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IN THE CIRCUIT COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUITM A D I S O N C O U N T Y ,I L L I N O I S

In re the Estate of WalterErvin Brandt,Case No. 2020-P-000336

N O T I C E O F D E A T H –CLAIMS FILING DEADLINE

Notice is given of the death ofWal ter Erv in Brandt , o fWorden, Madison County,Illinois, who passed-away onApril 15, 2020. On July 20,2020, a judge of the MadisonCircuit Court entered an Or-der admitting Walter ErvinBrandtʼs estate to probateand appointed James J.Brandt as Independent Ex-ecutor of the estate. Letters ofOffice were issued July 20,2020, to James J. Brandt,who can be contacted via theattorney of record for the es-tate, Thomas Burkart ofBurkart Law Offices, P.O. Box447, Hamel, Illinois 62046.

aims against the estate maybe filed in the office of theClerk of the Court of MadisonCounty Courthouse, 155 N.Main, Suite 120, Edwards-ville, Illinois 62025, or with therepresentative via the attor-ney of record Burkart Law Of-fice, or both on or before Feb-ruary 11, 2021. Any claim notfiled within that period isbarred. Copies of a claim filedwith the Clerk may be mailedor delivered to the represent-ative and the attorney within10 days after it has been filed,at Burkart Law Offices, P.O.Box 447, Hamel, I l l inois62046.

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20-1135

In The Circuit CourtThird Judicial CircuitMadison County, Illinois

In Re the Estate ofDonald J. ScholeboDeceasedCase No. 20-P-311Notice is hereby given of thedeath of Donald J. Scholebowho had assets located inMadison County, Illinois. Let-ters of Office were issued onJuly 27, 2020, to Carla Harris,Independent Administrator,whose attorney Holly A. Mar-cum of Sherer Law OfficesLLC, 517 St. Louis St., Ed-wardsville, Illinois. Claimsagainst the estate may befiled in the office of the Clerkof the Court at MadisonCounty Courthouse, Ed-wardsville, Illinois, or with theIndependent Administrator, orboth within six (6) monthsfrom the date of the issuanceof letters and any claim notfiled within that period isbarred. Copies of a claim filedwith the Clerk must be mailedor delivered to the Adminis-trator and to the attorney with-in ten (10) days after it hasbeen filed.

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trees and othervegetation in and

around the town(s) ofMarine and

UnincorporatedMadison County

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STATE OF ILLINOISIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE THIRD JUDICIAL CIR-CUITMADISON COUNTY

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF:Darroll C. Lambert, PetitionerandRhonda A. Lambert, Re-spondent

Case Number: 20-D-174

NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONNotice is hereby given on thependency of a suit entitled"DARROLL C. LAMBERT vs.RHONDA A. LAMBERT" inthe Circuit Court of MadisonCounty, Third Judicial Circuit,Edwardsville, Illinois whereinDarroll C. Lambert is Petition-er and Rhonda A. Lambert isRespondent which suit No.20-D-174 and is for a Dissolu-tion of Marriage. The Re-spondent, Rhonda A. Lam-bert, is to be served by public-ation. Default may be takenon or after August 27, 2020 inthe Courthouse in Edwards-ville, Illinois.

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20-1134

In The Circuit CourtThird Judicial CircuitMadison County, Illinois

In Re the Estate ofMary V. WestbrookDeceasedCase No. 20-P-348Notice is hereby given of thedeath of Mary V. Westbrookwho had assets located inMadison County, Illinois. Let-ters of Office were issued onJuly 20, 2020, to JoyceLawson, Executrix, whose at-torney Holly A. Marcum ofSherer Law Offices LLC, 517St. Louis St., Edwardsville,Illinois. Claims against the es-tate may be filed in the officeof the Clerk of the Court atMadison County Courthouse,Edwardsville, Illinois, or withthe Executrix, or both withinsix (6) months from the dateof the issuance of letters andany claim not filed within thatperiod is barred. Copies of aclaim filed with the Clerk mustbe mailed or delivered to theExecutrix and to the attorneywithin ten (10) days after ithas been filed.

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By Gillian Flaccus and Suman NaishadhamAssociated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — Cha-otic and often violent protests against racial injustice have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of many Black Portland residents themselves — and their feelings about the unrest are nuanced and diverse.

Some feel the overwhelm-ingly white crowds of protest-ers — and particularly those committing vandalism — are co-opting the Black Lives Mat-ter movement. Others welcome white demonstrators because with their larger numbers they can draw attention to the city’s racial inequity in ways that Black demonstrators alone can’t.

Some believe deeply that there can’t be a Black Lives Matter movement without defunding the police. Others say a recent vote to cut a spe-cialized gun violence reduction unit is behind a sharp spike in shootings that’s devastated their community.

