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Stretching his wingsThe World Bird Sanctuary presented a program during the Kaskaskia Eagle Fest February 2 at the Jerry F. Costello Lock and Dam in Modoc. Shown, MacGuire the bald eagle flaps his wings while handler Laura Vinyard braces herself. Likely due to the nice warm weather Saturday, the afternoon show was presented to a packed standing-room-only crowd. MacGuire is a 21-year-old bald eagle. The sanctuary also presented a 31-year-old wedge-tailed eagle.

Minimum wage hike debate is on

Marissa village board agreesto increase in utility tax rates

By Mike TrotterAfter some lively debate

at its meeting February 4, the Marissa village board passed two motions that will increase taxes paid by Marissa residents.In the state of Illinois,

municipalities can receive money from a telecommu-nication tax and a utility tax. The tax rate cannot exceed 6 percent for the telecommunication tax, which applies to landline and cell phones, and 5 percent for the utility tax, which applies to electric and natural gas. Currently, Marissa adds 1

percent tax to electric bills, but half of that goes to the state. After the board’s action,

the tax on electric bills will go to the maximum 5 percent, with one-half percent of that still going to the state. The new tax on phones

will be 6 percent, compared to the current 1 percent.The tax on natural gas

is already at the 5 percent

maximum in Marissa.Mayor Chad Easton pro-

posed the rate increase with the additional funds used to alleviate some seri-ous equipment shortages in the police department.Board member Paul Sinn

spoke out against the in-creases, saying that in-creased tax rates would cause more people to move out of Marissa. He favored cutting expenses, not spend-ing more taxpayer money.Easton countered that he

does not enjoy increasing taxes but feels Marissa needs to collect the money the village is entitled to by law and use it to keep the town moving forward.Both motions to increase

the taxes passed by votes of 4-1, with Sinn casting the votes against the increase.It will be at least two

months, and possibly a little longer, before the higher taxes show up on electric and telephone bills, according to Village Clerk Carol Laumbattus.The other big story at

the meeting concerned a proposal to change the vil-lage clerk from an elected position to an appointed position. While Laumbat-tus has held the job for many years and has been re-elected several times, Easton said he is looking toward the future where good candidates might not consider themselves politicians and would not want to go through the campaigning and election process just to get or keep the job.Sinn spoke out against the

change, as it would take the choice away from the voters. Easton pointed out that any appointment by a mayor would still have to be approved by board members, who are elected by the voters to be their representatives.The motion passed by a

vote of 4-1 with Sinn vot-ing no.Due to President’s Day

February 18, the next vil-lage board meeting is Tues-day, February 19.

Open house setAn open house for the Coulterville school district’s new administrative offices will be held Tuesday, February 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. during parent-teacher conferences. The new offices are located in the front of the building, allowing for visitors to check in at the office before entering the classroom halls. The offices were previously located in the center of the building, which Superintendent Karyn Albers said presented a security issue. The new entrance also prevents visitors from having to cross through the playground to get to the entrance. The 2,952 square-foot addition was approved by the school board in September 2017. Finishing touches are being completed this week.

Extra revenue will help pay for police equipment

Sparta gets positive report from auditor

By Jerry NowickiCapitol News Illinois

As Governor J.B. Pritz-ker eyes the passage of a minimum wage hike prior to his February 20 budget address, unofficial details have emerged about the proposed timeline of the increase and its direct costs to the state.While no specific bill lan-

guage had been filed as of late Tuesday, Democratic senators were expected to caucus Wednesday to hear the details and see if they had the votes to approve a plan that has thus far been described only in a memo leaked from Pritzker’s of-fice.The memo, which was

made public by the Capi-tol Fax blog Tuesday, laid out a six-year phase-in of the increase beginning in January 2020. The mini-mum wage would be raised from $8.25 to $9.25 in Janu-ary 2020, then again to $10 in July. A third increase in a 12-month period would occur in January 2021, raising the rate to $11. Af-ter that, the rate would in-crease by $1 every January until it hit $15 beginning in 2025.A similar bill passed the

Democratic House and Sen-ate last year before being vetoed by Governor Bruce Rauner. Now, with Pritzker in

office and Democratic su-permajorities in the House and Senate, repercussions for the bill’s passage will be real—not just political—according Rob Karr of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, an opponent of the bill.Karr is critical of the lack

of details released about the proposal, the unwill-

ingness of the other side to compromise and the quick pace with which negotia-tions were progressing.He noted that all of the

Illinois Retail Merchants Association’s positions, in-cluding a request for a regional rollout of the in-crease with downstate at a lower rate than Chicago, greater income tax credits for employers, and lower training wages for teens who work fewer than 650 hours for an employer in a one-year period, have been denied in negotiations.“That’s what’s been per-

haps most disappointing to date,” Karr said. “There’s been a lot of talk since the election about compromise and returning a spirit of compromise to Springfield, yet on the first major issue, it appears that we’re back to the bad habits of the last four years.”He also warned of a ripple

effect of increased prices.Don Welge, president of

Gilster-Mary Lee Corpo-ration in Chester, voiced similar concerns in a letter to the editor, which appears in the County Journal this week. In it, Welge says a $15 minimum wage “... will likely have devastat-ing consequences for all of downstate Illinois for years to come ...”He also supports a region-

al approach.“A one-bedroom apart-

ment in Chicago is roughly three times the cost of one in Carbondale,” Welge said. “Chicago public park-ing costs upwards of $6.50 per hour, while it’s free in many southern Illinois communities. Our governor and our legislators must

By Travis LottThe city of Sparta recently

received a glowing report from auditor Keith Brink-mann of Scheffel Boyle.The city’s improved finan-

cial standing was the result of prudent financial deci-sions, much of which had to do with the management of bonds, according to city officials.One of those decisions

was paying off an old bond, called a senior bond, that was used at Sparta Cent-er after Walmart moved across the street.The city had $1.5 million

in money invested from the sewer fund into CDs that had been sitting in the bank.“We weren’t drawing any

interest on it, and we were actually paying quite a bit of interest,” said Commis-sioner Gary Stephens.So, when the CDs ma-

tured, the city used the $1.5 million to pay off the senior bond. Since then, the city has committed $300,000 per year from TIF revenue to replace the $1.5 million in the bank.Stephens said in one more

year, that money will all be paid back.Two other bonds were re-

financed, one for running water and sewer to the

World Shooting and Rec-reational Complex in 2015 and another for the water plant in 2016.By refinancing those

bonds, the city saw sav-ings through lower interest rates. The interest rates were kept low by refinanc-ing against property taxes. However, the city has not levied property taxes for those bonds due to finding alternative revenue sources to make the bond payments.By refinancing the two

bonds and paying off the senior bond, Stephens said the city saw a savings of about $2.6 million.“I just think it’s getting in-

creasingly difficult to live within your means, and you’ve done that,” Brink-mann told the city council last week.Brinkmann said it is dif-

ficult because the state has not always held up its end of the bargain in providing funding.“It’s been a struggle for a

handful of years here,” said Mayor Jason Schlimme.Schlimme credited the city

government as a whole for the good financial standing of the city.“Our income has seen very

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By Travis LottTwo people were in-

jured in a two-vehicle accident south of Coul-terville February 1.

According to Illinois State Police, both ve-hicles invloved were traveling south on State Route 153 at Sa-rah Road.

A pickup truck driv-en by Brad Donath, 40, of Sparta was trave-ling behind a cardriv-

Wreck south of C’villeen by Jess Harpstrite, 76, of Coulterville.

According to state police, Donath was traveling at a higher rate of speed than Harpstrite and struck Harpstrite’s vehicle in the rear.

Harpstrite’s vehicle turned sideways, and Donath’s truck struck it again on the driver’s side.

There was major

damage to both vehi-cles.

Harpstrite and his passenger Tosha Swift, 40, of O’Fallon both sustained non life-threatening inju-ries and were trans-ported by MedStar to the Sparta hospital.

Donath was unin-jured.

Donath was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

Brandon L. Jones, 29, of Nashville was ar-rested January 28 by the Randolph County sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph County war-rant for failure to ap-pear in court on a driv-ing on a suspended li-cense charge. He was jailed.

****Ryan L. Garrison, 41,

of Centralia was ar-rested January 28 by the Randolph County sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph County war-rant for failure to ap-pear in court on a pe-tition to revoke proba-tion charge. He was jailed.

****Charles R. Peterson,

39, of Mount Vernon was arrested January 28 by the Randolph County sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph Coun-ty warrant for retail theft. He was jailed.

**** Scott A. Spreitler, 55,

of Sparta was arrested January 28 by Sparta police for violating sex offender registration and criminal trespass to a building. He was jailed.

****Jacob W. Turner, 65,

of Collinsville was ar-rested January 29 by the Randolph County sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph County war-rant for driving on a revoked license and on a Union County warrant for failure to appear in court for driving on a revoked license. He was jailed.

****Eric J. Fortner, 31, of

Steeleville was arrest-ed January 29 by Ches-ter police for DUI and illegal transportation of an alcoholic bever-age. He posted bond

****Kent S. Dawson, 50,

of Carterville was ar-rested January 30 by the Randolph County

sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph County war-rant for criminal tres-pass to a vehicle. He was jailed.

****Austin W. Reid, 33,

homeless, was arrested January 31 by the Ran-dolph County sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph County warrant for theft, a Logan County warrant for failure to appear in court on a possession of a sto-len vehicle charge, a Franklin County war-rant for failure to ap-pear in court on a DUI charge and a Massac County warrant for failure to appear in court on a criminal trespass to a residence charge. He was jailed.

****Chasity D. Knapp, 27,

of Sparta was arrested February 2 by the Ran-dolph County sheriff’s offi ce on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear in court on a violation of sex offender registra-tion charge. She was jailed.

****Kenneth P. Jones, 43,

of Dupo was arrested February 2 by the Ran-dolph County sheriff’s offi ce for petition to re-voke probation. He was jailed.

****Eric R. Bryant, 37, of

Chester was arrested February 2 by Chester police for driving on a suspended license. He posted bond.

****Russell R. Asbury, 50,

of Chester was arrest-ed February 2 by Ches-ter police for criminal trespass to state-sup-ported land and pos-session of meth. He is incarcerated.

****Shawn T. LaRose,

23, of Chester was ar-rested February 2 by Chester police on a Randolph County war-

rant for unlawful pos-session of weapon by felon. Bond amount is $40,000. LaRose is in-carcerated.

**** Austin J. White, 21,

of Ruma was arrested February 3 by Ruma police for domestic bat-tery. He was jailed.

****Victoria L. Bannert,

21, of Sparta was tick-eted by Sparta police January 20 for driv-ing on a suspended li-cense. She was given a city court date.

****Gracie M. Campbell,

32, of Steeleville was ticketed by Sparta po-lice January 24 for failure to properly se-cure a child. She was given a city court date.

****Alphonzo R. Travis,

25, of Sparta was ar-rested February 1 by Sparta police on a Ran-dolph County warrant for probation viola-tion. He posted bond.

****Keven D. Mayer, 43,

of Pinckneyville was ticketed January 30 by the Perry County sheriff’s offi ce for il-legal transportation of an alcoholic beverage by a passenger. He was given a notice to ap-pear in court.

****Justin L. Risley, 23,

of Tilden was arrested by Sparta police Febru-ary 1 for driving on a suspended license. He was given a city court date.

****Jonathan E. Clem-

ents, 33, of Percy was ticketed February 4 by the Perry County sher-iff’s offi ce for driving an uninsured vehicle. He was given a notice to appear in court.

****All persons are con-

sidered innocent un-less proven guilty in court.

A Murphysboro man sustained minor inju-ries in a wreck Febru-ary 1 on the Missouri side of the Chester Bridge.

According to the crash report published by Missouri State High-

Wreck near Chester Bridgeway Patrol, Nicholas Horn, 23, of Murphys-boro was approaching the bridge northbound on Missouri Route 51 just north of County Road 238 at 3 p.m., when he failed to ne-gotiate a curve and

crossed the center line. Horn’s car struck

a southbound trailer towed by Jim Lawless, 56, of Sparta.

Horn was taken in a private vehicle to Memorial Hospital in Chester.

A kitchen fi re yeided a response from the Red Bud Fire Depart-ment at 4 a.m. Febru-ary 3.

The department was called to an apartment at 114 West South 2nd Street in Red Bud for the fi re.

According to Fire Chief Kevin Miller, there were no inju-ries and the apartment sustained only smoke damage.

Kitchen fi re in Red Bud Sunday morning

The following cases have been terminated in Randolph County court.

Adam Linton of Chester, meth deliv-ery, guilty, probation.

James Steiner of Sparta, criminal trespass to land, dis-missed.

Shannon Henry of Sparta, criminal dam-age to property, guilty, fi ne.

Grant Schilling of Sparta, criminal dam-

Randolph County court dispositions

age to property, with-hold judgement, court supervision, fi ne.

Dorian Liggins of Murphysboro, resist-ing a peace offi cer, guilty, fi ne.

Mystical Hanna of Coulterville, disorder-ly conduct, court su-pervision, fi ne.

Michael Colvis of Steeleville, battery, guilty, fi ne.

Joseph Kozora of Chester, battery, guilty, fi ne.

Local police incidentsThe accident scene south of Coulterville last Friday

Nicholas Horn’s car came to rest by the levee near Horse Island.

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A Marissa woman was injured in a one-vehicle accident January 30 near Marissa.

Christina Wagner, 43, was southbound on Doza Creek Road when she failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of County Road 18.

According to the Ran-

dolph County sheriff’s office, Wagner’s vehicle crossed County Road 18 and struck the ditch at the other side. Her vehicle briefly became airborne and landed in a grassy area.

Her vehicle continued to travel and entered an area of heavy brush

and trees, eventually coming to rest against a pair of trees.

Wagner was taken to Sparta Community Hospital.

According to the sher-iff ’s office, she was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions and disobeying a stop sign.

Marissa woman injured in one-vehicle accident

Perry County State’s Attorney David Searby announced the following cases that have resulted in prison terms for the month of January.

Coy DavisCoy A. Davis, 31, of Du

Quoin was sentenced to one year in prison after his probation was revoked January 3.

Davis was on proba-tion for possession of a controlled substance.

Kelvin PensonKelvin J.J. Penson, 22, of

Du Quoin was sentenced

January 3 to four years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine.

Joshua SeawardJoshua S. Seaward,

34, of Du Quoin was sentenced January 4 to four years in prison.

Seaward p leaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine.

Seaward was also found to be eligible for the Impact Incarcera-tion Program.

Thomas CoppleThomas R. Copple, 48,

of Cutler was sentenced January 7 to one year in prison.

Copple pleaded guilty to driving while his li-cense was revoked.

Raef BaggettRaef P. Baggett, 38,

of Tamaroa was sen-tenced January 11 to two years in prison

Baggett admitted to the allegations in a petition to revoke con-ditional discharge for the original offense of driving with a revoked license.

Perry Co. prison sentences

A Marion man’s pickup truck ended up atop one of the Randolph County Highway Department’s large pile of rocks at the intersection of Wine Hill Road and Chester Road in Bremen Saturday morning.

According to the Ran-

dolph County sheriff’s office, Charles Parton, 81, was northbound on Wine Hill Road at 6:50 a.m. January 2 when, due to heavy fog, he failed to see the stop sign at the intersection of Chester Road.

Parton proceeded

through the intersec-tion and struck a road sign before striking the large pile of rocks.

Parton told police that he was unfamiliar with the area and didn’t realize the stop sign was there.

He was not injured in the crash.

Charles Parton’s truck atop the rocks in Bremen Saturday morning.

On the rocks in Bremen

By Travis LottA man wanted on

murder charges in Union County turned himself in to the Ches-ter Police Department Wednesday morning.

According to the Randolph County sheriff ’s office, Wil-liam Wasmund, 48, was booked into cus-tody at 7:20 a.m. Feb-ruary 6.

Wasmund is ac-cused of murdering Jeffery Spicer, 53, of Murphysboro last fall.

Police found Spicer dead in Wolf Lake in rural Union County September 16, 2018.

According to the Union County state’s attorney’s office, Spic-er’s body was found dead along the high-way at 7625 State

Route 3. A nearby shed on that property contained a shotgun that was set to trig-ger whenever some-one opened the door. Wasmund is accused of setting the shotgun trap as well.

Union County is-sued a warrant early Wednesday morning for the arrest of Was-mund in connection to Spicer’s murder.

According to Ran-

dolph County depu-ties, Wasmund is be-lieved to have been staying in Chester for at least the past cou-ple months. His previ-ous address is in Wolf Lake.

Sheriff ’s deputies and officers from Steeleville Police De-partment searched for Wasmund over-night, but were un-able to locate him.

After turning him-self in, Wasmund was booked in Randolph County Jail and held on a $1 million bond. He was transferred to Union County a couple hours later, around 9:20 a.m.

Wasmund is set to appear in Union County court at 9 a.m. February 7.

Chester man arrested in Wolf Lake murder

William Wasmund

A severe storms semi-nar hosted by the Uni-versity of Illinois Ex-tension Service will be held Saturday, March 16 at 9:30 a.m. at the Jackson County Exten-sion office, 402 Ava Road, Murphysboro.

Extension educator

and weather instructor Duane Friend will talk about types of thun-derstorms, how light-ning forms, tornadoes and current research, and will touch on how weather extremes are predicted to change over time.

He will also answer any questions partici-pants have on weather-related issues.

The program is free and open to the public. Registration is required by going to go.illinois.e du /s e v e r e w e at h -er2019.

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By: JerryWillisEditor’s Space

Looking backEvery week, I had been going through a

year ago’s back issue of this newspaper to write up a brief of what happened that week in history.Last year, I wrote about 1980.Wow. With the turning of the calendar, that

is almost 39 years ago. The date of the first edition this year, January

3, I turned 71 years old.The start of this newspaper was not a whim,

and I have told the story before.I worked at WHCO radio, then KHMO radio in

Hannibal, Missouri. In Hannibal, I worked in the news department of an NBC affiliate and actually learned the news business that year (1971) from a man named Gary Schmedding.He was good, and immediately I began to pick

up on his way of doing things.Back then, I thought the print media were

trash and that radio was the place to be. There was only one problem. It paid next to nothing.After a year in Hannibal, Judy and I returned

to Percy, where I was supposed to go into a construction supply business.That didn’t work out, so we did something

else—reopened Dad’s old department store, Kayo’s. Then one day, Elmo Donze called and asked if

I wanted a radio job in Chester. I quickly took it.I worked at KSGM until 1979, and my feelings

about media changed. I figured news was news, be it on the radio or in a newspaper.Larry and I tried to buy the Steeleville Ledger,

but Mrs. Webster would not sell it.About March, we decided to try a newspaper

of our own. Joe Akers of the Chester Herald Tribune was

a good friend and said he would print it for us.On April 10, 1980, we came out with our first

edition.Through the years, we became better at news

gathering and ad selling, thanks to Judy who sold her heart out in those early days when we were basically unknown.Our first few editions looked pretty bad, with ads

scattered all over the pages rather than in groups, and there were lots of typographical errors.One thing we always strived to do was write

any necessary corrections. If we made a mis-take, we wanted to know it, and we would tell our readers. That policy still stands.This is my final column. Thanks to all who have made comments,

brought me gifts and enjoyed my efforts. I can’t begin to describe my true appreciation.

She’s got appealSome County Journal readers might be in-

clined to disagree with this installment of Obscurity’s Magnet. If you’re one who is, I re-spect your opinion but hope you’ll hear me out.Pundits claim that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is

unlikely to appeal to rural mid-Americans as a presidential candidate because she appears to be a Northeastern elitist. I hope, however, that rural mid-Americans will give her serious consideration, because she just might be the candidate whose life experiences, perspectives and values most closely resemble their own.“Even though she represents Massachusetts,

she bears traces of her upbringing in the great American expanses. Indeed, in many ways she is a modern version of a prairie populist, inveighing against the trusts, the plutocrats, and their corrupt political allies,” writes John Cassidy of The New Yorker.“Like [southern Illinois native] William Jen-

nings Bryan and Robert La Follette before her,” Cassidy continues, “Warren makes economic arguments, lots of them, but the essence of her case is an ethical one: many aspects of modern American capitalism and democracy are funda-mentally immoral, and therefore, indefensible.”I agree – both with Cassidy’s analysis and with

Warren’s moral argument.Warren was raised in a working-class fam-

ily in Oklahoma. She attended public schools, graduated from a public university and taught public school students with disabilities. She spent her early adulthood in Texas.After completing a law degree at another

public university, Warren developed expertise in bankruptcy and commercial law and taught at an increasingly prestigious series of law schools, culminating in Harvard (where, de-spite what President Trump’s childish taunts suggest, she was hired on her merits, not be-cause of ethnicity).

Higher gas tax could backfireAbout a month ago,

we ran an article about Chicago May-or Rahm Emanual’s push to increase the motor fuel tax in Illi-nois by 30 cents a gal-lon, which if passed, would give Illinois the highest gasoline tax in the nation by a wide margin.The current fuel tax

in Illinois is just over 37 cents a gallon now. On top of that comes the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon and state sales tax of 6.25 percent.The Illinois Policy In-

stitute has gone even

further by proposing that the fuel tax be raised to 85 cents a gallon.It’s a given that fuel

taxes are necessary to pay for construc-tion of new roads and maintenance of exist-ing roads. But are we, especially the people of southern Illinois, getting our money’s worth? It’s pretty obvious we

are not.

The stretch of Route 150-4 from the Percy tee west to Steeleville, which was resurfaced not that long ago, is a testament to that. It’s almost as rough

now as it was before it was resurfaced.Illinois keeps losing

population. Again, ac-cording to the Illinois Policy Institute, more than 45,000 people left the state between July 2017 and July 2018.

Generally, high taxes in Illinois was listed as a major factor.Fewer res ident s

means fewer drivers and less tax revenue. A hike in the fuel

tax would only make matters worse—as did last year’s 32 percent increase in the state income.Be it by 30 cents a

gallon or 50 cents a gallon, a major hike in Illinois’s fuel tax is a bad idea.Don’t believe it? Just

look at how many Il-linois people already cross the Chester Bridge to buy gas.

Even more people will leave

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ly 1980s , Bi l l worked repairing vending machines, juke boxes and pinball games for a vending company in Carbon-dale. I begged him to buy

me an old jukebox that I could load full of my favorite 45s, but they were hard to find and in demand. Pinball games, on the

other hand, were eas-ily available, and he decided to purchase a used one he had repaired. It was old non-digital mechani-cal type in which the score rolled around on a number wheel. We enjoyed having

competitions with friends, and the ma-chine created a great activity for party guests. When our kids were

old enough to stand on a chair, they quickly learned how to play. Eventually the ma-chine stopped work-ing well and was for-gotten. It has spent

time in garages, base-ment storage areas and our barn. Recently, we moved it

to our mud room, and after several months of encouragement, Bill got it working again. He cleaned, oiled, re-moved old mud dauber nests and mouse drop-pings, shined it up and polished the glass until it almost looks decent enough to be in the house. Now, of course, the

grandkids like to play. Kate and I share the flippers, she on the right with me on the left.We have a noisy rowdy game, as she complains that my flipper reflexes are way too slow. In real-ity, the left flipper has a glitch that causes a wimpy flip. “Can’t we do some-

thing about this?” I asked Bill. As you can imag-

ine, finding parts for old pinball games is not easy. He’s been researching differ-ent companies to find

coils, switches, light bulbs and bumpers, but it’s been difficult. Looks like I’m going to have to deal with my wimpy flipper a while longer.One lazy Sunday af-

ternoon, I challenged Bill to a pinball tour-nament.Each player got five

balls per round, and we decided to do five rounds. I would be Wimpy

Flipper and he Pinball Wizard, even though he can hear, speak and see.

Game 1Wimpy Flipper: 210,700Pinball Wizard: 450,980

Game 2Wimpy Flipper: 450,760Pinball Wizard: 980,546

Game 3Wimpy Flipper: 346,800Pinball Wizard: 786,320

Game 4Wimpy Flipper 647,900Pinball Wizard: 1,560,900

Game 5Wimpy Flipper: Lost all points due to TILTING violation Pinball Wizard: 570.900.We spent the rest of

the afternoon with Bill teaching me Tilt-ing (aka Cheating) 101. Apparently, there is a

fair way to cheat and a cheating way to cheat. He tilts pressing his body into the machine in a back and forth motion in order to get the ball to go where he wants it to go. He does it so smoothly, it’s hardly noticeable. When I tilt, I use way

too much force, which triggers the machine to shut down, stop flip-ping and wipe out my score. As The Who sings

from the movie “Tom-my,” “He’s a pinball wizard, there’s got to be a twist, a pinball wizard, s’got such a supple wrist. How do you think he does it? I don’t know! What makes him so good?” Well, I do know, and

here’s my addition to the song: “He’s a pin-ball wizard and he knows just how it’s built. He’s a pinball wizard and tilts with-out no guilt!”

From the County Journal of February 5, 1981

Decisions were ex-pected soon on two major energy plants in Randolph Coun-ty. An ethanol plant was in the discussion stages for the Bald-win area, and Skyland Power Company of Decatur was looking near the Evansville-Ellis Grove area for a new electric generat-ing station.Seven people were

injured in a house fire in Tilden. One of them later died.Tilden voters reject-

ed a proposal to issue bonds in the amount of $210,000 to upgrade the town’s water sys-tem. The vote was 50 yes and 263 no.A plan by the city of

Ava to have a night watchman for the business district end-ed when the night watchman was found to have been writing more speeding tick-

ets and not doing as much patrolling of businesses as the com-munity had wanted. The watchman quit.Downtown Sparta

merchants were plan-ning a major reno-vation project. Plans and drawings of the new building designs were shown to retail-ers. The name of the downtown business district was changed to Sparta Central.The Tri-County Chris-

tian Academy near Will isvil le held a rocking-chair-a-thon to raise money for school . The event raised $1,800.Chester Mayor Stan-

ley Macieiski dis-cussed an idea to have minimum secu-rity inmates from the Menard Correctional Center used as um-pires for the senior division of Chester’s summer baseball and softball programs.

