHANNA PLACK-
ETT of White Hall became the parents of a
son, Ethan Aleksander Shaw, at 3:27 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 28, 2011, at Jersey Community
Hospital in Jerseyville. He weighed
7 pounds, 2 ounces. He has six siblings,
Heaven-May Frazier, 6, Tia Frazier, 4,
Trenton, 7, Gavin, 5, Dylan, 4, and Mason,
3. His grandparents are John and Margie
Plackett of White Hall and Brian and Phyllis
Shaw of Staunton. His great-grandparents
are Robert Inman of White Hall, Don
and Judith Vitali of South Roxana and Doris
Shaw of Greenville.
TONY and BETHANY MITAL of Rock
Island became the parents of twin sons
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Trinity Iowa
Health System in Rock Island. Chase Anthony
James was born at 10:16 p.m. and
weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces. Mason
James Anthony was born at 10:17 p.m. and
weighed 4 pounds, 8 ounces. Their grandparents
are Randy and Marilyn Whewell
of Arenzville and Jacqueline Mital of Memphis,
Tenn.
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to be alcohol-free and drug-free.
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7 p.m. at First Christian Church, Main
Street and Bridgeport.
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n JACKSONVILLE AMATEUR RADIO
SOCIETY’S NET, 9 p.m. Transmitted on
K9JX repeater. K9JX.com.
n WEIGHT WATCHERS, 9 a.m. at Fitness
World Health Club, 1521 W. Walnut.
Weigh-in 30 minutes before meeting. (800)
651-6000.
Sunday
n JACKSONVILLE AREA GENEALOGI-
CAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 p.m.
at the society’s library.
n ARENZVILLE: EXPLORER’S BIBLE
STUDY, 6:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Lutheran
Church. 997-5920.
N A M E D R O P P I N G
Jimmy Fallon to release new comedy album
NEW YORK (AP) — “Late Night” host
JIMMY FALLON is known for performing
with his famous musical guests, including
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, BRUCE SPRING-
STEEN and BLAKE SHELTON, so it
seems only natural the comedian and music
enthusiast would release a new album.
Fans won’t have to wait long. His second
record, not yet titled, is scheduled for
release next summer on Warner Music
Nashville. It will feature parodies and mu-
sic that have become instant classics on
NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.”
His first album, “The Bathroom Wall,”
was released in 2002.
Despite singing live with some of the
biggest names in music on his show, Fallon
said he still feels the pressure of getting
his new album completed.
“Mostly, it means I should probably
start writing some songs,” he said in a
statement Friday.
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Drop in jobless rate could
help Obama and Dems,
but their response is
muted as GOP hits
WASHINGTON (AP) — Finally, a fl icker
of economic hope for President Barack
Obama and his fellow Democrats, even if
it’s a faint one.
November’s sharp drop in the unemployment
rate (story on Page 16) shows
that jobs are fi nally moving in the right direction
and suggests the economy is on
fi rmer footing as the country heads into a
presidential election year.
The Labor Department reported the
jobless rate fell to 8.6 percent in November
from 9 percent the month before, a 2
1/2 year low.
That’s still high unemployment by historical
standards. And lots of problems still
lurk — from Europe’s debt crisis to congressional
gridlock to the tens of millions
of Americans still out of work or otherwise
feeling economic distress. Furthermore,
part of the improvement came because
300,000 people stopped their job searches
and were no longer counted as unemployed.
But Friday’s report, combined with other
recent economic data showing advances
in manufacturing and consumer spending,
could give Obama momentum for the
re-election campaign.
Cain says announcement
about future of his White
House bid coming today
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapidly becoming
a mere footnote in the presidential race,
Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday
on whether he would abandon his beleaguered
White House bid today after a woman’s
allegation of an extramarital affair.
He said he would make a “major announcement”
on whether he would press
on — at an event still being billed as the
grand opening of a new headquarters.
It is the latest — and perhaps fi nal —
twist in a campaign saga that has taken the
Georgia businessman from unknown longshot
to surprise frontrunner to embattled
tabloid subject.
He arrived at his suburban Atlanta home
on Friday afternoon to talk with his wife of
42 years, Gloria, about whether to press
on after his campaign was rocked by multiple
sexual harassment allegations and this
week’s claim that he had a 13-year affair. He
denies wrongdoing. It was their fi rst face-toface
meeting since the allegation was made
public.
Earlier, in a speech in Rock Hill, S.C.,
Cain wouldn’t disclose whether he would
drop out but told supporters to stay tuned.
He said he would clarify the next steps of
the campaign and assured backers the affair
claim was “garbage.” But he also said
he needed to consider what he would do
with campaign donations already banked if
he dropped out of the race.
N.H. man sentenced to
15 to 30 years for killing
mentally ill wife who
strangled their son
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A New
Hampshire man was sentenced Friday to
15 to 30 years in prison for beating his mentally
ill wife to death with a fl ashlight after
he came home to fi nd she had strangled
their 4-year-old son with a ribbon and tried
to kill their 7-year-old daughter.
Christopher Smeltzer, 39, pleaded guilty
to killing Mara Pappalardo, who was hospitalized
several times for mental illness.
Prosecutors say she was paranoid, obsessed
with death and convinced her husband
and mother-in-law were plotting to
take her children away.
Smeltzer initially was charged with second-degree
manslaughter. Prosecutors at
his plea hearing in October changed the
charge to manslaughter by provocation in
deference to the horrifi c scene that triggered
his actions.
The 90-minute sentencing took place in
a Rockingham Superior courtroom. There
was tension between members of Smeltzer’s
family and his wife’s. And at one point,
a member of her family shouted to Smeltzer
that God will be the judge of his actions.
Judge Tina Nadeau questioned whether
the outcome would have been the same
had Smeltzer not used drugs that night,
but she acknowledged that he must have
had an extreme emotional reaction to what
greeted him when he came home. She said
nothing she could do or say would lessen
the grief for the families.
Former suburban Denver
sheriff charged with 3
felonies, 1 misdemeanor
in meth for sex case
DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado
lawman who was once named the nation’s
sheriff of the year was charged Friday with
drug and prostitution offenses after authorities
said he offered methamphetamine to a
man in exchange for sex.
Patrick Sullivan Jr., 68, was being held
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WORLD&NATION
AP/BRET HARTMAN
Crews from Southern California Edison power company work to clean up
and restore power on Live Oak Avenue Friday in Temple City, Calif. With
more than 100,000 people still without power Friday from one of the biggest
windstorms to hit the Western United States in years, people began
cutting up felled trees, hauling away trash and firing up power generators.
Particularly hard hit was the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City, where
winds toppled telephone poles like dominos, leaving three-quarters of the
city’s 35,000 residents without power for several days.
on $500,000 bond in an isolation cell at a jail
named in his honor in suburban Denver.
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson
said current or former law enforcement
offi cials are usually kept from the general
inmate population for their safety at the Patrick
J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility.
Prosecutors charged Sullivan with felony
distribution, possession of meth as well
as a misdemeanor charge of soliciting prostitution.
Authorities say he offered methamphetamine
in exchange for sex from a male
acquaintance in a sting set up by offi cers
with a drug task force.
Sullivan also is charged with attempting
to infl uence a public servant following
a Sept. 20 report of an “old man” inside
a home that the caller said he wanted
to leave.
An incident report notes a man at the
house reported Sullivan was getting three
recovering addicts back into drugs. Sullivan
told investigators he was helping them
out as part of his work with a law enforcement
and state drug rehab program. Offi -
cials have no record of Sullivan working for
either.
Green Zone bombing was
assassination attempt
against Iraqi premier,
says military spokesman
BAGHDAD (AP) — An explosion earlier
this week in the Green Zone, a protected
area in the center of the Iraqi capital, was
an assassination attempt against the Iraqi
prime minister, an Iraqi spokesman said.
That assailants were able to get a bomb
inside what is supposed to be the most
heavily fortifi ed area in the country raises
serious doubts about the abilities of
Iraq’s security forces at a crucial time when
American troops are leaving the country.
The Baghdad military spokesman, Qassim
al-Moussawi, said an attacker was able
to get a vehicle carrying about 44 pounds
(20 kilograms) of explosives into the Green
Zone and then tried to join a convoy of
other vehicles going into the parliament
grounds.
But at a checkpoint leading into the parliament
compound, guards prevented the
driver from going any farther because he
did not have proper authorization. The driver
then drove to the parking lot just opposite
the parliament entrance where many
lawmakers or their staff park, and the vehicle
exploded seconds later.
At the time, offi cials had said they did
not know if the explosion was the result of
rocket or mortar fi re into the Green Zone,
whether a bomber managed to get inside or
whether a bomb had been attached to a vehicle
that then drove into the Green Zone.
Ultraconservative
Islamists plan to push for
religious rule in Egypt
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s ultraconservative
Islamist party said Friday it plans to
push for a stricter religious code in Egypt
after claiming surprisingly strong gains in
this week’s initial round of voting for parliament,
the fi rst elections since Hosni
Mubarak’s ouster.
Egypt’s election commission announced
only a trickle of results Friday and said 62
percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the
highest turnout in Egypt’s modern history.
Abdel-Mooaez Ibrahim, the head of High
Election Commission, jokingly described it
as “the highest since the time of pharaohs.”
Preliminary counts leaked by judges
and individual political groups indicated
that the Muslim Brotherhood’s political
arm took the largest share of votes. Following
closely behind, was the ultraconservative
Islamist Nour Party and a coalition of
liberal parties called the Egyptian bloc, according
to those unoffi cial counts.
That trend — if confi rmed and if extended
over more rounds of voting — would
give the religious parties a popular mandate
in the struggle to win control from the rul-
ing military that took over from Mubarak
and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally.
The Islamist Nour Party expects to get
30 percent of the vote, party spokesman
Yousseri Hamad told The Associated Press
in a telephone interview.
Camp Victory, sprawling
home to generals and
history, now in Iraqi
government hands
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq (AP) — Inside
palace walls built by Saddam Hussein, U.S.
generals plotted the war’s course, tracked
the mounting death toll and swore in new
American citizens under gaudy glass chandeliers.
Just outside the palace, American troops
whacked golf balls into man-made lakes or
fi shed for carp, while others sat down with a
cigar and a can of nonalcoholic beer hoping
for a respite from incoming rockets or mortar
shells.
Along another lake some distance away,
a jailed Saddam tended to tomatoes and cucumbers
in a small, walled-off enclosure
with guards patrolling overhead.
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From here, the highest-ranking generals
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British inquiry reveals that
tabloid skullduggery went
far beyond phone hacking
LONDON (AP) — Hacking into celebrity
phones was just the tip of the iceberg.
Britain’s media ethics inquiry, set up in
response to illegal eavesdropping by a Rupert
Murdoch-owned tabloid, has turned
out to be a masterclass in skullduggery
that has exposed the murky practices of
the U.K.’s muckraking press.
This week, witnesses described how
Murdoch’s company had wreaked havoc
on their lives and those of their families,
with reporters targeting critics for spying
and negative coverage and sullying the
name of an innocent man.
“We have a press that has just become
frankly putrid in many of its elements,”
Alastair Campbell, former tabloid journalist
and longtime communications aide to
former Prime Minister Tony Blair, told the
tribunal this week.
Few would disagree after listening to
the nationally televised testimony describing
the excesses of a callous and sometimes
criminal press.
McGovern falls before
planned TV appearance
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Former
Democratic presidential candidate George
McGovern was hospitalized Friday after
he fell and hit his head on the pavement
outside of a library bearing his name,
where he was set to be interviewed on C-
SPAN.
McGovern’s daughter Ann McGovern
said her father was to be treated at a Sioux
Falls hospital after being fl own by helicopter
from Mitchell, S.D., where the live interview
was to take place at the Dakota
Wesleyan University’s McGovern Library.
“He had just walked from home to the
center. He lives literally just across the
street,” Ann McGovern told The Associated
Press.
McGovern has lived in St. Augustine,
Fla., since 2008 but also has a home in
Mitchell.
Friends and faculty who had gathered

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ALBINO DEER:
Seen near Marnico Village
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close proximity to the deer. When Dan
Cole spoke with a game warden Thursday,
he was told true albino deer typically do
not have good vision.
Poor eyesight coupled
with white coloration
could be the reason
albino deer are
rare, as the diffi culty to
conceal in a natural habitat
increases predator
attacks.
The deer has re-
mained in the vicinity most of the week,
Cole said.
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years old that makes $26,023 or less is considered
living in poverty. The free lunch is
130 percent that number and the reduced
lunch is 185 percent.
“We expect from the low income number
that many schools in Illinois will be
higher,” Basel said.
Using the U.S. Census Bureau’s numbers,
the poverty level fi gures have to be
fairly substantial to make a difference, Basel
said.
For example, Griggsville-Perry School
District saw the greatest increase in poverty
level with a jump from 22 percent to 35
percent between 2009 and 2010.
Superintendent Andrea Allen attributes
it to the economy; because the community
is so small, many residents work in Jacksonville
or Quincy and a loss of jobs in
those areas has impacted those numbers,
she said.
Allen gets to know the families of children
who attend school. She has seen an increase
in free and reduced lunches, though
she was unable to provide exact numbers
as the verifi cation is due in schools in December.
There’s a relatively high mobility
rate and she knows several families that
have doubled up with family members to
make the most of resources.
The community is excited by the prospect
of Big River Fish, a fish processing
plant, Allen said. The corporation closed on
a property in Griggsville in early November.
This could mean more people coming
into the community.
In the last decade, Jacksonville School
District 117 has seen a 23 percent increase
in free and reduced lunches, rising from 30
percent to 53 percent, Superintendent Les
Huddle said. The number increased an additional
four percent between 2010 and
2011.
The U.S. Census Bureau indicates a homogenous
18 percent poverty rate.
The district has made an effort to take
care of students’ basic needs by introducing
breakfast programs and after-school
programs as well as partnerships with community
agencies.
“We’re not going to be able to enhance
the family’s income so we attempt to make
sure our staff have awareness of the total
child and the family and try to address the
academic issues in an appropriate manner,”
Huddle said.
For example, Jacksonville School District
117 implemented the Community Eligibility
Option, a federal support program, for
its lunch and breakfast programs at Franklin
and Lincoln elementary schools and its
Early Years pre-kindergarten program.
All enrolled students at those schools
are eligible for a free breakfast and lunch
this year.
This hasn’t been a drastic change for
Lincoln Elementary School, as about 90
percent of the school’s population was on
the free meal plan before, Principal Matt
Fraas said.
Triopia School District saw the greatest
decrease, dropping from 17 percent in
2009 to nine percent in 2010, but Superintendent
Steve Eisenhauer says he doesn’t
know how the happened, as the percentage
qualifying for free and reduced lunches
has stayed about the same — 29 percent in
2010, 30 this year.
Calif man sentenced in
booby trap police attacks
MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — A man
who orchestrated a series of bizarre but
botched attacks on Hemet police has been
sentenced to four consecutive life sentences
in Riverside County.
Nicholas Smit was convicted last
month of the attempted murder of a police
officer. All of the attacks were aimed at a
Hemet police detective who had arrested
him on a drug charge.
In one instance, natural gas was rerouted
into the office of a gang task force
and rigged to explode. In another attack, a
training rocket was fired from the roof of
a nearby market and started a small fire.
The Press-Enterprise says the judge
sentenced Smit Friday to the maximum.
No one was hurt in any of the attacks.
Smit’s alleged co-conspirator is set to
be tried separately in January.
Australia’s ruling party
endorses gay marriage
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s ruling
party voted Saturday to endorse same-sex
marriage, a reversal of its long-standing
position that has little practical effect on
the chance of gay marriage being legalized
in the country.