Primarily, there is a per-sistent worry that a critical opportunity for achieving racial justice in Portland’s tiny Black community could be lost. Many cite competing voices and the harsh glare of a national spotlight, which has reduced the situation to a culture war when the reality is much more

complex.“It happens so much that the

things that we care about get hijacked and get put on the back burner. And that just gets put into a big barrel with everything else,” said Neil Anderson, a Black business owner. “We all want the same thing. But so often we get drowned out.”

The city’s Black Lives Matter protests rocketed into the nation-al consciousness in mid-July, when President Donald Trump

sent agents from the U.S. Depart-ment of Homeland Security to protect a federal courthouse that had increasingly become a target of protesters.

The action galvanized the city and united demonstrators, but it also exposed a simmering ten-sion between Black demonstra-tors and their white allies, as well as disagreements among Black residents themselves about the way forward.

The Wall of Moms, a group

of mostly white women and self-described parents, gathered nightly to form a human chain between protesters and federal agents. Within two weeks, the group had imploded, with some Black community leaders accus-ing its leadership of trying to monetize their movement. The group reformed under Black lead-ership and a new name.

Demetria Hester, a Black woman who leads the new Moms United for Black Lives, said the

departure of federal agents and the dissolution of the Wall of Moms has refocused the protests.

“These are the moms who actually want to ... make our reparations happen. Make this revolution happen,” she said.

Seneca Cayson, who helped lead peaceful gatherings in down-town Portland, has mixed feel-ings. He feels white protesters who commit vandalism and taunt law enforcement are distracting from his message, but he also rec-ognizes they are drawing atten-tion to racial injustice in a way he could never do.

“What the white people have is something that we don’t, and that’s rights,” said Cayson, as he prepared to lead another peace-ful rally with several other Black men. “We are fighting alongside them to ... be equal.”

The Portland Police Bureau, with its newly appointed Black police chief, is for many Black residents just as polarizing as the protests.

For many, part of breaking down racial barriers means defunding the police entirely. The city population is less than 6% Black but people of color were disproportionately stopped by the gun violence reduction team. An analysis of police use of force published last month found that in 2019, officers were much more likely to use force against Black people — and particularly young Black men — than other groups despite overall trends towards less use of force.

Gillian Flaccus | APIn this July 1 file photo, a woman walks past a business damaged during recent protests in North Portland, a historically Black neighborhood in Oregon. Protests in Portland, Oregon have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of Black Portlanders themselves and their feelings about the unrest are nuanced and diverse.

Black people in Portland struggle to be heard amid protests

By Danica CotoAssociated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico on Sunday was forced to partially suspend voting for primaries marred by a lack of ballots as officials called on the president of the U.S. territory’s elections commission to resign.

The primaries for vot-ing centers that had not received ballots by early afternoon are expected to be rescheduled, while voting would continue elsewhere, the commis-sion said.

“I have never seen on American soil something like what just has been done here in Puerto Rico. It’s an embarrassment to our government and our people,” said Pedro Pierluisi, who is run-ning against Gov. Wanda Vázquez, to become the nominee for the pro-statehood New Progres-sive Party.

Meanwhile, Vázquez called the situation “a disaster” and demanded the resignation of the president of the elections commission.

“They made the people of Puerto Rico, not the candidates, believe that they were prepared,” she said. “Today the opposite was evident. They lied.”

The president of her party, Thomas Rivera Schatz, along with the president of the main opposition Popular Democratic Party, held a joint press conference and said they agreed the remaining primaries should be held on Aug. 16, a move that Vázquez said she supported. The two parties are both holding their primary elections with the win-ning nominees among six gubernatorial candidates in November’s general election.

Other politicians argued that the entire primary be scrapped and held at another date.

An incredulous Schatz noted that there were still trucks with ballots

inside parked at the com-mission’s headquarters as they spoke there.

“The question is, why haven’t they left?” he said.

A commission spokes-woman said officials were not immediately available for comment.

To further complicate things, Edgardo Román, president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, told The Associated Press that it’s unclear what alternatives are legally viable because the island’s electoral law is not clear.

“It doesn’t contemplate this scenario,” he said.

Hundreds of frustrated voters who wore the required face masks and braved a spike in COVID-19 cases were turned away from centers across Puerto Rico as officials told them that no ballots were available.

The situation infuriated voters and politicians of all stripes as they blamed Puerto Rico’s elections commission and demanded an explanation for ballots reaching only a handful of voting centers

by the afternoon.“This is indignant,

abusive and an attempt against the democracy of our country,” said Marcos Cruz, mayor of the north-ern town of Vega Baja that was still awaiting ballots.

Meanwhile, officials from the island’s two main parties scrambled to find solutions as they urged voters to still show up at centers that remained open.

Yadira Pizarro, a 44-year-old teacher, ran out of patience at a shut-tered voting center in Carolina where she had waited more than four hours under a blistering sun.

“I cannot believe this. This is some serious neg-ligence,” she said.

One of the most closely watched races on Sunday is that of the pro-statehood Progres-sive New Party, which pits two candidates who served as replacement governors following last year’s political turmoil. Vázquez faces Pierluisi, who represented Puerto

Rico in Congress from 2009 to 2017.