CorrectionIn a couple of recent

stories about Spar-ta Fire Department activity, the County Journal erroneously referred to Andy Dah-lem as the fire chief. He is the assistant chief. Brian Adams is currently the chief.

Considerregional wageEditor, County Journal:O u r l e a d e r s i n

Springfield are de-bating a change in the law that will like-ly have devastating consequences for all of downstate Illinois for years to come: the possible enactment of a statewide $15 mini-mum wage. While responsible

businesses want to increase the earn-ing opportunities for their employees, any changes to the mini-mum wage need to recognize the vast cost of living differences across the state, the economic reality that

Illinois competes with many other states for jobs, and the wide-ranging effect of such a dramatic change. A o n e - b e d r o o m

apartment in Chica-go is roughly three times the cost of one in Carbondale. Chicago public parking costs upwards of $6.50 per hour, while it’s free in many southern Il-linois communities. Southern Illinois em-

ployers need not look far for more favora-ble business climates. Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky continue to outpace Illinois job growth. This change will im-

pact the local bakery, gift shop, school dis-

tricts and municipal governments. Employ-ers must pass on dra-matically higher costs, resulting in higher prices to consumers or fewer choices when businesses move or cease to operate. Illinois lost 45,000

residents last year. This sweeping change would do nothing to reverse this trend.Our governor and

our legislators must consider a reasonable and fair approach, such as a regional system with differ-ent rates for Chicago versus downstate and a multi-year phase, which allows employ-ers to adjust without making major and

permanent changes to their businesses and workforces.

Don WelgePresident

Gilster-Mary Lee Corp.

Chester

How I see thingsEditor, County Journal:I watch FOX! Yes,

I think those people give us a fair and bal-anced view of what is going on in our United States of America. The main word in

this sentence is Unit-ed. The biggest source of power to make us united is the love that we have for our coun-try and its people. All kinds of people.As a child, I was

raised by a Republican dad and a Democrat

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Although she didn’t seek a political career, her advocacy on behalf of working Americans led her into public ser-vice as the architect of the Consumer Finan-cial Protection Bureau and later as a U.S. sena-tor.

Warren’s is exactly the kind of life story that rural mid-Americans traditionally have ad-mired: one in which someone of humble be-ginnings climbs the lad-der to success through talent and diligence, then uses that success to benefi t others.

She proved that a working-class, public school-educated Okla-homan could hold her own with Ivy League scholars and against Wall Street swindlers.

In contrast, President Trump attended expen-

sive private schools, attained his only ex-pertise in bankruptcy by declaring it at least four times despite hav-ing inherited a colossal fortune from his family of New York million-aires, and never con-tributed public-sector service before becom-ing president.

Compare Warren’s populist credentials with Trump’s, and it immediately becomes clear how ridiculously phony the latter are.

Furthermore, War-ren certainly wasn’t indoctrinated in liber-alism. She began her career as a Republican, but studying the fi nan-cial industry’s prac-tices and their effects on working families gradually convinced her that Republican economic policies run

contrary to both the practical interests and the moral values of mid-Americans.

Senator Warren joins a long line of mid-American reformers who have asserted that markets are truly free only when there are measures ensuring fair competition. They have opposed practices that transfer wealth from rural communities to the already over-priv-ileged.

Such extractive prac-tices cause moral harm, not only by eroding the economic foundations that sustain communi-ties and enable them to perpetuate their tra-ditional values but also by promoting consump-tion of culture that re-fl ects materialism and superficiality rather than production of cul-

ture that fosters fellow-ship and depth.

I hope social con-servatives will ponder that argument and, if they’re skeptical, read Peter Kolozi’s 2017 book “Conservatives Against Capitalism.”

Speaking of social conservatives, I hope Warren will demon-strate willingness to compromise on issues important to them, es-pecially abortion. She should emphasize that the abortion rate has declined more substan-tially during Demo-cratic administrations than during Republi-can ones, because Dem-ocratic policies more effectively address rea-sons why women end pregnancies.

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mom. They always vot-ed and never discussed it. We were raised to re-spect whoever was the president. I guess that is why I am so amazed at the disrespect our president is shown by so many today.

I just read an arti-cle in the paper, and I noticed the big care seemed to be for the government worker. It is sad that those people who make such good money didn’t have at least three months of “rainy day” money laid back for such a time as this, or worse times.

My thoughts went to the border (wall)that at least two past presidents wanted. We put fences around our yards and locks on our doors because it’s wise to do this. Other coun-tries have borders you can’t cross.

I’m not anyone of title, except for wife, mom, grandma and great-grandma. This gives me a wide range of credentials, and this is how I see things.

God bless America and bless our president who is trying to help all of us be safe.

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consider a reasonable and fair approach, such as a regional system with different rates for Chicago ver-sus downstate ...”

Pritzker’s offi ce also outlined direct costs for the state in the memo.

The increase is ex-pected to cost the state an additional $82 mil-lion in fi scal year 2020 from raises to govern-ment employees, hu-man service programs and direct service pro-viders, the memo said.

In fiscal year 2021, the cost would in-crease by about $270 million, then by about $165 million each year from fiscal 2022 to 2025. In fiscal 2026, an estimated $82 mil-lion would be added to the cost, making

the total annual cost of the wage increase about $1.1 billion by that time.

“Following four years of disinvestment and uncertainty result-ing from the historic budget crisis, it is un-tenable to require hu-man service agencies to pay employees more without ensuring they receive correspond-ing stable increases in state appropriations to restabilize them and cover the added oper-ating costs,” Pritzker’s memo said.

The memo also out-lines a small business tax credit available to employers with 50 or fewer employees. It gives credit at a declining percentage of the difference from an employee’s salary

during the last quar-ter of the previous fiscal year and the state’s current mini-mum wage.

This would start as a 25 percent credit in 2020, decreasing incrementally to 5 per-cent by 2025 and hold-ing at that rate until 2027. After 2028, the 5 percent credit would extend for two years only for employers with fi ve or fewer em-ployees.

Karr called the tax credit “meaningless,” noting that only about 7 percent of business-es—not the 48 per-cent cited by the bill’s advocates—have five or fewer employees when contractors are counted as employees.

The cost of the tax credit would range

from $14 million in the first year to as high as $25 million in later years, although the memo said increased economic activity due to the wage increase would offset those costs.

The memo also said a provision that allows employers to provide 60 percent of the mini-mum wage for tipped employees will remain on the books as well, with the other 40 per-cent being made up by tips. The employer would be obligated to make up an amount if tips do not cover the other 40 percent.

Businesses groups such as the Illinois Restaurant Associa-tion have favored keep-ing the tip wage credit in the legislation.

Sparta fi nances improve...From Page 1___________________few years, and we can’t change that, with the state of Illinois and the shape of things,” Schlimme said.

He said the city’s fi xed cost can’t be controlled, but the council and de-partment heads have worked to control cost in every other possible area.

“I think everyone on this board has been very successful at that,” Schlimme said.

Furthermore, Brink-mann praised the city’s handling of going home rule, which gave the city council more power in controlling its fi nances and allowing

the city to raise its sales tax by a half percent to pay for the sewer plant rather than passing the cost on to water and sewer bills.

City manager Corey Rheinecker said water rates for residents were already rather high, and in order to pay for the sewer plant, sewer rates would have to be increased by more than 100 percent.

The city takes in about $50,000 to $80,000 a month in sales tax, of which about $40,000 is deposited in a bank account.

“By doing that, we didn’t have to double

the residents’ water and sewer bills,” Ste-phens said. “(The citi-zens) recognized this was the way to go.”

The sewer project is funded through a loan from the Environmen-tal Protection Agency.

That loan totalled around $17 million for 20 years at 1 percent interest, but the EPA forgave $7.5 million in debt from the loan.

Rheinecker said he estimates the loan pay-ments to be a little over $40,000 per month, which can mostly be covered by the $40,000 per month in revenue from the sales tax.

With the extra $1.5 million the city will have from repaying the sewer fund and the revenue from the sales tax, Rheinecker said the city can pay off the EPA loan while focus-ing on other projects that require attention.

The largest project the city is looking to complete is replacing a section of water line from Houston to the water plant.

In 2002, the city re-placed the water line from the Kaskaskia River to Houston.

This project would finish what the city started in 2002.

Brad Hirte has an-nounced his write-in candidacy for commis-sioner of streets and public improvements in Pinckneyville.

Residents who wish to vote for Hirte will need to write his name on the April 2 ballot.

He will not appear on the ballot due to a ruling from the city’s election committee, af-ter Hirte’s candidacy was objected by Tim Simpson. Simpson al-leged that, because Hirte’s candidate pe-titions said “street commissioner” and not commissioner of streets and public im-provement, his petition was invalid and thus he could not be a can-didate.

Hirte said he comes to the position of street commissioner with many ideas for im-provements.

He plans to host a meet and greet for area residents at the Pinckneyville Eagles

Club Saturday, March 23 from 3 to 5.

Hirte has served Per-ry and Randolph coun-ties as owner and pres-ident of Emling Tow-ing since July 2012.

He has served in many leadership posi-tions such as 72nd state president of the Illinois Jaycees, Illinois Jaycee senate member and sat on the board of direc-tors for the Illinois Jay-cee Charitable Founda-tion.

Hirte also served as

logistics chief for MO 1 Disaster Medical Assis-tance Team and was de-ployed to serve in fed-eral disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Hati.

He lives in Imperial Heights with his wife Trish who works for Wolter’s Custom Cabi-nets in Evansville, fo-cusing on sales and in-terior design.

For more informa-tion, call Hirte at 210-1066 or email writein-bradhirte@gmail.com.

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An employee rec-ognized as a shining star is one whose ac-tions consistently goes above and be-yond regular job re-sponsibilities and expectations and has stood out among oth-ers as being an impor-tant contributor for new ideas and pro-cedures that helped improve hospital mo-rale, strategic plan-ning or operations.

Employees nomi-nate fellow coworkers or departments for shining star recogni-tion and the nomina-tions are reviewed by the hospital’s Con-tinuous Quality Im-provement Council.

This year’s shining stars include Carla Bruns, Pam England, Mitch Garver, Jamie Gerlach, Brittany Heisner, Beth Inman, Mary Lunnemann, Kevin Miller, Mary Peradotto and Laura Whitley.

Linda Miles was honored with the Spirit of Auxiliary Award, which is given to a member who con-sistently goes above and beyond regular volunteer responsibil-ities and expectations and stands out as a star volunteer.

Hospital employ-

ees who retired dur-ing 2018 were Sally Bruns and Bridgette Moody.

Employees were also honored for their years of service to the hospital with the gift of a lapel pin.

5 year recipients: Rhonda Szostak, ad-ministrative offi ce coordinator; Blake Thornton, process im-provement coordina-tor; Taylor Beninati, imaging technologist; Judy McClurken, cer-tifi ed nursing aide; Sheri Ford, respira-tory therapist; Megan Moody, imaging tech-nologist/housekeeper

10 years: Rachel Grunloh, registered nurse; Patrick Braun, registered nurse; Candace Cicardi, t r a n s c r i p t i o n i s t ; Miles Priebe, nurse practitioner hospi-talist; Brande’ Alvis, registered nurse; Rose Carson, coder; Judith Lind, tran-scriptionist; Mary Faulkner, registered nurse

15 years: Nicole Ak-ins, registered nurse; Kimberly Kretz, res-piratory therapist; Pamela Presswood, dietary aide/cook; Eric Saunders, imag-ing technologist; Su-san Degenhardt, li-cense practical nurse

20 years: Mari-lyn Epplin, billing clerk; Allisen Thies, medical assistant; Dr. Gregg Fozard, physi-cian; Darla Luke, bill-ing clerk; Elizabeth

Werger, dietary aide/cook; Michelle Ray, laboratory technolo-gist; Denise Gielow, licensed practical nurse

25 years: Jill Kel-lerman, pharmacist; Crystal Alfeldt, res-piratory technologist; Rose Headley, dietary technician

30 years: Mary Lunnemann, licensed practical nurse; Nan-cy Presswood, certi-fi ed nursing assistant

40 years: Norma Gordon, medical staff secretary

50 years: Deanna Miller, registered nurse

Above from left in the front row with hospital CEO Randy Dauby are shining star recipients Mary Peradotto, Mary Lunnemann, Jamie Gerlach, Carla Bruns, Brittany Heisner and Mitch Garver. Below are Laura Whitley, Pam England and Kevin Miller. Not pictured is Beth Inman.

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Employees awarded

Pictured are Memorial Hospital staff Deb Stenberg and Carrie Jo Dierks, with Gielow family members Adam and Kira Fagan and Matt and Janet Gielow.

The chemotherapy and infusion depart-ment at Memorial Hospital in Chester has a new addition to its wall of remem-brance.

The Bell of Hope, donated by the Gielow family in loving memory of Marvin A. Gielow, is now located

on the entry wall.The inscription

reads: Ring this bell three times well to celebrate this day. This course is run, my treatment done, now I am on my way.

As patients fi n-ish their fi nal treat-ment, they will have the honor of ringing

the bell to commemo-rate the completion of their battle.

Gielow was a long-time patient of the infusion department. He was a friend and inspiration to both staff and patients of the department. Gielow fi nished his battle August 4, 2017.

Bell of Hope donated

The Chester Chamber of Commerce will host its lunch meeting pro-gram at the Chester Ea-gles Club Tuesday, Feb-ruary 19 from noon to 1.

The speakers will be Shane Wagner of the Chester Plan-

ning Commission and Dennis Trask of the Southern Illinois Sub-stance Abuse Alliance.

Wagner wil l pro-vide an update on the proposed Monroe and Randolph coun-ties’ enterprise zone.

Trask will discuss the alliance’s work to reduce teen alcohol and drug use in Randolph and Washington counties.

The program is open to the public. Lunch is not provided, but may be ordered from the menu.

Chester chamber lunch meeting

Featured artistBrenda Thompson of St. Mary, Missouri is the Mis-sissippi Valley Art Guild featured artist for Febru-ary. She is working with watercolor and acrylics, and her subjects include wildlife, pet portraiture, landscapes and historic buildings. Thompson’s most recent works are vistas and wildlife of Kaskaskia Island. Her art will be on display in Chester at Buena Vista Bank, Muddy River Cof-fee House, Magnolia Memories, Reids’ Harvest House, St. Nicholas Landmark and the library.

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Due to the state of Il-linois changing its han-dling of the Commu-nity Development Block Grant Revolving Loan Fund, the Red Bud City Council approved the sale of $819,000 in sur-plus property from the loans during its Febru-ary 4 meeting.

Dieterich Bank in Red Bud was the sole bidder for the surplus prop-erty.

According to city ad-ministrative assistant Pam Poetker, the city will move forward with signing agreements with Dieterich, trans-ferring all the loans to the bank’s possession.

The funds from that sale will then be for-warded by the city to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Eco-nomic Opportunity.

The sale is a result of the state eliminating the Community Devel-opment Block Grant—which is a federally funded program that grants money to com-munities for economic development and hous-ing.

Poetker said she be-lieves the state elimi-nated the program due to requirements from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Local municipalities will no longer control their own revolving loan fund through the program. Instead, the municipalities will apply for monetary grants from the state for projects.

Red Bud fi rst plans to apply for $1.4 million for an infrastructure underground electric project. The city is look-ing to replace some of the underground electrical equipment and some of the above-ground structure. That is a portion that serves about 50 percent of the city, including power-ing city hall and Red Bud Regional Hospital.

In other news, the council approved an ordinance that amends the zoning code and so-lar power regulations.

According to the amended ordinance, there are no solar col-lector coverage area limitations other than that the collector shall not overhang any roof surface.

Also, no solar collec-tor shall be attached to a principal struc-ture until the net me-tering application has been completed and approved by the city superintendent.

The amendment also repealed the section of the ordinance that forbode the city from is-suing credits or paying owners of solar collec-tor systems for electric-ity exported into the city utility system.

In other news, the city also amended its plan to replace VFD pumps at two of its wells. In-stead, the city will pay to replace one pump at the wells and one at the plant.

Invertek Drives Mid-west will replace the pumps for a cost not to exceed $7,500.

Visu-Sewer of East St. Louis will clean out the storm sewer on Sum-mit Street for a cost of $6,000.

The utility clerk posi-tion was approved for a higher rate of pay. Pay increased to $17.37.

Jerry Flynn resigned from the library board.

Buena Vista was ap-proved to host an East-er egg hunt at Pavil-ion 2 of Ratz Memorial Park April 13.

Vice’s Bar’s request to host its spring fl ing May 4 was also ap-proved.

Red Bud sells revolving loans New language in Ava’s

ordinance regarding liens against property owned by someone who owes the city money was adopted by the Ava city council Monday night, and it has some major restrictions with it.

In short, no one will be allowed to build a structure or place a mo-bile home on any lot or parcel of land against which the city has fi led a lien or the owner of the land owes a delin-quent bill to the city.

The action comes as the city is about to pay to have a dilapidated house and mobile home located at 207 W. Knau-er Street and owned by Philip W. Bramlett torn down and the debris hauled off.

A lien for the cleanup and associated costs will be placed against that property and the city must be paid back before the lien is re-moved.

In a related matter, the council accepted the low bid of J & L Excavating of Ava to tear down the house and mobile home and remove the debris and four tree stumps for a total cost of $6,550.

There were six bidders on the project rang-ing from a high bid of $9,900 to a low of $6,200. However, the low bid did not include the cost of dumpsters the city would have to rent.

The cost of six dump-sters was included in J & L’s bid.

The council voted to accept the bids for the new electronic water meter reading system, which will transmit data back to a computer in city hall. A bid is to be awarded pending EPA approval.

The lower bidder was Zenner at a cost of $167,315. There is also a yearly fee of $1,975 for 10 years.

The only other bidder was Badger at $203,393 but that included an an-nual fee of 89 cents per month per customer. Ava has about 550 wa-ter customers.

The city will likely get an EPA loan to pay for the new metering sys-tem. However, 75 per-cent of that loan will eventually be forgiven,

with the exception of the annual fee, which is not eligible.

No defi nite start date for installing the new meters and equipment has been set.

In other action, the council reviewed a proposal to replace shrubbery, trees and hardscaping in Smysor Park. The money for the improvements will come from the Smysor trust fund.

It was reported that the Ava Homecoming will be moved up a week this year because of scheduling issues with amusement ride companies. The com-pany that had been used ceased operations, therefore a new com-pany had to be hired.

The dates are May 23, 24 and 25, which is the weekend before Memo-rial Day.

Hosted by the Ava Volunteer Fire Depart-ment, the homecoming will again offer free rides all three days.

In personnel matters, Connie Seymour was

hired as the part-time deputy city clerk. Once her training is com-plete, she will work two days a week and be paid $10 an hour.

Based on a recom-mendation by the main-tenance department, Chandler Volkman will be the only summer worker hired this sum-mer. He will work a maximum of 32 hours a week.

Police administrator Curt Ehlers was given authority to hire Aaron Runge as a police offi c-er pending completion of the required back-ground check. Runge is from Chester.

The council also:● adopted the annual

motor fuel tax street maintenance resolu-tion;

● agreed to a hike in accounting fees re-quested by Williams and Richards Account-ing from Carbondale from the current $750 a month to $810 a month;

● passed a resolution accepting conveyance of the Dollar Gener-al entrance as a city street. That had been agreed to when the store was built, but the resolution was never acted on by the council.

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There was general agree-ment at the Senate Educa-tion Committee meeting January 29 that the defi nition of a school day is chang-ing, but the committee voted unanimously to reinstate an old defi -nition of the term, at least temporarily.

If the bill, which passed on a 16-0 bipar-tisan vote, becomes law this session, it would reinstate a require-ment of fi ve hours of direct supervision by a teacher in order for a day to be considered an instruction day.

Opponents of the mandate said it would limit fl exibility for digital snow day al-ternatives and other opportunities such as apprenticeships or programs for students that have trouble in a classroom environ-ment.

Democratic state Senator Jennifer Ber-tino-Tarrant of Shore-wood, the bill’s lead sponsor and educa-tion committee chair, said she understood that more fl exibility is needed for school dis-tricts, and she is com-mitted to working to-ward it.

She warned of the “wild, wild west” cre-ated by the repeal of the fi ve-hour mandate.

“Right now a district could choose to have four days of school in a year,” she said.

Illinois Education Association lobbyist Sean Denney, a pro-ponent of the bill who represents Illinois teachers, said a trailer bill to last year’s edu-cation funding over-haul repealed the fi ve-hour mandate, and it was rolled out without real oversight.

Denney said teach-ers unions, such as the

IEA and Illinois Fed-eration of Teachers, need the bill to move forward as a negoti-ating point for future discussions about fl ex-ibility.

Representatives of the Illinois State Board of Education, the Large Unit District Associa-tion and other public education advocacy groups were joined by Donn Mendoza, su-perintendent of Round Lake School District 116, in speaking against the bill.

The groups said they had concerns that any step backward could tie up the negotiation process indefi nitely, and the bill’s effective-immediately clause would cause confusion for districts this year.

Mendoza said his district used the fl ex-ibility of a state waiver to offer new elearning capabilities and other innovative programs.

“I understand the re-quest and the idea of having a minimum, but our position is learning shouldn’t be tied to seat time,” he said. “The one thing I’m worried about is we will lose the abil-ity to take these next steps.”

As the committee met, Tri-Valley CUSD 3 in Downs was using an elearning day to re-place what would have been a regular snow day due to the bitter cold.

David Mouser, Tri-Valley’s superinten-dent, has children in the district, and said they spent hours tak-ing part in digital instruction that had been uploaded to the district’s website. He said he received sever-al emails or social me-

dia messages from parents of students participating in learning on their snow day.

“There’s no substitution to being at school

and engaging kids in real time,” Mouser said. “But after seeing what my kids have ex-perienced today and hearing from parents around the district, you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that going backward is the right decision.”

Mouser said a dis-trict poll showed most students have internet or cellphone access, but instruction is form-ative. Assignments are not graded, and at-tendance is not taken on digital snow days; so those who lack ac-cess are not penalized.

Mouser also noted there was discussion between the local teachers union and the district, and all of the district employees, even hourly staff, get paid as if it were a reg-ular day.

Despite the dialogue at Tri-Valley, state-wide teachers unions fear the absence of the fi ve-hour mandate will give districts uneven footing in negotiations with school boards.

For Mouser, the con-cern is that days added to the end of the school year will delay a multi-million-dollar renova-tion project at the dis-trict’s high school.

“It certainly seems that the learning our students experienced this week was much more effective than a day tacked on to the school year in July,” he said.

While there is no clarity as to how long it will take for the bill reinstating the man-date to clear the leg-islative process, both sides agreed to start negotiations as soon as possible.

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Each semester any full-time student at-tending John A. Lo-gan College with a 4.0 grade point average earns recognition on the president’s list.

Any full-time stu-dent who has a grade point average between 3.55 and 3.99 earns recognition on the

vice president’s list.Local students on

the president’s list in-clude Skyler Ellison, Ashlinanna Kempfer and Rachel Stein of Ava, Hayleigh Heins of Rockwood and Ashlynn Jackson of Tamaroa.

Local students on the vice president’s list are Logan Cheatham,

Payton Choate, Sophia Creamer, Kate Double-day, Danyelle Eilers and Blaire Reiman of Ava, Devin Millmann and Taylor Phoenix of Campbell Hill, Pa-tricia Hoffman, Jacob McClurken and Isa-bella Pierceall of Per-cy and Shelbey Hill-er of Pinckneyville.

Students on JALC honors list

Six area students re-cently earned a spot on the fall 2018 semester dean’s list Maryville University in St. Louis.

They are Abbey Knope of Coulterville, Carly Carril of Ellis Grove, Alexei Cogdill of Marissa, Ian Henne

of Pinckneyville and Marcus Heinen and Karlee Stellhorn of Red Bud.

To be eligible, stu-dents have to complete at least 12 credit hours in a semester with a minimum of 3.5 grade point average.

Maryville dean’s list

Journalists of the futureThe Marissa High School journalism class is shown working as a staff. The students take photographs, interview, write copy and edit the yearbook. The class competes in several journalism con-tests during the year and produces the school annual. Front row from left are Cassie Campbell, Kylie Batemen, Maddison Parker and Samantha Stoddard. Back row: Haylie Mayer, Kaitlin Hancock, Kadie Young, Gracie Jones and Rachel Hall. Photo by Carol Mercer

During a special meeting of the Sparta school board, Evans-ville Attendance Center Principal Chris Miesner was approved for a three-year contract.

Miesner’s salary will be $56,000 for the 2019-20 school year, $59,000 for 2020-21 and $62,000 for 2021-22.

He will also receive an annual stipend of $2,000 for athletic di-

rector duties at Evans-ville.

In other news, a dis-cussion was held re-garding Opaa Food Management of Ches-terfi eld, Missouri, the company Sparta is con-sidering hiring to han-dle cafeteria services.

The district cur-rently operates its own food service in-house.

Personnel will take tours of other facilities this month.

Another discussion was held regarding Perandoe using four rooms at Sparta High School for the PEP pro-gram.

No action was taken on Opaa or Perandoe.

Sparta approves Miesner for three-year contract

Several area natives graduated from South-east Missouri State University in Cape Gi-rardeau during the fall 2018 semester.

Haley Johnston of Pinckneyville gradu-ated with an associate degree in child care and guidance.

Earning bachelor’s degrees were Katlyn Bradley of Steeleville, mass communication; Trysta Guebert of Red Bud, criminal justice; Katherine Riechmann of Red Bud, psycholo-gy; Katie Roth of Ches-ter, business adminis-tration and fi nance, and Desirae Wilson of Chester, agribusiness.

Rachel Stellhorn of Evansville graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in human environmen-tal studies and Laci Zeidler of Pinckney-ville cum laude with a bachelor’s in business administration.