The impact of the vote at the centerleft
Labor Party’s annual conference was
diluted by the party’s endorsement of a
motion by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to
allow lawmakers to make a “conscience
vote” on bills attempting to legalize gay
marriage. That means legislators can vote
on the issue according to their personal
beliefs rather than being forced to vote in
line with the party’s official position.
Gillard’s government holds a waferthin
majority in Parliament over the conservative
Liberal Party — which opposes
same-sex marriage — and several Labor
members personally oppose gay mar-
J OURNAL-COURIER GRAPHICS/JAKE RUSSELL
Percent
poverty 2009
Percent
poverty 2010
Percent
poverty 2009
Percent
poverty 2010
Percent
poverty 2009
Percent
poverty 2010
A-C Central
A-C Central Brown Carrollton Pleasant Hill Scott-Morgan Triopia Winchester
13 14 21 18 14 17 13
12 12 16 14 9 9 12
Brown
Carrollton
Poverty rate decreases
Pleasant Hill
Percent poverty 2009 Percent poverty 2010
Franklin Griggsville-
Perry
Mere-
Chmbrsbrg
Eisenhauer believes even more students
qualify but a lot of parents don’t register
them because of the status stigma, he said.
For Fraas, who taught at Jefferson Elementary
School for four years and has been
around families in poverty, the families are
the same but tend to be a much tighter unit
with limited resources.
Lincoln tries to be very proactive, making
an extra effort to bring resources to the
riage. So any bill proposing to legalize gay
marriage will still face a tough battle.
Recent polls show a majority of Australians
favor allowing same-sex marriage,
and several Australian states already permit
civil unions between gay couples. But
Gillard opposes any changes to Australia’s
Marriage Act, which prohibits same-sex
marriage.
Marriage equality advocates said they
were disappointed with the conscience
vote, but praised the policy change as
historic.
Lobster tag lost in ‘Perfect
Storm’ hops Atlantic
COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A tag
from a lobster pot that was swept off the
New England sea floor two decades ago
during what came to be known as “The
Perfect Storm” has washed up 3,000
miles away in Ireland.
The pot that held the tag with Cohasset
lobsterman Richard Figueiredo’s
name on it was one of hundreds he lost
when the vicious storm on the Atlantic
Ocean struck off New England in 1991.
Rosemary Hill of Waterville in County
Kerry found the tag on a beach last
year, but the 39-year-old beachcomber
put it aside with other beach souvenirs.
Last week, she decided to try to contact
Figueiredo and found him through his
son Rich’s Facebook account.
“I looked at it again and thought, ‘Why
not try to find the owner?”’ Hill told The
Patriot Ledger. “Nothing ventured, nothing
gained.”
Figueiredo, of Pembroke, was stunned
the worn tag had weathered the long trip
after the storm, which was made famous
by Sebastian Junger’s book “The Perfect
Storm,” the basis for a Hollywood movie
about a rugged crew of New England fishermen
caught in the storm.
“The odds are phenomenal,” Figueiredo
said.
Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer
said the tag’s 20-year drift is unusually
Scott-Morgan
North Greene Schuyler-
Industry
Triopia
Virginia Waverly
Winchester
10 22 15 21 16 13 13
14 35 22 26 19 16 17
Poverty rate increases
Franklin Griggsville-Perry
Mere-Chmbrsbrg North Greene
Schuyler-Industry
Percent poverty 2009 Percent poverty 2010
Beardstown Greenfield Jacksonville Pikeland
21 15 18 22
21 15 18 22
Poverty level homogeneity
Beardstown
Greenfield
Jacksonville
Pikeland
Percent poverty 2009 Percent poverty 2010
0
7.5
30.0
22.5
15.0
Virginia
IN BRIEF
Waverly
school like coat drives. If a parent doesn’t
have the gas to make it to a parent-teacher
conference, staff are willing to make a
house visit.
“They all want their kids to do well,”
Fraas said. “If we can ease some of the burden
so they can worry about the essential
stuff, we can fi ll in some of the pieces.”
jrussell@myjournalcourier.com
long for such flotsam. He theorized it
was buried in offshore mud before drifting
and catching the Gulf Stream toward
Ireland — in between a few years of circling
in a mid-Atlantic current.
He called it “a very well-traveled tag
indeed.”
Hill said she spied the orange tag in
clumps of seaweed after a storm.
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Court tells
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judgment
BY TIM FOUGHT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. — Tobacco company
Philip Morris USA Inc. must pay Oregon 60
percent of a $79.5 million award in a longrunning
lawsuit filed by the family of a Portland
smoker, the state Supreme Court ruled
Friday.
The cigarette maker’s parent company,
Altria Group Inc., said it will lower its full-year
earnings expectations based on the costs tied
to the payments for this and a separate case
by a former smoker.
Under Oregon law, 60 percent of punitive
damage awards must go to a state fund
to compensate crime victims. Philip Morris
paid the family its share of the judgment but
contested the requirement to pay the state.
The company argued that the state released
its right to collect that money with the
company’s master settlement agreement in
1998 with 46 states, five U.S. territories and
the District of Columbia over claims about
smoking.
The Supreme Court’s ruling Friday reversed
a lower court decision and said the
state’s share of punitive damages is due no
matter what sort of lawsuit led to the award.
The money at stake is from a 1999 jury
award in a lawsuit filed by the family of Jesse
Williams, a janitor who had died two years
earlier of lung cancer.
After years of appeals, Philip Morris paid
the family in 2009, according to the Supreme
Court’s decision. The payment, it said, was
more than $61 million, which includes economic
damages, the 40 percent share of punitive
damages, interest and costs.
A state official said there was no ready
estimate of how much the state’s 60 percent
share is worth today, including interest and
costs, and there was little anticipation it will
be collected soon.
“We don’t actually expect this to be the end
of the litigation,” said Tony Green, spokesman
for Attorney General John Kroger.
A message seeking comment was left for
Altria. In a statement, the Richmond, Va.based
company said it expects to record a
pre-tax charge of $62 million related to judgments
in the two cases and $57 million in related
interest costs. As a result, Altria expects
to earn $1.58 to $1.64 per share for the 2011
fiscal year. It earlier expected to earn $1.60 to
$1.66 per share.
Excluding several other one-time items,
the company expects to earn $2.01 to $2.07
per share for the year. Analysts polled by
FactSet expect Altria to report adjusted earnings
of $2.03 per share for the fiscal year.
The company’s shares fell 6 cents in afterhours
trading. They closed Friday at $28.41,
down 27 cents.
AP Business Writer Sarah Skidmore contributed
to this report.
Figueiredo and Hill spoke for the first
time Thursday, when she offered to mail
the tag back to him. But Figueiredo told
her to keep it.
“The meaning it has over there is
what matters,” he said. “I am honored
that she has put so much enthusiasm
into this. What’s happening now is a gift
to me.”
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BY JASON FARMER
JOURNAL-COURIER
FRANKLIN — The Franklin
boys’ basketball team poured it
on in the second quarter on its
way to a 65-41 rout of rival Waverly
Friday night.
“We started off a little slow,”
Franklin coach Joe Kuhlmann
said. “I think we were a little overhyped
maybe. We had some turnovers
early that were unforced
and that kind of kept breaking
the rhythm and once we settled
down a little bit, we started rolling.”
There were fi ve lead changes
over the opening eight minutes,
and Waverly led 11-9 at the end of
the fi rst quarter. That was the last
time the Scotties led.
“We made a couple of shots
early,” said Waverly coach Bill
Pool, whose team fell to 5-1. “After
that they just weren’t going
in.”
Waverly’s Derek Burchett
scored nine of the Scotties fi rstquarter
points while Franklin’s
Scottie Thoele was held to
just two. That all changed in the
second quarter. Franklin (2-1)
opened the period with Thoele
scoring fi ve quick points to key a
7-0 run that gave the Flashes the
lead.
“We knew they would come
out and shoot well,” Thoele said.
“We just got pumped up in the
second quarter and the rest of
the game we just ran on them.”
The Flashes followed their
earlier run with a 12-0 avalanche
midway through the quarter to
take command of the game. The
Flashes went on to outscore the
Scotties 19-5 in the second quarter
and led 28-16 at halftime.
Waverly had a hard time getting
anything going on offense.
“Defensively they picked it up
in the second quarter,” Pool said.
“I think we — with their defense,
with what we were trying to do,
we didn’t hit very many shoots. If
a shot or two falls there, momentum
swings. But we just never got
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Franklin limited Waverly to
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“I thought that (second) quarter
we did a good job of defense,”
Kuhlmann said. “We did a good
job of getting out on their shooters
and talking and communicating.
We did a good job of getting
the rebounds.”
Thoele and Kollin Keltner outrebounded
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“It feels good,” Thoele said.
“My legs feel good. The fi rst few
games I felt out of shape. I don’t
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— Franklin coach Joe Kuhlmann
Flashes scorch Scotties
Franklin
fi res up in
65-41 win
BY BRIAN WEBSTER
JOURNAL-COURIER
When Josh Peak went down,
Rudy Pate rose up.
The Crimsons’ senior guard,
who’d been averaging 5 points
through his first five games,
erupted for a career-high 18 Friday
night at the JHS Bowl, helping
Jacksonville get by Rochester,
51-38 in the Central State Eight
opener for both teams.
Pate scored 16 of his 18 points
after 6-4 junior Josh Peak sat
down in the second quarter with
his third foul. What few people
knew then was that Peak had
been battling an aching back all
week. By the middle of the third
quarter, it was clear that Peak,
who’d been scoring nearly 27
points per game, would not go
back in.
“Peak is hurting pretty good,”
said JHS head coach J.R. Dugan.
“He didn’t practice all week with
us. I tried to hold him out, tried to
get him healed up. He tried to go
tonight.”
Franklin’s Jagger Bergschneider and Adam Bergschneider defend against Waverly’s Derek Whalen in Franklin Friday.
Pate up, Peak out in JHS win
• PLAYER OF THE DAY•
Jocie Klocke
Calhoun’s Jocie Klocke is the J-C Player
of the Day for Thursday, as chosen by those
who voted at myjournalcouriervarsity.com.
Klocke scored 27 points and had five
3-pointers in a win over Griggsville-Perry.
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Peak scored 8 points and
pulled away three rebounds, all
in the fi rst quarter Friday, and appeared
on his way to another big
night until he picked up his third
foul with just under fi ve minutes
to play in the second quarter.
“One of the reasons (Peak)
picked up three quick fouls was
because he just couldn’t move,”
Dugan said. “So we got him out
of there. We had the trainers look
at him at halftime, and then we
made the call that he wasn’t going
to play the rest of the game.”
Peak will likely miss tonight’s
6:30 p.m. tip-off at Canton and
could be out even longer. How
much longer was not clear Friday
night.
“I would imagine he’s gonna
miss a little bit of time,” Dugan
said. “He’s hurting really bad.”
Pate and 6-5 junior Dalton
Keene picked up the slack in the
second quarter. The Rockets (0-
1) had pulled to within 10-9 on a
Matt Yeck trey at the fi rst-quarter
buzzer. But Pate and Keene com-
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“We started off a little slow. I think we were a little overhyped maybe. We had some turnovers early that were
unforced and that kind of kept breaking the rhythm and once we settled down a little bit, we started rolling.”
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Crimsons beat Rochester despite losing Peak to back ailment
bined to score 13 points in a 15-2
run that had the Crimsons up 25-
11 a minute before halftime. Both
of them drained three-pointers
during the second-quarter surge.
“A lot of those shots, they
weren’t just from entry passes,”
said Pate, who also had four rebounds
and two steals in the win.
“Coach always preached that we
should go inside-out, and that after
a few ball reversals, we’d get
it in the middle, and then those
shots would open up.”
Keene bombed in his threepointer
at the beginning of the
second quarter and went on to
score all 8 of his points during the
period. He fi nished with a gamehigh
seven rebounds. He said
that, except for his second-quarter
scoring binge, he mostly tried
to help his teammates score.
“I crashed the boards a little
harder than I usually have and
looked to give my teammates the
ball when they were open,” Keene
CRIMSONS, see Page 13 ➤
BY ROB EVANS
JOURNAL-COURIER
BLUFFS — The West Central
boys’ basketball team scored a
big win — and gained a measure
of revenge — in its fi rst conference
game of the season, handily
defeating Brown County 53-33
Friday night.
Brown County struggled to
fi nd any offensive rhythm against
a very quick and stingy West
Central defense. After two quick
three-pointers by Justin Volk within
two minutes of the start of the
game, Brown County went scoreless
until 1:16 before the half.
Head coach Jared Hoots said the
team still hasn’t quite come together
after Brown County’s extended
football season.
“They play good defense,”
Hoots said. “We were getting
shots that we wanted, but we just
have to fi nish them. We have to
go in there and win it. Then we
played New Berlin and felt good
and got our defense better. Then
we came here — a 5-0 team, all
pumped up, and just came out
and beat them.”
Franklin continued its scoring
barrage in the third quarter
as the Flashes put up another 19
points to extend their lead to 47-
26 — even though Thoele joined
fellow starter Tanner Knox on
the bench with foul trouble. Nick
FLASHES, see Page 13 ➤
‘Stingy’ Cougars
handle Hornets
West Central tops Brown County by 20
start knocking the rust off sometime,
from football. We knew we’d
probably get off to a slow start,
but we have all the confi dence in
these kids, and we’ll get it fi xed.”
West Central built a sizable
lead during the Hornets’ scoreless
streak, leading by as much
as 20 well into the second quarter.
Head coach Jeff Abell said he
was pleased with his team’s defensive
performance.
“We work on that a lot,” he
said. “We’ve been pretty fortunate
to have the guys that are willing
to work on that. They take a lot of
pride in coming out and being as
stingy as they can.”
Jordan Boehs continued to
shine offensively for the Cougars.
He knocked down four threepointers
and went 5-of-6 from the
free throw line for 17 points, mak-
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HOCKEY
NHL
Friday’s Games
Chicago 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, SO
Colorado 3, St. Louis 2, SO
Detroit 4, Buffalo 1
Minnesota 4, New Jersey 2
Edmonton 6, Columbus 3
Philadelphia 4, Anaheim 3, OT
Saturday’s Games
Montreal at Los Angeles, 2:30 p.m.
Toronto at Boston, 6 p.m.
Ottawa at Washington, 6 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Carolina, 6 p.m.
New Jersey at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.
Chicago at St. Louis, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Nashville, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Phoenix, 7 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 9 p.m.
Florida at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
BASKETBALL
Men
Cincinnati 57, Georgia 51
Columbia 69, Loyola Marymount 61
Indiana-Southeast 90, Mid-Continent
81
Missouri 90, Northwestern St. 56
Northern St. (SD) 85, Concordia (St.P.)
70
Northwestern 92, MVSU 67
Oklahoma 82, Sacramento St. 53
Syracuse 72, Florida 68
Wheaton (Ill.) 79, Hope 78
Boys
FRANKLIN 65, WAVERLY 41
Waverly 11 5 10 15 — 41
Franklin 9 19 19 18 — 65
Scoring: Waverly — Derek Burchett 7
7-8 23, Derek Whalen 3 4-4 10, Tyler
Hartman 2 2-3 6, Zach Beaty 1 0-0 2,
Totals 13 13-15 41; Franklin — Scottie
Thoele 10 4-4 27, Nick Tillery 3 4-5 10,
Kollin Keltner 4 0-1 8, Tanner Knox 3 0-2
7, Jagger Bergschneider 3 0-0 7, Adam
Bergschneider 1 2-3 4, Brian Watson 1
0-0 2, Totals 25 10-15 65
3-pointers: Waverly 2 (Burchett 2),
Franklin 5 (Thoele 3, J. Bergschneider 1,
Knox 1)
Rebounds: Waverly 20 (Brady Gray 5,
Matt Whalen 4, Burchett 4, D. Whalen 4),
Franklin 35 (Thoele 15, Keltner 7, J.