Pierluisi briefly served as governor after Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resigned in August 2019 follow-ing widespread street protests over a profanity-laced chat that was leaked and government corrup-tion. But Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court ruled that Vázquez, then the justice secretary, was constitutionally next in line because there was no secretary of state.

Meanwhile, the main opposition Popular Democratic Party, which supports Puerto Rico’s current political status as a U.S. territory, is holding a primary for the first time in its 82-year history. Three people are vying to become gover-nor — San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, known for her public spats with U.S. President Donald Trump following the devastation of Hurri-cane Maria; Puerto Rico Sen. Eduardo Bhatia; and Carlos Delgado, mayor of the northwest coastal town of Isabela.

Puerto Rico halts primary voting in centers lacking ballots

Danica Coto | APAn electoral official, right, tells a voter that the ballots haven’t arrived at a voting center in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sunday. Puerto Rico’s primaries were marred on Sunday by a lack of ballots in a majority of centers across the U.S. territory, forcing frustrated voters who braved a spike in COVID-19 cases to turn around and go back home.

SPARTA, N.C. (AP) — The most powerful earthquake to hit North Carolina in more than 100 years shook much of the state early Sunday, rattling homes, busi-nesses and residents.

The National Weather Service in Greenville said the 5.1-magnitude temblor struck at 8:07 a.m., following a much smaller quake several hours earlier.

There were no reports of serious injuries, but some minor structural damage was reported in Sparta, as well as cracks in roads. Images on social media also showed items knocked off of gro-cery store shelves.

The U.S. Geologi-cal Survey said on its website that there are chances for one or more aftershocks in the next week, forecasting a 45% chance for earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater. The chances of another quake as strong as the one on Sunday or greater was about 1%, the geological survey said.

Alleghany County, which includes Sparta, declared a state of emer-

gency Sunday afternoon.Michael Hull was

standing in his driveway at his home in Sparta when he noticed a group of deer running.

“Not even a minute passed and the side-to-side motion started,” Hull said. “It takes you a minute to realize what’s happening, and you just can’t believe it. Then it was over. It was loud, like God was shaking a mountain at you, liter-ally.”

Karen Backer was in her Greensboro apart-ment when she heard initially mistook banging in her kitchen for her roommate.

“Nope, it was the cabi-net doors ‘clinking’ open and closed! My neigh-bors on the other hand said they felt our apart-ment building shaking,” Backer said. “Well, sadly, nothing surprises me in 2020, but a hurricane and an earthquake in the same week is crazy.”

It was the largest earthquake to hit the state since 1916, when a magnitude 5.5 quake occurred near Skyland, the weather service said.

5.1-magnitude quake hits North Carolina, causes minor damage

Michael Hull (AP)Various items litter the floor of the 4 Brothers Store in Sparta, N.C. after an earthquake shook much of North Carolina early Sunday.

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Seven people, includ-ing an elderly couple and an 8-month-old baby, have been found dead as a storm hit the Greek island of Evia, authori-ties said Sunday. One person was still missing and dozens of others were trapped by floodwa-ters in their homes and cars.

Greece’s meteorologi-cal service said parts of Evia saw rainfall that reached 11.8 inches, some 80% of the annual rainfall for the area, which is only about 14.8 inches, usually with neg-ligible rain during the summer.

Police say the couple, 86 and 85 years old, were found unconscious in their flooded home Sunday morning in the seaside village of Politika, 62 miles north of the capital, Athens.

The baby was found in a ground floor apartment in the same village. The mayor reportedly said the baby’s family were tourists.

Deputy Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias confirmed the deaths Sunday after-noon and added that two people are missing. The names of the dead and missing were not released.

Later, one of the miss-ing, an elderly woman, was found floating at sea off the coast, sitting on top of a bureau. She had climbed on it just as the floodwaters burst into her house.

Firefighters later came upon the bodies of a 38-year-old woman and her 42-year-old husband outside their home in the inland village of Amfithea.

A river burst through

its banks and flooded part of Politika, forcing many residents to climb to the rooftops of their homes. Another river in the village of Bourtzi also burst its banks. Authorities estimated that 3,000 residences had been partially or totally damaged by floodwaters and police said many local roads are impassible.

Heavy rain started fall-ing at about midnight Saturday and firefighters responded to over 50 fires caused by lightning. By late afternoon Sun-day, 97 people had been safely evacuated from their homes and cars, 30 of them by helicopter, and over 600 homes had been drained of floodwa-ters, the fire service said.

Firefighters said they came upon hundreds of dead sparrows after trees were hit by lightning.

Storm floods Greek island, leaves 7 dead, including a baby

Yorgos Karahalis | APLocals try to move away water and mud from their homes following a storm at the village of Politika, on Evia island, northeast of Athens, on Sunday. Five people have been found dead and dozens have been trapped in their homes and cars from a storm that has hit the island of Evia, in central Greece, police say.