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Ameliah Hubert, a freshman at Steel-eville High School, will be a delegate to the Congress of Fu-ture Medical Leaders in Lowell, Massachu-setts June 23-25.

The congress is an honors-only program, designed to inspire and motivate top high school students in the U.S. who aspire to be physicians or medical scientists and provide a path, plan and re-sources to help them reach their goal.

Hubert’s nomina-tion letter was signed by Dr. Mario Capecchi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and

the science director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scien-tists based on her ac-ademic achievement, leadership potential

and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.

Hubert will join students from across the country and hear Nobel laureates and National Medal of Science winners talk about leading medical research, get advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what to ex-pect in medical school and listen to stories told by patients who are living medical miracles. They will also learn about cut-ting-edge advances and the future in medicine and medical technology.

Donuts with DadSt. Mark’s Lutheran School in Steeleville held its Donuts with Dad event February 1. The families ate donuts together, visited and played games in the gymnasium. Pictured are students Emma and Sophie Rieckenberg with their grandfather John Rieckenberg.

Hubert will be delegate in honors-only program

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Perry County Home Community Education offers two $500 schol-arships to Perry Coun-ty residents who are enrolled in a vocation-al institution of higher learning working to-ward a certificate or higher degree.

The applicant must either be a member of HCE or have an imme-diate family member in the organization.

You may also apply if you were a member of 4-H during your sen-ior year in high school and were a member in good standing for five years.

The applications will also be forward-ed to the Illinois Asso-ciation for Home Com-munity Education to be entered for one of four $500 state schol-arships. Being a 4-H member alone does not qualify for one of the state grants.

Applications must be turned in to the Perry County Exten-sion office by April 1. They can be found at any high school guidance office, Rend Lake College or the Extension office.

For more informa-tion, call 357-2126.

HCE scholarships LocalMissouri

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Madyson Epplin of Pinckneyville and Cameron Dobbs of Red Bud achieved academ-ic honors at the Uni-versity of Alabama in Tuscaloosa during the fall 2018 semester.

Epplin was named

to the dean’s list, which requires a grade point average of 3.5, and Dobbs to the president’s list, which takes a 4.0.

The lists recognize only full-time under-graduate students.

Two receive UA honors

Bradley As-selmeier and Dan-iel Moeller of Chester and Jared Pfannebecker of Red Bud made the honors list for the fall 2018 semester at Missouri S&T in Rolla.

To be included on the list, students must have carried a minimum of 12 hours with a grade point average of 3.2 or above.

Asselmeier and Moeller, both sen-iors, are majoring in mechanical en-gineering.

Pfannebecker, a sophomore, is stud-ying computer en-gineering.

STEELEVILLEFebruary 11-15

BreakfastMONDAY: Cereal.TUESDAY: Sausage biscuit.WEDNESDAY: French toast sticks.THURSDAY: Cinnamon rolls.FRIDAY: Pancakes.

Lunch MONDAY: Bosco sticks, broccoli/cheese.TUESDAY: Chili, car-rots.WEDNESDAY: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, gravy.THURSDAY: Turkey/cheese, celery w/ranch.FRIDAY: BBQ rib, baked beans, fruit rollup.

ST. MARK’SFebruary 11-15

MONDAY: Toasted ravi-oli, green beans, apple dessert.TUESDAY: Meatball sub, peas, mandarin oranges.

WEDNESDAY: Pulled pork, baked beans, strawberries.THURSDAY: Chicken nuggets, carrots, peaches.FRIDAY: No school.

TRICOFebruary 11-15

Breakfast MONDAY: Egg breakfast slider.TUESDAY: Cinnamon roll.WEDNESDAY: Breakfast pizza.THURSDAY: Eggstrava-ganza.FRIDAY: Biscuits, gra-vy.

LunchMONDAY: Peanut but-ter/jelly sandwich, chips, carrots w/dip.TUESDAY: Soft taco, garden salad, grape tomatoes.WEDNESDAY: Chicken nuggets, macaroni/cheese, cauliflower w/

dip.THURSDAY: Chili/cheese w/corn chips, garden salad.FRIDAY: Cheese que-sadilla, refried beans, sweet treat.

COULTERVILLEFebruary 11-15

BreakfastMONDAY: Breakfast pizza.TUESDAY: Sausage biscuit.WEDNESDAY: French toast sticks.THURSDAY: Cinni minis.FRIDAY: No school.

LunchMONDAY: Nacho cheese lil’ bites, carrots.TUESDAY: Ravioli, car-rots.WEDNESDAY: Bosco sticks, broccoli w/dip.THURSDAY: Chicken nuggets, celery w/dip, cookie.

School breakfast, lunch menus

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STEELEVILLE ELEMENTARYSecond Quarter

4.0: Fifth-graders Nathan Witthoft, Layne Young, Lexi Smith, Caitlyn Appel, Logan Bockhorn, Connor Brown, Adelynn Knop, Austin Kranz, Cien Kirby, Reagan Moore, George Fiene, Kaden Spar-row and Audrey Selle.

Sixth-graders Audrey Glad-son, Hannah Runyon, Lydia Foshie and Charles Mathis.

Seventh-graders Emma Mulholland, Tyler Ernsting, Logan Tripp, Lauren Wede-meyer, Peyton Bockhorn, Aubrianna Borkhorn, Liberty McCormick and Olivia Raby.

Eighth-graders Brennen Thies, Grace Cronin, Mason Patterson, Avery Hamilton and Ashlyn Roberts.

3.75-3.8: Fifth-graders Cody Mevert.

Sixth-graders, Isabella Mid-dendorf.

Seventh-graders Camden Pierce and Shelby Barker.

Eighth-graders Reid Har-riss, Daisy Czapla and Jacoby Gross.

3.5-3.6: Fifth-graders Land-on Rodewald, Blake Cathcart and David Hill.

Sixth-graders Charles Mathis.

Eighth-graders Jenna Hood, Nathan McSmith, Kady-nce Draves and Evan Moon.

3.25-3.4: Fifth-graders Michael McInyre, Madilynn Yates and Brenden Stewart.

Seventh-graders Paxten Sidener, Michael Alexander, Noah Fiene, Mason Gall and Mikkah Jacobus.

STEELEVILLE HIGHSecond Quarter

High honors: Seniors *Alan Stearns, *Gavin Con-way, *Savannah Kumke, *Julia Niepert, *Rachel Bradley, Kylie Ernsting, Karley Kothe, Kiersten Lutz, Ashleigh Steg-mann, Brad Mevert, *Jackson Hamilton and *Kelly Eaton.

Juniors *Jacob Sutton, *Dylan Hill, *Kaelyn Rubach, *Alexandia Hinnerichs, *Aus-tin Hagel and Haley Shrum.

Sophomores *Tanner Al-lison , *Adison Furman, *Ava Schwartzkopf, *Gage Roberts, *Morgan Creamer, *Kaylee Luehr, Adelaide Rubach and Chloie Vordtriede.

Freshmen *Jaden Hinner-ichs, *Grant Millsap, *Jacob Verschueren, *Braden Meyer-hoff, Mia Masterson, Mia Gall and Amelia Hubert.

Honors: Seniors Brea Ev-ans, Emily Schatte, Jayden Hood, Chloe Gordon, Alexis Sauerwein, Jacob Hoover, Kyle Ernsting and Brad Me-vert.

Juniors Hunter Smith, Eric Stegmann, Christopher Taylor, Kelsey Cowan, Alli Wagner, Ronin Doiron, Austin Hagel, Logan Fulkerson, Emily Cop-ple and Jared Phillips.

So phom or e s Gu n n a r Moore, Shealyn Conway, Connor Haertling, Callen Reitz, Nicholas Craig, Jesus Xoca, August Higgins, Chloe Yates, Alexis Renner, Jennifer Wedemeyer, Alayna Sau-erwein, Megan Mulholland, David Coleman and Rory Lutz.

Freshmen Lane Lazenby, Joanna Niepert, Caris Ruby, Hannah Myers, Zach Mevert, Kaleb Knop, Mia Masterson, Ameliah Hubert and Mason Korando.

*Denotes 4.0 average.

ST. MARK’SSecond Quarter

High honors: Eighth-grad-ers *Evan Buch, *Summer Hassebrock, *Jack Knop and *Gillian Valleroy.

Seventh-grader *Andrew Welten.

Sixth-grader *Canon Ruby.Fifth graders Elly Buch and

Colin Vallett.

Honors: Eighth-gradersLogan Bartens, Jaret Ehlers and Carter Wasson.

Seventh-graders Cooper Wasson.

Sixth-graders Noah Hart-man and Tyler Ingles

Fifth-grader Savana Link.*Denotes straight A

TRICOELEMENTARY

Second QuarterHigh honors: Riley Aaron,

Alexandra Alvarado Pine-da, Noelle Anderson, Lilly Bagley, Mackenzie Bastien, Jayla Behrens, Zoe Ben-nett, Gannon Blazier, Parker Closson, Vanessa Clover, Sophia Coke, Aubrey Cole-man, Landon Colin, Braden Compton, Jaida Conway, Colton Cottom, Griffi n Crask-Weeks, Natalie Dagner, Lydia Dammermann, Sarea Davis, Tucker Deming, Mason Dil-day, Lauren Ebersohl, Ethan Ellison, Jayci Farris, Brody Fisher, Austin Fleenor, Elijah Foutch, Hayleigh Franklin, Toby Froemling, William Fro-emling, Rozalyn Gentry, Mat-tilyn Gerler, Makayla Gordon, Brayci Graff, Jonathan Grau, Paige Hamilton, Jayla Ham-mel, Sydney Happold, Payton Harber, Brock Heins, Brydon Heins, Caroline Helmers, Ha-zel Helmers, Chloe Hickam, Josie Hickam, Madilynn Holt, Kaylyn Hull, Felicity Illig, Jace Iman, Jay Ingles, Kenzie Jok-erst, Rylan Jokerst, Embry Jones, Greta Jones, Brynlea Keller, Drake Kloker, Beau Koehn, Ethan Kranawetter, Maci Lindsey, Oaklyn Lindsey, Whitney Lovel, Flavio Mar-quez, Alan Martinez Pineda, Brandon Martinez Pineda, Didier Martinez Vences, Ka-lyn Maynard, Laila McCaleb, Cheyenne McDonald, Piper McDonald, Cheyann Moore, Sawyer moore, Adalynn Morb-er, Christopher Moreno Se-villa, Bethany Morgan, Trinity Morgan, Dixie Murray, Faith Murray, Marlen Paez Santis, Peyton Pierce, Molly Rathert, Maddax Rees, Leila Rei-man, Logan robinson, Piper Rodewald, Hailey Schneider, Aquaila Smith, Karter Smith, Aryana Speith, Zariah Speith, Brooklynn Stoffel, Braydon Swisher, Carter Swisher, Ev-elyn Taylor, Bailey Thies, Jaycie Thies, Peighton Thies, Macy VanZandt, Ryder Wettig, Hayden Whitaker, Emma Wil-liams and Kentley Williams.

Honors: Isabela Ajanel Hernandez, Maggie Beaty Dingus, McKenzie Bentem, Jackie Bess, Drevan Bram-lett, Braedyn Braun, Gavin Bunton, Chloe Carev, Ryker Clinton, Gage Clover, Jaden Clover, Aubrey Cotter, Anna Creech, Amy Cruz, Kaelee Denninger, Molly Denninger, Dice Diaz, Lillian Diaz, James Diercks, Logan Diercks, Nata-lie Dolce, Savannah Duden-bostel, Morgan Durham, Hunter Duvardo, Lily Ebers, Ayla Farris, Calleigh Fleenor, Allison Froehle, Mariana Gon-zalez, Gracie Graves, Mad-den Graves, Lyndzi Gross, Kimberly Guetersloh, Justin Guibault, Brantley Hamil-ton, Treyton Heern, Emma Henneboehle, Marley Hepp, Juana Hernandez-Garcia, Kane Hinnerichs, Alayna Hol-land, Jeanetta Hopkins, Ella Jackson, Abigail King, Javin Kobus, Klynn Korando, Jaelyn Kranawetter, Gabriella Laf-foon, Aliviah Lawrence, Wyatt Lively, Ashley Lopez Valdivia, Zackary Lyons, Eric Marti-nez Pineda, Ricky Martinez Pineda, Blaise Mathis, Kai-den McBride, Phoebe Minter, Jackson Misselhorn, Kaitlyn

Mitchell Edgar, Alex Nesbit, Carson Nesbit, Zachery New-ton, Yessica Perez Pastor, Wyatt Pierce, Zander Radford, Lucas Rathert, David Recard, Wade Rees, Addilyn Rei-man, Malorie Reiman, Brylee Renner, Kalyn Ripley, Rylie Robinson, Tate Schaber, Lilly Sickling, Tyson Simms, Ashlyn Skorcz, Joseph Specogni, Chase Stacy, Abbigail Taylor, Justin Tindall, Alicia Tucker, Ana Vicente Hernandez, Eliz-abeth Vickery, Talan Williams, Carter Wilson, Owen Woolf and Joshua Young.

Honorable mention: Rosa Ajanel-Oxlaj, Estefani Alvara-do Pineda, Chloe Anderson, Bailie Bargman, Avrie Blair, Laney Calcari, Sydnee Clin-ton, Karter Compton, Jason Cruz, Sky Diercks, Tyler Do-erner, Mathew Duvardo, Ran-dall Edwards, Casey Ehlers, Evin Ellenberg, Devin Ernst, Palynn Fager, Garrison Farris, Landon Goetz, Sarah Guet-ersloh, Travis Harris, Willow Hohgrefe-Fry, Nicholas Jok-erst, Blake Jones, Annabella King, Graci Laffoon, Kaden Langston, Kevin Vences Mar-tinez, Keagan McDonald, Scarlet Moreno, Christopher Paez, Cristin Pelate, Shaina Pierce, Tesa Ray, John Rush-ing, Elliot Schaber, Madysin Stacy, Shane Stroub, Shane Tapp, Tristan Tapp, Jaxton Thompson, Madison Tucker, Robert Walker, Wesley Wal-ters, Clayton Woodside and Mason Wooley.

TRICO JR. HIGHSecond Quarter

High honors: Eighth-grad-ers Sydney Allen, Lex Dem-ing, Benjamin Deshazo, Gar-rett Franklin, Jakob Koehn, Silas Moore, Avery Pierce, Madilynn Rathert and Gabby Salamanca.

Seventh-graders Kate-lyn Allen, Kyler Bowerman, Makenna Bramlett, Kaleb Dil low, McKenzie Ebers, Elizabeth Haff, Brady Heins, Olivia Jokerst, Autumn Ken-nedy, Mason Kranawetter, Wyatt Krause, Brock Naile, Tessa Nehrt, Kaden Starkey, Alexis Stroub, Paige Thies and Kanon Wilson.

Sixth-graders Eli Aberna-thy, Jadon Behrens, Analyn Bernaix, Addysen Denault, Kendall Farris, Cristobal Gar-cia, Manuel Hernandez, Pas-tor Juarez, Mason Krause, Gavin Lovel, Ariana McBride, Qwentin McBride, Itzel Mon-dragon-Martinez, Allie Robin-son and Olivia Thies.

Honors: Eighth-graders Vanesa Aaron, Ella Bernaix, Ellyce Blazier, Aiden Bless-ing, Elizabeth Blessing, Sarahi Carmona-Haro, Keygon Cas-well, Caden Crask-Weeks, Saylor Griffi ths, Bayden Guy, Alexis Knapp, Kayla Knott, Macy Kranawetter, Hailey Rambeau and Timothy Rei-man.

Seventh-graders Kaylynn Brock, Taylor Cottom, Bri-ana Dagner, Shannan Davis, Kreighton Downen, Reagan Fager, Chase Gale, David Grau, Jocey Kalmas, Cali Klausing, Timber Leeper, Amara Mezo, Dillon Swisher, Weston Westerman and Josie Wettig.

Sixth-graders Kellie Adkins, Mason Bastien, Tami Bramlett, Kyle Durham, Kendra Guet-ersloh, Santos Hernandez, Gage Iman, Anna Lemcke, Dakota Massey, Addyson McClaine, James Parks, Ol-ivia Renner, Abigail Sauer-hage, Autumn Shaffer, Easton Smith, Maximus Taylor and Alexis Tucker.

H o n o r a b l e m e n t i o n :

Eighth-graders Ellyce Bla-zier, Audrey Cruz, Madison Hughey, Hailey McDonald, Alyssa Qualls, Blake Ruebke, Breana Vogel and Bailey Watson.

Seventh-graders Mason Lambert, Cynthia Macke and Lydia Williamson.

Sixth-graders Yenifer Bau-tista, Savannah Bonneville, Kale Dammermann, Kade Estel, Dante Grunden, Daniel Jones, Brian Kobus, Wesley Kuhnert, Ulises Marquez, Tif-fany Murray and Grant Skurat.

TRICO HIGHSecond Quarter

High honors: Tyler Ad-kins, Hanna Allen, Saman-tha Allen, Madison Arbeiter, Alyssa Bastien, Jakob Beck-man, Joel Beckman, Kody Behnken, Kory Behnken, Kyle Behnken, Jordan Bowerman, William Bramlett, Edward Brees, Keegan Brooks, Timo-thy Bryant, Kassidy Bunsel-meyer, Kelly Bunselmeyer, Kylie Bunselmeyer, Kaitlyn Carlock, Ethan Clover, Emely Cruz, Matthew Dammermann, Brooke Davis, Lydia Dillow, Madisen Ebers, Adreanna Edgar, Sydney Farris, Isa-bella Fisher, Rylee Fisher, Rayahna Foutch, Ahmber Fraembs, Elizabeth Fritsche, Andrew Froemling, Elizabeth Froemling, Katie Gale, Mitchel Gale, Skylar Guetersloh, Levi Guy, Claire Hamilton, Kaitlyn Hammel, Mason Hayden, Creighton Horvath, Aeris Huhman, Abigail Huseman, Aimee Jarrett, Rhett Jones, Myah Kelley, Jillian King, Haley Kranawetter, Marisa Kranawetter, Adison Lange, Seth Levan, Jacob Lodge, Wilson Lodge, Morgan Mitch-ell, Autumn Ogle, Alec Olson, John Patterson, Alexandra Pomales, Michael Rathert, Logan Rednour, Ryleigh Richelman, Imy Riecken-berg, Jillian Schwier, Cierra Scott, Jasmine Serr, Tabitha Serr, Jarett Smith, Karlee Snider, Shealee Swisher, Jesse Taylor, Riley Taylor, Sydney Taylor, Jenna Vancil, Daniel Vogt, Lacey Wester-man, Megan Wettig, Damien Williams, Kaden Wilson, Tren-ton Wilson, Colton Young and Rhegen Zepeda.

Honors: Victor Ajanel-Oxlaj, Alana Anderson, Camer-on Arbeiter, Bailey Askins, Ryan Bauersachs, Jaron Berner, Abigail Bilderback, Ethan Bonneville, Hayley Buchanan,Korey Bunselmey-er, Brianna Busch, Christian Byrd, Chelsea Cheatham, Ross Coleman, Nicholas Compton, Tyler Compton, Samantha Cottom, Reagan Couch, Jennie Cruz, Chris-topher Dagner, Whitney Dag-ner, Colby Davis, Marcus Davis, Keatton Edwards, Har-ris Ehlers, Nicholas Ehlers, Dalyn Eilers, Katie Evans, Trevor Fisk, Victoria Federk-ing, Sandra Gower, Devin Har-ris, Casey Hassebrock, Taylor Hensley, Isabella Huseman, Katelyn Huseman, Alexander Jacob, David Johnson, Kea-gan Keller, Wyatt King, Brooke Korando, Isaac Kranawetter, Lathen Kratz, Bailey Kuh-nert, Karrington Lacy, Gaige Lage, Brandon Lane, LeeAnn Langwith, Peyton Lovel, Karla Marquez, Kolbie Martin, Kaya McGowan, Alden Miller, Carter Naile. Sarah Neff, Wesley Newton, Riah Olson, Cruz Oxlaj, Isabela Pastor, Nikolas Pelate, Nathan Phoenix, Abbie Pierce, Madison Pur-dom, Evelyn Ramon Vite, Victoria Reichrath, Ashtyn Reiman, Julia Reiman, Cori

Renner, Tessa Romines, Kenneth Scott, Chandler Shaf-fer, Jesse Smith, Morgan Snider, Ebony Spohnholtz, Cassidy Stacy, Stormy Stacy, Brendan Stearns, Mercedes Tanner, Kayla Taylor, Alexis Thies, Zachary Thies, Maysa Titsworth, Morgan Vancil, Chandler Volkman, Lucas Walls, Bridgette Winterberg, Jimmy Wooley, Mattie Woolf and Brittany Wright.

Honorable mention: May-cee Askins, Austin Bastien, Kaden Compton, Phi l l ip Compton, Shelby Conder, Jackson Doerner, Connor Fletcher, Noah Fletcher, James Flowers, Jenelle Fos-ter, Samuel Frederking, Con-nor Garrison, Kayla Hamilton, Tyler Imhoff, Devin Jacquez, Austin Johnson, Jeremiah Johnson, Trenton Knight, Jackson Kranawetter, Nikolis Lissimore, Jordan Martin, Madison May, Kolten McBride, Jacob Ogle, Julian Phoenix, Holden Porter, Sierra Radford, Joseph Rayborn II, Charles Sherman, Madison Taylor, Garret Thies, Destiny Welge and Timothy White.

SAINT MARY’SCATHOLIC

Second QuarterFirst honors (4.5-5.0):

Third-graders Marlie Caby, Rusty Korando and Gage Lynn.

Fourth-grader Kanon Jany.Fifth-graders Maggie Caby,

Ethan Colvis, Jonathan Hayer and Camryn Wolff.

Sixth-graders Jack Hef-fernan, Kolton Jany and Luke Schuwerk.

Seventh-graders Elseah Congiardo and Garret Hop-kins.

Eighth-graders Koby Jany, Will Schuwerk and Paige Vasquez.

Second honors (4.0-4.49): Third-graders Eli Congiardo, Vanessa Greene and Brandon Korando.

Fourth-graders Logan Mc-Donald, Natalie Shipley and Hailey Yankey.

Sixth-graders Gene Bicket and Nate Maes.

Seventh-grader Grace Wel-born.

ST. JOHN LUTHERANSecond Quarter

4.00-3.76: Landon Hornbos-tel, Hannah Kaempfe, Camryn Luthy, Lucas Thompson, Max Blechle, Evan Dunning, Noah Homan, Alexzander Maes, Landon Welge, Alex William-son, Macy Bert, Alexander Bixby, Lucas Chandler, Au-brey Coleman, Reed Creason, Lillian Diskey, Lexie Mott, Konner Schroeder, Isaac Sims and Madison Stauffer.

3.75-3.51: Hanna Colvis, Emma Diskey, Nicholas Col-lins, Hayden Cartwright and Caleb Coffey.

3.50-3.26: Jordan Buskohl.3.25-3.00: Sabrina Bixby,

Sydney Collins, Jesse Heath, Ashlyn Lemanski, Chance Mott, Drew Coleman, Trentin Eggemeyer, Kinsli McCartney, Jasmine Merideth, Connor Mott, Aden Runge, Joshua Sims, Nicholas Coffey, Cole Johnson, Clayton Kothe and Isac Smith

CHESTER GRADESecond Quarter

Highest honors: Fifth-graders David August, Ad-dison Gottschammer, Trevor Keeton, Erin Liefer, Rylie Myers, Trayton Peters, Lola Thomas and Lilianna Welge.

Sixth-graders Rylie Conley, Beatriz DeGuzman, Gianna Eggemeyer, Maddox Hunter,

Elaina Lutman, Payton Muel-ler, Emma Murphy, Sadie Sell-ers, Eli Stout, Whitney Sulser and William Welge.

Seventh-graders Scott Brown, Joel Buskohl, Hailey Clendenin, John Gilbert, Col-by Kelkhoff, Amanda Kennon, Isabelle Marshall, Kylie Maue, Rylie McDonough, Chloe Miller, Chazidy Quintana and Mabry Wingerter.

Eighth-graders Clayton Andrews, Breanna Coffey, Emma Eggemeyer, Trace Fricke, Savanna Guebert, Ja-cob Handel, Camrynn Howie, Kerringtyn Malley, Reese Mc-Cormick and Lily Smith.

Honors: Fifth-graders Mason Straight, Elizabeth Wilson, Aaliyah Berkbuegler, Callie Davis, Tyson Jausel, Peyton Dickson, Adelynn May, Brayden Juenger, Robert Myers, Jonathon Snow, Alys-sa Coffey, Amelia Crawfod, Kayden King, Chace Murphy, Jessica Stumpe and Gage Yankey.

Sixth-graders Olivia Earl, Lincon Schroeder, Ethan Chambers, Caiden Baranows-ki, Devante Palacio, Brenden Malley, Cole Bowling, McK-enne LaChance, Florentine Rafael, Allyna Shipley and Emily Shook.

Seventh-graders Korbin Jany, Logan Mueller, Bryce Cushman, Alexis Eggemeyer, Faith Taylor, Joshua Casteel, Isaiah Ferrell, Dyson Helmers, Haley Hoskin, Jessica Ixcoy, Gabrielle Keasling, Braxton Conder, Anarosa Ruiz Huerta, Bailey Sellers, Nolin Crain, El-len McCormick, Jacob Pfeiffer and Austin McDonald.

Eighth-graders Chelsea August, Ariana Gaetz, Bri-ley Miles, Mikayla Straight, Kelsey Hall, Julia Venus, Jacob Cotner, Cullen Son-nier, Rilee Owens and Paige Thomas.