Bergschneider 4)
Fouls: Waverly 16 (Beaty), Franklin 16
Records: Franklin 2-1, Waverly 5-1
PLEASANT HILL 56,
BRUSSELS 29
Brussels 0 5 13 8 — 29
Pleasant Hill 15 11 10 20 — 56
Scoring: Brussels — Dakota Schulte 4
0-5 7, Tyler Friedel 1 0-0 3, Kevin Kinder
1 0-0 3, Travis Kamp 2 2-3 6, David Titus
2 0-0 4, Riley Caselton 1 0-0 2, Patrick
Meyer 0 2-4 2, Totals 11 4-12 29; Pleasant
Hill — Kolton Latham 1 0-0 3, Brett
Cox 3 2-3 8, Blake DeCamp 3 0-1 6,
Avery Gregurich 5 2-2 13, Matt Gunterman
9 8-11 26, Totals 21 12-17 56
3-pointers: Brussels 3 (Schulte, Friedel,
Kinder), Pleasant Hill 2 (Latham, Gregurich)
Fouls: Brussels 14, Pleasant Hill 12
JACKSONVILLE 51,
ROCHESTER 38
Rochester 9 8 12 9 — 38
Jacksonville 10 15 14 12 — 51
Scoring: Rochester — Houston 3 0-0
6, Yeck 2 0-0 5, McMinn 5 2-2 15,
Sacarro 1 3-4 5, Ross 1 4-4 7, Totals 12-
43 9-10 38; Jacksonville — Payton
Dugan 0 3-5 3, Rudy Pate 7 1-2 18, Dalton
Keene 3 1-2 8, Blake Hance 4 0-0 8, Josh
Peak 3 2-3 8, Andy Jackson 1 0-0 2,
Diontue Armstrong 2 0-0 4, Totals: 20-38
7-12 51
3-pointers: Rochester 5-21 (McMinn 3,
Yeck, Ross), Jacksonville 4-12 (Pate 3,
Keene)
Fouls: Rochester 15, Jacksonville 14
Rebounds: Rochester 18 (McMinn 5,
Scarro 4), Jacksonville 25 (Keene 7,
Hance 4, Pate 4, Peak 3, Dugan 2, Armstrong
2, Jackson 1, Brendan Barlow 1,
TEAM 1)
Turnovers: Rochester 23, Jacksonville
25
Records: Rochester 0-1, 0-1 CS8;
Jacksonville 4-2, 1-0 CS8
BUNKER HILL 45,
CALHOUN 39
Bunker Hill 7 13 15 10 — 45
Calhoun 10 10 10 9 — 39
Scoring: Bunker Hill — Allen 5 1-2 11,
Kruemmelbein 1 1-3 3, Mansholdt 7 2-3
17, Clark 0 2-2 2, Huber 2 0-0 4, Ka.
McLaughlin 2 0-0 6, Ke. McLaughlin 1
0-0 2, Totals 18 6-17 45; Calhoun — Tyler
Johnson 1 2-2 4, Ethan Eberlin 3 4-6 11,
Austin Malley 2 2-2 7, Andrew Seivers 2
0-0 4, Andy Nelson 3 3-4 9, Tyler Baalman
2 0-0 4, Totals 13 11-14 39
3-pointers: Bunker Hill 2 (Ka.
McLaughlin 2), Calhoun 2 (Malley, Eberlin)
Fouls: Bunker Hill 12, Calhoun 17
(Eberlin, T. Baalman)
Records: Bunker Hill 1-1, Calhoun 0-1
JV: Calhoun 54, Bunker Hill 49
CAMP POINT 35,
PITTSFIELD 28
Camp Point 5 11 10 9 — 35
Pittsfi eld 13 5 8 2 — 28
Scoring: Camp Point — DeRousse 0
2-2 2, Weese 3 0-0 7, Walter 7 5-9 19,
Dormire 2 3-5 7, Totals 12 10-16 35;
Pittsfi eld — Kattelman 1 0-0 2, Petty 2
0-0 5, Borrowman 1 0-0 2, Hoover 8 3-5
19, McCartney 0 0-2 0, Totals 12 3-7 28
3-pointers: Camp Point 1 (Weese),
Pittsfi eld 1 (Petty)
Fouls: Camp Point 10, Pittsfi eld 13
GREENFIELD-N’WESTERN 55,
NEW BERLIN 47
New Berlin 12 13 12 10 — 47
Greenfi eld 14 11 11 19 — 55
Scoring: New Berlin — Brock Kemp 7
1-3 19, Mike Lehman 7 2-4 16, Eric Gustafson
2 2-2 7, Zach Longhta 1 0-1 3, Alex
Hodson 1 0-0 2, Totals 18 5-10 47;
Greenfield — Isaac Masters 5 5-7 16,
Dakota Settles 5 2-5 12, Colby Walden 4
2-3 12, Gabe Rothe 1 3-5 6, Mason
McEvers 1 3-5 5, Bubba McEvers 1 0-0
3, Brenden Stults 0 1-2 1, Totals 17 16-27
55
3-pointers: New Berlin 6 (Kemp 4,
Gustafson, Longhta), Greenfield 5
(Walden 2, Masters, Rothe, B. McEvers)
Fouls: New Berlin 18 (Lehman), Greenfi
e l d 14
JV: New Berlin 47, Greenfi eld 42 (OT)
WEST CENTRAL 53,
BROWN COUNTY 33
Brown County 6 5 9 13 — 33
West Central 13 18 12 10 — 53
Scoring: Brown County — Justin Volk
5 0-0 15, Alex Sheppard 5 0-2 10, Clayton
Taylor 1 1-3 3, Derek Kitchell 1 0-0 2,
Brandon Winner 1 0-1 2, Luke Gragg 0 1-
2 1, Totals 13 2-8 33; West Central —
Jordan Boehs 4 5-6 17, Parker Day 4 2-4
10, Corey Barnett 3 3-6 9, Blake Lomelino
4 0-3 8, Colin VanDeVelde 3 0-0 7, Austin
Boehs 1 0-0 2, Totals 19 10-19 53
3-pointers: Brown County 5 (Volk 5),
West Central 5 (J. Boehs 4, VanDeVelde)
Fouls: Brown County 17, West Central
10
JV: Brown County 52, West Central 49
(OT)
TRIOPIA-MEREDOSIA 50,
ISD 36
Triopia 13 18 8 11 — 50
ISD 12 10 4 10 — 36
Scoring: Triopia — John Love 7 1-6 15,
Tanner Huddleston 5 0-0 10, Josh Millard
5 0-2 10, Leo Herzberger 2 1-2 7, Jansen
Joehl 3 0-1 6, Chase Halsne 1 0-0 2,
Totals 23 2-11 50; ISD — Lorenzo Turner
5 1-3 12, Jimel Wright 4 0-1 8, Alec
Blackert 3 2-2 8, Yolandi Johnson 2 0-0
4, Dwayne Esper 1 0-0 2, Austin Bernal 1
0-0 2, Totals
3-pointers: Triopia 2 (Herzberger 2),
ISD 1 (Turner)
Fouls: Triopia 14, ISD 17
JV: Triopia 48, ISD 35
PEORIA HEIGHTS 52,
BEARDSTOWN 47
Beardstown 12 5 16 14 — 47
Peoria Heights 8 19 15 10 — 52
Scoring: Beardstown — Wes Carlock 7
2-5 17, Matt Watson 5 0-0 11, Jon Kramer
3 2-3 11, Dylan Patterson 2 0-2 4, Gus
Vermillion 2 0-0 4, Totals 19 4-10 47
3-pointers: Beardstown 5 (Kramer 3,
Carlock, Watson)
Fouls: Beardstown 13
Note: Peoria Heights statistics not
available.
ROUTT 67,
SPRINGFIELD LUTHERAN 32
Routt 22 13 17 15 — 67
Lutheran 4 5 10 13 — 32
Scoring: Routt — Ryan Lindsey 7 1-3
18, Brant Young 6 4-6 16, Garrett Eilering
5 1-4 14, Alex Johnson 5 0-0 10, Jacob
Dietrich 3 0-3 6, Brent Long 1 0-0 2,
Adam Birdsell 0 1-2 1, Totals 27 7-18 67;
Lutheran — Krueger 5 1-2 14, Hankinson
1 4-6 6, Page 2 0-1 4, Wagner 0 4-4 4,
Henning 1 0-0 2, Kirby 1 0-0 2, Totals 10
9-16 32
3-pointers: Routt 6 (Lindsey 3, Eilering
3), Lutheran 3 (Krueger)
Fouls: Routt 19 (Dietrich), Lutheran 15
Other Scores
Althoff Catholic 54, Marion 50
Aquin 41, Orangeville 38
Argenta-Oreana 61, Arcola 58
Arthur-Okaw Christian 51, Bloomington
Christian 45
Athens 73, Edinburg 51
Aurora West 53, Wheaton Warrenville
South 51
Berwyn-Cicero Morton 68, Willowbrook
38
Bismarck-Henning 54, Monticello 44
Bloomington Central Catholic 43, Pontiac
33
Bolingbrook 76, Lincoln-Way Central
48
Bronzeville Scholastic 48, Hancock 38
Brother Rice 45, Providence 44
Byron 70, Genoa (Genoa-Kingston) 42
Cahokia 101, Carbondale 42
Casey-Westfi eld 71, Palestine-Hutsonville
60
Champaign Centennial 56, Eisenhower
32
Champaign Central 46, Normal West
44
Champaign Judah Christian 54, Villa
Grove 36
Charleston 73, Paris 72, 2OT
Chatham Glenwood 76, Taylorville 29
Chicago Mt. Carmel 67, St. Francis de
Sales 41
Chicago-University 51, Morgan Park
Academy 21
Coal City 61, Peotone 59, 2OT
Colfax Ridgeview 60, LeRoy 52
Collinsville 61, Edwardsville 54
Conant 49, Hoffman Estates 19
CPCI 45, Clifton Central 43
Cristo Rey 57, Talent Development 50,
OT
Cullom Tri-Point 73, Donovan 58
Cumberland 50, Tri-County 32
Danville 60, Mattoon 49
Danville (First Baptist Christian) 65,
Calvary Baptist 57
Decatur MacArthur 65, Bloomington
57
Decatur St. Teresa 64, Auburn 55
Deer Creek-Mackinaw 52, Lexington
47
DeKalb 46, Yorkville 40
Durand 56, Milledgeville 43
DuSable 70, Chicago Uplift 47
East Moline United 58, Quincy 56
East St. Louis 69, Alton 66
El Paso-Gridley 70, Fisher 48
Eureka 64, Stanford Olympia 50
Fenton 59, Illiana Christian 57
Fieldcrest 41, Downs Tri-Valley 31
Flanagan 60, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley
41
Flora 64, Red Hill 57
Forreston 53, Pecatonica 28
Freeport 60, Rockford Guilford 55
Galena 50, Bellevue, Iowa 32
Gardner-South Wilmington 57, St. Anne
54
Geneva 66, Elgin 64
Glenbard North 62, West Chicago 47
Glenbrook North 46, Waukegan 40
Gurnee Warren 53, Lake Zurich 38
Hall 56, Peoria Christian 54
Hartsburg-Emden 69, Clinton 42
Henry 63, Midland 60
Herscher 83, Dwight 44
Heyworth 65, Calvary Christian Academy
43
Highland Park 47, Maine East 31
Hillcrest 61, Reavis 25
Homewood-Flossmoor 60, Joliet West
53
Huntley 50, Carmel 42
SCOREBOARD
Illinois Lutheran 50, Grant Park 44
Illinois Valley Central 57, St. Bede 35
Jerseyville Jersey 47, Waterloo 35
Johnsburg 57, Antioch 47
Kenwood 61, Schurz 35
Lakes Community 62, Wauconda 51
LaSalle-Peru 72, Ottawa 59
Latin 79, Francis Parker 74, 3OT
Leo 66, Seton Academy 51
Libertyville 48, Crystal Lake South 34
Lincoln Way North 61, Bradley-Bourbonnais
49
Litchfi eld 44, Staunton 32
Macomb 68, Rockridge 65, OT
Mahomet-Seymour 63, Fairbury Prairie
Central 37
Manteno 58, Sandwich 37
Marmion 54, Woodstock Marian 47
Marshall Co., Ky. 72, Harrisburg 58
Mendon Unity 80, Biggsville West
Central 77
Midwest Central 52, Illini Bluffs 45
Momence 76, Gilman Iroquois West 49
Monmouth-Roseville 75, Sherrard 44
Montini 68, Guerin 50
Mounds Meridian 83, Cobden 22
Mount Olive 65, Gillespie 58
Mundelein 67, Lake Forest 56
Niles Notre Dame 48, Ridgewood 40
Normal Community 67, Urbana 54
Normal University 46, Rantoul 44
North Chicago 100, Grant 80
O’Fallon 63, Granite City 42
Oak Forest 56, Argo 54, OT
Oblong 79, Martinsville 65
Okaw Valley 54, Shelbyville 39
Olney East Richland 47, Mt. Zion 41
Ottawa Marquette 73, Woodland 61
Pana 75, Roxana 58
Payson-Seymour 79, Highland 65
Pearl City 64, Warren 49
Petersburg PORTA 55, Havana 39
Pinckneyville 33, Waterloo Gibault 30
Plainfi eld East 72, Oswego 42
Plainfi eld North 63, Oswego East 59
Plainfi eld South 54, Plainfi eld Central
52
Plano 51, Lisle 34
Pleasant Plains 65, Mt. Pulaski 38
Polo 85, South Beloit 59
Prophetstown 70, Kewanee 47
Putnam County 49, Roanoke-Benson
33
River Valley (Lowpoint-Washburn) 47,
DePue 29
Riverside-Brookfi eld 71, Elmwood Park
43
Riverton 65, Macon Meridian 55
Rochelle 64, Sycamore 36
Rock Island 55, Rock Island Alleman
44
Rockford Auburn 73, Belvidere 51
Rockford Boylan 58, Hononegah 54
Rockford Christian 48, Luther North 23
Rockford Christian Life 80, Alden-
Hebron 56
Rockford East 58, Machesney Park
Harlem 53
Rockford Jefferson 72, Belvidere North
70
Rockford Lutheran 70, Rock Falls 53
S. Bend Washington, Ind. 67, Dyett 29
Sacred Heart-Griffi n (Springfi eld) 37,
Springfi eld 34
Sandburg 55, Lockport 50
Sangamon Valley 73, Buffalo Tri-City
37
Seneca 51, Wilmington 45
Sesser-Valier 59, West Frankfort
(Frankfort) Community (FCHS) 34
Springfield Lanphier 87, Springfield
Southeast 71
St. Ignatius 65, Fenwick 51
St. Joseph-Ogden 55, Paxton-Buckley-
Loda 49
St. Laurence 52, Bishop McNamara 51,
OT
St. Rita 66, De La Salle 64, 2OT
St. Viator 62, Wheaton Academy 47
Stagg 70, Lincoln Way West 48
Sterling 63, Geneseo 47
Stevenson 67, Zion Benton 59
Stockton 41, Scales Mound 35
Streator 61, Dixon 42
Thornwood 47, Thornridge 33
Tolono Unity 65, Chrisman 31
Tremont 55, Blue Ridge 43
University 41, Shiloh 30
Vernon Hills 69, Round Lake 41
West Carroll 63, River Ridge 33
Westminster Christian 45, Mooseheart
33
Williamsville 42, North-Mac 40
Zeigler-Royalton 55, Bluford Webber
30
Girls
CALHOUN 56,
BROWN COUNTY 38
Calhoun 15 15 7 19 — 56
Brown County 10 10 9 9 — 38
Scoring: Brown County — Kitchell 1
0-0 2, Kerley 6 1-2 17, Cross 1 0-0 2,
McKinnon 2 0-0 6, Markert 5 1-3 11,
Totals 15 2-5 38; Calhoun — Hayn 2 2-2
6, Squier 3 2-6 8, Klunk 1 1-2 3, M. Baalman
1 4-4 6, Klocke 10 7-8 33, Totals 17
16-22 56
3-pointers: Calhoun 4 (Klocke 4),
Brown County 6 (Kerley 4, McKinnon 2)
Fouls: Calhoun 7, Brown County 19
(McKinnon)
Record: Calhoun 6-0 (1-0 WIVC)
Junior High
GIRLS
8th Grade
Springfi eld Little Flower Regional
SPRINGFIELD LITTLE FLOWER 29,
OUR SAVIOUR 22
Our Saviour scoring: Wall 6, Langdon
6, Nelson 5, Schwiderski 2, Bone 2, Robinson
1
Record: Our Saviour 15-9
Liberty Regional
LIBERTY 22, WINCHESTER 17
Winchester scoring: Clark 3, Moore 3,
Brown 3, Timmerman 3, Hubbert 2, Sellars
2, Starks 1
FOOTBALL
High School
WIVC SOUTH
ALL-CONFERENCE
First Team
Offense: Tackle — Justin Hardy (West
Central), Braden Damon (Pleasant Hill);
Guard — Brandon Walls (Carrollton),
Ricky Hopping (Brown County); Center
— Jacob McEvers (Greenfield-Northwestern);
Running Back — Ethan Eberlin
(Calhoun), Luke Nash (West Central),
SPORTS
Jordan Harr (Carrollton); Receiver/End
— Avery Gregurich (Pleasant Hill), Joey
Coonrod (Carrollton); Quarterback —
Matt Gunterman (Pleasant Hill); All-Purpose
— Jordan Boehs (West Central)
Defense: Lineman — Justin Hardy
(West Central), Braden Damon (Pleasant
Hill), Colby Walden (Greenfi eld-Northwestern),
Aaron Rodhouse (Pleasant
Hill); Linebacker — Matt Gunterman
(Pleasant Hill), Corey Barnett (West Central),
Jordan Harr (Carrollton), Cameron
Damm (Greenfield-Northwestern);
Defensive Back — Joey Coonrod (Carrollton),
Mason McEvers (Greenfield-
Northwestern), Jordan Boehs (West Central);
All-Purpose — Andy Nelson (Calhoun)
Specialists: Punter — Isaac Masters
(Greenfield-Northwestern); Kicker
— Corey Barnett (West Central); Returner
— Joey Coonrod (Carrollton)
Second Team
Offense: Tackle — Dawson Hillis (Carrollton),
Jeremy Williams (Greenfield-
Northwestern); Guard — Marcus Breden
(Calhoun), Colby Walden (Greenfield-
Northwestern); Center — Jordan Roundcount
(Calhoun); Running Back — Kaleb
Boston (Greenfi eld-Northwestern), Austin
Boehs (West Central), Luke Palan (Carrollton);
Receiver/End — Corey Barnett
(West Central), Branden Stults (Greenfield-Northwestern);
Quarterback
— Austin Malley (Calhoun); All-Purpose
— Brett Cox (Pleasant Hill)
Defense: Lineman — Drew Barnett
(West Central), Jordan Roundcount (Calhoun),
Justin Reid (West Central), Trevor
Schofield (Greenfield-Northwestern);
Linebacker — Marcus Breden (Calhoun),
Daric Reardon (West Central), Branden
Stults (Greenfi eld-Northwestern), Jeremy
Williams (Greenfield-Northwestern);
Defensive Back — Luke Nash (West
Central), Kolton Latham (Pleasant Hill),
Austin Malley (Calhoun)
Specialists: Punter — Joey Coonrod
(Carrollton); Kicker — Jeff Penn (Pleasant
Hill); Returner — Kaleb Boston
(Greenfi eld-Northwestern)
Honorable Mention
Offense: Tackle — Tommy Kilver (West
Central), Tanner Krumwiede (Carrollton);
Guard — Drew Barnett (West Central),
Dale Neff (North Greene); Center — Josh
Pritchett (West Central); Running Back
— Tyler Johnson (Calhoun), Dakota Settles
(Greenfi eld-Northwestern); Receiver/
End — Andy Nelson (Calhoun), Kaleb
Boston (Greenfi eld-Northwestern); Quarterback
— Isaac Masters (Greenfield-
Northwestern); All-Purpose — Kaiden
Davis (North Greene)
Defense: Lineman — Jacob McEvers
(Greenfield-Northwestern), Seth Duba
(Carrollton); Linebacker — Kaiden Davis
(North Greene), Dakota Settles (Greenfi
eld-Northwestern); Defensive Back —
Ben Stults (Greenfield-Northwestern),
Tyler Johnson (Calhoun), James Holleman
(North Greene)
Specialists: Punter — Luke Nash (West
Central); Kicker — Austin Malley (Calhoun);
Returner — Clay Duba (Carrollton)
WIVC NORTH
ALL-CONFERENCE
First Team
Offense: Tackle — Coltyn DuPre
(Routt), Jacob Burrus (Triopia); Guard —
Austin Gooding (Brown County), Phillip
Whited (Triopia); Center — Brandon
Langan (Routt); Running Back — Kyle
Vandermaiden (Mendon), Derrek Schone
(Triopia), Rick Logsdon (Brown County);
Receiver/End — John Love (Triopia),
Clayton Taylor (Brown County); Quarterback
— Tanner Huddleston (Triopia);
All-Purpose — Nick Lonergan (Routt)
Defense: Lineman — Austin Gooding
(Brown County), John Love (Triopia),
Christian Kennedy (Brown County),
Brandon Langan (Routt); Linebacker
— Luke Gragg (Brown County), Collin
Sheehan (Routt), Phillip Whited (Triopia),
Rick Logsdon (Brown County); Defensive
Back — Derrek Schone (Triopia), Reed
Bentzinger (Mendon), Nick Lonergan
(Routt); All-Purpose — TJ Klitz (Mendon)
Specialists: Punter — Jansen Joehl
(Triopia); Kicker Garrett Eilering (Routt);
Returner — Jansen Joehl (Triopia)
Second Team
Offense: Tackle — Thomas Walsh
(Mendon), Terry Scheer (Brown County);
Guard — Collin Sheehan (Routt), Luke
Gragg (Brown County); Center — Colt
Garrett (Brown County); Running Back
— Nick Rossi (Routt), Alex Sheppard
(Brown County), Sam Henricks (Brown
County); Receiver/End — TJ Klitz (Mendon),
Jansen Joehl (Triopia); Quarterback
— Aaron Wittler (Mendon); All-Purpose
— Jimel Wright (ISD)
Defense: Lineman — Lane Davis
(Mendon), Alex Sheppard (Brown
County), Dakota Longley (Triopia), Ryan
Link (Triopia); Linebacker — Jacob
Miller (Mendon), Blake Richardson (Triopia),
Kyle Vandermaiden (Mendon),
Brant Young (Routt); Defensive Back
— Jansen Joehl (Triopia), Justin Volk
(Brown County), Garrett Eilering (Routt)
Specialists: Punter — Luke Gragg
(Brown County); Kicker — Alex Blickhan
(Mendon); Returner — Aaron Wittler
(Mendon)
Honorable Mention
Offense: Tackle — Nick Braner (Routt),
Vernon McLin (ISD); Guard — Luke
Muegge (Mendon), Blake Richardson
(Triopia); Center — Dakota Longley (Triopia);
Running Back — Jacob Miller
(Mendon), Jared Sanders (Triopia), Adam
Bizarro (ISD), Brant Young (Routt);
Receiver/End — Colton Bobb (Routt),
Justin Volk (Brown County); Quarterback
— Tim Woodward (Brown County)
Defense: Lineman — Terry Scheer
(Brown County), Andrew Neinhouse
(ISD), Lee Stiltz (Routt), Jacob Burrus
(Triopia); Linebacker — Clayton Taylor
(Brown County), Adam Bizarro (ISD),
Jonah Wayland (Triopia), Sam Henricks
(Brown County); Defensive Back
— Aaron Wittler (Mendon), Dwayne
Esper (ISD), Tim Woodward (Brown
County)
Specialists: Punter — Garrett Eilering
(Routt); Kicker — Jansen Joehl (Triopia);
Returner — Alex Sheppard (Brown
County)
SPORTS MENU
Saturday, Dec. 3
HIGH SCHOOL
Boys’ Basketball
ISD at Franklin, 4 p.m.; Pittsfi eld at
Southeastern, 6 p.m.; Williamsville at
North Greene, 6:15 p.m.; Jacksonville at
Canton, 6:30 p.m.; Beardstown at Bushnell
Tournament
Girls’ Basketball
Waverly-Franklin-New Berlin at ISD,
11 a.m.; Beardstown at Brimfi eld, 1 p.m.;
Griggsville-Perry at Greenfi eld (at
Northwestern), 1 p.m.; Western at Rushville-Industry,
1 p.m.; Decatur MacArthur
at Jacksonville, 2:30 p.m.; West
Central at Camp Point Central, 6 p.m.;
Riverton Shootout — Riverton vs.
PORTA
COLLEGE
Men’s Basketball
Beloit College at Illinois College, 3
p.m.; Greenville College at MacMurray
College, 3 p.m.
Women’s Basketball
Beloit College at Illinois College, 1
p.m.; Greenville College at MacMurray
College, 1 p.m.
Swimming
Illinois College at Grinnell College
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6:30 a.m. (ESPN2) English Premier
League Soccer Newcastle vs. Chelsea.
11 a.m. (3,6) College Basketball North
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11 a.m. (10) College Football Southern
Mississippi at Houston.
11 a.m. (ESPN) College Football Connecticut
at Cincinnati.
11 a.m. (ESPN2) College Football Syracuse
at Pittsburgh.
11:30 a.m. (FOXSN) College Football
Iowa State at Kansas State.
Noon (GOLF) Golf Chevron World
Challenge, Third Round. (CC)
2 p.m. (16) Golf Chevron World Challenge,
Third Round. (CC)
2:15 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball
Arkansas at Connecticut.
2:15 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball
Gonzaga at Illinois.
2:30 p.m. (10) College Football Texas
at Baylor.
3 p.m. (3,6) College Football SEC
Championship: LSU vs. Georgia. (CC)
3 p.m. (GOLF) PGA Tour Golf 2011
PGA Tour Q-School, Fourth Round.
3:30 p.m. (FOXSN) College Basketball
Texas at UCLA.
4:15 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball
Pittsburgh at Tennessee.
6:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Football
BYU at Hawaii.
7 p.m. (7,15) College Football Big Ten
Championship: Wisconsin vs. Michigan
State. (CC)
7 p.m. (10) College Football Oklahoma
at Oklahoma State.
7 p.m. (ESPN) College Football ACC
Championship: Clemson vs. Virginia
Tech.
7 p.m. (FOXSN) NHL Hockey Chicago
Blackhawks at St. Louis Blues. (Subject
to Blackout)
8 p.m. (SHOW) Boxing Joseph Agbeko
vs. Abner Mares. (iTV)
11 p.m. (GOLF) European PGA Tour
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Sprint reaches deal with NASCAR
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sprint has signed a contract
extension with NASCAR to remain the title sponsor of
the elite Cup Series through at least 2016.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced the extension Friday
night during NASCAR’s season-ending awards ceremony
at Wynn Las Vegas Resort.
The current 10-year contract Sprint signed with NAS-
CAR was set to expire at the end of the 2013 season, but
negotiations on an extension had been going on for
some time. Sprint offi cials indicated during the Nov. 20
season fi nale that they were close to announcing a new
deal.
Hesse called the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship
the best since its 2004 inception and thanked the
drivers for adding excitement to “an amazing series.”
N. Illinois wins
MAC championship
DETROIT (AP) — All Ohio needed was one big play on
offense — anything that could help the Bobcats hold off
Northern Illinois and win their fi rst Mid-American Conference
title in more than four decades.
Matt Weller missed a fi eld goal. Tyler Tettleton threw
an interception. Finally, with the game tied, a miscue on a
shotgun snap cost Ohio a dozen more yards.
“We had plenty of chances, we just didn’t do enough
with them in the second half,” coach Frank Solich said.
“All three phases of the game had some kind of collapse in
the second half. We didn’t do anything as well as we
needed to do.”
In the end, the Bobcats were left helpless when Mathew
Sims kicked a 33-yard fi eld goal on the fi nal play to give
Northern Illinois a 23-20 victory Friday night in the MAC
championship game. Ohio led 20-0 at halftime, but Chandler
Harnish and the Huskies rallied when the Bobcats
couldn’t put them away.
Tettleton, the son of former major league catcher
Mickey Tettleton, went 18 of 31 for 218 yards with three
interceptions. He also ran for a touchdown in the second
quarter.
With the score 20-7 in the fourth, Weller missed a 36yard
fi eld goal, his fi rst miss of the season from inside 40.
Still, Ohio wasn’t in too much trouble until Tettleton’s deep
pass over the middle was picked off by Jimmie Ward at the
Northern Illinois 37 with 8:49 to play.
Harnish needed only four plays to cut into the lead. He
threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Martel Moore to make
it 20-13. Sims missed the extra point, but when the Huskies
got the ball back, they went 57 yards in six plays, tying it
on Harnish’s 22-yard scoring pass to Nathan Palmer with
2:52 remaining.
“We just didn’t get any breaks in the second half, and
they kept making one great play after another,” said Ohio
linebacker Noah Keller, who had 13 tackles, an interception,
a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and a half-sack.

SPORTS
Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Saturday, December 3, 2011 13
A R E A B A S K E T B A L L R O U N D U P
Greenfi eld beats New Berlin, 55-47
JOURNAL-COURIER
The Greenfi eld boys’ basketball
team used a big fourth quarter
to overtake New Berlin 55-47
Friday in Greenfi eld. The game
was tied 25-25 at halftime, and
New Berlin led by a point after
three. But the Tigers came alive
in the fourth — outscoring the
Pretzels 19-10 to grab the victory.
Isaac Masters led Greenfi
eld with 16 points. Dakota Settles
and Colby Walden added
12 points apiece for the Tigers.
New Berlin’s Brock Kemp led all
scorers with 19 points, including
four three-pointers. Mike Lehman
was next for New Berlin with
16 points.
PLEASANT HILL 56,
BRUSSELS 29
Pleasant Hill blanked Brussels
in the first quarter and cruised
to a victory Friday night. The
Wolves busted out of the gates by
outscoring Brussels 15-0 in the
fi rst quarter and held a 26-5 lead
at the half. Pleasant Hill put the
game away in the fourth by outscoring
Brussels 20-8.
Pleasant Hill’s Matt Gunterman
led all scorers with 26 points.
Avery Gregurich was next for the
FLASHES: Pick up steam in second quarter to take down tough Waverly, 65-41
Continued from Page 11
Tillery scored 10 points off the
bench to boost the Flashes.
“That’s a little bit of a surprise,”
Kuhlmann said. “Nick
can shoot the ball. I don’t know
if he hit an outside three, but he
did a good job of going and getting
loose balls and rebounds.”
Burchett fi nished with a teamhigh
23 points for Waverly. In six
games this year, Burchett has recorded
fi ve games of 20 or more
points.
Thoele turned in a game-high
27 points.
“I did what I did when I was
in the game,” Thoele said. “Foul
trouble has been with me so far
this whole season.”
Thoele finished with a double-double,
with 15 rebounds.
He added four assists in the win.
“I think I was the only one
out there over six-foot-three,”
Thoele said. “I got long arms.
Wolves with 13 points.
BUNKER HILL 45, CALHOUN 39
Calhoun stayed close but
fell to Bunker Hill Friday night.
The game was tied at 20 at the
half, but the Warriors were outscored
25-19 in the second half.
Ethan Eberlin led Calhoun with
11 points. Andy Nelson was next
with nine points. Calhoun fell to
0-1 on the season.