Honorable Mention: Fifth-graders Natalie Guetersloh, Riley Lochhead, Alexander Partin, Megan Zimmer, Jack Thomas, Gavin Wilderman, Bianca Howad, Kylee Kemp-fer, Southern LaChance, Josh-lyn Rhoden. Derrius Schoe-mate, Brittany Teater, Camden Ward, Adyn Winchester, Faith Aumann, Amari Perez, Jakob Stueve, MacKenzie Deimund, Brayden Tucker and Olivia Vasquez.

Sixth-graders Lann in Carter, Savannah Hopple, Brayden Absher, Elizabeth Rhoden, Miranda Burgdorf, Devin Hamilton, Paige Ham-ilton, Cayden Brunkhorst, Peyton Cole, Jaden Lopez, Emily Molton and Noh Teater.

Seventh-graders Josalynn Anaya, Nate Heuer, Aron Korando, Joseph McLain, Reese Page, Shaylee Strong, Bethany Baughman, Aden McFarland, Kaylie Springston, Abby Todd, Jackson Welge, Shea Menefee, Joshua Fraz-er, Mallory Leathers, Alyssa Mc Cormick, Brooklyn Webb, Leslie Asbuy, Maison Sh-emonic, Evan Bland, Katelin Conway and Matthew Miffl in.

Eighth-graders Gwenyth Turner, Aidan Blechle, Mag-gie Clendenin, Tulsa Addi-son, Maleia Absher, Madilynn Blish, Jessalynn Hobeck, Cody Johnson, Megan Lix, Aubrie Medford, Karlea Hahs, Cesar Marquez, Jonathan Renfroe, Aaron Welten, Chel-sea Essman, Austin Welten, Caitlin Eggemeyer, MaKenzie Maxwell and Seth Walker.

CHESTER HIGHSecond Quarter

High honors: Freshmen Madison Britt, Emma Bryant,

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Jordanna Frazer, Dylan Kelk-hoff, Madison Kribs, Kaleb Rehmer, Camille Schroeder and Alyssa Seymour.

Sophomores Peyton Clen-denin, Melody Colonel, Kailey Hall, Kennedy Herrell, John Hunter, Ariel Throop and Ali-son Venus.

Juniors Amira Al-Jassim, Adeline Blechle, Andrew Bryant, Ashtyn Jany, Alyssa Place, Jaci South, Grace Stec, Brianna Surman, Lau-ryn Vasquez, and Destiny Williams.

Seniors Jakob Cushman, Caitlin Elsea, Kaleb Hughes, Va n e s s a I n m a n , S h e a Petrowske, Carlee Weir and Lauren Welge.

Honors: Freshmen Anna Childs, Kylie Fortner, Alex-andra Hennrich, Kaitlyn Pfei-ffer, Larissa Wright, Hannah Blechle, Abigail Bollmann, Aaron Fitzwilliam, Lilith Loch-head, Megan Miller, Cayla Sibley, Ethan Stumpe, Cristen Tucker, Connor Wolff, Fredrick Alvarez, Brendan Baughman, Ashlyn Colvis, Kylie Heins, Emily Mehrer, Patrick Miller, Lily Polette, Hannah Colvis, Candis Knapp, Jared Lande-ros Alvarado, Maria Nickle, Michaela Page-Roth, Kole Sumpter, Addyson Mitchell, Jacob Copple, Odessy Flores, Ryan Springston, Kylee Tuck-er, Kailyn Absher, Brooklynn Adams, Maxwell Allwardt, Hayleigh Cowan, Annalise Kueker, Juan Welge Jr., Mal-lary Vasquez, Ethen Egg-emeyer, Wyatt Johnson, De-Ondre Martin, Ryn Petrowske, Molly Rowold, Cortnie Win-kler, Britney McGuire, Wesley Carpenter, Mabry Miles, Chloe Page-Keim, Ian Reith, Austin Schweizer, Brandon Schwier, Zoe Sellers, Deborah Wills, Kayla Bert, Kira McGhee, Al-ycia Schmidt and Christopher Schwier.

Sophomores Jasmine Ana-ya, Raelynn Barnes, Nathan Heffernan, Josie Kattenbrak-er, Lily Koch, Macey Ludwig, Alana Meyer, William Sorto, Emma Bauer, Avary Owens, Katelyn Shinabargar, Olivia Brown, Ashley Griggs, Cassie McDonald, Caleb Parker, Mat-thew Renfroe, Hunter Zwei-gart, Eli Mokriakow, Samantha Eggemeyer, Emma Hathaway, Jarrett James, Makayla Ward, Blake Zappa, Amber Essman, Katlyn Rahn, Juliette Aber-nathy, Avery Miers, Lauren Soellner, Jeffrey Dobyns, Alexander Gruenewald and Dylan Hamilton,

Juniors Jenna Bierman, Gage Bollmann, Cierra Crea-son, Zack Houghlan, Joshua Rehmer, Cordelia Stirnaman, Brock Williams, Chett An-drews, Trent Bierman, Mae-ghan Fuller, Aaron Hanna, Madison Hasemeyer, Audrey Hopper, Brendan Murphy, Nathaniel Rains, Bailey Wahl, Jessica Handel, Corbin Fricke, Kierra Gross, Lydia Heck, Tay-lor Hennrich, Michael Hubert, Jocelyn Landeros Alvarado and Karl Mattingly.

Seniors Hailey Asbury, Emma Draves, Chloe Shook, Seth Adams, Drake Bollman, Stevie Gilbert, Elizabeth Soell-ner, Iyontae Martin, Jacob Wingerter, Cara Childs, Chase Colvis, Dayton James, Owen Korando, Lauren Leathers, Kamryn Wingerter, Brooke Frazer, Kaylee James, Colin Wingerter, Erik Cowell, Keith Kiner III, Nicholas Meyer, Tri-sha Donachy, Jacob O’Riley, Jadi Richards, BreAnna Walk-er and Leah Barbee-Stork.

CHRIST OUR SAVIORSecond Quarter

Honors with high distinc-tion 4.0: Lindsey Johnston, Brie Luebkemann and An-nelise Quinn of Red Bud, Hailey Harbaugh and Daniel Wasson of Sparta and Megan Schulte of Sparta.

Honors with distinction 3.75-3.99: Elias Hall of Jacob, Mathew Koester and Emily Luebkemann of Red Bud and Jessica Whittom of Steeleville.

Honorable mention 3.25-3.49: Madison Behiter of Bald-win, David Koester and Tanner Valleroy of Red Bud, Riley Smith of Ruma and Samantha Schulte of Sparta.

EVANSVILLE GRADESecond Quarter

High honors: Sixth grad-ers Courtney Drake, Brody Montroy and Braden Rein-hardt.

Seventh graders Isabella Braun, Alyssa Fernandez, Kai-den Kloth and Abigail Zweigart

Eighth graders Haley Drake, Jada Long, Mariah Reinhardt and Olivia Schilling.

Honors: Fifth graders Ma-son Harper, Ava Reynolds, Chloe Adams and Lily Tejada.

Sixth graders Savannah Hall, Kenzie Pierce, Madison Schulein, Isaac Walter and Audrey Poppe.

Seventh graders Jacob Huether, Grant Wolter and Abigail Heinen.

Eighth graders Ella Reyn-olds, Elizabeth Hall, Cole Johnson and Landon Walter.

Honorable mention: Fifth graders Aaron Orella, Ma-leigha Beam, Ethan Ledbetter and Abby Smith.

Six th g raders Ethan Greene, Briann Orella and Zoey Smith.

Seventh grader Landyn Wilson.

Eighth graders Mol ly Huether and Hunter Valleroy.

SPARTA LINCOLNSecond Quarter

High honors: Fourth-grad-ers Abigail Boyster, Anara Britt, Lillian Dickey, Lydia Foster, Kaylynn French, Garly Gerlach, Sophie Hamilton, Zach Hayes, Kevin Henson-Gray, Kyla Howe, Skylar Juenger, Alex Klingeman, Zoey Knuckles, Allie Lara-more, Kinley Lauer, Bree Lewis, Benjamin Mudd, Chase Rodenberg, Jesse Salinas, Maria Carmen Sangurima, Luke Soderlund, Hunter Steely, Austin Stork, Maylie Swyear, Alexis Tadlock and Hayden Webb.

Fifth-graders Grant Allard, Ava Bauer, Tyson Birchler, Lana Bockhorn, Jacelyn Bos-ton, Peyton Cohoon, Michael Dickey, Josie Haberman, Aidan Hernandez, Journie Hunter, Christian Lueth, Quinn Macke, Bailey McBride, Ruth Pillers, Casadora Pittmann, Serenity Richardson, Jaden Schemel, Caden Ward, So-phia Wesbecher and Autumn White.

Sixth-graders Laney Di-erks, Conor Dotson, Elise Hamilton, Abbigail Hernandez, Alyssa Howe, Erin Kempfer, Damian Lanton, Quintin Lit-tlepage, Shelby McDaniels, Drew Montroy, Emilyn Muel-ler, Hannah Stine and Grace Vallett.

Seventh-graders Zach Bodeker, Emma Carpenter, Layla Cohoon, Gabby De-throw, Lucas Dotson, Jadyn Fitch, Jack Hamilton, Sam

Haury, Layla Jackson, Jack Loesing, Lexi McFadden, James Pillers, Jonah Reed, Adrian Schenk, Logan Shaw and Exavier Williams.

Eighth-graders Jordyn Baue, Annaliese Corbin, Av-ery Evans, Ellie Grobb, Sa-die Hamilton, Braden Haury, Brayden Henry, Jaleah Henry, Kaidence Hines, Laya Kampfl , Emma Laramore, Madison Mahan, Anna McDonald, Ad-dison Ragland, Bella Restoff, Sydney Rheinecker, Daira Sangurima, Tyler Schulein, Eli Sieberg, Hayley Tillock and Allah Young.

Honors: Fourth-graders Caleb Birge, Alyssa Boggs, Tony Calderon, Toni Dre-scher, Sam Eldiwitw, Donell Gleghorn, Brayden Hatley, Brady Loucks, Kaiden Lynn, Dariontez Monroe, El l ie Schrader, Cash Weinhoffer, Victoria Wisnasky and Will Woodside.

Fifth-graders Milez Alfa-ro, Adriouna Boyster, Skyla Brothers, Adrianette Calde-ron, Jace Davis, Alyssa Dre-scher, Chaze Fajardo, Selena Garcia, Hannah Gregory, Riley Henry, Makenzie Hurley, Sophia Jewell, Isabel Mathis, Layla McCrone, Marquees McKinney, Jerzee Monroe, Chantel Nichols, Jaxon Park-er, Nicholas Parker, Nolan Pirtle, Shannon Sauerhage, Calysta Slaven, Keagan Sny-der, Skylar Spivey, Gracie Tucker, Peyton Wade, Joshu-wah Ware and Alex Wriston.

Sixth-graders Samia Britt, Ky’Rel Clay, Collin Haury, Micah Klausing, Tyler Loucks, Natalie Morocho, Robert Mudd, Tymria Patrick, Katie Vickery and Aiden Wiley.

Seventh-graders Mason Ethington, Austin Gailey, Jor-dyn Hatley, Trevor Holliday, Ella Jones, Will Jones, La-trice Littlepage, Caleb Peters, Libby Renner and Hannah Woodside.

Eighth-graders Avontis Britt, Grace Couch, Riley Dobyns, Jordan Garrett, Kylie McDaniel, Donovan Shoffner, Karli Thornton and Acton Wit-tenbrink.

H o n o r a b l e m e n t i o n : Fourth-graders Madi Boyster, Tyrell Charles, Cody Cowan, Payton Fruits, Kailynn Hunter, Aly Jackson, Ayden Keller, De-lainey Klausing, Emily Nord-mann, Alana Prestito, Lanyssa Richardson, Tessa Rooneo, Heather Sauerhage, Meigha Smith, Emma Vuichard, Eian Wallace, Gavin Watson and Elizabeth Wenzel.

Fifth-graders Kadyn Brown, Milez Dorris, Allea Greer, Emma Harris, Liberti Johnson, Kaden Jones, Olivia Little, Sara Maher, Johnathan Mudd, Cheyanne Parham, Callie Peck, Logan Shelton, Dawson Sohnrey, Angenae Speaks and Saleena White

Sixth-graders Phoenix Anderson, Isabella Brooks, Jayden Kelley, Zayden Lu-eth, Brant McGuire, Angelia Nesbitt, Aaron Stork, Adalyn Swyear, Rolland Trehearne, Jackson Wesbecher and Braylee Whelan.

Seventh-graders Brooke Boyd, Blake King, Gracie Ledendecker, Jamie Leggans, Hai lie Owens and Kristina Poenitske.

Eighth-graders Olivia Co-hoon, Jackson Donnals, Jay-len Garrett, Luke Hamm, Colin Hartman, Adin King, Latrell Monroe, Amya Monroe, Olivia Penny, Dillion Pirtle, Zachary Poenitske, Kamiya Richard-

son, Savannah Shultz and Isabelle Ware.

MARISSA GRADESecond Quarter

Straight A’s: Fourth-grad-ers Peyton Biekert, Olivia Canning, Tyler Chandler, Na-talia Cortez, Rhett Fritsche, Adriyanna Gutierrez, Molly Kane, Rylee Klingman, Day-cee McClintock, Abigail Mc-Gough, Breonna McKay, Briel Palen, Payten Perry, Kennedy Trieb and Erin Weekley.

Fifth-graders Wyatt Baker, Ashlyn Cathcart, Landon Cor-tez, Kaitlyn Klingeman and Chloe Stewart.

Sixth- graders Carter Daugherty, Faith Geralds, Audry Hill, Hannah Krause, Joseph Lay, Johnathan McGough, Kaylin Pannier, Landen Perry, Brock Portz, Evan Ranck, Issabella Ran-som, Ryne Rhodes, Landon Sabo and Jack Stewart.

High honors: Fourth- grad-ers Carli Calvert, Charlie Dill, Skyler Goodman, Aaden Gri-mont, Brayden Hooper, Lillian Kiefer, Nathan Leemon, Rae-gan Range, Ellis Schmierbach and Grady Weihe.

Fifth-graders Kearston Al-stat, Andrew Chappell, Aud-rina Dayton, Taylor Demsar, Parker Henson, Kiley Klinge-man, Marshall Prest, Autumn Richards, Hayden Richards and Alexis Sageser.

Sixth-graders Brenden Cobb, Melody Dahlem, Lau-ren Fietsam, Tristen Gordon, Bryanna Harris, Zachery Har-ris, Frederick Klingeman, Kae-liann Lane, Thomas Parker, Jacob Pflasterer, Maegan Pilbean, Hayden Steinwagner, Anniebelle Villarreal, Casey Wagner, Jacob Wilson and Landon Wishard.

Honors: Fourth-graders Garrett Bailey, Sophie Bren-ning, Bradon Clark, Haley Clark, Hunter Elliott, Khloe Hollowell, Ronica Imming, Justine Neal, Liliana Sanchez, Addison Sweeney, Rose Trav-vell and Michael Triefenbach.

Fifth-graders Sebastian Calderon, Nathanial Ernst, Nathan Goodman, Keegan Hagen, Alivea Nystrom, Tani-ska Oliver, Joshua Rack-ley, Phoenix Sides, Mason Thomas, Jayden Whaley and Kaitlynn Wiley.

S i x t h - g r a d e r s Av e r y Barfi eld, Lillian Finks, Kristina Galle, Aubrey Hock, Antonio Hodges, Emma Lloyd, Aiden Nystrom, Johnathan Perez, Monzell Pitts and Alyssa Scott.

MARISSA JR SR HIGHSecond Quarter

Straight A’s: Freshmen Lainey Canning, Makenzie Gibson, Abigayle Gipson, Thomas McGough, Grace Middendorf, Ellie Parker, Bree Portz, Katie Sabo, David Schneidewind, Caleb Trieb, Jeffrey Wiley and Grace Zim-mer.

Sophomores Rachel Biev-enue, Alexander Dagner, Chance Dietrich, Macenzie Hastings, Madison Meyer, Hannah Phelps, Olivia Quig-ley, Emily Smith, Emma Walk-er and Taylor Wyninegar.

Juniors Savanah Bearden, Madeline Bollmeier, Audrey Cheetham, Destiny Griffith, Alexander Hayes, Brook-lyn Henson, Logan Jones, Makenzie Mavers, Kade Portz, Kyle Rahlfs, Hannah Rushing, Macey Schreiber, Sylvia Simmons, Hallie Trail and Kadie Young.

Seniors, Kylie Bateman, Cassandra Campbell, Rachel Hall, Kaitlynn Hancock, Mad-dison Parker, Austin Sabo and Bailey Tedrow.

High honors: Freshmen Kierdan Cheetham, Ausen Cobb, Alexus Dasch, Grace Geralds, Desta Harris, Austin Hill, Kyle Lane, Riley Perry, Jillian Smith and Brianna Wishard.

Sophomores Addison Abrecht, Casey Daugherty, Breanna Henson, Alyssa Hudson, Olivia Leemon and Joshua Stephens.

Juniors Gabrielle Brous-sard, Evan Cogdill, Noel Mar-tinez, Jack Ruester, Emma Schmierbach, Samantha Stoddard and Ellie Young.

Seniors Victoria Fietsam, Amber Fulton, Bridget Fulton, Myah Gibson, Ian Henson, Christopher Landi Jr., Haylie Mayer, Isaac McCloskey, Chance Nuernberger, Megan Prather, Elizabeth Root, Kyle Simon, Hannah Steely, Madi-son Trail, Hailey B. Wagner and Haley J. Wagner.

Honors: Freshmen Sky Blakey, Andrew Ernst, Jo-gan Jones, Ashley Kempfer, Kyleigh Landi, Anthony Lato, Jesse Perez and Jordan Red-nour.

Sophomores Steven Berry, Nolan Cathcart, Ajay Horn, Ja-cob Inselmann, Alyssa Mager, Blake Milam, Riley Seymore, Lonnie Smith and Caydin Wagner.

Juniors Shane Dietz, Ben-jamin Hatley, Hailey Krause, Cody McElligott, Heaven Stager, Riley Starr, Blake Steinwagner, Jamie Wilson and Trenton Winter.

Seniors Blake Behrman, Katie Brehm, Johnathon Broshears, Benjamin Carter, Geoffrey Chandler, James Dasch, Gracie Jones, Tyler Lewis, Alyssa Malear, Tyler Place, Samantha Seering, Alec Seiber, Andrew Smith, William Tedrow Jr., Sophia Waller and Logan White.

COULTERVILLE JR. HIGHSecond Quarter

Sixth-graders Ewan Camp-bell, Randi Gischer, Katlyn Rednour, Isaac Reynard, Res-tin Shubert, Benjamin Strate and Lucas Vuichard.

Seventh-graders Claire Baker, Shelby Brown, Vincent Campbell, Chrisean Charles-ton, Colt Cometto, Mason Harriman, Elizabeth Hobbs, Kailynne Piper Rabe, Gabri-ella Schmeiderer, Anthony Sivels, Aleah Whaley and Wyatt Whaley.

Eighth-graders Mackenzie Allard-Jetton, Arianna Be-hiter, Austin Hand, Hailey Harle, Garett Harrell, Ryan Lehr, Madison McDougal, David Schmeiderer and Lydia Tabing.

COULTERVILLE HIGHSecond Quarter

High honors: Freshmen Nathaniel Campbell, Tiffanie Gischer, Bradin Harriman, Lauren Kohring, Maci Rackley, Anthony Shelton Jr., Madal-ynne Tabing, Chase Weis and Jada Williams.

Sophomores Skyler Gill, Benjamin Scott and Austin Warford.

Juniors Helena Colyott, Sydney Cometto, Paige Hand, Wyatt Jebron, Jacob Kohring, Austin Long, Jacey Weis and Austin Woodside.

Seniors, Devyn Barton, Sydney Davis, Denver Gill, Tori Hanna, Alyssa Harms, Alexus Jebron, Reyd Kempfer, Allissa Klamm, Logan Laum-battus, Mackenzie Shepard and Hayley Strotman.

Honors: Freshmen Autumn Dollar and Orion Messerly.

Sophomores Jasmine Greenlee, Logan Gregory and Natilie Kenner.

Juniors Grant Hoagland, Maci Snodgrass and Tanner Weir.

Senior Chandler Rhodes.

PINCKNEYVILLE HIGHFirst Semester

High honors: Freshmen Cagney Kwiatkowski, Chloe Loos, Daisi Mucha, Cheyanne Pauley, Jessie Pyatt and Lily Tanner.

Sophomores Megan Engle-hardt, Paige Epplin, Hattie Fisher, Holden Huntley, riana McGlinn, Tristyn Morgenstern, Kenzie Rushing, David Wag-ner and Caden Yates.

Juniors Aubrey Bruns, Ol-ivia Buza, Lauren Jackson, Kailey Lacy, Merceded Moll and Miranda Skorch.

Seniors Megan Breslin, Sarah Breslin, Noah Con-ner, Hannah Dascotte, Keely Epplin, Alexis Hirsch, Ashley Kellerman, Graci McDaniel, Ashton Plemmons, Dejah Rheinecker, Haylee Robinson, Hallie Waggoner and Taylor Witges.

Honors: Freshmen Timothy Abernathy, Benton Bates, Abigail Bouchard, Carsyn Cowley, Alexis Degler, Molly Doerflein, Kenton Epplin, Lindsey Geffers, Madison Geffers, Emma Hanks, Kylie Harvey, Ashlee Hirsch, Keleb Hubler, Jonas Huntley, Abby Kuberski, Taylor Kurtz, Con-nor Lacy, Kassidy Lee, Terran Lindner, Saydee Loos, Mary Martin, Landon Millikin, Wil-liam Moll, Evin Olson, Jenna Opp, Jordan Otto, Nathaniel Pryor, James Reiman, Duke Riggins, Breyona Schandl, William Schubert, Audrey Speers, Jenna Stotlar and Alexia Warden.

Sophomores Savannah Aldridge, Olivia Asbury, Sarah Barnes, Kirsten Bates, Mol-lie Bochantin, Hailey Brown, Ethan Cheek, N icho las Greer, Bailey Heisner, Cam-eron Hepp, Joshua Iffert, Reid Keene, Katie Koester, Noah Lam, Kassity Lee, Cheyenne Lynch, Payton Morgan, Tren-ton Morgenstern, Grace Numi, Benjamin Restoff, Megan Restoff, Jade Riley, Brenden Ritter, Karlye Schwarz, Lauren Stevenson, Mackenzie Vancil, Gayle Winter and Hayley Winter.

Juniors Railyn Bardle, Noah Carter, Lucas Doerfl ein, Macy Epplin, Sydney Francis, Kary Hargis, Tyler Heinemeyer, Devin Kitchen, Cameron Naugle, Glen Ritter, Lillian Runyon, Collin Schrader-Dixon, Elaine Shaneyfelt, Martina Skorch, Grant Tanner, Lucas Teel, Leah Thies, Kayla Valentine and Dawson Yates.

Seniors Emilee Baker, Kelly Buschschulte, Annastasia Co-legrove, Lucas Downard, Kyla Epplin, Morgan Epplin, Caleb Geary, Jeremy Graves, Kiya Hagene, Dylan Houghland, Sarah Issler, Sophia Issler, Erin Klamm, Draeden Kerger, Stetson Lappin, Lynlee Lind-ner, Alexis Loos, Consuela Moll, Callie Niemeyer, Alexis Nowakowski, Liam Oliver, Ta-tum Sconce, Garret Vuichard

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Honor Flight donationHope Patterson, right, coordinator of the Southern Illinois Honor Flight in Marion, recently received a donation from Lori Hill, chapter regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution Liberty Bell of the West. The money, donated by members of the chapter, sponsor a local veteran to go to the war memorials in Washington, DC.

By Dan ZobelThere were only two

items for the Steeleville village board to act on February 4 during its regular meeting.

The board agreed to an amendment on the Rasnick TIF agreement in regards to the prop-erty that used to house Egyptian Electric.

The amendment adds that reimbursement not to exceed $750,000 will be provided by the city through TIF as as-sistance with property acquisition costs, demo-lition, rehabilitation expenses and profes-sional fees.

The other amendment made note that Rasnick shall provide certified copies of all monthly Il-linois sales tax returns filed with the Illinois Department of Revenue with regards to all busi-nesses located at the facility, including but not limited to Rasnick’s four businesses, United Ironworkers, United Rebar, KLR Equipment and KR Properties, that he is relocating to the facility.

The board also ac-

cepted the resignation, effective January 31, of police officer Robert Brittingham.

Discussion was held on a couple of other topics, including where Steeleville residents can take brush and similar items after a big storm.

“I want something available so people have an option,” said board member Larry Ruebke.

Ruebke suggested that the village announce after a big storm that the city can pick up debris from yards.

It was noted that the village used to have a dumpster available for people to discard large items.

When this was an op-tion, residents could access the dumpster by picking up a key from the village.

Problems occurred, however, because this dumpster was abused when people would d u m p t h e w r o n g items in the dump-ster, not lock it back up after use or would not return the key. Board member Andy

Gerlach also added that if the village brings back a dumpster simi-lar to this, it needs to be locked up so residents of other towns do not use it either.

Lyn Thies, village su-pervisor, said the village is looking at replacing its bucket truck.

“The current one is in need of major repairs,” Thies said.

The village is looking at getting the same size of truck it currently has, which is a one-ton.

Thies wanted the board to know that if one is found to the village’s liking, there could be a limited time frame to claim the truck, so calls could be made to board members to reserve the truck prior to the board’s next meeting.

Thies said funding for the truck would come out of the street and landscaping funds.

Mayor Bob Sutton re-ported that Thies and him recently met with a representative about an LED light program for village hall and other village buildings.

S’ville council amends Rasnick TIF agreement

Fish fry to benefit St. BonifaceThe Knights of Co-

lumbus in Evansville will have a fish fry and meat raffle Friday, February 8 from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. benefiting the St. Boniface activ-ity fund.

Meals include seven sides and four types of f i sh , featur ing Kaskaskia river fish.

Chicken strips for chil-dren, carryouts and des-serts will be available.

The cost is free for 5

and younger, $5 for 6 to 12 and $12 for 13 and older.

T h e r e w i l l b e a 25-round meat raffle and a 50/50 drawing.

For more information, call the KC at 853-2616.

Country Financial and the Illinois Farm Bu-reau will host a series of winter crop meetings for Illinois farmers.

Farmers and land-owners across the state

have benefitted from the December and Jan-uary meetings, and more are coming.

The nex t one i s Wednesday, February 20 at 8 a.m. at Reids’ Har-

vest House in Chester.Doug Yoder, a Country

Financial crop agency manager, will speak.

The free meeting will also include a 2019 crop insurance update.

Farmers and landowners meeting

There could be a mi-nor improvement to the Coulterville Memo-rial Day service this year.

Village Trustee Ja-son Wright reported during the village’s February 4 meeting that he has spoken and met with VFW members about adding concrete by the VFW

memorial to make it easier for the veterans to hold their service on Memorial Day.

Wright plans to co-ordinate the pouring of the new concrete this spring before the service.

In other news, the poor weather has caused more damage to the streets than usu-

al this winter.The projected main-

tenance budget could need some revisions in lieu of this.

In sewer news, the pump alarm at the Gateway mine lift sta-tion has gone off a couple of times. The maintenance crew will pull pump No. 2 for maintenance.

Improvements to be made to C’ville VFW memorial

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The Randolph Soci-ety Foundation board has chosen Roger Wolff, a former Ma-jor League Baseball pitcher whose knuck-leball carried him to a 20-win season with the Washington Senators, to be one of the people inducted into the foun-dation’s Class of 2019.

Wolff, the second son of Leo and Elea-nor Wolff, was born in Evansville in 1911. The Wolff family moved in 1922 to Chester, where Leo established Wolff’s Market, selling meat and groceries to the community.

Roger and his elder brother Omer worked for their father at the store. On their breaks, they played catch out-side the market.

As a teenager, Rog-er’s love for baseball grew into a passion.

He discovered a talent for pitching, and after he added a knuckleball to his ar-senal, he decided to pursue baseball as a career.

Roger began playing in Red Bud with the St. Moran League, but he was quickly noticed by Cardinal business manager Branch Rick-ey and given a minor league contract.

From 1930 until 1941, Roger played for nu-merous minor league teams all over the country, including the Davenport Blue Sox, Denver Grizzlies, Day-ton Ducks, Oklahoma City Indians and Cedar Rapids Raiders.

Roger returned to Chester each winter to work at the family store.

In 1939, he married Mary Rose Montroy in their hometown.

That December, Rog-er signed a contract with the Williamsport Grays, a minor league affi liate of the Phila-delphia Athletics.

Mentorship by the Grays’ manager Spen-cer Abbott helped Rog-er develop his skills.

In September 1941, he fi nally got the call from the big leagues.

He made his major league debut Septem-ber 20, 1941, starting for the Philadelphia Athletics in a game against the Washing-ton Senators.

One week later, he had a brush with his-tory, when he nearly derailed Red Sox slug-ger Ted Williams in his quest to fi nish the season with a .400 bat-ting average.

For the next two sea-sons, Roger was a reli-able part of the Athlet-ics rotation.

In 1943, as many ma-jor leaguers went to war, Roger, who was classifi ed 4-F by his local draft board, fi n-ished with a 10-15 re-cord.

He was traded in the offseason to the Wash-ington Senators, who were building an en-tire rotation of knuck-leballers in their quest to capture the Ameri-can League pennant.

Injuries and illness took a toll on Roger

during the 1944 sea-son, but in 1945, he had the season of a lifetime.

Roger fi nished with a 20-10 record and an incredible 2.12 earned run average. He tossed 250 innings during the season, including 21 complete games, and faced 1,000 batters.

His stellar season was recognized with a seventh-place fi nish in the voting for the league’s most valuable player.

Roger’s performance was so good that it nearly helped the Senators secure a trip to the World Series, though they fell just behind Detroit in the fi nal league standings.

In 1946, Roger did not get the chance to repeat the success of the previous season.

He was sidelined with a major injury to his back, suffered dur-ing a game against the Yankees on the Fourth of July.

Doctors advised him not to pitch again, though he made a few more appearances with the Senators.

The following year, Roger played for the Indians and the Pi-rates before leaving baseball to return to a quieter life in Chester, where he worked at Menard Penitentiary and served as manag-er of the prison’s base-ball team, the Menard Cubs. He also served as vice president of Ches-ter’s fi rst Little League program.

Roger died in 1994 in Chester.

Late in his life, Rog-er refl ected on his time in baseball, saying, “I really believe, every-thing considered, that

I had a successful ca-reer and life.”

His perseverance through injury and disappointment, and the magnifi cent tri-umph he reached as

a result, is an inspira-tion to baseball fans in Randolph County and across the nation.

For more about Wolff, go to ran-dolphsociety.org.

Wolff honoredRandolph Society inductee

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“I really believe, everything considered, that I had a

successful career and life.”— Roger Wolff

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By Dan ZobelThree months after

setting a cap on video gaming machines in Chester, the city coun-cil amended that de-cision to allow Moto Mart to install the ma-chines.

The council heard the case for the change during its February 4 meeting from Sa-rah Holdener, general counsel for FKG Oil Company/Moto Mart.

“She is speaking to us on behalf of want-ing us to change our ordinance on gam-ing machines,” said Mayor Tom Page. “She wants it to increase from 11 places with 55 machines to 12 places with 60.”

Ultimately, the coun-cil agreed to make the change by a 5-2 vote, with aldermen Ray Al-lison and Robert Platt voting no. Alderman Donnie Clark was not present.

In December 2017,

Moto Mart, which opened in Chester in 1990, received the prop-er liquor license that would allow it to have gaming machines.

However, construc-tion plans were delayed and in that time, Ches-ter changed its ordi-nance to cap the num-ber of establishments that have the machines and the total number of machines allowed.

“The gaming board moves at a snails pace,” Holdener said. “Half of its legal department resigned over the last year and has been re-placed. Now, we have a new governor and who knows what’s go-ing to happen there. We have six applica-tions in for a variety of stores and are waiting to see what happens.”

Holdener said the Moto Mart in Marion does have the gaming machines, but it took almost nine months to get approval from

the state after acquir-ing the proper liquor license.

Platt questioned why Chester should change its ordinance now if it will take a long time for the state to make a decision.

“If I were Moto Mart and we didn’t give ap-proval, I wouldn’t be going to the state,” Page said.

“I already have the application submitted just in case because I know how long they take,” Holdener said. “If a gaming agent comes in and asks where we’re going to put the machines, I’ll desig-nate a place. I won’t put them there, but I’ll des-ignate. If we know we’ll be able to get the slots in, we’ll start construc-tion and be ready to go.

“If I don’t know we’ll be able to come into town, we’ll never break ground.”

Once approval is giv-en by the state, Hold-

ener said it will take less than two months to construct the new 20’x20’ room that will house the gaming ma-chines at the Chester location.

Holdener said the room will be spacious and include a table, chairs and a television.

“If a couple comes in together, one can play the game while the other sits and watch-es TV,” Holdener said. “The typical gamer at a convenience store tends to be retired and more frequently fe-male than male. That just tends to be the convenient store demo-graphic, that, and they don’t drink a lot of al-cohol. It tends to be if they’re going to be drinking and gaming, they go to a bar.”

Holdener said the room will have a door with smoked glass so nobody will be able to see inside.

“We don’t go into

gaming the way you may see some stations and stores go into gam-ing where they just put up a rope,” Hold-ener said. “We add on a room. We’re a family owned company and think it fi ts our profi le to add a separate room to make sure kids don’t walk into the store and see the machines.”

The new room for the gaming machines will be located to the right of Moto Mart when someone walks into the store.

“If you walk in now, you’ll see we have the food bar there,” Hold-ener said. “We’ll have to kind of rearrange how that is presently. You’ll have to walk past the cashiers, which gives us a good way of surveying and maintaining what is going on in the stores.”

Holdener tabbed budgetary reasons as another reason why Moto Mart wanted to

add the machines. She said one of the com-pany’s stores had a 30-year-old tank fail that had to be ripped out and started over, which caused a big ex-pense.

“We look at every city we have stations in and their revenue numbers historically to see if it makes sense,” Holden-er said. “We also look at how our stores are performing.”

In other news, Po-lice Chief Bobby Helm-ers reported that the departments two new squad cars that were ordered last April have arrived.

“In the future, we should consider that it took nine months to get them,” Helmers said.

The council ap-proved Page’s ap-pointments of alder-men Dan Geisen, Dan Ohlau and Russ Radar to the Fraternal Order of Police negotiating committee.

Chester amends gaming machine ordinance

For the fun of itFebruary 2 marked the second straight year the Cannonball Ride Race Series brought bicyclists from across the Midwest into Chester and the surrounding area. This year, about 50 riders biked one of two routes as part of the Cannonball Winter Series. One route took riders 55 miles and the other 77. The routes include traversing the river bottoms and hills of Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties in Missouri. The participants started and ended their day from the St. Nicholas Landmark in Chester. “It went very smooth,” said Tom Welge, president of River Ratz Cycling in Chester. “It’s great to have such cooperation from the city and govern-ment folks in Illinois and Missouri to allow us to do these things. It’s really a grassroots thing to bring these kind of events to rural places like this. The participants really enjoyed it.” Pictured are a group of the cyclists as they prepare to cross the Chester Bridge into Missouri.

Ellis Grove to apply for loanThe Ellis Grove vil-

lage board approved an ordinance during its February 4 meet-ing to apply for a loan through the Public Wa-ter Supply Loan Pro-gram.

The loan would be for $200,000 over 20 years.

Mayor Jerry Walls was authorized by the board to sign the loan agreement documents.

The funds would as-sist the village in a water main extension project that would ex-tend a water line east near Union Hall Road.

In January, the vil-lage received $320,000 worth of federal funds through a Communi-ty Development Block Grant.

The Neighborhood Watch Program will next meet March 11 at 6 p.m.

Dionne Dillard, an energy effi ciency con-tractor from Ameren Il-linois, will speak Tues-day, February 19 to the Perry County Home Community Education group about reducing energy costs in home and business.

Beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Pinckney-ville, Dillard will speak

about the Ameren ef-fi ciency program that provides incentives, rebates and tips for energy reduction by upgrading to effi cient lighting, installing new heating and cooling systems or adding in-sullation.

Steve Gartside will speak about how to at-tract purple martins to your home.

Gartside’s properties boast a population of more than 200 pairs of purple martins. He will speak about how to at-tract these birds, how to care for their homes and what they eat.

Gartside has been at-tracting purple mar-tins to his home in Ca-seyville since 1969.

This event is free and open to the public.

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The city of Red Bud is interested in sponsor-ing a community gar-den this summer at the former tennis courts on Madison Street.

According to a re-lease from the city, us-ing this property would allow those who are disabled to participate.

The area would con-sist of 20 raised beds that are 3x8 feet. Each participant or group would be given two of the raised beds that would be placed next to each other, creating a bed that is 3x16.

The plots would be

available for use by in-dividuals, families or groups on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis.

The goals of the gar-den are to give back to the community, promote camaraderie among members, edu-cate the community about growing food and offering garden-ing space to those who would be otherwise un-able to participate.

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By Dan ZobelThis year’s Chester

High School boys bas-ketball team is on pace to be one of the best the program has ever seen and possibly the best to come out of the school.

Chester is 22-5 and boasts an 9-0 mark in the Black Diamond Conference West Divi-sion.

With four regular season games remain-ing, the Yellow Jackets need just one more win to break the program’s records for wins in a season.

That mark, which is 22, was met by last year’s team.

That squad was left wanting more, when its season came to a close with a 54-51 loss to Anna-Jonesboro in a regional championship game.

“We definitely want to get revenge on that regional champion-ship game,” said Drake Bollman, one of four seniors on this year’s team. “We’re hoping to get there again. Look-ing back at last year, we’re hoping we do a

Class SThe St. Mark’s Lu-

theran in Steeleville boys basketball team was eliminated Feb-ruary 4 from the SI JHSAA Class S state tournament in the quarterfinals at Rend Lake College.

The Panthers, who are 24-6 on the season, lost 44-34 to Goreville in the team’s quarter-final matchup.

St. Mark’s led 27-23 after three quarters, but Goreville was able to rally and tie the game at 27 with under six minutes to play.

Three minutes later, Goreville was ahead 35-31 with 2:43 on the clock. Goreville then closed out the contest on a 9-3 run to pick up the victory.

In the first game at state for St. Mark’s, the Panthers topped Altamont Lutheran by a 47-39 score.

Class MPinckneyville Jun-

ior High has advanced to the SIJHSAA Class M state title game.

After getting past Shiloh 47-42 in a Feb-ruary 1 quarterfinal game, Pinckneyville pounded Eldorado to the tune of a 63-41 score February 5 in the semifinals.

The championship game will be Fri-day, February 8 at 7:30.

Pinckneyville will go to battle with NCOE.

NCOE topped Smith-ton 40-34 in overtime in the other semifinal game.

NCOE also had a close game in the quarterfinals, where the team beat out Grant 49-40.

The last time Pinck-neyville played in a ti-tle game was in 2016, when Pinckneyville won state with a 43-30 victory over Nash-ville.

The year prior, in 2015, Pinckneyville lost to Nashville in the championship.

One other recent no-table finish for Pinck-neyville was in 2013, when the team placed third at state.

That year, Pinckney-ville lost to eventual champion Okawville in the semifinals be-fore topping Gallatin County for third.

Chester High School boys hoops rolling toward regionalsOne win shy of setting program record for winslot better.”

When the postseason hits, Chester will be aiming for its first re-gional title since 2013 and just the third in the program’s long history.

Until then, though, there is still unfinished business.

Chester is current-ly undefeated and in the driver’s seat of the conference. The Yel-low Jackets have three more conference games remaining, including a showdown with sec-ond-place Sesser-Valier looming February 15 at Chester.

If Chester was to claim the conference title, it would be the team’s first ever such cham-pionship in the Black Diamond. The Yellow Jackets also never won a conference title when they were in the South-ern Illinois River-to-River.

Making history is one thing that this Chester team is growing accus-

tomed to doing.On January 16, the

squad won its own Chester Invitational Tournament for the first time in 43 years.

That 52-45 win over Cobden also marked just the third time Chester won the CIT in its 57 years of exist-ence.

“Definitely winning the CIT (has stood out),” said senior Colin Wing-erter. “It’s been a long time since we’ve done that. “We finally got it done. It just felt good.”

This year’s senior class, which also in-cludes Jake Cushman and Keith Kiner, has stood out from the others in the Chester program, according to Norman.

“If I had to compare this group to the best team I ever coached, I would say they’re right there, maybe even bet-ter because of the at-titude and focus they bring every day,” said

Chester coach Brad Norman. “That group of four (seniors) has set a heck of an ex-ample for our athletes here at Chester, and that’s something I’m very proud of. It’s a special group. You only get a few chances in your coaching career to have a group you don’t have to worry about their energy or getting them going in practice. You can start worrying about things a little deeper and more stra-tegic. Something I’ve learned coaching these guys the last few years is that they’re just so dialed in. I’m definitely appreciative and fortu-nate for sure.”

Chester’s January 29 win over Goreville was the team’s 20th of the season, marking the first time in the history of the program the Yel-low Jackets have won at least 20 games for four consecutive seasons.

“Every year, I ’ ve

watched players go through and accom-plish similar things,” Cushman said. “It’s kind of another step-ping stone for us. It’s a goal that a team should have every year and try to get past.”

Prior to these last four seasons, there were just three other times, and just once since 1960, according to ihsa.org, that any Chester team had hit the 20-win mark in even a single season.

“The biggest thing I can say is it’s not uncharted territory,” Norman said. “Maybe for past teams here at Chester, it may have been something they are really excited to reach, but we’ve done it four years in a row now. I think our kids, especially this group, they’ve been through it before. When you’ve been there before, you kind of know where you’re at and how good

you are by that point I think. They have a pretty good grasp of their strengths and weaknesses right now.

“I think 20 is awe-some, and I think the kids think it’s awe-some; but I also think they’re a little immune to that now, which is a good thing for our program as a whole. It’s just something that they’re not satisfied do-ing. They still see a last turn of the season com-ing up here, and that’s really what they’re fo-cused on.”

Kiner, who trans-ferred into the pro-gram from Sparta pri-or to his junior year, recently went over 1,000 points for his high school career.

“I just want to thank my teammates, because I couldn’t get that with-out them,” Kiner said. “We’re always making the extra pass. I defi-nitely could not have done that all by myself. It’s a great accomplish-ment that not every-one gets and I’m very

Continued on Page 19

By Dan ZobelThe high school wres-

tling teams at Sparta, Pinckneyville and Red Bud each advanced wrestlers out of the February 2 Jonesboro Regional, led by Sparta, which has seven indi-viduals moving on to sectionals.

Sectionals will be Feb-ruary 9 and 10 at Car-

Sparta to send seven wrestlers to sectionalsPinckneyville, Red Bud each have a regional champion

terville.Six Pinckneyville

wrestlers qualified for sectionals, including one regional champion, and two from Red Bud. Red Bud also had a re-gional champion.

Sparta placed second as a team with a score of 135.5, finishing only behind Anna-Jones-boro, which finished

with 236.“We came up short as

a team,” said Sparta coach Rob Kirk. “Re-gional champions quali-fy into the Sweet 16 state champs. With most of our kids coming back, we have a really oppor-tunity to be a team state qualifier next season. Anna-Jonesboro is los-ing six seniors. I think

we’ll be ranked pretty high in the preseason.”

As for the now, Spar-ta had five wrestlers place second in their weight classes at re-gionals. Those were freshman Cody Mar-tin (21-16), 120 pounds; freshman Ethan Mon-troy (20-15), 132; junior Darius Hargrove (14-16), 160; junior Isaac

Evans (28-10), 182, and senior Nick Goddard (21-11), 285. Bulldog third-place f inish-ers who will advance are freshman Garrett Kempfer (18-16), 145, and junior Brady Val-lett (19-18), 220.

“Six was our previous record of qualifiers,”

Continued on Page 17

JH boys state

hoops

By Dan ZobelDepth and experience

are two reasons why the Pinckneyville High School girls basketball team snuck past Ches-ter February 5 in a Class 2A Trico Regional semifinal game.

Megan Breslin, one of just three seniors between the two teams, scored 15 of her 18 points for Pinckneyville in the fourth quarter, and the Lady Panthers erased an eight-point deficit to claim a 45-41 victory over Chester.

“Early in the game, (Breslin) didn’t look to shoot,” said Pinck-neyville coach Alan Engelhardt. “She took one shot in the first half, and it was a driv-ing layup. In the second half, she did what you want a senior to do. She found openings and we did a much better job getting in the middle of the lane, whether it was a pass or dribble drive, and getting that kick out to her to get the scoring opportunity off of that.”

Breslin’s 18 points came very efficiently, as she attempted just eight shots from the field, making five of them. She hit 4-of-5 3-pointers against the Chester 3-2 zone de-fense.

Breslin also knocked down all four of her free throw attempts in the final 30 seconds of the game.

The performance overshadowed a whale of a game from Ches-ter junior Destiny Wil-liams.

Winning time

Kiya Hagene gets a shot away for Pinckneyville over Chester defenders Destiny Williams (33) and Josie Kattenbraker.

P’ville rallies past

Chester

Williams, who went over 1,000 points for her career earlier this season, finished with a game high 23 points.

Pinckneyville’s de-fense was able to keep the talented guard out of the lane for the most part, but Williams

made her living from behind the 3-point arc, where she made 5-of-9 3-balls, including sev-eral monster shots in the second half when Chester needed buckets.

“That was a matu-rity of her compared to the younger girls,”

said Chester coach Pat Knowles. “She under-stands what needs to be done, and she can do it. Her maturity stepped up. She had a heck of a game.”

Pinckneyville’s oppo-nent in the February 7 championship game

will be Nashville (20-9), a 52-24 winner over Sparta in the other semifinal game.

When the two teams meet at 7 p.m. for the game, it will be the third time this season

Continued on Page 18

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February 2Vienna 68Chester 57

CHE 14 13 17 13 - 57VIE 12 16 19 21 - 68

Dest iny Wi l l iams poured in 23 points for Chester, and Kendall Williams was good for 18; but Chester could not keep pace in the sec-ond half with Vienna and lost a BDC West game on the road.

Des t iny Wi l l iams made two of Chester’s five 3-pointers, and Kendall Williams hit one. Reese Chandler (8 points) also made a pair of 3-balls. Josie Katten-braker chipped in four points.

Chester hit 12-of-19 free throws and Vienna

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Bowling standings The high school girls

bowling seasons at Tri-co, Sparta and Steele-ville high schools came to a close February 2 at the Johnston City Regional.

With 14 teams par-ticipating, Trico (3,475) placed 10th, Sparta (2,836) 12th and Steel-eville (2,640) 13th.

The top four teams and next 10 best indi-viduals advanced to the Carterville Sectional.

Salem won regionals with a score of 5,696, over 300 better than second-place Anna-

Trico, Sparta, Steeleville girls bowling eliminatedSalem wins Johnston City RegionalJonesboro (5,320).

Harrisburg (5,251) was third and Herrin (4,923) fourth.

Kayla Smith of Sa-lem was the individual champion with a score of 1,382.

The advancing indi-viduals were Ella Sum-merlin (1,060) of Car-bondale, Jenna Dobbs (1,038), Kaylee Lemons (973) and Diana Ward (957) of Mt. Vernon,

Grace Dodd (1,033) and Kelsee Dodd (1,000) of Johnston City, Paige Troutt (1,004), Alex Swafford (979) and Kay-lee Fraser (914) of Mas-sac County and Taylor Henson (956) of Cen-tralia.

Trico’s top six-game series came from Kel-ly Bunselmeyer with an 828. She had game scores of 132, 109, 148, 152, 158 and 129.

Trico’s other bowlers and their scores were Morgan Snider (776), Kayla Hamilton (733), Bella Huseman (621), Hayley Buchanan (356) and Aeris Huhman (161).

Sparta’s top score was a 620 from Katie Peters over five games. No Sparta bowler bowled in all six games. Peters’ game scores were 131, 156, 131, 103 and 99.

Sparta’s other bowl-

ers and scores were Bethany Huhman (534), Anna Gaertner (493), Hannah Hughes (426), Lillian Dawson (416) and Izabelle Bird (347).

Steeleville’s high se-ries came from Paige Anderson. Anderson bowled a 769, with game scores of 109, 121, 126, 147, 138 and 128.

Steelevil le’s high game came from Mia Gall, who bowled a 727 series, at 169.

Steeleville’s other two bowlers were Brea Ev-ans (747) and Alexan-dra Loucks (397).

Sparta High School held its Military Appreciation Night ceremony February 2 during halftime of the Bulldogs vs. Steele-ville Warriors boys basketball game. Past and present military got into the game free. All proceeds from t-shirt sales and silent auction items are to be donated to the Veterans Honor Flight of Southern Illinois.

Military Appreciation Night at Sparta

High school girls basketball regular season roundup13-of-17.

Hayleigh Keeling bur-ied fi ve 3-pointers for Vienna and led all scor-ers with 24 points.Marissa-Coulterville 54

Valmeyer 14VAL 00 05 04 05 - 14M-C 19 13 18 04 - 54

Bree Portz scored 16 points and Emily Smith added 11 to lead Maris-sa-Coulterville in a home rout of Valmeyer in Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division ac-tion.

Hailey Krause add-ed 11 points for M-C. Krause and Portz each made one 3-pointer. Grace Middendorf and Olivia Quigley both scored six points.

The Lady Meteors

made 10-of -13 foul shots.

Smith added six re-bounds and four steals. Portz picked up eight steals and four assists and Krause four steals and four rebounds.

Pinckneyville 67Wesclin 44

WES 10 10 12 12 - 44PVE 19 13 19 16 - 67

B e l l a P a s q u i n o knocked down two of Pinckneyville’s six 3-pointers and scored a game high 20 points, as Pinckneyville topped Wesclin in a home non-conference bout.

Megan Breslin add-ed 11 points. Lily Britt made two 3-pointers and scored six points. Elaine Shaneyfelt and

Kassidy Lee each added fi ve.

Pinckneyville made 11-of-18 free throws and Wesclin 9-of-12.

Jenna Haselhorst made Wesclin’s lone 3-ball and tallied 12 points.

Lebanon 52Steeleville 33

STV 10 06 11 06 - 33LEB 18 17 11 06 - 52

Karley Kothe scored 17 points for Steeleville, but no other Lady Warrior topped three points; and Steeleville lost a road Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division game with Lebanon.

Kelsey Cowan made S t e e l ev i l l e ’ s o n ly 3-pointer and tallied

three points. Kylie Ern-sting also scored three points.

Steeleville made 8-of-21 free throws and Leb-anon 9-of-13.

E m i ly R e i n n e c k scored 18 points for Lebanon and Abigail Reinneck 15, including three of the team’s fi ve 3-pointers.

February 1 ScoreMarissa-Coulterville 43

Red Bud 36

January 31 Scores

Carterville 34Pinckneyville 32

Chester 65Trico 36

Anna-Jonesboro 51Sparta 17

Kirk said. “This year we have seven with three alternates. It’s been a really good year for us.”

Kirk felt the team could have had even more success, but sen-ior Andrew Carter (21-15), who was seeded second at 152 pounds, was knocked out due to an illegal slam. He still placed fourth and will be an alternate.

One of Sparta’s oth-er alternates is Cody Dickerson (8-26), who wrestled and placed fourth at 170.

“I was impressed by Dickerson,” Kirk said. “He pulled an upset to get to that alternate spot.”

Sparta’s third al-ternate is freshman Kody Kempfer (3-5), who placed fourth at 138.