CAMP POINT 35,
PITTSFIELD 28
Pittsfi eld jumped ahead early,
but let the lead slip away in a loss
to Camp Point in Pittsfi eld. The
Saukees held a 13-5 advantage after
the fi rst quarter, but were outscored
30-15 in the final three
quarters. Pittsfield managed to
score just two points in the fourth
quarter.
Dalton Hoover led Pittsfield
with 19 points. Seth Petty was
next for the Saukees with five
points.
GRIGGSVILLE-PERRY 68,
WESTERN 33
The Griggsville-Perry boys’
basketball team rolled past Western
Friday night as the Tornadoes
outscored Western in every
Coach (Kuhlmann) tells me to
go in there and get a rebound,
and that’s what I do.”
Derek Whalen, Tyler Hartman,
and Zach Beaty were the
only Scotties to score. Whalen
finished with 10 points while
Hartman had six and Beaty
made a bucket in the fourth
quarter.
“(Burchett) is a nice player
to have,” Pool said. “He does
so many things for us, handling
the ball, taking care of the basketball,
but also scoring. He had
a nice game.”
But Friday just wasn’t the
Scotties’ night.
“In the previous fi ve games
that we have had before this, we
have had multiple people step
up,” Pool said. “It is just one of
those things. We are a team that
has to shoot well to be successful
and we just didn’t do it tonight.”
quarter of the game.
Clayton Myers (19), Matthew
Kennedy (14) and Dillon Butler
(11) also scored in double digits
as Griggsville improved to 4-3 on
the year.
PEORIA HEIGHTS 52,
BEARDSTOWN 47
Beardstown led 12-8 after the
fi rst quarter Friday night but was
outscored 19-5 in the second.
Beardstown outscored Peoria
Heights in the third and fourth
quarters, but the Tigers were unable
to make up the difference.
Wes Carlock led the Tigers
with 17 points while Matt Watson
and Jon Kramer each chipped in
11 points.
TRIOPIA-MEREDOSIA 50,
ISD 36
The Triopia-Meredosia boys’
basketball team used a big second
quarter to beat ISD Friday
night. The Trojans led 13-12 after
the first quarter and outscored
ISD 18-10 in the second — and
led the rest of the way.
John Love led the Tojans with
15 points while Tanner Huddleston
and Josh Millard each
contributed 10 points. Lorenzo
Turner turned in a team-high 12
points for ISD.
ROUTT 67,
SPRINGFIELD LUTHERAN 32
The Routt boys’ basketball
team picked up its second win
of the year Friday as the Rockets
exploded for 22 points in the fi rst
quarter on their way to a win over
Lutheran.
Ryan Lindsey (18), Brant
Young (16), Garrett Eilering (14)
and Alex Johnson (10) all fi nished
in double fi gures for the Rockets.
GIRLS
CALHOUN 56,
BROWN COUNTY 38
Calhoun’s Jocie Klocke continued
her hot start to the 2011-12
season by scoring 33 points in an
18-point win over Brown County.
Klocke hit four three-pointers
and was 7-of-8 from the charity
stripe.
Brown County trailed by only
eight after three quarters, but
the Lady Warriors used a 19-9
fourth quarter to secure the victory.
Courtney Squier chipped in
eight points for Calhoun. Aimee
Kerley led the Lady Hornets with
17 points, including four threepointers.
Vanessa Markert added
11 points for Brown County.
Calhoun improved to 6-0 and
1-0 in the WIVC.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
IC WOMEN WIN, MEN LOSE
Brittney Burgess and Haylee
Althoff combined for 33
points off the bench, and the Illinois
College women’s basketball
team earned its fi rst win of the
season on Friday, beating Lawrence
University 77-40.
The IC men fell to Lawrence
in the nightcap by a 76-69 score.
Burgess scored a game-high
18 points while Althoff chipped
in 15. Morgan Brinker scored 10
points and had a team-high six
assists. Kelly Lonergan added
eight points and seven rebounds
off the bench.
With the win, the Lady Blues
improved to 1-3 overall and 1-0 in
Midwest Conference play.
In the men’s game, IC’s Craig
Bals scored a team-high 18
points. Brandon Berry and Spencer
Campbell chipped in 16 and
17 points, respectively. Bals led
IC with eight rebounds, and Zeke
Light contributed four assists.
Light also had three steals.
The Blueboys fell to 1-3 overall
and 0-1 in MWC play with the
loss.
ABOVE: Franklin’s Kollin
Keltner pulls down
a rebound against Waverly
at Franklin High
School Friday.
LEFT: Franklin’s Scottie
Thoele sinks a
fade-away jump shot
against Waverly at
Franklin High School
Friday.
J OURNAL-COURIER PHOTOS BY
R OBERT LEISTRA
CRIMSONS: Don’t miss a beat after Peak leaves in second quarter of CS8 victory
Continued from Page 11
said. “We got great looks off of it.
I guess I scored a little bit.”
Blake Hance, a 6-6 sophomore
who’d been averaging 13
points for JHS, fi nished with only
8 Friday, but got all of them after
halftime while grabbing four
rebounds. It was the first time
in six games Hance didn’t reach
double fi gures in scoring, but he
and Keene caught the ball in the
post enough times to force the
Rockets to sag in, opening up the
outside for Pate, who made three
three-pointers.
“Our identity is getting the ball
in to our bigs,” said Pate. “That’ll
open them up and it will open up
the outside shooters.”
Despite playing its fi rst game
of the season, and with several
football athletes still not in basketball
shape, Rochester stayed
more competitive with the Crimsons
than it had last year, thanks
to 15 points (and three treys)
from Seth McMinn and a scrappy,
1-3-1 defense that hounded
Jacksonville into 25 turnovers.
The Rockets knew they faced
a size mismatch, so they relied a
lot on jumping and trapping to attack
Jacksonville’s offense. But
when not turning the ball over,
Jacksonville found plenty of open
shots, and went 20-of-38 from the
fi eld. “I’ve never seen Rochester
play a 1-3-1, but somehow coach
(Dugan) knew they were going
to come at us with that, and he
had us practicing against the 1-
3-1. So we knew where the holes
were, where to fl ash to and where
to get the ball.”
Jacksonville’s defense forced
Rochester into 23 turnovers —
with three steals by Crimsons’
junior Andy Jackson — and held
the Rockets to just 28 percent
field goal shooting (12-of-43).
Rochester was 5-of-21 from threepoint
range.
“The guys responded well,”
said Dugan. “We got better, defensively,
in the second half.”
The Rockets never led again
after scoring the game’s opening
bucket, but they did close
to within 29-26 halfway through
the third quarter. That was when
Pate dropped in three-pointers on
back-to-back trips down the fl oor,
then stole the ball and fed junior
Diontue Armstrong for a deuce
to make it 37-26.
Rochester never seriously
threatened after that.
Tonight’s opponent, Canton,
stood at 1-3 overall heading into
this weekend’s games. The Little
Giants took down Illini Central
in their season opener, but then
dropped three straight, to Peoria
Manual, Chicago Marshall and
Macomb. The Crimsons are 10-
16 against Canton overall.
Pate remembers last year’s
game with Canton, at the JHS
Bowl. “I remember Josh Peak
scored 38 points against them,”
said Pate. “I don’t think they have
a lot of size, so we’ll try to work
the ball inside. It’s going to be
our standard game plan.”
But probably without Peak or
his 30-plus points. Can Jacksonville
overcome that while playing
in a hostile gym for the fi rst time
this season?
“We have to fi nd a new way to
score,” said Keene. “We have to
look for everybody, move the ball
around and either get some easy
layups or open shots.”

14 Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, IL, Saturday, December 3, 2011
Continued from Page 11
ing him the game’s leading scorer.
Boehs said he and his teammates
were well prepared for
what Brown County was going to
throw at them defensively.
“We knew they were going
to play both man and zone (defenses),”
he said. “We were going
right at them when they
were playing man in the beginning
of the game, and when they
switched to their zone we had
plays set up right for it. So they
really didn’t know how to stifl e us
on defense tonight.”
Abell also said that having
some big guys like Corey Barnett
(6-4) and Blake Lomelino (6-4) on
the floor pays dividends for his
team’s offensive production, creating
open looks from outside.
“We’ve got a little bit of size,”
Abell said. “I think our big guys
do a very good job of working inside-out.
We’ll try to pound it in
and get the easy one, but they
also know that if they’re doubleteamed,
then someone else is
open. And our guards do a good
job of when they throw that entry
pass, getting to an open spot
where they can fi nd them.”
Coming out of halftime trailing
31-11, Brown County was able to
double its offensive production
in the second half. Volk hit three
more three-pointers, giving him
five total for the game, and Al-
SPORTS
M E N ’ S B A S K E T B A L L
Syracuse coach Boeheim apologizes
BY JOHN KEKIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse
basketball coach Jim Boeheim
apologized Friday for questioning
the motives of the men who
accused his longtime assistant of
molesting them as minors, saying
he reacted out of loyalty.
“I believe I misspoke very
badly in my response to the allegations
that have been made,”
said Boeheim, who spoke slowly
and paused frequently during
a postgame press conference. “I
shouldn’t have questioned what
the accusers expressed or their
motives. I am really sorry that I
did that, and I regret any harm
that I caused.”
Former assistant coach Bernie
Fine has been accused of
child sex abuse by three men, including
two former Syracuse ballboys.
Fine, who was fi red Sunday,
has denied the allegations.
Boeheim said his apology and
regrets came from the heart.
“No one said this is what you
should say,” he said. “This is what
I feel.”
When the allegations fi rst surfaced,
Boeheim adamantly defended
Fine and accused the men
of lying for money.
“What I said last week was out
of loyalty,” he said. “I acted without
thinking. I couldn’t believe
what I was hearing.”
Advocates for sex abuse victims
had called for Boeheim to
resign or be fi red for his disparaging
remarks.
Speaking after No. 4 Syracuse
beat No. 10 Florida on Friday,
Boeheim said his initial comments
were “insensitive to the individuals
involved and especially
to the overall issue of child
abuse.”
It’s the second time in less
than a week that Boeheim has
softened his stance toward the
accusers.
After Fine was fired Sunday,
Boeheim released a statement
saying he regretted “any statements
I made that might have
inhibited that from occurring
or been insensitive to victims of
abuse.”
On Tuesday, Boeheim insist-
ed he didn’t regret backing Fine
when the allegations were first
made public.
Boeheim said he spent time
this week at the McMahon Ryan
House for child abuse in Syracuse
and plans to get involved to
help raise awareness.
“I’m going to do everything I
can to do that,” he said, no matter
whether he’s coaching or not.
“I’ve always been committed to
kids. There’s no question in my
mind the issue of abuse is the
No. 1 thing we should all be concerned
about in this community.”
One of the accusers, Bobby
Davis, now 39, told ESPN last
month that Fine molested him
beginning in 1984 and that the
sexual contact continued until
he was around 27. A ball boy for
six years, Davis said the abuse
occurred at Fine’s home, at Syracuse
basketball facilities and
on team road trips, including
the 1987 Final Four. Davis’ stepbrother,
Mike Lang, 45, who also
was a ball boy, told ESPN
that Fine began molesting him
while he was in the fi fth or sixth
No. 8 Oregon takes Pac-12 title
BY ANNE. PETERSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
EUGENE, Ore. — LaMichael
James ran for 219 yards and
three touchdowns and No. 8 Oregon
beat UCLA 49-31 in the inaugural
Pac-12 championship game
Friday night for the Ducks’ third
straight conference title and a
berth in the Rose Bowl.
Rick Neuheisel tipped his hat
to the UCLA fans in his last game
as coach. The former Bruins
quarterback was fi red this week
after four seasons with his alma
mater.
While the Bruins (6-7) played
with passion for their outgoing
coach and kept it closer than
many thought they would, it was
not enough to overcome the
Ducks (11-2), who head to a BCS
bowl for the third straight season.
Darron Thomas threw for 219
yards and three touchdowns, becoming
Oregon’s career leader
with 63 TD passes.
James became the fi rst rusher
in Pac-12 history with three
straight 1,500-yard seasons. He
moved into a tie with USC’s Len-
Dale White (2003-05) for second
on the league’s career rushing
TD list with 52.
Afterward, James and fellow
running back Kenjon Barner
danced, while other Ducks held
roses clenched in their teeth.
Fans swarmed the players as
fireworks exploded above Autzen
Stadium and confetti rained
down.
“These guys go play,” coach
Chip Kelly said. “They’re fearless
competitors.”
Neuheisel, fired following
last weekend’s 50-0 loss to No.
9 Southern California, hugged
quarterback Kevin Prince as time
ran out. “Well, we weren’t good
enough, but it wasn’t because we
didn’t have enough heart,” he
said.
Neuheisel’s dismissal was part
of a wave of coaching moves in
the conference. Around the time
he was fi red, Arizona State let go
of Dennis Erickson. Washington
State parted ways with Paul Wulff,
then quickly hired former Texas
Tech coach Mike Leach a day
later.
“They can take my job,”
Neuheisel said, gesturing to the
locker room, “but they can’t take
those boys away from me.”
Oregon will play the winner
of the fi rst Big 10 championship
game Saturday between No. 11
Michigan State and No. 15 Wisconsin
in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 2.
The bowl pairings will be formally
announced on Sunday.
The heavily favored Ducks
scored on their fi rst series when
James ran 30 yards for a touchdown.
James went into the game
as the nation’s top running back
with an average of 142.7 yards
per game.
UCLA tied it when linebacker
Patrick Larimore intercepted
Thomas and ran 35 yards for
a touchdown. Neuheisel pumped
his fi st in celebration.
Thomas scored on a 10-yard
keeper and then found true freshman
tight end Colt Lyerla alone
in the end zone with a 7-yard
scoring pass to make it 21-7.
UCLA narrowed it with
Prince’s fl ea-fl icker to Nelson Rosario
for a 37-yard touchdown.
Oregon was stung early in the
game when dynamic true freshman
De’Anthony Thomas fumbled
after a hit by Tevin McDonald.
Shaken up on the play, the
versatile running back who earlier
this week was named the Pac-
12’s co-freshman of the year on
offense did not return.
James added a 3-yard touchdown
run to make it 28-14 before
Darron Thomas connected with
Daryle Hawkins for a 25-yard TD
reception.
UCLA’s Tyler Gonzalez kicked
a 44-yard fi eld goal to make it 37-
17 at halftime.
O’Reilly, Avalanche down Blues, 3-2
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Ryan O’Reilly
scored the tying goal and then
added another in the shootout to
lift the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-
2 victory over the St. Louis Blues
on Friday night.
O’Reilly, who also had an assist,
lifted a backhander over the
shoulder of Jaroslav Halak for the
only goal in the tiebreaker. Milan
Hejduk, who netted his ninth
goal of the season in regulation,
and Matt Duchene had already
been stopped in the shootout by
St. Louis goalie Jaroslav Halak.
Semyon Varlamov, who
stopped 35 of 37 shots through
overtime, then denied Alexander
Steen, T.J. Oshie and Jamie
Langenbrunner to give Colorado
a 4-0 mark this season in shootouts.
Kevin Shattenkirk and Patrick
Berglund had goals, and
Halak made 35 saves for the
Blues, who had a four-game winning
streak snapped. St. Louis is
7-1-3 under Ken Hitchcock since
he replaced fired coach Davis
Payne on Nov. 6.
With Colorado trailing 2-1,
O’Reilly tied it at 9:34 of the third
period with a wrist shot that beat
Halak through a screen.
The Avalanche nearly won
it with 10 seconds left in overtime,
but Halak reached back
at the last moment to keep Ryan
O’Byrne’s shot from crossing
the goal line.
The Blues struck first, taking
advantage of a hooking penalty
on Paul Stastny when Shattenkirk
scored his third of the
season 8:55 in. Jason Arnott
found Shattenkirk alone above
the right circle, and he flipped
a wrister through a screen that
Varlamov never saw.