“It was a great week-end overall ,” Kirk said. “I’m just excited to see the next level. All the tournaments we go to gives us an opportunity to scout for sectionals. We al-ready know what to expect from some of these guys who are ranked into sectional spots. It will be a good opportunity for our young guys to make a name for themselves.”

PinckneyvilleLeading the charge

for Pinckneyville was junior Ryder Parson (22-3), who pinned Sparta’s Cody Martin for the title at 120 pounds.

“Ryder has been on a mission all year,” said Pinckneyville coach Garret Huggins. “He spent a lot of time in the offseason work-ing hard and it really shows. When he has his mind set to some-thing, he’s going to get it.”

Pinckneyville’s other wrestlers moving on include junior Chris

Sparta to send seven wrestlers to sectionals...From Page 16David (25-7), who was second at 113.

Four Panthers picked up third-place fi nish-es. They were fresh-man Riley Maxey (24-7), 113; freshman Abel Runyon (19-14), 126; freshman Noah Over-bey (16-18), 132, and senior James Lamke (13-19), 160.

“Lamke has really stepped to the plate the last few weeks,” Huggins said. “For a time, he was in a slump and I got on him and stayed on him. I think he start-ed to realize his sen-ior year was winding down. When it came to third place, I told him it’s up to him. He came out like a ball of fi re. I’m proud of him.

“The other guys we have going are young and new. From day one until now, they

are day and night different wrestlers. This is one of the most physical teams we’ve had in years.”

Red BudRed Bud will send

two wrestlers to sec-tionals, led by junior Pierce Heizer (19-10), who won a regional ti-tle at 220 pounds with a win over Isaac Pa-checo (29-14) of Mur-physboro.

“A lot of it was just him being super ag-gressive,” said Red Bud coach Rob Pipher. “He’s a second year wrestler and it’s kind of unique for a kid that new to be success-ful. He worked hard and was aggressive more than anything. He just didn’t stop.”

The other wrestler who will compete at sectionals for the Mus-keteers is freshman

Caleb Bass (14-13). Bass was third at 285 pounds.

“He’s a freshman in his fi rst year of wres-tling,” Pipher said. “ (Heizer) and him have worked together all year and really pushed each other.”

Red Bud nearly had a third wrestler qual-ify, but junior Eddie Miller (17-10) placed fourth at 113 after los-ing by a 10-4 decision to Jeffrey Lee (11-29) of Murphysboro.

“It was a great day,” Pipher said. “Miller was close to third. He did well and will be back next year. Includ-ing Caleb, we have four freshmen. I’m very encouraged by their performance. They just made a lot o f improvement s . There is a good future ahead.”

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Dates to rememberThe County Journal

will publish its high school boys basketball preview tab in the Feb-ruary 14 addition.

High school baseball and softball will begin in March, with games able to start as early as March 11.

The County Journal plans to run a preview tab for those sports March 14.

County Journal | February 7, 2019Page 18

Girls basketball standings

Records Through February 5 Conference Overall Black Diamond Conference West DivisionS-V-W* 9-1 21-5Vienna 8-2 22-9Goreville 7-3 20-7Chester 3-7 18-15Christopher 3-7 11-14Trico 0-10 4-25

Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia DivisionLebanon* 11-1 20-11Marissa-Coulterville 10-2 22-5New Athens 9-3 13-11Red Bud 6-6 13-15Steeleville 4-8 9-16Dupo 2-10 7-20Valmeyer 0-12 2-24

SIRR MississippiCarterville* 9-1 26-3Nashville 8-2 20-9Anna-Jonesboro 6-4 23-9Pinckneyville 5-5 18-11Du Quoin 2-8 9-19Sparta 0-10 8-20

*Conference champion

Class 2A Trico Regional roundup

Sparta’s Shawna Smith attempts to dribble past Red Bud defender Makayla Whelan.

Alyssa Seymour attempts a shot over Trico’s Rhegen Zepeda, who has her hands raised.

February 5Nashville 52

Sparta 24Sparta could not keep

up with top seeded Nashville in a semi-final matchup, and the Lady Bulldogs saw their season come to an end.

Sparta finishes its season with an 8-20 record.

The Lady Bulldogs will only lose two sen-iors to graduation, but they are Amyia Henry and Shawna Smith, who have been integral players for the Sparta program.

In the game against Nashville, Erianna Henry led Sparta with 14 points.

Libby Ahlers paced all scorers, scoring 18 points for Nashville.

the two SIRR Mississip-pi foes will lock horns this season. Nashville won the previous two matchups by an aver-age of nine points.

“Nashville will be the polar opposite of Chester,” Engelhardt said. “Chester wants to play and shoot fast. Nashville wants to slowly and methodic-ally bring the ball up the floor and play at that pace. You’re goal is to make them un-comfortable with what they’re trying to do, while staying true to yourself. We’ve got cer-tain lineups where we can’t get up and guard them with, but we’re going to do our best to get some people who can get up on them a little bit.”

For awhile, it ap-peared as if Chester was going to be the team to punch its ticket to the title game.

The Lady Yel low Jackets were running on adrenaline and the play of their star point guard as they used a 6-0 flourish at the start of the fourth quarter to open up a 34-26 lead on Pinckneyville.

Chester led 36-28 af-ter Williams, who as-sisted on a pair of Josie Kattenbraker scores earlier in the quarter, scored on a slash to the basket and 39-33 after Williams made a 3-pointer off the bounce from the top of the key.

Breslin, though, an-swered with her second 3-ball of the quarter to bring Pinckneyville within 39-36 with just under four minutes to play in the game.

From there, the Lady Panther defense took over.

“Coach Ryan Bruns made a good call,” Engelhardt said. “We tried to kind of play soft and keep them in front of us all game. There at the end, it was okay, let’s get up into them a little bit.

Winning time...From Page 16______________________________________________________________________

We had to do something different.”

Pinckneyville’s de-fense picked up the full-court pressure and forced Chester into some quick turnovers.

In the seven Chester possessions after the Williams 3-pointer, the Lady Yellow Jackets coughed up the ball six times.

“We had some turno-vers,” Knowles said. “I’m not sure they were all our fault. We weren’t getting some calls and stuff. (Pinckneyville) hit some big shots and we missed I don’t know how many layups this game. We missed a lot of layups.”

Chester’s lead held until just over one min-ute on the clock when Breslin again got free from behind the arc. She nailed the 3-ball to tie the game at 39.

After Haliegh Kling forced a Chester turn-

over, Pinckneyville got the ball to Lily Tanner in the lane and Tanner scored to give Pinckne-yville a 41-39 lead, the team’s first advantage since it led 26-25 late in the third quarter.

“Ultimately, our depth wore them down,” Engelhardt said. “We played 10 kids tonight. Even though some of the kids didn’t do a whole lot when they were in, it’s still min-utes where you’re run-ning the f loor and making them compete against you.”

Chester, on the other hand, played its start-ing five nearly the en-tire game. The only substitution the team made came late in the fourth quarter when Kailyn Absher checked in for Alyssa Seymour at the center position.

“We need to get some people to step up so we can have rest,” Knowles

said. “At the end of games like that, we’re a little more fatigued than a team that has a lot of numbers. They’re putting people out there who are fresh. We just don’t have enough num-bers to do that.

“Hopefully some girls step up in the offseason and give us some help. We need to be about seven or eight deep to play our style of ball. The mistakes we made were youthful, but also fatigue mistakes.”

Breslin made four straight foul shots to run Pinckneyville’s lead to 45-39 before Williams capped off Chester’s scoring with a bucket in the clos-ing seconds, Chester’s first points in over four minutes.

“We did a good job keeping (the ball) out of her hands a little bit,” Engelhardt said. “We made her work and tried to make some of the other kids try to beat us. Williams is re-ally good. She’s the best guard we will see all year shooting over the top of screens. We did a better job at the end when we were trying to pressure them and not let her get some of those looks.”

In the early going, both teams struggled to find an offensive rhythm.

Chester had some open looks near the hoop in the first half, but could not cash in, and the team’s zone defense kept Pinckney-ville spread out.

Pinckneyville led 7-5 after one quarter and went up 10-5 when Kling buried a 3-point-er to start the second quarter.

Chester then went on an 11-0 run, includ-ing six Williams points and a bucket apiece from Kattenbraker and Reese Chandler, to take a 16-10 lead.

Pinckneyville was able to cut its deficit back to 18-17 by half-

time with a 7-2 spurt to close out the quar-ter, getting an Aubrey Bruns 3-pointer along the way.

In the third, Pinck-neyville surged ahead 24-18 and led 26-20.

Chester turned the tide back its way, how-ever, when Williams single handily end-ed the quarter on an 8-0 run. She put her stamp on things with a 3-pointer with two seconds on the clock, giving Chester the 28-26 lead.

Chester, which fin-ishes its season with an 18-14 record, got 11 points from Katten-braker, four from Ken-dall Williams, two from Chandler and one from Seymour.

“They had a great

season,” Knowles said. “As young as they are, they improved so much over the course of the season. We get them all back and they will work this summer to get better.”

Other scorers for Pinckneyville were Tanner with 10 points, Peyton Morgan eight, Kling six and Bruns three.

Pinckneyville made 43 percent of its shots, i n c l u d i n g 7 - o f - 1 4 3-pointers, and 6-of-8 free throws.

Chester was just 35 percent from the field, but made 6-of-15 3-pointers. The team at-tempted just three foul shots, making one.

Pinckneyville turned the ball over 16 times and Chester 15.

Chester’s Kendall Williams leans in for a shot as Megan Breslin of Pinckneyville defends.

February 4Sparta 52

Red Bud 51 (OT)

SPA 07 16 12 09 08 - 52REB 08 15 13 08 07 - 51

Erianna Henry scored 20 points for Sparta, in-cluding four 3-pointers, and the Lady Bulldogs triumphed over Red Bud in overtime in an opening round game.

Sparta, the nine seed, also got nine points from Amyia Henry, in-cluding four in over-time. She made one of Sparta’s five 3-pointers.

Sparta scorers includ-ed Morgan Coop and Kara Coonrod with six points apiece.

Sparta made 3-of-6 free throws. Red Bud made only 14-of-26 foul shots.

Red Bud, the eight seed, was led by Claire Grohmann’s 13 points. She scored four points in the extra period. Hope Guebert added eight points, including two of the team’s three 3-pointers, and Hannah Sievers seven. Saman-tha Lucht and Makayla Whelan each chipped in five points.

Red Bud ends its sea-son with a 13-15 re-cord. The Lady Mus-keteers will lose two key seniors, Guebert

and Alyssa Heller, to graduation.

Chester 62Trico 30

CHE 21 25 12 04 - 62TRI 07 10 04 09 - 30

Josie Kattenbraker scored a game high 17 points for Chester, and the Lady Yellow Jack-ets poured it on in an opening round victory over Trico.

Chester, the five seed, also got 15 points from Destiny Williams, 13 in the first quarter. Williams and Katten-braker each made one 3-pointer. Kendall Wil-liams and Katie Shina-bargar both added 10 points.

Chester hit 8-of-16 foul shots and Trico 7-of-12.

The Pioneers buried five 3-pointers, includ-ing two apiece by Meg-an Wettig (14 points) and Haylee Wolters (6 points). Rhegen Zepeda added four points.

The predominant-ly young Pioneers wrapped up their sea-son with a 4-25 record. Trico will see three seniors graduate, those being Wolters, Zepeda and Karlee Snider.

Postseason scheduleClass 1A

Elverado RegionalFebruary 7

Game 1 - Marissa-Coulterville vs. Galatia, 6:00Game 2 - Steeleville vs. Elverado, 7:30

February 8Championship - WG 1 vs. WG 2, 7:00

Steeleville SectionalFebruary 11

Game 1 - Winner Pope County Regionalvs. Winner New Athens Regional, 7:00

February 12Game 2 - Winner Elverado Regionalvs. Winner Mounds Meridian Regional, 7:00

February 14Championship - WG 1 vs. WG 2, 7:00

Class 2ATrico Regional

February 7Championship - Nashville vs. Pinckneyville, 7:00

Red Bud SectionalFebruary 11

Game 1 - Winner Trico Regionalvs. Winner Wayne City Regional, 6:00Game 2 - Winner Vienna Regionalvs. Winner Trenton Wesclin Regional, 7:30

February 14Championship - WG 1 vs. WG 2, 7:00

County Journal | February 7, 2019 Page 19

Boys basketball standings

Records Through February 5 Conference Overall Black Diamond Conference West DivisionChester 9-0 22-5Sesser-Valier 8-1 20-5Goreville 6-2 15-12Christopher 3-6 9-16Vienna 3-6 11-16Trico 2-6 8-18Zeigler-Royalton 0-10 5-21

Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia DivisionMarissa-Coulterville 10-0 21-2Steeleville 8-3 15-12Dupo 6-3 13-12New Athens 5-4 10-13Valmeyer 4-6 9-17Red Bud 1-8 2-22Lebanon 0-10 0-24

SIRR MississippiPinckneyville 6-1 22-4Nashville 6-1 26-2Du Quoin 4-3 12-11Carterville 4-3 12-14Anna-Jonesboro 1-6 7-18Sparta 0-7 9-16

Murphysboro is the champion of the 99th annual freshman/sophomore boys basketball Torrence Tournament at Sparta High School.

Murphysboro defeated Nashville 54-43 January 2 in the championship game.

Columbia earned third with a 47-42 triumph over Pinckneyville while Trico topped Chester 45-40 for consolation.

The second round of the tournament was played January 30.

Scores from that day included Trico beating Okawville 44-31, Chester defeating Sparta 59-51 and Murphysboro getting past Pinckneyville 55-45.

Murphy wins Torrence tourneyTrico wins consolation

Several area grade school basketball players were selected to play in the Rend Lake College Southern Illinois Premier Jr. High All-Star Classic February 23 and 24 at Waugh Gym in Ina.

This is the second year of the event, which has expanded to include seventh graders this year.

Players from Class S, M and L will all be rep-resented.

There will be two different games for Class S eighth-grade boys due to the large number of players.

BoysClass S eighth grade selections included Carter

Wasson of St. Mark’s Lutheran in Steeleville, Kol-by Gross of Steeleville, Drew Grohmann and Nick Gantner of Red Bud Catholic, Dalton Pfeaster of Pinckneyville 204 and Galvin Schroeder of St. John Chester.

Class M eighth grade selections included Brayden Henry, Justin Brown and Tyler Brown of Sparta and Daniel Kuhnert, Kellen Scott, Lance Brokering and Mathew Rohlfing of Pinckney-ville.

Class S seventh graders will include Isaac Teel and Jase Lee of Pinckneyville 204.

Class M seventh graders will include Hunter Smith and Riley Mohr of Pinckneyville, Exavier Williams and Mason Ethington of Sparta and Brady Heins of Trico.

GirlsClass S eighth grade selections include Howie

of Chester and Autumn Gilley of Marissa.Class M eighth grade selections include Olivia

Wiggers and Maddison Morgenthaler of Pinck-neyville, Lyla Hess of Red Bud, Sydney Rhei-necker and Isabelle Ware of Sparta and Josey Wettig of Trico.

Game ScheduleFebruary 23

Noon - Girls: Class S 7th Grade1:30 - Boys: Class S 7th Grade3:00 - Girls Class M/L 7th Grade4:30 - Boys: Class M 7th Grade6:00 - Boys: Class L 7th Grade7:30 - Boys: Class S 8th Grade

February 24Noon - Girls: Class S 8th Grade1:30 - Boys: Class S 8th Grade3:00 - Girls: Class M 8th Grade4:30 - Boys: Class M 8th Grade6:00 - Girls: Class L 8th Grade7:30 - Boys: Class L 8th Grade

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happy I got, but my main goal is as a team to make it as far as we can and continue to get better.”

One of the other things that has helped this team grow and continue to up its game is the level of competi-tion it faces outside the conference.

Norman, who is the longest tenured coach of the program, in his eighth year, has made it an emphasis of his to continue to challenge his teams during the regular season, even through losses, so they are ready for the post-season.

“It kind of shows us where we’re at,” Ki-ner said. “I think after playing some of these smaller teams in our conference and getting some wins, we kind of felt really high of our ourselves. So, it kind of humbled us a little to where we’re at. Now, we know how hard we have to work. How we did against them also proves that we are a

very good team.”Of Chester’s five losses

this season, three have come against Class 3A teams Murphysboro, Carbondale and Salem.

“Playing Carbondale definitely opened eyes for us that we need to play with a faster tempo and get the ball up the floor faster,” Bollman said. “Those losses helped us.”

Chester lost by three points to Murphysboro and by one to Salem, having chances to win both of those games.

The other two Yellow Jacket defeats came by an average of 11.5 points against Class 2A state-ranked teams Nashville and Pinck-neyville, both of which Chester will undoubt-edly have to go through if they want a deep postseason run.

The loss to Nashville is also the only loss this season for Chester at home.

“It’s definitely motiva-tion because we know we’re going to have to see some of those teams

again in the postsea-son,” Wingerter said. “Games like that just help us work and pre-pare better to take a better shot at them.”

Besides the team’s four seniors, Chester normally goes six or seven players deep in its rotation, getting contributions from the likes of juniors Ian Re-ith and DeOndre Martin and sophomore Matt Korando.

“We do really well passing the ball togeth-er,” Bollman said. “We play really well togeth-er, and sharing the ball is definitely a key.”

As the season has progressed, the team continues to expand its game, including getting more shots to fall from the perimiter, which opens up more opportunities inside.

Kiner specifically spoke about the team always looking to make the extra pass and how that has been an im-provement from last year.

“Coach makes sure

we run a lot of drills on making the ex-tra pass and things like that,” Kiner said. “We’re thinking about our teammates, and none of us are selfish. Seeing your teammate doing something good gets you fired up. When you make that extra pass and your team-mate gets that extra shot, that really fires you up more.”

Chester did not lose in the entire month of January and is rid-ing a 13-game winning streak.

The Yellow Jackets’ next two games will be on the road, at Tri-co February 9 and at Goreville February 12, before the home soiree with Sesser-Valier Feb-ruary 15.

“I think if we keep going like we have been, we’ll be tough to go against,” Cushman said. “Our coach always preaches being a fam-ily. We play for each other. We play for the fans, and we play for our school.”

Chester High School boys hoops...From Page 16___________

Bradyne Cometto of Sparta snatches a rebound in front of Steeleville player Jordan Wilson and Bulldog teammate Tony Williams.

February 5Du Quoin 58Trico 56 (OT)

TRI 15 14 13 10 04 - 56DUQ 18 07 13 14 06 - 58

Six Trico scorers scored at least eight points, but the Pioneers came up short in over-time in a nonconfer-ence game at Du Quoin.

Isaac Kranawetter and Nick Compton each scored 11 points for the Pioneers, though Kranawetter missed a pair of free throws in overtime.

Other Trico scorers were Wilson Lodge (10 points), Jesse Smith (8 points), Seth Levan (8 points) and Carter Naile (8 points).

Free throws killed Trico, as the team made just 7-of-16 att-empts, including miss-ing seven foul shots in the fourth quarter and overtime.

T r i c o m a d e o n e 3-pointer and Du Quoin four.

Du Quoin also strug-gled at the charity stripe, hitting just 10-of-20.

Josh Heape led the Indians with 20 points.

Anna-Jonesboro 53Sparta 50

Dawson Algee explod-ed for 26 points for Sparta, but the Bull-dogs lost on the road in an SIRR Mississippi battle.

Carlos Keen added 10 points for Sparta, Rod-ney Anderson eight and Kerry Harris six.

Sparta made 10-of-16 free throws and Anna-Jonesboro 9-of-18.

Chester 67Christopher 26

CHE 24 11 16 16 - 67CHR 11 10 02 03 - 26

Keith Kiner record-ed a triple-double for Chester and the Yellow Jackets rolled to a BDC West road win.

Kiner picked up 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocked shots.

Colin Wingerter add-ed 18 points for Ches-ter, including five of the team’s nine 3-point-ers. Ian Reith added 13 points.

Chester made 7-of-13 free throws and Chris-topher 3-of-6.

The Bearcats made five 3-pointers, includ-ing three from Kyle Garver, who scored nine points.Marissa-Coulterville 53

Red Bud 33REB 10 10 06 07 - 33M-C 10 13 12 18 - 53

Blake Steinwagner scored 14 points for Marissa-Coulterville and the Meteors pulled away in the second half for a home Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division victory.

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The win clinched the conference title for Marissa-Coulterville.

Sebastion Ivory-Greer and Logan Jones each added 12 points for the Meteors, with John Broshears chipping six.

M-C made 9-of-16 free throws. Red Bud made its only attempt.

Alex Kueker hit three of Red Bud’s four 3-pointers and finished with 15 points. Austin Grohmann added six points.

Steeleville 66Lebanon 30

LEB 06 13 07 04 - 30STV 12 18 19 17 - 66

Austin Hagel scored a game high 24 points for Steeleville, and the Warriors snapped a four-game losing streak with a home Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division win over Lebanon.

Lebanon, which made five 3-pointers and 7-of-11 free throws, was led in scoring by Zavier Shaw’s 11 points.

February 2Du Quoin 50

Pinckneyville 45PVE 15 10 13 07 - 45DUQ 10 09 11 20 - 50

Pinckneyville had its SIRR Mississippi title hopes take a hit, when the Panthers blew a double-digit halftime lead and lost to rival Du Quoin on the road.

Pinckneyville led by

as much as 14 points in the third quarter, but Du Quoin stormed back and held the Panthers without a basket for the final four minutes of the game.

The game became tied at 38 with under six minutes remaining, and the two teams went back and forth before the Indians were able to ultimately pull away.

Pinckneyville, which was held to just 41 per-cent shooting, includ-ing making just one of its seven 3-point at-tempts, was led in scor-ing by Dawson Yates with 17 points. Grant Tanner added nine, Dre Scott eight and Dylan Houghland six.

Pinckneyville made 12-of-15 free throws, w h i l e D u Q u o i n knocked down 6-of-8.

The Indians, which made four 3-pointers, were paced by Josh Heape with 17 points. Anthony Cole scored 11 points and Westly Milam nine.

Sparta 67Steeleville 55

STV 14 17 07 17 - 55SPA 15 12 23 17 - 67

Carlos Keen led three Sparta players with 12 points or more by scor-ing a game high 21, and the Bulldogs used a big third quarter to get past Steeleville in a nonconference home

game.Tony Williams (17

points) and Rodney An-derson (12 points) each made a pair of 3-point-ers for Sparta. Dawson Algee tacked on seven points and Kerry Harr-is six.

The Bulldogs hit 21-of-27 free throws and Steeleville 10-of-12.

The Warriors made seven 3-pointers. Jor-dan Wilson led the team with 13 points. Brad Mevert added 12, Owen Gross 11, Drew Gerlach six and Austin Hagel five.

Trico 59Zeigler-Royalton 24

TRI 10 22 13 14 - 59Z-R 04 09 04 07 - 24

Nick Compton put up 17 points for Trico and Jesse Smith added 12 to lead Trico to blow-out victory at Zeigler-Royalton in BDC West action.

Kaden Wi l son (8 points) made two of the team’s three 3-point-ers, with Peyton Lovel (6 points) making the other. Wilson Lodge added six points.

Trico made 6-of-10 foul shots and Z-R 5-of-11.

Z-R, which made one 3-pointer, was led by Landen Bate and Gann-on Dollins with six points apiece.

Continued on Page 20

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Trent Sternberg, a sixth-grader from Red Bud Elementary School, competed January 26 in the District Elks Hoop Shoot Free Throw Contest in Jacksonville, Illinois. He made 23-of-25 free throws to win the 12-13 boys age group. Stern-berg will compete at the state event in Decatur February 23, where he will look to defend his state championship title from last year. He is the son of Chris and Hilary Sternberg of Red Bud.

Sternberg to defend title

Pinckneyville honors wrestling seniorsThe Pinckneyville High School wrestling team topped Sparta January 30 by a 48-36 decision during the Panthers’ senior night. Several families were recognized for their contributions to the wrestling program. From left are manager/bookkeeper/statistician Abby Barnes with Will-iam and Bernadette Barnes, manager/statistician Hannah Wilson with Tony and Casey Wilson, wrestler Lucas Gerlachx with Ryan and Jamie Gerlach, and wrestler James Lamke with mother Georgia Lamke and uncles Ben Newborn and Jim Lamke.

Sparta High School recognized two Lady Bulldog seniors January 31 who have been a big part of the girls basketball program for the past four years. From left are Amyia Henry, daughter of Melissa Wilkerson and granddaughter of Mary Bulliner (not pictured), and Shawna Smith, daughter of Shelly and Shawn Smith.

Pinckneyville senior Lexi Loos, a four-year Panther cheerleader, signed her letter of commit-ment January 30 to cheer for McKendree University. As an integral part of cheer coach Nata-sha Plumlee’s Pinckneyville squad that qualified for ICCA state all four years and IHSA state two years, Loos will move on to cheer for the 40-member squad consisting of two nationally competitive teams and one game day team under Bearcat coach Bianca Bergman and assistant coach Robert Hankins. Loos plans to study early childhood education. From left in the front row are Bergman, Loos, Loos’ mother Amanda Schleifer and Hankins. Back row: Plumlee and Pinckneyville Superintendent Keith Hagene.

Loos to cheer for McKendree

Hunters in Illinois harvested a prelimi-nary total of 151,577 deer during all 2018-19 archery and fire-arm seasons, which concluded January 20.

That total tops the mark of 147,695 in 2017-18.

During the 2018-19 seasons, hunters killed 45 percent does and 55 percent males.

Pike County hunt-ers killed the most in

Deer hunting totals rise up

Illinois, coming in at 4,436. The next two counties were Fulton (3,974) and Adams (3,945).

Jackson County hunters were the fourth most active at 3,709 with Randolph in fifth at 3,582.

Other notable counties and their kill numbers were Perry (2,581), Mon-roe (1,533), St. Clair (1,426) and Washing-ton (1,594).