Colorado tied it at 13:55 when
Hejduk buried a shot past Halak.
O’Reilly set up the play from behind
the net.
WEST CENTRAL: Defeats Brown County, 53-33
ex Sheppard scored all of his 10
points on some solid play down
low.
But West Central kept cruising
offensively, pushing the ball
hard during transition, which allowed
the Cougars some easy layups
as the Hornets had diffi culty
matching up.
Boehs said the win is an indicator
of good things yet to come,
as the Cougars lost to Brown
County in the teams’ fi rst contest
last year.
“I think it’s a good start,” he
said. “Last year we lost to Brown
County starting off conference
play, and now this year we’re just
looking forward at the conference
title.”
grade.
A third accuser, 23-year-old
Zach Tomaselli of Lewiston,
Maine, came forward Sunday.
He said he told police that Fine
molested him in 2002 in a Pittsburgh
hotel room after a game.
He said Fine touched him “multiple”
times in that one incident.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office
and the U.S. Secret Service are
leading an investigation of child
molestation allegations against
Fine.
Earlier Friday, USA Basketball
said Boeheim’s spot on the
coaching staff of the U.S. basketball
team remained secure,
though the U.S. Olympic Committee
is monitoring the child
sex abuse investigation of Fine.
Boeheim is the top assistant
to Mike Krzyzewski on the team
that will play at the 2012 London
Olympics.
Asked about Boeheim’s status,
USA Basketball spokesman
Craig Miller said, “Jim Boeheim
is a member of the USA Men’s
National Team coaching staff.”’
The USOC declined com-
T O P 2 5 R O U N D U P
ment, though a person familiar
with the situation told The Associated
Press the federation is
following the issue. The person
spoke to The AP on the condition
of anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the situation.
Two high-profile Olympic
sports have dealt with allegations
of child sex abuse in the
past two years.
In 2010, USA Swimming was
hit by a number of sex-abuse allegations
by coaches. More recently,
1984 Olympic gymnastics
coach Don Peters was banned
for life by USA Gymnastics after
being accused of sexually abusing
two athletes in the 1980s.
Over the past 18 months,
the USOC has increased efforts
to ensure safe environments
for children who participate in
Olympic sports.
The federation adopted a task
force that encouraged the national
governing bodies to adopt
standardized policies to prevent
abuse. It also hired an attorney
to serve as the director of ethics
and safe sport.
No. 13 Mizzou routs
Northwestern, 90-56
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Despite
his team winning its fi rst seven
games by an average of 28 points,
Marcus Denmon insists Missouri
isn’t satisfi ed.
Denmon scored a career-high
31 points and the No. 13 Tigers
went on a pair of big runs in a 90-
56 rout of Northwestern State on
Friday night.
“We’ve done some things well,
but we’re still a hungry group,”
Denmon said. “I feel that starting
off 7-0 is good, but it’s something
that we want to build on as
a team. It’s not something that
we’re satisfi ed with at all.”
Michael Dixon also set a career
high with 19 points and Ricardo
Ratliffe matched his personal
best with 22. The Tigers (7-
0) are off to their best start since
winning their first nine games
during the 2006-07 season.
Missouri used runs of 18-0
and 24-8 to take control. Denmon
became the fi rst Tigers player to
score 30 points in a game since
2009.
“My teammates were fi nding
me in open spots,” Denmon said.
“I take those shots every day in
practice. I continue to work on
them, and tonight they were falling
for me.”
Asked if he practiced the alley-oop
and ensuing free throw
that capped his scoring, Denmon
smiled and said, “Maybe like
once every now and then.”
First-year Missouri coach
Frank Haith said Wednesday his
team planned to attack Northwestern
State forward William
Mosley, who led the nation last
season with 154 blocks and was
third this season with 26 through
seven games. Despite starting
four guards, the Tigers did just
that, outscoring the Demons 50-
22 in the paint and outrebounding
Northwestern State 43-33.
“There’s a lot of great numbers
in the ballgame that excite
me, but one that really excited
me the most was we had 50
points in the paint,” Haith said.
“And I think that, even though we
shoot the ball really well, that balance
is extremely important for
our success, our ability to play inside-out.”
Missouri, which leads the Big
12 in fi eld goal percentage, shot
55 percent, three percentage
points better than its season average.
“I think they were pressing
and they were trying to speed us
up,” Ratliffe said. “But we have really
good guards and if you try to
press them, then more than likely
they will beat the press.”
James Hulbin led the Demons
(4-4) with 14 points. Demetrice
Jacobs and Louis Ellis added 10
apiece, while Mosley had eight
points, 14 rebounds and three
blocks.
Northwestern State coach
Mike McConathy tried using a
wave of substitutions, switching
out the entire team during timeouts,
but the Demons weren’t
able to keep pace with Missouri.
“I just had to attack more,”
Mosley said. “That’s something
I’ve been trying to do the whole
year, but they have pretty good
size on them and it was tough,
but I just play hard.”
Northwestern State coach
Mike McConathy tried using a
wave of substitutions, switching
out the entire team during timeouts,
but the Demons weren’t
able to keep pace with Missouri.
“They were really good and
they’re going to be a difficult
team for people to play because
people are going to think, outsiders
think well they’re not that
big,” McConathy said. “They’re
big enough because they know
how to play basketball.”
Missouri built a 29-6 lead with
12:37 remaining in the fi rst half
after an 18-0 run over 4 1/2 minutes.
The Tigers were then able
to push the lead to 57-31 at halftime.
NO. 4 SYRACUSE 72,
NO. 10 FLORIDA 68
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Fourthranked
Syracuse remained unbeaten
with a 72-68 win over No.
10 Florida on Friday night, as
coach Jim Boeheim maintained
a stoic facade amid an intense
federal investigation into his
program.
It’s the second game since
the fi ring of longtime associate
head coach Bernie Fine, who
has been accused by three men
— including two former Syracuse
ballboys — of molesting
them as minors. Fine, who was
fi red Sunday, has denied the allegations.
Brandon Triche had 20 points
and Scoop Jardine fi nished with
16 and seven assists for the Orange
(8-0). Kenny Boynton led
Florida (5-2) with 22 points and
Erving Walker had 17.
Neither team led by more
than six points in a fi rst half that
was tied six times. Syracuse
took a 31-27 lead into the break.
Jardine hit a runner in the
lane as the shot clock neared zero,
Kris Joseph fed C.J. Fair for a
baseline jumper, and Jardine hit
a 3 from the left wing in a span
of 2:19. That gave Syracuse a 61-
53 lead with 3:52 left and the Gators
couldn’t rally back.
NO. 6 LOUISVILLE 62,
NO. 20 VANDERBILT 60, OT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Peyton
Siva drove through the middle of
Vanderbilt’s defense for a layup
with 1.4 seconds left in overtime
to lift Louisville.
The Cardinals (7-0) rallied
from two big defi cits — nine in
the second half and fi ve in overtime.
Kyle Kuric’s 16-footer gave
Louisville a 60-58 lead with 34
seconds left.
John Jenkins, who finished
with 27 points, hit two free throws
for the Commodores (5-3) to tie it
with 12.2 seconds left, but Siva
broke the defense on a high pickand-roll
and got to the hoop for
the game-winning basket to fi nish
with 15 points.

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FARM&BUSINESS
November jobless rate falls to 8.6%
BY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
AP ECONOMICS WRITER
The unemployment rate, which
has refused to budge from the 9
percent neighborhood for two and
a half frustrating years, fell sharply
in November, driven in part by
small businesses that finally see
reason to hope and hire.
Economists say there is a long
way to go, but they liked what they
saw.
The rate fell to 8.6 percent,
the lowest since March 2009, two
months after President Barack
Obama took office. Unemployment
passed 9 percent that spring
and had stayed there or higher
for all but two months since then.
The country added 120,000
jobs in November, the Labor De-
partment said Friday. Private employers
added 140,000 jobs, while
governments cut 20,000.
The economy has generated
100,000 or more jobs fi ve months
in a row — the fi rst time that has
happened since April 2006, well
before the Great Recession.
“Something good is stirring in
the U.S. economy,” Ian Shepherdson,
an economist at High Frequency
Economics, said in a note
to clients.
The stock market rallied at
the opening bell, after the report
came out, but fi nished fl at for the
day. It was still up 787 points for
the week. The only bigger point
gain in a week was in October
2008, when stocks lurched higher
and lower during the fi nancial
Stock market ends
best week since ’09
BY FRANCESCA LEVY AND
MATTHEW CRAFT
AP BUSINESS WRITERS
NEW YORK — An early rally
fi zzled on the stock market Friday
but still left the Standard & Poor’s
500 index up 7.4 percent for the
week, its biggest gain since March
2009.
A surprise drop in the U.S. unemployment
rate sent stocks higher
in early trading, but the gains
faded during the afternoon.
The Dow Jones industrial average
dropped 0.61 of a point to
close at 12,019.42. The Dow ended
the week up 7 percent, the largest
weekly gain since July 2009.
Bank stocks rose sharply, continuing
a weeklong rally. JPMorgan
Chase & Co. jumped 6.1
percent, the most among the 30
stocks in the Dow average. Morgan
Stanley leapt 6.9 percent, the
second-biggest gain of any stock in
the S&P 500 index.
European stock indexes and the
euro rose after German Chancellor
Angela Merkel made a speech
pushing for tighter rules on government
spending. Merkel said the
17 countries that use the euro must
quickly restore market confi dence
by making fi nancial controls stricter.
Markets could be in for more
volatility next week as European
leaders prepare for a summit to
propose new measures for containing
the crisis.
The Labor Department reported
before the market opened that
the unemployment rate fell to 8.6
percent last month, the lowest
level in 2 1/2 years. Economists
had expected the rate to stay at
9 percent. But a key reason the
unemployment rate fell so much
was that more than 300,000 people
gave up looking for work and
were no longer counted as unemployed.
The Nasdaq composite index
inched up 0.73 to 2,626.93. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell
0.31 of a point to 1,244.28. The S&P
surged 7.4 percent over the week,
the most since March 2009.
Decisive steps by world leaders
to right Europe’s teetering economy
sent stocks soaring on Wednesday.
The Dow jumped 490 points,
its biggest gain since March 2009
and its seventh-largest one-day
point gain in history. The weekly
point gain of 787 in the Dow was
the second-biggest in its history,
following a 946-point gain in October
2008.
“This market has been gripped
with fear for a long time,” said Peter
Cardillo, chief market economist
at Rockwell Global Capital. “And
I think some of these fear factors
are beginning to dissipate.”
This week’s strong stock performance
is partially a refl ection
of the market’s increased volatility
since August, when concerns that
Europe’s debt was spinning out of
control made dramatic stock price
swings the norm. On Monday the
S&P 500 broke a 7-day slide that
had taken the index down 7.9 percent.
The improvements in the U.S.
job market are “another illustration
that the US economy is, for
now at least, shrugging off the
global economic downturn and
fears about the collapse of the euro-zone,”
Capital Economics Chief
U.S. Economist Paul Ashworth
said in a note to clients.
Merkel and French President
Nicolas Sarkozy will meet Monday
to discuss changes to Euro-
Market watch
Dow Jones
industrials
Nasdaq
composite
Standard &
Poor’s 500
Russell
2000
Dec. 2, 2011
+4.27
735.02
NYSE diary
Advanced: 1,854
Declined: 1,188
Unchanged: 96
Volume:
Nasdaq diary
Advanced:
Declined:
Unchanged:
-0.61
12,019.42
+0.73
2,626.93
-0.30
1,244.28
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1,514
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pean Union treaties. The talks
will culminate in a Dec. 9 summit
of EU leaders, where the proposals
are expected to be debated and
detailed. Analysts say stricter controls
on spending could encourage
the European Central Bank to offer
more short-term help for governments
struggling with their
debts.
If the European Central Bank
takes a larger role in buying government
debt, “it will certainly be
a relief to markets,” Cardillo said,
“and maybe even mean Europe
avoids falling into a deep recession.
Not that it’s going to cure all
the problems of Europe.”
In corporate news:
Western Digital Corp. soared
7.5 percent, the most in the S&P.
The data storage provider raised
its revenue estimate for the current
quarter and said that recovery
efforts at its facility in Thailand
following massive flooding
there were proceeding faster than
had been expected.
Some stocks that moved substantially
or traded heavily Friday:
Big Lots Inc., down $3.45 at
$36.28. The discount retailer said
that its third-quarter net income
fell 76 percent due to a loss related
to a recent acquisition.
H&R Block Inc., down $1.03
at $15.03. Concerns about the tax
preparer’s shuttered subprime
mortgage unit resurfaced after it
reported that claims on bad mortgages
rose.
Alexander & Baldwin Inc., up
$6.33 at $44.39. The ocean transportation
and logistics company
said that it will split into two publicly
traded companies by the end
of next year.
PVH Corp., up $5.16 at $72.78.
The clothing maker, which owns
the Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin
Klein brands, said its third-quarter
profi t grew on stronger sales.
Research In Motion Ltd.,
down $1.81 at $16.77. The Black-
Berry phone maker is writing off
much of its inventory of PlayBook
tablets, since it has to sell them at a
deep discount.
Lululemon Athletica Inc., up
$2.52 at $49.69 The yoga wear maker’s
stock was upgraded by two analysts
from different fi rms to “Buy”
based on its growth prospects.
T. Rowe Price Group Inc., up
92 cents at $57.50. A Jefferies analyst
upped his price target on the
investment fi rm’s stock to $64 from
$58 based on the company’s performance.
crisis.
The report showed that September
and October were stronger
months for the job market than
fi rst estimated. For four months in
a row, the government has revised
job growth fi gures higher for previous
months.
September was revised up by
52,000 jobs, for a gain of 210,000.
October was revised up by 20,000,
for a gain of 100,000.
Unemployment peaked at 10.1
percent in October 2009, four
months after the Great Recession
ended. It dipped to 8.9 percent
last February and 8.8 percent
last March but otherwise was at or
above 9 percent.
The rate fell not just because
people found jobs. About 300,000
NYSE most active
NEW YORK (AP)-Sales, 4:30 p.m. price and net change
of the 15 most active New York Stock Exchange issues,
trading nationally.
Name Volume Last Chg.
Bank of Am 271,459,708 5.64 + .11
S&P500 ETF 184,585,168 124.86 — .11
SPDR Fncl 124,620,457 12.91 + .17
JPMorgChse 89,068,567 32.33 + 1.87
GenlElec 67,661,595 16.09 + .18
FordMot 65,942,878 10.90 + .31
vjAMR Corp 61,331,718 .39 + .06
Citigroup rs 60,290,434 28.17 + 1.18
MorganStan 51,397,439 15.52 + 1.01
BostonSci 47,106,272 5.50 — .40
iShEMkts 45,722,781 39.77 — .12
iShRus2K 44,636,313 73.50 + .30
Pfi zer 42,289,342 19.89 — .14
WellsFargo 35,130,916 26.07 + .43
SprintNextel 34,718,124 2.60 — .10
Nasdaq summary
NEW YORK (AP)—Most active Nasdaq issues.
Name Volume Last Chg.
RschMotn 54,346,815 16.77 — 1.81
Microsoft 51,051,707 25.22 — .06
Cisco 45,530,175 18.55 — .03
Intel 39,324,517 24.64 — .28
SiriusXM 35,361,246 1.86 — .02
PwShs QQQ 32,851,348 56.62 — .16
Comcast 32,038,710 23.36 + .79
MicronT 27,171,834 5.80 — .09
Clearwire 25,138,626 2.14 + .11
PacEth rs 22,855,727 1.49 + .14
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Open High Low Settle Chg.