The Pinckneyville High School girls bas-ketball team recog-nized its three seniors January 31 prior to the team’s game against Carterville. From left with their family members are Megan and Sarah Breslin, the daughters of Dan and Michelle Breslin, and Kiya Hagene, daugh-ter of Kevin and Cher-yl Hagene. Hagene is pictured with her mother and brother Dylan.

Lady Panther hoops seniors

Sparta girls basketball senior players

Prep boys...From Page 19_____

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Logan Jones went for 22 points, and Sebastion Ivory-Greer added 17 to lead Marissa-Coulter-ville in a road noncon-ference romp of Christ Our Rock in Centralia.

Jones and Ivory-Greer each made one of the team’s three 3-pointers. Blake Steinwagner (5 points) hit the other 3-ball. Austin Gilley added 12 points.

February 1Chester 60Vienna 38

CHE 09 20 09 22 - 60VIE 15 06 05 12 - 38

Four Chester players scored at least 11 points, and the Yellow Jackets shook off a slow start to pick up a road BDC West win over Vienna.

D r a k e B o l l m a n led Chester with 18 points. Bollman and Colin Wingerter (15 points) each made three 3-pointers. Keith Kiner

added 12 points and Ian Reith 11. Chester hit 5-of-10 foul shots and Vienna 5-of-9.

Dupo 57Steeleville 36

STV 11 08 11 06 - 36DUP 13 16 15 13 - 57

Austin Hagel made a trio of 3-pointers and finished with 11 points for Steeleville, but the Warriors were taken down at Dupo in Cahokia Conference Kaskaskia Division ac-tion.

Gavin Conway (10 points), Owen Gross (5 points) and Jacob Sutt-on (3 points) each made one 3-ball for Steeleville.

The Warriors made just 2-of-6 free throws and Dupo 10-of-19.

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The Sparta Sen-ior Center is raising money through its annual St. Valentine’s king and queen con-test.

Four couples are candidates in the con-test. They are Don and Denise Adams, Shirley Henry and Bill McDougal, Villa Fraz-er and Brock Hicks, and Judy Shores and Clem Wiley.

Friends and fam-

ily are encouraged to vote for their favorite couple to win the crown.

Votes are counted by pennies, but any form of currency is accepted. There is no limit to how many times you can vote. There are dona-tion containers in the senior center for people to place their votes.

Coronation is Valen-tine’s Day, Thursday, February 14.

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Don and Denise Adams

Shirley Henry and Bill McDougal

Brock Hicks and Villa Frazer

Judy Shores and Clem Wiley

SISAA updateDennis Trask spoke to the Sparta Rotary Club January 29 about the Southern Illinois Substance Abuse Alliance’s program. He is shown with Rotary President Justin Jeffers.

By Carol MercerIt has been about two

decades that the female church group called Evangelical Daughters have been sponsoring a Women’s Pre-Lent Breakfast at Friedens United Church of Christ in Marissa, which is located at 820 N. Main Street.

Since its inception, the brief ecumenical ser-vice and the breakfast have been open to all women in the area who wish to attend.

This year the break-fast will be held Satur-day, February 23 begin-ning at 8:30.

Over the years the menu has varied a bit, except for making sure the hot cross buns, cof-fee and some kind of dish featuring eggs are included. The ser-vice has also varied, although always focus-

ing on Lent or prepar-ing for it.

In the past, Friedens held the breakfast the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. This year, due to many communi-ty confl icts, it has been moved to February 23.

The service itself will be led by Pastor Brett Palmer, Friedens’ minister, and he will conduct communion for those who wish to receive it. As usual, there will be appropri-ate music.

Following the ser-vice, breakfast will be served in Fellowship Hall. Friedens is handi-capped accessible and does have an elevator with a person to help operate it, if desired.

It would be appreci-ated, but not necessary, to call the church at 295-2004, and leave a message of the number

of people in your party who will be attending.

This event is the gift of Friedens’ Evangel-ical Daughters, and there is no cost. It is a time of worship, fel-lowship, breakfasting enjoyment and prepa-ration for Lent.

Women’s Pre-Lent breakfast

The next meeting of Expression Unlimited will be held at Cedar-hurst Assisted Living, 211 N. Market Street in Sparta Tuesday, Feb. 12.

The meeting will be-gin at 5:30 p.m.

Expression Unlimited is a group of artisans who meet the second Tuesday of every month.

Membership is free and open to the public, and spectators are wel-come.

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As part o f t h e Steeleville library’s 1 , 0 0 0 Books Be-fore Kin-dergarten program, Miles Gra-menz, 1, r e a c h e d 500 books. He is the son of Da-v id and Y v o n n e Gramenz of Steeleville.

Callyn Ward, 3, topped 300 books. She is the daughter of Caleb and Megan Ward of Steeleville.

February EventsLego Club will be every

Wednesday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. for students grades K-5.

GED classes are offered Tuesday and Thursday from 11 to 5.

February 8: Lapsit from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

February 15: There will be an I-Cash and Check for Cash presentation from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

February 16: Superhero Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

February 18: Closed for Presidents’ Day.

February 19: The monthly meeting will start at 7 p.m.

For more information, call the library at 965-9732 or go to steelevil-lelibrary.org.

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GERALD L. THIESGerald L. Thies, 75,

of Percy, died Friday, February 1, 2019 at St. Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri.He was born March

9, 1943 in Willisville to Melvin and Irene Hoops Thies. He married Ruth

Ann Kranawetter September 5, 1964 in Neunert, and they shared 54 years of marriage. She sur-vives.Gerald was retired from REA in Steeleville

and was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Steeleville. He was an avid bowler and fi sherman. Gerald is also survived by children Brian (Al-

lisen) Thies of Cutler, Carla Jarrett and Kevin (Michelle) Thies of Ava and Jason (Kristi) Thies of Rockwood; grandchildren Rachel, Katelyn, Chelsea, Austin, Douglas, Aimee, Zach, Paige, Abbey, Logan and Olivia; brothers Allen (Caro-lyn), Melvin and Terry Thies, all of Willisville; sisters Bonnie Faverty of Carbondale, Diann (Jerry) Moore, of Willisville, Judy McFadden of Steeleville, Mary Ann (Rick) Bowerman of Campbell Hill and Connie (Bruce) Shockley of Lenzburg. He was preceded in death by his parents and

brothers Lonnie, Kenny and Randy.Services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Febru-

ary 5, 2019 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Campbell Hill, with Minister Deb Rathert and Rev. Kelly C. Bedard offi ciating. Burial was in Percy Village Cemetery. Wilson’s Funeral Home in Ava was in charge

of arrangements.Memorials may be made to the family. Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.net.

WILLIAM EDGAR

William “Gilbert” Edgar, 78, of Ava, died at 10:08 a.m. Thurs-day, January 31, 2019 at Barnes-Jewish Hos-pital in St. Louis, sur-rounded by his loved ones.Gilbert was born

March 11, 1940 in Ava to John and Eleanor LePere Edgar. He married Vivian

Ann Young August 28, 1964 at Drury Christian Church in Carbondale, and they celebrated 54 years of marriage. She survives.He was employed at Meadowlark Farms and

Continental Baking Company as a Wonder Bread salesman, where he retired after 36 years. He made a lot of friends over the years. Gilbert served in the National Guard as a cook

from 1963 to 1969. He really enjoyed feeding the men. He was a faithful servant to God and served as

a Sunday school superintendent and past youth sponsor and as a deacon for over 45 years at Denmark Baptist Church. Gilbert enjoyed sup-porting the Trico softball team and watching the girls play. Gilbert is also survived by children Tim (Lor-

na) Edgar of Ava, Audra (Steve) McBride of Murphysboro and Connie Edgar of Ava, grand-children Ashly (Michael) Tullis, Jeremy Edgar and Kora and Connor McBride, great- grand-children Phalin, Nevaeh and Grayson, broth-ers John Cecil (Roberta) Edgar and Randall (Margaret) Edgar, all of Ava, nieces, nephews and special lifelong friend Carl Runge. He was preceded in death by his parents and

sister Carolyn O’Dell.Services were held at 1 p.m. Sunday, February

3, 2019 at Wilson’s Funeral Home in Ava, with Rev. Marty DeRoche offi ciating. Burial was in Ava Evergreen Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Denmark Baptist

Church Building Fund or American Cancer Society.Sign the guest book at wilsonsfuneralhome.net.

CHARLES A. MOORE JR.

Charles, “Sonny” or “Charlie” A. Moore Jr. , 83, of Chester, died at his home at 4:18 p.m. Tuesday, January 29, 2019. He was sur-rounded by his loving family and friends during his brief ill-ness and at the mo-ment of his passing.He was born No-

vember 21, 1935 in Claryville, Missouri to Charles A. and Hazel Rose Cotton Moore Sr. Charles’ family moved to Chester after the

fl ood of the Missouri bottoms in 1937. He married Velda Louise Wittenbrink March

25, 1954. She preceded him in death.In his younger days, Charlie worked as a

deckhand on the Mississippi River, at Maloney Electric Company in St. Louis and a conductor on the Missouri Pacifi c Railroad, which later merged with and became Union Pacifi c Rail-road. He worked on the railroad with two of his sons Kenny and Jeff.Charles was a member of St. Mary Help of

Christians Catholic Church in Chester, Knights of Columbus Council 3790, a 4th Degree mem-ber of Fort Kaskaskia Assembly 1287 Knights of Columbus and United Transportation Union, which represented him while he worked on the railroad.Charlie was an avid gardener in Illinois

and crappie fi sherman in Florida, where he wintered for many years, and he was greatly successful at both. He enjoyed playing poker and hanging out with his buddies at Hardee’s every morning and giving them a rough time. Needless to say, they gave him a rough time right back.He is survived by sons Kenneth (Cheryl)

Moore of Chester, Fr. Jeffry Moore of Panama City, Panama, Richard “RD” (Shirley) Moore of Columbia, Illinois and Marty Ray Moore of Orlando, Florida, Jorge “Taco” Alberto Lavalle Saldana of Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico (He became a son to Charles and Velda and brother to their sons when he came from Mexico to live with the Moore family through the Youth Ex-change Service program, where Velda served as an offi cer.), sisters Geraldine (Don) Hindman of Murphysboro and Virginia (Vince) Moore of Chester, grandsons Cole (Carrie) Moore and Cale Moore of Waterloo, SPC Charles Moore, PO3 Charles Moore and Travis, granddaughter Taylor, six great-grandchildren and special friend Joyce Wahl. Charles was also preceded in death by his

parents and sisters Mildred (Adolph) Decker and Romana (Leonard) Huff.A Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated

at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Saturday, Febru-ary 2 at 10 a.m., with his son Fr. Jeffry Moore offi ciating. A private graveside burial service was held afterwards.Memorials can be made to St. Mary Help of

Christians Grade School, where Velda taught years ago, or Masses.

NORMAN LEO BACHELIERNorman “Butch” Leo Bachelier, 77, of Prairie

du Rocher, died at 10:57 p.m. Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at Red Bud Regional Hospital.Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb-

ruay 2, 2019 at Pechacek Funeral Home in Red Bud, with Msgr. Daniel J. Jurek offi ciating. Burial was in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Prairie du Rocher.Memorials may be made to family choice.Sign the guest book at wpfh.net.

KENNETH C. COUCHKenneth C. “Kenny”

Couch, 61, of Willis-ville, died Thursday, January 24, 2019 at Memorial Hospital in Belleville.He was born Febru-

ary 9, 1957 in St. Louis to Ernest and Anna Couch.He married Karen

Leigh Tidwell. She preceded him in death.He was a truck driver. He loved to listen to

music and was an avid St. Louis Blues fan.He is survived by son Justin Couch of Wil-

lisville, sisters Brenda (Tom) Conner, Wanda (Tom) Stork, Barbara Hart and Carol Couch, all of Willisville and brothers Steve (Mary) Couch of Willisville and Bob (Doris) Couch of Ava.He was also preceded in death by his parents

and great-nephew Jacob Virgil Taylor.Memorial services will be from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 9, 2019 at New Hope Baptist Church in Willisville.Heil-Schuessler Funeral Home in Sparta is in

charge of arrangements.Memorials may be made to the family or to

the funeral home.Sign the guest book at heilschuessler.com.

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KATHERINE LOUISE STEPTOE

Katherine Louise Steptoe, 92, of Spar-ta, departed this life Wednesday, January 30, 2019.She was born in

Tamms, Illinois Octo-ber 17, 1926.Katherine is sur-

vived by daughters Sondra (Ronnie) Pen-ny of Sparta, Carolyn (Lawrence) Holman of Springfi eld, Illinois and Joyce Martin of Sparta, sons Orlando McKee and Isom McKee of Sparta, grand, great-grand, great-great-grandchildren and in-laws.Visitation will be Saturday, February 9, 2019

from 11 a.m. until noon at the Church of God in Christ Jesus All Nations in Sparta. Services will follow.Serenity Memorial Chapel, LLC in Belleville

is in charge of arrangements.

BETTY JANENELSON

Betty Jane Nelson, 85, of Chester, died at 9:15 p.m. Saturday, February 2, 2019 at Sparta Community Hospital.She was born to Rob-

ert William and Letty Elizabeth Barnett Dor-ries December 11, 1933 in Malden, Missouri. Betty was a home-

m a ke r a nd a l s o worked at Hardee’s in Chester. She is survived by daughter Lisa (Robin) Jodoi

of Lutz, Florida, sister Brenda Joyce Dorries of Harrisburg, Illinois, nephew Jeffrey Dean Dor-ries of Chesapeake, Virginia, grandson Chris-topher (Jennifer) Riner, great-granddaughters Bailey Riner and Alaina Rose.She was preceded in death by her parents,

son Ray Allen Nelson and brother Jack Dorries.It was Betty’s wish to be cremated. Private

services will be held at a later date.Pechacek Funeral Home in Chester is in

charge of arrangements.Memorials may be made to the American

Cancer Society.Sign the guest register at wpfh.net.

CHARLES DYKES

Charles “Russ” Dykes, 76, of Tilden, died Sunday, February 3, 2019 at his home. He was born No-

vember 17, 1942 in Caseyville, Illinois to James and Dorothy Lindecki Dykes.He married Sandy

atwood June 13, 1964 in Troy, Illinois. She survives.Mr. Dykes was a guard at Menard and Bowling

Green Correctional Centers. He also worked for Peabody Coal Company as a miner for 20 years. Mr. Dykes was a U.S. Navy veteran serving on

the USS Severn. He was a member of the UMWA. Russ enjoyed

collecting guns and target practice. He is also survived by son Glenn (Lisa) Dykes

of Tilden, fi ve grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.He was preceded in death by his parents, sons

Tracy Scott Dykes and Robert Russell Dykes and sister Dorothy Cohagen. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday,

February 7, 2019 at Heil-Schuessler & Sinn Funeral Home in Tilden. Services will follow with Rev. Dennis Hamilton offi ciating. Burial will be in Tilden Cemetery.Memorials may be made to the family.Sign the guest book at heilschuessler.com.

EvansvilleNews

By Eloise Kueker449-2043

Sparta senior site activities, menu

Chester senior center

Marriages

Steeleville seniors

By Diana Cole758-2880

Coultervilleand SwanwickNews

SOCIETYCOUNTY JOURNAL | FEBRUARY 7, 2019 PAGE 23

In Loving Memory

5 Years Now God Has Held You In His Arms, We Have Held You In

Our Hearts.

We Will Always Love You

July 4, 1959 - Feb. 13, 2014

Thomas J. “ T.J.”Harvey Jr.

Wife Brenda & Dad

Thank you to family and friends for your support during this difficult time.Thank you for flowers, memorials and food, and to the pallbearers and ladies aid who served meals as well as Pastor

Holman, Baldwin American Legion and Pechacek Funeral Home.

Thank YouThe Donald Buch Family

In light of what has been happening in our country, I am going to have to voice my opinion on this subject matter.

I believe that Satan has reared his ugly head with the new abortion laws.

Since the early days of mankind, the idea of killing innocent babies has been around.

Remember Moses? The pharaoh was afraid of how many Israelite babies, especially the male ones, were being born. He was afraid that they would take over his kingdom, so he ordered them to be murdered.

Thankfully, God had other plans for Moses.

Then let’s move up to the time of Jesus—same

thing. The ruler Herod was afraid again and ordered all the baby boys to be murdered. Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus had to fl ee for their lives.

Now once again, the rulers, who are not re-ally rulers but are sup-posed to be represent-ing the people, have decided that it is OK to murder babies even as they are being born. Yes, this is murder. What are they afraid of? That these innocent babies will grow up and vote them out of offi ce? Are they so important that they have a need to be afraid?

A prime example is if a pregnant lady is killed in a car accident, it is considered a dou-ble homicide if someone is convicted in court of homicide.

Therefore, the law recognizes that the baby is a human being no matter how small. The same people claim to belong to a church

and then approve of this law.

It is time for the rest of us to stand up for what is right. I urge all of you to speak up and do so in a loud voice. I urge the churches, no matter if they are Christian, Jewish, Mus-lim, or whatever, to do their part and get out there, voice your opin-ion against abortion and vote these afraid rulers out of offi ce.

Happy birthday to Me-lissa Siegfried, Craig Valleroy, Lori Thies, Sis-ter Stephanie Mertens, Laura Gross, Terra Al-bers, Sharon Kessler, Danny Wesbecher, Tony Bauer, Rosemary Kes-sler Cain, Mark Kern and Dottie Gallois.

Happy anniversary to Darren and Elizabeth Hess. Happy anniver-sary to Jim and Tammy Montroy and Harold and Melba Bierman.

We offer our sympathy to the families of Randy Walter, Jeffrey Surman (husband of Jennifer

Bollinger) and Kristie Winterbauer (daugh-ter-in-law of Barb Zip-fel Winterbauer).Evansville Enterprise

February 2, 1940Berdell Kempfer, 3,

and his sister Martha, 13, were scalded when a pot of boiling coffee was spilled.

The Evansville En-terprise began its 40th year in business.

Sophia Beare passed away. Survivors were Clara Cragan, Dennis Beare and Silvarious Beare.

Catherine Bauer passed away. Survi-vors were John Schick, Mrs. Lawrence Pautler, Henry Bauer, Edward Bauer, Anton Bauer, Albert Bauer and Mrs. Will Schuline.

A son was born Janu-ary 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stork.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baiter became the par-ents of a baby girl.

A daughter was born January 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Knigge.

Judy Rainey and Cathie Raney enjoyed a girl’s day out Thurs-day. They had lunch at Tiff’s Diner in Marissa.

The VFW donated $1,000 to the village of Coulterville for general maintenance.

Parent/teacher confer-ences will be February 12 and 14 at Coulterville school. There will be an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. to showcase the new administrative offi ce.

Daxton and Elodie spent snow days with David and me this past week.

David and I celebrated our 22nd anniversary with dinner at Broad-way Grille in Sparta Thursday and dinner at Oakdale Country Kitchen Friday.

David and I visited with Bill and Ruby Renner Saturday. Ruby was looking forward to visiting with her brother Ralph Gueter-sloh later that day.

The next VFW auxil-iary meeting is Monday, February 11 at 7 p.m.

The Coulterville High School classes of 1990-1997 will have a muti-class reunion July 27 at the Coulterville VFW.

Alumni of these class-es are asked to join the Facebook page Coulter-ville Eagles 1990-1997. Details of the activities will be posted at a later date.

ActivitiesFebruary 11-15

MONDAY: Bingo at 10.TUESDAY: Jim Beattie at 10. Senior citizens meeting at 12:15.WEDNESDAY: Bingo at 10. THURSDAY: Valentine’s Day party. Wear pink/red contest. Charlie Engelhardt at 10:30.FRIDAY: Bingo at 10.

MenuMONDAY: Baked chick-en, California blend vegetables, sweet po-tato fries, pineapple chunks, apple crisp.TUESDAY: Meat loaf,

B r u s s e l s s p r o u t s , mashed potatoes, man-darin oranges, hot roll.WEDNESDAY: Kettle beef, mashed potatoes, Carolina beans, peach-es.T H U R S DAY : C o d squares, stewed to-matoes, baked beans, cranberries, red velvet cake.FRIDAY: Egg casserole, sausage, biscuit, fruit salad, coffee cake.

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday. Call 965-3134 extension 5 by 9:30 a.m. to make a reservation.

ActivitiesFebruary 12-15

TUESDAY: Site council meeting at 9:30. Land of Lincoln at 11:30.WEDNESDAY: Bingo at 10. Birthday party. Nickel bingo after lunch. THURSDAY: Quilting at 8:30. Valentine’s Day party. King and queen contest. Card exchange.FRIDAY: Bean bag toss at 10.

MenuTUESDAY: Chicken salad, vegetable soup, mixed

romaine salad, fruit pie.WEDNESDAY: Roast beef/gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, mandarin or-anges/pineapple.THURSDAY: Cod fish, stewed tomatoes, maca-roni/cheese, slaw, fruit.FRIDAY: Lasagna, garlic bread, mixed romaine salad, green beans, fruit.

Prices at center $4, home-delivered $4.25.

Lunch is served at 11:30. Call 826-5108 by 9 to make a reservation.

The senior center is for everyone 60 and over.

ActivitiesFebruary 11-15

MONDAY: Exercise/Monday morning card club at 10. Bonnie’s card club at 12:15. Bingo w/Tammy at 12:30.TUESDAY: Music w/Carla at 10:15.W E D N E S DAY : E at smart live strong from 9:30-10:15. Exercise at 10. THURSDAY: Chorus at 10:15. Black lung from noon to 2. Cedarhurst at 1:45. FRIDAY: Exercise at 10. Bingo w/Sharon at 12:30.

MenuMONDAY: Chicken par-mesan, buttered noo-dles, Dixie tomatoes, peach half, roll.

TUESDAY: New Eng-land dinner. Steamed cabbage, parsley pota-toes, fruit, corn bread.WEDNESDAY: Spaghet-ti, green beans, salad, mandarin oranges, roll.THURSDAY: BBQ pork steak, baked potato, baked beans, cake.FRIDAY: Fish, macaro-ni/cheese, green beans, pineapple.

Prices: Seniors $4, others and carry-outs $6, home-delivered $4.25.

H o u r s : M o nd ay -Thursday 8-3, Friday 8-2. Meal hours 11:30-noon.

Clothing store: 9-3.For more informa-

tion, call 443-4020.

Jared A. Henry, Tam-mie A. Adams, both of Sparta

S t e e n D. S t u d t , Jeanne F. Knight, both of Walsh

Jeanie D. Ray, peti-tioner, David W. Ray. Dissolution of mar-riage was granted January 25, 2019.

Celebrates 60thDale and Leona “Pit” Phelps of Sparta, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Thursday, February 7, 2019 with their family. Dale Phelps and Leona Robinette were married February 7, 1959 at St. Michaels Church in Marquette, Michigan. They have three children James (Pam) Phelps of Sparta, Dayle Ann Morgan of Coulterville and Ken (Darlene) Phelps of Freeburg. Their grandchildren are Stephanie (Ryan) Valleroy, Andrew (Kellie) Phelps, Emily (Kyle) Schwartz, Michael, Dale and John Phelps, Ryan, Stephanie and Cory Stein and great-grandchildren Olivia and Aubrey Valleroy, Ryley Stein and Eli and Karen Wittenborn.

1027 S. St. Louis St.SPARTA

Hope’s Red LeashDOG GROOMING

317-3737

Doggy DaycareFULL SERVICE DOG

KENNEL & BOARDINGDOG FUN ZONE

FEAR FREE Certified Groomer

Five generationsShown here are fi ve generations of the Jas-kowiak family. In front are Jill Ebers of Terre Haute, Indiana holding Annlee Emma Ebers, who was born January 7, and Lydia Jaskowiak, who is 104 years old, of Coulterville. In back are Tony Jaskowiak and Phyllis Winkelman, both of Steeleville.

EbersDr. Steven and Jill

Ebers of Terre Haute, Indiana announce the birth of their daughter.

Annlee Emma Eb-ers was born Monday, January 7, 2019 at 2:22 a.m. at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. She weighed 4 pounds 7 ounces and was 18.5 inches long.

The maternal grand-parents are Darryl and Phyllis Winkelman of Steeleville. Maternal great-grandparents are Tony and Darlene Jas-kowiak of Steeleville and the late Bernice and Bill Winkelman. Maternal great-great-grandmother is Lydia Jaskowiak of Coulter-ville.

The paternal grand-mother is the late Deb-bie Davis of Cutler.

Divorce

County Journal | FEBRUARY 7, 2019Page 24

18TH ANNUALFARM MACHINERY

CONSIGNMENT AUCTIONSATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2019

SALE LOCATION: Hwy. 51 bypass in Perryville, MO. From I-55 at the Perryville exit, go north on Hwy. 51 bypass about 1 1/2 miles to sale site. From Hwy. 61, take Hwy. 51 bypass south about 1/2 mile to sale site. Watch for sale markers.

!! WANTED !!Good, clean tractors, combines, trucks, farm

equipment, lawn mowers, boats, livestock equipment, etc. NO JUNK (including junk tires)!

Commission rate: 10% on the first $5,000, 3% thereafter.This includes all advertisement expense.

A $20 “NO SALE” consignment fee will be charged at the time of consignment.This will then be deducted from the commission if the item sells.

Consignments made by February 18, will be included on the sale bill and printed advertisements. The website will be updated as often as possible.

SALE CONDUCTED BY:

MANCHE AUCTION SERVICECOL. RODNEY MANCHE (573) 547-1818 or (573) 513-1212

SINCE 1982 - “LET OUR EXPERIENCE SELL YOUR NEXT AUCTION!!!”VISIT US ONLINE AT: www.mancheauctionservice.com

For more information or to make consignments,Call Rodney Manche at (573) 547-1818 or (573) 513-1212

Please leave a message if we are unable to answerand we will return your call as soon as possible. Thanks!

Fax: (573) 547-1261 • Email mancheauction@yahoo.com

Event Planning

Deposit & Clean Up Fee May Apply For Large Events

GYM RENTAL: $50 FOR 1ST HOUR | $25 EACH ADDITIONAL HOURCLASSROOM RENTAL: $25 PER HOUR

Call 618-587-5191

RALPH’SSMALL ENGINE REPAIR

HuStLER • tOROECHO • INgERSOLLARIENS • gRAvELY568-1707 • Hwy. 51 South • Elkville

Prairie State awarded

The Prairie State Generating Company in Marissa has been recognized with the Southern Illinois Oc-cupational Safety and Health Excellence Award for General Industry.

According to a press release from Prairie State, local residents Mark Wallace and Rebecca Minks, both of Marissa, are em-ployees at the plant who helped make the achievement possible.

“Safety is our core value at Prairie State. It is the guiding prin-ciple behind every-thing that we do,” said Randy Short, chief operating offic-er for Prairie State.

Accepting the award on PSGC’s behalf were Randy Short, chief operat-ing officer; Ken Poll-mann, vice president of power generation; and the chairmen of Prairie State’s various safety committees: Jemal Warren, Josh Haley, Jason Nichols and Ken Bone.

The Tilden library hosted an origami workshop January 26 that elementary and high school children at-tended.

The children made heart bookmarks and some of the kids ad-vanced to harder de-signs.

Linda Baker donated her time and materials for the workshop.

The group ended the event with pizza provided by members of the library board, Chloe Gower and Cathy Pannier.

Origami

The St. Clair County sheriff’s office has re-ceived reports of some-one calling people and identifying himself as a St. Clair County deputy.

The person then tells a story of how the re-cipient of the call has missed jury duty and has a warrant for their arrest. They are then instructed to send mon-ey to an address to clear up the matter.

This is a scam. According to a press

release from St. Clair County Sheriff Richard Watson, the depart-ment will never call

and ask you to send money anywhere, re-gardless of the reason.

This is the case in any Illinois county.

You should be cau-tious when receiving a call from anyone who asks you to send money.

Common scams in-clude: You won a gift. Someone is going to fix your computer. A rela-tive is in jail and needs bail money.

Watson said that if you send money to a scammer, there is no way to recover it. The money could have been transferred anywhere in the world.

Phone scam alert

Shriner donationsThe Randolph County Shriners Club recently presented donations to both the Steeleville Senior Center and Steeleville preschool. Above, from left are Shriner Mike McIntyre, senior center administrator Becky Kiehna and Shriner Billy McIntyre. Below, from left are Billy McIntyre, Steel-eville school Superintendent Stephanie Mulholland, teacher Amy Brown and Mike McIntyre.

CountyJournalPercy • 497-8272

COMING EVENTSCOUNTY JOURNAL | FEBRUARY 7, 2019 PAGE 25

Road RallyFor Sandra’s Comfort

Chili Dinner Available After The Rally

SHILOH HILL TAVERNCampbell Hill • 615-2515

Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 12263 is sponsoring this fundraiser! All proceeds raised from the project will be matched by Modern Woodmen up to $1,000.

WurstmartSunday, February 10

11am-2pmColumbian Club Hall

PinckneyvilleADULTS $10 • AGES 7-12 $5

6 & UNDER FREE • CARRY-OUTS $9

Proceeds to benefit the Newman Center in Carbondale & Cardinal Glennon

Roast Beef, Pork Sausage, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Green Beans, Sauerkraut, Applesauce, Bread, Coffee, Tea & Dessert

All-You-Can-Eat

$536,479PROGRESSIVE

JACKPOT

American LegionB.B.K. Post 480

303 S. Chester • Steeleville • 965-3362

Last Tickets Sold At 7pm

DRAWING THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AT 8PM

- 50/50 DRAWINGS -NO OUTSIDE FOOD & BEVERAGES BROUGHT IN!

QUEEN OF HEARTS

LIVE VIDEO POKER & SLOTS

$1.00/Ticket

Come Early & Enjoy The FoodSERVING STARTS AT 5:30PM

MENU: PULLED PORK BBQ & CHILI DOGSBrought to you by the Ladies Auxiliary

Schaller Auction ServiceBrad 618-476-1864 Kevin 618-476-9977 Millstadt, IL

Lic # 440.000223

SCHALLER AUCTIONSERVICE

Farm Machinery AuctionsFeb. 23 1068 Gall Road Waterloo, IL -

(Schewe) Live and Online Bidding Tractors-JD 4640-JD-4250-JD 5310 FWA-Combine- JD 9500 4x4-920 Platform-693 cornhead-Trucks-1991 IH 4170 grain-truck-1979 c-60 grain truck-Other equipment- Kinze 3000 6-11 planter, IH 5100 drill, IH 5100 drill, IH 496 disc 18’,JD 960 F/C 24’, White 435 Disc chisel, E-2 Trail grain cart, West-field Auger’s 100x71 and 80-31(Nice),Wagons, JD 3960 silage chopper2-30” cornhead rebuilt, silage unloader,(Like new H&S 270 manure spreader) case 40xt skidsteer, JD 960 back-hoe for skidsteer. Note:This is a very clean and well maintained line of equipment

March 2 Belleville, IL - (Gauch) Live and Online Bidding

Cat Excavator, Challenger, Backhoe, Agco Tractors, Gleaner S-68 combine, Tractor Trailers, Complete Grain Set up

March 9 Nashville, IL - Farm Machinery consignment

(still accepting eq)

Go to www.schallerauctionservice.com for details

35TH ANNUAL SPRING CONSIGNMENT SALE

SATURDAY, MARCH 2 • 9AMCanning Auction Facility

2049 Business Hwy. 13, Murphysboro, ILWe will take consignments through

Thursday, February 28. NO CONSIGNMENTS DAY OF SALE

Titled vehicles must be accompanied by title.

“A Professional Marketing Method”

AUCTIONEERSDavid Canning

IL. LIC. #440000441Blake Canning

IL. LIC. #4410001313Rodney Lanningham IL. LIC. #44000477

Announcements made the day of sale take precedence over printed material. For further information or to consign

contact 618-684-2331 or 618-521-8601

WWW.CANNINGAUCTIONS.COM

Tractors, Combines, Trucks, Trailers, Farm & Construction EquipmentNote: No Junk Tires Will Be Accepted

C O N S I G N N O W

MULTIPLE ESTATE & CONSIGNMENT

Thur., February 14th at 5pm Held at St. Clair County Event Center

1550 E State Route 15, Belleville, IL 62221 Selling a large amount of Jewelry-see pictures on our website; Antiques; Casual & Fine Furniture; Collectibles; Kitchen & Household Items; Glassware; Silver; Vintage Toys; Sports Memorabilia; Appliances; Lawn & Garden Equipment; Tools; Vehicles and So Much More. Check us out on facebook.com or auctionzip.com. COME IN EARLY AND ENJOY ALL YOU CAN EAT FRIED CHICKEN DINNER at the COUNTRY CAFÉ.

LIC#044000169

ADAM’S AUCTION 618-234-8751

FELIX & FINGERS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8Duel 7-9pm | Doors Open 5:30pm

CHESTER VFW939 STATE ST. • CHESTER

DUELINGPianos

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Phone: 618-497-8272Fax: 618-497-2607

Email: cjournal@egyptian.netDeadline: Tuesday At 2pm

FOR RENT

A P A R T M E N T SAVAILABLE FOR RENTPERRY COUNTY

FOR MORE INFO CALLPerry County

Housing Authority(618) 542-5409

In

LEGAL NOTICES

FOR RENT IN SPARTA: 2 & 3-bedroom mobile homes in park. Also mobile home lots in park. Private mobile home lots for sale. Call Ronnie Johnson. 618-443-3325.............................. 0-x-xF O R R E N T: 1 & 2-bedroom apartments in Sparta. Water & trash provided. No pets. Background check, references & security deposit required. Broker owned. $425/mo. and $550/mo. 618-791-3289.............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT: Large home in Eden on Corner lot. No pets allowed, Call Ronnie Johnson at 618-443-3325.............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT: Apartment in Ellis Grove. 2 bed, 1 bath, all appliances included. Call for an appointment. 618-977-3937..............................1-2-7RENT TO OWN: Several properties in Steeleville & Sparta area. Available immediately. 618-559-3525 or visit www.southernillinoishomebuyers.com............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT: Nice 2-bed mobile home. Steeleville Mobile Home Park. $360/mo. No pets. 573-355-1298.............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT: 2 Houses in Campbell Hill, 2 bed, 1 bath, no pets. Text or call 618-559-9881.............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT IN SPARTA: 3 bed, 2 bath apartment. Call 618-201-3269.............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT: 5 bedroom home fenced in private back yard. Waterloo, 618-340-2090.............................. 0-x-xFOR RENT: Newly remodeled, 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartments in Steeleville and Trico area. Call 618-559-3525 or visit www.southernillinoishomebuyers.com.............................. 0-x-x

FOR SALE: Built-Mor Buildings. 24x40, $8,835; 30x50, $12,873; 40x60, $19,472; 50x70, $28,806 Erected, choice of colors. 732-8704 or 316-9278 or go to builtmorbuildings.com.............................. 0-x-xQUEEN PILLOW TOP MATTRESS SET: NEW - Still in plastic, $195, can deliver. 618-772-2710...........................1-7-11FOR SALE: Screen printing equipment 6 color, 4 station printer, heat tunnels, vacuum f rame, exposure unit, spot unit, many screens and more. Great home business. 618-443-7522....................... 1-2-14LARGE SOFA: With pil low, very good condition. $300 OBO. 618-443-2815....................... 1-2-21MAGELLAN HOME OFFICE L SHAPED DESK & HUTCH: With La-Z-Boy swivel offi ce chair. $150 OBO. 618-443-2815....................... 1-2-21

FOR SALE

I Buy Houses!Any Price. Any Area.

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REAL ESTATE

APPLIANCESW E A R E O V E R -STOCKED!!! Refrigators, ranges, washer & dryers, freezers. All on sale! Next 30 days! $150 or more. Delivery available. Tilley’s Used Appliances, 518 E. Park Street, Du Quoin, 618-542-6810............................. 1-3-7

COMMERCIAL

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SERVICESB A B Y S I T T I N G I N MY HOME: Christian woman has openings for babysitting on 2nd & 3rd shifts and 1 on day shift. Excellent references. Sparta area. 618-967-4990............................1-2-28

HOME FOR RENT: 1816 Swanwick St., Chester. 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 car garage, basement, no smokers, references required. First months rent and deposit. No pets. 618-708-0900..............................0-2-7FOR RENT: Campbell Hill modern 1 bedroom cottage in country, lake, woods, quiet, secure. W/D, DW, Fridge, Stove, Microwave, FP, Direct TV hookup, Geothermo heat/air. No smoking. Credit/Background & references. 618-201-2253 for addit ional details............................1-2-14

HarvestRidge

Properties2 Bedrooms,

All Appliances Including Washer & Dryer.

Water & Sewer, Cable,Trash Pickup &Power Included.

No Pets, No SmokingBeautifully LocatedIn Sparta Off Rte. 4Behind Pizza HutOn Janna Lane.

Good Credit /References Required

618-205-6786

FOR RENT: Commercial/office space, approx. 550 sq. ft. $400 per month plus utilities. Next to new Wonder Wash Laundromat downtown. 618-833-0975.............................. 0-x-x

NOTICE TO BIDThe City of Sparta is seeking bids for main-

tenance mowing at the Caledonia and Bethel Cemeteries April 1, 2019 through March 31, 2022.

Specifi cations may be obtained at City Hall, 114 W. Jackson St., Sparta, Illinois Monday through Friday 7:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Bids are to be clearly marked “Cemetery Maintenance” and returned to City Hall no later than 3:00 p.m. on or before Friday, Feb-ruary 15, 2019 after which no further bids will be accepted. All bids must comply with the laws of the State of Illinois and local city or-dinances.

The City of Sparta reserves the right to re-ject any and all bids, and waive any techni-calities or informalities, and award in the best interest of the City of Sparta.

The City of Sparta is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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NOTICE TO REMEDIATENotice is hereby given by the Village of Til-

den, Illinois, that the premises at 651 North Railroad Street, Tilden, IL 62292 (permanent tax index number 16-046-013-00) is open and vacant and constitutes an immediate and continuing hazard to the community. The Vil-lage of Tilden intends to demolish, repair, or enclose the building or remove any garbage, debris, or other hazardous, noxious, or un-healthy substances or materials if the owner or owners or lienholders of record fail to do so.

The Village of TildenBy: /s/ Christopher P. KoenemanIts Attorney ..........................................................0-2-7

PUBLIC NOTICE SCHOOL BUS BID

The Board of Education of Marissa Com-munity Unit School District No, 40 is request-ing sealed bids on one (1) new 2019 model seventy-seven (77) passenger school bus or (1) used 2017 or newer model seventy-seven (77) passenger school bus. Bids are due in the Superintendent’s offi ce, 1 East Marissa Street, Marissa, Illinois by 3:00 P.M. February 14, 2019. Bid forms and specifi cations are available from Kevin Cogdill at the above ad-dress and should be returned to this address plainly marked “Bus Bid”. The Board of Edu-cation reserves the right to review and reject any or all bids and to waive technicalities.

By Order of the Board of Education, Marissa Community Unit School District No. 40, St. Clair and Washington Counties, Illinois.

Attest: James W. Heil, President Mary Thomas Rehmer, Secretary ..........................................................0-2-7

LEGAL NOTICE OF BID

Public notice is hereby given that the Ches-ter Community Unit School District No. 139, Randolph County, Illinois will receive sealed bids for pupil transportation services for the 2019-2020; 2020-2021; and 2021-2022 school years. Bid specifi cations may be ob-tained upon request from the district offi ce, 1940 Swanwick Street, Chester, Illinois 62233 or by calling (618) 826-4509. All bids are to be received at the above address on or be-fore 3:00 p.m., March 7, 2019, and will be opened at that time. The Board of Education will make its decision at a later date, and re-serves the right to waive any technicalities or irregularities and to reject any or all bids, or any part or parts thereof.

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STATE OF ILLINOISCOUNTY OF RANDOLPH

CITY OF SPARTAPUBLIC NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICA-

TION FOR ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL USE EX-CEPTION PERMIT AND PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board of Appeals, in accordance with the Zoning Ordi-nance of the City of Sparta, that a public hear-ing will be held by the Board of Appeals of the City of Sparta, Illinois, on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., at the City Hall, 114 W. Jackson Street, Sparta, Illinois, at which time and place the Board will consider an Applica-tion for a Special Use Exception.

The Application requests that the tract of land be granted a Special Use Exception for operation of a hospital and ancillary facilities. The description of the property to be aff ected by the proposed special use exception is de-scribed as follows:

The East 120 feet of even width of Lot No. 2 in the Heirs of Henry Gardner, Deceased, Subdivision of part of the Northwest Quar-ter of the Southeast Quarter and part of the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 6, Township 5 South, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian, Ran-dolph County, Illinois, as shown by Plat dated August 21, 1895, recorded September 13, 1895 in Plat Record “E”, Page No. 35 in the Recorder’s Offi ce, Randolph County, Illinois, together with an easement 20 feet in width for road purposes to McClurken Avenue, as retained in Warranty Deed to Joseph C. Bates, Jr. dated June 3, 1953 in Book 162 at Page 346 of the records of Randolph County, Illinois, and a grant of easement for private road executed by Joseph C. Bates, Jr. and Millicent S. Bates dated March 15, 1968 and recorded in Book 222 at Page 422 of the re-cords of Randolph County, Illinois, EXCEPT a parcel of land conveyed to Sparta Com-munity Hospital District in Warranty Deed recorded September 29, 2003 in Book 726 at Page 379, Randolph County, Illinois, more particularly described as follows: Part of Lot 2 in the Heirs of Henry Gardner, Deceased, Subdivision in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter and in the Northeast Quar-ter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 6, Township 6 South, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian, City of Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois, described as follows: Begin-ning at the Southeast corner of Lot 2 in the Heirs of Henry Gardner, Deceased, Subdivi-sion in the Northwest Quarter of the South-east Quarter and in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 6, Town-ship 6 South, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian, City of Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois as recorded in Plat Book “E” at Page 35 of the Randolph County records; thence northwesterly along the East line of said Lot 2, 360.47 feet; thence Westerly with a defl ection angle of 86°23’47”, 120.24 feet; thence Southeasterly with a defl ection angle of 93°36’13”, 343.56 feet to the South line of said Lot 2; thence Easterly with a defl ec-tion angle of 78°28’34” along said South line, 122.47 feet to the point of beginning; SUB-JECT to all exceptions, reservations, ease-ments, covenants and restrictions of record, or as would be determined by a physical in-spection of the premises or a survey thereof.

Parcel No. 19-079-009-00

The Petitioner is the Sparta Community Hospital District. The Application, together with a map of the property to be aff ected by the proposed special use exception, is on fi le with the Board of Appeals in the offi ce of the City Clerk of the City of Sparta and is available for public inspection. Said property is located at 614 E. Broadway, Sparta, Illi-nois, and is presently zoned R-4 Residential Dwelling District. The above-described tract is bounded on the north by R-4 Residential Dwelling District and on the east, south and west by R-4 Residential Dwelling District and Special Use Exception.

All persons in attendance at the hearing shall have an opportunity to be heard. Any person who also wishes to appear as an “in-terested party” with the right to cross-exam-ine others at the hearing must complete and fi le an appearance with the City Clerk at the City Hall no later than three (3) business days before the dated of the hearing. Appearance forms are available from the City Clerk during regular business hours.

Dated at Sparta, Illinois, this 4th day of Feb-

ruary, 2019 and published by authority of the Board of Appeals.

BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE CITY OF SPARTA, ILLINOIS

BY: /s/ Mike Cundiff Mike Cundiff , Chairman

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STATE OF ILLINOISCOUNTY OF RANDOLPH

CITY OF SPARTA

NOTICE OF HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE CITY OF SPARTA, ILLINOIS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Appeals of the City of Sparta, Illinois, on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m., at the City Hall, 114 W. Jackson Street, Sparta, Illinois, at which time and place the Board will con-sider a Request for Variation pursuant to the terms and procedures of the Zoning Ordi-nance of the City of Sparta.

The Request for Variation requests a varia-tion from the application of the regulation of the B-2 Highway Business District of the Zon-ing Ordinance of the City of Sparta to permit a waiver of the required 25 foot rear building set back requirement regarding the following described real estate, to-wit:

A parcel of land being a part of the South-west Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 31, Township 4 South, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian. Said parcel is part of property described and recorded in fi le 2018R00674 in the Randolph County Court House in the name of The Roger L. De-terding Declaration of Trust, dated 3/5/2018, being more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at an iron rod found at the South-west corner of the Illinois Power Company property (Book 179, Page 376); thence along said Illinois Power Company property the following two (2) calls; thence S 89°35’31” E 248.34 feet to an iron rod found; thence S 00°39’57” E 164.29 feet to an iron rod found in the South line of said Quarter-Quarter Sec-tion; thence along new lines the following two (2) calls; thence S 00°39’57” E 10.00 feet to an iron rod set; thence N 89°39’57” W 257.40 feet to an iron rod set the east right-of-way line of Illinois Route 4; thence along said east right-of-way line the following two (2) calls; thence N 00°39’45” W 174.62 feet to an iron rod set; thence S 89°35’31” E 9.05 feet to the point of beginning; containing 1.031 acres, more or less, SUBJECT to all exceptions, res-ervations, easements, covenants and restric-tions of record, or as would be determined by a physical inspection of the premises or a survey thereof.

Parcel No. 19-122-017-00

The Petitioner is Shawnee Professional Ser-vices. The Request for Variation is on fi le with the Board of Appeals in the offi ce of the City Clerk of the City of Sparta and is available for public inspection.

All persons in attendance at the hearing shall have an opportunity to be heard. Any person who also wishes to appear as an “in-terested party” with the right to cross-exam-ine witnesses at the hearing must complete and fi le an appearance with the City Clerk at the City Hall no later than three (3) business days before the date of the hearing. Appear-ance forms are available from the City Clerk during regular business hours.

Dated at Sparta, Illinois, this 4th day of Feb-ruary, 2019, and published by authority of the Board of Appeals.

BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE CITY OF SPARTA, ILLINOIS

BY: /s/ Mike Cundiff Mike Cundiff , Chairman

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STATE OF ILLINOISCOUNTY OF RANDOLPH

CITY OF SPARTA

NOTICE OF HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE CITY OF SPARTA, ILLINOIS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Appeals of the City of Sparta, Illinois, on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Hall, 114 W. Jackson Street, Sparta, Illinois, at which time and place the Board will con-sider a Petition to Amend the Zoning Ordi-nance and Zoning Map of the City of Sparta.

The Petition requests that the tract of land hereinafter described be rezoned to an A-1 Agricultural District. The area sought to be rezoned is now presently part of an B-2 High-way Business District and is bounded on the north, west and South by a B-2 Highway Business District, and on the east by City of Sparta corporate limits and a County Agricul-tural District. Said area sought to be rezoned is more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the southwest corner of Section 31, Township 4 South, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian; thence north along the west line of said Section 31, 1996.86 feet; thence easterly with a defl ec-tion angle of 90°10’, 29.82 feet to the east line of the Original State Route 4 right-of-way (60 feet wide); thence continuing easterly on the north line of a tract described in deed record-ed in Book 230 at Page 566 of the records of Randolph County, Illinois, 760 feet for point of beginning of herein described tract; thence continuing easterly on the last described course along said north line of that tract de-scribed in Book 230, Page 566, 579.02 feet to the east line of the Northwest Quarter (NW ¼) of the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼) of said Section 31; thence northerly on the east line of said Northwest Quarter (NW ¼) of the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼), 631.42 feet to the northwest corner of said Northwest Quarter (NW ¼) of the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼); thence west following the north line of said Northwest Quarter (NW ¼) of the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼), 543.29 feet to the northeast corner of a tract described in Book 579, Page 778 of the records of Randolph County, Illi-nois; thence southerly with defl ection angle

of 90°00’ along the east line of that tract de-scribed in Book 579, Page 778, 166.17 feet to the southeast corner thereof; thence westerly with a defl ection angle of 90°00’ along the south line of said tract described in Book 579, Page 778, 30.07 feet; thence southerly with a defl ection angle of 90°44’25”, 471.14 feet to the point of beginning containing 8.29 acres, more or less, SUBJECT to all exceptions, res-ervations, easements, covenants and restric-tions of record, or as would be determined by a physical inspection of the premises or a survey thereof.

Parcel No. 19-123-025-00

The Petitioner is Tamara Linders, who has entered into a Real Estate Sales Agreement for the purchase said property contingent upon said rezoning. The Petition, together with a map of the territory proposed to be rezoned, is on fi le with the Board of Appeals in the offi ce of the City Clerk of the City of Sparta and is available for public inspection.

All persons in attendance at the hearing shall have an opportunity to be heard. Any person who also wishes to appear as an “in-terested party” with the right to cross-exam-ine witnesses at the hearing must complete and fi le an appearance form with the City Clerk at the City Hall no later than three (3) business days before the date of the hearing. Appearance forms are available from the City Clerk during regular business hours.

Dated at Sparta, Illinois, this 4th day of Feb-ruary, 2019 and published by authority of the Board of Appeals.

BOARD OF APPEALS OF THECITY OF SPARTA, ILLINOIS

BY: /s/ Mike Cundiff Mike Cundiff , Chairman

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NOTICE OF BID2019 Lawn Maintenance Services

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board of Education of Chester Community Unit School District No. 139 to seek bids for Lawn Maintenance Services for the 2019 mowing season at both the high school and elemen-tary school locations. Interested parties may tour the grounds on February 14, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Please meet behind the high school building towards the track facilities at 1901 Swanwick Street, Chester, IL. Chester School District reserves the right to reject any or all bids, including accepting a bid for one school and not the other. Sealed bids will be accepted in the offi ce of the Superintendent at 1940 Swanwick Street, Chester, IL 62233, and will be opened at 1:00 p.m. on February 21, 2019.

If you have any questions please contact the district offi ce at (618) 826-4509.

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Burns, 403 S. James Street, Steeleville, Illi-nois, 62288 has fi led a Petition in this Court, Case No. 19-MR-9, praying for the change of his name from Levi John Milton Burns to Levi Matthew Stewart, pursuant to the statue in such case made and provided. The return date on said Petition shall be on April 1, 2019. The petitioner has resided in the State of Il-linois his entire lifetime. The Circuit Court of Randolph County has set this Petition for hearing April 1, 2019 at 11:00 a.m.

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Randolph and Washington County Emer-gency Telephone System Boards invite pro-posals from qualifi ed proponents for 911 Next Generation Call Processing Equipment.

Requests for proposals documents will be obtained by sending requests to: 911@ran-dolphco.org

(2) original and (2) paper copies of the bidder’s proposal must be submitted in one sealed envelope or container. The container shall include and electronic copy of the pro-posal and all associated materials on a CD, DVD or USB drive. The proposals are to be delivered to the Randolph County 911 Ad-ministrative Offi ce, located at 1 Taylor Street, Room 103, Chester, IL 62233 on or before 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 8, 2019.

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Jean M. Geppert & Jean M. Rieckenberg to Kenneth W. Donnals & Emily G. Donnals Lts 15 & 16 WJMAt 2nd Addn Consideration $93,000

Ronnie E. Houston & Armetta J. Houston to Denise J. Albers & James S. Albers NE Sec 15 5-5

Karen M. Quir in to Terry P. Quirin & Karen M. Quirin Lt 1 JMUSK Addn; SE NW Sec 16 4-7

Karen M. Quirin to Sarah A. Damann Lts 3 & 4 KOAKS Addn;

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Robert L. Odom to An-drew R. Hyatt & Ra-chel E. Hyatt Pt SE SE Sec 25 5-4 Consider-ation $40,000

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Ray F. Weisel to Jere-my G. Weisel & Rhonda R. Weisel Pt SW Sec 11 5-2 Consideration $120,000

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