WHEAT
5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel
Dec 609 1 ⁄2 620 600 1 ⁄4 612 1 ⁄4 + 10 1 ⁄4
Mar 621 632 611 1 ⁄2 625 1 ⁄2 + 11 1 ⁄4
May 637 1 ⁄2 648 1 ⁄4 629 3 ⁄4 641 1 ⁄4 + 9 1 ⁄4
Jul 650 1 ⁄4 661 1 ⁄2 642 1 ⁄2 654 + 8 1 ⁄2
Sep 668 679 662 672 + 7 1
⁄4
Dec 689 702 1
⁄2 684 1
⁄4 692 1
⁄2 + 7 1
⁄4
Mar 709 717 1
⁄4 700 3
⁄4 709 + 7 1
⁄4
CORN
5,000 bu minimum; cents per bushel
Dec 587 1
⁄2 598 585 1
⁄4 586 1
⁄2 — 8 1
⁄4
Mar 596 605 3 ⁄4 593 3 ⁄4 595 1 ⁄4 — 6 1 ⁄4
May 603 613 601 3 ⁄4 603 — 6 1 ⁄4
Jul 609 618 1 ⁄2 607 608 3 ⁄4 — 5 1 ⁄2
Sep 574 1 ⁄4 579 1 ⁄4 571 1 ⁄2 571 3 ⁄4 — 3
people simply gave up looking for
work, and were no longer counted
as unemployed. People routinely
enter and leave the work force,
though 300,000 is more than usual.
In the United States, about 13.3
million people are counted as unemployed.
More than half the jobs added
last month were by retailers, restaurants
and bars. But professional
and business services rose by
33,000, and those tend to be higher-paying
jobs, such as engineers
and accountants. The category also
includes temporary jobs, which
increased.
The so-called underemployment
rate fell to 15.6 percent from
16.2 percent. That includes three
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FedEx to increase ground and
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Coca-Cola cans going back to red
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Coca-Cola Co. is bringing
red back for its annual holiday cans after a white
design drew criticism from purists.
The world’s largest beverage maker announced in
October that it was turning its iconic red cans white
as part of a campaign to protect polar bears and their
habitat.
From November to March, Coca-Cola planned to
add white bottle caps on several products and put out
1.4 billion of the white cans, which feature a family of
polar bears and the company name in red.
It was the first time Coca-Cola had changed the
color of its cans, and it hoped the striking departure
would draw attention to its work with the World Wildlife
Fund to protect the bears. But the change evoked
a not very warm or fuzzy reaction from some Coke
drinkers.
Some complained the new cans were too similar to
Diet Coke’s silver cans. Others thought the soda inside
tasted different and went online to complain.
Coca-Cola says its formula has not changed, and it
has heard from many consumers who like the white
cans. The company says it’s not pulling them from the
market, just adding red cans to the mix in response to
consumer requests.
The Atlanta-based company said more than 1 billion
white cans already on the market will remain until they
sell, and the white caps on some bottles of Coke, Diet
Coke, Minute Maid and other drinks are staying for
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⁄4 1144 1
⁄2 1128 1
⁄4 1135 3
⁄4 + 7 3
⁄4
Mar 1146 1
⁄4 1154 3
⁄4 1138 3
⁄4 1146 1
⁄4 + 7 3
⁄4
May 1155 3
⁄4 1165 1149 1
⁄2 1156 1
⁄4 + 7 1
⁄4
Jul 1166 1175 1159 3
⁄4 1166 1
⁄4 + 7 1
⁄2
Aug 1165 1172 1
⁄2 1160 1166 + 7 1
⁄2
Sep 1158 1
⁄2 1159 1155 3
⁄4 1159 + 6 3
⁄4
Nov 1154 3 ⁄4 1165 1 ⁄2 1151 3 ⁄4 1155 1 ⁄2 + 6 1 ⁄2
Jan 1164 1173 1 ⁄4 1163 1 ⁄4 1165 3 ⁄4 + 7
Mar 1178 1 ⁄4 1178 1 ⁄4 1173 1 ⁄4 1174 3 ⁄4 + 7 1 ⁄2
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60,000 lbs; cents per lb
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Jan 50.03 50.35 49.65 50.25 + .55
Mar 50.42 50.76 50.05 50.65 + .54
May 50.79 51.09 50.46 50.99 + .54
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But even with the recent gains,
the economy isn’t close to replacing
the jobs lost in the recession.
Employers began shedding workers
in February 2008 and cut
nearly 8.7 million jobs over the
next 25 months. The economy
has regained about 2.5 million.
And many people aren’t getting
raises. Average hourly pay
slipped 2 cents last month to
$23.18. In the past year, wages
have risen 1.8 percent, but infl ation
has risen twice as fast, eroding
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solar dispute with China
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal trade panel has
found that Chinese imports harm or threaten to harm
the U.S. solar panel industry.
That means a complaint by U.S. solar companies
can continue.
Seven companies complained to the International
Trade Commission in October that Chinese competitors
were “dumping” solar products on global markets
to depress prices.
The complaint asks for tough trade penalties on
Chinese solar imports.
The trade panel voted unanimously Friday to investigate.
The case has caused a split in the solar industry.
Some U.S. companies say Chinese imports have
lowered prices for solar panels, helping consumers
and promoting rapid growth of the industry.
California-based Solyndra Inc. cited competition
from China as it filed for bankruptcy in September despite
receiving a half-billion-dollar federal loan.
Zynga hopes to raise about
$1 billion in IPO
NEW YORK (AP) — Hoping to harvest some fresh
cash, the online game company behind “FarmVille”
said Friday that it plans to raise $1 billion in an initial
public offering of up to 100 million shares.
Zynga Inc. is the latest in a spate of IPOs by Internet
companies this year, ranging from professional
networking service LinkedIn Corp. to the online deals
site Groupon Inc. They’re all precursors to Facebook’s
public debut expected sometime after April next year.
Facebook could fetch as much as $10 billion in its offering.
Zynga, whose games are played mainly on Facebook,
plans to sell its shares at $8.50 to $10 each. If
the shares are priced at $10, Zynga will be valued at $7
billion based on the number of its total shares. That’s
a smaller valuation that the company’s shares have
traded recently on SharesPost, a secondary stock exchange
used to trade the stock of privately held companies.
There, a recent trade valued Zynga at $11.7
billion.
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available stock, according to a filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. That’s a relatively high
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There may be good reason to ask about financial ties if
your doctor orders an expensive imaging test for your aching
back: Patients whose physicians own the equipment are
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other cities.
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MRI scanning equipment generally costs more than $1
million. A scan of the lower back can cost patients close to
$2,000, and Kilani said doctors who own the machines receive
a fee that can total more than $1,000 per scan.
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FOUND LARGE gray
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nurtured on Illinois
College campus,
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618-973-2327
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North Jacksonville
School.
217-473-1100
LOST: AROUND S.
East St., Terrier:
black with white
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217-883-2726
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DECEMBER 3 -
SATURDAY AT 10
A.M. AUCTION OF,
20 acres m/L, improved
w/ 16x80
mobile home and
out building, To sell
on premises at 396
Lower - Alsey Rd.
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Marty Turner, Atty:
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10 - 10:30 A.M.
AUCTION of farm
machinery, equipment,
pickup truck,
trailers, and cattle
equipment, at 1866
Poor Farm Rd. Jacksonville.
Owners,
Roger and Karen
Houston. Middendorf
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$1 SALE!
859 N. MAIN, in fellowship
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Sat. 8-2. Small
tools, clothing,
household items,
glassware, Christmas
decorations,
many misc. Most
items $1 & under.
Central
841 S. EAST, Sat.
8-12. Blow out sale:
Matching, baby
swing, high chair,
stroller & car seat, 2
queen size beds
complete, dressers,
end tables, antiques,
Vintage Americana
decorations, Harley
Davidson clothing,
curtains & quilts &
lots of misc. Most
clothes .50 to $1.
North
1863 EBENEZER
CHURCH RD. Sat.
7-2. Multifamily sale
in heated building, 4
miles North out
Sandusky Rd, follow
signs: Longenberger,
Precious
moments, go-cart,
steel traps, tools,
snow shoes, old
hand well pumps,
toys, baby items,
home & Christmas
decor, jewelry, solid
oak queen bed,
mens, womens &
boys clothes, girls
0-12 months & lots
of misc.
Miscellaneous
ACT II drum set, 8
pcs. Two 100 lb propane
tanks. $255 or
will seperate.
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NEW BEDROOM, living
room, dining
room, recliners, mattresses,
rugs, lamps
arriving daily. Billy’s
Furniture, 617 E. Independence.
(217)245-8100.
Miscellaneous
BRAND NEW
warehouse
overstocks.
30-60% off retail
Living room,
Bedroom, and
Mattress sets.
Limited Quantities,
can deliver
217-361-1357.
CASH UP
TO $400!
for junk cars and
trucks. Also buying
other scrap metals.
Pay cash and free
pickup.
217-491-2026.
LARGE 7’ Christmas
tree, centerpieces,
wreaths, misc. other
Christmas.
217-883-2252, Jacksonville
MA MARY’S Bargain
Barn at Marnico Village.
New toys,
Christmas trees &
decorations. Come
check it out! Open
Wed.-Sat.
10am-4pm.
(217)491-2775.
TOP MONEY, all
cars, trucks, farm
machinery, grain
bins, metal sheds.
217-370-2927.
TWO OUTBOARD
boat motor,short
shaft. One 7.5
Johnson, and one
9.5 Evinrude. $225,
or will separate.
(217)370-5075
TWO PROFES-
SIONAL manicure
tables with cabinet.
$300 or will separate.
Like new condition.
(217)882-3503.
USED COOK sheds,
several choices
available.
(217)245-9313.
Computers
PENTIUM 4 laptop
computer, Windows
XP, internet ready.
$198.
(217)883-7782.
Firewood
FIREWOOD DELIV-
ERED and stacked.
$85 per face cord or
2 for $160.
(217)248-6122.
Furniture
KID’S TALL dresser,
short dresser with
hutch on top, full
size headboard and
footboard. $100.
(217)882-3503.
Musical Instruments
CHRISTMAS OPEN
house Sat.10-4
New Peace snare
drums with stand
$99., Washburn
electric guitar packs
$149.95, 5 piece
drum set starting at
$370. We have
Banjos, Mandolins
and Ukes in stock.
Used Blassing alto
sax $550., Baritone
horn $550.. Over
100 acoustic and
electric guitars.
Dave’s Music, Winchester,
IL.
217-742-9255
Lawn & Garden
POULAN PROFES-
SIONAL (yellow and
black series) 20”
chainsaw. Used for
a few tree limbs.
Paid $229. Asking
$90. (309)546-2060.
Pets
CATS, KITTENS and
free barn cats, fixed.
(217)589-4269,
(217)414-6112,
(217) 491-0031.
DACHSHUND PUPS
6 weeks old. Only 3
left $100.
(217)473-5518.
*Automotive
Ford
1998 TAURUS SE
4 door. Looks & runs
good. New brakes.
24 MPG. $2395.
618-741-3209.
Audi
*Automotive
WHAT A CAR!
2000 S4, V6 twin
turbo, AWD, automatic,
silver with
black leather interior,
premium package,
custom wheels.
132k miles. $9000.
(217)243-4194.
Sport Utility Vehicles
Chevrolet
AREAL
BARGAIN
2003 S10 Blazer, 4
door, LS, 4WD, 6
cylinder, automatic,
4.3 engine, clean inside
and out, everything
works. 136k
miles. Only $3900.
(217)491-5740.
Chevrolet
READY FOR
WINTER
2003 BLAZER, 4WD,
6 cylinder, 4.3 liter.
$6500 or best offer.
(217)370-1137.
Nissan
SUPER BUY!
2003 ALTIMA 2.5S.
127,000 miles.
$5700.
217-370-8296 any
time.
*Trucks
Chevrolet
GOOD
CONDITION
1995 S10 4x4,
130,000K, tilt,
cruise, automatic.
$3,000.
(217)204-2080.
Ford
LOADED!
2006 250 King
Ranch, 6.0 Diesel,
85.5K, Loaded! Mint!
New exhaust!
$29,900.
217-370-7761
ATV’’s
Arctic Cat
LOW MILEAGE
2007 ARCTIC Cat
500. Low mileage.
$3500 firm.
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PRICED REDUCED:
140 E. Pennsylvania.
New windows,
doors, kitchen, appliances,
bathroom
and carpeting. Full
basement. Ready to
move into.
(217)243-1461.
CITY OF BLUFFS: 2
bedroom, 1 bath, inside
completely remodeled.
$49,900.
(217)473-3235.
NEWLY REMOD-
ELED 2 bedroom,
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and carport.
$49,900. Jacksonville.
217-791-7884
WANTED: 2 to 10
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No subdivisions
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Mobile Homes
TWO BEDROOM, 2
bath, handicap
ramp, vinyl siding.
(217)248-6501 after
3:30pm.
Rental/Duplex
ONE BEDROOM,
South Jacksonville,
near park, newly remodeled,
new appliances.
$450/month.
(217)473-4487.
Rental
Apartments
**A 2 bedroom
upstairs apartment,
garage**
No pets/smoking.
Deposit, lease,
references.
(217)473-0274.
**KING RENTALS**
One and two bedroom,
$365 & up.
No pets.
(217)416-9288.
DOWNSTAIRS EFFI-
CIENCY, $300 plus
electric and deposit.
No pets and no
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(217)370-4430.
HUGE 2 bedroom,
newly renovated.
$595. No
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Washer, dryer included.
217-473-9358.
NEWLY REMOD-
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stove, refrigerator included.
Water, trash
furnished. No pets.
$425/month. Deposit
required.
(217)245-2187.
ONE BEDROOM upstairs,
very clean.
$250. 513 N.
Church.
217-243-2852.
ONE BEDROOM,
heat, water & trash
paid, no pets. $365.
243-6901.
RETIREMENT APTS.
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Most utilities paid.
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(217)473-9587.
TWO BEDROOM,
2nd floor, most utilities
paid, deposit required.
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No pets. Deposit,
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$575/month, $400
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IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF THE
SEVENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
MORGAN COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
ESTATE OF JAMES
E. SNELL,
Deceased.
No. 2011-P-122
CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the
death of James E.
Snell, who died in
Franklin, Morgan
County, Illinois, on
October 31, 2011.
James S. Snell,
whose address is
11532 Nassa Lane,
Modesto, Illinois,
was appointed administrator
of his estate
on November
28, 2011. The attorneys
for the estate
are Hart, Southworth
& Witsman, One
North Old State
Capitol Plaza, Suite
501, Springfield, Illinois
62701.
Claims against the
estate may be filed
in the office of the
Clerk of the Court,
Morgan County
Courthouse, 300 W.
State Street Jacksonville,
Illinois
62650, or with the
administrator, or
both, within 6
months from the
date of the first publication
of this notice.
Any claim not
filed before that date
is barred. Copies of
a claim filed with the
clerk must be mailed
or delivered to the
administrator and to
the attorneys for the
estate within 10
days after it has
been filed.
Dated this 1st day of
December, 2011.
Kristina B. Mucinskas
Hart, Southworth &
Witsman
Attorney for
Administrator
One North
Old State Capitol
Plaza, Suite 501
Springfield,
Illinois 62701
Telephone:
(217) 753-0055
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BY STEPHANIE REITZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARTFORD, Conn. — Robert Spiegel’s
passion for Russian literature, the
New York Mets, ethnic cooking and
beagles endeared him to generations of
students and colleagues at Central Connecticut
State University. Now, through
the power of social media, the 77-yearold
former English professor’s obituary
is charming strangers, as well.
Spiegel, a resident of the Hartford
suburb of Berlin and a native of New
York City, died Wednesday after a struggle
with cardiac disease and dementia.
He was eulogized in a quirky obituary
written by his son that appeared Friday
in central Connecticut newspapers.
It quickly started spreading on
strangers’ Facebook pages and Twitter
feeds, usually accompanied by the
readers’ admissions they did not know
him — but wished they had, based on
the richly detailed obituary.
“Whereas the disease did thankfully
erase most memories of the ’62 Mets
season, it eventually also claimed his
life,” his obituary read, referring to his
beloved team’s 40-120 record in a year
that took 10 games just to get their fi rst
win.
Friends and family say the obituary
and its response are a fi tting coda
for the life of a man who loved spurring
conversation, whether it was about
good writing, New York sports teams
or the satisfaction of sipping a highquality
single malt Scotch whiskey.
“He was a very humble man, and
reaching some level of postmortem
fame would really please him. I’m sure
he would have been delighted by it,
and surprised,” said Kevin Lynch, a fellow
English professor emeritus at Central
Connecticut who worked with Spiegel
for 32 years.
Spiegel was a high school teacher in
Brooklyn before joining Central Connecticut
State’s faculty in 1965. He was
accompanied on his move by his wife,
Ursula, whom he’d met on a blind date
under New York City’s Washington
Square arch.
He quickly took on a reputation at
Central Connecticut as a teacher who
could leave a roomful of students entranced
by anything from Dostoyevsky
to the literature of baseball — something
his obituary called “a thinly veiled
therapy to alleviate the trauma he sustained
from coaching arguably the
worst Little League team in recorded
(or unrecorded) history and from the
sufferings he endured from 40 years as
a devout Mets fan.”
Such lines in his obituary were what
caught the eye of many strangers Friday,
some of whom pondered in Facebook
postings whether Spiegel had
written the death notice himself.
Though his family would have liked
that, they said, the progress of his dementia
made it impossible. Instead, it
was written by his son, Jeff, who described
himself in the obituary as
someone “who, if nothing else to show
from his lineage, inherited his father’s
sardonic sense of humor.”
The unusual obituary also gave
Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Ill., Saturday, December 3, 2011 19
Quirky obituary
endears Conn. prof
to new audience
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Turn-of-thecentury
teetotaler Carry A. Nation began
her campaign against drinking by
busting up saloons in Kansas, which to
this day has some of the strictest liquor
laws in the country. But even in the
town where her legacy is enshrined,
the influence of the hatchet-wielding
crusader is waning.
Residents in Medicine Lodge, where
Nation lived for about a decade in the
late 1800s and early 1900s and the site
of the Carry Nation Home Museum,
approved a measure this week to allow
Sunday liquor sales for the fi rst time at
least since Prohibition.
The vote, which was expected to be
certifi ed Friday, allows the sale of beer
and liquor on all Sundays except Easter.
Last November, voters in Barber County,
where Medicine Lodge is located, also
voted to legalize liquor by the drink
in bars and restaurants.
Some see the moves to make liquor
more accessible as progress in a state
that has yet to ratify the Constitutional
Amendment ending Prohibition. Others
think the changes would enrage the
town’s famous but long-dead resident.
“I suspect that Carry Nation is turning
over in her grave,” said Ann Bell, a
Medicine Lodge resident and a member
of the board of directors of the museum.
“Oh yeah. I’m sure she is. She
would not have appreciated the people
of Medicine Lodge passing that vote
that way because she was defi nitely not
for the sale of alcohol any way, any day,
any time.”
Medicine Lodge, a town of about
2,000 residents in south-central Kansas,
Poto provided by Jeff Spiegel
shows his father, Robert Spiegel,
walking with his grandson
on a beach.
readers a window into the effects of
the dementia that fi rst became evident
when it stole Robert Spiegel’s ability to
read, then continued creeping onward
as caretakers helped his wife keep him
in their home until his hospitalization
late last week.
Spiegel’s obituary was so untraditional
that family members and the funeral
home traded calls back and forth
Thursday as the directors wanted to
double check that yes, indeed, the Spiegels
wanted it to appear exactly that
way.
“Robert Spiegel of Kensington was
born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 2, 1934,
lived and subsequently died,” the opening
line reads. “Most of his noteworthy
accomplishments happened in said
middle part.”
The obituary described the dayslong
vigil at his hospital bed before his
death amid what his son described as
lively conversation against a backdrop
of the music of Jimmy Buffett and Bob
Marley, “chicken curry and the occasional
smuggled glass of Glenlivet.”
As his dementia progressed in recent
years, Spiegel sat down one day
with his wife, and they wrote a list of
things to remember for his eventual
memorial service: their daughter
should read some Emily Dickinson poetry
aloud, the dress code should be
strictly casual, and they should dab his
favorite Drakkar Noir cologne on his
body after the traditional washing under
their Jewish faith.
When Ursula Spiegel got out that
list again this week, she found a few
words added on the back in her husband’s
handwriting: “Glenlivet and
spicy food.”
That single malt Scotch whiskey,
spicy food and other items that invoke
Spiegel’s personality are expected to be
part of a memorial service next spring
at Central Connecticut State University.
The date had not been set as of Friday,
and his funeral services this week were
private.
ONLINE:
The obituary written by Robert Spiegel’s
son: http://bit.ly/vVDtdB
Town of liquor foe Carry
Nation OKs Sunday sales
now has two liquor stores, Bell said.
When the Sunday sales begin — likely
Dec. 11 — Nation “would have a trail
made between the two of them trying
to close those liquor stores down.”
“She’d probably be out there Sunday
making sure nobody went in there,”
Bell said. “She would be saying, ‘Well,
I did all this work and now what’s happened?
All of that has gone for naught.
Now look at what you people have
done!”
Kansas has a history of complicated,
arcane liquor laws. Prohibition ended
for the country in 1933. But the state
didn’t repeal statewide prohibition until
1948 and still hasn’t taken the formal
step of ratifying the 21st Amendment
that ended Prohibition nationally, according
to the Kansas Division of Alcoholic
Beverage Control.
The state has 19 counties that don’t
allow liquor sales by the drink. Kansas
also limits retail liquor licenses to
one per person and requires that person
to have been a Kansas resident for
at least four years, according to the Alcohol
Beverage Control offi ce. Kansas
does allow grocery and convenience
stores to sell “cereal malt beverage,” also
known as “weak” or “low-point” beer,
and is one of only fi ve states to make
such a distinction about beer based on
alcohol content.
Rita Wert, the current president of
the Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, said in an email that she was “disappointed”
in the Medicine Lodge vote.
“I stick to my guns behind the statement
I have shared very publicly, ‘Easier
to get alcohol, makes it easier to get
drunk,”’ Wert said.

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Sam Stanberry, 8, donning a banana suit, readies for a shot during half time of Thursday’s game at
Triopia High School.
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DOWNTOWN
Tree canopy a wonderful idea
Each time I see the
square I am thankful it
has been restored so well,
and the work being done
on South Main just south
of the square will make
it look and function even
better. The idea to plant
trees in the neighborhood
will add a very nice touch.
Thank you to all who had a
hand in this fi ne work.
Patronize shops to help grow
If we like the new square
and want to keep it vibrant
and attractive, let’s patronize
the businesses there.
THIEVES
Swiped wreath work of low-life
I just left Diamond
Grove Cemetery, and someone
has stolen a wreath off
my father’s grave that we
had made ourselves. You
are such a low-life. You will
have to answer for this.
MORALS
Interesting how proof missing
It’s funny how all these
women who have very
serious fi nancial problems
are accusing Herman Cain
of sexual harassment or
having an affair, but these
women have no proof,
none whatsoever. It makes
me wonder if the Democratic
Party simply paid
these women to come out
and say Cain did this, Cain
did that, just to destroy
Cain’s campaign.
... Yet Slick Willie is idolized
In regard to the poster’s
comment on family values
missing among Republican
candidates, you have got
to be kidding. Remember
your boy, “slick Willie”
who looked the camera in
the eye and said, “I did not
have sex with that woman,”
and the Democrats
still love him.
Anything to destroy chances
All these women lying
about Herman Cain are
proud agents of the Liberal
Communist Committee of
Government Takeover. The
Democrats know Cain is a
serious threat to Obama’s
presidency and will do anything
to destroy Cain.
Barney’s Pub • 228 W. Morton
Stan, Lynn & Judy 8:30-12:30
Serving 12 oz ribeyes 6-9
Beerup’s Ceramic & Misc. Sale
Fri.& Sat. 8-4 • 964 E. College
Christmas in Virginia 9-12
Home tour 1-4
10 YEARS AGO
DREW LEONARD of
Jacksonville was named
Illinois College’s most
valuable player in men’s
soccer.
20 YEARS AGO
BUTCH WOOD again
took over operation of the
Jacksonville Speedway.
LOOKING BACK
MAKING HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
IN HISTORY:
On Dec. 3, 1911,
Italian fi lm composer Nino
Rota, known for scoring
works by such directors
as Federico Fellini and
Luchino Visconti, as well
as the fi rst two “Godfather”
movies, was born in Milan.
On this date:
In 1810, British forces
captured Mauritius from
the French, who had
renamed the island nation
off southeast Africa “Ile de
France.”
In 1818, Illinois was
admitted as the 21st state.
In 1828, Andrew Jackson
was elected president
of the United States by the
Electoral College.
In 1833, Oberlin College
in Ohio — the fi rst
truly coeducational school
of higher learning in the
United States — began
holding classes.
In 1925, George Gershwin’s
Concerto in F had
its world premiere at New
York’s Carnegie Hall, with
Gershwin at the piano.
In 1947, the Tennessee
Williams play “A
Streetcar Named Desire”
opened on Broadway.
In 1967, surgeons in
Cape Town, South Africa
led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard
performed the fi rst
human heart transplant on
Louis Washkansky, who
lived 18 days with the new
heart. The 20th Century
Limited, the famed luxury
train, completed its fi nal
50 YEARS AGO
Twenty-fi ve Jacksonville
fi rms and citizens who
failed to procure wheel tax
stickers for 1962 before
the Nov. 1 deadline were
fi ned in police magistrate’s
court.
75 YEARS AGO
Horses owned by
George Peak and Sons of
Winchester won a number
of ribbons at a Chicago
show.
run from New York to
Chicago.
In 1979, 11 people
were killed in a crush of
fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront
Coliseum, where the
British rock group The
Who was performing.
In 1984, thousands of
people died after a cloud
of methyl isocyanate gas
escaped from a pesticide
plant operated by a Union
Carbide subsidiary in
Bhopal, India.
In 1991, radicals in
Lebanon released American
hostage Alann Steen,
who’d been held captive
nearly fi ve years.
Ten years ago: In
the wake of bombings
that had killed 26 Israelis,
Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon declared a war on
terror. Homeland Security
Director Tom Ridge asked
Americans to return to a
high state of alert, citing
threats of more terrorist
attacks. Enron took steps
to bolster its weak fi nancial
footing following its
historic bankruptcy fi ling,
arranging $1.5 billion in
fi nancing and slashing
4,000 jobs, or 20 percent of
its work force.
Five years ago: Venezuelan
President Hugo
Chavez won re-election,
defeating Manuel Rosales.
Marat Safi n had 16 aces in
beating Jose Acasuso 6-3,
3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the fi fth
and deciding match on,
giving Russia a 3-2 decision
over Argentina for its
C
K
M
Y
100 YEARS AGO
The Jacksonville Motor
Club was organized.
Anyone in Morgan County
who owned an automobile
was eligible to join.
150 YEARS AGO
Workmen were removing
the fi re ruins of the
Presbyterian church on
West State Street.
— compiled by Greg Olson
and Alisia McCowan
second Davis Cup crown.
One year ago: During
a surprise holiday-season
visit to Afghanistan,
President Barack Obama
told cheering U.S. troops
at Bagram Air Field they
were succeeding in their
mission fi ghting terrorism;
however, foul weather prevented
Obama from meeting
with President Hamid
Karzai in Kabul to address
frayed relations. The Labor
Department reported the
U.S. unemployment rate
had risen in November
2010 to 9.8 percent after
three straight months at
9.6 percent.
Today’s Birthdays:
Singer Andy Williams
is 84. Movie director
Jean-Luc Godard is 81.
Singer Jaye P. Morgan is
80. Actor Nicolas Coster
is 78. Actress Mary Alice
is 70. Rock singer Ozzy
Osbourne is 63. Actress
Heather Menzies is 62.
Rock singer Mickey
Thomas is 62. Actor Steven
Culp is 56. Actress Daryl
Hannah is 51. Actress
Julianne Moore is 51.
Olympic gold medal fi gure
skater Katarina Witt is 46.
Actor Brendan Fraser is
43. Singer Montell Jordan
is 43. Actor Bruno Campos
is 38. Actress Holly Marie
Combs is 38. Pop-rock
singer Daniel Bedingfi eld
is 32. Actress Anna Chlumsky
is 31. Actor Brian Bonsall
is 30. Actress Amanda
Seyfried is 26. Actor
Michael Angarano is 24.
T H O U G H T F O R T O D A Y
“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
— Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist (born this date in 1857, died 1924).
BACKPAGE READERS
Don’s Place • 207 W. Morgan
Grilled sandwiches & chicken gumbo
11-?. Goofy Brothers 9-1
Trinity Episcopal Church
Annual Christmas Luncheon, Book
Sale, Bake Shoppe & Holiday
Bazaar, Sat., Dec. 3, 10 am-2 pm.
Meredosia Food Pantry
Soup, Salad & Dessert lunch Sat.
11-4. Donation of non-perishable
foods greatly appreciated.
Meredosia Grade School.
Santa will arrive at 1
NEXT SATURDAY ( Dec. 10th)
So. Jacksonville Fire Dept. Auxiliary
Cookie Walk
Reicherts • 243-2420
2-12 oz. steaks, $30. 4:30-9:00
JOURNAL-COURIER/ROBERT LEISTRA
WEATHER
National forecast
Forecast highs for Saturday, Dec. 3
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: Partly sunny. Not as cool. Highs in the mid-50s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph.
TONIGHT: Rain in the evening and likely after midnight. Lows in the
lower 40s. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 80
percent.
TOMORROW: Cooler. Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph.
TOMORROW NIGHT: Colder. Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Monday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the
mid-30s. Monday night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid-20s.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid-30s. Tuesday night:
Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-20s.
Ariel McGee, Washington Elementary
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TEMPERATURES
High Friday ............ 40° at 1 p.m.
Overnight low ......................36°
Record high ..............68° in 1982
Record low ...............-2° in 1929
Year ago high ......................33°
Year ago low .......................25°
PRECIPITATION
To 4 p.m. Friday ...............0.00”
So far this year ..............37.02”
Last year by this date .....47.71”
Normal year to date .......35.14”
So far this month ..............0.00”
Normal month to date ......0.13”
Weather statistics provided by WLDS/WEAI
IN THE SKIES
Twilight begins ......... 6:35 a.m.
Sunrise ................... 7:05 a.m.
Sunset .................... 4:37 p.m.
Twilight ends ............ 5:07 p.m.
Moonrise ............... 12:40 p.m.
Moonset ................ 12:33 a.m.
Mercury rises ........... 7:12 a.m.
Mercury sets ........... 4:44 p.m.
Venus rises .............. 9:17 a.m.
Venus sets .............. 6:26 p.m.
Mars rises ............. 11:27 p.m.
Mars sets .............. 12:39 p.m.
Jupiter rises ............. 2:31 p.m.
Jupiter sets .............. 3:51 a.m.
In the evening twilight Venus
is in the SW and Jupiter in the
ESE. In tomorrow’s morning
twilight Saturn is in the SE and
Mars in the SSW.
RIVER STAGES
Peoria ..............12.5 ...... +0.1
Beardstown ......10.1 ........ 0.0
Meredosia ..........5.1 ........-0.1
Oakford ..............3.3 ........ 0.0
Hannibal ...........10.4 ........ 0.0
Louisiana..........11.9 ........ 0.0
Full Moon
Dec. 10
MOON PHASES
Last Quarter
Dec. 18
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